Speaker 1: Be Around the NFL Podcast has lost faith in the Browns.
Speaker 1: Four good. Welcome back to another edition of the Around
Speaker 1: the NFL Podcast. I'm your host today, Colleen Wolf, and
Speaker 1: I'm joined by room filled with heroes, Mark Sessler, Chris
Speaker 1: Westling and Greg Rosenthal. What's up, Gang, It's weird. It
Speaker 1: is a little weird. It's not gonna lie. We're gonna
Speaker 1: throw it out there and be transparent. It's not totally catchphrasey.
Speaker 1: But why do we need to start the show with
Speaker 1: a completely unnecessary, unmitigated shot at the Browns. Yeah, I mean,
Speaker 1: I don't know. I organized, you're directing you right now,
Speaker 1: and I don't know. Now I feel in charge and
Speaker 1: everything good. Start Colleen Now a couple a couple of
Speaker 1: times a year at least in the I haven't in
Speaker 1: a while, though, I mean it was it was much
Speaker 1: more of a negotiation this time with Colleen Agent now
Speaker 1: that she hosts four shows on NFL Network. She was
Speaker 1: a lot more costly. But you guys came through. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it came out of our budget. And you know, it
Speaker 1: was Greg's birthday yesterday and west is happy and happy birthday. Today.
Speaker 1: Guys had the Deep six. Today's celebration for them to
Speaker 1: pay for Colleen. That's that's right, this is your present,
Speaker 1: is me hosting? So I know, I know it was
Speaker 1: on your list celebration. How about less? Uh, we should
Speaker 1: be celebrating that he's even here right now. He took
Speaker 1: a red eye from Hawaii last night to it to
Speaker 1: make it here. You were there celebrating your birthday with
Speaker 1: the Paramore. Got in about six o'clock this morning to
Speaker 1: h l A. Took about a three hour nap. Good
Speaker 1: to go. And I saw the Paramore this morning in
Speaker 1: the parking lot and she said, she's like, I took
Speaker 1: two Bena drills on the plane and passed out. I mean,
Speaker 1: I can't even take a quarter of a Bena drill
Speaker 1: without passing out for hours on end. I have no
Speaker 1: idea how you're both here today. She currently on her
Speaker 1: edit desk editing stories. She is working in a different
Speaker 1: department today. That department that's gonna be a real treat
Speaker 1: for them. That's something else, all right. So do you
Speaker 1: guys have fun? And Whaii? We have blast. It's so beautiful.
Speaker 1: It's just absolutely gorgeous, and we had We're lucky. One
Speaker 1: of the girls that she used to do gymnastics with
Speaker 1: lives there on Lee Hue Uh Lee Hui. I guess
Speaker 1: is how it's wait one of the girls that Keisha
Speaker 1: did gymnastics with. I didn't even know Keisha did gymnastics.
Speaker 1: She did. Yeah, while you were ice skating, she was
Speaker 1: gym that's crazy. Yeah, so she lives there and she
Speaker 1: was a great tour guide on Saturday. I think that's
Speaker 1: the key to most good trips. Find a local who
Speaker 1: knows the best spots to go to. And uh, we
Speaker 1: did that for about nine or ten hours on Saturday.
Speaker 1: It was a blast. It's like, if you want to
Speaker 1: know the bars and Culver City, you go with Mark.
Speaker 1: Yeah that's what I did. Uh what day was over
Speaker 1: here on the corner? We did time. I had a
Speaker 1: nice time with Tam Posey and we plowed through drinks. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's to say the least it was. It was a
Speaker 1: great time. By Also, happy belated birthday guys. Um. We
Speaker 1: have a lot of news to get to to today.
Speaker 1: We have some fun news items. We're gonna get some
Speaker 1: odds and ends in here because that's taken a little
Speaker 1: bit of a of an off time. It's been on vacation,
Speaker 1: so we're bringing it back. You get Colleen in the studio.
Speaker 1: We gotta play the hits. That's right for you. That's
Speaker 1: odds and ends. Yeah, no, it's true. And then one
Speaker 1: trade we'd all like to see. So let's start off
Speaker 1: with some news. What's up, lindsay, this is the shortest
Speaker 1: four box ever constructed, and I mean that by height
Speaker 1: on our air Rosenthal How tall are you? You know
Speaker 1: if you round up, I go five six? How about that, Ciliano?
Speaker 1: Its some more contact, but that yeah, that was from
Speaker 1: me celebrating my birthday by doing, you know, being on
Speaker 1: a four box on up to the minute yesterday with
Speaker 1: some other short people. Filiana wild little short ian. Not
Speaker 1: a tall guy did he didn't want to reveal his height.
Speaker 1: He was not happy about that. Just something put it
Speaker 1: that way. Magnificance. Gara Folo was in there, who really
Speaker 1: didn't need to be crypts normal whatever he is, I
Speaker 1: forget what he said he is, yeah something, Well it
Speaker 1: was Gara Folo got tug down into that because he's
Speaker 1: a perfectly normal sized person. It was great. Uh. So
Speaker 1: let's start with the Jets right now. They want Kirk Cousins,
Speaker 1: they want him bad. So we have Rich Semini from
Speaker 1: ESPN dot Com saying that the Jets are willing to
Speaker 1: pay whatever it takes to get him. So what does
Speaker 1: that really mean. Well, there's been some reports that maybe
Speaker 1: that's a fully guaranteed contract. Um, we know Mike mcagnet
Speaker 1: has some money to play with, a hundred million dollars
Speaker 1: in cap space. So West, how do you like this
Speaker 1: pairing with the Jets if he were to go to
Speaker 1: him among all of his options. Well, there's a lot
Speaker 1: of rumbling on this pairing. But I look back to
Speaker 1: two thousand eleven when Peyton Manning was going through all
Speaker 1: this and nobody had any idea in bid February which
Speaker 1: team was going to be the most aggressive, which team
Speaker 1: Peyton Manning would go to. I think it's a little
Speaker 1: early to be pairing Cousins with the Jets, because I
Speaker 1: think the Broncos and the Browns and a couple other
Speaker 1: teams might be willing to pay whatever it takes too.
Speaker 1: There's this report from the New York Post that what
Speaker 1: the Jets want to do, because I mean, as we've
Speaker 1: talked about almost the cap thing, every team can find
Speaker 1: a way to figure out how to get a quarterback
Speaker 1: under contract for five plus years if they want to.
Speaker 1: But the Jets want to frontload it, apparently to the
Speaker 1: New York Post. Who knows what this means at this
Speaker 1: point with a this first year would be for sixty million.
Speaker 1: And I guess that's how you say, how do you
Speaker 1: how do you wipe Well, it's a report, how do
Speaker 1: you how do you wipe the Broncos off the scene?
Speaker 1: You could maybe do it that way, but ultimately, how
Speaker 1: do you How does one team really outbid another? Well,
Speaker 1: it's guaranteed money. So to me, it's more does he
Speaker 1: really care whether it's in the first year or whether
Speaker 1: it's all just fully guaranteed? Right? I think he has
Speaker 1: the leverage to have by far the most fully guaranteed
Speaker 1: money in NFL history. I don't see why he couldn't
Speaker 1: negotiate a hundred million dollars fully guaranteed, Like why why not?
