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Speaker 1: Welcome back to another edition to Be Around the NFL Podcast.
Speaker 1: My name is Dan Hansis and I am joined, but
Speaker 1: room filled with heroes, Mark Sessler, Colleen Wolf and Greg Rosto.
Speaker 1: What's up people? Hey, hey, it's happy eclipse day. Everybody?
Speaker 1: Did you look at it? Went out there? Um, there
Speaker 1: was a gathering of several dozen NFL Needia employees this morning. Um,
Speaker 1: somebody handed me a pair of glasses. Really, yeah, I
Speaker 1: looked at it. I said okay, and I went back inside.
Speaker 1: Twelve seconds in and out. Other people spent a whole
Speaker 1: morning out there, shutting down their work day, as if
Speaker 1: that's appropriate. Oh, daddy's uster had to get back inside
Speaker 1: and do some work. I'm with you. I spent most
Speaker 1: ten seconds taking a look at it, but I noticed
Speaker 1: that a lot of people essentially were just couched on
Speaker 1: the roof, avoiding anything resembling a professional approach to their workday. Well,
Speaker 1: I got yelled at last night by a group. You
Speaker 1: were included, I think, Dan, when I thought that I
Speaker 1: could just put on my regular sunglasses and look at
Speaker 1: the sun, it would be fine. So then I was
Speaker 1: afraid to even look out the window today. Of course,
Speaker 1: there's a photo that was when you know, viral on
Speaker 1: Twitter today of our president looking up at the sun
Speaker 1: without anything anything sunglasses or the shades or anything. Greg,
Speaker 1: I'm going to take a guess. I've known you for
Speaker 1: many years now. Your official statement is who cares? No,
Speaker 1: I'm not I'm not for against it. Yeah, who cares?
Speaker 1: I wasn't involved in I like that. You know. I
Speaker 1: mentioned how my I learned a lot about it from
Speaker 1: my daughter's you know kids podcast that got a lot
Speaker 1: of pop for people were really fascinated by this kid
Speaker 1: kid's podcast that they exist that that I wouldn't let
Speaker 1: her listen to it on both ways, like in the
Speaker 1: direction and she just wants to learn. I'm holding that
Speaker 1: back from her. Two quick things about the eclipse that
Speaker 1: I found intriguing. One that, uh, when the when the
Speaker 1: thing passed and the sun essentially reappeared in the Yeah,
Speaker 1: when well, when the whole thing, the whole event closed
Speaker 1: out and all these animals were going insane at zoos
Speaker 1: and stuff that their body clocks were crazy. And this
Speaker 1: word the path from South Carolina to Oregon called the
Speaker 1: celestial Interstate. That's the path that Moons Sun Combo traveled on.
Speaker 1: Is this possibly the subject of a future heat Light
Speaker 1: podcast because I don't think so, because I my my
Speaker 1: one feeling is the Twitter kind of kind of if
Speaker 1: you were on Twitter kind of ruined the eclipse a
Speaker 1: little bit. In the eclipse maybe a little overrated, just
Speaker 1: a tad overrated, and how it was handled by some.
Speaker 1: I think in general it's a wonderful event, but when
Speaker 1: all these people are, you know, making too much of it,
Speaker 1: you know, I I've I could do with less of that.
Speaker 1: Sneaky overrated. I'm kind of overrated the eclipse. That's the
Speaker 1: official stance that they around the NFL podcast. If anybody
Speaker 1: wants to use that for a quote, sneaky overrated. Today's show.
Speaker 1: Nice show today. It's so, you know, one of our
Speaker 1: preseason wrap up shows, because guess what, guys in the
Speaker 1: race to crown the preseason champion in the NFL, we're
Speaker 1: halfway home. I can't believe it. Halfway home. Everybody's played
Speaker 1: at least two games now and we'll go through we
Speaker 1: talked about on except for the Cleveland browne I mean
Speaker 1: the Browns. Sorry, I apologize. The Browns play tonight prime
Speaker 1: time under the lights. I mean that place is going
Speaker 1: to be a lecturer. I know the league would like
Speaker 1: to act like Cleveland never deserves the primetime game. You
Speaker 1: just tried the same thing. This is their last Monday
Speaker 1: night football game of the year, well potentially for many years.
Speaker 1: So anyway, the Browns are playing to who are they
Speaker 1: playing tonight? And they are playing the Giants from New
Speaker 1: York City slash New Jersey. Yes, um so that game.
Speaker 1: But we also have, um we talked about some games
Speaker 1: on our Friday show, but we have what twelve games
Speaker 1: to talk about today. Four teams divided by two equals
Speaker 1: twelve games now and and we'll do some news, including
Speaker 1: a quarterback battle is over. In fact, let's talk about
Speaker 1: that right now. Before we do that, though, we gotta
Speaker 1: go behind the glass there. She is the rising star.
Speaker 1: Some people call her a loose cannon. Jesus got a
Speaker 1: lot going on right now? Can she rain it all in?
Speaker 1: Her name is Erica tam Posse. How are you, Erica?
Speaker 1: You know you're doing well. Yeah, it's feeling a little
Speaker 1: weird from the eclipse, you know, feeling some some weird vibes.
Speaker 1: See this one I'm talking about like celestial energy, some
Speaker 1: stutely nothing. I feel nothing at all. Every Yeah, sneaky
Speaker 1: overrated the eclipse. Let's do some news. Somebody's got to
Speaker 1: come down with you. Guys. We are still here at
Speaker 1: fern Hill, Fainter's farm with all these goats. Uh. Since
Speaker 1: the eclipse, I have gotten a couple of them to faint.
Speaker 1: I have gotten some of them to Fainy says, I
Speaker 1: mean it feels concerning. Maybe it's just an um fundamental
Speaker 1: difference between you and I, Mark. I think that for
Speaker 1: all the ills of social media, and despite the eclipse
Speaker 1: itself being you know, sneaky overrated, I'd like the communal
Speaker 1: aspect of social media, people coming together on Twitter to
Speaker 1: be excited and talk about this silly thing. And one
Speaker 1: of the um one of the products of that is
Speaker 1: was a live periscope a man at a goat farm
Speaker 1: where there was fainting goats and he was just there
Speaker 1: to see if the goats were gonna faint, and it happened.
Speaker 1: The clips have nobody fainted, he fainted, started watching it.
Speaker 1: I'm I agree with the community thinking, just there's a
Speaker 1: saturation point where some of the dumbness becomes unnecessary. I
Speaker 1: got you. I got you all right, Let's start with yes,
Speaker 1: I I teased it seconds ago. A decision has been
Speaker 1: made in Denver, and Trevor Simeon is going to be
Speaker 1: the Denver Broncos Week one starter and perhaps their starter
Speaker 1: for the foreseeable future. UH. Broncos coach Advance Joseph named
Speaker 1: Simeon the quarterback during a Monday news conference. UM he
Speaker 1: called Simeon the clear cut winner over Paxton Lynch, who,
Speaker 1: of course was the first round pick last year. Oh.
Speaker 1: Let's hear what Vance Joseph had to say in UH
Speaker 1: explaining how he came to this decision. I was pleased
Speaker 1: with both guys, but overall, UM, the operation of the
Speaker 1: entire offense, decision making, ball placement was more consistent with Trevor.
Speaker 1: That's why he won the job. I met with those
Speaker 1: guys this morning. They understood that we just finished our
Speaker 1: team meetings. So everyone's on the same page. You know,
Speaker 1: we're all going to support support packs moving forward. He's
Speaker 1: a young player who's got a bright future still and
Speaker 1: h in my opinion, you know, we have two quarterbacks.
Speaker 1: You know, most teams can't say that, and I truly
Speaker 1: believe that, Mark Well, I mean I didn't even know
Speaker 1: if they needed to make this decision official, because if
Speaker 1: anyone watched the game on Saturday, Lynch is clearly uh
Speaker 1: not ready for this, for this role. And and it
Speaker 1: was incredible to watch Trevor's Trevor Simeon come in with
Speaker 1: about three and a half minutes left in the first half,
Speaker 1: after after Lynch had produced maybe what thirty two yards
Speaker 1: off of you know, thirteen passes in a sack, to
Speaker 1: have Simeon come in and the offense absolutely came to life.
Speaker 1: He ripped them right down the field and generated a
Speaker 1: touchdown and did it with great confidence. And so when
Speaker 1: you have a locker room full of veterans, doesn't matter
Speaker 1: where Lynch was drafted, to those guys, you cannot sell
Speaker 1: to them the concept of anyone but Trevor Simeons starting
Speaker 1: the season at least, right if if Simeon was the
Speaker 1: first round pick and Lynch was the seventh round pick,
Speaker 1: there would be no battle. Simeon just would have been
Speaker 1: the starter going into the year because he earned it
Speaker 1: last year. He's a young player who showed a lot
Speaker 1: in a tough situation last year, and then he came
Speaker 1: out and you said it in both these preseason games.
Speaker 1: When he plays, it looks professional. He looks like a
Speaker 1: young quarterback who the game is not too fast for.
