Speaker 1: Welcome to Games Lanes.
Speaker 2: I'm Julian Edelman, and we got a brand new compilation,
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Speaker 3: Now.
Speaker 4: Stavros describes what life is like on a comedy tour bus.
Speaker 2: Now traveling on the road. You're on tour right now?
Speaker 2: Is there Like I saw your big green bus. You
Speaker 2: take that everywhere? It's just pretty much. I mean, this
Speaker 2: is the first bus tour. This is the first year
Speaker 2: I'm rolling Madden style cooh full.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 4: It fucking rules, dude, I just I'm trying to Every
Speaker 4: tour would just ruin me, dude, cause it's so you
Speaker 4: have access to the best stuff. It's just like you
Speaker 4: could just get like and I did. I was just
Speaker 4: getting really fucked up. I was just like eating, you know,
Speaker 4: just so you just eat whatever the fuck you want. Though,
Speaker 4: it's just such a like it's such a like head
Speaker 4: hedonistic lifestyle. If you want that and if that's your thing,
Speaker 4: and that is my thing, I mean, I like fucking
Speaker 4: having a good ass time, and it would just fuck
Speaker 4: me up so bad. And this is before the bus
Speaker 4: is when we were like flying place and you'd be
Speaker 4: fucking hungover and just taking whatever just to kind of
Speaker 4: get through the day and uh and and so I decided,
Speaker 4: like this tour every like I had gained like thirty
Speaker 4: pounds on every tour and it's just been creeping up.
Speaker 3: And I'm like, you know, not a young man anymore.
Speaker 4: And it's just like I had to get the bus.
Speaker 4: We got a little fridge stocked with Costco meets in there.
Speaker 4: I meet the pre sliced Costco like London broiler, whatever
Speaker 4: the fuck's surloin with a little with some fucking.
Speaker 3: Canned canned beans.
Speaker 4: We're living like real divorce dad style in that fucking
Speaker 4: bus right now. But the macros are pretty good, you know.
Speaker 4: And if I get, if I get two to three
Speaker 4: good meals, and then if we have you know, if
Speaker 4: we have, like you know, a couple of slutty meals
Speaker 4: a week, that's not the end of the world. No, Now,
Speaker 4: do you sleep on this bus? Sleep on the bus?
Speaker 4: Did you fucking at night? You just it's like time travel.
Speaker 4: You just went like we were in Phoenix last night
Speaker 4: and I woke up in Burbank this morning.
Speaker 1: Is it comfy bed?
Speaker 3: Dude?
Speaker 1: It rules?
Speaker 4: You're so like it's the feeling of being a little
Speaker 4: ass kid and your parents putting in a car sheet
Speaker 4: and you're just for a ride until you go to sleep,
Speaker 4: Like it's incredible.
Speaker 3: I didn't think I would like it, and then I did.
Speaker 4: Burt kreischer Head had a tour a couple of years ago,
Speaker 4: and I did like a weekend on it, and I
Speaker 4: slept in like I sleep better there than I did
Speaker 4: on Like, we got this gorgeous airbnb in l A.
Speaker 4: Last time I was here, way worse than the Like
Speaker 4: we were missing the bunks.
Speaker 3: It was fucking hilarious.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and then like now nowadays, everything's on the internet.
Speaker 2: You could just watch TV on your iPad. You got TVs,
Speaker 2: you got two TVs going. It's nice. It's better to travel.
Speaker 2: I love taking when I would go from Boston New York,
Speaker 2: I'd love taking the train. Amtrak's easy and you got
Speaker 2: Wi Fi.
Speaker 1: You could knock out. It's the same amount of time.
Speaker 2: Damn near it because it takes you hour to get
Speaker 2: to the airport, hour back in the city for hour flight.
Speaker 3: And it's ship.
Speaker 4: No one's fucking hassling. You can smuggle things through the train,
Speaker 4: you know what I mean.
Speaker 3: That's easy.
Speaker 1: Now, what's into these slutty meals? What's a slutty meal.
