Speaker 1: Be Around the NFL Podcast definitely had a mountain dew face.
Speaker 1: Welcome to another edition of the Around the NFL Podcast.
Speaker 1: My name is Dan hansis coming to you from a
Speaker 1: virtual room filled with heroes. Mark Cecily, Greg Rosenthal. What
Speaker 1: is up boys? Happy Friday? Hey? Now, I did have
Speaker 1: a mountain dew face. That's like the only thing you
Speaker 1: could drink with drink like without even if being refrigerated,
Speaker 1: and it's the only story you can like drink the
Speaker 1: whole can at least back. You know. When I was
Speaker 1: having that, I mean you could drink that and under
Speaker 1: a minute pretty easily, like and you would. It's just
Speaker 1: like easy to just put it back. Let's just like
Speaker 1: keep keep discussing this because I need to. I want
Speaker 1: to hear and learn more. When I was even if
Speaker 1: I was fifteen and I was slugging down like a
Speaker 1: twenty ounce bottle of mountain dew, I was like, oh,
Speaker 1: this is probably good for me. I kind of missed
Speaker 1: doing the thing where um and I wasn't. This wasn't
Speaker 1: all the time. But you go to seven eleven or
Speaker 1: wherever and make the old suicide where you mix like
Speaker 1: eight different sodas together is that what they called it
Speaker 1: in Connecticut. I didn't know what they did that in
Speaker 1: the in the Northeast. To suicide. You you get every
Speaker 1: flavor right, and it's very adventurous, and I mean the
Speaker 1: end it's still just sort of tastes like yeah, it
Speaker 1: doesn't um yeah not yeah, But what I mean, what
Speaker 1: makes it suicidal? I've never heard I never heard that one.
Speaker 1: But yeah, it shows and it's a safe childhood that
Speaker 1: that's like the closest you get to a little bit
Speaker 1: of danger is mixing sodas. Yeah, I should have mixed
Speaker 1: more like real life suicide watch scenarios into my childhood.
Speaker 1: I'll maybe you know you're right, keep working at it,
Speaker 1: Mark um As you can see, I'm still in Texas.
Speaker 1: I was supposed to fly back. I had a two
Speaker 1: forty five flight back to l A yesterday and I
Speaker 1: completely packed my bags. I was walking down the steps
Speaker 1: to get in the car and I said to my wife, Emily,
Speaker 1: I said, well, I don't want to go. I don't
Speaker 1: I don't need to go. The reason I was flying
Speaker 1: back thursdays because I thought we were gonna have an
Speaker 1: NFL network show didn't. So Emily checked the airlines and
Speaker 1: it was just a minimal rebooking face. So now I'm
Speaker 1: staying until Sunday and we'll say we'll take it from there.
Speaker 1: I might just keep pushing this thing back. Why should
Speaker 1: I return? You know, if you, if you, if you
Speaker 1: followed the if you follow the Graham at all, boys,
Speaker 1: I'll tell you why I don't have to Harry back.
Speaker 1: Beautiful photo of my son Harris and Harry hands on
Speaker 1: the boat on Lake l b J. This is this
Speaker 1: is a place I don't want to leave. There's a
Speaker 1: reality to confront. But I will be back, just not
Speaker 1: as originally planned. Why not stay? Is your weight? Your
Speaker 1: family is potentially staying longer than you are, that's even
Speaker 1: more reason to stay. Why not stay? What's bringing you back?
Speaker 1: Even I gotta go back? Can't You can't just leave? Well,
Speaker 1: you have to. You have to check on the house.
Speaker 1: We've heard about that and that that you'd be you'd
Speaker 1: be coming up to that point again. But I just
Speaker 1: think you kind of flex your muscles as a freeman
Speaker 1: to just decide I'm not doing what people tell me
Speaker 1: to do. I'm gonna stay right here in Texas on
Speaker 1: l b J Lake, Lyndon Baines Johnson Lake Lake lb J.
Speaker 1: That one. Okay, it's beautiful here Kingsland, Texas. All Right,
Speaker 1: Today's show, Friday news show. So we'll get you caught
Speaker 1: up on everything that's going on in the league since
Speaker 1: we last uh spoke on Wednesday, and I haven't done
Speaker 1: this in a while. Always fun a little bit mail bag, Greg,
Speaker 1: Sometimes you're a little up and down with outreach with
Speaker 1: the listeners. You're okay with doing a little mail back today,
Speaker 1: I'm good with. It's not about the outreach, it's more
Speaker 1: it's gonna be good? Is it gonna be good? You
Speaker 1: know may bag at its time, you know had its
Speaker 1: time in the earlier. You're putting a lot of pressure
Speaker 1: on on the other two people here to make this
Speaker 1: something more than a mail bag. It sounds like, isn't
Speaker 1: it just sort of a nice segment. It's a perfect
Speaker 1: it's a perfect Friday. It's a perfect price. Right, a
Speaker 1: little show here. That's exactly the answer. So I thought
Speaker 1: Greg would give what I was trying to give you
Speaker 1: what you wanted. I really didn't have much of a feeling,
Speaker 1: so I tried to I tried to remember why you
Speaker 1: thought I don't like mailbags. I don't know. It was
Speaker 1: great though. It is exactly what I thought was gonna happen.
Speaker 1: All right, let's do some news. What do we call it? Mark,
Speaker 1: Sam Donald My Damon. That's from the NFL Network broadcast
Speaker 1: program Friday's Last Friday's episode, and we we are in
Speaker 1: talks behind the scenes, uh, to continue on the television
Speaker 1: through the season. Nothing set in stone, but it seems
Speaker 1: to be heading in that direction. And uh, we're working
Speaker 1: on how we're gonna do that, and how we're gonna
Speaker 1: bring the show to NFL Network, how it will be
Speaker 1: different um the podcast, how it might be the same.
Speaker 1: It's all you know, you might think listeners, dear listeners
Speaker 1: who we love that we just show up and sit
Speaker 1: in front of a laptop and a microphone and just
Speaker 1: talk for forty five minutes or an hour and ten
Speaker 1: minutes and uh oh, or just a bunch of guys
Speaker 1: at the bar hanging out. That's why they're so relatable. No,
Speaker 1: none of this is an accident. Everything is working. Never
Speaker 1: Greg's never at a bar, always working behind the scenes
Speaker 1: to bring the best version of the around the NFL podcast.
Speaker 1: That's what we do. Absolutely, unless like they don't have
Speaker 1: a bag then we just do the mail bag. This
Speaker 1: is gonna be We're gonna be here. I think that
Speaker 1: was how I used to feel. It's like, well, we're
Speaker 1: out of ideas, let's do a mail bag. But you know,
Speaker 1: I'm I'm embracing and being out of ideas right now,
Speaker 1: that's for sure. I just plenty ideas, had plenty ideas.
Speaker 1: But the mailbag is a nice way to interface with
Speaker 1: the fans. It's important, getting back to my original point.
Speaker 1: Some people like to do that, some people don't. If
Speaker 1: you get if you if you accept any of of
Speaker 1: the feedback, it's like you gotta accept all of it,
Speaker 1: so I take none of it. Let's do some news
Speaker 1: starting with ah familiar name, Leshawn McCoy. He's got another job.
Speaker 1: Did you know that Lashawn McCoy won a Super Bowl
Speaker 1: last year? He did. He was on the Chief's roster.
Speaker 1: He wasn't on the um Super Bowl roster. They left
Speaker 1: him off and uh. He he was not active on
Speaker 1: game day when the Chiefs knocked off the Niners to
Speaker 1: claim the title. Uh. And he wants his career to
Speaker 1: end in a different way. So what does that mean?
