New Heights with Jason and Travis Kelce - Travis’ New Ring, Father’s Day Traditions and Justin Jefferson Got Paid | Ep 95

Episode Date: June 19, 2024

92%ers we are back with another episode of New Heights sponsored by Crown Royal!  In this episode, we look at a strange Father’s Day tradition that involves hanging with your bros in the woods, we attempt to settle some Beer Bowl II controversy, and Jason might have some dog racing in his future.  We also have Travis break down the Chiefs mini-camp, his “retirement pact” with Chris Jones, and how he feels about the Super Bowl ring typo.  The guys also react to the latest tampering punishments, discuss how Justin Jefferson changed the WR market, and debate where they’d go if they had a time machine.  We will be back with more New Heights every Wednesday during the offseason so make sure you’re subscribed to our YouTube Channel and wherever you get your podcasts so you don’t miss a single episode and follow us on Instagram, Twitter, and TikTok for all the best moments from the show.  If you’d like to contribute to New Heights Show & Tell, please send your items to:  New Heights PO Box 251799. Los Angeles, CA 90025 . . . Support the Show:   CROWN ROYAL: Crown Royal believes that when you live generously, life will treat you royally. Submit a 92% who is taking your community to New Heights at [e-mail] ACCELERATOR: You can buy Accelerator Active Energy Drink at Hyvee, Quiktrip, Meijer, and Wawa and if you’re not in the Philly area – go purchase Accelerator at https://amazon.com! Grab your favorite flavors now! HELIX: Helix is offering up to 30% off all mattress orders AND two free pillows for our listeners! Go to https://HelixSleep.com/NEWHEIGHTS. This is their best offer yet and it won’t last long!  SHADY RAYS: Go to http://shadyrays.com and use code NEWHEIGHTS for 50% off 2 or more pairs of polarized sunglasses. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Falcons 100% did that shit and were found guilty of tampering. Kirk is such a good dude. He doesn't even know that he's even doing something wrong. Wearing chains, shirtless on planes. I just met him today, actually. Talky, talky. Yeah, we talked. We were having lunch. What are you talking about? Yeah, fuck.

We talked about your mom. Yeah. Welcome back to New Heights, ladies and gentlemen, presented by Wavesports and Entertainment, and brought to you by Crown Royal. When you live generously, life will treat you royally. Believe it. We are your hosts. I'm Travis, because this is my big brother, Jason Kelsey. Happy Father's Day to everybody out there.

Jason, Happy Father's Day, dude. Thanks, Tramp. Subscribe on YouTube and wherever you get your podcasts and follow the show on all social media at New Heights Show with 1S. Check out our official fan club at newheightsshow.com with 1S as well. We always get a bunch of fun stuff from the 92%ers on there, so make sure you check that out and subscribe. And Jason, let

the people know what we got coming up. We got a great episode for all you 92% is out there. We're going to be talking a little bit of Chiefs mini camp, why receiver market, NFL tampering accusations. We're not talking about, well, we actually, we are going to get into verdicts. Marshall S. We're going to talk about the verdicts of these accusations. Anyways, we got a great show lined up for you guys as always and we're going to start off first with something new. Marshall S. What's that? Stan A little bit of new news. I don't know how we got there. All right, new news, first

new news. Happy Father's Day. We're a little bit late now. This episode is going to be coming out Wednesday, but we're recording this on Father's Day. Yeah, that's right. That's a nice Sunday morning record. I figured what else would I want to do on Father's Day than talk with all my boys on the podcast. Trav and intern Brandon and Jets Jake.

Yeah. Yeah. Sounds like a great, a great morning. I feel like Father's Day in the US. Everybody's like barbecue, hang out with your family. Dad gets to like not be dad. You're kind of like still dad. So you're really just being dad. Yeah. Yeah. But I was looking at some of these other countries and maybe what they do. I heard a really cool one from Germany. But yeah, turns out, pretty much everybody just does what the US does. Well, not that they're stealing from us. Everybody kind of just like, hey, dad, we're just going to give you a bunch of meats that you like to eat and some cool foods and tell you we love you. And that's true for the United States, United Kingdom, Australia, New Zealand, Brazil. Brazil celebrates Father's Day by family gatherings, special

meals, often featuring traditional Brazilian dishes. Children give their fathers gifts and many families attend church services to honor and pray for their fathers, which we might have to start going to church because I need somebody praying for me. It's a day filled with warmth and gratitude, highlighting the strong, familiar bonds in Brazilian culture. It doesn't sound that different. I guess the only difference is... It's the exact same. There's nothing going on different down there in Brazil. I guess people do go to church because it is a Sunday. So I guess church is a pretty heavily thing in the United States of Father's Day, right? If that's what you do.

If that's what you're into, yeah. This is the cool one, Germany. I don't even know if I want to list this one next. I want to save the best for last. Fuck it, it's in the list. Germany, a unique way of celebrating Father's Day known as Wartertag or Meinertag, I don't know if I'm pronouncing either of those right. In parentheses, that means men's day. It's celebrated on Ascension Day, which is the 40th day of Easter and falls on a Thursday. Traditionally, groups of men go on hiking trips, often pulling wagons filled with beer, wine, and food. While it's a day for men to enjoy camaraderie and the outdoors, it is also a family day for those who prefer to

celebrate with their children and loved ones. I think that's a badass for men to enjoy camaraderie and the outdoors, it is also a family day for those who prefer to celebrate with their children and loved ones. I think that's a badass way to celebrate Father's Day. You just load up a wagon with fucking meats and beer and see you guys later! Just wander into the woods. That sounds like your cup of tea, yeah. That sounds great, doesn't it? Yeah, until there's bears. We take some bear spray with you.

You'll be all right. Ooh, yeah, nice? Yeah, until there's bears. Well, you take some bear spray with you. You'll be all right. Ooh, yeah, nice. Good. Good point. Just wander off into the woods with your buddies. Who knows what happens? Nobody's going to ask questions.

It's men's day. What about just like wander into the local pub? Yeah. That's not a bad idea either. That way you can just, you can still be around. You don't have to just wander off into the woods. I don't know. There's something manly about going off into the woods with a wagon of beer

and meat. Why don't you just drive your Tesla into the woods? That's because it's not manly. It's not as manly as having a wagon. All right. Great, great tradition, Germany. Thailand, Father's Day in Thailand is celebrated on December 5th. This is late, but I guess in the southern hemisphere, it's probably roughly the same. It's a day to honor both the king and fathers across the country. Traditionally, children present their fathers with kana lilies, a symbol of masculinity, and perform acts of respect such as kneeling at their feet. So,

I'm kind of on this tradition. Many families also participate in community service activities to honor the king's legacy of kindness and generosity. So, I'm out on honoring kings because I fuck, unless we're Americans, we don't do royalty. So, fuck kings. But I wouldn't mind kindly kneeling at my feet. You know what I mean? This is Father's Day. Not fuck kings, but just not into it. Also, why are you into people kneeling at your feet? Just trying to respect it's Father's Day. Maybe feed me some rocks. You can't be out on kings and in on people bowing. I'm not into any people bowing. I'm into my children bowing to me. Show me respect,

god damn it. But why is bowing at your feet a sign of respect? I'm not bowing at my feet. Kneeling at my feet. And preferably, kind of, can feed me grapes. Why is kneeling at your feet a sign of respect? I don't know, in Thailand, that's what they say. I want them to kneel at my unwashed feet and smell the aromas into what their leaders sent is protruding. So the next time they think about questioning whether it's bedtime or not,

they know. I just put my feet up and they're like, oh gosh, I know what that aroma means. It means it's bed top. Yeah, it's definitely bedtime for that. All right. Wash your fucking feet. What else we got? Yeah, so Father's Day is going great. When's Uncle's Day? Do we know? day's going great. When's when's Uncle's Day? Do we know? Damn, we need to get on top of that. When is Uncle's Day? Oh, and National Uncle's Day is Friday, July 26. Oh, shit, it's coming up. You'll be in training camp. Oh, I will be.

What does one do on Uncle's Day? Besides call their uncle. I think that is as far as it ever needs to go. Hmm. We'll see. Maybe maybe we can do something nice for Uncle's Day this year. Uncle Don deserves it. Uncle Don deserves it more than anybody. He's the greatest uncle to ever fucking.

He is. He is. And I was just with him on his 70th birthday last weekend, actually. All right, let's keep it going. What we got. Oh, we got some fun beer bowl submissions. That's right beer bowl submissions are closed Thank you everyone for submitting your beer bowl submissions. We have a ton of outstanding Deserving contestants and it's gonna be tough to narrow this one down. We do have, I guess we should call it controversial video. We have some big names that are interested in getting involved in beer bowl now. We are running into the dilemma of do we keep the beer bowl unique to everyday people or do we allow Or do we allow influencers, former NFL players, media superstars into Beer Bowl is the question. Yes. So we'll show this clip.

