Speaker 1: The Around the NFL Podcast still doesn't know who John Gonzalez.
Speaker 1: Welcome back to another edition of the Around the NFL Podcast,
Speaker 1: presented by Marone Headed Shoulders. My name is Dan Hansers,
Speaker 1: and I'm joined by a room filled with heroes, Mark Sessler,
Speaker 1: Connie Fox, and Gregg Rosell. What's up, people, Hey, hey, Dan,
Speaker 1: finally getting that hair sponsorship he's been angling for, not
Speaker 1: the one he expected. We're going. Yeah. I love me
Speaker 1: some headed Shoulders. It's like I got some in the
Speaker 1: shower right now. Same here. You use it periodically, I
Speaker 1: think John Gonzali Gonzalez does too. So like John Gonzalez,
Speaker 1: an American sports writer, was NFL media broadcaster Colley Wolf.
Speaker 1: John was by us resides in Los Angeles with his
Speaker 1: wife and two dollars six years with him. I have
Speaker 1: to tell you, by the way, congratulations your wedding anniversary yesterday.
Speaker 1: You did it. Yeah, a chappy anniversary to me. Nice congratulations.
Speaker 1: I'm really like alright, sorry, back to the show. All right,
Speaker 1: So Colleens sixth anniversary happened, But also happening this week
Speaker 1: is the start of the NFL regular season. Rejoice. The
Speaker 1: season is upon us, and you know what. We're so
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Speaker 1: Loose Cannon l See, let's do some news. Let's start
Speaker 1: with a little more hurricane talk. Oh my god, we're
Speaker 1: still talking about hurricanes. Terrible stuff obviously, um going on
Speaker 1: with Hurricane Harvey down Texas and the Gulf Coast. Gulf Coast,
Speaker 1: there is another issue now. Hurricane irma awful name, is
Speaker 1: barreling towards Florida picking up steam UH and it is
Speaker 1: trending as a dangerous category five hurricane wins increasing to
Speaker 1: a hundred and seventy five miles per hour. From a
Speaker 1: football standpoint, um, this is creating trouble for the NFL
Speaker 1: in terms of scheduling because the Miami Dolphins and Tampa
Speaker 1: Bay Buccaneers are scheduled to play in South Florida on
Speaker 1: Sunday afternoon a one pm kickoff, and UH NFL Network
Speaker 1: inside Ian Rappaport reported that the NFL and local officials
Speaker 1: continue to monitor the hurricane UH and it could lead
Speaker 1: to a situation where they need to change the site.
Speaker 1: So here we are again. We just talked about the
Speaker 1: Texans who are actually gonna open up at home after
Speaker 1: Houston got hit so hard by Harvey. Now Irma showing up, Greg,
Speaker 1: What do we know right now? Well, I'm I'm reading
Speaker 1: online that the winds of Hurricane Irma are already stronger
Speaker 1: than than Katrina was at its peak, So people are
Speaker 1: taking it seriously. It's it's days out though, that you
Speaker 1: never know what direction it's going to take. I mean,
Speaker 1: it's trying to guess, but we'll have to see. We've
Speaker 1: seen Miami games moved in the past or delayed in
Speaker 1: the past, and maybe it'll happen again. Well, I mean,
Speaker 1: the governor of Florida's declared a state of emergency for
Speaker 1: the entire state, and I mean Greg's right to talk
Speaker 1: about it being the strongest Atlantic hurricane at this point
Speaker 1: ever recorded in that region. The University of Miami's their
Speaker 1: classes are done for the week. Basically, both of these
Speaker 1: teams have a bye week eleven, So that's an option.
Speaker 1: It's not a good option at all. I don't think
Speaker 1: either team would want to give up their by and
Speaker 1: then play all of those games straight through, but I
Speaker 1: mean that it's there for them. It's convenient that they
Speaker 1: both started. You'd have to go back to the season.
Speaker 1: I think it is when there were when there were
Speaker 1: an autumount of teams, thirty one teams when Cleveland came back.
Speaker 1: Where a team at a week one by a week
Speaker 1: one by is just very I mean, it's not ridiculous
Speaker 1: thing to you. We would take something like this to
Speaker 1: create that. And and UH Dolphin's coach Adam Gaze had
Speaker 1: this to say, We're gonna keep practicing and getting ready
Speaker 1: for the game until somebody tells us Differently, I've never
Speaker 1: really been through anything like that. About the possibility of
Speaker 1: a Category five hurricane, I don't know what to expect.
Speaker 1: So we will continue to track that as the rest
Speaker 1: of the NFL world and country in general. Another hurricane
Speaker 1: in the news, alright, Moving on, the Indianapolis Colts and
Speaker 1: made it official Andrew Luck will not play in Week
Speaker 1: one against the Rams. UH Indianapolis general manager Chris Ballard
Speaker 1: announced Monday that the team starting quarterback will not play
Speaker 1: in the game against the Rams. And there is and
Speaker 1: this is the most important part, because I think a
Speaker 1: lot of us figured Week one was gonna be a
Speaker 1: long shot. There's still no timetable on Luck's return. UH
Speaker 1: and UM rap sheet reported on NFL Total Access on
Speaker 1: Monday that it's too early to tell whether Luck will
Speaker 1: be on the field week two, week three, maybe even
Speaker 1: week four, Mark Sessler. So now we are staring at
Speaker 1: a situation where it is the worst case scenario, potentially
Speaker 1: extended absence for Andrew Luck. Yes it is, and they
Speaker 1: have Jacoby Purcett, who they traded for. But basically the
Speaker 1: team said yesterday that this is not someone that we
Speaker 1: can start this week, no big surprise, and they view
Speaker 1: more as a long term investment who they want to
Speaker 1: keep around for years and years. But it's gonna be
Speaker 1: Scott Tolzine. And I don't care what you tell me.
Speaker 1: Anyone who watched the Cults in their offense in this
Speaker 1: preseason deep concerns on every level. The one probably the
Speaker 1: strongest part of their team right now. So they finally
Speaker 1: rejuvenated that running back room. They've got more more young
Speaker 1: running backs than they did in the past. They're their
Speaker 1: general manager, Chris Ballard's your favorite type of frog. And
Speaker 1: you know he's sometimes hard. He's sometimes a little hard
Speaker 1: to read, like what what does he mean? I I
Speaker 1: don't think it was too hard to read between the
Speaker 1: lines when he spoke on Monday. I believe it was
Speaker 1: that Luck is not playing in week two that I
Speaker 1: think in the best case scenario, it's three or four.
Speaker 1: He made it clear that when strew Lux starts practicing
Speaker 1: that he'll need a few weeks of practice. So just
Speaker 1: do the math. He's not practicing now. If you're a
Speaker 1: Colts fan, I wouldn't expect to see him necessarily in September.
Speaker 1: You got the Rams and after that you have the Cardinals, Browns, Seahawks,
Speaker 1: and it sounds like two. It's a lot of something
Speaker 1: that's mental that's going on with him too. I don't
Speaker 1: know if he's maybe physically ready and he's just not
Speaker 1: mentally there yet. Just based on the different quotes that
Speaker 1: have come out the game, that's four inches between the
Speaker 1: years and all all of the quotes that have it
Speaker 1: was six inches heads different. You know, team executive talked
Speaker 1: about the six inches between a player's year. So is
Speaker 1: that a brain size? Subtweet has a pretty sizy brain.
Speaker 1: He has a book club, Yeah, reads books, and he's
Speaker 1: he reads defense as well. It just feels like he
Speaker 1: sure changed him a couple of inches at least, I
Speaker 1: would say. I would say I would even like, I'd
Speaker 1: go nine inches between the six plus he's got a
Speaker 1: big head. Yeah, I don't know anyway, So the Colts
Speaker 1: have a problem a quarterback, Scott Tolzine is you know,
Speaker 1: it looks like a mess, let's be honest. Um, So
Speaker 1: what do the Colts do? They make a trade, and
Speaker 1: they traded a former first round pick, uh, Philip Dorset
Speaker 1: to the Patriots for oh my god, slice me off
Speaker 1: a piece of that Jacoby Brissette. The Patriots uh dealt
Speaker 1: their third string quarterback and a two thousand, sixteen third
Speaker 1: round pick to the Colts for Dorset, who, of course
Speaker 1: was a first round pick under Ryan Grigson Colleen Wolf,
Speaker 1: which in real life means you're really like a sixth
Speaker 1: round pick, right, sure? Yeah, what are we expecting out
Speaker 1: of this trade? That seems about right? I mean, ultimately,
Speaker 1: it's tough to say because you're really looking at Jacoby
Speaker 1: Brissette and Scott Tolzine as like the starters there, and
Speaker 1: Philip dor said, I mean he we were waiting for
Speaker 1: him to sort of break out and we haven't seen
Speaker 1: it yet, So it's tough. These are names we know,
Speaker 1: I mean, Jake Briskett is a kind of a tougher
Speaker 1: name to pronounced sometimes. But these are just guys, even
Speaker 1: though they're famous their end of the roster, guys that
Speaker 1: weren't locked totally to have long term futures with their team.
Speaker 1: I would be shocked having watched Brissett, he's a pretty
Speaker 1: raw prospect that whether he would be starting for the
Speaker 1: Golds anytime soon. In doors set, they just the Patriots
Speaker 1: made five trades over the weekend, which is outrageous. That's
Speaker 1: more than any team made all of last year by far,
Speaker 1: and all five were to show up special teams. They
Speaker 1: just went door set. I think to return some puns,
Speaker 1: be a fourth or fifth receiver. I don't know. I
Speaker 1: was out of pocket. I was in Texas over the weekend.
Speaker 1: I'm sure there were some hot takes that Bill Belichick
Speaker 1: made a great movie here getting a former first round pick.
