Speaker 1: Be Around the NFL podcast. Yes the Scots lack of podcasts.
Speaker 1: Welcome to another addition to the Around the NFL podcast.
Speaker 1: My name is David annas Im joined in a convention
Speaker 1: hall filled with heroes, part Cesler, Chris Wesley, Colle and
Speaker 1: Greg people money in a total rapport shredding moment. As
Speaker 1: Connie was introducing yourself, Greg just stood up on a
Speaker 1: stool in the middle of that announcement of our show
Speaker 1: is something. This is an audio program. I don't you
Speaker 1: don't have to explain everything. I wanted to see if
Speaker 1: Zolac was back, because yeah, they're gonna, you know, cut
Speaker 1: it up for social whatever. It's a podcast. People are
Speaker 1: listening to the anarchists people. People are listening to it
Speaker 1: in their ears, you know. And I wanted to see
Speaker 1: if Zolac was over there because it's it's the rare
Speaker 1: thank you for pastry to us. We can make a
Speaker 1: Zolac joke and be in Greg, You're right, we don't
Speaker 1: have to explain everything we are. Yeah, we are about
Speaker 1: and Colleen we're gonna get to because you haven't been
Speaker 1: on the show a long time. But Greg how to
Speaker 1: make some comments. Are a big guy. We had about.
Speaker 1: We're about thirty yards or so away from the sports
Speaker 1: ub the and Zolak is doing a show all week
Speaker 1: from there. I don't know. He just left. If it's
Speaker 1: time to I don't know, but um, yes here, we're
Speaker 1: here at what they call the Super Bowl Media Center,
Speaker 1: which used to be known in the old days as
Speaker 1: Radio Row. I still call it Radio Row, but I'm
Speaker 1: an old time I think everyone does. I didn't realize
Speaker 1: the name changed. Yeah, that happened a few years back.
Speaker 1: They branded it as as the NFL brands Everything. Colleen Wolf,
Speaker 1: We've talked about this on text. We don't like to
Speaker 1: talk on the phone. A lot of texting though. And
Speaker 1: this is your first pod appearance proper since when since
Speaker 1: I think August. Where I've been sitting with you guys,
Speaker 1: which is crazy. I think i've even seen you since August.
Speaker 1: I mean outside of like on screen doing screen things,
Speaker 1: because I live on a screen now, and so weird.
Speaker 1: There is the night out with Reggie Bush. Oh that's right,
Speaker 1: the Thanksgiving Eve, But yeah, wasn't there. Oh you're right, well,
Speaker 1: I haven't had weekends in Los Angeles since August, so
Speaker 1: it's all about to change. Look at this we're back together.
Speaker 1: There's nothing there's nothing quite like offseason Connie Fox, because
Speaker 1: they really your career has taken off. You've kind of
Speaker 1: surpassed us, which explains a lot of why you're not
Speaker 1: on the show anymore. I mean you started ahead of
Speaker 1: us too, but yeah, she started ahead and then and
Speaker 1: then we kind of were catching up, and then out
Speaker 1: of nowhere there was this rocket ride. One of the
Speaker 1: top network talent. We're very proud of you, Connie. But um,
Speaker 1: you know what happens with Collie and Wolf is they
Speaker 1: get they get a lot of use out of the Fox.
Speaker 1: Uh from let's say what August through January are, but
Speaker 1: Connie Fox off season it is a party from about
Speaker 1: February through July, and there are multiple trips around the world. Gonzo. Gonzo,
Speaker 1: your husband has a job in theory, although it just
Speaker 1: seems to be a lot of just hanging out at home.
Speaker 1: He gets so angry at me because he has a
Speaker 1: podcast that he does every Monday, and every Monday I
Speaker 1: forget that he's hosting the podcast, and I'm always like, wait,
Speaker 1: what are you doing? Where are you going? And He's like,
Speaker 1: I have a job, Calleen, You're not the only one
Speaker 1: who post shows. UM, so we're about we're heading into
Speaker 1: Connie season, so that's exciting. So we're getting you right
Speaker 1: at the end of that. And uh so the whole
Speaker 1: gang's back together. We're here in Atlanta. Super Bowl fifty
Speaker 1: three is five days away, uh the Los Angeles Rams
Speaker 1: in New England Patriots, and let's just set the scene. Uh.
Speaker 1: First of all, coming up today, we're gonna go through
Speaker 1: all the news and then we're going to uh a
Speaker 1: return of a segment we debuted over the summer. Uh
Speaker 1: what you people don't realize. I'm excited about that to
Speaker 1: see you know what in super Bowl week It's like
Speaker 1: what has not been covered at this point. Well, we're
Speaker 1: about to uncover some things that people just aren't talking about.
Speaker 1: Dan told me the delivery is very important with that segment.
Speaker 1: Maximum maximum condescending attitude is what you're looking for. Um
Speaker 1: and uh but this week we're gonna have UM our
Speaker 1: live show from City Winery uh here in Atlanta Thursday night.
Speaker 1: I think we're just about sold out, But check out
Speaker 1: the website see if maybe if you if you're in
Speaker 1: the area, if you want to travel, see if you
Speaker 1: can snag a tick ticket. Otherwise you can go outside
Speaker 1: and scalp it and sane price. Greg. I know, Um,
Speaker 1: you you like to live in the realm of kind
Speaker 1: of under underground seedy business dealings. Uh. That's that's what
Speaker 1: the scalping industry is, essentially. The move. The move is
Speaker 1: to wait until the last minute if you're gonna scalp.
Speaker 1: I did that with the World Series. You just just
Speaker 1: show up there and have confidence that you're gonna get
Speaker 1: it last minute. I did have a friend that said
Speaker 1: they were like, look for concert tickets on ticket masks
Speaker 1: or on some ticket site, you know, for this week.
Speaker 1: And we showed up on the list. We've probably not
Speaker 1: made We've made it. Um take that NFL now. Uh
Speaker 1: And and weirdly he said there were hundreds and hundreds
Speaker 1: of tickets still available. Well that makes sense to um.
Speaker 1: Starting Wednesday, UM through Friday, it is our God, I'm
Speaker 1: gonna get this wrong. Super Bowl Live Show. Mark Brady
Speaker 1: Figure says, no, super Bowl Today is the name of
Speaker 1: the show. If you go. Is that gonna be on
Speaker 1: NFL dot com the homepage. Yeah, thumbs up. So at
Speaker 1: noon Eastern thumbs up again. I'm learning in real time
Speaker 1: about our show. That's perfect for everyone age sixty com.
Speaker 1: I know your career has taken off, but if you
Speaker 1: want to learn anything about hosting, just UH Wednesday through Friday,
Speaker 1: UH super Bowl now UH at noon Eastern on NFL
Speaker 1: dot com. We'll be doing UH interviews with a ton
Speaker 1: of stars, including Mark my stars my would sometimes you
Speaker 1: get the vapors? Mark Sessla Baker Mayfield is on the docket. Oh,
Speaker 1: you're gonna have the vapors. I normally do not sleep
Speaker 1: well in general, but I've just honestly been feeling a
Speaker 1: little nervous about this and hot at all times, so
Speaker 1: I'm not sure how it will go. I had an idea.
Speaker 1: By the way, that doesn't matter. He saved my team.
Speaker 1: What about when Baker comes onto the set? What if wordless,
Speaker 1: we all West Gregg and myself just stand up and
Speaker 1: walk away and it's just the tea. What would your
Speaker 1: pant piece Gale v right there? Would you want to
Speaker 1: be yes? I would. I actually would like to talk
Speaker 1: to him and have all of you far away. I
Speaker 1: just hear about everyone else's stuff. I want to sit
Speaker 1: down with Baker Mayfield for like two or three hours
Speaker 1: and just process the entire movement. I mean, I think
Speaker 1: that can be arranged. We have plenty of guest Jujuice
Speaker 1: Smith Shuster, Jamal Adams like tends to guess all week.
