Green Light with Chris Long - NCAA Tournament! NFL Free Agency Winners & Losers! Actual Professions of March Madness Head Coaches!

Episode Date: March 18, 2022

(2:33) - Hello, Layup Line and Daylight Savings Time Permanent? (14:41) - NFL Free Agency Winners and Losers. (50:35) - Chris and Macon Determine what Each NCAA Tournament Head Coach Actually Does for a Living. (1:00:07) - Chris and Macon Review Their 2022 NCAA Tournament Brackets.  (1:10:55) - NFL News with Dr. Fax. (1:29:24) - NCAA March Madness Livestream Highlights with Brandon Graham, Kyle Long and Dr. Fax. 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/c/GreenLightTube1 NCAA Head Coaches Actual Profession: https://twitter.com/pregameempire/status/1503830355207462915?s=10 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. https://www.greenlightpodcast.com/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Chris and Macon are going to kick things off with NFL free agency winners and losers. Then I'm going to talk a little basketball. We're going to determine what each NCAA tournament head coach actually does for a living. then Chris and Macon are going to reveal their brackets, go through their picks. After that, we roll through some of the NFL news stories that dominated the headlines in the afternoon with Dr. Fax. And then we've got a couple highlights from our March Madness live stream. One piece of NFL news you'll note missing is the most recent Deshawn Watson info.

We cleared the studio before that latest news broke, so we'll certainly hit it next week. Happy days, folks. All right, here's the deal. It's almost noon. We got no guests. We don't care. It's got like major last day of school vibes. The NCAA tournament starts here in about like 45 minutes.

Indeed. Indeed. It feels right. It feels like it's time. We haven't had like a real tournament with all the fans in the stands. And I don't know. It feels like five years. Yeah.

But it's been three. And as I said, we got no guess. Fuck it. Well, by design, you know, but fuck it indeed.

Yeah, exactly. Yeah, and we got the gang in here. Today's going to be a fun. show we're going to try to get back on track with a little bit of football news we haven't talked about so much of that because college basketball our personal lives which is like march madness has taken over our professional lives which is talking about the NFL and we have neglected that

so we will give you a heavy dose of NFL today winners and losers but it's just us as soon as we finish recording this we're going to be live streaming so like as you listen to this you're today hour yesterday, you missed a great live stream on Thursday, I'm sure of it. Brandon Graham, you can expect more of the same on Friday afternoon. You are today. Make sure you go to YouTube.com. Greenlight tube. There it is. Greenlight tube. There we go.

So yeah, check us out. Check out the live streams and we should be having a lot of fun. No guess. That means no ears for me. No ears. All pod. No headphones. Don't need them.

Houston, Texas. Hello. I'm back. Shout out to Roe. So yeah, I was aware that I was kind of dog in Houston there every time it was brought up. Yeah, a lot of concrete is what I keep hearing. Well, that's what I heard on having never been there before. It's a lot of concrete, a lot of roads.

And there's nothing wrong with either of those things, really. And I had a delightful time in my one stay in Houston. You won a Super Bowl? A lot of road noise in Houston. Yeah, more like Carlet'sville, you know, over there. but no I apologize to Rose I apologize to anybody who was offended by my comments regarding Houston it's a place it is a place a special place to me the time I really spend any time there fell into winning a Super Bowl so thank you Houston by the way Houston the Cougars are

going down yeah that's not going to actually happen we'll reveal our brackets a little later we will in a few I just want to say hello to I don't know have we said Chandler Arizona. We have said Chandler. Probably only because... Pick a place in Arizona. Birthplace of Bryce Perkins. I don't know about birthplace, but he claims Chandler, Arizona is the hometown. So, fuck it. Let's...

How about Tucson? Tucson, sure. I feel like we've been there too. Definitely on Tux and... How about Yuma? How about Yuma? Yuma, Arizona. So yeah, in Yuma, Arizona, they don't have daylight savings time. Russell Crow, when he went there in that movie, his character was confused as fuck.

Trying to rob a train, doesn't know what time it is. You're thinking of Gerard Butler. Gerard Butler's in the movie where he's a prisoner and kills a guy with a cell phone. One of the worst movies I've ever seen.

Law-abiding citizen. Taking an opportunity to rail on that. This is about March 13th to November 6th. The reign of terror is over. You know what those dates mean? Daylight savings time. That's right. Sleep deprivation,

heart attacks, strokes, confusion, syphilis, car accidents, violence. And I'm not talking about cocaine. That's not what's happening here. It's daylight savings time. And I'm glad to see you survived. You had a peck issue a couple days ago. We thought it might be a heart attack. Daylight savings got Razor Ramon, rest in peace.

It still really hurts, by the way, in my chest. But I think that shows that it is a more of a muscular thing and not an acute heart attack. Well, I wish your aorta could hear that Congress is all that stands between us and no more daylight savings time. And this is really good. Is there anybody who's not excited about daylight savings time? Well, me. Go figure. Can you, well, can you dial this up for me?

Yeah. I'd like it to be light about 7 a.m. and dark about 7 p.m. Can that be arranged? Because these days, when I look outside at 7.30 p.m. is light out. I'm messed up. Talk to the makers of the Sunshine Protection Act. I get up with the kid and the sixes pitch black. It was starting to get.

I kind of like the other one. You like the other one? I like it's when it's darker earlier, lighter earlier. Is anybody else? Well, I'm like a damn farmer. I'm like Mr. Jefferson. I want to, I want to start early. I need it changed.

I hate the spring forward. forward when you're like if your body clock says it's seven a.m. But you have an 8 a.m. meeting or something like that. The only good thing about daylight savings is, well, you guys were talking about how convenient stores were lobbying to keep daylight savings, which is kind of confusing to me because I read this, but like the guy who wrote Springford,

he's a time-changing expert. He's a professor at Tufts. What we don't tend to know as Americans is that the biggest lobby on behalf of daylight savings since 1915, in this country and to this very day is the Chamber of Commerce. They understood something very early on. If you give workers daylight

when they leave their jobs, they are much more apt to stop and shop on their way home. Wow. Yeah, it's pretty fucking interesting there. You guys... Oh, it's dark, yeah, you want to get home. You want to get home.

Here's the bad thing about daylight savings. I never know how to set my alarm. Like those two days of the year. The phones these days have it figured out. The phones haven't figured out. out but you're still like not trusting the phones you know what i mean like you just set your alarm and like set it and forget it like that's not enough for me i wake up in the middle of night on march 13th or whatever it is to check what time it is trust issues yeah have trust issues um i do like i do like

seen the errors and the tv guide like you know when you press the guide on the tv and it stays at midnight for like a full hour and it looks like rocky four is only 30 minutes long my tv boy what a thrill Yeah, that is a fucking, my TV has never been set correctly. But the only good thing about daylight savings is the extra hour at the bar you get in the fall. Yeah, that was cool when we were 18 to 22 years old. It's still cool. It is not cool anymore. College football's raging.

Nothing good happens after midnight. I'd like adjustment here to what I said earlier. I'd like it light at 630 and then dark at 630. Light at 630, dark at 630. Read, where are you on this? I agree with Macon's contention is it as a cowboy I just want it light in the morning you wake up in the morning do stuff that's right you want to look at the light shining I want like that summertime you know 8 p.m. sunset that's I will agree with you that there's a draw to that oh there's such a draw there's a draw to that but I have I have a young child with whom I get up you know that'll change oh okay so she gets up like quarter seven these days. They start sleeping in later.

When does that happen? I mean, it depends on the kid, but you know, my kid will do a 745 sometimes. If he's really tired, but what you gotta do there is keep him up late playing switch until 10 PM. Okay. The whole strategy.

It's kind of like daylight savings. You just adjust their standard time. Okay. Layup line. I think that's what it is today. That's what it's gotta be. Yep. We gotta respect the sanctity of this day.

And let me be the first, to wish everybody happy St. Patrick's Day. You're all hungover. So maybe you don't want to hear it, but love St. Patrick's Day. And happy birthday to my mama. I'm a couple days late. Oh, nice. As you're listening, but, you know, it's her fault.

Her birthday fell between podcasts. All you people were born in March. Yeah, it's like a big March thing. Yeah, I got a son, March, wife, March, March, March, March, March, March, you? Me, obviously. Yeah. I mean, March 28.

Yeah, that's right. My birthday? Yeah. Kenny Chesney also March. Yup, yep, yep. He's in Lady Gaga, March 26. Uh-huh. Or 28th, I share with Lady Gaga.

Kenny Chessney shares the wife's birthday. Yes. All right. So, the lovely wife. Layup line, we're going to do the CBS intro song. We call it CBS for now. Did you know that round ball rock? NBA on NBC is now owned by Fox Sports.

I heard that this morning. played it on on on their college basketball games which is a weird i mean it's great to hear it but it just doesn't feel right what makes you happier the round ball rock or the cbs jingle it's the march madness cbs jingle but it's close you only get it once a year yeah there's a lot to be said for the round ball rock thing because for a long time as kids like that was what was on tv and it must be the nostalgia of the 90s NBA marve albert yeah marv albert to the united center i saw that guy who who who composed round ball rock. John Tesh.

Tesh play round ball rock at Red Rocks. I think you saw it live or you've seen the video. No, I saw video over it. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. That video is lit. He's bouncing all around. Oh my God, that guy's got energy. Yeah.

I'll put that up there with probably the old Sports Center song. That makes me happy. The office song makes me happy. Probably makes you really happy. You hear the office song, you get in a good mood. I mean, sure, sure. I one of my favorite all-time programs. I don't know if the jingle really.

No, I think we all like the office better than you in here. I would say we probably know more about the office in here than you. Yeah. Shall we get to winners and losers and give the people some NFL stuff? I feel like free agency started the other day. Everybody signed a deal and we only talked about Tom Brady. So we had basketball on the brain. Let's get it started, shall we?

So we're going to do winners and losers. It's a segment that we only do. Winners and losers. We've done this two shows in a row. I think we'll keep doing it. Copyright. What about people who are less concerned with the outcome and more committed to the journey?

