Speaker 1: Hello, and welcome to another edition of the Friday Fun Show,
Speaker 1: working title from around the NFL for God to Everything
Speaker 1: to come on Sunday and beyond. I'm Dan, Hansas got
Speaker 1: a virtual room filled with some heroes. Greg Rosenthal, Mark Sessler,
Speaker 1: Patrick Claiban. Hey, Fellas, I thought you'd sound more fired
Speaker 1: up on a Yankees morning Hansas Commanders Bears didn't do
Speaker 1: it for you. Why would I be fired up about
Speaker 1: a Yankees Cleveland rain out on Thursday night that leads
Speaker 1: to the game starting exactly when we do this program.
Speaker 1: I didn't know it's right now, to be honest, I
Speaker 1: just figured it's exciting. It's playoff baseball. It's what you
Speaker 1: get your juices going. We are bringing this thing. We're
Speaker 1: wending this plane in short order. Nice seven minutes show today. Actually, Dan,
Speaker 1: there's a common already from Adam Corner that says tug
Speaker 1: boat pulling the show into harbor. So it's not a plane.
Speaker 1: We're gonna be using your you, the personification of you. Okay, cool,
Speaker 1: that works. How's everybody doing today? It is Friday, it's fun.
Speaker 1: We're live streaming, of course, so uh please please please
Speaker 1: be involved. We already see a lot of people in
Speaker 1: the chat. We got a nice little community building in
Speaker 1: that realm, and we'll be taking some of your questions
Speaker 1: and comments throughout the show, like Aaron Clanderman who asks,
Speaker 1: I'm feeling a bit more frisky than spicy. Does that
Speaker 1: make sense? I don't know. Mark. You're gonna have to
Speaker 1: privately interface with Aaron Clanderman to find out that info.
Speaker 1: I will. I will check with him. Sure, alright, good,
Speaker 1: But before we do that, let's start things off. I
Speaker 1: have to I gotta give a shout out for Thursday
Speaker 1: night games that continually end with the winning team scoring
Speaker 1: twelve points and sport of football being set back decades.
Speaker 1: We have a lot of juicy stuff to talk about
Speaker 1: after these games, and it's no different this week when
Speaker 1: the Washington Commanders at Chicago Bearts squared off at Soldier Fields,
Speaker 1: let's get into it. Takes the step turned to his right,
Speaker 1: throws towards the end zone that is bobbled up in
Speaker 1: the air. Is it incomplete? Yes? And you even say
Speaker 1: juice was on coverage of Darnell Moody and never referees
Speaker 1: are talking about it. They think Moody was out of bounds.
Speaker 1: They haven't decided. Yet what's the call? They said? He
Speaker 1: went out of bounds inside the one. It's up of
Speaker 1: the third time in this game. Washington gets the stuff
Speaker 1: inside their own five, and Washington is gonna end a
Speaker 1: four game losing streak and defeat Chicago twelve to seven.
Speaker 1: Bram Weinstein the call w b I G so painful,
Speaker 1: So painful for the Chicago Bearts who come within half
Speaker 1: a yard of stealing a win here really not stealing
Speaker 1: a win. They should have won the game. But they're
Speaker 1: a team at this stage that doesn't know how to
Speaker 1: close and make killer mistakes that they cannot make up for.
Speaker 1: Final score Washington twelve, Chicago seven. And it was that close.
Speaker 1: Patrick claiban um at the half yard line. If he
Speaker 1: just catches it, If Darnel when he just catches that
Speaker 1: ball clean, we're talking about something totally different. But he
Speaker 1: did not catch the ball clean. So we are not
Speaker 1: any number of things you could change, Dan, like you
Speaker 1: change one thing over the course of the entire game.
Speaker 1: And and the Bears when that football game, that's what
Speaker 1: was so frustrating. After Justin Fields missed the wide open
Speaker 1: tight end for a touchdown, he played spectacular and the
Speaker 1: rest of the team falls apart, like they've dropped the
Speaker 1: multiple balls. Uh Dante Petis had a chance to catch
Speaker 1: a touchdown too plays before that, Fields has an incredible
Speaker 1: run where it looks like he might score, and it
Speaker 1: was just it was constant, all the failures inside the
Speaker 1: five yard line. It was one of those things like
Speaker 1: we're seeing the entire franchise just fall apart. Al Michael's
Speaker 1: is calling for the outstair of Dan Snyder and it's like,
Speaker 1: there's no way this thing get into that. And then
Speaker 1: with the universe just besides, the Commanders are gonna win
Speaker 1: the game. It was it was frustrating me. I didn't
Speaker 1: even have a rooting interest, but it was just frustrating
Speaker 1: watching the bails the Bears continue failing like that. It
Speaker 1: was really frustrating. It was because it felt like they
Speaker 1: deserve to win that one. You know, they had almost
Speaker 1: double the yardage. I thought this was one of their
Speaker 1: best games of the year. I think their offense has
Speaker 1: gotten a little bit better every week. I don't think
Speaker 1: Justin Fields, you know, played uh that well throughout, but
Speaker 1: he obviously was let down by his teammates there and
Speaker 1: it wouldn't have mattered if Darnell Mooney just catches that pass.
Speaker 1: And I understood Ryan Fitzpatrick's frustration on the postgame show,
Speaker 1: and I think he just didn't get what they're trying
Speaker 1: to do on offense when you're inside the ten yard
Speaker 1: line three different times and there's no design runs for
Speaker 1: Justin Fields. He's so good and we see it when
Speaker 1: he scrambles. Unfortunately, the best play they have is often
Speaker 1: him dropping back to pass and then scrambling. He's missing
Speaker 1: open receivers. In terms of not seeing them. Watching the
Speaker 1: game on Prime Vision where they have the time to throw,
Speaker 1: clock ticking, it was like incredibly stressful because like those
Speaker 1: two sacks he took early, we're over six seconds, so
Speaker 1: the offense is not fitting him. He's not fitting the offense.
