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Speaker 1: Welcome back to another edition of the Around the NFL Podcast.
Speaker 1: My name is Dan Hansas and I am joined by
Speaker 1: Room Failed with heroes Mark Sessler, Chris Wells Westling and
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Speaker 1: last few days. We'll have a little fun a little
Speaker 1: fun exercise here. Uh. This coming out of a Twitter
Speaker 1: back and forth between at Chris Westling uh and one
Speaker 1: of his many followers about what and how an NFL
Speaker 1: quarterback correlates or what rock band or artist best describes
Speaker 1: an NFL quarterback? How about that? So we'll throw some
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Speaker 1: very exciting. Before we do that, we look behind the glass.
Speaker 1: She is a wonderful, wonderful woman and a great talent.
Speaker 1: Behind that glass, she is new money. What's up? Not much?
Speaker 1: Thanks for that, introd. Yeah, any Disney trips this weekend? Uh? No, no,
Speaker 1: Disney trips this weekend of Shartny. Something seems to be yup,
Speaker 1: You're not the same way you used to be. You know,
Speaker 1: I'll be sorry. Got a nuts very farm or something. No,
Speaker 1: I don't know if I've planned that far ahead of
Speaker 1: my life, to be honest with you, it's Monday. I'm
Speaker 1: still getting over this last weekend. Come on, open the door, said,
Speaker 1: we need to talk. Open the door. It's really upsetting.
Speaker 1: It is. It is very concerning. He's a little controlling.
Speaker 1: That's all I'm saying. Do you ever see fear Mark Wahlberg, Yes,
Speaker 1: great gives himself the tattoo with the ink withesa Withersmith's
Speaker 1: character's name. I'm not saying Mickey Mouse is going to
Speaker 1: carve in uh you know, your Sydney or no money
Speaker 1: into his chest. I'm just saying he seems to be
Speaker 1: not taking this well, that's all. Well once you I mean,
Speaker 1: you never marked shirt right now? Mark? You has a
Speaker 1: gang member? Is the best way I described this. I
Speaker 1: just wanted to switch things up and wearing a white
Speaker 1: button town it's always like, oh you gotta keep the
Speaker 1: top two buttons open, roll up your sleeves, like I
Speaker 1: just simply have the top button button and the rest
Speaker 1: sort of flowing free. Feels good, it looks good. Gonna
Speaker 1: go on NFL network looking like this. What the you
Speaker 1: know what the ramifications would be? Please do it? Please
Speaker 1: do it? I know you know you gotta back it
Speaker 1: up there, You're I'll talk, you know, are you gonna go?
Speaker 1: Are you really gonna go? Out of it? Would buy?
Speaker 1: We're all linked together. If I if I sink the
Speaker 1: segment for the four well we won't take any effect.
Speaker 1: You need some ramifications in your life. Yeah, I don't
Speaker 1: have enough responsibilities. Do it. Mark, Let's do some news
Speaker 1: and Trump's America men work in two places, cold mines
Speaker 1: and Goldman sex. Don't I know it. We'll start with
Speaker 1: some of the least surprising news uh in the history
Speaker 1: of the NFL. Ben Roethlisberger. Ben Roethlisberger will not rich higher.
Speaker 1: The Pittsburgh Steelers quarterback announced via Twitter that he informed
Speaker 1: the team he's looking forward to playing his fourteenth NFL season.
Speaker 1: Uh Ben wrote, Steeler Nation will get my absolute best,
Speaker 1: speaking which three fourths of this podcast did not see
Speaker 1: that tweet because we were one of what seems like
Speaker 1: thousands of sports writers who were blocked by Big Ben's
Speaker 1: Twitter account. Now I know what everyone's thinking, Oh, declare
Speaker 1: vengeance and all that. Now, this is a totally different
Speaker 1: situation than Derek Carr. This seems to be someone operating
Speaker 1: his account that has some type of vendetta against the media.
Speaker 1: It's it doesn't seem as Roethlisberger related. It's not even
Speaker 1: Ben Roethlisberger's account. It's Ben Roethlisberger's websites Twitter account. Why
Speaker 1: are you? Why are they blocking like three thousand maybe
Speaker 1: anyone that like didn't come down on the pro Ben
Speaker 1: Roethlisberger's side when he was accused of multiple multiple sexual assaults.
Speaker 1: I wasn't even in the industry and that stuff. I'm
Speaker 1: sure a lot of people weren't there. It's a good point.
Speaker 1: It's a good point. Greg's saying that because you were,
Speaker 1: you broke some news back in the day, didn't you.
Speaker 1: That's right. I was. I was involved pretty much the
Speaker 1: only thing I've ever broke involved well I'm not even
Speaker 1: necessarily very proud of it, and breaking up the Lake
Speaker 1: Tahoe sexual assault stuff somehow actually came. You were the
Speaker 1: first one to get that out there during your p
Speaker 1: f T days. Uh, so you're saying you would understand
Speaker 1: why you were blocked. Well, a lot of people have
Speaker 1: said a lot of negative things about Ben Roethlisberger, So
Speaker 1: on some level I don't get it, But on another level,
Speaker 1: it makes no sense because who has defended Ben Roethlisberger
Speaker 1: has an underrated great quarterback more that than this room.
Speaker 1: For the most part, I know Mark doesn't really like him,
Speaker 1: but everyone else, Oh, I appreciate him, though. I mean
Speaker 1: I I'm the one that's not blocked, and I think
Speaker 1: it's because he's good enough that he's essentially, as a
Speaker 1: Browns fan, destroyed football for me since two thousand and four.
Speaker 1: And maybe he said, you know, a punishments enough already?
Speaker 1: Is there a part of you that wishes you were
Speaker 1: involved with the block party? I can't seem to get
Speaker 1: invited to any of those there. A car won't block me,
Speaker 1: this guy won't block me. So I'm feeling a little
Speaker 1: left out, and people that are hitting me up about
Speaker 1: the car situation. We're working on it behind the scenes
Speaker 1: to broker a piece between Derek Carr, the Raiders quarterback
Speaker 1: end at least half of the Round the NFL podcast,
Speaker 1: So uh, stay tuned on that. Anyway, but Big Ben
Speaker 1: is coming back. Mike Tomlin released a statement. As an organization,
Speaker 1: we have been hopeful that Ben would return this year.
Speaker 1: I can't even be the rest of the statement. Obviously
Speaker 1: he was always gonna come back, and everybody had to
Speaker 1: go through the whole process, including releasing a statement. Right,
Speaker 1: But now we can get to the just fully looking
Speaker 1: ahead of the Steeler's offense that has the potential potential
Speaker 1: to put up thirty points a game if everything clicks right.
Speaker 1: This is what you've done, Ben Roethlisberger. You've made Mike
Speaker 1: Tomlin released ridiculous statements. A proud man like Tomlin have
Speaker 1: to put together some nonsense, get it together. Maybe this
Speaker 1: is why you've been blocked. Craig I, I am excited
Speaker 1: about this Steeler's offense, but it's worth noting Ben Roethlisberger.
Speaker 1: I think at his worst season in a long time,
Speaker 1: he was still very, very good. I had him as
Speaker 1: my number ten quarterback uh the QB Index at the
Speaker 1: end of the year, so I went back and looked
Speaker 1: like where was he ranked the last five years before that?
Speaker 1: He had never been below six. So he's still great,
Speaker 1: but maybe not didn't have as good a season last year,
Speaker 1: for what it's worth, as he did your years previous,
Speaker 1: and a delta reminder in this era when we expect
Speaker 1: all great quarterbacks to play until forty three. Tony Romo
Speaker 1: just retired at thirty six because he's beat up. Ben
Speaker 1: Roethlisberger is turning just turned thirty five. He's not a
Speaker 1: spring chicken anymore. It's not not like crazy for guys
Speaker 1: to retire in their mid to late thirties, So we
Speaker 1: don't know how much time we have left with this guy.