I mean, they're the real winners in my book. No question, that's us. Right. And by the way, before we get into the free agency stuff, I was on ESPN.com and I was looking, yeah. Women's Tournament Challenge? No, I was there for free agency because I pay more attention to college basketball,

and especially women's college basketball, so I had to do a little homework on this. Who's the defending national champ in women's college? We're on to the winners and losers, dude. Loser, you for slowing us down here. We're trying to get to college. The tournament starts in two minutes. Yeah, shoot.

It's Michigan. Michigan, we already, we are just. Anyways. Go blue, by the way. Hey, hey, I got Michigan straight up. You want Colorado State? Yes. Okay.

What do you want to bet? Five bucks. Five bucks? Why don't we bet something? Okay. Why don't we bet a song again? Okay. Yeah.

You got to sing a song. Blue's got to be in it for you. If I win, yeah, it's blue or Michigan or it's got to be Bob Seeger. And Ram is. Yeah, there's an Al Green song. It'd be easy for you. Like a rock. Yeah, I do like a rock.

No problem. Shout out to Howie Long. Like a rock personified. Yep. Got to see Bob Seeger with my dad. That was really cool. Hey, Bob Seeger, I invited you to my celebrity golf tournament in Charlottesville. So if Bob Seeger hears this, we'd love to have you come down.

Let's turn the page. I saw the Dalai Lama with my dad. Did you really? What a one up. Yeah. No biggie. Me and my dad met. I met my dad when I was born.

He was right there. Okay, cool. When I was on the ESPN.com page, my finger slipped. And I ended up on standings, not news. And everybody had zeros. next to their, you know, so let's not get out ahead of ourselves. We don't know what any of this means. I mean, like, we're going to talk about Jacksonville in a couple minutes.

I think since 2012, they spent a billion dollars in free agency. How's that going? And there's only four teams. I saw this chart. There's four teams that are on, that are above average in spending and winning. So, like, you know, do the math. There's not a lot of teams that are, that are actually getting this thing right.

The Patriots were one of them, but you can't even take the Patriots as like some blueprint for free agency because they've had an easier path to acquiring players at a lower rate. Bill's also true as hell. A la Chris Long. You had to write the first time.

Chris Wrong. A lot Chris Long, who should have been on a $9 million prove-it deal like Evan Ingram. Holy shit. Is that what prove-it deals have come to now? I hate to say this. Where will Evan be trying to prove himself?

Oh, that news dropped from your purview. Evan Ingram's going to be a Jacksonville Jaguar. Oh, thank God. The tune of $9 million. It was good. You traded him out of division and all that stuff. Yeah, you want to stay there? No, I think we start with America as a winner.

Okay. Football fans in America are winners because Joe Buck and Troy Aikman are headed to Monday Night Football. Listen, Joe Buck is my favorite. One of my favorite. There's so many good play-by-play guys in sports, but he's up there. False. He's up there. Yeah.

Oh, for sure. He's at the top. I don't think there are very many good ones. I mean, there's probably a list of 10 that you really respect. Yeah, but how many people are there, like, on the planet, you know? You're right. You're right. But there's a lot.

It's kind of like the quarterback conversation. There's only so many that can do it. But to crown Joe Buck is the best in the country. It would be, you know, that would be, I'd have to think about it. You know, shout out to Kevin Harlan. Shout out to anybody. I mean, calling Michigan,

Colorado State right here. Who's sitting there. Kevin Burkehart. With wrangling Bill Walton. Like you deserve a, I want to say a purple heart because I don't want to piss anybody off. But like these are some sort of a medal for wrangling Bill Walton.

I bet you feel like Pash a little bit sometimes. Sometimes. I bet you feel like Pash sometimes. I do. Two Bill Walton's and one was in a bad mood all the fucking time. That would be us calling a game. All right, so you guys like Joe Buck? John, honestly.

Yeah, no, I do like Joe Buck, but I think he's a better baseball announcer than football announcer. So I have Major League Baseball as a loser because he's been announcing the World Series for over 20 years. Like I can remember in 2001, the iconic one between the Diamondbacks and Yankees. You know, you hear his voice. I guess it was the last time.

What else will he be doing at ESPN? Do we know? I'm not sure. You can't just give Joe Buck one thing. Listen, man. Joe Buck, if he does that one thing well, I guess a loser in this is the Manning cast. I'm not saying the Manning cast is nobody's going to watch it,

but this is definitely your competition is now Joe Buck. I might be watching Joe Buck and Troy. Listen, I think he does a really good job of letting things breathe. We talked about that when we had him on the pod. I think he's had a couple incredible calls in the last five years. Patrick Robinson back the other way. looking for a block gets it. Robinson

for the touchdown. One of them being the NFC championship Eagles, Vikings, I've heard that Robinson, looking for a block, gets it, he's in the end zone, and it's just crowd noise, or it's the Minneapolis miracle or Minnesota miracle, whatever it was.

And that led to that. So really good calls by Joe Buck in my recent memory. I think America wins for having him on Monday night football. Here's a warning to Joe. Yeah. He's currently experiencing people liking him. Right.

You know, he's done that switch. That's as choppy of water is people not liking you. Okay. So be careful. Masked singer, by the way, called it. He's that popular. He's on Masked Singer. You know when you're on Mask singer, people, you know.

So you sing songs behind a mask. Yeah. And then people guess your identity. And you got it right. Yeah, I got Joe Buck right. one down. I think the next one's Jordan Milata. But let's go on to the next winner and loser.

What else do you all have? Winner, Ashton Coucher. Because I thought I was being punked when I saw that Von Miller number. I thought that might have been two for six. Nah, six for 120. Quick Ashton Coucher aside, met him after double doink.

Nice guy, but visibly angry after that game. Does not take a loss well. Yeah, good for you. for him. He couldn't even put a smile on his face to like meet people. He's very cordial, but he was mad after the game. He's a real fan. He's from a Nebraska or an Iowa, something like that.

I like that Ashton Coocher, but that Von Miller number, damn. He's an older fella. Winner, Toronto. Okay. I don't think people know this about Toronto and Buffalo. They're pretty close. I mean, you know that, but some people don't look at maps. I don't know.

Guys up in Buffalo, they party a lot in Toronto. And so Toronto's a winner because, Von Miller's gonna be there a lot. Like Von Miller, I know he's older, and when you get older in the league, you can't party as much because your body doesn't, you know, like recover the same way, but that was me as a white guy with love handles.

I think Vaughn Miller can still party. I think he's still pass rush. I think he's gonna be in Toronto a lot. The first time I met Vaughn was at a, I think it's a place called Rehab in Vegas. It's not like what you think, it's a pool party. It's offensive.

Yeah, well, talk to rehab. So Von Miller was wearing a full space suit at the pool. It's 110 degrees. Yeah, I walked up to and he pulled up his fucking vice. You know, like the astronaut visor. That's the kind of party animal he is and I want to see what he can do in Toronto. I think Toronto's a winner there. Luser Cowboy Reed, Bronco super fan. The 18th best Bronco of all time will not be coming home. He'll be headed to. Sorry about that, Reed. Central New York.

But Randy Gregory might be awesome. Indeed. Indeed, we've fleeced the Cowboys the last couple times because the last time a number 94 from the Cowboys came to the Broncos and we signed a Hall of Fame quarterback. It worked out pretty well. What do you got, Reed? What's your favorite winner or loser? I did have you as a winner for picking Joe Buck as the mass singer the other night. I know you guys just mentioned that. 38 people cared on Twitter. That's okay. You still did good. I did good.

Winner Red Rocks and other music venues in and around Denver and Colorado. They'll have Sierra as a future performer can get her. Winner Drew Locke. He needed a new start. I'm excited for him. I hope he does well, but I hope he doesn't ruin the Bronco season. You really have a soft spot for White Mike Vic. Yeah.

Winter towels in the Tampa Bay area because Ryan Jensen is returning to the Tampa Bay Buccaneers and he needs to wipe up that butt sweat. He does need to wipe up that butt sweat. Tom was like, hey, I'm coming back. Get down here and bring a couple towels. Hey,

how do we pronounce Ali Marpet? Marpet, I think. Loser, his mobile phone because Tom's probably hitting it up on the regular. No question. Like, hey, I'm back.

Don't know if you saw it. Bucks won free agency so far. I really think they did. They got gay. I think so they added a nice you know piece outside and then they basically you know you lose a guard you gain a guard and they they gained Shaq Mason who's one of Bill Belichick's favorite players and evidently not this year but Tom Brady's favorite for sure and so yeah they they kept and signed Aaron Steny my guest Aaron Steny shut out shut out front of the program Charlottesvillian

Carlisville. I got some losers. Houston Texans. Can you guys name one player they signed? Oh, I looked at the whole list last night and it was a lot of like bad teams. You know, it's just bad team.

Yeah. Another loser, J.D. McKissick signed a contract with Buffalo to play with Josh Allen, two years, seven million dollars. And then after agreeing to that contract decides to go back with the commanders.

which to me, it's like going back into a relationship that you probably shouldn't be too excited about to begin with. No question, but you get that you up text from Carson Wentz, you're up. He's going to be checking down to J.D. McKissick a lot. And he should. That would have been an awesome pickup for Buffalo. I had them as a winner. I did not know he pulled a, you know, like,

I was watching sports. I was Scott, yeah, he pulled a McDaniels. And I was watching SportsCenter with Scott the other night and he was jacked up about the McKissick thing for Buffalo. Why? Why? That's what they need there. Any guys can catch the ball in the backfield.

They need pass rushers. They grabbed one. So, yeah, McKissick, I could see that. A couple winners. I saw Bridgewater sign with Miami for $6.5 million. That feels like a pretty good bargain for the dolphins, either as, you know, insurance quarterback or maybe a trade chip. Dog.

Bridgewater's the winner there. He's from South Florida. Connor Williams, two for 14. I like that. I like Chase Edmonds and Rahim mostard in Miami. I like what Miami's doing. Loser Miles Gaskin. Exactly. Like he's just like shit. Can I get a big loser Seattle? And I don't want to get too soapboxy here. But when you've got a guy like Bobby Wagner for a long time, you tell him when you're moving on from him. Like he does not find out somewhere else.

