Games with Names - Highlight Reel: NFL Celebrity Super Fans Give Their Takes

Episode Date: November 9, 2025

NFL Celebrity Super Fans give takes on their favorite teams including the New England Patriots, Detroit Lions, Baltimore Ravens, and Las Vegas RaidersSupport the show: http://www.gameswithnames.com/See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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and what that meant for all of us watching from the sidelines waiting for a face like hours on screen. Listen to starring Desi Arnaz and Wilmer Valderrama on the IHard Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcast. Welcome to Games with Names. I'm Julian Edelman, and we got a brand new compilation highlight reel starting now. Now, Bill Burr gives his Mount Rushmore of Boston athletes. So what's your Boston hierarchy of sports? Boston hierarchy. Well, pick. I'll give you my top five.

Top five. And, okay, you got to go Bill Russell. As far as the Celtics hierarchy, Bill Russell, that's the foundation. Probably Larry Bird in there. Listen, are you going to let me answer? I don't know. You're just going to do it.

Probably Larry Bird. You probably lived in South. and you stole cars and you were good at math and you said, how do you like them apples? Huh? Listen. I already I already was judging you because you were from Kansas, but the fact that you're from California. NorCal.

You know what's funny about Republicans is they love TV people. They will fucking... Where the fuck did that come from? Because I was just thinking like the other day, it's like they keep electing the host of a reality show TV star, right? They like the host of The Apprentice. they like Schwarzenegger movies.

Reagan. No, and then watching like Trump. I don't know what he's doing. He's like talking about national security with Dr. Phil. You have he seen his ratings? It's like Trump, this is a little more fucking important. And then he replaced a warmonger with dementia. The joke I've been doing in my act is the last three presidential elections.

We're picking presidents the way the Browns pick quarterbacks. We got, we're in this vortex. We got to get out of it. And fortunately, somebody comes along and wax a CEO and gives us a chance to breathe a little. So who's the Baker Mayfield? What are we doing? Huh? Who's the Baker Mayfield of presidents in that?

I love fucking Baker Mayfield. I do too. That's what I'm saying. You know what? I love that. In the revolving door of quarterbacks. I love that Colin Cowherd has to stay up at night knowing he was wrong and can't get himself to admit it.

And his desk is just going to keep getting bigger. I still have to go to a physical therapist looking up at him during those interviews. I did on his show. Oh, my God. Look at that. Would you look at that? Ty Detmer. I can't even...

Oh, my God. Corey, they even drafted Corey Holcomb. That's my boy, Charlie Fry. Isn't a win from the Brady draft? Yes, Pergin win. Brady Quinn, Jake, the... Not the Lone from the Panthers. Yeah.

They got rid of him. He was a fucking baller. I remember that. He almost beat us. Was not afraid of the Super Bowl even remote. Colt McCoy. Dude, they should get all of these guys together and sit around the beach. biggest roundtable you could ever have like a 47 person roundtable and it's just called i was drafted

number one by the browns and you host and and you talk about all the success you had at all levels leading up to that and then you went to the browns and nobody blocked and now for the rest of your life you're going to a dick sporting good and some man-titted fat fuck gets to say you sucked like that's signing up for? Baker, Bank won a playoff game for them. Okay, so what, what is my fascination with, it wasn't always? We were in the hierarchy of Boston, but. Oh, okay, all right.

Bill Russell, uh, wait a second. Stop throwing fucking bird in there. Everybody's going to say bird. There's other. Matt Damon, Ben Affleck, fucking Mark Wahlberg. I'm a Bill Burr guy. Sorry. Joey Mack.

All right, Bird. Will that get you to stop? Will that get you to stop? All right. Russell? You notice my posture. I'm going to be like laying flat by the end of this crying about my childhood.

So Ernie came in here and talked for three hours and by the end he was like this sleeping. All right. Well, there's two different lists. There's the people that I liked and then the best ever, okay? Some of them are on the same list. So like the best ever, you got to go Bird. I mean, Bill Russell, Bird.

I'm going like Celtics right now. And that's it. I'm kidding. I'm too old to remember anybody passed the fucking 90s. Then he got it. Bobby Orr, even Wayne Gretzky, as I said, that's the greatest of all time. Cam Neely. Cam Neely.

You want 50 goals and I beat the fuck out of your team. You know, that guy. And he owned the Canadians. When we couldn't beat the Canadians and we were all, oh my God, well, go on the form. We're going to lose. He would get a hat trick on Patrick Waugh, who changed the game. Before we move on, Cannealy, do you have a take on Old Samuelson? Do I have a take on him?

