Speaker 1: The Around the NFL Podcast mostly believes in aliens. Welcome
Speaker 1: back to another edition of the Around the NFL Podcast.
Speaker 1: My name is Dan Hansus, and I am joined by
Speaker 1: a room field with heroes, well some heroes, Chris westling
Speaker 1: to my left and Greg Rose with alt in my right.
Speaker 1: What's up? Boys, Hey Dan West If if you just
Speaker 1: you know, get out of the way for a second.
Speaker 1: I want to talk about this cold that I'm dealing with.
Speaker 1: Um because we are, we're facing challenges here in in
Speaker 1: in the in the studio. West your brave battle against
Speaker 1: the big sea. But this summer cold. I mean, don't
Speaker 1: underestimate little sea. You know when you get hit with
Speaker 1: a summer cold, let alone one that comes right before
Speaker 1: you leave for vacation, which I'm doing tomorrow. I don't
Speaker 1: talk about something that makes you rethink, like your priorities
Speaker 1: where you are in life. I'm in that spot right now.
Speaker 1: I think, whenever you have a chance to reevaluate your priorities,
Speaker 1: because you have the sniffles, you have to do it.
Speaker 1: I mean, who gets who gets a cold? It's summer, yeah,
Speaker 1: and then you get banged with the cold. No, it's tough.
Speaker 1: I know, West. You kind of you know, you've been
Speaker 1: in and in and out battling um, you know, having
Speaker 1: your battle, but just say you know about West so much. Right.
Speaker 1: But well, what what I was gonna say was, you know,
Speaker 1: Dan was Dan was at that party at the work
Speaker 1: function function on Thursday night, and who knows. I don't
Speaker 1: know if the sniffles are related or not, but it
Speaker 1: probably was a little bit of a drag on his weekend.
Speaker 1: So I was thinking about Dan quite a bit this
Speaker 1: weekend because of that. Wow, well thanks, uh, thanks great,
Speaker 1: I appreciate it. Yeah, we had a good time at
Speaker 1: the Commissioner's awards and we got a little turned out.
Speaker 1: And I'll tell you what, Sally, you you opted not
Speaker 1: to attend, and then, uh, I think you would have
Speaker 1: had a good time. I think I would have only
Speaker 1: added to that turned out aspect of the party. It
Speaker 1: might be a good thing I didn't show up. So yeah,
Speaker 1: everybody out there who might be worried, you're like, Okay,
Speaker 1: should we start to go fund me or whatever for Dan? No,
Speaker 1: I would say hold off on that for now. We'll
Speaker 1: see where I am as the week progresses. I again,
Speaker 1: I will be on vacation after today, but I am
Speaker 1: very basically annoyed that I have a cold and West,
Speaker 1: like you and me, we could talk about this stuff.
Speaker 1: I am on the same way length because cancer is
Speaker 1: not what I thought it would be. It really is
Speaker 1: an annoyance. Yeah, I thought it'd be like the tumor
Speaker 1: is eating you away from the inside. You know, you
Speaker 1: feel fatigued after chem out. No, it's it's annoyance with
Speaker 1: not being able to eat. I would kill for a cheeseburger.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, I just annoyance. You're saying cancer is a
Speaker 1: little less like gravity toss than you thought it would.
Speaker 1: I'm saying that it's completely different than I thought it
Speaker 1: would be. Like the symptoms, the day to day frustrations
Speaker 1: are as much mental as physical, and in my case
Speaker 1: with a sophageal cancer, it's my complete inability to eat
Speaker 1: or drink basically anything. Right now, it's awful. Well, we
Speaker 1: were saying before the show started, West has lost weight
Speaker 1: because you're not able to eat as much. But right now,
Speaker 1: it's not like scrag. West doesn't look good. It's actually
Speaker 1: like West kind of looks hot right now. God, he
Speaker 1: he looks tight and right and uh and so far,
Speaker 1: so good in terms of your frame. Uh, and you know,
Speaker 1: I wish we could have a cheeseburger together. Though West,
Speaker 1: I was given these sniffles, haven't stopped Dan from wolfing
Speaker 1: down lunch at the huddle in about thirty five seconds. Today. Listen,
Speaker 1: when you have a cold, you get a feet of cold.
Speaker 1: He did, la, both of us didn't he? Yeah, I
Speaker 1: did you say that. I was giving the paramore hard
Speaker 1: time because I can tell she is more attractive attracted
Speaker 1: to me now with cancer than she was before cancer.
Speaker 1: And then you know, I got I got a I
Speaker 1: got a guilty laugh out of her for that. That's
Speaker 1: that's a problematic situation. Yeah that Yeah, I don't know
Speaker 1: if I was you, how I would feel about that.
Speaker 1: Life's life, well take away you can get Yeah. So yeah,
Speaker 1: although you know this has moved now away from my
Speaker 1: situation back to you, I will say that it is great.
Speaker 1: Great to have you with us, West, every time you hear,
Speaker 1: we love it. And uh, now today's show, now, today's show.
Speaker 1: It's it's it's solid. It's a solid show. I'm kind
Speaker 1: of into the show a little bit pre show. Great,
Speaker 1: let's see Wes is here. This weight loss has been
Speaker 1: a positive on some level I'm not feeling well. Greg's
Speaker 1: a little difficult in the pre production media, but then
Speaker 1: we came around. Okay, so, uh, today's show, we're gonna
Speaker 1: hit up some news in a little bit more unconventional way.
Speaker 1: Uh As we'll get to in a couple of minutes.
Speaker 1: And then what we're gonna do is, we did this
Speaker 1: last summer and we want to revisit its. It's kind
Speaker 1: of fun. Uh. Is we'll look at the twelve teams
Speaker 1: that made the playoffs last year and then it's kind
Speaker 1: of like our confidence scale on how confident it we
Speaker 1: are that those uh, those teams will return to the
Speaker 1: playoffs in seventeen after making the dance a season ago.
Speaker 1: So we'll go through that. Uh And that included some
Speaker 1: math that we'll get to that I sat out and
Speaker 1: we put it in Greg's hands. Uh. So that's that's
Speaker 1: the plan for today. Before we get going formally, will
Speaker 1: say hello to a solid behind the glass. Hey, buddy fellas,
Speaker 1: how was it go? Is it? How it goes? So
Speaker 1: you you did not want to hang out with us
Speaker 1: at the at the definitely award, I was just feeling
Speaker 1: about I was I would rather sit on my tuckas
Speaker 1: and that's what you did, right, because Thursday was your Friday?
Speaker 1: What did you do? Uh? I watched the n NBA
Speaker 1: draft with a couple of co workers and just saut
Speaker 1: on my tukas. It was nice. So you were hanging
Speaker 1: out with co workers because you gave us. But the
Speaker 1: reasoning why you weren't going to the wards is why
Speaker 1: would I hang out with people I work with all day?
Speaker 1: But these co workers live across the street for me,
Speaker 1: so it was literally like walk across the street. Boom,
Speaker 1: They're watching the NBA draft. About it, Let's listen, new
Speaker 1: never happens to me. Stuff like that never happens to
Speaker 1: anybody except from Marcus. Now. One of the things UH
Speaker 1: with with Wes and and this fight he's up against,
Speaker 1: Uh the idea of let's, you know, have some fun
Speaker 1: Together's get together and maybe have some like nights in
Speaker 1: at west Manor. And that was a sound clip from
Speaker 1: the Eddie Murphy vehicle Boomerang, which West I know you
Speaker 1: and I have a lot of common ground on that film.
Speaker 1: We're both big fans Hammertime Baby. Yeah. I love Boomerang.
Speaker 1: It's it's one of my favorite movies of the nineties. Um, Greg,
Speaker 1: this was this movie came out before you entered Earth.
Speaker 1: Uh we were. I watched Boomerang many times to night school. Actually,
Speaker 1: did you were? I was in on bo I'm in
Speaker 1: on Boomerang. Okay, good Um. So we're gonna have like
Speaker 1: a Boomerang viewing party. At some point we were banging
Speaker 1: out the details with the paramour at the commissioner's event.
Speaker 1: Uh a dinner. Now it's just a matter of getting
Speaker 1: our ends procuring a copy a Boomerang, which might be
Speaker 1: more difficult than no, you can. I can order it
Speaker 1: from Amazon Streaming or something for two or whatever. And
Speaker 1: if you're not aware of Boomerang, I was Eddie Murphy
Speaker 1: playing the suave, single dude on the loose in New
Speaker 1: York who struggled to commit Robin Gibbons. In her prime,
Speaker 1: halle Berry, before she was the leading lady, she had
Speaker 1: to play a second She had to play the supporting actress.
Speaker 1: She played the support and you know what, I love
Speaker 1: should have brought your ass home last night. Halle Berry
Speaker 1: was at the point where she was playing a girl
Speaker 1: next door supporting part, which she obviously outgrews. I've never
Speaker 1: seen a girl next door to me looking like Hallie Berry.
Speaker 1: All right, Now, that's what we're gonna do for the news,
Speaker 1: is gonna mix it up a little bit. We love
Speaker 1: road a World, and not just because Greg built the
Speaker 1: entire enterprise brick by brick, not even just HTML. Of
Speaker 1: course he built out the website, but I mean also
Speaker 1: the office in one of his business. Greg is at
Speaker 1: very not physically doing it. You were the brain child
Speaker 1: for everything behind root a World's rise. Yes or no? No,
Speaker 1: I would say Matthew Polyatt, who is the first blurber?