Schneider had this whole spiel about, well, we've dealt with a lot of players who have agent, who represent themselves before, and that could be tricky because, you know, you have a deal lined up, you bring it to the player, he's essentially the agent, that's tricky,

you can't leave, you can't leave that to players who don't have representation that represent themselves. And of course, he was alluding to Bobby Wagner, representing himself as like, it was a mitigating factor

in them communicating to one of the best fucking players that ever put on the unit, He probably had a cell phone moving on. Yeah, dude. I mean like that's not a my bad like that's you can't my bad that's not like a whoops I tripped and fell or like whoops I dropped the coffee or pissed on toilet seat. It's like or didn't flush or didn't flush. It's podcast time.

Fucking one of your best players of all time left the building and you couldn't tell them yourself and the excuse to me makes no sense. Maybe you guys can help me like why does him representing himself have anything to do? Maybe they were trying to work the trade. But once you decide to release him, keep it in house until you tell him. It's total bullshit. And then it's like blaming him for them not communicating. It like compounds the error rather than just apologizing. Listen, I don't feel bad for Russ because Russ says a lot of outlandish things.

But he went LeBron James decision. You know, four Super Bowls in 10 years, all that stuff. Watch film for. How long did he say watch film for on vacation? And he said that he watched every Denver Broncos game two or three times on vacation. You know how shady that vacation is like for Sierra? We're good depending on how you look at it. But the Russell Wilson messaging wasn't great.

And one thing that said out to me was, listen, we know Russ initiated the trade. So I don't feel bad for them like kind of qualifying that and some of the messaging on the way out. but Russell Wilson is the best quarterback that ever played in Seattle when you say one of the best quarterbacks like it's kind of disrespectful and I think Scott Ckewles right late great Tavarous Jackson toughest quarterback to ever sack but Seattle comes out of this thing looking bad as an organization honestly and they're high on their own supply with regard to their culture up there

Oh boy, who's next? They have Jordan Peterson in all the time. Oh, my God. Bro, nothing, listen, I don't, nothing against Jordan Peterson, but I'm not sitting in, in meetings listening to Jordan Peterson. I mean, no, no chance. Chandler Jones is a winner. This is an interesting one to me because, number one, Chandler Jones hasn't had, like,

power to choose. I mean, a lot of guys end up like this in the NFL until after 30. great players who, you know, drafted by the Patriots out of Syracuse, you know, traded to Arizona. And by the way, you know,

I don't want to be, I'm not being, I'm not trying to make light of this or make fun of Chandler, but I appreciate Chandler because if Chandler never gets traded from New England, like, I don't get a ring. Like I was,

I was probably a Washington football team guy or a cowboy in 2016. If not for Chandler, smoking spice and heading down to the desert. You know what I mean? But one of the best rushers I have ever seen. And his way of rushing, honestly, Chandler's way of rushing is conducive to him playing for a long time. You know, he's never been a guy.

He's got deceptive strides, but he's all handwork, power, timing, long arm, all that stuff. Him and Max Crosby in the same backfield is going to be one of the messiest pockets. and I mean that in a good way in the league this year and it's not just two great edge rushers they're two edge rushers with full menus

so a lot of power, a lot of inside and stuff Patrick Mahomes gets sacked on a lot of scramble plays you're going to have an opportunity to finish some of that. He's a great finisher. Teams are going to be throwing the ball in that division

and he was in the NFC West last year where two of the bottom four sacked quarterbacks played in Matt Stafford and Jimmy Garoppolo. So this is going to be a good pickup for them as long as he can stay healthy. And for the Raiders, they upgraded. They got a corner in Rock Yassine

and they upgraded in their minds with Yonnik and Gokwe, who I think is a great player, great rusher, and him and Buckner next to each other, he might win too if they figure out who's going to be a quarterback there. Loser, Chris Rong, loser, Will Compton. I am standing firm that it's unique in Gokwe. Okay. All right. That's good. One of the greatest mysteries of our time. Yeah. I mean it is. It's back and forth. Mita Com's had to take. We had to take. We'll come times to take. Everybody has to take. You mentioned when you went to the Patriots, what was free agency like for you that first time? It was so weird. It's so weird to sit there. Like I said, the last time Chandler Jones made a decision, he was 17. You know, like, and all of a sudden, you know, he's 30-something years old and he's never gotten to choose. He was tweeting about it. He was having fun with this. I enjoyed it, I guess. But, but.

But my market was so much different and so shitty. Obviously he's a better player, but I had just taken a dump on the field for two years because I tried to play hurt for the organization. So my value was different. I was really taking my time. I was lasting later in free agency. I went and visited the Washington football team.

I drove my car up there. I was in the building for 45 minutes. It's like the Raiders visit when I was getting drafted under Lane Kiffin and seeing Washington and seeing just like kind of the operation up there. Two of the most interesting experiences I've had, spent time with Scott McLuhan, he's cool as fuck. But I knew I wasn't going to Washington.

I just want to see what it was like. That was like the visit that guys take just to take your visits. And then I was on my way to Dallas. And I've told the story before. I was in Richmond Airport, getting ready to go visit Dallas, when Chandler Jones, or maybe we found out where Chandler Jones was headed and it moved kind of quick. and at that point,

I left the terminal and just caught a cab home, never got on the flight, and signed with the Patriots. So like, it's so interesting that the stuff that happens in free agency to every guy

in the league that's, you know, weighing options, the stories behind the scenes. I loved Atlanta. Yes, you did. I loved Atlanta. And it came down to Atlanta in New England.

I went down to Atlanta. If it weren't for two things, I would have been a falcon. Dan Quinn told me he wanted to use me like Michael Bennett, which meant like a lot of inside rush. And then the traffic. Flowery branch is in fucking Arkansas or something.

Like, it's far away. And I know they don't technically border each other. But you get the point. I've never been so excited by the colossal waste of money that is college football teams traveling around the country. And when what is it, I-40 there was so completely backed up at 530 flying into Atlanta to play Georgia Tech and our little police caravan

just made everybody get not out of their lane into the left shoulder so we could roll by on the right to our Ritz Carlton. It's a good feeling. It's a good feeling and yet wow, this must cost a lot of money.

It does cost a lot of money, I would imagine. You announced you were signing with the Pats on the Iads of March in 2016. And that worked out. It worked out. You know, and after the Pats, I was such a hot commodity. Wasn't Atlanta involved again?

when you decided on Philly or was that just in my head pictures? No, I had no, I had no offers. I had to call Philly. I had to call Ian Yates Cunningham, shout out, who's now with Chicago, who's going to be a great GM one day and be like,

hey, what the fuck's going on? Maybe like to play in Philly, like what's going on there? And he's like, let me talk to Joe. And that's why, like, people always are like, Howie, great signing,

like some of those vets. Like, yeah, I know how he signed some people, but Joe Douglas serves credit for signing me, if that's something you want to give credit for. I was in Africa, climbing Killy. and I had a sat phone.

I was up there with Jim Mora. And I would wake up every morning call my sat phone, call my agent, like, you know, like on top of a mountain. And every time I would walk to call the sat phone and people were like, what's he doing? He's like, oh, he's checking on free agency. And I'd always come back and there was no news ever.

Nobody was calling, no teams, nothing. So I had to make some shit up and be like, yeah, we've got a couple bites here and there, but I'm just weighing my options. I didn't have an option until Philly. So it's so interesting being an older free agent, but somebody like Evan Ingram say, the proof it deals are $9 million. We were at the bar at Fitzroy. Yeah.

And you were trying to get me to guess which team it was when it was Philly. Yeah. And you kept saying it was a bird. And that's why I have Atlanta Falcons in my head. And I could not come up with another bird team other than the falcons, the cardinals, the sea hogs. I got everyone except for the Philadelphia Eagles. Well, you signed the Eagles deal on your birthday. birthday. It was cool. It was cool. Went to Dr. Hose pizza.

Celebrated. Yeah, it was good. Shout out. That all worked out. Yeah. Real estate agents in Jacksonville winners. How would you like to be a real estate agent down there? They just fired a whole staff. You get Doug Peterson down there now. You know he needs a really sweet pad on the river down there. He loves subway tile. Doug Peterson. Probably. Probably a big subway tile guy. Huge. I've talked to him about it. You have? No. Okay. I was like, did he come on the show? No, he hasn't. So we need Doug Peterson. I mean, I party with Doug Peterson once. After the Super Bowl?

Yeah, a large head. Did you meet him? Yeah. He is a big dude, bro. He's just like he can play defense event. But Doug Peterson, great guy. He's probably found a house now. But they spent, I think, they did like a Toys R Us shopping's free.

Some of that's funny money. Christian Kirk gets 80 mill basically. 18 a year. Zay Jones. Evan Ingraham. Eight a year for Zay Jones. Brandon Sheriff, who's hurt a lot, but he's great. when he's healthy.

It's just tough. You just traded for Dan Arnold, now you sign Ingram. For 9 mil. Like, it's really hard for me to kind of, it's like the 40 times I said the other day. 40 times and the money, it's like the game is changing and I'm cool with it.

I'm not hating. A lot of guys hated on us when we got that money, but I'm not going to hate on anybody. I'm not a hater. Even on Evan Ingram. I mean, more power to you. Chanel's a loser because Kirk's going to take all this. targets.

And DJ's out of there, huh? DJ's out of there. He's on a prove-it deal worth like 10-mill in Detroit, I think. Clark Harris, real estate agent, loser. Cincinnati Bengals, been there 14 years. Oh, God, they don't spend any money. 14 years he's been there. He's not moving.

Holy shit, dude. Like this Clark Harris, pretty good snapper. It'll probably go somewhere else at some point. I'll sell a spot. Nah, just, let's keep running back. He's sitting there when real estate agents are losing in CENC. Well, right. That's exactly right. We wouldn't want to do that.

Shout out to Clark Harris. Loser, Dallas Cowboys fans. Why? Tell me. Mike McCarthy is the coach. Hey, I actually have Dallas in a way. Running backs are losers now because running backs, like, we find out again and again that it's not worth paying them. And, you know, it's so tantalizing. And maybe it depends on the back.

And that's what every GM says before they pay one. Nick Chubb is somebody who I'm like, I would pay that guy. But if I'm looking at the track record of running backs, like Zeke Elliott's another cautionary tale. Like this has been a two year, three year running kind of story. And that's usually how it goes. Like it starts out great in the beginning.

