Speaker 1: Be Around the NFL Podcast, Go Hawks go to another
Speaker 1: edition to Be Around the NFL Podcast, presented by Sirius XM.
Speaker 1: My name is Dan Hansis. I'm joined in the room
Speaker 1: filled with heroes, Mark Sessler, Chris Westling, and Greg Rosenthal.
Speaker 1: What is up? Boys? He d go Hawks? We bring
Speaker 1: that back the Russell Wills. That's Russell Wilson ending every
Speaker 1: interview he's ever given. Go Hawks. Just there should never
Speaker 1: be a reference to Russell Wilson or the Seahawks without
Speaker 1: that voice coming in. Go Hawks. That's a drop that
Speaker 1: the show needs. Good Man date, It's not a money
Speaker 1: intro this show needs, ever again, Ricky behind the glass,
Speaker 1: you're the gatekeeper on the money drops, right, so you
Speaker 1: choose ultimately, what what get? What compelled you to dial
Speaker 1: that up? Yeah? We are running low? All right, let's
Speaker 1: put it out there crying for help at Erica tam
Speaker 1: Pose or that Rickie Hollywood. I cat Ricky Hollywood. Okay,
Speaker 1: and Ricka Tampose is my burner if you want to
Speaker 1: hit that one up to. Oh now they switching what
Speaker 1: it's getting confusing? Has ever taken the person using the
Speaker 1: hashtag money tags? Right? Money tags? Sure? Okay? I mean,
Speaker 1: the Ricky Hollywood account does not follow all four of
Speaker 1: us on Twitter by the way, maybe you three, but
Speaker 1: not me. So I mean I'm not even ben followed
Speaker 1: by your non burners. Rookie Hollywood unless I'm crazy? Is
Speaker 1: uh owned by a man named Ricardo Mancini. It might be, yeah,
Speaker 1: fig Ricardo Mancini is gonna get some follows off of that. Yeah,
Speaker 1: he appears to be a Russian bot. No, it's Ricky
Speaker 1: dot Hollywood on Instagram and then tamposey NFL on Twitter.
Speaker 1: By the way, you've come from a prominent New England family,
Speaker 1: you should be able to get rid of the Italian fellow. Oh,
Speaker 1: he's on the way outdoor. Welcome to the show. It's
Speaker 1: a it's another week training camp and all swinging across
Speaker 1: the NFL A lot to get into. Um. In fact,
Speaker 1: you know, we like to think of different ways to
Speaker 1: hit storylines around the league of this time of year.
Speaker 1: So uh uh, you know what's hot? What's like a
Speaker 1: really spicy hot situation going on in the league. What's
Speaker 1: you know, a little on the cooler side, how about
Speaker 1: this training camp in Scoville? Units want to explain that
Speaker 1: lest give it a little more detail. This is how
Speaker 1: you measure spiciness, especially in peppers, is by a Scoville unit.
Speaker 1: So for example, a hall openio might be about a
Speaker 1: thousand on the Scoville scale, a ghost pepper about a million.
Speaker 1: You don't want to mess with a ghost pepper? Have
Speaker 1: you in your past? No? I I remember being young,
Speaker 1: like in my early twenties, and somebody being a bar
Speaker 1: with these little tiny peppers and they would always dare
Speaker 1: you to eat them, and I did try one. I
Speaker 1: don't know what kind it was, but I remember thinking
Speaker 1: it was the dumbest thing I ever did, and why
Speaker 1: was I trying to be mancho and eat a pepper?
Speaker 1: I feel like the like demand verse food shows, diners,
Speaker 1: drive ins, and die shows. Ghost peppers are now put
Speaker 1: into all sorts of dishes and then the man goes
Speaker 1: against ghost pepper and often loses. One of those. The
Speaker 1: Internet things that kind of annoys me that I'm into
Speaker 1: is if because YouTube is as I'm sure it is
Speaker 1: with you, Mark as well as a family man and
Speaker 1: Greg perhaps you as well. The kids love watching YouTube,
Speaker 1: and so you'll you'll just come across things that you
Speaker 1: didn't expect you would. What's huge on YouTube is people
Speaker 1: eating hot stuff and then and then putting it on camera,
Speaker 1: and it's oddly a compelling watch for me. I watch
Speaker 1: a lot of these, like how hot the wing gets?
Speaker 1: Can you go to the top level ghost Pepper Wing.
Speaker 1: It's it's kind of a strange thing to be into,
Speaker 1: but I find myself interested by that real solid worm.
Speaker 1: It's interesting. When Man Versus Food was on, I enjoyed
Speaker 1: all of the travel and seeing these cities and the food.
Speaker 1: And as soon as they did like the hot pepper challenges,
Speaker 1: I was like, all right, turning this a lot interesting.
Speaker 1: There we go, Well, um, you know what, we all
Speaker 1: live on the marble together. It though we're not so different,
Speaker 1: but some ways we're not partly inspired. You know this
Speaker 1: segment by spice Rack, a longtime friend of the show
Speaker 1: for long time listeners moving to Los Angeles recently, and
Speaker 1: we all what we all now met him in person.
Speaker 1: I mean West had already done that previously. I have
Speaker 1: yet too, because I was party at handsas manner that
Speaker 1: I left before spice Rack showed up. Maybe that was
Speaker 1: choreographed on his partner. The Shield Reflection ceremony was held
Speaker 1: um for everyone on the softball team and adjacent, and
Speaker 1: it was a great time. Spice Rack showed up through
Speaker 1: some corn. It's unfortunate, Greg, we have It's only fair
Speaker 1: we bring it up that we were defeated. Um, you
Speaker 1: and I buy spice Rack in West. Although we beat
Speaker 1: him a couple of times before. I think we played
Speaker 1: a total a lot of games. You know. It was
Speaker 1: it was fun. We had a good time throwing corn,
Speaker 1: and spice Rack is uh in an interesting place in
Speaker 1: his life, so it's good to see him during this
Speaker 1: transition period for him. We played corn deep into the night.
Speaker 1: It reminded me of my type days and probably to
Speaker 1: the consternation of your neighbors, I didn't hear anything, so
Speaker 1: I'm in that since you know the family man, things
Speaker 1: are pretty buttoned up at home. I don't have a
Speaker 1: lot of parties, so I think you get that free
Speaker 1: pass for one night a year, as long as it's
Speaker 1: not something that comes up. You did have the the
Speaker 1: instance at your house where video captured someone climbing over
Speaker 1: your front fence to try to break in. I would
Speaker 1: have loved to see someone try to climb the fence
Speaker 1: that night and try to break in and encounter like
Speaker 1: a bunch of you riled up porn hole players and
Speaker 1: spice racket knocking them out with a one two punch. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it would not go well for that individual, all right.
Speaker 1: So yes, going back to the Seville units. Yeah, talk
Speaker 1: about the heat and the spice around training camps in
Speaker 1: the NFL. And and everyone should have their Scullville unit
Speaker 1: charts in front of them because whatever your hot take is, uh,
Speaker 1: you need to let us know where it where it
Speaker 1: sits on the meter. Fair enough enough before that, here's
Speaker 1: what we're hearing presented by Serious XM. Let's do some news, Ricky.
Speaker 1: Everybody right now has dreams, don't they, guys. I sid
Speaker 1: it to the rookies, all right, everybody in the NFL.
Speaker 1: I have a dream of making it in the NFL.
Speaker 1: I got a dream of winning a Super Bowl. I
Speaker 1: gotta dream of being in a Pro Bowl. I'm really
Speaker 1: not into dream anymore. Okay, I'm in nightmares. You guys
Speaker 1: with me on night. You gotta end somebody's dream. You
Speaker 1: gotta take their job, you gotta take their heart, are
Speaker 1: you guys? You guys clear about this NFL. Now, we're
Speaker 1: not trying to go to the Peach Bowl. We're not
Speaker 1: trying to go to the Gator Bowl or the Blue
Speaker 1: Bonnet Bowl. We're trying to go to the super Bowl, Okay,
Speaker 1: and to do that you gotta really try to end
Speaker 1: somebody's dreams. Are you clearing that? Ferreal? Okay? I mean
Speaker 1: that now? So get into that Raiders coach John Gruden.
Speaker 1: That was posted by the Hard Knocks HBO Films account
Speaker 1: West West you had a rolic in good night at
Speaker 1: my house and um, at some point I remember you
Speaker 1: saying something uh negative or critical about Jon Gruden and
Speaker 1: the upcoming Hard Knocks season. So here's your platform. Well
Speaker 1: what you just heard? Did you like that? Because I
Speaker 1: think it's ridiculous and silly, and he plays the same
Speaker 1: character he played on Monday Night Football for ten years.
