Speaker 1: The Around the NFL Podcast is up. Son. Welcome back
Speaker 1: to another edition of the Around the NFL Podcast. My
Speaker 1: name is Dan Hansis, and I am joined by a
Speaker 1: room filled with some heroes. Mark Sessler to my left
Speaker 1: and Greg Rosehal to my ride. What's up? Boys? Hey? Dan?
Speaker 1: No West? Where is West? He's in Cincinnati with his
Speaker 1: mom watching some college basketball. Yeah, West, having fun. He's
Speaker 1: actually en route, I believe. And he gets in, he said,
Speaker 1: he touches down and since he about ten o'clock tonight,
Speaker 1: so I said to him, I said, hey, what do
Speaker 1: we do? What's what's the party situation here? It's like
Speaker 1: it's not gonna be as crazy as you think. So
Speaker 1: I was like, all right, I took that into effect
Speaker 1: and I did a little over under. We're gonna do
Speaker 1: some over under und Today's show with nailed it, but
Speaker 1: I didn't know were under. I said, Okay, he's in.
Speaker 1: He said he's taking it easy. Friday night. Uh, he
Speaker 1: gets in late, and then he has Saturday Sunday and
Speaker 1: then flies out Monday. So I basically said, he has
Speaker 1: one night in two full days of drinking. He told
Speaker 1: me he'll take it easy. So concerned, I guess conservatively.
Speaker 1: I said, all right, thirty four and a half beers,
Speaker 1: and he gave me a look and he said, oh,
Speaker 1: way over, I need you to do the math on that.
Speaker 1: I'm no math. Well, it's funny that he he prefaced
Speaker 1: it by being like that it will be a low number, right,
Speaker 1: I mean that is thirty four and a half divided
Speaker 1: by three is what like eleven and a half beer
Speaker 1: or something like that. It's it feels like a lot
Speaker 1: to consume. I got a text to him late in
Speaker 1: the middle of the night telling me that he was
Speaker 1: thinking about only drinking White's Infidel Uh this summer, that
Speaker 1: he's gonna get off beer entirely. That sounds like a lie.
Speaker 1: Maybe it's that and beer. He says a lot about
Speaker 1: the West family though, that like gonna go home just
Speaker 1: to watch some college basketball with the bro, the brothers
Speaker 1: and the mom. Just what a sports household would have
Speaker 1: been a fun one to grow up in a scene
Speaker 1: it must be Um West might contend it wasn't so
Speaker 1: fun to grow up in the house. It was just
Speaker 1: more like a med a mad collection of testosterone pluses
Speaker 1: and minuses. I think, yeah, pluses and minuses. Anyway, So
Speaker 1: West have fun in Cincinnati. We will carry on without you.
Speaker 1: We were supposed to have sitting in four West Uh,
Speaker 1: Colleen Wolf, who hasn't been with us in a few weeks,
Speaker 1: Connie Fox. But then I was up early this morning,
Speaker 1: around six thirty, and I got a text from Connie UM,
Speaker 1: and Connie said she just was not feeling well and
Speaker 1: she was hoping she was gonna feel better, but she
Speaker 1: was two under the weather and she was concerned about
Speaker 1: getting us six there's six children between the three of
Speaker 1: us in the studio. She had too many concerns that
Speaker 1: this illness, whatever it is, a potentially airborne illness, UH,
Speaker 1: could lead to her infecting us. So she's laying low.
Speaker 1: I mean, it's not a it's not just a twenty
Speaker 1: four hour bug. From what the information that you've gathered.
Speaker 1: I only have the information that I could share through
Speaker 1: those three texts, so we don't know the severity of it.
Speaker 1: But hopefully Colin gets well soon. I'm worried. Connie Fox
Speaker 1: UH and other news left us in the lurch. But
Speaker 1: we have two four Johnson, Yeah, and other news before
Speaker 1: we get to the news. UM. Lindsay Rhodes. If you
Speaker 1: listen to Wednesday's podcast, Lindsay promised us she would reach
Speaker 1: out to David Carr, brother of Raiders quarterback Derek Carr.
Speaker 1: David works with a company now, of course, former first
Speaker 1: round pick of the Texans, and try to broke her
Speaker 1: a piece between Uh, Greg and myself. Greg sheepishly going
Speaker 1: along with this. Uh. He doesn't like being caught in
Speaker 1: the middle of it. I'm very open about healing the
Speaker 1: wounds that led to Greg and I being blocked by
Speaker 1: Derek Carr sometime during the postseason. Uh, and I go
Speaker 1: at this bit as legs. I'm I'm on board. Now
Speaker 1: we're getting the car ours involved. I was a little
Speaker 1: uncomfortable at first. You need some You should just take
Speaker 1: your blocks. I give out black Sometimes you just gotta
Speaker 1: take them. Okay, what my I guess what I'm saying,
Speaker 1: Greg is vision over visibility. You know, it was always
Speaker 1: legs to this. We just needed an in and now
Speaker 1: we have David Carr. So I said, Linz, if you could,
Speaker 1: with your journal background, offer an update. Lindsay is not
Speaker 1: around today, but she was kind enough to leave me
Speaker 1: a voicemailing. She had to say, Dan, it's Lindsay. I
Speaker 1: just wanted to let you know that I've done my
Speaker 1: part to help repair the damage that you and Greg
Speaker 1: have done to your yet to exist relationship with Derek Carr.
Speaker 1: I spoke to his brother yesterday. I told him that
Speaker 1: the two of you were prepared to grovel, and he
Speaker 1: seemed interested in that. Uh, he seems open to intervening
Speaker 1: on your behalf as well. So I've given him your name.
Speaker 1: He might pass them along to Derek if he can
Speaker 1: remember them. So if you notice that you are miraculously
Speaker 1: unblocked in the next he days, You're welcome and be
Speaker 1: David failed because I told him to do nothing until
Speaker 1: he could come on the pod. You're out your argument,
Speaker 1: make you grovel a little bit, and then involved Derek
Speaker 1: live on the podcast because I'm all about promoting your content.
Speaker 1: So you're welcome. I guess what a message at love
Speaker 1: lindsay she's the best. I mean, the grovel thing I
Speaker 1: would have we could have done without her saying that.
Speaker 1: Telling David Carton frankly misinforming David Carr by something that
Speaker 1: we plan to grovel. It feels about right. It's more, honestly,
Speaker 1: it's more about just let's straighten things out a little.
Speaker 1: Let's find out what happened. I mean, Greg doesn't like
Speaker 1: to acknowledge this, but it's certainly got under your skin.
Speaker 1: And so you know you're not gonna naturally have Derek
Speaker 1: Carr unblock you. He doesn't know that you exist or
Speaker 1: any of us exist. There's I think some of this
Speaker 1: is Mark a little upset that you do you are
Speaker 1: not blocked, so you we definitely know that you don't
Speaker 1: exist to him on some level. It's on the grid.
Speaker 1: Continue to interact with him online. I'm sure he's you know,
Speaker 1: he seems like number one kind of a heroic guy,
Speaker 1: really good heart and spirit, I mean, and he must
Speaker 1: feel the same about the people that he doesn't block.
Speaker 1: You guys got on his radar. You guys kind of
Speaker 1: something about what you're offering is people is not in
Speaker 1: line with Derek Carr, an MVP candidate last season. And
Speaker 1: we're going to figure it out, hopefully with David Carr's help,
Speaker 1: so they'll keep keep tab I don't want it to
Speaker 1: leap frog your relationships with him above mine that I
Speaker 1: would not like. Clearly, That's that's what we're getting at.
Speaker 1: You're a little concerned that this will lead to if
Speaker 1: everything gets like hammered out here and I'll get in
Speaker 1: the way if I need to. Got you still blocked
Speaker 1: right now, Greg, And I don't even have to check mine,
Speaker 1: I know I am alright. One last thing before we
Speaker 1: get to the news that we we told you that
Speaker 1: we were. Um, some derogatory things were said to us
Speaker 1: on the internal monitor feed before our live NFL network
Speaker 1: hit on Wednesday, the podcast UM, let's what we actually
Speaker 1: have is at uh Sydney. Because she does her job
Speaker 1: so well, I was able to dig up that actual
Speaker 1: raw audio. Let's hear it right now? Is such a
Speaker 1: good time to check the sync on these podcast? Boss?
Speaker 1: Who was that Sydney? I don't have to use his
Speaker 1: last name. Yeah, that that was a director for upon network,
Speaker 1: Roy the director. Roy did not know that you could
Speaker 1: hear that. By the way, what happened was the stars
Speaker 1: aligned and I had him on speaker phone in here
Speaker 1: and my mic was live up on his audio. Awesome,
Speaker 1: we're gonna maybe we should get Roy on the phone
Speaker 1: at some point next week to let him know that
Speaker 1: we are. We should be maybe not reckoned with but
Speaker 1: a baseline of respect, just like a baseline like not
Speaker 1: to be name calling maybe inappropriate. I would think he's
Speaker 1: being more respectful than some right out of the gate,
Speaker 1: but we still need better behavior in general. Okay, good,
Speaker 1: let's do some news said, I don't know who bows
Speaker 1: always clown come out? What are your kidding me? Connor
Speaker 1: orwin like that is? Maybe we'll hear from Connor today.
Speaker 1: Let's get Connor on the phone, UH said at the
Speaker 1: end of today's show, let's start with UH. You know,
Speaker 1: a little bit of a slow period now, but there's
Speaker 1: still stuff going on. And one of the big things
Speaker 1: coming up is UH the NFL owners meetings on the way.
Speaker 1: And according UH to Judy Batista, UH so the league
Speaker 1: meeting actually is what they're called? Is that? What was that?
Speaker 1: What they're called? Annual league The annual league meeting coming
Speaker 1: up next week And and according to Judy Batista in
Speaker 1: a recent column for NFL dot Com, the Raiders potential
Speaker 1: move to Las Vegas will dominate the league meeting. UH
Speaker 1: and this this from Judy. Uh, the coaches, UH and
Speaker 1: general managers will get together and the owners in Phoenix
Speaker 1: if thirty two clubs agree UH to have the Raiders move,
Speaker 1: and they almost certainly will, although reluctantly, Tuty writes the
Speaker 1: Raiders will play two more years in Oakland before packing
Speaker 1: up and heading out. I guess most likely to Las Vegas.