Here's a clip of two of our good friends, Ross Tucker and our former college teammate and my former NFL teammate and friend, Connor Barwin. Try to team up and enter Beer Bowl. Let's see what it looks like. It's Ross Tucker and I need this. I've been retired for 16 years now at this point. Jason, you'll find out soon. Travis a little bit longer down the line.

This is my only competitive outlet. Beer bowls, beer games, whatever it is. Is it just my friends and I in my garage? Yeah, but who cares? I also, by the way, during the quarantine via zoom solo, people from my hometown have proven to be excellent chuggers on the world's biggest stage. Please give me a chance.

My partner is your former teammate in college and the NFL, Jason and our team name. It's the Hazmins. Oh yeah guys one more thing even though I am a LeBat Blue guy I am already prepping for what I'm anticipating the beer being at the Beer Bowl. It's delicious by the way. Dude, that's a hell of a video. Hell of a video. Damn it, man. When you send in a video like that, dude, you can't not love Ross, man. What a guy. Fuck.

And now I want to play beer pong with him. He's always been a great dude. Obviously, I've known him as a football player growing up, but him being in the media and everything now, it's been cool to kind of have combos here and there with a man. But this is awesome, man, for him to even send in a video and be a part of it. And clearly, they have the drinking prowess. You saw it from the trophy he was holding, which is obviously only him and his friends. But that's, I mean, that's good enough.

Connor Barwin and I think are undefeated in beer bowl. You know this, Travis. We are a dynamic beer bowl. Beer pong, not as much, but beer ball. Beer ball, sorry, did I say beer ball? You are probably the number one beer ball player I've ever seen in my life. I haven't seen a lot of beer ball,

but that was your fucking game. That was it. I got the technique down. It's impressive. This is the question. Do we limit it to regular everyday people? Or do we include superstars? Let's just call it what it is. Rastakir and kind of our own superstars. I think it's unfair if we don't. And I think it's unfair if we do. It's such a good question. I think it's I think it's fun if it's just the 92 percenters.

But I do think it's fun if we have some sort of like one off like, oh, if Ross and Connor are like in on this thing, like maybe you have to compete against them in a contest. I think Jason kind of proved that, um, that NFL drinkers outweigh regular, like civilians. It's weight classes. It's weight class. That's what I'm saying.

We talked about this with Bruce Lee and, uh, and Muhammad Ali. We did, but some, some guys can just drink like the, like, I feel like that argument is like combated with the person that just won the hot dog eating contest. Maybe. The weed eating contest. You know what I mean? Like weight class in that regard isn't, that's because it's always the skinnier person that wins those events.

I mean, this is essentially what we're doing too. You have the Olympics hat on your head. The Olympics used to be only for amateur athletes. Yeah, yeah. Not professionals were not allowed to participate. Ross, a LeBat blue guy, is a professional beer drinker, right? Professional. Can we open it to professional drinkers? Or do we leave it a simply amateur event that celebrates drinkers across this country? Mainly in Philadelphia and Kansas City are probably the biggest two contributors. But we'll say across the country. That's pretty, it's pretty national now. Having a guy like Ross and Connor even at the event would be amazing. To have him in

it would be electric. But those are two massive human beings. Or at least they were at one point. So it's like they're still bigger than most. They're still bigger than most. I think Connor is around 230. I think Ross might be, he's around that too, maybe a little less, a little more. I don't know. They fluctuate in that like lighter tight end bodies now. What are you? Are you a heavier tight end right now or what? I mean, I'm 270. I've been fluctuating between 270s now. Ooh, you're in the 70s now. 275 and 280 is what I've been fluctuating between.

You gotta get it down, coach. You gotta get it down. I'm good. I'm feeling pretty good. No, I just saw you run a 5k. You need to get that thing down. I was still 295 when I tried that. I hadn't started the diet yet. All right. There's some way we can incorporate Big Ross and Connor into the games. I think it is also, we'll find a way to incorporate everybody though because it's easy. It's all just about having fun. Yeah, but hey, Ross, unbelievable. Thank you, Frank. That fucking made my day.

For those of you that submitted your entries, we just want to thank you. Obviously the Beer Bowl doesn't exist without you. Yeah, so I think it's about time we should probably tell the 92%ers the truth of the Beer Bowl. Unfortunately, I will not be attending this year. Yeah. Yeah, try it out. I love you 92%ers, but I got a lot of shit I'm doing right now.

And unfortunately, when we kind of timed up this calendar, I wasn't aware that we were going to do the beer bowl this weekend because it's always attached to the ego's autism. It's always the last one. It's the Wednesday before July 4th, but that's fine. Yeah, it's fine. Yeah, because everybody knows that. And that means that I scheduled some things that I can't necessarily back out of. So I am I'm telling you guys this, that Jason will be there, obviously, he's always there. But there will be another yeah, there will be another Kelsey stepping up in

my place that honestly will probably be 10 times better than any episode or any beer bowl that ever comes around again. And they will probably take my place on New Heights forever. So Kylie Kelsey will be hosting Beer Bowl with Jason down at the shore. And Kylie, you can't back out. I just said this. I don't even know if you're available, but if you are, have you talked about it would be no, I'm just, I think this would be awesome.

I'm just throwing it out there because I can't, I can't go. So this is my way of making things better and just, you got it. All right. You got it. All right. We'll see. Maybe she'll do it. I don't know. She's not a, yeah, she would definitely be great at it. All right. We'll see. Maybe she'll do it. I don't know. She'd not, yeah. She would definitely be great at it. We got to get this thing live streamed so I can watch it as this thing goes down. Maybe I ask her today on Father's Day. She can't say no on Father's Day. There you go. Just ask, just tell Wyatt to ask her. That's the way to go. All right. I'll get on that. I need Wyatt to pull a favor for me.

But I wish I was there. Obviously from now on, I'll never schedule anything on a Wednesday before July 4th ever again. Love you 92%. But I know you guys will have an absolute blast with it without me. And somebody's walking away with $50,000. There we go. In a gold cup. Yeah. is walking away with $50,000. There we go.

And a gold cup. Yeah, if you submitted your video and you don't get in, just blame intern Brandon. That's, it's all his fault. All right, now let's move on to fan mentions of the week. Jason has to race a dog. That's right, he's talking shit about those little tiny leg animals last week, the little wiener dogs.

And Tonya Morrow, our crown royal, raised a glass winner from last week called the little wiener dogs and Tanya Morrow, our crown royal, raised a glass winner from last week called Jason out on Twitter. That's right. What an honor to be mentioned on the podcast challenge? How about a race between Jason, Kelsey and her dog, Louie? Let's see if you can outrun those tiny legs and endless energy. Make it happen in Texas or Philly. So she's down to travel with that little thing. Those little dash hounds.

The old dash hound derby guy. I think it is Doxen. I don't know why. I didn't know if there was like a different way these things were spelled. But yeah, Doxen. Everybody pointed that out to me on Twitter last week. First of all, I'll beat the fuck out of Louie.

Very confident. Hey, calm down. Calm down there. How far are we racing? Let me see this thing. I am murdering that thing. I'm murdering it. Dude. Let's go. Let's do it. 40 yards? How far are we going? Because that thing, it's got a good start.

That was maybe 15 yards right there. I know. But it's got to be, at 15 yards, it might be able to keep up. Anything over 10 yards, 15, I think I've beaten it 15, it's got a good get off. Anything with short legs, short little stubby legs, it's going to have a little quick, little quick get off. That's why you were, that's like like me verse you really you're the Doc's So you think you think you can beat it in like 20 yard 15, what about a 10? I mean, I think I'll beat it in anything because I just think I'm faster than Louie But I think a 20 I think 20 yards feels about right 15. We got to go 15

15 15 has a chance is what you're saying so we need to give it a chance. Why do we have to give it a chance? Because you're a fucking human. What does that have to do with anything? Why does the dog get to determine the length of the race? Because I don't want it to just be you beating a dog I want it to be a fucking good race. Okay well as humans what do we determine as being the fastest human on the planet? You're saying boat. Yeah, 100 meters. So why would we go to 15 yards? That's not the fastest. That's not,

you're not even getting the top end speed at 15 yards. Top end speed is reached like, well, it's close to 15. I'm about to say. 15 to 20 yards is like really when you're at your max. Yeah. So like, what are we, if we're never hitting the top end speed, we're not even, we're just seeing who has a faster get off. Because it has to be the top end speed for a Doxin too. Well, Doxins are reaching top end way faster.

