Green Light with Chris Long - Kyle Long talks NFL Retirement. Drew Brees & Other QBs Getting a Booth Job. Chris and Kyle take your twitter questions.

Episode Date: April 14, 2020

0:49 - Open. 1:27 - Chris and Kyle talk Maps and Children's Books. 8:44 - NFL QBs to the Booth and other Post Career Options. 23:26 - Mailbag: Music Tastes, DLineman vs OLineman, and NFL Head Coaches��Melee. 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. 🌍🏀🏈SUBSCRIBE NOW ⚾🏒⛰️ http://bit.ly/chalknetwork Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Chris, we're starting to look more and more like each other, buddy. You and me. You still got a better jaw line than me, but I'll be damned if the old good lord didn't hide a skinny guy under such a fat fuck all these years. Okay, well, then... That's a good way to start the show, I guess. Happy Tuesday, it's Chris Long. This is the Greenlight Pod, and I have an exciting guest for today. It is my brother, Kyle, my big little...

brother, Kyle. He played for the Bears if you don't know him. And now he's a video game guy, NASCAR guy, generally good guy, guy that is fun to have on your podcast. When you don't have any other guests, you call your brother. So without further ado, let's get Kyle on. We're going to talk about Drew Breeze getting a booth job. And who else from that quarterback crop that we're going to see out in the field this fall could transition positively into the media and also answer some mailbag questions so let's get Kyle on here we are uh greenlight pod Kyle Long drinking at Coca-Cola for those of you out there who are listening on the audio waves if you're watching on YouTube.com you can see his luxurious man cave Kyle is this where you play your video

games literally where I'm sitting right now is where a lot of souls have been taken from my enemies. Kyle, I would like to have one quibble with your man cave. What's going on, bro? Windows. Too many windows. If you really want to get into it and really get into the, you know, the basement vibe thing when you're gaming, I don't think windows are a good thing. Yeah, well, Chris, you know, I know you're like such a huge stoner in retirement, so I got to leave the windows crack just in case you want to come over. It's legal now in Illinois. Is it legal in Illinois? You can drive down and go. And, get you some Illinois, you can go get the loud, bro.

They just decriminalized the loud here in Virginia today. Wicked. Yeah, so it's just a little fine, just walking down the street with dubies. Wow. So that's like real legislation going on right now? Yeah, signed a bill into action today. You signed it. I did not sign it.

No, Ralph. Old Ralph signed it. If you can walk down the street with a marijuana cigarette, and it's just effectively a slap on the wrist, Kyle. Give me your wrist. I will slap. I'm going to need two hands and slap this wrist. So, yeah, we, I guess we're going to do some actual segment type stuff on this pod today.

Okay, let's do it. Well, first off, I guess the great interviewer that I am, Kyle, how's quarantine been treating you? I can't discuss quarantine without discussing retirement because, it kind of led into the next. And for me, that stage right after retirement was almost social distancing in and of itself. So just finding a happy medium between sitting around doing nothing and being able to just have fun without, I don't know, when you're getting put on IR and you make the decision that you're done, you don't want to be out and about running around. Like you're still injured. You're still getting paychecks.

Like, I've been doing this shit for six, seven months now. Yeah, so in essence, you might be more bored with it than others. I don't know if I'm more bored or more comfortable with it. I think I went through the boredom. I kind of hit that rookie wall mentally. And I was like, dude, I cannot be in this house any longer. I've gone crazy once or twice in this time. But it's good.

I think we all, we all kind of need to have this time to reflect and figure out what the hell we're like when there's not a bunch of stuff distracting us from us. Oh, yeah, dude, listen, a lot of growth if you allow yourself to grow in this time. And damn, that Coca-Cola looks good, son. Very good. I left the windows open in here all day, and I left the Coke on my desk. It's still cold. Really?

Beautiful. Pretty cold there in Illinois. Chili. Brisk. Fresh. Yeah, yeah. Hase fresco. Mm-hmm.

Kyle, do you like my background? The power was out at the old domicile. I had to head over to mom and dad's house. I'm in Wayland's playroom over here. As you can see, we got a world map over my shoulder. That's South America over my left shoulder. And that would be North America above it. And you can see.

I used to be amazed at how far like Australia seemed and really is. Because that map, for those of you who don't know the backstory on the map, for those of you who weren't our childhood friends, this map has been up in our home for ever. And that was the map we used to look at as kids, I'm sure, and be like, dang, that world is big. But Australia, long ways away, bro. Also, this map is inaccurate.

So I don't know on second thought if I want my seed, my son, my young son, Gabriel over here. I would like to know what Euro is published. It is the edition by John C. Bartholome. It is a 1960s looking ass map. Chris, I got to tell you, you don't trust a guy that makes a map with two first names. Because off the rip, it's like John Bartholomew. Oh, Johnny Bart.

