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They around the NFL podcast.

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There's a quiet storm

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brewing from the Chris

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Westling podcast studio. It's around the NFL.

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I am Dan Hansis. I have heroes

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along for the ride, Greg Rosehal

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and me are Sessler, but

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we are we are not alone.

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I cannot stand what

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you've done already.

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What we opened the show previously

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and you did not lace in that insulting

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intro of me, and then the second time around

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we do it.

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You announce my name that way. Whoa

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incorrect?

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I love the way whoa cessdog

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coming in hot and I love it to my

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right legend. Hey,

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everybody, it's Colleen Woolf.

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Yes, got.

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Welcome back, Golleen, Thank you.

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This is kind of fun. Reminds me of high school catchy

1:11

little three eleven vibe.

1:12

Yeah you had you had a

1:15

lot of different phases musically in your life.

1:17

I have an eclectic mix of

1:20

music that I really like. And yeah, I was

1:22

actually just I went to the Beach Life

1:24

Festival and her Mosa and they had

1:26

the Dirty Heads there, which remind me a lot of three

1:28

eleven. So I actually have been listening to a

1:30

lot of three eleven lately randomly.

1:33

So this kind of like fits right in.

1:34

I'm surprised that in ages well enough

1:37

for getting repeat listenings in the year twenty

1:39

twenty four.

1:39

It's more of like a beach vibe, like a

1:41

three eleven radio that brings in some other

1:44

like reggae tones and stuff too.

1:46

Am I the only one person that doesn't hear three eleven

1:48

at all in that song? Really

1:52

really hear it? I

1:54

hear like a a pop punk

1:56

type vibe, almost like a

1:58

little maybe a little sky sneaking in there. Yeah,

2:01

anyway, good to see it.

2:03

Well, Hey, god, I know Dan

2:06

is sick, uh, and it's already

2:08

unnerving me a bit that he's sitting

2:10

next to me. Did not tell me that he had a fever

2:13

yesterday.

2:13

I'd say, yes, he may be sick, but

2:15

he's brave, because it's brave to

2:18

you know, you know, to you. I know you were cuddled

2:20

up under a quilt at home with

2:23

a fault tough Wednesday. Yeah, and but

2:25

here you are, and so it's like that says a lot about

2:28

you. But also you have exposed us to potential

2:30

illness.

2:30

So there's a good rebound though, Like, I'm surprised

2:33

that you were as.

2:34

Sick as you say it isn't it is a good

2:36

rebound. I agree, I rebound.

2:38

You say you were I

2:41

I My wife was giving

2:43

My wife was giving me a hard time

2:46

this morning that I was perhaps taking

2:48

the symptoms too seriously,

2:52

which was a total trap because I know what

2:54

she's trying to do. She's trying to I

2:56

mean, listen, she the old

2:58

insinuation that men handhandle getting

3:01

a cold.

3:02

Is how she put it, the little c how

3:04

I put.

3:04

It, and then like

3:06

she she wants me to then say yeah, but

3:08

women also complained about other things.

3:11

Didn't do it, didn't take the cheese, didn't.

3:13

Take that to your weekend maybe intellectual

3:16

state, you know, physically and intellectually.

3:18

She's trying to trap you, and you and you didn't go on that

3:20

road.

3:20

I didn't. I literally I didn't have the strength to do it,

3:22

but I want.

3:23

It was in like a phantom thread situation where

3:25

she truly only loves you when.

3:27

You're sickond exactly what she was doing.

3:30

She does not love me when I'm sick, all

3:32

right, today's show. Also

3:35

the only thing I did do too to enrage

3:38

her when she was getting for work is I put

3:40

on I Am the Warrior by Patti

3:43

I just put it on loop until she came in and said,

3:45

I get it.

3:47

God bless Emily, honestly, Jesus

3:49

Saint.

3:50

All right, today's show. Here we go. It

3:53

is May ninth. That's an interesting time in the calendar.

3:56

Interesting in the fact that it's not a very interesting time

3:58

on the calendar. But we're gonna have fun because

4:00

we're gonna do a little bit of a news

4:02

in a bit. We're gonna have a fun seg

4:05

I feel like a high level a potential

4:07

breakdown here in communication, Like, well,

4:10

Connie, get why is.

4:12

It on me?

4:12

Why is it?

4:13

I don't like this pattern of

4:16

me being a problem.

4:19

I'm sorry. I'm just saying, maybe.

4:21

Greg gets it wrong, maybe Mark gets it wrong.

4:23

Maybe you have a different than all of us.

4:25

Dan to go first, to set them back,

4:27

and then I'm going to follow it. And

4:29

I want to just see how Mark's

4:32

simmering nature to start the show, how that

4:34

continue?

4:35

That was you came in real hot. I don't like

4:37

I don't like that the way that you which.

4:39

One was it?

4:39

I mean, I know why, it's because we we were on It

4:43

builds slowly. It's like a boiler

4:46

boiling pot of water. As we

4:48

get further and further away from the original

4:51

estimated time to start the show.

4:53

A til hour before we actually start

4:55

the program, so we do like a little mingling from

4:58

that was.

5:00

Our computers, like the

5:02

show needs the simmer a little bit before the MIC's

5:04

turn on, and you guys are all going

5:06

to be the beneficiaries

5:08

of a tremendous show. The schedule

5:10

release, by the way, and I am so annoyed

5:14

about hearing about when the schedule's

5:16

coming out, as if it's the be

5:18

all end all, but we still don't know the

5:20

exact day, although we kind of do know the exact day,

5:22

but it has been officially announced, so it's

5:24

coming out next week as we understand it.

5:27

So originally

5:29

there was an idea that it might be around Now it's

5:31

going to be next week and then we'll talk about it

5:33

then. So there's your update on the release.

5:36

All right, Let's get to the news. First,

5:39

Humbling pads, stop.

5:40

Sucking sackch

5:44

lot kind of film

5:46

history.

5:48

Lot has tied Michael Strahan's

5:51

single season record twenty two

5:54

and a half sacks. Let

5:58

me just start. Let me

6:00

just start by saying thank you to

6:02

the listeners of our show who

6:04

are always so supportive

6:06

of my bottomless

6:08

well of pitybull. I have to

6:10

say, you people make sure I see the things

6:14

that need to be seen, and I appreciate

6:16

you for that. With that said, what you heard

6:18

right there was t J wat taking down not

6:20

Lamar Jackson. That was Ty Huntley for sack number

6:23

twenty two and a half in the twenty twenty one

6:25

season. That tied, as you heard, what

6:27

was that the bird? No, that was iron eagle.

6:30

Yeah, I mean a type of bird. But yeah, what

6:32

was the old when.

6:33

It was Fouts and iron Eagle? What were they?

6:35

The bird and the bird and the beard, bird and the beard.

6:38

Anyway, that tied Michael Straighthand's

6:41

NFL record that had been set twenty years

6:43

earlier, a record mark.

6:45

As you know, I've been very vocal and

6:48

consistent in denigrating

6:50

because Brett Favre, for those that don't

6:52

know, slid at straight hands feet and a

6:54

pre orchestrated flop job

6:57

to give him the record that was previously held

7:00

for nothing by Jet's great Mark Gesino. Anyway,

7:02

get out the red string, because this story

7:05

goes even deeper. Let's head to it. Let

7:07

me see it. From Jaguar

7:09

gait or nine on Twitter. Okay, while

7:11

researching for this video, I may have uncovered

7:14

something absolutely insane. I don't think Michael

7:16

Strahan's sack record from two thousand and one is legitimate.

7:19

He didn't have twenty two and a half sacks. It was a stat

7:21

error. And no, I'm not talking about

7:23

Brett farv sak in week seventeen.

7:26

Next tweet, and he goes on to show

7:28

this play from Week eight against the Cowboys

7:30

counted as a sack for Straighthan clinch

7:32

Storner snaps the ball with the

7:34

forty four yard line, he makes it to the forty

7:36

three and a half yard line, He gains half

7:39

a yard. You can even see it on

7:41

the official, the official on the near side

7:43

ahead of where the original line of scrimmage was.

