Speaker 1: The Around the NFL Podcast. Sugars d A can welcome
Speaker 1: back to another edition of the Around the NFL Podcast.
Speaker 1: My name is Dan Henzas, and I'm joined by a
Speaker 1: room filled with heroes, Mark Sessler, Chris Westling, and Greg Rosatal.
Speaker 1: What's up, boys, Oh oh boy? Guess what, Chris Westling.
Speaker 1: This is a special show. It's up right right as
Speaker 1: it hits, as the news comes out. This is our
Speaker 1: second annual NFL two thousand fifteen schedule extravaganza. That'll get
Speaker 1: west excited. We don't have a lot of annual shows.
Speaker 1: I mean, this is a tradition, kind of like carving
Speaker 1: up that turkey on second second it drops. People don't
Speaker 1: go to NFL dot com to check the schedule or
Speaker 1: watch NFL Network. They just put on their old iPod
Speaker 1: iPod um. Typically. Yeah, typically we'll have a show up
Speaker 1: earlier on Tuesday or perhaps even Monday. But the show
Speaker 1: is coming out a little later. I think it's one
Speaker 1: am London time, if I'm if I'm not mistaken. When
Speaker 1: the straps a you know, evening time here on the
Speaker 1: West coast here, people are staying up to get it.
Speaker 1: The United States, don't under don't underestimate the good job
Speaker 1: by the way UK audience. I've been doing some research
Speaker 1: on our listenership. I know we're gonna get to the schedule.
Speaker 1: The UK audience keeps growing percentage wise, so thank you
Speaker 1: and all the other countries out there. You know, step
Speaker 1: up to the UK's game has about four countries in it.
Speaker 1: So I'm just saying the percentage of the audience keeps
Speaker 1: growing from the UK. I don't know anything about Angola.
Speaker 1: So we got a big show today, big, big, big show.
Speaker 1: I'm excited about it. I'm not quite as excited maybe
Speaker 1: about Thursday show. I was really excited about this when
Speaker 1: this one, I'm like, you know, seven out of ten excited.
Speaker 1: It's good to be honest. Yeah. Um, and gonna break
Speaker 1: down the schedule or the schedule West, uh in six parts. Basically,
Speaker 1: we have we have a bunch of content if you
Speaker 1: go to NFL dot com, slash around the NFL um
Speaker 1: we have, uh, we break down the schedule. We've all
Speaker 1: written pieces about the two thousand fifteen slate, so make
Speaker 1: sure you check that out. And we're gonna talk about
Speaker 1: you know, basically, UH, We're gonna break it down every
Speaker 1: possible way West and I know you're excited about it.
Speaker 1: I can't wait to analyze the schedule that we won't
Speaker 1: even matter for another five months. One of the joys
Speaker 1: I think for all of us, the three of us
Speaker 1: watching West just as a like a kid in a
Speaker 1: candy store. This is one of his favorite offseason you know,
Speaker 1: ten pole moments when the schedule releases. That's West's sweet spot.
Speaker 1: It's the most overhyped thing we do at NFL media.
Speaker 1: It just comes in a quiet time of the year.
Speaker 1: You're absolutely right, it's total nonsense. We already know all
Speaker 1: the opponents. It's tough, but they play in Week three.
Speaker 1: Who cares? But it's fine. Tell me about it in
Speaker 1: week two and I'll get ready. I'll get excited for
Speaker 1: Sometimes silly things are fun. West. By the way, West,
Speaker 1: you know, we could talk about the schedule, or we
Speaker 1: could do a show on Tim Tebow signing with the Eagles.
Speaker 1: Do you have any hot takes about that? Actual football
Speaker 1: news and analysis? Yes, talking about Tim Tebow or Philip Rivers,
Speaker 1: then well, Tibo is not gonna make the roster. But
Speaker 1: it's interesting that Chip Kelly. He wound up with Chip Kelly,
Speaker 1: who once said Wally was at Oregon that it wasn't
Speaker 1: a Tim Tebow type of offense. So I found that
Speaker 1: a little interesting. But uh, the Philip Rivers. I think
Speaker 1: Greg had this yesterday because we were watching Ladini and
Speaker 1: Thomlinson kind of shocked us how frankly Ladinian was talking
Speaker 1: that he thinks that Rivers will be gone from San Diego.
Speaker 1: Rivers is sent in a message. I mean, that's something
Speaker 1: to think about while we're looking at this Titan schedule.
Speaker 1: Who's the quarterback there. Rivers is not talking to the
Speaker 1: media this week or next, but through Tomlinson's words saying
Speaker 1: that he's frustrated with the organization, went through a laundry
Speaker 1: list of the players that have left there. He's basically talking.
Speaker 1: He's talking through Tom Ti, he's talking through Kevin as
Speaker 1: at the Union Tribune. He's not happy, he wants out,
Speaker 1: he's hoping for a trade. It's crazy. And as far
Speaker 1: as uh to circle back to Tebow for one second,
Speaker 1: it's a perfect way to cap Chip Kelly's offseason of me.
Speaker 1: Oh absolutely, you know he now he's got Tebow on
Speaker 1: the Wrostler and he could quietly cut uh Tebow in August.
Speaker 1: But because it's already achieved its desire, desired effect. We
Speaker 1: were once again trying to get inside the mind of
Speaker 1: the mysterious Chip Kelly, the great genius, but we can't
Speaker 1: because it's just too much going on in there. I
Speaker 1: look at it differently. I see this as once again
Speaker 1: Chip Kelly's thinking outside the box. A player who definitely
Speaker 1: should be in the NFL. He's better than a lot
Speaker 1: of second Chip Kelly disciples to my left, you can
Speaker 1: win games with Tim Tebow. You can't win games with
Speaker 1: a lot like Thaddeus Lewis. I mean, yeah, good for you,
Speaker 1: Chip Kelly. Chim Kelly is smarter than the thirty one
Speaker 1: other coaches for signing Tim Tebow. No, I think there's
Speaker 1: a group think in the NFL, especially when it comes
Speaker 1: to player evaluation, and once somebody says, I don't want
Speaker 1: to circus in town, he's not worth it, then the
Speaker 1: rest of the teams agree with that. I hear you,
Speaker 1: but you're I've never thought i'd hear Westling defend a
Speaker 1: quarterback that can't throw. Wouldn't you take him over Matt Barkley?
Speaker 1: I was. John Fox has no had no interest really
Speaker 1: in Tim Tebow. Bill Belichick had this Josh McDaniels, who
Speaker 1: drafted Tim Tebow, didn't really have interest in keeping Tebow
Speaker 1: on the team. He couldn't do anything in New York.
Speaker 1: And I'm just saying a lot of people have given up.
Speaker 1: They've they've seen what. I'm not saying that Tim Tebow
Speaker 1: is some secret weapon. I'm saying he's better than a
Speaker 1: lot of these guys. He's better than Ryan Linley and
Speaker 1: one and one thing with Chip Kelly doesn't have to
Speaker 1: because he doesn't have an empowered general manager anyone to say, hey, guys,
Speaker 1: not a good idea for the organization. He runs the
Speaker 1: show and he can make this move for other coaches
Speaker 1: if they wanted him. Have a lot of hoops to
Speaker 1: jump through to even to bring the beauty of the NFL.
Speaker 1: He'll have to answer to it. If it doesn't work. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I'll enjoy this because it won't last beyond August. Team
Speaker 1: kept way. I think the only way that he would
Speaker 1: make the team is if they do what the Jets
Speaker 1: want to do and figure out some way where you
Speaker 1: could use him a few plays a game or here
Speaker 1: and there. And it's not like he's gonna be started.