No, the one thing this map doesn't have, it's not, it doesn't properly reflect the mass of the continent of Africa. Have you seen the articles? We don't do our maps like exactly right. Yeah, I've seen, I've, I've, I've read references to this. And I think it's amazing. And I think there are some scientific explanations, but at some point I feel like it's like,

are they really trying to take a shit on Africa and make Africa seem smaller than it is? Right. Africa is huge, dude. Like, why are we downplaying one of our biggest natural wonders in the world, if not the biggest? Tremendous continent. And if you look at it, like India looks ginormous. India is like the top right corner of Africa. The United States are like one-eighth of Africa in landmass.

you wouldn't know it looking at this this fake news map that I had to stare at my whole childhood who knows I could have been fucking I could have been Bill Gates by now if I didn't have this map this map to me this is like growing up in North Korea and thinking

that you come in from the strongest country in the world and it's not true that's how you're right you don't have the internet unfortunately our guy here has been raised with this map in the background and he's just wearing American flag two pieces all day, which is okay.

But you got to rotate the outfit sometimes, bud. Yeah, you got to have some respect. Put some respect on the size of the continent of Africa. Of lands and the relative inaccuracy you've displayed for the country of... Countless children grew up with this map, John C. Bartholomew. This shit is inaccurate. This is an inaccurate map. Okay.

Bottom line. Otherwise, a lot of great toys in here. I see the ass end of where the white. wild things are. Yeah, we got where the wild things are, which one of my favorite books as a child. Also, Giving Tree. Shout out to Giving Tree. Shout out to Very Hungry Caterpillar. Shout out to all Shell Silverstein books, because I wasn't a great reader. I enjoyed the, I enjoyed some of the artwork. But another guy, Gary Larson, doesn't get enough love. Gary Larson, the cartoon. Far side. Oh, my gosh. Shout out to Gary Larson.

Shout out to all the children's books that I've been reading the past four years. I've really just been a resurgence. Shout out to Martellis Bennett. Shout out to Martellis Bennett. I want to support your art. I think it's a really cool movement initiative and something that is that Martell's been talking about and on fire about for years. So yeah, we need, we need Marty's books.

You know, Marty, I need Marty's books in Wayland's Playroom as well. So Luke doesn't know how to read yet. You got time, Marty. Ship your boy, a copy. of one of your books. Okay, so here's what we're going to get into. Now, recently, I found out that Drew Brees preemptively signed a deal with NBC, I guess it is, to replace Chris Collinsworth in the booth.

Had you heard this through the walls of your man cave. Did this? Had not. They're a thick wall. Seneca. Thick walls here, bud. I have not heard about that, but that makes sense. That makes sense to me.

I've really been on Twitter much today. But yeah, it makes sense to me. Drew's probably cut out for that. I know that there's a long list of guys throughout the course of history from that position group that have gone on and done it. And I can't think of a guy really in today's game that's better suited for it. Kyle, what we're going to do is we're going to talk about all the quarterbacks. We're down the list in the league and pick the ones that we think are going to transition

best to the booth. And the ones that are not going to transition to the booth. Not necessarily ranking, just discussionary topics. Yeah, just discussion. We can go down the line. I don't know if discussionary is a word, but I don't think it is. I liked it. I liked it.

I am staring at a world map that incorrectly scaled the continent of Africa over my left shoulder. So there's stuff. Kyle, who's going to be the best in the booth? Anybody jump off the paper at you? To understand the answer. this question, you have to understand where this thing's going in terms of the media. You're seeing a paradigm shift here. You're seeing guys like Tony Romo get in the booth and they're just Wild West six shooters out and they're like, hey, you can't be calling the plays up here.

You know, that's against what we've done. But the NFL needs change in that regard. I feel like less and less people watch the game on TV. And now with guys like Tony Romo, you want more and more people watching the games. You get more and more people watching the games because they want to see Tony Romo live too. It's funny because there are a lot of people that say, I never turn on the game to hear somebody talk. I'm turning it on no matter what. So what's the point of paying. But then they're the first person to walk up to get the grocery store. I'm like, did you see Tony Romo's deal? Mm-hmm.

First I had to, I was so worried about it. oh first it was the athletes now it's the former athletes what are we going to do but for me it's it's a number of guys and i think a guy like philip rivers who who may be uh he may have that accent he may have certain opinions in the booth that differ from uh what we've heard in years past but i think it would be a breath of fresh air imagine a tony romo and philip rivers type booth or uh somebody's got somebody's got to keep that that bus moving straight ahead I feel like if you had Philip Rivers and Tony Romo in a... Separate booths, separate games.

But guys like that in the booth with some direction like you talked about, I think it would be really good. Yeah. Who does Bill Walton announced games with? Dave Pass. Yeah, yeah, Dave Pass. Okay. So, like, I feel like if you have Philip Rivers in the booth as your color guy,

you need a Dave Pash. It's not like he's going to be Bill Walton, but I could see Philip Rivers going a lot of directions. You know what? A guy who just is massively popular in the NFL circles and a guy whose opinions, I feel like, would be wildly valued, would be Colin Kaepardt. Colin Kaepernick would be interesting. I don't think it happening. But I'm saying with the way things are going, that's just kind of my wild card oddball off the wall pick.

