Speaker 1: The Around the NFL podcast has a heart out at
Speaker 1: ONEm probably the Chris Wesley podcast studio. It's around the NFL.
Speaker 1: I am a heart out in one hour. My name
Speaker 1: is Dan Hansis got heroes all over the place here,
Speaker 1: Mark Sessler, Gregg Rosenthal, Colly Wolf back in the building,
Speaker 1: and how sweet it is? What's up gang? What's up
Speaker 1: with you and your heart out? All of a sudden,
Speaker 1: suddenly you're You've got constrictions, agenda, and he's gonna stick
Speaker 1: to it too. I'm not in any rush. The show
Speaker 1: is going to be the show, and it's gonna be
Speaker 1: excellent as always. Um due to a series of confluence
Speaker 1: of events, rain out Yankees are playing in one hour.
Speaker 1: But we're gonna you know, we're gonna do this, and
Speaker 1: then I'm gonna go do that. I think the difference
Speaker 1: is when I say there's a heart out because I
Speaker 1: gotta be somewhere, I actually do have to do something,
Speaker 1: versus what is necessary that I don't know why you need.
Speaker 1: If anything, I said that I'm excited your Jets are
Speaker 1: doing well. I'm excited that your baseball team is in
Speaker 1: the playoffs. You turn around and do that. I didn't mean,
Speaker 1: there's a shot. Why did I ll just accused of
Speaker 1: of lying regularly, So that's that's a shot. Did I
Speaker 1: Every time I've suggested that I needed to go somewhere,
Speaker 1: I went somewhere. Greg, you can respond to that. I'm
Speaker 1: staying out of this. I like it. You guys, just
Speaker 1: get into it. It is good to be with the
Speaker 1: whole gang for the Tuesday show coming up for about
Speaker 1: an hour, well for exactly an hour, in about three minutes.
Speaker 1: I mean, that is what the Tuesday Show is every week.
Speaker 1: To be fair, right, You'll notice this thing will come
Speaker 1: in at the same amount of time or maybe even longer,
Speaker 1: because that's integrity that the zuser is that your tagline.
Speaker 1: Just like if this thing came in all of a
Speaker 1: sudden at thirty seven minutes, like you could you could
Speaker 1: be like Dan's kind of looking out for Dan on
Speaker 1: this one. Yeah, but that's not how this is going
Speaker 1: to go. In fact, we're already kind of yeah, we're
Speaker 1: kind of chewing the cut a little bit here up top,
Speaker 1: but that's fine. Allows us to stretch out during the intro,
Speaker 1: which that was me that you do have integrity to
Speaker 1: some degree an original point of contention, very early days
Speaker 1: on the Around the League podcast. I think Dan and
Speaker 1: I would both but heads a little bit because I
Speaker 1: would say, like, let's get to the football stuff, and
Speaker 1: Dan would be like a little more chewing cut up top.
Speaker 1: That was like one of the original sort of w
Speaker 1: for the old zeus. I know, what's the what's the
Speaker 1: common the common um advocacy about the opening the show?
Speaker 1: People love it. They love the Yeah, they don't want
Speaker 1: to just get straight to the you know, it's it's like,
Speaker 1: come for the football, but you're staying for your friend,
Speaker 1: your friends in the whatever your pieces you use friends,
Speaker 1: captive audience. They don't really have a choice. They could
Speaker 1: just do like the forward thirty seconds thing, but that
Speaker 1: would be rude. Before we get into all the football stuff.
Speaker 1: I do now want to offer a formal apology to
Speaker 1: you Mark that that that you don't have places to
Speaker 1: go sometimes and you just want to get out of
Speaker 1: the building as fast as possible. That is not necessarily
Speaker 1: the case. I think both things can be I mean
Speaker 1: necessarily really took a little bit of the wind out
Speaker 1: of that can be accurate. All right, let's get to
Speaker 1: it coming up on today's show. It feels like now
Speaker 1: that we're six weeks in. There are some teams, players, coaches,
Speaker 1: whatever that things have not gone to plan. So we're
Speaker 1: here again beacons of integrity as we are uh to
Speaker 1: head out some PEP talks for those who need them.
Speaker 1: That's a service in its entertainment. Also, the Thursday night
Speaker 1: Football preview, as we look at the week seven, the
Speaker 1: Saints at the car we got you got Russell Wilson
Speaker 1: in prime time and then we're going straight to Cliff
Speaker 1: Kingsbury and Kyler Wilson, Kyler Murray his name is in
Speaker 1: prime time. At least they're different. We haven't seen them.
Speaker 1: There are more humans, they're more interest. That's progress. I mean,
Speaker 1: it's a it's a minor disaster unfolding. I think that's
Speaker 1: good televisions. Yeah, that only goes so far. The only
Speaker 1: go so far. But they're not They're not just simply
Speaker 1: boring in back. There's an element of chaos with the
Speaker 1: Cardinals that I enjoy. Yeah, you cannot say, and maybe
Speaker 1: last week is an exception. It is with the Cards,
Speaker 1: but for the most part they they've had someone entertaining
Speaker 1: insane games, whereas the Broncos just like sucks the life
Speaker 1: out of everything. All right, let's get to the Broncos first.
Speaker 1: Let's hit the news. All right, how about if you
Speaker 1: get a little taste of land coming right down your throat?
Speaker 1: You know, I really Lenda Dickerson was a guy that
Speaker 1: I vouched for ahead of the pre drafts process. In
Speaker 1: one I thought he was a real impact player and
Speaker 1: absolutely has been. He's been a nice draft picked. I'm
Speaker 1: one of the best offensive lines in football. Your Eagles.
Speaker 1: You vouched for him based off of um like the
Speaker 1: draft research, and Collinsworth on a certain level does as well.
Speaker 1: You wanted the Jets to take him? Who did they
Speaker 1: take over him? Do you remember second round? Tick was
Speaker 1: probably yeah, maybe, I don't know. I forgot a lot
Speaker 1: of things have happened since then. Let's move on. Yeah,
Speaker 1: let's get into the news. Yes, Russell Wilson and the
Speaker 1: Broncos offense once again went down in Flames on Monday
Speaker 1: Night Football. You could check out the reaction to that
Speaker 1: with Greg Rosenthal's Monday Night Football recap of the Chargers
Speaker 1: overtime win over the Broncos. We knew Russ had a
Speaker 1: shoulder issue going on. Now he let the media know that.
Speaker 1: He also said hamstring issue and it leaves his availability
Speaker 1: for Week seven against the Jets in question. Uh, Greggy,
Speaker 1: and I think I saw it reported by Tom Pella Sero.
Speaker 1: I believe it was on our air right before we
Speaker 1: came on, that it's being labeled a significant hamstring issue.
Speaker 1: So I think this is all pointing in a certain
Speaker 1: direction that could lead to Russ missing a game, perhaps more,
Speaker 1: and maybe maybe a reset for Denver and its spiraling
Speaker 1: offense right their backup quarterbacks, Brett Rippon, I don't know
Speaker 1: about a reset. I hadn't surprised. I guess I will
Speaker 1: hold judgment because usually if you finish the game in
Speaker 1: the NFL, you play the next game. It's just how
Speaker 1: it almost always works. And he did finish that game.
Speaker 1: Although we're gonna get to another quarterback in a bit
Speaker 1: where the same case is happening in Washington. It's absolutely
Speaker 1: fair and uh, maybe a reset wouldn't be bad for
Speaker 1: everyone involved. We're at the problems like this is a
Speaker 1: video game, we could reset this it that said they
Speaker 1: would fall further and further, you know, out of the
Speaker 1: mix potentially, but I don't think their quarterback play would
Speaker 1: get too much words. We're at the point where it
Speaker 1: doesn't feel fun anymore to be hitting on how bad
Speaker 1: Russell Wilson's playing, because he's he's kind of at the
Speaker 1: level he has a pretty strong cases the worst quarterback
Speaker 1: in the league. Like he's there, He's in that mix
Speaker 1: with whatever Baker has done this year. I guess Davis
Speaker 1: Mill like I would put them below that, where like
Speaker 1: he's struggling that much where maybe a week or two
Speaker 1: off could help things. Yeah, I've been wanting to believe
Speaker 1: in the concept of a like a turnaround for Russell Wilson,
Speaker 1: and in the evidence we're getting, it becomes more grim
Speaker 1: and I it sort of seems like, you know, we
Speaker 1: got all these quarterbacks that are playing into their forties
Speaker 1: and that's what they're announcing that they're gonna do when
Speaker 1: they're in their thirties, And I am watching Russell Wilson
Speaker 1: just wondering, like, how long does this go on for?
