Games with Names - Week 7 with Scott Hanson | October 22, 2020 | NFL Redzone

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Scott Hanson is in studio! Touchdown Santa aka our Sunday Sherpa aka Mr. Redzone is with us today to relive one of the wildest weeks in Redzone history: Week 7 of the 2020 NFL season. Scott joins us on the couch (0:40). We go back to October of 2020 (46:22). We get into the teams (1:00:29). We breakdown the featured games (1:23:56). We score it (1:58:17). We wrap it up with a special Games with Names Toast presented by Jameson Irish Whiskey (2:11:13). Support the show: http://www.gameswithnames.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

I knew from before show one, I said if we execute this concept, seven hours, commercial free football, we can go anywhere in the NFL universe anytime we feel like it. I said if we execute this well, this is going to be the most popular football show on television. I came on the first on camera time I ever came on the first episode, September 2009. I said, welcome to NFL red zone. The channel that we hope will change the way you watch football forever. Welcome to games with names. I'm Julian Edelman. They're Jack and Kyler and we're on a mission to find the

greatest game of all time. On today's episode, we are covering week seven of the 2020 season with NFL Red Zone host Scott Hanson. We all know his voice. We've all seen his voice. We've all can you see a voice? We get into talking. What makes the perfect witching hour? Chaos. Stuff that just shouldn't happen. I mean, fourth quarter keisters get tight, man, in the fourth quarter sometimes. The origin of the Octobox. I want you to feel how big it is. We have eight games of the most highly skilled trained athletes on the planet

are going at it simultaneously, and it's all gonna lead to wins and losses at three hours from now. Big. Like, it's big. And pretty much everything that goes on behind the scenes of the NFL red zone. You know we had a fire alarm a couple years ago. I don't leave dude. A soldier does not leave his post. You can't. He's a foxhole guy. Foxhole. And then we wrap it up with a very special Jameson

Irish whiskey toast. So you gotta stick around till the very end. Let's go. So you gotta stick around till the very end. Let's go! Games with Names is a production of iHeartRadio. October 25th, 2020. Sunday afternoon. NFL Red Zone. When wins become losses and losses become wins. You know what time it is. This is the greatest witching hour of all time,

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Does that does everyone make comments on it when they come on? No. Well, OK. No, I don't mean to be. Did I make it weird? No. But there's there's a thing people that know football and speed. Yeah, they know that the big calf shows that you're not a burner. Traditionally not. You're you're a change of direction guy. And you could stick them in the ground and go anybody as Dion say, you ain't seen no calves on a racehorse. Right? You know, I bet you're you know, all the lines. Oh,

yeah. Dion's other one is he used to never come out and stretch before a game. Yeah. He said you ain't never seen a cheetah stretch on the savanna. He said, you ain't never seen a cheetah stretch on the Savannah. He's like, cheetah wakes up ready to run. No, the toe took him down. The toe took him down. The toe took him, that's like the worst.

It's bad too. Have you ever, have you seen how much he's had to have? He's had to cut. He's got eight toes now. Did you see him in Ocho's argument? That was fucking hilarious. Yeah, yeah. Did you buy this place during your playing days or after? I bought this 18 months ago. Oh, really? Yeah.

With the idea of setting up this type of stuff? Or did you have a place out here? No, I never had a place here. My daughter lived out here and I would come in the off season and I ran a place. OK. But I was mostly in Boston. Really? Yeah. You still keep a place there? I still have my place there. And that's how we get a lot of the Patriots will get all the people over there Oh really? Because I was thinking you flew like some of those guys. We flew Ernie Adams Ernie I saw Ernie's the only one which that's an exclusive interview right there. Yeah, Ernie

He doesn't say much to anybody. No, but he used to not at least it never has. Yeah, even You know like when our teammates saw that show anybody. No, but he used to not at least never has. Yeah. Even, you know, like when our teammates saw that show, they were amazed because Ernie was very quiet. But I would always I was there for so long. I would see him in the cafeteria doing the same thing he did every single day eating that damn tomato. And I go create conversation because I was a jokester a little bit. Sure, sure, sure. You know, so and then me and Ernie became and he would give me nuggets.

Yeah. Like on punters or on certain DBs. And so like, we always had a thing because people were intimidated to talk to him, A, for one, and B, he didn't put it out there that he wanted to be talked to, or he didn't give that vibe, but he's not like that. He's just socially awkward.

Yeah, there's probably that too, but in my world, there was a mystical mist about him for the longest time. And well, your interview helped to lift that veil. I mean, he's in the later years of his life, career, whatever else, but there was always this, oh, there's this guy there at the Patriots. He's the original analytic guy. Yeah, nobody really knows him outside of the building, apparently.

But Bill trusts him implicitly. And they credit him with with a lot of positive things that come out of that building and out of that program to put it in perspective. I would say 85 to 90 percent of the people inside the building didn't know what he did. Wow. You had to be in a group to like certain guys like new, but like the younger players or when you're a new player, they're like, who the fuck is this guy? Yeah. Yeah.

You know, and that's how it was. But then all of a sudden you talk to him, you know, everything about every damn team and every rule. All right, let's get this started. I go closer, guys. No, I am. I guess you can move it. OK. I do project across a room, Julie. Oh, I know you're a pro. This is this is your game. I'm waiting to see it. Welcome to Games with Names with Scott Hansen.

Today, we are looking at week seven of the 2020 NFL season witching hour in one sentence. Why did you pick this week, Scott? COVID meets crazy finishes. Remember, 2020 the COVID year, so you're going to, if you look at the video, you'll see just dots of fans in the stands, in the stadiums that were allowed to have fans. And I got to ask you what it was like to play

in that atmosphere. Awful. Foxborough was completely shut down. Empty, done. Certain stadiums in certain states were allowed 10% capacity, 20% capacity, whatever. But there was that. And this one particular witching hour,

we had 10 lead changes in four different games in a span of less than 60 minutes during the witching hour, we had 10 lead changes in four different games in a span of, well, less than 60 minutes during the witching hour. And then, well, wait, can I put you on the record? You are a Red Zone viewer and a Red Zone fan yourself. I mean, I love the shirt. What are you talking about? Me? No. I have said.

No, not me. I've said for years, Julian Edelman is the best dressed man in the entire NFL. Whoa! And you didn't let me down with the t-shirt. Coming from a hairline and a man that could hold himself for 18 hours to call the game I love, that's a, I might as well die and go to heaven.

I hope I do you proud. I know I did you proud during your playing days because did you know that you came into the NFL the same year NFL red zone came into existence I you know what 2009 after we did the research okay I kind of knew that yeah I didn't know it until we started doing that yeah and I was explained to Kyler and Jack that I really didn't watch red zone until I retired okay like. Like you watched it. You had heard about it, but just you heard about it.

But if you were playing a Monday night football, what would you do on Sunday? Sunday we were, you know, we had walkthroughs, we had team meetings. You'd be in the room, like you'd usually be in like a training room, depending if you're on the road or at home. Okay.

And you'd be getting treatment and you, they would have the game on and they'd have the red zone and you'd watch the, that was kind of like where I first started seeing it, but I didn't really know what it was. And then I started doing fantasy like closer to the end. And I was like, I gotta get on this red zone. And then it's like- Your boy TB12, Tom Brady told me for years

when he was playing and now of course in retirement that he loves red zone. He's a junkie. When I, but like, when I first like started really watching it, that's when my appreciation and I understood what the infatuation of the red zone was, because I really wasn't in it. Like when I was playing, you'd see it on and it'd be cool to see the highlights and you see guys that would get the touchdowns, you'd see certain situations that we'd be cool to see the highlights. You see guys that would get the touchdowns.

You see certain situations that we harp on all day, third down red area. But like it wasn't until I had my own fantasy squad. I'm sitting there and you're all you're glued to your phone and you get instant highlight with your commentary. I was like, man, this guy's a fucking stud. A B, this is a crazy concept. It was dopamine hits you get from when your fantasy running back. This guy's a fucking stud a B. This is a crazy concept dopamine hits you get from when your

Fantasy running back. Oh, yeah pops in on fourth and goal from the one. Yeah, or Conversely if you get vultured a touchdown one of your guys should be scoring a touchdown and goes to the backup fullback or something Yeah, there is nothing like that and that's what we we deliver. People call me touchdown Santa Claus. Touchdown Santa Claus. Right, baby? Just here distributing. You get a touchdown. I call you Oprah. Touchdown Oprah. Touchdown Oprah.

Trademark 2024, Julian Edelman. Is this the greatest week of all time that we're about to discuss? Well, I come bearing gifts. You come bearing gifts. What is this guy? As soon as we decided, Santa? As soon as we decided that we were going to revisit this, I went back in my notes like you guys might go back in a, you know,

in your game playbook or your, you know, wristband or whatever. I went back and I printed out a set. These were my NFL Reds own week seven seven 2020, October 25 2020, my notes going into the game. Wow, those are my generic notes. Then my process Julian is I go through every game and I pair all of my best stats, facts, figures, quotes, injury updates, every game gets one sheet. That's the early window.

This is the late window. You all, Patriots, played in the late window, but we're gonna talk about the early window, the fantastic finishes in this early window. But go to this sheet right here. Go to this one. And I don't know if, maybe I'll give this and the cameras can edit this in afterwards.

This is the cover sheet here. My master sheet that gives me the entire lineup of games. I don't know if it hold up to that. You're three. Okay, my entire lineup of games. I put a little line item through to say I've got seven in the early window. I've got four in the late window. All the kickoffs the location the team records coming in didn't get the line

and when you got to do your own lines if you ever are. Okay, all right, I'm just making sure. Wait, let me rephrase that. Sounds like friend and friend. I'm gonna do our own lines. Yeah, so seven early, four late, and I prepare every game as if it's gonna be the craziest game of the day,

and then that way whenever it ends up happening, whatever game does go crazy or whatever four games go crazy, I'm loaded and I'm ready to bring it to you guys. You know what? What's up? This preparation, it's kind of like a real, it's like a game day NFL prep.

Kind of. And then as I transitioned into doing TV, I kind of have a similar approach to it where I'll go over our matchups for Fox that week and then I'll go over with a group and we'll sit and we'll talk over each game and I'll watch that game or a highlight or a condensed version of that game and I'll give off just my, I'll send voice memos

to a group of us and I'll just go bad block on this, this good, great play, awesome this, and then we'll go in and we'll look at everything. And you do all this preparation for when you get onto TV, you don't use any of it, but you feed your subconscious with the knowledge. 100%. That you can drop at a second.

Can I give you an analogy to this? Yeah, I love an analogy. Okay, go back to your college days. You had that one class where the professor, it's the end of the semester, and he or she says, okay, this is like Monday, the final exam is on Friday. It's an essay exam. Here are 10 essay questions which represent everything

that we've studied this semester. Three of them are gonna be on the final exam. Wow. Which which do you study? Anxiety right now. I was thinking about being in a classroom. Well, you probably stood up at that point and said, you know, Professor, I'm going to the league. No, I don't need that. I don't. At that point, I was like, I'm about to be a fireman until I had to study to be a goddamn.

Well anyways, the point being, if you're a diligent student, you study everything. And that way, another analogy, your tool belt is full. If it ends up, you know, if you need to use a hammer, a wrench, a screwdriver, the pliers, whatever, you're ready for it. And so I study every one of these games like it's gonna be the absolute biggest game.

And then if it's 35, nothing blowout. Didn't say anything about that. That's how it goes. But that's that's the thing about preparation and anything. And you watch someone, you know, like you don't just get up and spit the red zone out. You put so much time and effort in before that seven hour day of performance, just like when we would prepare for a week's game, you put in so much, we practice these situations that a lot of us would get mad at,

you know, as players, but the coaches would put us in these situations. And like we never seen this. We haven't seen this for six, six years, a specific situation. Free kick after a fair catch on a right time know time thing before right. But the one time it happens you know we were always prepared for just like we've got saying with your we've got an example in week 7 2020. Oh Oh do you want me to give you the specifics here? Let's hear it. So lions at Falcons lions came in at two and three Falcons

came in at one and five right right? Two sub 500 records. You think this is not gonna be, you know, whatever. There was some great players in the game. You know, you got Stafford was still there and then Matt Ryan. So you got two guys who can pitch it around. Danny Amendola was on the team. Shout out, Dola.

There you go. Dancing with the stars. There you go. There you go. So it comes down to the wire. The Lions have a one point lead. OK, now this is this is all situational. Belichick would go would geek out on this.

The Lions have a one point lead. The Falcons have the ball. The Falcons are driving. It's in the final minute or two minutes of the game. The Lions are out of timeouts so the Falcons need any type of a score to win the game. They get into the red zone. What are the Lions gonna want to do at this point? Let them score. Let them score a touchdown. Yeah. Okay. So you got a call in the huddle if you're the Atlanta Falcons. We

want to drain this thing down to three seconds call our last time out and kick the game winning field goal. We do not need a touchdown. Todd Gurley and Todd Gurley who had had various. He tried. Yeah. Well, but he didn't execute. He burst through the line and he wanted to go down at the at the one yard line, but you can't. He's a four four guy at his best. He burst through the line and of course they let him and he burst through because they let him. He went in from the like the 10 yard line down to the one and he went, he tried to stop and he must have crossed the goal line by that much with the football.

So what is the call in the huddle? What did you guys use in the huddle when it was, I've heard some teams use no moss. Like no moss, no more. We do not want to score a touchdown here. It was a Rolex situation for us. Meaning? Meaning time was more important than points. Okay, but there wasn't a specific call to say,

do not score a touchdown. Yeah, it's called Rolex. Oh, okay, that's the only thing. Time, Rolex, Rolex, Rolex, do not score. Time is more important than points. So like you would go down and we would have, we would have had that call in our, A, I would say 90% of the guys in the huddle

would know what to do, probably even more. And just, everyone probably would have known. Yeah. But it would have been reiterated by the quarterback who probably got a reminder from the offensive coordinator. So there's a lot of teamwork that goes into that. Todd tried to do it. He just didn't execute.

No, and the funny thing was earlier in his career when he was with the Rams. And he scored. And actually he did a different one where he went out of bounds, but he went out of bounds too early. Yes. They weren't in Rolex situation at that time. That's four minute. Yes. That's four minute offense. He was overth Rolex situation at that time. Four minute. Yes, that's four minute. He was overthinking it at that point. Yeah. And yeah, so Rolex. I love girly as

a player. I love girly as a player. Yeah, well, it better be because someone's going to call you and say, yeah, you're gonna be like, you don't remember the calls. Did you ever practice that you as you were obviously a wide receiver, but you were a ball carrier at different times and you become a ball carrier catching a pass, even though if it's Rolex, the running back's probably the only one who's handled the ball. Did you ever practice stopping your momentum at the two yard line, three yard line? We probably wouldn't even have put that

player in that situation as the play caller. We probably would have just said right, tight, as the play caller. OK. We probably would have just said right, tight quarterback, center of the ball. And so and we all know that Brady wasn't a threat to burst into the secondary end of the end zone. So no, he was. But I love you.

You know I love you. But yeah, speed wasn't his game. No, but he's actually one of he's probably the greatest quarterback sneak quarterback of all time. I am 100% with you. And he's had over a thousand yards in rushing. He lets us know that. Thousand.

Speaking of which. 50 years. If you would care to peruse your notes. We got notes. Let's go to the late window. So the top page is Buccaneers Raiders. Okay, Bucc Raiders. So again, this is like macro NFL notes. This is early window packet. Early window. This is late window.