Speaker 1: He does he still? Do you know? He was the
Speaker 1: guy I was the second full time, I was first
Speaker 1: full time in football, but he was doing all the
Speaker 1: sports Polyat. I worked under Pollop for a minute. I
Speaker 1: was doing baseball on road a World for at least
Speaker 1: one summer. Can you save for the polyot Anyway, The
Speaker 1: point was that both Greg and then later West worked
Speaker 1: at road a World in various capacities. Uh it's a
Speaker 1: great website. Uh listen. NFL dot com is an excellent
Speaker 1: website as well, but a great place for all matters
Speaker 1: football at the NFL page and road a World. So
Speaker 1: what we want to do is what I do often
Speaker 1: when I just check in what's going on. I see
Speaker 1: Rotal World just go straight down the road A World headlines,
Speaker 1: and they're not paying for this and perhaps they should.
Speaker 1: Um sy, can we reach out to road A World
Speaker 1: to see if h retroactively they can pay us for
Speaker 1: what we're about to do. Yeah, just like not even
Speaker 1: twenty bucks? About how about a pizza, We'll take a piez.
Speaker 1: They can spring for Boomerang. Let's get Evan Sylva on
Speaker 1: the line, see if he could buy Boomerang and then
Speaker 1: mail it to us. You can definitely afford that you could.
Speaker 1: You could buy it for seven ninety six on on
Speaker 1: Walmart dot com. We'll see if the Shadowy League figures
Speaker 1: might might be able to expense that one thing. You
Speaker 1: have to buy a DVD player because who owns the
Speaker 1: DVD players? We gotta We're bumping up against some stuff here.
Speaker 1: Let's start at the top of the Rotor World headlines.
Speaker 1: Michael Floyd since the one day in jail that it
Speaker 1: comes after violating the terms of his house arrest. He was,
Speaker 1: of course, you know the story that he was under
Speaker 1: house arrest, could not um drink any alcohol, had the
Speaker 1: monitoring bracelet on, and then uh flunked the test. Reportedly
Speaker 1: or multiple tests and blamed it on kombucca, which we tried,
Speaker 1: which was pretty tasty. I gotta see tried it. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I really liked it. On this podcast we had some
Speaker 1: kombucca ta and it was pretty pretty happy. So that
Speaker 1: never had it before. Why not see what's going on.
Speaker 1: We can thank Michael Floyd for that. Open your mind.
Speaker 1: They got it on tap at the facility, don't at
Speaker 1: the Vikings facility, and that's how he got in trouble anyway,
Speaker 1: So Michael Floyd, who was signed by the Vikings, they
Speaker 1: have them in their plans and there was a fear
Speaker 1: that Floyd was going to miss a big portion of
Speaker 1: season might get thrown in in the pokey. So what
Speaker 1: they call it for an extended amount of time because
Speaker 1: the judgment who's goal. Instead it's just one day, so
Speaker 1: he's out of there. I don't know what this does
Speaker 1: for his uh with the NFL if this leads some
Speaker 1: more trouble, but that's what's going on one day in
Speaker 1: jail for Michael Floyd. Let the man have his kombucha,
Speaker 1: I mean the test. There are many ridiculous things about that,
Speaker 1: you know, excuse, but the biggest one was the tests
Speaker 1: were taking at like four thirty in the morning. That
Speaker 1: means he was just chugging kombucha overnight. In that scenario, Uh,
Speaker 1: I think it could impact the NFL suspension of Michael Floyd,
Speaker 1: which the Vikings and everyone else including Floyd, are still
Speaker 1: waiting to find out what it's going to be. So
Speaker 1: the fact that he did not, you know, stick to
Speaker 1: the terms of his house arrest and it's still been
Speaker 1: a problem, I would think that something the NFL will
Speaker 1: frown on and potential. I mean, this could be a
Speaker 1: long suspension, it might not be a short one could
Speaker 1: be and it might also not hurt the Vikings very
Speaker 1: much at all, considering he's running behind Laquon tread Will
Speaker 1: as a third receiver moving on of the Rodal World headlines,
Speaker 1: they have what is he not? He is moving on?
Speaker 1: Nick Fairley has an issue here and the Saints have
Speaker 1: placed fairly on the reserve NFI list. With that hard
Speaker 1: condition he's dealing with, he's expected to miss all of
Speaker 1: twenty seventeen that according to The Times pick un Uh.
Speaker 1: This came after multiple consultations to try to to nail
Speaker 1: down what what he was dealing with. Three different opinions. Uh,
Speaker 1: and now we're wondering if we've seen the last of
Speaker 1: Nick Fairly in the NFL. We hope not. But how
Speaker 1: do you how would you describe Greg Rosathal Nick Fairley's
Speaker 1: career to this point. That's a great question. He's I can't.
Speaker 1: I have to say he's had a good career. He
Speaker 1: is been better as a part time player that as
Speaker 1: a starter. But once teams like the Lions and the
Speaker 1: Saints figured that out and the Rams, he was pretty valuable.
Speaker 1: I mean, he earned a four year, twenty eight million
Speaker 1: dollar contracts, so his value to the Saints was was
Speaker 1: pretty high. Here's what's counterintuitive about Nick Fairley. The Lions
Speaker 1: spent years trying to get him to lose weight, and
Speaker 1: then he goes to the Saints, is bigger than he
Speaker 1: ever was and has his best year. Right. But I
Speaker 1: think he was a good like. I think the Rams
Speaker 1: would say they were happy with what they got out
Speaker 1: of Nick Fairley too. He wasn't a guy who's gonna
Speaker 1: be great every snap, but a big guy who disrupts
Speaker 1: you in the middle of the line that has significant value.
Speaker 1: And then the contract says it and it's another big
Speaker 1: loss for the Saints. Who has had a worse off
Speaker 1: season than the Saints. No one is the answer. Who
Speaker 1: else they They lost their starting center Max Onnger, who
Speaker 1: knows maybe he'll be back for early in the season,
Speaker 1: and they lost Heron Armstead, their left go for four
Speaker 1: to six months. I mean, that's three key players who
Speaker 1: are getting paid a lot of money with pretty serious injuries.
Speaker 1: Up next, this one coming out of Philadelphia. The Eagles
Speaker 1: wide receivers coach Mike Ross says that al Shan Jeffrey
Speaker 1: has had the best offseason in years triplet triplet trot
Speaker 1: not according to ESPN dot Com, believes that he's pleased
Speaker 1: where he is. Gross said, he's please where Jeffrey is
Speaker 1: physically and mentally. He's in a good place. Uh grow
Speaker 1: work for Jeffrey for three seasons in Chicago, including that
Speaker 1: one big, huge year he had in two thousand thirteen
Speaker 1: when he kind of broke out as a future star.
Speaker 1: But you know this is common place. That's why it's
Speaker 1: a trip alert people. It is a trop ler. I
Speaker 1: wouldn't put too much stock in it, but with Alshon
Speaker 1: Jeffrey as much as any wide receiver in the game
Speaker 1: over the past half decade, his conditioning has been a problem,
Speaker 1: so I think if he's in shape, that's half the battle. No,
Speaker 1: I mean this, this headline I think was at the
Speaker 1: hop when we first came up with this idea. Some
Speaker 1: actual news dropped in between, and this, you know, nonsense
Speaker 1: is kind of was the inspiration that there's so little
Speaker 1: going on, let's just go through these roador world things.
Speaker 1: I read a tweet from Joe Thomas, Brown's left tackle. Yes, yes,
Speaker 1: he tweeted out today you have to feel sorry for
Speaker 1: NFL beat writers who have to come up with these
Speaker 1: meaningless offseason articles. Ever heard of a quote bad off season?
Speaker 1: And he was linking to a Pro Football Talk article
Speaker 1: that was praising Jamal Adams for his unbelievable work. And
Speaker 1: it's true this I really, I know we say this
Speaker 1: every year, but I put it. I've never actually gone
Speaker 1: to an O t A before or minicamp, and it
Speaker 1: really hammered at home that they're not playing football, so
Speaker 1: what and and everyone kind of knows this, and yet
Speaker 1: we they still fall into the same thing. He's had
Speaker 1: a good offseason or bad offseason. What it just means
Speaker 1: they're like in shape or not were they're not even
Speaker 1: playing the sport really that they're gonna be playing what
Speaker 1: were they playing like? Seven on seven? Yeah? Seven, there's
Speaker 1: no I mean, there's no tackling. There's no even touching.
Speaker 1: You can't. Yeah, there there's seven. Occasionally there's eleven on eleven.
Speaker 1: Most of it's just individual work. You know your positional groups,
Speaker 1: so you can get in shorts. But it's all clean.
Speaker 1: Very little from many of us as a as a
Speaker 1: reporter especially, but I even think as coaches. Okay, he's
Speaker 1: had his best office. I guess that just means he's
Speaker 1: in shape and he's kind of focus. He's healthy and
Speaker 1: in shape. That's all you can ask for. Next up,
Speaker 1: Cam Newton resumes throwing. It's not bad, not bad. The
Speaker 1: first time he's throwing since undergoing shoulder surgery on marcht Uh.