Speaker 1: If this is the version of Russell Wilson and the
Speaker 1: body and this is what he's dealing with physically, because
Speaker 1: it's been like every game there's an announcement about physical issues. Yeah,
Speaker 1: but also when when you look at the fact that
Speaker 1: he said got him in the fourth quarter and everything
Speaker 1: was like feeling good before that, and it's unfortunate. And
Speaker 1: I think that I knew something was up in the
Speaker 1: postgame press conference when he left out a Broncos Country
Speaker 1: Let's ride. He just finished his presser and walked away.
Speaker 1: So maybe this is pretty serious. Maybe he heard the
Speaker 1: feedback from a week ago that a week ago. It's
Speaker 1: been months, I get it. But last week after the loss,
Speaker 1: which was the low point of the Bronco season until
Speaker 1: this week's lost, and he did the let's ride, people
Speaker 1: gave him a lot of grief just for that, for
Speaker 1: doing it in that spot. And if nothing else, we
Speaker 1: know he's active on the social Uh. In other Broncos
Speaker 1: drama news, Melvin Gordon had his big homecoming uh in
Speaker 1: Los Angeles. The team that had drafted him did not
Speaker 1: go to plan. In fact, he was benched in the game. Essentially,
Speaker 1: he ended up with three carries for eight yards, and
Speaker 1: the second half and overtime was filled with sad um
Speaker 1: sideline shots of Melvin Gordon. Uh. Here's what he had
Speaker 1: to say in the locker room after the game. I'm
Speaker 1: not gonna lie hurt a little today watching UM. You
Speaker 1: know they do up the little the little clown logo
Speaker 1: with my face up there, and um, you know I
Speaker 1: noticed it all and uh, it sucked. It sucked. Hey,
Speaker 1: game day operation of the Chargers. Clean it up? Bad job,
Speaker 1: clean it up? What are you putting especially know the situation.
Speaker 1: I don't know when in the game you're putting the
Speaker 1: clown face on Melvin Gordon, who I guess. Maybe there's
Speaker 1: some bad blood there with their things set in the media.
Speaker 1: I don't even know. But in general, I think the
Speaker 1: Chargers that's a bad looking for Gordon, especially with Connie
Speaker 1: Latavius Murray. You know, he's not a guy that's an
Speaker 1: impact player at the stage of his career. Him getting
Speaker 1: a ton of carries and not doing anything had to
Speaker 1: be especially frustrated. Well, especially when Javonte Williams goes down
Speaker 1: and Melvin Gordon had come into the season with Javonte
Speaker 1: there knowing that everybody wanted Javonte to be the guy.
Speaker 1: Then he goes is down. So Melvin Gordon has a
Speaker 1: little bit of an opening, and I'm sure that that
Speaker 1: messed with his head too coming into the season, just
Speaker 1: in general, having the way that the running back room
Speaker 1: is lined up, but then to go through against the
Speaker 1: chargers like this, and he wasn't given a heads up
Speaker 1: at halftime that he wouldn't get on the field again,
Speaker 1: and all of the shots. It was just so mean
Speaker 1: spirited for them to put the clown up there. I mean,
Speaker 1: I'm not a soft person. I love taking shots to
Speaker 1: other people, but it just felt like kicking someone when
Speaker 1: they're down. Literally, what's very filly, not not l as.
Speaker 1: You can't get me with that. You can't surprise me.
Speaker 1: That's even in the protocol that put that up there
Speaker 1: because it is your former player. And like, I mean,
Speaker 1: he I don't remember there being bad blood. Even if
Speaker 1: there was, It's like we we watched on the video
Speaker 1: the look on his face when he was talking to
Speaker 1: Bridget Conton. It's like, oh, this is actually a human being.
Speaker 1: I keep forgetting about that, and you're clowning them in
Speaker 1: front of the stadium of people. What's out funny. He
Speaker 1: lost four fumbles and that's the reason why he's in
Speaker 1: the doghouse, So he does have culpability why he's not playing.
Speaker 1: And I don't even think like it's on the coaching
Speaker 1: staff to have a sit down in the middle of
Speaker 1: the game to say, hey, you're not playing. Anymore, but
Speaker 1: because they might have used him again, but also just
Speaker 1: sitting and waiting and I'm not hearing your number at
Speaker 1: all in that spot like empathy. Yeah, I do too.
Speaker 1: I think they might say, maybe not on record, that
Speaker 1: the way he was there without his helmet on on
Speaker 1: the sidelines was maybe contributing to him not getting back
Speaker 1: in the cave, like making a little bit of a scene,
Speaker 1: because do you see that normally because there's a lot
Speaker 1: of players that aren't playing, they they generally are kind
Speaker 1: of sitting there where they're waiting to go. And he
Speaker 1: was disappointed. He was heartbroken. I think that he was
Speaker 1: benched pretty early in the game, it was in the
Speaker 1: first half, and then he he sits there like that
Speaker 1: as if like I'm not going to go back in,
Speaker 1: and then they didn't use them again. It's weird though,
Speaker 1: because he had a hundred and three yards last week
Speaker 1: from scrimmage and he didn't fumble uh last week. And
Speaker 1: that was a great interview Bridget Condon. That was exclusive,
Speaker 1: that dynamic on networking. It was about two minutes long.
Speaker 1: She took the time to really ask him and wasn't
Speaker 1: afraid in a tough, tough situation and um, let's move
Speaker 1: off the No Bridget did amazing work. Let's move off
Speaker 1: the Broncos because he's just kind of a sad topic
Speaker 1: and now something more, um, you know, energizing. Carson Wentz
Speaker 1: has to have surgery on his finger. He's gonna miss time.
Speaker 1: The Commander's quarterback is facing a four to six week
Speaker 1: recovery period, according to Ian Rappaport, after fracturing his finger.
Speaker 1: And he did he finished that game. He was on
Speaker 1: the follow through of a pass that smacked the hand
Speaker 1: of another player, played through it obviously was in discomfort,
Speaker 1: uh Mark. But now he exits the lineup and kind
Speaker 1: of similar to the Russell Wilson situation where the Commanders
Speaker 1: are right now not the worst time for a break
Speaker 1: and and see what Heineke can do with Sam how
Speaker 1: the rookie waiting in the wings. Yeah, I mean, I
Speaker 1: think for it's been a rough um season for a
Speaker 1: lot of offenses in general, and I think it's definitely
Speaker 1: plagued the viewer and for those of us that watch
Speaker 1: every team. Um, the Commanders have becoming they've been well,
Speaker 1: I mean you just literally just doing what we're supposed
Speaker 1: to be doing. Become a visually um less appealing entity
Speaker 1: weekly on offense, and I think I got to imagine
Speaker 1: underneath it all. Sometimes, Oh yeah, I want to get
Speaker 1: out there and play on a competitor. There's gotta be
Speaker 1: times like your car soon what you're thinking, I'm good
Speaker 1: taking four or five weeks off from that's kind of
Speaker 1: the old Sessler thing where you're like, you know, put
Speaker 1: me in a hospital for four weeks, nothing too serious,
Speaker 1: just like that needs that needs to build sympathy to
Speaker 1: where it's like, yeah, this guy is a game. I
Speaker 1: believe he's not. He was the number sixteen ranked quarterback
Speaker 1: on Mark Sessor's QB I think he's been terrible. First
Speaker 1: of all, that was shocking to me. I don't think
Speaker 1: he's been terrible. Also, like the thing when you say
Speaker 1: you have to look at though, they're like, you look
Speaker 1: at the rest of that list. After you gets like
Speaker 1: five or seven, it's a disaster. You know what I'm taken.
