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Speaker 1: six nine, What Up? Splitches? Welcome to Split Ends the
Speaker 1: Football Odds and Ends podcast. I'm colleing molok your COVID
Speaker 1: queen by I'm sort of ditched COVID, so now I'm
Speaker 1: just a queen again, which is awesome. Joined by Erica
Speaker 1: tamp Posy producer Aaron What America. We have a big
Speaker 1: show coming up. We do. We have a huge one
Speaker 1: coming up. But first of all, how are you feeling?
Speaker 1: What's the latest with you? I feel like crap now,
Speaker 1: I'm getting it's you know what. I was gonna like
Speaker 1: make some jokes and stuff off the top, but I've
Speaker 1: just been super foggy with me. It's basically day ten now.
Speaker 1: I was really bummed out because I missed Thursday Night
Speaker 1: Football my last three shows. Yeah, so I missed the
Speaker 1: last Thursday and then the two exclusives that we had. Um,
Speaker 1: so I didn't have to wear Christmas, but I kind
Speaker 1: of wanted to wear Christmas, but I guess it worked
Speaker 1: out that I didn't work Christmas. Also, am I the
Speaker 1: only person that gains weight when they're sick because I
Speaker 1: have not had an appetite, but I haven't had anything
Speaker 1: to do, and I've just been stuck in the house.
Speaker 1: So I've just been making COVID cookies, like batches and
Speaker 1: batches of cookies. So I baked a bunch and then
Speaker 1: I ate them all. So now I have big things
Speaker 1: to do in the new year. Yeah, I mean you're
Speaker 1: gonna your New Year's resolution is going to be the
Speaker 1: most basic one about Like I'm going to go on
Speaker 1: the elliptical every day. So it's so annoying. I am
Speaker 1: running too. I don't do it. If you ever lose
Speaker 1: your taste of smell, your taste of smell and your
Speaker 1: smell of taste, we're back and it just feels so
Speaker 1: good and natural. No, you know what, you know how
Speaker 1: you get that like sick taste when you have a
Speaker 1: cold or whatever. I had that and so that that
Speaker 1: was basically it. Though I would be devastated if I
Speaker 1: lost my sense of taste and smell, right, because I
Speaker 1: just like, I'm picturing you not being able to taste anything,
Speaker 1: but still baking like tons and tons of cookies. Well
Speaker 1: I think that's part of it. Like I kept seeing
Speaker 1: like is everything still okay? Yeproblem, yep, it's all good?
Speaker 1: Still all right? I just kept doing drive bys of
Speaker 1: the refrigerator and so yeah, that's um, that's what I'm
Speaker 1: dealing with. But you guys don't care about that. You
Speaker 1: care about what's coming up in this show. We've got
Speaker 1: headline check to remember, including something naughty at sure, a
Speaker 1: storm and arson all coming up in the headlines. They're wild. Plus,
Speaker 1: it's about that time of year when we make promises
Speaker 1: to ourselves that we basically break in three days and
Speaker 1: feel very guilty. It is New Year's resolution time, and
Speaker 1: what a tradition that is. We have a handful for
Speaker 1: a bunch of different teams coming up. We got the Seahawks,
Speaker 1: we got the Eagles, and many more so Erica, that's
Speaker 1: basically my Jim nance. I don't know if you saw
Speaker 1: Frank Caliendo on Good Morning Football, but he was doing
Speaker 1: Jim nance. And now I can't stop with like the
Speaker 1: volume uh that he said that Jim Nance does so Erica,
Speaker 1: are you ready? I'm so ready. Alright, a lot of
Speaker 1: news percolating with two weeks left in the regular season,
Speaker 1: so before our headline check, we have to pay tribute
Speaker 1: to a football legend, John Madden. This guy was larger
Speaker 1: than life. He made football so much fun. He connected
Speaker 1: with everybody. Just a Hall of Famer in every single
Speaker 1: aspect of the word. I mean, he was a Super
Speaker 1: Bowl winning head coach, just a legend in the broadcast booth.
Speaker 1: His popularity Erica was so impressive because it spanned so
Speaker 1: many generations, because you have what he was able to
Speaker 1: do in the game, to talk about the game, and
Speaker 1: then obviously being the face of one of the most
Speaker 1: iconic game franchises ever and Madden. But the thing that
Speaker 1: I loved about him most was that he was just effortless,
Speaker 1: effortlessly funny. I'm still working through stuff, guys. The COVID
Speaker 1: still has me here, so just bear with me here.
Speaker 1: Um it sounds great, buddy, You're doing great, but now
Speaker 1: I'm sweating. You got a good channel, John Madden. Here here,
Speaker 1: you try and get through this. So I was John Madden.