Speaker 1: Probably getting on the field to be started to start
Speaker 1: and the vetteran running back is signing a one year
Speaker 1: deal worth just over one million dollars with the Tampa
Speaker 1: Bay Buccaneers. Rap she'd had this. Uh. He spent some
Speaker 1: of this offseason talking about where he would like to go,
Speaker 1: how we'd like to get more playing time and uh
Speaker 1: the Eagles are thrown out their potential reunion here Mark Sessler,
Speaker 1: but ultimately he ends up in Tampa Bay, place where
Speaker 1: he could potentially carve out a role. Yeah. I think
Speaker 1: it's you know, we we talked about a few camp
Speaker 1: battles um earlier in the week, and this is an
Speaker 1: interesting one in Tampa Bay because you know, obviously with
Speaker 1: Tom Brady there, the theme has been who's gonna be
Speaker 1: their third down past catching back in you know, Kishawn
Speaker 1: Vaughan was was drafted. He's on their on their COVID
Speaker 1: list right now. And uh so, you know, I think
Speaker 1: there's a chance with Ronald Jones there that McCoy could
Speaker 1: certainly play a role in the third down area. I
Speaker 1: don't think he's the same player right now, but he's
Speaker 1: someone that has like five career catches um. He can
Speaker 1: he can do that. They've got a few other guys too,
Speaker 1: that are battling for it. I can't wait to see
Speaker 1: what happens. He's got to make the team. I mean,
Speaker 1: I saw these like tweet. You know, it's like ESPN's
Speaker 1: NFL Twitter like sends out It's like check out this
Speaker 1: two thousand twenty, you know, Bucks team, and it's like Evans, Godwin, Grant, McCoy, Brady.
Speaker 1: It's like, well, McCoy, you know, he's only on a team,
Speaker 1: as Mark mentioned, because I think Keishan von is on
Speaker 1: the Covid lest he's got to make the team. But
Speaker 1: who knows? That is a bad looking backfield. I wrote
Speaker 1: up Camp Battles this week. I put in it like
Speaker 1: they're gonna have to add someone to this backfield because
Speaker 1: Ronald Jones can't do third Down's Keyshawn Vons a rookie,
Speaker 1: like it just didn't look like it was good enough.
Speaker 1: So he might make that team and be a little frisky.
Speaker 1: Could be a bunch of Hall of famers or at least,
Speaker 1: you know, close to Hall of famers in that team.
Speaker 1: I mean, I wonder what Tom Brady's input is with
Speaker 1: any of this stuff, because he probably wants of some
Speaker 1: veteran presence in there to do that versus they have
Speaker 1: a seventh rounder that they said could maybe be their
Speaker 1: past catching back too. But Brady seems to have um
Speaker 1: quite a bit of influence. It's like the Constellation price
Speaker 1: for not having Antonio Brown. It's like, well, we're not
Speaker 1: giving you him, Tom Brady giving him a question. You're right,
Speaker 1: he probably did ask for him. McCoy is less than
Speaker 1: one thousand yards away from twelve thousand career rushing yards.
Speaker 1: He'd like to get that. Uh. This season he really
Speaker 1: has had And we've studied this guy from an off
Speaker 1: the field perspective too, and it hasn't always been pretty pretty,
Speaker 1: but he has put together a Hall of Fame level career.
Speaker 1: I just want to yards from scrimmage, uh through his
Speaker 1: golden period, which really was about two thousand ten to
Speaker 1: two thousand seventeen, or run that something, go to the
Speaker 1: Pro Bowl six times, All Pro twice, seventeen hundred yards,
Speaker 1: sixteen hundred yards, twelve hundred yards, one hundred yards. That
Speaker 1: was two thousand, thirteen hundred yards, twelve hundred yards, sixteen
Speaker 1: hundred yards, sixteen hundred yards. I mean, this dude was
Speaker 1: a baller. Now he's not that guy anymore. So, we'll see.
Speaker 1: Maybe he gets to this this abbreviated camp and he
Speaker 1: shows nothing. He doesn't make the team, but he's the
Speaker 1: name brand. I just wanted to put something, you know,
Speaker 1: like it's nice to have something first in news that's
Speaker 1: not COVID related. So that's what McCoy is really doing
Speaker 1: for us right now. That's good job exactly. And now
Speaker 1: let's get to some COVID talk. Because one of the
Speaker 1: people in the backfield for Kansas City that was active,
Speaker 1: uh for Super Bowl fifty four, and he put together
Speaker 1: a game for the Ages, Chris Westling. I believe I
Speaker 1: thought he should have been the m v P of
Speaker 1: the game. Damien Williams, Well, he won't be the MVP
Speaker 1: of any Super Bowl in one because he has opted
Speaker 1: out of the season. Chiefs general manager Brett Beach announced
Speaker 1: in a statement, Um Williams greg was a guy that
Speaker 1: was a part of what they did, like a big
Speaker 1: part of their role. And then he had the game
Speaker 1: clinching touchdown and Super Bowl fifty four, Uh, it changes
Speaker 1: things around in that backfield. I mean he was so good,
Speaker 1: like if he didn't have the career he had beforehand,
Speaker 1: people would have given him waymore credit. But he had
Speaker 1: bounced around the league. He's another guy who kind of
Speaker 1: escaped Gaze's Dolphins team. Is funny to look back on
Speaker 1: those teams and Williams I thought was gonna do a
Speaker 1: better job holding off their rookie Edwards to air. Then
Speaker 1: people thought that it was gonna be a little bit
Speaker 1: more of a split situation and maybe the guys who
Speaker 1: are taking Edwards Slayer in the top twenty and fantasy
Speaker 1: drafts are gonna be a little disappointed. Well, that's out
Speaker 1: out the window. And uh he he mentioned his mom um,
Speaker 1: who's in her seventies, you know, was diagnosed with cancer
Speaker 1: and he wants to stay and take care of her
Speaker 1: and didn't think he should be like going going back
Speaker 1: and forth from the team. So it totally makes sense.
Speaker 1: And um, it just means Edwards Slayer is gonna have
Speaker 1: to step up and play a lot that they might
Speaker 1: have to sign someone else too. That's the thing is,
Speaker 1: like all the you mentioned, the injuries are coming to
Speaker 1: and we've had the opt outs, you have the COVID list.
Speaker 1: I just feel like teams are gonna have to be
Speaker 1: signing a few extra veterans maybe than they normally would be.
Speaker 1: I mean, they have a lot of guys, and they
Speaker 1: have I'm not saying that they're starters, but DeAndre Washington
Speaker 1: is there. Yeah, they have Darryl Williams, Darwin. They have
Speaker 1: two wigh too many when you're throwing Damian Williams. My
Speaker 1: one issue with the chiefs lest well, there was a
Speaker 1: million guys with the first name starting in D and
Speaker 1: any of them were for like eight weeks, which is
Speaker 1: not um a great sign in this career path. But
Speaker 1: you know, so this this is nice. You got a
Speaker 1: different type of name in there, and this is one
Speaker 1: of those moves where the minute it happened, I I'm like,
Speaker 1: I'm off Twitter for like the twenty four hours because
Speaker 1: it's a bunch of um it's nothing but fantasy heads
Speaker 1: with their panties and a bunch over this developing situation
Speaker 1: in Kansas City. And I get it. I mean it
Speaker 1: clearly you gotta stop following all these fantasy guys. Then well,
Speaker 1: I mean I do think of it. I mean, and
Speaker 1: the Rhodo Pats and the Silva's of the world. But
Speaker 1: maybe you got some riff raff in there too. You know,
Speaker 1: I might have to read maybe this weekend that could
Speaker 1: be a project. Who do I shop? Also, Yeah, I
Speaker 1: imagine it's probably pretty easy to make comments like that
Speaker 1: from your little room in your home. But if Evan
Speaker 1: Silva was standing in front of you, would you say
Speaker 1: the same thing. Well, I'm definitely not. I'm definitely not
Speaker 1: speaking about any Evan Silva directly, who I think is
Speaker 1: probably one of the few people that um uses Twitter correctly.
Speaker 1: I wouldn't say that about myself at times or nineties
Speaker 1: seven percent of the other people that I encounter on Twitter.
Speaker 1: Big don't people don't know this, but Evans formerly sorry,
Speaker 1: formerly of Rhoda World now at the Great Site, established
Speaker 1: the run with Adam Leviton eight feet tall, right, he
Speaker 1: could step in and fill some of these voids that
Speaker 1: are um he looks like a right tackle. He really does.
Speaker 1: You should play right now. Silva also born with the antibodies.
