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Speaker 1: and Welcome back to another edition of the Around the
Speaker 1: NFL Podcast. My name is Dan Hanzas, and I am
Speaker 1: joined by a room filled with heroes, Mark Sessler, Colleen
Speaker 1: Wolf and Greg rosehal what's up people? Hey? Hey, hey,
Speaker 1: it's a it's got to be a thing now. Tricky,
Speaker 1: it's tricky. I don't know if we have the clearance. Oh,
Speaker 1: that's right, that's right. Behind the scenes, they are really
Speaker 1: getting strict with what we can and cannot do. For instance,
Speaker 1: no more scorpion fund on Sundays. I was really looking
Speaker 1: forward to the league figures decided that somehow the NFL
Speaker 1: is going to be taken down by scorpion. But that so,
Speaker 1: I'm just saying, that's fat Albert's territory. Shipped that to
Speaker 1: the lawyers and see what comes back. Hello, Dan, what's happening?
Speaker 1: Is it? What's Happening's territory? Hi? Hi, Hi? I don't know.
Speaker 1: I mean the sassy sister from What's Happening. It feels familiar,
Speaker 1: but I christened yes or no? Is that? Uh D?
Speaker 1: From What's Happening? Hey? Hey, hey, oh okay, thank you
Speaker 1: easily confused with the sister from What's Happening, the great
Speaker 1: Christian Anderson behind the Glass who does such a great
Speaker 1: job on our Tuesday video show, which is this is,
Speaker 1: of course the Tuesday Video Show presented by Head and Shoulders.
Speaker 1: The live stream of the show is on a six
Speaker 1: pm Pacific nine pm Eastern overseas. Despite you being a
Speaker 1: huge market of our audience, figure it out. They're smart,
Speaker 1: not disrespectful. Just how many hours in the day, Greg,
Speaker 1: are there? But for us to be figuring out the
Speaker 1: hours of other people. That's not trying to boil the ocean,
Speaker 1: as you were saying, And boil the ocean, bro And
Speaker 1: don't think I didn't notice Mark that you got a
Speaker 1: new sexy beach body shirt underneath your your plaid blue
Speaker 1: button down which looks a little bit new as well
Speaker 1: everything on NFL network I think roughly sixty seven times
Speaker 1: it's a tight shot on Marks with the V neck
Speaker 1: and everything I have shifted into. I don't give an
Speaker 1: f about my wardrobe in any media format. Time of
Speaker 1: the seison. You've got the squeaky chair. Today, I am
Speaker 1: on the squeaky chair. When was that policy different way?
Speaker 1: When I was a clothes horse. I'm emphasizing it more now,
Speaker 1: it is becoming more emphatic. Um. Okay, big show today,
Speaker 1: So much to get to, um, including the Monday Night
Speaker 1: football recap and a f C South showdown for the
Speaker 1: Ages that none of us will ever forget. Um. Also,
Speaker 1: we're gonna preview the Thursday Night football Uh yeah, a
Speaker 1: f C West matchup tilt between the Chiefs and Raiders.
Speaker 1: That's a that's a sneaky um big game. And then um,
Speaker 1: a very special addition of or you kidding Me with
Speaker 1: Connor or and we'll explain why it's so special. There
Speaker 1: is some some news to share, so stick Pin and
Speaker 1: that just know that this is a special episode. Did
Speaker 1: he move out of his haunted house? A very special episode.
Speaker 1: I think we'll be news to Colleen on this show
Speaker 1: with Connor. But before we get gone, yes, let's start
Speaker 1: with Monday Night football, A big game for the Colts
Speaker 1: and Titans. Every first free running from the forty on
Speaker 1: the sideline, the forty footways to the fifty cuts inside
Speaker 1: Printon Tack, the forty puming on Thistle thirty cuts to
Speaker 1: them in on the field to the ten five gallup
Speaker 1: again touchdown touchdown. Henry seventy two yard gallup. Yes, Kevin
Speaker 1: Harlan with the call, that's Westwood one. Derrick Henry Ice
Speaker 1: the game for the Tennessee Titoons, and Marcus Mariotte also
Speaker 1: threw a fifty three yard touchdown past the Taiwan Taylor
Speaker 1: with five twenty nine left to keep playing the game.
Speaker 1: The Titans beat the Colts thirty six to twenty two,
Speaker 1: overcoming a slow start in Monday night. That ends what
Speaker 1: had been in eleven game losing streak Greg Rosenthal for
Speaker 1: the Titans against the Colts, which is really surprising because
Speaker 1: the Cults have not been a Juggernau for a couple
Speaker 1: of years. That's a long. That's a long. It has continued,
Speaker 1: but now it is over. The Titans get a win
Speaker 1: they need, and they get a performance from Marcus Mariota.
Speaker 1: A lot of people were calling goody. It was this
Speaker 1: is what you want to see out of your young
Speaker 1: quarterback plane, through an injury plane, through limitations. Uh, if
Speaker 1: you missed the telecast, John Gruden informed you roughly seventy
Speaker 1: nine different times that he couldn't leave the pocket, that
Speaker 1: he has to just win this game from the pocket.
Speaker 1: But it was an impressive performance. You know, there was
Speaker 1: a pick six, there were some inconsistencies early, but he
Speaker 1: played his very best in the fourth quarter. They were
Speaker 1: down nineteen nine in this game in Mariota made a
Speaker 1: lot of nice passes, had very good pass protection, and
Speaker 1: it's a win. As he gets healthier and in the
Speaker 1: Titans hope this team gets a little more consistent on
Speaker 1: defense that they could look back on and think like,
Speaker 1: we needed that win. We could not fall two and
Speaker 1: four losing at home to the Jacoby Brissette Colts. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and it locks up the a f C. South, not unpredictably,
Speaker 1: three teams at three and three and the Cults at
Speaker 1: two and for a forest of total mediocrity. Uh, leaving
Speaker 1: me wondering what the meaning of the game was last night. Ultimately,
Speaker 1: but I will say this, and it's echoes what you tweeted,
Speaker 1: But it's also what we talked about on this podcast
Speaker 1: many times. There already is a quarterback issue in this league.
Speaker 1: There's already too many crappy quarterbacks often squaring off against
Speaker 1: each other week to week. We do not need Jacoby
Speaker 1: Brissette being sent into the shadows. It's not the guy
Speaker 1: we need being taken out of our life right now.
Speaker 1: He's fun to watch. Well, I believe the good news
Speaker 1: is and and someone can correct me on this, but
Speaker 1: he's been in the league what three years now, so
Speaker 1: he's not going to be second year. This is only
Speaker 1: a second alright, So he's locked into a rookie contract.
Speaker 1: I take that back, So he could go into mothballs
Speaker 1: for two years potentially, and given that angel luck his
Speaker 1: head shoulder problems with just one of the worst problems
Speaker 1: with quiring back could have. It would behoove the cults
Speaker 1: that keep him in the building. And I love the
Speaker 1: use of baby. Know what I was noticing in this game.
Speaker 1: Obviously Derrick Henry that was his first one yard game,
Speaker 1: and obviously two yard touchdown helped. But how many times
Speaker 1: did Jon Gruden say exotic smash mouth during this game?
Speaker 1: Everything I heard was exotic, exotic, exotic. They really haven't
Speaker 1: been this season, no, and obviously they weren't in this game.
Speaker 1: But it worked and Taiwan Taylor the touchdown that he had.
Speaker 1: I loved that the Titans threw some shade at them
Speaker 1: because I guess John Gruden had said that he was
Speaker 1: a gimmicky player and that wasn't awesome. Play. Yeah, it
Speaker 1: was a blown coverage and the Colts defense is remarkable
Speaker 1: and how it can collapse in the fourth quarter games.
Speaker 1: They have been outscored in the fourth quarter of games
Speaker 1: this year, five to twenty two. I mean, this was
Speaker 1: a very entertaining game. It's it helps that it was
Speaker 1: had modest, very modest expectations going in, but there weren't any.