I got a wild card, Kyle. And it wouldn't be Russell Wilson. I don't see Russell on the booth. Here's what I see Russell doing. I don't know if he's done this yet, but he's going to make more money than he ever did on the field doing Cologne ads. He looks like a Cologne guy. He just looks like he just climbed out of a water with a suit on.

Yeah, like just people at the beach. Were you surfing, bro? Damn, he smells good. Smelling like 60 gallons of Armani code. I think Aaron Rogers would do a really good job. He's somebody that is shortened to the point with what he, he says and sometimes I think his opinions can burn a bit and people like to hear that

from guys like Aaron Rogers. I think A-Rod's on my list. I can see them like kind of the cut in to the booth. Whereas like Tony's like, oh yeah, we're gonna call a game here. A-Rod's like, I don't feel like fucking calling this game but I'm gonna be great at it.

Who do you think would be, who do you think would not be bad but would not be very professional? And who would you enjoy watching in that regard? So who would be the wild card here? I'm going down the list here. Jimmy G, he's going to do porn. You know, that Jimmy, let's just call it how we see it.

The guys were made for it. I saw him in the restaurant in that picture with the... Holding hands. Holding hands, bro. With Snooky, bro. Were they holding hands? Yeah, I think. I'm pretty sure.

And it was like, oh, man, that's a bad look. The restaurant was empty. All the windows were open. I'm only I don't wonder what was happening there. It looked like a casino restaurant. This is not the restaurant that you go in to meet with mobsters. You need to go to one of those restaurants. Go like far to the back of the restaurant.

Yeah, absolutely. He was in like a bistro, like an open-air bistro. A bistro. He was at one of the bistros that they filmed Curbier Enthusiasm at. Like there's a lot of stuff going on well-lit. Exactly. Is this a TV studio? Exactly.

And so that's, but, you know, I digress here. Jimmy G. He's going to go into that industry. Baker, Baker can act, man. I think Baker's talented. Horristic actor. He's talented. I love the commercial series that they did with him living at the stadium.

I thought it was one of the most, you know, welcoming in terms of like, hey, I'm Baker. Like, this is what I'm, this is how I am. Would you like to be my fan? And that's kind of, you know, a draw. people to him. And I'm not, I'm not a Cleveland Brown guy, but I wanted to see him do well. And every time those commercials come on, you kind of,

you attend yourself to the TV because he's got that... He has that magnetism. Deshawn Watson, okay, Deshawn Watson can do whatever he wants to do. This guy is the man. But I think he's going to be a total big movie cameo guy. He's going to be that guy that shows up at like a function

and he's like, hey, I'm Deshaun Watson. He like smiles and all. So he always plays himself in the movies. He's like the Deshaun Watson cameo guy. He's the guy that, you know... So he's Dan Marino. He's Dan Marino in every Dan Marino movie. Yes, and he's got six lines

and he makes a boatload of money. He's like, if you were like, Deshawn, do you want to get in the booth? He's like, fuck all that. I just made $20 million on like an Adam Sandler movie. You know? Yeah. That's going to be Deshaun Watson. I just did Ace Ventura 3. Yeah. I'm good.

Redux. Houston, we have a problem. Ryan Fitzpatrick, he's my number one. What an impressive guy. Can I tell a brief anecdote here? That's why you're here. I forget where we were coming. You know, they say you forget what somebody told you where you were,

but you remember how they made you feel. And I remember one time we were on an airplane. It was no. And I mean, I think that is an important question to ask because a guy like him has a unique ability. He's smarter than everybody. everybody, but he has the ability to make everybody feel smart. And when you're talking to him,

he could wield it a lot of different ways. But you feel proud of yourself in conversation when you're not stumbling when he's part of it. You're like, yes, I'm doing good. Yeah, you come home and you're like, they're like, how was dinner? You're like, oh, who's great? I talked to Ryan, I talked to Ryan Fitzpatrick for a while, and your wife's like, uh-huh. He was really nice. Yeah, it was really great.

it made me feel really good about myself. I felt smarter. But that's why I got Tony Romo same way. At the Pro Bowl, 2016, and I remember he was there with his wife, and he was there with his wife's parents, and his dad was there as well. And I remember how he treated me,

how his family treated me. And now every time I watch him on TV, I'm like, that's the nicest guy in the world. I believe everything he says. Was Tony, like, calling out what you were going to get at the buffet? He was like, up, yep. And next he's going to go for the pork chop. No.

What Kyle Long does here when he gets to this point. He doesn't have a lot of protein on his plate here. I think he's going to go with the pork chop. I think he's going to pull a wise guy move. He's going to pull out the dessert first. You know, this guy's got a big stomach. And probably nails it every time. Andrew Luck and himself were funny.