We had four games in the late window. Buccaneers Raiders. That was a John Gruden revenge game. We had Chiefs Broncos in the AFC West, a drew a game. Then there's this little game, the 49ers at the Patriots. Yeah, both Patriots. My first note there. Would you read that to the fans? Jimmy Garoppolo returns to New England. Yes, he was the second round draft pick in 2014.

He returns to New England. And then Bill Belichick, I got a note on him there. Do you like that note? Yeah, 7-1 with a plus-122 point differential against QBs that were drafted by or started at least one game. In other words, Belichick used to destroy people, quarterbacks who were in his program, left his program and then came back and played against him. So who was that like a Testa Verde? Drew Bledsoe. Bledsoe was the one guy who beat him. His record was seven and one with a big, huge point. That first year, that first year after he left on opening day,

it was it was early in the season. It was because I think we cut lawyer Malloy too. So his lawyer, this is before you were on the team. You remember the history. But we know we go over the situation. You got it. Smart. But that's that's true. Would you care to go down to the bottom line on my New England Patriots?

And again, this is I did not doctor this. Oh I had a Julian Shreddleman note Edelman needs 144 yards for 10,000 career all-purpose. Did you have any idea that was the case? You needed going into this game you needed 144 yards of any type for 10,000 all-purpose career Dude you well, I didn't everyone knows you were a monster. I didn't get it one catch. Yeah, you did get it We don't want to probably bring up what actually happened. That was my last game right there your last game in the NFL Yeah, my last catch against the Niners my child childhood. I'm so sorry to bring that. It was all good. It was

all good. It was a shitty. It was a shitty year. Shitty year. But that was that was it was cool to Cam Newton was quarterback in the Patriots at that point. I'm talking personally, I'm not saying he was responsible for it. I'm just giving the fans a recollection of what that was there. It was COVID year getting tested like three times, five times a week for covid. It was so hard to interact with your teammates in the locker room. It was completely different than what you were accustomed to of having community

and being able to talk and make fun of guys like it was football at that point. Like it that was the straw that broke the camel's back for me. I had said, I got to get out of it. I got to get out of this. Well, I will say this. You can credit the NFL. People criticize the NFL for a number of things. You can credit the NFL.

The NFL was the only sport on the planet that did not miss one game during the COVID year of 2020. Not without a doubt. I'm not saying when you look back that it was freaking awesome. I'm just saying as a 12 year vet. Yeah, that now you know, that's not the way you want your. It just was tough for the players. You know what I mean?

How often do you get to swab up the nose every day? Every day. Every day. Practice Wednesday. You're getting even when you had a brain, you had to go get tested and then come back because you had you had to protect the ecosystem. When you look back on it, NFL killed it. NFL and UFC, those are the two sports that you look at like during the whole what you know, that whole time gated those waters they did very they navigated through during the thing, though know, that whole time. They navigated those waters. They did very, they navigated through.

During the thing though, when you're a player and you bitch about everything, you're like, this fucking sucks. You know, but looking back on it, you're like, man, that was pretty cool. I gotta say, us from the fan perspective, we needed that. We needed that. Oh, without a doubt.

Oh my God. That was our lifeline. When I came on the air, cause you can remember March Madness, completely canceled. Canceled. NBA would end up going into the bubble the next year, but they were shut down. The hockey wasn't going to start.

Everything was shut down. You came off of a summer, which is already dry sports terrain. When I came on the air for that first red zone, and I remember I had to say, everyone's passed their COVID test. I used to announce at the beginning of red zone. And I remember I had to say everyone's passed their covid test. I used to announce at the beginning of red zone if any player failed his covid test an hour before kickoff, get shut down. When I came on, like you just felt the weight of our country.

We needed. Yeah, without a doubt to come back. And of course, then that was after the summer of George Floyd, too. So it was we needed something to bring us together. And NFL football does it unlike just about anything else. Amen. We also had like afternoon Wednesday games too, which was kind of awesome. Well, look at the notes, look at the notes.

We win, we win. Go back to the main page, I've got written down here, two games, usually on the top page here. Have been rescheduled. Yeah, we usually just say how many division games there are, how many games between teams with winning records, right? The games to highlight. Yeah, here we go. Two games have been rescheduled the week seven.

The Steelers at Titans was supposed to be played in week four. And it got, you know, remember how the games were going to Tuesdays? And you said Wednesdays and everything. We had two games that were rescheduled. We also had a team that had their bye week. The Dolphins that year got their bye week smashed over to week seven because they were every it was just bananas. But we went up playing football without a doubt.

We went and played. They cancel or they postponed our game like two days. We played, I think, on Tuesday, the Chiefs game. So it's to be a Sunday night game or Sunday football. We played on Tuesday. We flew out same day and played off flight. And I was coming out with swollen knees and stuff. I'm sitting here pumping this trying to get it like that.

So that's what I remember from that year. And it was great looking back for not just our fans, but just for everyone to have some kind of something to look forward to that during that time. You know what was going on. But, you know, it was it was tough. Hopefully, it was tough situation. Hopefully, never again. Never again. What do you think? What do you think about what's going on right now in the NFL season? How do we do this? Scott has a little bit of a surprise for you.

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Join the Jameson huddle at jamesonsports.com. A couple things. So Julian, I sat down here and you said, nice to meet you. You and I have met before. In fact, you and I, Julian, have played football together on the same team. Oh, yeah, yeah. Best buddies.

Can you? Oh, you recognize this? Yeah. So, OK. So for those who don't know, Tom Brady has been involved with a charity for years. I think he maybe still is. But certainly this was June 1st, 2012. You were a young pup, hadn't had your first hundred catch season yet. Even not yet. No, you would not. The next year was your first.

I'm not saying it's because you played with the Hansen brothers. You bought, baby. You exploded after playing a charity flag football game. Basically, it works like this for those who don't know. Brady, with Best Buddies, a great charity in the Boston area, give it a Google, it's fantastic. With Best Buddies, he would donate his time and bring in some of his celebrity friends, some of his football friends and teammates, and then some big money donors who would pay money to best

buddies. And you would get to play in a charity flag football game with Tom Brady as all time quarterback at Harvard Stadium right there in Boston. And so when you showed up, so my brother, former executive over at Fidelity Investments, yours truly, the red zone host, you show up and you decide which you get to see, which quarter you're playing it, because there were so many people

that wanted to be in it. They would you would just play for one quarter. And look who we were paired with there right at the top of the board. Young Julian Edelman, future Super Bowl MVP. And little did we know that the Hansen brothers and Julian Edelman would combine to make some magic. Let's go. Do you remember that game or did you play in one?

You played a couple of those? I played in 10. You did not. I was with Best Buddies for 10 years. God bless. So it was a fun organization to work with. And one other thing about Best Budd cuz they they did it, right? Yeah, you know, well, there was a bike a thon there's so I did I rode in the bike

I rode the rides as well. You wanted I won one one here. Did you really 30? He was only a 30 mile as we were in OTAs in while swamped the legs I bet you had to go win that thing show those people was up Jules Armstrong And then and then there would always be. That's when those calves came. Yeah, that's right. Then there would always be at the Kennedy Compound, the Clambake,

and there would always be the raffle there. And that was like it was just a really cool, cool event that did great things for us. You know, a great group of people. Like I said, give it a Google best buddies. Best buddies. Absolutely worthwhile. Speaking of the Clambake. that did great things for a great group of people. Like I said, give it a Google best buddies. Best buddies, check it out. Speaking of the Clambake,

so they would take it out to the Kennedy compound, the Kennedy family developed best buddies. Yeah, Shriver's and Kennedy's. Yes, exactly, you have the Shriver's and Kennedy's. And so they would have this amazing thing for all those who participated, donated and whatnot. They would build that huge like tent, think like a huge wedding,

out on a grass lawn and top show food and drink wedding crashes, total wedding crashes. They'll look at like the richest East Coast kind of thing you've ever seen in your life. That's really what it was. So your boy, your boy TD12 was the face of it and Tom would get up at one point during,

after the beverages had been flowing, Tom would get up and the emcee would announce, Tom has got a bag of footballs here, and he's gonna autograph a football with a Sharpie, and if you raise your hand and you want a football, you're pledging $500 to Best Buddies. So he had this huge bag of football, remember when he would do this?

So he would autograph a football and someone would raise their hand and he would just pitch it. And he was going like this, five feet away, 10 feet away, whatever. Well, at one point, the crowds, the crowd's a little saucy, the crowd starts yelling, throw it deep.

And you got like women in sundresses walking around and it's kind of tight quarters. And Brady starts spinning the football in his hand And he's looking he's looking I'd like to play you a little bit of video and see if you might grade What happened at the moment? Let's see that this Throw it deep. All right, we got a deep got he's blinded by the lights Boom back in the room. Who'd he hit?

Let's see if he comes closer to the camera. The crowd's going nuts. Scott, did you get smoked? No, I caught it dude, that's me. Look at it. I'm not a saw in the head. I actually wanna grab football. Go back, go back. Roll it back.

I need to be graded. Go back. From the man who caught more passes from Tom Brady than just about anybody on the planet, I need you to grade my hands here. My heart was pumping kid. I'm telling you. Let me get it. All right.

Kind of a wobble. Whoa, one hander. You've been drinking your hand? No, no, no. I did. I made it. I don't know. You know what?

With the light changes, I know catching a ball did. I may. I don't know. You know what? With the light changes, I know catching a ball indoors can be a little weird. Sometimes I have to give it a that's a that's a 7.9 out of 10. I will one fat clip this video and send it to be minus right now. That's good. And if you ever heard me grade a burger or something seven nine is like I'll go back all day long. So like, he'll go back to you for 7-9.

That made my visit here for you just to give me a prop. I mean, look at, I'm proud of it. I didn't remember that we did all the best buddies and stuff until I saw that right there. Those were good days. 100% fun. Those were so fun. That's crazy.

Man, he comes He comes look how prepared So you and I we come full circle you came into the league the year NFL red zone came into the league Yeah, we met together and played football I probably had more catches in the second quarter than you did I think you know, just I don't know I hit some bombs on that thing. Dude. I I had a drop. Oh, I think I remember that too. I Had a drop. It was the most beautiful pass. The crowd went, the crowd kind of. I got mesmerized, dude.

I speak in front of millions of people on television. When freaking Tom Brady is throwing you a ball 15 yards downfield and it's the most, and I played college football, the most brilliant spiral you've ever seen. And you're like, this is the greatest quarterback of all. Thunk, right through my hands. Hit me right here in stride.

So I'm like, I felt this big. I ended up catching a two point conversion later in the quarter or whatnot. So I'm like, okay. The next year I come back to playing it. And you know, Tom's, everyone's, Tom's running for mayor there. So everyone's coming up to him.

I go up to him, hey Tom, great to be back another year. He's like, you're gonna catch every pass I throw you this time? He 100% remembered that some slappy dropped the pass. He threw 400 passes in that charity flag football game. He 100% remembered that I dropped the pass. Scott Young receiver dropping a ball. I've seen guys get shipped out for that.

I was probably I was probably seeing guys get shipped out, But hey, you were back. Guy, he saw something. He saw, he saw fighting you. Cause he saw this. Cause of the clam bake. The clam bake in front of the people, in the people. When the lights were shining as brightest.

Scott, you caught that damn ball for charity. And for the kids. Yes, $500 well, well spent, well spent. So. That was awesome. Man, that was, that was. Did you, that's what I had the surprise for. I didn't, I500 well spent. Well spent. So it was awesome. Man, that was that was did you? That's what I had the surprise for. I didn't want I told your guys. Yeah, I know.

I was for you, but I didn't. Yeah, those were such great great times. You know, Tom, what do you think about your career at that time? Because again, if you go back and look at your stats, yeah, you were you were you started probably you had played three seasons to that point. And that 2012 summer 2012. So the next year is 2012.

Hundred catches. So that year and yards actually, you know, I was playing behind Walker for like three years. Yes. And anytime he got hurt, I bawled out. So I was confident. And then that 2012 beginning of that season, I actually beat him out. Yeah, I beat him out. Yeah. I beat him out and I played the first two games and everyone in New England was going crazy.

Like, why isn't Wilkery, why are you playing this Edelman kid? And then I broke my hand against Baltimore. And then I was out for two weeks and then I came back and then I scored two touchdowns in that Colts game. Then I scored two touchdowns in that Colts game. Then I scored two touchdowns in that New York Thanksgiving game. I bought out the butt fumble. Yeah, I had a deep one and I had that one off of special teams off the kickoff where

Devin McCordy hit McDonough, McKnight. Okay, and I caught it out of the air and ran it on a kickoff back. Yep. And then the next I was bowling out. So I had three really good games in a row. And then I broke my foot and then I was out for the season. So then at that point, I was thinking like we knew who you were. It just you weren't looked at as a star.

But with Welker there, it would never have worked because the trust that Tom had in Welker, and he was his guy at that time, like it was hard to get through that until he had to. And then once Welker left, he had to, and then that's when we grew. Oh yeah. You know what I mean?

So during your prime years, I see every touchdown in the NFL, right? I see every touchdown. During your, right? I see every touchdown. During your prime years, I don't know what you guys call it, like a stick route where you would at the goal line, let's say nine yard line and in, when you would line up wide left,

I think you did it from the right side too, you'd wind a single wide receiver to the left and you would stick your corner in and then jab it back out and Tom, the most accurate passer anyone's ever seen, it was this automatic of touchdown. If that play was called as like, as almost any play, like Priest Holmes, if you remember, Priest Holmes inside the five yard line, they used to do that toss pitch, Will Shields

and the Hall of Fame lineman that they had blocking. It was an automatic touchdown. That play was an automatic touchdown. It felt like. We had a lot of execution on that. There was a lot of good times. That was a. What would you guys call that?

You know which play I'm talking about. So you would cut, you would push your guy in two yards hard, make him break in, and you would put your foot in the ground and you had two yards of separation when there was only one yard there. I think that was like army personnel were put me at the X. So I'd be on the backside X and it'd be X returns or spin X return.

So the front side, you'd have a deep in cut on the end line. He loved that play to back of the end zone. He would throw that touch to the re to the tall wide receiver. You see it in everyone runs it. So your single guy runs the return route. And then you have spin, which you have a crosser over here. So you're high lowing over here for that spin. If that corner comes off and or something comes off there,

then he's gonna hit to that, to his backside end cut. So that's like one of the, a lot of teams run it. They doll it up different ways, but it's, the red area is crazy. If you really think about it, it's the same high lows in all the different spots with different routes running them. So you always have something low, you have something high,

you have something, you know what I mean? So it's condensed, so the 11 on defense only has so much ground. But the way you get to it is different, and that was one of my ways of getting to that spot. Oh man, you were so money at that. It was fun. We gotta talk about your playing career.

Real quick, just wanna make a note for our audience at home. We're talking red zone strategy with Mr. Red Zone right now. I just wanna appreciate that. I love it. I love it. Now you played high school ball in Michigan. I was good. I was a good high school player, captain of the team,

you know, all conference, I guess. Believe it or not, I was a lineman. I was a center. I weighed 235. Fully, what do you mean believe it or not? The center is usually one of the smartest guys on the team. Well, I appreciate it. And like I could tell through your preparation,

like you want your center to be a smart guy. Well, when you don't have raw talent, you better have enthusiasm and intelligence. And I tried to over-prepare everything. So I was a center and I was a long snapper. The more you can do, right? The more you can do. So then after my playing days,

I was like a division three talent. Division three schools wanted me to come and I would have played at the division three level. But I knew I wanted to be a sports broadcaster when I was in high school. And I said, I wanna set my mind on this. The NFL is not a dream for me playing. So I researched who has the best sports broadcasting program

in the country. Well, Syracuse. Syracuse University, even you know that, right? Bob Costas, Dick Stockton, Marv Alvarez. Now I'm in this world, you realize. And there's so many people behind the scenes. There's like, they're in Northwestern, right? Northwestern's excellent.

