Speaker 1: The Around the NFL Podcast works out with Dan Campbell.
Speaker 1: Welcome back to another edition of the Around the NFL Podcast.
Speaker 1: My name is Dan Hansas, and I am joined by
Speaker 1: a room filled with some heroes my goodness to my left,
Speaker 1: Chris Westling back in the house. To my right, Greg Rosenthal,
Speaker 1: and a very special guest sitting in the Mark Sesslor chair.
Speaker 1: You may know him from up to the minute on
Speaker 1: NFL Network. I know him as one of the stars
Speaker 1: of the film I am. dB had to label with
Speaker 1: three separate categories Drama, Comma Horror, Comma thriller two thousand,
Speaker 1: seventeens directorial debut Maybe by Jason Eric Pearlman, Threshold, Patrick Claiban.
Speaker 1: What's up? Boys? Is that accurate? Hey Dan, I'm I'm
Speaker 1: not a the director at all. That was by far
Speaker 1: the best, Hey Dan, way better than any of Greg's attempts. Um, yeah,
Speaker 1: I was not. I played a role in Threshold. Jason
Speaker 1: Eric Perlman is the director, Yes, but the film Maybe
Speaker 1: was his debut. I haven't looked into his IMDb profile,
Speaker 1: but you do have one, and that's an a t
Speaker 1: n Insiderer exclusive. Baby, I come up from taping this
Speaker 1: this hit and I walked past Dan and he's got
Speaker 1: a picture. He's got my profile picture of his im
Speaker 1: of my IMDb page just sitting there with a bunch
Speaker 1: of words scribbled around it. It's like freaking Woodward and
Speaker 1: burn student here just pouring through the internet information. That's
Speaker 1: the entire IMDb page that this was your debut. How
Speaker 1: did this come about? Connections? My um, my wife is
Speaker 1: a lovely individual, and um, people are always willing to
Speaker 1: to share information with her. And somebody was thinking of
Speaker 1: of her and that turned to thinking of me. Um
Speaker 1: with with the cards too. I need somebody to pretend
Speaker 1: to be a newsperson, and um, it turns out I
Speaker 1: can do that. That's the one role that I can play.
Speaker 1: Uh yeah, you are you play the character newscaster? Do
Speaker 1: you have a line? I have several lines. Well, here's
Speaker 1: what's a little confusing to me, and you can check
Speaker 1: it out. Patrick Claiban on IMDb. Your image did sign
Speaker 1: up for this? First of all, you are a very
Speaker 1: good looking man. We all know that. But you're wearing
Speaker 1: what looks like a police swat gear. That's not the
Speaker 1: gear of a newsman. Is that from another project that
Speaker 1: we have We're not aware of yet. No, that that's
Speaker 1: from my original role as a newsman, before I was
Speaker 1: a sportsman. I um, I keep the picture around to
Speaker 1: prove that I do have police friends, so that, yeah,
Speaker 1: people can't say negative things about me. But but no,
Speaker 1: it's um uh we were doing a ride along. They
Speaker 1: gave us a vest Um, I took a phone call.
Speaker 1: Somebody took a picture of me. I thought it was
Speaker 1: a cool picture. Yeah, it's a good shot. Got a
Speaker 1: pencil in your ear, like any journal And so I struggle.
Speaker 1: I struggle with like vanity issues in that, like I
Speaker 1: don't have any Yeah, like I don't have a real
Speaker 1: high opinion of myself. So that that's the one picture
Speaker 1: that like, that's all in that it looks like you're
Speaker 1: taking control of a hostage situation. You've got it under control.
Speaker 1: Come out of this house now, And where can people
Speaker 1: see Threshold? Has it been released yet? Um, there's been
Speaker 1: some screenings in l A. You know, some preparation goes in.
Speaker 1: I probably could have plug the film a little bit
Speaker 1: more help help Jason O. But no, anyway, the Patrick
Speaker 1: Clayban and Threshold, but we know him here at um
Speaker 1: NFL Media as a different title and that's why, Well,
Speaker 1: it's good to catch up with Patrick again. Last time
Speaker 1: you were here was a few weeks back, Uh, Patrick,
Speaker 1: and I was actually out of the office that day,
Speaker 1: so I wanted to get my claibon on Uh. And
Speaker 1: the reason why specifically is um Patrick is here is
Speaker 1: because any you know, anyone can rag on a hot
Speaker 1: take gone wrong. But the true master is the man
Speaker 1: that I I I Christen the hot takes on Budsman. Uh.
Speaker 1: He's a man that can do it in real time.
Speaker 1: He'll do it in real time. And that's why Patrick
Speaker 1: Claiban is here today for the latest edition of you
Speaker 1: know what it is Trash Takes with Patrick Claiban. Glad
Speaker 1: to glad to bring you guys from takes. Uh. Last
Speaker 1: time we did this, it was draft season and people
Speaker 1: were you know it. Things really get get hot during
Speaker 1: draft season. There's always clear with themes. The NFL offseason
Speaker 1: is a little bit different, but they're still there. And
Speaker 1: you know, last time we played this, I give you
Speaker 1: guys three options. You can either you can retweet this person.
Speaker 1: This is hypothetically you're experiencing this in real time. I
Speaker 1: love this. I want to give you the experience that
Speaker 1: I share, you can retweet it, um, you can retweet
Speaker 1: it and mock it yep, or you can just straight
Speaker 1: up block the person as soon as you see this.
Speaker 1: You don't necessarily have any pre information whether or not
Speaker 1: this person sucks you. All you have is this tweet.
Speaker 1: So this decision. Yeah, that's where, by the way, where
Speaker 1: this would come later in the show, because that's a
Speaker 1: great tease, right man, Right there a man who will
Speaker 1: disassemble your hot takes purely for sport catcher Clay hot
Speaker 1: takes on Budsman. Uh So we'll do that a little
Speaker 1: bit later. But we do have some news to get to.
Speaker 1: We are, of course in the dark period now. Uh
Speaker 1: and uh, it's not much in terms of hard news
Speaker 1: to get to, but that doesn't mean there's nothing to
Speaker 1: talk about. Well all kind of means that economy, there's
Speaker 1: not a lot to talk about, but we will be
Speaker 1: talking about stuff. So we'll talk about what's going on
Speaker 1: the news. Eric Decker at the top of that list.
Speaker 1: Then we're gonna we're gonna get some trash takes going
Speaker 1: and away we go. But before we do that, I
Speaker 1: want to say hello to the man behind the glass,
Speaker 1: Sean Sullivan. What's up. So hey, guys, I'm stoked about
Speaker 1: this garbage Garbage Day's garbage is coming, Baby, It's coming,
Speaker 1: garbage day. It is here. I wish no, I believe.