That's what I'm saying. I don't, but if it gets to go to top end and I never get to go to my top end, how the heck is that seeing which one's faster? Because it's 15 yards. I think it's gotta be further than 15. I think 15 is a perfect number. We're going to do another Twitter poll. We're going to let 19% of determine how far this race is. We're going to do either 15 yards at the Dachshund race. Whatever we just watched

on that video right there, whatever that distance was, it looked about 15 yards. It looked about 15, 15 to 20. It might have been 20. All right. Well, let's say this. We'll do 20 yards. The Doxins race was 20 yards. The International Football Race is 40 yards. And the third choice will be 100 yards, even though it's 100 meters. We're American, so we'll do 100 yards.

So those are the three choices. Twitter, you guys can decide how far I'm racing this Doxin. It's definitely going to have to happen in Philly because I'm not going to Texas to race a doxin. You're going to fucking smoke this dog. Yeah, of course I am. I'm going to put my cleats on and I'm going to freaking dust this thing. Little short stumpy legs. The best time to do this might be during the shore week.

Maybe this is something we can do as a attachment to the festivities down the shore. There you go. Doxin race. Challenge accepted, Coach Mauro. Nice. has a attachment to the festivities down the shore. There you go. Doxin Race. Challenge accepted, Coach Mauro. Nice. Final mention of this week, Jason. Who?

Started shit on Twitter yet again. He's a- Did I? Yes, you are a pro at doing this. You've actually been a pro for a long, long time. Stepped away from Twitter because you got a little too wild and now you're back at it.

You're back at it, just stirring the pot. We're here. There's a lot of Xenon fans out there who were not happy. Jason said the movie sucked. I didn't say it sucked, I just said next. And then admitted to never even seeing it. It's... I'm gonna be honest.

The only thing I know about Xenon is this picture that they put on the rundown, which is right here. We'll show it right now. I judge the movie solely off of that picture and I feel strong in that judgment. There's no way that's a good movie. It's actually a decent, it's actually pretty solid. You remember this? Yeah. I'm pretty sure it was like in like a spaceship and everything. I hope I'm right. I could be wrong. I mean, based on the picture, it looks like a spaceship and everything. I hope I'm right. I could be wrong. I mean, based on the picture, it looks like a spaceship movie. So you liked it.

I remember not hating it. Do you remember the plot? Nope. I really don't even remember the plot of Brink. Brink? Team Pup and Suds? Gosh, what was it? There's like another group, the like the elitist kids and Team Puppets up is like the rag tab group of like just friends versus global. Well, they're basically saying like you should compete for love of sport and your friends and community as opposed to like selling out to like big conglomerates and be all just about winning. It's not what the meaning of sports is. I

think that's essentially what brings us about. Zenon, girl of the 21st century. I think there's a 0% chance I like this movie, but I do feel a little bit responsible to at least view it. So I guess I'll watch this. I'll probably watch it with Wyatt. I think Wyatt least view it. So, I guess I'll watch this. I'll probably watch it with Wyatt. I think Wyatt might like it. Nice. Yeah. Maybe that's what I do for our state. There you go.

Little xenon girl of the 21st century with Y. With baby Y. I see what Y thinks of it. All right. We're going to give it a gander and I'll get back to you on whether it's good or bad. But I mean, I just think based on the cover, there's a 0% chance it's because of you. You got to erase it. Don't even look at the cover. Don't even erase that and hold negative thought process. Marshall S. Linden They're like in full pink, like tight jumpsuits. I don't even know what that is.

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believe it. And yeah, maybe we talk a little at Chiefs mini camp because that's over. Yeah, that just ended last weekend. It was fun, it was always fun. Do a couple of days of competing and then run a quick conditioning test or at least get introduced to what the conditioning test

might be at a training camp. What is your guys conditioning test? It initially was... Half gasers? Yeah, 15 half gasers. 15's a lot. Yeah. It's a lot of running.

It is. It's really not that much when you think about it. Like you should be able to do 15. I mean, they're all timed. They're all timed. So I guess we'll say this, conditioning tests are really there for the most part, not to see if you're in shape.

It's more to see if they're worried that you're gonna die. It's more of a liability thing for the most part, not to see if you're in shape. It's more to see if they're worried that you're going to die. And it's more of a liability thing for the teams. They just want to make sure you haven't done nothing and that you won't have a heat stroke out on the field. This is a good point. This is a good point. So 15 is a good test. It's not that much. You're crazy. But it's a lot.

You wouldn't be able to go out there and run 15. First of all, I'm an offensive lineman. Under 20 seconds, yeah, you would. But it's a lot. You wouldn't be able to go out there and run 15. First of all, I'm an offensive lineman. Under 20 seconds, yeah, you would. I could do it, but I'm also an offensive lineman. They don't make me do it. That was the one nice thing about being the lightest offensive lineman. I just had to do the offensive lineman conditioning test, which is usually less than what the

other guy or at least slower time. So I'm like coasting. Not an Andy Reeves can't. I would always just try and win all of them on purpose though. It was all we did a Striders for the most part. That's not conditioning. The last few years we had 60 yard shuttles incorporated into it. I'm actually better on the shuttles because you know me, I'm good at turns.

I know how to turn. Great turner. I said hockey. Dude, I'm telling you, it's hockey. This guy can bend. Hockey stops. Because when you stop in hockey, you know how to use both feet when you're turning.

And I feel like most people that just run, you only think about using your outside foot and it's just not how it happens. Well, a lot of guys, believe it or not, don't have the ankle flexion to get that inside foot at the right angle. Is that what you think it is? I just think it's because they've never done it. Yeah, you're talking about Gumby and how I'm always able to move around. This is good ankle flexion. My knees and ankles are underneath me.

I think the ankle flexion is part of it. I think hip flexibility is too, like being able to sink your hips into a turn properly and not have to like bend at the waist. I think also it's the hockey. Most hockey players I know, use both legs when stopping and turning more efficiently than people that never skated. But either way, yeah, we had like six seconds to run 40 yards for our conditioning test. It was a joke. I would still run on full speed though. Oh, should we say what a half gasser is? It's across the field. It's side by the side line. Which essentially is 50 yards and back.

Yeah, it's a 2.5, I think. Yeah. It's a little bit over. I didn't want to, it's something like that. Yeah. Across the field, back. The turn really sets it. Like if you just ran 100 yards, it'd be like coasting.

But that turn halfway through is, it's like, ah. Stopping and having to restart. After like 10 seconds, like the, like 10 seconds. Well, essentially it is 10 seconds to go down and back, but 10 seconds there, 10 seconds back. I'm getting way too into this. All right. So, a half gasser is down and back. And my group, the middle skill, like the linebackers- They call them big skill. There you go. Big skill. Tight ends, running backs, quarterbacks, linebackers.

Running backs are skill. Are they? Yeah. So it's linebackers. All right. Yeah. So linebackers, tight ends, quarterbacks. What about outside backers?

Those are big. No, those are big guys. Backers or backers. Backers or backers. All right. Yep. And then specialists. Specialists are with guys. Backers are backers. Backers are backers. Yep. And then specialists are with us. Got it. Yeah.

We run 18 seconds down and back. You got to make it across the line in 18 seconds. I mean, it's a brisk pace. You do that 15 times. After about eight. That's really when it sets in. That's when you start, that's when your mind starts to kind of go like, man, I wish I had a fucking.

Would have ran a little bit more. I wish I would have ran a little bit more, I wish I had a fucking. What a run a little bit more? Wish I would run a little bit more. Wish I would fucking, god damn it. It's really like there's the first two where the first two is like, god, I got to get geared up here. Then after two, you're like, all right, I'm coasting, I got this shit in the bag. And then right around eight or 10, you're like, god damn, I got fucking six more of these motherfuckers. Just one at a time. Just one at a time. Just one at a time.

Just one at a time. Deep rest. Just one at a time. Stand up big, catch the air up high. Don't bend over. Yep. And then you got to get out of that turn though. You got to hit that, you got to hit that line and you got to get out of that turn.

Get a good five, five to six steps of just a quick burst. And then you can just stride that thing out from that point on The key to the half gasser is the start in the turn Get out to a good start coast good turn coast you try and run that whole thing full speed You're you're not making 15. Yeah, if you don't run it fast enough here out after one you got to redo it again tomorrow No tapouts for us. Mini camp was good though. You guys got a lot of compish you guys also had a bunch of rookies in camp, a lot of rookie receivers. Uh, you had some draft

pick, a tight end. That's right. Jared Wiley. Yeah, Jared, J Y. You had a quote on, uh, the 2024 fourth round pick. Uh, he's got a big upside, comfortable, smart guy. He's a lot further along than I was as a rookie. That's yeah, that's a lot. What? Yeah. What do you mean further along? I guess when I was coming in, I kind of had to like rethink this after I said it after the interview.