Speaker 1: I've just seen it all. I don't need to see
Speaker 1: it anymore. I loved it. I can't wait. Well, I
Speaker 1: think it's fine. Perfect. The statement is contradictory because he
Speaker 1: doesn't want to talk about people's dreams to make the
Speaker 1: Super Bowl, but he finishes his comment by saying, we
Speaker 1: want to make the Super Bowl. Is that I just
Speaker 1: ain't come up. I do worry a little because, like
Speaker 1: Bugger McFarland tweeted about it or some other form of
Speaker 1: buckets like they've heard those speeches before, of course, so
Speaker 1: you're just worry that he's just bringing back these old
Speaker 1: speeches and these are the you know, the types of
Speaker 1: motivational tactics that's helped him have bet ten games under
Speaker 1: over his last ten seasons. By the way, the Blue
Speaker 1: Bonnet Bowl has not been played since nineteen. It was
Speaker 1: a good call though, So it's funny. If you're looking
Speaker 1: for like the funniest name, you either go with that
Speaker 1: or the weed whacker. Ball's still making butter. All right,
Speaker 1: let's get to the news bad news. The Cincinnati Bengal
Speaker 1: was once again unfortunately, star receiver A. J. Green has
Speaker 1: another significant foot injury. Last year, it was an ankle um.
Speaker 1: He suffered a sprained ankle during Bengals practice in Dayton,
Speaker 1: Ohio on Saturday. And we'll get to that in a moment.
Speaker 1: Why that matters. Uh, it is an injury that he's
Speaker 1: not going to get surgery for, at least for now.
Speaker 1: But the best case scenario for return is believed to
Speaker 1: be seven to eight weeks, which pushes you right up
Speaker 1: against week one. And let's face it, especially when you're
Speaker 1: do with an ankle injury and a player that involved
Speaker 1: you know, speed and cutting ability and quickness, it's probably
Speaker 1: not an injury you want to rush back from either.
Speaker 1: So there's certainly a chance that Green's absence extends into
Speaker 1: the regular season. Terrible break for Cincinnati, which just West,
Speaker 1: cannot seem to get out of its own way in
Speaker 1: the last few weeks, offensive line issues with the injury
Speaker 1: to the first round pick, and now A J. Green,
Speaker 1: the most important player is down again. They have He's
Speaker 1: missed thirteen games in his career, and the Bengals have
Speaker 1: won those games compared to the six that they have
Speaker 1: won with him in the lineup since he entered the league.
Speaker 1: I think when you take into account his leg injuries
Speaker 1: and foot injuries of the last few years, He's turning
Speaker 1: thirty one at the end of this month, and I
Speaker 1: don't I don't know if he's the same player. I
Speaker 1: don't want to say that like the decline has set in,
Speaker 1: but next gen's that show his separation per target last
Speaker 1: year was significantly down from his previous two years. We
Speaker 1: talked about this the Superstar Club last month, that you
Speaker 1: cut if you look at what he's done and what's
Speaker 1: happened since and even the season when he was healthy
Speaker 1: in which wasn't quite massive production that you would expect
Speaker 1: from an AJ Green. You can make that case and
Speaker 1: and the body perhaps is starting to show signs of decline.
Speaker 1: I'm fascinated by this because I think there could be
Speaker 1: a showdown between what the Bengals wanting a Green wance.
Speaker 1: He's entering the final year of his contract. And immediately
Speaker 1: you saw the national reporters Adam after and then our
Speaker 1: Tom Pellicero and Ian rapport throughout seven to eight weeks
Speaker 1: at best, at the exact same time, Bengals dot Com
Speaker 1: was putting out four weeks. And I don't you know,
Speaker 1: you never you don't know how people are getting these information.
Speaker 1: But if I'm a J. Green, I'd be very cautious
Speaker 1: about stepping back on the field till I'm a hundred
Speaker 1: percent healthy. When the Bengals seem very unlikely to pay
Speaker 1: him that money, and looking even further ahead, what a trade, uh,
Speaker 1: you know, deadline candidate he is. I mean, if he's
Speaker 1: in the I don't think they're gonna pay him a
Speaker 1: huge salary if they happen to start, you know two
Speaker 1: and four something I can absolutely see them trade in
Speaker 1: a J. Green. I mean it's Tyler Bordle also, who
Speaker 1: was just extended. The numbers show he's a much He's
Speaker 1: been much more productive with a J. Green on the field,
Speaker 1: which makes some sense. I mean he I but some
Speaker 1: of those numbers were because Tyler board was playing with
Speaker 1: the backup quarterback because Andy Dalton got injured. So there's
Speaker 1: that too. I just the story of last year's Bengals
Speaker 1: was they were a quality team until all the injuries
Speaker 1: set in. And you're already there and now he is
Speaker 1: the Bengal side of this story that is, you know,
Speaker 1: only the Bengals type situation that they were practicing at
Speaker 1: Welcome Stadium at the University of Dayton. It's it's tied
Speaker 1: into the NFL one celebration in some way. And there
Speaker 1: was a lot of talk about how terrible the turf was.
Speaker 1: Here's what Tyler Boyd had to say. Yeah, the turf
Speaker 1: was terrible. Uh, the turf was terrible. I couldn't run
Speaker 1: any routes out there. I'm falling all over the ground.
Speaker 1: It was bad. It was rocks, pebbles out there. Man.
Speaker 1: It was somewhere we shouldn't have been I'm not trying
Speaker 1: to say any excuses, but it is what it is.
Speaker 1: And West is a former long suffering Bengals fund who
Speaker 1: still is close to a lot of people who do
Speaker 1: love the Bengals. This is exactly the type of stuff
Speaker 1: where you just kind of shake your head. I don't
Speaker 1: know enough about it to put the blame on the
Speaker 1: Bengals for this. Like you said, that's part of the anniversary.
Speaker 1: And I think a team like the Bengals has to
Speaker 1: sell regionally more than other bigger teams. I mean that's
Speaker 1: just the first things. First, it has to be a
Speaker 1: safe playing service. But are any different things though? There's
Speaker 1: the unsafe plane service, which they shouldn't be on, and
Speaker 1: and that's one issue. But if you watch the injury,
Speaker 1: he his feet get tangled. You know, I forget the name,
Speaker 1: who's the who's the Twitter doctor who always you know,
Speaker 1: Dr Chow. I mean, if you watch the injury, it's
Speaker 1: two guys feet getting tangled. That has nothing to do
Speaker 1: with the turf. He literally trips over Dre Kirkpatrick, which
Speaker 1: happened on a couple of plays. Just you know, that's
Speaker 1: that's bad luck. So you can blame the Bengals in
Speaker 1: the NFL. They you know, an NFL team shouldn't be
Speaker 1: playing on a bad field, but also doesn't seem to
Speaker 1: have anything to do with this. People just ran with
Speaker 1: it without even like watching it. I mean like he literally, Yeah,
Speaker 1: players played on bad fields for eighty years and everybody
Speaker 1: didn't get a torn a c L every time they
Speaker 1: went out there. I mean, it's just that's how much
Speaker 1: do we want to baby these people? In other bad
Speaker 1: Wide Receiver news didn't that, but I like it. I mean,
Speaker 1: play on a bad field, big deal. It's not a
Speaker 1: guaranteed injury. What are we talking about here? And the
Speaker 1: show in other bad Wide receive her news Golden Tate
Speaker 1: uh his head into the shelf. A giant seem that
Speaker 1: could not possibly deal with more bad news and wider
Speaker 1: super gets it because Tate has been suspended four games
Speaker 1: for violating the league's policy on performance enhancing substances. Um
Speaker 1: Tate is appealing the suspension, so he's trying to get
Speaker 1: it shortened or wiped out. But we'll see how that goes.
Speaker 1: It usually doesn't go well. Um Tate released a statement
Speaker 1: saying that the suspension is the result of a prescription
Speaker 1: for a from a fertility specialist Um. He asserted that
Speaker 1: upon learning the drug contained an ingredient on the league's
Speaker 1: band substance list, he immediately reported the situation himself to
Speaker 1: the NFL prior to knowing he failed a test. UM.
Speaker 1: And we know Sterling Shepherd uh is potentially out with
Speaker 1: that broken thumb. We know Corey Colin Blew is a
Speaker 1: c L. It is not good news for I mean,
Speaker 1: it's good news if you're a fantasy football person and
Speaker 1: you want to draft Evan Ingram, who's who's lining up
Speaker 1: to have a massive season at this point along with
Speaker 1: Sequon Barkley because apparently no one else is going to.
Speaker 1: Still there's that as well, But I mean, do you
Speaker 1: ever hear a player say, oh, you know what I
Speaker 1: did take the band substance end of conversation. It's all
Speaker 1: these eloquent, long statements that come out. And someone killed
Speaker 1: me for believing Taylor Luan. Someone on Twitter was like,
Speaker 1: because he took a lie detector tests like bro Lie
Speaker 1: detector tests are totally unreliable, like Bubba. For me, it
Speaker 1: was more the intention around taking one and showing that
Speaker 1: he did it. But a lot of these guys seem
Speaker 1: to have deep rich back stories on why they're completely
Speaker 1: innocent around any time they get dinged, And I feel
Speaker 1: like the next c BA needs to get a little
Speaker 1: more clear on how to get some of this out
Speaker 1: of the mix. There's too many of these like stories
Speaker 1: where everyone has eight different viewpoints on what what they
Speaker 1: took in league doesn't get in trouble with some of
Speaker 1: the stuff. It's just like, I'm not on the player's side.