Speaker 1: You know what I'm taking. Greg the originator of the
Speaker 1: QB Index, Mark has taken over and done great work
Speaker 1: so far. I've got a little special episode around the NFL,
Speaker 1: a QB Index special that would be fun. That's a
Speaker 1: good idea. We could do that. I like that idea. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I like that idea as a surprise drop. But now
Speaker 1: it's no longer a surprise. Oh well, we could edit
Speaker 1: it out so we still have the power. I think
Speaker 1: either way is people don't know when it's gonna be
Speaker 1: on the lookout for it. Maybe people are rearranging their
Speaker 1: schedules now what a surprise content coming Key, by the way,
Speaker 1: is a little bit of an interesting choice. I thought
Speaker 1: they might go to samehow I mean, Sam Howell, depending
Speaker 1: on where they are in a couple of weeks. But
Speaker 1: I get it. They're they're two and four. They're certainly
Speaker 1: not giving up of, you know, making the playoffs, and
Speaker 1: they think Kinniki is more ready right now than they
Speaker 1: had some success with him. Maybe Terry McLarin looks better
Speaker 1: with him. I don't know. It's just like a less
Speaker 1: expensive Carson Wentz who might be better than Carson Wentz.
Speaker 1: In other news, Greg, you got a guy. His name
Speaker 1: is Terek wool and he came down with the game
Speaker 1: clinching interception for the Seahawks and a win over the Cardinals.
Speaker 1: As he came down, he landed on Mark's Hollywood Brown
Speaker 1: and busted up his foot or an ankle something down there.
Speaker 1: Not good. He's out at least six weeks, so bad
Speaker 1: news for the Cardinals. He's been really one of their
Speaker 1: only bright spots on offense, and right, of course, when
Speaker 1: DeAndre Hopkins is coming back, the team pivoted quickly and
Speaker 1: traded for Robbie Anderson, the disgruntled wide receiver who was
Speaker 1: last seen being booted off the sideline by the Panthers
Speaker 1: with Steve Wilkes over there in the interim role. So
Speaker 1: out goes Brown for a month and a half. Incomes
Speaker 1: Robbie Anderson, Connie and as well as DeAndre Hopkins. Maybe,
Speaker 1: just maybe the Cardinals get a little more juice to
Speaker 1: their vertical attack. I'm dying to know what was said
Speaker 1: between Robbie Anderson and the receiver's coach, Like I know
Speaker 1: that I probably will never find out this information. However,
Speaker 1: I'm searching for it and I'm working my sources and
Speaker 1: I'm trying to find out because it's kind of crushing me.
Speaker 1: But to see him get sent off the field and
Speaker 1: then traded like not even was it twenty four hours later,
Speaker 1: that's pretty unprecedented Arizona quick turnaround. I mean something ridiculous
Speaker 1: had to have been said, and obviously they had been
Speaker 1: I'm pretty sure shopping him before that. So that was
Speaker 1: just the last kind of straw. But the Cardinals, I'm
Speaker 1: not sure how much it's going to help Robbie Anderson
Speaker 1: arriving there. They have DeAndre Hopkins coming back this week.
Speaker 1: We'll get into the preview coming up against the Saints. Yeah.
Speaker 1: I know Robby Anderson a little bit, not personally, but
Speaker 1: from his time with the Jets. He's a mercurial guy.
Speaker 1: He's uh, he loves ball obviously, but can get frustrated. Uh.
Speaker 1: I saw it New York saw it and how it
Speaker 1: ended in Charlotte. I'm a little concern cest dog that
Speaker 1: you send him to Arizona and it's pretty functional offense there,
Speaker 1: that you might end up seeing more sideline shots of
Speaker 1: a frustrated Robby Anderson in the desert. It's possible because
Speaker 1: I think the it's uh, the timing of his meltdown
Speaker 1: in Carolina. You know, days after Matt Rule his college
Speaker 1: coach at Temple with a rue reason he was there,
Speaker 1: I think to begin with, or was still there, Um
Speaker 1: was intriguing. But I I think if if you're the Cardinals.
Speaker 1: I know everyone was just killing them when they traded
Speaker 1: for him initially, and it's like, look at I'm they
Speaker 1: were killing the Cardinals. There were just they're not giving
Speaker 1: up on their season. At least that you went and
Speaker 1: got someone that can help you on the outside as
Speaker 1: a deep threat. I mean, that's that's necessary. To get
Speaker 1: DeAndre Hopkins back. You might get a little honeymoon Robbie Anderson,
Speaker 1: you know what I mean. You get a little like
Speaker 1: I know, I need to have some production here to
Speaker 1: keep my career going. Anderson, he had a rough year
Speaker 1: a year ago two, I think, and I hate to
Speaker 1: say this, because I think A. J. Green's one of
Speaker 1: the most underrated players of his generation and we'll have
Speaker 1: a legitimate Hall of Fame case just because of his
Speaker 1: all pros. He's the least effective receiver in the NFL
Speaker 1: right now by far in terms of yards per route run.
Speaker 1: He's basically a starter, and he has fifty six yards
Speaker 1: on the season, and they've said they they've sent him
Speaker 1: like twenty seven targets and he has fifty six yards
Speaker 1: out of those targets. Some of that's on the scheme,
Speaker 1: but it's it's not happening anymore, so anyway to get
Speaker 1: him off the field. I think it is probably going
Speaker 1: to help them. You know what I think, Greggy, I
Speaker 1: think A J. Green was basically right in that class
Speaker 1: with Julio Jones for about eight years or so, maybe
Speaker 1: just to tick below, but he fell off so precipitously.
Speaker 1: I don't think he's a Hall of Fame guy, which
Speaker 1: is not taking anything away from a j because but
Speaker 1: he was so awesome. He was a slam dunk for
Speaker 1: the first eight years. But this has been a tough
Speaker 1: clothes to it. Also white else it's getting tougher and
Speaker 1: tougher to seven. Yeah, yeah, it's a little I I
Speaker 1: tend to agree with you, so I'm not gonna argue. Uh.
Speaker 1: In other news, rejoice Texans fans, but no Texans. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean we know seth pain on the pain I mean,
Speaker 1: is he is he more a media guy or a
Speaker 1: text He is a combination of the I feel like
Speaker 1: we answered so confidently, and then you named the guy
Speaker 1: that works in the Houston media. He is a fan
Speaker 1: of I was also thinking of Stephanie Stradley, who was
Speaker 1: a longtime fan and kind of a media member too.
Speaker 1: But she's sort of like a fan of media metal connection,
Speaker 1: So I don't I would not say Cardinals fan right
Speaker 1: when you sports parts probably got the lowest team you
Speaker 1: see like Jerseys sad Well. Tiffany Simon's a former co
Speaker 1: worker of mine who has very close He went through
Speaker 1: a wedding, big text, I was great, and uh there
Speaker 1: was someone in our old news room. I just remember
Speaker 1: one time where they gave away the hats and I
Speaker 1: had a Texans at It's like, oh, the people, you
Speaker 1: don't need to know their names. That's why? Who are
Speaker 1: those people? Just giveaway? Guy? You know I I don't
Speaker 1: need to know his mark Perez is a big Texans fan.
Speaker 1: Why are we doing this? I don't know. I don't
Speaker 1: know the Texas And now we're talking how the sausage
Speaker 1: gets made. Where you're gonna hear from like your best
Speaker 1: friends in life that are all Texans fans and you
Speaker 1: don't even know it, certainly, and I have deep Texan
Speaker 1: ties with my wife. But there are no Houston Texans
Speaker 1: fans the team, but there are many. And that's what
Speaker 1: I was trying to say. They're celebrating because the team
Speaker 1: announced on Monday that they have parted ways with executive
Speaker 1: Vice President of Football Operations, Jack easter Be, a long
Speaker 1: time favorite of the Sissler. Here is the missive from
Speaker 1: Cal McNair, chair and CEO of the Texans. I've met
Speaker 1: with executive vice president of Football Operator, just call him Jack,
Speaker 1: and we have mutually agreed to part ways. I'm sure
Speaker 1: for the remainder of the season, effective immediately, his responsibilities
Speaker 1: will be absorbed so corporate by our football operations staff.
