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Speaker 1: Be Around the NFL Podcast. Oh yeah, welcome to another

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Speaker 1: edition of the Around the NFL Podcast. My name is

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Speaker 1: Dan Hansus and I am coming to from room filled

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Speaker 1: with heroes, Mark Sessler, Chris Westling, and Greg Rosetal. What

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Speaker 1: is up? Boys? Got the whole gang back together first

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Speaker 1: time since Super Bowl Night? Who awesome? And yesterday was

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Speaker 1: a special day Wednesday. It was the birthdays of both

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Speaker 1: the man to my right, Greg Roseatal and the man

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Speaker 1: to my left, Chris Westling. Happy birthday, gentlemen, thank you.

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Speaker 1: And uh also you know the well who I consider

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Speaker 1: the shadow fifth member of the Around the NFL Podcast,

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Speaker 1: Roger Goodell, Big Rock. Well, I'm a little disappointed because

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Speaker 1: we had a big We had a really actually and

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Speaker 1: this is not fictitious. This is really a big surprise

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Speaker 1: planned for the two of you. And I spent probably

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Speaker 1: um two plus hours of my day. Yes, you were

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Speaker 1: like it. I was about this, and I I went

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Speaker 1: online to look for it was like, what could we

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Speaker 1: get for Greg and west that they would both equally enjoy?

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Speaker 1: And we were going to try to get you guys

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Speaker 1: into some news entanglement, some issues, some football head scenario

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Speaker 1: and then have Walt waltzing into the room a singing telegram. Um,

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Speaker 1: a woman named Angela was going to dress up as

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Speaker 1: Marilyn Monroe and sing Happy Birthday, Mr Presidents the American

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Speaker 1: Icon the icon and I I, you know, at the

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Speaker 1: last minute, I was just gonna pay for to my

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Speaker 1: a step back and I said, I hope that works

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Speaker 1: out for you, Mark. But well Erico was very smart.

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Speaker 1: She said, run this up the flagpole to at least

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Speaker 1: one shadowy League figure to see what they think. In

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Speaker 1: The response I got was a pretty decisive no. Um

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Speaker 1: on the b on the basis that a Maryland Monroe

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Speaker 1: esque figure would be in quotes too sexual two sexual,

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Speaker 1: So the whole thing got, the whole thing got, which

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Speaker 1: I find that to be absurd. It would be her

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Speaker 1: coming in singing a song again as an American that

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Speaker 1: Marilyn Roe Monroe, who represented really in some ways, yes,

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Speaker 1: an actress and a singer in Multitalent. That scene with

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Speaker 1: her singing Happy Birthday, Mr. President has been replayed in

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Speaker 1: so many movies and TV shows that are not racy

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Speaker 1: for this production apparently. I think, though, what my big

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Speaker 1: takeaway is we know what to get Mark for his well,

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Speaker 1: there were a lot of options of singing telegrams, and

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Speaker 1: for some reason this seemed like it would have sometimes right,

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Speaker 1: that would have been perfect. But again the Shadowy League

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Speaker 1: I think that um is consistent with with every birthday

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Speaker 1: deeper into his forties, West is closer to fifty than forty.

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Speaker 1: I'm a few years like Mark, I'm a few free

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Speaker 1: you're the one who um still couldn't survive a couple

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Speaker 1: get used to it. You're you're throwing arms gone. Your

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Speaker 1: sign up time for softball. We have to figure out

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Speaker 1: the entire team need to author some sort of a

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Speaker 1: I just don't want to be a liability. And again,

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Speaker 1: It was disappointing. But the reason it was so disappointed

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Speaker 1: broken down. Wow, that was sobering. Um alright, Territory, alright,

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Speaker 1: stick a pin in that today's show. I was nice.

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Speaker 1: Oh yeah, you just got back from Hawaii. We ran

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Speaker 1: into Calais Campbell at the airport, coming back from his

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Speaker 1: own baby moon, and Kisha will be happy to hear this.

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Speaker 1: Throughout the entire island of Kauai, everybody in the service industry,

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Speaker 1: it and says, oh, you know, congrat you. Class camp

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Speaker 1: one of the nicest guys in the NFL. Absolutely incredibly friendly,

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Speaker 1: Very deep when you say ran into as in the

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Speaker 1: CLIs Campbell makes him sound like David Beckham. It's crazy.

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Speaker 1: Also a full head taller than anybody else at the airport. Giant,

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Speaker 1: gentle giant though greg and potentially changing teams this offseason.

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Speaker 1: See how he brings back. That's why Strieger has him

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Speaker 1: It's good to have a Greg. I didn't know what

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Speaker 1: wrote a banger. The teams that are hard Knocks eligible.

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Speaker 1: be clear, you are the Zeus. It's not a guest

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Speaker 1: the most compelling teams that have to be on the

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Speaker 1: show potentially mandatory inclusion. There's five of them. Uh. But

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Speaker 1: countdown that we're gonna get to after news. Yep. I

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Speaker 1: it's Scott It's packed with information. Yeah, so stay tuned

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Speaker 1: for that. Before we get to any of that, though,

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Speaker 1: let's do some news. Some both caller conent box others

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Speaker 1: Good job, Ricky. How's the curation going on. It's going well,

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Speaker 1: there's a lot of there was a few. Uh, I

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Speaker 1: of ESPN, the playoff field would be expanded to seven

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Speaker 1: increased to seventeen games per team in the preseason shortened

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Speaker 1: The team later announced the signing. Uh. Olsen went on

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Speaker 1: a free agent tour, went d C Buffalo. Uh And

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Speaker 1: this is all said against the backdrop of his broadcasting career.

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Speaker 1: Has been doing XFL TV coverage, but he lands with

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Speaker 1: the Seahawks immediately because I grew very fond of the

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Speaker 1: man speaking of hard knocks. I thought, oh, this is

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Speaker 1: the end of Luke Wilson. Uh in Seattle, he got

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Speaker 1: a veteran tight end and uh, I don't know, thank you,

435
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Speaker 1: Ricky uh West. Did Greg Olson have anything in the

436
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Speaker 1: tank last year? He sort of moves like Witnes at

437
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Speaker 1: this point. I think the biggest problem with him is

438
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Speaker 1: he's just never healthy anymore. He's reached the Chris Wesleyan

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Speaker 1: as leadoff hit or stage of his career, and it

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Speaker 1: might be time. You know, he has shown the ability

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Speaker 1: and in the broadcast booth where we know you put

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Speaker 1: him in here, he's gonna be one of the best

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Speaker 1: color guys in the business. I'd rather see him do that.

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Speaker 1: But I understand that Russell Wilson seems to be taking

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Speaker 1: a more aggressive stance towards let's pass the ball in Seattle,

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Speaker 1: let's really do this, and maybe they're finally listening to

447
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Speaker 1: the quarterback. He was pretty productive yard. I mean those

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Speaker 1: a stat in fourteen games, and I don't think Jimmy

449
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Speaker 1: Graham two tho for a tight end is nothing quite

450
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Speaker 1: as quite as slow as as Witten, but it should

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Speaker 1: be fun. Uh. It's a great landing spot in the

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Speaker 1: sense that what will just leave Jacob Pollister last year,

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Speaker 1: tight ends were productive in that attack and if they're

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Speaker 1: gonna throw the ball more, hopefully we'll do this. Lee

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Speaker 1: can get healthy towards Achilles. He was having a kind

456
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Speaker 1: of a breakout season last year. Had Luke Wilson eating

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Speaker 1: breakfast next to us at the Super Bowl, by the way,

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Speaker 1: with a He's much bigger than I realized in person,

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Speaker 1: but was with another man, not a football player, who

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Speaker 1: was gotta be maybe six ft nine with a gigantic

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Speaker 1: beard in like tattoos Oliver's body Jeff Saturday. That was

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Speaker 1: not Jeff Saturday. Athletes always bigger in person. Celebrity is

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Speaker 1: always smaller, just general rule almost always. Remember when we

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Speaker 1: were talking about how Rhodo World, uh did a bad

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Speaker 1: job calling Tom Pella sero NFL dot Com tom Pella

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Speaker 1: Sero when clearly well they needed to clean up that.

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Speaker 1: To clean it up, well, guess what they have at

468
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Speaker 1: articles for NFL dot Com primarily as an NFL network,

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Speaker 1: as it felt like a potential slate. I don't think

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Speaker 1: that's where they were. I feel like we west, all

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Speaker 1: three of us were in lockstep that rode a world

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Speaker 1: had stumbled here. But guess what, they cleaned it up

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Speaker 1: because they had a report on Stefon Diggs where they

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Speaker 1: refer to Tom Palsero's NFL networks, and you just have

475
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Speaker 1: to wonder if they someone listened and took them I

476
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Speaker 1: hope so, or they got a sternly worded letter from

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Speaker 1: the Pallisero pr agency. Anyway, pell Sero reported that Stefan Diggs,

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Speaker 1: who apparently seems unhappy being a member of the Vikings.

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Speaker 1: But it's according to pell Sero, it's a long shot

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Speaker 1: for the Vikings to trade the talented wide receiver. Um.

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Speaker 1: I think the logic here, of course, is that the

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Speaker 1: Vikings are close and they want to see what they

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Speaker 1: can do if they can get over the hump Wes

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Speaker 1: and losing Stefon Digs uh barring them bringing in somebody

485
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Speaker 1: to replace him that's at his level or better, the

486
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Speaker 1: team will just get worse. And they can't afford to

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Speaker 1: get worse. They have too much invested in this current squad.

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Speaker 1: I agree the logic is, why should we trade one

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Speaker 1: of our best players? One of you know, one of

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Speaker 1: the top twenty wide receivers in the NFL, and and

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Speaker 1: I think a better player than Adam Feland, So why

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Speaker 1: would you trade him? And why make it clear that

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Speaker 1: if you want off the Vikings, simply be an agitator

494
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Speaker 1: or be just annoying enough for us to move you,

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Speaker 1: whether you're very talented or not. I think you just

496
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Speaker 1: gotta put this out though, if you're the Vikings, to

497
00:26:34,359 --> 00:26:36,960
Speaker 1: calm this down, because people are just like checking. You know,

498
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Speaker 1: he deleted all his Vikings stuff on Instagram and he's

499
00:26:39,800 --> 00:26:43,200
Speaker 1: like writing these cryptic rap lyrics, which could maybe mean

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Speaker 1: that he wants out, and it says like you gotta comment,

501
00:26:45,200 --> 00:26:47,600
Speaker 1: you gotta comment down. And people are gonna be trying

502
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Speaker 1: to calm things down at the combine next week too.

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Speaker 1: But I I also think other, you know, other people

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Speaker 1: covering that team have reported that they would they would

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Speaker 1: maybe listen, and it doesn't make sense to me, um,

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Speaker 1: but they are a rare team that doesn't have a

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Speaker 1: ton of capram. I'm gonna throw the Everson Griffin news

508
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Speaker 1: now because I think it's connected. Everson Griffin avoided his

509
00:27:05,720 --> 00:27:09,560
Speaker 1: contract on Thursday. It was reported that opens up twelve

510
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Speaker 1: or thirteen million, and maybe that makes easier to keep

511
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Speaker 1: Stefon Diggs. They might cut the rear road, they might

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Speaker 1: cut Linval Joseph, they might bring Everson Griffin back. Who

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Speaker 1: who really knows, but they they're a team that like

514
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Speaker 1: has a lot of commitments and I think would want

515
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Speaker 1: to sign Kirk Cousins do a deal to thirty two years.

516
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Speaker 1: He spent his whole career with the Vikings on the Digs.

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Speaker 1: Note there has been a subtle shift over the last

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Speaker 1: couple of years. Certainly we saw it last year where

519
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Speaker 1: just because the team wants to keep a player, if

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Speaker 1: he's at a certain level, he might make it happen

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Speaker 1: that they wanted. Antonio Brown comes to mind with the Raiders.

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00:27:43,119 --> 00:27:47,520
Speaker 1: Jalen Ramsey, of course with the Jaguars. Could Digs just

523
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Speaker 1: by his force of will, get himself out of out

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Speaker 1: of Minnesota, just by continuing to put things out there

525
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Speaker 1: in social media or talking to the right person at

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Speaker 1: NFL network or ESPN and turn this into an untenable

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Speaker 1: situation from Minnesota. I just think in today's NFL, don't

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Speaker 1: put that out of the equation that that's how this inspires.

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Speaker 1: Just by being vocal about this he inspires a very

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Speaker 1: attractive offer from a team to Minnesota, that Minnesota then

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Speaker 1: to consider, Yeah, that they have if someone's willing to

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Speaker 1: give up a first round pick, and I would listen

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Speaker 1: to that. And then it's like then and you're like, Okay,

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Speaker 1: maybe Uh. Adrian Peterson sticking around with the Redskins. The

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Speaker 1: Washington Football Club has picked up the option on his

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00:28:31,560 --> 00:28:35,880
Speaker 1: contract for It will be the age thirty five season

537
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Speaker 1: for Peterson, who was rushed for over nineteen hundred yards

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Speaker 1: and twelve touchdowns in two years with the Redskins, who

539
00:28:42,240 --> 00:28:44,120
Speaker 1: is never supposed to get this much work. But the

540
00:28:44,120 --> 00:28:47,920
Speaker 1: problem is that Darius Guys, the two thousand eighteen promising

541
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Speaker 1: draft pick, can't stay on the field. And I guess Greg,

542
00:28:51,840 --> 00:28:57,240
Speaker 1: we're viewing Washington UH decision here a bit of insurance

543
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Speaker 1: and also reward to Peterson, who continues to be somewhat

544
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Speaker 1: productive at the stage of his career. He was good

545
00:29:05,400 --> 00:29:08,680
Speaker 1: last year four point three yards uh per carry, ran hard.

