Speaker 1: Wheezy. Yeah, ah want to rush. It's the Friday Funk
Speaker 1: Show working title from the Wilton Arms and Knight's Bridge
Speaker 1: section of London. There it is Voice Crack number one.
Speaker 1: Dan Hands is here with Mark Sessler, Greg rose Baal,
Speaker 1: great digger on the ones and twos. Uh, Yoko Yessica
Speaker 1: taking photos looking wonderful. John Gonzalez sitting in from Sports
Speaker 1: Illustrated Fame and Colleen Fame and uh, here we are boys.
Speaker 1: I like that you started the show with what Mark
Speaker 1: and I are treated to before. You know, most shows,
Speaker 1: if you really wanted to get the experience going, you
Speaker 1: would also give them a little like, uh, next week's show,
Speaker 1: we'll be I'll give you some tiger blood, Charlie. Yes,
Speaker 1: here we are the Wilton Arms. Um our public choice
Speaker 1: so far this week and it's been um quite a
Speaker 1: day and you'll hear in our voices and the way
Speaker 1: we speak in general a little bit loopy. After our
Speaker 1: Thursday night live show at the O two Forum and
Speaker 1: cut this down huge hunt boys, UM, and thank you
Speaker 1: to everybody who came out and um turned it into
Speaker 1: a special night. And of course Rachel Bonetta and Neil
Speaker 1: Reynolds are very special guests. Um even Jessica herself made
Speaker 1: an appearance at the end of the show. So this
Speaker 1: was it was quite It was quite a night. We
Speaker 1: even saw Justin graver dance to the bongo song and
Speaker 1: that was something that I will never forget because you
Speaker 1: could see the way Justin danced that inner theater kid
Speaker 1: came out, kid went to like theater camp in summer
Speaker 1: in high school. Did you he was on stage loving it? Wow?
Speaker 1: Um No, I took theater in eighth grade for a semester.
Speaker 1: But I was a theater child, Like as a six
Speaker 1: year old, I was in like the Plaino Children's Theater
Speaker 1: production in Texas, and I said, but I saw that
Speaker 1: boy in dancing with a big smile on your face
Speaker 1: and was very nice. It was it was my favorite.
Speaker 1: It was one of my favorite moments because it had
Speaker 1: come right after we did our tribute for West, which
Speaker 1: is emotional and it was great. And then to cap
Speaker 1: that with some bongos and then Graver dancing, I feel
Speaker 1: like encapsulated our podcast perfectly. But the fact that then
Speaker 1: me walking off the stage with his girl right well,
Speaker 1: the fact and I want to get to topical and
Speaker 1: there there are some pictures out there of that. I
Speaker 1: think maybe Grave real post him because we had a
Speaker 1: photographer there. The fact that the final shots of the
Speaker 1: night are like the crowds, you know, clapping and in
Speaker 1: it's Dan and Yessica just waving goodbye to the crowd.
Speaker 1: Like it's like like the President and the First Lady.
Speaker 1: I was a bizarre way. I do have a question
Speaker 1: for you, uh justin Yes, you were a child Despian
Speaker 1: a child actor. Were you are were you in um
Speaker 1: in this theater company? Were you a child playing a
Speaker 1: child or were you like in a child like you
Speaker 1: would be doing Serpico as a child kind of scenario.
Speaker 1: More like I played Hercules and Hercules, I played Harry
Speaker 1: Potter and Harry Potter I was the lead lead quite
Speaker 1: often that's a lot of lots, so you only pay you, Jessica.
Speaker 1: Were you aware of this? The lead Harry Potter to
Speaker 1: Jessica sincerely, She was of great help to us and
Speaker 1: all the people at the O two form very cool vibe.
Speaker 1: We had like close to a thousand people at the show.
Speaker 1: Was it was pretty special. So we are kind of
Speaker 1: in the afterglow of that might have hit it a
Speaker 1: little bit hard after the show a little bit of
Speaker 1: a celebration, hung out with the Good Morning Football crew.
Speaker 1: I thought that was a rewarding experience. Me and Jason
Speaker 1: mccordy realized that we're both from the same area of
Speaker 1: New York and we had some good conversations about Rockland
Speaker 1: County and some cold town talk. And we're gonna have
Speaker 1: him on the show in the off season to break
Speaker 1: break that down. He did sort of slightly dispel the
Speaker 1: concept of the cold town, which I don't think that
Speaker 1: you were aiming for that. So you were very drunk
Speaker 1: countries like the best city to raise like, you know,
Speaker 1: polo players, slightly confused by your memory of the town
Speaker 1: in general. Do you think you guys are stupid? Uh? Well,
Speaker 1: I think that's what the problem is here. Um. Anyway,
Speaker 1: so that was great, uh, And today's show we will
Speaker 1: short and sweet because we really do need to enjoy
Speaker 1: ourselves in London because it's fast approaching an end. It's
Speaker 1: already now maybe Friday, Today's Friday it is And if
Speaker 1: you do hear this early and you're in town, will
Speaker 1: be on stage or the London Eye at the NFL
Speaker 1: event around twelve thirty on Saturday. YEP, with Neil Reynolds
Speaker 1: on stage with us. We'll do probably twenty minutes or
Speaker 1: so with Neil. If you want to come through, we'll
Speaker 1: do twenty. Mark will do fifteen. Speaking of which, Mark,
Speaker 1: some weird vibes from you as usual, But it's ramping
Speaker 1: up as the week is going along out here. Um
Speaker 1: what New texted us about ninety minutes ago when we
Speaker 1: were all still at the hotel? Will we be cleared
Speaker 1: by five thirty? You think have some crazy stuff tonight?