Speaker 1: They were gonna do and it was a huge distraction.
Speaker 1: I don't know why Chip Kelly would ever invite that
Speaker 1: into his building. And it's not just to me group think.
Speaker 1: It's the truth the guy. He's a lightning rod for debate.
Speaker 1: The second Sam Bradford struggles in September, it becomes this
Speaker 1: whole whole deal about Tebow in there. That's past, I
Speaker 1: really do. I think most of the country knows that
Speaker 1: Tebow can't throw the ball, so there's not Eagles fans
Speaker 1: are not gonna be clamoring for Tim Tebow, and there
Speaker 1: is less interest in him now. I mean, we're talking
Speaker 1: about it. It's the middle of April. This story would
Speaker 1: have gotten a little more buried if it happened right
Speaker 1: in the middle of free agency. But you know, I
Speaker 1: want to applaud the audience once again not really clicking
Speaker 1: on the Tim Tebow stories as much anymore, which I
Speaker 1: like nicely done. They were. It's all relative. It's still
Speaker 1: very popular, but it's not the crazy you could you
Speaker 1: could sell. The executive type people in our building when
Speaker 1: they were forced in meetings this morning to acknowledge that
Speaker 1: the Tebow stories weren't doing well, Oh that hurt them.
Speaker 1: Had a hard time with the Shadowy League. Shadowy League
Speaker 1: figures a dark day when Tebow is not moving the needle. Uh,
Speaker 1: let's now look behind the glass. It's been a while,
Speaker 1: and maybe it hasn't. Maybe it hasn't been as quite
Speaker 1: as long as it feels to me. But I feel
Speaker 1: like it's been a while since the great t D. St.
Speaker 1: Dane has been behind the glass. What's up, buddy boy?
Speaker 1: What is going on? It's St Matthew Daniel, But I
Speaker 1: always get that wrong. It's only been no disrespect and
Speaker 1: it's only been five minutes. And t TD walked in
Speaker 1: and took a shot at Mark Sessler. Well, that was
Speaker 1: unprofessional in toft the air and it was unprofessional. No, no,
Speaker 1: I was providing facts. And you just come with some
Speaker 1: heat of the great antagonistic relationships and all of podcasts
Speaker 1: radio right now, maybe perhaps the premier antagonistic relationships. It
Speaker 1: was the way last week, but back and it was
Speaker 1: good standers here doing a stay in, big fan of
Speaker 1: ghostanding you know the world? Are you though to say
Speaker 1: when he's going at the dark Star trying to turn
Speaker 1: him against you? It's impossible. Just put it this way.
Speaker 1: Put it this way. If gold Standard wasn't moving on
Speaker 1: to bigger and better things at the end of the month.
Speaker 1: You wouldn't have been so cool about him doing four
Speaker 1: shows and five. I mean, I know I missed the show,
Speaker 1: but you know, ghost in it is my guy. Did
Speaker 1: you notice when West was drunk on the phone a
Speaker 1: couple weeks ago and he said how much he missed
Speaker 1: you and how great you are. That's true. You didn't
Speaker 1: listen to that shows a bit, but not the whole thing.
Speaker 1: Listen to West sung your praises in an alleviated state.
Speaker 1: I was not drunk. Listened to quite a bit. What
Speaker 1: does that mean five minutes? Maybe Direct didn't produce that
Speaker 1: Goldman show. I listened to you know last episode where
Speaker 1: Zach did a news drop. You know all right? He
Speaker 1: talking about the gold standard reminds me of Bella checks
Speaker 1: flowery statements after he cuts a guy. You know what
Speaker 1: I mean, It's like, you're he's the greatest patriot of
Speaker 1: all time. That I that I just fired um And
Speaker 1: well the last show you did mention right before we
Speaker 1: started you might have had an issue with something that
Speaker 1: we talked about in the last show. Yeah, I just
Speaker 1: said it, you know, like you know, I remember when
Speaker 1: I first started producing the show Go to News, and
Speaker 1: the very first time I said let's do it, and
Speaker 1: everyone went up and I was like, oh, that's the
Speaker 1: ghost standard thing. You can't say let's do it. So
Speaker 1: I had to come up with a new every show.
Speaker 1: And that's what it became. You know, that was your thing.
Speaker 1: And then this is the last episode and then you
Speaker 1: know you asked for a news dropping Well we wanted
Speaker 1: one once. You know, that was tied to Britta McHenry,
Speaker 1: the suspended ESPN reporter team Britt over here by the way,
Speaker 1: and that was you know, that was nothing against you.
Speaker 1: That was more like I wanted to get that into
Speaker 1: the show and it was my idea. So don't put
Speaker 1: it on Zach. Like I said, I don't want you
Speaker 1: to be you and Zach become the way it's called
Speaker 1: a production element, go standard. You know, he's the best
Speaker 1: of us. I'm gonna go standing fan. But quick question
Speaker 1: for you guys, though, really quick question on the schedule.
Speaker 1: Who's worse it is the guy that says schedule or
Speaker 1: the guy that says image, I mean audience immaturity? What's
Speaker 1: the maturity? Yeah, so rather than going immature, I never
Speaker 1: heard that, So that sounds worse to me. I like,
Speaker 1: I like schedule. I mean I don't really look like
Speaker 1: Bury people about how they pronounced things. So that's that's right.
Speaker 1: A lot of effort into it, right, Yeah, so someone
Speaker 1: easy to say schedule and immature. Schedule is not bad
Speaker 1: though it's kind of sneaky. Under the radar is a
Speaker 1: good altered alternate pronunciation. Um alright, So questionable comment by
Speaker 1: t D. Yeah, I mean that was weird, but t D,
Speaker 1: it is good to have you back, buddy. So let's
Speaker 1: talk about it now. Let's get into the schedule or
Speaker 1: the schedule or however you want to say it, because
Speaker 1: it is out and I guess we'll start. Let's just
Speaker 1: start right off the top because I want to get
Speaker 1: into a little bit. Uh. My colleague and my boss,
Speaker 1: the boss to the right, we talked about a couple
Speaker 1: of weeks ago and Levy on Bell got suspended, and
Speaker 1: we said, oh, you know what, this is all setting
Speaker 1: up for the Patriots to pull the Steelers in week
Speaker 1: one in their building without Levy on Bell. And when
Speaker 1: did you know if they all get together in their
Speaker 1: little office in Park Avenue and they closed the door
Speaker 1: and they have so many options to choose them. What
Speaker 1: do they do? They give Bill Belichick and the Patriots
Speaker 1: the Steelers without their best player, the best running back. Uh.
Speaker 1: To me, it all smells like the Throne of ease
Speaker 1: is cooking again in another season. Or maybe they looked
Speaker 1: at two of the best teams in the a f
Speaker 1: C over the last ten years since Ben Roethlisberger was
Speaker 1: drafted this I can't hear him, he's too high up
Speaker 1: on it. And the number three team they're there the too,
Speaker 1: two of the favorites for this year. Of course they're
Speaker 1: gonna be there in Week one. I think dance theory
Speaker 1: is probably more solid and correct. This is good news
Speaker 1: for the Patriots that they get to misspell. But I
Speaker 1: promise you it's good news for the Steelers too, because
Speaker 1: they get the Patriots in Week one in September. That's
Speaker 1: when they're at their worst. Their winning percentage way lower
Speaker 1: in September than any other month. It's but it's it's
Speaker 1: the truth. If you play the Patriots, you want to
Speaker 1: play him early. How about take a month or so
Speaker 1: to figure out how they're going to run their team?