Speaker 1: It also wouldn't be crazy if he has the best
Speaker 1: season of his career this year. Absolutely. This reminds me
Speaker 1: of three years ago when everybody decided Tom Brady was
Speaker 1: no longer elite just because he had kind of a
Speaker 1: good year instead of a superstar year. And I think
Speaker 1: Ben Roethlisberger really struggled because they ran the offense through
Speaker 1: Levy on Bell from mid season on instead of running
Speaker 1: it through Ben Roethlisberger, So there's an adjustment there. They
Speaker 1: didn't have a number two receiver basically all year because
Speaker 1: Martavis Bryant was out and the tight end was concussed
Speaker 1: for most of the second half of the season. Do
Speaker 1: we wonder at all, because if we say the Denver Broncos,
Speaker 1: they got off to Tony Romo train at some point
Speaker 1: because they weren't convinced he was plugged into the quest
Speaker 1: of winning the Super Bowl. That Big Ben has been
Speaker 1: going back and forth in his mind to guess to
Speaker 1: some degree saying I'm not sure I still want to
Speaker 1: play football. Then you know, his website sends out to
Speaker 1: tweet saying I'm all in. You're gonna get my best effort.
Speaker 1: But do we question how where is football in his
Speaker 1: life at this point? I think that's what he was
Speaker 1: trying to figure out. And Art Rooney said a couple
Speaker 1: of weeks ago that I think it was mostly just
Speaker 1: frustration coming out of the tough loft loss in the
Speaker 1: a f C Championship Game, which is fine, but maybe
Speaker 1: don't you know, don't put us all on this roller
Speaker 1: coaster Ben for three months. Well, it's be a good
Speaker 1: idea for them to draft a quarterback. He was a guy.
Speaker 1: It's worth mentioning that people thought will he age well?
Speaker 1: And we'll see he's aged pretty pretty well, but early
Speaker 1: in his career wasn't known for mastering the game mentally.
Speaker 1: Think he's gotten past that. A little bit, but we'll
Speaker 1: see if the age as well. UH. Let's move on
Speaker 1: and talk about the Philadelphia Eagles, who had a bit
Speaker 1: of a hole on their defensive line after Benny Logan
Speaker 1: UH left in free agency to sign with the Chiefs. UH.
Speaker 1: So they addressed that in a trade last week. They
Speaker 1: acquired defensive defensive tackle Timmy Journegan and the number ninety
Speaker 1: nine overall pick in this month's draft UH in exchange
Speaker 1: for UH with the Baltimore Ravens in exchange for the
Speaker 1: draft seventy four overall pick. The two teams announced on Tuesday,
Speaker 1: so basically west the Ravens moved up to twenty five
Speaker 1: spots got into the third round. UH. Ozzie Newsom has
Speaker 1: four picks UH in the first seventy eight, sixty seven,
Speaker 1: seventy four and seventy eight. Good trade. It seemed like
Speaker 1: a sensible trade from both sides. The Ravens have UH
Speaker 1: three or four defensive linemen they've drafted in the past
Speaker 1: couple of years. They want to see these young players play,
Speaker 1: and they got frustrated with journey in last year. There
Speaker 1: were games where he looked like the best defensive line
Speaker 1: in on the field. And then there were games where
Speaker 1: he disappeared, and I think they just got frustrated with
Speaker 1: his inconsistency. But he's considered a much better fit for
Speaker 1: Jim Schwartz's wide nine scheme in Philadelphia, so he'll plug in. UH,
Speaker 1: I believe I'll be playing some three technique there. Exceptionally
Speaker 1: high ceiling for a player that you just moved down
Speaker 1: twenty five picks in the draft for. I know it's
Speaker 1: only one year of him, but that seems like a
Speaker 1: great deal for the Eagles, especially because you know, days later,
Speaker 1: and I don't know if the Eagles knew about this already.
Speaker 1: Bo Allen, who is their backup nose tackle who played
Speaker 1: a lot for them last year, torres pectoral muscle in
Speaker 1: offseason workouts and might miss you know, much of the season.
Speaker 1: Moving on, the Atlanta Falcons and Desmond Truffont did some business.
Speaker 1: They agreed two terms on a five year extension worth
Speaker 1: sixty eight point seven five million, with forty two million
Speaker 1: and guaranteed money to remain in Atlanta. On Saturday, a
Speaker 1: source informed UH told NFL Network insider Ian Rappaport UH
Speaker 1: the team later can firm that extension. UH. This has
Speaker 1: been something that had been cooking for a while. Trufont
Speaker 1: suffered a pectoral injury that ended his season last year.
Speaker 1: But he's twenty six years old, a very a very
Speaker 1: strong player. And Greg, what does this mean to the
Speaker 1: Atlanta secondary? Well, I think it means Richard Sherman's not coming.
Speaker 1: I don't think he ever was. I think when you
Speaker 1: pay a guy in trew font us better money really
Speaker 1: than Stefan Gilmur and a J. Bouy A got, you're
Speaker 1: not going to bring in another cornerback that's making twelve
Speaker 1: million dollars, especially when you have multiple good young players
Speaker 1: at the position. It's a good young secondary in Atlanta.
Speaker 1: He's been a better player than Stefan Gilmore and I
Speaker 1: I feel ridiculous. I went on NFL Network saying that
Speaker 1: Richard Sherman and the Falcons were the best fit in
Speaker 1: my mind, absolutely utterly ridiculous commentary that somehow snuck onto
Speaker 1: the I think last week on Monday, I said some
Speaker 1: news about Romo indicated he wanted to play football again,
Speaker 1: and he and he retired almost despite me. Ten hours later,
Speaker 1: Well we're on fire. Do you think he took he
Speaker 1: was taking to you a little bit there? I think
Speaker 1: he heard and he said for maximum pain's let's get
Speaker 1: the wheels moving on. His decision now simply based around
Speaker 1: Greg rosen toil because they just signed Robert Alford too
Speaker 1: for a lot of money, and they have Jalen Collins,
Speaker 1: who I think showed some signs of being pretty good.
Speaker 1: Science will play well. I mean, it's a nice little,
Speaker 1: nice little group. You know, we forgot. We forgot as
Speaker 1: part of a well we forgot as part of this
Speaker 1: Eagles thing. We we've we almost got Matt mcgloyde into
Speaker 1: the show. I'm putting them back into the show. Matt
Speaker 1: mcgloyne has a job. I'm not giving up on Matt
Speaker 1: mcgloyd Nation. Well, all right, you want to get into
Speaker 1: it a little bit. I knows about all I got.
Speaker 1: He's the number three quarterback in Philadelphia area camps. He
Speaker 1: makes the team see him back in the league if
Speaker 1: they keep three quarterbacks. They didn't all last year. So
Speaker 1: we'll we'll find out what they decided. Not a podcast
Speaker 1: goes by where Greg isn't crowing over some mediocre quarterback
Speaker 1: or another. Matt mcgloyd also a very block heavy individual.
Speaker 1: I think he's had a negative um effect on Derek Carr.
Speaker 1: In fact, he's also blocked many many people and a
Speaker 1: matt if you're listening, you could block me. I don't care.
Speaker 1: Everyone here is still friendly with him on Twitter any
Speaker 1: I'm not not even gonna check. Don't care. That's basically
Speaker 1: what I'm saying. Maybe he's a nice guy. I don't know.
