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Speaker 1: Sessler from different parts of America. Yeah, this, this Hard

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Speaker 2: Can I I'm not worried, but I am I take

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Speaker 2: mean that the drama, the subplots. I like, Mark, what

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Speaker 3: Well, I mean, I guess there'd be invariably you'd have

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Speaker 4: And I think I'm a.

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Speaker 2: Mess with the mirage and we hang out outside of work.

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Speaker 1: I think it would be good Hard Knocks for our

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Speaker 3: That's trauma, though, there's natural conflict, and we'd all be

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Speaker 1: Welcome everybody. It's a quiet week in June, not as

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Speaker 1: quie as it will be starting next week. There are

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Speaker 1: Some teams wrapped it up last week. Some teams are

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Speaker 1: excusing their veterans entirely. It's obviously different than it used

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Speaker 1: Mark, you're a lover, right, yeah?

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Speaker 4: I think so. I mean I have that capacity, you.

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Speaker 1: Have the I have the capacity to love. We're gonna

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Speaker 2: I mean, this is absolutely a Sessler jam. This is uh,

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Speaker 4: You know that is mythical.

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Speaker 3: I would say that, like, because you know, I kind

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Speaker 2: It's a good one. I like it.

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Speaker 1: We're in the middle of a strange kitchen wherever you are, Greg.

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Speaker 2: it before we start. So that's it's just an invite

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Speaker 2: Let's over with the three man front snap spam handed off.

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Speaker 1: And Saquon Barkley was at a charity event. Isn't it

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Speaker 1: Are you talking? Are they open to talking right now?

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Speaker 1: I can get something done.

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Speaker 3: Well, and there's you know, the only real example we

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Speaker 1: Bill Belichick, before that Ian Reporting, was asked about Nuke

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Speaker 5: So I'm not really a travel agent here. I'm not

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Speaker 5: Yeah, I'm not going to talk about players that aren't

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Speaker 1: Building good spirits. Uh yeah, Mark you have. He could

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Speaker 4: Yeah, he doesn't.

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Speaker 3: And there's still teams hanging out there in the midst

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Speaker 2: It's very similar to me to Darius Slay is on

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Speaker 2: The fact that Nuke is willing to go to that

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Speaker 2: some Bill O'Brien in Foxborough like, he's a different Bill

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Speaker 1: Guy in other in other Oh, last point I have

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Speaker 1: Everybody knows that the AFC East is extremely competitive. Give

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Speaker 2: I love it. I think this wide receiver group is

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Speaker 2: think Kendrick Bourne will be better. He sounds a little

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Speaker 1: Let's stay in the AFC East where the Buffalo Bills.

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Speaker 1: I have them number one on my urgency scale. GREGI

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Speaker 1: it in to Features editor Ali Ben Purriy. Isn't it

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Speaker 1: funny how often Ali comes up on the show and

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Speaker 3: Yeah, he's he is a very busy individual, a professional.

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Speaker 3: I don't think that would compel him to press play

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Speaker 1: And I have a phone call with Ali later this week,

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Speaker 7: Very concerned, Yeah, very concerned. I'm not going to get

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Speaker 7: So we'll talk about practice. Happy to do that, Happy

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Speaker 2: I am totally with you. Hearing that in context was good.

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Speaker 3: And I just have to assume that we're getting those

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Speaker 2: But it's not money, which is the It's rare that

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Speaker 1: I think it always goes back to the money. Gregy.

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Speaker 2: he missed the game last year. One fifty four got it.

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Speaker 1: Let's stay in the AFC East Aaron Rodgers. One of

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Speaker 1: my favorite lines in arguably the best sitcom of all

439
00:21:00,600 --> 00:21:05,159
Speaker 1: time Arrested Development, when George Booth is in prison and

440
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Speaker 1: his son Michael is visiting him, and George has made

441
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Speaker 1: friends in prison, and it's very comfortable lifestyle. He's eating

442
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Speaker 1: an ice cream sandwich and Michael says to his father, Dad,

443
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Speaker 1: you're doing time, and Booth goes, Michael, I'm having the

444
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Speaker 1: time of my life. That's Aaron Rodgers.

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Speaker 8: You know, it's a lot of fun. Actually, the last

446
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Speaker 8: six weeks have been about the most fun I've had

447
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Speaker 8: in a while. So it's fun to come to work

448
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Speaker 8: and be excited about what we're doing. We've got a

449
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Speaker 8: great quarterback room to be able to work with Todd

450
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Speaker 8: Downing and Rob and Hacks in there all the time.

451
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Speaker 8: And you know, we get some other randoms coming to

452
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Speaker 8: sit in the room, which is nice too. Put to

453
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Speaker 8: work with Zach and Tim and Chris has been a

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Speaker 8: lot of fun.

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Speaker 1: I mean, let's call this what it is. Rogers is enjoying, yes,

456
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Speaker 1: both presenting a highly functional, healthy relationship with his new team,

457
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Speaker 1: but also a little twist of the knife to the

458
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Speaker 1: packer is that I loved this off season program. I

459
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Speaker 1: love being having perfect attendance and what a great vibe

460
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Speaker 1: it is here maybe not so much over there.

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Speaker 3: Well, there always is a double pronged approach to anything

462
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Speaker 3: he says, and it right now it is that dichotomy

463
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Speaker 3: of like, yes, this is a bit of a dig

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Speaker 3: at Green Bay. The thing though, because like I've probably

465
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Speaker 3: been is down on the Rogers off season charade the

466
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Speaker 3: past couple of years is as much as well as anyone,

467
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Speaker 3: And like since that press conference, I do see a

468
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Speaker 3: guy who feels like there's new energy. He seems excited,

469
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Speaker 3: he's going he's hanging out with his teammates a bunch

470
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Speaker 3: where he always seems to a little bit of a

471
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Speaker 3: lone wolf to me in Green Bay towards the latter

472
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Speaker 3: part of all that.

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Speaker 2: So I buy it.

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Speaker 3: I mean it's I think also things change in that

475
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Speaker 3: wit that schedule they have, they start one and four,

476
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Speaker 3: but I don't think they're going to I think there's

477
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Speaker 3: something about a new version, a better version of Aaron

478
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Speaker 3: Rodgers when we got last year.

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Speaker 4: I'm buying in, maybe to a fool's degree.

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Speaker 1: As a as a Jets fan, this was the best

481
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Speaker 1: case scenario other than he had the minor cash, but

482
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Speaker 1: he was practicing by the end of the OTA's like

483
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Speaker 1: in the mini camps, like this is what you wanted.

484
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Speaker 1: You did not you would have My radar would have

485
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Speaker 1: been up if after all that drama throughout the offseason.

486
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Speaker 1: He then does the I'm working out on my own

487
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Speaker 1: in California move like you couldn't ask for a better

488
00:23:17,840 --> 00:23:20,119
Speaker 1: setup to how this goes where it goes from here. Well,

489
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Speaker 1: it's about to get real sooner than later once we

490
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Speaker 1: get to the fall. But so far it's so good.

491
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Speaker 2: It makes total sense that an all time great at

492
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Speaker 2: whatever field they're in is going to feel a new

493
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Speaker 2: motivation after maybe things started getting stale in your job.

494
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Speaker 2: You've reached the highest of highs with Green Bay, and like, now,

495
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Speaker 2: not that you're trying harder, but yeah, you're probably trying harder,

496
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Speaker 2: Like you are extra motivated to make it all work.

497
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Speaker 2: And it's nice to just be somewhere else, and it's

498
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Speaker 2: nice to be in New York City going to the

499
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Speaker 2: next games and going to uh, you know, boy Genius

500
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Speaker 2: or wherever the hell he's going to tailors went to.

501
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Speaker 1: Then, I mean of the Tonys.

502
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Speaker 2: That was a little about Wait, I thought we were

503
00:24:03,760 --> 00:24:05,800
Speaker 2: burying the lead though. Who are the Randoms in their

504
00:24:05,840 --> 00:24:09,600
Speaker 2: offensive meeting? That was like an Aaron Rodgers quiet shot.

505
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Speaker 2: There are some people, some random some coach on the

506
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Speaker 2: Jets is like, am I one of the Randoms?

507
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Speaker 1: Who Who's I assumed it Zach Wilson. Oh well, he

508
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Speaker 1: mentioned Zach. Yeah, that's a good question. That's a good question. Uh.

509
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Speaker 1: Finally in the news. You know, we love the media beat,

510
00:24:26,359 --> 00:24:30,879
Speaker 1: and this one is personal on two levels because mark Ingram,

511
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Speaker 1: formerly of NFL Media, also formerly of the Saints and

512
00:24:34,680 --> 00:24:38,199
Speaker 1: other NFL teams a legend at USC There's billboards all

513
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Speaker 1: over the city right now. People might find this really weird,

514
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Speaker 1: but it's a kind of a weird sports down Los Angeles.

515
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Speaker 1: Somebody's buying a bunch of billboards across the Southland and

516
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Speaker 1: and it says, give Reggie Bush his heisman back. It's like,

517
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Speaker 1: I kind of agree, just like, who's doing this, Who's

518
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Speaker 1: spending this money? What's happening right now?