Speaker 1: And that's that's hard to find. Like I I got
Speaker 1: some feedback on Twitter from people saying, oh, well, well,
Speaker 1: Simeon is a low ceiling. He doesn't have the talent
Speaker 1: that Lynch. It's like says, who I don't know, Like
Speaker 1: you just a bunch of draft analy told you that
Speaker 1: if you just watch Trevor Simeon, that he was a
Speaker 1: second year player and that's all you know of him
Speaker 1: was what he did in the NFL. He looks pretty
Speaker 1: talented to me. He's got a big army, makes good decisions,
Speaker 1: Like I would be excited to have a young quarterback
Speaker 1: like Simeon. That doesn't mean you're not disappointed with Lynch,
Speaker 1: but Simeon's good. Yeah. I think he sort of won
Speaker 1: by default too, And I think we've said that on
Speaker 1: this podcast before because Packison Lynch really didn't show at
Speaker 1: any point in time that he could beat him. I
Speaker 1: think that Packison Lynch lost the job more than Simeon
Speaker 1: won the job. But I almost feel like they need
Speaker 1: to bring in somebody else, Like why not sign a
Speaker 1: backup or somebody like a Tyrod Taylor maybe facilitated trade.
Speaker 1: I know that's crazy. Craig is making eyes right now.
Speaker 1: It's good. Well, you don't need to bring in someone.
Speaker 1: Let's break this down a little bit because Lynch, I mean,
Speaker 1: let me ask you this. Let what is the last
Speaker 1: time a first round pick quarterback wasn't the Week one
Speaker 1: starter by his second season in this league? Is that?
Speaker 1: You know? Maybe I'm missing someone obvious, but I feel
Speaker 1: like in this league that's not the way it works.
Speaker 1: Something more, someone tweeted out there's only been four in
Speaker 1: the last ten years. I think goes uh Manzel was one,
Speaker 1: Brady Quinn was another. It was a terrible list. I'm
Speaker 1: missing one or it's like one or two more. There
Speaker 1: you go. So, now, by no means my writing off
Speaker 1: Packs and Lynch, But at this point, I mean, you
Speaker 1: have to admit this is a red flag now above
Speaker 1: this guy that Trevor Simeon is nice as a player
Speaker 1: as he's been and he's shown things and when he's
Speaker 1: been given the opportunity, it's not a game changing talent.
Speaker 1: Why do you know that? Though? Like, why I don't
Speaker 1: get that? Why do we know that? Well, all right,
Speaker 1: I mean, do you think he's one of the next
Speaker 1: elite quarterbacks. I think he showed as much in his
Speaker 1: first season as an NFL starter as a lot of
Speaker 1: top notch quarterbacks did. Absolutely, Okay, I think Simeon, I
Speaker 1: think the problem, that's all I'm saying. It's like, yeah,
Speaker 1: it's just it's just in relation to the fact that
Speaker 1: you have this first rounder on the roster, and it's
Speaker 1: it's it's tough to swallow. I think for some Broncos fans.
Speaker 1: It's funny watching the Redskins game that Tisman talked about
Speaker 1: Kirk Cousins turn twenty nine on on Saturday and and
Speaker 1: they asked Heisman where he was and his point in
Speaker 1: his career. He was just beginning his career as a starter.
Speaker 1: The problem is that the NFL has now fast forwarded
Speaker 1: quarterbacks careers that if you if you are Lynch and
Speaker 1: you aren't a guy that was advertised as one of
Speaker 1: the rawest rookie quarterbacks out there, and that's come that's
Speaker 1: played out to be accurate. That all the time guys
Speaker 1: start right away. But there's here's the problem. There are
Speaker 1: plenty of first round quarterbacks that just because their first
Speaker 1: round quarterbacks are shoved into the starting position in year
Speaker 1: two and it goes it's a calamity and it's a
Speaker 1: it's that sets the organization back. The Broncos are lucky
Speaker 1: to have Simeon in this position right now, right when
Speaker 1: you watch Lynch, you know who you reminded me? It
Speaker 1: was Christian Hackenburg. Just the timing, the fact that they
Speaker 1: had to he is not ready right, They had to
Speaker 1: load up on these really short passes to like, quote
Speaker 1: unquote build this confidence. I mean it wasn't building his
Speaker 1: confidence that the announcers pointed out really well, how there
Speaker 1: were wide open receivers that he could have hit for
Speaker 1: first downs, but he just didn't read the field well
Speaker 1: at all and just kind of threw the ball and
Speaker 1: was kind of panicked into tight quarters. Dangerous there was, Yeah,
Speaker 1: there was a Damarrius Thomas coming across the field on
Speaker 1: what would have been an easy throw to a wide
Speaker 1: open wide receiver for the first down, and stead he lofts.
Speaker 1: He's got a strong arm, but he whips it into
Speaker 1: traffic in the dangerous past. The lucky it wasn't picked off.
Speaker 1: That's Lynch. We'll get into the Broncos a little bit
Speaker 1: more when we go through the preseason games, but we
Speaker 1: know who will be their quarterback moving on. It is
Speaker 1: the end of the road for an Quan Bolden. UH.
Speaker 1: Part of Bolden's decision making, or a big part of
Speaker 1: the process, was looking at what was going on in
Speaker 1: the world right now, in this country right now, the
Speaker 1: issues UH specifically citing UH the violence that occurred in Charlotteville, Virginia,
Speaker 1: earlier this month. Here's what he had to say on
Speaker 1: Sirius x M NFL radiod My life World. I can
Speaker 1: remember as a kid, I'm wanting to get to the
Speaker 1: NFL and wanting to be a professional football player. I'm
Speaker 1: bedicated on lights today and I never thought anything would
Speaker 1: of that passim, but for me, it had Colleen. Fourteen seasons.
Speaker 1: People kind of sleep on An Kwanbodin's career fourteen seasons.
Speaker 1: Second round pick of the Arizona Cardinals, UH, and he
Speaker 1: finishes with almost fourteen thousand yards, over a thousand catches,
Speaker 1: eighty two touchdowns. He's on the Ken bubble. You could
Speaker 1: make the argument rings well. I mean, just think about
Speaker 1: his rookie season. Remember when he came in. He's the
Speaker 1: only player in NFL history to have one thousand catches
Speaker 1: as a rookie. He came in, and he came in
Speaker 1: with a bang. But I think that the fact that
Speaker 1: he said just thirteen days ago he was all in
Speaker 1: with the Bills, and you know, seeing what happened in
Speaker 1: the world really changed things. I wonder if he was
Speaker 1: on a different team, if he would have made the
Speaker 1: same decision now that they traded Sammy Watkins. And and
Speaker 1: also if you're looking at it from the Bill's perspective, Um, Brandon,
Speaker 1: it's Brandon being Yeah, Brandon bean Uh just said he
Speaker 1: used Bolden signing as an example of why they aren't
Speaker 1: throwing in the towel and why they still can win,
Speaker 1: and now they don't. They have Za Jones and Jordan
Speaker 1: Matthews right. What you wonder if he looked at the
Speaker 1: events it's transpired on his team since he joined it,
Speaker 1: I mean, at least partially, you know, I wouldn't doubt
Speaker 1: though that he's unbelievably passionate. And I think of Incohn
Speaker 1: Bolden for a lot of reasons, but one was his
Speaker 1: Walter Peyton Man of the Year speech a couple of
Speaker 1: years ago, which I happened to be there with and
Speaker 1: he's he did that because of the work that he's
Speaker 1: done with under privileged youth that now he wants to
Speaker 1: get into criminal justice. And you listen to him talk
Speaker 1: that night, and he's extremely passionate and should be held
Speaker 1: up as the type of guy that that the NFL
Speaker 1: really prizes, and they did with this award. And he
Speaker 1: was like that on the field. So, I mean, he
Speaker 1: was so much to fund fun to watch. I also
Speaker 1: think of covering that Super Bowl in two thousand nine
Speaker 1: and as great as Larry Fitzgerald was, and Fitzgerald was
Speaker 1: at the height of his powers, and Bolden had a
Speaker 1: solid postseason, not an amazing posted in that year. He
Speaker 1: was sort of known as the heart and soul of
Speaker 1: that offense and the toughness that he that he had
Speaker 1: and the fact that he had been there like he
Speaker 1: was a guy that his teammates really talked about and
Speaker 1: looked to for leadership. Everywhere he's gone, he's been incredibly productive,
Speaker 1: and I I take at face value what he's saying
Speaker 1: about why he's leaving. I think number one is you
Speaker 1: could definitely argue he's a Hall of Famer convince, you know,
Speaker 1: compared to some of the guys that are in the
Speaker 1: hall right now. But secondly, I I think even when
Speaker 1: you cover football and you watch what's happening around the world,
Speaker 1: it makes you question this, you know, the seriousness of
Speaker 1: what we're doing, you know, compared to other stuff. And
Speaker 1: I think the players that this continues at this pace,
Speaker 1: you're gonna get more players making decisions like this. It's
Speaker 1: easy to see why he would do it. I mean,
Speaker 1: I completely agree with him. Even last week when I
Speaker 1: watched the Vice News piece um that they did on Charlottesville.
