Speaker 1: Be Around the NFL Podcast with the small Talk. Welcome
Speaker 1: to another edition of the Around the NFL Podcast. My
Speaker 1: name is Dan Hansens. That come to you from a
Speaker 1: virtual room filled with some heroes, Mark Sessler, Rank Rosenthal.
Speaker 1: Oh boys, oh boys, I got some developing news, developing
Speaker 1: news right out the gate. I'm waiting for some sound
Speaker 1: effects out here, are you go? I love this song.
Speaker 1: You know, it's been a while since the Around the
Speaker 1: NFL Podcast has been recognized in the market. The recognition
Speaker 1: has arrived in a big spot. Run that again, Ricky.
Speaker 1: We want that, We we want that underneath, we want
Speaker 1: a long bed of the developing news from NBC with
Speaker 1: Tom ballholl the Synopsis Sports Media Awards. We are nominated
Speaker 1: because best Podcast Series. How about that? How about that? Well,
Speaker 1: it's deserved, it's overdue. Um And if anything, we go
Speaker 1: in with a bit of a chip on our shoulder
Speaker 1: because this should have been like our you know, we're
Speaker 1: we should be collecting rings. And it's taken about, um
Speaker 1: almost a decade for this to materialize. But I can
Speaker 1: appreciate it. And Huddle and Flow got um nominated as well.
Speaker 1: Steve Weich Jim Trotter for the best New Podcast category.
Speaker 1: I believe let's take it. Let's take it category we
Speaker 1: are familiar with. We were best New podcast in the
Speaker 1: Sports division for Apple Podcasts way back in. But now Greg,
Speaker 1: now it's best podcast series. And here's who we're up against,
Speaker 1: digging up the past with Christopher Russo, the mad dog
Speaker 1: himself serious XM golfs subpar, Yeah, subpar is right, golf
Speaker 1: dot Com heavy media inside the only I will only
Speaker 1: throw jade at the random golf podcast heavy metals inside
Speaker 1: the Kowari Gymnastics Empire. It's ESPN and ww E the
Speaker 1: New Day Feel the Power that's not even a real
Speaker 1: sport should not be in our category. Let's fly. Wait
Speaker 1: what I um? I'm really looking forward to the awards ceremony.
Speaker 1: That'll be fun. Um, Like, are we going out for
Speaker 1: the synopsis, the big synopsis? Yeah, let's do it. It's
Speaker 1: been too long. I I used to I like to
Speaker 1: think of us as kind of the like the two
Speaker 1: and a half men of the podcast, you know, realm.
Speaker 1: It's like not really critically popular, but hugely successful, like
Speaker 1: major ratings, Like we don't really get respect um from
Speaker 1: our colleagues, but we just deliver. Hue hGe numbers at
Speaker 1: like eight pm on CBS. You know that's us showed
Speaker 1: Jackass or something like. We are appealing heavily to a
Speaker 1: certain set subset. I couldn't. I couldn't think of that
Speaker 1: other one where they're scientists. That's what I was really
Speaker 1: going for. Uh no big bang theory. I don't know
Speaker 1: whether the Jackass that that's different marks, but I know
Speaker 1: I know what you're saying. Greg. It's like kind of
Speaker 1: like the TV shows I never ever ever want to
Speaker 1: watch in my entire life. So if that's who we
Speaker 1: are in this in the podcast game, that's kind of
Speaker 1: a rough sitch in a big spot for our show.
Speaker 1: But you know, some people say, oh, it's just an
Speaker 1: honor to be nominated. Screw that we don't win. I'm
Speaker 1: burning this mother down. Okay, okay, all this equipment here
Speaker 1: that the NFL has provided, it's all going up in flames.
Speaker 1: Now you have to go in with an act of fire,
Speaker 1: and we have a there's a certain element of fury
Speaker 1: to us at this point. Again, we should be winning
Speaker 1: our six or seventh um on multiple platforms, this this
Speaker 1: venue but others as well. So, Uh, we are taking
Speaker 1: no prisoners. Get a stern email from rog. He's like, hey, bro,
Speaker 1: I heard you burned all the equipment you owe us
Speaker 1: D dollars and you're fired. And I'm like, did you
Speaker 1: see we got snubbed by the sign ops he'd understand.
Speaker 1: You'd be like, oh, I see, give me, you adapt
Speaker 1: me and to hug me. So today's show good one.
Speaker 1: It happens every year. Now that we're in the Is
Speaker 1: this the third wave of free agency? Greig? Is that?
Speaker 1: Where do you when do you graduate from second wave
Speaker 1: to third wave of free agency? I think this is it.
Speaker 1: When there's essentially only one or two minor moves a day,
Speaker 1: it's it's died off. We're into the third wave. Okay.
Speaker 1: So now that we're in the third wave of free
Speaker 1: agency and we're you know, the calendar just turned over
Speaker 1: to April, that's time for the Gray Beards. Yes, the
Speaker 1: collection of in some people's minds, over the Hill gang
Speaker 1: players who were once um highly sought after and useful
Speaker 1: players who have yet to find a home. And they
Speaker 1: do find a home with my team, the Gray Beards,
Speaker 1: and we will unveil well, I wouldn't say well, unveil
Speaker 1: the roster, because what I'm really good. The store article
Speaker 1: doesn't go up till Monday. It was gonna be Friday.
Speaker 1: Now it's Monday. I just learned. So it's kind of
Speaker 1: a workshop session here. Uh and uh. And we have
Speaker 1: a special guest that I will get to a little
Speaker 1: bit later that's gonna help me put together the Gray
Speaker 1: Beards because it's very open. It's very important Mark in
Speaker 1: this process to not play hero ball. When you're putting
Speaker 1: together the roster. You should listen to other voices and
Speaker 1: a lot of things in life, it's smart to hear
Speaker 1: what other people have to say. And the Gray Beards
Speaker 1: are no exception. Well, it's a collaboration. Um, and I'm
Speaker 1: start that far. It's my show. I'm okay, But I
Speaker 1: want to use your brain, that big old brain in
Speaker 1: the Sessler skull. But if we if we are spending
Speaker 1: our time, uh contributing and building your article, I'm certain
Speaker 1: that the byeline would at least include like a big
Speaker 1: investigative report. You know there's multiple Well, at least at
Speaker 1: the bottom will say something like Greg Rosenthal contributed to
Speaker 1: this article, Mark Cecil and our special guest. If not,
Speaker 1: then I would have some questions about the ethical nature
Speaker 1: of your your work, your project. All right, how about
Speaker 1: to make a deal at the end of the segment
Speaker 1: on today's show. If I feel that you have contributed
Speaker 1: in a truly meaningful way, you're getting that tagline goes
Speaker 1: for you. That's good. Let's and you can announce those
Speaker 1: results at the end. Well, I already know how this
Speaker 1: will go, all right, So anyway gray beards a little
Speaker 1: later in the show before that, though, and good luck
Speaker 1: boys with the sign ops. Um, I think we've earned
Speaker 1: this one. It's been a while. We got the trophy
Speaker 1: from Apple. That was a big win. Don't know where
Speaker 1: that trophy is, by the way, won the stitcher was
Speaker 1: stolen by our own producer. Um, So that one's gone.
Speaker 1: If we went a sign op, it is going in
Speaker 1: the new NFL Network studio behind a piece of glass,
Speaker 1: baby and a lock. All I got up, let's hit
Speaker 1: the news. If I go home and say I'm gonna
Speaker 1: do it, will be don't do it. If I post,
Speaker 1: it'll be don't do it. If I'm talking to my frands,
Speaker 1: if you don't do it, don't my business, I be like,
Speaker 1: don't do it. But I gotta do what I want
Speaker 1: to do it for myself. Man, you know, you're the
Speaker 1: only one who knows we're just gonna show them, and
Speaker 1: you would have backed that the climb here, Oh my goodness,
Speaker 1: he did it. Michael Strahand filled in the gap, and
Speaker 1: I mean, so many thoughts on this mark. I'm curious
Speaker 1: so that what you just heard. There was a video
Speaker 1: straight hand put up on the social media platforms that
Speaker 1: was probably on Access Hollywood or something as well. I
Speaker 1: don't know the source on it. But he was in
Speaker 1: a cosmetic dentistry chair and that iconic gap between his
Speaker 1: two front teeth has been sealed off and now he
Speaker 1: has gleaming pearly whites. Your thoughts, well, I mean, you know,
Speaker 1: different bodies, different needs. Uh, he has the right to
Speaker 1: do what he wants to do with his with his look,
Speaker 1: his vibe. And he was a handsome man. He's a
Speaker 1: very handsome man. Now, um, he's a television he's bordering
Speaker 1: into the worlds of lower iconic television presenter slash host guy.
Speaker 1: So you know there's probably some put that on your resume.
Speaker 1: Well well, I was going to say icon but that
Speaker 1: feels that feels heavy. But you know what, like, um,
Speaker 1: I mean, we all we go to the meeting at
Speaker 1: the lower icon meetings, like who else is a lower icon? Like, hey,
Speaker 1: Rachel Ray is here, She's just a nicon, She's an icon.
Speaker 1: I say, his choice, his body kind of now that one,
Speaker 1: I think Rachel Ray is right in that group. Go ahead.