Speaker 1: So I would be happy to have all of us
Speaker 1: sit out the Baker Another one, Are you kidding me?
Speaker 1: It would be terrible? Another need to be Another funny
Speaker 1: move would be to uh have Baker and then cut
Speaker 1: Marks Mike. That would also what would you rather have happened?
Speaker 1: I would I would take people out if that happened.
Speaker 1: Um So, anyway, that's just one of many guests. We
Speaker 1: have a ton of big time guests on the dot
Speaker 1: com show. Then I said the City Winery. And then
Speaker 1: of course Sunday night we have Super Bowl Sunday coverage,
Speaker 1: hopefully a Patriots defeat to discuss for the second straight year. Hopefully, Hey,
Speaker 1: you gotta make the game to lose? All right? You
Speaker 1: ready to get into the news though, There's a lot
Speaker 1: to talk about. Uh So let's do it, Ricky Hollywood.
Speaker 1: She's she's sitting crisscross apple sauce is what they say
Speaker 1: now at schools politically correct. That's how she's sitting right
Speaker 1: in front of us with a computer. Throw us into
Speaker 1: the news Julan, have you ever heard of the Around
Speaker 1: the NFL podcast? Have you ever heard about the Around
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Speaker 1: and I wanted to let you know Around the NFL
Speaker 1: you got a fantastic Julian Edelman who has never heard
Speaker 1: of our show, and yet his representatives desperately trying to
Speaker 1: offload over stock of their ridiculous T shirt. No, they
Speaker 1: took a bath on those T shirts. They're trying to
Speaker 1: offload it all. And uh, he doesn't know the show,
Speaker 1: but his agent does apparently. I thought you didn't even
Speaker 1: want a shirt anyway. I don't. I don't want to.
Speaker 1: I tell you I would burn it and put it
Speaker 1: on Instagram if I ended up. I mean, how much
Speaker 1: how many T shirts would you have to buy for
Speaker 1: a guy who's made tens of millions of dollars to
Speaker 1: take a bath on the product? Even rich people could
Speaker 1: take a bath on a business deal. You know. At
Speaker 1: any point, I'm gonna put it in my garage. I'm
Speaker 1: gonna hang it up. Yeah. My kids are exciting and
Speaker 1: they will disappear systematically from each of your homes if
Speaker 1: you accept them. Um. That was Julian Edelman at Opening Night.
Speaker 1: That was Erica tam posey. Uh, she doesn't have a mike.
Speaker 1: I would like to talk about how she felt talking
Speaker 1: to Julian, but maybe we'll do that. She loved it.
Speaker 1: Her heart was pounding her heart. Um. Opening Night takeaways. Um,
Speaker 1: she's pounding her shirt from the Charlie Brown collection. She
Speaker 1: doesn't have a mic. She's saying that's not fair, that's
Speaker 1: actually great Erica before the show started, buried Greg saying
Speaker 1: his his his shirt was from Hot Topic, which was
Speaker 1: a nice dig. And Greg was silent for about a
Speaker 1: minute and a half afterwards. So as we know, I
Speaker 1: don't even know if yeah, if you come after a
Speaker 1: common move with Greg as if you, if you go
Speaker 1: after him, he goes quiet. He starts thinking he's pensive,
Speaker 1: and then he goes through the robot brain and figures
Speaker 1: out how to deliver the return fire, and then he
Speaker 1: zaps you and Erica. He went after the woman without
Speaker 1: a mike, which in today's times, Oh, woman can't speak
Speaker 1: for herself, Greg dodgy territory for you to wait into.
Speaker 1: She speaks plenty Opening night, h Greg, you were in attendance, Mark,
Speaker 1: you were there for a brief time. I heard you
Speaker 1: made a cameo. I made a cameo. That's the best
Speaker 1: way to handle that event. Henry Hodgson nfl uk Hank
Speaker 1: told me last night that, um, he was entering the
Speaker 1: facility just as it was kicking off and you're already
Speaker 1: heading back to the hotel. Well, I was like a
Speaker 1: fourteen minutes on foot removed from the event when I
Speaker 1: saw Henry, and I honestly, I feel like it's three
Speaker 1: years away from becoming the Fire Festival, and it added
Speaker 1: probably I think it honestly added two years to mind.
Speaker 1: I don't mean Super Bowl livelihood, but my human life
Speaker 1: to leave when I did. Wait, I would love a
Speaker 1: little bit more of an explanation why I think it
Speaker 1: is ripe for at some point it just keeps getting
Speaker 1: bigger and more chaotic. It is ripe for something that
Speaker 1: goes totally over peak threshold and has a total meltdown
Speaker 1: thing where everyone sort of locked in. Probably be next
Speaker 1: year at like the Marlin Stadium, everyone locked in and
Speaker 1: they can't get out, and you've got all these like
Speaker 1: hot people and athletes like loafing around eating each other.
Speaker 1: By the end of the night, it was very meals
Speaker 1: very unique and very marked. That he showed up like
Speaker 1: an hour and a half early to stand on and
Speaker 1: I wasn't there. I got there really like to stand
Speaker 1: on the floor, and then left immediately after. It's I
Speaker 1: didn't know how to get back to the hotel, and
Speaker 1: I knew if I went back to the hotel, I
Speaker 1: would never make it back to media Nights. So I
Speaker 1: checked the box um as lightly as possible and danced
Speaker 1: out of there before it got us. Well, let's get
Speaker 1: into it. Greg, You um, you're working on some written pieces,
Speaker 1: I believe, and you you talked with some lesser stars.
Speaker 1: You didn't really hang out around the risers where the
Speaker 1: big names were. But what we're like some takeaways you
Speaker 1: had from the night, well from watching you know, the
Speaker 1: coverage of it, just how relaxed Tom Brady is. What
Speaker 1: and this extends from last week and really the Saturday
Speaker 1: press conference he had in Foxboro, it really struck me
Speaker 1: how contemplate of he was and philosophical and enjoying the moment.
Speaker 1: Damn a second us talked about it beforehand, but he
Speaker 1: he really doesn't seem about as relaxed and happy. And
Speaker 1: maybe it's just because this season doesn't have anything heavy
Speaker 1: attached to it. There's no drama about a gate, or
Speaker 1: there's no him in Belichick warring, or it's just he
Speaker 1: knows how improbable it is that he got back after
Speaker 1: a tough season to two vindicate what happened last year
Speaker 1: at this stage, but he seems thrilled and about as
Speaker 1: confident as can be for him. Right, but often, but
Speaker 1: he's very edgy, very often in these do you think
Speaker 1: I don't find him to I feel like if Brady
Speaker 1: has mastered anything at these events that can sweep other
Speaker 1: players away, that he has seemed pretty a common on
Speaker 1: top of it. To me, this is gonna sound like
Speaker 1: just Dan being better about the Patriots. But I honestly
Speaker 1: do believe why Brady might seem so laid back is
Speaker 1: what are like? What are the stakes for Tom Brady
Speaker 1: and the Patriots? Obviously winning the Super Bowl? Yes, But
Speaker 1: if they win, does it teach us anything we didn't
Speaker 1: already know about the quarterback, the coach, the team. It's
Speaker 1: the greatest quarterback and the greatest coach arguably the greatest
Speaker 1: team ever. If they lose, well, well they made it
Speaker 1: back to another Super Bowl. He doesn't really have anything
Speaker 1: he needs to prove to anybody anymore. And I feel
Speaker 1: like that's different from even uh, the Atlanta super Bow.
Speaker 1: I feel like that was maybe when they had the
Speaker 1: great comeback against Atlanta. To me, that that kind of
Speaker 1: settled any lingering doubt about anything about Belichick or Brady.