Speaker 1: We acknowledge Jack's positive contributions and wish him and his
Speaker 1: family the best in the future. So I would say
Speaker 1: to my son Jack when he gets on my nerves,
Speaker 1: like I want to thank you for your contributions and
Speaker 1: wish you the best of luck in the outside world
Speaker 1: outside of my home. Um, you're kicking your child out
Speaker 1: if necessary. That's sometimes sometimes sometimes dogs can't really talk back.
Speaker 1: Connie boys, they can. Um, I love you, Jack. He
Speaker 1: doesn't listen. Mark uh Easterby we learned after the fact
Speaker 1: that mostly been stripped of his powers in the past year,
Speaker 1: but still he was kind of a sore point for
Speaker 1: an organization that's kind of been in transition for a
Speaker 1: couple of years. I think it's just interesting to see
Speaker 1: the overwhelmingly overt response to what unfolded. I think Andre Johnson,
Speaker 1: who really You know, when you get bad management and
Speaker 1: they don't know what to do with um star players
Speaker 1: from the past. You see that she's them vanished from
Speaker 1: like events for half a decade. I mean, Andre Johnson
Speaker 1: basically said, ever since jack Easterby walked into that organization,
Speaker 1: nothing good has happened. Jalen Strong, another ex Texan, had
Speaker 1: very strong words. John McClain, the legendary long time people
Speaker 1: watching the show. Yeah, go ahead and read it. Markis Well,
Speaker 1: I wish I could read that from here, but you know,
Speaker 1: I'm happy to read it. I can read. Actually, all right,
Speaker 1: set for the season, I thought this would be Jackie
Speaker 1: Easterby's last with the Texans, had no idea he'd be
Speaker 1: fired during the season. As reported by Adam Schefter, they
Speaker 1: will be rejoicing throughout all right now and read the
Speaker 1: other one the next one. Firing Easterby is one of
Speaker 1: the best decisions in the history of Houston Sports. If
Speaker 1: the McNair family wants to make another great decision that
Speaker 1: will be met with approval, they should bring Andre Johnson
Speaker 1: back into the organization. He was Easterby his most outspoken critic.
Speaker 1: Love me some McLaine. He is a legend amongst Baylor folk.
Speaker 1: Again my Texan connections. I've spoke with him, good dude,
Speaker 1: He's respected and plugged in on that scene. So that
Speaker 1: is just a snapshot of people wanted easter be out
Speaker 1: of the building. A former chaplain turned football man, and
Speaker 1: it just, I guess, never made sense for a lot
Speaker 1: of people. He was a like power hungry, like striver,
Speaker 1: a riser who for about one month two years ago,
Speaker 1: dominated this podcast. I mean, do you remember that there
Speaker 1: was like a whole month to the point where conversations
Speaker 1: were had with certain figures connected to the Mark. I
Speaker 1: was told to back off, told to stop tweeting about
Speaker 1: Jackie Easterby. You were walking in the parking lot late
Speaker 1: at night and a guy in a trench coat stepped
Speaker 1: out of the shadow said quit it with the Easterbat.
Speaker 1: Essentially the cigarette down, stamped it out and just walked
Speaker 1: back into it. I love it because Mark had a
Speaker 1: a visceral anger about what Easterby was doing, and it
Speaker 1: was it made for great content where you said it
Speaker 1: he's a striver. He named himself GM at some point
Speaker 1: with zero football back Okay, we just I love the
Speaker 1: like the word choice of rejoicing. Everyone is rejoicing the
Speaker 1: fact that they are just so happy. And well, the
Speaker 1: crazy thing it was, it was like he was brought
Speaker 1: in as a team chaplain and when you watch his
Speaker 1: videos that he would speak to the team, it's all
Speaker 1: about love and forgiveness and treat you know, and treating
Speaker 1: everyone fairly. And then these are the reports that come about.
Speaker 1: He was most interesting to me though, because he was
Speaker 1: a great example of a guy who had a lot
Speaker 1: of national reporters in his pocket. And it was very
Speaker 1: easy to see that. And they were very quiet this
Speaker 1: week when this happened. They just reported the news. They
Speaker 1: sort of just put it out there. But if you
Speaker 1: go to two to three years ago, there were a
Speaker 1: lot of little pushback, you know, I'm just saying that.
Speaker 1: There was just like this is what he's done, and
Speaker 1: this is like what you know he's done, and it
Speaker 1: was just a very interesting look at like if you've
Speaker 1: got some reporters in your pocket. I think that helped
Speaker 1: him get higher in the football game. Jack East to
Speaker 1: be forget the name, you never hooded guy, but steps
Speaker 1: from uh in other news. Finally, Todd Bowles. We know
Speaker 1: what happened with Brady. Hey, Connie, we talked about in
Speaker 1: the Power Rankings podcast, which everybody should check out. Uh
Speaker 1: this week that Bill Belichick who had another masterclass um
Speaker 1: on Sunday in Cleveland, beating up on his old team,
Speaker 1: the Browns and tying. Uh. George hallis in the Career
Speaker 1: Wins ranking. He didn't go to Robert Craft's wedding and
Speaker 1: he works for the Patriots. Tom did and it became
Speaker 1: a big story. And uh, he missed the Saturday walk
Speaker 1: through and then was uncharacteristically erratic in his passing and
Speaker 1: another frustrating Tampa loss. Todd Bowles went to the media
Speaker 1: and had to answer to questions about whether Tommy gets
Speaker 1: preferential treatment. He works as hard as anybody in a
Speaker 1: special treatment. There's been a few guys that missed some
Speaker 1: meetings and some practices for us, some special thing that
Speaker 1: just doesn't get publicized because they're not him. So it
Speaker 1: kind of comes with the territory. You don't worry about
Speaker 1: it too much. Greggy Todd's right here. Of course he
Speaker 1: gets preferential treatment. He's Tom Brady, right, And I don't
Speaker 1: think Tom Brady missing practice had anything to do with
Speaker 1: like why they lost or why they were the worst
Speaker 1: rushing you know team in the NFL, and why their
Speaker 1: guard can't tackle and why Tom Brady is like letting
Speaker 1: go the ball too quickly. But uh, every this is
Speaker 1: another place where just bad vibes. No one's having fun there.
Speaker 1: I that seems true. They're not fun to watch. Um,
Speaker 1: it is bad vibes. I don't think that the fact
Speaker 1: that he went to like Robert Craft's wedding and probably
Speaker 1: had like a glass of milk there um has a
Speaker 1: major impact on this. Well, right, that's the wrong but
Speaker 1: but non alcoholic drink. I just to me, it's kind
Speaker 1: of like, if you want to say, he doesn't have
Speaker 1: preferential treatment or a huge voice inside the organization, why
Speaker 1: is Bruce Arians watching games from a box forty five
Speaker 1: yards up north of the of the seats. I was
Speaker 1: thinking about Bruce Arians this morning when this story popped
Speaker 1: into my head about how okay, well, Bruce Arians is
Speaker 1: kind of like freelancing his assignment more or less the
Speaker 1: fact that he's not the head coach anymore. But we
Speaker 1: really don't know what he's doing, but he is some
Speaker 1: type of figure within the organization. And then it's like, well,
Speaker 1: Tom Brady has also been taking like certain liberties that
Speaker 1: you normally wouldn't see with a starting quarterback, especially Brady.
Speaker 1: And I wondered to myself, like, would Brady be doing
Speaker 1: this on a different team at a different time in
Speaker 1: his life or has he gotten to the point where
Speaker 1: he's kind of like, all right, well, you know, I'm
Speaker 1: Tom Brady. I am getting specialty. That's the whole thing.