Speaker 1: It's silent night. Um. It's a eighties um horror film
Speaker 1: that has a cult audience for being so bad part
Speaker 1: two it wasn't even part have alt audience for being
Speaker 1: bad summer worse than others. And those are the ones
Speaker 1: that end up being on the internet and YouTube, including
Speaker 1: that famous scene, um or infamous scene. All right, let's
Speaker 1: do some news. Get your act together, bro, your trash
Speaker 1: a little Debbie. She could have been working on that
Speaker 1: dis track right now. Greg, I'm happy to let that
Speaker 1: one lie. It's gone away, out of my life, put
Speaker 1: in the past. Um. Let's start with Eric Decker, who,
Speaker 1: of course was released by the Jets last week, and he,
Speaker 1: as you might, uh, you should not be a surprise
Speaker 1: that he quickly found work. Is the guy can still play,
Speaker 1: even coming off an injury thirty years old. Decker and
Speaker 1: the Tennessee Titans agreed to terms on a one year
Speaker 1: deal on Sunday, the team announced. Rap Sheet reported the
Speaker 1: deals were three point eight five million. According to a
Speaker 1: source and formed of the contract. And the move comes
Speaker 1: less than a week after the white out, as I said,
Speaker 1: was released by the Jets. And this happened quickly because
Speaker 1: he just he met with the Titans on Wednesday, a
Speaker 1: couple days later. Deal done, Greg, you wrote a banger.
Speaker 1: I implore everyone to check it out about the rise
Speaker 1: of the Titans UH on NFL dot com. Uh your
Speaker 1: thoughts about where Decker fits in in terms of being
Speaker 1: an important piece of this puzzle. He fits in perfectly
Speaker 1: because John Robinson, their general manager, looked at this roster
Speaker 1: and he knew it wasn't It wasn't ready. The wide
Speaker 1: receiver group and the secondary were not really ready to
Speaker 1: compete in the a see and he has attacked that aggressively.
Speaker 1: He did it in the draft with three pass catchers
Speaker 1: in the first three rounds, including Corey Davis. And I
Speaker 1: think Decker still has a lot to give. We talked
Speaker 1: about it last week as a as a potential quality
Speaker 1: starting wide receiver. So to add a veteran to Richard Matthews,
Speaker 1: and now you have Corey Davis, you have Taiwan Taylor,
Speaker 1: you have Delaney Walker. Of course, you don't need Decker
Speaker 1: to put yards up. He's just kind of one guy
Speaker 1: in the mix. And I love it. If you love
Speaker 1: Marcus Mariota like West does, to see him finally have
Speaker 1: some weapons around him is nice. The greatest thing Marcus
Speaker 1: Mariota ever did was get it out of his rookie
Speaker 1: season a lot. Can you name the Titans leading rusher
Speaker 1: and two leading wide receivers from Mariota's rookie season which
Speaker 1: was just two years ago? I can't, I can't remember.
Speaker 1: Walker would have been one of the leading receivers, but
Speaker 1: not wide outs, not two leading wide out in yards
Speaker 1: where Dorial Green, Beckham and Harry Douglas and the leading
Speaker 1: rusher was Antonio Andrews. Wow. So now they've got Demon,
Speaker 1: they've got DeMarco Murray, Derrick Henry, You've got Corey Davis
Speaker 1: and Taywan Taylor's rookies Decker and Delaney Walker, Richard Matthews. Solid.
Speaker 1: That is going from two thousand fifteen to two seventeen.
Speaker 1: That's about a dramatic of a makeover as you could
Speaker 1: possibly have in surrounding town. And you get to see
Speaker 1: a team make a move in free agency where we're
Speaker 1: watching these older guys kind of wait and wait and
Speaker 1: wait for weeks, and you're thinking a lot of these
Speaker 1: teams can get somebody that can contribute. And it's nice
Speaker 1: to see a team other than the New England Patriots
Speaker 1: say hey, man, you come play football for us. We'll
Speaker 1: give you a little bit of money, you will give
Speaker 1: you some incentives and then maybe we can have some
Speaker 1: success without, you know, trying to fail for a whale
Speaker 1: or tank for Shank or whatever for Sam, posing for Roses,
Speaker 1: one of those things. Who's the third guy in the mix.
Speaker 1: There's another guy, Josh Allen? Oh yeah, fallon for Allen.
Speaker 1: These are all options that are out there right now.
Speaker 1: About Lamar Jackson, you need to come up with him too.
Speaker 1: In action for Jackson anyway, Um and you and you
Speaker 1: also hit on it in your piece Greg that uh
Speaker 1: John Robinson, the GM, he he came into a better
Speaker 1: situation that he had the quarterback in place in terms
Speaker 1: of really building this team out. So you have that
Speaker 1: any of the picks, any of the picks, and and
Speaker 1: that the number one overall pick, and he converted that
Speaker 1: into a lot of picks. So he's fortunate that he
Speaker 1: had the quarterback, which is the most important piece. But
Speaker 1: everything he's done after he's done a great job with us.
Speaker 1: He built the built a protection for him, got the
Speaker 1: got the running backs, and now he's building out the
Speaker 1: playmakers on the outside. I mean this year, this year,
Speaker 1: I thought you were gonna argue against my premise, which
Speaker 1: was essentially but I couldn't that. There's no reason not
Speaker 1: to consider them the favorite in the a f C South.
Speaker 1: I'm not saying they're a favorite to win the super Bowl,
Speaker 1: but they should be considered the favorite in that division.
Speaker 1: It's a very flawed vision, and they're a good team,
Speaker 1: and Andrew lux hurt if they want. If they want
Speaker 1: to go beyond winning the a FC out, they need
Speaker 1: stars on defense. They need a dore Ay Jackson to
Speaker 1: be an immediate hit. They need a Rack po and
Speaker 1: Derek Moore and Morgan to each get double digit sacks.
Speaker 1: Because they have. PFF put out a a tweet yesterday
Speaker 1: on Monday, every single expected starter on the Titans roster
Speaker 1: got a positive grade from PF last year. They have
Speaker 1: no real weak spot if you look at their starting lineup.
Speaker 1: But the other thing I'd be excited about if you're
Speaker 1: a Titans fan, we've all seen those ridiculous touchdown to
Speaker 1: interception ratios for Mariota in the red zone, He's one
Speaker 1: of the best red zone quarterbacks in the league. Now
Speaker 1: you've got Decker who's a power forward in the end zone,
Speaker 1: Corey Davis, who was the most productive red zone ride
Speaker 1: receiver in college, Taywan Taylor was the third most productive
Speaker 1: red zone receiver in college, and Delaney Walker. This is
Speaker 1: gonna be a really hard red zone offense to stop.
Speaker 1: And those those top ten wide receiver picks, they don't
Speaker 1: always pan out, especially not immediately. But just imagine what
Speaker 1: happens if that guy is the real deal. Yeah, I
Speaker 1: mean that the roof is off. He's got Steve Smith
Speaker 1: steal of approval. What did Jordan say? What was his
Speaker 1: life about? The ceiling? Is the roof? I'm hearing this
Speaker 1: excitement and as a creepy observer who has access to
Speaker 1: you guys, a potential maybe I know Mark's not here,
Speaker 1: but maybe an early leader perhaps in terms of the
Speaker 1: team of around the NFL. Maybe I think I think
Speaker 1: that's fair. I like the charges a lot too. Don't
Speaker 1: want to say anything yet, so I can't remember going
Speaker 1: in June. In June, I can't remember having two teams
Speaker 1: that I like this much going into the season where
Speaker 1: I would fully support both and I mean they did
Speaker 1: a great job. The reason you believe in Robinson and
Speaker 1: then we'll move on is he helped fix that running
Speaker 1: that was the focus last year. He fixed the running
Speaker 1: game in one season. I think Derrick Henry is gonna
Speaker 1: have a really good career and has a lot more
Speaker 1: to offer, uh than he's really been talked about. That's
Speaker 1: an unbelievable one dude punch if you're looking for a weakness.