Speaker 1: I have no further thoughts. Again, it's his freedom to
Speaker 1: do as he wishes with his physical being. No, I
Speaker 1: had a couple. I mean, first of all, everyone wants
Speaker 1: to kill him for it. He obviously it was something
Speaker 1: that he felt, you know, would make him feel better
Speaker 1: about himself. Let's start there. And so to me, that's
Speaker 1: fine because I don't think obviously, um, that is something
Speaker 1: probably he had issues with as a child, and maybe
Speaker 1: who knows, maybe he's been teased in his life, and
Speaker 1: then it became something he was famous for and maybe
Speaker 1: he still wasn't comfortable with it. My other thought on
Speaker 1: the matter is I wonder if and now I'm gonna
Speaker 1: take it more to the New York sports realm. He's
Speaker 1: not the only famous New York athlete to do this.
Speaker 1: The spring, Aaron Judge Um, the star right fielder for
Speaker 1: the Yankees. Um had a gap between his teeth too,
Speaker 1: And I remember going to a Yankee game two summers ago,
Speaker 1: before the pandemic, and I was with my cousin Matt,
Speaker 1: and I pointed it, a big photo of Aaron Judge
Speaker 1: Um at a train station. I said, you know, that
Speaker 1: gap between his teeth, that might be the only thing
Speaker 1: separating him from being the most marketable star in New York,
Speaker 1: which you you're calling me shallow, but I'm talking about marketing.
Speaker 1: And because he's already good looking guy. And my cousin
Speaker 1: Matt said, well that, you know, because my cousin has
Speaker 1: a little bit of a gap. To my cousin like, well,
Speaker 1: that was the thing that I really you know, I
Speaker 1: always thought that was cool that he had it too,
Speaker 1: And he was like me, so Judge gets it filled in,
Speaker 1: and I wonder stray Hanson's judged to it, and he's like, well,
Speaker 1: Judge did it. Why can't I do it? And maybe,
Speaker 1: you say, gives away a little of his identity perhaps,
Speaker 1: but I guess it made the man happy. Right now,
Speaker 1: I'm worried about your cousin. I mean, he just lost
Speaker 1: like the two pillars of the gap tooth in one
Speaker 1: in one week. It's not been a it's not a
Speaker 1: good week. For My immediate thought was did he finally
Speaker 1: get an offer he couldn't refuse because this is all
Speaker 1: just a commercial. It wasn't I it wasn't made from
Speaker 1: Access Hollywood. It was it was a commercial made for
Speaker 1: that dentist and it and it was kind of like
Speaker 1: a somewhat cheaply made but it was like a social
Speaker 1: media commercial ultimately. And just imagine the offers that Mike
Speaker 1: dray Hand has gotten over the years from cosmetic dentists
Speaker 1: in the New York area over the last twenty years,
Speaker 1: he said, he said no to all of them. How
Speaker 1: much you know money did Michael Strahand get paid to
Speaker 1: fix his teeth? What an American dream? I would like.
Speaker 1: I would like some free dental care, much less getting
Speaker 1: paid for it. I mean that that would that could
Speaker 1: not have been a low price. I I imagine he
Speaker 1: got paid an extreme amount of money to do that.
Speaker 1: And uh, you know, he maybe feels a little bitter
Speaker 1: about himself too, obviously. That's that's a big factor. I
Speaker 1: think you're onto something there, Greg, I mean, we did
Speaker 1: this was an ad. It was a paid advertisement. I
Speaker 1: would guess he got millions of dollars for that from
Speaker 1: that from that cosmetic dentist. It reminds me when we
Speaker 1: went to a media summit UM in NFL Network Media
Speaker 1: Summit UM a couple of years back, and uh, one
Speaker 1: very famous NFL figure who was notorious Lee Bald for
Speaker 1: a long time suddenly had a full head of really
Speaker 1: useful hair. And I'm sure that. I mean it was
Speaker 1: on TV. He can say it was Dion. He came
Speaker 1: on TV and it was a big plot that year
Speaker 1: for him. Yeah. And I was literally sitting next to
Speaker 1: Dion at that summit, which in its own right was interesting. No,
Speaker 1: he had no idea, he didn't. He was like, why
Speaker 1: is this like um tech advisor sitting next to me
Speaker 1: during this thing? But he but I could not figure
Speaker 1: out why he looks so in strikingly different to me
Speaker 1: for the first half of the day. And then I
Speaker 1: realized that that he has somehow suddenly grown an entire
Speaker 1: head of hair. So the things you can do now,
Speaker 1: there are some things that people do um cosmetically, and
Speaker 1: you know, Dana and I discusses that we do not
Speaker 1: agree with, but I agree with some of these other things.
Speaker 1: When Dion got his hair done, it wasn't just um,
Speaker 1: you know, a little patch up, you know, as as
Speaker 1: West was known to say. It wasn't like it wasn't
Speaker 1: just filling in the power alleys, you know, or he
Speaker 1: wasn't taking care of a crop circle in the back.
Speaker 1: He showed up and he was seventeen years old again
Speaker 1: from the forehead up, and I remember being legitimately, you know,
Speaker 1: blown away by the whole thing. But it's kind of
Speaker 1: a dream though, like mad you you have to get
Speaker 1: to us. There's certain levels. I would say Strahan is
Speaker 1: just icon at this point. You know, uh, there're certainly
Speaker 1: Dion would be too. Once you get to a certain status,
Speaker 1: what what a dream that you can get paid in
Speaker 1: a you know, incredible amounts of money for your own
Speaker 1: self improvement, things that you would normally just have to pay,
Speaker 1: you know, a lot for to him. When you get
Speaker 1: rich and famous, that's when you start getting everything for free,
Speaker 1: you know, when you don't really necessarily need things at
Speaker 1: the same level. Well, that's something to aspire. Two boys,
Speaker 1: All right, let's do some news. Whenever our guest shows up,
Speaker 1: by the way, throw him in the room. Yeah, I
Speaker 1: mean I got a little chip from playing hockey when
Speaker 1: I was tending, so hit me up. Dentists the bed
Speaker 1: Western Massachusetts on the ice, Greg Rosenthal, you messed with
Speaker 1: my winger because I was bad at skating, you know?
Speaker 1: Was that in a rink or like on an actual
Speaker 1: if you're a real tough guy, you do it. Was
Speaker 1: I barely played on a rink. I did not last
Speaker 1: by then I did a little bit of a rink
Speaker 1: and was like check please, But I did some pond
Speaker 1: hockey the Seahawks. Seahawks have signed Tyler Lockett to a
Speaker 1: four year, sixty nine point two million dollar contract extension.
Speaker 1: Thirty seven of that million is guaranteed. So there you
Speaker 1: have it, Tyler Lockett, DK Metcalf locked in. Locket will
Speaker 1: be twenty nine uh this season. In September, he went
Speaker 1: over a hundred catches for the first time this year,
Speaker 1: but he wasn't the same playmaker in terms of yards
Speaker 1: per catch. That kind of went over to the DK
Speaker 1: Metcalf side of things. Um, Greg, I guess you can
Speaker 1: make the case this is a steep price to pay
Speaker 1: for Tyler Lockett, especially as we've talked about this is
Speaker 1: a team that has a lot of financial decisions to make.
Speaker 1: But when you have lock It and DK together, if
Speaker 1: you're looking for a rock solid one two punch of
Speaker 1: wide receiver. There are a few that could touch that group,
Speaker 1: that pair, I believe. Yeah, catches an eighteen touchdowns too
Speaker 1: for a little guy over the last two years combined.
Speaker 1: I've always thought he's way better than his numbers. He's
Speaker 1: one of the most fun players to watch. So it's
Speaker 1: one of those times that, yeah, sure they paid a premium.
Speaker 1: I mean he's getting He got as much guaranteed almost
Speaker 1: as Kenny Golladay. He got really top money. But I
Speaker 1: always thought his numbers were artificially held down in Seattle,
Speaker 1: and his just quality of play, how unique a player
Speaker 1: he is, was really valuable. And he could have had
Speaker 1: if he was on the Chiefs or some team like that,
Speaker 1: his numbers would be even better. And he also just
Speaker 1: seems like an affable guy. So it's you know, you're
Speaker 1: always happy to see those guys get paid. I guess,
Speaker 1: like the question I'd have is just what kind of
Speaker 1: offense Seattle will be? UM? The let Russ Cook is
Speaker 1: over and it it ended during the middle of last year.
Speaker 1: I mean, there's that nugget that heat Lockett was the
Speaker 1: number one Fantasy football receiver UM through Week eight and
Speaker 1: finished as because the offense completely changed its identity, so
Speaker 1: there are like overt um mysterious questions about what they'll
Speaker 1: become September. I think they're going to go back to
Speaker 1: being more run, heavy, more balanced. Well it depends, though,
Speaker 1: it depends if they see Russell Wilson as a guy
Speaker 1: that they have to keep happy now and play ball
Speaker 1: with a little bit and change the offense in a
Speaker 1: way that makes Pete Carroll a little uncomfortable but also
Speaker 1: keeps the star quarterback happy. That that's see how it's
Speaker 1: kind of a bit of a fascinating science experiment all
Speaker 1: of a sudden going on in that building. But they
Speaker 1: literally fired or parted ways with the coordinator. That was
Speaker 1: all about an open to let Russ cook, right. They
Speaker 1: hired a guy that Russ you know did. I always
Speaker 1: thought that's gotten lost in the shovel or that he
Speaker 1: helped interview Shane Waldron, the Rams coordinator. But the Rams
Speaker 1: do like to run the ball has kind of the
Speaker 1: foundation of their offense. So so so we'll see. But
Speaker 1: I uh like, if if a guy like Lockett's not
Speaker 1: gonna get paid, who is gonna get paid? It lowers
Speaker 1: their cap Like he is a homegrown guy. He's he's
Speaker 1: time to his stay in Seattle poorly though. He got
Speaker 1: there right after the Super Bowl appearances. So it's like he,
Speaker 1: you know, get lock it into a super Bowl. In
Speaker 1: other news, the NFL owners approved the expansion of the
Speaker 1: regular season to seventeen games on Tuesday. This was long expected.
