Speaker 1: Be Around the NFL Podcast is not associated with Jared
Speaker 1: from Subway Welcome back to another edition Good to get
Speaker 1: back cleared up of the Around the NFL Podcast. My
Speaker 1: name is Dan Hansis. I am joined my room the
Speaker 1: filled with heroes Mark Sessler, Chris Westling and Greg Rosenthal.
Speaker 1: What is up? Boys? Hey? Dan? Who welcome back? Mark?
Speaker 1: Thank you back in The first name drop that we
Speaker 1: get uh coming back to the show is shared from Subway.
Speaker 1: I was very concerning a man that had his own
Speaker 1: legal entanglements. I didn't have legal entanglements. I was fulfilling
Speaker 1: a civic duty. Dan, your case is over though, yes
Speaker 1: it is, Oh it is, it is over. Yeah. I
Speaker 1: was meant to go through Friday and then it's suddenly
Speaker 1: like within you have no idea what's happening. Suddenly within
Speaker 1: like ten minutes in the courtroom, both both sides were like, yeah,
Speaker 1: we're good, We're Uh where was where was the courthouse?
Speaker 1: Downtown l A worse worse? Specifically, how did you get there?
Speaker 1: Hubert Uber shared Uber rides are are the new are
Speaker 1: my new thing. I love them. Oh, you get to
Speaker 1: meet a lot of different people, I mean, you know,
Speaker 1: meet them. But it was like like the uber ride
Speaker 1: to downtown a is twenty seven dollars, a shared Uber
Speaker 1: ride was eight. So the court dockets related to your
Speaker 1: specific case, could they be found in public records? Yeah?
Speaker 1: I happened the middle of my bag. Are you are
Speaker 1: you thinking that I did not go? It's ridiculous. It
Speaker 1: was a big I believe me. One thing that I've
Speaker 1: found and whenever I'm away in general is like Twitter
Speaker 1: in general is the first thing I believe if I
Speaker 1: leave this industry and I saw tweets like are you
Speaker 1: really a jury duty? It's like, could you possibly have
Speaker 1: anything more to do with your time than be concerned
Speaker 1: if I'm actually there or not? It's all right, So
Speaker 1: I'll check out that paperwork after the show. Um, I
Speaker 1: got it for you, bro. It is good to have
Speaker 1: you back. That Mark, though, Mark, it was you were missing.
Speaker 1: Oh he literally whipped out his paperwork the date. It
Speaker 1: doesn't look like it's been doctored. Okay, it's official. Well Mark,
Speaker 1: thank you for doing your civic duty. No, thank you, America.
Speaker 1: Thanks you. This is the Wednesday edition of You Around
Speaker 1: the NFL podcast. Big Show coming up today, A nice
Speaker 1: saucy offseason show. Um, I'm gonna talk about I don't know,
Speaker 1: called the Curse of the Chris Westling features one of
Speaker 1: the most prominent stars of a top NFC offense is
Speaker 1: going on the shelf unless he has his way in
Speaker 1: a court. Isn't in a court. It's not officially a
Speaker 1: court unless it goes to the courts there an appeal
Speaker 1: is what I'm getting at. But when you appeal a suspension,
Speaker 1: as mark ingram, probably he's gonna do well, he's he
Speaker 1: already has that was there. We'll get into. But they
Speaker 1: that was an agent something the agent put out there
Speaker 1: in the league quickly said this case is already wrapped.
Speaker 1: Would be the Curse of the U s O trip
Speaker 1: because I like it. I like aligning it with west
Speaker 1: more interesting. Well we'll get we'll get all that, uh.
Speaker 1: And also coming up today, um the zooser wrote a
Speaker 1: banger top ten storylines to watch this offseason, so we'll
Speaker 1: u uh that piece of writing. And also don't forget
Speaker 1: as teased on Monday's show, actually can we get a
Speaker 1: little bit of um that glorious guitar for this one? No,
Speaker 1: Greg Mark, I know you ingested Monday show, so you're
Speaker 1: aware of this. But ah, yeah, clearly not, since he
Speaker 1: had no idea you questioned his Jerry Doody coming up
Speaker 1: at the end of this episode. This is called a tease.
Speaker 1: All right. One man not known for being an open
Speaker 1: book opens up the book and shares a major personal revelation.
Speaker 1: Greg rosenhalp Oh, I forgot about that. Wow your words
Speaker 1: I got. Yeah, So that's all closed the show. Let's
Speaker 1: do some news. Yeah, we will stop this tournament right now.
Speaker 1: We don't. And this is ridiculous. It is a cornal
Speaker 1: tournament fundraiser. Cut the crap. One of my favorite viral
Speaker 1: videos of two thousand eighteen so far is a a
Speaker 1: dad filled fistfight breaking out at a cornhole tournament at
Speaker 1: some you know, blue Sky State. I would assume I've
Speaker 1: been involved in a lot of cornhole tournaments over the years.
Speaker 1: I've been involved in athletics with read Next quite a
Speaker 1: bit over the years. I've never seen a fight at
Speaker 1: a cornhole game. Well, this one was. This was a
Speaker 1: great one, and I asked Lindsay specifically to leave. In
Speaker 1: the very very end, after the organizer um disciplines the
Speaker 1: men for their stupidity, you hear a guy in the
Speaker 1: deep faint background go he started. Let me hear that again, Lizzie.
Speaker 1: Yes he's back. Go sit on the steps all right. So, Yes,
Speaker 1: as we UH alluded to at the very top of
Speaker 1: the show, the Saints are gonna lose one of their
Speaker 1: very best players uh for the first quarter of the season.
Speaker 1: Mark Ingram suspended by the league without pay of the
Speaker 1: first four games for violating the NFL's policy on p
Speaker 1: E d s. The league announced Tuesday. Ingram led the
Speaker 1: Saints last season with eleven rushing yards, was an all
Speaker 1: purpose beast, just like his backfield running mate Alvin Kamara,
Speaker 1: but now is going to be a one man show. UH.
Speaker 1: The appeal, as we also alluded to, has already been made. UH.
Speaker 1: Ingram is allowed to participate in all off season and
Speaker 1: preseason practices and games. Mark, will start with you on
Speaker 1: this one. Did you know this is coming? Because Mark
Speaker 1: Ingram was on the U s O tour not not
Speaker 1: at all, And I find that I don't know when
Speaker 1: he would have known it. It does sound like the
Speaker 1: team knew about it for some time, but at least weeks,
Speaker 1: but probably maybe since you got back. There was a
Speaker 1: lot of theories in the news room immediately from not
Speaker 1: just from people that work for this pocket just wondering, like,
Speaker 1: what what happened on that trip? Didn't Mark? You did say,
Speaker 1: give him some supplements? Are we are we doing p
Speaker 1: e d s in Italy and Germany? And they You're right,
Speaker 1: it is a p D. This is not recreational. But
Speaker 1: you did say they slipped away for long hours of
Speaker 1: partying and also working out. Well, Honestly, what I didn't
Speaker 1: notice from all those guys and like, it's that they
Speaker 1: were despite being kind of on a leisurely week, every morning,
Speaker 1: those dudes were working out like an hour and a half,
Speaker 1: two and two and a half hours, which made me
Speaker 1: feel ridiculous by comparison, and eating huge meals and stuff
Speaker 1: like I'm only working out eighty minutes in the morning.