Speaker 1: Everybody's gotta calm down with the well, you know, not
Speaker 1: a great sign of that. Bill O'Brien didn't go after
Speaker 1: him because I coached him in college. President Company excluded.
Speaker 1: Everybody's gonna calm down with the blocking of people, you know,
Speaker 1: West West. Yeah, that's I don't know how that works,
Speaker 1: you know, just everybody just calmed down blocking people, like
Speaker 1: you know, I'm gonna keep blocking people. Yeah you're fine, Okay,
Speaker 1: you kind of You're one of the masters of it.
Speaker 1: So but some less some people don't have the same
Speaker 1: level of just they don't have the grabby toss when
Speaker 1: it comes to the way West does, and those people
Speaker 1: need to come down. I like, when we won't mention
Speaker 1: names here, when you were blocked by a reporter from
Speaker 1: our own company, what a story that was incredibly awkward,
Speaker 1: a very strange situation that reporter who is currently employed
Speaker 1: by this company and is on television on a near
Speaker 1: daily basis. UM, the unnamed reporter, I sent an email
Speaker 1: basically saying what gives this is when I was writing
Speaker 1: news still and I said, Hey, if I'm going to
Speaker 1: do my job individual, you need to unblock me so
Speaker 1: I could see your reporting earth to reporter X. And
Speaker 1: reporter X swiftly unblocked me but never replied to the email.
Speaker 1: One of the more awkward scenarios because I we tracked
Speaker 1: it all weekend long on you're texting a bunch of
Speaker 1: us and Christmas. I remember that when I a couple
Speaker 1: of years ago, now a few years person ruined your Christmas. Well,
Speaker 1: it's calm down with that. It definitely didn't ruin my Christmas.
Speaker 1: But I have since learned that that reporters has let's
Speaker 1: just say, strained relationships with many people, so I don't
Speaker 1: take it personally. I could apply to many. You'r you,
Speaker 1: you could You've somehow remained vague. That's good. I think
Speaker 1: that's important. Um. Also in the news, I couldn't use
Speaker 1: this headline for dot com because it would have gotten
Speaker 1: red flag, but I'll use it here. Cupid concussed. Aaron
Speaker 1: Rodgers and Olivia Munn are done. The relationship of three
Speaker 1: years is over. Um A I would say controversial relationship,
Speaker 1: one that led to Aaron Rodgers being in the public
Speaker 1: eye on on a different level than he was prior
Speaker 1: when his brother was on the Bachelorette and and Aaron
Speaker 1: and Jordan's issues became public knowledge. A lot of people
Speaker 1: pointed to miss Munn as the as the root of
Speaker 1: all the ms, which led to more awkwardness. I don't
Speaker 1: know whatever happened with that. I'm not tracking this too closely,
Speaker 1: but I will say that she is now out of
Speaker 1: the picture. So if you see Aaron and Jordan hanging
Speaker 1: out again anytime soon, go ahead, connect some dots. I
Speaker 1: mean a relationship involving a Hollywood actress and a star quarterback.
Speaker 1: It was three years. That's longer than I would have
Speaker 1: thought a relationship like that would last. You getting choked up,
Speaker 1: totally lost my voice now, I totally lost my voice. Like, no,
Speaker 1: it's not a moment of emotion. I just bring those
Speaker 1: violins back a little bit. Tell us more about your
Speaker 1: feelings about this, Really, I really have no further feelings
Speaker 1: at all. I mean again, I just think if they
Speaker 1: overshot the over under and how often you'd say how
Speaker 1: long do you think it would last? Three years? Would
Speaker 1: be would be well, well beyond what I think. I mean.
Speaker 1: Are you okay to do the rest of the podcast?
Speaker 1: I don't know. It might be time for me to
Speaker 1: go home, get in my car and do something else.
Speaker 1: By the way, all orders to begin with Chicago Bears
Speaker 1: come back to us, UH social media media handle earlier
Speaker 1: this broke on Friday, UM Chicago Tribune had a fun
Speaker 1: tweet Chicago of course, the Bears arrival of the Packers
Speaker 1: or want to be rival had a tweet actress Olivia
Speaker 1: Munt and boyfriend break up. According to reports, well done.
Speaker 1: Nice way to let a subtle troll of Aaron Rodgers
Speaker 1: that he's just a boyfriend. Uh. Then later Friday, when
Speaker 1: at some twenty two year old UM, social media in
Speaker 1: turn decided to double down on the Bears account and
Speaker 1: UM and tweeted a picture of a disappointed Aaron Rodgers
Speaker 1: with a hash heex something like Friday got us feeling
Speaker 1: like UM. That led to everyone being like, wait, what
Speaker 1: you know? Calm down, Calm down, Bears. These team accounts.
Speaker 1: If you're a football fan that follows beyond your own
Speaker 1: team's Twitter team account are obnoxious and uh, by the way,
Speaker 1: if anyone's curious that Aaron Rodgers is fourteen and four
Speaker 1: in eighteen games against the Bears with thirty eight touchdowns,
Speaker 1: nine interceptions passer rating of one oh six basically has
Speaker 1: dominated them. And then the worst part is, all right,
Speaker 1: you do what you tweeted out. The end Around wrote
Speaker 1: about this hours later their tweet, I mean, is it
Speaker 1: is the It is a cart with the wheels spinning off.
Speaker 1: Just get control of yourselves. Come back to us. Either
Speaker 1: put it up and and deal with it, and and
Speaker 1: and take all the criticism and and any corners that
Speaker 1: are giving you accolades. Don't go halfway. No half measures here.
Speaker 1: The Bears are cute. They run on battery should just
Speaker 1: walk by and pat him on the head when you
Speaker 1: go back. Damn, that was blistering. If they run on batteries,
Speaker 1: nobody's afraid of them. They've got no claws, they got
Speaker 1: their teeth well, and it's it's funny. They got Mike
Speaker 1: Glenn and buddy, That's what I'm saying. When is the
Speaker 1: last time the Bears really scared anyone? And This is
Speaker 1: like one of the classic NFL franchises whose fan base
Speaker 1: are quietly just been eating alive for kids. Their social
Speaker 1: media account pretty much is now the equivalent to their
Speaker 1: football team. Three and thirty of Oh, where's the Bunsen
Speaker 1: burner when you need it? Jeez? The scientists really going
Speaker 1: and taking it to a personal level. And finally in
Speaker 1: the news, UH NFL players uh participated in a made
Speaker 1: for TV arm wrestling tournament. There's a late add to news, Greg.
Speaker 1: I know you like to look over at my laptop
Speaker 1: and uh, this happened inside a Las Vegas casino and
Speaker 1: we're learning now. I think rap she'd had this reported,
Speaker 1: Am I right as well? That's correct? Okay that they
Speaker 1: these players involved will be fined. I got actually some
Speaker 1: raw audio from the casino during this event. Let's listen
Speaker 1: to it now. You got lucky again? Hogs better new right? Now?
Speaker 1: Double or nothing? What do you say? Wait for Vegas?
Speaker 1: Come on, let's do it now. I feel like kicking
Speaker 1: some asks. That's wait until Vegas. Okay, you ain't got
Speaker 1: a prayer in Vegas. That was actually from Over the Top.
Speaker 1: Over the Top one of my favorite bad stallone films.
Speaker 1: Bomb Uh The ESPN report has a has a photo
Speaker 1: from the Las Vegas Review Journal of James Harrison and
Speaker 1: Marshawn Lynch joint each. I want to watch this. Wait,
Speaker 1: this looks like it's awesome. James Harrison against Marshawn Lynch
Speaker 1: and arm wrestling. I don't know, but I gotta watch it.
