Speaker 1: The Around the NFL Podcast is working on its beach bod.
Speaker 1: Welcome back to another edition of The Round the NFL Podcast.
Speaker 1: My name is Dan Hansas, and I am joined by
Speaker 1: a room. Oh my god, there's so many heroes in here,
Speaker 1: Mark Sessler, Chris Westling out On Connor Or and Greg Rosenthal.
Speaker 1: What's up all the boys? Hey Dan, Hey West a
Speaker 1: surprise appearance. We're very happy to have you in here.
Speaker 1: We didn't know you're gonna be on the show until about,
Speaker 1: I don't know, an hour before taping or so. And
Speaker 1: that was that was a pleasant surprise. We must say. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I had a few things to take care of this morning.
Speaker 1: I've got some appointments to go to. But uh, I
Speaker 1: had a window there in the afternoon. Why not come in. Um.
Speaker 1: Your trip to Tybee, as we understand, was a rousing success.
Speaker 1: It was glorious. Uh. The paramore came with me her
Speaker 1: first trip to Tybee and within a half an hour said,
Speaker 1: I can already feel love. Everyone here is right. Uh,
Speaker 1: she's walked away with friends for life. What did she
Speaker 1: think about her new uh nickname the first Lady of
Speaker 1: Tybee Island. I don't think they gave that with you know,
Speaker 1: I don't wanna, you know, cross a line here, but
Speaker 1: West is a very emotional time for you, a very
Speaker 1: serious time, and the paramore is just stepped up to
Speaker 1: the plate. Now you're going on, you know, a trip
Speaker 1: to Tybee that went extremely well. This all seems to
Speaker 1: be trending towards a New Year's Eve engagement ring. Let's
Speaker 1: just be let's be honest, let's put all our cards
Speaker 1: on the table. She's not gonna be listening. Why not
Speaker 1: throw that definitely don't love me? Why not throw that
Speaker 1: out into the public sphere. I'm not one to usually
Speaker 1: stand on ceremony. I can't see myself as a New
Speaker 1: Year's Eve just because there's a holiday kind of New
Speaker 1: Year's Eve cracker jack box engagement ring at the bottom
Speaker 1: of the box here, Honey, that's West to me, I
Speaker 1: would say things are in a very good spot right now.
Speaker 1: And um, you know, she might have been looking at
Speaker 1: a few places on ty Be for events in the future. WHOA,
Speaker 1: I think, yeah, all right, In fact, I'm gonna go,
Speaker 1: let's let's break it out. Because the a t n
Speaker 1: uh insider sniffed around this, it looks like he hit
Speaker 1: he hit on something here. Let's be honest. So you
Speaker 1: didn't You don't have any sources on this. It was
Speaker 1: just your instincts taking Sometimes journalistic instincts can carry the day.
Speaker 1: I like the triple source typically, but sometimes you just
Speaker 1: everybody likes I sniff around and and I started poking.
Speaker 1: And that's how some of the great job as we're
Speaker 1: seeing in Washington right now, some of the great journalism
Speaker 1: is about following a hunch. You're like the Jim Gray
Speaker 1: of your time. I mean, you're this is it's a
Speaker 1: big time for for us, and and uh, you know,
Speaker 1: but I was gonna say, yeah, this is really big
Speaker 1: for Dan because let's Ben, it's been drier than the
Speaker 1: Sahara out there for the A t N insider. He
Speaker 1: hasn't been coming up with many scoops lately. Here's the thing.
Speaker 1: You don't have to always be scooping. Um I A B.
Speaker 1: S always be scooping, but you need to hit on
Speaker 1: one every six months or so just to keep everyone sharp,
Speaker 1: keep yourself sharp. I'm not gonna say this was your Watergate,
Speaker 1: but you're you're creeping closer West. We're so happy that
Speaker 1: you're here. And the Connor again with us as well,
Speaker 1: Connor uncomfortably close to me, but at the same thing
Speaker 1: looking at your computer. Yeah, no, he doesn't because he
Speaker 1: respects my personal space. Um, but you no odor, you're
Speaker 1: help clean, You're showered obviously, and and I hope it's
Speaker 1: the same way going back the other you're surprised by that.
Speaker 1: That's a nice situation. I gotta say, I'm jealous of
Speaker 1: Connor's beard, which is not only full, but not a
Speaker 1: gray hair in it. I don't know if that's entirely true.
Speaker 1: I might have gotten rid of a few of them
Speaker 1: this morning. You know. It's also very well kept. I
Speaker 1: was surprised when I saw Connor because he's he's tightened
Speaker 1: the hair up top a little bit and then a
Speaker 1: well manicured beard is coming. And I'm I think it
Speaker 1: probably bumped you up easily at least one numeric spot,
Speaker 1: maybe one and a half on the hotness ranking. Yeah,
Speaker 1: which is incredible to me, because it's all preventative maintenance
Speaker 1: for like balding and weight gain, you know, like, but hey,
Speaker 1: I'll take I'll take the moderate bump while I can
Speaker 1: get it push you up a point or two on
Speaker 1: the real man ranking. That's true, That's true. All right,
Speaker 1: today's show. Uh so much to talk about today. Uh
Speaker 1: it is, you know, it's the middle of May and
Speaker 1: not a lot to talk about. And what's gonna happen though,
Speaker 1: is there's gonna be storylines that are gonna be run
Speaker 1: into the ground, um all throughout the spring, into the summer,
Speaker 1: perhaps even towards you know, the fall, right up to
Speaker 1: week one. So what we're gonna do, We're going to
Speaker 1: um nominate. Uh, each of us will nominate one storyline
Speaker 1: player team. I don't care, not mads. Something you just
Speaker 1: want to wish into the corn fields. Uh, if you will,
Speaker 1: and it will never be brought up from now until
Speaker 1: you know, training camp week one whatever. Yeah that parts
Speaker 1: of that's nice. Yeah, it just disappeared the well, the group.
Speaker 1: It's what you wish you could. I thought we were
Speaker 1: committing to not discussing that topic. We would love to,
Speaker 1: but we can't, you know, say, like Juju Smith Schuster,
Speaker 1: you're gone for the next two months, then what if
Speaker 1: he's big time in the news. You can't just ignore.
Speaker 1: We commit to it, and we are we are not
Speaker 1: Juju will be on the radar if he's in the news.
Speaker 1: But yeah, each of us will go around the horn
Speaker 1: and uh send one storyline just into the ether, which
Speaker 1: would be fun. Also, um, we will you know Connors
Speaker 1: here Connor's last full day here in l A there.
Speaker 1: There's there's rumors about a trip to a local watering
Speaker 1: hole after this podcast. But but before any of that happened,
Speaker 1: we have to play one of the most important games.
Speaker 1: Were one of the most important segments I should say
Speaker 1: on this podcast, it's or are you kidding me? We
Speaker 1: try to get a congo in studio with his ax.
Speaker 1: Couldn't make it happen, but you know we got we
Speaker 1: got the soundboard. Still try to be nice and full
Speaker 1: full or are you kidding me? But before that, let's
Speaker 1: do some news. And to do that we say, hello, yes,
Speaker 1: there might be a first Lady of Tybee Island. Uh,
Speaker 1: but we know that there's a first lady around the
Speaker 1: NFL podcast. She is new Monday first Lady business. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's a it's a such a title of respect. I
Speaker 1: think that's why it feels good. You're like you're married
Speaker 1: to the game, You're married to the podcast. I think
Speaker 1: along with new Money's blooming materialism, you're now seeing that
Speaker 1: you have political ambitions. I was saying this before the show.