Speaker 1: I mean, the man is essentially where it was. I oh, yes,
Speaker 1: before Mark cut down the fantasy industry. For some reason,
Speaker 1: I wanted to point out that, yes, Clyde Edwards Hilaire
Speaker 1: there young running back is a guy that could go
Speaker 1: in the first round. And Adam rank are good buddy
Speaker 1: who did such a great job, uh for our fantasy
Speaker 1: football extravaganza last year. I would like to have him
Speaker 1: on again if that's okay with Mark, I don't know.
Speaker 1: I mean, obviously his panties in a I don't know,
Speaker 1: Am I wrong? I do think that. I'm not saying
Speaker 1: that's it was a hot point in there in their
Speaker 1: summer long you know, you know, to create your team
Speaker 1: uh scenario there, but it did get everyone real hot
Speaker 1: taky about the Chiefs backfield. No, I'm not saying these
Speaker 1: they were industry It is okay. People want some news.
Speaker 1: I mean, people are desperate for the football news to
Speaker 1: talk about. I think, so you know what I mean,
Speaker 1: Like this is like, okay, like you know, fantasy guys
Speaker 1: into action, we actually have some news. Because it's like
Speaker 1: it's July thirty one and they're saying they're telling us
Speaker 1: camps are starting. You turn on NFL Network and it's
Speaker 1: like inside training camp. Like we've been through so many
Speaker 1: of these training camps now, it's like our bodies are
Speaker 1: used to the routine of what this week would normally
Speaker 1: be like. But the reality is it's not really happening.
Speaker 1: It's not it's not happening like the season's happening in
Speaker 1: theory on time, but for now it's just we're just
Speaker 1: kind of waiting around. Let me reframe this, Mark uh Luke,
Speaker 1: Skywalker comes back to life on Star Wars and Mark
Speaker 1: Hamill signs on for the role, and they're gonna do
Speaker 1: the anti aging thing and he's gonna it's gonna be
Speaker 1: some hero's journey for Skywalker. All the Star Wars people,
Speaker 1: they're they're gonna have their quote unquote panties in a
Speaker 1: bunch of about it because that's exciting in their world
Speaker 1: and right and in your world, look at and it's
Speaker 1: not a time to be you know. Let people find
Speaker 1: the joy they can find in this in this tough offseason.
Speaker 1: So that I not some sort of grinch over it.
Speaker 1: All I said was that I logged off Twitter. I
Speaker 1: didn't report them, I didn't mute them or block them.
Speaker 1: I get it, and they're playing the role and I'm
Speaker 1: very happy for them. I took a break that was
Speaker 1: simply a person. And your joy comes from using the word,
Speaker 1: you know, panties repeatedly, apparently, just like you seem to
Speaker 1: enjoy doing that just as much as anyone else right there, Greg,
Speaker 1: So what is happening to the to this news segment Erica, Erica,
Speaker 1: can you jump on? Are you more comfortable with us
Speaker 1: saying panties or not? I think it either is kind
Speaker 1: of bad. Um. But if you say underpants like cutely,
Speaker 1: like you just did, then I guess it's like, yeah,
Speaker 1: it's like sort of funny. Uh yeah, but I I
Speaker 1: don't know. I mean, I used it in a colloquialism,
Speaker 1: in a phrase that's a common phrase. Yeah, not just
Speaker 1: on its own. That's what Greg did. All right, listen,
Speaker 1: enough fun, we have to talk about COVID nineteen some more.
Speaker 1: Lane Johnson, the right tackle of the Philadelphia Eagles, tested
Speaker 1: positive for COVID nineteen. He is one of uh several
Speaker 1: big name players that are on the COVID list. We're
Speaker 1: up to sixty six. Anthony bar the star linebacker of
Speaker 1: the Vikings, is one of eight Minnesota players. Kenny Golladay,
Speaker 1: the star wide receiver of the Lions, and former first
Speaker 1: round pick T. J. Hawkinson the tight end, is one
Speaker 1: of seven players. They are one of seven players for
Speaker 1: the Lions on the COVID list. And relatedly, after several
Speaker 1: positive tests, the Bills sent their rookies home and opted
Speaker 1: to go with some zoom type meetings rather than in person.
Speaker 1: And let me preface all this or supplement this by
Speaker 1: adding the Miami Marlins in baseball are up to of
Speaker 1: their roster has tested positive for COVID, and the St.
Speaker 1: Louis Cardinals had to shut down their games this weekend
Speaker 1: because we learned this morning multiple players tested positive Buckle
Speaker 1: Up Baby. The Bills thing was significant, I think because
Speaker 1: it was the first example of guys who had been
Speaker 1: in the building then were told to leave the build,
Speaker 1: that they passed the test initially and then they were
Speaker 1: let in and then they started failing them. And so
Speaker 1: that's just it's part of the the issues that these
Speaker 1: teams are going to be dealing with this entire month,
Speaker 1: and and the number is gonna rise, like we'll we'll
Speaker 1: get twenty or thirty more, you know, probably later today.
Speaker 1: We're taping this early, and it's it's just complicated. But
Speaker 1: then again, a team like the Texans, who have been
Speaker 1: in longer than anyone because they got to show up first.
Speaker 1: They've had like, you know, three or four streight days
Speaker 1: where everyone's in the building and everyone's passing it. But
Speaker 1: but so far, yeah, like fifteen guys on the vikings
Speaker 1: and lines especially seems seems like a lot. I mean,
Speaker 1: for me, it's I I'm feeling more optimistic. To be honest,
Speaker 1: I know all this stuff is happening right now, but
Speaker 1: this is when it would happen. Right You're getting everyone
Speaker 1: in fresh off the streets and where they come from,
Speaker 1: and you know, you you hope you get the cases
Speaker 1: out of the way and you move forward. Football has
Speaker 1: this distinct advantage that baseball does not, and Baseball is
Speaker 1: getting killed by right now. Games every day in baseball
Speaker 1: you're having to cancel left and right just to comply
Speaker 1: with the basic you know, test team procedures. Football could
Speaker 1: be real thorny two, but you have a seven day
Speaker 1: break in between most of these games, and it has
Speaker 1: it gives players a chance to go into into whatever
Speaker 1: COVID protocol they cult and back out. I mean, look,
Speaker 1: it's still and you're only traveling eight times a year,
Speaker 1: right right? And you know, people said, oh, well they
Speaker 1: should you know baseball is aren't Baseball teams actually only
Speaker 1: traveling nine times a year for most of them in
Speaker 1: this sixty games slate where they're trying to see it's different.
Speaker 1: But the issue is you're traveling once for one game
Speaker 1: in baseball, you know, like these series, it's gonna get
Speaker 1: tough to make them up. How do you finish? It's
Speaker 1: just not a baseball podcast. But football teams have a
Speaker 1: better shot of completing one game per week, per team.
Speaker 1: We'll see, it's a whole it's a massive wild card.
Speaker 1: I'm just no, I'm just like trying to think, like,
Speaker 1: how if what happened, what's happening in baseball right now,
Speaker 1: is something similar happens in football and a team just
Speaker 1: can't play. I guess you have a bye week two,
Speaker 1: I would think at some point, and these conversations are
Speaker 1: probably going on around the clock at Park Avenue. If
Speaker 1: they're going to make some type of flex more flexible
Speaker 1: nature to the schedule that maybe adds in another bye
Speaker 1: week or something that allows them to have a little
Speaker 1: more wiggle room in case they lose a team. I
Speaker 1: think they have. I think they have. They'll have contingencies,
Speaker 1: and they have said, you know, they kind of built
Speaker 1: it out so that it could go as the Super Bowl,
Speaker 1: and theory could go as late as the end of February,
Speaker 1: which was three weeks later. So I think to your point, Dan,
Speaker 1: they're they're ready, and they but that it hasn't all
Speaker 1: been written down. And I think that was one thing.
