Speaker 1: Around. Who the hell's doing this? Vio from the Chris
Speaker 1: Westlake podcast studio. It's around the NFL um, Dan hanss.
Speaker 1: I got a bunch of heroes in here, Mark Sessler,
Speaker 1: Greg Rosenthal, Colleen Wolf, and yes, who the hell is that?
Speaker 1: It's not that money Smith. After an amazing run together,
Speaker 1: he's no longer going to be part of the open
Speaker 1: to the show, and um, that's a bummer. But the
Speaker 1: great news is uh our friend and longtime listener and
Speaker 1: he's been involved with the show forever. Jason Zumwalt, we'll
Speaker 1: be handling the money drops and um, it's gonna take
Speaker 1: a while to get used to it. That was jarring,
Speaker 1: but in a great way, which is how I would
Speaker 1: describe Jason Zumwalt in general. But we will miss jarring
Speaker 1: in a great way, perfect classic Rosenthal, neg You gotta
Speaker 1: love it. I think he he comes big. Um. I
Speaker 1: identified with that. You know, I can be jarring, And
Speaker 1: I'd like to think he's a kindred spirit. He was
Speaker 1: your he was your friend first and obviously, and I
Speaker 1: would like to think that because he and I have
Speaker 1: separate text threads at this point, not really means shared
Speaker 1: sensibilities on a number of No, that's not exactly at
Speaker 1: all what it is. Um it's it's but he's a
Speaker 1: huge Arizona Cardinals fan and you were nice enough to
Speaker 1: bring him to that Rams Cardinals playoff game from year
Speaker 1: ago did not turn out well. I thought change is difficult,
Speaker 1: but I like both Money and Jason equally, and I
Speaker 1: think they are both going to do wonderful in whatever
Speaker 1: endeavors they do. Uh. No, we we thank Money because
Speaker 1: he started doing our show. We checked it before, uh
Speaker 1: the twelfth show of all time of this podcast. He
Speaker 1: has been our voice ever since and it's always been
Speaker 1: one of my favorite parts of the show. Is like
Speaker 1: one of the things that clicked in with the music
Speaker 1: and Money's voice to start each show and the and
Speaker 1: the joke whatever that what he was gonna say that
Speaker 1: the first one ever was Mike Tomlin. We would follow
Speaker 1: Mike Tomlin anywhere and it always just made me smile
Speaker 1: and made us to me like got me ready and
Speaker 1: got me more. I don't want to deconstructed too much,
Speaker 1: but now I'm going to deconstruct it. I always the
Speaker 1: reason I love it and why Money is such a
Speaker 1: perfect fit is that we are a podcast that comes
Speaker 1: from the NFL, and when people are listening to it
Speaker 1: for the first time, here's this voice that sounds like
Speaker 1: a very corporate NFL voice, like you would expect, and
Speaker 1: then he says some you know, silly. It's like, oh, okay,
Speaker 1: I kind of get what this show is before you
Speaker 1: hear anybody. So again, Matt money Smith awesome, he's in
Speaker 1: the Hall of Fame. He's got his own Mount Rushmore.
Speaker 1: It's it's just his giant face. Or maybe he's on
Speaker 1: a surfboard. He likes doing that. Um and you can
Speaker 1: catch money the voice of the Chargers, and so many
Speaker 1: other things. But Jason Zonwall, welcome to the A t
Speaker 1: N family. And I mean, we could use listener suggestions
Speaker 1: for new drops because we never we never know what
Speaker 1: they're gonna be. And sometimes, let's be honest, they hit
Speaker 1: the mark and we all react as one would expect.
Speaker 1: Other times I have no idea what the referencing and
Speaker 1: it and it starts to know the show on an
Speaker 1: odd note, It's true as I just did right there.
Speaker 1: You put in the conversation and I enjoyed it. This
Speaker 1: is a big week, it's a big week lot going on.
Speaker 1: It's that time go get my lunch time where we
Speaker 1: make our predictions for the season. I hope I was
Speaker 1: gonna shoot you guys a late, late night text to
Speaker 1: remind you make sure you're props are settled by the
Speaker 1: end of the regular season. Um, that's how we like
Speaker 1: to do it. Okay, good, good, good good. I'm sure
Speaker 1: you do. But so that's coming up later. We're gonna
Speaker 1: have our predictions for season. Canna have to work on
Speaker 1: one of mine. Okay, Well, that's usually how it goes. Um. Also,
Speaker 1: we are going to preview the first game of the year.
Speaker 1: How fun is that in the first game of the
Speaker 1: year happens to be Bill Rams. It's so far outrageous.
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Speaker 1: We're excited about this show. Let's get to the news
Speaker 1: before we get to anything else. We'll get you caught up.
Speaker 1: There's not a ton going on news wise. Teams are
Speaker 1: in bunker mode, but there's a couple of things worth discussing.
Speaker 1: Let's roll, Let's roll, let's row. You know it is
Speaker 1: listen with the people like to have fun with Russell Wilson.
Speaker 1: We like to have fun with Russell Wilson. But when
Speaker 1: Mitch Trobiski is having fun with Russell Wilson, that is
Speaker 1: that's the next level thing. Mark. I have spent the
Speaker 1: last half a decade um pointing fingers at mits Robinsky
Speaker 1: is someone that lowered my enjoyment of the quarterback position.
Speaker 1: But I'm resetting the board because I think this is
Speaker 1: a new version of Mr Robinsky. I just do. I
Speaker 1: think he's got a new lease on life, and I'm
Speaker 1: not sure it's gonna go very well at all, but
Speaker 1: I'm no longer villainizing him. I liked what he did
Speaker 1: right there. Yeah, And if you don't know, that is
Speaker 1: Mitch Drabinsky, who was named the starting quarterback of the
Speaker 1: Pittsburgh Steelers for Week one against the Bengals. Uh a
Speaker 1: call back to something that went viral with Russ Wilson
Speaker 1: over the summer when he was doing his video tags.
Speaker 1: I guess for this the big screen, but I think
Speaker 1: that was a direct call back to the Broncos thinking
Speaker 1: it was a smart idea to put that whole video
Speaker 1: reel on their Twitter or whatever it was. It was fun,
Speaker 1: it was fun. But here's Trabisky here he is um
Speaker 1: and we know Kenny Pickett is in that building, and
Speaker 1: he's a first round pick and he's probably gonna play,
Speaker 1: and he's probably gonna play this year. He might even
Speaker 1: play before Halloween. I don't know. But Greg and the
Speaker 1: here and now Mitch does get like Marcus Mariotta, you know,
Speaker 1: he gets a fresh start here and see what he
Speaker 1: can make out of it. Yeah. He was also named
Speaker 1: team captain, which I found somewhat interesting for a guy
Speaker 1: that hadn't officially been named the starter. Obviously the team
Speaker 1: knew at that point. Always that's not always Geno's not,
Speaker 1: I think, which makes not I'm just saying there's a
Speaker 1: there's a few out there, and it's sometimes a younger
Speaker 1: player came to mind immediately. It wasn't like that to
Speaker 1: it now is, and that was a big deal for him,
Speaker 1: So it's it does always take time. I think for
Speaker 1: some I've been misunderstood. I met the Pittsburgh Steelers specifically,
Speaker 1: But yeah, that and I think he stood up well
Speaker 1: to pick it, being on if you had told me
Speaker 1: that Picket would play as well as he did in
Speaker 1: the preseason, essentially being as efficient as literally any quarterback
Speaker 1: that played in the preseason, rookie or not, I would
Speaker 1: have thought he would have won that job. It took
Speaker 1: Bitch Drobinsky playing well in the preseason, which he did
Speaker 1: behind a terrible offensive line to actually keep that job.
Speaker 1: He was ready under pressure. They did confirm that Pickett
Speaker 1: is the backup. Now it's not Mason Rudolph, despite what,
Speaker 1: like their printed depth chart said, the printed depth charts
Speaker 1: usually Tomlins there's someone under the bus because he called
Speaker 1: it a clerical error, which someone somewhere, you know, put
Speaker 1: that together on a little Microsoft Excel sheet and printed
Speaker 1: it out, and it's like, you caused a big problem
Speaker 1: for the Steelers. Whoever you are a corporate warrior. Clerical error.
Speaker 1: That's terrible. Uh have to continue playing good though, because
Speaker 1: he's got to hold off picking the schedule. You got
Speaker 1: the Bengals, then they've got their home against the Patriots
Speaker 1: at the Browns, the Jets. Then it gets a little
Speaker 1: thorny Bills, Bucks, Dolphins, Eagles. You're going, that's not bad though,
Speaker 1: that the last four Yeah, the first four games are
Speaker 1: gonna be so important from Mitch because if they struggle
Speaker 1: out of the gate, you get the feeling they're gonna
Speaker 1: be looking to make a move sooner rather than later.
Speaker 1: But so it's not that at Cincinnati is an easy
Speaker 1: way to start the season, but it could be worse.
Speaker 1: The only thing I like is only three of those
Speaker 1: games are at home. In the album, is going to
Speaker 1: be your Steelers crowd that is like semi obsessed or
Speaker 1: fully obsessed with Picket in the concept of him. Right now,
Speaker 1: it's gonna be waving their little yellow towels saying make
Speaker 1: a change now, please, nice Midwestern people, so they are
Speaker 1: not from by the way, I was looking to see
Speaker 1: if Mariota was the captain Atlanta, Like, that's another similar situation.
Speaker 1: They haven't even announced the captains yet. Let's get let's
Speaker 1: get with it, Atlanta. Let's just go. But don't do
Speaker 1: the Giants move where you announced ten guys as captains
Speaker 1: at some points, literally a fifth of the roster. Uh.
Speaker 1: Let's see, it looks like Pittsburgh is in um, the
Speaker 1: far reaches of the northeast. I guess okay, I can
Speaker 1: sign off on that Appalachia or the US mentioned al right, whatever.
Speaker 1: Jason Peters has a new home, the Dallas Cowboys. Um.
Speaker 1: He is forty years old now, Jason Peters, he's a man.
