Green Light with Chris Long - NFL Free Agency, NCAA Tournament Bracket Picks & Green Light TattyChamps

Episode Date: March 14, 2023

(2:06) - Chris' Family Vacation to Anguilla, Macon's Trip to Greensboro, the UNC Tar Heels Decline NIT Appearance & Cocaine Bear & Last of Us Review (33:56) - NFL Free Agency: Jimmy G to the Raiders, Jalen Ramsey in Miami, Chicago Bears Active, Lamar Jackson's Options & Aaron Rodgers Updates (1:03:29) - NCAA Tournament Bracket & Green Light's Tatty Champs 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   Green Light with Chris Long:   Subscribe and enjoy weekly content including podcasts, documentaries, live chats, celebrity interviews and more including hot news items, trending discussions from the NFL, MLB, NHL, NBA, NCAA are just a small part of what we will be sharing with you. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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dude in 2023 honestly I'm just struggling to write notes today I'm back I would welcome you back, man. Yeah. But I'm tired. Oh, shit. Here we go. I'm weary. But I'm also so happy.

Yeah. Selection Sunday, there's no day like it. There's nothing like it. Let's stick with you because I could talk rock all day long. Sticking with me, I have three sixes of Zen in. So like if you're watching YouTube and I look like I had plastic surgery. on my upper lip. I didn't. It's just that like it's hard to smile with his in-in. Remember

we went through this on vacation? Yeah, I walked in here and I don't know who was doing it, but I could smell marijuana from the street outside. Gorilla glue. And it just got even more intense as I walked up the stairs. And now you're throwing that's nicotine yeah

all up into your mouth and yet you declined the roulette of a caffeinated or decaffeinated coffee. Well, here's the thing. Nicotine, perfect drug. I'm like three weeks off of a Kodiak wintergreen, and I used to dip once a night. So like at night before bed,

that was my routine for a very long time. Now I don't do that anymore because Zinn fills the void and then some. It feels like it cuts out all the bad stuff, which it actually does, and the nicotine goes straight into your brain. The problem with that now is that I'm a nicotine addict. Whereas before I was a routine guy, right, who just liked the dip at night.

Yep. Now I first thing in the morning Three sixes Driving to work Three sixes Work three sixes Drive home I'm driving Hey something

Three sixes Before bed Four sixes Because you want the big You want the big Mike Tyson Knockout of nicotine Before you hit the sheets I'm not kidding you

And this isn't like Well this is exactly like the egg white situation From last week Because I don't understand egg whites but nicotine, nicotine and cigarettes. So cigarettes is tobacco, but also nicotine. And then you're smoking that into your lungs. Yes, I don't understand the need for the tobacco.

I'm a purist. I want the nicotine. And the dipping is like the fiberglass going into your bloodstream. That's the delivery system of said nicotine. Of nicotine. Yeah, which, you know, you're constantly cutting your lip. So do you know how this goes into your brain? Like the...

Yeah, through your bloodstream. Oh, still through your bloodstream. Yeah, but it's not, you're not cutting into it. It's not as harmful because they've basically taken the nicotine out of the tobacco. Now, they're going to tell you, hey, there's a lot we don't know about Zen. There's a lot I don't know about Zen. There's a lot I do know about Zen, which is that I like Zen and it gets me through the day. But I'm going to try to cut back a little bit.

You know, I got on the horse and I couldn't stop riding. And the thing about Zen is it doesn't... doesn't give me crippling anxiety like caffeine. So as you know, I don't drink coffee. I do a decaf every once in a blue moon where I need the synapses to fire a little better than they are currently. And so I tried to order a fucking decaf from McDonald's.

I said, anybody want one? Fochie said, yeah, I want one too. I'll take a regular drug vessel. Big black drug vessel. And I said, well, I'll have my decaf. So McDonald's sends two fucking coffees via grubhub get here before the show there's no demarcation of which ones loaded with the the dope and all i need is 15 milligrams of caffeine that's going to get me through

and then i'm going to feel that a little bit later but i'll do it for the good of the show but i can't fucking play russian roulette with that yeah you refused the fucking you walked down the street to get a new decaf coffee yeah you left the studio yes i went to marie bet and they gave me this we don't have decaf coffee we have decaf americano i go hold on a second we're going to have to have a conversation here oh i can answer some of that okay so that's your espresso and hot water very hot now yeah very hot as you can uh purport um but the the yeah they don't they don't have a a decaf drip coffee option over there now yours was so hot you you went and put you went and put ice cream in it. Yeah, there's no

fucking ice in the, um, you know, I want to get this show off the ground, dude. We sit in here too long. People get the heby-jeeves, so I want to get going. There's no ice in the freezer. So, if you could go back and do it all over again, would you got in an iced

Americano, you think? Yeah, probably I would ask for a couple fucking ice cubes. Okay, I didn't think that this thing came out of the center of there. So did you think about sticking it in the fridge for five? sticking in the fridge for five sure but I wanted to get started now ironically that would have been quicker yeah ironically after holding us all hostage our days you know by walking down the street

when you arrived it was a time to go it I it was fairly I think brilliant of you because people put cream in their coffee that's what you did yours just happened to be cold cold ice cream yeah so anyways French vanilla by the way this is going to be a big catch-up pot like we're not going to have no mustard we're also not going to have any guest I called Jason Kelsey or I texted Kelsey to be like hey you're back for another year

maybe you want to pop on the pod but he's really taking this back for another year thing seriously fucking guys working out so couldn't come on in my experience booking guests is quite difficult yeah it sucks not

Well, when you have to book two of them, it's pretty easy. Everybody goes quiet now. Everybody's been so amazed at my guest booking abilities. And then I try to make a joke. I try to pat myself on the back and y'all go quiet. Was it like, um, Oh, you did laugh. It is funny.

It is funny. It's funny. Like Golick? Like he said yes in like 30 seconds. Yeah. Well, you know, I wanted to have Mike on too, but you know, stole my thunder there. Yeah. Um, but the coffee makes me feel like cocaine bear.

Oh. Yeah. Segway. Did you see it? I did see it. Nice. As you know, it's good radio. Last night, yeah, right?

Uh-huh. I went and saw cocaine bear. Miss the Oscars. Uh, lovely wife was like, what about the last of us season finale? I was like, nah, I want a cocaine bear at Stonefield, which I heard was closing down. And the, um, the reports of its demise are not exaggerated. I don't think because me, bad back, back, back. and Paw Kett go in there and we're the only three people in Cocaine Barrett.

Now it's a 9 p.m. It's a Sunday night. Isn't that good though? Aren't you happy when you're the only ones in there? Oh, yeah, for sure. But then I'm not real happy when the lights are on the first 15 minutes of the movie. Oh, wow. They fucking left the lights on the first 15 minutes of the movie.

Not to call out Stonefield. I want the movie theaters to stay. I guarantee you I know who went to ask them to turn the lights off. Pawcat. Pawcat. Yeah. Pawcat. Absolutely.

And then when he got back, Bakke was like, oh, this is the movie? he thought it was still the previews or something. The movie is fucking wonderful, dude. Oh. Cocaine Bear is great. Like, and I mean this. Like, not an ironic way.

Not in a ha, ha, ha, it's a fucking bear on cocaine. I wouldn't even consider it a stoner movie. Now, I got to watch it again to be sure. But... Because you're so high. That's funny. So, I mean, it was, it had like, all the ingredients of an old monster movie.

It had like, you know, nostalgic 80s references. It had the monster. It had like there was a milf. There were funny characters. There was gore. Like everything that you want in a horror,

like a monster horror movie it had. And it had really good like cameo appearances. Wasn't Ray Leota in it? Ray Leota was in it. And Ray Leota's God rest his soul. Yeah. God rest his soul. It's his last role.

Okay. So spoiler alert, because I don't think it's a big plot movie, but Ray Leota, do you guys, can I tell you what happened? Yeah, please do. Okay. If you haven't seen the movie, cover your ears, but Ray Leota got his stomach eaten out by the bear. And like, you just think about all the fucking cocaine and crime and mafia movies and like dirty cop movies. He's been in. And his last death in a movie is at the hands of a bear on cocaine. It's just iconic. You can't make this shit up. The guy from game. of Thrones the big red-headed guy. Oh, brand. No. Yeah, that's funny. Torman. Big brolic, dude. Big brolic ginger.

Well, he's in the movie, and he looks regular as fuck. He must have been on a cycle in Game of Thrones. There's a guy from Instagram, you know, the retail guy with the mustache. Retail guy. Who worked at IKEA and would do these voiceovers where he was like really rude to the customers, as he probably secretly wished he was all the time. Remember this guy? I don't know if you remember the guy, but he was in the movie.

It was terrific, man. And Clay Davis from the wire. Shit. Like the movie's supposed to be about the bear, okay? But he's a real scene stealer, man. He's the funniest fucking character I've seen in a movie in a couple years. Wow. Yeah, he's awesome.

Now, his real name is, what is his real name? I might know it. Isaiah Whitlock Jr. Yeah. Funniest fucking guy ever. So funny. The whole movie I just went, I was like. Oh, Margo Martindale.

She's from the Americans. O'Shea Jackson Jr. He's from straight out of Compton. O'Shea Jackson Jr. was great. Jesse Tyler Ferguson, modern family. Look at this cast. Yeah, dude. Really good cast.

Carrie Russell, the American. Great director too, Elizabeth Banks. So yeah. The actress as well? Yeah, she directed this. Okay. She did a great job. You know, what that name is.

similar to as Elizabeth Berkeley, Jesse Spano from Saved by the Bell, who went on to do like some sort of strip tease thing, yeah? Yeah, that's right. Yeah. So it's a great movie. My Rotten Tomatoes Review is in. It's a big fucking... I think tomato was good.

Yeah, tomato. Big old, red, juicy, juicy. Field in my tomatoes. Yeah. And my review would be, now that's a bear that knows what it wants because it wanted cocaine. And they didn't overthink it. and it was awesome. It was an awesome movie.