Speaker 1: I think the NFL is watching Major League Baseball and
Speaker 1: they're figuring out out as they go, and I think, um,
Speaker 1: what the NFL might learn from that is they want
Speaker 1: to have here's what the procedure is if this happens,
Speaker 1: if there is an outbreak, because it sort of felt
Speaker 1: like either the MLB wasn't putting that out there or
Speaker 1: they were. They weren't. They didn't really have it written
Speaker 1: down of what they kind of and the problem here,
Speaker 1: of course, what do we got? Alright? This just in
Speaker 1: Antonio Brown is being suspended for eight games for violation
Speaker 1: of the NFL Personal Conduct Policy beginning whenever he signed
Speaker 1: per league source doesn't or doesn't sign. I thought he
Speaker 1: was retired. I don't know here. I mean, basically, Lamar
Speaker 1: Jackson is not the only good quarterback who's trying to
Speaker 1: get him on his team. Lamar Jackson said it publicly,
Speaker 1: and John Harvey's coach on Thursday said, Wow, okay, that's
Speaker 1: you know, I take I take Lamar's opinion seriously, which
Speaker 1: sounded like he was, you know, John Harby was open
Speaker 1: to it, and then a hardboy even hinted at this
Speaker 1: was coming that it was his understanding that he wasn't
Speaker 1: really allowed to play yet. And now that this is
Speaker 1: out there, some team will probably be just based on
Speaker 1: those Hardbot comments, it seems like some team might take
Speaker 1: a shot and it might just be the ravens now
Speaker 1: Back to your you know, baseball takes or whatever you
Speaker 1: were saying, Greg, what was the by the way, what
Speaker 1: was Lamar Jackson had a a worrying quote about Antonio Brown.
Speaker 1: That's something like the guy, he's the guy we need
Speaker 1: in our locker room. He was working out, he was
Speaker 1: working out with him, um this offseason. I feel like
Speaker 1: we have a lot of evidence to say that is
Speaker 1: not someone you need in your locker room. But the
Speaker 1: guy can play. And we've also said we're not talking
Speaker 1: to Antonio Brown on the show unless there's some tangible news.
Speaker 1: That's tangible news. Now there's a structure in place for
Speaker 1: that discipline and teams can make their decision whether they
Speaker 1: want to get in bed with that player. My point
Speaker 1: I was gonna make before we move on out of
Speaker 1: this COVID talk is yes, the NFL could build in
Speaker 1: some flexibility about pushing back the Super Bowl to late February.
Speaker 1: But it's a catch twenty two because the longer the
Speaker 1: season last, the more you leave yourself open to calamity
Speaker 1: with positive testing. There's really there's no fool proof method
Speaker 1: for this. The fullproof method is the is the country
Speaker 1: having cases under control. And even that's not full proof,
Speaker 1: but that's the that's the best method. I mean, I
Speaker 1: feel like a nuclear bomb would need to land for
Speaker 1: them not to um play the opener on that Thursday
Speaker 1: night in September. I think they just I know, I
Speaker 1: just feel they're hell bent on that happening. From there,
Speaker 1: it's hang on, we'll see what happened. Less one of
Speaker 1: those teams get sure. I mean, everything's influx, but I
Speaker 1: just it just seems the idea of delaying the start
Speaker 1: of the season, which might make just as much sense.
Speaker 1: You're hearing a lot about that. Uh. In other news,
Speaker 1: unsigned franchise player Yannick and Gokway of the Jaguars is
Speaker 1: not reported to camp. We all know and Gockway wants
Speaker 1: out desperately of Jacksonville. He said he has no plans
Speaker 1: or as understand, he has no plans to sign his
Speaker 1: franchise tag and end his hold hold out anytime since
Speaker 1: since he's not technically under contract, because he hasn't put
Speaker 1: pen to paper, you can't find him the way you
Speaker 1: would find a player that would hold out in a
Speaker 1: traditional sense, so that this is a bit of a
Speaker 1: Texas standoff if you will here from Kingsland, Uh. Doug
Speaker 1: Morone told reporters this week that he has not even
Speaker 1: been in contact with the lineman M. He's the only
Speaker 1: hold out. He's not a hold out technically, as you mentioned,
Speaker 1: but he's it. But it's also it's a great year
Speaker 1: to just stay away. I mean, no one's even practicing
Speaker 1: for two two and a half weeks. What what is
Speaker 1: Inkway really missing? As long as he's as long as
Speaker 1: he's in shape. But he is the only one. There
Speaker 1: is not a veteran contract hold that, which is partly
Speaker 1: I think because of the pandemic, but I think a
Speaker 1: lot of it is just the new CB a UM
Speaker 1: so aggressively discouraged people from holding out because they're gonna
Speaker 1: take you can take your money away. Uh, And it's working.
Speaker 1: There's no there's no there's no veterans out are looking
Speaker 1: for more money and during this game, I guess like
Speaker 1: because he could play um with on another team under
Speaker 1: the tag. So maybe there's a scenario where if you
Speaker 1: had enough cap money, someone would you know if they
Speaker 1: viewed themselves as a win this year type team. And
Speaker 1: I looked at a couple of teams that have twenty
Speaker 1: million plus CAPRAM, and they I see them as playoffs
Speaker 1: potential Bills Eagles, Titans, Patriots, cults each of them. Hillary
Speaker 1: and the Patriots have twenty million and CAPRAM. They had
Speaker 1: zero when they signed Cam Newton. I'm Cam Newton. I
Speaker 1: would be like, hey, how about give me some of
Speaker 1: that money? Corona helped them out financially. I mean if
Speaker 1: if in no other way, radio silence in Jacksonville, some
Speaker 1: some contact in Tennessee the mystery surrounding defensive end Vic Beasley.
Speaker 1: He has been in contact with Titans GM John Robinson.
Speaker 1: He will Beasley report to the team in the quote
Speaker 1: near future. Beasley was a no show for the first
Speaker 1: for a few days of two days of camp, uh,
Speaker 1: and it made you wonder if he was going to
Speaker 1: be opting out for the season. But at this point, UH,
Speaker 1: it seems like that's not the case. It's the same
Speaker 1: Beasley at fifteen and a half sacks a few years back,
Speaker 1: and that is something that the Titans could really use
Speaker 1: on their defense. I know you're excited about these Titans.
Speaker 1: Now you just ma you've gone all the way around.
Speaker 1: You're big Titans guy, Now big. I wouldn't say that
Speaker 1: they're fine. They're fine. They're just another team, you know,
Speaker 1: but they're not the Titoons anymore. That's over, just like
Speaker 1: the you know, the Washington Are words that's gone. So
Speaker 1: too is the T word on the Around the NFL podcast,
Speaker 1: unless they somehow reacquired Marcus Mariotta and then spent four
Speaker 1: years convincing themselves that he's a franchise quarterback. I don't know.
Speaker 1: I don't think that's gonna happen though. Uh. In other news,
Speaker 1: spinning through the old League, the League of Ball Football
Speaker 1: that is really vamping. We're wrapping up, you know, an
Speaker 1: off season storyline. We've spent a lot of time on
Speaker 1: here Monday Night football. Let's get a little upbeat and
Speaker 1: what's going on in the boot for ESPN, which has
Speaker 1: been obviously the world is a wide leader. It's been
Speaker 1: trying to land a big fish. Tony Romo, Peyton Manning,
Speaker 1: al Michaels, Drew Brees. None of these things worked out,
Speaker 1: so what do they do? And our and our buddy
Speaker 1: I'm reading this. This is uh the info I'm getting
Speaker 1: here from Andrew Marshaw and our buddy at the New
Speaker 1: York Post would love to have it again on the show.
Speaker 1: He's their media guy. He does a great job. He
Speaker 1: likened it to UH, ESPN trying to land a franchise
Speaker 1: quarterback and instead landing on some game managers. Steve Levy,
Speaker 1: Brian Greasy, Lewis Riddick all will be in the booth
Speaker 1: for Monday night games this year. Um, we'll see if
Speaker 1: there's a long term situation Greg with a with all
Speaker 1: the big money deals coming up and ESPN and ABC,
Speaker 1: UH maybe looking to eventually get that franchise star. But
Speaker 1: it looks like we have some adults in the booth
Speaker 1: that should be able to deliver a professional broadcast that
Speaker 1: doesn't drive everyone completely saying right, which is great. I
Speaker 1: mean we've talked about there's so many times I'm watching
Speaker 1: like the Fox Fox's fourth team and just thinking like, well,
Speaker 1: this would be better than Monday night football. Like they're
Speaker 1: they're doing a fine job. I think Lewis Riddick has
Speaker 1: a really high ceiling. I like him. I wish it
Speaker 1: was a two man booth. They just feel like you're
Speaker 1: just asking for it. With the three man booth, it's
Speaker 1: just it's harder for everyone and they haven't all work
Speaker 1: together before. But uh, I do think it'll be an
Speaker 1: upgrade and they'll they'll make Monday nights a lot less frustrating,
Speaker 1: um for us. I know for West this this is
Speaker 1: gonna be a welcome news thing. He needed this, you know,
Speaker 1: they needed to make a change, and they probably should
Speaker 1: have made one last offseason and they kind of, you know,
Speaker 1: stuck to it. I do wonder though, if you're Lewis Riddick,
Speaker 1: because I think he could really shine on Monday night football.
