Speaker 1: Be Around the NFL Podcast. This one's for John. Welcome
Speaker 1: back to another edition of the Around the NFL Podcast.
Speaker 1: My name is Dan Kansas. I'm in a room with
Speaker 1: just one hero, but it's a good one. It's one
Speaker 1: of my favorite heroes. Easily Top three. Yeah, so I
Speaker 1: barely cracked the top three. You know that. That's Greg Rose.
Speaker 1: What's up, Ella, I'm not I'm not used to being
Speaker 1: the only person in here, so I jumped into your
Speaker 1: introduction before you know there are no rules because and
Speaker 1: you know I've said this before. I always love when
Speaker 1: we have a new combination, when you've done a show
Speaker 1: like we've done what six seven hundred episodes, to have
Speaker 1: a new combo in the studio, it's never been the
Speaker 1: Dan and Gregg show. I don't think this is the
Speaker 1: first in the in knowing in the listeners don't know.
Speaker 1: But I know that the loose cannon Erica tam Posey
Speaker 1: is back behind the glass. Another little flavor to it.
Speaker 1: This is a new this is a new group, a
Speaker 1: bit of an edge to this show. And I like it.
Speaker 1: And uh, you know, befitting um the unusual nature of
Speaker 1: today's program. Greg and I, if you know our show well,
Speaker 1: if you've seen our video hits or photos on Twitter,
Speaker 1: we sit on the same side of the table that
Speaker 1: that kind of it's like a boomerang shape, and neither
Speaker 1: of us wanted to move to the other side. A
Speaker 1: little bit of stubbornness or just superstition. I don't set
Speaker 1: up my headphones over on the other side. So she
Speaker 1: was right, and I would do that, and I would
Speaker 1: be the logical one to move, but I don't want
Speaker 1: to know. Well, there's two ways to look at it.
Speaker 1: Either you should move because this is the host spot
Speaker 1: I'm sitting here, or you were in the studio first,
Speaker 1: and since you are already sitting on this side, I
Speaker 1: should have moved over. But what it came down to,
Speaker 1: and I think it's a good maybe measure or indication
Speaker 1: of our personalities. Neither of us are moving. That was
Speaker 1: the decision that was made. No, I don't want to
Speaker 1: feel when I said over there feel strange. So we're
Speaker 1: gonna be comfortable. It's a two man show. Yes, we
Speaker 1: had a two man show on Friday, me and Cessler.
Speaker 1: We did it Mike and the Mad Dog style. I
Speaker 1: was a little surprised that today was a two man show.
Speaker 1: I maybe he should have known, but I didn't process
Speaker 1: that West was still going to be traveling back from
Speaker 1: Tybee Mark. He did it again, found his way out
Speaker 1: of the studio during the off season. He's on vacation,
Speaker 1: and we hope he's really enjoying it. He's certainly not
Speaker 1: listening to our show, and I wouldn't expect him to
Speaker 1: UM and so try to find maybe some somebody that
Speaker 1: want to jump in, but on short notice, couldn't make
Speaker 1: it happen. So it's you and me, Greg, and I'm excited.
Speaker 1: I'm loving it. And and because of all these cancelations
Speaker 1: I've heard, there's you know, a surprise at the end
Speaker 1: of the show that loose cannon might be a part of.
Speaker 1: There's some buzz how about that can? How about them apples?
Speaker 1: I like it. I like the cannon still here, you know,
Speaker 1: I mean that's the whole thing. Uh. And I like
Speaker 1: uh that We have a lot to get to on
Speaker 1: today's show, including some super Bowl venue pop. Where's the
Speaker 1: super Bowl gonna be held? Everybody likes to talk about that. Um,
Speaker 1: some interesting richie incognito news that Greg deserves a little
Speaker 1: pop himself for predicting accurately before it happened, Johnny Football update,
Speaker 1: and then we're gonna bring it back segment from last year.
Speaker 1: We're gonna make some tired storylines disappear, kind of storylines
Speaker 1: that have been active narrative threads, uh since the Super
Speaker 1: Bowl heading into the summer months, and Greg and I
Speaker 1: will trade a couple of storylines. We just like to say,
Speaker 1: go ahead, go away. That's it. We don't need it anymore.
Speaker 1: We're done. How is Tybee? By the way, Tyby is amazing? Yeah,
Speaker 1: tell me about it. I mean, first of all, that's
Speaker 1: what it sounded like, not at all. Somehow that's something
Speaker 1: Tybee isn't place. I'm yes, because I'm part of type.
Speaker 1: I mean, tell us about this. Like there's a guy.
Speaker 1: There was a guy we met at the bar, one
Speaker 1: of the Knights, huck A Poo's Joel, whose prime job
Speaker 1: it seems to be, is he just he just decides,
Speaker 1: he tells people you're not you're not you're Tybee, you're
Speaker 1: not Tyby. He decides if that person is Tybee or not.
Speaker 1: That's kind of his his phrases. But basically, but my
Speaker 1: point is, he said no, he didn't. I tried to
Speaker 1: fill the tables and tell him, tell him that I
Speaker 1: was Tybee before he even had a chance. Well do
Speaker 1: you think he didn't say anything? He didn't say anything
Speaker 1: about that, but he he was a star. I loved it.
Speaker 1: The time sort of stopped while we were there. Uh.
Speaker 1: Shout out to the Karaine brothers, who were big stars
Speaker 1: of the weekend they made. I don't know if you
Speaker 1: mentioned on Friday's show, but the Fantasy Land podcast about
Speaker 1: Chris Westling's recovery uh from cancer, which is unbelievably well done.
Speaker 1: Two of the guys that made it, brothers were down
Speaker 1: there for the weekend. They added a lot to them, which,
Speaker 1: by the way, is very Westling too, and we've talked
Speaker 1: about it before. Totally different than me, just like West
Speaker 1: going public with his cancer battle and everything makes West
Speaker 1: a lot different than me. But West being like, Hey,
Speaker 1: these guys that I talked to a lot for this project,
Speaker 1: I don't really know them personally, but come on down
Speaker 1: to my very personal sanctuary and Tybee and let's have
Speaker 1: a weekend together. That's very west and uh, it makes
Speaker 1: him that type of it. There was one one of
Speaker 1: them was named average average Hair and the other one
Speaker 1: was named fancy Hair or something. Nice hair. He's named
Speaker 1: by Nick Westling, who was another Star of the week.
Speaker 1: And it was just like people. You know. We we
Speaker 1: spent much of the weekend and I think I mentioned
Speaker 1: it on Friday at Rosie and Wayne was a house.
Speaker 1: We stayed at their their garage bar, which is like
Speaker 1: the cheers of garage bars. And just basically it felt
Speaker 1: like the entire island is walking by and stopping by,
Speaker 1: and I got a I got the spin going and
Speaker 1: cornhole now was a productor you know how I thought
Speaker 1: about you guys hanging up on me after we didn't
Speaker 1: hang up, you hung up on us. Why would we
Speaker 1: hang up on you? We asked the question to you,
Speaker 1: I believe or west and we got hung up on
Speaker 1: if Lindsay was not with us this week, but if
Speaker 1: she was here, she would tell you that's exactly a
Speaker 1: transpired Okay it well it cut out all right, So
Speaker 1: it sounds like a successful trip. How was the big
Speaker 1: Fish having Silva? He was great, he was He added
Speaker 1: a lot to the weekend too. It was fun. I mean,
Speaker 1: in all seriousness, it was one of the most joyous
Speaker 1: sort of just I felt like I was cheating life.
Speaker 1: To use a damna check expression that we were just
Speaker 1: getting away there for three or four days. Well, you
Speaker 1: can't ask for anything more than that. Let's do some
Speaker 1: news and this guy, Jim Glass is glass to bring
Speaker 1: this up. You know, I don't even want to dive
Speaker 1: into this. I mean, he said it on our podcast.
