Speaker 1: Da Around the NFL podcast called The Fight. It's the
Speaker 1: best podcast round And welcome back to another edition of
Speaker 1: the Around the NFL Podcast. My name is Dan Hansus
Speaker 1: and I am joined by room filled with some heroes.
Speaker 1: But all the chairs are filled, and that's the most
Speaker 1: important thing. Gonzo, which one of us is not the
Speaker 1: hero in this equation? I think I know? Connie Fox,
Speaker 1: Greg Rosenthal. My name is Dan Hansas. What's up? Boys
Speaker 1: and girls thrown off here? Huh? Listen, this is Sydney's
Speaker 1: last show. What let's keep that right. We have reached
Speaker 1: the end of the yellow brick road. I'm both honored
Speaker 1: and really sad to be here. I had no idea. Yeah,
Speaker 1: well we we thought, you know, who do we get?
Speaker 1: Who do we get for Sydney's last year? Who are
Speaker 1: the people that mean the most to Sydney? Gonzo? And yeah,
Speaker 1: it would have been it would have been welcomes it. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it would have been great to have the for the
Speaker 1: foursome that you've dealt with the most here, but they
Speaker 1: couldn't make it. West has a good excuse. Mark, Mark's busy,
Speaker 1: He's on vacation. But you got us. Listen, this is
Speaker 1: an absolutely lovely group of humans, and I'm that's nice
Speaker 1: of you. I'm so sad though this is a bummer.
Speaker 1: Well way to bring it down hands us. We'll just
Speaker 1: keeping it real here. I just don't know. I don't
Speaker 1: even know who? Yeah, who is this guy? John Ronald
Speaker 1: Gonzalaz born marks twelve is an American sports writer. Was
Speaker 1: married NFL media broadcaster Colley Wolfe. John, who was a Poces,
Speaker 1: resides in Los Angeles with his wife and two dogs.
Speaker 1: This is awfully meta because you have me on to
Speaker 1: talk about who I am. Can we just stop real quick?
Speaker 1: Because you guys have created I don't think you quite
Speaker 1: realized the reach and scope of your listenership. Because this
Speaker 1: whole thing began because Rosie, who uh is a friend
Speaker 1: of mine and lives very close, was like bock and
Speaker 1: a half away. Nobody knows I've been doing this for
Speaker 1: twenty years. He's like everybody ever heard of this, dude,
Speaker 1: and then you ran with it and created this drop.
Speaker 1: But well, I'm just saying, you know, when you're first
Speaker 1: bringing someone up, you can't you can't assume that they've
Speaker 1: listened to all the old episodes. It's it's it's called broadcasting.
Speaker 1: I like it and I understand, but what I'm saying
Speaker 1: to you is that you guys leave this bit at
Speaker 1: the door where it then is thrown onto me. And
Speaker 1: this is what I wanted to bring up to you.
Speaker 1: So you know, I've been doing some writing for other
Speaker 1: concerns and I wrote a big piece for The Ringer.
Speaker 1: You should check it out about the Road Tripping podcast.
Speaker 1: It's Richard Jefferson and Channing Fry and calv sideline reporter
Speaker 1: Ali Clifton, and it's a very good podcast that a
Speaker 1: humble plug not so humble. But this is not the point.
Speaker 1: The point is down. I write this piece and it's
Speaker 1: about basketball in The Ringer, and within seconds my mentions
Speaker 1: get exploded by who is John Gonzalez? Young people are
Speaker 1: everywhere you have you have ruined my mentions, and I
Speaker 1: wanted you to know that I do love that. We
Speaker 1: we get that a lot too, college across all platforms, Instagram, everywhere.
Speaker 1: Who is dying on us is like now bigger than
Speaker 1: John Gonzalez. I don't think so, but it's kind of rude.
Speaker 1: Rosie has just like completely writes from major publications, has
Speaker 1: an Emmy in his back pocket. All right, it's kind
Speaker 1: of like it's like three quarters of any Yeah. Uh yeah,
Speaker 1: So Sydney's last day and uh we did we took
Speaker 1: we took Sydney out for lunch, uh Greg and I did. Today.
Speaker 1: It was a really great awkward Greg moment. What happened, Well,
Speaker 1: he did a great job getting a gift for Sydney,
Speaker 1: but then had, uh like this little pink tote bag.
Speaker 1: And instead of waiting until we got here for this
Speaker 1: for the show, he brought the tote bag with him
Speaker 1: to meet Sydney outside the commissary and then poor Sydney
Speaker 1: had to carry this thing all the way to lunch,
Speaker 1: all the way back. And then I waited. I actually
Speaker 1: didn't say anything during during lunch. I want to see, well,
Speaker 1: Greg say, all right, so anyone open up the gift
Speaker 1: or anything. She never opened it, so she just carried
Speaker 1: this bag. We still don't know if she knows what's
Speaker 1: in the bag. Have you looked in it yet? I haven't.
Speaker 1: I haven't looked in it. Right now right here on
Speaker 1: the air. It's a special day. It's an audio media
Speaker 1: but you know we can we can talk Sally behind
Speaker 1: the glass. Can you get this on video? Perhaps? I
Speaker 1: think Dan was upset that he didn't get a gift too.
Speaker 1: It's from all of us. It's from all of us.
Speaker 1: It's from all of us. I put a lot of
Speaker 1: money and thought into this play by play, pulled it
Speaker 1: out of the pink bag. It's in tissue paper right right,
Speaker 1: we're going, we're going great. You can edit this out.
Speaker 1: Somebody tell Sally, you gotta hold the phone sideways, horizontal
Speaker 1: video sideways. Oh it's a lovely picture of all five
Speaker 1: of us a plaque. Now I'm emotional. The goal is
Speaker 1: to get Tony to cry. At the end of the episode.
Speaker 1: When you say the five of us, I assume that
Speaker 1: you mean Colleen and I are in that phone. Beautiful Sydney.
Speaker 1: We're so happy to have you for one more episode,
Speaker 1: but we have a lot to get to it. We'll
Speaker 1: get act to Sydney throughout the episode, but so much
Speaker 1: to Oh my god, a lot of news first full
Speaker 1: week of O t A. So we're gonna go through
Speaker 1: the news. John, you've been in Cleveland covering the calves
Speaker 1: and all matters NBA, but I know you've obviously preparing
Speaker 1: for this spot. You've been doing a lot of NFL
Speaker 1: deep dive reading and research. I know that I have
Speaker 1: done as much research for this pot as I did
Speaker 1: for damnash X podcast when we did that, So I
Speaker 1: am prepared. Let's do it. Uh so, yeah, we'll go
Speaker 1: through all that. We'll also on the subject of O
Speaker 1: t A s uh Greg road a banger, what matters
Speaker 1: and what doesn't matter. We just did an NFL network
Speaker 1: hit on the same subject and now we will break
Speaker 1: it down in depth on this podcast because that's what
Speaker 1: we do. And maybe a couple of surprises along the way.
Speaker 1: But let's get going. No more dilly dallying. We got
Speaker 1: to move forward, Sydney. There are no reverse gears in
Speaker 1: this tank. Let's do some news. Good night and good luck.
Speaker 1: All right, So let's start with some rule changes in
Speaker 1: the NFL. Oh, everybody loves rule change, especially this one.
Speaker 1: The relaxed they're relaxing the celebration rules that have been
Speaker 1: an effect that have really got if you if you
Speaker 1: follow the game closely. One of the annoying subplots on Sundays,
Speaker 1: if you're somebody that has to stay plugged into your
Speaker 1: Twitter or you have tweet deck, it become it became
Speaker 1: a part of Sunday that people complaining about flags coming
Speaker 1: out for different things, and I think the NFL got
Speaker 1: the message and they spoke with all these different people.
Speaker 1: Rock released a press release that even had gifts in it, uh,
Speaker 1: showing what was now allowed in all this. But anyway,
Speaker 1: the end of the day, you can now do some
Speaker 1: different things that you weren't able to do before. Roger says, quote,
Speaker 1: there is now more room to have fun, to make
Speaker 1: after big plays. Colleen, you're excited about this, more room
Speaker 1: for fun. This is awesome. I mean, I can't believe
Speaker 1: that this is a thing anyway that we have to
Speaker 1: talk about the fact that there was a rule against
Speaker 1: celebrating in the NFL. But I think that somebody like
Speaker 1: von Miller is going to bring us many celebrations. He
Speaker 1: even suggested that they bring in a choreographer because of
Speaker 1: all of the linemen. Maybe there can be some type
Speaker 1: of like temptations routine after after he sacks somebody or whatever.
Speaker 1: So here's some of the examples of celebrations now permitted.
Speaker 1: You can now use the football as a prop after
Speaker 1: a touchdown. You could celebrate while on the ground, Snow
Speaker 1: Angel Baby and U group demonstrations, as as Colleen just
Speaker 1: hinted at now also on the table, gonzo your thoughts.
Speaker 1: I'm pro fun. I've been pro fund pretty consistently my
Speaker 1: entire life. I saw I did actually see this part,
Speaker 1: so i'll I'll get involved here before taking a nap
Speaker 1: in the corner. The press release had an exclamation point
Speaker 1: on it. They're already starting with the fun. I'm right
Speaker 1: that slammers in the press they had they had an
Speaker 1: exclamation point right in the headline of it, so that
Speaker 1: knows you mean, that means that they mean business. This
Speaker 1: is wonderful. This is all I'm overdue. I feel bad
Speaker 1: for chat Outsinko and t O. They're probably thinking like
Speaker 1: they're pioneers. Well just also thinking like why were you
Speaker 1: bugging us the whole time. The thing that's a little
Speaker 1: crazy is, you know, we've done all this research and
Speaker 1: we found out from fans that they, you know, they
Speaker 1: love fun. Literally one year ago, one year ago at
Speaker 1: this time, people forget. This is kind of why this
Speaker 1: is happening. The NFL institute or rule of emphasis, the
Speaker 1: entire opposite direction against group celebrations that caused more flags
Speaker 1: that got everyone complaining. So one year ago at this time,
Speaker 1: the NFL literally was doing the exact opposite, trying to
Speaker 1: crack down, and I guess they just got beaten down.