Speaker 1: And then there was a follow up text, Hey, can
Speaker 1: you take my backpack with whatever is in it back
Speaker 1: to the hotel for me? All right? And then when
Speaker 1: we got to the bar and we're like all right,
Speaker 1: Mark stopped at the ps like what are you doing
Speaker 1: after the show? You're like nothing. I am doing nothing
Speaker 1: as of this moment. I have um friends, business partners, associates,
Speaker 1: partners scattered throughout many, many states and countries. Tell us
Speaker 1: the truth right now, you can tell the truth of
Speaker 1: all you two. I ordered the backpack is in my room.
Speaker 1: I handled that. That was more my concern because I
Speaker 1: left my backpack, my passport, all my possessions in the
Speaker 1: UK office and had to go on the side, and
Speaker 1: we just sort of delighted. I think these different words
Speaker 1: of last night. But you did give Dan at one
Speaker 1: point the line that you had a heart out, and
Speaker 1: Dan was like, we got a heart out in London?
Speaker 1: Where are you going? We we can't do it. I
Speaker 1: also got a call from Mark after the taping yesterday,
Speaker 1: after Mark overslept and then we all got together at
Speaker 1: the hotel or at the NFL office. Hey, can you
Speaker 1: go back to the office for me and get my plug? Well? No,
Speaker 1: you said you were hanging around that area to get
Speaker 1: a hair cut, and I'm like, what's going on with
Speaker 1: this guy? I can't go back. I acknowledge acknowledge that yesterday,
Speaker 1: the morning portion of yesterday was a disheveled scenario, but
Speaker 1: I think I recovered. Well. We did the live show.
Speaker 1: You were excellent, you know, and it was very nice Mark.
Speaker 1: I must say, there will be no more roughing of
Speaker 1: assessly here. It was very nice to do the show
Speaker 1: yesterday with you. We weren't able to do it last
Speaker 1: year because of some unfortunate things that were going on
Speaker 1: with you physically, but you were able to come here,
Speaker 1: survived the flight over, do the show with us, and
Speaker 1: it's great to have us all together and share that
Speaker 1: moment with Justin. I had a great time, and it
Speaker 1: reminded me that one's life on stage is too brief.
Speaker 1: There should be more opportunities where you just you're just
Speaker 1: up on stage exuding, and I want to be I
Speaker 1: want to be in a play. I want to do
Speaker 1: what Justin did when he was six. I don't know
Speaker 1: why you bailed on that career. I'm not sure why
Speaker 1: you did. Here's what happened. When I was about ten,
Speaker 1: there was an audition for Barney the show Barney and
Speaker 1: my mom told me about it afterwards, and I was like,
Speaker 1: why didn't you take me to that audition? I would
Speaker 1: have crushed it. And then I was so just sad
Speaker 1: by that by missing that that ill way to well.
Speaker 1: I would be worried. I agree with you, if you're
Speaker 1: not spoken to. Your mom said, it would be fun
Speaker 1: to do that more and more often. And some people
Speaker 1: you know are on stage a lot. There positions, their
Speaker 1: their stand up comics, or they do more live stoves.
Speaker 1: Maybe we can, but I would be a little worried
Speaker 1: about Mark because it is one of my favorite nights
Speaker 1: of the year. Two when we come and do this.
Speaker 1: It's just like a guaranteed good time. But I'd be
Speaker 1: worried because at one point Mark started just gesturing towards
Speaker 1: the crowd to make them all chant. What more likely,
Speaker 1: But he just was doing it even when it wasn't
Speaker 1: time to do it. And he's like, I just like
Speaker 1: the power of it, that power I like to control them.
Speaker 1: I feel it was a great, great night. Coming up
Speaker 1: today we'll have Mark, this is your chance to have
Speaker 1: even more power because the floor is your segment of
Speaker 1: the Friday Fun Show. It is your turn, sir, So
Speaker 1: that's coming up. I have a point to I know that,
Speaker 1: and that's what we're hoping for. We hope that you
Speaker 1: planned for it, and we're gonna listen into it. We
Speaker 1: have our week four hero predictions and by the way,
Speaker 1: we hit on a couple and week three, so we're
Speaker 1: getting hot while some of us did. Um. Also, I
Speaker 1: mean you position your Matt rule thing as it doesn't
Speaker 1: matter if he or loses, So I don't know if
Speaker 1: I totally accept that. Okay, well that doesn't matter because
Speaker 1: Justin did and he is the arbor around this one.
Speaker 1: We will do our injury minute. The Greg Roshalt injury
Speaker 1: a minute, he's all over that and uh but before that,
Speaker 1: let us hit and I watched us kind of in
Speaker 1: a boozy hayze um second that. So I have, I
Speaker 1: have my takes might be a little maybe amazing, more horrible.
Speaker 1: But I did watch the game last night at like
Speaker 1: four in the morning Thursday night football. Burrow is eight
Speaker 1: of fifty fairly over fifty percent, goes deep down the
Speaker 1: left sideline and that's caught. That's Teve Higgins to Leanjong.