Speaker 1: It was at the MGM Grand And by the way,
Speaker 1: the NFL, hey, you can't, you know, vote to have
Speaker 1: a team move to Vegas and then get upset when
Speaker 1: there's Vegas events going on involving the NFL. Right, that
Speaker 1: checks out. It's gotta be problematic. There's gonna be problematic
Speaker 1: things that come up. They're gonna have to adjust the rules.
Speaker 1: We talked about this. If we're gonna if they're gonna
Speaker 1: have a Super Bowl there, just they're gonna have to
Speaker 1: change some rules. Here are some of the players as
Speaker 1: I'm scrolling through this article were at the event, again,
Speaker 1: an arm wrestling tournament involving NFL. How is there still
Speaker 1: on wrestling in two thousand seventeen? Have superior forms of entertainment?
Speaker 1: The real news here is how little news this got
Speaker 1: well kind of snuck up on people. It wasn't heavily
Speaker 1: promoted and perhaps by design. Patrick, my laptop again, most
Speaker 1: I am, I'm going over here. Wouldn't you guys be annoyed?
Speaker 1: If if you're a level of things that annoy me
Speaker 1: in general, that would be very heavily on my radar.
Speaker 1: Patrick Chung was also there, Okay, anyway, Harrison Lynch, Kenny
Speaker 1: Stills was there, Navarro Bowman, Marquise Pouncey, Marquette King, of course,
Speaker 1: Mario Edwards, Patrick Chung. As Greg said, the contest is
Speaker 1: scheduled to be broadcast on CBS twenty eight. I'll tell
Speaker 1: you what scheduled to be broadcast is an interesting way
Speaker 1: to put it because the NFL and c Yeah, this
Speaker 1: might have a conversation. How far does Kenny Stills getting
Speaker 1: a tournament? Arm wrestling tournament involves James Harrison. There might
Speaker 1: be weight classes that would be my guy. I don't know.
Speaker 1: And also every arm wrestling movie TV show I've ever seen,
Speaker 1: at least one contestant has his arms snapped in half.
Speaker 1: I would not want my any of my players. I
Speaker 1: wouldn't want to see Moe Welkerson on this list. Uh
Speaker 1: to name one prominent jet there's not many. Um So
Speaker 1: I get if teams are not down with it and
Speaker 1: why fines are being handed out, but the whole Vegas
Speaker 1: football thing, it's again. It's one of the rare instances
Speaker 1: where being a Jetson Browns fan and the team is
Speaker 1: completely unmarketable from a star or talent standpoint, that you
Speaker 1: come out on top with James Harrison versus the field.
Speaker 1: Who are you taking James Harrison? That's what I'm talking about.
Speaker 1: I don't, yeah, who's gonna be James Harrison? Maybe like
Speaker 1: a Calais Campbell type one snapper. No one on that
Speaker 1: list that you that you read, that list had a
Speaker 1: couple of nobody talent. I wouldn't sleep on Navarro Bowman maybe,
Speaker 1: but still, yeah, Harrison has got to be a heavy
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Speaker 1: quick about WrestleMania. WrestleMania three from Marina del Rey. Sure, yeah,
Speaker 1: but a great time. It wasn't quite as wild as
Speaker 1: the previous iteration. I think it needed to be scaled back.
Speaker 1: It definitely needed. The invite list was scaled back with
Speaker 1: Dan's help, because I would never rob him of that.
Speaker 1: If you need to have less people out of add something,
Speaker 1: come to me. I will whittle it down for you.
Speaker 1: That's one of my great skills. We had some cornwall,
Speaker 1: we had some ribs and pulled pork, we had Mark dancing,
Speaker 1: had a great time. Yeah, that's when the you know
Speaker 1: the night is going in a certain direction, when that's
Speaker 1: not unique to WrestleMania. Scaled down? But yeah no, but
Speaker 1: it was scaled down. But I I know that any
Speaker 1: time that I essentially fall asleep, and the uber on
Speaker 1: the way home that you've had a good time, been
Speaker 1: a good night. I mean the street the streets are
Speaker 1: talking those ribs. Wes's ribs. I mean, he can always barbecue,
Speaker 1: but I think he's brought it to another level with
Speaker 1: these ribs. They were some of the most delicious barbecue
Speaker 1: I've ever had in Mountain. Let's let's sleep on the
Speaker 1: pulled pork pulled park was great as well, and as
Speaker 1: I can tell because you got a big time pop
Speaker 1: on Twitter, I sent out a ninety second video of
Speaker 1: of Wes uh massaging is pulled pork so tenderly. Uh,
Speaker 1: you could tell you have the hands of a gentle
Speaker 1: lover the way you worked that meat. I enjoyed taping.
Speaker 1: That can make you. Speaking of general lovers, you you're
Speaker 1: the paramore was there and had some critique about your methods.
Speaker 1: I thought she got quite verbal. Layers of tinfoil surround. Yeah,
Speaker 1: she did second guess my tinfoil operation. As other words,
Speaker 1: West is not a single You're right, I forgot about
Speaker 1: that portion of the day where she wasn't very supportive
Speaker 1: of my barbecue. I'm sure she came around. Yeah, by
Speaker 1: the end. She she she was into the ribs. Definitely,
Speaker 1: she was on the couch. What happened late Saturday night,
Speaker 1: So a tremendous, tremendous event. Uh, let's move on, and
Speaker 1: if anybody has any memories to ship there was a
Speaker 1: very no. I was told not to bring it up.
Speaker 1: I won't, but a crazy thing happened during cornhole. Uh
Speaker 1: in terms of some of the competition. But I will
Speaker 1: say once again, the West and Zeus pairing, I just
Speaker 1: don't think we'll ever be defeated. We're right now at
Speaker 1: the Tyson you know, nine seven Michael Spink's phase where
Speaker 1: we're just destroying everyone. We're starting to think to ourselves,
Speaker 1: is this even a challenge anymore? Yeah? Greg actually called
Speaker 1: out our competitiveness or competitive fire because by willing, we
Speaker 1: were willingly teammates. And Greg believes that I was saying,
Speaker 1: I look, I throw about three games of corn a year,
Speaker 1: maybe maybe two. So I'm joining up with someone else's,
Speaker 1: you know, not a superstar or anything. And yeah, you know,
Speaker 1: maybe be I lost before I even stepped onto the
Speaker 1: wouldn't really it wouldn't really matter. Do you think West
Speaker 1: and I are up at five am together practicing corn now,
Speaker 1: but your kids. I got a job with some of
Speaker 1: the guests list, whittling down, removing people that would have
Speaker 1: been a challenge to the two of you, not at
Speaker 1: all out at all. In fact, they got rid of
Speaker 1: some of the pretenders that get annoyingly in the way
Speaker 1: at times. I would say, if you weren't last year's
Speaker 1: party and you weren't it this year, if you can
Speaker 1: piece that together. As competitive as Greg obviously is the
Speaker 1: fact that he stubbornly refuses to do the spin. I
Speaker 1: mean you have to question his competitive Yeah, I should
Speaker 1: start next time. I I it's like a year between
Speaker 1: every game, so it's you know, you could come. I
Speaker 1: have a cornhole board west as cornhole boards, come over
Speaker 1: any time and practice, because just like he's pepper spray
Speaker 1: in the softball field, he's the old clamper uh of cornhole.
Speaker 1: If you don't throw his spinning, you're throwing those clamp bombs.
