Green Light with Chris Long - Brandon Beane! Buffalo Bills 2024 Outlook, Keon Coleman, Josh Allen & Joe Brady! NFL Schedule Review!

Episode Date: May 17, 2024

A Full Friday Freakshow! Chris, Kyle and Macon cover a lot of ground, starting with a Hello to the portal, a special Layup Line, a Green Light kayaking trip recap and Dan Quinn's t-shirt. We then dive into the 2024 NFL Schedule: Team's with the easiest and hardest paths, Jared Goff's indoor season, strength of schedule and rating teams' schedule release videos. Brandon Beane then joins to chat with Chris and Macon about the Bills 2024 season outlook, Josh Allen's relationship with Joe Brady, the 2024 NFL Schedule release, the Bills 2024 draft class and Keon Coleman. After Brandon, we roll into a couple mailbags and then end talking about Harrison Butker's viral commencement speech. (00:00) - Hello to the Portal, Country Layup Line & Dan Quinn's T-Shirt (18:07) - NFL Schedule Review: SOS, Easiest and Hardest Paths, Jared Goff Playing Almost Exclusively Indoors & Best & Worst Schedule Reveals (1:07:51) - Brandon Beane on the Bill's Season Outlook, the Josh Allen-Joe Brady Partnership & Keon Coleman (1:36:07) - Mailbag: NFLers as Mascots, Rookie Buns Watch & Giants New Uniforms (1:51:40) - Opinion's on Harrison Butker's Viral Commencement Speech Want your Green Light Merch so you can look exactly like Chris and the fellas? Hit the website below and get kitted! https://stores.kotisdesign.com/yotehouse/products Have some interesting takes, some codebreaks or just want to talk to the Green Light Crew? We want to hear from you. Call into the Green Light Hotline and give us your hottest takes, your biggest gripes and general thoughts. Day and night, this hotline is open. Green Light Hotline: ‪[phone]‬ Send any Talent Search submissions to: [e-mail] Include any video of your talents, takes and bits as well as a little bit about yourself. Love hearing from the Green Light fans. Also, check out our paddling partners at Appomattox River Company to get your canoes, kayaks and paddleboards so you're set to hit the river this summer. https://paddleva.com/ Green Light Spotify Music: https://open.spotify.com/user/951jyryv2nu6l4iqz9p81him9?si=17c560d10ff04a9b Spotify Layup Line: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/1olmCMKGMEyWwOKaT1Aah3?si=675d445ddb824c42 Green Light Tube YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCgxWFAA-wuB7osdiAJyLOcw Green Light with Chris Long: Subscribe and enjoy weekly content including podcasts, documentaries, live chats, celebrity interviews and more including hot news items, trending discussions from the NFL, MLB, NHL, NBA, NCAA are just a small part of what we will be sharing with you. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Favorite moment from last year where you felt like the team took a big step, a game or a play, but you look back and smile and say, hey, we were building something and we're going to carry it in the next year? I think that, you know, going into Kansas City was a big win for us. They kind of got us going there late. You know, I would say that, you know, that's a hard place to win. And it was a tight game and it was going back and forth. It looked like we're about to potentially lose it. But that was a huge one because we had battled some things.

We had lost to Cincinnati on the road a few weeks earlier. And to go in there and win kind of when our season was starting to hang in the balance a little bit, to get that win, I think, kind of got us rolling in that Dallas game that I just, I think that really showed our offense like, man, we're not just a passing team. Like when we want to run the ball, let's go run it and let's carry that into the postseason as well. Welcome to the Greenlight podcast. Brandon Bean, GM for the Buffalo Bills. He's coming on.

He's going to talk everything Buffalo, Josh Allen, and Joe Brady's relationship, the new media darling, Keon Coleman, outlook for the 2024 bills. And Brandon talks about what he looks at first when he sees the bill's schedule.

Plenty of content outside Brandon. We're going to kick things off with a little roundup of what's been going on the last few days. We talk Dan Quinn. We talk the very, special portal that was shut down and we talk about green light's journey on the river on monday then we get into the schedule release the biggest storylines the best games what teams have the hardest and easiest pass and we talk about all those schedule release videos did your team even really have to do one

a good number of them didn't tell you that right now and then at the end of today's show we hit a couple mailbags and we talk about harrison bucker we covered all today thank you for tuning in enjoy the episode. We'll catch you on Tuesday. Dublin, Ohio. Hello! I'll take your hello. Shout out to the Dublin Kaufman High School. We just can't have anything nice. I think we got something nice.

I don't know why they would shut it down. Exactly. Okay, so if you don't know, and you're not online, like say my wife, Dublin, Ireland is a place. so is New York City, New York, and they built a portal, which is basically a giant FaceTime or Zoom meeting. Yeah, they put up a screen.

It never ends between some place in Dublin and Times Square. And it hasn't gone well so far. It depends on how you look at it. I think we've had some funny moments. Not that I would laugh about any 9-11 joke, but some little Irish guy flashing a picture of 9-11 into the portal, like, come on. Like, did you not see that?

Was this a child? Did you not see this? No. Like a grown lepricod. Oh, like a man. Like a man, dude.

I think that's an act of war. I feel like we got to go. I thought it was like a little 14 year old pip squeak out of it. Like, you know what? We got to, distasteful. We got to invade Dublin.

We've got to get them. We got to invade Dublin. And then there was a gal who was like an Instagram model. I don't even know if I saw those two bombs. Yeah, right. There's a moab. So anyways, we had the Anola Gay and the Moams, mother of all milkers.

But no, I listen, I'm not going, I'm not doing all that, Kyle. Okay. But what I am saying is, while we're making accurate. This gal, which I'm not supposed to say, in Times Square, flashed her breasts at some Irish people and was like, how do you like my potatoes? And they really enjoyed the whole deal. There was nobody that turned away. There was no eyes covered by wives. Everybody was fine.

The one guy with the white hair was giddy. the back. Now, there was the dudes in Dublin did flash up a scene from black.com which is a porn site. Stop. I mean, like, there was just some devious. The people in Ireland, bro, like, you've got to watch

those guys, man. Oh, I think we are Irish. We have some of those guys in them. So let me ask you a question. Where would you want to build a portal to? Now that this capability has been unearthed. This is good. What's the most foreign place you can imagine? I was thinking, anywhere in North Korea.

North Korea would be a really wild choice. Like wild, dude. North Korea and Las Vegas. People would be like, what the fuck is this? I was definitely thinking somewhere in Asia. There are a ton of these places in Asia that you don't even really know exists unless you're on that side of the world.

The most heavily populated island in the world is in Asia. And I mean, what if you put a portal there and put it in the middle of Alabama? or put it somewhere in New York City. Somewhere less populous. Or if you go to New York City and then like Aboriginal Australia. I want an uncontacted tribe to have a portal.

The North Central East. Yeah, north. Yeah, exactly. That's what we need to do. Drop in a game camera. Not a game camera. Just hoping. They'd kill it on the game camera.

Just hoping. They would kill it. For them, for them it's a game camera. For us, it's just like, hey, let me show you this fucking smartphone. This is what you're missing out on. I'd like to connect the Amish country with, Japan. Yeah, that'd be interesting. If you did it based on color palette, like take opposite. So you go somewhere in the Midwest and you find out what colors you see there in terms of like when you look

around in nature and then go the opposite for wherever they're at. So everywhere gets a taste of everything. So like Wisconsin and Mobile. Or like Antarctica. You know what I mean? Wait, okay, I got another one. Let's say Ann Arbor and Columbus. Oh, it'd be good. They should really be bring in portals to college campuses for the weeks of games. Think about it. That's, I like that a lot. It seems so obvious to me. And then, uh,

the hallways of college football facilities. So, like, the rivals can just, like, talk shit all week a little bit. Yeah. Dublin to Dublin, Dublin, Dublin, Ohio to Dublin, Ireland. Everybody'd be confused. Okay, I got one.

Portal from the, from the Virginia basketball locker room to a place they couldn't have gone any other way. The adversity, bottom of tech. You know what I mean? It's really good. Yep. Okay. Here you go.

Put a portal in the Clemson locker room. Stefan Diggs's locker to Josh Allen's locker. Countries with the biggest breasts. You want me guess? You want the top 10 or the top five? Can we guess? Yeah, you absolutely can. All right, give us a continent.

Okay. Start with the ones with white people. Europe. It's heavily European. Okay, great. Okay. Because I just didn't want to guess it. I didn't want to walk into a trap.

What are you saying? We got big breasts. A booby trap. A booby trap. Big old Big old boobie truck That's the cowboys biggest laugh Of his five years

France Well I mean they're all over the place France is not in the top of ten Norway Norway is number one in the world Slovakia How did you know that They're healthy in Scandinavia

Slovakia Gotta put a portal in Oslo Norway Number one Norway Number 10 Netherlands Netherlands 9 Venezuela 8

Sweden 7 Russia 6 Finland 5 Iceland 4 Luxembourg 3 Kingdom, two United States, and one Norway. I'd like to put a portal in the Jets locker room, and it goes to the Kremlin. So Rogers and his guy could talk. I'm not going to learn more history.

I was going to stop about Rogers. I was like, hey, you know what? Let people be, you know, like, I don't want to be, I don't want to feed the guy martyrdom. Chris, one thing we know about him is he doesn't watch porn and he's not into kinky stuff. Okay. And if it does end up on his computer, it's happened before because of the government's doing.

I'm just saying once you get on Tucker Carlson and make nice with Putin, like I'm out, bro. Like, I don't know how many times I've said I'm out. But anyway. They get to open them up on primetime like three weeks in a row. At least they're not playing on 9-11, so the guy who doesn't believe in 9-11 doesn't have to run out of the fucking tunnel with a flag.

All right. The country with the smallest breasts, the Bahamas. Really? Really. The Bahamas. I respect that. Okay. That's, I wonder why.

All right, guys. I got a layup line. I got a layup line for you. Okay. Well, how does that? Aerodynamic. Compute. Okay, it's like avatar.

Fucking A, Chris. It just makes sense. And we have a lifeguard shortage. Fish don't have titties. That's right. That's right, Kyle. That's the hard hitting analysis that you're here for today. Fish don't have titties.

They don't. They have gills. same functionality they just swap the gills for the Kevin Costner also has gills uh-huh that's true Kevin Costner didn't have titties no he did not all right

by the way I've said this before but they need to remake Waterworlds the best it's just way more relevant now Water Worlds I was gonna and I was gonna say that and then and then think about it the movie they had it right with the plot They just badly fucked the execution up.

How horrible did that ship look that the bad boss live on? Just like a giant oil tanker. Clean your boat, man. Terrible. You could get Tedness so fast. Easily, dude. All right. Okay.

Brandon Beans on today's show. They're drinking their own piss. Paper. He's the general manager in Buffalo. Yeah, Brandon Bean's coming on. Good guy. A friend of the program. We like Brandon Bean.

Okay, here's a layup line. I think you might like this. I want to give credit to the podcast, Fun Time Boys, I've never heard of these guys, but it came across my Instagram Explorer page this morning, and I heard a song that is Taylor made for you, Kyle. You listen to some,

you might like this artist. This is an AI country song. You run it back to the beginning with the sound on, please. He does this to me. I got beer in my boots, dirt on my truck, corn on my mine,

and a gun up my boat. It's a small town. At least there's dirt, least there's beer and trucks and shirts and shirts. Jokes and Jets Buts Yeah Dirty beer

These guys These guys made this With AI I don't know if they prompted it A biscuit in my boot A gun in my butt This is great It's good

It's a good song No honestly It's catchy It sounds like It sounds like a lot of stuff that's out right now. Chris has a vendetta. Against like New Age country.

Hey, listen. Red, red, red, red, red, red, red, red, red, red, red, red, red, red, red, red, red, red, red. I'm just, that just goes to show you AI is never going to take over the world. Because if they can't write a new country song. Hey, Chris, try that in a small town. Yeah, trucks get flooded. Guns on my butt. Guns in butts.

Dirty beer. I would listen to that song. Yeah. Oh, bro. There's guys listening to that song. That's good. All right. Layup line, guns and butts.

Jason Al Dean? No, that's Jason A.I. Dean. That's good. All right. I just, guys, we haven't talked in a while. I want to catch you up on some things. We were out on the river this Monday. We took Monday off.

You know, all my friends are always like, you work too hard. Fucking relax. less stressed out. And now when I text them on like a Tuesday and I'm like, I'm not going to work today. I want to go to the river. Like they kind of side eye me and give me like like like a little bit of static. You know what I mean? So pick which one it is. Do you want me working a lot or do you want me making you feel bad about the fact that you have to go to work on a Tuesday and not hit the river? But green light went to the river on Monday this week and we had a killer time. Guys, I've been waiting to show you this picture. Are you ready for it? Yeah. You're the first person I wanted to send it to.

Okay. But I won't be. sending it to you because I don't want you to be able to blackmail Matt. Okay. Is it genitalia? No, you pull it up. I went out with Chris. From what I understand, that wouldn't be much of a blackmail. Chris, where do we go?

A couple weeks ago. That's what they say. Which river do we go to? A river? What did I take you? I took the Rivano. That was a good trip. Nice one-on-one flow.

It was a good trip. We had a really good day. And you were doing great. We had a great fucking day. I will say, Chris is right. The river is awesome. If you get an opportunity. to go out there, do it.

Just whoever you are, the river is right for you. Whatever river's closest. Yeah, it's just moving water. Okay, so here we go. Make sure it's not too. So here's Matt on Monday on the river. Now, I just want you to see this, and then I want you to fire away. Okay.

Well, you appear to be bleeding from your mouth. That's the first thing. So, smiling. So we ended up, we were floating this stretch. It's got a little bit more rapids. right and uh we ran into a guy who was fishing off a little uh little skiff and he was like no that's not how he got blown oh god and the guy was like you're gonna watch want to watch that that damn down there short of brimo and i've floated brimo a bunch of times before brimore yeah

brie more but i i've never like charted it and i usually just kind of like roll up and make a decision and roll like because i'm like i can't get in too much trouble matt has only been kayaking for like a year probably and he's sitting in a sit on top which is not as navigable and he also chair on a kayak yeah and he also likes to be the last one so you know

naturally I should be first right or JP should be first one of us or Reed should be first but Matt should not be last because the problem with Matt being last is like we're down the river now and we're just watching Matt so we come down this shoot

I nail a rock it's kind of underwater I go full speed into that thing reads like you know I got bruises on my shins I go back you know I get down there and I turn back towards up the river. And here comes JP, JP dumps. Matt comes down, full head of steam.