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Speaker 1: They could still cut him in camp. There's no real

547
00:29:11,040 --> 00:29:14,080
Speaker 1: big guarantees. But I think he he looked at the

548
00:29:14,160 --> 00:29:17,640
Speaker 1: landscape and he heard one man who believed in him always,

549
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Speaker 1: who never gave up on him, and that man was

550
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Speaker 1: Chris Westling, and he decided, Hey, I've had a Hall

551
00:29:22,760 --> 00:29:24,760
Speaker 1: of Fame career, but I need to do Chris Proud.

552
00:29:25,040 --> 00:29:27,680
Speaker 1: I need to run hard in Washington and he's earned it.

553
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Speaker 1: Do you feel that to story? I do not feel

554
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Speaker 1: that whatsoever. But I did see a good tweet from

555
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Speaker 1: Kevin Patrew said Peterson had more twenty yard runs last

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Speaker 1: year than Alvin Kamara, Ezekiel, Elliott, Todd Gurley. It look

557
00:29:41,080 --> 00:29:43,720
Speaker 1: pretty good, Aaron Jones. He had the same number of

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Speaker 1: twenty yard runs as Christian McCaffrey and also on a

559
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Speaker 1: team that by you know, after the coaching changes happened,

560
00:29:49,800 --> 00:29:51,280
Speaker 1: you knew they were going to run the ball like

561
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Speaker 1: forty five times a game. Chris Thompson is also a

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Speaker 1: free agent. He's been there forever, he'll be gone. And

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Speaker 1: geis looked good in the very small sample size we

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Speaker 1: saw him. I think it's fair to question, or at

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00:30:01,800 --> 00:30:04,320
Speaker 1: least for the Redskins to make sure they're prepared to

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Speaker 1: have another runner there. If guys doesn't, Gary and anybody

567
00:30:09,080 --> 00:30:13,000
Speaker 1: listen to this podcast knows I was tremendously moved and

568
00:30:13,080 --> 00:30:17,240
Speaker 1: caught up in the pursuit of Walter Payton's touchdown rushing

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Speaker 1: touchdown mark uh which Peterson caught Peyton. He has a

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Speaker 1: hundred and eleven rushing touchdowns, Peyton a hundred and ten.

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Speaker 1: He also passed Jim Brown, who's had a hundred and six.

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Speaker 1: Next up on the list that Peterson wants to get

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Speaker 1: into the top three Marcus Allen at one three. That's

574
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Speaker 1: a big ask to one eleven thirteen touchdowns next year.

575
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Speaker 1: And it's Smith number one, Marcus Allen number three, when

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Speaker 1: West's toast or West who's number two with a hundred

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Speaker 1: forty five career rushing touchdowns. I don't know, I was

578
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Speaker 1: I was not thinking. I don't know, still in Hawaii,

579
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Speaker 1: but the Damian Thomison alright, bad news, not really for

580
00:31:06,320 --> 00:31:09,600
Speaker 1: the Browns because they're moving on anyway, but bad news

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Speaker 1: for the man Greg Robinson, the former UM number two

582
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Speaker 1: overall draft pick of the Rams, who is in a

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Speaker 1: West Texas jail without bond after federal agents said they

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Speaker 1: found one fifty seven pounds avoid in a rented vehicle

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Speaker 1: in which he and two other people were driving. Uh,

586
00:31:33,160 --> 00:31:36,280
Speaker 1: this is unbelievable. This story's twenty seven years old. He

587
00:31:36,360 --> 00:31:40,040
Speaker 1: spent the last two years as the starting left tackle

588
00:31:41,600 --> 00:31:46,000
Speaker 1: as the starting left tackle of the Browns, and he's

589
00:31:46,080 --> 00:31:50,040
Speaker 1: driving around near the border. But the hundred fifty seven

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00:31:50,040 --> 00:31:53,520
Speaker 1: pounds of marijuana and if convicted him, this other bro

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00:31:53,680 --> 00:31:56,040
Speaker 1: and the third guy in the car was an Uber

592
00:31:56,160 --> 00:31:58,600
Speaker 1: driver who apparently didn't even know what was going on.

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Speaker 1: He realized he had a an entire drugs shipment taking

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Speaker 1: an Uber. He paid a guy to be a driver

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00:32:06,160 --> 00:32:09,560
Speaker 1: for this journey. The guy did not get charged because

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00:32:09,560 --> 00:32:12,120
Speaker 1: he said that he did not know what was in

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00:32:12,160 --> 00:32:16,160
Speaker 1: the car. And he showed federal agents, uh texts from

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Speaker 1: Greg Robinson that said, Hey, if you take the fall

599
00:32:18,560 --> 00:32:21,680
Speaker 1: for this, I will compensate you financially. And the guy

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00:32:21,760 --> 00:32:25,640
Speaker 1: was like, uh, here you go, d A or whatever. Uh. Anyway,

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00:32:25,680 --> 00:32:29,080
Speaker 1: if convicted, both men, including Greg Robinson, a twenty seven

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Speaker 1: year old starting left tackle in the NFL a couple

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00:32:32,120 --> 00:32:34,720
Speaker 1: of months ago, could be sentenced up to twenty years

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Speaker 1: in federal prison. So we'll see how this goes. Well,

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00:32:38,680 --> 00:32:41,440
Speaker 1: you know, he can psyche in here. Anybody of a

606
00:32:41,440 --> 00:32:45,600
Speaker 1: certain age immediately calls back to Nate Newton, who was arrested,

607
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Speaker 1: I believe in two thousand one for two pounds of

608
00:32:49,840 --> 00:32:52,920
Speaker 1: marijuana in a giant van, then paid his bail. In

609
00:32:53,040 --> 00:32:55,640
Speaker 1: five weeks later got arrested for a hundred and seventy

610
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Speaker 1: five pounds of marijuana, and he said, look, athletes are competitive.

611
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Speaker 1: I sow a chance to make money, and I wanted

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Speaker 1: to be the best drug dealer on the market. That's

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Speaker 1: what said. He said he wanted to be the best

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Speaker 1: that this one though, I thought a Sam Brd which

615
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Speaker 1: was a little um more recently, which was I think

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Speaker 1: seven years ago Cowboys special teamer who was who was

617
00:33:17,800 --> 00:33:20,960
Speaker 1: basically like a kingpin. He was running you know, big

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Speaker 1: time deliveries, you know uh trailers, you know, thousands and

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Speaker 1: thousands of pounds. This seems for a guy in Greg

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Speaker 1: Robinson who has made almost thirty million dollars in his career,

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Speaker 1: it's it seems too in between to me, Like the

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Speaker 1: juice isn't worth the squeeze here. You know, this is

623
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Speaker 1: a small time. Whatever is going on here is not

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Speaker 1: a big time. You're taking a lot of risk for

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Speaker 1: not a lot of payoff considering uh the the income

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Speaker 1: you're making. According to dre Or, former right fielder on

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Speaker 1: the Shield, Oh yeah, Drake who she's knowledgeable on this front.

628
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Speaker 1: One one of the one of the great newsroom personalities

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Speaker 1: of all time and the author of maybe the defining

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Speaker 1: play and shield history absolutely not arguably v defining play,

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Speaker 1: the shoe string catch with the bases loaded. In our

632
00:34:06,200 --> 00:34:09,920
Speaker 1: first title year, we were heavy underdogs and if that

633
00:34:09,960 --> 00:34:13,239
Speaker 1: ball gets down, everybody's running around the bases and we

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00:34:13,360 --> 00:34:16,840
Speaker 1: probably lose in crushing fashion. Instead, she makes the catch,

635
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Speaker 1: we get out of the inning, we um take, we

636
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Speaker 1: hold him off in the last inning, and we win

637
00:34:22,360 --> 00:34:25,960
Speaker 1: our first trophy and it doesn't happen without drey Day. Well, yeah,

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Speaker 1: all that as well, said Dre says, you could expect

639
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Speaker 1: between ninety thousand and three twenty thousand on the street value,

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Speaker 1: depending of course on quality of product. Right, And she's

641
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Speaker 1: she is someone with quite a bit of um innate

642
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Speaker 1: knowledge about the movement of uh those substances. So I'm

643
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Speaker 1: sighting her as an expert. The top ten in the

644
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Speaker 1: two thousand fourteen NFL draft, just for fun ja Davean

645
00:34:50,880 --> 00:34:55,480
Speaker 1: Clowney number one, Greg Robinson two, Blake Boardles three to

646
00:34:55,520 --> 00:34:58,759
Speaker 1: the Jags, Sammy Watkins for to the Bills, Khalil mac

647
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Speaker 1: five to the Raiders, Jake Matthews six to the Falcons,

648
00:35:02,320 --> 00:35:05,719
Speaker 1: Mike Evans seven to the Bucks, Justin Gilbert eight to

649
00:35:05,760 --> 00:35:08,560
Speaker 1: the Browns, Anthony Barr nine to the Vikings, and Eric

650
00:35:08,600 --> 00:35:11,440
Speaker 1: Ebron ten to the Lions. A lot of swings and

651
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Speaker 1: misses there, Khalil Mack at five. I want to make

652
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Speaker 1: Mayax shining moments as a draft analyst. Finally, let's uh,

653
00:35:21,120 --> 00:35:25,240
Speaker 1: let's keep tracking. What to me is the most important

654
00:35:25,239 --> 00:35:28,040
Speaker 1: free agency saga of the offseason, the one that really

655
00:35:28,040 --> 00:35:31,920
Speaker 1: affects all of us and the most people UM connected

656
00:35:31,960 --> 00:35:34,919
Speaker 1: to the NFL. It's Tony Romo, who has, of course

657
00:35:35,000 --> 00:35:39,239
Speaker 1: this opportunity to leave CBS and signed a massive contract

658
00:35:40,040 --> 00:35:45,520
Speaker 1: with ESPN to become the face of their NFL um analysis.

659
00:35:46,040 --> 00:35:49,360
Speaker 1: And Romo talked about his decision making process on Tuesday

660
00:35:49,600 --> 00:35:53,839
Speaker 1: an interview with Benn and Skin on the Eagle. Uh,

661
00:35:53,960 --> 00:35:56,719
Speaker 1: let's listen in, uh to Romo, who sounds like a

662
00:35:56,719 --> 00:36:01,120
Speaker 1: guy ready to go somewhere as someone who's making a

663
00:36:01,160 --> 00:36:04,080
Speaker 1: decision in their life, Like you, guys, just did you

664
00:36:04,200 --> 00:36:07,799
Speaker 1: just want something to be very straightforward and make it

665
00:36:07,840 --> 00:36:10,040
Speaker 1: simple so that you just say, Leah, let's do it.

666
00:36:10,239 --> 00:36:15,719
Speaker 1: Here we go And I feel like that will I

667
00:36:15,719 --> 00:36:18,919
Speaker 1: think I'm already there a little bit, but we'll see

668
00:36:18,920 --> 00:36:20,680
Speaker 1: how it plays out. Even though I think I kind

669
00:36:20,680 --> 00:36:22,799
Speaker 1: of no, I'm just not telling you get I think

670
00:36:22,800 --> 00:36:25,000
Speaker 1: he's done. I think he's gone. I think he's breaking

671
00:36:25,080 --> 00:36:29,320
Speaker 1: up with his boy, Jimmy Nance, uh, and he's leaving

672
00:36:29,719 --> 00:36:31,960
Speaker 1: this life he had and we talked about it. Why

673
00:36:32,000 --> 00:36:33,840
Speaker 1: do you why is that your take away? I just

674
00:36:33,880 --> 00:36:35,960
Speaker 1: hear the way because he's already his decision. Sounds like

675
00:36:36,000 --> 00:36:38,880
Speaker 1: he's conflicting and he's like, I've made my decision. I

676
00:36:38,920 --> 00:36:41,439
Speaker 1: think he's taking the money and he's and he's going

677
00:36:41,480 --> 00:36:44,719
Speaker 1: to greener pastures. That's just my based on just the

678
00:36:44,760 --> 00:36:47,680
Speaker 1: inflection in his voice. I don't know nothing else other

679
00:36:47,680 --> 00:36:51,320
Speaker 1: than that. All right, it's fair speculations. I mean Nance

680
00:36:51,360 --> 00:36:53,680
Speaker 1: needs him more than he needs Nance, right. Well, the

681
00:36:53,719 --> 00:36:56,920
Speaker 1: logic being, yeah, if he was staying that, why wouldn't

682
00:36:56,960 --> 00:36:59,279
Speaker 1: he just say he was staying kind of like, if

683
00:36:59,320 --> 00:37:01,839
Speaker 1: you're if you're to keep the quarterback you have, why

684
00:37:01,880 --> 00:37:04,400
Speaker 1: not just say it? When you don't say anything, it

685
00:37:04,440 --> 00:37:07,560
Speaker 1: invites speculation. But I didn't know if there was more

686
00:37:07,760 --> 00:37:10,000
Speaker 1: more to it. I have not heard that that interview.

