Speaker 1: The Around the NFL podcast was overthrown by Peyton Manny.
Speaker 1: Welcome back to another edition of Me Around the NFL Podcast.
Speaker 1: My name is Dan Hansus, and I'm joined by room
Speaker 1: filled with heroes, Mark Sessler, Chris Westling and Greg Rosent thought.
Speaker 1: What's up boys? Sorry to hear that you were overthrown
Speaker 1: by Peyton Manning green lighted that money drop. Who's coming
Speaker 1: up with these things? We had a whole list of
Speaker 1: things that we approved and I have not heard any
Speaker 1: one of those. I said, like twenty of us, is
Speaker 1: this all from the comedic genius mind of TV? Is
Speaker 1: that what's going on? He always blames it on someone
Speaker 1: else back there, Oh, that's Bobby Joe's he was He
Speaker 1: was only here for a week and he was the
Speaker 1: most important thing to him to get one in there. Yeah,
Speaker 1: no one's seen TD in five days. We have Carrot
Speaker 1: Top writing these what's going on right now? With these
Speaker 1: Gold Center behind the glass? It's Gold Center Friday? What's
Speaker 1: going on? Do you know? I'm just the men's l
Speaker 1: to the hoyer. It's not It's not on me, you know,
Speaker 1: That's not how you want to position yourself. He's a
Speaker 1: genius politician though, because he knows how to pass that
Speaker 1: buck when it comes time to do it. Um. Yes,
Speaker 1: So welcome to the Around the NFL Podcast. We've got
Speaker 1: a full house, Um for a great show. When I'm
Speaker 1: looking forward to Uh, you can't always say that personally.
Speaker 1: A lot of times I'm coming up those stairs and
Speaker 1: dreading what's about to happen. Not today, today, I am
Speaker 1: amped up. We're going to because, first of all, whenever
Speaker 1: we get to dissect a Mark Sessler joint, blows my
Speaker 1: mind because I love it so much. It's like reading
Speaker 1: it twice. Um. Have you even clicked on this item
Speaker 1: that ten starters who could lose their jobs to rookies?
Speaker 1: Mark wrote about it this morning, posted it. I'm sure
Speaker 1: everyone listening now has read it. If not, click pause,
Speaker 1: read Mark's content and then come back to us. We're
Speaker 1: gonna talk about it. That's gonna be great. And then
Speaker 1: we're gonna open up the mail bag. We got a
Speaker 1: mail bag in the written form um written by myself,
Speaker 1: Greg will on Friday. But we're gonna of course, there's
Speaker 1: always a plenty of questions from podcast listener, so we're
Speaker 1: gonna hit those up. Um. By the way, Mark excited
Speaker 1: about the latest Star Wars trailer, Julie, We're home. Well,
Speaker 1: we might have swung for the fences a bit too far.
Speaker 1: I'm sure we'll get sued for that song, but sure,
Speaker 1: why not? It looks well? No, I'm did I stumble
Speaker 1: into a damn sech podcast? What's going on? Well? I
Speaker 1: needed to wh we're killing Peyton Manning off the top,
Speaker 1: we're talking Star Wars. What's happening? Well, I know Star
Speaker 1: Wars means a lot to you, Mark, and the trailer
Speaker 1: came out. It's a special thing to you. Well, I'm old,
Speaker 1: so it's the first movie that I saw in the
Speaker 1: theater with my dad, So it does for that reason.
Speaker 1: But yeah, also, they botched the last three they attempted
Speaker 1: to make in a considerable fashion. It was a disaster.
Speaker 1: So this looks a little better. What of our loyal listeners.
Speaker 1: And he's actually was a contributor in the old atl
Speaker 1: Debate Club, Jason Zumwalt on his face. I clicked on
Speaker 1: my Facebook and he said that he cried when he
Speaker 1: watched the trailer. So there's a disconnect. Well, yeah, Mark
Speaker 1: said I was rushing in people's dreams because I pointed
Speaker 1: out that I felt disconnected to the average American populist
Speaker 1: because you know, I don't know. I could care less
Speaker 1: about the new Star Wars movie. I'm not against it,
Speaker 1: but I would say out of Ted movies that are released,
Speaker 1: it would probably be in you know, number five. I
Speaker 1: don't have no, I don't want to see it. That's fine,
Speaker 1: but I don't like it when the tact Is were
Speaker 1: too cool for it because part of me is It's
Speaker 1: just that it was part of my childhood and I
Speaker 1: understand that where I'm at now, maybe you could be
Speaker 1: like this guy is a little off balance. But Zumwalt
Speaker 1: and I we text a little bit about this. Behind
Speaker 1: the scenes. I'll text with him about the developments. Got
Speaker 1: to have someone to to reach out to. Greg is
Speaker 1: not a sounding board. The guys like an English patient
Speaker 1: to do it, just because I don't like to still English. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I love grown men that you know running around and alright, well,
Speaker 1: you already show you don't understand what it's about you
Speaker 1: you watch football and write about it for a living,
Speaker 1: which is also grown men running around in little outfits
Speaker 1: West West Sales, home of very solid points to get fine.
Speaker 1: We're talking about some little outfits in the news. By
Speaker 1: the way, Mark Um all right speaking the gold standard
Speaker 1: behind the glass or running out of time with Zachariah.
Speaker 1: In fact, you only have a couple of weeks left now, yeah,
Speaker 1: maybe even one show left with us two shows a
Speaker 1: potentially through the draft draft week. And by the way,
Speaker 1: we have our favorite millennial we haven't mentioned it. We're
Speaker 1: doing a few big shows during draft week because some
Speaker 1: videos on Monday, and then we'll have what's now an
Speaker 1: annual tradition, a draft after the first round on Thursday night.
Speaker 1: The only podcast that will be up Friday morning, and
Speaker 1: then another one after it's all over on State Great Memories.
Speaker 1: Last year in Manhattan, Mark and I in a hotel
Speaker 1: room at three am recording that podcast. This year, West
Speaker 1: will be out in Chicago. I guess the time change
Speaker 1: will be advantageous to West. I would think maybe by
Speaker 1: a little bit, but we can push it back. Will
Speaker 1: be a late night for West too for the pod
Speaker 1: and maybe West you can, you know, maybe have a
Speaker 1: quick drink of water of course before you just to
Speaker 1: get your nerves going and get excited. Built in Tour
Speaker 1: Guide with Kevin Patrick in Chicago. That's right, He's gonna
Speaker 1: get you in some fist bits. I can tell you
Speaker 1: that that guy if whenever there's a problem, the solution,
Speaker 1: solution is always fisticuffs. Alright, Gold Center, let's do some news.
Speaker 1: Let's do it by the way, team Uh mckenry just
Speaker 1: gonna say it right now with the toeyard and this
Speaker 1: is you know that that sound dry? You approve of
Speaker 1: the way she spoke to that woman. The ESPN personality
Speaker 1: Britt mckenry has been suspended a week for berating a
Speaker 1: toe company UM supervisor of some kind said some horrible things.
Speaker 1: Do not I don't. I don't get behind that. But
Speaker 1: according to several things, it's a crooked toeyard, or they
Speaker 1: towed her out of a restaurant parking lot when she
Speaker 1: was eating at the restaurant. Why doesn't she take it
Speaker 1: up with the manager instead of actually berating and hitting
Speaker 1: every point about a woman that you could possibly destroy.
Speaker 1: But I think the release of the video was punishment enough. Look,
Speaker 1: have you ever find a woman who treats service people
Speaker 1: like crap? Do not ever hang out with that woman.
Speaker 1: She must be the worst character. I think Dan's point,
Speaker 1: though or not, it's not so much boosting mckenry into
Speaker 1: the skies. But saying crooked, let's get that. You believe
Speaker 1: Team mckenry is pretty much boosting her to the sky.
Speaker 1: That's true. And I guess as a former resident of Hoboken,
Speaker 1: New Jersey, which was a crooked town when it came
Speaker 1: to towing and tickets like, I have that in my heart.
Speaker 1: I remember what it was like to be treated poorly
Speaker 1: by those people. But it doesn't it does. You know,
Speaker 1: Look if we've talked about this too long, but you know, look,
Speaker 1: if boss Hog is the criocket one, you deal with him,
Speaker 1: the low level representative out front at the desk, she
Speaker 1: shouldn't have said those things. And and by the way,
Speaker 1: the first story we're gonna talk about here Adrian Peterson.
Speaker 1: You would think him being reinstated effective Friday would be
Speaker 1: the biggest story in the newsroom. But right around the
Speaker 1: time this happened, this is this big Henry thing went down,
Speaker 1: what do you think everyone was talking about. I would
Speaker 1: I would like to see the football story that got
Speaker 1: the NFL network staff as excited about this as this.
