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have a very important answer. Should

3:54

we feel bad for a man who's getting paid $39

3:56

million to not work? No,

4:00

are you talking about Hank? I'm talking about Hank. No,

4:02

I don't feel bad for Hank. I'm talking about Russell

4:04

Wilson. Russell Wilson has been cut by

4:06

the Denver Broncos. We all expected it. That's

4:08

the dream. Anytime a coach gets bought out,

4:11

any time a quarterback gets cut and they've

4:13

got this big dead cap hit, yeah, I

4:15

would love to get paid millions of dollars

4:17

to not work anymore. That is truly, schools

4:19

should teach classes. If you want to

4:21

prepare young children for how to succeed

4:23

in America, teach them the best ways

4:26

to get paid a fuckload of money and to not

4:28

have to work at their job. But

4:31

with all that comes the territory

4:33

of being maybe the worst NFL trade

4:35

of all time. Herschel Walker has always

4:38

been the gold standard, or sorry, yeah,

4:40

no, Herschel Walker, right? Herschel Walker. The

4:43

Cowboys dynasty was started with that

4:45

trade, but Russell Wilson's trade, when

4:47

looking back on it, the

4:50

Broncos gave up two first

4:52

round picks. I think they gave up

4:54

what, a second round pick? Two second round picks, a

4:56

fifth round pick. Drew Locke,

4:59

Shelby Harris, Noah Fant, and

5:02

they got back Russell Wilson in a fourth round pick

5:04

and then they signed Russell Wilson to a $242 million

5:06

contract and he played for the

5:10

Broncos for two terrible years. And

5:12

yeah, I think it might be one of the

5:14

worst trades in sports history. I think there was

5:17

a fleecing. It was. The Seahawks

5:19

won this trade. We can officially declare that now. It

5:21

was still up in the air. Yeah. The

5:24

Seahawks, you dominated the Broncos. Congratulations. It's

5:26

another win on your schedule for Russ

5:28

Wilson. I think you asked me

5:30

at the end of the season, like over under Russell

5:33

Wilson starts 16 or 17

5:35

and a half more games. Yeah. I still

5:37

take the over on it. I think that there's going to be

5:39

a team out there that's going to sign him to be a

5:41

starting quarterback next season. It might be a team, probably a team

5:44

that's not very good, but I do

5:46

think that he's going to start next season and

5:48

he's going to start. Oh, he's cheap now. Can they sign

5:50

up for nothing? Yeah, pretty much. For pretty much nothing.

5:52

If you're going to pay Kirk Cousins or you could

5:54

sign Russell Wilson for like 5% of what

5:57

you're going to pay Kirk Cousins. I still would probably

5:59

want. You think 5% of

6:01

Russell Wilson, or 5% of Kirk Cousins is

6:04

better than 100% of Russell Wilson? Yes.

6:07

I don't think Russell Wilson is good anymore. I

6:09

think he's like an average quarterback. I think

6:11

in the right system he could thrive. I

6:14

think he's, yeah, the number one defense. He's

6:17

a weird guy. That's the thing. You

6:20

can overlook signing a weird guy if

6:22

he's going to be good, but Russell's

6:24

goodness, his talent is no longer to

6:27

the point where it outweighs just what a bizarre human being he is. I

6:30

just don't know where that team's going

6:32

to be to sign him

6:34

as a starter when you look at who's got

6:36

openings and... Raiders. Yeah, but are they

6:38

going to draft someone? Are they going to... Obviously,

6:42

whatever, three, four, five of the openings

6:44

will be filled by someone who's drafted

6:46

coming up in a month. Yeah. And

6:49

then Kirk Cousins, Justin Fields, where he

6:51

goes. I just don't know where Russell

6:53

Wilson fits in in these musical chairs.

6:55

Maybe I'm wrong, but I just think...

6:58

I think a team will sign him, no doubt.

7:01

I don't know if they'll be like your guaranteed

7:03

starter. Yeah, what about like a team that's probably

7:06

going to draft a quarterback and could use some

7:08

veteran leadership? Do you want that type of leadership,

7:10

though? Weird leadership.

7:12

Leadership to where? Yeah. It's weird leadership. I

7:14

mean, he's a Super Bowl one in QB.

7:17

That's a fact. True. Yeah.

7:19

I just... I don't know where he fits in. Maybe

7:21

I'm wrong. I think there'll be a team that takes a

7:23

chance on him. Like, if you were

7:25

to tell me that the Steelers signed him, I

7:27

would not be surprised by that. But he wouldn't

7:29

be guaranteed starter. He wouldn't be guaranteed starter. Probably

7:31

not. No, he'd be a QB

7:33

competition. He might win the job. If he signed with

7:35

the Raiders, I think he'd probably be guaranteed starter. Yeah.

7:39

I could see... What about like the Dolphins? As

7:42

a backup? Yeah. I don't think... If you're Russell Wilson, would

7:44

you want to be a backup for the

7:46

Dolphins? I don't think you get to decide. I

7:49

don't think you get to decide if you're Russell Wilson right now. But

7:51

he might. But Russ might be at the point

7:53

where if he's not guaranteed a starter job, he

7:55

might just retire. Like Russell Wilson

7:57

with Mike McDaniel, you know, obviously he'd

7:59

be a backup. But fireworks,

8:03

maybe the Giants did you see the report? Rich

8:05

Eisen said that the Giants are done with Daniel

8:07

Daniel Jones He said the two words that are

8:09

being used for Daniel Jones is buyers remorse yikes

8:13

At the time I think when we I think

8:15

Leroy his ghost might have actually broken the news

8:17

of his contract That might be his final scoop

8:19

But when Daniel Jones signed with the Giants, I

8:21

think all of our reaction was the same which

8:23

is like you should actually This is a case

8:25

where you should pay your running back. Yeah, you

8:27

should franchise tag your quarterback Yeah, because you had

8:29

a history of a guy who had an a

8:31

very good year when they went to the playoffs

8:34

What was two years ago and

8:36

you essentially said this is who he is now

8:38

not the other four years Let's let's bank on

8:40

him being the same guy and have this not

8:42

be an anomaly. Yeah Yeah, he had a great

8:44

year and he stayed healthy that year Which he

8:46

normally doesn't do and then you paid him like

8:48

he was a healthy good quarterback Which I guess

8:50

he was in the most recent season that you

8:52

saw him But then do you sit back and

8:55

be like well the other the other seasons weren't

8:57

so good So we're not gonna pay you and

8:59

they just didn't want him to hit the free

9:01

market So it's like in retrospect

9:03

Maybe maybe drafting a quarterback in the top

9:05

ten because he reminds you physically

9:07

of your previous quarterback Yeah, it was

9:09

not the best idea for your general

9:12

manager Yeah, but I think actually Saquon

9:14

Saquon is an interesting dude That's gonna

9:16

be a free agent because I

9:18

actually I would I would pay him if I

9:20

was a GM I wouldn't treat him like the

9:22

other running backs that are gonna be out there

9:25

I'd be like Saquon deserves a big contract. I

9:27

think like I we have some running backs in

9:29

DC I wouldn't mind Saquon Barkley in DC everyone.

9:31

I think Jerry Jones would probably want Saquon Barkley

9:33

in Dallas Yeah, I think that'd probably be a

9:35

pretty good fit. So one last question about Russell

9:37

Wilson before we talk about some other stuff Do

9:40

you I do have a small

9:42

part of me that feels bad for him

9:44

and I know that's crazy He's made millions

9:47

of millions of dollars. He's getting paid thirty

9:49

nine million dollars dude. Nothing this year If

9:52

you if you choose to do nothing, you'll obviously be on a team,

9:55

but at what cost you

9:57

basically become a joke to

9:59

the NFL and your everything

10:01

that happened at the beginning of your career, which was

10:04

phenomenal is Somewhat

10:06

tarnished by what happened in Denver because it was

10:08

just an abject failure and then on top of

10:10

all of that you have Being part

10:12

of one of the worst trades in NFL

10:14

history There's a small part of me that

10:16

feels bad because I bet you if you hit Russell

10:19

Wilson with some true serum He'd be

10:21

like yeah, the money is awesome, but I really

10:23

wish that I wasn't a joke Yeah,

10:26

maybe but also at the end of the day

10:28

also also Malcolm Butler at the end of the

10:30

day you're You're married to

10:32

Sierra. You've got more bathrooms and

10:34

number of times. You've probably had to piss

10:37

in the last year Yeah, true. So things

10:39

are pretty good if you're rough. Yeah, they're

10:41

good But at the end like it's one

10:43

of those deep down your head hits the

10:45

pillow late at night. You're like

10:47

man. I wish That didn't

10:50

all happen the way it did you know, like

10:52

things are pretty good in Seattle for me Yeah,

10:54

I had a fan base that loved me no

10:56

matter what I did I would have let you

10:58

like age poorly and and still stuck by giving

11:00

you a hero's retirement ceremony Yeah, yeah, it would

11:02

have been good. It would it would have been

11:04

good for us to stay in Seattle But

11:06

I do think that there's gonna be a couple GM's

11:08

out there that want Russell Wilson They're like I can

11:10

I can bring back Russ I can fix it I'm

11:12

gonna let Russ cook but then I think the first

11:15

what do you think if we're doing

11:17

Domino's if we're talking about quarterback Domino's yeah, cuz

11:19

there's like three big Domino pieces.

11:21

What is the first Domino Kirk cousin Kirk

11:23

cousin? Reportedly is thinking about

11:25

moving to Atlanta. Yeah, per Mike Florio

11:27

a pro football talk not fan fiction

11:29

The Mike Florio had some words for

11:32

you Hank is a fan fact. He

11:34

was not happy last night I'm gonna pull up the

11:36

tweet Mike Florio was not happy in the first person

11:38

I thought of was you Henry Lockwood because you've been

11:41

giving him a hell of a time online Hell

11:44

of a time read it. I mean, there's like Many

11:46

shows do interviews. I don't know that that's proof

11:49

of anything. Okay, so yeah, there was a weirdest

11:51

flex I've ever seen He had two flexes, but

11:53

what? Okay, hold on. So

11:55

My actually thought that his his Caleb Williams flex

11:57

is pretty good the other day on Friday. Always

12:00

would actually be and like I'm so mad the bears

12:02

are going to be good on my that's just your

12:04

tricking yeah I'm going to pull up the other The

12:06

kill believes he said he this when he said last

12:08

night to the folks who try to dismiss are reports

12:10

by saying we have no sources or whatever. you realize

12:12

we had like fifty guests on our show last week

12:14

for Mindy, right? You. Realize pretty much everyone

12:17

in the league reads P F T right?

12:19

You realize have been doing this for twenty

12:21

three years, right? I.

12:23

Didn't realize most of that. So yeah,

12:26

you ai actually has your Mike Florio

12:28

hater. But. The everyone reads

12:30

pft that's subjective will hear.thing everyone

12:32

really does have a fifty guess.

12:35

Okay, Here's where where are you a

12:37

row you can pull be probably public defender's

12:39

office street and really has has the popcorn

12:41

Salim Ahmed Obama to back our guy Florio

12:44

for a second because he's in that weird

12:46

gray area where you have the chef these

12:48

in the in rapport to will just frayed

12:50

news they they have news they'll give you

12:53

the news there's not opinion. Florio.

12:55

Ads his opinion so people then

12:57

take it as well. He's making

12:59

things up. It's fan fiction for

13:01

a still doing reporting like Cfc

13:03

and Rapaport. He just has a

13:05

little more personality behind what he's

13:07

writing and and the you know

13:09

saying like this may happen this

13:11

isn't happening like years. I here's

13:13

a fun hypothesis. Florio is great.

13:16

For. What we do because he throws

13:18

out ideas and things that could potentially

13:20

happen. They get everyone's brain's shutting. Not

13:22

just this guy got traded or this

13:24

guy signed or this guy got caught.

13:26

I say where people get confused though

13:29

as because with rapaport ancestor and and

13:31

know Diana like they report facts or

13:33

when they're pouring something you just assume

13:35

it's a sad because they're tweeting it's.

13:38

Florio. does that but then also speculates

13:40

yeah yeah so sometimes people are confused where

13:42

they're like is is a fact for yeah

13:44

to know your sources florio sometimes a in

13:46

especially in the dog days of the nfl

13:48

calendar year where there's not a lot happening

13:51

that's when florio's his mind starts to wander

13:53

little bit and he he starts connecting the

13:55

dots and in the t leads all that

13:57

stuff and that's fine but when it when

13:59

it comes time to like analyze players contracts

14:01

and salaries and predict what's going to happen.

14:04

He's a lawyer so he like he is able

14:06

to decipher some of the bullshit that's put out

14:08

there I think a lot better than a Shafter

14:10

would. And I like Florio I always

14:13

say this he is more like

14:15

Barstool than he thinks like where again

14:18

Shafter and Rapport are just driven by

14:20

scoops driven by getting reports. Florio

14:23

is driven by page views so he knows

14:25

that. Hmm you're saying he's doing clickbait. I

14:28

disagree. To what extent like he knows Dog

14:30

Days of Summer let me just write some

14:32

crazy shit and people are going to click.

14:34

But I don't think that's fiction. Fiction that's

14:36

a fan fiction. I didn't do a fan

14:38

fiction on him. You're fan fictioning him. This

14:41

is Hank Florio we've all seen the picture this

14:43

is you're at it again Hank and what Florio

14:45

does I don't think he does it for clicks.

14:47

No I actually think that the clicks come off.

14:49

No no shut the fuck up for a second

14:52

Hank. I think that the clicks happen to be

14:54

a nice byproduct of what he does. I just

14:56

think that Florio gets

14:58

crazy sometimes and he puts these

15:01

dots together that sometimes don't end up happening

15:03

but he does it to entertain himself and

15:05

because he believes that he might be right.

15:08

He also forms speculation. I don't think Florio

15:10

ever writes something just being like this there's

15:12

no truth behind this let me just throw

15:14

this out there. He actually does have kernels

15:16

of truth that end up being popcorn. We

15:18

hate his hypothesis. Yeah.

15:21

Either way. I like Florio. Your entire

15:23

life is a. Your hypothesis. I know that's what my

15:25

my old point is like he's we're more like sometimes

15:28

I just think he likes to get mad and be

15:30

like how can people not you know take me seriously.