Speaker 1: You just got no chance against the real player. And
Speaker 1: that's Westlemania three. Talk on here by no one, no sponsors,
Speaker 1: they're no sponsors coming, all right, let's have a little
Speaker 1: fun again. It's April ten, uh so back off. I
Speaker 1: don't I don't want to hear from you. Uh, We're
Speaker 1: just trying to have some fun here, and what we're
Speaker 1: gonna talk about now is a tweet. Let me find
Speaker 1: the tweet here. It is all right if you could
Speaker 1: send it to me. I also look over at your
Speaker 1: laptop so you can know what my life's like. Where
Speaker 1: West could just read it out loud. Well First, Josh Landski,
Speaker 1: one of our listeners, sent a tweet asking seriously, Romo
Speaker 1: or far question mark, as in who had the better career?
Speaker 1: And I was like, well, this isn't even a conversation.
Speaker 1: It's far By leaps and bounds. And he followed up with, uh,
Speaker 1: can you at least get on board with this comparison
Speaker 1: Tony Romo, the Rolling Stones, Brett Farve, the Beatles. My
Speaker 1: response was no, Brett Farve, Rolling Stones, Tuny Romo Rolling
Speaker 1: Stones tribute band, which Greg thought was a little harsh.
Speaker 1: That was very strong. In fact, I think you're both
Speaker 1: almost equally wrong, you and Josh. I mean, Romo has
Speaker 1: been called a poor man's far of many times. He's
Speaker 1: not in the league of of Brett Farve, but calling
Speaker 1: him a tribute band I think is under serving Tony
Speaker 1: Romo's great, and so we started throwing out Okay, well
Speaker 1: then who Tony Romo would be? Hence a segment is born.
Speaker 1: And by the way, I will say this, I do
Speaker 1: like Brett Farves the Rolling Stones, because if you if
Speaker 1: you're set up on faulty logic, then the whole exercise
Speaker 1: is a mess. I do think that is good. I
Speaker 1: agree that a gifted. They're both gifted, prolific. They've had
Speaker 1: ups and down, a bit dangerous, little little rebellion, little
Speaker 1: rebellion in there. I like it. So that's a good one. Well,
Speaker 1: I've got who I think should be. Now I've I've
Speaker 1: thought about this. Let's here. He's R E M. He's
Speaker 1: He's an indie band with modest beginnings that no one
Speaker 1: saw coming, came out of the gate with just talent,
Speaker 1: ablazing a beautiful decade to the point where the expectations
Speaker 1: are raised so high that when their their career kind
Speaker 1: of falls off a cliff and and goes nowhere, suddenly
Speaker 1: they're mocked a little bit. But it's unfair expectations. Think
Speaker 1: of think of what they did, is just this little
Speaker 1: band for Athens. I like that. I have a different one. Okay,
Speaker 1: the band, the band. They were never named anything other
Speaker 1: than the band because they started out as Bob Dylan's
Speaker 1: backup band. They were just his backup guys. Never got
Speaker 1: a real name. They were the band. Tony Romo undrafted,
Speaker 1: starts out as Drew Bledsoe's back up and then probably underappreciated,
Speaker 1: just like the band over the length of their careers
Speaker 1: because they started out with such humble beginnings like that.
Speaker 1: So you're saying kind of a good band, but not
Speaker 1: in all times. I think the band is phenomenal. I
Speaker 1: think there was I think the r M one's really good.
Speaker 1: The only issue I have with it is that there
Speaker 1: was a time in the early nine is when r
Speaker 1: M was arguably the biggest band in the world in
Speaker 1: terms of in terms of fame and in terms of headlines.
Speaker 1: He wasn't necessarily the best ever, but he was maybe
Speaker 1: the biggest. I like, w what do you got Mark
Speaker 1: for a Romo? Do you have anything? Uh? I honestly
Speaker 1: was convinced until about four minutes ago that this segment
Speaker 1: was a joke. Missed this part of the meeting because
Speaker 1: he had to go to Mabe. Let me come back
Speaker 1: to let me throw this one out. I the one.
Speaker 1: I thought about it because I did like the general
Speaker 1: like discussion that the Rolling Stones and then the Rolling
Speaker 1: Stones tribute band, what is kind of like a real
Speaker 1: Rolling Stones tribute band Arrowsmith, who were always stones Light.
Speaker 1: They had some really high highs, some embarrassing lows, which
Speaker 1: Roma certainly had. But the biggest disconnect there was Tony
Speaker 1: knew went to quit. Arrowsmith never did. So then I
Speaker 1: thought about another band, White Stripes. Also some good looking
Speaker 1: blonds in the mix. In terms of the Aerosmith video
Speaker 1: most life, I'll throw a more modern rock or recent
Speaker 1: modern rock band White Stripes. Uh, the genre defining polarizing
Speaker 1: to some better than people realized, and they knew when
Speaker 1: to get out before it got depressing, Like Tony, So,
Speaker 1: I like the But I like your R M one
Speaker 1: a lot. Anybody else got a different mark? Who do you?
Speaker 1: Do you have anything? I really I think Greg for
Speaker 1: me knocked it out of the park. I have others.
Speaker 1: Yet you want a whole different quarterback? Yeah, let's just
Speaker 1: go around. How about this? For r G three, I
Speaker 1: go Nina al right left? Balloons makes her that was
Speaker 1: her Balloons makes her a classic example of a one
Speaker 1: hit wonder. If your r G three, you had one
Speaker 1: year where you were wonderful, you were fantastic, you were
Speaker 1: capturing the imagination. It's a song Balloons. It'll be around
Speaker 1: as long as modern radios around forever. It always get
Speaker 1: play because of that one thing he did. He'll always
Speaker 1: be remembered. But then it quickly came to a crash
Speaker 1: for Nina. Well, will Nina always been that song? I
Speaker 1: don't think most people even know that Nina's but that.
Speaker 1: But I would just say r G three did one
Speaker 1: thing that made him incredibly memorable in the history of football.
Speaker 1: He had perhaps he was He's perhaps the greatest one
Speaker 1: year wonder ever in the NFL. Uh. So that's a
Speaker 1: fun one because you could insert any great one hit
Speaker 1: wonder in there. Uh, such as you get what you
Speaker 1: give by New Radicals. That's one of my favorite one
Speaker 1: hit wonders. Uh ninety nine left Balloons is obviously an
Speaker 1: all time one hit. I mean he will always be
Speaker 1: no matter what happens. He will have won the Rookie
Speaker 1: of the Year over Andrew Luck and Russell and deserved
Speaker 1: it that year he was electrifying. Uh, I've got both
Speaker 1: Manning brothers. All right, let's hear it. Peyton you two,
Speaker 1: I got that too. Universally beloved, a compendium spanning decades,
Speaker 1: but ultimately a little safe. Yeah, I had works. This
Speaker 1: was my description, Uh, Peyton Manning YouTube, long, durable career,
Speaker 1: set ton of records, won many awards, tons of fans,
Speaker 1: but also a vocal contingent of haters. Yeah, Eli Manning.
Speaker 1: The spin doctors oh two hit two hits in and
Speaker 1: ultimately very annoying. Terrible job us, spin doctors, Eli Manning.
Speaker 1: I think you're spin doctor in your preferences or non
Speaker 1: preferences for Eli Manning. But that's terrible, it's true. How
Speaker 1: about how about how kind of known for being They're
Speaker 1: almost like a punch line now, yeah, I mean the
Speaker 1: longest hevity of Eli Manning has a completely different feel
Speaker 1: to me than spin Doctors. Well the whole point like
Speaker 1: an autumn. People think that the longevity is there, but
Speaker 1: he's only been a good quarterback like a couple of
Speaker 1: times in his career. How about Eli Manning is oasis
Speaker 1: first two albums were tremendous two titles, and then everything
Speaker 1: after was kind of uh you know that works let
Speaker 1: down man. Oasis are known for being like edgy, like
Speaker 1: they don't get along with each other, is always having
Speaker 1: fights and stuff. Eli is like the least likely to
Speaker 1: ever get in a fight of any thin doctors. Os.