Speaker 1: So anyway, So yes, while Britt mckenry's career was you know,
Speaker 1: under fire, Adrian Peterson was getting his career back. You
Speaker 1: like them apples the Minnesota Vikings running back. According to
Speaker 1: the league, which announced Thursday, Peterson will be reinstated Friday
Speaker 1: as an active NFL player and may participate in all
Speaker 1: scheduled activities with the Minnesota Vikings. And according to rap Sheet, UH,
Speaker 1: there will be no further suspension upon reinstatement. Uh. There is,
Speaker 1: you know, some legal stuff still going on behind the scenes,
Speaker 1: but as far as football and Adrian Peterson, everything's clear
Speaker 1: to go. After missing fifteen games last year going back
Speaker 1: to his child abuse situation, Adrian Peterson back, no further suspension,
Speaker 1: no surprise here, and now they have two weeks to
Speaker 1: decide whether they could trade him or not. Unlike the
Speaker 1: Philip Rivers conversation, which we talked about on the last show,
Speaker 1: I think the Rivers trade, if it ever happens, has
Speaker 1: to happen during the draft. If an Adrian Peterson trade happened,
Speaker 1: I think it could happen at any point in the
Speaker 1: next two weeks. Yeah, yeah, I agree, And to me,
Speaker 1: it depends totally on whether his camp can convince all
Speaker 1: parties involved that it's beneficial and the Vikings are gonna
Speaker 1: be the hardest one to convince. It seems like that
Speaker 1: he got his wish because what Ian Rappaport NFL Media
Speaker 1: Insider reported last week was the one thing he just
Speaker 1: wanted to get this cleared out before the draft so
Speaker 1: that this could happen at the right time. But getting
Speaker 1: the Vikings to move on a trade between now and
Speaker 1: two thursdays from now, that is a tall order. Well,
Speaker 1: I think it's harder really to just find the team
Speaker 1: that's willing to give him that much money and enough
Speaker 1: draft picks to get it done that It's almost more
Speaker 1: up to the Cardinals and the Cowboys, I guess, are
Speaker 1: the two teams that we could see doing this, really
Speaker 1: stepping up to the plate, saying we'll pay you twenty
Speaker 1: million dollars over the next two years and we'll give
Speaker 1: you a second round pick or whatever it's gonna take
Speaker 1: to get him, and and just being aggressive and going
Speaker 1: after him, because otherwise it's not like the Vikings are
Speaker 1: just going to trade him to trade. Vikings think he's good.
Speaker 1: I mean, if Vikings think they're good, they know Peterson
Speaker 1: is great. To me, there's no reason to trade him
Speaker 1: unless some type of godfather offer Uh came up on
Speaker 1: the table. UH and Achilles Smith type offer Wes Uh
Speaker 1: involving the Saints or something, you know, something like that. Otherwise,
Speaker 1: you keep him in there and you this team with
Speaker 1: Teddy Bridgewater progresses, they can win ten or eleven games.
Speaker 1: In my mind, this team is pretty good potentially, so
Speaker 1: you run with it. Maybe the reason you know Dallas
Speaker 1: for Arizona comes around. You both got aging thirty late
Speaker 1: thirty year old quarterbacks here, and you've got big holes
Speaker 1: in the backfield that killed Arizona in the playoffs lash year.
Speaker 1: They could do nothing with the run game, and Dallas
Speaker 1: loses their number one guy. Maybe this is your super
Speaker 1: Bowl window for these two teams. What do you guys
Speaker 1: think happens in the end. I think he stays home.
Speaker 1: I've been saying how long I think he'll get traded.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna stick with that. So before the draft, during
Speaker 1: the draft, sometime he'll be he'll be traded. I'm not
Speaker 1: putting a deadline. I think I think he'll go through
Speaker 1: the draft, not get traded. I eventually think the Vikings
Speaker 1: will give him some money for two thousand and sixteen,
Speaker 1: guarantee him some money, bring him into that new stadium
Speaker 1: that they've built. Everyone's happy. Uh file this under surreal.
Speaker 1: Former Patriots tedan Aaron Hernandez is a convicted murderer. The
Speaker 1: new England Patriots star, a former star, was convicted of
Speaker 1: first three murder sentenced to life in prison without possibility
Speaker 1: of parole, in connection with the deadly late night shooting
Speaker 1: of Odin Lloyd, a supposed friend. Uh who. This all
Speaker 1: went down a couple of years ago. The trial now
Speaker 1: took place. After deliberations, the jury decided that Hernandez, whether
Speaker 1: or not he was the trigger guy, he was there,
Speaker 1: he was responsible and barring an appeal, Aaron Hernandez will
Speaker 1: never get out of prison. That's it your thoughts, gentlemen. Well,
Speaker 1: he's also gonna have another trial soon for a dub
Speaker 1: a murder charge, so he's not done with trials. And
Speaker 1: all I could think about is if I was a
Speaker 1: Patriots fan growing up, and you're sixteen, seventeen years old
Speaker 1: or something when this verdict came down, that is a
Speaker 1: moment that as a sports fan, you will never forget
Speaker 1: where you were. Maybe it didn't have that that big
Speaker 1: of an impact nationally, although it certainly was a big
Speaker 1: story to see a guy who played in the Super
Speaker 1: Bowl and was such an integral part of your team
Speaker 1: be convicted for murder. There's there's not much precedent. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean this, this case, in this situation didn't capture
Speaker 1: the zeitgeist the way the O. J. Simpsons situation did.
Speaker 1: And that's I remember I was fourteen when that went down,
Speaker 1: and remember listening to w f AND in New York
Speaker 1: when they first the news broke that there was the
Speaker 1: double murder, and then all of a sudden it just
Speaker 1: got it kind of spun into this this Greek tragedy. Uh.
Speaker 1: That to me is the thing when I always think of,
Speaker 1: like the most shocking sports moment is when that went
Speaker 1: next level, uh, you know with the white Bronco chase
Speaker 1: and everything. I mean, so Aaron Hernandez, to me, it
Speaker 1: didn't never have that type of grip on on the
Speaker 1: world or this country. But at the same time, it's
Speaker 1: just absolutely I said before, surreal that this guy who
Speaker 1: was one of the top tight ends in football, who
Speaker 1: was a stud that just signed a forty million dollar contract,
Speaker 1: was killed, killed a guy and now it's all Now
Speaker 1: he's in prison for the rest of his life. It's
Speaker 1: a big Waiste. It's terrible. It's a really sad story.
Speaker 1: I think it's weird that the final if this were
Speaker 1: the final scene in a movie about this scenario, that
Speaker 1: he's in jail and you can hear the sounds of
Speaker 1: Foxboro in the stadium in the distance from where he's stationed,
Speaker 1: that would seem like a cheesy close out to a
Speaker 1: movie because it's almost too unbelievable to to grasp a
Speaker 1: mile and a half away. And and from what I understand,
Speaker 1: you basically drive pasted on the highway. Yeah, you're going,
Speaker 1: and it's it's insane fare away a career with a
Speaker 1: Hall of Fame ceiling, yes, and a chance at multiple
Speaker 1: Super Bowl rings. Crazy um and other news. That's a
Speaker 1: tough one to transition from. But another news. Oregon offensive
Speaker 1: coordinator Scott Frost has been asked a lot about Marcus
Speaker 1: Mariota's people trying to figure out what the ceiling is
Speaker 1: of the quarterback who uh is expected to go pretty
Speaker 1: high in the first round and the draft at the
Speaker 1: end of this month. He Frost has also said a
Speaker 1: lot of the questions he get he's gotten are pretty stupid.
Speaker 1: Here's this quote. Some of them were great questions, and
Speaker 1: some of them were some of the dumbest questions I've
Speaker 1: ever heard. He told Oregon Live dot Com. Is it
Speaker 1: Oregon or Oregon or something in between. But I don't
Speaker 1: know if that's right. I think it's you know, it's
Speaker 1: an individual case. I think it's ridiculous to think Marcus
Speaker 1: is too nice to play football. If that was the case,
Speaker 1: he wouldn't have won so many games around here. I
Speaker 1: agree by the way. I was at the combine and
Speaker 1: like one of the popular talking points was like, look,
Speaker 1: Kelly carries himself. You know, I don't think that guy's
Speaker 1: He doesn't look like a star NFL quarterback to me,
Speaker 1: What does that mean? That doesn't mean anything how he
Speaker 1: walks around, or how his shoulders are, how he carries himself,
Speaker 1: and not for that. I'm sorry TV was not here,
Speaker 1: but this body language stuff people got a down about.
Speaker 1: That's a legit question. That team is not just the media.