And it's just where I have a completely different offense. I had a completely different offense when I came in than he did. And I think my skill set obviously is for this type of offense that I'm in now, more so than the run first type offense that we had with Jamal Charles when I first got into the league. And that being said, League. And that being said, I see a lot in Wiley, Jared, Jared, that suits this offense way better than I suited the offense that I was in when I first got here. And that's kind of, that's kind of how I like, I initially feel I'm like, man, he's light years. He's making way more plays. He's you know, I mean, he's way more comfortable in how he's like, running routes, how he's seeing the field.

And I think that's a test to, you know, how smart he is. And I think it's he's got a good feel of like feeling voids and being open. And then on top of that, you put the ball anywhere in his vicinity. He's making the catch. He's got great hands. He's a big guy. He's go up and catch the ball over his head. That is, if you throw him a jump ball, he can go and get it. If you throw it on the ground or by his toes, he can go and get it. So you just see a lot of upside and a lot of opportunities for him to,

you know, at least be accountable in the receiving game. And then we'll slowly start to find out when we got pads on everything you could do in the in the run game and on the perimeter in terms of blocking and really turn them into a Swiss Army knife like the tight end position is used. Absolutely. You guys also have Pat Mahome trying to learn a knuckleball, which let's be honest, if he's trying to learn a knuckleball, this has nothing to do with being a better quarterback because nobody wants to catch that. He just, I think, got inspired by watching the Padres. Waldron dude who has a nice one apparently. Yeah, this is him throwing one, which this is why it's fun doing stupid stuff like this, right? Just have fun.

This is, yeah, this is how it's fun to play. You gotta remember, you're still out there playing a game. Yeah. You gotta keep it lighthearted, all right? Doing shit like this is always a good time. lighthearted. All right. Doing shit like this is always a good time. Throwing back, throwing behind the back passes, doing a whole bunch of just stuff you would in the backyard playing in the playing with your boys as a kid, you know, do you think defense coordinators are seeing this and like, wondering if they have to

nobody and Pat wouldn't even think about throwing a knuckleball on purpose. There's sometimes there's a few of them that come off his hand. And if you if you throw it with the right spin rate and then you add wind to it, it'll knuckle on you a little bit now. And that way it turns from this catch, it just turns to like, get it to the body. Find a way to get it to the body. Dude, I was running a little like 10 yard out route and warmups before the fourth preseason game

because I was bored one year when Carson was a quarterback. He threw a ball and- Dude, Carson killed it. Killing it in the mini camp, by the way. Keep going. Nice. I don't know if it's the spin it had or if what you're saying saying the wind kind of was taking it but it felt like that thing was like it wasn't like it was like a full knuckle like

moving all over it just was like almost like it had a little like snake weed to it it had such a vicious spiral that it was like almost like wobbling as it was coming to me if that makes sense yeah that's 100 percent. Pat has that ball. He has the splitter. He has this nose dive. Sometimes it'll just fucking dive on you. Do you know the moment it's like in the air, which one it is potentially? Or is the wind the dynamic?

No, no. You can tell. You can tell sometimes how it comes off the hand that it's going to be just a little bit funky. It's like, oh, I'm not going to go at this with just my hands. I'm going to go with this with my body because it's a little bit more of a wild card. Yeah. And the hard ones are the ones where it's like a timing throw. You don't necessarily see it come out of his hand. You see it like halfway to you already coming to you. Yeah. And you just got to kind of like, it's got to make it right. Another big thing at mini camp was our man Chris Jones friend of the show. I had some outstanding So cold Jones, don't go Jones

Double birding it kids. Don't go out here double birding your teachers Adults you can you can double bird your friends. That's fun. It's gotta be the right situation. Don't double bird any strangers, it's not cool, man. Well, I mean, if they deserve it, they deserve it, but let's reserve it for deserving people. Don't just whip them out out of nowhere. I mean, you can't. Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha.

Whew. Chris Jones on the Chiefs bringing back the entire defensive line, they graded my owner an F. I got two middle fingers for them. He's an A plus in my book. The funniest part about this is he is double birdie his friends. He's double birdie all of his teammates. Damn, that wasn't NFL TA. That's pretty good. That's pretty good. I love it. I think it's great. It's also good that Chris is now back in good graces after the holdout from last year.

Obviously, things are going great with the defensive line and it seems like everybody with the Chiefs, everybody's happy with their current situation, it seems. Everybody is and everybody was happy last year. Obviously Chris probably wished it played out a little bit different, but we're... It worked out well. He won a Super Bowl and got his contract. It's fun. Exactly.

Everybody was still excited to go to work every single day. I hope everyone knows that it was business. Chris is a guy that when he's in the building, he's the best player that you can have on your team. And that's why we love him, man. Well, he was also asked about retirement. And he said, once you begin thinking about things like that, you get into feed the mind those types of thoughts. He said, I don't even want to take my mind to go that far to the our word. We've got more years I don't know, though. Travis is pretty

fucking old. So I'm only like three years older than you, man. Oh, goodness. Yeah. Do you have any responses to Chris other than you guys are pretty much the same age? No, we're not the same age. You know, three years. That's a lot of years.

Three years in just like football world. I think he came out. You'll be 35 this year. So Chris was 32? 31? No, Chris isn't even 30 I don't think. So you're quite a bit older than him. Yeah, definitely.

I'm probably five or six years older than him, but like I have three more years in the NFL over in my career, which means I stayed longer in college. I don't know. I'm with him on the I don't really even think about it until somebody asked me about it. Yeah, so you're forced to think about it. Let's be honest, you think about it sometimes during really hard times of your body. You're like, man, how much longer can I do this? But it's in passing. It's more so it's not like a legitimate thought. Yeah, it's a thought that's like, I love playing this game at the highest level possible. And

I love playing at it at a level where I know I can have a bunch of success. I know I can still go out there and also do it in the end zone. I know I can go out there and catch a flat route and turn it into a 15, 20 yard game and make a few guys miss. The moment that I can't do that, I think that's when I'm just going to be like, all right, what am I doing this for? I get excitement out of catching a ball, splitting a bunch of defenders and getting a huge first down when nobody expected me to do it, you know, or I scored a huge touchdown in a, in a playoff game, um, in the fourth

quarter when the team needed it the most, you know what I mean? I like the moment that I can't do that and I'm only, and I'm playing it at an average or a less of a successful like level that I am right now. I think that's when I'm probably going to call it quits. I mean, this is ultimately what ended up being why I chose this step. I just don't think I can play it at the level that I used to play it at. Even though people might disagree with that, I know it because I remember being out there last year and not being able to execute it the way I wanted to. But I think he also talked about the R word and people

starting to think about retirement. I do think,'ve heard this before, like the moment you start thinking about retirement, you're already retired or whatever. I was thinking about retirement four years ago, and I played for four years. So I'm not buying that bullshit. I think if you're even remotely being honest with yourself, people start thinking about this in the league later in their career when it gets harder to continue doing it and your body, you're fighting your body more and more to continue doing it. I was fighting my body the first year I got in the league. Yeah, yeah.

Fighting my body is just a part of the game, man. That's not what's going to chase me out of the National Football League. Part of it. I think you were very fortunate that you were able to go out on your terms. And that's the goal. That's the goal. If I can go out on my terms and not have something happen to my body, like a big time injury to where I have to step away, that's the biggest goal in football to be able to do it on my terms.

Yeah. And I'm not, there's two parts of fighting your body. There's the fight in the body to like get it ready to play or to like deal with pain and stuff like that. That's actually not the kind I'm thinking about. That's like, you'll find this and this is when you're going to start knowing it's whenever this time comes that you need to walk away. It's the fight in your body to like, you used to be able to do something that like you can't do anymore.

And like that's when it's like, you're fighting that to continue to get that back. And I think that's when it's like, you know, it starts to just become hard. So I think bottom line is everybody knows when it's time for them. For the most part of me, I guess some guys come back, actually a lot of guys come back. But I also think part of that's because your body starts feeling really good when you're retired. But it's pretty amazing when you're not playing football, how much better you feel. So yeah, everybody will know when it's time for them. Chris Jones says you're playing six more years. So you'd be-

40. You'd be 40 going on 41. I think I'd just be going on 40. No, you'd be going on 41 because you're going on 35 right now. 35, 36, 37, 38, 39, 40. be going on 40. No, you'd be going on 41, because you're going on 35 right now. 38, 39, 40. You'd be 40. So I turned 35 this year, that's a year. Yep.