Speaker 1: It was so good and the reporter that was in
Speaker 1: at her name was l and I was watching what
Speaker 1: a great job she did, and I was like, what
Speaker 1: what am I doing with my life? Should I be
Speaker 1: doing something that's more impactful on other people? So I
Speaker 1: understand where Bolden's coming from. Yeah, now here you are
Speaker 1: and I'm still here. I came back behind enemy of mine,
Speaker 1: hate Rally being on this podcast. But one last thing
Speaker 1: from from my perspective, and Kwan Bolden one of the
Speaker 1: tougher guys. And I remember the two thousand eight season,
Speaker 1: the Cardinals are getting blown out by the Jets and
Speaker 1: it was the end of the game and Bolden got
Speaker 1: went over the middle and got obliterated by Eric Smith
Speaker 1: of Jets Safety, had seven plates put into his face,
Speaker 1: basically broke his face. Forty screws. He missed two games.
Speaker 1: It's insane. And and before I move on, and because
Speaker 1: this is he's right there among my favorite players that
Speaker 1: I've ever that I've watched since I've been doing this professionally.
Speaker 1: He I think he'd be right there by hind Frank
Speaker 1: Gore for the guys to fun guys to watch. Over
Speaker 1: the last ten years, two other things stayed out. Maybe
Speaker 1: the all time greatest fantasy football pickup of all time
Speaker 1: because no one, no one had him at all, and
Speaker 1: then his first game out of nore heat two seventeen yards,
Speaker 1: and so everyone picks him up. And then he has
Speaker 1: that monster year. And then number two, the Ravens do
Speaker 1: not win the Super Bowl without Ankon Bolden. That is
Speaker 1: not hyperbolic in any way. He had a playoff run
Speaker 1: very similar to the one Larry Fitzgerald had in Arizona
Speaker 1: to get them to the Super Bowl. A lot of
Speaker 1: Joe Flacco's money that he got was from just kind
Speaker 1: of throwing the ball up in tight coverage or down
Speaker 1: the field and ank On bold and making plays on
Speaker 1: the ball in those playoffs. He had three yards four
Speaker 1: touchdowns in those four games. It was a monster run
Speaker 1: and he really, to me put them over the top
Speaker 1: to get that title. He remember that run specifically, was
Speaker 1: like he was the king of the third down and
Speaker 1: long big catch, like thirteen yard reception over the middle.
Speaker 1: People in the stace. Yeah, he could play. Are you
Speaker 1: calling Joe Flacco Fluco? By the way, No, I'm just
Speaker 1: saying Flacco doesn't get all that money without a Quan
Speaker 1: bold And helping him out there. I was in the
Speaker 1: locker room near in Quan Bolden after that Super Bowl win,
Speaker 1: and people asked if he was going to keep playing,
Speaker 1: and he was. He wasn't sure to some degree, but
Speaker 1: he goes on to have two straight one thousand yards
Speaker 1: seasons after that. Please did they ask him if Joe
Speaker 1: Flacco is a Fluca. I don't think that was a
Speaker 1: pressing question that night. You should have been there, new
Speaker 1: bit flacof Luco. This has been going on for a
Speaker 1: while time, Bro, a long time. It's not a new
Speaker 1: bit from Dan. Finally in the news, the NFL is
Speaker 1: close to finalizing a deal that would extend the tenure
Speaker 1: of Commissioner Roger Goodell through the four season. Mike Gara
Speaker 1: Folo NFL Network reports uh Goodell, fifty eight years old,
Speaker 1: succeeded Paul Taglubou in September two thousand and six. Been
Speaker 1: with the league in some form since nineteen. Mark, you
Speaker 1: approached me privately and said you said you had some
Speaker 1: quote unquote explode use of comma hyper critical comments to make,
Speaker 1: so now we'll throw it to you. That is absolutely incorrect.
Speaker 1: I mean, I I think it's honestly. I it was
Speaker 1: kind of news to me that that commissioners are on
Speaker 1: these contracts to be honest, and I thought it was
Speaker 1: it was almost like a royalty type role where you
Speaker 1: just keep it until either you get too old or
Speaker 1: you know, things become too insane. Maybe that's how it
Speaker 1: should be. Like maybe Goodell's firstborn son is who will
Speaker 1: succeed him. I think plenty of people might. I might
Speaker 1: agree with you, plenty others might disagree with you. I'm
Speaker 1: not sure that's what people are asking for. No pivots
Speaker 1: out real nice pivot, Mark, I'll take up the man now.
Speaker 1: I'm just kidding. I did think when I saw this,
Speaker 1: based on news that's been out there over the last week. No,
Speaker 1: I I just very quickly going preseason on us right now. No,
Speaker 1: that last week there was a lot of talk about
Speaker 1: the collective Bargaining Agreement. It's kind of attention lockout going
Speaker 1: in four years, happening in four years, and so I
Speaker 1: saw this coming out the next week, and he's going
Speaker 1: to be signed through it. I think that that is
Speaker 1: something that the NFL, understandably would want to get done
Speaker 1: beforehand to kind of send the message that this is
Speaker 1: our leadership. He's going to be the one handling it
Speaker 1: throughout that whole period. I was thinking that the preseason
Speaker 1: now has a chance to actually be knocked down to
Speaker 1: two games. I think that will I would I would
Speaker 1: strongly expect that not maybe not two games. It might
Speaker 1: be the PAS, but right now it would get knocked
Speaker 1: down three games. I bet three fields realistic. You can
Speaker 1: still get a lot done in it, you know, saves
Speaker 1: a lot of pain. I'm the only one that wants
Speaker 1: it to go back to the seventies. I want six
Speaker 1: preseason games. That is hell. I remember back then that
Speaker 1: you would actually also play division rivals in the preseason,
Speaker 1: and it was it was a huge. It was a
Speaker 1: huge deal. I'll never forget the Jets Giants, Johnny Joe
Speaker 1: Namas said the Jets Giants preseason game after they wont
Speaker 1: Super Bowl, where he guaranteed the victory, he said, was
Speaker 1: a much bigger game, had much more attention, and he
Speaker 1: felt more pressure on it. That that was kind of
Speaker 1: the real and like it's the front cover of the
Speaker 1: New York Times and all this stuff. Like, I don't
Speaker 1: really it's hard to really wrap your mind around that
Speaker 1: right now. But that was the bigger deal. Uh, that's
Speaker 1: what's happening in the news, all right, folks. Let's talk
Speaker 1: a little preseason action. By the way, Mirk, I went
Speaker 1: to Disneyland with the family on Saturday. Um, and I
Speaker 1: have to say, you know how I had my radar
Speaker 1: up a little bit about the whole Star Wars thing. Well,
Speaker 1: I mean it's always you do, yes, yeah, but in
Speaker 1: general and the when I was worried about going back
Speaker 1: to the theme park in the Disney owned Star Wars era,
Speaker 1: they've delved into that. My worst fears are realized. When
Speaker 1: I went to tomorrow Land, it's basically a Star Wars
Speaker 1: exhibit within Disneyland. Everyone wearing the thirty shirts. There's like
Speaker 1: five different rides. It is no longer the Tomorrow Land
Speaker 1: that I remember as a child, which is one of
Speaker 1: the more magical aspects of that theme. Part well. Star
Speaker 1: Wars Attraction two quick points One Tomorrow Land. I went
Speaker 1: to it a couple of years ago before any of
Speaker 1: this stuff got dumped into it Tomorrow and it become
Speaker 1: a little bit of a disappointment because because it became like,
Speaker 1: here's what we thought space would look like in the future,
Speaker 1: back in like ninety eight, and it was they were
Speaker 1: you know, it looks like the mid eighties. It's ridiculous.
Speaker 1: But secondly, you know, when you spend multibillions of dollars
Speaker 1: on something, I'm not surprised that they're maxing out their investment.
Speaker 1: I'm sure. I mean a ton of money. You're you're
Speaker 1: fighting an uphill battle that you'd think they'd be extremely
Speaker 1: subtle on on this purchase and not make it clear
Speaker 1: that they owned Star Wars. I guess to your point,
Speaker 1: the I'm not even I've been there when you're born
Speaker 1: age thirty two standing up what Greg? To be fair
Speaker 1: to Greg, it doesn't click anything from Tomorrow. It looks
Speaker 1: like something from it's a whole, big part of the park,
Speaker 1: and it's kitchy at this point, but I kind of
Speaker 1: like that kitchy aspect of it. Now it's something different.
Speaker 1: That's I mean, Sydney, If I mean, I'm sure she's
Speaker 1: gonna be melting down when she hears this said un
Speaker 1: bow and arrow right to the heart of Disney Disneyland
Speaker 1: weeks ago, she says, she listens. Yeah, but shout out
Speaker 1: to Sydney, who did send me literally a one thousand
Speaker 1: word email explaining the best way to attack a Disneyland visit.
Speaker 1: And that shows once again why she's a one woman
Speaker 1: Mount Rushmore, and also that she is the number one
Speaker 1: Disney fan. And her war strategy was right dead on.
Speaker 1: Everything was perfect, right down to the corn dog recommendation.
Speaker 1: I'm not even a corn dog guy, best corn dog
Speaker 1: ever had. I don't even really know what a corn
Speaker 1: dog is. I've never had one. It's stupid. Okay, yeah,
Speaker 1: all right, let's move on to the preseason game. It's
Speaker 1: a hot dog dipped in uh her. I know what
Speaker 1: it is, but I've never had one. I'm surprised you
Speaker 1: don't know what a corn dog is. Hot take from
Speaker 1: Colleen there I've never Yeah, I don't. I don't know
Speaker 1: no more. I'm more of like if I go to
Speaker 1: a carnival or a fair, I'm more of a youthful
Speaker 1: corn dogs of youth. All right, Sorry, Greg, we didn't
Speaker 1: have those in Horseham. Oh yeah, yeah. Every once in
Speaker 1: a while, my mom will listens the poduct like you
Speaker 1: tell him you had a great child. I think to
Speaker 1: a moment would be quite in the front the entire
Speaker 1: campaign to suggest it feels like she's in the right
Speaker 1: on that one. All right, preseason games. So here we go.