Speaker 1: They're necessarily, It's just that it seems like too many
Speaker 1: agents slash players are completely caught off guard by what's
Speaker 1: in their body and whether it registers are not as
Speaker 1: a banned substance. Well, if there's two you know, punishments.
Speaker 1: Number one from the NFL, they get to spend it.
Speaker 1: Number two is PR and here's the guy who might
Speaker 1: want to meet work in media and endorsements and all that,
Speaker 1: and so you fight that on a PR level. That
Speaker 1: doesn't mean some of them don't have legitimate excuses. I'm
Speaker 1: sure some do. It's just like it's impossible to know
Speaker 1: which ones are legitimate. But when you when you read
Speaker 1: that statement, I did wonder if he did self report
Speaker 1: and that was what he failed for, you would think
Speaker 1: that would help him reduce it on appeal, maybe to
Speaker 1: three or something like that. Just see if that, yeah,
Speaker 1: that might help him reduce it. If that's true. Giants
Speaker 1: opened one and seven in each of their last two years.
Speaker 1: Let's do it a third time. Let's I just wonder
Speaker 1: how long how long the line is gonna be under center?
Speaker 1: Teams don't put up with losing, especially from old quarterback
Speaker 1: three weeks. Uh, let us move on. The Lions have
Speaker 1: added to a talented defensive line, Mike Daniels. A surprise
Speaker 1: cut by the Green Bay Packers lock up Daniels with
Speaker 1: a one year, nine point one one million dollar contract,
Speaker 1: almost eight million of that guaranteed. That from rap sheet
Speaker 1: and Mike Garret Folo. Daniels was slated to make about
Speaker 1: eight million for the Packers. So he gets a nice
Speaker 1: little raise, he stays in the division, He gets to
Speaker 1: play the team that cut him twice. Uh so it
Speaker 1: sounds good, uh good good to him. The Packers have
Speaker 1: been trying to trade Daniels to either the Browns, Patriots
Speaker 1: or Chiefs. Couldn't make it happen and mark the Daniels
Speaker 1: was slated to meet with the Browns on Thursday, um
Speaker 1: or he didn't he visited with the Browns on Thursday,
Speaker 1: couldn't get a deal done. He did get a deal
Speaker 1: done in Detroit. They couldn't get Gerald McCoy to stay
Speaker 1: and sign either. But I think, like if you look
Speaker 1: at the Lions, it's it's it's a team that I
Speaker 1: that annoys me largely, you know, years years running for
Speaker 1: lacking any sense of of an identity. But I think
Speaker 1: what they want to do if you look at Ma
Speaker 1: Patricia is run the ball endlessly and stop the run.
Speaker 1: I don't I don't know what else they offer at
Speaker 1: this point, but they've got a stack defensive line. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's pretty versatile. I mean that is an idea. They
Speaker 1: have a good defensive line. I mean if they all
Speaker 1: play well. Mike Daniels, Trey Flowers, Snacks, Harrison a, Sean Robinson,
Speaker 1: Deshaun hand was really good last year. Those are a
Speaker 1: bunch of beefy and versabtle guys who can kind of
Speaker 1: play inside. Now. Some of them are pretty good pass rushers,
Speaker 1: including Flowers and Daniels. So that's something the Lions have. You, right,
Speaker 1: there's not much. If I'm a Lions fan, I'm super
Speaker 1: thrilled about this season. But Daniels, and they paid him
Speaker 1: a lot of money. That's why I didn't sign with
Speaker 1: the Browns or the Patriots, who were interested. He might
Speaker 1: get a raise from what the Packers were paying him.
Speaker 1: He might get nine million dollars. That's a lot for
Speaker 1: a guy who gets cut in August or July. And
Speaker 1: I know you don't get too excited. Marvin Jones is
Speaker 1: a very nice player. Danny A. Mendolas there, now Ricky Um.
Speaker 1: You have Jermaine Curse who didn't it didn't work out
Speaker 1: with the Jets, but now he's not a lot of
Speaker 1: receiving talent there. But Matthew Stafford is still a great quarterback.
Speaker 1: I know he's coming off a down year. He didn't
Speaker 1: name their best wide receiver Ken Okay, sorry, Kennygala. Like
Speaker 1: I think they I think they can move the ball
Speaker 1: through the air, just coming off a bad year. I
Speaker 1: whan they have in the past. I mean, he's like
Speaker 1: Stafford's yardage totals have never been the issue, but it's
Speaker 1: has it translated to anything my They're part of my
Speaker 1: my new theory, which is I think like thirty teams
Speaker 1: could win ten games in the NFL and they would
Speaker 1: still they would be in that there. Maybe maybe those,
Speaker 1: maybe there's maybe twenty eight. I just don't think it's
Speaker 1: that hard to win ten games if you get a
Speaker 1: couple of breaks and they're good enough, they're they're one
Speaker 1: of those teams. You know, they're towards the bottom, but
Speaker 1: they're one of those. If I'm a Packers fan, you
Speaker 1: know you got this is a big season where you
Speaker 1: don't you are? You are? You need to turn this
Speaker 1: thing around? Am I that understanding or excited that they
Speaker 1: just moved on from Mike Daniels? Why are you depleting
Speaker 1: depth at a key part of a key part of
Speaker 1: your defense? Fails risky? When he drew so much interest
Speaker 1: immediately after his release, you don't see that often. The
Speaker 1: Lions made another move this weekend, releasing running back Theo
Speaker 1: Riddick after six season. Rap Sheet reported this on Saturday morning.
Speaker 1: Matt Patricia, by the way, Um Daniels called Patricia genius.
Speaker 1: I just want to throw that out there. He said
Speaker 1: he was the biggest reason he signed there. It's like,
Speaker 1: come on about that money. He was really to be
Speaker 1: quite intell, sure, but he was thinking about Mike pett
Speaker 1: and you know joining you know, he's thinking about joining
Speaker 1: the Browns rather or the Page. It's like I really
Speaker 1: it was Patricia anyway, Um, Riddick was there six years,
Speaker 1: former sixth round pick, so pretty nice career for a
Speaker 1: guy was a late round draft pick. Um. But the
Speaker 1: Lions have some real um depth at running back with
Speaker 1: Carrie on Johnson leading the way, so Riddick will move
Speaker 1: on and hopefully find another home. He was in Denver
Speaker 1: Monday morning visiting the Broncos. This guy, he's sort of
Speaker 1: like the opposite of what Mark Ingram was early in
Speaker 1: the New Orleans career, where it was a tale every
Speaker 1: time he was on the field. The Riddick can't really
Speaker 1: run well, so he's a tell that they're gonna pass
Speaker 1: it every time he's on the field. Yeah. I mean,
Speaker 1: I know are a few weeks away from the fantasy spectacular,
Speaker 1: but if you're having early drafts, I feel like ride
Speaker 1: that carry on Johnson train. I mean this this move.
Speaker 1: I already he seemed quite underrated in drafts for a
Speaker 1: guy who I think is a decent bed to get
Speaker 1: three hundred touch I could see it. Now carry on
Speaker 1: with carry on. I did see some I liked that
Speaker 1: a lot. I did see some fantasy advice, um unfurled
Speaker 1: by on the corner. No, no, it's this is this
Speaker 1: is Ricky Hollywood's corner. She made it clear on Twitter.
Speaker 1: I believe it was this morning that her first overall
Speaker 1: pick will be Danny Amendola, another Lions. Yeah, why not?
Speaker 1: Why not? You know what I miss out on his
Speaker 1: career year of seven hundred yards. Uh, let's talk more business.
Speaker 1: The Seattle Seahawks and Bobby Wagner get a deal done.
Speaker 1: It's good Seahawks fan. No more drama of Earl Thomason
Speaker 1: got so ugly. But Wagner signs three years, fifty four
Speaker 1: million extension, forty two million guarantees. Uh. Twenty nine years old,
Speaker 1: becomes the highest paid inside linebacker at eighteen million a year,
Speaker 1: eclipsing the massively overpaid C. J. Mosley. Well that's what
Speaker 1: you think. I will say that the Jets got killed
Speaker 1: for giving c J. Mosley money that no one else
Speaker 1: approached at that position. Well, now he's not even the
Speaker 1: highest paid player in his position. I know Wagner is
Speaker 1: a better player, but whatever, Brown seven and nine, Well,
Speaker 1: why did you need to go there? Like I'm not?
Speaker 1: I wonder why I did that? Uh? Wagon well, Mosley
Speaker 1: helped Wagner out, who represented himself? Is this the biggest
Speaker 1: contract the guy's ever represent you know, been an agent
Speaker 1: for himself? You know, I was, I was thinking about
Speaker 1: that this morning, Like he he wanted to get paid
Speaker 1: more money than C. J. Mosley. If that's all you
Speaker 1: want and you you have a relationship with your team,
Speaker 1: said give me more than that guy, just a little
Speaker 1: bit more. But then I said it probably wouldn't work
Speaker 1: because in that there's so much details in the contract
Speaker 1: and you know, poison pill type stuff toward a player
Speaker 1: that you wouldn't want to handle yourself. Perhaps he's a
Speaker 1: really smart businessman and all that stuff is avoided, but
Speaker 1: he did he truly not have anyone else going through
Speaker 1: this contract for him. He got his advice from Michael Jordan's.
