Speaker 1: The Around the NFL Podcast. He's fourth known as the
Speaker 1: Dan Hanzu Song and Dance. Welcome back to another edition
Speaker 1: of the Around the NFL Podcast. My name is Dan
Speaker 1: Hanzas and I am joined bath room filled with heroes,
Speaker 1: Mark Sessler, Chris Westling, and Greg Rosenthal. What's up boys? Hey, Dan,
Speaker 1: Good to have you back, Lass, good to be back. Wow.
Speaker 1: Getting the band back together? As they say, you know
Speaker 1: yesterday uh and yesterday show if you checked it out,
Speaker 1: it was the the Lindsay Rhodes Maternity uh leaves Spectacular.
Speaker 1: Today on the Around the NFL Podcast, the Chris Westling
Speaker 1: Paternity Test Spectacular. Whoa you know they're out there, West,
Speaker 1: there are none out there. We've done some research and
Speaker 1: this Mori Povid show has been going through the roof
Speaker 1: lately so where it's starting to copy some of their
Speaker 1: model for the off season. Does Mari Povid still have
Speaker 1: a show? I think he does, Actually, it really does.
Speaker 1: I think it's a softer show now though it's got
Speaker 1: a much softer side to it. U West, It just
Speaker 1: West has been around the block of time or two.
Speaker 1: Well that's not that's totally unfounded and untrue. And I'm
Speaker 1: just saying in terms, you're an older man. I'm an
Speaker 1: old fashioned kind of guy, Dan, and you've been a
Speaker 1: long term relationship type of guy. Definitely a long term Yeah,
Speaker 1: so you're completely ruling out the possibility. Yeah, it's it's out.
Speaker 1: I've stayed in contact with every woman. Well, then we
Speaker 1: have got a surprise for you. Bring her in that
Speaker 1: Sydney is your daughter the time. Sorry, Sydney is already
Speaker 1: disgusted with at least one of us. Okay, welcome to
Speaker 1: the Around the NFL Podcast, the Thursday edition, our final
Speaker 1: show of the week. Um a show, a special show,
Speaker 1: a show in which will break down many things about
Speaker 1: the NFL, including Chris Wessling's back. So why not dig
Speaker 1: into a westlen banger? Uh? He broke down his top
Speaker 1: offenses of the of the NFL, and he broke it
Speaker 1: down one into a group of fifteen. Was it was?
Speaker 1: He went pretty deep on this one. Well, I went
Speaker 1: top ten and then a mix of teams in the hunt. Yes,
Speaker 1: so it uh in the realm of fifteen. So I
Speaker 1: feel like a kind of nailed it, even if I'm
Speaker 1: not exactly right. Could be fourteen, but you could give
Speaker 1: me fifteen. Right, They're about okay good. We will also uh,
Speaker 1: you know, it's Mother's Day coming up this weekend, maybe
Speaker 1: share some thoughts about our old ladies. Is that people
Speaker 1: still using that term. I think that's what you call
Speaker 1: what people would in in a not nice way to
Speaker 1: call someone that they're that they're married to. I don't
Speaker 1: think you call your mother an old lady. I wouldn't
Speaker 1: do that. I would not call my wife an old lady. Yeah.
Speaker 1: I think that's the thing that people used to say
Speaker 1: in like nineteen seventies sitcoms and about their wives. Archie
Speaker 1: Bunker's like, hey, get over all l achy, oh call
Speaker 1: me all light. I mean she was though, that's the thing.
Speaker 1: She was an older woman. My wife is seven years
Speaker 1: younger than I'm. It's a little bit mislabeled. Humble Bragg
Speaker 1: the Wonderful Jean Stapleton's how it works. Um. We also
Speaker 1: will do some news little announcement at the bottom of
Speaker 1: the show. We got I mean a lot. I'm actually
Speaker 1: gonna remove a little there's an announcement at the bottom
Speaker 1: of the show. So we got a lot to get to. Uh.
Speaker 1: To do that, we will go behind the glass. Officially
Speaker 1: it is Chris Westling's love child conceived around maybe the
Speaker 1: fall of the Berlin Wall. I'm gonna say in that
Speaker 1: out that time territory, Sydney Carlson, New Money. Guys, I'm
Speaker 1: still reeling from this news. It's you know, when were
Speaker 1: you born? Do you realize that your entire life we've
Speaker 1: been you are We've like been puppet masters, getting you
Speaker 1: bit by bit through you know, social engineering and other
Speaker 1: life circumstances that we orchestrated get you in the building
Speaker 1: and West as well through Greg to meet each other.
Speaker 1: Finally on the show. Listen, Hollywood, we are here. This
Speaker 1: movie is right in front of you. Let's do this thing.
Speaker 1: Let it, let's do this thing. Let's do some news.
Speaker 1: Thank you. That reminds me. Actually, um, do you have
Speaker 1: any comment, positive or otherwise. Earlier a show earlier this week,
Speaker 1: we asked Mark to name the Star Wars character that
Speaker 1: you most identify each of us with, and we went
Speaker 1: around the room and Mark thought that you best symbolized
Speaker 1: Chewbacca in a very positive way. I'm not that manly
Speaker 1: Chewbacca is. I mean I I what I said was
Speaker 1: extremely loyal, Like basically, he's the saint. He is a
Speaker 1: B line no matter what's happening around him. He you
Speaker 1: can count him to be the same guy. Do you
Speaker 1: ever see Chewbacca freak out and runaway? No, he's constant.
Speaker 1: I've never really seen him do anything. None of you
Speaker 1: guys have watched the movies. But he's he's actually quite
Speaker 1: quite a good character, quite a help to the people
Speaker 1: around him. And let's just it might check out. Can
Speaker 1: we hear it? Let's hear Chewbacca, and let's hear Chewbaca
Speaker 1: one more time. All right, now it's your West Benga.
Speaker 1: I'd like to think I'm slightly more eloquent. I mean,
Speaker 1: based on that alone. Uh, let's start with some bad
Speaker 1: news UM for Mark Sessler's team. Uh. Josh Gordon does
Speaker 1: not look like he's getting on the field anytime soon,
Speaker 1: and this could be the end. The NFL has denied
Speaker 1: the wide receiver his reinstatement petition. According to rap Sheet,
Speaker 1: this came out of Thursday. Tom pel Sero of the
Speaker 1: USA Today had at first Gordon, who is twenty six
Speaker 1: years old now, UM filed papers in March to have
Speaker 1: his indefinite suspension lifted. UH and UM there had been
Speaker 1: positive news out there or reports that he was going
Speaker 1: on the right track, but apparently maybe not because the
Speaker 1: idea that um that they would now push this uh
Speaker 1: suspension further into the season into the fall tells us
Speaker 1: Mark potentially that he might have relapsed or something else
Speaker 1: is going on, and it makes you think if we're
Speaker 1: ever going to see him again in the NFL. Well,
Speaker 1: we don't know, but obviously he didn't do enough to
Speaker 1: convince Roger Goodell that he needs to be back in
Speaker 1: the league. And you say it's bad news for me. Honestly,
Speaker 1: for me, it's no news. I think the guy has
Speaker 1: been a non factor for so long. Now. There was
Speaker 1: the there was the Josh Gordon roller coaster where you
Speaker 1: thought he was gonna come back be part of the team. No,
Speaker 1: it's like looking at you know, super old girlfriends on
Speaker 1: on Facebook and they now have like four kids and
Speaker 1: you could care less. It's like you're out, Like you're
Speaker 1: out of my life and you're out of Cleveland's life.