Speaker 1: We knew that was coming down, and now it is. Uh.
Speaker 1: The players agreed to this additional game as part of
Speaker 1: the collective collective bargaining agreement that was agreed to last spring. Uh.
Speaker 1: So it goes into effect starting in one. The season
Speaker 1: will begin on Thursday night, September nine. The Bucks will
Speaker 1: be prominently involved. The Pro Bowl now is the game
Speaker 1: that takes place on the first Sunday in February. Pinch yourself,
Speaker 1: and the Super Bowl here in Los ange of Us
Speaker 1: will take place one week later February two. And I mean,
Speaker 1: I couldn't think of a better news item. Uh to
Speaker 1: welcome in one of the great minds um in football writing.
Speaker 1: He is a former bricklayer for Rhoda World and now
Speaker 1: one of the bosses that established the run. You know
Speaker 1: who it is, the big Fish, Evan Silva, buddy, what's up?
Speaker 1: And also, uh, this has got it? This is rocking
Speaker 1: the fantasy world. I mean, a fourteen week regular season,
Speaker 1: not own it's it's a big deal. It's a big
Speaker 1: deal in real life and in fantasy football. I think
Speaker 1: that a nice compromise would have been to add an
Speaker 1: extra bye week to each team. And you know that
Speaker 1: that would have expanded the regular season even further and
Speaker 1: made and further made the billionaire owners even richer. Um.
Speaker 1: And it would have also, um, you know, been a
Speaker 1: compromise that might have benefited the players for you know,
Speaker 1: the for the the way that it impacts their bodies,
Speaker 1: and it would have taken a little bit of of
Speaker 1: a loan load off my plate too, because I love
Speaker 1: the bye weeks in the way that they affect my
Speaker 1: schedule week to week. But there's been seemingly no discussion
Speaker 1: of adding an additional bye week. But um hey, you know,
Speaker 1: big big win for the owners and you know, the
Speaker 1: rich get richer. Go America. Uh yeah, never don't talk
Speaker 1: to Silva. The week that the bye week's run out.
Speaker 1: That's Evan Silva's least favorite week of the year. Like
Speaker 1: when you when you have those two less games uh
Speaker 1: to cover, to prepare for to watch during the week
Speaker 1: to rank. It's like life is great in fantasy Land,
Speaker 1: and then they come they come back in week twelve
Speaker 1: or thirteen, whatever it is, and it's it's full slate,
Speaker 1: and Silva's just like, leave me alone exactly right. December
Speaker 1: is just hell month. Well, you know, you could have
Speaker 1: a job outside of fantasy and actually worked during January
Speaker 1: and February and like go straight through the Super Bowl,
Speaker 1: which now, yeah, it's that's the biggest change. We've been
Speaker 1: doing this all a long time. And so just that
Speaker 1: big of an adjustment that we're going to go through
Speaker 1: mid February is uh will be different. I just want
Speaker 1: to know how it changes the rest of the off season, Like,
Speaker 1: does it how it changes the preseason? The Hall of
Speaker 1: Fame game I did check is scheduled on a certain day.
Speaker 1: But are they pushing the preseason, which is now three
Speaker 1: weeks back a week or is there gonna be an
Speaker 1: empty week before the regular season starts. That makes more
Speaker 1: sense to me personally. And are they gonna push back
Speaker 1: the combine and free agency because if they don't that
Speaker 1: stuff they it already felt like it comes up quick.
Speaker 1: You basically it's basically two weeks to the combine. If
Speaker 1: it's one week to the combine like that is a
Speaker 1: different feel to the off sea And they haven't announced
Speaker 1: that stuff though, so we don't know yet. I would
Speaker 1: ask you, Evan though, like from a from a fantasy angle,
Speaker 1: what was the first thing you thought beyond your own scheduling,
Speaker 1: Like strategy wise, does it change anything at all? Strategy wise?
Speaker 1: You're just adding one week of a regular season play, right,
Speaker 1: And we we kind of we knew that it was, um,
Speaker 1: but then it became official and now I don't I honestly,
Speaker 1: I don't know. You know, who's gonna make the decisions
Speaker 1: regarding that are going to be like the big corporations
Speaker 1: that run the actual fantasy provider sites like ESPN and Yahoo, um,
Speaker 1: and you know f f PC, and that's gonna be
Speaker 1: who makes those decisions, not not the fantasy analysts. The
Speaker 1: fantasy answers are just gonna have to roll with the punches.
Speaker 1: Very interesting to see how it all plays out. And UM,
Speaker 1: I'm a little annoyed. I this is something that I
Speaker 1: didn't really think about until this week. But yeah, it
Speaker 1: does change personal you know, records for the NFL going forward,
Speaker 1: and it's it's not the same in the NFL is
Speaker 1: that is in other sports in terms of single season record.
Speaker 1: But you know, Derrick Henry is an example. He was
Speaker 1: the eighth player to ever run for two thousand, two
Speaker 1: thousand yards. Isn't just it's not gonna be the same
Speaker 1: anymore because you've seen plenty of guys, well maybe not plenty,
Speaker 1: but you know run for eighteen hundred yards and sixteen
Speaker 1: it's you're gonna see more more like that. But one
Speaker 1: that really annoys me, Silva, and I know you're one
Speaker 1: of your your curmudgeon and we love you for it,
Speaker 1: but this one gets me fired up. That damn Michael
Speaker 1: Strahan record, the sack record. We talked about him earlier,
Speaker 1: he got his teeth done. I'm fine with that. I'll
Speaker 1: never be fine with Brett Fard slide in a slide
Speaker 1: on his feet and that record now stands forever. In
Speaker 1: a sixteen game season, nobody could break it. Yet twenty
Speaker 1: years NFL to wipe that record away and you couldn't
Speaker 1: do it. And I'll never forgive you, just like I've
Speaker 1: always thought with the Jets, if I if if I
Speaker 1: go my whole life and I never get to watch
Speaker 1: the Super Bowl with my dad, I will never forgive
Speaker 1: the Jets and the clock's taken. I will never forgive
Speaker 1: all the defensive ends. Uh that that we're unable to
Speaker 1: get the sack record away from stray hands. Grasp, that's
Speaker 1: an expansive bounty list all the defensive ends in edge
Speaker 1: rushers out there, thousands of humans. Well what if and
Speaker 1: when they do break it, no one's gonna put an asterick.
Speaker 1: I mean, I've seen a lot of stuff this week too.
Speaker 1: It's like, well, maybe change it to per game records,
Speaker 1: and it's you know, watering down these records that basically
Speaker 1: ignores everything that happens in the NFL. Before night, every
Speaker 1: generation is going to get the like, no one's cared
Speaker 1: when you've broken the record rushing records when they were
Speaker 1: set before seventy eight, or passing records. No one ever
Speaker 1: is like, well they did that in fourteen games. Sometimes
Speaker 1: they mentioned it, but it doesn't really I'm saying it
Speaker 1: doesn't really change anything. No one. No one was giving
Speaker 1: a big asterick about Drew Brees all this time because
Speaker 1: he got to play way more games than everyone. Uh.
Speaker 1: Greg says, something doesn't really matter. I'm not saying it
Speaker 1: doesn't matter, but tell me about it. What does anyone
Speaker 1: bring that up? When they when they were saying the
Speaker 1: Ravens are the greatest rushing team of all time, they
Speaker 1: would give a little pop to the who was it
Speaker 1: the Bills or the Patriot? I think it was a
Speaker 1: Patriots back in the seventies, But like ultimately, no one
Speaker 1: gave it an asterix that it was done in fourteen
Speaker 1: games people, bene. I just wanted to recall that that
Speaker 1: year that Shack Barrett almost broke the sack record in
Speaker 1: assessor predicted that he would finish with like four sacks. Well,
Speaker 1: you know, there is no end to the things that
Speaker 1: I've been slightly or vastly incorrect about, but that stands
Speaker 1: out as one of the shinier mistakes made in other news.
Speaker 1: Washington football team coach Ron Rivera said, Ryan, by the way,
Speaker 1: I'm sorry to keep on getting sidetracked here. It's really dark,
Speaker 1: but I have cornhole on ESPN to Dvard from last summer,
Speaker 1: and I had saved it because I wanted to watch
Speaker 1: it with my offer mentioned old man Keith, who was
Speaker 1: in town. They just flew out Keith and deb back
Speaker 1: to New York today and in the ticker for this
Speaker 1: cornhole event that I saved on my DVR for a year. UM.
Speaker 1: It said it was talking about the name change of
Speaker 1: the Washington football team, and it said that Rivera, Ron
Speaker 1: Rivera and Daniel Sinder said they're very close on a
Speaker 1: name and they're ready getting close to announcing the name.