Speaker 1: And yet they're doing enough each week where the last
Speaker 1: couple of weeks they've been very competitive with the Vikings
Speaker 1: and they looked much better than the Commanders last night.
Speaker 1: They should have won that game. They should be three
Speaker 1: and three, which which would have been a nice story
Speaker 1: with you, though, I feel like he just here. He's
Speaker 1: in an offense that does not seem to correctly kind
Speaker 1: of maximize what Justin Fields could be sort of. He
Speaker 1: breaks out of it, and his two weeks in a
Speaker 1: row made big plays. I mean he put them in
Speaker 1: position to win on that final drive and their red
Speaker 1: zone scenario. Their scheme has been a hot mess for
Speaker 1: a while now. I don't like the Justin Fields peeling
Speaker 1: himself off the turb repeatedly subplot here. I talked about
Speaker 1: it with Daniel Jones, another young NFC East quarterback or
Speaker 1: NFC quarterback a couple of weeks ago. He's gonna get hurt.
Speaker 1: This isn't me like hoping it happens or putting it
Speaker 1: into the stars. I just take that many hits. So
Speaker 1: I admire the guy for his toughness and his ability
Speaker 1: to hang in the pocket and be like a guy
Speaker 1: that's like I'm gonna hold onto the ball and wait
Speaker 1: for something to show up. But also I thought Kirk
Speaker 1: herb Street, who by the way, has his hands filled
Speaker 1: with al and again we're gonna get to that um he.
Speaker 1: I mean, he needs the help out al when he
Speaker 1: when he talks these big topics, it's just like crickets
Speaker 1: over next. Oh, Kirk has just cret Kirk's like way
Speaker 1: to say, I didn't sign up for all these sociological
Speaker 1: elements of what the National Football League is about. But
Speaker 1: there was one play in particular early where Herb Street
Speaker 1: neatly pointed out, Uh, Justin Fields had a really nice
Speaker 1: pocket and a receiver flashes open, not wide open, but
Speaker 1: nfl open, and he doesn't pull the trigger and then
Speaker 1: eventually takes the sack. And he needs to be quicker
Speaker 1: and make those decisions because that's factoring into the beating
Speaker 1: that he's taking. Uh in these games, and especially on
Speaker 1: Thursday night. Yeah, I look at what Washington did, and
Speaker 1: you can't feel good about winning. It's the second straight
Speaker 1: Thursday Night game where I think the winning team doesn't
Speaker 1: come out feeling especially good. I think with the Colts
Speaker 1: at least they feel like, okay, maybe what we could
Speaker 1: escape this were two two and one, but that was
Speaker 1: one of their worst games of the year. Uh. The
Speaker 1: touchdown that watched that Chicago did score was so Washington.
Speaker 1: I think they had ten men on the field. They
Speaker 1: were like, there was total confusion uh in in the
Speaker 1: end zone. Uh. There was another play later where they
Speaker 1: had to take a time out because they had ten
Speaker 1: men on the field. They seemed like they're out of ideas,
Speaker 1: like they did that half heart, Like everyone else is
Speaker 1: going for it on fourth and one at midfield, but
Speaker 1: they're doing like a very half hearted try to get
Speaker 1: an offsides, and like Ron Rivera looked like he was smirking, uh,
Speaker 1: because like the attempt was so bad that the ten
Speaker 1: men on the field thing I was talking about, they
Speaker 1: had to use the time out, or they tried to
Speaker 1: use the time out because they had ten men on
Speaker 1: the field, but it wasn't allowed because none of the
Speaker 1: players realized they had just used a time out. And
Speaker 1: it just feels like they're so disorganized on both sides
Speaker 1: of the ball and they're just kind of scuttling along.
Speaker 1: And they won this game, but when you get like
Speaker 1: out gained by a hundred and eighty yards by the Bears,
Speaker 1: it's not a good sign. But they're both the most
Speaker 1: sacked quarterbacks in the league. And it looks like it
Speaker 1: and and we endured it, and I do I do
Speaker 1: find it interesting. Um more of like a football note
Speaker 1: over the last two weeks that we're incredibly spoiled in
Speaker 1: general as NFL fans, because how many how often do
Speaker 1: people huddle around the water cooler complaining about like a
Speaker 1: dull NHL game there. That's a commonplace scenario. We get
Speaker 1: too bad, relatively bad TNF games in a row and
Speaker 1: it's like a second Vietnam, Like we we can barely
Speaker 1: handle it as a viewership, and it's like we're gonna
Speaker 1: survive this. These were these were bad matchups, bad games,
Speaker 1: but like we're so used to it being the most
Speaker 1: incredible island scenario week after week that I mean, I
Speaker 1: think we need to be I mean, as usual use
Speaker 1: a different sport as a punchy bag to make a
Speaker 1: point mark. But I think it's a little to the NFL.
Speaker 1: The NFL is telling the world these are are spotlight games.
Speaker 1: This is the product. We're gonna enter into billion dollar
Speaker 1: deals with major platforms UH to air this and show
Speaker 1: it to America. If you're watching a bad what did
Speaker 1: you use your example this time the NHL. If you're
Speaker 1: watching a bad NHLA, you would probably have me removed
Speaker 1: from the broadcast. So I'm just trying to help you
Speaker 1: with this. So like NHL game, you just turn it off.
Speaker 1: It's just a regular game. But the NFL has purposely
Speaker 1: told you, the viewer, that this is the game to
Speaker 1: watch and everyone needs to be there. So when we
Speaker 1: get back to back games like this. Yeah, and Kirk
Speaker 1: Herbstreet said during one commercial when they were teasing next
Speaker 1: week's game, which has the Cardinals in it, so that's
Speaker 1: a bit of a you know, toss up as well. Uh,
Speaker 1: we promise it will be better than the last two weeks,
Speaker 1: which is funny because he can't. He can't promise it
Speaker 1: last night. It was kind of fun I think last
Speaker 1: night might have been so bad. It was good territory.