Speaker 1: So the crowd was growing impatured. The next thing you know,
Speaker 1: you got a fifty nine yard touchdown over ride Shavian
Speaker 1: Howard's tag Al Michael's with the call Amazon Prime, Cincinnati
Speaker 1: is back on track. Two more touchdown passes for Joe
Speaker 1: Burr through seven averaged over nine yards an attempt, no interceptions,
Speaker 1: pass rating one sixteen. Bang. That's Shoe Burrow right there.
Speaker 1: Running game is still stuck in mud. But Tee Higgins
Speaker 1: is the other star wide receiver of the Bengals, and
Speaker 1: he goes off seven touch and win over the Miami Dolphins.
Speaker 1: Dolphins fall for the first time. They are three and one.
Speaker 1: Get to the Bengal side of this, but Greg let's
Speaker 1: start with what was the biggest news out of this game,
Speaker 1: and really it was tough to watch. It was scary, uh,
Speaker 1: to a tungo by Loo who suffered a quote unquote
Speaker 1: back injury in week three, gets thrown down to the
Speaker 1: turf around midfield in this game and suffered it's a
Speaker 1: very scary head and neck injury. Taken to the hospital,
Speaker 1: fortunately released, travel back home with the team and seems
Speaker 1: to be in a good place. But at the same time,
Speaker 1: when he goes down and he's in the fencing posture,
Speaker 1: and it brings up a whole bunch of questions about
Speaker 1: how this was handled. Yeah, I think we just have
Speaker 1: to clarify what the what the time of all this
Speaker 1: was when he had that injury last week, which you know,
Speaker 1: to most people, including this week, right, that's true. It
Speaker 1: was it was just Sunday. It was just four days
Speaker 1: before this game when he suffered that injury, which two
Speaker 1: people who know a lot more about concussions, doctors and
Speaker 1: the certainly looked like a concussion just to the naked eye.
Speaker 1: Four days ago. He was tested for a concussion during
Speaker 1: last week's game. Uh, the doctors there cleared him to
Speaker 1: return to the field in that game, which which to
Speaker 1: me was was where this all started. It wasn't that
Speaker 1: he started last night, it was that they let him
Speaker 1: return to the game. Uh last week. Uh, he was
Speaker 1: not in the concussion protocol during the week where where
Speaker 1: they took additional tests, and I think that's where the
Speaker 1: Dolphins will come under some criticism. Before this game even happened,
Speaker 1: the NFL p A had started in an investigation into
Speaker 1: whether they followed the protocol correctly a week ago, but
Speaker 1: that investigation takes a week or two. And then he
Speaker 1: played this game on Thursday night. So that's all to say.
Speaker 1: Going into the game, there was a lot to be
Speaker 1: concerned about with Tuah, and then when he suffered that
Speaker 1: it was just one of those moments that you feel
Speaker 1: like we've covered the NFL a long time and the
Speaker 1: way they've handled concussions is gonna be an inflection point because, uh,
Speaker 1: there's a lot of people understandably upset. It was upsetting
Speaker 1: to watch it, and uh, I thought Andrew Whitworth on
Speaker 1: the postgame show on Amazon gave some good context of
Speaker 1: how he's passed those concussion tests as a player, that
Speaker 1: it's that he can do it that they can figure
Speaker 1: out a way to answer those questions. And he mentioned
Speaker 1: the time that it took that passed the test but
Speaker 1: still has a head injury, right. He he was he
Speaker 1: was totally um, he said, woozy and and not feeling
Speaker 1: right at all, but he was able to get past
Speaker 1: the independent neurologists and get back on the field and
Speaker 1: that it took a teammate of his UH to take
Speaker 1: him off the field and says, that's what it is.
Speaker 1: That's what happens a lot, that it takes a player
Speaker 1: or someone else to pull you aside because you're gonna
Speaker 1: just lie and try to be a warrior to get
Speaker 1: back out on the field. You hope that's not what
Speaker 1: happened with to a week ago, but there's obvious questions
Speaker 1: whether that was what happened. There's so much going on
Speaker 1: over the past five or six days with this, and
Speaker 1: a lot of blame has sort of right, I guess,
Speaker 1: suspicion has been thrown at Mike McDaniel at the Dolphins
Speaker 1: at TWA himself, I mean to a who said it
Speaker 1: was a back injury verbally after Sunday's game. Um, was
Speaker 1: that something that he was using verbally to curve around
Speaker 1: what was really going on, I don't know, But the
Speaker 1: thing is, to me, what's the broke down part of
Speaker 1: the process is the concussion protocol to begin with. I
Speaker 1: don't really know if I'm willing to blame the Dolphins
Speaker 1: or suspect that some larger, some sort of conspiracy is
Speaker 1: going on here. But the other part of it is
Speaker 1: find me a player who thinks that Thursday night games
Speaker 1: make any sense. I know it's good for the fans,
Speaker 1: it's good for the league to have there's name football.
Speaker 1: I mean, I know there's college football. But if it
Speaker 1: were Saturday night football, you're talking about two extra days
Speaker 1: for players to recover. Why was to a out on
Speaker 1: the field to begin with? If there was a head injury,
Speaker 1: if the Dolphins knew that at they're and he I
Speaker 1: don't think it's almost like you don't want to know it.
Speaker 1: I mean, he played in that in the same game.
Speaker 1: It's not that even four days later he played that day.
Speaker 1: And I think that I think there's questions of why
Speaker 1: doesn't the protocol include further testing after? Like, right, everyone
Speaker 1: you could did not pess the smell test from the start.