Speaker 1: We're gonna go through twelve games before the show. We
Speaker 1: divvied up how we're going to go through them all.
Speaker 1: So Mark, we're gonna start with you. I'm just gonna
Speaker 1: go and Mark, now I'm going to realize that what
Speaker 1: I told you the order that we were going to
Speaker 1: go in is not actually necessarily going to be the order.
Speaker 1: I will Yeah, you know you have to jump to
Speaker 1: the line. You're gonna have to point out, say, watch
Speaker 1: the mic. Watch the mic, And we're gonna start with
Speaker 1: the Kansas City Chiefs and the Cincinnati Bengals. What he
Speaker 1: got biggest takeaway from by the way, let me set
Speaker 1: it up for a little better and we're not gonna
Speaker 1: get hung up on the games too much, although the
Speaker 1: results are important. Uh So one kind of big takeaway
Speaker 1: from each team involved in the game. All right, Mark,
Speaker 1: I don't know how you get out of this game
Speaker 1: without the big takeaway being, you know, following a very again,
Speaker 1: a very sturdy Alex Smith looked great. Patrick Mahomes in
Speaker 1: his second pro game to me, incredible progress even from
Speaker 1: his first preseason game, starting to do things and every
Speaker 1: possible way you could ask a quarterback with his feet,
Speaker 1: extending plays, looking off his first option, incredible arm strength,
Speaker 1: and not afraid to push the ball downfield. Greg, I
Speaker 1: think you put it well in your Winners and Losers,
Speaker 1: that the idea that Mahomes is a complete opposite to
Speaker 1: Alex Smith, that it's also helping Alex Smith, but the
Speaker 1: Chiefs are in great position at quarterback. I thought the
Speaker 1: same thing, because Alex Smith played very well again, and
Speaker 1: you wonder if not that he's he's a professional and
Speaker 1: he's always been a a sturdy, solid quarterback, that this
Speaker 1: doesn't help him, like having this real guy that's making
Speaker 1: plays in practice and pushing him in a way that
Speaker 1: insert bad Casey backup in past years didn't. Maybe it
Speaker 1: makes Smith a better quarterback and makes him at least
Speaker 1: a little more aggressive. I mean, he's had two really
Speaker 1: good drives. They have to feel so good that they
Speaker 1: have a twenty one year old that seems ahead of schedule.
Speaker 1: I mean, he's already has to be one of the
Speaker 1: best quarterbacks in football. Just at when a free rusher
Speaker 1: is coming after him that he can run away and
Speaker 1: just kind of make a play on the run, because
Speaker 1: that was the whole game. He had no protection and
Speaker 1: he was doing it. What about the Cincinnati side of
Speaker 1: the ball, Well, I wanted to see Joe Mixon and
Speaker 1: he was slowed down, you know, did not get a
Speaker 1: lot done as a runner, but a very if he
Speaker 1: had another screen pass, where again it took the fourth
Speaker 1: or fifth guy to get him on the ground. And
Speaker 1: I think that he's going to be such an incredible
Speaker 1: element to that Bengals passing game and they may need
Speaker 1: the a J. Green Andy Dalton connection, which Green dropped
Speaker 1: a couple of passes and things didn't go right, and
Speaker 1: it again it showed you that it often slows down
Speaker 1: when that action isn't perfect. Are you worried about it all.
Speaker 1: Not that concerned. I mean it's you know, I think
Speaker 1: they'll be fine'll be fine. I love cream Hunt so
Speaker 1: high on cream Hunt. He had the ball I think
Speaker 1: eleven times in their first place. He's there. Guy. Let's
Speaker 1: move on to Connie Fox, who's going to start us
Speaker 1: with the Saints and the Los Angeles Chargers. Let's talk football.
Speaker 1: Connie Alvin Kamara So okay. I mean he says Kamara.
Speaker 1: I think, well, his mom says Kamara and he says Kamara. Whatever.
Speaker 1: Either one works. Listen. He started the game with a
Speaker 1: huge splash play. He had a fifty yard touchdown run
Speaker 1: on the first play from scrimmage, a twenty yard catch.
Speaker 1: He's really versatile. He touched the ball six times at
Speaker 1: eight one scrimmage yards and he didn't even play the
Speaker 1: first the full first quarter, so he came out. He
Speaker 1: looks good. Uh. No Adrian Peterson or mark Ingram in
Speaker 1: the game. But Kamara is a star potentially, I think,
Speaker 1: so how does that work? I would say the guy
Speaker 1: is the real deal, and that the two established veterans.
Speaker 1: I guess it's a good problem to have. I mean,
Speaker 1: it's it's a great problems, the perfect kind of Sean
Speaker 1: Payton type running back. He he's talked about him as
Speaker 1: a game changing, offense changing type of players John Peyton
Speaker 1: and and that's what he's looking like. I think there's
Speaker 1: plenty of snaps to go around for the three of them.
Speaker 1: I think they got the they got the most versatile
Speaker 1: backfield in the league. Potentially. If Peterson can be Peterson,
Speaker 1: they're gonna, they're gonna, they gotta love. They gotta love
Speaker 1: this preseason. Yeah, and I think uh I was watching
Speaker 1: that on the Kamara touchdown run. Ryan ram Check through
Speaker 1: a really good block too, and he's kind of thrown
Speaker 1: into the fire right now. Rookie left tackle with Terran
Speaker 1: Armstead out, so he had an up and down game.
Speaker 1: But from the Chargers, I wrote way too many notes
Speaker 1: on the Charger side of things. The offensive line cannot
Speaker 1: catch a break, so their backup tackle broke his hand.
Speaker 1: You already have Russell Kong and Joe Barkston out with injuries,
Speaker 1: so I mean, I don't know. They actually made the
Speaker 1: Saints look like they had a pass rush. That's what
Speaker 1: the offensive line did in this game. Saints defense in
Speaker 1: general look solid in this game. Of course, you know
Speaker 1: Kellen Clemens is out there. That's what I can't stand
Speaker 1: about August football. It's hard to get an assessment about
Speaker 1: San Diego on offense with when your best players is
Speaker 1: not like, hey, l a StubHub center, here's here's seven
Speaker 1: quarters of Kellen Clemens. They I don't think they scored offensively?
Speaker 1: Did they in this game? I mean, here's no zero
Speaker 1: points from our offense run game whatsoever? The rookie doesman
Speaker 1: King looked good though, they'll be fine. I mean the
Speaker 1: Rivers didn't even play just a little concerned that I
Speaker 1: picked them in on on like August seven to go
Speaker 1: the super Bowl might have been a little audaious thank you,
Speaker 1: thank you Irish Times and you you promised this year
Speaker 1: you're gonna stick with that across all I will, and
Speaker 1: it will, and it's gonna be and it's gonna be
Speaker 1: something that people will copy and paste into like mentions
Speaker 1: to me. And you know what, bring it be the
Speaker 1: subject of like a bar stool article like NFL media,
Speaker 1: Bozo don't know nothing? Moving on, Um, let's talk out
Speaker 1: the cults and the Dallas Cowboys. You know who I'm
Speaker 1: interested in and you know and maybe you're listening to
Speaker 1: this pod. You might know this, You fella is probably
Speaker 1: no too. I love me some Dez Bryant always loved
Speaker 1: as I started to get worried last year during another
Speaker 1: kind of injury plague season that we might have seen
Speaker 1: the best of Dez. Uh and he could be a
Speaker 1: guy that goes into an earlier decline just because of
Speaker 1: how beat up he's been. Uh, maybe he does. But
Speaker 1: he looked really good in this game. Dak Prescott played
Speaker 1: some significant um, got some significant playing time. Dez made
Speaker 1: a really nice touchdown where he looked just like old
Speaker 1: Dez Bryant, So which is good. The other kind of
Speaker 1: takeaway I had on the Cowboys offenses, I think they're
Speaker 1: gonna be fine getting by with Darren McFadden, how you know,
Speaker 1: assuming he could stay on the field. I don't know
Speaker 1: about Al Morris as much, but ran well two weeks
Speaker 1: in around now. Yeah, McFadden. He looks like the guy
Speaker 1: that ran for eleven hundred yards two years ago. So
Speaker 1: I'm not gonna say he's gonna be the run DMC
Speaker 1: guy that everyone thought was gonna be superstar. But I
Speaker 1: think they're gonna be okay with him, and I think
Speaker 1: that's that's good. For the Cowboys because they're probably gonna
Speaker 1: need him for at least a month and a half potentially.
Speaker 1: One of the most telling things in this game was
Speaker 1: Dak Prescott telling the sideline reporter that Dez Bryant is
Speaker 1: a much better football player than he was a year
Speaker 1: ago at this time. Explain what did he explain? Oh?
Speaker 1: Talking about his health because he was not He was
Speaker 1: in an off season this year for the first Yeah,
Speaker 1: he was banged up last year. That was very public.