And Syracuse. That's what I hear the big voice. For sportscasting, it's the best. Yeah, it's the gold standard. They call it the Harvard of sportscasting. Yeah, and it is. You just Google the list of sportscasters that came out of Syracuse, it's incredible.

So I said, okay, Bob Costas went there. I want to go there. Division one, major division one football. And so I walked on the team. I walked on the team my freshman year, 1989, that's how old I am, and made the team because I could snap. And they were like, look it,

let's just keep this walk-on kid around. He could be our third long snapper, deep emergency long snapper, deep emergency long snapper. But then I was like, what am I going to do besides snap? So I cut weight, got down to around 200 pounds, tried to get my speed up. I could actually break a five flat 40.

Oh, boy, wheels. And I had good hands. And I was smart. They only need to tell me once how to do something. And I had it on lock. So I played wide hands and I was smart. They only need to tell me once how to do something. And I had it on lock. So I played wide receiver and defensive back at Syracuse in the scout team. Wow.

And I was one of those guys that star players used to love to hate because I was going 100 miles an hour Wednesday afternoon at 2.30 when they're like, yo, chill bro, my quads are just killing me. And I'm like, no, coach told me I got to get you ready for the game. I'm coming after you. That's team guy. He's a blue guy. Blue guy, blue guy. That's a blue guy.

Now, you know who might you know who my strength coach was for two years? Who? Mike Wochek, Mike Wysik. Yeah. Yeah. Is it Wysik? Wochek is how we used to say it. It looks like he went in the Cowboys, right? He had more Super Bowl rings. And he was mine. Prior to Brady and Belichick winning their additional ones,

did you ever cross over with him? I was with Wojcik for three years. You talk out of the side of his mouth. And you make you listen to Johnny Cash if you're a rookie. I don't remember that. In the weight room, you could only listen. The rookies had their assigned times

that we had to work out. And anytime you go in there, it'd be nothing but Johnny. We couldn't put you on the radio. Then Yvette would come in and he could change it and voice it, guys, all right. He used to eat the craziest breakfasts. Do you remember his breakfast? No, tell me about this.

He used to have a- I have a couple stories about him, but- He would have a scramble with everything that was lived, like any kind of meat and cheese that they had there. So it'd be sausage, egg, like 15 eggs, every type of cheese, turkey, chicken, dude. And he loved his cigars. Did you remember that? No, I saw the pro version of them. So you could you may have been a rookie under him. Try being a freshman, freshman scrub.

I came up to one day at practice. Yeah. Can you Google him? I got him. He's from Westford, Mass. He went to B.C. He started at Super Bowl. It's like he's got six. Yeah, he's got three with the most decorated three with us and three with the Cowboys. Yep. So he was at Syracuse.

The reason he went to New England was Dick McPherson was the head coach at Syracuse. McPherson was a New England guy and McPherson could have stayed at Syracuse and won 910 games winning bowl games and had the life. But the NFL called. He went and became the Patriots coach for only like two years. He didn't do well with the Patriots. No, 10, 10,000 in 2010. No, no, Wojcik was. McPherson was the reason he went to the Patriots.

Wojcik stayed in the NFL and was successful forever. McPherson only lasted a couple of few seasons at the Patriots, but that's how he took. He was the Syracuse strength coach. So freshmen walk on and I'm Mr. Puppy enthusiasm, you know, hey, all this like this. And everyone knew because you used to have the freshmen with the stand up in the first team meeting say who you know, hey, all this like this. And everyone knew because you used to have the freshman with the stand up in the first team meeting, say who you are, where

you're from and what position you played and then something about you. And I said, you know, I'm Scott Hansen. I'm a walk on lawn snapper from Rochester, Michigan. And I came here because Syracuse has the greatest sports casting program and I want to be the next Bob Costas. I like that. And, you. And they boo all the freshmen. Yeah. Reviewers try to introduce themselves.

So the next practice, I go to the sideline and we're running cross fields or whatever. And I ended up right next to Wojcik and Wojcik just standing there like nothing was ever good enough for him or whatever. And I'm like, let's go Mike, let's have a day today. And he looks at me and he goes, Hanson, you can take that Bob Costas act

and shove it up your ass. That's exactly what he said. Out the side of his mouth. And I'm like this kid who's trying to be friends with everybody. I'm like that 17, 18 year old freshman. I went, I don't think I ever talked to him again for the rest of the time.

I was so scared of him. Wojciech, he punk you. He used to punk me. He tried everybody. He wanted people tough, I guess is scared of him. Wojciech, he'd punk you. He used to punk me. He tried everybody. He wanted people tough, I guess is what it was. He tried to punk me until that first off season came and I said, I fucking- You stood up to him? I didn't stood up to him.

I just did. I was first in every goddamn drill. So what could he say? He can't say shit to me now. Wojciech, Wojciech. Let's go. Mike, where are you at now? Mike, where are you at?

No, I love Mike. I love Mike. I love Mike. I used to get him a cigar. I also got him a bunch of cigars, too, so he'd get off my ass. Was that a rookie thing or just that you were taking care of him? He I didn't say anything to him. Like I just you know, he would, you know, rookie me. Yeah. But, you know, I wanted him to like me.

I was I was very, you know, kind of I wanted to, you know, I wanted him to like me I was I was very you know, kind of I wanted to you know So like I would do little things like I'd go get him cigars and shit and I know what you check Yeah, he was he was he was funny. Yeah, give him a Google if you're a football fan He's a guy that almost nobody knows outside of the NFL But those people who knew him when he was doing I mean the Dallas Cowboys He was there for all three of their Super Bowls, I believe. And then like you said, three with the Patriots too. So, hey, you want to get back to 2020? Because we didn't finish the story. Let's hear Todd Gurley, Todd Gurley. Okay. So we were at times we

were at Rolex. Here's the deal. It could be devastating. So Gurley stops at the one. he tried to stop at the one yard line, but he had too much momentum going forward. OK, we got the box score here. So he goes in the Falcons score, but then they're only up by six. They kick the regular standard extra point. They were up by one. All they needed was a field goal and they could have kneeled on it until four seconds left, called their last time out, kicked the chip shot center of the field, you know, field goal. So Stafford gets the ball back with, I don't know how much time it was, a minute or so goes down the field. And on the last play of the game, was it?

Hawkinson. Okay. Hawkinson. So he must've been a rookie then. He was a rookie first rounder. Yeah. Hawkinson scores, he may have been a rookie then. He was a rookie first rounder. Yeah. Hockinson scores, he may have been a second year guy, scores an 11 yard pass with zeros on the clock.

Stafford. Girly head. Stafford's bad man in the fourth quarter. Always. Always. Grim Reaper. And that's my theory about that's why he's different in the whole West Coast system.

Is that right? Because he was so proficient. Cause you look at all, look at the, no, no, no, no, no, look at all the, look at all the production by all these Kyle Shanahan, McVeigh quarterbacks. You look at Tua, you look at Brock, you look at Jordan Love, you look at who's doing well, Jared Goff, all these quarterbacks,

they're amazing from when they're playing from ahead The one outlier and that system is always great because it wants to play from ahead So you can play to the defense have your defense pin back But it's the one that's the most dangerous is the guy it's the quarterback with the best drop back system that Played always from behind for fucking 12 years, whatever, however long he was in Detroit. That's the outlier of the whole thing. And that's really the only, that's the only time that system has won the Super Bowl.

Now Andy Reid's in that system, but he's the real Bill Walsh West Coast. He doesn't, he's not in the stretch. He'd rather throw the ball than run the ball. But out of all these, we talk about this so much with the Clint Kubiak and everyone, all these systems have the most production out of that one quarterback. And it makes all these quarter Derek Carr looks like he's the best.

This guy's the best. This guy got a new life out of this system. Kevin O'Connell and Sam Darnold. Wait until they have to play from behind. That's when you know if they're a badass dude. And Matthew Stafford had to do his whole career. So he knows how to drop back pass. So he's the outlier in that whole thing.

And he's also, he's tough as nails. He's got an arm that can still to this day, can get it anywhere on the field that you need to. He's seen every scenario that you can. I believe he is the active leader in fourth quarter comebacks. Yeah, probably. I mean, every game.

For the two reasons, he's a great football player. Every game he played in Detroit, he was behind. Yeah, so they score with no time left, but then they had to kick the extra point. Had to. The final score, we'll go back to the Lions, yeah, it was 23-22, so they had to, it was 22-22 at double zeros on the clock.

Was that little coup who kicked it in? They got, no, no, no, it was Lions. It was the Lions. I think Matt Prater was their kick, no, no, it was Lions. It was Lions. I think Matt Prater was their kicker then. Yeah, it was, it was Prater. They had to kick it. They got a celebration penalty because they scored with double zeros.

And it was far as 40. It was far. Then they got a false start penalty or an illegal formation penalty five yards back. And, or no, no, it was, they kicked it, it went through and the Falcons tried to jump the snap. So they got a penalty. And so the Lions obviously declined it.

But there you go. Situational football. If Todd Gurley was able to hold his water on the one yard line, you wouldn't have had it. Another game that was bananas, unless you want to talk about the Detroit. Go, let's we'll get back into our watching hour. Yeah, we'll be right back after this quick break. Let's we have a segment where we go back in time.

That's right. Yeah. Around the time of when this witching hour took place, which was October 25th, 2020. We go over some of the pop culture things. Let's go. Number one movie come play. Have you ever seen that?

What? I've never heard. 2020. 2020. Number one movie come play. Have you ever seen that? What? Never heard 2020, 2020. What was you seen it? No. Oh, OK. I've never heard of it. Anything that was launched during COVID. Yeah, exactly. It's a lost year in our lives. Number one song mood by 24K Golden featuring Ian Dior. You are sure if you say so.

Another snoozer. Tough world, tough pop culture time. This is a bad time. It was a tough one. Yeah, I you say so. Another snoozer. Tough pop culture time. This is a bad time to come back to. It was a tough one. I did, so. Let's move past that. Around this time, Tenet, the war with grandpa, Hocus Pocus 2, which I watched out with my daughter, the witches are back.

Okay. We're all popping in. It's a witching hour reference. That's right. Witching hour, there you go. Halloween. Halloween. Tenet.

Tenet, yeah. That was weird, that was a weird movie. No. Okay. It. Tenet. Tenet, yeah. That was weird. That was a weird movie. No. This is not. Oh, you, you, you. Okay. You're all in.

Christopher Nolan can do no wrong. As soon as we lose this fucking game, Chris. Yeah. Or Scott. Yeah. I've been called Chris Hansen my whole life. I know. It's fucking crazy.

Speaking of that, tell me about your screen name on your chat room. No, I'm joking. It's Chris Hansen. Have a seat. Have a seat. Have a seat, have a seat. Have a seat right over there. Hey, you got the transcripts. Tenet comes out, we lose this game to the Niners.

I'm like, I'm pissed, and I have like three people in my ecosystem, my best friend, my girlfriend at the time, who was traveling in and out, and anytime they would come and we would hang out, before we could hang out, they'd have to get COVID tested. Oh geez. And then they would sit in a hotel until we got the results and if they were clear, then we were all allowed to hang out.

Okay, so you'd watch movies. So I rented out a movie theater to watch Tenant because I was friends, I was a huge supporter of JD Washington. Okay. And my girlfriend at the time came and I got COVID and that's why this was my last game. I got COVID, my knee was flaring up.

Was that publicly known? What? I mean, we thought you had an injury that was- Well, I had an injury going, I had an injury in this game that was killing me, right? Yeah. And that I was continually rehabbing. I tore the root of my meniscus. Yeah. So like that was tough. But then I got COVID and I couldn't have any physical therapy for 12 days and my knee blew up so bad that I couldn't get it back for to get back in. And that's tenant. How was the movie? I couldn't even understand it.

That's what I said. I thought you were gonna sing the praises of the movie because I tried. Sean Avery's in it. Sean Avery's in it. Sean Avery was in it. He's in both time slips and stuff like that. I gotta rewatch it. I gotta rewatch it. It's fine. I support it though. Quibi shutting down, I remember that. All right, Vy. Quick advice, Quibi. What was life like for you in 2020?

It was hard, the whole- We had to do social distancing. And if you, I mean, you guys do this show here and you've been in and around some television control rooms, you are elbow to elbow with people. We had to do social distancing at the network. Yeah, we all. In the studio, everything else. Oh, I'll tell you how crazy it was. You are elbow to elbow with people. We had to do social distancing at the network. Yeah. In the studio, everything else.

Oh, I'll tell you how crazy it was. So you know who won the Super Bowl that year, which was obviously back to February, Tom Brady and the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. I was for a number of years the host, and you may remember this in your Super Bowls that you played in. I was the in-stadium host for the Super Bowl.

In other words, if you were one of the people that had one of the 70,000 people that got a Super Bowl ticket, when everyone else around the world was watching the infinite commercials, they would put me up on the big screen and I would get some stats, facts, maybe do some highlights and stuff

in the stadium to fill the time. So I did that for the Tom Brady Buccaneer Super Bowl which was played at Raymond James Stadium. Which was like a quarter only half full. Only half full and they put cardboard cutouts in the stands next to live human beings. They made me this outdoor stadium they made me wear a mask for appearances. They made me wear a mask. I'm like I'm I'm outdoors. My my camera folks were 12 feet over here and 12 feet over here. I'm like, there's no human being. No, you gotta wear this.

I broadcasted the Super Bowl like this. Oh, I was mad. I'm still mad. How crazy? I was like, it was so crazy. We were back on it. We're like, man. It was wild.

It was a wild time. Yeah. So yeah, it was crazy. And I don't even, my life was lost like that. We all stayed home. We watched Tiger King. Yeah. So yeah, it was it was crazy. And I don't even my life was lost like that. We all we all stayed home. We we watched Tiger King. Yeah. And football and football and Michael Jordan documentary came out the last day. Last fire. So that and that NFL draft. That was a good one. And then I'll draft from the basement where everyone had cancer. The Lakers beat the

heat in the bubble in the bubble, which they still had. They still had a parade here and like a makeshift parade. Yeah, it was not organized. But remember, they had a parade in Los Angeles. They were like, they were like, I can stop Laker fans from celebrating in the street. Yeah. Yeah. Crazier for a bunch of guys in the league that retired. Eli Manning, Wow.

Akeem Tlaib, which I loved Eli Eli Manning, Hall of Famer or not? Yeah, he's Hall of Famer. Okay, you take down the, you take, I agree, I agree, but that's a debate among media types. It's a debate. I know, but he- Philip Rivers, Hall of Famer. No, you don't have two rings.

See, that's the argument. Philip had better stats, Eli had better moments and championships. He had the largest moment. Like he literally, it was David versus Goliath. Yes. To have that win. Dude, greatest I've seen, I'm 53, you're still a young man.

Yeah, yeah. I've seen, I know you've obviously gone back in the history books, I've gone back. The greatest football team I have ever seen did not win the Super Bowl because of Eli Manning. That's Hall of Fame right there. That Patriots team was the greatest team I have ever seen.

In the Bible, and you look at Goliath. I bet you the stats aren't good, but who are we talking about? The stats aren't good, but who are we talking about? We're talking about David. Did David ever have a 4,000-year season? He said, give me one stone. That's all I need. I'm putting it right in the forehead. And he did.

David hit Goliath in the forehead, we're told. Precision. And he hit David Tyree in the head with a pass. It was holding. Holding. Holding. Yeah. Asante Samuel should have squeezed it.