Speaker 1: Greg Uh, this is and we when we did our
Speaker 1: Darkest Timeline, I brought this up as one of the
Speaker 1: reasons where you could be a little nervous about the
Speaker 1: Raiders this season because this has this has the chance
Speaker 1: to have a real ugly stink on it this season.
Speaker 1: I'm surprised everyone, and maybe just because it's not official
Speaker 1: yet and we'll see if it all goes through next week.
Speaker 1: It looks like it's going that way. I'm surprised there's
Speaker 1: not more talk about how weird this is. That they
Speaker 1: a that they're moving to Las Vegas, which is strange
Speaker 1: to begin with a much smaller market, you know, obviously
Speaker 1: the home of the epicenter of gambling in this country,
Speaker 1: but more importantly in my mind, that they're gonna still
Speaker 1: be in Oakland for the next two years. That's extremely awkward,
Speaker 1: and they're expecting a lot out of their fans number
Speaker 1: one to just support them. And it's weird because it's
Speaker 1: at at a time when they're finally good again and
Speaker 1: now they're saying they're gonna leave, and then too I
Speaker 1: think it's a strange situation just for the players in
Speaker 1: the organization that they're gonna be in this weird limbo
Speaker 1: for a couple of years of being in a place
Speaker 1: that you're not staying. People know that Jack del Rio,
Speaker 1: one of the reasons he's so excited about this job
Speaker 1: is that he's a He's an Oakland guy. He he
Speaker 1: grew up a Raiders fan. The Marshawn Lynch is another
Speaker 1: Oakland guy, someone that wants to be on the Raiders,
Speaker 1: which was not the case with players in general four
Speaker 1: or five years ago. And it is incredibly murky and
Speaker 1: it's funny. Um during Super Bowl Week had to write
Speaker 1: a piece on the Astrodome and Bruce Matthews, who played
Speaker 1: for the oily old Oilers for a long time, that
Speaker 1: also was a lame duck scenario where the fans knew
Speaker 1: near the end that they were going to move to
Speaker 1: Tennessee and that once Rock is Amazing Dome was just
Speaker 1: a mausoleum during the end when the fans knew that
Speaker 1: their team was abandoned them. So what Raiders fans, the
Speaker 1: most passionate in the country, what are you gonna ask
Speaker 1: them to do over the next two seasons climb on
Speaker 1: board and be as excited. I think it's a rough thing.
Speaker 1: I mean, growing up a Browns fan, if you're young,
Speaker 1: you don't think that your team is gonna move. You
Speaker 1: think they're gonna be there, good or bad, every Sunday,
Speaker 1: and then this happens. I think maybe the reaction is
Speaker 1: a little bit less insane about it because we've just
Speaker 1: dealt with a ton of movement already. The Chargers, the Rams,
Speaker 1: these l A team, these teams that were in l
Speaker 1: A move out and back in and out and back
Speaker 1: in a hundred times over. It's ridiculous. But the Raiders
Speaker 1: thing is weird. They could go one of two ways.
Speaker 1: You know, maybe let's wit, you know, can we win
Speaker 1: a Super Bowl for Oakland before we leave? Like that
Speaker 1: would be a great story if they're a great team.
Speaker 1: But if they don't live up to expectations, it's the NFL.
Speaker 1: You know, if they're five, you know, if they're four
Speaker 1: and six or something at some point, then then you
Speaker 1: could have a weird, a weird vibe where it's there's
Speaker 1: a lot of apathy and anger. This this is the problem,
Speaker 1: and I hate this stuff. I hate teams moving. A
Speaker 1: hate that the Chargers left San Diego. Um, the St.
Speaker 1: Louis thing, it wasn't great, even though they were at
Speaker 1: least going back to l A. Oakland is a great
Speaker 1: football town, as we're talking about here and the bad
Speaker 1: news and all this. Uh, and again I'm taking this
Speaker 1: from Judy's reporting, is that, Uh, the owners are resigned
Speaker 1: to this idea that there is no viable plan from Oakland.
Speaker 1: So it's not like a situation where San Diego it
Speaker 1: seemed like there was a deal to be made if
Speaker 1: everybody really worked hard together and there was some teamwork involved.
Speaker 1: But with Oakland, there is no plan. And then an
Speaker 1: owner told Judy here's a quote. The complete lack of
Speaker 1: any realistic alternative in Oakland is just as big a
Speaker 1: factor because nobody really wants to see the move. You'd
Speaker 1: really prefer to see them stay in Oakland. It just
Speaker 1: hasn't worked. I don't think there is much, if any opposition.
Speaker 1: What it shows the lack of power that the NFL
Speaker 1: League office and Roger Goodell ultimately have over one of
Speaker 1: those thirty two owners, because in their mind, they would
Speaker 1: love it if Mark Davis would just sell the team.
Speaker 1: They would love it if they could find an owner
Speaker 1: I believe that could afford and figure out a stadium.
Speaker 1: The only reason he can't afford, you know, do it
Speaker 1: in Oakland is because he can't pay for Italy. It's
Speaker 1: a billion you know, this is a billion dollar business.
Speaker 1: You could find some I bet you can find some
Speaker 1: tech people that could buy the Raiders figure figure it out.
Speaker 1: But they can't. So they're going to a place that
Speaker 1: that's given them public money. So that is gonna be uh,
Speaker 1: the big story coming out of these meetings. But there's
Speaker 1: other stuff too, and and and it centers around rule changes,
Speaker 1: and uh, we all love rule changes are good ones
Speaker 1: at least. Uh. One of the dominant themes of that
Speaker 1: aspect will be improving the pace of games. Roger Dell
Speaker 1: has has stated publicly that he wants the games that
Speaker 1: have fewer extended interruptions. After they had an internal assessment
Speaker 1: of how these games are playing out, and now they're
Speaker 1: trying to figure out what what will happen? Uh. And
Speaker 1: there will also be a vote on a proposal to
Speaker 1: have a centralized replay review in which all all things
Speaker 1: happen in New York. I think MLB has the same
Speaker 1: type of process that will make the final decision on
Speaker 1: replays rather than have the on field officials in the mix. Greg,
Speaker 1: what else in terms of new rule proposals jump out
Speaker 1: at you or whether they're realistic or just fun. Well,
Speaker 1: this one isn't fun, but it's one I've always wanted,
Speaker 1: which is a rule proposal from the Eagles to amend
Speaker 1: the challenge system to keep your third challenge if you're
Speaker 1: successful on one of your first two challenges. I hate
Speaker 1: the fact that if you get penalized for the officials
Speaker 1: being wrong and you calling them out on it in
Speaker 1: the current system, which is that if you get the
Speaker 1: first two challenges right, you know you still you still
Speaker 1: wind up not getting that third challenge. So in this case,
Speaker 1: if you just get one of your first two challenges right,
Speaker 1: you know you get that extra challenge. That's how it
Speaker 1: should be. Yeah. I don't know why why this is
Speaker 1: even something that people would struggle with. It's because they
Speaker 1: it's the whole idea. I don't know that it's the
Speaker 1: whole idea. You don't want to make the game longer anything,
Speaker 1: but get it. Get it one. Go down the list
Speaker 1: a couple of some of the ones that jumped out
Speaker 1: to me. Uh, this is from Philly prohibit the leaper
Speaker 1: block attempt on field goal and extra point plays. UM.
Speaker 1: Little torn on that one. I think the leap is
Speaker 1: kind of fun. It is. It's definitely changed that aspect
Speaker 1: of the game a little bit. Why why are we
Speaker 1: wiping that out? Well, we also don't know if it's
Speaker 1: gonna go through. That's the good thing. A lot of
Speaker 1: proposals I'm talking about what you think. I like, Really
Speaker 1: that unsafe, that's what people are talking about. But is
Speaker 1: the causing injuries? I I miss that. Like the the
Speaker 1: Seahawks won't like this because they've got some great leapers.
Speaker 1: I would probably probably the best leaping team in the game. Uh,
Speaker 1: the Redskins are doing a great job here, you know,
Speaker 1: and they haven't got a lot of credit this offseason.
Speaker 1: They probably shouldn't. Um. They fired their GM on the
Speaker 1: first day of free agency. So you know, it's like
Speaker 1: one of those things where maybe things aren't going so
Speaker 1: well in Washington. But two things I liked, And the
Speaker 1: first one is this. I like when there's a Bonker's
Speaker 1: rule proposal. Here's from Washington. Moves the line of scrimmage
Speaker 1: to the twenty yard line for any touchback where the
Speaker 1: free kick travels through the uprights, put it the twenty
Speaker 1: instead oft and let's fly. I love it. Fly with it, baby,
Speaker 1: because here's the problem there. One of the issues when
Speaker 1: they moved up the kickoff in a safety measure to
Speaker 1: the thirty five and was now we're having more touchbacks
Speaker 1: than ever. And now then you have people saying, well,
Speaker 1: it's kind of a waste of the place. You we
Speaker 1: just get rid of the kickoffs. I don't want to
Speaker 1: do that. I'm a bit of a purist. Put some
Speaker 1: juice into it, something for the fans to get excited about.
Speaker 1: Spice it up, because it was one of the most
Speaker 1: exciting plays in football when you had the Josh Cribs,
Speaker 1: the all the great kick returners, and suddenly that entire
Speaker 1: thing has been taken away. You gotta add some spice.
Speaker 1: I like that. And maybe maybe if you can doink
Speaker 1: it off the crossbar fifteen yard line. Imagine how a
Speaker 1: doink would be crowd it does make it watchable. Sudden
Speaker 1: write every kickoffs to seventy whatever yard field goal it
Speaker 1: is attempt. Uh. The other the other proposal that really
Speaker 1: I love from the Red from the Redskins. Uh. They
Speaker 1: submitted a rule that allows them to say no thanks
Speaker 1: on the color Rush uniforms on Thursdays, those hideous designs
Speaker 1: that you like that cost Greg a game once. Uh
Speaker 1: for the color blind the Red Jets Bills game a
Speaker 1: couple of years ago. It was traumatic. I didn't know
Speaker 1: when Ryan Fitzpatrick through an interception essentially in the game.
Speaker 1: I wasn't sure if it was a completion or an interception.
Speaker 1: I had to wait for Mike Terko to tell me
Speaker 1: the so and then the reasons. You have to offer
Speaker 1: a reason in your submission. And this is my favorite
Speaker 1: part about it. Uh. It could have been a hundred words,
Speaker 1: could have been a thousand words. Just two words, garish uniforms.