Speaker 1: Kind of became a bit but now it's like, I've
Speaker 1: got beef with this Jim Glass guy, and I'm a
Speaker 1: little worried if we go back there for the Super Bowl.
Speaker 1: You know what could happen between me and Jim Glass,
Speaker 1: Like if we end up going there, whether he's going
Speaker 1: to be upset. Wow, I like this Jim Glass a listener.
Speaker 1: He's he is a listener, And the day after it
Speaker 1: aired on the podcast, he wasn't there at Huckapoos the
Speaker 1: next day. So well connected outs there, all right, WHOA,
Speaker 1: let's start with news about the Super Bowl, the Super
Speaker 1: Bowl in three greg which will be what super Bowl
Speaker 1: fifty four? I don't know, I think super Bowl fifty
Speaker 1: four and fifty five anyway. So the Sports Business journal
Speaker 1: Daniel Kaplan reports NFL plans to award the Super Bowl
Speaker 1: to Glendale, Arizona. And you ray remember the Arizona site
Speaker 1: being the home of Super Bowl forty nine and the
Speaker 1: famous Malcolm Butler interception. So that was just a few
Speaker 1: years ago. But they are already in the queue for another,
Speaker 1: UH big game and the year after finally, at long last,
Speaker 1: the Super Bowl will make a return to New Orleans. UH.
Speaker 1: And it has not been there since Super Bowl forty seven,
Speaker 1: which was five years ago. Now, Ravens, this will be
Speaker 1: fifty seven. And so my my that those are the numbers.
Speaker 1: Yeah it sounded low, but I didn't know how low. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's too long in between super Bowls for New Orleans
Speaker 1: and you let Arizona pass them. But I shouldn't. I
Speaker 1: guess I shouldn't be upset because the ultimate answer here
Speaker 1: is that New Orleans is getting another. I think they
Speaker 1: should have one every three years or so. But this
Speaker 1: gives me another big goal. When I started at the NFL,
Speaker 1: my first goal was to make it to that Super Bowl.
Speaker 1: That was a couple of years and my now my
Speaker 1: next goal, make it. Can we do it? Well, that's
Speaker 1: something to shoot for. Maybe they ended up because famously
Speaker 1: the last Super Bowl in New Orleans had the power outage,
Speaker 1: which was unprecedented, and if you were at the game,
Speaker 1: as you and I were. Uh, it was my father
Speaker 1: went to his first Super Bowl. He was sitting next
Speaker 1: to Simone Sessler, Mark's wife when the lights went off.
Speaker 1: I will never forget the fear that there was potentially
Speaker 1: a terrorist attack. That was scary as hell. I remember,
Speaker 1: and uh and a lot of other people felt the
Speaker 1: same thing. It was not, thankfully. My guess is maybe
Speaker 1: a little tenure penalty and maybe energy energy, that's the
Speaker 1: that's the power coming. And I was thinking the same thing.
Speaker 1: Who is the most influential, powerful, well known owner in
Speaker 1: the NFL, maybe outside Robert Kraft, Jerry Jones. Uh, they
Speaker 1: had the Super Bowl in the two thousand and ten
Speaker 1: season did not go well, there were some issues, and
Speaker 1: now we're going to go on up to what fifteen
Speaker 1: years at least. I don't know if they're getting back
Speaker 1: to Dallas. That they got the draft is maybe like
Speaker 1: this is what you get now. But that's to me,
Speaker 1: is really telling that Jerald World, which was the most
Speaker 1: celebrated new stadium ever in the NFL, got that game
Speaker 1: and not a peep about it. Since one of the
Speaker 1: thought about the Super Bowl, we no longer have the
Speaker 1: bidding process, Remember how fund that would be the super
Speaker 1: Bowl committees. There would always be Super Bowl committees. You
Speaker 1: would see him that when you go to the Super Bowl,
Speaker 1: it would be for the next year petitioning or um
Speaker 1: trying to pump up their city getting it, and then
Speaker 1: NFL coverage would have the conference room with all the
Speaker 1: with the whites would be there with the red beans
Speaker 1: and rice out or something like that for the next year.
Speaker 1: Remember the whites. It was a lot of yeah, a
Speaker 1: lot of whites crying sometimes of excitement. It was a
Speaker 1: lot of celebration. Yeah, I remember they got rid of that.
Speaker 1: They changed the Minnesota. That was the one that stuck
Speaker 1: out to me was when Minnesota wanted and what I
Speaker 1: thought that at the time, it sounded like an upset.
Speaker 1: It shouldn't have been, because I guess every new stadium
Speaker 1: gets it, but Minnesota winning it over New Orleans and
Speaker 1: going crazy, right, And now, basically, the NFL targets a
Speaker 1: site city and then they have to hit I guess
Speaker 1: whatever UM benchmarks to make it happen, and they go
Speaker 1: into a negotiation. So anyway, there you go, and UM Nashville.
Speaker 1: Another report expected to land the twenty nineteen draft, which
Speaker 1: is interesting Greg because first of all, that's a home run.
Speaker 1: Maybe we got to get back to the draft. And
Speaker 1: number two, they used that uniform the uniform release where
Speaker 1: they um, you know, show They had a big stage
Speaker 1: set up in the downtown area, waited for the sun
Speaker 1: to go down to make it as dramatic as possible,
Speaker 1: and then revealed the new uniforms of the season. They
Speaker 1: basically used that as their pitch for the draft because
Speaker 1: they got the whole city square filled with thousands of
Speaker 1: people and it looked like a total party. And uh
Speaker 1: apparently that made a big impression with the NFL. Nashville
Speaker 1: expected to get the Lakisha. The Paramore and Chris have
Speaker 1: been enjoying this offseason. This was this trip to Tybee
Speaker 1: was almost kind of the centerpiece of them having fun.
Speaker 1: But one of their trips was to Nashville. No one's
Speaker 1: ever been in Nashville and said they had a bad time.
Speaker 1: That's true. I've never been. I'm looking forward. I've never been.
Speaker 1: This is one of those events that they promised you
Speaker 1: go to Erica, right and then they don't let you
Speaker 1: at the last minute. No, I actually got to go
Speaker 1: to Dallas. I did go to dos she did, but Nashville,
Speaker 1: Sweet if I'm still a lot by then. She was
Speaker 1: belly aching about not going to the super Bowl right
Speaker 1: when we're all going to go to Disney World, I
Speaker 1: mean Orlando for Orlando. So so yeah, like your first
Speaker 1: year at the NFL, you got to go to the
Speaker 1: super Bowl, the draft, uh, in the combine, but you're just,
Speaker 1: you know, bitching about the one thing you couldn't get
Speaker 1: it Yet it all checks out, you can. We want
Speaker 1: you to make it to New Orleans. What are you
Speaker 1: going to be doing? I might not even be alive
Speaker 1: by then. You're talking to the next Marty scor C's.
Speaker 1: She does not want to be here. In moving on,
Speaker 1: the NFL will not discipline the Lions or their head coach,
Speaker 1: Matt Patricia following that sexual assault accusation in Texas that
Speaker 1: stem from a nine case that involved Patricia and a
Speaker 1: fellow fraternity member. It resurfaced after I Think what Detroit
Speaker 1: News expose which led to a comfortable Matt Patricia press
Speaker 1: conference and the team publicly standing behind their new head coach.