15:32

Yeah. So he thinks Kirk

15:34

Cousins. He's the best in the business. He thinks

15:36

Kirk Cousins is making some sort of family plan

15:39

to move his family and his team down to

15:41

Atlanta. Yeah. I don't know

15:43

what that could possibly be like is he trading

15:45

in all of his sweaters at Kohl's. Yeah. He's

15:47

getting t-shirts now. Yeah. He's getting

15:50

just warmer clothes. I don't know how that my

15:52

my first thought was. This is

15:54

like a kid kids enrolling in schools thing.

15:56

Yeah. It Seems like it's looking house

15:58

hunting house hunting. His wife is

16:01

down there. Someone's friend is someone's

16:03

friend's cousin is real estate agent

16:05

in Buckhead. Nancy and she's actually

16:07

taken a meeting. Kirk reserves wife

16:09

Kirk was spotted in Magic City

16:11

last weekend behind the curtain. yeah,

16:13

sampling the wings I am in.

16:15

The developers would be. Real.

16:18

Like this Anchor Cousins I would

16:20

maybe. Pick. Them to the out. Do

16:22

it. Didn't win the Nfc South Where are the odds

16:24

right now? What are the odds on the South Koreans

16:26

winning the Nfc? Can we look ahead of that? I

16:28

don't are taking a look that up. Ah

16:30

are either way kirk cousins domino one domino

16:33

one at adjusting for your V la mano

16:35

to I agree. I. Think

16:37

ah. To

16:40

me grandma home it's member never him. Remember

16:42

any member Jimmy We do know that I

16:44

think all the other dominoes or draft picks.

16:47

And. Around the sun I you're probably a

16:49

probably will go sequentially. He'll probably get signed

16:51

before the draft picks, but I wouldn't be

16:53

shocked if a team signs Russell Wilson den

16:56

still drastic quarter but they do the all

16:58

Andy Dalton right? right? As a

17:00

quarterback also liked one and god that happened

17:02

to him with missed yeah Also here's didn't

17:04

Daniels? yeah Mike but Russell's like on and

17:06

throughout the first pitch and never was like

17:08

my Glennon sign that what it's Mets which

17:10

he got your posts fourteen hundreds when the

17:12

I see Atlanta I still don't like try

17:14

to the middle the past as I can

17:16

like it is correct just based on speculation.

17:19

A Kirk. The. Vikings are plus two

17:21

thousand. Ah, So another Florio

17:23

tweet We just spent ten minutes with

17:25

Caleb Williams. Condolences to the Vikings, Lions

17:27

and Packers disguise the real deal and

17:29

the Bears will have their first. France

17:31

has quarterbacks and said Luckman yeah I

17:33

know he's jinx that so any I

17:35

sat felt mean Una J kick and

17:37

a specific for now our had a

17:39

very credible indications I Cousins is seriously

17:41

considering movies him to Atlanta. Yeah.

17:44

You're the original magic said we can get

17:46

exposure to. I could say that about anything

17:48

they were taken, the specifics of his his

17:50

bethlehem or you can get into specifics I've

17:52

lived on this one okay. But.

17:56

I can see why some people would be like have we

17:58

take the Sears. Bio. We should

18:00

have we we screwed up on Sunday. we should have

18:02

mentioned i forgot why I guess I would say that

18:04

and on ebay wait he had fifty interview civil week

18:06

so. Post. Columbine we

18:09

attacks on my with yeah I'm. Chris.

18:11

Mortensen passageway was sad. More.

18:14

It was the original. He was the original

18:16

news breaker. He was the guy who who

18:18

created basically the idea of like Nfl nits.

18:20

I don't think that there was ever like

18:22

at a sports like an Nsl reporter that

18:24

was on television before Chris. More yeah like

18:26

as a feature of the show it is

18:28

A. He seemed like a a great guy.

18:30

Never got the chance to meet him. I

18:32

don't have you have no idea what but he

18:34

seemed from what everybody else has said he

18:36

seems like a really like an outstanding human being.

18:38

Yeah and you could tell just by the

18:40

outpouring of you know. People. Saying

18:43

their stories about him and everything he

18:45

was his beloved by everyone makes me

18:47

think sometimes how many. How

18:49

much? how much hate you think will get when

18:51

we die vs love cause you're devil will still

18:53

be some hey I don't like to joke about

18:56

death on the shelf. The get in as through.

18:58

Town. Your purple gloves on seen as yeah. Really?

19:02

Love. But they'll be and of

19:04

email out it Went when big Cat dies

19:06

some is going to post the Taylor Swift

19:08

video. Yeah like this fucking asshole hobby burns

19:10

and how just be like thank god is

19:12

one less man on the planet Yeah this

19:14

will be unhealthy. Does I knew this was

19:16

happening? Yeah. Yeah. I got

19:18

all those donors who should have known I'll

19:21

be some of that shut up to more

19:23

because I think the diagnosis of his his

19:25

throat cancer which is a super aggressive type

19:28

of cancer was alec two thousand and fifteen,

19:30

his lungs thousand and sixteen and so he

19:32

he lived for what nine years and years

19:34

after that So p Anna is it's very

19:37

sad day knows it was sad seeing like

19:39

the tributes because people that you watch on

19:41

tv all the time that are always have

19:44

a good time joke around laughing to like

19:46

on the verge of tears talk. About the

19:48

sky so I don't. I wish I got the

19:50

chance to beat him and he seemed like to

19:52

say accorded would would would You guys is a

19:55

weird to think though. like. And. It's

19:57

morbid, but. Will.

19:59

Eulogy: Each other. Why give one

20:01

of those guys first? Leg.

20:03

of you dies pft know would have to do

20:05

would we would be part of the oh geez

20:07

right. Right at Dude. To

20:09

be as decide that I debs. Know

20:12

I think it's I think it's like the

20:14

family decides where I think they'll be like

20:16

yep yep to in be get You guys

20:18

should say something like there's multiple eulogies Of

20:20

course if I if I died Pfc would

20:22

definitely eulogize. may you be part of the

20:24

use Odds are natick yeah don't know if

20:26

you you would try procrastinate until last second

20:28

I like ice is is this just this

20:30

is worse and do in the set up

20:32

com I think that effect as gillett die

20:34

meme said eulogized oh man be. Ah

20:38

man who is a guys. we do eat

20:41

remakes of the same company was good. We

20:43

need to remake the picture of like are

20:45

shown up to my heater sooner or just

20:47

have Max in the picture. Ssrb grades. Now

20:50

be Mips. Iowa be meme Cod Abby meme Their

20:52

math is Dave Eulogize you. He would just talk

20:55

about how your ticket taker we'll tag would still

20:57

be taken tickets for. I think I'd have to

20:59

give a huge you for Dave right there. Like.

21:02

One of them. Oh. No

21:04

miss pieces what you did of as the

21:06

thankfully his daddy can't complain about his shoulder

21:08

anymore. Out rocks, speeches,

21:11

bite marks on his throat, citizens.

21:13

Own. The hoses, ah, messages rocks! Ah,

21:15

she's very cute. And the fact

21:18

that she looks like a peach.

21:20

Yeah. On a takes his and eight it's is

21:22

the best life hack ever. If you're naming a dog

21:24

is if you name your dog after noun. It's

21:26

awesome if you name your dog after nine and

21:28

put mister or miss in front of the yeah.

21:31

As the mound computer is perfect Like

21:33

Mr. Biscuits? Yeah, He

21:37

sauce. And no matter

21:39

the city, no matter

21:41

the see, no matter.

21:45

Whether it's face off or

21:48

center sauce regular season or

21:50

are you. win

21:53

or lose no matter

21:56

what happens no matter

21:58

where happens New

22:01

Amsterdam vodka is there. Okay,

22:05

Jason Kelsey retired. Max

22:08

thought we were gonna lead the show with that. Probably should have

22:10

led the show. Yeah, probably should have led the show. Well I

22:12

think, you know, shout out to the Kelsey Brothers. He's

22:14

becoming a full-time podcaster right now, which I think

22:16

he's gonna find out is a lot harder than

22:18

playing football. Facts. But they've done

22:20

a very good job of

22:23

playing the game and they do a good job

22:25

on the podcast. It's a very funny show and

22:27

a good show. But they also know how to

22:29

play the game. When you got Travis Dayton, the

22:31

most famous person in the world, it

22:34

tends to help with ratings. When you got the

22:36

other guy being shirtless on TV, chugging beers

22:38

all the time, winning football

22:40

games, it helps with the ratings. So we need

22:42

Hank, what did we say? Hank was gonna date

22:45

Beyonce? Yeah. Hank will date Beyonce and then I

22:47

think that Max, you should just, just,

22:50

you give your thoughts on Jason Kelsey as Jason

22:52

Kelsey. You can just be Jason Kelsey for a

22:54

minute. Yeah. Yeah,

22:56

no, I will do anything to emulate Jason Kelsey

22:58

and his life for the rest of

23:01

time. He was an all-time dude in

23:03

terms of like NFL lore, like six round

23:05

pick, incredible mainstay of

23:08

the Eagles this past whatever

23:10

decade plus, where they've gone

23:12

to a Super Bowl, won a Super Bowl, gone to

23:14

a bunch of big games, like he's the guy. Where

23:18

you said, did you tear up a little? Also his

23:20

speech was great. Do you, actually let

23:22

me ask you this first. Some haters

23:24

out there... I

23:28

have, I know where you're

23:30

going with this and it is disgusting. I agree

23:32

with you, but some haters, I'm not one of

23:34

them. One hater. There's one hater out there. One

23:36

hater was commenting on the fact that he didn't

23:39

put on sleeves. It's his own thing. Yeah, I

23:41

agree. He could do whatever the fuck he wants.

23:43

I agree. If he was going to Travis's retirement

23:46

day and everyone else was dressed as

23:48

nice and he wore no sleeves, then yes, I

23:50

could see I would be disrespectful. It's

23:52

your thing. You Choose the rules. I Agree. He's

23:55

a hater. He sounds like a real loser. Yeah,

23:57

he was. It was an all-time ratio. Yeah, who

23:59

wasn't? Rico. Oh no. Real Canada

24:01

is a camper sleeves. I don't imagine

24:04

a ratio of assessor I presume to

24:06

hell. Ah But yeah it was. It

24:08

was great speech. It was great speech.

24:10

He had everything you talk about. Nick

24:12

Foles Dick. Ah, I'm. What is

24:15

you think? What's your take away. Ah it

24:17

was great. It had everything. It was emotional,

24:19

it was funny is as a there was

24:21

a great want that that was my that

24:23

was my dynasty documentary to him going through

24:25

each year by year of his career. And

24:28

the highs and lows I cried. Ah

24:31

is it was a lot. It was like

24:33

very very emotional. I was not expecting. It

24:35

to get that emotional like right off the read

24:37

before he even gets a word out. A takes

24:39

like. A good two minutes of him

24:41

just like bowling. He is a boy and his

24:44

eyes and it. It.

24:46

Was tough like. He was

24:48

Philadelphia like see is, the most Philadelphia athlete

24:50

I think that there's ever been. Like the

24:53

fact that an office of Weidman was the

24:55

face of Philly for so long. As

24:58

was so big for the city, And

25:00

I think that light. Him

25:02

being gone is a real problem for the locker

25:04

and we are. He was the leader for so

25:06

long. And he's also just an unbelievable

25:08

football player going out last year. First team

25:11

all pro. Deserved first team all pro. Changes.

25:14

Could have seen. almost seems a game of football with a

25:16

toast bush. He's. The best, best personality

25:18

of all time As you roll speech will

25:20

always be. Not. One of the best beaches

25:22

of all time. He's the best! I'm going to miss

25:25

him so much. Yeah other you bring up a good

25:27

point though. What happens with a twist? Push next year

25:29

or they're gonna run it. Yeah. They're Southern

25:31

Iran. I don't think it'll be as

25:33

successful as a while as was you

25:35

see, the Wisconsin center are actually finally

25:37

someone broke the three comb. I think

25:39

it was three cone drill the to

25:41

skills. He had the record for centers

25:44

for like whatever was last thirteen years

25:46

so maybe draft him good as fine,

25:48

pass pass the baton. He definitely gave

25:50

like a blueprint. For. Other

25:52

Philadelphia athletes? Yeah, like I feel like Bryce

25:54

Harper at he Wants so very badly to

25:56

Be which isn't Dlc Mixer Out. He looks

25:59

the mirror and. These you can count. Yeah

26:01

yeah, it's good to have a blueprint though.

26:03

It's like you have somebody that everyone wants

26:05

to emulate and if everybody could be doesn't

26:07

jealousy than to be very very happy as

26:09

Philadelphia sports fan. Yeah, Mount Rushmore. Six round

26:11

picks. He's. On it is a

26:14

Mount Rushmore of. Eagle. As eagles

26:16

ask, yeah, you might almost or six

26:18

from Texas. So Nasa, Tom Brady, Antonio

26:20

Brown. Terrell. Davis. And then

26:22

she's and Kelsey. That's. Good

26:25

route as a great route for a rousing a great

26:27

pics right there. Yeah. Also

26:29

first team all American beer drinker. Yeah

26:31

that dude love Spear. I love how

26:33

much he loves Jays The best mowing

26:35

lawns pod he's We hung out with

26:37

him once yeah. When. Ah

26:40

twenty. probably seventeen seventy I want or

26:42

something they were issues of was a

26:44

good as his apartment using his allowance

26:47

apartment. Oh yeah and it was Chris

26:49

Long. Bow and and Jason

26:51

calcium We just like hung out front, sell

26:53

it to Yeah Brand South and we just

26:55

hung out for Arnold. Three four hours. It.