519
00:25:00,440 --> 00:25:04,159
Speaker 2: They're everywhere too. I I want to follow, like the

520
00:25:04,280 --> 00:25:07,840
Speaker 2: dark money that is somehow supplying this, Like is Reggie

521
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Speaker 2: Bush ultimately connected to this?

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Speaker 1: I don't know is the heisman because I know that

523
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Speaker 1: Reggie had the heisman for a while and then he

524
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Speaker 1: had to give it back a few years ago. Is

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Speaker 1: this something I could be purchased? Because couldn't we just

526
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Speaker 1: take the billboard money, uh this this these dark forces

527
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Speaker 1: and and purchase the heisman and then give it to

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Speaker 1: Reggie and maybe you can get some tequila shots out

529
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Speaker 1: of it.

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Speaker 2: I don't think.

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Speaker 1: I don't think it's out on Thanksgiving Eve.

532
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Speaker 2: I think I think it's gone the the at that

533
00:25:33,920 --> 00:25:36,560
Speaker 2: actual heisman. But I think the idea now is like, look,

534
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Speaker 2: Reggie Bush was just doing some small scale gift taking

535
00:25:39,840 --> 00:25:43,240
Speaker 2: that now is legal. Uh if you're in the NCAA. Anyways,

536
00:25:43,920 --> 00:25:46,959
Speaker 2: give the man his respect, our former co worker. I

537
00:25:47,000 --> 00:25:53,360
Speaker 2: know he really remembers us incredibly well as like that guy. Oh, yeah,

538
00:25:53,359 --> 00:25:56,520
Speaker 2: that guy, and then and then yeah, the other guy.

539
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Speaker 1: Yeah, those guys. Oh is that my chauffeur I get

540
00:26:00,440 --> 00:26:05,160
Speaker 1: I'm not sure. Reggie is looking like he's out at

541
00:26:05,160 --> 00:26:10,199
Speaker 1: Fox now a contract squabble. He wants more money, and

542
00:26:10,280 --> 00:26:11,840
Speaker 1: Fox is like, well, I don't want to give you

543
00:26:12,080 --> 00:26:15,760
Speaker 1: that much more money. And bad news for reg because

544
00:26:16,119 --> 00:26:19,560
Speaker 1: Fox is of course. It's from Andrew Marshawn, our boy

545
00:26:20,040 --> 00:26:22,639
Speaker 1: from the New York Post whose brother listens to this show.

546
00:26:23,480 --> 00:26:28,760
Speaker 1: All these connections, all these red strings anyway, and guess

547
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Speaker 1: who they have locked and loaded. According to Marshawn, it's

548
00:26:32,400 --> 00:26:37,600
Speaker 1: mark Ingram Mark Sessler's friend from Germany or Greece, I

549
00:26:37,640 --> 00:26:42,440
Speaker 1: don't remember, who would hypothetically retire from the NFL after

550
00:26:42,600 --> 00:26:47,880
Speaker 1: thirteen seasons and joined Fox. And we know Sizzler that

551
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Speaker 1: Ingram would do a great job in that phase of

552
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Speaker 1: his career.

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Speaker 4: Well, I think it's already proven.

554
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Speaker 3: I mean, whether you spent time with him in a

555
00:26:57,160 --> 00:27:00,760
Speaker 3: locker room as a teammate or coach, off the charts

556
00:27:00,760 --> 00:27:03,760
Speaker 3: on that level. He's done a ton of podcast work

557
00:27:03,800 --> 00:27:06,440
Speaker 3: and TV work, like it was Italy and Germany. I

558
00:27:06,480 --> 00:27:08,320
Speaker 3: think you know that, but I'll I'll let you know,

559
00:27:08,640 --> 00:27:12,080
Speaker 3: but I would just say that, like there the trip

560
00:27:12,160 --> 00:27:15,200
Speaker 3: was very like tight knit because we're just traveling around

561
00:27:15,240 --> 00:27:17,840
Speaker 3: on buss, had no choice but to get to know

562
00:27:17,920 --> 00:27:23,160
Speaker 3: people's personalities, and like he's just got this gift of engagement.

563
00:27:23,200 --> 00:27:27,040
Speaker 3: I mean, he's just bizarrely funny. Uh he he would

564
00:27:27,080 --> 00:27:29,359
Speaker 3: go in to do these like one man skits for

565
00:27:29,480 --> 00:27:32,240
Speaker 3: you know, ten twenty minutes at a time, staying in character.

566
00:27:32,320 --> 00:27:33,720
Speaker 3: So I don't I just more want to see what

567
00:27:33,760 --> 00:27:35,680
Speaker 3: we'll get out of him on a on that kind

568
00:27:35,720 --> 00:27:38,439
Speaker 3: of platform, because it might be too it might be

569
00:27:38,720 --> 00:27:40,760
Speaker 3: not zany enough for him. I'm want to see him

570
00:27:40,760 --> 00:27:43,000
Speaker 3: really be what the guy that I witnessed in those

571
00:27:43,320 --> 00:27:44,560
Speaker 3: German countries.

572
00:27:44,520 --> 00:27:51,160
Speaker 2: Mark Wood, Right, Because when you think that crew. It's

573
00:27:51,160 --> 00:27:52,959
Speaker 2: like I think is that urban Meyer is on that

574
00:27:53,040 --> 00:27:56,919
Speaker 2: and Liner and Bush was on that. Yeah, vany is

575
00:27:56,960 --> 00:27:59,080
Speaker 2: maybe not the word. I I don't want to go

576
00:27:59,119 --> 00:28:01,320
Speaker 2: back to the whole marajh thing from before. And you know,

577
00:28:01,320 --> 00:28:06,280
Speaker 2: because we are great friends. But the bond, the bond

578
00:28:06,320 --> 00:28:10,159
Speaker 2: mark that you built with mark Ingram and Rex Ryan

579
00:28:10,280 --> 00:28:16,320
Speaker 2: and some defensive tackle on like the Panthers would like prime,

580
00:28:16,800 --> 00:28:18,960
Speaker 2: is it more of an unbreakable bond, like if you

581
00:28:19,000 --> 00:28:21,200
Speaker 2: could only save one of us falling off a boat,

582
00:28:21,320 --> 00:28:22,760
Speaker 2: Like are you going mark with a kay?

583
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Speaker 3: The way I'd answer that is you know that we

584
00:28:26,440 --> 00:28:28,439
Speaker 3: were all on text threads together and so during the

585
00:28:28,440 --> 00:28:31,600
Speaker 3: trip people needed information, uh, and so there was was

586
00:28:31,600 --> 00:28:36,040
Speaker 3: a vibrant level of communication. Then about ten days after

587
00:28:36,080 --> 00:28:38,200
Speaker 3: we got back and there was some photos being sent

588
00:28:38,360 --> 00:28:40,600
Speaker 3: in a text or two I think it was Marking

589
00:28:40,600 --> 00:28:42,880
Speaker 3: and they said, Okay, well now we're not going to

590
00:28:42,960 --> 00:28:45,800
Speaker 3: be using this thread anymore, but we've moved on to

591
00:28:45,880 --> 00:28:48,320
Speaker 3: a new phase of the friendship and the trip hangout.

592
00:28:48,360 --> 00:28:50,640
Speaker 3: It's just like I think that kind of was maybe

593
00:28:50,720 --> 00:28:52,640
Speaker 3: aimed at me to some degree, along with the other

594
00:28:53,320 --> 00:28:55,040
Speaker 3: regular Joe's on the thread, so.

595
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Speaker 1: He didn't use I'm on the boat.

596
00:29:01,000 --> 00:29:01,720
Speaker 2: I'm on the boat.

597
00:29:02,320 --> 00:29:04,520
Speaker 3: He No, he did say something like that where it

598
00:29:04,560 --> 00:29:07,240
Speaker 3: was like, we're you know, this phase of our communication

599
00:29:07,400 --> 00:29:08,160
Speaker 3: is now shifting.

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00:29:09,960 --> 00:29:15,120
Speaker 1: It was clear that shift was into nothingness, correct into

601
00:29:15,240 --> 00:29:16,240
Speaker 1: a total abyss.

602
00:29:16,440 --> 00:29:18,600
Speaker 2: Well, you've seen him here and there and and and

603
00:29:18,960 --> 00:29:21,360
Speaker 2: exchange pleasantries, so I've I think I feel like he's

604
00:29:21,360 --> 00:29:22,960
Speaker 2: seen that in person, so that's not.

605
00:29:23,000 --> 00:29:24,040
Speaker 4: Yeah, I'm kidding a little bit.

606
00:29:24,080 --> 00:29:25,600
Speaker 1: He didn't have to do that, though, he could have

607
00:29:25,680 --> 00:29:27,880
Speaker 1: just let it fade away naturally. He didn't have to

608
00:29:27,960 --> 00:29:31,080
Speaker 1: make an announcement that this we are no longer on

609
00:29:31,480 --> 00:29:32,800
Speaker 1: speaking or texting terms.

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Speaker 3: Wasn't it kind of decisive though, Like, there's no there's

611
00:29:36,680 --> 00:29:39,240
Speaker 3: no way to not know exactly where he's coming from

612
00:29:39,240 --> 00:29:39,360
Speaker 3: on this.