No navigation. Like, his brakes are cut. He's got no steering wheel. Crash landing. And he's totally calm. He looks totally calm. He looks totally, um, what's the word?

At peace? On drugs. His fate, his fate has been decided. Accepted. He's headed for a big boulder. And when he gets to the boulder, he does not pass.

battle, he reaches out and tries to give the boulder a hug. And he gets dumped. We go fish him out. We're like, at least you're okay. And then he comes up and he's got like a lot of blood on his face. So we had our first real injury on a green light flow trip. And I wanted to save that picture to show you.

Matt, you've ever been a car accident or anything like that? Yeah, this isn't as scary as that. No, he was like, I'm glad it happened. The bracing. sensation. Well, what did happen? I could have gone

around far left like Nate did and avoided the shit, but I saw JP go through it and I was like, I want to be like JP. Yeah. He tried to do it. And he did end up like JP plus blood. You went batting after JP. It's the same thing. It's like just don't do what he does. Yeah, but on the river, instead of, read or JP. Yeah. You want to follow us. Yeah. You don't want to follow JP. JP. J.P. I mean, he's a terrific outdoorsman, but that's our domain. We made it. And the rest of the crew, they were like, like, it was like the Titanic out there.

There were bodies everywhere. It was bodies everywhere. Instead of going far left, Matt went. Straight. Alternative. All right. All right. It's a perfect segue and do Harrison Bucker's speech in just a moment.

But another thing is, I just got to beef with Dan Quinn because I had this terrific cutoff shirt when we went tubing the other, or kayaking the other day. And it's like, it's like, it's like, it's like, it's like, it's like paying a, homage to Geronimo, the Native American warrior. You have a bookmark with Geronimo on it. Yeah, and I'm a big fan, and he's on my t-shirt. And I wanted to throw it on. I say Geronimo and I do cannibals.

I couldn't even throw it on because Dan Quinn's starting that thing again. What thing? The feather thing. Did you see that? Oh, I saw it attached to a W. Yeah. He's just out there like, bro, we got to bring back the Redskins. Like, that was what I gleaned from that statement.

Anyways, I don't want to get to, you know, like. In a vacuum, the W with a feather on it. Looks really cool. very fucking cool but it's just such it we don't live in a vacuum it's you just poking or you're not i was like dan quinn you're just like oh this a cool t-shirt yeah yeah but now i can't wear my geronimo shirt because dan quinn's trending you know i don't want to get to get flicked up in a geronimo shirt people thinking i'm dan quinn no i'm paying homage it's different people can't even pay homage i uh i was just scrolling through twitter and i saw i saw i saw an elder

man, kind of jacked at the podium with a cut off with the W and the feather. And I was like, that looks cool. I didn't think twice about it. Yeah. Kept scrolling. And then I saw it again, like quote tweeted. And somebody had opinion. And I was like, scourge, hold on a second.

Not going to be popular. Yeah. There's a lot going on here. It's that time, Megan. I have a confession to make. Sure. It was a couple minutes till 8 o'clock on Wednesday night. And I thought, oh, the, this, the schedule's being released.

let me get to the channel. And then I paused and I thought, no, I'm not going to be in the chow line this evening. I will read the schedule when it's released. Good for you, man. Yeah. Because I got to tell you, I'm pretty sure schedule release is mostly for people making content,

which is you. Yeah. But I didn't opt into it either. I like caught up on all these yesterday. By the way, the NFL is just making this thing now, like where it's another ownership of the calendar. I feel a little beat up by that statement. Which one?

the one you just made to him the one you just beat him up with what did i say you know we're content creators we have to watch the schedule really yeah i'm not into edging what's edging like waiting oh you like watching i'm like well so you're a content creator that you no no no but i want to see it no no no no in terms of my consumption of the schedule really yeah i don't want it to be slow drip i want to load that bowl up with as much as i got and rip it to the dome and look at it i want to see all the weeks. I want to see everything right now. I can't do the, well, I have the week seven on my board and the week one, but where's the weeks? You know what I'm saying? You want the whole schedule. Boom, release it. He's talking about like consuming it when it all falls down on your head at once.

Just press the button one time. Have you heard who the jets are playing in November? No, it's nine o'clock. Right. Tomorrow. Another thing is strength of schedule. Well, really? Because we didn't know about the Houston Texans of this point last year. You took the words out of my mouth. You look at the strength of schedule. I'll give be a certain, and this is why, hey, it's, it's the top four teams in strength the schedule are going to be good. They're like, you know, the chiefs and those teams. You know, I look, but then there's a lot of teams who's winning percentages swing by 200 points in a given year. Like, look at the Browns. They're way up from last year. Look at the Bengals last year. They're down three games. And that's because of Joe Burroughs injury, which I don't know if you notice, these things happen. And this year,

if you factor in the Bengals as a low winning percentage team, like, that's going to skeweres. And things unrealistically because I'm pretty sure Joe Burrow's going to be back. Yeah. You know, could I interest you in a fact toy? Sure. Yeah, yeah. The Lions from week one through week 15 will play one outdoor football game. This seems great golf one. Jared Goff is the happiest man on the planet. Also check Seattle's indoor outdoor splits because Gino's another indoor guy. We figured that out last year. We should have played quarterback, dude. Should have played quarterback. Yeah. Fuck. Should have been somebody's wife.

You just have to be in the kitchen. Okay. You know what I mean? I stay in the pocket all day. I don't agree with that. So another one, Vikings, 13 wins two years ago. Last year, they're 588% you know, win percentage, 764 the year before.

Bengals, 12 wins, obviously lost three games there. Chargers. They lost five games last year more than they did the year before. They were minus five compared to 2022. You just don't know when this stuff's going to happen. Packers, the interesting. thing about the Packers, boy doesn't it feel like they won a lot more games last year. They barely won more games. I think that's because the second half of the season,

they were so good, right? And Jordan Love kind of came on. But their win total this year is like nine and a half. We're going to start looking at win totals in conjunction with these schedules. Well, Vegas, if you want to bet on Bet MGM, for instance, Packers, that's what it is. There's a total that I'm looking at and I'm seeing nine and a half. Oh, 10 and a half. 10 and a half now? Yeah. Steamed up. So, you know that's just a game more than the last two years a game or two more like you know and when you start to look at these schedules like i wanted to jump on the texan schedule right but they got a motherfucker of a stretch the season dude like you look at the texans the texans to finish the season

go slow go slow yeah the texans to finish the season have got have got a murderer's row of teams all right we'll start with the jets october 31st they're going to play at the jets versus Detroit at Dallas versus Tennessee who I think is going to be tough and healthy dislike indivision you almost count like an indivision game like a tough game no matter what especially in December at Jacksonville versus Miami at Kansas City versus Baltimore at Tennessee and when you start to look for bad teams this year I think it's a little harder to find those teams right who was it the other day Kyle Brand said no team will have less than 10 wins that's ridiculous I was like that's wild that's ridiculous

But to your point, there's less, he was taking what you said and throwing it a miles out. Yeah, there's, there's just less teams that you're like, yep, that's a win. There's no bad ball. You know, but that, that changes when the season starts. There's also teams like Dallas to me. Dallas to me is going to be a team. I'm saying it here right now. I look at their roster.

The running back room is pedestrian. The wide receiver room, if CD Lamb pulls up with a hamstring is thin. Okay. The tight end, you know, Ferguson's nice. player the offensive line i like tyler smith um i love zach martin but outside of that it's steal it right tackle that's that's a tough matchup takes three people to go up front tyrant tyrant smiths in in in in new york now right so there's a lot that has to happen we haven't even talked about the quarterback who you don't even feel comfortable enough given a deal you're at

the end of your rope there you lose dan quinn from a management perspective from an ownership perspective from a quarterback perspective, it feels like it's expired milk in Dallas, and it has even through the second half of last year. Well, that, for instance, a team that could be not as good as you think. You look at them on the schedule. You're like, that's a tough out, but maybe they're not as good as you think.

So it's just the point is, I agree with you, Megan. Strength the schedule is really imperfect. So is point differential. Me and Matt were talking about this earlier, because point differential can help here. But there's also teams that win one game by 40 points, and it inflates their 50 points

and inflates their point differential. Or that Raiders Chargers game to end the season last year where the Raiders had like 62 points. Right. So all of a sudden they're like, let's get out of here alive. The Raiders are like a really tough team because they're PDs up. Yeah. You know, like I think they should do this by quarterbacks. I think if you want an accurate representation of how difficult the schedule is going to be,

it needs to be heavily weighted on who the quarterback is. Because for instance, Atlanta is going to be a totally different team this year. I thought last year they were a good team, had a bad quarterback. This year, they're a good team with a good quarterback. Two good quarterbacks. Yeah, too good possibly. So we'll see. I mean, like, you just don't know it.

And you can't predict who stays healthy at the quarterback position either. If you have to have a schedule front loaded with really good teams or back loaded, which would you prefer? You know, it depends on the team you are. If you have an established program, I don't mind starting out with tough tests. If you're starting out and you're trying to build your team into something, you've got a new coaching staff, you would rather have those tough games later in the season. I think also if you're like the page. it's in their prime play me in December like you know bill you say hey season starts after Halloween I think it was and I was like why are we here and you know he's like well to get better so

that when after October like it's for real we have been doing this shit and we've shaped our team into what we want our team to be so I think that's a big one I think when you look at the schedule you always look at bye weeks Kyle that's that's that's like when you played that's the first question you ask ones are by when's our by how many primetime games I mean this year there's a few teams that don't have any prime time. Well, there's one team that has no primetime games. The Ravens play three games in eight days or something like that at one point. You're looking at things like that.

When I played in St. Louis, I think if you added it up over the first five years of my career. Or when do we go to Miami? Certainly. One month. Over the first five years of my career, I think I may be played in two primetime games. That's just like when I look at the Panthers now as a retired player, I'm like, oh, I was on the Panthers. You know, because primetime games really tell you a lot about how much juice an organization has in a league.

and when you look at prime time games this year you've got the Jets with a fuckload I think they have five or six got robbed so they are totally three teams have six hitching their wagon to this Aaron Rogers thing good or bad right like last year

it burn them they're they're right back in the chow line so to speak trying to put Aaron Rogers on TV as many times as possible and if he stays healthy it'll be great that San Francisco Jets game early in the season for a quarter and a half a year half is going to be incredible until like the whole Jets team gets hurt because like we're going to be talking about that like that first 20 minutes of football for a calendar year like do you remember how good the Jets were before all the people that they signed with injury history histories got dinged uh

that's going to be a great game the cowboys have six I think the NFL is at risk of having some pretty shitty games if the Cowboys take a step back I also think I also think they missed out primetime game is big too that's huge Where you play. You know, some, you do, there was a couple years where I, I kind of didn't want to play the Packers in prime time. Well, they're in a bunch of, because they were so damn good. And we weren't very, we weren't able to match their offensive onslaught.

We go out there and play. And it would be like, God, get me out of this fucking stadium. And it would be under the lights. The fans would be going crazy. And you got the, the, the camera on the wire. And you know that everybody's at home watching. Yeah. That's a horrible feeling.

So there's almost like, if you're on a bad team, if you're on a bad team, if you're on a bad team. ambush at night. You want to play at noon. I want to play in a hangar. Yes. If you, there are nine teams that play five primetime games. There are six that play four. If you had to take one out of the five right and bring one from the four up to five, who are you taken out of Ravens, Bills, bingles, lions, chiefs, Rams, Eagles, Packers, Dolphins. Swah. Rams for Texas. If I'm a, if I'm like your average football fan, the dolphins always lay. eggs in prime time so I might not want to see the dolphins but if you're a dolphins

hater like me like I've been coined as that I kind of like watching the dolphins in prime time because everybody gets it's my moment to be like hey motherfucker you remember all the shit you were saying to me about how stupid I was now you have to watch you can't act like you're watching something else it's Thursday night football it's Monday night football it's Sunday night football and I look like a genius if Justin Fields ends up playing a little bit I think the Steelers could be fun to watch in prime time. I think the Steelers are a fun team in prime time. Atlanta's good.

You should not put indoor teams hosting primetime games. You do as little of that as possible. Football looks the best outside. So while Atlanta's in the four slot, I have no qualms about that. I think the Texans should be a little bit higher. I think there's a team that's a lot of fun that only has one prime time game. There's actually two of them, the Colts and the Titans. I think the Titans are going to be fun this year.

I think the Colts are going to be a lot of fun this year. Anthony Richardson comes on, they're going to be flexing him. The Cardinals, I think, are going to be more exciting than people give them credit for. Six and a half wins is in total. I'm probably going to take the over on that. They're only in one primetime game. The market dictates that, but they are going to be fun.

Why do we have to watch the Broncos twice in prime time? I'm not sure. Although they didn't disappoint last year in big spots. No. That Minnesota game was incredible. They beat the Kansas City Chiefs in prime time? They beat the bills in prime time. So maybe that's what it is.

The league looks at it and says, Sean Payton in primetime, like, they're going to be ready to roll. They did kind of fuck us. We have three of our first games are on the road against winning teams. And we have to play. Didn't they break the streak against the Chiefs last year? Yeah. Yeah, yeah.

I'm not going crazy. No, they did, but it wasn't prime time. No, no, yeah. It felt like prime time. Yeah. It was an afternoon window. It was a 4 p.m. Which feels like, you know.

Yeah, it was a late game. And they ran the ball up against these ass. And the other time that they played the chiefs kind of tough, we were getting off that pumpkin float yeah uh when i wrecked the pumpkin i think it was like 17 10 yeah so it um anyways primetime games you got to watch the jets like we'll hopefully they stay healthy um anthony richerson i could use some more titans i could use some more why are the patriots in prime time at all uh the raiders are fun in prime time so i'm okay with the raiders everything looks cool at that Vegas stadium yeah that's one indoor stadium you can put that thing at night

because it looks awesome six New York Jets prime dime football game. It's going to be crazy. They're banking on that Achilles being okay. They could play three rookie quarterbacks in three straight weeks, weeks, three, four, and five. And here's an interesting nugget for you guys. I'm going to put this bet in ASAP. I'm going to bet the Titans week one.