Speaker 1: Why wouldn't his next four years, let's say, or three
Speaker 1: years be fully guaranteed? And yeah, if you're an NFL team,
Speaker 1: you can put that all on the front if you want,
Speaker 1: if you just want it as a huge signing bonus,
Speaker 1: spread it out over the course of the thing. But
Speaker 1: I I just wonder who is this coming from. I
Speaker 1: mean Ian Rappaport, our guy reported, The New York Post
Speaker 1: is reporting it, ESPN New York is reporting it. So
Speaker 1: either someone close to the Jets or the agent is
Speaker 1: putting that the Jets, or maybe the Jets want to
Speaker 1: put it out there and tell the tell Kirk Cousins, Hey, like,
Speaker 1: we're gonna pay whatever you need, like look at us,
Speaker 1: Take us seriously. Yeah, I mean, this is a guy
Speaker 1: who he's already made forty four million dollars and back
Speaker 1: to back franchise tags. He's he's making so much money
Speaker 1: and he's driving around in a van and he's frugal, Like,
Speaker 1: imagine how much money he's saving. He's just sitting on
Speaker 1: It's like cash of like a Central American like military god.
Speaker 1: I mean, like he's just sitting on money or just
Speaker 1: you know or like a you know, third string starting
Speaker 1: pitcher in trade, you know, and like or like you know,
Speaker 1: a six a sixth man in the NBA. So he's
Speaker 1: he's just gonna get what athletes and other sports usually.
Speaker 1: I do think this is a big story though, that
Speaker 1: we we know for sure that the Jets are basically
Speaker 1: all in, and we don't really know with the other teams,
Speaker 1: who is exactly all in or not? Because in the
Speaker 1: end it's probably not gonna only probably not every team
Speaker 1: is going to be all in that we that we
Speaker 1: think might be. If your cousins, though, do you automatically
Speaker 1: look at the Bronx everyone's putting, Oh, the Broncos are
Speaker 1: this perfect fit. There's still a super Bowl defense, all
Speaker 1: this stuff. If your cousins, do you really favor the
Speaker 1: Broncos over some of these other teams with the way
Speaker 1: they're made up on offense, particularly, Well, I don't what
Speaker 1: are the Jets and Browns offering? Well, I mean from
Speaker 1: a team angle, the Browns are offering very little, right,
Speaker 1: I get your point that the Broncos. A lot of
Speaker 1: people could look at that situation and say they've actually
Speaker 1: passed their super Bowl window and now they're more of
Speaker 1: a rebuilding team. They've got to rebuild that entire offensive line.
Speaker 1: That the Jets have a great line either, they have receivers.
Speaker 1: But you're right, the Vikings are kind of the only
Speaker 1: team that you just look at and if you're Kirk Cousins,
Speaker 1: you'd think, I can go and we'd be a super
Speaker 1: Bowl contender right away, which I think matters to him.
Speaker 1: I don't think we're talking about Drew Brees where he's
Speaker 1: big in the Players Association and it's all about money
Speaker 1: and getting the highest dollar available. I think Kirk Cousins
Speaker 1: has different a few different priorities than Drew Brees does. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and you look at a team like Arizona, they don't
Speaker 1: necessarily have the pieces that might be attractive to Kirk Cousins,
Speaker 1: but they're going to be just as aggressive as everyone
Speaker 1: else because that's been their plan all along. That's what
Speaker 1: Steve Wilkes said that they're not going to just rebuild
Speaker 1: right now. They want to go into this and try
Speaker 1: and and get as much as they can right now.
Speaker 1: Quarterback on like the Jets and the Browns, they don't
Speaker 1: have the draft pick sitting there, you know, that high
Speaker 1: where they feel like they're going to get a franchise
Speaker 1: guy in the draft. Yeah. Yeah, so we'll see what
Speaker 1: happens there. Um. Also, we have Doug Martin saying goodbye
Speaker 1: to Doug Martin and Tampa Bay. It's been a very
Speaker 1: up and down six year career for him, so it's
Speaker 1: not really surprising. He really has only had to two
Speaker 1: seasons where he went bananas over a thousand yards sort
Speaker 1: of mirrors like Dan Hansiss run in NFL at work.
Speaker 1: I'd say, how so, I'm just kidding. I want to
Speaker 1: see if he's listening to the show. Um, great key
Speaker 1: season then a couple of you know, four seasons under
Speaker 1: that's what you're saying. Four seasons under five hundred yards
Speaker 1: in two seasons over four hundred yards. That's a pretty
Speaker 1: weird career. It's a really weird career. I I said
Speaker 1: the tweet about it last week, how he's been over
Speaker 1: sixteen hundred yards from scrimmage and then two terrible years
Speaker 1: after that, like no years over six hundred yards from scrimmage,
Speaker 1: in two above six hundred yards. And he was an
Speaker 1: All Pro just two years ago. And they just have
Speaker 1: Peyton Barber and Jocquiz Rogers on the roster now, I mean,
Speaker 1: it's not it's not. But don't forget about fullback Allen Cross,
Speaker 1: a difference maker. They wanted to trade up for Dalvin
Speaker 1: Cook last year. You figure they'll they'll be drafting someone
Speaker 1: or signing someone in free agency both. That's a big
Speaker 1: area of need for them. Another team saying goodbye to
Speaker 1: someone after nine seasons the Texans and Brian Cushing. They're
Speaker 1: breaking up Brian Cushing, first round pickback and oh nine,
Speaker 1: the team's all time leader and sack or and tackles,
Speaker 1: but obviously last season to spending ten games and he's
Speaker 1: kind of been on the decline the last few years.
Speaker 1: One years old. Like he he saved them almost eight
Speaker 1: million by cutting him, So it wasn't surprising that they
Speaker 1: moved on at this point. It's not really surprising. You
Speaker 1: know why someone in here called it that was that
Speaker 1: was you potential a f C cut cases. So if
Speaker 1: you didn't read it, read it, shame on you. It's
Speaker 1: just basically telling the future. Doug Martin was there. It's
Speaker 1: surprising anyone with like off the field pay like any
Speaker 1: sort of off the field issue, he stuck around longer
Speaker 1: than I think most people would have been, considering his
Speaker 1: p D suspensions and injuries over the last handful of years.
Speaker 1: In the salary salary, I do want to mention we
Speaker 1: just got an email as we're taping this with Cushing
Speaker 1: in the mix, and it's titled profanity warning in all
Speaker 1: Ryan Cushing on Instagram regarding Texans release. I don't know
Speaker 1: if they had to lead the email with that apparently
Speaker 1: it was it was a transcript of him, you know,
Speaker 1: saying goodbye to the Texans, and it was all very
Speaker 1: very nice, and he was just seeing anyone who who
Speaker 1: thinks that this is just the game is full of
Speaker 1: you know what, that's all, I mean, passionate. It only
Speaker 1: goes to people in our in our newsroom, So I
Speaker 1: guess there's a lot a lot of what tender flowers
Speaker 1: down there that can't handle an S bomb in our newsroom.