Speaker 1: He spoke to Michael Jordan's said I wanted to speak
Speaker 1: to a guy who's been a player and at the
Speaker 1: owner level, and he got great and he said, my
Speaker 1: goal was to challenge myself and educate myself. But then
Speaker 1: if you read a little bit further, Bobby Wagner was like,
Speaker 1: I just want to hear what negative stuff they're gonna
Speaker 1: say about me to my agent, and now they got
Speaker 1: to say it to my face. It seems like a
Speaker 1: personal thing to bring into business. But I get it.
Speaker 1: I mean, Michael Jordan's got that from much more successful
Speaker 1: player than a owner. He's been among the least successful owners.
Speaker 1: Could sell sneakers, but that wasn't you know, that was
Speaker 1: his brand? Anyway, I respect Michael's you know, well, I'm
Speaker 1: sure that I okay business wise. Sure, I'm just saying wise,
Speaker 1: but not like running a team. Right, Yeah, Wagner said,
Speaker 1: like he he thinks he's already thinking about post career.
Speaker 1: He wants to own business. He's going to be negotiating
Speaker 1: all sorts of contract, he said, So who would I
Speaker 1: be if I don't have the confidence to do it myself? Hey,
Speaker 1: not to mention, he's like a Hall of Fame level player.
Speaker 1: He has a chance to make the Hall of Fame.
Speaker 1: So that's the ultimate leverage. He's so good that that
Speaker 1: helps you point. Unless he's got a major injury, he's
Speaker 1: going He's got four first team All Pros in the
Speaker 1: last five. He was probably going to the Hall of Fame.
Speaker 1: Did Michael do his David Falk was his agent, right,
Speaker 1: he didn't do it as a player now by any means,
Speaker 1: you know, the shoe brand is doing well. I guess
Speaker 1: my point is, like Bobby Wagner, good on you, like
Speaker 1: you got into the news cycle saying I talked to
Speaker 1: Michael Jordan before I saw him. I do. I have
Speaker 1: a lot of sports owners on speed dial, but like
Speaker 1: Michael Jordan's an owner. But it's like good for you,
Speaker 1: But it's like it's it's kind of saying no, it's
Speaker 1: like a nice flex, like, yeah, I called up Michael
Speaker 1: Jordan's to talk about my contract, But does that really
Speaker 1: didn't really help him? I'm just asking a question. I
Speaker 1: know everybody wants. Oh, great job, Bobby bringing up Michael
Speaker 1: Jordan's to nail this contract. Underrated an analysis by you.
Speaker 1: I think it's a bit more of a flex than
Speaker 1: than we you might let on. Maybe I'm wrong. I'm
Speaker 1: just throwing it out. There's a possibility it maybe wasn't
Speaker 1: a huge help. So you know, I am just sitting
Speaker 1: I think, Um, he's like he's like, hold on, Bobby,
Speaker 1: I'm busy signing Frank Kaminsky to a huge contract. Um,
Speaker 1: every team in the NFL is zero and zero, but
Speaker 1: somebody still got fired. How about that the Dolphins making
Speaker 1: a change in their coaching staff one week into training camp.
Speaker 1: The team announced Monday it relieved offensive Oh yeah, jumping
Speaker 1: in the fish tank and it's hot. It relieved offensive
Speaker 1: line coach Pat Flaherty of his duties and didn't make
Speaker 1: that noise sorry, and promoted analyst Oh this name Dave
Speaker 1: do gig Liamo Googs to o line coach. Rap Sheet
Speaker 1: added that Flaherty struggle to implement the new system, which
Speaker 1: has been an issue sin the spring. So I guess
Speaker 1: there was some uh coach Flora's down in Miami. It
Speaker 1: was on their radar throughout the summer after shaky O
Speaker 1: t a s and mini camps with the new coach,
Speaker 1: and they decided to make a move one week into
Speaker 1: training camp. But this also flowers, the guy that's been
Speaker 1: around the block. I mean, he's been an offensive line
Speaker 1: coach each season since two thousand four Giants, Niners, Jaguars.
Speaker 1: Very surprising, obviously, not an earth chattering development here. It's
Speaker 1: an offensive line coach. Unless you're the old man in
Speaker 1: New England, nobody even knows who you are. But Googs
Speaker 1: was surprising. Googs took Scarnecki's place when Scarnecki has stepped down.
Speaker 1: What I think he get? Did he get a ring?
Speaker 1: I don't know, I know, but the Patriots then immediately
Speaker 1: not bring back Scarnecki. Googs was always under fire when
Speaker 1: he was the Jets a line coach, wasn't he? Yes,
Speaker 1: that's always if you're Flairty here, you're like, hey, you
Speaker 1: expect me to make chicken salad out of chicken spit.
Speaker 1: Look at the offensive lineman he's working with. But then me,
Speaker 1: Touns is good. And name another decent offensive lineman on
Speaker 1: that team they have they have three or four spots
Speaker 1: that are open. Yeah. They specifically said that he was
Speaker 1: struggling to communicate two players in offseason meetings about the
Speaker 1: new so like, like, what does that mean? It means
Speaker 1: like you're training implement I'll divide just you know, just
Speaker 1: like pictures. And he's probably like the same age as Belichick.
Speaker 1: Not a great resume builder though, cannot communicate with players
Speaker 1: about new scheme. He's like become. But Mike McCoy is
Speaker 1: the offensive coordinators. Googs unfortunately or Flowerty, I should say,
Speaker 1: is two offensive line coaches. So anyway, good luck to you,
Speaker 1: h Flaherty and whatever comes next. In other news, more
Speaker 1: people losing their turned off the show. If he's listening,
Speaker 1: I said, I got time now other people losing their jobs.
Speaker 1: Former first round pick Robert kim Dj no longer a
Speaker 1: member of the Arizona Cardinals. The team announced it released
Speaker 1: the defensive lineman on Saturday afternoon. Three seasons, the former
Speaker 1: first round pick UM struggled to stay healthy. Uh struggled
Speaker 1: to um recover from a c L injury. In fact,
Speaker 1: Cliff Kingsbury, the new coach of the Cardinals, very blunt.
Speaker 1: He's one of those coaches West that says nothing, doesn't
Speaker 1: give the beat writers anything. Ken Summers dying over here
Speaker 1: and out of nowhere. Kingsbury says that m DJ was
Speaker 1: quote not in shape. Got a day later and he's gone.
Speaker 1: That was the book on him coming out of the draft,
Speaker 1: that he didn't really care enough about football and that
Speaker 1: was gonna be Anyone who drafted him was taking a
Speaker 1: risk in that way. It's not that he's not a
Speaker 1: smart guy. With he is a smart guy. He's got
Speaker 1: varied interests, but I think most gms want a guy
Speaker 1: whose life sort of revolves around football. Take a look
Speaker 1: at these first round picks of the Steam, Steve climb
Speaker 1: Era kind Bomb two thousand eighteen, Josh Rosen two thousand seventeen,
Speaker 1: Hassan Reddick two thousand sixteen, Kim d J two thousand fifteen,
Speaker 1: d J Humphries two thousand four, Team Day On Buchanan
Speaker 1: who was not resigned two thousand thirteen, Jonathan Cooper who's
Speaker 1: played for about eight teams by now and been released
Speaker 1: by about eight teams, and some extracurricular activities by Steve
Speaker 1: Kim as well mixed in. That's the disaster and that's
Speaker 1: why that's pretty impressed. Kyler Murray can be his best
Speaker 1: first round draft picked by Thanksgiving. Well, that's why if
Speaker 1: you're a player, you see like you would probably have
Speaker 1: a little feeling there's a double stand there here. But
Speaker 1: com DJ's problem was he just didn't play very well.
Speaker 1: It's like that it's a sliding scale for all of
Speaker 1: these things. If he had performed, they gave him a
Speaker 1: lot of snaps when they could, and he really just
Speaker 1: for what wasn't there were because obviously I was getting
Speaker 1: a lot of Team DJ updates throughout his career with
Speaker 1: the Cardinals. He was playing better. But it's kind of
Speaker 1: option in the writing is typically on the wall when
Speaker 1: that happens, or it doesn't know it's it's their third
Speaker 1: coaching staff in three years, right, so to survive. That's
Speaker 1: what's happening in the news. No song, we're not getting
Speaker 1: you guys. You guys want a song? Could be how
Speaker 1: do we we may never talk about him, all right,
Speaker 1: I'll do so. I just assume this is why we're
Speaker 1: started ten minutes late. No game feed Jack, you fell
Speaker 1: out that window, you fell down the draft board. Now
Speaker 1: you're falling right out of the league. What have you done?
