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Speaker 1: Welcome back to another edition of the Around the NFL Podcast.
Speaker 1: My name is Dan Hansus and I am joined by
Speaker 1: a room filled with heroes. Mark Sessler, he's alive. Don't
Speaker 1: you ever count him out? Chris Westling and Greg rosenal
Speaker 1: what's up? Team? Hey Dan, you're really threw me for
Speaker 1: a loop there? Why is there a phone on the desk?
Speaker 1: Do you ask? You're really asking why there's a phone
Speaker 1: on the desk? I know you've been under the weather mark,
Speaker 1: but today it's back for the third time. Oh yeah, baby,
Speaker 1: you're the GM just setting you up. It's a problem.
Speaker 1: Who's the set up? You? You were out of the office,
Speaker 1: but you never lost the sharpness that the best podcasters
Speaker 1: announced in the National Football League sector comes back as
Speaker 1: John Stockton just setting you up. I like you were
Speaker 1: at the we're at the stage of the careers. Were
Speaker 1: like in the comedy you know, we need a little extra,
Speaker 1: let's bring in the props. Where at the Gallagher stage
Speaker 1: of our podcast? Uh? Which is you know made a
Speaker 1: lot of money? He made guap. My dad was very Yeah,
Speaker 1: my buddy Bob was a big Gallagher fan as a child,
Speaker 1: and I remember watching, uh some of the videos. I thought,
Speaker 1: you know, being in the front row, isn't he like
Speaker 1: routinely seen as a hack by other comedians these days?
Speaker 1: I think you prop comics get banged and get danged
Speaker 1: a lot. But the Gallagher story is kind of fascinating
Speaker 1: because his own brother, Uh, he didn't the Gallagher pocket,
Speaker 1: he didn't steal save it for the button. No, this
Speaker 1: is the Gallagher podcast. His own brother, his own flesh
Speaker 1: and blood, Uh took the borrowed the Gallagher brand name
Speaker 1: and just started touring the country saying he was Gallagher,
Speaker 1: and that led to massive litigation. Look it up. It's
Speaker 1: a nice wiki. I watched the movie right that. That's
Speaker 1: much more interesting to me than Gallagher's show itself. Yeah,
Speaker 1: what you say that now? That though as a thirty
Speaker 1: eight year old man, But think about when you were eight,
Speaker 1: the watermelon getting crushed by the sledge hammer around my children.
Speaker 1: Should comedians target audience be the same as Disney's. Yeah,
Speaker 1: Disney has done pretty well historically targeting that market. And
Speaker 1: I grew up and be a comedian gearing my material
Speaker 1: to children. Um, all right, this podcast is for grown
Speaker 1: ups be around the NFL podcast. Although teens, you know,
Speaker 1: check with your parents first. You're welcome to listen as well.
Speaker 1: It's good to get that out there. Six hundred episodes
Speaker 1: in UH Today's show that teens are really anyone under
Speaker 1: thirty have no idea who Gallagher is plugging back into
Speaker 1: the show. It's a teaching it's a teaching tool this show. UH.
Speaker 1: Some news including a multiple Pro Bowl wide receiver once
Speaker 1: again on the street without a job. And yes, oh,
Speaker 1: Chris Westling, you know what time it is, baby schedule
Speaker 1: least time it dropped on Thursday at eight pm Eastern. UH.
Speaker 1: And we are going to dig in a little bit
Speaker 1: on the schedule. UH. And west You you seem to
Speaker 1: always turn your nose up at the schedule release, But
Speaker 1: for the common football fan, it's a nice little thing
Speaker 1: to have. You get to look at the schedule, you
Speaker 1: get to pick win loss, win loss, it's all you know.
Speaker 1: It's kind of silly, but it's fun. It's part of
Speaker 1: being a football fans. An artificial construct. None of it
Speaker 1: means thanks for six months. It's not an artific it's
Speaker 1: here is literally the schedule. This is who you're gonna
Speaker 1: applay right. But I can find out the same information
Speaker 1: the day before the season and it wouldn't affect my
Speaker 1: life any different. I think it's different if you if
Speaker 1: you root for a team, oh absolutely, then you plug in,
Speaker 1: you say you care about the opening game, you look
Speaker 1: at what prime time games you have, and it doesn't
Speaker 1: provide any more information. I agree with you there. But
Speaker 1: as a fan, I I mean from the earliest days
Speaker 1: of the football fan rip open that USA today when
Speaker 1: the schedule came out pre internet and it was the
Speaker 1: I couldn't it was and it was almost tenant six,
Speaker 1: huge tenants six. You're rolling it in already, Schottenheimer. Come on, yeah,
Speaker 1: if my if my soul it wasn't hollow, I would
Speaker 1: definitely be interested in a big part it does. One
Speaker 1: of my best friends is getting married and we are
Speaker 1: going to Tennessee when the Patriots played the Titans for
Speaker 1: her bachelorette party. And we've already booked. We found out yesterday.
Speaker 1: That's that's big. That's a good bachelorette party. That is awesome.
Speaker 1: We're going to get to it. The Malcolm Butler revenge game,
Speaker 1: all right, And yes, as I said, you're the GM
Speaker 1: returns to close out the show. Let's get right to it, Erica.
Speaker 1: Let's do some news. Yes, Brandon Marshall is once again
Speaker 1: unattached to a football team. Uh. The man who signed
Speaker 1: a two year, twelve million dollar deal with the New
Speaker 1: York Giants last March. Uh did not have any chemistry
Speaker 1: at all with Eli Manning and then broke his ankle
Speaker 1: in Week six, ending his season. And now the Giants
Speaker 1: have moved on, and um mark this is there was
Speaker 1: a lesson to be learned here because des Briant has
Speaker 1: been very clear that he wants to stay in the
Speaker 1: NFC East and and the Giants he kind of bandied
Speaker 1: about or somebody kind of floated to him and he
Speaker 1: was like, oh, I like the I like that Brandon
Speaker 1: Marshall gets on social media. No room, bro, or something
Speaker 1: like that. Like literally forty eight hours later, he's no
Speaker 1: longer in the room. Yeah, And I've not been the
Speaker 1: most plugged in human on the planet to NFL goings
Speaker 1: on over the last forty eight hours. But Gettleman sounded
Speaker 1: open to bringing or at least the idea of Dez Bryant.
Speaker 1: And then he's working out with Odell Beckham and it's
Speaker 1: like maybe the stars begin to align for a team
Speaker 1: that beyond Beckham has Sterling Shepard and Roger Loomas, I've
Speaker 1: not much else at receiver and Evan Ingram. I mean,
Speaker 1: they've got a great tight end, but I've got two
Speaker 1: wide receiver, two great wide receivers. The New York Post
Speaker 1: very definitively said Dez is not going there, and they
Speaker 1: didn't put any sources or anything on it. They just
Speaker 1: sort of set it and didn't be That makes me
Speaker 1: think they know, but they can't. They can't credit Gettleman,
Speaker 1: and apparently des isn't gonna happen. I didn't even realize
Speaker 1: Brandon Marshall was still on the team. I thought they
Speaker 1: had gotten rid of him a couple of months ago.
Speaker 1: I think, like I think a lot of people, we
Speaker 1: all had that experience of like two weeks ago looking
Speaker 1: at the depth chart and saying, why is Brandon Marshall's
Speaker 1: name still on the Giants. Yeah, and it's easy to
Speaker 1: forget now, but Marshall um was, and we talked about
Speaker 1: in the podcast. He had uh so many great statistical years.
Speaker 1: Never made the playoffs, obviously, which is unfortunately something that's
Speaker 1: sticking to him. But there was a point after that
Speaker 1: one big season he had with the Jets, where he
Speaker 1: seemed if he could just string together a few more seasons,
Speaker 1: he could be a Hall of Fame guy potentially, and
Speaker 1: that's not happening. Now. His career seems to be in
Speaker 1: a downturn. Do we think he's gonna get a job?
Speaker 1: I don't. I think it. It's easy to forget how
Speaker 1: bad he was last year, and he was bad the
Speaker 1: year before with the Jets, but with the Giants. Remember
Speaker 1: the first couple of games when he had like one
Speaker 1: catchup piece in in those games, the Giants offense was
Speaker 1: in the tank, and I's he's just one of those guys.
Speaker 1: I don't think he separates anymore. And I think teams
Speaker 1: question his motivation with the TV show with you Know
Speaker 1: Inside the NFL that he was on, and I think
Speaker 1: teams are like, okay, is this guy really into football? Now? Well,
Speaker 1: he doesn't want to play outside he said, he doesn't
Speaker 1: want to play outside of New York. Will you've run
Speaker 1: out of options in New York City area in terms
Speaker 1: of football teams, So unless you want to fly down
Speaker 1: from Buffalo or latch on with the Eagles, neither of
Speaker 1: those are happening. I think he shifts into television. Moving
Speaker 1: on a great, an all time great of the Indianapolis
Speaker 1: Colts has decided to retire. Dwight Freeney has opted to
Speaker 1: end his career sixteen seasons. He signs a one day
Speaker 1: contract to retire as a Coult. He was selected eleventh
Speaker 1: overall in two thousand and two. That's how I graduated college. Uh.