I'm sorry. It's true. He knows it. I cannot believe. I still can't believe that team didn't win the have squeezed. I'm sorry. It's true. He knows it I like I cannot believe I still can't believe that team didn't win the Super Bowl. I'm with greatest team I've ever seen maybe at any level. It was it was gnarly. I remember watching it at Kent State What year were you I was like a sophomore junior? Yeah, I had a junior I was like bananas bananas, but the pass rush stray hand and company They did everything.

Head coach, coach Pierce is part of that team. He was. Yep. That defense. Stray Stray was in that one. Stray. Yep. Yep. Yep. Fucking Stray. He's the man. Antonio Gates retired the Hall of Famer. Luke Keakley, Hall of Famer. Luke Keakley, Hall of Famer. Ken Stegall and Flash Antonio Gate.

Oh, you know, that's right. Kent State. We went to the same school. Slam Dunk Hall. I think Keakley is a Hall of Famer. I think Keighley Hall of Famer. Ken Stegall and Flash Antonio Gate. Oh, that's right. Ken Stegall. Slam Dunk Hall of Famer. I think Keighley is a Hall of Famer. How many years? He retired early. I was on the year. I did the breaking news when he shockingly announced his I'm going to say he played eight years. Nine years.

He was 12 to 19 as a Panther. 2012 to 19. How many Pro Bowls? He was 12 to 19 as a Panther. 2012 to 19. How many Pro Bowls? He was... Probably eight. Seven. Seven, he was defensive player of the year. Five time first team All-Pro. He was defensive rookie of the year.

See, he was the best player at his position for more than four years. You ever talked with that guy? He's very smart, isn't he? Next level and never stumbles over his words like he's a crystallized thinker like he he sees things. He's red flagged me. Well, really, you know, stumble over one word, the red flag.

He might be a cyborg. That's red flag. Hey, there's nothing but green flags, baby. Should have thrown a yellow flag on that holding of Gronk in the end zone that night. Yeah, that's exactly that. Monday Night Football. I was there, bro. Fucking bullshit. Yeah. You watched those years of Gronk in what year was 2013? That was 2013.

I believe the year after that we were talking about. Yeah. The year after the year after we did Best Buddies and all of that. Yeah. That was your first 100 catch. 1000 yard season. That was with Cam Newton in the end zone. Rob used to get mauled, bro. He never got any calls. And we talk about all the time. That's why he did the people's elbow on the one guy,

because he got held four times in one play. He was so mad that he didn't get the holy call. He people's elbowed Buffalo. I think they threw one. If I remember the details of that, they threw one earlier in the game, maybe even earlier in the fourth quarter, and they swallowed the flag. I think it was on that exact play. They picked it up. Yes. Yes. And please call Panther.

It's called Panther. Rob, go to the middle linebacker. They hit him. Yes. You ask 100 neutral football fans, PI or not. Ninety nine of them are going to say yes. And the other one needs an eye test. John Brink has even did like a sports science on it the other day. Oh, did he really?

Or not the other day, but a couple of days after that play of Grunk's catch radius, it was insane. It was bad. I still can't get over that. The D.H. was announced to both leagues. What are your thoughts on that? Weird. I hated it. Hated it. I liked I like that you see the pitcher hit sometimes Yeah, and I grew up watching the Giants San Francisco Giants. So we saw our pitchers Baseball where you at with the pitch clock and honestly, I think it's great for TV

But when you're at the game, it sucks because the games fly. You want to be. I remember as a kid, you'd be at the game for three, four hours. Yeah. Praying that your mom wouldn't let you go to school the next day. Because it was so late. We won extras. Yeah, it was crazy. But Fitzgerald retired. Great. 17th season.

He was still here. What a player. Something about Kyler Murray throwing a Larry Fitzgerald just seems so weird looking back on it. Why? I don't know. It seems weird. Those two generations just wild. Yeah, well, it happened. I know. Washington became the Washington football team, which I think they should be the Washington football team. I thought that was to go back.

Has he gone on record saying this before? I thought that was a cool look. It's like almost like it's so old school that they don't even have a team name that because that's one of those pivotal organizations that's been around forever. Yeah. I mean, they might change it again, though, because some people don't like commanders. Terrible owner is, you know, is new since the committee. Yes. That's like I just like any given Sunday.

Like when you know, like when you can't get licensing for real, like you look at the sharks, the Miami Sharks. Yeah. The only thing I didn't like about Washington football team, WFT is too close to WTF. Oh, is that is that? It's kind of never bothered you like that. I kind of like some people would abbreviate it.

I like it. And I was like, it it it. Yeah, I like what I think about the what the fudge team. Now, what's your sports fandom? Do you like are you growing up? You were all Michigan, Detroit Lions. I was. I grew up in the suburbs of Detroit. I grew up. If you remember the old Pontiac Silverdome, which is where the Lions used to play.

I go back to the Billy Sims days. So before Barry Sanders, we lived about 15, 20 minutes drive from the Silverdome. And my dad used to take me to games. And I loved the Lions. We're my team growing up. To be honest, the Lions right now, they're one of 32 teams. Like, I don't, if this is the year for them, and this is the best team they've had in years,

and they're obviously a contender, if they win the Super Bowl, I will be thrilled. But I'll be thrilled for all of my high school buddies who still live and die with the Lions. Like me, I don't have Honolulu blue and silver pom poms or anything like that. I love it that a team that had been traditionally bad for decades is back contention and maybe on top.

But the team that had my heart, Syracuse football, because I played for four years there, but the Michigan Wolverines. I grew up going to the big house. Julian, my first ever football game, maybe besides like a high school game, my first ever going to a game was walking into the big house, my dad taking me to Ann Arbor,

and I went into the stadium, and you ever been inside that stadium? I've never been. You've seen it on TV. There's no levels to it. It is one level. It starts at row one and goes to row 130 or whatever it is. There's no tiers, no levels. You walk in, it's like the Coliseum,

the biggest stadium in the country. And then when I would go to other stadiums, I'd be like, they don't have a stadium that's 100,000. This is only, this only hold seventy five thousand people. What kind of chins is a stadium here? So the Wolverines had my heart since I was like a little boy. I watched Jim Harbaugh as a player in college. I watched him quarterback Michigan. That's how far I go back.

So I still I still love Michigan football and then Detroit across the board. Tigers. I was at the 1984 Tigers clinching the World Series game. You weren't even on earth then. Not yet. Yeah. Kirk Gibson, upper deck home run to clinch it against the San Diego Padres. Unreal. 1984. Bless you boys. What are your thoughts on Coney Island hot dogs? Yeah, so Coney, yeah, so you've got different branches. There's a whole subset. You would need to go on the red. American. Yes. We just Yeah, so Coney, yeah, so you've got different branches. There's a whole subset.

You would need to go on. American. Yes. We just had Keegan-Michael Key on. He's a big Detroit guy. Oh, that's right. Yeah, okay. I bet you he was awesome.

We gotta get Scott on the text chain. The Detroit fan text chain. Oh, I'd be honored. Yeah, we could talk to him. Because we always talk about the celebrity text chain for the Kansas City Chiefs. Okay, who else would go on the Detroit one? You got Kid Rock, you got Eminem, Jeff Daniels, you've had them all on this? No, but we're just talking about the people that should be on.

Okay. Should be on. Yeah. Eminem. Okay. Jackie, let's set the stage for this. So usually we go team versus team. Yeah. This we're're gonna take it a little bit like we did with Laird Hamilton, as you viewers at home may remember. We did Laird versus The Wave. Yes. The big wave in Chippewa. I get compared to Laird all the time, by the way. Oh yeah.

I was gonna say Scott Laird. Omar, can you hold your breath? He's got so much, he's got testosterone pheromones. Did he say that? Testosterone pheromones that just make girls go crazy or something. Just emanating, oh my goodness. So in this one we're gonna do red zone love Laird Not really versus week seven, but red zone and week seven are gonna be treated like our team one and team two

Okay, so first red zone as you know hosted by our main man Scott Hansen the Sunday Sherpa He guides us through every Sunday airs seven hours commercial free 1 p.m. Eastern to 8 p.m. Eastern There was also the direct TV version Sunday airs seven hours commercial free 1 p.m. Eastern to 8 p.m. Eastern. There was also the direct TV version. Yes. The Coke to Pepsi, if you will, which still crosses people up. Yes. You know that whole story. Yeah. What? Tell us what's the story. OK. Sunday ticket, right, which is the package that you buy now is through YouTube TV.

But if you want to watch, if you're a New England Patriots fan who lives in Los Angeles, you got to watch the Rams games or the Chargers games on local TV. So you buy Sunday ticket, of course, to watch all the if you want to see every snap of the Patriots game. So DirecTV had an exclusive contract. They used to pay the NFL one billion a year for the exclusivity to have Sunday ticket and then you had to get DirecTV was the only way you could get Sunday ticket so it was their business model. Well they started I'm not sure what year it was 2007 maybe they started a thing called the Red Zone Channel which was basically the same show and touchdowns go whip around show and everything and Andrew Siciliano

another Syracuse grad, he hosted that. So the NFL, when the NFL decided they wanted to start NFL Red Zone, it was because it was business driven. The cable companies were saying, hey, we don't want to take NFL network and put it on basic cable, because you guys don't have any games. This is before Thursday Night Football.

They said, give us like Comcast or Time Warner, the big cable companies, said give us Sunday Ticket and we can sell that to our customers. And they said, mm-mm boys and girls, DirecTV pays us one bill with a B for the exclusivity of that. So they had this tension. So Steve Bornstein, who was a long

Hall of Fame television executive, sports TV executive, he ran ESPN in the 90s. He founded NFL Network when the NFL owners decided they wanted it. He was president of NFL Network at the time. And he said, tell you what, to Comcast and Time Warner and all these cable companies, we're not gonna give you a Sunday ticket,

but what if we develop a channel that will not show you every snap of every game, but show you every touchdown from every game, every great moment of every game, every pivotal, everything that's crucial. We'll do it commercial free, we'll give this to you, you can sell this to your customers in lieu of Sunday Ticket, but you gotta take NFL Network

and put it on your basic cable, which just prints money from the subscription fee. And in 2009, two or three of the big cable companies said, if you do it, we'll do it. That's how NFL Red Zone became, and I got named the original host, but DirecTV was doing theirs. So some people still think

that Andrew Siciliano hosts Red Zone. So which one's Pepsi and which one's Coke? That's for the consumer to decide. I will say this, I will say this. The Red Zone channel doesn't exist anymore. Ooh. So. I'm just saying, I mean. So you're Coke?

I mean, if you like a cola, there's only one choice right now. Oh. Not the official. That'm not. So you're coke? I mean, if you like a cola, there's only one choice right now. Oh, the official. That's right. I am the big doggy, boys. I'm just saying. No, I love Andrew. The folks at DirecTV, they did an awesome job with it.

It, like business is business. And you know, it- You gotta do business as business is being done, boys. There were people on a much higher pay grade than you and I that were making those calls, but I'm still thankful that that I get to be the touch. Yeah, sure. But that's no baby. Yeah. Did you did you guys ever talk like while you're on these parallel paths? Like you guys ever talk or compare anything?

You know, he's the only other person on the planet who really knows what it's like. And I love Andrew as a broadcaster. He's he's doing the Cleveland Browns games right now. This season, he got the radio's doing the Cleveland Browns games right now this season. He got the radio job for the Cleveland Browns. We would text each other every once in a while. When I was up for the hosting role for NFL Red Zone, I called him and just said,

hey Andrew, because we knew each other from Syracuse. And I called him, I said, hey, what are some of the things that I might want to think about and everything? As you can imagine, like being thrust into seven hours, no commercials, there's not only no football show like it, there's no television show like NFL Red Zone, where it's a single voice ad-libbed for seven straight hours.

And he was gracious and gave me some thoughts and whatnot. But there was also the tension, I suppose, between, you know, you could respect another wide receivers game, but you thought you were the best wide receiver when you were at the peak of your powers, right? Yeah. So, yeah. There's respect.

Respect for sure. Oh, definitely respect. But if it was like- Did you want to bite his face off? If Tom Brady needed someone to catch something, you were the only man he should look at. Come on, Scott. I'm saying. So, if the NFL needed someone to catch something, you were the only man he should look at. Come on, Scott. I'm saying. So if the NFL needed something to perform at the highest level, I was like,

I'll rip the cover off the ball. Put me in, coach. Look at Scott, little dog. No, I mean, I was a scrub football player. I decided that when I got into my career, no one was going to outwork me. No one was out going to hussle me and I was going to find a way to be the best that I could possibly be. That's the truth. That's the way I would recommend anybody should approach

whatever their walk of life is. Without a doubt, I love that mentality. I love it. Heck yes. Take us through how you got the job. How do you get this? How do you how do you interview for? Yeah. OK, the red zone? Like that's crazy. What's this like?

Yeah, exactly. I was at the time, summer of 2009, when the world had yet, the NFL world had yet to be changed by the presence of Julian Edelman on a NFL field. I had heard that we were starting, I had heard that in the hallways of NFL Network that we were starting this NFL red zone. And I was a roving reporter at the time.

So they used to send me to interview guys at games or practices and do like standups on the sideline and that type of thing. But I knew I wanted to be in studio. As a wide receiver, you know what your best routes are, you know what your best approach, you can do them all. And I feel like I can do live reports, I can do interviews, I can do, but put me in as an anchor.

As the man who is the studio host that is overseeing everything, that's where I wanna be. So I called the powers that be at the network, I said, is it true we're starting this NFL red zone? They said, yep. I said, who you got to host it? They said, well, we're looking at a few people. I said, is my name on the list?

They said, yeah, your name is on the list. I said, what do I gotta do? I want this, because I will crush it if you guys put, I called it. And they said, well, we gotta do an audition. Now you need to know that an audition for television typically is 10, 15 minutes long. They put you up on the set, they mic you up,

they wanna see how you look, how you sound when you're looking into the camera. They maybe bring another co-host up to see if you can handle some cross talk between the two of you, but that's it, right? But because seven hours commercial free football, stamina is part of the game. The audition for NFL Red Zone is not 15 minutes,

it was five hours long. Five hours. Five hours? This was like in June of 2009, they took eight random games from the previous season. They put them, they queued them all up to the kickoff of the game. They hit play simultaneously on eight different games

and said, talk, broadcast it. Jesus. It was intimidating. Dude, I flopped, sweat, I had a suit on. I flopped, sweated right through the suit. I was trying to keep up. I'm like, okay. Because I didn't have like,

I didn't have rosters and stuff in front of me because it was previous games. It wasn't like it was live in the moment. You had no live stats from the internet or anything else like that. So we went for the five hours. At the end, I remember thinking, I either got this job or I just embarrassed myself

as bad as I could ever be embarrassed. I had no idea what in between the two. Few weeks later, maybe about two, three weeks later, I get a call from the executive producer at NFL Network and he said, Scott, just wanna let you know we wanna offer you the hosting role of NFL. Awesome. I was like, oh, Eric, that's awesome.

I said, so you'll watch the five hour edition. He said, Scott, I watched the first 10 minutes of it and I knew you were my guy. And I was like, oh, thanks. That's great. And in my mind, I'm thinking why in the you have me do five hours ruin a perfectly good suit and all of this. How'd you ruin the suit?

It was I sweated right through. I didn't ruin it. But I mean, I was it was. Did you pee in it? Yes, of course. It took wait. How far are we in? It took him this long to bring up the pee.

That's a record. It took him this long. You know we had a fire alarm a couple years. I don't leave, dude, a soldier does not leave his post. You can't. He's a foxhole guy. Foxhole. Do you know who else auditioned?