Speaker 1: It wasn't that bad. It was definitely better than the
Speaker 1: previous week. I agree with that. But but also the
Speaker 1: Bears get a couple of yards, they run some different plays,
Speaker 1: ball doesn't bounce off a helmet, and I don't think
Speaker 1: that conversation is happening again. I think people really get
Speaker 1: addicted to the scoreboard. When there was a game that
Speaker 1: held our interest for the entire time, We're all sitting here,
Speaker 1: everybody's in the chat talking about it like it's there's
Speaker 1: still interest in the game. It was still entertaining. We
Speaker 1: just didn't quite get. One of the reasons why people
Speaker 1: are talking about the game is because what happens after
Speaker 1: the game when Ron Rivera again after a win, and
Speaker 1: this tells you about the kind of the color around
Speaker 1: the Washington football team, the skies overhead, the energy around
Speaker 1: the team. Ron Rivera was asked about Carson Wentz. You know,
Speaker 1: he stepped in it a little bit earlier this week. Uh.
Speaker 1: And then there was a question from a reporter about
Speaker 1: um some reporting that Daniel Snyder, the owner under fire,
Speaker 1: had been the one that greenlit or pushed the issue
Speaker 1: to get Carson Wentz into Washington. So this is Ron
Speaker 1: Rivera now after a win on Thursday night football. So honestly,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna I'm gonna speak my mind for a second.
Speaker 1: For honestly, Uh, it's been hard, it really has. You
Speaker 1: lose four games in a row and everybody wants to
Speaker 1: get you, you know, just get on you. And they've
Speaker 1: played their asses off. They have. They play their asses
Speaker 1: off for everybody. They come out and they show up.
Speaker 1: They work hard, all right, they don't complain. Okay, they
Speaker 1: hear all the stuff and they gotta deal with it.
Speaker 1: I get them. I respect them for that because they're resilient.
Speaker 1: They come back. Everybody keeps wanting to say, I don't
Speaker 1: want anything to do with Carson. Well, I'm that pulled
Speaker 1: out the sheets of paper that looked at the analytics
Speaker 1: that watched the tape in the fricking when we're at Indianapolis. Okay,
Speaker 1: and that's what pisces me off because a young man
Speaker 1: doesn't deserve to have that all the time. I'm sorry,
Speaker 1: I'm done. And he walked. If you're listening, uh to
Speaker 1: the podcast version of the show, Rivera walks, so you
Speaker 1: sense it. And uh, Greg, there's reports connected to um,
Speaker 1: Daniel Snyder talking about having dirt on other owners. And
Speaker 1: like we said, al Michaels, who um is the play
Speaker 1: by play voice, the venerable play by play man of
Speaker 1: the NFL coming on the air and saying out right that, uh,
Speaker 1: that other NFL owners want Daniel Snyder to sell. This
Speaker 1: is all part of a big, wicked stew for Washington. Yeah.
Speaker 1: I'm glad you connected those two points, because that question
Speaker 1: to Rivera Dan was actually a question about Snyder and
Speaker 1: everything that has gone on this week, and that Rivera
Speaker 1: seemed a little testier about stuff like that, and he
Speaker 1: answered it. It was feisty. I'm glad he he spoke
Speaker 1: how he was feeling, but he kind of pivoted what
Speaker 1: the question was to his Wentz discussion and that felt
Speaker 1: like the Wentz part felt like he's trying to defend
Speaker 1: his player. He's standing up for his player. He's in
Speaker 1: a tough spot. He knows he put himself in a
Speaker 1: tough spot, and that's that's a public thing that he did.
Speaker 1: He didn't really answer the question. And the fact that
Speaker 1: al Michael said, and I'm just quoting here he said
Speaker 1: quote just my feeling. I think what the league would
Speaker 1: love is for Snyder to sell the team is really
Speaker 1: interesting because we know how connected al Michael's is at
Speaker 1: the very top levels of the sport with ownership, the
Speaker 1: most influential owners with the Park Avenue League office. So
Speaker 1: for him to say that on a Thursday night broadcast
Speaker 1: is not said in a vacuum. I think he knew
Speaker 1: what he was saying. And it's also interesting, you know,
Speaker 1: when there are reports, uh that that the owner of
Speaker 1: Amazon and his boss, Jeff Bezos wants in on being
Speaker 1: an NFL owner and is in that area, and people
Speaker 1: are connecting those dots, and it's just it's just interesting.
Speaker 1: It's it's quite a stew. I think I think the
Speaker 1: the Snyder thing is further along than it's ever been,
Speaker 1: is what I'm saying in terms of a public and
Speaker 1: even NFL feeling on it, I mean, of course they
Speaker 1: want him to sell the team because they don't want
Speaker 1: him to unleash his information that he has on other owners, right.
Speaker 1: I mean, that's that's probably the scariest possible reality for them.
Speaker 1: Um alright, So there you go. One game in the
Speaker 1: books Thursday Night Football, And like we said the Sunday
Speaker 1: Flagship Show, we got you covered with the recaps of
Speaker 1: all of those games. Uh want to check in where
Speaker 1: we hey, Grave Digger, where are you at? Uh? That's bunny?
Speaker 1: Anything to check in terms of the live stream around
Speaker 1: the NFL viewers right now? I'd love to get a
Speaker 1: larger collection of questions in, but I have a handful here. Okay, okay,
Speaker 1: we get a cycle here, Jim the editor, what is
Speaker 1: the most disappointing unit in the NFL right now? Disappointing unit,
Speaker 1: I would have to say the Denver offense personally. Anybody
Speaker 1: else have a contender there? I'll take the Rams offensive line.