Speaker 1: Blah blah blah. Does anybody a little early sandwich prop
Speaker 1: here if he goes under over five yards in that
Speaker 1: offense this year, I will pay out sandwiches if anyone
Speaker 1: wants to take me on that. No, I don't think
Speaker 1: he's gonna have used to be on the roster at
Speaker 1: the end of the season. If there's any team that's
Speaker 1: going to happen with it would be the Patriots. That's
Speaker 1: a terrible trade. If he's not gonna be on the roster, Yeah,
Speaker 1: that would be a bet. They gave up a third
Speaker 1: round pick too. I mean, typically England didn't give up
Speaker 1: a pick in that trade. I mean Dorsett was a
Speaker 1: first round pick. Read the copy, and I think if
Speaker 1: you're brosetto, you spend all offseason hearing that Jimmy g
Speaker 1: is gonna get traded away and suddenly you're shipped out
Speaker 1: of town. I mean, I think Colts, at least the
Speaker 1: women in Indianapolis have to be happy about this trade.
Speaker 1: They get a slice, Slice me off a piece, Slice
Speaker 1: me off a piece of that Jake Brisket. I will
Speaker 1: end up saying it on the air at some point
Speaker 1: in in a serious situation that's going to happen over
Speaker 1: under Jake Brisket starts in Indianapolis. I'm gonna set it
Speaker 1: at one and a half this season or this season.
Speaker 1: I'm sorry, my phone sirie just came up and it
Speaker 1: said slice me off a piece of that Jake Brisket.
Speaker 1: I swear to god, I didn't even touch it. It
Speaker 1: just all of a sudden lit up with it. So
Speaker 1: that's scary. Even the phone maybe it's a saw. Yeah,
Speaker 1: even the phone is probably Mark Mark disinterested in your
Speaker 1: phone commentary, not at all. I don't think you'll start
Speaker 1: at all. Okay, by the way, this is our video show.
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Speaker 1: thirty Pacific, so you could see Mark's disinterested gaze as
Speaker 1: Colleen was looking at I was gripped by your information.
Speaker 1: Call it a glaze. Moving on. Oh my goodness, Brock Osweiler,
Speaker 1: it was. It wasn't a month ago that the Browns
Speaker 1: were sending out uh sizzle reels of checked out passes
Speaker 1: from Brock. Uh for those about two Brock, we salute you.
Speaker 1: Was the I mean, that's always felt like a c
Speaker 1: I A operation so that one of the Browns do,
Speaker 1: after giving him either every chance to win the starting
Speaker 1: job or every chance to showcase what ability he may
Speaker 1: or may not have, they jettison the quarter back that
Speaker 1: they gave up um Or they basically bought for sixteen
Speaker 1: million dollars and a second round pick uh. And not
Speaker 1: long after that the Denver Broncos come sniffing around and
Speaker 1: they reunite with Brock Osweiler on a one year deal.
Speaker 1: And of course the Broncos used, uh was that a
Speaker 1: first round pick on Oswalder once upon a time second
Speaker 1: second round pick in two thousand twelve. He he left
Speaker 1: the team with some acrimony because they did make the attempt.
Speaker 1: Elway made the attempt to bring him back, but there
Speaker 1: was some um chatter, rap sheet reporting. I remember that
Speaker 1: he was miffed when Peyton Manning took the job back
Speaker 1: from him, and uh, he wanted a fresh start. Well
Speaker 1: guess what, two years later, he's back where he started.
Speaker 1: Here's what Elway had to say about the decision to
Speaker 1: bring Brock Aswader back in the building. When Brock made
Speaker 1: the decision, he thought he made the best decision they
Speaker 1: thought was best for him. And so, you know, it's
Speaker 1: just kind of funny how these things worked out, and
Speaker 1: with our situation and and Brock being available that uh,
Speaker 1: you know, it was you know, it's funny how everything aligned.
Speaker 1: And so you know, we know that Brock and win
Speaker 1: football games. Whether he's played a lot of he's got
Speaker 1: a lot of experience and so um, you know that
Speaker 1: was that was one glaring hole we had at that
Speaker 1: point in time in my mind, when when when Paxson
Speaker 1: hurt the shoulders so weird will get it fixed? Greg,
Speaker 1: your thoughts The de signing makes trade everyone's making. I mean,
Speaker 1: the designing makes sense to me that they bring back
Speaker 1: Brockcastwell Lynch isn't available. They didn't like their backup situation.
Speaker 1: This is a guy Lway offered sixteen million dollars a
Speaker 1: year or two only eighteen months ago. It's not like
Speaker 1: it's a different person. He's been in this offense with
Speaker 1: Mike McCoy before. He's just a backup and they get
Speaker 1: him essentially for free. He's on the veterans minimum salary
Speaker 1: that they have to pay him. So why not bring
Speaker 1: him back? I do. I did find one comment from
Speaker 1: Elway a little strange though. He said, I'm sure he's
Speaker 1: gonna need a little football rehab. We know that we'll
Speaker 1: welcome him with open arms and we'll give him some love. Well, oh,
Speaker 1: football rehab. He's a broken man right now. That's what
Speaker 1: always another one of these these projects, you know, save me,
Speaker 1: save me, John Elway. And by the way, I don't
Speaker 1: have a problem with the signing. They needed deaf Paxton
Speaker 1: Lynches out for several weeks. Um. But I did see
Speaker 1: some hot takes peeking in. It was a few beers
Speaker 1: in over the weekend, you know, peeking into Twitter. Uh,
Speaker 1: seeing things along lines of savvy stuff from John Elway. Here,
Speaker 1: what a move? John? Are you kidding me? Acting like
Speaker 1: this is some type of to borrow a markis m
Speaker 1: a coude ta? This is this is this is bologny.
Speaker 1: This guy was They wanted to give him like seventeen
Speaker 1: million a year, and then and then you go and potentially,
Speaker 1: let's be honest here with Paxton Lynch. He's got a
Speaker 1: bad shoulder now, but you might have botched that pick two.
Speaker 1: The way that's looking so far, you don't deserve any
Speaker 1: credit for now getting brockos Will at the league minimum.
Speaker 1: It only worked out. You only have him because he stinks.
Speaker 1: This is been on your radar long, resigned Osweidler, you
Speaker 1: have you have been more that Elway is overrated as
Speaker 1: a team builder. And I think you could look at
Speaker 1: a collection of draft picks at this point and say
Speaker 1: there's a lot of suspect draft picks. That's true of
Speaker 1: a lot of GM. Let me say, I don't think
Speaker 1: he's overrated, but this idea that he is unassailable as
Speaker 1: a team leader. He was overpraised in this situation. But
Speaker 1: you have to one thing funny that the best quarterback
Speaker 1: was on their roster on that Super Bowl, Trevor Simeon
Speaker 1: was the number three. Writing during media week he was
Speaker 1: off by himself, just sitting at a table alone like
Speaker 1: people did. He looked like a high school kid back then.
Speaker 1: That all this thing about acrimony between Osweiler and Elway,
Speaker 1: though Osweiler is best friends. That's the term he used
Speaker 1: with Elway's son. I don't know whatever happened back then,
Speaker 1: but there's no major negative feelings to get over here.
Speaker 1: That probably played into you bring people back into your
Speaker 1: business who you know, who you've worked with. Osweiler's previous
Speaker 1: time there was not glowing. But that that I it's
Speaker 1: not likely it's a long term thing or anything. As
Speaker 1: soon as packs and Lynch is back, he's going to
Speaker 1: be out. Do they keep three quarterbacks all season? You
Speaker 1: never know. You never know. I'm not ruling anything out,
Speaker 1: Like if you told me that Brock Gosweller starts by
Speaker 1: the end of the year for a team that's struggling.
Speaker 1: I don't think that's that would be the most shocking thing.
Speaker 1: It wouldn't shock me either if he if he got cut,
Speaker 1: But you never know. The Jets just just made Bryce
Speaker 1: Petty the number two quarterback in their building draft picks
Speaker 1: high pedigree. Two years in, you can start to slide
Speaker 1: down that chart if you're not showing growth. We'll see
Speaker 1: how they handle it once Lynch gets healthy healthy finally
Speaker 1: real quickly the news. Uh, it was cut down day,
Speaker 1: final cutdown day. Over the weekend. I want to bring
Speaker 1: one to light. Uh. Buffalo Bills backup running back Jonathan Williams,
Speaker 1: who once upon a time was spice Rack, who's, of
Speaker 1: course Chris Westling's Desert Consigliari was his gem secret pick
Speaker 1: that he could get behind as a guy that was
Speaker 1: going to thrive in the NFL. Was released in a
Speaker 1: surprise move by the Bills, and anyone unclaimed on wave is. Uh,
Speaker 1: we don't really need to dig on the dig in
Speaker 1: on this, but I thought that, you know, just put
Speaker 1: a little bow on it. Reached out to spice Rack,
Speaker 1: who was pool side at the Marquee in Vegas, and
Speaker 1: asked if he could just give me his thoughts on
Speaker 1: Jonathan williams career downturn. I'm trying to rehab my back
Speaker 1: right now. Hands this Who gives about Jonathan Williams at
Speaker 1: a time like this, Well, that's how you get back
Speaker 1: on the show, rehabbing it. Marquis too interesting. I did
Speaker 1: reach because that's all you got from this guy. Yeah.
Speaker 1: I texted him back and say, hey, what's up in
Speaker 1: their back? No response? So it's either yeah, look when
Speaker 1: you went out to visit him in person and you
Speaker 1: have never one's ever owned well, no one's ever owned
Speaker 1: up to whatever happened out there. But some sort of
Speaker 1: chill came over the the interaction between you and him,
Speaker 1: and it's it's that what we just heard is a
Speaker 1: product of that. I'm not even sure Dan knows what happened.
Speaker 1: I don't know. I'm sure it was in the cloud
Speaker 1: substances and spirits, you know, but but something negative happened.
Speaker 1: Did you ever see the film Very Bad Things? Yes?
Speaker 1: I did. Well, I'll leave it that very um not
Speaker 1: my favorite film. I'm kind of with you on that.
Speaker 1: Gr all right, that's what's happening in the news. Time
Speaker 1: off for shoulders of greatness. As I said, what does
Speaker 1: that mean? I don't really know. But what we're gonna
Speaker 1: do is um talk about rookies that will leave their
Speaker 1: teams in week one and I are gonna shoulder the load.
Speaker 1: They're gonna put a lot, They're gonna put their team
Speaker 1: on their shoulders and carry them in a great way.
Speaker 1: Hence shoulders of greatness. All right, Thanks right, really connecting
Speaker 1: the dots there. Thanks? All right. So I'm gonna give
Speaker 1: you three rookie names, uh and each of you real quick,
Speaker 1: let's you know, tell me which one of these rookies
Speaker 1: is most likely to have shoulders of greatness. Here your choices.