Speaker 1: He was not the biggest guy, but amazing speed, really
Speaker 1: uh quick and knew how to get to the quarterback. Uh.
Speaker 1: He won a Super Bowl with the Colts in two
Speaker 1: thousand seven, Greg and had some nice seasons with the
Speaker 1: Falcons as well. Uh. And now Freeney hangs it up.
Speaker 1: Is this a Hall of Famer? I think he is
Speaker 1: definitely a Hall of Famer. Robert mathis just retired, James
Speaker 1: Harrison just retired. Dwight Freeney just retired. Into me, Freeney
Speaker 1: is the guy out of that group that's gonna get
Speaker 1: in quicker. Uh, if not right away, because there was
Speaker 1: never there hasn't been really a player quite like not
Speaker 1: just the spin move, but his dip around the edge
Speaker 1: and just the amount of years that he did at
Speaker 1: people on Twitter, I saw kind of comparing him to
Speaker 1: mathis the numbers are are kind of the same. It's
Speaker 1: like people they weren't worried about mathis the same way
Speaker 1: that they were about Dwight Freeney. He was such a
Speaker 1: just a naturally gifted and and student of the game.
Speaker 1: And you're right you mentioned the Falcons. He had a
Speaker 1: nice career after the Colts, quietly where he actually made
Speaker 1: some impact with the Chargers. With the Cardinals, he he
Speaker 1: had a sack in seven hurries and the Super Bowl
Speaker 1: played very well for the Falcons that year. So I
Speaker 1: think he's a no doubter. I believe of the six
Speaker 1: team players who have more career sex than Dwight Freeney,
Speaker 1: the only one eligible for the Hall of Fame who's
Speaker 1: not in is Leslie O'Neill, which speaks that Freeny is
Speaker 1: probably getting in. And I think younger fans, you know,
Speaker 1: you might have seen late career Freny with the spit
Speaker 1: move that everyone remembers, But young Freeny was like I
Speaker 1: remember when he and Javon Kurse had like the quickest
Speaker 1: first steps for a pass rusher that anyone had seen,
Speaker 1: and it was right off the bat, like right when
Speaker 1: he entered the league, he was a supernova. I mean,
Speaker 1: he was immediately one of the top five pass rushers
Speaker 1: in the league and stayed it for most of the
Speaker 1: first decade of his career. There just aren't that many
Speaker 1: players like that that kind of stay at that elite level.
Speaker 1: Still bothers me, though, that you could tell someone getting
Speaker 1: drafted next week you were going to have a mirror
Speaker 1: image career of James Harrison and probably not make the
Speaker 1: Hall of Fame. Like you'll retire roughly eighteen years from
Speaker 1: now and make the biggest play in Super Bowl history,
Speaker 1: be Defensive Player of the Year, and be one of
Speaker 1: the most disruptive players. Is that your entire era? No,
Speaker 1: I just think I think I think that we decided
Speaker 1: on the last show that it's going to take. It's
Speaker 1: gonna take a long time. I would vote for him,
Speaker 1: but it's like, come on, just expand the Hall, make
Speaker 1: it bigger, Put more sput more head shots and head
Speaker 1: statues in there. Whatever it takes, and in there theywood
Speaker 1: head shots. When your drive give us a head the
Speaker 1: head shot section for the guys we're not as sure about.
Speaker 1: I mean, he freeny, uh. I I was rooting for
Speaker 1: him not in that Super Bowl, but after talking to
Speaker 1: him that week, like he he's been a leader everywhere
Speaker 1: he goes. Melvin Ingram says he is responsible for turning
Speaker 1: Melvin Ingram's career around in Los Angeles, uh in San Diego,
Speaker 1: and and Freeney was killing Nate Soldier in that game,
Speaker 1: and that would have been an interesting moment. Kind of
Speaker 1: little bit like Michael Strahan, not with the team that
Speaker 1: he was always with, but an all time great having
Speaker 1: an all time performance at like thirty six years old
Speaker 1: to help his team win the Super Bowl. So you
Speaker 1: wanted the Patriots to lose? No, I'm saying I was.
Speaker 1: I liked Freeney personally, I did not want him. In
Speaker 1: other news, the Baltimore Ravens still trying to upgrade, up
Speaker 1: grade that receiving group and now they have signed New
Speaker 1: Orleans Saints restricted free agent wide that Willie sneed to
Speaker 1: a two year offer sheet worth up to ten point
Speaker 1: four million. Rap Sheet reported the Saints have five days
Speaker 1: to match the hender West. If the Saints do not
Speaker 1: match that tender and he joins the Ravens, is this
Speaker 1: a big upgrade for that unit? I like it, and
Speaker 1: I think this was a smart move that you can
Speaker 1: look at the Saints and what they've done with Cam
Speaker 1: Meredith and they just resigned Brandon Coleman, and you say, well,
Speaker 1: where does Willie Sneak fit into that? If you're the Ravens,
Speaker 1: why not go poach him? And he's you know, last
Speaker 1: year he had a three game suspension and a hamstring
Speaker 1: injury and never really got into the offense. But the
Speaker 1: two years before that he's a really good slot receiver.
Speaker 1: I think that's a good fit between John Brown and
Speaker 1: Michael Crabtree in Baltimore. I think back in Orlando, Greg
Speaker 1: and I might have seen the precursor to this. We
Speaker 1: were in a hotel room. Uh you know, the side
Speaker 1: room from where we were doing the interviews are essentially
Speaker 1: our green room. It was not green, but it was.
Speaker 1: We had the door open, a nice Orlando breeze coming
Speaker 1: in and I was in there alone initially and heard
Speaker 1: uh an NFL agent storming across a yard down below
Speaker 1: and trying to hide himself while on the love right
Speaker 1: below the window. Shakespeare play. Yeah. It was a midlike
Speaker 1: five or six, like children of Eagles assistants playing football,
Speaker 1: and he was screaming about a deal. About basically a
Speaker 1: restricted free agent gonna start somewhere else, and Greg came
Speaker 1: in the room and I told him, and Greg quickly
Speaker 1: put it together, well, it's got to be Willie Sneed, right. Well,
Speaker 1: we went and checked because we looked, we saw who
Speaker 1: the agent was, and then I checked in how many
Speaker 1: restricted free agents an Willie Sneed's name was in the
Speaker 1: in the news as you know, possibly signing. Now, that's
Speaker 1: some impressive sleuth work. That's very nice, and uh, this
Speaker 1: is a little more troubling. Actually. Willie Sneed on Twitter
Speaker 1: his comments on the current situation, I'm gonna keep screaming
Speaker 1: it out loud hashtag trust God. Oh he's saying trust God. Okay,
Speaker 1: that's not his troubling. I thought he was saying I'm
Speaker 1: just gonna keep screaming. I think he's happy. There was
Speaker 1: some sort of falling out between him. There's some sort
Speaker 1: of falling out where he became my enemy of that
Speaker 1: coaching staff on some level that he was in their doghouse.
Speaker 1: There was never really reported why, but but he was.
Speaker 1: This also points out I think one less place for
Speaker 1: Dez Bryant to go because I don't think they're gonna
Speaker 1: sign Dez Bryant after spending money on Willia. So if
Speaker 1: he's not going to the Giants or Ravens, where is
Speaker 1: he going that It's becoming a little bit of an
Speaker 1: issue for Dez. And Uh. I just finished this photo
Speaker 1: gallery about guys that look out of place and uniforms
Speaker 1: later in their career, and there was some discussion internally
Speaker 1: should we wait until death signs? And I was like, oh, no,
Speaker 1: no one does is gonna sign? That could be something
Speaker 1: that drags out. It's got a nice spot on the
Speaker 1: gray beards. But how about Dez Bryant, color commentator ESPN
Speaker 1: Monday Night Football end of his career. It was funny
Speaker 1: watching the rap sheet video on this the other day.
Speaker 1: You know, he's talking about the teams that are interested,
Speaker 1: and he's like, you know, the Buffalo Bills have been
Speaker 1: interested from the beginning, but that's just not gonna happen. Uh.
Speaker 1: Trrell Owens went there. I I don't I wouldn't want
Speaker 1: to see does Bryan and Buffalo? And I shout out
Speaker 1: to all the Bills fans listening in Western New York.