Speaker 1: What happened on Sunday in the win over Buffalo, the
Speaker 1: way he reacted, and then for then to be turned
Speaker 1: into it was a back injury, and then for now
Speaker 1: not to be more testing, and of course the Dolphins
Speaker 1: could come back and say, well, yeah, that wasn't a
Speaker 1: concussion and this was a separate injury suffered and it
Speaker 1: just looks bad. Yeah, just a lot of smoke around this,
Speaker 1: And I think it's so important, especially for players on
Speaker 1: the short week because Thursday night football, Mark is not
Speaker 1: going anywhere, and it's on Thursday because that's the biggest
Speaker 1: rated TV night that on television, h much more than Saturday,
Speaker 1: which is the college football domain. So there's business interests
Speaker 1: involved and that's just the way it is with the
Speaker 1: or with this corporation in the NFL. But it's just tough.
Speaker 1: That was a tough that was a tough site. It
Speaker 1: was a tough site, and I'm sure it's not the
Speaker 1: last we hear the story. On the other side of
Speaker 1: this with the Bengals, yeah, I think I feel like
Speaker 1: they've really um gotten a little bit of their swagger
Speaker 1: back here that this is a nice win. I think
Speaker 1: Mark the Dolphins. The Dolphins. You could say whether or
Speaker 1: not you buy into the Dolp Dolphins and if Teddy
Speaker 1: Bridgewater has to play multiple games or even our game,
Speaker 1: we'll see how they do. They got the um, they
Speaker 1: have have to check their schedule, but you have now
Speaker 1: the since they got the Jets, Vikings and Steelers up next. Okay,
Speaker 1: that's not too bad. UM. As far as Cincinnati, they
Speaker 1: now have a big matchup against Baltimore in Baltimore and
Speaker 1: to be able to get back to five hundred. They've
Speaker 1: studied the ship here uh the last two weeks. If
Speaker 1: you're a Bengals fan, you're back in a good place.
Speaker 1: It was just so critical. And do I think that
Speaker 1: they there was an advantage to the fact that Teddy
Speaker 1: has worked really well in this offense, went out and
Speaker 1: was Teddy came in for for two UM? I do.
Speaker 1: I think that's not a huge drop off for the Dolphins,
Speaker 1: but for the Engles side of it. UM. I don't
Speaker 1: come out of watching what I watched, and it was
Speaker 1: mostly the forty minute condensed version today because I was
Speaker 1: with you Dan last night on a bit of a
Speaker 1: cloud during the actual airtime. I don't come out convinced
Speaker 1: that they fixed their issues because I still see like
Speaker 1: it really mysteriously defunct ground game. Uh, they're struggling to
Speaker 1: get their big plays they got they got enough of
Speaker 1: them last night with Higgins like for it to work. Um,
Speaker 1: I just I think that there there's issues here and
Speaker 1: what's the systemically is the problem with the Bengals and
Speaker 1: they're lying in the running game and everything. It's not
Speaker 1: last year's offense. And they the way that they dominated
Speaker 1: the Ravens in two matchups a year ago, I don't
Speaker 1: see that offense right. But they're they're getting better. We
Speaker 1: we This is also the time of year to work
Speaker 1: out of that season is like an in evolution, and
Speaker 1: I thought their offense probably looked the best it looked.
Speaker 1: Burrow said that he believed that was the best past
Speaker 1: protection he has ever received as a pro, and I
Speaker 1: would agree. They're run blocking is terrible. You you mentioned
Speaker 1: the key points leading into the game, Dan, but like
Speaker 1: they gave up on running. They tried a third and one,
Speaker 1: they tried a fourth and one, they tried to short
Speaker 1: yardage on the goal lines, and then Zach Taylor just
Speaker 1: waved the white flag and everyone was killing them on
Speaker 1: Twitter like I can't believe you kick the field go
Speaker 1: and that I was like, I don't know, man, they
Speaker 1: are admitting that they can't get a yard, but I'm
Speaker 1: kind of with them. They just went like over five
Speaker 1: trying to get one yard. I it's not that crazy
Speaker 1: to take the three points in that scenario. But they
Speaker 1: protected him really well. It should be pointing out that
Speaker 1: the Cowboy the Dolphins defense played ninety two snaps on
Speaker 1: Sunday in a crazy weather game, and their defense maybe
Speaker 1: didn't have as much use. But to your point mark
Speaker 1: of like, you're not sure that they have issued a point,
Speaker 1: I think I think. I think you're right. Offensively, they're
Speaker 1: not there. Defensively, I think this is one of the
Speaker 1: most consistent sound defenses in the NFL, and they're very
Speaker 1: hard to like score big points off of. I think
Speaker 1: it's a really good defense. We're not worried about them
Speaker 1: the way we were a fortnit ago. By the way,
Speaker 1: there was no there was no Teddy played pretty well.
Speaker 1: I think that last interception was probably on Mike KASICKI
Speaker 1: uh not reading the coverage, and I think he he
Speaker 1: did play quite well. He had a crazy deep throw.
Speaker 1: I think they can survive with him as my butt.
Speaker 1: Look at this guy. This guy's we're in a league
Speaker 1: right now where Greg every week is getting a big
Speaker 1: helping of Gino, a big helping water. And now he's
Speaker 1: getting Andy Dalton for the Saints, likely on Sunday. And
Speaker 1: I don't know why Andy Dalton is becoming my guy.