Speaker 3: What's our sl I mean yesterday, what do we do?
Speaker 1: Where'd you go?
Speaker 4: I mean, just like a nice fucked up breakfast burrito,
Speaker 4: Like when you add so much shit a thirteen dollars
Speaker 4: entrances up being twenty nine dollars.
Speaker 1: That's just in general.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, yeah, that's true.
Speaker 4: But we're talking meats, guac, fries in the burrito, all
Speaker 4: that kind of Shitbritt.
Speaker 3: Yeah, we had a yeah, for sure for.
Speaker 1: A breakfast burrito. That's a California burrito.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Are you? Are you cheriso or are you bacon?
Speaker 3: Depends on the mood I'm in. You know.
Speaker 4: I opted for steak plus cheriso, Yes, plus I got.
Speaker 4: That's what I'm saying. I got fucking insane. I did
Speaker 4: a thirty dollars thirty dollars breakspurt with every dipping sauce available.
Speaker 1: I'm a big dipper too.
Speaker 4: You got a dip big of sauce things up. It
Speaker 4: could take things to the next level.
Speaker 2: Always some people think it's trashy. I just think it's
Speaker 2: fuck that, dude. It's trashy to use dips. Fucking live
Speaker 2: a little. I like putting a one sauce on like
Speaker 2: my white rice. Okay, Like that's.
Speaker 3: How I like maybe where they're coming from. Everyone shit,
Speaker 3: I like one sauce is like when people are are like, well,
Speaker 3: I'm not gonna use ketchup. I'm not an animal. Let's
Speaker 3: get a one. You know what I mean. It's it's
Speaker 3: trash trying to be class. No offense.
Speaker 1: I know it is a one.
Speaker 3: You gotta let go of any other dip. I'm with you.
Speaker 3: I hate doing stab you in the back like whenever.
Speaker 3: So maybe I'm a hypocrite here.
Speaker 2: Whenever I eat Greek food, I always bring in don't
Speaker 2: say ranch.
Speaker 3: God damn, I like to.
Speaker 1: Dip my ranch with Greek food. I THINKI and tazeke.
Speaker 1: I think it's a bad ranch.
Speaker 4: No, what are your fun? The fuck are you talking about?
Speaker 4: We don't even teenies, not even us.
Speaker 3: That's more.
Speaker 4: That's more of the Middle East, where you know, right
Speaker 4: in the middle, right on the other side.
Speaker 3: But no, you gotta go. You can't do ranch, Like
Speaker 3: what do you dipping in ranch?
Speaker 2: I just eat or a hot so I like to
Speaker 2: put hots, like a different hot sauce. I like like
Speaker 2: my euro in there, or I like like when I
Speaker 2: have a kebab, or like I.
Speaker 4: Like you gotta get. You might just going to a
Speaker 4: place with bags on jack. There's no great ship out here.
Speaker 3: Now where What kind of ranch? Because this is important too.
Speaker 2: There's there's a ranch here in La I don't, I
Speaker 2: forget what it's called. But it's like a it's a
Speaker 2: mom and pop ranch. Okay, you might It comes in
Speaker 2: like oh yeah good. Yeah, it goes bad after a week.
Speaker 2: That's how you know it's sauce.
Speaker 3: All right.
Speaker 2: Then maybe there's this ranch is killer and they got
Speaker 2: a great blue cheese that I always have to get
Speaker 2: for Rob because he loves blue cheese.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, yeah, I get that, all right. I'm willing to.
Speaker 4: I'm gonna have to try this ranch before I come
Speaker 4: in with the ultimate heat, like deciding whether that's trashy
Speaker 4: or not.
Speaker 1: I use that ranch with everything, Okay. I like ranch.
Speaker 3: That is good.
Speaker 4: Yeah, pizza and ranch. Fine, I don't. I don't, I can't.
Speaker 4: I don't give a fuck about that. But we have
Speaker 4: every so Middle Eastern food, whether it's like any kebab
Speaker 4: style has their own garlic sauce.