613
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Speaker 2: He could remove himself from the conversation at maybe maybe

614
00:29:42,360 --> 00:29:46,000
Speaker 2: iPhones weren't able to do that back then. Wait, I

615
00:29:46,000 --> 00:29:47,640
Speaker 2: do want to hit on one thing with Reggie Bush

616
00:29:47,680 --> 00:29:50,360
Speaker 2: because I think it's something I've seen, we've seen at

617
00:29:50,440 --> 00:29:53,120
Speaker 2: NFL network. Unless you have a lot more mark ingram

618
00:29:53,200 --> 00:29:57,880
Speaker 2: thoughts here, he he is making a mistake. I feel

619
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Speaker 2: like a lot of ex athletes who are aren't as

620
00:30:01,400 --> 00:30:04,440
Speaker 2: good being broadcasters as they were as being players. Like

621
00:30:04,480 --> 00:30:07,760
Speaker 2: there's difference makers in terms of broadcasters, and then there's

622
00:30:07,840 --> 00:30:10,240
Speaker 2: like guys that are there because they were big names

623
00:30:10,400 --> 00:30:12,400
Speaker 2: or because they're good looking, and there's like a sliding

624
00:30:12,480 --> 00:30:14,880
Speaker 2: scale and like the smaller your name and maybe the

625
00:30:14,920 --> 00:30:17,440
Speaker 2: smaller like how good looking you are, like the better

626
00:30:17,560 --> 00:30:20,680
Speaker 2: you have to be. And like Reggie Bush is, you know,

627
00:30:20,720 --> 00:30:24,560
Speaker 2: as famous as he gets, and he's pushing for more money.

628
00:30:24,600 --> 00:30:26,560
Speaker 2: And we've seen this at our network sometimes. I think

629
00:30:26,600 --> 00:30:29,760
Speaker 2: sometimes some of the guys who who push for more money,

630
00:30:30,120 --> 00:30:34,480
Speaker 2: it's like the other side is like, actually, like you're

631
00:30:34,520 --> 00:30:37,160
Speaker 2: not like our leading running back, you're not our leading

632
00:30:37,280 --> 00:30:40,480
Speaker 2: star here, and you're not making that money back that easily.

633
00:30:41,360 --> 00:30:43,000
Speaker 2: If you're just kind of go away.

634
00:30:43,920 --> 00:30:47,760
Speaker 1: Right, it's fair. I mean, people aren't. The ratings for

635
00:30:47,800 --> 00:30:50,440
Speaker 1: the football games are not going to go down because

636
00:30:50,520 --> 00:30:53,160
Speaker 1: mark Ingram has replaced Reggie Bush, even though Reggie Bush

637
00:30:53,200 --> 00:30:56,479
Speaker 1: is way more famous. So be careful. Really good business

638
00:30:56,480 --> 00:31:07,320
Speaker 1: advice from Greg Rosenthal. Let's take a break, all right,

639
00:31:07,480 --> 00:31:13,760
Speaker 1: we are back, and uh, love love, love love. How

640
00:31:13,800 --> 00:31:19,640
Speaker 1: important it is in society to share your feelings because

641
00:31:19,680 --> 00:31:24,000
Speaker 1: mark uh, if you don't share your feelings for the

642
00:31:24,280 --> 00:31:27,959
Speaker 1: people you love. It's like a bank account, and if

643
00:31:27,960 --> 00:31:32,240
Speaker 1: you don't make those love deposits, eventually that bank account

644
00:31:32,280 --> 00:31:34,600
Speaker 1: will run dry. Was that apt?

645
00:31:35,720 --> 00:31:35,920
Speaker 4: Yeah?

646
00:31:35,960 --> 00:31:37,959
Speaker 3: I think we've all learned the hard way on that

647
00:31:38,000 --> 00:31:41,480
Speaker 3: front in our youth in years since. So I'd agree

648
00:31:41,480 --> 00:31:43,280
Speaker 3: with you. You've got to You've got to put the work.

649
00:31:43,080 --> 00:31:46,680
Speaker 1: In a weird day, Yes, I I believe that, Greg.

650
00:31:46,680 --> 00:31:50,800
Speaker 1: How about you? Uh, the bank account of love? Was

651
00:31:50,800 --> 00:31:51,280
Speaker 1: that apt?

652
00:31:52,400 --> 00:31:56,680
Speaker 2: I think it was fantastic. I'm always trying to make deposits.

653
00:31:57,640 --> 00:32:03,800
Speaker 2: They sometimes get rejected, you, very often they are rejected.

654
00:32:05,160 --> 00:32:06,880
Speaker 1: All right, So what we're gonna do here is we're

655
00:32:06,880 --> 00:32:09,640
Speaker 1: gonna share. We're going to share our feelings. This is

656
00:32:09,640 --> 00:32:13,360
Speaker 1: actually a safe space. So we don't want any pushback

657
00:32:13,440 --> 00:32:15,720
Speaker 1: from the public at large one way or the other

658
00:32:15,800 --> 00:32:19,240
Speaker 1: on this because we're just opening up our heart and

659
00:32:19,360 --> 00:32:23,600
Speaker 1: letting people know how we feel. I'll get it going

660
00:32:24,120 --> 00:32:28,520
Speaker 1: because I think mine is more universal. My first one

661
00:32:29,720 --> 00:32:32,040
Speaker 1: in terms of you know what, I'll save that one.

662
00:32:32,400 --> 00:32:37,400
Speaker 1: I'll start with somebody that we discussed earlier. I want

663
00:32:37,400 --> 00:32:41,960
Speaker 1: to talk about Barkley. This is my love letter to

664
00:32:42,080 --> 00:32:52,440
Speaker 1: Saquon Barkley. It's not your fault. You've It's not your fault.

665
00:32:52,480 --> 00:32:55,200
Speaker 1: You've done everything this team could have ever asked of you.

666
00:32:55,320 --> 00:33:00,920
Speaker 1: A local boy kid from the Bronx. They made you

667
00:33:00,920 --> 00:33:03,160
Speaker 1: a number two overall pick, and you immediately played at

668
00:33:03,160 --> 00:33:06,160
Speaker 1: an elite level. That justified what was seen as an

669
00:33:06,280 --> 00:33:12,280
Speaker 1: unorthodox decision. Why was it unorthodox because remember, running backs

670
00:33:12,280 --> 00:33:19,160
Speaker 1: aren't special. They are a replaceable commodity. They get old fast.

671
00:33:20,360 --> 00:33:25,040
Speaker 1: That's why that's what they say. Right. You tore your

672
00:33:25,080 --> 00:33:28,000
Speaker 1: ACL in twenty twenty, you worked your way back, you

673
00:33:28,080 --> 00:33:30,720
Speaker 1: got a real coaching staff around you, and in twenty

674
00:33:30,760 --> 00:33:34,960
Speaker 1: twenty two you finished first Team All Pro. That's the

675
00:33:35,000 --> 00:33:37,440
Speaker 1: second time, by the way, you've gotten that honor in

676
00:33:37,520 --> 00:33:40,840
Speaker 1: four full seasons. I don't think you'll get old fast,

677
00:33:41,120 --> 00:33:47,720
Speaker 1: say Quads. In fact, barring a Giants run to the

678
00:33:47,720 --> 00:33:50,080
Speaker 1: Super Bowl, you'll still be twenty six years old at

679
00:33:50,120 --> 00:33:54,920
Speaker 1: the end of the season when it ends. Is twenty

680
00:33:54,920 --> 00:33:58,440
Speaker 1: six old? Mark? Is it old?

681
00:33:59,120 --> 00:34:00,320
Speaker 4: It does not feel old to me.

682
00:34:01,080 --> 00:34:04,560
Speaker 1: You've played four full NFL seasons and her first team

683
00:34:04,720 --> 00:34:06,680
Speaker 1: All Pro in half of them, a Rookie of the

684
00:34:06,800 --> 00:34:09,920
Speaker 1: Year award third place and Comeback Player of the Year

685
00:34:09,920 --> 00:34:13,040
Speaker 1: of voting last year should have beaten Gino, men of

686
00:34:13,040 --> 00:34:16,480
Speaker 1: the community, great smile, state school education. I love you,

687
00:34:16,560 --> 00:34:19,880
Speaker 1: Saquon Barkley. I love how you play, and so do

688
00:34:19,960 --> 00:34:22,440
Speaker 1: the hard working denizens of northern New Jersey in the

689
00:34:22,480 --> 00:34:26,040
Speaker 1: greater Tri State area. This guy right here, he's one

690
00:34:26,080 --> 00:34:29,960
Speaker 1: of us. Back after this, I believe your current contract

691
00:34:30,040 --> 00:34:33,600
Speaker 1: situation will represent the tipping point when it became clear

692
00:34:33,680 --> 00:34:36,799
Speaker 1: that anti running back sentiment has gone too far. You

693
00:34:36,840 --> 00:34:40,080
Speaker 1: are the perfect test case, Saquon, a superstar running back

694
00:34:40,080 --> 00:34:42,319
Speaker 1: in your prime who carried your offense through thick and thin.