Speaker 1: As But okay, fair enough, But as damage Chuck said downstairs,
Speaker 1: Damna Check very upset that the Steelers got one. He
Speaker 1: he referred to the week one road opponent in the
Speaker 1: Thursday night game as a sacrificial lamb. And with the
Speaker 1: exception of one year, which is an outlier the Giants
Speaker 1: uh falling to the Cowboys a few years back. It
Speaker 1: is always that home team defending champion wins. The Patriots
Speaker 1: are gonna be a heavy favorite to win that game,
Speaker 1: and the Steelers are without their most dynamic player. It's
Speaker 1: it's you know, it just gets me mad. Why did
Speaker 1: the Patriots get someone they're less of a favorite than
Speaker 1: they would be against the Jets or the Bills or
Speaker 1: the Eagles for that matter. So what those were the options?
Speaker 1: They picked the best team? Well, we wanted we wanted Steelers,
Speaker 1: and I still think that would have been more interesting.
Speaker 1: But this is a good game. I don't want a
Speaker 1: problem with Steelers Patriots. I was only a little surprised
Speaker 1: because it's the all I got caught smoking pot and
Speaker 1: got suspended for a bowl. I mean, but Aaron Blunt's out,
Speaker 1: Laby and bells out. It's just a little weird because
Speaker 1: that's gonna be a big focus of this game, shouldn't
Speaker 1: it be? I don't. I don't know why you needed
Speaker 1: to throw the word bowl in there. I think already
Speaker 1: had made your point at that point. You keep hammering
Speaker 1: her home. So yeah, I don't know. I guess it
Speaker 1: will still be a good game. I'm sure it'll be.
Speaker 1: I just thought it just seems so obvious to me
Speaker 1: that that's how it was going to play out. I
Speaker 1: don't know, Well, what would you have wanted, Eagles? I
Speaker 1: think that would have been fun. We should celebrate that
Speaker 1: matchup by reading the Drugs Delaney letter from outside Providence.
Speaker 1: No idea what you're talking about right now? Yeah? Drugs Delaney? Yeah,
Speaker 1: rest in peace, Mr Delaney. Um alright, So yeah, that
Speaker 1: was the thing that jumped out to me. Is anybody
Speaker 1: want to how do we want to do? Is we
Speaker 1: want to kind of go through some of our content
Speaker 1: here to anybody else have something that shots out to
Speaker 1: them immediately? Let's start with Week one. Okay, that's fun
Speaker 1: that I wrote a little just about that Week one week.
Speaker 1: But one of the games that's under the radar, not
Speaker 1: a primetime game or anything, Titans Bucks Week one. Maybe
Speaker 1: we're gonna have the top two picks of the draft.
Speaker 1: Possibly it's not gonna be a sexy game. But if
Speaker 1: it's Jamis Winston is Marcus Mariota in Week one, that's
Speaker 1: pretty crazy. Shoved that back down under the radar. I'm
Speaker 1: just saying it's stuck out. I mean, has that ever happened?
Speaker 1: I kind of doubt it. Speaking of predictable, and I'm
Speaker 1: a fan of these, this matchup but also hyper predictable
Speaker 1: is the first Sunday night game of the year, Giants
Speaker 1: at Cowboys, which I feel like it's all in either
Speaker 1: the Week one or Week seventeen matchup on NBC for
Speaker 1: the past thirteen straight years. You can already hear Chris
Speaker 1: collins Worth calling this game. What a great game that
Speaker 1: would be. They should just call this that the Giants
Speaker 1: at Cowboys Sunday night game, because that's all. That's all
Speaker 1: it is. You're right, but it guarantees the ratings and
Speaker 1: for all the Cowboys you know talk we give every
Speaker 1: single top rated game ever is a Cowboys. I like
Speaker 1: this one, and they play entertaining primetime games. Also, good quarterback,
Speaker 1: come on, Ravens at Broncos. You got Kubiak in Denver
Speaker 1: taking on his old offense in Baltimore, and you know
Speaker 1: you you know, that's a tough one. Whoever wins that,
Speaker 1: it's got to feel very good about Week one. Surprised
Speaker 1: I didn't think to put that on my list of
Speaker 1: revenge games Kubi out. And one thing I'm not surprised
Speaker 1: about is that Mark was given one takeaway from week
Speaker 1: one and he went straight to the coordinators. The friend
Speaker 1: of the coordinator, Mark Sessler. Why is it that you
Speaker 1: connect with coordinators in such a way. What is the
Speaker 1: the what is the mentality behind it? I'm curious what
Speaker 1: it is, I think, because you know they're in the
Speaker 1: shadows a little bit. But I think if I were
Speaker 1: ever to be a football coach, I would want to
Speaker 1: be not the head coach necessarily, but the offensive coordinate.
Speaker 1: You on some levels, see yourself as a coordinator on
Speaker 1: some level, whether it be in the office or at home,
Speaker 1: and you think you deserve more pub and that's why
Speaker 1: you bring it. That feels that feels accurate to me. Interesting,
Speaker 1: you're the Mark Tressman of the group, speaking of coordinator
Speaker 1: just was fired. So speaking of Mark, the Jets and
Speaker 1: the Brownies and week one, how exciting is that Greg
Speaker 1: obviously will be sending us to that game, so to
Speaker 1: all our listeners in the York, New Jersey area. Well,
Speaker 1: we could have a tweet up, Greg, thank you for that.
Speaker 1: That's not true, just made that up. But Greg, how
Speaker 1: about it. If we're sending anyone anywhere, it's too Foxbro
Speaker 1: for that kickoff like he went to last year. You know,
Speaker 1: a couple of teams hoping to get to eight wins
Speaker 1: are roving Week one reporter Dan Hans, I can do both.
Speaker 1: I could swing yeah, I could swing by New York
Speaker 1: and then pop up or pop into New York after
Speaker 1: New England. That's cool. I mean they do always try
Speaker 1: to have the teams that struggled last year face off
Speaker 1: against each other early in the year so you get
Speaker 1: some early wins. I mean, that's been a fortune smart
Speaker 1: for fifty years. That's why the Titans and the in
Speaker 1: the Bucks are playing each other. The thing that stuck
Speaker 1: out to me is that finally, the doubleheader nightcap on
Speaker 1: Monday night in Week one is not including the Raiders,
Speaker 1: is not an a f C West game. I think
Speaker 1: that's the first time ever Vikings forty Niners Teddy Bridgewater
Speaker 1: on National TV against the new look forty Niners. I
Speaker 1: know their teams kind of in transition. But I like
Speaker 1: that as as two teams kind of. I just want
Speaker 1: to watch by My new look is generous. I mean
Speaker 1: it's more like what was in the picture. It's been
Speaker 1: like six it's been removed. How about Eagles Falcons the
Speaker 1: same night, first time we get to see Shannon hands offense,
Speaker 1: but at a snoozer though in Atlanta. I don't like
Speaker 1: that one that much. I mean, like crowd noise going
Speaker 1: and that thing is gonna be hopping. Do you think
Speaker 1: Tim Tebow will watch that Eagles game from his couch
Speaker 1: or we think he'll go to a sports bar. I
Speaker 1: think he'll be watching it from the sideline. Well, Matt
Speaker 1: Barkley is somewhere else watching it from someone else. I
Speaker 1: always thought they, I'm not on board with this. Tebow
Speaker 1: doesn't make the Eagles thing. We'll see. I always thought
Speaker 1: they should do this Monday night doublehead or a different
Speaker 1: time of year, because by that point in the first Monday,
Speaker 1: it's like we haven't had any football for months. It'd
Speaker 1: be like keeping Chris Westling away from Tybee Island for
Speaker 1: a year. That first night or two he's back. I
Speaker 1: mean he's getting after it. There's a lot to go
Speaker 1: for and it's like, when't we enjoy that nice Monday
Speaker 1: night doublehead or a a little later in the season, spread
Speaker 1: out the love. You see what I'm saying, OK, I
Speaker 1: respect that. Hey one other tent pole uh portion of
Speaker 1: the season Thanksgiving's talk about Thanksgiving? Uh. And we'll start
Speaker 1: with Eagles at Lions. That's the early game. Solid game.