Speaker 1: Carolina Panthers running back Christian McCaffrey, Cleveland Brown's quarterback to
Speaker 1: Sean Hi, sir. And Minnesota Vikings excuse me, and Jacksonville
Speaker 1: jaguar Is running back Leonard four Nette. M hmm, I'm
Speaker 1: going Christian McCaffrey. I don't like Cleveland's to go. Cleveland's
Speaker 1: to play Pittsburgh. I think it's a very tough ask
Speaker 1: because the quarterback is gonna do something's well, but he's
Speaker 1: gonna probably make a few key mistakes as a rookie.
Speaker 1: Christian McAffrey is gonna go have three or four big
Speaker 1: highlight plays that gets splashed on NFL dot Com and
Speaker 1: sent out a thousand times in a billion tweets on Twitter.
Speaker 1: McCaffrey is gonna come out looking good. It's adorable by
Speaker 1: the way that Mark's pretending like he doesn't think that
Speaker 1: shun Geyser is gonna I think Kaiser, I'm glad he's starting,
Speaker 1: and I think he'll do some good things. But Pittsburgh
Speaker 1: in Week one, I don't you know, it's a tough
Speaker 1: matchup for not a good I don't trust Leonard four
Speaker 1: Nette right now either, just because of that offensive line,
Speaker 1: and he has a tough matchup against Houston defense. So McCaffrey,
Speaker 1: I think McCaffrey is the way to go on this.
Speaker 1: I to go McCaffrey, get touched the ball four times,
Speaker 1: look like a god and everyone's happy. Well that's a
Speaker 1: good question. Um, what do you guys think from mcaffrey's workload,
Speaker 1: Is this guy got twenty touch a game guy immediately?
Speaker 1: Are they gonna ease him into the offense? Probably depends
Speaker 1: on who they're playing in the matchup, but I don't
Speaker 1: think he's not eased in at all. I think he's yeah,
Speaker 1: huge workload. He's already showed in the preseason. It worries
Speaker 1: me though, because he's everybody is on the bandwagon with
Speaker 1: him now, So it just is there too much hype? No,
Speaker 1: none of us matter, though, I mean, that is not
Speaker 1: literally nothing to do with how he performs. So don't
Speaker 1: say that. Well, I mean, I don't think the fact
Speaker 1: that wait a minute, too many too many football analysts
Speaker 1: are excited about a player. Maybe he won't perform well,
Speaker 1: that that could happen, but it's not linked to our
Speaker 1: our hype. I believe that Christian McCaffrey also will have
Speaker 1: shoulders that are very great. This was a compelling discussion.
Speaker 1: But Deshan Kaiser, I think I'm just saying Kaiser also
Speaker 1: is probably gonna throw a killer in or he's gonna Yeah,
Speaker 1: what do you if he ever beat the Steelers in
Speaker 1: Week one, you can't ask anyone to do anything more.
Speaker 1: We were we were texting about this. I was watching
Speaker 1: his last game, and uh, he's gonna have like one
Speaker 1: of those kind of fun, frustrating years. I think if
Speaker 1: he stays on the field and stays healthy, which is
Speaker 1: not easy to do, I could see him leading the
Speaker 1: league and interceptions, but having a couple of nice quarterback
Speaker 1: fourth quarter comeback wins and I make him big plays.
Speaker 1: I could see that type of season. I mean, he's
Speaker 1: already recorded one big victory this season. He's won Mark
Speaker 1: Sessor's heart. I mean early and late July, I've emotionally
Speaker 1: disconnected from my team. I don't care about the Browns anymore.
Speaker 1: You know that lasted until watching a little Deshaun Kaiser
Speaker 1: a couple of series, and then he's, oh, you're right,
Speaker 1: because it was the prospect was brock Oswilder in week one.
Speaker 1: I think Kaiser is much easier to get behind. I
Speaker 1: don't think he's got a lot around him, though it's
Speaker 1: not it's not an easy team to run as a quarterback.
Speaker 1: I like his chemistry with Corey Coleman there though connected
Speaker 1: a lot in the pre seris let's tweet the Browns
Speaker 1: picked up someone else's cast off, and you've got a
Speaker 1: wide receiver, and you got very excited about that. You're
Speaker 1: no cast off. He looks Mason Williams. I mean, I know,
Speaker 1: I don't understand why Seahawks fans were convinced he was
Speaker 1: going to be a Hall of Famer. You know, he
Speaker 1: did spend two years on their practice squad and then
Speaker 1: they decided not to keep I don't know what he's learning.
Speaker 1: He's learning how to practice and play like a pro
Speaker 1: on that practice squad now here he is in Cleveland.
Speaker 1: All right, I'm changing my opinion. Deshauan Kaiser has great shoulders.
Speaker 1: That was Shoulders of Greatness presented five head and shoulders.
Speaker 1: All right, now it's time, folks, malarkey, it's time to
Speaker 1: get into it. A very special episode of the Around
Speaker 1: the NFL Podcast, because let's go get my lunch. It's heard,
Speaker 1: it's so, it's getting there. You're getting there. It's all right,
Speaker 1: So this is how it works. Maybe it's more like, Mommy,
Speaker 1: I've got a drug problem. Yeah here, right, you're here
Speaker 1: are the rules of go get my lunch to the show?
Speaker 1: Hang on, let's hold off on that a second. If
Speaker 1: you're new to the show. Um, we go around the
Speaker 1: room and we're making its predictions basically of the season. Uh,
Speaker 1: and we're each gonna go three times and it's very
Speaker 1: it's very special. Uh. The reason it's a very special
Speaker 1: edition is Chris Westling will be involved. Um. West reached
Speaker 1: out to him yesterday and he he sent in predictions
Speaker 1: of his own. He also got copy from us um
Speaker 1: of what our predictions will be, and he that way
Speaker 1: he can fully involve himself and making some sandwiches, because
Speaker 1: how it works is which make predictions, and then everyone
Speaker 1: in the room gets the opportunity to jump in and
Speaker 1: say you're wrong, you're wrong, your piece of gabbage. I'm
Speaker 1: taking you on. And there's a sandwich on the line,
Speaker 1: and we're talking high octane sandwich. So when you don't agree, yes,
Speaker 1: you take yes. I can't. This is a little difficult
Speaker 1: for me to under standing. If you agree, there's no
Speaker 1: sandwich on the line. But if you disagree, you're saying,
Speaker 1: go get my lunch, all right, got it? Got it?
Speaker 1: Got it? Conflict. Once we start talking about sandwiches, that's
Speaker 1: all I want to talk about and think about. So
Speaker 1: it's fine. Put it this way. We can put this
Speaker 1: on a T shirt. Put your sandwich where your mouth
Speaker 1: is there, you go, got it, unless you're Mark who doesn't.
Speaker 1: That sound bites is disgusting. Nobody better tweet at me
Speaker 1: because if you tweet at me about that, let me
Speaker 1: hear it again. Erica, you come at me. One more
Speaker 1: time and I'm coming at you, Banana. It's I don't
Speaker 1: want to listen to that again. All right, all right, now,
Speaker 1: let's check out the standings, all time standings. Where are
Speaker 1: we at as a group? And again, if you're watching
Speaker 1: on our video show, you could be looking at this,
Speaker 1: but I will also tell you in an audio sense
Speaker 1: all time. Is that is that correct? Does the percentage
Speaker 1: put Greg ahead of Dan? Maybe? But Greg one oh
Speaker 1: seven the bottom of the board. I mean, look at winning.
Speaker 1: You are being robbed by this board. You're just going
Speaker 1: on behind the glass. Okay. Second, either way, Dan and
Speaker 1: I are side way ahead of Greg one seven at
Speaker 1: eighty five. And nice second, by the way, you have
Speaker 1: a Durell Revus will play in two thousand seventeen sitting
Speaker 1: out there, So that could that could flip it back
Speaker 1: to remember that whole revis Yeah, calm down, wait a second, excited.
Speaker 1: It's not over yet. It's by the end of the season, right,
Speaker 1: It's not over yet anyway, Greg and Dan both doing
Speaker 1: very well. Twenty games over plus West eighties six and
Speaker 1: ninety Mark eighty four. If you notice Mark has a
Speaker 1: lot much fewer picks. He's dodged a several of these shows,
Speaker 1: probably strategically over the years. Well actually that dates back
Speaker 1: to my early, my early involvement where I never took
Speaker 1: up anyone. You look at my record over the last
Speaker 1: four or five times, the percentage getting back on track. Well,
Speaker 1: I also I do it to enjoy it and to
Speaker 1: put stuff out there that I find enjoyable versus playing.
Speaker 1: It's safe to have the highest percentage. Okay, alright, well,
Speaker 1: which which explains your Pat McAfee will come, come, happy baby,
Speaker 1: come at me. We gotta we gotta make go on,
Speaker 1: keep going, keep going, Greg, alright like it. See we're
Speaker 1: already that the heat is turned up. Who likes a
Speaker 1: sandwich is hot? Because that's what's happening right now. Alright, Connie,
Speaker 1: you're eight and seven all time, by the way, winning record.
Speaker 1: This is your second. You haven't done a full round
Speaker 1: of sandwich props with us since the two thousand and
Speaker 1: sixteen drafts. So we're happy to have you here. And
Speaker 1: um LC Erica tempose, um if you could be West's
Speaker 1: standing ut it if you if you would, we appreciate that.
Speaker 1: Very exciting. Here we go, let's get it going right now. Colleen,
Speaker 1: why don't you start us off with your prop. Andrew
Speaker 1: Lock starts fewer games than Mike Glennon. So obviously we talked.
