Speaker 1: Being Around the NFL Podcast worked with Tom House in
Speaker 1: the off season. Welcome back to another edition of the
Speaker 1: Year Around the NFL Podcast. My name is Dan Hansus,
Speaker 1: and I'm joined by room filled with heroes, Mark Sessler,
Speaker 1: Chris Westling and Gregg Where's it all? What is up? Boys? Hey? Dan?
Speaker 1: Little concerned everyone altogether? Well, because you know, we've been
Speaker 1: in the studio for a bit and there is massive
Speaker 1: drilling happening essentially right below where West and I sit.
Speaker 1: This could be a two person show at any moment
Speaker 1: because it feels close to us. Massive drilling in an
Speaker 1: elevator shaft. There are jackhammers involved, disturbing and you know,
Speaker 1: maybe that that adds a little jitters, you know. Of course,
Speaker 1: we're working on the transition to now, and we're also
Speaker 1: the off season's over. We had what Greg like thirties
Speaker 1: something posted over. The off season officially ended on Tuesday
Speaker 1: with the Brady News and just a lot of other
Speaker 1: thing coming out. Yeah up and six and a half months. Uh,
Speaker 1: the season starts now. Mark and I didn't even get
Speaker 1: to have our off season send off party. We were
Speaker 1: gonna celebrate the end of this. We can still have it.
Speaker 1: We can still try to do it during camp, even
Speaker 1: though camp it is sneaky, sneakily probably the hardest time
Speaker 1: of year for work. Not that we need to complain,
Speaker 1: but was this a like a private like two dudes
Speaker 1: having as send away? You got a text, didn't get
Speaker 1: a text? Well, it didn't get off the ground. And
Speaker 1: I don't think we can do it during camp if
Speaker 1: it's depressing because we're right in the meyer and you
Speaker 1: say six months, you know that work doesn't actually end
Speaker 1: until roughly late June. It's still quiet times. If I
Speaker 1: if I were to, you know, mention your point Dan got,
Speaker 1: if I you know, if Dan received the fraction of
Speaker 1: the level of social disrespect I get. I mean, Dan
Speaker 1: wouldn't even show up to work anyway. Well, it's like
Speaker 1: when I used to play softball. One of my friends
Speaker 1: owned a boat, and I wasn't particularly tight with him,
Speaker 1: but he would invite me every time. I'd say yes,
Speaker 1: whenever I invite you out, I get it. Probably not yeah,
Speaker 1: probably fair, And that's why I don't. I don't got
Speaker 1: a lot of responsibilities. I'll come and talk about that.
Speaker 1: If you're the guy that you get invited a lot,
Speaker 1: you don't go. You can't then get it, stop getting it,
Speaker 1: and I don't. I don't. I'm making a joke, and
Speaker 1: I come out. I'll have little streaks for a couple
Speaker 1: of year. If I have a party at my house,
Speaker 1: you always get the invite. There you go. We have,
Speaker 1: you know, a very nice show today. And I I
Speaker 1: get excited about certain shows. I don't get excited by
Speaker 1: certain shows. But I put it on mask, I pull
Speaker 1: it over my face and I smile. You're a professional. Yeah,
Speaker 1: but this one no mask. This is me is the
Speaker 1: old Zeuser, and this show is a good one because listen,
Speaker 1: I'm in a great mood if anybody could tell, because
Speaker 1: the Patriots dynasty is crumbling before us. Uh, thanks to
Speaker 1: the big news about Tommy Boy Brady. Uh. Greg girls.
Speaker 1: In all this is all in act. You're not in
Speaker 1: a great mood. And they're gonna they're gonna keep the
Speaker 1: fourth Super Bowl February, So keep it. Tom Brady, the
Speaker 1: suspension has been upheld. He's gonna fight it in court
Speaker 1: and further tarnish his legacy. Good luck with that. We're
Speaker 1: gonna get into everything in the fallout with you know,
Speaker 1: Robert Kraft. Now jumping back into the Fray too late, Rob,
Speaker 1: And you have Brady's agent and Brady coming out, and
Speaker 1: the Boston's mayor coming out, and everybody's coming out. A
Speaker 1: lot to get to Tom Brady about that. Everyone. You know,
Speaker 1: a lot of people are getting after me on Twitter.
Speaker 1: How does the Throne of East feel now? It's like,
Speaker 1: is it no longer the throne of Well, they're not
Speaker 1: taking away the fourth title. It's like, I kind of
Speaker 1: let go right then. I kind of like how feisty
Speaker 1: the Patriots came out today. I'd love to be on
Speaker 1: the throne of East. If I are you, this is
Speaker 1: about hitting back. By the way, he's still gonna go
Speaker 1: twelve and four. I don't know why we're even Yes,
Speaker 1: they are great organized, but a brave, great honorable organization.
Speaker 1: Also we're gonna hit you know a lot of other
Speaker 1: news to get to his camps start to open. We're
Speaker 1: gonna have more camps opening today or they have opened
Speaker 1: today Wednesday, uh more throughout the rest of the week.
Speaker 1: As as football is back in Earnest and uh we
Speaker 1: are going to of course, uh bring back one of
Speaker 1: our games for the preseason edition, a preseason edition of
Speaker 1: Go Get My Lunch, Your Big old barth turd. Can't
Speaker 1: you sure you want to play this game again? Wow?
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, listen, Like I said the point I made
Speaker 1: at that time, I bombed out in the draft horribly.
Speaker 1: I think I went two and fourteen drafts, not my forte.
Speaker 1: If you look at the numbers, I always do well
Speaker 1: when it counts. This is when it counts. This the season.
Speaker 1: I looked at the numbers. You're in last place. They
Speaker 1: can look at the numbers before the draft. The sandwiches
Speaker 1: taste the same whether it's in the off season or
Speaker 1: the regular season. And there was a lot of them
Speaker 1: that draft. The draft is over. We almost drowned in sandwiches.
Speaker 1: That the draft dangerous. The draft is over, and you
Speaker 1: will all pay when the game's counts. So Dan's credit,
Speaker 1: he did help us up with a lot of good sandwiches.
Speaker 1: I didn't get one good. Yeah he did a few times.
Speaker 1: He did a few times. So you know, let it go, guys,
Speaker 1: it's over turning the page. So but before any of that,
Speaker 1: we're gonna check behind the glass. The Irishman's behind the glass.
Speaker 1: He's helping us out a little bit. TDS also back there, scrambling,
Speaker 1: sweating profusely, let's do some news TDS in trouble back
Speaker 1: there and I'll tell you what big transition period for
Speaker 1: our producer. Um. All right, let's get into it. We'll
Speaker 1: start with the news Tom Brady. This was announced finally
Speaker 1: on Tuesday. Roger Goodell has upheld Brady's four game suspension
Speaker 1: for violating the Leak's policy on integrity of the game,
Speaker 1: the league announced Tuesday. UH. The league issued a full
Speaker 1: report on this, UH and maybe the thing that jumped
Speaker 1: out and everyone at everyone as far as the big
Speaker 1: talking point, was that Tom Brady had an assistant destroy
Speaker 1: his cell phone. The cell phone, of course, that contained
Speaker 1: information that the league had wanted to see since the
Speaker 1: beginning of this investigation into the deflation of football's UH
Speaker 1: connected with the a f C Championship game. So Tom Brady,
Speaker 1: the fight doesn't end here. Apparently this is going now
Speaker 1: to UH a federal court where he's hoping to get
Speaker 1: an injunction that allows him to stay on the field
Speaker 1: potentially all through the season. You never know. This is
Speaker 1: ready for some it's not over yet. Just this, all
Speaker 1: this injunction talk is just getting me excited for the
Speaker 1: season out injunction, in junction injunction? What's your function? What
Speaker 1: was your guys first thoughts? It was like a West
Speaker 1: song that was from ninety two. It had to and
Speaker 1: it was from our child. Do you remember that I
Speaker 1: do conjunction junction? My take on it, You're like, I
Speaker 1: wasn't surprised because the everything we were hearing was that
Speaker 1: Brady was, you know, lobbying for himself and not necessarily cooperating.
