Speaker 1: Be Around the NFL Podcast. It's a room full of bozo.
Speaker 1: Welcome back to another edition of the Around the NFL Podcast,
Speaker 1: presented by New Era. My name is Dan Hansas, and
Speaker 1: I am joined by room filled up some heroes. Patrick
Speaker 1: Laban to my left, Greg Rosal all of a sudden
Speaker 1: to my left. Well, what's that? Boys? All right? You
Speaker 1: know I go away for a couple of weeks and
Speaker 1: things change. Welcome back, though, welcome back, Thank you for
Speaker 1: welcome you're talking about that? Yeah, I come here first
Speaker 1: of all, two people sitting on the left. I've never
Speaker 1: done a show where nobody was to my right. I tried.
Speaker 1: I tried to talk to um, you know know, as
Speaker 1: our cade back there, and they wouldn't they wouldn't stand
Speaker 1: for it. Gotta gotta sit here. We have the show
Speaker 1: is is our video show we're doing with new hours.
Speaker 1: We're very excited. We got these hats. That's another new condition.
Speaker 1: And and right now the audio, the the audio audience
Speaker 1: is like, what, I don't care about hats on the desk,
Speaker 1: don't don't care about any of that, but care We
Speaker 1: got some nice designs here, cults, chiefs, seahawks, very exciting stuff.
Speaker 1: What what does this mean for our show, Greg, this
Speaker 1: is bad? This bad? Or is this good? Or where
Speaker 1: it's good? It means that there's money coming into the building,
Speaker 1: that our show is in theory providing for the NFL,
Speaker 1: and eventually maybe that money gets into your pockets and
Speaker 1: your son's pockets. When people my other son, not only
Speaker 1: jackskin well and speaking, I gotta I gotta say, and
Speaker 1: we'll get We've got a lot to get to in
Speaker 1: today's show. Uh to you know? Two weeks back home,
Speaker 1: I have you know Jack, who's gonna turn three next month.
Speaker 1: I know you both of you men have young children.
Speaker 1: I have another son that's eight months old. And if
Speaker 1: you are listening to the show, you don't have kids.
Speaker 1: After spending all this time on vacation with these tiny children,
Speaker 1: I can't say whether if you don't have kids right now,
Speaker 1: which direction to go. I can't go either direction. I
Speaker 1: can't tell you should definitely have kids for the audience
Speaker 1: to me, yeah, for the audience, and I can't and
Speaker 1: I can't say that you definitely should just stay single
Speaker 1: or stay with your your loved one and being that
Speaker 1: type of relationship. I'm on the fence after this, Pan Dan,
Speaker 1: this is gonna have implications like our society. Right, Well,
Speaker 1: that's true. I think that's what The Handmaid's Tails about.
Speaker 1: I haven't pants running into that problem. Not enough kids. Yeah,
Speaker 1: they're running out of people. Um. I wish I remember
Speaker 1: his name. I want to send a shout out because
Speaker 1: you're probably listening. A young guy. Uh seemed like a
Speaker 1: very nice uh dude. He stopped me at Newark Airport
Speaker 1: and and was very excited, big fan of the podcast.
Speaker 1: So you know who you are. Shout out to some
Speaker 1: young guy. Some young guy, shout out to him. Anyway,
Speaker 1: Today's show is a good one. We're very excited about it. Um,
Speaker 1: we're gonna talk about you know what I'm gonna go
Speaker 1: through it. We're gonna talk about Cam Newton. We're gonna
Speaker 1: get into some Cam Newton talk. When you talk about
Speaker 1: the idea of cam is, how is it gonna change
Speaker 1: how they're gonna use camp keep them healthy? Uh. We're
Speaker 1: also going to get into you know now that we're
Speaker 1: sponsored a new sponsor, Yeah a little. You know, it's
Speaker 1: tough to move on with a new sponsor. But we're
Speaker 1: gonna talk about a spotlight on a training camp every
Speaker 1: show for the next couple of weeks and we're talking
Speaker 1: about the Seahawks running backs. That's an interesting situation, Greg,
Speaker 1: I know you're excited about that. And then I've got
Speaker 1: some hot takes on that, and they do another hot take, Grank.
Speaker 1: We're can talk about teams that I've undergone an offseason
Speaker 1: identity change. Uh, Todd Gurley in the Rams one of
Speaker 1: those teams. How exciting is this? What a show? Patrick excited?
Speaker 1: I'm very excited. I'm wanting to be here for appreciate grade.
Speaker 1: I've never gotten a precio grade on a show that
Speaker 1: I've been on. Do you want to appreciated? I really
Speaker 1: want one day. All right, let's go over. You got
Speaker 1: a new sponsor. I figure we're gonna get some new hats, Sully.
Speaker 1: Are we gonna be able to keep some of these hats? Yes,
Speaker 1: we got We have like six box full of hats,
Speaker 1: on hats, on hats, so new hats, new hats for everybody.
Speaker 1: Clay Bonds, I've never seen Clay this happy. That's why
Speaker 1: we do what we do. A love free stuff. Right
Speaker 1: off the bat, I'm back. I'm happy to be back
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Speaker 1: when you want a raffle, I got I got some
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Speaker 1: do some news, Sully, Let's roll. It's a good time
Speaker 1: to check the sink on this podcast. All right. We'll
Speaker 1: start with the Kansas City Chiefs, who have made a
Speaker 1: decision on their new g M. The Chiefs have promoted
Speaker 1: co Director of Player Personnel Brett Veach Viach am I
Speaker 1: pronouncing that correctly. God see this stuff that we got
Speaker 1: to talk about in the pre production meeting. Guys, what
Speaker 1: other options would they be other than Veach Kate Veach
Speaker 1: from Dodgeball. They're related. I think that's it. Anyway, He's
Speaker 1: the new general manager. UH first developed the development was
Speaker 1: first reported by rap Sheet and NFL networks. Tom Placeerro's
Speaker 1: what you miss when you go away on vacation high.
Speaker 1: I can't keep track all these building the roster. How
Speaker 1: these people making more money than me? But anyway, veach
Speaker 1: Is promotion comes after the chiefs and former g M
Speaker 1: John Dorsey part of Ways on June, Greg, You're takeaways, Well, my,
Speaker 1: you know it. One big reason to watch the video
Speaker 1: show is for all this Brett Veach. Hey, you're getting
Speaker 1: quite a quite a job. Just old the vat you're
Speaker 1: walking around, h you know, I can't believe they did this.
Speaker 1: I don't think Veach deserves this at this point. This
Speaker 1: is absolutely insane too. How does how does anyone I
Speaker 1: would have stopped myself at some point. I don't know
Speaker 1: how anyone has like a hot take when these sort
Speaker 1: of internal, you know, promotions happened, unless you really, you know,
Speaker 1: you're a real true insider, which I'm not pretending to be.