36 next year, 37 the year after that, 38 the year after that, 39 the year after that. Nice, you're right. I know. Well done. I know, I'm just, I'm. Math genius. Math is my shit, man. Gotta just use the numbers, you gotta I'm listen. I'm math genius. Math is my shit, man. You gotta use the numbers. You gotta use the fingers. I'm Rain Man.

You you fucking put me on a roulette table. I will fucking make it rain. Good job. Good job. He was blackjacking. He was actually doing real math. I just do speak it into existence math. All right, here we go. Keep this thing moving. Last bit of Chief's news. We got our Super Bowl rings and it was a fucking unbelievable night. Congratulations. And the ceremony was broadcast live everywhere across the globe if you haven't caught wind of who all was watching. Nice. There we go. It was a fun evening. It's always good to see teammates that aren't with you anymore.

Got to see my guy Nick Alagretti, Marquez Valdez Scantling, who's up in Buffalo now. Nicky's over in DC with the commanders. It's just, it's always, it's fun to just get the, get the crew back together. But honestly, I think Pat said it best when we were on the field for our last mini camp practice earlier that day. He said, yeah, let's go enjoy this evening, but let's put this thing, put this

thing in the, in the rear view, man. Let's put this in the almanac. Let this be what it is. Yeah. Let's, let's, let's keep this thing moving, man. We got put this in the almanac. Let this be what it is. Let's keep this thing moving, man. We got a lot we want to do and we're very focused to keep our eyes on the prize. But it was a fun evening, man. It was a good deal. Well, that's awesome. The Hunt family did an absolutely amazing job. The venue was beautiful. The music was

awesome. And there were a bunch of... It was cool to just be around everybody in the organization under one roof. It was cool. Well, let's take a look at this bad boy. They keep getting more and more just abstentious. No, that's not a word. That ain't sound like a word. Ostentatious.

Thank you, Brandon. Fuck. 529 diamonds and 38 rubies. Total is 14.8 carats. Four Marquis diamonds, is that for MVS? No, MV Marquis. Marquis, I'm trying to get my guy Marquis a ring. Four Marquis diamonds represent the franchise's four Lombardi trophies.

The base of the trophies are made from 19 custom cut baguette diamonds distinguishing the Chiefs as the first team to win back-to-back Super Bowls in 19 seasons. Has the game winning Tom and Jerry play on the inside. That's dope. Very, very cool. Marshall S. Lutz Yeah. Trenton Larkin One major little goof on the ring, Miami is listed as the seventh seed because it has you all the games you guys had to win to get there. Miami was actually the sixth seed.

I guess it just, that's just the way the ring is. Nobody's going to get it fixed. I don't give a shit. Does anybody care? I like it that it's that we didn't give a fuck about what seed Miami was in. Yeah, they were the seventh. Who cares? They could have done no seeds on the side of them.

I would have been fine. That's my thing. I think it makes it more unique. Like, oh yeah, we made it really detailed and oops, we screwed up. Just makes it more exclusive. Like, oh, it's something, we screwed up about something that means nothing. So awesome design. I do think that this looks cool. I like the way it's in the football. You guys have three Super Bowl rings. Of the three Super Bowl rings, which ring not which one means

the most as far as likes like in your head like favorite one you have just aesthetically, which of your Super Bowl rings is your favorite? I mean, this one's pretty damn cool. This one has it's just it's massive. It has like the kind of like the shape of the oval of the football with like just diamonds going around it. It feels like a championship ring when you look at it. It's like, damn, that thing feels and looks like a championship ring.

But I would probably say the one last year was my favorite one. The top of the ring comes off and you can, it has a clasp that you has a clasp that you can wear it in different ways. And I think if I would ever like wear the rings out in a sense or like wanna like represent that team or that Super Bowl, I would probably wear that clasp on a necklace before I would wear that big fucking massive-ass-up. Dude, this is my whole problem with Super Bowl rings and what it's gotten to.

You can't wear it anywhere. I fought so hard. I fought so hard in 2018 after we won the Super Bowl to get a ring that was just like a big ring, but a wearable ring. And I lost like, it was like me and like two other guys and everybody was like no Put as many diamonds on that motherfucker that they can fit on it and I'm like dude I told I went up to Clark Hunt. I was like dog. We went another one man. You just I don't know how it could get any bigger We're just gonna need a brass knuckle of fucking super bowl brass knuckle

I like those old ones where it's just like a gold ring It looks like almost like it's like a class ring with a big ass ruby right in the middle of it. I don't need the Ray Finkel ring. Yes. I like that because I can wear that every day. I cannot like, well, first of all, I can't wear mine because I lost it in chili, but if I had it, I can't wear it. Like it's just, it's like rubs your other fingers. Ray Finkel was the AFC Championship ring. Well, this is another question I have. Your guys, do all of your Super Bowl rings say world champion or do some of them say Super Bowl champions? What do you mean? So this ring says world champion on the top instead of Super Bowl champion.

Because we're world fucking champion. I'm just, can I? No, I don't give a fuck what you say, what anybody else says about the NFL not being in the world and football being about the world and playing up At which the NFL is the top Premier League. I am nobody is beating the Super Bowl champions I'm not making that argument. I'm asking a question of your three Super Bowl rings Do they all say world champions or did they say Super Bowl champions? I'm just wondering. I have no idea. Well, the reason I'm asking is because AFC was not a part of the NFL, right? They were the AFL, right? That's the traditionally how the AFC came in, right? Correct. Before the Super Bowl, it was just world champion.

And then I think the Super Bowl got confirmed into the NFL once the NFC and AFC merged. So it was like world champions still like a nod to like the AFL like rings. No, I'm just curious because most most Super Bowl rings say Super Bowl champion, right? I don't think so because Lamar Hunt was I I think on record, creating the name Super Bowl. Oh, nice. That's dope. It might not have been Lamar, but it was somebody in the Hunt family or somebody in the organization that like pitched the idea and everybody kind of was like, yeah, that. So I'm way off.

I don't know. It might be. It might be an underlying thing. I'm just curious. I don't think the Hunts are into it like that. No, I think they just say world champion because we are the world champions. Fair enough. That's easy as that. There you go. And in other news, I made it to the Suburban Ceremony. Yeah. Not in person, but in spirit. This wonderful... Of course, yeah. What is it? Is it just like a little... It's like a little paperweight or something. Yeah. It's just like a little figure.

just like a little- It's like a little paperweight or something. Yeah. It's just like a little figure. Yeah. It's cool. I like it. I like it. I don't know why they made it, but- I like everything about it other than me holding a Super Bowl that I lost and it is like the death of me. But other than that, I think the whole thing is pretty too. Did you get one for me? They said yeah. They said I got two. So you got one for me? Yeah. I might make it into like a Christmas ornament. That thing would be cool looking from like a tree.

The thing is heavy too. That thing is soft. I'm going to put on a tree. I'm just going to saw off my right arm. Just going to saw that one off. It's metal. I'll saw it off. They make jets that It's metal. I'll saw it off. They make jets that can cut metal. I'll get it off. Good call.

I'll take it over to Operation Breakthrough. They'll get it off for me. They'll figure it out. Or you switch it up instead of the last year Super Bowl or LIBV, you get your Super Bowl on there. But then it's like I earned the other one, which I'm not. I think I was just going to solve it. Yeah. Or just add another high. So then it's just, they're both Super Bowl.

58. Yeah, good point. I like that it, first of all, this was a, fuck, that was such a fun moment. And then I also love that they kind of get a little nod to Buffalo with the maple leaf as the happy trail. Chest hair, yeah. Just the belly button hair. I mean, that's what your belly button hair looks like. with the maple leaf as the happy trail. Right there. Just the belly button there. I mean, that's what your belly button hair looks like.

Is it? I got a maple leaf? Yeah. All right. Well, now that I don't have a Super Bowl ring, I guess that's the only bit of Super Bowl lore that I have in my house until I get my ring mirror made. Jesus, I forgot you even did that. Alright. Alright, get ready for summer with

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Let's keep this thing moving. We actually have some Eagles news to the Eagles that are officially innocent. We're innocent. The league announced Thursday that the Eagles did not have contact with then free agent Saquon Barkley during the 52 hour legal tampering period. That's right. Yeah, actually, we didn't know who accused us. I don't know who accused us. Might have been the New York football giants.