Speaker 1: I like that game. I'll miss and Dominican sue he
Speaker 1: always seemed to bring adventures to that game. Uh. Then
Speaker 1: you have the Panthers at Cowboys. That's the middle game.
Speaker 1: That's a little weird that the Panthers snuck in there.
Speaker 1: Your thoughts about that? You know, they're a fun team
Speaker 1: to watch. Why do you have a problem with that?
Speaker 1: They are much more fun team to watch than the
Speaker 1: Cowboys are. I mean, they were literally one of the
Speaker 1: final eight teams in the NFL playoffs two straight years.
Speaker 1: How many teams can say you gonna count the Panthers
Speaker 1: as a true playoff team last year? Though they won
Speaker 1: a game well at the end of the year and
Speaker 1: they played team with no quarterback, but they were good
Speaker 1: down the stretch. Does anyone forget that game against the Seahawks?
Speaker 1: Was that wrong? But it was tied to start the
Speaker 1: fourth quarter. Every you know, they were a competitive team.
Speaker 1: They have Cam Newton. That makes the Lions to me,
Speaker 1: are a little more boring. I think they messed up
Speaker 1: this Thanksgiving slate. And then like Thanksgiving Night, Chicago Bears
Speaker 1: at Green Bay Packers. You know, talk about sacrificial lambs
Speaker 1: as will be lucky to be out of the first
Speaker 1: half not down twenty points. Uh. And then at halftime, finally, thankfully,
Speaker 1: Brett Farve is going to get his freaking number retired.
Speaker 1: I don't know how much, how long we've had to
Speaker 1: talk about that, how many stories you've had to write
Speaker 1: about that. I mean, like as if it's such a
Speaker 1: big deal. But he will get his number retired at halftime.
Speaker 1: But that game, to me smells like a potential steak. Well,
Speaker 1: it's a nightmare, I think, like last year. And then
Speaker 1: you know West pointed this out and something that he's
Speaker 1: written that two years in a row, no a FC
Speaker 1: teams on Thanksgiving and this is the perfect set up
Speaker 1: for a classic Steelers Ravens type brawl. Instead you're putting
Speaker 1: Jake Cutler in there against Aaron Rodgers well right, or
Speaker 1: or someone even less. It's just it's it smells to
Speaker 1: me like an absolute bomb. Drop is a half? Weren't
Speaker 1: they have forty five to nothing at halftime last time
Speaker 1: they play? Think it's with Packers have have gone eleven
Speaker 1: and two against the Bears since Jake Cutler landed in Chicago.
Speaker 1: The Bears were a fun team to watch At this point.
Speaker 1: I feel like they need to It's up to them
Speaker 1: to change our minds. But what's the thinking? Why like
Speaker 1: the people's thinking. Bred Farve is getting his number retired
Speaker 1: on Thanksgiving. It's his return, that's the star, That's it's
Speaker 1: all about far of That night the NFL's oldest rivalry,
Speaker 1: right and and Farv had his best or one of
Speaker 1: his best records against the Bears against them, a lot
Speaker 1: of games against them. It all sense. It's Green Bay
Speaker 1: Lambeau on a Thursday night Thanksgiving. I mean, that's never
Speaker 1: happened before. There's something cool. I'm on board. Maybe the
Speaker 1: Bears want to I mean Green play Green Bay plays Seattle.
Speaker 1: How about you put that Thanksgiving night ratings fire bomb? Instead?
Speaker 1: You got Jake Cutler and late November, Hi, Mark, I
Speaker 1: have a question for you. Okay, I want to know.
Speaker 1: I want you to tell me if you can some
Speaker 1: teams in your estimation got lucky. Who got lucky? When
Speaker 1: it comes to the release of the schedule, when you
Speaker 1: look at obviously you can't really tell. We don't know
Speaker 1: who's gonna be good, who's gonna who's gonna suck. But
Speaker 1: maybe your first glance and you looked at these schedules,
Speaker 1: who maybe jumped out to his teams that will have
Speaker 1: the advantage uh this season because of the way it
Speaker 1: was put scheduled. I don't know about advantage because I
Speaker 1: think it's for me. It's some who bounce back from
Speaker 1: having crappy schedules last year and have a better situation
Speaker 1: this time. The Jets are one team for me. Like
Speaker 1: they had a Murders row of quarterbacks last season. They
Speaker 1: did play Aaron Rodgers, Philip Rivers, Peyton Manning. None of
Speaker 1: those guys are on the schedule this time around. And
Speaker 1: they get the a f C, they get the Titans, Jaguars,
Speaker 1: and Texans, and they open with Cleveland and they don't
Speaker 1: have that first place schedule, so they're getting the Cleveland's
Speaker 1: and the Titans that type of fair and so you know,
Speaker 1: they four wins last season. I think they could double that.
Speaker 1: They got the NFC, Yes, you got they got the
Speaker 1: NFC East. They got the a f C South. That's
Speaker 1: not too crazy at all. And their division stop. I mean,
Speaker 1: it's gonna the Patriots are there, but then the rest
Speaker 1: of the teams are all kind of at their level.
Speaker 1: So I think they're in pretty good position. Who else
Speaker 1: you got here? Well, I went NFC South because I mean,
Speaker 1: you know, what do we know today? But they they
Speaker 1: play the a f C South, so that's gonna help
Speaker 1: them get out of the city. You know, it's seven
Speaker 1: eight and one won the division last year. It's not
Speaker 1: going to be that way this I think the Saints
Speaker 1: at an improved team, you know, the Falcons be a
Speaker 1: better offense this year around, better team, and like, well
Speaker 1: they get they get the crappy a f C division.
Speaker 1: That's what more cans. That's huge. And that's how I
Speaker 1: a lot of times they picked my wild card teams
Speaker 1: just okay, what divisions could get multiple playoff teams. The
Speaker 1: af C North at a very advantageous schedule last year
Speaker 1: and and it worked out that way. The only thing
Speaker 1: is the FC South might be looking at that NFC
Speaker 1: South and thinking we've got They probably aren't. I look
Speaker 1: at the Saints, so that the only team of every
Speaker 1: NFL team that doesn't play consecutive road games. They don't
Speaker 1: have to go on any nasty three games, you know,
Speaker 1: I mean the bat the teams that are in trouble,
Speaker 1: the ones they have three or four road games in
Speaker 1: a road. It's a couple of those three teams. Mark.
Speaker 1: I'm looking at your your post, which on this who
Speaker 1: Got Lucky listed a bunch of teams and divisions. And
Speaker 1: I wanted to say, if anybody wants to read mark
Speaker 1: stuff NFL dot Com slash Mark's latest think piece, well
Speaker 1: this one was thrust upon me, going out of his
Speaker 1: eight to have people not read marks content. Uh no,
Speaker 1: make sure you read it's good. But I also noticed
Speaker 1: that use autumn. You're the only, uh around the NFL
Speaker 1: writer that uses autumn repeatedly in your content. Well, I'm
Speaker 1: tired of having to write last year, last season, blah
Speaker 1: blah blah. I'm not taking shots. I'm just no, no,
Speaker 1: it's you know. I know it's also incorrect because half
Speaker 1: the season doesn't take place in the autumn, So I
Speaker 1: get that. All I noticed the Colts continue to have
Speaker 1: the softest schedule in the NFL. Yeah, well they do.