Speaker 1: I don't have any hot takes in Beach. Yeah, and
Speaker 1: I don't think even the takes that people would say
Speaker 1: were the hottest. I don't know if they were very hot.
Speaker 1: People were just saying, well, they go from within to
Speaker 1: a guy who's close to the head coach, and the
Speaker 1: head coach was supposedly had no part in any decision
Speaker 1: to get rid of and so people are connecting that dot.
Speaker 1: But is that is that really that solid take their
Speaker 1: mild It's not my take. I'm just saying that's you
Speaker 1: might have to put yourself on a clay. But what
Speaker 1: do we call it again, the claibron, the hot takes
Speaker 1: on Budsman, you might have to put yourself on blest.
Speaker 1: That is a take that exists. I'm pointing out the
Speaker 1: existence of Okay, you're pointing out it is fair to
Speaker 1: point out that, you know, the general manager who had
Speaker 1: been doing a good job and was surprisingly canned in
Speaker 1: the middle of the off season is a strange situation,
Speaker 1: and they decided to pick a guy who gets along
Speaker 1: with the Andy Reid. I mean that makes the makes sense.
Speaker 1: I don't think it's a hot thing. I'm saying it
Speaker 1: would be weird if they picked someone that didn't get
Speaker 1: along with Andy Reid, that had no history with Andy Reid.
Speaker 1: I mean, what are we doing here? Oh? What about?
Speaker 1: What are we doing? Like there's a story on July tenth,
Speaker 1: two thousand and seventeen on NFL dot Com about the
Speaker 1: Chiefs picking their new general manager. How did this ever
Speaker 1: happen in the first place? This is a successful team.
Speaker 1: I'm still confused about how this happened in the first place.
Speaker 1: But good good luck to but maybe the she's silent,
Speaker 1: It's possible, kind of like that one. Actually, moving on,
Speaker 1: let's talk about Cam Newton, UH, the Carolina Panthers quarterback.
Speaker 1: As we know. As we know Patrick and Greg, Cam
Speaker 1: took a beating last year, and UH, I think the
Speaker 1: Panthers seemed to be at a place now where they're
Speaker 1: they're saying, hey, we gotta keep this guy healthy. We
Speaker 1: gotta keep him on the field because he can't get
Speaker 1: tinue to take this beating as he gets deeper into
Speaker 1: his twenties. Panthers coach Ron Rivera UH spoke to Serious
Speaker 1: x M NFL radio on Monday, UH and said that
Speaker 1: the offense UH was always designed to get the ball
Speaker 1: out of Newton's hands faster, but now they can possibly
Speaker 1: do that. They're actually built that way thanks to the
Speaker 1: addition of both Christian McCaffrey and UH Curtis Samuel in
Speaker 1: the most recent draft. UH. Here is the quote from
Speaker 1: riverboat run. We struggled last year, uh with that. The
Speaker 1: first one being able to protect him. Our left tackle
Speaker 1: Michael or Got got gets hurt, and we got to
Speaker 1: re shuffle our offensive line to move guys around. That
Speaker 1: wasn't the best thing for us. We went out and
Speaker 1: made some moves and free agency to help shore up
Speaker 1: the offensive line. Then we go out and feel like
Speaker 1: we have to continue to put playmakers around him. We
Speaker 1: went out and found a very versatile, explosive running back
Speaker 1: who had tremendous college career and hopefully that translates to
Speaker 1: the NFL, and Christian McCaffrey. We went out and got
Speaker 1: Chris Samuel out of Ohio state of very explosive vertical attack.
Speaker 1: M well, Ron feels good. He's feeling good about this.
Speaker 1: I think you know they telegraphed this even before the
Speaker 1: end of last season. You know they talked about that
Speaker 1: Cam Newton needed to evolve at some point beyond running.
Speaker 1: I think Rivera said twenties zone read plays a game
Speaker 1: where he's getting hit on ten of him and they
Speaker 1: need to protect him. And our very own Chris Westling
Speaker 1: not in the house today, which is too bad because
Speaker 1: he could be crowing because I think he might have
Speaker 1: had just a little bit of impact here. He wrote
Speaker 1: an article saying that they need to follow the path
Speaker 1: of Ben Roethlisberger in the Steelers kind of in the
Speaker 1: middle of his career when they got Todd Haley to
Speaker 1: maybe back off a little bit of of getting him
Speaker 1: hit so much, get the ball out of his hands
Speaker 1: a little quicker, even though he's a great vertical passer,
Speaker 1: protect him a little bit. And now Ron Rivera is
Speaker 1: practically quoting that article. When asked about it on Sirius
Speaker 1: on Monday, you know, he said, there's a great example
Speaker 1: out there. It's been written about, and it's been talked
Speaker 1: about with Pittsburgh and Ben Roethlisberger. And he goes on
Speaker 1: to say, you know, they actually looked at what the
Speaker 1: Steelers did in terms of their backfield and their receiver corps,
Speaker 1: and they've kind of modeled some of the offense off
Speaker 1: of what the Steelers have done with it. Yeah, Wes
Speaker 1: has the ear of Riverboat. Ron. I mean, it's it's
Speaker 1: fairly obvious when you when you say that West was crowing.
Speaker 1: I said he could have the opportunity to because you
Speaker 1: making an illusion to go into the Ravens nest. Is
Speaker 1: that what that was? Not it? I mean crowing means
Speaker 1: like bragging, you know, puff, you puff your chest out. Patrick,
Speaker 1: I can't be the only one in the room that
Speaker 1: thought for a second maybe we were taking an impromptu
Speaker 1: trip to the Ravens. Was all over that. But going
Speaker 1: through the numbers of of Cam and his yards per
Speaker 1: attempt in the last two months of last season, he
Speaker 1: was under four. He's never been under four carrying the
Speaker 1: ball at his entire career for a month of a season.
Speaker 1: And so he's playing with a with the shoulder injury
Speaker 1: that require surgery, right, I mean he was playing partially
Speaker 1: torn road Like, not only is it is it a
Speaker 1: smart thing to do, but eventually it wasn't gonna work anymore.
Speaker 1: You weren't gonna be able to build a whole plane
Speaker 1: out of Cam much longer. I wrote about the Panthers
Speaker 1: as part of this article teams that are changing their identities,
Speaker 1: we're gonna get We're gonna get to that. But since
Speaker 1: we're talking Panthers now, I mean there their identity in
Speaker 1: the past. I think was counting on Cam to complete
Speaker 1: really low percentage throws. I think he's a streaky passer.