Speaker 1: The the Mark Sidney he is surprising and delightful, enjoyable. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I think it is really every producer gets on Mark
Speaker 1: sonar every once in a while. I mean we go
Speaker 1: back as far as t D. I mean that was
Speaker 1: almost a blood war. But the fact that that Sidney
Speaker 1: could also arouse Mark's anger, that that is, well, the
Speaker 1: onus is on her. I don't view myself is having
Speaker 1: any responsibility in this. Okay, let's do some news. Connor
Speaker 1: Or joins the crew and raises the intelligence level and
Speaker 1: then he predicted the Browns together the playoffs. Wow, yeah,
Speaker 1: I was where you can handle right there. Lagart Blunt
Speaker 1: has a job. Good for him. He escapes the Patriots
Speaker 1: clutches with a one year deal with the Philadelphia Eagles.
Speaker 1: Rap Sheet reports of the deal is worth a max
Speaker 1: of two point eight million dollar dollars. This is the
Speaker 1: same Garry Garry Blunt that led the NFL with eighteen
Speaker 1: touchdowns last year. He's thirty years old. He gives the
Speaker 1: Eagles um Greg something they needed. Uh So, not only
Speaker 1: is it a good a relief, I'm sure for him
Speaker 1: that he's off the market at a nice little rate
Speaker 1: for a one year deal, but also he's going to
Speaker 1: a place where he looks like he's gonna have a
Speaker 1: defined role. Yeah. I think it's a big role in
Speaker 1: a in a big need for them. We just talked
Speaker 1: about on Monday that this team had moves to to make,
Speaker 1: whether it was gonna be a trade or now we
Speaker 1: see a veteran pickup, because they had three guys and
Speaker 1: Wendell Smallwood and Sprawls and Pumphrey that are kind of
Speaker 1: third down, smaller type of backs, and now you add
Speaker 1: the Garrett Blunt to the mix and you say goodbye
Speaker 1: to Ryan Matthews. It's kind of been an unsaid thing
Speaker 1: this offseason that Ryan Matthews I believe will be cut
Speaker 1: when he's healthy enough to pass a physical, but he
Speaker 1: apparently had no future with this. It sounds like how
Speaker 1: he Roseman obviously listens to this show, or at least
Speaker 1: listen to Monday's show, because it's exactly what Greg mentioned
Speaker 1: about Philadelphia's gaping hole where they were on the roster.
Speaker 1: But we've seen this before. La Garrett Blunt goes to
Speaker 1: random team in Pennsylvania, flames out by mid season, and
Speaker 1: gets back on New England by January. To rush for
Speaker 1: four touchdowns. Nameancy championship probably will happen again. It's a
Speaker 1: bad job by the Giants. I think I feel like
Speaker 1: he would have been a good fit there too. So
Speaker 1: not only do you not get Blunt, maybe they didn't
Speaker 1: like him, so it doesn't seem like a lost to them,
Speaker 1: but he goes to a division rival and I could
Speaker 1: totally see Blunt having a three touchdown game at the
Speaker 1: meadow Lands in November. Does anyone else not think la
Speaker 1: Garrett Blunt is an upgrade on Ryan Matthews. Well, Ryan Matthews,
Speaker 1: I don't think it's gonna I don't think they trust
Speaker 1: his ability to play football anymore after this neck injuries
Speaker 1: thirty years old. But I I agree it's not a
Speaker 1: huge I don't think it's a huge difference if you
Speaker 1: had a healthy Ryan Matthews. When he's been healthy, He's
Speaker 1: had some great tape over the last couple of seasons.
Speaker 1: But it's it's it seems like all their beat writers
Speaker 1: are saying he's out there. It's almost like people are
Speaker 1: discounting Lagheret Blunt a little too much for being on
Speaker 1: the Patriots. I know he's not even a factor on
Speaker 1: passing downs at all, but he was a very valuable player.
Speaker 1: It's a two championship teams like he was a key.
Speaker 1: He was a key to there. No Jeff Demps, but yes,
Speaker 1: I mean you can over emphasize the eighteen touchdowns last year,
Speaker 1: but prior to that, for the five seasons before that,
Speaker 1: he averaged about six hundred yards and six touchdowns. This season.
Speaker 1: He's a role player and you use him when you
Speaker 1: have a lead in to kill clock in short yardage,
Speaker 1: and that's what he'll do in Philadelphia. He's also always
Speaker 1: kind of struck me as the type of running back
Speaker 1: that gets hot, which probably doesn't make any sense, but
Speaker 1: like go through phases where all of a sudden he
Speaker 1: looks like the Jerome Bettison his prime, and he could
Speaker 1: carry the wins. He carried the Patriots the playoff wins
Speaker 1: in the past. I think it's a nice pick up.
Speaker 1: Nobody kills soft defense is likely Garrett Blount. Come on,
Speaker 1: he owns the Colts. Here's the good news. There are
Speaker 1: a lot of soft defenses in the NFL. Uh, Let's
Speaker 1: move on Derek Carr. God, we love Derek Carr. What
Speaker 1: a player, what a talent, what a humanitarian? A lot
Speaker 1: of potential there. I mean a great whiffleball pitcher too,
Speaker 1: as he pointed out on an end around the end
Speaker 1: around writing doing important work over there he is. He
Speaker 1: throws an incredible cutter that would make Marianna Rivera read
Speaker 1: with envy. Anyway, um Connor shaking his head seeing how
Speaker 1: the sausage is made and he doesn't like the taste.
Speaker 1: That's just stupid. Tell the truth man. Derek carr Um
Speaker 1: wants to wants to get a long term contract done
Speaker 1: with the Raiders before training camp. That has been his
Speaker 1: stated desire, but there has been no significant communication between
Speaker 1: his agent and the Raiders within less uh several weeks.
Speaker 1: According to two sources familiar with the situation, this is
Speaker 1: coming from Mike Silver and car is heading into the
Speaker 1: final year of his rookie deal making a little less
Speaker 1: than a million bucks. Uh. Connor or Uh, a former
Speaker 1: beat Man, has covered contract impasses in the past. Read
Speaker 1: through the tea leaves on this one. I'm not trying
Speaker 1: to guess who anyone's sources are here or anything like that,
Speaker 1: but I I hate how dumbness is like when when
Speaker 1: stuff like this happens just because if you don't hear
Speaker 1: from the team for two weeks. All of a sudden,
Speaker 1: you know, someone's gonna be like, well, we're upset that
Speaker 1: we don't have this done. It was supposed to be
Speaker 1: done yesterday. I mean, it's gonna get done before the season.
Speaker 1: They're not gonna let a top ten quarterback get unhappy
Speaker 1: and slide away while the franchise is moving to Las Vegas.
Speaker 1: Just wait and uh, you know it'll happen. Why do
Speaker 1: we have to have this like uh, this little tip
Speaker 1: for tat war for for no reason? Like news flash,
Speaker 1: I'm frustrated with the rate of my incoming rays and
Speaker 1: my agent is upset, except I don't have an agent
Speaker 1: or a company that wants to give me a raise.
Speaker 1: Join the club, Derek Carr. Not everybody gets paid and
Speaker 1: they want to write. Although you listen and I speak
Speaker 1: for everyone in the room. Uh, Derek Carr irreplaceable as
Speaker 1: a high octane franchise quarterback. I I know the Radars,
Speaker 1: the Raiders are not um gonna mess this up. I'm
Speaker 1: not if I'm a Raider fan. This doesn't even make
Speaker 1: me nervous. Mark Sessler also, yeah, what was the second
Speaker 1: part of that statement there? Well, you know, at random area,
Speaker 1: you know, White who occasionally writes football articles, easily replaceable.