Speaker 2: I know have to tap into the right one. I
Speaker 2: like those garlic sauces, Like what the garlic sauce that
Speaker 2: they always give you. Yeah, it's just a little too
Speaker 2: much garlicy see. That's so that's more of the like
Speaker 2: pure middally. That's why I'm saying, zadzeke, you just haven't
Speaker 2: given zazeki a chance. I get like good zadzeki the
Speaker 2: way I do it. It's just full fact Greek yogurt,
Speaker 2: good olive oil. You fucking plane. You hit the garlic
Speaker 2: in a zester, so it's fucking tiny as shit. Yeah,
Speaker 2: it really gets in there. And and then just salt
Speaker 2: and pepper.
Speaker 4: I don't even fuck with cucumbers because cucumbers don't hold
Speaker 4: as well. And this is just a very nice garlicky
Speaker 4: slightly healthier than ranch.
Speaker 3: Also, you can make it. You can make it healthy too.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 4: I know you kind of need to lose a couple
Speaker 4: of pounds, so I just go. I want to give
Speaker 4: you a couple of tips. Dude, I'm an eater though
Speaker 4: I love food, but anyway, that's my you we tapped
Speaker 4: into sauces.
Speaker 3: This is when you know this.
Speaker 4: At every podcast, whenever some kind of food item comes up,
Speaker 4: I will go off for twelve minutes uninterrupted.
Speaker 1: Now stavros Alki is on his hatred for the New
Speaker 1: England Patriots.
Speaker 3: In one sentence, why did you pick this game?
Speaker 4: In one I guess just because it feels good to
Speaker 4: be able to rub in a humiliating loss in to
Speaker 4: a guy who was on there. I think you were
Speaker 4: probably hurt because you weren't, because you weren't. You know,
Speaker 4: I just checked back. I didn't remember you, but from
Speaker 4: that game, you didn't really remember a lot of Patriots
Speaker 4: players because you guys fucking shipped the bed in a
Speaker 4: hilarious manner, but you didn't even pay. We talked about
Speaker 4: a couple of games, but you weren't even playing the
Speaker 4: other game we talked about.
Speaker 3: You had a good game. I didn't even want you
Speaker 3: to have that satisfaction. I would rather.
Speaker 4: There are a lot of a lot of semiles. There's
Speaker 4: separate clauses, but they're connected. So yeah, just there's a
Speaker 4: lot of ideas. And it's Flaco's run. It's right after
Speaker 4: the Mile High Miracle. It's right uh, right before the
Speaker 4: super Bowl. It's just like a beautiful it's a forgotten
Speaker 4: game in that run because it wasn't as memorable as
Speaker 4: a super Bowl or the Mile High Miracle, but just
Speaker 4: because fuck the Patriots. Man, we had to do a
Speaker 4: game where you guys fucking sucked.
Speaker 1: Is this the greatest game of all time?
Speaker 4: It's not, but it was a really it's a really satisfame.
Speaker 4: You know, it's a really satisfying game because again, you
Speaker 4: don't get to tell to a player's face how shitty his.
Speaker 3: Team was and your team being the one to do it.
Speaker 3: And I do hate the page.
Speaker 4: It's tough because I do have You are the most
Speaker 4: likable I think from the like from what's gronkret Gronk's likable,
Speaker 4: but yeah, so's a fucking golden retriever, you know.
Speaker 3: What I mean. You get fucking Gronk a little treat,
Speaker 3: he'll fucking he'll be good to go. Dude, you give
Speaker 3: him a little bust ball in your hand, he'll come
Speaker 3: up to you. He's easy to win over.
Speaker 4: I have a feeling, but you know, so anyway, that's
Speaker 4: You're the one person I have some fondness for because
Speaker 4: you know, just role player to make. I'd like to
Speaker 4: think of my kind of entertainment career as that. Neither
Speaker 4: one of us had any business being successful in what
Speaker 4: we did, and so I respect you for that, but
Speaker 4: still not the greatest game. Just really just have to
Speaker 4: get on record how much I despise the teams you
Speaker 4: were on and just want to celebrate a victory over them.