My only take on that guy is that whenever I hear Pittsburgh fans whining about what they did to Sidney Crosby in his career, it's like you have Alph Samuelson in your ring of honor. Thank you. So, I mean, I don't, I mean, live by the sword, die by this. They also had Matt Cook. I mean, they just, they like guys like that unless they're coming at them. So, you know, I don't know, you know, whatever Alf did, he had like a long career. but, I mean, I don't think, like, going at somebody's knees.

I don't think that, you know, okay, so then what did that do for hockey? That took Cam Neely away, and then you're left with Ulf Samuelson. So, like, I don't mind guys that played physical and that type of thing. You know, there's guys that were on the line, like Claude Lemieux, all right? That guy did a lot of dirty shit, but he could also, he could play the game. So it's, you know, I don't know. You know what? Fuck you for bringing his name up.

All the fucking championships and shit. He's a fucking Pittsburgh fan. It's fucking stupid. Just penguin. Yeah, but Western Massachusetts, that's not even America. Forget about Massachusetts. That's just like people who can't find the Appalachian Trail. Look at his beard.

You think he has running water in his house? No. I don't either. And then as far as Patriots. I mean. John Hannah. Andre Tippett. You got to go.

Steve Grohl. one of the greatest toughest fucking guys Grogan? Dude, Grogan played the last five years of his career wearing a neck brace. He looked like he just got to a car accident and he played on AstroTurf and he would hold that fucking ball

until the like the camera would always go at the ball and he would just see him fly out of frame as the ball went like that way and he would just get up the guy just would get up. Yeah, he was. Oh my God, that naked bootleg on Monday night football? 50 yards. Didn't see it. Fucking white guy giving us

all hope. We can run. I could make it. Stanley Morgan. There it is. He wore them. First of all, he had the same genetics as Peyton Manning, where they just had extra neck. You know what I mean? Like usually the helmet fits the thing. I don't know what, I don't know what, you know, I don't think Peyton's that bright a guy, so he's always cheating on people, you know, the papers. I think that that's why it happened. I'm just fucking with, I love Peyton, but the fucking guy, I did his show, and all he did was, like, he was like, remember when Eli did this? It's like, yeah, I do. I don't remember when you did it.

Yeah. He always does that. Oh, my God, the cheating ass Colts. The fucking cheating ass Colts. Brilliant. Dude, you know what? I didn't realize how much I hated the Colts until I started doing a podcast with Gronk and seeing how much he hated the Colts. Dude, they are the biggest whining bitches that ever fucking,

It's... AFC championship banner? Finalist. Runner up? That's what they have. They have an AFC runner-up championship banner. Dude, how about the fact their owners sat on the competition committee and made the way we were covering their receivers illegal? And then they stole our offense and won a fucking Super Bowl and they didn't say anything.

Which, I don't give a fuck. It's a dirty game. But don't go around weighing a football. I mean, what the fuck? Same amount of their footballs were underinflated. inflated. And he hired this guy who said he was a scientist who wasn't. How about the fact that I still fucking can't stand him right now? How about the fact that the owner of a losing team was allowed to conduct an independent investigation that was upheld by the NFL? Roger Goodell,

that appetizer eating fucking Fred Flintstone looking fat. Okay, I get it. You got to protect your connections. I'm not a fan. I like Rob. The first thing Roger Goodell needs to do is buy a suit that fucking fits. All right. He always looks like he just ate a bunch of potato skids and that big dove Fred Flintstone head. He should have been like, you're not conducting an independent investigation. I do that. You're not going to be. We'll fuck of you. And he went like, oh yeah, this looks pretty good. Like what the fuck? What was that? Quick question. Why do all comedians drink the liquid death? Well, I initially got into this shit because it's rather than being a plastic bottle, and I, this, you know, you're so, you're so green friendly.

You've just, what the, you ask questions and then you fucking interrupt. I never even got through my list. Well, I just, I got random. I'm random. I got ADD, dog. So random. Okay, so hierarchy. He's wearing women's shoes and now he's explaining away his behavior with diagnosis. Are you self-diagnosed as ADD or? Don't know. Can I tell you something? You don't, you don't have ADD. You have childhood trauma that if you actually sat still and you sat and thought about what a dick your dad was that's why, that's me. My dad was a fucking loon. I don't know what

happened to him with old pipe smoker. By the time I met him, he was fucking 90. I don't know what he did when he still, when he's still his last couple years in the league when he was 40. I don't know what he did to my dad, but you know, we all paid for it. So like, I literally cannot fucking sit still in my own house. I have to be doing, I'm playing a guitar. I'm over here.