Speaker 1: When I listened to DJ's podcast Move the Sticks on
Speaker 1: his Mariota three sixty, I know hands this isn't a
Speaker 1: fan of it, you know. He said that that was
Speaker 1: one of the number one concerns with Mariota. Is he
Speaker 1: a leader that teams aren't sure about that, and Cessler
Speaker 1: and Dana and I actually we were texting about you
Speaker 1: had some hot takes this weekend. Well number one, we
Speaker 1: haven't been not been studying these players at all for
Speaker 1: the most part. So yeah, okay, But so I don't
Speaker 1: have a hot take. I mean I watched, you know,
Speaker 1: on his hot Saturday, very sober, slow hot take. Uh
Speaker 1: you know that I watched his stuff with with Gruden,
Speaker 1: which I think you know, it's a twenty minutes segment
Speaker 1: parceled out and edited, so it it's very much how
Speaker 1: they want to make it. I get that. But looking
Speaker 1: at him and looking at Winston, Winston to me seemed
Speaker 1: the way he came across in this short thing and
Speaker 1: the way Gruden responded to him and what he said
Speaker 1: later was just that he's like a football life like
Speaker 1: he just is all about football and super intense. Mariota
Speaker 1: did not give off that vibe. But that's a twenty
Speaker 1: minute little program, so I'm not making it. Says about Marioda,
Speaker 1: but I don't know anything. When you watch them on
Speaker 1: NFL Network. With Winston too, I mean, he's flatline, he's
Speaker 1: he seems he makes Joe Flacco look like they're young, though, Like,
Speaker 1: where who would this guy be three years from now
Speaker 1: when he's in the NFL. We don't know that. Well,
Speaker 1: yeah and yeah, two words, Joe Flacco, Two more words,
Speaker 1: Eli Manning. You don't have to be some wildly charismatic
Speaker 1: guy like Jameis Winston supposedly is to be a successful
Speaker 1: NFL quarterback. He just gotta be able to play right. Yeah,
Speaker 1: So I got it. Reminds me a little bit of
Speaker 1: David Robinson from the Spurs. Two nice, way too nice.
Speaker 1: He's in the Hall of Fame here. Here's how you lead.
Speaker 1: You're good, if you're good at football, you lead. So
Speaker 1: even though I agree with you, Mark that said he
Speaker 1: does seem very flatline that does does that really matter?
Speaker 1: I mean that was the same criticism of Carson Palmer.
Speaker 1: You're saying a pretty I mean, if you if Marioda's
Speaker 1: career ends up like Palmer's, I consider that. And if
Speaker 1: we want to study these these Grooden segments or his
Speaker 1: Mariochi segments, and to take away from your point, Mark,
Speaker 1: but if we went back and looked at I don't know,
Speaker 1: Jake Locker segment or Blame Gabbard segment and They probably
Speaker 1: came off tremendously well and well mannered and charismatic and
Speaker 1: knew all the chalkboard plays like you know, but what
Speaker 1: does it? What does it actually mean? Come August? And
Speaker 1: then well, if if team's got any better at predicting
Speaker 1: quarterbacks over the last ten fifteen years, well we wouldn't
Speaker 1: have been with seeing them with over and over on
Speaker 1: these guys. So I don't think they know anything. The
Speaker 1: thing is, the players to a certain degree and the
Speaker 1: coaches do believe it matters even if we don't. So
Speaker 1: it's weird to totally dismiss that. I've heard Steve Young
Speaker 1: talk about it that at the most one of the,
Speaker 1: if not the most important thing that you need to
Speaker 1: do as a quarterback is look the other men in
Speaker 1: the huddle and have their confidence. And that's that's the
Speaker 1: number one thing at quarterback. I don't know how you
Speaker 1: define that. I don't know how you get that exactly.
Speaker 1: Maybe Marcus Mariota can do that, even though he's not
Speaker 1: too talkative. Moving on big day, Big day for the
Speaker 1: Cleveland Browns on Tuesday are they unveiled their new uniforms
Speaker 1: after what is that wing at right now? The Browns
Speaker 1: have unveiled their new uniforms. That their months of speculation
Speaker 1: and hype and Mark Sessler going through fan sites and
Speaker 1: you know, writing up little blog posts all excited. They
Speaker 1: unveiled them. You never have I done that. Uh, they
Speaker 1: were unveiled and it really kind of an over the
Speaker 1: top type of thing at a at a convention center
Speaker 1: that was actually had an in house feed run by
Speaker 1: the Cleveland Browns dot com site with two hosts and
Speaker 1: clothing that that nice woman who we just heard. Uh.
Speaker 1: The bottom line was that it was, um, you know,
Speaker 1: a bunch of little changes or significant changes. There's a
Speaker 1: lot of different combos. But why am I talking Mark
Speaker 1: your thoughts about the new Browns uniforms. Well, you know,
Speaker 1: I'm very glad I was not in the news room
Speaker 1: when this was happening because I'm out to dinner. I'm
Speaker 1: trying to go out to in there with my wife,
Speaker 1: very rare event when you have kids. We're gonna go
Speaker 1: see a movie. And all I'm my Twitter is lighting
Speaker 1: up with just hot takes on how terrible this organization
Speaker 1: is and what it looked like an Illuminati ceremony and
Speaker 1: what a devastating flop it was. I looked at him. Look,
Speaker 1: number one, you've got a tough palate of colors to
Speaker 1: work with. Out of the gate. Are they Tampa Bay Bucks? Bad? Hell? No,
Speaker 1: I mean they're fine. For me, they're fine. I didn't
Speaker 1: I don't love them, but I didn't expect to love him. There.
Speaker 1: They have nine combinations. Some of those combinations should not
Speaker 1: make it to the field, and I don't think they will.
Speaker 1: Really vivid, I don't know, I tell you. I mean,
Speaker 1: I'm not that broadcaster. She's she's that maybe wasn't the
Speaker 1: best person to assign. They were handling her twenty dollar
Speaker 1: bills after each compliment. Yeah, I don't know. Glimpse of
Speaker 1: Cleveland down the side of basicly, that's not even that's
Speaker 1: not amazingly, that's not even accurate. There's browns down the side,
Speaker 1: and my my only take is the Cleveland across the front.
Speaker 1: That's okay. I can deal with that. The browns down
Speaker 1: the side kind of feels pajama z e to me,
Speaker 1: or like Arena Football League didn't love that. But it's
Speaker 1: not like they desecrated their look or anything. Well, no,
Speaker 1: it's just so good that she didn't say, am I
Speaker 1: seeing a little bit of Brown's going down the side
Speaker 1: of the fans. I liked them, I do. I just
Speaker 1: was wondering, why, Mark, it really seemed to matter to
Speaker 1: you what the react. You were very fearful of the
Speaker 1: reaction to their I think I was fearful. I think
Speaker 1: I was. I was a little anticipating, and I was
Speaker 1: correct that there would be a bunch. Yeah, but just
Speaker 1: the flood of hot takes about how much of a
Speaker 1: disaster the Browns are and enough, you know what? And Mark,
Speaker 1: I know where you're coming from this because back like
Speaker 1: post Tebow, post butt Fumble, Rex Ryan Jets, the Jets,
Speaker 1: if you're a fan, you wanted to fan prison and
Speaker 1: it became a point where not only did it sucks,
Speaker 1: the team wasn't good, it was just fun for people
Speaker 1: to just bury your team, no matter what they were doing.
Speaker 1: And you're kind of you're in that place now after
Speaker 1: several Browns missteps, they become fun to make fun of.
Speaker 1: But by the way, just so you might get excited
Speaker 1: about this, you might have missed this during the telecast
Speaker 1: because you were in the theater. There's also uh the
Speaker 1: uniforms might give them an advantage of season. A lot
Speaker 1: of features in these that make them very breathable, which
Speaker 1: is good for players to wear. You know, maybe September
Speaker 1: October in Cleveland they have to take a trip out
Speaker 1: to San Diego at some point. So again, very cool uniforms,
Speaker 1: very player friendly, and you can tell the input that
Speaker 1: they put into these is top notch. Done exclusively for
Speaker 1: the Cleveland Browny, I would think it would be for
Speaker 1: the I think what I'm discussing is unfolding right here
Speaker 1: on this podcast. I mean, I think it would be
Speaker 1: done exclusively for the brown had I done. I did
Speaker 1: my a f C North roster resat a week ago.
Speaker 1: Well I should have waited until after this information was
Speaker 1: you know, unpacked. Yath Dan and I were having a
Speaker 1: delightful time seen this unveiling, and I was thinking you
Speaker 1: were right that you were happy to not be in
Speaker 1: the room. It was really just the eyes wide shot
Speaker 1: hoods that they were wearing, and then they all threw
Speaker 1: them off at the same time. That was really the one.