26:57

Was awesome drink greater used their you didn't

26:59

know that know as as the first I'm

27:02

hearing this is have you ever hung out

27:04

with them No oh no idea what I

27:06

really honestly surprised the imagine us in his

27:08

speech. he that was a great night is

27:10

a great hang. I hope so much that

27:12

he hates Max. Yeah how be so good

27:14

when it. Come on those and

27:16

soured valley appropriating this culture yet as young

27:18

as sure. Yet his his coaches not you

27:20

can't you just told me that I have

27:22

to a pervert look like a guy. to

27:24

get straight you look like a guy who's

27:27

currently in costume on Halloween dressed up as

27:29

slutty yes season Chelsea like a He grew

27:31

out his hair whenever it his hair was

27:33

going out. That's when I started to grab

27:35

my hair. And I just never looked

27:37

back. You. Very he reminded very unsettling

27:39

and a hat I just wanted look like him I

27:41

want to be great hats or and be out on

27:44

Thursday. The Good: the just cover had asked we can

27:46

all new arguably more from Marked man I don't I

27:48

don't look and hadn't gone was you will look better

27:50

than mean this as a told Max before we start

27:52

of the he looks like if when Forrest Gump when

27:54

I was cross country run he just somehow got fatter.

27:57

Yeah. as i

27:59

mean will We workshop that I said I looked

28:01

like Forrest Gump you said you look true. It

28:03

was a workshop workshop. Yeah credit to max Actually,

28:05

yeah credit to me. It was a workshop. The

28:07

fatter part was funny. Okay, what else

28:10

do we have? Before we get

28:12

to Hank's number 10 Patriots. I saw a

28:14

pretty hilarious fan last night at the the

28:16

Clippers box game Okay, do you see the

28:18

guy from Taiwan? No There was

28:20

a guy that flew in from Taiwan and he held up

28:22

a poster that said like I flew 15

28:25

hours or whatever from Taiwan to see my favorite

28:27

player. Oh, no Russell Westbrook. Oh Didn't

28:30

play in play brought all his jerseys

28:33

the man was wearing 15 Russell

28:35

Westbrook jerseys Oh my god all on top of

28:37

each other and he started taking all off showing

28:39

the different layers of Russell Westbrook But

28:41

at least at least you got sea honest. Yeah,

28:43

at least he got sea honest, which is nice

28:46

Yeah, I would play yeah, they were so you honest that

28:48

would have cuz he got ruled out like an hour before

28:50

But he was definitely like on a plane Overseas

28:53

and the news broke that like Russell. Oh

28:55

hand issue. That's brutal. That's a tough flight

28:58

You can't and all your your bag is

29:00

just filled with nothing but Russell Westbrook. Yeah I

29:03

think we're at the point though with the NBA that

29:05

you can't make a long flight to try to see

29:08

your favorite player With any

29:10

type of confidence anymore. No, it's

29:12

on you You have to actually be in touch with the

29:14

player beforehand and let them know like hey I'm

29:16

considering spending five thousand dollars on this flight

29:19

from Taiwan wouldn't you just promise me

29:21

that you're gonna play that game? Yeah You need to

29:23

you need to find like a week where they're at

29:25

home for a straight week and be like I'm just

29:27

gonna take the whole Week cuz then I might have

29:29

a good chance of seeing my player my favorite player

29:31

play. Yeah, but I think Hank

29:33

no disrespect. I know that I did crown

29:35

the Celtics Eastern Conference champions. I think NBA

29:38

champions on Monday's show. Mm-hmm I

29:40

think I'm gonna ride on the box. I Think

29:43

I got to go with Pat Bev. Delta. Delta.

29:45

Delta. Delta. They're just they're just six and oh

29:47

Well, they're fucking people up ever since they got

29:49

Galinari Evan lost the

29:51

game since they got Galinari is he playing?

29:53

I don't know. I think

29:56

so Celtics legend Yeah,

29:58

I think he's playing Also,

30:01

some other people would have the greatest

30:03

rehab working out videos. Yeah.

30:05

Just like skipping. Yeah, he played last night. He

30:07

played 17 minutes, four points. Some people would just

30:09

point to the fact that the all-star break did

30:11

happen and they've just been good since the all-star

30:13

break. But still. But still,

30:16

Galenari. They have been good. And

30:18

yeah, I mean, it was actually...

30:22

No one cares about our bets, but I saw

30:24

that Giannis is out and I was like, I'm

30:26

just gonna bet Dame to score over 40 plus

30:29

like 400. And then he

30:31

did, because he just... It was Dame time. Yeah. Like

30:34

he... I kind of like that. The Bucks have that

30:36

situation. A lot of teams, Celtics have it, where like

30:38

their best player goes out and it's like, well, the

30:40

other guy is just gonna... Is really

30:42

fucking good. He's just gonna score all the points and

30:44

we'll be fine. Okay. Hank,

30:47

do you want to do your number 10

30:49

Patriots? Yep. This is big. Yeah,

30:52

before you announce number 10, I want to give you just a little bit of

30:54

background here. Well, it doesn't matter

30:56

because the bliss has already been locked in. So, yeah,

30:58

I know. But we already went from what? Six to

31:01

number one? Is that what we did? The top

31:03

six or top seven? Yes. So

31:05

give us the six through one and then we'll

31:07

go back to 10. Dante

31:09

Hightower, six. Tylaw, five.

31:12

Julian Edelman, four. Teddy Bruski,

31:14

three. Rob Gronkowski, two.

31:17

Tom Brady, one. Okay. When

31:19

we left the combine on Thursday, I was

31:22

hanging out with a

31:24

couple coaches and a couple of James Not To Brag,

31:27

but I got a big slap on my

31:29

back. And before I turned around,

31:31

I said to myself, that's a

31:33

coach who's too big and intimidating to coach

31:35

the NFL anymore. I turned around and it

31:37

was Mike Frable right there. And

31:40

he was like, what's up, bitch? Which is the perfect

31:42

Mike Frable way to say hello to you. And

31:44

the first thing that I talked to him about was the fact that you're

31:46

doing your top 10 players of all time list

31:49

and you haven't announced numbers 10 through

31:52

seven yet. And he said,

31:54

tell Hank if I'm not on that list, I'm going

31:56

to beat his ass. So

31:58

just no pressure. Well, it doesn't matter

32:00

because the list is locked in that's that was my point But

32:03

I can't right you can't change retro act. I know but

32:05

just so you know, no pressure I hope you put for

32:07

able on there because he's gonna beat your ass. I Would

32:11

love to watch that dude. He

32:13

would kick your ass. You'd fuck you up so

32:15

bad You'd be crying. You'd

32:17

be bloody. Oh, so would you? Yeah.

32:20

Yeah, but I'd put him on my top 10 list Yeah, he

32:23

doesn't want to beat my I didn't okay. Oh, it's

32:25

number 10 with that being said number

32:27

10 Oh

32:33

Randy Moss Yeah, only

32:35

only player on this list to not win a

32:37

Super Bowl, but he was he was that good

32:39

that exciting Record breaker that's

32:41

receiver all time. That's receiver of all time

32:44

when he came to the Patriots They got him

32:46

for nothing, you know people didn't have high expectations

32:48

and then you know game one

32:51

It was apparent like he was gonna dominate

32:53

and that was the most the most fun

32:55

season until it wasn't but

32:58

his years in the Patriots were So

33:00

fun to watch him and Gronk are probably the

33:02

most obviously Brady but receiver wise They

33:05

were just unstoppable you know how many super unicorn

33:07

how many Super Bowls you think Tom Brady would

33:10

trade to get 19 Oh

33:12

to probably he said I

33:15

could be wrong But I think he said he would trade

33:17

like one or two just have that one Yeah I had

33:19

memory hold that one that one play at the very end

33:21

of the first Giants Patriots Super Bowl where Brady just chucks

33:23

it down field he told Randy to reverse fields when he

33:26

points at him and The

33:28

ball hit off Randy Moss's hands and they

33:30

would have been in field goal range I'd

33:32

completely forgotten about that play the

33:34

thing with the time was though. There was only like 14

33:36

12 seconds left They were

33:38

all the way on the other side of the field. They had no time

33:40

out So it would have people post that

33:42

a lot being like what if he caught this? I

33:45

don't know that they would have gotten yeah down the field

33:47

and spiked it. But yeah It would

33:49

have been electric though. Yeah, Tom Brady would run the

33:51

fastest 40 of his life. Yeah Yeah,

33:54

I don't even know of Alvin did when he was when

33:56

he was 20. I saw that. Yeah, he beat himself I

33:58

don't even know if they mentioned like record-breaking

34:00

season in the documentary. I don't think

34:02

they did. Insane. Who's your

34:04

honorable mention? My honorable

34:06

mention, Rodney Harrison. Oh, okay. Rodney

34:10

Harrison. Great guy. Didn't

34:12

make the top ten. Great player. Didn't

34:14

make the top ten. Yeah, he got no play in

34:16

the Dynasty documentary. I think

34:19

he talked about the helmet catch. They

34:21

mentioned him leaving. Yeah, they mentioned him.

34:23

Talk about the helmet catch and then we'll just do

34:25

one quick clip of you winning a Super Bowl. One

34:28

of the things that Rodney Harrison is when he gets

34:30

on TV on Sunday nights and he just talks about

34:32

how dirty some of these players are and how much

34:35

they should be suspended for their hits. Yeah.

34:37

It's like, this is Rodney Harrison. Yeah, Rodney Harrison. Okay,

34:40

good job, Hank. Should we do Hot

34:42

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35:49

I have two hot seats. I'll

35:51

elect to use one because I'm assuming one of you guys

35:53

will have the other one. That's very

35:55

nice of you. Thank you. So my hot seat is

35:57

spring break. Why? is

36:01

opting out of spring break. Yeah. I don't know how

36:03

that's going to work. I saw the video. But they

36:05

made a video. DeSantis was like, we're not, you know,

36:07

they made a video that was like, it's not, it's

36:09

not you with me. We're breaking up

36:11

like kind of a parody video of, of

36:14

Miami residents breaking up with spring

36:16

break. And DeSantis said they have

36:18

a bunch of security measures to, you know, stop

36:20

it. Yeah. They did this with PCB the

36:22

other, the, a few years ago where they stopped letting

36:24

people drink on the beach and there's just kind of

36:27

ended there. Yeah. The

36:29

war against spring break is raging. I was never

36:31

a big spring break guy because I was too

36:33

fat. Um, just

36:36

having to take off your shirt for a whole

36:38

week. Uh-huh. You know, right after March madness was

36:40

always daunting. Uh, but for those

36:42

who celebrate, I'm sorry for your loss. I never got to go

36:44

on. Were you agreeing with me there? Yeah,

36:46

I played baseball. So we had. Yeah. It

36:49

was always like get in shape or just,

36:51

I could just stay in Madison

36:53

and just like drink and hang out. And

36:56

I would do the, the, the water. I did

36:58

Panama city beach one year and Panama city beach

37:00

might be, it might be the worst city in

37:03

America. It's just you, you leave

37:05

the actual beach and then you've got guys

37:07

wearing jinkos riding a bicycle named Travis beating

37:09

up that quarterback, beating up future quarterbacks and

37:11

trying to sell you Salvia on the street.

37:13

Yeah. And then there's an occasional preacher that

37:15

pulls you signs like I'll give you free

37:18

pancakes if you listen to me preach to

37:20

you. I take that deal. Yeah,

37:22

I did. I actually did take that deal. Worth

37:24

it. Yeah. I saw Woody Harrelson in a waffle

37:26

house in Panama city beach one time during spring

37:28

break, during spring break. He was there eating by

37:30

himself. And then as he was on his

37:32

way out, this, this kid stopped him.

37:34

He was probably like a nine year old kid.

37:36

It was like, hi, Mr. Harrelson. And then Woody

37:38

asked his dad if they could go out to

37:40

the parking lot. So his son could ride on

37:42

Woody Harrelson's bike. And then Woody Harrelson just drove

37:44

around the parking lot with this nine year old

37:46

kid on Harley Davidson, took a bunch of pictures,

37:48

dropped them off and rode away. That's pretty legendary

37:50

celebrity. Yeah. Yes. Yes. Okay. So

37:52

spring break out. Hot

37:55

seat. Hot seat. Feel bad for

37:57

the kids. Although Miami spring break.

37:59

I feel. It's not a college kid destination.

38:01

I wouldn't you gotta go to Mexico. Yeah,

38:04

or you go cheap like you got to come back

38:06

with all the all the Bracelets

38:09

all the places you went to yeah.

38:11

Yeah, I went into senior frogs I

38:13

think there's one in Cabo and we went in for

38:15

one drink in the middle of the day and it

38:18

smelled like puke and Like spaghetti and I'm like yeah,

38:20

do not miss this. Yeah, the good news is there's

38:22

like 400 other beaches in Florida. You can go to

38:24

yeah My cool throne

38:26

is having nothing to hide. Oh the

38:28

commercial. I think we talked about it a few. Yeah We

38:31

really should have given people a warning about

38:33

that commercial Yeah, it hit on a Monday

38:35

morning and everyone's like what is this whoops?

38:38

We did a commercial where we're you

38:40

know basically naked You guys

38:42

came out great that one side angle of just

38:44

like it's just an upshot of my side boob

38:46

not great I haven't seen I think I think

38:48

you I think I came out the worst. I

38:50

look like two-dimensional I

38:53

don't know you look big cat looks jacked can

38:55

somebody say all chested Yeah, send the video because

38:57

I haven't watched that. I just walked by max

38:59

when he was editing something and Just

39:02

our nude bodies were on his his computer

39:04

Yeah apologies to everyone for not giving you

39:06

a heads up because you probably seen it

39:08

especially if you're watching the podcast Our

39:12

bat we should have we should have been like

39:14

hey, there's this new commercial. It's a great commercial

39:16

We love body armor also shout out our billboard

39:18

shout out a billboard on Randolph Street Hanks

39:21

just fishing with dynamite now across from JP

39:23

Graziano's. Good night John boy. It's great Yeah,

39:25

you were at a bar on Friday night

39:27

with the billboard out the window It's interesting

39:29

we put it outside your favorite bar even

39:31

say anything to girls or you know I

39:33

didn't mention it at all I

39:35

didn't I didn't just kind of keep like

39:38

nodding towards the towards the window check it

39:40

out Yeah, yawning like oh whoa.

39:42

That's a cool billboard. You're so lucky

39:46

Yeah, I'm sorry about this video. I just watched

39:48

it. That's tough. Yeah Well, it was

39:50

just the fact that was a Monday morning, and we didn't

39:52

give anyone a prep It's

39:54

a great ad gets people watching body

39:57

armors. We love body armor, but

39:59

I we should have been like, hey, there's an ad coming

40:01

out. You get to see.