Speaker 1: I think the Browns have moved down. You're still looking
Speaker 1: at the pictures Josh Gordon. I had to write the story.
Speaker 1: I mean I'm involved still occasionally go on Facebook and
Speaker 1: well this got turned into something completely else. But it's
Speaker 1: you know, take it, take it, take it as you will,
Speaker 1: follow the breadcrumbs by the way. Espn is Josina Anderson
Speaker 1: reported that Gordon's agent quote terminated their relationship roughly two
Speaker 1: weeks ago. West certainly seems like there's something going on
Speaker 1: behind the scenes. Now. I feel like Josh Gordon is
Speaker 1: is a recurring character in this podcast who was signed
Speaker 1: on to be full time by now he's like the
Speaker 1: Nick Tortelly, like, do you have him on and realize,
Speaker 1: oh no, we got it's another Josh Gordon's special because
Speaker 1: he pops back. If if if we were more ambitious
Speaker 1: and wanted to give Sydney an incredibly hard homework assignment,
Speaker 1: we could go back and listen to the Josh Gordon's
Speaker 1: reinstatement has been denied podcasts which have been occurring semi
Speaker 1: annually for basically the entire length of this podcast, which
Speaker 1: is four years old. Now, I mean, we could go
Speaker 1: back and find six or seven. I'd love to hear
Speaker 1: what I said at what we said back then. We
Speaker 1: just I have NFL Network on in front of me
Speaker 1: and they just showed a highlight of Josh Gordon and
Speaker 1: it was Brandon Weed and throwing him a touchdown pass. Well,
Speaker 1: it's how long it's hasn't played since when he when
Speaker 1: when he came back during that Mike Petton year, when
Speaker 1: they when they thought, oh there's six and three, we're
Speaker 1: getting Josh Gordon back soon. This is a playoff ticket
Speaker 1: and the whole thing crumbled. And other suspension news. Daryl Washington,
Speaker 1: who was recently reinstated by the NFL. UH, he won't
Speaker 1: be back with the Arizona Cardinals. It's something that we
Speaker 1: kind of predicted, although you didn't have to be a
Speaker 1: genius to figure it out. The Cardinals decided, despite Washington
Speaker 1: be back in the picture, they're gonna move forward without him.
Speaker 1: They released Uh, the linebacker on Thursday. Uh. This came
Speaker 1: after a meeting with the team the team president Michael
Speaker 1: Bidwell and general manager Steve Kim, as well as Bruce
Speaker 1: Arians and Uh. The team had this to say in
Speaker 1: a statement, after meeting with Daryl Washington, we have collectively
Speaker 1: decided his best to release Daryl and give him the
Speaker 1: opportunity to continue his career elsewhere. Greg Rose without thirty
Speaker 1: years old, out of the game for a couple of years,
Speaker 1: will he continue his career elsewhere? At least his NFL
Speaker 1: career now, I don't think so. I don't think any
Speaker 1: team is even going to give him a chance. He's
Speaker 1: been gone even longer than Josh Gordon. He hasn't played
Speaker 1: since two thousand and thirteen. And you know what got
Speaker 1: him kicked off the field initially was a domestic assault,
Speaker 1: which he played guilty toward for, and then since then
Speaker 1: he's had drug problems as well. I just think with
Speaker 1: the current climate, what why, it just feels like it's
Speaker 1: it's a little too desperate, even for NFL teams who
Speaker 1: want talent on their teams to even bother right, I
Speaker 1: don't know. I mean, the Cardinals couldn't have made it
Speaker 1: any more clear when he was last suspended that he
Speaker 1: completely let that team down. That's a different type of
Speaker 1: team than some other NFL teams, So not just going
Speaker 1: they're not going to get desperate and their release when
Speaker 1: they when he was when it suspended, when he's allowed
Speaker 1: back in, it was so clear they wanted nothing to
Speaker 1: do with them, and these gms and these coaches talk
Speaker 1: and so someone else that they're gonna have to go.
Speaker 1: Maybe someone pick up the phone and say, Cardinals, do
Speaker 1: you think there's anything worth it, hear, and they're not
Speaker 1: going to get a good review. I think would I
Speaker 1: be shocked if he got to work out somewhere, No,
Speaker 1: I mean I would. I be very surprised if he
Speaker 1: he makes it through a training campus on somebody's aster. Yeah,
Speaker 1: but we don't know. We got I guess a lot
Speaker 1: to see how he looks. I mean, he was a
Speaker 1: very We talked about this. He was a very good
Speaker 1: linebacker before he went away. But a guy whose game
Speaker 1: was based on speed, you disappear for two years, West,
Speaker 1: you're probably not the same guy anymore. He was a
Speaker 1: pro bowler, but that was when he was six years old.
Speaker 1: Now he's thirty. Teams don't generally want thirty year old linebackers.
Speaker 1: That's a long time to not play professional football in.
Speaker 1: Just like Josh Gordon and other Cardinals news, they have
Speaker 1: signed Blaine Gabbert. So Blaine Gabbert got a job before
Speaker 1: Colin Kaepernick. For those scoring at home, uh, Gabbert signed
Speaker 1: a one year deal. According to rap Sheet, Gabert joins
Speaker 1: a depth chart in Arizona that has of course Carson Palmer,
Speaker 1: but also Drew Stanton and Zack Desert. Oh boy, Mark.
Speaker 1: So the I guess the takeaway from me here is
Speaker 1: the Cardinals still have no succession plan in place, and
Speaker 1: maybe that's not gonna happen for another year at least.
Speaker 1: I think the Cardinals, if there was to be one,
Speaker 1: it was very clear there was interest in some of
Speaker 1: the quarterbacks in the draft. Probably Patrick Mahomes was on
Speaker 1: that list. They weren't going to reach for another one
Speaker 1: that they didn't actually like to fit into Bruce arians offense,
Speaker 1: and so you do wait another year. Bruce Arians like
Speaker 1: big armed quarterbacks with tools, and Blaine Gabber it is
Speaker 1: that even if he's not a very good quarterback. There
Speaker 1: is a report at moving on, there was a report
Speaker 1: out there, this coming from Michael Lombardi, former NFL personnel
Speaker 1: man now with the Ringer, that the forty Niners are
Speaker 1: actively shopping star linebacker Navarro Bowman or I should say
Speaker 1: that they're interested in trading Bowman. Uh. And this was
Speaker 1: a report that the forty Niners thought needed to be
Speaker 1: addressed head on. A joint statement from John Lynch and
Speaker 1: Kyle Shanahan read. The report that we have been shopping
Speaker 1: Navarro Bowman is completely false. From the time we joined
Speaker 1: the organization. Navarro has been the consummate professional. It is
Speaker 1: evident he has been working very hard to prepare for
Speaker 1: the up coming season, and we have been impressed by
Speaker 1: what we have already seen on the field. We are
Speaker 1: looking forward to Navarro's future contributions to this team. You're
Speaker 1: buying it, West, Yeah, it's pretty You rarely hear teams
Speaker 1: come out that strong. But I don't think they would
Speaker 1: trade Namorrow more Navarro Bowman. If there's a face of
Speaker 1: the franchise right now, it's him. Well, it's one of
Speaker 1: those statements that had me googling, what report are they
Speaker 1: talking about. I'm sure the first uh news of this
Speaker 1: Navarro Bowman potential trade was learned by most people from
Speaker 1: this statement denying it in the first place. Lombardi for
Speaker 1: what it's worth, and I think it's significant it said
Speaker 1: afterwards he stands, he stands totally by it. And it's
Speaker 1: also worth pointing out he was the first one to
Speaker 1: say Richard Sherman was on the trade block and a
Speaker 1: lot of people didn't believe that for a while, and
Speaker 1: then that proved to be true. So I don't think
Speaker 1: he's getting it from the forty nine. He's probably getting
Speaker 1: it from other other teams. Well, he works for the Patriots,
Speaker 1: and maybe he's getting it from teams that they're calling.