Speaker 1: Where are we at now in terms of steaks for
Speaker 1: the Patriots. I hear what you're saying, and that seems fair,
Speaker 1: But I think he would look at it like I'm
Speaker 1: a lifestyle pioneer and I'm trying to prove you can
Speaker 1: do something at almost two years old. You're probably right,
Speaker 1: but just looking at it from a brand standpoint, No,
Speaker 1: I think he really thinks I'm doing something that's going
Speaker 1: to help other athletes in twenty years do this. And
Speaker 1: then even when you're watching Bill Belichick there he looks
Speaker 1: so he looks genuinely happy, which is which is weird. Yeah,
Speaker 1: And you see him at every other press conference during
Speaker 1: the entire year so annoyed at every single question, and
Speaker 1: then at this event like he actually does smile. And
Speaker 1: I know that that's like a that's an annoying thing
Speaker 1: that people keep track of how many times he smiled.
Speaker 1: But some of those smiles are actually genuine, which is
Speaker 1: strange to me, and Gronks like breaking down in saying
Speaker 1: dance moves just makes me feel like he's feeling good.
Speaker 1: His body feels good. And and to answer your thing
Speaker 1: on Brady, to use his words, he's saying now like
Speaker 1: he realized just like life isn't about piling up those
Speaker 1: super bowls are proving where you are, I guess, but
Speaker 1: that it's just the experience, that your life is an
Speaker 1: accumulation of experiences and that's really all that matters. Are
Speaker 1: those are those moments and what what is a greater
Speaker 1: experience for him than the one like he experienced in
Speaker 1: Kansas City And you saw him act like a kid
Speaker 1: in that moment, and I think to share that with
Speaker 1: this particular team, he's going to enjoy that experience and
Speaker 1: it's gonna be a rough one if they lose it,
Speaker 1: but he's gonna enjoy it. I'm gonna stop you with
Speaker 1: one thing. I hear you. He he has been reflective
Speaker 1: and showing all those qualities. But what a way to
Speaker 1: slow play everyone, including the Rams, to act like it
Speaker 1: doesn't matter to Tom Brady. I can't think of anyone
Speaker 1: who has a bitter more bitter pill in their mouth
Speaker 1: from last year's game less than a year ago than
Speaker 1: Tom Brady and the way that went down. I think
Speaker 1: he absolutely wants this as much as any other game.
Speaker 1: He's both of those things can be true. I mean,
Speaker 1: then they're both true. But I mean, you gotta be
Speaker 1: giving me a break with this. He's someone looking back
Speaker 1: on his life that he's three you stage, he's looking back.
Speaker 1: I mean, I think that's how I think about my
Speaker 1: life now. Is that like the only thing to me
Speaker 1: that really matters is like accumulating those thirty seconds or
Speaker 1: maybe it's a day, those moments that mean something to you.
Speaker 1: And he knows enough about himself that he's in that position.
Speaker 1: We're talking about a quarterback who has described losing as
Speaker 1: a quality of life issue. He really believes that that
Speaker 1: his life is worse if he loses, and his life
Speaker 1: is I mean, he's married to a supermodel. It makes together,
Speaker 1: by the way that for a professional athlete that losing
Speaker 1: is a quality life issue. I think that way, it
Speaker 1: doesn't make him. But I don't know. Zero worship week
Speaker 1: for Brady and legend worship week, Well, here, he's not
Speaker 1: that different than here. He is because he's experienced things
Speaker 1: no football player has ever come. So how about, ever,
Speaker 1: somebody else gets to experience it, right, I mean, I'm
Speaker 1: just saying he's the best. No one's ever been to
Speaker 1: their ninth super Bowl at forty one years. No one's
Speaker 1: had all those wins, one's had all those losses like he's.
Speaker 1: He's been able to have this experience in so many
Speaker 1: different ways for himself, and so it's nice, I'm sure
Speaker 1: for him to be able to have that luxury. And
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Speaker 1: you talk to Amazon. Little Nicole Robie Coleman, who of
Speaker 1: course was involved in one of the most famous plays
Speaker 1: of the decade, uh, the non call. Uh. He got fined,
Speaker 1: and not only did he not get called for you know,
Speaker 1: past interference, he also got fined for unnecessary roughness west
Speaker 1: on the play that costs the Saints essentially a shot
Speaker 1: at the Super Bowl. And then he gets to Super
Speaker 1: Bowl Week and he's the guy that gets roped into
Speaker 1: uh making the first controversial statement uh quote unquote about
Speaker 1: Tom Brady, UH saying that ages quote taking a toll
Speaker 1: on the quarterback. If you watch the tape, he's not
Speaker 1: the same guy, uh that he was earlier in his career. Uh.
Speaker 1: And then something interesting and Opening Night happened, which was
Speaker 1: I was watching the telecast and less Need is at
Speaker 1: the dais for NFL Network, and UM and you clearly
Speaker 1: less as a little annoyed. They're talking about Coleman's comments,
Speaker 1: and they're like, well, now we have Dion with Nickel
Speaker 1: Robie Coleman, let's listen. So less Need is his boss
Speaker 1: is listening to him to see, don't say anything stupid.
Speaker 1: And this is how Coleman walked back those comments. The
Speaker 1: only thing I said was his age is the anything
Speaker 1: that changed from from now to here. And I feel
Speaker 1: like his his his skills and his his arm is
Speaker 1: still strong. He's still a goal He's still a legend.
Speaker 1: That's what I want to get across elsewhere in media Night.
Speaker 1: Anybody have anything else? Yeah, I thought he nailed it,
Speaker 1: Like his analysis was the best analysis I've heard from
Speaker 1: anyone on Tom Brady all year. And then he had
Speaker 1: to walk back because he's afraid of Tom Brady. Yeah.
Speaker 1: It like Michael Brocker said the same thing. We're afraid
Speaker 1: of being the story, which the team obviously the Rams
Speaker 1: probably pulled him aside, like bro pipe down, we don't
Speaker 1: need that in the on the Bolton board. Michael Brocker
Speaker 1: said the same thing last night. He said he's not
Speaker 1: the same at forty two. He added a year to
Speaker 1: his age as he has a twenty four. It's like
Speaker 1: that that's his obvious or that's a great prediction and
Speaker 1: he's talking about next year. Gronk had his own riser.
Speaker 1: It's a cast system Opening Night, where your human value
Speaker 1: is kind of judged by whether or not they give
Speaker 1: you the riser. Gronk gets a riser. He's a future
Speaker 1: Hall of Famer. He's a legend. Uh, we have this
Speaker 1: sound from Gronk key, but he had He didn't want
Speaker 1: to talk about retirement. There's a lot of speculation this
Speaker 1: is gonna be his final game on Sunday. He didn't
Speaker 1: want to talk about that. But he is still a guy.
Speaker 1: Gronk likes the party. Oh yeah, we got Shacks fun
Speaker 1: house Friday night. And who says I'm not going to
Speaker 1: his party? Hit up Shack tell him I'll be there, baby.
Speaker 1: I bet he'll get a little little crazy, a little excited.
Speaker 1: We had a good time together. I'll probably be on
Speaker 1: his shoulders again. I mean, it's just two days before
Speaker 1: the Super Bowl. I'll probably be there until five am.
Speaker 1: Speaking of Shaq, he's gonna be on Super Bowl today Thursday,
Speaker 1: scheduled guest. We're gonna talk to Shaquille O'Neal. What's super
Speaker 1: Bowl today? I don't know. It's starting tomorrow. Hypothetically that
Speaker 1: we're involved with um Brady. By the way, circling back
Speaker 1: to Brady, he told Jeff Darlington, our former NFL media colleague,
Speaker 1: that they're zero chance that he retires after the Super Bowl.