After reviewing text messages, emails, and other documents related to the signing, the interviewing of Saquon Barkley, general manager, Holly Roseman, and head coach, Nick Sirianni, and Penn State head coach, general manager, Holly Roseman and head coach Nick Sirianni and Penn State head coach James Franklin. The NFL found no evidence the team violated the tampering, the anti tampering policy. Wonderful. That's right. Yeah. If the quads don't fit, you must acquit. There you go. Very nice. How thrilled would you be to have your text messages received

by the NFL? Man, I mean, I don't have like anything incriminating on there. Nothing incriminating, but... But there's something vulnerable about handing over a phone to pretty much any entity. Anybody. Yeah. And the reality is they already, the government already has it. They're watching everything we do, Trev. Dude, I'm not... Watch away.

I'm not doing anything illegal. Obviously, the jokes that I have with my friends and you would probably be the most gaffes anybody could ever have, but... Marshall S. Linden I'm not doing anything illicit, but listen, I am not afraid to type anything into Google. That's how I get more aware of certain things. Exactly right. Safe search off. I'm in there. I got I want to see this shit. The Falcons were not as fortunate as the Eagles though and 100% did that shit and were found

guilty of tampering Kirk Cousins, who would have been the last person I would have thought would have been guilty for anything in life, let alone this. Kirk is not guilty, the Falcons are guilty. Kirk can do whatever he wants. That's a good point. Yeah, so the Falcons are the ones that are guilty here. Yeah. The league found they had improper contact with Kirk Cousins, Darnell Mooney and Charlie Warner. Warner?

During the 52-hour legal tampering period, Atlanta will forfeit its 2025 fifth round draft pick and pay a team fine of $250,000 while general manager Terry Fontenot will pay a $50,000 fine. So, a bunch of slab on the wrist and you get a franchise quarterback. Worth it. Did we know that Cousins triggered this investigation? The only weird thing is that they then wasted another draft pick on another quarterback. Hey, whatever. Did we know that Kirk Cousins triggered this investigation himself? I did not know that. Did not.

Cousins essentially admitted during the introductory media conference that he had contact with the Falcon staff members before Free Agency officially began. So he admitted it. He's unknowingly incriminated himself. This is how you know- He unknowingly incriminated himself. His team. His team. This is how you know that Kirk is such a good dude. He's never done anything. Like he doesn't even know that he's even doing something wrong. No he didn't. God damn it man. He's just so innocent man. Fuck! Just such a great dude. He's just wearing chains shirtless on planes

man. Fuck! Anybody else that has tried shenanigans is like, all right, you don't, we don't, you don't release information like this. I just met him today. Actually talking, talking. Yeah, we talked. We were having lunch. What are you talking about? Fuck. We talked about your mom. I only get one, your mom joke on Father's Day. You're always ready to be incriminated when you've been in the Kelsey household. Not revealing any information. Jason, where were you Wednesday? Why are you asking?

I don't remember. I forget. I get hit in the head for living. I don't even remember what I did earlier today. You expect me to remember Wednesday? Like the back of my hand? You're insane. You're insane if you think I have that good of a memory. I live life on instincts, okay? I don't live, I don't document things up here in this brain. I was hanging out with Eric. No, I wasn't in Eric's house. I was hanging out with Eric. We were at the park.

No, I wasn't in Fairfax. I was at Canterbury. I'm going, I'm bobbing a weaving. So there's a question in here on the rundown that says, how aware are players of tampering rules? Not very aware at all. Well, in the tampering period is confusing because like free agency starts a certain day, but the league has moved to this tampering period.

And I would say that most players have no idea when that tampering period starts. If you're going to be a free agent, you just kind of assume that people are going to start calling you. And I would say in all probability, the Falcons are not the only team that reached out to Kirk Cousins during this timeframe. There are probably any team that was interested in reaching out to him.

Well, fucking time out, time out. They need to get fucking hit too. It doesn't matter if you fucking get the guy, if you land the guy. Nobody accuses. If they're hitting them up, yeah. If they're getting my text messages, they better fucking hold everybody fucking accountable here. But here's the problem. Nobody accuses the teams that didn't sign the player

as the ones that were tampering. Yeah. But if you're getting emails and shit, yeah, you better fucking. I think that this happens every year. A team loses a player and they accuse other teams of tampering. And the reality is that all of these teams are reaching out to agents and people before the temporary period starts. I'm not believing that any of this is first negotiated on the spot. They want a temporary period. There's no way in hell. How you got safe on Barkley to sign that contract. But that was definitely not tampering. It's been confirmed.

contract. Come on, come on, come on. But that was definitely not temporary. It's been confirmed. They checked the text messages. They checked the emails. They checked the phone calls. Yeah. No tampering. If the quads don't fit. Must have quit. Jason, last bit of football news. What we got? Yeah, we got the wide receiver market just getting reset again. Oh, shit. That's right. Justin Jefferson signed a four-year $140 million contract. I should have been a white out. I should have learned to catch the ball. So essentially the wide receiver market has surpassed the tackle market, which I think tackles. It was always around the same, but now the YBC market is officially up there. Oh, yeah. Justin Jefferson signed a four-year, $140 million contract to stay with Minnesota Vikings.

Yeah. What does that equate to? Four for 140. 34, I think. Yeah. Sounds about right. Dude, I'm just so good at fucking math. I already know what it is.

It's not going to equate to that exactly. Maybe it's 35. It's 35. Nope. It's just under 35. It's 35, is. It doesn't equate to that exactly. Maybe it's 35. It's 35. Nope. It's just under 35. It's 35. Exactly. It has to be an even number because it's an even number. It's 35. It's 35. 1.40 divided by 4 is 35. Are you challenging me on this one too?

No. Use your fingers. Use your fingers. You got it, dude. You got it. You got to go all the way up to 140. One, two, three. What's four for 25? What's four times 25? Yeah. 100. So you add 40 to that. That would be 140. I lost you with that. Yeah. 30, 140 divided by four is 35. That's all I know. I don't know what math you're doing in your head. What? 125 or 25 times 4. Where? Why are we doing 25?

Because that's the easy one. That's the one you already know is 100. I don't know where you're at. I'm just doing 145. What's 25 plus 10? 35. You do that four times. It's 40. I'm telling you, man. I'm Rain Man. You can't fucking get into my dollars. So wait, time out. Are you still saying it's 34? Are you now on 35? It's 35. 100%.

You do it your way. However, you're getting there. You keep getting there. 35. Five, five of the top eight highest paid non quarterbacks are now wide receivers. That is AJ Brown, Amon Ross, St. Brown, Tyree Gill, Jayla Waddle, and C.D. Lamb and Jamar Chase are coming. Some of these numbers are kind of like happen since like last year, there weren't any a lot. Like a lot of these receivers are now up, like as a percentage of the cap. Let's take the AJ Brown.

I love AJ Brown. Let's take the percentage of the cap though. Tyree Gill signed his four-year contract two years ago in Miami. Yeah, it'd be three in this edition, yeah. He got a 30 million per year average when he signed that deal. That is a higher percentage of the salary cap than AJ Brown, who's perceptively making more per year because it's 32 million. So like when that deal was done, it was taking more

away from the cap on average, probably, depending on how it was structured. Yeah. Justin Jefferson, 35 million. Again, that 30 million adjusted, it's probably about the same, it's probably similar. I don't know. What was the salary cap in 2022? We'd have to do that. Anyways, I guess what I'm getting at is all of these numbers that continue to look like they're exponentially higher. A lot of that is due to the salary cap continuing to go up. And it's the same thing with quarterbacks. Kirk Cousins signs his deal.

It's like, it's the biggest quarterback contract in history. And it's like, well, if you adjust it to like the percentage of what the salary cap is, it's really not that much more than what he should be getting. But like when you look at it from that, so like, I think sometimes these numbers get thrown out there and people just compare numbers to previous years, it's like, ba-da-ba-da-boop, ba-da-boop. And it's not completely accurate. But what is accurate is that five of the top eight highest paid non-quarterback are receivers. The receiver market has gone up. And I would say that that kind of started with you guys when you guys had Tyreek, when you had MBS and then who was the other really fast guy? Who's the other really fast guy? Maybe not MBS. Who

are the- You're talking about the Legion of Zoom? Zoom, yeah. Tyreek. We had Tyreek, Sammy Watkins. Sammy. Mikko Hardman. Mikko was another fast one, but there's a third one that was like really, really fast.

It wasn't Sammy. Sammy was really, really fast. It wasn't Sammy. Sammy was really, really fast. All right, Sammy. And then DeMarcus Robinson. Am I missing somebody? God damn, I've been playing football for too long. I feel like when that offense was so explosive that the entire league put a big emphasis on getting more speed.