But Zeke Elliott is a cautionary tale because they paid him. And now you can see guys like Amari Cooper leaving. He's going to make Cleveland better. I know some people don't like Amari Cooper, but would you take Amari Cooper at 20 or Christian Kirk at 18? I take Mari Cooper at 20. Gurley got paid. It's my guy. He rushed for 1,300 yards and 17.

And if you remember, you got a Todd Gurley? Yeah. You got a big four-year deal before 18. And 18, if you remember, he was crushing it and down the stretch, he just started mysteriously not getting touches. And he was physically the bottom was falling out. He got five touches in the NFC championship game

and 11 in the Super Bowl. Like, again and again, run CMC. 2300 yards. He was great for one year under contract. And then he finish the season hurt twice since. So if you look at the highest paid backs in the leader, the best backs in the league, many of them are guys like Jonathan Taylor,

James Robinson, Elijah Mitchell, Najee Harris is promising, Antonio Gibson's really promising. These guys are making, you know, good money, but it's not stuff that's going to hurt you.

They're on rookie deals. They're young. I mean, even drafting a running back high sucks and sorry about it. The Saquan thing, because by the time you're good, they're washed.

Right. By the time you're good, they're washed. And then you can't draft them high because you're too bad and can't pay them because if it's time to pay them, if they've justified it already, that means they have mileage on them and the wheels are probably going to fall off. So the only good place to get a running back is later in the first round. Like even then beware. David, David Wilson, Virginia Tech.

Clyde Edward Salary, which is worked out, but people, you know, are unfairly going to want more out of him because he's drafting the bottom of the first round. It's just hard to pinpoint who you guys are going to be. Naji Harris might work out. Tony Pollard was taken in the fourth round. That's where I'm taking my running backs. Yeah, but if you're really obsessed with one, take them in the bottom of the first because that means you're good and you need to run the ball. You need to control the clock. A bad team drafty of a running back is so fucking stupid. Thank you. None taken.

Speaking of good running backs, do you see the Tennessee Titans overtime proposal? where you would have to go for two after scoring a touchdown. I did see that. I think that's a big winner. I did see that. That's pretty cool. That's pretty cool right there.

I like that. I'll give you a winner, Andrew Whitworth's family. Because he's not nice and kind. He seems like a good guy to have around the house. He's big. He can protect you. And he's fun.

He's warm. He's like a big bear. And his kids are probably so happy to have him home. And his kids scooped us. So, well, I think we basically got the announcement on this show. I think Reed had us as a loser.

Yeah, we're a losers because he was we asked him about four times if he would retire and he had already told his kids, but he wouldn't tell us. Hey, I'll tell you who's a winner here. And on the other end of things like people upstairs in Green Bay hate Jacksonville, but Devonte Adams. Like, I don't know if he was ever going to sign the tag, but like, hey, Christian Kirk just signed for 18 a year. I don't think I'm going to be easy with this thing.

Lamar Jackson's a winner. Hear me out. Lamar Jackson, it's rumored he wants to play out his fifth year option, right? And do the Kirk Cousins thing. Hit the market. The leverage Cousins created for himself this year is really encouraging for Lamar Jackson. Now I know there's more inherent risks with him playing out, you know, without a contract, playing out a year because he runs the football and it's a different deal.

But he has not been injury prone. I think the first time he got hurt was this year. Maybe let's freaking go as his hashtag as a Miami Dolphin when he signs with the Jim Harbaugh led dolphins. So a 2023 free agent signing in Miami? I think that's when he's going to become a Miami Dolphin. Come home. Maybe Jim can convince our guy Greg Roman to come down there.

Big reunion, Kaepernick 2.0. By the way, Kaepernick, loser, got blackballed by the NFL because that's racist as fuck. So NFL, bigger loser. Winner James White. I love James White. I love James White.

Two years, five mill. New England Patriots. That's awesome. Where he wants to be. All he does is make plays in New England. Usually on third downs. It's perfect. It's perfect.

There's a running back with value. And Duke Johnson, huge winner. Did you see the Duke Johnson Giff? So let me refresh y'all's memory. Baker Mayfield, who posted that letter this week. Baker Reagan Mayfield, who is now referred to as. Big tone. Yeah. Big tone.

2019 Duke Johnson wasn't happy right and Baker was like you're either on this train or you're off it you know like which I never liked and I always like Baker speaking is mine but you kind of got to like got to know where the blind spots are when I met Baker I was like I love how you speak up you know that was like his rookie year he just doesn't know sometimes when not to and that was a bad time to do it and that's a bad look you know with people on your team Duke held that gift for three years he dropped as soon as Baker dropped the letter, Duke dropped the train wreck gift. Yeah. Or Jeff.

I'll get it one of these years. But I love that he held that thing through a fucking pandemic through like multiple, I mean, like two presidents, this guy, multiple Cleveland Brown's head coaches. I mean, like, uh, yeah, ish. Duke Johnson's a winner. Got the last laugh. I'll say something nice about a hokey. Yeah.

Tarad Taylor, love it. Backup quarterback. New York Giants. Good for you. Yeah. And I like Tyrod. Tarot. We had Lamar Jackson.

And by the way, Mort said that the Browns won an adult at QB was the quote. I was like, when I read the quote first, I was like, who the fuck said that? And I was like, oh, Mort said it. Where he says that they said it. Ravens defense, too. Marcus Williams, Big Z. The Daria Smith played 18 snaps because of back injury last year. Those 18 snaps were fucking awesome, dude.

He came back on the field and immediately made a big difference. Did you hear my jaw crack there? Yes. Didn't know what it was. Ouch. Marcus Williams shorn up that secondary in a fucking, I mean like last year, Joe Burrow threw for a mile against them. Dude, 52. 502.80.

Right. There you go. Feeder yards, quick, quick, quick. That's feet. There you go. Asshole. Okay. You know.

I'll go Landry. Landry in Tennessee. Yeah. The Titans have fucked up edge rushers for the longest time. They had no choice but to pay this guy. So Landry's a winner because he had leverage because he played well. He also has leverage because of the context historically with Tennessee. And then on top of it, who's inside?

Jeffrey Simmons. I'm good. The chances of me busting on this contract, not that high. As long as I don't get hurt. On the other end, loser Alan Robinson. Feels like people are passing him up and holding that down year again. against him. He's had nobody throwing him the ball. He's had a young guy who I think is going to be good throwing him the ball, but he's a rookie. And this is his last chance to get paid. If I'm

Alan Robinson, I settle for the $15 to $20 million prove a deal. Because if Evan Ingram got a $9 million prove a deal, what kind of prove a deal could Alan Robinson get? Times three. Maybe a winner. He'd be 29, I think. He's really good. He'd be up if he gets a... I know. I love Alan Robinson. Maybe the Colts. but that sucks because the Colts Colts would be a perfect place for him but the Colts haven't decided like Alan Robinson should just follow Deshawn Watson

if he goes to New Orleans Alan Robinson should go to New Orleans if he goes to Carolina fuck it go to Carolina definitely if he heads to I mean you could have had a Jacksonville reunion no Christian Kirk

18 a year slot guy winner LA Chargers nice yeah they've been J.C. Jackson. Yeah, I mean, look at Brandon Staley, defensive guru, get that corner, you get those two edge rushers, and then everything else falls into place.

I really believe that. And by the way, all this mass exodus out of New England, I said this once with Sheel, the Patriots are changing their defense. There's no way they're not. They're doing a lot of different stuff. And speaking of the AFC,

and the AFC West, actually, more specifically, the influx of talent, we talked about it, all the rushers, all the quarterbacks. I mean, that's like the Western Conference when we were in college and high school in the NBA. I mean, this is

going to be spectacular. And Mitchell Schwartz had a really good tweet. When he was in the AFC West at one point, it was just hellacious. And now it's hilarious again from a past rush standpoint. All this, all this talented quarterback actually makes Joe Burrow a winner. I don't care that it's in the

AFC. I don't care that Russell join the AFC, these guys are all going to knock each other off in the AFC West. Cincinnati is not going to have to go on the road like they did this year to beat Kansas City, Kansas City, Denver, you know, the Raiders, the Chargers, there's a high chance. None of those teams get the one seed. So if you're somebody like Joe Burrow, you'd rather play in Cincinnati in January. I think this is good for that prospect. Agreed.

And they just short up their offensive line with Alex Kappa from. the bucks and Ted Karras from New England. So like, I mean, you compared Burrow to Brady pretty early on. Now he's got some of the offensive linemen that played with Brady. Interior pressure. He's taking care of it and he's taking care of it with guys that know Brady. They're going to know how to block for him.

And shout out to Ted Karras, great guy. Never knew he'd be signing like a big deal like this. This is awesome. But they're doing the right stuff there in Sinci when it comes to protecting Joe. I got a question for you guys. Do you think Mitch Trubisky is a winner or a loser. Two years, 14 million going into

Pittsburgh. Huge winner. Winner. Winner. Winner, dude. Pittsburgh doesn't expect anything. Like Pittsburgh fans don't expect anything out of him. Nobody expects anything out of Mitchell Trubesky. Content is a winner because Trubesky, Rudolph,

two-headed monster. Haskins, three-headed monster. Three-headed monster. Oh, my God. The content in that quarterback room. And by the way, I think Trubesky following Big Ben isn't the worst thing in the world

because Big Ben was a shell of his former self all that stuff. They'll get him on the move. I'll be excited to see what they do there. Hey, bear with me here. Jimmy G. Right? With the news today that Cleveland's out,

probably Deshawn banged the no trade clause, I think. Hey. Allegedly. He banged the no trade clause, said, nah, I'm not going to Cleveland. Cleveland. So now people might have to suffer through Baker Mayfield for another year, or it might be Jimmy G. That might be the adult in the room. But that adult also likes older porn stars,

right? So I think Sarah J is a winner here. Sarah J is from Ohio. She might be a Browns fan, and maybe we'll see her at an Italian restaurant with Jimmy G. I could be like a celebrity matchmaker here. Remember he went to the restaurant out west with that older lady that was an adult film match? I sure do. Tell us about Sarah J's work. She's older. I don't know her work well. Somebody on the internet, I think I really enjoyed this thread I fell into one day. They compared Sarah J to like somebody with a high workload in the NBA that's like just incredibly dependable, but not spectacular. So that's all I needed to know to glean what Sarah J's work is about.