Speaker 1: I wouldn't know that. I'm like dying to know what
Speaker 1: it is bomb. You know. Maybe they were worried about
Speaker 1: producers reading this and then put and just putting the
Speaker 1: instagram on a show which things like that. Okay, well
Speaker 1: so now we now we know. Now we have noticed
Speaker 1: that you gonna make your top our Our top one
Speaker 1: oh one rough draft list was due today. Uh occurred.
Speaker 1: I sent it in. I was wondering if Brian Cushing
Speaker 1: made West's Listen, my first instinct would be no, because
Speaker 1: I think he's been a huge disappointment for the past
Speaker 1: half decade. He doesn't play full seasons, and he's always
Speaker 1: at risk of a UM performance enhancing drug suspension. Like
Speaker 1: every single year, he's at risk of that. So I
Speaker 1: don't know if I want that guy on my team.
Speaker 1: But I'm so underwhelmed by this free agent class that
Speaker 1: there are no names that really excite me. Everyone important
Speaker 1: is going to get the tag. Kyle Fuller is the
Speaker 1: most exciting name to me of all the guys. It's
Speaker 1: a big drop off after twenty or twenty five players.
Speaker 1: I think the top twenty five is about I think
Speaker 1: it's a big drop off after four. Really that one
Speaker 1: on one spot, it's normally an exciting name. Will it
Speaker 1: be Mike Vick again? We pick someone, Yeah, that's a
Speaker 1: big name and they have to be stuck. That's been
Speaker 1: Mike Vick like three times, and it's a couple of times.
Speaker 1: I feel like I feel like Gino Smith is a
Speaker 1: pretty strong option for that. Jina Smith will not be
Speaker 1: in my top three hundred. How why would you act
Speaker 1: like Gino Smith is a starting quarterback? Well, here's the
Speaker 1: story that I've I feel like it's a little weird,
Speaker 1: and I don't know how much I believe it, But
Speaker 1: I'm just saying, like ps p F t As is
Speaker 1: wondering right now, Marcus Peters, is he on the trade block?
Speaker 1: I mean, they added David Emerson, they officially get Kendall
Speaker 1: Fuller from the Alex Smith deal in a few weeks,
Speaker 1: and there were all those things that happened during the
Speaker 1: season where you know, he got he thought he got
Speaker 1: ejected from the game, but he did and he came
Speaker 1: back out, he didn't have socks on or whatever, and
Speaker 1: then he got one of the greatest moments of the
Speaker 1: entire regular season. Dan really loves that moment um. But
Speaker 1: then he got suspended, and then we heard about how
Speaker 1: he got into a heated argument with a coach. So
Speaker 1: there were some things behind the scenes. But after that happened,
Speaker 1: he played his best. He he came out and I
Speaker 1: felt like he played the best tea that he played
Speaker 1: all season long. So is he on the trade block?
Speaker 1: I mean, do you believe in this at all? Rosie?
Speaker 1: I do, because multiple outlets are reporting it now. CBS
Speaker 1: also threw it out there, and I don't think it
Speaker 1: comes doesn't how these things are, It doesn't come out
Speaker 1: in a vacuum. Someone is putting out there, whether it's
Speaker 1: the agent, which would be my guess, or it's the team.
Speaker 1: Whatever it is. He's he has on his fifth year option,
Speaker 1: and maybe the Chiefs believe they're not gonna make him
Speaker 1: one of the highest paid defensive players in the league,
Speaker 1: that they've already sort of made up their mind on that,
Speaker 1: and that well why not, why don't we trade him
Speaker 1: get great value for him instead of letting him walk
Speaker 1: in free agency next year. I think that's well said.
Speaker 1: It's about timing. And this is his fifth year option year. Uh,
Speaker 1: Like Greg said, do you pay this guy one of
Speaker 1: the best contracts in the NFL if he's uncoachable, if
Speaker 1: he's a bit of a volatile guy and you can't
Speaker 1: control him. And that's the sense, that's the vibe I
Speaker 1: get coming out of Kansas City, that he's kind of
Speaker 1: you ever know what he's gonna do. You love Marcus
Speaker 1: Peters and the years that Marcus Peters guy as a player.
Speaker 1: But I'm a little bit different than you that I
Speaker 1: believe that character counts and that you're if you're gonna
Speaker 1: build a like I think you. I think you build
Speaker 1: like Bill Belichick does the right fifty three, not the
Speaker 1: best fifty three. And this guy is a hard guy
Speaker 1: to control. Chiefs fans freaking out over this because he's
Speaker 1: only do one point seven million next year. So in
Speaker 1: their mind, they're like thinking, why would you get rid
Speaker 1: of one of our best players? But you don't. You
Speaker 1: forget that these coaches are with these guys all year long,
Speaker 1: and a huge chunk of every roster is just raging knuckleheads,
Speaker 1: and so they know more about what he is to
Speaker 1: deal with behind the scenes. So it must be more
Speaker 1: than just the Jets meltdown. There must be other cantankerous
Speaker 1: stuff happening. He's set up, he set ups and downs,
Speaker 1: and his place that had some ups and downs, but
Speaker 1: when he's at his best, he's we should correct, I
Speaker 1: should correct myself. I'd said earlier that this would be
Speaker 1: his fifth year option year, that that's not right, that
Speaker 1: would be next year. So he's actually under contracts Mark
Speaker 1: mentioned for a very low salary this year, and you
Speaker 1: have the fifth year option, which I would think makes
Speaker 1: him even more tradeable because that contract is great. You
Speaker 1: have him under contract for the next two years at
Speaker 1: the very least that at a totally reasonable price. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and I guess the it's a new regime there now
Speaker 1: than what drafted him, and so that sort of makes
Speaker 1: a little bit of sense there. But he's a great
Speaker 1: player and normally don't see that. Yeah, it just seems
Speaker 1: a little odd to me. I'll wind up in New England.
Speaker 1: I do think, oh god, it reminds me of something
Speaker 1: I'm writing tonight. Is is I think there's gonna be
Speaker 1: more trades than ever. And there's been more trades really
Speaker 1: the last couple of years. It's been increasing. If it's
Speaker 1: a copycat league. The Eagles trade more more than any
Speaker 1: team in the NFL. Last year, the Patriots were the
Speaker 1: second most. They've traded the most in the league over
Speaker 1: the last three or four years. These are what the
Speaker 1: best teams are doing. And I think cap space is
Speaker 1: overrated in general. But one thing cap space can do
Speaker 1: is you can just make trades a lot easier. And
Speaker 1: I think there are a lot of people around the
Speaker 1: NFL that that expect this to be a very active
Speaker 1: trading period and he could be one of a lot
Speaker 1: of big names that gets traded. I could see us.