Speaker 1: I think the league wanted to see a lot of
Speaker 1: you know, apologizing to some degree in coming around and
Speaker 1: feel being in the middle. Yeah, and Tom Brady, we
Speaker 1: need some fealty on this one. And this is what
Speaker 1: Tom Brady had to say. A um. He released a
Speaker 1: statement on his Facebook page. Alright, this is we're taking
Speaker 1: this from the middle of the statement. I also disagree
Speaker 1: with yesterday's narrative surrounding my cell phone. I replaced my
Speaker 1: broken Samsung phone with a new iPhone six after my
Speaker 1: attorneys made it clear to the NFL that my actual
Speaker 1: phone device would not be subjected to investigation under any circumstances.
Speaker 1: Most importantly, I've never written texted email to anybody at
Speaker 1: any time anything related to football air pressure. Before this
Speaker 1: issue was raised at the AF C Championship game in January.
Speaker 1: To suggest that I destroyed a phone to devoid to
Speaker 1: avoid giving the NFL information it requested is completely wrong.
Speaker 1: Side note, that is exactly how Greg Rosenthal got a
Speaker 1: new phone here at work, just getting rid of destroying.
Speaker 1: Do not buy a word of that, and anybody that
Speaker 1: does is naive. If you were involved with a major
Speaker 1: investigation that involved your phone, you would you would not
Speaker 1: get you wouldn't destroy it. Even if they said, oh,
Speaker 1: we're not going to need that, you probably they had
Speaker 1: already given away by his logic, at least they had
Speaker 1: already given all that information to everything that they were
Speaker 1: going to give, they had already given it previously. Doesn't
Speaker 1: that seem incredibly dodgy from a perception angle like, oh
Speaker 1: they're angle after six months and thousands of hours investigation,
Speaker 1: your case is so weak that you need the player
Speaker 1: to impugne himself to make a case. How about you
Speaker 1: keep the phone? Wassh Is it inconsequential little issue? And
Speaker 1: it has been force again? But I think what that
Speaker 1: it resonated with fans, with Dan, with Mark, with a
Speaker 1: lot of people that this information came out on ESPN
Speaker 1: well before we heard the news actually that he wouldn't
Speaker 1: turn over the news, and it just feels more political
Speaker 1: than anything. That it's a distraction. It's kind of like
Speaker 1: a legal argument where you're really trying to distract from
Speaker 1: the main issue here, which is did he specifically, you know,
Speaker 1: asked the p s I at a certain level, like
Speaker 1: all this cell phone stuff, it's a PR campaign against
Speaker 1: Tom Brady and Robert crafton will get to his statements later,
Speaker 1: basically made the case that the NFL has been engaged
Speaker 1: in a PR campaign, that they that they leaked some
Speaker 1: statements to espn UM back in January about the relative
Speaker 1: you know, p size of the balls that turned out
Speaker 1: to be incorrect. And to me, it just feels like
Speaker 1: in Brady's side is just as bad PR campaign back
Speaker 1: and forth. Wait, so you don't have it, you you
Speaker 1: think it's absolutely fine that he destides to destroy I
Speaker 1: don't care that. I don't really care that much. It
Speaker 1: feels like a distraction to that we're talking about this
Speaker 1: deflated football thing. Still, Is this that big of an issue?
Speaker 1: Are we just trying to prove or right? It feels
Speaker 1: like politics. Robert Craft has his base and he's pandering
Speaker 1: to the Patriots fans. Roger Goodell has his base. He's
Speaker 1: trying to prove he's right. His base is the owners,
Speaker 1: and it's just politics. And in a few weeks they're
Speaker 1: gonna be talking again and making to money. I just
Speaker 1: don't understand why you don't hold onto that phone when
Speaker 1: it's essential part. It's just to me, it's too fishy.
Speaker 1: And then you have Robert Kraft who comes up. And
Speaker 1: Robert Kraft, of course, so you know, a month ago
Speaker 1: or two, came out and said that he decided he
Speaker 1: wasn't going to fight this anymore for the good of
Speaker 1: the thirty two. Now he's back because he's upset, because
Speaker 1: I think he thought an olive branch was coming in.
Speaker 1: I was willing to accept the harshest penalty in the
Speaker 1: history of the NFL for an alleged ball violation because
Speaker 1: I believed it would help exonerate Tom once again. I
Speaker 1: want to apologize to the fans of the New England
Speaker 1: Patriots and Tom Brady. I was wrong to put my
Speaker 1: faith in the league. That's pretty strong words right there.
Speaker 1: I think, out of everybody involved, to me, his integrity
Speaker 1: is the most unquestioned. He made it a point in
Speaker 1: his statement to talk about lawyers and we're throwing reason
Speaker 1: and you know, all common sense out the window, and
Speaker 1: we're all going with lawyers here. And this guy ended
Speaker 1: the lockout by throwing the lawyers out of the room.
Speaker 1: And a few months ago he went with the league
Speaker 1: over his team. His integrity, to me, is beyond question
Speaker 1: on this, and I think he's peeved about it. Well,
Speaker 1: I think he's he's you know, I like number one,
Speaker 1: he comes out takes the heat off Belichick having to
Speaker 1: get peppered for four hours with questions by going out
Speaker 1: there and taking the league on. He you know, I
Speaker 1: think it's he spoke honestly, and what happened here was
Speaker 1: the strategic mistake because he probably feels burned obviously for
Speaker 1: giving concessions and then they come and slap down Brady
Speaker 1: before games. I think he feels double crossed by the league.
Speaker 1: Think he thought, I'm gonna do you a solid and
Speaker 1: not turn this into an absolute s show and and
Speaker 1: and in returned, you're gonna take it easy on Tommy
Speaker 1: Boy and not bury him for four games. And now
Speaker 1: the league didn't play ball with him, and now he's back,
Speaker 1: and they look at that, They look at this upholding
Speaker 1: the suspension not just as upholding, but that they went
Speaker 1: further because they ultimately alleged more in this upholding and
Speaker 1: they did initially and they their statement, uh, when this
Speaker 1: first came out of Tuesday says they're trying to destroy
Speaker 1: Tom Brady's reputation. And I keep thinking, we were there
Speaker 1: Monday of Super Bowl Week getting ready for the one
Speaker 1: of the best Super Bowl matchups of our lifetime, and
Speaker 1: this is what we're talking about, this, this weird minor
Speaker 1: deflate story, deflateate story. And here we are ready for
Speaker 1: the two thousand and fifteen season as everyone's getting ready,
Speaker 1: oh let's you know, training camp time of hope, and
Speaker 1: we're still talking about this. Everyone is tired about. Everyone loses.
Speaker 1: I think the Patriots look bad. I think the league
Speaker 1: looks like who wants to talk about this? Bill Belichick
Speaker 1: also spoke about this. Let's see what Bill had to say.
Speaker 1: Sure he had a lot. You heard what Robert just said.
Speaker 1: It's already been a dressed. You gotta go back and
Speaker 1: look at her. It's already been a dressed. I love
Speaker 1: I love what Belichick did because he he doesn't try
Speaker 1: to do this, but he keeps giving us great catch
Speaker 1: phrases onto Cincinnati. It's already been a dres I'm gonna
Speaker 1: use that too on Greg twenty times a week. Well,
Speaker 1: my favorite thing was when he said check check your notebook.