Speaker 1: I would say, though, if you make a statement like this, uh,
Speaker 1: they've realized whatever, if they were looking for something, you know,
Speaker 1: that he was possibly available, they realized they're not getting it,
Speaker 1: and they want they're ready and expecting him to be
Speaker 1: on the team. You don't make a statement to make
Speaker 1: yourself look like a liar later, right, And it's a
Speaker 1: new regime that can't really afford in may to disenfranchise
Speaker 1: like their defensive leader or any real leader on that team.
Speaker 1: So they're trying to you know, on the flip side,
Speaker 1: you look at the let's say the Patriots model. He
Speaker 1: would be an ideal guy to trade if you can
Speaker 1: get good value because you're not computing for the next
Speaker 1: couple of years. How many years does Bowman v left
Speaker 1: as a top flight start. I don't think you can
Speaker 1: get any value for him. Well, if that's if that's
Speaker 1: twenty nine, he's coming off in Achilles tear. I don't
Speaker 1: play okay last year, not like it doesn't fit scheme. Probably,
Speaker 1: I don't know. I like that. Uh, you just get
Speaker 1: a sense John Lynch isn't afraid of being He's not
Speaker 1: afraid of the media. He's not afraid of doing things
Speaker 1: slightly differently us. The access that he gave to Peter
Speaker 1: King and and that whole Draft Day report was really
Speaker 1: interesting and kind of the way that he's handled his
Speaker 1: media sessions. Even a statement like this, it's kind of like,
Speaker 1: I'm John Lynch, I'm gonna I'm just gonna do it
Speaker 1: my way. I'm not gonna do it the normal way.
Speaker 1: Every GM does like it. It's different. The flip side
Speaker 1: is maybe he hasn't learned yet that you can't operate
Speaker 1: that way and it'll get burned by it eventually. I
Speaker 1: hope that's not true. You like these guys when they're
Speaker 1: more upfront and honest. But yeah, I think they probably
Speaker 1: knew they would get a media friendly guy out of him.
Speaker 1: He understands that world entirely, and the GM one is different.
Speaker 1: Moving on, Taj Sharp is dealing with some legal issues.
Speaker 1: This is kind of an interesting story reported by the
Speaker 1: Tennessee and a a man by the name of Dante
Speaker 1: are sadder Field. The Stile file the lawsuit that claims
Speaker 1: that Titans wide receiver Sharp had knocked him unconscious outside
Speaker 1: the tin roof in Nashville. I guess is that a
Speaker 1: famous bar? I'm way off on my next I mean
Speaker 1: it sounds like a bar. If you're calling it the
Speaker 1: tin roof in Nashville, it must be very famous. I
Speaker 1: have not been to Nashville. I would like to go
Speaker 1: to Nashville. I would too in the Predators. How about
Speaker 1: that for an NHL I think, do you have a
Speaker 1: podcast onto Nashville. They won't send us to London. Let's
Speaker 1: go to Nashville. That's our backup plan anyway. So probably
Speaker 1: it's probably an independent like Santa Barbara, but we could
Speaker 1: do that a Thursday night Titans game or something on board.
Speaker 1: Maybe we're sweetened the deal. There a possible team of
Speaker 1: UH around the NFL nominee. I think we can actually
Speaker 1: makes I like it's like two thousand seventeen lower expectations.
Speaker 1: That's our new model. Rank just volunteered to convince the
Speaker 1: shadow elite figures. By the way, Mark you said, Santa Barbara,
Speaker 1: if we're lucky, if you know, really, it's going to
Speaker 1: be in Culver City, right where we're sitting. That's also
Speaker 1: that's more realistic and more probable. Anyway. So, according to
Speaker 1: this lawsuit, Taj Sharp knocked out a dude, uh while
Speaker 1: offensive lineman Sebastian Tretola quote served as a look out.
Speaker 1: Uh Sadderfield, I want a scene, suffered broken bones in
Speaker 1: his face, a perforated ear drum that sounds like a
Speaker 1: battle outside West's place, and Tybee a concussion and was
Speaker 1: unconscious for twelve hours. My goodness. And you want to
Speaker 1: know why, Uh, this alleged fight took took place? Why
Speaker 1: because the man that had his ear drum jacked up
Speaker 1: said The altercation occurred following a disagreement he had with
Speaker 1: Sharp after the Titans drafted Corey Davis, UH wide receiver
Speaker 1: in the first round. Apparently, this gentleman had contended to
Speaker 1: Sharp that the arrival of Corey Davis will cut into
Speaker 1: your playing time. So Sharp later in the night said hey,
Speaker 1: come meet me outside, and he beat that of him.
Speaker 1: Anyone else wanna make any comments about Taj Sharp declining
Speaker 1: in snap count this year, Go ahead, I'm gonna I'm
Speaker 1: gonna edit that projected starters where he didn't even make
Speaker 1: the cut anymore. I would get in there immediately. I
Speaker 1: don't think there's any reason why you shouldn't be doing
Speaker 1: it right. I mean, it should be pointing out this guy.
Speaker 1: You would never condone violence. Go on this guy. The
Speaker 1: guy who's talking to him is a jerk. Sounds like
Speaker 1: good karma should be coming back at him for being
Speaker 1: a jerk, and it did. I've spent a lot of
Speaker 1: time in bars, and I've seen a lot of bar fights,
Speaker 1: and every single one of them the guy had it coming.
Speaker 1: And for the record, Sharp's agent, Blaine roach Uh said
Speaker 1: that the claims are ridiculous and denied all involvement and
Speaker 1: the local authorities have an open investigation. The Titans are
Speaker 1: quote aware of the incidents the Tin Roof. Let's go
Speaker 1: onto Nashville. Obviously we would have the podcast at the
Speaker 1: Tin Roof that goes without saying, and we could do
Speaker 1: a whole segment in the very spot where that dude's
Speaker 1: your drumas perforated from feel like that's fun. That's a
Speaker 1: fun story is still going to be a extremely relevant
Speaker 1: when we're finally traveling as a FORCEO. This is the
Speaker 1: biggest story of the year right here. It's Sharp's fight story.
Speaker 1: And finally the news Cam Newton Uh turns twenty eight
Speaker 1: years old today. Happy birthday, Cam and Uh. To celebrate that,
Speaker 1: he released a video on his Instagram account and West,
Speaker 1: I know you in the past have been known to
Speaker 1: call Camer Newton by a very specific turn of phrase
Speaker 1: on your part, right, and that if if you're plugged
Speaker 1: in at all on his Instagram account, that is not
Speaker 1: decreasing as he ages. Uh. In fact, his entire Instagram
Speaker 1: profile on the offseason is just a series of glamour
Speaker 1: shots of really Cam Newton by himself almost at all times.