Speaker 1: Is they are the legit game managers where they're basically
Speaker 1: just gonna turn around when things get back to normal
Speaker 1: and replace them with the team they really want, with
Speaker 1: one of these like shiny you know, retired quarterbacks. I
Speaker 1: hope that if they, if they thrive, they give a
Speaker 1: chance at the chance of them sticking around. UM. I
Speaker 1: had a very interesting interaction UM that I really can't
Speaker 1: repeat on this show with Brian Greasy in that will forever.
Speaker 1: Um shade how I feel about the person, but I
Speaker 1: I positively or negatively, I will just say it to
Speaker 1: be fair. I mean, this is a long time ago.
Speaker 1: This is a totally different person back then. Um, I
Speaker 1: will just leave it at that. But um, I wish
Speaker 1: I hope well bare knuckle parking LAPPERL. I mean, why
Speaker 1: would I get into it? He is huge, Like you
Speaker 1: just think he's a quarterback. He's actually a giant person
Speaker 1: all right. Without getting into the whole story. But altercation
Speaker 1: with Greasy but an unpleasant um interaction where I probably
Speaker 1: should not have bothered him. Um I saw him out
Speaker 1: on the town in downtown Denver and should have not
Speaker 1: bothered him. Um. Well, he was sort of infamous that
Speaker 1: you know. He was in the news quite a bit
Speaker 1: for um, you know, he's drinking and his had some
Speaker 1: legal issues because of it too around right around that time.
Speaker 1: So I'm not trying to right, why would all together?
Speaker 1: But he was he was famous in Denver for living
Speaker 1: the high life as a player. Tough spot, trying to
Speaker 1: replace John Elway. You know people, Yeah, I think that
Speaker 1: was part of it, was right, he you know, it
Speaker 1: was a tough transition and maybe I caught him in
Speaker 1: an off moment and then yeah, and and Bryan's defense.
Speaker 1: Mark and I have been in the news for drinking
Speaker 1: as well. Yeah, no, I like, I really, but I'm
Speaker 1: not really judging him. I just um like I I
Speaker 1: was also out on the town. Let's it's not gonna
Speaker 1: come up in a big Google search like I just
Speaker 1: did for Greasy. Just to make sure you know, well,
Speaker 1: this didn't make for you guys saying that should probably
Speaker 1: shouldn't have made this news show either. So Mark and
Speaker 1: I have avoided the blotterer. So that's a good start. Um,
Speaker 1: all right? And uh, one last thing, get well soon.
Speaker 1: Tom Coughlin, the former Giants coach and JA Jaguars executive,
Speaker 1: fractured four ribs, slightly punctured his lung, and needed stitches
Speaker 1: in his head after a bicycle accident last weekend in Jacksonville,
Speaker 1: hospitalized for the night. Uh. In the words of Coughlin,
Speaker 1: another man on a racing bike comes out of nowhere
Speaker 1: and clips the front of my bike. Seventy three years old.
Speaker 1: Looks like he's on the mend. Uh can you even imagine?
Speaker 1: Like it sounds like he got roughed up. Tom here,
Speaker 1: But if Tom had any of his faculties after he
Speaker 1: got knocked off the bike. You know, in the middle
Speaker 1: of these park he's finding a switch from the nearby
Speaker 1: brush and just lashing into this this other biker Just
Speaker 1: think it's seven shots on the hiny. I think it's
Speaker 1: always weird that you see um anything where that's possible.
Speaker 1: Maybe that's what he would have done. But whenever, like
Speaker 1: a famous person gets into a car accident or a
Speaker 1: bike accident like this with a total unknown, I think
Speaker 1: would be weird to be the person on the other
Speaker 1: end that like um, like the person that got saved
Speaker 1: by Walking Phoenix. Remember that. I don't think that seems
Speaker 1: like a PR stunt to me. But Walking Phoenix pulled
Speaker 1: like a man out of his car in like the
Speaker 1: Hollywood streets. It just I don't know how I could.
Speaker 1: Didn't show him ecvay save someone all sorts of a
Speaker 1: lot of them seem like PR levers. But there was
Speaker 1: a similar situation. My boy Bono from You two was
Speaker 1: biking in Central Park like five years ago and almost
Speaker 1: killed himself. Same thing. Somebody, he said, someone cut him off. Like,
Speaker 1: imagine you killed Bono in Central Park on your bike.
Speaker 1: It would be terrible. It's like you've run the guy over.
Speaker 1: It's like, wait, who's that? All right, let's do the mailbag.
Speaker 1: That's what's happening in the news. Alright, buckle up, Greg,
Speaker 1: we're gonna have to connect with our listeners. I mean
Speaker 1: you you are, you are presenting this and uh totally
Speaker 1: uh ridiculous. Way. Maybe I did I miss being able
Speaker 1: to kill segments that used to be a kind of
Speaker 1: a whole bit. So you know you're just setting it
Speaker 1: up for me. Okay, the last mail bag, let's call
Speaker 1: this all right, let's get it going. We'll start with
Speaker 1: get funny. How deeply do you think the Patriots opted
Speaker 1: out defense will affect Cam's stock for next season? And
Speaker 1: if things don't go well, do you foresee issues developing
Speaker 1: during the season? Greg, when I saw this that the
Speaker 1: reason I pulled this one out is I remember when
Speaker 1: what you wrote about Cam when he signed with the
Speaker 1: Pats that he finally got some good luck. And it's
Speaker 1: hard not to see this as another stroke of bad
Speaker 1: luck that he gets to the Patriots. Uh, the backbone
Speaker 1: of the defense disappears and he has to make good
Speaker 1: now with a lesser Patriots team. Yeah, I think the
Speaker 1: defense had a recipe to decline even before losing High
Speaker 1: Tower Chung, I'm not too worried about I don't think
Speaker 1: it affects Cam at all in terms of his value.
Speaker 1: Cam's gonna play well, you know, based on what McDaniels
Speaker 1: puts out there for him and how the offense plays,
Speaker 1: and uh, I don't see, you know, whether they win
Speaker 1: games or lose games. Obviously it'd help them if if
Speaker 1: they're going into the playoffs and everything. But he's gonna
Speaker 1: be able to set his value, reset it and and
Speaker 1: heck all this salary cap space. Maybe it'll be the
Speaker 1: Patriots that give him a nice contract if he's playing well. Mark,
Speaker 1: I'll tee you up on this one. From our buddy
Speaker 1: Neil Dutton, we love Neil. What classic movie most deserves
Speaker 1: a reboot that hasn't had one yet? We don't need
Speaker 1: another look at the Spiderman Origin. Although those movies, the
Speaker 1: latest reboot are excellent. I've been watching them with my kids.
Speaker 1: We need a modern take on Logan's Run in my opinion,
Speaker 1: Neil says, what about you, Mark, Well, I mean, well
Speaker 1: that works for me, because Logan's Run I don't I
Speaker 1: don't like that movie. At all. Um. I saw that
Speaker 1: of the y m C A lock in in seventh
Speaker 1: grade and like it did a bad things for the room.
Speaker 1: I just because I was like, this is the weirdest
Speaker 1: movie to show a bunch of third and fourth graders.