Speaker 1: He's played He's played tackle at a very high level
Speaker 1: in his career. He's been a star. He was a
Speaker 1: workman like. He was a solid guy or solid ish
Speaker 1: guy for the Bears last season, and obviously Connie. The
Speaker 1: Cowboys this is a major issue, uh, with their starting
Speaker 1: left tackle out maybe for the entire season, at least
Speaker 1: until December. So you see if Jason Peters can still
Speaker 1: play the guitar. It's not great, but it's something. It's
Speaker 1: definitely not what the Cowboys wanted to do. But this
Speaker 1: is where they are, and Jason Peters lands with the
Speaker 1: team he described in as just an arrogant organization, America's
Speaker 1: team right now, they're not winning, So let's see how
Speaker 1: many people jump off the bandwagon. So as a follow
Speaker 1: he was asked about it this week and he said,
Speaker 1: I don't really call it arrogance. I mean they had swagger.
Speaker 1: Clerical error. I'm just gonna start using that anytime. Getting
Speaker 1: hot water from you, Yeah, go dig out what actually happened.
Speaker 1: But that's clearly clerical. Yeah. He was PFF's number nineteen
Speaker 1: tackle among qualifiers out of eight tackles a year ago.
Speaker 1: So this is a future Hall of Famer. I don't
Speaker 1: even think it's gonna be questionable. I think he will
Speaker 1: make the Hall of Fames someday. And he's he's just
Speaker 1: waiting smartly for the right deal. But he's not gonna
Speaker 1: be their week one starter. They haven't announced that, but
Speaker 1: I I'm announcing it. I would be shocked. He hasn't
Speaker 1: practice football and Tyler Smith's been there and he's their
Speaker 1: first round pick and he's working it out and Peter.
Speaker 1: It's kind of a perfect situation. You bring Peters in
Speaker 1: if they need him, you'll bring him in week two,
Speaker 1: week three, whenever it's gonna be. But you give your
Speaker 1: first round a chance, and he might and he maybe
Speaker 1: he ends up sliding over to right tackle. Who knows.
Speaker 1: To your point, he's on this is this couldn't have
Speaker 1: happened a couple of years ago. But he's on the
Speaker 1: practice squad right now just to basically get ready to go.
Speaker 1: And they start with the Bucks and the Bengals. So
Speaker 1: if you're Tyler Smith at left tackle, I'm not loving
Speaker 1: that situation for you. But that was his natural college position. Um,
Speaker 1: if anybody can slide in, I would think and take
Speaker 1: over right away. It's Jason Peters with the amount of
Speaker 1: mild g has. But what you're saying makes a lot
Speaker 1: of sense. Also interesting to me is I just clicked
Speaker 1: into the Pro Football Reference for Jason Peters. You know,
Speaker 1: I love the Pro Football Reference nicknames. They don't seem researched.
Speaker 1: Jason Reynard Peters, also known as the Bodyguard Godfather, or
Speaker 1: this is my favorite mythical creature. Oh man, oh, we
Speaker 1: saw mythical creature as anyone ever reverberating through the Dallas
Speaker 1: locker room yesterday. I feel like this is where Pro
Speaker 1: Football Reference sort of has a Wikipedia angle where anyone
Speaker 1: could add anything that because I feel like you added that.
Speaker 1: I wrote an article about it, and I reached out
Speaker 1: to them and they said they replied, and I think
Speaker 1: I used the quote, and then they redid the CMS here,
Speaker 1: and then all our byelines were wiped, so I couldn't
Speaker 1: bring this up if I wanted to set I think
Speaker 1: that they I think they actually say it's a little
Speaker 1: bit wink, it's a thing. Well, we'll we'll be liberal
Speaker 1: with it. To your point, because there's the Tom Brady
Speaker 1: all the once we know Tom terrific blah blah, blah.
Speaker 1: But then it goes into which we all the Pharaoh, no,
Speaker 1: which is then it's comeback kid, which it's like other
Speaker 1: athletes now. And then the last one is or they
Speaker 1: call it or sir. I mean, these are just falsehoods.
Speaker 1: It's like his nickname is also mr. That doesn't make
Speaker 1: any sense. They've been around a long time to get
Speaker 1: a lot of nicknames. These are the two oldest players
Speaker 1: in the NFL. Now. I don't know how I would
Speaker 1: feel about being called a mythical creature, like a creature
Speaker 1: at all, but I think it's good for like a
Speaker 1: gigantic left tackle. I'm still stuck on the fact that
Speaker 1: you consider all the listeners, um that are under forty uh.
Speaker 1: In male boys, she said you need to be forty
Speaker 1: to be a man. In Colleen's eyes, it was more like,
Speaker 1: I'm a man, I'm forty that guy. Yeah, Mike gund
Speaker 1: Mike Gundee would be a boy in her scenario. Under
Speaker 1: there's boys make me feel young. That's one way to
Speaker 1: look at it. That's what's happening in the news. By
Speaker 1: the way, let's hear let's first hear Russell Wilson's already iconic.
Speaker 1: Let's ride and then Mitch Rocco's country. Let's right, he's
Speaker 1: got that. Let's right, it's funny. It's funny because it's
Speaker 1: cringe cringe. Yeah, all right, where are we at on time?
Speaker 1: Let's go, let's talk t NFS. Not if you two
Speaker 1: thought about maybe just dumping Greg and I off of
Speaker 1: this show? Should we have a conversation? Um? That seems
Speaker 1: like a lot, a lot for me and Emily, So
Speaker 1: I don't know, John and I are gonna have to
Speaker 1: talk it sober um. I did I did um look
Speaker 1: over at Mark when you said earlier in the show
Speaker 1: that you guys have a burgeoning empire, and it did
Speaker 1: get that natural split second where Mark's I came out
Speaker 1: and you could just say that stuff in the discomfort.
Speaker 1: I want to do three shows in one day, so
Speaker 1: I've actually completely come. You are absolutely welcome. If you
Speaker 1: want to do hard knocks, well, I think that's that
Speaker 1: ship is sales. I would like you know. Sometimes I
Speaker 1: asked justin, I asked you to look up strange things,
Speaker 1: and sometimes you do and sometimes you don't, and that's
Speaker 1: fine because sometimes it's not worth it. You just give
Speaker 1: me the y s and that's it. I'm on five
Speaker 1: different shows today, Good Morning Football, NFL Now, Around the
Speaker 1: NFL podcast, the Power Rankings podcast, and the Hard Knocks podcast.
Speaker 1: Is that a record at NFL Media? Let's go, let's ride. Well,
Speaker 1: let me find out what time do you wake up today? Dan?
Speaker 1: It must be so hard to be such a star.
Speaker 1: All right, let's get into it. Mark, what do you
Speaker 1: think about that last little rundown of my schedule that
Speaker 1: it was about? There was about in the morning because
Speaker 1: you had texted to us seven or eight times how
Speaker 1: busy your day was gonna be. Like I knew, I knew,
Speaker 1: I knew you were going to get a run down.
Speaker 1: But I'm proud of you. You're doing great stuff. And
Speaker 1: I do mean you're referring to last night, like midnight,
Speaker 1: when I was laying out plans for later in the
Speaker 1: week for the whole group. No, it wasn't earlier. It
Speaker 1: was a different text. I like that text from the
Speaker 1: middle of the night. I responded to you in a
Speaker 1: positive manner to that text, very positive. All right, let's
Speaker 1: get into it. The bills and the rams, that's how
Speaker 1: the season starts. You gotta love it, you gotta love it.
Speaker 1: How do we feel we'll be there. We'll be there
Speaker 1: at so Far Stadium kicking off the season. And Um
Speaker 1: we talked about it, Greggy. UM. Sometimes that opening game
Speaker 1: when they when it's like to division rivals or conference
Speaker 1: rivals against each other, you wish it was a little
Speaker 1: later in the season. But I kind of love this one.
Speaker 1: A little intra conference battle between really what seems like
Speaker 1: possibly the two best teams in football. What a great
Speaker 1: way to start the season. This would be such a
Speaker 1: great matchup if von Miller hadn't gone to the Bills.
Speaker 1: And yet I think that maybe put it over the top.
Speaker 1: And I was trying to think, like, what's the key
Speaker 1: part of this game. We've talked about these two teams
Speaker 1: for so long this offseason without a lot of change,
Speaker 1: and it really is the most obvious thing. It really
Speaker 1: is von Miller. Von Miller is there. The Bills overpaid
Speaker 1: or at least extended further than you would expect for
Speaker 1: von Miller because Sean McDermott couldn't sleep at night because
Speaker 1: his pass rush is the reason they didn't win the
Speaker 1: Super Bowl last year. They stunk in that game against
Speaker 1: Kansas City. Patrick Mahomes was doing the thing where he
Speaker 1: gets the ball out quickly when they're backing up and
Speaker 1: having seven defensive backs back there, and that's great. He
Speaker 1: kind of learned how to do that. But he also
Speaker 1: very often was coming back when the Bills were trying
Speaker 1: to get pressure, whether they were blitzing, whether they were
Speaker 1: rushing four, and the Kansas City offensive line won that
Speaker 1: battle that entire game. It put the Bills secondary on
Speaker 1: an island. They didn't have trade Avious White, then they
Speaker 1: don't have him now. The only real difference here is
Speaker 1: they're hoping for Greg Russo to step up a j E.