Speaker 2: You know what, I think that I think that's the
Speaker 2: highest sign of respect from a fan is when they
Speaker 2: hate your team because of how.
Speaker 1: Successful you are, So like, I don't get mad at that.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, because I remember being a forty nine Ers
Speaker 2: fan and I absolutely hated the fucking Green Bay Packers.
Speaker 2: They used to knock us out every year in that
Speaker 2: divisional round or that fucking first round playoff.
Speaker 1: I hate it.
Speaker 2: So I understand where did your start, like your sports
Speaker 2: fandom come from.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean I grew up in Baltimore, so this
Speaker 4: is and I mean I'm I'm a fan of Baltimore
Speaker 4: teams before the Ravens existed.
Speaker 3: So that's you know, So what's the rank?
Speaker 4: I mean, now, the rate in terms of like true fandom,
Speaker 4: true fandom where it's like just tribal you kind of
Speaker 4: turn your brain off. You're not even like because if
Speaker 4: we were being serious, it's like this is a waste
Speaker 4: of all our time, Like our Sunday we lose one
Speaker 4: day a week just on a couch doing shit and
Speaker 4: like we should stop. Like when there's bye weeks, I
Speaker 4: have I go to the park, you know what I mean,
Speaker 4: I might go to a museum. Like I'm a better
Speaker 4: person when football's got on. But you know, I like,
Speaker 4: you just have to watch. You can't help it, you
Speaker 4: can't have to watch it, and so on that level.
Speaker 4: Definitely the Ravens. I mean, I remember it's cool to
Speaker 4: be a little kid when the team is coming. Like
Speaker 4: I had that experience and I was a fan of football.
Speaker 4: I must have been, like we won the super Bowl
Speaker 4: when I was in sixth grade, so I was pretty young.
Speaker 3: I don't remember.
Speaker 4: It was like and I remember going to I went
Speaker 4: to like a punt passing kick when the fucking Vinny
Speaker 4: Testaverdi and Matt Stover there, Like I was like I
Speaker 4: was the demographic to get won over by this team
Speaker 4: and like you know, the shitty, the shitty, weird like
Speaker 4: uh logo.
Speaker 3: That we had that was that was bad.
Speaker 4: I remember them thinking about calling us the Baltimore Americans
Speaker 4: or like the Baltimore Brown like we got saved Ravens
Speaker 4: is the best you know name we could have gotten.
Speaker 4: So it's like that's how it started. And in terms
Speaker 4: of like overall, I mean, I like the.
Speaker 3: O's because just because I but I don't really baseball's.
Speaker 1: It's tough.
Speaker 3: The guys are talented, but I just want to fuck
Speaker 3: it. It's there to drink a beer, and you do.
Speaker 2: But it's changed, Like the new rules of baseball is
Speaker 2: awesome for TV because it keeps it going. But like
Speaker 2: like you said, when you go to a baseball game,
Speaker 2: you want to drink a beer and need a hot dog,
Speaker 2: and you prayed for the longest game possible because you're
Speaker 2: in like third seventh grade and your.
Speaker 3: Mom is there to get Yeah, yeah, maybe get.
Speaker 1: The next day off.
Speaker 2: Like now they have no chance of getting past three
Speaker 2: and a half hours. But yeah, Orioles, I used to
Speaker 2: love the Giants. Sure yeah, Calary Ken Jr.
Speaker 3: He's the man. I mean. That's the other thing.
Speaker 4: That's why the O's still have some funness because like
Speaker 4: before the Ravens, I had those cow teams, like they
Speaker 4: were fucking It was so weird to go from both
Speaker 4: the Raves or the Oars being awesome.
Speaker 3: They were just dog shit until until my senior ye
Speaker 3: of high school.
Speaker 4: That was the year they were like they led to
Speaker 4: al East out of nowhere and then we fucking collapsed.