Speaker 1: I didn't touch a gym the entire time that out there.
Speaker 1: But I I don't know, I think this came completely
Speaker 1: out of the blue. I I saw someone that seemed
Speaker 1: super fired up for next season and like, couldn't have
Speaker 1: been kind of happier with the way his off season
Speaker 1: was going. So the appeals already heard and denied by
Speaker 1: the NFL. So uh, Ingram will miss those four games
Speaker 1: and wes you uh just on Monday show. We talked
Speaker 1: about and you put up a great column about this.
Speaker 1: You have the Saints is the number one offense? Are
Speaker 1: they still the number one offense with Ingram out of
Speaker 1: the mix? Well, he's only gonna miss a month season's format,
Speaker 1: you know, I'd say for the season? Alright, alright, smart Alec.
Speaker 1: How much does he hurt there? Off him being absent
Speaker 1: hurt their office? I'm trying to figure out, like how
Speaker 1: to separate rap sheets reporting that Ingram hasn't been involved
Speaker 1: in O t as is looking for a new contract,
Speaker 1: and the Saints were planning to make Alvin Kamara their
Speaker 1: feature back. Anyway, I'm not sure how all this works
Speaker 1: with the suspension news, but if they're gonna make Alvin
Speaker 1: Kamaro the feature back, they're already in much better shape
Speaker 1: than most teams in the NFL, even without marketing group, right,
Speaker 1: they can survive a month. In that month, They've got
Speaker 1: the Giants, Bucks, Browns, and Falcons. You know, none of
Speaker 1: those teams you would say have one of the best
Speaker 1: defenses in the league. So I think they'll be fine
Speaker 1: on offense with Sean Payton and all the weapons. The
Speaker 1: report from Ian Rappaport, you just mentioned to me it
Speaker 1: was much more interesting than the suspension. Suspensions happened all
Speaker 1: the time they get back. He's gonna be back for
Speaker 1: the key games. It sounds to me like Ingram wasn't
Speaker 1: thrilled with his contract, perhaps or the Saints weren't thrilled
Speaker 1: with him, that a trade was definitely possible, and that
Speaker 1: when they found out about this failed test, that kind
Speaker 1: of put that all on hold. He is not at
Speaker 1: o t as Ian, Rappaport says, even though he's allowed
Speaker 1: to be at the facility, he probably won't be there
Speaker 1: unless he's required. So that's to me a kind of
Speaker 1: a bigger story than the suspension. I agree, and I also,
Speaker 1: I mean, I do wonder though, because you know, and
Speaker 1: I don't know, you know every factor that went into
Speaker 1: your west you make them the number one offense. But
Speaker 1: I thought the way that you'd have Ingram and Kamara
Speaker 1: on the field and defense has really had no idea
Speaker 1: how either would be used on almost any given play.
Speaker 1: Do we really see Alvin Kamara as a guy that
Speaker 1: you simply make your loan workhorse. I don't know if
Speaker 1: that's who that player is. I thought Ingram not. I
Speaker 1: don't how can you take away what he did last season?
Speaker 1: He was it was it was his best year by far. No,
Speaker 1: I agree with that. I think per play efficiency Kamara
Speaker 1: will not be nearly as good if he's stretched out
Speaker 1: of that complementary rule. The thing is with Camara, though
Speaker 1: people think of him like, oh, it's like it's like
Speaker 1: almost like a Darren Sprowls guy. He's a third day
Speaker 1: It's like, No, he's two hundred and fifteen pounds and
Speaker 1: he runs over people sometimes at the goal line. We've seen.
Speaker 1: I don't think he's gonna make his living but at
Speaker 1: the between the tackles runner. But he is absolutely big enough,
Speaker 1: I think, and strong enough to be a three hundred
Speaker 1: and fifty touch type of guy. And they'll they'll be
Speaker 1: happy when Ingram does get back. They did report that
Speaker 1: Dan uh, if you were at it did not happen
Speaker 1: in Europe. He failed the test during the regular season.
Speaker 1: It was the last, the last test. The agent said
Speaker 1: it was at the last. Yeah, it's a little mirth.
Speaker 1: I'm just pointing out. No, it's good, it's good information.
Speaker 1: This is an informational podcast. Here's a little more information.
Speaker 1: Ingra will miss games against the Bucks Cleveland Brown's nice
Speaker 1: shot by you, Mark at the Atlanta Falcons, and at
Speaker 1: the Meadowlands against the Giants. Moving on west, you could
Speaker 1: finally sleep. We know whether or not Kurt Warner will
Speaker 1: return to the NFL. The NFL Network analyst and Pro
Speaker 1: Football Hall of Famer Um went on our own air
Speaker 1: waves to confirm that, no, he will not be playing
Speaker 1: anymore NFL football, but it doesn't mean he didn't think
Speaker 1: about it. Warner revealed that he spoke to an NFL
Speaker 1: coach earlier this offseason about the possibility of coming out
Speaker 1: of retirement. Here's what he had to say to Andrew's Aciliano.
Speaker 1: There was a lot of teams that were needy of
Speaker 1: a quarterback this offseason, and uh, you know, didn't have
Speaker 1: a vet. We're probably gonna go with the young guy,
Speaker 1: and so reached out to a coaching friend of mine.
Speaker 1: I was in good shape, I was throwing the football
Speaker 1: again and said, you know what, I think I can
Speaker 1: give you one year if you need that one year bridge,
Speaker 1: uh to the future. I'm your guy. But but as
Speaker 1: I said, I don't think he took me seriously and
Speaker 1: it was just kind of like whatever. They went out
Speaker 1: and signed a quarterback. That was the end of that deal.
Speaker 1: But uh, you know, we were talking about it just
Speaker 1: a little bit last night. I should have known that
Speaker 1: it was going to blow up and do a full
Speaker 1: fledged real life story when when there there really wasn't
Speaker 1: that much to it. Has the ship sailed? Well, you know,
Speaker 1: you never want to say never, but yeah, I mean,
Speaker 1: obviously the older you get, you still have visions of
Speaker 1: grandeur in your head. But but yeah, I mean, we're
Speaker 1: we're getting too far away from this thing. Although I
Speaker 1: do feel really good and I was slinging it pretty
Speaker 1: good just a couple of months ago when I when
Speaker 1: I was training. But uh, but yeah, I think it's
Speaker 1: time that we say this thing is over. So Warner out,
Speaker 1: Mark you can sleep. These stories kind of fascinating me,
Speaker 1: just the mind of a professional athlete or a Hall
Speaker 1: of famer, that your confidence never really leaves you, that
Speaker 1: you you still believe you can play. I was reading
Speaker 1: a story on T. J. Houshman Zatta, the former Bengals receiver,
Speaker 1: the day before, and he said, you know, basically in
Speaker 1: similar words, I firmly believe, whole hardly, in my heart
Speaker 1: of hearts, I can line up as a number three
Speaker 1: receiver after three months of working out. And I think
Speaker 1: if you look back, like to Greg playing tennis, or
Speaker 1: Dan playing softball, or Mark playing football when he was
Speaker 1: in fifth grade, dominant great cornerback, like any act, when
Speaker 1: you think about yourself and how good you are, don't
Speaker 1: you always think of the hot streaks and figure I
Speaker 1: can be that guy? And he like to me, I
Speaker 1: always think, okay, at my best, If I can get
Speaker 1: into that groove for an entire year, yeah I could.