Speaker 1: Panessa is now their third pass pressure. They hope he
Speaker 1: stepped up there a little younger, and more than anything,
Speaker 1: they're hoping Von Miller goes and gets after him. Uh,
Speaker 1: this time it's Matthew Stafford instead of Patrick Mahomes. But
Speaker 1: if they don't get after him, I think it's gonna
Speaker 1: be similar and that the the Rams will be in
Speaker 1: the thirties and it's gonna be ugly. I like that
Speaker 1: you started there because the Rams also their line has
Speaker 1: been solid. But you don't have Andrew Whitworth. You have
Speaker 1: Joe note Boom, who has had seventeen starts since eighteen
Speaker 1: or so. Solid but a new left tackle. You've got
Speaker 1: Coleman Shelton at right guard. That's two new pieces. And
Speaker 1: we know this because we read it so often last
Speaker 1: season in during the playoffs and the playoff notes and
Speaker 1: all this stuff. But Stafford versus organic pressure, if you're
Speaker 1: blitzing Stafford, he gets better because he takes advantage of that,
Speaker 1: sees the field well and knows where that lost defender
Speaker 1: is and finds his receiver. But if you can bring
Speaker 1: just typical organic pressure with the four man rush, Stafford's
Speaker 1: in a clean and when he's kept clean, he completes
Speaker 1: seventy two point four percent of his passes with a
Speaker 1: under eleven point two pass rating. When pressured in that
Speaker 1: organic way, it drops to forty nine point six in
Speaker 1: a seventy passer rating. He does not deal with that
Speaker 1: kind of pressure the same way. And that's where some
Speaker 1: of Matthew Stafford's you know, seventeen interceptions and turnovers and
Speaker 1: four pick six is something kape off of wobbly deep passes,
Speaker 1: the underthrowne others came in that situation where he did
Speaker 1: not look like the typical Matthew Stafford against the four
Speaker 1: men rush. Yeah, and you have to worry about his
Speaker 1: elbow in that situation too, because if he ends up
Speaker 1: getting hit. I mean, these are multiple new new ish
Speaker 1: pieces on that offensive line with von Miller, who knows
Speaker 1: him very well, who probably knows a lot of his
Speaker 1: tendencies at this point too, coming at him, and you
Speaker 1: know that this is going to be a game where
Speaker 1: they're going to be passing the ball a ton, so
Speaker 1: they need him to be able to deal with that pressure.
Speaker 1: Another thing I thought was really interesting that Jordan Rodrigue,
Speaker 1: friend of the program, friend of the show from The
Speaker 1: Athletic brought up UM. She said that Jalen Ramsey obviously
Speaker 1: he went through training camp, much of training camp while
Speaker 1: still recovering from his shoulder surgery, and for that reason,
Speaker 1: the staff there they kind of asked him not to
Speaker 1: utilize some of those techniques that that you kind of
Speaker 1: know him for that that's his game. And so they're
Speaker 1: still gonna move Ramsey all around. But just watching in
Speaker 1: this game how they deploy him, how they use him
Speaker 1: um and and just how that shoulder is I think
Speaker 1: it's interesting. Yeah, you heard Jalen Ramsey spoke today and
Speaker 1: he didn't expand much at all, but he said I'll
Speaker 1: be fine, I'll be out there. But you see both
Speaker 1: with Stafford and Ramsey, who are two of the most
Speaker 1: you know, three you could argue most pop important guys
Speaker 1: on this team have been very carefully managed throughout the summer,
Speaker 1: uh for physical reasons. And the thing one of the
Speaker 1: things that's great, so many things are great about actually
Speaker 1: a real football game coming now, is that all the
Speaker 1: team's ability to control storylines and control what's happening in
Speaker 1: their building goes out the window when these guys actually
Speaker 1: go to battle as it is. And it's like Stafford,
Speaker 1: if he gets into a shootout with Josh Allen has
Speaker 1: to throw forty babies, how does he feel the next
Speaker 1: morning he maybe gets hit, how does he feel the
Speaker 1: next morning? And how does it feel when you have
Speaker 1: a bad shoulder or a surgically repaired shoulder and you
Speaker 1: have to make tackles? Like how does Jalen Ramsey come
Speaker 1: out of the game. These are huge questions for the
Speaker 1: Rams because it could really define their season. Right. I'm
Speaker 1: more worried about Ramsey just because I think at this
Speaker 1: point they just have to see With Stafford, but I
Speaker 1: think he's got He played through a hurt elbow last year,
Speaker 1: if Ramsey isn't playing a full compliment of snaps with
Speaker 1: just the way you were talking and made me wonder, Colleen, like,
Speaker 1: if that's even a question when you're going against Stefon Diggs,
Speaker 1: a matchup that he would be traveling around with in
Speaker 1: a normal situation, that that's a big difference to me.
Speaker 1: It's also a big difference though, like on the other
Speaker 1: side of Allen Robinson is there, Like the last time
Speaker 1: we saw the Rams, you know, they got square nuck
Speaker 1: out there, They've got their third string tight end out there,
Speaker 1: like they were running out of bodies, and now you
Speaker 1: have Alan Robinson, and this to me is a perfect matchup.
Speaker 1: I mean, really every matchup on the outside is an
Speaker 1: obvious win for the Rams because the Bills are starting
Speaker 1: Dane Jackson, a bit of a journeyman who wasn't not
Speaker 1: a journeyman because he's been on their roster but wasn't
Speaker 1: in their top four healthy cornerbacks a year ago, um
Speaker 1: and a couple of rookies that are untested, and those
Speaker 1: guys are gonna have to try to check Cooper Cup
Speaker 1: and Allen Robinson. I I also think that another thing
Speaker 1: that we have waited to see and we will find out,
Speaker 1: I guess as the season goes on and the impact.
Speaker 1: But Brian Dable out the door. I thought he did
Speaker 1: such a great job with Josh Allen obviously, like Josh
Speaker 1: Allen after two years into his career was we get
Speaker 1: that he's athletic, but there are so many questions. And
Speaker 1: then Brian Dable, I thought, just like showed that that
Speaker 1: relationship went next level. You've got Ken Dorris who has
Speaker 1: never called plays, and some of the better articles I've
Speaker 1: read this offseason have been guys like Kevin Gilbride who
Speaker 1: have said, excuse me, I just want to let you
Speaker 1: know when you start calling plays for the first time,
Speaker 1: it is a nightmare. Your head is swimming. And Ken
Speaker 1: Dorsey has been in the Bills system, so that's good.
Speaker 1: But in your first game, because they have a new
Speaker 1: line coach, Aaron Chromer, which is quietly one of the
Speaker 1: bigger hires, those two guys need to figure out what
Speaker 1: to do with Jail and Amasy, but also Aaron Donald.
Speaker 1: That's not the easiest person to go deal with uh
Speaker 1: in game one because I don't love the Bills line
Speaker 1: from wire to wire and it's like how do you
Speaker 1: stop Aaron Donald from having those two or three plays
Speaker 1: that totally rock Buffalo's attempt to move the ball? Josh Allen,
Speaker 1: he's so difficult to bring down just in general because
Speaker 1: of the way he moves, because he's just so big too.
Speaker 1: As a player. Obviously Aaron Donald as a machine and
Speaker 1: Leonard Floyd is good too, but beyond that, they have
Speaker 1: some questions with that pass rush. But Josh Allen, I
Speaker 1: think is also I think that the point about Ken
Speaker 1: Dorsey is very valid, and I'm really interested to see
Speaker 1: if that changes anything, if we see any differences. But
Speaker 1: I think that the Bills playmakers right now are probably
Speaker 1: the best Josh Allen has ever had. When you have
Speaker 1: gave Davis and Stefon Diggs and Isaiah Mackenzie who's emerged
Speaker 1: at this point, plus Dawson Knox, like these these are
Speaker 1: really talented. James Cook think James Cook is going to
Speaker 1: be offensive game like there's this idea and training camp
Speaker 1: the other defensive. But then the number is always tell
Speaker 1: you the opposite. Early in the NFL season turned the
Speaker 1: page over offense. I sounds smart. September is when the
Speaker 1: highest scores are and in the playoffs last year other
Speaker 1: than Bill's games, like the defenses were doing great. The
Speaker 1: defense is why the Rams won the Super Bowl. I'm
Speaker 1: Barry from Rego Park very clear that the offense is
Speaker 1: ahead of the defense is I'll hang up and listen, Barry,
Speaker 1: please go on. We need more from you. Absolutely, here's
Speaker 1: what Vegas has to say. Greg, You're you're addicted to
Speaker 1: the feeling of gambling, but not a gambling addict um
Speaker 1: you have. I mean, that's none of that's true because
Speaker 1: I worked for the NFL. We're not at that. I
Speaker 1: was actually on a call this morning. I do when
Speaker 1: we do show a game debut on Fridays, which you
Speaker 1: should have seen the look Mark just gave when you
Speaker 1: said that, I honestly, this this now, this is absurd.
Speaker 1: Is more think that you see. The feeling of it, Greg,
Speaker 1: is something that but we have to be very careful
Speaker 1: at this company of even how we talk about it,
Speaker 1: even on a picks show. Yes, Greg, I'm so aware
Speaker 1: of how careful he needs to because he has to
Speaker 1: hide and shadow things out of reality to the people
Speaker 1: in this building. Buffalo favorite by two and a half
Speaker 1: over under fifty two, So we're banging the over on
Speaker 1: that if we think, uh, what you know, Doug and
Speaker 1: Rego Park had to say, fifty two is low. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I think this is I've were throwing out scores here.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna I I like the Rams, I don't like
Speaker 1: the I I would like them even if they weren't
Speaker 1: UM an underdog, and the fact that they are just
Speaker 1: bothers me. This is the defending champs with a plenty
Speaker 1: of continuity, and the Bills are great. I think they're
Speaker 1: the a f C favorites. I feel like I talked
Speaker 1: to negatively about their defense. Their offense is probably my
Speaker 1: pick to be the number one offense in the league.
Speaker 1: So I think these two offenses are gonna show up.
Speaker 1: It's going to be a game in the thirties. But
Speaker 1: I'm trusting the champs on opening night. Not see this
Speaker 1: is like, I'm sorry, this is week one producing right here.
Speaker 1: I mean, you have to be told that the rainmakers
Speaker 1: coming out answer that that was actually some legit criticism
Speaker 1: audio clerical. I just want to excuse me. I just
Speaker 1: wanted to put a little pressure on Greg to like
Speaker 1: bring the excitement there. I don't feel that strong, of
Speaker 1: course not now that's only brought out for really special cred.
Speaker 1: But maybe I'm hoping maybe it comes out on the
Speaker 1: debut of our Friday show, The Friday Fun Show. Now,
Speaker 1: I'm not putting any pressure on you, Greg. We got
Speaker 1: the Thursday preview show, we got the Friday Fun Show.
Speaker 1: Does the Rainmaker make an appearance? We don't know yet, Mark,
Speaker 1: That's part of the beautiful mystery. There is a game
Speaker 1: I think, Um in my mind, in my mind that
Speaker 1: that would make a lot of sense on that Friday
Speaker 1: Friend Friday Show. What's the Tuesday show? Tuesday? But it's
Speaker 1: by nature it's Tuesday. You're not in You're talking about
Speaker 1: feelings like you have a different feeling on Tuesday. Say
Speaker 1: that on Fronday, but you make you make Tuesdays better.