Speaker 4: And so that was the last time that I like
Speaker 4: believed in the Orioles, and then it happened, you know,
Speaker 4: we almost we lost the KC when they went on
Speaker 4: to win the World Series. So I'll always have some
Speaker 4: fondness for them. But in terms of the day to day.
Speaker 3: It's also just easier, like Football's I've learned.
Speaker 4: Football is so smart in how they kind of schedule
Speaker 4: things because just what we were saying earlier, one day week,
Speaker 4: even when you're busy, you can commit to one day
Speaker 4: a week and you can watch fucking Thursday night football
Speaker 4: on your phone if you need to whatever. But like,
Speaker 4: actually my favorite sport is probably basketball, but it's once
Speaker 4: I started getting busy, it's kind of hard.
Speaker 2: It's impossible to follow a way too many games. That's
Speaker 2: why I love football, like you said, schedule wise. Yeah,
Speaker 2: and there's no first pitch. Yeah, I've heard about your
Speaker 2: first yea, yeah, Sam hit me up and.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, your first not bad.
Speaker 4: It wasn't It wasn't videographed well but you can't really tell,
Speaker 4: but it was fucking heat right down the middle.
Speaker 3: It was heat, Yeah, right down the middle, dude.
Speaker 4: I think they must have slowed down the video they
Speaker 4: published because in the moment I remember the fucking girl
Speaker 4: that was catching being like, ah, you know that fucking
Speaker 4: you know, she had to go see the team doctor afterwards.
Speaker 4: They had her fingers and splints. I was right down
Speaker 4: the middle, I would say, probably ninety eight ninety seven. Yeah,
Speaker 4: I'm like, the ice are up after Yeah, I was like,
Speaker 4: my bad, I'm sorry.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I remember I threw when I threw actually when
Speaker 2: I threw this touchdown pass, remember the double pass.
Speaker 3: I do remember that that that was the ball. I do,
Speaker 3: unfortunately remember that.
Speaker 1: So like you throwing that ninety eight mile hour fastball.
Speaker 3: This is dangerous to give to me this where's the incinerator?
Speaker 1: Don't pot.
Speaker 3: Showing you no.
Speaker 2: But right after I came into the team meeting on Monday,
Speaker 2: we're all having fun, we're watching the thing, and I
Speaker 2: was like the last one to.
Speaker 1: Walk in the office. Yeah, or in the office.
Speaker 2: I taped up my arm because always the quarterbacks after
Speaker 2: a big day came up. I threw my past I
Speaker 2: came here like yeah, all right, guys, everyone started laughing.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, yeah, no, that was fucking horrible.
Speaker 2: Shit, who's a bigger you're a big basketball guy. You
Speaker 2: had a podcast with my boy, Sam Morrel is the
Speaker 2: man who's the bigger ball guy. You were Sam, you
Speaker 2: guys are both Nicks fans.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 4: Well see that's the thing Sam, kind of the love
Speaker 4: I have for the Ravens, it's like for Sam, he
Speaker 4: has channeled that into the Knicks because it's like I
Speaker 4: love then. So my fantom is a little complicated where
Speaker 4: I didn't have a team growing up for basketball, and
Speaker 4: I could never root for the Wizards because d C
Speaker 4: and Baltimore just a different thing, you know what I mean.
Speaker 3: It's sort of like Bay.
Speaker 4: Area stuff where it's like franactally everyone has their own
Speaker 4: even even like yeah, Sacramento, Oak Leaves, all those plays
Speaker 4: are pretty close, but it's totally different fandoms where it's
Speaker 4: like d C and Baltimore are such different cities.
Speaker 3: I was like, oh, yeah, that was a great pro dude,
Speaker 3: you are I do this. I just do this in myself.
Speaker 3: I'm not even awake right now.
Speaker 1: Because I've been cutting you up. I've been cutting you off.
Speaker 3: No no, no, no no.
Speaker 4: So so I could never root for them, So I
Speaker 4: always my fandom would go to like the cooler teams
Speaker 4: like I would really connect to certain teams. I was
Speaker 4: a big king those Kings, uh, the Vatti divo everyone did.