Speaker 1: I take my like yellow marker right now, and I'd
Speaker 1: be like, you can see that she's stressed during this podcast.
Speaker 1: The circle right here, you can see that Colleen is
Speaker 1: trying not to cough, but you know she's a professional.
Speaker 1: It's um not gonna lie really difficult. Are I already
Speaker 1: want to cough? And I'm not sure where the mute
Speaker 1: button is on this So we're gonna work through some
Speaker 1: kinks on this show. Ladies and gentlemen, we are. What
Speaker 1: I was saying is the thing that I loved most
Speaker 1: about John maddeness that he was effortlessly funny in every
Speaker 1: single way. And it wasn't it just everything he did
Speaker 1: and said. He could talk about anything, and he made
Speaker 1: football so accessible to so many different people, no matter
Speaker 1: if they were interested in the game or not. He
Speaker 1: could talk about an empty room and make it fascinating.
Speaker 1: So rather than us just like sit here and talk
Speaker 1: about John Madden, let's go through some of our favorite
Speaker 1: Madden moments. Uh. And for me, it's always been the
Speaker 1: Bucket family. There's we see the buckets. Now there's a
Speaker 1: third bucket this week. I think what happened There's always
Speaker 1: been Yeah, there's always been like a mother and father.
Speaker 1: This is your father bucket, This is your mother bucket.
Speaker 1: If some a last game they had a baby bucket,
Speaker 1: so this is a baby bucket, so they got free.
Speaker 1: Now it's always been too one's gonna go to parcels,
Speaker 1: one's going to go to another assistant and want or
Speaker 1: go to a player later in the game. I guess
Speaker 1: that there's up the question as to whether they're married
Speaker 1: or not. Well, yeah, well if they gott yeah, they
Speaker 1: got married in that baby bucket. That's run a little.
Speaker 1: They got married out of baby bucket, the stats and
Speaker 1: the specs then that they ended up showing for the
Speaker 1: actual bucket. It was hilarious. They just took everything to
Speaker 1: the next step and obviously like saying mother bucket on
Speaker 1: t that was a little risque and that's why I
Speaker 1: loved it. Oh my god, that's such a great one.
Speaker 1: There's been so many circulating around with all these coaches
Speaker 1: and players over the years coming out and talking about
Speaker 1: their stories about him, and quickly like when I was
Speaker 1: growing up, playing Madden is like what made me fall
Speaker 1: in love with football. It wasn't even watching the games,
Speaker 1: it was this video game. To the point where I
Speaker 1: thought John Madden was the voice of football to a
Speaker 1: point where I thought he did every single game because
Speaker 1: Madden he was doing every day. So I was like,
Speaker 1: who is this guy? And he is the father of football.
Speaker 1: But like you said, with his humor, there's one which
Speaker 1: I like, I love. It's this clip of him roasting
Speaker 1: Troy Aikman. And I'll let you hear it right now.
Speaker 1: And you notice that Pat Troy Aikman is trying to
Speaker 1: grow a beer and he just can't do it. I mean,
Speaker 1: you know, the blond haired guys, a lot of them
Speaker 1: have problem. But I can't even I'm looking as close
Speaker 1: as I can and I can't see any beer. But
Speaker 1: he's been that's a four day. It's a pass at
Speaker 1: a temp. It's very very passive. Here's Terry Allen at
Speaker 1: you about the twenty there it is, you know here
Speaker 1: it is. But see I mean, I mean, he got
Speaker 1: a little in here and a little up there here,
Speaker 1: but he doesn't have anything here at all. Watch when
Speaker 1: you take it off, he doesn't have anything going up
Speaker 1: in there. I got to get him time. He just
Speaker 1: had his twenty ninth birthday, I know, but I don't
Speaker 1: think he's doing a very good guy. I quit drawing
Speaker 1: on the screen circling Troy's beard as the game was
Speaker 1: was happening in real time. It's just legendary. That's what
Speaker 1: sent me when he started diagramming the non beard on
Speaker 1: Aikman's face like he loved a telestrator. No one loved
Speaker 1: it more than him. And even there was this Eagles
Speaker 1: Cowboys game and they basically super zoomed on the broadcast
Speaker 1: into Nate Newton's head and also started tellustrating on his head,
Speaker 1: which absolutely was hilarious. You could cook burgers on that head.