Speaker 1: He he has four new starters in the secondary. Most
Speaker 1: likely is Logan Ryan really going to be a huge
Speaker 1: difference maker. Like we'll see Kevin Byard, who we like
Speaker 1: at safety. He was a part time payer. You picked
Speaker 1: up Cyprian's like will that all work at Dorry Jackson?
Speaker 1: You don't know. I mean adding that many new starters
Speaker 1: that that could be a promulication is big in the second.
Speaker 1: It's better than they were last year though, when they
Speaker 1: were just rotating guys looking for prayers. Let's move on
Speaker 1: and talk about another team in the a f C
Speaker 1: that's garnered some buzz. Their wide receiver that I'm talking
Speaker 1: about the Miami Dolphins, Jarvis Landry. Uh their wide receiver
Speaker 1: has put a deadline. We usually don't talk about this,
Speaker 1: but hey put a deadline on contract extension talks the
Speaker 1: start of the season and Dolphins wide receiver uh the
Speaker 1: agent for the wide receiver, told the Miami Herald that
Speaker 1: Landry won't hold out over new contract, but also doesn't
Speaker 1: want to negotiate once the regular season begins. West, I
Speaker 1: want to ask you this question, Um, Jarvis Landry's twenty four.
Speaker 1: He has that record for the most catches in the
Speaker 1: first three years of your career two eight eight record,
Speaker 1: alright over three thousand yards thirteen touch and it's a record.
Speaker 1: It is what it has obviously been product productive from
Speaker 1: a number standpoint. But is this guy actually a star
Speaker 1: wide receiver in your opinion? West? Three years in? I mean,
Speaker 1: I guess it depends how you label star. I find
Speaker 1: this situation really interesting because they paid Kenny Stills what
Speaker 1: seven eight million a year? DeVante Parker is the most
Speaker 1: hyped wide receiver this offseason in the NFL, and if
Speaker 1: you watch him on tape, if he can stay healthy,
Speaker 1: should be a number one receiver. So you're gonna have
Speaker 1: DeVante Parker. You paid for Kenny Stills? What do you
Speaker 1: pay for one of the best slot receivers in the
Speaker 1: NFL who doesn't really play anywhere but the slot slot
Speaker 1: receivers generally don't get paid big bucks, which just stupid.
Speaker 1: I think it's one of those things that will get
Speaker 1: corrected over time. Well you pay, I mean, like Jarvis
Speaker 1: Landry or Julian Edelman or whatever slot receiver you want
Speaker 1: to take. You just watch the games to see how
Speaker 1: valuable there, so they're underpaid. Well, you pay for players
Speaker 1: who draw and beat double teams, and slot receivers don't
Speaker 1: even draw double teams usually. I love Jarvis Landry. I mean,
Speaker 1: there aren't many guys who can do those sort of
Speaker 1: things after the catch. I think it makes sense that
Speaker 1: you don't negotiate during the season because free agencies like
Speaker 1: it's the greatest thing ever if you can reach it.
Speaker 1: So if you're Jarvis Landry, he's gonna put up numbers.
Speaker 1: You'll get you'll get the franchise tager, you'll get a
Speaker 1: monster contract. So he does. He is. I don't mean
Speaker 1: to be mean Ars Landry. He's really good. He's one
Speaker 1: of the top three or fourth slot receivers in the NFL.
Speaker 1: Let's move on to something way more important than anything
Speaker 1: we've talked about so far. We're talking about do screwed
Speaker 1: and Babe and I love. I had no idea Quadzilla.
Speaker 1: I had no idea that um and it may have.
Speaker 1: I've had two sons. I'm shutting down the show. Uh,
Speaker 1: the old gravy train gross. Uh, there will not be
Speaker 1: another hands of son. I said it, and I said
Speaker 1: that I don't like the connotation, the gravy thing. Not anyway.
Speaker 1: He's John Gruden the second is his name, that's his
Speaker 1: is John David Gruden the Second. But he just calls
Speaker 1: him Deuce. Is that a thing? Is that? Where duce
Speaker 1: mcausen here from? I didn't even know this name. It's
Speaker 1: a great way to instead of calling somebody junior or
Speaker 1: um like, uh, my uncle. My uncle John went very
Speaker 1: close with his father was John, so it was one
Speaker 1: of his buddies would call him, be like, hey is
Speaker 1: little John there? Or is hey big John there? What
Speaker 1: about Chip? How about Deuce? And you know he got
Speaker 1: John and Deuce. I think it's great the two together.
Speaker 1: It kind of highlights the Gruden is is kind of
Speaker 1: a gross name, just when you say it over and
Speaker 1: over again and Douce Screwden. It sounds like a euphemism,
Speaker 1: like sounds like a Rob Schneider movie. What was I
Speaker 1: was gonna? It's funny, he said, Rob SNI because I
Speaker 1: was thinking of that Ben Stiller val Dodgeball movie that
Speaker 1: he feels like he would have been either one of
Speaker 1: the announcers played by Jason Bateman or one of the characters. Anyway,
Speaker 1: do Screwden Uh finished in first place in the Junior
Speaker 1: one three pound weight class at the International Powerlifting Federation
Speaker 1: Classic on Monday in UH Belores, Belarus, Belarus. I think
Speaker 1: Pepper Brooks and Cotton McKnight called this on ESPN A
Speaker 1: bell oh the countryus Uh. John sr Uh was in
Speaker 1: the house and took photos that that went all over
Speaker 1: social media on a slow UH Monday in the NFL calendar.
Speaker 1: So congratulations to Deuce who is now a champion world
Speaker 1: champion powerlifter. Claybourne, I want to ask you, Um, you
Speaker 1: have a pretty hot bod um in addition to your
Speaker 1: strong jawline and all the other things you have going
Speaker 1: for you physically, the son of a um, what is
Speaker 1: your biggest pet peeve at the gym in terms of
Speaker 1: the weightlifting area the loose weights. Biggest pet peeve that
Speaker 1: you have to deal with with people around you. People
Speaker 1: around um, probably unnecessary conversation. That's bad because I've got
Speaker 1: the headphones in. Yeah, and then it's you know, you
Speaker 1: see you just see somebody's lips moving, and then you
Speaker 1: have to take the headphones out. That's annoying. And then
Speaker 1: sometimes they didn't actually say anything. It just takes you
Speaker 1: out of his own um. But but yeah, other than
Speaker 1: just grunting, but team for show, Yeah, that's that's a
Speaker 1: bad one. Come on, man, Like we're not in Tokyo.
Speaker 1: This is you know, we're in Culver City doing some
Speaker 1: sets like be quiet. I don't like the um the
Speaker 1: box part. Doesn't listen to the show. The gym I
Speaker 1: got to is three floors, and I don't have the
Speaker 1: time as a father of two to really like go
Speaker 1: nuts and and do the weightlifting and everything. Like Daddy
Speaker 1: likes to go up to the elliptical and do some
Speaker 1: business on the second floor. And then the meat heads.