7:45

And yet despite the quarterback gaining yardage,

7:48

they credited straighthand with the sack.

7:51

Well that's a wait, And what week was that sack?

7:54

That was? Week eight?

7:56

Okay against the Cowboy. Can they go back and change

7:58

that?

7:59

No, but we can.

8:00

We can just no longer recognize

8:02

that.

8:03

And I think, as you know an NFL

8:06

podcast, at the league,

8:08

we have some influence and we can be

8:10

the change that we want to see

8:12

in the world.

8:13

Fare reality is completely shattered.

8:15

Prince Yeah, Prince would said that. Yeah,

8:17

So what are your thoughts on that one?

8:19

Well, I think number one, let's talk about the fact

8:21

that it's an incredible piece of you know,

8:24

eleventh hour journalism, not even the eleventh

8:26

hour the next day.

8:28

I mean, this happened a long time ago.

8:30

Apparently this is an unrelated project project

8:32

that Jaguar Gator nine was working on, and you

8:34

just stumbled upon a historic

8:38

malfunction in the in the stat keeping

8:40

of the National football.

8:41

I'm impressed, and I think it's another example

8:43

of not just your bravery Dan to be here today,

8:46

but this is a case you've been on personally

8:48

for a long time. And while you also not

8:50

unlike others, pointed to the farv sac, you could

8:52

sense that something else was a miss

8:55

all along, and Jaguar Gator nine

8:58

has helped you in that effort.

9:00

That was your intuition talking to you, Dan, He's

9:02

helped us, He's helped us all.

9:04

Thank you your intuition or

9:07

this guy men.

9:08

Taking any credit for it. I'm saying Jaguar gate

9:10

or nine deserves all of the credit. And you know

9:12

who deserves none of the credit. Michael Strahan

9:16

because I really I'm down to take two sacks

9:18

away. If we are the we're the

9:20

tastemakers here, let's knock them down

9:22

to twenty and a half.

9:23

Maybe we should investigate all of these records, honestly,

9:25

Well, do.

9:26

You take anything about every rushing play

9:28

that's basically ever happened in the NFL?

9:31

You know there's some it was that it's

9:34

when it's three and a half yards? Do you give him four? Do

9:36

you give him three?

9:37

It's like, who's how how on

9:39

top of things are we really on all this stuff?

9:42

Do you get to Do you get credit for a sec if you

9:44

get back to the line of scrimmage?

9:47

No, I don't.

9:48

I don't think so, right, No, once it's at the line

9:50

of scrimmage, you don't get it. And that sounds like

9:52

this case is one where.

9:53

He's closer to gaining a full yard than half yard?

9:55

Wouldn't it be on Michael Strahan who's

9:57

still alive and with us, and you know is

9:59

the thinking individual to say accountability?

10:02

I can't.

10:02

I can't claim this record. Yes, that's

10:05

the next step, and I'm sure someone will reach out.

10:07

To well, how you guys reached out? Maybe

10:09

that's the not yet.

10:11

Well it is, it is. We were talking about this, what

10:13

was the story How the NFL

10:15

when it's slow, the news that does come

10:17

up starts to snowball fast

10:20

because there's nothing else to talk about. Someone's going to reach

10:22

out to Strayhand very quickly on this and we'll

10:24

see if he could be mad enough to acknowledge

10:26

the truth.

10:27

There also was remember back in the day,

10:29

and this was a big storyline

10:32

on this podcast, that Al Baker was

10:34

actually the unofficial holder.

10:36

We yeah, spent I think we had a Baker,

10:39

we had. We spent a solid week on this.

10:42

Al Baker in nineteen seventy eight had the

10:44

unofficial record before they kept

10:46

track of Sax and we wanted to recognize him.

10:48

So this really is a passion project for you, Dane. No

10:53

limits to the pettiness. All right, let's get to the

10:55

rest of the news. Greg, explain

10:57

to me how this works.

11:01

So the Patriots are continuing to

11:03

interview for executive vice president

11:05

of player personnel. They

11:09

have not had this team an official general

11:11

manager since nineteen

11:13

ninety that's silly. Bill Belichick

11:16

was the de facto GM while he was

11:18

there forever. Same

11:20

with barcels Elliott Wolfe this

11:23

off season was the de facto

11:26

enough with the de facto. Yeah, by the way, can't down

11:28

a little bit with de facto anyway.

11:32

So this team is not looking

11:34

for a GM, but they are looking

11:36

for the EVP of player personnel. I

11:38

don't know why that guy's not in place before the draft exactly,

11:41

but who's it going to be and why

11:43

is it happening in the middle of men.

11:44

I think other people in the NFL that were

11:46

asked to interview for this job believe it's going

11:48

to be Elliott wolf and so they refuse the

11:51

interview. Pro Football Tek's been writing

11:53

all the different people that have Oh yes, this is our lead

11:55

news I think, right, but it is ridiculous.

11:58

It's just sort of a note that like they're

12:01

probably going through a charad

12:03

to then land on well and if not, then

12:06

they just let Elliott wolf run

12:08

the draft and made these important decisions.

12:11

And it does does make you wonder exactly like what's

12:14

going on here? Who's making these decisions?

12:16

Like, let's be definitive, is this because of the Rooney

12:19

rule?

12:20

That could be that could be part of it that they

12:22

have to why he's Connie

12:24

Way to sniff it out, But I.

12:27

Would think that the Rooney rule would have a

12:29

rule within the rule that it would have to

12:31

be done before the draft.

12:33

Right.

12:33

Well, I guess this is the time of year that scouting

12:36

departments and general managers do often

12:38

change or whatever. But it

12:40

does seem a little outrageous. And there's

12:42

there's been talk of like, who's who's making all

12:44

the decisions here? Just when I when I give a GM

12:47

job too, Even when Peter Carroll was

12:49

there, they didn't.

12:50

I mean, you have a lead executive. Who was

12:52

it with Pete Carroll?

12:54

Gosh, I forget his name, Greer I believe is

12:56

Bobby Greer was his name so

12:59

like, and there was clashes between

13:01

him and the coach and Pete Carrow, And so

13:03

you gotta look, you gotta look.

13:05

And wonder who's making the decisions.

13:07

It's Farred asked that question Greg. In

13:10

other news, after playing the Chiefs in

13:13

two straight AFC title games, Joe

13:17

Burrow had to sit out last year for most of it anyway,

13:19

including the most important games of the year, because

13:21

he suffered that terrible risk and I want

13:23

to mess. Twenty twenty three was one

13:26

injury after another at the game's

13:28

most important positions, many of them

13:30

right on island games. Who

13:33

could forget Burrow bending

13:35

over, doubling over in pain

13:37

after trying to do a warm up throw on the sideline.

13:39

Imagine as a Bengals fan the way

13:41

you felt at that moment. Anyway, that Thursday

13:44

night game it was. And now he's

13:46

back, he's ready to return. He's ready to kind

13:48

of get back to where he was, which is

13:51

Patrick Mahomes's number one nemesis.

13:54

Here's what he said at a Tuesday press conference when

13:56

asked about the defending back to

13:58

back champion Chiefs. They were

14:00

great.

14:00

Their defense was one of the best

14:02

in the league. They have great players on that side of the ball. And then

14:04

obviously they got Patrick and Travis

14:07

in their ow line and those playmakers, so you

14:09

know, they're they're the gold standard. Right now, everybody's chasing

14:12

them. Obviously they're back to back

14:14

world champs. Somebody's got

14:16

to knock them off.

14:16

I'm hoping it's us. At the risk of repeating

14:19

myself, I've said multiple times on the

14:21

show, what a bummer it was when Burrow and the Bengals

14:24

exited from the conversation last year,

14:26

because they are such a great foil and challenger

14:29

to the Chiefs, and you get

14:31

the feeling that Burrow, who,

14:33

by the way we're hearing, is really gone next

14:35

level and training and as.