Speaker 1: I could see how an athlete would say, yeah, I
Speaker 1: only picture myself at my best. In my heart of hearts,
Speaker 1: I'm confident I can do this. And he's kept him.
Speaker 1: We know we see him very often around here, and
Speaker 1: we also know that he uh takes good care of
Speaker 1: himself and he sees what uh Tom Brady is doing
Speaker 1: and what Drew Brees is doing. And I could see
Speaker 1: why an all time quarterback could think an all time quarterback, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: I think why he would think maybe I could do this. Maybe.
Speaker 1: I mean, he hasn't taken a snap in seven seasons,
Speaker 1: and I was like trying to go back looking at
Speaker 1: old offensive coordinators that he had to see who might
Speaker 1: be this coach that maybe rose up through the ranks
Speaker 1: that still has one. He was the one who wanted
Speaker 1: to do it, which made me think it's got to
Speaker 1: be the Cardinals, A because he's close with them, and
Speaker 1: be because he already and they and they form again
Speaker 1: and they were looking for right they said, well, we'll
Speaker 1: we'll like, we'll find a quarterback in four or five
Speaker 1: different ways this offseason. This is a fourth or fifth
Speaker 1: different way deduction broll. It could be it had totally wrong,
Speaker 1: but you gotta fi I think maybe what separates us
Speaker 1: and athletes like that is no I know that I
Speaker 1: was in so much better shape in high school, unfortunately
Speaker 1: than I ever was gonna. I think that to the
Speaker 1: me of today would have been like as a football
Speaker 1: player back then, I was like, don't hit me. I
Speaker 1: don't want to do this. It's like now you run
Speaker 1: angry and you'd want to like take people out. Part
Speaker 1: of the story that fascinates me, though, is it's the
Speaker 1: off season, and how do these stories come about. It
Speaker 1: only happened this story, we would not be talking about it.
Speaker 1: He would not be on up to the minute. If
Speaker 1: Rhodo Pat our friend Pat Doherty at Rhoda World didn't
Speaker 1: happen to be watching the Cardinals game and hear that
Speaker 1: and say what and then tweeted it out with the
Speaker 1: video Literally would have just gone into the ether. No
Speaker 1: one would have ever talked about it, and instead it
Speaker 1: ended up programming like Sports Center and NFL Network just
Speaker 1: because Pats of die hard Cards. I was gonna say,
Speaker 1: wrote a nice job. I wrote a Pat. And also
Speaker 1: he was on the art talking about because it's May night, right,
Speaker 1: That's what I mean. Yeah, exactly a lot of time
Speaker 1: to fill in other news. These are high times for
Speaker 1: the New York Jets, who believe they found their signal
Speaker 1: caller of the future in Sam Donald, the number three
Speaker 1: overall pick and right now and at the very top
Speaker 1: the food chain that optimism is continuing to overflow. CEO
Speaker 1: Christopher Johnson, who, uh, if you're not aware, is the
Speaker 1: brother of Woody who is overseas as the American Ambassador
Speaker 1: to England. Could he be more unplugged? Woody Johnson could
Speaker 1: not be more unplugged. He's literally unplugged. Now. He is
Speaker 1: out of the He's out of the machine. And Chris
Speaker 1: Johnson has gotten some good reviews as his replacement or
Speaker 1: temporary replacement. Here's what he had to say via ESPN
Speaker 1: dot com. I honestly think people are gonna look back
Speaker 1: twenty years from now and say this is the moment
Speaker 1: the Jets shifted into a new gear, that they became
Speaker 1: a great team. I'm pointing this out because from the
Speaker 1: very top to all the fans, including me, it's a
Speaker 1: very vulnerable, exciting, vulnerable, vulnerable time for Jets fans because
Speaker 1: everyone is all in on this kid, and the owners
Speaker 1: not even hiding it like that's a big statement. All
Speaker 1: owners are gonna say, oh, yeah, we really think this
Speaker 1: kid's got a bright future. We think we could put him,
Speaker 1: you know, build around him and make him a talented
Speaker 1: quarterback in this league. When the owner is saying he's
Speaker 1: the guy that changes everything forty years of misery, it's
Speaker 1: a lot of pressure and there's a lot of open
Speaker 1: heartedness around the Jets, and you don't want to be hurt.
Speaker 1: But this is what we're gonna find out about forty
Speaker 1: Niners fans in December, But I think it applies to
Speaker 1: Jets fans now. And this may say something about me
Speaker 1: as a as a sports fan, but I don't think
Speaker 1: there's anything more exciting than sports. Then a young, difference
Speaker 1: making talent who has the potential to change everything about
Speaker 1: your routine experience. Yeah, that you'd be surprised if Chris
Speaker 1: Johnson and the Jets didn't feel this way about Sam
Speaker 1: Donald after what they did. The difference is they're they're
Speaker 1: comfortable just putting out there in public. They're not believing
Speaker 1: and under promising and over delivering, and they might as
Speaker 1: well hype it up sell some. It's not gonna I
Speaker 1: don't think it's gonna make a difference whether he becomes
Speaker 1: a great one or not, whether they hype him up
Speaker 1: if well, yeah, the thing about m Donald's yeah, Donald's
Speaker 1: not go, it's not. I don't. I think the pressure.
Speaker 1: I think Sam Donald's one of the quarterbacks based on
Speaker 1: sort of the neck up that I don't think it's
Speaker 1: going to rattle him the way it might someone else
Speaker 1: and you didn't. You have to have the right team
Speaker 1: around someone to make it successful. It can't just be
Speaker 1: him and no one else. But it's a little different
Speaker 1: than Niners fans in the sense that Niners fans, you know,
Speaker 1: depending on your age, you've either lived through multiple Super
Speaker 1: Bowls or you just went to one. A couple of
Speaker 1: years ago. You've had it, You've had those NFC title
Speaker 1: game wins. Outside of a a brief run with Rex Ryan,
Speaker 1: the Jets fans have been through utter bleak hell and
Speaker 1: embarrassing hell in many ways too. So the idea that
Speaker 1: it could turn around is crazy. It's a it's a
Speaker 1: reality shift. A big part of this reaction on the
Speaker 1: Jets part is that, as Ian said yesterday on NFL,
Speaker 1: up to the minute, the Jets made that trade believing
Speaker 1: that Baker Mayfield was going to be their quarterback at
Speaker 1: number three, even though they had Sam Donald number one
Speaker 1: on their board. They just never at any point considered
Speaker 1: the idea that Sam Donald will fall to them at three.