Speaker 1: I want the Daltonnissans with the Saints, although the way
Speaker 1: the Saints have looked up a little week, this this
Speaker 1: endless striving for quarterback mediocrity as a bizarre quest, but
Speaker 1: Greg is winning it at the moment. I know. The
Speaker 1: two thing is a little bit cloudy um clouds of
Speaker 1: situation a little bit, but it's on my radar a
Speaker 1: little bit. That the Dolbins have scored on offense thirteen points,
Speaker 1: nineteen points, fifteen points. And then that random, insane fourth
Speaker 1: quarter against the Raiders, right and they were starting, they
Speaker 1: were struggling before to uh left that game. And what
Speaker 1: Teddy did was similar, which was like they moved the ball,
Speaker 1: but they weren't finishing drives all right, hit gravers. The
Speaker 1: graver's out late too, So does this many for this
Speaker 1: drop hit what exactly? He doesn't know that there is
Speaker 1: a drop for the floor is yours. It's a horn,
Speaker 1: it's a it's ay yes, no, no, I knew it.
Speaker 1: You got it. You're you're with us. Give me just
Speaker 1: a second now, because I wasn't ready to play behind
Speaker 1: the curtain. He was feeling drink until now we were
Speaker 1: maybe edit free and now you're probably editing you keep
Speaker 1: this in here? Well cough, that's on my phone. All right,
Speaker 1: here is it's time for Mark. The floor is yours. Ah,
Speaker 1: you know the sound last week he pushed it off
Speaker 1: to because he wanted to watch the Browns at a bar,
Speaker 1: but out that you can no longer. You can no
Speaker 1: longer fight off your responsibility, Mark, because the floor is yours.
Speaker 1: You know. I'm glad I did that last week because
Speaker 1: that has a lot to do with what I'm about
Speaker 1: to mention to the two of you, to justin to uh, Gonzo,
Speaker 1: to Jessica, to a bar full of patrons who can't
Speaker 1: hear me because they're in his separate room. To the listener,
Speaker 1: I mean, Gonzo and Jessica are both like faced, first
Speaker 1: into their phones, right and then to raise their interests.
Speaker 1: But I am I have no hopes. Uh. Last night
Speaker 1: at our live show, I thought one of the most
Speaker 1: um you know, I missed it last year and there
Speaker 1: was a lot of honor and tribute given to West
Speaker 1: in that show. But last night we closed our show
Speaker 1: with a tribute to West. That brought the house down.
Speaker 1: It created a standing ovation, as it should, and I
Speaker 1: think it really to me was a re emphasis of
Speaker 1: the glue of what our show was. And Gregg has
Speaker 1: tattooed on his body. He had the call we end
Speaker 1: every show with. He had the call all and I
Speaker 1: want to talk about a little bit what I think
Speaker 1: that means um to me because West with West as
Speaker 1: he had the call. I think about the fact that
Speaker 1: all four of us, When I think how we got
Speaker 1: to the fact that we were doing a live show
Speaker 1: in London, it's pretty crazy. Uh. Dan is someone who
Speaker 1: took a somewhat atypical route to get there. There was
Speaker 1: some journalism school, but it was a man who was
Speaker 1: writing for the Patch in various counties and cities, very
Speaker 1: Patch in Long Island, that's too, uh, the Rocky County
Speaker 1: Times and the Journal News by Coastal by Coastal. I
Speaker 1: like that Greg was the brick by brick guy and
Speaker 1: and I. But he also had a for a where
Speaker 1: he just went to Hollywood to try to learn the
Speaker 1: Hollywood business, so he's been in and out of things
Speaker 1: west of all people. Was a freaking mailman. There was
Speaker 1: no schooling to do what he did. He was a
Speaker 1: freaking mailman. Like I did a thing where I went
Speaker 1: and like got obsessed with in college, went to work
Speaker 1: for Baseball Weekly and moved like eight miles away from
Speaker 1: my college to live in a bizarre apartment, beaut of
Speaker 1: a are across from Baseball Weekly, and then realize I
Speaker 1: don't like baseball. But then I got out of the
Speaker 1: whole industry for fifteen years, then came back into it.
Speaker 1: So it's like, there's so many different ways to do this,
Speaker 1: but how we got there? Last night? The one thing
Speaker 1: that I thought I felt great honor about was that
Speaker 1: our lives have changed a ton during this. We've gone
Speaker 1: through so much, and all the time we get the
Speaker 1: question like how did you guys get here? What is
Speaker 1: it you do? And I think for me, he had
Speaker 1: the call is there are these inflection points, these moments
Speaker 1: in your life where you either make the choice to
Speaker 1: do the uncomfortable thing, where you take a chance. Maybe
Speaker 1: it's when you're you're fifteen years old. It's like either
Speaker 1: like tell this girl, I like her. I don't. If
Speaker 1: you're fifteen years old and you're sitting in your room
Speaker 1: and you're scared of call her, call her up. If
Speaker 1: you are applying for a job and you're thinking, you
Speaker 1: know what, I'm gonna take the safe job because I
Speaker 1: don't really want to leave the thing I'm doing right now.
Speaker 1: I want to just continue along this boring career path
Speaker 1: that doesn't help me at all. Digit change. If you're
Speaker 1: in a relationship that doesn't work, change, make change. He
Speaker 1: the call to me is you just find that thing
Speaker 1: in your life. You know what it is. If you're listening,
Speaker 1: there's just things you're avoiding doing. Go do it. And
Speaker 1: I never want to forget what the message the West
Speaker 1: sent to us with the way he lived, what he did.