Very good. 69% tomato meter. Audience score 72% though. I was told a few minutes ago that you're up on the last of us, are you? I am. So you saw last night. I saw last night. Oh, a little double feature for you.

Yeah, so cover your ears at home if you haven't seen it yet. But also, hurry the fuck up. Yeah. Yeah. It's Tuesday. So put your earmuffs on, Matt. Got it. Reed, have you seen it?

No, I haven't seen episode one. Okay, so fire everything. Everybody's leaving the room. Uh, what the fuck? Well, I don't understand your question. Yeah, what the fuck? Um, look, I... Without telling them what happened, what the fuck?

Well, what are we supposed to glean that the guy had the chance to save the world potentially, but, uh, he let his own, um, personal, relationship getting the way and he was a weirder the whole episode i felt like the two of them forgot how to act for the first 15 minutes of the episode they're amazing but the it was awkward on purpose but okay also a little bit of a residual effect from cocaine bear got home turned it on watched the whole childbirth scene oh yeah did not realize till i was laying in bed that that was ellie oh yeah yeah i was just like oh i forgot about the pregnant lady is she she she got maybe okay she kept calling her Ellie. Yeah, I know. And then there were like the opening credits. Yeah, I know. Okay. It was a long night.

The, the mom looked a lot like Ellie. A lot of art consumption. Yeah. Yeah. Marlene was there. Yeah, got it. You know? Yep. But what do you mean what the fuck? What do you mean? Oh, I mean like, it's bold to end it there. I mean, like, I think they're going to come back for more. I know. But it's bold to end the first season there because to me, Pedro Pascal's character is almost unredeemable at this point. He was irredeemable. Yeah. Like it was a mass shooting. It felt like it was like it was fucked up.

We were seeing a mental breakdown. Yes, dude. Yeah. And he lied to the girl. Whose life he saved. Whose life he saved. But maybe she would have been like, yeah, cut me open. Yeah.

Yeah. And then she says, say you swear. And he was like, I swear. I swear. Now he's lying. Yeah. A lot of seven deadly sins in there. Really good show.

Hey. Thanks to you guys. for encouraging everybody to watch it. I didn't think I'd be enthralled by a sci-fi. And I sure was. And there weren't that many of those little fuckers, you know, clicking around. No. It's a human story. It's a human story.

As much as it is, you know, which is a selling point that I think you've picked up on. And now we're right in a succession. That's right. I'm doing a little rewatch watching back season three. It's delightful. And Mario, the movie. Mario the movie. Oh, I can't wait.

I think it's like April 7th. So Mario Luigi Mario? Yeah, I don't even know what day it is. I know when that comes out. What are they going to do? Well, they're going to fight Bowser. Oh. Peach?

She's there. Yeah, she's involved. For that movie, we should get a Children of the Greenlight podcast review. Yes. Send them, they go and watch it. And then they come in here and talk about it. We get Waylon, Luke,

and anybody else that wants to participate. Just their thoughts. stream of consciousness. I agree. My kid really just says, Dad, I eat. So might not be as good. Well,

my end of that. Hopefully it won't be as as scary as when we took the kids to Puss and Boots. It's out April 5th. I was on an edible at Puss and Boots. I thought it was like tripping.

I mean, like, there was a wolf in there that was so scary. It was unbelievable. You know, and I guess Cocaine Bear mission accomplished because I don't think Black Bears

are a fucking problem at all. I've made myself very clear on that topic. But I got out. last night and I'm kind of in the woods now and I look over my shoulder for a bear. That's cool. You know and so I think you know it's like jaws you don't want jump in the pool and not think about the shark the movie didn't do its job. Zoe Rabin and I walked outside the other night we both go bathroom about 1130

p.m. and there were two big old things that ran away in a hurry now. You think it was a bear. Could have just been deer but it sounded like they had some I think they do spin-offs like meth giraffe you know just like switch to drug, switch to animal, and Elizabeth Banks do another one. What's the scariest drug animal combo? Caffeine penguin. No, no, no. I thought about meth penguin, too.

Penguin, really? Penguins. Wow, are we like sympathico here? There was a giraffe and last of us. Yeah, there was. That was a cool scene. Big old black tongue. Yeah.

So. Acid snakes. Acid snakes. Jesus. Bass salt, basalt gorilla. You know? Anyways. What's the drug in weed?

THC. Some days I feel like it's THC humans. Oh, that's funny. That's good. Oh, Trips. Tell me about the, well, I'll tell you about Anguilla first. Yeah, welcome home. Well, no, you tell me about Greensboro.

Greensboro, North Carolina. Hello! It's Greensboro. is awesome. There's just nothing to do but watch a ACC basketball tournament. Used to be every year,

now once every few years. They've actually made some improvements to the gym. I was a little bit disappointed to see. But I rolled down there Saturday. I was in the car for a total of six hours. I was in the arena for two. And a little pre-gaming for maybe.

you won and then we lost to Duke. So you say, hey, make, you regret making the decision to drive down to Greensboro on a whim to see the who's playing the ACC title? Answer's no. Because I really appreciate and I'll never take for granted being a man in the arena. Yeah. You hear what I'm saying? Because, oh, I'll get there. Yeah. Because I'm wearing really loud Virginia clothing. At JPJ, I like, you kind of, you know, I look put together. But if I'm not, not on the home turf, I like to be loud. And I'd had a couple pops, so I was being boisterous, and I was getting chirped out a little bit.

So I don't know. You might call this low-hanging fruit smack talk, but when you're down the entire game, you don't have a lot to say. You can't say something like scoreboard. So I would just ask every single Duke fan what year they graduated from the school, which is not applicable for those folks.

You want to talk about a group of hillbillies. It's the Duke University basketball fans. Yeah. Okay. They got Hillbilly fans? Mm-hmm. So, like, U.N.C. has, like, the fans all over the country. They hit every single demo.

You don't see fans. But Duke either it's wine and cheese or it's backwards. Yeah. No in between, really. And, no, man, it was fun. The Who's lost by 10. Duke played well. A lot of length.

Lossed a lot of money on that game. You did? Yeah. Yeah. 59-49 was a final. We could just never really get it going. But it's, uh, if you, if you have the chance to see a Power 5 basketball conference, I don't think, uh, tournament, I don't think you can do better than the ACC in Greensboro.

It's just, it's something special. The whole town embraces that one week out of the year. And if you can, uh, if you can roll several days into a trip, uh, it's awesome. On the way down, I called my brother-in-law like, hey, Wear your seats. Yeah. We'll try to get close. I've never heard such a gravelly voice in my life.

Yeah, he was getting after it. And that's what a week in Greensboro does to you. Yeah, I got after it. Yeah. I got after it. I got after it. D word? D word?

Drunk. Oh, nah, man. Responsibly. Drunk. I mean, I'm talking.

Yeah. Yeah. More like starting with like a J. Like I was drunk. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. It was good.

It was fun. Glad you didn't tell me. I would have had FOMO. Yeah. Cool. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

You know, have I said, I wish we had won the game. I wish we had won the game, but it was still a good time. John Shire, man, a fucking guy. I heard you, I did hear a little of your podcast with Gold Lake. Oh, I'll be damn. Thank you, man. That warms the shit out of my heart. Yeah, well, you said John Shire not best looking coach in the ACC.

Right, but I think number two. I think is number two. Yeah. Fucking guy looks like he's from general hospital. You think he's real hot? No, I'm just saying he looks like what I imagine women think is, like the way I, see a guy and evaluate the hotness is on a scale that I have created in my mind based on an aggregation of what and yeah John Shire I think women like John Shire for sure he's a good

looking guy he's just a Tony Bennett yeah listen that was a long-winded way of explaining that I'm not gay but John Shire John Shire yeah I mean he's like tall what I said he's younger than me well and it's you know he's younger than us yeah I mean that's fucked up. We're getting old. We are. And it's a glow up because the college days weren't terribly kind. But they're also like 17 and one with all their guys, dude.

And this is his first year and it makes me afraid. They're all five stars, man. I know, but you think they're going to stop getting five stars? Well, hey, Carolina has a bunch of five stars. Yeah. Carolina season's over. Yeah. In the most insufferable uppity on brand way.

I can't believe they printed a graphic for that. That was my favorite part. Like they printed a graphic to say that they're bowing out of the NIT. When the going gets tough, take your ball and go home. I mean, even if they weren't to bow out of the, the NIT, and they turned down a weekend in New York, because it would have been a weekend. You know, they were up 16 and Natty last year. 11 months ago. I mean, it's just incredible.

I mean, I know we catch a lot of shit for losing the UMBC and the whole thing, but this is, when you do this, it's the cherry on top. And I think it's more embarrassing Losing to a 16C. We have a national championship since then. My how the turn tables. Yep, exactly. Yeah, I wasn't drunk, you know. It was just for effect.

I was building that up. I was quite petty, though. I would, there'd be a loser Duke fan looking awful. And I, and like I took videos of them. Yeah, that's being really petty. That's like, I'll get you punched in the face by some of those hillbilly. Yep, yeah, that's right.

How was your trip? I went to Anguilla. You know, I'll put a bow on it by saying Greensboro is really the Anguilla of the eastern seaboard. Yeah. A little bit inland, but yeah. East coast. Anguilla is great.

I mean, beautiful beaches. The surf was a little rough, so your boy didn't get in the ocean too much. It was two red flags for most of the stay. Stayed in a house with my entire family. My parents, Howie and his fiance, Kyle and his wife, Kate and their baby. And the last night ended with a fire. Oh no. Yeah, there was a fire in front of the villa.

One of your own cones? Well, no, it wasn't me, actually. But after the fire, I was, like, so careful. I was, like, putting my cones out in the pool and then, like, putting them in a wet plastic bag and putting them in the trash. Not a planned fire. No, it was...