Speaker 1: And also it's it's kind of ironic and funny that
Speaker 1: something that's designed, oh now, let's have more fun. It
Speaker 1: was a multiple hundreds of NFL players discussions deep dives
Speaker 1: about all this on whether or not you should have fun.
Speaker 1: It kind of stands on opposition of what fun is
Speaker 1: it not? That's where King though still right not to
Speaker 1: working and you can't no pumps, no pumps, pumps. Godell
Speaker 1: apparently tweeted at Keegan Michael Key about that. Yeah, because
Speaker 1: about though these are the things that are in my perpose,
Speaker 1: I didn't know that you're more on well, Gonza reads
Speaker 1: end around. These are the that's true. I'm a big
Speaker 1: fan of end around. Uh. I think that it's interesting
Speaker 1: though that you're saying that the NFL was inconsistent about
Speaker 1: this point. That doesn't sound like the NFL um And
Speaker 1: also you you still can't dunk over the crossbars, which
Speaker 1: is all Jimmy Graham's fault. Here's the thing this this
Speaker 1: like complaining like the people that are sticking the MUDs
Speaker 1: and don't like it, Like that's not gonna go away
Speaker 1: because players are gonna take this and they're gonna go
Speaker 1: hard you mentioned, I mean they're gonna go hardcore. And
Speaker 1: initially group celebrations are now allowed. This is gonna get elaborate.
Speaker 1: I think it'll be fun to see, like, but it's
Speaker 1: gonna kind of be like in basketball. You are basica
Speaker 1: like it. This is the pod for me. Let's talk
Speaker 1: more like that's what It's gonna start getting. Weird air
Speaker 1: and wild like stuff we have not seen before, and
Speaker 1: that's gonna get that's gonna get its own pushback. Who's
Speaker 1: really going to complain it's gonna be and racist grandfather's Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's pretty much it, right, Like where do you draw
Speaker 1: the line? Prisco? But he'll complain, where where is your
Speaker 1: dad on this? Oh? Keith? Yeah, I have to talk
Speaker 1: to Keith about this. I I think he might he
Speaker 1: might be leaning towards the Marvin Lewis realm Okay, yeah,
Speaker 1: I know he's of a generation that like, I need
Speaker 1: my football and none of this nonsense. Yeah, everybody's gonna
Speaker 1: he thinks people should just you know, act like you've
Speaker 1: been there. But like, oh it's cool, you know, we'll
Speaker 1: draft Joe Mixon and let's keep Hacman Jones through his
Speaker 1: fifth arrest. But the glaring hypocrisy is notable, But who cares?
Speaker 1: It doesn't matter. We have celebrations again. All I'm thinking
Speaker 1: about is the re enactments of like all of the
Speaker 1: celebrations from any given Sunday slash the replacements. Just give
Speaker 1: me that and unless of the last boy scout, we
Speaker 1: don't want that. Things want terribly dark in that one.
Speaker 1: Um and other changes to the rules, shorter overtimes are
Speaker 1: coming to the NFL. Team owners approved shortening over time
Speaker 1: in the preseason and regular season from fifteen to ten
Speaker 1: minutes at the spring league meeting in Chicago on Tuesday.
Speaker 1: The approval comes after the proposal was initially presented to
Speaker 1: owners uh in March at the annual league meeting. And
Speaker 1: Greg makes sense of this one to me, because I
Speaker 1: don't get it. The only thing to me it promotes
Speaker 1: is more ties. Nobody likes ties. Why why? Why it's weird.
Speaker 1: I think it's like a half measure on the way
Speaker 1: to doing something else, like the either getting rid of
Speaker 1: overtime or making it so that there's just one possession
Speaker 1: each Because they clearly they're not comfortable with that much
Speaker 1: football being played, and then maybe you have a game Thursday,
Speaker 1: but it's like, what is five minutes do? Yeah, this
Speaker 1: is a less exciting. It's not going to change, but yeah,
Speaker 1: they their whole thing is from a safety standpoint, and
Speaker 1: overtime could lead to potentially eighteen to twenty more snaps
Speaker 1: in a game. And yeah, if you're playing on a
Speaker 1: Thursday night and that's a Sunday night game. Like everybody
Speaker 1: remembers the awful Cardinals Seahawks six six tie last year
Speaker 1: sitting there, that was a great game, though, I like
Speaker 1: Foot and Greg, I love you football heads like itself.
Speaker 1: Don't bring that up around Greg, Greg and West. Like
Speaker 1: everyone everybody's saying how amazing that game wasn't. Yes, a
Speaker 1: lot of drama, there was stuff, There was stuff happening.
Speaker 1: It was the game that would never end. It was
Speaker 1: also bad field goal kickers, So what's so fun about
Speaker 1: that that that was part of it? This o t
Speaker 1: thing has brought up a pet peeve of mine, which
Speaker 1: is a lot of people are like, well, there only
Speaker 1: would have been two games that would have been affected
Speaker 1: last year, or I've seen some articles like these teams
Speaker 1: would have made the playoffs, if this rule had been institute, Like, no,
Speaker 1: everything is going to be different. You can't go back
Speaker 1: and say that's how that game is going to be
Speaker 1: played out the same. It's kind of like when a
Speaker 1: guy makes an out in baseball and they said, well,
Speaker 1: if you hadn't made that out, you know they would
Speaker 1: have driven those runners, and like, no, everything's going to
Speaker 1: be different. Strategy, you'll be different. You try to finish
Speaker 1: these games off quick. I like the baseball analogy there.
Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying. People always say that if
Speaker 1: you hadn't made that air, if Bruce arians likes it,
Speaker 1: then I like it. So straight three, you're out. I
Speaker 1: like the cross pollination of sports on this podcast. This
Speaker 1: is really good. Two quick things. You said eighteen to
Speaker 1: twenty more steps? Did you do math on that? Well, yeah,
Speaker 1: that's like it would be. I figured that was I
Speaker 1: don't do any number. I figured that was from this
Speaker 1: is from the press releases. Van doesn't do numbers either.
Speaker 1: Did you know, Gonzo I once got a thirty nine
Speaker 1: on a state mandated math test. That is higher than
Speaker 1: I would have expected, and I'm proud of you. The
Speaker 1: other thing is this whole overtime thing. Is broken period.
Speaker 1: The idea of well, I like overtime conceptually overtime and executed.
Speaker 1: I'm talking about execution wise, like the rules that are
Speaker 1: currently set up where it's, hey, if you get a
Speaker 1: touchdown on your first drive, you've won, and that's that.
Speaker 1: That's stupid, it's dumb. It doesn't make any sense. All right,
Speaker 1: they need to get we gotta have to stop, all right.
Speaker 1: I don't want I don't wanna like put a clamp
Speaker 1: on you keep can you Colleen? You've been together for
Speaker 1: how many years? Ten? Twelve years? Something? This is a
Speaker 1: great question. I don't know he has the answers to
Speaker 1: any dates And do the subtle husband wife thing when
Speaker 1: you're trying to get the other person to shut up
Speaker 1: every once in a while. Oh, it's not subtle at all.
Speaker 1: Moving on one other rule chain, Now you can send
Speaker 1: a two players uh to injury reserve and the designated
Speaker 1: to return thing, which changes the strategy a little bit.
Speaker 1: And that feels like a good thing. Who's gonna complain
Speaker 1: about that? Are you greg? Right? Good? This is the
Speaker 1: I R boomerang a double. Now we have a double
Speaker 1: I R boomerang boome I like a double boomerang. That's
Speaker 1: good boom Moving on, Odell Beckham, congratulations buddy, because you
Speaker 1: just scored the biggest contract of your life. Has nothing
Speaker 1: to do with the Giants either. On Tuesday, rap Sheet
Speaker 1: reported that Beckham re upped with Nike and A and
Speaker 1: what is the most lucrative deal ever for an NFL player?
Speaker 1: Uh and Gonza. This is where we can lean on you,
Speaker 1: especially with your basketball knowledge. Five years, twenty five million,
Speaker 1: which I've always seen as a cursed contract going back,
Speaker 1: I forget about that too. Neil O'Donnell with the Jets,
Speaker 1: Danny Tartible with the Yankees, and there are several other
Speaker 1: through the years. If you signed five for twenty five,
Speaker 1: you usually your career goes down the tubes. I don't
Speaker 1: know why. I hope that doesn't happen with Beckham, but
Speaker 1: my point being five is nice money. In fact, it's
Speaker 1: more than the Giants are paying him under his current
Speaker 1: rookie contract. And then a guy like Lebron has a
Speaker 1: lifetime deal with Nike worth reportedly or rumored to be
Speaker 1: over a billion dollars. Why such a huge discrepancy. I mean,
Speaker 1: he has Lebron right like he's one of the most
Speaker 1: famous athletes on the planet. No disrespect you could you
Speaker 1: could get you could say, James Harden, whatever James Harden's
Speaker 1: contract is, it's astronomically more than that out of backham. Yeah.
Speaker 1: Basketball tends to go that way because you're uh again
Speaker 1: the visibility. Uh, you're not wearing helmets, the shoes, Like
Speaker 1: how often are you wearing football cleats as opposed to
Speaker 1: basketball sneakers? You guys know, I like million dollar there
Speaker 1: you go. You can wear them around. Uh, and the
Speaker 1: same sneakers that James Harden or Lebron James are wearing
Speaker 1: on the court, right you could you could do that
Speaker 1: as opposed to the cleats, Like, you're not wearing cleats
Speaker 1: right now? That would be weird. What's the helmet? That's true?