687
00:37:10,239 --> 00:37:12,879
Speaker 1: That would break you know, it would break my heart

688
00:37:14,160 --> 00:37:17,080
Speaker 1: break Jim nance's heart. That's what's happening in the news.

689
00:37:18,120 --> 00:37:20,040
Speaker 1: I figured we're going to get an announcement on that soon.

690
00:37:20,320 --> 00:37:22,719
Speaker 1: Feels like something that come could come out come combines.

691
00:37:22,719 --> 00:37:26,359
Speaker 1: It's not about it's not about money because he's gonna

692
00:37:26,400 --> 00:37:30,239
Speaker 1: get all the money he wants. I think either ways,

693
00:37:30,360 --> 00:37:32,480
Speaker 1: is gonna match. Yeah, maybe it's maybe it doesn't want

694
00:37:32,480 --> 00:37:36,680
Speaker 1: to work on the weekend. Who's the golf? All right,

695
00:37:37,040 --> 00:37:41,160
Speaker 1: that's what's happening in the news. Mark uh Wes, you

696
00:37:41,239 --> 00:37:44,960
Speaker 1: were on your wonderful baby moon when we did a

697
00:37:44,960 --> 00:37:48,759
Speaker 1: bit of a power rankings who Peter Schrager respects, and

698
00:37:48,800 --> 00:37:52,759
Speaker 1: we kind of came down at stra because we asked one.

699
00:37:52,960 --> 00:37:55,399
Speaker 1: We asked him in person and he did not Why

700
00:37:55,400 --> 00:37:57,279
Speaker 1: did this come up now? Because that was back in

701
00:37:57,400 --> 00:37:59,759
Speaker 1: May and suddenly because I think about it, think about

702
00:37:59,760 --> 00:38:01,600
Speaker 1: it like probably five times a day. But we kind

703
00:38:01,600 --> 00:38:04,000
Speaker 1: of came down. The rankings that we had was Greg

704
00:38:04,040 --> 00:38:07,120
Speaker 1: one because we knew West two was a football head,

705
00:38:07,640 --> 00:38:10,640
Speaker 1: Me three because of my work with Good Morning football

706
00:38:11,000 --> 00:38:13,799
Speaker 1: Erica four because of the great stuff she's doing on Instagram.

707
00:38:14,440 --> 00:38:17,520
Speaker 1: Uh and he and Pete has a tremendous amount of

708
00:38:17,520 --> 00:38:21,520
Speaker 1: respect for women. And number five Mark, I love this segment,

709
00:38:21,600 --> 00:38:24,280
Speaker 1: and only five because there's not a six person involved

710
00:38:24,280 --> 00:38:26,800
Speaker 1: in the race, because I would quickly pull down to

711
00:38:26,880 --> 00:38:30,080
Speaker 1: number if we wanted to apparently include Connie Fox, she

712
00:38:30,200 --> 00:38:32,239
Speaker 1: might fly all the way to number one. I mean

713
00:38:32,280 --> 00:38:35,400
Speaker 1: she's a real keep, a real TV a real TV head.

714
00:38:35,560 --> 00:38:39,279
Speaker 1: But we had Mark Brady two is five, and then

715
00:38:39,320 --> 00:38:41,920
Speaker 1: markets because he's worked with him in terms of setting

716
00:38:42,000 --> 00:38:45,880
Speaker 1: up different things And yeah, I think you nailed the analysis. Yeah.

717
00:38:46,040 --> 00:38:50,080
Speaker 1: So now with that background in hand, Mark wanted to

718
00:38:50,120 --> 00:38:54,880
Speaker 1: offer up his top five people he respects in the

719
00:38:54,920 --> 00:38:59,279
Speaker 1: football industry And uh, you're so you're talking cotn sent

720
00:38:59,440 --> 00:39:03,239
Speaker 1: the Really, it could be anyone whovers football, but it's

721
00:39:03,239 --> 00:39:05,279
Speaker 1: has to be someone that I is it outside the

722
00:39:05,360 --> 00:39:10,120
Speaker 1: NFL media empire in some cases, in some cases, in

723
00:39:10,160 --> 00:39:13,960
Speaker 1: some cases there within the empire in NFL media like

724
00:39:14,000 --> 00:39:16,800
Speaker 1: our where a couple of people attached to our company

725
00:39:16,840 --> 00:39:19,520
Speaker 1: and from places beyond, got it? What about us? Are

726
00:39:19,560 --> 00:39:22,279
Speaker 1: we in the mix? So? Uh, you would all make

727
00:39:22,320 --> 00:39:25,000
Speaker 1: my list without any questions. You're not in it that

728
00:39:25,719 --> 00:39:27,359
Speaker 1: I don't want to rank you right now. That's gonna

729
00:39:28,400 --> 00:39:33,120
Speaker 1: save that for season twelve. Maybe all right, let's go

730
00:39:33,239 --> 00:39:38,960
Speaker 1: number five, Number five, Number five, Kyle Brandt. I think

731
00:39:38,960 --> 00:39:42,920
Speaker 1: he's uh, it's someone who's just grown immensely over his

732
00:39:43,080 --> 00:39:46,439
Speaker 1: run with Good Morning Football. I find him creative, he's

733
00:39:46,440 --> 00:39:49,200
Speaker 1: willing to take risks, he's doesn't take himself too seriously

734
00:39:49,640 --> 00:39:54,239
Speaker 1: and engaging football man. Kyle had a great year. And

735
00:39:54,280 --> 00:39:56,680
Speaker 1: also by the way, um, I can tell he's been

736
00:39:56,680 --> 00:39:59,000
Speaker 1: lifting weights because he is he is. He is jacked

737
00:39:59,080 --> 00:40:01,799
Speaker 1: right now. He's a little bit annoying because not only

738
00:40:01,920 --> 00:40:05,959
Speaker 1: is he in fantastic shape. Damage has often pointed out,

739
00:40:06,040 --> 00:40:09,200
Speaker 1: like the thing that jumps out to you with people

740
00:40:09,200 --> 00:40:12,640
Speaker 1: in Hollywood are just good looking guys, it's the jawline.

741
00:40:13,280 --> 00:40:16,080
Speaker 1: When you have the jaw line, it's really a huge asset.

742
00:40:16,120 --> 00:40:19,759
Speaker 1: And nobody's got a better jawline in NFL media, I

743
00:40:19,840 --> 00:40:22,719
Speaker 1: mean outside and inside this company than Mr Brant. But

744
00:40:22,760 --> 00:40:25,160
Speaker 1: he's also tremendously funny and a nice guy. Every it

745
00:40:25,280 --> 00:40:27,680
Speaker 1: has a great reputation. You know, he's a nice guy.

746
00:40:27,880 --> 00:40:30,759
Speaker 1: He's creative. I mean he's putting us all this. There's

747
00:40:30,800 --> 00:40:32,840
Speaker 1: four people ahead of it. Well, no, I mean I struggled.

748
00:40:32,960 --> 00:40:36,200
Speaker 1: I struggled to uh, who's number four? Number four obviously

749
00:40:36,280 --> 00:40:40,560
Speaker 1: is Nate Burlison, who I who I again? Someone absolutely

750
00:40:41,000 --> 00:40:43,759
Speaker 1: you know five years ago. Who knows what would have

751
00:40:43,880 --> 00:40:46,560
Speaker 1: become of his career. But he's he is a climber

752
00:40:46,560 --> 00:40:48,640
Speaker 1: who can do anything. You know. I think he's great

753
00:40:48,640 --> 00:40:50,400
Speaker 1: in the booth when he's been part of the color

754
00:40:51,520 --> 00:40:54,480
Speaker 1: does everything, and he's able to communicate what he knows.

755
00:40:55,719 --> 00:41:01,960
Speaker 1: He's on CBS, NFL Network and uh extra Hollywood, very versatile,

756
00:41:02,000 --> 00:41:05,080
Speaker 1: arraging talent. Number number three. I mean, how I have

757
00:41:05,200 --> 00:41:08,360
Speaker 1: to go Kay Adams because she also she does everything

758
00:41:08,760 --> 00:41:10,799
Speaker 1: you could ask she does it so well and all

759
00:41:10,880 --> 00:41:13,080
Speaker 1: you know, the three people that I mentioned so far,

760
00:41:13,120 --> 00:41:14,840
Speaker 1: the fact that they get up and do this show

761
00:41:14,960 --> 00:41:18,080
Speaker 1: every day, multiple hours, and they keep that enthusiasm and

762
00:41:18,120 --> 00:41:20,719
Speaker 1: that love for the game going. Uh, it's impressive. And

763
00:41:20,800 --> 00:41:23,960
Speaker 1: she is a a I don't think he's Yeah, she's

764
00:41:23,960 --> 00:41:27,200
Speaker 1: a delightful. She's a very nice woman. And she's also yes,

765
00:41:27,239 --> 00:41:31,319
Speaker 1: tremendously talented and a grinder number two number two, And

766
00:41:31,400 --> 00:41:33,080
Speaker 1: I you know, I wanted to look a little bit

767
00:41:33,160 --> 00:41:37,040
Speaker 1: beyond the NFL media community because this grinder has been

768
00:41:37,040 --> 00:41:39,080
Speaker 1: doing it for a long time. De Orlando led Better,

769
00:41:39,120 --> 00:41:42,360
Speaker 1: who covers the Falcons. I love reading this stuff. Atlanta

770
00:41:42,400 --> 00:41:44,600
Speaker 1: Journal constant. Yeah, when we go when you know, when

771
00:41:44,640 --> 00:41:47,439
Speaker 1: we were at the combine kind of grinding away those years.

772
00:41:47,440 --> 00:41:49,319
Speaker 1: He often would do the pool reports and he'd get

773
00:41:49,360 --> 00:41:51,279
Speaker 1: up there and he'd kind of tell other reporters, I

774
00:41:51,320 --> 00:41:53,160
Speaker 1: need someone else to get up here and do this too.

775
00:41:53,480 --> 00:41:56,600
Speaker 1: Is he He gets people, He rallies his fellow veteran

776
00:41:56,640 --> 00:41:58,719
Speaker 1: reporters and a lot of respect. If I ever want

777
00:41:58,760 --> 00:42:01,000
Speaker 1: to know the Atlanta Falcons roster, I know where to

778
00:42:01,040 --> 00:42:05,160
Speaker 1: find it in the Orlando Ledbetter's blog every day. I'm

779
00:42:05,160 --> 00:42:07,360
Speaker 1: going to be very upset if Larry Fitzgerald Sr. Is

780
00:42:07,400 --> 00:42:09,840
Speaker 1: Not number one. But this is your list. Here we

781
00:42:09,880 --> 00:42:15,920
Speaker 1: go in the number one UH media NFL media personality

782
00:42:15,960 --> 00:42:21,920
Speaker 1: that Mark Sessler respects is it is Connor? How come

783
00:42:21,960 --> 00:42:24,319
Speaker 1: nobody knows how to do the timpany? You wait till

784
00:42:24,320 --> 00:42:28,920
Speaker 1: the timpany stops? It is Connor number one? A friend.

785
00:42:29,000 --> 00:42:33,839
Speaker 1: But I I seen in Connor his football abilities as

786
00:42:33,880 --> 00:42:36,560
Speaker 1: writing abilities just double and triple since the time. I

787
00:42:36,600 --> 00:42:39,040
Speaker 1: mean his most recent lead says we mentioned him today

788
00:42:39,080 --> 00:42:42,440
Speaker 1: because he aggressively and creatively attacked the biggest story of

789
00:42:42,480 --> 00:42:43,600
Speaker 1: the week, and he did it in a way that

790
00:42:43,600 --> 00:42:46,120
Speaker 1: no one else but Conroor could do. Um, I think

791
00:42:46,120 --> 00:42:47,760
Speaker 1: that when you sit down and hang out with Conroor

792
00:42:47,840 --> 00:42:50,000
Speaker 1: for half an hour, he's gonna always tell two or

793
00:42:50,040 --> 00:42:53,640
Speaker 1: three stories that are beyond insane. He had we before.

794
00:42:53,640 --> 00:42:56,520
Speaker 1: We don't have to explain, I think I think anyone listening,

795
00:42:56,560 --> 00:42:58,880
Speaker 1: who's can I just say though, I just I am.