Speaker 1: Speaking of overplayed media stories and things getting hammered into
Speaker 1: the ground, Mark, Sean McVeigh made the mistake of telling
Speaker 1: Peter King, what, yeah, the little nugget that you know,
Speaker 1: Belichick and I we've exchanged texts, And then by the
Speaker 1: time which that happened, and it's kind of intriguing yet
Speaker 1: not shocking because they're in a small fraternity of people
Speaker 1: that respect each other. And he watched the Rams Vikings
Speaker 1: game from earlier in the year Belichick and said, hey,
Speaker 1: think your team's explosive, but it turns into this thing
Speaker 1: where everyone's saying, oh, you guys are best friends and
Speaker 1: they're rough on the stage together. And even the look
Speaker 1: on Belichick's faces like he probably doesn't text anyone more
Speaker 1: than like twice a month, or something like are you
Speaker 1: suddenly pen pals from embarrassed? He wanted it gone. He
Speaker 1: wanted that was a rookie mistake, a Super Bowl mistake.
Speaker 1: You don't tell anybody anything interesting, especially earlier in the week.
Speaker 1: I liked his bomber jacket though, by the way, which
Speaker 1: was amazing to see him in the bomber jacket and
Speaker 1: jeans next to Belichicks and the White Snakes. Yeah, hey,
Speaker 1: do you guys know that Sean mcveigh's thirty three. I
Speaker 1: hadn't heard that. But how old is Bill Belichick? He's
Speaker 1: half the age? Oh my god, we should talk about that. Uh.
Speaker 1: Tom Brady's forty one, forty two. And as we know,
Speaker 1: the hashtag bet against us um slogan got thrown back
Speaker 1: in the throne of sleeves his face and people rejected it,
Speaker 1: so they had to cook up a new slogan ahead
Speaker 1: of the Super Bowl. Greg and Tom Brady and the
Speaker 1: going away party before they got on the plane to Atlanta,
Speaker 1: was happy to try to get a new viral marketing
Speaker 1: scheme off the ground after the horrendous embarrassment of bet
Speaker 1: against us. We're excited. I hope you guys are excited.
Speaker 1: And as that said, let's let him here and all
Speaker 1: the way down to Atlanta. We're still here. We're still here.
Speaker 1: We're still here, We're still here. We're are still here?
Speaker 1: All right? Oh yeah, Brandy to paint a picture. He
Speaker 1: after he finishes this this chant, he tosses the mic
Speaker 1: to Zolak, who drops it. But Zok is so smitten
Speaker 1: by the we're still here chance and he goes, oh yeah,
Speaker 1: you could probably hear us right now, Scotts bigger than it.
Speaker 1: You could fit like I think Greg west Mark and
Speaker 1: Colleen inside of Zola's body, so I don't want Tom
Speaker 1: too much. Um, so they go we're still here, which
Speaker 1: is almost greg a tont Let's just be honest to people,
Speaker 1: all the people that the millions of people that don't
Speaker 1: want the Patriots here. It goes beyond like some type
Speaker 1: of like mobilizing battle cry and more just like f
Speaker 1: you guys. Yeah, I think that's what they've That's where
Speaker 1: we're at now, Like, but that is I mean, listen
Speaker 1: to this entire you know, pre ambo and podcast. Everyone
Speaker 1: is so tired of them being here because they're past
Speaker 1: the expiration of what everyone expected. Everyone really thought all
Speaker 1: season that they were finally gone and we talked about
Speaker 1: it at a million times. So the fact they're here
Speaker 1: is like the annoyance level is at an all time high.
Speaker 1: I feel like, yeah, it's Patriot season. Um, Greg, you
Speaker 1: are you like to go to some of the fancy
Speaker 1: pants um media events and rub elbows with the Peter
Speaker 1: Kings of the world. Will you be at the Roger
Speaker 1: Goodell UH press conference tomorrow? When is that? I don't know,
Speaker 1: but that's when they're going to address if we don't
Speaker 1: have anything to do at the time. I'll go it's
Speaker 1: right in this That's what I mean. I feel like
Speaker 1: that's right up Rosatal's alley. That that's when the NFL
Speaker 1: will finally, at last potentially address the blown call from
Speaker 1: the NFC Championship game, which is this is the story
Speaker 1: Greg that's been picking up traction that the NFL. Obviously,
Speaker 1: Sean Payton immediately after the game had stated that he
Speaker 1: had made a call to Ron river On, the VP
Speaker 1: of Officiating, who said they blew the call, but we
Speaker 1: have not heard anything from the league, and Benjamin Watson
Speaker 1: on Twitter expressed frustration with that, and you've seen that
Speaker 1: pop up in different places. The expectation is that Goodell
Speaker 1: will address it on Wednesday. What's he gonna says, It's
Speaker 1: I think it's stale by now, by Tuesday of Super
Speaker 1: Bowl week, I think it's stale. And according to a
Speaker 1: Patriots fan, I'm sure I would say I would say
Speaker 1: two days ago it sort of started getting stale. And yeah,
Speaker 1: people people have moved on because every it's already had
Speaker 1: kind of the counter argument, which is, like, wait, the
Speaker 1: the NFL admits that they're wrong all the time. What
Speaker 1: is that going to make any difference. They've they've said
Speaker 1: that a million different times, and of course he's gonna
Speaker 1: say it tomorrow. It's most it's one of the more
Speaker 1: boring controversies because it's not like anyone is denying, but
Speaker 1: no one's denying. It's such an obvious call. There's nothing
Speaker 1: to say about it, like I think, of course, of
Speaker 1: course they called the coach before he even got to
Speaker 1: the press conference. Instead it was the wrong call, and
Speaker 1: then he announced that they said it. Well, I mean,
Speaker 1: I don't know who you're you're not preaching to me.
Speaker 1: I'm saying if you read, people around the game are
Speaker 1: surprised and annoyed that the NFL has not publicly owned
Speaker 1: up to this. Yeah, I would say at the end
Speaker 1: of last weekend of the weekend, but it's kind of
Speaker 1: passed and no, I don't act, don't ask about it,
Speaker 1: and he'll say it was the wrong call, and what
Speaker 1: is it gon, What is that going to help anything.
Speaker 1: It's not gonna change anything right now, but I guess
Speaker 1: going forward it will. Everything that he says carries more
Speaker 1: weight when he says it. I will be interested to
Speaker 1: hear what he says about what they're going to do
Speaker 1: in terms of changing replaying. I mean, that's absolutely on
Speaker 1: the table and that's like the conversation. I think that's
Speaker 1: going to dominate the owners meetings when we're there. Um
Speaker 1: And in other news, uh Seth Wickersham of espn UM
Speaker 1: dropped a long, long, long, long feature on the inside
Speaker 1: story of the Cleveland Browns over the last few years.