Speaker 1: I would say that absolutely. We love we love having you, Connie,
Speaker 1: and if we could have you every Tuesday, that would
Speaker 1: be a huge win for our show in our league.
Speaker 1: And guess what, Greggy, I'm with you. Sean Payton, the
Speaker 1: numbers are out there. I think he's five and oh
Speaker 1: lifetime in week one or something like that. It's Sean McVeigh.
Speaker 1: Excuse me. Um has been dominant as a coach. He's
Speaker 1: one of those guys that just does really well. Um
Speaker 1: coaching a team up for the start of the season
Speaker 1: and at home, I typically go with that team, like
Speaker 1: very rarely does the home team lay an egg on
Speaker 1: Thursday night. You know, the Giants didn't want to think
Speaker 1: I think at least recently it was thirteen and three
Speaker 1: years Yeah, so that I think that matters. It's a
Speaker 1: very tough spot for any team to go into a building,
Speaker 1: even though again not the Harp on this, but so
Speaker 1: Fi Stadium is a different vibe. And you know Buffalo
Speaker 1: is going to travel to this game, so maybe it
Speaker 1: won't be you know, a man a point that the
Speaker 1: Bills fans will show up big for this game most likely,
Speaker 1: and it's like the defending champs. I think the Rams
Speaker 1: are a little more teflon to that, and so are
Speaker 1: the Chargers at this point. But I very much with
Speaker 1: you guys. I have Rams thirty Bills twenty eight, which
Speaker 1: means Buffalo will win because I don't know where you're going, Colleen,
Speaker 1: you have to pick the Bills. Don't worry, guys, Okay,
Speaker 1: I'll save you all. I'm taking the Bills. Rams have
Speaker 1: a lot of new starts. By the way, that's another
Speaker 1: possibility that's true. I um, for consistency sake, I should
Speaker 1: look to see what the score isn't a week and
Speaker 1: a half ago for Week one, no one would know
Speaker 1: the difference different media format. Yeah, so I'm gonna go
Speaker 1: with the Bills are winning and it's a score of wow.
Speaker 1: I can't even read my own writing. How about not
Speaker 1: even close? I guess the Rams don't show up. Colleen's
Speaker 1: not eating the Rams cheese here. I mean this sort
Speaker 1: of was marks nightmare you years ago when they announced
Speaker 1: this move. Like here we are like the NFL has
Speaker 1: somehow constructed it in such a way that the Rams
Speaker 1: won the Super Bowl and they're opening you know that
Speaker 1: I've learned about walking next door. We're essentially employees of
Speaker 1: the Rams. I'm letting go of essentially to nine things
Speaker 1: in my life at this point. So we're good. Like
Speaker 1: this is so the Rams any Rams stuff. I've mentioned
Speaker 1: this every show for the last I found my scorn
Speaker 1: of what you said initially now and then right, so
Speaker 1: let's just let's Connie was great having on the show. Um,
Speaker 1: have you probably interested? Before everybody get off my back. Alright,
Speaker 1: here's the here's the data from the NFL Media Research
Speaker 1: group because they do such a great work just you
Speaker 1: know Sean McVeigh era since two thousand seventeen Rams or
Speaker 1: five and oh they average thirty two and a half
Speaker 1: points a game and allow sixteen points games. So they
Speaker 1: kick ass in week one. I don't think it's an
Speaker 1: ass kicking, but I think it's a good way to
Speaker 1: start the season. I think of Bills will be fine,
Speaker 1: but I think they lose. Why I haven't number one
Speaker 1: of the power rankings. Somebody else can ask that question.
Speaker 1: Let's take a break and we'll be right back. All right.
Speaker 1: This will be the final NFL season for Ben Roethlisberger.
Speaker 1: The Titans will play in January. Show it to me, Marcus,
Speaker 1: over seventeen weeks, show it to me. You know, win
Speaker 1: ten games, you know, go go get in the postseason.
Speaker 1: I'll take you up. All right, let's go Houston. All right.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna start with a little bit of a prediction
Speaker 1: at Minnesota, where Adrian Peterson will not lead the league
Speaker 1: in Russian, I'm gonna say that Terry McLaurin will finish
Speaker 1: with a higher ranking in receiving yards than the Rams
Speaker 1: seed in the NFC this season. So there you go.
Speaker 1: Great work by Sean Kelly and the production team. Uh listen,
Speaker 1: we'd always hit home run and viewers can see how
Speaker 1: much younger we all looked five years ago with some
Speaker 1: of THEO that is, Yeah, that's a rough one, kids. Man.
Speaker 1: They skirted around some of our Titanic home runs. Still
Speaker 1: have noticed that, all right, that that was not the
Speaker 1: focus there. But the thing is they're big swings. We
Speaker 1: take big swings when we do our sandwich props. And
Speaker 1: and that's why it's go get my Lunch your human herd.
Speaker 1: It's our chance to kind of put out there all
Speaker 1: the things that we feel about two season. We got
Speaker 1: to get it out and get out in front of it.
Speaker 1: It's kind of it is a bit of a kissing
Speaker 1: cousin mark to the flash Point series. If you really
Speaker 1: want to break down some of the d n A,
Speaker 1: there's some share DNA. It's like some family what other
Speaker 1: people don't see yet only this one we get wrong
Speaker 1: all the time, whereas flash Point focus home run Free.
Speaker 1: There's a lot of own website, Go get my Lunch
Speaker 1: dot org. Nick Fortier has done amazing work over the
Speaker 1: years for Posterity. You could go back, where are we
Speaker 1: out in the standings. I know, I got to be
Speaker 1: close to Rosenthal, Dan and I, um, you know, thankfully
Speaker 1: have built up such a lead that it's like Mark
Speaker 1: could go undefeated for the next four years and it
Speaker 1: won't really matter which I which I Yeah, but I
Speaker 1: don't do things like Alvin Kamar is gonna have seven
Speaker 1: hundred yards, so you gotta shoot for the stars. Mark
Speaker 1: is at forty seven point five pc. I'm at two uh,
Speaker 1: and that's seventeen over slightly ahead percentage wise over Dan's
Speaker 1: two o one. Okay, and I think I think last
Speaker 1: year I had a pretty good season as are a call.
Speaker 1: But you know, sometimes that just sets the table for
Speaker 1: a total disaster scenario. That's wild. We're within, you know,
Speaker 1: if it was a baseball season. We've were into like
Speaker 1: season four or so of or five of a baseball season.
Speaker 1: We're only two games apart. You know, that's pretty amazing.
Speaker 1: Mark Ceessler, you deserve some pop. You have struggled in
Speaker 1: terms of wins and losses, but you were the best
Speaker 1: at this last year. You at twelve and seven. That's
Speaker 1: pretty good, and you've had the best ones over the
Speaker 1: years in terms of home I just played the game
Speaker 1: differently because I come up with stuff that I that
Speaker 1: pleases me. We will there be more of that this year.
Speaker 1: Let's hear it, let's start, let's get it going. I
Speaker 1: started with one that was very football, just so that
Speaker 1: I would have your respect throughout the process. That's what
Speaker 1: It'll take. One football prop. We're gonna do three, by
Speaker 1: the way, So just all right, this is gonna go right.
Speaker 1: Better hang some onion at some point, including you, to
Speaker 1: let the record show that I also won twelve on
Speaker 1: the standings. Who technically years on first place. That's like
Speaker 1: winning the batting title with like forty seven at bats.
Speaker 1: She needs this is important. This is a big year
Speaker 1: for you to be qualified. She can't help that she's
Speaker 1: not been involved in every episode twenty and twelve. Really, technically,
Speaker 1: Patra at seven and two then would be the best pass.
Speaker 1: And you know a grave digger. You know that every
Speaker 1: year the producer has one as well. And I feel
Speaker 1: like we should have given you more runway on this.
Speaker 1: But you have about twenty one minutes. Okay, that's great
Speaker 1: for me. I have one in my head, but I
Speaker 1: gotta tell the graphics team so we can get it,
Speaker 1: get it made. That's good. Don't tell the listener how
Speaker 1: that works. They don't. Sorry, listen, here we go. Let's
Speaker 1: get into it. Mark hit us with the one that
Speaker 1: gains the respect of your colleague, Jimmy Garoppolo. We'll start
Speaker 1: games for another team this season. Now, hold on. I
Speaker 1: know there's this absurd no trade clause. Really, all that
Speaker 1: is is that if another situation came up that would
Speaker 1: allow Jimmy G to audition and go play, and it
Speaker 1: was later in the year, or the Niners love trade lance.
Speaker 1: I think it's they've had it, They've done. There's been
Speaker 1: a pattern. I know that hasn't been perfect with Jimmy Garopolo,
Speaker 1: but they have there's a respect between the two parties.
Speaker 1: They like each other. They seem to be open with
Speaker 1: each other. They tell things that what's going on. They
Speaker 1: tell us what they want to tell us. But I
Speaker 1: think they would give Jimmy G a chance to go
Speaker 1: start somewhere else if it were something he wanted to do.
Speaker 1: It gives him control, so they can't ship them to
Speaker 1: Houston if he doesn't want to go to a bad team,
Speaker 1: because he knows he has a chance to get a bigger,
Speaker 1: better pay day if he puts himself and gets to
Speaker 1: pick his next team. I get where Garoppolo is in
Speaker 1: his career. Also, like, don't you think if you're Jimmy
Speaker 1: G you're reading the tea leads like I think I
Speaker 1: have a chance to play this year with San Francisco
Speaker 1: and and if that goes well, I'm on a NFC powerhouse,
Speaker 1: and then who knows what could happen. I think the
Speaker 1: Niners are gonna think, you know, they're gonna say, you
Speaker 1: know what, this kind of worked out perfectly. We're not
Speaker 1: gonna move him. We're gonna keep him in the in
Speaker 1: the building because we need the security blanket. What if
Speaker 1: Trey Lance is like looking like Patrick Mahomes two point
Speaker 1: oh after six weeks? Sure, but it depends what you get.
Speaker 1: But there's also a trade deadline limit here too, so
Speaker 1: that they're going to figure that out fast. I will
Speaker 1: take you up on this. I think it's a good
Speaker 1: one because I think it's close to fifty fifty. It
Speaker 1: all depends on what they could get. They're gonna need
Speaker 1: a situation to happen elsewhere where a team would actually
Speaker 1: give up. I say a third would maybe make it
Speaker 1: worth it, and they haven't gotten that offer to this point.