695
00:34:42,600 --> 00:34:45,680
Speaker 1: And when last year's stunning run to the playoffs concluded

696
00:34:45,680 --> 00:34:51,280
Speaker 1: for the Giants, it was the pedestrian quarterback that Eli

697
00:34:51,400 --> 00:34:55,560
Speaker 1: Manning cos player who got the massive new contract. Wow,

698
00:34:56,920 --> 00:35:06,440
Speaker 1: where's my music? Thank you? It's not your fault, Saquon.

699
00:35:06,560 --> 00:35:10,239
Speaker 1: I know, I know, and you know that that Mannikin's

700
00:35:10,360 --> 00:35:13,920
Speaker 1: success was largely predicated on your very presence on the field.

701
00:35:14,320 --> 00:35:16,759
Speaker 1: To take what you achieved over sixteen games of all

702
00:35:16,760 --> 00:35:19,600
Speaker 1: pro greatness, then see it used a successful leverage for

703
00:35:19,680 --> 00:35:25,520
Speaker 1: that stone faced jimoke from Duke that non human. Okay,

704
00:35:25,600 --> 00:35:28,520
Speaker 1: this is too far. Maybe sitting out of season then

705
00:35:28,560 --> 00:35:32,280
Speaker 1: watching the carnage wrought by asking, said Mannikin, to efficiently

706
00:35:32,320 --> 00:35:34,680
Speaker 1: run an offense without you. Yes, that would show them,

707
00:35:34,680 --> 00:35:39,200
Speaker 1: but don't do it. We deserve to see you the beauty,

708
00:35:39,280 --> 00:35:43,399
Speaker 1: the greatness that you give us every Sunday, but it's

709
00:35:43,400 --> 00:35:45,440
Speaker 1: good to make them think about that worst case scenario.

710
00:35:45,800 --> 00:35:48,759
Speaker 1: You are loved by people who understand what football is

711
00:35:48,800 --> 00:35:54,440
Speaker 1: all about, especially big blue football, Benny and Hackensack, Doris

712
00:35:54,480 --> 00:35:58,000
Speaker 1: and Rigo park mic in Upper Saddle River. And yes,

713
00:35:59,080 --> 00:36:03,200
Speaker 1: Danny from Rockland County, we are your people and we

714
00:36:03,239 --> 00:36:06,560
Speaker 1: will lift you up in the way you deserve. Sincerely,

715
00:36:08,640 --> 00:36:09,800
Speaker 1: Danny from Rocklin County.

716
00:36:11,400 --> 00:36:11,640
Speaker 4: Wow.

717
00:36:12,160 --> 00:36:16,319
Speaker 3: Uh, what a start here, And I mean Dan, I

718
00:36:16,360 --> 00:36:19,200
Speaker 3: know you were suggesting that his agent shouldn't take him

719
00:36:19,200 --> 00:36:22,040
Speaker 3: down a dark road and take his career off track

720
00:36:22,880 --> 00:36:25,480
Speaker 3: in a misguided fashion. I would just cut off everything

721
00:36:25,520 --> 00:36:28,400
Speaker 3: that you've created right there. I Hi were that agent

722
00:36:28,880 --> 00:36:31,200
Speaker 3: and basically just ship it in a zoom meeting to

723
00:36:31,239 --> 00:36:34,160
Speaker 3: everyone involved in the Giants in the Saquon Barkley decision

724
00:36:34,200 --> 00:36:34,920
Speaker 3: making process.

725
00:36:35,400 --> 00:36:36,000
Speaker 4: You nailed it.

726
00:36:37,040 --> 00:36:41,359
Speaker 2: I agree, like, no, let's get let's give Dan. Let's

727
00:36:41,400 --> 00:36:44,840
Speaker 2: get Dan from Rockland a little cut. It should be

728
00:36:44,840 --> 00:36:47,440
Speaker 2: a bigger cut, though. There must be something annoying if

729
00:36:47,480 --> 00:36:50,960
Speaker 2: your Sako and Barkley and you just are fully in

730
00:36:51,000 --> 00:36:54,880
Speaker 2: the knowledge that you are better at football than Daniel Jones.

731
00:36:55,360 --> 00:36:58,480
Speaker 2: And Daniel Jones got ninety two million dollars guaranteed over

732
00:36:58,520 --> 00:37:00,680
Speaker 2: a two year contract and you're just hoping to squeeze

733
00:37:00,719 --> 00:37:04,640
Speaker 2: it from like twelve and a half to fourteen. So

734
00:37:04,680 --> 00:37:06,840
Speaker 2: I don't think he would mind Danny from Rockland taking

735
00:37:06,880 --> 00:37:09,680
Speaker 2: these shots from to Danny Duks. He's too good hemate

736
00:37:09,760 --> 00:37:11,920
Speaker 2: to do that. But he's he's fine if Danny from

737
00:37:11,960 --> 00:37:13,040
Speaker 2: Rockland doesn't for him.

738
00:37:13,280 --> 00:37:15,279
Speaker 1: That's the other thing, like we heard from earlier in

739
00:37:15,280 --> 00:37:18,120
Speaker 1: the show, from the charity event in Jersey City, he

740
00:37:18,440 --> 00:37:21,480
Speaker 1: is a upstanding citizen, a good dude, a good teammate.

741
00:37:21,719 --> 00:37:24,759
Speaker 1: Like it would have been very easy as soon as

742
00:37:24,840 --> 00:37:31,359
Speaker 1: Jones got that frankly somewhat absurd contract and taking his

743
00:37:31,680 --> 00:37:34,800
Speaker 1: all giants off a social media and made this about

744
00:37:35,120 --> 00:37:37,160
Speaker 1: look what you gave the quarterback but not me. But

745
00:37:37,239 --> 00:37:40,319
Speaker 1: he is trying to play this in a different way,

746
00:37:40,440 --> 00:37:42,440
Speaker 1: and I don't know if it will help him not

747
00:37:42,520 --> 00:37:45,000
Speaker 1: hitting the nuclear red button. But I respect him for

748
00:37:45,560 --> 00:37:49,000
Speaker 1: trying to think of the team and Daniel Jones first,

749
00:37:49,040 --> 00:37:51,560
Speaker 1: because it's not his fault either that that's the way

750
00:37:51,600 --> 00:37:54,040
Speaker 1: the system is rigged. It's just rigged against people that

751
00:37:54,080 --> 00:37:55,160
Speaker 1: play Saquon's position.

752
00:37:55,719 --> 00:37:57,319
Speaker 3: And the one thing he has got going for him too,

753
00:37:57,400 --> 00:37:58,960
Speaker 3: is because it's not a what would they look like

754
00:37:59,000 --> 00:38:03,600
Speaker 3: without Saquon Barkley because through the injuries and we've seen

755
00:38:03,640 --> 00:38:05,880
Speaker 3: a lot of test case examples of there being no

756
00:38:06,000 --> 00:38:09,719
Speaker 3: Saque in that offense, and Danny Dimes is not the

757
00:38:09,719 --> 00:38:12,440
Speaker 3: same player. I mean last year was was what you've

758
00:38:12,480 --> 00:38:14,719
Speaker 3: been waiting for from the Giants as a whole, and

759
00:38:14,800 --> 00:38:16,920
Speaker 3: like to pull saque I think they've got to realize

760
00:38:16,920 --> 00:38:18,320
Speaker 3: that would be a semi disaster.

761
00:38:18,800 --> 00:38:21,160
Speaker 2: There is something funny about this whole thing to me, though,

762
00:38:21,160 --> 00:38:22,720
Speaker 2: because I think he's gonna get that contract.

763
00:38:22,719 --> 00:38:23,160
Speaker 1: We'll see.

764
00:38:23,680 --> 00:38:25,960
Speaker 2: It's hard to guess, but that it's such a Dave

765
00:38:25,960 --> 00:38:29,239
Speaker 2: Gettlelman team that it's all those picks he got killed

766
00:38:29,239 --> 00:38:32,960
Speaker 2: for Daniel Jones and you took Saquon too high. I mean,

767
00:38:33,040 --> 00:38:35,040
Speaker 2: Leonard Williams was a guy he signed, not that people

768
00:38:35,080 --> 00:38:37,920
Speaker 2: were getting on him, but that's a Gettleman signing. Andrew

769
00:38:37,920 --> 00:38:41,480
Speaker 2: Thomas was his draft pick, like Dexter Lawrence was his

770
00:38:41,600 --> 00:38:45,640
Speaker 2: draft pick. These are who they're building around, and Joe

771
00:38:45,640 --> 00:38:47,279
Speaker 2: Shane's done a good job since they got there. It's

772
00:38:47,280 --> 00:38:49,319
Speaker 2: not shaneon Daviles fault, but it's a little bit of

773
00:38:49,520 --> 00:38:52,719
Speaker 2: a gettleman, you know, on the come up?

774
00:38:53,360 --> 00:38:56,280
Speaker 1: All right, Greg, you're up? Okay?

775
00:38:58,480 --> 00:39:02,800
Speaker 2: I don't know which one to go. This is actually

776
00:39:03,080 --> 00:39:09,200
Speaker 2: a poem. I didn't write it. It's on Reddit. It's

777
00:39:09,239 --> 00:39:11,319
Speaker 2: on Reddit. From Herbert gal ten ten.