Speaker 1: I couldn't disagree more with this rule proposal. I I
Speaker 1: understand that a lot of people hate color Rush, but
Speaker 1: I think it's you know, it's predominantly on Thursday Night,
Speaker 1: and you sometimes get these wacky Thursday night matchups. It's
Speaker 1: always Thursday night, but that you know that, you know
Speaker 1: it's November and there's a terrible Thursday night matchup. At
Speaker 1: least you put them in insane uniforms that you've never seen.
Speaker 1: I would like every re team to have roughly fifteen
Speaker 1: different uniform combinations, and you know some of them, some
Speaker 1: of them were beautiful, like color combinations. They really were
Speaker 1: something you've never seen before in the NFL. And was like,
Speaker 1: I want it to be just like it was. I'm
Speaker 1: with you, Mark, I like the color rush. I think
Speaker 1: this is crazy. It adds people get into it, people,
Speaker 1: you know, get some conversations. Also, by the way, how
Speaker 1: about get on the radar with the NFL by being
Speaker 1: a team that's not on board with their mark. This
Speaker 1: is a major marketing proposal, So why are you getting
Speaker 1: it's not gonna pass? Hey, you want to you want
Speaker 1: to fix your marketing and you're your branding. Maybe change
Speaker 1: your name from Redskins red start. I mean, I want
Speaker 1: a team to be that's that's certainly fair, But it's
Speaker 1: a cheesy cash grab and you guys are falling into
Speaker 1: it too easily. That's all. Well, I wouldn't mind to
Speaker 1: see my team the Browns have more than just simply
Speaker 1: the uniform. This morning I said to Mark that a
Speaker 1: lot of this I think goes back to that you
Speaker 1: are stuck with a team that's called literally called the
Speaker 1: Cleveland Browns. You have nowhere to go with it and
Speaker 1: your despert you're you want something a little juice with
Speaker 1: your uniforms. I get that. In general. I like uniform madness.
Speaker 1: I'd like to seem well, there was a proposal, wasn't
Speaker 1: there to add a potential second helmet for yes by
Speaker 1: the Eagles. The Eagles wanted an alternate helmet. I love
Speaker 1: that too. Anyone not agree with that? That's cool. Alternate helmet.
Speaker 1: I guess I don't care that much. But the alternate
Speaker 1: helmets fine. But you're super suit. You're excited about the
Speaker 1: Jets scenario, like you. I can't get out of my
Speaker 1: mind the Jaguars Titans matchup last year. It was like
Speaker 1: Jaguars were in like um radioactive puke yellow and the
Speaker 1: Titans were in full hideous powder electric blue. And it's like,
Speaker 1: what are we doing here? We gonna are in a
Speaker 1: football league game. You gotta break a couple of eggs
Speaker 1: to make an almet? Thought it was fantastic, Bro, Peter
Speaker 1: Pan I guess we disagree. It's fine. Moving on. So
Speaker 1: that's what's going on. Helmets? Is there any thirty two?
Speaker 1: That's it? That's all you get? Moving on? Hey, Johnny
Speaker 1: Manziel's a four mur Brown Did you know that, Mark,
Speaker 1: I am aware. Yes. Rap Sheet reported Thursday that the
Speaker 1: wayward quarterback UH was spotted with Saints head coach Sean
Speaker 1: Payton at breakfast during last month's Super Bowl. UH per
Speaker 1: sources and formed of the meeting, the two discussed a
Speaker 1: return to the NFL. Marron report Rapport added that Peyton
Speaker 1: is interested in Manzielle possibly joining the Saints sometime in
Speaker 1: the future. Well, I figured this was not simply the
Speaker 1: Saints head coach taking an interest in manziel because he's
Speaker 1: trying to get back in the league. Uh. It's more
Speaker 1: he has a legitimate thought process about how he could
Speaker 1: potentially help the Saints. Mark. I know you Um obviously
Speaker 1: have history with this man, not direct history, but we
Speaker 1: have the video, the famous video from the draft. You
Speaker 1: thought this guy was gonna change the Browns. It couldn't
Speaker 1: have gone any worse. But is there a chance he
Speaker 1: can clean up his his life, clean up his NFL
Speaker 1: career and maybe salvages. I think it's interesting that NFL
Speaker 1: Network insider Ian Rappaport reported during the combine that there
Speaker 1: was interest from multiple teams in manzel at least in
Speaker 1: exploring where he's at and there was someone else in
Speaker 1: our building who months ago knew that Peyton and the
Speaker 1: Saints were zeroed into some degree on Manziell. Can't say
Speaker 1: who it was, but it's someone that's close to Sean Payton.
Speaker 1: And it's interesting that the Saints have talked. It was
Speaker 1: certainly not it was certainly not omar Ruiz, but the
Speaker 1: Saints had talked for years about seriously pursuing a solution
Speaker 1: behind Drew Brees, potentially someone in the future. I don't
Speaker 1: see man'zell the way, but on their roster you've got
Speaker 1: Luke McCown and Garrett Grayson. Garrett Grayson the third rounder,
Speaker 1: but they are still looking. They seem like an obvious
Speaker 1: candidate to draft someone again this year. I think they'll
Speaker 1: keep drafting guys to see what happens. And Manzielle, I
Speaker 1: guess the thing was this the if he really were
Speaker 1: to clean up his act, the athletic upside and kind
Speaker 1: of what you could potentially do with him probably interests
Speaker 1: a lot of offensive minded coaches. I could see why
Speaker 1: it's attractive to Sean Payton. I don't like the fit
Speaker 1: of him in New Orleans, but if you have issues
Speaker 1: any city is a bad city. Any town's a bad town.
Speaker 1: It's not that much worse. I I don't I don't
Speaker 1: buy the fact that, like man'zelle in general, he's either
Speaker 1: got his act together or he doesn't right, And there's
Speaker 1: very little reason to think he has it together or
Speaker 1: would keep it together. I mean, it would be the
Speaker 1: perfect landing spot for him. If anyone could get some
Speaker 1: value out of him, I think it would be Sean Payton.
Speaker 1: But I'm surprised if if this moved forward. I mean,
Speaker 1: he's not going to change his body type, you know
Speaker 1: what I mean. He's still is gonna look like someone
Speaker 1: that just doesn't look like an NFL quarterback. And it
Speaker 1: looks like he's gonna get injured anytime he's out there.
Speaker 1: And not to mention New Orleans, let's let's say how
Speaker 1: that works. They also met with Chase Daniel. You know,
Speaker 1: there was some talk that they were kind of a
Speaker 1: you know, a dark horse for Jimmy Garoppolo. I don't
Speaker 1: think they would give up, obviously the picks to make
Speaker 1: that happen, but they liked him back in the day.
Speaker 1: They're looking for young guarter. This has been a humbling
Speaker 1: um offseason for your boy Chase Chase Montana. He's getting
Speaker 1: it's making the leap cut me a lot of is
Speaker 1: it's not a lot of job offers. Well, like Darrell Revus,
Speaker 1: he's an all time great who's guaranteed six million dollars
Speaker 1: this year no matter where he plays because of that
Speaker 1: terrible contract the Eagles gave him. So I would, okay,
Speaker 1: I would stay right home, mo my lawns, sit out
Speaker 1: on the beautiful front porch, drink drinks, watch the sunset.
Speaker 1: Why not a few more guesses? Mark for the person
Speaker 1: in this building that has the info on Johnny Manzelo. Yeah,
Speaker 1: the sandwich guy getting closer. Andre's the compliance officer, Well,
Speaker 1: he's really the h the Human resource of Human Resource
Speaker 1: Head of Human Resources, Lakisha Jackson, Associate desk editor. She's
Speaker 1: got a lot of information. It was not this item.
Speaker 1: If you, even if you were to get it, I
Speaker 1: would not say yes. But I don't feel everyone knows
Speaker 1: inside the building. It's not a scoop for you really. Well,
Speaker 1: I was. I was told it a long time ago.
Speaker 1: I know I know who you're talking about. I was
Speaker 1: told before you were told. And I and I are
Speaker 1: you talking over my happy to talk over it. I
Speaker 1: unlike you. I didn't attempt to someone to tell someone else,
Speaker 1: and you actually did tell someone else. I don't know
Speaker 1: what you're talking about. Yeah, Dan, you don't. You don't
Speaker 1: tell Dan's secrets. Dan's credentials as the network insider continue
Speaker 1: to be called into question as he gets further away
Speaker 1: from his only scoop and then he yesterday acted like
Speaker 1: he had some big scoop and then backed off its
Speaker 1: saying oh no way, Actually I can't. I can't reveal
Speaker 1: that information. Please, that's not how insiders act. Can I
Speaker 1: just say before we move on to the next story.
Speaker 1: This story is upsetting to me because I was going
Speaker 1: to use Johnny Manziel as my redemption in the Sandwich round,
Speaker 1: but I gun shy after what happened last year, Just
Speaker 1: so like out of curiosity. If I had said, like,
Speaker 1: Johnny Manziel will be on an NFL roster by the
Speaker 1: end of the summer, how many of you would have
Speaker 1: taken me on that? I would take you on that?
Speaker 1: What does end of the summer mean? Like like like
Speaker 1: through training camp, I take you. I don't think he's
Speaker 1: gonna get you want to lay it out, you want
Speaker 1: it out right now, and I do it right now?
Speaker 1: All right doing it? Okay, thank you up on that.
Speaker 1: I'm not get my lunch, Greg. And I'll say it again,
Speaker 1: Jealousy is not a good look. I mean, break something.
Speaker 1: See what it's like. I'm not trying to be Jonathan
Speaker 1: Stewart uh sticking around in Carolina. Rap Sheet reported Friday
Speaker 1: that Carolina Panthers extended Stewart's contract one year, meaning he's
Speaker 1: signed through the thirty year old running back. Um is
Speaker 1: coming off a season where he battled injuries. He missed
Speaker 1: three games, just three ards per carrying two eighteen attempts. Yeah, Greg,
Speaker 1: when he's healthy, he's a good guy. But this is
Speaker 1: not a signing we're gonna go crazy about, right. This
Speaker 1: is a signing for salary cap purposes. I fully expect.
Speaker 1: We haven't seen all the details, but it lowers his
Speaker 1: cap number for this year, kind of spreads it out
Speaker 1: a little bit. I think they'll be looking for another
Speaker 1: running back in the draft to pair with Jonathan Stewart.
Speaker 1: He's still a good player, one of my favorites over
Speaker 1: the last decade. They are such a candidate to draft someone.