Speaker 1: Listen to this. See see see how he does come
Speaker 1: out of top of your head. Look at it just
Speaker 1: coming off Nate's head. There, that's where it escapes. If
Speaker 1: you have heat in your body and you want to
Speaker 1: let it out, you take your hat off. Yeah, you
Speaker 1: know what you could do is he is You can
Speaker 1: have a barbecue on that head. Nate's got a lot
Speaker 1: of room to let it out. I mean, you could
Speaker 1: cook like some burgers on there. Now you're talking, and
Speaker 1: this is football, and when you got steam coming out
Speaker 1: of your head, are your mouth now football? And you're
Speaker 1: controlling that offensive life? This is what it's all about
Speaker 1: it's a playoffs game. If you when you go to
Speaker 1: the championship, what are you progning. I know, obviously this
Speaker 1: is an audio program, you guys, but just go on Twitter,
Speaker 1: go on YouTube. There's so many amazing video clips, too
Speaker 1: many to count, just circulating of of Madden's time in
Speaker 1: the booth and on the field. He thrived when things
Speaker 1: went off script, which I think is one of the
Speaker 1: things that made him so good at what he did,
Speaker 1: because he would just laser focus on anything that that
Speaker 1: was out of the norm, like if a pigeon flew
Speaker 1: on the field, or obviously Nate Newton's head. The fact
Speaker 1: that they super zoomed in on that, the fact that
Speaker 1: they like took the broadcast off of the game completely
Speaker 1: just to talk about the steam coming off of Nate
Speaker 1: Newton's head. I mean, they would make every single thing
Speaker 1: interesting even if it really wasn't. And he was just
Speaker 1: one of one, such a unique, larger than life character.
Speaker 1: So the NFL they're going to hold a moment of
Speaker 1: silence before all the games coming up this week to
Speaker 1: honor him. But he was just one of the best
Speaker 1: characters in football will ever have. Yeah, it was just
Speaker 1: remarkable to see all the outpouring of support from coaches
Speaker 1: and players and broadcasters, people in the league media. It
Speaker 1: was just such an overwhelmingly positive, you know response, and
Speaker 1: to someone that's gonna be so so dearly missed. He
Speaker 1: every single person I heard talk about him had some
Speaker 1: type of personal story that, whether they knew him or not,
Speaker 1: how he touched their lives, how he made it better,
Speaker 1: and he did it all through football and a game.
Speaker 1: And it's just it's really nice to see so many
Speaker 1: people come together and actually agree, um on something for once. UM.
Speaker 1: And it's sad that it has to be about the
Speaker 1: passing of someone who is an absolute icon and foot all.
Speaker 1: But we could spend the entire show just talking about him.
Speaker 1: We're not going to do that, um. But he was
Speaker 1: just an unbelievable trailblazer and he's going to be missed.
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Speaker 1: some other news and notes around the league with our
Speaker 1: headline check and we'll do it Hot or Not style Erica,
Speaker 1: Why don't you start us? All? All right? All signs
Speaker 1: point to Ben Roethlisberger throwing a retirement party on Monday
Speaker 1: Night Football. The quarterback said it will likely be his
Speaker 1: last game at Heinz Field m primetime parties Hot the Steelers,
Speaker 1: This one out of Green Bay. Aaron rodgers Is future
Speaker 1: continues to be a beautiful mystery. He said he's not
Speaker 1: rolling out retiring after the season, saying he doesn't want
Speaker 1: to be a bum on the way out. Not hot.
Speaker 1: Please don't make us talk about this again all off season.
Speaker 1: I can't handle it, and I know you can't either.
Speaker 1: Nobody can handle it. No One. Giants running back say
Speaker 1: kumb Parkley returns to Chicago for the first time since
Speaker 1: tearing his a c L and a very comfortable reporter
Speaker 1: asked if he would consider burning down soldier Field. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's hot if you're a pyro, but I think it's
Speaker 1: weird otherwise, that's that's true. Hot goes to the reporter
Speaker 1: for asking this, because clearly the gummy HiT's like, do
Speaker 1: you want to burn the whole place down? Exactly? The
Speaker 1: Chargers social media posted pictures of Joey Bosa Brandon's daily
Speaker 1: at Justin Herbert practicing in the rain with the caption
Speaker 1: through the storm, Oh this is hot. This is hilariously
Speaker 1: hot because it rains in l A and they're turning
Speaker 1: it into some gritty social post hot hot hot l
Speaker 1: A rain. Twitter is out of control. It's like a
Speaker 1: natural disaster. Every time it makes l a earthquake. Twitter
Speaker 1: look tame. This one comes from Charlotte sam Donald was
Speaker 1: named the Panthers. Oh my god, not hot. I'm done
Speaker 1: with the carousel. Next they should try cutting Cam Newton
Speaker 1: and signing him again, like unplugging your router while it's
Speaker 1: not working. Not hot. I'm so over this. Next. Forty
Speaker 1: Niners GM. John Lynch claimed he was in church on
Speaker 1: Christmas Eve when his account liked a tweet that he
Speaker 1: was tagged in, stating that Jimmy g should be left
Speaker 1: in Nashville after the forty Niners lost. Oh my god,
Speaker 1: this is so hot. A classic Christmas mix up where
Speaker 1: he was like, I was in church, not me like
Speaker 1: in those tweets. Amazing. Yeah, I'm actually in church right now.