I'm fucking making an egg. I'm just like, I'm all over the place. I'm right there with you. Yeah. But I was told in like fifth or like third grade, the principal brought my parents into the office and said, yeah,

we recommend your son needs Ritalin. My dad almost fought him. That's a good dad. He goes, you ain't putting my kid on medicine. Yeah. Oh, Frank. Oh, Frank.

You know what came up with Ritalin? Teachers who couldn't control. a classroom. So they just started drugging class clowns. And that's the story that they don't want you to know. So, Russell, Bird. You can fact check that on the internet, where you can

lie your ass off on your website. Grogan. John Hannah. John Hannah. Mike Haynes. No Brady. Mike Haynes. Haines. Well, I'm still in Pat Patriot years. I mean, how many fucking people are on the hierarchy? Usually I'm out of Mount Rushmore. I'm sorry. Did I get to you yet? no i didn't want to be on there i'm going to give at the end of this podcast i'm going to give you

the hug your dad never gave you i see him looking at me right now and really thinking about like yeah this kid's he needs a hug no he needs a hug or maybe i'm just projecting maybe i i'm hoping that i could get a hug from the hands that caught that ball right off the turf maybe that could have maybe you could hold me gently rock me before i go to my next dancing monkey gig that i have to do you do you do do do a lot of these dancing monkey gigs because i do and this is probably the bottom of the list clearly not because three weeks ago bill burr actually showed up to the fucking house i have them on my goddamn my i clicked on the wrong address and i fucking came to the house and they

were like you're not here for like another three weeks and i was like what the fuck i mean that is my day. Every fucking day, like, I just wake up and, you know, I got to start moving forward to get the demons behind me. It's like, I call it the smoke. I got to stay ahead of the smoke. So I clicked on the wrong day and I ended up out here. How far away was where you're supposed to be? Other side of the, you know, over there. It was what it was. And then I got there and it didn't matter. You know what I mean? I was like all stressed out. They're like, no, it's fine. It's fine. it's like so what are these times just arbitrary like you know 10 o'clock go away whenever you want to get here like I don't like being late you weren't you he was actually you were 10 minutes early here

yeah well I had to eat my avocado okay so we have we have the hierarchy of athlete what's the I know we never even got through it keep going all right so then I get to you guy all right Ben Coates I love it tight Russ Francis I forgot Russ Francis fucking good uh Steve Nelson Bill Enkitis Leon Gray Raymond Claiborne Tim Fox Ohio State

Oh my God That guy used to fucking hit people Sam Cunningham Come on Stanley Morgan I said him Yeah he said All right

Okay now we're into Drew Bledso Ben Coats Curtis Martin Bloodso You loved Bledso Everyone loved Bledso Dude he made us

legit Teddy Bruske Willie McGuinness Willie Mac I love Willie Mac Yeah I mean all of the fucking guys All of the guys All of the fucking guys

What about your sports? Tom Brady How does your fandom in sports go? And then I can only pick One white wide receiver So I'll go with Wes Welker Standard Standard

I mean We all can't be winners No you yeah Julian Edelman You're on the list buddy Thanks, I didn't forget about you. Next, Keegan Michael Key

on the game that changed everything for the Detroit Lions. Now, is this the greatest game of all time? I will say this. I think this may be the greatest game of all time for the Detroit Lions franchise. I think this is bigger

than when Barry Sanders just went out of his mind against Dallas in 91. 92, yeah. And that game was huge. But the 90s, somehow, I mean, it's just math, right? The 90s is certainly closer to the 50s

than the aughts are to the 50s or the 20s are to the 50s. So that 30, that gap, that over 30 year gap is huge. And the fact that if you were, when I was a young kid, we still hung our hats on, well, we won the 1957 championship, you know what I mean? But you can't do that in the 20s. Not in this new, it was just too long of a drought