Speaker 1: They've got Fozzy Whittaker, Cameron artist Payne and someone named
Speaker 1: Jalen Simmons behind Stewart who you can't count on. I mean,
Speaker 1: they absolutely want to be a run based team too.
Speaker 1: I think they're gonna move away from some of the
Speaker 1: stuff they've done. You've got to you've gotta find you
Speaker 1: could you could bring Double Trouble back together then the
Speaker 1: running back duo nickname that never really took holds six
Speaker 1: years lo Angelo Williams and Jonathan Stewart double Trump. I
Speaker 1: mean they couldn't keep them healthy then, So definitely reunite
Speaker 1: the two of them and see how would go in
Speaker 1: two thousand seven love Jay st though. You'd bring them
Speaker 1: in with a rookie, combine them good if you're if
Speaker 1: you're regular fantasy player, there's certain players, whether it's football
Speaker 1: or baseball, whatever, that just stick with you if they
Speaker 1: they banged you in a big spot. Uh D'Angel Williams
Speaker 1: hit me hard, and I think it was like twelve
Speaker 1: He came off like a twelve yard season and I
Speaker 1: got in bed with him and it blew up and
Speaker 1: I can never forgive him. It's like Adrian Beltrey in
Speaker 1: two thousand four. It happens sometimes. Do you know what
Speaker 1: I'm talking about. Yeah, absolutely be Jonathan Stewart. You know,
Speaker 1: there's many people with a similar tale. I think I've
Speaker 1: written twenty five posts about Jonathan Stewart, left or right foot.
Speaker 1: Moving on, Mark Sanchez, He's staying in the league. Good
Speaker 1: for you, Mark. One year deal signed with the Chicago Bears. Bears,
Speaker 1: the team announced Friday. Uh. Sanchez has really started to
Speaker 1: bounce around the league now. UH since the Jets kind
Speaker 1: of loose a couple of years ago. Uh. He's spent
Speaker 1: time with the Eagles, the Cowboys last season, now the Bears. Uh.
Speaker 1: And his his numbers exactly describe ultimately the quarterback that
Speaker 1: Mark Sanchez is. His career numbers, seventy seventy two career starts,
Speaker 1: a fifty six point seven completion rate, eighty six touchdowns,
Speaker 1: eighty six interceptions, and a seventy three point nine passer rating.
Speaker 1: That is Mark Sanchez. You're not You're not getting a
Speaker 1: franchise guy. Once upon a time that Jets thought he
Speaker 1: could be that guy. But now he locks in behind
Speaker 1: Mike Lennon as a back, of which, let's be honest,
Speaker 1: I know Mike Unon got a lot of money. Not
Speaker 1: the worst spot to be it's the backup to Mike Lennon. Wow,
Speaker 1: you might play you might not play well because of
Speaker 1: the people around you. Well, I'm just saying the chance
Speaker 1: to get some playing time Mike. If Mike Lennon's a bust,
Speaker 1: which some people, including the man that's not here today,
Speaker 1: Chris Wesling, believe him to be. I think Sanchez's career
Speaker 1: has proven what what the Jets fans wrong that say, like, well,
Speaker 1: he was good back in the day, Like no, he
Speaker 1: was not really ever in his moments. He he was
Speaker 1: also paired with the phenomenal defense he had. He had
Speaker 1: a he had a lot around him. Know the truth
Speaker 1: about Mark Sanche is he was terrible as a rookie,
Speaker 1: but that was one of the best defenses of the decade.
Speaker 1: UH played okay in the playoffs that year and they
Speaker 1: got to the NFC title game. He played very well
Speaker 1: in the playoffs the following year after another up and
Speaker 1: down regular season, and then they famously took the training
Speaker 1: wheels off him and rex By and even sent out
Speaker 1: a automated message to the fan base how the offense
Speaker 1: was gonna open things up with Mark Sanchez coming off
Speaker 1: UH promising playoff run and he really That's when it
Speaker 1: became apparent this guy was always gonna be turnover prone
Speaker 1: and he was always going to be a limited player.
Speaker 1: And then he was kind of out the door the
Speaker 1: butt fumble the next year. So I don't think any
Speaker 1: Jet fans were very excited about him after that those
Speaker 1: playoff runs, but you can never really buy into him
Speaker 1: because he never really had a good season. Do you
Speaker 1: think that this is there anything coming out of all
Speaker 1: of this where Chicago is basically saying we're not going
Speaker 1: to draft a quarterback anywhere nearly as high as anyone thinks.
Speaker 1: Are they taking themselves out of that mix entirely of
Speaker 1: this year? Shouldn't they? I don't know, because I think
Speaker 1: they should draft someone they haven't in forever. They need
Speaker 1: to not sure. He feels like a two year answer
Speaker 1: to me. Now, they only guaranteed the money really in
Speaker 1: the first year, so it's not gonna be their first
Speaker 1: round pick. So that second third, you know, I don't
Speaker 1: think that would assets If you just paid the quarterback
Speaker 1: good money and you really believe in them, why would
Speaker 1: you invest in a high round pick. I'm not saying
Speaker 1: their first round pick, but we've seen a lot of
Speaker 1: teams who have quarterbacks take them in the second, third,
Speaker 1: and fourth round. If you find Chicago specifically, yeah, I
Speaker 1: think Glennon is not. You know, we don't know what
Speaker 1: Mike Glennon is in Chicago by between now in December.
Speaker 1: It could be an absolute disaster. I think they feel
Speaker 1: good about him though, well, but then, you know what
Speaker 1: it's point to is the quarterbacks they've felt good about
Speaker 1: over the last twenty years. There aren't that many good
Speaker 1: Chicago Bears quarterbacks in their history. Moving on, meanwhile, on
Speaker 1: the throne of ease, the Super Bowl champion New England
Speaker 1: Patriots confirmed, Oh it's a it's a fuzzy word. Considering
Speaker 1: the source, they will visit the White House on April nineteenth.
Speaker 1: White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer announced on Thursday, uh
Speaker 1: this will mark the fifth time Tom Brady, Bill Belichick
Speaker 1: and company have met with the President in Washington. Bad
Speaker 1: news for the old zeuser who in our Super Bowl
Speaker 1: preview show, I laid it out there. I said, I
Speaker 1: don't think the winner of this game is going to
Speaker 1: go to the White House. I don't think it will happen. Well,
Speaker 1: right now, Mark, you're up a sandwich, because it looks
Speaker 1: like it's gonna happen. Greg did not take you up
Speaker 1: on that. Greg believed he agreed with me. He thought
Speaker 1: it wasn't gonna happen. And now what do you have
Speaker 1: to lost the factor in? And that doesn't make it
Speaker 1: a good wager on my part was the week of
Speaker 1: the Super Bowl, things were really really testy in this country.
Speaker 1: Not that things are much better now, but they were.
Speaker 1: There were, um, there were protests at airports across the
Speaker 1: country about, uh, the the immigrant stance of Donald Trump
Speaker 1: and people that are outside are not uh, you know,
Speaker 1: natives of this country. Uh. And I thought that that
Speaker 1: was something that would have legs to the point where
Speaker 1: a lot of these players would say, I don't want
Speaker 1: anything to do with this. I think that stuff could happen. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I think so. I think it's going to be like
Speaker 1: if you could get you know, a third of a
Speaker 1: sandwich because a big chunk of Patriots players don't go.
Speaker 1: I'd be willing to go down and buy you a
Speaker 1: third of a sandwich. No, I don't want to do that.
Speaker 1: I think I think you won fair and square. And
Speaker 1: Gregg didn't take me up on it. Well, we'll find out.
Speaker 1: I don't think this may not be the This assumes
Speaker 1: that the Patriots have entirely You know what, if the
Speaker 1: Patriots say this is embarrassing. We only fifteen players that
Speaker 1: want to go. Maybe they say this is not a
Speaker 1: good look for us. Were ensnared in something we don't
Speaker 1: want to be. Maybe this is not over for you.
Speaker 1: I needed, you know what. Ultimately, I needed the Falcons
Speaker 1: to close that game out. Yes, exactly, because Kraft will
Speaker 1: go no matter what that got bad for you. Yep,
Speaker 1: he'll go. Arthur blank Is is uh out a left
Speaker 1: leaning owner, one of the few there. And I can't
Speaker 1: remember where West came down. Did he take it or not?
Speaker 1: I can't remember it was can I guess he didn't
Speaker 1: take me on it. I guess he didn't. I wasn't
Speaker 1: active in that that wager. Apparently, I guess not. Finally, Uh,
Speaker 1: this is the story. I like this story. Nobody else
Speaker 1: cares about this, but I like it. I wrote about
Speaker 1: it on the end around. Uh yeah, that's fine. Uh.
Speaker 1: The kicker competition in Tampa Bay. I love it so
Speaker 1: exciting because Roberto Aguayo, the former second round picked one
Speaker 1: a nightmare season he had last year and uh so
Speaker 1: the Bucks wisely, and you know they had to swallow
Speaker 1: some pride and bring in competition for Aguayo for a year.
Speaker 1: Two I got they invested a second round picking and
Speaker 1: trade it up to get him outrageous my own. Uh
Speaker 1: So here comes Nick Folk, former jet spent seven years
Speaker 1: in New York. Really a solid, steady kicker, and this
Speaker 1: is what my boy Nick had to say about his
Speaker 1: upcoming kicker battle this summer. I can hopefully get him
Speaker 1: going a little bit in the NFL world because I
Speaker 1: had a great guy to learn from in Martee my
Speaker 1: my rookie year, and I kind of picked some things
Speaker 1: off of him, just kind of sitting and watch him.
Speaker 1: But I hopefully I can show him a few things,
Speaker 1: not too many, because I have a family to feed.
Speaker 1: So I have a family to feed. Screw you, Robbieguyo,
Speaker 1: I'm coming up bang your life. I mean, it felt
Speaker 1: like a largely benign message, and that feels taking it
Speaker 1: out of context a little bit. I don't think what
Speaker 1: was the head The headline is why people don't trust
Speaker 1: the media these days, Dan, what's the headline? Maybe if
Speaker 1: this is the wrong headline used on end around Folk
Speaker 1: on Bucks kicker competition, colon, I have a family to feed.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, it's dead on baby, I mean he said it. Well,
Speaker 1: you know what's really strange here is that Nick Folk
Speaker 1: got seven dred and fifty thousand dollar is guaranteed in
Speaker 1: his contract, which is a lot, and Aguayo has guaranteed
Speaker 1: money I believe in his contract. So when you're you know,
Speaker 1: because they gave him a big signing bonus and to
Speaker 1: take cap. I mean, when you're a GM, that's what
Speaker 1: you want to do. You really want to lock into
Speaker 1: guaranteed money for two kickers, so that either way you're screwed.