Speaker 1: That is, I mean, that is beyond a troll job.
Speaker 1: Because here's where the logic breaks down. You're saying that
Speaker 1: winning two super Bowl titles is the equivalent of little
Speaker 1: Miss can't be wrong and two Princes. That's belittling winning
Speaker 1: a super Bowl title because those aren't good songs. But
Speaker 1: there's nothing better than winning too, So it would have
Speaker 1: to be two great songs of two great albums. Otherwise
Speaker 1: you're just trolling the quarterback. I am trolling the quarterback. Alright,
Speaker 1: well we have that you all right, you acknowledged it
Speaker 1: at least. Uh. Let's see how about Greg. You got
Speaker 1: another one that go for it? All right? How about
Speaker 1: Russell's Russell Wilson as Taylor Swift, hyper successful, relentlessly polished,
Speaker 1: media savvy as hell, an undeniable talent who may be
Speaker 1: a huge phony. Oh I can't argue with any of that.
Speaker 1: Maybe I don't know if Taylor Swift is a phony
Speaker 1: or if Russell Wilson is, but the rest of it
Speaker 1: is a very good comparison. Some people have stated that
Speaker 1: both about both. I think there's a level of calculation
Speaker 1: that people you know, blanchat. I think Russell Wilson and
Speaker 1: Taylor Swifts would even admit their calculated calculation is not
Speaker 1: a bad thing when you're trying to build a career.
Speaker 1: There's an entire Sports Illustrated article which caught your high
Speaker 1: years ago about how calculated Russell Wilson is his image.
Speaker 1: I think that Buddies in the Luxury Box, I think
Speaker 1: that's a home run comparison. I got one for you.
Speaker 1: Both of these come out of San Francisco in terms
Speaker 1: of what we think about The Grateful Dead and Steve Young. Now,
Speaker 1: Steve Young was not outsmoking, potly a crazy person, so
Speaker 1: he's not the followers. He's not the followers of the
Speaker 1: Grateful Dead, and so that part maybe a little bit.
Speaker 1: But when you think about Steve Young in the highlight
Speaker 1: films of him and his games. In general, poetry, wild rhythms, riffing, creativity,
Speaker 1: totally unpredictable. If you listen to it, like an hour
Speaker 1: two hour long thing from the Dead. They don't do
Speaker 1: play the same song the same way. Ever, they do
Speaker 1: the good things good, but they go completely experimental, and
Speaker 1: I think that Steve Young will had that experimental feel
Speaker 1: to him. I liked that I had a different Grateful
Speaker 1: Dead staying in the bear A guy who went to
Speaker 1: college at cal Berkeley. Aaron Rodgers a lot of improv
Speaker 1: to his game, like a jam band quarterback. Right, I think,
Speaker 1: what do you think about that? The greatest b y
Speaker 1: U athlete of all time, Steve Young? Okay with that,
Speaker 1: I really wish I knew more about the Grateful Dead
Speaker 1: to have an opinion on that. I am stunned that
Speaker 1: you're not deeply into the gride. You mentioned Aaron Rodgers.
Speaker 1: And ever since I noticed during our show that Mark
Speaker 1: Um derisively made fun of Chance the Rapper in our
Speaker 1: slack channel are Instant. He said he was gonna he
Speaker 1: was gonna compare every qv to Chance the Rapper just
Speaker 1: to seem cool. Hey, look me, I know about Chance
Speaker 1: the Rapper. I mean I realized a little ridiculous. I
Speaker 1: realized the other night, Chance Chance the Rapper is on
Speaker 1: Mark's radar. Yeah, he is, or at least people that
Speaker 1: like Chance and so so. Yeah, I'll let you explain
Speaker 1: what you think, but I'll explain why. So you know
Speaker 1: that guy that got on my radar because who else
Speaker 1: has you know talked about Chance? I love lots of
Speaker 1: hip hop. A Chance certainly right now would be number
Speaker 1: one for me. We were doing a dance off where
Speaker 1: two people were going back and only playing songs. I'll
Speaker 1: explain why, and I will see this Chance to rapper talented.
Speaker 1: We when Chance the Rapper song, no well, no one,
Speaker 1: no one played, No one played Chance. You were talking
Speaker 1: about another another time entirely, but right here, I'm gonna say,
Speaker 1: Aaron Rodgers is Chance the Rapper? Uh? I mean I
Speaker 1: knew this was coming. Well it wasn't. The only reason
Speaker 1: it's coming is because I just read that during the show.
Speaker 1: So when Dan came to me, I'm I'm thinking, Hamona HAMMANA.
Speaker 1: Who's Chance the Rapper. It's Aaron Rodgers. Because Aaron Rodgers
Speaker 1: can do anything. Chance can sing, Chance can flow, he
Speaker 1: can do a fast song, he can do a slow song.
Speaker 1: He can do motion like anything you want if you
Speaker 1: want to improvise whatever. Aaron Rodgers does every little thing
Speaker 1: like he can do everything any attribute you want in
Speaker 1: a quarterback, he can at least do like of the
Speaker 1: best quarterback out there. And that's kind of what I
Speaker 1: think with chance to rapper like his new you know,
Speaker 1: like every song is a little different. I will spend
Speaker 1: a week. I'll spend a week listening exclusively to his
Speaker 1: pastick to see No because I'm willing to change my mind.
Speaker 1: I just know sometimes it's just like I get it.
Speaker 1: He was not gonna steam drop him every time we
Speaker 1: talk about music, so that we've seen the progressive. But
Speaker 1: once I saw this, here here's the counter I have
Speaker 1: that the only problem Aaron Rodgers is an all time
Speaker 1: great chance chance can be. That's why I'll put him.
Speaker 1: I'll make it. Marcus Mariota, Okay, has all the tools
Speaker 1: and can be great, but we don't know yet. I
Speaker 1: know you're locking it up, Bro, You're locking up cham
Speaker 1: locking it up being an all time great. Yeah, okay,
Speaker 1: good for you. All right, let's do some Tom Brady's
Speaker 1: all right, I'll start Tom Brady is Radiohead keeps going
Speaker 1: and going and going without any obviously obvious sounds of decline.
Speaker 1: Scene keeps changing, but he, like Radiohead, remain a constant
Speaker 1: and um and Brady Brady might be an android. And
Speaker 1: when Brady finally does retire, I guess who's coming for
Speaker 1: the Patriots, the Karma Police. You sold me. You didn't
Speaker 1: have me early, but you sold me. I have the
Speaker 1: Beatles for Tom Brady. And there are people, these people
Speaker 1: I'd never trust, who claim they hate the Beatles. That's fine,
Speaker 1: but you cannot you cannot refute their virtuosity. They had
Speaker 1: the biggest impact of any band. I don't know where
Speaker 1: that occurred. I like that another radiohead thing. At first,
Speaker 1: I didn't didn't quit get it, and then now I
Speaker 1: kind of see it because who when when you're when
Speaker 1: you're bumping knock creep on your headphones while Moe and
Speaker 1: Lawns in eighth grade like I was, you would have
Speaker 1: never thought this could go down as an all time band.
Speaker 1: This could have been a one hit wonder and uh
Speaker 1: you know kind of from you know again, kind of
Speaker 1: slipping under the red always uh O were achieving expectations.
Speaker 1: I stayed away from the Beatles is just like in
Speaker 1: real music. I and that they have no nobody that
Speaker 1: compares to them. The fact that they started off one
Speaker 1: way and just turned into something totally different, which I
Speaker 1: guess maybe he was like, you know, he was like
Speaker 1: a game manager at first. He's like in his India
Speaker 1: portion right now, and who knows what he's like in
Speaker 1: the portion where Bob Dylan got him hooked on drugs
Speaker 1: and now he's expanded his whole game. Um. Oh, by
Speaker 1: the way, we love we'd love to play some some music. Um,
Speaker 1: but I have been talked to multiple times by shadowy
Speaker 1: league figures about this rights issue. So let's play some music.