Speaker 1: So that's how I like to run my Instagram accounts. Yeah. So, anyway,
Speaker 1: for his birthday, he released his own video uh, in
Speaker 1: which he is rapping and lip syncing along to the
Speaker 1: to the Two Chains classic birthday song. It's called and Uh.
Speaker 1: It looks like a little bit of deduction value went
Speaker 1: into this, some money. And then there was some type
Speaker 1: of weird text that he uses as a caption, what
Speaker 1: is going on with Cam Newton? Greg Or, we should
Speaker 1: we be concerned at all about Cam Newton? I mean,
Speaker 1: I think you got a back off Cam Newton. I've
Speaker 1: always been on the other side that. Okay. I don't
Speaker 1: think he's a preating small He's a young guy, he's
Speaker 1: a young guy who's got you know, the world by
Speaker 1: the balls. He's he's cocky. You know. News flash. NFL
Speaker 1: starting quarterbacks are confident guys, confident young men. It's different
Speaker 1: now that it's like they're younger than us, so it's
Speaker 1: like it's a different coins. Is a bad argument, by
Speaker 1: the way, because we're all in agreement of everything you're saying.
Speaker 1: But I'm just saying, doesn't bother me. It doesn't bother me.
Speaker 1: That's not my question. Did it bother you? Wasn't my question?
Speaker 1: Could you hang out with Cam Newton Gregg? Could? I know?
Speaker 1: But could I hang out with like just about any
Speaker 1: NFL quarterback? No? Probably not. I'm saying like over time,
Speaker 1: like if you look at like the nineties quarterbacks, two
Speaker 1: thousand quarterbacks, No, I don't have a lot of common
Speaker 1: with them. Probably. I mean that that is a fair point.
Speaker 1: It's not like it would have been like easier fun
Speaker 1: potentially hang out with Dan Reno in the not at
Speaker 1: all exactly. I mean maybe in college according to some reports.
Speaker 1: I guess my point is he's writing in his own language.
Speaker 1: That's that's annoying, that that scripting is the scripting with
Speaker 1: it's actually bony ver. Uh like the way that he
Speaker 1: wrote his album song titles. It's very similar to the
Speaker 1: way that Cam writes. Uh. It's very annoying, which actually
Speaker 1: turned me off to that. I call bon ivor I
Speaker 1: always have. It's incorrect. The good album stands for good Winter,
Speaker 1: there you go, which is a nice it's a nice
Speaker 1: way to characterize their music. Good job, But I'm sorry
Speaker 1: for taking this. He has he has his own text.
Speaker 1: The photos are wild, the video mark, do you have
Speaker 1: any issues with Cam Newton? I mean, you know, if
Speaker 1: Tom Brady is gonna play into his mid forties, that
Speaker 1: tells you that we could potentially have another seventeen years
Speaker 1: of Cam Newton. My my take would be that's a
Speaker 1: little bit more Cam Newton than I need. You know,
Speaker 1: by the time he retires, I'm deep into my you know,
Speaker 1: the end of my life at that point. Please so no,
Speaker 1: I think Cam Newton probably though honestly, there I think
Speaker 1: it's a generational thing going on where he's obviously not
Speaker 1: connecting with uh me other people. I like him as
Speaker 1: a player. I think he's fascinating as a player, but
Speaker 1: there there are a ton of people in our office
Speaker 1: who think he's fantastic and amazing and entertaining and the rest.
Speaker 1: So you know, he knows who he's marketing to and
Speaker 1: this is this is marketing and he's doing a good
Speaker 1: job of it for some people. Yes, it is. It's
Speaker 1: got somebody in the highest office in the land. M hm.
Speaker 1: I believe cam Newton's generation is a generation of one.
Speaker 1: I think he's in his own world and I think
Speaker 1: that's appealing to people too. Maybe it's maybe it's a
Speaker 1: type of person that it's not an age thing that
Speaker 1: that each thing gets bannied about too much. Maybe it's
Speaker 1: a type of person that finds the whole cam Newton
Speaker 1: experience it feeds them, where I would say it does
Speaker 1: not feed me. I also put it, how many ways
Speaker 1: can I put it in? That's what's happening in the
Speaker 1: off fields. You know, his persona is lacking in my book,
Speaker 1: his rotator cuff looks pretty good. Well, he's dancing around
Speaker 1: on the boat and stuff. So that's good news for
Speaker 1: Panthers fans. See, there's great news for you guys. Moving on, So,
Speaker 1: Chris Westling wrote a banger. It is a breakdown of,
Speaker 1: in his estimation, the top ten offenses in the NFL,
Speaker 1: UH and I think a good way to get into
Speaker 1: this Now. West has the Patriots number one and the
Speaker 1: Steelers number two, and that shouldn't be a surprise. If
Speaker 1: you listen to this podcast we've done, We've talked plenty
Speaker 1: about those two teams. Um, he rounds out the top
Speaker 1: five Falcons, Raiders, and Dallas Cowboys. That's not a huge
Speaker 1: surprise to me. Is anybody surprised by West is top five?
Speaker 1: That all seems to check out. You could quibble with
Speaker 1: whether you think that the Falcons should be behind the Raiders,
Speaker 1: or or maybe the Cowboys should even be hired, But
Speaker 1: to me, I'm signed off on that top five. Nice
Speaker 1: Joy Christmas, I am too. The only concern I would
Speaker 1: have is, you know, shifting from Kyle Shanahan, one of
Speaker 1: the best play callers in football, to Steve Sarkisian, who
Speaker 1: I think is you know, was a surprising hire for
Speaker 1: a couple of reasons, and how do you keep all
Speaker 1: of what happened last year going again? That's that that's
Speaker 1: the team I need to see it from right. I
Speaker 1: kind of look at it like the coaches don't come
Speaker 1: with it, like you're like you're picking teams on a
Speaker 1: playground or whatnot, and I am. I would take the
Speaker 1: Raiders players and definitely the Cowboys player. I would put
Speaker 1: the Cowboys at number three. I would take those players
Speaker 1: over the players on Atlanta. I mean, they got Julio
Speaker 1: Jones and Matt Ryan. They have a great backfield. It's
Speaker 1: not like they're bad. But if I'm just picking between
Speaker 1: those two, you're talking about some primetime talent on the
Speaker 1: on the Raiders and Cowboys, even more so than the Falcons.