Speaker 1: They hope to have it ready for so now they
Speaker 1: never did that and now they're not gonna have it
Speaker 1: for one either. They said. Now they're pushing back too,
Speaker 1: a little bit weird. So they had a name they
Speaker 1: were ready to roll with, and then they pulled the
Speaker 1: reins back. Maybe you guys are onto something here that
Speaker 1: they're into w f T. I don't know. I think
Speaker 1: they are into w f T uh more like w
Speaker 1: TF UM. Ron nailed it. Ron Rivera said Ryan Fitzpatrick
Speaker 1: will open camp as the number one quarterback, but quote,
Speaker 1: there will be a competition. Who will be competing Mr
Speaker 1: Silva with Ryan Fitzpatrick. They better not pull the rug
Speaker 1: out on this man. I want to see him start
Speaker 1: fourteen to seventeen games this year. Well, you know, Taylor
Speaker 1: Heineke and Kyle Allen followed. Scott Turner from Carolina and
Speaker 1: Taylor Heineke played pretty well in that um the playoff
Speaker 1: loss to to Tampa Bay kind of you know, gave
Speaker 1: themselves and and they signed it to an extension after
Speaker 1: the season. But I mean, this is gonna be the
Speaker 1: Ryan Fitzpatrick show. This is just you know, classic coach speak.
Speaker 1: He said he really regretted not having the competition he
Speaker 1: wanted last year for Rivera that he is sort of
Speaker 1: FATA company for Dwayne Haskins winning the job and that
Speaker 1: was a mistake, and then he wants to do a
Speaker 1: real competition. Can you imagine a worse guy behind you?
Speaker 1: If your tailor Heineke, who I think is an interesting prospect,
Speaker 1: but you're gonna go through the storm with into some
Speaker 1: degree and you've got Ryan Fitzpatrick's on the bench. I mean,
Speaker 1: it just is it's an unpleasant um scenario because the
Speaker 1: fans are gonna be going nuts for the bearded man.
Speaker 1: You think that's unpleasant when you see that with the
Speaker 1: gray beards choices are at quarterback. Uh fore you're gonna
Speaker 1: be vomiting wildly. Um anyway, Mark, you have been going
Speaker 1: nuts lately. I mean, in general, I've never seen you
Speaker 1: in a more professional place than you are right now
Speaker 1: between all the camera stuff that you're fired up about
Speaker 1: working with people behind the scenes to give us the
Speaker 1: best look for our television show. On top of that,
Speaker 1: every time we get a text for Mark now, it's
Speaker 1: like I've been watching NFL Network. There's some interesting things
Speaker 1: going on here. I've been reading this. You are very
Speaker 1: plugged in right now, Mark, and uh the pro days,
Speaker 1: you've been watching those, So we want to now move
Speaker 1: out of the way. Everybody step aside. Mark, your thoughts
Speaker 1: breakdown the Justin Fields and Mac Jones pro days. Please, Well,
Speaker 1: the table has been set in a way where I'm
Speaker 1: gonna disappoint. But um, I watched them lead to in
Speaker 1: a in a leisurely fashion. Um and I I my
Speaker 1: text to you guys watching Mac Jones was, am I
Speaker 1: supposed to be blown away by this guy? You know, Evan,
Speaker 1: We're not big college football observers, so it's like, you know,
Speaker 1: I couldn't pick him out of a lineup a week ago,
Speaker 1: but now I understand a little bit more about him.
Speaker 1: And I mean my takeaway from the Mac Jones thing
Speaker 1: is that he whiffed on that one deep ball. Um
Speaker 1: and and this is a sterile setting. He whiffs on
Speaker 1: the deep ball and Immediately Twitter is going crazy with
Speaker 1: Kyle Shanahan, who you know, flew there very with the
Speaker 1: buzzes from from schefter, from Daniel Jeremiah, from Ian that
Speaker 1: it would not be a surprise if they go mac
Speaker 1: Jones at number three. So he goes to the Pro Day,
Speaker 1: which is an unusual move for Shanahan, and they capture
Speaker 1: his look after he whipps on that deep ball and
Speaker 1: it was just like and they also had one of
Speaker 1: Belichick as well, looking a little bit mystified, so um
Speaker 1: to me, I like what Daniel Jeremiah said. It was
Speaker 1: kind of like going to a driving range and you're
Speaker 1: watching Matt Jones work on a short game. But then
Speaker 1: you go see justin fields and he is just dropping bombs.
Speaker 1: And I think we can all tell when you watch
Speaker 1: someone throw who has that special gift. And I get it.
Speaker 1: It's a Pro Day, And I'll never forget the way
Speaker 1: that West viewed Pro Days in general, just sort of
Speaker 1: said throw this thing. You know, it is what it is,
Speaker 1: and it's it's not overhype it. But he looked beautiful
Speaker 1: throwing the ball. I thought he did a wonderful job. Also,
Speaker 1: Matt Jones has like my body um, like he has
Speaker 1: a belly, it's like please, and like the fields looks
Speaker 1: like he had a four four four forty that's how
Speaker 1: he started it. Then he's throwing bombs all over the field.
Speaker 1: And there was one thing, because I have to be
Speaker 1: honest with all the stuff that's happened in our lives,
Speaker 1: um since the Super Bowl, that I had been a
Speaker 1: little burnt out. I've just kind of been looking for
Speaker 1: that spark to kind of get get the engine going okay.
Speaker 1: And Daniel Jeremiah had a comment at the end of
Speaker 1: Fields pro day that said, basically, and I'm paraphrasing, just
Speaker 1: enjoy this. It's like watching an an NBA slam dunk competition.
Speaker 1: It's a pro day. We get it. It's not in
Speaker 1: a hostile environment. But if you can't watch Justin Fields
Speaker 1: throwing those passes and if you can enjoy it, you've
Speaker 1: got to check yourself out the door. And it, honestly,
Speaker 1: was this thing that kind of a light that broke
Speaker 1: through and made me just enjoy the experience of watching
Speaker 1: this incredible athlete throwing these passes. I think he's going
Speaker 1: to be an incredibly fascinating prospect. That's my comments. M hmm,
Speaker 1: what do you think, syl It you've been a draft
Speaker 1: nick a long time. Is Mark taking your corner? No?
Speaker 1: I think that he had an excellent breakdown of the
Speaker 1: situations across the board. It's still straine belief to me
Speaker 1: at the end of the day that the forty Niners
Speaker 1: would surrender what they did, which amounts to three first
Speaker 1: round picks and a third round pick to go draft
Speaker 1: Mac Jones ahead of Justin Fields and trade Lance because
Speaker 1: justin Fields, I mean, I think mac Jones might be
Speaker 1: a solid quarterback, you know, I think maybe he's a
Speaker 1: little bit better than Andy Dalton potentially. Um. But Justin
Speaker 1: Fields and Trade Lance are just on different tiers when
Speaker 1: it comes to all around skill set. And we've seen
Speaker 1: we've seen the way that the NFL has been moving
Speaker 1: trending over the last five ten years, and what Justin
Speaker 1: Fields and Trade Lands bring to the table I think
Speaker 1: is clearly superior. And then what than what Matt Jones
Speaker 1: has in his toolbox? And now we're here, you know,
Speaker 1: the forty nine is potentially keeping Jimmy Garoppolo, which they
Speaker 1: can technically afford to do. Um, and then he would
Speaker 1: be the Alex Smith table center you know, the bridge
Speaker 1: and then justin fields or trade lance would be the
Speaker 1: Patrick Mahomes to come in and and get them to
Speaker 1: the to the mountaintop. So silva. If you're doing a
Speaker 1: mock today, who do you have at three? I mean,
Speaker 1: mock drafts are different because you're trying to actually get
Speaker 1: you know, peg X with players with teams. So I
Speaker 1: think I would actually be on mac Jones. But it's
Speaker 1: still you know, I think things can change. We're still
Speaker 1: we're still guessing at this point. The thing is that
Speaker 1: so many insider schefter Mortensen, Jeremiah, guys that know way
Speaker 1: more than us have made this connection between mac Jones
Speaker 1: and the forty niners and and if you're if you're
Speaker 1: doing a projection right now, I think you actually put
Speaker 1: mac Jones on the forty niners and number three, Thank
Speaker 1: you fair. Although I think we should like hold off
Speaker 1: on did like killing the pick until the pick happens industry.
Speaker 1: It's like, imagine the wasting of the time of the
Speaker 1: mac Jones pick, Like if they don't take mac Jones
Speaker 1: that it almost feels like people are already killing was space.
Speaker 1: That's part of this too, you know. Chris Sims is
Speaker 1: another guy that they say very close relationship with Kyle Shanahan,
Speaker 1: and he's been pounding the table that that's where mac
Speaker 1: Jones is going. You just wonder what that all means.
Speaker 1: Same thing, you know, although then wasn't Kyle Shanahan was
Speaker 1: asked about his relationship with Chris Simms, and then it
Speaker 1: was like, I haven't talked to that guy in years.
Speaker 1: He didn't say that, he said, he said, I know
Speaker 1: that he talks to everyone. That's why I don't tell
Speaker 1: him anything anymore. Like that. Well, I like if I
Speaker 1: tattooed your initials Evan onto my body with that um
Speaker 1: incline you to spend more time with me or less.
Speaker 1: I mean, that would just be really weird. Tessler. You know,
Speaker 1: I don't have to be weird for Christims to do that. Also, well,
Speaker 1: he probably he just got a Kyle Fanahan tattoo. It
Speaker 1: was like a group of four of them who all
Speaker 1: got each other, So I like the other. Like lest
Speaker 1: Finally in the news, Cult McCoy lands on his feet.