Speaker 1: You're out in front of it already. Again, We'll see
Speaker 1: if you get the trumpet on this again. You mentioned
Speaker 1: the Eagles. On what that's him? Everybody, Greg Rosenthal, Greg,
Speaker 1: you mentioned the Eagle. Eagles quick shout out to Mike
Speaker 1: grow who's the new offensive coordinator in town. They were
Speaker 1: interviewing Do Staley as well, but Grow got the go
Speaker 1: I don't know helps those fans, that's right, and headlines
Speaker 1: out here. How do you feel? I feel great? Well, No,
Speaker 1: I mean the fact that they've lost a lot from
Speaker 1: that coaching staff. Obviously Grow is not going to be
Speaker 1: calling plays. That's Doug Peterson's job. But we know that
Speaker 1: Frank Wright put in so much work into those game
Speaker 1: plans during the week, So I'm just wondering how they
Speaker 1: fill that void and how Grow does it. Were you
Speaker 1: more of like a deuced Staley camp, Yeah, I get it.
Speaker 1: I know. How would you feel if you were deuced
Speaker 1: right now? Not too great? Well, those two would probably
Speaker 1: be in it together, right One of them is a
Speaker 1: passing game guy and one of them a running game guys,
Speaker 1: so they're probably being We actually mentioned the deuce would
Speaker 1: help with the planning. So maybe it's just like you
Speaker 1: get the title, I'll do all the work. See. We
Speaker 1: debated Mattie not even talking about this news because none
Speaker 1: of us really know what to say about Mike Grow.
Speaker 1: But I think it's been a lovely son of al
Speaker 1: Grow a long time Belichick parcels favorite. I think it's
Speaker 1: really added to the show, just saying let's move on
Speaker 1: to Peyton Manning. He's reportedly being wooed by both ESPN
Speaker 1: and Fox. According to The New York Post, ESPN is
Speaker 1: obviously looking to replace John Gruden, and then Fox they,
Speaker 1: I guess reached out to him before last season, to
Speaker 1: Peyton Manning because now they have this new TNF package.
Speaker 1: So Cessler, how does Peyton in the booth make you feel? Um?
Speaker 1: I have enough of him on the commercial front, I
Speaker 1: know that much, and I don't find him. It rubs
Speaker 1: me a little bit odd when people are like, oh,
Speaker 1: Peyton is just so funny, Oh, this sense of human's up. Really,
Speaker 1: I mean he's not even I mean, I know West
Speaker 1: from the same platform with them. For me, though, I
Speaker 1: would say, I can't imagine a more daunting off season
Speaker 1: for any player to decide I'm gonna jump into the
Speaker 1: booth because immediately you're gonna have to be better than
Speaker 1: Tony Romo or be viewed as a massive underachieving milk
Speaker 1: toast higher. And I'm not sure it's not easy to
Speaker 1: do what Romo does. There's a ton of players out
Speaker 1: there announcing games and you don't learn anything from them,
Speaker 1: and Romo exposed I feel like of the industry. So
Speaker 1: Manny has got to come in and somehow outshine Tony Romo.
Speaker 1: He could do it on the field maybe, but I'm
Speaker 1: know I'm not sure you can do it here. What
Speaker 1: am I wrong? I feel like it's a tough or
Speaker 1: to jump into that role. Are we getting Peyton Manning
Speaker 1: from the Kenny Chesney commercials? Because if we are, I'm
Speaker 1: never watching that show. How would you never watching Monday
Speaker 1: Night folks, I'm never watching Money Night Football. If it's
Speaker 1: the Peyton Manning from the Kenny Chesney those commercials are awful.
Speaker 1: It also matters who you pair them with. Well, that's
Speaker 1: I was gonna say, what if it's Peyton Manning and
Speaker 1: Sean mcdonnaugh. It sounds like Sean mcdonnah is gonna be
Speaker 1: shipped aside though, I mean there's mention of that too,
Speaker 1: that they it's a chance to reboot. But yeah, I
Speaker 1: don't think Sean McDonald gruden whatever, Right. I like mcdonnal
Speaker 1: a little bit more than others did. But but you
Speaker 1: have to get someone in there with Peyton Manning that
Speaker 1: it's not going to be hyper folksy because that's already
Speaker 1: Peyton Manning. Yeah, I think the Fox, it's all very
Speaker 1: interesting that they might sweep McDonough aside. And if they
Speaker 1: don't get Manning, who do they get the Thursday Night package?
Speaker 1: Now Fox has it for five years and it sounds
Speaker 1: like it's not going to be Aikman and Buck. They
Speaker 1: think that doesn't make sense because Buck is baseball and
Speaker 1: all this stuff that they almost might look outside of
Speaker 1: their their current stable, and that seems to make more
Speaker 1: sense to me. Dennis S. Miller's Peyton Manning to Peyton
Speaker 1: Manning on Thursday. It does feel like a weird year
Speaker 1: though for him to do it, like he should have
Speaker 1: gotten into the booth last year, and obviously he would
Speaker 1: have been compared to now he's got well because I
Speaker 1: think he's personable enough. He's not a great actor. I'm
Speaker 1: not like saying he's hilarious. Man's fine straight man, but
Speaker 1: what he knows a lot. He's he knows obviously as
Speaker 1: much about the quarterback position and as anyone and if
Speaker 1: he can communicate that well, and he's pretty good at communicating,
Speaker 1: I'm being pretty good. I'm not Matt Money Smith, but
Speaker 1: Peyton Manning has a very annoying voice. He doesn't enunciate
Speaker 1: very clearly. Wow, I didn't, Yeah, I can't. I feel
Speaker 1: like I'm in a glasshouse there. I can't be thrown anything.
Speaker 1: I'm not. We know that he can communicate the way
Speaker 1: that Romo. We didn't know that we would go and
Speaker 1: then we would know within a month like this guy's
Speaker 1: got something I would never if I would never, I
Speaker 1: would never expect him to be Romo because Romo, to me,
Speaker 1: is the best guy who's come into it since John Madden.
Speaker 1: That's thirty years. So I'm just saying, let's have let's
Speaker 1: have a nice group because this CSBN, this is two
Speaker 1: brand new groups that we're gonna have to be spending
Speaker 1: prime time with the Fox. I'm a little worried about
Speaker 1: the Fox one. I gotta I gotta be honest, I'm
Speaker 1: a little worried about Thursday nights with Fox for the
Speaker 1: next five I shoulders are like creeping up to your ears.
Speaker 1: That's my game, That's the game I care about the most.
Speaker 1: Where it's the only game that that we're watching, and
Speaker 1: that's the only thing we're doing. Do you have all week?
Speaker 1: Do you have a name in mine whom you'd like
Speaker 1: to see. No, I haven't really thought about it. I
Speaker 1: wish I had. For this question. Gus Johnson would have
Speaker 1: been kind of that's been that's been rolled out there
Speaker 1: as ash. Yeah, Kevin Hart, you know that Marlon or
Speaker 1: Eagle would both be great play by play, but there
Speaker 1: they work for other network. I feel like we have
Speaker 1: told the story on the pot. It's been mentioned. I
Speaker 1: believe an Eagle. We I just found out the love,
Speaker 1: the deep love that Sessler has for Iron Eagle one
Speaker 1: night when we went out to a bar to watch
Speaker 1: the Eagles game. What was this like two years ago
Speaker 1: at this point, the British pub in Santa Monica. Yeah, Britannia, Yeah,
Speaker 1: second and second floor. And Sessler just wanted to spread
Speaker 1: the good news of Iron Eagle to everyone around us.