Speaker 1: It's centered mostly Mark Sesssler around uh well, covered a
Speaker 1: lot of things, but kind of the bigger picture was
Speaker 1: the Haslem's Jimmy and d Haslem, what their effect has
Speaker 1: been on the organization and the their inability to kind
Speaker 1: of get out of out of their way. I figured
Speaker 1: you read that with a lot of interest. What were
Speaker 1: your thoughts about the piece from Wickersham? First on tone,
Speaker 1: because I think Wickersham specializes and I every time he
Speaker 1: writes something, it's like you have to click into it
Speaker 1: and cancel your morning plans to check it out. He
Speaker 1: drops a bombs and their long researched you know, slow
Speaker 1: brewing reports with lots of sourcing, and they are we're
Speaker 1: almost like as fetching is like a short detective novel
Speaker 1: because you're gonna get facts and stuff that you've never
Speaker 1: thought you'd get, and I thought he delivered um on
Speaker 1: some accounts with the Browns one, but in contrast to
Speaker 1: the Patriots one that came out a season ago that
Speaker 1: seemed almost perfectly timed to amp up the controversy around
Speaker 1: the Patriots and tweak them just in time for their
Speaker 1: stretch run. With the Browns one. To me, and this
Speaker 1: is not I'm not saying this justice a brown fan,
Speaker 1: it felt a little bit ill timed, like it could
Speaker 1: have been something as that would have been a total
Speaker 1: heat seeker that came out before the season. Um, it
Speaker 1: didn't really capture I thought some of the changes that
Speaker 1: have happened when you get a franchise quarterback, it effectively,
Speaker 1: uh put you ill at ease if you're a Browns
Speaker 1: fan around Brown's ownership. But I don't think that's a
Speaker 1: There were details that were new. I don't think it
Speaker 1: was a tremendous revelation that ownership, even by their own words,
Speaker 1: have been an issue in Cleveland. There is one tangible
Speaker 1: difference that they did mention at the end of the
Speaker 1: article that for the first time ever, you don't have
Speaker 1: a coach and GM both reporting to Haslem at least
Speaker 1: in terms of the ORC chart. It's the first time
Speaker 1: the GM is hired a coach, it's the first time
Speaker 1: the team seems to have buy in with the coach
Speaker 1: from inside, and the coach will be reporting to John Dorsey.
Speaker 1: So there, I guess coming out of this season, there's
Speaker 1: a lot to cling onto and be hopeful if you're
Speaker 1: supporting the supporter of the Browns. And this article in
Speaker 1: the past would have sent me into a dark mood,
Speaker 1: and I kind of just said, fine, I'm moving on.
Speaker 1: So like I was like kind of dark, but not
Speaker 1: as not really and honestly, like I thought there was
Speaker 1: really good research in it, but it's like you can't
Speaker 1: all like right, it was sort of pre all last
Speaker 1: season and you can't really wipe away. I think the
Speaker 1: momentum going forward, they still have to be better than
Speaker 1: seven eight and one. This is one of the best
Speaker 1: reporters in the business, and like you said, he's very
Speaker 1: well sourced. I just thought most of the article was
Speaker 1: like two thousand seventeen, two thousand eighteen. It didn't bring
Speaker 1: much new to me, and I think they played up
Speaker 1: the pot shots and the sensationalism a little bit too.
Speaker 1: Like I don't think we needed the hashtag about the
Speaker 1: porn accident or whatever like that that was solely in
Speaker 1: there just to take a shot at the brownsil They
Speaker 1: it was a hashtag DP for dog Pound and they
Speaker 1: projected it on a screen in the room and it
Speaker 1: was like at the complex at the Brown's headquarters for
Speaker 1: like twenty minutes, and you know, everybody apparently got a
Speaker 1: big kick out of it, and you gotta put it
Speaker 1: in a twot now. I guess I would argue just
Speaker 1: a little more clarity that the hashtag lead to videos
Speaker 1: and photos being projected on this giant wall in the
Speaker 1: Brown's facility of an X rated nature. Um, which is
Speaker 1: I think it's a funny little flavor color. Yeah, And
Speaker 1: I don't know what I took away from the article
Speaker 1: was at the timing of it's perfect because it's like,
Speaker 1: of all these the terrible things that have happened with
Speaker 1: the Browns, well where the story ends is and it
Speaker 1: might be okay now because now you have Dorsey who
Speaker 1: has done a nice job so far, You obviously have
Speaker 1: the young star quarterback, and maybe just maybe the Haslems
Speaker 1: are getting out of the way now. Um, so that
Speaker 1: that's the positive spin of it, the if if I
Speaker 1: was the Brown spends the one. The one thing that
Speaker 1: I take away was, God, I hope, I hope things
Speaker 1: are okay now, because there's a lot of evidence that
Speaker 1: he might not be able to stay out of the
Speaker 1: way because we don't have there's always in the next chapter.
Speaker 1: And if the next chapter doesn't continue to build off
Speaker 1: this bree uh positive one year, you know, buffeted by
Speaker 1: twenty awful years before his hands on he's not involved
Speaker 1: with the Flying Pilot j in the way he used
Speaker 1: to be. So the Browns are his baby, Yeah, they're
Speaker 1: his baby. And will he be able to stay out
Speaker 1: of the way ultimately, Yeah, it's a question. It felt
Speaker 1: like the whole thing was just about the Haslums being
Speaker 1: new to ownership and all of the mistakes that they
Speaker 1: sort of made along the way. Two things kind of
Speaker 1: stood out to me in this one. One that I
Speaker 1: kind of felt bad for Ray Farmer in in this piece,
Speaker 1: just listening to the fact that, yeah, he didn't even
Speaker 1: interview for the GM job, and after Joe Banner and
Speaker 1: Michael Lombardi were out, it was just like Jimmy Hasm
Speaker 1: was like, Hey, you're hired, and so he kind of
Speaker 1: knew from the jump that he was going to be
Speaker 1: him and Petton, We're going to be the ones kind
Speaker 1: of blamed for everything going wrong. That and then also
Speaker 1: on top of it that Jimmy haslum seems so impulsive
Speaker 1: with his decisions and he doesn't have a whole lot
Speaker 1: of patients at all, but he did have the patience
Speaker 1: to watch you jack and go one and thirty one
Speaker 1: like that. Well, the fact there were there were pretty
Speaker 1: interesting details, and it wasn't as salient because they finished
Speaker 1: the season strong, but if they had finished third, three
Speaker 1: and thirteen, then it would have felt better. Tim and
Speaker 1: the fact that he was the only one that wanted
Speaker 1: Hugh Jackson and four other people in the front office
Speaker 1: wanted Sean McDermott. That was a new fact. And really
Speaker 1: throughout the article that haslm was really the one guiding
Speaker 1: all of these hirings and firings that the GM didn't
Speaker 1: have much say to me was telling and and it
Speaker 1: does would worry me about the future. Pattern cannot continue
Speaker 1: and you have to wonder if there if there is
Speaker 1: a growth pattern to becoming an owner where you hit
Speaker 1: a point where you say it's time to listen to
Speaker 1: football people and football people alone. Uh, we'll see. That's
Speaker 1: that's my point. We've been talking about that very thing
Speaker 1: on our podcast for three or four years. But it
Speaker 1: was yeah, and we it was maybe even a little
Speaker 1: worse than you would have thought, just because you got
Speaker 1: some of the details of like the capricious nature of
Speaker 1: the you know, the way it happened with Farmer or
Speaker 1: even Joe Banner, like the way they were fired, just
Speaker 1: kind of blindsided showing up to dinner and having just
Speaker 1: the whole thing. I talked to uh Wickersham last night actually,
Speaker 1: and there is a a very high temperature jets piece
Speaker 1: coming out next week, so get ready for that. I'm
Speaker 1: excited about that. I'm sure it would be great. And
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Speaker 1: and ends. I can't remember how to do it. Everybody
Speaker 1: tell your friends because it's time for now. I give you.
Speaker 1: That's a seven point eight out of time. Wow, you're
Speaker 1: a good that's a great grade. Am I on a curve?
Speaker 1: It was a half a beat behind at the end there.
Speaker 1: But what about the how about the tone of it?
Speaker 1: How about the tone of the singing? I can tell
Speaker 1: you've been doing a lot of live television work, because here,
Speaker 1: in this chaotic setting were in, you did one of
Speaker 1: your best performances yet that was I performed really well
Speaker 1: under pressure and under the lights. Now remember grand calf
Speaker 1: a beat behind, but then you find it. Remember you
Speaker 1: get one more chance at the end of the segment ends.
Speaker 1: Here we go real quick. Let's spend through this Greg
Speaker 1: Hall of Fame UM voting. The announcement comes at the
Speaker 1: end of this week. You love that event. Who's going
Speaker 1: into the hall? You think I have no idea, I've
Speaker 1: I've done a power ranking. All right, let's hear it.