Speaker 1: And I thought, lastly, it came through so loud and clear,
Speaker 1: and it really you can see the effect that West
Speaker 1: had on everyone in that audience. And that's really all
Speaker 1: I have to say. No, that was well, said Mr Sessler.
Speaker 1: Um We spoke, We spoke about West, all three of us.
Speaker 1: There was a gentleman in the crowd during the Q
Speaker 1: and a portion that was wearing a Cincinnati Bengals jersey
Speaker 1: number one with West on the back, and he was
Speaker 1: a Cardinals fan, but it was his love of of
Speaker 1: Chris and what he meant to the show meant to
Speaker 1: us that shot shine through and then and I think
Speaker 1: we'll post it on social but the video that that
Speaker 1: we played um as part of the show, that was
Speaker 1: really special. So yes, West is with us still to
Speaker 1: this day, and and that message really does resonate. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that was really will I did notice that Jessica left
Speaker 1: during what I was saying, so that what is that
Speaker 1: it didn't resonate with everyone? I um. I got a
Speaker 1: comment on on the pictures I put on Instagram today
Speaker 1: about the West tribute and saying like, I felt bad
Speaker 1: for you guys up there, but I'm really glad that
Speaker 1: you shared it. And I responded and I was like, well,
Speaker 1: don't feel bad that that is a moment where we
Speaker 1: felt or that speaking for myself, I think it's true
Speaker 1: for you guys. I felt West closer to me than
Speaker 1: than I than I ever do these days like that,
Speaker 1: that was where we felt him as close as possible.
Speaker 1: And to see all these people and for us to
Speaker 1: be involved celebrating him, it was an is a joy
Speaker 1: like that. It's it's it has sadness to it, but
Speaker 1: it's a total joy. So don't don't feel bad for us,
Speaker 1: Like that is a great thing to be able to
Speaker 1: feel close to him. David Choplin was there taking photos
Speaker 1: for us last night, and he got an incredible shot
Speaker 1: of the three of you guys standing on the stage
Speaker 1: holding your mics and West above you on the projector
Speaker 1: screen holding his mic, and it was like he's watching
Speaker 1: over you and podcasting with you, and it was like
Speaker 1: it gave me chills. I saw that, and I agree
Speaker 1: with one thing, and this is more on a personal
Speaker 1: note in just the timing of how everything went down
Speaker 1: with with Chris. He got sick and then eventually we
Speaker 1: lost him in the middle of COVID and so we
Speaker 1: didn't really get to be with him and around him
Speaker 1: when he was sick. Didn't even get to see him
Speaker 1: in the hospital. There was no funeral service or anything
Speaker 1: like that. So that was that was just on top
Speaker 1: of everything else. Um, for him to just be gone
Speaker 1: the way he was, it was difficult. So a moment
Speaker 1: like yesterday, yeah, it felt like he was with us
Speaker 1: and that that's cool. That's cool, all right, Mark, good
Speaker 1: job there. Um I don't know how we transition, but
Speaker 1: we will. With the Greg Rosenthal injury Minute presented by Accrashure,
Speaker 1: a premium decomposition agent for luxury crematoriums. That's just a guess.
Speaker 1: That's right on the injury minute this week, that dal
Speaker 1: tones Son's is here, Andy Dalton's starting. They didn't announced that,
Speaker 1: but Jamis Winston's doubtful. Yeah, he's he's doubtful. He's listening.
Speaker 1: And as it was reminded to me today, Annie Dalton
Speaker 1: Kirk cousins played against each other in London before as
Speaker 1: members of Washington and Cincinnati, and I think it was
Speaker 1: like a thirty five to thirty five overtime tie where
Speaker 1: they had seven forty two yards. So so Jamis is
Speaker 1: probably missing the game. Andrew Speed their uh tackles out,
Speaker 1: our guard Marcus May, their safeties out, and Michael Thomas
Speaker 1: is out, so they are quite big. Uh. Christian McCaffrey
Speaker 1: looks like he's genuinely questionable, maybe on the maybe on
Speaker 1: the wrong side of questionable. Dalvin Cook will play Hunter. Renfro,
Speaker 1: who started his career with a concussion, looks like he's
Speaker 1: gonna miss his second straight game with a concussion. Uh
Speaker 1: Canarius Tony and Wandale Robinson don't appear any close to
Speaker 1: being back your guys for the Lions, Dan, i'man ras
Speaker 1: St Brown and DeAndre Swift are out. Although I'm moving
Speaker 1: off my luck. Okay, do you want to move off
Speaker 1: with me? Where do you want? You know? I do
Speaker 1: want to move off, but I don't. I'm not prepared
Speaker 1: to announce where I'm going with that. We must make
Speaker 1: an actual Twitter announcement before a verbally before we make
Speaker 1: that announcement. I think that makes sense. And that was
Speaker 1: the end of the minute. Uh Yet I can't see
Speaker 1: them winning this I think they're gonna win this game anyways.
Speaker 1: And Dan Campbell is going to have like a great
Speaker 1: thing of like we were down this guy, we were
Speaker 1: down five starters and we found a way to win.
Speaker 1: And it'll be ugly and they'll find a way. Are
Speaker 1: we going to the game with forty two injuries? By
Speaker 1: the way, Uh, well, there's injuries everywhere. Just illustrated. Had
Speaker 1: just lost another starting left tackle, Harry Witherspoon just ended up.