Is there an H on Sarah? I think it's an A. And J-A-Y? Yeah, I think so. All right. I looked up porn stars from Ohio and, you know, seeing what might happen if Jimmy G comes to town and it's Sarah Jay. Sarah Jay is the perfect fit. Perfect fit.

Who's the greatest athlete ever to retire and come back? Michael Jordan. Michael Jeffrey Jordan. Now in question, maybe. Well, yeah, it is in question. That's a great point. Like a lot of people might say Tom Brady, but I say Michael Jordan. I do.

I really do. I know I'm like part of that is where you grew up and whatever. I played with Tom Brady, so I don't know if that should supersede my nostalgia. I'm just a Michael Jordan guy, dude. If you're in Arizona, Colorado, Indiana, New Jersey, New York, Tennessee, or Virginia, and you haven't tried the Winbet app yet, I got great news for you. Winbet is now offering $200 in free bets for new users.

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In Colorado, Indiana, New Jersey, and Virginia, call 1-800-Gambler. And in Michigan, 1-800-7-1-17. Tennessee, y'all two. 1-8009-9-7-89. Anyways, this is a mighty vaporizer. So I took this out to dinner. We had a great time the other night. We went to dinner.

All the crew was here. Shout out to Ralph. Shout out to B. Nelly. Shout out to John. And shout out to everybody who came in town. If I'm forgetting anybody, I'm sorry, but we went to dinner and it was awesome. And I brought my mighty vaporizer and I left it in the booth by accident. John tried to hand it.

John, who's a little bit older in the last season, his 40s, they didn't have mighty vaporizers when he was, you know, at a fucking Peter Frampton concert, whatever he was, I don't know. But like, you know, like older dudes, like, even if it's a decade, they don't know. They don't, they're not familiar with the current vessels of delivering. when it comes to THC. Oh, did you think that was a hey, your tables ready? Yes. So he handed my vaporizer to the server.

That's amazing. I forgot it. I got to the door. I turned around to get my vaporizer, and I saw John handing the vaporizer to the server. I had to intercept it like a baton. That's hilarious. So yeah.

I might have done the same thing. Reed ordered a steak. Shout out to 10 sushi. Reed ordered like a steak at 10, and they'd bring it out on a hot rock. He just went to cut the rock. Reed was on fire at that dinner, bro. I wish I got to put a microphone in Reed's face.

The stories about skiing I heard and Reed's dad were incredible. Reed's dad needs a movie, a biopic. Oh. Yeah, we need to have Reed's dad on the show one time. I also loved hearing about his shit-talking exploits in Ultimate Frisbee. Holy shit. We got to do a whole thing on worst sports memories at some point because Reed's were incredible. And I know we'd have some good ones.

But bottom line is, We're on to basketball. You'll get our brackets in a minute, and then we're going to get out of here. But we saw that they did a thread. So I don't know who did it. Well, whoever it is, they stole it from somebody else. So we did this in the NFL. What do these coaches look like they do for a living?

So we'll go region to region here. I've got a few. I know you probably have a few. Uh-huh. I sure do. Okay. Did you say few because Mark Fu's the first one? Maybe.

What do you got on Mark Few? I mean, do you have something on Mark Few? What does it look like Mark Few does it look like Mark Few does for living. And all these pictures are guys in suits, so that could cloud our judgment. Honestly. I got youth pastor for Mark Few. They're just all going to be youth pastors, aren't they? Got it. Well, hold on. Okay. Let me run through the west here. Okay. Let's run through the west. Rob Lanier, former Virginia assistant. Youth pastor. Penny Hardaway. Youth pastor.

Athletic director more so at a high school, dude. Eric Musselman. I got youth pastor. Mike Bray swims with the fishes. No question. No question he does. Tom Mizzow is the one that took him to swim with the fishers. Tom Mizzow owns a casino is what I have there. Mark Adams accountant, Bob McKillop, president of these United States.

Bob McKillop, the guy had senator on his thing. And even Bob McKillick sounds like a senator. If you told me like, did you see what Bob McKillick passed there? I'd be like. McKillop, but doesn't change anything. Who cares? I don't watch Davidson. Steph Curry play there anymore.

They're winning today, by the way. Sorry. Tommy Izzo, owner of a casino, sending Mike Bray to swim with the fishes. Leon Rice does something. I mean, I don't know if it's a golf course

groundskeeper. Or maybe he runs a putt putt. Yeah, it's golf. Yeah. It's golf related. It's golf in the South. And then Eric Musselman is a college football coach.

That's pretty good. No questions asked. And by the way, he's the only guy who decided to rock a collared shirt in his, in his picture. A sport shirt, we'll call it. What is Chris Jans doing,

dude? The rest of the fellows. Chris Jans, he belongs in the year 1992. 92. And he's a principal on picture day. The problem is it's the background that they're doing at New Mexico State is the same background we did in eighth grade.

Yep. Okay. Next bracket. Oh, the East region. Robert Jones, youth pastor. I have

Mike Young pastor sells cars. I've got John Calipari swims with the fishes. He's swimming with the fishes? Yeah. Oh man. Matt Painter.

What the fuck is Matt Painter doing? Could be a painter. He's, no. Matt Painter is absolutely a local sports guy. Hmm. Look at him. Local sports. Matt Painter at eight.

Telling you how Rockbridge High School did coming to play Albaugh. He's got all the highlights, Matt Painter. Actually, he's only got about 30 seconds worth of highlights from the first two minutes because those guys got to hump it. They got to every single high school. And they get the final score called in later, and then they only use the first couple highlights. Nostalgia right here, bro.

Matt Painter has given me nostalgia. Whatever they got, they got, they got to run with it. Losing team scored two buckets. That's what we're running on the highlight. Chris Beard has a strong grip. He works with his hands. Has a beard. Name, Chris Beard, has a beard.

Oh. Yeah. That is good synergy. John Mick. Doesn't look Irish. I'm Irish. I can say it, right? I can say it.

I'm Irish. This is my fucking day, too. I can say as many Irish slurs as I want today. Let me be the second to wish everybody of. Fuck this day. It sucks. Okay. German.

What do you got in your history? I'm doing a German history thing? Beer fest and Bratworths? We just, look, we just starved because of potatoes one time. Yeah. And not much else. I got more English, English blood than German, you know.

South region. South. Oh, good. One of my favorites. Tommy Lloyd, I got youth pastor, Kelvin Samson. I said youth. pastor. Oh my God.

Andy Kennedy is a fucking guy in billions. I don't even watch the show. That's right. He's just a guy that's here to take advantage of you like in a business deal. Doesn't care. Lamont Paris,

basketball coach. I mean, Scott and Aggie chief financial officer somewhere. I mean, a lot of these guys look like CFOs. Rick Barnes, I got John Grisham.

Look at Jay Wright's old picture. Rick Barnes, you think he does look. He does look like. like John Grish. That's incredible. Yeah. Jay Wright, youth pastor. What does Griff Aldrich do?

Well, life insurance. Great mood. He was on Wall Street, right? I just want to talk to you about when you die. I want to talk to you about when you die. It's not a big deal. Let's just have the conversation. It's a rainy day conversation.

Jamie Dixon, cryptkeeper. Isn't it funny the older we get the life insurance conversations get less like, I remember when I got in the league and got a financial officer, or he was like, just sign this stuff. It's not a big deal. Like, it's if you die, which isn't going to happen for a long time. Then you get in your 30s and they're like, about that life insurance meeting.

Let's move that up. I don't have those conversations. We shouldn't let that linger very long. My dad bought so much life insurance when I was zero years old. Odd move, you know? Yeah. But I'm set. Well, everybody else is set when I die.

Okay, Midwest. I got Bill Self, Youth Pastor, Johnny Jones, youth pastor Fran McCaffrey youth pastor Chris Mooney youth pastor Ed Cooley

youth pastor Greg Garde stockbroker T.J. Outslberger Ohio State linebacker Yeah, yeah for sure

What is Jim Larenhaga looking at? Yeah, and Larenega is kind of like a works at a coffee factory kind of a cool guy. I don't know why I've never seen eyes do that before. Bob McKillop, we already talked about him or however you say that.

Andy Enfield looks like he sells books. Andy Enfield. Infield, Matt. Infield. Andy Enfield. Greg Gard. Youth pastor. That'll do it.

Oh, well, don't let me forget Danny Sprinkle. Look him up. Definitely, I feel really good about this one. Car stereo tent shop owner. Hmm. Mm-hmm. You see him? Neck beard and a suit.

You got a neck beard. Yeah, look, he's got that look. Like 15% is illegal in the state of Virginia, but I say we go 30. They rarely stop you. I remember the day I got pulled over and had to go home. Use a little razor to start pulling the tent off. Yeah.

You had tent. Mm-hmm. We've come a long way. That was when you used to drive me around listening to your radio calls. I want to remind people. Yeah. All right. Get in the car, it'd be like, Benedictine, inbound's the ball.

No. Empty gym. Oh, I'm sorry. It was the Georgia Dome. Ever heard of it? I'm embellishing. But you have played your high school call. Ten to thousands.

There were none. I was won and done. ACC tournament. All right. Let's do the bracket and get out of here. I've got to get to this live stream. I just want to say this before we fill out these brackets. By the way, it took me three minutes to fill this bracket out.

And eight seconds. And eight seconds. It's about a pick every, Three seconds. I'm rooting for all these teams. It is Rob Lo's birthday, and I think it's only right that on Rob Lo's birthday, we root for all the teams.

Nice. Like all the teams. I just want them all to do well, especially the Peacocks from St. Peter's, but that probably won't go so well. You want to start? Like, how do we do this? How do we convey?

It's so pointless. I don't think I've ever won a bracket. Oh, I have. I know you have. Why don't we go with your final four? Yeah. And then go backwards. Sure.