Speaker 1: And now the league comes out and announced that the
Speaker 1: club quote engaged in appropriate and thorough hiring practices and
Speaker 1: that the coach did not mislead the team during the
Speaker 1: interview process. Brian McCarthy, U League spokesman said in a
Speaker 1: statement to NFL Networks Tom Pallasero, So barring Greg, any
Speaker 1: other um news or any other type of events coming
Speaker 1: into focus here, it looks like the Lions will move
Speaker 1: on from this unfortunate situation. They will, and I think
Speaker 1: it remains to be seen how and if this will
Speaker 1: come up more because you know, the players haven't you know,
Speaker 1: really met with the media. They're all gonna be asked
Speaker 1: about it, and and some players have and a couple
Speaker 1: of them have had interesting answers, not just open mind,
Speaker 1: just saying that they're open minded. They're not making any
Speaker 1: judgments one way or another, which is in you know,
Speaker 1: an interesting thing. This is a team meeting their head
Speaker 1: coach essentially for the first time, and this is something
Speaker 1: that he had to do, is get in front of
Speaker 1: him really for it might have been just about the
Speaker 1: first time that he had them all as a group
Speaker 1: and addressed this. It's a very uncomfortable, to put it mildly,
Speaker 1: way to get introduced to the team. But I think
Speaker 1: your read on it is right that the Lions in
Speaker 1: the NFL are trying to say that's it and unless
Speaker 1: something else comes out, I don't know what more they're
Speaker 1: gonna do. Uh. In other news, Greg, you had this
Speaker 1: Richie Incognito. Uh, I guess a few weeks back, um
Speaker 1: ad tweeted to his lay tweeted to his agency too,
Speaker 1: that's interesting that he was done and he was firing
Speaker 1: them and uh, which led to Lashawn McCoy's Instagram post
Speaker 1: and then a bunch of reports that Incognito was through
Speaker 1: as a football player after a pretty successful but controversial career, Greg,
Speaker 1: you were never really buying it and uh. When the
Speaker 1: Bills announced that they were formally releasing the guard, that
Speaker 1: led to another kind of like huh. And then Adam
Speaker 1: Schefter reported that Incognito told the Bills he wants to unretire,
Speaker 1: per a source, which is why Buffalo released him from
Speaker 1: its reserve retired list. Uh. So to both sides, moving
Speaker 1: on and Richie Incognito hopes to play somewhere else this
Speaker 1: year and he will, Greg, because everyone needs offensive line help.
Speaker 1: And even at an advanced age, I think incognitos thirty
Speaker 1: two or thirty three now, the man can ball on
Speaker 1: the interior line. His best years of his career were
Speaker 1: in Buffalo the last few years, and his whole retirement
Speaker 1: stuff always sounded strange because it very much had to
Speaker 1: do with him trying to negotiate, you know, a raise
Speaker 1: or take as little of a PA cup as possible,
Speaker 1: and that was going back and forth and that didn't
Speaker 1: work out. But in the end, you know, good guys.
Speaker 1: I guess you know, good things happen to good guys
Speaker 1: because he'll w we end up making more money as
Speaker 1: a free agent. I have a feeling than he even
Speaker 1: was going to make with the Bills. Are you allowed
Speaker 1: to do this? Then? I guess Brett Farve did it.
Speaker 1: But you can just even if you're under contract with
Speaker 1: the team. He could just be like, I'm retiring, and
Speaker 1: then the team has no choice but to release you,
Speaker 1: and then that ends the contract and he gets to
Speaker 1: sign somewhere else. I think he did have it. He did,
Speaker 1: They did have a choice. So what happened and I
Speaker 1: should get it right. I'm going to talk about it.
Speaker 1: He reworked his contract with the Bills, essentially taking a
Speaker 1: pay cut, and then he seemed to have immediate buyer's
Speaker 1: remorse about it. Fired his agents over Twitter tried to
Speaker 1: like get back to the negotiation. Basically was just becoming
Speaker 1: a pain in the ass. And I think he just
Speaker 1: says he wanted They just decided he wasn't worth the trouble.
Speaker 1: They couldn't give him any more money because they had
Speaker 1: already reworked his contract. Was literally against the rules to
Speaker 1: do another contract right after you just did it. And
Speaker 1: you know, who knows what he's like behind the scenes
Speaker 1: or what, and they just decided to forget it. I mean,
Speaker 1: I get all that. They're also a team that has
Speaker 1: maybe the worst offensive line in the league now because
Speaker 1: they've had all these defections and retirements and fake retirements.
Speaker 1: They certainly could use a guy like him with Josh
Speaker 1: Allen if he ends up playing this year. But the
Speaker 1: stress was killing him and he was absolutely about the
Speaker 1: changing his mind about retirement. This was only a month ago.
Speaker 1: What about his kidneys were shutting down? Like in all
Speaker 1: seriousness though, like he floats that out there to justify
Speaker 1: his retirement and now he comes out of retirement, teams
Speaker 1: a little buyer beware. This guy literally just told us
Speaker 1: buyer beware about my kidneys might be failing. After that
Speaker 1: weekend in Tybee Booze a little bit long days, some
Speaker 1: long days for you. Where are you drinking so wine
Speaker 1: early on that little more low glass. It's a lot
Speaker 1: of wine, to be honest, because I just felt like
Speaker 1: that's the way to kind of cruise, cruise through the day,
Speaker 1: at least for me. Did you get any peak West
Speaker 1: where you know, Les, it's just like completely out of
Speaker 1: control at the end of the night. No, West, West
Speaker 1: was in a great in a great place I've never seen.
Speaker 1: I don't think I've seen West laugh and crack. I
Speaker 1: mean his friends in Tybee they're all hilarious, So that's
Speaker 1: his happy It was my happy place. I mean, I'm
Speaker 1: not kidding. I had an unbelievable time, but yeah, it
Speaker 1: was his happy place. He was cracking up the whole
Speaker 1: We were randomly talking about Adam Sandler's career before the show,
Speaker 1: and uh and happy Gilmore Chubbs, his mentor tells happy
Speaker 1: when he's trying to put to go to his happy place.
Speaker 1: And then the happy place would have like Gene Simmons,
Speaker 1: his grandmother, a little person on a tricycle. West is
Speaker 1: happy place would be all those things. But in the
Speaker 1: middle of huckapoos, right Hey, Johnny Manzel he's actually making
Speaker 1: a go with us. He's returning to pro football. The
Speaker 1: former Brown's quarterback signed a two year contract with the
Speaker 1: Hamilton's Tiger Cats of the CFL. That's the Canadian Football League.
Speaker 1: The team announced it UH and UH the Tiger Cats
Speaker 1: if you may, you may recall health Man's Zell's exclusive rights.
Speaker 1: They're always considered the best option back to football for
Speaker 1: the former first round pick that Manzel tweeted, made the
Speaker 1: decision today to sign my contract with the CFL and
Speaker 1: further my football career after a long break. Very grateful
Speaker 1: for everyone that's been supporting me along the way. I
Speaker 1: believe this is the best opportunity for me moving forward,
Speaker 1: and I'm eager for what the huge future holds. And
Speaker 1: I have to say, Greg my takeaway on this is,
Speaker 1: first of all, I have a bit of a sessler.
Speaker 1: We haven't seen the last of Johnny Manziel in this league.
Speaker 1: I just have a bit of a sessler about it.
Speaker 1: And the only way it was ever gonna happen was
Speaker 1: starting at this point. He was not probably not going
Speaker 1: to get another job, even though his agent would float
Speaker 1: uh combine rumors every March that teams were interested, but
Speaker 1: now this show's teams that he's interested. He's serious about this.
Speaker 1: He's going to Canada and and it is a popular
Speaker 1: league up there, but it's not the NFL. It takes
Speaker 1: him away from friends and family. He says he's cleaned
Speaker 1: up his life. If he goes up there in balls, well,
Speaker 1: maybe makes sense some in the NFL A year from
Speaker 1: now or two years from now, I would predict against it.
Speaker 1: I would take the field. I I don't. I don't
Speaker 1: expect him to succeed like I don't necessarily. I bet
Speaker 1: he's going to rip it up. That's I have no idea.