Speaker 1: How eight times sixteen times a year? You know? Yeah,
Speaker 1: Howard Asking in Philadelphia, who's known Philadelphia reporter parochial. Uh,
Speaker 1: he will wear cleats on the sideline because he says
Speaker 1: it's better for his cleats and beats and he and
Speaker 1: he coordinates them with his outphit. I'm sure he's never
Speaker 1: been mocked for that in Philadelphia. Yeah, everybody gives him
Speaker 1: a passport five like you said, that's good money. That's
Speaker 1: like around the NFL money, right, Like it's his current contracts,
Speaker 1: five year rookie contract with the option that's already been
Speaker 1: picked up for the fifth year eighteen point eight million. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's like what you get. That's what Sidney turned that
Speaker 1: down to leave this place. She doesn't need it. She's
Speaker 1: got all the money she needs. She's got a signature show.
Speaker 1: I think you still haven't have you worked through your
Speaker 1: go fund me money yet? Are you still living off
Speaker 1: that first several years? Moving on ESPN, it's very interesting
Speaker 1: piece by Seth Wickersham about Richards Sherman and the Seattle Seahawks.
Speaker 1: The headline why Richard Sherman can't let go of Seattle
Speaker 1: Super Bowl loss, and it really details, uh, everything that's
Speaker 1: happened with that franchise since Malcolm Butler and and focused
Speaker 1: on Sherman, how his his high intensity. Uh it's a
Speaker 1: high wire act behind the scenes in Seattle, and it's
Speaker 1: it's it had rubbed the team sometimes teammates, the coaching staff,
Speaker 1: front office the wrong way and it all kind of
Speaker 1: led to what happened this spring where he was on
Speaker 1: the trade block and it got to the point where
Speaker 1: the team and the player both acknowledged that that was happening,
Speaker 1: which was very rare. Greg, I know you read this
Speaker 1: piece as well. I thought it's said a lot about
Speaker 1: how volcanic that team is, and and to me, I
Speaker 1: read it as there's still obviously an NFC superpower, but
Speaker 1: how much time is left with this core when it
Speaker 1: just seems just there's just a lot going on behind
Speaker 1: the scenes. I really recommend reading it. And the animosity
Speaker 1: or bitterness between Sherman and some of the defense and
Speaker 1: Wilson just jealousy is what was the most interesting thing
Speaker 1: that it really goes back a little ways that that
Speaker 1: the way that he's kind of treated almost as part
Speaker 1: of management, like that he's the favorite one, even though
Speaker 1: the defense is the really the reason that they've won.
Speaker 1: And the way he's handled certain things. I mean they're
Speaker 1: talking about like him asking teammates to sign a non
Speaker 1: disclosure agreement before going into his box at a baseball
Speaker 1: game it was, and like them complaining that his like
Speaker 1: Christmas gifts that he gives out to the lineman it
Speaker 1: we're just first class tickets on his spot. His last
Speaker 1: airlines Alaska Airlines, which is his sponsorship so they're like,
Speaker 1: big deal, I didn't even have to pay for that,
Speaker 1: and they're just giving He's just giving away. It's like,
Speaker 1: so there's something where they just don't like him. And
Speaker 1: and Wickersham, who I think is a really good reporter,
Speaker 1: he said he thinks it goes beyond sort of the normal, Hey,
Speaker 1: this guy's the star, that's the quarterback, like normal jealousy
Speaker 1: to something a little deeper where it's just like they
Speaker 1: just don't like him. They it's to the point where, yeah,
Speaker 1: in the piece which Michael Bennett isolates it, um, Michael Bennett,
Speaker 1: who you know, I don't really care what that guy
Speaker 1: has to say. But he did go out of his way,
Speaker 1: uh to to rip the writer, saying he was surprised
Speaker 1: and how it was a TMZ type report. Richard Truman
Speaker 1: went on the radio and shot it down. But I
Speaker 1: think the Wilson stuff is fascinating, including a part in
Speaker 1: this piece where it said that he's kind of seen
Speaker 1: as a phony, which other people, uh outside the Seahawks
Speaker 1: have a similar viewpoint. But there is a vibe within
Speaker 1: the Seahawks that the team wants to see him exposed
Speaker 1: as being like an a rod type of exposing situation,
Speaker 1: which how can that be healthy for the goal? What
Speaker 1: if the goal is winning Super Bowls your quarterback to
Speaker 1: become a vilified person in the media and in the public.
Speaker 1: But that's how kind of deep this is. This is messy.
Speaker 1: It's almost got a mean girl's aspect to it. But
Speaker 1: even from the stuff that we've seen with Russell Wilson before,
Speaker 1: with all of his posts and things with Sierra, I mean,
Speaker 1: that just seems so forced and staged and like he's
Speaker 1: trying to prove himself, and to me, it's really annoying.
Speaker 1: Like whenever I saw the things that he was posting
Speaker 1: with her, I was like, oh my god. I just
Speaker 1: feel like he's trying way too hard. He doesn't have to.
Speaker 1: He's an NFL starting quarterback on a successful team. Why
Speaker 1: this has been a thing for you? But I know
Speaker 1: it is. Yeah, you're not the only one. I don't
Speaker 1: know if you guys know, we're married, so we sometimes
Speaker 1: like a year, Yeah, they're taking our bed is number one,
Speaker 1: but too But like as a couple, clearly we pioneered
Speaker 1: pioneered that bit, but like as a couple of you
Speaker 1: sometimes have to think about like what you're gonna put
Speaker 1: out into the world. The you know, the all time
Speaker 1: greats at that are John Legend and Chrissy Tegan and
Speaker 1: then you go down down from there, okay, say all time. Oh,
Speaker 1: they're amazing at it. In terms of social media, like
Speaker 1: like like, what kind of history do we have of
Speaker 1: social transcend transcend Maggio Monroe? Yeah, okay, so we weren't there.
Speaker 1: We weren't there for that. What are my ninety years
Speaker 1: old and it's youth? Heggio and now DiMaggio. That was
Speaker 1: a ballplayer, not like the players we see today out dude,
Speaker 1: by the way, Uh, that was an excellent Damna check
Speaker 1: doing handsas you just did him doing you. So that
Speaker 1: was pretty good. Yeah, but I didn't love I had
Speaker 1: to be honest. I didn't love the idea of Gonzo
Speaker 1: and Fox going on the Damasheck show. Love it, i'
Speaker 1: love it. This is I detect a little jealousy here.
Speaker 1: Jealousy maybe not the word, but I'm glad that you're
Speaker 1: here now, I listen. I have love for you guys,
Speaker 1: as you know, we're friends. We hang out outside of
Speaker 1: your work. I don't walk here. I also love Damna Schek.
Speaker 1: There's plenty of you don't have to fight over me.
Speaker 1: There's plenty of me to go to round. This is
Speaker 1: not a Richard Sherman uh Russell Wilson situation, the entire piece,
Speaker 1: and I know we gotta Yeah, we should definitely move on, Okay,
Speaker 1: I mean we should talk more about you and check
Speaker 1: sharing us. Please, there will be no sharing. It's time
Speaker 1: to make a decision, and I wanted at the end
Speaker 1: of the show. That's what I'm saying. It's like a
Speaker 1: blood of We're gonna our hands and moving on. The
Speaker 1: super Bowls, moving, at least the Super Bowls. Yeah, I
Speaker 1: should state that better. Super Bowl fifty five is moving
Speaker 1: supposed to be in l A. But l A. You know,
Speaker 1: you freak out a little bit when it rains, and
Speaker 1: l A freaked out so much about the winter of
Speaker 1: rainfall that we just had that now we can't even
Speaker 1: open a facility on time. So what happens that the
Speaker 1: new Englewood facility pushed back a year to Is that right?
Speaker 1: I got pushed back because of the rain. Yeah, because
Speaker 1: there was a filled up the big big hole over
Speaker 1: ax Um, so they needed to fill the slot. And
Speaker 1: what do they do? They don't go to New Orleans
Speaker 1: opportunity were buked. Whatever they booked. This is the Super
Speaker 1: Bowl conventions or something. Uh, so we get it goes
Speaker 1: to Tampa. Tampa will now host the super Bowl in
Speaker 1: one which means, I believe, back to back years the
Speaker 1: biggest game on Earth will be in Florida. How about that?
Speaker 1: Tampa's no fun? Tampa not to throhaded Tampa. I like
Speaker 1: the Tampa super Bowl A skyscraper? What was that? I
Speaker 1: can't even remember at this point. You got ebor City,
Speaker 1: you can walk around. Tampa's fine. There are much worse
Speaker 1: super Bowls. I support it, the radical pro Tampa position
Speaker 1: that you'd staked all right? Moving on the Browns that
Speaker 1: Saints Cults great? No, No, that was in Miami. Uh
Speaker 1: the no, the awful Raiders? No? What was the game
Speaker 1: that was in Tampa? There was? Who cares? Moving on?
Speaker 1: The Browns have hired Ryan Grigson. That's a little bit weird. Uh.
Speaker 1: Ryan Grigson, of course, who was fired after five years
Speaker 1: as the GM of the Cults and was most famous.
Speaker 1: I would say, well, two things that he was famous for.