A lot of that centered around Tyree Kill just solely as a player. I mean, change the game. People were looking for the next Tyree Kill the moment he was in Kansas City. Correct. It feels like there's been a big push to get star receivers because the explosive offense that was generated by the Kansas City Chiefs. I don't know. Maybe I'm putting too much on you guys. There's also been other, I mean, obviously what's happened in Miami with the amount of

speed that- Mike McDaniels. I forget whether it's McDaniels or Daniels. Mike McDaniel has accumulated down there, you know, what they've done with Shanahan and just getting really, really fast running backs for Ham, most certain some of these guys. So, speed is at an all-time premium in the NFL, like I think probably never before, even though speed's always been important. It is a hot commodity, it feels like in modern day NFL. Speed kills. AJ Brown, he's got speed and size, a little bit dangerous. I think that that has kind of shifted

a lot of teams to push to try and get offenses that are in that mold. Maybe that's just my thinking on it, but it feels like it's timed up with the Legion of Zoom. Like when Seattle won the Super Bowl, all of a sudden you saw corners getting paid ridiculous money in DBs because they had the Legion of Zoom, they had the backfield with Chancellor and freaking... I hear that. Everybody sees what's successful and they want that on their team.

I hear you. I hear you. I think Tyreek definitely started the small fast guys get fucking paid the most. He's one of those guys that was like the anomaly. Like before Tyreek, you never saw a really tiny, I want to say tiny because he's not that small, but you never get, you never saw a small receiver get paid the most in the league. It was always the Calvin Johnson's, the Julio Jones is the AJ greens. You know what I mean? The Jerry, the more outside, the Randy Moss is the, yeah. It was just a different day and age in a different game.

Now you can do so much with receivers, you know, the jet sweeps, the reverses, the end arounds, the screens. Yeah, that's an interesting way of looking at it. When you're as good as Tyreek is, AJ and Justin are definitely, I mean, you can do all those gadgets stuff with Justin Jefferson as well. But I would say Jefferson and AJ are pretty prototypical receiver molds, right? I think that this is an interesting point you're bringing up and maybe it's you guys, but it's also the Shanahan offense that utilizes a lot of those gadgety players within it,

where Tyreek Hill is a perfect piece for that, which is why he's down there in Miami. And then Jalen Waddlewitz that mold, Amon Rossi Brown fits that mold. All of those guys, I would say they can do the traditional receiver stuff, but they're also these like quick, more like Dachshund type receivers that- Okay, Dachshund. Yeah. Yeah. They're more Dachshund-ish in their speed. So yeah, I think that's an interesting take. And I think that makes a lot of sense. All right. Let's get to some questions about building rosters though, because traditionally you're building, I don't even know if that's traditional. Yeah. How would you build a team? Typically, the way I've thought about it is obviously quarterback

is number one. That's the first thing you want, but you build through the trenches. You have to have a great offensive line, a great defensive line, skilled position players. That would forever be football's focal point. You can't tell me that you can win a football game without controlling that fucking line of stuff. Here's, and this is the way I like to say it to people, is like an offensive line and a defensive line aren't going to win you many games. But if you don't have a good one or a really good one, they're going to lose you games. There's going to be games where you're going to not have that trench battle won. And typically it's going to be at an important time of the year.

I've seen a bunch of games won by offensive line. I think you're being modest. Running the ball. Yeah, dude. Ending the game with the ball in your hand. That's how you win a football game in the fourth quarter if you're up. But typically that happens because the other trench is so bad. But yes, yeah. Dude, I've seen it where it says battle for battle and you're just fighting for three to four yards a pop when you know we're running it. All right. I'll give it to you. I just think for the most part, the reason you want a great

offensive line, offensive linemen can't make plays. I hear what you're saying. Offensive line is a facilitator for skilled players to do their job. Defensive line, maybe it's a little bit different because they are making plays. They're getting sacks, they're getting TFLs. They're doing a lot of things that are stat driven. Offensive line is more just a position of we need to make sure that the skilled person has an opportunity to be the player that they are. If you don't have a good offensive line or good defensive line, you're going to get exposed when you play good trench play. And this is really like when you think about like college football, like SEC football, Big Ten football, these are the biggest

differences. Believe it or not, there are great skill players in Mac schools. There's great skill players in PAC 12 schools. Yeah, 100%. There are outstanding skill position players in all levels of college football, even Division 3. There's some great players that come out of Mountain Union and stuff like that. But where the real difference is, quite honestly, is like the offensive line and defensive line. It is harder to find those guys that can compete at the SEC and Big Ten level at smaller schools, which is why they just can't compete when they get on the same field. If you can't establish anything in the trench, it's going to be really, really hard.

You're right. I think that, yeah, I think Tyreek was really that first kind of undersized receiver that got paid the fucking buku bucks and now anybody can get that kind of money. Yep. You're only getting that money if you get that opportunity to showcase your talent in that way. There's a question on here. Does it make sense for a position group other than quarterback to exceed 20% of a team's

cap? I don't even know that it makes sense for a quarterback to exceed 20%. It is what it is. Yeah. My point is, I'm fine with them getting more in dollars than 20% of the cap. But if we're a good GM, we should be structuring it so that it's not 20% of the cap. There's ways to extend quarterbacks and kick cans down the road. Like if you- Dude, I can see it right now. I can't wait for you to be a GM, man.

I can't wait, dude. I can see it right now. Either way- You're so fucking well thought out in this kind of stuff. I can see it right now, man. You would fucking thrive. Well, I gotta learn from, I'm just gonna start studying under Howie Roseman,

school of Howie. Just keep, just go in there with fucking some, what's Howie's deal? Does he like biscuits? Does he like? Are you trying to get me to Ted Lasso, Howie Roseman? Dude, just Ted Lasso. Yeah, yeah, just going like, yeah. So what are you thinking on this contract over who got coming up? That's funny. That's good. Oh man. What is Howie? Howie, I know he likes tequila. He's got his tequila.

No, that's, you can't do that. Tequila is too hardcore. I can't do his tequila, but he likes tequila. You just got to go in there with like little treat of like, what's the sugar coated like frosted flakes stuff? I can picture it. Puppy chow, dude. Is it what it's called? I'm pretty sure it's called puppy ch. Yeah, don't do that to howie

Dude, how do you think of stuff like this? You're such a like people person like you just know Gifts all of it. Like you just are great at Little just a little something that'll just brighten your day. Just like god damn it I feel good off this call and now there's just like a puppy child. I don't know how you do this. Figury of the light. Well, I'll have to figure out how I can coax Howie Roseman into teaching me his general managing ways. Even though I'll never probably do that. Why not? Just got to learn.

Why not? Yeah, there you go. Never say never. Since 2020, 27 wide receivers have been picked in the first round. Yeah, I mean, it's listen, it's a passing league. It is really, really hard. And now that Travis has said this about short receivers, I have not thought about it that way. But teams have found ways to utilize these Swiss Army knives as integral pieces of their offense. Very well said.

And then outside receivers that win one on one are always going to be high paid because it's the hardest to double a guy out on the outside. Like if you want, if he can win that one on one matchup and that's always there, it's very difficult. That's in our favor. Yeah. You got to do some creative things to help that outside corner out. That's why corners and wide receivers have always gotten paid big bucks.

Yeah, I think this is a trend that is gonna keep happening until defenses adjust and more just is gonna keep happening. We'll see. These shorter receivers are, in a lot of ways, are being used as like by H-backs or like as like a quasi running back on a lot of this stuff. So like like Tyree Hill is like somewhat of a receiver, but he's kind of like an H-back like Deebo Samuel is kind of like an in-between player and the receivers, but they do other things as well. What is of big value in the NFL right now, are these players that do multi things because the league has become so creative. Well, it's become so multi-offense.

Like multiple personnels. Like if you can go out there with one personnel, and this is why the San Francisco offense works so well with Debo Samuel and Juszczak. Don't forget Juszczak. Where you have these pieces that can all of a sudden, you can be an 11 personnel, you can be in 12 personnel, you can be in 21th personnel, you can be a 12th personnel, you can be in 21 personnel. And you got to cover the whole fucking field. Yeah.

And you can run all of the plays out of all of those different personnels where they have you. Maybe it's not as strong as being in a legitimate form of it, but it's good enough that like it puts the defense in a bind that am I playing nickel? Am I playing base? Am I playing big nickel? Am I playing man? Am I playing zone? It puts a stress as to what offense am I playing big nickel, am I playing man, am I playing zone? It puts

a stress as to what offense am I playing. Yeah. Let's get some no dumb questions. All right, now let's move on to some no dumb questions because there's no such thing as dumb questions, just two dumbasses answering those questions. All right, now here we go ladies and gentlemen, 92% of no dumb questions is brought to you by Accelerator, active energy drink. Cheers. Accelerate your life. First No Dump Question is from wrongchampionship593, I believe. If you could use a time machine one time only, where would you go?