Speaker 1: In my last year, they had the best backfield and
Speaker 1: the best receiving corps in the NFL. See, I would
Speaker 1: have disagree. Like the recener m v P at quarterback,
Speaker 1: Julio Jones is great. The other players are all good
Speaker 1: NFL players. I think that Gabriel was about as good
Speaker 1: of a playmaker as you can find. I think it's
Speaker 1: part if you can find guys like Taylor Gabriel, I
Speaker 1: think you can well. They part of the scheme. It's
Speaker 1: part of the scheme, and it's part of right. By
Speaker 1: all rights, they should be number one coming off an
Speaker 1: historically efficient season, but they did get docked for the
Speaker 1: loss of Kyle Sene. Yeah, if you're both you're looking
Speaker 1: at from two different respectives. I would even say, if
Speaker 1: you're looking at it from the great perspective, just pure
Speaker 1: playground roster building, I could say the Steelers to me
Speaker 1: might be number one, but putting Bill Belichick all of
Speaker 1: a sudden, well they got a nice edge at quarterb
Speaker 1: I thought that too, if we was just if you
Speaker 1: took the quarterback out of the equation, then I would
Speaker 1: give it to the Steelers. But the Patriots have a
Speaker 1: nice little nice edge they're at quarterback. Yeah, you also
Speaker 1: like depth matters, and the Steelers have not had a
Speaker 1: good backup behind their injury prone starter for a long time. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's hurt him. I mean, but if you ever put
Speaker 1: Levy on Bell, Antonio Brown and some of these other
Speaker 1: guys into into the New England offense this year, that
Speaker 1: would be wild. And and I'm thinking about the the
Speaker 1: offensive lines too, and the Falcon certainly of a fine
Speaker 1: offensive line. But like to Castro and Pouncy, those guys
Speaker 1: are weapons. Uh you know, Tyrant Smith and and Travis
Speaker 1: Frederick and Vak Martin, those guys are weapons. That Raiders
Speaker 1: offensive line is a weapon. So yeah, it's they're all
Speaker 1: they're all close. But that's why I like those teams.
Speaker 1: Jake Matthews will he survived what happened? He you know what,
Speaker 1: he hasn't gotten a lot of heat for it. I
Speaker 1: don't think. I'm sure he doesn't. Yeah, I'm sure because
Speaker 1: everyone has put all the misguided focus on Kyle Shanahan
Speaker 1: for everything. Right, there's so many things that went on
Speaker 1: and everyone that said, uh, I've been talking about this
Speaker 1: lately that everyone blames the coaches for that. Hey, how
Speaker 1: about gained some yards when you run? Not to relitigate
Speaker 1: the Super Bowl, the last four or five runs they
Speaker 1: had were either for a yard or lost yardage if
Speaker 1: they had picked up three or four yards in the
Speaker 1: third fourth quarter when they tried to run worked out.
Speaker 1: I think the reason Kyle Shanahan's available to the media.
Speaker 1: Matthews just vanished. I mean, offensive lineman just disappear the
Speaker 1: entire right And it took I think it took some
Speaker 1: really like rewatching and stuff like that for it for
Speaker 1: it to really come together. Like how big a factory was? All? Right?
Speaker 1: So who's just outside West is top five? You got
Speaker 1: the Saints there? Uh? And again for a team that
Speaker 1: I think we're all confident they're gonna drop another seven
Speaker 1: and nine ball. Well, actually shouldn't say we all, I
Speaker 1: shouldn't speak for everyone, but just a reminder of how
Speaker 1: good their offense is and if they just got together
Speaker 1: on defense a little bit, they could be a perennial
Speaker 1: contender still in the NFC. But it's not the case.
Speaker 1: But just focus on the offense. West. You got them
Speaker 1: at six with the Packers and Chargers trailing. We can
Speaker 1: get into the Chargers in a second, but why did
Speaker 1: you put the Saints ahead of the Packers. St are
Speaker 1: up there every year, and while they got better in
Speaker 1: their back deal with Adrian Peterson and Alvin Kamara, I'm
Speaker 1: not wild about a Packers backfield led by Time Montgomery,
Speaker 1: who is a wide receiver, doesn't run inside very well
Speaker 1: and as well suited to passing downs. The other guys
Speaker 1: are rookies and they may well be surprises. They may
Speaker 1: well to take the lead by storm, But to my mind,
Speaker 1: so far, their question marks is anybody else really surprised
Speaker 1: that the Packers didn't. You can look at Time Montgomery.
Speaker 1: I see people out there making just just like arguments
Speaker 1: statistically for him and what he achieved last year. But
Speaker 1: but honestly, it's it's to me it's it's so Packerrette
Speaker 1: packers s to not go out and totally juice up
Speaker 1: a position in the draft of free agency that you are.
Speaker 1: You have almost too much trust sometimes and some of
Speaker 1: these guys, I am with you. They need a running
Speaker 1: back that can carry them through the later months of
Speaker 1: the season. I don't think they've got a proven guy here. No,
Speaker 1: maybe they will. Looking at their roster. They almost have
Speaker 1: to sign a veteran running back. We'll see if it's
Speaker 1: probably Chris someone that's really gonna make a huge different,
Speaker 1: But Sydney's boy, Jamal Williams. To West's point, you don't
Speaker 1: really want to be in a position where a fourth
Speaker 1: round rookie running back Jamal Williams could be one of
Speaker 1: the huge keys to that offense if he can give
Speaker 1: them what they're hoping for in terms of between the
Speaker 1: tackles guide and we've seen some late round picks that
Speaker 1: running back make big impacts recently, Kenneth Dixon, Jordan Howard
Speaker 1: last year. If he could be a huge factor. I
Speaker 1: like that. You like the Saints stuff, saying West a
Speaker 1: little surprised they're there every year. Got the Chargers at eight,
Speaker 1: and we just did an NFL Network hit on up
Speaker 1: to minute live, but you usually well almost yeah, several
Speaker 1: times a week. I'm gonna say, you know, anywhere between
Speaker 1: two to four times a week, you're gonna catch us.
Speaker 1: If you tune in right around I'd say four fifty Eastern.
Speaker 1: Set your DVRs. It's in the back half of the
Speaker 1: program later on, and we do a little hit every
Speaker 1: every couple of days. And we talked about the Chargers
Speaker 1: as a team to really watch in the n f
Speaker 1: C West and their offense West. You are you are
Speaker 1: high on that offense. Well, they retold the offensive line.
Speaker 1: That's a bit of a question mark, but it certainly
Speaker 1: looks better on paper. This year that's been a huge problem.
Speaker 1: And they have one of the best wide receiver corps
Speaker 1: if you include tight ends as well, Keenan Allen coming
Speaker 1: back from a c L surgery, Tyrolle Williams, who Greg
Speaker 1: has pointed out have one of the quietest one thousand
Speaker 1: yards seasons you'll ever see. Then they've got a first
Speaker 1: round pick Mike Williams, Travis Benjamin uh Antanoo Gates, Hunter Henry.
Speaker 1: They're just loaded at the receiver positions. They are a
Speaker 1: little shallow in the backfield. If mel and Gordon gets
Speaker 1: hurt there in trouble, and they also up their offensive
Speaker 1: line with a couple of picks second in the third round,
Speaker 1: It's crazy to think of who's coming off the bench
Speaker 1: for them right now. Let's say Mike Williams is getting
Speaker 1: starter snaps. Travis Benjamin might be their number four wide receiver.