Speaker 1: We got the defending Super Bowl champs and they can't
Speaker 1: they can't do anything. I think they're the only team
Speaker 1: that has given up more pressures per game than Washington
Speaker 1: to me, what that that Washington offensive line really is
Speaker 1: on them, whereas Chicago's offensive line I think has played
Speaker 1: pretty well some games and it's more on fields. I
Speaker 1: would go Packers defense just because I was told too
Speaker 1: often that they could be a top five They they
Speaker 1: should be good on paper, the players are good, and
Speaker 1: yet they're like a bottom ten defense right now. I
Speaker 1: would go Arizona's offense. I mean, they're not some of
Speaker 1: the parts. I know they're waiting for DeAndre Hopkins, but
Speaker 1: they seem highly disorganized and they find new ways to
Speaker 1: be disorganized week after week. And I'll throw in the
Speaker 1: Detroit defense, which I know wasn't supposed to be good,
Speaker 1: but they weren't supposed to be historically bad. And that's
Speaker 1: you know, grit doesn't do it alone. What else we got?
Speaker 1: Grave Digger. Okay, this gentleman or woman or whatever they are,
Speaker 1: has a demand for you. You need to talk about
Speaker 1: how inept the Steelers coaching staff is. All right to
Speaker 1: follow it, Popple mop Matt Canada ran the same place
Speaker 1: seven times on Sunday. You need to talk about how
Speaker 1: in apt the Steelers coaching staff is. Patrick, I'm gonna
Speaker 1: throw this one to you. I I will only say
Speaker 1: without having studied it close enough to notice that that
Speaker 1: was what was going on. If indeed that was what
Speaker 1: was going on, is that they got put in a
Speaker 1: very bad game. Script. Um, it was grim. So I
Speaker 1: don't know what's even plays hopple, mop man woman, whatever
Speaker 1: you are, Um, but that was kind of a funky game.
Speaker 1: What do you got Patrick? Yeah, it was a rookie
Speaker 1: quarterback making his first start on the road against the
Speaker 1: number one past defense in the NFL with a bad
Speaker 1: offensive line. It just it just wasn't gonna go well.
Speaker 1: The the idea that this staff has some sort of problem,
Speaker 1: like we just watched the commander's play on Thursday night,
Speaker 1: Like that's a staff with problems. They couldn't get they
Speaker 1: couldn't get eleven guys on the field, Like that's a
Speaker 1: problem that the Steelers starting a rookie couldn't like make
Speaker 1: the game competitive in Buffalo. I don't think we're drawing
Speaker 1: any long term conclusions from a listener Jeff Clark. No,
Speaker 1: it's Claibon yawns at this Steelers question. Wow, what else
Speaker 1: that's a that that's a little inside. I like that
Speaker 1: Claibon you have to answer that to that mighty gazelle.
Speaker 1: Are the Vikings above spicy? No, no, Mark No, I
Speaker 1: mean I think they're there. They challenge themselves at for
Speaker 1: quarters at a time time to be spicy. Um when
Speaker 1: they are, they can achieve that, But I don't buy
Speaker 1: into them as as the level of spicy we talked
Speaker 1: about on Tuesday's show. Here's the thing about spicy and frisky.
Speaker 1: You can be good at football in winning games and
Speaker 1: still just be uh like a plain piece of white bread.
Speaker 1: And the Vikings are kind of like that. They could
Speaker 1: keep winning and they're not spicy. I mean, I kind
Speaker 1: of like the first two quarters Vikings in the right spot.
Speaker 1: They they look absolutely spicy with the way they carry themselves,
Speaker 1: but part of the Vikings experiences that they go from
Speaker 1: spicy to very bland very quickly. Anyway, one more where
Speaker 1: cooladad took me a second to put it together, but
Speaker 1: I did. Now that rule is gone, Matt Rule, former
Speaker 1: head coach of the Panthers. Whose butt is the hottest Greggy?
Speaker 1: I think it's Ron Rivera today. I think, if I
Speaker 1: had to like, I think Cliff Kingsbury is the other
Speaker 1: one that that comes to mind. And it's weird because
Speaker 1: I know he has got all that guaranteed money in
Speaker 1: the contract and Claibon isn't feeling it. But I just
Speaker 1: worry past for his sake. I think if this season
Speaker 1: goes south and I could see that, I think his
Speaker 1: butt will be very hot. By the way, Claibon just
Speaker 1: went from the opposite of what a yawn is, which
Speaker 1: was a he gave Greg to look like spicy. Think
Speaker 1: it's spicy. I like it, um because I didn't think
Speaker 1: you should have gotten the extension, But the fact that
Speaker 1: he just got it and then they're just gonna hate,
Speaker 1: like having billions of dollars sounds cool, Like you can
Speaker 1: just do whatever, there's no consequence. He did it with
Speaker 1: Josh Rosen, and they did it with Steve Wilkes, so
Speaker 1: I don't know. I'd throw a vote in there for
Speaker 1: old Nate Hackett veteran. That is my my vote as well.
Speaker 1: Mr Sessler. I think he's smelling some burning and then
Speaker 1: he's like, oh, it's my own buttocks, all right. I
Speaker 1: love reading the comments on the side. I know it's
Speaker 1: not helping out our listeners, but I just would suggest
Speaker 1: to the other co host here it is a lot
Speaker 1: of fun when guys like Neil Kennedy says big spoon
Speaker 1: energy from Claib's and Greg I don't even know. I mean,
Speaker 1: it's facts, that's all you need to know. Um, all right,
Speaker 1: let's take a break from the comments. We'll get back
Speaker 1: to that, but now it is time for that special
Speaker 1: part of the show on It's always that last six
Speaker 1: seconds or so that gets me the floor is Greg Rosenthal's.
Speaker 1: It is about him. It's about me. It is about me,
Speaker 1: although it's not about me. Uh, it's gonna start being
Speaker 1: about Brentley Weissman, the former Chargers scout who I spoke
Speaker 1: about on Tuesday. I've got a two part or it's
Speaker 1: about me this. The first part is quick and it's
Speaker 1: just me given a former apology to Brentley Weisman. I
Speaker 1: got the facts wrong, and so I need to apologize
Speaker 1: as a journalist and a man. He was not fired
Speaker 1: from the Chargers. He left the Chargers, uh because didn't
Speaker 1: think the pro scouting life was for him. He went
Speaker 1: into u c l A recruiting. I've now checked out
Speaker 1: Brentley on Twitter. He's doing great work with the Draft Network.