14:37

He looks to oh, yeah, he's not skipping any

14:39

meals, that's what no meals being skipped.

14:41

This is called back. He's up, a little bit bulked

14:43

up. All those old tropes are in play. But with

14:45

Burrow, I kind of buy in because I think

14:47

he's that type of killer.

14:49

They are the team that they knocked

14:51

off the Chiefs in the AFC title game. They've

14:53

beaten them in each of them. They beat

14:56

them in the regular season two years ago and

14:58

three years ago. We're more than the b so

15:00

I see them as the better challenger. But I'll

15:02

say this last year like, you're

15:04

in a division where you came in fourth, so there's three

15:06

other teams you need to take care of first.

15:09

And one of those teams went through about six quarterbacks

15:11

and made the playoffs. The others was the Steelers who

15:13

decided their starter shouldn't be the starter about

15:15

eight minutes after the season ended.

15:18

So I get it, but come on, says

15:20

it, Well, it's a team this.

15:22

Point to win in the Willows, and just a win gus

15:24

to talk about someone's got to take over the Chiefs,

15:27

Like, we get that, that's not news.

15:28

It is interesting that within that same division

15:30

you have Joe Burrow who's bulking

15:33

up and he's saying that he's seen results

15:35

and he's not. He's got his meal schedule

15:37

on and everything else. And then Lamar Jackson, who

15:39

is slimming down and doing the opposite.

15:42

He leaning he said he's down at two o five, he

15:44

like twenty pounds, like fifteen pounds. Yeah,

15:47

that's a lot surprising.

15:48

Uh was Burrow not on a

15:50

diet plan before this offseason.

15:52

I think he just maybe the rehabs adding some

15:55

weight. That Bengals team last year wasn't

15:57

going anywhere because the defense stunk.

15:59

A's fir.

15:59

I mean, that's the It's not the only reason they made the

16:01

super Bowl, but it's the main reason they made the super Bowl.

16:03

They carried Joe Burrow in some ways, who

16:05

had maybe his worst, you know, three game stretch

16:07

of the year in the playoffs before the Super Bowl.

16:10

I also noticed he was getting creative. And

16:12

I don't think Mark or any of us would like this,

16:15

because I'll put myself into that. He suggested

16:17

talking about the potential eighteen game schedule

16:20

if that happens. He also wants

16:22

like a second bye week in there at some point, So

16:25

we're really pushing this, pushing.

16:26

This schedule releases. I do.

16:28

I like the second I like the second

16:30

bye week better than the eighteenth game. Just add a second

16:32

by for everyone. If you want to add

16:35

a week, don't add a game. And that that does make

16:37

the week, the season longer, and then

16:39

you finish and you have a national

16:41

holla.

16:41

Well, we know that, we know that's happening, and

16:44

I think it's where the season is going to stretch nearly

16:46

into March at this point.

16:47

That just that's life. That's how it's gonna work.

16:49

And that would pick the one work out for the international

16:51

games, though too, well.

16:53

There will be nine of those. So I mean it's like I think, let's

16:55

just let's start like push against it.

16:57

It's just happening. Yeah, exactly. It's a slow creep.

16:59

By the way, because I have a tradition

17:02

with my bosom buddy Bob and our families

17:04

we go to Big Bear that President's

17:06

Day weekend, and.

17:08

Five years ago it was two weeks clear

17:10

of the Super Bowl.

17:11

In the last couple of years, It's been now one week clear

17:13

of the Super Bowl, and now whenever the

17:15

next labor agreement or whatever it is, comes in, it

17:17

will be that week and there will be no more trips

17:20

Mark to Big Bear, no more memories.

17:23

It will be see at the game. You

17:25

will have different memories. They'll be very different.

17:27

It really gives me extra anxiety

17:30

with tax season two. Like the more

17:33

the NFL season spans, the more

17:35

like the deadline gets closer and time

17:38

to figure things out.

17:39

The season ends and it's just sax talk life

17:44

stuff, transactions.

17:47

Tyler Boyd is off the market. The

17:50

wide receiver goes to the Titans. Okay, it's

17:52

a nice little signing for Tennessee. On May night, Alan

17:55

Robinson signs with the Giants. Who cares

17:58

Andrew's pete the offensivelignment of the

18:00

Raiders. By the way, while we're here, big

18:03

Funk, how are you, Bud?

18:06

What's up? How's it going? So let's

18:08

hear it? Sorry, well, you know, funk

18:11

is if the listeners have noted, I don't know if we've

18:14

brought it up, but ATPs

18:16

him and his wife are getting very close to

18:18

the arrival of the baby. So

18:22

now you have let's hear

18:24

it, dude. Yeah,

18:27

now you have Funk help us out every Thursday

18:30

behind the glass very

18:32

capably.

18:33

I love this.

18:34

He's doing great.

18:39

Listen to that so Funk, I

18:41

kind of forgot what I was gonna say.

18:42

Oh yeah, that's what I from brain

18:46

Funk.

18:47

I do like when you just clear your throat every five

18:49

minutes or so?

18:50

Can you? Can you pull up the

18:53

Raybeards roster. Let's see who's lily

18:56

had?

18:56

Like a partition I could put up between me and Dan.

18:58

You could be like, cut it up

19:00

all you.

19:04

Here's his own little boot. What

19:07

are rapping at?

19:07

Gary Cooper?

19:08

The Graveyards roster which we put together as

19:10

a group about a month ago. Now I want to say who's

19:13

left. Let's see Bryan Tannehill and Blaine

19:15

Gabbert at quarterback. Tyler Zeke

19:18

is now signed by the Cowboys. Jack

19:20

McKinnon still around wide

19:23

receivers. Odell he is off the market,

19:25

Boyd and he's now off the market. Michael Thomas still.

19:27

Out there, one on one on the top, one on one.

19:29

MVS available,

19:32

tight ends, Logan Thomas, m Marcedes

19:35

Lewis available. Skills like a quizz, big

19:37

bone, Randy a kicker, eternally available.

19:40

Sean Let's said, we did sixty

19:43

seven.

19:45

Andrews Pete's taking out, but yeah, most of them are

19:48

are still stuff Gilmore

19:50

still there a lot of cornerbacks.

19:52

Zavian Howard's another one we mentioned the

19:54

other day. Tyler Boyd is actually a meaningful signing.

19:57

I feel like for this late in the mix, I think

19:59

that's a good move because they're thin. DeAndre

20:01

Hopkins okay, number

20:03

one at this point of his year, I mean his career,

20:06

but a got a good starter. Calvin Ridley's

20:08

solid starter, a little inconsistent

20:10

but made a lot of money for a reason, but it was a pretty

20:12

big fall. I think the Treylon Burks is now probably

20:15

number four.

20:16

Yeah, I think Burks has taking a seat to some

20:18

degree.

20:19

Yeah, I think it's where he should be. Is maybe not a

20:21

seat, but like you've thrown

20:23

thirty snaps a game, you.

20:24

Get him in the mix.

20:25

I love that offensive coordinator.

20:27

We talked about the floutest Signetti, Frank

20:29

Signetti. We talked about the flouted.

20:31

Yeah, medieval

20:34

times, this is how floutess actually sound.

20:36

That can we not sleep on the sacks Man? You

20:38

couldn't.

20:39

You couldn't.

20:40

They really work well together.

20:42

Little you're making me wonder because Walker

20:44

is in the decision making process. They have

20:47

to choose an instrument for orchestra

20:50

next year, oh, or do chorus,

20:53

but he doesn't want to do that.

20:53

Don't go, so don't go flute

20:56

now, Sachs.

20:57

I think flute. Though you guys are talking

20:59

up the flute the food it's light. I'm

21:02

thinking more what's the heaviest to carry to school?