Speaker 1: He just didn't look himself. He was battling through injuries
Speaker 1: and now it's kind of the I'm in great shape,
Speaker 1: I'm healthy, disk I I. We talked about this on
Speaker 1: the last show. But this Cults team, it was painful
Speaker 1: to watch them. It's hard to assess how effective the
Speaker 1: Cowboys are again in this kind of a game when
Speaker 1: they're going up what might be the worst team in
Speaker 1: football minus l When Andrew Luxton in seventy yards to
Speaker 1: ten in the first quarter, when the starters are out there,
Speaker 1: Scott Tolzen is very it's hard to watch the average
Speaker 1: for five yards an attempt holes for McFadden. We're crazy,
Speaker 1: it was. It was it was sad to watch by
Speaker 1: the way, Frank Gore, Beware, he looked really good. I
Speaker 1: think he's that team. No, he's been getting hype for months.
Speaker 1: That team needs some juice, you know, Matt getting some
Speaker 1: playing time. It's not the end of the world. Frank
Speaker 1: gard doesn't need three carries at this stage, all right, Greg,
Speaker 1: moving on to Mr Rosedal, Greg, let's talk a little
Speaker 1: New England Houston. Tom Savage is where I'm gonna start,
Speaker 1: because he all but locked up the week one starting job.
Speaker 1: We got really excited about Deshaun Watson and his first
Speaker 1: preseason game. Tom Savage has had three straight really good drives,
Speaker 1: did did a little bit of everything, kind of deep throws,
Speaker 1: red zone look good. Deshaun Watson wasn't bad in this game,
Speaker 1: but he was up and down. He ended up being
Speaker 1: three of ten in the game, and it just cemented
Speaker 1: I think the decision that build O'Brien really is leaning towards,
Speaker 1: which is that Savage is the safer pick to start
Speaker 1: eventually Watson's team. But overall, by all accounts, Tom Savage
Speaker 1: has had a good training camp and he's played pretty
Speaker 1: well in the preseason. After a couple of bad drives
Speaker 1: in his first game, I've seen some good things from Watson,
Speaker 1: but but again, it's it's almost like the Broncos scenario.
Speaker 1: Unless someone completely were too outshine the guy that was
Speaker 1: in there last year, you got to start with Savage
Speaker 1: and he's just simply looked completely efficient, more efficient than
Speaker 1: than he expected. Had a great throw to Jalen Strong too.
Speaker 1: I mean he was out there without their top three receivers.
Speaker 1: How about Bruce Ellington, Right, he got cut by two
Speaker 1: different teams, including the Jets. Here telling me that Jets good, fantastic,
Speaker 1: But it's he made an impressive catch and a couple
Speaker 1: In fact, he joined the team and was starting within
Speaker 1: a week and was like their leading receiver making places
Speaker 1: is wild. Here's a really hot take. Mild take, mild
Speaker 1: take downgrade Jimmy Garoppolo and then Jimmy Garoppolo in the preseason. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and just in general, like it's yard we we just
Speaker 1: he never if you didn't know who he was and
Speaker 1: you just watched his preseason games from the last three
Speaker 1: years like that, does he really stand out? If you
Speaker 1: put him on the Browns at say they had traded
Speaker 1: him and he played the way in two starts for Cleveland,
Speaker 1: the way he has for New England, there would be concerns.
Speaker 1: I just I think it will be absolutely fine. But
Speaker 1: he's had some turnovers and made some great throws too.
Speaker 1: I had some great plays, but he's just been kind
Speaker 1: of up and down. Um. But then' and you know,
Speaker 1: in addition to that, bigger problems because Deonta Foreman's four
Speaker 1: yard run UM with eleven minutes to play in the
Speaker 1: fourth quarter was the difference. Is the Houston Texans three
Speaker 1: win come back? Uh for Houston, improving him to one
Speaker 1: on one big home win really gets the monkey off
Speaker 1: their back with the Patriots and the Varsity jack and
Speaker 1: the playoff loss, all that has gone. And you know
Speaker 1: it's hard to hit that panic button because the defending
Speaker 1: chaps oh and two when the most completely almost mathematically
Speaker 1: eliminated from any opportunity of winning going back to back
Speaker 1: based on I judge the preseason as a title. So
Speaker 1: if you can't do that, there's no repeat. Even with
Speaker 1: Rex burkehead like the most Patriots player ever, looking like
Speaker 1: he's going to explode, it's very yeah, not a surprise,
Speaker 1: incredibly tedious development in New English. Right, let's go around
Speaker 1: the horn again here, Mark a little green Bay Washington cheddah, I,
Speaker 1: I don't know if if if you want to just
Speaker 1: look at the preseason and say nothing matters, just get
Speaker 1: us to week one and that that there's a fair
Speaker 1: argument there. But the Redskins offense, it has been an
Speaker 1: absolute disaster. It looks better than it than it should
Speaker 1: because of one drive right Beyoard before halftime. They kept
Speaker 1: Cousins in until right before half because of what happened
Speaker 1: before and interesting in itself it is, and and also
Speaker 1: mean the look on j Grade and Jake Rudin's face
Speaker 1: said at all. I mean it was it was one
Speaker 1: uh punt after the next. They couldn't move at all.
Speaker 1: They had a drive that just simply ended on downs
Speaker 1: because they couldn't convert a short run. Kirk Cousins completely
Speaker 1: not on the same page with guys like Terrell Prior
Speaker 1: and I really making some interesting decisions that Kirk Cousin
Speaker 1: chum about Jimmy Garoppolo not having a preseason you think
Speaker 1: he would have. Kirk Cousins has looked very problematic so far,
Speaker 1: and that Ravens game wasn't was an abject disaster and
Speaker 1: this did not get them any farther along I'd be
Speaker 1: really concernedified. I think number one, number one, you're playing
Speaker 1: deep into the first half. You want to see them
Speaker 1: start to destroy the opposition that are putting on a
Speaker 1: bunch of ham and eggers and they are not moving
Speaker 1: the ball at all. Alright, what about Birthday? Green Bay?
Speaker 1: I mean green Bay, I don't know what it's. Here's
Speaker 1: the thing, green Bay is what you want to see
Speaker 1: from any team. They Aaron Rodgers in the offense went
Speaker 1: right down the field, shredded Washington and looked like they
Speaker 1: had been, you know, shot from a portal in mid November.
Speaker 1: They looked absolutely warmed up and ready to go. And
Speaker 1: their defense again, I I don't know what to tell you.
Speaker 1: I mean, if anything happens to Aaron Rodgers, Brett Hunley
Speaker 1: looked good too, So the Packers were fine, No concerns
Speaker 1: Washington two and fourteen. I don't think it's anywhere near
Speaker 1: that dired. This is a guy, the amount of money
Speaker 1: that Kirk Cousins has made from the Redskins, I I
Speaker 1: don't like to see what I saw, and a little
Speaker 1: bit of a similar vibe last August and going into
Speaker 1: the week. That's why everyone panics so much in that
Speaker 1: week one game against Pittsburgh, right, so that that might
Speaker 1: be part of it. But when it does combine with
Speaker 1: a lot of reports otta Washington that the offense has
Speaker 1: struggled throughout camp, that the defense has kind of been
Speaker 1: dominating them, then then you do start and they called
Speaker 1: it a soft camp where it just you know, I
Speaker 1: don't know, you've you brought up questionable play calls. I
Speaker 1: actually found this team when they were last season and
Speaker 1: the year before. When they're when they're moving and they're
Speaker 1: looking good, they're very interesting to watch. I I actually
Speaker 1: they won me over last season. I don't think they're
Speaker 1: doing the opposite right now. Um, you mentioned suspect play calls.
Speaker 1: My favorite suspect play called the entire week was Houston
Speaker 1: Texans in the first quoter against the Patriots. A third
Speaker 1: and six from the eight yard line, fourth and six
Speaker 1: from the eight yard line, knocking on the door, a
Speaker 1: little a little half back draw for two yards and someone.
Speaker 1: It was almost like Bill O'Brien was trying to like
Speaker 1: make Bill proud of him and be like, Hey, Bill,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna give about these games. Either we're cool like that,
Speaker 1: you and me, we're both like basically the same coach.
Speaker 1: As you guys pointed out, the Patriots didn't even celebrate.
Speaker 1: I thought they were. They were just kind of biled
Speaker 1: by the Tony was on the field. Literally he like
Speaker 1: shrugged his shoulders, like alright, moving on, Connie Fox, the
Speaker 1: dob Bears came up with that, and the Arizona Cardinals,
Speaker 1: good job by you. That's amazing. Um. From the Cardinal
Speaker 1: side of things, Tyron Matthew, he looks like he's back
Speaker 1: to being a nightmare. Back to back games. We've seen
Speaker 1: him play like this after he just never really looked
Speaker 1: like himself. He shut down Kevin White on the first
Speaker 1: series and then the best play of the entire game
Speaker 1: for him, he intercepted Mike Glennon and then had it
Speaker 1: back about fifty yards I know, so that set up
Speaker 1: the cardinals only touchdown of the first half. But he's
Speaker 1: so fast and when he was playing, I guess it
Speaker 1: was two years ago. He was playing so well and
Speaker 1: that's when he got hurt. We were talking about it, um,
Speaker 1: I think a couple of days ago. Yeah, So it
Speaker 1: looks like he's back to that level at this point,
Speaker 1: and it's only the priest. That's great because especially after
Speaker 1: the second serious knee injury. Then you start to be
Speaker 1: worried will he ever get back to it? And he
Speaker 1: had it down yea, yeah, so there's that. Um, do
Speaker 1: you want to flip it over to the Bears? Okay,
Speaker 1: I'm not gonna go Aguaya or Glennan or Drabinski here. Okay,
Speaker 1: I'm buying stock and Tarik Cohen because he looked really good.