Speaker 1: It's good stuff. Good follow on Twitter. And that that's
Speaker 1: on me. That's that's my fault. I should not have
Speaker 1: been just throwing things around willy nilly, that we're that's
Speaker 1: big of you, Greg. And uh yeah, shout out to
Speaker 1: Brentley and good luck to him and his endeavors. And
Speaker 1: I will say this all started, Greg, just because you
Speaker 1: couldn't handle that. I had the scoopage on that charger situation.
Speaker 1: And now look one of your little squabbles every two
Speaker 1: or so weeks, every fortnight, Gregg's in a squabble, and
Speaker 1: and look what happened this thing. Yeah, and I don't
Speaker 1: apologize for many of those squabbles because I continued to
Speaker 1: see myself in the right and in this case, I'm
Speaker 1: a hundred percent in the wrong and I needed to
Speaker 1: admit it. Now that's just on that topic, I would
Speaker 1: just stop talking now and move on to the no. No,
Speaker 1: My point is I'm this one. I'm totally in the
Speaker 1: wrong Dan, Dan's thing has nothing to do with it.
Speaker 1: Uh So my fault, Brentley. And check the second. The
Speaker 1: second part is less important, but something I feel very
Speaker 1: passionate about, and that's pickle ball. And Dan's gonna say,
Speaker 1: what does this have to do with the NFL. Where's
Speaker 1: the football here, Dan's not about me, it's about you, buddy,
Speaker 1: It's about Tom. Brady just bought a professional pickle ball franchise,
Speaker 1: so it is related to the NFL. And I'm getting
Speaker 1: mentioned like crazy about this Brady pickle ball thing. And
Speaker 1: my official position on this matter is the same people,
Speaker 1: the same athletes, the same celebrities, the same hedge fund
Speaker 1: managers that we're pushing crypto on you in Bitcoin and
Speaker 1: doing the laser eyes when Bitcoin hit fifty and was
Speaker 1: selling you almost to the man. Are the exact same
Speaker 1: celebrities and athletes and hedge fund managers who are pushing
Speaker 1: pro pickle ball on you right now. I got no knee,
Speaker 1: I got no use for pro pickle ball. You want
Speaker 1: to play it as a recreational sport, that's fine. I
Speaker 1: gotta be careful here. You know, some of our closest
Speaker 1: shadowy league figures here are big pickle ball enthusiast You want,
Speaker 1: you want to play it, get you know, some recreation,
Speaker 1: that's great, Just don't sell it to me as a
Speaker 1: professional sport. It's it's unwatchable that the people who are
Speaker 1: excelling in it are just failed tennis players. You're literally
Speaker 1: not allowed to move very far in the game. And
Speaker 1: if we're talking about promoting it as a professional viewing
Speaker 1: sport that the tennis channels trying to push on me, Uh,
Speaker 1: it's probably a bad side when the sports started for
Speaker 1: retirees in Florida with too much money in too much time,
Speaker 1: so that that is not a professional sport. You want
Speaker 1: to get out there, you want to have fun. It's
Speaker 1: sort of like a co ed dodgeball thing where you're
Speaker 1: meeting people at your age. That's fine. Uh, do not
Speaker 1: push it on me as a professional sport. And the
Speaker 1: same people investing in it right now, these are not
Speaker 1: the people we want, uh leading us. These are the
Speaker 1: people that have gotten us into trouble. A lot of
Speaker 1: heads fun money, dan and it does bother me. And
Speaker 1: one one last thing I will say one last because
Speaker 1: I do have to somebody out there and no apologies
Speaker 1: at all about pickle ball. Like I said, play it. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I don't know where all these people were five years ago,
Speaker 1: but you gotta respect the rules of public spaces if
Speaker 1: you've got to be doing it. These pickle ballers sometimes
Speaker 1: they're putting like their rackets in their nets on the
Speaker 1: court and trying to claim a public court when they're
Speaker 1: not even playing on it. And so that's that's happened
Speaker 1: like that, that's not allowed. You gotta like understand if
Speaker 1: it's a public court, Uh, you gotta let whoever's they're
Speaker 1: just go on it like people just they just put
Speaker 1: their bags out there. They try to like stop it
Speaker 1: and I'll go out there and start playing. These pickle
Speaker 1: ball players swarm like locusts. Once, Dan, I had someone
Speaker 1: tell me that they had the court reserved and tried
Speaker 1: to kick off me and my young son trying to
Speaker 1: have fun on a bull court. And I was like,
Speaker 1: you know what, I've been coming to these courts or
Speaker 1: five years. You're not allowed to reserve courts that they're
Speaker 1: public there for everyone, like there is no such thing.
Speaker 1: And I didn't leave the court, and I did, uh
Speaker 1: send an email to the town later and found out
Speaker 1: they were totally lying. They were saying that they reserved
Speaker 1: the courts, so respect the public spaces, and I respect
Speaker 1: it and don't respect professional pickle ball. That these people
Speaker 1: will not be here in five years, please all Now,
Speaker 1: I could picture Emmacha getting that full monologue as well.
Speaker 1: Poor woman Shell you can't be You couldn't be more right.
Speaker 1: Although she's with me, she hates the pickleballers. You took
Speaker 1: on big pickleball there. I don't think it could come
Speaker 1: back from this. I don't think pickleball itself can survive
Speaker 1: the past six minutes. I don't. I don't think the
Speaker 1: home seventeen, says Greg's Karen arc No. Please, I'm sticking
Speaker 1: up for the little guys here. Like a sport that's
Speaker 1: being promoted by a ton of like hedge fund managers,
Speaker 1: that's the people you want the back. I don't really
Speaker 1: have a hard pickle ball take. I I've played it before. Um,
Speaker 1: I think it's very good, especially for people that are
Speaker 1: a little bit older when tennis becomes a bit of
Speaker 1: a challenge. And I've seen I've seen it um in
Speaker 1: different parks, and it feels like a really nice way
Speaker 1: for people to be active and have fun together. So agree.