Speaker 1: We covered Andrew Luck already. He's not going to be
Speaker 1: playing in the opener. He hasn't practiced yet. There's no
Speaker 1: timetable for him to return. You have Scott Tolziene. I mean, look,
Speaker 1: he hasn't been on the field since the last week
Speaker 1: of last season. And then in Chicago. It doesn't seem
Speaker 1: like they want to rush Mitchell Trabinsky. They still have
Speaker 1: Mark Sanchez on the roster there in case they so
Speaker 1: they don't throw Trabinsky in before he's ready. They have
Speaker 1: a plan, they don't want to rush him. I think
Speaker 1: Andrew Luck starts fewer games. There we go compelling. It's
Speaker 1: a good one way to start, ain't it. It gets
Speaker 1: you thinking right in multiple levels. I really got to
Speaker 1: get inside the old brain there. It's good. It's a
Speaker 1: good one. You did very well here, Cully, You Andrew
Speaker 1: X brain couldn't handle a question. How do we know
Speaker 1: I got a factor in a couple of things here. Okay,
Speaker 1: I'm talking he's got brain. What uh? Andrew Luck will
Speaker 1: start fewer games in Michael and I don't know. Um,
Speaker 1: I feel like he's gonna miss half the year Andrew
Speaker 1: Luck and Luck or maybe a little less. Let's say
Speaker 1: he plays and he stays healthy, no guarantee, I'm gonna
Speaker 1: put him around ten games. Personally, Glennon has to stay healthy.
Speaker 1: He's never been a starter for a full season. He's
Speaker 1: got Rabinsky. They could start off really bad. I think
Speaker 1: Luck will start. He might even start double the games
Speaker 1: of Mike Lennon. WHOA. So I will take you up
Speaker 1: on that sandwich. Okay, I will check you up to
Speaker 1: because I I do agree that they want Glennon to start.
Speaker 1: They hype me like the idea of keeping trabisky, you know,
Speaker 1: behind the scenes until next season. But what happens when
Speaker 1: you're one in five or you're one in John Fox?
Speaker 1: I mean, even if John Fox may not even be
Speaker 1: making that decision by the end of the season, you
Speaker 1: never know. So I'm going to take you up as well.
Speaker 1: And why not? Big decision? Greg? Do you want me
Speaker 1: to throw to west right west via Erica? West? Challenges
Speaker 1: you the same as Mark and I. Okay, I'm gonna
Speaker 1: go across the board. I'm all right, but I think
Speaker 1: now is a great one because I think you reeled
Speaker 1: us in on one. You got a real chance at
Speaker 1: that's what you want because usually well usually you lose.
Speaker 1: If you look at historically the way to win this game,
Speaker 1: if you make three to five, you have to hit
Speaker 1: on basically one where you're real people in and then
Speaker 1: just clean up on everything. If she hits, she's gonna
Speaker 1: win for the for the season. Possibly. Alright, Mark, you're
Speaker 1: up next. Alright, this will be the final NFL season
Speaker 1: for Ben Roethlisberger. He's done. So wait, we need to
Speaker 1: put a timeline on this though, So like, are we
Speaker 1: when the season ends, his career ends, and I'm like,
Speaker 1: he retires it he retires, He retire. I'm saying, like,
Speaker 1: so he can't return next June. What if it's just
Speaker 1: up in the air, then well, you know we've had
Speaker 1: things like this before. If I were to win this
Speaker 1: and you pay out the sandwiches and if he comes back,
Speaker 1: I will pay you double sandwiches. You're saying he retires
Speaker 1: at the end, he retires, it is over. I think
Speaker 1: that's actually gonna happen to the Trent Richardson corollary, bring
Speaker 1: up yeah, yeah, um, what if he does this offseason
Speaker 1: he does it again where he just says, I don't know,
Speaker 1: that's a bridge. We we can deal with all that
Speaker 1: down the road. But essentially it is a clear retirement.
Speaker 1: I understand what he says. This is on the level
Speaker 1: because if he comes back. I'm not going to say
Speaker 1: because he announced his retirement, he comes back to the
Speaker 1: but that he's still retired. He's not if if if
Speaker 1: this is giving you pause, Greg, you could hold off
Speaker 1: on sandwiches for like a year and a half, two
Speaker 1: years if you want, but you just have to eventually
Speaker 1: pay it off. I will take you on this, and
Speaker 1: I'll take you on this. I'll take you on this.
Speaker 1: I think that despite everything he says, he loves the game,
Speaker 1: he gets paid a lot of money to do it,
Speaker 1: and he's gonna play until the Steelers kick him out.
Speaker 1: Despite all this, I think he's going to retire. I'll
Speaker 1: take you up on this. My my only concern was
Speaker 1: the were the sandwich props that we have apparently from
Speaker 1: like nine months ago, which you're still sitting out there,
Speaker 1: And what kind of game do you have if you
Speaker 1: just never if it never end, because but I kind
Speaker 1: of think will happen. It's he'll do exactly what he
Speaker 1: did this year, which is he'll drag it out until
Speaker 1: May or June and you won't. Really I would say
Speaker 1: in that case that I would pay you sandwiches if
Speaker 1: he doesn't make it clear that he's retiring by you know, February,
Speaker 1: taking the March, and then if if he does, you
Speaker 1: can pay me back. I have to play this game
Speaker 1: with dignity, and if you if you have a tough round, yeah,
Speaker 1: you gotta pay out the sandwiches. That's that's absolutely absolutely um.
Speaker 1: And I like this though, because this is something to
Speaker 1: root for. You might as well pick things you want
Speaker 1: to root for. I always, I always pick was all
Speaker 1: about what was Where's West? Come down on this challenges? Okay, Okay,
Speaker 1: there you go. And by the way, everybody should remember
Speaker 1: one onion hanger. We're each going three times. You better
Speaker 1: have one onion hanger. Maybe you try these onions. You'll
Speaker 1: like him, the real sweet onions. That means one where
Speaker 1: you're really hanging him out interesting like all mine are. Yeah,
Speaker 1: showing a little onion. I'm just saying I don't know
Speaker 1: which one there. All right, Greg, let's hear one of them.
Speaker 1: You're up, all right? Um? Chris isn't here, but I
Speaker 1: know this, this one will reach his heart. Adrian Peterson,
Speaker 1: I believe West of This it's coming back. As a holiday,
Speaker 1: the Cincinnati Bengals will be playing on the first weekend
Speaker 1: of the year, and so allowing Christopher Wesley to celebrate
Speaker 1: the ancient tradition of West of vis which is watching
Speaker 1: the Cincinnati Bengals lose in his mind on that first
Speaker 1: playoff weekend. We're down to two chances for Greg to
Speaker 1: have an onion hanger. Basically, are a good team, they
Speaker 1: have a chance. Yeah, that's maybe, that's not it, onion.
Speaker 1: I think they're going to be playing West of this
Speaker 1: as well, so I will not take you. I remember
Speaker 1: if they got a buy in the playoffs, they're not
Speaker 1: playing on West of this. Well that okay, that's odd.
Speaker 1: That's that's odd. That could happen. Just pointing that. It's
Speaker 1: a good note though, good So if you get to buy,
Speaker 1: just the first Cincinnati playoff game is not West was
Speaker 1: it has to be wild. This has to be wild.
Speaker 1: It's almost the first game. Usually usually I'm going to
Speaker 1: challenge you on it. I don't think I don't think
Speaker 1: it's coming back. I don't think that they'll be in
Speaker 1: the playoffs. I'm worried about their offensive line. They lost
Speaker 1: two guys and I think that's a big deal and
Speaker 1: nobody's really talking about it. I'll take you up because
Speaker 1: why not. I really, I'm gonna let's guess what West
Speaker 1: is gonna go with. I think West wants it to
Speaker 1: happen so bad. I don't think he loves Cincinnati's team.
Speaker 1: I know he has major issues with the line and
Speaker 1: Andy Dalton, or maybe more of the line than Andy Dalton.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna say, uh, though, he wants West of this
Speaker 1: back enough that he's gonna go with it or not.
Speaker 1: Take the sandwich. You are correct, Yeah, so he believes
Speaker 1: Cincinnati is going back to the posts. He does. Okay, Okay,
Speaker 1: here we go. So you reeled one sandwich. Wager in there? Greg? Up?
Speaker 1: Next is Erica tamp post in for two sand to Mark? Oh,
Speaker 1: Mark as well? Okay? Good? I was like, I really
Speaker 1: don't get this game. Let's go whichever one of us
Speaker 1: you were not counting as a person, start to count
Speaker 1: that person. And by the way, I did say to
Speaker 1: Mark today, Marks has his finger issue. I will not
Speaker 1: be making any jokes about Mark's finger until we know
Speaker 1: that everything's gonna be okay. Yeah, it's very worried. It's
Speaker 1: bearing into a bit of a concerning place. But we'll
Speaker 1: see you later. Today I said, moratorium on finger bits
Speaker 1: until we know Mark will have tip figures on the
Speaker 1: On the plus side, I mean JPP had his best
Speaker 1: season after everything that happened, got a huge long term project,
Speaker 1: just saying yeah, Well, you're saying, I don't know how
Speaker 1: that translates to anything involving but by the subtext here
Speaker 1: is if he happens to lose the finger like, I
Speaker 1: don't see that. I don't see that triggering a huge
Speaker 1: long term we have a precedent of it actually working
Speaker 1: out well for the person. Let me go real quick
Speaker 1: over under Mark fingers nine and a half this time
Speaker 1: next year. I'm gonna take the under about push. I'll
Speaker 1: take you up on that. Wait, that's how it works over, Okay,
Speaker 1: here we go. It's Chris Westling's first wager. Here we go.
Speaker 1: All right. West says that the Baltimore Ravens are a
Speaker 1: playoff team. Okay, I'll take I'll take West up on that.
Speaker 1: I like to stay consistent across of all of our predictions.
Speaker 1: They were umbrella. Yeah, they were not. I think they're
Speaker 1: like an eight win team. I'm with you. I think
Speaker 1: they have major problems offensively, quarterback concerns. As much as
Speaker 1: I love me some justin Tucker, I believe they're eight
Speaker 1: or nine win ceiling, and I think they're better teams
Speaker 1: that will take that playoffs. But I'm with you. I
Speaker 1: see about nine and seven. There'll be other teams that
Speaker 1: could knock come out of the playoffs in that situation.
Speaker 1: I will take West up on this. I'll challenge. I'll challenge,
Speaker 1: just just just to challenge here. I think the defense
Speaker 1: has really been good this preseason, and I like I
Speaker 1: kind of like that they brought in Greg Roman, so
Speaker 1: maybe they can run the ball a little bit more.