778
00:39:12,640 --> 00:39:19,359
Speaker 1: Here it goes, really putting in the work.

779
00:39:20,080 --> 00:39:26,160
Speaker 2: Music's really thrown me off here, flowing hair, blowing leads,

780
00:39:26,719 --> 00:39:32,000
Speaker 2: powder blues, smoking trees, third and long dime after dime.

781
00:39:32,840 --> 00:39:36,319
Speaker 2: But why those runs on second and nine? Shots down

782
00:39:36,400 --> 00:39:39,680
Speaker 2: the field that don't seem real? That one to giton

783
00:39:40,320 --> 00:39:44,200
Speaker 2: made me squeal. So hard to sack, so hard to pick.

784
00:39:45,160 --> 00:39:48,359
Speaker 2: You don't make mistakes, you make to a fan sick.

785
00:39:49,640 --> 00:39:54,880
Speaker 2: No Joe Lombardi, No Anthony Lynn. Keep blaming the coaches

786
00:39:55,480 --> 00:39:58,520
Speaker 2: if we don't win. Save us from twenty seven to

787
00:39:58,520 --> 00:40:03,000
Speaker 2: nothing and Marlon McCree from Kating, from Steve Young, from

788
00:40:03,200 --> 00:40:08,760
Speaker 2: Ed Hocy Lee Lightning fast reads, Lightning fast through the sky,

789
00:40:09,760 --> 00:40:14,400
Speaker 2: a bolt through the heart. Never say die. The city

790
00:40:14,440 --> 00:40:18,680
Speaker 2: we live in, the City of Angels, lonely as I

791
00:40:18,719 --> 00:40:23,200
Speaker 2: am together, we cry.

792
00:40:24,080 --> 00:40:26,879
Speaker 1: Wow gorgeous? Yeah?

793
00:40:26,920 --> 00:40:30,200
Speaker 4: Wait, Greg who wrote that? Who wrote that?

794
00:40:30,280 --> 00:40:35,640
Speaker 2: Like that writer Herbert gal ten ten On, you know

795
00:40:35,719 --> 00:40:39,239
Speaker 2: the Justin Herbert read Podcaah, you might not be able

796
00:40:39,280 --> 00:40:41,279
Speaker 2: to find it. It's really deep down you have to

797
00:40:41,320 --> 00:40:43,120
Speaker 2: really know what you're looking for here.

798
00:40:44,600 --> 00:40:47,040
Speaker 1: Jalen Guiden was that was he taking some fire in

799
00:40:47,080 --> 00:40:49,560
Speaker 1: that was like basically even Jalen Guiden can make plays.

800
00:40:49,640 --> 00:40:52,360
Speaker 2: No, it was a very specific one that I have

801
00:40:52,920 --> 00:40:55,959
Speaker 2: also remember well, me and Herbert gal ten ten Yeah,

802
00:40:56,400 --> 00:40:59,440
Speaker 2: have some similarities that one against the Giants, you know

803
00:40:59,480 --> 00:41:02,880
Speaker 2: at the I think it was the twenty twenty one season.

804
00:41:03,200 --> 00:41:05,440
Speaker 2: It was like the throw of the year at home

805
00:41:05,880 --> 00:41:06,760
Speaker 2: early December.

806
00:41:06,960 --> 00:41:10,320
Speaker 1: So did you slide into Herbert Gal's DM so to

807
00:41:10,360 --> 00:41:11,520
Speaker 1: let her know you'd be using her?

808
00:41:12,200 --> 00:41:13,359
Speaker 2: No, I thought you'd be fine.

809
00:41:13,400 --> 00:41:18,040
Speaker 1: Pros Yeah, I thine is she in that house right now?

810
00:41:18,080 --> 00:41:18,719
Speaker 1: That rental home?

811
00:41:20,960 --> 00:41:27,280
Speaker 2: It's an agreement, it's an arrangement. Just if those deposits

812
00:41:27,280 --> 00:41:30,560
Speaker 2: are getting rejected, it's just like a solution that everyone wins.

813
00:41:30,640 --> 00:41:33,920
Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm really happy. Let me just say, I am

814
00:41:34,040 --> 00:41:37,839
Speaker 1: so happy that Justin Herbert is not on the Miami Dolphins.

815
00:41:38,320 --> 00:41:41,880
Speaker 1: I think the entire NFL should be very happy. That's

816
00:41:42,040 --> 00:41:44,239
Speaker 1: not the fact. And you could take that as to

817
00:41:44,320 --> 00:41:46,960
Speaker 1: a shade if you will, But even Dolphins fans in

818
00:41:47,000 --> 00:41:50,840
Speaker 1: their you know, heart of hearts, will acknowledge if you

819
00:41:50,920 --> 00:41:55,000
Speaker 1: took that offense with that play caller and put Herbert

820
00:41:55,000 --> 00:41:58,040
Speaker 1: in there and what he can do and his ability

821
00:41:58,080 --> 00:42:01,360
Speaker 1: to stay on the field, they could run that division

822
00:42:01,600 --> 00:42:04,680
Speaker 1: for a decade. So we'll see what he does in

823
00:42:04,760 --> 00:42:08,080
Speaker 1: the long term and in Los Angeles, if there's a

824
00:42:08,120 --> 00:42:10,879
Speaker 1: long term in Los Angeles. They haven't gotten that deal

825
00:42:10,960 --> 00:42:13,359
Speaker 1: done yet. I think they'll find a way. But to

826
00:42:13,400 --> 00:42:15,040
Speaker 1: the Chargers, they're known to be cheap.

827
00:42:15,600 --> 00:42:18,400
Speaker 3: They are, but that would be about as big of

828
00:42:18,440 --> 00:42:21,439
Speaker 3: an organizational calamity as you could stir up in their

829
00:42:21,480 --> 00:42:22,760
Speaker 3: literal team history.

830
00:42:23,080 --> 00:42:26,200
Speaker 1: Tonight, they just lost twenty seven blew a twenty seven

831
00:42:26,239 --> 00:42:28,920
Speaker 1: nothing lead in the playoffs, so they have the capacity

832
00:42:29,000 --> 00:42:29,480
Speaker 1: to stun.

833
00:42:29,920 --> 00:42:33,400
Speaker 2: It is part of the poem, the twenty seven nothing. Really,

834
00:42:33,520 --> 00:42:36,200
Speaker 2: Chargers fans will will know what I'm talking about there,

835
00:42:36,239 --> 00:42:39,960
Speaker 2: Marlon McCree, that was what Herbert gal ten ten is

836
00:42:39,960 --> 00:42:42,000
Speaker 2: talking about. I did the research after I saw the

837
00:42:42,000 --> 00:42:46,400
Speaker 2: poem to find out Marlon McCree, the guy that fumbled

838
00:42:46,920 --> 00:42:50,239
Speaker 2: when they intercepted Brady in the divisional round of two

839
00:42:50,320 --> 00:42:56,120
Speaker 2: thousand and six ed hockey lely part of a famous

840
00:42:56,719 --> 00:43:01,279
Speaker 2: call that switched another playoff game. Just the details are

841
00:43:01,880 --> 00:43:06,040
Speaker 2: are amazing. And her I think Herbert is a guy

842
00:43:06,080 --> 00:43:09,080
Speaker 2: who I just think inspires poetry. I think that's the

843
00:43:09,120 --> 00:43:11,000
Speaker 2: only way you can even write a letter to him.

844
00:43:11,120 --> 00:43:15,359
Speaker 2: His play is just so beautiful. It's like art.

845
00:43:16,000 --> 00:43:18,880
Speaker 1: Very nice, Greg, very nice. And I hope you signed

846
00:43:18,920 --> 00:43:23,840
Speaker 1: that letter to Justin and just Pill for Charger Gal's work.

847
00:43:23,880 --> 00:43:30,600
Speaker 1: Don't attribute it Hebert, he works. Sorry, Herbert Gal. All right, Mark,

848
00:43:30,640 --> 00:43:32,399
Speaker 1: you're up, all right.

849
00:43:32,440 --> 00:43:38,800
Speaker 3: This is a letter to the Atlanta Falcons, but from

850
00:43:38,880 --> 00:43:42,040
Speaker 3: me if I were still like a student obsessed with

851
00:43:42,080 --> 00:43:45,760
Speaker 3: football in like a some sort of mythical academic setting

852
00:43:45,800 --> 00:43:48,560
Speaker 3: from the past, like back when you write letters to

853
00:43:48,600 --> 00:43:54,759
Speaker 3: people like this, you've caught my eye. Instead of paying

854
00:43:54,800 --> 00:43:58,799
Speaker 3: attention in algebra two, I find myself drifting away with

855
00:43:58,920 --> 00:44:02,560
Speaker 3: thoughts of your beauty. How did I not notice you before?