Unplanned fire. So we're, like, on the beach. There's a pool behind our villa. There's about 200 feet, maybe, down to the ocean. And in the middle of it, maybe, like, 75 feet away there's a grove of palm trees and the last night there was an 11 year old having a birthday party like couple spots down and we caught wind which is going to be a key term in this story of a fireworks so we were out there to watch the fireworks not only were they really fucking loud

but they also were set off on a very windy evening and they they landed in that grove of palm trees and 10 minutes after the sun's gone down, Kyle's up there putting the baby to sleep, kids are downstairs eating room service, and all of a sudden I'm like, hey, that's a fire. And the thing is, like, growing pretty quickly, and I can see that it's the fireworks. And my dad naturally...

Thank God, Howie Long's Day. Yeah, firestorm is like, oh, I'll go put it out. I'm like, Dad, stay the fuck here. Like, this looks like a fire department fire. I mean, the thing is now within 30 seconds, 10, 15 feet tall. And dad's, the kids are scared. And dad is decided that he's not going to fight the fire. But he's going to alert Kyle who runs downstairs in a frenzy.

And he's like, what the fuck? He's like, passports. Where the fuck are the passports? And he runs out the front door with his family. Well, after he also. in very long man fashion. I can see it. Walk towards the fire for five feet,

you know, with some intention of putting it out. Had to size it up. To which I said, Kyle, get the fucking side, dude. Okay?

Like the fire department of this great Caribbean nation is going to handle this fire swiftly, but there's a lot of smoke. So we're getting smoked out. The fire department comes. We get our last night comped. Oh.

So I don't want to call out the resort that allowed fireworks on a, on a night where the wind's blowing 15 knots. But, but good idea. Comped. Yeah, honestly, I would, if I'd done it all over again. Every night. Just to see Kyle run out the door asking for the passports, I mean, that was worth the price of admission.

Was it, was it heading toward the house? Because a fire, what do fires do in bodies of water? just become hot water I don't know you have to ask Howie Long We have to ask Blaine Gabbard There was a dock scene Yeah Blaine Gabbard or Howie Long There was a dock scene in Firestorm

Where Dad was running down the dock with an axe And I don't know why he was running with an axe But he had to get to some fucking overturned canoe To get under it because the fire storm was coming Spoiler alert And in the filming of this scene He dropped the axe because he did all his own stunts He's like a plus size Tom Cruise

He fell on the ass and it broke his ribs. Oh, my God. Oh, no. Yeah, right, right. So, you know, with that whole thing having happened, I don't think I want dad leading the... So what exactly did big how we'd do during this fire,

except besides golf or Kyle? He just got on the phone and as the smoke is billowing, he's asking about other accommodations. What's the number to 911 in, In Willow? I have no idea, but it wasn't like that. Like, we could have gotten our golf cart and's gotten the fuck out of there. but Kyle took the golf cart So did he wake the baby up?

Oh yeah the baby was still awake Okay not asleep yet Okay so baby had a long night Yeah well every night for her is a long night Right exactly yeah good one So yeah and another thing about that trip is Like when I had this on my calendar It's amazing how you imagine things

I was like yo I'm gonna be so fucking cool I'm gonna be jacked on the beach I'm gonna be just getting off the map mountain, like probably have a bunch of abs, walked 40 miles at altitude last week, the whole thing. Nah, two fucking drinks in. I feel like the guy with the speedo on the beach, who's like just, you know, fried and overweight. Like, I'm at, I'm at that age. Nah, you know, like, yeah, I'm going to look like John based out. Nah, still have puffy nipples on the beach. You know what I mean? Like that, the last picture from your IG dump, you were looking hot. You like that? Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Yeah, well, let me pull that back up. Not the best angle, but, you know. No, I was like, hmm. Thanks. Yeah. I appreciate it. That's not how you feel, though. And so, yeah, I mean, like seven days in Anguilla, you know, drinking by the pool during the day, eating whatever the fuck I wanted.

Happy to be home. Yeah. Happy to have you back. Thanks. Any vacation plan for next week or what? No, I'm here, bro. Oh, what you did was you put the kid in front of your body. Exactly.

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Got to talk about, we're going to do our Taddy Champs selection later. Obviously, for the people who remember from last year, we're going to draw two teams per person involved. The first draw is going to be your team that you're rooting for to win the whole thing, because if they win the whole thing, you get two grand.

Your cash team. Yeah, your cash team, which I don't know where that money's coming from yet. Cash out. Cash out. Thank you to cash out. Appreciate you. And then the second team you draw,

pay attention here, is the team that if they win the national championship, you have to get a theme tattoo. Yep. Somewhere in your body of this mascot or school, something affiliated with the school. Now the seeds in the pool are one through eight. So could get dicey for somebody this year

or somebody could make some money. So Ginkston drew the number one overall seed last year. Gonzaga. Yeah. He was going to have a bulldog tattoo. Mark Fee's face. Yeah. Mark Few,

Mark Few getting a DUI with his dogs in the back seat. Tattoo. Oh. On your back. Mark Few, Kevin Bacon, tattoo. Yeah. Okay, so we're going to do that in a bit. We're going to talk about a little NFL now because I missed a lot of shit, dude.

I really did. And I'm home right on time for free agency, which kicked off about an hour ago. It's like 115 here. I can't hear you, cowboy. Big quarterback news. The biggest quarterback news of the day, the one that we were all waiting for, Mike White signs with the Miami Dolphins. He did.

I thought you were going to say Jared Stidham to the Bronfins. Stidham to the Broncos. Well, that's the second biggest quarterback news of the day. You were like bummed about that. And I'm like this Jared Stidham like closet fan. Give a backup quarterback 5 million a year and he's played

two good quarters, three good quarters. Yes. It doesn't matter. You can have a Chad Henney. You could have a Chad Henney that's played in a million games. But Peyton might like Stidham. He might think this guy's not bad. Like maybe a developmental piece.

Plus the insurance, if Russ is, you know, he gets sucked into one of those toilets in his many bathrooms or something. Like something happens to Russell Wilson, you're going to need a guy. Yeah. And, yeah, I should trust Sean Payton more. We are trusting Sean Payton because he had just went out and spent over $100 million on the offensive line today in the last, like, hour with McGlenshy and Ben Powers. But in the news you were waiting for, Jimmy G to the Raiders.

His Raiders. Yeah, Jimmy G. Raiders. Big money. Three years, 67 million. Talk about a hot guy. He's going to look great in that silver and black. So talking about the quarterbacks, yeah,

he is going to look good in the silver and black. And he's very, he could have gone Long Island, you know, Italian last name. They would have loved him there. Well, maybe not because in Scott's not in the room, but corporate Greg, big Jets fan. He walks in today. He's like, has Roger's sign yet?

You know, like they really want this to happen. So Jimmy G to the Jets would have been a disappointment, I think, to some fans. But the guy, can do Vegas just as well. I mean, he, you know, like I can see him in a casino. Well, the mafia. Yeah. They built Vegas. He's a rangy Italian. Yeah. You know? Yep. He can do a lot of things. He really can. But he can also provide the, the Raiders with a competitive starting quarterback who's got a relationship with the O.C. And a guy that can be a bridge for you

as you develop another quarterback. I was in New England when he had the spot start a few games for Tom Brady because Tom was suspended at that point for deflategate, which I still think was overblown. No, but honestly, what do you think? What do you think? What I think is we're playing Nerf hoops out there with a slightly overinflated ball and ball inflation matters.

Kinks and I beat Cowboy Reading Fochay 7 to 9. while you were getting your decaf coffee. Seven to nothing. Yeah, pretty good. Kings and I are both 36 years old. But that's the point. The other teams are playing with the, well, they're not playing with these balls too,

but, but, you know, like the second half of the, the Colts game, they fixed the balls and they go out and score like 30 points. They made way too big a deal out of that thing. It was crazy. Like I was in, I was at Bush Stadium watching a Cardinals game and there's like a cryon flashing across the screen about Tom Brady's.

cell phone being destroyed like the whole thing got insane well the the cell phone destruction thing was a little bit at inspector gadgetish i mean like the whole thing was kind of goofy did you say kairon right no thanks for the correction yeah no problem we really appreciate when you do that did you hear on that i heard that part where you were like guys see you're great when i correct people is always this benign um there was like yeah chris hates it but you know he's an anguola fuck him No, but like, you know, they go out and they beat the Seahawks. Seahawks are one of the best defense of all time.

The balls are perfectly inflated for that whole ordeal. Anyways, Jimmy G., when he spots started for Tom in that scenario, he was very good. His shoulder exploded against the dolphins, but he was crushing it. And I can't help but wonder what the upside for him is. It's like weird because you look at Jimmy G. And you're like, well, him and Kyle Shanahan's offense is probably his ceiling. and I'd probably agree with that

but you're kind of getting close to that ceiling when you look at a coordinator like Josh who he has a history with and who he's performed really well and efficiently with so I think the Raiders got to be pretty happy with Jimmy G. I think so. It makes sense and a lot of Jimmy G's proficiencies

were the Raiders' deficiencies last year. Quick game, efficient passing. Derek Carr took a lot of unneeded shots that had a negative, you know, expected points, average. And I just started to look at Devante Adams in his like kind of shot chart last year and where he was catching balls.

And he caught a lot of balls down the field, right? So that's one area where I know that's not maybe Jimmy's game, but they have to, you know, prioritize, still taking those shots and using this guy who, unfortunately, for a glimmer of time, probably thought that he was going to reunite with Aaron Rogers or there was some possibility of it. He was like, you know,

Tim Robbins and Aaron Rogers is like Morgan Freeman or something like that. I can't remember the name of the city. Shawshank Redemptions. Well, I know the San Juan Teneho. And he's sitting there and he's in San Juan Teneho and fucking some other guy shows up. Like one of the sisters, Brooks shows up.

You know? So it's, you know, I feel bad for Devante Adams a little bit. Yeah, for sure. I think they'll be better than they were. Whatever reason. And in news, the people's yesterday, or two days ago, Sunday, a trade that was perplexed a lot of folks. Jalen Ramsey goes from the Rams to the dolphins.

You called it. He had been praying on that. For a long time. Yeah. Yeah. God was like, yeah, I can't get to the Middle East right now. now, but I'll send you to Miami. You know?