Speaker 1: Every once in a while we'll drop one of their
Speaker 1: you know, three pound weights or whatever, and we'll shake
Speaker 1: like there's an earthquake and everyone has to react. On
Speaker 1: the second floor It's like, hey, put down the weights
Speaker 1: with some respect about that. I wanted to bring it back.
Speaker 1: I feel like you lost uh your train your Were
Speaker 1: you trying to say that that because of Deuce Scrutin,
Speaker 1: like you were thinking you were getting inspired, you know,
Speaker 1: to pull the gravy train back into the station to
Speaker 1: see this son. No, the gravy train has been disassembled. Well,
Speaker 1: it hasn't been. I have a break. We've we've talked
Speaker 1: about I think on this show, didn't we talk about
Speaker 1: the some of the negative aspects of a snip snip scenario.
Speaker 1: There was somebody in the office that recently underwent I
Speaker 1: heard you and Mark speak of it. Yeah, it hasn't
Speaker 1: been disassembled, but it just it made me think if
Speaker 1: if I were still in the place in my life
Speaker 1: where there would be another child coming, if it was
Speaker 1: a son, and give him the my name, and then
Speaker 1: I just called him Deuce. Anyway, moving on, uh uh
Speaker 1: colletchio assembly. This is for uh, mostly this one is
Speaker 1: just for Greg Rosenthal. Um. You you wrote the article. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you can read about this on the end round. But
Speaker 1: again it's June twenty, so anything that I'm writing right
Speaker 1: now is just to pass a little bit of time. Uh.
Speaker 1: Collettio Assembly, of course is a standout offensive lineman for
Speaker 1: the Oakland Raiders. But he's also a and they and
Speaker 1: I mean a standout offensive lineman protecting an incredible quarterback.
Speaker 1: Great free agent pickup, and they gave him a lot
Speaker 1: of money and they don't regret one dollar. Yeah, so Assembly. Uh,
Speaker 1: he's been traveling the world's free time. Uh if he's
Speaker 1: if you follow his Twitter, he's been whitewater rafting in
Speaker 1: New Zealand. He went bungee jumping. He did this uh
Speaker 1: jump rope thing at what was labeled a full moon
Speaker 1: party where the jump rope was on fire and he
Speaker 1: almost burned himself to death. Is he coming after Doni
Speaker 1: Jones job? Maybe Jack del rio Is has has watched
Speaker 1: all this with the rest of with the rest of
Speaker 1: us with great constern nation. But anyway, he calmed things
Speaker 1: down a little bit. Uh. Collecchi and uh made a
Speaker 1: recent trip to Iceland. Can we get some Iceland to music? York?
Speaker 1: This is no, We're not allowed to play bork. Uh.
Speaker 1: This is York. This New York. This is traditional folk
Speaker 1: music from the mighty Iceland of Assembly at a hot spring,
Speaker 1: which just looks like a glorious existence, and Greg insisted
Speaker 1: that we talked about the hot springs of Iceland. So
Speaker 1: we're gonna throw it to Greg. Well, I just thought
Speaker 1: this is when I else, are we going to get
Speaker 1: a chance to talk about the number thirty three, uh
Speaker 1: most downloads in around the NFL podcast history coming out
Speaker 1: of the country of Iceland. Thank you to the forty
Speaker 1: six thousand, six hundred downloads. It's really probably just a
Speaker 1: handful of people that listen regularly, but you know you're there.
Speaker 1: And I've always I've always had a fascination with Iceland,
Speaker 1: wanted to go there. I mean, they've accomplished a lot
Speaker 1: for a pretty small country. York Cigar Royce is from
Speaker 1: a nice hero soccer tournament. Yeah, yeah, I have had
Speaker 1: some big soccer wins. I I've always wanted to go
Speaker 1: to two plates since I was a young kid. I
Speaker 1: really wanted to go to two places. One was Japan,
Speaker 1: one was Iceland. I met my wife when I went
Speaker 1: to Japan, and so I've always kind of had that
Speaker 1: other thing in the back of my mind, what's going
Speaker 1: to happen when I finally maybe my second wife. A
Speaker 1: lifelong friend Sully will know this. They had the Viking
Speaker 1: war chant for that soccer team and underdog soccer team
Speaker 1: and uh that that's definitely something to hit on YouTube
Speaker 1: if you've never seen it. So I'm all in on
Speaker 1: Iceland too, But let's move on the one. The one
Speaker 1: professional athlete I remember from Iceland was a guy who
Speaker 1: was uh seven ft two center in the NBA and
Speaker 1: you're in the eighties named Peter Gutmansson. And everybody had
Speaker 1: a guy like him, whether it was Mike Schmrek or
Speaker 1: Grahamville Waiters or Uve Blob Chuck Nevitt, everybody had a
Speaker 1: seven ft everybody had a seven foot stiff on the
Speaker 1: end of the bench. You would never play, but you
Speaker 1: put him into the rough up the other team, right, Yeah,
Speaker 1: he's the boy. Um small Iceland NFL fact from three
Speaker 1: people couldn't watch NFL football in Iceland. We almost lost
Speaker 1: those thirty nine thousand downloads. Well what happened? Podcast? Yeah?
Speaker 1: Or wasn't wasn't a big fan? Oh so quiet? Remember
Speaker 1: that one. He's a banger. Uh. Moving on, let's move
Speaker 1: to China. How about some Chinese folk music? Sally doubling
Speaker 1: up on the Folk Music Today on the podcast, Um
Speaker 1: Tom Brady is the quarterback in New England Patriots. Patriots
Speaker 1: are scheduled to play a game in China back in
Speaker 1: but that contest who got canceled A gets the Seahawks,
Speaker 1: and now, with his career coming closer to a close,
Speaker 1: Brady wants a chance to play that game. Finally, this
Speaker 1: to ESPN ESPN dot com. My dream is to play
Speaker 1: a game here in China someday, he said during a
Speaker 1: promotional tour in China. We had an opportunity I think
Speaker 1: ten years ago, and my team was going to play here,
Speaker 1: and unfortunately it didn't work out. But one day I
Speaker 1: hope that there are many games here and over the
Speaker 1: course of a year, because it's such a great sport,
Speaker 1: and because I love it so much. To bring that
Speaker 1: here and to bring the discipline an incredible strategy involved.
Speaker 1: This music sounds like the beginning of a movie that's
Speaker 1: begging for Oscar nominations. I'm you channeled, Brady. Really imagine
Speaker 1: I'm sitting Indian style, floating on a cloud telling this
Speaker 1: gaggle of Chinese reporters. The last minute was the best advertisement.
Speaker 1: To be one of those listeners that listens at one
Speaker 1: and a half speed which there are many. Strangely, I've
Speaker 1: never read a Tom Brady quote that long, as he
Speaker 1: always speaking circles and and and just kind of an
Speaker 1: annoying cadence. I think when he's trying to promote himself
Speaker 1: to an international community, he probably leans into that a
Speaker 1: little more heavily. And Um, finally, let's pick it up. China,
Speaker 1: by the way, the old country rankings in terms of
Speaker 1: podcast listeners. I know there's some internet access issues there,
Speaker 1: but someone's getting on, someone's downloading those parts. Are they
Speaker 1: there behind there? Right behind Japan? Who's fourteenth? I mean
Speaker 1: a fraction to the size. A lot of rivalry there.