Speaker 1: Whether they cared or not. They did not care, and
Speaker 1: they did not appreciate it at all, especially a like
Speaker 1: a fore top of elderly women that were not having
Speaker 1: anything to do with Iron Eagle. I mean, that's one
Speaker 1: of the great things of going out with Mark Sessler.
Speaker 1: There's many there's the oh you go out with me sometimes,
Speaker 1: you know a pilgrim that just came over with a
Speaker 1: no drinking clue. I'm not saying, I'm just saying, if
Speaker 1: you want now, it's a it's a positive to know
Speaker 1: the dive bars in Culver City, but yes, yes it is.
Speaker 1: If you have something that you want to let people
Speaker 1: know about in a bar, you're gonna make sure everyone
Speaker 1: in that bar knows it. You're gonna go. That was
Speaker 1: the case that time. It was it was not no
Speaker 1: one needed it and they got it. Though. I like
Speaker 1: that it's like a game. You could tell that those
Speaker 1: four elderly women were not interested, and it was your
Speaker 1: job to make them interested in Iron Eagle. And by
Speaker 1: the way, Iron Eagle's career is only blossomed since then,
Speaker 1: and I think he's under used and needs some sort
Speaker 1: of a promotion put him on a bigger platform. But
Speaker 1: this is where the campaign starts for him. Right here.
Speaker 1: I know we're gonna be at a bar together again
Speaker 1: in Indie coming up, speaking of Peyton Manning and his
Speaker 1: old stomping grounds, We're going to the Combine and just
Speaker 1: for you guys, I'm gonna do a little special edition
Speaker 1: of Odds and ends Combine. All right, right, all right,
Speaker 1: let's hit it. Wait, this little wolf. Yo, hye, this
Speaker 1: body sound sound? What is gonna take now? Huh? Because
Speaker 1: I know he's readbound soul, but the cons of the
Speaker 1: sound soun. Hey, it's your odds and tell your friends
Speaker 1: you popping zomb sold the segment flows and at a
Speaker 1: fody silly phoes straight backs and semanecdotes. Yeah, hey, it's
Speaker 1: your odds. Make sure you can sell your friends and
Speaker 1: at a foody silly poones blocks straight backs and semanecdotes, Hey,
Speaker 1: it doesn't it, Okay, it doesn't it. Tampose really knocked
Speaker 1: it on the park on that one. Um. I recorded
Speaker 1: it in the parking lot here this morning in the car,
Speaker 1: and then I sent it to Tampose on your phone
Speaker 1: on my phone. And for those who are not here today,
Speaker 1: as back here behind the glass dancing, the loose cannon
Speaker 1: is behind the glass dancing around. Did I catch you?
Speaker 1: Ye y, yep, so really excited about the combine feeling
Speaker 1: the heat. Well that does nothing, too little. There is
Speaker 1: deep state rumors you and little Debbie are the same person.
Speaker 1: I wish I still haven't met her yet. You're right,
Speaker 1: you have cop in in the same room. Yet do
Speaker 1: you share the same parking lot tendencies as a little know. Unfortunately,
Speaker 1: I'm going to stay out of that conversation. Alright, So
Speaker 1: here we go. We got some fun facts here. I
Speaker 1: went digging through our research on some different prospects that
Speaker 1: we're going to try and talk to find bind I
Speaker 1: got a binder going. It's it's digital though, now trying
Speaker 1: to because it's kind of heavy. You've seen me when
Speaker 1: you had a whole suitcase filled with binders and then
Speaker 1: I left one behind cash kid soldier at Romney before?
Speaker 1: Was that Mitt Romney who had the yeah, the binders, binders? Great, Yes,
Speaker 1: I guess that was me. All right, let's start off
Speaker 1: with a quarterback, Sam Donald Mayok's number one quarterback. We've
Speaker 1: heard his name over and over again, but did you
Speaker 1: know his grandfather His name was Dick Hammer and he
Speaker 1: was the Marlboro Man, whoa yes, and he was in
Speaker 1: an Anthemima pancake commercial and a volleyball Olympian career. Former
Speaker 1: New York Giants quarterback Charlie Connerley, who was in the
Speaker 1: fifty eight championship game that's known as the game that
Speaker 1: basically created pro football, was also the Marball Man for
Speaker 1: a couple of years. I think how many were there.
Speaker 1: There were several, Like at the same time, there were
Speaker 1: several Marlborough Man, I didn't know that. I think if
Speaker 1: it makes it less impressive if you're if you're named
Speaker 1: Dick Hammer, you're automatically the Marborough another Dick Camera. Yet
Speaker 1: you'll be the market. It's perfect. Um. Okay. So now
Speaker 1: we got Dallas Goddard tight end out of South Dakota State.
Speaker 1: He's Mayox number two ranked tight end. Um. He was
Speaker 1: named Dallas after the Dallas Cowboys and then went on
Speaker 1: to become a Packers fan. So that had to be
Speaker 1: like a little weird in the house. His dad was
Speaker 1: like a big Cowboys fan. But he knows how to
Speaker 1: ride a unicycle. Guys, his mom and his sister used
Speaker 1: to ride a unicycle all the time. In fact, the
Speaker 1: entire family rides unicycles in Fourth of July parades and
Speaker 1: he's been doing it since he was eight years old.
Speaker 1: And he just rode in a parade in I like it.
Speaker 1: I do. I do feel that this signals multiple extremely
Speaker 1: tedious draft segments on on on multiple I will be
Speaker 1: leading them all that's going to happen. So you can
Speaker 1: juggle on a unicycle. He's like halfway through clown school.
Speaker 1: I wonder if you catch passes on a unicy didn't
Speaker 1: we have a unicycle rider recently in the draft and
Speaker 1: I I, I don't remember. I feel it bodes well.
Speaker 1: I feel like it's a positive that he's still doing
Speaker 1: it with his family at this advanced stage. Normally, yeah,
Speaker 1: normally he'd be like, I'm too cool for that now.
Speaker 1: But he's a team player. That's what the family does. Yeah. Hey,
Speaker 1: we're gonna go on the cycles today. Yeah, I mean
Speaker 1: that seems like something that everyone should do, right if
Speaker 1: you could do it dying art Like you said, how
Speaker 1: about Orlando Brown, Let's go to him. Oklahoma tackle. He's
Speaker 1: Mayok's second rated tackle. His dad's Zeus played for the
Speaker 1: Browns and the Ravens um But the thing that stood
Speaker 1: out to me was that Orlando, as an eighth grader,
Speaker 1: was four hundred and fifty pounds. That was the first
Speaker 1: year he played football. Four fifty pounds as an eighth grader.
Speaker 1: Can you my entire family put into one human body?
Speaker 1: Like yeah, he said he was a biscuit away from
Speaker 1: five hundred pounds. That's a biscuit. Yeah, So he's a
Speaker 1: big dude and one day he wants to have his
Speaker 1: own fashion line. His dad had that very infamous injury
Speaker 1: where the ref through the flag right into his eye.