Speaker 1: Ed Reid number one, Tony Gonzalez number two, and I've
Speaker 1: got Chance Bailey number three. He's got to be right.
Speaker 1: One of the defining corners of who's this Who would
Speaker 1: be somebody that you know could sneak in, somebody that's
Speaker 1: been about Isaac Bruce. Isaac Bruce and I thought Steve
Speaker 1: Hutchinson former Seahawks and Vikings guard. It's a Patriots week here,
Speaker 1: Tay Law and Richard Seymour in their the final fifteen.
Speaker 1: Seymour might be Tay Law, I think could have a chance.
Speaker 1: I feel like they just it's not fair, but they
Speaker 1: feel like the Patriots are underrepresented. Had that big moment
Speaker 1: in the first Rams Patriots about Gil Brands are well,
Speaker 1: He's definitely in the correct. Now they have to they
Speaker 1: already knew that. Now they have to approve it and
Speaker 1: to improve it. And again, wait, who would who would say, actually, no, Gil,
Speaker 1: we've changed, we will not approve it. They have this
Speaker 1: Veterans Committee thing, and you have to get of the vote,
Speaker 1: I believe on Saturday when they vote, and there is
Speaker 1: one and it it's only been this process for five
Speaker 1: years and there is one guy who made it this
Speaker 1: far and then got shut down. Two guys. Then I
Speaker 1: think you're right. I think technically it did make it
Speaker 1: this far one time. Pat, It's not It's not a
Speaker 1: total lock um, all right. Also, Ian Rapp Report reports
Speaker 1: that the Redskins are planning to be without Alex Smith
Speaker 1: in en Connie. Give me something quick there. Oh hey,
Speaker 1: I don't know what they're gonna do. Maybe they're going
Speaker 1: to do I don't know, because it's like I saw
Speaker 1: that brace too, and I know you were talking about
Speaker 1: it on the podcast and that that looks horrendous just
Speaker 1: to to to see it in person like that or
Speaker 1: just seeing a picture of it. But you don't even
Speaker 1: know if he's going to play next year, so you
Speaker 1: kind of have to plan and maybe draft a prospect
Speaker 1: and bring somebody else in. Maybe Joe Flacco is there. Maybe.
Speaker 1: I mean, I know, I know you've mentioned Nick Fole
Speaker 1: so many times, but that's the same division as the Eagles.
Speaker 1: I I can't imagine that that would end up happening. Alright,
Speaker 1: Antonio Brown has not closed the door on a return
Speaker 1: to the Steelers that it costs also, according uh to
Speaker 1: rap Sheet mark, you want him out of the division, right,
Speaker 1: get him out of here? Sure? I mean, it's the
Speaker 1: second year in a row that the Steelers have laced
Speaker 1: us with an offseason storyline based around a star player
Speaker 1: that's going to have four to five articles written, and
Speaker 1: we're like, there really is a time that we can
Speaker 1: just find out what will happen here? Why not? Why
Speaker 1: do we need to mix up with this until we
Speaker 1: just know it's gonna happen at some point Cam Newton.
Speaker 1: Cam Newton undergoes shoulder surgery. Uh, maybe not as serious
Speaker 1: as was initially feared. Uh do we have any updates
Speaker 1: Cam Newton? Are they gonna be able to start the
Speaker 1: season with their franchise passer? They say they'll he'll be
Speaker 1: ready for O t s. But these offseason timetables are
Speaker 1: always overly optimistic, including the one that Cam Newton had
Speaker 1: just two years ago for a similar surgery. But this
Speaker 1: doesn't seem like an Andrew Luck situation, which it doesn't.
Speaker 1: But it's a human body, you know, I do actually
Speaker 1: will be bodies. It's a human body, and he will
Speaker 1: be Okay. Nick Folks signs with the Arizona hot Shots
Speaker 1: of It's happening, It's coming. Connie, what if somebody offered
Speaker 1: you half your current salaries, so something in the seventh
Speaker 1: figure range to um jump no, no summer of Connie
Speaker 1: to jump right into lead anchor coverage of the A
Speaker 1: A F. Would you take the gig? This job now?
Speaker 1: You can keep this job and just but I don't
Speaker 1: get the summer of you lose the summer Connie. Think
Speaker 1: about it, Well, either you're not materialistic or you don't
Speaker 1: need the money. I would love the money. The money
Speaker 1: would be great, but I like the summer of Ganza
Speaker 1: hosts two podcasts a week. How about that the money
Speaker 1: might not And um, finally, Greg, I know you are
Speaker 1: plugged in on this. Please give us an update on
Speaker 1: the health of Pat Patriot, who was senselessly cut down
Speaker 1: in his prime by Jets star nay legend Jamal Adams,
Speaker 1: who tackled him from behind, leading to reports that Pat
Speaker 1: Patriot the mascot was hospitalized, which was clearly floated by
Speaker 1: the Patriots to make it a more serious minded story
Speaker 1: as they are wont to do. Uh. Turned out he
Speaker 1: just got checked out. But his neck hurts and his
Speaker 1: back hooits. Oh and he's so I hope he's okay.
Speaker 1: Any updates on Pat Patriot, I mean no, no update
Speaker 1: on that, but he's in better shape than the Pro
Speaker 1: Bowl Trophy that Jason took a part. That was one
Speaker 1: of the defining moments so two thousand and eighteen season
Speaker 1: and one of the things that has made me most
Speaker 1: happy in this calendar year. It was an amazing It
Speaker 1: was such a perfect bow on what was an s
Speaker 1: sandwich of a year for Witten. So you don't, I don't.
Speaker 1: I'm not happy that it happened to him, but it
Speaker 1: is kind of perfect trophy part you can be happy for.
Speaker 1: That was just a funny moment. The fact that he
Speaker 1: didn't know like what team Ricky Brown was on a
Speaker 1: little it's on his helmet, he knows logo was on
Speaker 1: his helmet. Poor When don't you feel bad room because
Speaker 1: he just clearly gets a little scrambled. And what Greg's
Speaker 1: referring to is Ebrahm catches a touchdown of the Pro Bowl, which,
Speaker 1: by the way, did anybody watch again? I watched about
Speaker 1: half of it. I was glued to it. Yeah, it
Speaker 1: didn't seem like anybody was really running. I would say
Speaker 1: the first NFL game I've seen where the line play
Speaker 1: between like eight or nine ten beefy men basically reminded
Speaker 1: me of when you're like in high school trying in
Speaker 1: between classes just to get from one class to the next,
Speaker 1: slowly dodging people. No major time are we allowed to talk?
Speaker 1: That's probably tied. Time to make this game go away? Mark?
Speaker 1: Is it okay? Mark Brady shadow league figure? Can we
Speaker 1: say that it's okay to make the Pro Bowl go
Speaker 1: away forever? I I think that we should keep the
Speaker 1: I think the Pro Bowl is great. I love the
Speaker 1: skills competition. I love like the obstacle tours, I love
Speaker 1: like dodgeball. The game is like like von Miller fire.
Speaker 1: They used him as a quarterback and his skills challenge
Speaker 1: that I enjoyed. I would like to see more defensive
Speaker 1: linemen playing quarterback in situation. So Witten, Yeah, Patrick Mahomes
Speaker 1: threw a touchdown to uh Eric Ebron and and Witten said,
Speaker 1: you know that was a connection that worked all year.