The old time machine question. Interesting. Do you want to go first or do you want me to go first? I mean, anytime I think of time machine, I think of Marty McFly. Oh, there you go. And I think of Doc. So- Back to the future?

Yeah, back to the future. So, if I were to create a time machine or get in a time machine, I would probably go back to the future. So you would go back in time, but you can't go back to the future. So you would go back in time, but you can't go back to the future because you can only use it one time. I don't even think I would go back. I think I would go to the future. Yeah, this is the question I'm asking.

If you can only use it one time, does that mean you can't come back? You're just stuck there. Just answer, I think it's just like, if you could use a time machine only one time, where would you go? I would go light years into the future just answer, I think it's just like, if you could use a time machine, only one time, where would you go? I would go light years into the future just to see what ends up happening in the future.

Yeah. I mean, the future is nice. I got to see what's happening in the future. I really, I like, like it's cool to maybe see a dinosaur in person, but at the same time, it's like, I'm trying to see what the fuck is going on in the future here. Right, right, right, right. All right. Like, do we all turn into computers? Because if so, I want to get a head start on that now. I don't know. I feel like I can't go into the future because

even trying to relate to like kids coming up now. It's like, man, I am. I can't even think about kids 40 years from now. Like, this is gonna be weird. Dude, what do you mean? What's the music gonna be in 40 years? I'm gonna be like, what the fuck is this? Hip hop in the 90s and hip hop in the 80s when it was done by like, dudes that were living that life is it's way different than like now when it's like auto tune renditions of like people like and it's the same thing in country music.

If I hear one more country song that's like like I'm all I got my boots in my truck going through the fields like what the fuck are we talking about that's not country music that's not country music put on some fucking Willie Nelson I am tired of country music and what is this become it is horseshit horseshit horse I like some of the country music coming out and listen some of it sounds. It's the same thing with hip-hop. It sounds good when you're in a club. You're a fan of Shaboozy? I'd have to listen to it. I might have heard it, but I like, it depends. Like I can listen to modern country and I can listen to like modern hip-hop when I'm

out in the right environment. But like listening to to it to like really enjoy it like Willie Nelson, to me, like the way he wrote songs like Chris Stapleton, obviously right now, shout out to he's just unbelievable. That's what I'm saying. That's a bang. When you're playing the music and got a voice like that. That's that's forever. Try it and true. Try it and true. Anyways, let's get back to the note of question. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. Time machine. Where are you going? Let's get back to the note of question. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah time machine. Where you going? I have my like Tricky way of answering this like the real answer to this is you go to the future when time

Travel is invented Right, so you travel to the future when time travel is invented. So now you can time travel whenever you want Because now it's invented you go everywhere. Yeah. Then you go back in time to when before it's invented, kill the guy that invents it. So now you're the only person that can time travel. And then you have a limited time travel. You have a limited time travel. And you're the only one who can do it. So you got to leg up on everybody. Name that machine. Name that movie. Did I just steal a movie plot?

Instead of Google is Lugal. Yeah. Lugal? Hot Tub Time Machine right there, bro. What do we got? The next one is from S underscore H A A C K. Whatever. What Olympic sport would you be good at? Can't be a sport you've ever played before. Me and Jason have kind of been on this and I've never actually played it. But we both kind of been in on, hey dude, let's just go and see if we're good. God damn it, I'm drawing a blank on what it's called. Marshall S. Nooble So, about curling?

Darrell Bock Yes. Let's just go and see how good we are at curling. Marshall S. Nooble Yeah. I mean, listen good we are at curling. Yeah. I mean, listen, we're good at cornhole. We're good at beer pong. Bochy ball. We're good at bochy. I just won.

Actually, I lost. I was just playing bochy ball on the beach. We got to get out on a curling. We just got to see because I saw about that touch. I'm a good sweeper. I'm a good sweeper. I don't know Jason. Jason is a good sweeper.

Yeah. I mean, I don't sweep often, but if when I do it, it's good. Yeah. You're tactical. You're tactical and you're brilliant. And I think we'd be really good at being like cheeky with it, like hitting certain other... Yeah. We're tacticians.

That's what I'm saying. It's the way we're wired. We're sneaky. We get our understanding of angles and speed. Yeah. And like, I just feel like we'd kill it. I think we'd also be good at like a two-man bobsled. I think it'd be a good two-man bobsled team.

Neither one of us can drive. I don't know if that's the best. Yeah. We got the Ed Kelsey jeans there. Just jerky. Just jerky. Dude. Yeah, we got the Ed Kelsey jeans there. Just jerky. Just jerky. Dude.

I can't get in a car with dad. Just like, are you not feeling what you're doing to this fucking thing right now? I'm getting seasick. How the fuck am I getting seasick? You gotta love how everyone looks at their family members driving man. Everybody has like. But then I found out I'm the same way. My colleague thinks I drive the exact same way as pop. That's what I'm saying. And I know for a fact, everybody thinks that I drive like that.

So it's whatever. So I'm gonna say curling. I'll double down on curling. Let's get on the ice man. We got another socket we got to get out on the ice. So we're winter Olympics guys. We're winter Olympics. Oh 100%. Keep me out of the heat. I'm out. Do we have a summer Olympic that we would maybe be good at?

There's a list here. Brandon has compiled looking. Why does summer Olympics just seem so much harder? Because you kind of be more like- Into it? Handball. We used to play handball in the backyard with dad. Dad used to play handball. We were a big handball team. I mean technically you need to play handball in a racquetball court I think. But I think we could do that.

We could do handball. Maybe not my elbow shot. I still have the shoulders. My elbow shot. I can't even throw a fucking baseball. Too heavy for equestrian. Yeah. I mean, Kyle, he could do. Too heavy for equestrian. Yeah.

I think Kylie could do field hockey. Fencing? No. Just looks weird. Beach volleyball. I'd be the setter. I think we could do beach volleyball. Dude, it's shoulders again. We're, no, I'm not doing this. Badminton? You ever seen those guys play badminton? How hard they hit that shit?

That shit's fun to watch. I like watching badminton. Badminton? You ever seen those guys play badminton? You gotta be. That's just fun to watch. I like watching badminton. Badminton's good. High level badminton play? Exciting. Let me tell you. Yeah. Dude, I don't think we have, we're going to have to watch the Summer Olympics. Dude, artistic swimming, also known as synchronized swimming. You're a male cadet. We can both swim. I was a male cadet at high school. Trav. I'm elegant.

Is a knowingly great dancer. Andy can swim so he could probably answer. Knowingly great dancer is such a wild statement. No, it's not. It's a very well-known fact. Because I fucking do dumbass dances in the dance zone. I'm a knowingly great dancer. No. You know why. Because you're a great dancer. I think we'd make a hell of an artistic swimming team. All right. I'm down. Synchronized swimming. All right. It's one of my favorite movie intros of all time. Which one am I thinking of? Is it based on a what movie? I know I can picture

the scene. Legendary. It's not just that one. It's one of the hits everywhere. He's got every, he does the whole like dancing in the street with the entire like, people that are just minding their business and everybody gets into like the, what are those plays? So fuck, God damn it. I wish I was smarter. You know what I mean? Like, I just wish I was smarter. I could go in the memory brain, pull out a file of shit and actually talk about it. Fuck, I'm the worst. Is it Austin Powers?

Yes. Yeah. Ding, ding, ding, ding, ding. Just watch the opening to Austin Powers and you'll fucking know what I'm talking about. It's great. I got it now. I got it now. I'm with you. That does it for this round of no dumb questions. It is brought to you by our friends at accelerator active energy Trav that also does it for this show

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I wish there was a way I could like reconfigure where everybody was. Like I wish you were closer to where the screen was. I have to look all the way over here. This could all be fixed if I just grab the fucking Pelican as I'm walking out of the door. Alright. Grab the what?

Gosh, Jason, you don't get out of the house, you wouldn't know. You say the Pelican? Yeah, the Pelican! What's a Pelican? A Pelican is a bird native to, like, the equator, I would say. It's roughly, you can see them a lot in Miami. I think Pelicans are all over. They like to get their pink coat from the shrimp.

I think you're thinking of flamingos. Damn it, that is a flamingo. What is a pelican? A pelican is a pelican. Oh, a pelican. Yeah, pelicans are everywhere. I know what the bird pelican is, but what do you mean you were going to grab a pelican leaving the house? I can neither confirm nor deny I said that, Jason. What did you say? Okay, what did you say?

I'm an idiot is what I said, essentially.