Speaker 1: They're eight and skate. Well they again, they play the
Speaker 1: division we were just talking about, and they can eat up.
Speaker 1: They can eat them up. And then they're tough games
Speaker 1: New England. You know, I think the Saints is a
Speaker 1: tough game in Denver. They play all those teams at home.
Speaker 1: They get eight, eight free wins every year. Eight When
Speaker 1: I was, when I was in the post office, just six.
Speaker 1: We used to have a phrase, eight and skate. What
Speaker 1: is that? What was it? So if you're part of
Speaker 1: the union, and you you like a veteran guy, you're
Speaker 1: you have so many days a week where you're not
Speaker 1: allowed to have overtime. So if you're guaranteed only eight
Speaker 1: hours that day, you got eight and skate you you
Speaker 1: got eight hours, get eight free wins every year. So
Speaker 1: glad you escaped that work six three wins. Now they
Speaker 1: get they get another two easy games for fun. Yeah,
Speaker 1: they get plenty of easy game. They gotta start in Buffalo.
Speaker 1: That's a fun week one game. They got the Buccaneers
Speaker 1: this year. Oh I guess yeah. You like uh, you
Speaker 1: like the Saints as a team that's been set up
Speaker 1: for a bounce back here Hummer. I think so. It
Speaker 1: seems like everything kind of went wrong last year and
Speaker 1: they've set They were my Super Bowl pick last year.
Speaker 1: I gotta they gotta do something right. Wait, do you
Speaker 1: put them on this list just because you picked them to?
Speaker 1: I like the fact that they don't have a nasty
Speaker 1: road schedule? Do you want to give any details? No,
Speaker 1: I'm reading your content. Only NFL team without back to
Speaker 1: back road games. That seems I mentioned that earlier in
Speaker 1: the in the broadcast, I wasn't listening. They're only consecutive
Speaker 1: away dates come on either side of the week eleven by.
Speaker 1: Did you know that? Yeah, well, this is the research
Speaker 1: I did about an hour ago. They got to start
Speaker 1: in Arizona. I always kind of look at that September start,
Speaker 1: I mean, because after that, who knows, But start in Arizona.
Speaker 1: That's a tough place. You gotta go to Carolina. Week three,
Speaker 1: You guys want to know who got We're not allowed
Speaker 1: to use that terminology on the website or probably even
Speaker 1: the podcast, but uh on the on NFL dot com. Okay,
Speaker 1: who got host? That's another thing we couldn't say online,
Speaker 1: but we can't say that in the podcast here. Every
Speaker 1: time bang of Gong comes on the radio, TV bleeps
Speaker 1: it out. We can't say host and prints. We can't
Speaker 1: say I can't say host. Last year it was it
Speaker 1: was asked who got hosed? Was up for? I think
Speaker 1: it was the third year we did who got host?
Speaker 1: I was the writer, I remember. But last year in
Speaker 1: the morning, I remember there was some shadowy league figure
Speaker 1: that had us change. I feel like I feel like
Speaker 1: this my post, which is had to be retitled two
Speaker 1: thousand fifteen scheduled colon Who's facing an uphill climb? This
Speaker 1: is what's gonna cost me the pulitzer. It would have
Speaker 1: been hosed. I think I was gonna get the polits.
Speaker 1: It's like eight colin's and four subtitles in that story anyway.
Speaker 1: So yeah, here's the other, the flip side of the
Speaker 1: team's or divisions where I think they're kind of in
Speaker 1: a tough spot. And I'll I'll start with um the
Speaker 1: teams that have three straight road games at one point
Speaker 1: in their schedule. Again, there's not too much. You don't
Speaker 1: want to get too crazy about who's what's an easy game,
Speaker 1: what's not an easy game, because we don't really know
Speaker 1: who's good. But you know that going on the road
Speaker 1: three games a row is tough, tough, and the Falcons, Bills, Dolphins,
Speaker 1: and Jaguars all have to do that. And just just
Speaker 1: a reminder how hard it is to win on the road.
Speaker 1: Only six teams had a winning record on the road
Speaker 1: last year. Um, and no team had less than three losses.
Speaker 1: So I mean that's it's not easy to win on
Speaker 1: the road. It's not. And it just reminded me of something.
Speaker 1: You know, who should be on this list every year?
Speaker 1: The Jaguars because they give away a home game. I
Speaker 1: love the International Series, but it's a competitive disadvantage that
Speaker 1: the same team has volunteers. That's about keeping the Jaguars.
Speaker 1: I'm just saying it's given up the Jaguars. Jaguars fans
Speaker 1: pack Wembley Stadium. I'm not saying it. Look, there's only
Speaker 1: sixteen games in the season. You want every advantage you
Speaker 1: can possibly. Those four teams have three road games on
Speaker 1: the row, so that's that's not fun. The Steelers, I'll
Speaker 1: throw out there, I think, Um, you know, of course
Speaker 1: they mentioned Check was upset about that Week one that
Speaker 1: they got stuck with the Patriots without Levian Bell. But
Speaker 1: here's the other thing. If you look after their their
Speaker 1: posts by schedule after Week eleven is rough. They're at
Speaker 1: Seattle home to Colts, at Cincinnati, home to Denver, at Baltimore,
Speaker 1: and then at Cleveland. Uh, there's no gimmes there. Often
Speaker 1: do you see a team that they know is going
Speaker 1: to be in the thick of the division race in
Speaker 1: the final month of four games, three are on the
Speaker 1: road against division opponents, all road games. That is just
Speaker 1: even though damnit check is a right to be annoying,
Speaker 1: what I'm seeing here is games at a. J. McCarron
Speaker 1: home to brock Oswild and at Janne Manzel best case
Speaker 1: scenari That's what happens when you look at the schedule
Speaker 1: in April. Yeah, I mean, that's that's fair. West Springs
Speaker 1: a good perspective, that is, that is tough though the Steelers,
Speaker 1: especially that first place schedule in the a f C
Speaker 1: is so much harder than the third or fourth. The
Speaker 1: fact that they get the Broncos and the Patriots and
Speaker 1: that NFC West that's disastrous. Um let's see nine and
Speaker 1: seven winner of that. It does seem like the Steelers
Speaker 1: get the hardest schedule this year. Uh so, yeah, sorry
Speaker 1: about that. Steelers and I it's almost like they they
Speaker 1: got to be like seven and three hitting that by
Speaker 1: or I think they're in deep Troit. And by the way,
Speaker 1: the Ravens are at home three of four of their
Speaker 1: final four games. So it's like, come on, and it
Speaker 1: just seems tilted bizarrely. And also throughout the NFC West
Speaker 1: as a whole. Uh you know, listen, it's not maybe
Speaker 1: as stacked the division as it was when the Niners
Speaker 1: were a powerhouse. But even factoring that in, that's a
Speaker 1: competitive division. Those teams beat each other up and then
Speaker 1: all the West teams they got to play the a
Speaker 1: f C North, which is maybe if maybe they're one
Speaker 1: two in terms of most competitive divisions. A f C
Speaker 1: North fielded three playoff teams last year. Um. This also
Speaker 1: does in a somewhat related uh point, this does mark
Speaker 1: present the possibility of Johnny Manziel playing at Century Link Field. Uh,
Speaker 1: you know, an presents this, you know, the possibility of
Speaker 1: Cleveland winning three or four games next season. When I
Speaker 1: look at the schedule, I could have easily put Cleveland
Speaker 1: on the Their schedule is not easy, but you know
Speaker 1: who didn't get banged. I think when you have the
Speaker 1: best host or you know, toyed around with the West
Speaker 1: and Noon around the West and North playing each other
Speaker 1: that we win. Those are going to be some great games,
Speaker 1: a bunch of great games there. I love football here
Speaker 1: around the NFL podcast would not be toyed around with.