I can see Andy doing it too. Andrew Luck. Yeah. I don't know, man. I don't know about Andrew Luck. I think Ryan Fitzpatrick's my number one. He'll be electric at whatever he does. When he threw on that Valour track suit down in Tampa after the game,

I was like, yeah, this guy is solid. Yeah. The fucking legend. And the win in New England last year? Like, legend, bro. He's a legend. And he's always the guy that they point to when they say, well, he's got a job. Why doesn't he have a job?

And I'm like, because he wins. And it's the worst example because he's actually been a fairly productive. And they used to do it with McCown. too. You picked the wrong guys there. I mean, those guys are universally respected in a league. And I think they actually both would do a pretty good job in the booth, but I think Ryan is my A1. Drew Brees, I'm not sure how it's going to work out. Rivers, we talk about the great, Russell Wilson. He's strictly beachside cologne commercials saving the world. Make you feel less than. Do it all. My guy, collegiate high school. Shout out to the 804 at the time. We used to

play Russ and in high school. Kyle used to play them in baseball and football, right? Yeah, you used to play against Harrison, his brother, who is a tremendous athlete in his own right. But Russell, man, Russell was just collegiate. Yeah, the cooges. He didn't get that Cologne money. I wouldn't even have to football. Big Ben, the new Big Ben, giant beard. You never know. Very like subdued, very like straight ahead. I'm not sure that I'm buying what he's selling on that brand to get in the booth. Ryan Tannahill, okay. Here's what I think Ryan Tannahill does.

Ryan Tannahill is going to be a tremendous Rochester big and tall guy. In the magazines, you know, people that still get the print magazines. They're total Rochester big and tall guys. Bro, I can see both of them on a pristine lawn sitting in like a hammock with a glass of wine and a quarter-zip polo sweater. Looking happy as blessed as fuck. Just so happy, just blissful. I don't know what they're going to be making on these magazines,

but they're going to be Rochester Big and Talk. My number one, because you've already gone to your number one. So I'll do my number one. It's a guy who is still up in the air, whether he's in or out of the league, Jake Culler. Oh, he'd be tremendous, Kyle. I think he's a guy who's so talented as well. We've talked about all that.

And now with him being on the reality show with Kristen, people are seeing a new side of him and they're yearning for more Cutler. I got to say something, Kyle. Jay Cutler has this retirement thing down. He's fucking awesome. I saw him in New Orleans. He had a car coat.

Like the car coat, I've never seen a car coat like that. I mean, I've never seen a car coat. What is a car coat? Car coat's kind of like a big wool coat with buttons. You know, you wear it. Yeah, yeah, yeah. The big, the brown buttons with the stretchy fabric. And you know what the color camel looks like, right?

Sure. Well, it's like a camel. So he had a camel car coat on. Never forget it. He had like a Rick James aura. And you know, I know Jay, but I hadn't seen him in quite a while. And I just look at the guy and I go, God damn, this guy's doing great in retirement. The hair is like six inches above his dome in this perfect fucking, you know, Maui invitations, swoop.

like cal leg yeah just the the wave is just breaking at the right at the right point it's a very surfable wave he's uh he's definitely an incredible uh human being especially he walks in a room he does have that wow factor that it factor i said this coming off that trip you know he is very shameless about being like not right now not right now and i think that's tremendous Something that a lot of guys struggle with is... I struggle with that. I mean, that's what I'm leading into. You and I, we...

Because growing up, the last thing you want to do, you grow up with this idea that you're Howie Long's kid and people are going to say bad things about you. So what you want to do is you want to go out of your way to be nice and make sure you make time for everybody. And Jay's a guy who's like, hey, motherfucker, I don't care. Well, you know what? Even the bad manner things that I'm always afraid of, okay, if somebody, there's some things that I'm going to snap about.

There's some pet peeves that I have that if they're violated, I, you know, I get upset. But if for the most part, I'll find a reason with almost anybody to be like, don't be that bad story. Like, I don't want to hear third hand somebody that I respect or would respect here. Chris Long was an asshole. I met him. He's an asshole. Now, like Jay, though, he gets a way more than a position player. And I'm sure he's had a lot of bad experiences. But he's very good at just being like, hey, not right now. I don't think this is the right time.

No, thanks. Like, hey, can I have a picture? No, thanks. I'm like, I probably don't want to get involved in that. It's like, it's remarkable. He's very good at it. Jay would do great. That's a great poll.

Andy Dalton, I've never, I don't know what his voice sounds like. You know, I've met and spoken to Andy, but I can also say, I don't know what his voice sounds like. That's some good stuff. We were also going to tackle this mailbag that people sent. Yeah, let's do rapid fire mailbag. Let's do it.

Matt Slane asks, what's an artist band slash band that you enjoy and Kyle can't stand and vice versa? What's an artist that you enjoy that I can't stand and vice versa. Really, most bands that I end up listening to are as a byproduct of me hearing about

Chris's favorite bands. Like, Chris will go watch stuff and I'll end up listening to a... I'll end up listening to shit, and then I'll go to the Spotify and I'll bring me the next one, the next to the next one. Next thing you know, I'm six bands removed, but it's still within the Chris recommendation because of the Spotify machine.