Okay, that's my lock for week one. Like, you're not going to remember this when we give the locks. You just are out here doing that, huh? Yeah, I'm doing it because guess what? Caleb Williams could be, he could be really. good right cow but he's got to see legarius need ouzier fucking simmons the first week like they're going to be throwing some looks at him that he didn't see a lot in college and so all i'm saying is when you look at that and you couple rookies starting qbs week one since 1970 last one to win week one was david car

okay so it's been a while Kyle but if david car did it then why haven't all the others Kayla will do it then why haven't all the others because they're not Gaila Boyle. And there's no situation that has been stepped into like Caleb Williams stepping in. Another interesting rookie quarterback deal, the rookie bowl week eight, the commies and the Bears. Okay, if you remember last year, that was a death game. This is a rookie bowl. So a lot of extra meaning when these two teams play. We got the rookie bowl this year. Last year was a death game. Texans Colts this year, it went to Richardson, right? You know, C.J. Stroud is the second coming. He is, but it went to Richardson. C.J. Stroud, if you remember this, I don't know if everybody,

You remember what happened when the Texans played the Panthers last year? No. Oh, they got beat by the Panthers. Right. Right. Yeah. Okay. So, you know, these rookie quarterback duels are pretty interesting.

Like Trevor Lawrence lost to Zach Wilson, Mariotta B Winston, back in 1993, Rick Meyer beat Drew Brees. Like, I feel like you don't know when you see the two QBs face off the first time, but it could be a lot of fun. Chris, August 1st, 8 p.m., the Hall of Fame game Houston Texans being hosted by the Chicago Bears it could be C.J. Strau going to be Caleb Williams Joe Buck Troy Eichman on the call. Do you think Caleb's going to get a lot I mean probably be hosted by Canton Ohio would it not yeah but they're yeah but they're the home

team it's all about sideline it's all about sideline okay uh another thing is pretty cool though if you're talking about the Texans I can't have Fame quarterbacks totally yeah put them in I I cannot wait for Texans lions. The last time these two teams played each other, I think they were both four and nine in 2021. You think about like organizational turnover on both parts, like incredible. And to see these two young teams face off is going to be great.

Two opposite styles and feels about those ball clubs. But both physical in their own ways. I think that's going to be a physical game. I look forward to that game. Three and 13 and four and 13. A game's got a little Toros versus Clovers to it. The Lions and Texans were 3 and 13 and 4 and 12 or something in in 2021. They were both 4 and 7 when they faced off.

So it's going to be a lot different atmosphere. 2020. 2020. It's going to be a lot different atmosphere. Super excited to see that game. I'm really excited to see the Diggs Bowl, week five. Everybody knows, been circling that thing. Wondering when we're going to watch, you know, digs is a lot of.

gonna be off the chain. Probably gonna be an AOC divisional game too. Wild card? Yeah, that'll be wild. You think so? Yeah. I do. I think the bills won the division.

I think the Texans won the division. Divisional there. I think those tight ends go ham in Buffalo this year. I think so too. But Chris, you said that the bears are gonna lose to the Titans week one. Do you mind if I just hit you rapid fire on the Bears schedule? Yes, I'll give you.

Let's go through this. NFL set them off. You give you your pick, make and interject as necessary. Week one, Bears are hosting the Titans with a historic number one quarterback. The Bears are going to win at home. It's going to be a raucous fucking environment for my man Will Levis, who I like. Week two, Bears Texans on the road in Houston. I think they do catch an L on the road.

I think that Caleb Williams, week three in Indianapolis, outplays Anthony Richardson in a shootout. Gus Bradley doesn't do much. I mean, he just sits back there and plays his own. So, you know, that could be interesting. Iber Fluse is going to make Anthony Richardson chuck the ball around, I think. Iber Fluse, it's an Iber Fluse homecoming game. I can't call that one. So now we've got the Los Angeles Rams historically play very poorly at Soldier Field,

traveling to Soldier Field. One o'clock game in September. It could be humid still. Okay. I got the Bears. Okay. You guys are going to pick your first win up or second win up against Carolina Panthers. We're going to win at Soldier Field.

It's going to be a big game. I think it'll be one of those games like we had against the Bucks with Mr. Bisckey at five touchdown. I think the Bears might be too physical for Jacksonville. I could see the Bears up sitting Jacksonville. I think that'll be an interesting armchair quarterback Monday morning when you and I sit down and potentially talk about Trevor Lawrence's performance against Caleb Williams. Yep, yep. I think they beat the commanders.

I don't think the commanders are going to be as good as people. I think Daniels would be capable as people. If he's still around in late October, it'll be an interesting game. Yep. I think they're going to lose to the Cardinals. I think that Kyler Murray is going to have a great year. I think this is going to be a really tough one for the bears to pick up on the road. I think it's a loss. Okay.

I think they beat the Patriots at home. I think Drake May is settling in by November 10th. But Caleb Williams is too much. I think they lose to the Packers. They're hosting the Packers. I think they beat the Packers at home the first time around. I'll go win against Minnesota. I'll go loss in Detroit.

Loss in Detroit. Huffest place to play in the NFC North. I'll go loss at San Francisco. Man, that's a tough one. I'll go loss at Minnesota. Hey, rookie wall. It's getting late in the season. I got to win.

I got a win at Minnesota. Okay. I've got them, I've got them beating Detroit. At home. Yeah, at late. Because Detroit has to go outside. Detroit has trouble outside.

The first week, Jared's gone outside. Yeah, he's going to be like, man. Howie from the, what movie was that? The baseball movie? The kid who didn't want to go outside. Seahawks at Bears. Last time the Seahawks were at Bears, I think Russell Wilson threw a pick six to Prince of Mukumara.

It was 2018. Okay, so that's outside. That's Gino outside. I think you got a shot to win that game. I'll give you a win there. I hope it's windy, late December. And then you're going to lose it. And then we got the Green Bay Packers,

and I think we could take an L there and split decision on the year. Okay, so what do we come out with? How many wins? Kyle, 11 and 6. What's the fucking laugh for, Matt? Chris Long, 7 and 10. Yeah. And what's their win total?

11-7 then you're going to win the Super Bowl 8 and a half 8 and a half take the under No I'm taking the over I'm hammering the over Not quite ready you want to do the Eagles now Yeah let's do the Eagles That was a that was a 2417 win

That you were talking about 2018 when Russell Wilson And I'll tell you while you're pulling up the Eagles I'll say this The Eagles the entire end of the season Do not have to get on a plane That's very good stuff You just trains

First five games are really tough Okay Here's the one thing about the Eagles that I noticed. Two really tough, loud atmospheres with good defenses on the road for Young Center. You talk about like changing over from Jason Kelsey, new mechanics, that sort of thing, you know, new offense, New Orleans and Tampa Bay on the road's tough. You saw what Tampa did to you last year. And then they get Cleveland. Like they're going to have a lot of strong defensive defensive stretches. And they play at the Rams and then at the Ravens. But at the end of the season,

it gets kind of, it gets kind of easier. They got a hold of physically. They could just play a little bit better. at the end of the same. And hold up physically. Hold up physically. Okay, let's start at the top. Eagles. I got them. Lost.

Beating Green Bay. Do you think there's more Packers fans or Eagles fans in Brazil? Eagles. Ten days later, they're home for Atlanta. I got a win. Matt nods like he knows the number. I got to win.

I just don't think Atlanta has enough defensively to affect pass rush. First France. And beat those guys. Kyle, where are you through two weeks there? I am the loss week one and the loss. Last week two.

At New Orleans, then at Tampa Bay. Win, win. Okay, I've got them losing to the Saints, losing to Tampa Bay. Wow. I've got them beating the Cleveland Browns. I've got them beating the Giants. Kyle, where are you on those two?

Which ones? Cleveland and Giant. I've got them losing to the Cleveland Browns and beating the New York Football Giant. Okay. Okay. I've got them losing to CINCI. I have them beating Jacksonville. I have them beating Dallas.

I have them beating Washington. I have them beating the Rams. Mark me down for all those, including the Rams. Yeah, beating the Rams but losing to the Ravens. Yeah, lost to the Ravens. Beating the Panthers. Agreed.

Beating the Steelers. Beating Washington, sweeping Dallas, sweeping the Giants. What am I, 11 and sick? Too many. It got tough in there. I think 12 and 5. Okay.

And how about Kyle's record for the Eagles? Okay, you're 11 and 6th. Okay, so we worked out our former teams. All right? That was good. Another thing to keep an eye on. Broncos at Saints. That's going to be big.

The Sean Payton Bowl down there in New Orleans. I think he'll be cheered. You think so? Yeah, I do. Harbaugh Bowl, Week 12 is going to be great. Falcons Vikings, Vikings at Vikings. Kirk Cousins coming home. I think he's going to be cheered.

Those people don't know how to boo. You know, they're going to boo. shirt, Kirk Cousins. And then Raiders at Saints, possible spoiler with Derek Carr at the helm, because I actually think the Saints are going to be okay this year. I actually think you're going to take a step forward. Another one I can't wait to see is I can't wait to see if there's going to be an Antonio Pierce Harbaugh rivalry. I feel like those two guys, there's only room for one of them. After the game. You know what I'm saying? Some real, they're very different. Cool interaction. A very like a DAP where.

And they both want to still play. Yep, they both still want to play. Chief Chargers, week four. It's going to be great. And week one, we get Brady out of the gate. Browns, Cowboys. Listen, San Francisco is favored in every game they're playing it. Wow.

That'll change. That'll change. And I was talking to Dominique Foxworth about this earlier. San Francisco, you can make them favorites in every game, but that doesn't mean you should bet the overwin total. their one injury away in certain spots, as good as they are, their team changes so much if one of two guys get hurt on offense. Because they're talking about Brock Hardy.

X-Men. Trent Williams. Brock Purdy matters, right? If you take an X-Men out, the movie ends differently. Trent Williams, Ebo Samuel, you saw what they look like without one or both of those guys last year. And then, you know, if you look at them defensively, look how much they changed in a game when Drey Greenlaw went down in the Super Bowl.

Look how much they rely upon Fred Warner in the passing game. defensively. He goes out. He can cover three layers of the defense. And everybody's got injuries, so I'm not downing the Niners. All I'm saying is, and I'm not doubting them. If you remember, I'm the one every year who says they're going to be right back in it. Like, I've been doing this for four years, and that's the one thing I have not missed. But I will say this, they are as susceptible to one guy getting hurt and it changing everything as anybody in the league.

Can I read you all the beginning for the Baltimore Ravens? Sure. To your point, at Patrick Mahomes. This is for the first five. at Patrick Mahomes, at Dak Prescott, home Josh Allen, at Joe Burrow. That's a motherfucker. That's a motherfucker.

That's a motherfucker. And if you look at international, Packers, Birds, Brazil, Jets, Vikings, London, Jags, Bears, London, Pat's, Jags, London. And I think I understand why Pat's are in London because they like the Patriots there. I would figure they would hate the Patriots. No, it doesn't make sense that way, but they really like it.

It's like we love Toyotas. Okay. Giants, Panthers, Munich. Pretty sure somebody already made this joke, but this is the way you stand up to Nazis. You send them Giants Panthers. Hey, Giants are going to be okay. You know what I'm saying? Can't hold their fast against them. Giants are not going to be okay. And let me tell you this about Giants. I was going through their roster. How do they cover that? We just wrapped up doing our like, kind of, or, you know, this time of year I go through every team. The Giants to me stink

like somebody upstairs is like, hey, we're taking this year off. I have this idea in my head that if you were not trying to get better this year, you are biding your time for the right coach, right? Who is that coach? Bill? Hmm. He doesn't hate them as much as he hates all the other teams up there. Think about it.

You're not going to offense again. This is like, it's just if you reason through it, most teams that have an offensive coach, they go defense, dable offensive coach. if they go defense off of this, who's it going to be? Now, there's some name that's not out there. Ryan Nielsen could be a head coaching candidate next year. Ryan Nielsen, Jeff Ulbert, could be a head coaching candidate next year.

Lou Anirumo has been a head coaching candidate, but we know they don't just give head coaching jobs to defensive guys. I feel like Bill with his Giants thing and the fact that they knew coming in this season, he's not available. We got this bad contract with Danny Dimes. why throw more money at it, why make moves that we're going to regret later, they're just not very good.

I look at them on paper and I'm like, that's an easy under six and a half. Now, I could be dead wrong on this thing because just two years ago, you looked at that roster, didn't seem like a great team, and they won a playoff game. Yeah, that's why I wouldn't want to be quick

to move on from Daibel. He's been 500 with a playoff. With Danny Dimes. Win with Danny Dimes. But I'm just telling you, if they don't win this year, he's gone. And they are not set up to win this year.

year. Offensively, I don't feel like they're set up to win. Defensively, I like their front. Like their front. They're in the running for best front in the league, but the depth on that defense line is not great. Burns is only 26. It's not like you made that move to be ready now. So the point is, I think the Giants could have Bill Belichick as their head coach in the year, and I think that's interesting. A one year rested Bill Belichick. Tough stretches, okay? Bills off a by week 12. They get the Niners at the Rams and at the lines. That's a tough one.

Steelers. They go two West Coast games in a row. That's kind of a mini vacation though. You get to stay out there. That's actually something you look forward to. Which is great. I'd be like, I don't give a fuck who we're playing. We get vitamin D for two weeks.

I'm in. I used to just go outside, sit outside the hotel. Fucking say the word code. Studying my playbook in the in the, in the, in the, parking lot. Yeah. Like I'm happy to be in an L.A. parking lot. You know, it's fucking December. Okay.

Tough stretches. Steelers, divisional stuff late in the year. They don't play a lot of their division foes until after week 10. And Brandon Bean said this on this podcast today. He's like, I don't like it playing those like Patriots twice in three weeks. But I think from a fan standpoint, having all those division games backloaded can be fun because it can affect

the race in that division. So where teams think they're in it until late. We used to always say, hey, guys, we suck right now. And of course, we never finished. but in St. Louis, if we had divisional games late, you'd say, hey, it's all still out there in front of us. Seattle and San Francisco, we're in the dance. We're in the dance, which allows teams to figure things out.