Speaker 1: There was literally not a punt in the first half.
Speaker 1: It was back and forth. Titans had to make a comeback.
Speaker 1: But for as fun as Jacoby Brissette was in the
Speaker 1: first half, you know, it needs to be mentioned that
Speaker 1: Dick Lebo changed up what he was doing defensively in
Speaker 1: the second half and Brissette and the Colts offense was
Speaker 1: basically a nightmare. This would have been a blowout if
Speaker 1: not for a pick six by the Colts defense to
Speaker 1: start that second half. They could not move the ball.
Speaker 1: They made a lot of mistakes and you started to see, Okay,
Speaker 1: this is a young quarterback that's still gonna be improving
Speaker 1: as he goes. He's fun fun to watch. Maybe they
Speaker 1: should have used Marlon Mack a little bit more. That
Speaker 1: was a fair critique I thought coming out of that
Speaker 1: game that that this is the most exciting running back
Speaker 1: you have right now. No offense to Frank Gore, and
Speaker 1: he was got two carries, right But the reason he
Speaker 1: was bench was because he got Mariota killed. I mean,
Speaker 1: he got Brissette killed a couple of plays that they
Speaker 1: left him in and he didn't understand the protection scheme.
Speaker 1: He got Brissette killed, and once the pressure started getting
Speaker 1: the Brissett in the second I mean, I don't trust
Speaker 1: either of these teams long term. I mean, obviously the
Speaker 1: Colts I don't trust, but even the Titans because there's
Speaker 1: no defense, there's no pass rush, and there's not a
Speaker 1: good secondary and in the end, I don't think you're
Speaker 1: gonna go anywhere without any pass rush. Yeah. One of
Speaker 1: the reasons Greg, I know you love your boy Frank
Speaker 1: Gore is that he is a guy that coaches love
Speaker 1: because you know he's gonna be healthy and on the
Speaker 1: field and he's gonna help you in all phases, including
Speaker 1: protecting your quarterback. Max not there yet. He ran five
Speaker 1: yards per carry, So the running game was hardly the
Speaker 1: Colts problem. They were moving the ball in the first half.
Speaker 1: It was it was in the second half and that
Speaker 1: they just could not throw the ball. A Jack Toyle
Speaker 1: catch the ball? Please? Yeah, Jack Doyle, you gotta help
Speaker 1: you gotta help out invisible in this game, he if
Speaker 1: you look at his home road splits he is. He
Speaker 1: disappears on the road. And he did it again with
Speaker 1: one catch in this game. And you know, a Tytoons
Speaker 1: fan came at me on Twitter is like, I'm waiting Dan,
Speaker 1: like I'm going to give you a ton of credit
Speaker 1: for winning a primetime home game against Jake Brisket and
Speaker 1: the Colts. Let's calm down. You got you got a
Speaker 1: lot of ocean to boil before I respect you. That's fair.
Speaker 1: But it really was a great fourth quarter for Mariota
Speaker 1: six or six for a hundred three yards, and I
Speaker 1: love it was such a Marcus Mariota moment when he
Speaker 1: dropped that touchdown to Taylor, which was on a pone coverage.
Speaker 1: Immediately afterwards, he sees his off offensive lineman and a
Speaker 1: Cults I mean a Titans offensive lineman and a Cults
Speaker 1: defensive lineman kind of getting into it after the play
Speaker 1: because they hit the Colts for a late hit and Mariota,
Speaker 1: instead of celebrating the touchdown, immediately gets in his offensive
Speaker 1: lineman's face pushes him away like trying to prevent a penalty,
Speaker 1: like in that moment for like a young player to
Speaker 1: be that cam. That's it's impressive. That guy's got some maturity.
Speaker 1: He's good boys. I think he got a haircut too.
Speaker 1: His hair looked a little different. He did get a haircut.
Speaker 1: Very absolutely, very good. There's your Monday night recap, including
Speaker 1: a haircut update in a big spot. Let's move on
Speaker 1: and do o high lens behind the glass the great
Speaker 1: Lindsay Fulton going, how things going so far, Lindsay. I
Speaker 1: want everyone to understand I haven't met Lindsay yet. How
Speaker 1: it's nice to be you. I don't want to polite
Speaker 1: of us to do no introductions at all. Well, Colleen
Speaker 1: doesn't speak with any of the people behind. Oh my god,
Speaker 1: do not even start that Christian back me up, he's nothing.
Speaker 1: Oh you want to big spot. I don't want to
Speaker 1: man splain this too much, but I do want to
Speaker 1: say that Lindsay is our first ever full time producer,
Speaker 1: and that's a big deal for our podcast. We've never
Speaker 1: had a full time producer, so we're so excited to
Speaker 1: have her. Lindsay. We said it on Sunday. I'll say
Speaker 1: it again, welcome aboard. I'm just really excited I see
Speaker 1: that as as the iPad falls down. Let's do some news.
Speaker 1: I used to do a little fun like you know,
Speaker 1: sound vignetto right before that. Allowed, that's done too, that's done.
Speaker 1: It's gone. All right, it's over before they're gonna take
Speaker 1: each of us away one by one and it'll just
Speaker 1: be Mark talking politics. That will be what the show
Speaker 1: ends up as. All right, let's do some news. We'll
Speaker 1: start with the Minnesota Vikings. Oh. You never wanna get
Speaker 1: pumped up about, you know, some getting injured. But the
Speaker 1: Vikings fan and the Vikings in general realize that their
Speaker 1: season just got into a much more optimistic place with
Speaker 1: Aaron Rodgers knocked out for the year. And uh to
Speaker 1: add to that, Uh for the Vikings and and and
Speaker 1: their hopes this season, Teddy Bridgewater will soon hit the
Speaker 1: practice field over a year after that weird, bizarre, gruesome
Speaker 1: knee injury in practice right before the start of the season. Uh.
Speaker 1: You made you think if he'd be done with football,
Speaker 1: it was that bad an injury. Uh. He has now
Speaker 1: been cleared uh to begin practicing by a doctor. According
Speaker 1: to rap Sheet. Rap Report added that Bridgewater is expected
Speaker 1: to be activated by the week by the Vikings this
Speaker 1: week or next um. Mike Zimmer had this to say, No,
Speaker 1: he won't come off the pub list. He's going to practice,
Speaker 1: but he has twenty one days and he'll stay on
Speaker 1: the pub list until he's ready to play. Colleen Bridgewaters
Speaker 1: twenty four. Uh, easy to forget this now, but he
Speaker 1: was a former first round draft pick and there's still
Speaker 1: a chance that he could be have a big role
Speaker 1: in this team. Of case Keenum comes down to Earth
Speaker 1: and Sam Bradford can't get back in the field. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean, it's I guess the timing works out for
Speaker 1: Bridgewater that the Vikings are in this situation right now.
Speaker 1: And it's nice because you look at so many teams
Speaker 1: who they don't have a lot of options, and so
Speaker 1: it seems like the Vikings obviously have a ton of
Speaker 1: options now. But the fact that he has come back
Speaker 1: from this injury, that was so gruesome, As you said,
Speaker 1: I mean, people were talking all sorts of stuff about
Speaker 1: him just being able to do regular things again, let
Speaker 1: alone play football. And I know that he's been in
Speaker 1: all of their meetings for the last fourteen months. He's
Speaker 1: caught up on the playbook, that's what the team said,
Speaker 1: and that he gets the game script every week, so
Speaker 1: he he knows what's going on with the team and
Speaker 1: he's involved. So I think it's great for them if
Speaker 1: they have this option. Timing is is interesting too, because
Speaker 1: you have the Ravens followed by the Browns in London,
Speaker 1: so you could get by with any of your quarterbacks,
Speaker 1: probably to knock out Cleveland in London, and then you
Speaker 1: have a bye week, so Teddy Bridgewater kind of rolls
Speaker 1: in at the right time. Potentially, it makes this Viking
Speaker 1: season and team a lot more intriguing because as as
Speaker 1: good as case Keen has played, I think you do
Speaker 1: expect him to come back there. I think we started
Speaker 1: to see that against the Packers certainly wasn't his best
Speaker 1: game of the season. And there's been a lot of
Speaker 1: injuries and a lot of you know, there hasn't you know,
Speaker 1: been some setbacks for the NFL. Let's say this season,
Speaker 1: I would forgive a lot. What are you talking about.