40:03

And this is, we all saw each

40:05

other's cocks because they gave us the

40:07

thinnest see-through flesh-colored

40:11

boxers. And

40:13

I think that, I think, did we talk about this on the show,

40:15

but Hank's got a big cock. PFT's got

40:17

big balls. I got nothing. Well,

40:20

yeah, I think we did because we showed up. We were,

40:23

it was a late Sunday night, still football season, and then

40:25

we showed up 8 a.m. They're like, here's your costume. It

40:27

was just a two-inch

40:29

see-through, I don't even

40:31

know, spandex boxers. It looked like

40:34

we were all hiding different sizes of birds

40:36

in our shorts. Mine was like a small

40:38

sparrow. At one point, they were saying that

40:40

was gonna be the billboard, and we looked

40:42

back. Pretty

40:44

much say yes to everything that's ever been asked

40:46

of me in my career. I think

40:48

that was the one time where I was like, and

40:51

I think you guys played it correctly because

40:53

you're like, let's let Big Cat decide

40:55

this because he's the one who's gonna look the

40:57

worst. No, no, no, I said I need to

40:59

be in a body suit. No, what happened was

41:01

somebody asked me, here's the idea for

41:03

the billboard. You guys are all gonna

41:06

be nude, and you and Big Cat are gonna

41:08

be holding footballs in front of your crotches, and

41:10

then Hank is gonna be holding a golf ball

41:13

in front of his, blurring it out.

41:15

And so I said, I'm down with

41:17

that, but you might wanna double-check with

41:19

Hank that it's okay because Hank's the

41:21

one that's gonna have to live with

41:23

that visual. And I said, if

41:25

I'll make a compromise, put me in the Jack's

41:27

body suit, and I'll do it,

41:29

and they're like, no. No. It's like, all

41:31

right. No matter who was gonna have the tiny ball

41:33

in front of our penis was gonna end up being

41:36

like, no, I don't wanna do this billboard. I

41:38

actually think I'm less, like if

41:41

my penis is out there, I wouldn't really care. It's

41:43

everything else that sucks. I

41:46

mean, the penis sucks too, but at least I'd be

41:48

like, I've told everyone it sucks. Bad penis. Yeah, right.

41:51

I mean, we're podcasters, what do you expect? Yeah,

41:53

okay. Good hot seat, cool throne. Thank

41:55

you. My. Hot seat

41:57

is arch manning. Yes, I had that.

42:00

Well guess what are the one you had Hank

42:02

yeah oh there's like you have good job who

42:04

are sued by has he was ah and Sibley

42:06

Football twenty twenty four or m what? I'll just

42:08

output Arch on the hottie because he's not going

42:10

to be his opted out of being in the

42:12

new Cards for ballgame. And and I

42:14

don't really care. but it is very funny

42:16

seeing people because if you'd just zoom out

42:19

and look at what you're actually upset about,

42:21

allowed people are upset that like a twenty

42:23

year old isn't going to be in their

42:25

favorite video game right? And I saw initially

42:27

I was like. The. The

42:29

story and I don't have it's factors like I

42:32

want to focus on football. I kind of have

42:34

Arch Manning's back in that respect because if you're

42:36

in a football game a video game you're going

42:38

to just play the video game as yourself all

42:40

the time and then someone pointed out that are

42:42

spending would be at it and he's reading would

42:44

be like sixty five and he be a backup.

42:47

And also the Manning name is worth a lot of

42:49

money. yeah maybe that's why he did it and then

42:51

that that to as kind of lame. So.

42:54

He should just stick with I would. he's just

42:56

do oppressed comes up like listen. If. You put

42:58

me in the game. On. The do is play

43:00

the game and I don't want to use our

43:02

focus on football because I actually by that I

43:04

would. If I were in a video game that

43:06

you I will be park sram explain myself in

43:08

the video less less reach a compromise call is

43:10

he a sports into the play college football. Ah,

43:13

Arts Manning is not going to be in the

43:15

game. However, don't put any filters or blocks on

43:17

the game that prevent you from making our rights.

43:19

Creating your own are many I don't want. like

43:22

the last name thing com a be like sorry

43:24

this last name cannot be used right used to

43:26

be able to that's if it is one flair.

43:29

Then. Everybody should be able to make that

43:31

one player and seem can make the best or

43:33

to manage Yes Agreed Agreed. I.

43:36

Have another hotseat. Just real quick shot. The

43:38

stinger still hasn't given birth of fucked up.

43:40

I don't think that she's actually pregnant. I

43:42

still think it was a lie or been

43:44

on some singer a watch for last like

43:46

three weeks that that bitch in pregnant my

43:48

core thrown his. I'm a good. Chris.

43:51

klemmer on the cool thing is i've been

43:53

watching a solitary confinement stream for the last

43:55

couple days and he is or i think

43:57

it was built for this he seems happy

43:59

have no problem whatsoever living

44:01

in solitary confinement. Yeah, it's

44:04

insanely entertaining somehow. So

44:06

shout out to Chris. He's

44:08

a very strange human being. Oh, strangest. He

44:11

chose to do this. We had to do

44:13

a 24 hour punishment and I was thinking

44:15

about it last night. We had you know,

44:19

games, we had each other, we had guests

44:21

popping in. It was

44:23

still one of the most miserable experiences of my life. I've

44:25

been in jail with Brady for maybe

44:28

nine hours where we were locked in a

44:30

cell, absolutely miserable. Oh, jail

44:33

sucks. Put it on a cold card. He just

44:35

chose to do a

44:37

hundred hours. He's like, Oh, you know, be funny

44:39

if I did a hundred hours of solitary confinement.

44:41

I completely respect it. Oh yeah. Insane.

44:43

He's down for anything. Clemmor's down for anything with

44:45

like he's, if you could build more people like

44:48

Clemmor at Barstow would be great because he is,

44:50

he'll do anything. Um, but I agree with you,

44:52

Hank, when people are like, this is punishment, you

44:54

got to stop this. It's like he decided. Yeah.

44:57

It's his story. I think he's fine. Yeah. Like

44:59

he said he's fine. He's just living his life.

45:01

He's actually, so when I started watching it, all

45:03

the comments were, it was right off the bat,

45:05

like the first four hours they were saying, Clemmor's

45:08

going to go insane by then this week. No,

45:10

he's going to make everybody that's watching the stream

45:12

go insane because he's doing, he's doing fine with

45:14

it. And his, the way his brain works is

45:16

just so strange that you can't help but watch.

45:18

Like I tuned in the other day and he

45:20

was putting himself into a suitcase. Yeah. And he

45:22

was just folding his body out. Yeah. Really,

45:25

really bizarre stuff, but yeah, I can't

45:27

stop watching Clemmor. Yeah. All right. My

45:29

hot seat is Anthony Edwards. You

45:31

guys see last night, Anthony Edwards, uh, lost

45:34

track of time and he missed the tip

45:36

off of the Timberwolves game. I didn't see

45:38

that. No. So yeah, he didn't, he didn't

45:40

start first time. He hasn't started since he

45:43

was a rookie. He was at the arena.

45:45

He was warming up in the tunnel. He just lost

45:48

track of time. And so they subbed them in like

45:50

25 seconds into the game, but he did not start

45:52

the game. This is the kind of thing that you

45:54

point to and it's like, yeah, the Timberwolves are good,

45:56

but your, your star player

45:58

lost track of time. We should do reasons why teams

46:00

can't win the NBA Finals. Yeah.

46:04

And it would be just Anthony Edwards forgetting and it would

46:06

just be like Chet Holmgren's shoulders. Yeah.

46:09

It was, there was a

46:11

man, I can't remember his name. Chris Paul,

46:13

just a picture of Chris Paul for the

46:15

Warriors. It was, there was a player, fuck,

46:17

what was his, he was a pitcher. Edwin

46:22

Jackson, Edwin Jackson forgot, he put in the

46:25

wrong Google Maps to a Cubs Spring training

46:29

game like 10 years ago. And he's

46:31

like, yeah, whoops, I just drove to the

46:33

wrong place. I love it. I would do something like that.

46:36

Yeah. Okay, my cool

46:38

throne is Dak Prescott. He got a new haircut. Oh,

46:40

yeah. Yeah. So what kind of haircut is

46:43

it? He also I think had a kid, but he, it was

46:45

just regular haircut. Just a close

46:48

haircut? Yeah, really, I couldn't really see

46:50

any difference. But that

46:52

is where we're at in the news cycle. Is that like, is

46:54

that like when, when moms have another kid and they're like, I

46:56

don't have time to take care of it. Yeah. Prescott just cut

46:59

like half an inch off his hair. Yeah.

47:02

And all the way from beard to go to. Yeah. And

47:05

all the, oh, that was what it was. So

47:07

the aggregators were like the ML football, the dove

47:09

climbing, we're like Dak Prescott got a new haircut

47:11

thoughts. Okay. My

47:14

thought. Yep. Yeah, that's

47:16

a haircut. And he got to go to actually like to go to you kind of

47:18

looks good. He's got a good job. Well, Dan Quinn a

47:20

little bit. Yeah. Great job. Besides

47:23

the fact that's made up of a lot of people.

47:25

Great job. Besides the fact it's made out of glass.

47:28

Yeah. Yeah. Okay.

47:31

Jake, your hot seat, cool thrown Jake is back. Congrats Jake. Thank

47:34

you guys. It was a lot of fun. Yeah. Great

47:37

job. We had Monday morning golf. So an extra

47:39

time to get reps in who won. His

47:41

name was Austin Eckroat first ever

47:43

PJ win. Nice. You were,

47:45

you were working the bear trap this weekend. Yeah. This

47:48

is a great name of the bear trap. Great name for holes on

47:50

the golf course, the bear trap. Yes.

48:00

Is the biggest underdog ever. Yeah, it's really

48:02

weird. There's been Eight

48:04

or nine events and there's already been three rookies who've won

48:06

last year in 54 events three rookies won

48:09

Yeah, if you look at my odds, they're all between

48:11

like 60 and 500 to one odds that have won

48:14

Yeah, the co-leader after 54 holes David

48:16

skins was a thousand to one. Maybe he has something

48:19

to do with the fact that like 50

48:21

really good players are on the live. I don't know what that

48:23

means No, we don't include them in

48:25

our world golf, right? We have the Arnold Palmer

48:27

and then the players next week So it's something

48:29

to do two big boy events if they don't

48:32

get a big name and neither one. Yeah We

48:34

need some big boys. We need some big boys.

48:36

Yeah, that was fun My

48:38

hot seat is teams who need a wide receiver. Oh

48:40

because Mike Evans is staying with the box Yeah, I

48:43

know Jersey guy a lot of people were saying if

48:45

you have free agency, maybe the Jets maybe the Chiefs

48:47

But he's not going anywhere and he had a great

48:49

year. Yeah, he kind of in a way hit free

48:51

agency He was just like I'm going

48:53

to hit free agency and then the Bucks were like,

48:56

here's some more money He's like, okay. Thank you. I'll

48:58

stay Jason lights first draft pick as a GM like

49:00

Evans He's been there a long time Mike

49:02

Evans. I mean we talked about it this fall He

49:05

is if he plays another three

49:08

four five years He will

49:10

be in the conversation for Mount Rushmore of wide

49:12

receivers in terms of like his total numbers and

49:14

the dominance He's had every single season. He's been

49:16

in the NFL. He's yeah, I was in the

49:18

arts. Yep Also, Jason light very cool guy. Very

49:20

cool I like Jason light a lot But

49:23

I still have that red flag in the back of

49:25

my head with Jason light that he likes Stephen Che

49:27

and also he might be James one one. Yes

49:29

that too. Yeah My cool thrown

49:31

is friend of the program Dan Hurley after

49:34

winning the Big East title regular season He went out

49:36

to the bar and celebrate. Oh nice with fans and

49:38

students first time they won it in since 1990. Yeah,

49:40

so Love

49:44

him. Was he drinking this? Probably literally

49:46

all Dan Hurley has done since max

49:48

showing this podcast is win Yeah,

49:51

it's sort of crazy and they you

49:53

guys tell me if I'm wrong. This is the best chance for

49:55

repeat since the 0607 Gators.

49:57

Yeah, probably yeah. Yeah Usually

50:00

a team loses some key pieces they did but they're

50:02

gonna be one seed they have a chance to do

50:04

it Yeah, they absolutely do Okay.

50:06

Good job boys. Let's get to our

50:08

interview. We have Diana Racini great interview

50:10

with Diana It's been a long

50:13

overdue to have her on the podcast before we do that

50:15

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51:35

Here's Diana Rossini Okay,

51:39

we now welcome on a very special

51:42

guest She is a friend of

51:44

ours hasn't been on the show yet It

51:46

is her pardon my take debut been way

51:48

too long probably long overdue. That's our fault.

51:51

It is Diana Rossini from the athletic Lead

51:54

NFL reporter. Can I say that?

51:56

Yeah senior insider senior insider from

51:59

the athletic, we were going to talk some

52:01

combine. We're going to talk some football. You

52:05

brought two sodas though. Um,

52:08

are those for us? No.

52:11

Okay. Who are they for? Someone really special

52:13

on the show. So you

52:15

broke maybe the story of the

52:17

year, Superbowl week when

52:20

our producer max 20 decided

52:22

to rip farts

52:25

on a, uh, plane with two sodas

52:27

and burrito. Burrito was, was the big mistake. Should

52:29

we do this part now max? Do you want

52:31

to? Okay.

52:33

It's my show. Okay. So why don't you

52:35

come down and sit down here, max? Let's let's just get this

52:38

out of the way. This is what the people want to hear.