Speaker 1: This is the guy who has fifteen hundred yards combined
Speaker 1: over the last years. I mean, I'm not saying he's
Speaker 1: the best receiver in the world, but he's a productive
Speaker 1: of weapon. Antonio Gates, who's towards the end of the line,
Speaker 1: but he's still had seven touchdowns five fifth yards. He's
Speaker 1: probably coming off the bench right now. I mean that
Speaker 1: is deep. They can survive injuries, and they're really young,
Speaker 1: like their whole starting line up other than rivers at
Speaker 1: the skill positions there and under. And then rounding out
Speaker 1: the top ten, you got the Titans and Bucks, which
Speaker 1: I like that because it seems to be something a
Speaker 1: theme that's continuing from draft Day that Marcus Mariota and
Speaker 1: Jameis Winston seems to be tied together and here they
Speaker 1: are in West's top ten back to back. Yeah, I
Speaker 1: only gave the Titans of B minus at quarterback because
Speaker 1: did a medical red flag index, they would be right
Speaker 1: there at the top. That Mariota has been injured in
Speaker 1: both of his first two years has ended the season
Speaker 1: on I R and I think they have the worst
Speaker 1: backup quarterback in the NFL. And Matt cast talk about
Speaker 1: a team that didn't go on and Matt Castle plays,
Speaker 1: Castle plays, they will lose that game, all right, But
Speaker 1: let's look at one just. I don't want to spend
Speaker 1: two long. I don't want to. Hey, by the way,
Speaker 1: Matt Castle started one game last year, didn't they win it?
Speaker 1: He was terrible. They want you just but it disproves
Speaker 1: your point. They started one game they want it well,
Speaker 1: which means that was their one time out of a
Speaker 1: hundred though wins, they already got that out of I'm saying,
Speaker 1: can I just come downstairs the second and say that
Speaker 1: none of this swiler led the Texas to the playoffs? Okay,
Speaker 1: I'm going back upstairs just for one. I was just saying,
Speaker 1: you loved being meaning to Matt Castle. We've been defending
Speaker 1: him for a long time. I'll say it in terrible.
Speaker 1: Let's point out that the line below Jamis Winston's backups
Speaker 1: are Ryan Griffin and Sean Renfree, So just saying he's
Speaker 1: the very word Griffin could pass circles around Matt Castle.
Speaker 1: I said for the Matt Castle programing for the year,
Speaker 1: way more than people needed on Matt Castle. I mean
Speaker 1: the offensive line for Tampa Bay. That's got to be
Speaker 1: one of the weakest units in this entire article for
Speaker 1: any team. It's it's the problem. And all these teams
Speaker 1: in the hunt, like the Redskins, Colts, Cardinals, Panthers, Bengals, Giants,
Speaker 1: I've got them listed, all have awesome offensive lines. Question, well,
Speaker 1: the Redskins don't put the other teams to It's a
Speaker 1: huge problem. It's a difference between the guys and the
Speaker 1: top five and the team's at ten to fifteen on offense.
Speaker 1: I'm a dork. I love the format of this article,
Speaker 1: how he broke it down by groups and gave each
Speaker 1: group a grade very little to quibble with, which is
Speaker 1: usually what I try to do. But why are you
Speaker 1: and the knees wid Yeah, it's it's great if you're
Speaker 1: a dork likes me, but how what what more does
Speaker 1: de Marco Murray and Derrick Henry have to do to
Speaker 1: get above a B. That's a nice backfield. You're a
Speaker 1: tough greater. Think they're only a B. That might be
Speaker 1: a copy and paste there, they're great, that's All'm not
Speaker 1: gonna beat them by much. There's your chance to edit its. Yeah, well,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna go into your copy right now, make history. Yeah,
Speaker 1: let's do it. She was giving them a B plus
Speaker 1: or an A minus. I'm giving them an A minus.
Speaker 1: They're all if Doug Martin and Charles Sims and I'm
Speaker 1: not arguing this Andrew quiz Roger, they're a B. I'm
Speaker 1: giving Titans to give him an minus. I'm in our
Speaker 1: content manage. I mean, that's a great starter and a
Speaker 1: great back up we're making. Let's break this, Sydney break this.
Speaker 1: Yeah that that's a bad job by me on the
Speaker 1: copy of Day for the first time ever, a live
Speaker 1: update of a post happening on the podcast. Mark, tell
Speaker 1: me how you're feeling right now? A little. Well, it'll
Speaker 1: be great if an editor is in there adding content
Speaker 1: videos and you go in and completely hop scotch their
Speaker 1: work and it gets wiped out and they'll have no
Speaker 1: idea where it came from until they look at the
Speaker 1: history of the post and very mysteriously, we'll say, Dan Hansis,
Speaker 1: they will have no idea how you can't touch me?
Speaker 1: Uh did you say a minus? Yeah? A minus. I
Speaker 1: feel good that Gregg's only quibble was actually just a
Speaker 1: clerical air saved and publish and it's done. All right? Well,
Speaker 1: Scott to ask you, i'd move the falcons that, but
Speaker 1: I had already said that. You went one through ten?
Speaker 1: Where are the New York Jets in this list? One through?
Speaker 1: Look at you, all high and mighty. What I'm asking
Speaker 1: It's called a follow up question. Get your Josh Gordon
Speaker 1: Jersey out of the closet question, go for a walk? Two?
Speaker 1: All right, just just behind the Rams and Browns. Okay,
Speaker 1: didn't ask for any more information. Are you happy you're
Speaker 1: trying to hurt me? I want I was asking a
Speaker 1: follow up question. It's what you do in this business.
Speaker 1: I think that he'll get what's coming to you? Mark
Speaker 1: thorough job by Mark from the regular season. Oh yeah,
Speaker 1: so what we go We go to and fourteen gets
Speaker 1: Sam Donald, which was your plan until about two weeks ago,
Speaker 1: when you realize the Jets are gonna do just enough
Speaker 1: to get the eighth pick in the draft. Okay, I've
Speaker 1: never said that they were going to do it. I
Speaker 1: think that's what I want. Was a campaign of yours,
Speaker 1: I should say I have no control over it. I'm
Speaker 1: just saying that's what I want them to do. And
Speaker 1: in fact, they are right on schedule. They've done everything
Speaker 1: in their power, including drafting two safeties at the top
Speaker 1: of the draft, to go to and fourteen. Now we
Speaker 1: just have to have the magic happen. Now, just all
Speaker 1: come together. You never know with chemistry how to get
Speaker 1: to that. Losing fourteen out of sixteen, that's our type
Speaker 1: of magic. I think we have it. I think you
Speaker 1: start with Josh McCown, who's gonna last three quarters into
Speaker 1: the opener, and then you got a Christian Nackenberg and
Speaker 1: away we go. See that's all set up. Well, I
Speaker 1: don't know if it will work out, and and we
Speaker 1: might get four or five wins, but we'll see, all right.
Speaker 1: You had nineteen teams. By the way, so earlier when
Speaker 1: I said sixteen and I was feeling good about it,
Speaker 1: I don't feel as good about it anymore. That was
Speaker 1: incorrect hosting work by me. I mean you said they're
Speaker 1: about or we said in the range. I consider that's
Speaker 1: in the fifteen twenty range. Okay, let yourself off the
Speaker 1: hook man. All right, you can check that out at
Speaker 1: NFL dot com slash whistling NFL dot com slash whistling.