Speaker 1: I was shitty Warriors fan at.
Speaker 4: That sure, but you guys were so bad back then,
Speaker 4: choking out the coach, which is.
Speaker 1: Cool, it was kind of cool. I had his jersey.
Speaker 1: But if the Kings were hot that time, they were cool, baby.
Speaker 4: And they were so fucking good yet Jason Willis before
Speaker 4: they traded traded up, baby, But I and so I
Speaker 4: always gravitated to some cool team would like win my
Speaker 4: affection for a few years. But then once Yiannis came
Speaker 4: into the league. I am such a huge Giannest fan.
Speaker 4: I mean, it's like to have a Greek basketball player
Speaker 4: be one of the best players in the world and
Speaker 4: at times in the last few years, the best player
Speaker 4: in the world. And even with what Jokic is doing,
Speaker 4: I just think, like Yannis even making that team halfway
Speaker 4: decent is it's insane how fucking.
Speaker 3: Good he is.
Speaker 4: And so I he's my probably my favorite athlete right now,
Speaker 4: and in terms of basketball rankings, he's my guy.
Speaker 3: I always like to keep up with him.
Speaker 4: And but Sam Morrell has been like a Knicks fan
Speaker 4: for fucking ever.
Speaker 2: Next, Stavroskis breaks down his mouth Rushmore of Baltimore athletes.
Speaker 2: We gotta have the Mount Rushmore. Okay of Baltimore athletes.
Speaker 3: Oh, I love it.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, I mean or from Baltimore, from Baltimore.
Speaker 3: We could do it. We could do a cultural, We
Speaker 3: could do a cultural. We could do a culture, and
Speaker 3: we could do an athlete.
Speaker 4: I mean, if you're talking to athletes, obviously Col's gotta
Speaker 4: be on there. It really comes down to, uh, I
Speaker 4: think Cow's gotta be on there, Ray Lewis and Ed
Speaker 4: Reid And then.
Speaker 1: I mean, what do you what's telling you in your head?
Speaker 3: Right now?
Speaker 1: I just I see it.
Speaker 3: It's just hard my answer.
Speaker 1: Don't say it? Are you gonna say it?
Speaker 3: I don't. I don't think I can.
Speaker 1: Is there something about him?
Speaker 3: There is something about him?
Speaker 4: Right I'm not gonna say there's not something about him.
Speaker 3: It's a split.
Speaker 4: I know that's a fucking completely, uh complete cowards way out,
Speaker 4: but it is. It's the quarterback slot, and it's for
Speaker 4: it's it's a split right now, Lamar and Flacco. But
Speaker 4: Lamar is so fucking like obviously this is a joke
Speaker 4: character and I love Flacco and he is you know,
Speaker 4: he's the fucking man super Bowl MVP. It's insane, one
Speaker 4: of my favorite athletes. But Lamar is just like, you know,
Speaker 4: I just think he does get shipp on a little
Speaker 4: too much. And obviously there's people who love him. I'm
Speaker 4: not gonna say that he just has detractors. But he's
Speaker 4: so fucking good. He's so electric. It's I think it's
Speaker 4: got to be Lamar Man.
Speaker 2: All right, all your thoughts on the resurgence of Joe
Speaker 2: Flacco in Cleveland last year or two years ago.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean it's hard for me not to root
Speaker 4: for Like, at the end of the day, I was
Speaker 4: not scared of that team, and it's like part of me.
Speaker 4: I mean, wait, did he sorry I been? Did he
Speaker 4: actually stile with the Steelers or is that a rumor?
Speaker 1: No?
Speaker 4: No, I don't caress it and sign good right. No, No,
Speaker 4: I saw a rumor that he might anyway that would
Speaker 4: have been brutal about Joe Flacco. I mean this run, honestly,
Speaker 4: That's also another reason I picked this game, is that,
Speaker 4: like I think, what is it is that, Like, yeah,
Speaker 4: he had a legendary run and I think he's fucking
Speaker 4: really good and to be able to do.