Yeah, Spotify evidently isn't the best. way to discover music. Chris growing up liked a lot of, Chris liked a lot of stuff, but I remember he was really, really big and D-block and Jada kiss and stuff like that. And when I was younger, I didn't like it. And I would always be like, wow, like I've heard this song a million times, Chris, yada, yada, now I'm older, I like it. So there's one example of something that I didn't like at the time, but now I like it.

I guess if I had to answer one would be some of the cleaner new countries. Yep. You like to chill out, relax, cleaner new country sometimes. Absolutely. As just like mindless put it on. Yes. And for me,

I cannot listen to music mindlessly, so I kind of struggle with that, and I've tried it. Sure. I mean, like, chilling on a dirt road with some George Jones, you know,

whatever the fuck that song is, is kind of mindless. But when he starts rapping in that song, There's certain... It makes a drop of blood come down out of my ear. So, Chris, what you can do is you can always go and shut the radio off. And you can always text me and say, hey, I know you listen to a new country. And I know you think, I think it's shitty.

But which guys would you point me in the direction of that I wouldn't be embarrassed to listen to? And I would tell you a few guys I really like. And they do have some poppy songs, but that's just how it goes. The guys I like where you're going to be your fail says Eric Church, obviously. I do like Eric. He does. He can cross over and do both. I like Jason L. Dean a lot.

He's a guy that has more hits than fucking, you know, whoever has a lot of hits in Major League Baseball. Nobody has hits right now, to be honest. But, uh, yeah, so Kane Brown. Astros, Astros trash can. Dude, the Ascro's trash can has a lot of assists. A lot of assists. A lot of assists.

John Stockton in that. bitch. Yes. Chris Paul. Rajan Rondo. Yeah. Okay, so the next one. What we got? Okay, what's the next one here? Kobe Estes asks, how did you end up playing defense and him offense? I assume how he just wanted his first son to be a great pass rusher, so he made Kyle try to block him every day. All right, so that's not true.

Kyle could probably play offense and defense. He just decided that he wanted to play offense. I don't know if he'd be a good pass rush or not, but I know that I am confident that if Kyle had gone back in time and tried to play D-Line, he would have at least gotten drafted. The reason I ended up at D-end, honestly, I wasn't big enough to be in an alignment, and that was it.

In high school, if you'll remember, you were a really good guard. I was a good guard, good tackle, I knew how to roll the hips. You were just drive-blocking machine. You were like the skinny Quentin Nelson. yeah I was the skinny little Quentin Nelson I was a

I was a an Excel a shirt rivals dot com picture wearing 255 pounds so for for Chris learning was his strong suit always has many somebody they can pick things up and learn it really quickly

that's so true I got I always think he was a quick learner I gotta say well it's a shared sentiment then so dad took it a bought himself to say, hey, this kid wants to play football, he's willing to work hard, I'm talking about you.

And he poured his knowledge into you, and you were a sponge, and you've always treated the process the right way. And that's why your trajectory has been like this. It's been a steady climb the entire time. Obviously, there's been ups and downs. So what I'm going to say is, for me, when I decided to play, I was, I said, dad, what should I play? and he said, well, you're going to play offensive tackle

because they make the most money. And I was like, I was like, what? And he was like, well, you're not playing quarterback and you're not playing a receiver. He was like, I think, I think that you can be a dominant offensive linemen. And it was always that struggle back and forth.

And there was, in my mind, I internalized it as, you don't think I'm as athletic as Chris. So you're going to put me at O-Ly. The irony in that. And so I played a, O-Line and D-Line in high school, but, you know, I picked O-Line because I trust in my dad's word, and it's always been like that.

His word is gospel to me. So when he told me I was going to be an NFL-O-L-L-Lin, I said, you're fucking right. I was like, you just get me there, bud. And guess what the problem was with me? His word is gospel to me. And he told me, you need to start working on your guard sets. I'm not quite sure, essentially, if you're athletic enough to play major college football at D.N. He claims

that wasn't quite the conversation, but that's the way I took it. So I was like, damn, you know, I can't play in the SEC. It sounds like you and I have some similar stuff going on with the way we're internalizing some of this, and stay tuned for the next mailbag.

We'll have our shrink on this. My therapist will be dropping some mailbag questions for us. Okay, so Ryan Guard. There you go, Kyle. R.G. Talk about a Yeah, double entendre there.

Talk about a guy you trust with a last name like that, Kyle, right? You got it. Every NFL coach walks into a room, a fight breaks out. It's every man for himself who walks out of the room when the carnage is over. Mike Vrable. Yeah, I got Mike Braidle too. Next. Again, I love Mike Bribal.