Speaker 1: Gabriel couldn't get it off his helmet, so I look
Speaker 1: at I mean, I'm not defending that. I just think
Speaker 1: it's a pre interview where where Brian Hartline was in
Speaker 1: a burka covering up the uniforms so that they couldn't
Speaker 1: see it. But so he would just, you know how,
Speaker 1: like wearing this like big blanket, you know, and they
Speaker 1: had already been released. Uh well a pregame show, you
Speaker 1: know how. Like every once in a while on the web,
Speaker 1: like some like video will pop up from the early
Speaker 1: nineties and then the whole everyone writes, but look how
Speaker 1: cheesy this is. This will be one that is fit
Speaker 1: about um. All right, So that's what's happening. Nothing person, Mark, you,
Speaker 1: I feel your pain as a brownsman, maybe not as
Speaker 1: quite as much, but I get it. I like the uniforms. Well,
Speaker 1: I'm learning with every passing day to detach myself further
Speaker 1: from the entire Operation West not a his head let
Speaker 1: it um. Alright, So speaking of Mark, let's talk about
Speaker 1: his great feature ten starters who could lose their jobs
Speaker 1: to rookies, And we just talked about the Browns, and
Speaker 1: we just talked about the Jets, and right at the
Speaker 1: top of Mark's list, uh, he has Geno Smith is
Speaker 1: the number one guy who is uh primed to lose
Speaker 1: his starting gig, and behind him the Josh McCown, Johnny Manziel,
Speaker 1: combo in Cleveland. So I guess this ties back, uh
Speaker 1: to the guy we're talking about earlier. I would I
Speaker 1: would guess Mark Marcus Mariota. I mean, I think both
Speaker 1: teams have been talked about his potential move up targets
Speaker 1: and then basing it on the fact that Cleveland over
Speaker 1: and over is a potential swing for the fences. Now
Speaker 1: the Chargers want to come up and do that, that's
Speaker 1: not gonna be easy to do. But the Jets also
Speaker 1: they talked about the Jets as a team that they
Speaker 1: want to add Todd Bolsa, that we want to add
Speaker 1: another quarterback. So how's that going to happen if you
Speaker 1: don't draft someone? Oh, I get, I can see it.
Speaker 1: It's happening, boss, your thoughts? Sure? I agree? What more
Speaker 1: do you want to say? Yeah, Gino Smith could lose
Speaker 1: his job if they draft a quarterback. I agree. All right, Well,
Speaker 1: then let's move on to number three on this list
Speaker 1: in Art Robinson and Toby Gerhardt and Jacksonville. Uh, the
Speaker 1: Jags they went we know they went hard after DeMarco Murray,
Speaker 1: so it would not be surprising if they made a
Speaker 1: push and a draft classes loaded with running backs. To me,
Speaker 1: they are the two and three. They are the number
Speaker 1: two and three backs already for that team. So they
Speaker 1: just need to find the starter. If they somehow don't
Speaker 1: find the starter, I don't know. They shouldn't. They're not
Speaker 1: gonna be getting you know, I don't think Robinson is
Speaker 1: gonna get twenty carries a game regardless. I mean, gear
Speaker 1: Heart sounds like he's becoming a full back that by
Speaker 1: the time the season starts might not even be anything
Speaker 1: more than a special team or the way his trajectory
Speaker 1: is going. If you believe the Tennessee and uh, there's
Speaker 1: no way Zach Mettenberger, number four in Mark's list, is
Speaker 1: gonna lose his job. They see him according to the
Speaker 1: Tennessee and uh as a poor man's Tom Brady. The
Speaker 1: Titans do, but still they have the number two overall pick.
Speaker 1: We were just on our previous program talking about the
Speaker 1: Kevin A. C article in Ut San Diego about Philip
Speaker 1: Rivers the time is now to trade him, which you
Speaker 1: wonder if there was something to read into that story.
Speaker 1: And it makes too much sense for Rivers to go
Speaker 1: to Tennessee and uh, great, what do you think about that?
Speaker 1: I can't get out the opinion that Greg Coo South
Speaker 1: would rather have Zach Mettenberger then Jamis Winston West. This
Speaker 1: rubbed you the wrong way, didn't It's ridiculous. We don't
Speaker 1: know anything about Winston. Maybe Winston isn't a great prospect
Speaker 1: for all you know. I've seen enough out of Mettenberger
Speaker 1: to think it's ridiculous. And I think that if he's
Speaker 1: the quarterback next year, Ken wins and Hunt loses his job,
Speaker 1: rust and West, Rubston Western, Ruston Webster loses his job too.
Speaker 1: That's that's part of the thing I don't get. No,
Speaker 1: I don't kind of buy it is. I don't buy
Speaker 1: anything anybody's saying about Zach Mettenberger right now. I agree
Speaker 1: with that. I mean I buy that Cosel believes he's
Speaker 1: better than Winston. Oh yeah, I mean i'd buy that
Speaker 1: he believes that. But I don't get it because you're right.
Speaker 1: If wizn't, if they don't make a move, you can
Speaker 1: see them getting cleaned out. But if they do get
Speaker 1: Mariota or Rivers, it's you're locked into the wizard. If
Speaker 1: Mettenberger is their quarterback next year, they won't win more
Speaker 1: than four games. I wonder if Tennessee, which has always
Speaker 1: sounded open to shopping the number two pick in some
Speaker 1: fashion is doing their pre draft pr about how much
Speaker 1: they liked this guy in case they're stuck with him
Speaker 1: after the drift. Alright, number five, this one, to me,
Speaker 1: it might not be sexy enough, but I would have
Speaker 1: put it number one. Brandon Oliver in San Diego. I
Speaker 1: know he had some moments last year, but it seems
Speaker 1: to me after they let Ryan Matthews go that they
Speaker 1: are going to go hard after one of these running backs.
Speaker 1: The Charges seemed primed for that and would make a
Speaker 1: lot of sense. Um so Mark you see at number
Speaker 1: seventeen Todd Gurley or Melvin Gordon being two top priorities
Speaker 1: for them potentially. I feel like, along with Arizona, there
Speaker 1: are a team that feels very or the Cowboys very
Speaker 1: ready to drap to running back in the first round
Speaker 1: if they must. Their Their backfield isn't that bad though,
Speaker 1: if they liked a different position in the first round.
Speaker 1: It's like you could take a second, third round guy
Speaker 1: and then have some sort of Oliver woodhead, you know,
Speaker 1: third round pick Donald Brown come come combinations not too
Speaker 1: bad if you look at the stats, because I remember
Speaker 1: writing a Chargers thing earlier in the offseason how much
Speaker 1: they leaned on Philip Rivers and how unsuccessful they were
Speaker 1: running the ball and moving the ball on the ground.
Speaker 1: I mean, you can't do that. You can't do that.
Speaker 1: If Rivers is still there, you can't do that because
Speaker 1: he's gonna be thirty four. If you bring in a
Speaker 1: new guy for bringing Marcus Mariotta, you definitely can't do that.
Speaker 1: So it's one thing to rely on an undersized guy
Speaker 1: like Oliver for a three or four game patch during
Speaker 1: the season. It's another thing to go into the season
Speaker 1: with him as your starter. Plus Brandon spelled with an
Speaker 1: e N at the end questionable. I don't know if
Speaker 1: I can trust that. Uh six, seven or eight on
Speaker 1: the list list Jermaine Curse. So the Seahawks don't Mark.
Speaker 1: Don't let any of the Seahawks wide receivers see this article.
Speaker 1: They'll be very upset with you because they think they're awesome.
Speaker 1: Uh le Garrett Blunt in New England. I didn't even
Speaker 1: realize he's their number one? Is he number one? I
Speaker 1: guess so he is. And then Andre Ellington in Arizona
Speaker 1: this time last year, a lot of people are excited
Speaker 1: about Andre Ellington. I think this room as well. But
Speaker 1: now we're kind of seeing that this guy is not
Speaker 1: a workhorse backer, a guy you can expect to give
Speaker 1: the ball a ton to. So you gotta get somebody
Speaker 1: else in there. Maybe Adrian Peterson, but that wouldn't be
Speaker 1: a rookie, so he shouldn't be on this listening. I
Speaker 1: think I think this podcast said exactly that last year
Speaker 1: that he wouldn't hold up for a season and you
Speaker 1: can't make him your workhorse. When you say this podcast,
Speaker 1: are you saying Chris West, No, I'm saying we have
Speaker 1: a few of us on here. Said that down in
Speaker 1: the Chili the Other World studio where we were in
Speaker 1: camp for two months. I remember Wesleyan saying exactly that. Wow,
Speaker 1: Wesley backing off some of his hubris from an episode
Speaker 1: ago when he challenged the entire universe to come up
Speaker 1: with someone that's predicted the Raiders did find someone who's
Speaker 1: analysis Ken Becker. He lives in Cleveland, actually hates the Raiders.
Speaker 1: This list is reminding me how many teams need starting
Speaker 1: running backs. So we say, how you know, devalued the
Speaker 1: running back position is, But there's six seven teams that
Speaker 1: need a running back out of this class, and you know,
Speaker 1: by all accounts, this is the right class for it,
Speaker 1: very deep at running back, Chewy, we're home number nine.
Speaker 1: H Dwayne Bow you know, and Brian Heartline, the Browns
Speaker 1: wide receivers both signed. Uh, this would be quite a
Speaker 1: bummer for these two guys. They just got to town.
Speaker 1: They're gonna lose their jobs because Mark thinks it's possible
Speaker 1: the Browns get one of these big times, these big
Speaker 1: shot rookies and bo bo booie Brian Harline. Also, it's
Speaker 1: not a starter anymore. You have two number ones and
Speaker 1: I get the vibe from last year that Ray Farmer
Speaker 1: isn't big on trafting wide receivers. Well, you simply cannot
Speaker 1: ignore that Cleveland might have the worst group of wide
Speaker 1: receivers in the conference right now, if not the league.