Speaker 1: You know this comes he was supposed to throw at
Speaker 1: the end of minicamp and that never happened. Um, and
Speaker 1: now here he is throwing a week or two later,
Speaker 1: and there still is a belief that he will be
Speaker 1: ready to roll come training camp. Cam Newton West, Uh
Speaker 1: just mean anything too nothing? I think throw Andrew Luck
Speaker 1: in the same category. It's our seven Football News World
Speaker 1: where this stuff appears to be meaningful and it really
Speaker 1: doesn't mean anything. We'll find out what it means when
Speaker 1: when training camp opens and when we see him in
Speaker 1: action against actual football players. But no, the fact that
Speaker 1: he's actually throwing. He probably could have thrown a couple
Speaker 1: of weeks ago, but they everything has a timetable and
Speaker 1: you have to do it by that. No, I don't
Speaker 1: think it means much. Sully. The Panthers released a video. Yeah,
Speaker 1: they released a video, and it was the most overproducing
Speaker 1: I've ever seen. It was just him throwing in the
Speaker 1: locker room. I did catch that magic music and I'm like,
Speaker 1: are you serious? Sun in the corner of my eye
Speaker 1: and I was like seated. It like Teddy Bridgewater returning
Speaker 1: from one of the most devastating injuries, which the Vikings
Speaker 1: kind of blew out as a hype video, which I
Speaker 1: gets a little different. Plus, it was in the locker
Speaker 1: room where the ceilings are like ten feet high, so
Speaker 1: it's not like you're really throwing. It's like he threw
Speaker 1: to a trainer that was like ten feet away from him. Alright,
Speaker 1: moving on, it's a little something that he's ahead of
Speaker 1: Andrew Luck despite being too much he's well Andrew Luck
Speaker 1: can probably it's my entire point. He's not ahead of
Speaker 1: Andrew Luck. But because the Colts have told Andrew Luck
Speaker 1: we don't want you throwing, he hasn't tested on. My
Speaker 1: point is that he had surgery two months later, and
Speaker 1: they've been confident the whole time that Newton will be
Speaker 1: ready for camp, and that's been thrown, so I think
Speaker 1: it's safe to say from the outside he's on a
Speaker 1: little bit of a faster timeline and his surgery was
Speaker 1: likely not as invasive. My point would be that we
Speaker 1: know nothing and you're just using conjecture here. The Colts
Speaker 1: have approached lux rehab differently and they don't want him
Speaker 1: to try throwing, so he could be way ahead of Newton,
Speaker 1: and we just have no idea. We're just this is
Speaker 1: why it's a June story. Next up, Miami, J and
Speaker 1: g I could push for nineteen hundred total yards with
Speaker 1: a question mark. This coming from ESPN James Walker, uh,
Speaker 1: who believes that g I could put up nineteen hundred
Speaker 1: total yards if he stays sething. But I only thought
Speaker 1: on this and it's all obviously, UH kind of ridiculous
Speaker 1: to UH to really make that type of statement, especially
Speaker 1: if you're gonna say nineteen hundred, bro, just go to
Speaker 1: two k just say you can approach two thousand yards.
Speaker 1: Nineteen hundred is oddly specific, right, and having the question
Speaker 1: mark at the end also may said like, well, yes,
Speaker 1: he could. He could run for any amount of yards.
Speaker 1: You could put three hundred yards, you could total yards.
Speaker 1: But he could not do a million. But could a million?
Speaker 1: Is not no, he couldn't put on the spot here,
Speaker 1: Oh stop. If you were still running road World, would
Speaker 1: this be a headline? That's what I didn't want this
Speaker 1: to be about. We love road a World. It's a
Speaker 1: it's put myself on the spot. It's not a headline.
Speaker 1: It's just a beat writer throwing numbers out. West coming back.
Speaker 1: What's the heat? That's what I like. I mean, he's
Speaker 1: come back. You miss a couple of shows, figured West,
Speaker 1: He's he's gonna come in calm. No, West is coming
Speaker 1: in with that yard and energy. And you know what,
Speaker 1: it's not just because West is in the fight of
Speaker 1: his life right now doesn't mean he's gonna come in
Speaker 1: like I said, Oh, good point, Greg, you did it again.
Speaker 1: What's the next news? It's like, No, it's gonna be
Speaker 1: west j J. I last year started twelve games and
Speaker 1: he had fourteen hundred yards from scrimmage. So just doing
Speaker 1: the math out if he can stay healthy, he was.
Speaker 1: He was basically at that pace last year. And Uh,
Speaker 1: I think this is not an overly optimistic projection. If
Speaker 1: I'm in fantasy drafts, I'm taking some j J. I'm
Speaker 1: I'm thinking two thousand yards from scrimmage. If he could
Speaker 1: run for two hundred yards in three different games in
Speaker 1: every year of his career, he'd be the best running
Speaker 1: back of all time. Their offensive line was really terrible
Speaker 1: I think last year, and and we'll see if it's
Speaker 1: better on paper, maybe it should be better. I think
Speaker 1: he's that type of runner and he's one of the
Speaker 1: few running backs left that if he's healthy, we know
Speaker 1: he's going to get the ball three hundred times. Next up,
Speaker 1: levy on Bell videoed videoed? Is that a word? Playing basketball? Uh?
Speaker 1: Why is this notable? Because Levy on Bell had groin
Speaker 1: surgery back in March. Levy on Bell tweeted it out himself.
Speaker 1: Uh on Twitter and then rodal World turned into a blur.
Speaker 1: And that's how the sausage gets made. Baby, does it? Matter. Well,
Speaker 1: here's how the sausage also gets made. The headline field
Speaker 1: I think only has a certain amount of characters couldn't
Speaker 1: fit in videotape went with video. I don't know. I mean,
Speaker 1: he's I guess is that does this matter? When you
Speaker 1: built the HTML though, why didn't you just build in
Speaker 1: a little more space to get in a headline that
Speaker 1: the more character space, the more you could put into
Speaker 1: that headline. And a website like this, it lives and
Speaker 1: dies on the headlines. I mean, I feel like that's
Speaker 1: a basic structure er on your part. I think you
Speaker 1: need to put it, you know, limit, then the headlines
Speaker 1: just go forever, all the way across the page. They
Speaker 1: would just go all the way across the page like
Speaker 1: two word headlines, bang bang bang bang bang. But I
Speaker 1: didn't build row a world brick by brick. See. I
Speaker 1: think there's a subtle but important distinction here between Levyan
Speaker 1: Bell and Cam Newton. Cam Newton isn't gonna be throwing
Speaker 1: like soft tan yard passes in games, right. Levan Bell
Speaker 1: is going to be making the same maneuvers in football
Speaker 1: that he used on a basketball court. And when you
Speaker 1: can actually see the videotape and he's moving with some
Speaker 1: agility that would tell me that a growing surgery worked.
Speaker 1: And he's he's in football ship, he's fine. And I
Speaker 1: don't know, if you watch this, Dan, you're saying to
Speaker 1: move it along. You gotta watch this video. I mean,
Speaker 1: watches crossover here is nice. I mean, he is making
Speaker 1: some moves. You gotta wait a second here. I mean
Speaker 1: he's going between the legs crossover, then going back and
Speaker 1: going with the left hand. It's pretty good. I mean,
Speaker 1: he's a good athlete. Looks like TDS Instagram videos against
Speaker 1: what he does. To your point, West, it does look
Speaker 1: like a kind of move he would be making running
Speaker 1: the ball. And he's a big dude. You see him
Speaker 1: on the looks a little big. He his weight is
Speaker 1: fluctuated as a pro. He looks like he's back up
Speaker 1: a little little beefy. Maybe that should be the next run,
Speaker 1: next up, let's hope. Never mind. Colin Riddeck refutes Chiefs
Speaker 1: rumors and what is this about? ESPN analyst Lewis Riddeck
Speaker 1: has not uh, excuse me, what is this report updating
Speaker 1: an earlier report. ESPN analyst Lewis Riddeck has not been
Speaker 1: contacted by the Chiefs. The news comes from Rideck himself.
Speaker 1: The Chiefs has not contacted me if there's no interview
Speaker 1: set up for this week's source me, he tweeted. Rapture
Speaker 1: to reported that the Chiefs were looking to interview Riddick
Speaker 1: for their GM job. But maybe that's not the case.
Speaker 1: I mean, if I'm on the Rotor World News shift,
Speaker 1: I'm paying particular attention to Lewis Riddeck's phrasing, which includes
Speaker 1: this week. To me, that's key. He's not He's not
Speaker 1: denying it out right. He's saying this week, I don't
Speaker 1: have any and he said, I have not contacted me,
Speaker 1: and I don't know. I'm always gonna have Yeah NFL
Speaker 1: network Uh Insider Ian rapports back. These are all done
Speaker 1: through agents and intermediates, So I don't think that report
Speaker 1: from Ian comes out of nowhere. He gave Riddick a
Speaker 1: little bit of a L O L whatever on some
Speaker 1: on some some someone responded saying like, what's up with this?
Speaker 1: And uh, I you never know, maybe he hadn't who knows.
Speaker 1: I don't want to get another man's business, but it's
Speaker 1: tricky when you have one job and other people are
Speaker 1: searching you out for another mob and maybe you Yeah,
Speaker 1: all of these different reports, I think we can take
Speaker 1: l O L whatever and say that's lau Ravio Magnifico.
Speaker 1: If Ian is approaching it that way, he knows there's
Speaker 1: something going on, and he said they're working to set
Speaker 1: up an interview, not necessarily moving on Paxton Lynch gaining
Speaker 1: ground on Trevor Simeon. That according to Mike Klice at
Speaker 1: nine News Denver, Uh, Lynch quote made his move on
Speaker 1: Simeon during the final two weeks of O t A's West.