21:04

I always wanted to play the saxophone, and you

21:06

can like jam out to the saxophone saxophone

21:08

at a wedding.

21:09

Have you ever actually played the saxophone as someone

21:11

who played some ORNs back, I mean kind

21:13

of it sucks.

21:14

You were honking?

21:15

Yeah, what do you mean?

21:17

You played some porns?

21:18

Remember, like our school was similar

21:21

that everyone had to play an instrument, right, And I

21:23

tried the trumpet and the saxophone. Oh this was now

21:26

this and I was like, this is terrible, and

21:28

I switched. It's like hurts your lips,

21:30

you know, it's hard.

21:31

Trumpet.

21:32

I did trumpet and trumpe.

21:33

Yeah, it's not fun.

21:34

Really.

21:34

Yeah. I played tuba. I did tuba.

21:36

I played tuba the novelty of it, and

21:39

then then it became me lugging a giant tube.

21:42

This is what I'm talking.

21:43

I was like, what a miss I don't even remember. I

21:45

was like in middle school, I had this big thing. Our

21:47

instruments were old.

21:48

Oh my gosh, that's that we

21:51

walked both the.

21:53

So that's it's a big considering if you don't want to be

21:55

lugging around the immense instrument that you were eventually

21:58

leave in someone's car.

21:58

And it's gone across like.

21:59

A five year decision too, if you go do it all through

22:01

middle school, maybe to high school.

22:03

If you were born in

22:06

and about nineteen eighty, the sacks

22:08

by the late eighties was a very cool instrument

22:11

because it was all over music on the radio

22:13

and things of that nature. I'm still inter and I remember

22:16

I remember everyone when it was

22:18

like who could sign up for? Like

22:20

Greg's talking about the band or whatever music

22:23

classes. Everyone wanted to get on the sacks

22:25

And I signed up too late, couldn't get sax

22:28

lessons. But then it turned out to be more like a

22:30

criminal punishment for all the kids that were able to sign

22:33

up because it was so hard.

22:33

Apparently I quit so fast that it

22:36

was like torture.

22:36

And meanwhile, I'm just like an extended recess

22:38

while they're like in their own private hell, learn

22:41

how to play an impossible instrument. Awful.

22:43

I went to school at a more realistic

22:45

time where they realized, like eighty seven

22:47

percent of these people probably have no music abilities.

22:49

So I had the option to take music history

22:52

with a teacher named Mama hod Fu. Yeah,

22:54

Mama Hods would just play records and you sit in the back row

22:57

and don't do what. You don't know what lickabusiness?

22:58

What is your what is your theory? A more realistic

23:01

time, well, it's like the entire

23:03

class learns how to play an instrument, Like the vast.

23:05

Majority of it all takes is one one kid

23:08

that really has a natural gift for it, and there's

23:10

only one way to find out. Mark you've got to give. I

23:13

didn't though access to music because

23:15

music programs are so important, h

23:18

to.

23:18

That's the education system.

23:20

I'm not disagreeing with you. I don't have to believe in every

23:22

child in terms of every skill or

23:24

ability.

23:24

Wow, realism.

23:27

I played the piano and I'm glad you're not educated.

23:29

I'll put it that way.

23:31

With that attitude, music history

23:33

is valuable to I learned a

23:35

lot.

23:35

I can't blame that, but I do like the idea that everyone

23:38

gets a shot if they want.

23:40

Well, I can I in

23:42

this conversation, Can I.

23:43

Try a horn that now? You can?

23:45

Don't be You got to be realistic, son, if they want

23:47

to. But you've got a bunch of people sitting

23:49

in like I do, do chorse, it's likely right.

23:51

I am people.

23:53

One thing I would say a life lesson from the

23:55

saxophone trumpet time was I think I

23:57

quit that stuff so fast, like never let your parents.

24:00

You can't quit things if you feel

24:02

it in your gut.

24:03

I was.

24:03

I was to chorus weeks later, and

24:06

I'm not a good singer, and but it

24:08

was a lot more fun. You can hide to chorus.

24:10

Mark.

24:10

Imagine if you had a drum set that was just like

24:12

put in front of you, how much would you have.

24:14

Loved that as a kid.

24:15

We've got some.

24:16

Breaking news a trade

24:18

on May nine? What and it's a

24:21

it's a trade worthy of May nine.

24:23

The Rams are sendering Super

24:26

Bowl champion wide

24:28

receiver on the field during

24:30

the game winning drive to win.

24:32

The Super Bowl, Ben's Qronik to

24:34

the Texans.

24:35

Oh to trade.

24:37

Wow, I'm speechless.

24:40

Pull them in the desert over here. So they

24:42

they cut them, and then they didn't cut them.

24:44

But they announced there was a report that they

24:46

were cutting him, and the Texans apparently then called

24:48

him and said, like we'll give you. Wow, what I've been guessing

24:50

is like a seventh round conditional type of pick.

24:54

But Ben Skornick, when when

24:56

Odell got hurt in the Super Bowl, he

24:59

was he was like thrust into

25:01

a major role at the end of that game. That what I was saying,

25:04

that was well, he was there, but he was being

25:06

targeted. I think he made one big catch but also

25:08

had a couple drops in the game.

25:10

He vantished last year because a puka, but he was

25:12

an interesting like seventh

25:14

round player.

25:15

Therefore he played some seasons fall back.

25:16

I believe last year

25:19

was Yeah, Honnie good

25:22

ug good on special teams.

25:23

All right, let's take a break and then we'll play a little

25:25

guess who. All right, we

25:27

are back. It is time now to have

25:30

a little have

25:33

a little fun. Isn't that great? Colleen?

25:35

He so important?

25:36

That's great?

25:37

How is what's going on with the summer of Connie? I know,

25:39

speaking of fun, what do you have planned this summer?

25:42

You know what we are, We're

25:45

in the early stages of things.

25:46

The summer of Kanyie needs to unfold on its own,

25:48

like it's a more of an organic in the moment

25:51

type thing. So you kind of go wherever

25:53

the world pulls you at any given

25:56

time. So sometimes having no plan, but

25:58

no tickets to grease this year, no

26:00

tickets degrees.

26:01

Yet this year not the play of the country.

26:04

Yeah, exactly, So staying

26:07

stateside for right now?

26:09

All right, Well, we all we kind

26:11

of lived through you, so there's a little almost a little

26:13

bit of pressure for you to give give us

26:15

that experience.

26:16

She if I recall she talked about

26:18

hosting a party at her compound

26:21

like like the hours after the draft ended.

26:23

So that's that is true.

26:25

And then also I feel like usually

26:27

the kickoff happens around the

26:30

time that we do a remote for the show.

26:32

Right hold your breath on

26:34

the on that day, all right, So the

26:37

NFL schedule for that maybe not falling into

26:39

place this year, all right, but well we

26:41

will have a remote show. Cool, all

26:44

right, let's get into it. Let's

26:46

it's a it's a game called Guess Who. We're

26:49

going to talk about some people

26:51

in the NFL world who

26:55

you know. These are people

26:57

that matter, put it that way and veryone.

27:00

Grab your whiteboard and a marker.

27:03

The key to this game is we take

27:05

turns laying

27:08

out descriptions

27:10

of this figure without trying to give it away immediately.

27:14

Wait until the end of the setup

27:18

to make your guests write it down on the board, and

27:20

then we'll see if you guys are able to guess it correctly.

27:23

I will get us going.

27:25

Mark and I are making eyes at

27:28

each other like, well, I'm hoping.

27:29

I did I did it, I did it the exercise.

27:31

How are you feeling now that I've I thought we would

27:33

be guessing after each one, but now

27:36

I'm going to adjust.

27:37

Okay, clue,

27:39

we have multiple clues.

27:41

Oh no, it's a it's

27:43

it's a building.

27:44

Tiered teers.

27:45

We're all, we're all great improv actors. Like now

27:47

it's time to maybe kill the one

27:49

that was too obvious at the very end

27:52

that I had ready.