Speaker 1: It's a hard it's a hard truth that we all
Speaker 1: have to swallow. But this will get done right. But
Speaker 1: he's due the amount of money they paid him last
Speaker 1: year and whatever he's scheduled to make this year is
Speaker 1: the best bargain in sports, that rookie contract for a
Speaker 1: great starting quarterback. So you could see if you're in
Speaker 1: that position, getting a little antsy. It's ridiculous. It's making like,
Speaker 1: you know, a fit as much of as mental like
Speaker 1: Watson did last year, and by by July or August,
Speaker 1: he'll be making million years. Yeah, And if he's not,
Speaker 1: and if somehow this breaks down, they'll put the tag
Speaker 1: on him and they'll make twenty million next year, and
Speaker 1: if they still can't figure it out, to put the
Speaker 1: tag on him again, and it'll make twenty five million
Speaker 1: a year after that, and then they'll eventually sign him
Speaker 1: worst case scenario, like three years from now. We do
Speaker 1: not need this to go on for three years. We don't.
Speaker 1: We do not moving on Colin Kaepernick still without a job,
Speaker 1: and now there is some real potential smoke uh connecting
Speaker 1: him to another team. We didn't bring this up on
Speaker 1: Monday because it felt like malarkey but in the but
Speaker 1: in reality it might be something here. Mike Silver reported
Speaker 1: that the Seahawks did reach out to Kaepernick about the
Speaker 1: possibility of him signing on to be a backup to
Speaker 1: Russell Wilson and Michael Bennett. One of the most UH
Speaker 1: prominent Seahawks players. UH said on seven ESPN that the
Speaker 1: quarterback would fit in in Seattle. I think Nick get
Speaker 1: an opportunity to be on our team will be really cool.
Speaker 1: Will be will be a good space for him because
Speaker 1: you know, you have a coach like coach skiro who's
Speaker 1: of for challenges like that. You have the owner who
Speaker 1: who understands and gives back to homeless. You gotta you
Speaker 1: got players in the team that get back in the community.
Speaker 1: You got Russell Wilson who shows our team is built
Speaker 1: around community. So this is a perfect place for her West.
Speaker 1: What do you think about the the idea of Kaepernick
Speaker 1: in Seattle? Is it work for you? I think it's perfect.
Speaker 1: They have a very open minded owner, they have a
Speaker 1: coach that's excellent at communicating with his players. They have
Speaker 1: players on the roster who have done far more offensive
Speaker 1: things than anything Colin Kaepernick has done. They also have
Speaker 1: Jeremy Lane, who also set for the national anthem last year,
Speaker 1: and they have a very big need at backup quarterback
Speaker 1: where there's Trevon Boykin who's been arrested a couple of
Speaker 1: times and frankly wasn't very good behind Russell Wilson last year.
Speaker 1: So you bring him Colin Kaepernick, who can be one
Speaker 1: of the best backup quarterbacks in the league. And Daryl
Speaker 1: Bevil has shown that he can work with a quarterback
Speaker 1: who has a similar skill set, not the same skill set,
Speaker 1: but a similar one. Tar Virus Jackson was the backup
Speaker 1: there too, which is, you know, another athletic quarterback who
Speaker 1: they liked around, I mean Travin Boyke. It's a little
Speaker 1: weird that the Seahawks, we're so comfortable going with an
Speaker 1: undrafted rookie as their backup quarterback. It's why I don't
Speaker 1: to think putting yourself in two thousand and you know
Speaker 1: thirteen mode that the two guys going back and forth
Speaker 1: and one of the more underrated NFC Championship games, Russell
Speaker 1: Wilson and Kaepernick would be teammates just a few years later,
Speaker 1: Like that would have been very very like, I don't
Speaker 1: age it's a Connor or Madden creation at that point
Speaker 1: because the eight intense rivals. And but when your backup quarterback,
Speaker 1: who has West pointed out is not a true superstar
Speaker 1: and a devilopmental player that's been arrested multiple times this offseason,
Speaker 1: bye bye, that would be the best backfield since my
Speaker 1: Madden Josh and Luke McCown tandem. The deception perception that
Speaker 1: was big. That's what was that? What was that called?
Speaker 1: Was called the deception perception? You don't remember that? So
Speaker 1: that the McCown's, Yeah, we would switch them out because
Speaker 1: and just the various strengths you didn't know who was
Speaker 1: on the field. Was this tribute to Matt Harmon, I
Speaker 1: mean I don't. I might have borrowed some some things.
Speaker 1: I thought he borrowed it from you. You are you
Speaker 1: or are you saying that there's no like there's no
Speaker 1: litigation to to sniff around here. This was something you
Speaker 1: came up completely separately. I mean I could pull the
Speaker 1: paperwork and we could we could see her this have
Speaker 1: to reach out to that maybe because we might have
Speaker 1: a second fix story of the of the show. You're
Speaker 1: picking up on it. I'm sniffing around. Yeah, I can tell.
Speaker 1: Do you want to work under me as an apprentice? No?
Speaker 1: I do not, I mean mostly do not. That was
Speaker 1: that image. That image is burned into my mind for
Speaker 1: the rest of time. You're gonna pat him on the head.
Speaker 1: But he did something right, he's your ego. Alright, moving on,
Speaker 1: let's just move on. I'll work for a real news operation.
Speaker 1: Wait a second, how dare you? We are the future
Speaker 1: of news? Uh? Here is some interesting news. So Tom Brady.
Speaker 1: You know, he's he's indestructible. He plans to play into
Speaker 1: his forties and mid forties and perhaps beyond. Uh. And
Speaker 1: one of the reasons because his health seems so great.
Speaker 1: But what we hear or what we read on the
Speaker 1: injury report isn't always what's actually happening. And we get
Speaker 1: a peek behind the curtain via his wife, Giselle Bunschen,
Speaker 1: the supermodel who who talked about Brady's issues with head
Speaker 1: injuries on CBS CBS This Morning, head injuries that we
Speaker 1: had never even heard about before this. Let's listen it.
Speaker 1: As you know, it's not the most like um, let's say,
Speaker 1: an aggressive sport, right, football, like he had a concussion
Speaker 1: last year. I mean, he has concussions pretty much. I
Speaker 1: mean we don't talk about, but he does have concussions,
Speaker 1: and he's I don't really think it's a healthy thing
Speaker 1: for you about it to go through like a you know,
Speaker 1: to that kind of aggression like all the time. That
Speaker 1: could not be healthy for you, right, And I'm planning
Speaker 1: on having him be healthy and do a lot of
Speaker 1: fun things when we're like a hundred. I hope, oh boy, Greg,
Speaker 1: let's throw Let's cue the Throne of Sleeves. Because the
Speaker 1: one thing that we have not factored in. Tommy might
Speaker 1: want to play until he's fifty. But the wifey, this
Speaker 1: is a lot like Rocky five. Yes it is. That's
Speaker 1: the first thing that came to my mind. Adrian said,
Speaker 1: you're not gonna fighting out Rocky was brain damage. I'm
Speaker 1: not saying tom is that type of issue, but she
Speaker 1: might force him out of the game so he can
Speaker 1: live till a hundred and lead a healthy life both
Speaker 1: physically and mentally. All I could think about was Tom
Speaker 1: Brady's reaction watching this Oh my god TV, being like, damn,
Speaker 1: you just you got another concussion just watching this video.