Speaker 1: Our Marty morning Wig doesn't really like to run the ball.
Speaker 1: So that's what you think they are making the playoffs? Yes,
Speaker 1: then I'm not. I don't like the words can be fine.
Speaker 1: I get I get confused by this game, and you're
Speaker 1: to it. I got. It is great that four people
Speaker 1: on the planet have been allowed to play this game,
Speaker 1: and at least half the room does not really know
Speaker 1: how Um alright, so there you go. So West has
Speaker 1: how many how many challenges there, zero to three things whatever.
Speaker 1: I'm just gonna this happened the last time I did
Speaker 1: it too. Colleen's next prop is going to be about
Speaker 1: Sugar Ray Leonard. Al right here, we got my turn. Um.
Speaker 1: I'm bullish about the Steelers. I listened to the Friday
Speaker 1: Fantasy Extribe Agains Apart two, and I heard all that
Speaker 1: Fabriano talking about the splits of Ben Roethlisberger, and sure
Speaker 1: he's better at home. A lot of guys are better
Speaker 1: at home. I still think their offense is gonna be
Speaker 1: great this year. Last year, I erroneously, erroneously predicted um
Speaker 1: thirty points for the Steelers offense. I'm gonna stay away
Speaker 1: from that because there's too many things to go a
Speaker 1: whole season with point total. But I'll zero in on
Speaker 1: two of their playmakers in Pittsburgh, Antonio Brown and Martavis
Speaker 1: Bryant versus get Ready Greg the field in duo receiving yards,
Speaker 1: and I'll give you any combination you want two wide receivers,
Speaker 1: a wide receiver and a tight end. Anything you want
Speaker 1: to running back to fullbacks, how about two wide receivers
Speaker 1: on different teams. No, I can't do that, but it's
Speaker 1: important that you asked. Well, you know, you know what
Speaker 1: I love even more than the New England Patriots. I
Speaker 1: love the field. I'm always taking the field. Guy, I'm
Speaker 1: gonna taking the field. Yeah, okay, it's a good one.
Speaker 1: But I mean I'm just imagining you know, Julio Jones
Speaker 1: in Austin Hooper, maybe Adams gallivantin around in a field
Speaker 1: or a J. Green And I don't know, West is
Speaker 1: not challenging. Interesting with that. I like when I'm with
Speaker 1: West on things because I feel can make you feel good.
Speaker 1: Or I could be totally reading in backroads too. So
Speaker 1: there's that. Well, that's how important that you have this right?
Speaker 1: What is it? Well, it says I will challenge on
Speaker 1: all of Dan's except this one. But that's wrong. Yeah,
Speaker 1: he he is not. Well, you cleared up this one,
Speaker 1: so he is not challenging you. Okay, Yeah, no, you're
Speaker 1: right though, Yeah, you're right. Okay, you question who who
Speaker 1: would beat him? Though? There there isn't like a lot
Speaker 1: of I know, I got you, there's not a logical
Speaker 1: one that you who would beat the duo? Yeah? What
Speaker 1: about Davante Adams and Jordy Nelson. Okay, that's one Okay,
Speaker 1: now Gronken and Brandon Cooks. I guess I was gonna
Speaker 1: say Gronk if he stays healthy and whoever the bit,
Speaker 1: and then I thought Bryant gets knocked out for six
Speaker 1: weeks with a you know that's what you gotta worry. Alright, Uh,
Speaker 1: next round, good round, good first round? Mark gets going
Speaker 1: round two? All right? Tom Brady will start no more
Speaker 1: than fourteen regular season games. What you know, you're always wow,
Speaker 1: little injury you know, it doesn't have to be injuries,
Speaker 1: doesn't actually at all go little sprinkling of like who
Speaker 1: I would be fun if some players he'll miss time,
Speaker 1: he'll miss games at least two. I'm gonna go off history.
Speaker 1: He's never other than the A c L blowout, He's
Speaker 1: never missed a game to injury. I'll just go with history,
Speaker 1: which is instructive. Unless somehow they are so good and
Speaker 1: they beat every team and they end up just resting
Speaker 1: Tom Brady. They two weeks, especially after losing to the Giants,
Speaker 1: to go eighteen and one, if they have a chance
Speaker 1: to do it again, yeah, I made it fourteen, so
Speaker 1: it wouldn't be some stupid thing where he's sitting out
Speaker 1: weeks seventheen well, and he's that's literally never happened, even
Speaker 1: in the cases where they have rested him. He plays
Speaker 1: like star right because I said starts not used to.
Speaker 1: So yeah, I'm definitely taking you up on this. I'm
Speaker 1: taking it too. I find this. I find this compelling.
Speaker 1: After Mark famously had an accident while preparing a Tom
Speaker 1: Brady meal that he suddenly isn't as convinced in the
Speaker 1: health revenge, I don't hold that against him. I'm and
Speaker 1: I am ade a C minus chef, So you know,
Speaker 1: I don't even know how to actually properly cut a
Speaker 1: sweet potato. That's not that's a borderline onion hanger. Yeah,
Speaker 1: all I do is bring those that's an onion hanger.
Speaker 1: Sure you a little bit of all growing huge. That's
Speaker 1: why I'm like in fifth place because I continually drop
Speaker 1: heat seekers. I know Wes, even though there's the kissing
Speaker 1: cousins dynamic, I feel like West will definitely take you
Speaker 1: up on that one due to is Tom Brady crush
Speaker 1: He's gonna challenge Yeah, Okay, that's crazy. Next up, Colleen, Okay,
Speaker 1: the let's do the Titans will play in January? Well,
Speaker 1: doesn't the regular season ends in January. No, it's their
Speaker 1: last game is December. All right, now, I looked that
Speaker 1: ups right. They break the eight year playoff drout, they
Speaker 1: win the division. I love their offensive line, the running
Speaker 1: games good, they have a good front seven. They made
Speaker 1: upgrades to their secondary, they brought in some They're the
Speaker 1: favorites in that division. I think so favorites, you know, Texans,
Speaker 1: but they're kind of the trampion media pick, including in
Speaker 1: this room. And this is a tough one for me
Speaker 1: because I kind of think there's a less than fift
Speaker 1: But yet I did. I do think they're the favorites.
Speaker 1: So I'm not going to take you up. I don't
Speaker 1: like that inconsistency. I want to root for them too.
Speaker 1: I like this. I actually picked them to win a
Speaker 1: playoff games, So this is one I will not challenge on.
Speaker 1: I think I picked the Texans in there to win
Speaker 1: that division and they're not going to win a wild card.
Speaker 1: To think, you know what, show it to me, Marcus.
Speaker 1: Over seventeen weeks and all you guys, you're not sayings
Speaker 1: anymore about the Jets. Were like the Jet funny tweets, guys, whatever,
Speaker 1: uh show to me? You know, win ten games. You know,
Speaker 1: go go get in the postseason, I'll take you up.
Speaker 1: Let's go Houston. Oh yeah, I support Houston. Where do
Speaker 1: you guys come down? Wow, little Houston pop you're gonna
Speaker 1: come against it and I will know you you put
Speaker 1: yourself and supporting them as a city. Yeah, I think
Speaker 1: we all stand by Houston. You guys are all like, oh,
Speaker 1: Nashville is this? You know? Whatever stand with Houston is
Speaker 1: where the old zeuser comes down. Okay, we made those
Speaker 1: picks before anything happened with the hurricane. I just and
Speaker 1: shout out, you know, shout out to J. J. Watt.
Speaker 1: You know, we give give him some heat on this
Speaker 1: podcast from time to time. He's done a nice little
Speaker 1: job with this not in this scenario, we don't know.
Speaker 1: It's incredible. He's done a very nice job. That just
Speaker 1: keeps going up and up. Um alright, twenty million. On
Speaker 1: Tuesday he's raised over twenty million dollars. Wow, that's doing
Speaker 1: something with your platform. People, Colleen, take note now that
Speaker 1: you yes, now now I can. What are you gonna
Speaker 1: do to improve Philadelphia? Everybody will follow me just like
Speaker 1: they followed J. J. Watt. It's totally the same, Alright,
Speaker 1: Greg you're up. Well, oh wait, what about West? We
Speaker 1: got West on this one. No, West is with you.
Speaker 1: He's with the Titan. I mean he's been alight, all right.
Speaker 1: He believed Titans will go to the playoffs. All right,
Speaker 1: you're up. This is the hardest decision is we have
Speaker 1: more prepared than I think we're gonna use. I want
Speaker 1: to use them all. I like them all. Greg also
Speaker 1: ask him before the show to keep it to sixty minutes,
Speaker 1: so a speed round at the end. Why not. I
Speaker 1: think this one will interest you guys more so I'm
Speaker 1: gonna go with with that. Good The New England Patriots
Speaker 1: bring us in on this. We'll finish with a worse
Speaker 1: record than they finished with last season. We were they
Speaker 1: fifteen and one last year. Now now they're fourteen and two. Right,
Speaker 1: they were fourteen and two, so they would have to
Speaker 1: lose three games playoffs. That does not count. I'm not
Speaker 1: trying to. That's why you have to be very careful here,
Speaker 1: because if they went eleven and five last year or something,
Speaker 1: and then would be like, hmm, there's some intrigue here.
Speaker 1: But twelve or thirteen wins is still gonna win that division,
Speaker 1: probably gonna buy two but people are saying, you know,
Speaker 1: this is a potential sixty. No there, You've said all
Speaker 1: offseason they're better canceled the Patriots. You know, they've been
Speaker 1: fourteen and to the last two seasons in a row.
Speaker 1: Not just what I think they could be. It could
Speaker 1: be a better team and have three three losses. Well,
Speaker 1: they're right off the bat. I said this with the Dolphins,
Speaker 1: and it's even more so, Um a fact with the Patriots.
Speaker 1: You give them four wins right off the bat, with
Speaker 1: the Jets of Bills twice. They're basically farm teams in
Speaker 1: their own division. So that are other years too. But yeah,
Speaker 1: but well more more than ever now. I mean there's
Speaker 1: a difference between this season and other seasons with that division,
Speaker 1: and they have the NFC South. You know, Jay Cutler
Speaker 1: is also in the division. They it would be shocking
Speaker 1: if they lost more than one game in that division.