Speaker 1: Kind j one? Have you done? We should be at
Speaker 1: the start, but instead you look too deep gone. You
Speaker 1: see my emotional That's what's happening in the news round.
Speaker 1: I was just picturing you draped like very sexually over
Speaker 1: a piano like Michelle Peiper and fabulous Baker. Thank you West.
Speaker 1: We do we get a song when he signs with
Speaker 1: the new team, and he's got to get an out
Speaker 1: of I think his career is a little bit more upbeat.
Speaker 1: As long as this guy is in the league, he's
Speaker 1: getting songs. But I gotta I got a terrible feeling
Speaker 1: this will be the last week here. No, no way,
Speaker 1: our first round pick didn't do anything in his knee issues.
Speaker 1: He might get you know, picked up by somebody who
Speaker 1: want to put it. I don't know. Yeah, I would
Speaker 1: never bet against him, DJ bro I mean it's a
Speaker 1: big it's integral to your career here, you know, as
Speaker 1: the host of the show, So you gotta be rooting
Speaker 1: for him. Worst case he gets he's in a training
Speaker 1: camp next year or something he's gotta want to be,
Speaker 1: he'll get some he get essentially route for almost everyone
Speaker 1: that's not playing in the New England area of the country.
Speaker 1: I hope Keen DJ comes back and get his career
Speaker 1: on track. Would be great for the show, great for
Speaker 1: my songwriting. But there's no promises in the National Football League.
Speaker 1: I'd like to see him up in Foxboro. We like
Speaker 1: people with you know, varied interests, position, flexibility. Does sound
Speaker 1: like a guy that Belichick would get cut. All right,
Speaker 1: let's get to it now. Yes, Scoville units. Everybody's talking
Speaker 1: about Scoville units. You can't go you can't turn a
Speaker 1: corner on the internet and not hear about Scoville units.
Speaker 1: What are the hot stories, what are the spicy stories,
Speaker 1: the spicy scenarios, the spicy takes, the spicy, spicy, Greg Rosenthal,
Speaker 1: you're all about the spice life. Get us going. I'm
Speaker 1: all about the spice life. I don't even know where
Speaker 1: to go with that. Let's start with Kyler Murray Uh
Speaker 1: in his first few days at Arizona Cardinals training camp,
Speaker 1: and it really struck me watching his interview with Warner
Speaker 1: yesterday on Inside Training Camp Live on Sunday, Uh just
Speaker 1: how smart he was, and like, I don't know, if
Speaker 1: I was a Cardinals fan, I'm watching that interview, I
Speaker 1: would be getting very excited that this is this is
Speaker 1: the guy leading our team. But even more exciting was
Speaker 1: the quotes from Larry Fitzgerald about Murray Uh when struck
Speaker 1: me and he said, I've never seen a quarterback coming
Speaker 1: so quickly and be able to command an offense. I mean,
Speaker 1: from day one, he's out there checking the different plays,
Speaker 1: sliding the line, different projection protections, getting us in screens
Speaker 1: when blitzes are coming. His understanding of the offense is crazy,
Speaker 1: and it got me thinking how he's kind of played
Speaker 1: in this offense or some similarity to this offense before,
Speaker 1: And you know that's that's the whole idea behind the
Speaker 1: Cliff Kingsbury Kyler Murray thing. And isn't that a good
Speaker 1: idea to like make your number one overall draft pick
Speaker 1: as comfortable as possible and make a system around his
Speaker 1: skills and that maybe he's going to be able to
Speaker 1: you know, fight pass or kind of skip those early days.
Speaker 1: Uh that a lot of rookie quarterbacks go through where
Speaker 1: he's not comfortable and he can start out a quicker.
Speaker 1: And that's why I'm giving this a unit of five
Speaker 1: hundred thousand on the Scoville sit scale. That's right around chocolate,
Speaker 1: Havin Yerrow chocolate. I think we're working on different scales. Yeah,
Speaker 1: the scale that i'm does not go that high. Like
Speaker 1: a I have different going off the one, the Serrano,
Speaker 1: the Surano. It's in the Serando area Serrano. This is
Speaker 1: how they described Serranto. Don't mistake the Serranto for a hallapanio.
Speaker 1: Your mouth will be on fire. They look similar in appearance.
Speaker 1: The Serranto is twice as spicy. I totally agree with you.
Speaker 1: This is I take a lot out of that quote.
Speaker 1: Yeah it's spicy, but to make it clear, this is
Speaker 1: pretty high up on the spicy. He's gonna he is
Speaker 1: going to really I think set the league on fire.
Speaker 1: I think this is gonna work out and kim bomb
Speaker 1: for all of his failures and let's call them for
Speaker 1: what they are in recent years. He's gonna get what
Speaker 1: Mike mccagnan thought he was gonna at when he drafted Donald.
Speaker 1: He'd get the extra years. I think Kime might come
Speaker 1: out of this, although I don't I wouldn't put Clime
Speaker 1: at the top of the list of people who made
Speaker 1: this happen. This is this, But the reason I always
Speaker 1: thought that this was a possibility to move on from
Speaker 1: Rosen and pick Hylom really was because of Cliff King's
Speaker 1: break From day one, this felt like a real deal.
Speaker 1: And those comments, I don't know what the Fitzgerald that
Speaker 1: those are new, but he also said similar stuff during
Speaker 1: O T A S where they talked about long time
Speaker 1: veterans looking utterly lost on offense because they had never
Speaker 1: seen anything like this scheme at the NFL level. And
Speaker 1: Murray from the start has been a teacher and perfectly fluid,
Speaker 1: which to your point makes the pick so sensible. And
Speaker 1: I think we have to also remember when you're running
Speaker 1: four wide NonStop and you add his mobility, this is
Speaker 1: someone that's going to devastate defenses early on in the
Speaker 1: year who are trying to catch up to what's going
Speaker 1: on here. And then very much lower on the scale,
Speaker 1: but also in Arizona, maybe a little tie pepper, you know,
Speaker 1: very low, Keshan. They drafted three rookie receivers. Two of
Speaker 1: them got a lot of attention. Only one of them
Speaker 1: is playing with the first team keys, the new Keyshan
Speaker 1: Johnson sixth round pick, playing the head of Andy, Isabella
Speaker 1: and Hikima. Relation with the starters, I don't think so
Speaker 1: spelled very different, So chocolate Abnero for I'm just throwing
Speaker 1: that in a little extra that we're on the same
Speaker 1: page on the Scoville and that's important. That's a vital Yep,
Speaker 1: we're all on the same page. Mark your up next.
Speaker 1: I am going to as I readjust to pick the
Speaker 1: new uh, I'm gonna go red Savina have an arrow pepper,
Speaker 1: which is a registered scale of three hundred and fifty
Speaker 1: thousand to five hundred and seventy seven thousand on the
Speaker 1: scope right beneath. Because I think there's some stuff to
Speaker 1: figure out here, but I am all on board with
Speaker 1: you know, we saw the Patriots lose the Super Bowl
Speaker 1: and then come back to next year and take care
Speaker 1: of business. The Eagles last year had an off season,
Speaker 1: and I think they're gonna come around this year and
Speaker 1: they're gonna win the NFC. I have them going six
Speaker 1: and o to start the year, and are talking about
Speaker 1: Carson Wentz right now, and if you read with the
Speaker 1: daily reports coming out of out of Philadelphia that Carson
Speaker 1: Wentz looks completely differently, much more comfortable this time of year.
Speaker 1: His health is back, and they he is doing well.
Speaker 1: With Sean Jackson, I think they talked. They talked about
Speaker 1: Jordan Howard playing very well early. They've got a lot
Speaker 1: of depth in the backfield. They've got a great offensive line.
Speaker 1: Love their defense. They've got the best two tight ends
Speaker 1: in football. I think they're gonna be both of them
Speaker 1: a lot to handle for for defenses. And I think
Speaker 1: you've got one of the best owners in the NFL
Speaker 1: right now, and Jeffrey Lury, who is super committed to winning,
Speaker 1: will do anything they can. They're an analytics based team.
Speaker 1: I love the whole Howie Roseman situation. The Eagles to me,
Speaker 1: are the hottest thing in the NFC. I think the
Speaker 1: Cowboys in that division. That division is a hot mess
Speaker 1: outside of Dallas. And I like the Dallas is in
Speaker 1: there because it keeps you on your toes. If you're
Speaker 1: the Eagles too, you gotta you can't just roll through
Speaker 1: like the Patriots do. You're gonna have some competition in
Speaker 1: the NFC East. But I'm saying Eagles super Bowl. I'm
Speaker 1: telling you right now, yours is more a hot take.
Speaker 1: It's not a hot take. It's a hot pepper. Third, now,
Speaker 1: how many other teams are you going to predict to
Speaker 1: win the NFC this year to five? But I I
Speaker 1: just think that there's there's some feel around them already,
Speaker 1: if you know reading what the beat writers are pretty
Speaker 1: day after day. I just think if I'm an Eagles fan,
Speaker 1: I'm very very confident going into the season. With all
Speaker 1: due respect, and I agree with you, I think the
Speaker 1: Eagles are gonna be very good. That is not a
Speaker 1: very hot take. This is an NFC superpower. I think
Speaker 1: a lot of people think they're gonna be good. I'm
Speaker 1: gonna drop I'm gonna drop you all the way down
Speaker 1: to the Hungarian pepper. Five thousand to ten thousand school billions, Well,
Speaker 1: stick seven of those in your mouth and see what happens.