Speaker 1: Here is some Rolling Stones, well kind of like the
Speaker 1: Rolling Stones. Oh yeah, rock and roll, same thing. Now,
Speaker 1: this is not the Rolling Stones. Let me make that clear,
Speaker 1: but it could be say a little horns Stones have
Speaker 1: that R and B vibe to him. If this is
Speaker 1: like the Tony Romo version of the Stone. Okay, you
Speaker 1: wanted to hear you like chance? It's the Rapper obviously,
Speaker 1: but you obviously can't. We can't play it on this
Speaker 1: show because um SLF issues. Well here's what chance. The
Speaker 1: rapper kind of sounds like. Ah, this is from our
Speaker 1: music library. It's clear this is kind of what rap
Speaker 1: sounds like. Did I hear Lauren who in that? I
Speaker 1: thought I did too, Don't let it. I feel like
Speaker 1: there's a lot of yeah, this is anyone else? Questions?
Speaker 1: Want to hear the greatest, the Beatles, the best band ever,
Speaker 1: this is what this was. Now imagine you know, come
Speaker 1: Together or something off Revolver, or even one of their
Speaker 1: early songs, I want to hold your hand. But this
Speaker 1: is you know, or hey, Jude, maybe this is kind
Speaker 1: of what the Beatles sound like. If you don't know,
Speaker 1: it's kind of the just if you don't know, it
Speaker 1: sounds like a bad eighties pop song. If you've never
Speaker 1: experienced the Beatles, you don't need to search than this.
Speaker 1: Harrison Noodling pick up some citsar like the Beatles, like
Speaker 1: move to like the Eighties. Sounds like soundtrack Miami Vice
Speaker 1: sounds more like Pantera. All right enough that you want
Speaker 1: to know who's air supply Who? Alex Smith that my
Speaker 1: mom's soft rock. But every once in a while you
Speaker 1: can catch yourself singing along to it. You can give
Speaker 1: in yourself that he's not that bad, and then you're like, oh,
Speaker 1: he's so limited. It's like listening to mom soft rock
Speaker 1: and your minivan. Relatedly, Andy Dalton is Coldplay. Yes, I
Speaker 1: like him, but I get it If you don't, I
Speaker 1: get it. I get why you don't like him. A
Speaker 1: Cutler's nickelback. I found a group a Scottish Funk and
Speaker 1: R and B band from the seventies and early eighties
Speaker 1: that represent Brian Hoyer their title average white band, oh Man,
Speaker 1: pick up the pieces the cake? Yeah uh, you said,
Speaker 1: Jay Cutler, I had Counting Crows. Only the biggest of
Speaker 1: the die hards are hanging around at this point. Yeah, Greg,
Speaker 1: his body is a subjective conversation. Not quite for the
Speaker 1: same reasons. But I had Mike Glenn and his train
Speaker 1: that works. Okay, that's fair. I don't even I don't
Speaker 1: even have an explanation. I don't. I don't like that
Speaker 1: fire upside the train. Roger Staubach is talking heads. Why
Speaker 1: is that one of the great bands of all time
Speaker 1: but never recognized as one of the great bands of
Speaker 1: all time? Fair enough? I will give you anybody else.
Speaker 1: I have a prediction. It's not where this, it's what
Speaker 1: this person is going to turn into. Jimmy Garoppolo. Right now,
Speaker 1: he's this British group called Wayam and he's his own guy.
Speaker 1: Obviously it doesn't really work on the Tom Tom Brady's side,
Speaker 1: but he's going to become George Michael and have an
Speaker 1: incredible solo career once he breaks free from the current thing.
Speaker 1: He's in. Let's hear what a band that might sound
Speaker 1: like Wham A little bit letter room, Oh this is Wham.
Speaker 1: Just taking our point? Did you turn this up a
Speaker 1: little bit? Said? This is playing on the jukebox and
Speaker 1: the max On loop. Alright, we're allowed to play this
Speaker 1: for as long as we want. Right, keep it underneath
Speaker 1: the show the whole time. I remember back in my
Speaker 1: youth listening to Scottie Farrell who was syndicated on w
Speaker 1: f A N and he would just have rock music
Speaker 1: going underneath his voice the whole time. This keeps the show.
Speaker 1: I'm moving, baby. That guy trove me nuts. I'm on
Speaker 1: a show like a few times a year. I like him.
Speaker 1: He's one of the best hosts to talk to period
Speaker 1: where it was constant rock music, like I dropped in
Speaker 1: the middle of the night. That was ridiculous. Yeah, he
Speaker 1: dropped that before anybody else. Have another one before we
Speaker 1: moved up. All right, Johnny Unitus his CCR. Listen to
Speaker 1: CCR all day. You can just watch Johnny United's play
Speaker 1: all day, nothing but hits. It's been maybe too esoteric,
Speaker 1: but uh, Phil Rivers is Lucinda Williams, a lot of
Speaker 1: heartbreak there's gonna be some good seasons, there's gonna be
Speaker 1: some good albums. There's gonna maybe be some down season,
Speaker 1: some down album, but every each one's gonna have a
Speaker 1: lot of emotion, a lot, a lot that's bringing you back.
Speaker 1: A lot of people with bolo ties are listening to
Speaker 1: it right They kind of sound the same way they're talking.
Speaker 1: I love Lucinda kirk Cousins is the Black Keys. Nobody
Speaker 1: is sure whether he's good or kind of. As Sydney
Speaker 1: writes down a note to make an edit to the show,
Speaker 1: oh we're on, by the way, we're on NFL Networks
Speaker 1: up to the minute. We gotta go on Tuesday as well,
Speaker 1: be too late. We're also on Monday, and they'll be
Speaker 1: too late for those listening to this podcast. But we
Speaker 1: are on Tuesday around Eastern time, if you want to
Speaker 1: check that out. They're putting us on fairly regularly right now,
Speaker 1: which is good or times last week. So let's see,
Speaker 1: that's five to six every day. I got time for
Speaker 1: a couple iTunes, don't we have a time for a
Speaker 1: couple of iTunes reviews? Yeah, let me bring it up.
Speaker 1: By the way, I want to give a pop to
Speaker 1: the subreddit. Um, we want to get them, get that
Speaker 1: up to five thousand people. As Mark buttons his teeth,
Speaker 1: I am, I'm just coming off a segment where we
Speaker 1: played piped in crap music to save our asses. I
Speaker 1: ain't gonna go on network with my top button button
Speaker 1: looking like some hooligan. I like how you connected that.
Speaker 1: I mean that was I think you kind of you've
Speaker 1: put me in my place. I thought you were gonna
Speaker 1: be maybe starting a whole new trend. Uh in the
Speaker 1: game with the top button. I thought I was starting
Speaker 1: to get used to it, is what I'm saying. I like,
Speaker 1: I like this. This is classy look as well, but
Speaker 1: just like just typical white guy wearing a shirt. Um,
Speaker 1: a couple of iTunes. Oh yeah, so check out the
Speaker 1: subreddit around the NFL. What is is it around the NFL?