Speaker 1: I don't have to retire. You have my personal life too,
Speaker 1: if you still on the Patriots. And Bill wasn't going
Speaker 1: to the wedding, Tom wasn't going to go to the
Speaker 1: wedding either. He wanted to have some more freedom to
Speaker 1: make his own life to anyway. UM developing news what
Speaker 1: Amazon and the National Football League announced today Tuesday that
Speaker 1: two thousand three Prime Video will excluse of Lee stream
Speaker 1: a newly scheduled Black Friday Game the Friday after Thanksgiving Day.
Speaker 1: The first ever NFL Black Friday Game will take place Friday,
Speaker 1: November three, already stated there with the expected kickoff of
Speaker 1: three pm Eastern noon Pacific to Participating teams will be
Speaker 1: announced when the two thousand twenty three schedule is released.
Speaker 1: Mark your reaction. Uh, the league has zero ability to
Speaker 1: chill out on its own um branding and expansion. I
Speaker 1: mean that said, it is a masterful move because think
Speaker 1: about I don't know, um, besides the fact that holidays
Speaker 1: don't really exist. If you cover the league, that doesn't matter.
Speaker 1: If you're a fan, you're probably sitting at home. If
Speaker 1: you're in America, they exist. We just worked during them. Sure,
Speaker 1: you're just sitting at home with a bunch of tired,
Speaker 1: bloated relatives. You're telling me if football game is gonna
Speaker 1: come on at noon Pacific, thank you, Yes, I'll be watching.
Speaker 1: If you hosted Thanksgiving, you have an entire refrigerator of
Speaker 1: leftovers just waiting, and Thanksgiving leftovers are better and Thanksgiving Day,
Speaker 1: so then you get football and leftovers. It's a great pitch. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I think, yeah. The only thing because we've been working
Speaker 1: inside the machine for so long. I feel bad for
Speaker 1: you know, there are a lot of league employees and
Speaker 1: media people that get pulled into this when otherwise maybe
Speaker 1: you'd be spending your Friday with It's usually a nice
Speaker 1: quiet day after Thanksgiving. But otherwise, as a football fan,
Speaker 1: that's cool, that would be nice. That's a good little spot.
Speaker 1: Like this year we have something amazing, which is the
Speaker 1: World Cup England USA match the day after Thanksgiving. This
Speaker 1: is not being played this game obviously will be next
Speaker 1: year when there will be no world There's also the
Speaker 1: Friday Fun Show that's a big Friday. Maybe we're not
Speaker 1: doing that year. What's the Friday Fun Show theme song? Again?
Speaker 1: It's like Friday game, does it? Do we have a
Speaker 1: theme song? You mean the tickdown like song as well
Speaker 1: as the viewers wait to join. You don't know that
Speaker 1: we have a theme song for the Friday I thought
Speaker 1: that was more just um like a library selected like
Speaker 1: waiting for the show to begin kind of thing, which
Speaker 1: I guess each time. But then our show starts and
Speaker 1: there's a theme song. It sounds like show is especially
Speaker 1: important to mark one. Do there are of the shows
Speaker 1: that we do I have no memory of. Ah, that's
Speaker 1: what's happening in the news. That sounds like a nice
Speaker 1: pull for a sound drop. Let's take a break and
Speaker 1: we will hit PEP talks for those who need them.
Speaker 1: All right, we're back. We have a responsibility, Colleen, to
Speaker 1: help people in need, and it is the holiday seasons
Speaker 1: right around the corner, so this is fitting that we'll
Speaker 1: kick it off by delivering some pep talks for people
Speaker 1: who could use them in the NFL. Get us gone, okay,
Speaker 1: this is great because I'm just naturally inclined to give
Speaker 1: pep talks. I like to pick people up when I
Speaker 1: see that they're feeling down. So this is my department. Um.
Speaker 1: So this one goes to a and base that's really
Speaker 1: been through some tough times. A lot of commanders in Washington,
Speaker 1: d C. And the Pentagon, so you know, in fact,
Speaker 1: when I try and remember back, it's tough. The last
Speaker 1: time the commanders fans were genuinely happy, I'm not even
Speaker 1: sure when that was. It's got to be at least
Speaker 1: like two name changes. Clinton was the president, maybe so
Speaker 1: Herbert Walker. Commanders fans, I know all of your wins,
Speaker 1: well all two of them can sometimes feel like losses.
Speaker 1: But you're built for this after five losing seasons and
Speaker 1: and you know more before that. But you are a
Speaker 1: resilient group with plenty to be optimistic about. Your pass
Speaker 1: rushes top three in the NFL, and sacks. Brian Robinson.
Speaker 1: He's back. He has a chance to be a serious
Speaker 1: difference maker in the run game. Um, Carson Wentz. He
Speaker 1: threw a shoulder at Roquan Smith. That was cool, but shoot,
Speaker 1: you know cars and once is out for four to
Speaker 1: six weeks. But Taylor Heineck is coming back, guys, and
Speaker 1: that could mean that this offense is coming back. He
Speaker 1: might get things running again, commanding again, looking great again.
Speaker 1: I've always been told embrace competition because it only makes
Speaker 1: you stronger, unless you're in the NFC East. Because they're
Speaker 1: taking a turn out of the episode. Forget about the
Speaker 1: penalties in three games. Things will get better, I know it.
Speaker 1: And and if they don't, I have a gift from
Speaker 1: the bottom of my heart. I'm going to send you
Speaker 1: some of my paper bags because I don't need them anymore,
Speaker 1: and I believe in recycling. I think that we all
Speaker 1: should do that. So let's together take command. Guys. You're
Speaker 1: slightly evil. You are a petty to them, those people monster.
Speaker 1: I think you're wonderful. Thank you. I accept the petty compliment.
Speaker 1: This is my department. I love petty in the heartbreak,
Speaker 1: punching down. This isn't just some proud organization that's you
Speaker 1: know on hard times. This is to beaten lost fans
Speaker 1: who barely know what to do with themselves at this point.
Speaker 1: That's I think the virtual in the back handed like
Speaker 1: hissing there. Um. If it was going towards members of
Speaker 1: the front office, I would be like, yeah, go for it.
Speaker 1: But it's kind of like just like being me into
Speaker 1: a puppy those things. Listen. You know, I love puppies
Speaker 1: and I'm trying to help the puppies. So it sounds
Speaker 1: like you're like putting the um. Alright, great, how about you? Okay,
Speaker 1: any more music? I like, I like that is all right.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna talk to directly to my guy, Tom Brady.
Speaker 1: Fifteen more games, Tommy, He's done this for twenty three seasons,
Speaker 1: three d and sixty nine starts. You've sacrificed so much,
Speaker 1: but there's no looking back, there's no looking forty. There
Speaker 1: there's no reverse gears. There's only right now, right now,
Speaker 1: right now, this is all that matters. Like maybe, in hindsight,
Speaker 1: blowing up the personal life for this last go around,
Speaker 1: Like guess it's a lot to handle. Um like that
Speaker 1: that contract with Fox, Like okay, maybe playing grab ass
Speaker 1: with Terry Bradshaw's not worth million a year, but what
Speaker 1: a focus pay attention to now the storm is behind you.
Speaker 1: The endless days of searching is in front of you,
Speaker 1: and it's all the more reason to drink in the now.
Speaker 1: On the field is where you are whole. Like, maybe
Speaker 1: ease up on those offensive lineman. Yeah, they're playing pretty
Speaker 1: well other than goodeki Like, maybe maybe you have that
Speaker 1: guy benched. Uh then, and I apologize for yelling Adam.
Speaker 1: Trust your protection more. Be willing to hold the ball.
Speaker 1: Be willing to take a hit. There's only one season left.
Speaker 1: Be willing to let Mike Evans go make a play.
Speaker 1: Stop throwing as Scotty Miller. That's never gonna happen. It's
Speaker 1: never gonna work. Get Gronk to come back, just for
Speaker 1: red zone targets, except that LETTERD for net. It's probably
Speaker 1: never gonna turn into Jerome Bett. It's like expect less.