27:53

All right, hit it, funk, let's get into it.

27:56

I am

27:58

an important figure in

28:00

the landscape of pro football.

28:04

Okay, it's literally anyone.

28:06

The look the look.

28:08

Greg just gonna take my white board out of You

28:10

should have seen the withering look that Mark

28:12

just gave you.

28:12

Greg when you started talking at.

28:14

When when a share buddy?

28:15

Because we all have one?

28:16

Why would we found one under the table?

28:21

I need I need a marker, but I don't

28:23

want you to touch it.

28:25

All right, I, in

28:27

case you missed it, am

28:29

an important figure in the landscape of

28:32

pro football. Okay, I'm hot,

28:36

or maybe I'm not. Hm, it's

28:38

actually hard to say. Don't

28:41

let people see your answer. My

28:44

NFL career to this point has

28:46

not been a disappointment, but you

28:49

know, it's rarely been thrilling. I am I'm

28:52

not the

28:54

bust or a direct hit. The

28:57

heighs have been memorable, but not iconic. The

28:59

low's mostly forgettable or

29:01

explained away. I'm

29:04

laying in the weeds right now, mostly

29:06

forgotten. As other players in my position

29:08

group have assumed the mantle of the next big

29:11

thing, I

29:13

still could be the next big thing. Society

29:16

moves so fast, and we tend to make snap judgments

29:18

on things that require more time to

29:20

effectively understand. You know what's up with that. I'm

29:24

not the type to run my mouth in the

29:27

media or write a dopey

29:29

personal letter on Derek Jeeter's

29:31

website. This is me direct

29:34

to the people. I'm filtered by anyone booth

29:36

enough, I'm

29:38

actually largely formless in terms of

29:40

personality, which has some

29:43

ways ascribed to kind of mystery to me. Still,

29:45

I remain a figure of legitimate intrigue

29:47

and immense promise. Who

29:50

am I? All

29:52

right, we're gonna go around. Feel

29:55

very confident?

29:56

All right, well let me go to you third then, Okay,

29:58

let's start with Colleie.

30:01

I almost want to hear the clues again, but I know that's not

30:03

part.

30:03

Of the listening

30:06

experience, and those at home could play along. Obviously,

30:08

the game has layers.

30:10

Okay, I'm going to say that it is

30:12

a quarterback, and that's

30:14

correct. The first quarterback I wrote,

30:16

give us a ding, Sam Howell.

30:18

But leading a segment with Sam

30:21

Howe would be to go Zach

30:23

Wilson. All right, we're gonna go now to

30:25

Greg.

30:25

I'm not going to say no because he said

30:28

this this person was not a bust uh

30:30

So no, Zach Wilson. I

30:33

wrote it down very early, and then as you

30:35

got towards the end, I got I grew

30:37

less confident.

30:38

Okay, I'm going with

30:41

Kyler Murray.

30:42

Interesting. Okay, Mark Sessler, what's

30:45

going on with your Why did you show your board by the

30:48

oh maybe not.

30:50

I got a little less confident as

30:53

you crept along there too. I wrote this about two

30:55

sentences in, but I went Trevor Lawrence.

30:57

That is correct that

31:00

Trevor Lawrence.

31:01

I got stuck on Kyler and great job, Mark.

31:03

Can you I know you'd get it well.

31:04

I also, you know, I listened to what you

31:06

say on the show, and Trevor Lawrence has been a figure

31:09

that you brought up in the terms that you

31:11

described it there multiple times.

31:13

Unbelievable the way you see it all pays off.

31:15

It does, having that level of the job.

31:17

But isn't it interesting that Kyler

31:19

also a number one overall draftic until you got

31:22

to the part where like you had no idea

31:24

about his personality, which that I

31:26

was like, people kind of do have an idea about Kyler.

31:29

He's been sort of has written posts. Let's

31:33

start with that. I mean, is what

31:36

Trevor Lawrence was like. He's

31:38

like statuesque, but it's hard to

31:40

tell if he's like classes.

31:41

He's kind of like a Disney

31:44

prince. But like when you take

31:46

that and you take it out of animation and make it

31:48

a real person, it's like, is that he

31:51

looks a little almost too like

31:53

angular and cartoonish.

31:55

This is the main reason.

31:56

How about you, Colleen, what do you think is Trevor Lawrence

31:58

in an attractive man? I

32:01

mean he's fine, no takes okay.

32:03

I mean he's like six six I in person, he

32:06

struck by him.

32:07

He's a good looking kid. I look at him like he's a

32:09

kid though, so.

32:11

Well he is a full blown adult.

32:12

But I get

32:14

it though, and and uh and now you

32:17

know, just to kind of go over and I do think

32:19

he is laying in the weeds because

32:21

he does have in that division where everyone

32:24

now has counted out the Jacks, he

32:27

could be the difference maker there if if

32:29

and I know you've made a point of it, Greg, like if

32:32

you go back and rewatch,

32:34

that was an absurd Jaguar season. Last year

32:36

was a disappointing one. Obviously, coming off.

32:38

The Eagles kind of let them off the hook of like

32:41

unbelievable collapses because they're at they

32:43

had they like reverse

32:45

outshined them.

32:46

And Lawrence obviously the end of the season injured

32:48

and was banged up. But there were so many

32:51

different moments where Trevor

32:53

Lawrence almost had

32:56

a huge play, a huge touchdown, the

32:58

balls bobbled or was one foot down

33:00

in the back of the end zone like that was a hallmark

33:03

of their season. Incredibly frustrating. So

33:06

you kind of you wipe the board and he's

33:08

obviously you would think, comes back one hundred percent

33:10

healthy. They do not. I think Doug Peterson

33:13

said, we're now We're no longer like the hunted,

33:15

where the hunters and all that.

33:17

I think if you believe in Doug Peterson,

33:19

Connie.

33:20

And I know that you have reason to believe in Peterson's

33:22

Super Bowl champion, there are

33:24

some pretty good bolletin board material and

33:26

ways to get that team that does

33:29

have talent, a lot of talent actually to

33:34

buy into the idea that nobody believes

33:36

it us and that matters in sports.

33:38

It was a disappointing year for him, highest sack

33:40

percentage he's ever had, struggled

33:43

to like connect down the field, and then they suddenly

33:46

had Gabe Davis and Brian Thomas

33:48

Junior, who you know, there wasn't the plan. They wanted

33:50

to keep Ridley and they got out bid.

33:53

And those two guys are very similar to me,

33:55

just like total burners. So it's sort

33:57

of the opposite of last year where

33:59

they weren't throwing the ball down the field. He felt

34:01

a little too conservative, had a lot of interception.

34:03

He wasn't bad, but this is a guy I kind

34:05

of forgot this. But he hit a seventh in MVP

34:08

voting in twenty twenty two. He actually got a few

34:10

like third place votes there in

34:13

MVP and else was the

34:15

two.

34:15

Quarterback of one of the great comebacks in playoff

34:18

history in round one. He was fine, though,

34:20

But you're right that the world moves on.

34:22

That was the part where I thought you were talking about Kyler, because

34:24

I was like, Kyler is sneaky, only

34:26

one year older than Michael Pennox, like, and he's still

34:28

a very talented player, and the world's really moved on from

34:30

him.

34:31

But Lawrence made more sense.

34:32

I mean they were.

34:33

I thought there were like trade whispers around Kyler Murray,

34:35

like Trevor Lawrence is years away

34:38

of unproductive play to be called a bust.

34:40

I think, if anything, he's Oh he's good, big bounce

34:42

back candidate.

34:43

I need to write down the clues. Yeah,

34:45

oh, I can reference

34:48

them.

34:48

As they bill all right, Now, this is

34:51

like quarterback ranking season, and I've seen

34:53

some pop up and I still see him creeping

34:55

into the top ten, which surprised me.