Speaker 1: It's totally not doing this podcast the same. Peter King
Speaker 1: wrote in his column this week that Bill's quarterback Josh
Speaker 1: Allen told the team before beating the Patriots, he woke
Speaker 1: up with violence on his mind. Oh hella hot. Who
Speaker 1: among us hasn't chose violence in the morning? Right? I
Speaker 1: just did this morning. I feel great about it. ESPN
Speaker 1: broadcasters dipped peanut butter and jelly and oreos into Mayo
Speaker 1: for the Duke's Mayo Bowl taking place on Thursday. I
Speaker 1: think this is kind of hot. Not gonna lie like.
Speaker 1: It's a nice little mix up when you're talking college ball,
Speaker 1: you know, it's a little aesthetic. I like it. College
Speaker 1: ball in Mayo. Yeah, they go to go to They're perfect.
Speaker 1: I love it. And finally we closed this one out
Speaker 1: with a gem. The world's most courageous reporter shows no
Speaker 1: fear and sticks to the script. After the Patriots lose
Speaker 1: the game and most likely the division, to the Bills.
Speaker 1: And ask Bill Belichick this question him football aside. Sorry,
Speaker 1: but I'm doing a story about the year's resolutions, and
Speaker 1: I was just wondering if you had any share with
Speaker 1: your fans and our readers. Yeah no, not right now, Okay,
Speaker 1: thanks every next week. Oh my god, the second hand
Speaker 1: embarrassment from that clip made my skin crawl. I loved it.
Speaker 1: I loved every second of it. That person unbelievable courage,
Speaker 1: just truly, I've never no fear whatsoever. She absolutely there's
Speaker 1: no way that she covers the Patriots ever again. No,
Speaker 1: never again, or any maybe yeah, maybe some local you know,
Speaker 1: Boston sports media or whatever. But it was cute because
Speaker 1: in a weird way, Bill Belichick takes you know, takes
Speaker 1: up breath and he goes, you know, maybe maybe next
Speaker 1: week I'll tell you about my New Year's resolutions, which
Speaker 1: was like kind of cute. Well, I feel like and
Speaker 1: I'm not just saying that because like it was a
Speaker 1: fluff question, and obviously if it was any if it
Speaker 1: was a man or a woman that asked the question,
Speaker 1: it's just like everybody knows that you don't ask Bill
Speaker 1: Belichick questions pretty much period. But in that circumstance, specifically
Speaker 1: after that terrible lass asking about New Year's resolutions is
Speaker 1: my favorite thing that happened last week. I loved it
Speaker 1: so much. So I loved it so much that we're
Speaker 1: going to do some of our own here. We have
Speaker 1: picked out a couple teams or players or just things
Speaker 1: in general that could use a New Year's resolution, because
Speaker 1: couldn't we all just use some suggestions right now? Don't
Speaker 1: well need help right now? I do? We all need
Speaker 1: help calling. You are the Mayo to my Oreo. You
Speaker 1: totally get me, same thing I know. Okay, So I
Speaker 1: always keep my nears resolutions every single year. Really find
Speaker 1: bread way less water. Look at me now, thriving and
Speaker 1: so healthy. Okay, I'm gonna do the Eagles resolution, and
Speaker 1: it's actually a two parter. So first, Eagles fans resolved
Speaker 1: to keep treating the Eagles like family, and by that
Speaker 1: I mean booing their own before the game even starts.
Speaker 1: That's exactly what family would do. It warms my heart.
Speaker 1: That's what I would do to my family. Booing is
Speaker 1: a Philadelphia love language, and that's how we show affection
Speaker 1: even during player intros apparently, which I mean I'm just
Speaker 1: throwing out there as a suggestion because I would never
Speaker 1: tell any fans what to do or when to boo,
Speaker 1: but maybe ease up on Jalen reagor until the game starts,
Speaker 1: or at least until he drops a ball on second
Speaker 1: and tent like, then unleash the boost. Yeah, it feels
Speaker 1: really mean to do it pre game, but also I
Speaker 1: would do that to my brother, so I guess it
Speaker 1: is football is family, guys. And then my second one
Speaker 1: is the Eagles resolved to not go back to their
Speaker 1: awful passing game for once. They're going to keep doing
Speaker 1: what works. A hundred and sixty three rushing yards per game.