Speaker 1: Wow do they right? I don't know, you be down
Speaker 1: I guess they've got to be down there. There's not
Speaker 1: many that are worse. They have no tight end to
Speaker 1: throw too, So it's the whole group is a mess
Speaker 1: and they have no one that you can get excited
Speaker 1: about two years from now. So you don't like Howser
Speaker 1: I like him, all right, it's not like that sign.
Speaker 1: It's not Jordan Cameron. No, he's not. I like Baby Hawk. Sure,
Speaker 1: but again, these guys are all it's like the Jets
Speaker 1: before they got Brandon Marshall. They're all shoved one or
Speaker 1: two spots ahead of where they should in. That equals
Speaker 1: six wins. Excellent analogy, Mark, Mark, awesome job. Number ten
Speaker 1: justin this episode is an outraged Why why do you
Speaker 1: say that? I don't know, because of the Star Wars
Speaker 1: stuff or the uniform to Yeah, I mean just the
Speaker 1: nonslot of it. I really meant that was excellent. The
Speaker 1: comparison to the Jets. I think I think Chris is
Speaker 1: being condescending. Actually, I don't know. That's an outrage. Actually
Speaker 1: this might seem like we're teasing you, but this is
Speaker 1: almost like a love fest. For It's almost like a
Speaker 1: roast on some lovel I can I and roll with that?
Speaker 1: How many more? In number ten, justin force set the
Speaker 1: Ravens running back really came out of nowhere, one of
Speaker 1: the pleasant surprises of the fourteen season. But however, Peter
Speaker 1: King of Monday Morning Quarterback, one of West's favorites, believes
Speaker 1: that more outrage. Melvin Gordon will quote not get past
Speaker 1: the Ravens at twenty six, So that Mark, after Justin Forcet,
Speaker 1: has that great season already looking to stick him back
Speaker 1: in the well. I'll let the boss explain this one.
Speaker 1: This was your this was your pick, my suggesting you
Speaker 1: know your name. No, I don't disagree, but I put
Speaker 1: it at the bottom because I don't think it's a
Speaker 1: likely one. But they've talked about potentially dropped and run.
Speaker 1: So you not only disagree with me, disagree with mm QBS,
Speaker 1: Peter King and yourself. I see it as the least
Speaker 1: likely of these possibilities four sets. I think a guy
Speaker 1: you looked at the what they're paying him, follow the
Speaker 1: money they're paying them like a backup. They're not paying
Speaker 1: them like it's one of your favorite players in the NF.
Speaker 1: I love Justin Forcett, but I think the Ravens are
Speaker 1: gonna look are running back in the future. Yes, and
Speaker 1: that good, That would be smart. That's great. And that's it.
Speaker 1: So that was Mark's Mark's feature. Make sure you check
Speaker 1: it out at around the NFL dot com. Slash Mark's
Speaker 1: latest feature not a website, but it is on the
Speaker 1: NFL dot com. You could read it all right, Let's
Speaker 1: let's hit the mail bag. Uh, tons of good stuff.
Speaker 1: You guys always send great questions to so we gotta
Speaker 1: get got to get through a bunch of these. Uh
Speaker 1: where do we want to start? And the other three
Speaker 1: of us have not seen these questions. No, for the
Speaker 1: most part, I think I made it. Might have run
Speaker 1: a couple of them by, but for the most part,
Speaker 1: this is all. You guys are flying blind here. Uh.
Speaker 1: We'll start with something football nerative. Okay, this from Steve
Speaker 1: Mansfield at s F s F Man's If you could
Speaker 1: add a completely new rule or completely abolish an existing one,
Speaker 1: which would it be? Start with you, Chris Wesling. That
Speaker 1: one's easy, okay, get rid of the worst role in sports.
Speaker 1: That's stupid catchual that nobody understands. What would what would
Speaker 1: with something? If you catch the ball, it's a catch.
Speaker 1: It's easy. I mean, stop with this. You gotta make
Speaker 1: eight team plays after the catch and whether you tumble
Speaker 1: to the ground nonsense. If you catch the ball, it's
Speaker 1: a catch. That's That's what I'm with you on that.
Speaker 1: Logically that has to be number one. I like an
Speaker 1: extra all this extra point jive all this nonsense everyone
Speaker 1: coming up with sixty five yard extra points. What you
Speaker 1: do is you put the end zone the goal posts
Speaker 1: on a high speed pivot, and when you line up
Speaker 1: from the extra point at the normal location, it is
Speaker 1: spinning at a super high speed, so you have a
Speaker 1: chance to get it through, but it could easily hit
Speaker 1: a solid and bounce away. Idea. First I've heard it's
Speaker 1: it's amazing you came up with that right off the
Speaker 1: top of your head. I can't even follow that end
Speaker 1: of conversation. Mark took mine. So yeah, I like with
Speaker 1: the extra points, just make it, make them go for two.
Speaker 1: Let's get rid of as much kicking as possible. Just
Speaker 1: make them go for two. I also, I've been honking
Speaker 1: about those those cameras on the goal line, so it's
Speaker 1: not a very exciting one, but let's get that excellent
Speaker 1: use of honking. More notably, Bill Belichick has brought that
Speaker 1: up as well. Um I would I would definitely take
Speaker 1: a closer look or redo the rule involving late hits
Speaker 1: on quarterbacks and wide receivers. So that drives me crazy
Speaker 1: on a weekly basis. Dan is the guy at the bar.
Speaker 1: He was like, oh, let him play football. Guys, It's
Speaker 1: like what happened to football? They're out there playing powder.
Speaker 1: You'll be breaking each other's skulls. What happens when you
Speaker 1: give every kid a trophy? Dan hasn't watched a football
Speaker 1: game in the bar in four years. Yeah, alright, moving on?
Speaker 1: What team this according? Great name? We've got a great name.
Speaker 1: Alert Sebastian Seneca. Hi, I'm Sebastian Seneca. You want to
Speaker 1: go to the movies at Sebastian Seneca? What team he singles? Ladies?
Speaker 1: Sebastian will be missing an opportunity if he doesn't record
Speaker 1: that from Dan and make that his answering machine message
Speaker 1: play have answer machines? Maybe well you don't, well, we
Speaker 1: called your cell phone like twice on the show last week.
Speaker 1: Is not set up here by accident? All right, here's
Speaker 1: some Sebastian. What team is most likely to go from
Speaker 1: worst to first in the division? And let's take a
Speaker 1: look at the NFL standings from two thousand and fourteen,
Speaker 1: just as a refresher for me. Here are your choices.
Speaker 1: The Jets, the Browns, the Titans, the Tatans, Raiders, Redskins,
Speaker 1: Burst Bucks, and Rams. This is a particularly depressing, uh exercise.
Speaker 1: I usually would think it'd be easier to call. It's
Speaker 1: an easy one for me. Okay, what is it? The Jets? Yeah,
Speaker 1: they're the best team. Is the best team out of
Speaker 1: all of those. And you could say the Rams, but
Speaker 1: I just got done. We're outscored by a hundred eighteen
Speaker 1: points last year, and they two of our riders picked
Speaker 1: them as the best off season so far. The Jets,
Speaker 1: the Rams, you could pick them, but I just got
Speaker 1: done watching every target thrown to Jordan Matthews last year,
Speaker 1: and a difference in ball placement between Mark Sanchez and
Speaker 1: Nick Foles was startling. Sanchez leaps and bounds better than that,
Speaker 1: and Mark, that sets you up well for the one
Speaker 1: you had planned. I did have St. Louis and well, no,
Speaker 1: but with a cat with a caveat that it only
Speaker 1: happens because something absolutely disastrous happens very early in the
Speaker 1: year in Seattle. That's the only way. Well, no, I
Speaker 1: mean fact, there are many factors, like like a an
Speaker 1: absolute centerpiece player on offense is gone, not Seattle breaking
Speaker 1: off into the ocean. Yeah that doesn't count, But you
Speaker 1: can't like it's like me saying the Jets are and
Speaker 1: if if Boston gets so Boston strong, they get righted
Speaker 1: out and they get caught or something traded to the Browns. Yeah,
Speaker 1: just as impossible is for me to see the Patriots
Speaker 1: fall off a cliff. Wait, but you gotta pick a
Speaker 1: team without any circumstances. I think the Rams are the
Speaker 1: best last place team. I don't think it's a crazy
Speaker 1: thought at all. You need the Seahawks to fall off,
Speaker 1: but I think there are better I think the Browns
Speaker 1: are better than the Jets. But my answer is gonna
Speaker 1: be the Washington Redskins, even though I don't really imagine
Speaker 1: it happening. I just think that's the lame enough division
Speaker 1: and I could just see they go nine and seven,
Speaker 1: ten and six, winning bad division. Redskins would be my answer. Wow,
Speaker 1: that is what predicted in my own head, that you
Speaker 1: would go for the Redskins for exactly that. Yeah, well
Speaker 1: it's a good and in my heart of hearts, I
Speaker 1: want to go with the Jets. It's really if if
Speaker 1: you want to read between the lines, that's who I'm picking.