Speaker 1: They were like, well, do you want to expand more
Speaker 1: on what Craft said? He's like, well, you better check
Speaker 1: your notes. Is Bud Kilmer from Varsity Blues. Well, I
Speaker 1: think the reason I'm not a Patriots fan, the reason
Speaker 1: why I've had their side on this entire issue, is
Speaker 1: because I've studied NFL history. I know how this works.
Speaker 1: I know that the Patriots are the latest in a
Speaker 1: long line of really good franchises who have tried to
Speaker 1: gain a competitive advantage, and almost every dynasty in NFL
Speaker 1: history has done this. Paul Brown is lionized for trying
Speaker 1: to gain a competitive advantage his entire career, and I
Speaker 1: think if you look at the seventies Steelers, this is
Speaker 1: this situation has come up before West pulls out the book.
Speaker 1: At the same time, the Steelers also suggested that the
Speaker 1: football supplied for the Raiders in Oakland and only the
Speaker 1: Raiders were not properly inflated, making them easier for Stabler
Speaker 1: to throw and fort Cough to catch. This is from
Speaker 1: a called The Super Seventies, and it's a really good book.
Speaker 1: But this stuff pops up all over history. When you
Speaker 1: read about the history of the NFL. The Raiders were
Speaker 1: not punished for that. There was no big investigation that
Speaker 1: we're not false reports leak to start that. And I
Speaker 1: think knowing history cures the jumps. It cures looking at
Speaker 1: every event and as some menacing thing that never happened before.
Speaker 1: There's no shame in watching the Lemmings rushed by the
Speaker 1: Patriots is different, though they're not. They're only different because
Speaker 1: about Spygate. There is a pattern of behavior with this
Speaker 1: organization that's in both of these situations. The Patriots are
Speaker 1: accused and found guilty of doing things and other teams
Speaker 1: were doing. And I think there's a paranoia involved with
Speaker 1: the Patriots, and I think it's because you have the
Speaker 1: bandwagon on the other hand, but you have another machine
Speaker 1: called the media arm and knowing history allows you to
Speaker 1: stop the media jamming this story down your throat. We gotta, guys,
Speaker 1: we gotta move on here and talk about what's next
Speaker 1: to this case. And that is uh, Tom Brady not
Speaker 1: taking the foreign game suspension. He's gonna now take it
Speaker 1: to court and now here's the here's the thing. And
Speaker 1: Ian Rappaport rap Sheet reported this uh yesterday, which was
Speaker 1: there is a chance if he gets the injunction, that
Speaker 1: this could be a situation where the first four games,
Speaker 1: if he loses, he could lose games later in the season,
Speaker 1: which is a major sticking point for the for his
Speaker 1: team right now. The NFL p a Greg your thoughts
Speaker 1: about that, and no one knows, no one has known
Speaker 1: anything about this entire situation. There's a chance Tom Brady
Speaker 1: plays the whole season and he never misses any games.
Speaker 1: I think there's a legitimate chance of that. Like ever,
Speaker 1: I mean, this happened with the Star Caps case and
Speaker 1: Kevin Williams and everything. There's a chance, you know, he
Speaker 1: does miss those four games where it happens later. I
Speaker 1: mean it for us to kind of guess on the
Speaker 1: legal situation is difficult, other than to know that this
Speaker 1: story isn't ending anytime soon. And and that's where I
Speaker 1: think both sides have lost. I mean, the point that
Speaker 1: West was making about it's happened all before even the
Speaker 1: spy gate, to me, is so different. That seemed more
Speaker 1: like a uh and infraction that that at least the
Speaker 1: league had to take seriously. This is a pretty minor
Speaker 1: thing that now is gonna stretch way into this season
Speaker 1: and help ruin not ruined that the season, but help
Speaker 1: kind of cloud over number one. Great point by West.
Speaker 1: His history shows this is not a new thing, and
Speaker 1: it does help to to look back on that. Tons
Speaker 1: of quarterbacks have come forward and said we like our
Speaker 1: footballs and all sorts of different ways, and that's just
Speaker 1: the way the game is played. So I agree that
Speaker 1: we don't want to over dramatize the actual thing that
Speaker 1: happened to start it, but a lot of what's happened,
Speaker 1: and the reason that Kraft didn't get the reduced suspension
Speaker 1: he thought is the reaction of Brady and others and
Speaker 1: the way they've dealt with the league. I'm not saying
Speaker 1: no one's pure here, but the tenor that the New
Speaker 1: England has in some of these investigations, I think it
Speaker 1: gets under the skin of the other owners and that's
Speaker 1: part who he's pandering. We've been all on the same
Speaker 1: page that the initial crime, if you will, alleged crime
Speaker 1: that the ball was air was taken out of the
Speaker 1: ball was not a big deal. But just to cover up.
Speaker 1: Just imagine if Tom Brady had just said, you know,
Speaker 1: I I do like the balls, you know, less inflated.
Speaker 1: I didn't know the exact numbers. Uh, totally initially be over.
Speaker 1: I don't think the league would have ever even suspended
Speaker 1: him in the first If you're Tom Brady and you've
Speaker 1: seen the league make a matter horn out of a
Speaker 1: mole hill, why would you trust them with your phone?
Speaker 1: That's fine, I would. I would battle them tooth and
Speaker 1: nail the same way he's done. I'm not saying West
Speaker 1: that he shouldn't have done that, but I'm just saying
Speaker 1: that is a factor. Is why the league did not
Speaker 1: get nice and reduce it down. Well, well, they gave
Speaker 1: they gave Brady an option. By reports, Judy Batista said
Speaker 1: there were some talks whether it would go down to
Speaker 1: one or two games and then also maybe some fines,
Speaker 1: but he didn't want to do it because he would
Speaker 1: have had to admit Gil and he didn't want it.
Speaker 1: Mc gill and oh, by the way, the NFL keeps
Speaker 1: losing in federal court, and he feels that his case
Speaker 1: is strong and that he can avoid any games, so
Speaker 1: he's gonna take it to him. One thing you said.
Speaker 1: You said that both sides are losing. We're losing. All
Speaker 1: the fans lose. This whole thing stinks. I everybody wants
Speaker 1: it to be put to bed. So yesterday's development wasn't
Speaker 1: the really good news for anybody, even a Jets fan
Speaker 1: like myself. You just want this to go away, even
Speaker 1: if it met him losing games. We want the Ravens
Speaker 1: and the Colts fans they're waiting a little bit. Yeah, alright,
Speaker 1: that's fair. Now, now what does this mean for the FC? Greg?
Speaker 1: I don't think I will start with you. Here's my
Speaker 1: first question to you. Where you had on the old
Speaker 1: peace scale, one being one being totally dry, walking around
Speaker 1: feeling confident about yourself. You could go on a date
Speaker 1: and you want to feel weird, ten soaking wet pants.
Speaker 1: You gotta go change your underpants. I would say it too.
Speaker 1: Like this situation. It almost bothers me as it's been
Speaker 1: going on that I have no emotional reaction to it
Speaker 1: because it makes me feel like a little part of
Speaker 1: my fandom has gone dead inside, Like I don't know,
Speaker 1: I'm just worrying about it because we'recovering it as a
Speaker 1: story for work. And I honestly but I don't. I
Speaker 1: honestly don't care. Like I don't think it hurts Tom
Speaker 1: Brady's reputation long term. I don't. It doesn't make me
Speaker 1: like the Patriots any less. It doesn't like other teams
Speaker 1: be like, oh they're cheaters. Like that doesn't bother me
Speaker 1: even in a little bit. And they're not taking away
Speaker 1: that fourth super Bowl, that's the thing. And they're not
Speaker 1: going to take away their chances to win this super Bowl.