Speaker 1: He looked so good that Bruce arians was really piste
Speaker 1: at his run defense for looking the way that they did.
Speaker 1: Cohen came out and broke off runs of sixteen, sixteen,
Speaker 1: and nine totally seventy seven yards and um, the only
Speaker 1: good play was the Robert him DJ tackle. But it's
Speaker 1: a tough spot, I think for uh, for Cohen because
Speaker 1: he looks good. But he's sitting behind Jordan Howard. But
Speaker 1: he's what's a little different than Jordan Howard's very wiggly,
Speaker 1: and I mean they're gonna need all the He really
Speaker 1: is like he would like he sort of slipping through people.
Speaker 1: It was just fun to watch. I thought, I mean,
Speaker 1: five six guy with the last name Cohen. Yeah, it's
Speaker 1: like I would have expected he was like an O
Speaker 1: C character or something like that, not a rotting back
Speaker 1: for the Bears. I'm always a little surprised because you
Speaker 1: were definitely plugged in on OC a little bit more
Speaker 1: than I would have thought Greg would be. I would
Speaker 1: reference SoC every like, you know, three and a half
Speaker 1: months or so. I feel like it comes in on
Speaker 1: OC Beverly Hills nine at two, and I like the
Speaker 1: whole thing, the reboot of nine two oh. No, I
Speaker 1: don't that. By then I was an adult, and I
Speaker 1: don't know you'd I didn't really watch any any of
Speaker 1: the nine o two and oh stuff from Melrose Place,
Speaker 1: but I did. I was into Dawson's Creek initially. It's
Speaker 1: a little embarrassing. I was a big, big, early period
Speaker 1: Buffy the Vampire Slayer fan, like me and my loser
Speaker 1: friends um that had no girlfriends. We were like way
Speaker 1: into Sarah Michelle Geller as like the Star to track
Speaker 1: into the New Millennium didn't quite work out that way,
Speaker 1: But that that show is very good early on. People
Speaker 1: forget with nine O two one oh that it started
Speaker 1: as a family show. I was young enough for I
Speaker 1: would watch it with my parents when it would air,
Speaker 1: and then over the course of a couple of seasons
Speaker 1: it turned into this, you know, outrageous soap opera. I
Speaker 1: guess this would be suddenly like, yeah, it gets dark
Speaker 1: and you're sitting next to mom and dad while they're
Speaker 1: just getting like bombed and drunk driving, and I think
Speaker 1: I was just watching Saved by the Bell at this
Speaker 1: point whole Yeah, Um, I guess I'll just share the
Speaker 1: story real quick since Sarah Michelle Gellar came up. But um,
Speaker 1: we had a friend of ours. I will not use
Speaker 1: his name, but he he was looking for a prompt
Speaker 1: date right around this time for the and your prom
Speaker 1: and uh, we told him he should write a actual
Speaker 1: letter to Sarah Michelle Geller and mail it and see
Speaker 1: if one of those things happens where it's like Paris
Speaker 1: Hilton showed up to them, like maybe it would happen
Speaker 1: for uh that so he as a joke. He didn't
Speaker 1: take it seriously, but what he did instead was um
Speaker 1: because he kind of had like a kind of a
Speaker 1: nerdy sensibility but a good sense of humor. A couple
Speaker 1: of days later, he's like, hey, guys, I wrote that letter.
Speaker 1: And he wrote the most profane, like perverted letter possible,
Speaker 1: like really something that like the last thing you would
Speaker 1: ever send out and just try to make us laugh.
Speaker 1: So we we thought it was was funny and forgot about it.
Speaker 1: And then like a couple of weeks later, he's like, hey, guys,
Speaker 1: my my mom the letter in the room and uh
Speaker 1: and she she just she I came home from school
Speaker 1: and she was just sitting in the kitchen with the letter.
Speaker 1: What is this And then like, you don't understand it
Speaker 1: was a joke. That didn't just revealed his his you
Speaker 1: revealed his name. Okay that And then her response was
Speaker 1: in this how to be crushing. She's like, you really
Speaker 1: need to get a girlfriend. And she dropped the letter
Speaker 1: and looked up. That's so embarrassing. I was convinced that
Speaker 1: was Jason Sumwald until you dropped someone else. I thought
Speaker 1: it was Bob. No, not Bob either. Um, so there's
Speaker 1: my Sara Michelle Geller story. Uh, Mike Glenn and thrilled
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Speaker 1: York Jets. Let's talk about the Jets and um the
Speaker 1: Detroit Lions game, and I guess we gotta start with Yah,
Speaker 1: let's start with the Jets and Christian Hackenburg. Uh, as
Speaker 1: much he got kind of reserved uh positive reviews off
Speaker 1: last week, all that kind of went away. Uh in
Speaker 1: the game on Saturday, he was pretty terrible. Um. He
Speaker 1: doesn't have a lot of help. And that's the big
Speaker 1: problem with the entire thing, because the offensive line is
Speaker 1: not settled at all. They has no playmakers. But he
Speaker 1: does not look functional at this point. And this quarterback
Speaker 1: competition is as over as the Denver one, even if
Speaker 1: Bowls is gonna wait another week before he announces it. Um,
Speaker 1: just to give you a little bit of perspective, how
Speaker 1: bad they've been with Hackenburg on the field, That just
Speaker 1: gonna be bad with whoever's on the field. By the way,
Speaker 1: but zero points in thirteen possessions against the lines not
Speaker 1: not the eighty five Bears. They have some nice players,
Speaker 1: but they're not the eighty five Bears. Two first downs
Speaker 1: in forty seven yards in the entire half. He was
Speaker 1: a surprise starter before the game. After the game, Hackenburg
Speaker 1: because they took away what they did was the line
Speaker 1: sat up and took away all the short stuff That
Speaker 1: worked for Hackenburg when he got some positive reviews last week,
Speaker 1: and then once that happened, it was all over and
Speaker 1: Hackenburg had nowhere to go. He took a couple of
Speaker 1: savage hits. After the game, Hackenburgh said he watched tape
Speaker 1: that he believed the Lions watched tape and that's how
Speaker 1: they came up with the game plan. And then somebody
Speaker 1: in the lines that said, we didn't watch anything, not
Speaker 1: watching a second and save for these pre games. Uh
Speaker 1: so the gally the Jets are in deep, deep trouble.
Speaker 1: You know that. But uh yeah, and then uh, he
Speaker 1: fumbled on his first pass attempt. Like you you should
Speaker 1: have known it was going to be bad. He took
Speaker 1: the worst sack of the weekend too. I thought I
Speaker 1: was surprised to see him get it was it showed
Speaker 1: some toughness. He kept playing. But some people thought that
Speaker 1: that's on him to kind of identify there's more rushers
Speaker 1: than there were six rushers. Well, it wasn't his blind side.
Speaker 1: I mean he was coming right out of here. He
Speaker 1: had eight plays where he went back to pass. Those
Speaker 1: they plays created zero yards total. He's a total of
Speaker 1: zero yards and and a couple of his passes were
Speaker 1: just way off it's the plunk, yeah, and the idea that, oh,
Speaker 1: you know, they're gonna need to get a good long
Speaker 1: look at him at some point this season. No, you don't, wait.
Speaker 1: I I think they they should get a good long look.
Speaker 1: I think it made sense what they did in the
Speaker 1: second preseason game. They should do it again for the
Speaker 1: fourth preseason game. I think after that you can make
Speaker 1: an evaluation where I don't know, like, I don't think
Speaker 1: his roster spot should necessarily be guaranteed just because you
Speaker 1: took him in the second round. If you're confident enough
Speaker 1: in your valuation, this guy is never going to be
Speaker 1: a guy. Yeah, But if the season is one big evaluation,
Speaker 1: what's what's gonna hurt? Like giving him a couple of
Speaker 1: starts and then maybe if he bombs out, then then
Speaker 1: you have what else do you have to see if
Speaker 1: you get enough looks at him. I just saying I
Speaker 1: think at this point, you know, they were able to
Speaker 1: hide behind the excuse last year that he was in
Speaker 1: bubble wrap. He's now out of bubble wrapper a year later,
Speaker 1: and they're still saying he's like a rookie and all
Speaker 1: this stuff. No, I mean, at this point, if he
Speaker 1: doesn't show something soon. I agree, And as someone who
Speaker 1: a month ago I thought they should have just started
Speaker 1: him to begin the season, it's clear now that he
Speaker 1: is not close to being ready, and you just you're
Speaker 1: doing a service to nobody at that point and quickly
Speaker 1: it's not my I don't know what to take away
Speaker 1: from this game from the Detroit side because the deep
Speaker 1: maybe a little humble pie showing up for training camp
Speaker 1: late didn't really hurt them. Maybe that's coming out with
Speaker 1: But at the same time, it's like a couple of things.