Speaker 1: But I'll go with someone else though, uh No, I
Speaker 1: don't want to do it. I think it's already covered
Speaker 1: him anyway, so I'm happy about that. I'm gonna go
Speaker 1: with the Bucks. The NFC cell stinks and I know
Speaker 1: the Bucks think too, but you know, you get Jamis
Speaker 1: listened to my thought process. West, what an awful team
Speaker 1: name Jameis Winston comes to town and he's the real deal.
Speaker 1: You know things, it's weirder. Things have happened, and I
Speaker 1: don't think you're gonna need more than nine wins to
Speaker 1: win that division again potentially. Um, So I'm gonna go
Speaker 1: with the Bucks. Why not? Good thing? This has been
Speaker 1: recording here. Cam Newton and Drew Bees are in that division.
Speaker 1: That's why not. That's not that I think the NFC
Speaker 1: saw the bounce back, just just how it goes. Things
Speaker 1: go up and down. Uh. This from Cathyl McCabe at
Speaker 1: Cathyl forty one. Two men enter, one man leaves, no weapons.
Speaker 1: J J. Watt versus The Rock who wins Cathyl? Just
Speaker 1: so you know, says j J. I say j J.
Speaker 1: My fiance says the Rock, What say you drops a
Speaker 1: damage that line on us? Well, I don't think this
Speaker 1: is close. I'm giving it to j J. Watt. The
Speaker 1: Rock is an entertainer who's in his forties. He's not
Speaker 1: even I mean, I know he's athletic, but it's it's
Speaker 1: a little bit what is working out like Rocky and
Speaker 1: Rocky four right now. I don't know if Rocks to
Speaker 1: win the same, but forty two years old, just tremendous
Speaker 1: age edge and he's in the prime. He's an excellent
Speaker 1: physical condition. I gotta go with what I have to
Speaker 1: go watch to if you talk about them both in
Speaker 1: their prime, interesting battle. It's not like the Rock is
Speaker 1: some sort of weakling that got shoveled out of an
Speaker 1: accounting office. But we gotta go watch. I'm gonna go
Speaker 1: with the Rock, and I'll tell you why. I know
Speaker 1: wrestling is not real, but the agility that he has
Speaker 1: in his ability to be quick on his feet and
Speaker 1: enact different type of moves in the ring. I think
Speaker 1: his ability as someone that knows his way around. He's
Speaker 1: got rapping. Here's here's the key the top. Wat's not
Speaker 1: gonna allow? I mean, what's not going to be in
Speaker 1: on it? Hey, I'm gonna do this move to you?
Speaker 1: All right? How about you? How about the movie that
Speaker 1: the Rock made where he was like the Dad and
Speaker 1: it involved the Patriots in some way? Do you remember
Speaker 1: that movie. Yeah, that's why jat will win. That's why
Speaker 1: J J. Watt. Yes, I'm just saying anyone that makes
Speaker 1: that movie, he's not gonna win a baronnet called brawl
Speaker 1: with J. J. Watt. I think the rock is physically
Speaker 1: stronger as well. What about the tennis? What about the tennis?
Speaker 1: Gal pal Watts picked up as me. Is she softening
Speaker 1: him some? Potentially? Uh my gear? On top of things,
Speaker 1: this is where our good friend Jim Lorigan at Jim Oregan,
Speaker 1: can we have a game where the winner gets a
Speaker 1: handsa pie that's really from my wife and mother in
Speaker 1: law and gets the garage drink with Chris Wesley. I
Speaker 1: want to win this game. I gotta get in the
Speaker 1: garage at Tybee. I. You know there's only a few
Speaker 1: people I would not allow to garage drink with me,
Speaker 1: So yeah, name them. I can't do that. How about
Speaker 1: you and Britta McHenry. I was gonna say I have
Speaker 1: issues with Britt m. We have a we have a winner.
Speaker 1: Mark Sessler has won this game in the Game of life.
Speaker 1: I mean you you've hung out with West and had
Speaker 1: many many a drink, had some You've had any of
Speaker 1: the hands this Uh, pies probably had some of the pie,
Speaker 1: but not if I've had hands and drinking a garage right, well,
Speaker 1: you need to get into that specific garage though on
Speaker 1: Tybee Island. We can make this. I think the answer
Speaker 1: is no. I don't know. No, probably not. We can
Speaker 1: make it happen. I will return to Tybee again next
Speaker 1: year or the year after. And if you want to
Speaker 1: meet me there all right, two years from now when
Speaker 1: West goes back to Tybee, unless you're a Raiders fan,
Speaker 1: because I'm afraid you'll try to kill me, I'll send
Speaker 1: a pie to Tybee also. And if you fly your
Speaker 1: you know, your own air fare to Tybee, West might
Speaker 1: put you up coming. Give this like a three percent
Speaker 1: chance of happening. Uh. This is from Neil Dutton, one
Speaker 1: of our favorites. At Neil Dutton he actually likes stale bread.
Speaker 1: He does like stale bread. At end Dutton thirteen. What
Speaker 1: sport other than football would you guys most like to
Speaker 1: sit around together? It's an important important word there, together
Speaker 1: watching with a beer or two. Other than I think
Speaker 1: the thing that we might be able to all agree
Speaker 1: on maybe the NBA Finals. I would say the NBA. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I can watch that if it gets to the point
Speaker 1: where there's like eight minutes left, I will throw one
Speaker 1: out there too, in the honor of the gold standard,
Speaker 1: a US world cut. We've done that and that's number one.
Speaker 1: Are you proud of me? That's so proud? Thank you,
Speaker 1: West and I we do really We watched a female
Speaker 1: or women's UFC fight and we quite we had a
Speaker 1: good time. The Rhonda Rousy when it was over in
Speaker 1: like eight seconds. We did watch the World Cup. Yeah,
Speaker 1: the four at the garage. At the garage, uh, local brewery.
Speaker 1: We gave you a definitive answer there. Okay, this from
Speaker 1: William Holcombe West. This one's towards you. Kelly's son at
Speaker 1: Billy the Wrench. He sounds like an enforcer. Uh, it
Speaker 1: looks like one too. Why is the media so down
Speaker 1: on the Raiders every season but always seems to be
Speaker 1: hopeful for teams like the Jags, Titans, et cetera. What
Speaker 1: do you want from me? The Raiders are awful and
Speaker 1: they run a bad operation. None of their moves makes sense,
Speaker 1: and they have no plan. The Jaguars have a plan.
Speaker 1: The Raiders don't. I mean, what is the Raiders plan?
Speaker 1: Sign a bunch of veterans and hope their draft picks
Speaker 1: work out. I don't know, and and nothing to do
Speaker 1: makes sense to me. And they couldn't have been watching
Speaker 1: film to trade for mat Shaw. I would challenge that. No,
Speaker 1: and we've been We're overly positive on some of the
Speaker 1: bottom feeders, like the Jags and the Tits. And here
Speaker 1: here's why to answer the question. Here are the wind
Speaker 1: totals from the Raiders in two thousand three four or
Speaker 1: five four, two four, five, five eight eight four for three. Yeah,
Speaker 1: Billy the Wrench, Why answer to me this question? Be careful,
Speaker 1: by the way. Why do Raiders fans knee jerk defend
Speaker 1: everything that their front office does and they haven't made
Speaker 1: any good moves in the last ten years. Yeah, that's
Speaker 1: what I'd say. I think, if anything, I'd like to
Speaker 1: see the Raiders. The NFL is a better place when
Speaker 1: the Raiders are kind of a rough and tumble good team.
Speaker 1: Agree with that. I love their franchise, I love their history.
Speaker 1: They just run a bad operation. I mean, so we're
Speaker 1: sort of sticking up for the fans if anything, by
Speaker 1: saying come on, get it together right. Mark Sessler nails
Speaker 1: it again. I thought condescending. I thought Mike Silver, who's
Speaker 1: a big Hugh Jackson fan, was you know, kind of
Speaker 1: overreacting when he says a big, huge accent fan, Huge
Speaker 1: Jackson's been a little over reacting when he went crazy
Speaker 1: when they fired Hugh Jackson, saying what a terrible decision
Speaker 1: it was for the franchise, And I think but looking back,
Speaker 1: I mean they won to eight games really because of
Speaker 1: Hugh Jackson two straight years. That was a ridiculously terrible move.
Speaker 1: I like Mark, we are advocates for Raiders fans. They
Speaker 1: just want to accept our advocacy. That's what you need
Speaker 1: to stress to them. West next time they come after
Speaker 1: you on Twitter. No, they don't come after me anymore.