Speaker 1: But it just doesn't feel right in Buffalo. I don't
Speaker 1: like it freezing two or three million dollars in the
Speaker 1: salary cap just for the weather in Buffalo advantage lake effects. No, bro,
Speaker 1: all right, that's what's happening in the news. Oh yeah,
Speaker 1: it is time. Let's talk about the schedule was released
Speaker 1: on Thursday night. Let's start right at the top. The
Speaker 1: first game of the year. We did an NFL Network
Speaker 1: hit that may or may not have aired, but we
Speaker 1: definitely recorded one up here on Tuesday. What what was
Speaker 1: our choice for the opening night game? Well, the choice
Speaker 1: by the men that get locked in that room in
Speaker 1: Park Avenue was a rematch of a playoff game, an
Speaker 1: underrated playoff game, the Philadelphia Eagles uh and the Atlanta
Speaker 1: Falcons squaring off. Uh. So the Eagles begin their title
Speaker 1: defense against the team and people, forget this, the team
Speaker 1: in the Falcons that were at the goal line late
Speaker 1: in that divisional round playoff game. And if not, and
Speaker 1: you can't really know for sure, but I'm gonna say it,
Speaker 1: if not for Julio Jones slipping in the end zone. Another,
Speaker 1: if you're a Falcons fan, you're just killing yourself year
Speaker 1: after year with these what ifs. Uh, he might come
Speaker 1: down with that ball and it's the Falcons that are
Speaker 1: one step closer to avenging Super Bowl fifty one, but
Speaker 1: it wasn't to be. Now they get a chance at revenge.
Speaker 1: I like this matchup was surprising and I'm I'm all
Speaker 1: for it. Didn't get one of those NFC East matchups
Speaker 1: we had chosen the vikings. It was for dot com,
Speaker 1: so it definitely went dot Com. Uh And people can
Speaker 1: watch up to the minute. Are the show the hit
Speaker 1: that we taped? If they happen to listen to this
Speaker 1: podcast very quickly, we'll be on Friday. Maybe we'll send
Speaker 1: it out on Twitter. Yeah, that's a good Twitter show
Speaker 1: to two pm? What is it? Whatever? Falcons? Matt Ryan like,
Speaker 1: I like this. This is a great opening night game.
Speaker 1: I kind of like the out of that. What's not
Speaker 1: to like about it? It's a good one. Mark right,
Speaker 1: I liked it. It's not Cowboys Giants for the first
Speaker 1: time in my adulthood. Um, I can get behind it.
Speaker 1: I think it was a great playoff game. Marks, by
Speaker 1: the way, you thought he was exaggerating there. Every Opening
Speaker 1: night game for the last forty years has been Giants Dallas,
Speaker 1: but it always says the defending champions, so it's only
Speaker 1: had the Giants a couple of times. But yeah, OK,
Speaker 1: NFL games are Cowboys Sunday night games. I'm in favor
Speaker 1: of this. I have no arguments at all. And it
Speaker 1: should be the It should be the Eagles number one. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you got that has to be, has to be. But
Speaker 1: it's you. I mean I I didn't look at the
Speaker 1: rest of their schedule, but they could have. They could
Speaker 1: have put it up against the Giants. It could have
Speaker 1: been Eagles Giants. That would have been Why didn't you
Speaker 1: look at the rest of the You've been preoccupied with
Speaker 1: other things. Why didn't you schedule a study of schedules
Speaker 1: of all thirty two teams got the rest of spring
Speaker 1: and summer to do that. If I even choose to,
Speaker 1: probably will not. Then uh, Greg, how about the Thanksgiving games?
Speaker 1: Do you like them? I like them? I like what
Speaker 1: are they the The primetime game in Thanksgiving is awesome
Speaker 1: and that's been that's your game hit or miss every years,
Speaker 1: Gregg's favorite game of the year. But now they have
Speaker 1: no choice but to play Saints Falcons on Thanksgiving Night.
Speaker 1: Falcons in a short week. That's a tough spot for them,
Speaker 1: going to New Orleans. You gotta think that this game
Speaker 1: is gonna matter. I can't imagine these teams are gonna
Speaker 1: be out of the mix. It's such a great rivalry
Speaker 1: and often that final game is kind of an at
Speaker 1: Sometimes it's an afterthought because the teams are out of
Speaker 1: the mix by then. What are you laughing about. I'll
Speaker 1: just picture in like NFL films Top ten Countdown where
Speaker 1: it's best rivalries and they get you know, the whole
Speaker 1: top ten list, and Greg's in there, like just pitching
Speaker 1: for the Falcons and Saints is the as the best
Speaker 1: rivalry in the nfin put in the top five. This
Speaker 1: has been your game. I mean you open with Bears Lions,
Speaker 1: which is when we get tagged with covering these games.
Speaker 1: I quickly around early October make my pitch to cover
Speaker 1: the earliest possible game on Thanksgiving. So I'm gonna do
Speaker 1: a little Bears Lions actually left Detroit the base. It's
Speaker 1: a milk toast, you know, zero headline affair, and you're
Speaker 1: out by As a former manager, I can't say with knowledge.
Speaker 1: No one gets ahead of the game on schedule stuff
Speaker 1: for assignments like Mark Sessler. You know you know that
Speaker 1: said last year are just corn I had a six
Speaker 1: hour empty block where we had to come in and
Speaker 1: we did our podcast wrap up. I would like to
Speaker 1: see you of us or the four of us could
Speaker 1: possibly top our Thanksgiving recap, which was a three and
Speaker 1: a half star wonder There were there were without I'm
Speaker 1: not even gonna say who the parties were, but there
Speaker 1: were a couple of worried phone calls the following morning
Speaker 1: following our Thanksgiving show last year, just lea a couple
Speaker 1: of worried phone calls. Listeners seem to like it. Well,
Speaker 1: the phone calls from you, Oh yeah, I was a
Speaker 1: little concerned. Uh. And what's the what's the middle game?
Speaker 1: Redskins Cowboys? That's good. Pretty often feels like that's every
Speaker 1: other year. Cowboys always play obviously as well, and a
Speaker 1: nice little division matchup, and we don't get Giants Cowboys.
Speaker 1: So that's I do think it's the second time in
Speaker 1: three years, if I'm not mistaken, that they've basically said, hey,
Speaker 1: a f C f you on Thanksgiving after the butt fumble,
Speaker 1: they just cleared out all A f C games for
Speaker 1: the rest of the time on Thanksgiving. Uh. And Revenge
Speaker 1: Games wrote a little piece on dot com and I
Speaker 1: throw out some nice little Revenge matchups. Wes, you tell
Speaker 1: me if it lights up your Christmas, you're ready. Colts
Speaker 1: versus jo Josh McDaniels, Week five, Sunday Night Football. The
Speaker 1: rivalries back on? All right? That feels like a legitimate
Speaker 1: gripe am their GM or the new coach. Frank Greig
Speaker 1: said it said it's back on. He said rivalries back on?
Speaker 1: All right. Let's let's get up out of the top
Speaker 1: five of the draft before we say that. Like, I
Speaker 1: picture like Garrett Blunt and Jonas Gray running for three
Speaker 1: yards every time I picture Colts Patriot West. Week two,
Speaker 1: one pm on Fox, Aaron Rodgers versus Anthony Barr. That's
Speaker 1: not really doing good game like Packers Vikings is more
Speaker 1: interesting than Aaron Rodgers. What's he gonna do to Anthony Barr?
Speaker 1: Next up? Week two? Week two is gonna be a
Speaker 1: fun week four oh five Eastern on CBS, Mark Keett King.
Speaker 1: Where's the Oakland Raiders? Really? Mean? They didn't even get
Speaker 1: the spot? That's that's give me a break on that
Speaker 1: pro serving versus market I have this week ten, one pm, CBS,
Speaker 1: Malcolm Butler versus Bill Belichick. That's a legitimate right, I mean,
Speaker 1: I could almost that's that's how excited I have that
Speaker 1: Titans could be fun at that Matt Castle is no
Speaker 1: longer on the roster. I mean, Malcolm Butler has said
Speaker 1: multiple times this offseason how much he like, respects and
Speaker 1: loves Bill Belichick for what he did for his career,
Speaker 1: how much because he loved what happened in the Super Bowl,
Speaker 1: not much about as much as the rest of them.
Speaker 1: So you're saying, dreg is that it's not a big deal.
Speaker 1: I'm saying people aren't going to be that excited about it.
Speaker 1: And finally, Week thirteen, the first matchup between these two
Speaker 1: old rivals, uh eight, twenty pm Sunday night Football, Richard
Speaker 1: Sherman against the Seattle Seahawks. Hopefully he's on the field.
Speaker 1: That's the big especial when you're right their revenge games piece,
Speaker 1: It's like, let's hope these guys are playing football. You
Speaker 1: did a really good job with this article, a lot
Speaker 1: of buy in from you. I'm all in. I love
Speaker 1: into the concept. The lead up to Sherman verse Seattle
Speaker 1: will be professed extremely ponderous that we know. Any other takeaways, Mark,
Speaker 1: uh my one takeaway, because you have the Jaguars Patriots
Speaker 1: as another revenge revenge I meant just overall, Okay, well
Speaker 1: I am. I find it annoying that the Jaguars have
Speaker 1: fewer primetime games than the Titans and Broncos, and no
Speaker 1: more than the Bears, Jets, and Lions. That they chose
Speaker 1: the Titans to have more primetime games than the Jaguars
Speaker 1: after what happened last season. I don't have a huge
Speaker 1: problem with I personally. The bad quarterback got better uniforms.