You know who's been hit me up? Every day is Jalen Rams. We used to be. Yeah, he's just leaving them on red. But then, you know, people are all praying in the shower. Yeah. You know, the bucks were, you know, like I've been in Rams prayers where we were three and 11.

Like God's not going to prioritize. If there's any sporting events, it's not the one of the Edward Jones dome, which by the way, real quick. Battle Hawk Nation. Yeah, a Miller Light mention viewing party, which I am also announcing is being consolidated. Viewing party and fly on the wall, we're going to... Oh, thank God. Viewing fly.

Viewing fly. I just made it up. So it's still going to be just as hard to explain. But thank you God for answering my prayer. I'll think of a name, but it's going to be some conglomeration. How about fly on the wall? Yeah. Fly on the wall.

Okay. I don't like the bit of fly on the wall at the Emmer Jones dome. When I saw the videos, I felt a little something inside, dude. You know, we lost a lot, but it was a good time. You know, like the repetition of noon game, your whole routine, driving back home,

grabbing some Schlafly's. The real warm yellow lighting. Then go into Pepper Lounge, then go into the east side, and eating a fucking hot dog in the parking lot. You know, some people think it's gross to eat a hot dog in the parking lot of strip club. I don't.

But that whole, I mean, I did it a million times and the fans were always rowdy, the ones that were there, especially through some lean years. And to see them show up and the attendance be super high, not surprisingly, 38,000 to see an XFL game. It warmed my heart. And I tweeted, the dome is back. And somebody put it really succinctly in the mentions

and kind of, I said, damn, you're right. I said the dome never left, football left us. And, you know, I thought that was pretty powerful. And that's the way the fans feel. And you can see it when they show up in droves to support an XFL team. So I bet the, I bet the buildings hosted like a Mary Kay convention in the meantime, something like that.

Yeah. Probably hasn't just been sitting in there. No, no, but the energy of the dome. Like when I watched the video, had you changed the, the t-shirts on the fans, it was the same rowdy energy. and yeah, I missed the place. So we're talking about Jalen.

Obviously, although I said, you know, they need to move Jalen, they need to move, you need to look at moving Aaron. You know, Matthew Stafford, I don't know what the mechanism is as to his guarantees, but he's untradable. You know, if you cut him, though, I think you save a bunch of money.

I don't think Rams fans, who I've mixed it up with a little bit online, seem to grasp the concept that, you know, like, it's far from a sure thing this guy's going to be healthy and upright the entire season. Like, I know he just won you a Super Bowl, but I'm just putting all the pieces together, the context, what I've looked at throughout his career,

the attrition, and I don't know. So I don't know, like, my point is, I think if I was running the Rams, I'd say reset right now. and Jalen is a piece of that. He's big time cap relief. I'm not saying there, it's like an NBA trade. It's just cap relief.

They got a tight end with my last name. Yep. Long. Yep. And they got like a third round pick, 77 pick. So this isn't like an earth-shattering hall, and I would have liked them to get more. But it does relieve some of the cap.

That doesn't mean they're going to make a big move, a la la the dolphins when they cleared all that. cap space last week and you thought oh maybe quarterback but then they picked up to his option and it happened to be for the guy we're talking about all along Jalen Rams so

and they'll rework that deal a little bit there to make more team friendly but I do think this obviously this negotiation was anchored by his salary and I also think if I was the Rams I would have done this last year yeah I would have done this

last fall you know like I don't don't know what their timeline and their heads were, but if I know I'm gonna reset in some capacity, we're out of it pretty early last year. Or maybe at the trade deadline last year. Yeah, that's what I'm saying. Last year at the trade deadline. Because look at what you got for Darius Slay.

And that was like, you know, like a couple years ago. You know, like, or look what you get for a guy when a team's trying to make a playoff push. There's no leverage right now for the Rams. And so it ended up being a fire sale. But the thing that people don't think about is you mentioned contract is they also can use that money that they've freed up to then sign an asset that you can either play or trade down the line. So it's not like just the third round pick and the tight end. There's also whomever you sign with that money that you freed up.

No question. Yeah. And you should look at it that way. And from that standpoint, that's what makes it a good trade for the Rams. And Jalen Ramsey is going to save some money in state taxes. He saves over $2 million. Incredible. And back in the state of Florida, is this his business?

best uni yet? Is he going to look the best in this uniform? Those black Jacksonville jerseys are solid. They worked great for him. It worked great. I hate the dolphins. I mean, if they wore the marinos they're perfect. I think they look great. I don't like the font and I don't like the new

dolphin. I like the old dolphin. I like the old ones but the new ones are fine. In the lettering. The Rams should keep going. They really should commit to this thing. You know like on the dolphin side of things they've low-key been ruthless in the pursuit of winning the last couple of years. I mean, look at it.

Well, and they just signed a little bit of insurance at quarterback. And Mike White, but look what they did. They fired a good head coach in Flores. Like, he was doing fine. The upside was realized in Mike Big Daniels, but they had yacht tampering and the ensuing docking of picks. Then they had the concussion thing last year, where it's like, oh, they're kind of playing to it no matter what.

And now they're setting that capital that they have remaining on fire and trying to win now with a quarterback on a rookie deal. So I really respect their pursuit of winning, not the concussion thing, but they're kind of like a movie team right now. They're doing whatever it takes to win. And they tried to give Tom Brady ownership and partner in with Sean Payton. That's the yacht stuff.

We got to wait for that doc to come out. Exactly. and we'll see what surfaces. You know, but like... Low key, like, that's like your third pun. Yeah, thank you. I didn't mean all of them. But Vic Fangio, he's never had a group this talented. And as Reid pointed out, would you say about the safeties?

Well, the safeties usually are the basis of his defense. Now he has two corners that can take pressure off that, off those safeties. And I mean, you look at other teams, right? On the, when the other team's defense is on the field, you have to account for two top-end wide receivers. You have to have two good enough corners or scheme well enough against those two guys to take them away or try to.

And then when your offense goes on the field, you have two top-end dbs. You have to have wide receivers good enough to go against these dbs to move the ball well enough so you're not just a one-dimensional side. And you mentioned the safety thing. I mean, Holland is a guy they love. I mean, he's a hell of a ball player.

So Fangio walks in the door and he's happy, but you bolster the corner position, which, you know, like to think that you would get a guy like this, I know his play dipped last year, but corner is a variable position where guys can play good one year, bad the next year, betting on him being closer to that kind of all-pro Jalen Ramsey in years past.

And to pay this for him, I mean, this isn't bad. And this was a weakness for you last year. and, you know, now you have three blue-chip D-Bs. You have three blue-chip guys on your front, Jalen Phillips, Bradley Chubb, Wilkins as well, Christian Wilkins. So this is a really talented defense. And teams are going to have to score to keep up with that offense. And so, you know, you secure the back end. It's pretty good strategy for them.

And they're building it like a team with a quarterback and a rookie deal should. Yep. Cowboy, what if you're like a brilliant defensive football mind? Have you thought about that? What if you're like Romeo Cronel? Have you thought about leaving the podcast to pursue your dream of coaching? Does Romeo have time to cross country ski and go to bluegrass shows? Maybe he's putting his time in the wrong places.

What if you're Leslie Frazier? You're trying to fucking pot. I mean, it'd be cool. It'd be great for the show. We could definitely get him as a guest. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Could we get you on? Oh, no problem.

I think all of my, you know, past certainly lines me up well for a, for a gig in the NFL. Yeah, resume is good. You're like Buddy Ryan. I see you. I think Buddy Ryan. I'd take the cowboy hat from upstairs and the glasses that are lying around here somewhere. Get into Buddy Ryan pretty well. So we were talking about, you know, the Rams and what I think they should do.

It's pretty interesting the last couple years at the Rams and the Saints have kind of been. like vying for the NFC. Like, you know, if you remember that game in New Orleans with the big miss call, the big bad call. And the Senate hearings that followed, I think, but like these two teams were the cream of the crop and the NFC. And the Rams cashed in.

Obviously they were a little bit more aggressive with burning capital, but the Saints did not. And I think that does affect how you think about, you know, Saints have the old, we had one of the oldest rosters in the league last, year. Both these teams were picked to make runs last year. Neither of them had the year that they hoped they would have. The Saints, I thought, had a good football team. If everybody stayed healthy and they had a better quarterback. Now you're trying to reason, hey, we have a better

quarterback. We have probably the best defense that he's had, you know, in the past few years for sure. I think they were top five in red zone, top five in yardage. They were like top 10 in EPA. You're trying to convince yourself to keep the window open. You're like you're trying to continue to take a crack at it with some of the core players that you've had on this run where the Rams are saying, hey, fuck it, we're hitting the reset button. It's also harder to do in a small market, like the full on rebuild, like, hey, we're going to suck for a year. Yeah. That's harder to do in a place like New Orleans. Yeah, the trash bags come out. But I think a big part of this is it's hard to have it on your conscience to say,

hey, we're waving the white flag in a division where there's no quarterback that you got to beat currently. I mean, like you're talking about Baker, Mayfield, and Tampa, rookie quarterback in Carolina. We'll get to the Carolina trade right now, but Atlanta, I mean, nice young core of skill position players, but short of them landing Lamar,

is it going to be Anthony Richardson? Like, are they going to trade up? That division's kind of wide open. So you could be looking at just by having a stable presence that quarterback. And I think Carmichael, who a lot of people want to go on, will actually do fine with Derek Carr.

You could be looking at hosting a playoff game. Like this is not easy money. There's no easy money in the NFL, but here's an opportunity. And I see why they're not hitting the reset button, but it is risky. They are the favorite in the NFC South right now. They should be, yeah.