Speaker 1: But I understand, like you're a tennis person, so I'm
Speaker 1: gonna respect that you see it as a lesser version
Speaker 1: and certainly shouldn't be taking up real estate at your
Speaker 1: local parks like I can feel that. Um, you know
Speaker 1: that's a listen, it's about you. So I'm not gonna
Speaker 1: say anything else other than just looking at our mutual respect,
Speaker 1: disrespect the space, respect the other players. I haven't been
Speaker 1: picking up a lot of that, and don't try to
Speaker 1: put it on TV, like what are we investing in here?
Speaker 1: Stop this? Clearly I respect Greg's passionate defense of tennis,
Speaker 1: but I also of uh the jabbing at the speculative
Speaker 1: investment all stars who just chased the next thing, Like
Speaker 1: if the Harlem Shake was a thing right now, they'd
Speaker 1: be trying to invest in it. Um. Yeah, just just
Speaker 1: chill out, Like just because it's the thing doesn't mean
Speaker 1: it's gonna be the thing in fifteen years. Like, like,
Speaker 1: chill out. I do respect that Tom Brady may have
Speaker 1: a few extra costs coming his way based on reports
Speaker 1: out of the Tom Gisell household. So yeah, because he
Speaker 1: lost all that bitcoin moneyplufully invested in actual resources. Right,
Speaker 1: It's like if Elon Musk was a sport, he would
Speaker 1: be pickle ball. All right, we have a little treat
Speaker 1: for the audience. Welcome to this guy gets it with
Speaker 1: Mark Sessler. Today, the NFL tackles the controversial topic injury
Speaker 1: in sport, and now your host maxcess. During Thursday night
Speaker 1: football between the Bears and Commanders, an international audience was
Speaker 1: given a first hand peek into one of sports unavoidable bugaboos, injuries.
Speaker 1: We watched with trepidation as Commander's quarterback Carson Wentz shook
Speaker 1: and waved his throwing hand after it collided with a
Speaker 1: Bears defender on a pass attempt. He shook it violently,
Speaker 1: hoping that whatever discomfort had attacked his tendons, his nervous system,
Speaker 1: his joints would magically go away. It did not, though,
Speaker 1: because that is not how the human body works, and
Speaker 1: ultimately it provides us with a great lesson about the
Speaker 1: raw nature of sport, the natural tension between the athlete
Speaker 1: and their tool, the human body. It is quite different
Speaker 1: than you being in a cubicle and having a paper
Speaker 1: weight your child made you tumble over onto your ring finger.
Speaker 1: When an athlete is injured, it affects not only their
Speaker 1: personal performance, but the potential of the team around them,
Speaker 1: and from a bird's eye view, our enjoyment of the
Speaker 1: game itself. Join us next week we will dive into
Speaker 1: the on field term chain gang, a playful way to
Speaker 1: sing the game's officials or an out of date on
Speaker 1: sightly celebration of our overcrowded prison system. This has been
Speaker 1: This Guy Gets It with Mark Sesler, needed it, needed
Speaker 1: that because it's that level headed viewpoint on sports that
Speaker 1: has made This Guy Gets It a sensation. And I
Speaker 1: believe episode one was also related to injuries. Um so
Speaker 1: I like that. This is kind of the corner at
Speaker 1: least in this season of This Guy Gets It just
Speaker 1: like Injury Talk. Well, the injuries have evolved, and so
Speaker 1: that was last year's take. Uh it needed It's I
Speaker 1: wouldn't call it a part two, just a more evolved
Speaker 1: form of last year's take. I get that. I get
Speaker 1: that very good. Mark. Hey, it's time now for the
Speaker 1: Greg Rosenthal Week six Injury Minute, presented by Akrashure Cream
Speaker 1: for your butt. Uh. Kyle Pitts, he's back this week,
Speaker 1: so put him back into your fantasy lineup. So. I
Speaker 1: know he's struggled, but he's okay. Uh. Jonathan Taylor looks
Speaker 1: like he'll be back this week. Shack Leonard will not
Speaker 1: see Higgins back at practice on Friday. Jonah Williams their
Speaker 1: left tackle though out that could be big time trouble.
Speaker 1: On Sunday, James Conner, looks like he's gonna be out.
Speaker 1: Rashad Bateman was not seeing at practice Wednesday or Thursday.
Speaker 1: We haven't gotten a practice report yet. On Friday, Pratt
Speaker 1: pat Friarmouth practicing despite being in the concussion protocols, so
Speaker 1: sounds like he might be back. P J. Walker will
Speaker 1: start at quarterback for the Carolina Panthers, and Wandale Robinson
Speaker 1: and Leonard Williams both trending towards plane for the Giants
Speaker 1: getting little healthier. Danny, are you worried about that? Lock?
Speaker 1: I locked the Ravens over the Giants. I am not
Speaker 1: concerned Baltimore will roll anything else. We want to check
Speaker 1: in with the the listeners slash viewers. Mr Grave digger,
Speaker 1: will you dig my grave? Will you make it shallow
Speaker 1: so I can feel the rain? Dilow him again? Seventeen?
Speaker 1: What below five team? That was a Dave Matthews solo
Speaker 1: single from two thousand six? What below five team? Would
Speaker 1: you not be surprised that they made a Super Bowl
Speaker 1: run below five hundred? So two and three are worse?
Speaker 1: That's a toffy rams, Oh, I I would go uh Bengals,
Speaker 1: I would throw in there as a more likely one
Speaker 1: than the Rams. I think right now the Raiders schedules
Speaker 1: very soft, and I think they have life um even
Speaker 1: though they're one in four. But if the question is
Speaker 1: make a Super Bowl run, that's strong. Uh Saints, let's
Speaker 1: do that alright? Very good? What else? We got a
Speaker 1: rose and doze? If you could do it all over again,
Speaker 1: who would you pick as team of a t L.