Speaker 1: You've got a good defense, You've got a hand pick
Speaker 1: plate caller. You got fifteen sundays, including the Super Bowl,
Speaker 1: to live simply and fully on a football field until
Speaker 1: life grabs your shoulders a little tighter. Watch it like
Speaker 1: you're you're doing it again, just right now. Stick this landing.
Speaker 1: You were an m v P a year ago. You're
Speaker 1: gonna be the one that never did gradually decline. Make
Speaker 1: that monster hands this right. You have fifteen games to
Speaker 1: make it all right, to feel like a god again,
Speaker 1: to make this slow start a preface to another sports
Speaker 1: stock that not most people probably won't finish. But fifteen
Speaker 1: starts and then you start worrying about everything else. Very good?
Speaker 1: Very good? Was that was I essessedly trop alert. There
Speaker 1: were you telling Tom Brady just simplify his life. I
Speaker 1: was just saying, like, there's there's noise and disaster behind you,
Speaker 1: in front of you, but right on the field is
Speaker 1: like where you are, Tom Brady, where you're a Godok. Focus,
Speaker 1: that's the moment. That's tough love. I know he's an
Speaker 1: important figure. That's what I want to That's what I want.
Speaker 1: Are we seeing a little bit of gradual decline this year, Well,
Speaker 1: that's what I am fearing. That's what's what I want.
Speaker 1: I wanted Landing to be stuck. He could have done it.
Speaker 1: Last year was close enough, almost all right. I will
Speaker 1: give a pep talk to Kirk herb Street. That's surprising,
Speaker 1: I know. The I'm intrigued color man of Thursday Night Football,
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Speaker 1: Um I want to talk to you, Kirk about Al
Speaker 1: al Michael's, of course, who is a treasure but also
Speaker 1: is entering a phase of his public and most likely
Speaker 1: his private life that appears to be putting you in
Speaker 1: a difficult position. To put it bluntly, he is a
Speaker 1: soon to be seventy eight year old loose cannon who
Speaker 1: could use the gentle guidance of a friend or a
Speaker 1: colleague he respects. If you if you're like me, you
Speaker 1: had a grandfather or two who reached the stage of life,
Speaker 1: you know they popped the hood on the main frame
Speaker 1: and flip the switch to d G A F. You
Speaker 1: might be wondering at this moment why I'm not giving
Speaker 1: this pep talk to Al himself, But that would be
Speaker 1: missing the core element of the issue. There's nothing I
Speaker 1: can say that will do anything to dissuade Al Michaels
Speaker 1: from wandering in a wildly cavalier manner into naughty sociological
Speaker 1: matters like gender, race, politics, and power dynamics of the
Speaker 1: most influential figures in the civilized world. Yet, um, probably
Speaker 1: Al is gonna talk about this stuff. I'm gonna shoot
Speaker 1: from the hip and it's gonna put him and perhaps
Speaker 1: all of us. We don't know how how high this
Speaker 1: can go in grave danger. All I ask Kirk is
Speaker 1: that you talk to him. You take him to Moonshadows
Speaker 1: in Malibu, you have three cocktails, get a driver, and
Speaker 1: let him know that he is in the victory lap.
Speaker 1: Kind of like Tom Brady of an unparalleled broadcasting career.
Speaker 1: We'd hate to see it end with an unceremonious dismissal
Speaker 1: or even worse, a missing person's report. Seventy seven year
Speaker 1: old man last seen challenging Jeff Bezos on his own network. Wow,
Speaker 1: that pops up. It's a warrant assessl It's gonna be
Speaker 1: warning Michael. I don't know if al Michaels would listen
Speaker 1: to anyone at this point, um including herb Street, but
Speaker 1: he does. He does, he does, He doesn't gender respect.
Speaker 1: He seemed like a very colm individual. He I also
Speaker 1: would say, like, get some sleep, Kirk. His his schedule
Speaker 1: is Bruto right now, got the games on that Saturday night,
Speaker 1: He's got the game day Thursday, multiple streams of income.
Speaker 1: So there is he made his decisions. I'm sure he's
Speaker 1: happy with him. He sleeps on a pile of money.
Speaker 1: I'm sure, Kark, but we need his help. Based um
Speaker 1: Mark before we get to Thursday Night football and the
Speaker 1: Saints and Cardinals. I think you had a pep talk show.
Speaker 1: There is a link to tnf UM and so I
Speaker 1: want to talk to Kyler Murray and the only way.
Speaker 1: I feel like. We've talked to Kyler Murray a lot,
Speaker 1: but sometimes people need to just you need to stick
Speaker 1: with him. You can't just say, oh, I've talked to
Speaker 1: you once three months ago. Your days away from an
Speaker 1: island game, the entire country, multiple countries, multiple nations, kingdoms,
Speaker 1: the Hague, the Netherlands will be zoned in on it's you.
Speaker 1: They're coming to see. So which will which you? Will
Speaker 1: they see which Cardinals team? Are there multiple versions of you?
Speaker 1: Other versions? Is there another Cardinals team within? Beyond what
Speaker 1: you've gifted us with so far, a disorganized, melting product
Speaker 1: on offensive looks entirely unsure of what it wants to be.
Speaker 1: I've seen the studies, studies that I dismiss about how
Speaker 1: your play ebbs and flows depending on whether Call of
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Speaker 1: of Duty war Zone Double XP Weekend, all unfolding during
Speaker 1: this football season. But here's the thing. You can go
Speaker 1: game all you want if probably does affect, But I
Speaker 1: can't control that the same way we can't control Al Michael's.
Speaker 1: I don't really think it has much to do with
Speaker 1: you the player, but you the player, and you, as
Speaker 1: part of this offense, are wanting. You are wanting crumbled
Speaker 1: with the Saints, and very real changes are coming to
Speaker 1: this organization, and you are the asset they will cling to.
Speaker 1: What is it they're clinging to? Who is Kyler Murray?
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Speaker 1: make you proud. Great job, Mark. You know these PEP
Speaker 1: docs were um negative at times. The Commanders one, I
Speaker 1: don't know what you're talking about that, and even the
Speaker 1: Kyler one, it's definitely hitting in with that. It's tough.
Speaker 1: I mean, we times was I guess Tom I gave
Speaker 1: time some tough love. But Petty and the Heartbreakers over here.
Speaker 1: But that was that was a ten minutes to right
Speaker 1: it before this started. So get off my back. It's great.
Speaker 1: It was amazing. It was just the tone I wanted. Good. See,
Speaker 1: that's how I don't know any other way. All I wanted. Girl,
Speaker 1: we've done twelve and thirty seven shows. I'm looking at
Speaker 1: a surprise, and that that was. That was a surprise.
Speaker 1: All right, let's um take a break and then hit
Speaker 1: thursdayn football. All right, here we go. I love this game.
Speaker 1: I don't care that they're both doing. I'm sure you do.
Speaker 1: You love every game. I just know that's not true.
Speaker 1: But this they're interesting to enforce to be all right,
Speaker 1: the Saints, okay, I'll buy that. I'm in on that.
Speaker 1: And we don't know who's the quarterback is of right now.
Speaker 1: Probably Andy Dalton. He was taking the first team raps
Speaker 1: on Tuesday. There you go, so most likely Andy Dalton
Speaker 1: will make his fourth start for the Saints when they
Speaker 1: travel to Glendale, Arizona to face the Cardinals, a team,
Speaker 1: as you just heard with Mark, that really needs their
Speaker 1: quarterbacks step up. But it's you know, Connie, it's not
Speaker 1: just on Kyler. Of course, it's on the coaching and
Speaker 1: the scheme and an offense that just has no explosiveness
Speaker 1: to it despite having a highly explosive quarterback, Robby Anderson's
Speaker 1: in the building. We'll see how much you can give
Speaker 1: them on this short amount of time getting ready for
Speaker 1: his first game. Probably just run some go deep couple.