and too significant of a drought. This was so harrowing, I thought to my, myself, okay, after the previous season, after beating Green Bay, first of all, winning a divisional game in Lambeau against Aaron Rogers, ending on a pick. It was, it was, the hope was so high. You could, you could taste it. And then I was deflated when I saw the schedule come out. I go, what, it's us? We've got to play Casey in Arrowhead? Yeah. And I thought to myself, maybe I afforded myself just a small hint of hope. I mean, I believe in Dan. I believe in Brad Holmes, our general manager. I think we can win this game. The fact that they came out with

the victory, I think this is such a market change in the culture of Detroit football. Those games that we would lose, those games that when we get into overtime, they're going, oh, they're just going to march down the field and get a field goal and win. Those games were like, all we need to do was stop them here. You know, Detroit's big, one of our big signature things was always,

it's like 232 in the fourth quarter. You're like, well, they're just going to get whatever first down they need and the team would always get the first down. Four minute offense. Four minute offense.

And we'd always collapse. Always. And they would just seal the deal. And this game, this game is going to be one of the most important games, if not the most important game in the annals of Detroit Lions football history

because of seeing this blueprint. in action. Seeing the culture literally change. We needed this win. I can see that. I don't think you're crazy for saying that. Like that is going out and beating the defending Super Bowl champs after playing your best football at the end of the year.

Yep, yep, yep. After a rough, rough start, you know, the end of the year, they were playing really good ball. Really good ball. To go out and then we'll dive into the game, but to go out and beat the defending champs on a, platform where everyone is watching that gives your team confidence and to do it that that's like a that's like a switch that like guys a we believe actually what we're preaching here now that's a that's a

confirmation on everything that the coaches were saying from that point on after the season you know after the great the ending of their season that right there was everything that they were you know preaching to have that come out and and start the season the way they did I mean, I don't think you're crazy for saying that. No, I appreciate it. It says, it says so much about the direction that the team was going in. And I remember, I mean, I was jazzed when we were on hard knocks. And I thought that HBO made a really good choice.

That was the right time to do it. We were the right time to pick. It's like pick a team when it looks like there's going to be a significant culture change. Yeah. And I want to give a lot of credit to Sheila Hamp, to Sheila Ford Hamp, who's our team owner, and also to Mrs. Ford, who is our team owner emeritus, you know. Sheila, I thought Sheila took a very big swing, a very courageous, big, and I thought it

was a shrewd and a smart swing when she got Matt Patricia. I could see that in her mind, she's going, let's go somebody with somebody who's been in a culture, in a winning culture for a person you know very well, who's been in a culture for a very long time, I think he might be able to make the shift. She made the right. The thinking was right. The thinking was right. So I thought I was really, I started feeling hopeful when Sheila kind of took over the reins for her mom. Martha is a passionate football person. She loves her team. She loves the staff. I think it was right for her to kind of go, I'm going to give the reins over to my daughter. I think she's got good ideas. I think she's moving in the right direction. So I have to give her kudos for that Matt Patricia higher. And then, Um, you know, I think that Dan, unless you're in the league or a real huge sports maven, Dan was not a, not a completely unproven quantity, because I thought he did really good stuff in Miami.

Yeah. And, um, but he, he, he again was the right choice. She just went swinging for the fences again. The shrewd choice was Brad Holmes. Yeah. I, I, I, I, I think this guy might be the, this might be the piece. So somebody whose career has been spent scouting. Scouting, scouting, scouting.

And for him to say, we're going to build this team through the draft, it's just balls. It takes balls. We're not going to spend a ton of money. We're going to be, the word is shrewd. We're going to be shrewd. And we're going to make informed choices to build a future for this team.

That's another thing I love about our team. Yeah. Is that we're building a team that could be good for a decade. It's not, let's go try to win a Super Bowl. in one year, let's spend all of her money, bankrupt ourselves, go for, what if you don't win? What if you don't get the Stan Cronkey? What if you don't get the Stafford effect? And you don't win the Super Bowl?

And then what happens? Yeah. Then what happens? So I just shout out to Sheila Hamp. Yeah. They've definitely gone foundational. Foundational. This is, you know, absolutely.