Speaker 1: That's why he's still on the team. So I will
Speaker 1: take you up on it, and I think he's not
Speaker 1: gonna end up playing that much. And to make it clear,
Speaker 1: I'm not taking you up on it. You're not, I'm not.
Speaker 1: This is the part that always you think he'll play
Speaker 1: me a little bit. This is where I get confused
Speaker 1: to he is not going anywhere. Yeah, you'll take him
Speaker 1: up on it. I will, So you will be traded.
Speaker 1: He's staying put Okay, I would like to say that
Speaker 1: I think Jimmy stays with San Francisco. I think there
Speaker 1: will be an opportunity for him this year to start
Speaker 1: some games at some point. Uh, the universe just does
Speaker 1: not have in the cards for him to be dealt
Speaker 1: and it's not happening this year. So I guess I'm
Speaker 1: taking you up. That means you are, yeah, like a
Speaker 1: mental block. It also keeps one of your favorite like
Speaker 1: subplots of Live Mark, where you're like, well, quarterback gets hurt,
Speaker 1: what are team is gonna do if you want to
Speaker 1: save your season? Of course you're gonna pick up the
Speaker 1: phone call San Francisco, right, But nobody's playing quarterbacks in
Speaker 1: August anymore. So that disaster. But now now it's well,
Speaker 1: now disaster will strike. I guarantee you that is that
Speaker 1: a problem. That's just telling you what's happenings, all right.
Speaker 1: So you know, there's a lot of talk about how
Speaker 1: the a f C is loaded at quarterback. It's just
Speaker 1: the league is loaded at quarter So you go through
Speaker 1: and only three players make the initial Pro Bowl team.
Speaker 1: When when the votes are announced and you go through
Speaker 1: the A NFC and that's still pretty loaded. You got
Speaker 1: the two time m v P Aaron Rodgers or two
Speaker 1: time defending four time. Overall, you've got Tom Brady coming
Speaker 1: off what I think was one of his best seasons,
Speaker 1: could have won the m v P last year's one
Speaker 1: or three times. You've got Kyler, you got Dac, you
Speaker 1: got Matthew Stafford. You got a lot of names. And
Speaker 1: but despite all of those names, there's gonna be a
Speaker 1: new man joining the party. And he plays for the
Speaker 1: Philadelphia Eagles, and his name is Jalen Hurts. Not only
Speaker 1: are they gonna run Rex Shop in the regular season,
Speaker 1: and we've been hammering that so much that he's gonna
Speaker 1: be rewarded from a dynamic Lamar nineteen like season and
Speaker 1: end up making the initial NFC Pro Bowl squad. You
Speaker 1: can't be you know, called on later as the guy
Speaker 1: is like Andy Dalton is the seventh Altar. He's gonna
Speaker 1: have a Lamar leap and you're not going all Pro,
Speaker 1: You're going Pro Bowl, going Pro Bowl, top three in
Speaker 1: the NFC. I guess you're not. I guess you're not
Speaker 1: taking me up on it. Then I could totally see
Speaker 1: this bigger underdog than the Garoppolo thing. No doubt this
Speaker 1: could totally happen. If the Eagles go twelve and five
Speaker 1: and he has his progression from last year, he's a
Speaker 1: Pro Bowler because they'll probably be a first or second seed.
Speaker 1: If they all those other names, all those other names,
Speaker 1: Is there even a Pro Bowl anymore? That's a serious question.
Speaker 1: They they don't seem to be clear. You still are
Speaker 1: named because of contract stuff and they'll like maybe have
Speaker 1: a garden party or this is not gonna happen. I
Speaker 1: am not jumping on board with this. There's too much
Speaker 1: positive juice around the Eagles right now, and that is
Speaker 1: that is the problem right now. It's like it's just happiness,
Speaker 1: way too much positivity. This is not how Philadelphia thrives.
Speaker 1: This is not when they do well when everyone believes
Speaker 1: in them. So no, I don't. I don't believe. I'm
Speaker 1: tapping the brakes just a little bit on the Okay,
Speaker 1: so he tried me to go bigger, but I'm still
Speaker 1: getting three sandwich. I know. I just think. I thought
Speaker 1: because like if West would have an issue with you
Speaker 1: for making the Pro Bowl party, I mean West would
Speaker 1: have always, always would have an issue. How's Mark doing
Speaker 1: with the sound effect? By the way, are hilarious because
Speaker 1: you see the old props from I don't remember half
Speaker 1: these people. I have a defense against the apple. It's
Speaker 1: meant to be a sandwich, but it sounds like enough
Speaker 1: it does. That's more. Just maybe we could work on
Speaker 1: that for Am I wrong? Just not sound like it's
Speaker 1: absolutely an apple unless it's meant to be a sandwich.
Speaker 1: In theory, maybe it's one of those fancy sandwiches that
Speaker 1: have like the thins lice of a green apple on it,
Speaker 1: you know, like a three type sandwich is called apple chomping.
Speaker 1: So hungry it's time to update that one. Alright, let's go,
Speaker 1: let's go, let's go. All right, um, what's gonna do?
Speaker 1: I'm not just I'm not into it. I'm then into
Speaker 1: the two things. I'm just not into it. I just can't.
Speaker 1: I can't wrap my head around it. And this has
Speaker 1: nothing to do with the Dolphins Knyves East. It's just
Speaker 1: what we've seen and the and the hype around Miami
Speaker 1: on some level, and the idea that they are going
Speaker 1: to take a big leap on offense. I think he's
Speaker 1: going to be an issue for them, and I think
Speaker 1: he loses his starting job to Teddy for perform performance
Speaker 1: reasons at some point. So you're calling Tyreek Hill potentially
Speaker 1: a liar here because Tyreek said that Ta is the
Speaker 1: most accurate quarterback in the NFL. Yeah, you can call
Speaker 1: to I rekill a lot of things. One of them
Speaker 1: is a great wide receiver, but also a beacon of
Speaker 1: honesty in integrity. He is not whoa um. Just out
Speaker 1: of curiosity, where do you think this would happen? Is
Speaker 1: there a parameter he just has to lose his starting
Speaker 1: It can't be injury related performance reasons. Okay, So that
Speaker 1: just for Nick Fortier out there for performance reasons, because
Speaker 1: I would not expect him to playoffs seventeen games. So
Speaker 1: that's it's basically Mike McDaniel coming up to the podium
Speaker 1: on on Tuesday or whatever and being like, we just
Speaker 1: feel like we still love to uh, he's still our future,
Speaker 1: but it just feels like the team needs a spark
Speaker 1: right now. And you know, it's probably put me in
Speaker 1: a tough spot here because, um, predicting Teddy is gonna,
Speaker 1: you know, get a job has probably been part of
Speaker 1: my sandwich props for the last not ten years. Look
Speaker 1: at the very top of the all time standings. One
Speaker 1: of them. One of West's first ever props was Teddy
Speaker 1: Bridgewater starts week one. That was him as a rookie
Speaker 1: of Vikings and I took him up on it. But
Speaker 1: I will not take you up on this because I
Speaker 1: think the Dolphins are going to be good. I am
Speaker 1: buying that they're going to be an efficient offense. I
Speaker 1: don't think he'll stay healthy for seventeen weeks, but I
Speaker 1: don't think he'll lose his starting job because of performance.
Speaker 1: I think he'll be good. I think if he loses
Speaker 1: his starting job it will be because he was hurt.
Speaker 1: I think that he's going to stay the starter. I
Speaker 1: think he'll work well with Jalen Waddle and Tyree Hill.
Speaker 1: I think that Mike McDaniel always he's really good with
Speaker 1: the run game, so I think that they'll be able
Speaker 1: to run the ball well. They have a good defense,
Speaker 1: so they can cover up some things. So that means
Speaker 1: I am taking you up on it, and we're rested.
Speaker 1: But and just before you answer back, I just want
Speaker 1: to make one more thing clear, because if he leaves
Speaker 1: the lineup because he gets injured, and then Teddy plays
Speaker 1: well and then two was active Smith scenario, that counts
Speaker 1: to yeah, perform that you're choosing performance wise the other quarterback.
Speaker 1: I'm just looking at how they start, and I think
Speaker 1: we're gonna know a lot about this to uh scenario
Speaker 1: right away because it's Patriots defense, Ravens, Bills, Bengals. I
Speaker 1: was just wondering ballpark where you think this could happen.
Speaker 1: So I don't think it makes sense to do it.
Speaker 1: And if they're out of it late in the year
Speaker 1: three and five or three and six, I just think
Speaker 1: they have to. If you're Mike McDaniel, there's no there's
Speaker 1: no benefit to evaluating Teddy Bridgewater right. But it could
Speaker 1: be a week, but you do want to get a
Speaker 1: good look at what two is. And so I don't
Speaker 1: think it happens early, but I'll take you up on it.
Speaker 1: Think it's a fun one, Um, But I I think
Speaker 1: this is a coaching staff that's gonna be so different
Speaker 1: than the defensive oriented coaching staff of a year ago,
Speaker 1: where too I had multiple offensive coordinators like they were,
Speaker 1: the organization was heat seeking, Deshaun Watson and Tom Brady.
Speaker 1: I mean, it's a very chaotic scenario for a young quarterback.
Speaker 1: I think that Mike McDaniel is the best thing that
Speaker 1: could happen to him, and their offensive line is a
Speaker 1: little better. That was a problem for him. You have
Speaker 1: Jail and Waddle and Tyreek Hill. If he can't make
Speaker 1: it work, then I think his his experiment in Miami
Speaker 1: is over in general. For sure. He's Oh, I was
Speaker 1: like I thought, I answered this already. What all right?