Speaker 1: And it's a very good chance they'll go undefeated. Um,
Speaker 1: I think they. I think they're staring at fourteen, fifteen
Speaker 1: and potentially sixteen wins. So I will not take you
Speaker 1: on this. I'll say that they they lose three games.
Speaker 1: I mean, if you you would be taking me, you
Speaker 1: are taking them. You're not, then they'll finish with the
Speaker 1: worst record. Uh No, they won't. I don't think they'll
Speaker 1: finish it. They'll have Do you say, go get my lunch,
Speaker 1: Go get my lunch? A tird, So don't go get
Speaker 1: my lunch. If you don't give me wins are greater
Speaker 1: than you would, then you would take me up on this.
Speaker 1: I'm saying all their schedule, their schedule is a rugged one. Yeah, listen, Texans,
Speaker 1: I'm not even saying that's a big deal. You have
Speaker 1: the Panthers, the Bucks, the Falcons, the Chargers. At one
Speaker 1: point of the Falcons, Chargers, Broncos, Raiders, Dolphins all in
Speaker 1: a row. I say, they go about twelve and four?
Speaker 1: Who winsion? They're really losing a staff. I don't know games.
Speaker 1: I was gonna say, how many games are the Patriots
Speaker 1: gonna win this division? By three? They can win by
Speaker 1: seven games partially, Yeah, depending on what happens with the Dolphins.
Speaker 1: Wonder what the record is who came in second when
Speaker 1: they went sixteen and O Do you remember? I can
Speaker 1: find out really quickly for you. I'm just curious. That's
Speaker 1: probably it is the record, or maybe not. Actually the
Speaker 1: fifteen and one Panthers in the NFC South a couple
Speaker 1: of years ago. That could do it doesn't matter. Okay,
Speaker 1: he's gonna challenge. He's going to challenge on that. Dan did.
Speaker 1: I'm a little confused. Dan and West took me up
Speaker 1: on that? Is that? I think they will have the
Speaker 1: same or better record than that. You're taking me up
Speaker 1: in it? You disagree with me? Yeah? Yes, it is
Speaker 1: a little see all rights not the only one. Everyone
Speaker 1: told you they won that division by nine games. That's
Speaker 1: got to be a record. Erica four did did Mark
Speaker 1: take me up on that or not? I'm I believe
Speaker 1: they will go twelve and four, So whatever that means,
Speaker 1: that's what I did. Oh my god, it's contagious. I
Speaker 1: brought this. I now no longer understand how they came up.
Speaker 1: Erica four West, all right, this is a bit of
Speaker 1: a of an onion. You want big onions, you gotta
Speaker 1: get on your big onion plan. Uh and uh. He
Speaker 1: says that the Los Angeles Rams finish with a winning
Speaker 1: record for the first time since two thousand and three. Hello,
Speaker 1: that's going from four and twelve to at least nine
Speaker 1: and seven. Wow, I'll take him up. I will say
Speaker 1: that's a good one. I mean, what, okay, Well, this
Speaker 1: is where I would love to hear from West on this.
Speaker 1: Let's let's try to put the logic together better coaching staff.
Speaker 1: He obviously believes Jared Goff will be better and schedule.
Speaker 1: The schedule I think is a factor with their division.
Speaker 1: The tough division um outside of but you get to
Speaker 1: play the a f C South out of the division. Uh,
Speaker 1: and I believe you know inside the NFC is not
Speaker 1: too tough. I mean it's the South AFC South. That's
Speaker 1: definitely West putting that. I love that West though. What
Speaker 1: I would have like if you had told us a
Speaker 1: year ago that West would ever have a wildly optimistic
Speaker 1: RAMS of all teams, they removed a critical element. Times
Speaker 1: are changing. I'm with I'm excited about this RAMS team
Speaker 1: just to watch them. I don't know. I don't share
Speaker 1: West is total optimism, but I'm rooting for them to
Speaker 1: win nine games. I will take them up out of
Speaker 1: the principle because I feel like there's seven or eight.
Speaker 1: I'm going to challenge him. Yeah, I don't think that
Speaker 1: they're going to have a winning season. There you go,
Speaker 1: Old Zeuser's turn. Uh, this guy has been a favorite
Speaker 1: of mine. I'm happy that he's starting to make a
Speaker 1: difference in the league. I've always rooted for him for
Speaker 1: whatever reason. Jadeveon Clowney, this is the year he breaks
Speaker 1: through and becomes statistically a stud. Twelve plus sacks for
Speaker 1: Jadeveon Clowney for the Houston Texans this season, I agree
Speaker 1: with you. I actually think. I mean, after last season,
Speaker 1: I think the momentum is just building and building, and
Speaker 1: I think this season for sure, I think and the yeah,
Speaker 1: the the what angle of it and how what will
Speaker 1: command double teams and all that, which was not even
Speaker 1: the case last year obviously in Clowney had his best season.
Speaker 1: I think this is the year can all come together
Speaker 1: for for Clowney if he stays. I like the scenario.
Speaker 1: I'm taking you up just on the concept that something
Speaker 1: will go wrong and a half sex. Yeah, I mean,
Speaker 1: and it's something went right there, I guess. And he's
Speaker 1: not He's not had a history of sacks. He has
Speaker 1: ten sacks in his career. Looking at it so far,
Speaker 1: I feel like the breakout season coming. It just feels
Speaker 1: like he He's a guy who I think has a
Speaker 1: lot of value without getting sacks In terms of his
Speaker 1: run defense and just busting up the play. I guess
Speaker 1: I hate picking things that I'm rooting against, but I'm
Speaker 1: going to take you up on it because I I
Speaker 1: love Jendavian Clowney. He was you know, you make fun
Speaker 1: of making a leap We had him number one last year,
Speaker 1: not that we were out on the limb there. At
Speaker 1: least he had a nice making the leap season. It's true.
Speaker 1: All right, what about West? Oh he took me, he's
Speaker 1: taking me on that. Yeah, he's with you. Okay, No
Speaker 1: he's going against me. No he's not. Wait what he's
Speaker 1: not challenging you. He's not challenging me. Well, whatever that means.
Speaker 1: Previous comment flies in the face. Examine this off off, Mike.
Speaker 1: Let's just hear the language one more time with West
Speaker 1: wrote Um, okay, I will take the challenge on Jets
Speaker 1: and Lynch, but not the other two. Okay, So well,
Speaker 1: according to that latest comment, that is that is that
Speaker 1: is accurate? Okay, out before we get into the last
Speaker 1: round real quick, because Connie, we're running out of time
Speaker 1: with Connie. She's very important. She is on literally fourteen shows,
Speaker 1: not literally, So let's how many four? Three? Yea three
Speaker 1: different television shows, all different shows, A different shows on
Speaker 1: our show, no right, taped in different local Well, I
Speaker 1: mean so four shows see too late. That was a
Speaker 1: test I wanted to see. My God, I failed. Let's
Speaker 1: do we always do a group sandwich prop and the
Speaker 1: group sandwich prop and then we're gonna go right to
Speaker 1: Colleen for her last prop and then she can get
Speaker 1: out of here. But the m v P of the
Speaker 1: National Football League in twenty seventeen, Uh, let's go with
Speaker 1: Erica for West first. Uh, he said, Tom Brady, Tom
Speaker 1: Brady out on a limb, Chris Wesley, Colleen Fox, Colleen Fox.
Speaker 1: I like that version. I also went with Tom Brady
Speaker 1: because I would like to win a sandwich. I don't
Speaker 1: know if that's the right strategy or not. But onion
Speaker 1: hangers all over the place, Philip Rivers, Philip Rivers. That
Speaker 1: ties into your Super Bowl pick. Mark. I know what
Speaker 1: you're doing and I like it. I like how you
Speaker 1: staying in your own structure this year. It's good. It's
Speaker 1: still got charges Giants to the Super Bowl. I'm sticking
Speaker 1: with that until the very end. Like it. Rogers Aaron
Speaker 1: Rodgers always a good pick, a safe pick. Uh, but
Speaker 1: not too safe. I like it. Greg. I would say
Speaker 1: it's Tom Brady is the safest. I will go with
Speaker 1: Russell Wilson all quarterbacks, which is not a big strategy
Speaker 1: in general with the m v P. Russell Wilson, who
Speaker 1: of course, UH is healthy and he has a lot
Speaker 1: of weapons, and I just feel really good about the
Speaker 1: Seahawks and offense. I think he puts it all together
Speaker 1: all right, last round, here we go, Colleen, Uh close
Speaker 1: it out, starting with you um off of Philip Rivers talk.
Speaker 1: Keenan Allen leads the league in catches. He was a
Speaker 1: target machine when he was healthy in he was Philip
Speaker 1: rivers favorite target. Sorry Antonio Gates. Uh, defenses have to
Speaker 1: worry about but I mean when they have Now that
Speaker 1: Melvin Gordon is productive, defenses are going to have to
Speaker 1: worry about him. And that wasn't the case when Keenan
Speaker 1: Allen was good in. That was Melvin Gordon's down season
Speaker 1: is rookie year. So you look at what he was
Speaker 1: on pace to do. I think a hundred and forty
Speaker 1: two catches that season that would have broke the single
Speaker 1: season receiving record that Marvin Harrison had. Comeback Player of
Speaker 1: the year. Well, that's yeah, that's another one. I think
Speaker 1: it's it's fair because he's unlike anyone else in especially
Speaker 1: Julian Edelman now out of the picture. He has the
Speaker 1: potential to have the twelve like thirteen catch week and right,
Speaker 1: he's done it, and he's done it proved that what
Speaker 1: he can't do is stay on the field. So for
Speaker 1: that reason alone, I'm taking the field because the guy
Speaker 1: can't stay health and until he can, I'm not gonna
Speaker 1: get behind him. I hope for the best for him.
Speaker 1: I want him to stand up. I I would love
Speaker 1: to this to happen, but you gotta take the field.