796
00:42:58,920 --> 00:43:02,120
Speaker 1: I'm taking a step back. I'm divorcing myself from knowledge

797
00:43:02,160 --> 00:43:04,120
Speaker 1: of anyone on this list or not on this list,

798
00:43:04,800 --> 00:43:08,560
Speaker 1: and my relationship with you in this podcast. It does

799
00:43:08,800 --> 00:43:11,759
Speaker 1: come off a little bit like some score settling to

800
00:43:11,880 --> 00:43:14,200
Speaker 1: not have Schreegar in the top five. I'm just gonna say,

801
00:43:14,320 --> 00:43:17,040
Speaker 1: because you you didn't put anyone else from NFL network

802
00:43:17,239 --> 00:43:19,920
Speaker 1: on the list except for his three co hosts on

803
00:43:20,080 --> 00:43:22,319
Speaker 1: Good Morning Football. I think they do great work, and

804
00:43:22,360 --> 00:43:25,680
Speaker 1: I you know it would be I would be you know,

805
00:43:25,760 --> 00:43:28,520
Speaker 1: remiss to leave them off the list. Um, I am

806
00:43:28,600 --> 00:43:30,400
Speaker 1: happy to talk with Peter. I was gonna say'd be

807
00:43:30,480 --> 00:43:31,759
Speaker 1: or miss is the host of the show, not to

808
00:43:31,760 --> 00:43:34,880
Speaker 1: get Schroeger on. Now we have to gotta this is becoming,

809
00:43:35,120 --> 00:43:38,880
Speaker 1: this is now a thing. I think probably you know,

810
00:43:39,080 --> 00:43:41,200
Speaker 1: we could we could have a chat at some point. Um,

811
00:43:41,239 --> 00:43:43,120
Speaker 1: if this wouldn't be too much of an effort for

812
00:43:43,200 --> 00:43:45,680
Speaker 1: him to do that. Some people might deduce from your

813
00:43:45,719 --> 00:43:49,280
Speaker 1: list that you have the three other Good Morning Football

814
00:43:49,320 --> 00:43:52,640
Speaker 1: people at five, four, and three. Maybe Stroger just missed

815
00:43:52,640 --> 00:43:54,560
Speaker 1: and he was number six. You could deduce that, if

816
00:43:54,600 --> 00:43:56,759
Speaker 1: you wanted to, he might have been very close West.

817
00:43:56,840 --> 00:43:59,480
Speaker 1: This is gonna make. This is ser I want the

818
00:43:59,640 --> 00:44:04,040
Speaker 1: Orlando on the set. This, this is making the hands

819
00:44:04,040 --> 00:44:06,319
Speaker 1: of Jeremiah. If you would look like Tilly winks well

820
00:44:06,360 --> 00:44:09,440
Speaker 1: that one. You know, some people might say that the

821
00:44:10,920 --> 00:44:13,840
Speaker 1: percentage of which it's genuine is not Yeah, it's a

822
00:44:13,840 --> 00:44:17,480
Speaker 1: little k fab This one appears to be real. Well,

823
00:44:17,520 --> 00:44:19,520
Speaker 1: I'm not calling it more than it is. It's it's

824
00:44:19,719 --> 00:44:22,400
Speaker 1: it's in progress. It has been something that's been sitting

825
00:44:22,440 --> 00:44:24,359
Speaker 1: with you like a rock in the pit of your

826
00:44:24,360 --> 00:44:28,399
Speaker 1: stomach since we were at pool side. At that I mean,

827
00:44:28,400 --> 00:44:31,440
Speaker 1: he didn't rank he can rank you last. He just

828
00:44:31,480 --> 00:44:35,040
Speaker 1: said great projected rankings thing. He did not need to

829
00:44:35,120 --> 00:44:36,759
Speaker 1: rank me last. I think we knew where we were

830
00:44:36,760 --> 00:44:40,000
Speaker 1: going with that one. All right, let's get into its

831
00:44:40,040 --> 00:44:42,279
Speaker 1: hard knocks. Let's talk a little hard knock. Actually, you

832
00:44:42,320 --> 00:44:45,960
Speaker 1: know what, we got a little breaking we do The

833
00:44:46,080 --> 00:44:51,680
Speaker 1: NFL owners have officially approved terms of the Collective Bargaining

834
00:44:51,719 --> 00:44:56,160
Speaker 1: Agreement Read on everything. The owners have agreed their proposal

835
00:44:56,320 --> 00:44:59,799
Speaker 1: there they everything is set from their standpoint. They are

836
00:44:59,840 --> 00:45:02,720
Speaker 1: now sending that entire pro proposal over to the players,

837
00:45:02,760 --> 00:45:06,000
Speaker 1: who will probably vote on it. It needs to be

838
00:45:06,280 --> 00:45:09,040
Speaker 1: there's a what is it, a three fords vote from

839
00:45:09,040 --> 00:45:13,200
Speaker 1: the thirds the NFL p A heads, the guys that

840
00:45:13,440 --> 00:45:15,160
Speaker 1: lead each team, and then it just has to be

841
00:45:15,160 --> 00:45:17,359
Speaker 1: a majority vote for all the players. Yes, so we're

842
00:45:17,360 --> 00:45:19,520
Speaker 1: not there yet. We're not there yet, but the owners

843
00:45:19,560 --> 00:45:22,840
Speaker 1: are basically done already. They already decided what the proposal is.

844
00:45:22,880 --> 00:45:26,040
Speaker 1: They're raising, you know, the percentage that players make, and

845
00:45:26,120 --> 00:45:28,680
Speaker 1: a bunch of offseason stuff and a million things that

846
00:45:28,880 --> 00:45:32,040
Speaker 1: actually hasn't been reported yet, but it's been sent and

847
00:45:32,080 --> 00:45:36,520
Speaker 1: the players uh representatives will have a vote on Friday

848
00:45:36,520 --> 00:45:39,799
Speaker 1: after This might sound boring to some listeners, but this

849
00:45:39,880 --> 00:45:42,640
Speaker 1: is important. If they can get this done, we don't

850
00:45:42,640 --> 00:45:45,000
Speaker 1: have to think about labor piece for another decade. And

851
00:45:45,000 --> 00:45:48,759
Speaker 1: the owners were not unanimous. There's no details on what

852
00:45:48,880 --> 00:45:53,080
Speaker 1: the vote was, but something tells me Mike Brown was involved.

853
00:45:53,200 --> 00:45:59,920
Speaker 1: Wouldn't any basic history of sports um labor negotiations suggested

854
00:46:00,000 --> 00:46:02,839
Speaker 1: there will be negotiations before this is agreedable. This whole

855
00:46:02,840 --> 00:46:07,319
Speaker 1: thing has moved along way faster than um anything I

856
00:46:07,320 --> 00:46:10,880
Speaker 1: can remember, and certainly much differently than the last time.

857
00:46:11,040 --> 00:46:12,880
Speaker 1: I kind of like the hold out though, that was

858
00:46:13,000 --> 00:46:17,279
Speaker 1: I thought it was spicy. Oh my gosh, so well

859
00:46:17,440 --> 00:46:19,160
Speaker 1: it was like, oh well, I mean, if a season

860
00:46:19,160 --> 00:46:22,839
Speaker 1: were canceled, it would be very very interesting time. Now,

861
00:46:22,880 --> 00:46:26,040
Speaker 1: the post hold out free agency thing was one of

862
00:46:26,040 --> 00:46:31,040
Speaker 1: the wildest seven transaction history that got us the Eagles

863
00:46:31,120 --> 00:46:34,040
Speaker 1: Dream team. Are you angling Mark for a furlough? It

864
00:46:34,120 --> 00:46:36,880
Speaker 1: sounds like a guy angling for a furlough? What is

865
00:46:36,920 --> 00:46:39,080
Speaker 1: it furlough? Again? Like furlows? Where do they say go

866
00:46:39,200 --> 00:46:43,280
Speaker 1: home and then you're not paid though you do get

867
00:46:44,239 --> 00:46:47,439
Speaker 1: paid after the fact. Potentially would you roll the dice

868
00:46:47,480 --> 00:46:51,400
Speaker 1: on that? Yeah, people would definitely if there was like

869
00:46:51,440 --> 00:46:54,080
Speaker 1: a long hold out, people would be people would lose

870
00:46:54,120 --> 00:46:56,600
Speaker 1: their jobs. Here they had to use it as I mean,

871
00:46:56,600 --> 00:46:59,279
Speaker 1: what would we talk about on the show this call

872
00:46:59,400 --> 00:47:05,080
Speaker 1: this furlough idio over here Theology podcast. It is okay,

873
00:47:06,000 --> 00:47:14,680
Speaker 1: all right, let's get into it. Hard Knocks fifteen seasons now,

874
00:47:14,840 --> 00:47:17,200
Speaker 1: it's gonna be the fifteenth season and uh, I wrote

875
00:47:17,200 --> 00:47:21,360
Speaker 1: about in the piece that within football circles, Hard Knocks

876
00:47:21,440 --> 00:47:25,719
Speaker 1: is now Saturday Night Live. It's an institution. It's it's venerable.

877
00:47:26,239 --> 00:47:28,880
Speaker 1: It's the type of thing that people love to complain

878
00:47:28,920 --> 00:47:30,880
Speaker 1: about it. They like to say that it's not as

879
00:47:30,880 --> 00:47:33,799
Speaker 1: good as it used to be, or that it's just

880
00:47:33,880 --> 00:47:36,160
Speaker 1: kind of the same stuff recycled over and over, or

881
00:47:36,200 --> 00:47:38,640
Speaker 1: it should be canceled. And yet so many of those

882
00:47:38,640 --> 00:47:41,640
Speaker 1: people then watched the season, just like so many people

883
00:47:41,640 --> 00:47:44,359
Speaker 1: of S and L and um, I love it, and

884
00:47:44,400 --> 00:47:46,560
Speaker 1: everybody listens to this podcast knows I love it. I've

885
00:47:46,600 --> 00:47:48,839
Speaker 1: been the beat writer for NFL dot com. It's two

886
00:47:48,880 --> 00:47:52,759
Speaker 1: thousand twelve, My goodness, been here a long time. Um So,

887
00:47:53,719 --> 00:47:55,560
Speaker 1: as I do every year round this time, I take

888
00:47:55,600 --> 00:48:01,319
Speaker 1: the five teams that can be comp held forced to

889
00:48:01,400 --> 00:48:03,719
Speaker 1: be on the show, which is always an interesting little

890
00:48:03,760 --> 00:48:07,000
Speaker 1: hook that that this program exists and there's an NFL

891
00:48:07,080 --> 00:48:09,759
Speaker 1: rule in place to make a team do it. What

892
00:48:09,800 --> 00:48:12,080
Speaker 1: does that mean? What does that say? I don't know,

893
00:48:12,200 --> 00:48:14,480
Speaker 1: it's just kind of I kind of like it, But

894
00:48:14,600 --> 00:48:16,400
Speaker 1: I can understand why the owners are like, why is

895
00:48:16,400 --> 00:48:18,680
Speaker 1: this show still exist when you need to put in

896
00:48:18,680 --> 00:48:20,839
Speaker 1: a rule to make us do it. I hope that

897
00:48:20,840 --> 00:48:22,560
Speaker 1: that's not in the c b A getting rid of

898
00:48:22,600 --> 00:48:27,120
Speaker 1: this rule because there's there is mandatory inclusion rules, and

899
00:48:27,200 --> 00:48:30,360
Speaker 1: here they are to avoid being picked for Hard Knocks.

900
00:48:30,440 --> 00:48:34,440
Speaker 1: And again, any team can volunteer and that does happen occasionally,

901
00:48:34,480 --> 00:48:39,680
Speaker 1: but to avoid mandatory inclusion on the show, Um, they

902
00:48:39,680 --> 00:48:42,200
Speaker 1: had would have to fall under any of three exemptions.

903
00:48:42,239 --> 00:48:46,000
Speaker 1: One have a first year head coach, to have a

904
00:48:46,080 --> 00:48:49,560
Speaker 1: playoff birth in the past two seasons. Three they have

905
00:48:49,600 --> 00:48:52,480
Speaker 1: appeared on Hard Knocks in the past ten years. So

906
00:48:52,760 --> 00:48:55,439
Speaker 1: they're gonna have to adjust these rules with the seventh seed. Uh.

907
00:48:55,560 --> 00:48:59,479
Speaker 1: You know, good call, good call, um, And that leaves

908
00:48:59,520 --> 00:49:02,319
Speaker 1: five team believe it or not. Uh. And I'll go

909
00:49:02,880 --> 00:49:06,319
Speaker 1: five to one, least compelling to most compelling. Will start

910
00:49:06,360 --> 00:49:09,960
Speaker 1: with number five, the Detroit Lions. This is the second

911
00:49:09,960 --> 00:49:12,120
Speaker 1: straight year the Lines are eligible for this. There aren't.

912
00:49:12,120 --> 00:49:13,960
Speaker 1: They were one of five teams last year and they're

913
00:49:13,960 --> 00:49:16,719
Speaker 1: one of five this year. Of course, Hard Knocks producers

914
00:49:17,040 --> 00:49:20,720
Speaker 1: went with the Raiders, which is kind of a no brainer. Uh.