Speaker 1: So that's all I really would about. What would the
Speaker 1: peace scale be for the twenty year old curiosity, I'm
Speaker 1: sure it would be six or seven. You'd be pretty annoyed.
Speaker 1: You'd be very upset and annoyed. Oh, by the way,
Speaker 1: all you fans calling the Patriots cheaters, your team cheats
Speaker 1: dot com? Check it out, good good sight. Well you
Speaker 1: mentioned the history that I mean, the Steelers in the
Speaker 1: seventies with with steroids, the forty Niners, and the Cowboys
Speaker 1: with salary capture. I mean, what football is about cheating?
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, but the Patriots do it worse than everyone.
Speaker 1: I'm sorry. There's a paranoia involved with they are not evil,
Speaker 1: then they run the best operation in the past two
Speaker 1: decades and it's it's disrespectful for you not to give
Speaker 1: West the m v P. Now, Dan asked about this
Speaker 1: year's a f C race, and we put this on
Speaker 1: the side yesterday. I I see absolutely no problem for
Speaker 1: New England to get whatever happens. They've gone two and
Speaker 1: two and two of the last three seasons. Let's say
Speaker 1: they go two and two. One of those games is
Speaker 1: the Jaguars. They're winning two games to start the season.
Speaker 1: Nothing from there on out will prevent New England from
Speaker 1: getting to the playoffs and doing what they do every year.
Speaker 1: It suspension later in the year, like you mentioned, that
Speaker 1: would be completely different, but that is not going to happen.
Speaker 1: It's just four games. I mean three of their four
Speaker 1: Super Bowls they were toured two or worst. So it's
Speaker 1: the only way they're in troubles if they really create
Speaker 1: her and go one and three and o and four
Speaker 1: and then they have a battle on their hands. I
Speaker 1: don't see that happening, but I wouldn't in a division
Speaker 1: where no other team as a quarterback. We wrote a
Speaker 1: piece on NFL dot com about we all gave our
Speaker 1: input and it's like, we don't know what Jimmy Garoppolo
Speaker 1: is gonna do like he could be really good. They
Speaker 1: can go three and one or four. No, or he
Speaker 1: could be terrible and not be ready. He's he's green.
Speaker 1: He's a complete Nutter mystery. But I think even if
Speaker 1: they go one and three, their team is going to
Speaker 1: be better off than than people thought they were last
Speaker 1: year at two and two, coming off the blowout lost
Speaker 1: the Chiefs. The narrative that Brady was done in as
Speaker 1: an elite quarterback. Is Gronkowski really himself? We know all
Speaker 1: those things. This year, Brady coming off the best fourth
Speaker 1: quarter in Super Bowl history. Grondkowski is the best tight
Speaker 1: end in the NFL. They're going to be a stronger
Speaker 1: team no matter what they're red. We're talking pea scale
Speaker 1: that's higher when you just think about their secondary and
Speaker 1: when you think about the legitimate issues that they You know,
Speaker 1: I don't like their running back group. That the offensive
Speaker 1: line is stable, but I don't I think they could
Speaker 1: have legitimate football problems that have nothing to do with
Speaker 1: this that would make it hard to go twelve and four.
Speaker 1: That maybe they would be more ten and six, eleven five.
Speaker 1: I don't know. Every season is a little different to
Speaker 1: your point, Mark you said that, uh, there's no quarterback
Speaker 1: in the NFC East. I agree with that. And the
Speaker 1: other thing to keep in mind is the Patriots can
Speaker 1: go one and three and the rest of the teams
Speaker 1: can be two and two or something. Well, and by
Speaker 1: the way they thought up a lot of times you
Speaker 1: find out that your quarterback went down Sunday night and
Speaker 1: you've got four days to practice and prepare the next guy.
Speaker 1: They have all off season. I can't point to a
Speaker 1: team that does a better job developing younger players. All right,
Speaker 1: and uh, last word will give from Mayor Marty Walsh,
Speaker 1: who had this to say, Boston is here to support
Speaker 1: the Patriots. I will always believe in my team. And
Speaker 1: hashtag Tom Brady so making news the mayor of Boston
Speaker 1: support stump right this stunning. Alright, moving on, there is
Speaker 1: other news. So let's talk about some other news. We'll
Speaker 1: start with Pittsburgh. So, while Tom Brady was not able
Speaker 1: to get his suspension lowered or wiped out, levy on
Speaker 1: Bell did get one game knocked off. It was announced
Speaker 1: on Tuesday that Levy on Bell will be suspended now
Speaker 1: two games instead of three. It will still cost him
Speaker 1: that week. When can you imagine Greg if they would
Speaker 1: have wiped out Levy on Bell suspension on the same
Speaker 1: thing that Brady have been that would have been wild.
Speaker 1: But so yeah, so the best fantasy are fantasy because
Speaker 1: I'm thinking about Levy on Bell is my first pick
Speaker 1: if I get him. But one of the best young
Speaker 1: running backs in football, Mark Sessler will be on the
Speaker 1: field earlier than the Steelers expected. Your thoughts. I think
Speaker 1: it's huge for Pittsburgh. We saw what they were in
Speaker 1: the playoff game against Baltimore without Levy on Bell and
Speaker 1: you have D'Angelo Williams, which is a better option what
Speaker 1: they had last January at the position when he wasn't
Speaker 1: on the field Bell. But Williams is not going to
Speaker 1: be a long term answer at all. I still think
Speaker 1: this is an offense through the air that can slaughter
Speaker 1: you and score twenty eight points. They are one of
Speaker 1: the more complete offenses in the entire league. But when
Speaker 1: you put Bell back in Week three against the Rams,
Speaker 1: I believe it is that this team is a super
Speaker 1: Bowl type team. Big Ben said when they reported to
Speaker 1: camp this weekend that uh he believes the Steelers can
Speaker 1: score thirty points a game. I don't think that's crazy
Speaker 1: at all, not at all, think so I'd be I'd
Speaker 1: be severely disappointed if they don't score thirty points game. Wow,
Speaker 1: they're more loaded than they were last year. Mark Tavis
Speaker 1: Bryants another year better. He's been the subject of more
Speaker 1: hype the past week than any player in in any
Speaker 1: of the training camps. I think he you know, Bell
Speaker 1: gets back on the field. Early we were talking about
Speaker 1: this downstairs. You were like, they can beat the Rams
Speaker 1: without Levan, So so maybe it's not that big of
Speaker 1: an impact that it might not be the worst thing
Speaker 1: in the world for a running back to have a
Speaker 1: little less pounding when you're hoping to make a long
Speaker 1: January and you know, February playoff runt. They do have
Speaker 1: D'Angelo Williams though, as their starter, and they do have
Speaker 1: a very tough week one game going into the defending
Speaker 1: Amps on Thursday night. Get ready, you got Jimmy Garoppolo,
Speaker 1: You got who's starting at running back? Do you think
Speaker 1: for that that day for the Patriots, who would be
Speaker 1: your pick? Eric Blunt? Now he's out, then Jonas It
Speaker 1: will be asked character Varus, Maybe Sammy Morris comes out
Speaker 1: of his retirement. Tory Dillon. So he's like preseason week five.
Speaker 1: That's opener. And the funny thing is that it does
Speaker 1: have a ton of drive. Without all these people, it's
Speaker 1: still gonna be a ton of drama and fascinating. And
Speaker 1: I mentioned Fantasy before, I should mention it's coming up
Speaker 1: just weeks away now, the Fantasy Spectacular around the NFL
Speaker 1: Fantasy Spectacular. You got a Rodal World studs here, Greg
Speaker 1: and West. What about Mark? Mark will be here with
Speaker 1: I'll be I'll be in a seat in the studio,
Speaker 1: will be all here. So that will be you know,
Speaker 1: Fantasy week Spectacular coming up. So are you taking Bell
Speaker 1: number one overall? Uh? Well, without two games, that's that's
Speaker 1: I would probably take a pep only because there's a
Speaker 1: you're on a Now we've been doubting him publicly for
Speaker 1: a little bit twelve months now I did. I got
Speaker 1: burned by him. I took him number one in my
Speaker 1: league last year. So maybe we don't know. I think Bell,
Speaker 1: Charles Peterson, Jamal Charles number one right in the mix.