And I think like figuring the quarterback thing out in Pittsburgh, I can't for the life of me figure out why their win totals eight and a half. Mike Tom and all he does win nine games. Everybody knows that, right? Hold on a minute player. One more game to do it. How did they get worse? Well, I know we're talking out of both sides of our mouths

with the strength of schedule, but they do face Eagles, Ravens, Chiefs in 10 days, December 15th through 25th. They only need to find nine of them for me to be happy. And I'm not saying

it's easy to find nine games, but what I am saying is they got better offensively. Is it Russ or is it Justin? I think it's Russ to start the season. And eventually Justin, if Justin earns it. Justin's got to earn it.

I don't believe all these reports that you hear from anonymous sources. I didn't like it when they did it to Carson. I didn't like hearing the stuff I heard about Justin. Like if you got those issues, air it out, right?

Like you're out and put your name on it. There's people talking shit about Justin after he leaves Chicago. If any of that stuff's true, he's got to bring a new mindset up to Pittsburgh. If it's not,

you know, I think he's going to be fine. And I think Arthur Smith's going to be the best coordinator he's had. He's going to have George Pickens. He's going to have Friarmooth. He's going to have two great backs, not great backs,

but two really good backs. He's going to have a defense as support him and an offensive coordinator who I already mentioned that actually fits his skill set. I think when he looked around in the locker room at times, and I mean, obviously he had DJ more there for a bit. Cordero Patterson. And they had a good synergy. But when he looks around in that huddle, when he's given the keys at certain times this

preseason and during the season, he'll be like, there are guys like me physically in this huddle. You know what I'm saying? Like, we have an accumulation of dogs here. And I know sometimes some of their dogs misbehave, but I think it gives a guy like Justin Field some comfort and a sense of community there. And in addition to that, you bring a quarterback like Justin Fields in or any starting quarterback. And you throw him in with another starting quarterback, you think, well, God, I don't know if the chemistry is going to work out well. This is a guy that

Justin Fields was openly trying to emulate as a young quarterback. Right. Because he was a baseball player. Right. He was a football player. He was physically gifted outside of just being able to throw the football. I think Justin and Russ have an opportunity. And vice versa for Russ. He gets to harbor this relationship he gets to harbor this young quarterback well i i just look at this okay when you're a player the culture that you're playing under matters especially if you're a quarterback the coaching matters like i can honestly say and i've said this is a high traffic before like you walk into a certain locker room and you're like you don't realize how much the cards are stacked against you until you get out and you look around and you poke your head up and you're like man it's just not the same everywhere

and chicago for all the good things that they've been doing while they were considering whether or not they were going to move on from Justin Fields. They didn't have an established culture. Iber Fluce is establishing that culture. You walk into Pittsburgh. Mike Tom has got a way to do it. It's his way or the highway. You've got T.J. Watt on defense. You have Minka Fitzpatrick. You have all these studs that have been there a long time. They know what the Steeler way is. And offensively, I think you've got guys around you that are leaders. You know, Isaac Samaloo. The backs have been there a little bit. Jalen Warren's like a coach on the field is my read. like he seems like just the guy you want in your locker room.

A lot of minus zero and one yard carries for Najee Harris. For sure. A lot of them. For sure. But the run game changed late last year. And I think they could probably, they had Broderick, right? Last season, they draft another tackle. They had three rookies projected right now,

starters on the offensive line. And that could go good or it could go bad. But I think it can't get worse. Like there wasn't a lot of room to run at times for those guys. If they can keep those guys on the field together throughout the course of the season, it'll be there's something to be said for guys who stay out there, whether or not they produce at an A or B level. If they can all play a C's together,

I'll take that group over a group with an F, a D, that are sometimes not available at 1A. You know what I'm saying? Like, I want a unit. And you might have that. You look at Atlanta. I don't think Atlanta has a lot of like blue chip guys. Right?

Up front. Chris Lindstrom. Just Linsstrom. Great guard, right? Yeah. He's an animal. But outside of him. Yeah. Yeah. You know, it's it's they make it work because they're well coached and they're on a string and the whole thing and like Detroit, very good, right? Very good running the football. They have good backs. They have a good scheme. They have Penae Soule who's differentiator. But it's not like you walk up and down that line.

You're like it's a bunch of all stars. If you play together. They're in the right spot. If you play together and you're well coached, you'll be okay. And if, If Justin Fields is willing to work, all the organizational support systems are going to be there. You got a guy who's been a head coach, is your offensive coordinator. Is he a good head coach? No, right? He made some decisions in Atlanta we don't like. But he's going to be fine as a play caller.

He's going to be Arthur Smith. Whatever that means, whatever you think that means, that's what he's going to be. And Justin Smith or Justin Fields is going to have people around him that will instill the right work habits and right, you know, ways of doing things. Based on the culture. He didn't have that in Chicago. much. And sure, would you like if these reports are true, you'd love for Justin to come in a league and be ready to not play into these, you know, but that's not always the way it is. Players change, players mature, and I think this will be good for his maturation.

I think we'd be remiss not to mention Frank Rag now right now. Yeah, no, he's a beast. Because when I said they have him in the right spots, I mean, they have a guy in the middle who directs traffic and actually malls people in the A-gaps and helps out on double teams with the guards to your point. Yeah. And then they've got force multiplier at tackle. Well, I like the physical. Like the San Francisco run game without Trent. They can't do the same things they do with without Panay. I like the physicality that Pittsburgh seems to be thinking with up front. You know, I really do think they're trying to bully people a little bit. Samoa is a huge part of that. And that's great. And they, and they draft the kid from what Oregon

State or Washington, Washington, number 50 to tackle there, who can play different positions. It looks like with his body type. So, you know, they have invested in that offensive line and that Broder kid is just a fucking mountain. So I love Isaac. I talk about Isaac Siamalo all the time. It's like bringing somebody in from Stoutland's O'Line room. It's like you got another coach on the field and he's a smart player.

So I don't know, you know, we didn't plan to talk about the Steelers that much, but I probably probably wrap this thing up with the schedule talking about the schedule releases. Uh-huh. Because that's been a topic that people. like to hit. Here's my advice to NFL teams. You don't have to do one. Right. Like, there are some really bad ones. Like, I would say 85% were like, what are you doing? You know, the best one, obviously, is the Chargers. Chargers are the gold standard. I mean, whether it's Bucker in the kitchen, cooking a pizza. The Titans, I thought this year was a little bit underwhelming for me.

I don't like the sequel, but I still think it was better than most. Better than most for sure. Like, Kansas City on the heels of the Bucker thing with the, with the chief's cheerleaders. Did you see the Kansas City? I didn't see. I can't watch 32 of these Godforsaken. I want you to watch the worst one of all time. It's really like 64 of them because they do a schedule release thing and then they do like some other bit where it's pop tarts as some people didn't even try. Like Miami was like, hey, we're the fastest team in the league.

Like you're 20. I thought that was good. The Saints, the Saints needed to stay out of it. The Rams one's suck. The skits suck. Don't do the skits. Oh, yeah, yeah, I saw this. Oh, they did it with, never mind.

No, because they just crush everybody. The Chiefs cheerleaders did their own one. That's what I'm saying. Chiefs cheerleaders did their own one. I thought that was the real one. Hey, crushing stuff. The Kansas City Twitter has to come out and say, we do not condone their video.

We ordered an in, okay. So a couple months back, I'm like, bro. And somebody's going back, go back, go back. somebody's stealing this from us and when they do i'm going to play this this clip and then we're going to crush things better than them but about five months ago i was like man we should just start crushing stuff with a hydraulic crusher it'd be a lot of fun we just crush a different thing every day okay big cat and pft don't take this or will compton um but like it'd just be fun to crush things right so i order this hydraulic crusher or i tell matt to and uh they order the

crusher. It weighs like 600 pounds. And it sat in the bottom of the the lobby, so to speak, for three months because we couldn't, you have to fashion it to the floor. Like, the floor needs to be reinforced so that you can put one of these crushers on it. So at some point, we're going to get a hydraulic crusher and crush things on the show. Can't shoot a cannonball out of a canoe, Chris. But it looks like we're late now, because everybody's into crushing things now. This was on TikTok years ago. Okay. So this isn't so bad. This is actually, lot better than I thought. I thought it was a cheerleader. Look at this horse. Look at this horse. And then they cut it off before it becomes pita. It's like and then they crush chicken like actual

chicken. There's so many people. You see the ranch sliding out. Honestly, that's how I might start eating chicken wings. Just crush them. Um, all right. So anyways, there were some really bad ones. Were you mad that you weren't a part of the Patriots goodwill hunting? No. And listen, like, that's just not cute anymore. Like the Boston shit's not cute when you're not winning you can't just do like fucking the same jokes like do you see the movie matt damon it's not cute anymore like it basically was like the same commercial that win bet did with like ben affleck the bears did it with all the chicago themed movies too no yeah you know it's kind of played okay so jaguars did vine i thought that was pretty good there was a vine of a kid

getting hit with a piece of cheese uh yeah slice of cheese when they play packers that's great titans not as good this year colts like cop out they did like renaissance art Texans did ASMR, which is dumbest fucking thing ever. Jets, weird. Pats did a skit, not good. Dolphins, total cop-out, fastest team. Not very creative. Bill's made LeBron James into a different opponent every week.

Like, I don't even see the connectivity there. I have chiefs cheerleaders and makeup's awful, but that wasn't actually their schedule release. Chargers did Sims. They crushed it. The Sims was good. They crushed it. Tucker cooking in the kitchen.

Yeah. I didn't get the Steelers Ski Mask guy. Did you? Steal. He's stealing. So there's a QR code supposedly in this thing that if you click the QR code, it's on the Raiders week. It takes you to like the international clown convention.

It's incredible. I love the Kelsey's talking about squirrels. I thought that was the funniest shit in the world. Travis's big brain tweet about or squirrels are crazy, man. Butchered squirrel. And then they had these two little Sims, Kelsey brothers, talking about squirrels like in the little the little speech bubble the squirrels okay i love the saints voodoo doll dj kirk chief sololic you had buck curring in the kitchen which was beautiful how they turned

that around so quick paul pierce you had a paul pierce poop chair in there you have morgan wallin throwing a chair i don't pay attention to he threw a chair off eric church's bar i believe and now they have a plaque i'm surprised he didn't where he threw it i'm surprised didn't black says don't do it you're not morgan wallant which is pretty good. All right. Broncos Louis Hamilton terrible. Just terrible.

Who watches F1? He's an F1 racer. I know who was it. And he's eating food. I don't see the connectivity. Steelers, bad jokes, Browns bowling, not very good.

Bengals, kids playing with mascots. Not a great effort. Raven said your boy Stavi. Saw it. That was funny. He took Johnny's cars. Big Cat made the Packers one,

which was just fine. Okay. Lions, they had comedians. That was funny. They had the guy. Tim Robinson. Right, he's really funny.

And St. Richardson, they're hilarious. They just were like, oh, we don't have a lot of time. We're just going to have these guys talk for two minutes. Vikings had a British guy narrate theirs. It was really bad. Bears, they did the high school thing. Not great. Eagles, Rorschach test.

Listen, I want to compliment everything Eagles do, but that just was all right. Cowboys, I got a bone to pick with the Cowboys. I was going to say you're saying all this with being a part of one. Well, I am technically a part of one. Cowboys called me a couple weeks ago, and they said, hey, howdy, partner, we want you to be on our schedule release. And I said, I guess I can do that. So the Cowboys are doing schedule release, and they're doing a theme, a pop culture theme, which is why I asked you about pop culture themes earlier. You had no idea why.

Kyle's rattling off pop culture themes to me. But this, Kyle's like the NBA playoff. The election. The election. He's like, no, stop. Like Beanie babies are a pop culture theme. if it were. So anyways, the Cowboys are doing this thing where supposedly on TikTok people, FaceTime people, and they pull it up and everybody's just sitting there and they're still.

And so when you pick up the FaceTime, you're like, what the fuck? So the Cowboys call me and I have my little set made up for when I pick up. And it's Jerry Jones, Dag Prescott, Michael Irvin, and somebody else. I can't remember, but they're all sitting there. And they're like, they're trying to keep a straight face. like and the cheerleader stand behind him and i'm like hey guys like i don't know how long it's going to go on but i got to have something so i i print out like five color pictures of mika parsons in an eagle's uniform like and it's beautiful it looks exactly like what it's going to look like when he eventually is like you know what i'd like to just be able to drive to a sixers game you know

like i don't you don't have to wait for the by week and go back to harrisburg to see my family he wants to be an eagle. Micah, you want to be an eagle. You know, you know, you ignore my, you answer my DMs when I'm talking about something else, but when it's an Eagles thing, you don't, you don't answer. I know you want to be an eagle, okay? But I put Michael Parsons in a big frame,

all blown up in an Eagles jersey, put it behind me, had the green light hat on trying to get some signage in there. Michael Irvin's, dad, he's a third, like, try not to crack up. I'm like, Jerry, you recognize this guy? I'm like, Jerry, can we borrow him? Hey, Chris. You've seen him at the Sixers games, and they're just trying to keep a straight face.

Dacko actually almost cracked up. And then it ends, and everybody's laughed, and I'm like, Michael, that's the longest I've seen you stay quiet. Like, that was crazy. And, you know, it's like, oh, well, this is going to be out next week, the whole thing. So schedule release comes out last night. And not like I had it on my calendar, but somebody's like, hey, the Cowboys releases out.

Here's the link. So I clicked the link to YouTube, and they have Shane Gillis, for the first time the Eagles played and the second time the Eagles play I'm like oh this must be me don Staley pops up and then me so they split me and Don Staley were both react. You play legends which actually kind of cool I didn't think about it that way because I should have champions but but then I go to twitter to be you know quote tweet their schedule release and I say honored you know and I get on the Twitter schedule release which is basically the front page where you want to show people what you got and it's just Donst Daly. Oh no. Oh no. Now so I don't take that personally

because I know why it happened. Here's why it happened in my opinion. Number one, they needed somebody. They got a hold of me. They couldn't get a don't hold of Don Staley until after me. So I was like, I was like one B. She had just gone undefeated. Right. Most people seeing me are like, who the fuck is that guy? Right. I don't know about that. No, no, that's true. Second, and this is the most important point. They don't want people seeing the Michael Parsons thing because they know it's true. That to me is an admission of guilt. They know, Jerry knows that one day Michael Parsons will be wearing midnight green. They know. That's crazy. And they took me off the schedule because of it. And I'm okay. Like I'm fine. I'll be on somebody else's schedule release next year. But I got to tell you,

I looked in Jerry's eyes on that face time and he knew what I was picking up and putting down and he didn't want any part of it he tried to laugh it off but he took me off the schedule release that's what's happened. Wow. Is that crazy? That's crazy. That's spicy? That's spicy. But I thought I executed it. I executed it brilliantly. Okay. Jerry, you recognize this guy? You recognize this guy Jerry? So I had some ideas for how I would actually do a schedule release

if because some of these people are fucking terrible and this took me five minutes you can hire me i'll do it for free okay schedule release pdf pictionary dude picturenery have a fucking have players on the street corner having to picturenery the fucking opponent and they can't leave the street corner until somebody gets it right that's fun i feel like we've seen that no i don't think we have the pirates of where do we see it a few years ago who i don't remember yeah i don't think hiding's no they they were on the street asking people what the logo was and people were like, yeah, that's the, that's that Prescott's team as the Colts.