I'm a big Titans fan now. That fucking guy, he's a ball player. Most of these coaches aren't ballplayers. And I'm not saying non-ball players can't beat up ballplayers, but it's a mentality. And the guy's not only a ball player, he was big fucking guy. And I'm telling you, when that fog of war hits when you're out there and the fight breaks out, you're going to want a guy who's been in the fights before. And I can promise you there are a litany of coaches in the league who have never been in that fight.

And I can promise you that Brable has been in a number of them. And when Sean McVeigh jumps off a table in that. Mysterio mask. He tries to eye gouge him and misses. It's going to be the worst thing he's ever seen. Dan Quinn, though, deserves an honorable mention. I think Dan Quinn could have some closet martial artist skills. Yeah.

He's also a sizable guy. Vic Fangio, who you know well, he can get you whack. Vic Fangio, I was straight up, not even show up to the fight. He won't fucking kill you remotely. Yeah, you think you won the fight. You'll be getting in your car in the park. line. Somebody will come up to you with a wire like in the movie. There will be a bottle of champagne

on your brand new car that'll say congratulations on your win and you'll pop it and it'll be C4. And Vic is just drinking in your car, smoking a cigarette. Nick is just sitting there with a nice glass of Merlot and a Stogie and he's like

yeah, I'm the fucking man. Yeah. So there was a mailbag question. Do you mind if I do the next mailback question? You give me the name. But it's the one regarding our baseball my baseball affiliation yeah sure i do just want to um i do just want to give jo judge an honorable mention too though it's a large guy people don't know how they're large you who's this joe judge no idea why you've been in your bunker uh there was a special teams coach for the new england patriots and he ascended on an unlikely path to success and

subsequently got the New York Giants head football coaching job. Does he have slick back here, like the last guy with the shades? No, Joe Judge. I like that guy. That guy that they had who blamed everybody and benched Eli Manning. That guy has balls. You bring him back, you might win a Super Bowl again. No, Joe Judge, he's more, he more looks like a military man.

Got that hair. You know? I mean, Ryan Payne. looks like a military man and he's not whooping anybody's ass he's not whooping anybody's he rides a road bike it's all in the haircut Kyle a bunch of stolen valor going on in NFL coaching

room okay what's yours you you're gonna hit one now so there was a mailbag question pertaining to our baseball fandom and with dad growing up in Boston how did he sway us

to become Boston fans if we did and if we didn't become Boston fans, did he allow it? For me, I'll take you back to the Don Zimmer, Mani Ramirez conversation. The Red Sox near and dear to my heart, I grew up a Red Sox fan and dad and I, I remember when they won the World Series, we would sit down there, we would watch all the games, Mom would go to bed and we would sit down there and watch while I was still an avid baseball player. And so that was really cool for me. So, yeah, Red Sox fan. But I wouldn't say I'm a Red Sox fan anymore.

But it was something that I did to enjoy my time with my dad. We need to become Philly's fan. Not going to happen. Mike Trout likes the Phillies, bro. Mike Trout is from Philly. Double doink, bro. Double doink. I can't like anything except for the fucking cheese steaks with the whiz.

You know what I'm saying? It all the stakes. What is that a fucking Chicago accent? In New York. Okay, so we've got Alex Huang. If you could become the best at one single video game, which is in Y? There's a game that's coming out. Right now, it's in beta.

It's called Valerent. And it will be the most played, viewed, and competed in game in history. in history here in the next 10, 15 years. I'm sure it'll stand up through the test of time. A game called Counterstrike dominated our youth, but this is going to be the next iteration of it. And it kind of mixes Counterstrike and Overwatch. So it's kind of ability-based in terms of like,

oh, my guy shoots fireballs, and my guy makes ice balls, that kind of game. Can you respawn? Yes. How many times? How many rounds are there? It's the first of 13, so I guess you can respond as many times as you can get that. What platform is this coming to?

It's on PC right now, and I'm not sure if they have plans to go console with it, but if you were to ask me, I would say that's going to be the most lucrative option. If you're going to be a gamer to be the best in, if you're the best in Valerent right now, you're making bang. Big gamer here. If you're listening, Kyle, plug your Twitch real quick. Yeah, Twitch TV, Kyle Long. We're live Monday through Friday and sometimes on the weekend.

So check us out. Whenever the mood strikes, huh? Whenever the move strikes. We do have scheduled though. Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday. For me, I guess it would be Call of Duty. I know there's a real boring answer to the gamers out there. But you know the way y'all feel when a pro athlete talks to your girlfriend?

That's how I feel just totally emasculated when a guy just sprints by me, jumps in the air. I miss him on a melee. He whips out his like sidearm and just headshots me. Like that's, and his gun is really cool looking. It looks like a bowling ball. I mean, like, because obviously he plays the game all fucking day. He has the cool exclusive suits. He's got the big Lobowski gun.