Speaker 1: One being lucky enough in his first year to draft
Speaker 1: Andrew Luck with the first pick, A no brainer move
Speaker 1: also got t Y Hilton a year. But let's calm down, Yeah,
Speaker 1: didn't he win to he did? He he did, which
Speaker 1: is kind of strange. But and then his other famous
Speaker 1: move came into were when he traded four Trent Richardson
Speaker 1: uh and gave up a first round pick. And Richardson
Speaker 1: was a colossal bust uh egg on Grigson's grill for
Speaker 1: the rest of his tenure there. Uh And what Browns
Speaker 1: blew it too because they ended up drafting Johnny Manziel
Speaker 1: with that pick. But anyway, the Browns have now hired
Speaker 1: Griggson in the position of senior personnel executive. He answers
Speaker 1: to sash a Brown and Connie only the Browns, Right,
Speaker 1: It's weird they're hiring the guy who they swindled and
Speaker 1: everybody saw it happen, and now he's going sort of
Speaker 1: back to to that point. It's just an odd pairing.
Speaker 1: Also a devisive figure that hasn't made a lot of
Speaker 1: or I wouldn't say he might have a lot of friends,
Speaker 1: but he has made some enemies, including for instance, their
Speaker 1: former punter in Indianapolis, Pat mcv who quote retweeted the
Speaker 1: news of this hiring by the Browns with just ha
Speaker 1: ha ha ha ha ha ha. Some people don't like
Speaker 1: the way Griggson operates. That's that's not a good thing
Speaker 1: when you get that retweet. Uh this knowing Mark Sessler,
Speaker 1: how I do. I think he is delighted that he
Speaker 1: is not in the office and not on the podcast
Speaker 1: which it was announced the Browns were hiring Gregson because
Speaker 1: I don't think he's would not gonna be happy about this,
Speaker 1: you know, because I will say that of all the
Speaker 1: individuals that have been ripped by Mark on this podcast,
Speaker 1: Gregson is right near the top of the list. So
Speaker 1: this makes me excited. Yeah, we'll have to hear from
Speaker 1: his also reporting to a guy who used to report
Speaker 1: to him, and Andrew Barry, who's their VP of player Personnel,
Speaker 1: I used to work together and in I mean, he's
Speaker 1: a very knowledgeable about that about this guy. I think
Speaker 1: this is I have a theory on this. I think
Speaker 1: that this is a little quid pro quel, a little kickback, right,
Speaker 1: who helped us out, We're gonna get you in the
Speaker 1: same way that if a politician does something that will
Speaker 1: obviyoist once he gets a lobbying gig thereafter, Yeah, we
Speaker 1: want to thank you Ryan for getting us. Johnny Manziel,
Speaker 1: here's a job we took. Here you go. Moving on,
Speaker 1: Victor Cruz, he got a job. And speaking of I
Speaker 1: wish Mark was here for that last one. I wish
Speaker 1: West was here to talk about Victor Cruz staying in
Speaker 1: the NFL. Uh. He signs a one year deal with Chicago,
Speaker 1: the team announced. Uh. He sent out a instagram of
Speaker 1: himself photoshopped into a Bear's uniform. Let's come down a
Speaker 1: little bit, but was it a good photoshop job? B
Speaker 1: minus put her to be minus? Uh? And and he's
Speaker 1: of course coming from the Giants, where he was kind
Speaker 1: of a legendary strong but one of the more famous
Speaker 1: figures with that franchise in the last ten twelve years.
Speaker 1: It ended poorly with the Giants, which really surprised me.
Speaker 1: In fact, Victor had an interesting conspiracy theory about how
Speaker 1: his final season at the Meadowlands went. Las see it
Speaker 1: halfway through the year, You're like, okay, I'm balling. Then
Speaker 1: the other half of not getting the ball, and you're
Speaker 1: just like, well, what's going on. I was like, okay,
Speaker 1: I see what's happening. They don't they don't want me
Speaker 1: here anymore. Let's how I played well and I'm a
Speaker 1: thousand yards sever last year they would have it would
Speaker 1: have been more difficult from a fan perspective to cut me,
Speaker 1: and if I played well, they were due to you know,
Speaker 1: they owed me a ton of money that next year.
Speaker 1: So it was like, let's get let's get Cruise off
Speaker 1: the books. That would explain why you were open so
Speaker 1: much and he wasn't getting the ball. I'm glad political
Speaker 1: like even more, even more than you think. Okay, where
Speaker 1: was that the breakfast club by the way, Yes, okay, uh,
Speaker 1: let's let's break this down. Victor Cruz believes that the
Speaker 1: Giants at some point midway through the season decided that
Speaker 1: they didn't want to bring him back and they needed
Speaker 1: to depress his value or his standing with the fans,
Speaker 1: uh by taking the air out of the ball essentially
Speaker 1: on his season, which I would think would negatively affect
Speaker 1: the New York Giants since he was still getting snaps.
Speaker 1: I also don't remember Victor Cruz being opened a ton
Speaker 1: last day. This is the part that I really that's
Speaker 1: the part of the conspiracy that I really liked, because
Speaker 1: not only is part of the conspiracy and in them
Speaker 1: and in real time, Eli Manning, who has enough trouble
Speaker 1: being Eli Manning under the best of circumstances, must then
Speaker 1: calculate not throwing the ball to an open receiver. I
Speaker 1: love this theory. I'm on board this. This entire interview
Speaker 1: is well worth listen and are one of the editors
Speaker 1: on our desk. Austin nab Block, who we called El
Speaker 1: Chapo Blanco because he's a called blooded assassins, rightly called
Speaker 1: it Victor Cruz's retirement speech. That's what this interview was
Speaker 1: because it it I don't know if the Bears heard
Speaker 1: this before they signed him, but it just felt like
Speaker 1: listening to this just I don't know, you don't you
Speaker 1: don't want him on your teach And he was a
Speaker 1: favorite son of of the Giants and the fans. He
Speaker 1: was a guy that came out of nowhere, a Rutgers guy,
Speaker 1: grew up in North Jersey, and he blew out his
Speaker 1: knee in Philadelphia Sunday night, and they stayed true to
Speaker 1: him after he failed come back attempt, even threw himself
Speaker 1: a welcome back party, uh and then didn't play that
Speaker 1: entire season. John stayed with him that entire season, kept
Speaker 1: him in part of their offense last year, even though
Speaker 1: it was clear that he wasn't the same guy anymore.
Speaker 1: And then this is how he gets he repays them
Speaker 1: come back to us VIC. Since West isn't here, I'll
Speaker 1: point out something he might have, which is that he's
Speaker 1: probably not going to make this team. I mean, the
Speaker 1: Bears don't have a good receiver. So it's as good
Speaker 1: a team, you know, it's as good a chance he
Speaker 1: has to make any team be fighting against Kendall. Right,
Speaker 1: maybe it's kind of maybe for one spot, but but
Speaker 1: it's an uphill battle for him to keep it going.
Speaker 1: It's like typical disgruntled wide receiver talk like that, surprising
Speaker 1: Sessler and Westling that you have channeled both of them
Speaker 1: in this podcast, whereas he's so we've done a lot
Speaker 1: of these. Now we've done a lot of these. And
Speaker 1: Greg is a shape shifter who strong, silent type, who
Speaker 1: on this pod said that they aren't going to write
Speaker 1: about Victor Cruz in the off season. Didn't somebody have
Speaker 1: him as there? Yeah, West has major issues with Cruise,
Speaker 1: and I always kind of had a soft spot for him,
Speaker 1: but now I'm not feeling as hot about him anymore.
Speaker 1: Let's move on final some sad news in the NFL.
Speaker 1: Cortez Kennedy UH was found dead in Orlando on Tuesday.
Speaker 1: A former Seahawks Grete was forty eight years old, drafted
Speaker 1: third overall in the draft out of the You UH.
Speaker 1: He had an incredible eleven year career that ended with
Speaker 1: a Hall of Fame enshrinement with the Seahawks. UH fifty
Speaker 1: eight career sacks, Pro Bowl or eight times five All
Speaker 1: Pro selections. That's the one to watch. Get five All
Speaker 1: Pro nods, you are one of the players of your generation.
Speaker 1: And he played on the Seahawks at a time when
Speaker 1: the Seahawks were kind of a team that was just
Speaker 1: floating in the ether of the NFL. They were in
Speaker 1: the A F C H for most of that tenure,
Speaker 1: and he was the shining star during the throughout the nineties.
Speaker 1: And Sean Alexander um uh spoke with NFL Network about
Speaker 1: Cortez Kennedy. Alexander was kind of the next guard that
Speaker 1: came through in terms of face of the franchises, and
Speaker 1: he talked about how um Cortez Kennedy was proud about
Speaker 1: being part of the Seahawks lineage. Even when I think
Speaker 1: about just this last season the playoffs. It's me and
Speaker 1: him and Jacob Green watched it in the locker room,
Speaker 1: and you could speak how proud tes was of where
Speaker 1: the Seahawks are now and and to see like from
Speaker 1: Jacob Green to Tez Into passing it to me and
Speaker 1: to watching you know, Russell and Sherm and all these
Speaker 1: boys playing at such elite level. Um, we were all
Speaker 1: very proud and we still are. The Seahawks now really are.
Speaker 1: But Tess, it's just a big fixture for that. Uh.
Speaker 1: Kennedy told Stacy Dale's that his enshrinement in two thousand twelve.
Speaker 1: Now I can say I'm a Hall of Famer and say, WHOA,
Speaker 1: I'm in, baby, I'm in for life. Cortez Kennedy years old.
Speaker 1: Very sad. It was really well liked. You know how
Speaker 1: good you mean, you have to be an unbelievable player
Speaker 1: to win Defensive Player of the Year on a two
Speaker 1: and fourteen team. That might not ever happened again. When
Speaker 1: they did the All nineties team, he was the starting
Speaker 1: defensive tackle and he was you know, I'm looking at
Speaker 1: the team. It's him and John Randall. He's probably the
Speaker 1: the number one defensive tackle of the nineties. It's sad
Speaker 1: and he's a young guy. He's forty years old. That
Speaker 1: the cause of death is still undetermined, like no one knows,
Speaker 1: it's it's It caught a lot of people by surprise.