Speaker 1: So now here they are sitting there extremely happy to
Speaker 1: get a guy they never thought they had a shot
Speaker 1: and that that stuff never happens for the Jets. Would
Speaker 1: they would. We'll see if it turns out to be
Speaker 1: a major break for them. But that's part of the
Speaker 1: shock and excitement around the team is that it seemed
Speaker 1: like they could have caught a break here. Uh. In
Speaker 1: other news, a former Jet, Brandon Marshall, has been on
Speaker 1: the free agent line since the New York Giants cut
Speaker 1: ties into a couple of weeks ago. He's meeting with
Speaker 1: the Seahawks today. According to Mike Garafolo of NFL Network,
Speaker 1: thirty four years old, awful last season, just never got
Speaker 1: going with Eli and then Um suffered a lower body
Speaker 1: injury that knocked out ended the season prematurely. Uh. We
Speaker 1: talked about Marshall after he got released, Greg Uh, and
Speaker 1: we're kind of a little skeptical that whether he'd get
Speaker 1: a job or not. Do you think he would be
Speaker 1: a fit in Seattle. I don't know if he has
Speaker 1: much to offer any team, but it did point out
Speaker 1: to me how depleted this Seattle receiver corps is when
Speaker 1: I looked at it. I'm gonna be doing them next
Speaker 1: week in the projected starters check it out NFL dot
Speaker 1: com slash slash projected starters even too. How about that, Well,
Speaker 1: don't confuse the people if it's the slash projected stuff,
Speaker 1: or get a broken r L NFL dot Com slash
Speaker 1: projected Starters. I thought, I thought Russell Wilson had maybe
Speaker 1: his best wide receiver crew he ever had in Seattle
Speaker 1: last year. But now it's Doug Baldwin, Tyler Lockett, and
Speaker 1: who knows after Jaron Brown and Ed Dixon. So if,
Speaker 1: if never there's a team that at least could kick
Speaker 1: the tires, give Marshall a shot, this would be it.
Speaker 1: I mean, but that said Brandon Marshall to me looked
Speaker 1: I'm I'm just surprised that he's going anywhere outside of
Speaker 1: the New York City area because of his television requirements.
Speaker 1: If he winds up there, well, now it seems like
Speaker 1: he's making that decision. I really want to play another year,
Speaker 1: and it's not going to be a perfect setup for
Speaker 1: me anymore if that, if I do go down, it's
Speaker 1: surprised if he makes the team Seahawks don't make the
Speaker 1: playoffs that Brandon Marshall signs up for them. Woh, well,
Speaker 1: that's the truth. If you look at the history and
Speaker 1: then listen, you might say they could be veering that
Speaker 1: direction as as but right, if you look at it
Speaker 1: purely numerically, chances are that streak would end. But maybe
Speaker 1: there's some part of Brandon Marshal that upsets locker rooms
Speaker 1: and makes teams not live up to their expectations, makes
Speaker 1: Ryan Fitzpatrick throw a bunch of interceptions in Week seventeen
Speaker 1: in Buffalo don't bring that back. It's a bright new
Speaker 1: future for my team. But I'm just saying that was Marshall.
Speaker 1: That I've ever done was that Sunday Night show. That
Speaker 1: was If you want to hear the old Zeuser at
Speaker 1: his most like depressed and sad go surface week fifteen,
Speaker 1: Week seventeen of two thousand fifteen, the Purple Heart Committee
Speaker 1: has been painted on mere uh. Moving on the first
Speaker 1: round pick of the Bears, Roquan Smith, a victim of
Speaker 1: a robbery over this weekend. The Athens Clark County Police
Speaker 1: Department at Georgia confirmed NFL dot com Smith had several
Speaker 1: items stolen from his new BMW, including the team issued iPad,
Speaker 1: which I feel like it has The playbook is the
Speaker 1: last thing a rookie would ever want stolen from you.
Speaker 1: I mean that's that makes you seem like a total
Speaker 1: But you're on everyone's radar. You're totally on everyone's radar. Greg,
Speaker 1: as a guy who's lost many, many things, including Apple
Speaker 1: products over the years of Apple product, can you imagine
Speaker 1: this scenario where you played an entire NFL career and
Speaker 1: did not lose your playbook multiple times? Well, I did
Speaker 1: you know, remember or learned last time I lost something,
Speaker 1: which was a phone in a in a cap, tell
Speaker 1: the NFL right away, because they're gonna zap it, take
Speaker 1: all the info out. I kind of waited to see
Speaker 1: if I knows all the products. Yeah, I kind of waited,
Speaker 1: you know, a while, to see if I was trying
Speaker 1: to get it back because I was embarrassed. So I
Speaker 1: waited a while. So I told the NFL, Now, you
Speaker 1: gotta tell your team right away. I think broke on Smith.
Speaker 1: He's got a good head on his shoulders. He did that.
Speaker 1: West lost and iPad once, but had nothing to do
Speaker 1: with the break in. It did not involve NFL security.
Speaker 1: Involved football, but not this type of football. Involved Big
Speaker 1: Bear Lake and then uh watching the World Cup with
Speaker 1: you guys at the garage. We're one of our co
Speaker 1: workers late in the day got into a fist fight
Speaker 1: with a friend and we weren't even there with them.
Speaker 1: It was just an enjoining group that tipped over everything
Speaker 1: on our table and initially wedded uh Chris's iPad and
Speaker 1: then you just lost it. Later you just lost the iPad.
Speaker 1: So I cannot blame the losing of the iPad on
Speaker 1: the fist fisticust that occurred around me. Did someone get
Speaker 1: um stiff with a tab there too? Yes, that that
Speaker 1: also happened. By the way, I love what's in this
Speaker 1: guy's car that that did give return to him, which
Speaker 1: was jerseys they the police that were worth over forty
Speaker 1: dollars because of like the lineage of them being game
Speaker 1: jerseys that were worn in like Bowl games. But on
Speaker 1: top of it, four pairs of bows, headphones, a Bow's
Speaker 1: blue tooth speaker. We know all that came from the draft.
Speaker 1: But two watches a Michael Cores and Kai bo I
Speaker 1: guess watched that which are probably not cheap, a pair
Speaker 1: of expensive sunglasses, and like endless Nike shoes, Like how
Speaker 1: how rich are these players? Right away were like suddenly
Speaker 1: your cars we got we got a Nike swag bag too.
Speaker 1: You've got to keep that stuff under wraps in your car,
Speaker 1: put it in the trunk. By the way, most of
Speaker 1: the stuff was recovered by the police, and uh, I
Speaker 1: don't know about the iPad, but a lot of it was.
Speaker 1: So all's well, that ends well. Fi iPad however, still unrecovered,
Speaker 1: still still pinging it. Find my iPad response my phone
Speaker 1: as well. Enjoy it. Cab driver from New Orleans. Finally,
Speaker 1: Orlando Franklin, you may remember from Greg his extended run
Speaker 1: with the Broncos and Broncos Yeah, didn't last too long.
Speaker 1: Seven years in the NFL. He announced his retirement on Instagram.
Speaker 1: He's had this to say over the last few days,
Speaker 1: I've realized that facetiming my son is just not enough. Uh.
Speaker 1: Now I throw it to you, Mark, and I ask
Speaker 1: why uh? And maybe this will help Orlando. Why face
Speaker 1: timing is enough for you? No, it's not. I read
Speaker 1: this story and I think, I think this is ay.