Speaker 1: It was a lot of uh adult themes. I thought
Speaker 1: going through it, I would look if I most remakes
Speaker 1: just shouldn't happen. Let's start there. But if you want
Speaker 1: to make some money, I think you could redo um,
Speaker 1: the Outsiders and you could you could that could be
Speaker 1: like a parade of like today's biggest young stars, um
Speaker 1: and that you know, the themes could be changed and
Speaker 1: altered a little bit and updated. Um. I get scared
Speaker 1: of things like I could see them making like Lebowski twenty,
Speaker 1: like just don't do certain things please with a lot
Speaker 1: of remakes, just like don't remake Goonies, don't remake Maybe
Speaker 1: I would maybe redo the Graduate or like, um, you know,
Speaker 1: it's like that shouldn't be remade because it's a good movie.
Speaker 1: But if you updated it were like Dustin Hoffman was
Speaker 1: the grandfather and all that chaos that he um spun
Speaker 1: is happening like two generations down. Or I'm more into
Speaker 1: see like certain sequels they should do than than remakes.
Speaker 1: But what about you guys, Maybe Ferrest Fueler's Day Off.
Speaker 1: I don't know, No, I and I think maybe part
Speaker 1: of what Neil is getting out is not necessarily a remake,
Speaker 1: but an origin story type tale where you learn what
Speaker 1: happened before. I'm very excited about because I'm just finishing,
Speaker 1: like my fifth three watch of The Sopranos. I have
Speaker 1: two episodes left. The Saints, The Many Saints of Newark.
Speaker 1: I believe it's called as a movie that's coming out
Speaker 1: next year that's going to kind of tell you about
Speaker 1: the backstory of Tony Soprano's father and the group that
Speaker 1: was around him when he was coming up. In a
Speaker 1: young Tony Soprano played by h James gandel Feni's real
Speaker 1: life son, James Gandelfini sad they passed away in two
Speaker 1: thousand thirteen. That I love that idea, right, I like
Speaker 1: that too, But that's an essentially a prequel or that's
Speaker 1: not a remake. Would you remake Sopranos? I wouldn't touch that. Nonsense. No,
Speaker 1: all right, let's move on. Kyle Slick, do you think
Speaker 1: the San Diego Chargers the organ not players regret moving
Speaker 1: to l A. Is there a future where they find
Speaker 1: their way back to San Diego and maybe moved to
Speaker 1: another market. Is the lack of excitement long term or temporary?
Speaker 1: I it's so hard to tell anything right now. And
Speaker 1: it's not just an l A thing. It's a world
Speaker 1: thing about something that seems suddenly so small, as whether
Speaker 1: an NFL team will get a footing in terms of
Speaker 1: local fan base. But it certainly was foreboding UH in
Speaker 1: terms of moving into the Sofi Stadium this fall and
Speaker 1: the idea of trying to get a stadium filled with
Speaker 1: fans that are rooting for the home team. Whether it
Speaker 1: ever happens or not, I don't know, but I did.
Speaker 1: It did cause me to do a little bit of
Speaker 1: quick research. And I don't know if this has changed
Speaker 1: because this reporting is October of two thousand eighteen, But
Speaker 1: according to Mike Florio, the Chargers have a firm twenty
Speaker 1: year lease at Sofi Stadium and the Chargers hold a
Speaker 1: pair of exclusive tenure options after the twenty years. So
Speaker 1: unless there's a wiggle room or this has changed since
Speaker 1: that report, Charges aren't going anywhere. UM. I would love
Speaker 1: for them to go back to San Diego. It feels
Speaker 1: like they should have never left. My the you got
Speaker 1: in the way of all that. But it seems like
Speaker 1: they're gonna have to force themselves to make it work here.
Speaker 1: I I don't think they have any regrets at all.
Speaker 1: Spanos family the ownership. They had a bad relationship with
Speaker 1: the city of San Diego with the stadium there. They
Speaker 1: weren't gonna be able to build their own stadium. They
Speaker 1: wanted to get out of there, and I think they
Speaker 1: felt fortunate that they were able to jump in on
Speaker 1: this Rams deal. Whether that's good for Chargers fans are
Speaker 1: the NFL is another matter. It's not even it hasn't been,
Speaker 1: it's not. I mean, but this is it's a different
Speaker 1: it's a family, it's a team. They don't have their
Speaker 1: money and other businesses. I saw something that they you know,
Speaker 1: they bought that team for eight four million in like
Speaker 1: the eighties something like that. I mean, Joey Bose Is
Speaker 1: guaranteed money was about what the team cost for them
Speaker 1: to buy. And they're not one of the most cash
Speaker 1: rich teams. That's no uh no secret. They're they're praying
Speaker 1: this thing works out, but they're basically just kind of
Speaker 1: hanging onto the Rams coattails. It's not a good place
Speaker 1: to be. Has it wasn't a good place for the
Speaker 1: Clippers to be, hasn't been a good place earlier for
Speaker 1: the Jets to be. Like, you don't want to be
Speaker 1: that that that second team just kind of hanging onto
Speaker 1: the other one. But you don't think. I don't because
Speaker 1: they had no you know, if the NFL could have
Speaker 1: forced them to sell, that might have been, you know,
Speaker 1: like they had this was their way out. They're still
Speaker 1: getting that same check that every team gets. They split it.
Speaker 1: It's the most you know, anti capitalist idea possible for
Speaker 1: the most like money making capitalist thing is they're they're
Speaker 1: getting that same check from the TV revenue and everyone
Speaker 1: else that all the teams get. So they were happy
Speaker 1: to solve the stadium because they were in an untenable situation.
Speaker 1: I think there there's no regrets with leaving the situation
Speaker 1: in San Diego. The idea that everyone is gonna look
Speaker 1: with rose colored glasses at what's happening in l A
Speaker 1: is to me, I have a problem with that. I
Speaker 1: think the best advice coming from X Raiders and Rams
Speaker 1: players and people involved with when both teams were here
Speaker 1: in the past. Was l A is not a two town,
Speaker 1: a two team town. It should not be. It just
Speaker 1: shouldn't be. And and that was when they Raiders and
Speaker 1: Rams teams in the playoffs, they had attendance issues. This
Speaker 1: sticks out as an isolated, big problem for the NFL.
Speaker 1: If the if this season we're going as we expected,
Speaker 1: Chargers attendance would be one of the bigger stories and
Speaker 1: stay more popular. Though that is that's something to consider.
Speaker 1: Like there are a lot of stadiums that were half
Speaker 1: empty all the time back then, you know, and now
Speaker 1: there aren't any and I think there was. I don't
Speaker 1: know if they're gonna get Chargers fans in there. They're
Speaker 1: gonna get people in there, They're gonna get people who
Speaker 1: want to watch NFL game, They're gonna get the opposition,
Speaker 1: just like they didn't at the last place. I mean
Speaker 1: the problem for the players, it's a problem when the
Speaker 1: team that should have probably come to l A if
Speaker 1: you wanted to do too, was the Raiders when they
Speaker 1: went to to to Las Vegas. I mean, just I
Speaker 1: think too many. You could just have a common sense
Speaker 1: conversation with most people and they could identify issues with
Speaker 1: this a little internal podcast questioning here from Josh Rosanowski.
Speaker 1: When does the behind the scenes dock of the Wheel
Speaker 1: of Teams come out? How many episodes a segment meant
Speaker 1: to shine a light unless talked about teams cut short
Speaker 1: prematurely after landing on seven highly talked about teams, including
Speaker 1: the Jets. Seems like there's a story there. There's no story.
Speaker 1: The Titans are one of the teams. First of all,
Speaker 1: there were some random random We knew that it was.
Speaker 1: It was. It was part of the the issue with
Speaker 1: that from the beginning. We knew we weren't going to
Speaker 1: get to all and we were gonna get to as
Speaker 1: many as we hope, but there was there was no
Speaker 1: chance that doing it weekly, starting in May or whatever,
Speaker 1: that we were ever going to get well. I'd say
Speaker 1: to the person who asked the question, keep digging. Luke Robbins,
Speaker 1: how is that name familiar? Because he is the man
Speaker 1: who wrote the great Connie Fox song, not the winning song. Here,
Speaker 1: let me start over, because I totally thought this is
Speaker 1: the guy that wrote the song that won, but it
Speaker 1: turns out he wrote a song that didn't win. Luke
Speaker 1: Robbins says, at what point am I the creator of
Speaker 1: a controversial Connie fox Cox song, going to be commissioned
Speaker 1: to create a theme song for Patrick Claiban. I think
Speaker 1: this guy is too hot. I don't think he um.