Speaker 1: I have no idea, to be clear, but I do
Speaker 1: know I've seen former NFL quarterbacks go up to the
Speaker 1: CFL and doesn't mean you just are good. It's a
Speaker 1: different game. It's a very competitive game. There's no I
Speaker 1: wouldn't expect him to be the best quarterback on his team,
Speaker 1: just based on kind of what we saw at the
Speaker 1: NFL level. There's a little bit of that uh D
Speaker 1: league that he played in this this offseason that wasn't
Speaker 1: too impressive. Wasn't coming. It was ridiculous. It was he
Speaker 1: is making half as much money as old former Old
Speaker 1: Miss quarterback Jeremiah Massolis. So that tells me a lot.
Speaker 1: I always say, look to the money. Sticks is like
Speaker 1: secret identities. I don't know about how good missile is.
Speaker 1: He he is is the incumbent starter. He also he
Speaker 1: received a signing bonus which was as much as Johnny
Speaker 1: Manzel's entire salary. And I've watched the CFL before, and
Speaker 1: it's a real it's a real league, like it's a
Speaker 1: real thing. That's it's a different sport, but it's very
Speaker 1: competitive and it's very difficult. And I guess from what
Speaker 1: I've seen, I kind of figure that the guys who
Speaker 1: have figured out how to play CFL quarterback are gonna
Speaker 1: be very far ahead of Johnny Manziel and if he
Speaker 1: wants to stick with it for a while and he
Speaker 1: like works his way up, but like to me, he's
Speaker 1: gonna have to work his way up to being to
Speaker 1: matter it in the CFL, and then he'd have to
Speaker 1: work up. I get it. I get how that's all
Speaker 1: that's all work. And I'm not insinuating that the CFL
Speaker 1: is like Pop Warner Football or anything. I'm sure it's
Speaker 1: a high level brand of football, maybe the closest thing
Speaker 1: to the NFL. That isn't the NFL. Uh, we'll see.
Speaker 1: He's still just twenty five, hasn't played professional football like
Speaker 1: three years. I guess I was making the point because
Speaker 1: I think people see that and they're just assuming, like, Okay,
Speaker 1: Johnny Manzel is the starter. Johnny Manzel is the most
Speaker 1: famous player in the league, like the highest paid player
Speaker 1: in league or whatever. It's like, No, it's all gonna happen.
Speaker 1: He's going in as the backup. There's been some NFL
Speaker 1: bus that have gone up there and have not done
Speaker 1: a lot. Um get off his d bro are you.
Speaker 1: I'm just saying we didn't see much that that D
Speaker 1: League game scared me. I get um get I get
Speaker 1: it all right. A terrible, terrible tragedy. Last Friday, a
Speaker 1: seventeen year old high school student opened fire on his
Speaker 1: classmates at a Santa Fe at Santa Fe High School
Speaker 1: outside Houston, killing ten people injuring others, and um, you know,
Speaker 1: just the latest insanity involving gun violence and schools in
Speaker 1: our country. It is a major, major problem and it's
Speaker 1: terrible and it sucks. And Houston Texans defensive end JJ
Speaker 1: what who as you may recall, uh raised what tens
Speaker 1: of millions of dollars or over ten million dollars. I
Speaker 1: wish I had the exact figure. After the hurricane hit
Speaker 1: the Houston area UM last year and ended up being
Speaker 1: the NFL Man of the Year because of it, and
Speaker 1: it was it showed how what is a guy that
Speaker 1: he's more than just a football player and he knows
Speaker 1: how to use his stature in professional sports for good
Speaker 1: and he's doing it again here after this horrible tragedy
Speaker 1: in Texas. What Uh told the school that he will
Speaker 1: personally cover the funeral expenses for the victims of the tragedy,
Speaker 1: and he tweeted about it, um calling it absolutely horrific
Speaker 1: and UM good for J. J. Watt, he's real, dude.
Speaker 1: Thirty seven million dollars he he raised UH for people
Speaker 1: after Hurricane Harvey last fall. Yeah, I wish, I wish
Speaker 1: you didn't have to be in the news for this.
Speaker 1: It is great. It is great what he's doing. It's
Speaker 1: such a depressing story that we're so used to, but
Speaker 1: you're right that it is good to see like athletes
Speaker 1: in J. J. Watt in particular in this case, like
Speaker 1: doing doing something, making something good out of it, and
Speaker 1: by the way more deaths and school shootings in our
Speaker 1: country this year than our armed forces overseas. Slip that
Speaker 1: sink in a little bit. In other news, a little
Speaker 1: bit of a trope alert. It's time to bring back
Speaker 1: the trope alert. Oh it's back. I always found that
Speaker 1: it's a little sexy. Yeah, a little bit a larger,
Speaker 1: a little bit lerr. What do you think, ka, it's
Speaker 1: a nice voice goes on for a really long time.
Speaker 1: So just let me know when you want me now.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, you could pull it. You can call it
Speaker 1: running back. Dalvin Cook, who was really shaping up as
Speaker 1: a real hit for the Vikings as a rookie last year,
Speaker 1: he tore his A c L. Vikings coach Mike Zimmer
Speaker 1: told NFL Networks Tom Pellis Arrow that Cook is making
Speaker 1: quote or is making great progress in his rehab from
Speaker 1: a torn a c l uh quote. He's done really well,
Speaker 1: Simmer said. He's ahead of schedule. He's ahead of schedule,
Speaker 1: and we're excited about that. In another trope alert news,
Speaker 1: Alan Robinson, according to his new head coach, Bears head
Speaker 1: coach Matt Neggie uh said Robinson following his torn a
Speaker 1: c L he suffered last September, he is quote ahead
Speaker 1: of the game. Greg. At some point in uh in
Speaker 1: our timeline of how professional athletes, in particular football players
Speaker 1: recover from a c L s if everyone is always
Speaker 1: ahead of schedule, should we just adjust the schedule so
Speaker 1: no one's ahead of schedule, everyone just on schedule. Maybe
Speaker 1: move up the schedule. This this is kind of becoming
Speaker 1: your thing lately because you were you envisioned in NFL
Speaker 1: where everyone was eight and eight amazing great games. You
Speaker 1: wanted to Yeah, you wanted to adjust sort of the expectations.
Speaker 1: Maybe maybe it's not a one to one comparison here,
Speaker 1: But what does ahead of schedule even mean? At this point?
Speaker 1: What does anything mean? I as a subsection of this
Speaker 1: trope then, and I could do this. Almost have stories
Speaker 1: I want to do away with, but we'll do it.
Speaker 1: I'll do it right now. Is the story he'll be
Speaker 1: ready for training camp. So that's a subsection of of
Speaker 1: every injury update. Basically at Rhoda World is that they're
Speaker 1: expected for training camp. And one thing I learned doing
Speaker 1: Rhoda World is that no one calls out the coaches.
Speaker 1: That actually only about the people that were expected to
Speaker 1: be ready for training camp and then being ready. No
Speaker 1: one cares. It's just you here expect he'll be ready
Speaker 1: for training camp all through May, June, July. You get
Speaker 1: back from your summer break and and they're not ready.
Speaker 1: But no one really remembers what anyone said a couple
Speaker 1: of months because it's just about so there's no alarm
Speaker 1: bells being signaled are sent out at this time of year.
Speaker 1: Nobody wants any alarm bells unless they absolutely have to
Speaker 1: ring them. Uh, all right, and uh, I was thinking
Speaker 1: about that, the eight and eight thing that I had.
Speaker 1: I understand there's a certain level of frustration, the idea
Speaker 1: that if everyone won eight and eight, what's what mattered?