Speaker 1: But he's a very good downfield passer. But I watched
Speaker 1: some game pass for this article, and you know, if
Speaker 1: you want to play a game, if you're a very
Speaker 1: mass achistic Panthers fan, you know, on a drop back
Speaker 1: pass for Cam Newton, just pause it when he gets
Speaker 1: back to the end of his job and look for
Speaker 1: an open receiver. You can't find one. You've got Kelvin
Speaker 1: Benjamin's covered, you know, Devin Funch just has covered two
Speaker 1: slugs on the outside. What I'm saying, essentially, and but
Speaker 1: now yet, let's incorporate some easy throws into the McCaffrey,
Speaker 1: you know, Samuel, some short throws. You know, just what
Speaker 1: the rest of the NFL is essentially doing. Claim yes
Speaker 1: or no, Panthers bouncing back this year, yes or no? Yes,
Speaker 1: because it was it was so bad last year and
Speaker 1: the quarterbacks hurt, and yeah, they gotta go some, they
Speaker 1: gotta go up. Yeah, that's sports. You know. He goes
Speaker 1: one way and he was like the other way, and
Speaker 1: then we all talk about it. I texted West about
Speaker 1: this yesterday because I thought he might be excited. Where
Speaker 1: did he come from? Where he coming down on this?
Speaker 1: He was, he was excited it made him like Ron
Speaker 1: rivera he he says, Ron River is willing to change.
Speaker 1: You know, he had the He got more aggressive in
Speaker 1: terms of showing it, going for it on fourth down,
Speaker 1: you know Riverboat ron Uh goes for touchdowns more instead
Speaker 1: a field goes. And he even thought maybe we might
Speaker 1: have to bring it back around with the Panthers as
Speaker 1: a team around the NFL. Oh my gosh. They were
Speaker 1: the original. So that that's what it takes. If you
Speaker 1: want West on your side, you just gotta just praise him. Well.
Speaker 1: I mean he doesn't. West doesn't like to talk about this,
Speaker 1: but in a lot of ways, to is the team
Speaker 1: of westd l Uh. He will not he will not
Speaker 1: really get behind someone else. It's more like when West
Speaker 1: comes around the team, you're shaking your head like this
Speaker 1: hasn't been the But in the Panthers case, the first
Speaker 1: time around, I was fully in on those Panthers. I
Speaker 1: love the two thousands yougo that was about your yougo there,
Speaker 1: I was. I was saying both of them, you were
Speaker 1: in on the Panther. I'm saying where we were sharing it.
Speaker 1: That guy, So it wasn't just West. I know where
Speaker 1: you're coming from now that's why you went, Oh, it
Speaker 1: wasn't about you thinking I was slandering West, you not
Speaker 1: getting the credit you felt you deserved. It would be
Speaker 1: fun to go through all the teams of a t
Speaker 1: L and find out where you guys stand on them. Now, Yeah,
Speaker 1: well we gotta I mean, this could be the last
Speaker 1: team of a t L. Let's yeah, we've we've kind
Speaker 1: of swung and missed two straight years. I think the
Speaker 1: Panthers the first time around was a big hit and
Speaker 1: since then it's been trouble, all right, moving on. One
Speaker 1: team that won't be a team of a t L
Speaker 1: is the CTL Seahawks. Uh and uh, you know you
Speaker 1: read the ESPN story last month. I think it came
Speaker 1: out where it's it's spoke of a lot of discord,
Speaker 1: uh going on behind the scenes. There some mistrust, some
Speaker 1: Russell Wilson heat involving some key players. A lot of
Speaker 1: the players, including Richard Sherman Um, have come out and
Speaker 1: said that stories bogus, there's nothing, do not look behind
Speaker 1: the curt and everything's cool. Uh. Cliff April is the
Speaker 1: latest man to do so. He told the NFL No
Speaker 1: Huddle podcast, I'm not familiar. We are now um. He
Speaker 1: told them this past Friday. I think it's all hashtag
Speaker 1: fake news. He didn't say hashtag Um. I think it's
Speaker 1: all dead. It was a dead period, so people needed
Speaker 1: something to talk about at the same time too. Let's
Speaker 1: be honest, it's ninety guys in the locker room right now.
Speaker 1: There is no way that ninety guys are going to
Speaker 1: always get along. And that's just what it is. I'm
Speaker 1: pretty sure there are people at your job right now, Well,
Speaker 1: this is interesting. That's way less than ninety that don't
Speaker 1: get along. That's just part of it. That's I mean,
Speaker 1: that's exactly what I would say. I mean, you could
Speaker 1: you can make a situation for virtually any assembly of
Speaker 1: humans where it's like, oh, this guy, this guy once
Speaker 1: said something that this guy. I mean, they went through
Speaker 1: experience in the super Bowl where they lost, Like obviously
Speaker 1: that's going to be a memory that hangs on to
Speaker 1: people for forever. And you could write some story two
Speaker 1: years down the road that say, well, they're upset about this, Well, yeah,
Speaker 1: they're upset they lost in the last play of the
Speaker 1: super Bowl. It's a fair point in terms of co
Speaker 1: workers not getting along. I mean, when I came over
Speaker 1: to the NFL. You know, I was coming from kind
Speaker 1: of a little mom and pop shop. I was amazed
Speaker 1: that some of the trash talking, you know, in different
Speaker 1: circles about other people that worked at them, you know,
Speaker 1: and people got the rivalries they got together. Let's let's
Speaker 1: not pretend there were you know, wasn't he back where
Speaker 1: you left either though? You know, so it doesn't matter
Speaker 1: how big or small company is, there's always people don't
Speaker 1: always get along, which is cliffs point. Yeah. Yeah, I've
Speaker 1: got a couple of things about this. Number One, the
Speaker 1: Ohuddle podcast hosted by NFL Network former host Brian Webber
Speaker 1: and web Rebber Brian Webber, host of NFL. I am
Speaker 1: they've damaged with the famous uh the impression of Webber impression. Yes,
Speaker 1: I never met greg Or Brian Brian Webber, but I
Speaker 1: don't know why I'm bringing good it's a good gut.
Speaker 1: Number Two, the fake you know, using the term fake
Speaker 1: news like this has been an effect. I know, we don't.
Speaker 1: This is not the politics you know podcast. I was
Speaker 1: gonna say, we could just tee up Claybon and walk
Speaker 1: out and let him dissect. I'm just saying fake news
Speaker 1: like this as a strategy. It's working, I mean, causing
Speaker 1: sowing the seeds of concern and people doubting the whatever
Speaker 1: you want to call journalism, journalism like people people are
Speaker 1: doubting it. It's it's working on Cliff April either and
Speaker 1: it is. It is. It's starting to erote like it's
Speaker 1: an effective strategy that that's going on to fake People
Speaker 1: need to pick and choose when they use fake news.