And you mentioned that Bears Carolina trade. Did you have a team that came out on top? Well, it always looks like the bears come out on top in these situations, right? And if you look at the history of teams that have traded up to get their guy at number one, there have not been a bunch of trades for number ones in the league's history. I think the closest thing to somebody actually nailing it was, you know, Michael Vick. But they also were working at a deficit building the infrastructure around him. and that's the problem is like Carolina there's no wide receivers

like this young guy is going to come in and throw to a bunch of shadow program guys and it's not like you have McCaffrey either anymore you have a running back by committee can I read you the 12 names that have been picked at number one when somebody's come up to get them since 1967 yeah go Jared golf Michael Vic Orlando pace that worked it worked but I think Walter Jones was drafted at six by the team that they gave the pick to. Kejana Carter, Russell Maryland, Jeff George, Irving Friar, Earl Campbell, Steve Bartkowski, Ed Jones, Ron Yerry, doesn't sound right, and Bubba Smith.

So needless to say, some great names in there, but not a quarterback, you know, save for Michael Vick. And that didn't get him over the hump. It's pretty similar to the trade that the Rams made when you were on the team. Washington like you guys had a quarterback already and you sent the pick that became RG3 to Washington for like comparable yeah it's pretty I mean like that pick is probably more valuable when we ran out all the players that we got in the in the in the hall for for the coin toss at the at the Washington game when I first saw it I thought I think they could have gotten more no pun intended but then I think

DJ Moore is the game changer because because now you don't don't have to go searching for a receiver. The contract's not too bad. Not bad. Ryan Pace said he knew he could get two ones and two seconds. And he gets that plus DJ. Poles. Poles.

Pauls. Sorry. Yeah. Ryan Pace ghost. Yeah. So. A little combo. You know, like, I, again,

Poles, Yates Cunningham. Yep. Friend of mine, hopefully one day, a friend of the program. Yeah, what's taking him so long? Yeah, I know. He's been dangling that carrot, you know. I tried him again after this trade. He said, I got to wait until, you know, one day I'm a real name.

So they just continue to do a good job with a quarterback that they didn't put in their orbit. Like, you know, they're supporting Justin Fields. Like, that's a tough decision. Maybe depending on where you sit, I think he's the talents too much to move on from him. But it's hard sometimes to get behind a guy that's not your guy. and they're doing it. And I think they're doing it well. And, you know, if you look at this trade,

I think Carolina's still struggling next year, chances are, and that pick's still going to be up near the top of the draft. Yeah. And it looks like the number one pick will be C.J. Stroud if Carolina keeps it. Yeah. And that makes sense. It makes the Carolina pick at three,

like the hottest real estate on the market, to use a metaphor that might show. Not the Carolina pick. Who's got the third pick? No, did I say Carolina? The Cardinals. Cardinals pick at three. Arizona pick at three is going to be just hot real estate.

And you think somebody will trade up to grab that and then we'll have four quarterbacks taken with the first four picks? I don't know. You know, like I'm... You know who should trade it? The Carolina Panthers should trade down to three. Is this CJ Stroudial to be a smokescreen? I know, but like...

Let's play some chess. I heard this theory that. that they might now trade back and recoup, but like why make a trade at all? I don't buy that. Do you net out like any better? But let's say you're a GM, like, and you have the one pick.

Yeah. Is that way better than being a GM and having the four pick and being like, oh, like I have to take Will Levis. He's the last guy there. Like there's no like pressure on you to make the right decision. Right, you just have to roll with it.

But I don't think anybody remembers that. I mean, the thing that makes it tough, I think with the trade up forecast is Anthony Richardson because he's so variable. Like, some of, might want him pretty early and might be deathly afraid of somebody moving up to three to get him.

So I think the bears now have the best wide receiver core in the NFC North. And all young players 25, 25, 24, Cole Camette is right in nature. Take the pressure off of Chase Claypool too. Exactly. You know, I mean like, you know,

it's probably not going to go down as the best trade in history. Right. But, you know, you can do a lot to kind of mitigate that by just taking pressure off him and having that true number one who I think is fantastic and DJ Moore. DJ Moore has played most of his career catching balls from, you know. The list is ridiculous. He had a couple from Taylor Heineke. Yeah. Yeah. So hopefully Justin Fields doesn't end up a name on that list. But another quarterback thing here is

Danny Dimes. I mean, I hadn't talked about that with you. You feel good. I do feel good. I do feel good. If it can only get better from there, why not roll the dice? I mean, there was a playoff win in year one. Yeah, exactly. And a lot of people, I'm not comparing him in Lamar Jackson, but they have the same amount of playoff wins, right? Right.

And I think, you know, had the giants exercised his option, maybe you'd have an opportunity, as I understand it, then to franchise him now. And I know some people like the, player probably plays better with the big deal in hand, but I don't know that. You know, I think it's a nice carrot to dangle that, hey, like, you're still proving it. And I'd like to see him one year with good weapons. Like, is it a deal where it really makes a big difference? Or, you know, if they go out and get a veteran wide receiver, which they need to now, Adam Thieland's out there,

I don't know. Yeah. Um, draft guys, like, you know, they trot out a better group, uh, than Hodgins and fucking whoever else. Rich James. Yeah, and God, you probably missed the hell out of Evan Ingram last year. Well, he decided to start catching balls. Yeah, well, Doug E.P., you know, like, if he doesn't look much better and you're sitting there and now you're pot committed to him for a couple years, the good thing is he's tradable, like three years in, like very tradable.

Contracts not so bad. But, like, you know, there is a school of thought that says, hey, it would have been nice had you picked up the option. For sure. You know who's dropping just a little bit? Is that Michael Mayor and the Giants are at 25. Yeah, I don't know 25 is going to do it for him. He's slipping for whatever reason.

But mayor or Dalton, he ran like me. Dalton Kincaid at Utah. He had like my measurables right now. But he's just a square-jawed football player, central casting. Draft the guy. Yeah. Well, you don't need a burner when you got Richie James running around out there. Yep, yep.

But you need wide receivers there. another one is oh yeah the the Robert Wood signing don't let me forget that one because I think Robert Woods is a fine player I know he's had injuries the class is not deep at wide receiver

so like it's bad so you know overpaying a little bit for him it could have been much worse and if you're going to draft the quarterback you got to give him a good solid player to throw the ball to and if you're trading for Kirk Cousins or something like that which I've heard rumblings that maybe he's

for sale. And you're talking about the Texans. I'm talking about the Texans. Yeah, Robert Wood's on with Houston. So I think it's a good move. I think it's a good move. And he's a good veteran wide receiver. Like, you know, you can have a real asshole in the room and he can be productive and get open, but he might be a tremendous strain on a young quarterback. This guy, I've never heard of peep.

He's like, awesome, great guy. And if Brandon Cooks ends up staying, he doesn't get traded, that's not a bad, you know, double veteran. I think Cook's, yeah, you're right. But I think Cooks is probably gone. You know, like, and I also, they were shopping somebody else too as well, Houston. There's, oh, tonsil. Yeah, yeah, yeah, Laramie.

You know, and she's not the best tackle class. No, no. You just saw what Denver paid for McGlinchie. And Joanne. I didn't see, but you saw. Yeah, yeah. Juan Taylor just got picked up by the Chiefs. Okay.

So Jacksonville tackle now, uh, to Kansas City after Kansas City let Orlando Bear should take that big old tackle from Northwestern. We're sitting there at nine. There's some really curious edge rushers who I can't really put my finger on

like why I would see them being top 10 picks this year. Like the kid from Iowa, like watch him go out. It'd be awesome just because I said that. I'm a little bit up and down on the kid from Clemson. Miles Murphy. I like the Texas Tech kid. Obviously, Bama kids are sure shot.

But there's some guys in there that I'm just not so sure about. Nolan Smith, Georgia was the combine, darling. Yeah, and you know what? He's a good football player. Different kind of guy than some of the guys I just described. Speaking of D. Lyman, D. Ron Payne got the bag. The only thing I'll say about this is Quentin Williams and Jeffrey Simmons getting good night's sleep. Yep.

Might be sleeping the best because the money is going to be good. And Hargrave showed it too with his big deal. Hargraves, who just signed with the Niners the first hour of free agency. You knew he'd walk. He was going to command 20 mil a year. The Eagles weren't going to pay that. Fossa, Armstead, Hargrave. This was the big fucking void for them.

Yeah. Like if you watch San Francisco play defense against the Eagles, they ran all over this defense, and a lot of it came down to problems on the interior. Kinlaw was just getting destroyed at the point of attack. He was in the pool, man. Couldn't swim. And, you know, like, you think about adding Hargraves that mix,

it does bolster the interior in a big way. Eagles, Eagles news. Darius Slay possibly a mover, but Jalen Ramsey's Hall kind of, I know you get more for Slay probably, but yeah, there's a little water on it. I think Slay to Denver is a possibility. Would you like that?

I would two top corners in Slay and Patrick PS2. You can say Sir Tan. Okay. I know it doesn't look like it. But you can say it. Thank you. CJ Gardner Johnson also possibly unhappy, possibly on the way out. Well, for some of these guys, they have been told, hey, go look for a trade, no problem.

We want you back, but go look for a trade, see what the market is. And then we can go work on a deal from there. And you saw Kelsey back to the Eagles earlier and how happy how he was in that video when it was announced. They feel being Cam Juergens. You're like, I'm chilling another year. Right. Well, they're talking about that's what they're talking about moving him to. Because Sanamalu is almost certainly a bear or a Bronco, from what I hear.

And Edwards, T.J. Edwards gets a big deal in Chicago, which means that Kobe Dean's era has begun. And Eagles fans are jazzed about that. And it was wild. In the spot starts he had, he played phenomenally. He was graded really high. I think in one quarter, he came in one quarter late in the season. and he ended up leading the team in tackles in just one quarter, 10 minutes or so play.

He's active, yeah, he's active for sure. One last thing, Fletcher Cox, you know, like there's been rumblings that, I mean, you know, it would make sense that he's on the move. Him and D'Amico Ryan's played together. Yeah. You know? Great. Yeah, I could see him in some cowboy boots and a big bucket hat.