Speaker 1: It's been a guy all year. This isn't a position
Speaker 1: I usually take. But isn't this one of those things
Speaker 1: where we just say, hey, it's meant for twelve year olds,
Speaker 1: not adults, and maybe we can just look the other
Speaker 1: one million people still watched it. Let's do that. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's for twelve year olds. I don't think I realized
Speaker 1: there are movies that aren't meant for me and people
Speaker 1: watched them. That's what's happening in news. In fact, that's
Speaker 1: the end of odds and ends hit it. Hey, everybody
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Speaker 1: same every time. I don't know. I think you guys
Speaker 1: might be changing it. That would be if we changed
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Speaker 1: in the news. All right. Now it's time to talk
Speaker 1: about uh subplots of people aren't talking about. We call
Speaker 1: this seg what you people don't realize, And this is
Speaker 1: where we tried to be um as humanly unlikable as
Speaker 1: possible in getting across a football point that perhaps others
Speaker 1: haven't spoke of. That's just a normal segment for me.
Speaker 1: That is true, Greg, So why don't you get us
Speaker 1: going and let the master uh teach the rest of us.
Speaker 1: What you clowns haven't thought about when looking at this
Speaker 1: game is that Jared Goff has not faced a defense
Speaker 1: that gets multiple for quite a while, that he hasn't
Speaker 1: had to solve the types of problems that the Patriots
Speaker 1: defense is going to present to him on Super Bowl
Speaker 1: Sunday for quite a while, and the last few times
Speaker 1: that he did against Detroit, who really did a nice
Speaker 1: job mixing up things, certainly Chicago, where New England doesn't
Speaker 1: have the same personnel, but also Philadelphia who did some
Speaker 1: similar aspects with their defense in terms of movement before
Speaker 1: the snap and the way they were blitzing. This is
Speaker 1: a very creative, crazy Patriots defense up front where you
Speaker 1: don't know where the pass rush is gonna come from.
Speaker 1: Dallas didn't do that at all, and Goff didn't have
Speaker 1: to do much in that game period. He did did
Speaker 1: it well what he had to do, and I was
Speaker 1: surprised when I look back at New Orleans was a
Speaker 1: very basic past defense where you pretty much knew what
Speaker 1: they were gonna do snap after. I think you guys
Speaker 1: look at the Patriots defense like this is somehow going
Speaker 1: to be an easier test to New Orleans. But Bill
Speaker 1: Belichick with a week off, forget about it, you clowns,
Speaker 1: didn't understand good idea by the Saints to not employ
Speaker 1: any multiple elements to their defense in the most critical
Speaker 1: franchise history and years. Yeah, I mean to the to
Speaker 1: that point. I mean, it's not like other teams haven't
Speaker 1: tried that. I just feel like in these playoffs, this
Speaker 1: last little run that Goff has had where he's played
Speaker 1: well San Francisco, Arizona, Dallas, and to a lesser extent,
Speaker 1: New Orleans, which did a good job against him overall,
Speaker 1: but it was Basically they lined up and you knew
Speaker 1: what they were doing. They didn't present as many things
Speaker 1: that Goff had to solve before and after the snap
Speaker 1: that the Patriots will. And I think if that's an area,
Speaker 1: there's an area of the Patriots want to attack, that's it.
Speaker 1: Golf Golf's brain. Golf's brain. They're attacking his brain. I mean,
Speaker 1: he's a twenty four year old. Hasn't played that to
Speaker 1: pare years ago, to not know that the sun rose
Speaker 1: in the east, so ample ground to work with here. Um, okay,
Speaker 1: what you people do not realize look on your face,
Speaker 1: you know what. I'm channeling my mom because she calls
Speaker 1: you people all the time. Well, you people don't realize
Speaker 1: is James Devlin is the most important running back in
Speaker 1: this game. He's the most back in this game. Oh oh,
Speaker 1: what you don't think are important? Look at look at
Speaker 1: what you people are thinking. Right, So judge right now.
Speaker 1: It's not about Sony Michelle or James White or Todd Gurley.
Speaker 1: All right, it's not about C. J. Anderson. It's about
Speaker 1: James Devlin because without him, the Patriots do not run
Speaker 1: the ball anywhere near is effective that they've been doing
Speaker 1: the last four games, they're averaging over a hundred and
Speaker 1: eighty rushing yards per game, and that is because of
Speaker 1: James Devlin. Devlin's amazing ability to block two open running
Speaker 1: holes for whoever's on the field with him, for mostly
Speaker 1: Sony Michelle. And look, you might be thinking, okay, but
Speaker 1: teams know that they are going to run the ball
Speaker 1: when Sony Michelle and James Devlon are on the field together.
Speaker 1: It doesn't even matter. They still can run the ball.
Speaker 1: They're still effective running the ball when that happens. Look,
Speaker 1: the Patriots they kept the ball away from the Chiefs
Speaker 1: for twenty three minutes, longer than than the Chiefs had
Speaker 1: the ball. Look, that is all they had to do
Speaker 1: to keep Patrick Mahomes off the field was run the
Speaker 1: ball effectively. And that's exactly what they're going to do
Speaker 1: in this game too. It's you know, it's cute, Colleen
Speaker 1: that you think you've figured out why the Patriots offense
Speaker 1: works so well on the ground. But what you don't realize.
Speaker 1: Tell me, tell me what don't I realize? Dan, You people,
Speaker 1: but specifically Colleen, don't realize that it is reductive to
Speaker 1: just say James Devlin is the guy, because what you
Speaker 1: don't realize is that this offensive line. Do you understand
Speaker 1: how absurd it is the biggest miracle of the Patriots,
Speaker 1: not the forties thousand year old quarterback or the mean
Speaker 1: old grump wizard coach or any of the other greatness
Speaker 1: around the Patriots in this dynasty. Did you know that
Speaker 1: this offensive line? No, you don't know. I know you
Speaker 1: don't you realize that their their cap hit is less
Speaker 1: than fifteen million dollars the entire line. That's absurd. That's
Speaker 1: that's that's insane that they are this good and it's
Speaker 1: a collection of mid and late round picks and and
Speaker 1: you know, you know who gets a lot of love
Speaker 1: for the offense. We hear that all the time. Hall
Speaker 1: of Fame. And that's great, that's really great coming back
Speaker 1: next year, that's great that Dante will continue to coach forever.
Speaker 1: But that is the miracle of this team that they collected.
Speaker 1: Uh Trent Brown is a former seventh round pick, Joe
Speaker 1: Is a Tuny or Thuny is third round pick, Shack
Speaker 1: Mason a fourth round pick, Marcus Cannon a fifth round pick.
Speaker 1: They have a cap charge that is equal to Russell
Speaker 1: o'kun period, and that is the secret that they've been
Speaker 1: able to They've been able to bury, uh, put all
Speaker 1: this money elsewhere on this team. It's still have a
Speaker 1: top flight offensive line. But you people don't realize is
Speaker 1: this game is one in there. You guys don't know
Speaker 1: that I do. But now I'm teaching that you people
Speaker 1: don't have our research notes. James Devlin is an extension
Speaker 1: of that. That was great. You guys have been dancing
Speaker 1: all around this. But what Colleen especially doesn't know, and
Speaker 1: the what and what the rest of you naive little
Speaker 1: jack Keenes don't understand. Col doesn't know anything. Why is
Speaker 1: this all of a sudden an attack on me? You people.
Speaker 1: I'm done with you people. Welcome back. What you clowns,
Speaker 1: what you naive little don't realize is the Patriots have
Speaker 1: a tell if this was poker, they have a dead giveaway.
Speaker 1: Every time Sony Michelle is on the field, they run
Speaker 1: the ball. He played thirty four snaps in the last
Speaker 1: game and ran the ball twenty nine times. This is
Speaker 1: a giveaway. And just because the last two defenses weren't
Speaker 1: good enough to take advantage of it. Wade Phillips, it's
Speaker 1: one of the best defensive coordinators at all the time.