Speaker 1: That's what I'm saying, because I mean, I just did
Speaker 1: an update where I talked about Emmanuel Sanders diet and
Speaker 1: cutting out fast food. That's not necessarily fake news, but
Speaker 1: it is because there was there's not a lot of
Speaker 1: stuff for us to do in the update, so I
Speaker 1: talked about, you know, cheeseburgers. That's kind of that kind
Speaker 1: of is fake news a little bit. Yeah, it can
Speaker 1: go either will be fake news. If I said he
Speaker 1: was a clown and he was murdering cats like that
Speaker 1: would be fake That's very fake news. I hope it
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Speaker 1: That's what's happening in the news. And now it's time
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Speaker 1: It's a new era it's an it writes itself. And
Speaker 1: you know what the training camps training camps spotlight is. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you know what it's gonna be about. We're just talking
Speaker 1: about him, but now we're gonna talk about the running
Speaker 1: back situation. Uh, and we want to figure out and
Speaker 1: we've talked about this a little earlier, uh in the spring,
Speaker 1: Greg about what there's a lot of haziness around that backfield.
Speaker 1: Where are you coming down on it? Right now? I'm
Speaker 1: coming down on it that Thomas Rawls is demand to
Speaker 1: watch if you're in fantasy drafts. I know we don't
Speaker 1: do a lot of fantasy uh advice here until our
Speaker 1: Fantasy Spectacular, which coming up in a few weeks. It's
Speaker 1: entire week. By far, Mark Sessler's the least favorite part
Speaker 1: of the calendar year is the Fantasy Spectacular League week
Speaker 1: here on the Around the NFL podcast. It's coming next month. Yeah,
Speaker 1: here's a preview. Uh. Number one, Thomas Rowles old teammate
Speaker 1: Marshawn Lynch. Why is he getting draft in the second round?
Speaker 1: That's bananas. And it's even more bananas that Rawls is
Speaker 1: getting taken four rounds after his teammate Eddie Lacey was
Speaker 1: just a year ago that Rawls was coming off very
Speaker 1: serious injury. People kind of forget Eddie Lacey is coming
Speaker 1: off of ankle surgery. He hasn't been healthy all offseason.
Speaker 1: Rawls knows the system. People think they're just gonna hand
Speaker 1: the team over to Eddie Lacey. He's not making that
Speaker 1: much money. Rawles is under contract actually for a longer time.
Speaker 1: And the bigger factor here is I just think Rawls
Speaker 1: is a great player, and it took him a little
Speaker 1: while to get back from injury. Last year. The offensive
Speaker 1: line was not great. But I think given the chance,
Speaker 1: he can be a better player than Eddie Lacey throughout
Speaker 1: August and be your Week one starter for Seattle. You
Speaker 1: just feel better about this this team at the running
Speaker 1: back position than you did a year ago. Yeah, it's
Speaker 1: good to have and c J process. The ship has
Speaker 1: more direction and and like you said about Eddie Lacey,
Speaker 1: where you go back a couple of years and people
Speaker 1: had Eddie Lacey on there, never draft again, if we
Speaker 1: if we can still be talking the fantasy world, Never,
Speaker 1: you've already gone there, so we have to move forward.
Speaker 1: He let me down. I'm never drafting him again. And
Speaker 1: people think that Eddie's problem was just a he was
Speaker 1: overweight and that it had nothing to do with being injured.
Speaker 1: So if if those guys can both come back and
Speaker 1: be healthy, you feel so much better about the Seahawks
Speaker 1: at that position. Well, how about the idea of Greg
Speaker 1: if you we're still talking fantasy, but we shouldn't. Rawls
Speaker 1: and Laces maybe neither are great fantasy options just because
Speaker 1: they could go fifty fifty, And maybe it's the best
Speaker 1: for both of them to for it to be that way,
Speaker 1: because neither guy has showing the ability to stay on
Speaker 1: the field. I think Rawls has been has had bad luck.
Speaker 1: Now you never know, but I mean he's had broken
Speaker 1: bones twice in a row. He had a broken leg
Speaker 1: and came back and broke his leg again. That that's
Speaker 1: he's got bird bones, hear me that. You know that
Speaker 1: sometimes you seem like your injury prone earlier in your career,
Speaker 1: like a Matthew Stafford, and then suddenly you play seven
Speaker 1: straight years because just because usually it's the other way no,
Speaker 1: and you're you're showing early on that your brittle, you
Speaker 1: got the bones of a boid, and then and then
Speaker 1: you're out of the league in a few years. Thomas
Speaker 1: Rawls has had some bad luck broken bones. If if
Speaker 1: there's an injury, not that you would want to have
Speaker 1: the injury yourself, but as a as for instance, a
Speaker 1: fantasy owner, that you want a guy to be coming
Speaker 1: back from, it's usually broken bones, because that's just kind
Speaker 1: of random. You can you can return from that. Eddie
Speaker 1: Lacey is a little different, and Rawles is getting taken
Speaker 1: in the ninth round, So the way I see it,
Speaker 1: they'll probably take turns. Maybe Eddie Lacy gets a run
Speaker 1: where he's five or six games as the primary guy,
Speaker 1: and then Rawls gets eight or nine games, and who
Speaker 1: knows if they're healthy. You know you're gonna be happy
Speaker 1: with eight or nine primary starter games from Rawls if
Speaker 1: you draft him that late in your draft. N here's
Speaker 1: the tenth round. Here's a hot take prediction. The procise
Speaker 1: runs for more yards than any of them. I don't
Speaker 1: like that. I feel good about it. It's pretty hot
Speaker 1: the heat. I don't feel good about it being right.
Speaker 1: But in terms of being a hot take at this point,
Speaker 1: because remember went yards from scrimmage, I could buy it.
Speaker 1: He could be, you know, a big factor in the
Speaker 1: passing game and all that I'm just saying this time
Speaker 1: last year, the Kristen Michael Uh uh what did we
Speaker 1: call back then? What was it last Summer Awakening? Yeah,
Speaker 1: the Awakening was in Old Bloom, And it just shows
Speaker 1: that whatever logically makes sense, it doesn't always play out
Speaker 1: that way. Field has been kind of hard to make
Speaker 1: sense of ever since Marshawn kind of exited the picture.
Speaker 1: Even the final Marshawn Lynch here was not great because
Speaker 1: he was injured a lot, and it distracts from the
Speaker 1: fact that, you know, offensive line wizard slash guru Tom
Speaker 1: Cable hasn't actually coached a good offensive line for four years.