Okay, okay, okay, okay. So this would be a little different. Another one would be like a military campaign. Okay, so like say you're the bills. Say you the bills, okay? You play the Cardinals the first week. It's Jonathan Gannon telling his regiment, Pugh Pue, Pee explosives and the guns jam, okay?

Second week, they're playing the dolphins. Oh God, it's the fastest team in a league. McDermott's like, oh, they can't hit us from here. We're good. You know, like deep ball. Okay. You know, you play the, you play the Jags. You could do an Irvine joke.

You'd be in the pool with like a submarine there. You play the Jets. It's the Red Scare, right? Titans, you guys got a Mayo Blaster. It's ineffective. You know, it's basically like, Mayo Blaster. It's what they used to do on the Jumbotron at Scott Stadium

where the mascot defeated somebody every week. When the guy would ride in, He would ride in through town, and then there would be a giant hokey stand and a Scottsdale. Or there'd be like a big yellow jacket that would like try to take over the town and the cavalier would vanquish him. Back when the yellow jacket,

you're like, hey, where's your wife? And the yellow jacket's like, well, she's at home. Oh, and Cadman is now Caval Woman. Don't tell. Don't tell HB. Is it now a cabwoman? Yeah. You play the Seahawks. You got a bunch of Antifas trying to get into a tank

and they can't get into it because they're not strong enough. Dolphins. you could light their house on fire. Or like it's Tyreek with an army of kids. You know, and you got to take, you got to take on Tyreeks home. Nate said he has so many kids that he went past the point of having to pay child support.

So he doesn't have to pay child support. Nate's like, it's actually smart. I was like, yo, Nate. No, he found a loophole. Nate was like, yo,

I'm serious. You know, I didn't, there was a really brilliant Xavier Howard inside release ad men I had. But like the joke is still, it's still plays for Tyree. kill. The guy's incredible getting the inside relief. Yes, the best. So, you know, you play the chiefs. They're all doing the chop. You're like, can't do that. You losers. You know, there's ways to do

this. I was thinking like fireworks show or like gender reveal style. Just, you know, have a couple of pinatas, whack them and see what kind of toys fall out. You play the chiefs and it's just blue. Just logos. You get the manliest kicker in the league. Guys got great hair, by the way. You know. way i just want to say yeah yeah a compliment harrison bucker we'll talk about that in a little bit all right so here's uh brandon bean and uh i think we've hit everything and then some on schedules uh and uh and we got a little fun for you right after brand of bean and we'll get out of here hey y'all green light has official merch like this hat right here like the one on my head

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showing off your green light merch it's quality quality threads here okay wouldn't do it any other way very special guest one of my favorite jams in the game you had a lot of work to do this draft excited to see those guys play. Brandon Bean from the Buffalo Bills. How you doing, brother? I'm good, man. Appreciate you having me back, Chris. Yeah, it's great to see you.

How do you think Josh did in the schedule release video? It's funny. My wife was laughing. I was like, what are you laughing about? And she told me the whole thing. I was like, he was pretty funny. He's a smart ass. So it fits his, and he loves all the slapstick stuff.

So I guarantee you they probably wrote the script that he probably took at levels two and three with his with his backwards candor, but it was pretty good. A little ad livin from the big fella. Yeah. So when you see schedules come out, what do people talk about upstairs in a building? Like what's the first thing a coach is going to complain about or that you're going to look at and say, hey, this sucks or this is great. We love having it this way.

What do you look at when you see a schedule? Yeah, I mean, I always. look at the first game, who we got first, and where is it at? And then I start looking for short weeks, like, where are we going to have short weeks? And then where, how do our division games lined up? Like, this year we played New England, two of the last three games of the year. I, you know, for the life of me, don't know why the league does that, but they do. It is what it is. But it's just, it's just weird. You play all these games, and then all of a sudden, you know, week 16, you're going to play them, you know, at one, I think home, and then a week 18, you get to run and go there.

It's just, it's weird when that happens. This has happened before. Yeah, it's got to be tough. I figure you probably like, you're pretty intentional with the game planning as a group, right? Because you're going to see them again in 10 days. And you already know each other, you know, just, I mean, I know there's turnover rosters every year, but I already feel like you know them. Now, they do have new coaches this year, but a lot of times it's the same staffs and you're already, you know,

you're already all over each other and you're right how much is going to change you know you play a team week four in the season and then play them week 16 that's two different teams a lot of times but playing on week 16 and week 18 probably not a lot going to change there here's a question for chris because brandon's not going to answer it would you rather play jacoboby brissette weeks one and three or drake may weeks 16 and 18 oh that's a really good question Well, I think that's what the area scouts and all the people that are attending Patriots training camp to see how Drake's throwing the ball or four, right? Yeah. How do you do that?

Like when you've got a guy you're going to see twice and you might see him, like you wait for the film, right? But like what would you look at, you know, what can you glean before we turn the tape on week two Monday? Like, you know, how do you figure out what's going on, what the temperature is in New England? Yeah, I think you're well, obviously. they'd be paying close attention in the preseason, like, who's running it? Like, are they giving him a start, or is he always the backup? Like, is Jacobi, you know, sometimes you see these teams week one in the preseason, and the coach is like, you know, the rookie's not starting, he's going to have to earn this.

So no matter what happened leading up to that, you know, in this case, Jacobi walks out there. And then week two starts to tell you, like, okay, or this week, are we going to try the rookie or are we going to stay with, you know, Jacoby in this case? And so I think that kind of starts to tell. And when you watch the play, you know, or, you know, look at the weapons that he's playing with, first the weapons that the starter's playing with,

how are they moving the offense? Does it look like there's a confidence or not? And I think that's, if you're looking like, man, this kid's playing confident, they're probably seeing that too, and they're going to ride with the rookie and go with it. Or if they're like, man, you're not feeling, you know, and the guy's vibing out of the huddle.

And just, you know, we all know when that, when that quarterback comes in and everything's jelling. I think we can all kind of see and feel it whether you're there or you're watching it on tape. So I think we'll be paying a lot of attention to that. And again, a lot can change from week one, even if even if he's not the start or week one by the end of the season, a lot can change.

Having nothing to do with y'all, I mean, and God willing, you don't have to do this for another decade or two because you got a hell of a quarterback. But when you brought Josh in, Do you remember what the thought process was for the organization as far as bringing a quarterback along? You know what I'm saying? You're not doing that now. There are teams that are doing that.

But what do you take into consideration when it comes to play a guy now, rest them as long as you can? Do teams typically say, hey, we're not making a decision. We'll see how the season goes. Or do a lot of teams say, hey, this guy's not playing year one? And do you think there's credence to that? I think everyone is truly an individual decision, where your team is, what's around it. You know, can you protect them? You know, we've seen some of these quarterbacks get thrown out there in the O line is a mess,

and they're running for their life. It doesn't matter who's back there, and are you doing more harm than good? You know, for us in our situation with Josh, I was just talking to someone, you know, I didn't do the greatest job of having the right veteran on the team. We had a couple guys that some potential up-and-comers and probably looking in hindsight that year, I brought Derek Anderson in, I don't know, week five, week six. I realized like Josh needs an elder statesman. We had DA in Carolina with us as kind of camps, his mate,

has come off the sidelines, whatever, come filling a star here or there. Looking back on the whole thing with Josh was we were like, we don't want to rush him out there, but I think we realized pretty early on we didn't have the answer on the roster. and players no players. And I think with Josh's athletic ability, we started having vets like, hey, most of the time they're like, hey, I don't want a rookie to play.

Those guys were like, hey, let's just ride with him, live with him. Like, we see why he was drafted. We'd rather roll with that. And so we didn't start in week one against Baltimore. We got destroyed. It was one of those games at halftime. You're just like, can we throw in the towel? And we talked about it.

You know, as, you know, Sean and I talked about it. We talked about it with ownership and just we were filling the vibes the one-off from some vets like, hey, that was terrible. That was no fun. Can we just, can we let the young guy roll? And so week two, we started him here at home versus the chargers. And was he ready? I don't know. But I think for us at that time, let's just go ahead and get him ready.

He was fired up. up. Like, he wasn't, like, thinking, you know, you never know how they're going to take it. Do they make, do they convince you they're ready? And he was like, hell yeah, give me the ball. I'm ready. And us knowing that he don't even know some of the, the obstacles that are going to be in his way. When you look at the wide receiver room, do you think of things the same way? Like, the NBS signing being, is he the elder statesman in that, in that wide receiver room now? Yeah, yeah, yeah. Like, does that matter because you walk into a totally retooled wide receiver room? And I'll just say, this. I'm just full disclosure because we know each other now a little bit, but you know what I think of Josh, like there's a lot of people talking about, oh, they got worse outside and all this

stuff. I don't think so. I really don't, especially with the tight ends you all have. So how do you look at your receiver room this year and how important is it to have that veteran like an MVS? Yeah, and I think Curtis Samuel does fall into there. Curtis is a hunger, but he came out. That was the last draft. I was in Carolina. We took Curtis. A couple of those guys, but you're right, we don't have a guy that's been here for 10 plus years in the receiver room. It is a mix of skill sets, talents, whether it's size guys, speed guys, whatever. You said what I've been trying to say internally here is people are sometimes just focus on the receiver room, which I like what we've got in there. Don't forget the tight ends. It's legal for them to catch

the ball. Yes, they count as people you can throw the ball to. Yeah. And so I noticed that late last year. I think that team in Kansas City has done pretty good. Yeah. Throwing the ball to that guy. You know, they run that offense. Obviously, it's around the halls. But when you talk about where the ball is going, you better defend 87. And, and then you usually worry about everything else after that. If you don't defend him, he'll end the game for you. And so we do like what we have in the tight-in room is, you know, offsetting what we have in the receiver room. There's a lot of different, like I said, we got some size, we got some speed. We got a couple of guys between Samuel and Shakir.

They're good with the ball in their hands and adding some rack value to the group. MVS gives you a vertical, the taller guy. Obviously, we drafted Keon Coleman out of, you know, to kind of fill that X role. Mack Collins has bounced around. Yeah, like Mac is one of those guys, you know, I don't know these, played with a guy like Josh and and I think we're excited you know about that and he's man that guy's just he's like a glue guy you can just feel it when when you're around him like this guy loves ball he brings everyone together selfless and I think you can throw on the ball in third and eight and I think

he's going to catch the damn thing yeah yeah like it's um I'm excited about the group I know they got to go out and prove it and you know talk is cheap but I think I think 17's excited excited about him as well. Isn't that it, though? It's like you look at Kansas City last year before the season and everybody, I mean, I'm reading things. Oh, who's the bill's number one? Well, we don't know right now, do we?

I mean, do you, do y'all have an inclination? I mean, I don't think we knew Rishi Rice would have the year he had last year. Like, to me, somebody's got to just emerge and be number one. Is that how you guys think about it? Yeah, I mean, we think, you know, and it may even be week to week. You know, it may be this week, you know, Keon and Col. and catch us seven balls for whatever the next week. It's Khalil Shakir or Curtis Samuel, MBS, and again, how do the tight ends work in between

Dawson and Dalton. So I think we've tried to be complimentary with the skill set. It's not always going to be on third down. You know, we have had a dominant one, you know, here for some years where everyone in the stadium knew on a big play, the ball was probably going to look to go there. unless the defense is bracketing him and just taking everything away. Now I think, you know, there's, it's a different way to play offense. And we've got to go prove it.

We do, but, you know, we're excited about the various pieces that we've got. What was interviewing Coleman like at the Combine? Was there any inclination that he would be the media darling that he's become because he seems to not have a filter in the best way? Like, did you all, did you all notice? that when you met him? Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah.

We actually, our social media team, we let them film every interview that we do at the Combine in case we draft them. So they put out some of his interview. The funniest, I mean, first off, he wants you to, he wants to let you know that he knows what everyone's doing. You know, like as a quarterback guy, I know what the tight end is supposed to do. I know what the X, the Z, the F, whatever, whatever personnel package. I know what the defense is trying.

Like, he wanted to keep talking, and like the coaches are trying to move on to the next play. Because we load about 10 to 15 plays for each one. And we didn't get to that many plays because he's just talking and showing, you know, what about this? And we got to the point where at the end, we have someone that's with our, she's one of our Sykes. And so she kind of asked the guy a couple questions on their way out as we're kind of greeting the next player that we're bringing in. and he would walk two steps over there and turn around and walk over to the screen and start pointing out. But if he did this and this and we finally said, Keon, like, we love you, but you've got to go, man. The next team's waiting on you.

We've got to get the next guy. But that was the first time we heard the tiger wish he could. He was talking about his golf stuff. So it was, it was entertaining, to say the least. You traded down from 28 to 33. Were you confident he would be there? How many contingency plans did you have in place? Yeah.

So, you know, we felt, you know, we had a level on the board up here, let's just say, of guys. And then we felt down there towards the bottom of one, top of two, that we had kind of another subset of players. And so when we came down there, we had, you know, we had some offensive players, you know, I would say definitely receivers in that group. And then we had a couple of defensive players that we liked as well. And so at that point, you know, we didn't have a third and we're like we've got similar values on all these guys. Let's not move too far, but see if we can get back into the third round if we have enough players there. And we had chances to move back into two, like well into two before we did the deal with Kansas City. We could have gone early in two.