Speaker 3: This, you have to be one of the best.
Speaker 4: Like it's crazy the amount of people that go on
Speaker 4: a who have their best football during the during a
Speaker 4: Super Bowl run is it's the best thing of all time.
Speaker 4: But I think I think there's something about him. He
Speaker 4: feels relatable. He's a mid Atlantic guy. He's like, he
Speaker 4: seems like a guy you might have grown up with. It's,
Speaker 4: you know, from kind of I think he's like from
Speaker 4: the Philly bourbs. He went to Delaware, went to fucking Delaware,
Speaker 4: he started, he played, and he played in Baltimore. It's
Speaker 4: like he's got that I know, even though he's not
Speaker 4: from Baltimore, he feels like a guy from Baltimore. It
Speaker 4: was never complicated. The motherfucker just threw and he threw
Speaker 4: a beautiful deep ball and he.
Speaker 1: Was faster than what people. Yeah, he was.
Speaker 2: We used to remember Bill, He's talking about Flanco like,
Speaker 2: don't let this motherfucker out the pocket. Now I'm just
Speaker 2: telling you when he gets going to bring down.
Speaker 1: Yeah, he's a big fucking guy. He's a big guy.
Speaker 4: He's huge, and I think there was just something awesome
Speaker 4: about him where it was like you just again I
Speaker 4: also think there's a relatability in some ways, even though
Speaker 4: again world class quarterback, you shouldn't relate to him, you
Speaker 4: have nothing. The average fucking idiot on his couch has
Speaker 4: nothing in common with Joe Flacco. But at the end
Speaker 4: of the day, it's like he is from he is
Speaker 4: from Delaware, like he he is a guy from around
Speaker 4: where we're from, and he nobody really believed in him
Speaker 4: at any point this he put his money, and I
Speaker 4: think for me anyway and for other people, he could
Speaker 4: watch that and get inspired and be like, I just
Speaker 4: need to fucking get it together when it fucking matters,
Speaker 4: and like I could be a fucking legend forever, and
Speaker 4: Joe had.
Speaker 3: We had great years and I loved rooting for him.
Speaker 4: But I think it was like the combination of getting
Speaker 4: you a Super Bowl and just like how relatable and
Speaker 4: how much like like people will ask him now in
Speaker 4: interviews like oh do you and they'll kind of try
Speaker 4: and get him to like talk about how good the
Speaker 4: Ravens are, but he's still like, I'm playing, motherfucker.
Speaker 3: I'm still in the league if I want the Ravens,
Speaker 3: and I like that, Like he's not. He doesn't see
Speaker 3: it as like this like retirement tour.
Speaker 4: He sees just like I still got I'm doing this
Speaker 4: fucking sign me and I fucking love that dude, even
Speaker 4: though he might here's the other thing, he might be wrong, right,
Speaker 4: but you need that a belief if no one's if
Speaker 4: you have to believe yourself more than anyone else to
Speaker 4: be successful with these hard things. And he was like
Speaker 4: for for like him janness like it is sports guys
Speaker 4: can absolutely inspire you in your life for that, And
Speaker 4: I take a lot of that from Flacco and and
Speaker 4: you know, obviously Gianni's for how hard Giannis is like
Speaker 4: work ethic turn it coming from nothing to being one
Speaker 4: of the best. And it's just sort of that that
Speaker 4: kind of underdog story and the fact that it ends
Speaker 4: with the super Bowl and not super Bowl at a
Speaker 4: super Bowl that has Ray Lewis retires, Ed Reid got
Speaker 4: one with us because you know, Red is my favorite
Speaker 4: raven even though ray obviously is a legend.
Speaker 3: But there's just he was just so fucking.
Speaker 4: Cool and he was just so so incredibly good and
Speaker 4: it was just such a special Like that kind of
Speaker 4: super Bowl keeps you going.
Speaker 3: Now, did I want us to win this year? Absolutely.