Doing the, yeah, dude. Patriots, big Patriots guy walking around in the, Oh yeah, the Vince Woolfork. Yeah, he could, a resurrected Vince Woolfork. That'd be great. And I want to, you said the Patriots that made me think of this. Deb McCordy, like, you know,

when you think about a teammate and you think about a football player, like I play with a lot of guys, when I, when a name is mentioned, the way that name makes me feel is more predicated on the type of teammate they were than type of player, but if they were both, like I just have so much respect for the cat.

I mean, he was an all pro corner safety and just an amazing teammate. Like one of the guys that immediately I jell with in New England and still a great friend. Like came down last year for my golf tournament in May was like the first one ever. Stayed out, hung out with me by the pool till four in the morning, just catching up like he's a fucking good friend.

You know, he never gets too, big time and he's had so much success. So I'm just so thankful I play with Devin McCordy and congratulations to him for hanging it up and going out on his own terms. I mean like one team, multiple championships, leadership role. Certainly you could be, his name will be on the Hall of Fame stuff. You know, I don't know if he's going to go, but he's that type of respected guy. For sure. And Matt Slater, another guy put that category who's still up there and I guess maybe he'll play another year. Looks like it.

I want to make a public cry, I guess, for Callais Campbell. Come home. He's a Denver native. Yeah. Colorado in. Yeah. So bring him on home. If Jemont Jones goes, let's get Calais.

Altitude might be a problem for him though. He'll be fine. Yeah, yeah. And then he's like much taller. So if you think about, I don't know. 5,287 feet. Exactly. That's up there.

Are you all right, Kingston? Oh, man. Think about it. He might be, he just goes to Denver and he's just walking around out there. We've got, so one more, you mentioned the Colts with the fourth pick. Would it make sense for them, you know, they, they would get the fourth best quarterback in this draft. Would they forfeit that pick and next year's first rounder for a shot at Lamar? So it's interesting, you mentioned this, Reed.

I mean, what do you think about that? trading back the day of the draft, having some capital to recoup what you're going to have to pay for Lamar. I don't know if Lamar is still going to be there, you know, when the draft happens. I kind of would rather have the quarterback at Southern California at this point. I would too. I think. I would too. But say you're pressed to have a quarterback.

This is an interesting thought that re brought up. Here's the, here's my thing on the Lamar thing, which isn't it was, I was glad I was on vacation. Because, you know, like, listen. and these are old billionaire boys club guys. Like, yeah, they collude. Like, they talk amongst each other. I've seen, you know, no, they don't want the guaranteed contract thing to happen. Like, they're going to do what they can to have that not happen.

But when I see a list of the teams that are out on Lamar, people are up in arms at, like, somebody's, like, the gall to turn down a chance at Lamar and a fully guaranteed contract and giving up two first rounds for, for this. this guy who I have the utmost respect for and I think is a hell of a football player. And if I was a GM, I'd probably take a shot of Lamar, but not every team has to wanna do that. You know, like it doesn't have to be collusion.

The only thing that doesn't make sense is why announce it? Like why announce it right away? I don't know. I don't know, but it's also like if you're gonna be in the market for Lamar, you probably don't telegraph that either. So I mean like, I'm totally fine with acknowledging the collusion, I'm on the player,

side here like everybody else seemingly in the world. But not every team has to want to give that up, you know, to get a player that hasn't finished last two years. And like a lot of his biggest critics, whether it was disingenuous or not intellectually dishonest, we're like, yeah, well, his style of play is going to get him hurt. And like, what about the durability of this guy? Now he's on the other side of 25. and you know I could see concerns being enough not to want to spend two firsts and pay this guy all this money especially like if there's one team for me that I like the idea of it it's the Falcons because I just feel like him and Arthur Smith would be great and you look at Algiers on a rookie deal you have Algeria Patterson you have Drake London you have Kyle Pitts like that could be fun right but I do think that not

everybody has to want to go rush to the front of the line to sign Lamar Jackson in this situation. And I also do think it's okay to acknowledge that if he had an agent right now, I feel like, you know, agents tamper, dude. Like, they find shit out. Before you enter that franchise tag negotiation, you probably know if you have an agent who's going to be in the mix for you. Yep. And I do feel like he's flying a little bit more blind than he would.

Forget if, you know, the system we currently have adopted for, you know, representation of NFL players, if it's perfect, it's not perfect. It's not ideal. But in this scenario, there is a competitive disadvantage for not having that person, in my opinion. Now, somebody might hear this and be like, Chris, you're fucking, you're like a turncoat or something like. But no, I'm not.

Like, I get it. I get why guys represent themselves, but this is a tricky situation. Do you see? Be enemy? Yeah, commanders. Yeah, it could be fun. Listen, I love Lamar,

but people were just shocked. Wouldn't a lot of teams also be incentivized to wait until after the draft? Because you owe two first round picks if you get them. If you wait until after the draft, it's two first round picks in 24 and 25. This is where I'm out of my depth. If you're signing Lamar,

you're signing Lamar to be good. Yeah. So you would want to defer and have those draft picks be later, not now, because you'd want to win this season. Sure, sure. And yeah, you want to win right now. You're not rebuilding. You're making the move to try to win.

Another thing is if Lamar is who he's been, you're going to have this show-stopping, playmaking ability, this electric passer and runner. But what you're going to have is if you got the Lamar that we've already seen is like, that netted out to one playoff win. So imagine giving, bless you, Reed, bless you. Bless you, cowboy. Imagine giving him the bag to the degree that you're going to have to do it to get it and to give up those picks.

And then like say in four years you've won one or two playoff games. It's a risk. You're fucked. Yeah. You know, like people are going to look back and be like, why'd you do it? And this is, you know, so I'm a huge Lamar fan. And I probably would do the thing, depending on the team I was. but like Indy

if I don't love those rookie quarterbacks I'm going to do the thing but I also understand why some other teams might not want to do the thing so Lamar Jonathan Taylor Michael Pittman

yeah team could win yeah could and you know you invest in the defense the thing goes so last thing is fucking we can't talk about the NFL without talking about Aaron Rogers I thought Aaron Rogers might be using the Jets

to like, you know, drive up interest from the Raiders, not that he'd need to, I guess, but that was my conspiracy brain at work. The darkness retreat was like many moons ago. And now the Jets are like it. He's holding them captive right now. And by the way, the Lamar situation, the Ravens are kind of held captive.

Oh, yeah. The fucking, the Rogers saga, it can't end with him going back now, We know this, right? I think he's going to leave. I don't know what the holdup is. And I think it would be awesome. Like I would definitely want Aaron Rogers to be my quarterback if I was a Jets fan.

But this thing is just dragging out. It's the first day of free agency, but I think it'll happen. Yeah. What about retirement? Where do you put that? Do you put that above or below back to Packers? Maybe above. Okay.

Because you just can't go back to it. Well, and especially after what the Packers have said. the last week. You can't go back. He said, we're good. He might go back and be like, I can go back, you know, like I can do whatever the fuck I want. But it's just, it would look so wild, you know? And I also think he has a better chance of winning in New York. Hell yeah. Yeah. So fuck it, do it. Part of it might be like, you know, when you're like, I'm not going to grow up to be just like my dad, you know?

And Brett Farve, you know, there's a moment. And Rogers is probably doing crimes too. Yeah. For me, there's a moment where in my new house, we have all these doors that you have to like, you have to pull them up to lock them. I don't know how you describe those doors.

You pull the handle. Yeah, well, my dad knows. And he spends all his time locking the doors in his house and showing you how to lock the doors in his house. It's the thing me and my brothers talk about. And I found myself a week ago at 11 p.m. walking around doing the door. And I was like, fuck, I'm, and it's not so bad because my dad's living the life.

But I'm like, I'm my dad. He's like, I'm Brett Farr. And you know, like I'm going to New York. Wasn't it around this time? He was texting strange photos. Yeah, I don't think that's coming, but I don't want to put that evil on him. I don't think he's building a gymnasium with welfare funds. But I don't think he's, I'm not accusing him of being a bad person.

But what I'm saying is like he's doing the Brett Fav thing. And maybe part of the holdup for him is like existential. He's like, I cannot, I don't want to do with my dad. I don't want your life. You know? I don't want your life. Is it just a new to you door handle mechanism or have you never locked your doors before? No, I just didn't have this many doors with this mechanism.

Okay. Yeah. I mean, they're everywhere. Okay. You know, I've got a lot of windows and doors. So I hope Aaron Rogers is a jet for the sake of the law. league for entertainment for the Jets for the Jets fans for Joe Douglas but let's get this show on the road well I I want to mention this this podcast this company's doing great and everything but I think

what we need to do is get you in a workout and then have you demand $20 million a year yes come back to the NFL sure I might go to the battle hawks I it'd be great 20k a year yeah I really thought about it I was like how would I do Oh, XFL? Yeah. What if you were the MVP? Yeah, Bo and Nate were. Bo and Nate think they could still play?

Bo does. Nate says no. And Nate was saying that he would just pop over to offensive line. You give me two weeks. I give you 15 snaps. Now, my hamstring might explode. But if I'm healthy, I think I can still, you know, work the hands. So.

I think St. Louis would welcome you back for a game. Yeah, but the fucking, all the fucking players on the Battlehawks would be like, who the fuck is this guy? and why? This is stupid. Chris would be standing that there was a fire over there, I swear.

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because it's just the hottest thing in the streets right now. No better day than Selection Sunday. I can't wait, dude. Fired up. This Thursday, obviously. Fired up. Well, we both did our 60-second bracket. Do you want to start there?

Yeah, you liked my bracket. I did. A little background here. I'm going to talk about college basketball over the next couple weeks, but I don't watch a lot of it. Not until like a week or two ago. So many of these teams that I had advancing through my little bracket, never seen them play. And you'll probably do better than everybody else.

You like it though. Yeah, I like it. My final four is the Alabama Crimson Tide, the heartwarming story that is the Alabama Crimson Tide. Look, they are excellent defensively. And they also just happen to score about 90 points a game. I mean, what are you going to do? They start 6-9, 6-10, 7-foot, and the 6-9 guy is one of the best players.