Speaker 1: Let's pick it up. Well, I was gonna say that, Um,
Speaker 1: are they the number one communist podcast communist country for
Speaker 1: our podcast listenership? Who knew Greg was going to give
Speaker 1: China the stick instead of the carrot? You never know
Speaker 1: they would be number one? Okay, I got North Korea
Speaker 1: beat out. That's good. Who else is hanging in there
Speaker 1: with the communism right now? Where are we at on
Speaker 1: the communism? Where are we at on Cuba? That's the
Speaker 1: communism podcast? Uh, well, they've relaxed, We've relaxed a lot
Speaker 1: of our restrictions in place. Uh, with Cuba. With Cuba,
Speaker 1: that's something we gotta figure out. Sally, this is can
Speaker 1: you look up if Cuba is still communist? I believe
Speaker 1: they are anyway. Finally, a Packers fan, Um, this is
Speaker 1: kind of an interesting story. I got a feeling West
Speaker 1: is gonna have a take on this, So I'm gonna
Speaker 1: set West up on this one. Trying to decide whether
Speaker 1: I had a take on it. Yeah. A Packers fan
Speaker 1: by that of Ryan Holton Murphy. Now, uh, as is
Speaker 1: customary in our culture. We're just talking about China and Iceland,
Speaker 1: but in our culture and many other cultures, when a
Speaker 1: man and woman marry, the woman will take the man's
Speaker 1: last name, and and many instances instances, and in fact,
Speaker 1: i'd say in most instances, but not all. But anyway,
Speaker 1: you never hear the other way around. You never hear
Speaker 1: the man taking the woman's last name. But that's what
Speaker 1: happened with a Packers fan uh in Wisconsin who met
Speaker 1: a woman at a karaoke bar in Madison, Ryan Murphy.
Speaker 1: Ryan Holton Murphy was a huge Packers fan. He met
Speaker 1: a woman named Marie who's plugged in on her said, oh,
Speaker 1: she's fetching. I'm gonna dig in here a little bit.
Speaker 1: They got to know each other. Turned out her name
Speaker 1: was Marie Packer, and this guy, a die hard Green
Speaker 1: Bay fan, fell immediately in love. Uh. He told good
Speaker 1: Morning America. Well this is what he had to say,
Speaker 1: good morning America. Marie is beautiful, strong, hilarious. And then
Speaker 1: she told me her last name. I didn't believe her
Speaker 1: and made her show two forms of ID and a
Speaker 1: credit card, so anyway, it was legit. They got married
Speaker 1: over the weekend on the top of Willis Tower, formerly
Speaker 1: a Sears Tower Packer themed wedding. He took his wife
Speaker 1: his wife's last name. He is now Ryan Packer, Ryan,
Speaker 1: Marie Packer, Ryan and Marie Packer. Congratulations kids, Uh you
Speaker 1: are the Packers. Huh. Thoughts was well as we caream
Speaker 1: toward a postgender society. Uh this this ranks very low
Speaker 1: on my list of things that need to take, so
Speaker 1: I would appeal for few takes on this one, because
Speaker 1: you know, you have those guys who win their wives
Speaker 1: won't take their last name, and the wives decided to
Speaker 1: keep her own. To guys. Oh man, my family, we
Speaker 1: really this is We're so proud of this name this
Speaker 1: This girl really has come on. Calm down, No one's
Speaker 1: asking you to take her name. I just don't know.
Speaker 1: Do what you want to do with names? Live and
Speaker 1: let live on the name front. I think I say
Speaker 1: he packed it in and decided to settle even let
Speaker 1: live on the names, not the puns. Pretty good, pretty good,
Speaker 1: pretty good? Uh? And while we're here, I met me
Speaker 1: he was a little too excited that her name was Packer?
Speaker 1: Could he not have just changed his name to Packer? Anyway?
Speaker 1: He does that? Really, that's really the thing that puts
Speaker 1: it over the top. It's like, if you met someone
Speaker 1: who had the last name Jet, would you really give
Speaker 1: what your scare? I mean, I knew if I didn't
Speaker 1: have a take Greg. Yeah. I wonder I wonder if
Speaker 1: in quieter moments, and now they're in the newly wed period,
Speaker 1: but every marriage, three of us are married. Here West
Speaker 1: has a paramore that you get into a fight and
Speaker 1: sometimes you think things that you don't actually mean. But
Speaker 1: in the heat of the moment, I wonder if, in
Speaker 1: quieter moments, after maybe a fight, he thinks to himself,
Speaker 1: why did her name have to be a Packer? At
Speaker 1: some point in the next ten to fifteen years. He's
Speaker 1: going to think that a couple of times. Yeah, I
Speaker 1: mean he asked for two forms of I D. She
Speaker 1: gave it to him. Let's calm down this It was
Speaker 1: literally the setup for like identity theft and it actually
Speaker 1: ended up happening. All right, let's that's what's happening in
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Speaker 1: business out of the way, Uh, Patrick Claiban, Uh, this
Speaker 1: is the time. He is the hot take on Budsman.
Speaker 1: You have your hot takes and Patrick Claiban is always watching,
Speaker 1: so you better come come correct or you might just
Speaker 1: get shown the door. It's like the Santa Claus of
Speaker 1: hot takes checking. Uh. So with that in mind, it
Speaker 1: is time now as you. As Patrick laid out at
Speaker 1: the beginning of the show, this is an interactive experience
Speaker 1: both uh for all of us in the studio right now,
Speaker 1: but everybody at home can do this as well. So
Speaker 1: what I want you to do is bring up on
Speaker 1: your mobile device or your your PC, your or your laptop,
Speaker 1: um each of these tweets and make a decision. It
Speaker 1: is up to you to make the call, uh, whether
Speaker 1: this is a good take or a trash take, or
Speaker 1: just not much of a take at all. Patrick, You've
Speaker 1: had you have several set up for us. Where are
Speaker 1: we starting today? We'll start with a pretty much a layup.
Speaker 1: This is an extension of draft discussion. Um, maybe not
Speaker 1: too hot, but it's just it's got some themes that
Speaker 1: that frequently come up. Who's it from? Oh? Are we
Speaker 1: are we? Oh? Had I'm sorry, I thought we're actually Oh,
Speaker 1: this is an anonymous trash Um, No, we can, we
Speaker 1: can make it. Let's let's not. Oh, I don't. I
Speaker 1: don't want to step on any tells. I'm I'm all
Speaker 1: about you know, alright in the past we heard the take,
Speaker 1: we didn't know who was from. Let's do it, alright,
Speaker 1: so we'll start with Andy Benoit. However you want to
Speaker 1: do it. Okay, this this isn't the juiciest bits of
Speaker 1: trash juice that have flowed from his particular dumpster, but
Speaker 1: this is just one. Andy is from Sports Illustrated in
Speaker 1: the m m qb uh no quarterback has entered NFL
Speaker 1: with more pressure than Deshaun Watson, college reputation, super Bowl
Speaker 1: ready team two first rounders spent on him. M hmm, alright,
Speaker 1: it's a June twelve tweet. No QB has entered NFL
Speaker 1: with more pressure than Jordan's label college reputation. Well, I'm
Speaker 1: not gonna retweet that or block it or anything. It's
Speaker 1: actually one of the worst things you can have as
Speaker 1: a ash tweet, which is just to be ignored because
Speaker 1: it's obviously not true. I mean, you can come up
Speaker 1: with plenty of quarterbacks who had as much or more pressure.