Speaker 1: He signs a one year deal with the Arizona Cardinals,
Speaker 1: most recently with the Giants. He's bounced around a lot. Really,
Speaker 1: the best thing about Cult McCoy is his connection to
Speaker 1: the Sessler family. Let's let's be honest with this, and
Speaker 1: it's the only reason where talking about him right now,
Speaker 1: well right and if you if for those that don't know, Um,
Speaker 1: I Cole McCoy and his father wrote a dual biography
Speaker 1: about fatherhood and growing up and it really affected me.
Speaker 1: And he was the Brown's quarterback at the time, and
Speaker 1: I kind of just liked Colt McCoy's overall persona. I
Speaker 1: get that he's not, you know, devastating the world as
Speaker 1: a player, but um, when it came time to name
Speaker 1: our second son, I really liked the idea of cult
Speaker 1: Cessler because Sessler is the last name where you've gotta
Speaker 1: have us, you've gotta be good with the first name.
Speaker 1: So he's Culton right now, but it would probably become
Speaker 1: called at some point. Anyways, Um, the day he was born,
Speaker 1: literally on the day of the first round of the
Speaker 1: NFL draft back in so I name him Cult McCoy,
Speaker 1: called Cessler. And then at that night the Browns select
Speaker 1: Brandon Weeden, like four or five hours after so it
Speaker 1: was so you know, anyways, what I would say about
Speaker 1: Cult McCoy from the player's side, he's suddenly thirty five
Speaker 1: years old, and I think he's a survivor because he's
Speaker 1: not a starter. But he's been making that backup, my
Speaker 1: me and good money for a long time. It's not
Speaker 1: wound up being a bad career at all. And he
Speaker 1: had that game with Cleveland where he absolutely devastated the
Speaker 1: New England Patriots and the whole team did, and it
Speaker 1: looked like Tom Brady was on psilocybin that day. He
Speaker 1: had a look a thousand yards stare that I've never
Speaker 1: seen from him ever again. So there are good We've
Speaker 1: heard about that game many times on this podcast, but
Speaker 1: that no, it's we've talked about it before. Sometimes all
Speaker 1: takes is a good year or filling in as an
Speaker 1: injury replacement for a month, and you seem to just
Speaker 1: hang around if I think it helps, if you're if
Speaker 1: you have good relationships across the league, as I'm sure
Speaker 1: Cult McCoy does as well. That's what's happening in the news,
Speaker 1: Ricky hit it pretty bits. We're gonna see good day,
Speaker 1: great beds. Just give us one last sake. We're here today,
Speaker 1: gone tomorrow. Will you watch your follow You don't mean
Speaker 1: I cannot play you will see me lead the way.
Speaker 1: Gray beards never go away, gray bids never go away.
Speaker 1: And it's over in the house for the gray beard.
Speaker 1: Are you ready? I wanted you to be on for
Speaker 1: that song. I needed you to be on for that
Speaker 1: song because I wanted you to get in the head
Speaker 1: space freestyle that No, that's that was That was well written,
Speaker 1: written well over a year ago. Not well written, and
Speaker 1: Ricky Ricky did all the instrumentation on it. That's not true,
Speaker 1: but that I like. Um, I like to do that
Speaker 1: song because I feel like he gets us in a
Speaker 1: lot of the space. Because these are players, the gray beards,
Speaker 1: who have something left to offer in the NFL. In fact,
Speaker 1: when this season is over, I believe it ends in
Speaker 1: mid June. This upcoming season, Um, you will see some
Speaker 1: of these players have an impact now. Uh, Evan's helped
Speaker 1: us before. I reached out to having a couple of
Speaker 1: years back, maybe three years ago now, it was four
Speaker 1: time Flies, and I said, Evan, I'm writing this piece
Speaker 1: for NFL dot com. I was hoping I could uh
Speaker 1: run it by you. I'll send you the list my
Speaker 1: picks and then you could like give me a blurb
Speaker 1: for each positional group whether you think it's any good.
Speaker 1: What I didn't know at the time, because I had
Speaker 1: never worked with Evan was how meticulous and how much
Speaker 1: work and effort he puts into everything he does. And
Speaker 1: I ended up putting the guy out in a big spot.
Speaker 1: I I think he was. He ended up writing like
Speaker 1: half a Byeline story for someone else's website and didn
Speaker 1: get paid for it. Big mistake. And I apologize. So
Speaker 1: Evan this year obviously, no written work for you, no assignment.
Speaker 1: I just wanted you to give me your thoughts as
Speaker 1: a workshop graveyards. Is that okay? And I apologize again
Speaker 1: for what happened a few years back that was no, No,
Speaker 1: don't apologize. I thought you weren't. I mean, when you
Speaker 1: say blurb, I think like Rotor World blurb, you know,
Speaker 1: And that's what I had in mind. But I don't
Speaker 1: know you. You're you're such a professional. Just blew me away.
Speaker 1: Um all right, And now the second part of this Greg,
Speaker 1: before we dive in. You've held my feet to the
Speaker 1: five Greg in past years because what I had done
Speaker 1: in the past is just built the best roster of
Speaker 1: remaining free agents. And uh and that's a good way
Speaker 1: in some ways. That that serves a better purpose as
Speaker 1: an article like here's all the best guys left. But
Speaker 1: to truly be about the graybeards, to have that grizzled beard,
Speaker 1: to to have the salt and pepper you have, you
Speaker 1: have to actually be over the hill in NFL terms.
Speaker 1: So this year, for the first time ever, everyone is
Speaker 1: either thirty or above or turns thirty at some point
Speaker 1: during the regular season. Uh So that that banged me
Speaker 1: and the biggest of all spots because, uh, some players
Speaker 1: that are still out there right now who could contribute
Speaker 1: but are not yet thirty include James Conner, Um, DeMarcus Robinson,
Speaker 1: Adam Humphries, Uh, Willie Snee, Jesse James Trey Burton. None
Speaker 1: of these names jump out to you necessarily understand that
Speaker 1: Nick Malan at least like four of those are on
Speaker 1: teams by now too. So Marcus Robinson resigned with the
Speaker 1: Chiefs to Washington. Yeah, all right, good, well they're they're
Speaker 1: not thirty anyway, for for all intents and purposes, they
Speaker 1: don't exist in this exercise. But please, anybody that has signed, um,
Speaker 1: let me know. Uh, here we go. Let's dig into
Speaker 1: it and I'll start a quarterback and It's tough, um
Speaker 1: because uh, the bone has been picked here pretty clean,
Speaker 1: and you do have some players out there, like I
Speaker 1: don't even know if Teddy Bridgewater is thirty yet, but
Speaker 1: but Teddy is attached to the Panthers still technically, So
Speaker 1: for the quarterback position, boys, I have to run back
Speaker 1: the Redskins UH squad of yesteryear. I got Alex Smith
Speaker 1: as my starter, r G three that's the backup, uh
Speaker 1: and Geno Smith. Colt McCoy well, Col mccoyn now off
Speaker 1: the board, A J. Mccaren um, a couple of options.
Speaker 1: So I went with Smith and r G three. What
Speaker 1: are your what are your thoughts there? Well, I think
Speaker 1: if you're looking for leadership and playoff experience, he went
Speaker 1: with the wrong. Smith's Geno. Time give Geno a franchise
Speaker 1: if ever is he thirty? Now it's finally time for
Speaker 1: Geno to be leading a team at thirty. You you
Speaker 1: give me the choice, Alex Smith, Geno Smith. I'm taking Gino.
Speaker 1: The most predictable thing right there is that Greg cape
Speaker 1: for Gino again, which he's been doing for a decade. Now,
Speaker 1: when's the last time Gino didn't make the playoffs? It's
Speaker 1: like it's like, you know, he had to be stuck
Speaker 1: on an organization like the Jets to keep him out
Speaker 1: of the playoffs. Everywhere else he goes, they make it.
Speaker 1: If I need a guy to win a coin toss,
Speaker 1: Gino is there. But I just how often do you
Speaker 1: really need that? Mark? No, I even every guy isn't
Speaker 1: even clearly a skill of his. That's that's just based
Speaker 1: on luck. And I find it absurd that Greg is
Speaker 1: still doing this. Um and this is a rare case.
Speaker 1: This is a rare case where right, I actually have
Speaker 1: a point. I don't think Gino is any worse than
Speaker 1: these guys I have. I think, you knowed leadership as
Speaker 1: the first bullet point under on Gino Smith's resume. So
Speaker 1: I has a end. The guy has a wired jaw
Speaker 1: exactly leadership. I mean, let's keep that in mind. What's
Speaker 1: lost that Geno Smith threw a pass that mattered in
Speaker 1: that game against the Raiders after Ben McAdoo benched Eli Manning,
Speaker 1: and then I played Gino Smith in DFS and then
Speaker 1: uh that did not go well. No, r G three,
Speaker 1: you know RJ three he was. He hasn't looked good.
Speaker 1: I really would take Gino and McCarron even maybe three
Speaker 1: is finished. I felt bad when r G three try
Speaker 1: to open it up when he got some playing time
Speaker 1: last year, and the legs were just like, nah, we're
Speaker 1: not We're not going to do this anymore. Let me
Speaker 1: pull r G three out. Should I throw Gregor Bond?
Speaker 1: I almost don't want it because he's a little annoying
Speaker 1: about the Gino thing, but it also would made a
Speaker 1: lot to him. Know, you've got a combustible group of
Speaker 1: people here that are at the end of their careers
Speaker 1: and probably slightly annoyed. You want Geno Smith running that show?