We could have gone to the middle of the round. We have a decent amount of people. But we didn't want to go crazy far. So we just felt like, hey, we've got enough players. Let's go from 28 to 32. Let's see how it shakes. And we got to 32, and we knew that Carolina had let us know they may be interested even when we were at 28 of trading back into the round. And so Dan Morgan's one of my good buddies, GM there, and called Dan and just said, hey, I know you mentioned it.

And we thought they might be interested in an inter-receiver as well. and their board was probably getting thin. And maybe Leggett was the guy they wanted. I'm assuming that's who they wouldn't got. I'm assuming maybe if they'd go on the 28th, that's who they would have got. But called him and just said, man, this was a chance for us to move from the bottom of six

to the top of five. And we still got Keon, a guy that we felt strongly about, fit what we can do, super smart, you know, we'll be able to pick it all up. And so again, we were just kind of looking at our board, playing it, going, we like who's here.

Let's see if we can add some value to our draft and also get a player we're still excited about. Just for shits, because I know you guys didn't draft one, but I'm particularly interested in this position group. But who did you like the pass rushers, you know, like not to make you fail or pass a test that you didn't have to previously. But who did you like? Yes. Well, there were some guys in the interior and outside. But I mean, I think a lot of those guys were the Alabama kid was really good. Indy took the LATU kid.

I love him. You know, really good. I mean, pure Russia, like strong. Penn State kid. Man, he's a, he's a dog. You got to see him. You got to see him a couple times of year. Yeah.

He's a tough ass. There were some interior guys doing it. Byron Murphy went like, feel like he's going to, the Rams took fist. Like, that guy, you know, as just a one. on room. I mean, for a shorter-armed guy, he, he reminded me Kyle Williams, who was, you know, who you would know here just, you know, Kyle was a fifth rounder, but, you know, if you go back and redraft Kyle Williams, you know, he made a lot of money, a lot of sacks. And that's what we were talking about in the room, just like this, this guy. So I thought there were some various rushers,

whether it's from the outside of the inside. How hard was it? I mean, all the injuries were hard, but, you know, like, I don't know if I've told you this before. I always say, If my son ever said, I want to play linebacker, I'd lock him in a room, a dark room, and show him Matt Milano film all day. How hard is it losing a guy like that early in the season? And how proud were you of some of the guys who stepped up? Yeah, that rocked us. I mean, Matt is one of those guys. He's not a big talker.

He's just, he's a different bird, but he's, there's no one that's going to say anything about it. He's all ball. Like, everything he puts in his body. He lives here, like pre-injury. like this guy just he just eats breathes sleeps he lives down and he's got a place down in florida i think it's like a sleepy area i don't think he's in the middle of uh he just he's a simple guy loves ball everything about it and so yeah that that day we you know that game we went to london third snap in the game we lose dekuan jones you know for you know torn peck or whatever and then the next

series, Matt has a freak deal, and you're right, you just, you can't replace the energy. He's obviously a talent, but just, he just brings a dog and edge, speed, violence, everything that you said,

if that's what you want your kid to play, go watch Matt Milano. And he's been, he's done a heck of a job with rehab, and it'll be awesome to get him back out there this year. Just the energy and the juice he'll bring because, you know, Terrell Bernard was starting his first year. You know, Tremaine Edmund goes to Chicago, and a lot of people were worried about our

Mike linebacker, and so Terrell went out there and showed that he could do it. And I thought he stepped up in Matt's absence, and in Tyrell Dodson, who signed a nice free agent deal this year in Seattle, stepped up as well as a guy who had been a key backup for us for years. So I thought the guys falling hard. you know, you can't go out to the tree and pull up another Matamelano and, you know, and plop them in there. So that definitely stunned our team a little bit.

And we had some rocky moments mid-season and had to rally there late. Well, I mean, there were so many injuries, corner being one of them, that's one position you definitely can't go find on the street. It's really hard to do that. One of my other favorite players at Oliver, total stud up front. But outside, you need a guy to step up and be the, that number one, right? Yeah.

So who do you look at this year and say, hey, this guy could make the jump? Yeah, I mean, I think Rousseau is still coming on. He battled a little foot deal last year that he fought through, but I think it affected him more than he wanted to let on, which coincidentally of the year before, Ed Oliver had battled a high ankle that he got week one that he told me in February it was still bothering him.

You know, you just some of these, you know, people don't realize a toe, a foot, an ankle can, can just get in the way. We brought AJ up Vanessa back. AJ had some big plays for us a couple of actually nice picks, but six and a half sacks. And then hopefully, you know, Vaughn.

Hopefully Vaughn can come back, you know, year two off the ACL. He tore that ACL late year one. We worked him back last year. Maybe did we put him out there too early? I don't know. You always like, what's the fine line? He was pushing to go. Yeah, I'm sure he wanted to be out there.

You know, it's like, that's tough. It's hard. It's hard. But hopefully, again, year two coming off that, you know, for him will continue to help. And just, you know, the group as a whole, you know, all those guys kind of, we rush in groups. We don't just have like one guy. We try to have, you know, six, seven guys that can do it. We drafted a kid this year out of UA, had a Troy that was Javon Sullivan, had the most sacks, you know, last year.

you know, in the NCAA. He's got a natural feeling excited to kind of see him what he can do. Not saying what he'll contribute this year to or not, but, you know, we're excited about what he can have. Hey, Troy's got a good track record with D.L. All right. So, so the offense, the biggest thing last year was, and this is a tough business, right? You probably love Ken Dorsey and you guys are all boys and everything, but, you know, it's a production business. And I just didn't think they were getting the most out of Josh, you know, as, you know, schematically and that sort of thing, what do you think it was that allowed Joe to speak Josh's language? Or was it, I kind of wondered this. I'll just ask you, was it, hey,

you don't have to throw the ball to Stefan 10 times the game? You know, let's run the offense to the tight ends. Let's run the football. So the ball to cook. Was it just a lot more, hey, we just need to, we just need to spread the wealth a little bit more. And did that take pressure off Josh somehow? Because it seemed like he felt less pressure. Yeah. I think sometimes you just go back to the basics. What are our strengths? Let's make the main thing, the main thing. Let's don't get too cute.

And it's okay if we run the ball. Let's find some balance. And you're right. You don't always have to throw it to one player. I don't think it was one thing. Joe is, the thing I'll say about Joe that, you know, when he took over, like you really felt, you know, his communication, just his inner, like, just all that stuff. just communicating at every level.

And I really think maybe that was an area that we weren't doing as much. Sometimes you don't see it until it's not happening. But I just, you know, I think it's more of a, not a knock on Ken. I think it's just one of Joe's really good strengths is he's an excellent communicator with positive energy. And if you lose a guy like Joe's not, man, this and this. Like Joe is, you know, he's, all right, who we got? We're going to do this. we're going to do this.

Like, got a plan. This is how we're going to do it. I'm not going to weave. I'm just going to say this is how we're going to do it. And I thought Joe really in games, you know, sometimes, let's just talk about coordinators across the league. We've all been around them. We've seen them.

Hey, I practice this all week. Damn it, we're going to do it. Well, sometimes the game changes. You get in the flow. And, you know, the week we were playing the Cowboys here, we had a lot of pass plays in, but we were running the ball, well. And sometimes coordinator's like, no, I got some great plays.

I want to see him. No, like those linemen were fired up. They were coming off the ball. Everything was just meshing with the run design. And, you know, Joe never felt, you know what, we'll get those past plays in next week or another time when we play a similar defense. That was one of the things that, you know, from a lot of coordinators that I thought Joe really showed is I'm just, If this is working, I don't need to outsmart myself. Let's just roll with it.

I also thought he was great at finding matchups out of backfield, switching cook and like all those little in-game adjustments. I thought he aces those. Okay, so I got a couple quick hitters for you because I don't want to let you go here. Okay. Favorite moment from last year where you felt like the team took a big step, a game or a play, but you look back and smile and say, hey, we were building something and we're going to carry it in the next year?

Yeah, it's a good one. You know, I think going into Kansas City was a big win for us. They kind of got us going there late. You know, I would say that, you know, that's a hard place to win. And it was a tight game and it was going back and forth. It looked like we're about to potentially lose it. But that was a huge one because we had battled some things. We had lost to Cincinnati on the road a few weeks earlier.

and to go in there and win kind of when our season was starting to hang in the balance a little bit to get that win I think kind of got us rolling in that Dallas game that I just I think that really showed our offense like man we're not just a passing team like when we want to run the ball let's go let's go run it and let's carry that into the postseason as well that Dallas game had to be sweet okay so I was on bills reddit and they're asking this question on bills reddit they're going to love that you answered it who's the most underrated player on your team? Most underrated player. Yeah, I don't know. Somebody has an opinion.

Yeah. Yeah, I mean, I would say. Is it the nickel? Yeah, I mean, Taryn Johnson, you know, he got second team all pro last year, had one hell of a year. We extended him. You know, I would say him, and it's funny, like the guy opposite him would be your slot, and I would say Shakir.

I love Shakir. Yeah, I think those two guys. And the thing about neither one of those guys is they'll never go out and talk about themselves. And so that's one on each side of the ball. That's why I was trying to decide to go offense or defense here. Keep it fair, man. Keep it fair. Okay.

Why the hell are you guys putting a roof on the stadium? Buffalo is supposed to be cold. I want to see people getting pelted with snowballs. I want to see people with their shirts off and steam coming off them in the crowd. Like, why would we ever put a roof? on a stadium in Buffalo. It's a tough one. Well, it's not happening.

There is no roof. Okay, good. All right. I'm just making sure. I saw some renderings. I feel like everything's going indoors. No, what they're doing is it's about half the seats are covered, but the field is not. Great.

And it's actually going to help with the noise and keep the wind down a little bit. There we go. Because you guys got a guy that can throw the ball pretty good. So it's kind of an advantage to be able to go. Yeah, yeah. Now, we're going to grass, Chris. That's great. That was the big thing why it's so people want the people that are arguing for the roof.

I'm like, well, then we couldn't do grass. I'm excited about being on grass. Hell yeah, dude. Okay. And then how many NBA players with a month training could make an NFL roster? I don't know if you've heard this debate. I'm asking every GM I know. Yeah, I haven't heard it.

I'm sure there's a couple. I mean, I'd be lining up Zion Williamson to, I think he could, I think he could do it. Play tackle? Yeah, I think he could play tackle or tackle. tight in either one. Okay, okay. Can we wrap up with schedule since we started with schedule? Yeah, just ask them a schedule question.

You got to go to Miami. There's no way around it. Last year is a week 18. What's your reaction when you see this week? It's week two. It's at night, though. On Thursday, so short rest, but the sun won't be out. Yeah, no, I can't lie.

That game we had there two years was the hottest, the hottest game. I mean, listen, I was in. with the Panthers for 100 years and we were down at Wofford College in Spartanburg, South Carolina. And I don't think there was, I didn't think there was a hotter place on the planet when we were down there. But that day in Miami, it was

like close to 130 on our sideline just with the humidity and the direct sunlight. And it just that morning they were saying there might be some storms and I was like hoping for storms for our guys. Get us inside for two hours. I don't care. It was God. We lost, you know,

You know, you only sued up eight linemen. We lost three linemen to heat illnesses during that game. And one of our guys, Tommy Doyle, with four snaps to go in the game, tore his ACL, but he knew we didn't have anybody else. He stayed out there and played the last four snaps of the game because we were out of linemen. And like I said, three of them were doing heat. I don't know if Zion's doing that, Brandon.

I don't know if Zion's staying in the game down there. I don't know if Zion's get through the second quarter down in Miami. Yeah, I don't know. I'm with you there. Okay. That's amazing. Stuff that goes on people don't even know about in the league. Brandon Bean, appreciate the time.

Best of luck this year. Go Bills. I can't wait to get up there. I want to go through a table. When we get up there, I'll look you up. We'd love to, man. Come up to camp.

Come up to a game, whatever. Appreciate you, Chris. Macon. Appreciate you guys having me on. Always enjoy it. Thanks for coming. Thank you. Yep.

All right, first things first, guys, coming out of Brandon Bean. This has been something that's, I think sometimes people just pretend they don't like something. Okay. As a group, everybody's like, oh, I hate it. People are afraid. You're all scared to say it.

I'll say it. The Giants' century red uniforms are fucking cool. And if you don't like them, I think you have bad taste. And as evidence by the bad taste in uniforms, now look at the uniforms we have. And I don't mean the throwbacks. I mean, like, look at the way uniforms have gone. That's a reflection of demand and what fans like in this century. You know, they've muted.

all the colors. They've homogenized everything. They've modernized logos. Things look shitty and metallic and fucking this is cool. Way too many words on uniforms. This one has virtually none. This one just has a number 100. When they said it was the century uni, I went back and looked at 1925 and it was something like this. What I like that they've done is that they didn't just pick the 1925 uni. They picked different eras and put this little thing together. I don't know. One complaint. I'm not going to argue with a khaki pant ever. No, you're not.

The jersey looks like the Montreal Canadians. Which is great. The helmet looks like Delaware. Delaware, but Michigan. Made to look like the U.FL. But guess what? Delaware looks like 100 high schools. Michigan looked and 100 high schools look like Michigan.

And now we got 101. But all I'm saying is there's no, Chicago's the only the team that has us. Hey, Chicago copy. And they did. What helmets used to look like. Helmets used to look that way. No, that was the, that's a claw. That's what makes that.

It's the Wolverine claw. It's the Delaware hen scratch. Then why were they wearing a helmet like this when they were the giants, predating? Everybody was wearing his helmet, dog. That doesn't make sense for these animals with claws to have that as good. Okay, well, here's what I like about this. Well, blue hens don't have claws. I think they do.