Speaker 1: A very good news. Next next subject the Chiefs in
Speaker 1: Kansas City. Speaking of the Chiefs, nice better transition than
Speaker 1: I had Wes. The Chiefs announced that Eric Berry, their
Speaker 1: star safety, has been cleared to take the field again
Speaker 1: effective Wednesday morning, for the first time since being diagnosed
Speaker 1: with Hodgkins lymphoma last December. He missed the final five
Speaker 1: weeks last season when he was diagnosed and concluded treatment
Speaker 1: on his cancer in June. So he's gonna speak to
Speaker 1: the media a little bit today, but he was on
Speaker 1: the field and this is a really good news for
Speaker 1: a Chiefs team that that you know, needs all the
Speaker 1: players that can get and Eric Barry when he's right.
Speaker 1: Greg is stud number five pick in the draft. He's
Speaker 1: made three Pro Bowls. He's had an up and down
Speaker 1: career that you wouldn't think I'm talking just on the
Speaker 1: field before he had the cancer scare where he probably
Speaker 1: shouldn't have made some of those Pro Bowls, and he's
Speaker 1: coming off a serious injury. But he's wildly talented and
Speaker 1: versatile and fits in today's NFL. And it's amazing. I mean,
Speaker 1: has cancer last year, they were hopeful that he could
Speaker 1: make a full recovery. But to see him just back
Speaker 1: on the field like that much quicker, It's like, it's
Speaker 1: what a great story, Barry Bud, What a great story.
Speaker 1: Barry bud Flake not the only great story. We'll get
Speaker 1: several great stories buried by a controversy that's been going
Speaker 1: on unecessary. But here's the thing. People don't care as
Speaker 1: much as I think the programmers, for instance of our
Speaker 1: network thinks they care. Like if you if you listen,
Speaker 1: if you look at our metrics, for instance yesterday, like
Speaker 1: what people are reading on the site, Tom Brady stories
Speaker 1: and we did a ton We're only two of the
Speaker 1: top ten. People are more interested in Jake Long working
Speaker 1: up for the Giants and Jen Walter, the new coach
Speaker 1: of the Cardinals, who will talk about soon, and you know,
Speaker 1: Josh Freemayler alert getting cut is a bigger story to
Speaker 1: a lot of fans out there than a lot of
Speaker 1: these Brady stories. Like you said, there is an element
Speaker 1: of exhaustion for those of us covering everything about this
Speaker 1: and the fans as well, because it's one team, alright.
Speaker 1: So very good news on Eric Berry, Uh. Not so
Speaker 1: good news on Don Terry Poe, the Chiefs standout nose
Speaker 1: tackle who will miss the beginning of training camp and
Speaker 1: the start of the season, uh, potentially after having surgery
Speaker 1: on a herniated disc in his back on July fift
Speaker 1: he's out indefinitely. West How big a loss is This
Speaker 1: is the Chiefs who are already without Sean Smith due
Speaker 1: to suspension. They weren't a good run defending team with
Speaker 1: him last year. He's a three fifty pound uncommonly quick
Speaker 1: man who basically is engaged in sumo wrestling on every
Speaker 1: player the game, and now he has coming off back surgeries.
Speaker 1: Wrote his tombstone that's great. Gave him six player for
Speaker 1: a nose tackle. That's a huge concern because you're engaged
Speaker 1: in fighting on every play. Well, at one point one
Speaker 1: of the local reporters was and and it sounds like
Speaker 1: he was guessing, and then the team set up straight.
Speaker 1: I thought Poe might miss most of the season, that
Speaker 1: he might start out on the reserve. Pup miss six games.
Speaker 1: This is one of their best players. You look at
Speaker 1: their roster, I think it's really top heavy, some star
Speaker 1: great players and a lot of mediocrity, and Poe is
Speaker 1: one of those star players. It's a huge loss. And
Speaker 1: what's his point? By the way, think about your uncle
Speaker 1: Chuck when his back is bad. I was trying to
Speaker 1: have a good time at the old picnic and your
Speaker 1: shoot and then Uncle Chuck has to go lay down
Speaker 1: in the grass for an hour. Now you make a guy, punds,
Speaker 1: Uncle Chuck doesn't have to take on an NFL center.
Speaker 1: And if you can't stop the run and you're the
Speaker 1: Chiefs and you'll be scoring about sixteen points a game, tops,
Speaker 1: is not good. Quit in any mid July surgeries are
Speaker 1: always a red flag because you are trying to avoid
Speaker 1: that surgery as as much as possible. And if you're
Speaker 1: gonna take it, you take it in January for it.
Speaker 1: So if for it to happen in the middle of July,
Speaker 1: right before the season, they had no other choice. Guys
Speaker 1: with bad acts, by the way, or sneaky kind they're
Speaker 1: kind of a drag. Yeah, I have a good time, Like,
Speaker 1: oh man, you have no ideas? All right, bro? At
Speaker 1: some point and you're not even saying that they're faking
Speaker 1: or anything. It's just like you essentially zero sympathy for
Speaker 1: We're in the car for three hours drive into Vegas
Speaker 1: or something in your back skilling. It's like, I mean,
Speaker 1: what do you want to do about it? Yeah? Sorry,
Speaker 1: Uncle Chuck. In other news, and this this is some
Speaker 1: more you see, there's some good news that happened that
Speaker 1: kind of got buried. Here's more. Jen Welter Um is
Speaker 1: a name now associated with the Arizona Cardinals. That team
Speaker 1: made history Monday announcing that Jen Welter has been hired
Speaker 1: as UH the UH team's training camp slash preseason intern,
Speaker 1: coaching inside linebackers. That makes her obviously the first woman
Speaker 1: coach in NFL history. That is mark legit historic. I
Speaker 1: think it's huge news. And if you want to talk
Speaker 1: about the one story that did get snowed under by
Speaker 1: deflate Gate and should not have, it was this one.
Speaker 1: And you know, an Arians back early in the off
Speaker 1: season said this is gonna happen at some point and
Speaker 1: it should. I liked, this is this is who Bruce
Speaker 1: Arians is and it came from a coach that's not
Speaker 1: surprising that he's the one that set up but you
Speaker 1: still thought it's way down the road. But you know what,
Speaker 1: it's thanks to him. She she went and said specifically
Speaker 1: that the strength of his will made this happen. That
Speaker 1: he called her up and he said, I don't know
Speaker 1: if I can get this cleared, but I'm gonna fight
Speaker 1: for you. And she's deserving too. And the players themselves
Speaker 1: have said some of them. Anonmously just said she has
Speaker 1: more playing experience than coaches were working under right now,
Speaker 1: it shows what you say in those press conferences matter
Speaker 1: because him throwing that out there just kind of as
Speaker 1: an open minded guy, is what inspired another coach to
Speaker 1: call him up and say, if you're serious about this,
Speaker 1: I think I have your woman. I'd like you to
Speaker 1: meet here. Then. Jenn Welter a charismatic woman as well,
Speaker 1: as we saw in her press conference that was held
Speaker 1: on Tuesday. I didn't start playing football to be here.
Speaker 1: I didn't even dream that it was possible. And I
Speaker 1: think the beauty of this is that though it's a
Speaker 1: dream I never could have had, now it's a dream
Speaker 1: other girls can grow up in half. That's pretty cool. Us.