Speaker 1: What's going on in there in Tampa, maybe they keep both.
Speaker 1: Uh one more thing, doubling back to the Pats, everybody
Speaker 1: should know that Tom Brady's jersey's are back on Patriot Way.
Speaker 1: There was a photo op at Gilette Stadium between the
Speaker 1: FBI's Boston Division and Robert Kraft and here's a statement
Speaker 1: from FBI Boston today. The Federal Bureau of Investigation in
Speaker 1: Boston is pleased to return the jerseys warned by New
Speaker 1: England Patriots m v P. Tom Brady during Super Bowl
Speaker 1: forty one and Super Bowl fifty one. We know how
Speaker 1: much this means to the Patriots and football fans everywhere,
Speaker 1: and we are honored to be able to bring the
Speaker 1: jerseys back to Foxborough. Robert Craft also had a statement
Speaker 1: to release an official statement. We want to thank the FBI,
Speaker 1: the Mexican authorities, and the many different local agencies that
Speaker 1: were involved in the investigation and ultimate recovery of Tom
Speaker 1: Brady Super Bowl fifty one jersey. Working alongside the with
Speaker 1: the Patriots and NFL Security, those agencies collectively coordinated investigation
Speaker 1: that also led to the return of blah blah blah
Speaker 1: blah blah. It is another example of the importance of
Speaker 1: teamwork and what can be accomplished when everyone works together.
Speaker 1: We appreciate the effort of everyone involved and look forward
Speaker 1: to returning these jerseys to Tom when he gets back
Speaker 1: to New England. I think it is comprehensively clear to
Speaker 1: the listener that we had a lot of time to
Speaker 1: fill in this show. Yeah, it's like, it's like we
Speaker 1: can't solve pretty much anything in this country, you know, politically, Uh,
Speaker 1: we're a butt of jokes internationally. But if we got
Speaker 1: to get a uniform back of our quarterback or one
Speaker 1: when some baseball tournament no one cares about. Like, nobody
Speaker 1: takes us out. These colors don't run big shot on
Speaker 1: baseball tournaments. Uh, WBC hugely popular, sold out Dodger Stadium,
Speaker 1: mark the finals. I'm just saying. Someone in the room
Speaker 1: said it was a tournament nobody cared about. I didn't
Speaker 1: weigh in on where I feel. I can assure you
Speaker 1: you know it was. It wasn't the biggest thing on
Speaker 1: my mind either. Um, So there you have it. It
Speaker 1: was about teamwork. Were you at this Dodger stadium? Did
Speaker 1: you care much about it? I watched it. I watched
Speaker 1: I enjoyed it at your house? All nine innings? Is it?
Speaker 1: Did it go nine innings? No? What four innings? I
Speaker 1: don't know how long did the old people's interest? The
Speaker 1: games are three innings long on the WBC. Well they've
Speaker 1: got it right. Uh, you're don't. You're not really a
Speaker 1: sports fan, are you, Mark Ultimate. I do think when
Speaker 1: it comes to baseball, it is a season that essentially
Speaker 1: was shaped. We've heard people in how about advance eight years?
Speaker 1: Like any other sports? Is my question? Sure? If I
Speaker 1: did not work here, I think I would watch a
Speaker 1: lot of sports. What I mean, sports that are on.
Speaker 1: I'd probably find a new team to get into. But
Speaker 1: would you watch the NBA? I am dealing with sports
Speaker 1: all day long. I watched the NBA the playoffs like
Speaker 1: a lot of people. I get it. In the regular
Speaker 1: season of the NBA. What human needs to deal with that? Okay,
Speaker 1: all right? I mean I just want you judge people
Speaker 1: for liking others. I'm not judging I. I would say
Speaker 1: I'm judging the sport for not understanding how it could
Speaker 1: be more marketable in some cases, not the people that
Speaker 1: watch it. I you are siding with the millennial generation
Speaker 1: on this. Yes, I am? Okay, am, I am. I
Speaker 1: totally out of tune with with my analysis. And that's
Speaker 1: what's happening in the news. By the way, we should
Speaker 1: circle back and talk a little bit more about Colleen
Speaker 1: Countie fox Um. Yeah, so we don't she text like
Speaker 1: she texted me. Let me just bring up the text
Speaker 1: that she sent me. M Hey, I hate to do this,
Speaker 1: but I'm sick. I thought i'd kick it by today,
Speaker 1: but I don't want to come in and get you
Speaker 1: guys sick to it. If I put you in a
Speaker 1: bad spot, I'll totally come in, But otherwise you definitely
Speaker 1: don't want me near you. H Well, I'm just I'm
Speaker 1: I'm glad we got that time with her and Gonzo,
Speaker 1: you know, at her husband. I wasn't to wear who
Speaker 1: that was, but it just and I'm glad that they
Speaker 1: had that time together before this. No, she she did well.
Speaker 1: I think he'll think back on her as someone who
Speaker 1: was a great wife after the party that she put
Speaker 1: together for him. I think the thing is that's understoold
Speaker 1: about Colleen. What I'll remember is that, um, a great journalist,
Speaker 1: a great reporter. Not just hey, I'm Colleen. I'm gonna
Speaker 1: come in and be part of the podcast when Western
Speaker 1: mark Er someone's not there, A really solid reporter who
Speaker 1: cared about her job, did a good job here at
Speaker 1: NFL Network. She was great and we don't want to
Speaker 1: jump to conclusions here, but we'll never forget her and
Speaker 1: she's gonna stay in our hearts. Who blood, I speak
Speaker 1: Spanish because it's time, bads and ends. All right, all right,
Speaker 1: let's move on. It's sorry. It's hard to pivot out
Speaker 1: of that. Yeah, I mean, but do we have to?
Speaker 1: It's been hard to do. This whole show hasn't been easy. Um,
Speaker 1: all right, moving on, let's play the over under game.
Speaker 1: This is fun. Yeah, over under game. This is a
Speaker 1: game where, uh, this is what we're gonna do. I
Speaker 1: took a look at again. It's getting a lot of play.
Speaker 1: I would say a little too much play on the
Speaker 1: scroll at NFL New Work, NFL dot COM's Greg Rosenthal
Speaker 1: and Chris Westling their Top one oh one. That's been
Speaker 1: a constant scroll now for four weeks. That's still a thing.
Speaker 1: Are you okay with that? Greg? Do you feel like
Speaker 1: at this point maybe they move you out of that scroll?
Speaker 1: He said? People are saying it's getting too much play.
Speaker 1: Who are who are these people who's been saying I'm
Speaker 1: gonna I'm gonna tell you that it wasn't Booya Andres
Speaker 1: or Lakisha. I don't know if that's still happening. It
Speaker 1: was as of yesterday. Anyway, The point I like it,
Speaker 1: it's it's uh, it's good. It's good branding, it's good
Speaker 1: for your brand. I get it. Um My point is
Speaker 1: I I circled back to it um, which you could
Speaker 1: get at NFL dot com slash Top free Agents. Not
Speaker 1: my favorite bandit of r L, but um, here's the
Speaker 1: top one oh one available players, and they're updated to
Speaker 1: let you know where these people landed. And so I
Speaker 1: I kind of made a list of some of the
Speaker 1: bigger names. And this is mostly on the off offensive
Speaker 1: side of the ball. Um uh for me? Uh that
Speaker 1: are with new teams and where are they going to
Speaker 1: How is how things gonna go in their first year?
Speaker 1: That's basically what this is about. So let me find
Speaker 1: this on my computer. How long have the list I found?
Speaker 1: Here we go. It's a very long list, longer than
Speaker 1: your average Major League baseball game. Mark. You know, baseball
Speaker 1: is looking to chop down their time too. They made
Speaker 1: some progress baseball game in June Dodgers Nationals Dodgers. I'm
Speaker 1: gonna wear that. I actually am looking online already to
Speaker 1: do some online shopping for some Nationals gear because I
Speaker 1: like to go into Dodgers Stadium and turn heads. I'm
Speaker 1: gonna wear blazing red net their red right blazing red
Speaker 1: Nationals gear from toe to head, head to toe. Nothing
Speaker 1: bad has ever happened in the parking lot of Dodgers
Speaker 1: stag or a fan of the enemy. Um, all right,
Speaker 1: here we go. Let's start with Alshon Jeffrey. Al Right, guys,
Speaker 1: and I'm gonna do a little over under here? Did
Speaker 1: I make that clear? A little over under set the
Speaker 1: table statistics for the sixteen season. And you fantasy heads
Speaker 1: out there, this is in my wheelhouse. Yeah, you love this.
Speaker 1: And I was about to say, like the not mine?
Speaker 1: So well maybe you don't. Don't doubt yourself here, Mark, um, don't.
Speaker 1: We're talking about the Raiders move into Vegas. How about
Speaker 1: Mark the idea of Greg packing up his family and
Speaker 1: move into Vegas. I feel like something that has benefits
Speaker 1: for Greg. Greg would love to Greg is gonna suddenly
Speaker 1: what does it mean? How about this? Scratch the itch please?
Speaker 1: But it's the last place I would want to live. Well,
Speaker 1: you say that dry and fake, nothing going on. Well,
Speaker 1: there's something going on that apparently you're a part of,
Speaker 1: so you like you used to like. So this is
Speaker 1: your wheelhouse though, Greg, over and under stuff like a
Speaker 1: Brent Musburger like and al Mike. Um, here we go.
Speaker 1: Alshon Jeffrey has first season with the Eagles, playing with
Speaker 1: a developing Carson Wentz who started suddenly has a nice
Speaker 1: little receiving corps around him. Alshon Jeffrey year one seventy
Speaker 1: catches Greg. Well, when you brought up alson Jeffrey. I
Speaker 1: immediately just thought, I'm going over no matter what, and
Speaker 1: so that's what I'm doing. Although seventy catches, that's a
Speaker 1: lot of catches. I think he's gonna you know, he's
Speaker 1: more of a deep threat guy, so to catch seventy
Speaker 1: passes he would that would probably put him over yards.