And that starts from the leader. And, you know, I'll get into more of the lines and where I believe in them and we'll get in there. But, you know, MCDCs is a great. fit for that city. I mean, the toughness. And, you know, to show what he's shown, everyone kind of thought he was just a big old meathead. But, you know, the guy, the guy knows football. They didn't know, and they, he knows football. They didn't know what he meant. I don't think they knew what he meant when he said grit. Yeah. Because when he says grit, I think part of grit is also mental fortitude, not just testicular fortitude, but mental, cerebral fortitude. It's both. It's, it's, it's

It's like you said. People thought he was a meathead and he's, you know, he got the passion, got the best of him. And he said the kneecaps thing and blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. It's the mental fortitude. On hard knocks, he did that thing where he shook out the jeans, the dust out of the clothes and said, we've got to get this off. We're not that team. Just because you're here in Allen Park, Michigan, in this training facility, let it,

you got to let all that go at the door. We're not. We're different. It's, it's been amazing to watch. It is. That it's, that the culture and the philosophy is. actually work. Now, we got Stavros-Halkius, giving us his Mount Rushmore of Baltimore athletes. We got to have the Mount Rushmore. Okay.

Of Baltimore athletes. Ooh, I love it. Oh. Yeah, I mean. Or from Baltimore. Cal were from Baltimore. We could do a cultural. We could do a cultural. We could do a cultural. We could do a culture. And we could do a athlete. I mean, if we're talking athletes, obviously, Cal's got to be on there. it really comes down to I think Cal's got to be on there Ray Lewis and Ed Reed and then

I mean what's telling you in your head right now I just I see it it's just hard my answer don't say it are you going to say it I don't I don't think I can

Is there something about him? There is something about him right? I'm not going to say there's not something about him it's a split i know that's a fucking completely uh complete cowards way out but it is it's the quarterback slot and it's for it's it's a split right now lamar and flacco but lamar is so fucking like obviously my this is a joke character and i love flago and he is all you know he's the fucking man super bowl MVP it's insane one of my favorite athletes but lamar is just like you know i just think he does get shit on a little too much and obviously there's people

who love him, I'm not going to say he just has detractors, but he's so fucking good, he's so electric. I think it's got to be Lamar, man. All right. What were your thoughts on the resurgence of Joe Flacco in Cleveland last year or two years ago? Yeah, I mean, it's hard for me not

to root for, like, at the end of the day, I was not scared of that team, and it's like, I, pardon me, I mean, wait, did he say, sorry, I've been out, did he actually sign with the Steelers or is that a rumor? No, no, no, I don't know. No, I don't know. I saw a, I saw a rumor that he might. Anyway, so thank God. That would have been brutal. That would have been

fucking brutal. What is it about Joe Flacco? I mean, this run, honestly, that's also another reason I picked this game is that, like, I think what is it is that, like, yeah, he had a legendary run. And I think he's fucking really good. And to be able to do this, you have to be one of the best, like, it's crazy. The amount of people that go on a, who have their best football during the, during a Super Bowl run is, it's the best thing of all time. But I think, I think there's something about him. He feels relatable. He's a mid-Atlantic guy. He's like, he seems like a guy you might have grown up with. It's, you know, from kind of, I think he's like from the Philly Burbs. He went to Delaware. He went to fucking Delaware. He played in,

he played in Baltimore. It's like he's got that, I know, even though he's not from Baltimore, he feels like a guy from Baltimore. Um, it was never complicated. The motherfucker just threw a, and he threw a beautiful deep ball. And he was faster than what people, like he was, we used to, I remember Bill always talking about Flanco. Like, don't let this motherfucker out the pocket. Now, I'm just telling you, when he gets going, he's hard to bring down.

He's a big fucking guy. He's a big guy. He's huge. And I think there was just something awesome about him where it was like, you just again, I also think there's a relatability in some ways, even though again, world class quarterback, you shouldn't relate to him. You have nothing. The average fucking idiot on his couch

has nothing in common with Joe Flacco. But at the end of the day, it's like, he is from Delaware. Like, he, he is a guy from around where we're from. And he, nobody really believed in him at any point. This, he put his money. And I think, for me anyway, and for other people, I think you could watch that and get inspired and be like, I just need to fucking get it together when it fucking matters.

And like, I could be a fucking legend forever. And Joe had, we had great years and I loved rooting for him. But I think it was like, the combination of getting you a Super Bowl and just like how relatable and how much like, like people will ask him now in interviews like oh do you and they'll kind of try and get him to like talk about how good the ravens are but he's still like I'm playing motherfucker I'm still in the league if if I want the ravens and I like that attitude

he's not he doesn't see it as like this like retirement tour he sees it like I still got I'm doing this fucking sign me and I fucking love that dude even though he might here's the other thing he might be wrong right but you need that a belief if no one's if you have to believe yourself more than anyone else to be successful with these hard things. And he was like for like him, Janice, like it is sports guys can absolutely inspire you in your life for that. And I take a lot of that from Flacco and, you know, obviously Janus for how hard.