Speaker 1: Here you go, Saints and Cardinals in and a reminder,
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Speaker 1: exclusive home for Thursday Night Football. Yeah. Look, the I
Speaker 1: mean we've covered the Cardinals problems, but the offense, like
Speaker 1: specifically the decisions that are being made when this team
Speaker 1: gets into even like field goal territory, they're still going
Speaker 1: for it on fourth down and they're they're leaving all
Speaker 1: of these points on the field because they're not converting.
Speaker 1: I mean, they didn't convert on three fourth downs against
Speaker 1: Seattle in field goal terror tory. So that's points on
Speaker 1: the field. And then the defense is having to play
Speaker 1: from behind and they can't sustain that either. So when
Speaker 1: you have, uh, your kicker missing extra points, I mean
Speaker 1: there's just problems top to bottom. I don't know how
Speaker 1: much DeAndre Hopkins is going to help the team. Maybe
Speaker 1: he comes back and everything is like, you know, working fine.
Speaker 1: Even with Marcus Brown apt he was a little up
Speaker 1: and down last year, but I had some ops and
Speaker 1: got busted for using performance enhancing drugs. So now that's
Speaker 1: hypothetically out of his system, so his performance is no
Speaker 1: longer being enhanced as a age thirty wide receiver. Just
Speaker 1: a general fly mark like that's that's that's fair. I
Speaker 1: mean Ron Deal Moore has been used a ton of theory.
Speaker 1: I'd see if Hopkins, you got a good version of Hopkins.
Speaker 1: Let's say Robby Anderson does simple things and hits the
Speaker 1: ground running and Ron Deal Moore is used creatively. I
Speaker 1: like the idea, like they've just been such a we
Speaker 1: talk about on Sunday, such a horizontal passing it attack.
Speaker 1: I mean Carl Murray like in that last game, and
Speaker 1: like at four point five yards per attempt or something.
Speaker 1: It's it's absurd. They're not using these players correctly and
Speaker 1: this this is a chance for the offense to turn
Speaker 1: around if it's gonna happen against the Saints defense. But
Speaker 1: I've just seen how disorganized they are. If you're Cliff Kingsbury,
Speaker 1: you came into this league, and no one knew what
Speaker 1: we were gonna see, and it was successful out of
Speaker 1: the gate. But you've been proven incorrect that you're bringing
Speaker 1: something that's special and sustainable. So Murray's averaging five point
Speaker 1: eight yards per attempt. That's one of the lowest of
Speaker 1: any quarterbacks in the league. It's by far the lowest
Speaker 1: of his career. And I thought it was interesting he
Speaker 1: told the broadcast team last week, I want to start
Speaker 1: running this week, and then he ran for a hundred
Speaker 1: yards and it was so helpful, and it was a
Speaker 1: big part of the offense and scrambling some design runs.
Speaker 1: And before that in five games, he had run for
Speaker 1: a hundred and twenty three yards. It's just like everything
Speaker 1: seems erratic, like Okay, let's have Kyler start running again.
Speaker 1: It's just like there's not a great planning. Now this
Speaker 1: matchup could work. They did lose Justin Pugh for the season,
Speaker 1: who's one of their starting offensive lineman. Rodney Hudson hasn't
Speaker 1: been playing lately, and their offensive line really struggled against Seattle.
Speaker 1: They've been up and down this year, but they really
Speaker 1: struggled a week ago and now they have more injuries.
Speaker 1: They're going up against the Saints, who are now nineteenth
Speaker 1: and d v O A on defense, they're just average,
Speaker 1: Like it is not working the secondary. We killed them
Speaker 1: for trading Chauncey Gardner Johnson, who your Eagles are loving
Speaker 1: right now, after a couple of picks. It just felt
Speaker 1: like a disorganized move of Hubris and their secondary went
Speaker 1: from total team strength to weakness so fast. And some
Speaker 1: of that's injuries. Maybe they get back Marshall Latimore, but
Speaker 1: some of it's just personnel. Tyrone Matthew is struggling that
Speaker 1: the team doesn't tackle really that well. I think the
Speaker 1: Cardinals should be able to move the ball. The Saints
Speaker 1: offensive or defensive line has been erratic to like some games.
Speaker 1: Cam Jordan looks amazing. Old school Cam Jordan's Marcus davonbo
Speaker 1: had a good week last week. But they're a team
Speaker 1: you can run too, so I expect to see a
Speaker 1: lot of those little scoots, those little which is which
Speaker 1: are fun to watch. Like when you watch someone run
Speaker 1: for a hundred yards last week, you're like, oh, let's
Speaker 1: do more of this. That was amazing. Yeah, Mark your thoughts.
Speaker 1: I mean I provided some previous but some more now.
Speaker 1: I think like if anything the Cardinals. So that first
Speaker 1: week that Yankees gave it started, I'm concerned with your time,
Speaker 1: but their defense better, Like they've not given up twenty
Speaker 1: three points since that Week one destruction against the Chiefs,
Speaker 1: and I think that's something you can point to. J. J.
Speaker 1: Watt's been pretty good, Buddha Baker, Zach Allen, Like, they've
Speaker 1: got some pieces, and I think the Saints offense has
Speaker 1: been a erratic to it. The one thing that's working
Speaker 1: a little bit with if it's Dalton in there, he's
Speaker 1: getting the ball to Kamara a lot in the through
Speaker 1: the air, and there's that that's that was not happening
Speaker 1: with Jamis Winston. But they're missing, They're missing a ton
Speaker 1: of guys on offensive. How many of these wide receivers
Speaker 1: or are they going to have back Michael Thomas and
Speaker 1: have not practiced, They're they're gonna be out. Andrew's Pete
Speaker 1: is out, Adam Troutman, you're tight end. They still moved
Speaker 1: the offense though, right they scored twenty six points against
Speaker 1: a really good defense with their without their top four receivers. Actually,
Speaker 1: Andy Dalton I think has played even better than like
Speaker 1: the Dalton line that you would have expected. I think
Speaker 1: Saints fans are like, okay, because there's an argument whether
Speaker 1: you play Jamis R. Dalton. This has been a better
Speaker 1: version of Dalton than I expected, but it's been in
Speaker 1: in a tough spot, and like Mark said, it's actually
Speaker 1: a tough matchup this week, and the Cardinals have been
Speaker 1: playing better. It's more yeah there, it does seem like
Speaker 1: the jigsaw puzzle of this offense from New Orleans. It
Speaker 1: makes a little more sense with Dalton in concert with
Speaker 1: Taysom Hill. I kind of like that vibe. I think
Speaker 1: I'd be surprised if they went away from it. Um.
Speaker 1: But this is also I am just concerned. I gotta say,
Speaker 1: I'm concerned about the Cardinals at the their state on
Speaker 1: a short week now, trying to add a wide receiver
Speaker 1: and probably will return, by the way, bring back DeAndre Hopkins.
Speaker 1: I just don't trust the Cardinals not to look like
Speaker 1: a mess in this game and be disjointed trying to
Speaker 1: put these pieces together on a short week. I hope
Speaker 1: I'm wrong. Just talked about Alan Michael's part of the
Speaker 1: reason he's going nuts is because you know, all these
Speaker 1: games are so up and down and quite frankly bad
Speaker 1: in my opinion, in these last two weeks. I think
Speaker 1: the Saints have a good match up here. I think
Speaker 1: the Saints it's an important game for them. They lost,
Speaker 1: are going to do it to start the season. I
Speaker 1: will not be locking into the car. I don't actually
Speaker 1: thought about that night Thursday night. It's too wonky for me.
Speaker 1: I like to stay away typically, but also it ruins
Speaker 1: you're like going into the weekend, you've already lost your lock,
Speaker 1: Like what are you doing? That's why we get out
Speaker 1: of bed exactly. I will think negatively about it. Which
Speaker 1: offense do you trust? More? So? Like do you I
Speaker 1: just made my statement down a bunch of receivers. I
Speaker 1: mean I trust Andy Dalton as much as Kyler Murray.