Speaker 1: Very goods. I believe his dad was a very good player. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and now he passed away too early. That's that's quite
Speaker 1: a story though. Yeah, way to bring this segment down.
Speaker 1: I I also was noticing that that you've been using
Speaker 1: Mayok rankings as the authority, kind of a little bit
Speaker 1: of a shot towards Daniel Jeremiah moved this now like
Speaker 1: those are the rankings that matter. I was just trying
Speaker 1: to put some context here to you know where people
Speaker 1: are are ranking them right now. I could go through
Speaker 1: and and give Bucky's and DJs and Mayox at your
Speaker 1: your liking. Is that what you want? No, I think
Speaker 1: it makes sense shading the one show you're not on.
Speaker 1: People in this room are the only people basically alive
Speaker 1: who don't have a mock draft right now. That's kind
Speaker 1: of great though. Yeah, Okay, number four here, I got
Speaker 1: two more for you. Andrew Brown, defensive end from Virginia.
Speaker 1: He's nowhere on Mayox list, but he so there's deep
Speaker 1: in the draft. Guy who knows if he even gets drafted.
Speaker 1: But he produces music and he goes by the name
Speaker 1: Drizzo Beats. Drizzo Beats. I feel like we need to
Speaker 1: talk to him, maybe bring him in here and see
Speaker 1: what he can do with the show. Why should we
Speaker 1: him up with Tampos? It would be tough to improve
Speaker 1: on Tim Posey's skills behind the tampose and Drizzo Beats.
Speaker 1: I don't know. I'm just saying they have a future.
Speaker 1: And finally, Maurice Hurst, defensive tackle from Michigan, So he's
Speaker 1: Mayox number three interior d lineman. Uh. He has been
Speaker 1: in on and off Uber driver the past few years
Speaker 1: like that, and he liked it because it has flexible hours.
Speaker 1: He can make some money and he has a four
Speaker 1: point nine rating on Uber. Four point nine is really good.
Speaker 1: You know what, that's the Uber driver that doesn't decide
Speaker 1: that I'm nineteen minutes away and I'm going to pick
Speaker 1: up your ride like he's the guy. I'm gonna be cool.
Speaker 1: I'm three and f minutes away, I'm gonna be How
Speaker 1: old do you have to be to be an Uber driver?
Speaker 1: Can you just be it at seventeen? Because I do
Speaker 1: think about that. That was that would absolutely be like
Speaker 1: the first thing I would try to do. That sounds
Speaker 1: like a great job. I used to deliver pizza just
Speaker 1: because I thought, like driving and you're getting paid for it.
Speaker 1: That's the easiest you could do it cost you could
Speaker 1: do it now, could you do it for four hours?
Speaker 1: I would not do it. You should be absolutely. I
Speaker 1: would lose the job in about an hour driving through
Speaker 1: a store from But Greg, it would fit you really
Speaker 1: reasons that makes sense? Okay, So yeah, there you have it.
Speaker 1: There are your combine. Odds and ends. We do not
Speaker 1: need to hear the song again. But great, great stuff.
Speaker 1: But the song was The song was great. I like
Speaker 1: how long it was to we might end up cutting
Speaker 1: the second half of it, you know you next time,
Speaker 1: cut it down. Good stuff. It was good stuff. Leave
Speaker 1: it up to Erica to make it like a feature
Speaker 1: length movie. So she was very excited about did she
Speaker 1: leave as soon as it was done? She was like,
Speaker 1: all right, I'm out. That's all I cared about. Fine, Um,
Speaker 1: so that's great. After the combine, of course, you know what,
Speaker 1: the season, it never stops. There's no such thing as
Speaker 1: an off season. We got the combine, and then we
Speaker 1: have free agency and trading begin, so a lot of
Speaker 1: movement it. Of course, there's that awesome legal tampering window
Speaker 1: that everyone looks forward to. But um, let's go through
Speaker 1: one trade. We'd each like to see big start here.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna start it all right. I'm gonna go with
Speaker 1: Emmanuel Sanders getting traded to the Dallas Cowboys. Let's say
Speaker 1: a third round pick gets it done. And that part
Speaker 1: really doesn't matter to me because it's a two parter.
Speaker 1: I think Dez Bryant. They need to finally let go
Speaker 1: of the Dez Bryant. This is something that will never
Speaker 1: happen with Dallas. And maybe they would bring in Emmanuel
Speaker 1: Sanders to play next to Dez Bryant. But in my mind,
Speaker 1: I think Denver it sounds like, would listen to offers
Speaker 1: for Manuel Sanders. He could help replace des Briant in Dallas.
Speaker 1: They would clear Brian off the books, finally get to
Speaker 1: be the Dallas Cowboys, who don't pay their stars for
Speaker 1: a year too long, who don't overrate their own players,
Speaker 1: and make a clean break. And he is from the
Speaker 1: Dallas area. Think there's some there was some buzz when
Speaker 1: he was, you know, potentially going to get released and
Speaker 1: who knows, maybe that could still happen. Uh that he
Speaker 1: would go back to the Dallas area, So it sort
Speaker 1: of fits. They certainly could use a wide receiver and
Speaker 1: and make the Cowboys more fun to watch. I like it.
Speaker 1: I think that would make the Cowboys more fun to watch.
Speaker 1: If you throw Manny Sanders on the team, you can
Speaker 1: get rid of Dez Bryant. I mean getting rid of
Speaker 1: des Bryant wouldn't make them more fun, No, I guess not.
Speaker 1: They're not getting rid of des Bryant regardless, So that
Speaker 1: was a two parter that was unnecessary. I guess put
Speaker 1: him next to next to Dez Bryant in this scenario,
Speaker 1: but that that's that's a trade I'd like to see.
Speaker 1: And I think when those names like Emmanuel Sanders could
Speaker 1: possibly be traded gets floated, it's for a reason. So
Speaker 1: even though stuff has happened since where maybe it's not
Speaker 1: viewed as necessarily likely that he would because I think
Speaker 1: he's a guy that if teams really were interested, it
Speaker 1: would not make the Broncos more fun to watch because
Speaker 1: you'd suddenly have to Marius Thomas and a bunch of
Speaker 1: nothing at White I think they I think they have
Speaker 1: to clear out they especially if they want to sign
Speaker 1: Kirk Cousins. They have to start making some decisions. And
Speaker 1: I don't think they were too happy with Sanders last year.
Speaker 1: There's also some off field stuff, uh this offseason. I
Speaker 1: don't know interesting get ready for a ninety catch season
Speaker 1: by Jake, But that's what's gonna happen. But Jake, but
Speaker 1: guy tight ends? Um, all right, what do you have? Sessler?
Speaker 1: All right? Now, Cleveland struck out when they tried to
Speaker 1: or if they even tried to get Jimmy Garoppolo the
Speaker 1: first time around, and it was an egg on the
Speaker 1: face scenario. So let's reverse engineer this. Everyone thinks, oh,
Speaker 1: he's gonna play in San Francisco until the end of time.
Speaker 1: But here's how you get Jimmy g out. This is
Speaker 1: some wish cast of San Francisco gallipal people who think
Speaker 1: he's gonna stay in exactly those people. How about this.