Speaker 1: Am I the only one that thinks this is like
Speaker 1: a total Brady black ops thing to backhandedly ding the
Speaker 1: NFL for their inability to identify concussions. It's a return
Speaker 1: surf well theoxy war. I think the hen result of
Speaker 1: this will be the normal Patriots loser first round draft
Speaker 1: pick break. I mean, the paranoia going through front offices
Speaker 1: around the NFL right now. I mean, if you really listen,
Speaker 1: broke down what she was saying, you could have maybe
Speaker 1: made the case. She was being imprecise with her words.
Speaker 1: She's talking about previous concussions, maybe in previous years. It
Speaker 1: wasn't necessarily don't talk down on the woman. Isn't this
Speaker 1: a larger issue that there are different degrees of concussions
Speaker 1: and we've been told for years that the concussion is
Speaker 1: a concussion, and yet some former players will say, oh no,
Speaker 1: I've had like four dus concussions in my career. The
Speaker 1: Patriots have hit head head injuries. But I'm not going
Speaker 1: to go after the Patriots because other teams are doing
Speaker 1: it too. Tom Brady has never been on an injury
Speaker 1: report in fifteen years for a concussion, and the just
Speaker 1: if you think about it, this is something we all
Speaker 1: kind of could have figured out even without his saying this.
Speaker 1: Of course there's been at some point he suffered at
Speaker 1: a moderate concussion. You would think it had to have happened.
Speaker 1: It's just the nature of the game, but it does.
Speaker 1: It is a reminder that you know, I was joking around,
Speaker 1: but this idea that the longer he plays, you know,
Speaker 1: the head is a real thing. And who it could
Speaker 1: take just one more where he decides that that is it,
Speaker 1: because this might be a real issue behind the scenes
Speaker 1: for when one thing, I mean, I get that having
Speaker 1: her go on national TV and spout this was not
Speaker 1: ideal for the Brady clan. But she has a concerned
Speaker 1: wife and in concussions which we don't really see up
Speaker 1: close and personal, some of the people that describe what
Speaker 1: it's like over a month two month period, you were
Speaker 1: going through literal hell in your household, and if she's
Speaker 1: seen even a fraction of that, the concern comes down
Speaker 1: and it's much bigger than football. When you've got she
Speaker 1: is looking two, three, four decades down the road with
Speaker 1: this guy. It's well said, and what West was saying
Speaker 1: about the grades of concussion, it kind of hammers somehow
Speaker 1: almost impossible, like the NFL is in such a spot where,
Speaker 1: if you really look at it, at this point, they
Speaker 1: are doing you would it feels like about as much
Speaker 1: as you can possibly do to to make sure you're
Speaker 1: getting players off the field, that you're trying to keep
Speaker 1: them healthy. And yet there's sort of a point past
Speaker 1: that where I don't know what what more can you do?
Speaker 1: Like people are just gonna play through things and not
Speaker 1: say anything, and that's I don't know how you solve
Speaker 1: that unless you checked every player after every play. How
Speaker 1: you're gonna see how you gonna do it. The league
Speaker 1: released a statement by the way UH, which tells you
Speaker 1: that they're taking it seriously. We have reviewed all reports
Speaker 1: relating to Tom Brady from the unaffiliated neuro traum UH
Speaker 1: consultants and certified Athletic trainer spotters who worked at Patriots
Speaker 1: home and away two thousand sixteen season games, as well
Speaker 1: as club injury reports that were sent to the league office.
Speaker 1: There are no records that indicate that Mr Brady suffered
Speaker 1: a head injury or concussion or exhibited or complained of
Speaker 1: concussion symptoms. Today, we have been in contact with the
Speaker 1: NFL p A and we'll work together to gather more
Speaker 1: information from the club's medical step and Mr Brady. The
Speaker 1: health and safety of our players is our foremost priority,
Speaker 1: and we want to ensure that all our players haven't
Speaker 1: continued to receive the best care possible. Food do you believe?
Speaker 1: Don't look at me. I'm not answering that question. Moving on,
Speaker 1: the Cleveland Browns have added a body to their secondary. Uh.
Speaker 1: Jason mccordy told NFL Networks Courtney Fallony is signing a
Speaker 1: two year, six million dollar deal with the team. The
Speaker 1: deal includes two million guarantee the defensive back, UH said.
Speaker 1: The team confirmed the move on Wednesday. Uh. Mark, that's
Speaker 1: pretty good scratch at this point of the league year.
Speaker 1: It is I think the one thing when whenever people
Speaker 1: talk about the Browns secondary, which has been an absolute disaster,
Speaker 1: especially at safety, I mean an utter disaster, that there's
Speaker 1: still this, oh, you've got Joe Hayden, But Joe Hayden
Speaker 1: has not been Joe Hayden in two and a half seasons,
Speaker 1: and so they need to just keep finding bodies. Mccordy
Speaker 1: knows Greg Williams system. They played, they were together in
Speaker 1: Tennessee there. Brian Buddy Calhoun had a good year last
Speaker 1: year he was. He wasn't the guy that they sort
Speaker 1: of came out of nowhere for them, But they really
Speaker 1: don't have much of the position, so you why not
Speaker 1: add people, why not add veterans? You're like a Connor,
Speaker 1: don't you. Yeah, I mean obviously I got dinged a
Speaker 1: little bit for predicting that the Browns are going to
Speaker 1: make the playoffs. I was gonna say, this is big news.
Speaker 1: Is you know, every day we're kind of seeing a
Speaker 1: little bit, We're churning it forward, churning it forward, and
Speaker 1: you know then week one will begin and we'll start
Speaker 1: to see it turn in a different direction. And um, finally,
Speaker 1: uh the uh. I want to give a shout out
Speaker 1: two Brian Gay. He's been hired as the VP of
Speaker 1: player Personnel from the Bills. And Brian Gaine was with Houston,
Speaker 1: he was with the Jets. Connor, I'm sure you know
Speaker 1: him from your dealings with the New York Football Club
Speaker 1: of the a f C. And I do want to
Speaker 1: just say the reason I bring this up is that
Speaker 1: Brian Gaine is a Pearl River native, grew up on
Speaker 1: Quake Lane and pr He was my substitute teacher, my
Speaker 1: senior of high school. Yeah, and see one of your insiders,
Speaker 1: he's he's a survivor. That to me, that's what he is.
Speaker 1: And we're not close. Brian and I do we have
Speaker 1: that Springsteen music said, anybody a chance. We're not close,
Speaker 1: but we share a bond, you know, and and the
Speaker 1: and that bond is getting out escaping. So you and
Speaker 1: you would have no problem if we had him on
Speaker 1: the podcast and just asked him some factual questions about
Speaker 1: Pearl River. I like that idea. Why not? I don't
Speaker 1: think that's a terrible idea, But it's also I don't
Speaker 1: think necessary because this whole cold town thing has always
Speaker 1: smelled a little funny to me, especially when I'm looking
Speaker 1: at the Wikipedia entry for Pearl River. The nickname of
Speaker 1: the town is the town of friendly people. Yes, that's
Speaker 1: not what we are. Well, cold, cold, cold coal business
Speaker 1: people could be notice. Furthermore, in two thousand and eleven,
Speaker 1: is Steam site CNN Money dot Com ranked Pearl River
Speaker 1: on its hundred Best places to Live list. It ends
Speaker 1: on the top hundred places to live. That does that
Speaker 1: really sound like an other side of the tracks scenario?