Speaker 1: I'm sorry, you can't. You cannot put it up in
Speaker 1: the top tier. You can't do it. Well, I I
Speaker 1: the third highest. So it's not like I went for
Speaker 1: the ghost pepper. Their streets are talking. It might be
Speaker 1: more even like a pepper and Chenie alright, that's right
Speaker 1: near the bottom. Alright, Well, I'm not sure I'll understand
Speaker 1: like the segments far as the training camp news part
Speaker 1: of it, this is, this is why we should talk
Speaker 1: about these things before the show, but I thought it
Speaker 1: was more specific to players. So Paris Campbell is a
Speaker 1: guy who's getting a lot of consistent hype ever since
Speaker 1: the Colts drafted him. And Frank Reich just told Albert
Speaker 1: Breer this week basically, you know, you saw the videos
Speaker 1: of the Colts draft room, and that was mostly our
Speaker 1: scouts and defensive players. The one guy I wanted. I
Speaker 1: jumped up and down when we took Paris Campbell because
Speaker 1: I said, we gotta get this guy. Everyone thought he
Speaker 1: was just a slot receiver, and Frank Reich said, we
Speaker 1: thought he's a legit NFL receiver. Footwork, hands, route running, intelligence,
Speaker 1: the kind of person he is. We just think he's
Speaker 1: a total wide receiver. And then he starts playing in
Speaker 1: in the training camp. And now Frank Reich says, Paris
Speaker 1: Campbell is a legit NFL. I'm gonna be a stud receiver. Play.
Speaker 1: These are the plays he's running in the red zone.
Speaker 1: Not just a slot receiver. He's he's making big plays
Speaker 1: in the red zone. To me, the Colts are one
Speaker 1: of the most exciting team in the league, and this
Speaker 1: guy is gonna be one of the most exciting rookies
Speaker 1: in the league. Let's see what kind of Scoville I've got.
Speaker 1: I have one in mind. I want to hear what
Speaker 1: you come on now. I was writing that zone. I
Speaker 1: was gonna throw out Sabasco fifty thousand Scoville units. And
Speaker 1: I take kay in daily and it's it's hot, but
Speaker 1: it's it's tolerable. Well, you're only taking a little dash
Speaker 1: of it, correct. I mean, I'll put it on you,
Speaker 1: put kay in on anything. It tastes good. I don't like,
Speaker 1: just take the jar and just dump it into my throat. Necessarily,
Speaker 1: most people mix up with other spices. Right um, all right,
Speaker 1: let's move on. I want to talk about Darius. Guys.
Speaker 1: You know, tough times in Washington right now with the Redskins,
Speaker 1: who the Alex Smith injury kind of just set that
Speaker 1: whole organization back. Not just not so much because Alex
Speaker 1: Smith is a you know, a superstar quarterback, because he's not,
Speaker 1: but it just kind of knocked him on their ass,
Speaker 1: that seemed. And they go and they get the kid quarterback, um,
Speaker 1: Dwayne Haskins. Uh. And what you kind of forget is
Speaker 1: that guys had a lot of great buzz last summer
Speaker 1: and then he pops his a c L in the
Speaker 1: first UM preseason game out for the season. Now, I'm
Speaker 1: not gonna draw parallels too. Um what r G three
Speaker 1: and Albert Morris did together as fellow rookies, and I
Speaker 1: almost look at guys as a rookie Albert out? What
Speaker 1: did I say? He said? Albert alf alf alf Morris?
Speaker 1: Excuse me? Alf Morris was his name? Alfred Alfred Morris? Alt? Yes,
Speaker 1: remember when they came into the league and r G
Speaker 1: three lit it up and Morris, Uh, he killed it.
Speaker 1: I don't know if we're gonna see that, but I
Speaker 1: think Geis is a guy to keep an eye on, uh,
Speaker 1: and something to get excited about if you're a Redskins fan.
Speaker 1: Right now, all you hear about is Trent Williams and
Speaker 1: the drama going on with their star left tackle, which
Speaker 1: doesn't seem to be getting any better, by the way,
Speaker 1: with each day. Uh So keep an eye on guys
Speaker 1: who already is practicing. And he had a hamstring injury
Speaker 1: that you know, combine that with the a c L injury,
Speaker 1: and people were saying that he is injury prone. I
Speaker 1: saw that you would. Uh you mentioned this and wrote
Speaker 1: about this in your latest column on training camp. Uh,
Speaker 1: winners and losers. I really enjoyed, uh this SoundBite from
Speaker 1: Darius Guys on the idea that he is injury prone,
Speaker 1: because you know a lot of people talking about now
Speaker 1: I'm injury prone and this and that man only had
Speaker 1: one injury that was big and my whole career one
Speaker 1: the biggest injury I've ever had my career is at
Speaker 1: a c O. Yes, y'all heard about hamstraining this and that,
Speaker 1: but that comes from the a c O, not just
Speaker 1: for me not taking care of myself. How can you
Speaker 1: call somebody injury prone has had one big injury. Do
Speaker 1: y'all know what injury prone means? That means somebody that
Speaker 1: has different injuries every other day and cannot do nothing.
Speaker 1: I had one big injury, so man kissing, and I
Speaker 1: want to point out two things. First of all, he
Speaker 1: said that to Darren Hayes, who works for w USA
Speaker 1: and nine, So I want to give Hayes credit. I
Speaker 1: don't know if you notice this, Greg Hayes, who did
Speaker 1: a nice job sensing that guys wanted to get something
Speaker 1: off his chest, set him up, then got out of
Speaker 1: the way. And then I want to give credit to
Speaker 1: and check this out on Twitter. Maybe I'll retweet it
Speaker 1: so it's easier for listeners to check it out. We'll
Speaker 1: get props to the cameraman of w U s A
Speaker 1: nine who had the wherewithal to as guys got into
Speaker 1: his monologue, pan the camera over and emmy alert slowly,
Speaker 1: slowly beautifully guys as he continued his ran, ending with
Speaker 1: kiss my ass or whatever. It was great, great points.
Speaker 1: I didn't even think about that. But what you need
Speaker 1: if you're a director cameraman like that as you need
Speaker 1: a star. So you gotta give guys a lot of
Speaker 1: credit for doing the Nate Burlison, Michael Irvine look in
Speaker 1: like fiery, look straight into the camera like I don't know,
Speaker 1: we haven't even really learned that. Yeah, we've been trying.
Speaker 1: This stuff has a veteran production. It was everybody did
Speaker 1: their job in a great way. But yeah, guys, it's
Speaker 1: gonna be a run friendly Redskins team because we assume
Speaker 1: Haskins will start all the games or most of the games,
Speaker 1: and they're gonna want to work him in. So I
Speaker 1: like guys as a player this year. I like him
Speaker 1: as a personality. It's a spicy personality, clearly, So I'm
Speaker 1: gonna give him on the Scoville scale. I mean, he's
Speaker 1: not out of control, but he's a Scotch bonnet. He's
Speaker 1: a one hundred thousand to three fifty thousand. Uh So
Speaker 1: that's that's his new nickname. I think Scotch bonnet. A
Speaker 1: lot of Scotch bonnet and in Caribbean cooking, Jamaican particularly
Speaker 1: there you go. How long are you? We always talk about,
Speaker 1: We joke about when Eric has gonna leave us, When
Speaker 1: is West leaving us to start his own restaurant. I
Speaker 1: feel like this is gonna happen. So much easier to
Speaker 1: just cook for yourself and then not have any responsibility.
Speaker 1: Shout out to Dan for another great job barbecuing a
Speaker 1: big group of people. Always what are we to meet?
Speaker 1: He just drops it down. He just comes over with
Speaker 1: fifteen thousand pounds of meat and just drops it and
Speaker 1: just says, Okay, see later. If I'd like to use
Speaker 1: a football analogy, but since at the party I used
Speaker 1: the baseball one, I'm kind of in the kind of
Speaker 1: the Harold Baynes type. I know he went to the
Speaker 1: hall and didn't deserve it. Um, but a guy, you know,
Speaker 1: a really nice guy. A guy has a really nice
Speaker 1: career and doesn't look doesn't look for accolades, just does
Speaker 1: his job day and day out, does it for a
Speaker 1: long time. I'm the Harold Baines of the grill. I
Speaker 1: think it's excessively manly to grill for a large number
Speaker 1: of people like you, like you have done so seas.
Speaker 1: I got some cheese. It was great. Keep it simple.