Speaker 1: I think he's a little too um toxic with his
Speaker 1: songwriting styles. And I just don't think he is that guy.
Speaker 1: But I respect that he's throwing his name in the ring.
Speaker 1: But of course this is a democracy. I'm curious what
Speaker 1: you guys think Patrick clab does deserve a song. It's
Speaker 1: a big leap to say commissioned because you gave us
Speaker 1: the previous work for free. Commission suggested make it. You're
Speaker 1: the only one right now, but it is a good
Speaker 1: idea to be good to get a Claibon song. And
Speaker 1: I and I apologize. Colleen was on a couple of
Speaker 1: weeks ago when you guys were on, and I totally
Speaker 1: forgot about, you know, bringing the song back. Um listeners
Speaker 1: let me know that we should have had the song.
Speaker 1: But I know she wants to join us next week,
Speaker 1: so that there's a little tease for me. So we
Speaker 1: did like a month long contest to pick a song,
Speaker 1: and your first role in the host chair with on
Speaker 1: the on you didn't play the song. Didn't even think
Speaker 1: about it. Neither did Ricky. So you know, oh, you're
Speaker 1: throwing Erica under the bus. That feels no, it's not
Speaker 1: right there. For I was like, should we play the
Speaker 1: song now that er wait a minute, she's completely making
Speaker 1: I'll find the slack. I'll give Ricky credit. She's a
Speaker 1: great liar. You know. Rookie's going Rookie's going full full
Speaker 1: Jamal Adams now just making up. I was like, I pull,
Speaker 1: and he was like Dan and his stupid ideas, like
Speaker 1: I hate this song, like I haven't in writing. Wow,
Speaker 1: well it's speaking of digging. But you've almost convinced Mark
Speaker 1: Mark is the one guy will fall for you. Now
Speaker 1: you're now you're slinging an arrow at me, Like I'm
Speaker 1: just saying, you're pretty defensive buying. Yeah, it just seems
Speaker 1: like I love you so well, that's what you do
Speaker 1: when someone's coming at you. I love I pushed for
Speaker 1: that song for when the segment was lesser because of it.
Speaker 1: Can we I don't know what's happening with Greg today, Erica?
Speaker 1: Can we hear one of the Connie Fox songs that
Speaker 1: didn't win? Just for fun, Connie's here She's gonna piece
Speaker 1: it all together for us. Finally someone we can trust.
Speaker 1: Connie's here. Why are all these animals smiling? What the
Speaker 1: baby Hoidie? Connie Fox will solve the puzzle? That's such
Speaker 1: a Connie Fox vibe to it, a version of an
Speaker 1: aspect of Connie that we know. I never thought there
Speaker 1: would be an original song tied to this podcast that
Speaker 1: had the French horn in it, and yet here we are.
Speaker 1: T Mr Trooper is another long time listener to the show.
Speaker 1: What's more likely Dan permanently moves to Texas or Greg
Speaker 1: returns to Martha's vineyard as the prodigal son. A little
Speaker 1: biblical talk there from TMR in a big spot. Um,
Speaker 1: I'll start Texas is a great place. I've really enjoyed
Speaker 1: my time here. It's too hot I gotta be honest
Speaker 1: with you. It's too hot here. That bothers me. But
Speaker 1: other than that, I like the state, I like the people.
Speaker 1: I like there's family here. I would not rule it
Speaker 1: out as a possibility. It's not likely to happen, but um,
Speaker 1: I truly do enjoy my time here. How about you? Greg? Oh? Yeah,
Speaker 1: I'll never move back to Master I never lived in
Speaker 1: Martha's Vineyard. I lived there once for a summer, bumming
Speaker 1: around waiting tables. Um so I've never lived there, but
Speaker 1: my parents lived there. I I don't think I'll ever
Speaker 1: live on the East Coast again, would be Greg, How
Speaker 1: about this? Would you ever take a waiter's job again?
Speaker 1: I would? I actually think about I think about all
Speaker 1: the other little random jobs that I would that I
Speaker 1: would rat that I wouldn't mind doing like later in life.
Speaker 1: Maybe waiting doesn't really give you that much satisfaction, but
Speaker 1: it's good for the cash. It's not bad. You're seeing
Speaker 1: new people. Ricky, I'm gonna keep I'm gonna keep you,
Speaker 1: keep you on screen. Here are Buddy Christopher sing for
Speaker 1: the day team with the best chance to go from
Speaker 1: last place in the division in twenty nineteen to a
Speaker 1: playoff spot in the Miami Dolphins. These are options the
Speaker 1: Miami Dolphins with TOA, the Cardinals Kyler Murray making the
Speaker 1: leap candidate, the Lions with the healthy, healthy Matthew Stafford,
Speaker 1: and the Bengals with young Joe Burrow. Most likely of
Speaker 1: that group, I'd say the Cardinals, I think with DeAndre
Speaker 1: Hopkins added to that that list, and and Kyler has
Speaker 1: a second year. Um, that's my vote. I feel like
Speaker 1: the only one that would shock me is if we
Speaker 1: saw the Dolphins in the playoffs. The other three football
Speaker 1: is crazy. I wouldn't be shocked by the Dolphins, and
Speaker 1: I wouldn't, but I I kind of starting to feel
Speaker 1: like the Lions have some up their sleeve. I think
Speaker 1: I already I already think that they're a wild card team.
Speaker 1: All outsiders had them as I mean, they were almost
Speaker 1: all four teams almost had the exact same projection from them.
Speaker 1: But the Lions by just like a decimal point where
Speaker 1: their NFC North favorites not suffered when he's healthy. Is badass.
Speaker 1: And also they're COVID relieve their COVID list, like I think,
Speaker 1: didn't they even put like carry On Johnson like they
Speaker 1: have like a they have like U. I feel like
Speaker 1: they're not on the COVID list, but I mean, this
Speaker 1: is the COVID list is interesting because you actually don't
Speaker 1: even know who got COVID or not unless the players
Speaker 1: want to. It's also six weeks away from the season
Speaker 1: right now, so I don't put too much on it
Speaker 1: was Kenny Golladay, I'm sorry and t J. Hawkins. But
Speaker 1: either way like that, it's a really like they're beefy,
Speaker 1: you know the Lions. Yes, the Lions need something up
Speaker 1: their sleeve. I know they went to the playoffs a
Speaker 1: few years back. They got robbed, uh in the playoff
Speaker 1: game against the Cowboys. I think it was the should
Speaker 1: have won the game. Something happened wacky at the end. Uh.
Speaker 1: But but you know the game, right, yeah, of course
Speaker 1: because before like, yes, we know the game. This is
Speaker 1: the most painful memory of our last twenty years. We
Speaker 1: don't have my was that call? It was? It was
Speaker 1: a rough call? What was the call? While we're here
Speaker 1: against the Cowboys? It was I don't even remember. It
Speaker 1: was a week before the cat it was right, but
Speaker 1: it man, I'd have to do. This is Mark? This
Speaker 1: from Drew. How is Mark? Finding? Is blue Jay's fandom
Speaker 1: so far? Mark a fan of the not Toronto Blue Jays,
Speaker 1: but the Buffalo Blue Jays. It's a one year contract,
Speaker 1: um I and I you know, I think a lot
Speaker 1: of people thought I'd probably watched that Sunday and then
Speaker 1: never again. I've watched every one of their games. I
Speaker 1: actually watched, um the entire ten inning uh loss. They
Speaker 1: had this guy Yamaguchi who's lost. He's been dinged up
Speaker 1: in two extra innings losses. Get him out of there.
Speaker 1: This guy cannot deal with it. But they have a clo.
Speaker 1: He's played that role in these extra inning games. I
Speaker 1: I don't. I'm not one of these guys that pretends
Speaker 1: I know everything about the team because I've been following
Speaker 1: them for four days. People ask me questions, I say,
Speaker 1: I have no idea what the answers but I and
Speaker 1: I also don't have a baseball I but I did
Speaker 1: watch this guy, Nate Pearson pitch and he looked like
Speaker 1: the real deal to me. I mean, he was super solid.