Speaker 1: That's crazy. Well, I don't know what you have to do.
Speaker 1: I don't have to do the Jaguars. I mean to say,
Speaker 1: we're a team that's arrived, and I understand the doubt
Speaker 1: around the quarterback, but there's just as many doubts for
Speaker 1: me around the Titans and what the Titans are in general.
Speaker 1: And by the way, the Broncos. That's saying that they're
Speaker 1: like ratings poison, Well, I think it's because they're stuck
Speaker 1: down in the middle of Florida and no one thinks
Speaker 1: they can draw an audience looking at looking at their schedule,
Speaker 1: it is somewhat circumstantial that they're They've got the national
Speaker 1: window for games like the biggest some of the biggest
Speaker 1: team games on their rosters on their schedule for Patriots, Like,
Speaker 1: that's a bigger audience than a primetime game is when
Speaker 1: you get the national audience four five Cowboys and then
Speaker 1: they're in London against the Eagles. So yeah, they took
Speaker 1: a lot of those out of primetime. But I think
Speaker 1: we're gonna see a lot of the Jacks that their
Speaker 1: schedules loaded with Steelers. I mean all these teams that
Speaker 1: are like national teams. How about a little week three
Speaker 1: Thursday night football. Yeah. I was surprised to see the
Speaker 1: Jets in prime time two of the first three weeks. Jets,
Speaker 1: Browns in Cleveland, in Cleveland. Who else is going to
Speaker 1: be there? Sam Donald and Baker Mayfield, We're gonna be
Speaker 1: there somehow. Bank on that. I would bank on it.
Speaker 1: Months up months to work on this. Come on, shadowy leagues,
Speaker 1: you're gonna have to take the shadowy league figures out
Speaker 1: for drinks. That's not hard. It's gonna be done. Uh yeah,
Speaker 1: very easily. It could be Tyrod Taylor versus Josh McCollen.
Speaker 1: But wouldn't it be something Why not do the schedule
Speaker 1: the week after the draft, Because they put the Jets
Speaker 1: in prime time two of the first three weeks, which
Speaker 1: really surprised me, including the first Monday night football game,
Speaker 1: which really surprised me too. And then and then I
Speaker 1: thought more about and I thought, Okay, I guess they're
Speaker 1: they're betting on the rookie. You want to get good point,
Speaker 1: you want to get the New York team in early
Speaker 1: before their record gets too bad, so early they're still interested.
Speaker 1: So like that sort of makes sense. But you know what,
Speaker 1: if they take Quentin Nelson and I don't know what
Speaker 1: would have made a little bit more sense. Maybe please
Speaker 1: don't even put that out in the world. Uh, if
Speaker 1: if you're assuming the Jets, and I don't know if
Speaker 1: they look at the schedule on the teams in this way,
Speaker 1: so they probably don't. But if you're gonna put the
Speaker 1: Jets on Monday Night football, maybe wait, wait till week
Speaker 1: ten when this rookie is probably playing well. I think
Speaker 1: they think more Let's put them early before the season
Speaker 1: goes to a rock because everyone's interesting early. I love
Speaker 1: your drafting though, because back in rookie quarterbacks didn't start
Speaker 1: in Week one. Now, I don't care what anyone says.
Speaker 1: For three months in the off season, guaranteed most of
Speaker 1: them are starting by week three or four, and you
Speaker 1: package that schedule to get those guys on prime time
Speaker 1: as early as possible, and you would know you don't
Speaker 1: know any of that now, Um, all right, that's what's
Speaker 1: happening in the news. All right, Now comes the time.
Speaker 1: Sometimes imitated, m never duplicated. It's your the GM, baby,
Speaker 1: what is your the GM? That's easy. It's a little
Speaker 1: role play. Uh, each of the four of us will portray,
Speaker 1: we will embody, we will become, we will melt into
Speaker 1: the role of a executive in the National Football League
Speaker 1: making one phone call. And this is important and I think, uh,
Speaker 1: we didn't even discuss this as a group. It's it's
Speaker 1: I think it's understanding understood that this is real business.
Speaker 1: This is not This isn't gonna be a forest. The
Speaker 1: one GM is gonna call the other GM and he's
Speaker 1: gonna want to do some business, but right before the draft,
Speaker 1: and that's what you're the GM is who wants to
Speaker 1: get it going, Mark, I will all right get it going.
Speaker 1: All right, this is a call. Do you want me
Speaker 1: to announce the call before? Do we just do the call?
Speaker 1: I believe you announced announced the call? Right announce who
Speaker 1: is playing the other general manage? All right, this is
Speaker 1: a call placed from the Greater Massachusetts area from Patriots
Speaker 1: head coach Bill Belichick to Buffalo Bills general manager Brandon
Speaker 1: bean Who's Who's I will be Bill Belichick and Dan
Speaker 1: Hansas will be Brandon Bright. Here we go being counter
Speaker 1: a Beanie. It's Belichick down here in box, bro Belly, Yeah,
Speaker 1: whatever you're talking to the Beanie? Hey, what's up with
Speaker 1: that man? Just another day down here. This lake effects
Speaker 1: knows no joke, bro. Yeah, we're working to get better
Speaker 1: down here, working to improve A long way to go?
Speaker 1: Are you even listening to me? At a few minutes?
Speaker 1: Thought i'd call you up? All right, what's up, Belly?
Speaker 1: It's busy writing up some long winded press conference transcripts.
Speaker 1: Some punters you and Shawanna could learn from this. Basically,
Speaker 1: I just say anything about special teams for ten plus
Speaker 1: minutes during my Friday presser, and all these white hot
Speaker 1: nerds eat it up like I'm FDR giving a fireside
Speaker 1: chat about the Emergency Banking Act. Total losers. Anyway, Bill Belichick,
Speaker 1: Brandon Bean B B one two B B two counter listen.
Speaker 1: I know you guys, you need a quarterback. Well, wait
Speaker 1: a second, you need a quarterback. You got a J mccaren.
Speaker 1: Please have you seen his tats? An NFL team would
Speaker 1: have to work hard not to find one as long
Speaker 1: as you haven't had one. All right, that seemed unecessary,
Speaker 1: but it's not incorrect. You need more than a quarterback, though, beanie,
Speaker 1: all right, belly Dan, team slipped in the playoffs last year,
Speaker 1: fell backwards into it. You know it, I know it.
Speaker 1: Everyone watching football knows it. Well, we won the game
Speaker 1: and then got some help on the outside. That's not
Speaker 1: really following it. But go on, here's the deal. Beans,
Speaker 1: listen up, get your note pad out. I'm counting. I'm
Speaker 1: gonna give you Tom Brady, you heard me, Yeah, I'll
Speaker 1: take it. You give me, you give me. Write this down, beans, hey,
Speaker 1: be encounters writing being counter. I need your number twelve,
Speaker 1: you number fifty three, your number fifty six. You're not
Speaker 1: taking both my first rounders and next year's second rounder's
Speaker 1: good trade. QB problems solved for two years while you
Speaker 1: found a successor, the Bills become the NFL's glory boy team.
Speaker 1: I know that matters to your ownership. So let's just
Speaker 1: go over this again, belly Um, Tom Brady, the greatest
Speaker 1: quarterback of all time, uh, still in his prime, in
Speaker 1: exchange for only only one of my two first round picks,
Speaker 1: which is a little surprising, thank you, and then two
Speaker 1: second rounders over both this year, or or one of
Speaker 1: both your second rounders this year and a second round
Speaker 1: of last year. I just gave away Jimmy g for
Speaker 1: a second rounder, and I know what I'm doing. Is
Speaker 1: this really? Belly Listen, let me tell you how if
Speaker 1: you say no, If you say no to this, here's
Speaker 1: what happens. Someone somewhere calls up Vick Carucchi from the
Speaker 1: Buffalo News and informs them that the Bills just turned
Speaker 1: down Tom Brady for a second rounder. Of course, those
Speaker 1: aren't the terms of the deal. But who's gonna believe them.
Speaker 1: They're gonna believe Bill Belichick. Are they're gonna believe Billy
Speaker 1: Bean's whatever your name is, My name is Brandon Bean.
Speaker 1: Make it up, Brandon, you want to do this or not? Uh,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna tell you what Bill Um. First of all,
Speaker 1: I appreciate the phone call. Your tone could be a
Speaker 1: little bit better. We are we're contemporaries, we're colleagues. Um,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna take this deal, and I am going to
Speaker 1: send you a bouquet of flowers, because even though I
Speaker 1: know Tom probably only has a couple of years left
Speaker 1: at most, what what would make me more of a
Speaker 1: legend in Western New York with all that Lake effects now,
Speaker 1: uh than importing Tom Brady and still somehow having my
Speaker 1: first round draft pick uh this upcoming week. I mean
Speaker 1: it will be seen as the highest heard round the world.