Speaker 1: There are no reverse gears in this tank. I would
Speaker 1: not change anything. I'm not jumping off the ship either.
Speaker 1: I know I locked against Well, I didn't lock against
Speaker 1: the Patriots, but I had a bad vibe about the
Speaker 1: lines last week. But I still think we need to
Speaker 1: support them now more than ever. I agree Mark would
Speaker 1: change it. Apparently it was in our hearts. We all
Speaker 1: believed in it. We all agreed on something for once too,
Speaker 1: so I'm sticking with it. Oh and j why does
Speaker 1: Dan hate the Cardinals so much? Because they're poorly coached
Speaker 1: and underachieving and kind of annoying and bad to watch.
Speaker 1: It's it's a very the bar is what the bar is,
Speaker 1: and it's like, that's why I don't like watching them,
Speaker 1: because they stink and they shouldn't stink, but they do
Speaker 1: what else, Michael Prett. If the Eagles win this weekend,
Speaker 1: when will their first loss come? Patrick has the answer
Speaker 1: to this, Actually he's left into the future. Yes, I
Speaker 1: I have searched my feelings and and the facts that
Speaker 1: they will lose to Indianapolis in a in in a
Speaker 1: odd frank right kind of sort of revenge game. Uh.
Speaker 1: The next four games are Steelers, Texans, Commanders, and Colts.
Speaker 1: They also have a bid, so they really will be
Speaker 1: heavy favorites to go ten. And now if they happen
Speaker 1: to win, their schedule does not get much tougher after
Speaker 1: that either, It really doesn't. I feel even more confident
Speaker 1: now that the Cowboys will steal one here and then
Speaker 1: they'll win another four in a row and it won't
Speaker 1: even matter. So they'll be nine and one are running
Speaker 1: away with the division at that point. One more, one
Speaker 1: more A J Garner. What do you guys think of
Speaker 1: getting rid of punts altogether? Crazy rule change, but would
Speaker 1: be fun? I am, oh, Mark, no, go ask Bill
Speaker 1: Belichick about that. I mean, I think, like I get
Speaker 1: I get what we're doing here with that question, but
Speaker 1: like then, what we're having to look at the Cardinals,
Speaker 1: some of these teams that have thirty four yards in
Speaker 1: the first half. That's gonna lead to absolute lopsided messes
Speaker 1: where they're having to go for it on fourth down.
Speaker 1: I guess you couldn't have the other started a certain place.
Speaker 1: But punters are relatively important human beings that do have
Speaker 1: a place on these rosters. I don't want them ejector
Speaker 1: seated out of the NFL entirely just yet. It is football.
Speaker 1: We don't need to be taking things out of football.
Speaker 1: We need to be putting things, putting fun things into football.
Speaker 1: I'd be fine taking out extra points, which is close
Speaker 1: to a punt, but punts, now, that's way. But people
Speaker 1: are missing important You need a punt. You need to
Speaker 1: punt when it's fourth and on your own twenty whatever
Speaker 1: mark when you we used to do all those uh
Speaker 1: A T N posts And well, here's the lighter side
Speaker 1: of sports. Um. There was that guy a few years back,
Speaker 1: the high school coach that made a name for himself
Speaker 1: by never punting ever, and uh he was dominant. And
Speaker 1: then he went to college and said, I'm going to
Speaker 1: be the same guy I was. And even at the
Speaker 1: college level, he was quickly outed as a fraud and
Speaker 1: a scamster. Uh, and I think lost that jo Yeah. Um,
Speaker 1: I don't know who it is, but he was some
Speaker 1: guy anyway. Um, let's go finish. Remember, guys, I need
Speaker 1: to watch a baseball game. So we are now going
Speaker 1: to move to uh the week six predictions. Starting Before
Speaker 1: we do that, let's go through what we did last week.
Speaker 1: I had the Lions would lose to the Pats, which
Speaker 1: I want to say ding, But I also said that
Speaker 1: the Patriots would run for over two hundred yards on
Speaker 1: the ground, and I believe it was about a buck eighty.
Speaker 1: So again, integrity stands above all With old Zeuser, I
Speaker 1: will take the l They're unbelievable. I mean the integrity
Speaker 1: off the charts. Mark Jets win by ten. Oh, he's
Speaker 1: he's halfway home. But Zack Wilson throws for three d
Speaker 1: and fifty plus yards and four t d s. That
Speaker 1: didn't happen. I think Bark had a second prediction as well,
Speaker 1: but I'm not seeing it written here. It was that
Speaker 1: the Falcons would win by ten plus, which we can forget. Thanks, okay,
Speaker 1: so we gotta we gotta double. We've got a double
Speaker 1: l there. Greg Travis Kelsey is awesome. I mean, you
Speaker 1: got to admit he scored four touchdowns in the game.
Speaker 1: I said, Travis Kelsey is awesome. That delivered it did
Speaker 1: and we you know, we said that you were hanging
Speaker 1: shallots on that, but to have four scores that you
Speaker 1: gotta give it up. I also, I still don't understand
Speaker 1: why the Raiders didn't cover Travis Kelsey at the one
Speaker 1: yard line for any of the touchdowns, but that was
Speaker 1: their decision. Yeah, Greg, we're gonna give you your first
Speaker 1: check mark. That's a big that's a big w for Greggy.
Speaker 1: And finally, finally, Claibon, you also had multiple predictions, but
Speaker 1: emotional right, Travis c a t N scores to t
Speaker 1: d s and a win over the Texans. And then
Speaker 1: he threw that one out. He didn't score. Uh, and
Speaker 1: he did have a good game, now his best game
Speaker 1: of the season. And then you said the Lions as
Speaker 1: a counter to my pessimistic take on Detroit. You said
Speaker 1: that Jared goffin Lions would go off in New England.