Speaker 1: But I can't seem relatively harder. But the Saints are
Speaker 1: quite baking. I did not like the way the I
Speaker 1: don't like the lines defense at this stage really, although
Speaker 1: there have been some bright spots, Um, Jeffer Cudas taking
Speaker 1: that leap Hutchinson. You know, well he had one good
Speaker 1: half in terms of stats. But anyway, I don't trust
Speaker 1: the events yet, and I didn't like when I saw
Speaker 1: it from the offense last week, so I gotta move
Speaker 1: off that pick. All right, let's see, let's see, let's see,
Speaker 1: let's see Hero of the Week prediction as we bring
Speaker 1: this thing in for landing and again we'll be back
Speaker 1: Sunday night Flagship Show. If you are Um, if you
Speaker 1: are in London, come see us tomorrow at the river bank.
Speaker 1: Tell what it is, River Hedge. It's by the eye,
Speaker 1: the south Bank. Thank you. It doesn't even it's just
Speaker 1: a region. It's just a yeah, the river hedges by
Speaker 1: the river. They're trimmed back nicely. All right, your Hero
Speaker 1: the Week prediction, Greg, I'm gonna stick with my lock
Speaker 1: and and sin. Before we do that, let's go over
Speaker 1: last week's predictions. Greig. I'm sorry, this is part of
Speaker 1: what we do. You had Tom Brady, uh, some type
Speaker 1: of prediction of greatness from Tom and he did not
Speaker 1: find a way if he would have completed that pass
Speaker 1: almost tied the game the two point conversion than one.
Speaker 1: You would have had it, but you didn't Mark Sessler.
Speaker 1: You had Mark, you had jumping anytime. I'm attempting to
Speaker 1: recall I don't even remember last night at this point,
Speaker 1: but Marca Drake London, remember about forty nine yards or
Speaker 1: something like that a touchdown critical than for yards. He
Speaker 1: had the last score of the game, which game with
Speaker 1: thirty five seconds left in the third quarter that put
Speaker 1: the Falcons ahead, nailed it. So basically the game winning touchdown,
Speaker 1: you know, get you a hundred dollars. Now to the payroll.
Speaker 1: You're on the payroll. I have to raise something on
Speaker 1: this one. Cordrell Patterson had like a hundred and something
Speaker 1: sixty total yards on a touchdown. Drake Lendard wasn't even
Speaker 1: the if he scored. He scored the final touchdown. That said,
Speaker 1: he had a fewer yards. I think last week, what
Speaker 1: are we asking a football player to do? And he
Speaker 1: scored the final touchdown. You're you're coming out of what
Speaker 1: you want to that's considering you're going to make the
Speaker 1: case for yours. I don't have to make a case,
Speaker 1: Matt rule. I spoke the Matt Rule with great respect
Speaker 1: and integrity and said see him as a human. And
Speaker 1: guess what happened. Not only the Panthers get their first win,
Speaker 1: the Panthers team gave Matt Rule the game ball, which
Speaker 1: was showing to them, showing from them to Matt that
Speaker 1: we know you've been going through a lot. We respect you.
Speaker 1: We're gonna fight hard for you. That's a that's a
Speaker 1: big I can't it. But I just want to point out,
Speaker 1: as you were saying that last week, you were like,
Speaker 1: this isn't even about him winning or losing, just respect
Speaker 1: him as a total Like waiting for Bridget to chime
Speaker 1: in here, it literally gave him the game ball to
Speaker 1: show they respected. I'm let to see you. That's a
Speaker 1: good argument. All right now it's time Greg you're hero
Speaker 1: of the weak prediction. Okay. Like I said, I'm staying
Speaker 1: on the Titans train. They were my lock, and I've
Speaker 1: appreciated the maturation of Ryan Tannehill over the years and
Speaker 1: this year I think that's the Steelers your lock. Okay,
Speaker 1: I totally forgot about that. We're a little bit rough shape.
Speaker 1: He also said, you did also say, yeah, you know
Speaker 1: what I put the rainmaker on the Titans to cover.
Speaker 1: That's where I'm getting confused. I think if you watch
Speaker 1: Ryan Dannehill play after play, you can understand he's now
Speaker 1: a quarterback that makes the people around him better and
Speaker 1: that even though things aren't great around him, I think
Speaker 1: he is doing like a really credible job. He is
Speaker 1: like in that top twelve quarterback credible, not incredible, but
Speaker 1: like I think he's like above the Kirk Cousins line.
Speaker 1: Like I think he's like very solid. He's now developed
Speaker 1: into a guy who I think makes people better around him,
Speaker 1: and I think incredible. Well, so why would incredible and
Speaker 1: incredible are they connected? He was educated at D I
Speaker 1: believe I went to school. Is incredible the root word
Speaker 1: of incredible, the root word. But but Gonzo, why would
Speaker 1: in if you add if the route is credible, which
Speaker 1: means we you, you have validation, we believe in you,
Speaker 1: and you add in like you add into the beginning
Speaker 1: of it. So it's like sane, insane, so credible incredible.
Speaker 1: I just want to say that I flew all the
Speaker 1: way from Los Angeles and I came to see you guys,
Speaker 1: and this is what you have me on the pod board.
Speaker 1: I have no idea what this conversation is about. We're
Speaker 1: wrapping up that. That's my gift to you. We're almost done.
Speaker 1: I did enjoy the West tribute, so let's get loose
Speaker 1: right after Allis born in March twelve, nine seventy seven
Speaker 1: is an American sports writer who's married to NFL media
Speaker 1: broadcaster calling Wolf John, who is a Pisces besides in
Speaker 1: Los Angeles with his wife and two dogs. All right,
Speaker 1: that's why Gonza and I get along. We're both Pisces.