Speaker 1: I never said that Mr Martha's Vineyard, but I've always
Speaker 1: said is that we are a close knit town, a
Speaker 1: town that we help each other. We don't have a lot,
Speaker 1: but we have each other. And I just want to
Speaker 1: say Brian that I don't know where our Springsteen music
Speaker 1: is sitting, what's going on with our Springsteen music. It's
Speaker 1: very important that I have my Springsteen music for this.
Speaker 1: Thank you. I just want to say, Bryce, we made
Speaker 1: a kid well. I was touching. This is more Neil
Speaker 1: young to me. You're very sour. I understand right. Just
Speaker 1: let me have this moment about Brian. Let you have
Speaker 1: Brian's moment. I grew up in Wilbraham, mass By. You know,
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Speaker 1: All right, let's move on. We have an opportunity now
Speaker 1: two take one offseason storyline, uh, and just wipe it.
Speaker 1: I mean, send it into the ether, send it off
Speaker 1: to the corn fields. Please that even from Really, you
Speaker 1: don't know anybody else West. I know you know that
Speaker 1: Field of Dreams to nineteen fifties television show. I thought
Speaker 1: it'd be right up your alley. N I've never seen nobody.
Speaker 1: I've never seen a Fifth Time Connor, not Youtub, the Munsters.
Speaker 1: I don't know Barney Rubble. It's it's one of the
Speaker 1: most classic Twilight Zone episodes ever, the Good Life. I've
Speaker 1: never seen a Twilight Zone episode. You know, I can't
Speaker 1: do the show anymore. That's something of us. I mean,
Speaker 1: maybe you gotta look in the mirror if you're the
Speaker 1: only one that knows this. So I didn't know that
Speaker 1: you had a lot of nineteen fifties television. The well,
Speaker 1: the reason I would think that I wouldn't be alone
Speaker 1: if you are from the New York area. Every year
Speaker 1: on New Year's Eve, w P I X would run
Speaker 1: a mar marathon. And this is back in the day
Speaker 1: when there wasn't a ton of options. So as a kid,
Speaker 1: I got into it. My my dad loved it growing up,
Speaker 1: so i'd watch it with him. And I'm pretty well
Speaker 1: versed on a lot of the rod Sterling classics. It's
Speaker 1: a good show. I just yeah, it's I thought, I
Speaker 1: thought a lot the bigger cultural imprint. I'm surprised. Well,
Speaker 1: I don't know if we're you're really your test. You
Speaker 1: know a lot of things past the five of us.
Speaker 1: But Greg came out of the womb with thirty two
Speaker 1: years old. I knew I didn't. I wouldn't get him
Speaker 1: back break. No one was watching The Twilight Zone growing up,
Speaker 1: little kids anyway, So here we go. We're gonna wipe
Speaker 1: one uh offseason storyline away forever and uh, Connor, you
Speaker 1: are our guest this week. God, we're so happy that
Speaker 1: you're here. Why don't you get us going wipe one away?
Speaker 1: I'm gonna say anything that has to do with um
Speaker 1: Adrian Peterson and how good he's gonna be in the
Speaker 1: Saints offense, like you know, that's uh, let's just wipe
Speaker 1: that away. I mean, West is starting to twitch next
Speaker 1: year is just inspired by like literally like an hour
Speaker 1: ago on our air, there was a segment about that.
Speaker 1: Um it's also the CP on our website right now.
Speaker 1: So I think I organically take things in and uh
Speaker 1: and kind of use them to my advantage. But uh yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean I'm excited to see what a thirti ti
Speaker 1: year old power back does on a team that routinely
Speaker 1: goes eight and Eaton misses the playoffs. This is gonna
Speaker 1: be Uh let's let's light the candle. Oh the fantasy implications?
Speaker 1: Whoa like, all right, the Saints finally figured it out?
Speaker 1: Oh my god? So yeah, let's just let's get rid
Speaker 1: of that. Who cares? You know? Now, West, you you
Speaker 1: are of the belief that Adrian Peterson could be an
Speaker 1: All Pro this season. But Connor is also probably hitting
Speaker 1: on a point that you agree with as well. Adrian
Speaker 1: Peterson might be a good signing, it might still be
Speaker 1: a star, but the Saints are probably still going to
Speaker 1: be a middle league team, right, So why would we
Speaker 1: get too caught up about who's the running back on
Speaker 1: a mediocre team? Yeah? My, I usually fall back on
Speaker 1: the idea that everybody puts way too much in the
Speaker 1: previous season and forgets every other piece of data available
Speaker 1: which tells us that Adrian Peterson is probably a pretty
Speaker 1: good player. This segment is already cathartic, right, and you can,
Speaker 1: you know, you can put a lot of stock into
Speaker 1: the last you know, five seasons in New Orleans, and
Speaker 1: they haven't had a pass rush in any one of
Speaker 1: those five. There's no reason to believe that they have
Speaker 1: a pass rush this year, and thus why why would
Speaker 1: their season be too much different? Alright, West, you're up.
Speaker 1: I'd like to wipe away send to the cornfields the
Speaker 1: issue that everybody wants to opine on and nobody can
Speaker 1: get right, the blackbollowing of Colin CAPERTI. I know it.
Speaker 1: I had in my back pocket. And then when you
Speaker 1: showed up. I said, I hope West takes this one
Speaker 1: and runs with it. Take it, baby, Yeah, because everybody
Speaker 1: wants to put their politics onto Colin Kaepernick and then
Speaker 1: look at him through that. Nobody can get it right.
Speaker 1: Nobody can get the nuance or the complexity right. Everybody's
Speaker 1: just gonna keep telling you that he's blackballed as the
Speaker 1: Seahawks sign him, Well you pick. It's the perfect show
Speaker 1: to bring that up, because it's all becoming untrue. All
Speaker 1: those ideas people had, well they were untrue all along,
Speaker 1: but nobody really wanted to acknowledge it. Like there's there's
Speaker 1: shades of gray and the entire discussion which I think
Speaker 1: you know you you agree with, and it's tended to
Speaker 1: be in either or argument on Twitter. Either everything about
Speaker 1: it is all because of the stance that he takes
Speaker 1: he's taken, or it's the total opposite, which is which
Speaker 1: is that you know that he should he absolutely deserves
Speaker 1: like a job. And then then somewhere in between, well,
Speaker 1: the the black ball means by everyone, not by one
Speaker 1: or two or three teams. There's no question there probably
Speaker 1: one or two or three certain amount of owners out
Speaker 1: there that said I don't need this, don't want it.
Speaker 1: But black ball means you don't work in the industry
Speaker 1: anymore because everyone's everyone's come to the same feeling about you,
Speaker 1: and they've discussed it with each other, and that that
Speaker 1: seems impossible among NFL if I never have to again
Speaker 1: a tweet or an article that is trying to say
Speaker 1: that because Josh McCown got a job, Colin Kaepernick should
Speaker 1: have got a job too. They are totally separate cases
Speaker 1: and one has nothing to do with the other. Nobody
Speaker 1: has any idea what Colin Kaepernick was asking for money
Speaker 1: wise or role wise, but everybody wants to just assume
Speaker 1: that every basic white backup quarterbacks should not be getting
Speaker 1: jobs before Colin Kaeperck. I find it annoying also that Kaepernick,
Speaker 1: and he he doesn't try to be necessarily super public
Speaker 1: about this, has done some incredible work for various communities,
Speaker 1: and it is completely ignored or it's quickly annored be
Speaker 1: ignored because of this thing from last It's what the
Speaker 1: work that he's doing, which is all great, is being
Speaker 1: twisted into uh an evil upon the NFL owners in
Speaker 1: the league in general, where it's a more nuanced issue
Speaker 1: because it's at the end of the day, it's about
Speaker 1: can this guy played as he fit in? And everybody's twisting.