Speaker 1: And so I'm gonna get off the phone bill before
Speaker 1: you change your mind. In fact, I've already processed the
Speaker 1: paperwork and I have Tom on the other line. So
Speaker 1: deal done, us troop led. So how this goes alright? Later? Wow,
Speaker 1: we got a deal done right off the bat. Wow, Well, Greg,
Speaker 1: your thoughts if you had to write a quick take
Speaker 1: analysis piece, Um for the first time, No, this is
Speaker 1: a big deal. This matters, and everything is not okay.
Speaker 1: I believe Um, Robert Kraft would drive Bill Belichick out
Speaker 1: of the building and everything nice that we've said about
Speaker 1: him over the last two decades. We're gonna put that
Speaker 1: on hold for a few a few decades. It's time
Speaker 1: to let Josh McDaniels just run the franchise. This is
Speaker 1: sabotaged from the inside. This is sabotage. This is this
Speaker 1: is pre draft. Oh you're gonna go get the quarterback.
Speaker 1: This is pre draft. Oh you'll have three first round
Speaker 1: picks and four second rounders. Greg, you said last week
Speaker 1: that the Bills are sneaky rebuilding. Yea, this would blow
Speaker 1: up the entire process. Be worth it to put him
Speaker 1: on the map as the NFL's darling team for a
Speaker 1: year and a half, maybe w a Super Bowl. Maybe
Speaker 1: Bill knows more than we do. All right, Uh, West,
Speaker 1: you're up? Greg is Dave Gettleman. I am Tom Coughlin
Speaker 1: and should have worked on that ghettlman accent. Go to
Speaker 1: channel your Massachusetts background on this one. Yeah, if Dave
Speaker 1: gets Tommy here, Tommy col Wait, who's from Boston? What's happening?
Speaker 1: Then't Coughlin used to coach at Boston College? Okay, there
Speaker 1: you go. Hey, you know I'll get off the lund.
Speaker 1: This isn't a party line. You know. We own Bill Belichick, Belly,
Speaker 1: we own him. We got him twice in the Super Bowl.
Speaker 1: If my quarterback wasn't so lousy, we would have had
Speaker 1: him in the a f C Championship game last year.
Speaker 1: I can't fix Blake board. I can't fix Blame Bortles.
Speaker 1: Blake Blake Bortles. Uh, but I'm I'm gonna make him
Speaker 1: fail proof. Yeah, we own them. Remember that party after
Speaker 1: the two thousand and eleven Super Bowl straight hand. We're
Speaker 1: gonna make this guy fail proof. I've already gotten the
Speaker 1: best defense in the NFL. We spent the off season
Speaker 1: trying to bolster the offense. The missing piece is Odell Beckham.
Speaker 1: WHOA He's the missing piece. If I if I can
Speaker 1: put him with Bortles, we can, We're gonna blow up
Speaker 1: the a f C. It's lousy. Right now. There's only
Speaker 1: one contend and it's the Patriots. We're gonna We're gonna
Speaker 1: overtake them. I'll give you our first round pick, the
Speaker 1: twenty nine pick in the draft, second year receiver D D. Westbrook,
Speaker 1: and next year's second round pick for Odell Beckham. M
Speaker 1: hmmm mm hmm. See that one more time. Sorry, they
Speaker 1: pick in the draft this year, D D. Westbrook and
Speaker 1: next year's second round pick. You know I love you, Tom,
Speaker 1: I mean everything we did together, and Uh're joining this performance.
Speaker 1: You know those videos Odell's got little little uh left
Speaker 1: the center. Let's say I'm not not a fan of those,
Speaker 1: but he's the best wide receiver in the league. He's
Speaker 1: the best. He's the best player that we got on
Speaker 1: our team. I'm gonna need a little more. I mean,
Speaker 1: you're throwing D. D. Westbrook. I mean, come on, I
Speaker 1: figured you need somebody. Do you take D. Westbrook? He
Speaker 1: needs somebody to start opposite of Shepherds, So he's a
Speaker 1: throwing all right. Let's uh, let's make it first round
Speaker 1: pick this year D. D. Westbrook and we'll make the
Speaker 1: second rounder this year too instead of next year. Wow,
Speaker 1: let's just moving up here. It's the same pick. People
Speaker 1: get all excited. Oh next year pick is worthless. Still
Speaker 1: still the same pick. No, I love you. Oh that
Speaker 1: was a good player. We just want to scare him
Speaker 1: a little bit. I just want to scare I got
Speaker 1: no dukes, He got no dukes. Alright, that's all Tom. Sorry,
Speaker 1: nice performance, that was good. Um. I have another Gettleman
Speaker 1: call coming up. The question is, Greg, you want to
Speaker 1: reprise Gettleman or do you want to give someone else?
Speaker 1: I think again, why you got to reprise He's in
Speaker 1: his prime playing ghettle get I'm not Gettman. You've got
Speaker 1: to go back to Greg. You have to get all right, Getleman.
Speaker 1: The phone's ringing off the hook today, saying character by
Speaker 1: the way, I agree with what Greig did there. You
Speaker 1: don't take that deal that. Yeah, I'm with let's first
Speaker 1: in a second, anymore he get killed in the New
Speaker 1: York pressed for them. Um. Making the phone call is
Speaker 1: John Elway, the general manager of the Denver Broncos, and
Speaker 1: he wants to get uh Mr Dave Gettelman on the
Speaker 1: phone as well. Yeah, what's happening, Tom? I told you,
Speaker 1: I told you, no doubt, Tom. It's three every time.
Speaker 1: What's happening? Hey, it's John? Stop Dave? So so what
Speaker 1: you always talk like that? It's not just in the
Speaker 1: John wants his man. John is ready to trust his instincts.
Speaker 1: John is ready to make a move up the board
Speaker 1: to get his man. Yeah. This is can you talk
Speaker 1: like an Homa Poston. Let's going on here. This draft
Speaker 1: is for salvaging John's reputation. Hang on a second. I
Speaker 1: have another phone call. This one is for John. This
Speaker 1: one's for John, This one's for John, This one's for John.
Speaker 1: This songs for John, and that one for John. This
Speaker 1: one is for John. Oh yeah, also that one for John.
Speaker 1: All Right, I'm back. You're still there? What the hell
Speaker 1: was that? All right? So this is what I'm thinking.
Speaker 1: I want to move up that draft board. I'm sitting
Speaker 1: at number five. Of course you are sitting at number two.
Speaker 1: I don't want to dope Becka. Now what we're gonna
Speaker 1: pretend like that that hold music didn't just happen there.
Speaker 1: I don't know what you're talking about. I have nothing
Speaker 1: to do with that element of the production here, all right,
Speaker 1: let's get on with it, all right, Here we go.
Speaker 1: John is a big fan of the Jimmy Johnson draft
Speaker 1: value chart. It's for John. The number two pick, the
Speaker 1: one you currently hold, Dave. It's worth points according to
Speaker 1: double Jack. The number five pick hundred points it's worth.
Speaker 1: So this is what I have to offer to you.
Speaker 1: I will give you an exchange for the two, the
Speaker 1: number five, and also in the second round the numb
Speaker 1: that's worth five points. We're up to. I will add
Speaker 1: a first round pick from two thousand sixteen, which was
Speaker 1: Paxton Lynch. What's that word like? Negative points? I don't
Speaker 1: know that. You tell me if you could salvage him
Speaker 1: your quarterback situation too hot. We got Davis Webb, we
Speaker 1: got a future Hall of Fame and Eli Manning. Anyway,
Speaker 1: a break the five plus the forty plus Paxton Lynch
Speaker 1: to move up to the two? John, you know I can,
Speaker 1: I got I just my use car lot just called.
Speaker 1: Can you hang on one second? Please? This one's for John,
Speaker 1: This one's for John, This one's for John. This songs
Speaker 1: for John. This swan's for John, and that onans for John.
Speaker 1: Also this swan's for John, and all right, that once
Speaker 1: for John. Come to think of it, this one's for John,
Speaker 1: and also that once for John. I'm sorry about that.
Speaker 1: I'm back, all right. So what we gotta deal or
Speaker 1: what I gotta say? That that song put me in
Speaker 1: a much more generous movie. That was beautiful. That that
Speaker 1: lady's got some pipes. Uh, you don't, I was gonna say,
Speaker 1: you know, no way, Paxson Lynch, give me a break here.
Speaker 1: I think if I'd be interested in moving down, I
Speaker 1: just need a little bit more, all right, how about
Speaker 1: a little bit more. Take Packson out of the mix.
Speaker 1: He's a complete disaster. Anyway, I agree, I'll throw in
Speaker 1: another third rounder that almost puts us right at the
Speaker 1: same value on the Jimmy Johnson draft chart. So you're
Speaker 1: gonna get the number five, the number in the second round,
Speaker 1: and then you'll get a number three next year, just
Speaker 1: to move back three spots. People people over paying on
Speaker 1: that draft value chart that was made in the ninety nineties.