Speaker 1: All right, Mother's Day on Sunday. Let's quickly go around
Speaker 1: the horn and uh and this is going I like
Speaker 1: this where Greg has to get in touch with the
Speaker 1: sensitive side. Let it out start the world. So we're
Speaker 1: gonna save him for last. We'll start with Mark. What
Speaker 1: am I I'm I'm basically speaking about my mom? Right? Well,
Speaker 1: that is I think like this is Hey, my mom
Speaker 1: listens to the show. I know she does, and I
Speaker 1: would not be here. I'm sure this is true of
Speaker 1: all of us, but I definitely would not be here
Speaker 1: if my mom specifically did not completely support me through
Speaker 1: a period of life twenties into the thirties, much longer
Speaker 1: than a son should have figured out what he's doing
Speaker 1: and and started to give back to the parents. It
Speaker 1: was not happening in my case nearly enough and utterly
Speaker 1: supported me no matter what I tried to do, all
Speaker 1: sorts of stops and starts. And from a sports angle,
Speaker 1: I mean, I don't think She was surprised that this
Speaker 1: is what I wanted to do because our house growing up,
Speaker 1: my brother and I three years part separated us, but
Speaker 1: we loved all the same stuff. And it started in
Speaker 1: the minute we got up. We would fight over the
Speaker 1: sports page, and when it would be at night, we
Speaker 1: would be it's Mets games, It's it's it's NFL football,
Speaker 1: NonStop NBA games, something that siren in the background playing
Speaker 1: in every NBA stadium. She just wants to probably have
Speaker 1: a nice weekend at home, read a book, have a
Speaker 1: conversation with her family. Everyone is locked on the TVs
Speaker 1: all day long, and it's the driving to Pop Warner
Speaker 1: Football five nights a week and then having to get
Speaker 1: back in the car. It's baseball, it's basketball. I mean
Speaker 1: this minivan we had with like this wood paneling on
Speaker 1: the side bogged like twenty five thousand miles of her
Speaker 1: driving us all over town for all our various interests.
Speaker 1: So it's just like you look back on someone, I
Speaker 1: would say, I don't have a single bad memory of
Speaker 1: her because from wire to wire whatever, we basically we're
Speaker 1: into whatever we wanted to do. And that's right up
Speaker 1: to today. She was all on board with it. So
Speaker 1: Happy Mother's Day to my mom. I think that's very
Speaker 1: well put. And I feel the same way about deb
Speaker 1: uh my mom. She was always always super supportive anything
Speaker 1: I was into, which as a kid was basically sports.
Speaker 1: So uh and I can't imagine my mom who is
Speaker 1: not a sports fan but has been married to uh
Speaker 1: my father for forty years uh more than that now
Speaker 1: and has been forced to watch Yankees games for three
Speaker 1: hours every day for six months. And like, she's always
Speaker 1: been cool with the idea that we we were a
Speaker 1: sports family, me, my brother, and my dad, and also
Speaker 1: the idea of of my mom having to you know,
Speaker 1: go to soccer games and baseball games. Like my dad
Speaker 1: did a lot of the heavy lifting in terms of
Speaker 1: watching us at the events. When my mom went to
Speaker 1: a lot of games too, I bet that sucked. And
Speaker 1: those before cell phones and before anything to like she
Speaker 1: definitely I don't know if she enjoyed like day so much.
Speaker 1: She came and watched the shield and the softball and
Speaker 1: had a great time. Well that's I mean, that's my dad.
Speaker 1: It's finishing returns after but like you want to watch
Speaker 1: your own kid, but you don't want to watch you know,
Speaker 1: you know Mark Humphreys, Uh get his bats in Wally O'Malley,
Speaker 1: you know what. I watched them also the Dodgers from
Speaker 1: from Wally was wast wasn't a problem on that team anyway.
Speaker 1: So yes, that is my thank you to my mom
Speaker 1: for always supporting me and all my crazy sports endeavors
Speaker 1: and uh you know, taking care of me. I love you, mom. Uh.
Speaker 1: My mom had seven boys because starting with me the
Speaker 1: number two, she desperately wanted a girl to play paper
Speaker 1: dolls with and this was gonna be Maggie. She was
Speaker 1: a girly girl type of mom at the start. All
Speaker 1: seven of us boys played baseball, basketball, in either soccer
Speaker 1: or football, and we were and we're all ten years
Speaker 1: of each other. So Saturdays and Sundays while we were
Speaker 1: growing up was I remember Mom drawing out the list
Speaker 1: to see which game she was gonna cover, in which
Speaker 1: games Dad was gonna cover. They had to, you know,
Speaker 1: somebody had to be at one had to be an
Speaker 1: entire thing one of them, and one of them had
Speaker 1: to be at the games. And Mom was always the
Speaker 1: one in the stands sneaking in her her you know,
Speaker 1: her wine or her coolers. You know the Bartles and
Speaker 1: James sitting next to the loud mouth moms having fun.
Speaker 1: She was, she was there, and I would say by
Speaker 1: the time I was in high school, she was subscribing
Speaker 1: to like the ESPN College Basketball package. She's a huge
Speaker 1: sports fan then, and uh, just dealing with the all
Speaker 1: we were obsessed with sports, baseball, cards, everything growing up
Speaker 1: and she had to deal with all that. So she
Speaker 1: was as as supportive as could possibly be. I'll never
Speaker 1: forget the one night that we hung out with all
Speaker 1: your brothers at the combine, that we got to look
Speaker 1: into what the parents were dealing with the household. It's
Speaker 1: amazing to think about you have two children. Actually every
Speaker 1: you know, the three of us have two children. It's
Speaker 1: amazing to consider seven. I mean we all we had
Speaker 1: one brother. One of your brothers walk up to me
Speaker 1: and say just walk up to West and brother b
Speaker 1: and say Lebron James first, Jordan, and I just said
Speaker 1: it and I walked back and for the next forty
Speaker 1: five minutes just sipping on a beer watching these guys
Speaker 1: going at it. Yeah, that was that was everything. That
Speaker 1: was our entire childhood, just surrounded by sports. My my
Speaker 1: mom is my mom. Debbie who listens to the show regularly,
Speaker 1: really every show, um, which is awesome, although then she
Speaker 1: always puts it like, well, that's the best way I
Speaker 1: can keep up with you. It's the only thing I
Speaker 1: hear about your life, Barbara. So that's troubling, but I'm
Speaker 1: I'm glad she listens to it. And it's partly because
Speaker 1: she's weirdly turned into a big time Patriots and big
Speaker 1: time football fan, like since I've left high school, not
Speaker 1: as big a fan as my dad perhaps, who booed
Speaker 1: Roger Goodell at the super Bowl, but still still a
Speaker 1: very big fan. And I'm just thinking about, yeah, I know,
Speaker 1: I know, we get he gets a free ticket from
Speaker 1: Roger Goodell and then he boozed Rogers. That's that's the
Speaker 1: throat of ease. I feel. I feel bad in hindsight that,
Speaker 1: like I didn't like having my mom at sporting events,
Speaker 1: like if it was like a big time like tennis matcher,
Speaker 1: whatever it was, like I almost wouldn't want to see her,
Speaker 1: Like I wouldn't want to hear like what a how
Speaker 1: big of a jerk do you have to be? The
Speaker 1: you know what I mean? It can make you nervous,
Speaker 1: but yeah, I just like didn't want it, like it
Speaker 1: was a reminder of the outside world and you just
Speaker 1: wanted to be totally, totally focused in. It's like Mike
Speaker 1: Tyson would ruin every relationship in his life before a
Speaker 1: fight because he doesn't want to be soft. But she,
Speaker 1: she was extremely supportive. Regular Mike Tyson, He's a strong,
Speaker 1: silent type. She was extreme only supportive. And there's no one, Um,
Speaker 1: you know, I'm more like in the world than than
Speaker 1: my mom. It's not even it's not even close. I've
Speaker 1: been told this uh many times that we we are
Speaker 1: on we were on the same wavelength. So we're all very,
Speaker 1: very lucky men to have our moms. So Happy Mother's
Speaker 1: Day to our mothers and your mothers and everyone's mom's.