Speaker 1: He was actually loosely working for the Saints because he's
Speaker 1: close with Mickey Loomis, their general manager. He goes to
Speaker 1: the Saints facility a lot and kind of consults with them.
Speaker 1: So it took a lot of people by surprise. I
Speaker 1: put him on the Andre Dawson All Stars. Dawson won
Speaker 1: the n L m v P for a dreadful Cubs
Speaker 1: team in eighty seven. When you could when you're that good,
Speaker 1: when you can transcend being surrounded by suck. Lawson All Stars.
Speaker 1: So many people who talked about him, there's so many
Speaker 1: quotes out there. They're saying what a great football player
Speaker 1: he was, but he was an even better person and
Speaker 1: that he was so well liked by everybody. Absolutely, Uh,
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Speaker 1: Do you have to tell them ahead of time? Like?
Speaker 1: Whose size is water? You guys just like fight over
Speaker 1: whatever size. It's my favorite email that I've got. I
Speaker 1: got an email from a shadowy leak figure underpant side.
Speaker 1: I was like, all right, I know, I feel like
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Speaker 1: I recognize that you've been in the business of show
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Speaker 1: all right, before we move on to our o t
Speaker 1: A segment, let's get somebody on the horn. Well, yeah,
Speaker 1: he is a man that he has right, he does.
Speaker 1: In fact, he was a man that never wore underwear,
Speaker 1: famously went commando is right years decades. I was on
Speaker 1: the road with him for quite a while, and I
Speaker 1: wish you guys had told me that like one layer
Speaker 1: of denim separated you from the man's another region. But
Speaker 1: it all changed once he tried on uh me Andy's
Speaker 1: And now he's on the line from his his house
Speaker 1: and disarray somewhere in southern Los Angeles. It is Mark Sessler. Friend, Mark,
Speaker 1: we thank you so much for coming and calling, calling
Speaker 1: in on your on your vacation. You know it means
Speaker 1: a lot to us, but you know it's an important
Speaker 1: for you to finally, I don't know, bury the hatchet
Speaker 1: with Sydney in this her final show. Well, let me
Speaker 1: tell you where the hatchet actually Live. Sydney is an
Speaker 1: ultra talent who we were lucky to have grace us
Speaker 1: with her presence as a producer for two stints. They
Speaker 1: were pristine. The hatchet lies with an NFL media managerial
Speaker 1: contingent that could not compel her to stay in time.
Speaker 1: That is where the hatchet lies. I could go on,
Speaker 1: but it would not be good for my career. Don't
Speaker 1: get fired, individuals. Yeah, well, I mean, well said it
Speaker 1: is Mark, It's well said. We we wish it would
Speaker 1: have worked out differently. I think it should be said
Speaker 1: that Sidney has landed absolutely on our feet with a
Speaker 1: great new job back at home in Utah. So everything
Speaker 1: is great on that end. But Mark, do you have
Speaker 1: any uh, Sydney, why don't you you and Mark talk
Speaker 1: it out. As your last chance to talk on the show,
Speaker 1: We're gonna get out of the way here. Earlier in
Speaker 1: the season, you know, there were some Carrie Underwood things
Speaker 1: that went down, and I just would like to apologize
Speaker 1: for that right here publicly on the air. I like
Speaker 1: that you limit that only to this season. That's happened
Speaker 1: multiple times. My concern for you, Sydney, and it really
Speaker 1: is just more of a a brotherly big brotherly concern
Speaker 1: is your materialism you are. I saw what happened to
Speaker 1: you in Los Angeles. You came here and you saw
Speaker 1: the listen. A little bit of recognition could propel you
Speaker 1: into a producer's chair. And then when suddenly the car
Speaker 1: breaks down you have some mishap with some sort of
Speaker 1: material object, listeners will swoop in and they'll pay for it.
Speaker 1: They'll just carry you around on a cloud. I mean,
Speaker 1: maybe we think a little bit about our concern with
Speaker 1: money and material objects. You were going back to a
Speaker 1: very pure place Utah just was there in Salt Lake
Speaker 1: City in the airport. I can smell the pjority in Utah.
Speaker 1: Maybe get back to that wholesome place. If if I
Speaker 1: were you, just maybe shrug l a off of you.
Speaker 1: The smell of it, the stink of it, and the
Speaker 1: managerial stink there is, Yeah, there is something to it.
Speaker 1: The kingpin type analogy here that or parallels where you
Speaker 1: were the Randy quaid uh in this scenario. And you
Speaker 1: came to l A and you're around all us dirt eggs,
Speaker 1: and now you've got to get back in the in
Speaker 1: that movie was Amish Country. Now and this you're going
Speaker 1: back to Utah where you're you're away from all this filth,
Speaker 1: and that's a good thing, right. So yeah, going back
Speaker 1: to my roots, trying to remember, you know, who I
Speaker 1: am and where I came from, and you know, and
Speaker 1: working at at Brigham Young University, I mean, basically the
Speaker 1: purest place on earth. What about Disney, Yeah, I mean
Speaker 1: it's a good point, Sydney. I did see like a
Speaker 1: massive like cropping up of Disney images on Sydney's Instagram
Speaker 1: and other various social media accounts. That part's gonna get
Speaker 1: washed away. But I do think you're going back to
Speaker 1: a really special place. I you know, listen, I returned
Speaker 1: to work with an ax in my hand and acts
Speaker 1: of fire and it will be aimed at management, Sydney.
Speaker 1: I know you're not serious. This ends when I say
Speaker 1: it ends. The thing I like about this stalker, maybe
Speaker 1: Mickey will follow me home. Well, you know, Disney at home,
Speaker 1: You're you're almost given. Mickey mix signals Sydney knowing that
Speaker 1: she's leaving. She's not wasting any time she's on a
Speaker 1: flight Sunday morning, she's out of here. She has been
Speaker 1: to Disney World three times in the last six days. Ny,
Speaker 1: She's she's getting as many. I'm watching you right. You
Speaker 1: turn around and Sully's dead with four teen stab wounds.
Speaker 1: He's hanging upside down in the production. Mark. By the way,
Speaker 1: Mark your thoughts on Ryan Grigson Um being hired by
Speaker 1: the Browns real quick. Well, as long as he's stashed
Speaker 1: deep down the org chart, just like in our own company,
Speaker 1: I'd be fine with that very you know, hard to
Speaker 1: make high level decisions if you're deep down on the ladder.
Speaker 1: I don't overall, It's just it's a little disquieting. I
Speaker 1: didn't need that on my vacation. And all right, any
Speaker 1: final thoughts Mark, before you go. Sydney's last show today,
Speaker 1: I was Sydney, Well, Sydney, you are. We We've had,
Speaker 1: I think at this point sixteen seventeen producers, we've had
Speaker 1: some good ones. She is at the top of the list.
Speaker 1: And no matter what the decision, I'm very happy for you.
Speaker 1: I think you're going to go on and do great things,
Speaker 1: and I hope you come back and visit us and
Speaker 1: Sydney we love you. And there is no ax. The
Speaker 1: ax is for someone else, and they're going to feel
Speaker 1: it's terrifying alright, Marca enjoyed the rest. That was like
Speaker 1: both extremely sweet terrifying as that's Mark. That's Mark. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's exactly right. That's why we love them. Um, all right,
Speaker 1: so there you go, Sydney. How is that? That's great?
Speaker 1: I feel at peace now that's been resolved. Carrie Underwood thing,
Speaker 1: Uh what can you just refresh my memory on that? Um?
Speaker 1: I would love to. Yeah, I'm just trying to jog back.
Speaker 1: And I wish you would hit him with the one before.
Speaker 1: Remember that would not have been good for you Knowloure
Speaker 1: Um hit us. At some point during the show said
Speaker 1: all right, let's move on. Uh, it is time to
Speaker 1: talk about Greg wrote a banger. He's not gonna brag
Speaker 1: about it all. Brag form what matters and what doesn't
Speaker 1: during O t A season, the first full week of
Speaker 1: O t S are in the books, and we're gonna
Speaker 1: go down a list here and really dig in, uh
Speaker 1: with what's going on? And you know, like I said,
Speaker 1: should people really be paying attention? Let's start with Brock Osweiler.
Speaker 1: All right, Brock, who, of course, now speaking of the Browns,
Speaker 1: is John just I just want to a basic baseline,
Speaker 1: give me an idea. Do you know what's going on
Speaker 1: with brock I do. This is something I know about.
Speaker 1: It was a very NBA trade because they wanted to
Speaker 1: so I know all about this. Barnewell predicted it, uh
Speaker 1: and came to fruition. I think it's amazing. I also
Speaker 1: think it's amazing that brock Oswalder still believes in brock
Speaker 1: Oswilder Like, good for you. I guess somebody show some
Speaker 1: some people believe. There are people out there that believe
Speaker 1: that the Browns might even read Bill Barnwell's column and
Speaker 1: then and followed that path. But anyway, brock Oswiler is
Speaker 1: now in a situation where he's either the second or
Speaker 1: third string quarterback the Browns or won't make the Browns uh.
Speaker 1: And he met with the media and a lot of
Speaker 1: things have changed since last year when he was the
Speaker 1: unquestioned number one guy that was supposed to be getting
Speaker 1: the Texans over the hump. So he had this slightly
Speaker 1: awkward exchange with a Cleveland based sports reporter. Are you
Speaker 1: good enough to be a starting quarterback in this league?
Speaker 1: I mean absolutely absolutely why? I think the proof is
Speaker 1: in the film for the past two years. But some
Speaker 1: people would say the proof out from last year. That's okay,
Speaker 1: that's awkward. Yeah, he didn't as bad as I spect.