Speaker 1: Trevor Simeon did pretty well last year, but Lynch is
Speaker 1: going to be a guy to watch her. He's a
Speaker 1: first round pick. First round picks don't sit on the
Speaker 1: bench for two years. It's an interesting scenario and Broncos
Speaker 1: fans have been cracking me up on Twitter lately because
Speaker 1: they are rooting so hard for Paxston Lynch, so hard
Speaker 1: that they are seeing his two thousand sixteen game film
Speaker 1: through some pretty perverse eyes. He had a brutal two
Speaker 1: starts for the Broncos. Getting the distance between Trevor Simeon
Speaker 1: and Paxston Lynch last year is measured in Miles Paxton
Speaker 1: Lynch was so overwhelmed and whose light years light years
Speaker 1: And Mike Class who wrote this article said, without that
Speaker 1: last week of mini camps and O. T. A. S.
Speaker 1: Simeon would have ran away with this job. So in
Speaker 1: that sense it's important, But wasn't advanced Joseph, who was
Speaker 1: the head coach, who when asked what he's taking away
Speaker 1: from O. T. S said no, absolutely nothing, right, which
Speaker 1: I so I give him a chance. I mean, I
Speaker 1: give Lynch a chance, but let's let's see in camp.
Speaker 1: I agree. I think it. It says two things. One
Speaker 1: that he's comfortable with Mike McCoy's offense, that it probably
Speaker 1: took a few practices, and two that he's comfortable being
Speaker 1: an NFL player. You know, guys who come from spread
Speaker 1: systems in college don't even know how to run a huddle.
Speaker 1: So he's just now getting to do everything. Now, is
Speaker 1: getting to be more natural instead of thinking about it
Speaker 1: every time he's doing something. By the way, who gets
Speaker 1: this side who starts in Denver? Was advanced Joseph or
Speaker 1: is it John Oway or is it Mike McCoy. I
Speaker 1: just feel like l that's always boy, that Lynch move,
Speaker 1: that if he if he's gonna put some pressure on
Speaker 1: the people below and I can see it happen. It's
Speaker 1: a great it's a great question. I think that the
Speaker 1: honest answer would probably be it's collaborative, that that you
Speaker 1: wanted to be discussing it. And but in Elway's voice matters.
Speaker 1: I was thinking football, there's only sixteen games. You can't
Speaker 1: really afford to be playing a guy just because you
Speaker 1: drafted him higher. You have to play to win. Moving
Speaker 1: on Adam Gaze message Peyton Manning about a return. Now,
Speaker 1: this one's a little interesting. It came from the Miami Herald. Uh.
Speaker 1: This came right after Tannehill partially to Ryan Tannehill partially
Speaker 1: towards a c L in week fourteen. The Tech said, hey,
Speaker 1: teen Tannehill went down. I think he's going to miss
Speaker 1: some time. The first question I'm going to get at
Speaker 1: the press conference of the morning is if I'm gonna
Speaker 1: tell if I'm going to bring you to Miami, what
Speaker 1: do you want me to tell them that? My question,
Speaker 1: first of all, is that serious? Second of all, is
Speaker 1: that really the first question that any reporter is gonna ask?
Speaker 1: I'm curious, shouldn't shouldn't the reporter asked that I think
Speaker 1: that it was done. He was was uggling and not
Speaker 1: looking to play football. I don't think that was on
Speaker 1: anyone's mind last December. Really, do you remember it ever
Speaker 1: coming up at the time of that had happened. It
Speaker 1: feels like it came up at least once a month
Speaker 1: that people are wondering if Peyton Manning was gonna come back. Mhmm.
Speaker 1: I think any reporter who knows Gaye's relationship with Manning
Speaker 1: would have to ask that it seems like, well, it
Speaker 1: seems like Gaye was now. This came from Archie Manning,
Speaker 1: who was talking to The Times Pickyune at the Manning
Speaker 1: Passing Academy down in Louisiana, and Archie always loves like
Speaker 1: kind of like putting these things out there. I feel
Speaker 1: like I feel like Gaye was probably just testing the water,
Speaker 1: seeing what old sheriff wanted to say. Would there have
Speaker 1: been anything more depressing site than a forty year old
Speaker 1: Peyton Manning throwing wobbling ducks in early January for an
Speaker 1: overmatch Miami team in the playoffs. It would have been
Speaker 1: a horrible way for him to me out. He went
Speaker 1: out as a Super Bowl champion. That would have been
Speaker 1: so sad if he went out with a Dolphins team
Speaker 1: learning a a book on the fly, his body unable
Speaker 1: to make the throws that he makes the throw. And
Speaker 1: then if he took that hit that Matt Moore took,
Speaker 1: who is it? Was it from James Harrison? I don't
Speaker 1: remember who? Think it laid him out. Matt Moore took
Speaker 1: some took a beating in that in that Steelers game.
Speaker 1: Out of all of the headlines, I think this is
Speaker 1: the biggest non story. What do you want me to
Speaker 1: tell them? To me? Is just straight up, what do
Speaker 1: you want me to tell him? I don't think there's
Speaker 1: more to It's his friends, So what do you want
Speaker 1: me to do? What do you want me to say?
Speaker 1: When they ask me this? Jake Jake Gruden gush is
Speaker 1: about third year wide receiver uh Jamison Crowder Uh This
Speaker 1: according to the Washington Post, he's an excellent, dynamic player,
Speaker 1: continues to prove every day why we love him so much.
Speaker 1: This could be seen, obviously is another trope allerd Uh?
Speaker 1: Do we believe James and crowd is the real deal?
Speaker 1: I think this is a story because I don't know
Speaker 1: if this is the same article, but last week also
Speaker 1: came news that he's gonna be playing in two wide sets,
Speaker 1: so like, especially for a fantasy football news site, Jamison
Speaker 1: Crowder should be getting upwards of nine to a thousand
Speaker 1: snaps instead of playing third receiver snaps. I think that
Speaker 1: is big news. Yeah, Terrell Prior is gonna get a
Speaker 1: lot of attention, Josh dots and people are curious about.
Speaker 1: But crowders, the more likely to guide him and read
Speaker 1: are still going to be the guys you think of
Speaker 1: as one too. They're the guys that have been there.
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Speaker 1: airplane ride. We have a shadowy League figure in the
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Speaker 1: to you that finally in the Rodal World headlines doesn't
Speaker 1: matter or not? Uh New Jersey Advanced Media is Connor
Speaker 1: Hughes not or expects Matt Forte to be the Jets
Speaker 1: offensive workhorse this season? Uh you know, this is like
Speaker 1: it's a fantasy site at its heart. Do not draft
Speaker 1: any Jets. Don't do it because even Matt Forte, you
Speaker 1: proved last year best used in uh small portions at
Speaker 1: this state of his career. He h Once he started
Speaker 1: using him too much, he went down the drain BLA.
Speaker 1: Paul might be a better player at this stage. Uh
Speaker 1: so in terms of the handcuff situation, maybe, but you
Speaker 1: don't want to get involved with the Jets this year.
Speaker 1: I do not trust Connor Hughes anymore after this. That's hired.
Speaker 1: I mean, what are you talking about an offensive work
Speaker 1: horse who's thirty one years old and looked like the
Speaker 1: slowest running back in the NFL. Ash Well, he might
Speaker 1: be on a historically bad Jets team. So if there
Speaker 1: was any type of team that would have a thirty
Speaker 1: one year old workout horse running back, maybe it's right.
Speaker 1: But this is the same coaching staff that talked to
Speaker 1: Bill House that he could be a pro bowler. Fairness,
Speaker 1: he was in a tough spot. I mean, that's that's
Speaker 1: essentially the company has changed. But Connor Or essentially the
Speaker 1: same company he was at the Newark Star Ledger. You
Speaker 1: follow it a legend like Connor Or at your company.
Speaker 1: It'd be like if if Peyton Smith was the next
Speaker 1: quarterback of the Broncos or it isn't even a good example,
Speaker 1: you know, because he wasn't that good. I'm just saying,
Speaker 1: you know what, I have the same name if if
Speaker 1: Derek Beeter, uh you know, replaced old number two at
Speaker 1: short stop Peter Peter. This is this is how it
Speaker 1: breaks down. You want to be the guy. You want
Speaker 1: to be the guy, okay, and then if you're not
Speaker 1: the guy, you never be one. You never want to
Speaker 1: be the guy who replaces the guy. You want to
Speaker 1: be the guy who replaces the guy who replaces the guy.
Speaker 1: That's what you want to do. And uh, what we're
Speaker 1: talking about? Oh so you Connor Connor Beckersley when he
Speaker 1: comes in and he's replacing Hugh's he's in a better spot.
Speaker 1: But Hugh's replacing or tough spot. I'm waiting for Connor
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Speaker 1: Fund exercise, it's uh, you know, it's one of those things.
Speaker 1: It's one of those things. Every year, UM teams that
Speaker 1: made the playoffs the prior season they don't return. So
Speaker 1: anybody that wants to get conservative with with their predictions
Speaker 1: for the season, you're bang. You're banging yourself in a
Speaker 1: big spot because every year multiple teams fall out. Greg
Speaker 1: in fact, put you on the spot a little bit here.
Speaker 1: How many teams fell out of the playoffs this past
Speaker 1: season that we're in. I'm gonna sneeze. I could go
Speaker 1: get myself. I want to die. I could go through
Speaker 1: and count them. Uh, that wouldn't be very good podcasting.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna guess five. Oh okay, uh, maybe Sully, can
Speaker 1: you work on this while we while we do this,
Speaker 1: which teams? How many teams did not return? Maybe name
Speaker 1: the teams as well. Anyway, it's gonna be probably if
Speaker 1: I had a guess three or four, three to five.