Speaker 1: It's I've had enough of politics, by the way, right
Speaker 1: now to which politics my life? Right? And I don't
Speaker 1: need to creeping into the game. I mean, there there
Speaker 1: was the I think they were un named sources to
Speaker 1: Peter King that was like, you know, some sort of
Speaker 1: team and I can imagine some team or team officials
Speaker 1: saying this that, well, they're worried that he you know,
Speaker 1: he wants to be he's more concerned about being like
Speaker 1: a social justice warrior than playing football. It's like, shut there.
Speaker 1: It's like you are happily welcoming in you know, domestic
Speaker 1: assault abusers, You're you're welcoming and drug you people with
Speaker 1: drug probably like you're welcoming tons of people, people who
Speaker 1: don't take their job seriously. What's precious they're talented, so
Speaker 1: and it's like, okay, that's what's gonna think. I think
Speaker 1: Andrew Luck cares too much about his book club should
Speaker 1: probably cut him too. I will I will go next, um,
Speaker 1: the Bears. I will. This is going on the corn fields,
Speaker 1: the Bears lying to us about their belief in Mike
Speaker 1: Lennon and what he can do for them this year,
Speaker 1: and how what they did on draft day in no
Speaker 1: way reflects their belief in Mike Lennon and all the
Speaker 1: training camp about, Oh, Mike has a real chance to
Speaker 1: take this job and run with it. I don't want
Speaker 1: to hear it. Grow up, Peter Pan, I'm not gonna
Speaker 1: I'm not gonna do it. I'm not gonna buy into this.
Speaker 1: Don't tell me that Mike Lennon knows the score. Do
Speaker 1: you think Mike Glennon knows the score? In this? Mike
Speaker 1: Glennon knows the score, So don't try to tell us
Speaker 1: a different score. If if Mike glenna knows the score, Peter,
Speaker 1: and right now, can we cut that out and you
Speaker 1: can label it knows the score as the sound drop
Speaker 1: and Ryan Pace, he's all proud of himself because he's
Speaker 1: introduced adversity into his old own building. And we know
Speaker 1: my feelings on that. You know, it comes from outside
Speaker 1: the building. And don't do it. You know not, it's
Speaker 1: not you. You're not supposed to do it, so you know,
Speaker 1: get off it. Don't now tell me that you believe
Speaker 1: in your eighteen point five million dollar quarterback. You banged
Speaker 1: him in the biggest spot possible. He's probably still sitting
Speaker 1: in Soldier Field. Wonder what happened nude dude due also
Speaker 1: nude at some point. Yeah, he lost the clothes at
Speaker 1: some point. That anyway, I'm sniffing a little something. I
Speaker 1: mean you No, I'm not a you know, an a
Speaker 1: t N media insider or anything, but I I'm connecting
Speaker 1: some dots here. Knowing that Dan's hero, Mike Forr Incessa
Speaker 1: is walking away reportedly from sooner. No one knows who's
Speaker 1: going to replace him. Maybe, uh, maybe hans Us is
Speaker 1: putting some some little audition tapes out there live because
Speaker 1: that Hotcessa takes so the only way to truly get
Speaker 1: paid is a little bit of leverage. CBS wants to
Speaker 1: come with me, come at me with a several million
Speaker 1: dollar offer and see what Roger has to say. Where
Speaker 1: would the name of the show be miked up? I mean,
Speaker 1: give me time to think about it. For now, I
Speaker 1: would just inherit the mantle. I like the idea of
Speaker 1: the NFL media paying any human being several million dollars,
Speaker 1: or the idea of what happened personally getting involved. Once
Speaker 1: Dan gets an offer, for Rocks like whoa, let's slow
Speaker 1: this down, give this man what he wants you speak
Speaker 1: of a podcast him, alright, Zeus is loose. I'm the
Speaker 1: fan coming up new Greg Greg Zeus is loose. Ah
Speaker 1: my storyline and it could have applied to many different
Speaker 1: teams players uh, and we talked about one of them
Speaker 1: just earlier. This show will be any sort of contract
Speaker 1: holdout discussions. I don't need to hear it. It's one
Speaker 1: of those stories. And Derek Carr, maybe Derek Carr will
Speaker 1: be the version of it. This year, there's usually two
Speaker 1: or three. It will be a near daily update on
Speaker 1: where the status of this contract negotiation is, like, oh,
Speaker 1: he's upset, it's going this way, it's going that way. Hey,
Speaker 1: news flash. They all get signed in the end, and
Speaker 1: then everyone forgets about him like in and everyone forgets
Speaker 1: about it the next day and moves on with their
Speaker 1: life because all we really care about is like how
Speaker 1: they play football, and we enjoy that and talking about
Speaker 1: the game. And yet there this time of year, May, June,
Speaker 1: especially July ends up being a huge focus on can
Speaker 1: they get them signed to that contract in time? They
Speaker 1: always show up, They always come like that's the end
Speaker 1: of the story, and if they don't, they'll show up
Speaker 1: by week one and play then. I think the worst
Speaker 1: part of it now, too, is fair teams have set
Speaker 1: the precedent last offseason where they're releasing. With the Chargers
Speaker 1: and Joey Bosa, they were releasing part of the contract details,
Speaker 1: the unsigned contract details, like he has this much on
Speaker 1: the table and he's not signing. And I think it's
Speaker 1: gonna become more and more tedious as more attention to
Speaker 1: This goes back to when when I was at road
Speaker 1: a World. I really would hate that people don't know
Speaker 1: Connor was once. People don't know we go way back
Speaker 1: to he was once up in Stanford, Connecticut as a
Speaker 1: Road World intern about eight years ago. How about that?
Speaker 1: Did you take advantage of him as an intern? I
Speaker 1: don't know, he didn't. That was that you hesitated there?
Speaker 1: Just did you? Yeah? Did you use your power in
Speaker 1: your position? As I was gonna say, I can't really
Speaker 1: remember exactly what Connor did. I like, I remember his presence,
Speaker 1: but there are moments of time he don't. He doesn't
Speaker 1: remember either. I want to know what you did to Connor?
Speaker 1: That was the summer interns? Remember anything? All I remember
Speaker 1: is writing about Javon Walker's hold out Denver at the
Speaker 1: time two times a day for about three months, and
Speaker 1: then and then one day he signs it, and I
Speaker 1: just felt like, what did I just waste three months
Speaker 1: the Matt Forte hold out to win over there or not?
Speaker 1: It was just a contract. Talks with Matt Forte over
Speaker 1: two summers, highly tedious. They really left a mark on
Speaker 1: Gregor it was I guess it was Javon Walker with
Speaker 1: the packers, right, is that Greg's like Connor step into
Speaker 1: my office. Greg didn't have an office. No, I definitely
Speaker 1: did not have enough cubby like to two yards away
Speaker 1: from me. That's what he did. Did you guys like
Speaker 1: go out to lunch and talk about life? We might
Speaker 1: have had a sandwich at Espositos, Yeah twice. Yeah, we
Speaker 1: got along, okay, before we left an impression, before we
Speaker 1: throw it to Mark. Let's pause, pause one moment for
Speaker 1: a new segment, and now another edition of Keeping Up.