34:56

I would not. Did you roll that other market off

34:59

the table?

35:00

I did.

35:01

It was unintentional, but it rolled off the glass

35:03

table.

35:04

Who wants to go? Who wants to go next?

35:07

Colleen?

35:08

Okay, here we go.

35:11

I'm an NFL bad boy from

35:13

Mississippi, Greg Rosevein that

35:16

just enjoyed my first Pro Bowl

35:18

season. I set

35:20

franchise records my rookie

35:22

year and melted hearts across

35:25

this beautiful country. I

35:28

have hair like a god, and

35:30

my grandfather wanted me to be named Beowulf,

35:34

after an old English poem about a hero

35:36

from Sweden who travels to Denmark and

35:38

kills man eating monsters and later in life,

35:41

confronts and kills a fire breathing dragon,

35:43

but dies in the effort.

35:44

I remember that one from ninth grade.

35:46

My current team was always my one

35:48

seed, and unlike less

35:50

Sneed, I certainly know how to change a tire. Oh

35:53

after spending an off season on

35:56

an old prison bus. I

35:59

often find myself in a competition, but

36:02

I'm still number one in your wife's heart. I

36:05

like rock and roll, throwing dimes,

36:08

catching up on my Hunter Thompson collection.

36:13

Jockstraps and lava lamps.

36:15

Keep me going

36:17

strong into my sixth NFL

36:19

season on my fourth

36:21

team.

36:23

I can go one more little

36:25

bit here.

36:26

But I like that none of us will

36:28

get it at this point. But okay,

36:31

maybe I'm wrong.

36:31

Sixth the NFL season, four teams. M

36:34

hm, the

36:36

ladies love him? Okay,

36:39

is from Mississippi.

36:43

I'm happy.

36:44

Number one wife's heart.

36:46

That one is?

36:46

Yeah, that's do you want to give

36:48

us the last n sure?

36:50

Okay?

36:51

What I gonna write mine now?

36:52

And just see I like

36:54

denim and patches, aviators

36:58

and bandanas.

37:00

Oh, I'm

37:04

totally lost. I actually still

37:07

don't really know. But I have a guest. Do you want

37:09

to wait?

37:10

I uh, how

37:13

many teams did you say for?

37:14

Oh? I think I know it is. That's

37:17

still the number one in your wife's heart is a weird one to me.

37:20

But all

37:22

right, let's see who am I?

37:23

We all are thrown up. I got Gardner

37:25

Minshew Greg has Gardner Minshew Schler.

37:27

Oh I thought it was a defensive player. You

37:32

had me stumped intil I thought it was for some reason?

37:33

Is that I am good

37:36

jockstrap king? I am uncle

37:38

Rea? I am Gardner Minshew, I

37:40

don't do.

37:41

Do you think that the typical wife

37:44

longs for Gardner Minshoe?

37:46

I think only because it's probably because

37:48

I have a text chain with

37:50

some people that you probably you all

37:53

know who.

37:57

On the ground reporting that's really that's what we Yeah,

38:00

I mean, I guess he's conventionally

38:03

attracted.

38:03

I never I never put that together.

38:05

Oh yeah, she's sometimes personality

38:08

though, you know, yeah.

38:10

I need to find out who's saying this. And also the

38:12

way he carries himself with a lot of confidence,

38:15

like I can understand.

38:16

That personality, and the overall

38:19

minsh resk and the great.

38:21

Relationship with his dad like that kind of stuff

38:23

is like, oh he's sweet too. Yeah, that was good. That

38:25

was good. That was great. Kelly, you're on fire.

38:27

Excellent.

38:28

All right, Greg, you are up next.

38:30

Okay.

38:32

Played the music I

38:34

wish I got money.

38:35

I don't need your bed mark. It

38:41

was music.

38:42

I was featured on the

38:44

Netflix series qb QB

38:46

one Beyond the Lights.

38:48

UB one Yellow Lights.

38:52

I changed my nickname in

38:54

college because it was problematic.

38:58

Oh no, Dixie, the

39:02

owner of the team that

39:04

drafted me, once

39:07

called me a superhero.

39:15

I've started seventeen games

39:19

at my position since

39:22

high school.

39:27

In my first three starts, I

39:31

had four rushing touchdowns, setting

39:35

an NFL record.

39:41

I don't want to give you the next one. I'll give it away.

39:43

Well, I'm stuffed. I don't know who you guys are. Okay,

39:46

how you doing? Mark?

39:47

The seventeen starts threw me way up.

39:48

Course since high school?

39:50

Okay, I'll give you one more then, which is I

39:52

was a top five pick in the NFL

39:54

draft.

39:56

Oh, top five picks, seventeen high

39:58

school.

39:59

Starts, seventhin

40:01

games at his position, since.

40:03

I seventeen games

40:05

at his position.

40:07

Interly, maybe

40:14

I made it too hard.

40:15

I like it. You weren't going to give us the last one.

40:20

He's only played so he's not a quarterback, but

40:23

he was on the quarterback He

40:26

was on the Netflix series show

40:29

I don't know. I missed that one. QB one beyond

40:31

the Lights is like a deep

40:33

Greg cut. He changed his nickname

40:36

in college. This is because it was problematic for

40:38

me.

40:38

That was can you give us the nickname?

40:40

Maybe that was as a h Maybe

40:42

I shouldn't even answered yet.

40:47

Looking back, seventeen

40:50

total starts or seventeen starts at the position,

40:53

he was seventeen games at his position?

40:57

Okay, and.

41:00

Did he play different positions? What

41:03

is this Ale's questions question?

41:05

Yeah? Truth or dare I

41:09

said what I said? That's not truth? All

41:11

right?

41:11

Go ahead, all right, let's look around

41:13

the room. Marcus crost Out, Marcus Mariota.

41:16

I thought, no, it's not Edelin,

41:18

but I thought it was maybe Mariota until the seventeen

41:20

starts off the wasn't he on the other quarterback?

41:23

I'm totally as you was. You got me?

41:25

Were they successful in the NFL?

41:27

I wish at his position seems to really

41:30

have thrown you. He didn't actually change positions?

41:32

Uh?

41:33

Did you write anything?

41:34

No?

41:34

I just wrote down the hints thinking it would

41:36

help.

41:37

All Right, I will get Should I give you the nickname?

41:39

Yeah?

41:40

At least, but the nickname

41:42

was ar fifteen? Oh, I

41:47

mean it is Alan

41:49

Robinson, it is Anthony Richard.

41:51

Oh oh, we

41:54

talked about.

41:56

Spencer Radler was on that show too,

41:59

and it hurt his I was like, also on that show.

42:03

Get darted for that, Anthony Richards?

42:05

Hey, yeah, fifty uh

42:08

seventeen. That's all there. Greg, that's

42:10

a good one. Let's do a

42:12

job by you, Greg. Yeah, I

42:15

should have had that. The superhero

42:17

thing, that's what ers said there right, Ers said

42:19

that damn it. All right, let's take a

42:21

break and we'll go around one more stumped us. All

42:26

right, we're back. Mark, you're up. Okay,

42:30

have your bored?

42:31

Yes, here is my hero of my count good

42:33

hold on here bored and Penn you're

42:35

Mark?

42:36

Okay?

42:37

Drums please drums.

42:40

It's petsif on the head that the signs the

42:42

movie.

42:43

I'm a controversial figure lodged

42:46

in the American Football Conference. I'm

42:50

so controversial that some like

42:52

to act as if I'm not even part of the league to

42:54

make themselves feel better about their worldview,

42:56

which says more about them than me.

42:59

WHOA.

43:00

When I'm not on the football field, I

43:03

am involved with my music, and

43:06

when I enjoy lunch, I like to have a glass of

43:08

milk with freshly baked bread.

43:10

Who the wouldn't bread

43:15

is operating.