Speaker 1: It's not a very good week overall, Gregg, thank you
Speaker 1: for giving us one w um and uh, let's now
Speaker 1: get to this week's predictions, starting with al right, I'm
Speaker 1: looking forward to a Browns win. Nick chub three touchdowns?
Speaker 1: Is that? Is that to Greggish? Should I? Should I
Speaker 1: go a little bit further? Three touchdowns is good? So
Speaker 1: that's so much. I mean, you want to get these right,
Speaker 1: but three touchdowns. That's why we were giving you a
Speaker 1: hard time Greggy last week. Is that you're just like
Speaker 1: Travis Kelsey, will be good. Right, We'll give us something,
Speaker 1: give us numbers, give us something tangible at the track,
Speaker 1: which is what Claibron just did give Yeah, and have
Speaker 1: I talked about this this week? Give Nick chubbed the
Speaker 1: ball a lot you've mentioned alright, Mark here alright, Um
Speaker 1: it is another two part or a or one a
Speaker 1: non quarterback, we'll score five touchdowns this weekend. Book it.
Speaker 1: And number two a Titans player why too, because these
Speaker 1: both are This is my double lock of the week
Speaker 1: where like if you're if you're like listening to those
Speaker 1: radio stations with like the moth, you dude, it's like
Speaker 1: they give you the absolute lockdown thing. This is part two.
Speaker 1: A Titans player or Titans players will get into a
Speaker 1: whole bunch of trouble during their bye weekend. Okay, you
Speaker 1: understand though, if that happens, but the other one about
Speaker 1: the five touchdown doesn't happen. You don't get the checkmark.
Speaker 1: Just to be clear, I can get both, and you
Speaker 1: would find a way to not give me the full points.
Speaker 1: So I'm not concerned about that. How this is, this
Speaker 1: is what's called self sabotage. He's not even giving himself
Speaker 1: a chance to win. What if I get both? Right?
Speaker 1: How about I believe in what I'm predicted here? Greg, Yeah,
Speaker 1: Clay Claybron. By the way, Chubb has scored three touchdowns
Speaker 1: in a game twice in his career Invent Games. Also
Speaker 1: a lot of comments that Claibron's just face like during
Speaker 1: the show is a big star here, so people should
Speaker 1: check it out on YouTube. His reactions, his Silent Fate,
Speaker 1: Silent Movie reactions. I'm going on beautiful Cooper Cooper Rush
Speaker 1: turns the ball over twice and the hype train ends.
Speaker 1: The Eagles defense ends it with a thud with a
Speaker 1: couple of turnovers here on Monday Night. I gotta say
Speaker 1: I feel better about Mark's lock the Eagles on Monday
Speaker 1: Night than I do about myself after looking at the
Speaker 1: injury reports here with the Giants. Maybe I'll flip it.
Speaker 1: I'm not ready for that yet, but Cooper Rush has
Speaker 1: a couple of turnovers in an ugly owl. And finally,
Speaker 1: my fearless prediction, our man Mark Sessler celebrated kind of
Speaker 1: an overlooked birthday for many people this week, the Big
Speaker 1: four nine, and he tried to keep it under the
Speaker 1: radar on account of, you know, the ongoing negotiations with
Speaker 1: his own mortality. But we need to spotlight this man.
Speaker 1: My prediction for week six, or really leading up to
Speaker 1: week six. Mark celebrates tonight and tomorrow in a unique
Speaker 1: Cilerian way that probably includes a two am walk up
Speaker 1: Cello drive, but maybe some other stuff too. Happy birthday friend.
Speaker 1: Oh look at that little slide show for the people watching.
Speaker 1: I grabbed some photos from my archive. Let's just cycle
Speaker 1: through these for the people. Look, here's Mark interviewing Hugh
Speaker 1: Jackson years ago, looking intrepid as hell, and Mark, you
Speaker 1: can't change your behavior based on this prediction. You have
Speaker 1: to party too hard if that's what you're feeling. Yeah,
Speaker 1: let's keep going with the photos. Here. This is Uh
Speaker 1: with my father and my brother Kevin Danger at a
Speaker 1: bud Light Super Bowl event. Keep going. That's Mark with
Speaker 1: his lost daughter, my daughter. He has not done a
Speaker 1: good job raising here. But you know, here is our
Speaker 1: New York Super Bowl sitting with Chris Westling and wearing matching.
Speaker 1: I love New York ats. I love that one. And
Speaker 1: here we go. This is from the arc of Media
Speaker 1: Christmas party with hands and look at Mark. What a
Speaker 1: stunner A soft jill camera. They're like that was very soft.
Speaker 1: That was where like the friend, like the hot friend
Speaker 1: on Instagram picks the picture where she looks the best
Speaker 1: your friend looks and here wait, go back, wait, go
Speaker 1: back to the other one. But this is the two
Speaker 1: thousand twelve draft. That's Johnny Manziel being whisked up the
Speaker 1: stairs at Radio Sydney Music Hall the party with Drake
Speaker 1: and probably do things that he wouldn't want anyone to
Speaker 1: know about. And there's Mark with the big smile and
Speaker 1: was doomed like a year later. And one more, this
Speaker 1: is the only photo on record of Mark eating. Mark
Speaker 1: you ate a sandwich with a fork apparent? I mean
Speaker 1: at least you were eating I don't know. And he
Speaker 1: was so happy about it. What is that sure? Thank you?
Speaker 1: I appreciate that very much. On Dan and another apology
Speaker 1: to your birthday? Did sneak by us here? So happy birthday, Mark,
Speaker 1: thank you. But I kept it under the radar in
Speaker 1: hardcore fashion. So it's you know who knows guys don't
Speaker 1: know other guy's birthdays. I do you. I never did,
Speaker 1: now we did. Now everybody, send happy birthday to Mark
Speaker 1: and his old weekend to come and uh it will
Speaker 1: be a wild Sunday in the NFL, which we will
Speaker 1: track on the flagship program. Be there Sunday night. Until then,
Speaker 1: do you have a call. Thanks everybody, Oh Yankees, Death
Speaker 1: to pickle ball.