Speaker 1: The reporter didn't need to come back with that last Yeah,
Speaker 1: the reporter's got to calm down a little. He was
Speaker 1: trying to seek out a confrontation with the guy. Um
Speaker 1: he got buried for the film last year. Would you
Speaker 1: believe in? I will tell you what the film is.
Speaker 1: He I think what he's getting at and he got
Speaker 1: killed on Twitter for this and okay, rightfully so uh
Speaker 1: and West and I have had our battles about whether
Speaker 1: he led the Texans to the playoffs. But he had
Speaker 1: some moments. I'll sight the game in Mexico City against
Speaker 1: the Raiders. I'm not saying he played greater the laser game,
Speaker 1: so he's probably thinking about that or a couple other moments.
Speaker 1: There were no moments in my mind really in Houston,
Speaker 1: and he if maybe in his mind he said the
Speaker 1: film the last two years, so he's definitely including that.
Speaker 1: Denver film got John Oway to offer him sixteen million
Speaker 1: dollars a year, and it got Houston to offer him
Speaker 1: eighteen million dollars a year, so people thought he was
Speaker 1: pretty good. Let me make it clear I'm not saying
Speaker 1: the proof is in the film, trying to think what
Speaker 1: he was thinking when he had a couple of moments
Speaker 1: here and there last year, But most he gets paid
Speaker 1: sixteen million dollars, So I guess you could say whatever
Speaker 1: you want. But that's also a like as reporters, right,
Speaker 1: I've I've been at a lot of these and you're
Speaker 1: talking to athletes, and like, what do you expect him
Speaker 1: to say? Right hand saying like he was trying to
Speaker 1: get the reporters trying to get a little nugget, like
Speaker 1: a little conversation where a confrontation going. If you're brock Oswalder,
Speaker 1: what are you supposed to say? No, man, I suck
Speaker 1: you are right. I can't believe that that was a
Speaker 1: bad idea. He said that later too, He's like, you
Speaker 1: wouldn't have any respect for me if I said I
Speaker 1: want to come in here and be a backup and
Speaker 1: I say, yeah, this little exchange doesn't matter. But this
Speaker 1: whole brock Oswilder thing does matter a little bit because
Speaker 1: listening to Hugh Jackson, like, I just see that brock
Speaker 1: Osweiler is going to be starting games for them. Maybe
Speaker 1: it's not week one, but I think he's gonna get
Speaker 1: his turn. I can't believe it. Okay, moving on, Sheldon Richardson,
Speaker 1: the Jets defensive tackle, the Battle Jets defensive tackle. He's
Speaker 1: been on the trade block for about six months now,
Speaker 1: still a member of the Jets. He showed up uh
Speaker 1: for O T A. S. And of course, if you're
Speaker 1: a Jets fan, you know very well that after the
Speaker 1: Week three loss against the Chiefs, that is the famous
Speaker 1: Ryan Fitzpatrick's sixth interception game. Uh, there was a big
Speaker 1: confrontation between Richardson and Brandon Marshall in the locker room
Speaker 1: after the game. It got so heated that Todd Bowles
Speaker 1: had to come into the locker room and shut it
Speaker 1: down from becoming free for all. UH, full fisticuff situation
Speaker 1: is how it's been reported. And and that was and
Speaker 1: again this is the story of the two thousand and
Speaker 1: sixteen Jets that broke the team. They the locker room
Speaker 1: was done after that and only got worse. And Sheldon
Speaker 1: Richardson spoke with reporters for the first time, and this
Speaker 1: is what he had to say. He clearly wasn't ready
Speaker 1: to completely move on from how he was portrayed last year.
Speaker 1: Locker rooms a whole lot easier to get. He's thirsty.
Speaker 1: I just say, you got fifty reasons why I ain't
Speaker 1: wise better Brandon Marshall's number fifteen. So there you go.
Speaker 1: I don't know who the woman was in the background
Speaker 1: that that felt the need to compliment Sheldon, well done,
Speaker 1: well done. It's like unnecessary, but it was. I think
Speaker 1: there were guys also complimenting him too. You know, you
Speaker 1: don't have to turn this into a woman's rights is yo.
Speaker 1: I'm talking about that particular woman A little at the top,
Speaker 1: little O T T. I'm gonna help you out here. Yeah,
Speaker 1: got back away from this part of it. Yeah, did
Speaker 1: you do the Jets lead the league in locker room five?
Speaker 1: That's two years in a row, right, Smith cracked. I
Speaker 1: love that about the Jets. It's consistently the most interesting
Speaker 1: thing about them. Their dys function makes them interesting. Love
Speaker 1: locker room I mean, frankly, just happens with the It
Speaker 1: happens with everybody. The only thing is how often do
Speaker 1: you hear about it? I mean, it's not unusual to
Speaker 1: have a locker room fight. It's more unusual for it
Speaker 1: to get out and for us to hear about it,
Speaker 1: but when it does happens, that's one of my favorites.
Speaker 1: Love him. I loved him saying yea, because he's That's
Speaker 1: what this whole article or idea was sort of like
Speaker 1: everyone is so thirsty for information in May because people
Speaker 1: are such big football fans even though there's not real
Speaker 1: news to talk about now that they're all back on
Speaker 1: the field, we just have to like make up a lot.
Speaker 1: That's fun. It's fun. There's a difference between there's a difference.
Speaker 1: He gave us what we wanted to. He gave up.
Speaker 1: There's a difference between the reporter and the reporter at
Speaker 1: an in Jersey. I thought, yes, but it is the
Speaker 1: same type of thing that people are just want new info.
Speaker 1: We want to spin forward. Uh, it could have been
Speaker 1: a man like if you think about it, it is wild,
Speaker 1: like people say, like I think as a whole everybody
Speaker 1: in there right people are saying, like journalism in trouble,
Speaker 1: like you know, we're all gonna lose their jobs. Meanwhile,
Speaker 1: there's thirty five people in the Jets locker room, like
Speaker 1: surrounding their defensive tackle on maybe you know twenty because
Speaker 1: guys are out practicing in shorts. They're not even playing football.
Speaker 1: They're just kind of like jogging around and we got four.
Speaker 1: It doesn't matter. It's brutal. That's brutal. Being in the
Speaker 1: reporter's role though, at this time of year and you're
Speaker 1: in there and you're searching for something to talk about
Speaker 1: and write about and report on. It's awful. Like in
Speaker 1: the comments section, you'll see somebody say, oh, it must
Speaker 1: have been a slow newsday, like two was short. I
Speaker 1: would say, it doesn't matter. Sheldon's got a little fire
Speaker 1: in his belly and make the ship on the shoulder.
Speaker 1: He's playing for a contract. He sure is moving on
Speaker 1: a couple of notable players back on the field. Let's
Speaker 1: start with Rob Gronkowski. Gronk who is coming off his
Speaker 1: seven thousandth surgery. Uh, this latest one was on his
Speaker 1: on his back. Of course, it wiped out the back
Speaker 1: half of his season. And how much do we get
Speaker 1: what kind of I'm looking at right now, Actually, I'm
Speaker 1: curious how much he's actually done. He's been cleared, he's
Speaker 1: on the he was on the field of practice. So
Speaker 1: that's a really good sign. And what I really think,
Speaker 1: I honestly feel this way, and my patriot hatred runs
Speaker 1: deep but Gronk. I've always liked Um and Gronk. I
Speaker 1: feel like it's a pivotal year for him. I feel
Speaker 1: like if he doesn't stay healthy again, and the and
Speaker 1: the Patriots are as as we know, pretty hardcore when
Speaker 1: it comes to business decisions. They might say, you make
Speaker 1: a lot of money. They just restructured that deal. Uh,
Speaker 1: we don't know if he can deal with another view
Speaker 1: of of you being hurt. He's been hurt a lot.
Speaker 1: The foretelling of the end of Gronk is in your predictions,
Speaker 1: like your lineage of amazing predictions, like right next to
Speaker 1: the Tom Brady prediction, this is I love that you're
Speaker 1: calling your shot on this. I'm not. I don't want
Speaker 1: it to happen because I like rock and I and
Speaker 1: I want him to be on the radar. But how
Speaker 1: much how much does his body have left when it
Speaker 1: seems to be breaking down every year? Now? I think
Speaker 1: the Patriots are worried about it. I think you're thinking
Speaker 1: the same way. He's not a normal He's not a regular.
Speaker 1: What is he twenty nine by now? I think he's
Speaker 1: younger than he's he's uh, yeah, he just turned twenty eight.
Speaker 1: Not a normal eight year old in terms of you
Speaker 1: would not expect his career to last another five years.
Speaker 1: I think that's fair. His body right now seems good
Speaker 1: enough to celebrate a touchdown with a reverse chess bump.
Speaker 1: ESPN is reporting, so I think that's the reverse chess bump.
Speaker 1: That would be a back bump, wouldn't it. Yeah, right,
Speaker 1: wouldn't the reverse of that be? I think it matters
Speaker 1: though I say this, this is kind of the only thing,
Speaker 1: almost the only thing that does matter in O T
Speaker 1: A S Is you get proof of guys, whether they're
Speaker 1: healthy or not. He has had very few off seasons
Speaker 1: where he's been on the field. So J. J. Watt
Speaker 1: is back doing everything. Gronk is back on the field
Speaker 1: doing everything. Keenan Allen's back on the field doing everything.
Speaker 1: That's like proof because the coaches don't tell you anything.
Speaker 1: They're never straight, so you only know it if they're
Speaker 1: if they're out doing it. And ye, by the way,
Speaker 1: you're throwing me some like sexism shade collegue. Did you
Speaker 1: see no? Because it's a I'm transitioning to um the transition.