915
00:49:20,800 --> 00:49:23,600
Speaker 1: And you know, so simply put, and we've talked about

916
00:49:23,600 --> 00:49:26,120
Speaker 1: this on the podcast, that they lacked juice and I

917
00:49:26,120 --> 00:49:28,880
Speaker 1: think they still lack juice and barring let's say Matthew

918
00:49:28,880 --> 00:49:32,719
Speaker 1: Stafford trade or something wild this offseason. This is a

919
00:49:32,760 --> 00:49:36,320
Speaker 1: team that's probably gonna pour some resources into improving its defense.

920
00:49:36,960 --> 00:49:39,399
Speaker 1: And is there anything to be get that excited about

921
00:49:39,440 --> 00:49:41,239
Speaker 1: a team that you would want to cover throughout the

922
00:49:41,360 --> 00:49:44,480
Speaker 1: training camp? I don't know the Detroit Lions. Detroit Lions. No,

923
00:49:44,880 --> 00:49:47,759
Speaker 1: nobody wants to see a show on the Detroit Lions. Yeah.

924
00:49:48,040 --> 00:49:50,120
Speaker 1: The only thing is if it because I have these,

925
00:49:50,280 --> 00:49:53,200
Speaker 1: like you, these ingrained sort of opinions about the Detroit

926
00:49:53,239 --> 00:49:55,759
Speaker 1: Lions as an overall experience, like change my mind, Like

927
00:49:55,800 --> 00:49:58,480
Speaker 1: I like, I'd like to see something like that happened.

928
00:49:58,480 --> 00:50:00,640
Speaker 1: But no, they're there are number five for reason. They're

929
00:50:00,640 --> 00:50:03,640
Speaker 1: already you know, forced on. You know a public that

930
00:50:03,680 --> 00:50:06,279
Speaker 1: doesn't want on once a year on Thanksgiving? You know,

931
00:50:06,440 --> 00:50:10,880
Speaker 1: well that rules needs to talk about that back. I

932
00:50:10,920 --> 00:50:13,479
Speaker 1: walked that back. If you're pointing to me coming after

933
00:50:13,480 --> 00:50:15,640
Speaker 1: the Lions, I was just taking a shot. I don't

934
00:50:15,680 --> 00:50:19,719
Speaker 1: even believe in I like the Lions and Thanksgiving. Keep

935
00:50:19,760 --> 00:50:21,719
Speaker 1: him if that's spoken in a while. I just needed

936
00:50:21,719 --> 00:50:23,759
Speaker 1: to get a shot out. Just look at for air time.

937
00:50:24,840 --> 00:50:28,120
Speaker 1: Number four, the Jacksonville Jaguars the big get here. Of course,

938
00:50:28,200 --> 00:50:33,319
Speaker 1: Garden Meanshoe. Gardner means you who you know with that personality,

939
00:50:34,160 --> 00:50:36,200
Speaker 1: He's going to do well on the show like this,

940
00:50:36,960 --> 00:50:38,759
Speaker 1: and he'll be there, he'll be in the building. I

941
00:50:38,800 --> 00:50:40,480
Speaker 1: don't know if he's gonna be their starter, but I

942
00:50:40,520 --> 00:50:43,920
Speaker 1: know being on the roster. Yeah, I liked your piece.

943
00:50:44,080 --> 00:50:47,440
Speaker 1: You did a very nice job. But this sentence give

944
00:50:47,480 --> 00:50:49,040
Speaker 1: me a break with this. Well, we don't know if

945
00:50:49,040 --> 00:50:51,879
Speaker 1: Minshoe will be Jacksonville's Week one starter at quarterback. Then

946
00:50:51,920 --> 00:50:56,040
Speaker 1: in parentheses, Minshu maniacs over a look that their leader

947
00:50:56,160 --> 00:50:58,480
Speaker 1: was only a tick or two above. Okay as a rookie,

948
00:50:59,040 --> 00:51:01,960
Speaker 1: that come on, that just propaganda. He was exciting. I

949
00:51:02,040 --> 00:51:03,560
Speaker 1: was so hoping you're going to read that song. He

950
00:51:03,600 --> 00:51:05,680
Speaker 1: did everything you could ask you simply put it in there.

951
00:51:05,680 --> 00:51:08,400
Speaker 1: Doing with me. You know, it's a nice little bonus.

952
00:51:08,440 --> 00:51:10,400
Speaker 1: But I do believe it. I mean, I know you

953
00:51:10,400 --> 00:51:12,520
Speaker 1: guys think I'm wrong, but I do believe it. Yes,

954
00:51:12,640 --> 00:51:15,279
Speaker 1: I think you're wrong. Yeah, I understand that, um, but

955
00:51:15,400 --> 00:51:18,480
Speaker 1: I think Minshew is a big draw for that reason,

956
00:51:18,800 --> 00:51:22,040
Speaker 1: and Doug Marone is the hottest seat come August. When

957
00:51:22,080 --> 00:51:24,960
Speaker 1: I when I write the piece about hottest butts in

958
00:51:25,000 --> 00:51:27,560
Speaker 1: the NFL. I think it's safe to say Maron is

959
00:51:27,560 --> 00:51:29,600
Speaker 1: gonna be at number one, and you know, and the

960
00:51:29,640 --> 00:51:31,959
Speaker 1: full's minshew thing. Depending on where we are with it

961
00:51:32,000 --> 00:51:35,200
Speaker 1: would be compelling. The Jaguars are that are that team

962
00:51:35,200 --> 00:51:37,920
Speaker 1: though that's always raised their hand, which and wanted to

963
00:51:37,920 --> 00:51:39,640
Speaker 1: be on High Night. It doesn't help. It's like for

964
00:51:39,680 --> 00:51:41,719
Speaker 1: some reason, you know, I did, I was gonna write

965
00:51:41,719 --> 00:51:44,120
Speaker 1: about that in this piece, and I did a cursory

966
00:51:44,120 --> 00:51:46,360
Speaker 1: Google search looking for that and I couldn't find anything.

967
00:51:47,160 --> 00:51:49,000
Speaker 1: Do we just ha is that just been speculated pon

968
00:51:49,120 --> 00:51:51,480
Speaker 1: or do we actually back in the day Shotkan wanted

969
00:51:51,600 --> 00:51:55,479
Speaker 1: wanted in? Yeah, number three, the Arizona Cardinals. I think

970
00:51:55,480 --> 00:51:58,080
Speaker 1: this could be a potential match if they don't get

971
00:51:58,080 --> 00:52:01,680
Speaker 1: the team that I haven't number one because the Cardinals, um,

972
00:52:01,800 --> 00:52:04,319
Speaker 1: they agreed to the All or Nothing Show back in

973
00:52:05,120 --> 00:52:09,000
Speaker 1: where they documented that entire season. Uh. And that's essentially

974
00:52:09,040 --> 00:52:12,520
Speaker 1: a Hard Knocks spinoff series. Uh. And they seem to

975
00:52:12,520 --> 00:52:15,640
Speaker 1: really like that experience. They gave me the assignment back

976
00:52:15,640 --> 00:52:17,640
Speaker 1: in the summer of sixteen. I took our buddy Jason

977
00:52:17,719 --> 00:52:22,000
Speaker 1: Zumwaldt to the Premier and everybody the from ownership to

978
00:52:22,120 --> 00:52:24,520
Speaker 1: the GM to head coach Bruce Arians at the time,

979
00:52:24,560 --> 00:52:27,839
Speaker 1: to the players. I still remember Carson Palmer taking long

980
00:52:27,920 --> 00:52:29,880
Speaker 1: poles of his bud heavy at the side of the

981
00:52:29,920 --> 00:52:32,400
Speaker 1: bar for about two hours, and he's just like he

982
00:52:32,480 --> 00:52:34,560
Speaker 1: was a very cool guy. I know he's not there anymore,

983
00:52:34,600 --> 00:52:36,440
Speaker 1: but that just was a fun little memory. But anyway,

984
00:52:36,440 --> 00:52:38,839
Speaker 1: they seem to like it. And then Michael Bidwell, the

985
00:52:38,840 --> 00:52:42,080
Speaker 1: team president, UM, had this to say this past week.

986
00:52:42,120 --> 00:52:44,960
Speaker 1: We're always gonna listen to everything. We'll see what comes up,

987
00:52:45,400 --> 00:52:47,400
Speaker 1: and we've always done a good job being available and

988
00:52:47,480 --> 00:52:49,640
Speaker 1: volunteering to do things. He sees it as a way

989
00:52:49,640 --> 00:52:52,759
Speaker 1: to elevate the brand. So Hard Knox feels painted into

990
00:52:52,800 --> 00:52:58,160
Speaker 1: a corner perfect marriage. Kyler Murray and and Um Kingsbury

991
00:52:58,200 --> 00:53:01,120
Speaker 1: feel very hard Knoxie up. I could see that in

992
00:53:01,200 --> 00:53:03,160
Speaker 1: just in terms of the history of the show. The

993
00:53:03,200 --> 00:53:05,600
Speaker 1: young team, with the court, young quarterback and the young coach.

994
00:53:05,600 --> 00:53:07,439
Speaker 1: It just feels that jamis Winston, it's a team they've

995
00:53:09,440 --> 00:53:11,560
Speaker 1: uh yeah, and he he seems like Murray seems like

996
00:53:11,560 --> 00:53:13,799
Speaker 1: the guy that could be on like uh, you know

997
00:53:13,920 --> 00:53:16,239
Speaker 1: Lamar Jackson track where he has a huge year two.

998
00:53:16,640 --> 00:53:18,839
Speaker 1: So if you can document that that training camp. That's

999
00:53:18,840 --> 00:53:20,839
Speaker 1: fun number two. The Denver Broncos. And this is all

1000
00:53:20,880 --> 00:53:25,560
Speaker 1: about John because I find him as I do come

1001
00:53:25,560 --> 00:53:28,759
Speaker 1: after after him on the show. But he's also a

1002
00:53:28,880 --> 00:53:31,680
Speaker 1: very compelling figure just because he's one of the icons

1003
00:53:31,680 --> 00:53:34,040
Speaker 1: of the sport. And this is a big year for

1004
00:53:34,080 --> 00:53:37,240
Speaker 1: the Broncos, who have gone four straight years about the playoffs.

1005
00:53:37,239 --> 00:53:40,640
Speaker 1: And I would imagine, Uh, if the Broncos were on

1006
00:53:40,680 --> 00:53:43,440
Speaker 1: this show, I want to see a lot of Elway.

1007
00:53:43,440 --> 00:53:45,440
Speaker 1: I can't have Elway in the shadows. I don't think

1008
00:53:45,440 --> 00:53:47,040
Speaker 1: you'd have him in the shadows. And if he was

1009
00:53:47,560 --> 00:53:50,680
Speaker 1: out of the shadows, I'd be very interested in the show.

1010
00:53:51,360 --> 00:53:54,400
Speaker 1: If he was in the shadows, I would kind of

1011
00:53:54,440 --> 00:53:57,520
Speaker 1: just do it as a work assignment basically, because I'm

1012
00:53:57,520 --> 00:54:00,680
Speaker 1: not tremendously into the rest of the broncos us. But

1013
00:54:00,760 --> 00:54:03,400
Speaker 1: I like the idea of the day in the life

1014
00:54:03,560 --> 00:54:06,279
Speaker 1: a summer with John Elway. Foncio is a wild card.

1015
00:54:06,320 --> 00:54:09,919
Speaker 1: He's one of the fuge NFL coaches of this era

1016
00:54:10,040 --> 00:54:12,200
Speaker 1: who speaks his mind. I think people would like him

1017
00:54:12,239 --> 00:54:15,400
Speaker 1: behind the scenes. You never know who you're gonna like

1018
00:54:15,440 --> 00:54:17,840
Speaker 1: as the head coach. Remember Bill O'Brien, who's not the

1019
00:54:17,880 --> 00:54:20,760
Speaker 1: most popular guy. He was very likable on the Texans

1020
00:54:20,800 --> 00:54:23,360
Speaker 1: Hard Knocks season when you learn more about him in

1021
00:54:23,360 --> 00:54:26,680
Speaker 1: his personal life. I do wonder if the Broncos, they

1022
00:54:26,719 --> 00:54:31,359
Speaker 1: have a very let's call it unsettled ownership situation, think

1023
00:54:31,400 --> 00:54:33,359
Speaker 1: that could prevent that from him, that the NFL might

1024
00:54:33,360 --> 00:54:35,760
Speaker 1: be like, let's just I'm gonna steer clear of Denver

1025
00:54:35,880 --> 00:54:37,719
Speaker 1: for the time being, which would take them out of

1026
00:54:37,760 --> 00:54:40,360
Speaker 1: the mix. But a lot of Hard Knocks like the

1027
00:54:40,400 --> 00:54:42,719
Speaker 1: pushes to make the owners seem they like to be

1028
00:54:42,760 --> 00:54:45,040
Speaker 1: in the mix. Typically, although Mark Davis was not really

1029
00:54:45,040 --> 00:54:47,920
Speaker 1: in the mix, but the owners like it. Uh usually

1030
00:54:48,560 --> 00:54:51,160
Speaker 1: like to be on the camera. Number one, the Pittsburgh Steelers.