Speaker 1: I mean, Keenan Allen's a pretty big underdog to lead
Speaker 1: the league in reception. This is my onion hair you
Speaker 1: it would be you try these onions, you'll like him
Speaker 1: to real sweet onions. I I mean, I don't know
Speaker 1: how to get in and out of this game without
Speaker 1: playing the field. On that I think it could have
Speaker 1: a great season, but again, life too many variables. What
Speaker 1: about west Ah, He's going to challenge all Right, you
Speaker 1: got a lot of hanging onion Collegen as always, Okay, good,
Speaker 1: I think that's what you're knowing for I'm being told
Speaker 1: you have to go. I gotta go, you gotta go,
Speaker 1: I gotta get out of here. We have the remaining
Speaker 1: ones we have, we'll we'll plug you in on and
Speaker 1: you can do offsite. Nick Fourtier by the way, go
Speaker 1: get my lunch dot org. Nick Fourtier or four tier
Speaker 1: has been tracking this for years now, and you could
Speaker 1: see updated standing. At some point, he's gonna lose interest,
Speaker 1: sound bored. He gets the game thought he does the
Speaker 1: people that are actually involved with the game. What what'll happen?
Speaker 1: He'll I go to college. I think at some point
Speaker 1: to say, listen, you know, other things are happening in
Speaker 1: my life. My I've become busy. I've stopped tracking this
Speaker 1: this league guys. You guys peaked a couple of seasons ago.
Speaker 1: I'm going to move on. I'm not. But it's like
Speaker 1: when he hears on the podcast, he's like, they're doing
Speaker 1: it exact. I gotta update this. Assume he's like sixteen
Speaker 1: years old. Do we know anything about Nick's He could
Speaker 1: be fifty six. Nick, give us a detailed bio. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I think at one point could be an empty nester.
Speaker 1: You should have Nick on Yeah, alright, Okay, I'm out here.
Speaker 1: I gotta go one of your three shows, and this
Speaker 1: is not one of them. No, this, what do you mean?
Speaker 1: This is in its own category? Come on, she goes.
Speaker 1: We can speak about her. Honestly, I believe she couldn't
Speaker 1: figure out the game. It was disturbing. It is, and
Speaker 1: it was disturbing. Is a little confusing, It's very confused.
Speaker 1: All right, here we go. H moving on, Greg, go ahead, Well,
Speaker 1: I'm really thrown for a loop here. My onion hanger
Speaker 1: was gonna be Philip Rivers gets an m v P vote,
Speaker 1: But now it seems repetitive because you just picked him
Speaker 1: to win the m v P and that so let's
Speaker 1: just throw that out. Let's throw that out. Nah, And
Speaker 1: then it's like two people had the exactly had had
Speaker 1: a very similar thing. Let's go with another option, which
Speaker 1: I do think is is a pretty low in terms
Speaker 1: of onion hanging. Dalvin Cook leads all rookie running backs
Speaker 1: in yards from scrimmage. I'll take you on the letard
Speaker 1: for net breeds. Christin McCaffrey beats Joe Mixing beats anyone
Speaker 1: else that comes up on the field. It's all Dalvin
Speaker 1: Cook time. I'm team Christian. I think he's gonna have
Speaker 1: an immediate breakthrough uh and be a be a star
Speaker 1: in this league in year one. So I am going
Speaker 1: to take you up on that. Cook is really so
Speaker 1: set up very well to do this because there's just
Speaker 1: not that much else happening in that offense, and he
Speaker 1: plays every down so it's very logical and it's a
Speaker 1: good one. But I'll take you up just because I
Speaker 1: also think mixing along with McCaffrey could have you never know,
Speaker 1: with all these something if if one thing goes wrong
Speaker 1: in three weeks, then you're right, you're in trouble. What
Speaker 1: did West have on this one? He's challenging, all right,
Speaker 1: all right, so everybody's taking the field, all right, but
Speaker 1: it shows I think that's an onion hair because never
Speaker 1: is a field involved, you're usually gonna lose. So Philip
Speaker 1: Philip rivers, you know, getting an m v P vote
Speaker 1: to me would be bigger. But old Onion McGhee over
Speaker 1: here already said he's gonna win the Well, I don't.
Speaker 1: I you're much more plugged in on the m v
Speaker 1: P voting. One m v P vote does not feel
Speaker 1: like much in achievement, but I guess it is when
Speaker 1: the way it's only about two or three people, like
Speaker 1: Pete prisco thinks that Philip Rivers is the m v P. No,
Speaker 1: no offense of Pete prisco But that right, But that
Speaker 1: would anyone at all, that would be enough. But if
Speaker 1: you look at the track record, only two or three
Speaker 1: guys some years, you know, you guys get it. You're
Speaker 1: only gonna be get a couple. Well, because honestly it's asked.
Speaker 1: It's like it's an assive group think. It's that it's
Speaker 1: always down to two people. I also have no idea
Speaker 1: if Pete Priscoe has an NFL MVP vote. But just
Speaker 1: as an example, I feel like he plugged in an
Speaker 1: experienced scribe. I liked what you did there. I could
Speaker 1: have thrown another one Mike Cleese. Now you gott have
Speaker 1: thrown Cleese in their little Cleisee bomb in a big spot.
Speaker 1: There you go, and we also want to throw one
Speaker 1: more in there, just rule of threes. Las Man's young?
Speaker 1: Is that her name? How about her? Never know? It's
Speaker 1: a great job at yeahoo, absolutely great work over there
Speaker 1: at yahoo dot com. All right, whose turn is it? Uh?
Speaker 1: It is Chris Westling with Erica as the come do it. Okay,
Speaker 1: he has um t J. Ward's Buccaneers allow fewer yards
Speaker 1: this season than Denver's defense. Hmm, So that's just an
Speaker 1: either or. Bucks finished higher in the rankings than the
Speaker 1: Denver Broncos. Now, this matches up with some of Wes's
Speaker 1: feelings that that I've talked to him about where he's
Speaker 1: not really buying these Broncos. I'm gonna take him up
Speaker 1: on this though, even though it's kind of a fifty,
Speaker 1: you know, it's it's close. I'm gonna I'm not really
Speaker 1: buying the Bucks defense. That's my thing. I'm not sure
Speaker 1: if this is a good defense at all. I know
Speaker 1: they signed t J. Ward, which was a nice pickup
Speaker 1: at a position they needed. But I'm taking him when
Speaker 1: in doubt and if you're on the fence, that's one
Speaker 1: of the rules of the game for me, just challenge it,
Speaker 1: and I feel I can go either way, so I'll
Speaker 1: just go against I will too. I also, I mean,
Speaker 1: I don't know. If I see Denver's offense getting early
Speaker 1: significant leads on teams, the Bucks could and that could
Speaker 1: create some garbage time dynamic for opponents. Good point, good point.
Speaker 1: Mark I'll go next. And by the way, Erica, as
Speaker 1: per tradition, I've already got mine, you will be wrapping
Speaker 1: up the go get my lunch prop wagers. And I
Speaker 1: think the irishman Brandon McGinnis is the only producer to
Speaker 1: ever get something right behind the glass. Uh, it's something
Speaker 1: like one and like seventy five. I hope your prop
Speaker 1: is more consistent than you're reading of Chris Wesleyan. Oh wow,
Speaker 1: he only gave me like little blurb sentences. And I'm trying.
Speaker 1: I'm doing the best I can here, Greg, you're doing
Speaker 1: the next Yo. Sorry that West is getting better from cancer.
Speaker 1: He doesn't have time to give detailed right downs and
Speaker 1: send them off to turn it around on me. A
Speaker 1: little insensitive, Greg, But we can fog John Well onto
Speaker 1: the next part of the show. All right, here we go,
Speaker 1: Here we go, Here we go. Hang a little onion, here,
Speaker 1: hang a little onion. A lot of people saying they're
Speaker 1: doing that, So let's see if it happens. Adrian Peterson
Speaker 1: and Marshawn Lynch, they're combined rushing yardage this season will
Speaker 1: be less than the eventual NFL rushing chimp like it.
Speaker 1: I don't think that's haying an onion. I'm saying a
Speaker 1: definite no, I agree with you. I just I think
Speaker 1: even the I mean, I know that. Why is that
Speaker 1: not hanging onion? Well, you're gonna get like a nineteen hundred,
Speaker 1: two thousand yard rusher, and then you're gonna get two
Speaker 1: guys that probably combined for about doesn't happen very It's
Speaker 1: gonna be somebody around. Yeah, is fair, I guess, especially
Speaker 1: when it comes to Peterson. I'm just not seeing a
Speaker 1: lot of rushing yards. You're right, we're a little down
Speaker 1: on Marshawn Lynch in this room, so that's informing mine. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I just think too many things going wrong. Yeah, I
Speaker 1: don't think they get to to that total of the leader.
Speaker 1: So we're everyone in the room believes neither of those
Speaker 1: guys will have a big in one of those two.
Speaker 1: I'd have to be really big on one of those two.
Speaker 1: And I'm not on either. With Peterson, particularly because of
Speaker 1: the situation he's in and West. Where does West come down?
Speaker 1: He challenges? Okay, so he believes because he's high on
Speaker 1: Peterson and North that's why. And I don't know about
Speaker 1: his thoughts on Lynch, but definitely Peterson. Okay, so I
Speaker 1: got a couple a sandwiches or one sandwich there, and
Speaker 1: we'll check with Colleen. All right, Um, close it out.
Speaker 1: I might have made a horrible mistake. They're not taking
Speaker 1: you up on that. Close it out, West, actually, Eric, Eric,
Speaker 1: not West. You did not want You didn't want to
Speaker 1: on your hanging from me. I think West went this round.
Speaker 1: You're right, so you oh, you didn't go yet. I'm sorry, Mark,
Speaker 1: I mean you won't like this one begin with. Now.
Speaker 1: I know you're gonna say this is this is too
Speaker 1: close to something I predicted before. But I think that
Speaker 1: that prediction was simply a feeling about the future that
Speaker 1: was a little too soon and a little too high
Speaker 1: stakes and a little too pointed. All right, but you
Speaker 1: have to go back to the events of nine eleven
Speaker 1: for a time when the league had to reschedule an
Speaker 1: entire week slate of games, not cancel, but reschedule. Just
Speaker 1: I am telling you that this season the league will
Speaker 1: be forced you reschedule an entire week of games. Are
Speaker 1: you with me? Or you you're predicting a natural disaster
Speaker 1: slash national tragedy. I am not suggesting we don't know
Speaker 1: that that's the necessarily that that's we don't know that
Speaker 1: that would be the the incident, but it would be
Speaker 1: a I called it a major life event. You have
Speaker 1: to stand by what you're wagering here. I'm not predicting
Speaker 1: what the event. You know, the only way an entire
Speaker 1: week gets wiped out is a natural disaster or a
Speaker 1: national tragedy, or or it could be in response in
Speaker 1: response to something, in response to something outside of those
Speaker 1: two boxes. I'm not predicting what the event is. Were
Speaker 1: a life event, I will definitely take you up on that.