Speaker 1: So anytime you get into these superlatives the most pressure ever,
Speaker 1: like I I blanch at that, but it's not it's
Speaker 1: not exciting enough. It's just want to just ignore. How
Speaker 1: is that like more pressure than right, there's a million,
Speaker 1: there's a million quarterbacks. How is it my pressure? What's
Speaker 1: what's the pressure conversation? Anyway? Like, how are we ranking
Speaker 1: who wants to win the most? Is that not weird?
Speaker 1: There's there's a lot of different ways you could measure pressure,
Speaker 1: and you could pretty much come up with a quarterback
Speaker 1: every single year that would be in a similar or
Speaker 1: worse situation. Who's gonna be under a lot of pressure
Speaker 1: when my Jets go one in fifteen and they take
Speaker 1: whoever they take next year, that when you're in the
Speaker 1: you're playing in the crucible of New York, that type
Speaker 1: of market, and everyone's expecting to immediately be the savior.
Speaker 1: That guy will have more I think going to Houston.
Speaker 1: It's there are worse places to go. I feel like
Speaker 1: when the Jets trashed their whole season just to pick
Speaker 1: you up for a chance to pick you up. Right,
Speaker 1: that's a little more pressure that I might might mute them,
Speaker 1: might mute him for this. But I'm digging deeper. I
Speaker 1: think the hot the hot take on Budsman. Here he
Speaker 1: is diving even deeper to the entire and this is
Speaker 1: why he's in charge. The entire concept of pressure. You're
Speaker 1: not really into that is as a conversation topic, Am
Speaker 1: I right? That? Like measuring who pressure or not? It
Speaker 1: doesn't make sense. Yeah, it's a it's a it's a
Speaker 1: dumb entry point to me. You're taking the Bunsen burner
Speaker 1: blowtorch to pressure. The idea of pressure, I feel like,
Speaker 1: I mean, because we we extend it and and we
Speaker 1: what what are we talking about? Like let's say that
Speaker 1: we get to Blake Bortles, Like if he doesn't succeed,
Speaker 1: then his career potentially might be over. But who can we?
Speaker 1: Who are we not saying that about? Like that that
Speaker 1: same situation could be said for Tom freaking Brady. It's
Speaker 1: a it's a weird it's a weird and tangible that
Speaker 1: we do catch ourselves trying to like rank versus each
Speaker 1: other when it's really not something well with self inflicted pressure. Yeah,
Speaker 1: but like there's one thing for your own career to
Speaker 1: be at stake, it's another for the entire organization and
Speaker 1: the entire future of the organization to be at stake
Speaker 1: as well. But I don't but I get I get
Speaker 1: your point. Like it is very as far as an
Speaker 1: entry point for a conversation, it's clumsy. I will it's
Speaker 1: well put West. I'm gonna let it lie like that.
Speaker 1: But everyone else can make their own decisions. Next up,
Speaker 1: your next trash take Patrick Lay, We're gonna go to
Speaker 1: the fan ranks. To Jeremy B. Thirty nine, who replied
Speaker 1: to NFL Network insider Ian Rappaport simply reporting that Jalen
Speaker 1: Ramsey had a successful surgery, which is one of those things.
Speaker 1: He said that those are really six week recovery injuries,
Speaker 1: to which Jeremy B replied, while they're in there, they
Speaker 1: should repair his vagina muscle too. Did he spell it properly? Alright? Well,
Speaker 1: that one, and then Jeffy v over under sixteen years
Speaker 1: of age. I'm gonna go under and I'm four year
Speaker 1: old male and I'm gonna go with a rare West
Speaker 1: preemptive block. Anyone that says anything that's stupid is someone
Speaker 1: I do not want in my life. My favorite move
Speaker 1: is the preemptive block. If you can take an obvious
Speaker 1: idiot and remove them from your life before they have
Speaker 1: a chance to enter your life, it's a move you
Speaker 1: have to make. It's also I didn't you know, I
Speaker 1: didn't didn't as anatomy, but I don't think it's a muscle.
Speaker 1: It's like a it's an oregan right, it's a plea failure.
Speaker 1: All right, that's blockable. Jeremy b I got banged in
Speaker 1: a big spot by the hot takes some budsman, Uh
Speaker 1: what else you got? All right, we're going to lob
Speaker 1: It's off to top though. We're going to Louis Marbury.
Speaker 1: Um his at Louis Marbury. Shout out to Louis. Maybe
Speaker 1: this is to Levyan Bell, He tweets at Levian Bell.
Speaker 1: If Levian Bell don't report to Mini Cab he is
Speaker 1: the most selfish the Steelers ever had when they back
Speaker 1: him with his drug problem. That sound gives me like
Speaker 1: is my my son Walker's favorite sound in the world.
Speaker 1: He hears that sound and he starts running, streaming so
Speaker 1: excited to hear the garbage chuck. But you don't want
Speaker 1: to hear at Claibonne's duck coming over. He's gonna run
Speaker 1: you over well right away. There's a little bit of
Speaker 1: a issue here because we can't be sure because we
Speaker 1: are not in contact with Lewis. He says, if Levian
Speaker 1: Bell don't report to mini cab that like a small
Speaker 1: taxi part of the taxi squad. Because if that's the case,
Speaker 1: I get, I don't really get the connection why the
Speaker 1: Steelers would be upset with him. I think it's may Camp.
Speaker 1: I think. I think, I think said would take a large,
Speaker 1: lavish cab, but he wants them to take a more responsible,
Speaker 1: tiny cab. Uh And did they? And did the Steelers listen?
Speaker 1: We might be giving this tweet a little too much reverence,
Speaker 1: but did this always really back him with his drug problem?
Speaker 1: They just sat through the suspensions and he's any organization
Speaker 1: with the best running back and football would do. They
Speaker 1: waited for the suspension, then plugged him right back into
Speaker 1: the starting lineup right and uh, he lean Bell and
Speaker 1: this is kind of part of an entire genre of
Speaker 1: tweets or takes or anything about unsigned players skipping what's voluntary,
Speaker 1: where if they were signed, it would be voluntary work.
Speaker 1: He's not even signed, he's not even technically allowed to
Speaker 1: go there at this point because they're negotiating a possible
Speaker 1: long term contract. And when people get all worked up
Speaker 1: about this, whether it's Jeremy b or A's some you
Speaker 1: know local columnists, that puts my radar up that the
Speaker 1: guy's a clown. What's this clown's name? Um, that was
Speaker 1: Lewis Marbury. I like that they getting black. It does
Speaker 1: take a little bit. Yeah, that's a blockable. Perhaps I
Speaker 1: was gonna say, I think that Lewis Marberry should google
Speaker 1: Ernie Fats Holmes and helicopter and then see if what
Speaker 1: Levy on Bell It was the most selfish thing of
Speaker 1: Steelers us. The story Ernie Fats Holmes, who played for
Speaker 1: the Steel Curtain defensive lineman in the early seventies, literally
Speaker 1: went crazy one day. I believe the cops were chasing him.