Speaker 1: On reddity? Okay, check that out and and uh, you know,
Speaker 1: subscribe to it, and let's try to get that to
Speaker 1: five thousand. Uh. Let's check out some iTunes reviews again,
Speaker 1: leave please leave reviews and five stars or zero stars
Speaker 1: if you don't like the show, whatever you want, but
Speaker 1: we uh that helps with with iTunes and how we
Speaker 1: believe how they calibrate their rankings. UM so let's just
Speaker 1: read a few, the most recent when it comes from
Speaker 1: a man, uh Michael with eleven els. They don't stay
Speaker 1: on subject one star, I hate one podcast, don't stay
Speaker 1: on subject. The first ten minutes of this podcast was
Speaker 1: these dudes messing around, no football stories at all. I'm
Speaker 1: surprised he chose that one. Okay, listen, that was the
Speaker 1: first one that popped up. I will add that as
Speaker 1: the host, I know for a fact that very rarely
Speaker 1: goes beyond five minutes, not talking talking nonsense ten minutes.
Speaker 1: You're a liar. Can't please everyone, nor do we try to.
Speaker 1: Next one from New England pack fan thirty three. Wait
Speaker 1: a second, can't be a Patriots and a Packers fan.
Speaker 1: But I'll let you off the hook because you put
Speaker 1: five stars with the headline. Make this two hours long.
Speaker 1: Greg's nightmare love listening to everyone at work. I wish
Speaker 1: this podcast was two hours long. The atmosphere is fantastic.
Speaker 1: That reminded me of on Saturday. John Gonzalez Gonzo, Colleen
Speaker 1: Wolf's husband. Thank you, He says, sometimes he's woken up
Speaker 1: by our voices because Colleen will be like getting ready
Speaker 1: for the day and listening to our podcast, which sounds
Speaker 1: like a dystopian nightmare. Very uncomfortable. Um this one, Dan
Speaker 1: five stars by Longhorn, I mean, come back to us, No, really,
Speaker 1: come back to us this way? I need an uber?
Speaker 1: Well then, um remember the uber? Oh yeah, you guys
Speaker 1: forgot already. Yeah I did. Do you ever listen to
Speaker 1: that pod? Mark? I have no idea what you're talking about. Okay,
Speaker 1: let's move. Hey, listen, let's keep moving. This one garbage
Speaker 1: one star. Screw that guy, um bah blah blah, garbage.
Speaker 1: Five stars. Daniel Jeremiah as a tool. Great podcast though,
Speaker 1: Wow that written by Dan Hanses. It was written by A. J. S.
Speaker 1: But I understand the sentiment. Another five stars, so much
Speaker 1: better than Move the Sticks. DJ just ruins that show.
Speaker 1: Daniel come back to Us now? DJ ruins the show
Speaker 1: where he's the host. Awful. One star. Cleo Lemon, I
Speaker 1: don't know how people listen to this. Do yourself a
Speaker 1: favor and download Move the Sticks instead. Let's it's sort
Speaker 1: of a turf war breaking out. Yeah, this is annoying,
Speaker 1: by the way, you know, Cleo Lemon, I love that
Speaker 1: guy back in the day on the on that Dolphins
Speaker 1: team shocking memorable moments saved them from going Oh six,
Speaker 1: you wrote that review, we get it too beautiful for
Speaker 1: this world. Five stars by the so Calbarts guy. Five
Speaker 1: stars aren't good enough for a t M. The heroes
Speaker 1: are the four in one singled face Mount Rushmore podcasts,
Speaker 1: no other house in the neighborhood, hands of stealing the headlines,
Speaker 1: Sessler's not so subtle critique of the world Westling's manufactured
Speaker 1: Southern charm add a splash of Sid and Greg with
Speaker 1: words or something flawless imperfection. What do you guys want
Speaker 1: to hear? The review worse than Nails on a chalkboard?
Speaker 1: One star, Yes, Gary Brewing, These pundits sound like they
Speaker 1: have clothes pins clamped on their nostrils during the podcast.
Speaker 1: And that's the most best aspect, the most best aspect. Huh,
Speaker 1: Gary Bruin, You're an idiot. I wish I could get
Speaker 1: back those thirty minutes of my life I wanted listening
Speaker 1: to their platitudes. Think it's funny he's including words like platitudes,
Speaker 1: but then has no basic um command of the English language.
Speaker 1: Nails on the chalkboard is easier on the ears. Mhm, alright,
Speaker 1: well that might explain a few things. Uh there's an
Speaker 1: extended Giligan's Island analogy with five stars. Um, a little
Speaker 1: too long to read. That's best football podcasts anymore? Is
Speaker 1: all right? These guys are great, super insightful and ridiculously silly.
Speaker 1: Love the return of your the GM. I hope I
Speaker 1: see Greg someday so I could turn to my friends
Speaker 1: and loudly proclaim, oh my god, that's NFL dot com
Speaker 1: s Greg Rosenthal. Good but not great. I like that.
Speaker 1: Even now we're getting there, somebody's zeroing in on the
Speaker 1: actual truth here far and thirteen. This podcast walks the
Speaker 1: line between obnoxious morning radio show that relies on drops
Speaker 1: and informative football commentary. When the podcast stays on the
Speaker 1: topic of football and refrains from singing, I feel like
Speaker 1: this is pointed at someone on the show. The show
Speaker 1: can be great. I I enjoy the ultra seriers, serious
Speaker 1: goons whom who have any issues with me being on
Speaker 1: the show. Um, you are a person I would never
Speaker 1: be friends with, and you'll never be in the trust tree,
Speaker 1: and just consider this podcast enemy territory for you. If
Speaker 1: you're an overly serious person, if you will stick it
Speaker 1: in your ear. If you want dry football talk, you
Speaker 1: can find it on lots of podcasts all over the internet,
Speaker 1: and you'll fall asleep listening to it. Uh, Bill fall
Speaker 1: asleep providing it if we go that direction anyway. A
Speaker 1: lot of reviews, a lot of fun mostly five star reviews,
Speaker 1: some bad ones. But the people that leave the bad
Speaker 1: reviews I find them to be the flawed people and
Speaker 1: the ones that leave the good reviews to be good people.
Speaker 1: That's how I look at it. I think. Also, we
Speaker 1: get Sydney onto that site and have her scrub anything
Speaker 1: that even that. Let's get on that sid Thank you
Speaker 1: very much. All Right, we gotta go. We gotta do
Speaker 1: our NFL network hit live in a few minutes. So
Speaker 1: that's it. We'll be back on Wednesday with yet another episode. Uh.
Speaker 1: And then again a reminder Thursday we will have a show. Uh.
Speaker 1: And then also nine pm Eastern six pm Pacific, we
Speaker 1: will video stream that entire show fun times. Uh. So
Speaker 1: if you like the video show, if you want it
Speaker 1: back during the regular season, make sure you check that out.
Speaker 1: And um, I think it would be good for everyone involved.
Speaker 1: So and we promised not to make it one of
Speaker 1: those video podcasts where it ruins, the audio show That's
Speaker 1: Our Problems Too. Let's go you is Dan hands Is
Speaker 1: signing off for Quiet Storm, The Mailman, The Boss a
Speaker 1: new money behind the Glass until Wednesday. Calliope one of
Speaker 1: the great words in the English language. Solid solid word,
Speaker 1: also used by Bruce Springsteen in a song It's it's
Speaker 1: the calliope that we all travel along sometimes. I don't
Speaker 1: know what a calliope? Is that a game? It's like
Speaker 1: a music device on a steamboat ship? Uh? Okay, I
Speaker 1: believe is that right? Mark? Don't look at me? Did
Speaker 1: we start the podcast? Never been this, It's never been
Speaker 1: on a steam shop. It's never been on a ship
Speaker 1: that you can names right there. Forget about it. What
Speaker 1: is happening? Let's do this one more time? All right?
Speaker 1: Leave the caliop here. It hasn't had a day in
Speaker 1: the sun for a hundred and thirty years