Speaker 1: Nothing matters. Again, It's like, all right, what if it
Speaker 1: just a minor adjustment, Gregg, Every game is a god
Speaker 1: barn burner. I mean, you just want to believe how
Speaker 1: competitive these football games are. Oh and uh, but everyone
Speaker 1: even goes nine and seven or seven and nine. Okay,
Speaker 1: but you can also guarantee that their barn burners every time. Yeah,
Speaker 1: so even the teams that finished seven and nine, their
Speaker 1: season is hanging in the balance in late December, maybe
Speaker 1: a couple of bounces don't go your way. You missed
Speaker 1: the playoffs. But guess what next year, probably or maybe
Speaker 1: you'll be on the other side of the ledger and
Speaker 1: you'll be playing playoff football football and for a super Bowl.
Speaker 1: There's not much that college football has over the NFL,
Speaker 1: and my mind basically nothing. Sorry, college football. I know
Speaker 1: your traditions. Okay, the traditions in the game experiences I'll
Speaker 1: give you. I'll give you some lot of college football.
Speaker 1: But the one thing people always say is like every
Speaker 1: week matters in the you know, college college football. It's like,
Speaker 1: you know, you can't. First of all, you can lose
Speaker 1: early in the season and all those teams end up
Speaker 1: winning the title at the end anyways, but they're like
Speaker 1: every every game mat is, like every game is like
Speaker 1: a playoff game because you can't lose more than once.
Speaker 1: But if you basically know that every team is gonna
Speaker 1: go nine and seven or seven and nine, and the
Speaker 1: end of these games and we've learned they're all barn burners. Now,
Speaker 1: now every game really matters. I mean that week one,
Speaker 1: you know, that could be that that could be the difference.
Speaker 1: I mean, the margin of error is just so razor
Speaker 1: then just think about it. World. Finally, in the news
Speaker 1: something that popped up last week, but we'll touch on
Speaker 1: it real quick here. The Carolina Panthers um will be sold.
Speaker 1: It appears, uh they've agreed to sell the team. Uh.
Speaker 1: They being Jerry Richardson, the team's founding owner, to Mr
Speaker 1: David A. Temper, a billionaire hedge fund owner. I don't
Speaker 1: I don't know the hedge fund is. I've heard hedge
Speaker 1: fund used in describing people for like thirty years and
Speaker 1: I still have no idea what it is, but I
Speaker 1: assume it's lucrative wait for rich people to get richer
Speaker 1: by investing in things, you know, and essentially the hedge fund.
Speaker 1: You know, they so you're hedging. No, I don't know
Speaker 1: where they when they say hedge your bets, I don't
Speaker 1: know where the word hedge comes from there, which shows
Speaker 1: my total ignorance and my totally don't tweet this because
Speaker 1: neither of us care anyway, a record setting them out
Speaker 1: at least two point two billion people are listening to
Speaker 1: this to be like, you know, man, they are dumber
Speaker 1: than I thought. Like I know, they sometimes joke around,
Speaker 1: like I know they asked us not to tweet, but
Speaker 1: just like for their general know it was like, you know,
Speaker 1: so that to yeah, divert a little bit just for
Speaker 1: a second. So we had we had the two uh,
Speaker 1: the two guys who made the podcast who are down
Speaker 1: for the weekend the Fantasy Land. Yeah, old, average hair
Speaker 1: and average hair. It was average hair and pretty hair.
Speaker 1: They have real names. To my point was like, so
Speaker 1: they're they're down here. They're these young guys, and I'm
Speaker 1: thinking like, oh, yeah, they're down here on a big
Speaker 1: trip and yeah, they're staying at someone's house. Like it's
Speaker 1: cool that we allow these young guys who probably don't
Speaker 1: make any money or whatever like hang out with cool
Speaker 1: you know, cool guys like and I asked them and
Speaker 1: of course they had like real important jobs and make
Speaker 1: far more money than either one of us. Like one
Speaker 1: of them worked for the SEC and I was like, oh,
Speaker 1: like the SEC West and he's like no, the Security
Speaker 1: Exchange Commission. Oh boy, so they're doing I don't know
Speaker 1: what my point was, it's just you know, we're not
Speaker 1: smart um. Anyway, So that two point two billion figure
Speaker 1: report from the New York Times confirmed by two people
Speaker 1: with knowledge of the deal. Anyway, the only thing left
Speaker 1: to do is h sale needs to be approved by
Speaker 1: at least three quarters of the NFL's owner. And that
Speaker 1: comes uh five months after Jerry Richardson said he would
Speaker 1: sell the team, uh after an investigation was started by
Speaker 1: the NFL into improper conduct by the owner. So well,
Speaker 1: we'll see if if if him arriving means changes. I
Speaker 1: think Ron Rivera referred to it at the combine this
Speaker 1: year that he admitted to there's a little extra to
Speaker 1: feeling like when you don't have a boss. They didn't
Speaker 1: know who their boss is gonna be. He knows Jerry
Speaker 1: Richardson very well, that's the man who hired him. That
Speaker 1: this season, whoever the new boss is going to be,
Speaker 1: that everyone's going to be feeling a little bit like
Speaker 1: there in triout mode. And I was I was really
Speaker 1: interested to hear Ron Rivera say that, who's made the
Speaker 1: playoffs five years out of six, but it's human nature.
Speaker 1: And he just said the whole organization is going to
Speaker 1: be feeling feeling that way, right. I mean, in our
Speaker 1: own company, we've had forty seven top bosses. At this point,
Speaker 1: I'm kind of figuring I have better job security than
Speaker 1: all the bosses because there's been like seven. But again,
Speaker 1: the common thread here those people also have a lot
Speaker 1: more money than you. Yeah, you have. If you can
Speaker 1: stay at a certain level below, stay out of it.
Speaker 1: That's true. There's something to be said about not being wealthy.
Speaker 1: That's what's happening in the news. All right, here we go.
Speaker 1: It's mid May. It's almost late May. Now right on
Speaker 1: that bubble, Greg, is it late May? Is it early May?
Speaker 1: But mid May? Who gives it cares? But it's it's
Speaker 1: a time in the NFL calendar where uh Like, if
Speaker 1: you go to our NFL dot com news stack, which
Speaker 1: is just the headlines, you're gonna have um an offensive
Speaker 1: lineman draft pick being predicted by his own coach that
Speaker 1: he could be a pro bowler, or Bobby Wagner saying
Speaker 1: don't sleep on the Seahawks defense. Not a lot of
Speaker 1: hard news out there right now. Uh, And a lot
Speaker 1: of you weren't you weren't fascinated by the Willie rof
Speaker 1: colon Frank rag now is a future pro bowler article
Speaker 1: that was up not hugely not hugely interested in it anyway.
Speaker 1: So the point is there's not a lot of news
Speaker 1: out there right now. So what happens is the same
Speaker 1: storylines kind of get brought up over and over again.
Speaker 1: So this is our our opportunity to kind of rebel
Speaker 1: against those storylines. So let's send some storylines into the
Speaker 1: corn fields, will make them disappear. Last year we did
Speaker 1: this segment. Connor or was sitting in the studio on
Speaker 1: the same day, by the way, cause I listened to
Speaker 1: last year's show just as just because some a pro
Speaker 1: and it just shows them out of work. I put
Speaker 1: into this UM any commins. I just raised my eyebrows.
Speaker 1: That's what I normal. Usually these guys are to react. Uh.
Speaker 1: Connor was sitting in the studios that did the show
Speaker 1: with us. He also did an NFL Network hit in
Speaker 1: which he predicted the Browns would go to the playoffs
Speaker 1: last year. UM shout out to Connor and he predicted
Speaker 1: last year or his the storyline he wanted to make
Speaker 1: disappear Adrian Peterson. Oh, he's gonna be a star in
Speaker 1: New Orleans. Nicely done. Connor, WESH wanted to make the
Speaker 1: Colin Kaepernick is getting as being blackballed narrative disappear, which
Speaker 1: is still in play one year later. It's very much
Speaker 1: in play. It's being debated in court right now. The
Speaker 1: old Zeuser UM wanted the storyline that the Bears were
Speaker 1: telling us that Mike Glennon was still someone they believed in.