Here's what we're going to do. We're going to let due process work itself out. And by the Sweet 16, I hear they could be down three starters. Well. So, like America's teams, Tuscaloosa County sheriffs. Yeah. Yep. Yep.

Let's get on that. Foshae, right? Brian, Denny, County, Attorney General. Yeah, because we might see them in the Sweet 16. Yeah, yeah, okay Well, you want to go, you want to go region by region? Just a couple things that stand out? If guys are guilty.

Okay, I'm not saying just... Well, even if they're not, we might want to ask them some questions. Yeah, maybe we want to ask you a couple questions for a couple weeks. Yeah. You know? Alabama's the number one overall seed. Yeah. And I think that's right.

They headline the South. We are Virginia fans. We live in Charlottesville. Sure. You know, everybody loves Furman. Furman's a popular upset pick. I got news for you. Every single year, everyone picks the lower seed to upset Virginia.

Nah, Virginia is always the sexy upset. I wouldn't bet us. Well, the best coach in the country, Tony Bennett, I think he's had one stress-free round a 64 game in his career, and we've been the number one seed a lot. I logged like 40,000 steps around my kitchen counter the year we won it all. Garden. Garden.

Web. We were down 14 in the first half. A calendar year from the worst day of my sports fandom life. Our lives would be different had that happened again. 283 and that for me. And then everybody's talking about Charleston. Golly, San Diego State's really good. The computers have them as the number 11.

I think Torvick has them, the 11th best team of the country. Kempom has them the 14th best team of the country. And you trust Kampom Yeah Torvik Morsso if I'm being honest I like the NC State Wolfpack To get their act together Not a very disciplined team

But the guards are Buckets man Terquavian Smith And Jarkal Joyner And Casey Morsell DJ Burns is a big guy They can get by Creighton I like them to I like him to get that a regional final

Wow wow A little Bama NC State action Yeah I had NC State winning early and then getting knocked out. I like Utah State over Missouri. I like Utah State over Arizona. I think the South's going to be nutty. That's crazy.

Hopefully, hey, it's called March Madness. You want to talk about the South at all? I just love, I love this. I just love the bracket. You know, man. I do too. Show me a bracket. I love it.

My final four is UVA, Purdue, Texas, and UCLA. I got Texas in there too. I got Alabama, Marquette, Texas, and Yukon. and I got Alabama over Texas in the national championship game. The East, Purdue, a lot of pressure. I haven't been to a final four in a long time. Zach Eadie, big guy, does a lot.

If he gets into foul trouble, then you're relying on two really good guards, but they're freshman guards in the big dance. It tends not to work out. However, a lot of grenades in there for Purdue, though. Memphis with Kendrick Davis is scary. Dangerous. FAU is a good team.

Memphis just beat Houston. Memphis just beat Houston. Duke is playing very well. I happen to like Oral Roberts, that one. Max Aesmus. It's spelled A-B-M-A-S, but it's A-M-A-S-Mas. He's a great score. Haven't they played oral before?

They played Mercer. Lost to Mercer. Yeah. Lost to Lehi. Lost to Lehi. I don't know if they played oral in the big dance. Tennessee's Limpin. So there'll be a popular upset pick.

Sometimes, you know, you rally around the adversity. If you learn to use it the right way, Chris, it can buy you a ticket to a place. You couldn't have gotten into any other way. You know, Oral Roberts is expanding? Oh, yeah? Oh, yeah? I didn't.

I know Robert. Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha. Yeah. Oh. Yeah, try that one. Okay. Marquette just won the Big East. Shock is smart.

Tyler Colick, he's a good player. Cam Jones, he's a good player. East is a little weird for me. Midwest, Houston's the one, not Kansas. So Kansas won't be playing in Kansas City. Kansas has seven quad one losses. McCullors banged up. Well, they have a million quad one wins too.

But they were saying maybe they should be in the Midwest and get to go through Kansas City, but nah, they're shipped out west. So it's Houston in the Midwest. I just see a lot of unreliable basketball teams in this tournament, which will make it fun. In the Midwest, Xavier, really high ceiling, really low floor. Really high seed, too.

Yep. They're good. Indiana, you never know what you're going to get. You can see Kent State getting them in round one. Miami's going to be a bar burner. Yeah. This is Miami got injury issue? Yeah, they've got a big that's out with an ankle.

We can get the lines on these games, baby. Yeah, we can. I can't wait to gamble on this. I'm gonna do it right now. Like I said, madness, so take carefully. So getting ready for the Taddy champs, but is there one team you would most like to avoid? Bama.

Like Bama's gonna win the tournament. Yeah, Oral Roberts. You know? Let's see. Yeah, Maryland? You fucking kidding me? I'd have to do like Terepin Station. That people would be like.

That sounds cool. Oh, man, you like the dead a lot, huh? Like, yeah, but... I bet you could find a cool-looking turtle to put on, like, don't you have a sea theme here on one of your... Yeah. I would gladly take...

Yeah, a little sea turtle. I'd gladly take Maryland because they're not going to win the tournament. Well, and your name starts with an M. Great. What do you do about Grand Canyon? Fucking... Try tattooing a canyon on you.

Got some good news. They're the antelopes, so have some fun with that. Mm-hmm. Aona? Just Rick Patino. That's good. A little portrait. Colgate.

I said, yeah, toothpaste. I said Yukon out of the west. It feels like a Yukon year. 2014, they were a seven seed. Shabazz Napier, took them to the title. Wow. It feels like that sort of thing. Wow.

Feels like that sort of thing. They would see Kansas in the Sweet 16. And UCLA's down there. We'll see how they do without Clark. I got something for you. Maybe it'll be fine. I got something for you. You want me to give you my...

Everybody chill out on Gonzaga, yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, I give you my tournament breakdown. Okay. Don Staley looks on as somebody on her team, blocks a shot of somebody on the Hokies. Yeah.

And eliminates the Hokies. Yeah. The Hokies are one seed. They are. Scary. News to me on the women's side, the Hokies are a one seed. They have no team national championships.

But hey. They won like a fertilizer. I'm not going to do the whole thing, but they really did like an agriculture. Bass fishing. Bass fishing? Yeah. Not an NCAA.

And I respect the Jimmy Houston's of the world. But the fact remains that tech, who yes, I know you're like, you never beat them. Yeah, no, we never beat you all at football. And you guys were good for a long time at football. But you're not that good anymore. Past tense. And this is your best shot to have a team championship under your belt.

The reason I'm not worried is the reason you've stated. I don't think South Carolina's beatable in that tournament. And the only other Power 5 team without a title is K State. K State's three-seat in this men's tournament. Look out. Quite interesting. Look out. Yeah.

And another thing out of the same region as Virginia Tech is USC and North Dakota State play each other. Notice that North Dakota State is completely white. A team is all white So look for them to make an early exit I'm going to bet USC Okay Okay Okay

Okay I remember how mad people got at me When I When I said Dante Divencenzo Like gave a bunch of kids false hope You know A bunch of little suburban white kids Are out in the driveway right now

Dribble in the basketball Keeping the neighborhood awake After the Villanova title And people got so mad at me man You know Like it's a fucking joke, man. There's a movie called White Men Can't Jump. There is. But there's not a movie called White Women Can't Jump. So buyer beware on USC.

That's all I'm saying. That's my breakdown. That should be the sequel. What? White women can't jump. It'd be a really good time to do it. You know, white women are their popularity level is at all time low. Woody Harrelson's daughter. Oh, dude. Fucking white women just on their cell phones, calling the police. They can't jump, though.

Hey, I did a movie. They're playing basketball on the court. Somebody come. Yes. Or, like, you know, you got to, like, they're on top of a building, and they got to jump to the building to flee. Right. Pleasure.

Thank you. And they can't jump. They just fall on the crack. They're on the cell phone the whole time. You can't jump right now. They're on the cell phone, calling the police. Anyways. That's dark.

Who should produce that, Jordan Peele? Yukon has wins over Alabama and Marquette this year. Texas, two senior guards, Sergei Bari Rice, Marcus Carr. I did a little brackatology event this morning. I was a bracketologist.

Joe Lunardi was there. I was on a panel with Virginia's president, Jim Ryan, and noted author John Grisham. Well, it's from Mary Ann Williamson. I don't care. Two of my... Is it? She, you know, she's going to be relevant to get here, soon.

Two of my... Two of my good friends, Caroline Darnie and Debbie Stroman. So what I do, my schick here every year is... Oh, most Mary Ann Williamson, you're our only home. All I do is I just throw darts at Grisham, you know? So I realize that my shawl... stick here doesn't quite carry over to different settings. Oh, it doesn't carry over here sometimes.

So I said, I said, hey, John, I've recently gotten into reading, you know, set him up for it. It's about time, you know, how you know, laughs and stuff. And I said, the Pelican brief, more like the Pelican pretty long. You didn't. Yeah, I swear to God. I go, you must own up the Soros. And, you know, kind of, you know, a smattering of, like.

So then I just had to keep going back in on the Pelican brief until people find, you know, Norm McDonald's sort of bomb on purpose situation. Luncheons are hard. Yeah, I was at breakfast. Yeah, I was saying breakfast would be even harder. Yeah. I think luncheons are harder than breakfast, though. Probably so.

At least people are like, I just woke up. Hammer and coffee. Yeah. Yeah, I had to eat breakfast anyways, but a luncheon? Yeah. Lunardi was there. He was funny. Were any UVA players there?

And you didn't know UVA player. Oh, yeah. So I had to send in my final four picks the night before. I did not know Kehei Clark and Jaden Gardner were going to be in the building. So a lot of my prepared remarks were about how Alabama is going to win a national championship and how good San Diego state is. Jesus, we're never going to get any of these guys on the public. Well, you know, a little motivation, you know?

Yeah. We're like, hey, that aging realtor is doubting us. Let's give it our all. But if Virginia gets out that first weekend, they'll go to the YUM center in Louisville where it's a home away from home. All they do is win there. They beat Louisville. They advance to the final four from Louisville.