Speaker 1: How can we make any judgment at the Lions defense
Speaker 1: when they're against the Jets. Uh, That's that's my only point.
Speaker 1: They look good but whatever, um yeah, Jake Roddick, even
Speaker 1: then they might be okay. See look um as a backup.
Speaker 1: And my other point, I don't want to be negative
Speaker 1: about the Lions. But Jim Caldwell, you know, over in
Speaker 1: Tennessee a franchise on the rise, Mike Malarkey, what does
Speaker 1: he do? He says, Hey, guys, let's reschedule practice, let's
Speaker 1: look at the eclipse together. What do you think our friend, Mr?
Speaker 1: You know, I don't blink. Jim Caldwell did. What His
Speaker 1: response Jim. He not only had practice during the eclipse today,
Speaker 1: he moved it indoors because he worried that because of
Speaker 1: the eclipse it might be hard to see well, especially
Speaker 1: if he doesn't blink. This is a major solar event.
Speaker 1: And guess what, it's essentially he's the best, Like the
Speaker 1: kids were the evil classmates in all summer in the day,
Speaker 1: in a day, that's what Jim Caldall did to the
Speaker 1: entire lines roster. Put him under a bubble. Mike Zimmer did.
Speaker 1: That's Mike Zimmer did the same thing. But he he
Speaker 1: said legitimate medical reasons. He's only got one eye. He
Speaker 1: doesn't want to ruin. That works well, he doesn't want
Speaker 1: to ruin. That brought him inside. All right, that's true.
Speaker 1: Let's move on, Greg, you are up, so let's talk
Speaker 1: a little and get my paperwork together. The Rams and
Speaker 1: the Raiders, Jared Goff is coming off the most positive
Speaker 1: performance of his career. It's only preseason, but he hasn't
Speaker 1: had a lot of things to make the Home Crown excited.
Speaker 1: And if I was a Rams fan, I would feel
Speaker 1: very good just that he looked competent. Okay, so we
Speaker 1: looked for Paxton Lynch just didn't look competent, like there
Speaker 1: was no growth here. Here's Jared goff in a new
Speaker 1: offense who was making good decisions, who was kind of
Speaker 1: going through his reads a lot of checkdowns, but ultimately
Speaker 1: made really smart decisions all night and had a couple
Speaker 1: of really nice throws and move the ball. They had
Speaker 1: seventeen points in the half, fourteen uh points in the
Speaker 1: first quarter, and you'd start to think, okay, like maybe
Speaker 1: Sean McVeigh can bring golf up to a level where
Speaker 1: he's a solid starter this year. Absolutely agree. Two things
Speaker 1: happened when golf suddenly looked competent. It opened up Todd
Speaker 1: Gurley's action on the ground. Need a couple of nice
Speaker 1: runs to the to the far side of the field,
Speaker 1: got yardage, and you have an offense. The Rams for
Speaker 1: years could not develop wide receivers, hurting every quarterback that
Speaker 1: they had in there. You now suddenly in this you
Speaker 1: did not have this ten day as we have Sammy
Speaker 1: Watkins to go with a with Cooper Cooper cuper Cup
Speaker 1: who absolutely looked like he fit in like a like
Speaker 1: an experience veteran in that attack. Cooper Cup has a
Speaker 1: decent chance to be their number one receiver. I think
Speaker 1: over Sammy Watkins. I know it's crazy because just in
Speaker 1: terms of the amount of receptions that he gets, he
Speaker 1: he has his hype, in terms of the team around him,
Speaker 1: and just what he's shown on the practice field and
Speaker 1: now in both PRESECS games has been I would say
Speaker 1: right there, with any rookie in the entire league, there's
Speaker 1: a third round slot receiver. I would be surprised if
Speaker 1: he doesn't catch sixties seventy past. Let Sneed could use
Speaker 1: a hit in the middle of the rounds. Well, I
Speaker 1: talked to let Sneed in the off season and yeah,
Speaker 1: and uh, he was so high on Cooper Cup and
Speaker 1: I was kind of thinking to myself, like, all right,
Speaker 1: is he just is he just really pumping him up
Speaker 1: right now because he's on the rams And now I'm
Speaker 1: like seeing all of the things that he said about
Speaker 1: him are true, which is kind of it's kind of weird.
Speaker 1: I don't know if I trust it yet. Yeah, well,
Speaker 1: it's more evidence that at least for me, I'm gonna
Speaker 1: look at Jared Goff like reset button, because now it
Speaker 1: seems like he has some players, has a coaching staff,
Speaker 1: and he's showing signs of growth. Now let's see what happens.
Speaker 1: Same thing with Todd Gurley. I'm excited to see what
Speaker 1: the rams look like. Anything from the Oakland side Greg there.
Speaker 1: I really didn't have a big take away other than
Speaker 1: I was concerned about their defense on paper going into
Speaker 1: the training camp and from what I've read in training camp,
Speaker 1: and they certainly didn't make me feel any better about
Speaker 1: him in this game. I I don't know how you
Speaker 1: you know, everyone sort of tickets them to get back
Speaker 1: to twelve and four. With what we've seen from their
Speaker 1: defense so far, it's it's I'm not gonna take that
Speaker 1: judgment off a preseason, but there are problems. Last time
Speaker 1: around the horn mark a little Falcons Steelers, what a showdown.
Speaker 1: My takeaway for this game was that a lot of
Speaker 1: times when we would bring up the Falcons, beyond just
Speaker 1: the Super Bowl hangover scenario, was the absence of Kyle
Speaker 1: Shanahan replaced by Steve Sarkisi and who's never called an
Speaker 1: NFL game. I have harped on that a bunch After
Speaker 1: two after seeing what the starters and even even you know,
Speaker 1: the waves of players after the starting offense have done,
Speaker 1: I couldn't be more impressed with the Falcons. They look
Speaker 1: like they're picking up right where they left off from
Speaker 1: last year on offense, and it has the same feel
Speaker 1: as last year's offense. The flow of action, the way
Speaker 1: that plays are being called is very similar to the
Speaker 1: last season so far, and I think that it tells
Speaker 1: you potentially because this is a defense on the rise
Speaker 1: to that the Falcons are. You know, this is continuity
Speaker 1: where you really really needed it. Well, how do you
Speaker 1: playing them mark their own two records start the season
Speaker 1: because everything about that that's it stinks like a Super
Speaker 1: Bowl letdown. Yeah, in the prism of how we're assessing
Speaker 1: how you're assessing the preseason, that's a very fair concern.
Speaker 1: But they shredded Pittsburgh's defense over the first twenty minutes
Speaker 1: or something. There. I don't put much. There's such a
Speaker 1: veteran team that like their offense. I I almost don't
Speaker 1: even want to watch it this preseason just because I've
Speaker 1: seen all those guys before. Let's see what they you know,
Speaker 1: let's see what they do in the regular season. What
Speaker 1: about the Pittsburgh Steelers Mark, I guess you have to
Speaker 1: let you have to look at James Conner, who you know,
Speaker 1: we've waited to see him, and he he was good.
Speaker 1: I I don't put him in the same place I
Speaker 1: would with with Mixing or or Cook on the on
Speaker 1: the vikings, but he's he's he gives them they didn't
Speaker 1: have a clear cut backup um and he's someone that
Speaker 1: if Levian Bell for some reason did not start the season,
Speaker 1: that would be a disaster. He gives you another body
Speaker 1: back there. Bell's usage was also off the charts last
Speaker 1: year once he finally came back from suspension. So if
Speaker 1: this guy actually can play beyond just being a fan
Speaker 1: favorite and a great story, that would be very good.
Speaker 1: One other quick thing Josh Dobbs. Josh Dobbs. At one point,
Speaker 1: I mean he's had it rough two weeks. He's scrambling
Speaker 1: to his you know, towards the sideline and just simply
Speaker 1: drops the ball. There's a lot of things happening where
Speaker 1: if there's anything that happens to be Big Ben and
Speaker 1: it goes to Josh Dobbs, you got problems, Colleen, A
Speaker 1: little Caroline a Tennessee talk. Okay, So Marcus Mariota, he
Speaker 1: looks better than ever. And of course that's something that
Speaker 1: is said a lot in the preseason. It's thrown around
Speaker 1: X player. Yeah, it looks better than ever, but his
Speaker 1: leg doesn't appear to hinder him at all. He was
Speaker 1: sprinting around on the second play of the game, and
Speaker 1: I think his passes look even prettier and better executed
Speaker 1: than they did last year. So it looks like he's
Speaker 1: actually taken a step in the off season. He's not
Speaker 1: only rehabbed, but I think his mechanics are better too.
Speaker 1: Kind of like Savage, he's playing without most of his
Speaker 1: best receivers weren't even out there, and yeah, he's still
Speaker 1: dialing up plays to like Taiwan Taylor. That's who week
Speaker 1: one might be a bigger factor than Corey Davis, who
Speaker 1: is their top five overall pick. And we'll see if
Speaker 1: Corey Davis gets back on the field. But yeah, he's
Speaker 1: a guy coming from a small college's barely practiced as
Speaker 1: a pro, whereas Taylor has been on the field. Seems
Speaker 1: like a part of that often Greg's boy Derrick Henry
Speaker 1: after on the last show, you said maybe he would
Speaker 1: eclipse Marco Martial partial eclipse. They are trusting him to
Speaker 1: do a lot. You gave up on that. I thought
Speaker 1: you're only partially finishing the bit to reference partial acclut. Now,
Speaker 1: you gotta be very careful. When I was a figure skater,
Speaker 1: I did a routine to that song. Really is it?