Speaker 1: Don't you us tious? Going crazy? You can is how
Speaker 1: you welcome me back? Then? But you don't work. Hey,
Speaker 1: I've put the gold Senator to work too. Don't worry
Speaker 1: about it alright. Any how about Kevin Patrick, who, by
Speaker 1: the way, is our Chicago correspondent and West next time
Speaker 1: this time next week it will be the Patra and
Speaker 1: West variety, our twenty four hours a day in Chicago
Speaker 1: for several days. You're looking forward to that. I don't
Speaker 1: know if the Windy City is ready for the two
Speaker 1: of us. I don't know if I said on the
Speaker 1: last podcast or not. But here's the only thing I
Speaker 1: worry about when it comes to any type of um,
Speaker 1: you know, situation in a parking lot or in a
Speaker 1: bar where there's a disagreement. Patrack's go to his fisticuffs
Speaker 1: every time he uses those two big meat hooks. He's
Speaker 1: got a piecemaker like me around. I don't know, I mean,
Speaker 1: I feel like you might. You guys can turn into
Speaker 1: like the tag team champions of the Midwest. I'm my
Speaker 1: my uh content ross uh. Fisticuffs days are over. You
Speaker 1: don't think Patro will bring it out of you potentially? Nah?
Speaker 1: What about you and Patrick getting into a fight that
Speaker 1: I can see that a lot more. Patrick is a
Speaker 1: good man. This one I don't vision. I'm looking forward
Speaker 1: to hearing about this, this trip together. You guys are
Speaker 1: an interesting pairing. It could be like the perfect mix,
Speaker 1: or it could be oil and vinegar. It could go
Speaker 1: either direction. We've hung out before, just the two of us,
Speaker 1: Patrick and I, and we had a We had a
Speaker 1: good time. Maybe too much fun, that's what we're saying. Well,
Speaker 1: I think I found the only person I know who
Speaker 1: complains more than I do. Alright, Thursday Night preview, let's
Speaker 1: talk about the Thursday night games real quick. Kevin wrote
Speaker 1: this piece. Um, I'm just gonna go through it here.
Speaker 1: Broncos at k C, all right, give me a letter grade, Greg,
Speaker 1: all right for each of these, but you gotta be quick, rapid,
Speaker 1: fire ready. Broncos at Casey, Redskins at Giants, see Ravens
Speaker 1: at Steelers, Colts of Texans, B minus. All right, we're
Speaker 1: switching over to Mark now Falcons at Saints BP solid
Speaker 1: B B B B, Seahawks at Niners A minus doc
Speaker 1: and the Patriots B plus, Browns at Bengals, switching over
Speaker 1: to West Bills at Jets, to two teams without quarterbacks. No,
Speaker 1: thank you, Titans, your stupid Titans and Taguars. He got
Speaker 1: the terrible part of the sleep This is great. Vikings
Speaker 1: at Cardinals B B plus. Come on, Bucks and Rams
Speaker 1: d rams. That's automatically less than to see if you're
Speaker 1: playing in that mausoleum we get. I don't. I don't
Speaker 1: even have to guess what this one is. Week fifteen
Speaker 1: Jets at Cowboys C plus wows the night previous schedule
Speaker 1: more a terrible idea. What I can't wait to hear
Speaker 1: from the shadowy league figures in that one? What are
Speaker 1: the grades? I didn't exact. I didn't think we're getting
Speaker 1: f bombs all over the place. Anyways, they find it funny.
Speaker 1: I like. One of the things I like about the
Speaker 1: Thursday night schedule are the Saturday game back once again.
Speaker 1: If you remember last year, we had a double header
Speaker 1: late in the season. This year, no double header, but
Speaker 1: two Saturday games, including Jets at Cowboys. That's a Saturday game,
Speaker 1: and you love left off Chargers Raiders. That's a Christmas
Speaker 1: Eve game, so you know, you bring the family around
Speaker 1: and settle in for a little Philip Rivers and Derek
Speaker 1: carr at which means, uh, the final game there Redskins Eagle.
Speaker 1: I guess that's actually a Thursday game. Redskins Eagles is
Speaker 1: on a Saturday. So Christmas on a Friday, Chris, there's
Speaker 1: NFL games Christmas Eve and NFL game the day after
Speaker 1: Christmas and then the full slatest Sunday games. This is
Speaker 1: your message to tell us, basically, well, war in your families.
Speaker 1: It's gonna be that that kind of year. It's going
Speaker 1: to be that kind It's only one game, you know,
Speaker 1: War in your Families. Actually you have to talk to
Speaker 1: my wife about this. Well we have Christmas off. I'll
Speaker 1: take you off Chargers Raiders like one day couch between
Speaker 1: like five days of madness. All right, finally, um, revenge,
Speaker 1: best serve call, best serve called Mark. You of course
Speaker 1: wrote the revenge piece last year, opened with who's the
Speaker 1: quote from Frederick NICI. I'm looking at that piece today
Speaker 1: and I had no memory. I thought to myself when
Speaker 1: I checked out Mark's post him last year, what if
Speaker 1: I just put the nice quote up there again and
Speaker 1: just rolled with the same intro, and you know, see
Speaker 1: if anyone noticed, including Mark. But as I might as
Speaker 1: well write my own. But alright, so here's some revenge games,
Speaker 1: and revenge is, as West previously stated, best served ditch.
Speaker 1: I'll start with the right off the top. This one's
Speaker 1: more team Packers were Seahawks. I was bummed out. I
Speaker 1: think we were talking about this, Greg and an NFL
Speaker 1: Now hit we did this week. Uh we the Packers
Speaker 1: and Seahawks are playing. We didn't know when they were playing.
Speaker 1: We're kind of hoping maybe put it later in the
Speaker 1: season where the Steaks are feeling their stakes are bigger,
Speaker 1: not but they're stuck in a week two. So I
Speaker 1: hate that that was a little odd Sunday night game
Speaker 1: that was your right there, and you sold it still
Speaker 1: on national TV. It's fun game, and obviously it's gonna
Speaker 1: get mega ratings and everything, so it's not like that
Speaker 1: was an obvious Smith step, But it would have been
Speaker 1: cool to see it a little later. But then again,
Speaker 1: we might end up seeing them in January again. So
Speaker 1: selfishly though, I don't like the good games on Sunday,
Speaker 1: the great games on Sunday night, because ultimately that's the
Speaker 1: game we are too busy to really pay really close
Speaker 1: attention to. That's selfish, But earlier the season, I hate that.
Speaker 1: You know, these are going to be the two best teams,
Speaker 1: but that's what the NFL wants to do. They want
Speaker 1: to knock them down a little bit. Here's the here's
Speaker 1: the difference. Obviously, the Packers lost their first and last
Speaker 1: game in Seattle last year, the second on which probably
Speaker 1: the worst lost in lost in franchise history. This time
Speaker 1: in lambeau Field, so it's gonna be uh, the challenge
Speaker 1: will be on the Seahawks more than anything. Packers want
Speaker 1: to to know there last year, Uh you know the
Speaker 1: sea how it's just just for a second to talk
Speaker 1: the first two weeks in St. Louis and then in
Speaker 1: Green Bay, just saying that's that's a tough drinking that
Speaker 1: less sneed kool aid. I'm just saying, that's a tough
Speaker 1: two game. That's a tough start to the season. Two road,
Speaker 1: two tough road games with the almost the entire defensive
Speaker 1: backfield coming off major injuries, right, I mean they've struggled
Speaker 1: in St. Louis even at the best time. Just saying
Speaker 1: that is a tough two game Nick Foles against the
Speaker 1: Legion of Boom. I don't know advantage. Uh, Andre Johnson
Speaker 1: did the did the badass move? Where you your team
Speaker 1: that's scorned you, you go sign with another team in
Speaker 1: the division so you get to you know, I was
Speaker 1: going to use the B word TV, but because I
Speaker 1: respect you, uh, you know, he wants to hose the
Speaker 1: texts gonna toy around with the Texans. Twice he got
Speaker 1: some in Week five and week fifteen, so that would
Speaker 1: be interesting. Andre Johnson, who basically got cut after Bill
Speaker 1: O'Brien said hey, you're gonna have a role about fifty
Speaker 1: of what it once was and not. Johnson said, no, man,
Speaker 1: I'm Andre Johnson. I'm still the man. That's basically when
Speaker 1: that's the transcript from that comer I was listening in.