Speaker 1: They don't exist on my Twitter feed. He blocked every
Speaker 1: rad like all of them, but Damian Pittman and two
Speaker 1: other guys. Uh. This is from Steve Booth at Steve
Speaker 1: Booth eighties seven probably means he was born in seven
Speaker 1: years old and he changes graduation year. First kiss any
Speaker 1: chance the a t N, he calls us, the A
Speaker 1: t N would pick the forty niners? Is the team
Speaker 1: of a t N been knocked down a few wrongs.
Speaker 1: Unfortunate situation hashtag hashtag intrigue. How about that fells The
Speaker 1: Niners coming off just a halacious offseason, tons of losses
Speaker 1: with a you know, likable coach then, as it was,
Speaker 1: in a tough spot, good quarterback with upside if he
Speaker 1: puts it together, could they get a little frisky with
Speaker 1: everyone picking them to stink. Well, I don't sit in
Speaker 1: the closed minded corner, so I'm open open. I'm open
Speaker 1: to the possibility. I figured at the contrarian corner over
Speaker 1: here will be way open. I would just saying I'm
Speaker 1: open to it. It would be a very surprising corner.
Speaker 1: Loves to do what people want to. I'm the buffer
Speaker 1: between the two worlds, and sometimes it gets hot. They
Speaker 1: aren't in the first wave of teams that i'd reb
Speaker 1: I would. It would be a surprise, but I wouldn't
Speaker 1: totally roll it out, if only because they have Tom Silo,
Speaker 1: which to me is overall I'd be along for that
Speaker 1: right comedy potential, It's interesting. Kaepernick is a fun guy
Speaker 1: to watch it. We'll see. This is from Nick Boyd
Speaker 1: at Nikky B seven. I know four twenty that reference
Speaker 1: seven twenties at like a higher level. You do other
Speaker 1: things at seven, Okay, when when do all right, there's
Speaker 1: a little typo in here, Nikki, Come on, buddy, When
Speaker 1: do you come to London fancy going for some fish
Speaker 1: and chips? And a point? When do you come to
Speaker 1: London fancy doing some fish and chips into point? Is
Speaker 1: that a good accent? Zack? That's perfect, That's exactly what
Speaker 1: they said. What did you come to London fancy doing
Speaker 1: some fish and chips in the point where you from
Speaker 1: your from, like East Liverpool? Now I like that you
Speaker 1: do fish and chips to anyway. So let me let
Speaker 1: me just say one thing here. We have high hopes
Speaker 1: that we're all going to London, but it might I'm
Speaker 1: not saying it's gonna happen. It could be. It could
Speaker 1: be an uphill battle here, Greg, you intended at it.
Speaker 1: We're getting some people that are in offices that are
Speaker 1: telling us, you know, it's a pipe dream. There's a
Speaker 1: high actane proposal out there. I mean, we're trying to
Speaker 1: push it through the corporate I think what's happening here
Speaker 1: shadow elead figures are multiplying. So here's my here's an
Speaker 1: I had we do have. It's funny enough. One of
Speaker 1: the people that have in office uh is named Henry
Speaker 1: Hodson who happens to be known as Handsome Hank. And
Speaker 1: you know if you listen to Damage Show or you've
Speaker 1: listened to him on our show British Man. So I
Speaker 1: want everyone that's listening to the podcast right now to
Speaker 1: hit up at nfl uk Hank on Twitter with the
Speaker 1: hashtag onto London for the A T N Boys, because
Speaker 1: I really do think Henry is the guy who can
Speaker 1: get it done for us. So let's go straight to Hanry.
Speaker 1: Everyone at nfl uk Hank hit him up, flood his timeline. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you know, we can't stress enough if you've if you've
Speaker 1: added him on Wednesday on Twitter, it's fine on Thursday
Speaker 1: Friday setting multiple tweets add up and they're gonna mean
Speaker 1: something in this battle. And to answer the question, yes,
Speaker 1: I fancy that, Yeah, you know who else might be there?
Speaker 1: Then how far away from London will you be? I'll
Speaker 1: be a couple of hours and when when do you
Speaker 1: get there? August? So we'd have a producer I've jotted
Speaker 1: down and meet you. Dare you could make it down.
Speaker 1: You don't have to write any mid terms about like
Speaker 1: with free agent, you know, soccer players to pick up.
Speaker 1: I'm good United Kingdom more than just England though, Zak.
Speaker 1: And something you should know when you go out there,
Speaker 1: you don't want to make a faux pa. That's true,
Speaker 1: that's true. People would be very angry with me. Uh,
Speaker 1: Vincent Petty at Vincent Petty old Betty. When Michael Bennett
Speaker 1: insulted at Dan Jansas, why didn't he respond, well, that's
Speaker 1: not what your mother said last night. Uh. Michael Bennett
Speaker 1: famously derided my private parts after the Super Bowl loss
Speaker 1: to the Patriots. Now, the reason I didn't engage, Uh.
Speaker 1: First of all, he's much bigger than me, uh and
Speaker 1: stronger than me, and he would destroy me. But also
Speaker 1: it wouldn't be a good look for me to be
Speaker 1: going back and forth and what was a classless move
Speaker 1: by Bennett talking about my genitals. But I'm not gonna
Speaker 1: be getting back and forth of them. You just gotta
Speaker 1: back off. You took the hirate. Plus you had a
Speaker 1: job to do. You had to write some post that
Speaker 1: night you were thinking about the team. Stan is a
Speaker 1: professional journal I thought it showed your true professionalism, right,
Speaker 1: and thank you guys, and Vincent actually puts hashtag journal fail.
Speaker 1: But the truth of the matter is, I had to
Speaker 1: be a journal in that spot. But if if I would,
Speaker 1: if we were in the schoolyard, uh, and you know,
Speaker 1: and and Bennett and I were like the same type
Speaker 1: of you know, physical type person, I would definitely drop
Speaker 1: a mom joke at him. Well, I think you that
Speaker 1: would even be a better situation for you to say nothing.
Speaker 1: I don't in a schoolyard. I don't know if our
Speaker 1: friend Vinny knows what a journal is m M. Because
Speaker 1: the journal, it's very true. May that be a lesson
Speaker 1: to take out of today's podcast? Uh? This from Randall
Speaker 1: at Truth is Told to you? Ok, have we heard
Speaker 1: anything on a ruling for deflate gate yet? Or swept
Speaker 1: under a rug? Yeah? How about that, Greg? What happened
Speaker 1: to deflate gate which really ruined all our lives? Or
Speaker 1: about a two week stretch and anywhere? Well, maybe the
Speaker 1: NFL has decided it's such a boring, unimportant issue they're
Speaker 1: just going to ignore it forever. That's what I hope.
Speaker 1: It is crazy that it's still going on. By the way,
Speaker 1: we're all cool if nothing ever comes of it. I
Speaker 1: bet Robert Crafton some other people in New England would
Speaker 1: like some type of, you know, an apology or attraction,
Speaker 1: but we would love to never hear about it. People
Speaker 1: in New England would like it since we were told
Speaker 1: by almost the entire media that this could really affect
Speaker 1: the legacies of Bill Pelichick and Tom Brady and basically
Speaker 1: keep them out of the Hall of Fame. That was
Speaker 1: dark time in the season and what was kind of
Speaker 1: a rough season and a lot of stretches for different reasons.
Speaker 1: That would that's right. Uh, it was a final kick
Speaker 1: in the nuts because I thought you were out of
Speaker 1: the woods in terms of oh, it hadn't been any
Speaker 1: bad stories to watch the people covering the sport completely
Speaker 1: lose their mind. Yeah, this from Jeff Slunt at Jeff B.
Speaker 1: Slunt Sunt get over here. Has Greg received more free
Speaker 1: haircuts at work? I can answer this question. Greg has
Speaker 1: gotten now multiple haircuts in the room. It looked splendiferous
Speaker 1: the other day. It looks good. And I'll just say this.
Speaker 1: I don't want to talk out of school here. Greg's
Speaker 1: my boss. But Greg is the only non like NFL
Speaker 1: network talent to be doing this. The people are in
Speaker 1: NFL now and that have a podcast US don't typically
Speaker 1: get the haircuts, but Greg is maybe a trend setter. Uh,
Speaker 1: the only one doing it. The man wanted to cut
Speaker 1: my hair, and we just came up from him like
Speaker 1: he saw your hair over here right now. To Enry,
Speaker 1: it came up. It came up naturally. You know it
Speaker 1: wants to work on his craft. Now, look at Greg
Speaker 1: might be more well cough than you. It is because
Speaker 1: I don't know that we're drilling down to the real
Speaker 1: what story here? And Dan Dan doesn't like someone step
Speaker 1: into his throne. Well, by the way, let's let's be honest.
Speaker 1: Let's not gonna I'm not going crazy about you talking
Speaker 1: about Chuck d We have an HR fulder and HR
Speaker 1: folder on Greg downstairs that today alone has added ten
Speaker 1: or twelve. I get the bad guy in this one.