Speaker 1: He used to be about six a year, and then
Speaker 1: I feel like the last few years there's been as
Speaker 1: the NFL. Yeah, the parody issue and it's made there's
Speaker 1: some top heavy teams. Anyway, so twelve teams make it
Speaker 1: six in each conference? Nailed it, and uh so what
Speaker 1: would we did was West Gregg and myself each there
Speaker 1: you go? Um uh, we called a confidence scale. We
Speaker 1: took each team and the team that we were most
Speaker 1: confident about would get one point and the team we
Speaker 1: were least confident about would get twelve points. And then
Speaker 1: we added it up divide. Uh did we divide it? Gregor?
Speaker 1: We just went with a total sub. We didn't do
Speaker 1: a divider. It's okay, that's fine. I put you in
Speaker 1: charge of the map. Elmings, I can't, but there there
Speaker 1: would be no point in dividing it. I mean, we
Speaker 1: have the numbers, but he made so it's thirty five.
Speaker 1: The numbers don't really matter that much. I mean, we're
Speaker 1: sorting it out, and there you go. You got your order,
Speaker 1: got the auto right here. I'm looking right at it
Speaker 1: right now. See I got a little bit lost in
Speaker 1: the wildern to say with the numbers. It happens on
Speaker 1: the show. Um, so here we go. Let's go through
Speaker 1: the teams. So six didn't make it last year. Let's
Speaker 1: just work off that there's a good chance that either
Speaker 1: like half of the teams. It could be more than
Speaker 1: half of the teams, but don't expect it to be
Speaker 1: anything less than let's say three or four. So a
Speaker 1: lot of teams are coming back. I might have messed up.
Speaker 1: Oh no, did blow it. One of these teams is
Speaker 1: gonna suffer debilitating You know I was good. I didn't
Speaker 1: say anything. Yeah, that's okay to worry about Le's double
Speaker 1: check in my math. Well, we'll start at the top
Speaker 1: because there's no there's no reason to pretend like this
Speaker 1: isn't uh going to be the choice. I'm just happy
Speaker 1: that Greg didn't elude himself into thinking that set up
Speaker 1: some of the team will be ahead. All three of
Speaker 1: us put number one for a total of three Let's
Speaker 1: take a trip to the throne of bees real quick here.
Speaker 1: Just like we were just talking about on the a
Speaker 1: f C Hierarchy Update, Patriots we had it in their
Speaker 1: own tier. Although we were arguing with Greg a little
Speaker 1: bit who thought that the Steelers should be right next
Speaker 1: to them, the Pats a universally all most likely what
Speaker 1: would it take? I think, Greg West, you just said it, basically,
Speaker 1: what would it take the Patriots to miss the playoffs?
Speaker 1: Even if Brady gets injured? The roster is strong enough
Speaker 1: and Jimmy Garoppolo is good enough for them still to
Speaker 1: make the playoffs. So what would they still be the
Speaker 1: heavy favorites in the East at Brady? I mean it,
Speaker 1: it is. It is crazy that if not for three
Speaker 1: you know, and an eleven and five record not being
Speaker 1: good enough in the Matt Castle year, that they would
Speaker 1: have made the playoffs every year since two thousand and two. Wow,
Speaker 1: and even then they tied for first that year too.
Speaker 1: But that is that. It is absolutely insane. Here's what
Speaker 1: it would take, and this is within the realm of possibility.
Speaker 1: We've seen this happen to teams before. They would take
Speaker 1: an injury to Brady and Garoppolo yeah, which is and
Speaker 1: probably Gronk, you know which that happens almost every time.
Speaker 1: I think, I think it's fair to say, are they
Speaker 1: a playoff team with Jake Briskett? You know still in Belichick? Yeah,
Speaker 1: he's still Belichick, and he's proven. Matt Castle is Matt Castle,
Speaker 1: and they want to eleven games that year they went
Speaker 1: one and one with Brisket last year. You know what,
Speaker 1: they might still make it. That would be I don't
Speaker 1: take anything away from Bellichick because he helped to develop Brady.
Speaker 1: But if they ever it on a deep playoff run
Speaker 1: with a Jake Brisket at the controls, why even do
Speaker 1: the league anymore? We've seen it at its highest level.
Speaker 1: Coach at the highest level. Why have head coaches anymore?
Speaker 1: But they have Belichick. They also have a guy who,
Speaker 1: if he's not the best schemer, I was gonna say,
Speaker 1: Josh McDaniels, I mean, Kyle Shanahan is great, but Josh
Speaker 1: McDaniels is right there with him. That Scarneckia is a star.
Speaker 1: Neck He gets it. He has a pretty good because
Speaker 1: not only is he an offensive line coach, do you
Speaker 1: know any other offensive line coaches in the league? A lot?
Speaker 1: All right, all right, do you know that? Like, did
Speaker 1: anyone get more credit than Dante Scarneckia for fixing everything
Speaker 1: wrong with the Patriots? So they also have the greatest
Speaker 1: offensive line coach of all all time? What is this
Speaker 1: greatest quarterback, greatest head coach, greatest offensive line coach. He
Speaker 1: gets overlooked the continuity Brady's always been in essentially the
Speaker 1: same systems. So it was a big drop off for
Speaker 1: our group at number two. Uh, but we all looks
Speaker 1: like we all have them in good sition? Are the
Speaker 1: Steelers are the second least likely team a total of eight?
Speaker 1: And I wanna I want to see what I uh
Speaker 1: sent to Gregor's Greg? Can you I thought you were
Speaker 1: gonna send me this flame? It on? Greg talking about
Speaker 1: I had them at three? That means someone else, someone
Speaker 1: else had them at three, and then one of us
Speaker 1: had them at two. Yeah, you've got it off. You've
Speaker 1: got it all. I do have it all. Good. So
Speaker 1: the Steelers second least likely in UH in the West,
Speaker 1: that makes sense, right, I had them at three. I
Speaker 1: had the Seahawks is more likely. But I think you
Speaker 1: can make certainly make the argument that Steelers and more,
Speaker 1: I mean, the Steelers have missed the playoffs a decent
Speaker 1: amount in the Mike tom Lin era. In my so
Speaker 1: it they are a little bit more of an up
Speaker 1: and down UH team. I guess they haven't since two
Speaker 1: thousand thirteen, but they did miss it two years in
Speaker 1: a row at one point, and they missed it three
Speaker 1: times Undertown. But we we spent a long time, so
Speaker 1: I won't repeat myself, but I think they're the second
Speaker 1: best team in the NFL. I think they're They're in
Speaker 1: the same ballpark on the Patriots and one thing, and
Speaker 1: we talk about what can stop them. Yes, again, it's
Speaker 1: probably injuries, but Landry Jones playing quarterback exactly, there's a
Speaker 1: big difference between the Patriots, uh. And maybe it explains
Speaker 1: a lot why the Patriots, who see their window wide
Speaker 1: open right now, would not trade Garoppol because they know
Speaker 1: they have coverage, whereas the Steelers know their seasons over
Speaker 1: if Roethlisberg gets hurt. Let's face it, Roethlisberger gets hurt
Speaker 1: a lot. He hasn't had too many serious injuries, but
Speaker 1: now you're getting into that part of his career where
Speaker 1: stuff can happen. Josh Jobbs is gonna win that backup spot,
Speaker 1: calling it out and not a bad division. You at
Speaker 1: least have some teams in that division pipe down with
Speaker 1: the Josh Dobbs ball had. Yeah, Josh, all right, so
Speaker 1: number three, let's move on. So we're comingroable with the Steelers.
Speaker 1: The Packers coming at number three, just a total of nine.
Speaker 1: Uh So I had them at two uh myself because
Speaker 1: I also looked at the division. That's why I had
Speaker 1: them number two. And I I'm not really as high
Speaker 1: on the Vikings as uh uh as maybe some other
Speaker 1: people are this year. The Bears. I think we all
Speaker 1: know what's going with the Bears. Uh they stink and
Speaker 1: um and the Lions. I think the lines will come
Speaker 1: down to earth as they did near by the end
Speaker 1: of the season. So I think the Packers by default
Speaker 1: are in a very good position to win that division
Speaker 1: going away this year. Very confident the Packers getting back
Speaker 1: yet again again. I'm more confident in the Seahawks because
Speaker 1: of division. I actually like the Vikings a lot this year.
Speaker 1: M And I think the West is the Seahawks to win.
Speaker 1: It's always the Sea, Yeah, I hear you. The thing
Speaker 1: is they have made the playoffs and it's almost underrated.
Speaker 1: Seven straight years it didn't make on an eight seven
Speaker 1: and one way. Fine, but that that speaks to you
Speaker 1: talking about it being a bad division. I mean, they've
Speaker 1: made it seven straight years and they made the division
Speaker 1: around six of those years. So I don't see any
Speaker 1: reason why this isn't a even among those Packers teams.
Speaker 1: On paper, I think this is a good Packers team
Speaker 1: that they should have reason to feel a little bit
Speaker 1: better about their defense. They're pretty deep on offense that
Speaker 1: that they're right there kind of with with the Steelers
Speaker 1: as two teams, I would be really stunned if they
Speaker 1: somehow blew it. Uh. Okay, So those three the only
Speaker 1: three teams in single digits when you added up our
Speaker 1: three little confidence ranking. So then number four the Seahawks
Speaker 1: with twelve total points and uh West you said you
Speaker 1: had him at too. Why don't you dig in a
Speaker 1: little bit more? Why you thought there almost they basically
Speaker 1: stole called lock. They are every year. I mean, what's changed?