Speaker 1: Today's addition of Keeping Up with Mobo. Ringer Uh, a
Speaker 1: German reporter or Vikings reporter working as a conduit for
Speaker 1: Douche Land NFL on Twitter, asked what he can do
Speaker 1: this season to make a bigger impact in year two.
Speaker 1: You just improve overall as a receiver and special teams
Speaker 1: and just go on the field and show something. And
Speaker 1: that was another addition of keeping up. That's the pronunciation
Speaker 1: you want to go with a lot of listeners over there,
Speaker 1: not anymore. Um, so there we go. Great job by
Speaker 1: Alex Fragola, our talented voiceover artist. That was a silky voice,
Speaker 1: I told Frags. And this is a testament to her.
Speaker 1: I told her to turn up the sultry to eight
Speaker 1: and a half and not one notch above and that
Speaker 1: one notch below, and that's right where she was. She's
Speaker 1: got to have some mobo back. I've told her many times.
Speaker 1: Would you get out of this newsroom and go do
Speaker 1: voice over work and make roughly twenty times more few
Speaker 1: I don't remember. The response was the one like the
Speaker 1: conversation fell apart so across the will keep tabs on
Speaker 1: mobile as he continues his journey from Germany, Deutschland all
Speaker 1: the way to the Minnesota Vikings starting lineup. Was this
Speaker 1: foisted upon you, this idea um from Shadowy League figures
Speaker 1: or something kind of extend out this storyline into year two? No,
Speaker 1: I I was more I knew it was something that
Speaker 1: you know, people are hot about um in different corners,
Speaker 1: whether it be in this building or across the pond.
Speaker 1: And now now we have an entire segment dedicated to
Speaker 1: the man. Sebastian Bomer retired something that didn't make our news,
Speaker 1: but happy trails to him. So it makes sense at
Speaker 1: a German star needs to be replaced. There can only
Speaker 1: be one at any time. There can only be one, alright, Mark,
Speaker 1: take us home? UH, send something to the corn field.
Speaker 1: I had to write this down because this has been
Speaker 1: on my sonar all really since the Super Bowl? Is
Speaker 1: that more highlighter than your paper? Yeah? It helps me
Speaker 1: to read it, alright. I stood my ground in February.
Speaker 1: I said I would not report on this topic, but
Speaker 1: the man put a gun to my head and made
Speaker 1: me do it. Now I've had enough. What storyline would
Speaker 1: I like to wipe into the ether every news item
Speaker 1: related to the National Football Conference? Are you feeling me?
Speaker 1: I need the NFC to take a near fatal dirt
Speaker 1: nap until September. We get it. You're the NFC. You
Speaker 1: have sixteen teams, point made. You've effing hammered at home. NFC.
Speaker 1: Oh look at US. Our conference was formed during the
Speaker 1: nineteen seventy merger, and in two thousand and two we
Speaker 1: realigned into four divisions with four teams. We house the
Speaker 1: dangerously boring lions and rams. Give me a break on
Speaker 1: the nicknames. How many rams have you seen walking around
Speaker 1: Los Angeles? One at most one? Probably none more like it?
Speaker 1: Take a nap, NFC, take a long nap. I'm out,
Speaker 1: all right? What did you highlight? You feel me on there?
Speaker 1: What was highlighted? If you don't mind, you feel boys
Speaker 1: near fatal dirt? Nap, wipe into the ether. How many
Speaker 1: rams have you seen walking around? Lost? Yet seriously with it?
Speaker 1: That's a good point. The one on campus, A couple
Speaker 1: of They brought one here, that's I said, one and
Speaker 1: most one and that was not organic, that was they
Speaker 1: that animal. Probably why did you go through to be
Speaker 1: Probably the chance that rams even alive at this point
Speaker 1: after the abuse it took that day. I mean it's
Speaker 1: wide ranging, like NFC and a change chained in the
Speaker 1: sunlight for seven hours. So all the idiots in our
Speaker 1: building competit. It's been a hard episode. Wow, I include
Speaker 1: myself as one of the idiots. But you know about
Speaker 1: idiotic petting going on. All right, m you're no idiot Connor.
Speaker 1: You went to Syracuse and now it's time for yet
Speaker 1: another edition of the groundbreaking um Internet segment Are you
Speaker 1: kidding Me? And you know you know what the rules
Speaker 1: that you know what this is. This is Connor's opportunity,
Speaker 1: this is Connor's big spot as a man that sometimes
Speaker 1: it can build up within Connor. There's some anxiety that
Speaker 1: Connor deals with. We saw it before he did his
Speaker 1: live hit on NFL Network yesterday. He nearly didn't make
Speaker 1: it on television. Not an exaggeration, and the best way
Speaker 1: to keep Connor from essentially melting down, uh, is to
Speaker 1: get it off his chest. So we we provide that
Speaker 1: form with or You kidding Me here on the Around
Speaker 1: the NFL podcast, So Connor let it rip. I think,
Speaker 1: uh that we should completely do away with speaking of
Speaker 1: in the theme, uh, the stupid full literary, whimsical Twitter
Speaker 1: bios that everybody seems to have now days. Take them
Speaker 1: all and burn them to the ground. Wow, stop being creative,
Speaker 1: don't stand out, just fit in. Notice tell us why
Speaker 1: this has gotta Is this a new thing or is
Speaker 1: this just always been on your radar? I think it's
Speaker 1: a new thing. But how annoying is it when like
Speaker 1: a new follow pops up and you check to see
Speaker 1: who it is and it's just you try to learn
Speaker 1: like what they are who they are, and then their
Speaker 1: bio is like wreck ontour novice crime writer. Once in
Speaker 1: a while you get shown the light and the strangest
Speaker 1: in places. If you look at it right, you know,
Speaker 1: it's just like, shut up and tell me, tell me
Speaker 1: where you work, where you live, and like, you know,
Speaker 1: I don't care about anything. You're just an ordinary person.
Speaker 1: You're not special living on tour. It's like a little
Speaker 1: CrossFit mom beer snub, you know, like come on, you know,
Speaker 1: like who everybody care is If you're a beer snob,
Speaker 1: nobody cares at all. I want to know where you
Speaker 1: work so you might be able to help me at
Speaker 1: some point down the line. All these from real, real accounts.
Speaker 1: I'm assuming no, but you know, I didn't want to
Speaker 1: put anybody unnoticed, but it would be very easy, uh
Speaker 1: to do that just by clicking on any any Twitter profile.
Speaker 1: I think you know what, Sometimes I take issues with
Speaker 1: some of your your rants. This one it feels right,
Speaker 1: feels right. It's like it's it's like the A. O.
Speaker 1: L profiles from like you want to throw like a
Speaker 1: ludicrous quote in there too while you're at it and
Speaker 1: put them in different fonts and colors for everyone to see.
Speaker 1: It's to be right back and to change my Twitter profile.
Speaker 1: Stop appropriating other people's culture. But my thing that I
Speaker 1: don't like is have it. They often end with in
Speaker 1: my most important job, dad to two beautiful girl, that
Speaker 1: was on your radar, that's been on your range, you
Speaker 1: know what? And this is no disrespect if you're a
Speaker 1: listener to the show and that's your bio, because I
Speaker 1: would say, like of sportswriters have that in there. You know,
Speaker 1: I don't put that in there. But I don't feel
Speaker 1: like that it makes me any less of a dad.
Speaker 1: But it makes me feel like I'm not quite bringing
Speaker 1: the hammer down as a dad, because I said to Greg,
Speaker 1: I feel it's it's a little braggy. We get the
Speaker 1: assumption is if you're a dad, hopefully if you're a sportswriter,
Speaker 1: you're probably not seeing his kids as much as a
Speaker 1: you should. But that's every job. You love your kids.