Speaker 1: I think we're going to see more players make decisions
Speaker 1: like this. But I think that this was one of
Speaker 1: the better stories of the week. Is Daddy? Ever, I
Speaker 1: don't like the critique that I like. Somehow I'm fine without,
Speaker 1: you know, contacting my children. That is another another totally fabricated, utterly, utterly,
Speaker 1: just another third narrative with no basis in reality at all,
Speaker 1: that I hear about on Twitter five or six times
Speaker 1: a day. It's just good that you have WiFi because
Speaker 1: that helps a lot in terms of keeping appearances up right.
Speaker 1: I don't know, I have no idea what. There is
Speaker 1: a lot of projection going on in this room. Uh,
Speaker 1: perhaps perhaps that's what's happening in the news. All right,
Speaker 1: here we go. I said over the weekend that I
Speaker 1: was in Vegas, But that was a lie. Old Zeuser
Speaker 1: was locked up in his room and he was burning
Speaker 1: that midnight oil because an elaborate lie. My editor, I'll
Speaker 1: leave bump or. He said, I want content, I want
Speaker 1: digital content, I want written content. And I said, yes, sir,
Speaker 1: So I went down to my own lab and I
Speaker 1: cranked out the top ten offseason storylines. You can check
Speaker 1: it out at NFL dot com, Slash Hansas and um
Speaker 1: I have ten here. And I think maybe a way
Speaker 1: to kind of talk about this and go through it
Speaker 1: is maybe if you, gentlemen, if you've had the chance
Speaker 1: to peruse the article yourself, could pick one from the
Speaker 1: list and tell me if it's one that you're juiced
Speaker 1: about or one that you don't believe is something we
Speaker 1: should track it all fun. Wes. I know you're a
Speaker 1: man that is very selective in what you care about
Speaker 1: this time of year. What's one that that stands out
Speaker 1: to you that should people should be paying attention to.
Speaker 1: The one that stands out to me is Andrew lux Health,
Speaker 1: which has been, uh something we've been watching for two
Speaker 1: years now. Um, most of this stuff, I feel like
Speaker 1: we'll work itself out. Andrew lux health is really a
Speaker 1: question mark to me. Why isn't he throwing? I know
Speaker 1: he's being really strict about following the rules this time,
Speaker 1: it's still weird that he's not throwing yet an actual
Speaker 1: duke football the Duke. So I guess I don't expect
Speaker 1: anything to change until training camp, and that's when we
Speaker 1: we'll start to see what Andrew Andrew lux health looks
Speaker 1: like and what the Colts prospects going forward looked like.
Speaker 1: Maybe maybe we'll get a little we'll get some clues
Speaker 1: or some progress, you know, once otis and mandatory minicamp,
Speaker 1: just of kind of what he's doing, because that's when
Speaker 1: the reporters are going to be around. And they really
Speaker 1: had Andrew Luck and this, you know, as a red
Speaker 1: flag in hindsight, basically hidden from all reporters. I remember
Speaker 1: going to training camp last year and you know, he
Speaker 1: was in another building literally that you couldn't go walk into,
Speaker 1: Like you could kind of see the buildings open, but
Speaker 1: you didn't have the angle where you could see where
Speaker 1: Andrew Luck was doing whatever Andrew Lux doing it was
Speaker 1: like a separate like the trendy animal to zoo. Right. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I got him off campus and in this other local.
Speaker 1: So my thought, if if you start seeing some tangible progress,
Speaker 1: and I would think there should be some in May
Speaker 1: and June, that would be at least a good earlier.
Speaker 1: I just feel like this story has been going on
Speaker 1: forever and it's just blue. It was like, oh, when
Speaker 1: you're writing the articles a while back, it was like, oh,
Speaker 1: coming off of you know, recent shoulder surgery, coming off
Speaker 1: of shoulder surgery six months ago, eight months removed from
Speaker 1: soldier certain soldier surgery from the last right now, it's
Speaker 1: like we're getting years years away from the initial issue
Speaker 1: here and like get on the field. This first popped up. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and his last game was January one, two thousand and seventeen.
Speaker 1: They're part of the Apple. That's why you don't tell
Speaker 1: Kurt Warner he can't play. I mean, he's they almost
Speaker 1: equally have the last equal distance between their last place.
Speaker 1: A lot of a lot of the doubt that, whether
Speaker 1: it's the football cogniscent or just regular Joe cool that's
Speaker 1: on Twitter. The reason why people have doubt is because
Speaker 1: The Colts kind of botched it last year by making
Speaker 1: it seem like it was something that was going to happen,
Speaker 1: and they were very open in public, I thought, in
Speaker 1: their comments and the positive comments, and the owner even
Speaker 1: said before the season that you're gonna see Andrew luck
Speaker 1: and it never happened. So now that he's been gone
Speaker 1: all year, it's hard to take the organization at its word,
Speaker 1: even though they continue to about positive comments about their quarterback.
Speaker 1: Let's be fair, all right, Mark, what do you got well?
Speaker 1: I I like that you. I mean this is I
Speaker 1: think this would have snuck its way into um this
Speaker 1: type of article one way or the other, but in
Speaker 1: this case it is legitimate and real. This time, the
Speaker 1: lingering heat on Patriot Way, this isn't I don't think
Speaker 1: just the same old let's cook up something that might
Speaker 1: unsee at the Patriots. Psychologically, I want to see what
Speaker 1: plays out with all this. The Gronk stuff is fine,
Speaker 1: but I really feel like the over and over you're
Speaker 1: getting these sound bites from Tom Brady, whether it's the
Speaker 1: Jim Gray interview or you have Tom Brady now floating
Speaker 1: around in a car looking like a magician. I saw
Speaker 1: that stuff too, I mean there's just yeah, there's just
Speaker 1: a yeah, and he was not the weirdest person at
Speaker 1: the meta Michael Jackson but going no, that's no, that's absolutely,
Speaker 1: that's dead on. It's just that it just feels like
Speaker 1: there's a bit of a tone shift with a lot
Speaker 1: of people inside the organization that I would have laughed
Speaker 1: at even six months ago, that any issues exist at all.
Speaker 1: Tell me I'm wrong. I don't think you're wrong. I
Speaker 1: don't know if I think Tom Brady, if you listen
Speaker 1: to that interview, I watched the whole thing. I think
Speaker 1: he's starting to telegraph. Look when when he's back there,
Speaker 1: just my expectation is it's all going to be buttoned up.
Speaker 1: Gronk had a long personal meeting with Belichick. What happened
Speaker 1: after that meeting was the Patriots started negotiating his contracts.
Speaker 1: So I think, just based on their prior history, once
Speaker 1: those guys are back in the building, whenever it is,
Speaker 1: certainly it'll be by mandatory minicamp, they're just gonna be
Speaker 1: the Patriots and they're gonna be kind of boring again,
Speaker 1: and we'll start to talk about their team, which is
Speaker 1: significantly different. I think in some ways could be better
Speaker 1: in terms of the depth on their defense, and it's
Speaker 1: just different on offense. And we'll start talking about that
Speaker 1: because they're they're just too good at shutting these stories out.