I do. You know what? I do know, do you know the name Paul Burmeister? He is he is a sportscaster at NBC Sports. Paul Burma. He did. He did Notre Dame games for a while. He's done. He's a great like Swiss Army knife broadcaster. Burmeister used to be an anchor at NFL Network at the time.

I'm 90 percent sure he did. And the other ones, I got to be honest, I don't I don't know. I need to find that out. Not worried about the time, I'm 90% sure he did. And the other ones, I gotta be honest, I don't know. I need to find that out. I need to find that out. Not worried about the competition, Kay. It's exactly, I worry about what I can control. Only worry what you can control, Kyler. You know what I'm saying?

Kay, don't be counting other people's pennies. When a new season would begin, let me ask you this, when a new season would begin, and there was undoubtedly, you know, one or two new faces begin and there was undoubtedly, you know, one or two new faces in and around the wide receiver room, how much are you checking them out in the first few drills and routes and everything else? I saw everything before they even got on the field. You were watching their college stuff.

You're kind of watching their- You come up in my room. Give it to me. Tell me. I got to know what you're about. So any draft pick, any free agent signing, you were looking at them. Yeah, you gotta watch. And this is when you're already a star or this is when you're up and coming. When I was up and coming, you're looking just because you wanted to see. Who you gotta be better than. Yeah, and then at the other,

you know, by the, you know, when it transitioned to, I knew I was gonna be there, it was more of like, who can help us, what's his strengths, what are the things I could help him with? Are you the reason that every single Foxboro faithful thinks the next time they get a not tall, white wide receiver, he's gonna be 100 catches and 1,000 yards? Because Welker was there, and then you came,

and then they think, okay, well, Chris Hogan is going to be the next Pro Bowl wide receiver and who else did they have? I mean, I don't know. Racks and burials, racks and burials, something like that. Roll out a guy with a certain body type and a certain pigmentation and there's a lab looks like he could be nice. Hey, we're due. There's another one. You know, Coop's a little hurt be nice. He's like, no. Hey, we're due. There's gotta be another one. Coop's a little hurt right now. There's always, Thielen's getting a little older up there. There's always.

Go back to, let's circle back to the late window packet. Go back to that Patriots game. The Patriots note, Patriots 49ers. Patriot Niner. Look at my bottom right factoid. Welker, SF coach. So I just had written down, hey by the way, Wes Welker was the San Francisco 49ers coach.

I didn't even think about that. Welker retired me. Did you remember that he was at that game? No. Well, you know. He's been a position coach at the NFL for a while. I know, he's with Miami right now. Yeah, Dolphins, yeah.

I knew he was, I knew maybe like after, but I didn't remember until now, until I just saw that. Yeah. Yeah, he retired me. Yeah. Well, I spoke to him. These are the type of things that I put in my, I try and put in my, I mean, not the-

These are great though. Little anecdotes, and you know what, sometimes, I get mad sometimes if I have a really good one and it doesn't, the situation doesn't call for it, and I'm like, like if you knew you had a play that was a touchdown and for whatever reason you didn't get to it on the play sheet, you're gonna be a little hacked off.

Yeah, you are, but then you get to save it for the next time. Okay, I suppose, unless you thought it was only against the Ravens we could score a touchdown in this because they play this a certain way. Yeah, but there's always gonna be another situation where you play against another Ryan who has that Raven system that you're gonna have that same look eventually

against that specific situation. You know, you never, as long as you got the win, you were never mad that you didn't call a play or a touchdown play. Yeah, you sit back, but you're like, you would go and remind the guy, the play caller, Tom, hey, we didn't cover this one, so hey, let's keep that back pocket.

Let's back pocket that. What makes for a great Red Zone production? Ooh. Because I saw the early raps, at the beginning it was just like three of you guys, right, that were doing it at the very beginning? Well, you may have only seen a few of them, like. I know, how big's the team?

About 30 people, give or take, in the 20s, up to 30. Now it wasn't always 30, when did it start getting big? No, it started getting bigger when we started making money, when it was proven that, whoa, this is a big, big money maker. We got some more resources. To answer your question, you know how I grade things? I do it two ways. Live in the moment, because you've got to understand,

I am standing up for most of the show. And I'm standing in front of a wall of monitors. So I see what you see at home. I've got a whole monitor, it's called the program monitor. Meaning this is what the football world and Red Zone is broadcast all over the world, every continent and every country with an internet signal can get it.

So I see what everyone sees at home, but I also get to see what you don't see. So I'm taking mental notes of, okay, we didn't show that, we did show that, we didn't show that, and if we blend it together, it's like shuffling a deck of cards. If you don't know what you're doing, they can go flying all over the place,

and it can be ugly. But if it's smooth and it's tight, and it's like, oh man, this happened, this happened, this happened in real time, and our audience saw it within 15 seconds of each other, aw dude, that jacks me up. It is awesome. You got someone in your ear? Oh yeah, yeah.

There's constant stimulation in my ear for seven straight hours. I hear the announcers of the games that are at the games and then I hear my, I can hear my producer, my director, my coordinating producer, other people can talk to me. They try and limit how many people are talking to me because I've gotta be speaking the whole time. It's wild. And when I pop that earpiece, I have to balance myself on that desk that you see there

because my equilibrium is off because it's been, I'm gonna go deaf in this year at some point. You don't change it up? You don't go hit the, because I got earpieces. Every other show. Scott, I got a couple of earpieces for now. You got your molds? You got your molded earpieces? I got my molds. I got ear pieces. Every other show. You know, Scott, I got a couple of ear pieces for an hour.

You got your molds? You got your molded ear pieces? I got my molds. You know, we only do an hour, but it's not seven. That's like a Jedi getting a lightsaber. It's yours, you know? It's your particular. Do you get ear wax problems because of it?

Yeah, there's different ways of cleaning them and stuff like that. Paperclip, undo a paperclip. If you, I mean, first, first of all, not sure. Not before the show that, but I swear ever since I started putting things in my ear, like your pieces, I make more wax or something. So I, my ears, I get, I've never had problems in my ears until I started putting shit in them.

Yeah. Well, it's not, yeah, it's not natural to do that. But it's my ear gets plugged every once in a while. I got to go see my doctor. Oh, dude, you should ask him. Shout out, Shnitman. Always cleaning my damn ears. Doc Shnitman.

Is he taking new patients? Maybe I should go. He's a great ear. Your guy's down in Beverly Hills. Go check him out. Put him on the text thread. I will. I will. Yeah. So anyways, I do every other show in my right ear because I'm like, well, I might as well balance out how I'm going deaf this year for seven hours, but whatever. I'm no hero, I'm no hero, Julian.

Yeah, you are. I'm gonna sacrifice my body for your entertainment, for your enjoyment. You entertain a lot. Jackie, let's get into these games. Should we, we talked a lot earlier about the witch and howl. games. Should we, we talked a lot earlier about the witching hour. I'll go ahead. Wait, hold on.

I need to ask you about the Octobox. Yeah. You just tell me about the Octobox. How did you get it? Did you come up with it? Mm-hmm. And here is. I need eight.

The reason was this. I knew from before show one, I said, if we execute this concept, seven hours, commercial free football, we can go anywhere in the NFL universe anytime we feel like it. I said, if we execute this well, this is gonna be the most popular football show on television.

I knew that in my head, and that's not revisionist history, I'm telling you. In fact, I called it out. I don't know if you have the clip on YouTube or not. I don't know if you're on the show. or not. I don't know. Revisionist history like that. Oh, yeah. No, this was not revisionist history. I was saying it in the moment. So I came on the first on camera time I ever came on the first episode, September 2009. I said,

Welcome to NFL red zone, the channel that we hope will change the way you watch football forever. And if you did, I was I was that may have seemed like bombast. It may have seemed like I was Babe Ruth pointing out to center field before the wind up. But I felt that way. And there's not a day that goes by when someone doesn't tell me. So with that in mind, I said, I need I need to come up with something that gives the fans not just like we're a remote control.

Some people describe it as, it's as if you're watching TV with God and he's holding the remote control. It's blasphemous, but you understand the point. We always know where to go to and when to go there. I thought that was a fact. Yeah, yeah, yeah, it was. Lord, thank you for the red zone.

So when we were starting it, I'm like, we got to have like some type of if it's a big game, I like making things feel big. And I want you to feel like red zone when it's Sunday at one o'clock Eastern or 10 a.m. Pacific. And you're sitting down, you got your snacks, your beverages, your fantasy lineup is set. And you want to you want to rock and roll with Uncle Scott for seven straight hours. I want you to make it.

I want you to feel how big it is. We have eight games of the highly most highly skilled trained athletes on the planet are going at it simultaneously and it's all going to lead to wins and losses at three hours from now. Big. Like it's big. So when you go to a big game, when you played on Monday Night Football, the first thing before the kickoff ever happened,

if you watch it on TV, what do they do? Brr, brr, brr, brr. They do that, they have their open, and we have that, but they show the first visual live from the stadium is the blimp shot, right? Every big game is a blimp shot. Good year. It's, you go over the top, you know, M&T Bank Stadium site of today's Baltimore

Ravens, New England Patriots to show it big. You can't see anything individually there necessarily, but it just gives that feel and the announcer gets that growl in his voice and stuff. So I said, we need to come up with NFL Red Zone's version of the blimp shot, an overarching big picture view. And I said, guys, why don't we just take, if we've got eight games, why don't we just take eight games divided into eight boxes and put them on there just to show people for 10 seconds, show people we've we're watching everything and you're going to see every individual

thing in here, but we've got it covered like a blimp shot. Psychologically, it gives you that feel, right? So I said, do it this, and I came up with, it's not that I came up with the term box, double box, triple box. Those were television industry terms for years, but no one really used it. The octopus.

On TV, and I'm like, well, why not? People can understand. If we call it a double box, I'm like, well, why not? People can understand. If we call it a double box, back in the 90s, we used to call two screens in television, we would call it a double box. But the anchor would never say that. I said, sure that. I'm going to call it what it is.

Let's go double box right now. Let's go quad box. Ladies and gentlemen, the octo box. Eight games kicking off across the National Football League. Three division games in Atlanta, in New England, and in Miami, you know? And then of course the next catchphrase, the seven hours of commercial free football start now.

And I did that to make it my Chris Berman, back, back, back, back, back, back, gone, you know? He could go all the way. It's like, I gotta come up with my own catchphrase so that quite frankly, I wanna be indispensable on the show to think that I don't want anyone in certain corner offices to think, ah, let's get rid of Hanson and we'll just go.

So I put my own twist on it, but Octobox was a creation based on my psychological view of a blimp shot for an individual. Uncle Scotty and the Hawk Box. I love that. Uncle Scotty and the Hawk Box. Psychological view of a blimp shot for an individual uncle Scott Uncle Scotty and My nephew Tyler Hansen freshman at Boston College is watching this right now. Yeah, we see we just had Billy Oh on oh, yeah Dude, he's turning it right there. That guy's that guy wins. He's a good I love coach. Oh, you know what?

I saw that episode and and I saw that he wouldn't go a couple of places because he's still representing a program. Oh yeah. He wouldn't go a couple of places that you wanted him to go. He's not going to go ask the pope for money. I was trying to get him to get the pope to send him some money. Some NIL money. Catholic baby. Lord. You got to use what you got to use. That's right. Pay the dues. Right. Or you lose.

So, was that your, is that your, yeah, that was your Octobox, your red zone schematic question? Yeah. And then the witching hour is the other one that people want to know about. Should we go right to the witching hour? Should we get right into it? Yeah. Dealer's choice. High level.

I turn over to the dealer over here. Let's go high level. Jackie, hit the high level real quick. So in week seven, Scott mentioned this earlier. We got seven games in the early window. Some notable ones, Pittsburgh, Tennessee, Big Ben comes in there undefeated into Nashville, throws three picks, still escapes with a win. Big Ben, Steve-O missed that 45 yarder.

They would have tied it. Hated to see that. That's Gascausky on the Titans that you're wild. Wow. That's right. That's when they were the New England Titans. Yeah. They were in. They were Tennessee Patriots. Malcolm Butler went down there.

Malcolm Butler. Logan Ryan. Obviously, Frable and. Graves. Aaron Rodgers went out there and threw four touchdowns. DeMonte Adams, 196 yards receiving. Two Tuddies in a Packers in Houston rolling 35-20. Wow. We got a couple of witching rolling 3520. Wow.

We got a couple of witching hours in this early slate. We'll get to those later. There was a classic 0-6 or 0-7 Jets matchup against Buffalo. That was Donald versus Allen. Allen ran for 6. Jets scored a touchdown. Good job, guys. Good job.

Good job. 3-0-7, Josh was ballin'. Then we move into the late window. We got four games here. That was the Niners Pats game we spoke about earlier. The worst home loss of the Belichick era. Thirty three to six. Hated to see that. Jimmy G.

verse Cam. That was a wild one. Brady down there in Tampa. They rolled New Orleans or I mean, excuse me. They rolled Vegas. You thought New Orleans because of their car New Orleans or I mean, excuse me. They rolled Vegas. You got New Orleans because of their car. I did. Oh, my God. My mom, they do it the way they are. There is a lot of my mind going crazy over here.

And then we had rookie Justin Herbert versus Gardner Minshew in a a Jacksonville versus L.A. clash, eight offensive TDs in this tossing. I hope you had the over. And then the game that got flexed the Sunday night ended up being kind of one of the craziest Seattle at Arizona, an overtime thriller, the DK. Russ vs. Murray.

Oh, was that the Buddha Baker like ran him down? Yeah, no, that was when he had a sick would have been a game winning touchdown in overtime called back with a holding hole on the screen. Third and 10. Yeah, Kyler had 360 passing yards and he had 67 rushing yards in that overtime win. He. Yeah.

Russ had 389 yards passing. Incredible. 88, yeah. One of our wildest games of the day. That was Sunday night football. Then we move into the witching hour. Oh yeah. We touched on it earlier We move in ladies and gentlemen, it's the witching hour wins become losses and losses become wins

I'm told I am told that there are text threads Around the world that say they alert each other, Scott just called it the witching hour. Like it just, in other words, if you're doing laundry on Sunday, you're walking around the house and you've got it on in the background,

sit your butt down, it's time to pay full attention. Uncle, I'm not talking Uncle Sam, we're talking Uncle Scott. That's like, T.D.'s are Scott. That's like, TDs are coming. It's like when that amber alert comes to your phone and it's vibrating. Yeah, right. Well, yeah.

Except this one you actually paid attention to. Yeah, earthquake, hurricane. We went amber route. Sorry, sorry, sorry, sorry. You tell me when it never delivers, because it always does. It always does. Always.

What determines it actually witching hour? Well, what I kind of thought was, when you get to the- What time, when, how? We call it, we don't, there's not a like, oh, it's wristwatch this time, it's time the same. It's a feel. I'm always looking, the other thing I have the benefit of in the studio, I have the scoreboard up.

We have one macro, we put it up on TV every once in a while. Like, I'll say eight games going on across the league and you'll see the scores. Every one of those scores is tapped into the computerized into the actual scoreboard at Foxborough. It's it's synchronized there. So I see real time exactly, you know, where that we're where it is, when we get if we have an eight game early window, when three of them or four of them hit the fourth quarter, end of the third,

I'm like, guys, we better call it the witching hour here in a second, because you're gonna get, you know, fourth quarter will take 45 minutes to 60 minutes to play, and some of the other games are still in the third quarter, and it just, it's by a feel, you just do it by feel. It's always when about half of the games are getting to the end of the third quarter.

And of course it depends on how many incomplete passes there are, how many injuries, how many flags. Some games go faster than others, of course. But yeah, it's a feel. There's never like, oh, it's, you know, 3.05, it's time to call it the witching hour. Well, what makes it a great witching hour?