Speaker 1: He ran the cops off the road. A helicopter started
Speaker 1: following him. He shot, He shot his gun at the helicopter,
Speaker 1: hit the helicopter ran off the road. That's attempted murder brother,
Speaker 1: he did all this, he went crazy. Could you imagine
Speaker 1: if that happened today? That that is one of those
Speaker 1: stories And if you read some old if you read
Speaker 1: it old Steelers books, uh, that story will pop up.
Speaker 1: It's one of the most unbelievable. This was seventy three,
Speaker 1: so right in the middle of of uh you know
Speaker 1: when they were, when they were great, and it's one
Speaker 1: of those stories that you think, how much different would
Speaker 1: that be today? By the way, he only got five
Speaker 1: years probation. Well, I really I think old Dan Rooney
Speaker 1: and Art Rooney pulled some strings for him to sounds
Speaker 1: like for what it's worth. Yeah, he stayed on the
Speaker 1: team and he made the second team All Pro. The
Speaker 1: following So does It Feel Good story, Plexico Burris dropped
Speaker 1: a gun out of his sweatpants waistband and shot him
Speaker 1: something the leg and got two years. Roger Goodell was
Speaker 1: not Commissioner. Ernieats Holmes was there. This office shuts down
Speaker 1: for car chases. Anyway, imagine if NFL player was involved.
Speaker 1: Want to actually have to work? What what do we do?
Speaker 1: Makes me think of one of my favorite short YouTube
Speaker 1: videos worth of watch Steven Sigal shoots down helicopter with handgun.
Speaker 1: Just watch that video. You know, I respect that Patrick
Speaker 1: and enjoy it. Once bought Patrick Claiban a book about
Speaker 1: Steven Seagal, and yeah, that was actually the biggest budding
Speaker 1: point in my tremendous relationship with Dan. It was he
Speaker 1: got me that gift, and it really showed its detailed
Speaker 1: breakdown of each of Seagal's films, ranging from his Golden
Speaker 1: period to the Bronze eraod bro Even, I gotta get
Speaker 1: you the book. I got a red gift. I'm not
Speaker 1: above the law since you asked above the law. And
Speaker 1: then he really gets into his wheelhouse, out for justice,
Speaker 1: hard to kill what I mean, we talked about double
Speaker 1: Trouble right there, and then his uh really maybe his
Speaker 1: biggest commercial moment under Siege co starring Tommy Lee Jones
Speaker 1: and Gary Busey that ended the gold period um under
Speaker 1: Siege Dark Underseige two Dark Territory of course, was kind
Speaker 1: of coming out of that where it was basically under
Speaker 1: Siege on a rain not as good. Uh. And then
Speaker 1: of course his career really took the nose dive when
Speaker 1: he got complete creative control after the box office success
Speaker 1: of Underseas and and put out Fire down Below, where
Speaker 1: he pushed many of his environmental initiatives into the screenplay,
Speaker 1: and he also put on about pounds or so to
Speaker 1: his person in life. Is his nose dive a little bit?
Speaker 1: Since then? You can hear more when Dan discusses the
Speaker 1: Seagal movies on the Throwback podcast when they run out
Speaker 1: of CD. Yeah, we'll we'll move on to Seagal. Alright,
Speaker 1: let's never seen a Steven Listen. I used to talk
Speaker 1: in and my dad will be watching. My dad loved
Speaker 1: Stevens to go movies and never do for Steve and
Speaker 1: your your old man was it was a good man.
Speaker 1: So maybe we can sit together and with your dad
Speaker 1: looking down upon us, we can watch them. Maybe I'm
Speaker 1: just harshly judging it. Alright, let's move on. Next take um.
Speaker 1: This one is a retweet of just happened to be
Speaker 1: browsing Game Pass. It was functioning watching some Dak Prescott
Speaker 1: posted a video of Dac making a nice throw, and
Speaker 1: this guy retweeted it. More. Oh, this is a tweet
Speaker 1: from at the field Factor. He retweeted my video of
Speaker 1: Dac and said more athletic Alex Smith. Oh, so that
Speaker 1: that hit on a couple of things. Full disclosure. I
Speaker 1: I instantly screenshot at it and retweeted him, and then
Speaker 1: and the magazine in his profile and blocked him. Um,
Speaker 1: but yeah, that's what I did. So is he even
Speaker 1: more athletic than Alex? No, he's definitely not. He's definitely
Speaker 1: I like that. The field factor's actual name on Twitter
Speaker 1: is Beacon of Salvation. Hello, Larry not in this case
Speaker 1: and confidence description the most interesting married man in the world,
Speaker 1: life expert. That's a good field to get into life experience. Well,
Speaker 1: let's just break down the tape that that claibn had used.
Speaker 1: It was a play action where he rolls right out
Speaker 1: of the pocket and then hits Cole Beasley with a
Speaker 1: decent on a decent crossing pattern for a first down,
Speaker 1: a guy in his face thrown in a double coverage.
Speaker 1: I mean, that's a beautiful third. It's a nice play,
Speaker 1: but it's the most athletic thing I've ever seen. Really,
Speaker 1: is that something Alex Smith couldn't pull off with these?
Speaker 1: I think he could. So what the germ of this
Speaker 1: guy's take is that Dak Prescott is really a glorified
Speaker 1: game manager. Is that what he means? I think that's
Speaker 1: what it is. It hits in several themes that one
Speaker 1: like Alex Smith, who's you know, started in this league
Speaker 1: for a long time, is generally trash um that and
Speaker 1: unathletic despite uh, one of the I think led the
Speaker 1: league in quarterback yards from rushing or second two years
Speaker 1: ago and has been one of the most athletic quarterbacks
Speaker 1: in the league for an entire decade. But to Beacon
Speaker 1: of Salvation, his whiteness just washes away all of that.
Speaker 1: And somehow you can play quarterback in the National Football
Speaker 1: League with giant crazy freaks chasing you and be on athletic.
Speaker 1: Is he got white? Watch? It makes sense to the
Speaker 1: Weekend of Salvation another idiots on Twitter dot com. Alright, listen,
Speaker 1: now he's getting warmed up. Let's let's hear another one.
Speaker 1: Um we can, uh, Daniel told me we could leave
Speaker 1: the realm of football here. And because the the around
Speaker 1: the NFL podcast listeners reversatile, you know why we can
Speaker 1: do that. You know you know what today is? Go ahead,
Speaker 1: go to one that I had a particularly good time with,
Speaker 1: which can with a column from Sally Jenkins, why Steph
Speaker 1: Curry and the Golden State Warriors should go to the
Speaker 1: White House even if they don't want to. What was
Speaker 1: Sally saying, well, I can, um, I can go and
Speaker 1: show you the her conclusion, I guess I'll just read
Speaker 1: you the the way that that column ended, which a
Speaker 1: column that included references to the shooter at the Congressional
Speaker 1: baseball practice. Yeah, linking to um, yeah, linking that to
Speaker 1: the attitude of the Warriors deciding not to go if
Speaker 1: they hadn't even decided yet or they hadn't been invited
Speaker 1: at the time this was written. This is how it ended.
Speaker 1: They can gracefully opposed to meet with someone they may
Speaker 1: oppose with their whole souls and stand in the room
Speaker 1: with him and grip his hand, and then turn around
Speaker 1: and tell the world this is what Americans do. Even
Speaker 1: when we disagree, We shake, We don't shoot. It's terrible.