Speaker 1: With Gronket, it looks to me more and more like
Speaker 1: his grumbling has always been about money and wanting a
Speaker 1: better contract. He's got a pretty bad deal compared to
Speaker 1: other players of his level. Certainly players play his position,
Speaker 1: but the Brady thing seems more personal. And since it's
Speaker 1: Tom Brady and it's Bill Belichick, we'll see if that
Speaker 1: dies then I tend to think they will too. They'll
Speaker 1: it'll get buttoned up by September and they'll drop another
Speaker 1: thirteen and three or more. But we are in kind
Speaker 1: of uncharted territory. I don't think Brady being ambivalent about
Speaker 1: his future playing football on some level, or his relationship
Speaker 1: with you know, his organization is made up story by
Speaker 1: any means. It's a really important thing. It's also overdue.
Speaker 1: He's forty years old and he has been as motivated,
Speaker 1: you know, and ready to go as any athlete we've seen.
Speaker 1: Like it's time. It's I don't know, it's overdue. Greg,
Speaker 1: You want to throw it out there, Yeah, the one
Speaker 1: that stuck out to me that we actually will learn
Speaker 1: about in may be the rest of the world is
Speaker 1: doesn't think this is interesting, but Kaepernick and Eric Reid
Speaker 1: possibly getting a job, because I think that's a story
Speaker 1: that's bit bigger than football. Especially Eric Reid. It sort
Speaker 1: of doesn't make sense that he wouldn't be on a
Speaker 1: roster in the season. Now. There's other safeties out there
Speaker 1: like Trey Boston and Kennycarlo people point out that don't
Speaker 1: have jobs now. So I'm kind of just in wait
Speaker 1: and see because I think this is a story that
Speaker 1: can keep ballooning outward in terms of its importance, and
Speaker 1: it's it's just surprising to me that someone in the
Speaker 1: NFL on the ownership level doesn't just want to be
Speaker 1: on the right side of this story, like because this
Speaker 1: is a story like Colin Kaepernick, it is just gonna
Speaker 1: be talked about. It's hard. It s hard for me
Speaker 1: to imagine that the owners don't see that the Colin
Speaker 1: Kaepernick story is something that's going to be talked about
Speaker 1: in ten years from now, like it's made that sort
Speaker 1: of impact and that it's going to be a positive
Speaker 1: for the league if he has ever back in the league,
Speaker 1: and it's complicated how to figure this out with with
Speaker 1: all the legal stuff going on. You're wording it's interesting
Speaker 1: you said the right side of the story, which which
Speaker 1: is part of what makes us very complicated, is that
Speaker 1: there's a whole other portion, and especially in the ownership,
Speaker 1: a very conservative group that don't see it as that
Speaker 1: being on the right side of history. And I think
Speaker 1: a lot of teams have been eliminated from UH even
Speaker 1: being interested in either of these guys because of it.
Speaker 1: And one thing I think is also interesting is that
Speaker 1: read he worked out with Kaepernick on Tuesday. Bay Area
Speaker 1: News Group spotted them. They didn't want to talk, but
Speaker 1: they worked out together at a college UH cal State
Speaker 1: East Bay. Read he's taking the I think he's making
Speaker 1: the move here, like, I'm not gonna distance myself from
Speaker 1: Kaepernick and try to get a job no matter of
Speaker 1: the cost. I'm gonna continue to be right in the
Speaker 1: middle of this and put myself side by side with
Speaker 1: Kaepernick and see if teams are still willing to play me.
Speaker 1: So I kind of admire that he's not shying away
Speaker 1: from how he got in this situation in the first place. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's like it's what it's it's who he is, it's
Speaker 1: what he believes and stands for. It's not a good look,
Speaker 1: I think too, to stay up off of that just
Speaker 1: to get a job. I mean, this is it's a
Speaker 1: I don't think it's just owners either. I think there
Speaker 1: are coaches that don't want to get involved in this either.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, it's it's and and it's sponsorships, and it's
Speaker 1: such a convoluted, tangled mess of money, interests and greed
Speaker 1: that You're right, this is gonna be a story that
Speaker 1: we look back on a decade from now, and it's
Speaker 1: not a sports story. At this point. You see Jason
Speaker 1: Garrett in all or nothing talking about it with his coaches.
Speaker 1: A the coaches, some of the coaches are are really
Speaker 1: angry about the whole anthem and protest issue. And then
Speaker 1: be my bigger takeaway was like Jason Garrett just didn't
Speaker 1: want to have to even bring it up with the coaches,
Speaker 1: Like he hated even having to talk about it with
Speaker 1: the coaches, which you know, that's you gotta be a leader.
Speaker 1: And any did he he talked about, but you could
Speaker 1: tell it was just something Oh my gosh, it's like
Speaker 1: the last thing that these coaches who are so focused
Speaker 1: on the field want to deal with. It's such a
Speaker 1: hard job to be a head coach and keep fifty
Speaker 1: three men focused on the same goal and you keep
Speaker 1: your staff in line and of every all the distractions.
Speaker 1: I think I could kind of see where Garrett was
Speaker 1: coming from, which was like, I'm trying to get this
Speaker 1: team figured out where we just got killed in Denver.
Speaker 1: This is earlier in the season, and and now I
Speaker 1: have this on my plate. And that's how I read
Speaker 1: to me, not whether or not where he stood on
Speaker 1: the issue, but just like I don't want to have
Speaker 1: another thing on my plate, and that's certainly what it was. Uh,
Speaker 1: we should talk. I don't know you guys watching all
Speaker 1: or nothing? We could watch We could talk about on
Speaker 1: another show. But I watched the first two episodes enjoyed
Speaker 1: it quite a bit. I haven't plugged in yet. I
Speaker 1: will catch up at some stage in time. Yes, you did.
Speaker 1: By the way, one last thing on Eric read you.
Speaker 1: I saw you in a Twitter back and forth that
Speaker 1: a lot of people are saying, Oh, Eric Reach, you
Speaker 1: definitely have a job, but you did notice some things
Speaker 1: last season. He didn't maybe have the best season in
Speaker 1: San Francisco. Well, Eric Reid is a guy who had
Speaker 1: concussion issues early in his career, to the point where
Speaker 1: people doubted whether he's gonna be playing again. He's a
Speaker 1: hard hitter, and you wonder if his body's gonna hold up.
Speaker 1: He's had knee injuries, he said, I believe shoulder injuries.
Speaker 1: He got moved to linebacker for a little bit last
Speaker 1: here because he wasn't starting at safety, and I think
Speaker 1: showed something there at the at some point and finished
Speaker 1: off his season. Well, I would just say this, and
Speaker 1: this point gets lost in every discussion of this issue.
Speaker 1: It is possible to agree with with Eric Reid and
Speaker 1: Colin Kaepernick politically, socially and still think there are football
Speaker 1: reasons why they are not playing. Yeah, the read one
Speaker 1: is is really interesting to me. And Dan pointed out
Speaker 1: that he's kind of and I admire it to being
Speaker 1: as aggressive as possible, or at least public as possible
Speaker 1: in terms of aligning himself with Kaepernick. And that's what
Speaker 1: he's doing in terms of this, uh, this lawsuit that's
Speaker 1: been filed through the NFL p A, He's he's getting
Speaker 1: out in front of it. He's not waiting until the season.
Speaker 1: He's doing it right now. We ranked him as the
Speaker 1: number twenty five overall unrestricted free agent when we did
Speaker 1: our top one oh one. Number twenty four I believe
Speaker 1: was Kenny Vacaro, so they were right next to each other.