43:15

I have an unusual name that small minded

43:18

types make fun of because it's somewhat androgynous,

43:21

and in fact used liberally by

43:23

groups of young girls. I

43:28

have a family line that dates back to the early sixteenth

43:31

century. When I was a child,

43:34

a relative gave me this write up

43:36

about my lineage, which reads, we

43:38

are typically hairy chested and live

43:40

in houses and farms with people. We

43:42

undertake a range of domestic and agricultural

43:45

chores on the understanding that

43:47

we get free board and lodging. Some

43:50

people complain that I dominate the football

43:52

field in a way that makes it tough to focus

43:55

on the actual game. There's

44:00

one more clue I can

44:02

use it. Miles Garrett steps

44:05

all over me, but he believes

44:07

in me.

44:10

What controversial

44:18

figure? Oh

44:21

okay, I

44:24

guess you kind of gave it.

44:29

I would bet that Greg hasn't.

44:33

A name that girls

44:36

use.

44:38

Now thinking back to all the clues, it's amazing.

44:45

I don't know, you know, I'll guess first of

44:47

the weeks, I really don't know. First

44:53

I thought it was like DeShawn but no, and then

44:55

Mason Rudolph, But he was batting

44:57

the helmet with a helmet by Miles

45:00

Garrett.

45:00

Right, Taylor, Heineke,

45:03

No, I mean you had it, Dan, It

45:05

is Mason Rude I believe.

45:07

No, not no, I

45:09

don't.

45:10

I don't have I wrote Watson.

45:13

It is never never

45:15

discount utter confidence in

45:18

you had it here

45:21

it is it's Brownie the Elf.

45:23

Oh damn, that's

45:25

all right.

45:25

That was the Brownies girls controversial

45:28

figures. I like that mark.

45:31

It was like a trendy thing on TikTok, like

45:33

girls were calling guys.

45:34

I mean, would any of us ever guess that?

45:37

Because there is if you think

45:39

about it, like a lot one of the people they had,

45:42

they done poles for people. A lot of brown

45:44

skins don't like that Midfield giant elf

45:46

and it does on television depending

45:48

on how the Browns are dressed.

45:49

They get a little lost in the weeds visually.

45:52

But he believes in me.

45:53

No, I wish I I think he led

45:56

us in a beautiful direction. The lineage

45:58

was hilarious that that was

46:00

good for some reason. Then I was like, all right,

46:02

it must be Mason, rude, bread

46:05

and milk.

46:06

That's the true thing about them, according to what's

46:09

a.

46:11

All right, who's up here?

46:12

Now?

46:12

I can't tap that?

46:14

Okay, big funk, Here we go. I'm

46:17

both the what oh

46:20

god, jeez, you're so needy.

46:24

Okay, here we go again. I'm

46:28

going to kill you.

46:29

I'm going to slap you,

46:32

all right, go ahead, you're

46:38

good, Okay. I'm

46:41

both the villain and the hero, the

46:44

sinner and same. I will

46:46

dictate your future, whether you like it or not. I'm

46:49

tied to not one but all. I'm

46:52

everywhere and nowhere, and once

46:54

I have bestow the fruits of my labor, they will

46:56

be etched in stone for the rest of time.

46:59

Whoa, Now it's it's my turn, my

47:01

time. I'm the darling. I

47:04

call the shots, I do the interviews,

47:07

I get the shine.

47:09

It's about me, okay.

47:13

I operate in the shadows with a

47:15

deep network of intelligence.

47:17

I have the answers. You only have questions.

47:20

But soon my information will be revealed.

47:22

I will again retreat to my bunker

47:24

of silence. A seemingly

47:27

endless array of combinations is

47:29

my wheelhouse only. Cynthia

47:31

Freelan likes algorithms more than me. And

47:34

if you tell my secrets before I'm ready

47:36

to share, the wrath of the almighty.

47:38

Will take you swiftly and the rapture will begin. Who

47:41

am I?

47:42

Wow?

47:45

That was well written. Thank you. I'm

47:48

gonna go with Howie Roseman.

47:51

No, No,

47:55

I went NFL schedule makers.

47:58

Okay, is

48:00

that that's close enough? Who

48:03

did you have?

48:04

I went with the Raiser.

48:09

I am Mike north Pp

48:12

of Broadcast plan.

48:16

How I'm

48:18

gonna file uh an

48:21

official complaint

48:24

and.

48:24

Tell me that none of it, like any of.

48:26

That was everything that out now that I'm

48:28

listening now going through my head. Yes, everything

48:30

does connect technically except me.

48:33

Hell, Racer doesn't disappear into the shadows, so

48:35

I feel he's constantly with us times.

48:38

Uh, that's fun. That's a fun one.

48:40

That was Mike Norris.

48:41

I love Mike nor so much.

48:45

Going to get a text like, yeah.

48:50

What I believe, but yeah,

48:52

people in that office listen to this

48:55

show, Well shut up. I imagined

48:57

many times that they were basically right

48:59

around the corner when I had a desk at

49:01

the NFL offices in business development,

49:04

and then saw them over the years,

49:06

and I believe they are fans of around

49:08

the NFL.

49:09

All right, we have one more, okay,

49:11

and it will be from Greg Okay,

49:16

all right.

49:19

My career.

49:22

Started, much

49:24

like Mark Sessler, by writing

49:26

a letter to a famous NFL

49:29

figure.

49:31

This NFL figure was Ron Wolfe.

49:34

Letter all right.

49:38

A recent video counted the number

49:40

of times I said the word buddy during

49:43

the NFL draft. I said

49:45

it twenty two times.

49:49

Buddy.

49:52

I currently have a.

49:53

Lot of dip on my chip, including

49:56

the making of a social

49:58

video right before the draft,

50:02

arguably mocking our team's

50:04

fans that were up in arms over

50:07

a silly story.

50:13

A lot of dip, A

50:15

lot of it's as.

50:19

I helped to acquire.

50:22

Every member of

50:25

my franchise's only title

50:27

except for four. One

50:30

of those four players was

50:33

Brandon Mebane. Should

50:43

I leave it there? I have a yes, Okay, I think

50:45

you've got it. The last one is probably gonna.

50:47

Give it away. That actually is not what gave it

50:49

away. But I don't even know if I'm right.

50:51

Okay, my last two just for the hell of it.

50:53

Mark does have it right?

50:55

Is that I'm famous for a

50:57

shirtless picture, Yes, and that

50:59

I oh quietly pushed

51:02

out the man this offseason

51:04

most associated with my success.

51:06

Okay, So I had it wrong.

51:07

Actually, I thought.

51:10

Maybe that Elliott Wolfe wrote Ron Wolfe

51:12

a letter at first, but I crossed that out. I thought Chris

51:14

Ballard was spicy during the draft. Trent Balki

51:16

had that thing happened to him.

51:17

That John Schneider, Yeah.

51:19

Night, Oh that's good, that's

51:22

real good.

51:22

A lot of dip on the chip, I've noticed.

51:24

I thought it was the silly Seahawks story though, so

51:27

everyone was upset that the

51:29

new coach took down pictures

51:32

in the hallway. This is like a this is an off

51:34

season trope, by the way, that new coaches do this,

51:36

and then the fans get upset. Supposedly they

51:38

had taken down a lot of the pictures in

51:40

certain parts of the hallways of the Seahawks. So

51:42

then Schneider and Mike McDonald

51:45

taped multiple social clips, like in

51:48

front of various pictures saying

51:50

how they were excited for the draft.

51:52

That was a fun move.

51:54

I liked it.

51:54

Dip on my chip is real

51:57

great.

51:58

I'm just I'm just noticing, like we're

52:00

noticing with Chris Ballard certain

52:02

things, there's a there's a difference this Schneider.

52:05

It's kind of like he's been almost

52:09

like a vibe like he's been in this middle

52:11

management position. Not that he has been, but as if

52:14

the boss that he's always been waiting to leave

52:16

is gone and now he's running the show a lot.

52:19

I know that.