Chaos. Yeah. Chaos. Cont. Chaos. Controlled chaos. It's a silly little catchphrase. When wins become losses, losses become wins. When I call it the witching hour this Sunday, I'm telling you take a screenshot of your television when I call it, because the scoreboard will be up there.

It'll change. And then you take a screenshot at the end of it and you watch bananas stuff. And it's like, it's stuff that just shouldn't happen. I mean, fourth quarter, keisters get tight, man, in the fourth quarter sometimes. Now, did you ever think- Calling it wizard hour? What does it mean, like a wizard?

Well, the witching hour is like a colloquialism in the English language. So it's like, although it has some like, although it probably has some demonic, and it probably has some demonic connotations, which I don't wanna, you know, whatever. But like, it's witching hours, like the bizarre, the weird stuff, the wild stuff, the unexpected happens. And I'm like, okay, that kinda has a ring to it.

By the way, other people claim that they, that I stole it from them. Like who? Do you know Mike Francesa? Do you know that name? You you know Mike Francisca? Do you know that name? So Mike Francisca is a in New York, famous, long time mob sports

probably that too. He played one in Uncut Gems. Was he in Uncut Gems? Yeah, he was the bookie in Uncut Gems. Famous sports talk radio host in in New York for years. And he's doesn't have his fastball, I don't think anymore. But anyway, he when I started calling it the witching hour

and everyone started saying, oh, Scott Hanson and the witching hour and red zones, the greatest. He went on a thing on his show and it was like, oh yeah, you didn't. I can't do a Francesca, but he's got big, thick New York accent, right? You know, he thinks he knows everything. He's like, I used to call it he used to work like as a behind the scenes guy on NFL today, back with Brett Musburger and Jimmy the Greek.

If you ever heard that, Jimmy, that was before your time. But but you guys might know. He says they used to call it the witching hour, not on television, which that's why I'm exempt from it because I never heard any sports guy say it before. I'm not denying that they may have called it that, but they called it that behind the scenes. When they weren't on the air

and they were just watching the games in the studio like you do, right? You do the pregame and whatnot, then you would just watch the games. He says during that portion, when their mics were off and everything, they used to be like, oh, it's the witching hour. You know, that's how Francesa sounds.

And so, which is fine. I don't debate that, but don't act like I stole it. Like I was supposed to know you and your buddies used to call it that. Look. They just didn't, like, they didn't, it's success. It's kind of like Velcro.

You know this one. Success has a million mothers, and failure is an orphan. Yeah. Mm. Wise. And so. Yeah. Do you remember your first. That's Uncle Sane right there. I didn't call it that from week one. I'm pretty sure we I think we did the Octobox from week one.

I used to just say, you know, this time when it's the end of the third quarter, these games get bananas and it's so much fun. And I'm like, and it happens in a 60 minutes of wristwatch time. I'm like, this is the greatest hour in sports television. It used to be like when you have March Madness, the first day of March Madness,

when they used to synchronize all the tip-offs, they don't, they stagger them now. But when they used to synchronize, you could-offs, they don't, they stagger them now. But when they used to synchronize, you could get three buzzer beaters within two minutes. And it was awesome. And that would have been a candidate for like the best hour in sports TV. And some people think whatever,

maybe the final three holes of the Masters in a Tiger versus Phil situation might be the best hour in sports TV. Well, we've got it every single week. I don't need a championship necessarily to be one in that moment. It's every single week you can guarantee you can set your wristwatch by it.

That the NFL's early window. It's true. Will deliver jaw dropping moments. And you don't know where, you don't know which game, you don't know which players, but you know it's gonna happen. You know it. So it was probably a couple few years in to NFL Red Zone's existence that I said,

let's call it the witching hour, and then our coordinating producer, Alan Flowers, Flo, shout out to my guy Flo, he'd surprise me one day with that graphic. He didn't tell me he had the dong, dong, like the Undertaker, like the noise and whatnot. And now that it's October, they put a witch's cackle in there in October.

I got it. So it's, yeah, I mean, yeah, right? Shout out Floatable. So who makes the call that it's actual witching hours? Yeah, no, so like I said, we talk when my microphone is clipped. I'll say, hey guys, you know, we got two games in the fourth quarter.

Let's say it's an eight game early window. We got two in the fourth quarter. If we get one or two more into the fourth quarter, we need to call it the witching hour. You're muted talking to a muted talking. Yeah. Any time you don't hear me talking, assume that I am having conversation with. Yes. It's like coach to quarterback communication system. Yeah, it's like it cuts off at times, but you could go, except ours of course is two way. More of the head coach with all the coordinators.

Oh, that's probably a better. Yeah, cause the head coach has override. He can override everyone. He can talk on certain ones. I bet you people don't know that. Explain that to people. Yeah, so the head coach can talk to every single coach. Can hit a button.

But not every coach can talk to the head coach. You know, there's certain channels that they have. They'll have like a secret channel and like they'll hit. Now you were emergency QB. I was. So you practiced with the green dot every once in a while? No. Nah, I didn't go that far.

But you obviously fiddled around with it at some point if you ever had to go in. You must have tried it at least once. Yeah, the year when Jimmy G. You didn't have them call plays into you in case you had to go in. Huh? You must have tried it at least once. Yeah. The year when you didn't have them call plays into you in case you had to go in when Jimmy G got hurt. Yeah. And we said he came in and Jacobi Burset broke his thumb.

Yes. That week for I practiced with the green dot. OK, so you've heard it. I've heard. Yeah. Yeah. But it cuts off at 15. Yes Yeah, yeah, although do you know something about that? That's at least unless they changed it when that first system was developed. I talked to someone if that's not automated

There's literally a human being pressing and They're supposed to take their finger off a button and it's like a neutral supposedly neutral and they're supposed to take their finger off a button. And it's like a neutral, supposedly neutral person up in the press box. Now, they probably have automated it, but I guarantee when I was a roving reporter, 16, 17 years ago, I spoke to the guy

who did it at Raymond James Stadium in Tampa. He's like, I'm the guy, I have all my whole job, the whole game is this. I press the button down, which means that OC to quarterback is live. And I just watch the play clock. And when it gets down to 15, I take my finger off. And I'm like, well, bro, every once in a while, you must you must either, you know, get some help.

At the clock, I guess. The man was saying that guy's not a what's to say that guy's not a he lives in Tampa. He's not a Buccaneers. Really? Oh, we're like, I want to get the Minnesota guy. Why? Because you think like Kevin O'Connell, remember, he was calling plays for Dobbs, like telling him where to go while he was playing and stuff. I got to think it's automated now, but I know for a fact

that at least in that stadium in that time, it was a it was a finger button from a neutral human being. Wow. What? Yeah, that's crazy. Yeah. Can you describe your perfect like design, your perfect from a neutral human being. Wow. What? That's amazing. That's crazy. Can you describe your perfect, like design your perfect witching hour? Every game's in contention. Yes, eight games, a full Octo box worth.

Octo. Eight games and all eight one possession games. Cause you know, you'll have a 35 to 10 game in the fourth quarter and what we say offline is, hey the Patriots game is touchdown only. Like it's a 25 point difference between the teams in the fourth quarter. We know who's going to win that game, but if the Patriots score another touchdown, we'll show that, but it's touchdown only. If they're first and goal from the eight, we're not cutting to that game right now.

If they score a touchdown, we'll show it afterwards, but it's not critical to see it live. The game's 35 to 10. So a perfect witching hour, eight games going on across the National Football League, all eight of them, one possession games, eight points or less, and all eight of them with less than five minutes left to go. Bring it.

And like six league changes. Bring it. And then I want each team to score. I'm rooting for the team with the football overs. We want overs over overs if you're so inclined, but just touchdown. And then this quarterback answers with a touchdown and then this quarterback answers with a touchdown and then somebody maybe a block pun in there. Throw a block pun in there.

Throw it. Is there a special team guy in your ear? Like, hey, Scott, we just had a block punt there. Touchdown. Well, so you're talking to a I told you I was a long snapper in college. Yeah. So special teams, all the iterations of special teams. I try to I try to stay up on everything. We had a drop kick on side kick. How rare is that? Wow.

A drop kick on side kick. And I saw safety that didn't land in the correct landing zone, including a muff recovered for a touchdown, which is extremely rare because you can't you can't advance a muff unless it goes in the end zone. You have to cover it. But if you muff a punt to get it into the end zone, either someone needs to kick it or you're feeling that sucker inside the five yard line, which is usually and unless eh, eh. Unless it's a gray area punt.

Meaning? Meaning if it's a plus 50 punt, the coverage team, they might be able to catch it themselves. I housed a 94 yard return because it was a gray area punt where they were putting their own territory, but it's close enough where they could get it there to like the inside the five. But if the cushion's big enough where they could get it there. To like that inside the five. But if the cushion's big enough.

Oh I see, if the Gunners haven't gotten near you yet. Where they're in your territory. Interesting. You're never gonna have an opportunity unless they really overrun you. I love it. But if it's a gray area point, which is like, you're 40. The other team's 40.

That's when you get those potential take from the fives. But you had better be right. You're the only human being in the stadium who can make that call. You're the only one. Yeah. Did you ever get a little over aggressive and Bill had words with you? I didn't fair catch for like four years, Chris. There's God. No, but I mean over aggressive meaning not fair catching, you know, when you should have

and you got blasted, that's on know when you should have and you got blasted That's on you but fair catch where you got blasted inside the five yard line and Bill ripped you a new one I got yeah I did it once because he doesn't care if you if you don't fair catch and you get tackled at the 22 No smacked by the gunner pop that He doesn't care about that as long as you hold on to the football But he does care if you start the offense on the five yard line. Yeah, but that's all taken away I housed one. one from the six.

You get some capital in the bank. So I get capital, you know what I mean? So after that, you get green light. That green light, baby. That green light. It's kind of like the little stud kid. How do those calves get up and down that fast, up and down?

It's kind of like when you were in Little League and you were the one kid who could steal bases without a signal. Oh, green light. Coach always say you got you like green light kids. Do you Julian? Just do you. Keith Krashane, RIP is my little coach. Shall we put a bow on this week 7? Let's put a bow on this thing with the witching hour. Ten lead changes. We go to Sincy for the crazy one. Five lead changes alone. That's doing a lot of the heavy lifting for these these witching hour lead changes. Baker, man, the fourth quarter touchdown quarter of the Browns Bengals game, the fourth quarter scoring. I bet you the Browns could.

They're they're wishing they used they had that right now. Since he goes up 34 31 with a minute and eight seconds left, that's plenty of time for Baker to go five plays, 75 yards. Just 55 seconds finds Donovan Peoples-Jones for the game winner. Classic Baker Cleveland moment. Then down in Atlanta, we talked about that game a little bit.

The infamous Todd Gurley accidental touchdown. And it was a 10 yard run. It wasn't like he ran from the three into the end zone. He had 10 yards to be like, dude, throttle it down. You could see him think about it in the run where he's like, oh shit, I gotta get down. The photo is just hilarious of him laying slightly over the goal line and all the Lions players putting their hands up like,

he scored. I remember we watched that. We watched that this year right after this happened because Bill would always take situations from when they went around the cross league just to coach it. You know, like, hey guys, this is why we call this situation because this can happen. You know, it's about winning the game, not winning the stats.

Amen, and just to set the situation up for the viewers at home, Atlanta was trailing 16 to 14 with about a minute, eight seconds left. Just got to ice the game. As Scott mentioned earlier, just got to get down to the one. Get your kicker enough time. Detroit only had one timeout left. Yeah. So you're good there.

But he gets in there, unfortunately. They may go for two, get the two point conversion, go from trailing 16 14 to now up 22. That Dan Quinn? 22 16. Sorry. I think so. Oh, I hope we don't see that this year. The commanders. I know.

Don't be because they're getting some leads now, dude. They're getting some leads. Come on, Dan Quinn. He said he learned from his experience. Well, yeah, right. He learned from his experience. Don't make the same mistake twice. But Allah Baker stafford only needs a minute and four seconds to go down the field. Big play to Dola, big play to Kenny Galladay,

and then that awesome walk off to Hockinson. Second year Hockinson. Who's a Viking now? It's crazy that he went in division. He should be coming back from injury soon too, I think. Next couple weeks, right? Yeah, that was a shame that his- ACL? Love watching him.

Was ACL? Yeah, it was a knee. I don't watching him was ACL. Yeah, it was a knee I don't know if it was a Late last year. Yeah, and then the last star of our witching hour down there in Orleans one of those classic Teddy Bridgewater Drew Brees many two gloves That was a 27-24 win Will let's field goal is 17 who is the quarterback for the Panthers

It was Teddy Bridgewater and who was the quarterback for the Panthers? It was Teddy Bridgewater. And who is the quarterback for the Saints? Drew Brees. Yeah, Brees. Brees was still there. One of those classics. By the way, we have a still photo of Brees on a quarterback sneak over the top. He loved doing that.

No, that was his move, but TB12 was the greatest. What made him so good at it? Brady was, I mean, obviously physically gifted. I mean, he's a tall guy. You could say that. He's got some strength, but he just knew exactly where the soft spot was going to be. Because he would read if he would go submarine, he would go over the top, he would go left,

he would go right. I think it was a team thing with with all our centers with Andrews, Stork, Conley, all our guards like they knew they had a great formula. We're like, I remember Scarneko always used to say, when our quarterback's in the jaws of death, that's what he used to call the quarterback sneak, the jaws of death, you fucking guys better protect him. Like it was all of them.

You had better be moving forward. You gotta move forward. And he would always just see the gap. Yeah. And it was like, he had free reign to do it at any time. Okay. So like, so tap on the butt or whatever first sound. Yeah. So there's a lot of those as well. Where you add on on tush push brotherly shove. Learn how to learn how to stop. Amen. Amen. Yep. We got got to learn how to

stop it. You can't take that play out. Yep. Especially because no one else in the league runs it as effectively as they do. If everyone was doing it, it's like, okay, wait, the game is getting out of control here. We might need to tighten this down. No, they do it special. And they've been stopped. They have been. They have been stopped. They got a couple of neat counters off of it too. Yeah, the little where they got the guys zipping across. A little wing handoff, whatever you call it.

I mean, that's football. Yeah. Keep going, Jack. Okay, yep.. Oh and then finally Down there in New Orleans. We talked about a seven a field goal from Will Lutz with 17 7 16 left in the game would prove to be the game winner 27 24 But Joey sly lined up for a 65 yarder just over two minutes left Joey Joey leg But he had a big one last week against Sam Frank 63 for two minutes left. Joey, Joey, big leg. But he had a big one last week against Sam Frank. He had a 63 yards. Yeah, yeah. 63.

63, which was the old NFL record. How crazy is the kicking off topic right now? Dude, it is, it's unbelievable. It's almost 55 plus more. They're more accurate than they are. They get heady with the 40s to 52s. I've got it over here. I'm sure I've got, I mean, the 50 plus yarders, I'm sure I've got I mean, the 50, 50 plus yarders.

And like literally, I like I said, yeah, I mean, going going into last week, we had Kaymi Fairbairn was six of seven from 50 plus Brandon. Aubrey was five of five from 50 plus, including a 65 yarder that he hit. I think Aubrey's best kicker in the game. I think he's passed Justin Tucker. Just this season. He's got a couple of hiccups. He's got a couple of. He's right now.

Yep. Yep. But I mean, they're insane. These guys, 50 yarders, it's like, even the college guys are like knocking home. There are a lot of good college kickers. Yeah. Yeah. That's what happens when you got IMG. Yeah, right.