Speaker 1: Trey Boston was fifty three. Those were three of our
Speaker 1: top safeties and none of them are looking for jobs.
Speaker 1: And so if there are other things that you can
Speaker 1: look at like that he doesn't have a job, I
Speaker 1: don't know. It's like a it's a complicated issue, but
Speaker 1: he he's kind of making the point, this is who
Speaker 1: I am. Sign me knowing that's who I am. Uh
Speaker 1: And one more from from the article, which one Marco
Speaker 1: throw two on this one? Which one of the big
Speaker 1: five rookie qbs we'll see extensive action, let's say majority starters,
Speaker 1: so they start eight games or more for their team.
Speaker 1: Who which I think Sam Donald could start sixteen and
Speaker 1: to be surprised if he's not the weak one starter
Speaker 1: and if he if he keeps his act together and
Speaker 1: he stays healthy, you you could go the entire way.
Speaker 1: Josh Rosen would be right there next along with him.
Speaker 1: I I think Mayfield. I think the Browns like for
Speaker 1: better or worse. I read what you wrote that you
Speaker 1: don't buy that that the Tyrod Taylor thinks sticks. But
Speaker 1: I think at this point like he would be one
Speaker 1: of the Lamar Jackson would be the lowest. But Baker Mayfield,
Speaker 1: to me, would be a guy that maybe he starts
Speaker 1: a couple of games at the end of the year
Speaker 1: if the ship sinks. I don't even mean that it's
Speaker 1: like Mayfield, do you believe only starts at the end
Speaker 1: of the year. I don't. I just think if if,
Speaker 1: if they if they keep if Tyrod Taylor is fine
Speaker 1: they don't, and and and there's not a bunch of
Speaker 1: people calling for his neck, then he would keep the
Speaker 1: I think he'd keep the job longer than any passed
Speaker 1: rookie quarterback, any past quarterback in Cleveland would have been.
Speaker 1: I think it's gonna be very hard for the Browns,
Speaker 1: even if they want a red shirt him, to keep
Speaker 1: him on the bench. If unless the Browns do what
Speaker 1: people think is maybe possible this year, which is put
Speaker 1: together season it's somewhat competitive. I mean, if they're six
Speaker 1: and seven or something like that, I think Tyrod is
Speaker 1: gonna stay in the lineup. But if they even if
Speaker 1: they're making improvements that their records still stinks in there,
Speaker 1: you know, isn't the same that every one of these
Speaker 1: guys are starting by like October. That's what I Here's
Speaker 1: what happens all the time. One bad game and people
Speaker 1: start to talk about it. Right, two bad games, people
Speaker 1: start to call for it. Three bad games they make this,
Speaker 1: which right, Tyrod Taylor could play fine, and I think
Speaker 1: he's getting bench the second there under five hundred, so
Speaker 1: you know, if that's one in three, you know, maybe
Speaker 1: two games under five. If that's one and three, he's gone.
Speaker 1: I mean, every one of these quarterbacks are gonna start
Speaker 1: by week three or four. So I don't even know
Speaker 1: why I just said that about it just seems like
Speaker 1: that's what they want. I'm not saying that's what's gonna happen.
Speaker 1: And maybe they will get off to a fast start
Speaker 1: and then I could see it happening. But Mayfield is older.
Speaker 1: I think he's you know, there's some argument that he
Speaker 1: was a little more ready than maybe Sam Donald would
Speaker 1: be that Donald if there was anyone that could use
Speaker 1: a little more seasoning, you know, just to get up
Speaker 1: to speed. At the end of him Old Rosen I
Speaker 1: think depends almost totally on Bradford, unless Rosen is just insane,
Speaker 1: lights out. I think if Bradford shows up and he's
Speaker 1: healthy and he's Sam Bradford, he's going to get to
Speaker 1: start for as long as they're winning at least, which
Speaker 1: might not be very long, but he's gonna get It's
Speaker 1: gonna be up to brad put in. Any one of
Speaker 1: these quarterbacks win the job in the preseason. I don't
Speaker 1: think Jackson. I honestly even think with with Joe, it
Speaker 1: seems impossible, but much crazier stuff has happened. I think
Speaker 1: it could lead to him. If Lamar Jackson is lights
Speaker 1: out in the preseason, I think Flack, of my opinion,
Speaker 1: would still start the season, but it would become a
Speaker 1: short leash situation. I agree with that um that there
Speaker 1: were Ravens, their GM, their assistant GM, their head coach
Speaker 1: have all gone out of their way to say that
Speaker 1: Joe Flacco. They believe they can make the playoffs with
Speaker 1: Joe Flacco. I mean to me, that's they have their
Speaker 1: mindset on all those editions they made on offense are
Speaker 1: going to revive his career. So if I set the
Speaker 1: over under an eight and a half. Let's leave Jackson
Speaker 1: out of this. On the other four quarterbacks starts this season,
Speaker 1: would you take the over on all four? Yes, it's interesting. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I think Josh Allen is a little bit of a
Speaker 1: I mean what do I mean what does he have
Speaker 1: to who does he have to beat out? Though? I
Speaker 1: don't know. I think the cupboard is bare and like
Speaker 1: your home, I mean, if we're gonna say, here's what
Speaker 1: Tyrod's order to do, here's what Josh McCallen could do,
Speaker 1: give me a break a j McCarron. I mean, he's
Speaker 1: out of there by week three. If things aren't good,
Speaker 1: they the thing they'd have to be worried about. But
Speaker 1: there's a few things is the surrounding talent. Is anyone
Speaker 1: set up for success there in terms of their receivers
Speaker 1: and their offensive line and their schedule. Warren Sharp, who
Speaker 1: does a really good job with strength of schedule, you know,
Speaker 1: not using the typical, you know, kind of easy way
Speaker 1: to do it. He had a podcast with Evan Silva,
Speaker 1: which you know I recommend checking out, and he talked
Speaker 1: about the bills frontloaded schedule. Yeah, just one time, as
Speaker 1: it's not even like that regular. So he they've got
Speaker 1: a frontloaded schedule where their schedule is much tougher in
Speaker 1: the first six or seven weeks. And with all of
Speaker 1: that and Josh Allen being raw in mind, I would
Speaker 1: think they're gonna give him mccaren a chance to play
Speaker 1: himself out of that job for a while because or
Speaker 1: we see all three quarterbacks by Thanksgiving, like the same
Speaker 1: way the Broncos flip blop through quarterbacks. Right, I wouldn't.
Speaker 1: I said this a couple of times. I would not
Speaker 1: be surprised if Nathan Peterman beats out a j McCarron,
Speaker 1: or if Josh Allen beats out a Jim mccarreen before
Speaker 1: the season even starts. I hope we do see them
Speaker 1: all by Thanksgiving. Let's get these kids in there. Be fun,
Speaker 1: be fun for the league. All right, there you go,
Speaker 1: Watson back with these young quarterbacks. Get rid of these
Speaker 1: thirty nine forty year old guys and whatnot the best
Speaker 1: quarterbacks last year. Uh, we're gonna keep our forties something though.