Speaker 1: The scorpion dropped. The scorpion dropped. That was big. If
Speaker 1: this season ended with Teddy Bridgewater starting a home Super
Speaker 1: Bowl Mines. I mean, I know that's kind of that's
Speaker 1: suiting for the moon here, but that I would that
Speaker 1: would be a fun storyline to get behind what I'd
Speaker 1: boil that ocean. That's the way to you know, put
Speaker 1: expectations at the right place for it's a long shot,
Speaker 1: but we don't even know if he's coming back. By
Speaker 1: the way, they get three weeks to decide whether they can,
Speaker 1: they expect it, but it's still not even limp. And
Speaker 1: I think Case Keenum, to be clear, if he continues
Speaker 1: at this level, teddy Bridge Water is not going to
Speaker 1: start until their offense is struggling more. In case Keenum
Speaker 1: is struggling more, I would expect that to happen eventually,
Speaker 1: but I don't think they're immediately just going to replace
Speaker 1: Case Keenum. If he's well, that's the great thing. You
Speaker 1: don't have some absolute nightmare taking what is this white
Speaker 1: playoff type team from week to week. You've got other options.
Speaker 1: You need to rush him like you couldn't rush him anyways.
Speaker 1: You can ride Keenum, I would say, maybe to the
Speaker 1: conference championship. Then you put in Bridgewater. He wins that
Speaker 1: and he starts the super Alright, Greg, I mean I
Speaker 1: think everyone's rooting for Teddy Bridgewater. I just don't want
Speaker 1: you to put all the eggs in this basket and
Speaker 1: be disappointed if it doesn't happen. That's all more because
Speaker 1: people aren't even putting eggs in baskets anymore. So bat
Speaker 1: waste of your time in modern day America. What about
Speaker 1: Eastern Yes, save for the religion podcast Eastern Bound, that
Speaker 1: situation is a little different. I stand corrected. People. Let's
Speaker 1: move on and talk about Um, what do you want
Speaker 1: to talk about. Let's talk about some injury stuff. Yeah,
Speaker 1: we'll start with Jamis Winston. Uh two bucks items in
Speaker 1: the news today, but we'll start with Winston, who while
Speaker 1: Aaron Rodgers got thrown to the turf and broke his
Speaker 1: collar bone, Winston was luckier when he got thrown down.
Speaker 1: He only suffered an a C joint spray sprain in
Speaker 1: his throwing shoulder. He's regarded as day to day, and
Speaker 1: rap Sheet reported it's an injury. Uh the QB could
Speaker 1: play with moving forward. Um, Winston said Sunday he expects
Speaker 1: to play next week against the Bills. Mark. Um, that's
Speaker 1: good here. It's much better than Roger's type dia diagnosis.
Speaker 1: But who knows how he's gonna how this will affect
Speaker 1: his arm strength and all that. It's still remains to
Speaker 1: me determined how serious this injury is. Yeah, it's a
Speaker 1: messy development for a team that has been really weird
Speaker 1: this season. Frankly fitz Fitzpatrick. I understand that Ryan Fitzpatrick
Speaker 1: melted down in the preseason, but he basically almost generated
Speaker 1: one of the great comebacks last week. It fell short.
Speaker 1: But he can move the ball. He can do I
Speaker 1: think right now, as much as we've seen from Winston,
Speaker 1: I'm not saying that he's an equal, but Winston has
Speaker 1: not been a huge asset to Tampa Bay this season. No.
Speaker 1: I mean even just the game against the um the
Speaker 1: Patriots when he was overthrowing guys there was he was
Speaker 1: not communicating well with his receivers, him and O. J.
Speaker 1: Howard at the end of the game. But Winston, he's
Speaker 1: been reliable in terms of staying healthy and being starting games.
Speaker 1: He started thirty seven games straight. So if he does
Speaker 1: miss this, yeah, I think that that might throw a
Speaker 1: lot of people off, a lot of the players off
Speaker 1: on why else do you get Ryan Fitzpatrick, who they
Speaker 1: paid pretty good money to be a backup. And we
Speaker 1: know Fitzpatrick's limitations, but he could also he he checks
Speaker 1: the most important boxes of backup. A guy you could
Speaker 1: turn a team over to for a few weeks and
Speaker 1: he might even help you if he's hot. And I
Speaker 1: think this might be a situation where they would have
Speaker 1: to give a hard thought to whether to give Winston
Speaker 1: a little blow here. Yeah if he if he's not right,
Speaker 1: you don't want to worry about him long term, including
Speaker 1: just this season. Also, are worried a little bit about
Speaker 1: this season falling too far behind now. Right now, the
Speaker 1: NFC South has all within one game in the lost column.
Speaker 1: But they're going to Buffalo this week. You know that
Speaker 1: that's not an easy game. You don't want to go
Speaker 1: two and four. And then you play the Panthers in
Speaker 1: the Saints after that. These are big games. This is
Speaker 1: a weird team. I mean, their fourth in the league
Speaker 1: in yards, it's not like Jameis Winston wasn't moving the ball,
Speaker 1: and their thirtieth on defense and yards allowed, so they
Speaker 1: they I don't know what to think of the but
Speaker 1: when I watched them on the streets, what defines them really?
Speaker 1: I think they're not far away from being explosive on offense.
Speaker 1: They've certainly moved the ball, but they just can't like
Speaker 1: quite put it all together. He's given himself a pep talk,
Speaker 1: like we know that for sure. He's listening to the
Speaker 1: self improvement. In other injury news, Emmanuel Sanders a complete
Speaker 1: lost night for the Broncos on Sunday against the Giants,
Speaker 1: and at the end of the game they lost Sanders,
Speaker 1: who sprained his ankle. Did not look good. He got
Speaker 1: carded off. He looked in pain just being put on
Speaker 1: the car and he wondered if that was a serious injury. Well,
Speaker 1: it's kind of in the middle. It's a week to
Speaker 1: week sprained ankle. He will miss Sunday's game against the
Speaker 1: Chargers um. In other Broncos news, Trevor Simeon had an
Speaker 1: m R. I came back positive. He heard himself diving
Speaker 1: on a pick six attempt. He'll be fine, it looks like,
Speaker 1: but he will not have Sanders, and that's that's not good.
Speaker 1: Greg Sanders is so valuable. He's Simeon's favorite target, and
Speaker 1: the receivers after him are Benny Fowler and Sunshine Taylor.
Speaker 1: Sunshine Taylor, what about Cody Latimer. I mean I I
Speaker 1: don't forget him. Greg Cody Latimer has been on that
Speaker 1: team a long time and never get any plane time.