Speaker 1: Evan break the deadlock? Geno Smith or A. J. Mccaren
Speaker 1: is back up. I'll go with Gino all right. A J. Mccaren,
Speaker 1: good for you. How about that in a big spot
Speaker 1: If you don't think he's gonna be suddenly um trying
Speaker 1: to take that job from Alex Smith out from under him.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, he's going to Ricky. Can you confirm with
Speaker 1: me that Gino Smith is already thirty or turning thirty
Speaker 1: during the regular season? Thank you? Running back. Okay, there
Speaker 1: was a coach you know who made the news recently
Speaker 1: who was was was all on board trying to trade
Speaker 1: a couple of Day two picks for AJ McCarron not
Speaker 1: too long ago. Yes, there was that where it's glad
Speaker 1: some some things don't work out for a great reason.
Speaker 1: Uh yeah, Gino turns thirty on October tenth. Where does
Speaker 1: the time go? That's my birthday. That's that's not good
Speaker 1: running It's also Brett Farve's birthday. But we'll leave it there.
Speaker 1: Running back. Okay, So tough situation here. This team sucks.
Speaker 1: I gotta say sometimes I feel good about after you
Speaker 1: had great quarterbacks all the quo. You know, for whatever reason,
Speaker 1: the quarterbacks didn't go off the market, and all the
Speaker 1: same guys Cam and Jamis and Dalton, they all got
Speaker 1: signed quickly. This this yes, and I'll share at the
Speaker 1: end of this segment what I believe the record to be.
Speaker 1: But you're gonna see it's not gonna be great anyway.
Speaker 1: Running back, not a lot of choices. I'll name some
Speaker 1: of them that I believe are still on the open market.
Speaker 1: Adrian Peterson, rex Burghead, Frank Gore, La, Shawn McCoy, Dion Lewis.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna go with Peterson, Dion Lewis. Peterson's Angelis Whill
Speaker 1: he's your battering ram run up the middle. Maybe he
Speaker 1: gets another seven hundred yard season. And then Dion Lewis,
Speaker 1: I don't know what he's got left in the tank.
Speaker 1: Didn't do much with the Giants last year, but he
Speaker 1: could be my little change of pace guy that can
Speaker 1: catch the ball out of the backfield. Um, anybody else
Speaker 1: you guys see is a better fit. I wanted. I
Speaker 1: wanted to get some lover in here for Cordarrel Patterson,
Speaker 1: who remains unsigned. Interesting because he's my kick returner. A
Speaker 1: spoiler alert, you want to put him in the backfield, Well,
Speaker 1: he's got to be your kick returner, but yeah, I
Speaker 1: want to. I want to give him a full year
Speaker 1: as a tailback. I remember watching him play at Tennessee,
Speaker 1: getting like carries from under center, and I mean he
Speaker 1: kind of looked like Adrian Peterson UM at times. He's
Speaker 1: like a you know, taller running back. UM. But I
Speaker 1: mean you can use them. I mean he fits perfectly
Speaker 1: with Alex Smith because Alex Smith loves to throw chuckdowns
Speaker 1: to running backs. Jade mckissic head games where he caught
Speaker 1: like fourteen passes last year. He used Cordireld Patterson as
Speaker 1: an in space playmaker, and all of a sudden, like
Speaker 1: we're cooking with some gas here. Patterson is the great,
Speaker 1: well maybe the best special teamer of his era. And uh,
Speaker 1: every team is on thinks they're gonna suddenly figure out
Speaker 1: the way to unlock him as an offensive talent. We're
Speaker 1: over six, But like that, they always think they're gonna
Speaker 1: and it's always kind of fun to watch it. I'd
Speaker 1: put him in Gore in the same backfield. You can't
Speaker 1: stop it. First of all, there there's a chance Dean
Speaker 1: Lewis is better at playing football right now than Frank Gore.
Speaker 1: I think if you asked any any coaches, if you
Speaker 1: watch that tape last year, Dean Lewis was jumping off
Speaker 1: the screen last year. Or at least he can. He
Speaker 1: could do his assignments. He can do it. And plus
Speaker 1: you need some guys to sell the team. This team
Speaker 1: is gonna stink anyways. He could be searching to get
Speaker 1: to be the number two Russia in NFL history, so
Speaker 1: at least that could sell some tickets. I would. I would.
Speaker 1: If you bury Lashawn McCoy on your roster, you will
Speaker 1: win a championship. A lot of a lot of inconvenient truths.
Speaker 1: They're spoken by Greg who, by the way, did come
Speaker 1: up with the nickname for Frank Gore inconvenient truth keep
Speaker 1: patting that back in the day. Well well Bill, no, no, no,
Speaker 1: that was that's that's a great thing. It was a
Speaker 1: it was a rich eyes and thing, I think. And
Speaker 1: then I just kept like repeating it over and like
Speaker 1: he said it one time, and then I gotta give
Speaker 1: him credit. If you think that Frank Gore is an
Speaker 1: effective marketing tool to put meat in the seats, I
Speaker 1: just feel like too close. I mean, he's the only
Speaker 1: one that could be breaking some records if nothing else.
Speaker 1: You're slogan could be like, we may lose, but we
Speaker 1: have a lot of character Alex Smith, Frank Gore, guys
Speaker 1: who are going to be great at the season ticket
Speaker 1: meet and greet Mark Adrian Peterson or Frank Gore on
Speaker 1: the roster Adrian Peterson. Okay, um, well we could we
Speaker 1: could also we get Frank Gore as like our coach too.
Speaker 1: I think you'd be a great coach. Yeah do you
Speaker 1: have but you can have a practice squad at least
Speaker 1: assistant head coach slash running backs at very least. Um,
Speaker 1: all right, at fullback, I feel really good about this guy. UM,
Speaker 1: not a lot of options, unfortunately, and I think I
Speaker 1: can't put John qun on it anymore. So I think
Speaker 1: John Aziale at fullback. I feel really good about entering
Speaker 1: his age thirty two season. Um. You know, Dallas Cowboy,
Speaker 1: undrafted free agent two thousand twelve, played his college ball
Speaker 1: at North Texas. UM, good dude, and I think he's
Speaker 1: my fullback. Gray Beards, we're bringing the fullback back. That's
Speaker 1: your prerogative. Dan, alright, moving right along. I got John
Speaker 1: to see. Sorry, bro, Wide receiver, I feel good about
Speaker 1: the wide receivers this year. We in in In the past,
Speaker 1: the wide receiver A big problem is we we struggled
Speaker 1: to gain separation. I mean, that's our thing, you know.
Speaker 1: But uh, and that's always gonna be a challenge in
Speaker 1: this exercise. But I do have somebody in there that
Speaker 1: can I think can help me out with that. UM.
Speaker 1: We'll start with Antonio Brown. That's a nice one to
Speaker 1: have their obviously locked and loaded. UM and the Bucks.
Speaker 1: He's the one guy in the entire team. The Bucks
Speaker 1: haven't brought back yet, so we'll see how but once
Speaker 1: your name to the Gray Beards roster, you're there. You're set. Um,
Speaker 1: just so everyone knows, I need a speedster. Marcy's Goodwin
Speaker 1: turned thirty years old. I know he's not necessarily a
Speaker 1: complete receiver, but you send him deep, just send him
Speaker 1: down the island, send him on the jet and that's
Speaker 1: what his job is, to spread out the field hopefully.
Speaker 1: And then um, then it gets a little tricky. Al
Speaker 1: seon Jeffrey Reclamation Project. Al Right, come on, uh join
Speaker 1: us and then uh we're gonna do some four wide
Speaker 1: receiver sets. Larry Fitzgerald and Adam Humphries are the two
Speaker 1: guys that I'm kind of going back and forth on.
Speaker 1: Larry Fitzgerald just for leadership alone, and um, you know,
Speaker 1: just the living legend Larry legend uh of the NFL
Speaker 1: is my choice? Your thoughts? Boys? Other other options Golden Tate, Uh,
Speaker 1: Danny Ammondola? Yeah, but again, Adam Humphries is he's on
Speaker 1: a team, the Washington football team. Um, yeah, how about
Speaker 1: Josh Gordon? Oh I love it. Oh, I'm no, I'm
Speaker 1: done with that. No, no, no, no, no no. You
Speaker 1: know many times he's been on the Gray Beards. We
Speaker 1: need a vertical playmaker. Man, we need a vertical playmaker
Speaker 1: so that we can you know, set up all these
Speaker 1: great underneath kickouts to Larry. It's in Golden Tate that
Speaker 1: are going to get, you know, on average game three
Speaker 1: and a half yards. All right, so let's be fair here.
Speaker 1: And by the way, he turns thirty on April, so
Speaker 1: he does qualify. The version of Josh Gordon we saw
Speaker 1: in Seattle, is that's the guy that's going to be
Speaker 1: taking tops off the defenses and make a big place
Speaker 1: on this question. I gotta asked the question. I mean,
Speaker 1: I don't think you're gonna be running Cliff Kingsbury's offense
Speaker 1: with this cast of characters, but Josh Gordon will would
Speaker 1: help out this roster. Well, Paterson's got, you know, the
Speaker 1: position flexibility. You could get Gore in at running back,
Speaker 1: you know, move Patterson. I do like the Marquis good
Speaker 1: One signing because you gotta think creatively in the marketing department.
Speaker 1: For the gray Beard. It's an Olympic year. Uh, he
Speaker 1: was an Olympian. There's just something you can promote around that.