Speaker 1: You give this guy, you know, you know, shooting guard
Speaker 1: from the Pac ten and he can turn into a
Speaker 1: starting left tackle. Yeah, but are they any good? No,
Speaker 1: they're lying Their line stinks. I'll tell you one thing
Speaker 1: about Tom Cable. He's a football coach. That's like his
Speaker 1: number one claimed the Fame people were trying to get
Speaker 1: him head coaching job. Yeah, I'll tell you he's a
Speaker 1: He's a football coach with a troubling history of abuse. Yeah,
Speaker 1: this guy breeves oxygen. He's certainly a person. Hey, this
Speaker 1: guy who put him on the Field Levin guys on
Speaker 1: one side, Leven on the other. Every time that's the
Speaker 1: in a game spotlight presented by you know what it is?
Speaker 1: Why is it so hard for me to move on?
Speaker 1: I don't know. We are the only part. We're maybe
Speaker 1: the only entity that can where these Yeah you can,
Speaker 1: we got bucket, you can wear them in anything. But
Speaker 1: don't we become overly attached with the companies that sponsor us.
Speaker 1: Maybe we need to. I was legitimately hurt when I
Speaker 1: found out that I didn't get to do the last
Speaker 1: read of our previous sponsor. Oh, Clai is putting on
Speaker 1: the hat. Here we go. That's good. I'm all about
Speaker 1: New York products. This is the reason to watch us.
Speaker 1: It is a little bit annoying that claybron puts on
Speaker 1: a ridiculous hat and he's still better looking than the
Speaker 1: other two guys in the room. All right, here we go,
Speaker 1: moving on? All right, Greg, greg you wrote a banger.
Speaker 1: I enjoyed it. I had not read anything about the
Speaker 1: NFL for approximately two weeks. I unplugged. I went. I
Speaker 1: was at Keith, Kansas, old Man and Deb We were
Speaker 1: staying at their their house by the by the board,
Speaker 1: by by the shore, and I just unplugged Jersey Shore
Speaker 1: and uh. And then I picked up this piece of
Speaker 1: writing from Greg headlined rams Comma Cults, Comma Panthers undergoing
Speaker 1: offseason identity change. Greg, that's an s e O headline.
Speaker 1: You're a little better than that. I don't write the headlines.
Speaker 1: That's not the headline that you see in the must
Speaker 1: include as many team names as possible as well change.
Speaker 1: He'll search on the site. It says new year, new
Speaker 1: identity teams. Flipping the script. Look, I just send in
Speaker 1: the copy. The editors put the headline up. But yes,
Speaker 1: like Many a great movie from the eighties, I was
Speaker 1: gonna say today it's about identity change. Before we get
Speaker 1: into identity changes and teams that are undergoing them. What
Speaker 1: is the better still born Jason Bateman identity switch vehicle
Speaker 1: you could choose between. Here are your options? The change
Speaker 1: up two thousand eleven with uh, Ryan Reynolds. We'll give
Speaker 1: you a why don't we do it? Purely on plot synopsis.
Speaker 1: Dave is a married man with three kids and a
Speaker 1: loving wife, and Mitch is a single man who is
Speaker 1: at the prime of his sexual life. At all one
Speaker 1: faithful night, while Mitch and Dave are peeing in a fountain,
Speaker 1: lightning strikes and they switch bodies. Science. That's pretty good.
Speaker 1: That's pretty good. Okay, So that was the changeup. And
Speaker 1: now I will look up I identity thief Little Melissa McCarthy.
Speaker 1: Al Right, here's this one. Mild mannered businessman Sandy Patterson.
Speaker 1: That's Mr. Bateman once again, travels from Denver to Florida
Speaker 1: to confront the deceptively harmless looking woman who has been
Speaker 1: living it up after stealing Sandy's identity. All right, what
Speaker 1: do you guys think? But I like, I like which
Speaker 1: one was better? The better? Stillborn Jason Bateman identity switch Vie.
Speaker 1: You put that word still born in and it's just well,
Speaker 1: they both you know, I don't. I don't think either
Speaker 1: did well financially critically. I'll have to go with the
Speaker 1: changeup as the better one, because to me, this is
Speaker 1: a genre and it hadn't been around for fifteen to
Speaker 1: twenty years. Uh. You know, of course you had the
Speaker 1: Kirk Cameron vehicle, like Father, like Son. I believe Back
Speaker 1: in the Ages is a classic, and I feel like,
Speaker 1: if you're gonna do this movie, uh, the lightning striking
Speaker 1: while you're at the urinal. That's perfect way to get in.
Speaker 1: I like I UM, I like doing some research here.
Speaker 1: There's a Bateman movie called The Switch as well. Wait
Speaker 1: to say, is this a Jason Bateman thing? Who is
Speaker 1: your agent? Jason Bateman? Jason Bateman is awesome and he's
Speaker 1: been having a great post arrested development. No one, no one.
Speaker 1: I love moment. But let you know, let's count down
Speaker 1: with the body switch comedies. That's all I'm saying. Let's
Speaker 1: mix it up a little bit, by the way, and
Speaker 1: I should apologize to Wlisa McCarthy. Her movie with Bateman
Speaker 1: made like a hundred thirty five million dollars. All right, now,
Speaker 1: so do we decide what was the decision? Yeah? I'm
Speaker 1: with Greg. Body switch peeing is is the best way
Speaker 1: to go peeing in a fountain? And you just switch bodies?
Speaker 1: Who comes up with it? Um? Excuse me? Uh? Here
Speaker 1: we go. Let's start with the Los Angeles Rams and
Speaker 1: uh and this is a team Greg and and again
Speaker 1: Greg did write a banger. I But the point I
Speaker 1: was trying to get to was that Greg broke this
Speaker 1: all down in his most recent calum to check it out. Um,
Speaker 1: but we were you know, if you've been watching All
Speaker 1: or Nothing things, that team could not be further away
Speaker 1: from contention or being in a good place. So what
Speaker 1: do they do? They just blew it up. Uh And
Speaker 1: and now they're giving the kid Jared Goff a fighting chance,
Speaker 1: aren't they? They are? And I think that was the
Speaker 1: entire I mean they did the easiest way to do
Speaker 1: an identity change. I mean the Panthers kept their coach. Well,
Speaker 1: being in a fountain is like, at least conventionally, is
Speaker 1: an easy thing to do. I'm just saying, like the Panthers,
Speaker 1: for they're trying to change identities without really changing their coaches,
Speaker 1: without changing GM like that that can be complicated. Only
Speaker 1: the Patriots can pull that up. The Rams did the
Speaker 1: more conventional approach, which is get rid of the coach
Speaker 1: who hasn't had a good passing game in his entire
Speaker 1: five year run when he was in Los Angeles. You know,
Speaker 1: this is their fourth offensive offense that they're learning in
Speaker 1: four years. If if a guy was on the Rams
Speaker 1: the whole time, stopped playing offense passively, I felt and
Speaker 1: watching All or Nothing really cemented it underrated season by
Speaker 1: the way, I think we'll talk about it some other
Speaker 1: time that they were playing offense to just avoid making mistakes.