It's down there training these kids that are 12 years old to be pro kickers at like. That's good living. You could, if you can last in the league league 12 to 15 years as a kicker. That's good living. It's good living It is right now. They're making what's the highest guy make probably like six mil seven mil Yeah, I think bucker signed a contract in the offseason and is the highest paid kicker. Yeah, of course Jackie. Yep. You wanted to run through this aftermath. Yes Our witching hour teams will focus on those guys. Cleveland would make the playoffs at 11 and five.

Cincinnati would finish 4 and 11 in Burroughs rookie season. New Orleans were going to win the NFC South at 12 and four. But we all know who came out of that division and won the Super Bowl, the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. Carolina would finish five and eleven as would Detroit. The Washington football team won the NFC East at seven and nine, baby. First time winning that division since 2015.

And as we mentioned earlier, Tom and Gronk would win a Super Bowl down there in Tampa in their home stadium. You had to be rooting for them. I was. Yeah. Yeah, I was. Now who out of that this week of red zone, out of all the players that we've seen on different teams,

who's surprised you the most now? Baker Mayfield. Baker Mayfield because the Browns are in what appears to be quarterback wasteland. And Baker is, Baker's one of the highest rated passers through the first month of the season. He showed flashes of it, even when he went, brief flashes when he went to Carolina,

then he went to the Rams, and now with Tampa Bay. But he's found a home there, he signed a three year, $100 million contract this last off season or whatever. He's got two stud wide receivers. They're a force to be reckoned with, and he's playing good football, and then the folks in Cleveland have got to watch that on Red Zone every Sunday.

And Baker just threw another three touchdown game. Boy, if we could only get a guy like this, I would say he probably is he's the most surprising. Why did you have a candidate? No, it's just crazy to think about, you know, watching the Cleveland Browns watch Baker Mayfield in a Buccaneers uniform, right? When they were probably saying, man, we see him on commercials so much in our uniform.

At that time, he was in every commercial. He was. You know, it's been awesome to watch him reboot his career and find a landing spot. And you saw in this specific game, I remember we watched these games earlier, and it's the same bank that we're watching right now, competitive, makes a play on that third down

when the team needs it. He'll run sloppy for a little while. He gets a little loose. He gets a little loose, but when it comes to nut cutting time, the guy, the moment doesn't look too big for him ever. Even if the moment is too big for him. Yes, he's confident.

He loves doing it. He's like, I wanna be the guy at that moment. That has to rub off. Yeah, it does. And the whole thing between him and Brady, I think, has been funny. Yeah, that was weird. That was fun.

And Brady broadcasted that game on set. I know. Very weird. I know. Did you hear what he said? That's what Baker said or what Brady said? What Brady said. And then Bill joking too. what Baker said or what Brady said and then build Afterwards yeah, but Brady said on air he goes, you know if I was I wanted to have fun I'd bring my kids to Disneyland or something

It's more stressful not having rings then that's what he said and then bill jumped in to what it will say What does it say? I'm like winning is fun Tom did you see that Tom and I had a little thing at the beginning of the season? Did you guys see this? No, this is the first time I'm addressing it. Yeah, what I cast or a show. By the way, I love Tom. He's my single favorite football player.

I should get greatness. And he's he is the goat and goat is way overused. Michigan to Michigan quarterback and whatnot. and he is the goat and goat is way overused. Michigan too. Michigan quarterback and whatnot and Tommy loves NFL red zone and whenever we see each other, we dap each other up and stuff. So his first game, broadcasting, week one,

Cowboys at Browns and Brandon Aubrey, the kicker we mentioned earlier, they were gonna let him try a 70 yard field goal. 70, right? The NFL record is 66. Offside's penalty fucked it up. It did, right? And they almost thought, oh, let's give him a 75.

They almost tried it. Anyway, but 70 yard, they were gonna line up and Kevin Burkhardt, his broadcast partner on Fox, was like, this is crazy and whatnot. And Tom was kind of more like even keeled. Like he was like, well, you better make sure that you have a return man back there, you know, for the Browns so that if he misses short,

they can return it out of there. We had to cut to a different game because they had called timeout before the kick. So I said, oh man, Tom's got to get more excited than that. That's going to be a 70 yard field goal. That's all I said. And if Tom was sitting here, I would have said, hey Tom, get a little excited about this, right? Unfortunately, I opened, by me saying that,

I opened myself up to be the poster boy for all these basement keyboard warriors that said, Tom sucks as a broadcaster after one week. So the New York Post, the New York Times, I believe, every website that covers, there's like, Scott Hanson thinks Tom Brady's not any good, just by me saying, oh, Tom, you gotta get excited like that. And I was so disappointed. The media's gonna do what the media's gonna do.

I was so disappointed because I did not want Tom to think I disrespected him, so I put an apology out on Twitter because I said my comment in public, and I miscalculated as to how they would use me saying something about Tom in his first game. The dude's excellent at whatever he puts his mind to. He's gonna be excellent at broadcasting,

and he's gotten better each week, by the way, but I allowed myself to be thrust into that point, and Tom saw it and he replied to it. He said, all good. He called himself a rookie, which was very self-deprecating. He knows that though. And he does, but I just wanted to say that

because I didn't want, I want the public to know that like, it's, you're gonna judge someone doing something. What we do is hard. You've learned that in the years that you've now been involved here. What we do is hard. And Tom knows more football than 99.999% of people that have ever

walked the face of the earth. And yet knowing it and being able to disseminate it in 20-second snippets in between this in circumstances in an environment you've never really seen. It's hard. It's going to take a little while. Anyway, I just wanted to put that out there. Thank you for letting me.

No problem, no problem. And whatnot, but, because I think he's gonna be great at it and I love the guy. If people don't understand, they think Tom Brady thinks, if Tom Brady was sitting right here, I mean, first of all, he knows you and he knows me a little bit, but you guys are buddies. He's actually, for being a mega star,

he's about as unaffected as a megastar can be. And I've been around some big Hollywood types that do think they're the greatest thing walking the earth. Tom knows he's Tom Brady, but he's he's he's a dude. He's a good guy. But he also knows he's a first time broadcast in this world. Yes. And he knows that. Yes. And you know, that's why he pride in pop back because he understands that

He's not gonna be the same person week one that he's gonna be in week 18 Yep, cuz he's got so he's learning as he goes and you know He's a normal dude that is kind of dorky I've said that like three times on like four podcasts, but it's the truth He's in you feel that because he's so human and he's so humble humble. Yeah around People yes. Yes. He's got an aura. Yeah, Jackie Legacy of this bad boy. I think the legacy is one of the craziest witching hours of all time ten lead changes Is it the most our I don't we don't count them like that.

We probably should. I think we need to count, guys. Thank you for bringing that up. Someone out there in the comments section, we need for you to go over all these witching hours. We count every touchdown though. By the end of the season, you usually see about a thousand touchdowns.

Well, yeah, we, at the end of every show. I watch, I like watching that too. That's a touchdown montage. Yeah, because then you, for broadcasting. Yep. It's always good. I watch all the highlights and I watch every touchdown. So then you can pull from when I'm talking about that touchdown. Fans love it. I love when you guys throw out your stats too, because I steal some stats from you. I'll steal a couple of stats from Scott. Hey, you got to steal from the best baby. You know. And then one last one, Scott.

We're such football guys here in the Nuthouse. And you are like the god-tier Pantheon, not to sound trite or cliche here, but can you describe what football means to you? Sure, sure. Football is the greatest sport on the planet for a few different reasons. I hosted the Olympics this summer.

I don't know if you guys saw that. I hosted Gold Zone for the Paris Olympics. Watch it. As it relates to football, the strongest athletes on the planet, pound for pound, are Olympic powerlifters. I would venture to say the next strongest group of athletes on the planet are NFL linemen, defensive offensive linemen.

The fastest athletes on the planet are Olympic sprinters that specialize in one thing, running 100 meters in shorts and a tank top straight down a thing. I would venture to say the next fastest group of athletes on the planet are the fastest NFL wide receivers and defensive backs. And you could go down the list, highest jumpers, right? Oh, okay, you know, Olympic jumpers or NBA player, give me a 48 inch vertical leap from some insane wide receiver. The athleticism is off the charts and the teamwork that it takes to put together

at the NFL level with the margins being this small. Life is competition. Life's gonna try and stop you from doing stuff that you want to do. And the NFL is the highest level of a group of incredibly talented men and incredibly talented men who have coordinated with brilliant coaches to do one thing over 60 minutes and let's find out who comes out on top. Man that's freaking delicious. Besides that, playing the game of football formed my personality. The toughness, the dedication, the teamwork, the sacrifice, the stick-to-itiveness you've got to have to be a football player at any level. You know this and maybe I'm preaching right now.

I mean it, Jules. I mean it. Football, it shapes character. It shapes human beings and it transcends just wins loss on a scoreboard or a witching hour or whatever else. And I love the game. That's what football is. Let's go.

Yeah, baby. I'm going to put my head through a goddamn window. You're so fired up. This is your house. Don't do that. Any leftovers, Jackie? Leftovers? Let's go. Yeah, baby. Oh, I'm going to put my head through a goddamn window. I'm so fired up. This is your house. Don't don't do that. Any leftovers, Jackie leftovers? I got a question for you. Yeah. How much do wives hate you?

Because my wife certainly hates. OK, no, there are. First of all, there are many, many beautiful, wonderful female football fans who love NFL Red Zone as much as y'all. A lot. There are. Check the numbers. However, however, there are a sub-segment of society that I affectionately refer to as Red Zone widows. Ooh.

Red Zone widow. They do not have a husband for seven straight hours. We got catching phrases for everything. I mean, I talk for a living, Jul. You're freaking good, dude. You're freaking good. Oh my gosh. Red Zone widows and and I did an autograph signing one time so people are lining up you know we're doing autograph signing and this old guy

comes up he had to be in his 70s something like that and he's like hey Scott I love Red Zone you know it's a great way to watch oh thank you okay your name's John too John Scott Hansen and this woman comes from back in the line and she looks about 70 something years old and she gets up next to this guy and and she's like wondering what her husband's line and she looks about 70 something years old and she gets up next to this guy and she's like wondering what her husband's doing and she looks down at, she looks at me, she looks at the picture that I'm signing of me and she looks at my name and she goes,

oh is that him? And I'm like, you miss must be a red zone widow. And he started laughing. Be quiet in front of him. Betty. Yeah. Eloise. It's witching hour.

So yes, there is that. But like I said, there are couples that red zone together stay together. And there are husbands and wives, boyfriends and girlfriends. We need a reality TV show. The red zone couple love. Red zone relationship counseling.

I love it. We might be on to something here. Strife at the beginning of the Octo box and by the end of the witching hour for the background, an NFL web zone. He's thought about this. Hey, if it makes dollars, it makes sense. Yes. Oh, man. Heck yes. We'll be right back after this quick break. Hey, hey, hey, it's Rob Gronkowski here.

And I'm with my bro or my dude Jules. And we are super excited to tell you about our new show Dudes on Dudes. We're just regular dudes as well. Sometimes we can't read. Sometimes we can't speak properly. But that's what dudes do. But dudes on dudes. Seriously, who named this? Anyways, we're spilling all the behind-the-scenes stories,

crazy details, and honestly, just having a blast talking football. Every week, we're discussing our favorite players of all times from legends to our buddies, to current stars. And the best part we're finally answering the age old question. What kind of dudes are these dudes? Is Travis Kelsey a stud or a freak? Is Tom Brady a dog or a dude's dude? We're going to find out every episode drops every Thursday during the NFL

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What is this? What do we got? So we got a name and score the witchy now, dude. Yep. So we named the game, score the game presented by Jameson. Is this the greatest game of all time? Let's score it. What's the name named the game, score the game presented by Jameson. Is this the greatest game of all time? Let's score it. What's the name of the game? Is it the witching week? The greatest witching hour of all time?

The witchiest witching hour, the G double H.O.A. The grotesque grotesque grotesque. I think this is the quote week. I like quote. Let's we're going with the guava. I love it. You cool with it. Let's do it. I think yours. Yeah quote week. I like quote. Let's, we're going with the quote. I love it. You cool with it? Let's do it. I think the quote.

This is yours. This is your grade. Okay, give it the quote. The quote, is this the greatest game of all time? Let's score it presented by Jameson. Stakes, zero to 10, the stakes of this week's, week seven, witching hour. I would give that, your favorite score, a 7.9.

Ooh, 7.9. Maybe even, I mean, whatever. You said my catch was, so. Look, it's not playoff time. My favorite episode of the year, usually, is either week one when we're back and it just feels so good, or. And there's a lot of crazy shit that happens.

It does, because you don't know, guys don't know. Don't know each other. I agree. Or week 18. Used to be week 17, because everything's being clinched. Everything from the last wild card seeding is being, this team's going to not play their starters. This team is.

You even have the number one pick in the draft could switch hands during the witching hour, and the team's on the back half. So this week, week seven, didn't have the highest stakes of all time. I want to throw in week 17 now into their hat in the ring just because it's fantasy football championship. Oh, that's a good point. Second to last week of the year, fantasy football championships.

That's that's usually huge as well. Yeah. I'll give it a seven. Yeah, I think that's probably wise. It wasn't that. Yeah. Oh, yeah. No, that's yeah. No, I could I probably should have done more. I just wanted to demonstrate that I was listening to Julian earlier in the podcast when he said seven point like Uncle Scott. I like getting them by Star Power Star Power. Oh, 10 decimals. OK. A lot of stars.

We had Bert literally the entire. Yeah. Baker when he was a brown nine. I mean, Matt Ryan. There was, because my guy Jules got hurt in this game, I gotta give it a 9.5. Yeah, it was a 9.5. It would have been a 10, but it was your last game and I gotta knock that week down a little bit

because we did not see you after that. I'm still bitter about it. Although thankful to be with you now. Man, he's a very hard-full guy. I'm gonna go with a six. Explain that. Well, there's a lot of stars right here, but it is week seven.

I wanna see the stars when they're doing like astronomical type things. Oh, okay. Gotta have a type situation. But is that not a snakes conversation? Nah, but it's still. Yes, the stars were in there. The star is not a to have a situation. No, but it's still yes. There this star is not a real.

The star is just it's it's like a supernova still. It's just being born. The star is really a star is born. Has anyone ever tried to convince you? Star is born. Shut up, Bradley Cooper. In the playoffs in the later weeks that. Has anyone tried to convince you after you scored it?

Because let me just say who we had in here. We had and these guys all through for more than 300 yards passing. Joe Burrow went for 400 yards and three touchdowns. Russell Wilson, Tom Brady. Russell Wilson's on the bench. Tom Brady, heard of him. He's calling games. Yep.

Here were the 300 yard passers. You're going to laugh at a couple. Tyler Murray, Carson Wentz through for three bills. There's a I think there's a Call of Duty drop in soon. With Philadelphia, don't even know where he's at with Philadelphia at the time. Justin Herbert, young, young pup. Through we get an ankle seven. Oh, jeez. Matthew Stafford, who we discussed dog.

Matt Ryan with the Mariachi CBS. DeSean Watson, when he used to know how to play football through for 309 yards and two touchdowns and then and then young Josh Allen did well. There is a lot of stars. So Jack did 7.5. I did 8.1 solid solid. It's literally everyone.

But I there is a there is a magnifier in big moments. I agree with I think it magnifies and then also star power. We've done Super Bowl's. We've done historic crazy where you got Whitney Houston doing the that adds to it. Yeah. Yeah. You know what I mean? That makes sense. Yeah. Right now we got like, yep, we got Pop Warner.