Yeah, whatever. I mean, that's how I feel. I feel totally emasculated. I feel like I'm the fan and you're the pro athlete when some fucking 16 year old does that to me at 1130. a night. My kids are sleeping down the hall. I've been playing call of duty for over 10 years and I have not gotten any better. So yeah, I would love to be elite at call of duty. That's a great feeling with being good at games, especially games that other people enjoy like call of duty,

massively popular. If you're good at college duty, like Tariq Cohen, my teammate, he's really freaking good. And that is like better than you? Oh, Tariq is way better than me. Who's the best real life call a duty player you know real life call of duty i'm not talking about like you know your your your friends that you're talking about my friends within the that i hang out with in real life what you have broke bread with tarreek really what's his key ratio like two six or something two six yeah that's it that's it i'm just saying call you can check him out of tarry kowen on twitch nice uh rachel Aaron asks, I know crowdless games were a thing for a while at the beginning of the pandemic.

Would you be able to play with the same intensity if there was no crowd? What would be harder or easier about that? I will just say this. As a defensive lineman, it would definitely not be easier. Silent count. We don't get any of that advantage. The adrenaline that comes with it, playing fast, that would suck. I want it to be as quiet as possible.

Yeah, you wanted to be like practice because I wanted to be like practice. We eat lunch and practice, but then that crowd noise. comes. O-Lyman do not change speeds. O-Lyman play and practice the same speed. D-Lyman, it's like, yeah, I mean, not, and it's almost primal. Like, we just can't practice the way we play. Yeah. Sport all, the crowd's part of it, but it changes. So, yeah, I think it would be tough. And honestly, I think, I don't want to, I don't want to sound like the sky is falling here from, from a sports perspective in the fall. but I don't know that the NFL is going to have a season. I mean, imagine even if this thing's semi under control,

one dude on a team gets sick. I don't know where we'll be like from a standpoint of, hey, do we quarantine the entire team? What if it's a quarterback? You really think the NFL from like, this is so trivial. But from a gambling standpoint, gamblers are going to be betting on games, you know, like and saying, well, the franchise quarterback could be out

because there's a pandemic. So, like, it's, I don't think it's going to happen. And number one, it shouldn't happen if it's not safe. I'm cool with the draft. I don't know if it should happen in the fall. Juan Sanchez, what went through your mind as the Rams fans flipped you off after the game winner at the Coliseum in 2017? Hey, Kyle, I guess this one's for me.

Well, I was really happy because we won. And I just beat, been a part of beating a team that I spent eight years on and then was released. So I was really excited. And also I had a big strip sack, you know, where you hit the ball, and it just falls out of Jared Goss's hands. And then we pick it up, and then we go on and win the game. And then we get home field advantage and win Super Bowl.

Yeah, all that. So I was really excited. Did I think about getting shoved by a fan and cussed out when I jumped up in the stands to celebrate with an Eagles fan? No, I didn't think much about that. Love it. Next. Let's see.

Tom says which game that you guys played in the crowd was the craziest favorite and least favorite stadium to play in Least favorite stadium to play in Seattle So loud and they had such talented rushers when I did play up there as Bennett LeVavril All those jokers Favorite place to play other than Soldier Field is Lambeau Field just because of the sheer history The way they take care of that place is awesome

too. So disrespectful, Kyle, for the Chicago Bears fan. Yeah, I know. Somebody on Twitter is going to give it to you. I guess my least favorite place to play is Dallas, because I think it's just void of any soul. I know it's supposed to be like, you know.

You feel like you're at a marketplace. Like you're just, it's like a strip club. It's a strip club. It's the nicest strip club in the world, and we are the strippers. It's a really nice strip club, like a really nice one, but there's just no, there's no charisma in there. Yeah. You know, and yeah, the turf, I don't like playing on field turf, period on the road.

I definitely don't like playing on field turf indoor. It's just a weird vibe. They got Ford trucks on like spinners in the end zone and like. They have a Ford dealership in the end. Yeah. It's like the Jetsons. It's really weird. And you drive the fucking Jetsons.

The Jetsons. There's women dancing on 50-foot towers. I feel like maybe that I didn't even see that. Maybe that's just the way my mind absorbed that stadium, that there were cheerleaders on 50-foot, like, rotating. It was the scene from Duke Nukem where you walked into the bar and there were strippers in cages and there was pool tables, and you're like, I'm nine, I'm nine.

This vibe is not for me. I just want to sheet. Aliens. Give me the dive bar. I miss the, I miss the candlestick. I miss, you know,

I like playing at the Coliseum, you know, and Rams fans, I'm just having fun with you. I love playing in the Coliseum, okay? That flame. All I need to look up at was that flame.

I don't care how small the visiting locker room is. I don't care how crappy, you know, some of the amenities might be. I'm there for the history. I used to love playing on the West Coast, old stadiums like that.

I love Soldier Field, but my favorite place is Seattle. And obviously me not being an alignment, I don't have to deal with that selling counts up that everybody knows about it's a loud. Seattle's a great stadium. Yeah, it's a great stadium. The fans are really great, actually,

even though for eight years I hated them. I also always played well there, so I was happy. But the noise, it's always 38 and raining. It's just perpetually 38 and raining, and I love that. It's a cool place. It's moody. So, okay, a couple more here.