1031
00:54:51,160 --> 00:54:56,160
Speaker 1: This one's easy. And Greg you you like to uh,

1032
00:54:56,360 --> 00:54:58,160
Speaker 1: you don't like to bet the ponies, but you're a

1033
00:54:58,160 --> 00:55:00,719
Speaker 1: man who's interested in what happens in the deser not

1034
00:55:00,800 --> 00:55:03,480
Speaker 1: allowed to be allowed to be as a league employee.

1035
00:55:04,000 --> 00:55:06,800
Speaker 1: But I will I will tell you, you'll like these numbers.

1036
00:55:06,880 --> 00:55:08,400
Speaker 1: You tell me you know who else is allowed? You

1037
00:55:08,440 --> 00:55:11,600
Speaker 1: know else is interested Like all the teams signing um

1038
00:55:11,640 --> 00:55:15,279
Speaker 1: sponsorship deals with with casinos and different things like that.

1039
00:55:15,320 --> 00:55:20,359
Speaker 1: I mean, it's coming, it's happening. So according to Bovada,

1040
00:55:20,640 --> 00:55:23,600
Speaker 1: What's That's that's one of the that's one of the

1041
00:55:23,640 --> 00:55:28,560
Speaker 1: online places. The Steelers are at UH minus one twenty

1042
00:55:29,000 --> 00:55:31,960
Speaker 1: the heavy favorite here the Cardinals plus two twenty five,

1043
00:55:32,320 --> 00:55:37,240
Speaker 1: Jags plus four fifty, Broncos plus and Lions plus seven

1044
00:55:37,280 --> 00:55:40,279
Speaker 1: hundred and the Steelers. They're a blue blood franchise in

1045
00:55:40,320 --> 00:55:44,200
Speaker 1: the NFL. They have a huge passionate fan base. I

1046
00:55:44,200 --> 00:55:46,320
Speaker 1: would love to learn a little bit more about Mike Tomlin.

1047
00:55:46,360 --> 00:55:49,240
Speaker 1: You got Big Ben coming back from that serious elbow

1048
00:55:49,280 --> 00:55:52,160
Speaker 1: injury injury. You have great human interest stories around guys

1049
00:55:52,160 --> 00:55:56,080
Speaker 1: like Ryan Shazier and James Conner, uh even getting even

1050
00:55:56,120 --> 00:55:58,719
Speaker 1: get Whiz Khalifa coming to camp. You've got the old

1051
00:55:58,840 --> 00:56:02,239
Speaker 1: like school a Trobe Pennsylvania. They're one of the few

1052
00:56:02,280 --> 00:56:04,960
Speaker 1: teams left where they go to this small college St.

1053
00:56:05,040 --> 00:56:07,360
Speaker 1: Vincent College that they've been going to love that. You

1054
00:56:07,360 --> 00:56:11,520
Speaker 1: have the Rooney family, and do we have that Mike Tomlin,

1055
00:56:11,600 --> 00:56:15,960
Speaker 1: Like yes, Mike Tomlin. Mike Tomlin his end of season

1056
00:56:15,960 --> 00:56:22,839
Speaker 1: press conference back on New Year's Eve had this to say,

1057
00:56:23,280 --> 00:56:32,960
Speaker 1: are you I don't were you doing it? They asked

1058
00:56:35,320 --> 00:56:37,279
Speaker 1: a nice little moment of levity there at the end

1059
00:56:37,280 --> 00:56:40,280
Speaker 1: of a rough Steelers season. So I was in, Mike Tomlin,

1060
00:56:40,320 --> 00:56:44,120
Speaker 1: what's nothing to do with it? Taking so seriously add

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Speaker 1: Addi Kinkawala tweeted out yesterday that I want to get

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Speaker 1: it hurt exact tweet actually, because she obviously has been

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00:56:52,040 --> 00:56:55,880
Speaker 1: embedded with that team for a while and um, she

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00:56:56,000 --> 00:56:59,040
Speaker 1: knows the vibe of them. But she said this, I

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00:56:59,160 --> 00:57:02,480
Speaker 1: rarely doubt. Wait, Mike Tomlin and the Steelers pull, but

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Speaker 1: if they managed to evade Hard Knocks, I may change

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00:57:05,280 --> 00:57:08,640
Speaker 1: that to never doubt h p s. If they don't,

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00:57:08,719 --> 00:57:10,880
Speaker 1: Dan Janzas has to make a road trip to Latrobe.

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Speaker 1: You guys should do I should spend this this Hard

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00:57:13,560 --> 00:57:16,840
Speaker 1: Knocks angle. To me, going to the Hard Knocks that's

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00:57:16,840 --> 00:57:21,760
Speaker 1: a home run, bad bad job. I never think Joe's

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Speaker 1: college right. And by the way, what what what family

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00:57:25,200 --> 00:57:29,520
Speaker 1: has been documented more by NFL films? Which family has

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00:57:29,560 --> 00:57:31,920
Speaker 1: supported NFL films more? I went and looked, they thought,

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Speaker 1: I remember Dan Rooney was on the Border directors and

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00:57:34,400 --> 00:57:36,840
Speaker 1: was a big part of like making NFL films what

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00:57:36,880 --> 00:57:38,920
Speaker 1: it is so you can make your your jokes or

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00:57:38,920 --> 00:57:41,480
Speaker 1: whatever it is. Very much in the tradition of the

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00:57:41,520 --> 00:57:44,360
Speaker 1: Steelers to like have a little uh, have a little

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Speaker 1: promotion for themselves and like get into it, get on board.

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Speaker 1: Mike Tomlin, do not ask Hard Knocks producers just go

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00:57:52,560 --> 00:57:55,920
Speaker 1: show up. I think that's got it. It's gotta be.

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Speaker 1: And if they're not it, they're not the choice. Do

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00:57:58,240 --> 00:58:01,840
Speaker 1: not think for one second. NFL Films and HBO were like, well,

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00:58:01,880 --> 00:58:04,440
Speaker 1: we like the Steelers as an option, but we want

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00:58:04,480 --> 00:58:07,040
Speaker 1: somewhere else that will be proof that this whole idea

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00:58:07,120 --> 00:58:10,560
Speaker 1: that you have to be you can be picked. Uh

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00:58:10,800 --> 00:58:12,600
Speaker 1: is all phony and bs And if you are a

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00:58:12,600 --> 00:58:14,919
Speaker 1: blue blood blood team like the Steelers, you have more

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00:58:14,920 --> 00:58:18,360
Speaker 1: power than other Yeah, Mike Thomins got bosses and Uh,

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Speaker 1: I would think the Rooney family would would be okay.

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00:58:21,080 --> 00:58:23,520
Speaker 1: And how successful of the Steeler has been. If you

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00:58:24,040 --> 00:58:26,680
Speaker 1: if you took these current inclusion rules and put them

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00:58:26,720 --> 00:58:28,520
Speaker 1: all the way to the start of Hard Knocks which

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Speaker 1: is two thousand and one and Brian Billock of the

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00:58:31,040 --> 00:58:33,800
Speaker 1: Ravens laying on a hammock during training camp, Uh, they

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Speaker 1: would have been eligible from mandatory inclusion once before this year,

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00:58:38,000 --> 00:58:41,280
Speaker 1: They've been one of the best, most consistent NFL franchises.

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Speaker 1: This is their chance to do it, all right. You

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Speaker 1: know one of the first money drops ever on this

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00:58:46,600 --> 00:58:50,080
Speaker 1: show was the Around the NFL podcast We'll follow Mike

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Speaker 1: Tomlin anywhere. Yes, that's true, NFL dot com slash Hansas.

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Speaker 1: All right, before we get out of here, let's open

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Speaker 1: up the mail bag as for people to uh, you know,

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00:59:03,480 --> 00:59:07,840
Speaker 1: get involved, and they did. First up, Kenny Law, would

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00:59:07,840 --> 00:59:10,520
Speaker 1: you consider it around the NFL after Dark podcast where

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00:59:10,520 --> 00:59:12,960
Speaker 1: you all consume copious amounts of alcohol in the throwback

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00:59:13,000 --> 00:59:18,120
Speaker 1: studio and discuss many things, uh, with non bleeped language.

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Speaker 1: That would be the best. I don't think we'd be

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Speaker 1: allowed to do that, Yeah, I don't. I think we'd

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00:59:22,480 --> 00:59:25,360
Speaker 1: be fired if we did that. Idea. And it's a

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00:59:25,440 --> 00:59:27,960
Speaker 1: terrible idea. It's a it's a it's a danger and

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00:59:28,040 --> 00:59:32,160
Speaker 1: some love. Sometimes the rule rules you're stuck in, like

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00:59:32,200 --> 00:59:36,280
Speaker 1: the box you're forced to play in, creates, uh, creates

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00:59:36,320 --> 00:59:38,960
Speaker 1: some tension. That's good. It's like when Howard Sterton and

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00:59:38,960 --> 00:59:41,160
Speaker 1: people like, wow, it's really gonna be crazy. When Howard

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00:59:41,240 --> 00:59:44,600
Speaker 1: Sterton goes to you terrestrial off Terrest, Well it was

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00:59:44,600 --> 00:59:46,960
Speaker 1: it really like then people are just like, no part

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00:59:47,000 --> 00:59:50,040
Speaker 1: of the fund was him battling the bosses. That's a

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Speaker 1: good call. Tom Marshall says, what's more likely a Tom

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Speaker 1: Brady led team beats the Patriots in the playoffs or

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00:59:58,160 --> 01:00:03,760
Speaker 1: Kirk Cousins wins Envy Tom Brady beats the Patriots in

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Speaker 1: the playoffs, I would think the odds would favor kirk Cousins.

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Speaker 1: I just feel like the odds would be higher that

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Speaker 1: he would win MVP. A lot of a couple of

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Speaker 1: different things would have to fall into place for Brady.

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01:00:15,920 --> 01:00:19,040
Speaker 1: I'm with Mark, I don't. I just I'm standing on

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Speaker 1: the ground that uh kirk Cousins will never and can

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Speaker 1: never win the m v P. So so the Brady

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Speaker 1: uh kirk Cousins can. Absolutely We've seen this. He could

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Speaker 1: throw thirty seven to forty two touchdowns in the season

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Speaker 1: and throw for five thousand yards and the Vikings to

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Speaker 1: go twelve and four, and that kind of type of

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Speaker 1: thing could get you an MVP. He's done it before. Statistically,

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Speaker 1: I I think he's a good quarterback. He's a top

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Speaker 1: ten to twelve quarterback. But I don't see a world

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Speaker 1: where that possible. How much more likely was it that

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Speaker 1: Matt Ryan could have that outlier season than than Kirk

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01:00:52,680 --> 01:00:56,200
Speaker 1: Cousins more because his his highs are high higher. I

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01:00:56,560 --> 01:00:59,200
Speaker 1: think um and he had he had he had some seasons,

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01:00:59,200 --> 01:01:02,240
Speaker 1: but that's it depends on how you vote with stats.

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01:01:02,240 --> 01:01:04,400
Speaker 1: I agree with Dan. I could definitely see a forty

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01:01:04,400 --> 01:01:07,320
Speaker 1: two touchdown, five thousand yard Kirk Cousin season that he

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01:01:07,320 --> 01:01:09,640
Speaker 1: hasn't been too far off that already. Well, they've both

1145
01:01:09,640 --> 01:01:12,959
Speaker 1: been with Kyle Shanahan and Matt Ryan's version of Kyle

1146
01:01:13,040 --> 01:01:16,400
Speaker 1: Shanahan was much better and on the others don't see

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01:01:16,480 --> 01:01:17,840
Speaker 1: him as an m v P I think, But the

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Speaker 1: other side of his Tom Brady would have to sign

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01:01:20,400 --> 01:01:22,680
Speaker 1: with a team, most likely in the a f C,

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Speaker 1: and also that team would then have to make the playoffs.

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01:01:26,040 --> 01:01:29,120
Speaker 1: The Patriots without Tom Brady would have to regroup get

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01:01:29,160 --> 01:01:31,480
Speaker 1: into the playoffs. Then they would have to meet each

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01:01:31,520 --> 01:01:33,520
Speaker 1: other in those playoffs, and then Tom Brady would have

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01:01:33,560 --> 01:01:34,960
Speaker 1: to win a lot of things that happen. For that song,

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Speaker 1: I'm I'm giving I'm giving fifty to one for that,

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Speaker 1: maybe seventy and uh one for Kirk. You're the expert, alright, settled.

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Speaker 1: Charlie Harwood asks if Mark Sessler could redesign one uniform.

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Speaker 1: Who would he choose Bucks or Browns? Well, I mean

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Speaker 1: I know the Browns are being redesigned to the Bucks

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Speaker 1: as well, and um, I think the more critic goal

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Speaker 1: for me, it would be Browns because because I need

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Speaker 1: that uniform to be changed. But uh, the Bucks. The

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Speaker 1: fact that I just learned, think we just learned last

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Speaker 1: week that they're changing it. Good for them. They you

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01:02:11,920 --> 01:02:14,640
Speaker 1: talk about time to self scout yourself like that uniform

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Speaker 1: has been impossible to observe. And their fans, their fans were,

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Speaker 1: uh a uniform in the green that they did not

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Speaker 1: like them. There it's a close horse race, but I'd

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Speaker 1: go Browns by by a nose. You would take the

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Speaker 1: Bucks on in pro bono, just do it for free.