Speaker 1: This is my favorite press conference since I've been covering
Speaker 1: the NFL. It really was You've got two figures, Bruce arians.
Speaker 1: I mean, I think the four of us in this
Speaker 1: room we don't have our job is because we played football,
Speaker 1: or because you know, we grew up with the Mannings
Speaker 1: and we have connections for yourself, but uh, you know,
Speaker 1: several of us have had very circuitous routes and have wandered.
Speaker 1: Jen Wilter never expected to be in the NFL. She
Speaker 1: didn't think this was a possibility. She's kind of wandered
Speaker 1: her own route. Bruce Arians is similar a coach who
Speaker 1: doesn't have to be guarded, doesn't play by the same
Speaker 1: roles as other coaches because he does what he wants,
Speaker 1: he does what he thinks is right. And I thought
Speaker 1: that came out beautifully during the press cause he was
Speaker 1: outspoken to your minded me of a female Arians. In
Speaker 1: many ways, it seemed like they would be fast friends.
Speaker 1: You said it's your favorite press contents all time, which
Speaker 1: is bold statements, and I mean, what what about it
Speaker 1: did you like? Well, most press conferences I hate because
Speaker 1: I don't really care what they say. I mean, it's
Speaker 1: just it's set up to make news. This was set
Speaker 1: up because it already is news, because it's breaking new ground.
Speaker 1: And it took a coach like Bruce Harrians to do it,
Speaker 1: and it took a person like her to do it.
Speaker 1: I just think it's a really neat, neat story, and
Speaker 1: I think they're they're good people. I think she'll succeed
Speaker 1: to and I like that she talked about when she
Speaker 1: played she got a twelve dollar game check. For the
Speaker 1: entire season, one per game. But she was so proud
Speaker 1: of it that she carries it with her everywhere. And
Speaker 1: it shows the kind of high bar you have to
Speaker 1: be to be the first female coach. She's a she's
Speaker 1: a doctor of PhD psychology, and it's played professional football
Speaker 1: for fourteen years. It's only almost for story purposes. It's
Speaker 1: better that it was a twelve dollar check than rather
Speaker 1: like it's like carry that around. Look at my history.
Speaker 1: By the way, that was a twenty second clip. Go
Speaker 1: to NFL. Now watch the press conference. Look at that
Speaker 1: the promotion. Get all the money and mark by the way,
Speaker 1: you were lying, you have noice doociation with the Mannings. However,
Speaker 1: you are going to Berea soon, that old Indian barrel
Speaker 1: ground in Ohio. You don't know everything about my past
Speaker 1: or my family connects, you know. Cover the Browns at
Speaker 1: training camp, which is exciting. Try to get in that
Speaker 1: Mike Petton guesthouse we heard so much about during hardness
Speaker 1: during U was that book that will he won't know
Speaker 1: about it, but I will try, alright. Moving on, alright,
Speaker 1: So Todd Gurley, some good news for the Rams. The
Speaker 1: their first round pick, the tenth overall pick will be
Speaker 1: active on the active roster and participate in practices to
Speaker 1: open training camp. According to the team's official website, uh
Speaker 1: Gurley suffered a knee injury that cut short his college
Speaker 1: career and that was I guess some people had some
Speaker 1: hang ups. How much time could he miss? It looks
Speaker 1: like Todd Gurley has a chance to be ready week one.
Speaker 1: Greg He'll he'll be ready. I think the only question is,
Speaker 1: you know, as long as there's no setbacks, how many
Speaker 1: carries he's getting. Now, the local reporters still think Trey
Speaker 1: Mason's gonna start, that Todd Gurley will be starting the
Speaker 1: season at least behind it, But it's great news to
Speaker 1: have him on the active rout Practice for poor don't
Speaker 1: really mean much to me for most of camp, but
Speaker 1: I'll be watching the girlely practice report by the way
Speaker 1: beat writers that think that Trey Mason will start, that's
Speaker 1: fine and makes sense today. But if he blows the
Speaker 1: doors off in a couple preseason games, Todd Gurley is
Speaker 1: not going to be sitting on the bench behind a
Speaker 1: lesser player. When I read this story, I mean Todd
Speaker 1: Gurley is not going to stand in the way of
Speaker 1: the most exciting backfield in the NFL. According to Greg Rosenthal,
Speaker 1: you gotta get healthy and make this happen, the most
Speaker 1: exciting backfield in the end. I don't think that's a
Speaker 1: crazy statement at all. If you Todd Gurley in college
Speaker 1: was unbelievably fun to watch. Tray Mason's like a little locomotive.
Speaker 1: He's a fun guy. Away does well in a spread off.
Speaker 1: It's uncomfortable, inn when the scientists start worring and I'm
Speaker 1: caught in the middle and Mark is a front row seat.
Speaker 1: No one liked the Patriots scandal, No one wins of
Speaker 1: all the of all the little things to pick on
Speaker 1: me about my Rams backfield love seems like a strange one.
Speaker 1: The most football he in that football you're gonna like that?
Speaker 1: I think he was. He was a emo funk band
Speaker 1: Delaware in New England. Go after about that, don't after
Speaker 1: about the Rams. What were they? Honestly, I've said it
Speaker 1: a million just be giants, sort of like an indie
Speaker 1: goofy band. Yeah, a little. They might be little dead
Speaker 1: Milkman maybe. And again, I I feel like I need
Speaker 1: to repeat this. If anyone has any footage of Greg's
Speaker 1: high school band. They were called Delaware. They were based
Speaker 1: in western Massachusetts. If you have any audio or video footage,
Speaker 1: it's got to be out there. We will give you
Speaker 1: money for it. Literally, we will pay for it to
Speaker 1: put on this show. Uh. Finally, one last bit of news.
Speaker 1: Ryan Kerrigan of the Redskins, their star outside linebacker, has
Speaker 1: signed a five year extension. NFL media insider Ian Rappaport
Speaker 1: reports that the deal will pay him eleven and a
Speaker 1: half million a year uh and fifty seven and a
Speaker 1: half million total, with sixteen million dollar signing bonus, per
Speaker 1: a source of forms of the negotiations OS, is Ryan
Speaker 1: Carrigan the type of player that deserves that money. That's
Speaker 1: a good question. I think he cashed in at the
Speaker 1: right time with a career year. He had thirteen sacks
Speaker 1: last year, and before last year, iraq Po Brian Rackpo
Speaker 1: was viewed as the better player I think, and the
Speaker 1: more impactful defender. He's a solid guy, though. I mean,
Speaker 1: it's a type of contract that Cam Jordan gets, and
Speaker 1: I view him as that guy or better. He's not
Speaker 1: all pro, but he's a borderline Pro Bowl type in
Speaker 1: his best year. So yeah, that's fine. I'd give that
Speaker 1: team the benefit of the doubt right now, where I
Speaker 1: thought the Redskins were absolutely wandering last season. I like
Speaker 1: what the generalman had just done. I think he's worked
Speaker 1: to improve both lines this offseason, which is hard to
Speaker 1: do quickly, and maybe likes what he sees. And one
Speaker 1: last news item West the Miami Dolphins abrupt back Josh Freeman.
Speaker 1: He signed. You said he's out of the league. He's back. Yeah,
Speaker 1: for a week. So we're actually this is a surprise
Speaker 1: as we're gonna do six minutes on Josh free First,
Speaker 1: Canny passed Matt More on the depth chart. Does he
Speaker 1: have the strongest arm in the league? Um? And could
Speaker 1: he be the answer for the Patriots if he gets
Speaker 1: kind of Let's made some great points about the Patriots saga.
Speaker 1: They're still cheaters, but great points. But you gotta eat
Speaker 1: some humble pope. Josh Freeman's back in the NFL, and
Speaker 1: he's not going anywhere. We're playing Go get my lunch here,
Speaker 1: And I mean, I wish I would have saved this.