Speaker 1: Now you see what old Beanie did in Buffalo. He's
Speaker 1: just giving a crazy uh numbers on that draft value
Speaker 1: chat making us make it a two next year. And
Speaker 1: you got a deal. All right, it's a two. We're
Speaker 1: moving on up. There's drafts for john later. That's a
Speaker 1: good trade. I think that's a fair trade. Who was
Speaker 1: the lady with the pipes? That was Sydney Carlson. How
Speaker 1: do you not know that voice? One of the most
Speaker 1: unmistakable voices of this generation. That's beautiful. It's quite a
Speaker 1: pool getting. I mean, that was catchy. I'm gonna be
Speaker 1: I want that and uh, in fact, let's let's play
Speaker 1: out the show with Sidneys j I'm gonna start calling
Speaker 1: the Broncos facility justin and asked to speak to someone unobtainable.
Speaker 1: All right, Greg, you're up, all right, I'm gonna play
Speaker 1: Mickey Loomis Saints executive vice president and general manager, Pelicans
Speaker 1: executive vice president too. Uh, And I'm gonna give old
Speaker 1: Brian Gouda Kunst a call Green Bay Packers. How about
Speaker 1: how about Mark Sessler with the cons is that? How is?
Speaker 1: I believe his accent is not of that nature? Missed
Speaker 1: opportunity that I think already used. My I'm operating. I'm
Speaker 1: going to do my best, use my Loomis voice for
Speaker 1: you know, gettleman. But here we go. I mean last year,
Speaker 1: we remember that there's too many rings and we just
Speaker 1: didn't make the adjustment itself. That's like Guti huh, just
Speaker 1: kidding out on talk that way, Brian Goodencus, what's up?
Speaker 1: It's Loomis? Oh the Pelicans? Man? How your Pelicans doing? Basketball? Guy?
Speaker 1: Not Saints guy? Okay, Greatest draft in history, lassie. And
Speaker 1: maybe you heard you had maybe something to do with it,
Speaker 1: just a little bit. You know the name. Hold on
Speaker 1: a second, No, no, don't trade Anthony Davis. Don't never
Speaker 1: do that. Never do that, basketball guys, never happened. It's
Speaker 1: got a lot of irons in the fire. Beatball man.
Speaker 1: All right, he called me greatest draft in history. You
Speaker 1: know the name? Yeah, I read the article by Mark
Speaker 1: Cecil Greatest. So here, uh, you know on Peyton says,
Speaker 1: no no qbs in this class, right right? Put that
Speaker 1: out there everyone, Peter, Yeah, that top guy changed everything
Speaker 1: that we're doing here in Green Bay. Top top guy
Speaker 1: in the business. You know everyone thinks that, but no, not.
Speaker 1: Actually we loved him. See what he was doing was
Speaker 1: he was saying he didn't love them, but he loves him.
Speaker 1: Pretty pretty clever, pretty you know, he said the opposite.
Speaker 1: You see what I'm saying. He said the opposite. The
Speaker 1: time time here in Green Bay is limited. We are
Speaker 1: working hard towards the draft. If you could possibly wager
Speaker 1: on towards a point here Mickey, alright, so good guns.
Speaker 1: Gotta be careful with that name. Huh. You know this
Speaker 1: is not all right? You got nothing but time you
Speaker 1: just started. It's almost like he's just lonely. Just let's
Speaker 1: have someone to talk to. Yeah, can we You got
Speaker 1: nothing but time? You you just you just got there playing,
Speaker 1: playing for the future. I don't do the things that
Speaker 1: I don't do things the way you do down there.
Speaker 1: I trade you number twenties number for four. I give
Speaker 1: you next year's second round pick, this year's fifth round pick,
Speaker 1: free dinner at Clancy's Best Dinna in New Orleans. They'll
Speaker 1: take care of you. And then, uh, juvenile agreed to
Speaker 1: play any halftime show you want, all the hits. Wait
Speaker 1: a minute, back that as side of the steel, back
Speaker 1: that ass up ha even slow motion and the newest
Speaker 1: stuff and anything anything you want. Got connection? I mean
Speaker 1: the way I look at this draft, Uh after doing homework,
Speaker 1: homework you possibly haven't done. Maybe your head coach not
Speaker 1: hold on a second, no, no, don't give Jrue Holiday
Speaker 1: more money. Okay, you seem a bit distracted. We look
Speaker 1: at this draft is once you get past you know,
Speaker 1: fourteen fifteen, there really isn't that player that the Packers
Speaker 1: could view as a blue chip type player. And so
Speaker 1: you're asking me to take a fifth round pick and
Speaker 1: a dinner at Clancy's. I can get that. I'm like,
Speaker 1: I can get you. I could buy dinner. You get
Speaker 1: that at a first round pick this year, I get
Speaker 1: the first round pick, shovel down, second round pick. Can
Speaker 1: you add how about this year's third round pick along
Speaker 1: with the fifth? No taking the fifth off? And what
Speaker 1: is green Bay giving up the fourteenth? And what what
Speaker 1: is it? That's because see what Sean Payton was doing there.
Speaker 1: He said, the quarterbacks they're not good. But people aren't
Speaker 1: thinking about Lamar Jackson thinking them well, yeah, you know, Goody.
Speaker 1: Goody's got to ask himself a question, why are you
Speaker 1: telling me what the Saints are about to do to
Speaker 1: position themselves in a way to beat the Packers in
Speaker 1: the playoffs with Lamar jack Hold on a second, it's
Speaker 1: called the Smoothie Kid too much. You got to change
Speaker 1: that name. That smooth That's an embarrassment. Change that name.
Speaker 1: Hold on. I am very concerned about you and your
Speaker 1: general well being down in New Orleans. I am not
Speaker 1: doing this deal. Farewell understandable. I will not be doing
Speaker 1: this deal with you. Good luck to you. I I
Speaker 1: truly wish you good luck. Your final statement, how about
Speaker 1: I change it instead of juven out you get missed,
Speaker 1: I truly wish you good luck. Goodbye. Now I know
Speaker 1: he's in prison, Um somebody is still on the line.
Speaker 1: I understand why Gunty didn't want to do business there.
Speaker 1: It's just just something didn't seemed right. Seem right. But
Speaker 1: I just think that they it's your first time as
Speaker 1: a GM. Do you want to pick or fourteen? Unless
Speaker 1: the deal it wasn't bad in trade, but I understand
Speaker 1: why you might want to might not want to do
Speaker 1: business with people you don't necessarily trust. Didn't trust him? Alright,
Speaker 1: one more time around the horn? Here wed it? Okay,
Speaker 1: here we go. This one is sometimes imitated, never duplicated.
Speaker 1: Go ahead, Mark True In Abstenia Brown's GM X Brown's GM,
Speaker 1: Sashi Brown attempting to contact current Brown's GM John Dorsey,
Speaker 1: Mr Dorsey, will you accept a collect call from Sashy? Oh?
Speaker 1: Yes I will. I didn't know we still had collect calls.
Speaker 1: This is good, Yay, it's a collect call. I think
Speaker 1: we just get put through to each other. What's up, John,
Speaker 1: Sashy Brown. That is how it normally works. Little concerned
Speaker 1: our producers, a little young doesn't know what a collect call.
Speaker 1: Very fair, very fair. Well, first of all, you're welcome
Speaker 1: for this offseason. I just thought i'd tell you that
Speaker 1: I am calling you because I'm Sashi Brown. I still
Speaker 1: care about the Cleveland Browns, and I'm telling you even
Speaker 1: after all they did care very much. Still making a
Speaker 1: lot of money from the Cleveland Browns on the side.
Speaker 1: But I don't have a side job as well. All Right,
Speaker 1: I want to talk to you will You're gonna listen
Speaker 1: to what I have to say? Do you respect me?
Speaker 1: Not totally? Okay? Well, I'm an old school football guy.
Speaker 1: You know that I'm a cowboy. We might see the world.
Speaker 1: We see the world differently. But I'm gonna talk to
Speaker 1: you about some actual hard road work that I've been doing.
Speaker 1: I've been camped out down in Buffalo at a listening post.
Speaker 1: What's that, Well, it's where Sashi has been parked for
Speaker 1: the last three weeks. I want to talk to you
Speaker 1: about something that I picked up on the street. The
Speaker 1: Bills and the Patriots are about to announce a trade
Speaker 1: for Tom Brady. I thought this the same thing. This
Speaker 1: is actually about to be announced tonight. You need to
Speaker 1: get in front of this. I know that you like
Speaker 1: to say, Oh, John Dorsey goes dark. You've got to
Speaker 1: let the light shine in because you're gonna need to
Speaker 1: pick up the phone. Here, buddy, Tom Brady to the
Speaker 1: Buffalo Bills. Here is the upshot. Listen to this. The
Speaker 1: Patriots now have the number twelve, the number twenty three,
Speaker 1: and the number of thirty one picks in this draft,
Speaker 1: three first rounders, and netting this deal from the Bills
Speaker 1: four second rounders. Here's what I need you to do.