Speaker 1: They were just hoping that the quarterbacks stays out of
Speaker 1: the way so that the defense in the running game
Speaker 1: can win the game and don't let the quarterback blow.
Speaker 1: Like that is eighties football, That is Bears football that
Speaker 1: Jeff Fisher was on on that team. It's like that
Speaker 1: doesn't work anymore. And now you've got a coach in
Speaker 1: Sean McVeigh who does a really good job. He kind of,
Speaker 1: you know, floods the field three or four receivers. He
Speaker 1: makes it easy for a quarterback to kind of identify
Speaker 1: the mismatch. And it's just like point guards should be
Speaker 1: very quarterback friendly, like short passes, open receivers. That's what
Speaker 1: made Kirk cousins. So you say they're going to the
Speaker 1: identity is going to go from passive to active attacking.
Speaker 1: I don't know about it attacking because actually it's like
Speaker 1: a short a short passing game. But I do think, yeah,
Speaker 1: they're trying to dictate a little more, and they're not
Speaker 1: counting on Todd Gurley to be running the ball on
Speaker 1: second and eight into a brick wall. You know, they're
Speaker 1: not just gonna play things safe. I think they're gonna
Speaker 1: be a little more aggressive, you know, drinking the cool
Speaker 1: it you're drinking that McVay cooliate a little bit. I'm
Speaker 1: more into Wade Phillips. I think he changes that team
Speaker 1: quite a bit. But I do think they were so
Speaker 1: bad last year, like almost to the point of being
Speaker 1: I don't want, I don't want to say unprofessional, but
Speaker 1: like there's they were way behind the modern NFL in
Speaker 1: terms of the passing game. So if they can just
Speaker 1: be like respectable, just like not be embarrassing, be the
Speaker 1: best passing game it's like, then they can be a
Speaker 1: lot better as a team. Okay, I can see not
Speaker 1: having Greg Williams also as a significant alteration to your identity.
Speaker 1: That could be good. You both also have to I
Speaker 1: have to have to relieve yourselves at the same time.
Speaker 1: That's tricky, could be shy. That's a problem, all right,
Speaker 1: Maybe it's not as easy, maybe not the easiest route. Um,
Speaker 1: let's move on and don't talk about the Indianapolis Colts,
Speaker 1: another team, Greg, that that you wrote about. Now, this
Speaker 1: was a situation where you can do with different ways.
Speaker 1: This time they swept out the brain trust and who
Speaker 1: comes into town our friend, and then that's not easy
Speaker 1: to figure out. He is the former Chiefs director of
Speaker 1: football operations. His name is Chris Ballard. What's your favorite
Speaker 1: type of frog? But guess what he asked questions. He
Speaker 1: asked questions, and he asked the right questions. How do
Speaker 1: I fix this team? Clay bron and what you do?
Speaker 1: I mean, they go out and they make the moves
Speaker 1: that are necessary, and people feel like they've they've made
Speaker 1: you go back to the Ryan Kelly decision to draft
Speaker 1: last year, and they try to build off of that
Speaker 1: and bring into surround luck with the right people. But
Speaker 1: the question, you know goes to Greg is is what
Speaker 1: is this offseason enough to to really alter the identity
Speaker 1: of Well, we've we got Andrew. Let's see if he
Speaker 1: can sling it around and get enough done to uh
Speaker 1: get us a Super Bowl. Well, the changing identity to
Speaker 1: me is that they're addressing the defense that is decayed
Speaker 1: under Chuck Bogano and Grigson. People think of Chuck Bogano,
Speaker 1: he's this kind of tough talking guy. He's a defensive coach.
Speaker 1: Without really noticing their defense has been bad under Pagano.
Speaker 1: It's and it's gotten worse and worse. It's it's been
Speaker 1: an older group that isn't very good, which is like,
Speaker 1: which is a bad combination. Like they're they've held onto
Speaker 1: veterans that aren't performing, And so I really like how
Speaker 1: decisive ballad has been. They signed so many players in
Speaker 1: free agency that they might have seven to nine new starters.
Speaker 1: They drafted a defensive player in each of the first
Speaker 1: five rounds. They have twenty two new defensive players. WHOA,
Speaker 1: that's a lot of that's a lot of new defensive players.
Speaker 1: That is an outrageous amount too many. You can have
Speaker 1: almost four new linebackers starters. All four linebackers starters should
Speaker 1: be new. I don't think that's too many. Well, yeah,
Speaker 1: here's the thing. It could work. It was nearly as
Speaker 1: extreme last year with the Giants didn't free agency and
Speaker 1: it worked for the Giants. But that's you're asking a
Speaker 1: lot of things to fall into plays for these guys
Speaker 1: to immediately be able to play together. You're asking a lot,
Speaker 1: and then you're also not for nothing. On the other
Speaker 1: side of the ball. You don't even know how your
Speaker 1: quarterback is there. To me, I know this room seems
Speaker 1: bullish on the Colts, and I'm fine with that, to me,
Speaker 1: it still seems to be a lot and we don't
Speaker 1: even know. I know Chris Ballard a lot of getting
Speaker 1: a lot of good grades. Also, let's see how this
Speaker 1: all works out. He's made a lot of changes. Sure,
Speaker 1: nobody can make a lot of changes. Is it gonna work?
Speaker 1: I don't know, safety, corner, linebacker, back to back to
Speaker 1: back in the draft, right. I guess what I like
Speaker 1: is that he looked at the defense and just said,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna spend this offseat like, our offense is in
Speaker 1: pretty good shape overall. The offensive line could be better,
Speaker 1: but it's it's in better shape. I think that it's
Speaker 1: been I'm gonna spend all these resources and see what sticks.
Speaker 1: Jabaal Shear, John Simon Sean spends. You know, not all
Speaker 1: of them are gonna work, but some of them are work.
Speaker 1: Jonathan Hankins, they're bigger, their defensive coordinator. Do you know
Speaker 1: who their defensive coordinators? It's not a name that people
Speaker 1: I do know? It actually no Ted mana Chino, he says.
Speaker 1: He says, they're different. We're we're bigger, we're younger, were stronger.