856
00:44:03,320 --> 00:44:06,239
Speaker 3: I don't even remember that life. Now when I open

857
00:44:06,320 --> 00:44:10,800
Speaker 3: my trapper Keeper, my pages are absent of equations, pie graphs,

858
00:44:10,880 --> 00:44:15,520
Speaker 3: A rise overrun, replaced instead with fantasies of you running

859
00:44:15,560 --> 00:44:18,360
Speaker 3: one hundred and fifty plus snaps out of the Maryland

860
00:44:18,400 --> 00:44:21,920
Speaker 3: Power Eye, switching for quarters at a time into a

861
00:44:21,960 --> 00:44:26,239
Speaker 3: mauling single wing outfit that crafts twenty seven play twenty

862
00:44:26,320 --> 00:44:28,640
Speaker 3: two minute marches that turn the run time of an

863
00:44:28,760 --> 00:44:33,760
Speaker 3: NFL game into a brisk walk around the park. Nobody

864
00:44:33,840 --> 00:44:36,239
Speaker 3: can perfect a heavy set Notre Dame Box in the

865
00:44:36,239 --> 00:44:40,720
Speaker 3: autumn of twenty twenty three, such as you long painful

866
00:44:40,800 --> 00:44:43,880
Speaker 3: minutes for the enemy, or on tap is your beautiful leader?

867
00:44:44,360 --> 00:44:48,680
Speaker 3: Arthur Smith unfurls one time chewing ground assault after the

868
00:44:48,719 --> 00:44:52,000
Speaker 3: next out of a five man flexbone set, doubling as

869
00:44:52,000 --> 00:44:58,600
Speaker 3: a rabid dog. I am yours. I know I'm not

870
00:44:58,640 --> 00:45:01,160
Speaker 3: alone with my Falcons fan in this room, but it's

871
00:45:01,200 --> 00:45:03,160
Speaker 3: just how they make me feel, how what I think

872
00:45:03,280 --> 00:45:07,040
Speaker 3: is coming our way, which is their style I've been

873
00:45:07,080 --> 00:45:07,640
Speaker 3: waiting for.

874
00:45:08,320 --> 00:45:14,960
Speaker 1: We would never mark. You've bared yourself emotionally intimately about

875
00:45:15,080 --> 00:45:16,960
Speaker 1: these Falcons here today.

876
00:45:17,160 --> 00:45:21,000
Speaker 2: So who opens that letter? It just goes to the organization.

877
00:45:22,160 --> 00:45:23,160
Speaker 4: That's tricky.

878
00:45:23,320 --> 00:45:25,239
Speaker 3: It's got you'd have to hope it lands in the

879
00:45:25,280 --> 00:45:27,239
Speaker 3: right hands. I didn't think about that.

880
00:45:28,280 --> 00:45:31,520
Speaker 2: It's very touch it's very touching and maybe before you

881
00:45:31,560 --> 00:45:35,440
Speaker 2: know we have any Falcons because we we don't always

882
00:45:35,760 --> 00:45:40,160
Speaker 2: know what we're going to do on this in these segments.

883
00:45:41,040 --> 00:45:44,480
Speaker 2: I I also have a letter going to Flowery.

884
00:45:45,880 --> 00:45:50,520
Speaker 1: Branch and let's hear it. Yeah, wow, okay, is this

885
00:45:50,560 --> 00:45:51,440
Speaker 1: from the just.

886
00:45:53,360 --> 00:45:57,319
Speaker 2: This You can interpret whoever this is from however you want,

887
00:45:57,360 --> 00:46:01,880
Speaker 2: but it's to Dave Bragone, offtive coordinator of the Atlanta Falcons.

888
00:46:01,920 --> 00:46:04,680
Speaker 1: Thank you for making that clear. It's important.

889
00:46:06,080 --> 00:46:08,319
Speaker 2: I hope this letter finds you well and the quote

890
00:46:08,360 --> 00:46:11,360
Speaker 2: unquote security team doesn't intercept it again like one of

891
00:46:11,360 --> 00:46:16,040
Speaker 2: those Mariota Ducks under pressure lmao. Exclamation point, question mark,

892
00:46:16,160 --> 00:46:20,520
Speaker 2: exclamation point. As you know, I've been the number one

893
00:46:20,560 --> 00:46:23,640
Speaker 2: Dave Ragone fan since your NFL Europe MVP days with

894
00:46:23,719 --> 00:46:27,440
Speaker 2: the Berlin Thunder. You revived Josh McCown's career in the

895
00:46:27,560 --> 00:46:31,000
Speaker 2: UFL as a QB coach, you scraped a thousand yards

896
00:46:31,000 --> 00:46:34,000
Speaker 2: out of Kendall Wright and Nate Washington. As a Titans

897
00:46:34,000 --> 00:46:39,040
Speaker 2: wide receiver coach, you helped Mitch Trubisky win an MVP award.

898
00:46:39,719 --> 00:46:43,080
Speaker 2: You have a lovely wife and two children, and now

899
00:46:43,160 --> 00:46:46,719
Speaker 2: David Goone, you are changing football as we know it

900
00:46:47,600 --> 00:46:50,440
Speaker 2: if Arthur Smith lets you well. The rest of the

901
00:46:50,440 --> 00:46:53,279
Speaker 2: world is obsessed with pass past pass. You're bringing it

902
00:46:53,360 --> 00:46:56,279
Speaker 2: back to the nineteen eighties, when men were men, when

903
00:46:56,280 --> 00:46:59,360
Speaker 2: they didn't wear anti persprint, when punting was a good play,

904
00:46:59,680 --> 00:47:04,800
Speaker 2: when E meant the Environmental Protection Agency. I just hope

905
00:47:04,880 --> 00:47:08,480
Speaker 2: Smith doesn't get in our way, Dave Ragone. No amount

906
00:47:08,520 --> 00:47:12,920
Speaker 2: of FedEx money can fake what you have or can

907
00:47:12,960 --> 00:47:16,160
Speaker 2: take away what you've built. Dave Ragone, Why don't you

908
00:47:16,200 --> 00:47:18,920
Speaker 2: answer my emails? Dave Ragone? Why does Arthur Smith take

909
00:47:18,960 --> 00:47:22,080
Speaker 2: all the credit? Dave Ragone. I get that he's handsome

910
00:47:22,160 --> 00:47:26,759
Speaker 2: and rich and authoritative as a Catholic school nun. But

911
00:47:26,800 --> 00:47:29,040
Speaker 2: that's why you have to follow steps C through F

912
00:47:29,200 --> 00:47:31,239
Speaker 2: of my last letter to you, and I will do

913
00:47:31,360 --> 00:47:35,080
Speaker 2: the rest. Please, Dave Ragone, don't shut me out. That

914
00:47:35,280 --> 00:47:37,040
Speaker 2: wasn't me at the T ball field?

915
00:47:43,000 --> 00:47:44,880
Speaker 1: Sorry I missed that last one. What happened at the

916
00:47:44,880 --> 00:47:46,640
Speaker 1: T ball field wasn't him?

917
00:47:46,800 --> 00:47:48,080
Speaker 2: Wasn't me? Wasn't me?

918
00:47:49,200 --> 00:47:57,040
Speaker 1: Oh, I say I am. This is my favorite podcast

919
00:47:57,080 --> 00:47:59,759
Speaker 1: subplot of the upcoming season, because I also am on

920
00:48:00,040 --> 00:48:02,879
Speaker 1: accord that the Falcons are a little bit interesting this year,

921
00:48:03,440 --> 00:48:06,759
Speaker 1: but they still decided, you know, to sit on the

922
00:48:06,840 --> 00:48:09,000
Speaker 1: QB situation, which will make all of this null and

923
00:48:09,080 --> 00:48:13,120
Speaker 1: void come real football time. And I'm looking forward to

924
00:48:13,160 --> 00:48:15,960
Speaker 1: that playing out and having the conversations again in October.

925
00:48:16,719 --> 00:48:19,160
Speaker 3: Not if Dave Ragon can do what Greg is suggesting,

926
00:48:19,280 --> 00:48:21,840
Speaker 3: I think that every position group will be fine. I

927
00:48:21,840 --> 00:48:24,640
Speaker 3: think it's kind of let's aren't they at least building

928
00:48:25,160 --> 00:48:28,040
Speaker 3: an offense where your quarterback can chill out a little

929
00:48:28,040 --> 00:48:30,520
Speaker 3: bit and he's to do everything right And this isn't

930
00:48:30,640 --> 00:48:32,880
Speaker 3: This isn't Arthur Smith's style offense.

931
00:48:32,920 --> 00:48:33,719
Speaker 4: Greg, don't you agree that?

932
00:48:34,320 --> 00:48:36,719
Speaker 2: Well? I mean I think too I personally, and that

933
00:48:36,719 --> 00:48:41,560
Speaker 2: didn't have a anyone signing that letter just for protection.

934
00:48:43,320 --> 00:48:46,839
Speaker 2: But if Dave Ragone follows steps C through F from

935
00:48:46,880 --> 00:48:51,480
Speaker 2: the previous letter, maybe the Falcons will have something also

936
00:48:51,680 --> 00:48:55,279
Speaker 2: to come together as a team to come around this

937
00:48:55,400 --> 00:48:58,840
Speaker 2: new interim coach, Dave Dave Ragone because Arthur Smith is

938
00:48:58,880 --> 00:49:03,920
Speaker 2: indisposed for for whatever reason, and Ragon finally gets the

939
00:49:03,920 --> 00:49:07,080
Speaker 2: pop that he deserves. And I feel like, or at

940
00:49:07,160 --> 00:49:11,080
Speaker 2: least this this person feels Arthur Smith has really been

941
00:49:11,080 --> 00:49:11,840
Speaker 2: hogging this credit.