Speaker 1: If you're willing to listen, you call up Bill Belichick.
Speaker 1: You give up your dreams about this number one pick.
Speaker 1: I have it on record from a Patriots friendly friend
Speaker 1: in the media, who is he one clue. He loves
Speaker 1: the sopranos and the sixers, he loves Napoleon quotes, and
Speaker 1: he used to have your job and my job in Cleveland. Anyway,
Speaker 1: my source has it firsthand from Belichick that New England
Speaker 1: will part with number twelve, number twenty three, and all
Speaker 1: four of their seconds to move up to number one. John.
Speaker 1: The Patriots will take their guy. They will be lauded,
Speaker 1: but in reverse. I have this on good record. You
Speaker 1: will then have number four, number twelve, number twenty three,
Speaker 1: and seven second round picks in this draft. You take
Speaker 1: the quarterback you want at your still existing number four pick.
Speaker 1: I won't interfere, but Sashi likes Josh Rosen's vibe a lot.
Speaker 1: You then have two more first rounders and seven second
Speaker 1: rounders before Friday night raps. Remember I was the one
Speaker 1: who first told you to draft Lamar Jackson plus another quarterback.
Speaker 1: Maybe he'll be there at twelve that's how Sashi does it?
Speaker 1: You feeling me? Mr Dorsey, time is running out. Please
Speaker 1: insert more, Please listen, Mr Dorsey, do it Sashi out.
Speaker 1: I just got the strangest call. It was a man
Speaker 1: named Sashi who was telling me what to do. Sashi.
Speaker 1: Do we believe him? Was that? Sashi? I feel like
Speaker 1: I would probably, if that was a real thing, would
Speaker 1: have to do that deal. And I take those seven
Speaker 1: second rounders and I get back into the first round
Speaker 1: and pick another first rounder, tying the Jets record for
Speaker 1: four four trade four two is to get into a
Speaker 1: late first round pick. Why not? How many roster spots
Speaker 1: do we have? We get just fifty guys, three first
Speaker 1: rounders in seven second rounds. Was gonna package those second
Speaker 1: rounders to get back into the first round maybe, and
Speaker 1: then I'll have between four and twenty seven, say four
Speaker 1: first round picks. Hopefully I hit on two or three
Speaker 1: of those guys, including the quarterback, and we're in the
Speaker 1: playoffs next January. I would do that. If any of
Speaker 1: this happened, like Mary Kay Cabot and Tony Grossi's heads
Speaker 1: would just explode too too much to compute, I do.
Speaker 1: I don't know what just happened. Uh interesting. Alright, West,
Speaker 1: you're up very fascinating. I am, by the way. I
Speaker 1: like how you doubled down on an earlier premise from
Speaker 1: round one. See it's called building a story. There's the alright, West,
Speaker 1: I am Arizona Cardinals general manager Steve come dan Is
Speaker 1: Colts general manager Chris Ballard. Here. We're going. I like
Speaker 1: circus peanuts. What I thought I was calling a general
Speaker 1: manager Chris Ballard here? Oh hey, this is Kim bomb Combom.
Speaker 1: I'm a kind bom. What's up? I need a quarterback?
Speaker 1: I got quarterbacks. We're selling Sam Bradford. Booie. You guys
Speaker 1: gonna get injured tomorrow. Oh he's beat up. Yeah, we
Speaker 1: need a quarterback. And I'm dangling David Johnson. I know
Speaker 1: Frank Gore's gone. Y'all haven't had a hundred yard games
Speaker 1: since nineteen seventy three. It's been it's been tough sledding. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm selling David Johnson and pick fifteen. Hold on, please
Speaker 1: kindeed check indeed did you fall out that we look? Indeed?
Speaker 1: Check indeed, ch No, your draft star kis falling to
Speaker 1: Kim d ch Kim d ch did you crash you
Speaker 1: out that window, Kimba, kim d ch please see's your
Speaker 1: last chance to prove yourself. Don't fall once more. Are
Speaker 1: you still there? Still here? David Johnson? All right, and
Speaker 1: pick number fifteen, whoa for running back Marlon Mack and
Speaker 1: your sixth pick that gives you you're up there with
Speaker 1: like Sashi Brown's hall. Can we can? We can? We
Speaker 1: repeat this? David Johnson and pick fifteen for Marlon Mack
Speaker 1: and the number six pick in the draft? What am
Speaker 1: I missing here? The six is nice. We're getting Josh Rosen. Baby,
Speaker 1: You're going to get a quarterback. I get it. No
Speaker 1: guarantee he's following. He's dropping like a bag of hammers.
Speaker 1: Get Josh Allen? All right. I feel like given our
Speaker 1: situation here in Indianapolis and you know that we are
Speaker 1: um moving forward. I've got a I got a ton
Speaker 1: of positive press remarks Sessler on the Round the NFL
Speaker 1: podcast based on my press conference performance after the Josh
Speaker 1: McDaniel's incidents, So a lot of good will you. I
Speaker 1: got his approving Sessler's on my side, and based off that,
Speaker 1: I'm feeling really bullish about the future. I think Andrew
Speaker 1: luck Is gonna think Andy's gonna be playing this year,
Speaker 1: so I'm not gonna be thinking about a quarterback at six.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna think about getting my roster better. It's gonna
Speaker 1: be a great talent at fifteen. This is a nice draft, um,
Speaker 1: so it's hard for me to turn down and all
Speaker 1: pro like David Johnson. And I know he's coming off
Speaker 1: that knee injury. What what's the paperwork on that? He's great,
Speaker 1: never been better, best shape of his life. Okay, now
Speaker 1: I've heard it, so I have no worri he's there,
Speaker 1: Marlon mc nice little player, He's not David Johnson. So
Speaker 1: I absolutely will take this deal. I gotta take this deal.
Speaker 1: I'd be crazy not to. I mean, you're I'm again,
Speaker 1: come bomb. Come bomb gets deals done. Tick tick tick.
Speaker 1: That could be your your job security. Uh if this
Speaker 1: doesn't work out, if you end up getting stuck with
Speaker 1: Josh Allen or something he doesn't work out, it's it's
Speaker 1: never easy to rebuild. We lost Bruce Arians, we lost
Speaker 1: Carson Palmer. I'm in a pinch. I understand my job
Speaker 1: securities on the line, but you know this as well
Speaker 1: as I do job securities on the line every day
Speaker 1: in the NFL. We gotta make bold moves. We need
Speaker 1: a quarterback. You can't win in the NFL without a quarterback.
Speaker 1: All right, we got a deal. One question I have
Speaker 1: for you. What's your favorite type of frog? Kermit? All right,
Speaker 1: we're done. Nice doing business with you. Very good. See
Speaker 1: the headline now kind bombed. That is a steal for
Speaker 1: the cults. Yeah, that's that's troubling. I mean, if they
Speaker 1: know something about David Johnson that the Colts don't know,
Speaker 1: especially ahead of him, and takes you know, Josh Rosen.
Speaker 1: NFL teams don't build around running backs. Come on, all right,
Speaker 1: this next call, Jerry Jones, general manager and owner of
Speaker 1: the Dallas Cowboys, will be calling Bengals general general manager
Speaker 1: Mike Brown. I think it has to be Chris Wesley
Speaker 1: considering their shared history. So let's do this, mikey boy here,
Speaker 1: Hey Jared Jones here, Gerald, how are you doing? Buddy? Well,
Speaker 1: it's not as good as the nineteen America's gone downhill?
Speaker 1: Can't take it. Sorry to hear about that, Mike. I
Speaker 1: think this is a great country, and I run America's team.
Speaker 1: Let me tell you something, though, I'm madder than a
Speaker 1: wet hen right, now how mad is a wet hen
Speaker 1: eat very mad? The Eagles are champions. We missed the
Speaker 1: playoffs again. Roger made me pay all that dang money.
Speaker 1: But you know what, today's a new day, and I
Speaker 1: think it could be a new day for your boys.
Speaker 1: And and see as well. All right, let's have it
Speaker 1: all right, I'm gonna cut to the chase here. I won't.
Speaker 1: I don't want your life. I want a j Green.
Speaker 1: That boy's a three jump cowboy and I'm fixing to
Speaker 1: get him three jump cowboy. Absolutely. And I know what
Speaker 1: you're thinking, Old jaredd He's got a big old hole
Speaker 1: in the screen door. Jared's gone crazy as a bull bat.
Speaker 1: I'm not crazy, though, I ain't crazy. I'm fixing to
Speaker 1: get me a des replacement, y'all. See, Dez was a
Speaker 1: son to me, but I had to move on and
Speaker 1: now I need a better son. And that's why I'm
Speaker 1: a call and listen, you ain't going nowhere with your team,
Speaker 1: Andy Dalton. He's all had no cattle, my friend, No cattle,
Speaker 1: my friend. He's yellow as mustard, but without the bite.