Speaker 1: So the the solution to the problems, if if there
Speaker 1: are problems in our country, the solution is Draymond Green
Speaker 1: going there and shaking hands with forty five oh man
Speaker 1: like he called. Sally had a long and distinguished career
Speaker 1: and she has been a fantastic right for a long time.
Speaker 1: But that was an awful, grocious column. Yeah. I think
Speaker 1: the move is you retweet with a comment uh shooting
Speaker 1: it down, which I believe Claybron might have done. I
Speaker 1: don't remember. There was a lot of there was a
Speaker 1: lot there was a lot of chatter uh that morning,
Speaker 1: And I think that's the right way to attack it.
Speaker 1: And it and it hits on this sort of weird
Speaker 1: genre of sports columnists. At some point, like sports columnists
Speaker 1: thought it was just part of their job to like
Speaker 1: tell the rest of the world like what they should
Speaker 1: do for their with their life when it has nothing
Speaker 1: to do with sports, especially where they're just like giving
Speaker 1: instructions about how sports players or teams or fans should
Speaker 1: live their life. And and yet it's connected to politics somehow,
Speaker 1: Like why why is the sports columnists running about that
Speaker 1: at all? I don't want to hear that. This is
Speaker 1: how hashtag stick to sports started. People get ticked off
Speaker 1: about the people that take it too far and preach
Speaker 1: at you, Oh I stick to sports as an automatic block.
Speaker 1: But the the issue was stick to sport is the
Speaker 1: stick to sports community probably agrees with Sally here and
Speaker 1: says that they should go to stick to sports community.
Speaker 1: That like, it's like, well, yeah, you just just get
Speaker 1: these guys to stick to sports and and do what
Speaker 1: they what they should do, which is what I think
Speaker 1: that they should do. And that's the real way to
Speaker 1: stick to sports is to live your life, as I
Speaker 1: would tell you to sports man. That's why the hot
Speaker 1: takes um budsman. Did you have anything else to claim on? Um?
Speaker 1: Don't force it. If you don't have anything else, We're good.
Speaker 1: There's we can we can end on that. When the
Speaker 1: last one is kind of a trope alert. Uh, Jake
Speaker 1: Rudok is light years ahead of Brad Kayak cornerback. That's
Speaker 1: one light year, which I'm trying to do the math
Speaker 1: on it. It was horribly wrong. Oh yeah, wait what
Speaker 1: was it? What was it? You did do the math?
Speaker 1: How do you know it's wrong? Who are the two?
Speaker 1: The Kaya and Jake Rudok. It's really it's one of
Speaker 1: the funniest it's probably the second funniest position battle going
Speaker 1: on right now behind Folko. That that one of those
Speaker 1: they would be light years ahead in the backup quarterback
Speaker 1: job for the Detroit Lions. Yeah, it's it's a lion's story.
Speaker 1: Uh so, I tried to go back. The good folks
Speaker 1: at NASA have a live location tracking on the voyage
Speaker 1: of Probe, and so I know this is the fastest
Speaker 1: man made object we ever had, and it's the farthest
Speaker 1: away I think. Um, and my math is probably really
Speaker 1: bad here. But I went to a hundred or a
Speaker 1: million digit calculator. Um. I didn't even know there was
Speaker 1: a million digits. Yeah, there's one, because Google fails and
Speaker 1: they make you use exponents. Um. But I came up
Speaker 1: with four thousand, five hundred and seventy three years. If
Speaker 1: he was traveling at the same speed as Voyager one,
Speaker 1: eventually Jake Rudoc would be one light year ahead of
Speaker 1: Brad Kaya. So you think that kind has no chance
Speaker 1: to overtake him in his lifetime, well, in his lifetime
Speaker 1: in four thousands, in four thousand, in uh in thousands,
Speaker 1: that like, there's gonna be like a different Mesozoic era
Speaker 1: and the stuff by the time he catches up to
Speaker 1: a problem, KA should just hang him up. This this
Speaker 1: the Earth Sky dot ORG. A light year is a
Speaker 1: unit of distance in that time. A light year is
Speaker 1: how astro astronomers measure distance in space. It's defined by
Speaker 1: how far. A beam of light travels in one year
Speaker 1: a distance of six trillion miles, So does that mean
Speaker 1: he's six trillion miles ahead multiple in theory years. At
Speaker 1: the very least, it's he's gonna need a good he's
Speaker 1: gonna need to clean up in that week four the preseason,
Speaker 1: you're gonna he I think we should measure all position
Speaker 1: battles in light years from now on how far away
Speaker 1: it's Deshaun Watson from Tom Savage right now? You have
Speaker 1: to form a new society on a ship, like a
Speaker 1: generational ship, and then send that off and have generations
Speaker 1: die after die after die after die while caring for
Speaker 1: this crygenically frozen Jake Rhoda Ruddock and then follow him out, uh,
Speaker 1: four thousand years from now. It's like it's like one.
Speaker 1: It's like Josh McCown is one point of a tenth
Speaker 1: of a trillionth of a point ahead of Bryce Petty
Speaker 1: right now. Christian Hackenberg in like like years. I like it.
Speaker 1: I think was maybe that's a good take, Maybe that's
Speaker 1: a retweet. Maybe that is I don't know. The lions
Speaker 1: better hope that we don't end up finding out whether
Speaker 1: this is true or not. By the way, you know,
Speaker 1: Matthew Stafford hasn't missed the game in about six or
Speaker 1: seven years. This would be problematic if we find out
Speaker 1: whether whether they're right about Ruddick or Kayak, because that
Speaker 1: that's a that's a problematic backup quarterback situation. Who do
Speaker 1: you think it speaks more of Ruddock or kaya I
Speaker 1: think the next time Brady Um, Patrick Claybourne, you you've
Speaker 1: said it all. You're a man that takes hot takes
Speaker 1: and deconstructs them in front of us, and we respect
Speaker 1: you for that. You also have with Steven Seagal book.
Speaker 1: I did buy it, but do you you are an
Speaker 1: ownership of it? Uh? Thank you for joining us? You good?
Speaker 1: Check Patrick out on Twitter? Is it at Patrick Labron?
Speaker 1: That's it? Got that lockdown? Cool? Because you know, I
Speaker 1: would think that maybe there'd be another Patrick Labron. I
Speaker 1: am the only one. It says a lot about you, Patrick,
Speaker 1: and that's where you can get all his hot takes
Speaker 1: and you can see him in NFL network. He is,
Speaker 1: uh the respected news guy in the news room, while
Speaker 1: the rest of us Jabronies are in the back, uh
Speaker 1: fooling around. So check out Patricks exactly. Uh and uh,
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Speaker 1: the entire team. And and finally, Patrick Claiban starring in Threshold,
Speaker 1: which is uh coming to your on demand television screens
Speaker 1: perhaps maybe maybe the big screen. I'm not sure, but
Speaker 1: just keep an eye on a Threshold, Uh, directed of
Speaker 1: course by Jason Eric not his first film, and Patrick
Speaker 1: plays the newsman. So there you go. I'm excited before
Speaker 1: what comes next in your career. All right, thank you
Speaker 1: everybody for listening. It's time to go home. This is
Speaker 1: Dan Hansas signing off for the hot takes on buds Man,
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