Speaker 1: I don't, I don't. Why would we doubt the Seahawks
Speaker 1: for a minute? Mhm. I guess you can make the
Speaker 1: case that the Seahawks is, you know, maybe on the
Speaker 1: defensive side of the ball. Uh, whether it be injuries
Speaker 1: or whatever else. Don't have the same allure as they
Speaker 1: once did, and maybe that window of them being a
Speaker 1: a ultimate, like a real favorite in the NFC has
Speaker 1: closed now. And I feel like they've come back to
Speaker 1: the pack just a little bit. I guess. I feel
Speaker 1: like their defense has been together so long that it's
Speaker 1: it's an obvious competitive advantage. And I don't think the
Speaker 1: Cardinals roster is any better than last year. In fact,
Speaker 1: I think the Cardinals roster is worse than last year's,
Speaker 1: especially on the defensive side of the ball. Yeah, I
Speaker 1: had them fifth, but it's only because you know, there's
Speaker 1: such good teams I think ahead of them, including the
Speaker 1: you know, I put the Falcons and Packers, you know,
Speaker 1: a little bit safer the one concerned. You know, they
Speaker 1: weren't a great offensive team last year. That was you know,
Speaker 1: there was a lot of focus on the defense, but
Speaker 1: it really was the fact that they weren't good pat
Speaker 1: they weren't good passing the ball, very up and down. Uh,
Speaker 1: late in the season, Russell Wilson had some rough games.
Speaker 1: You know, they were just I like the Cardinals this
Speaker 1: year have been I've been saying that, and so that's
Speaker 1: why I had them a little bit lower, but they
Speaker 1: still would be the only way that the Seahawks getting
Speaker 1: a lot of troubles that they go through one of
Speaker 1: those funks where they end up being a around ten
Speaker 1: win team and the Cardinals bounced all the way back,
Speaker 1: which happens if Carson Palmer plays like he did in
Speaker 1: the later portion of the season, and if you know,
Speaker 1: Honey Badger gets back to being Honey Badger and David
Speaker 1: Johnson continues to be a dominating force that it's not impossible,
Speaker 1: but all right, we had him at I had him
Speaker 1: at five, Greg at five, West of two. Next up,
Speaker 1: number five on our list combined list the Atlanta Falcons,
Speaker 1: another team, this team, stronger roster than last year. I
Speaker 1: had them down. I think I might have had them
Speaker 1: at fifth on my pool because the NFC South might
Speaker 1: be the strongest division in the NFL. I mean, that's
Speaker 1: a lot of I care in that, that's a lot
Speaker 1: of competition, and you could see if the Falcons suffer
Speaker 1: an injury, even for just a month, it would allow
Speaker 1: maybe the Panthers or the Bucks to sail past them.
Speaker 1: My instinct is always you know a team has a
Speaker 1: great year out of nowhere, then I think naturally, I
Speaker 1: just kind of pick them to fall back to the
Speaker 1: middle of the pack. But I'm I'm fighting against that
Speaker 1: with this Falcons team because they're loaded. I just think
Speaker 1: they're loaded. I think their defense is gonna be so
Speaker 1: much better. They have so much room to improve that
Speaker 1: that I'm in on on the Falcons as Yeah, they
Speaker 1: were fourth on my list and I'm in on them
Speaker 1: really as the co NFC favorites with the Packers. I
Speaker 1: just don't think they I don't. I know, Kyle Shanahan's gone,
Speaker 1: but I don't think they can blow it. I had
Speaker 1: them at seventh on my list for the Kyle Shanahan
Speaker 1: But I do put a lot into the Super Bowl
Speaker 1: hangover thing with teams, uh and there was never a worse,
Speaker 1: never a worse tequila night out than one. And I
Speaker 1: think these guys, they've been talking about it all of
Speaker 1: the season, how and a lot of them are like, Oh,
Speaker 1: we'll never get over that game. I think they might
Speaker 1: lose a little bit of you know, swaggers. It's a
Speaker 1: cheesy way to look at it, but I feel like
Speaker 1: that loss will stick with him, and I don't think
Speaker 1: they'll be as good offensively this year. The if the
Speaker 1: defense is a lot better than it's getting better. Nice
Speaker 1: young group. I mean maybe your experience recently with a hangover, though,
Speaker 1: is impact in your judgment. Well, well I can relate,
Speaker 1: That's what I'm saying. I get one or two hangovers
Speaker 1: a year at this stage of the game, and I
Speaker 1: did have one on Friday. Luckily, it was a day
Speaker 1: off for me, so I was able to to rest
Speaker 1: up and recharge the old batteries. Ah, but it was
Speaker 1: a tough friday. It's not how you want to spend
Speaker 1: your friday. Hey, you know at this point, what a hangover?
Speaker 1: What are we doing here? What are we doing here
Speaker 1: and drinking to the point whe're gonna hang over? No,
Speaker 1: you're grown ass man. There's no more of that. Alright,
Speaker 1: Moving on number six. Maybe that's why I'm sick. Maybe
Speaker 1: it was my body saying, hey, you are a thirty
Speaker 1: seven year old father of two. When the when the
Speaker 1: woman sticks the shot of tequila in your face, what
Speaker 1: you should say to her is no, ma'am, no, no
Speaker 1: crazy dre. I am not going to take that spell
Speaker 1: you later. Alright, moving on, let's see where your body's like.
Speaker 1: I'm used to softball you running around the bases on
Speaker 1: Thursday night. What's up with that? Exactly number six, we
Speaker 1: have the Raiders. Now it's kind of interesting here. Well, sorry,
Speaker 1: we don't ding the Raiders until we really talk about that.
Speaker 1: You have to say something nice. Yeah, well, I mean
Speaker 1: we haven't been sex. It's kind of nice. There is
Speaker 1: that nice. It's not it's not not nice. It's not
Speaker 1: not nice. I have noticed they're in arguably the toughest division.
Speaker 1: It's a trend, Sally. I've noticed the least couple of
Speaker 1: shows that I'm not sure you understand what the ding
Speaker 1: is for. No, it's for it's for nice things. I've
Speaker 1: noticed that too. Yeah, at one point we were just
Speaker 1: like and then the third team in the a f
Speaker 1: C West, the Raiders, like were like, yeah, that's we
Speaker 1: mentioned him for new listeners, by the way, but for
Speaker 1: new listeners and Sally, the ding is part of a
Speaker 1: Derek Carr initiative when he came onto the show, came
Speaker 1: onto the podcast. Part of the deal from Greg and
Speaker 1: I to be unblocked by Derek Carr, the Raiders quarterback
Speaker 1: in the highest paid man in the NFL. Now, you
Speaker 1: have to say something nice about the Raiders every show.
Speaker 1: I thought it would just say anything about the Raiders.
Speaker 1: But that's where the disconnected. Lad we've worked it out,
Speaker 1: and we worked this out. Okay, good, right here we go.
Speaker 1: I mean it's it's a lesson to anyone out there
Speaker 1: wants to come on our show and get the around
Speaker 1: the NFL bump, unblock us. Get the bump. You're gonna
Speaker 1: be paid. That's true. Absolutely, I mean, connect the dots, everybody.
Speaker 1: The Raiders. We had a total of seventeen points, and
Speaker 1: I uh think you what that's okay? Why is it
Speaker 1: only because of as Sully said, the a f C.
Speaker 1: West why they shouldn't be higher? Because I think of anything,
Speaker 1: the Raiders, with their quarterback healthy again and all the
Speaker 1: pieces coming together, should be higher this list. I had
Speaker 1: them at four myself. West, your thoughts. I do think
Speaker 1: they are a stronger team than some of the ones ranked.
Speaker 1: I think the Raiders are a stronger team than the Packers,
Speaker 1: but they're in a tougher division and I do think
Speaker 1: they should be clear favorites in that division. I think
Speaker 1: the Raiders are a stronger team now than they were
Speaker 1: in late December and early januine interesting. I think that's fair.
Speaker 1: I I like the Chargers, the Chiefs, and the Broncos.
Speaker 1: They are going to be a lot to deal with.
Speaker 1: But I think it's fair to say that they're the
Speaker 1: most talented and should be the favorites. And they're just
Speaker 1: in an a f C where we're we have two
Speaker 1: teams in the Paths and the Steelers that we think
Speaker 1: are stone called locks. We're not really hurting the Raiders
Speaker 1: by this. By this math where six teams out, six
Speaker 1: teams in, they're back in. Okay, that's a good point.
Speaker 1: That's a good point. They're back in now. Yeah, if
Speaker 1: you want to break it down this way, according to
Speaker 1: the way we did this, these next six teams are
Speaker 1: the most likely teams to get booted. But I will
Speaker 1: I will add a caveat here. We have the Cowboys
Speaker 1: here at number seven and a nineteen total score adding
Speaker 1: up our three uh confidence ratings. Uh, there's quite a
Speaker 1: drop off after the Cowboys. So I think all of
Speaker 1: us feel that the Cowboys, while things can go wrong,
Speaker 1: and I've said it many times on the show and
Speaker 1: on network, that I think a lot of things kind
Speaker 1: of everything went right for the Dallas last year. So
Speaker 1: judging on the fact that sometimes the team will come
Speaker 1: down to earth that they could face a bigger struggle
Speaker 1: and the the NFC East is gonna be, I think,
Speaker 1: very competitive. But at the same time, I'm pretty confident
Speaker 1: still the Cowboys are gonna be back. I in fact
Speaker 1: have them ahead of the Falcons. But where did you
Speaker 1: guys have That's surprisingly because having you been on, the
Speaker 1: Cowboys are due to suffer a letdown. But I feel
Speaker 1: the same way about the Foulon. Yeah, but I I
Speaker 1: the reason I have them close together a little bit
Speaker 1: lower is that they're both loaded teams. But there is
Speaker 1: something about both those teams that I can't move past.