They've done it before. They can do it again. The KFC YUM center. It's a good spot. Let's kick off our Teddy Jams. All right? So the first round is the prize, right? Yes. And the only way you can get out of giving a tattoo is if you donate $100,000 to one of boys.

I don't know if I would even, oh, God. That's, and actually, Beau. No, no, no. No, no, you're not accepting the one. I'll donate the $1,000. Just, I said 100. Oh, 100? Yeah.

Oh, fuck. Yeah, no. So that's a well. You get out of a tattoo? Oh, 100,000? Oh, yeah, 100,000. That'll work. Okay.

I thought you're saying 1,000. No, 100,000. A drop to zero. A quick, so we need to approve or disapprove two participants. Bo said he would play, but he would not get a tattoo. Is he in or out? He's out. Out.

Good. Is he a, Bo? Jesus. I know how much you hate being on the outside looking in. FOMO, Prince of FOMO. I have a little FOMO now. We're going to talk about this so much. And Kyle said he was in. He did mention Hanna Tattoo. No, guys.

100% tattoo or not. The real deal here. Good. Taddy chance. Let's give him his Let's give him his teams and we'll blindly ask him one more time at the time of conclusion of this thought. Perfect. And we're going to do a fan team as well. So one maybe lucky, maybe unlucky fan. out there is going to join in as well.

All right. Keep your eyes peeled for that. Will you read the names of the person who's up and then I'll do the draw? So first we're going to go Chris. Chris is first. And this is prize, right? This is prize. Are the teams on the balls?

Okay. Oh, geez. Do your worst. Did that come out? That's his team? Kentucky. Oh, so that's money. They're probably not going to win.

Yep. Whatever. Just about that. All right. Wait, wait. Is this also Chris? Are we doing all monies first? All monies.

All money. All monies. And I'm sorry. I'm sorry. Hey, I'm sorry. Now, are all the teams going back into the thing for the tattoos? Yes. Okay.

Thank you. Thank you. Nothing further. Kingston. You're next. Northwestern. That's not good. Yikes.

Who's next? Northwestern, I think, is going to win a game, though. I think they can get Boisey. Then lose to UCLA. All right. Makin, it's you. Cowboy, look alive, man. He's looking for you for who's next.

Well, I'm just double-checking this list because there's some names that weren't on it, and I did not write the list. Yeah, there's some pretty serious Matt list discrepancies going on back here. Aizoo. All good. So, Missouri is number three. That was for Macon. I mean, they're going to get blown out by Utah State. You have to root against your team.

Well, I'm going to. So we have Kentucky picked. We have Missouri picked. Who is the second pick? I got Northwestern. Northwestern. Good deal. And now I am next.

Somebody's getting a goddamn tattoo this year. There's a lot of people on this list. I know. Reed, you got UVA. All right. Wow. Go whose. Would you even want a cavalier?

Scott is next. You'd make it cool somehow. You can make it cool, but I would get that. I actually had to put the horse with the musketeer on there. I don't know. This weekend in Greensboro, guy told a story. He was sitting next to Big Boy from Outcast,

watching the Virginia Memphis game a few years back. and Big boy looks over to him in the second half and he goes, is your mascot a pimp or a pirate? That's so much good. He's right. Yes. It's a tough deal to have to ink. Yeah, yeah.

Scott got South Dakota State. San Diego State, sorry. I pray that's true. It is. This is the Nate pick. We're going to at Big Boy. All right. This is Nate's pick.

I'm not. Memphis basketball fan big boy that's how we'll know yeah Nate's money team is Marquette pretty good selection okay two seat two seat in the east and now we're going Kyle Kyle's money team yeah we're Kyle we'll give you fucking IOUs and you can get you can get a head of tattoo fucking fake money Houston that too Houston it's the number one seed out of the Midwest solid pick for Kyle now now I might want to do it now mm-hmm Ralph Xavier.

Xavier for Ralph. And now we've got Foshae. Look, hey, Xavier is playing Kennesaw State, Knessaw State. Sick coach. Amir Abderahim. Yeah.

He's, he's really cool and going places. Not that Kinnasaw State is not a place, it is a place. Maybe going to a bigger market. Fosha's pick is. Arizona.

Oh. Very, very strong. And now we've got the fans. And he's a starving college kid, so... Right, that's big. Makes a money. A lot of drugs. Like, charity.

Yeah. The fans get Creighton. Do you want to like... Jump the ball back in, shake it up? Yeah, shake it up. We'll start from the top. Two teams, the tattie teams. All right.

When it gets real. Like Christopher Walker in Vietnam. This does not count. This ball fell out. The deer hunter reference. Yeah. Talked about Russian roulette a few times. All right.

Who's up first? Chris. Chris is up. Chris, this is your tattie team. Good luck, man. Wow, I saw that it almost was Texas. Like, it's Duke. You gotta be fucking amazing.

You have got to be kidding me. There is not a tattoo in the world. Give him a hot little John Shire. A devil? You could figure it out. You could do like a pitchfork or something. You could make it okay. The worst part is that it's because it's Duke.

And they've got, and they're playing really well, and they're one of the most talented teams. And they got an easy draw. God damn general hospital guys. I'm going to be cutting down the nets. I mean. And I'm going to be looking like some damn trailer park trash. If they get by Purdue. With the devil tattoo.

They get by Purdue in the Sweet 16. I mean, they're probably one national team. Looking like a fucking carny. Come on. You and Steve will be crying for different reasons. Yeah. Now we've got Kingston. Can I get Steven?

And I get Steven your tatty champ pen. Oh my God. Yeah. Somebody asked me if Ken Flageal was my dad on vacation. No? Oh, that's not bad at all. Creighton. Creighton in there twice.

Fuck, dude. Now, Macon's Taddychamp pick. This is not good. I can't believe you got two. What do you mean if they get through Purdue? Like, there's nobody else that can beat them? Talk to me. Hold on.

I just got, what is it? Mizzou. Oh, my God. Lucky bastard. Thank God. Wow. So money and tattoo. Hey, yeah.

That's awesome. Yeah, they're all in there, Pat. Yeah, yeah. That's counts. All right. Now mine. Give me my tatty. Yo.

Orel could get due. I've never, I'm going to root so hard for Oh, Reed. You were so lucky. I thought it said Kansas, but it's Arkansas.

Arkansas. Okay. All right. All right. I wouldn't mind a razor back. That's true. That'd be a dope. That'd be a dope.

That'd be a dope. That'd be a dope. All right. Scott. Scott's tatty team. Hey, they'd have to get by a really bad Tennessee team.

in the second round. You're going to be fine. Bad Tennessee. Well, they lost their best player. Iowa is Scott's money team. Or Sott's tat-tady team. Man. Pretty lucky. Really? Only Chris is getting bad looks. Yeah, well. Yeah. All right. Now we got Nate's Tatty. Let's get a

motherfucker. And Nate's going to say that I cheated once we give them a good team, but I swear I'm not cheating. Oh, ball dropped. St. Mary's. It's all right. Jesus. He'll be okay. Kyle. This is Kyle's Tattie team.

This is the This is the win what? Incidentally, they're good. I just can't believe it. Yeah, that's Uh-oh. Kyle guy,

Yukon. Pretty good team. Yukon. It's Yukon's year. He would love a Husky, but he would request to do a German shepherd like his police dog. All right, Ralph,

Ralph's tatty team. Ralph, there it is. You mean Alabama? It's Houston. Wow. Oh. Dangerous. That is dangerous.

dangerous. All right now for Foshae. Their logo is, uh, UH. I don't think Arizona has an X in it. I want Foshae to get a tattoo. Me too. Kansas State. Okay. That would be great. Kansas State.

Wildcat. Yeah. Pretty good. All right. Now the fan. Or a little, just get a really little apple. Yeah. Oh yeah. Life size Darren Sproles. The fan, the fan tattie champ is Xavier. Okay.

Dangerous. None as dangerous as That fucking Highest stakes are for Ralph and Ceylon Yeah for sure So Chris He's got Kentucky for the money team Duke Taddy

Matt Northwestern and Creighton Macon's got Missouri twice Reed UVA Arkansas Scott Corporate Greg San Diego State Iowa Nate has Marquette in St. Mary's

Kyle Houston Yukon Ralph Xavier in Houston And Fochet airs Arizona and Kansas State, and the fan, the fan that has not been picked yet, Crayton and Xavier. All right. Good news for you. And we can end the show on this, really. The Duke Blue Devils are plus 2,000 to win the national championship.

For reference, Gonzaga's plus 1,400, Jayhawks plus 1,200, UCLA plus 1100, Zona, plus 1,800. So Vegas not as keen on Duke. How much money would you need to not care about getting the tattoo? Because you could wipe it out. Half a mill. Okay, so if you bet 25,000 on Duke to win the title, you're there. I'm not going to do it. I'm not going to do it.

The big scooter. So who should we place a bet on? Like, you know, looking at some odds here for the Natty, like maybe somebody who's Houston's plus 550. They have an injury. Marcus Sasser. Which he said, he said he was going to, he's going to be good to go by the first game. We'll see how...

Purdue plus 1,200. That's not bad, honestly. What's Arizona? I don't know. Out early is what Arizona is. They're good. So anyways, Virginia's plus 5,000. No-brainer.

In Virginia, 4 and Duke of 5. So Duke is probably... Has got the best odds of a 4 lower. Sure. But they're all just teams out there. You feel me? So anyways, the house... The housekeeping stuff I wanted to hit you guys on is number one,

we need some exotic Zin flavors. You ask me where? Black Cherry. I saw you go something about it. I was going to say this. Like, Zin should have a couple flavors that aren't out right now that should be out. Like cherry should be out in a heartbeat. Also with like a Scotch flavored, like a whiskey flavor.

Zen? Maybe not for everybody. We're bookending the show with nicotine talk? Yeah. So what I want is you to order and I don't care what it costs. Black Cherry's in. Okay. In the Sixes, please.

Okay. Take care, everybody.