Speaker 1: That's a big time season out of a deep threat.
Speaker 1: But I think he can do it. I think you
Speaker 1: gonna have a monster year, and I love the fit
Speaker 1: in Philly. I'm gonna go under. Even when he played
Speaker 1: sixteen games, he only had eighty five catches in Chicago,
Speaker 1: that was three seasons ago. I think it's he's not
Speaker 1: he's not the you know, eight nine catches a game
Speaker 1: guy necessarily. And also I don't believe he's gonna play
Speaker 1: sixteen games. I simply do not. Okay, that's fair and
Speaker 1: fifty yards, oh yeah, well that's definitely over. Now I'm
Speaker 1: going under, slightly under. I think he's receiver in Philly
Speaker 1: this year. I think he's gonna be a little bit under.
Speaker 1: Solid season, but around nine six thirty three his last
Speaker 1: full healthy season, so right around there, seven touchdowns, I'm
Speaker 1: going over again. I'm bullish, push push. I was waiting
Speaker 1: to see how long for our first Well, I think
Speaker 1: seven makes sense for him in this equation that I'm
Speaker 1: coming up for with him. We could call this segment
Speaker 1: over under or over under or in Mark's case, push
Speaker 1: pushes a solid lot's of mouthful. It's kind of like
Speaker 1: you're kind of on the fence a little bit. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's not helping out your reputation, like on the fence settler.
Speaker 1: I actually, let's say this. Let's say this as when
Speaker 1: I predicted that the Super Bowl would go into overtime
Speaker 1: for the first time in human history correctly, if he
Speaker 1: nails seven touchdowns, all of you will be silent for
Speaker 1: twenty years. You also predicted that super Bowl wouldn't happen,
Speaker 1: did it? How do you know? At some level we
Speaker 1: don't know if it really did. I did hear a
Speaker 1: good theory that we're in some sort of alternate timeline
Speaker 1: right now with Trump as their president, that this is
Speaker 1: some sort of alternative to really should have happened. There
Speaker 1: you go, So maybe Mark's right, That's what I'm saying.
Speaker 1: I just won't get credit for it. All. Right. Here's
Speaker 1: an interesting one. Adrian Peterson now, I know he doesn't
Speaker 1: have a team yet, so it's hard to do this,
Speaker 1: but just think Adrian Peterson gonna sign somewhere, probably gonna
Speaker 1: play how much, we don't know. So I'm gonna set
Speaker 1: it at two hundred carries, one thousand yards, five touchdowns
Speaker 1: the lock mark in here. I'm gonna set it five
Speaker 1: and a half touchdowns. I believe that Adrian Peterson can
Speaker 1: do things when no one expects them, that he can
Speaker 1: surprise us, that he's got one more season with a
Speaker 1: little bit of juice in his bones and maybe nothing crazy,
Speaker 1: but those numbers aren't crazy, and I think he'll find
Speaker 1: somewhere that could actually work, whether it's Oakland or two
Speaker 1: I'll go over. Those are two down back numbers. Having
Speaker 1: a nice season, Yeah yeah, under across the board with
Speaker 1: no questions asked. I'm saying when by the end of
Speaker 1: the year, no questions asked. Incidentally, there's a there's a
Speaker 1: report today from ESPN saying that Peterson has wanted more
Speaker 1: than eight million dollars in the first year of his
Speaker 1: contract and good luck with that. That is what has
Speaker 1: kept his market totally silent. You want to talk about
Speaker 1: a humbling offseason, Adrian Peterson probably can't believe it. He's
Speaker 1: I'm the greatest running back of my generation. I'm sending
Speaker 1: out these Instagram video showing that I got juice in
Speaker 1: my legs. Still I'm fresh after barely playing last year.
Speaker 1: Well known as a you know, nobody wants man. Nobody
Speaker 1: wants to pay him eight million. That's what's where does
Speaker 1: the handsome thing? Is? He? Good looking guy? People, people,
Speaker 1: the ladies love Adrian Peterson in terms of his looks. Um,
Speaker 1: I don't know if I'm qualified, if I feel like
Speaker 1: he's a little old for me. True when we hit
Speaker 1: Sydney with get it Kirk Cousins, like twenty eight or
Speaker 1: twenty nine, let's colm down with us, I will say
Speaker 1: it's one of the other humbling things that happened to
Speaker 1: him was did you guys see the report in Minnesota
Speaker 1: when our reporter was doing h I did see that. Yes, yeah,
Speaker 1: he was a man on the street on the street, yeah,
Speaker 1: for road rage interviewing Adrian Peterson. He's telling them all
Speaker 1: about road rage. At the end he goes, what's your name?
Speaker 1: For the record, he goes, Adrian Peterson. Suddenly this this
Speaker 1: reporter is like, oh no, great I mean Greg's pulling
Speaker 1: up Google images. Yeah, he's I mean he's an eight
Speaker 1: probably smile, you know, a great smile, great handshake. Yeah.
Speaker 1: I don't think that factors in Greg de Sean Jackson,
Speaker 1: Nick Carter, the Backstreet Boys single handedly recruited Jackson uh
Speaker 1: to play with the Bucks and Jamis Winston and now
Speaker 1: we got something cooking down there because you got Mike Evans,
Speaker 1: one of the best young wide receivers in the league. Obviously,
Speaker 1: you gonna be a target machine, but there are gets
Speaker 1: to go around, and DeShawn Jackson is going to certainly
Speaker 1: get some of them when he's on the field. Is
Speaker 1: he gonna be on the field enough. Well, let's say
Speaker 1: fifty fifty catches, one thousand yards, four and a half touchdowns.
Speaker 1: I will go over on every category. He did that
Speaker 1: essentially last year with the Redskins. He had four touchdowns,
Speaker 1: but he had almost over everything else you said, and
Speaker 1: there were a lot of mouths to feed in that offense.
Speaker 1: He played fifteen games. I think this is one of
Speaker 1: the great free agent fits. I think we all feel
Speaker 1: that way, and it's a perfect guy to pair across
Speaker 1: from Mike Evans. He's going to if he stays healthy,
Speaker 1: he's gonna have a big year. I think you'll top
Speaker 1: all those category. I'm gonna go over as well, although
Speaker 1: touchdowns not a really big touchdown score. I think you
Speaker 1: put the numbers right around where he should be. So
Speaker 1: he's the guy I could see getting a little overrated
Speaker 1: in fantasy. I mean maybe I'm wrong, maybe people aren't excited,
Speaker 1: but if people are expecting his numbers to pop, I
Speaker 1: don't think they're gonna pop up there at all, but
Speaker 1: they'll be solid. It interesting Mark because Alshon Jeffrey has
Speaker 1: had injury issues, but Deshan Jackson I feel like he
Speaker 1: misses four games a year with hamstring issues. That would
Speaker 1: be hard. He started sixteen thirteen, started thirteen the next
Speaker 1: year and he had it was two years ago he
Speaker 1: had an issue. But he's been relatively healthy. Okay, that's
Speaker 1: fair speaking of guys that might be a little bit
Speaker 1: overvalued once we get to fantasy season. MARTELLEZ Bennett, Uh,
Speaker 1: the Packers. Everybody likes the signing, we love the the
Speaker 1: offense that he's entering in the quarterback obviously. Um So
Speaker 1: I'm gonna set the numbers, maybe conservatively compared to what
Speaker 1: some other people are expecting, uh, thirty years old or
Speaker 1: twenty nine years old. Here we go. Sixty five catches,
Speaker 1: eight hundred and fifty yards, seven and a half touchdowns.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna go under for all of them. I just
Speaker 1: don't first of all, an injury risk, played through injuries,
Speaker 1: missed games in two thousand fifteen, getting older're gonna block
Speaker 1: a lot. Tight ends not always a huge part of
Speaker 1: that offen so that they'd like it to be. I
Speaker 1: think he could be an effective player for them without
Speaker 1: putting some big numbers up under. Okay, Mark, I'm with Greg.
Speaker 1: I don't think it's the I don't know if it's
Speaker 1: going to be a position that piles up numbers. With
Speaker 1: the way that they've used tight ends. Jared Cook was injured.
Speaker 1: He he ended up with thirty catches lesher, but he
Speaker 1: missed a bunch of time. But and he kind of
Speaker 1: emerged later in the Seeds, did I just I think
Speaker 1: Martelli spent will be a nice piece, but he doesn't
Speaker 1: need to be an absolute monster for them as the
Speaker 1: center of their passing. I'm gonna go back right now
Speaker 1: to Jre Michael Finley's career before the Browns game ended
Speaker 1: his career and see the last time they really had
Speaker 1: like a high volume tight end. What kind of numbers
Speaker 1: he put up? He started fourteen games and appeared in
Speaker 1: sixteen and two thousand twelve targeted eighty seven times, sixty
Speaker 1: one catches for six d and sixty seven yards. The
Speaker 1: year before that, again sixteen games, fifty five or seven
Speaker 1: sixty seven and eight touchdowns. Maybe I think I think
Speaker 1: that would be the zone maybe we were looking at,
Speaker 1: and maybe below that, I'm gonna do that. Uh. I
Speaker 1: had an experience interviewing Jamichael Finley on one of the
Speaker 1: best days of his career, the day he signed a
Speaker 1: long term contract extension with the Packers, and I was
Speaker 1: standing in thirty degree weather outside of the scouting combine
Speaker 1: and was forced to stand on a large box because
Speaker 1: Jamichael Finley and I looked so silly standing next to
Speaker 1: each other. Sports Channel. Did you share a look at
Speaker 1: like acknowledging how silly the whole thing was. Well, I
Speaker 1: think we start. We were just standing there and they
Speaker 1: were like, yeah, someone better get a box out for
Speaker 1: this little clown. You know, he was a cool guy.
Speaker 1: I mean, I think he had fun with it. Good yarn, good,
Speaker 1: good time to check the sync on these podcast poses. Uh, Mark,
Speaker 1: do you want to jump in with one of your own?
Speaker 1: Or don't you have one? Oh? I thought you have.
Speaker 1: You have a story of your inter I have many yarns.