Speaker 3: I love Lamar. He's gaining on.
Speaker 4: Reid for me because he's just incredible to watch and
Speaker 4: he's so fucking good. And I would have loved there
Speaker 4: was like the numerology every twelve years, the quarterbacks twenty
Speaker 4: eight years old. I thought for sure we were winning
Speaker 4: because of that dumb bullshit, and then it would have
Speaker 4: been if we'd gotten that one, I literally wouldn't need
Speaker 4: another superow for the rest of my life, you know
Speaker 4: what I mean, Three at really pivotal points in my
Speaker 4: life would have been great.
Speaker 3: But we'll get him this year.
Speaker 2: So ed Reid, let's we'll jump into this Baltimore team. Yes,
Speaker 2: good segue is ed Reed. I remember Edward's last year
Speaker 2: he lit me up in Baltimore. Yeah you remember that.
Speaker 2: I don't know if you remember that. We ended up losing.
Speaker 2: It was two thousand and it was this year. It
Speaker 2: was the game that I played in. Ed Reid came
Speaker 2: and he lit me up on a post damn, and
Speaker 2: he just was so swagging about it, like got a
Speaker 2: like he was just a.
Speaker 1: Competitive so cool.
Speaker 2: Bill used to literally show like a forty play cut
Speaker 2: up of ed Red every time we played him, and
Speaker 2: we're like Bill, we saw this six weeks ago. He's like,
Speaker 2: he just show another cut up like Ed Reid this
Speaker 2: fuck he lost the one.
Speaker 4: That's the one vent diagram for me and Bill Belichick
Speaker 4: is our admiration for Ed Reid is how much we
Speaker 4: how much we respect him, because I've seen him talk
Speaker 4: about that and that is fucking cool. Yeah, and it'll
Speaker 4: show those where it's like how smart he was to
Speaker 4: like he was playing mind games with Peyton Manning.
Speaker 1: It's insane.
Speaker 4: And not only that, but he'll return kicks, he'll lateral
Speaker 4: like those block kicks.
Speaker 3: So yeah, he's up and under.
Speaker 2: We used to show all our special teams his up
Speaker 2: and under move on blocking kicks because he was that legendary.
Speaker 2: So Ed Reid's one of your favorite guys from.
Speaker 1: This team for sure. Ray Lewis, you love him.
Speaker 3: Joe Fls and Ogden.
Speaker 4: See Ogden gets forgotten in the like Ray because ray
Speaker 4: Lows obviously really good, you know, but like it doesn't
Speaker 4: happen with that Ogden. They draft those guys the same
Speaker 4: year that was our you know, and and like that's
Speaker 4: those are the cornerstones of our franchise. And he's in
Speaker 4: many ways, I feel like Ogden is what the perfect
Speaker 4: left tackle became. You know, it's like that he got
Speaker 4: drafted a long time ago. Now it was just like
Speaker 4: he was so good it's insane.
Speaker 3: He was.
Speaker 4: He was kind of like Tim Duncan where it's like
Speaker 4: it's kind of boring, gets forgotten.
Speaker 3: But I don't think those teams. I don't think we win.
Speaker 4: That first Super Bowl with without him, for sure. And
Speaker 4: it's like he he does get a little. I want
Speaker 4: to give him his credit because he to me, it's him.
Speaker 4: I think of him and ray Lewis as are the
Speaker 4: initial stars that got us off the ground together. And
Speaker 4: I feel like he gets forgotten too much. Offensive lineman
Speaker 4: that's gonna happen, but happens. And Nelson his personality is
Speaker 4: just like a kind of a chill guy. He's not
Speaker 4: you know that he's not doing the sick dances.
Speaker 3: That everybody sees.
Speaker 1: Linemen are in their own world.
Speaker 3: For sure, you kind of have to be you're getting
Speaker 3: but they're the reason.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, it's it's the trenches. I mean, you
Speaker 1: listen to all the game, it starts in the trenches.
Speaker 1: It's true.