942
00:49:13,920 --> 00:49:16,520
Speaker 3: I mean, how much was Arthur Smith. We were coming

943
00:49:16,600 --> 00:49:18,799
Speaker 3: right back to the see through f business in your letter.

944
00:49:20,920 --> 00:49:21,800
Speaker 2: It would be a problem.

945
00:49:22,239 --> 00:49:25,040
Speaker 1: How much would Ryan Tannehill really have cost this team.

946
00:49:25,520 --> 00:49:27,839
Speaker 1: You didn't have to start him. You didn't have to

947
00:49:27,880 --> 00:49:29,279
Speaker 1: you didn't have to give him the job. You could

948
00:49:29,320 --> 00:49:31,520
Speaker 1: have done the whole song and dance and said it's

949
00:49:31,520 --> 00:49:35,359
Speaker 1: Stsmond Ritter's job to lose, and then Ryan Tannehill could

950
00:49:35,360 --> 00:49:38,719
Speaker 1: have come in week four as he should, and then

951
00:49:38,760 --> 00:49:40,680
Speaker 1: he's your quarterback. At least it makes sense.

952
00:49:41,000 --> 00:49:43,280
Speaker 2: I'm leaving to open my mind for that to happen.

953
00:49:43,400 --> 00:49:46,920
Speaker 2: I feel like we're learning, you know, with this Hopkins release.

954
00:49:47,000 --> 00:49:49,279
Speaker 2: Sometimes things do happen pretty late and it makes too

955
00:49:49,320 --> 00:49:51,360
Speaker 2: much sense. And I have an update. I know you

956
00:49:51,400 --> 00:49:54,960
Speaker 2: guys were really waiting for this. That one week we

957
00:49:54,960 --> 00:49:57,200
Speaker 2: were just gonna talk about. I was gonna look back

958
00:49:57,239 --> 00:50:00,719
Speaker 2: at the Desmond Ridder tape of twenty twenty two. We

959
00:50:00,760 --> 00:50:02,560
Speaker 2: would talk about the tape. We're not ready for that

960
00:50:02,560 --> 00:50:03,160
Speaker 2: week because.

961
00:50:02,960 --> 00:50:03,799
Speaker 1: We're it's coming.

962
00:50:03,840 --> 00:50:06,200
Speaker 2: We're gonna blow it out. It's gonna be daily shows.

963
00:50:06,600 --> 00:50:09,560
Speaker 2: But I have done some of the legwork behind it,

964
00:50:10,000 --> 00:50:12,320
Speaker 2: and I gotta say I I don't feel any different

965
00:50:12,440 --> 00:50:15,479
Speaker 2: about Desmond Ridder. I might feel less less excited about

966
00:50:15,480 --> 00:50:18,240
Speaker 2: Desmond Ridder than I was before. So let's do this. Tannehill,

967
00:50:19,960 --> 00:50:22,920
Speaker 2: oh really little preview, just saying it didn't it didn't.

968
00:50:23,560 --> 00:50:26,400
Speaker 2: I know there's some people I respect, like Nate Tice.

969
00:50:26,440 --> 00:50:29,960
Speaker 2: Who's who's in the Ridder camp. I'm not I'm not

970
00:50:30,000 --> 00:50:30,680
Speaker 2: seeing it right.

971
00:50:30,600 --> 00:50:37,200
Speaker 1: Now, all right, So let's let's move that pessimism out

972
00:50:37,239 --> 00:50:39,480
Speaker 1: and let's let's again open up our hearts and our

973
00:50:39,600 --> 00:50:43,600
Speaker 1: arms to love. And I want to share love for

974
00:50:45,640 --> 00:50:51,399
Speaker 1: a lot of people here. I believe you. The guy

975
00:50:51,520 --> 00:50:55,840
Speaker 1: moving all over the place on offense, You are a

976
00:50:55,960 --> 00:51:00,000
Speaker 1: movable chess piece. The guy putting his hand in the ground,

977
00:51:00,040 --> 00:51:03,200
Speaker 1: and also the guy allowed to stand up. Yeah that's

978
00:51:03,239 --> 00:51:07,200
Speaker 1: way better to all you rookie qbs who are throwing

979
00:51:07,320 --> 00:51:13,400
Speaker 1: really far spirals. Hell yeah, I think that's newsworthy. The

980
00:51:13,440 --> 00:51:15,799
Speaker 1: guy moved to the opposite side of the line. The

981
00:51:15,840 --> 00:51:19,919
Speaker 1: guy being moved to the interior or kicked outside. Yeah

982
00:51:19,920 --> 00:51:27,240
Speaker 1: you got this. King holdouts, smart play, hold ins, bring

983
00:51:27,280 --> 00:51:31,359
Speaker 1: down the machine from within, baby. The guy who said

984
00:51:31,360 --> 00:51:34,319
Speaker 1: he was one hundred percent entering training camp last year,

985
00:51:34,320 --> 00:51:36,320
Speaker 1: but is now saying this is the year he's actually

986
00:51:36,360 --> 00:51:42,560
Speaker 1: one percent healthy. I don't think you're a liar. The

987
00:51:42,640 --> 00:51:44,759
Speaker 1: quarterback who says he's learning so much in a new

988
00:51:44,760 --> 00:51:51,640
Speaker 1: backup role. Princes become kings. The kings can become princes too.

989
00:51:52,640 --> 00:51:56,120
Speaker 1: The QB who is hyper confident in a new offense install. Yeah, boy.

990
00:51:57,960 --> 00:52:00,520
Speaker 1: The Saints player who says having Derek Carr has been

991
00:52:00,600 --> 00:52:04,879
Speaker 1: quote amazing. Give me that juice. I'll guzzle it down too.

992
00:52:06,640 --> 00:52:09,280
Speaker 1: Guy who is an entirely clear on the gambling policy

993
00:52:09,320 --> 00:52:15,080
Speaker 1: and feels lucky. Vegas, Baby Vegas. I believe you, all

994
00:52:15,120 --> 00:52:20,840
Speaker 1: of you, beautiful, beautiful babies of this wonderful cosmic ballet

995
00:52:20,960 --> 00:52:31,080
Speaker 1: we call pro football, all of you. I believe hm.

996
00:52:32,440 --> 00:52:33,160
Speaker 2: That was touching.

997
00:52:35,239 --> 00:52:37,360
Speaker 1: I think it's a time of positivity, and I refuse

998
00:52:37,440 --> 00:52:38,680
Speaker 1: to age in anything else.

999
00:52:38,960 --> 00:52:43,799
Speaker 2: Right, some of these letters just seemed weird, frankly, not

1000
00:52:43,920 --> 00:52:47,839
Speaker 2: expressing love maybe as it was intended, realizing now and

1001
00:52:47,920 --> 00:52:50,640
Speaker 2: yet that that was beautiful, That was love.

1002
00:52:51,280 --> 00:52:53,560
Speaker 4: It just it used acceptance.

1003
00:52:54,120 --> 00:52:56,920
Speaker 3: You know, we're going to be doused with these comments

1004
00:52:56,920 --> 00:52:59,880
Speaker 3: from these players, and you can swim up stream and

1005
00:53:00,040 --> 00:53:02,799
Speaker 3: try to stop it, but you're accepting it, and that

1006
00:53:02,800 --> 00:53:03,480
Speaker 3: that is love.

1007
00:53:03,520 --> 00:53:05,840
Speaker 4: That's an aspect of love I love you also, I

1008
00:53:05,840 --> 00:53:06,400
Speaker 4: love you Also?

1009
00:53:08,400 --> 00:53:09,200
Speaker 2: What was that, Mark?

1010
00:53:10,600 --> 00:53:12,560
Speaker 4: I don't know something I said four months ago on

1011
00:53:12,600 --> 00:53:15,160
Speaker 4: the show. Apparently, let's hear it again. I love you.

1012
00:53:15,120 --> 00:53:21,440
Speaker 1: Also, Mark. Why don't we close out this love fest

1013
00:53:21,960 --> 00:53:23,360
Speaker 1: with one more from you?

1014
00:53:24,200 --> 00:53:29,040
Speaker 3: This is one that I intercepted for anyone that was

1015
00:53:29,080 --> 00:53:33,360
Speaker 3: listening closely. Last off season, we uh had a little

1016
00:53:33,560 --> 00:53:35,600
Speaker 3: bit of a look in at the life of Cole Strange.

1017
00:53:35,640 --> 00:53:39,120
Speaker 3: So a year later, this is an email from Patriots

1018
00:53:39,200 --> 00:53:43,520
Speaker 3: O lineman Cole Strange to Linda Halcion. That's the girl

1019
00:53:43,560 --> 00:53:47,680
Speaker 3: that he dated from tenth grade at Farragut High in

1020
00:53:48,080 --> 00:53:51,000
Speaker 3: Tennessee into his freshman year a chattanooguy.