Yonis is like work ethic, turning it coming from nothing to being one of the best. And it's just sort of that, that kind of underdog story. And the fact that it ends with a Super Bowl and not just Super Bowl at a Super Bowl that has Ray Lewis retires. Ed Reed, got one with us because, you know, Reed is my favorite Raven, even though Ray obviously is a legend, but there's just, he was just so fucking cool and he was just so, so incredibly good. And it was just such a special, like, that kind of Super Bowl keeps you going. Now, did I want us to win this year? Absolutely. I love Lamar. He's, he's gaining on, on, uh, Reed for me, because he's just incredible to watch and he's so fucking good. And I would have loved, there was like the numerology

every 12 years, the quarterback's 28 years old. I thought for sure we were winning because of that dumb bullshit. And then if we had gotten that one, I literally wouldn't have needed another Super for the rest of my life. You know what I mean? Three at really pivotal points in my life

would have been great, but we'll get them this year. So Ed Reed, we'll jump into this Baltimore team. Yes. Good segues, Ed Reed. I remember Ed Reed's last year, he lit me up in Baltimore. Yeah.

Do you remember that? I don't know if you remember that. We ended up losing. it was 2000 it was this year it was the game that i played in ed reed came and he lit me up on a on a bank a post damn and he just was so swaggy about it like got a like he was just a competitor so cool bill used to literally show like a 40 play cut up of ed read every every time we played him and we're like bill we saw this six weeks ago he's like he just show another cut up like ed read this fuck he loves the one that's the one that's the one vendai

for me and Bill Belichick is our admiration for Ed Reed is how much we how much we respect him because I've seen him talk about that and that is fucking cool yeah and he'll show those where it's like how smart he was to like he was playing mind games with Peyton Manning yeah it's insane and not only that but he'll return kicks he'll lateral like those he'll block kicks yeah he's up and under we used to show all our special teams his up and under move on blocking kicks because he was that legendary. So Ed Reed's one of your favorite guys from this team. For sure. Ray Lewis, you love him. Absolutely. Joe Flacklew. See, Ogden gets forgotten in the like Ray Luke, because Ray Lewis obviously. Ogden was really good. You know, but like I, it doesn't happen

without Ogden. They draft those guys the same year. That was our, you know, and like that's, those are the cornerstones of our franchise. And he's in many ways, I feel like Ogden is what the perfect left tackle became. You know, it's like that he got drafted a long fucking time ago. Now, it was just like he was so good. It's insane. He was, he was kind of like Tim Duncan where it's like, it's kind of boring. It gets forgotten. But I don't think those teams, I don't think we win that first Super Bowl with, without him for sure. And it's like he, he does get a little, I want to give him his credit because he, to me, it's him. I think of him and Ray Lewis as are the initial stars that got us off the ground together. And I feel like he gets forgotten

too much. Offensive lineman, that's going to happen. It happens. And also his personality, He's just like a kind of a quiet, chill guy. He's not, you know, that he's not doing the sick dances that everybody sees. He's like fire in their own world. For sure. And you kind of have to be. You're getting me. But they're the reason.

Yeah. I mean, it's the trenches. I mean, you listen to all the guys. It starts in the trenches. It's true. Next, Ice Cube talks about Tom Brady and the 2025 Las Vegas Raiders. I'm always excited for the Raiders. You met with, as president of Raider Nation, have you met with Brady yet to tell him with the.

no i haven't i think we should we should brokerage this meeting okay and uh i'm darrell how are you looking about this new raiders you know we got tb over there is that what the how do we feel fucking tuck rule we got tuck rule guy it's the fuck rule but go ahead fuck rule guy we got fuck rule brady yeah now he's owning the team and he's calling the shots how do we feel about this raiders nation president raider nation Raider Nation. Damn.

Raider Nation president. We'll cut it in. You know, we feel like we've purged the enemy of their of their superpower. That's a Raider move right there. That's a Raider move.

Purge the enemy of their superpower. Hopefully we can plug it in and use whatever juice is still left on it. I'm excited for him. Me too. You know, it's like, he's a winner. He's a winner.

Pete Carroll's a winner Um Gene Smith Smith Gene quarterback I think he's a winner too I think he got a chip on the shoulder that he

he's ready to get it off So That sounds like a Raider He won't It's got a lot to prove to me It's like a Jim Plunkett Yeah in a way You know who was a Patriot

Number was a Patriot First pick first pick First pick So So, it could work. How we think about him? I think he's going to be a stud. Yeah, me too.