Speaker 1: He wanted that to disappear. I think that was that
Speaker 1: that turned out to be total b s. Of course,
Speaker 1: as Glennon lasted I think three starts in Chicago and Greg,
Speaker 1: you wanted to make any contract holdout or extension talks
Speaker 1: or anything like that, you make them go away, which
Speaker 1: is probably what's kind of none of it matters till
Speaker 1: training camp. Ye and Mark famously wanted all storylines connected
Speaker 1: to the NFC to just disappear forever. He just was
Speaker 1: not high on the NFC as a conference, and sure
Speaker 1: enough that conference produced the Super Bowl champion. So maybe
Speaker 1: a little egg on Mark's face there, kind of an
Speaker 1: ingenious Marks always looking for, you know, different ways to
Speaker 1: get things off his plate. That gets like sixteen teams
Speaker 1: just gone gone right there. So let's, uh, Greg, let's
Speaker 1: let's make some storylines disappear. Do you want to start
Speaker 1: or what? Alright, I'm gonna I'm gonna start with I
Speaker 1: have I have a few, but but but I'm gonna
Speaker 1: make one that's like the simplest and the dumbest. I
Speaker 1: don't want to hear about anymore Dak friendly offense in Dallas.
Speaker 1: For some reason, every year, certain cities get a storyline
Speaker 1: or a phrase that they're just like once to local
Speaker 1: reporters write about it the other seventy. In this case,
Speaker 1: in Dallas, I feel like they have to write about
Speaker 1: it every day and every every practice, every conversation, every interview,
Speaker 1: everything is all about, well, what are they doing to
Speaker 1: make the the offense more Dak friendly? Which like, is it?
Speaker 1: Isn't that? The isn't the coach? And Scott Linehan, their
Speaker 1: offensive coordinator, kind of said as much that he was
Speaker 1: annoyed with this whole idea. It's like, what do you
Speaker 1: think we were doing last year? You know what, what
Speaker 1: were we trying to do? You know, he's a great player.
Speaker 1: We're gonna try to make them the best. But it's
Speaker 1: all about and there's something demeaning about it to Dak
Speaker 1: who I who. I still have a lot of faith
Speaker 1: and it's like, well, let's engineer some sort of Dak
Speaker 1: friendly offense and I can. I can just feel like
Speaker 1: after the locals are done with hammering this story into
Speaker 1: the ground for the next two months, then the national
Speaker 1: people come in. You know then we got you know,
Speaker 1: we're we're on live during training camp. The national guys
Speaker 1: started doing it in August, so you redo it all over. Yeah,
Speaker 1: And I think it all connects to the underlying UH
Speaker 1: factor that Prescott was not very good last year and
Speaker 1: the I guess you're trying to connect the dots. How
Speaker 1: could that have happened? And there's a lot of reasons,
Speaker 1: and a lot of it had to do with Ezekiel
Speaker 1: Elliott and also Dallas not having that same dominance, especially
Speaker 1: with time and possession and having everything working in their favor.
Speaker 1: UH during his rookie year. But he had thirteen interceptions,
Speaker 1: he lost three fumbles, he had sixteen turnovers last year.
Speaker 1: He missed guys regularly open receivers. He was not He
Speaker 1: was not the same guy. And he also not for
Speaker 1: nothing is the reason Dak press or as the reason
Speaker 1: Dez Bryan's not there anymore because he had a number
Speaker 1: one receiver that probably really wasn't a number one receiver anymore.
Speaker 1: Ye had Jason Witten. There's a reason Jason Witten's in
Speaker 1: a broadcast booth now because he wasn't really a number
Speaker 1: one tight end anymore. It's always a little surprised that
Speaker 1: the Cowboys are going with the wide receiver number one
Speaker 1: wide receiver by committee route this season instead of being
Speaker 1: so if you really wanted to be where friendly, don't
Speaker 1: have you know, Alan Hearns and Cole Beasley and Terence
Speaker 1: Williams be your top three receivers. Terence Willis you just
Speaker 1: got arrested by the way too. It's just it's just
Speaker 1: the phrase, no more Dak friendly, those two words in
Speaker 1: a row. It's done. Um I, Greg, you know that
Speaker 1: I really want the Patriots the crumble from within. You
Speaker 1: know that Erica behind the glass. You know that as well? Yeah,
Speaker 1: all too well. I think, as I said last year,
Speaker 1: Donald maybe changes the equation. But last year you were
Speaker 1: more into the Patriots than the Jets. They controlled your
Speaker 1: emotions more right, I was. I was emotionally although I
Speaker 1: was as big a Jets fan as I always am,
Speaker 1: but I was a little emotionally disconnected from the Jets
Speaker 1: as being a competitive end tod, So I had to
Speaker 1: turn that passion somewhere. Greg. Anyway, but all this drama
Speaker 1: involving Belichick and Malcolm, Butler and Brady and Gronk, you know,
Speaker 1: it's been catnip for me. I've really enjoyed it, especially
Speaker 1: as a sad Jets fan. Um and I've talked about
Speaker 1: it a lot since the Super Bowl. Basically, anytime we
Speaker 1: have a segment that's probably usually about the Patriots or
Speaker 1: um or for just getting lunch at the huddle. It's
Speaker 1: great fun. I've enjoyed it. It's been what is it,
Speaker 1: schaden freud, schaden freud deutsch lend. But it's time to
Speaker 1: take the foot off the accelerator for two reasons. Number One, uh,
Speaker 1: Brady and Gronk. They're gonna be on the field in
Speaker 1: week one. So any of this talk about oh, is
Speaker 1: Tom gonna be at otis is gonna be at mini camps? Gronk. No,
Speaker 1: Gronk's gonna get some money and he's gonna be fun.
Speaker 1: So those guys are gonna be back. And as long
Speaker 1: as those guys are back, they are not. They are
Speaker 1: not in real peril. And two, and this is the
Speaker 1: most important thing to me, there's no reason to help
Speaker 1: the Patriots build up the narrative, the war cry that
Speaker 1: everyone said they were done. And let me make this clear,
Speaker 1: the Patriots are not done. They're not. They'll probably have
Speaker 1: like ten wins by Thanksgiving. I'd be very surprised if
Speaker 1: they were in a final four team come in January,
Speaker 1: the Patriots. No, it's not the Patriots. I'm being completely
Speaker 1: honest with you, as if someone that's followed the game
Speaker 1: during the entire Brady run, the Patriots are not done.
Speaker 1: And why give the motivation or the source material behind
Speaker 1: Belichick's next cheesy uh slogan you know, no more sleep
Speaker 1: or whatever it is. Uh. And so let's lose those
Speaker 1: storylines of the Patriots in trouble because ultimately they're not.
Speaker 1: And the only thing more annoying than another fourteen and
Speaker 1: two season and a Super Bowl appearance is Robert Kraft
Speaker 1: standing on some riser with Terry Bradshaw sticking a microphone
Speaker 1: in his face and Craft being like, well, I guess
Speaker 1: they said we couldn't do it New England. We dide
Speaker 1: it's like enough, just take your fourteen and two would
Speaker 1: be happy. What do you think about that? Damn posey uh?