Speaker 1: Yeah to Rob Gronkowski's latest video. Uh yeah, he was
Speaker 1: in a new video with a Vegas d DJ who No,
Speaker 1: I would have put him quite at that level in
Speaker 1: terms of popularity, but he is. He does this thing
Speaker 1: on the on the strip. Is this the song or
Speaker 1: is this this would be what the song might sound
Speaker 1: like if we had even the slightest amount of wiggle
Speaker 1: room for playing music that has copied righted on the show,
Speaker 1: even though we absolutely could, we have to play this.
Speaker 1: Let's turn this up a little bit. It's gronk like
Speaker 1: in a tank top with glow sticks, a champagne top.
Speaker 1: I think, yeah, the video, Colleen, since you ask, amazing,
Speaker 1: it is about a dream he's having. He's trying to
Speaker 1: talk to a woman. The art it's three low uh.
Speaker 1: He's trying to speak to a woman at a bar
Speaker 1: in Vegas, but his mind keeps on drifting. And the
Speaker 1: things that a drift drifts to is doing a car
Speaker 1: wash with a bunch of bikini cloud women, being being
Speaker 1: the centerpiece of a sushi dish um uh him and
Speaker 1: seared soaping him up. He looks like a Hot Boys
Speaker 1: video from when I was in high school. It looks
Speaker 1: like definitely has sort of a yeah a callback either
Speaker 1: eighties or looks like every Hearty's commercial ever. Yeah, and
Speaker 1: then it ends with a pillow fight in a bouncy
Speaker 1: house with women in lingerie. So now let's go after Gronk.
Speaker 1: Let me out of this. What I'm saying, Grounk cuts
Speaker 1: a lot of passes for being Gronk. On the other hand,
Speaker 1: like what I if he was going to do something
Speaker 1: um smarter and more sophisticated and clever, that would be
Speaker 1: entirely off brand. Yeah, like if he wasn't just giggling
Speaker 1: at certain numbers him right now. Yeah, it's very sure.
Speaker 1: That's like a sex in the City episode rip off.
Speaker 1: What do you think his business um manager? Like if
Speaker 1: if if you come to Grunt with an idea and yeah,
Speaker 1: Mojo Rawley, that wrestler that he's best friends with, shows
Speaker 1: up in everything, soy sauce on very strange. Do you
Speaker 1: think his business manager has ever said no to anything?
Speaker 1: Does he have a business manager? Moving on? Moving on?
Speaker 1: Teddy Bridgewater yea Teddy Bridgewater trying to make it back
Speaker 1: from that devastating knee injury suffered last August. Uh. The
Speaker 1: Vikings posted a video on Tuesday afternoon, a forty second
Speaker 1: clip that showed Bridgewater uh making progress. Uh. It was
Speaker 1: a slow motion but taking various drops firing football's. Uh.
Speaker 1: During O t A s he was wearing a large
Speaker 1: brace and sleeve on a surgically repaired knee. Uh, this one, Greg,
Speaker 1: this one matters right because there there was talk we
Speaker 1: still don't know how ready is. Everybody's wearing shorts, but
Speaker 1: just the fact that he's on the field at all
Speaker 1: tells us that he's made progress from August until now. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's a huge surprise. It's it's it's strange how it
Speaker 1: came out that they released like a hype video essentially
Speaker 1: with like inspirational music, but the meat, you know, it
Speaker 1: happens in no no nofers a little different than grons
Speaker 1: like they were. They wanted to make it clear the
Speaker 1: next day that he's not practicing like that was sort
Speaker 1: of part of his rehab. He's taking some reps as
Speaker 1: part of his rehab, but he's not really out there
Speaker 1: fully practicing. He just got clear to move laterally. But
Speaker 1: it's sure sound. It sure looks like he's gonna be
Speaker 1: playing football, And people who were talking about that it
Speaker 1: could be a career ender again or this year, you
Speaker 1: think not even why even guess, Yeah, there was still
Speaker 1: there was a real thought out there that he was
Speaker 1: undone doone. It was that an injury, and it could
Speaker 1: still be the case, but we're seeing signs of progress.
Speaker 1: The one thing that works in his favor. When you
Speaker 1: see these type of catastrophic injuries, a lot of times
Speaker 1: it is the skill player running back. We saw that
Speaker 1: with Marcus Lattimore Willison mc gaie, who actually came back
Speaker 1: from it. But usually it's in a position where it's
Speaker 1: vital to have cutting ability and speed and you never
Speaker 1: get all that back. Bridgewater is probably never gonna be
Speaker 1: the same athlete as he was before. Who knows, but
Speaker 1: probably not, but a quarterback position, you might be able
Speaker 1: to survive this. Not that Culpepper actually had a similar injury.
Speaker 1: He didn't. He did make it back. Was never close
Speaker 1: to the same player. No, I just saw your reaction
Speaker 1: when he mentioned Dante Culpepper was No. I was just
Speaker 1: thinking what Dan said that he was not the same player.
Speaker 1: Bridgewater was a great scrambler. I mean the fact that
Speaker 1: he's on the field now, I would you would think,
Speaker 1: would give some hope that, who knows, maybe maybe he
Speaker 1: would be playing at some point again this year. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I think a lot of the worry, too, was about
Speaker 1: possible nerve damage with the a c L like Jalen
Speaker 1: Smith had, But it doesn't look like that's going to
Speaker 1: be an issue. G GC, don't no, don't give into this.
Speaker 1: GC is not a thing. It's totally a thing. Um.
Speaker 1: I don't know if have we talked about on the podcast.
Speaker 1: John Gonzalez did right now. I was gonna trying to
Speaker 1: give us backstory. I've been shaming back stories in general.
Speaker 1: So I decided not to good call GC. That's tell
Speaker 1: the world. Put it on a T shirt. Let's move
Speaker 1: some munity on a T shirt. You guys came for
Speaker 1: the FOURTI birthday. You saw a number of things, not
Speaker 1: the least of which was one of my friends made
Speaker 1: a T shirt. Buddy Staley did it to me too.
Speaker 1: I'm like, it's not a thing if it's on a
Speaker 1: T shirt, Hey Staley, Nice team. Eric Decker Speaking of surprises,
Speaker 1: Eric Decker, uh participate participated in some Jets team drills. Uh,
Speaker 1: wearing a non contact jersey, but was moving well. Made
Speaker 1: a diving catch at one point. Everybody's excited. Uh. Eric
Speaker 1: Decker stuck on a bad Jets team and a subject
Speaker 1: of potential trade rumors as well. Kind of makes sense
Speaker 1: for him to get moved. But if if he's not
Speaker 1: gonna be moved, him being on the field and may uh,
Speaker 1: you know, it tells us that he'll probably be ready
Speaker 1: for the start of the season, which was also not
Speaker 1: necessarily assumed when he first went down with a double
Speaker 1: shoulder hip surgery last season. That matters has to be
Speaker 1: in New York was saying that you could miss all
Speaker 1: of training camp as recently as two months ago. He's
Speaker 1: definitely beaten that the way. I definitely think Eric Decker, uh,
Speaker 1: if he's healthy and it looks like he's going in
Speaker 1: the right direction, could help a contender in a big way.
Speaker 1: And we don't see wide receiver trades in the middle
Speaker 1: of a season a lot, but let's see that maybe
Speaker 1: you can move him to and get a team that
Speaker 1: really wants looking to get over the hunt hump on offense,
Speaker 1: maybe get a second or third round pick. Yeah, I
Speaker 1: don't know how much it matters in terms of like
Speaker 1: the Jets since they're rebuilding right now. But because there's
Speaker 1: so many young guys, especially in that wide receiver group,
Speaker 1: I mean, you look at them, there's so many rookies
Speaker 1: and second year guys Quincy and Noon Wall, Robbie Anderson.
Speaker 1: Not a bad It's not a bad group. They have
Speaker 1: a lot of bad just not they. You were all
Speaker 1: about their wide receiver group last year and now still
Speaker 1: that's right. I was. I was really big on Quincy
Speaker 1: and Noon Wall. Yeah. By the way, bad job by
Speaker 1: your Eagles. The Noon Temple guy correct undrafted, he's in
Speaker 1: your backyard. I talked to DJ about this movie and
Speaker 1: a Temple guy. Oh you know what I'm thinking of
Speaker 1: Anderson excitement. Where did Quincy? And I'm not sure he
Speaker 1: was not actually drafted, but um, Robbie Anderson, who's another
Speaker 1: Jet prospect. I really like a Temple guy undrafted? And
Speaker 1: I remember talking to Sticks before the season started and
Speaker 1: he was like, the Eagles are having major wide receiver issues.
Speaker 1: This guy's a little playmaker and they just let him.
Speaker 1: They're just waiting on Nelson and I got order, remember
Speaker 1: that he has to catch the ball and then they're
Speaker 1: gonna be fine. It's great moving on Roberto Aguay. You know,
Speaker 1: I'm excited about this Buck's kickers. You talk about the
Speaker 1: US all the time. Camp freaking wait and John's clapping
Speaker 1: his hands. I'm this is this is wonderful. I love
Speaker 1: this guy, Roberto Oguayo, the second round pick kicker that
Speaker 1: was the second round pick of the Bucks last year.
Speaker 1: Let it raps it. I'm tired of the kicker talk too,
Speaker 1: so no at least sing it though. Yeah, yeah, that's
Speaker 1: all right. Hit it again. You can hit me on
Speaker 1: it again. I don't care. I won't freak. That's it.