Let's do that. You want to go first? Sure. Gonzaga over UCLA. Okay. And then Arizona over Kansas. Gonzaga over Arizona for the national championship. Nice.

81 to 68. Well, I'll get to that. Let's hear yours. Okay. Gonzaga over Kentucky. Okay. And then Tennessee over Kansas. sticking with my Tennessee pick.

And then I've got Tennessee beating Gonzaga, 8178. Oh, I got 8168 in my final. How interesting. I hope I'm right. Okay, so if we back up, I got chaos everywhere. But when... Real quick, worst final ever. Worst final ever?

What was it? Yeah. The one that sticks out to me is, I think it was Yukon, Georgia Tech. Oh, Paul Cueitt. Yeah. I was up at Johns Hopkins, watch. watching that one. It was such a dog shit national championship. Hopefully do much better. Go ahead.

Okay. I'm gonna tell you. Luke Shen, sure. That's right. Curly hair, tall. Here you go. Here's my, I wanna hear your most favorite selection here in this tournament. Ready for mine? Yeah. At one time during this week, I had Wisconsin in the Final Four. I have the Colgate Raiders beating Wisconsin in the first round. Yeah. I also had the Jackrabbits going to the Sweet 16. I had the Michigan Wolverines in the Sweet 16, but they got an assist, prolific assister who's out with a concussion.

Right. And not even traveling with the team. Yeah, it's bad for morale. Got the guy, he's all concussed. There's symptoms. Caroline over Baylor. Tate Frazier sold me on it. Okay.

They can get hot. Baylor's missing some guys. San Francisco in the first round. Oh, me too. I like San Francisco. I heard you say winner. So that's why I selected San Francisco. I think one of those two first round, quote unquote, teams gets through.

I picked both Notre Dame and Indiana to win another game. I like Notre Dame as well. And I like the mocks. I like the mocks in the first round. Notre Dame, I got Indiana going deep. I actually have Indiana beating UNC to the elite eight. Holy shit. Yeah, right.

They just feel like they got that guy right now. Trace Jackson Davis. He's pretty good. Yeah. I mean, his post game is like pretty good. And he's athletic as hell. I feel like they could be that hot team, like the UCLA this year. And they might have to beat, they have to beat UCLA probably,

because I'm not picking Akron. I have no idea. By the way, maybe the most beautiful, that might be our Bevel Conway, Indiana, UCLA. Right. I might go with the next game. I have North Carolina UCLA. Oh, that's not bad either.

That's a big, that little corner of that bracket, big sex. Blue Bloods. That regional semifinal, I got Carolina, UCLA, Purdue, Kentucky. That's beautiful. Okay, so my favorite pick. Take this one to the bank. Give me your favorite picks, big guy.

Yeah, probably Norfolk State over a bailer. Wow. Are you serious? Oh, yeah. Norfolk State joining the ranks of UMBC. I like it. Yep, we're off the hot seat. Yeah.

But we're off the hot seat anyways, because we've moved on to scoring 13 points in an ACCC half. Well, we also moved on to winning a national championship. I might be sad for a split second for, losing that crown to being the only one to lose. You don't think Norfolk State is going to win? To lose. No, I love the pick. I hope it happens. Glad you're for HBCUs. And then

I've also got, let's see, I've got... I bet you like Vermont. I have Virginia Tech winning. I have Vermont. Shout out to Ryan Rissillo. I think I have Vermont going to the Sweet 16 beating Yukon. Okay. I do like that. And then I zagged. And I went with Arkansas. Zags beat the dog shit out of Vermont. I went Arkansas to beat Vermont and then to beat Yukon. J.D. Notet. You can fill it up. Another place I zag, and you referenced it, and I won't address it as the Midwest region.

Chris Felica, the Bear, a good friend of ours, said, if not Kansas, then who in the Midwest? And it's a great question. And I thought about it for so long that I landed on. Auburn. It is Kansas. They're the best team in there, and Auburn doesn't win games. away from home. LSU doesn't have a coach. They did an article about the best basketball playing coaches. I mean, like we've run out of stuff to, they did all 68. And you know who came in at 68? Bruce Pearl. He didn't even play high school basketball. Did you imagine clicking that link and being,

I wonder where I am. I was 68 top of the page. By the way, I have LSU going to the Sweet 16. I do too. Cinderella story. Kevin Nickleberry. You might think, yeah, you might think it's addition by subtraction. I do. Okay, but I don't think so, because tell me what that guy did wrong. Oh yeah, you're a big Will Wade guy. A bunch of strong ass offers left and right.

That's what we should be given these kids, dude. I'll never understand this. Like, people are so into players getting paid and then somebody does it, and he's like public enemy number one. Yeah, he was doing it outside the bounds of the rules. Robin Hood did it outside the bounds of the rules? I'm not really familiar with anything Robin Hood.

Yeah. tights? He was stealing from the rich to give to the poor. Oh, that's Robin Hood. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Guy from Princess Bride made a run at it. I don't think it went as well. Sure, sure.

I have, as I said, LSU over Colgate. I got Colgate pasting Wisconsin in the first round before losing LSU. Name for, and I'm sure it was called Colgate before we had toothpaste, but unbelievably unfortunate. The Orange Bowl. I got Illinois going to the elite eight playing tennis. I see. Okay. I don't hate that. Covern. Shout out. I got Illinois losing in the first round of Chattanooga.

Fuck you. And I was going to have a round of 32 matchup between Chattanooga and UAB, Jelly Walker, but Houston is going to screw me up either way. So they're going to screw me up by going all the way to the Sweet 16 before losing there. I have UAB winning the Cougars out. I don't need a tattoo of Jennifer Lopez or Jennifer Garner or any of those. You probably did Loyola winning first round. I probably did Loyola. Who did they play? Who do they play? It's a 7-10. Ohio State. Oh, Ohio State. Fuck Ohio State.

I got Ohio State. Too many people on Loyola. I don't think Ohio State shows up, a lot like Mark Titus. Ah, ha. Woo! He was supposed to be on our podcast. And he will be soon. Okay, good.

But he ducked us the other day. Yeah, I got to go on pardon my take. Oh. Well, to be fair, he said, I'm sick. And then he went on part of my take. I'm sick. I'm sick. I'm sick.

I'm sick. I'm sick. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. dating date. And to be even more fair, Tate said Titus was sick. And then Titus said, he's trying to cover for his guy. You should have texted me.

Tate's not good at scheduling. Yeah. Hey. When does Duke lose? Duke loses to Texas Tech. That's right. Who actually, I'm going to go back on this thing. This is a Matt pick here.

I got Texas Tech beating Gonzaga. They're going to go to the final four and lose to Kentucky. Tennessee is going to beat Kentucky. an SEC showdown. The teams that suck at football are gonna be duking it out. Well, Kentucky doesn't suck at football, but they're just not a powerhouse.

This is an SEC basketball final. So it turns it into about a 35-minute bracket that you just put together. Well, whatever you want to say, it's a winner. It's a winner. This is a winning bracket here, okay? Got Norfolk State beating Baylor. Take it to the bank.

Can you get that? What are the odds on that? It's a 20 point line. I got a soft spot for St. Peters. I hope the peacocks pull through. They're 17-point dogs, I think, against Kentucky. So I'm looking at all these. All I care about is the upsets.

We say this every year. All I wanted was a 16 to beat a 1 for the longest time. I have dreams of, you know, Hampton, I think, was a 15 and beat a 2. One year. Was it Kansas? Who was it? Hampton beat Iowa State, I think. you know, I just fantasized about just one slot worse doing that, and it had to be us.

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And then we get to the North Carolina game and I say, the one bet I feel like I'm going to win today is UNC. I say, you know what, let me fade myself. This is that time in the tournament where you realize you probably have to fade yourself. And I did that. And Marquette's down by 30 points with 18 to go in the second. So Fax and I just wrapped a really fun live watch

with my brother Kyle Bad Back, Back, he popped in, Cowboy Reed was in, Matt's in. Don't forget Brandon Graham. Brandon Graham was on watching Michigan. Yeah, live stream was lit. They are lit. And, you know, Nate, we've got an opportunity to do more. So we'll do another one, y'all's today, our tomorrow.

That's Friday during the round of 64. What time did the game start tomorrow? They all start around noon. I mean like, you know, they start around noon, but we'll probably pop on tomorrow, say two or so. So if you're listening, go to Green Light Tube on YouTube, hit subscribe, leave some comments. We're going to do a giveaway tomorrow. If we get a million, you know, I'm so bad at this YouTube thing, like kind of like understanding what drives and whatnot, but I'm really trying to give it the old college try. So the real thing is you start at about 10,000 likes.

Yeah. Or a certain amount of comments. Okay. So a million likes. No, a million viewers. And I will give somebody a brand new car. But you're serious, though. Yeah, I'll give somebody a brand new car if we get a million viewers.

Fuck yeah. It's not going to happen. Oh, just in the chat. Oh, in the, you have to be specific. I'll give somebody in the chat a brand new car. Okay. Somebody in the chat is going to get a brand new car. I'm Steve Harvey.

But wait, wait, you have to specify this because the live stream stays up on the channel after and it can hit a million views. And so everyone in the chat, yeah,

you're right. They will be asking. Concurrent. It's a YouTube term. Concern. Live. Say we have to doubt a million people live. Yeah,

a million people live. And I will, I will buy somebody a new car. Okay? It's not going to happen, Nate. But tune in tomorrow. Listen, a couple things here. Richmond's got a major chance to make the All Vives team.

The entire team might be the All Vives team. They got guys that look funny as hell, and it's awesome. They have a tall squantch. They have multiple guys that look like they could be a counten. So I love those guys. Marquette uniforms are crummy. Reed and I were talking about that. They ditched all the baby blue.

What happened to Marquette's uniforms? They peaked in 2004. And then the staggering thing, This was the best thing I heard all day. Whenever they went to four channels. So, like, remember, they eventually expanded it out to, like, TBS and True TV because people were complaining. What is True TV even do in, usually, like, April? It's courtroom, courtroom, crime drama.