52:40

And we'll talk some NFL. Um,

52:42

my first question is Diana,

52:44

you, you do have a thing for Philly

52:46

guys. You're married to a Philly guy. Is

52:49

there a part of this entire like

52:51

escapade where maybe you have a

52:53

little crush on max? So I've always liked max

52:55

on the show. Anyways, I just never knew what

52:57

max. Look like, cause I just listened to you

52:59

guys. Yeah. Um, so the entire time he was

53:01

sitting next to me, I had no idea that

53:03

was max. And you

53:06

know, the biggest issue I had with this

53:08

thing was the fact that I'm texting a

53:10

friend of mine, that being PFT about just

53:12

my irritation in the moment. And

53:14

to then reveal the source on

53:16

it all. You and I do have known that was

53:18

going to happen. We have a

53:21

really good, honest friendship. I never

53:23

thought he would do that

53:25

today. No, because you usually feed me

53:27

bullshit stories. Like

53:30

I 100% thought he would do

53:32

that because that's, I mean, you knew, I think, I think

53:34

Diana knew what she was doing, but she does send me

53:36

a lot of bullshits. Are you, what was the one you

53:38

sent me yesterday? Just to scare me. Our

53:42

commander's trading out signing Baker. Yeah,

53:44

that's what I, I just like to throw something at

53:46

him. Just to keep him in shape. It

53:48

felt, it was very funny and it was

53:51

great reporting the level of detail that incredible. Thank

53:53

you. So detailed. It was so detailed. Here's

53:56

the route. Max is sitting next to

53:58

me and, and usually. You make some

54:00

sort of eye contact with the people next to you

54:03

not long right because it's awkward. It's weird. It's tight

54:06

He never even slightly look to his

54:08

right He just looks straightforward almost as

54:10

if I got to get through this

54:12

flight and not vomit that it and

54:14

he just stunk of hangover Just you

54:16

know that it's like a miracle. It's

54:18

like a little bit of this again. It's a little

54:20

bit of beau It's a little

54:22

bit of beer it it was Yeah,

54:25

no, I put on clothes. I got right on the airport. It

54:27

was it was panic time I thought I was missing that flight

54:29

for sure. Yeah, you made it. You were fine What

54:31

once you sat but I could the sweat

54:34

was you know you're sweating. Yeah,

54:36

I I also had like

54:38

20 minutes like once I got to the airport to

54:40

get through security get on the plane and So

54:47

we've all been there we've all been late, but

54:49

I don't know about you guys But I just grab you know a

54:51

bag of chips something something quick I was probably

54:53

that was that was the smart play you

54:55

get the dry city turkey sandwich I

55:07

Am well aware what I'm in for when I see the

55:10

man next to me eating the burrito like I knew I

55:12

was in I was like it was bad, but then the

55:14

two shoulders you're like whoa, this is very

55:16

bad It was two.

55:18

It was actually three. We've been misreporting No,

55:21

cuz it was wrong It

55:23

was the it was the two Pepsi's

55:25

and then the Mexican orange thing that

55:28

is all sugar This is wrong. This is

55:30

wrong. I it was I went

55:32

to the burrito place got the Mexican orange

55:35

soda and a water That

55:41

is a fact and then they came through and

55:44

I was asleep during the probably

55:46

when I was farting During the during

55:49

the soda call and then they came

55:51

back to me and said, oh

55:53

you were asleep for the beverage. Do you want soda? And

56:00

you chugged that thing, you threw it back. I

56:02

was thirsty, you know, I missed the, I

56:06

was dehydrated all the time. And listen, I usually

56:08

listen to podcasts on a plane, but I was trying

56:10

to catch up on work stuff, so I was in

56:12

like text mode and taking notes based off my text

56:15

of stories I was trying to chase at the Super

56:17

Bowl. So because of that, I didn't have AirPods and

56:19

so I could hear everything, which is why it was

56:21

so clear how often you were farting. And

56:25

so clear is why the music was

56:27

so loud. The music was... Who

56:30

was telling them for a listen to text notes?

56:33

Well, it was just, I... It

56:36

was one of the... It was so loud. I

56:38

played something and then it went

56:40

into like a mix of

56:43

like this song that you played and I

56:45

was... I was

56:47

in a bad spot, I like didn't wanna like pull

56:49

out my shit to like change anything. I was like,

56:52

all right, I'm in this zone, let me just stay

56:54

here, I'll look into this. Report my way out of

56:56

here. Well, I also didn't know, I

56:58

didn't know I was farting. Like I... Well, you had

57:00

two sodas, dude. Well, the soda, the farts

57:02

were before the sodas. Well, no, they were probably

57:04

after. I was in mid-life through the sodas. You

57:06

remember when I got up to use the restroom? Yeah.

57:09

Okay, so I was wearing like a sweat suit and it was

57:12

like a little bit of a crop top and I remember thinking,

57:14

I don't wanna face this guy with half my

57:16

skin out, you know, and just rattle him.

57:19

But I also don't wanna put my butt on him. Like I

57:21

had to make a quick decision. And

57:23

so on the way there, I went back and

57:26

on the way back, I went in front. I tried to make

57:28

eye contact with you. You gave them both views. Yeah, I tried

57:30

to give them like the, just a courtesy like, hey dude, sorry,

57:32

I'm giving you a lapper. Like while we're going to the best.

57:35

And you just, you could, I could have been naked. You weren't

57:37

even gonna look at me. You're just

57:39

like... Yeah, respect. Yeah, respect. You're

57:41

obviously very happy, man. But you

57:44

weren't gonna see anything. You didn't wanna see anything. You

57:46

just didn't wanna obviously continue falling. Yeah, that's...

57:49

So Diana, afterwards, did it dawn on you?

57:51

Like you're on the plane, you're working on

57:53

all these stories for Super Bowl week. Did

57:55

you realize, did you have a moment where

57:57

like, end the biggest story of Super Bowl week?

58:00

was sitting right next to me. I did not

58:02

realize that until I got to Las Vegas

58:04

and you guys did the show and

58:06

people were stopping me all

58:08

week long. Three

58:11

times as a different party and people were sending me

58:13

over soda. That's cool. That's my life now.

58:15

Yeah, that's my life. But I honestly felt terrible about-

58:17

I think you've never had six sodas. I

58:21

apologize that you're

58:24

associated with all these drinks and

58:27

obviously the farting thing which everyone is

58:29

guilty of doing on airplanes but

58:31

I'm sorry that he aired

58:34

that all out. Our friendship has changed

58:36

completely. I'm not sorry. Yeah, I'm not sorry either.

58:39

I don't retract my report. You can retract

58:41

yours. What you did, that's the

58:43

best thing that's ever happened to the two of us.

58:45

Oh, absolutely. And you had to know- I

58:48

don't think that you're innocent in this

58:50

because content is what drives this whole

58:52

thing. The second you sent that text,

58:55

it was being sent on air. That's how

58:57

it works. I was in a bit of an

58:59

irritable mood. I didn't sleep much. That's an actual

59:01

farting guy. No, no. And even the guy

59:03

next to me was hungover and eating. So I'm stuck

59:05

between these two guys and Hank made the best point.

59:07

Why was I sitting middle seat? You know. Yeah,

59:10

the athletic aren't doing so well. No,

59:12

no, no. I

59:14

actually gave my first class seat up to

59:17

someone in the service. But

59:21

then of course that is not the truth. I really

59:23

just wanted to be part of all the action in

59:25

economy. We know Donny knows all

59:27

of that. That's where the fun

59:30

times are in economy. So here's the

59:32

thing. I've flown now twice since then

59:34

and both experiences- I think

59:36

I miss yellow on the phone. No, no,

59:39

no, no. By the way, I found

59:41

out after all this, we have tons of

59:43

connections in Philadelphia. I got that too. There's

59:45

weddings that I guess we've been at together or

59:47

our friends have been or something. Because it's Philly,

59:49

right? Everybody knows everybody. It's just one family.

59:52

So you've probably been around Max farting before.

59:54

Correct. I am now just used to

59:56

the scent. So it's good to be back with you, Max. Natural

59:59

scent at this point. a moment when it

1:00:01

was it was like right as she was texting me

1:00:03

these updates as they were coming in, we're sitting in

1:00:05

the hotel room in Vegas, and we're getting ready to

1:00:07

record the pod. And you looked over me

1:00:09

and you had the sheepish look on your face. And you're like,

1:00:12

you're like, was, uh, your

1:00:15

friend Diana on a plane today? And

1:00:17

you knew even before I brought it up. So

1:00:19

it was like, in the back, I think you might

1:00:21

have recognized her. But you're like, I really hope that

1:00:23

wasn't her. That is correct. But

1:00:27

I also didn't know of the farting. I

1:00:29

knew about the burrito though. So I was

1:00:31

like, so I remember I those

1:00:33

are one of the same. You put a burrito

1:00:35

in that body, it's gonna like, it's

1:00:38

a fart. If I'm awake, I'm, I'm clenching.

1:00:40

I'm like making sure that you're like an

1:00:42

easy bake oven for farts. You just like

1:00:45

put the food in and boom. Yeah, correct.

1:00:47

But the thing is, it's

1:00:49

like I, if I knew I was farting, it would

1:00:51

have been a different situation.

1:00:53

Is there any possibility? I'm not questioning your

1:00:55

reporting, Diana. Obviously, this is a wonderful

1:00:57

piece of journalism. Is there any

1:01:00

possibility that I want you to ask that? No, no,

1:01:02

you do. The other guy that was

1:01:04

sitting next to you that was also hung up, was there a

1:01:06

second farter? So I'm really glad you brought him up. Because

1:01:09

he also chose to eat a sandwich. He didn't go

1:01:11

burrito style. And he was one of those type A

1:01:13

types. Like I could tell like he would take a

1:01:15

bite, wipe his face. He was

1:01:19

the man to the left of me. But

1:01:22

he, I could tell he was struggling too,

1:01:24

a bit. So it, I mean, what that

1:01:26

flight from Newark to Vegas was about five,

1:01:28

five and a half hours. So yeah, that

1:01:30

was up there as one of the worst

1:01:32

flight experiences I've ever had. And I've thrown

1:01:34

up on flights. But that probably topped it.

1:01:36

Sean McDermott will use that as a lesson before training

1:01:38

camp. I also ate

1:01:41

the burrito extremely fast. I

1:01:43

remember thinking that I'm like, this guy

1:01:46

is a freaking animal. Also, I got

1:01:49

about like 75% of the way. And I was like, I don't

1:01:52

want this anymore. But then if

1:01:54

you think about it, what do you do with a

1:01:56

quarter of a like, you

1:01:58

wrap it up. Like I So

1:02:03

I might I was like I need to finish

1:02:05

this yeah before we start moving you need to

1:02:07

make more fun I have an open burrito right

1:02:09

as a foot like it's not like a sandwich

1:02:12

that you can like put back in right you're

1:02:14

like Unwrapping it as you're as you're going so

1:02:16

I was I remember thinking I was like this I was

1:02:19

like I hope But

1:02:22

I need to finish this immediately Right

1:02:25

immediately and get to part making

1:02:29

I got to sleep really, but I guess those were one

1:02:31

in the same And

1:02:34

I just needed a vent to someone and you just happened to

1:02:36

be the victim of it Well, no what happened was I tweeted

1:02:39

out a picture of Miley Cyrus on TV because

1:02:41

it's a Grammys night And max was standing in

1:02:43

front of the TV and you saw that

1:02:45

and you were like Is that

1:02:47

guy you just tweeted pictures that man landed? I

1:02:50

was like wait that looks like burrito

1:02:52

boy And that's when I texted

1:02:54

you I said, hey Is that

1:02:56

a producer of yours that you just took a bit? No, I

1:02:58

said who's that man in the picture? That's what I said, and

1:03:01

then you're like, that's max. I'm like, oh, I love max. Oh

1:03:03

my god That was the guy next to me though. Yeah, so

1:03:06

max are we cool. Is everything cool between you

1:03:08

two? Yeah, our You

1:03:11

said that she was your mortal enemy in the moment

1:03:13

you were And I still

1:03:15

kind of think that okay, so then no, you know what? That's

1:03:18

a lot Maybe you have

1:03:20

to give him maybe you have to give him some

1:03:22

type of insider information about the eagles at some point

1:03:24

to make it Right. Yeah. Yeah that max one i'll

1:03:26

negotiate for you. Yeah. No, this should be good. This

1:03:28

would be good. All right We'll

1:03:31

text you don't do it. He doesn't read them.

1:03:33

Yeah out loud That's not

1:03:36

fair because I told you they were going

1:03:38

on the show. Yeah, and also the minis

1:03:40

again. Yeah, you know I

1:03:43

think you knew what you were doing. Uh, all right Diana

1:03:46

we're at the combine now we can

1:03:48

talk some football Uh, first of

1:03:50

all, what what does combine week look like

1:03:52

for you? Are you just walking around just

1:03:55

getting talking to everyone getting all this like

1:03:57

news? I mean, is it just non-stop? I

1:04:00

went to dinner yesterday at four

1:04:02

o'clock and I call it dinner, it's not

1:04:04

really dinner, right? Because it's four, it's like

1:04:06

a late lunch, I guess. And I sat

1:04:08

there and I had six back-to-backs meetings

1:04:10

with different people. And the bartender,

1:04:13

like four dudes in, he's like,

1:04:15

are you like in a dating

1:04:17

service here? First of all, why would you ever call me

1:04:19

out? But I said, no,

1:04:21

I'm just taking meetings because I just stayed in

1:04:23

the same spot. And I just kept eating and

1:04:25

drinking. That's a funny visual. Just

1:04:27

a revolving door of- NFL

1:04:30

dude. You're just all different

1:04:32

people. Agents, coaches, GMs, one

1:04:34

owner, just having conversations, catching up,

1:04:36

just kind of talking about things that are coming

1:04:38

up. And most of the conversations

1:04:40

I'm having now are really just, how you doing? No

1:04:42

one really wants to get into the football stuff just

1:04:44

yet, but I'm

1:04:46

not traveling as much anymore because I change jobs,

1:04:48

as you guys know. So for

1:04:50

me, it's really just getting back in front

1:04:52

of people's faces and being like, hey, I'm here.

1:04:55

Yeah, so you left ESPN, you're now my

1:04:57

coworker at The Athletic. I write the Premium

1:04:59

Plus newsletter. Oh my gosh, I know. You

1:05:01

report. What was the thought

1:05:03

process like when you switched over? Are

1:05:06

you, like any regrets about leaving

1:05:08

ESPN? Because I know a lot of

1:05:10

people, they're scared to leave ESPN because of the magnifying

1:05:12

glass that you're under, like the microscope, the megaphone, whatever

1:05:14

you want to call it. Like there's a spotlight that

1:05:16

people think about with ESPN and then to go out

1:05:18

on your own is like, okay, a little bit different

1:05:20

change of pace here. Yeah, I was scared out

1:05:22

of my mind. It was one of those situations where

1:05:25

you know you got to move. You know you have

1:05:27

to change it, but comfort's awesome.