Speaker 1: Right now, with the environment to Kyla Mura, I think
Speaker 1: the Saints offense looks better. Yeah. They They've been getting
Speaker 1: some things going on the running game, mark Ingram and Camara,
Speaker 1: and then I swear the success rate of Taysom Hill
Speaker 1: plays this year is one thousand fifty. I don't like
Speaker 1: every Tasom Hill play feels like it's twelve yards automatic
Speaker 1: more Tasome Hill, Let's do it. Their offensive line is
Speaker 1: actually playing better lately. But the Saints and Saints fans
Speaker 1: will will push back on this a little bit. They
Speaker 1: are completely unpredictable. They every unit is completely different from
Speaker 1: one game to the next. Their strengths and weaknesses are
Speaker 1: different from one game to the next. And they they're
Speaker 1: a team that finds ways to lose despite the good
Speaker 1: things happening there thirty feet and special teams. But I
Speaker 1: have one stat I just have to get out here
Speaker 1: before we leave. It is Uh one of the most
Speaker 1: samarried about me rushing than I actually am. But that's fine.
Speaker 1: Keeping I'm not worried. I just figured I've I've hit
Speaker 1: my quota of previous day. Back to you again, like
Speaker 1: you for three hours, I won't be here. Uh. The
Speaker 1: Cardinals last one a game in their home. Is it
Speaker 1: still State Farm Stadium? It's in Glendale. You're gonna have
Speaker 1: a super Bowl there. They last won a game at
Speaker 1: home on October one. That was a game against the
Speaker 1: Houston Texans that made them seven and oh last season.
Speaker 1: Remember that they have not won a game there since.
Speaker 1: That's that's amazing, It's ridiculous. How is it possible. I
Speaker 1: don't know. I just I'm thinking back to the Friday
Speaker 1: Fun Show last week when I was asked why I
Speaker 1: hate the Cardinals, it's stats like that. This is just
Speaker 1: a wandering lost team right now with a a front
Speaker 1: office and coach. They just all got extensions and everybody
Speaker 1: was celebrating, and everyone everyone that follows the sport was wondering, Man,
Speaker 1: not only do we not know if this is the
Speaker 1: right combination for success, they just re up with all
Speaker 1: these guys. Well, you reap what you sow. I was
Speaker 1: about to just kill him for having Matt Ammendols still
Speaker 1: is the kicker, which I couldn't believe he kicked last week.
Speaker 1: He's been struggling all season long. Matt prators back, so
Speaker 1: they actually waved Ammondola to bring to make space for
Speaker 1: don DeAndre Hopkins. I was gonna say Will Lutz is
Speaker 1: an underrated kicker. Um, that would have been a big
Speaker 1: This game screams to me nineteen seventeen. Um, because of
Speaker 1: what we've seen on Thursday night and scoring in generals
Speaker 1: down in the league and everything else that's going on
Speaker 1: right now, Um, the kickers to make a big difference.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna go twenty three Saints just to give a
Speaker 1: little more points for Al I just want to think positive.
Speaker 1: Give l one of these you know, one of these teams,
Speaker 1: to me is very much in this ste in the
Speaker 1: NFC with the three and four record. But one of
Speaker 1: these teams is like the spiral and the coaching questions,
Speaker 1: and there will be many for Dennis Allen too if
Speaker 1: they lose. We'll all start if they lose. So it's
Speaker 1: a sneaky big game. Yeah, give me nineteen seventeen Saints.
Speaker 1: What happens to al and by um linkage Kirk herb Street.
Speaker 1: If the Cardinals win this game, as I predict three nothing,
Speaker 1: do not do not put that out there. Well now
Speaker 1: it won't happen, but I could see I could see
Speaker 1: a strange their defense. What was that article? We read
Speaker 1: an article by Dan Bickley, who's like a long time
Speaker 1: dot com maybe the most influential guy in Arizona who
Speaker 1: all but said fire Cliff Kingsbury in Higher Vance Joseph
Speaker 1: if they lose this d who's interesting. And there's some
Speaker 1: other media members in the Arizona you know, uh sphere
Speaker 1: that are kind of really putting the heat on the
Speaker 1: bid Whales to make a change. Already, I don't think
Speaker 1: it's gonna happen. They just handed out extensions to everybody.
Speaker 1: It's not gonna I don't know if it's a move.
Speaker 1: When it happened, they got at least gonna wait till
Speaker 1: after the season. I mean, this is the same team
Speaker 1: that also drafted a first a quarterback in the top ten,
Speaker 1: then drafted a quarterback in the top ten. I guess
Speaker 1: anything's possible. They did do the right thing, but that's
Speaker 1: a huge acknowledgement of failure. If they fire Cliff Kingsbury
Speaker 1: before the end of the season, even let alone two
Speaker 1: years from now, it would be all right, that's enough.
Speaker 1: Well get excited for t N S says, won't let
Speaker 1: this be boring. I promise their games are not boring
Speaker 1: this year. They're Honestly, I'm not worried weird Saints. I
Speaker 1: think the Saints will give us something to root for. It.
Speaker 1: We need the Cardinals to step up. I mean that's
Speaker 1: another Hey, Cards, we believe we already got Kylers covered.
Speaker 1: We got the Cards covered. He's motivated. It's gonna be
Speaker 1: a great um ultra weirdness. I think the Cardinals will
Speaker 1: be also. Um let's have some JJ some j J
Speaker 1: Watt shots of like him. Firing up his teammates, like,
Speaker 1: let's go get what back in the mix. That was
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Speaker 1: the fills, the fighting filled. Right, it's the San Diego Padres.
Speaker 1: I'm excited. Wow, that is a big It's a big
Speaker 1: night in Philadelphia Opening Night. What a day of American sports? Mark,
Speaker 1: what's your choice? You have all the what a buffet
Speaker 1: of sports? Check out at least a year. I'm going
Speaker 1: to check out part of this Yankees game so that
Speaker 1: I can leave understand what you're going through. Cleveland Ciciliano,
Speaker 1: who I really like, Andrew. He's a really good dude.
Speaker 1: He is a very serious Guardians sports fan. And he
Speaker 1: was not even down to talk about the circumstances beyond
Speaker 1: the behind the rain out. Uh and a potential Yankee conspiracy.
Speaker 1: He's one of those. And I loved it. And Uh,
Speaker 1: either way, it's like I'm tiptoeing around Siciliano win or
Speaker 1: a loss, because he either is gonna be gloating potentially
Speaker 1: or very salty. He talked to me about in the
Speaker 1: office and gave me the lowdown because I made it
Speaker 1: clear I'm not a baseball So they are the Yankees
Speaker 1: and commissioner. They conspired with higher authorities to bring rain
Speaker 1: into the New York area. Is that that is their
Speaker 1: power to rain out to essentially postpone a game that
Speaker 1: they could have gotten in yesterday, which then is to
Speaker 1: present themselves. You could have started the game at ten
Speaker 1: pm or something. You could have done it two and half.
Speaker 1: That's ridiculous, Hey, talk to talk to Secilian on about it.
Speaker 1: What are you gonna be playing at one in the morning.
Speaker 1: Kids can't watch these games anyways, and now now I'm
Speaker 1: missing the game to talk about. The season goes on
Speaker 1: often the heart outs become harder. Thank you, and you
Speaker 1: set out that conversation. I'm Switzerland. Yes, always, whenever I
Speaker 1: think of Gregg, I think Switzerland. We'll be back on
Speaker 1: Thursday with the Thursday Night Uh are the what do
Speaker 1: we do on Thursday show? Yes, we preview all the
Speaker 1: games and then of course Thursday Night we used to
Speaker 1: do a recap. I don't even know what's happening anymore.
Speaker 1: Friday Fun Show will recap the Thursday night game. We
Speaker 1: just previewed. That's it until then Dan Hands is signing off.
Speaker 1: Four the Quiet Storm, Come on, you got it there
Speaker 1: It is a brave digger. What's up? Grave? They are
Speaker 1: you going in here? From you to day? Oh? Hey
Speaker 1: what what? I can't do it. At the same time,
Speaker 1: great job on the Monday night break. Job recap there,
Speaker 1: Grave Jack, keep a cal