Speaker 1: Another Elway draft pick. That's a tad suspicious Alright. Moving on,
Speaker 1: the Raiders have Navarro Bowman on their team though, how
Speaker 1: about that San Francisco forty Niners, of course, released the
Speaker 1: veteran linebacker on Friday. Um he is, you know, obviously
Speaker 1: he slowed down a little bit mark ever since he
Speaker 1: suffered that horrible knee injury against the Seahawks in the
Speaker 1: playoffs a couple of years back. Had become a suspect
Speaker 1: pass coverage guy. But he could will help a team,
Speaker 1: you would think, and the Raiders are banking on that,
Speaker 1: so they signed him to a one year deal worth
Speaker 1: three million dollars. Well why not, you need all the
Speaker 1: help you can get on defense. He still can stop
Speaker 1: the run. And I find it interesting that the Raiders
Speaker 1: and forty Niners operate almost like teams from the nineteen forties,
Speaker 1: where it's like, oh yeah, cut by San Francisco, Michael Crabtree,
Speaker 1: come on up to Bowman coming up to Oakland. I
Speaker 1: mean it's like there's been four or five guys that
Speaker 1: Reggie Mackenzie has plucked away from the Niners. It's a
Speaker 1: weird situation. I remember the forty Niners getting all worked
Speaker 1: up and making a public statement that he wasn't on
Speaker 1: the trade block when there was a report that he
Speaker 1: was earlier this summer. I think that's kind of improven
Speaker 1: that they weren't that interesting. I mean, I I pushed
Speaker 1: back against I saw a lot of tweets of like,
Speaker 1: why didn't our team sign Navarro Bowman, Like, you know,
Speaker 1: we need to, Like there's a reason that they cut
Speaker 1: a twenty nine year older's coming off a torn achilles.
Speaker 1: I mean, he came back from that injury in the
Speaker 1: playoffs and started to look like the old Navarro and
Speaker 1: then he tore his achilles, and so that the Raiders
Speaker 1: need help because that they have a really poor linebacker position.
Speaker 1: But you know, I'm not expecting miracles. This is a
Speaker 1: bad dec Oh. They've lost four straight games too at
Speaker 1: this point, so they're in trouble in their own division.
Speaker 1: They have, they have major problems. I don't know how
Speaker 1: much Navarro Bowman is going to help at this point. Too.
Speaker 1: Might with a young group who's almost barely played football
Speaker 1: at the NFL level, linebacker that you have a guy
Speaker 1: who knows who used to be one of the best
Speaker 1: linebackers in the league, but you're not gonna save them.
Speaker 1: Here's something that um came out last week, but we
Speaker 1: didn't get a chance to talk about it because the
Speaker 1: timing of it all. But anyway, the the Bucks moved
Speaker 1: on from Nick Folk as we know, after he struggled
Speaker 1: after replacing Robbioguyo. And the Bucks have a whole curse
Speaker 1: going on that goes back a couple of years if
Speaker 1: you really start digging into it, that they have had
Speaker 1: they've struggled to have healthy kickers, effective kickers. Anyway, you
Speaker 1: should cover this story bar on this show. I feel
Speaker 1: like it's been a little under representing. It's like one
Speaker 1: of those things like what makes our show special. If
Speaker 1: you need a deep dive extended, like months long coverage
Speaker 1: of the Bucks kicker situation, right right here, this is
Speaker 1: where you go. Anyway, Pat Murray is now on the team.
Speaker 1: He of course, um was. He used to be on
Speaker 1: the team. He tore his a c L and got
Speaker 1: replaced by I think Connor Barth or maybe correspondent one. Anyway,
Speaker 1: so Murray sigms the team. He starts talking to the
Speaker 1: local reporters and he tells Rick Stroud of the Tampa
Speaker 1: Bay Times, I believe right, uh that he's been consulting
Speaker 1: with a medium. Uh and uh, Mark, can you explain
Speaker 1: to the audience who might not know what a medium is, Well,
Speaker 1: it's a psychic basically, and there's a lot of varieties
Speaker 1: of it is not a psychic. That is very medium
Speaker 1: communicates with the dead. A medium serves as a medium
Speaker 1: between the living and the souls that have passed on.
Speaker 1: That makes the perfect sense, like exclaimed to have that
Speaker 1: power too, but that but so now, so what what reportedly?
Speaker 1: What dead individual is he attempting to reach to channel?
Speaker 1: That's what they do. They This is what Rick Shroud had.
Speaker 1: She she's k cares of the past that have been lost.
Speaker 1: She's helped me tremendously with a lot of different things.
Speaker 1: And she's helped me tremendously with a lot of different things.
Speaker 1: And maybe it's just getting me to talk has helped me.
Speaker 1: See that sounds more like a a psychologist. But I'd
Speaker 1: like to know what dead figure you're attempting to write.
Speaker 1: And the insurance doesn't cover in a medium, so he
Speaker 1: might want to change his strategy. I mean getting stuff
Speaker 1: off my chest and being able to really feel that
Speaker 1: positive energy. So I guess, all right, I have medium
Speaker 1: history myself. I have never I have never been to
Speaker 1: a medium. But my mother UM has five sisters, I
Speaker 1: have an older sister, and it is or was at
Speaker 1: one time, UM a long running tradition that every year
Speaker 1: all the girls, including my grandmother UM, would go to
Speaker 1: this medium somewhere in Rockland County. Keith didn't go. Keith
Speaker 1: sat it out, but I know, I think all the
Speaker 1: all the men in the family was kind of just
Speaker 1: like a shoulder shrug, like really okay, And they would
Speaker 1: go and they would speak to UM. People in the
Speaker 1: family have passed on, and they'd usually they'd come back
Speaker 1: with stories about what the medium told them in terms
Speaker 1: of predictions or feelings about the children. And it was
Speaker 1: a whole thing in the Carson household. Does anyone else
Speaker 1: have any medium story? They follow question, what did they
Speaker 1: ever get bad news and come home and report bad news?
Speaker 1: Or is it typically all positive? You're gonna find love,
Speaker 1: your career is gonna bloom. This happened, Yeah, this happened
Speaker 1: when I was younger. So I remember UM never hearing
Speaker 1: bad news, but that doesn't mean it it didn't happen.
Speaker 1: What I'll do to follow up on this story speak
Speaker 1: with my mother personally and find out if there ever
Speaker 1: was bad news. You think the a t N media
Speaker 1: insider could get this information? I think, yeah, I could.
Speaker 1: I could talk to about it. She probably wouldn't want
Speaker 1: to talk about it's it's kind of a family thing.
Speaker 1: But well, now it's out in the open. I will
Speaker 1: I will get the information. I will be the medium
Speaker 1: in this case and share it with you. Who would
Speaker 1: you talk to if you went to a medium, who
Speaker 1: would you want to connect with right now? I'd probably
Speaker 1: have a good conversation with Tom Petty. That's a great one.
Speaker 1: Listen to a lot of Petty right now. So I
Speaker 1: talked to Petty. I feel like he's busy. He's like, yeah,
Speaker 1: I've had a lot of requests that they're doing literally nothing. Yeah.
Speaker 1: Does anyone else have a medium story? The only one
Speaker 1: I went to, like San Francisco, Yeah, it's not as evolved.
Speaker 1: Like the Vesuvio Cafe is right in the middle of
Speaker 1: like that whole area of San Francisco, tons of bars
Speaker 1: and restaurants above it. There's a very famous psychic that
Speaker 1: like the beat writers used to go to everyone way
Speaker 1: back in the day, and the round two thousand four,
Speaker 1: I went to one with my friend after we had
Speaker 1: downed many many beers of vesuvio, and I went, the
Speaker 1: psychic is gonna give us good news like they all do.
Speaker 1: Psychic right, she goes up. My friend Mike got a
Speaker 1: very I believe, a sort of a run of the mill.
Speaker 1: You're young, there's a lot of promise for you. And
Speaker 1: I went next, and all I remember her telling me
Speaker 1: was that there was some sort of flaw, um like
Speaker 1: a fatal flaw in my family line that was essentially
Speaker 1: a curse, had been passed down from generation to generation
Speaker 1: was now affecting me. And I thought, check out checks out. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it does not check it. And I thought, how can
Speaker 1: you tell me that? And then she wanted twenty bucks cash.
Speaker 1: This is drunk special. You come up there a little
Speaker 1: too sauce, and she buries you. Well. I said, I
Speaker 1: am not paying you for that, because I don't I
Speaker 1: need more. I went not, and she got very upset.
Speaker 1: But it's like, I'm not paying you for that bit
Speaker 1: of information. Detail. She did the reverse to me, you're
Speaker 1: telling you. You're sending some guy out onto the street
Speaker 1: that you suddenly have a family curse layered over you.