Speaker 1: I was in the office. Man. He's taking a different
Speaker 1: tax from Steve Smith. He has not predicted blood and
Speaker 1: guts everywhere. He said he's not really upset with the Texans,
Speaker 1: but I have a feeling he's gonna have a pretty
Speaker 1: big chip on his shoulder, especially if the owner came
Speaker 1: out and publicly said that Andre Johnson wouldn't acknowledge losing
Speaker 1: a step. I'm not even certain I've ever heard Andrew
Speaker 1: Johnson speak. He's got a deep voice. He would be
Speaker 1: a great guy to do those money interests. Got the
Speaker 1: nice Barrett I mean swing, Oh, yes, of course. But
Speaker 1: of course, don't you just think, Plus, he's playing with
Speaker 1: Andrew Luck Now, don't you just think he's playing with
Speaker 1: a quarterback for the first time and then celebrating all
Speaker 1: offseason because of that. He's smart. He's going to crush
Speaker 1: the Texas so smart. He's signed with a Super Bowl
Speaker 1: contender and the best young quarterback in football. I bet
Speaker 1: he has a big year. To Marco Murray versus the
Speaker 1: Cowboys against same situation, uh, he gets to face his
Speaker 1: former team twice and we two in Week nine and again.
Speaker 1: Uh in in my opinion, uh, the Cowboys made a mistake.
Speaker 1: They didn't They didn't give DeMarco Murray enough respect after
Speaker 1: the one offensive player of the year and carried that team.
Speaker 1: What was the big difference between all those eight and
Speaker 1: eight finishes and twelve and four is that Marco Murray.
Speaker 1: In my opinion, I thought he was awesome and they
Speaker 1: should have kept them around. They didn't, and now he
Speaker 1: gets to stick it to him. Wasn't he on those
Speaker 1: eight and eight teams though? Well he was banged, but
Speaker 1: it was when they changed their philosophy a little bit
Speaker 1: and built the offense around him. Just saying, what are
Speaker 1: you smirking at they did their offense? Their offense wasn't
Speaker 1: changed at all last year. They were much better, were
Speaker 1: mr smirk? Were they more run heavy? Like? I was
Speaker 1: just laughing at their reaction. I'm just saying they were great,
Speaker 1: they were the best. When they depend more, they were better.
Speaker 1: And now they get him out of town. Now I don't.
Speaker 1: I don't think. I'm just saying he was on the
Speaker 1: team then those other years that you said it was
Speaker 1: the difference. I'm glad that game is early fired. Great game.
Speaker 1: If we fire the Boss National game on Fox, that's good.
Speaker 1: I'm looking forward to that game. I love anything NFC
Speaker 1: East as you know. For you to you, Dan, you
Speaker 1: have been assigned that game, the earliest designing of a game.
Speaker 1: I'm looking forward to it. Um, we'll stick with the
Speaker 1: and an NFC East team. Shady McCoy, Lashawn McCoy. This one, well,
Speaker 1: this one is like has a lot of heat on it.
Speaker 1: He got traded to the Bills and a surprise move
Speaker 1: and really a stunning move right at the dawn of
Speaker 1: free agency this year. So the Bills and the Eagles
Speaker 1: square off in Week fourteen, and do you think there'll
Speaker 1: be a lot of talk going into that game. No,
Speaker 1: I don't think they'll don't be a lot of attention
Speaker 1: on Sean McCoy. He's the jilted lover of the NFL
Speaker 1: this offseason. He doesn't doesn't shut up, and you know
Speaker 1: you could in his defense, he was a great player
Speaker 1: for the Eagles and they basically kicked them out of town,
Speaker 1: said you don't make us better. So he's let him
Speaker 1: know that he thinks. He even said that he thought
Speaker 1: that DeMarco and Ryan Matthews signings were a quote panic move.
Speaker 1: So what a heat plus. You know, if they're playing
Speaker 1: well at that time of year, Rex, Ryan's gonna be
Speaker 1: honking about how the Eagles should be sad that they
Speaker 1: let He's one of the only coaches that likes to
Speaker 1: get into this into this mix to kind of boost
Speaker 1: up his player and no point around with the Eagles. Well,
Speaker 1: the Bills are a quick aside. Well, the Bills being
Speaker 1: playoff contention at that point. Yes, week fourteen, definitely, I
Speaker 1: think yeah, for a wild card, I think they'll be
Speaker 1: the mixed okay, right there? Yeah? Me? How about this, Greg,
Speaker 1: how about a little Patriots wants some revenge and Darrell Reevus?
Speaker 1: Do they really week seven and week sixteen, the higher
Speaker 1: gun who helped him get a Lombardi Trophy? Well, I
Speaker 1: don't think Revus should be looking for well, that's a
Speaker 1: fair point, and I definitely don't think that Revas should
Speaker 1: be looking for revenge on the Patriots. They paid them millions,
Speaker 1: let him re establish his market value, and then got
Speaker 1: him a ring. But the Patriots maybe like, oh, not
Speaker 1: only did you not maybe give us a little discount
Speaker 1: to stay in town after all we did for you,
Speaker 1: you went and signed back with the Jets and all
Speaker 1: that stuff. I think everyone won here and this maybe
Speaker 1: this deal and they're about to hang out at the
Speaker 1: White House, right aren't they? He is going the White House,
Speaker 1: that's true. Surprised they put this game at one one o'clock.
Speaker 1: But maybe the revenge here is Bill Belichick versus everyone
Speaker 1: that wrote their secondary was going to fall apart without
Speaker 1: drrel Revus. He he tries to find motivation in anything.
Speaker 1: And so you know, we didn't win, just won a
Speaker 1: lot of games. About that's Mariota. What about the idea
Speaker 1: of maybe Belichick getting a little frisky and going after Revus.
Speaker 1: I like that some revenge and yeah, revenge watch Brandon
Speaker 1: Lafeul torch him. I would literally kill myself. I wouldn't
Speaker 1: bank on that. Uh. Speaking of the Jets, Rex Ryan
Speaker 1: versus the Jets again, two matchups Week ten in week
Speaker 1: seventeen in NFL definitely made short of leverage this one.
Speaker 1: The first matchup is a Thursday night football matchup week
Speaker 1: and and I can imagine Rex Ryan's press conferences that
Speaker 1: week will be aired live on NFL network. That would
Speaker 1: be my guests, I'm gonna thrown out already teasing it. Well,
Speaker 1: and if the company man I like it. If we're
Speaker 1: not buying Belichick Reeva's heat, you don't have to sell
Speaker 1: Rex because what he said over the weekend, I mean,
Speaker 1: he is clearly agitated with the Jets, and he's not
Speaker 1: holding back and he has no edit button. Well, Jason Barrow,
Speaker 1: at least he was really upset that this rookie came
Speaker 1: out and UH said that guy's relax the days going
Speaker 1: being late, he didn't think he thought he was out
Speaker 1: of line. And then another player came out and said
Speaker 1: tardiness wasn't probably Willie Cologne. I'm just saying. And and
Speaker 1: then so after that Thursday night game week ten, then
Speaker 1: they bring him back and Week seventeen the two teams play.