But I think time I show I think Manudo Manudo was the halftime act of the Browns Bengals game that you guys don't even know. No, I know. I think you're talking more about stars per capita. Mnudo was the halftime act of the Browns-Bengals game that you guys don't even know who Mnudo is. I think you're talking more about stars per capita. And I think because all the games are at times, the stars per capita is low. It's not as concentrated. Okay.

Yeah, I don't know. Get on board with that. A constellation of stars. The gameplay, now this is where you make up your points. Well duh. This is where you make up your points. Because if you grade one game, if you grade whatever any of the Patriots Super Bowl wins,

especially the tight ones that you guys had. Most of them, they're all. Yeah, yeah, that's true. All tight. Yeah. I gotta give it a 9.9. Just because you always gotta give room for improvement, but 9.9, the lead changes,

the insanity that we see is stellar. I mean, it's a nine. Okay, wow. How often does he give a nine? Not often. Yeah, it's very high. It's standard. It's standard for championship game for stakes for me.

Kyler and I low balled at 7.0 and 7.5. I think I call those a fair score. I think I call that a fair score. Russian judges over here. Big time Russian judges, I'm sorry. The game we talked about the most ended from like lack of situational awareness. That's not great gameplay.

That's just not knowing when to go down. But OK, but gameplay from a fan, from a viewer's perspective, your perspective, OK, entertainment. That's fair. I think that's fair. Yeah. The tightness of the game. In fact, the T Higgins Cincinnati Bengals touchdown, three Browns had the worst tackling on that play. It was like whatever.

But it it was great TV. It was great. I know you got to. I agree with that. Kai guy. See, he just don't don't. He gets crabby sometimes. Watch out for him.

Now we got to score the name of the game. The quote. The greatest witching hour. Our time. It's a great game. That's a great name. That is a great name. That is a great name I'll give it a 9 9.0 solid. I'll give it a

Like way over grading it cuz I'm involved with all of it. See that's why I go low 8 1 8 1 so so Jack This is before we knew the name. We gotta re-score this. I gotta bump these numbers way up. These are rookie numbers. So I'm gonna go, I love greatest witching hour of all time. I actually might go crazy.

9.1 for me. I go 8.1. I love it. Where does it, alright let's do the magic math and see where it stands along. Calculating, calculating. Yeah, what's the greatest? 7.86. Let's see where it stacks up against the rest of. Yeah. 7.86. Let's see. 7.68.

Let's see where it stacks up against the rest of the games. 7.68. It puts us at 35th, 34th between the Can't Wait game 2011 AFC division around Jets versus Patriots who we did with Rich Eisen. Yeah. And the tuna bowl just below the tuna bowl Jets Patriots in 1997, which we did with Bayer and Najarian. Nice spot, buddy. Falcon's Patriots number one. What happened in that game?

They were straggling. I don't know, it was just a little engine that thought he could. That's a good list there, gentlemen. That is a good list. Man, Scott, did we miss anything? I don't think so, bro. We covered everything. Man, you were awesome.

You got anything to plug? Red zone, everyone, go watch it. I think people have heard it. Believe it or not, there are still some people who hit me up on on on Twitter, on X or Instagram saying I watched Red Zone for the first time today. Well, I can't believe it. You know what that means? Another viewer growth industry, growth industry. So you got a Scott.

I learned so much in here this this interview Not only of how cool of a guy you are and how you take your craft You you put a lot of time into it but for me as a broadcaster in my field like just watching your all your Preparation like I've learned a lot just that I'm gonna take going forward preparing for my shows when I have to do Fox kickoff in the morning or even my shows here.

You're a real standout dude. You work your tail off. You've been doing it since the beginning. We appreciate you coming in the Nuthouse. This has been so fun because a lot of people ask for you. You know, in the comment section and in our in our our our we have a hotline and we have emails and all this stuff. People are like you gotta get Scott on you gotta get Scott on

and it's been such a awesome experience to have you here, man. I appreciate you coming in. Well, you're 100% welcome. Thank you for having me. I told you I watched this show. Yes, but you know coming in and I was like, what would it be like to sit there next to big cabs? You know, and it was a great experience And no fire alarm went off during no fire alarm, baby

Thank you, Scott. You got it Man that was an awesome show. He's got energy one of our few guests that has come with materials Came prepared who are the materials guys Scott Pio Scott Pio Lee Ernie Adams Scott Hanson Now Scott Hanson also brought like the Holy Trinity as well, too He like pulled me like when he first got here like pulled me aside. He's like I want to surprise tools I got some stuff. Oh my god My guy was on it Absolutely incredible.

He is. You could tell he's he's probably like all out gun ho at workplace, like, all right, guys, let's go. We got this. He's he's he's fucking good. Dialed in. Dialed. Dialed in. I wanted to tell him I didn't want to glaze him up too hard, they're like he could have been a patriot with that mindset. He could have been a patriot with that mindset Could have been you could have been hey long snapper hey the more you can do more you can do baby He was he was dropping the patriotism's he's patriot isms the funny thing we didn't really he always talks about like peeing and it's a

Conversation that's on every time he does. Oh, yeah, we didn't really touch it too too much But the funny thing is as soon as he, soon as the show wrapped literally everyone ran to the bathroom. I had to pee the first 10 minutes of him doing it. I was tapping Kyler on the shoulder. Half the time I was thinking of a joke, a way out where I could be like, Hey man, mind if I go use the bathroom? But then I was thinking like, this guy doesn't piss for seven hours and I can't even not pee for the first ten minutes of the fucking thing so I held that whole fuck I

Scott Hansen that whole episode dude say my eyes were turning yellow halfway through like it was insane I was tapping out the bathroom. Did you see that changing up my fucking? Yes, I was like this. I thought you're just adjusting the piece no dude. I was trying to put I was trying to clinch the piece. No, dude, I was trying to put I was trying to clinch the piece. I was clinching my guy, bro. We got to come up with maybe in the future a high sign for we got to go be like some sort of like or we could just get our we got to dial our routine like fucking Scott, get them olives on day.

I get some olives. I mean, we were very dehydrated yesterday. That's because we played golf. That's true. Oh, my God. Heat stroke central. Oh, my God. Heat stroke central. Oh my I literally like fight through fatigue tough for 18 baby, but holy smokes. That was tough. I've never been that hot in my life It was hot My race out there in October. You thought it was gonna be hard. I thought I was like, oh, I've got my wind shirt

I came out with a wind shirt on like I thought it'd be a little breezy. Holy smokes. Was I wrong? Oh my god, I still pay. Still broke 50 on the front nine. You hit him. Hit him. Hit him. Still posted. Putting up scores. We're driving fairways hitting. I think it's like 14 of 18 fairways. Short but straight. Can't be mad at that.

Hey, you know what? Jack knows his game. Hey, she is straight as an arrow. You know, they say Sabrina Carpenter short and sweet. Jack's golf game short and straight. Short king out there That's right, baby. He's short key lotion salesman around the green We got to be and you're a your guys games were looking great. I mean, they're always consistent. No, I don't know You guys were bombing them

You know I was thinking halfway through this episode to Scott's dad must have loved him on road trips as a kid Never asking us pull over and go pee Yeah, but he's also never stopped talking either. Hey dad, what is that? Hey dad, what's this? Hey dad, can we stop there? Hey dad, wanna play the license plate? That's how I was. Where's the license plate? My dad. Road trips with Frank sound awesome. Mom used to make me sit in the front sometimes shut me up. You and Jason going at it.

Oh my God. I told you what story did I tell who did it? Oh, Nikki Glaser. Yeah, that's coming up. All right. You guys. It's already out. It's already out.

I think yeah, cuz I was like, oh yeah, Nikki. I think she thought I was talking about her. But yeah, it wasn't you. Nikki and Jason and ma'am. Well, awesome. It's time for a toast guys. Whether you're celebrating, commemorating, or just kicking back, it's always better

to have a glass of Jameson Irish whiskey. Yeah. You can't pour me some Jameson without making a nice toast. I got you, brother. So we're gonna do a little bit of a toast segment here. Oh Hey show the guy show the camera my Fire merch I'm rocking. Yeah He's the Jack leprechaun Johnny James Johnny Jameson here

Perfect Irishman full that's right name couldn't be any more Irish. That's right, baby But I before we go into this segment and actually do this toast, I want to say what Jameson is doing about trying to like unofficially get an NFL international game to Dublin. It's crazy that it's not there. I know. Play college games. Yeah. So many college games. Is that is that? I know we shouldn't talk about this and this, but is that like

England, Ireland? Hmm. Oh, he's trying to keep us down. Is there politics in that? Maybe. I didn't even think of it that way. Or the Scottish over there doing some. I don't know. I'm still I got to get caught up through a show when I get like, you know, I learned monarch through crown.

So if there's a show with like Scottish, Ireland, and all that other stuff, I'll be dialed up. But until then, I don't understand the beef. Maybe it could be the beef. You should watch Dairy Girls. Where's the beef? Dairy Girls is awesome on Netflix. Dairy Girls? Super fucking funny.

Yeah, it's like three seasons, like six episodes each. It's super hilarious. It takes place in... Without further ado, I propose a toast. Yeah. To get this goddamn game that we love that we literally talk about That we dream about

to a land of people That we think is very very green over there But little do they know they grow football to hire here football to dose the football and then we're actually gonna do and yes oh it's so good with it takes your lips tastes so good with it touch your lips Frank don't take Jack what do you what's your toast okay I Oh, we got our own toast? We do a little own one. Okay.

Anyways, I propose the Toast Boys. We got three here. Monday Night Football double headers. Let's keep them going all season. They make the worst day of the week kind of like the best day of the week. Two on Monday night. It's such a nice little surprise. And another toast to the guy that updates athletes IMDB pages for the big games they

play in as if they were credits in a movie like Danny Amedola playing on Thursday Night Football as self or maybe Danny Amedola being a participant in Super Bowl 51 as New England Patriots wide receiver and he was in 13 episodes of NFL on CBS He's also a ballers. There's also an episode of Ballers Ballers. And he's adding to it with Dancing with the Stars. Team with the Stars. But I just love that guy who's who's updating those those pages as if it was, you know, as if he was an actor.

And this was his his repertoire, his resume. Yeah, I like that guy. Is it? Shout out to that guy. And lastly, man will levis we had pocket passers We got mobile quarterbacks. We got gunslingers, but he's our first meme quarterback He's a gift that keeps on giving week in and week out. He out does himself. Here's to you will Here's to you will

mayonnaise and all Do you want to go or shall I go I'm gonna keep it short and sweet. I love it. I'm gonna keep it short and sweet even even played just the tip over there with it Just a tip teasing teasing. Yeah, give one out for dola. He's on dance with the stars. I'm right, baby It's freaking guy never seen him dance a day in his life Now he's over here like goddamn Patrick Swayze and dirty dancing out there doing the foxtrot the morango the tango Whatever the fuck it is. He's doing it. He did a backflip. Oh my god He did a backflip off the stage where the fuck did this knee strength come from guy could barely one routes now

He's Patrick Swayze. So this one is to Danny. To Danny. Go vote. We love you, Dola. You can vote 10 times. Vote, vote, vote, vote, vote, vote, vote. Early and often. Damn, Daniel. We'll put the text on the screen. Damn, Daniel.

Where's your final answer? Dola. All right, what's your toast, Kyler? I got some obscure sports things that we never touch. I want to give a toast to you. Oh my God, I just saved. Oh my God. Talk about one of the greatest catches of all time. that we never touch. I don't have a toast. Oh, my God. I just saved. Oh, my God.

What about what? Reveals catches of all time. I'm raw dog and cup with no freaking paper tile in there, almost dropped, snagged it with my hook. Look at the under thing. Shout out to the hook it with the hook on the bottom. So it didn't get all over this beautiful suede couch. And there's a lot of dipspit in here. Gap hook could be the catch of my life.

Back to your toes, Kyler. So I want to give a shout out to some obscure sports that we don't cover here on Games with Names, professional cycling specifically. Shout out. My guy, Teddy Pagache. Has got you. Has one of the most incredible seasons in professional games with names, professional cycling specifically. Shout out. My guy, Teddy Pagaccia. Pagaccia? Had one of the most incredible seasons in professional cycling history.

He won the Giro d'Italia, won six stages, killed it. He won the Tour de France, won another six stages. Could have won seven, but won six. Wait, so what's that mean if you win six or seven? So the Grand Tours, it's a one race, but there's 21 days, so they do 21 stages, or 20 stages, and so there's 20 races inside the one race, so he won the individual race six times inside of the big race.

So he won the big race? He won the big race by a lot, and he won six individual stages in that, the Giro d'Italia, which is highly regarded as the second best professional cycling race. So is that like winning against, like, say, say we were playing the Jets, we beat them into division when it's like two points in the but but then we maybe have a tiebreaker and something.

I don't know. No, it's like winning the Giro d'Italia is like winning like the PGA, like the PGA championship. Right. OK. Yeah. Yeah. Major of it. It's like there's three majors. It's one of the majors highly regarded the second. He also did the exact same thing for the Tour de France, when his third Tour de France of his career, one six stages, absolutely killed it. And then to top it off, he also just won world championships,

the individual one day race. So Teddy Pagache, my guy, absolutely killing it. Incredible season. He probably could have won the Vuelta if he participated. Did you just see that guy on Instagram walker? He's walking the whole world. What? That's what this reminded me of.

He's walking. There's like one way you can walk from Asia. And then he swam across the 50 yard or the 50 miles to Russia. OK. He went from South America, started up, then went all the way up to, like, he's walking the world. It's been 20 years or something. I gotta look this guy up.

That's the same category as these bicycle guys. Guys that just have the heart to just travel land. I love that. Just has got to do it. Well, this guy's doing like a backpack. He's faster. He's doing faster. These guys, they're doing one day. That's wild. a fast pack. He's not faster. These guys they don't one day

But why that's cool Slovenian, right? Could you imagine that that would be a bike race that I want to watch if they have to bike race all the way Somehow they build like a boat adventure racing type like they gotta go from always South America all the way up to North America Alaska and you somehow they build like a bridge that it's like, you could easily have somewhere in China make this where like it just puts a road so that it, it would be like a boat, but they have to ride on the boat. Oh yeah, yeah, yeah.

But it's putting the track down while they're going. So they could do the 50 miles to Russia, and then when you get to Russia, you could do all Asia And you can hop over to like northern Africa and get down in there like Saudi and stuff And they got to go all like that is a race you want to watch. I'm all about that I'm like the other alligators. They might get eaten or something or or you're a lion in the Safari death-defying stuff There's got to be like ain't nobody watching people just ride bikes. Unless it's Lance, baby. I do. I watch it. I don't miss a stage.

I mean, I have actually tried to watch it. Because you don't we don't need I'll have like a 45 minute diet. This is on your toes, by the way. How's your toast? So just shout out Teddy Pagache. Insane year. Won the Giro. Won the Tour.

Won the World Championship. Won the Monument. There's some more races left. Insane year. Killing it. out Teddy Pagache, insane year, won the Giro, won the Tour, won the World Championship, won the Monument, there's some more races left, insane year, killing it, one of the best cyclists ever, and he's like a fun, cool guy that likes to fucking compete, so shout out to Teddy Pagache. Shout out Teddy. Hey dude, don't let me rain on your parade. That's a good shit. Let's see you do it with some lions chasing you. Or a hippo. Hippos go like 32 miles an hour. I learned all these crazy facts with my kid. You like the question, Moodang?

Huh? Moodang. I love Moodang. What's Moodang? The hippo, like the baby hippo. Whoa. What a game. What a game. What a slate of games, Scott. Unreal. Thanks again to Scott. That's been another episode of Games with Names presented by Jameson Irish Whiskey. Yes. Subscribe on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, wherever you listen to podcasts, comment a game you want us to do, and remember, rate and review.

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