Speaker 1: I'll give you Danny Tartible. That's that is horrible. Wait,
Speaker 1: he had a he had a prime in Kansas City
Speaker 1: before they. I'll give you Mackie Sasser. Maggie's Asser would
Speaker 1: not be a good one. Alright, one more time around
Speaker 1: the horn, Greg, I'm just trying to think of someone
Speaker 1: that's like a workman like hitter that just needed more
Speaker 1: at bats because I think you're selling yourself short. I mean,
Speaker 1: if you if you got even more time behind the grill,
Speaker 1: actually a time to shine. But I don't want that. See,
Speaker 1: that's what I just wanted to come to work every
Speaker 1: day and do what's asking me and turning down endorsements. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I want to bat like fifth or six in the lineup.
Speaker 1: I'm going to drive in a hundred runs, but you
Speaker 1: don't need Yeah. I'm a Matt Suwey type all the way,
Speaker 1: with an occasional start start including including like your obsessions
Speaker 1: off the field that yeah. Uh. Let's go to on
Speaker 1: New England where I'm going to talk about a New
Speaker 1: England Patriots receiver by the name of Maurice Harris. You
Speaker 1: haven't heard much about him. Well, he's an undrafted, uh,
Speaker 1: guy who is with the Redskins for three years. Was
Speaker 1: a returner, more of a special team's guy. I don't know,
Speaker 1: um if I feel good about this, but basically everyone
Speaker 1: who's watched four or five days of Patriots training camp
Speaker 1: says he is the best receiver on the team, and
Speaker 1: according to Greg Barnard of the Boston Sports Journal, and
Speaker 1: a few others Evan Laser, who used to work here,
Speaker 1: a few others that say, and it's not even close.
Speaker 1: Mari Harris is by far the best. I'm gonna give
Speaker 1: this Pablano. That's it's pretty close to the bottom. That's
Speaker 1: one thousand, because Okay, I'm looking at this news and
Speaker 1: I'm thinking, Mo Harris, you know what, He's probably gonna
Speaker 1: help the Patriots win a couple of games this year.
Speaker 1: That's just what's gonna happen. That being said, it's very
Speaker 1: early in training camp, and it doesn't speak well for
Speaker 1: the rest of the group that Maurice Harris right now
Speaker 1: is their best way way too spicy. I gave Maurice
Speaker 1: Harris in this bit of news a slice of plain
Speaker 1: white wonder bread with an orange cream sickle. That's how
Speaker 1: hot it is. Here's the thing, though, I wouldn't have thought.
Speaker 1: I would have thought he would have maybe been even
Speaker 1: a long chat to make the team. Now I feel
Speaker 1: like this guy's making the team, and based on all this,
Speaker 1: I'm like, you know what, he'll probably be a nice
Speaker 1: little He'll be a nice little role player that will
Speaker 1: do some things on special teams. He'll probably make some
Speaker 1: big plays in a big game that will make me
Speaker 1: appreciate him. But he's not gonna be there number one
Speaker 1: beating like huge plays today. I'll put I'll put a
Speaker 1: sandwich on that that he make the team. But the
Speaker 1: beat Runners are plugged in because in the second half
Speaker 1: last season forty catches four thirty two yards touchdown. Oh wait, no,
Speaker 1: that's his entire career in three years. He could have
Speaker 1: cracked the Reds confrontation with Josh Docson and Trey Quinn.
Speaker 1: I don't know, man, this sounds like training camp trophy
Speaker 1: now it is. Oh yeah, It's too bad that the
Speaker 1: offensive geniuses in Washington couldn't figure out how to use it.
Speaker 1: I wonder if they could have a better use of
Speaker 1: him in New England. Turn on your Marie Harris film
Speaker 1: and he's the guy not making play, A nice little
Speaker 1: special team er, third receiver five d and seventy yards
Speaker 1: four touchdowns. I bet he ripped it up a Northern
Speaker 1: Guildford high school. He's like he hopes to be as
Speaker 1: good as Jabbar Gaffney. I mean, Jabbar Gaffney was on
Speaker 1: a team that scored thirty four points in the a
Speaker 1: f C champion Jabar. That was his brother Roche. I
Speaker 1: always confuse they would have won that damn Super Bowl.
Speaker 1: They didn't win because their best receiver was Jabar. I
Speaker 1: don't know. They scored thirty points in the a f
Speaker 1: C Championship game. Their defense wasn't lousy. Please alright, Mark,
Speaker 1: you gotta hand out a little fatale pepper. Now this
Speaker 1: this is a yellow pepper typically in its coloration, but
Speaker 1: I'm making it green in this exercise because it's going
Speaker 1: to Sam Donald. And I know that you're going to
Speaker 1: think that I'm just pumping him up because it's another
Speaker 1: bit of psychological warfare between Dan and I. But I
Speaker 1: actually feel like Jets fans. You know, we watched Quentin
Speaker 1: Tarantino's movie, and I won't give any spoilers away, but
Speaker 1: there is a snippet inside of it of Joe Namaths
Speaker 1: nineteen seventy films CC and Company. It's a biker epic
Speaker 1: starring and Margaret and Jets fans like look at that
Speaker 1: and say, yes, that's my quarterback. And when it was
Speaker 1: made in nineteen seventy, he was the center of the
Speaker 1: NFL universe, and Jets fans have had nothing to root
Speaker 1: for at the quarterback position. Since you got a bunch
Speaker 1: of people still walking around and Joe name, it's your jerseys. Well,
Speaker 1: things are changing, and I think that this is an
Speaker 1: arrow up for s Star and baby Let's I'll tell
Speaker 1: you why he was last year. I thought in one
Speaker 1: of the worst NFL offensive schemes around, where they ran
Speaker 1: the ball heavyly. Sure he did. They ran the ball
Speaker 1: heavily on first and second down and put him into
Speaker 1: more third and long situations than almost any quarterback in
Speaker 1: the league, a terrible situation for a rookie quarterback. I
Speaker 1: like their wide receiver corps if they can stay healthy.
Speaker 1: They've obviously got Levy on Bell, You've got some players
Speaker 1: on defense, You've got a great safety the Jets. To me,
Speaker 1: I am not just saying this. I would not be
Speaker 1: surprised at all if in weeks seventeen they were alive
Speaker 1: for a wild card spot. I don't think that they're
Speaker 1: gonna be some floundering five wins, six win thing, tugging
Speaker 1: s Starn around from place to place. It's gonna be
Speaker 1: a different type of team. I feel like you're if
Speaker 1: you look a lot, a lot of people are picking
Speaker 1: him in that seven to nine range, seven and nine range,
Speaker 1: so you're you're maybe flipping those numbers will kind of
Speaker 1: be more than It's like a would have to go right,
Speaker 1: but it's I think it can go right. Cessler has
Speaker 1: joined the battle, the psychological warfair. I don't think because
Speaker 1: I like, for me, the idea that that Donald is
Speaker 1: just gonna be a middle tier quarterback that takes eight
Speaker 1: years to warm up. I don't believe that. I think
Speaker 1: he's going They've already talked about and I know it's
Speaker 1: Josh McCown who's his friend, But was that practice and
Speaker 1: he's looking at him as an analyst now he said
Speaker 1: that he saw markedly better footwork, just a much more
Speaker 1: comfortable player that was this weekend. Adam Gaze is not
Speaker 1: a perfect coach, but he does a lot for quarterbacks,
Speaker 1: and I think he will for Donald when Donald gets
Speaker 1: almost overlooked in terms of like the entertainment value that
Speaker 1: he can bring, Like he is a toolsy guy. I
Speaker 1: mean he could be a better you know, can move,
Speaker 1: has a big arm, can make any throw, like a
Speaker 1: more fun hopefully better Jay Cutler for you. I think
Speaker 1: that Adam Gaze rightfully as a guy gets killed, like
Speaker 1: who is he really a quarterback whisper of Adam Gaze,
Speaker 1: I should say, did I say Jay Cutler? You said,
Speaker 1: oh my god, but Jay Cutler he made a little
Speaker 1: bit better. Um, but he hasn't really done much. You're
Speaker 1: not gonna give him any credit for what Peyton Manning
Speaker 1: did in two thousand thirteen. Before I make any decision
Speaker 1: on whether Adam Gays can coach offensive, I want to
Speaker 1: see if he does this year because I think there
Speaker 1: are tools there and I think Donald, especially in a
Speaker 1: year two leap guy, um is this is where I
Speaker 1: think Gays will be judged. And if he bottoms out,
Speaker 1: you talk to some people. I've been talking to some people.
Speaker 1: Maybe he's not you know, a guy that is gonna
Speaker 1: be around very wrong long gaze. Maybe he doesn't have
Speaker 1: a lot of security there. He maybe can't. He won't
Speaker 1: survive a really bad year uh in year one. So
Speaker 1: I think there's gonna be pressure on to immediately get
Speaker 1: this offense going in the right direction or you can
Speaker 1: see a change. But I'm looking forward to it. I
Speaker 1: don't think this is a you know, super Bowl team
Speaker 1: are necessarily a playoff team, but I expect them to
Speaker 1: be five or better. I think you should all right
Speaker 1: West July, August, September. That's Smokey season, Smoky Brown. John
Speaker 1: Brown draws more camp hype than just about any receiver
Speaker 1: no matter what team he's on. And last year, before
Speaker 1: Joe Flacco was benched, John Brown was on pace for
Speaker 1: over a thousand yards. He was their best red zone receiver.