Yo, True TV is one of the funniest things ever because for 11 months a year, it's doing Judge Judy and, like, true crime stuff, or what? Yes. And then the next month, it's March Madness. Yeah, it's just owned by CBS is why they use it. But basically, people were complaining, like, oh, I can't. watch all the games, which was true. You couldn't watch all the games at the same time. But we at least used to get the fun of like four different games coming down to the wire at the same time. I prefer that. Now we don't get that. I prefer that. Everybody's watching multiple TVs.

Not everybody, but a lot of people are watching multiple TVs and gambling makes that pip. Do you, do you, do you ever use your pip, the pitcher and pitcher? Dude, I don't even know how to set up an alarm clock, man, like picture and picture. Well, I mean, like, but anyways, like gamblers, buttered the NCAA tournament spread and everybody knows that so if gamblers want to see everything at once i would count myself as one of those people i think that would be better but hey it is what it is we're blessed i'm looking a gift horse in the mouth and i don't want to do that that's an old saying you know what that means i do not you know you get something awesome don't like that's up there with raining cats and dogs almost yeah if anybody knows where raining cats and dogs came from let us know they don't know

i looked it up it's a topic of much debate really oh look at that That's hilarious. So kudos whoever started that and like just, hey, I'm going to throw this out there. I'm going to throw this out there and keep it going. They're definitely dead. Hey, Nate, we got two pieces of NFL news. Your boy. One, Fletch got released.

So Fletcher Cox probably at this point a decade pretty much with the Eagles. I don't know if it's been 10. Congrats to him. Yeah. On a great tenure there. Oh, my God. What a career he's had in Philly. And you think about all the great defensive players that played in Philly.

You know, he's up there with the top. I mean, obviously nobody's Reggie White, and that's like the gold standard, but Fletch is up there with some of the best to ever do it. The Clyde Simmons of the world there, you know, Jerome Brown, Seth Joyner, some of the less celebrated guys, but still awesome players that played in Philly.

Like, there's such a deep defensive history. And he's one of the best that ever did it on that side of the ball in Philly. and he's going to have an opportunity to go somewhere. Again, like you talk about Chandler Jones earlier, picking for the first time in his life after 30, Fletch is going to get a chance to pick for the first time since he was a high school kid

in Yazoo City, picking Mississippi State. I mean, like, you're a kid in Yazoo City. It's not like you're like, I could look at UCLA. I could look like, this is cool for Fletch. And I know it sucks. It's a tough day, but not a shock, I guess. Like, people wondered if that was his last year. and I think the odds on favorite would have been that something like this happened.

He's a guy that I think had restructured his contract before. I don't know how this came about. I don't know. I haven't talked to Fletch, but he's somebody I loved playing with and such a great player. The mix of explosiveness and leverage and, you know, quickness and strength, that's a rare kind of skill set. And he's a throwback guy. He's like a guy you'd see in the 90s 6-5, can get off the rock.

And I know he's older, but he's going to help a team. And I like the Chargers, man. I don't know if you search Fletcher Cox, Chargers, if something comes up. But I feel like that's the team that could really use him. Somebody asked me about the best duo in the AFC West. Him and Level Joseph? Well, yeah. And Bosa and Mac.

I mean, like. I'm thinking the bills try to grab him. They just got Vonn. They just got V. You have someone putting that pressure up the middle to send the Vaughn. Vaughn could run the loop on anybody. Ed Oliver and Fletcher in the middle. You got a young guy who's just coming on.

You got a vet who'd be good for him. As Georgia State is hanging in here with Gonzaga. Prayers up to Matt on Taddy Championship drawing Gonzaga. But I say that to say, I love Fletch. She's one of my best buddies that I play with. And somebody made my stay in Philly like very enjoyable. great teammate and somebody I profited off of playing with. I mean like straight up at that age,

like could still play some ball, but it sure helps to have a Fletcher Cox right there next to you. And you know what else is awesome? The memes. The memes are awesome. I mean, we love that two, three years later. They drafted a kid named Jalen Hertz.

I mean, you know, I used to stand next to, we had a guy named Green. I used to stand next to Green and Johnson. You know, we had a kid named, We had a guy named Brown. We had a guy named White. There were so many combinations in that Philadelphia locker room. We had a Wendell Smallwood.

And we had Nick Foles. Oh. But like we had so much fun on that team. Not just with the jerseys, but like hanging out off the field, the whole thing. That's when that's when D-Lines have the most fun. When we go get dinner together, when we work together, but we also know each other's families and all that stuff. We had a cool group.

So Fletch was the best player on that group and on a D-line that didn't have double-digit sacks for anybody up front, but was a real strength of that team. He was the reason we were great. I mean, BG was a reason we were great. Fletch was a reason we were great in that people game planned for Fletch.

That's who you game planned for. If you were to eavesdrop in an opposing offensive line room on a Thursday, they're talking about Fletcher Cox. Where is he? what's the plan for Fletcher Cox. We'll worry about everybody else later. Some great players on that line.

Like to think they accounted for us all, but Fletcher Cox is where it started. And I hope that even in the second chapter, he's gonna make somebody very happy. I think you will. Alan Robinson, before we did the live watch, we recorded the winners and losers just a little bit ago that you heard.

And I recorded Alan Robinson as a loser. He's still sitting there. Like I thought when you think about wide receivers on the market, people couldn't wait for Alan Robinson to get, to get freed up, you know, from Chicago. Like we,

I mean, I feel like he's a player that has a hive, you know, like an Alan Robinson hive. And then fans love him. You know, people online are like imagining, you know, Allen joining their team, people in Jacksonville imagining that, you know, Alan Robinson has a homecoming. And then you sign Christian Kirk for 18 a year.

I mean, like, I was just wondering why he was sitting there. And sometimes, though, a player sitting there doesn't mean he doesn't have looks. A player sitting there might be sitting there because he's been through a lot of bad quarterback play, a lot of ups and downs in his career, and he's outplayed his situations almost every year. And so somebody like that is kind of scarred. And somebody like that wants to take their time and I think he found the right situation for him. I was saying Alan Robinson to Indy, that'd be great,

but you don't know who the quarterback's going to be there. And for a receiver like Alan Robinson and this fucks them in free agency really a little bit is, I mean, like the longer they sit without somebody, the musical chairs game goes and goes. And all of a sudden you look up and you're like, well, I got into your nobody because everybody's signed. He's in L.A. He's in good hands. Matt Stafford, great quarterback.

And the irony of that is Matt Stafford used to be Alan Robinson. Like, it's so interesting to me that within a year, I mean, people never tried to sign in Detroit. like Alan Robinson on a much smaller scale is going to be a guy that people root for in his new home that's less dysfunctional that he can really shine in, that he gets a great quarterback thrown in ball. And they'll look upon that and root for him because there's Matt Stafford. So it's a really cool situation. A year ago, Matt was the guy that was fleeing. And now people are fleeing to Matt Stafford and the ramps.

Yeah, it's a pretty big deal. Three years, 45 million with 30 mil guaranteed. I was wondering how do you like the fit with him and Cooper Cup as the two receivers there? Like, did they mesh well together with the route types that they do? I think Cooper Cup can go, he can run the whole tree, man. Like I really do, you know, I'm no wide out, but I really do think Cooper Cup's a guy that can get you catches anywhere on the field. So, you know, I think the way that they mix those three by ones up and like, you know, put people over to the side of the field where there's a ton of receivers and a little bunch or whatever. and then they manipulate where the help's going to be.

You put the other guy opposite and you pick on somebody or vice versa. And so like you saw a lot of those two-man games working out well with Cup and O'Dell. And I don't mean two-man games like out of the bunch. I mean like conceptual two-man games. It's really great that now a healthy guy, week one, starts opposite or in conjunction with a Cooper Cup. That's going to be big for that offense. They missed O'Dell in that Super Bowl. I think they run away with that Super Bowl a little bit

if Adele's healthy. So what does it mean for Adele in the future? I'm not sure yet. But, you know, again, hopefully it gives them time to get healthy. It's like Vaughn. People are like, oh, it was a rental. Yeah, but what rental is not worth a Super Bowl?

I mean, so far they have stuck the landing on this balancing act. You know, and the only barometer is, did you win at all or not? And they have, and next year they look to be pretty competitive again. So good for Alan Robinson. My brother loves him, play with him in Chicago, heard great things about him. He's a guy you root for.

I think people will root for him. It's a lot of NFL today. We had a really fun live stream. We're going to roll a clip or two so you can hear the audio. Kyle, my brother was in, as I mentioned, and Nate and I and him had some pretty fun debates and shit came up. I don't know. One of them was, I don't know how, and we'll roll those clips in a second,

but first I got to pay up on a bet. the bet earlier in the pod, right, where I have to sing. So I got a saying, we said Bob Seeger counted. But I told an Alto Reed story, who's the sax guy, Bob Seeger and the Silver Bullets, everybody knows Alto reads sax skills. Whether you know you know it or not, when you hear that note, you know what's coming next.

And that's Bob Seeger. And that's Alto Reed. Alto Reed made turn the page. I mean, Bob Seeger had bars on Turn the Page, but Alto Reed and the sacks made Turn the Page, which is maybe my favorite Bob Seger song, which I know is chalky, but as we went through it a second ago, there's a lot of great Bob Seger songs.

So I got to pay up. I'm going to sing a song, guys. I'm just going to go in. Did you like this song when you heard it? I did. Okay. This is from 72 also. It's called Turn the Page.

Out there in the spotlight, You're a million miles away. Every ounce of energy you try to give away as the sweat pours out your body like the music that you play. Auto. Later in the evening as you lie awake in bed with the echoes from the amplifiers ringing in your head. With the echoes from the amplifiers ringing in your head You smoked the day's last cigarette Remembering what you said

Damn Here I am On the road again Here I am Up on the stage Here I go playing the star again there I go

turn the page there I am playing a star Hey I am Bob Singer Hey I'm not gonna lie You can possibly get a little record deal You think? Yeah I think so

Oh I've done it in the shower for many years dude I think so Okay Your Instagram following Yeah with your likability and everything involved. I couldn't hear it. I couldn't hear it.

Bob was too loud. That's why I kept mixing up where, there I am. It wasn't, it wasn't terrible. And you have the look. It wasn't terrible. I have the look.