Speaker 1: I did not. I have not been put on a
Speaker 1: boxed interview anyone lately of late. Um ziggy Hood, your boy,
Speaker 1: all right, journeyman, defensive line of it. Now he's landed
Speaker 1: and who I mean someone's maybe he's Greg's well landed
Speaker 1: in Washington, the nation's capital, on a two year, two
Speaker 1: point seven million dollar contract. Expectations are high, over under
Speaker 1: twenty nine tackles seventeen. See this is good? Why I
Speaker 1: do it? Um? I think this is compelling. Let's see
Speaker 1: his career tackle numbers seventeen, seventeen, nineteen fifteen. And you said,
Speaker 1: what breakout your twenty nine? So I'm saying breakout year
Speaker 1: for ziggy Hood. How old is he? He's not Young's
Speaker 1: perfect right in that sweet spot. I think they're going
Speaker 1: to get what they paid for and nothing more. So
Speaker 1: I'm gonna say ziggy Hood's gonna clock in right around
Speaker 1: twenty seven uh seven tackles, going under maybe maybe thirty
Speaker 1: one tackles. That's over. I'm going on under. You know
Speaker 1: in it's not good when two of the last three
Speaker 1: seasons he has not started a football game in the NFL.
Speaker 1: That's that could happen again. You like Yarns. It's a
Speaker 1: great comeback story. Originally um named the vander by his
Speaker 1: mom goes by Ziggie Dan good luck. Follow me up
Speaker 1: on that. I'll try that. I'll follow it up with
Speaker 1: a former Cleveland Brown Mark Brian Hoyer, who has signed
Speaker 1: with the forty Niners will probably be their starter and
Speaker 1: is playing under Kyle Shanahan, who everybody gets all jazzed
Speaker 1: up about what he can do with a quarterback. Don't
Speaker 1: look at my computer. What are you looking at my
Speaker 1: screen for it? Right? Ceper? But what are you trying
Speaker 1: to see? Who? He just said? Now I know Brian Hoyer.
Speaker 1: That's who said five and a half touchdowns, thirteen and
Speaker 1: a half picks, three thousand, six hundred yards f and
Speaker 1: a half start how many touchdowns? No, I said and
Speaker 1: a half touchdowns yards fourteen and a half starts. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna go under. I don't know what the final
Speaker 1: answer is there at quarterback, and he's certainly the heavy
Speaker 1: favorite to be the Week one starter. But I would
Speaker 1: guess that will see two or three different starters starting
Speaker 1: a chunk of games. He's not gonna be able to
Speaker 1: keep that Japan under. He's only thrown over twelve once
Speaker 1: and that was under Kyle shanahany He's thrown nineteen in
Speaker 1: that year with Houston, but everything else is just absolutely
Speaker 1: far below. And so I think that that touchdown mark
Speaker 1: I have to go absolutely under dive to go under
Speaker 1: with all of them. If I say under, I will
Speaker 1: because under on the yardage, I think he's gonna. I
Speaker 1: just I don't see Brian Hoyer going wire to wire,
Speaker 1: So I think you're gonna get about ten starts out
Speaker 1: of him tops and then they're gonna have to shift around.
Speaker 1: So there's only so much Kyle Shanahan can do. You
Speaker 1: want to see a little Matt Barkley, you know. I
Speaker 1: think they are definitely a Sara candidate, Absolutely to draft
Speaker 1: someone in the second third round, and if there, if
Speaker 1: the team is two and eight, then you start to
Speaker 1: get a look at some of these guys. How about
Speaker 1: more Morris Claiborne and Josh McCown New York Jets sixteen
Speaker 1: starts combined, bine Mo Claiborne a good one. That's a
Speaker 1: really good one. I'll go over because I think Claiborne
Speaker 1: can give you. He'll give you twelve maybe, and then
Speaker 1: you get five out of McCown. I mean, mo, Claiborne
Speaker 1: has missed a lot of games. I mean McCown could
Speaker 1: give you one. So there's issues, you know, there are
Speaker 1: certain thing issues. I don't like Rudy against injuries in
Speaker 1: the end, But yeah, Claiborne four games in two thousand fourteen,
Speaker 1: only seven and two thousand six and eleven and between.
Speaker 1: I'll go over, though, Okay, I don't want to root
Speaker 1: for I wrote about rebuilding teams, including the New York Jets.
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Speaker 1: or NFL dot com slash Hansas get there either way,
Speaker 1: mark if you need to notice, choose your own adventure.
Speaker 1: Moving on, Eddie Lacy, who is now a member of
Speaker 1: the Seattle Seahawks, but kind of buried in that backfield potentially,
Speaker 1: and I'm I'm not bullish about him. I'll tell you what.
Speaker 1: So I'm putting them at one thirty carries five fifty
Speaker 1: yards averaging four and a half a pop. Mm hmm.
Speaker 1: Don't see a big season at Eddie Lacey. I thought
Speaker 1: it's a bad landing spot, hurt himself by not being
Speaker 1: in shape. Can you read the numbers one more time?
Speaker 1: Dred and thirty carries five hundred and fifty yards, four
Speaker 1: and a half touchdowns. Excuse me not yards per carry,
Speaker 1: two and a half features about him overcoming weight issues
Speaker 1: and papers. I uh, I'm gonna go over. I feel
Speaker 1: like that running game, it's gonna have kind of like
Speaker 1: the San Francisco Quarterbacks. It's gonna have different guys leading
Speaker 1: the way. And I could just see Eddie Lacy at
Speaker 1: some point putting together a five six week run where
Speaker 1: he really looks good and people are like, Wow, the
Speaker 1: old Eddie Lacy's back seat has got their new Marston.
Speaker 1: Maybe it doesn't stick, but I could see that happy
Speaker 1: enough to top those numbers. I'm with you. I think
Speaker 1: they brought him in. It tells you a lot about
Speaker 1: what they think about the rest of their backfield and
Speaker 1: the durability and who they can trust. And I think
Speaker 1: that they'll it's you know, they're gonna use multiple guys,
Speaker 1: but it will be a hot hand offense. And if
Speaker 1: he has that kind of late season run that we've seen.
Speaker 1: You know, it's been years since that's happened. But he's
Speaker 1: still a young guy. I'm gonna go over. Why not.
Speaker 1: I'm rooting for him. He's my boy. One more Brandon
Speaker 1: Marshall New York Giants. One thousand, fifty seven and a
Speaker 1: half t ds. Is he gonna get it done in
Speaker 1: New York? Well? Were the numbers against? I can never five?
Speaker 1: One thousand, fifty yards, seven and a half touchdowns. It's
Speaker 1: in line with his yards per catch um, the volume numbers.
Speaker 1: He had a hundred and fifteen catches or something with
Speaker 1: the Jets two years ago. I believe about seventy last year.
Speaker 1: Going under. Too many males to feed. And the career
Speaker 1: is I'm not saying it's spiking down. I think he's
Speaker 1: he's a guy in that offense. He's he's an upgrade
Speaker 1: on Victor Cruz if he can stay healthy. Number one.
Speaker 1: But under I'm going under. And I feel more confident
Speaker 1: in this one than maybe any that you've put out there.
Speaker 1: And how much under you think it? What's this is
Speaker 1: a bust or what? Yeah? I just think he's the
Speaker 1: third best receiver on a not great passing attack. So
Speaker 1: I think I think Sterling Shepard will have better numbers
Speaker 1: in the end because I think he's better and Odell
Speaker 1: Beckham obviously isn't. So even if it didn't turn out
Speaker 1: to be a total bust like they kind of like
Speaker 1: having him there, I could see him just having a
Speaker 1: seven under yard season or something. And we talked about
Speaker 1: I think we broke broke it down very fairly well,
Speaker 1: the idea that on paper, whoa, this makes a lot
Speaker 1: of sense, but then you start peeling back the layer
Speaker 1: as well, this maybe might not work out. And one
Speaker 1: thing that a lot of people maybe are missing on
Speaker 1: this because you just blame it on the quarterback play.
Speaker 1: But if you look at some other advanced metrics, Brandon
Speaker 1: Marshall wasn't separating from cornerbacks like he was, uh the
Speaker 1: way he was the year before. He looked like he
Speaker 1: maybe he lost a step. And now he's a year older.
Speaker 1: Let's see, thirty three year old wide receivers not a
Speaker 1: big track record for big years. We'll see if Marshall
Speaker 1: can buck the trend. All right, did you have one,
Speaker 1: Greg Or? Okay, I have one more? Do you do? Yeah?
Speaker 1: You Eddie Lacy? Yeah, I got an Eddie for you.
Speaker 1: Tony Gerard Eddie still a free agent, still out there. Now,
Speaker 1: that doesn't mean he's not gonna get picked up. Good athlete,
Speaker 1: they're all good athletes, okay, but it's someone that's going
Speaker 1: to be useful. I think a lot of coaches just
Speaker 1: waiting to kind of strike on Tony Gerard Eddie. One
Speaker 1: force fumble over under two thousand, seventeen pain. I am going, well,
Speaker 1: you know, you look at forced fumble numbers. They don't
Speaker 1: they don't just you know, grow on trees. You don't
Speaker 1: just got twelve or thirteen of them. Some players, very
Speaker 1: good ones have too. While year let's yeah, what tractic
Speaker 1: I am. I'm gonna go cessler here, I'm gonna push
Speaker 1: he's gonna force one. I think that's logical. Well, I'm
Speaker 1: I'm looking at Tony's career stats. He has four games started,
Speaker 1: he's a nose tackle. He has yet to force a
Speaker 1: fumble in his career. So that's that's behind. I look
Speaker 1: at the numbers and I'm gonna say, no, he does
Speaker 1: have an interception streams recovery must have been a fun interception,
Speaker 1: not strangely as great as Mark reference. He's a great athlete.
Speaker 1: He's barely six ft four three three pounds, the pride
Speaker 1: of DeSoto High School in Texas. I thought year last
Speaker 1: one was gonna be um maybe about you're you're running
Speaker 1: back from Toledo State. Some numbers he might be popping up.
Speaker 1: Francisco Wax, He well, he's got to get trafted first.
Speaker 1: I do believe he will get drafted over under um
Speaker 1: round five. That's a solid push. But I will under.
Speaker 1: I'll go under. I'll go under because I think I
Speaker 1: think he's gonna be one of these players. Francisco Waxy
Speaker 1: that when he gets in the league, much like a
Speaker 1: Richard Sherman, he's going to have that chip on his
Speaker 1: shoulder and his whole his whole career. He's confident guy.
Speaker 1: All right, before we get going, Before we get going,
Speaker 1: let's get on the line. The man, the myth, the legend.
Speaker 1: He lives in a haunted mansion in New Jersey. His
Speaker 1: name is Connor or what's Welcome back to the Around
Speaker 1: the NFL podcast. What's going on, buddy? Hey? That happened fast.