Speaker 1: Josh Freeman will not being on on an NFL roster
Speaker 1: in week one. I should say that, go get my lunch,
Speaker 1: bashtag camp arm alright. Three more minutes to talk about him.
Speaker 1: It doesn't matter. So here we go. Go get my lunch,
Speaker 1: your big old turd. That's the name of our game,
Speaker 1: where we each make really not the name. We're really
Speaker 1: looking for an end, you know, pejorative at the end
Speaker 1: of a different word that wasn't appropriate. It could be
Speaker 1: go get my lunch, bad guy. You know something, bad guy. Yeah,
Speaker 1: go get my lunch, bad guy. I don't know if
Speaker 1: that was crown, Go get my lunch. Clown, go get
Speaker 1: my lunch. Du fus, go go get my lunch. Butt head.
Speaker 1: That's the winner, Go get my lunch, right past his prime. Wow.
Speaker 1: So as yeah, we talked BACKO. We haven't played this
Speaker 1: since the draft. Some of you did well, some of
Speaker 1: us did not do well. Without getting into specifics, but
Speaker 1: now we're gonna talk about the training camp. Go get
Speaker 1: my lunch. Uh So, each of us making prediction, and
Speaker 1: we all have the option to either take the person
Speaker 1: up on that high octane sandwich or say no, no, no,
Speaker 1: I agree with you. I'm not going to take you
Speaker 1: up on that. Uh So we will start with the
Speaker 1: Great Mark Sessler, the Quiet Storm they call it. Alright,
Speaker 1: So Tom Brady excluded Obviously from this, at least one
Speaker 1: playoff quarterback from last season will sustain a significant injury
Speaker 1: in training camp or preseason that will cost him a
Speaker 1: week one start, if not more. What's the upside of
Speaker 1: this injuries? Now, you're not rooting for it. It's it's
Speaker 1: a it's a no. You know what you told me.
Speaker 1: I did a bad job last side, and I absolutely devastated.
Speaker 1: You move forward by this is like the flate gate.
Speaker 1: There's no winners in Snario, so I don't need that
Speaker 1: there's a winner. If I win, I get a sandwich.
Speaker 1: Andy Dalton, Andrew Tom Brady, Peyton Manning, Andy you said
Speaker 1: that can Tony Romo, Cam Newton, Russell Wilson, Aaron Rodgers,
Speaker 1: Aaron Rodgers, is Matt Stafford. One of these guys is
Speaker 1: getting injured. That's that's what you're He knew this was
Speaker 1: one what Brady doesn't count? Why are we starting? Ryan
Speaker 1: Fitzpatrick highlights there's no way that Mark Sanchez didn't make
Speaker 1: the playoffs. Well either way, Ran Fitzpatrick, I will take
Speaker 1: you up on this. Yeah, of course I'm gonna take
Speaker 1: you up on this, because to not take you up
Speaker 1: on this is rooting for injury. Also, listen, turning this
Speaker 1: into a moral play, I think it's just listen, this
Speaker 1: is how you play the game. I just think logically
Speaker 1: they're gonna play about what a combined three quarters of
Speaker 1: preseason action. So you said an olive preseason training camp
Speaker 1: slash preseason just in any moment between now in week one,
Speaker 1: just that one will miss week one with an injury. Yes,
Speaker 1: I'll definitely take take on that. I'll take it's all
Speaker 1: going down when it's very unhappy, it's something I'm happy.
Speaker 1: I you always go back to guys getting hurt and
Speaker 1: like that being part of its divisions he has During
Speaker 1: the draft run I had when I went like fifteen
Speaker 1: and one, not one of them was about anyone getting hurt.
Speaker 1: Selective memory. You're like a high school scene. You're living
Speaker 1: in the past. Move forward. And by the way, you
Speaker 1: weren't exactly. You shouldn't be applauded for not predicting people
Speaker 1: will get hurt during the draft. They're just walking up
Speaker 1: to a podium. How are they getting hurt? Anyway, I'm
Speaker 1: feeling a lot of jealousy in the room from everyone
Speaker 1: except Wes. Yeah, I'm on you. You are you are
Speaker 1: really good. At this game. How about you just pick
Speaker 1: yourselves up. Why don't you guys go to your log
Speaker 1: cabin for your little before camp celebration together and talk
Speaker 1: about how great big Bear like this actually a pool party,
Speaker 1: one on one pool volleyball speedo's only alright, wes your turn?
Speaker 1: All right? Uh? Seahawks backfield, there's a lot of talk
Speaker 1: that Kristen Michael might get traded, he might get cut.
Speaker 1: This guy, Thomas Rawls, undrafted free agent rookie, is supposedly
Speaker 1: Gangbusters to use one of damage hicks, you know for
Speaker 1: key phrases. Pete Carroll loves this. Thomas Rawls. Guys, go
Speaker 1: get my lunch. Kristen Michael and Thomas Rawles will both
Speaker 1: be on, will both survive Seahawks final cuts. That's a
Speaker 1: deep track right there. I like it. Well, I could
Speaker 1: have gone with the Eagles quarterback again, but we've kind
Speaker 1: of done that all the past. So they've they're getting
Speaker 1: to week one. They survived the final cuts, okay, both
Speaker 1: of them. But what about Okay, so they make it
Speaker 1: to week one, they're on the final well, hold on,
Speaker 1: so that doesn't survive the final does not include practice?
Speaker 1: What if they got cut two days later, that doesn't survive,
Speaker 1: survived the final cuts, you know, cut down day that's Saturday,
Speaker 1: where they say that's difficult, I would rather say like Wednesday.
Speaker 1: Of all right, I'll say, I'll say they're on the
Speaker 1: week one Rosy so Michael and Rolls. But if they're
Speaker 1: on like I R, that still counts has survived because
Speaker 1: they're not cut. I must admit I don't know Thomas
Speaker 1: Roll's chance of staying on the Seahawks roster. I'm not
Speaker 1: too plugged on that, but I don't think they'll give
Speaker 1: up on Christine Michael despite or Kristen Michael despite everything
Speaker 1: that happened last year. I will say they will both
Speaker 1: be on the roster. But this Rolls figure, I don't
Speaker 1: I don't know much about him. I'm hanging out. I'm
Speaker 1: hanging onion on this one. I'll take you up on
Speaker 1: the sandwich, just because that's my m O. Take the sandwich.
Speaker 1: I'll take I'm mixed on this. It's it's about fifty.
Speaker 1: It's a good one. I think they keep trying to
Speaker 1: motivate Michael. That's what the press, and they like his talent,
Speaker 1: but something that the switch isn't. Yeah, I say you're right,
Speaker 1: because they just love those running backs. But this is
Speaker 1: head games they're trying to motivate. Michael got one I
Speaker 1: thought I did. I can't remember what it was anymore
Speaker 1: because it involved hang I gotta go behind the grass
Speaker 1: of the Irish. Irish, you never email me what my
Speaker 1: uh my sandwich prop was because I can't remember it anymore.
Speaker 1: Why don't you go? Greg Well uh covers up ters.
Speaker 1: Here we go. We've been talking about him. We're gonna
Speaker 1: talk about him a little more. My sandwich proposition is
Speaker 1: Tom Brady will be starting a quarterback for the Patriots
Speaker 1: in Week one. I'm not taking that. I believe it.
Speaker 1: I'll take it. One is he gonna have a little
Speaker 1: trouble in court, will start. He will be the starter,
Speaker 1: even though they have upheld his suspension. I choose not
Speaker 1: to believe in that reality. I choose to be believe
Speaker 1: in a reality where Tom Brady is out there throwing
Speaker 1: about five touchdowns on national television and the fifth one
Speaker 1: is to Brandon Lafel to win the game. And then
Speaker 1: he points up to the box where the commissioner is
Speaker 1: sitting and said that one's for you, buddy. Wow, that's
Speaker 1: not part of the sandwich. I just didn't saying he's starting.