Speaker 1: We've got some guys that are more the rule than
Speaker 1: the exception around the league, where a year ago maybe
Speaker 1: we had a few more exceptions. That's a shot fired
Speaker 1: against Ryan Griggs and that that basically they had a bund,
Speaker 1: they had a like and the guys that just weren't
Speaker 1: NFL caliber. What I think Ballard did, which is kind
Speaker 1: of reminds me a little bit of you know, when
Speaker 1: the when Bill Belichick took over the Pages, he just
Speaker 1: signed everyone with like, you know, actual NFL players and
Speaker 1: just kind of figured out which stuck and kept those guys.
Speaker 1: That's fair. You go back to June one, they get
Speaker 1: Kristin Michael, but then they have to ensuingly put him
Speaker 1: on injured reserve. But still they they were at and
Speaker 1: they got Kristin Michael. Did do they stay? They stay
Speaker 1: woke even though he leaves. I think once you were,
Speaker 1: once you are woke, you you cannot go back to.
Speaker 1: I mean, he's a good presence just to have on
Speaker 1: your injured reserve list. I mean, think of the good
Speaker 1: teams he's been on, Packers, Seahawks, great organizations general would
Speaker 1: because it's true they're all winning teams. That would be
Speaker 1: one of the greater storylines in sports history. If he
Speaker 1: was like seventy years old, and teams were still signing
Speaker 1: and and just putting him an arm because he had
Speaker 1: this magic juice. Keep an eye on it, is all
Speaker 1: I'm saying. That's all I'm saying. Just keep an eye
Speaker 1: on it and see where he is. It's a little
Speaker 1: hard to imagine, you know, keep an eye on Kristin
Speaker 1: Michael's juice? Did you think the Falcons are gonna blow
Speaker 1: the Super Bowl? I'm just saying, you never know in sports,
Speaker 1: to Michael could be on somebody's I R and for
Speaker 1: to year. I know you didn't looking back. You know,
Speaker 1: Dan was sitting behind behind us and at the Super
Speaker 1: Bowl and his face was just going to ash and
Speaker 1: he was so excited. He was so excited at half
Speaker 1: time and then just slowly he's like, this isn't really
Speaker 1: gonna happen, isn't know? It was a bad day for
Speaker 1: the NFL, But it wasn't as bad a day as it. Oh. Yeah,
Speaker 1: the greatest comeback in Super Bowl history by one of
Speaker 1: its greatest prayers. What it's terrible? Was it comeback? Not
Speaker 1: everybody enjoyed it that much. Yeah, if it wasn't a
Speaker 1: bad day for the NFL, it's a very bad day
Speaker 1: for the NFL, But it wasn't as bad a day
Speaker 1: for me as it was for poor and Ludicrous, who
Speaker 1: it remains one of my favorite NFL memories is he
Speaker 1: was seated in the next box over from us, sitting
Speaker 1: alone watching it all crumble, and I couldn't stop looking
Speaker 1: at Ludicrous And by the end of the game, Chicken
Speaker 1: and Beer for No. One Popular album, Yeah, I got
Speaker 1: you once upy the time they got you. Let's call
Speaker 1: back there. It was good. You're gonna do Ludicrous on
Speaker 1: the old throwbacks? I would I would love to do
Speaker 1: a Ludicrous episode, maybe get looted in the garage. Um,
Speaker 1: finally we'll talk about one more team, and and this team,
Speaker 1: oh my goodness, they're just going all out there saying
Speaker 1: nothing was working on either side of the ball, So
Speaker 1: this whole thing, we're just putting a dynamite stick and
Speaker 1: starting over. So yes, that would definitely be an identity
Speaker 1: change the Niners. Greg. No team I I think has
Speaker 1: changed more over the off season than the Niners. They're
Speaker 1: a little under the radar because the the expectations are
Speaker 1: so unbelievably low because the rosters bad. But they could
Speaker 1: have new skill position, players starting at basically every position.
Speaker 1: You have Brian Hoyer, you you could have your top
Speaker 1: three wide receivers are all brand new. You could have
Speaker 1: a you know, probably will have a different tight end.
Speaker 1: And even Carlos Hide there was a report out there
Speaker 1: today that he hasn't even necessarily earned his starting job,
Speaker 1: that that he's going to have to battle um for
Speaker 1: it with Tim hi Tower in the rookie they drafted.
Speaker 1: It's like just a team where it's like, Kyle Shanahan,
Speaker 1: show us how smart you are. Because I think with
Speaker 1: any other group of players, any other coach, people would
Speaker 1: just assume that they're going to be terrible. Maybe maybe
Speaker 1: people do assume that. I don't know. I feel like, uh,
Speaker 1: I feel like there's much better buzz around this franchise
Speaker 1: and maybe and maybe that is everyone just it's kind
Speaker 1: of more. They're one of those teams I feel like
Speaker 1: the NFL is a little more fun. Whens are better
Speaker 1: and when they've just been the dregs of the league
Speaker 1: for several years now, Uh, they seem to be hitting
Speaker 1: on some things with their new GM and the coach
Speaker 1: was a good hire, which surprised a lot of people
Speaker 1: that they pulled that off potentially, I think there's a
Speaker 1: reason for there to be optimism. Yeah, well, there's there's
Speaker 1: a commitment to at least a plan, right, because you've
Speaker 1: you've wondered what the plan is out of Santa Clara
Speaker 1: with jetting company for a long time, and there's there's
Speaker 1: a coach as an interim coach, there's another coach, or
Speaker 1: we committed, we're not committed. Well, now we got the
Speaker 1: coach in the GM on six year contracts, and so
Speaker 1: let's say things are horrible. Brian Hoyer implodes, the defenses
Speaker 1: is a sieve. You still know that there's people that
Speaker 1: are going to be in place in two thousand and
Speaker 1: eighteen and they're going to try to do things. It's
Speaker 1: Kirk Cousins on the horizon. There's a reason to be hopeful.
Speaker 1: It's like, that's a great point because Tom Sulo was
Speaker 1: essentially on the hot seat after his introductor your press conference.
Speaker 1: I've never I've never I've never seen a coach so
Speaker 1: openly doubted and people just figure like, yeah, probably one
Speaker 1: is done, which in the NFL, like that's not fair.
Speaker 1: He's he seems like a nice guy and he just
Speaker 1: was thrown into a bad situation and he wasn't gonna
Speaker 1: and overcome that. You know, Jimmy t is doing all
Speaker 1: right though, because the nature of coaching contracts, he basically
Speaker 1: was a gunner who was asked to rerange the deck
Speaker 1: chairs on the Titanic, and he got like an eight
Speaker 1: million dollar going away gift. Oh yeah, I think he
Speaker 1: got a twenty million dollar contracts happening. It was somebody insane.