Speaker 1: The offensive line has been crushing it. Yes, I know
Speaker 1: the Miles Sanders injury. It sucks, it hurts, but they
Speaker 1: still have Jordan Howard, Boston Scott Kenny g. I'd love
Speaker 1: to see Jalen hurts, maybe not be so hesitant when
Speaker 1: he runs like we've seen the last two weeks, but
Speaker 1: he's still going to end up as their leading rushers.
Speaker 1: So this offense shines when they play to their strengths,
Speaker 1: and they definitely won't mess things up now right, Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean, how do you feel about this team? Do
Speaker 1: you think they're they're going in the right direction. I mean,
Speaker 1: they've been playing way better the past few weeks. They've
Speaker 1: been playing a lot better, and a lot of that
Speaker 1: stems from their run game and the way that Nick
Speaker 1: Sirianni has been calling the games. I think it's an improvement,
Speaker 1: but the fact that they're still barely hanging on to
Speaker 1: maybe make the playoffs doesn't really inspire a ton of confidence.
Speaker 1: There's a lot of changes I would make, and I'm
Speaker 1: not sure how invested the organization is truly with Jalen Hurts,
Speaker 1: but that's something that will be answered in the off season.
Speaker 1: I'm not really sure what else they would do, but
Speaker 1: maybe a little patience, because look what happened with this
Speaker 1: team this year. Earlier in the season, they were a mess,
Speaker 1: and they weren't running the ball at all and nothing
Speaker 1: was working. And now they seem to be jelling a
Speaker 1: little bit more and playing a little bit better. So
Speaker 1: it's good. And officially this week with Wentz playing, you
Speaker 1: guys got the Colt's first round pick, so you have
Speaker 1: look at you coming in like a sunshine. I love it.
Speaker 1: Oh my god, we'll speaking of Aaron while you're here,
Speaker 1: because I don't know if we're going to touch on
Speaker 1: the colts. I owe you a steak because as of
Speaker 1: last week, so I just want to say that I'm
Speaker 1: the first Splitty to ever go oh in two with
Speaker 1: the first two weeks of doing steaks. You're doing great, sweetie.
Speaker 1: I'm really to be fair, Erica, I would take fish too.
Speaker 1: Are you a vegetarian? All right, Colleen, I, first of all,
Speaker 1: while you were saying that, I think that's a great
Speaker 1: um you know, two part a resolution for the Eagles,
Speaker 1: And what came to mind while you were saying the
Speaker 1: first part is you do you comma boo while you
Speaker 1: were talking about booing because you're like, I'm not gonna
Speaker 1: tell you when to boo, so um, you know, I
Speaker 1: think that's a great episode title. We'll see if it
Speaker 1: makes that if the if the episode isn't titled that,
Speaker 1: and you guys get to this part of the podcast
Speaker 1: just now you know that it didn't make the cut,
Speaker 1: but I think you boo, I think that kind of works.
Speaker 1: But I'm going to stay on the topic of family
Speaker 1: because you were talking about family and I want to
Speaker 1: give a resolution to the Jaguars so that the last
Speaker 1: place in the af C South for the last place
Speaker 1: in the league about everything Urban Meyers finally gone. You
Speaker 1: can wipe your hands clean of that, but it's still
Speaker 1: time to reset. So as of now, they still have
Speaker 1: the first pick again in the draft. But my resolution
Speaker 1: for them is more family bonding. This team is so
Speaker 1: not together. Everything that happens on the field, one way
Speaker 1: or another. The field, there's been stories from the locker
Speaker 1: room about not you know, cohesiveness and all this kind
Speaker 1: of stuff. I think they need to do maybe not
Speaker 1: prayer circles, but maybe a family retreat, or they need
Speaker 1: to go rock climbing as a team, or maybe a
Speaker 1: pyramid you know, you know when you used to go
Speaker 1: with your class and you would be like doing all
Speaker 1: these different activities, and yeah, they need to do that.
Speaker 1: And I think they should spend some time in the
Speaker 1: off season that their new year's resolution is once a
Speaker 1: week they're going to do a family bonding activity. Maybe
Speaker 1: it's going to Chili's, maybe it's mini golfing, maybe just
Speaker 1: like practice more. Yeah, that's that's that too. Well. I
Speaker 1: think I like the fact that Doug Peterson is interviewing
Speaker 1: for the head coaching job, right I think that he
Speaker 1: could potentially help out Trevor Lawrence, just as a former
Speaker 1: quarterback offensive mind that that could be good for the Jags.