Speaker 1: We get it. How about this keep the family on Facebook?
Speaker 1: Nobody's following you on Twitter for updates, daughter, sit down?
Speaker 1: What else? You back? People getting flamed? I mean I
Speaker 1: think that there should be sort of a uniform LinkedIn
Speaker 1: approach to this, you know, like, let's keep this a
Speaker 1: medium for adults instead of some sort of Twitter egg
Speaker 1: war politics junkyard. You know, let's let's let's up the discourse.
Speaker 1: Put your name on it, tell me where you work,
Speaker 1: put your maybe your cell phone number if you want
Speaker 1: me to call you and scream at you, but you
Speaker 1: know not you know, express the mom. You know what
Speaker 1: does that tell me about you? That's like, you know,
Speaker 1: citizen of the world. You know, I would, I would
Speaker 1: happily listen to you. Just read these examples for like
Speaker 1: five straight minutes. If you have any word, don't leave
Speaker 1: any in your holest you got any got any other
Speaker 1: big tank? That's life moves fast if you don't look around,
Speaker 1: and you know, like shut up. Anything else you want
Speaker 1: to add? Connor or are you kidding me one of
Speaker 1: the great or you're kidding me? Ever? Ever? Right? Yeah?
Speaker 1: It was inspired? Um wow, kind of? I mean you
Speaker 1: want to talk about going out on a high note? Yeah,
Speaker 1: I should just fly out tonight to be honest. Um,
Speaker 1: connor Or can be found. Let's just check up your
Speaker 1: men of your word. But let's look at his Twitter profile.
Speaker 1: There's there's probably exactly. It's like a David, a man
Speaker 1: that loves his beer, his wife and his family. Connor Or,
Speaker 1: a graduate of Daily Range University. University is a reporter.
Speaker 1: And did you just change this? No, I swear it's
Speaker 1: dot com. So you're a man. Yeah, you're a man
Speaker 1: of your word. Interesting that you went with a third
Speaker 1: person on that. Oh, like I said, this is this
Speaker 1: is me myself. I don't have to explain myself to anybody.
Speaker 1: He went with the old Facebook style status. I will
Speaker 1: never get on anybody for going third person, so don't
Speaker 1: worry about it. But you did go third person. It's interesting.
Speaker 1: I feel like that's not a departure from the norm here.
Speaker 1: I don't think that's radical. Some might disagree, but that's
Speaker 1: your take. Well, while we're here. I mean, if you
Speaker 1: look at your Twitter page, it does say the name
Speaker 1: connor Or three times in a row. We call that branding.
Speaker 1: I feel like mine is more tis mine's probably on
Speaker 1: his radar. Yeah, let's go around the horn. We'll start
Speaker 1: with Mark writer for NFL dot Com. And member of
Speaker 1: the Around the NFL podcast some type of floral or
Speaker 1: female body part image emoji and then Instagram Mark Sessler
Speaker 1: and then beach body coach and a butterfly. I don't
Speaker 1: feel like that's on my radar because those are the two.
Speaker 1: This is, this fits my neat. Tell me, what do
Speaker 1: you do? Chris Westling up next. Not a female body part,
Speaker 1: by the way, just cycling back, what is it? It is?
Speaker 1: It is a flower, but not a female body part.
Speaker 1: It's flush colored, and yes it is. But I just
Speaker 1: wanted to clarify for those who wouldn't bother to check.
Speaker 1: Chris Westling, writer for Around the NFL, naysayer on award
Speaker 1: winning eight t NFL podcast, habitual line stepper, shambolic earthling,
Speaker 1: restless soul, oh wayfaring stranger. I should have looked at
Speaker 1: this now I'm deep in. I'm so sorry. That's all right,
Speaker 1: I didn't read her, Okay. I mean people to know
Speaker 1: what they're getting into. Hey, we know when you get blocked,
Speaker 1: it's because I'm a shambolic earthly. We know west and
Speaker 1: he follows up on these things. I have the NFL
Speaker 1: dot COM's End around Guy, hostedly Around the NFL Podcast
Speaker 1: solid seven point five out of ten on the human
Speaker 1: decency skin that's creeping on its creep right on the edge.
Speaker 1: It got bummed up recently. Well number, but it's really
Speaker 1: going up higher. Was it because you directed us to
Speaker 1: the league championship? Uh? It hovers between seven point two
Speaker 1: seven point six. I never make an announcement. I just
Speaker 1: adjusted based on my feeling about myself at that time.
Speaker 1: I feel like you had a good year and I
Speaker 1: did maybe something, but that that could be going down
Speaker 1: very soon. You had a new another child, so that
Speaker 1: that should be group sourced. That doesn't make me a
Speaker 1: better person to have a child. I mean, Antonio Crimardi
Speaker 1: would be the pope if if that's how things. Uh. Finally,
Speaker 1: Greg Rosenthal, I don't even need to click on this
Speaker 1: because it's so iconic football. Also on my radar lid.
Speaker 1: You know that that's a little like it's it's minimalist
Speaker 1: to the point of him, you know what I mean?
Speaker 1: I mean, that was that was my That was my
Speaker 1: Twitter profile the day I joined Twitter, back in the day.
Speaker 1: It was it was descriptive of what you can expect
Speaker 1: from this account. But do you know what Connor saying though?
Speaker 1: Manimal list to the point of hipster dam is. I
Speaker 1: mean that that pretty much sums it up perfectly. Greg
Speaker 1: got in before the hipster revolution, right, Yeah, you're you're
Speaker 1: attaching your own feelings. Now travel back in time to
Speaker 1: two thousand nine. I'm just telling you what's what's happening.
Speaker 1: It's happening on that account. You're not gonna get any
Speaker 1: of my personal life or any any other nons no
Speaker 1: tennis tweets. Yeah, that's a different account, the shadow account. That. Yeah.
Speaker 1: Once we once found out, we saw we looked over
Speaker 1: Greg's shoulder and saw his shadow tennis account, and we
Speaker 1: all we went back to the desk and me, Weston
Speaker 1: and Mark all pulled up the account and simultaneous counted
Speaker 1: down three to one and followed him at the same time.
Speaker 1: I'm and never spoke of it, And uh, did you
Speaker 1: ever notice that? Did that ever get up on your radar?
Speaker 1: Not for like I, as far as I can tell,
Speaker 1: months and months afterwards, but yes, and then when I
Speaker 1: did find that out, I immediately deleted the account. All right,
Speaker 1: fun times, fun show. That's it. Um. For the Wednesday
Speaker 1: edition of the Round the NFL podcast, we will have
Speaker 1: another podcast almost than possibly we'll be doing another one tomorrow.
Speaker 1: Um so we got one more this week, but this
Speaker 1: is our last show with Connor. Connie Fox will be
Speaker 1: stepping in for tomorrow show. But Connor, thank you, thank
Speaker 1: you so much, Thank you guys for bringing bringing light,
Speaker 1: shining a light upon us. Somebody's got to do it,
Speaker 1: absolutely all right, West Great? Have you keep coming back? Yeah?
Speaker 1: I don't. I'm sort of up in the air for tomorrow,
Speaker 1: but we'll see. If you're here, we'll love it. If
Speaker 1: you're not, you will be mad until that. This is
Speaker 1: Dan Heads is signing off for Quiet Storm the Mailman,
Speaker 1: Are you kidding me? The Old Boss, a new money
Speaker 1: behind the Glass Till Thursday. H