1:05:30

I like to be comfort. I got two kids. The

1:05:33

Athletic gave me just a pretty incredible opportunity

1:05:35

to get better actually. And I think it's

1:05:37

been a really good few months, but that

1:05:40

first week when I took the job, I

1:05:43

was a disaster just trying to understand, like,

1:05:45

did I just jump off ship of

1:05:47

the best place to work for what I do for

1:05:49

a living? It's ESPN. There's still

1:05:51

a gigantic media

1:05:54

outlet, but I figured after about

1:05:56

two weeks and I started to actually write

1:05:58

and do things with the Athletic. Oh, it doesn't

1:06:00

matter as long as you have information. Yeah, that's all

1:06:02

you need. Yeah, and the effort is great Like

1:06:05

I read it all the time There's always great

1:06:07

like plugged in people and you fit in seamlessly

1:06:09

there. I have one question about your job That's

1:06:11

a little weird is two-part question So one

1:06:14

of the hardest things I think you probably have to do

1:06:16

and you could tell me I'm way wrong After

1:06:19

a game when you're trying to

1:06:21

talk to a player coming off a field How

1:06:23

do you approach that because I see that, you

1:06:25

know, I'll see on TV It's like oh, there's

1:06:27

Diana talking to you know, Travis Kelsey walking off

1:06:29

the field Like how do you because it's got

1:06:32

to be like a touch-and-go situation. I assume well

1:06:34

if it's a good situation It's easy as heck.

1:06:36

Hey Travis. How are you? Up.

1:06:39

Oh, how tell her, you know that that's easy

1:06:41

that day was bad. There was a you probably

1:06:43

saw it on Instagram I was walking off with

1:06:45

Travis after they lost the

1:06:47

Jets and I mean if

1:06:50

you have relationships with these guys They know what you're doing

1:06:52

They know who you are and they're just talking knowing that

1:06:54

whatever they're gonna say Probably is gonna get hit the print

1:06:56

and be on television But

1:06:58

I wouldn't I don't think

1:07:00

talking to players after games is really

1:07:02

that difficult, but If

1:07:05

you have a good relationship that that's usually where

1:07:07

it can come handy and think about most of

1:07:09

the times after games You're talking to the happy

1:07:11

people, you know, right? You're very rarely going up

1:07:14

to Brock Purdy one-on-one on the field being like

1:07:16

so this yeah You lost Super Bowl.

1:07:18

So alright So the second part of the question is

1:07:20

you I would assume it's happened many years in a

1:07:22

row But I know this year you were in the

1:07:24

locker room after the Super Bowl Do

1:07:27

you go to the losing locker room at all? I do

1:07:29

I always swing in there first just to see if

1:07:31

anyone's acting up or crying

1:07:33

or if anyone just wants to talk

1:07:35

about situations because that's usually when they're

1:07:38

in their most raw state Yeah, right

1:07:40

after they lost so I did I

1:07:42

circled And

1:07:44

I was just kind of trying to follow my instincts

1:07:46

on things I'm like, I think I should

1:07:48

probably go see what they're doing in there Especially the type

1:07:51

of season the Chiefs had this year knowing

1:07:53

it wasn't as easy as it had been in the past

1:07:56

I bet you they're going crazy. Yeah, and oh

1:07:58

my god. I have never seen

1:08:00

a locker room like that after Super Bowl win

1:08:02

and I was actually talking to Mahomes about it

1:08:05

and he's like it's the year we had. It

1:08:07

just felt that much better even though he's been there

1:08:09

before he knows that it feels like and obviously because

1:08:11

they've lost a Super Bowl before for

1:08:13

them just the idea of going back to back

1:08:15

and being able to kind of prove to everyone

1:08:18

this year that yeah maybe we didn't have some

1:08:20

top dog receivers but look at us man we

1:08:22

figured it out and we won the whole thing. That's

1:08:24

awesome. That has to be kind of a pinch-me

1:08:26

moment being in the Super Bowl winning locker

1:08:28

room because like that's it was. That's it.

1:08:30

That's where it is. Sometimes one of

1:08:32

the hardest things in my job

1:08:34

is you have all these conversations and you're running around and

1:08:37

sometimes you don't even know what to do because you're

1:08:39

there's so many people you need to talk to and storylines

1:08:41

that you want to jump on and there's great storylines.

1:08:43

I want to go talk to Chris Jones. I want to

1:08:45

just ask him what he thinks about his future now you

1:08:47

know how badly do you want to stay in Kansas

1:08:49

City. I want to go up to Travis talk about what

1:08:51

this feels like you know so you have to kind

1:08:53

of quickly because you're only allowed in there for a few

1:08:56

minutes figure out fast who you have to

1:08:58

go to and what you want to get and sometimes

1:09:01

I'm in these conversations and there's

1:09:03

news there and I don't even

1:09:06

realize it until about an hour late. I'm like oh my

1:09:08

god like I went up to Travis and I

1:09:10

was like man this is awesome huh you feel good

1:09:12

he's like didn't we just do this conversation I said

1:09:14

yeah last year he's like well let's do it again

1:09:16

next year let's go for three so he said it

1:09:18

to me right after the game right and I was

1:09:20

like doo doo doo doo doo running around talking to

1:09:22

whoever next and in the back and then later I

1:09:25

was like oh crap he basically just called it out

1:09:27

we're gonna go for three and he's not retiring. Sometimes

1:09:29

he has to sort of take a breath in the

1:09:32

moment be like okay this is something but

1:09:35

that that locker room was really cool that's a really

1:09:37

fun group anyways whether they win or lose even

1:09:40

when they lose I've been around them before they're

1:09:42

all pros they're good yeah I think one of the

1:09:44

best things that the athletic does is the the post-mortems

1:09:46

whether it's like a coach that got fired and

1:09:48

they go back they they review all the shit

1:09:50

that happened there or a season that didn't go

1:09:52

the right way the athletic does a very good

1:09:54

job of covering like the dysfunction there was one

1:09:56

report that you had earlier this year regarding

1:09:59

the Jets dysfunction. Memes, our producer,

1:10:01

called you a liar. I think

1:10:05

he was very upset. I think a lot of

1:10:07

people were upset about the Jets report, but I

1:10:09

thought it was pretty well done. Do you want

1:10:11

to address allegations for memes that you're a liar?

1:10:14

Well, which one of the 30 sources did you

1:10:16

think lied? Yeah, there were 30 sources. 30

1:10:18

sources. 30 sources, memes. Yeah.

1:10:21

Which one was liar? Do you think 30 people just

1:10:23

said, you know what, I'm going to tell you

1:10:25

stories, then they're all fabricated. Memes.

1:10:28

Memes. Memes. Who

1:10:30

are the 30? Also, wait, wait, wait,

1:10:32

wait, wait. He wants

1:10:34

all the sources. Wait, wait. That's

1:10:37

way too many sources. 30 is

1:10:39

ridiculous. So

1:10:42

at the athletic, because the standards are

1:10:44

outrageously high, we're owned by the New

1:10:46

York Times, you have to supply the

1:10:48

editors with your list of

1:10:51

the people that you're speaking to. And

1:10:54

we had a list together after putting together the

1:10:56

piece and writing it, and it was actually 30

1:10:58

plus. Oh, more. And

1:11:02

then attach the name that we send to

1:11:04

our editor is the information that person gave

1:11:06

us the quotes, the details. Memes. So

1:11:09

let me ask you a question, Memes, just hypothetical. What

1:11:13

if Diana was, what if her name was

1:11:15

Dan Racini and she was a man, would

1:11:17

you have believed the sources more? No. I

1:11:21

don't know. Interesting. Seems

1:11:23

like being a little misogynistic

1:11:25

here. No. Whoever

1:11:28

wrote it would be alive. Okay. I

1:11:30

actually believe him on that, because he just... Which part

1:11:32

of the story, because you obviously write it, which part of the story bothered

1:11:34

you the most? What detail do you

1:11:36

get if she's a liar, thinks her

1:11:38

job, I hate her? The

1:11:41

headline. So

1:11:44

wait, so Diana, though, a big

1:11:46

picture, do you have to

1:11:48

deal with this all the time where fans, no

1:11:50

matter what, because we're crazy, we're stupid. And remember,

1:11:52

I live in Jetsland. Right. Has

1:11:55

there ever been a specific story

1:11:58

that you reported and released? that

1:12:00

got like way more backlash than you expected.

1:12:02

You're like, what the fuck? Like I'm reporting,

1:12:04

I'm doing my job. About

1:12:06

seven years ago, six years ago, maybe now, I

1:12:08

fired Doug Maron and he didn't get fired. Oh

1:12:10

yeah. That was what I was wrong. You only took that one

1:12:12

really bad one. That was my one bad one. I

1:12:15

will say this Jets piece was tough. This

1:12:17

one, I think Jets

1:12:19

fans are in denial. That

1:12:21

would be memes. Right, they just don't want, they

1:12:24

wanna call people liars because they don't wanna believe

1:12:26

that it's actually that bad. That the

1:12:28

culture's that awful. So

1:12:30

don't blame the team. Blame the

1:12:33

reporter that uncovered all of this.

1:12:35

Blame the, whichever, however they sleep

1:12:37

at night with it. So because I

1:12:39

live in an area where there's Jets fans, I

1:12:42

have people coming up to me and like even just went

1:12:44

to the eye doctor and the guy that was helping me was like,

1:12:46

come on. What do

1:12:48

you mean? I'm a reporter. My job is to give you facts.

1:12:50

Don't be mad at me. People want

1:12:52

me to say, all right, we dramatized

1:12:55

it. It's not really that bad. Aaron's

1:12:57

great. He's kumbaya with everybody. The

1:13:00

reality is it's a mess in New

1:13:02

York. It's really bad. It

1:13:05

is true though. You're

1:13:08

absolutely right that Jets fans for some reason, they're

1:13:10

like, this isn't the truth. Where like, if you wrote

1:13:12

that story about the Bears, they'd be like, she probably

1:13:15

missed something. Correct. It's probably way worse than that. So

1:13:17

a lot of people have been asking me how I've been

1:13:19

managing the Jets since then, right? Cause you would think they would

1:13:22

hate me. They're great. I love

1:13:24

the Jets. I talk to all of

1:13:26

them still because they know I know.

1:13:29

They know it's accurate, right? It's when you're

1:13:31

wrong. That's where the tension comes with teams.

1:13:34

Or if you don't inform

1:13:36

a team that a piece is coming out

1:13:38

and that's something that we do at the

1:13:40

athletic. If we're going to put out something

1:13:42

with that much intel and information that's going

1:13:44

to make the owner, the coach, the GN,

1:13:46

the court, everybody, the OC look

1:13:49

bad, you have to call them

1:13:51

and say, here's what we're doing. So New

1:13:54

York was well aware of everything that was coming out. Yeah,

1:13:56

it's got to feel kind of awesome though cause

1:13:58

you're really good at your job. And when you do

1:14:01

it well and you know, there's gonna be people

1:14:03

like memes they'd be like, you're a liar And

1:14:05

it's like I'm doing my job and I crushed

1:14:07

it. Like I know the truth. I found the

1:14:09

truth Yes, but I would prefer

1:14:11

to tell memes that things are so

1:14:13

good. Yeah, but no one wants to read

1:14:15

that true Yeah, but I am working a

1:14:17

bunch of pieces coming up where it's just like how

1:14:20

teams have survived Issues

1:14:22

that the Jets didn't figure out like it like the

1:14:24

Cleveland Browns how they were able to have success after

1:14:27

Doshon Watson goes down like right in

1:14:29

the right so sometimes taking the bad stories

1:14:32

and Focusing on the dysfunction you can then

1:14:34

go highlight some of the teams that are

1:14:36

doing it, right? But again, most people like

1:14:38

the dysfunction like I did a whole story on the Panthers

1:14:40

as well Where it was it

1:14:43

was like Hunger Games in that place Yeah on

1:14:45

the scenes of everyone killing the other to just

1:14:47

stay alive and not get fired by Tepper and

1:14:49

it was a it was a Mess it seems

1:14:52

to be better from from what I understand now

1:14:54

But that if you remember that's when we did

1:14:56

that story it was like early November

1:14:58

Yeah, there was still so much you need to you

1:15:00

need to forward that story to Peter Schrager I think

1:15:03

he missed it because he tried to tell us that

1:15:05

David Tepper. Good guy crazy Yeah, good guy. Yeah, did

1:15:07

you know that he bought his old boss's house and

1:15:09

bulldozed the ground? Yes It's

1:15:12

a great move I actually like I like

1:15:14

it in the evil cartoon billionaire mindset like

1:15:16

he is actually what I think about when

1:15:18

I think of the uh, the like Power

1:15:21

hungry owner that doesn't know how to work with people

1:15:23

So if you're that rich like I would never live

1:15:26

in another man's house owners in general

1:15:28

are very they're they are unique.

1:15:30

Um I try not

1:15:32

to think about how much money they have when i'm

1:15:34

talking to them because I probably would run away like

1:15:36

a little girl Because they could destroy my life. They

1:15:39

could just buy my family, right? Or

1:15:41

just buy telephone to kill us. Not your dad though.

1:15:43

Your dad could beat up anybody. Yeah from

1:15:46

the Bronx Remember that

1:15:49

that that was a regret Let

1:15:55

me set the table because maybe not everybody is aware of

1:15:57

it when Jalen Ramsey

1:16:00

he almost got into a fight with Doug Marone and

1:16:02

you said, I think Doug Marone would beat him up

1:16:04

because he went to high school where my dad went

1:16:06

to high school. My dad's from the Bronx. And

1:16:09

I said something like Doug Marone's from the Bronx and you

1:16:11

know, you don't mess with people like that. And

1:16:13

then of course, all

1:16:16

the award winning listeners flood

1:16:18

my Twitter for years, by the way. And

1:16:21

we'll just be like every time the Bronx is

1:16:23

mentioned, be like, Oh, can you beat him up? Like,

1:16:25

just never did. So annoying. It's

1:16:27

just like mom and tell you cannot and

1:16:30

they don't forget. No, don't forget. We're

1:16:32

not reminding them right now. Let

1:16:35

me go. Yeah. But my second favorite Diana

1:16:37

Racini moment of all time was I think

1:16:40

it was at Foxborough. I think it's 2017.