Speaker 1: Just considering Trevor Lawrence, he has been set up in
Speaker 1: a situation that's not great. So he hasn't been thriving,
Speaker 1: and we all knew that going into this year, but
Speaker 1: he he really looks completely like his His accuracy is off.
Speaker 1: He hasn't thrown a touchdown in four straight games. And
Speaker 1: the blame pie can be spread out to so many
Speaker 1: different places. Everyone gets a piece, the offensive line, the coaching,
Speaker 1: the past catchers, everyone, everything but everything. He didn't even
Speaker 1: look good against the Jets defense. So I think somebody
Speaker 1: like Doug Peterson could maybe help out the situation so well.
Speaker 1: And I think that the Jags when they play the
Speaker 1: Patriots this coming weekend in week seventeen, um, they're gonna
Speaker 1: need to be together and handle either a win or
Speaker 1: a loss as a team. Yeah wait what they need
Speaker 1: to be family bonding. They need to be togetherily bonding.
Speaker 1: That's that's my resolution for them. So either you win
Speaker 1: together or you lose together, and you gotta do it together.
Speaker 1: Winning usually helps people come together. Like the staying together
Speaker 1: when you're losing is the thing that's tough, but I
Speaker 1: mentioned the Jets, and speaking of losing, that's who the
Speaker 1: Jags actually lost to. Now I have one for the
Speaker 1: Jets and Jets fans day. The resolution should just be
Speaker 1: to not believe. And I know that that's kind of
Speaker 1: harsh coming off of a win, but it's the hope
Speaker 1: that kills you, after all, And this is exactly how
Speaker 1: I operate. I said the bar extremely low, and I
Speaker 1: don't believe in anything, and then I will never be disappointed. Explain,
Speaker 1: it's the holiday season. Don't listen to Colleen right now.
Speaker 1: You gotta believe in something. Okay, she's a little under
Speaker 1: the weather, she's a little bit foggy. No, you got
Speaker 1: just try your hardest. No, no, no, no, no, listen, guys,
Speaker 1: that's what I'm saying. Two the Year of positivity and possibilities.
Speaker 1: Put that on a shirt. Okay. Um, but Zach Wilson
Speaker 1: did have some really nice moments last week, so I
Speaker 1: did give some flowers. So don't believe. That's what I
Speaker 1: do on my way out of the door, hope like
Speaker 1: a backwards ted lasso. I'm in a dark place right now.
Speaker 1: Clear Seriously, Hey you guys, um, we're here for you.
Speaker 1: Colleen's having a little trouble. But we're here for you, ladies.
Speaker 1: We promised, we promised. Okay, So I think that's that's
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Speaker 1: got another one? I do so this this resolution is
Speaker 1: for the Panthers, and my resolution and for them is
Speaker 1: in two less less gossip, less drama. Okay, the Panthers
Speaker 1: have lost ten of their last twelve games since starting
Speaker 1: three and oh so let's talk. Matt Rule had a
Speaker 1: press conference coming out saying, I'm like jay Z. You know,
Speaker 1: I told the guys it takes seven years, right, So
Speaker 1: embarrassing number one, let's not. Let's let's take out the
Speaker 1: Sam Donald, Cam Newton p J Walker carousel. Right, let's
Speaker 1: get rid of that. I my resolution for the Panthers
Speaker 1: is to not be involved in the Deshaun Watson talks.
Speaker 1: Coming forward in the off season, and I think this
Speaker 1: Panther's team needs to stop gossiping behind each other's backs
Speaker 1: with press conferences and all this kind of stuff. Stay
Speaker 1: out of the drama. They need to focus on what
Speaker 1: they can do to get better and stay away from
Speaker 1: all of the Deshaun Watson talk, even though they're having
Speaker 1: major quarterback issues. I mean, that's the rather the resolution
Speaker 1: should be defined a quarterback right, No, but that's that's
Speaker 1: what they need. It's their fourth straight losing season and
Speaker 1: you have fans booing Sam Donald and the team at
Speaker 1: home and that this is guys. Remember like, I'm not
Speaker 1: telling anyone when to boo you, but you know it's not.
Speaker 1: It's not a great scene there. So yeah, but the
Speaker 1: less gossip, like what do you mean less gossip? Well,
Speaker 1: because everyone's talking about like what are they gonna do
Speaker 1: for quarterback? Matt Rules saying that Sam Donald is the starter,
Speaker 1: and then he's pulling him, and then he's not. Then
Speaker 1: there there's a lot of gossip and drama surrounding this team.