Badge to Bud. funniest locker room prank you've seen well we'll start with that one I mean I came in one time we're in a joint practice Matt Slosson and put his jockstrap over my helmet that was in the locker like so when I came in to put my shit on that's what I found

and he thought it was funny he thought it was funny that was my prank yeah oh my God I love that you explained that I was pissed I know there's another one though

there was a few there was one that wasn't so funny yeah there's a lot that aren't funny yeah there was one with eight legs that wasn't so funny yeah Charles Tillman uh my rookie my rookie year it hasn't been confirmed that's Charles Tillman and he works for the feds now so he may be able to like erase me from the face of the year but uh I was watching Sopranos on my Macbook in my bed like this all the lights off watching watching

and then I felt something on my arm I turned and it was a that furry tarantula. Now, Kyle, you're making that thing look about 12 inches wide. It was like a... It was like a giant squid, at least the size of a giant squid. It was the size of an F-15. Yeah. In your brain, in your rookie mind in training camp.

There was an Apache helicopter in bed with me. Okay, ketchup on a hot dog. Absolutely. Or mustard on a hot dog, what's the car? Sure. Sure. No tomato. though and keep keep uh keep the hot peppers off my shit too you know what with me it's either

ketchup or mustard it's not both at the same time it's one you were like that of mcdonald as a kid too i like yeah i freak out burger just the meat and the bread please well i wouldn't say cheeseburger that would be misleading i'd say like a hamburger just i'd say hamburger plain please just the meat and the bread and then they would ask so do you want lettuce and tomato like, nah, I said meat and bread. And then I get mayonnaise and I hate mayonnaise more than anything in the world. I would do one of the other, not

both. Doing both reminds me a dumb and dumber. It reminds me of the scene where he's just pouring ketchup and mustard in his mouth. Here, this helps. Pills are good. Yeah. That scene has scarred me

and I can't mix ketchup and mustard at the same time. Sorry about that. Yeah. What's your most embarrassing food habit. This is one that I brought up. One thing I do that I get me in fun of it a lot is when I'm at a nice restaurant if there's a bunch of stuff on my plate, I'll eat it in sections.

Like I'll eat the potatoes and then I'll eat the veggies. I never start with my meat. The meat is always the last thing that I do for some reason. It's not something that I think about consciously, but it's something I catch myself doing. I got made fun of by

I um Ryan and and Dan at the Super Bowl because I cut my steak in its entirety before I eat it. Yeah, that was a rough look for you. It was a tough week on Twitter. I noticed you did that and it just nice steakhouse. You're losing all the juice. You're losing all the heat. Really no reason to do it, Chris.

It's a fuck on your car. People looked at me like I was a murderer at the table. it like stopped the meal you know definitely sociopath i don't know if you've committed murder yet yeah well so i mean yeah that's a weird one i guess i'm i'm into drinking almond milk instead of milk like i don't do dairy right okay if i'm thirsty i will just yeah and fire your twitch thing up as you milk is a little too watery for me i prefer the uh i prefer the was it heavy whipping cream in My coffee, I prefer that kind of thing. I just went to type in Twitch.

I typed in milk. That's great. Yeah, also, I eat everything cold. So you name it, I probably eat it cold. I also used to eat like raw ramen noodles in college. Yep, I still get those. You know the plastic tortellini boxes with the cheese pasta? Yeah, and just eat it cold.

I'll rip it out and eat it. Yeah, yeah. that's how I do it disgusting not really disgusting but socially just disgusting what's a beloved piece of media art that you have never

understood a lot of the stuff with Gernaica I never understood oh we could be music and TV shows now but you went Picasso and I fuck with you heavy for that I went with a specific piece because as a kid

you're looking at it and you're like it's in every art book that we ever had it's on everything and there's a story behind it and i feel like these uh these are really cool uh things to discuss and i want to know more about 15 feet wide uh massive massive um it's like the size of that tarantula that was in your room and i believe it was the scenes of the bombing the blitzkrieg bombing hold on let me look hold on Yeah, it was. Yeah. But yeah, just off the top of my head, that's like one thing that's super cool looking.

I like you did that, though. You matched the keyboard to say, listen, I wasn't Googling. I just went to Google to check. I went to actually look at the picture. Other stuff that I want to know more about is Jackson Pollock stuff is really cool. Yeah, Jackson Pollock stuff. Again, you can say TV and movies, but we can do it. Oh, we're doing, okay, any art that doesn't make sense to it.

us yeah uh that movie uh with leo uh i don't know any of the any of the scary movies of leo any of the scary movies of leo we got to talk about that next time though all right dude twitch it up i love you guys playing tonight uh banner lord i'll be connie on the barbony and the barbarian tonight i'll be right there i just got edit this pot up and i'm gonna be twitching with you all right all right boyos peace see you love you