Speaker 1: Here we go? So it's it plays nicely, Greg, So
Speaker 1: we're doing it. We're doing this plays nicely off of
Speaker 1: Greg's prop um. So I just feel like at this
Speaker 1: point in time, I have a problem right now, guys, um,
Speaker 1: and I'm feeling a little uncomfortable, and I've been told
Speaker 1: to say something if I feel uncomfortable. So that's what
Speaker 1: what this is, right, now, and I feel very uncomfortable
Speaker 1: with all of the love that the Eagles have been given,
Speaker 1: and everybody is already crowning them, and it's going that
Speaker 1: this is building and building and building, and they haven't
Speaker 1: even played a real game yet, but somehow it seems
Speaker 1: like they have won so much already. It's it's too much, Hope,
Speaker 1: It's it's too it's too good. I need Billy to
Speaker 1: come back to me a little bit. I so what
Speaker 1: I'm going to do here, because I'm going to help
Speaker 1: out the universe and the Eagles. The Eagles what, they
Speaker 1: will not make a deep playoff run, and they will
Speaker 1: not win the NFC East. This is ridiculous. This is
Speaker 1: a Sessler move. It's like Sessler has given up the
Speaker 1: Browns and then just sudden, yeah, this is just what
Speaker 1: do you mean? It's untoward. This is the type of
Speaker 1: thing you would do, like pick something that your heart
Speaker 1: doesn't even want. It's just like wrong. I do have
Speaker 1: a question, though, So let's say they were a wild
Speaker 1: card team snuck in as the last wall cream and
Speaker 1: had a deep, deep playoff run. You're saying they can't
Speaker 1: win the division or have a deep playoff run. Correct?
Speaker 1: Defined you know, we gotta define. That's gotta be. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you gotta win. So the basically the prop is the
Speaker 1: Eagles will not win a playoff game. Yeah, so you
Speaker 1: could win the NFC East though and not win a
Speaker 1: playoff game. So yeah, they won't win the n f
Speaker 1: t s and they won't win a playoffs. Say that
Speaker 1: the Eagles, they could do. Yeah, you could save the
Speaker 1: nfcing is wildcard entry that loses. Yes, okay, that's it,
Speaker 1: all right. I'm taking you up because you are an
Speaker 1: Eagles fan, and I think any Eagles fan listening to
Speaker 1: this is like, why are you going so villain so rogue?
Speaker 1: Because because everybody else I understand the psychology, but you
Speaker 1: also and I do think you're very powerful in any ways.
Speaker 1: You have no effect over what the Eagles are gonna do,
Speaker 1: just like well maybe you don't know what it's worth
Speaker 1: to one person out of all the NFL dot com
Speaker 1: analysts picked them to win the Super Bowl. We know
Speaker 1: who that is. Talking to him. This is ridiculous. You're
Speaker 1: you're worthy of love though, like you are worthy of
Speaker 1: good things happening to you. The city of Philadelphia is
Speaker 1: worthy of that, so are the Eagles. Like you you
Speaker 1: deserve it. Yeah, yeah, because the Eagles have just never
Speaker 1: had and their fans a special moment. They've never had
Speaker 1: that taste of true victory. I mean, one day they'll
Speaker 1: get it. It's been almost four years and it's just
Speaker 1: like a long time will come again for the Eagles fans.
Speaker 1: If you were that season when the only one one
Speaker 1: playoff game after they won their I'll take you on it,
Speaker 1: just because I like taking sangwiches. Yeah, I'm taking you
Speaker 1: on it, clearly. But that's good. I mean it's a
Speaker 1: good one because I think we all have tonight. So alright,
Speaker 1: let's take a break and then we'll spend through a
Speaker 1: couple of more each. All right, we're back Mark, It's
Speaker 1: time to get weird. My friend, my favorite game that
Speaker 1: we ever we were all in the news room together
Speaker 1: to cover this is back in the old Culver City office.
Speaker 1: Was a game that pitted San Francisco against Washington in
Speaker 1: a driving rain, A game of very little importance, but
Speaker 1: it wrapped in two hours and thirty six minutes because
Speaker 1: it was one of the most run heavy operations of
Speaker 1: the entire season, and I was covering it and I
Speaker 1: had my righte up done by other games are just
Speaker 1: like just you know, dipping into the third quarter. So
Speaker 1: I went and looked up the fastest games in NFL history,
Speaker 1: and that one really was came very close. The fastest
Speaker 1: ever was in the San Diego Chargers beat the Indianapolis
Speaker 1: Colts to nineteen in two hours and twenty nine minutes.
Speaker 1: I am telling you now that we will witness witness
Speaker 1: the fastest game in NFL history this season and we'll
Speaker 1: be topped this. I will take you up on it,
Speaker 1: but I love it because I like the idea of
Speaker 1: picking a prop that you are rooting for. You know that,
Speaker 1: like Mark is already invested in the length of each
Speaker 1: game so much, and this is just going to take
Speaker 1: it to another level. And I'm excited that the Browns
Speaker 1: your focus. I do a question for you, though, because
Speaker 1: I heard you talk about the playoff thing. Can this
Speaker 1: stretch to the playoffs? I really wouldn't want a playoff
Speaker 1: game in that, but it wouldn't anyways, because well, I
Speaker 1: don't know, I guess you could are it a longer
Speaker 1: in the playoffs. I believe I'll take a fast game
Speaker 1: at the fastest game, Like, I'm on board with this.
Speaker 1: I love it. I'm hoping it's on a Thursday night
Speaker 1: because I'm doing the post game and that would really
Speaker 1: just be a beautiful thing. So you're not taking them up.
Speaker 1: I'm not up on it. I'll take you up on it.
Speaker 1: I think it's definitely the right play to win. Sandwich
Speaker 1: is my favorite game in the newsroom era is the
Speaker 1: Snow game between the Bills and Colts. It was December tenth,
Speaker 1: two thousand seventeen, and it was an Orchard Park heavy
Speaker 1: lake effects snowstorm that ultimately dumped sixteen point seven inches
Speaker 1: of snow eight to nine inches falling during the game
Speaker 1: alone Chicago and the Bills won the game in overtime. Uh.
Speaker 1: And that was the playoffs. I could be wrong, but
Speaker 1: I don't think so. That was the definitive Frank Gore
Speaker 1: in Buffalo moment because they're sliding around, just grinding through it.
Speaker 1: There weren't that many, right it was. I remember Dave
Speaker 1: danish I enjoined like there was a lot of snow
Speaker 1: all around the the American uh northeast or north that
Speaker 1: that day, and damage was just he was in his element.
Speaker 1: All right, how about you? Greg? All Right, I'm gonna
Speaker 1: keep it simple. Uh. The Browns will end up with
Speaker 1: uh one of the five worst records in the NFL
Speaker 1: at the end of the season. This is absolutely something
Speaker 1: I'm rooting for all of my picks are I might
Speaker 1: as well align it, But I think it's I think
Speaker 1: it's possible at the end of the season when they
Speaker 1: are sending those draft orders out, the Browns will be
Speaker 1: one of the first five picks. It doesn't matter if
Speaker 1: they trade the picks or if anything else happens. Have
Speaker 1: the pick Houston has, right, That's what I meant. So
Speaker 1: it's like they will have one of the worst five records.
Speaker 1: So in the end it would be the Houston Texans
Speaker 1: who end up taking that pick, but that pick will
Speaker 1: be one of the worst top five picks in the draft.
Speaker 1: I and not kidding. I came up with something very
Speaker 1: very similar. I was gonna go seven, but um, I'll
Speaker 1: take you on it because I think it's something that
Speaker 1: I would enjoy just tracking as a potential sandwich winner.
Speaker 1: All right. I am separating myself from this taste with
Speaker 1: the off season of the Browns here and just trying
Speaker 1: to figure out what the team's gonna look like. And
Speaker 1: I think I think it's like a six to eight
Speaker 1: win team, and I don't think that gets you a
Speaker 1: top five pick. Yeah, I'll take you on it. Shakey
Speaker 1: O line, shaky defensive tackle, shakey wide receiver, right, very
Speaker 1: shaky quarterback. I just think and and the worst juju possible.
Speaker 1: But I feel like there are there are more teams
Speaker 1: that are really bad, that are just like not put
Speaker 1: together to succeed, and that there are still some really
Speaker 1: really good talented players on this brown. That's fair. I
Speaker 1: say juju does matter a little bit because I do
Speaker 1: think the GM and the coach. What would your friend
Speaker 1: claybo think about your juju takee? He probably wouldn't agree,
Speaker 1: But I think the GM and the coach who put
Speaker 1: their careers on the line um being part of this
Speaker 1: watson Uh move will absolutely be under fire and potentially
Speaker 1: know that they're gone. And that does add a different
Speaker 1: feel to an organization if you start out. I'm just
Speaker 1: looking at the entire league. I don't think it's a
Speaker 1: crazy concept if things went really south under Jacoby percent
Speaker 1: I think that's what you're banking because there aren't ten
Speaker 1: teams that are clearly worse than them. I have a
Speaker 1: contrarian esque opinion question for you guys, Yeah, you love
Speaker 1: their off season. No, No, there are a lot of
Speaker 1: talented Browns players though, like Colleen just said, Myles Garrett,
Speaker 1: Nick Chubb, all these players that probably feel like, Wow,
Speaker 1: everyone's rooting against us because of what our organization decided
Speaker 1: to do. Deshaun Watson's not even on the field for
Speaker 1: those first eleven games. I think there could be us
Speaker 1: against the world. Well, mentality propels them. I think it's
Speaker 1: a good take, Grave Digger. I think to me, the
Speaker 1: chances they have a top five pick are about equal
Speaker 1: to me that they are in the playoff race when
Speaker 1: Watson returns. I think there's a there is a path
Speaker 1: that way as well, as much as like nobody wants
Speaker 1: that to happen, and I'm not saying I'm rooting for it,
Speaker 1: I think there's a path. I think. I don't think.
Speaker 1: I think game is awesome. They can get by if
Speaker 1: their quarterback just doesn't have back breaking mistakes every single
Speaker 1: and that their defense is better their second they've got
Speaker 1: the secondary receiver. All right, So I went negative. We're
Speaker 1: all settled with this, Okay. I went negative with the
Speaker 1: first one, so I want to go positive with the
Speaker 1: second one. Uh, the Jaguars will have a mathematical path
Speaker 1: to the postseason. A Week eight team love the Jags Onions. Wow, Yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm delayed here because I am torn. I'm high on
Speaker 1: the Jags. I think they're going to beat their over under.