Speaker 1: You know, West too, to be two magnets, though you might,
Speaker 1: you know, reject each other absolutely, Why I don't think
Speaker 1: that's happening. Graver and I and and Gonza and West
Speaker 1: just as he's gang. All right, here we go, mark
Speaker 1: your turn. I'm gonna go. Zach Wilson, You're always on
Speaker 1: the Jets in one way or the other. This is
Speaker 1: a positive thing, I know. But it's interesting you always
Speaker 1: plugged him on the Jets. Is it because of me?
Speaker 1: I do care about you, But I also think that
Speaker 1: the Zach Wilson journey, it has this variance where it's
Speaker 1: gonna get really, really dark and lead the Jets in
Speaker 1: the Jets fan base to a really dark place, or
Speaker 1: after all this hullabalo, he comes onto the field and
Speaker 1: performs not just credibly maybe, so, I mean, what you're
Speaker 1: gonna bring the I n you're at top to pick
Speaker 1: in the draft. At some point you've got to stop
Speaker 1: toying around with your mom's friends, put on some football equipment,
Speaker 1: and start doing football things that you can keep doing
Speaker 1: that you do that when you're actually performing on the field,
Speaker 1: though otherwise it's sort of a sad story. Am I wrong?
Speaker 1: But I mean, even for Jets fans, what would the
Speaker 1: think about where you're gonna be comes Sunday night? If
Speaker 1: he goes out there and he totally lays an egg
Speaker 1: versus he goes out and plays really admirably and you're thinking,
Speaker 1: you know what, this whole thing might finally work. He's
Speaker 1: definitely hit the way room looks beefy, all right, I
Speaker 1: don't I don't want. It's almost like I'm so nervous
Speaker 1: about the possibility of four and thirteen right now that
Speaker 1: I don't want to think about it. But this will
Speaker 1: be hell. It will be very helpful to the offense
Speaker 1: and an offensive line that's been dealing with injuries to
Speaker 1: have a mobile quarterback. It's got the playmakers. Let's see
Speaker 1: what happens. I like it, you got me back. I'm optimistic.
Speaker 1: I will go with the apple mentioned Andy Dalton. This
Speaker 1: is it. This is his last channel. I got your
Speaker 1: ass um but I even let you go first because
Speaker 1: I wanted you to have the chance. You let you
Speaker 1: set the table. That was That was it. He comes
Speaker 1: to London and he's the hero. But then again, let's
Speaker 1: remember the history of this podcast that I am the
Speaker 1: Dalton defender like you're Johnny Come Lately. Uh in the
Speaker 1: Dalton world. Um. I have always liked Andy Dalton and
Speaker 1: he's in London and he's taking over for Jamis Winston
Speaker 1: who has a back injury and has not been playing
Speaker 1: very well. Hey, he, like Zach Wilson, has some pieces
Speaker 1: around him that he could run this offense. He did
Speaker 1: some things with Dallas when Dak went down a couple
Speaker 1: of years ago. I really think this is his chance
Speaker 1: to take this job and run with it. And it
Speaker 1: starts with absolutely lighting up the Vikings on Sunday. I
Speaker 1: would love that. To me, is a London the big story.
Speaker 1: Andy Dalton comes in and saves them banged up. It
Speaker 1: is a little bit of a bummer because last time
Speaker 1: we watched the game at the Hot Toddy or two
Speaker 1: years ago, we saw Jamis Wintson throw six interceptions. We
Speaker 1: don't get that this time. But how At Dalton throws
Speaker 1: six touchdowns? That would just be credible, that would be incredible.
Speaker 1: We we started this with some questions about the Dolphins
Speaker 1: medical staff. Well, Jamis Winston broke four bones in his back,
Speaker 1: then played the next two games. There's no new injury,
Speaker 1: and now he can't practice. So I don't know what
Speaker 1: happened there. I find that suspicious. Um. All right, there
Speaker 1: you go. That's the Friday fun show. We will Now
Speaker 1: you know, we're gonna have a couple of We're gonna
Speaker 1: have a couple of pos. We're gonna get some dinner
Speaker 1: with Johnny Mark. Where are you going? There? Are you
Speaker 1: hanging out with us? Are you leaving? I'm hanging out
Speaker 1: with you guys. You are I don't understand that something
Speaker 1: fall through? What's the true story? It is only six
Speaker 1: thirty PM or at this point or something. I can
Speaker 1: do anything I want to do, but I will be
Speaker 1: spending time and get some information. Let's talk out there, Jessica,
Speaker 1: you hanging out with us tonight. You hanging out with
Speaker 1: there tonight. It's unfortunate. But if Jessica is there, of
Speaker 1: course good point. All right, Um, people are asking Dan,
Speaker 1: will the live show last night be uploaded as a podcast? Uh,
Speaker 1: we might upload elements of it on the Graham and
Speaker 1: other social platforms, but at this time we weren't planning
Speaker 1: on it. But we're gonna listen, We're gonna see, if
Speaker 1: we're gonna see, if there's something we can put into
Speaker 1: the show, we'll we'll see. And again, thank you to
Speaker 1: everybody who came out last night. That was one of
Speaker 1: the more special nights in the history of around the NFL,
Speaker 1: and you made it happen Until Sunday Heat the call
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