Speaker 1: You're fired immediately after this show. Um Roberto Aguayo one
Speaker 1: for four kicking on narrow uprights on Tuesday, and Nick Fulk,
Speaker 1: who was the veteran brought in with a seven thousand
Speaker 1: dollar guarantee coming his way, bang four for four on
Speaker 1: field goals. So right away it's over. I mean, I'm
Speaker 1: not gonna say the matters, but it certainly doesn't doesn't
Speaker 1: not matter. Let me go ahead the one to answer
Speaker 1: that it matters. This is the most matter of all
Speaker 1: the matters that we've had in this question. It's a
Speaker 1: kicker conversation about this poor guy who was drafted way
Speaker 1: too high and stumbled through various concerns last year. Now
Speaker 1: can't even make it uh without any pressure. He missed
Speaker 1: and that's the end. He missed three kicks through and
Speaker 1: that was eight feet hydrama. It's quarterback competition and competition,
Speaker 1: it's tough. These are on the narrow goal post to
Speaker 1: like there's articles and dead spin. You wrote an article
Speaker 1: the Tampa Bay Times is like it starts off his
Speaker 1: season on the wrong foot, Like what happened on the
Speaker 1: wrong foot? Like what happened on Wednesday and Thursday? Maybe
Speaker 1: he made some kicks, then it doesn't Matter's the problem
Speaker 1: with the t A that it does? It does speak
Speaker 1: to an issue, But I think it does matter. It's
Speaker 1: not the end for Robbie, but it does matter for
Speaker 1: his confidence, I think, because then, well it's not getting better.
Speaker 1: Here's a here's a dispatch from Joe bucks fan dot com.
Speaker 1: Who do they do a nice job covering? Here is
Speaker 1: doctor Joe bucks fan many times? All right, no, here
Speaker 1: we go. Ready, here's the exact dispatch from Joe bucks
Speaker 1: fan dot com. The first clanked, The first clank the
Speaker 1: right field goal post from thirty yards. After his third effort,
Speaker 1: practice went silent. You could hear a pin drop. Ninety
Speaker 1: players plus coaches, many just b sing and drinking water
Speaker 1: during the kicking period. We're quiet. This is a thing.
Speaker 1: It's a real thing going on with this team. This
Speaker 1: poor kid is two months away from hurling whiskey bottles
Speaker 1: at the wall. It is coming up fast on him.
Speaker 1: And wait, and I actually have I have an exclusive.
Speaker 1: This is This is a a t N Media inside exclusive.
Speaker 1: You didn't think I had it for this, but we're
Speaker 1: gonna take you inside robbi Oguire's head during those four
Speaker 1: field goal kicks. Ready, I suck, I suck, I suck, suck.
Speaker 1: That's in there. You don't want to be in that
Speaker 1: guy's head. It's a tough situation in there. What are
Speaker 1: you looking for? You're looking for him. I was wering
Speaker 1: what it was like when he when he did make
Speaker 1: that one, and how did you get access to that?
Speaker 1: It's pretty good. I don't I never reveal my sources.
Speaker 1: I will tell you it was a triple source situation.
Speaker 1: That's impressive. Moving on, Aaron Donald, not at o t
Speaker 1: as for the Rams and please Greg shoot this one down. Yeah,
Speaker 1: this is This was on my list of things we
Speaker 1: don't need to cover over the next three months, so
Speaker 1: we can be short, like spoiler alert, he's going to
Speaker 1: sign the contract. We don't need daily updates and it
Speaker 1: doesn't really matter that one of the best players in
Speaker 1: the league isn't practicing in shorts and voluntary work. In
Speaker 1: the end, he's going to sign the contract and we'll
Speaker 1: all move on. He's really good the Rams. No, he's
Speaker 1: good the Rams. No. He wants a new deal and
Speaker 1: he deserves the Raids, so they got to do it
Speaker 1: to get him back on the field. Uh, Novarro Bowman
Speaker 1: expects to start? And why is this notable? Greg? You
Speaker 1: wrote about this? Why is Bowman saying that he expects
Speaker 1: to start? Uh? Why is that something that we should
Speaker 1: care about? Why does it matter? Why? I thought it
Speaker 1: mattered that Kyle Shanahan came out and he made it
Speaker 1: clear Navarro Bowman, who's pretty much the biggest best leader
Speaker 1: on that team, that the best player on that team
Speaker 1: for many years, doesn't even have a starting job guaranteed.
Speaker 1: He said, one of their good players is not going
Speaker 1: to be playing a full complement of snaps. He was
Speaker 1: talking about him, the first round pick, Reuben Foster, Malcolm Smith,
Speaker 1: who they gave a lot of money into it free agency,
Speaker 1: And it's this kind of that new coach move that like,
Speaker 1: if you weren't here before I got here, watch out.
Speaker 1: Don't they all have to. You're on the radar. Watch it, Gonzo,
Speaker 1: you're pointing at me. I was not here. He's on
Speaker 1: the sodar, is not we you know he's nice enough
Speaker 1: to come in here and not paying him anything. Bowman's
Speaker 1: gonna be good. Point you're not paying me? Doing it
Speaker 1: great now? And finally, uh O t A s what's
Speaker 1: what matters? What doesn't? CJ. Spiller says, it's quote been
Speaker 1: a while since I felt this good. This is all
Speaker 1: I've been burned so many times by c J. Spiller
Speaker 1: in the past two It's funny that CI Spiller Trope
Speaker 1: is a specific trope alert like c J. Spiller is
Speaker 1: his own Trumpe article for trop within a Trumpe article,
Speaker 1: four teen B of the Troupe commitments is a c J.
Speaker 1: Spiller comment Around the time of year, it always happens,
Speaker 1: and people are. People are buying this one too. They're
Speaker 1: eating some of the articles Kansas City and World like
Speaker 1: people are the time. But did you get in on
Speaker 1: the ground floor for the c J. Spiller Fantasy season
Speaker 1: of two thousand twelve. Because I did it. I enjoy myself.
Speaker 1: But he's never approached. That was the only time ever
Speaker 1: that was the only time that he did anything that
Speaker 1: you expected or hope C. J. Spiller would do. Um
Speaker 1: all right, there you go um o t as we
Speaker 1: told you what mattered, what didn't to help the audience.
Speaker 1: That's what we do. Ganzas there in his money. It's
Speaker 1: a big show. And finally yeh double my salary. And
Speaker 1: now it's time. And now it's time to say goodbye.
Speaker 1: And I hope you have boys to man cute up? Um,
Speaker 1: well we do have something. You do have something cute
Speaker 1: up if if, if you could Sydney this year, last day.
Speaker 1: I just want to end it. Uh a little too.
Speaker 1: It's been seven hours in day. It's pretty good. Since
Speaker 1: it took your love a way? Are you doing to
Speaker 1: do that? Right now? I go about every night and sleep.
Speaker 1: I have the same and again I think here, since
Speaker 1: he took your love way, Ah, that you've been gone,
Speaker 1: I can do whatever I want. I can see whoever
Speaker 1: I choose what. Yeah, I can eat my ten in
Speaker 1: fancy restaurant. But nothing, I said, nothing can take away
Speaker 1: these blues. Yeah, think compares nothing come compared to you.
Speaker 1: This this was all worth it. There you go said, Yeah,
Speaker 1: that was for you. We could keep that playing underneath,
Speaker 1: it's time to say goodbye. We got three though, I
Speaker 1: think pretty pretty good. Well, sometimes you just think, you
Speaker 1: know what, we're all the weeks and months of practice
Speaker 1: and rehearsal is worth it, and it all, it all
Speaker 1: comes together. It was like, take about Easter Sunday. It
Speaker 1: was like, well, you're gonna spend time with the families
Speaker 1: like no, Colin and I have to rehearse like I
Speaker 1: don't even like to sing Happy Birthday, and you make
Speaker 1: me sing on the pod almost every week. Sid Um,
Speaker 1: We're so sad to see you go, but very excited
Speaker 1: for everything that comes next. You are a four person
Speaker 1: mount rushmore. Then you will be missed, you will. You
Speaker 1: really are the best producer that we've had. We'll miss you.
Speaker 1: We'll keep in touch with you, of course, but I'm glad.
Speaker 1: I'm glad we have this time, and I'm glad you're
Speaker 1: going on to better things. We love you said, and
Speaker 1: anytime you ever want to go to Disney, I'm here
Speaker 1: for you. It's the best offer I've ever heard. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I will be lost without you. You'll never get away
Speaker 1: from me ever. It's just getting emotional and uh, Sidney,
Speaker 1: thank you so much. Yeah, thanks guys. Uh. Yeah, I
Speaker 1: don't want to say too much because I'm gonna get
Speaker 1: choked up. Um, I'm gonna miss you. Guys. Did a
Speaker 1: little thing would Yeah, it's it's the end of an era.
Speaker 1: And Derek Carr, by the way, is an excellent quarterback. Yeah,
Speaker 1: the Raiders are going to a great team. Alright. So
Speaker 1: we love you, we really do, and we're very happy
Speaker 1: for you. And next time I see you, I expect
Speaker 1: you to be married to a blonde haired man and
Speaker 1: have two kids. You're going to come back as our boss,
Speaker 1: will come back with the family. You could stay with
Speaker 1: my family um in in Culver City and then go
Speaker 1: to Disneyland all weekend. Perfect alright, Alright, that's it standing
Speaker 1: Around the NFL Podcast in the end of an era.
Speaker 1: Let's face it, we will move forward, but we will
Speaker 1: not forget our great produce. Sir. That's it for the
Speaker 1: Thursday edition of the Around the NFL Podcast. We'll be
Speaker 1: back on Tuesday. Tuesday, So enjoy your Memorial Day weekend,
Speaker 1: everybody here in the States and overseas. Just enjoy your weekend.
Speaker 1: Have a good time, treat yourself, go to the beach
Speaker 1: in Ireland like one of our listeners, is Dan hands
Speaker 1: Is signing off four God, so thanks buddy, this is great. Yeah,
Speaker 1: Countie Fox, the old boss, and there she is one
Speaker 1: last time. Nothing compares to you do money behind the
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