Talons. Talons, claws is sharp. Okay, so anyways, I don't think a blue hen has talons. Google it. Jamie pull that up I don't think a blue hen has talons Kyle are there blue hands best use of talons in a movie

Blue hen anatomy best best use of talons in a movie anybody talons Napoleon dynamo oh yeah I was getting there I was almost there have strong talons large large talons

I don't lie Delaware blue hens do not well they do have they do it they're like chickens yo this was every this was everybody's helmet this was helmet everybody's helmet Kyle Kyle Kyle Kyle helmet read and weep Kyle look this is what football helmets were yeah everyone wore them I just wanted to put that out there for people listening I think it's a great looking uniform why you showing me that fucking leather helmet I think everybody

online that's how they get that that's what everybody wore it's not a bear claw yeah no no it is Wolverine and a blue hand talent okay and a yeah I just wanted to get that out there I think everybody's smoking drugs I think the color way is cool but it doesn't agree with what the giants have going on in the same light that you and I off camera discussed other jerseys that we didn't that's fair but I cannot explain to you the 95th the 95% hit rate on this uniform sucks online I think that's group thing people do and bad thing thing they're afraid because people everybody who said who would I'm afraid to I'm afraid to tweet about it I'm gonna get booed off the stage I might tweet about it right when to fuck them exactly

Aaron Rogers called me that I wouldn't take advice from somebody that that uh... Aaron Rogers I wouldn't care my butt I shouldn't care what a big fan I shouldn't care what people think that if I don't take advice

what do you say? How about Aaron just fucking do you bro? Do you like those from the Packers? Shut up and dribble Aaron. See I I'm not saying that. Hey this is funny though because the Packers actually like I played against the guys wearing those

and they actually look pretty good in person. Yeah. The Packers. Those old yellow and blue. They look cool. I hate blocking those guys. Matthews was hard to block in that jersey. So anyways, on to the next thing.

A couple weeks ago, Kyle said, hey, I got this idea. NFL players as mascots. So I put a little slide show together. Now, this is just... I like this. This is quick. I love slideshow.

Okay, well, I knew you did. Did you do it in PowerPoint? By myself last week, Chris. Denny's by yourself, or Waffle House by yourself in the morning? Been there. No, in the morning, like 7, 8 a.m. Sober.

Nice spot for breakfast. Yeah, a really good spot. You're just now figuring this out? If you go by yourself is what I'm saying. Don't go anywhere by yourself. It's amazing. Yeah, it's not good. All right.

You ready for this? This is the Cubs mascot. I don't know his name. Cubby. Kind of looks like a cub, but also kind of looks like a cuddly chimpanzee. Clark, the Cubs. Okay. Grizzewal.

Yeah. You seeing anybody here? Hold on. Afraid to say. I don't want to say it. Oh, Sam the Ram. Sam Bradford. Can we go back?

I do not see it. I'm sorry. He looks just like that. Okay, Sam Bradford. Is it the ears? Is it the ears? No, it's just the like, it's the, you know what I see here?

Curious George more than a bear. Okay. And whenever I see Sam, I think Curious George. Okay. All right. All right. I'm like the guy in the yellow khaki suit. Yep.

Yep. Okay. All right. This is Stinger. Tyree Hill. Columbus Blue Jackets? No, close, though.

Oh. There is Tony. Chris. Close. Okay. Close, but a long way off. Yeah.

Okay. Brewers? This guy? Oh, Bo Allen. Nah. Ernie Adams. Oh, good.

He's not a football player, but he looks like the Brewers' mask guy. He's got the mustache. Kind of reminds me that. Okay. This is the friar. Tim Tebow, rookie year.

Brian Baumgardner. Hey, I got one. Nice. Now, he's not a football player, but I just... He's great on Trash Truck. Brian Baumgartner? You've seen Trash Truck? He's great on podcast.

It's a low-censory cartoon that's like not like, rah! It's a good show. He plays one of the characters, The Bear. He's a great character. Okay. I almost feel like he'd be more proud of that role than anything else. You know, he voices over. He doesn't play the actual character.

But in my mind, that's him in his mind. Okay. Which is unique. Chris brought that up. Okay, Gil Brandt. Gil Brand. Oh, man. I heard he's not a good.

He was not a great guy. No, Gil Brand was the fucking man. I heard he was not a great guy. From who? From people that have... Don't do this anonymous sourcing thing. From people that hold the same kind of standards for human beings that you do. Well, I'm not going to be here down in Gil Brand who's who can't defend himself.

There are some quotes out there where he chose not to defend himself. Well, at the end of his life, he said some things. things that were like but i i gotta say that tell me at what age i can start saying stuff 95 when you're when your brain starts failing you a little bit like i'm gonna give you if we get there i'm gonna give you a lot of latitude bro i'm gonna be like he's just old we need to pod okay all right yeah okay so it's gil brantin the demon deacon there's not a lot of dark-haired NFL white guys think about it dann amadola no who you right now better not hand right now right now mark andrews dan jones quarterback new york there's just not a lot of them

I don't have a lot of guys choose from. You're right. This is the Jazz Bear. You're actually right. Now, are there enough brown-haired white guys in the NFL? Black-haired white guys. Black-haired white guys. There's just not a lot of them.

Do you know a lot of black-haired white guys, period? Yeah. Mike Sales. Reed. You have black hair? Straight up player? Yeah, black, bro. Not a lot of Reed Dickerson's walking around a week.

Ain't touched it with nothing. So this is the Jazz Bear from Utah. off. Okay, the jazz bear. And if you can imagine the jazz bear sounding like anybody, I've got the perfect guy. Isaac Hayes. And he also kind of reminds me of the jazz bear. Isaac Hayes, you're on to the Isaac Hayes. I'm really excited about that. Brian Ballard. Tell me Baldi, who came on the show the other day is not the voice of the jazz bear. Okay. Like that's what I want the jazz bear to sound like. And also, they both wear headbands. Yep. That is the end of my presentation. Coolest guy ever. Good job. Baldi.

Baldi is top five coolest guy in sports media. Top five, okay, top five coolest guys in sports media. Okay. That you would. Guys only guys.

Guys division. Guys. Dale and Har Jr. Because the functionality of this is like invite them for a beer. Dale and Hart Jr. I can't be inviting. NASCAR legend,

Lascar royalty. Brian Baldinger. Michael Irvin. Michael Irvin. You're not here in the sports media. I don't care. I'm just saying. He's coming over to my house.

Michael Irvin, Brian Baldinger. I would like to hang out with Shannon Sharp, dude. Some people really got a problem with Shannon Sharp. I think Shannon Sharp's hilarious. Shaq. I know everybody wants to hang out with Chuck. I get it.

I got to do it. I feel like me and Shaq would hit it off. You know me and making got to do this? I know. I'm jealous. He had guys that shut him down. He has guys that like when you're like, Chuck, let's do another shot.

And guys in like suits walk over. And they're like his secret service. Is there like a secret service is there to not. Is there a firm that can provide these services for the kid? Yeah, that'd be great. That'd be great. That'd be great. Always down.

Okay. So we got another mailbag here. This is from me, the host of the show. And I wanted Macon to put out a Buns watch. This is a list of rookies that are going to get a lot of buns. Because Macon's the in-house. Bonds analyst? The analyst of guys' faces.

And when you take into account the markets they plan, their stardom, like there is an index with which we can rank these rookies' probability of getting funds. Sam Hartman, number one overall. Number one, one-on-one, bro. I mean, he's got the DMV market, pretty girl counties nearby. He's going to kill it. He's going to crush it, dude. I was so happy that when we finally met him at the Super Bowl.

and he told us he was like a big fan of the show his mom listens to show like I was like this is too funny Hartman but it stopped being funny when I realized my wife was on the way to the convention center and I didn't want her to walk in and I may have to like introduce her to her here's the deal though this is like a sticky this is a touchy subject because I always have to go and Google like such and such girlfriend to make sure that when we're talking about it I'm not out here

like giving my guy a rough night on Wednesday night when he hears the pod yeah but he's just he's just if his girlfriend heard this she would be like, I got the hottest boyfriend in the world. That's great. Which our young lad, Ladd-McConkie in L.A. might do numbers, but he's wiped up. He can actually say I'm an actor. And then there's guys like Brock Bowers.

Because he's short. Because he has a hat on. Like, I know Big Pat, when the draft happened, I was like, man, I'm not going to tweet about his hairline. Like, I'm just past that point in my career where I feel like. It crushed me when I was an incoming rookie and a reporter tweeted about my Carolina. Really?

Who was it? Just some fat fuck who doesn't have a job anymore. Yeah. He's got hair. It was in Indianapolis. He was like, I have never seen an incoming combine member as bald as Kyle along. First combine?

It was like, that crushed me. Yeah, it crushed you. I mean, Sam Hartman's on the other end of the spectrum. Brock Bowers, a bunch of people like us are like, yeah,

you're fucking hot. But, but Brock Bowers, I could not believe they had him in like the wind tunnel doing like the catch the football with the dark background thing like the promo and I'm like bro you know he had to ask for a hat yeah or you know he was like why did I just bick it before this that's what I did anyways all right another guy another quarterback big market Jordan Travis Florida State not having to do a whole lot coming back from

injury what market's he in New York he's in New York jet I mean he might have to play he might have to play he might have to play like September 17th okay he's high on the buns watch list I'm the buns watch list receivers generally get buns and I think Rome

Roma Dunzee might lead this list this year in Chicago Kyle Kyle House is Chicago sexual market I would say if you're an athlete and you're looking to meet some folks I would say Chicago is up there Okay. I mean, do you just go straight north to Lake Forest or whatever the hell? I think you probably go to a river north. Maybe you go to the West Loop, which I hear is, you know, it's on the up and up. So I hear. There's so many good places to go and eat with your friends that you're going to be rubbing shoulders and elbows and hands and maybe other things. And you're going to get to meet a lot of cool people in Chicago. And a lot of these restaurants are like restaurants slash lounges.

I worry for Rome that he may be too good a guy for this particular exercise. We need this guy to be a good guy next year for his quarterback. He's a great guy. I'm going to go give a commencement speech on the importance of men getting buns. All right. Look out in LA. Harris Bucker is not getting any buns. He's just getting one set of buns.

And there's actually buns in the oven, hopefully. Yeah. Buns Watch in L.A. for Jared Verse and Braden Fisk Bodies. Because what you need is a wingman. A wingman, dude. Holy Toledo.

Tell me they don't have girlfriend. You got your, I hope not. Oh, it would be tragedy. It would be a regular McFath situation and if fucking one of them had a girlfriend, the other didn't. Okay. Who's on the get married?

Who's on the Get Marry in Philly? Half watch. Who got drafted by the Packers? Well, Oh, Brock Bowers, let's just shut it down. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

You're right. Most likely to get married within four years, Joe Alt. No, he's in L.A. He doesn't have the build of a womanizer. I know O. Lyman. You know, like,

no, I'm saying he's going to put a ring on a finger. O. Lyman. That's how they roll. Graham Barton, offensive lineman, Tampa Bay. He can play every, position he doesn't look like a fat guy right you know like he's gonna be an a horse city like calling protections if you get a cool o lineman you have no idea how like magnetism sets in anywhere you go socially because

you have a guy that's bigger than everybody probably more socially uh capable yeah everybody went to duke dangerous fucking combination went to jock robin in miami yeah chop all right and then we saved the serious shit for the end of the show uh the harrison bucker conversation i mean i can laugh about this because i think a lot of it's ridiculous but let's talk about it do i want to talk about harrison bucker not particularly are we the authority on harrison bucker no that's the way the world works everybody's got different opinions his i could say are shitty which i believe i'm also going to act shocked that people feel this way there was a whole room full of people that were excited to hear that message if you haven't noticed

i know he closed his speech by saying we're entering the age of a godless society. If you haven't noticed, we haven't entered that age yet. I don't know what Harrison Bucker is talking about because I seem to remember that this country still shapes policy around a 2,000-year-old book. You know what I'm saying? So don't say it's a guy. That's a huge straw man, my guy, Harrison Bucker. I will say this. He's done this before. I went back and watched his Georgia Tech speech, which was a lot different. But when he got back to his like kind of seminary college, he went full bore. I mean, like in the first two minutes he hit, what did he hit in the first two minutes he hit abortion ibf surrogacy euthanasia degenerate cultural

values and matching outfits with dogs like he threw that in you know what i mean like he doesn't even like matching outfits with dogs but when you start rant about women not not getting jobs like it's not going to go well for you bro like i know that like in in a catholic household maybe that's how it is but in the world i don't know if you notice like i don't know if you ever like looked at your own mom who's like a leading physicist at where where does she emery like she made a lot of money having a job on affording you the opportunity to do these things it's a little bit hypocritical on his head um on top of that though um i think the whole theme just reeks of insecurity that's my biggest problem now is like if you are a man because he also hit on like masculinity and all this stuff which always go

hand-in-hand with like women's place in the house by the way Yeah, definitely. Andrew Tate. Like rubs it out there. But doesn't come. No, no. No, does not. Because you're only supposed to have sex to make children. Okay?

So, anyway. Anyways. Don't come. The women in the household thing, obviously. Like, I had a... By the way, he is like a machine. He's a great kicker. I remember telling you.

I'm sure being around him at the lunch table's fine. No, no, no. I would definitely not at the lunch table with Harrison Parker. But I will say this. Because he was too well dressed all the time. I didn't want to spill my barbecue sauce on him. Right. But the guy wasn't like the machine.

Like, yeah. He was not there to be there in a social sense. He was robotic about kicking. Serving God. So much where it was like he'd get up to the plate, so to speak. Like get over the, get over the ball and I'd be like fucking three points.

Here we go. I'm always a fan of like an independent woman. Yeah. You know, I like the Destiny's Child thing. You know, I like my wife to have ambitions like me. Because personally,

I think as a man or a woman, whoever's the breadwinner in the house quote unquote whoever's like it can it can strain the relationship if one person has a thing in the other doesn't it's just natural we grew up we grew up in a hall of fame dad who married up in a human sense yeah lawyer so not only like lawyer but leader of men and women yeah yeah there are plenty of adults that have walked up to me in the in charlottesville and in all walks of life that have said you're i went to college with your mother or i was at USC law school with your mom, she was the most impressive woman I've ever been around. You know what I'm saying?

People don't just say things like that. So that's the, I guess the lens. But he should have that. Which I'm looking at the women's roles in my life. Why wouldn't he look through the same lens? And it's a strange. Yeah, it's a strange conversation that he's having, having been raised by somebody as successful.

I think it's okay to have this conversation. Like some people are like, oh, you're hitting it, you're complaining, you're censoring him. No, we're not. Not at all, bro. I'm not calling for him. Harrison Buckard. I know that there's a group of people that feel comfortable sitting in front of him in that audience and they can relate to the things he's saying. So like I get that. That's why it's so beautiful being in America in my opinion. Well, it can be beautiful and ugly because of that. That's what

it's all about. But it's not all about making blanketed statements about an entire gender. I just like to me that's not what it's about. Like to me what it's about is the court. The free speech. Yes. Okay, which people mistake. Free speech is not free speech is like, hey, the words, the sound you're allowed to make the sounds out of your mouth. A lot of people, when it suits them, like to rearrange the concept of free speech to accommodate no criticism. Right?