Speaker 1: Do we have footage of it anywhere? I hope not?
Speaker 1: I don't think can you dig it up for a
Speaker 1: Wednesday show? Definitely not the idea where the shot. Let's
Speaker 1: move on and talk Wait Panthers, Oh sorry? Oh hey? Um.
Speaker 1: My opinion of Colleen's on like four team shows now
Speaker 1: so she can just like fire off. My opinion of
Speaker 1: Christian McCaffrey just keeps getting better and better. He has
Speaker 1: amazing big playability. He had a really nice seventeen yard
Speaker 1: touchdown run um and he also was in there catching
Speaker 1: screen passes. He finished as the team's third leading receiver,
Speaker 1: So he's super versatile and obviously they're going to use
Speaker 1: him a ton coming up. In this thirty eight yards
Speaker 1: screen pass he had, I you're gonna be seeing this
Speaker 1: all season? Yeah, it's I It's it's another thing where
Speaker 1: you're like, wait, why did how did this guy not
Speaker 1: land on a team I would rather see succeed more
Speaker 1: than the Panthers, namely mine. Okay, so he's he could
Speaker 1: have been on your team. And now I just I
Speaker 1: just it just it's it's uh, he's he's going to
Speaker 1: be Rookie of the Year type candidate. Places. I remember
Speaker 1: at the combine, after he was finished with all of
Speaker 1: the running back drills, they then put him through a
Speaker 1: bunch of different receiver drills too, and he was the
Speaker 1: only one I think that day that they did it
Speaker 1: with and he was puzzling everybody. Well, people said he
Speaker 1: had the best combine they had ever seen. So good
Speaker 1: job Colleen to stick up. Yeah, I apologize college like
Speaker 1: your apologie. I want to make my point, Dan, Can
Speaker 1: I share? Can I share the new like world here
Speaker 1: at NFL Media? I don't know. I don't think I
Speaker 1: can't share it. I don't think so, not yet. Yeah,
Speaker 1: Colleen is the new play by play host for third time.
Speaker 1: Can you imagine she's replacing who? Is that even serious? Yeah? No,
Speaker 1: that's not serious. Yeah. I can't say. I'm not allowed
Speaker 1: to say, but Colleen is very popular around you know him.
Speaker 1: Not It's fine. I believe it's contrast contrast to the
Speaker 1: rest of the nance, at least most of the stop.
Speaker 1: All right, now, I will share my final thoughts on
Speaker 1: the Seattle Seahawks in the Minnesota Vikings um Russell Wilson.
Speaker 1: First of all, there was a big injury in this game.
Speaker 1: They lost their left tackle the Seahawks, George Fan uh
Speaker 1: and it looks like he's done for a year. And
Speaker 1: they had a third round pick going in for him
Speaker 1: after the injury. And I don't know if that's the
Speaker 1: maybe the last thing the Seahawks needed after a season
Speaker 1: in which Russell Wilson was banged up. You're losing your
Speaker 1: left tackle halfway through August is terrible news. So we'll
Speaker 1: see if they're able to find a way to uh
Speaker 1: fix that situation. You've got a little breaking news here
Speaker 1: related to this. Seattle Seahawks have acquired tackle slash guard
Speaker 1: Matt Tobin from the Eagle Toby and the seventh round
Speaker 1: pick in exchange for a fifth round pick. He is
Speaker 1: expected to compete. He probably will still be a backup.
Speaker 1: I think they have this, uh younger guy whose name
Speaker 1: I can't quite pronounced. Well, they have it's rees Odi Umbo,
Speaker 1: good pronunciation mark. I liked it. Uh luke jokel um.
Speaker 1: There's a possibility too, I guess, I don't know. Not
Speaker 1: inspiring sounded like Monday, they wanted to leave him at guard, yeah,
Speaker 1: and try someone else at But the point I was
Speaker 1: gonna make is if they if they figure this out, good.
Speaker 1: But Russell Wilson looks so great that he's so fluid,
Speaker 1: and he's really fun to watch Wilson, and you kinda
Speaker 1: you forget how he was basically the best quarterback in
Speaker 1: the league at the end of the season and then
Speaker 1: he got all jacked up last season and the offense
Speaker 1: had some issues. Um, I wouldn't be surprised if he's
Speaker 1: an m v P guy this year. You know what?
Speaker 1: To me? He looked and and there was in the
Speaker 1: debt of July, I wrote some article about how he
Speaker 1: went on this entire diet. He lost his ship I
Speaker 1: think twelve to fifteen pounds or something good about that.
Speaker 1: He looks like a guy that is completely trimmed down.
Speaker 1: He's got his speedback, He's fully healthy. I couldn't agree
Speaker 1: more with your point. Um Uh the uh one quick
Speaker 1: Minnesota point and then I'll close with the Seattle point.
Speaker 1: Dalvin Cook look really good again. Seven carries for forty yards.
Speaker 1: It looks like Minnesota hit on something there. Uh and
Speaker 1: there transition away from a p and then on the
Speaker 1: other side of the ball and running back. Uh. I
Speaker 1: don't know about the Eddie Lacey thing, and this could
Speaker 1: be a problem for the beach body umpire because I
Speaker 1: don't know about his body, how it's looking. Well, he's
Speaker 1: he's not out of shape, He's just I don't think
Speaker 1: he's He's not, say the guy that they are looking
Speaker 1: forward to start necessarily, they keep putting other people in
Speaker 1: there ahead of him. Yeah, he definitely there. They have
Speaker 1: another option, their seventh round pick, Chris Carson, who ran
Speaker 1: better than him and basically he looks good. Lacy looks
Speaker 1: potentially redundant in this offense, So I don't know, is
Speaker 1: it possible he's a surprise cut. Well, we'll have to
Speaker 1: see how it all plays out, but I'm sure other
Speaker 1: than that, though the offense looks great. Uh, Eddie Lacy
Speaker 1: maybe not so much. I never know how to take
Speaker 1: what to take from these Seahawks preseason games. You can
Speaker 1: set your clock to it that every year the Seahawks
Speaker 1: are just gonna mash teams in the preseason. That they
Speaker 1: just come out and they play so hard and they're
Speaker 1: like like they're so excited when they make a stop
Speaker 1: and they just destroy teams year after years. One last thing,
Speaker 1: shout out to the twelves. I have to say, because
Speaker 1: in the clink that was legitimately like a regular season crowd.
Speaker 1: They're screaming their heads off during this game and it's
Speaker 1: like it is week two of the preseason and they're
Speaker 1: acting like it's the NFC championship games. So shout out
Speaker 1: for the twelves. I think there maybe they love the
Speaker 1: preseason as much as I do. I think they see
Speaker 1: it the way you see it, super hyper passionate about
Speaker 1: the team, no matter what. Greg closes out with a
Speaker 1: little Denver, San Francisco. We already talked the quarterback on
Speaker 1: the Broncos, but I'm interested in their running back situation.
Speaker 1: Jamal Charles didn't play for a second straight week, and
Speaker 1: you wonder he's gonna play in the third preseason game.
Speaker 1: But D'Angelo Henderson, who is a rookie that in theory
Speaker 1: would have a similar role to the one you imagine
Speaker 1: Charles playing as kind of a third down backup change
Speaker 1: of pace. He's a factor. He looks good and he's healthy,
Speaker 1: and I think he's gonna make it tougher for Jamal
Speaker 1: Charles to make this team, because Henderson looks like a
Speaker 1: guy that's gonna be someone you want to get the
Speaker 1: ball behind Anderson once the regular season starts. I mean,
Speaker 1: they've I think with Jamal Charles, like he probably had
Speaker 1: to come in and wow these guys too. Maybe Will
Speaker 1: Maybe he'll come out next week and we don't know
Speaker 1: enough about it and he'll look great too. But he
Speaker 1: he hasn't been healthy, and so I think Henderson's gonna
Speaker 1: make some noise anything else. For the forty Niners, I've
Speaker 1: liked what I've seen out of their two rookie defenders.
Speaker 1: I'm not gonna I don't put too much into the
Speaker 1: fact that they didn't move the ball at all against
Speaker 1: the Broncoes. I don't know. Like Brian Hoyer supposedly has
Speaker 1: looked good throughout camp, he looked okay in the first
Speaker 1: preseason week. I'm I'm willing to just throw it up
Speaker 1: the probably Howyers he's gonna do two things a game,
Speaker 1: if not more, but at least two to kill you
Speaker 1: and he and he did that in this game, and
Speaker 1: I'm I agree with you. Kyl Shanahan likes to kind
Speaker 1: of unveil things when they when Week one begins, but
Speaker 1: they had ten yards rushing over the first minutes that started.
Speaker 1: It's the second game in a row where the ground
Speaker 1: ground game under Shanahan typically you see it, you see
Speaker 1: the difference, and we've not seen it. And they're trying
Speaker 1: to figure out who who's even going to get the
Speaker 1: ball behind Carlos side. There's a lot of options of
Speaker 1: you haven't really settled on who's going to be the backup?
Speaker 1: Very good, All right there, it is week two of
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