Speaker 1: I don't think so. I don't want to take sides
Speaker 1: against the family here, Mark, But I probably paid this.
Speaker 1: I probably paid her. I don't know. She is not
Speaker 1: beholden to give you good news. You sit down with
Speaker 1: her and she tells you your fortune. What is this
Speaker 1: fatal flaw? Though she just told you there was very ago.
Speaker 1: Seven beers and please so well, it's working for Patrick Murray.
Speaker 1: He hasn't missed a kick all year. Yeah, he's killing
Speaker 1: any medium talk. Don't even say for the Medium podcast.
Speaker 1: We just did it. Yeah, yeah, alright, Micropot finally in
Speaker 1: the news. Uh, Colleen, you are from the Philadelphia area,
Speaker 1: I am um. And the Eagles fans are not happy.
Speaker 1: They're five and one, but they're still not happy. They're
Speaker 1: angry at referee referee Pete Morelli, whose crew flagged Philly
Speaker 1: ten times for a hundred and twenty six yards uh
Speaker 1: in their win over the Panthers, and they called only
Speaker 1: one penalty for one yard against Carolina. I'm not saying
Speaker 1: they have a case. I didn't study the tape, but
Speaker 1: that is interesting uh And, according to Dave Zangaro of NBCs,
Speaker 1: this is the first thank you. This is the time
Speaker 1: in NFL history one team had over twenty penalty yards
Speaker 1: while the other had fewer than ten. And so as
Speaker 1: a result of that. Uh. There's a fan, an Eagles fan.
Speaker 1: His name he has a first name, but I like
Speaker 1: his last name so much. I bet, and I bet
Speaker 1: this is what it goes on in his own life.
Speaker 1: People only call him by his last name. A fan
Speaker 1: named Phil Brick has started a change dot org petition
Speaker 1: asking uh Rob Goodell to keep Morett Pete Morelli away
Speaker 1: from Eagles games going forward, and it has wait for it,
Speaker 1: sixty thousand signatures by Tuesday morning. The first sentence of
Speaker 1: I won't read the entire Phil Brick screed, but it
Speaker 1: says NFL referee Pete Morelli has a clear and statistically
Speaker 1: obvious bias against the Philadelphia Eagles. Uh and he's sick
Speaker 1: and tired of it. And Colleen, are you buying in?
Speaker 1: Have you signed it? No? But I have it up
Speaker 1: on my computer right now. And I was actually just
Speaker 1: about to know why hosts like fourteen show for the
Speaker 1: NFL not sign that I'm not I'm not. I'm not.
Speaker 1: I mean, but I feel I kind of want to.
Speaker 1: They've set up the computers in such a way that
Speaker 1: when you sign it, your computer immediately explodes, races everything. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I know, the smoke rise up and spells out you're fired.
Speaker 1: That's so elaborate. I kind of just want to see it.
Speaker 1: Maybe somebody else can do it for me. Uh yeah.
Speaker 1: In a shocking turn of events, Eagles fans are not happy,
Speaker 1: even though the team is actually winning right now, five
Speaker 1: and one team in the league, and oh yeah, it's
Speaker 1: a bit of hubris to think this is gonna work.
Speaker 1: I'm seeing I'm looking at the list and there is
Speaker 1: a Connie Gonzalez. There is not stop it. But hey,
Speaker 1: I love the creativity. This is great change dot org.
Speaker 1: They have a lot of wonderful petitions going on for
Speaker 1: a lot of great poses. You're reading an ad for
Speaker 1: change It. It's definitely one of them. That's what's happening
Speaker 1: in the news. Alright, let's talk Thursday night football preview,
Speaker 1: which of course is sponsored by the Head and Shoulders
Speaker 1: Shoulders of Greatness. I don't really know what that means.
Speaker 1: Sounds good, but you can see your shoulders when you
Speaker 1: use head and shoulders because they're not covered in Dan Dreff.
Speaker 1: You know who that's good. You know who has great shoulders.
Speaker 1: Fall of ninety one, Zack Morris, Oh my god, bring
Speaker 1: this back. Youre going to bring up I think you're
Speaker 1: going to bring up Shugarsion. How did that check out
Speaker 1: with the listeners? That that was your the body you wanted.
Speaker 1: It's strangely got a people's radar about his youth, but
Speaker 1: you have to understand that in the Fall of ninety one,
Speaker 1: I was an eleven year old boy. Look looking at
Speaker 1: this nineteen year old unk to me, definitely getting better.
Speaker 1: I think you're only going deeper into the areas of critique. Yeah,
Speaker 1: And I just gotta say, while we're on the subject,
Speaker 1: before we get into the preview, you went with Mark
Speaker 1: the Brad Pitton Fight Club, which is a great, strong pick.
Speaker 1: It's also kind of basic. It's like, yeah, if everybody
Speaker 1: wants Brad Pitt's body, and I'm sorry I didn't pick
Speaker 1: a preteen, which is not basic, but it is very question.
Speaker 1: He's a late teen. It's a very big colley. Do
Speaker 1: you want to share your like dream? Yes? Because this
Speaker 1: this definitely will be awkward. This is an awkward exchange
Speaker 1: between the two of us. I feel like, no, I
Speaker 1: would go with I'm gonna go Jasmine from the Disney
Speaker 1: movie Aladdin. I mean that's a kid's card. Yeah, Colleen
Speaker 1: doesn't get buried for it because none of us know
Speaker 1: what Jasmine look because she's not a real person. So
Speaker 1: Jack Morris, by the way, just for the wreck Club,
Speaker 1: well Brad Pitt's body, Greg, I don't think that's a
Speaker 1: I think that was a solid pick. I'll stick with it.
Speaker 1: I think so too, Breck. I think you had a
Speaker 1: great pick. You shared what you shared it in our
Speaker 1: n R. I am room. What who you would pick?
Speaker 1: I can't even remember at this wasn't like a tennis
Speaker 1: layer or something. No, oh, no, that's right. I went
Speaker 1: with Gilbert got Gilbert, which I found was we can
Speaker 1: all drink that is the winning pick. All right. So
Speaker 1: let's talk about the Thursday night football matchup between Mark
Speaker 1: V Raiders and the Kansas City Chiefs and a very
Speaker 1: important game mark uh for ball teams, but especially the Raiders.
Speaker 1: So the Chiefs finally lost. Um, they're five one. Now
Speaker 1: they go on the road to Oakland. Hey, even if
Speaker 1: they lose this game, they're okay. The Chiefs are okay.
Speaker 1: But the Raiders are two and four and they just
Speaker 1: had a terrible home loss to the Chargers. I mean,
Speaker 1: how how deep are they in it? If they can't
Speaker 1: find a way against Kansas. You lose this game, you're
Speaker 1: two and five, and then you go on the road
Speaker 1: against Buffalo in Miami before you're bye week your season.
Speaker 1: How do you climb out of two and five in
Speaker 1: the toughest division with the rest of the schedule they
Speaker 1: face as well. I I my deeper concern is I
Speaker 1: don't really believe in the Raiders based on what I've
Speaker 1: seen over the last at lead two to three weeks
Speaker 1: on tape. No, the offense just it's nowhere near the
Speaker 1: same what it was last year. And Derek Carr, he
Speaker 1: just looks stiff right now. He's not he can't do
Speaker 1: the same things he was doing. I mean, it was
Speaker 1: nice that Amari Cooper did make some catches in the game,
Speaker 1: but it's not like he played a big role either.
Speaker 1: But noble, right, certainly noble, I would say, very noble.