Speaker 1: I feel nothing else. He can just like fresh you right,
Speaker 1: he can just run around the track or something, and
Speaker 1: you guys could do something with that, alright, Greg Alshon,
Speaker 1: Jeffrey or Josh Gordon. I guess I go Gordon, Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean you gotta swing for the fences, the Antonio
Speaker 1: Brown dash, Gordon Um trying to catch basses from Alex Smith.
Speaker 1: What could go wrong? It would be perfect, all right?
Speaker 1: The tight ends. I'm feeling feeling good about Um. In fact,
Speaker 1: there are two players that are always hurt UM, so
Speaker 1: I might need a few more of these. But Tyler
Speaker 1: Eiffort and Jordan Reed are those players. I believe they
Speaker 1: are now two major injury dudes of the past. But
Speaker 1: Tyler Effort, Jordan Reed, if I run some two tight
Speaker 1: end sets, maybe put them in bubble wrap, maybe you
Speaker 1: can make some place. I mean, Jordan Reed had, like
Speaker 1: Jordan Reid had like three moments last year where you're
Speaker 1: like Jordan read all right, and then and then he
Speaker 1: got hurt and he can't took a while to come back,
Speaker 1: but he'll he'll give you those couple of moments. So
Speaker 1: I think that, yeah, we're gonna need to run like
Speaker 1: a four or five receiver spread here because we don't
Speaker 1: want these guys being out there for too many snaps.
Speaker 1: I mean you do. It's okay too with Jacksonville that
Speaker 1: this might be your best position group, I think relative
Speaker 1: to league average right now. The only problem is I
Speaker 1: think I have about twelve fifteen snaps per game for
Speaker 1: both of them, so I need to be very smart
Speaker 1: how I deploy Uh these two guys? Um? All right?
Speaker 1: Can I like one like halftime question? Here are you?
Speaker 1: Who is the opponent? Like? Who who are you? Are
Speaker 1: you playing another team of thirty and forty year old
Speaker 1: humans who are um? Fair question? Absolutely, but don't overthink it.
Speaker 1: I I when I hypothetically then figure out how the
Speaker 1: team would do view them as an expansion team that
Speaker 1: are on schedule. Um, but there is no other dimension.
Speaker 1: There's no hollow earth where they are part of a
Speaker 1: different league. Um. Offensive tackle interesting here? You know I
Speaker 1: could run back the Kansas City Chiefs book ends here
Speaker 1: Mitchell Schwartz, who has been one of the best right
Speaker 1: tackles in football, and he's not retired yet and hasn't
Speaker 1: made any announcement. So he's my right tackle. Cocked and loaded.
Speaker 1: Now Eric Fisher, he could be on the left side,
Speaker 1: But I don't know about Eric Fisher. I was thinking
Speaker 1: Russell o'kum, what do you think about that? So, yeah,
Speaker 1: Russell o'coung um, he could also really help us um
Speaker 1: with our financial department because he's really smart in that aspect.
Speaker 1: I also wanted to throw out Ali Villanueva, former Army ranger.
Speaker 1: You'd bring a lot of a lot of patriotism. Just
Speaker 1: absolutely absolutely badass um. But yeah, no, I mean at
Speaker 1: offensive tackle, where we've got some serious options here. Um,
Speaker 1: you know, some injuries to deal with. I mean Eric
Speaker 1: Fisher is coming off the late season achilles tear, Mitchell
Speaker 1: Schwartz coming off back surgery. But I mean if we
Speaker 1: could get these guys you know, in the rehab room
Speaker 1: and didn't get him treated, we we might be even
Speaker 1: even to be able to stock some depth if we
Speaker 1: could put as some of these guys on the reserve
Speaker 1: pup like the Patriots have been doing for years. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I think you want to bring Schwartz in. You know,
Speaker 1: he did that book with his brother Jeff Warts. Maybe
Speaker 1: they start like doing a podcast together. Jeff's been getting
Speaker 1: into the podcast media game. You're just not You're not
Speaker 1: just hiring Mitchell, You're bringing in the whole Schwartz family. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and and Mark you should know, Um, I'm gonna need
Speaker 1: your help on this one. You're gonna have to play
Speaker 1: the turk. It's been a nice run for this gentleman
Speaker 1: on the Gray Beards, but Jason Peters, I gotta let
Speaker 1: him go, So you're gonna have to let him know
Speaker 1: that he did please. Well, all right, fine, I've not
Speaker 1: been in. It's not been told to me how much
Speaker 1: money I make inside this organization to begin with. That
Speaker 1: sounds like the least fun task anyone has. On the interior,
Speaker 1: I got Austin Austin reader Um at center. He's in
Speaker 1: the pivot, Silva. That's a little football talk for you. Uh.
Speaker 1: And then I got Lane Taylor at guard. Now that
Speaker 1: guy was a week one starter for the Packers before
Speaker 1: he hurt his knee. And then d J Fluker get
Speaker 1: that giant involved in the mix. What do you think
Speaker 1: about that we think about the interior boys. Flucker is beautiful.
Speaker 1: I love Flucker. Was a guest star on on a
Speaker 1: very funny Tyler Lockett video, you know, when he pretended
Speaker 1: to be Russell Wilson signing in. Fluker played the role
Speaker 1: of Siarra. So he brings some some joy to the Yeah,
Speaker 1: some triviality to the locker room like that. Alright, kicker
Speaker 1: Dan Bailey, Um, I know he's on the wrong side
Speaker 1: of things now, but you know he's been an accomplished
Speaker 1: guy in the league. Another one to kick the tires on.
Speaker 1: I'm just gonna make a phone call Silver Sea Bass.
Speaker 1: Kick the tire. See how big he is now? Just actually,
Speaker 1: I just want to see him. I want to see
Speaker 1: where he's at physically right now. His last season, he
Speaker 1: so wanted to retire. You could see it on well.
Speaker 1: He ended the season blowing a hamstring, blowing a tire,
Speaker 1: chasing down runback. That's a dark end of your career. Alright,
Speaker 1: let's swing to the defense. Um, this is the best
Speaker 1: part of the team, and it feels like usually is uh.
Speaker 1: Edge options Melvin Ingram, Justin Houston, Olivier Vernon, Alvin Smith
Speaker 1: like them all? Can you have? Can you put them
Speaker 1: all on your team? For? I think? So? Yeah? Why not?
Speaker 1: A little death do that? That's a that's a good group.
Speaker 1: What I got about a guy like Ryan Carrigan is
Speaker 1: he's still sitting down there too. But I went with
Speaker 1: these four. I mean, you could potentially with Karrigan in there.
Speaker 1: If you want interior Delon de Kwon Jones, Geno Atkins,
Speaker 1: Kwan Short Snacks, Harrison. I always throw on one ex
Speaker 1: jet that I just like and uh, I know, I
Speaker 1: don't know if you can play the guitar anymore, but
Speaker 1: Snax was a great disruptor in the middle in his
Speaker 1: a day. Yeah, we got and we got a lot
Speaker 1: of depth here. We could running a NASCAR package. De
Speaker 1: Kwon Jones is a good player. I'm surprised he's still unsigned.
Speaker 1: He's solid um full disclosure. I didn't really break down
Speaker 1: like how we're gonna play things at linebacker, but kJ
Speaker 1: right it off ball linebacker got lines in the mix,
Speaker 1: l J. Fort and then uh an old war horse.
Speaker 1: Shawn Lee was somebody that hadn't mind your thoughts. I
Speaker 1: like this defense. Is Sean Lee a free agent? I
Speaker 1: forgot about that. You're right, yeah, Smith is also a
Speaker 1: free agent, and you're looking to win games like nine
Speaker 1: to seven. Cornerback, now, this has also been wide receiver.
Speaker 1: Same thing. We struggle to get separation cornerback. Usually we
Speaker 1: have a lot of concerns about keeping up with speed receivers.
Speaker 1: The idea of seeing Tyrock Tyreek Hill on the other
Speaker 1: side of the field. That's that's a nightmare for the
Speaker 1: seemor really anybody that can run like a four seven forty.
Speaker 1: All right, Richard Sherman. Nice that locked and loaded. Welcome
Speaker 1: to the Gray Beards. It's been a long time coming.
Speaker 1: Casey Hayward, um A, J. Boyer, Josh Norman, Quentin Dunbar.
Speaker 1: Now you say Quentin Dunbar maybe a character concerned. He's
Speaker 1: had some issues off the field. That's why Lar Fitzgerald's here.
Speaker 1: He's just gonna fix him. Uh no, no, no, how
Speaker 1: do you like that? I got Bryan Pool maybe in
Speaker 1: the slot. Yeah, how about Jason mccordy's out there. I
Speaker 1: mean I would maybe take him over. Who was after Sherman.
Speaker 1: There were some Casey hayward A, J boy A, Josh Norman. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's too much. I don't like Norman and Sherman on
Speaker 1: the same team. They sort of yeah, they well, they
Speaker 1: filled the same sort of role at one point in
Speaker 1: the in the two thousand tens. I want Sherman to
Speaker 1: be kind of the boss of this room. Mccorty, you
Speaker 1: get the mccordy twins Twitter, you know handle that they share.
Speaker 1: I don't know how that works, you know when they're
Speaker 1: on different teams, but they'd go for that. Very cool.
Speaker 1: Um Safety, all right, I'm gonna have Kenny Vicardo in
Speaker 1: the box. I like, I like his abilities there free safety. Listen,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna get a center fielder and I'm gonna get
Speaker 1: the prototype. A year away from the game. Maybe he's
Speaker 1: been humbled, maybe he's making some better decisions in his life.