Speaker 1: The Browns send the first overall pick, so you know,
Speaker 1: San Francisco has a chance to pick a quarterback of
Speaker 1: their own along with Deshaun Kaiser, Cody Kessler, Kevin Hogan,
Speaker 1: Duke Johnson, defensive coordinator Greg Williams tight end David the
Speaker 1: Joku wide out, Corey Coleman, past catcher, Josh Gordon tight
Speaker 1: end set to valve Big Lost, Chief strategy officer Paul
Speaker 1: Dei Potesta, defensive lineman Danny Shelton, second year kickers In Gonzalez,
Speaker 1: Brown's executive assistant, Carrie Savage, and Swagger the Dog get
Speaker 1: it done. You send it all west to San Francisco,
Speaker 1: the Bay, you bring Jimmy g back values. I was
Speaker 1: gonna say, there's no way the forty Niners agree to that,
Speaker 1: but you threw hugs in and that really Togan Hogan
Speaker 1: really tips the bag and tip the skin. I think
Speaker 1: it was really very Savage does as far as I know,
Speaker 1: some excellent work related the Phil Savage. I don't believe
Speaker 1: so Phil Savage left on not that was really the offer.
Speaker 1: Would the forty Niners consider it? You know, you get
Speaker 1: the number one pick, You get the number one pick.
Speaker 1: You get in Joku, Coleman, Shelton, Josh Gordon, Gordon. If
Speaker 1: you really loved Sam Donald the Dog, if you I'm
Speaker 1: just saying, if you went, if you love the quarterback.
Speaker 1: I think John Lynch and Kyle Shanahan are taken with
Speaker 1: Jimmy Garoppolo right now, and for good reason, after what
Speaker 1: he did at the end of last year. I don't
Speaker 1: think you can get him. I think he's off the table. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I would, I would imagine. So it seems like they're
Speaker 1: in like that early part of the Not Gonna Happen
Speaker 1: where there's like butterflies still between Jimmy g and John
Speaker 1: Lynch and everyone there. It's just I don't know, it's
Speaker 1: it's too nice. Everything sucks. When did that part die
Speaker 1: for you? And hasn't hasn't still get butterflies? Right? Um? Okay, Wes,
Speaker 1: what do you think it is? Well, I don't think
Speaker 1: you can pry Jimmy G from but I'm gonna try
Speaker 1: to get the Browns a quarterback here, and I'm not
Speaker 1: sure you can get this guy either. But this is
Speaker 1: a good old blockbuster. Browns give up the first and
Speaker 1: fourth picks in the draft for Andrew Luck, which gives
Speaker 1: the Colts an unprecedented three of the top four pick
Speaker 1: in the draft to do the rebuilding effort with Frank Reich,
Speaker 1: and the Browns get the guy who could be whose
Speaker 1: ceiling is the best player in the NFL. I think
Speaker 1: that's it. That's interesting. This one. Yeah, it's it's tricky.
Speaker 1: If you knew if Andrew Luck was a good bet
Speaker 1: to be healthy, he would cost a lot more I
Speaker 1: think than just the first and fourth PI is a
Speaker 1: ton of value on the old trade charge. It is,
Speaker 1: it is, But I don't think Andrew Luck, if he
Speaker 1: was coming off of a good season, would be available
Speaker 1: that like, why would he wouldn't he would be completely unavailable.
Speaker 1: He would be he would be worth more than that
Speaker 1: whole Jimmy G trade you just made. Would they have
Speaker 1: to turn around and you wouldn't even say, like we
Speaker 1: could potentially get through with Jacobe Brissette for one season.
Speaker 1: We have to draft the top quarterback right away. I think, yeah,
Speaker 1: I think you would take either Donald or Rosen. You
Speaker 1: would be weird did not take a quarterback Kwon Barkley,
Speaker 1: And then you'd take Chubb the pass rusher. I think, like,
Speaker 1: that's that's your first it's if you're cris ballad. I
Speaker 1: mean you'd have to think about it over like an
Speaker 1: afternoon tea or something type of frog. If Cleveland I
Speaker 1: think could honestly do it because it's like you've solvedlved
Speaker 1: your number one problem to go with Andrew Luck and
Speaker 1: the reason I came by you don't know that you
Speaker 1: solved that you might have a player who never is
Speaker 1: this well, there'd have to be some like we'd have
Speaker 1: to get his health checked, which the cults been very
Speaker 1: hazy on. But Cleveland can't keep adding fifteen rookies. They
Speaker 1: don't have enough room on the roster. That would be
Speaker 1: so weird to see Andrew Luck in a Browns uniform.
Speaker 1: I don't know about how those uniforms are at the
Speaker 1: bottom of they need to change the uniforms, then, maybe
Speaker 1: what do you want the uniforms to look like? Like
Speaker 1: the old ones from when I was young, not the
Speaker 1: new ones that look like they don't like that they
Speaker 1: have browns down the side of the pants. Not even
Speaker 1: that's it's awful. It's really really bad. Um all right,
Speaker 1: So the trade I would like to see. I want
Speaker 1: the forty Niners to trade for a wide receiver. I
Speaker 1: know they need a pass rusher, I know they need
Speaker 1: a corner guard. Whatever want to see a wide receiver.
Speaker 1: And I want to see Martavis Bryant in a forty
Speaker 1: Niners jersey. Look, it would be great. So you have
Speaker 1: Pierre Garson, he's coming off injury. You don't know what
Speaker 1: he's going to be like. But if he's fully good
Speaker 1: to go up to speed, you have him and Martavis Bryant,
Speaker 1: then you have the speed of Marquis Goodwin. Come on
Speaker 1: with Jimmy g There, Kyle Shanahan. They already extended their
Speaker 1: center a little bit with his deal, So I think
Speaker 1: that they're trying to build. I don't know, I'd like it.
Speaker 1: They do need a receiver with size right six there. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that could be a good old Horns swaggle for the
Speaker 1: especially with all of the grumblings within the drama. So
Speaker 1: I mean it might be good for Pittsburgh to move on. Obviously,
Speaker 1: it seems like he could be attained. I mean that
Speaker 1: acquired if you were willing to give up a good pick.
Speaker 1: So what did they have to give up? What's the pick?
Speaker 1: I don't know. I haven't thought about that. Um, I
Speaker 1: don't know. Two thousand, twenty six fifth rounder. You think
Speaker 1: they would do it for like a second? A third second?
Speaker 1: Too high? Second is too much to give up. I
Speaker 1: mean they tried to trade him during the during the season,
Speaker 1: couldn't get anything for him. If I was Yeah, if
Speaker 1: you have a good feeling about your your team. I
Speaker 1: would think a third if you're the forty Niners, that
Speaker 1: would be worth I don't think more than a third though,
Speaker 1: because it's a player with issues with major issues, but
Speaker 1: he's good. A year ago this time, we we would
Speaker 1: have loved it. The fact that he came back and
Speaker 1: it was a little rocky, even though he was coming
Speaker 1: off of a suspension last year. We were just kind
Speaker 1: of assuming he's going to come back and be one
Speaker 1: of the top ten or twelve most talented wide receivers.