Speaker 1: So for any optimistic Bills fans and Jets fans that
Speaker 1: think that they're gonna be in the mix, could be
Speaker 1: an elimination game in a best case scenario. So they
Speaker 1: really lined that up very well. How about the Redskins
Speaker 1: in Week fourteen going against what will then be their
Speaker 1: former coach, Jay Gruden has been hired as a consultant.
Speaker 1: See that revenge game is not in a good position. UH.
Speaker 1: Final the last one I got here a little Johnny
Speaker 1: Fox Johnny Fox UH coaching against the Broncos in week eleven.
Speaker 1: Four years John Foxes and Denver four division titles, one
Speaker 1: Super Bowl trip. UH. And yet John Elway famously said
Speaker 1: in his first UH news conference after that they split,
Speaker 1: they parted ways, that the they disagreed how to get
Speaker 1: to the next level, which is a little twist of
Speaker 1: the knife. I thought by Elway unnecessarily Foxy wants to
Speaker 1: show him. I'm gonna toy you with you and I'm
Speaker 1: gonna hose you. Oh. Mike Cliffs, who I like really
Speaker 1: like a lot, who writes for the Denver Post, said
Speaker 1: in the first day of the Kubiak era, when everyone
Speaker 1: was meeting with the media, what a what a necessary
Speaker 1: change of culture it is around here? You can already
Speaker 1: tell in in day one, and I thought, wait, where
Speaker 1: where were you last year? I didn't hear anyone reporting
Speaker 1: or talking about that there needed to be some culture change.
Speaker 1: What was that? Never spoken about that way? I think
Speaker 1: the Fox was one of the ammy will coaches in
Speaker 1: the league. I want to know what the real story
Speaker 1: is then there must be I don't know, they just
Speaker 1: want what is this was? It was the culture fine
Speaker 1: before Peyton Manning heard his you know, broke down physically
Speaker 1: to the last year. It feels like that was the
Speaker 1: biggest issue, right. I feel like too many people, including
Speaker 1: Chris Wesley, giving up on the Denver broncos. Wait, I
Speaker 1: got sandwiches on the line against damask Oh, he predicts
Speaker 1: he has Broncos did not make the playoffs. That Peyton
Speaker 1: Manning starts for them, and I have they will make
Speaker 1: the dan Where is Johnny Manzel coming back into Cincinnati
Speaker 1: and saying, listen, Marvin Lewis, you don't call me a mitchet.
Speaker 1: I'm coming back around. Who's shot Manzel? All right? Primetime
Speaker 1: game against Andy Dalton. There are worst places to be
Speaker 1: for the Browns. That is an annual NFL Network game.
Speaker 1: Brown's Bengals right in the middle of the season. They
Speaker 1: do seem to do it every year. You know what
Speaker 1: they should have done, West, They should have put they
Speaker 1: should have taken it out to the wild card round
Speaker 1: and just eliminated the Bangles there too. West of this,
Speaker 1: just skip the whole season ten and six. You're gonna
Speaker 1: be the five seed. Everyone in the a f C
Speaker 1: is angling for that four seeds so they get the
Speaker 1: free by West of this is coming every day takes
Speaker 1: us close. I fell doesn't have to schedule that. The
Speaker 1: Bengals take care of themselves. West. I'll give you the
Speaker 1: final word on the schedule release two thousand fifteen. I
Speaker 1: don't have to think about the schedule again until the
Speaker 1: day before the season starts, which is when we should
Speaker 1: think about it, when the games start to matter, maybe
Speaker 1: the whole week before this season starts. You know, Mark,
Speaker 1: I'll give you the final word as well. I think
Speaker 1: the NFL has done an absolutely fantastic job with this,
Speaker 1: the people upstairs, the management figures, especially just outstanding and Greg.
Speaker 1: Since you're here, quit it with the throne of the
Speaker 1: stuff break what listen to smirk? Yeah, only smirking at me.
Speaker 1: We'll talking about making my points to work our murray
Speaker 1: from your throne of ease. All right, we will be back.
Speaker 1: Let's lay it out again the rest of the the
Speaker 1: next week and a half, we will have what's today,
Speaker 1: I don't even know what's happening anymore Tuesday. Okay, we'll
Speaker 1: have another show on Thursday. Um, you gentlemen, will go
Speaker 1: it without me. I want you to. I want to
Speaker 1: take care of the girl here. Okay, I won't be
Speaker 1: around on Thursday. So get ready for that, Greg, what
Speaker 1: does that mean exactly? We're gonna be uh we leaving
Speaker 1: the show that but about the girl part taking care
Speaker 1: of the girl? The podcast is a girl on this show.
Speaker 1: You had us thinking all sorts of things like mother
Speaker 1: Earth kind of uh. And then next week is the
Speaker 1: big draft week. Like we said, West is going to Chicago.
Speaker 1: We're gonna have three shows. We'll have a Tuesday preview,
Speaker 1: will we'll make some sandwich propositions with predictions for the draft,
Speaker 1: and then we'll do a show immediately after there or
Speaker 1: a little bit a couple of hours after the first
Speaker 1: rounds up. Uh done, and we'll get the podcast up
Speaker 1: before any of our quote quote competitors, and then of
Speaker 1: course after Saturday after the draft, will do a recap
Speaker 1: and then we're gonna watch the many Pacquiao uh Mayweather fight, right,
Speaker 1: but that won't be on the Vicus. Well, you don't
Speaker 1: have to any avengers? Oh is that coming out? What's
Speaker 1: an avenger? None of us are seeing the avengers that
Speaker 1: didn't make the social calendar. I graduated from Junior high
Speaker 1: stunningly TD. I did see that first one in the theater,
Speaker 1: and I enjoyed it. I don't even know what was
Speaker 1: the Maybe I had a cousin, I was I was
Speaker 1: entertaining a young boy or something. I don't even know
Speaker 1: why I was there, but I did see it, enjoyed it,
Speaker 1: but will not be seeing the sequel. What are these
Speaker 1: folks avenging? Um, I don't know Mayhem, Mayhem only going
Speaker 1: to be the top grossing movie of all time. But
Speaker 1: do you have any TD you have any other shots
Speaker 1: against people that don't talk the way you talk? I
Speaker 1: think the schedule folk schedule, man, it's too much anyway,
Speaker 1: nothing is that's not it's not a British thing. It
Speaker 1: every not every not every brit says says that I
Speaker 1: grew up with on a lot of Brits. Your timeline
Speaker 1: is going to be ugly, horrifying. Nothing's more current, by
Speaker 1: the way than that a comic book based on themes
Speaker 1: from the nineteen fifties or whatever. Let me just say
Speaker 1: it's turning ugly. Yeah. How many sales did Justin Bieber have.
Speaker 1: Let's measure things by sales. So the Biber I like that?
Speaker 1: Pretty bad falling off? All right, Okay, that's it. Shout
Speaker 1: to Marvel, Marvel, John Marble, excellent. Yeah, big, big avengeous guy. Okay, cool, alright,
Speaker 1: So we will be back on Thursday. Thank you for listening.
Speaker 1: Uh this is Dan Hanson's signing off for a Quiet Storm,
Speaker 1: The Mailman, The Boss and a Great Tate eight behind
Speaker 1: the Glass. Until then,