Speaker 1: And yes, Colleen, I could have said get a new quarterback,
Speaker 1: but that's not fun and we're a fun show. So
Speaker 1: I'm spinning it into less gossip and drama instead of
Speaker 1: jets like hang your hat down and just punch your
Speaker 1: time clock and get the hell out of where you're
Speaker 1: so angry. Does less gossip and drama mean to keep
Speaker 1: the quarterbacks they have and just not go after anyone else?
Speaker 1: That's confusing to me. That's not true. I think you
Speaker 1: guys are taking a very linear approach to this segment,
Speaker 1: and I think you need to be a little bit
Speaker 1: more extra act with the old brains here. Okay, less
Speaker 1: gossip drama, be straightforward. If Matt Role comes out in
Speaker 1: a press conference and says he needs seven years for
Speaker 1: a jay Z timeline, say okay, it's not gonna be
Speaker 1: Sam Donald who is starting this upcoming weekend. They can't
Speaker 1: get their you know s h I t together. You
Speaker 1: can you bleep spellings. I'm not sure if that's allowed either.
Speaker 1: But listen, there's a lot that the Panthers need to do.
Speaker 1: Let's be up front with it, and let's stay out
Speaker 1: of the drama. Let's stay out of the Watson carousel,
Speaker 1: let's stay out of the news cycle. So that's gonna
Speaker 1: be tough, splities, let us know. I think this is
Speaker 1: a good fun spin on what the Panthers should look
Speaker 1: forward to and should should strive for just a quiet,
Speaker 1: a quiet offseason when no one will know or ask
Speaker 1: any questions about the quarterback position. Is it that hard? Okay, okay,
Speaker 1: all right, I'm gonna get us out of here. I
Speaker 1: got another one. This resolution is for Fox and Fox Sports.
Speaker 1: I would love for them to resolve to retire the
Speaker 1: stupid football robot. Let's oubsgrade those graphics. Guys. It's been
Speaker 1: like twenty five years and maybe we could use something
Speaker 1: other than robots. Like I feel like every single sports
Speaker 1: graphic package and not so much ours anymore, which I
Speaker 1: love what the NFL network is doing. By the way,
Speaker 1: media package the graphic packages really good. I'm taking a
Speaker 1: lot of cold medicine right now, but I truly believe
Speaker 1: and stand behind that statement. I feel like, for so
Speaker 1: long and at most other sports networks, everything feels like
Speaker 1: you're on a giant spaceship and I don't know why
Speaker 1: that is, Like it's very sports are out of this world.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, and there's things that are crashing and just like,
Speaker 1: I don't know, it seems what would you want to
Speaker 1: be your field? And it's not like it's going to
Speaker 1: be some type of like meditation. But I like what
Speaker 1: we're doing. I like that, well we were really on
Speaker 1: the California Cool l a thing with the new studio. Um,
Speaker 1: but I like the Good Morning Football graphics there, fun,
Speaker 1: big cartoony sort of like bright bright colors. I feel
Speaker 1: like before it was always just like muted grays and
Speaker 1: reds and just like fires. And I don't know, give
Speaker 1: up your hopes and dreams. You have nothing to look
Speaker 1: forward to in out of the gossip a gossiping, Give
Speaker 1: me another one, all right? So this, my last one
Speaker 1: is for the Seahawks and Colleen. We've all been with
Speaker 1: that X that it's been off again on again, or
Speaker 1: we've been with them for way too long. We all
Speaker 1: have that person in our life that it's like, well,
Speaker 1: should we break up? I don't know, you know, they're
Speaker 1: really nice to me, or they bring me flowers, or
Speaker 1: we fight, but then we make up and everything's okay.
Speaker 1: The New Year's resolution for the Seahawks is to break
Speaker 1: up with that X that you've been with way too long. Okay,
Speaker 1: it's one. So this is I think that it's time
Speaker 1: for Pete Carroll and Russell Wilson to go separate ways,
Speaker 1: and I'm not sure we're gonna lose both of them.
Speaker 1: I'm not sure who stays and who goes, But I
Speaker 1: do believe that it's time for one of them to leave.
Speaker 1: And I think that the Seahawks have have lost more
Speaker 1: games this season than in the previous two seasons combined.