Speaker 1: And now finally before we go, wait a second, even
Speaker 1: but right before that, I did want to say Mark
Speaker 1: wrote a great, great piece on Mother's Day. I thought
Speaker 1: we were going to mention this as part of it
Speaker 1: NFL dot com slash Mother's Day. Is that out? Yeah,
Speaker 1: Brandon Marshall's mom and Dominan Sue's mom and and the
Speaker 1: Kelsey mom. Yeah, they were great. So just while we
Speaker 1: were talking, speak up. I mean, I completely forgot about it.
Speaker 1: They were they were great to talk to, and what
Speaker 1: I you know, these pieces, you know, it's the it's
Speaker 1: their voices. But I I thought that I learned something
Speaker 1: about the Dominican Sue. Certainly learned about the Kelsey's and
Speaker 1: especially Brandon Marshall and their mom. Just like kind of
Speaker 1: telling what they were like as little boys was for me.
Speaker 1: Everyone thinks they know what the Dominican Sue is like,
Speaker 1: coming when the mom speaks about him, you get someone entirely,
Speaker 1: entirely different. So give it a read. NFL dot com
Speaker 1: slash Mother's Day, Mother's Day, nice vanity. You are all
Speaker 1: a logical one. Yeah, it's a good score. Is there
Speaker 1: an apostrophe in there? I don't believe so that would
Speaker 1: that would be horrible. Yeah, that that would not be
Speaker 1: good work. And uh, all right, And finally, I haven't
Speaker 1: listed on our rundown for every show. Um wes is
Speaker 1: totally minor thing. That's a bit of an understatement. So
Speaker 1: I'm gonna turn it over to west Uh to share
Speaker 1: a little bit about himself. You know, why he's been
Speaker 1: missing the last couple of days and what's going on. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I've been out the past couple of days, spending the
Speaker 1: days in hospitals getting tests. They found a mass on
Speaker 1: my esophagus and it turns out it is cancer where
Speaker 1: my esophagus meets my stomach. Um. Before everybody freaks out listening,
Speaker 1: my doctor is very encouraged that it did not spread. Uh.
Speaker 1: She's mentioned very three or four times. She's very happy
Speaker 1: for me with the results. Because when you here you
Speaker 1: have a mass on yoursophaguess, it can go a lot
Speaker 1: of different ways from you've only got X amount of
Speaker 1: time to live to oh, whoops, we're sorry, we made
Speaker 1: a mistake on the reading and you're fine. And to me,
Speaker 1: getting a chance to battle this, get a chance to win,
Speaker 1: and then go on to live a normal, happy, healthy
Speaker 1: life is best case scenario. I am. I am relieved
Speaker 1: just after speaking with my doctor. I'll be in the
Speaker 1: hands of some great specialists, and I just wanted to
Speaker 1: get out in front. You know, I'd rather address it
Speaker 1: now and go beat this thing, to worry about not
Speaker 1: telling people and and worry about having that in the background.
Speaker 1: And now you get to go to Tybee Island for
Speaker 1: the weekend on a previously planned vacation with the you're
Speaker 1: bringing the paramour to Tybee Island for the first uh time,
Speaker 1: and this has been going on all week and you
Speaker 1: didn't know if it was going to be totally hanging
Speaker 1: over here, and now you're going to Tybee Island. It
Speaker 1: seems like the most perfect time ever to go to
Speaker 1: Tybe Island. Yeah, after we play softball tonight, going to
Speaker 1: you want to talk about drama for the Shields softball
Speaker 1: team one of the great emotional moments of all time. Uh.
Speaker 1: Andre Kramer has already reached out to us about doing
Speaker 1: a pre a pregame puff piece. Bob Costas is poking around.
Speaker 1: I said, Bob, get lost. It's not your time anymore.
Speaker 1: We're gonna give this the Kramer and you know it's
Speaker 1: her time. Don't go belly aching to Mark about this
Speaker 1: because it's Cramer time. But it is a big deal
Speaker 1: that West is playing playing with us tonight, and that's
Speaker 1: pretty it's a pretty cool thing. And it is also
Speaker 1: another positive sign that West is going to uh beat
Speaker 1: up on this on this thing and we're gonna move forward.
Speaker 1: We love you. And like I when I told Simone
Speaker 1: about this, and she, you know, obviously very concerned. I
Speaker 1: was just like the one guy The one friend I
Speaker 1: have who is an is a total fighter is West.
Speaker 1: You are and it's like where were you will see?
Speaker 1: This is what you're gonna get this. He's gonna he's
Speaker 1: gonna attack this like like a Jamis Winston Marcus Mariotta.
Speaker 1: By the end of you know, it was in a corner.
Speaker 1: Maybe it was that shout the locking it up that
Speaker 1: really got my stuff. We'd hope, We'd hope not that
Speaker 1: would be It would be tough to deal with to
Speaker 1: know that information. But anyway, that is Yeah, that's the
Speaker 1: big news with West. And we're so happy, uh just
Speaker 1: here with us now and everything is trending in a
Speaker 1: positive direction. So there's the big news at the bottom
Speaker 1: of the show. And he's got you know, he's got
Speaker 1: people everyone in this room that loves him to death
Speaker 1: and we're gonna support him and be be with him.
Speaker 1: And he's got a lot of support out here in
Speaker 1: l A. And I know, even the people that are
Speaker 1: listening that have never met West, just having listened, like
Speaker 1: you feel like you feel like it's a close friend.
Speaker 1: And hopefully I know he'll feel all that support too.
Speaker 1: And it's just it it is a cool thing. It's
Speaker 1: cool of you. West. I don't know if any, if
Speaker 1: if any event, the rest of us were in the
Speaker 1: same scenario. I don't know if it would pop in
Speaker 1: our head like hey, let's talk about let's I want
Speaker 1: to talk about this in the podcast today. But it's
Speaker 1: cool that you're sharing with Yeah, I'm gonna be out.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna miss some shows. It could be missing months
Speaker 1: or you know, weeks or months at a time, and
Speaker 1: you'll see have some more Connie Fox or Claibon or
Speaker 1: whoever in your life. And I just want people to
Speaker 1: know why I'm not there instead of having to wonder
Speaker 1: or me hiding behind this and not addressing it. I
Speaker 1: don't think there's any variation for me to keep it
Speaker 1: from something. How are you going to twelve people that
Speaker 1: you blocked on Twitter? Well, the reason why they were
Speaker 1: blocked because they don't need to be in my life?
Speaker 1: That's fair. What about this just an idea? Unblock all
Speaker 1: of them for a split second type I have cancer?
Speaker 1: Reblocked them? It just like leave him like reeling. I
Speaker 1: should say you you caused this. I believe it. You
Speaker 1: you did this to me? Um All right, So there
Speaker 1: you go, West, We love you, buddy. I love you.
Speaker 1: I love you all Sport. Here we go. We will
Speaker 1: be back on Monday with another show. Uh. But until then,
Speaker 1: this is Dan had to signing off for the Quiet Storm,
Speaker 1: the mail Man, the Old Boss and new Money behind
Speaker 1: the Glass till Monday