1:16:44

You were working for ESP and you're doing the

1:16:46

pregame report there on the sidelines. It was cold.

1:16:48

It was giant thermometer season and you had a

1:16:50

glass of water because we're going to show a

1:16:52

science experiment of how cold it was. You filled

1:16:54

the water up to the top and then you

1:16:56

said, I filled this water up 10 minutes ago.

1:16:59

Now watch how cold it is. And then you turn the cup upside

1:17:01

down and you just poured out a couple of water.

1:17:04

Did you think that that was going to fly under the radar for

1:17:07

a little bit or were you immediately like fucked? No,

1:17:09

in the moment I just my head was just like,

1:17:11

just keep going. So I was like, and you see

1:17:13

there's the water. So it's

1:17:15

cold out here, but obviously not that cold. But

1:17:17

that's all right. Back to you. You just I just

1:17:19

kept going to hoping no one would notice that the

1:17:21

point of the project was I was freezing the water.

1:17:24

But I did get some redemption last year. They sent

1:17:26

me to Buffalo. It was like negative 9,000 and

1:17:28

I did it again. And it worked. It worked.

1:17:32

I do miss people asking me that you miss ESPN. I

1:17:34

miss it all the time and this people I work with.

1:17:36

Obviously you know, Adam's a friend of the

1:17:38

show here and he was one of my

1:17:40

good friends when I worked there. We're not

1:17:42

friends anymore, but they kicked me off

1:17:44

their group text. But

1:17:47

doing stuff like that was always so it's just stupid and fun. But

1:17:49

just being out with the fans. I used to love that. Has

1:17:52

there been a player or coach who's gotten

1:17:54

mad at you for a specific story where

1:17:57

they're like you you burn me

1:17:59

or something like that? like that, like that you're like,

1:18:01

fuck, that sucks. Yeah, Mike Raybel. Oh.

1:18:04

He called me the day after

1:18:06

an aggregator took something I

1:18:08

said that basically said Mike Raybel's too fat to work.

1:18:11

Oh yeah, that was a good story. So that

1:18:13

was, that was- You didn't say too fat, you

1:18:15

said he's a large person. He is. What

1:18:18

I shared on the football podcast

1:18:20

on the athletic was that I

1:18:22

had dinner with a GM at

1:18:25

the senior bowl and we had conversations about how bizarre

1:18:28

this last coaching cycle was and

1:18:30

how crazy it was that Belichick and Raybel didn't have gigs.

1:18:32

And I said, why do you, you know, what do you

1:18:34

think that Mike didn't get a job? He

1:18:36

said, I think they needed to change

1:18:39

there in Tennessee, but in terms of the

1:18:41

next opportunity, I think there's a lot of

1:18:43

people who are very intimidated by him. He

1:18:45

walks into a room and he's

1:18:48

confident and he's physically

1:18:50

a big human being. And it's a

1:18:52

little startling at first. Very

1:18:55

normal, right? When I say this to you, right? We're all

1:18:57

facts by the way. And we love coach Raybel and he

1:18:59

is, I mean, that's what I'd want out of my football

1:19:01

coach. Correct. His hands are the size

1:19:04

of your head, right? He hit me on the back of

1:19:06

the combine a few years ago and I like almost coughed up

1:19:08

a lot. So when

1:19:10

the aggregators took that and changed

1:19:13

all this, you

1:19:15

know, the way I said it, so that wasn't great

1:19:17

to hear from a not

1:19:19

too happy head coach to begin, former head coach now.

1:19:22

He didn't call me after the piece we did on

1:19:24

why he got fired, but the piece on him calling

1:19:26

him a little fat, he wasn't

1:19:28

too happy. I think it was the body shaming

1:19:31

because he only sold the aggregator. He didn't see

1:19:33

my aggregator. The way it was framed was like

1:19:35

Mike Raybel's fat and GM's

1:19:37

don't want a fat guy. Too fat to coach.

1:19:39

Too fat to coach. And I was like, wait, I like fat

1:19:41

coaches. That's messed up. But you guys know

1:19:44

his personality. He's not very

1:19:46

flowery, right? So I'm like, I see him call.

1:19:48

I'm like, gosh. I'm like, hey

1:19:50

coach, what's going on? He's like, what are you

1:19:52

doing? I'm like, what are you

1:19:54

talking about? He's like, why are you talking about my

1:19:57

body? The

1:19:59

aggregator's really. do that sometimes though. They're

1:20:01

the ones that fans should get mad at.

1:20:03

The aggregators. Yeah. Not the reporters. I

1:20:06

believe me. They're good in some

1:20:08

spaces, especially someone like me who's at a place

1:20:10

not as big as ESPN, where I used to

1:20:12

go on ESPN, if you say it, it goes

1:20:14

everywhere. So sometimes it's great to have it aggregated

1:20:16

and then it's pushed out and then it probably

1:20:18

caught, you know, catches your attention if

1:20:20

you don't go to the athletic that day. But most of

1:20:23

the time, it's completely misrepresented.

1:20:25

Yeah. And then all these storylines are floating

1:20:27

around the NFL. It's like, what? I

1:20:30

have a really hard time right now deciphering, is

1:20:32

this a real report? Yeah. No, there's a lot

1:20:34

of, there's a lot of click bait. There's a lot

1:20:36

of people reporting stuff and it's just like, where did

1:20:38

this come from? Like deleted tweets.

1:20:40

It's just weird. Yeah. And then people just

1:20:42

grabbing like Justin Fields celebrating in his kitchen. I saw,

1:20:45

there was all over my timeline today and someone was

1:20:47

like, that was from six years ago. Yeah. It wasn't

1:20:49

even. Falcon in the background. They're like, oh, he's going.

1:20:51

Yeah. He's like, okay. But don't get me

1:20:53

wrong. I saw it right when I was like, I gotta make calls. I

1:20:55

did too. I was like, oh shit, he's traded. Yeah.

1:20:58

That's crazy. So what's going to happen this week?

1:21:00

Are there going to be any trades made? Anything

1:21:02

big? Yeah. I think Chicago is going

1:21:04

to get moving on this for sure. With

1:21:06

Field. Yeah. I, I, I've been

1:21:08

stalking their people all week. You asked me what I've been doing.

1:21:11

So there's some people you can set meetings up with

1:21:13

and meet and there's some people who just aren't going

1:21:16

to do it with you. Right? So then you have to figure out

1:21:18

where are they going to be? This sounds so creepy by the way,

1:21:20

but you can figure out just from

1:21:22

talking to people on the, who's at

1:21:25

what forum or who's going to

1:21:27

sit down with CAA or whatever at this time and kind

1:21:29

of, you just go float in there and hope that you

1:21:31

can catch them. So I, I've been

1:21:33

chasing bears for a few days. Okay. I can

1:21:35

help you. We can track them down. You know them? Yeah.

1:21:38

I know Ryan. So what's Ryan saying to you? He

1:21:43

told me that I'm actually not

1:21:45

allowed to say. Oh wow. It's hard

1:21:47

to be a reporter, right? I think I told you. Wait, tell

1:21:50

me. Are you exploring all options? Yeah.

1:21:52

There was another part of it. I'm not allowed to say.

1:21:54

Also I sent him my tape from the combine

1:21:56

and he said, we'll, we'll take a look at

1:21:58

it. look at it. We

1:22:01

did a combine last week. Yeah I

1:22:03

did. I sent him my 40 yard dash. I got to see

1:22:07

how that is. But yeah I'm expecting definitely

1:22:10

some action there. I just

1:22:13

hope the next few days are actually a

1:22:15

little quiet because it's just been crazy. And I mean you

1:22:17

guys are on your phones all the time. You know you

1:22:20

just if it's your job to be

1:22:22

on your phone it completely messes up your life. Yeah

1:22:25

I mean we should just clarify like you're

1:22:27

on your phone like working on stories were

1:22:29

like scrolling Instagram and being

1:22:32

funny idiots. True but you know I can

1:22:34

just. Looking at my college basketball then. I'm

1:22:36

playing a different. I'm playing a flight simulator.

1:22:38

A little different. My thing is that has

1:22:40

been the hardest transition for me from going

1:22:42

from ESPN to the athletic is the responsibility

1:22:44

I do have now in getting information so

1:22:46

that requires me to be on my phone

1:22:48

at all times. And you can't determine when

1:22:50

news is going to break right. So we

1:22:52

all have wild stories of when stuff breaks

1:22:54

and you're not in a great spot you

1:22:56

know whether you're driving or you're on vacation

1:22:58

your skiing. And I had

1:23:00

one actually and Max I'll

1:23:03

tell you one day what the actual scoop was but

1:23:05

I had someone from Philly call me. It was

1:23:08

when everything was starting to fall apart and

1:23:12

I have a two year old and one year old and it was bath

1:23:14

time and I put their two little boys so I put them in the

1:23:16

bath together and there

1:23:18

are some people who call you there some sources you

1:23:20

drop you don't care about the safety of your children

1:23:23

you you answer the call. So

1:23:26

they're in the water and I'm thinking this

1:23:28

is not safe but I have to take

1:23:30

this call. Yeah. So my thought was I'll

1:23:33

do it. I'll pull the drain out turn

1:23:35

the water off and they'll just sit there.

1:23:37

They'll be OK. Yeah. Well

1:23:40

I didn't consider a couple of things so I take

1:23:42

the call I run and get like a

1:23:44

notebook. So I left them real quick because I have to

1:23:46

write down the stuff that this person sharing with me and

1:23:50

I'm so locked in on the information. I

1:23:52

had kind of have half my eye on the boys and

1:23:55

then my two year old jumps out and

1:23:58

Joey my one year old is just sitting in the bathtub. there and I

1:24:00

look and poop and the

1:24:02

cheer old runs out and he goes poop

1:24:04

poop and my one year old poops in

1:24:07

the tub. So I let the

1:24:09

two year old just run away because he just obviously didn't like it

1:24:11

and then I just hear him go bleh bleh

1:24:13

bleh. So then he throws up and

1:24:16

by the way I'm still on the phone and I'm

1:24:18

horrified that this person can hear it too and

1:24:21

thank god my husband walked in like a minute

1:24:23

later and he just you have to kind

1:24:25

of decide in those moments when nothing's

1:24:27

working am I going to cry or just

1:24:29

laugh at the shit right? So

1:24:32

I just laughed and he laughed too and was just like

1:24:34

what are we going to do? I'm

1:24:36

supposed to be the senior insider getting this great story

1:24:38

on the Eagles that's going to and by the way

1:24:40

he was very invested because it was the Eagles right

1:24:42

because I showed him who it was and he's like

1:24:44

oh I understood why you took that you know. But

1:24:48

what are you going to do? The poop in the bathtub is the

1:24:50

worst. What is that? Why do they do

1:24:52

that? I've had it a few times myself

1:24:55

personally I pooped in a bathtub and then a couple times

1:24:57

with my kids as well and it's just like you just

1:24:59

panic and you're just like well what the fuck what do

1:25:01

we do now? That was my thought too and when it

1:25:03

was happening I'm like where do I go first? To the

1:25:05

two year old just running around the house or

1:25:08

the one year old sitting in the- You got to get

1:25:10

everyone out of the poop. You

1:25:12

got to get out of the poop and then you got

1:25:14

to figure out what to do with that. Apparently I'm around

1:25:16

a lot of discussing this. It's fascinating to me that you're

1:25:18

not disgusted by the poop in the tub but sitting next

1:25:20

to Max. Oh but I'll actually

1:25:22

have Diana's back here. There's something it's like

1:25:24

kind of like having a dog where it's

1:25:26

like if you see another dog's poop you're

1:25:28

like yeah but it's your own dog like

1:25:30

your own kids it's so desensitized to everything

1:25:32

that's just like whatever. I've actually

1:25:34

gotten really good at timing my son's puke and

1:25:36

I'm like three for three on the last three

1:25:39

getting them like to the sink or the toilet. I'm

1:25:41

like I'm pretty proud of myself. Watching Tyler's

1:25:43

puke is- Well they don't bend over and they don't do

1:25:46

any of these stuff. They don't bend over and they just

1:25:48

stand there. Yeah exactly. It's like an

1:25:50

exorcism. They don't say

1:25:52

anything they just start puking wherever they are

1:25:54

at that moment. So

1:25:56

I actually had a question about this like because

1:25:58

you your mom of to you work

1:26:00

all the time, you're incredible at your job.

1:26:02

Like how do you do it? Like that's, I

1:26:06

don't know how you do it. Like this is, I

1:26:08

guess it may be a compliment, but like it is

1:26:10

insanely impressive. Yeah, I lose my mind

1:26:12

a lot. You know, I try to, you have

1:26:15

to obviously have like a good partnership and somebody

1:26:17

that gets it. And I married the biggest football

1:26:19

head in America who's never played football in his

1:26:21

life, but he's just a big nerd.

1:26:23

So it helps because I needed

1:26:25

somebody, I married someone that understood it. Right.

1:26:28

I mean, I wasn't looking for that when I met him, but it

1:26:31

just worked out that he happens to be oddly

1:26:33

obsessed with the NFL. So I don't ever have to

1:26:35

explain why I had to take calls, why I have

1:26:37

to do certain things. In fact, 90% of

1:26:40

the time he's the one getting on me to be like, you

1:26:42

should get ahead on that. Or, you know, you should be calling

1:26:44

right now, which is also very annoying, but

1:26:46

it's helpful in trying to balance it all. Yeah.

1:26:49

I like that he understands the importance and the

1:26:51

significance of the work that you're doing. It's like

1:26:54

some people marry like somebody that's creating a vaccine

1:26:56

for like smallpox or something. Like, honey, your work

1:26:58

is super important. He's like, you're working on figuring

1:27:00

out if Jason Kelce is coming back next year.