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Speaker 1: I want to just throw one thing out there with

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Speaker 1: the Bucks. They're kind of in the the new current

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Speaker 1: uniforms a mess, but they are similar, not at the

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Speaker 1: same level as the Patriots. And the Patriots have a

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Speaker 1: terrible uniform that they can't change because it's all their

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Speaker 1: glory is packed into this. Um who is the guy

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Speaker 1: what's the head Elvis, flying Elvis or whatever it's called.

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Speaker 1: But you can't bring back pat Patriot cause there's no

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Speaker 1: rings for pat Patriot. The Bucks had all their glory

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Speaker 1: and the Tony Dungee years with that redesign. Uh. But

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Speaker 1: it's been redesigned since though. But yeah, I'm saying, like,

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Speaker 1: maybe you go back to that. The one thing I

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Speaker 1: don't want them to do is get carried away and

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01:03:07,520 --> 01:03:09,880
Speaker 1: be like go back to Creamsicle, which is just not

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Speaker 1: I mean, come on, maybe for a throwback week, but

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01:03:12,280 --> 01:03:14,720
Speaker 1: to make that your color scheme, be careful about turning back.

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Speaker 1: I think these teams should have twelve to fifteen uniforms

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Speaker 1: and like the Bucks can decide what they're feeling that

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Speaker 1: year or that month. I love that. I like that.

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Speaker 1: I agree with that. Okay, sure, why not? I don't care. Uh.

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Speaker 1: John Perry asked, given the choice with what Mark again,

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Speaker 1: Mark knows to this point, would he do a straight

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Speaker 1: swap of Baker Mayfield for Jimmy g right now? No,

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Speaker 1: I would not. What about you boys, I wouldn't either.

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Speaker 1: I agree with that. I think Baker's ceiling is higher. Um,

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Speaker 1: I'm a little disturbed by some of the things I'm

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Speaker 1: hearing about him and his maturity level. But people mature

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Speaker 1: at different rates, and if it clicks for him, I

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Speaker 1: think he can be great. One little thing on that

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Speaker 1: I think the last interesting question though it is close,

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01:03:59,120 --> 01:04:02,520
Speaker 1: but Jimmy was probably in one of the best mixes

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Speaker 1: of coaches and environments and you know, team togetherness and

1203
01:04:06,200 --> 01:04:08,720
Speaker 1: game planning, and the Browns were the more things you

1204
01:04:08,760 --> 01:04:12,040
Speaker 1: hear from players describing what was happening on a weekly basis.

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01:04:12,040 --> 01:04:14,720
Speaker 1: That Baker Mayfield was in a disastrous environment. We are

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Speaker 1: Mark and I remember Mark and I doing shots at

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01:04:17,480 --> 01:04:20,920
Speaker 1: Cozy after Sam Donald and Baker Mayfield went one and

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Speaker 1: three in the draft, uh three years ago in April,

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Speaker 1: and the one thing that you always fear and was

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Speaker 1: thrown out there. These guys are great talents, but you

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Speaker 1: have to surround them with a good organization making good decisions,

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Speaker 1: and we are not getting that with either guy so far.

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Speaker 1: And it really is disturbing to think that after years

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Speaker 1: of the quarterback abyss, that you would actually potentially find

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Speaker 1: a guy that has the ability and then you're such

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01:04:47,600 --> 01:04:50,520
Speaker 1: a mess everywhere else in the organization that you botch it,

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Speaker 1: and then one of those guys go somewhere else and

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01:04:52,360 --> 01:04:54,760
Speaker 1: thrives later in his career. It's all stuff that's in

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Speaker 1: the ether. And I don't even like to think about it,

1220
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Speaker 1: but I agree like Baker Mayfield if he was with

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Speaker 1: the Niners last year, and he does have grown up

1222
01:05:01,320 --> 01:05:04,160
Speaker 1: to do and apparently he's working trying to improve his

1223
01:05:04,200 --> 01:05:06,160
Speaker 1: footwork because a lot of things went wrong with him

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Speaker 1: on the field last year. I bet nobody's worried about

1225
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Speaker 1: Baker Mayfield. I think he would have been fine, but

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Speaker 1: he's stuck on a dysfunctional team. Uh. Lastly, which team

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Speaker 1: is poised to steal the off season's champions crown from

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Speaker 1: the twenty nineteen Browns. Who is the team that is

1229
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Speaker 1: going to win the off season? I'll go first here.

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Speaker 1: I like the Cults. I like the Cults as a

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Speaker 1: team that is um going to go get one of

1232
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Speaker 1: these high profile veteran quarterbacks, which will get people super excited.

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Speaker 1: And I believe I'll have to double check this over

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01:05:42,840 --> 01:05:44,960
Speaker 1: the cap. Greg has it up because that's why Strieger

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Speaker 1: loves him. I believe they're near the top of the

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Speaker 1: league in cap space. Yes, they are right behind the Dolphins.

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Speaker 1: So they're gonna then supplement that Phil Rivers acquisition with uh,

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Speaker 1: maybe a big wide receiver. Maybe they give the world

1239
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Speaker 1: to Mark Cooper, I don't know something like that. Go

1240
01:06:00,760 --> 01:06:05,160
Speaker 1: get a tight end, uh, and here we go, We're flying.

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01:06:05,200 --> 01:06:06,880
Speaker 1: I think the Cults are the team that people are

1242
01:06:06,880 --> 01:06:08,960
Speaker 1: going to talk about as the favorite in their division

1243
01:06:09,000 --> 01:06:12,240
Speaker 1: after this. They always I thought they might be last

1244
01:06:12,320 --> 01:06:14,760
Speaker 1: year two and then they didn't really spend the money.

1245
01:06:14,800 --> 01:06:17,800
Speaker 1: They love rolling that money over like people love saving

1246
01:06:17,840 --> 01:06:20,560
Speaker 1: all that cap space, rolling it over. Like seven eight

1247
01:06:20,640 --> 01:06:23,320
Speaker 1: years ago, everyone was all worried about cap space. No

1248
01:06:23,360 --> 01:06:25,760
Speaker 1: one's got caprium, and now all these teams, like the

1249
01:06:25,760 --> 01:06:30,080
Speaker 1: Colts over corrected. What's the point of rolling over forty

1250
01:06:30,240 --> 01:06:32,800
Speaker 1: million dollars every year? You're not using all the possible

1251
01:06:32,800 --> 01:06:35,160
Speaker 1: resources that you could. There's a bunch of teams like this.

1252
01:06:35,440 --> 01:06:38,040
Speaker 1: They have too much money and they can't spend it

1253
01:06:38,040 --> 01:06:40,120
Speaker 1: because there's not they can't find enough good players to

1254
01:06:40,160 --> 01:06:43,240
Speaker 1: spend it on. Right. I think you're not being very

1255
01:06:43,240 --> 01:06:45,600
Speaker 1: generous to the Cults as far as their plan. And

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01:06:45,800 --> 01:06:47,840
Speaker 1: I think they were willing to spend the money. They

1257
01:06:47,920 --> 01:06:50,280
Speaker 1: just after that first wave of free agency, they said

1258
01:06:50,320 --> 01:06:53,120
Speaker 1: who's worth it? Right? I just mean the plan where

1259
01:06:53,200 --> 01:06:56,160
Speaker 1: the teams were trying to build up these gigantic war

1260
01:06:56,280 --> 01:06:59,439
Speaker 1: chests ended up I think being an over correction because

1261
01:06:59,440 --> 01:07:01,760
Speaker 1: there's a bunch of teams that have it, and what

1262
01:07:01,800 --> 01:07:03,280
Speaker 1: are you gonna do with that? All that said, I'm

1263
01:07:03,320 --> 01:07:06,080
Speaker 1: gonna pick a team I'm just in who's also near

1264
01:07:06,160 --> 01:07:07,520
Speaker 1: the top, which is the Bills. I just think the

1265
01:07:07,560 --> 01:07:10,760
Speaker 1: Bills are going to get super aggressive and realized this

1266
01:07:10,840 --> 01:07:12,560
Speaker 1: is a nice window for them, and they did a

1267
01:07:12,560 --> 01:07:14,720
Speaker 1: really good job adding free agents last year that didn't

1268
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Speaker 1: have big names Mitch Morrison, John Brown, and Cole Beasley.

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Speaker 1: But this time around, I could see some of the

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Speaker 1: defensive players, maybe a clowney who knows. Can you get

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Speaker 1: the spending big time pop They got Mario Williams once

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Speaker 1: upon a time when he was the number one free

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Speaker 1: agent on the market. Can you get the top top

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Speaker 1: guys to go to Western New York? Um? I guess money.

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Speaker 1: That's been an issue that's been an issue with multiple

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Speaker 1: I would say this because the Brown thing happened. It

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Speaker 1: never would have happened at all without Odell Peckham. It

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01:07:39,760 --> 01:07:41,920
Speaker 1: was that, and then everyone just kind of looked beyond

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Speaker 1: everything else and some of the issues on the team

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Speaker 1: and said super Bowl. They just became a really compelling story.

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01:07:47,760 --> 01:07:50,600
Speaker 1: Now what if the Packers and this is not some

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01:07:50,720 --> 01:07:53,320
Speaker 1: dark horse team. But we're Aaron Rodgers that everyone already

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01:07:53,440 --> 01:07:55,280
Speaker 1: obsessed with Aaron Rodgers. And if they went out and

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01:07:55,320 --> 01:08:00,000
Speaker 1: signed to like game changing skill position players on offense,

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Speaker 1: I think everyone just says, you've done it, You've completed

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01:08:01,960 --> 01:08:05,720
Speaker 1: the chore. You your your issues from last year are solved.

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Speaker 1: Super Bowl Well, I like all of those choices. There's

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01:08:09,360 --> 01:08:12,000
Speaker 1: a team out there with more cap money and more

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Speaker 1: draft picks, the Miami Dolphins, a coach now who everyone respects,

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Speaker 1: and you get to live in Miami and you're gonna

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Speaker 1: get a hot shot quarterback most likely. Tax is no income.

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Speaker 1: Texas beautiful, pretty Texas is great. It's a haven for

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Speaker 1: o J. Simpson. I mean, what what is not to like?

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Speaker 1: That's where o J is at. Ye. The pride of

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01:08:34,280 --> 01:08:37,679
Speaker 1: the Bills is hiding out in Florida. The Nicole Brown

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01:08:38,200 --> 01:08:41,640
Speaker 1: family and Ronald Goldman's family can never collect. Why am

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01:08:41,640 --> 01:08:45,400
Speaker 1: I still mad about I think it's you are passionate

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01:08:45,400 --> 01:08:49,599
Speaker 1: about it. That's fair. Drive by near you know where

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01:08:49,640 --> 01:08:51,120
Speaker 1: o J least to live it you think about him

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Speaker 1: all the time. I think about him all the time.

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Speaker 1: I think that house has been raised, hasn't it the

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Speaker 1: o J House. Privately, Gregor said to me, well, the

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Speaker 1: d n A, I don't know, can you try? I do?

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01:09:03,439 --> 01:09:06,920
Speaker 1: It was it was people didn't understand d NA yet.

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01:09:06,920 --> 01:09:09,439
Speaker 1: And Greg's like, well, you know what about the gloves?

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01:09:09,840 --> 01:09:11,600
Speaker 1: They didn't fit? And I said, come on, man, you

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01:09:11,640 --> 01:09:15,680
Speaker 1: know that's quit, you know, big cochrane head. I mean no,

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01:09:15,840 --> 01:09:17,600
Speaker 1: You're always on this, the two of you. You know,

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01:09:17,720 --> 01:09:20,880
Speaker 1: he was a great He's a great um teacher of

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01:09:21,080 --> 01:09:23,320
Speaker 1: a truth that lives on today. If you have enough money,

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01:09:23,479 --> 01:09:26,679
Speaker 1: they have a law. The law is pretty negotiable. Don't

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01:09:26,680 --> 01:09:28,880
Speaker 1: worry about it. You can break all the laws you want.

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Speaker 1: Thank you everybody sent in mail bad questions before we

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Speaker 1: go and before we head off to Indianapolis. Speaking of

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01:09:35,479 --> 01:09:39,000
Speaker 1: the cults for the two thousand twenty NFL Scouting Combine,

1316
01:09:39,680 --> 01:09:42,040
Speaker 1: how about here a couple more of these entries for

1317
01:09:42,080 --> 01:09:46,160
Speaker 1: the Connie Fox Sweepsteaks just for fun. Erica has been

1318
01:09:46,200 --> 01:09:49,599
Speaker 1: combing through our Gmail. Uh, and now she's gonna play

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01:09:50,000 --> 01:09:52,320
Speaker 1: another one for us. Let's hear it. Here we go.

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Speaker 1: It's Connie Fox, Ya, it's y'all, one of them rolls

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01:10:01,439 --> 01:10:06,120
Speaker 1: with the knocks, y'all. She got that Colly go Marry tick,

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01:10:06,600 --> 01:10:10,320
Speaker 1: so she reppit Viny and Miami traveling. All the glow

1323
01:10:10,800 --> 01:10:20,320
Speaker 1: is Colin Woolf. The history is very, very rich. Like

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01:10:20,400 --> 01:10:24,880
Speaker 1: it a lot first Gonza ref you're also playing to Greg.