Speaker 1: He stays in the shadow of his mama's apron. You
Speaker 1: understand it's time for you to rebuild, and I can
Speaker 1: help with a first round pick that is gold currency
Speaker 1: in this National Football League. Steven, get off the phone.
Speaker 1: Get off the phone, Steve, And this is my deal.
Speaker 1: Nineteenth overall pick pick for players. Swap easy as poss
Speaker 1: slick as a whistle, A J. Green for a first rounder.
Speaker 1: And if that ain't a fact, God's apossum. First of all,
Speaker 1: I invented Cowboys and Indians. I was the first man
Speaker 1: ever to play Cowboys and Indians. We go back a
Speaker 1: long way. You're not putting one over on old Mikey boy.
Speaker 1: You are not putting I don't know who you think
Speaker 1: you are selling this. Come on, I'm gonna need way
Speaker 1: more than the nineteenth pick in the draft for the
Speaker 1: best wide receivers in the NFL, one of the best players.
Speaker 1: But what is he? Twenty years old though, ain't no
Speaker 1: young and and you have a lot of rebuilding to do.
Speaker 1: What you can do is start the rebuild right now
Speaker 1: with an extra first round pick. Maybe get yourself another quarterback,
Speaker 1: Maybe find the next A J. Green. Because this generation,
Speaker 1: this current team the next five years ain't hoisted. No
Speaker 1: Lombardi I hosted hoisted a lot of Lombardies for three.
Speaker 1: In case you forgot Jerry, did you sleep through the nineties.
Speaker 1: Nobody knows more about rebuilding than Mikey Boy Brown. We
Speaker 1: have rebuilt over and over and over again, and blown
Speaker 1: draft picks and turned down pastles of draft picks. This
Speaker 1: is not one of the best deals I've heard. We
Speaker 1: are not rebuilding. We think we can contend in the North,
Speaker 1: and we need a j Green to do it. All right?
Speaker 1: What if I sweetened the pot a little bit? All right,
Speaker 1: you're listening, I'm listening. I will throw in a second
Speaker 1: round pick next year, so first and a second for
Speaker 1: your twenty eight year old wide receiver for a team that's,
Speaker 1: let's face it, not going anywhere in the near future.
Speaker 1: Have you seen what I've done with my draft picks?
Speaker 1: Kille Smith, David Klingler, Kajana Carter. I don't need draft picks,
Speaker 1: you're highly I need stars. I've got stars. All right. Well,
Speaker 1: it's time to put out the fire and calling the dogs.
Speaker 1: So long share out. Too bad. I didn't think it
Speaker 1: was a terrible trade. Is that a terrible offer? We're
Speaker 1: we're Cincinnati now in the grand scheme? What was the
Speaker 1: final offer? Two picks the first first first this year,
Speaker 1: a second next year. It's not a terrible offer, but
Speaker 1: I wouldn't take it. I could see the Bengals not
Speaker 1: taking it. Another team might if they thought they could.
Speaker 1: And yes, I mean basically, yeah, you're trading. I mean
Speaker 1: a J. Green is the best case possible for a
Speaker 1: first round pick, so he signed to a reasonable deal.
Speaker 1: I think you called up at the least risky franchise around.
Speaker 1: That's the thing. If you've found someone else like A J. Green,
Speaker 1: that you wanted a little bit more of a risk
Speaker 1: a franchise, they might they might listen to that. Yeah,
Speaker 1: but I wanted one of the big ones, and you
Speaker 1: Brown is the original Glacier. All right, close this out, Greg, alright, finally, Uh,
Speaker 1: this is gonna be a Chiefs general manager. Brett Veach,
Speaker 1: Colleen Newsom, um Beach getting some pop Bret, I mean
Speaker 1: played by Danna Newsom. Okay, all right, all right, speak
Speaker 1: to me. Hey, this is this is brettred bread Beach. Uh,
Speaker 1: speak up boy the Chiefs GM Oh, all right, okay,
Speaker 1: what's up? Brett? I just want I just want to say,
Speaker 1: like you have my number. Right, It's like in the league,
Speaker 1: it's in the league directory a one six number. You
Speaker 1: see it right? Yeah, I'm seeing the same thing. How
Speaker 1: can I help you, Brad? Just because I haven't had
Speaker 1: many calls, like I know, you know, John Dorsey got
Speaker 1: a lot of attention. He was like, Hey, I'm tough.
Speaker 1: I'm no, I'm no nonsense John Dorsey. Who I'm the
Speaker 1: tough guy around here. Like, but we have different styles,
Speaker 1: Like I'm not getting any calls at all. Well, I
Speaker 1: don't know how to help you out with that young man.
Speaker 1: We're very busy here in Baltimore. We're trying to rebuild
Speaker 1: a champion. We we got a nice deal set up
Speaker 1: with a young man playing wide receiver, Willie Snead. I
Speaker 1: don't know what to tell you about the Chiefs. I
Speaker 1: feel like it's funny. It's funny, like even the in
Speaker 1: the Chief's building, it's like if you look at the
Speaker 1: at the reporting structure, I report directly to the owner
Speaker 1: and still in the building, they're like, hey, Andy, what
Speaker 1: do you want to do? Hey? Andy? Like, hey, what
Speaker 1: should we do with this guy? It's like I'm the
Speaker 1: GM Bret Beach Well so so like uh like at
Speaker 1: the combine is there like is there like a party
Speaker 1: all the like gms go to or something like a
Speaker 1: dinner or anything like that. Well, i'll tell you what.
Speaker 1: I feel sorry for Bread because I feel like you
Speaker 1: feel marginalized in your organization. But i'll tell you what.
Speaker 1: You are not alone. As you know, Erica Costa's in
Speaker 1: the building here. They're pushing old Ozzy out. Nobody remembers
Speaker 1: what Ozzy did. I built the Ravens. I don't know
Speaker 1: why I speak with the Southern accent. This is a
Speaker 1: hard show to do from Alabama. Emma good So, so
Speaker 1: there isn't a party. There is a party. You are
Speaker 1: definitely not invited, though. I'm sorry, Brett. Uh, it's not personal.
Speaker 1: It's just you are extremely, extremely ineffectual and no one
Speaker 1: really wants to hang out with you. Problem. I just
Speaker 1: wanted to say hi, just sort of like touch me. Actually,
Speaker 1: I gotta go. Big Red is walking this way. I'll
Speaker 1: see if i'm he will someday get a deal done.
Speaker 1: I can't wait till you interview him. Where did Brett
Speaker 1: fall on your GM rankings? By the way, Uh, yeah,
Speaker 1: he was too early to be ranked. I like how Yeah, well,
Speaker 1: I just uh we can tell that was to be
Speaker 1: funny because no one knows anything about bred Beach. That
Speaker 1: was Bred Beach. Very nice. Greg. I think you might
Speaker 1: have to get the award for the best character work
Speaker 1: this year. That might. I mean, it's the Chiefs will
Speaker 1: be calling in three or four days, so soak it
Speaker 1: up while you can. Our last show with Greg. But
Speaker 1: we really enjoyed it. Um all right, there you go,
Speaker 1: you're the GM. There was no trade offer. That was
Speaker 1: just a touch base. He wants to go to parties.
Speaker 1: I get it. I like there was no one. No
Speaker 1: one's calling all Brett. Everyone everyone forgets about Brett doesn't
Speaker 1: even need to make it very effective and uh everyone
Speaker 1: everyone knows the feeling of Fomo. So I get it.
Speaker 1: We will be We will be back on one day.
Speaker 1: Uh we will. It is our last show before the
Speaker 1: draft on Thursday night, and we will have a special
Speaker 1: guest here. I will not announce who it is, but
Speaker 1: we will have someone dropping by or a phone call.
Speaker 1: And also, yes, it's time again for go get my
Speaker 1: Lunch draft edition and uh working hard to see if
Speaker 1: we can maybe get Colleen Wolf in here for that
Speaker 1: because she has done so well, or she did really
Speaker 1: well two years ago. I believe in this exercise. I
Speaker 1: wanted to give her another crack at it, but she's
Speaker 1: doing Path to the Draft on NFL Network. So we'll
Speaker 1: see if we can get Colleen in. If not, it
Speaker 1: will be the four Heroes, the bozos ourselves. But thank
Speaker 1: you for listening, and uh and uh that's it. Good work, everybody.
Speaker 1: Good trades, some big trades. David Johnson on the move,
Speaker 1: Tom Brady that some big deal moves. All right, until Monday.
Speaker 1: This is Dan hands is signing off for the mailman,
Speaker 1: the old Boss, and lose Canada in the glass bank
Speaker 1: Erica for all your help until monday. John swans for John,
Speaker 1: and that onwans for John. Also this swance for John,
Speaker 1: and all right that once for John. Come to think
Speaker 1: of it, this one's for John, and also that once
Speaker 1: for John.