1:27:03

That takes priority over our entire night. And he

1:27:05

doesn't really get mad when I have to like get

1:27:07

up from the table or as long as I share

1:27:09

it with him, because he loves to like know about

1:27:11

it. Like I've answered phone calls in the car on

1:27:13

speakerphone. Yeah. And he loves, I

1:27:15

actually have some sources that I'm tight enough now

1:27:17

with. I'll be like, hey, I'm in the car, Kev. And

1:27:20

he'll like ask a question and I'll look at him like, shut the

1:27:23

hell up. You are not allowed

1:27:25

to talk just because you invited him. I

1:27:27

meet the person aware. Yeah, you did a three

1:27:29

way. So I have one question about your husband

1:27:31

that's a very important question. I listened to you

1:27:33

when you were on with our friend, Ryan Rosillo,

1:27:35

who I think he's still our friend. He has

1:27:37

a weird rivalry with me, which I didn't know

1:27:40

about that he revealed about his life advice. But

1:27:43

when you went on Rosillo's podcast, you

1:27:46

told the story that your husband was like

1:27:48

prepping you and being like, this is a

1:27:50

big day because he's a big Rosillo fan.

1:27:52

Big one. Did he do the

1:27:54

same thing for this or no? He doesn't care

1:27:56

about us. That hurts. I

1:28:00

can't tell dammit. He messaged me right before

1:28:02

I got in. Okay. All he said was be

1:28:05

nice to max All

1:28:11

right, all right, you're gonna be like no he

1:28:13

doesn't he doesn't listen this Okay

1:28:17

Sometimes cuz I don't have the time to always listen, you know, I

1:28:19

love you guys but um, he commutes a

1:28:22

lot Which that's a whole nother man. God bless

1:28:24

people who have to commute I'm

1:28:26

especially an hour like he does so he'll listen to you

1:28:28

guys and he'll just like shoot me a text if

1:28:30

you guys had Something good just to let me know. So

1:28:33

all right. Good. That's cool. I have an embarrassing story

1:28:35

about him It's also tied into

1:28:37

Rossella. So I remember when you went on

1:28:39

your first date with him You

1:28:41

called me and you were like hey, I went on a

1:28:43

date with this guy and we were

1:28:45

talking about sports and I asked him Who's

1:28:48

one like sports media member that you

1:28:50

think that you relate the most to

1:28:53

and his answer was Ryan Rossella? Yeah,

1:28:55

I said who and not at

1:28:57

all just from like a

1:28:59

like a Personality standpoint

1:29:02

who do you connect to the most like who

1:29:04

and he's like Rossella? He just loves it. So

1:29:06

at the time I was thinking, you know, cuz

1:29:08

first date you're putting on your best, right? Yeah,

1:29:10

I mean and he was funny and he picked a her

1:29:12

and he was in a good mood My

1:29:15

husband is the most miserable dude So

1:29:20

he's Ryan's I also love right

1:29:22

I'm obviously drawn to like grumpy ass people

1:29:25

Think about it all the time. It's like He

1:29:28

told me what he was right. It was

1:29:30

I chose it. He never lied to me.

1:29:32

He was like I'm basically a leaner

1:29:44

Body shame, I'm Right

1:29:47

body is banging Always

1:29:50

been just yeah great-looking in terms

1:29:52

of his physique and all that and so

1:29:55

my husband is as well Just he's not as

1:29:57

yoked. He doesn't have time and

1:30:00

house and all that stuff. But

1:30:03

yeah, he's a very

1:30:06

grumpy human being. And I like

1:30:08

to try to be the joiner. That's great. That's very

1:30:10

Philly of him. You've been around him. You know what

1:30:12

he's like. I know. He's a good dude. He's OK.

1:30:15

But he's just. He's a guy's guy. Yeah, he's OK.

1:30:17

Sure. But you've been around

1:30:19

my family, right? My family is psychotic. They

1:30:21

are crazy. They are high energy. They want

1:30:23

to have a good time. And Kev does

1:30:25

too. But Kev rather be alone and just

1:30:28

watch a game. Do

1:30:30

you know that you're the craziest one in your

1:30:32

family? Like you think that your family is crazy.

1:30:34

But I don't think you're aware of the fact

1:30:36

that you're the most insane person in your family.

1:30:38

Your sister is the most normal person in the

1:30:41

world. Your parents are lovely. They're

1:30:43

a little bit crazy. You are the crazy one in

1:30:45

your family. So I remember

1:30:48

PFT was going to come down to my

1:30:50

beach house. And I felt

1:30:52

like I had to warn my parents of what

1:30:55

was coming to the house. Because that's

1:30:57

nice. He's a little unique. Yeah. I

1:31:00

said, hey, I just want to give you guys a heads up. My

1:31:03

friend's going to come down and hang out with us for the weekend. He's

1:31:06

got a lot of hair. He wears sunglasses

1:31:08

all the time. And

1:31:11

they just weren't really listening. And

1:31:13

when he walked in, they were like, what

1:31:15

the fuck? Who is this?

1:31:18

Who is this person? So we wound up hanging

1:31:20

out in the backyard. We were drinking beers. And

1:31:23

my neighbors start freaking out that

1:31:26

he's there. And my

1:31:28

parents are still like, why do people care?

1:31:30

What does he do? I said, oh, he's

1:31:32

just on the radio. Because they don't understand

1:31:34

podcasts. Like I have a podcast starting soon. My

1:31:36

dad thinks I'm going to be on the fan. He

1:31:38

can't separate it. So now you're a competition.

1:31:42

Oh. Well, I thought we were on the same

1:31:44

team. We were at the athletic. By

1:31:46

the way, some of the

1:31:48

stuff that you put out that you

1:31:50

put it with the athletic, now it's just it's so

1:31:52

funny to me. Because sometimes it's believable.

1:31:54

I'm like, this is kind of good reporting

1:31:56

that we do with the athletics. No, the.

1:32:00

I was the Mark Davis fire

1:32:02

Josh McDaniel's using a fortune cookie

1:32:04

from PF Chang. From PF Chang.

1:32:07

Yeah. It's very believable. Did they get pissed

1:32:09

off about that? I feel like they would. I don't

1:32:11

think they love it because it puts our name with

1:32:13

false information when we work so hard to be accurate.

1:32:15

Yeah. Well, it's important you lied

1:32:17

about the jets. Yeah. The

1:32:19

whole heart had to be made. I'll be putting out my jets

1:32:21

for traction. Can I ask you a commander specific question? Sure.

1:32:24

So, Justin Fields going to be traded. We

1:32:26

can say like probably right? I think it's

1:32:28

almost that way. I think at

1:32:30

this point right now it's going to happen.

1:32:32

So the commander's probably taking Drake

1:32:35

or Jane Daniels with

1:32:38

the second overall pick. Is there

1:32:40

any chance that that's not what the

1:32:42

plan is and we're doing something else? Just

1:32:44

based on talking to them this week, they're doing the

1:32:47

typical, you know, we're going to do

1:32:49

our homework on all of it. I don't think they have

1:32:51

a clear cut answer to

1:32:53

what they want to do because they're

1:32:55

still free agent veterans there

1:32:57

too that could come into Washington and

1:33:01

Washington could obviously trade out

1:33:03

if they want depending on if they're looking

1:33:05

to build and get some more picks for the

1:33:07

future. Are you talking about Kirk Cousins? No. Kirk Cousins

1:33:09

is really the story of all of this right now

1:33:11

in terms of who's going to land him because he's the first

1:33:14

domino for all of this. I mean,

1:33:16

Kirk going back to Washington, I mean, that would

1:33:18

be, I actually think that would be a really good

1:33:20

move. That's just my opinion just because when you look at

1:33:22

Dan Quinn, you have a first year head coach, first year

1:33:24

GM owner,

1:33:27

right? You bring in a

1:33:29

guy who a knows the city, but B understands

1:33:31

a winning culture, understands what needs to be done.

1:33:35

I think that would be a good first

1:33:37

step for this group, but they

1:33:40

may want to take a swing and see if they

1:33:42

can get a rookie quarterback step in there. But here's

1:33:44

the problem. You don't know, right? You have CJ Strad.

1:33:46

Oh my gosh, that's amazing. Of course, everyone knows that

1:33:48

that's the dream. But on

1:33:50

the other side of it, you have Bryce Young and it's nothing against

1:33:52

Bryce. He's going to need some time. He might need more than

1:33:55

time. I'm

1:33:57

interested to see how aggressive Washington will be in the

1:33:59

free. better market because

1:34:01

that'll kind of tell you where they

1:34:04

sit on all this. Yeah. I'm, for

1:34:07

the record, I like Kirk Cousins. I think I've done

1:34:09

a 180 on him. Do you want Kirk Cousins back

1:34:11

in Washington? I don't know because I feel like if

1:34:13

you have this opportunity to take a great quarterback

1:34:15

at the top of the draft, get him on

1:34:17

a rookie deal and then build around that, it

1:34:20

seems like that's the right move for a franchise

1:34:22

that's trying to move on and turn like a

1:34:24

complete page. You were there during

1:34:26

the worst times of the Washington

1:34:28

Redskins. It's been very dark for

1:34:30

us. And so having this opportunity to like just

1:34:32

move forward and start completely new, I feel like

1:34:35

that's a good opportunity that would be hard to

1:34:37

pass up. Now if it's Kirk Cousins, to me that

1:34:39

feels like they're like trying to win

1:34:41

nine games. It's like let's win nine to 10

1:34:43

games and not try to build like

1:34:45

a Super Bowl contender in the future. I

1:34:48

mean, if that's how you want to look at it, but I

1:34:51

see why not continue to stockpile these

1:34:53

picks and keep getting better and better in

1:34:55

all the different positions. No matter what happens, I'll spend myself in tune.

1:34:57

I'll be like, that was a great move. You're

1:35:00

going to be into it. By the way, I

1:35:02

don't know Jason, right? Do you

1:35:04

want to meet him? I just have never

1:35:06

met him. So today I see

1:35:10

him pulling in or getting out of an

1:35:12

Uber and I went right out.

1:35:14

I said, hi, I said, Diane, I apologize.

1:35:17

It's taken this long for me to say hello to you. And

1:35:19

he said, hello, I'm Shane. Oh, no.

1:35:22

And then took a bag out of a car. Oh,

1:35:25

my God. That was

1:35:27

not Jason, right? I feel like the biggest idiot.

1:35:29

Can I give you a lifeline here? Sure.

1:35:32

It was a white guy, right? It

1:35:34

was. Yeah, that's tough. I know

1:35:36

you just had a mistaken identity. It

1:35:39

happens all the time. Damn. Oh, my

1:35:41

gosh. I'm queen of... I

1:35:43

do that all the time. The other day we had our athletic

1:35:45

summit, right? So here in Indy, we have... Everyone just comes together.

1:35:47

And no one really knows each other because we all work remotely.

1:35:49

We know each other a little bit, but not really. So

1:35:52

I was like, you know, I'm just going to bite the bullet here. I'm

1:35:54

just going to go up to people and say, hey, I'm Diana. How are

1:35:56

you? What team do you cover? Plus, I'm

1:35:58

the new girl. So first

1:36:01

person I decide I want to go up to is standing

1:36:03

right by where like the fruit and the coffee is. And

1:36:06

I said, I said, hi, I'm Diana. Who

1:36:08

are you? And he said, I'm Sam. I said,

1:36:10

oh, great. I said, what do you do

1:36:12

at the athletic? He said, I work at the Hyatt. No.

1:36:15

Oh, no. Oh. Are

1:36:17

you okay? Yeah. What's

1:36:20

wrong with me? I'm like, I can't pick out the right people. Maybe I'm

1:36:22

blind. Do people at

1:36:24

the athletic or maybe even at ESPN, are they

1:36:26

ever like, we report, we

1:36:28

study the game, we watch film. Why

1:36:30

the fuck do people listen to these

1:36:33

two idiots? I

1:36:36

say to myself, I say to myself all

1:36:38

the time, really stressful days, like it's for

1:36:41

agency days, draft days,

1:36:43

even playoffs. I put you

1:36:45

guys on because the rest of it's

1:36:47

so stressful to me that I'm like, I just want

1:36:49

to like slowly start my day. Feel

1:36:52

smarter. You guys have no idea what

1:36:54

I'm talking about. Exactly. Figure out how dumb

1:36:56

you guys are and go the other way. Yeah.

1:36:59

Let's figure out how to go the... That's really smart. Get

1:37:01

information so I can have the accurate opinion on

1:37:03

it all based on all the gibberish

1:37:05

that they say on this stupid show. It's a

1:37:07

good palate cleanser for sure. Like if you're getting

1:37:09

too much, like if you get too down into

1:37:11

the weeds and get too smart about football, I

1:37:14

actually do think that it's important to

1:37:16

like remind yourself sometimes that the vast majority

1:37:18

of people that watch the sport and pay

1:37:20

attention to the coverage, just

1:37:22

like fucking football. Yeah. And

1:37:25

they're us. Yeah. We are them. Yes.

1:37:28

I'm not going to try to compete with you guys. I'll just be a friend of

1:37:30

the show. We squash you. Well aware.

1:37:33

Well aware. But I'm going to try. So

1:37:38

we have a podcast coming up and that's essentially kind of like

1:37:40

the tone I want. I want it to be informative, good football,

1:37:44

using the stuff that I know, but

1:37:46

also kind of just talking regular stuff as well.

1:37:49

Well, I can give you a tip. I would love some. Here's

1:37:51

a tip. Please. If

1:37:53

you want to keep it more casual, do what PFT and

1:37:55

I do where we'll only read the headline of a

1:37:57

story because we don't have like a subscription to a

1:37:59

certain site. Yeah, and then we just kind

1:38:01

of guess what happens after are you

1:38:03

subscribers to the athletic? I am I am a

1:38:05

subscriber Yes, I am but there's some times where

1:38:07

there'll be like a story and it's just like

1:38:09

well I'll just read the first two sentences and

1:38:11

then we'll just go from there. Good topic Yeah,

1:38:13

it's actually not a bad idea because you see

1:38:15

what the story is about and then you kind

1:38:17

of choose your own adventure Yeah As what you

1:38:20

think it was written and then you react to

1:38:22

what you think was written and you create a

1:38:24

much more entertaining show That way out of pure