Speaker 1: He's walking around like he's God's gift to hair. I mean, hey,
Speaker 1: we're we can all challenge for the title. Just saying
Speaker 1: you are putting yourself challenge for the title. You did
Speaker 1: not want to get into that battle, Greg, give give me,
Speaker 1: give me some time, give me a haircutting. A little
Speaker 1: bit of my Redkin product in the world stops to
Speaker 1: Daddy Rich James Cochran at James so Yes, Greg is
Speaker 1: getting multiple for your haircuts from the makeup room at
Speaker 1: James Cochrane. Uh he, lets us know. This is a
Speaker 1: correction from last week's pot. I think yes. When we
Speaker 1: were talking about the Australian Australian rugby rugby player signed
Speaker 1: by the Niners, Jared Hayne. Uh he was referenced at
Speaker 1: one point as am enigmatic kangaroo, right, and I forgot
Speaker 1: that that. We'll go ahead. The Kangaroos are the name
Speaker 1: of the Australian rugby league national team. Oh that's not
Speaker 1: nearly as funny and actually, Classic Daily Telegram anti generally
Speaker 1: like the Olympic teams, I think they're called the Kangaroos too,
Speaker 1: And now I'm probably we'll leave it to the Daily
Speaker 1: Telegraph to completely confound their international audience. What have you
Speaker 1: know standard? Uh No, I mean I know that the
Speaker 1: soccer teams called the soccer rouse, which is cool. That's
Speaker 1: that's what what do they call football? Soccer? There? Yeah?
Speaker 1: Because they have football and interest technically rugby football. Have
Speaker 1: you ever watched the little rugby? Oh? Yeah, I love rugby.
Speaker 1: I'll be I'll be in England for the Rugby World
Speaker 1: Cup next year. You guys can do that and do
Speaker 1: the International series. Well, are you just happen to be there?
Speaker 1: I'll be in the in the stadium with a non
Speaker 1: alcoholic beverage and a pennant waving and around. We'll have
Speaker 1: fishing chips and pints. We need to have a night
Speaker 1: out by the way Gold Center before you leave as
Speaker 1: a group. Um alright, this from Zach Smith. This is
Speaker 1: kind of a uh, this is kind of a Damna
Speaker 1: checky in program question. But I was legitimately interested because
Speaker 1: I don't know the answers. Uh. For you guys at
Speaker 1: Zaka Maru, what are your favorite breakfast cereals? Now? I
Speaker 1: know maybe you don't tend to have a lot of
Speaker 1: breakfast cereal in the morning, but if you were having
Speaker 1: a breakfast cereal and you could choose one, Mark will
Speaker 1: start with you. I don't eat cereal, but i'd growing up,
Speaker 1: I would eat bowls and bowls of it a day,
Speaker 1: and Lucky Charms was where i'd go. What you do
Speaker 1: is you eat the oats first, the oat parts. Then
Speaker 1: as the mush the little marshmallows get soggy or in
Speaker 1: the milk, you just go down each of the mushrooms
Speaker 1: and you save the green lepre cons for last youat
Speaker 1: does up and then you drink the milk, which absolutely,
Speaker 1: but then it tastes like a big sugar water. As
Speaker 1: a child, raising brand was my go too because we
Speaker 1: weren't allowed to have sugar cereals. But now I'll occasion
Speaker 1: occasionally a I'll partake with some fruity pebbles. Wow. Interesting, Greg,
Speaker 1: Well we're talking now right, so I mean it sounds boring,
Speaker 1: but frosted many weeds, I think that's the champion. That's
Speaker 1: my sugar on top of one of my quick First
Speaker 1: of all, you can have it dry if you need to,
Speaker 1: You could take it out with it anything. Kids love it. Um.
Speaker 1: I know it's very bad for you, but cinnamon toast
Speaker 1: crunch to me like so much. It was came up
Speaker 1: on Dave Show and they sent us like thirty bucks
Speaker 1: that impact. I guess I'm out of it. So yeah,
Speaker 1: if the cinnamon croast toast crunch people are listening, I
Speaker 1: need some more. But I love cinnamon toast crunch. Um.
Speaker 1: Also taste tastes great and what My daughter came home
Speaker 1: from school the other day talking about the kicks that
Speaker 1: she was given. She just loved it so tastes great,
Speaker 1: but you're never full after the kicks. That's one of
Speaker 1: the advantages shredded we has, is your full after those bigs.
Speaker 1: Enough milk or water or whatever you're throw in your
Speaker 1: cereal to make it not draw with you. It's like
Speaker 1: eating the dust bl interesting. I took Greg for a
Speaker 1: grape nuts fan with the classic old you know, the
Speaker 1: question is not if you're good enough for grape nuts?
Speaker 1: Well it is, that is the question. Also, like us
Speaker 1: a healthy cereal from the eighties that Greg's never eaten.
Speaker 1: Apparently like Susanne Summers, what used to do? Like the
Speaker 1: I like sent him in life to uh gold standard yours.
Speaker 1: I'm not it's might surprise. I'm not. I'm not much
Speaker 1: of a serial guy, but I do like a bit
Speaker 1: of corn pops. Have you had corn pops? I've always
Speaker 1: thought it was interesting. It was in the silver bag. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it was different. Love that As a kid, that was
Speaker 1: That was maybe my number of Captain Crunch. Remember the
Speaker 1: variety packs when we were a little kid, like we
Speaker 1: would only get them if we were going camping. Well,
Speaker 1: you had seven brothers. I understand why parents wouldn't want
Speaker 1: to inject sugar into the equation. Yeah, what a house.
Speaker 1: All that must have been seven. West is running around
Speaker 1: not hyped up on sugar. Well that's true that I
Speaker 1: had to help. All right, Well, let's do one or
Speaker 1: two more at Malcolm McSween McSween ten. If West had
Speaker 1: to choose, is one celebrity cornhole partner? Who would it be? Wow?
Speaker 1: First one that comes to your mind David Simon. I
Speaker 1: was just about to say, because you said David Simon
Speaker 1: would write your memoirs last week, I find it to
Speaker 1: be an interesting it Again, No, I don't know who's
Speaker 1: David Simon sucks a cornhole? By the way, who would be?
Speaker 1: I don't really think it should be an David Simon's
Speaker 1: a great answer you can talk about. But you want
Speaker 1: to yeah, give you another guess. I mean you want
Speaker 1: to make sure you advance in this tournament, this pro am.
Speaker 1: Maybe Pete Rose, Oh, he's so old. What about Achille Smith?
Speaker 1: Definitely not Achilles Lee Johnson? Uh. And finally this this
Speaker 1: some Tony Tovar at Cheese Tony. And I'm only bring
Speaker 1: it up because this guy, I can't believe this is
Speaker 1: something we got. What do you say to packers fans
Speaker 1: who get upset at Ted Thompson for not being more
Speaker 1: active and for you are you kidding me? Are you
Speaker 1: kidding me? Get a grip that always it happens every year.
Speaker 1: Though I know where he's coming from. These Packers, they're
Speaker 1: always complaining about Thompson and Mike McCarthy and McCarthy I
Speaker 1: can get a little bit, but Thompson. Yeah, look at
Speaker 1: the record. Look, if you're a Packers fan, you've had
Speaker 1: nothing but Brett Farvan, Aaron Rodgerson. You don't have a
Speaker 1: whole lot to complain about. Sit down the weather, mark,
Speaker 1: got angry, got aggress No, I just I don't see
Speaker 1: a whole lot of open doorway to, you know, get
Speaker 1: aggravated with the Packers. At this point, it's working. You
Speaker 1: have to have the biggest collapse possible. That wasn't Ted
Speaker 1: Thompson's fault not to make the Super Bowl last year.
Speaker 1: I'm in the news, sweetheart. That's it for Thursdays or
Speaker 1: Friday's edition to the Around the NFL podcast. We will
Speaker 1: be back two shows next week. Don't expect when on Monday.
Speaker 1: We're gonna come back on Tuesday with the whole group. Uh.
Speaker 1: Two shows next week and then after and maybe I
Speaker 1: don't know, Maybe I'll tease and I'm not sure. Maybe
Speaker 1: the maybe our a D scale showing this week, Maybe
Speaker 1: it could happen, It's possibility, might might, might even sneak
Speaker 1: in an extra show for a little schedule released special tasty.
Speaker 1: And then the week after that, of course, is Draft
Speaker 1: a week, and that's a fun week because West will
Speaker 1: be in Chicago. Uh, We're gonna have a Connor or
Speaker 1: space Ghost. Coast to Coast is gonna be here. We're
Speaker 1: gonna do play, go get my lunch, um jerk face.
Speaker 1: We're gonna of course, uh to our post draft wrap
Speaker 1: wrap up after round one, and then another podcast at
Speaker 1: the end of the draft. So a lot of great
Speaker 1: stuff coming up, so keep listening. That's it. This is
Speaker 1: Dan ANSAs signing off boor Quiet Storm, the Mailman, the
Speaker 1: Boss and the gold standard behind the glass Until next
Speaker 1: lunch clown car, don't get my lunch, clown car.