Speaker 1: I think that division. If you told me that eight
Speaker 1: and eight or even seven than nine had a mathematical
Speaker 1: possibility to the playoffs entering Week eight team that's kind
Speaker 1: of baked into this gives you a better chance to
Speaker 1: win that Like I could see that happening. That seventh
Speaker 1: keeps you alive going into it. I will take you
Speaker 1: up on it just because, uh, that's just my way
Speaker 1: I play this game. Take them all basically, but I could.
Speaker 1: It's a tricky one. You could. You could burn us
Speaker 1: on our network hit. We picked surprise playoff teams and
Speaker 1: I picked the Jaguars. But for the sake of this game,
Speaker 1: I'm going to take you up on it just because
Speaker 1: that's how I play this game. But I'm with you,
Speaker 1: I think, but he didn't pick the Jars. Also, can't
Speaker 1: get be that strong that I agree with you. But
Speaker 1: I'm gonna take it. If you truly agree like strongly
Speaker 1: with them, then you know one of the first things
Speaker 1: you ever uttered about this game, Greg was that you
Speaker 1: take almost every problem. That's how you play the game.
Speaker 1: So I never did that early. I started adopting that method.
Speaker 1: And now you're telling me that your counsel didn't exist,
Speaker 1: didn't happen, or wasn't effected back in the day. You've
Speaker 1: got to be with what you want to studio, you know,
Speaker 1: just feeling good about yourself, you know, if you pick
Speaker 1: the playoffs. I think that the Jaguars could absolutely be
Speaker 1: a team that surprises everyone. Maybe they are the Bengals
Speaker 1: of last season. It's talked about power rankings, um or.
Speaker 1: I mean, listen, this team with leadership that actually is
Speaker 1: legit and these talented players. You have guys like Travis
Speaker 1: Etienne who didn't even see the field last year. I mean,
Speaker 1: you have James Robinson. You have so many things that
Speaker 1: could come together here, Josh Allen on the defense. I mean,
Speaker 1: they have some really good parts and when you're able
Speaker 1: to put it together, like I expect way more out
Speaker 1: of Trevor Lawrence than what we saw last season because
Speaker 1: of everything that he was dealing with. So yeah, I
Speaker 1: think that there's maybe a possibility there's a shred and
Speaker 1: so you won't you won't take me on it? Good?
Speaker 1: I like that. I'm the one, And isn't that crazy?
Speaker 1: What what is happening with you? Greg? It's confusing to
Speaker 1: the playoffs? So it's confused. I think that the uh.
Speaker 1: I think that one of the big storylines after the
Speaker 1: season is WOA Trevor Lawrence. That dude, he's a dude.
Speaker 1: They spent so much money in free agency. We're going
Speaker 1: to see it this year. I just that's I gotta
Speaker 1: do you worry that you're maybe doing with the Jaguars though,
Speaker 1: what you're saying he's doing with the Eagles, there's a
Speaker 1: lot of projection here. I I he picked him to
Speaker 1: win the super Bowl. Well, to say the playoffs is
Speaker 1: a relatively an equal playoffs, it means they can be
Speaker 1: like we're saying seven and nine entering week a team
Speaker 1: depending on what's around them. But I think, yeah, I
Speaker 1: think winning around eight games is not a crazy ask.
Speaker 1: If the quarterback develops under Peter. The problem for you
Speaker 1: is if the Jaguars become that team. The Browns do
Speaker 1: have a top five pick in the draft, I don't know, No,
Speaker 1: there we go. That's my guy, Okay, I feel good
Speaker 1: about it. That's good. You should. I feel good about
Speaker 1: my next two. First one, listen, I full disclosure. I
Speaker 1: picked the Eagles to win the division, so I don't
Speaker 1: know if that's gonna go anyway, Here we go. UM
Speaker 1: for this von Miller, he's making history and we're all
Speaker 1: just passengers at this point on his wild ride. He
Speaker 1: joined a defense that was already first in total yards,
Speaker 1: passing yards allowed, first downs allowed, points allowed top ten,
Speaker 1: and interception rate sac rate. I mean, the Bills had
Speaker 1: problems with Kansas City, so what did they do? They
Speaker 1: called Von and when teams want to win a Super Bowl,
Speaker 1: Von's phone rings happened last year with the Rams. So
Speaker 1: von Miller will become the first player to appear and
Speaker 1: win a Super Bowl with three different teams. WHOA, I'll
Speaker 1: take you up on that. I mean, even though I
Speaker 1: liked the Bills as the super Bowl team, still there
Speaker 1: the odds of any team winning or you gotta go
Speaker 1: the other way, giving us the field and you're taking
Speaker 1: the Yeah, well i'll take this game. I'll take you.
Speaker 1: I'll take the field on this one. I feel good
Speaker 1: about it. For the most part, we've all taken Um.
Speaker 1: I would say the onions have been nicely sized throughout
Speaker 1: the programs. There haven't been any small onions. This is
Speaker 1: a this is a large one. But they are they
Speaker 1: are the favorites. But yeah, the field is much better
Speaker 1: than than the bills. I'm taking the field. I'll take
Speaker 1: you on this too, spherical. Alright, one more, let's do
Speaker 1: one more quick. Here we go, Mark, all right, this
Speaker 1: has happened in NFL history. This happened between um Buddy
Speaker 1: Ryan and Kevin Gilbride, two NFL coaches from the same sideline,
Speaker 1: will get in a fight between now and the end
Speaker 1: of the regular season. Defined fight, Well, it's not. They're
Speaker 1: not just like um, like I'm saying, a punch, I'm
Speaker 1: saying someone someone attempts a punch. It's a very it's
Speaker 1: a very you know, macho experience. And then sometimes guy,
Speaker 1: you know, here comes a guy stepping between the coach
Speaker 1: and the o c not that you mean actual hands
Speaker 1: a throne, and it would need to mimic or feel
Speaker 1: equal to the Buddy Ryan doesn't need to the punch
Speaker 1: doesn't need the land. But like in that case, they didn't,
Speaker 1: like they weren't sitting there for three rounds going after
Speaker 1: each other. I mean it was like, we get it.
Speaker 1: You tried to punch me, then it got broken up,
Speaker 1: but not a we're jabbing each other for five I
Speaker 1: love how you play the game, Mark because you're probably
Speaker 1: gonna get this wrong. But what do you care. It's
Speaker 1: not about the standard sandwich for any of us. That
Speaker 1: doesn't that literally, ever, it doesn't happen. So this is like, well,
Speaker 1: I had the best record the last time around, Greg, Okay,
Speaker 1: So where where the sandwich you were supposed to go?
Speaker 1: I often was bringing I was bringing those burritos over
Speaker 1: to Lakish guys some sort of Vietnamese sandwiches one time
Speaker 1: about ten years ago. That store is closed since shuddered
Speaker 1: Culver City, Tai sandwich location. That's pretty good. Actually, we
Speaker 1: were into that for a while. I remember that we
Speaker 1: did the runs at we all used to purchase for
Speaker 1: each other. That was the actual. That's that's the actual.
Speaker 1: Maybe what about this if you bring it back? What
Speaker 1: if we hold true to the nature of go get
Speaker 1: my lunch, bit, let's let's do it that winter Mark,
Speaker 1: He can't just leave the studio the second it ends.
Speaker 1: The only controversial element is that our cafeteria serves high
Speaker 1: quality free food. That's true, there's good foods neighborhood. We could,
Speaker 1: we could, we could find a way. Just send you
Speaker 1: into Englewood just to get get us some sang. The
Speaker 1: area surrounding is also to make in place to right
Speaker 1: around the corner. There's so much around here. I will
Speaker 1: be you are all right? Oh so I I will
Speaker 1: take you on it. Okay, Yeah, I'll take you up,
Speaker 1: all right, Okay. I hope it happens. I hope I
Speaker 1: lose that one. That's fun. The Broncos to me, beating
Speaker 1: up each other on the sideline, that'd be awesome. Broncos
Speaker 1: to me, uh or maybe the most fascinating team heading
Speaker 1: into this season. We definitely got the most fascinating Week
Speaker 1: one game. By the way, um, let's not. I hope
Speaker 1: this doesn't annoy Mark or Dan, but I did want
Speaker 1: to mention I'm going to be part of the Channel
Speaker 1: five coverage of Monday Night football this year over in
Speaker 1: the UK, So if you're a listener, you can check
Speaker 1: that out on Monday Nights. First game is gonna be
Speaker 1: Mark is an artery bulging out of this is absurd.
Speaker 1: I am happy if you got you like doing that
Speaker 1: kind of stuff and I want you to be happy.
Speaker 1: Thank you, Mark, I appreciate it. I don't know just
Speaker 1: because you said quickly and I remember I got to
Speaker 1: get that in the channel five Monday nights for the
Speaker 1: first game. That first game we're not talking about. It's
Speaker 1: pretty good. G Smith of course, the first under the
Speaker 1: table Gino Smith of course, and the Broncos are the
Speaker 1: first game on Monday Night football. And I think that
Speaker 1: that week, that game is going to start a disappointing
Speaker 1: season for the Broncos. That game is not part of it.
Speaker 1: This is my way to shoehorn that can I ask
Speaker 1: for question, what is your role? Are you the play
Speaker 1: by play person? I will be No. We will be
Speaker 1: in between UM segments like we have been in the
Speaker 1: last few years on Sky Sports, filling in the commercials.
Speaker 1: I'll be with m J D and Kirsten Watson is
Speaker 1: for the Monday Night or for any other services during
Speaker 1: this per week. The Broncos will miss the playoffs. And
Speaker 1: not only will they miss the playoffs. Before the end
Speaker 1: of the season, there will be a sourced report about
Speaker 1: differences between Russell Wilson and Nathaniel at you look at
Speaker 1: you with your Russell Wilson character it is, it's take
Speaker 1: you on it. Um doesn't matter who this? Does it
Speaker 1: matter who? That's my boy? I love that guy. Um
Speaker 1: does it matter where sought about that? Do I need
Speaker 1: to specify? I think the words source means it's someone
Speaker 1: that reports on things and they have a source. So
Speaker 1: it's even even if it's a radio guy. I don't
Speaker 1: care that counts. It's a source to report. It can't
Speaker 1: just be someone has to be a lot of times
Speaker 1: we've been sitting around, something comes up on Twitter from
Speaker 1: a reporter of a hired reporter, and Greg's the first
Speaker 1: to say, I don't care about what that guy has
Speaker 1: to say. So what if you be honest that it
Speaker 1: has to pass your bar? I mean, I don't what
Speaker 1: am I going to make a list of, like guys,
Speaker 1: I don't know you have some girls that I mean,
Speaker 1: it's in my head. So well, yeah, it's gonna be. Yeah,
Speaker 1: we're gonna trust you that you'll be fair about if
Speaker 1: it's a source report. I'm not going to be fair.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna get some dude on bleacher Report that you
Speaker 1: know is Bleacher report. I mean if the fact, if
Speaker 1: we if we would have heard of it, which we
Speaker 1: were on. Sorry straight, if the report cuts through the
Speaker 1: noise and we actually know about it and it's like
Speaker 1: things that are being talked about it, it'll be legit.