Speaker 1: I have a lot of thoughts about that, actually, but
Speaker 1: I'm i'm I think you're on the right. I like
Speaker 1: what you're saying. I agree. I think you're trying to
Speaker 1: do some sort of mental voodoo gymnastics here, but I'm
Speaker 1: not gonna fall for the Patriots. Patriots wouldn't fall for
Speaker 1: because they're gonna use all these slights they've got. Chris
Speaker 1: Wesley on tape saying everyone, everyone, no one's gonna pick
Speaker 1: them going into this season. It's funny. I I remember
Speaker 1: being in this very studio last year, and I always said,
Speaker 1: like the years where everyone agrees the Patriots that's their year,
Speaker 1: that's almost never the year they actually win it. That
Speaker 1: was what I was saying last year going into it,
Speaker 1: because last year this time, everyone thought they were just
Speaker 1: going to kill and they were and they were great.
Speaker 1: It's not like they were they they were close and
Speaker 1: three and almost wanted had a sour ending though that
Speaker 1: is so our name. But this time I can smell it.
Speaker 1: Some people gonna pick the Steelers, some will pick the Jags,
Speaker 1: you know, some of you know sprinkling you guys and
Speaker 1: prizes and uh I like this alright. No. My point
Speaker 1: is though, I'm not no voodoo, just there's no don't
Speaker 1: waste your time because everything's come November, it'll be Thanksgiving,
Speaker 1: they'll be ten and one and they'll be like, oh okay,
Speaker 1: that was That was gonna be one of my get this,
Speaker 1: get this off field Patriots stories out of here. I'm
Speaker 1: sick of them. Ah. I just want to kill all
Speaker 1: organized team activity in mini camp evaluations period. I don't
Speaker 1: want to hear an opinion on anything that happened on
Speaker 1: the field for the next month. So that is very specific.
Speaker 1: We'd speaking on May one, Monday, for what most teams,
Speaker 1: A lot of teams, this is the first week. It's
Speaker 1: called phase three of O t A S where you're
Speaker 1: on the field and you're actually kind of playing football.
Speaker 1: I don't want to hear anyone say that he looked good,
Speaker 1: he's making a move, he looks great. It has so
Speaker 1: little to do with football. I know people have kind
Speaker 1: of made this point, but it really is true, and
Speaker 1: people forget it, like they're not tackling their in shorts.
Speaker 1: It's just this sort of practice session. I mean, it's
Speaker 1: it's a learning It's like going to the classroom. That's
Speaker 1: how Belichick says. It's all about classroom and teaching. And
Speaker 1: there's such a concentration on this sport year round that
Speaker 1: people it's gonna be there's gonna be sleepers and busts
Speaker 1: and risers and follers for fantasy based on what happens
Speaker 1: the next month, and none of it matters. You get
Speaker 1: to wait till training camp, so you get rid of
Speaker 1: all your evaluations. And I'm watching you. I like it.
Speaker 1: I'm totally on board with that. And uh, it did
Speaker 1: remind me of when the reporter asked Jets coach Todd
Speaker 1: Bowls about Sam Donald's first ever practice. His response, he
Speaker 1: was great right now, that was Bowls is unknown before
Speaker 1: that moment, sense of sense of humor, saying like everybody relaxed.
Speaker 1: There's nothing to take away at this point, and and
Speaker 1: whatever you take away, you just you don't know whatever
Speaker 1: what any of it's gonna mean. The running game, in
Speaker 1: the offensive line, the defensive line, forget it. You know
Speaker 1: someone's a phony if if they're giving hot takes about
Speaker 1: those positions. But even even the pastors and everything, you
Speaker 1: don't know who the same players that sometimes look good
Speaker 1: in these shorts won't look very good in aus Oh.
Speaker 1: The players always look good in their shorts though, right right,
Speaker 1: I mean not all of them now, I mean, anyway,
Speaker 1: my uh, that was weird, uh saying you know you're
Speaker 1: you're making it sound like every one of these guys
Speaker 1: is like I guess Richard is an example, probably not
Speaker 1: looking like super hot pair of shorts. There's a few
Speaker 1: monster it's the regular. It's like the normal population. You're
Speaker 1: gonna have a few crab apples, crab apples, a lot
Speaker 1: of nice calves, That's what I'm saying. Um, Finally, I
Speaker 1: would like to this is a time this this one
Speaker 1: really was on my radar last night while I was
Speaker 1: watching another sport. So any general story storylines pretending the
Speaker 1: NFL's demise and all you meet, you media pundits out there,
Speaker 1: you're you all grade the NFL on a on a curve,
Speaker 1: and it's never one that benefits what's the country's most
Speaker 1: popular sport. And what would happen if the NFL rolled
Speaker 1: out blowouts throughout January at the frequency we're seeing, uh
Speaker 1: in the NBA this month, just unwatchable games in the
Speaker 1: NBA playoffs. This NBA that's great, held as like this
Speaker 1: modern paragon for what professional sports league should be in
Speaker 1: the twenty century, and meanwhile, we're having games in the
Speaker 1: NBA that are just out of control. This being via
Speaker 1: the Washington Post. Over the fifteen conference final games played
Speaker 1: last season. In this season in the NBA, seven were
Speaker 1: decided by at least twenty points, five of them were
Speaker 1: at least thirty point blowout, and two margins of victory
Speaker 1: top forty points. Including that absurd Rockets Warriors game on Sunday.
Speaker 1: Only two games were decided by single digits. The average
Speaker 1: margin of victory in those fifteen games has been twenty
Speaker 1: point nine points. And it's like, oh, well, you know
Speaker 1: in the conference respective conferences sometimes mismatches happened. Well, you
Speaker 1: go to the NBA Finals, that's been bad too. Three
Speaker 1: of the five games between the Warriors and Calves last
Speaker 1: year were decided by at least nineteen points, average margin
Speaker 1: of victory fifteen point two. The ratings are great in
Speaker 1: the NBA. They were just as good or if not
Speaker 1: better than ever. Uh And what's helped the NBA is
Speaker 1: that no one in the media is going nuts every
Speaker 1: time something critical or negative is happening in that league.
Speaker 1: What about the tanking in the NBA, can you imagine,
Speaker 1: I know, the scam for Sam and all that stuff like,
Speaker 1: but that was mostly ingest by everyone because NFL, the
Speaker 1: way that these coaches are hard wired is to to
Speaker 1: win games. That's why you see teams blow it in
Speaker 1: week sixteen, weeks seventeen every year, and that's why you
Speaker 1: see starting quarterbacks stay in the line up in guys
Speaker 1: played at the end of the year. Typically in the NBA,
Speaker 1: these rosters. You check out the Knicks roster by the
Speaker 1: end of the season unrecognizable. And and they got the
Speaker 1: ninth pick. They got the ninth pick the Knicks and
Speaker 1: they tanked for three months. What do you think that
Speaker 1: says about all the teams that finished behind them? Anyway,
Speaker 1: my point is what if that happened in the NFL.
Speaker 1: There would be Dan Shaughnessy would jump off the Green
Speaker 1: Monster if the NFL was having these type of issues.
Speaker 1: And I just want everybody to calm down. I know
Speaker 1: the NFL is not a perfect animal. I know there
Speaker 1: are issues, their concerns about the health, uh issues with
Speaker 1: the game there. They don't get everything right, not by
Speaker 1: a long shot. But everybody should get the similar treatment.