Like, they're taking criticism to censorship. Criticism is not censorship. We went through this whole thing with Aaron Rogers and a cancel culture coffin and all that stuff. Well, like, you were just playing in the match six months later. You didn't get canceled, bro. Like, they're not canceling people. That's not real.

people can be heavily criticized and sometimes people's employers can make moves that that put the business first i believe that's part of what happened with Colin Kaepernick okay and i didn't agree with that right like i think that's i think that's fucked up i also would think it would be fucked up if the chiefs cut Harrison buckler off this it'd also be stupid because the guy's a machine kicking a football okay and if i was his teammate i'd not in like an antagonistic way i'd be like yo let's debate this like at the lunch table i you know how many of those guys in that locker room are going to make jokes to him about his expense with him yeah i would say they're they're going to joke with him about this and they're going to try to humanize him a little bit they're out at dinner one night

they're like hey harrison what's your wife making for dinner tonight at the restaurant because she can't be here to enjoy the meal she's got to cook the meal that's all they do the nfl's a bunch of funny guys and some guys that are not very funny and they lean into like this motherfucker is going to get it from us listen he's talking about dey i kicker is literally d a i we don't need to dude like we really don't need you if we said tomorrow no kickers the game would not change that much they'd scrap the extra point everybody would go for two that's probably where we're going right we'll go for two the new kickoff rule we don't even barely need you i get some soccer players like you talk about d e i're justin reed'll go fucking kick it off now i know i'm conflating the actual

meeting of the i'm doing that i'm doing that Stanford grad slash super bowl safety will go kick it off And then Justin... And then go make the tackle. And then Harrison Bucker's going to be complaining about DEI. Okay? Listen, it just feels like the guy reads a lot of, a lot of like Breitbart. And he hit all the fucking key. Get a lot of time to yourself as a kicker.

Hey, guys, for you listening at home that might agree with Harrison Bucker, I think, I, yeah, I do I think it's stupid. But also, like, I'm not, I'm not here to say, like, you should be deported or Harrison should lose his job or, you know, that you don't have a right to say things. You have a right to say whatever you want in this country. And to your point, if you think that's beautiful, it's beautiful, but a lot of people don't realize that criticism is not cancellation. There was a petition signed to get him removed. You don't remember any of the petitions that were signed to get Colin Kaepernick removed?

You don't remember any of the petitions that were signed to get Colin Kaepernick reinstated or to boycott the NFL as a result. There will always be opinions on both sides. Somebody was like, and they will be loud. Somebody said, I've heard so much about this Harrison-Bucker situation. Why not the Rishi-Rice outcry? And I'm like, hey, look, that's what the legal system's for. like what Harrison Bucker did. But there's also outcrack for

Rice is the biggest story for two weeks. I get that's what I'm saying. I'm saying what you're saying. Yeah. We're talking about Harrison Bucker. What we're talking about is when you start to see everything through the lens of politics, I'm telling you,

a lot of people think I see everything to the lens of politics because of things I've spoken out about. I do not. I don't see everything through the lens of politics. There's some conversations. You all know me. I don't even want to fucking have them. Let somebody else have those conversations.

Life's hard enough, worrying about solving. everybody else's problem. Yeah. So this isn't me trying to commandeer the conversation with my viewpoints, but what I am saying is Harrison Bucker saying something that a lot of people think are dumb, surprise, surprise, people are going to say it's dumb. And those people cannot have him pride away from the NFL, just like the NFL shouldn't have been able to or fans should have been able pry Colin Kaepernick away.

And they're not, I'm not making them like perfect parallels. But what I am saying is a lot of people have talked about the two instances. I'm tired of the of the what aboutism on both sides of this thing. Just just just deal with what we're dealing with and and give me your view. I think being a man to me, Kyle, this is the conversation I want to have. Being a man to you guys, I don't even ask you yet, which is kind of fucked up. What's being a man? I don't have that answer in my head.

Being a man is not in slash a, not applicable. What about being a dad? I don't think it's any. any different than I don't. Do you think it's more definable than what's a man? I do think there are differences between men and women, and that is fine, and that is great.

And I think there are also roles that are implicitly man roles, and there are some roles that are implicitly women roles. I don't, here you go. But those roles can interchange. Do you think he gets off on the martyrdom aspect of this whole deal? No, I really think he believes what he believes. Yeah, no, but with the public recourse, he's like, see what I'm saying?

Yeah, well, that's the playbook now. Say something that people don't like. And he's like, and then when people don't like it and they speak their mind, it's, I'm the victim. But he's like, I told you, I'm the victim. Do you see the war on Christianity that's happening right now? There is no war on Christianity, dude. Don't they have a national prayer? Like, isn't there like a national prayer? Isn't, don't we, don't we include God in a lot of the, the text that we refer to and with our constitution and the government? Like, this is a godly society, bro. There's more money in churches than anywhere, dude. The military and church in your stadium. Churches control the fucking country. Don't tell me it's a, that's one thing like, hey, Harrison

Bucker, we can have different opinions. But one thing that you sound stupid as fuck saying is that this is a godless society, dude. God still runs this society. Whether you believe in God or not, the reality is you look around and there are policies and cultural norms that have been shaped by the Christian or Catholic faith. How many people don't go to church because of the NFL? NFL on Sunday. A lot. Now, we could play this game. I loved having this conversation on Sunday in the locker room. All right. Leviticus 23.3, six days work shall be done, but the seventh day is the Sabbath of rest. Holy convocation, ye shall do no work therein. It is the Sabbath of the Lord in all your dwellings. Chiefs play on Saturday this year. You probably take the day off. They play on every day of the

week except for Tuesday this year. I know. So he's going to miss five games. It's a lot of Sabbath. They play every game except for Tuesday. That's a lot of Sabbath conflict, if you ask me. Justin Reed's going to be. And we can do this. We could do this with Bible. Listen, I remember Sean Green missed for the Jewish holidays. Do you remember Sean Green, the Jewish slugger?

He used to fucking do the games. There are, hey, that guy, those guys that do Ramadan, Harrison, like, they are your daddy religiously because they're not even eating in the NCAA tournament, bro. Like, they're not eating until the sun. goes down you got guys that got to play a 4 p.m. game they haven't eaten in like fucking 18 hours or something has harrison have to fast at all no he is playing on the sabb he's really lean he's built to fast he's playing on the sabbath dude and you know what i look i i searched far and wide for ways that i think that he would be hypocritical and got to be honest he seems like he walks the walk of his faith yeah which is

different than the way i see the world and so let the man express himself if anything there's a lot of reinforcement this week where people are like discussing the fact that this is a bad way of thinking. Yeah, it's an opportunity for society to remind ourselves what we believe. Now there's a lot of people think this way and that's you and your wife's business.

If you think your wife is only capable of cooking meatloaf, I don't see myself as a man. Is that a weird thing to say? Same. Masculinity has never been a part of my life. Not a part of the equation. Muck-uh. Masculinity is a big part of my life

because we did something that was implicitly masculine for law. I feel like it's baked in. I feel like it's just baked in with me. Yeah. I just try to be nice. I think about being nice often. Here's the thing. Here's what being a man is. A man to me is handling your responsibilities, being loyal to people, being dependable, having passion for your life, doing hard things. But you could apply that to so many other. Couldn't that also be a woman? That could be a woman. So, listen, but there is a difference between a man and a woman. Somebody kicks down my door at midnight, I'm getting the fucking shotgun and I'm handling business. If we're in trouble in

crisis, I think of myself as that person that has to pull us out of that. I'm calling my dad. You're calling your dad. Mitch Unrind was a defensive tackle that I played with. One of the hardest motherfuckers to block Wyoming poke. Uh, and his wife got her name is slipping in my memory. She was the U.S. Olympic shotgun. Misogynist. She was like the trap shooting. Cory Cogdo. Corey. See, that's too much. woman for Harrison. Yo, what I tell you, Mitch, Unrion, picked up that phone quick when she called and got home on time.

Corey, and if you're, this is the last thing I'll say. Because I was looking at the comments on Instagram today for something, which is stupid. But there was a non-sequitur comment from a woman and she said, hey, I'd be really interested to hear your take on Harrison Bucker. You know, like, to that, I would say this. Are you really interested? Do you just want to hear me agree with you?

because I agree with you, but what good is me saying that doing? I'm not going to be your white knight that's going to run up to Harrison Bucker or the entire run into a Catholic church and be like, you're a bunch of fucking misogynist. Guess what? They're going to die that way. Like people don't change. All you can do is create good people. I'm not saying they're bad people because there are a lot of good Catholics.

I'm sure Harrison Bucker, if I was pulled over on the side of the road, would pick me up. I just wouldn't want him counseling my wife on her next career move. And you know what? She doesn't need him counseling because my wife is starting a business. She's been a state championship lacrosse coach. She's been a, you know, like she started lacrosse business. Like that stuff was good. She's a mom.

She's a mom. You can do all those things. You can do all those things. But if you don't want to do all those things, that's between you and your wife. Yes. And if you want to get up at your college and talk about it, that's fine too. But don't expect us not to be like, bro, you're like, you're like Moses Anderson, Stephen Godskowski

fucking Like that episode Fucking Adam and Eve Vinitieri is what I'm going to call What was the show Was it the last of us With the guy The grumpy guy from that hit show

That everybody likes Pedro Pascalia You know what show I'm talking about Yeah Well there's an episode He's like a prepper He's got a perfect house

And a perfect yard In the zombie apocalypse Nick Offerman Yeah Yeah Arrowhead's a den of sin Chris Chris

So in the show The character developed. I love it. Like, this guy's got all these guns. He's got all this stuff prepped. He's the most masculine guy ever. And then his boyfriend shows up and they have a romantic dinner by candlelight. I remember the reaction on Twitter to that episode. Was Omar not masculine? Dude, people were like taken on this emotional journey of being attached to this character because he was masculine. And then the rug gets swept out from under you. And it's like, ah! Oh yeah. Oh yeah. And people get really uncomfortable. Twitter was on discomfort. But here it is.

there's an entire generation of men now, and I might be speaking to some of you, and you might think I'm this guy, but I'm just telling you what I think of most of this, this tendency to be really insecure about the emasculation of men. They are afraid because they don't feel manly enough, in my opinion.

Those guys are insecure, in my opinion. I control my house. Yeah. So does my wife. What we want to go on in my house will go on in my house, okay and that's my business and outside of the house whatever happens happens because i feel pretty good about like the situation i got going and i also don't feel like i need to like watch andrew tate to feel like my dick's bigger like there's just a lot of guys david guggins to get out of

bed though david guggins is great because david guggins they are no david gaggans i don't put him in the class of andrew tate i put david gaggans in the class of people who try to shake people and to motivated. I do think we have a demotivation and a softness problem in today's society. But that's not masculinity all the time. Like because some of the toughest people I know are women. Okay. Women have to give birth to us. How you had to fit through somebody's birth canal, dude. Her mom. Yeah. Yeah. Were you a C-section? No, you were a C-section. You were a C-section. See the point? She was like, fuck, no, not this one. But the point is like, it's, it's just. just semantics. It's like, what are we even talking about? Control your shit. If you can't control

your shit, you worry about a bunch of other stuff. I don't worry about a bunch of other stuff. I don't. I'm just trying to show up on time. Let me ask you guys this. Who's the most masculine person, you know? I don't even, that doesn't even, it's not a John Philip. John Phillip. His wife is a professional soccer player. Yeah. Is somebody pulling his fucking card? Yeah, that's sports. You're right. You're right. You're right. You're right. Right, right, right. And hey, last thing, all due respect to Harrison Bucker's wife, Harrison Bucker's family, that's your business. Can I tell you about a prank that I'm pulling on my father-in-law, Dave?

What? Really quick, before we get into the NFL stuff. So Dave flew a giant Biden flag a couple years ago at his Jersey Shore house to spite his neighbors who were all just massive red flag havers on his block. Jersey Shore, you can picture the neighbors. Talk about a masculine guy, huh? And by the way, Dave, Dave is like, fishermen, like all this kind of stuff. He grew up at the shore. He's a man's man.

He's out there cooking eating what he catches. I still use the word that phrase man's man. So I, you know. Can I not say man's man? But if you can't, I do think that's wrong. So Dave is that. But he did that to piss off his neighbors. Well, this year I found a prank website, which will send a fake thank you.

for your charitable donation to the Donald Trump campaign. Oh, that's pretty good. And I wrote in for your $2 million, you know, and it's legit. It looks top to bottom legit. He's going to be so fucking pissed when he gets it. He'll get it tomorrow. We were mad at our D-Line coach one day, and we love him. But we were mad at him one day, and this was like back in the day when it was really contentious.

And we slapped a Blue Lives Matter sticker on the back of his truck and sent him on this way. He had no idea. Was it Mike Waffle? Yeah, it was Mike Waffle. He might still be driving around with it. I thought it was on the car when he... Listen, we're laughing about these hard issues, man. Somebody who disagrees in me is going to walk away from this pod

and be like, those crazy liberals were, where they were just, they were triggered. I think Trump wins the debate, because he got challenged Kendrick and Drake style on Twitter. I don't think there's any winners in that debate, Kyle. He said, make my day. Biden said make my day.

It's going down. Even for entertainment value, I'll be entertained. They remind me a two claymation characters from like the Celebrity death man. Celebrity death match, bro. Like,

it's just, it's just not. The amount of drugs in those guys when they're out there on that stage is going to be. You think Secretariat was bad. It's going to rival the Super Bowl. You think Secretary it was bad.

Hey, no, hey, the Secretariat thing, the Jason Kelsey thing. I saw that. I'm into it. You know, you fucking horse race.

that got real up in arms about You bullied a hall of favor. You tried to bully Jason. He's a nice guy, so I'll say what he should have said. There was some guy that quote tweeted him and said, oh, he might have CTE since we like making up unsubstantiated claims. I think you have CTE. I think you fell off one of those horses

that you treated so bad. Yeah. Don't be sticking up for the horses now because somebody came at Secretary. You guys treat horses like shit. If you were a friend of the horses, you just let them go. Let them go. Where would they go? I have no idea.

Wild Horse Island. Yeah, in Montana. All right. Great episode, fellas. You'll be well.