1021
00:53:51,040 --> 00:53:52,279
Speaker 4: I don't know if you knew that that's where he

1022
00:53:52,320 --> 00:53:53,120
Speaker 4: went to school, But.

1023
00:53:53,719 --> 00:53:55,960
Speaker 2: Who's forgetting that letter? Yeah? That was great?

1024
00:53:56,120 --> 00:53:58,400
Speaker 4: Yeah, yes, right.

1025
00:53:58,280 --> 00:54:00,759
Speaker 3: And before Cole and Linda Halsion or pulled away by

1026
00:54:00,760 --> 00:54:03,400
Speaker 3: the world. Essentially, This is years later and he is

1027
00:54:03,640 --> 00:54:07,840
Speaker 3: slightly mythed, but he says, Dear Linda, I'm writing you

1028
00:54:07,880 --> 00:54:11,200
Speaker 3: from Patriots Mini caamp, where I've just sat through a

1029
00:54:11,200 --> 00:54:14,480
Speaker 3: seventy five minute meeting on pre snap adjustments from the

1030
00:54:14,480 --> 00:54:18,319
Speaker 3: Guard Center guard combo along our interior offensive line. We

1031
00:54:18,320 --> 00:54:20,520
Speaker 3: were never taught these concepts back when I played at

1032
00:54:20,560 --> 00:54:24,320
Speaker 3: Farragut High. One additional concept I wasn't taught at Farragut

1033
00:54:24,520 --> 00:54:28,200
Speaker 3: that you would somehow be convinced by your materialistic parents

1034
00:54:28,440 --> 00:54:30,480
Speaker 3: to get engaged to Leicester Wexelworth.

1035
00:54:31,080 --> 00:54:32,200
Speaker 4: What are we doing here?

1036
00:54:32,520 --> 00:54:35,760
Speaker 3: Wexelworth is a total nerd, and not in that reverse

1037
00:54:35,840 --> 00:54:38,359
Speaker 3: psychology emo way that some girls dig.

1038
00:54:38,840 --> 00:54:39,440
Speaker 4: But I get it.

1039
00:54:39,600 --> 00:54:42,400
Speaker 3: Hedge fun guy versus three hundred and one pound interior

1040
00:54:42,480 --> 00:54:46,440
Speaker 3: maler playing a game your parents don't respect. I guess

1041
00:54:46,440 --> 00:54:49,040
Speaker 3: you've forgotten all about our plans to visit every diner

1042
00:54:49,080 --> 00:54:51,840
Speaker 3: and die bar along the Tennessee stretch of Interstate forty,

1043
00:54:52,480 --> 00:54:55,359
Speaker 3: or eat nothing but Chinese takeout for one month just

1044
00:54:55,360 --> 00:54:58,520
Speaker 3: to see what happens to our intestinal systems. Or go

1045
00:54:58,600 --> 00:55:00,960
Speaker 3: birdwatching from atop of the old Old World worst building

1046
00:55:00,960 --> 00:55:04,840
Speaker 3: with a bottle of whiskey and cool range doritos. Bill

1047
00:55:04,880 --> 00:55:07,720
Speaker 3: Belichick said to me the other day, you'll be twice

1048
00:55:07,719 --> 00:55:10,040
Speaker 3: the player when you learn to wipe out the past.

1049
00:55:10,760 --> 00:55:11,879
Speaker 4: I guess that's what I'll do.

1050
00:55:12,480 --> 00:55:18,080
Speaker 3: May your days be bright, Linda hause Yacht or Linda Wexelworth, whatever, yours,

1051
00:55:18,239 --> 00:55:21,360
Speaker 3: Cole Strange Patriots Linemen.

1052
00:55:22,520 --> 00:55:28,680
Speaker 1: Unbelievable. You know, when he was drafted, there was a

1053
00:55:28,680 --> 00:55:30,840
Speaker 1: lot of pushback that that was a reach in the

1054
00:55:30,840 --> 00:55:33,680
Speaker 1: first round a year ago. But I think it's also

1055
00:55:34,160 --> 00:55:37,879
Speaker 1: when you read something like that, it's a reminder that

1056
00:55:38,640 --> 00:55:41,720
Speaker 1: a person's value and worth goes beyond their their splits

1057
00:55:41,840 --> 00:55:45,400
Speaker 1: or their leg press or you know whatever else. You know,

1058
00:55:45,440 --> 00:55:47,360
Speaker 1: there's more to it, and Cole is showing you that.

1059
00:55:48,320 --> 00:55:51,120
Speaker 3: Yeah, I appreciate that response because it's just like, there

1060
00:55:51,160 --> 00:55:52,880
Speaker 3: is this whole other side of these players that we

1061
00:55:52,920 --> 00:55:54,120
Speaker 3: don't we're not always aware of.

1062
00:55:54,560 --> 00:55:59,520
Speaker 2: No, it's tough because, like like wexel Rod, I would

1063
00:55:59,560 --> 00:56:04,840
Speaker 2: get it if it was like the dorky emo type,

1064
00:56:04,920 --> 00:56:09,560
Speaker 2: it's like sneaky, they're actually sneaky hot. Absolutely, It's like

1065
00:56:09,600 --> 00:56:12,040
Speaker 2: that Rachel girl and that where in the in the

1066
00:56:12,080 --> 00:56:14,920
Speaker 2: movie in the early two thousands she takes off the glasses,

1067
00:56:15,000 --> 00:56:16,680
Speaker 2: but she actually was hot a lot. There's actually a

1068
00:56:16,719 --> 00:56:19,759
Speaker 2: lot of guys like that. Wexel Rod's not that guy.

1069
00:56:20,520 --> 00:56:22,480
Speaker 2: He's a three. He's a three and a half, and

1070
00:56:22,520 --> 00:56:25,280
Speaker 2: you're ditching him for strange Strange.

1071
00:56:25,360 --> 00:56:28,520
Speaker 1: Yeah, I believe you're referring to Lady Bogs from She's

1072
00:56:28,560 --> 00:56:32,640
Speaker 1: all that the Freddy Prince Junior vehicle. Yeah, she was

1073
00:56:33,200 --> 00:56:36,719
Speaker 1: super hot and we didn't need sixpence none the richer

1074
00:56:36,840 --> 00:56:39,000
Speaker 1: or the stairwell walk to tell us otherwise.

1075
00:56:39,120 --> 00:56:42,480
Speaker 2: Great Rachel is the actress's name, And I should have

1076
00:56:42,520 --> 00:56:44,480
Speaker 2: had that ready if I was going to make such

1077
00:56:44,480 --> 00:56:45,719
Speaker 2: an analogy, but you nailed it.

1078
00:56:45,719 --> 00:56:47,680
Speaker 3: But Clark Ken and her basically, and then you know,

1079
00:56:47,719 --> 00:56:49,879
Speaker 3: the glasses come off and it's a super bean.

1080
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Speaker 1: Can we like slow down too with what was going

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Speaker 1: on at the Daily Planet like in Metropolis, Like Clark

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Speaker 1: Kent was smoke show broad, hot, chiseled cheekbones, great hair,

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Speaker 1: and so he's wearing a pair of glasses and now

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Speaker 1: it's like, not only do we not see him as Superman,

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Speaker 1: we see him as a bumbling like fool hanger on

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Speaker 1: in the newsroom like let's clean it up world.

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Speaker 4: Yeah.

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Speaker 3: I mean, if anything, I thought he brought you know,

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Speaker 3: levity to that newsroom with his sort of tripping and

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Speaker 3: bumbling and falling over things, which was just showed you

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Speaker 3: as a great method doctor. He that's not who he

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Speaker 3: really was.

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Speaker 2: And those glasses turned out to come back into fashion

1094
00:57:28,360 --> 00:57:31,520
Speaker 2: as like hot guy glasses and they've probably stuck there

1095
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Speaker 2: for about fifteen years. They just are the hot guy

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Speaker 2: glass right now.

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Speaker 1: If they if Superman were to come out today, Clark

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Speaker 1: Kent wouldn't have the glasses and Superman would, right.

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Speaker 2: I also love that, like Cole Strange is, and it's

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Speaker 2: something special about this podcast that we have sources, we

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Speaker 2: have ways to get into the cold Stranger's world. But

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Speaker 2: you have to be a regular listener. Because I did

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Speaker 2: Google because I remember Lil Linda Halsion was involved in

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Speaker 2: the program and it was almost exactly a year ago.

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Speaker 2: And if you google Cole Strange, Mark Sessler, you find

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Speaker 2: a review as the top result, and it's from Reddit,

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Speaker 2: and I'll read it and it says Mark's excursion into

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Speaker 2: Cole Stranger's head is an all time Sessler moment. So

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Speaker 2: I just think that's that's that's accurate, That's what that

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Speaker 2: is there, it is.

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Speaker 3: I guess we'll see where we are next summer with him.

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Speaker 1: Wonderful. And that's it and that's it for today's show.

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Speaker 1: And I think the only other thing I'll say is

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Speaker 1: tell somebody that you love him today as we did.

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Speaker 1: We'll be back Thursday with Connie Fox until then you

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Speaker 1: know what to do.

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Speaker 2: He the call love you guys, oh I Love you

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Speaker 2: also say