Speaker 1: But yes we can if we really need to, we
Speaker 1: could have. I could talk about Bleacher Report because I
Speaker 1: wrote for free for them for like two years so season.
Speaker 1: I think this is why he's joking about it. Content
Speaker 1: mill they had anyway, all right, I'll take you on it,
Speaker 1: and um, this is a nice pivot off it. Everybody
Speaker 1: do their business there. Um, the team that he left,
Speaker 1: the team that Greg is, I'm taking in the bag
Speaker 1: for the team that that said we're gonna trade a
Speaker 1: Hall of Fame quarterback with five years five years of
Speaker 1: prime remaining and get Drew Drew Drew lock back in
Speaker 1: the deal. I can't even talk right now, so pumped
Speaker 1: up about this one. The Seahawks are gonna have a
Speaker 1: top five pick in draft. This is gonna go really poorly. Yeah.
Speaker 1: I think I think their favorite, their favorite to have
Speaker 1: a top five picks. They might quietly want this to happen.
Speaker 1: Maybe they do. I'm just telling you that's how it's
Speaker 1: gonna It's how it's gonna end up. What are the
Speaker 1: baby onions like the little ones. But how can I
Speaker 1: throw out a Vidalia that gets Greg to go for it? Anyways,
Speaker 1: strange strategy, but I will take you there. You got it?
Speaker 1: So I mean for the guy who's like, make sure
Speaker 1: the last one is an onion hanger, I didn't say that.
Speaker 1: I believe this is going to happen. I'm not taking
Speaker 1: on it. That's sure you've had something. She is not
Speaker 1: taking me on it. I think this is going to happen,
Speaker 1: all right, I'm not because I just said I looked
Speaker 1: at this list and there's only a couple of teams
Speaker 1: that I think our top five picks, and they're one
Speaker 1: of them. Oh, you guys are crazy. It's going to
Speaker 1: be glorious. The defense, the running, the eighteen to seventeen
Speaker 1: final scores, the seven and seven record, top five. Okay, alright,
Speaker 1: finally last one. You guys are about to crush me
Speaker 1: on this. Uh this is the exact opposite of a
Speaker 1: Vidalia Dalia be yea. So Derek Carr, guys working on
Speaker 1: his revenge body and he's about to post some crazy
Speaker 1: thirst trapped Okay, because Derek Carr, he's going to have
Speaker 1: more touchdowns than the guy who almost replaced him in Vegas.
Speaker 1: I like that, which is Tom Brady. Brady's thrown forty
Speaker 1: plus touchdowns and each of the last two seasons, Derek
Speaker 1: Carr's only thrown more than thirty one time in his career.
Speaker 1: But you can mark Wanty too as the second year
Speaker 1: he does it, Davante Adams and Derek Carr there reuniting. Um,
Speaker 1: Derek Carr will throw more touchdowns than Tom Brady. Mark.
Speaker 1: I'm little surprised because you had had your antenna's up
Speaker 1: about Brady the last couple of weeks. You did not
Speaker 1: get into the Brady props business. But now here's your chance.
Speaker 1: I did not. I think I went down that Avenue
Speaker 1: a couple of times. I'm taking you on. I think
Speaker 1: it's a great, great final round I built, I built up.
Speaker 1: It's a huge story. And less Brady, you know, decides
Speaker 1: mid season? Is it a huge story? Car Car could
Speaker 1: throw thirty four touchdowns and Brady could throw thirty one,
Speaker 1: And to me, that would also mean that Tom Brady's
Speaker 1: season fell off from where he was in Tampa Bay's
Speaker 1: offense too. That would be a story. And if if,
Speaker 1: if what you just said happens, I think no one's
Speaker 1: talk talking about that happening. I think I'm going to
Speaker 1: take you on it. I don't think it's crazy because
Speaker 1: I do think Derek Carr could go well over thirty.
Speaker 1: He could be in the top five in the league
Speaker 1: with thirty four touchdowns, and if and if Brady isn't
Speaker 1: quite as good, it's not crazy. And this is why
Speaker 1: you might win some sandwiches. But I'm taking you on it.
Speaker 1: I mean, let's not forget how well Tom Brady played
Speaker 1: last year. I thought he was the best quarter because
Speaker 1: now it's been established, because it's been said three times
Speaker 1: that Derek Carr will throw thirty four touchdowns exactly this year.
Speaker 1: If they both have thirty four, then what happens and
Speaker 1: then you lose the prop it's gonna have more more.
Speaker 1: I'm not marrying that number though. It's just this, yeah, okay,
Speaker 1: great digger. I went to see if he's done it
Speaker 1: in the past at all. I can't. I can't find
Speaker 1: a year where it's happened. What that car went over
Speaker 1: Brady because Brady had some you know, it has been
Speaker 1: kind of like a touchdown that year he did it.
Speaker 1: Good year. Oh yeah, when he broke his leg. Yeah, alright,
Speaker 1: what you got, grave Digger. This is a tradition of
Speaker 1: its own. The producer with one sandwich prop it almost
Speaker 1: always goes terribly. But Justin is coming at this thing. Guys.
Speaker 1: Guys got some real knowledge behind the glass. What do
Speaker 1: you got. I'm ready to start my sandwich prop career
Speaker 1: oh and four, but I'm taking Greg's advice and I'm
Speaker 1: picking something I'm in a root for the Colts will
Speaker 1: finish in last places. The grave digger. He's got the
Speaker 1: little hole digger. He's the grave digger. That's six six
Speaker 1: h So you got the Houston Texans ahead of Wow,
Speaker 1: you got of course, you're Tennessee Titans ahead of Then
Speaker 1: you have the reigning back to back whatever is the
Speaker 1: reverse of the m v P back to back. It's
Speaker 1: having a number one overall pick back to back, the
Speaker 1: Jaguars all ahead of the Cults and the standings. I
Speaker 1: absolutely take you up on it, and I know Connie
Speaker 1: will too, because Connie is hot for the car. That
Speaker 1: that's a nice good job, Justin Onion Hanger's much about
Speaker 1: the Jags and Texans taking a little step as it
Speaker 1: is about the Colts taking a step back. That's exactly
Speaker 1: nothing to do with this. Aren't arrival to me right
Speaker 1: now that we I don't have a arrival right unlike um,
Speaker 1: like the rest of us, we actually do count on
Speaker 1: the producer to bring in the sandwiches. If you happen
Speaker 1: to go enforced, it's the huddle has like plenty of ready,
Speaker 1: all right, everybody take him up on that? Yeah, grave,
Speaker 1: last place is that? And if if there's two teams
Speaker 1: that go six and eleven, that's last place tied for
Speaker 1: last year? Is that tied? You know, I don't think
Speaker 1: you win that. I think if you don't win push.
Speaker 1: If there's two teams, if they all have seven wins
Speaker 1: and the Colts win the tiebreaker, then I lose. But
Speaker 1: if they like lose the head to head matchups and
Speaker 1: tiebreakers or whatever, there is an official last you could
Speaker 1: make or break sandwiches on a tiebreaker. That's fine. All right,
Speaker 1: there you go, go get my lunch. Another another season
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Speaker 1: That's already the type of content we're talking about. But
Speaker 1: that's just the beginning. So our next show will be Thursday.
Speaker 1: It is the Thursday Around the NFL Week one preview. Okay,
Speaker 1: Then we're gonna go to Sofi Stadium and Around the
Speaker 1: NFL Podcast will be in the building for the season opener.
Speaker 1: We will have a recap for that. Friday is the
Speaker 1: debut of Around the NFL Friday. We Gotta it's a
Speaker 1: We need a name. Anybody want to give us? Send
Speaker 1: in some and Grave Digger some names for the Friday Show.
Speaker 1: It's gonna be a fun We're gonna try to get
Speaker 1: it live stream. You've been calling it Friday fund Show,
Speaker 1: Friday fun Show, Friday Fun Show. Feels solid, Grave Digger,
Speaker 1: we're working on it. We want to have a live
Speaker 1: stream on YouTube where fans can watch live and even
Speaker 1: comment and be part of the show. Um, it's going
Speaker 1: to be uh thirty minutes or so. It's a shorter
Speaker 1: show and it's our last kind of thoughts heading into
Speaker 1: the week. We're gonna have a lot of fun. It's
Speaker 1: the Friday Fun Show. So that's coming. It's gonna feel awesome.
Speaker 1: Greg Rosenthal, you have game debut back. That's right Friday afternoon,
Speaker 1: that's coming back. And then of course Sunday the Flagship Show.
Speaker 1: Did I miss anything? I feel like I always missed
Speaker 1: something this week. I spent a large amount of time
Speaker 1: writing it yesterday, I can tell you that. So we
Speaker 1: got a QB index that is going to be up
Speaker 1: on NFL dot Com. And then don't forget about Saturday
Speaker 1: on NFL Network. The around the end of it's like
Speaker 1: the best of around the NFL from the week as
Speaker 1: I understand it. So that's Saturday, and then the Flagship
Speaker 1: Show Sunday Night. Sunday Night, guys, is a packed schedule.
Speaker 1: It's a big week. First week. You know, we're getting
Speaker 1: into the rhythms of it and it's but it's exciting
Speaker 1: because real football is upon us. Connie, you've said it all.
Speaker 1: Thank you. This one more show with you today, one
Speaker 1: more shoot down, one to go, Connie and John, Alright,
Speaker 1: until Emily and John, here we go until Thursday. He
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