Speaker 1: I think so Dan buried the Falcons that kind of
Speaker 1: slipped under my rate buried. Okay, Yeah, we were consistent.
Speaker 1: We all had the Cowboys six six seven. I just
Speaker 1: could see that I would be a little surprised if
Speaker 1: they missed the playoffs, but I wouldn't be shocked because
Speaker 1: I think that division could go a different a couple
Speaker 1: of different ways, and I think the NFC is deep.
Speaker 1: I think it's deeper in the a f C. The
Speaker 1: one concern for me with the Cowboys is the concern
Speaker 1: throughout the Jerry Jones era since Jimmy Johnson left. They
Speaker 1: just don't have the depth. So if they do get
Speaker 1: injuries to keep positions, I don't see them being there.
Speaker 1: But the offensive personnel, where you've got an all Pro
Speaker 1: wide receiver and all Pro at tight end, three all
Speaker 1: pros on the offensive line, and all Pro at running
Speaker 1: back and the reigning Rookie of the Year at quarterback,
Speaker 1: is way too stocked for them to miss the play
Speaker 1: off barring injuries. I think I think you're right. I mean,
Speaker 1: I think I think the defense, you're just counting on
Speaker 1: Rod Marrionelli to do a lot. You're changing out four
Speaker 1: starters from a secondary that was pretty good, was the
Speaker 1: best part of the defense. You don't really have much
Speaker 1: in terms of a pass rush to get excited about.
Speaker 1: It's tasking a lot. Well, you'd say the same thing
Speaker 1: about Rob marrionlly every year. Here's the final five teams
Speaker 1: that will start. Now, these are the teams according to
Speaker 1: the way we broke it down. It's pretty none of
Speaker 1: these teams would surprise any of us in this room
Speaker 1: if they missed the playoffs. Kind of picking them not
Speaker 1: to make it. And that starts, you know, that starts
Speaker 1: in a somewhat surprising place a team that doesn't get
Speaker 1: a lot of respect is the Kansas City Chiefs, where
Speaker 1: they scored twenty five. I'll do the math. Eight three
Speaker 1: people eight point three. We have them an eight point three,
Speaker 1: which is, you know, not that good, which explains why
Speaker 1: they are actually ranked eight eight. Round it down. Then
Speaker 1: he'd take it down to eight. It's I mean, the
Speaker 1: math checks out. Here's here's my problem with the Chiefs.
Speaker 1: They are experiencing an identity crisis. They are not operating
Speaker 1: as a team that is all in to win in
Speaker 1: two thousand seventeen or else. They may not have cut
Speaker 1: their number one receiver, they would not have fired their GM,
Speaker 1: they would not have used their first round pick on
Speaker 1: a quarterback who won't even come off the bench when
Speaker 1: they could have used the first round pick to boost
Speaker 1: another position in their starting lineup. I don't think they're
Speaker 1: operating like a team that expects to win that division
Speaker 1: this year. I like I like that. I think that
Speaker 1: the logic checks out. If you're in that building behind
Speaker 1: closed doors and you're looking at the landscape, but you're
Speaker 1: saying yourself, Okay, I know wins loss. We have the
Speaker 1: best record of anybody in less season and a half
Speaker 1: of the NFL. But are we really can we honestly
Speaker 1: look at the mirror, tell us tell ourselves that we
Speaker 1: are better than the Patriots, that we can match up
Speaker 1: with the Steelers in a big spot, that the Raiders
Speaker 1: aren't a better team than us if they're healthy. And
Speaker 1: maybe they're saying to ourselves instead of like selling out
Speaker 1: with the team we know isn't quite there, Let's continue
Speaker 1: to take her as Tom Brady gets a little it older,
Speaker 1: and maybe we'll be ready to strike a year or two.
Speaker 1: It's like, let's keep one ft two seventeen. Let's keep
Speaker 1: our foot there. We we have a chance to make
Speaker 1: the playoffs, but we know we can't get past the
Speaker 1: Patriots and the Steelers. But we're gonna build around Tyreek Hill,
Speaker 1: Patrick Mahomes, some young guys on defense, especially in the
Speaker 1: second ay, and and they'll be they'll be better for
Speaker 1: the fact I I think they're always trying to compete,
Speaker 1: and like most good organizations, they're trying to think long term. Two.
Speaker 1: I I agree with you. You're right in in a
Speaker 1: way you're looking ahead with the Mahomes pick, But that's
Speaker 1: exactly the type of pick that they should be making.
Speaker 1: And that's one pick one first rounder and the other
Speaker 1: two examples. I don't think they believe Jeremy Macklin was
Speaker 1: that good a player anymore for whatever reason, whether they're
Speaker 1: right or wrong. And I think that the GM thing
Speaker 1: is something that speaks the dysfunction or speaks the lack
Speaker 1: of communication. But it's not something they expected to do.
Speaker 1: It's not a good sign. They allowed this guy to
Speaker 1: fire a couple of people below him that were respected.
Speaker 1: Now they hire new guys that he hired, then they
Speaker 1: fire him. It Morris come out about the doors. He thinks,
Speaker 1: since since we're talking, it sounded like it really sounds
Speaker 1: like I think it came down to him swinging his
Speaker 1: you know what around and maybe wanting contract, you know,
Speaker 1: and then it had to do that contract and the
Speaker 1: owner was like, who's the boss. I'm the boss. I'm
Speaker 1: the owner. You're out swinging his contractor swinging his contract.
Speaker 1: You never want to do that, all right? Number nine
Speaker 1: on the list not a surprise to me. I thought
Speaker 1: they'd be lower because of the ELI hatred of this room.
Speaker 1: Uh the giants come in the score of t and uh, well,
Speaker 1: you guys all have your reasons, but uh, the reason
Speaker 1: why the Giants are at number nine is what Greg.
Speaker 1: I even had him a little lower at number ten.
Speaker 1: So I fulfilled your stereos of our views. And really
Speaker 1: so West was a little more optimistic, I mean, because
Speaker 1: the only thing keeping him out of the playoffs is
Speaker 1: their quarterback. Well, they're potentially they're two tackles. Whenever I
Speaker 1: mentioned on the podcast that their tackles were abysmal last
Speaker 1: year and they haven't replaced him at all. Uh, Giants
Speaker 1: fans send me pictures of how much weight Eric Flowers
Speaker 1: is lost. All right, let's let's let's see him play.
Speaker 1: Let's see him play. Let's see him play. You always
Speaker 1: want your offensive tackles to be in the two forty range.
Speaker 1: I think they're good. I'm thinking about your offensive tackle
Speaker 1: lost weight? Is that a good thing? Right? They were
Speaker 1: saying he was out of shape last year. Now he's good.
Speaker 1: Maybe that's fine. And if they improve on the offensive line,
Speaker 1: then they have a chance. They have some really loaded positions.
Speaker 1: I'm not gonna argue, but we're talking about some good,
Speaker 1: good teams here. Yeah, I think they if I'm eli
Speaker 1: a little bit annoyed. First of all, I'm caught in
Speaker 1: a some type of memberabilia Ponzi scheme that people are
Speaker 1: saying I'm a part of. I'm not happy about that,
Speaker 1: but I'm also not happy about my old line kind
Speaker 1: of stunk last year and then my team didn't really
Speaker 1: invest in free agency or draft stock and fixing that. Uh,
Speaker 1: he's like, I'm old, thirty six years old. Now am
Speaker 1: I gonna get better? Like that? But this is a
Speaker 1: lot we've talked about. There's a lot of pressure on
Speaker 1: Eli this year, and he's gonna have to perform whether
Speaker 1: or not the offensive one is up to snow NFC East.
Speaker 1: Any one of those teams can win in a given week,
Speaker 1: and the NFC, I think is deeper. So that that's
Speaker 1: why they know the Giants need West. I thought they
Speaker 1: scar neck you. Yeah, they do make a power play
Speaker 1: sweep him out of New England eli career year. They
Speaker 1: can also use uh Patriots offensive line personnel and their quarterback.
Speaker 1: That's fair. They take Jimmy g although the quarterback. I
Speaker 1: don't know, if you've got spereal Giants fans, you would
Speaker 1: take Jimmy g over Eli right now. You know what
Speaker 1: a lot of people would have taken, uh Tom Brady
Speaker 1: over Eli in those two super Bowl games as well
Speaker 1: as if like Eli out played him or something. Right, Listen,
Speaker 1: can't change with history. His history West, as you've said
Speaker 1: many times, is instructive. Now, now these last three spots
Speaker 1: and we gotta wrap this up. This is going on
Speaker 1: too long. But if you are third or higher on
Speaker 1: this list, uh, that means this room does not think
Speaker 1: you are going back to the play us. And it
Speaker 1: starts with the Miami Dolphins at thirty. And I will
Speaker 1: say I'm surprised that they are this low. I had
Speaker 1: them at eleven. Uh. Personally, uh, because I'm just not
Speaker 1: buying into the Dolphins type. But I thought you guys
Speaker 1: were a little bit more, at least you Greg, We're
Speaker 1: a little bit more excited about this Miami team making
Speaker 1: noise and apparently not. I like them, fine, but you
Speaker 1: got to compare into the field. Do I really like
Speaker 1: them that much more than the Bengals or the Chargers
Speaker 1: or the Chiefs, you know, the Broncos. No. I think
Speaker 1: they're in that middle tier, and I I there's some
Speaker 1: things about them in the offense that I like, but
Speaker 1: I don't expect them to have a better record this year,
Speaker 1: No way. I think the roster is stronger. I expect him.