Speaker 1: Hopefully he stayed in shape. Earl Thomas, welcome back. You're
Speaker 1: a great Yeah. Have the legion of boom here. This
Speaker 1: is This is promising from the marketing angle, that's true.
Speaker 1: I didn't even think of that. To get Sherman and
Speaker 1: Thomas back together. We can see if what Cam chancers
Speaker 1: up to his next field come back and Browner think
Speaker 1: there's only so much can do. I think Browner is
Speaker 1: unavailable right now. Um. You know you do have a
Speaker 1: lot going on that just with personalities, you know, I
Speaker 1: know this individual does have a job, so I don't
Speaker 1: know if he qualifies. He is over forty though. Any
Speaker 1: thoughts of bringing in Jack ether By as a character
Speaker 1: coach to kind of keep this T team online, you
Speaker 1: know that's a great thought. You need some like a
Speaker 1: moral compass. Gonna have to um draw the line there. Yeah,
Speaker 1: we mentioned that Cordurel will be my kicking punt returner
Speaker 1: and the punter like this, this is great though into
Speaker 1: my lap a little bit. Thomas Morris staid, great run
Speaker 1: in New Orleans and he needs a fresh start. Well
Speaker 1: that's what the gray beards are all about. Now that's
Speaker 1: the team, UM head coach. Well, defensive coordinator Wade Phillips.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, UM offensive coordinator um who was in Miami
Speaker 1: last year. Uh, you know, forced him to retire. It
Speaker 1: was a little confusing there wasn't sure if that was
Speaker 1: a firing or not. But yeah, uh. And of course
Speaker 1: head coaches Wayne Fons. How old is Wade Fons right now?
Speaker 1: Is it? And their record again? Higher degree of difficulty here, um,
Speaker 1: And I want to hear your guys thoughts on this too,
Speaker 1: losing anybody that's you know, below thirty. I just think
Speaker 1: the offense we're gonna really struggle to score points, and
Speaker 1: I think the defense is gonna keep us in some games.
Speaker 1: But also it's an older defense, so you worry about
Speaker 1: injury issues. It's the three and thirteen team this year.
Speaker 1: I gotta that. I mean I gotta be honest, what
Speaker 1: do you guys think? I mean, they could, they could
Speaker 1: definitely beat the Texans. Okay, hopefully they're on the schedule.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna go I'm gonna go one in fifteen. I think,
Speaker 1: oh wait, wait, wait, it's what's seventeen game season? Excuse me, baby,
Speaker 1: let's fly. I'm going one in sixteen. I think Alex
Speaker 1: smith Um gets a huge upset in like week fifteen
Speaker 1: against a competitive team, you know, and they celebrate like
Speaker 1: it's the super Bowl, and the game winning play is
Speaker 1: called by an executed by assistant head coach slash running
Speaker 1: back coach slash player Frank Gore jumps in over jumps in.
Speaker 1: I am smelling, oh in seventeen. Oh no, oh no,
Speaker 1: we're in that territory thing. You don't relevant. Do you
Speaker 1: think we can't get the club doub just once. I
Speaker 1: think fonts and uh you put fonts and and way
Speaker 1: to fill together. I think you're gonna win a lot
Speaker 1: of games waiting fonts. By the way, you look back,
Speaker 1: he was He made the playoffs like four out of
Speaker 1: his last five years. He looks pretty good in hindsight.
Speaker 1: I'm not I'm not being flipped I want to make
Speaker 1: sure he's alive. Please hold he I just checked this hues.
Speaker 1: Yeah I didn't. He was alive and he's eighty one
Speaker 1: entering his eight age eighty two seasons. So well, that's
Speaker 1: like Pete Cal's around there. He's chewing that gun. I
Speaker 1: would I would have loved Steve Spurrier. I mean, what
Speaker 1: do you did with the Orlando Apollos in the A F?
Speaker 1: L and I in the A F? And I know
Speaker 1: you guys bashed the a F. You especially he did
Speaker 1: the A. I got after the A F a little bit,
Speaker 1: and I apologize because I know it meant it meant
Speaker 1: a lot to Silva. Silva stood up in a menacing
Speaker 1: way and considered throwing a shrim cocktail at Dan. And
Speaker 1: I think he was gonna throw me through the plate
Speaker 1: glass window of st. Elmo. Ask that. But you know what, AF,
Speaker 1: that was an incredible seven week run. That's um anyway,
Speaker 1: that's the gray those are the gray beards. UM. Appreciate
Speaker 1: your help, Uh, Evan and and and Greg um really
Speaker 1: good stuff. And I knew that I was well. I
Speaker 1: was suggesting Evan that we should be getting byelines, shared bylines,
Speaker 1: or at least the thing at the bottom of a
Speaker 1: big article where it says you know X, Y and
Speaker 1: Z also tin so so you have you decided you
Speaker 1: were going to announce at the end of the show
Speaker 1: if if any of us get mentioned, I'm gonna say
Speaker 1: maybe next year. Maybe next year. Yeah, these paid these
Speaker 1: unpaid internships aren't as uh yeah, um all right, Evan,
Speaker 1: you said it all. You will never be There's a
Speaker 1: reason why you were in a hit it and quit
Speaker 1: it guest. We've had hit it and quit it guests.
Speaker 1: We had one someone recently. You are not one of them.
Speaker 1: Thank you, thank you, No, thank you. It's always it's
Speaker 1: always enjoy to talk some ball with you guys, and
Speaker 1: you guys crack me up. So I appreciate it. I
Speaker 1: appreciate the Established the Run background that you made. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's look at the glare. It's horrible, looks terrible. You
Speaker 1: gotta frame it up a little bit. It was a
Speaker 1: good idea you you sent out for that. That was good.
Speaker 1: Everyone should check out Established the Run with the former
Speaker 1: road a World, Hasses, Adam Levitan and Evan Silva all
Speaker 1: sorts of DFS stuff NBA. It's incredible site and if
Speaker 1: you if you stay on like a hidden track on
Speaker 1: an old CD from the nineties. Silva will share his
Speaker 1: thoughts on Roadal World changing its name to NBC Sports Edge.
Speaker 1: Don't get me started, don't give me star. I don't
Speaker 1: know why not? Why not take the like most successful
Speaker 1: web property they've ever had and changed the name to
Speaker 1: NBC Sports Edge. Come on, come on? All right, there
Speaker 1: goes Evan, and make sure you check out Established the Run.
Speaker 1: That's some of the best football writing you will find
Speaker 1: and it will win you fantasy leagues as well in
Speaker 1: DFS and all that other stuff. All right, um, we'll
Speaker 1: be back on Monday with another podcast. Friday The Network
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Speaker 1: get great submissions um from the listeners, sometimes and written forms,
Speaker 1: sometimes audio um and song. Hugh O'Connor one of our
Speaker 1: uh fine listeners, beautiful song about our podcast and attribute
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Speaker 1: the end of the song snuck up and bit me.
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Speaker 1: to l Five days since the Tuesday show, all of
Speaker 1: our leaves, news and see who wrote a bang of
Speaker 1: three days since the preview pod, ma'am with the lucks
Speaker 1: and trying to work a snake draft. Just today I thought,
Speaker 1: let the loan. But in just a few hours my
Speaker 1: heroes will here with me. When the top a deer
Speaker 1: like best is it the Raven's nest? Or when they
Speaker 1: just just about some nonsense they just thought of. Ricky
Speaker 1: has to keep it real behind the scenes. It's been
Speaker 1: the wheel of teams. Figure out what that means. Sometimes
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Speaker 1: just rustled though she lost the rhythm of the attendance.
Speaker 1: She's not the only one who brings the phone. I no,
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Speaker 1: I think Mark Bonny when he said trying hard not
Speaker 1: to get him when the brands are bad, turns the
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Speaker 1: you really blame him? I guess they are the greatest hits.
Speaker 1: Gregg has a tendency for looking up the favorite was
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Speaker 1: the off season, seven long months before we're back to football.
Speaker 1: Five days of free agent shows, Greg and was his
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Speaker 1: Yesterday I just wrote this song, but I'll be waiting
Speaker 1: next week to listen to my heroes. We have to
Speaker 1: check him with the traumas leaves. That's where Gregg takes
Speaker 1: his ease, and Dan is never pleased unless the struggle
Speaker 1: with the Patriots. It's hard to talk about the team
Speaker 1: dances like the most sent down to seeing ghosts. They've
Speaker 1: got no call to boast, but maybe sellam make some
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Speaker 1: they finally made the playoffs. Don't forget Rick Hollywood As
Speaker 1: if you could. She's doing good at Etellen just as
Speaker 1: well with them on the broadcast. Can we help it?
Speaker 1: If Chris Westling is a hero, he fought the Bigsie tough.
Speaker 1: He never showed us fear. Now he's the kind of
Speaker 1: guy who loses. I bed in the bath, gave us
Speaker 1: football takes that always made us thinking laugh. He's got
Speaker 1: a tendency of kicking as a corner hole and when
Speaker 1: he locked it up, you never in down. It's been
Speaker 1: two months since we lost our friend and never met
Speaker 1: the guy, but man, you know we miss him. Show
Speaker 1: won't ever be the same. Hell always be a gap
Speaker 1: when Dan starts with spots up boys. I say, hey
Speaker 1: Dan every time I'm thinking of the male man wishing
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