Speaker 1: I think he's still making that money even though he's
Speaker 1: a defensive line coach of the league. With the Redskins,
Speaker 1: their defense has been a little People haven't talked about
Speaker 1: their devens. We don't We don't know much about their
Speaker 1: defensive coordinator, Joe Salah. But the talent is pretty good.
Speaker 1: I mean, if you look at the talent. They drafted
Speaker 1: Solomon Thomas uh in the first round. They drafted Ruben
Speaker 1: Foster in the first round. Those are exciting picks. And
Speaker 1: then you have Armstead Buckner, you bring in Earl Mitchell,
Speaker 1: You've got Navarro Bowman still around, You've got him Odd
Speaker 1: Brooks still around, like that front seven is better than
Speaker 1: a lot of front sevens out there. And you've you've
Speaker 1: got Michael Bennett Um talking talking about this forty defensive
Speaker 1: line of guy that's in the you know that's a
Speaker 1: rival is shouting out players on the efensive line. Said, um,
Speaker 1: he's talking about ark Omstead. He said that he's not
Speaker 1: normal and he could be a defensive player of the year.
Speaker 1: De Forrest Buckner excuse me, says he could be a
Speaker 1: defensive player of the year just because that guy is
Speaker 1: a not normal guy and winning defensive player of the
Speaker 1: Year is a not normal thing. You know, part of
Speaker 1: you wonders, also, that's a bold statement in defense player there.
Speaker 1: Maybe though people do love Armstead too. I mean, PFL
Speaker 1: lows both of those guys. It's a different system there.
Speaker 1: Now it's going to be playing you. Kind of part
Speaker 1: of you, though, wants to see how Ted Moncino would
Speaker 1: work with that defense. It's like a little part of
Speaker 1: you like, just what would Bonaccino cook up? What would
Speaker 1: Bonaccino do? The cheery, let's get some wristbands made out,
Speaker 1: probably slam the former GM in the in the press.
Speaker 1: I do want them to be interesting because I was
Speaker 1: kind of good. I was excited for the chip Cally era. Um.
Speaker 1: I thought maybe they would be interesting if nothing else,
Speaker 1: But yeah, it was a bit of a letter. I
Speaker 1: can't get worse right from the last two years that organization,
Speaker 1: even if they kind of stick again, as long as
Speaker 1: there's some signs of progress, Uh, they're going in the
Speaker 1: right direction because they kind of hit rock bottom. Yeah
Speaker 1: these past two years. Yeah, our producer, you know, for
Speaker 1: these video shows, Alex Wilk, you know, we're gonna go
Speaker 1: through division by division in terms of that was camping
Speaker 1: as per his demand. Yeah, and we and we started
Speaker 1: with the NFC West. He's like, oh, let's get rid
Speaker 1: of h Let's get rid of the trash divisions, you know,
Speaker 1: off the tops and people aren't really listening at this,
Speaker 1: and I'm thinking the NFC Wests got you know, the
Speaker 1: best team in the NFC for the last five years.
Speaker 1: The Cardinals are an interesting team, and you know the
Speaker 1: forty Niners and Rams are getting a little frisky. Great division.
Speaker 1: He's wearing a RAMS lanyard is what he's showing behind
Speaker 1: his Twitter avatar for the longest time was a Rams logo. Okay,
Speaker 1: he's a passionate and Sully reps the Seahawks. Yeah, he's
Speaker 1: not on the Boks, not on my But my point
Speaker 1: is the NFC West to me he's intriguing. I liked it.
Speaker 1: It would be even more intriguing at the Niners, weren't
Speaker 1: dog poop. I guess that's that's why he's the host.
Speaker 1: Even see, he kind of brought it around. He brought
Speaker 1: it back to where we started putting a bow for everybody.
Speaker 1: All right, let's let's wrap things up here. I just
Speaker 1: want to say thank you to Greg Rosenthal on the
Speaker 1: rest of the Shield softball team. Winning both games my
Speaker 1: offense and my absence, and uh doesn't make me think
Speaker 1: maybe maybe Skip needs to say where should Skippy in
Speaker 1: the lineup at this point? If you was playing well
Speaker 1: before you left. Yeah, but you know, the point is
Speaker 1: those are two big ws and we've got two games
Speaker 1: left in the regular season. We're six and four. I
Speaker 1: think we split, we get into the playoffs and and
Speaker 1: all you gotta do is get a ticket. We showed
Speaker 1: it the last year we got a ticket. What happened,
Speaker 1: We walked away with the whole damn thing started started
Speaker 1: throwing some heart, some fight in these games. And Greg
Speaker 1: is making a hard push for Rookie of the Year. Mhm,
Speaker 1: hard PUSH's also genuine joy across Greg. I like Dan's
Speaker 1: never said anything so nice. He's you know, listen as
Speaker 1: as the skipper. I can't always be you throwing sunshine
Speaker 1: rainbows and everybody. I gotta push you guys, and you've
Speaker 1: done a nice job. You've been a nice part of
Speaker 1: the team. Um. You know you did admit at lunch
Speaker 1: that you weren't even tracking anyone else but yourself when
Speaker 1: they asked for a scouting reports and the little Terrell
Speaker 1: Owens type of I know the best way I can
Speaker 1: help the team is by playing, you know, playing, But
Speaker 1: it's just all those groundball like oh who hit the groundball?
Speaker 1: Who at the liner? Everyone was no one was raking.
Speaker 1: I couldn't remember who did what two ws and that's
Speaker 1: very important. Um. So we'll keep you updated. Um as
Speaker 1: the season comes to a close, you could watch this podcast,
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Speaker 1: you check it out. How exciting it's a new We're
Speaker 1: gonna be doing this well once a week for the
Speaker 1: next two months. Whereas there's a jet seat here. I
Speaker 1: can't wait for you to get the emotional attachment with
Speaker 1: new era. You have a team. My team is the league.
Speaker 1: I know. I gotta kick it down the middle of
Speaker 1: I know Claibon's team. He tries to keep it looks
Speaker 1: under the radar because it's Oh, he has to be
Speaker 1: one of those it's whoever's on the schedule of the
Speaker 1: it is, it's America's team. He didn't like it because
Speaker 1: he's usually the guy kind of you know, he's taken
Speaker 1: the Countrarians. Yeah, let's say this, let's stick let's stick
Speaker 1: a pin in this conversation because that Greg hit on
Speaker 1: something there potentially. Anyway, we will be back on Thursday.
Speaker 1: Claibn's got just like a knife sticking out of his
Speaker 1: back right now. Uh. We'll be back Thursday with another
Speaker 1: all audio show. So thank you everyone for listening, uh
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Speaker 1: Dan had the signing off for claib the Old Boss
Speaker 1: and Sally behind the Glass till Thursday. E