Speaker 1: I would take you up with visitor. And I'm I
Speaker 1: really I don't like the what's behind it, you know,
Speaker 1: I'm sorry that I can't give you coddly little onion
Speaker 1: hangers that are simply based on like statistical output from
Speaker 1: one player. This is an onion hanger. Look, and I
Speaker 1: am telling you I have a feeling this will happen.
Speaker 1: You're looking for apocalyptic events to happen. I something that
Speaker 1: I'm rooting for the world. I want our country to
Speaker 1: be safe. Greg, That's that's a very that's a very
Speaker 1: safe point of view. But sometimes major events need to
Speaker 1: happen to have the world wake up and change the
Speaker 1: way they operate. So I disagree with your assumption that
Speaker 1: because you're rooting for everything to stay status quo status,
Speaker 1: where are we going with status quo? Not anywhere good?
Speaker 1: So that's a huge assumption by you. You're right, I
Speaker 1: am going with data. The last time they canceled, the
Speaker 1: only times they've ever canceled an entire week, has been
Speaker 1: national tragedy. So I'm hoping that does not. I will go, yeah,
Speaker 1: I am, because I'm going to root against nine eleven
Speaker 1: part two, So I will say, go get my lunch,
Speaker 1: Go get my lunch. I hope that I am buying
Speaker 1: you lunch on this. I'm not rooting for it. I'm
Speaker 1: not rooting for it earlier that of course, you're picking
Speaker 1: things that you're rooting for when it was not in
Speaker 1: this case. Okay, I like, I like Greg's continual efforts
Speaker 1: to put me into a box ideologically, but it's not working.
Speaker 1: I don't think. I certainly I know you Mark, because
Speaker 1: you're a good man. You don't want to see death
Speaker 1: and destruction. But death and destruction happens every day, whether
Speaker 1: you're looking forward or not on a mascale in this country. Um,
Speaker 1: But I think there's also part of it with some
Speaker 1: of these wagers where you want something big to happen.
Speaker 1: It's kind of like a The Dark Knight returns type thing.
Speaker 1: The Dark Knight. What was the third Batman movie, Batman
Speaker 1: three three, whatever, the third Nolan movie? You want something
Speaker 1: rising of sorts. I will just say one more time
Speaker 1: that I do think that there is a scenario where
Speaker 1: this could happen that is not simply based off if
Speaker 1: a cut out of something we've seen in the past,
Speaker 1: that we are in strange times. All right, here we go, finally, Erica,
Speaker 1: here you go. Uh, you're the stage is yours? All right,
Speaker 1: here we go. You guys ready for this one? Ready? Okay,
Speaker 1: Julie an Edelman will play at some point this season.
Speaker 1: Love it for real. That is the best one we've
Speaker 1: ever had from a producer. Right, it's the best one
Speaker 1: because it's in the books and it's officially over. I'm
Speaker 1: taking you up on that. You can buy us the sandwiches.
Speaker 1: Because he's you know, by league rule, he cannot play
Speaker 1: football this year. He is on injured reserve his season.
Speaker 1: That's not true, Greg, because no longer do you have
Speaker 1: to designate, uh, your return from i R guy at
Speaker 1: the moment of i R. You could keep him there
Speaker 1: and then decide in October he's got a shot at
Speaker 1: he has to be on the roster. After this, he's
Speaker 1: gonna gonna be on the roster. You watch he If
Speaker 1: anyone is going to come back, it's Julian Edelman and
Speaker 1: you wait. I love what you did. I'm gonna take
Speaker 1: you up on it because I don't see it as probable,
Speaker 1: but I love your I love the scenario. Kin, there's
Speaker 1: no probable he's out for the season. You you have
Speaker 1: to be on the roster, pass the cuts to be
Speaker 1: eligible to come back. Is he already they put him
Speaker 1: on injured reserve? Am I crazy? Well, then I'll definitely
Speaker 1: take you up on it. See, this is tricky. I
Speaker 1: would like to know the details behind this because they
Speaker 1: did change the i R rule that there's two boomerang
Speaker 1: spots and you no longer have to say at that
Speaker 1: moment that they're designated for that spot. You know what
Speaker 1: I mean. But it's still clicked over when they created
Speaker 1: the off they did wait here, there's an update. Even
Speaker 1: though that they had said, Greg, you just announced this
Speaker 1: is fact. They did wait until Saturday to put him
Speaker 1: on i R so he would be eligible. They they
Speaker 1: did announce that he's out for the season. They use
Speaker 1: those words, but he would be oligible. That's a tough one.
Speaker 1: I need to do some research. I gotta hold on
Speaker 1: that is that allowed. I'm pretty sure players put on
Speaker 1: injured reserve on Saturday were not eligible to No I
Speaker 1: are boomerang for him. Okay, finally, there you go. There's
Speaker 1: all our lunch props. And hopefully, if Nick is still
Speaker 1: interested in this podcast, he is updating this. We have
Speaker 1: no evidence in the state that he's no longer in
Speaker 1: stit in the show. I'm just gonna work under the
Speaker 1: assumption Nick, who does an amazing job, will have all
Speaker 1: this track on. Go get my lunch dot org. Finally, real,
Speaker 1: real quick. Uh. The season starts on Thursday with the
Speaker 1: Kansas City Chiefs being led into New England to face
Speaker 1: the Patriots. Um Mark will start with you on this one,
Speaker 1: and then we'll pick the games at the end. Pick
Speaker 1: the game at the end. What is uh from the
Speaker 1: Chief's perspective, how do they steal this game? Because it
Speaker 1: feels like they are in, uh, very close to a
Speaker 1: no win situation. How do the Chiefs steal this win. Well,
Speaker 1: two things they probably can't do. One which would be
Speaker 1: completely rattle and undermine Tom Brady out of the gate
Speaker 1: to the point where New England feels uncomfortable in their
Speaker 1: home field. Not gonna happen. Number two, though, the Chiefs,
Speaker 1: even with Alex Smith on the field, forget Patrick Mahomes,
Speaker 1: were more aggressive this preseason. And whether it's Tyreek Hill,
Speaker 1: whether it's Travis Kelsey, you you take it to New
Speaker 1: England early. You don't play what is typical Chiefs ball,
Speaker 1: which is run the ball forty five times, you know,
Speaker 1: a bunch of a bunch of checkdown passes, and you're
Speaker 1: trying to hang in the game and win it with
Speaker 1: your defense. You have got to play differently to have
Speaker 1: a chance in this game. If your Kansas City again,
Speaker 1: I don't know if they can do that. I don't see.
Speaker 1: I don't have a high confidence level the time. You know,
Speaker 1: Alex Smith said it, and it sounded like he was
Speaker 1: just saying something to make itself feel better, But I
Speaker 1: think he's right. He said Week one is a great
Speaker 1: time to play the Patriots. Yes, it's that opening kick off.
Speaker 1: The history is not great, of course, It's always gonna
Speaker 1: be hard to go into Foxboro, but they've played their
Speaker 1: worst games in September. Traditionally they're worse at the beginning
Speaker 1: of the season, and their defense, to me, is a concern.
Speaker 1: And when I watched the Chiefs in the preseason, the
Speaker 1: thing I always believe is like, this is a team
Speaker 1: that knows what they're doing, They know the playbook. Alex
Speaker 1: Smith had a really strong preseason, had a good train. Again,
Speaker 1: this is a team that does not need to warm up.
Speaker 1: They looked very professional in the preseason. They're going against
Speaker 1: a weakness in the Patriots in terms of their defense
Speaker 1: of front and seven. So I think this could be
Speaker 1: a pretty entertaining game, high scoring. Of course, I like
Speaker 1: the Patriots to win it eventually, but I think it
Speaker 1: could be a game that's in high twenties, in the thirties,
Speaker 1: and it's got some firepower until the Patriots pull away late.
Speaker 1: I feel like we'll know pretty quickly in this game
Speaker 1: whether it's gonna be something interesting to watch, uh at
Speaker 1: the three hour mark, because I could totally see a
Speaker 1: scenario where Patriots up fourteen nothing midway through the first quarter.
Speaker 1: But and I'll say this, Tom Brady, it's not giving
Speaker 1: him enough respect to say he can be rattled. But
Speaker 1: if you do find a way to consistently get to
Speaker 1: him with the pass rush and get him uncomfortable, get
Speaker 1: him moving around. Uh, he can be affected physically. He
Speaker 1: is forty years old. Um. But at the end of
Speaker 1: the day, I I think the Chiefs will not be embarrassed,
Speaker 1: but I think they'll eventually get overwhelmed and just not
Speaker 1: be able to hang. So I will say thirty four
Speaker 1: to twenty, Uh, Patriots over Chiefs and a big game
Speaker 1: from Gronk, I'll say thirty four seven. If we're throwing
Speaker 1: out scores, have a nice fun game, I'll go thirty
Speaker 1: or thirteen. Rex burke head blows up. There you go.
Speaker 1: So there you go. There's our Week one predictions. And
Speaker 1: like I said, uh, next time you hear from us
Speaker 1: will be Thursday night, late Thursday on the East Coast
Speaker 1: because we will have a full recap of this game
Speaker 1: as well as a preview of all the rest of
Speaker 1: the Week one game. So thank you, uh to everyone
Speaker 1: that is listening this far. It's time for another season.
Speaker 1: I think our fifth together, is that correct? It's right,
Speaker 1: So we're we're really excited to get this thing going
Speaker 1: uh so till Thursday. This is Dan Hans signing off
Speaker 1: for the Sizzler, Connie Fox, the Boss, the Mailman chipping in,
Speaker 1: Thanks West, and the Great America Temp hosting behind the
Speaker 1: Glass Tell Thursday,