Speaker 1: He wasn't really the problem. Extremely noble, I mean handsome
Speaker 1: and noble and brave. What's what's happening right now. I
Speaker 1: the problem was was partly the game plan, was the
Speaker 1: fact that they were so we're trying to get a
Speaker 1: house like gushing over the Raiders scenario. We need to
Speaker 1: say something, and there's not a lot of positive things
Speaker 1: to say right now. Part of his problem last week
Speaker 1: was just the game plan. I mean, he's playing with
Speaker 1: a broken bone in his back, and so they decided
Speaker 1: to get the ball out of his hands really quickly
Speaker 1: and throw nothing downfield. A couple of times he did
Speaker 1: throw downfield looked a little weird, so I wouldn't it's
Speaker 1: not surprising that he's not a dent when he's coming
Speaker 1: off a broken bone in his back. The problem is
Speaker 1: the offensive line. It's not Marshall Lynch. I think Marshall
Speaker 1: Lynch is running well. The problem is the defense that
Speaker 1: can't get on off the field. They're not opening up holes.
Speaker 1: I mean, this is four straight weeks. They've been one
Speaker 1: of the worst offenses in the league, giving up a
Speaker 1: lot of penetration, and when when it came, when push
Speaker 1: came to shove at the end of the game, they
Speaker 1: couldn't get a stop. They could not get the San
Speaker 1: Diego Charger. I mean the Los Angeles charged. It's like
Speaker 1: we're spending all this time on their disappointing offense, which
Speaker 1: average is thinking about thirteen points a game over the
Speaker 1: last month. Pretty bad. But it's their defense that has
Speaker 1: always been suspect the entire time. I mean, what are
Speaker 1: we clinging to with this team that still says playoff hopeful?
Speaker 1: They somehow to have Khalil Mack and they don't have
Speaker 1: a pass rush that hard thing to accomplish. Well, this
Speaker 1: is what you're clinging to. It's still just week six.
Speaker 1: We just they there's no doubt about it. But they
Speaker 1: showed so much to last year that I'm not ready
Speaker 1: to count them out. And you could look at it
Speaker 1: as um, they're in deep trouble, which they are, especially
Speaker 1: if they lose this game. But the other way to
Speaker 1: look at it is home game against the Chiefs and
Speaker 1: then two road games against the Middle. I know people
Speaker 1: like Buffalo, but uh, winnable games on the road into
Speaker 1: your bye. So there's a chance that they can get
Speaker 1: things together and be just fine going into that by.
Speaker 1: So you need to see them go into that buy
Speaker 1: at five and four, which means you need to go well,
Speaker 1: but I need to go three and oh basically between
Speaker 1: now and the bye I know, two of three and
Speaker 1: and still be okay, it's a wide open conference come
Speaker 1: back against the Patriots in Denver. You got the Chiefs. Well,
Speaker 1: look at that schedule. The Patriots are not the Patriots
Speaker 1: right now. The Broncos just got destroyed by the Giants.
Speaker 1: The Giants are one in five. I mean, you can
Speaker 1: you can make I think they need to go about
Speaker 1: eight and two from here to the end of the
Speaker 1: season to make the playoffs. I have absolutely no faith
Speaker 1: though that they can do it. And right they're going
Speaker 1: up against one of the best offense in the league.
Speaker 1: And yes, Pittsburgh kind of has Kansas City figured out.
Speaker 1: And I think the offensive line injuries, which we haven't
Speaker 1: talked a lot about in Kansas City, finally showed up.
Speaker 1: But there's nothing that the Raiders defense, especially has shown
Speaker 1: me under Ken Norton. This is a three year problem
Speaker 1: that they haven't really solved. That lets me think that
Speaker 1: they're gonna slow down this Kansas City offense. I love
Speaker 1: the Chiefs in this game. I'm with you, man, Oh
Speaker 1: do you love him? That him? I just locked him up?
Speaker 1: What can we get a confrontational locked him up for me. Yeah.
Speaker 1: I love whenever I see Greg, like, look over behind
Speaker 1: the glass. You know he's got something before. Um, that's good.
Speaker 1: I'm not gonna go I'm not gonna do a lock
Speaker 1: off should you know? Not in this case. But I
Speaker 1: think the Raiders will absolutely be game in this game.
Speaker 1: I think they're gonna be taken down by maybe fourteen points.
Speaker 1: And I think playing two games in five days is
Speaker 1: not great when you have a broken bone in your
Speaker 1: back either. I'm talking like I'm talking how games do?
Speaker 1: I think the Raiders are gonna be? Like the ocean
Speaker 1: is gonna be two hundred and twelve degrees fahrenheit? Did
Speaker 1: you just look it up? Did you just don't know?
Speaker 1: Boil it? What's the temper boils at? Yeah? Baby? Whoa?
Speaker 1: And for the overseas listeners, one hundreds I'm not sure
Speaker 1: that checks out? Is that that's correct? With a lot
Speaker 1: more logical? Well, yeah, they had exactly they had got
Speaker 1: they got to this first, big, big, nice round number
Speaker 1: right there. Um, I do think the Raiders are gonna win.
Speaker 1: By the way, am I alone on it? I found
Speaker 1: like I think the Chiefs are gonna win. This is
Speaker 1: a team that doesn't trust their running games so much
Speaker 1: that they're you know, doing pitch plays or El Patterson
Speaker 1: on third one and that said, weird stuff happens. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it wouldn't be a huge upset by any means. I
Speaker 1: think they I mean, they mean, they're probably barely an
Speaker 1: underdog and all that. I just I just don't like it.
Speaker 1: Week after we they've kind of been the same team.
Speaker 1: They've been one of the more consistent teams in the league,
Speaker 1: consistently well, terrible to watch. We were all singing the
Speaker 1: praises after week too. I'm saying, I'm saying, four straight
Speaker 1: weeks they've gone out and in week two, I mean,
Speaker 1: the question is whether or And that's why I guess
Speaker 1: that the core of this is are they in a
Speaker 1: slump or are they actually not a very good team?
Speaker 1: And those are the shoulders of greatness presented by head
Speaker 1: and shoulders. All right, all right, here we go. We
Speaker 1: got one more thing to get to today. It's very important. Uh.
Speaker 1: He is one of the most important members of the
Speaker 1: Around the NFL news team. He's also a favorite son
Speaker 1: of the Around the NFL podcast. You may know him
Speaker 1: as a reporter, a dog adjournal a former beat scribe.
Speaker 1: Uh turned blogger UM who lives in a haunted mansion
Speaker 1: in New Jersey. He is Connor Or. Welcome back to
Speaker 1: the Around the NFL podcast. Connor, what's going on? Guy? Hi? Hey? Now,
Speaker 1: Um Connor? Um, I don't even know how we want
Speaker 1: to do this, but we have not done or are
Speaker 1: you kidding me? In a while? So too long would
Speaker 1: it be? Is today a good day to do? Or
Speaker 1: you kidding me? Bring it back out? I think so?
Speaker 1: I think. I think this is a time for a
Speaker 1: special one. It's time for a very special or you
Speaker 1: kidding me? What's And if you don't know or you're
Speaker 1: kidding me, we give Connor to the opportunity. He's a
Speaker 1: very nice guy, genial guy. Um, pretty laid back most
Speaker 1: of the time, but also a little fire in that belly.
Speaker 1: And if that fire doesn't get out, it's just like Connie.
Speaker 1: I know you're a fan of the All Time trains.
Speaker 1: When the the old coal gets stuck in there and
Speaker 1: it doesn't have the release point, the whole thing can blow.
Speaker 1: I know, it's a major problem. You got to release it.
Speaker 1: She has a huge rail fan big time. You should
Speaker 1: see your garage. Yeah, I have a platform and it's great,
Speaker 1: there's little houses anyway, Connor's Connor. This this segment allows
Speaker 1: Connor to keep from blowing and that's why it's time
Speaker 1: to play? Or are you kidding me? What's what's grinding
Speaker 1: your gears? Uh? This week? Connor? Well, I mean, i'd
Speaker 1: have to say, over the last three years, there's been
Speaker 1: a lot of things that have bothered me, things that
Speaker 1: have you know, gotten me all fired up. But I
Speaker 1: gotta stay today. You know, nothing really gets me more
Speaker 1: fired up than the prospect of good times coming to
Speaker 1: an end and having to say goodbye to very special people.