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01:10:25,520 --> 01:10:28,600
Speaker 1: As soon as he hears that hip hop pete, his

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01:10:28,640 --> 01:10:31,640
Speaker 1: head starts noting, So that's good. It's a bit of

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Speaker 1: a gatekeeper on this, like he has. He sort of

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01:10:33,439 --> 01:10:37,240
Speaker 1: had one of the artists from last time executed. I mean,

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Speaker 1: you were so against that person. Well, he took shots

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01:10:40,240 --> 01:10:42,080
Speaker 1: at Colleen Wolf and he was the worst rapper I've

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01:10:42,120 --> 01:10:44,120
Speaker 1: ever heard, So why do you why would we want

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01:10:44,120 --> 01:10:46,559
Speaker 1: to listen to that? Over years and years? This was

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01:10:46,600 --> 01:10:48,599
Speaker 1: It was fun. I think we've got some really strong

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01:10:48,720 --> 01:10:52,080
Speaker 1: entries already in the clubhouse. I'm depressed with the talent. Yeah,

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01:10:52,280 --> 01:10:55,679
Speaker 1: it's amazing. Uh, I mean we are nothing without our listeners.

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01:10:55,720 --> 01:10:58,160
Speaker 1: And this is also just a reminder that in addition

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01:10:58,200 --> 01:11:01,920
Speaker 1: to be a great at push play, they are also

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01:11:02,400 --> 01:11:05,920
Speaker 1: multitalented individuals in their own right, many of them, many

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01:11:05,960 --> 01:11:08,600
Speaker 1: of them are, I wouldn't say all, but many. I

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Speaker 1: got one more for you, guys. This one is a

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01:11:10,320 --> 01:11:13,040
Speaker 1: little bit of a twist on sort of what we

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01:11:13,080 --> 01:11:16,320
Speaker 1: asked for but I'm digging it is it's under thirty seconds.

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01:11:16,360 --> 01:11:20,840
Speaker 1: Of course. Okay, here we go, I'll care about. I'm

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01:11:20,920 --> 01:11:30,360
Speaker 1: Lukisha Westling and this is the beautiful, intelligent, funny thing.

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Speaker 1: Everybody a hard time booking boxes, very rich here. Hey,

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01:11:40,600 --> 01:11:48,640
Speaker 1: it's so great to be back Miami on there in

1347
01:11:48,760 --> 01:11:52,439
Speaker 1: spirit every week. Oh, I love it. That is like

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01:11:52,520 --> 01:11:59,080
Speaker 1: off the Prince Batman soundtrack, were we don't start picking

1349
01:11:59,160 --> 01:12:01,280
Speaker 1: ever listening to any of the others ever? Again? Is

1350
01:12:01,320 --> 01:12:03,679
Speaker 1: that how this is working? There's too many good ones,

1351
01:12:03,800 --> 01:12:05,960
Speaker 1: but we have to make a choice. I imagine that

1352
01:12:06,040 --> 01:12:08,200
Speaker 1: some of these, even if they don't win, will be

1353
01:12:08,200 --> 01:12:10,000
Speaker 1: a part of our program going forward. But there can

1354
01:12:10,040 --> 01:12:13,280
Speaker 1: only be one winner, with a prize to be determined,

1355
01:12:14,120 --> 01:12:16,519
Speaker 1: but certainly not knocked in legally. That prize is going

1356
01:12:16,600 --> 01:12:19,559
Speaker 1: to be that'll be attractive. It won't be the two

1357
01:12:19,600 --> 01:12:22,240
Speaker 1: thousand and eleven Tennessee Titans Media Guide, which you've sent

1358
01:12:22,280 --> 01:12:25,439
Speaker 1: to someone as a gift before, about the what about

1359
01:12:25,439 --> 01:12:29,200
Speaker 1: the Sean Payton Sean Payton book, signed by Sean Payton

1360
01:12:29,960 --> 01:12:34,040
Speaker 1: and dedicated to another famous talent. I don't think we

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01:12:34,080 --> 01:12:35,719
Speaker 1: can work. I don't think we can give that away.

1362
01:12:35,760 --> 01:12:39,320
Speaker 1: It's somehow could come back to haunts. Um, all right,

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01:12:41,720 --> 01:12:43,559
Speaker 1: I like that last one. I don't know if it's

1364
01:12:43,640 --> 01:12:47,799
Speaker 1: a winner, but it's I really enjoyed it. Effort. Wessie

1365
01:12:47,840 --> 01:12:50,120
Speaker 1: should go back and and just skip and listen to

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01:12:50,400 --> 01:12:53,000
Speaker 1: the colleen section because that some of the some of

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01:12:53,000 --> 01:12:57,400
Speaker 1: the entries that we've appreciation you didn't listen to. You

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01:12:57,439 --> 01:12:59,799
Speaker 1: assume that when I was in Kauai, I was not listening.

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01:13:00,040 --> 01:13:03,559
Speaker 1: Gonna hope not, would hope not. Um, Yes, we are

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01:13:03,760 --> 01:13:08,080
Speaker 1: leaving for Indianapolis early next week. Uh, it's on Mark's

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01:13:08,160 --> 01:13:10,200
Speaker 1: radar that I'm staying at a different hotel than him.

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01:13:10,840 --> 01:13:13,200
Speaker 1: I know, I just don't understand. Could you use a

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01:13:13,320 --> 01:13:15,519
Speaker 1: little nervous that it's a better hotel? No, I'm not,

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01:13:15,560 --> 01:13:17,680
Speaker 1: because I've been to both hotels and I actually am

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01:13:17,720 --> 01:13:20,920
Speaker 1: happy or staying. We're worth staying. But you wrote, oh,

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01:13:21,120 --> 01:13:24,400
Speaker 1: look like an end of an era because we're staying

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01:13:24,439 --> 01:13:26,640
Speaker 1: at this other hotel. But then the winds up just

1378
01:13:26,800 --> 01:13:29,200
Speaker 1: you are or some of you are. I'm just saying

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01:13:29,280 --> 01:13:31,400
Speaker 1: it seemed in the and yes it could get lost

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01:13:31,439 --> 01:13:33,840
Speaker 1: in translation on text, but uh, you seem to be

1381
01:13:33,840 --> 01:13:36,160
Speaker 1: a little upset when I first and you meant well

1382
01:13:36,200 --> 01:13:38,080
Speaker 1: you mentioned that it went well, I'm not gonna we

1383
01:13:38,120 --> 01:13:40,240
Speaker 1: don't need to good. I have a little insider info

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01:13:40,360 --> 01:13:44,160
Speaker 1: on that. Um Dan, you're sort of psyched about where

1385
01:13:44,439 --> 01:13:46,960
Speaker 1: you know, I'm at that same hotel with you. I'm

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01:13:47,000 --> 01:13:49,360
Speaker 1: psyched that if that means we're together in the same hotel,

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01:13:49,400 --> 01:13:51,360
Speaker 1: I don't. I don't really have any information about this

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01:13:51,439 --> 01:13:53,360
Speaker 1: other hotel, okay, because the way that you phrase it

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01:13:53,479 --> 01:13:55,640
Speaker 1: was sort of like yeah, like moving up. Well, I

1390
01:13:55,800 --> 01:13:57,680
Speaker 1: heard that the one Mark is in is considered the

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01:13:57,880 --> 01:14:01,120
Speaker 1: higher one, the better one. That that feels right to me,

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01:14:01,280 --> 01:14:04,759
Speaker 1: and that's fine. I've stayed in the Weston, We've stayed

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01:14:04,760 --> 01:14:07,439
Speaker 1: at there for seven years, many many years, and I

1394
01:14:07,560 --> 01:14:10,160
Speaker 1: texted actually privately with Greg yesterday that I was gonna

1395
01:14:10,400 --> 01:14:12,200
Speaker 1: I was gonna look to maybe get into the Western

1396
01:14:12,240 --> 01:14:16,120
Speaker 1: as well. But the Combine is such a groundhog day

1397
01:14:16,160 --> 01:14:19,120
Speaker 1: event for us where we do the same thing every year,

1398
01:14:19,479 --> 01:14:22,680
Speaker 1: probably in a different hotels. Let's get point like you

1399
01:14:22,800 --> 01:14:25,600
Speaker 1: acting when in in communicating with Erica, like it was

1400
01:14:25,720 --> 01:14:28,320
Speaker 1: just like positive sea change. You said, end of an era.

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01:14:28,680 --> 01:14:31,800
Speaker 1: We're staying at the name of the hotel, and not

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01:14:31,960 --> 01:14:34,320
Speaker 1: all of us were. So I didn't take that I thought,

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01:14:34,400 --> 01:14:38,439
Speaker 1: I assume that we were all staying at this other hotel. Hey,

1404
01:14:38,600 --> 01:14:40,519
Speaker 1: step it up. You know when I was with NBC,

1405
01:14:40,640 --> 01:14:42,600
Speaker 1: they had that j We stayed at the JW. That

1406
01:14:42,760 --> 01:14:45,960
Speaker 1: was a nice one. We've been there before Super Bowl

1407
01:14:46,040 --> 01:14:48,120
Speaker 1: for can't you can't really go wrong? And the way

1408
01:14:48,160 --> 01:14:52,320
Speaker 1: in set they're all connected to the convention center. We are.

1409
01:14:52,400 --> 01:14:57,320
Speaker 1: We still taping, okay, but it's confirmed that I'm in

1410
01:14:57,400 --> 01:15:00,720
Speaker 1: the preferable of the two. But I'll still confirmed that

1411
01:15:00,800 --> 01:15:02,680
Speaker 1: you were annoyed and it was on your radar that

1412
01:15:02,800 --> 01:15:05,639
Speaker 1: you somehow had been left behind because of your wording

1413
01:15:06,080 --> 01:15:08,120
Speaker 1: end of an era, Like we've gotten out of you know,

1414
01:15:08,200 --> 01:15:10,719
Speaker 1: we're not just like chumps anymore. We're staying at this hotel.

1415
01:15:10,760 --> 01:15:13,280
Speaker 1: It's like, actually, I'm not so how was How would

1416
01:15:13,320 --> 01:15:15,599
Speaker 1: I have taken that? What is end of an era?

1417
01:15:15,720 --> 01:15:17,599
Speaker 1: Wasn't like we've been bumped down a notch. You would

1418
01:15:17,600 --> 01:15:19,160
Speaker 1: have been furious if you thought that you had been

1419
01:15:20,000 --> 01:15:22,400
Speaker 1: put into the lesser of two hotels, which you have

1420
01:15:22,560 --> 01:15:25,880
Speaker 1: and that feels good. And the show, Uh so we'll

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01:15:25,920 --> 01:15:31,840
Speaker 1: be an indie. We'll have a show on Tuesday, uh Wednesday, Wow,

1422
01:15:31,920 --> 01:15:34,680
Speaker 1: Tuesday Wednesday. And I believe Friday when we get back

1423
01:15:34,720 --> 01:15:39,679
Speaker 1: to town, and in fact we will do our free

1424
01:15:39,760 --> 01:15:45,639
Speaker 1: agency one oh one. The Chris Westling Greg Rosenthal joint

1425
01:15:46,560 --> 01:15:50,560
Speaker 1: will be unveiled next week. We're like Spike, how contentious

1426
01:15:51,400 --> 01:15:54,639
Speaker 1: it can get. You want to talk about actual bad blood.

1427
01:15:55,320 --> 01:15:58,720
Speaker 1: That's when the scientists have to, you know, fight for

1428
01:15:58,840 --> 01:16:03,120
Speaker 1: their their dream picks, what they believe their lists should be.

1429
01:16:03,560 --> 01:16:05,840
Speaker 1: And sometimes it's not pretty. Is there any guys that

1430
01:16:05,880 --> 01:16:08,519
Speaker 1: have really caused an issue for you? Now? We haven't

1431
01:16:08,560 --> 01:16:11,200
Speaker 1: got uh, we don't. We don't know yet. Um Ali

1432
01:16:11,360 --> 01:16:14,040
Speaker 1: bon Purry has not given us back the master spreadsheet

1433
01:16:14,080 --> 01:16:16,320
Speaker 1: that combines our list. But I will say that I

1434
01:16:16,520 --> 01:16:20,960
Speaker 1: I thought I had more lucidity during this year's iteration

1435
01:16:21,040 --> 01:16:24,439
Speaker 1: of this exercise in any other year. Interesting. Good to

1436
01:16:24,520 --> 01:16:28,800
Speaker 1: hear that. All right, let's go, Thanks everybody for listening.

1437
01:16:29,800 --> 01:16:33,960
Speaker 1: We really really happened happening. Stan Hands is signing off

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01:16:34,200 --> 01:16:37,440
Speaker 1: for Quiet, starring The mail Man, The Old Boss, Rank Hollywood,

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01:16:38,080 --> 01:16:41,400
Speaker 1: Behind the Glass, Still Indy