Speaker 1: He was gonna catch seventy eight passes. And now he's
Speaker 1: in Buffalo where the quarterback has a stronger arm than
Speaker 1: Joe Flacco and turned to some guy named Robert Foster
Speaker 1: into a legitimate deep threat last year. Now John Brown
Speaker 1: is the deep threat. He's also the intermediate threat because
Speaker 1: he's a really good route runner. He's also a red
Speaker 1: zone threat because he's slippery and elusive in the red zone.
Speaker 1: And he's gonna be easily the best weapon on this
Speaker 1: Bill's offense. Might not go cap sasan fifty million school
Speaker 1: Scoville units, but uh, we're going ghost Pepper million Scoville units.
Speaker 1: For the Josh Allen to John Brown connection here would
Speaker 1: be in my fear if I'm a Bills fan or
Speaker 1: someone that's not totally sold on Alan yet as a prospect,
Speaker 1: John Brown stays healthy Smokey just blowing the top off
Speaker 1: over and over again, and the pass the sale over
Speaker 1: his head or down the sideline, and he carries him
Speaker 1: out of bounds before you can get a second foot in.
Speaker 1: Maybe the ball gets throwing a double coverage. I is
Speaker 1: he a guy? Is Josh Allen ever gonna be a
Speaker 1: guy that can develop into a downfield passer with accuracy
Speaker 1: that you needn't? Down Field accuracy is the issue, man?
Speaker 1: Why do you gotta just have a stray there? For
Speaker 1: Robert Foster, undrafted rookie putting up five and fifty yards?
Speaker 1: He was athletic. I like Robert Foster, and you just
Speaker 1: he's sort of a one trick pony, go run fast deep.
Speaker 1: Just saying he outgained a lot of guys taken in
Speaker 1: the first round. I guess I'm saying West. We know
Speaker 1: he could throw it, throw it forth? Can he throw
Speaker 1: it where he wants to throw it? Well? Analytics have
Speaker 1: him as a better deep thrower than deep thrower than
Speaker 1: Joe Flacco was last year. That's pretty good. What about
Speaker 1: Joe Flacco five years ago? That I don't know. I
Speaker 1: did not see the analytics on that, but I'm saying
Speaker 1: I didn't. You're right, if John Brown stays healthy, he's
Speaker 1: gonna be a problem. That's always We love Smoky this
Speaker 1: We've always been supporters. Huh, I just can't stay healthy.
Speaker 1: You like the You like the Bills a little bit.
Speaker 1: I do. I think the frisky like I think they're frisky.
Speaker 1: I think the Jets and the Bills are frisky. I
Speaker 1: thought what you were gonna say when you were saying
Speaker 1: it's down to the last week for the Jets is
Speaker 1: like that divisions up for grabs, which I wouldn't shut
Speaker 1: Surprise me? Is that that surprising that the Jets and
Speaker 1: Bills and the Patriots would all be in the mix
Speaker 1: at the ends. The Jets were in the mix like
Speaker 1: a couple of years ago with Ryan Fitzpatrick as their
Speaker 1: quarterback in Week seven, like it happens. It's not that crazy.
Speaker 1: They weren't. They weren't in contention for the divisions about
Speaker 1: Week sixteen. Yeah, they only lost that division by two games.
Speaker 1: And I actually I agree with you because they beat
Speaker 1: the Patriots in Week sixteen. In for I don't think
Speaker 1: it's crazy. It's just said, why why would I in
Speaker 1: late July come trumpet about the Patriots losing the vision.
Speaker 1: Let's settle down on that finally. I mean, let's wait
Speaker 1: until Maurice Harris is number one receiver in November. I
Speaker 1: can't wait to rout on every time Where's Harris makes
Speaker 1: a catch all season. I'm just gonna stand up and
Speaker 1: put my fifth right into his face. It's gonna be
Speaker 1: like August sixteen, and the headline is gonna be Edelman's
Speaker 1: back a week later, you never hear Maurice Harris's name again.
Speaker 1: This will be fun to track. This has to be
Speaker 1: a sandwich problem, Maurice Harris. Oh yeah, either now or
Speaker 1: in a month. Something has to be put down. But
Speaker 1: you might have Greg on the hook right now because
Speaker 1: things could change in a month. I'm just I'm not
Speaker 1: getting involved in anybody else's sandwich. Oh I said it
Speaker 1: is gonna be a nice role player. Well, you said
Speaker 1: Danny ammondol is gonna have a career high seven hundred yards.
Speaker 1: What if we put that as the over under for
Speaker 1: his No, that was that was a joke that if
Speaker 1: she's taking him number one overall, she could if she
Speaker 1: could hope for Danny am Doola's best season ever be seven.
Speaker 1: How much is this impact player gonna do if he's
Speaker 1: not gonna get seven. I told you it was four
Speaker 1: and some nice special teams play. Well, why don't even
Speaker 1: talking good about it? We couldn't do rely because like
Speaker 1: the Patriots are you guys are saying that this is
Speaker 1: the like an undefeated, unbeatable team, and their tap wide
Speaker 1: receiver right now is Mari Harris, And I thought that's
Speaker 1: kind of interesting. Right now, I'll give you I'll give
Speaker 1: you some issues, all right. We couldn't finish this segment
Speaker 1: on the Scoville scale without going to the top, all
Speaker 1: the way to the top. We needed it one point
Speaker 1: four million to two point two million. Yeah, you know
Speaker 1: what I'm talking about. Carolina Reaper getting a lot of
Speaker 1: high plately in the Pepper Pepper universe. Chicago Bears kickers competition.
Speaker 1: Listen to this from the Chicago Sun Times. Elliott's small fry.
Speaker 1: He made six or seven field goals Saturday. You know
Speaker 1: what he said, I want to try sixty yard or
Speaker 1: I have all the all this bad energy around the
Speaker 1: Bears in their kicking game, going back to the playoffs
Speaker 1: last year, set me up at sixty banks split the
Speaker 1: upper it. What about crazy Eddie Piniero What is he
Speaker 1: gonna do? Is he gonna will Is he gonna wilt
Speaker 1: in the summer heat? What do you think is he
Speaker 1: gonna will? Yes? He had also had six or seven
Speaker 1: Matt Naggy, coach of the Bears. He said, hey, small fire,
Speaker 1: I just said from sixty Nagi called it a dealer's choice.
Speaker 1: Coaches asked Paniero, did you want to try the sixty yarder?
Speaker 1: This is what Panniero said. Nah, you guys hit sixty yesterday.
Speaker 1: We're going sixty three today and you know what happened.
Speaker 1: Drilled it stick splits the uprights with distance to spare. Mentally,
Speaker 1: I was just staying, come, I know I had to
Speaker 1: do my job. My job is on the line every day.
Speaker 1: The crowd of eight thousand, eight thirteen chanted his name
Speaker 1: at Oliviette Nazarene University. I've never seen so many people
Speaker 1: cheer so loud in a practice before. Pinnierro said, I've
Speaker 1: heard it in a game, but in practice, it's unreal.
Speaker 1: Carolina Reaper nothing well, number one. If I'm the Bears,
Speaker 1: I keep both of my roster and just use them
Speaker 1: interchangeably in games. Just a toy with the and then
Speaker 1: what would be better for football and life in general.
Speaker 1: Then the Bears will get that playoff win next year
Speaker 1: and it comes from a seventy yard overtime game winning
Speaker 1: kick and you just say, f you kicker issues. I
Speaker 1: have another idea. Maybe their top ring defense shouldn't give
Speaker 1: up an eighty five yard touchdown drive with the game
Speaker 1: I kind of got left. How about this idea. You
Speaker 1: obviously have two guys in frying Panniero that won't miss.
Speaker 1: There's a lot of risk, especially Rabiski. You don't know
Speaker 1: throwing red zone interceptions. Every time you cross the fifty.
Speaker 1: I don't care if it's first in tent. You bring
Speaker 1: out the kick, you bang next? Have you hit about
Speaker 1: seven sixty yard ors? Do the math twenty one point?
Speaker 1: Your defense handles, arrest, take it home. That's football. It's spicy.
Speaker 1: Do you know what it's called the Reaper? Why because
Speaker 1: it has a tail, as because it's killed people that
Speaker 1: I would have thought it led to death. In April
Speaker 1: two eighteen, a case report of quote thunderclap headaches in
Speaker 1: at thirty four year old man who was hospitalized for
Speaker 1: a few days after consuming one Carolina Reaper pepper in
Speaker 1: a contest don't do that stuff, guys. Thunderclap. Headaches do
Speaker 1: not sound thunderclap. That sounds like that's scenario right now
Speaker 1: for the opponent after what's going on in camp. Absolutely
Speaker 1: no doubt, a very possible good news a bear's camp
Speaker 1: around the Kickers. There hasn't been much of that in
Speaker 1: a long time. Alright, there you go, good school bill talk. Uh,
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