You're right. And if you get like a good producer, put a little auto tour or something on it, that shit might be fire, bro. I got the video of it. We could have Nate put it on TikTok and see you. I could become like the Jake Paul of music. Oh.

Here you go. All gimmicks. Okay, cool. So I enjoyed the live stream. I enjoyed the day. March Madness is awesome. Thanks for the hard work. Matt, Reed, Taylor.

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Indeed.com slash blue wire. Terms and conditions apply. Need to hire? You need indeed. Yeah, man, who I'm most excited for or I was hyped for. How about Vine getting another money? How cool is that? I say, you get traded.

Go get a ready. He's the first player to have $200 million contracts. Holy smokes. Holy smokes. Bro, he's a soccer player. We used to think that was soccer. Soccer money. Now it's coming to the NFL. Baseball money, soccer money. It's coming to the NFL now.

It has. I mean, Aaron Rogers, man, I knew I didn't, I didn't know it was going to be that much, but dang. Is that what, is that what broke the straw for Tom Brady? He heard that number and was like, what the hell? Yep. Yep. He's like, if I can maintain, I can maybe get another triple-digit contract because they gave him 200. Yeah, dude. Are you serious? I don't know. I don't know. I don't know.

I think Tom Brady got bored. But I also think Brady never was going to retire. I think he was retiring. My read on it is Brady was retiring to see if they would let him out of his contract to go somewhere else. He went to England. He met with the owner of the Bucks who also owns Man United. And he went to the game and was like, hey, man, I came all the way to England. You trade me to Indy or wherever the fuck you wanted to go?

And the guy was like, no. And then he came back and unretired. That's what I think happened for people. Yeah. See something like that. Some under the table we all know. Yeah, Brady moves in silence, dude. Yeah.

Like lasagna. You know, that boy, Brady definitely would have got more money if he wasn't with the Patriots because they just didn't pay. He just kept, you know, taking a lot of deals that would not be over the top for the team. Yeah, yeah. But boy, he could have made, pooh, even more. I think I think a hundred more million is out there for. He's making $11 million this year or something, like, which is funny to say that's now, like, what's the big deal about? that number on your on your salary cap but yeah for him that's pretty amazing he's

taking a serious haircut i mean he getting he getting him endorsements on the outside though so it's probably not even you know hurting them at all football players are just starting to do that where they really like kind of build a business world around them like basketball players had kind of the they were ahead of the game with that like marketing and branding themselves and the n i'll is going to help with that though yeah because kids like already doing it in college depending on what college you're going to because some of these schools I was just listening to a kid talk I think um what Nebraska yeah like some of those kids are making the equivalent to like 100k a year because like they're doing they're doing all these different

type of social media deals but they're getting them free housing stuff that like there's stuff that people had to sneak around to do and it should have never been a sneak around thing it's stuff that honestly honestly we should have been had and like like if you're a booster and you want to help out some current players and stuff. Like the practical way is, hey, get these guys housing, get these guys' extra food, get these guys' things that they're going to practically need. But now if you can incorporate that, get some advertising for your company, your business. Yeah, dude.

Show all work out. It's pretty damn cool. And, you know, what sucks, and I haven't thought this through, so maybe it's not true. But Alabama, all their boosters are probably pissed because now they've got to file taxes. Facts. Oh, how do you feel about Chandler Jones the Raiders, BG? Man, that was a great pickup because how they was playing last year. Like, I thought they D-Line play real good, you know, all year getting pressure.

Yeah. Adding him, man, it's too, they lost Yanik, but they add it even more. I think they're going to, you know, be right there at the top five D-lines. Got to be. I think the Raiders, as B.G pointed out, they win because. because, you know, Chandler is an upgrade, and I don't mean that as, like, unique is a badass rusher,

but Chandler's like a Hall of Famer. So, you know, Chan, and I think this, too, I said this on the podcast today, BG, and you probably know what I mean, but, like, his style of rush is conducive to him playing well into his 30s. Like, it's not about, like, when he loses a little bit of speed,

he's not going to fall off the face of the earth because he's a really bendy guy naturally, and he's got great hands. Like great hands. He's like a technician. So what's the 411 here on this hoop rock? The 411 is that we were talking about Bob Seeger. Turn the page.

Holy shit. Turn the page. That is the... That's how it goes. Did I tell you? Did I tell you or did I tell you? Oh, the lonely, lonesome highway. That's like a...

It's like primal with us. Primal. Alto Reed. Kyle, I just... That's it. I was just talking about that sacks. Alto reads the sax guy. Did I tell you I party with him?

I think I've heard this story. I mean, it was incredible. I'm not going to tell the whole story. Can you wear sunglasses the whole time? You wore sunglasses the whole time. We were in St. Louis after Bob Seeger's show and we got to go backstage. Like, you know, athletes get to go backstage. In Chicago, I'm sure you got to do a lot of cool shit.

Did you? Yeah, I mean, we did. Yeah. You're right. I'm giving you a hard time. I know, but I just powered right through it. Yes. What was your favorite access point that you got?

The coolest thing, bar none. and I'm sure you could guess what I'm going to say. We were at the House of Blues, action Bronson was going to perform. Oh, yes. And I put out a tweet that week, like, you know, I can't wait to see Bam Bam.

At the House of Blues, I'm bringing my homies. It's going to be awesome. And, you know, he started out the night with a couple, like, kind of vague shoutouts. You know, I hear there's some legends in the ground.

And we're like, oh, guys, they're talking about us for sure. For sure. They're going to point to the Bears O line. And then all of a sudden, and we have a suite up on the rafters, and then all of a sudden,

the guitar intro for Easy Rider plays off his brand new album. And he, like, he starts walking around on stage. He jumps off the front of the stage, clears the crowd like Moses on the floor, while he's performing, walks through the back of the House of Blues, up the stairs, into our suite and performs the, like with the microphone. And I'm crushing a beer and some nachos, and he's, how good is that? How good is that? That's so late.

I got a picture of it on my IG. It was the coolest access point, like, you know, to some celebrity type shit. Yo, a lot of these college kids bet. So they're, like, for real, for real, they're invested. They take no little stipend and they buy into Dogecoin and they try to double it up. Stipen. Okay, here's something that's all right. For a lack of a better term.

You know your white kids get allowance. I say stipend. For a while. You went to King Lowe Hayward High School, bro, in Connecticut. You went to a private school all. I did not get allowed. I aren't going to ask my parents, that's a lie. I think I used to get like a $5 to $10.

Where did you go to high school? King. And what side of? In Connecticut. In Connecticut. You know what we got as kids? What you get? Tough love.

We did. We sure did. Here's the thing, though. We were rich. You guys told the story. You were rich and asswuf. You stole his allowance. You told the story how you stole this allowance last time.

We worked stone made. Masonry is a sixth grader for that. I worked toned masonry high school. And I stole it. But hold on a second. Here's a deal. Totally rich kids, soft kids, all that stuff. But first generation rich soft kids.

It's a totally different deal. It's like, you know, a lot of my teammates used to be like, oh, where you're like, oh, you bust my balls about, you know, growing up with with money or whatever. Meanwhile, their kids. I'm like, how about your kids? I was like, what babies they are, because you make five times what my dad did. But anyways, Nate, you went to private school in Connecticut. How was that?

I was on a scholarship. It was great. Was it the school right by the ferry to the city where all the people worked in the city? The ferry. Yeah, they take a ferry there from Connecticut? Or is that Jersey? Where do they do it? The ferry from.

There is a ferry to Bridgeport, Connecticut. Okay. But I was in Stanford, Connecticut. Train guy. I went to high school exactly like stab. Nate had to run. Exactly. for nade to get to school because he had a ride over on a boat like in the ferry i got to go to

my next to a bunch of white collar criminals yeah no you want to know even better my first two years or first yeah two years ago in the school so my town i grew up in portchester new york and the rule is because there's no private schools in the area that if you get accepted to a private school outside the area the town has to provide you with transportation until like you're old enough to drive like If they show up with a white van at your house? No, this is funny. So listen. So listen.

So I have to take a bus essentially with six other kids in the area that also are in private schools in our areas that get picked up. And for the, my school started a week or two before everyone else. So the first two weeks, I would get picked up by a small yellow school bus. And that would be the only one on it. riding he had a personal he had a personal escort for school he had a personal esk not only did he go to school in connecticut you talked to the driver he had a driver you talked to your driver it was like so the driver like shout out shout out to herman like it was like one of these older gentlemen

like from my town that like like everyone's family knew and it was like odd job guy yeah like he he drove buses or guy that drives kids to connecticut What else did Herman do? Yeah, I don't know, but it was just funny to my first two weeks of school, I had to drive, I had to ride, like, in a little yellow school bus by myself. But a couple of times, they couldn't get buses, so they would give him, like, a Lincoln Town car, and that would look really cool getting dropped off, like, in, like, one of those, like, it's like a little. Front seat or backseat?

I would be in the backseat. You ever asked to be in the front? No. You ever touch his radio? No. Okay. Did he play music on the way to show? He did not touch his radio.

He was a big jazz guy. Big jazz guy. Oh, yeah? Yeah, like... So is Kareem. Seriously. Kareem's big jazz guy. We're just talking about that.

Kareem's dad played with Yusef Latif. Did he not? That's the sickest fucking thing in the world. Jazz, guys. Somebody give me a flute. I think I think it's cool. St. Louis catch a... straight. Everyone stop.

I'm tied for first in ESPN's March Madness. I'm tied for first. Look, Reed. After one game. After one game. How many people are tied with you?

Probably millions. Ralph said one time my dog got high because he accidentally ate a roach on the street. Yo, I can see that happening. He said he sat there and stared at the door for hours. Oh man, that's so funny.

Would a dog get really high ingesting a little bit of weed? Yes. Yes, yes, yes. People panic. People panic and go to the vet. You don't remember the little chihuahua that went viral? Yeah. With the girl.

The girl was, it couldn't even lift its head up, bro. It was like, we have to. We have to. The fucking group text, dude. Ralph was just like, dude, why are you peeing yourself? That's a great. He was like, why are you letting me out? So he said the dog was standing at the door peeing

because he ate the roach. Megan said maybe the dog needed to go outside to pee. Probably not, though. Probably not. Probably not.