52:20

Uh, that's happening in our newsroom at

52:22

times.

52:22

Sure, I'm pretty I don't want to say

52:24

I'm pretty sure, but who knows. But I think less

52:27

Need is a dip guy, by the way, So that's

52:29

where.

52:29

I was I was thinking, Yeah,

52:32

I was thinking more like the

52:35

phrase, you know, got

52:38

a dip on your chip.

52:39

You're like Dick Clark over here, world teenager,

52:43

you have too much dip on your chip means that being lost

52:45

and something can affect other parts of your life.

52:49

I've never heard this phrase before.

52:50

Phrase uses hurt to encourage you, but not

52:53

to rule you. What the I think it's

52:55

I think of it also sometimes to

52:57

TikTok.

52:58

For instance, like Baker may Field

53:00

would strike me as a person that's

53:02

sometimes even on the field, that a

53:04

little too much dip for his chip. He almost trying

53:06

to trying to be a little too much extra.

53:09

And maybe it's yeah, it's gonna come back

53:11

to might see.

53:12

I'm a heavy dipper, so I don't know, like

53:14

it's tough.

53:15

I feel like there's a lot of there's

53:18

an old Texan saying that I know from

53:20

my family now that too much sugar for a dime?

53:24

Huh. I like that. I don't know I did what it means, but too

53:26

much sugar for a dime is like it's not worth it, It's not worth

53:28

the trouble.

53:29

The other one, the other phrase can only be post

53:32

chips and salt. And I was trying to think, how long

53:34

have chips and salts have been around, does

53:36

anyone know?

53:36

I don't know. Fifty four

53:38

years show should have ended about five minutes time.

53:43

Chips and Dip nineteen ninety two, that's

53:46

when it started.

53:47

And yeah, he came up through

53:49

that Ron Wolf Packers front

53:51

office back in the day, John Schneider.

53:54

Very nice, very nice.

53:55

All right, that is it Elliott

53:58

Wolf writing Ron Wolf le.

54:00

I thought I might have been how that relationship again.

54:02

But it's just well, I think if you gain much earlier.

54:07

All right, let's take a break and we'll close up.

54:14

Welcome back to the show.

54:16

Very nice, very nice, Colleen.

54:19

We are wrapping things up. By

54:21

the way, Big soccer

54:25

weekend coming up. Oh boy,

54:27

Slynn Patel, my buddy owner

54:30

impossibly of West Brom Big

54:33

big home and home with South Hampton, actually

54:35

reached out to joining Gonzales. You're

54:38

familiar with work, yes to

54:40

kind of explain to me what's

54:42

at stake this weekend for West Brom, the

54:45

team, the footy team of around the NFL.

54:48

Anyway, West Brom plays South Hampton at

54:50

a home and home. Winner of that on aggregate

54:52

advances to play winner of Norwich

54:55

City and Leeds. Winner of that is promoted

54:57

to the Premium League

55:01

Premiere excuse Jesus Christ, that

55:04

is the Premium League. It's not totally wrong.

55:07

And it's Premier League Premier Yeah.

55:11

The Premier the Premium Premier League.

55:14

And John never too late for a rebrand

55:16

for them. Yeah, South Southampton and Leeds

55:18

got relegated from Premier

55:21

last season, so this is

55:24

huge.

55:24

In fact, Shelyn had told me if they

55:27

do jump up to the Premier

55:29

League, there might be a private jet

55:31

involved and a trip to

55:34

celebrate for you, no,

55:37

like for the group.

55:39

Does that happen during the summer of Connie.

55:41

Yeah, this is why I keep my schedule

55:43

open.

55:45

I'd have to go back and check the wording to see if it

55:47

like involves Mark for instance. But I think

55:49

it was like a collective. He was just like,

55:51

yeah, Greg, you know Colleen,

55:53

all the guys. You

55:56

please clarify. Yeah, and

56:00

I do. Now, speaking of Big Funk,

56:02

Big Funk is actually kind of our source. He really

56:05

knows you know, you're a big fan of

56:07

that. The European the Premium League.

56:10

I love.

56:10

I love Premier League, so below so

56:12

believe below the Premier League, it's called the EFL

56:15

Championship English Football leagu Championship. Below

56:17

that you have Leagues two and

56:20

one, and then below that is like the national side.

56:22

It's a pyramid pretty much the way it constructs.

56:24

That's why sometimes online you'll see you

56:26

know, ninth tier side whatever played

56:29

against League two side whoever,

56:31

such and such. So it's a big it's a big deal

56:34

because when you get that mona should.

56:35

Be so much better with your theme song underneath it, by everything.

56:40

All right, I feel all right,

56:42

start over, okay, sure, So

56:47

it's an inverted pyramid, yeah, pretty

56:49

much.

56:49

So the top of the top is the Premier League, regular

56:53

pyramid pyramids in

56:56

big.

56:59

It's a year.

57:02

All the leagues, okay,

57:07

go ahead, Oh all right.

57:08

So the way it works is you want to get promoted up

57:10

because if you get promoted up, you get TV money, you

57:13

know, you get sponsorship money. That's why private jets,

57:15

you get private jets. And the opposite happens

57:17

when you get relegated. So if you get bumped down, bumped

57:20

down a league, you lose players, you lose

57:22

out on lots of revenue, and sometimes that

57:24

can leave teams in financial ruin. So it's

57:26

a really big deal with these guys get promoted because

57:29

just because you make it one year doesn't guarantee

57:31

you'll make it the next year. Right, last year Coventry

57:33

made it with Luton, Luton got promoted. Coventry ended

57:35

up eighth this year, and so you

57:38

can you can like you can make it really close

57:40

and then be stuck in that league for a decade,

57:42

for decades.

57:43

So it's the last time that West Brom has been

57:45

in the Premier League.

57:46

I think it's been a little under ten years. I

57:49

don't remember exactly. For instance, second

57:51

place side if which which finished below

57:53

Lester they're automatically promoted. Is the first

57:55

time in twenty years they've been

57:57

promoted. So and I think they're called the boys

58:00

for the tractors, but they're getting promoted

58:02

up.

58:02

So it's a big deal. So all right, that's

58:04

a great Rundown, Thank you very much. You bet

58:06

you. I think it's a yeah, West

58:09

bromp up West Brom. There about that?

58:11

And I mean, your friend is.

58:14

Coming over your house at six fifteen in the morning

58:16

or something to watch this.

58:17

I'm down if anybody wanted to come

58:19

over to watch it, I would not turn the door.

58:22

Your friend is about those doors very very

58:25

sounds wealthy to begin with, the whole contingent.

58:27

I mean, or even with you, you're basically

58:30

Dan. How does it feel I'm.

58:32

The friend of a rich person that doesn't really help

58:34

you? Actually, what does.

58:35

If he sends his jet?

58:38

That's true? What if you were in need?

58:40

Nice experience, nice little PJ

58:42

action.

58:43

What do you mean like come to him with my hand

58:45

out? That's not my style? Well

58:47

it's not. I don't come in my hand out. If

58:50

you were in your need, would he could help help

58:52

you? But you would?

58:53

You would fly on the private jet?

58:54

Oh yeah, a little bit, you would do absolutely.

58:58

Yes. What if they gave me a list of

59:01

you know, seven people can go on the jet?

59:03

Oh my god, that would be Dan's dream to

59:05

pick this up.

59:06

I'd definitely hold interviews.

59:09

It would become a full reality.

59:11

Show, right, it would be.

59:13

It would take care of a lot of summer programming for the

59:15

podcast.

59:16

Be good, All right, thank you everybody

59:19

for listening. Go baggies, let's

59:21

do this thing, and we'll be back

59:24

on Monday with

59:27

more football goodness. And

59:29

yes, I believe we'll talk about the schedule at some point

59:31

as well, whenever they deign to let

59:33

us know officially.

59:35

Take your time.

59:36

Mike North we'll be here northy until

59:39

then, Heed the call