Speaker 1: What is he talking about? I don't like the direction.
Speaker 1: Go on. Yeah, so this will be uh, this will
Speaker 1: be my last week at NFL dot Com, my last
Speaker 1: week as part of the around the NFL team And
Speaker 1: what Yeah? Are you going to be a stay at
Speaker 1: home dad? What's happening? Um? No, I'm actually I'm gonna
Speaker 1: stay in the football world, so I'll be seeing you
Speaker 1: guys everywhere still all of our fun trips and adventures.
Speaker 1: But I'm going to be a football writer for sports illustrators.
Speaker 1: Oh you sold out to Peter King of all people?
Speaker 1: How dare you? Wow? This is this is wild Connor. Well,
Speaker 1: we knew about it, but a n media insider, so
Speaker 1: I had to break it on the podcast. You know
Speaker 1: that means a lot to me, Connor. Really, it has
Speaker 1: not come out yet. This is the first time first
Speaker 1: platform Hunter is leaving NFL Media for Monday Morning Quarterback,
Speaker 1: and we're really excited for you. Connor. It's a great gig.
Speaker 1: I think we all agree it's a great match for
Speaker 1: your skill set and all that. But damn, we're gonna
Speaker 1: miss you, buddy. I know, you know, I was thinking
Speaker 1: about that today, like all the good times he had.
Speaker 1: I was actually just thinking about Mark and I when
Speaker 1: we were in London and like, you know, they treated
Speaker 1: us like the Beatles over there. Was like, this has
Speaker 1: been an amazing three years. I really, uh, you know,
Speaker 1: I came as a as a as a naive person
Speaker 1: to the ways of the A T N world, and
Speaker 1: I'm leaving a very different human beings just turned wistful
Speaker 1: something that they You know, NFL media, there's a lot
Speaker 1: of competition to keep talent. A lot of times we
Speaker 1: lose talented people here. We've seen that happen before. Connor.
Speaker 1: We're getting to know him. He is vastly younger than
Speaker 1: many of us. And you see an incredible career ahead,
Speaker 1: an incredible writer and creative mind and someone that I
Speaker 1: really I treasured your friendship over the years. Connor. I
Speaker 1: wish you luck, buddy. Thanks man. Yeah, and you know,
Speaker 1: for for all of you know the marking Connor fans,
Speaker 1: the heating light pot isn't going anyway. That was my
Speaker 1: next question, what about your vanity project? So it's coming back,
Speaker 1: it's still it's still on the picture. It had to do.
Speaker 1: We had to deal with a little bit of um.
Speaker 1: There were some questions from let's say our side of things,
Speaker 1: and uh, we have cleared those hurdles and we will
Speaker 1: be returning each a hard out richard that we're breaking
Speaker 1: media news like it's good anyway. Yeah, congrats Connor. We
Speaker 1: we are gonna miss you. I told Connor this, but
Speaker 1: I mean, he is one of those guys that I
Speaker 1: hope to still be working in football in some capacity,
Speaker 1: hopefully the industry still exists in fifteen or twenty years.
Speaker 1: But he is one of those guys I fully expect
Speaker 1: if I'm lucky enough to be doing that that Connor
Speaker 1: Or he's a lifer, He's gonna be one of those
Speaker 1: guys that is covering this sport, covering sports in general.
Speaker 1: I think it'll be football until the cows coming. I mean,
Speaker 1: he's gonna be doing it, whether it's however the business changes,
Speaker 1: Connor is gonna be one of those guys who's covering
Speaker 1: Super Bowl sixty. And he's still giving you know, jabs
Speaker 1: to Bob Glauber along the way, and like he's not
Speaker 1: gonna be on this podcast, which is unfortunate as a
Speaker 1: member of NFL media, although frankly we could still have
Speaker 1: him on as as that's that's not what he told
Speaker 1: me privately, his exact words, this is over that that's
Speaker 1: too bad. But he'll be covering football. It's not like
Speaker 1: Connor or is going away. And and Connor, you could
Speaker 1: promise me that you're still gonna like show us around
Speaker 1: Indie when we all combine and go go cigar smoking
Speaker 1: and steak eating and grilled cheese in the morning and
Speaker 1: all that and drinking in hotel lobbies. Yes, I mean
Speaker 1: that pad is never going to change. I think, you know,
Speaker 1: we will always have Indianapolis. That is, that is always
Speaker 1: something that will be uh near and dear to our hearts,
Speaker 1: and we will be there in February at NICKI Blaine's
Speaker 1: just like we would any any other any other February.
Speaker 1: I'll bring my Inhaler. I made some I made some
Speaker 1: mistakes in my old role as the boss, But bringing
Speaker 1: in Connor that that was a home run, right there.
Speaker 1: Maybe a little pat on the bat. Oh yeah, weird spot.
Speaker 1: UM All right, here we go before we say goodbye, Connor,
Speaker 1: one more A little surprise for you unless you have
Speaker 1: Do you have anything else to add? No? I think
Speaker 1: that's it. He's out the door. His gears are no
Speaker 1: longer grinding, and he's just happy. He's happy to be leaving. UM.
Speaker 1: One more surprise for you, Connor UM. As you know. UM.
Speaker 1: A little background here, Connor, one of his many UM
Speaker 1: famous appearances on this program goes back to his love
Speaker 1: of his PlayStation three, UM Archaic PS three and UM
Speaker 1: a little walk down memory lane. That's real quick here,
Speaker 1: UM a reminder of when Connor UM got Chip Kelly
Speaker 1: in an imaginary world to sign on to coach up
Speaker 1: my not State and take them to the Promised Land.
Speaker 1: Let's take a quick trip down memory lane. We're back
Speaker 1: on PlayStation baby, and we are bringing ship Kelly back.
Speaker 1: I mean this is this is white hot and everyone
Speaker 1: can play along. As you know, they stopped making um
Speaker 1: the college football video games due to the players lawsuits,
Speaker 1: so I have the last one on PlayStation three. And
Speaker 1: Tip Kelly needed a job. He was talking about going
Speaker 1: back to college and e A Sports left up the
Speaker 1: Team Creator website from like two thousand thirteen, which allows
Speaker 1: you to still add franchises. And the only school at
Speaker 1: the time with the vacancy or the my Not state
Speaker 1: Beavers of North Dakota, and our new motto is why not?
Speaker 1: It's all right? So Connor legendary figure and my Not
Speaker 1: North Dakota, I think legendary. Chip Kelly admirer, I would
Speaker 1: say as well. Absolutely. So what I did is I
Speaker 1: reached out to the city of might Not and I said, hey,
Speaker 1: um uh, can I can we get somebody on the phone,
Speaker 1: maybe the mayor, the treasurer, the comptroller, parks and rector
Speaker 1: act or somebody. What I got was the public information
Speaker 1: officer for the city of my Not. His name is
Speaker 1: Derek Hackett. And I thought, on this very special day,
Speaker 1: the end of Connor Oars tenure at NFL Media, uh
Speaker 1: to to have a figure from the city of might
Speaker 1: not come on and and help celebrate Connor's time here.
Speaker 1: Welcome Derek to the Around the NFL podcast. Are you there, Derek? Hello? Derek? Oh,
Speaker 1: Derek Shy Welcome Derek. Hello. How are you? Hi? Am good?
Speaker 1: How are you guys? We're we're doing great. We're a
Speaker 1: little bit, you know, melancholy. We're losing Connor from the
Speaker 1: NFL media army. But I know Derek that you, um,
Speaker 1: you and everyone else and might not Connor always will
Speaker 1: hold a special place correct in your hearts? You think
Speaker 1: you guys are melancholy. I have a whole city to
Speaker 1: deal with over here. Yeah, he he really did. He.
Speaker 1: I'm not gonna I'm not gonna say that he put
Speaker 1: my not on the map. That would be presumptuous, but
Speaker 1: he definitely. Okay, go ahead, go ahead, you take it away.