Speaker 1: This team is going to prepare aired. They already know
Speaker 1: they're gearing up for the run. The Rams are gonna
Speaker 1: stuff this running. I love what's coming on. I mean,
Speaker 1: I had no idea. I didn't realize that, but I
Speaker 1: feel enriched having known that now the Patriots will be
Speaker 1: one dimensional and easily combusted on. There's no there's no
Speaker 1: other group like Michael Brocker's Dominican Sue and Aaron Donald
Speaker 1: though that group that is the best beefy group in
Speaker 1: the league. And what you people don't realize, they're playing
Speaker 1: a little differently in the in the playoffs because in
Speaker 1: Dominican Sue and Donald aren't trying to make as make
Speaker 1: as many big plays. They're staying in their lane and
Speaker 1: stop in the run. Did you realize that that's um mark,
Speaker 1: you little nerds five deep on a football opinion show.
Speaker 1: I'm not going to even go there because all these
Speaker 1: topics are so weather worn at this point, so much
Speaker 1: erosion around this little rock formation of your little football opinions,
Speaker 1: you high faluting nerds. I want to talk about the
Speaker 1: city that we're in, Atlanta, that we've only been here
Speaker 1: for a couple of days. Where am I going to
Speaker 1: eat dinner? Where am I going to drink beers? Where
Speaker 1: is my materialism going to be shown in high ribbons
Speaker 1: all over the sky as I spend the company's money
Speaker 1: left and right. No, that just miles from here. In
Speaker 1: nineteen sixty nine, Samuel Jackson, the renowned actor, held the
Speaker 1: father of Martin Luther King. Samuel L. Jackson, the first
Speaker 1: person not to use the initial ever. Samuel L. Jackson
Speaker 1: held the father of Martin Luther King hostage at more
Speaker 1: House College as a student because he wanted a better curriculum.
Speaker 1: And then he was kicked out of the school for
Speaker 1: two years because they held a bunch of people hostage
Speaker 1: in this building for hours on end. And then two
Speaker 1: years later they let him come back and finish his
Speaker 1: college education. All's fair there, but then also just a
Speaker 1: couple more miles from here, way back in the day,
Speaker 1: a sports nugget, Babe Ruth hit a home run in
Speaker 1: a place called Constelon Park, Old Pons, which now is
Speaker 1: inhabited by a Whole Foods. Where there is now a
Speaker 1: whole food you can go buy your expensive dishes. Babe
Speaker 1: Ruth once hit a home run. I knew that none
Speaker 1: of you were going to come up with that because
Speaker 1: I was going to go offensive line too, and I
Speaker 1: was not. I had nothing left offensive line. I had
Speaker 1: no idea. What you don't realize as a baseball naive, Hey,
Speaker 1: I who worked at Baseball Weekly? It wasn't you. West
Speaker 1: finished his career with the Braves, the Boston Braves. Well
Speaker 1: do you know the name? He was? The team he
Speaker 1: faced when he was here in Atlanta hitting a home run?
Speaker 1: What you people don't realize? What what you little clowns
Speaker 1: don't realize that that was the home of the Atlanta Crackers. Really, yeah,
Speaker 1: it's problematic. I don't know if it referred might have
Speaker 1: referred to uh in edible product, a snack. Probably it was.
Speaker 1: It was a tough It was a tough you know
Speaker 1: a couple of hundred years there for America. Yep, you
Speaker 1: people don't You don't realize is that Greg has a
Speaker 1: deep well of knowledge of American history. Well, there you go.
Speaker 1: That was the segment was fine. It was good, we
Speaker 1: had fun, solid. Sorry, I would have gotten pro ramsy
Speaker 1: mind if I knew it was all coming, if I
Speaker 1: thought we were maybe going we were all sort of
Speaker 1: I would say, what would be a good challenge for you,
Speaker 1: Greg the rest of the week is just to only
Speaker 1: talk about the Rams if you want to really stretch
Speaker 1: your legs a little, right, That's what I'm writing about.
Speaker 1: I didn't want to cover the Patriots, you know, give
Speaker 1: a little. Donte Fowler love the bell hop at the hotel,
Speaker 1: broke down the game for me. He had a Caribbean accident,
Speaker 1: came into my room, put down my food, and said,
Speaker 1: I'm a big Falcon fans. Patriots are in trouble. This
Speaker 1: game is played indoors, not in their home field where
Speaker 1: they beat up on everyone. He thinks that the home
Speaker 1: field is is a big factor here and that the
Speaker 1: Rams are gonna win. Now what we're gonna make I
Speaker 1: like where he's coming from as well. Um, we are
Speaker 1: going to save our predictions for our Thursday night show.
Speaker 1: That will be the proper Super Bowl preview episode in
Speaker 1: and with a twist because it will be yes at
Speaker 1: City Winery here in Atlanta, a live show. We're really
Speaker 1: excited uh to connect with the fans here state side. Uh.
Speaker 1: And then that show will go up probably Erica, what
Speaker 1: like late late Thursday, early Friday, something like that. So
Speaker 1: look for that. That will be the next podcast you
Speaker 1: get and again super Bowl Now Bowl, super Bowl Today
Speaker 1: is uh. You can catch us on NFL dot com
Speaker 1: UH twelve Eastern the next three days Wednesday through Friday,
Speaker 1: UH and then of course Sunday night are super Bowl
Speaker 1: super Bowl Recap episode. I think the sixth that we've
Speaker 1: done together is a show. So that's always fun as well.
Speaker 1: And this is it? Do you have breaking news? But
Speaker 1: but you people don't realize is that this podcast is
Speaker 1: almost done? Is that what you're saying I had said
Speaker 1: the last I said in the last that could mean
Speaker 1: a lot of things. All right, final thoughts Colleen and
Speaker 1: you you you came back. You've once again proved that
Speaker 1: you're not only intelligent and football savvy, but you're a
Speaker 1: charmer and that takes you a long way in life.
Speaker 1: What what what are you saying that it's just on
Speaker 1: charm that I've built my career. I mean I said
Speaker 1: two things directly before that. That's all I heard, though, Dan,
Speaker 1: great to be back. You're gonna be with us for
Speaker 1: the super Bowl now? Yeah? Super Bowl Today, super Bowl Today? Yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna hang out tomorrow. What you they're gonna rename
Speaker 1: it too? Super Bowl Wow? Wednesday through Friday, um Erica,
Speaker 1: any final thoughts about Greg's attack of you earlier in
Speaker 1: the show. Thumbs down, the thumbs down, it's all It's
Speaker 1: all love and pound in her fist. That would be
Speaker 1: Ricky against Greg, scrappy. We can brutally take each other
Speaker 1: down with words because we know we mean none of it.
Speaker 1: Waiting way to damp up the drama for the show. Greg. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and there apparently there's some football uprights downstairs. West and
Speaker 1: I were kicking around the idea of kicking around, let's
Speaker 1: see who could kick the longest field goal. And I'm
Speaker 1: going to take down West because, uh cancer, it really
Speaker 1: took a pounding to his musculature and I think that's
Speaker 1: gonna allow me to defeat him in a field goal.
Speaker 1: Un and you're wearing sneakers and I don't know what
Speaker 1: well have to be today. At some point this week,
Speaker 1: we're going to get out on the old football field
Speaker 1: and Mark, you'll join us. You're gonna want to turn
Speaker 1: on your doctor Rainmaker for this. I want to see it.
Speaker 1: I'm not even gonna participate. Like if it was a
Speaker 1: wrestling match, I would take my chances against West, but
Speaker 1: kicking the ball in no way. All right, Well there
Speaker 1: you go. I love being hey. Hashtag bet against us, Yeah,
Speaker 1: bet against me, Greg, I'm not with you. This is
Speaker 1: Dan Hanses signing off for Quiet Storm, The mail Man,
Speaker 1: County Box, The Old Boss, Ricky Hollywood sitting Criss Cross
Speaker 1: episode till Thursday night at City Winery