Speaker 1: He sticks it to rog in a big spot. It's
Speaker 1: quite the picture you painted. I don't see Goodell even
Speaker 1: probably not. Yeah, he's probably not going to the game
Speaker 1: and that. Yeah, listen, Tom Brady is not starting week one.
Speaker 1: So I will take you up on that. I figured
Speaker 1: everyone would take me. I'm not like you. I choose
Speaker 1: to believe in your reality to what was your I'll
Speaker 1: take you up to when well, you've got the numbers
Speaker 1: on your side, considering not only has he been suspended,
Speaker 1: but they've upheld it. Plus plus he's dirty and he
Speaker 1: destroyed his cell phone. Give me a break. Courts don't
Speaker 1: like there was a Samsung. Everyone's gonna make that. They're
Speaker 1: gonna gonna go to the stuffy courtroom in the bag,
Speaker 1: all right, Tom, you know what, we're gonna give you
Speaker 1: the ben of the bell. Let's just see the cell
Speaker 1: phone and they're gonna hand over just a bunch of
Speaker 1: chips and like different like beeps and boots. I like
Speaker 1: when the court says, what's your evidence to the NFL
Speaker 1: and they're like, ah, he might have known that somebody
Speaker 1: was going to deflate something, but we have no idea
Speaker 1: if it was instructed by him or if he knew anything,
Speaker 1: He mightn't known. Why. By the way, why did the
Speaker 1: NFL suspend those guys, the two guys connected with Brady, Well,
Speaker 1: they're both, they're both. I haven't been able to figure
Speaker 1: out anything behind their about six ft below the Massachusetts
Speaker 1: Turnpike right now, Why did they get why were they
Speaker 1: the Patsy's in this and yet Tom's innocent throwing an
Speaker 1: easier football and then they took it out. He still
Speaker 1: demolished the Colts in his second half and then had
Speaker 1: the best fourth quarter in Super Bowl history with a
Speaker 1: with a real ball. We've got the whole We've got
Speaker 1: the whole year to set literally a here we go West.
Speaker 1: You you teased it, you actually undercut it a little bit.
Speaker 1: It's okay. You and I are disagreeing in this podcast.
Speaker 1: It's all good. It's all in love. But you you're
Speaker 1: doing anti rawls. Yeah, this is also here we go? No? Um,
Speaker 1: all right, Sam Brafford, Is he starting week one? Wait? Wait,
Speaker 1: you got from say what you think he's gonna start
Speaker 1: week one? All right? Will he will start week one?
Speaker 1: He has the knees of Joe Namath. He has Mark
Speaker 1: Sanchez in the mix there, but I still think they're
Speaker 1: going to give him the starting job and he'll be
Speaker 1: healthy and he'll be on the field. I have so
Speaker 1: little confidence in your ability to play this game well
Speaker 1: that I'm gonna go with Sanchez. Yeah, you gotta take
Speaker 1: a closer look, by the way, at how this game
Speaker 1: works on because I did badly in the draft, but
Speaker 1: I've done well overall. You're like last place. Check it out.
Speaker 1: Go check it out, askar, go get my lunch dot org.
Speaker 1: You can see the standings and you guys can tell
Speaker 1: me and then listeners where Dan stands favor When we
Speaker 1: have our next podcast, you grovel and you get on
Speaker 1: apologize to me for your behavior. All right, you're up
Speaker 1: Mark so much uncomfortable heat. I'm gonna take you up
Speaker 1: to Why not? So you think Mark Sanchez a starting Sure,
Speaker 1: he may have the knees of Joe Namath, but he's
Speaker 1: got the looks of mid eighties sitcom star. Women think
Speaker 1: he's great, lucking, good looking kind of you know, Kirk
Speaker 1: Cameron type of sche never struck me. And and by
Speaker 1: the way, Chip Kelly, by the way, people think Mark
Speaker 1: Sanchez is good you know what he's got. He's got
Speaker 1: a big contract, and he's got the Chip Kelly thinking
Speaker 1: about all those draft picks he gave up for him,
Speaker 1: So I think they're going to give him every chance
Speaker 1: to start. I'm not taking you up on that sandwich.
Speaker 1: I think it was a good one to throw because
Speaker 1: it's right on fifty fifty. But I'm not gonna says
Speaker 1: the knee of like a fifty two year old dad, Dad,
Speaker 1: Uncle Chucksney, poor Uncle Chuck. I want to mess that
Speaker 1: guy is physically frank Stein. I really hope you don't
Speaker 1: have an uncle Chuck, and that he did. I did
Speaker 1: at one point, but he got divorces, succumbed to back press.
Speaker 1: You know, he was a dirt bag. We're getting a
Speaker 1: lot of information here. Actually, don't feel bad about it.
Speaker 1: How everybody has like uncles that came in and out
Speaker 1: of the family because they were turns. That was my
Speaker 1: uncle Chuck. You don't have any. I have a family
Speaker 1: with a lot of ants and system. So there's some
Speaker 1: bad men that will cycle in. It's inevitable. Well, I
Speaker 1: feel for you and for the the the ant in
Speaker 1: question that went through the Chuck period. I like your
Speaker 1: entire family untouched by the darkness of divorce. Well, I
Speaker 1: did not I did not say yes or no to that.
Speaker 1: But I don't have an Uncle Chuck episode between this
Speaker 1: between Jen Walter and your appreciation of Dan's nameless on.
Speaker 1: You're a lover of women. You always are sensitive to
Speaker 1: to their needs and their feelings. Remember when you had
Speaker 1: a review of the view the view is trash because
Speaker 1: I value women. They wouldn't like that show that women
Speaker 1: are smarter than the view. We do. We all love
Speaker 1: women and that's why Colleen and Lindsay are here. K
Speaker 1: Rich listen you around the NFL podcast A friend of
Speaker 1: the female race. And that's it for It's very strange,
Speaker 1: very strange. Uh, that's it for uh Wednesday's show. Whoa, whoa, Dan,
Speaker 1: what's up? You're not even here? I am here. I've
Speaker 1: been here the whole time with the rest of the crew.
Speaker 1: How have your graphics been been awesome? Alright, real quick though,
Speaker 1: um podcast MVP for today's show did a great job
Speaker 1: hosting Trafficking and a Phone Now video, Dan Hans, whoa, Yeah,
Speaker 1: my favorite moment of the podcast is always looking at
Speaker 1: Mark's reactions. Well, it's s MVP can we actually once
Speaker 1: we get rolling on now and if we're gonna keep
Speaker 1: doing this m VP segment, if we keep rolling it,
Speaker 1: can we have like a little box in the corner
Speaker 1: that's on mark space when you make the announcement Listen,
Speaker 1: I'm fine. You can play your little game and your
Speaker 1: little hobby horse act whatever it is. But let me
Speaker 1: tell you something. This segment is junk and we should
Speaker 1: end the show on a high points, a gracious loser.
Speaker 1: Let's end the show. Well, uh, we could have ended
Speaker 1: on female race, which would have been a different way.
Speaker 1: Thank you TV, and thank you to the irishman Brandon McGinnis.
Speaker 1: Beautiful work. And Sully I see him back there literally
Speaker 1: in a fishing shirt. It's a little strange, but we'll
Speaker 1: be back on Thursday with another show. We're rolling three
Speaker 1: times a week, so that's it. This is Dan Hansas
Speaker 1: signing off with a quiet storm, the Mailman, the Boss
Speaker 1: and everyone behind the glass till Thursday.