Speaker 1: So I think there are a frisky team. They're three
Speaker 1: and four right now. They took these they were in
Speaker 1: much better position two days ago. They're out of commission
Speaker 1: for Corona on the weekend. Terrible timing. They are frisky.
Speaker 1: I could see them as a wild card team. Part
Speaker 1: aren't a ton of baseball teams getting in the playoffs anyways? Yeah, they,
Speaker 1: I mean, barring the meltdown, they gotta have to have
Speaker 1: sixteen teams able to play the playoffs. Of the league
Speaker 1: is out this weekend with Corona. Corona related delays, which
Speaker 1: is such a pretty big percentage. Gotta keep the faith. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's pretty rough right now. But you picked a really
Speaker 1: good team, Mark, That is a team at They are
Speaker 1: in the American League east of my Yankees, and they
Speaker 1: have an awesome young core Bo Bashette. These are all
Speaker 1: guys tied to former stars. Bobashette his father, Mark, that's
Speaker 1: right in your Midnight Star, Mark, I think you're thinking
Speaker 1: of Boba Fette who that's He's not that son, Yes,
Speaker 1: Calvin Bio, Craig Bisios son, Bobashette, Dante Bischette's son, and
Speaker 1: Vladimir Guerrero Jr. Vlad Guerrero Senior son. I mean that,
Speaker 1: and all those guys are peak prospects. I took like,
Speaker 1: I took a lot of advice from from baseball watchers
Speaker 1: on which team to pick, and they got a lot
Speaker 1: of mentions, and um, that's why I went there, and
Speaker 1: I'm glad I did. They have been fun to watch,
Speaker 1: all right. A couple more from Scride. Would you trade
Speaker 1: not being on the cover of the Gatesville Messenger for
Speaker 1: a release of the Delaware tapes In a second, I
Speaker 1: would give up the cover of the Messenger, and I
Speaker 1: wanted to thank, by the way, Heather Ashley, who wrote
Speaker 1: the piece um that was on the front page of
Speaker 1: this week Messenger of the old Zeuser. But I would
Speaker 1: give it all up if Greg just finally gave us
Speaker 1: the tapes, produced the Delaware tapes, uh, and just made
Speaker 1: us all so happy in this time where there's not
Speaker 1: a lot of happiness. I like that you think I've
Speaker 1: just had them and holding out all these years. And Delaware,
Speaker 1: of course is Greg's prog rock band that he started
Speaker 1: in high school and he was the lead singer one
Speaker 1: day Ricky then of the Avenue. Can you rank the
Speaker 1: Taylor Swift albums? That's like naming That's harder than naming
Speaker 1: your first born, Like I cannot. Okay, Well, let me
Speaker 1: preface saying this like it's probably the hardest thing I've
Speaker 1: ever had to do. And I think no matter what
Speaker 1: I say will be controversial. But that's just a testament
Speaker 1: to Swift ease in their passion, you know, so hot
Speaker 1: take right off the bat her release in two thousand fourteen.
Speaker 1: Banger after banger albums are actually perfect from Star just
Speaker 1: to finish besides shake it off right second, this is
Speaker 1: I mean this, it can go anyway. Fearless two, You've
Speaker 1: got Fearless fifteen, Love Story Forever and Always. I mean,
Speaker 1: come on, third, Red, you know you've got twenty two
Speaker 1: all too well. I knew your trouble Speak now is fourth,
Speaker 1: even though it's incredible. Mine mean, dear John like enchanted, Hello,
Speaker 1: lover all the way down at number five and twenty
Speaker 1: nineteen and it's still freaking perfect, right lover paper Rains
Speaker 1: Cornelia Street. Now I've got folklore after that, Um, it
Speaker 1: is grown on me. I feel like at the Newest August,
Speaker 1: the Great Last American Dynasty, all that stuff. Taylor Swifts
Speaker 1: self title album in two thousands six. I think you
Speaker 1: guy should have said no picture to burn tear drops
Speaker 1: on my guitar, like real grassroots tailor. So like you,
Speaker 1: it's awesome. And then reputation in Seen obviously is going
Speaker 1: to be last. But it's still not even bad, like
Speaker 1: you don't blame me, so it goes gorgeous, you know,
Speaker 1: I think that day, Yeah, I mean, there's so many
Speaker 1: good ones even though it's the worst one, you know,
Speaker 1: so it's like, what what are we doing here? Delicate
Speaker 1: got Delicate on that record? Come on that's good. That
Speaker 1: was a good list. Thank you. I think it's really
Speaker 1: tough off the top. They're all so good. There's no
Speaker 1: wrong answer, you know. Good job, Ricky, thank you. I
Speaker 1: pretty much agree with you. I don't know her earlier stuff,
Speaker 1: but I trust you on that. And finally this one.
Speaker 1: I guess this guy started a Twitter handle to ask
Speaker 1: this question or he just talks about this constantly. This
Speaker 1: from the Slim big Ben Revenge Tour at Slim big
Speaker 1: Ben Double as seven. How good do you think Skinny
Speaker 1: big Ben will be? Roethlisberger, the Steelers quarterback who's known
Speaker 1: for being you know, a bit zaftig, you know, a
Speaker 1: bit has been working out after that elbow surgery and
Speaker 1: apparently he's really trimmed down some of the body mass index.
Speaker 1: But as a skinny big bed a guy that we want,
Speaker 1: I feel like Big big Ben is the guy we need.
Speaker 1: It's not. It's not skinny Ben big Ben for a reason.
Speaker 1: I think it's good for him. But um, you know,
Speaker 1: wait and see. Steelers like not getting talked about as
Speaker 1: much as I think there should be this off season,
Speaker 1: not really at all. They seem to be going right
Speaker 1: under the radar. But this is the weird offseason to
Speaker 1: say that anyone is kind of under the radar because
Speaker 1: everything is kind of just buried right now. How much
Speaker 1: was did he lose? How skinny is he? I don't like,
Speaker 1: I'm I don't know. But the other reason why workout
Speaker 1: in the little workout videos, but you haven't you haven't
Speaker 1: really seen much. He seems in good shape. He played
Speaker 1: fairly well in They're a Super Bowl condetor. I don't
Speaker 1: know how under the radar they had to me. They're
Speaker 1: a top five, a top five team, and at the
Speaker 1: top five or six, I just don't think they're They're
Speaker 1: talked about as a toime team this offseason, and I
Speaker 1: hear what you're saying, Dan, but I mean in their
Speaker 1: own division. I think probably the Ravens get talked about
Speaker 1: endlessly and and probably the Browns get talked more about
Speaker 1: more than than the Steelers this offseason, which is absurd.
Speaker 1: Let's see the reason I bring this up because in
Speaker 1: another mail bag, Jake Glazer writes a mail bag not
Speaker 1: the mail bag. Uh, he had a little crack at
Speaker 1: Big Ben's expense that his idea of an offseason workout
Speaker 1: was one yoga class and then going to the bar
Speaker 1: or something. I couldn't remember exactly what what he said,
Speaker 1: but it led to Jake Glazer having to have a
Speaker 1: conversation with Roethlisberg clear the air because big Ben thought
Speaker 1: that was selling him short on his how hard he's
Speaker 1: worked during his rehab. So listen, big Ben's plugged in.
Speaker 1: He's skinny. You don't know if that's the best verse.
Speaker 1: And here's the chirping. He's someone who's very interested in
Speaker 1: what the listeners are saying. His Twitter followers are saying,
Speaker 1: he's all over it. Are you still blocked? Greg? Have
Speaker 1: you checked in a while? I can check. I assume
Speaker 1: I still would be. What is it? It's weird like
Speaker 1: big Ben seven or something? Underscore seven, Underscore big Ben seven? Wait,
Speaker 1: way to go locking up that name? Big Ben Underscore seven.
Speaker 1: All right, well, Greg looks that up for the mail bag.
Speaker 1: I'm blocked. Good job. Thank you everybody for listening to
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