You know, we always pick good running backs, but we don't hold them long enough, you know? I mean, we don't get the pieces around them quick enough for them to do what they do. You know, it's either we pretty good on offense and, you know, usually need. work on defense. Yeah, well, I'm excited.

I'm excited for the Raiders. I'm always excited for the Raiders. You met with, as president of Raider Nation, have you met with Brady yet to tell him with the... No, I haven't. I think we should brokerage this meeting. Okay. And I'm down.

Just so... What I'm gonna tell him, don't fuck shit up. Exactly. Hey, give them the L.A. shit. Yeah, don't fuck shit up. Give them the fucking Raider shit. Okay? You got to baptize his ass.

He stole the soul. He stole the soul. Nah. I'd be like, man, please. Please tell these motherfuckers what to do. To get a Super Bowl. If you're Tom Brady for a day, what are you doing? As raider owner.

Minority owner. As, as, as, I mean, Tom, I don't know how much he really can do, you know, but. but add a lot of suggestions to the suggestion box. You know what I'm saying? Like, being an owner and a minority owner in sports is kind of like just being a cheerleader? A super ticket season holder, you know?

It is. It's like a super season ticket holder. You know, you get invited to. to a few things, but I don't know how much they listen to you. Yeah. We're going to find out. Yeah, we'll see.

A lot of it depends on whoever the governing person is. Well, Mark, you know, one thing, I like Mark Davis. And you know, he's a good dude. He'll listen to smart people. Yeah.

You know, he's not one of those hard-nosed dudes who was not looking to, you know, get smarter, get better, figure out, you know, who's the best at what they do and let them do what they do without over-interferring. Sometimes you got to let people cook. Yeah, you know, his pops was accused of too much, being in the sauce a little too much. I think he take a slightly different approach. He had to write people and let them do their thing. And, you know, they either swim or sink or swim, you know what I mean, on their own. You got to, you know, it's tough. You know, patience is huge.

That's a tough position to be in. Because the Holy Trinity in football is the owner GM head coach. That's the Trinity. Yeah. And actually it's the quarterback, too. It's the holy quadruity. whatever that shit is you know what I mean

so you gotta have all those but you gotta be patient enough to let it marinate you gotta let the meat marinate you can't just you know you put the shit on and put it on the grill you gotta let that thing sit for 24 hours

in the fridge 40 years you know games are long and um you can't panic you know you can like you can't win a game in the first quarter

but you can lose a game. in the first quarter you know what I'm saying you could do some stupid shit so that's real sometimes you just got to let the guys play it and to me it's really like owner cool gym whatever head coach do the guys are the guys playing they ass off for this coach um and if they are you know you got to kind of let it roll they're not playing their ass off for this coach then it's something you need to do yeah but that sometimes you don't have the right players for that coach that's that's the thing you know like the gym brings in these guys that don't acclimate to the system that they're trying to put them and that's why it's a holy quatrinity whatever the cute whatever that's why in the big

three look at we don't have a gym see that's why you don't have GM we have a player captain and he gets to pick two co-captains who he's going to play with. See? And then they draft two other players. So we don't have that problem. He gets to, the chemistry is going to be there. He's not going to pick a guy he don't think he can win with, that he don't get along with, that he won't go to war with.

Yep, I get it. So I think that the other sports leagues need to try to learn a little from that because, yeah, The GM can put together a bunch of bullshit, you know what I mean, like, and that you can't really use on the field or they're not working together. But it's one of those things where then you got the owner and then you got the head coach and the GM. The head coach has a meeting with the owner says, I don't got the fucking players, man. I don't tell you. Then the GM comes and says, man, we got the best players in the fucking league, but we don't have the goddamn coach.

And so it's up to a guy that has to make the decision that's not really a football guy. You know, usually in most scenarios, someone that's around the game. You guys were blessed to have Al Davis, who was a fucking coach, GM, commissioner, everything for the league. So he knew football. He could make those decisions. But a lot of the time, these people don't have that ability to know what they're even doing. A smart owner, to me, would know what he don't know. And we have a football guy to handle that shit.

There you go. I don't even hear about it. Like, go talk to a month. football guy. I'm just going to go sitting in the stands with my goddamn family, man. Take pictures. Better win. Better win.

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