Speaker 1: It's not just the suspension, it's the fact that he
Speaker 1: was a horrible teammate. Yeah that while his team was winning,
Speaker 1: he said, get me out of here, and do you
Speaker 1: want that? Do you want poison in your locker room?
Speaker 1: But also there's not the same talent there in San Francisco,
Speaker 1: so he would be able to shine and I feel
Speaker 1: like he's the type of player that would take advantage
Speaker 1: of that and maybe those things would go away if
Speaker 1: he was the number one. I mean, Jimmy g from
Speaker 1: everything I've gathered, has godlike powers to make everyone around
Speaker 1: him a better person. Counting on that, the Kumbaya team.
Speaker 1: Speaking of the Kumbayah team, I feel like that's um,
Speaker 1: that's this team right here. Really miss Dan. Dan's going
Speaker 1: to be back. Where Where is Dan again? What what's
Speaker 1: he doing? I believe he is in family incoming spending
Speaker 1: time with him, having a nice time with the stay
Speaker 1: in local staycation, little R and R for Dan. Oh yeah,
Speaker 1: I think we're back Thursday and Friday this week. I
Speaker 1: mean we're loading up on shows and then we are
Speaker 1: doing Saturday and Sunday show as well. Three shows next week,
Speaker 1: including two from Indianapolis too, from the Combine. I think
Speaker 1: are taping days will be Monday, Wednesday, Thursday next week.
Speaker 1: That's exciting. Are you guys going to run the forty?
Speaker 1: You know how they do that every year with the
Speaker 1: NFL employees, you can you can test out where you
Speaker 1: where you land. There, No, everybody's doing it. I've never
Speaker 1: done it. Forty is like a for me. Yeah, this
Speaker 1: is the year. I'm gonna do it. I'm gonna take advance.
Speaker 1: Now that the big seas maybe slowed down West just
Speaker 1: for like another month, I think I can take him out.
Speaker 1: What if we raced you and I, Oh my god, please,
Speaker 1: I would do that. Sure. Really, our only attributes would
Speaker 1: have to be speed, or nothing else that if we
Speaker 1: don't have that, great you guys have to race to race.
Speaker 1: Actually not happened to it. I would rather be long.
Speaker 1: Please direct your tweets to Rosie and Cessler about racing
Speaker 1: at the combine. Would be the more tweets that we get,
Speaker 1: the less likely Yeah, that to happen. Absolutely true. Mark
Speaker 1: will just quit Twitter all over again. I will be done.
Speaker 1: We don't want that to happen. But speaking of before
Speaker 1: we go, I forgot the big Sea. I wanted to
Speaker 1: send a final thanks. We close the goes fund me officially.
Speaker 1: Uh this morning, a week after or it went up,
Speaker 1: we blew past the goal. I mean, I don't want
Speaker 1: to speak for West just from my perspective. I know
Speaker 1: we already said thanks here, but now that it's kind
Speaker 1: of official, and this is the first time after we
Speaker 1: got past the goal. I mean, it was amazing to me,
Speaker 1: and it felt amazing to watch, and it felt special
Speaker 1: just that all you guys did that. So thank you. Yeah.
Speaker 1: I would second that it was a rough year, but
Speaker 1: a glorious week and um a nice birthday week. The
Speaker 1: Paramour and I sat by the pool and read a
Speaker 1: bunch of cards that people sent us over the years
Speaker 1: that I it was too much of an emotional like investment,
Speaker 1: I guess over the past six eight months for me
Speaker 1: to read all the cards that was to me. So
Speaker 1: I decided to just read them all at once, and
Speaker 1: it was it was it was very rewarding and enriching
Speaker 1: for me. In other news, he's about West is also
Speaker 1: about to purchase a minority piece of the Carolina Panthers,
Speaker 1: So it's money well spent. I've taken uh new Money's nickname.
Speaker 1: The listeners are amazing. I mean the fact that that
Speaker 1: much money was raised in such a short amount of time.
Speaker 1: There were so many donations, and there were donations that
Speaker 1: were that were small, and it just shows how many
Speaker 1: people just came and no matter what they gave, it
Speaker 1: was awesome. I think everybody really circled the wagons for West.
Speaker 1: I think the final count was about two thousand different
Speaker 1: people's right, and it was a ton of like little
Speaker 1: three dollar five and like families or couples who commented
Speaker 1: how they listened to it together. So it's even more
Speaker 1: than just two thousand people. But that's that's amazing, like
Speaker 1: the breadth of of how many different people didn't know
Speaker 1: everybody out there. You guys are seriously the best listeners,
Speaker 1: the best viewers. I mean, anytime I do anything, I
Speaker 1: always get such nice responses from the listeners of a
Speaker 1: t N and that is not the case other places.
Speaker 1: So it is really a great group of people. So
Speaker 1: thank you guys for your support and for supporting West
Speaker 1: and for supporting us. It's awesome. You guys rock well.
Speaker 1: I'm one last thing. I'm glad we ended up taking
Speaker 1: the attack of discussing it on the podcast way back
Speaker 1: last year when we were talking about whether we would
Speaker 1: do it or not, because I've heard from so many
Speaker 1: people who have cancer or have been through cancer, and
Speaker 1: those have been the messages that I guess I've taken
Speaker 1: the most from that. That the fact that we discussed
Speaker 1: it instead of like brushing on the rug or not
Speaker 1: even like keeping it private or whatever. That people did
Speaker 1: get a lot out of that. So I I got
Speaker 1: several really long letters from people who who are going
Speaker 1: through it, and it was kind of a tear jerker,
Speaker 1: but it was I'm glad. I'm glad we we talked
Speaker 1: about it and we were up front about it, and
Speaker 1: I think that's the only way we really know how
Speaker 1: to do it. Yeah, I mean that definitely wouldn't have
Speaker 1: been my first inclination. But it doesn't surprise me one
Speaker 1: bit that you wanted to share that with everyone, and
Speaker 1: it ended up helping so many people. And I think
Speaker 1: it helped us too when you were going through everything,
Speaker 1: just to be able to openly talk about it and
Speaker 1: and give updates, and I mean that support had to
Speaker 1: have been really important to One of the things about
Speaker 1: this is that I get a lot more credit than
Speaker 1: should be coming to me because the decision to talk
Speaker 1: about it was mostly just a head off talking to
Speaker 1: people in this building, like explaining the same story over
Speaker 1: and over again. What am I just talking about? I
Speaker 1: don't even that's awesome? Well, hey, it worked out for everybody.
Speaker 1: People coming up to him, you know, throughout the year,
Speaker 1: just don't talk to me. Listen to the podcast. Listen
Speaker 1: to episode saved it for the pod you lost seventy pounds.
Speaker 1: Listen to the podcast. Well it was We're so glad
Speaker 1: to have you. Happy belated birthday, guys, and uh, we'll
Speaker 1: talk to you guys. What day Thursday? Thursday? All right, Thursday,
Speaker 1: that's it. So signing off for I can't remember now.
Speaker 1: Sessler for the Mailman, Quiet Storm, the Mailman and the
Speaker 1: Boss still Thursday nailed it.