Speaker 1: The way that Russell Wilson has been playing, even after
Speaker 1: his finger was quote unquote healed, I'm not necessarily sure
Speaker 1: that he's all in on being in Seattle today. On Thursday,
Speaker 1: during a press conference, without even being asked, unannounced, he
Speaker 1: was like, Hey, I hope this isn't you know, my
Speaker 1: last few games in Seattle, Um, but I hope I
Speaker 1: know it's not my last game in the NFL. Without
Speaker 1: even being asked, he brought that up. So this is
Speaker 1: starting to plant in the seeds, of course. Of course,
Speaker 1: so it is time for you to break up with
Speaker 1: that X that you've been with for way too long.
Speaker 1: They no longer serve you, and it's time to spread
Speaker 1: your wings. Seattle is going to do everything they possibly
Speaker 1: can to keep Russell Wilson there because they know how
Speaker 1: difficult it is to find a quarterback. But that's we
Speaker 1: I feel like for the longest time now we've known
Speaker 1: that Russell Wilson he's got a little bit of a
Speaker 1: wandering eye in terms of football teams, not marriage or
Speaker 1: anything like that, because Siarra, you would be an idiot
Speaker 1: Russell Wilson don't need me to tell you that. But yeah,
Speaker 1: I wonder if he's looking for some a different market,
Speaker 1: maybe for the two of them to really branch out
Speaker 1: with their brand. I don't know, but the Hawks are
Speaker 1: going to give them diamonds. They're gonna tell them how
Speaker 1: handsome he looks. They're gonna say, oh, you love being
Speaker 1: in the gym. I got you this new gym equipment.
Speaker 1: They're gonna do stuff to keep you involved. But sometimes
Speaker 1: you've got to set your wings free and you need
Speaker 1: to just trust in yourself and and it's a comfort thing.
Speaker 1: It's if they get rid of Russell Wilson, they have
Speaker 1: so many other issues that then they're going to have
Speaker 1: to fix two. Well, then maybe part of the solution
Speaker 1: because of money tied up with Russell Wilson, that frees
Speaker 1: up some space to help out other positions on the roster.
Speaker 1: But still, I mean, if you don't have a quarterback,
Speaker 1: you don't have a team right, and they're playing the
Speaker 1: Lions in week seventeen, and people are kind of choosing
Speaker 1: the Lions when you look at some of the game
Speaker 1: picks that are out there, that is not a good look.
Speaker 1: And I think Russell Wilson's getting tied down with that team.
Speaker 1: Mm hmm. We heard from him last year saying that
Speaker 1: he was upset with his protection and he was getting
Speaker 1: hit too much. But then they worked it out, so
Speaker 1: then the Seahawks apologized. We'll see. I don't know that's
Speaker 1: a good one, okay. Uh. Speaking of quarterbacks that might
Speaker 1: be changing locations, how about this Aaron Rodgers. He resolves
Speaker 1: to stop doing his own research or to you know,
Speaker 1: actually do some real research. That's I feel like that
Speaker 1: could be a good resolution. I think that's an awesome resolution.
Speaker 1: One more bonus one. This is for around the NFL.
Speaker 1: Listeners are NFL Media. Uh the star of our NFL
Speaker 1: Media podcasts Um, can you guys stop filling John's timeline
Speaker 1: with who? For the first time in six years? John
Speaker 1: made me say this one. But any time I say
Speaker 1: John Gonzalez or anyone says John Gonzalez, it's been a
Speaker 1: running bit for six years and he just got a
Speaker 1: new job at Sports Illustrated and everyone is asking who
Speaker 1: is John Gonzalez and it's Nick Maybe a great look
Speaker 1: at work. Really, I think that's great. I think it's great.
Speaker 1: He has to continually explain this bit to everyone, which
Speaker 1: I just makes it funny for us, but not so
Speaker 1: much him. So you know what, that's a perfect spot
Speaker 1: for our split end of the week. I like this topic.
Speaker 1: I feel like there's a lot of different directions we
Speaker 1: could go and are split ease out there can go
Speaker 1: so Aaron at that music. For us, when those drums
Speaker 1: come in, it can only mean one thing. It's time
Speaker 1: for the split end of the week. Hit me with
Speaker 1: the sexophone. Oh yeah, hit us with saxophone. Hit us
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Speaker 1: for a team, a player, a coach, I don't know,
Speaker 1: a division and entity, your mom whatever, Let us know
Speaker 1: what it is. And if we get some good ones,
Speaker 1: and I got to be like, really good, we'll read
Speaker 1: a couple on the show next week. Definitely, So yeah,
Speaker 1: tweet at us um. We'll probably post this on Twitter
Speaker 1: as well. Let us know what you guys think for
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Speaker 1: that is launched yet, but yes, those those reviews help
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