Speaker 1: If you're gonna hold the NFL up to such a
Speaker 1: strict standard in the media, the other leagues, including the NBA,
Speaker 1: should get the same thing. Yeah, I mean, it reminds
Speaker 1: me there was a few years ago when we kept
Speaker 1: having blots in the playoffs, and people were nuts in
Speaker 1: terms of the NFL and and people were nuts. And
Speaker 1: I think with the NBA, obviously it's it's in a
Speaker 1: great place and it's just kind of cyclical, uh, you know,
Speaker 1: in terms of these blots, although it does seem like
Speaker 1: maybe teams are kind of punching it in a little
Speaker 1: bit when they're on the road. If it's they're all
Speaker 1: it's always in the first quarter and it's like, let's
Speaker 1: live to get back to our home court. But to
Speaker 1: your point, as great as those ratings are, it's not
Speaker 1: like the you know, sniff a regular season Thursday night
Speaker 1: NFL game and that's fine. Like, I don't know why
Speaker 1: why it's become such a focus. People are so obsessed
Speaker 1: with ratings and like what's up and what's down? Hey,
Speaker 1: news slash basketball, football, baseball too. They're all make they're
Speaker 1: all printing money right now. They're all doing great, like
Speaker 1: they really are. I mean, look at the Panthers. Are
Speaker 1: there what market in the NFL and they just sold
Speaker 1: for two point two billion dollars. So every one of
Speaker 1: these owners that own you know, they know they're holding
Speaker 1: a ticket for whatever they bought their team. It's doubled
Speaker 1: in the last five years practically. I mean, if the
Speaker 1: Panthers are going for two point four billion and the
Speaker 1: Bills were one point six just a couple of years ago.
Speaker 1: It's like all of these teams in baseball and clude
Speaker 1: like even baseball, which gets made fun of in Basketball's
Speaker 1: like all these teams are making money. They're all making deals.
Speaker 1: Thursday Night Football sold to Fox for more than the
Speaker 1: previous Thursday Night for how many I'm not feeling bad
Speaker 1: for any of them. How many overall think pieces have
Speaker 1: been written about Thursday Night Football, the quality of the
Speaker 1: games and all that, Like I don't and I'm with you.
Speaker 1: All right, that's it, Um, there you go. Those are
Speaker 1: some storylines we want to make disappear, but they won't disappear, Greg,
Speaker 1: And that's the most annoying part. Well, you know who,
Speaker 1: I'm glad it is not going to disappear. Our next guests,
Speaker 1: all right, let's um welcome them. Are they staying behind
Speaker 1: the glass or are they as as one coming in?
Speaker 1: Or you know how am I only finding out now
Speaker 1: that we have two operational headsets behind the glass. This
Speaker 1: is interesting anyway, I'll introduce you, so of course you
Speaker 1: already heard of the loose cannon Erica tamp Posse and
Speaker 1: her co conspirator she is Emma sour in Um not
Speaker 1: quite our win m a VP, more popularly known as
Speaker 1: she is the producer of the Dave Damna Check Football Problem.
Speaker 1: But these two women have launched a a popular vlog. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you know, we call it a vlog. I guess you
Speaker 1: could call it. You could call it a lot. Actually
Speaker 1: it's called the broadcast. That right, what is the get
Speaker 1: a plug in? What's the broadcast? Well, the broadcast is
Speaker 1: the next big thing, Dan, we'll tell you why flogs. Well,
Speaker 1: first of all, we have a bunch of videos. Yeah,
Speaker 1: so we have a lot of videos, and we also
Speaker 1: just like to do stupid stuff and put it on
Speaker 1: social media and it gets a lot of hits, which
Speaker 1: is great views. Yeah, little industry lingo retweets. UM get
Speaker 1: a lot of like dude saying you're cute and funny,
Speaker 1: you know, which is upsetting cool, It's cool but also
Speaker 1: also upsetting defensive. But yeah, we'll take it. I would
Speaker 1: take that. We don't get that a lot on our side, right,
Speaker 1: It's like, oh I get it. I've been getting it lately.
Speaker 1: The whole cute boy thing that's been taken off. Yeah,
Speaker 1: so that's cool. Um, yeah, if me, Emma and actually
Speaker 1: our our friend Colleen have sort of joined together the
Speaker 1: tiny box. Well, you know, you've been doing this broadcast
Speaker 1: for a long time, going back deep until last season. Yes,
Speaker 1: but Colleen's you know, now you're considering her part. She's
Speaker 1: part of the broadcast to pick up. She actually called
Speaker 1: us probably a few months ago and was like, I
Speaker 1: want in. You guys are doing great, So we're like,
Speaker 1: all right, it's funny. It's kind of it sounds to
Speaker 1: me more like a network executive was kind of like,
Speaker 1: we need a little more star power. Can we can?
Speaker 1: We get called? And then there's a lot of drama
Speaker 1: behind the scenes between m a VP and Colleen because
Speaker 1: it used to kind of be m v P, you know,
Speaker 1: shining she's a shining star. Now you might be onto
Speaker 1: something and it's funny. Connie also a similar route was
Speaker 1: her path to get onto our podcast. So, h maybe
Speaker 1: she should start something. I think she's she's more of
Speaker 1: a follower. She's she's like, is that going well? Oh
Speaker 1: it is? Now? Yeah? Now she's Colleen. It's a good
Speaker 1: morning football Saturday edition. Think about it? Yeah, not dumb?
Speaker 1: Are you setting up a clip? Yeah? Are you someone
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Speaker 1: your probably? Yeah? Come on? We all like, yeah, wow,
Speaker 1: so it actually the broadcast is generating clicks, views, good content,
Speaker 1: a lot of celebrities popping celebrities. But it seems like
Speaker 1: already it seems like there might be a little bit
Speaker 1: of heat in terms of the creative forces butting heads
Speaker 1: a little bit the direction of the show. No, not
Speaker 1: at all. No, I think we're all on the same page.
Speaker 1: It's it's very different, different you know, dynamic like Colleen
Speaker 1: like we all went out Saturday night like Colleens, like
Speaker 1: the fun married one, Like Emma's sort of like, you know,
Speaker 1: not fun about to be maryone and I'm the one
Speaker 1: that everyone has to like rain in. You know. Then
Speaker 1: that I feel like that dynamic comes through on the broadcast.
Speaker 1: Oh it does, definitely tell us. But yeah, it's officially
Speaker 1: going to be a podcast so exclusive, we'll continue to
Speaker 1: be a video entity because that's how it started. Yeah,
Speaker 1: we're a video conglomerate. We'll see see how that dynamic
Speaker 1: is going. Six and fifties shows right now. It's I mean,
Speaker 1: look at damage Check. You know better than anyone. M
Speaker 1: v P Check just cycles through talent around him because
Speaker 1: you know, at some point he tires of them or
Speaker 1: are they tired of get tired of checking? Why do
Speaker 1: you think Mark got into his contract twelve weeks of
Speaker 1: paid vacation just because he can't stand to be around
Speaker 1: That makes complete sense. Yeah, we'll have to think about
Speaker 1: that going forward. So I wish you the best of
Speaker 1: luck because you're off to a great start. It's a
Speaker 1: long road ahead, but we're excited. And how do you
Speaker 1: get to check out the broadcast? Um, you can go
Speaker 1: to the broadcast I r L. That's in real life
Speaker 1: on Instagram and we have you know, like three hundred
Speaker 1: sixty followers and we haven't really done anything yet, which
Speaker 1: is pretty cool. And then that's the same Twitter handle
Speaker 1: as well. Alright, make sure you check that out. And
Speaker 1: that good cameo there, Yeah, that was awesome. Thanks guys.
Speaker 1: Was like our first plug ever, just like someone was
Speaker 1: coming in and plug it. Except since Tony Romo and Directed,
Speaker 1: we have been trying to quietly recruit m a VP
Speaker 1: for years, to be very quiet, but it never has
Speaker 1: never worked out. So this is the closest we can get.
Speaker 1: We'll take it. Yeah for sure. I mean I can
Speaker 1: go out sick on Wednesday if you need it. Jack
Speaker 1: won't allow it. I'll be the third man up. All right,
Speaker 1: that's it. Good job, ladies. Okay, and post me too, ladies.
Speaker 1: Cute and funny, Yes they are cute and funny fellas,
Speaker 1: and but look out, one of them has a ring.
Speaker 1: I'm married yet, Dan hands As signing off for the
Speaker 1: old Boss. The Loose Cannon MVP behind the Glass will
Speaker 1: be back Wednesday, so check it out till then.