Speaker 1: I fully expect him to have a worst record because
Speaker 1: of this reason. They won eight of their ten games
Speaker 1: last year by a touchdown or less. And history is
Speaker 1: instructive that good luck does not go over from year
Speaker 1: to year. It's not gonna happen. They are much more
Speaker 1: likely to have bad luck and close games. And they're
Speaker 1: not a team that's gonna be blowing team out. They could.
Speaker 1: If you're being optimistic as a dophin Son, you look
Speaker 1: at your division. Okay, we could go four and oh
Speaker 1: against the Jets and Bills. That's true. And then you look,
Speaker 1: all right, maybe we can split with the Pats, but
Speaker 1: even if they take us out twice, we're still in
Speaker 1: good shape in our division. Now we just gotta go
Speaker 1: find another six ways you're making me think I think
Speaker 1: I I did rank them ahead of the Giants, for instance,
Speaker 1: like I think they have a pretty strong roster. I
Speaker 1: do too. I think their roster is borderline playoff calibert Yeah, alright,
Speaker 1: And then eleven on this list or a total thirty
Speaker 1: three the Houston Texans, And this one makes sense. The
Speaker 1: quarterback is either Tom Savage, who may or may not exist,
Speaker 1: might be Nick Cage preparing for a future roles like
Speaker 1: we have not really hammered this thing down yet, or
Speaker 1: Deshaun Watson, who is a completely green rookie. And unless
Speaker 1: once every twenty years or thirty years a guy like
Speaker 1: uh Dak Prescott comes along and you go to the places,
Speaker 1: but usually the rookies not taking into the playoffs, and
Speaker 1: Tom Savage isn't taken anybody the playoffs. I don't care
Speaker 1: if J. J. Watson your team for as lucky as
Speaker 1: the Dolphins were. Any list you see, even if teams
Speaker 1: aren't watching, even if staticians statisticians aren't watching games, and
Speaker 1: unless you see if teams unlikely to make the playoffs,
Speaker 1: is gonna include the Texans and the Dolphins because of
Speaker 1: their good luck and close games. The Texans were ranked
Speaker 1: twenty nine in Football Outsiders d v o A, which
Speaker 1: factors into account strength of schedule, how well they were
Speaker 1: playing at the end of the year, every factor imaginable.
Speaker 1: They were between the forty nine and the Rams, and
Speaker 1: the only teams lower than them were the Rams, Browns,
Speaker 1: and Jets. Last year. This was not a good team.
Speaker 1: They were a very lucky team last year. That the
Speaker 1: argument for them is they're still in the a f
Speaker 1: C South, and maybe our Titans, who we like a
Speaker 1: lot in this room, don't come through and it only
Speaker 1: takes nine wins. But this was not a good team,
Speaker 1: I do I They were dead last on my for
Speaker 1: this exercise. They were dead last for me. And they
Speaker 1: can see them moving five games if you look really wow,
Speaker 1: if you look at the last five teams on our
Speaker 1: collective list, there one thing they have a combat is
Speaker 1: that quarterback position is either a question mark or kind
Speaker 1: of like a man the chiefs Alex Smith. We talked
Speaker 1: about that with a rookie in the wings, Eli Manning.
Speaker 1: We don't know what he has left at this point.
Speaker 1: Ryan Tannehill, what is Ryan Tannehill? No one understands him yet,
Speaker 1: uh or maybe he's just Ryan Tannehill was the middle
Speaker 1: of the line quarterback Houston Texans. There and then finally
Speaker 1: number twelve the one that the reason I say that
Speaker 1: is they have a quarterback that could end up getting
Speaker 1: a contract that's as big or close to Derek Carr's
Speaker 1: contract and Matthew Stafford. And yet we have the Detroit lines,
Speaker 1: the team least likely to get back to the playoffs West.
Speaker 1: It is a Quarterback League. Your boy Vince Lombardi said,
Speaker 1: it's the only thing that messes up football is it's
Speaker 1: too much dependent on a great quarterback. I don't I'm
Speaker 1: not gonna say Matthew Stafford is a great quarterback when
Speaker 1: he's a very good one, and yet we are so
Speaker 1: down on the Detroit lines. Why I ranked him twelve
Speaker 1: because relegation wasn't an option in this They were losing
Speaker 1: fifteen of sixteen games in the By the way, Watt
Speaker 1: counter Or in the last podcast went after people do
Speaker 1: relegation bits about the NFL. I love the idea of
Speaker 1: relegation and wish that all major US sports would take
Speaker 1: care of it. Get rid of your little tanking, you
Speaker 1: little sports, alright, go on start relegating. Uh, they were.
Speaker 1: They were losing in a fourth quarter of fifteen or
Speaker 1: sixteen games. That's a sign of a terrible team that
Speaker 1: got lucky. The Browns are the only other team in
Speaker 1: the league that was losing in fifteen of sixteen games
Speaker 1: in the fourth quarter. The Lions had no business in
Speaker 1: the playoffs last year. They backed in with three straight
Speaker 1: losses in the end of the year, and they are
Speaker 1: the most boring team in the NFL this they got personal. Yeah,
Speaker 1: they're not that boring. I mean, any team with Matthew
Speaker 1: I love watching Matthew Stafford throw the pig skin around.
Speaker 1: That's what they say, pigskin. If you're losing football, talk
Speaker 1: like that. They were losing what the fourth quarters at
Speaker 1: the Stato Well that means, you know, it's a lot
Speaker 1: of comeback wins. Yeah, I mean, how dare you say
Speaker 1: that the team with Jim Bob coooners boring? So they
Speaker 1: can play bad games, they can play bad teams tightly.
Speaker 1: I'm not worried about I'm not worried about them on offense. Overall,
Speaker 1: I think they can be fine. Their line looks okay,
Speaker 1: I mean I put them low on this list too,
Speaker 1: doesn't didn't their line just move their left tackle, lose
Speaker 1: their left tackle and someone else? That was a problem
Speaker 1: when you're training for Greg Robinson. Yeah. In fact, about
Speaker 1: the lines, I have a Jim Bob Cootter autograph. Where'd
Speaker 1: you get it? Knoxville? When he was when he was
Speaker 1: at Tennessee. I'm pretty proud of that. Where does a
Speaker 1: man keep an autograph? Yeah? Especially you know I was
Speaker 1: he wasn't I was what like fourteen when he was there. Yeah,
Speaker 1: so you don't still have it? Oh I do. It's
Speaker 1: just back in the attic. Did you Did you get
Speaker 1: the autograph just because you thought his last day it
Speaker 1: was funny? No? I got it because it's Jim Bob
Speaker 1: Cooter and he's like a folk hero. And for Tennessee fans,
Speaker 1: who was the quarterback at the time, Eric Cage, uh,
Speaker 1: former jet I think West was indirectly saying you aren't
Speaker 1: a man if you're asking others for autographs, but you
Speaker 1: were fourteen year old. That's it's perfectly acceptable for a
Speaker 1: fourteen year old. I don't think that grown men should
Speaker 1: be asking that grown men to put their name on it.
Speaker 1: This wasn't last year. U Okay, So there you go, everybody,
Speaker 1: lines fans, you know where to find Chris Wesley at
Speaker 1: Chris Wesley on Twitter. Uh. He's just that he's not
Speaker 1: excited about your team. That's just the way it is.
Speaker 1: Thirty five points by the way, and I encourage you
Speaker 1: all to come at me because I haven't been as
Speaker 1: active on Twitter, so my block numbers are going down
Speaker 1: and I can't have it. There you go, we gotta
Speaker 1: get get Chris Wesley's block numbers up. Come after about
Speaker 1: the lines and that's it. That's it for today's show.
Speaker 1: We'll be back. Well, I'm not gonna be back. I am,
Speaker 1: uh you know, fighting this cold. Number one, but number two,
Speaker 1: I'm going back to New York. That means the next
Speaker 1: time you hear from the rest of the team will
Speaker 1: be Thursday. And that means the Bendy's Reader is up
Speaker 1: for grabs number one, top of the list. Also, Collin
Speaker 1: will be here on Thursday, right. I don't know Marks
Speaker 1: a Wild Cards you'll be hosting it? Yeah, maybe Mark
Speaker 1: will be back. We don't know. Maybe you'll be here,
Speaker 1: maybe it won't. Uh have a safe flight. Say hello
Speaker 1: to Deb and Keith, and I'm sure you'd be playing
Speaker 1: some cornhole and maybe even a little whiffable and stay strong,
Speaker 1: feel better, Greg, thank you? All right, So that's it
Speaker 1: And when I get back, well, you guys are free
Speaker 1: to talk to talk about it as well. Uh. We
Speaker 1: need to figure out this five thousand uh rehditor. We
Speaker 1: gotta figure out I have an idea. Do you want
Speaker 1: to share it now? Or do you want to talk
Speaker 1: about the scenes. I don't want I don't want to
Speaker 1: make you uncomfortable when I suggest what I'm gonna suggest,
Speaker 1: because you're the only wild card here. Let's well, let's
Speaker 1: hear it. They get an invite to West Lemania four,
Speaker 1: all expenses made. No, they have they have to get there,
Speaker 1: but they get the invite. Wow. I would be fine
Speaker 1: with that. I would think we should be able to
Speaker 1: have someone a paid trip, uh to some type of
Speaker 1: I don't know, we'll talk about it. I listen, I
Speaker 1: have no problem a listener coming to your party. That'd
Speaker 1: be fun. All right, that's it, just day in a
Speaker 1: handsas I'm just trying to get through this day, just
Speaker 1: not building, signing off for the mailman, the boss, and
Speaker 1: sell you behind the glass Felt Thursday,