Speaker 1: You guys are studs. You'll be here in a minute,
Speaker 1: so far away it will never happen to me. All right,
Speaker 1: I'm a year away. It's coming, it's coming. Never happen
Speaker 1: to you. That suggests death. I think you'd want it
Speaker 1: to happen to you, all right, I mean you make
Speaker 1: a good point. Now it's time. Yeah, let's just teased
Speaker 1: on Monday. If you're joining us late, which is weird,
Speaker 1: it's podcast Greg. He makes Dondre look like an open book.
Speaker 1: I don't know where this narratives coming on. He's a
Speaker 1: guy that's not gonna let you inside to off. But
Speaker 1: he promised on Monday that he would change everything as
Speaker 1: you and uh, now we've reached the end of the show.
Speaker 1: As promised, Greg is going to make it intensely personal
Speaker 1: revelation is Greg. This reminds me of the just let's
Speaker 1: just get a little more guitar first sign on you
Speaker 1: turn it up a little into I would listen to
Speaker 1: this song at Westleman. Yeah, this tease and this build
Speaker 1: up reminds me of when you're on Route nine going east.
Speaker 1: I believe, at least to New Orleans. There's there's that
Speaker 1: sign like watch out, the thing is coming up, like scary,
Speaker 1: like the scariest thing ever. All right, two fifty miles
Speaker 1: your mind will be blown by the thing, and then
Speaker 1: you get off. You know, you check it out and
Speaker 1: it's just some like old fake mummy. It's a solid filibuster.
Speaker 1: But now we want to hear, hear what's happening with you?
Speaker 1: All right? So here it is as promised. Forty eight hours.
Speaker 1: Everyone's been on the edge of the seat. Greg opening
Speaker 1: up his books. Well, you you brought that, You brought
Speaker 1: this up out of nowhere. And I immediately thought on Monday,
Speaker 1: I actually have do do have something to say to
Speaker 1: this because as the guys in this room now, I'm
Speaker 1: going to Tybee Island next week with Chris Wesseling, uh
Speaker 1: little Westlemania on the road. The paramour will be there.
Speaker 1: It'll be a lot of fun. But as but as
Speaker 1: part of the conditions of me going, my wife Emmaica said,
Speaker 1: one of the conditions is I have to say publicly
Speaker 1: that I wear the pants in our relationship. And so
Speaker 1: when you when you mentioned it the other day, well,
Speaker 1: I thought, this is my chance, this is my chance,
Speaker 1: and I am saying public Why does she want that
Speaker 1: to be said? Right? You could argue just the fact
Speaker 1: that she put that in as a clause. You know,
Speaker 1: it's a point to the opposite, you know, feel the opposite.
Speaker 1: But I'm not going to go there. It feels like
Speaker 1: she believes there's an existing narrative that she wears the pants,
Speaker 1: and she wants to do exactly. I think she she
Speaker 1: believes that that's that's out there and that and she
Speaker 1: just want and more importantly, she wanted to know and
Speaker 1: this is true. She wanted me to believe in my
Speaker 1: heart and no, no, I actually do wear the pants.
Speaker 1: Do you do you believe that it's causing your heart?
Speaker 1: Do you believe because you're you're sort of shaking your head, uh,
Speaker 1: you know, back and forth. I do. I do believe
Speaker 1: you believe that you wear the pants. This is a
Speaker 1: I think it fascinating peak behind the curtain. It's I
Speaker 1: think we have a great relationship and I think it's
Speaker 1: it's there's a lot of sharing. I think it's not
Speaker 1: about the pants. But when it comes down to it,
Speaker 1: I see what she's saying. The pants are not sad.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna agree. I thought you were going to say
Speaker 1: that the stipulation was that you're gonna have to take
Speaker 1: one of your kids offense. That would compromise that Greg
Speaker 1: and his wife often have for Gregg coming to social
Speaker 1: events not helping. The main argument here but is this
Speaker 1: Does she get this from the podcast? Is she like
Speaker 1: a long time listen to the podcast? So, I don't know.
Speaker 1: I think probably maybe from me talking about the podcast
Speaker 1: and stuff. It was floating into either yeah, just pick up. No,
Speaker 1: it's been It's not just that it's been something. I
Speaker 1: think that's been a discussion. We've been together thirteen years now,
Speaker 1: I'm married for eleven, and so I think it's been
Speaker 1: a conversation between the two of us that neither one
Speaker 1: of us really, you know, believes the other one. Al Right,
Speaker 1: So insummation that had some real tangibility too. Yeah, Greg
Speaker 1: uh is going to Tybee, but more importantly has announced
Speaker 1: to the world that he wears the pants in his relationship,
Speaker 1: a comment that was now think about this as well.
Speaker 1: Eggs announcement that he wears the pants in his relationship
Speaker 1: was a demand made. That's what I just said. Think
Speaker 1: about that. I think Greg knows when he I think
Speaker 1: he understands the dynamic here. I'll see it that way.
Speaker 1: See Ben, what do you have to say about it
Speaker 1: feels like a bit of a paradox. Uh, one last
Speaker 1: bit of Tybe news. Yes, sir, Greg not the only
Speaker 1: one going. Who else we got a big fish six
Speaker 1: Oh can you get this thing in the boat. It's
Speaker 1: hard to get in the boat. Whoa, whoa, Evan Silva
Speaker 1: the big fish. Tiffany Blackman Wow on to Tybee Island,
Speaker 1: Colleen Wolf still on the fence where we're waiting to
Speaker 1: find out. I just drive right up. Yeah, Tiffany can
Speaker 1: drive from from further north end. To make things clear
Speaker 1: to you. We have feelers out to Julio Jones waiting
Speaker 1: to hear back. I surfaced this possibility with my wife,
Speaker 1: and maybe this means she wears the pants. He said, well,
Speaker 1: you just went to Vegas. You're not going anywhere, sir.
Speaker 1: That's it. It was. It was a case close situation.
Speaker 1: What if you it's a fair argument on her part,
Speaker 1: what if you agreed to announce that you wear the
Speaker 1: pants and relationship on a national podcast. I can't wrap
Speaker 1: my head around that, to be honesty. That the whole
Speaker 1: thing was, it's a fascinating look into your relationship and
Speaker 1: the our dynamics. Uh, and that would hold no water, right.
Speaker 1: I was really fascinated by it too, And she said
Speaker 1: she had one condition. I'm like, all right, here it comes.
Speaker 1: And then that was it. I was really I was
Speaker 1: thrown for a loop. Well, Greg, we we thank you
Speaker 1: for your honesty. It really is. It's good to see
Speaker 1: him open up like this. That was a big moment.
Speaker 1: Did it feel good? Though? Kind of too. Maybe it's
Speaker 1: something to do more often. Feels great. All right, we
Speaker 1: will be back. Wow, we're all in recovery. As Jadel
Speaker 1: from that bombshell. We will be back on Friday. Another
Speaker 1: edition Around the NFL podcast, uh talking about football stuff
Speaker 1: and maybe interpersonal dynamics behind the scenes in our own homes.
Speaker 1: You never know it is the off season. This is
Speaker 1: Dan hands As signing up or a quiet storm, the Mailman,
Speaker 1: the man wear those pants and Lindsay fultime behind the
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