Speaker 1: You're exactly right now. I'm already interrupted. But yeah, we're
Speaker 1: on the map, the national map, so so much that
Speaker 1: the ground shook. What was it January fifth that we
Speaker 1: first appeared past? Wow, that's correct, all right? Is there
Speaker 1: any thought now that Connor's leaving? I know he's still
Speaker 1: with us, you know, on Earth, but any thought to
Speaker 1: building at at you to Connor and may not. Well,
Speaker 1: we're unfortunately we're in some some type of budget crisis. Um,
Speaker 1: so we don't have the funds yet yet. Let's qualify this,
Speaker 1: we don't have funds yet to erect any monument to Connor.
Speaker 1: But um, I now have I have a problem on
Speaker 1: my hands because I have to figure out what to
Speaker 1: do with all of these Connor or is my Homeboy
Speaker 1: t shirts that were making what has been like sort
Speaker 1: of the tangible fallout? Do you have are you you know,
Speaker 1: as as someone who operates in the government sector, are
Speaker 1: there active grief counselors that people can visit to deal
Speaker 1: with Connors to part this is a big job. I O, Well,
Speaker 1: we're gonna have to work really closely with Ward County
Speaker 1: on this one. That they sort of oversee all of
Speaker 1: our social countieship, so they're gonna be They're gonna be
Speaker 1: drastically involved in the coming weeks. Um. I guess I'll
Speaker 1: have to give you guys an update via Twitter or
Speaker 1: something like that if there's any kind of further fall up.
Speaker 1: Right now, we're holding We're holding everything together, uh with
Speaker 1: basics basically glue and paper clips here, but we're holding it.
Speaker 1: Together for now. If I could offer any this unsolicited advice,
Speaker 1: don't try to boil the ocean here, just do what
Speaker 1: you can do. And Derek, is there anything now as
Speaker 1: we say goodbye to Connor? And Connor is listening in
Speaker 1: right now, and then he's going to join us, rejoin us,
Speaker 1: is there anything that as a token of your appreciation,
Speaker 1: maybe you could you could offer the great NSR Or. Well,
Speaker 1: I'm going to bestow um an honor that since I've
Speaker 1: been with the City of Mine has only been given
Speaker 1: to one group, an end of the group, and that's Kiss.
Speaker 1: If you're familiar with the classic rock group. Yeah, they
Speaker 1: were given the combination of a key to the city
Speaker 1: and an official honorary citizenship to the City of Mine.
Speaker 1: And and I actually have a proclamation prepared for Connor
Speaker 1: Or as he Connor, are you on the line? This
Speaker 1: is breaking? Yeah, this is this is unbelievable honor. Are
Speaker 1: you crying right now? I'm getting a little misty over here?
Speaker 1: Is all right? Derek is about to read a proclamation,
Speaker 1: which that's the first, that's the first on this podcast,
Speaker 1: a real proclamation. Let it rip, Derek, alright, So, whereas
Speaker 1: Connor Or has success replaced the City of Minut on
Speaker 1: a major national stage using his D list celebrity status
Speaker 1: with a desert on the Around the NFL podcast, Whereas,
Speaker 1: because of his accomplishments in the virtual world of NT double,
Speaker 1: Connor has not only kept the PS three world relevant,
Speaker 1: but also boosted the Twitter fellowship of the City of Mina. Whereas,
Speaker 1: due to Mr Ore's periodic appearance on the A t
Speaker 1: N pod, commerce has psyched in the City of Mine
Speaker 1: with the production and distribution of the city sanctioned Connor
Speaker 1: Ore is my Homeboy t shirts. And Whereas Connor Ore
Speaker 1: Overnight has been adopted by the City of Mine as
Speaker 1: a true son of the city, joining a thin list
Speaker 1: of celebrities, celebrities like Josh de mel Whiz Khalifa, Dale Brown,
Speaker 1: and Rondo Rowsy and her mother. There therefore, do I
Speaker 1: tack at public Information officer of the City of Minut,
Speaker 1: but so go on to Connor Or a key to
Speaker 1: the city and an honorary citizenship through the City of Mina.
Speaker 1: Wow o O over sevente should be Connor Or day there.
Speaker 1: That is amazing, Connor your thoughts are you kidding me?
Speaker 1: That is like, I know where I'm going on vacations
Speaker 1: this year. I mean, I can't really, I can't believe it.
Speaker 1: And this is a physical key, right Derek, that Connor
Speaker 1: gets to put on his key chain, oversized classic key.
Speaker 1: It's almost worth losing you, Connor for the show, just
Speaker 1: for that moment. I know, if I knew, I would
Speaker 1: have taken another job. This is pretty amazing. Just just
Speaker 1: so you know, we have two TV stations, a daily newspaper,
Speaker 1: and multiple radio stations here. Connor, if you're you're looking
Speaker 1: for empire, yeah, that's what a p I A p
Speaker 1: I O does. Derek Hackett from the my not North
Speaker 1: Dakota Government, You've done amazing work, and I know Connor
Speaker 1: you are. You can hear in Connor's voice how excited
Speaker 1: he is about about this. So I think this is
Speaker 1: a mutually beneficial arrangement, and I believe it sounds like
Speaker 1: a union that could just blossom into even a longer term.
Speaker 1: Who knows where this is gonna go. How exciting we're here,
Speaker 1: We're here for you, all right, Thank you, Derek, Thank
Speaker 1: you guys. All right, Connor final thoughts as we sign
Speaker 1: off one less Connor, I gotta go, but so I'm
Speaker 1: gonna say by to you by body. It's been real
Speaker 1: you around all right? Cool final thoughts Connor, I would say, first,
Speaker 1: can someone get him my address so I can Yeah,
Speaker 1: we got that under control. The lindsay Land pretty sweet.
Speaker 1: Um uh yeah, I mean just you know, thank you.
Speaker 1: I mean the listeners were so awesome. They adopted me
Speaker 1: right away. Um, you know, they were very cool with
Speaker 1: some of the weirder things that we did, like uh,
Speaker 1: like my top five movies list and classic movies and
Speaker 1: all of the other or franchise things that we attempted
Speaker 1: on the podcast. Yeah, thank you, and uh I hopefully
Speaker 1: with your permission, I can still make some some occasional
Speaker 1: appearances here now and again. I think we have to
Speaker 1: do it. And I hope we see you at the
Speaker 1: super Bowl and we'll get you on the get you
Speaker 1: on the set of the super Bowl. That would be great.
Speaker 1: We'll talk about it. This is not the end of
Speaker 1: our relationship with Connor, but his relationship with NFL Media
Speaker 1: is over. One little final gift we got. We were
Speaker 1: working on this with David Ealey, but a PlayStation five
Speaker 1: which is released in twenty eighteen, and advanced copy of
Speaker 1: the PS five will be shipped to Connor oars and
Speaker 1: this is going to be ticketed by todd Sperry in
Speaker 1: our news division to pay for it right from the
Speaker 1: NFL's bill working on it. All right, we'll see if
Speaker 1: that happens. That sounds amazing though. Uh. Connor, thank you
Speaker 1: very much, good luck with everything. Uh, and thank you
Speaker 1: for being on our show so many times. See Ann,
Speaker 1: thank you guys, thank you, thank you. All right, that's
Speaker 1: it for the show. Thank you to everybody for listening.
Speaker 1: Remind her that this show will live stream on NFL
Speaker 1: dot com slash a t N video six pm Pacific,
Speaker 1: nine pm Eastern. Um. Uh and all that good stuff,
Speaker 1: and we'll be back on Thursday with another episode of
Speaker 1: the Round the NFL podcast. Let's do this thing? All right?
Speaker 1: Dan Hands is signing off for a quiet storm. Uh.
Speaker 1: Connie Fox, the old Boss, Lindsey Fulton, Christian Anderson behind
Speaker 1: the glass. Thank you to everyone. Goodbye, counter or you
Speaker 1: will be missed.