Speaker 1: Normally I talked to someone else first. What's up, guy?
Speaker 1: Were you asleep? Sound like you've been nappy. I think
Speaker 1: he's technically on the clock, right, you're on shift. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean, I don't know. Let's let's let's move on.
Speaker 1: We are you know, we're just hanging out. It's a
Speaker 1: nice day in late March here in Los Angeles. And uh,
Speaker 1: and I guess we haven't spoken in a little bit now,
Speaker 1: and I wanted the maining. I guess the reason for
Speaker 1: this call was you have that great connection with my
Speaker 1: not um might Not State University, the Beaver not the Beavers.
Speaker 1: What are they? Buckshot baby? The buckshot baby? Uh? And
Speaker 1: they sent a beautiful, elaborate care package and they sent
Speaker 1: it here and then we, with the help of the
Speaker 1: Great Sydney, sent off many of the materials your way.
Speaker 1: How did that treat you? Those the my not State
Speaker 1: University sending you a care package with all sorts of
Speaker 1: gear and and food from the city. Uh, tell us
Speaker 1: about it. Forget about This place is ridiculous. It's so good. Uh.
Speaker 1: Cindy's track crackers are like the best thing I've ever eaten.
Speaker 1: And also they sent me a white chocolate bar with
Speaker 1: like crumbled up pretzels inside. Forget about it. I mean
Speaker 1: this is uh. They don't call it the Magic City
Speaker 1: for nothing. This place is unbelievable. Connor, are you at
Speaker 1: all concerned? I'm looking at the City of my Not
Speaker 1: Facebook page or excuse me, their Twitter handle. They still
Speaker 1: have just seventy six followers. Yeah. I think that's a
Speaker 1: big problem, and I think that everyone needs to kind
Speaker 1: of get out there and give them a pop, because
Speaker 1: it is i would say, probably next to scrand the
Speaker 1: greatest city in the United States. Wow, that's that's a
Speaker 1: big cell from Connor there, and and a great follow
Speaker 1: on Twitter. I mean, what is the handle? Why don't
Speaker 1: we throw it out there? City of my Not and
Speaker 1: and and you can get tweets like this from March
Speaker 1: twenty The new automated trash containers are convenient and portable.
Speaker 1: Watch our superintendent move three pounds with these that's ten
Speaker 1: sixty gallon cans. Didn't they just have a big vote
Speaker 1: on that about the garbage cans. There's a lot going
Speaker 1: on in that that civic government's and and speaking of
Speaker 1: my Not again, uh based in North Dakota. Nice city.
Speaker 1: You this all started because you're n C double a
Speaker 1: two thousand and four PS three game out. You to
Speaker 1: have Chip Kelly take the reins of the may Not
Speaker 1: state University Buckshot. Uh, and I guess a quick update
Speaker 1: here where where that how that rebuilds going? Because he
Speaker 1: promised some big things if I'm not mistaken. Yeah, maybe
Speaker 1: six and oh we went down to Alabama, we went
Speaker 1: down to Clemson, we went up to Notre Dame, out
Speaker 1: to Oregon, Oklahoma, Ohio state six and oh number nine
Speaker 1: in the country. Forget about it. This is a train
Speaker 1: that is rolling downhill and it's not going to be stopped.
Speaker 1: National Championship. Who's your who's your quarterback? I mean we
Speaker 1: got them all. I mean, you know, I mean this
Speaker 1: is this team. Let me tell you what it's stacked.
Speaker 1: I mean Juuan Mason, Travis Pride, Zack Myers, you know.
Speaker 1: I mean these guys, you know, Andy Jones, Zack Bennett,
Speaker 1: I mean these guys. I mean this is this is
Speaker 1: a train rolling downhill. And that that's like we say,
Speaker 1: why not my not you know, why not? And I
Speaker 1: like it? And I'm curious my not State University. Uh.
Speaker 1: The campus, which of course is located at five hundred
Speaker 1: University Avenue, UM zip code five eight seven zero seven.
Speaker 1: The where where are the chances that College Game Day
Speaker 1: ESPNS College Game Day drops by there and invades that campus. Well,
Speaker 1: I think it's a big credit to our athletic director
Speaker 1: Rick Hedberg UM, who's been doing a ton of work
Speaker 1: here and um, you know, to bring shed a light
Speaker 1: on Herb Parker Stadium. Um, and just a few more people,
Speaker 1: Dean france Vogg, who's the faculty athletic representative making sure
Speaker 1: that all of our athletes are ready on game day
Speaker 1: to go College game day would be insane to overlook this.
Speaker 1: The Herb is going to be insane this year. Uh.
Speaker 1: And the follow up question on the university, since you're
Speaker 1: kind of the unofficial mouthpiece. According to their Wikipedia Wikipedia page,
Speaker 1: their graduation rate was only thirty eight point six percent.
Speaker 1: Any thoughts on that. Well, that's why we've created the
Speaker 1: Power Center and it's providing opportunities with the ants resources.
Speaker 1: That's sort of the acronym there um and that's Dean's
Speaker 1: group and you know, they all kind of work together
Speaker 1: to give you the tools because um, like Dean Franz
Speaker 1: Fog says, in order to be successful on the field,
Speaker 1: you have to be successful off and that's kind of Uh,
Speaker 1: that's kind of been our big thing here. That's good man,
Speaker 1: you got the whole thing. Unlock. You've got an answer
Speaker 1: for everything. I'm gonna throw myself a percent into anything.
Speaker 1: It's almost like there's a gun at your back right now. No,
Speaker 1: I'm all in. I mean, once once you have the
Speaker 1: white chocolate pretzels thing, that's it. I mean, I'm in.
Speaker 1: That's that's what it took. There you go, and and
Speaker 1: anything else to add. By the way we've been, we
Speaker 1: haven't really come back to this. How things going with
Speaker 1: your your movie experience where you were gonna watch all
Speaker 1: the top movies on the American Film and Institute. How's
Speaker 1: that project going? Um? You know, I would say that
Speaker 1: I'm waiting. Uh, I'm waiting for the right time. I
Speaker 1: am going to the movie tonight see Lego Batman. Uh
Speaker 1: oh wait, you have no children? What with a child?
Speaker 1: I'm gonna I'm gonna have three tall beers at Buffalo
Speaker 1: Wild Wings and go see Lego Batman. And uh because
Speaker 1: that's what I wanted to do, you know, And that's
Speaker 1: what I'm gonna do. So that's it. I mean, that's
Speaker 1: what That's what Mark, That's what Connor's up to. I
Speaker 1: don't think that made the a f I Top one
Speaker 1: hundred list. Well it just came out. Greg. Yeah, let's
Speaker 1: be fair. I don't think it's going to ever make
Speaker 1: any top one. Dstun also a fascinating chef. It's about
Speaker 1: three fifteen pm right now on the East Coast. I'd
Speaker 1: imagine he's beginning some sort of croc pot adventure, you know,
Speaker 1: pairing it with an early evening beer before he goes
Speaker 1: out to the cinema. Maybe not. I think we might
Speaker 1: have lost him. Oh I didn't know. I thought you
Speaker 1: guys were staying goodbye to me. Well, you know, we
Speaker 1: might have Maybe we should, I hope. Do you have
Speaker 1: anything in the crockpot? No, I'm doing sort of a
Speaker 1: gourmet grilled cheese because it's Friday, so little career, little brie,
Speaker 1: and we're gonna press that down a little mail back.
Speaker 1: It's gonna be forget about it. There you go, now, Connor,
Speaker 1: let your Friday convince you command sign off our chat client,
Speaker 1: go have a have a ball, get ready for that movie?
Speaker 1: Why not mine? Not? Baby? See you guys around there?
Speaker 1: He goes Connor. Our it's got a guitar swheel, A
Speaker 1: squeal said, what's going on here? A single guitar squill
Speaker 1: for Connor today, would you know, sorry, wow, but disrespect
Speaker 1: the guy live. I mean, he's rock and roll he is.
Speaker 1: If I had it would probably be easier for me
Speaker 1: to do one on an actual guitar than it would
Speaker 1: be on the board. At this moment, we got some
Speaker 1: boards checked out. Sidney's doing doing a lot today, We
Speaker 1: did a We did another hit on up to the minute.
Speaker 1: Two o'clock Pacific, five o'clock Eastern. Might be a little
Speaker 1: too late for people to watch it almost every day
Speaker 1: these days, to just watch it dB R. Hey that
Speaker 1: Nick Folk audio came courtesy was six twenty w d
Speaker 1: a E. The Patent Aaron Show. Oh, hey, you gotta respect,
Speaker 1: you know, give him credit? What credits do? Oh? And
Speaker 1: I do want to say, you know before we go,
Speaker 1: it's it's kind of like a circle of life thing,
Speaker 1: you know. We talked about Colleen's situation, which is, you know, unfortunate.
Speaker 1: But at the same time, um, another extended member of
Speaker 1: the around the NFL family joined this earth Patrick Clayban
Speaker 1: new son Malcolme. Congratulations to the clay Malcolm Clayton. How
Speaker 1: about that wonderful news? What I say Clayton talking with
Speaker 1: John Clayton. Oh, oh, Patrick Claib, Yes, ah, good, but
Speaker 1: you know it is paired with that, that beautiful news
Speaker 1: is paired with what we're dealing with with you know, Colleen,
Speaker 1: of course. So it's you know, that's life. We're happy
Speaker 1: for Patrick uh and his family. We grieve with Gonzo
Speaker 1: who is John gonzazz who is Colleen Wolf's husband, Probably
Speaker 1: the last time we'll have to mention him at this point.
Speaker 1: All right, that's it said. He's looking at like, what
Speaker 1: what happened? It's been a weird show, but I loved
Speaker 1: every minute of it, so it's fine. All right, We'll
Speaker 1: be back on Monday. Uh, West will I don't think
Speaker 1: West will be back. Something will not. Maybe Colleen will
Speaker 1: be able. Well maybe John you can share some memories
Speaker 1: of color. You don't know. We'll just keep it wide open,
Speaker 1: the chair wide open for Monday and uh, and we'll
Speaker 1: see what happens. But thank you to everyone for listening.
Speaker 1: Until then, this is Dan Hanson signing off for a
Speaker 1: quiet storm, the Boss New Money, Connor Or in absentia,
Speaker 1: and Colleen Wolf wherever she is now until Monday. M