NFL Daily with Gregg Rosenthal - Bonus Ep: Anthony Jeselnik Joins NFL Daily!

Episode Date: December 12, 2024

Gregg Rosenthal and Colleen Wolfe are joined by comedian Anthony Jeselnik to talk about his new Netflix stand-up special  'Anthony Jeselnik Bones and All'. Gregg and Colleen talk to Anthony about his love for the Steelers (06:45), Gregg and Anthony's history and The Jeselnik and Rosenthal Vanity Project (18:42). After the break, Gregg and Colleen tee up Anthony with the biggest Week 15 games around the NFL for Jeselpicks! Anthony makes his pick for Buccaneers at Chargers (28:18), Packers at Seahawks (30:22), Bills at Lions (35:08), and Eagles at Steelers (36:53). Note: time codes approximate. NFL Daily YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/nflpodcastsSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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Yeah, I messed up. Horses are always the soldiers of pets. We've got Anthony Jesselnick in the NFL Daily Chris Wesleyan podcast studios with our friend, Colleen Wolf. Welcome, Anthony. I hope that brings you back some good times. Thank you. It's good to be here, although I'm willing.

admit that the last time I was here at the NFL network, you guys were in a different neighborhood. Yes. And when I would complain, you were in Culver City and I would say, I want a car to bring me here. I'm not coming back to the NFL until you bring me a car. And then I got in the car today and I was like, oh, we're not going to Culver City. We're going an extra half hour. I've been in the car for an hour to get here. I was going to ask you that. Make it worth it, Greg. Make it worth it for me. I mean, isn't it just worth it to see me and to see Colleen. It's been a long time. I haven't seen Colleen a long time. I haven't seen you in a couple of days. I see you all the time. I'm here. I'm just promoting my special. I'm getting a new Netflix special called Bones and All came out a couple of weeks ago.

Been getting great press. I got New York Times today. I gave me best gesture. Best gesture for after I told a joke, the laugh was so long that I looked at my watch. And they said that was the best gesture in a comedy special all year. Number five. Pretty damn good. On Vultures top list. So yeah, I'm sorry. I like that you're just coming out hot with the promo.

What else am I going to talk about here at the NFL Network? I was going to get to that. See, I, every instinct in me wants to get you in trouble. Like, right when I said, what else am I going to talk about? The five things that popped into my head, but I've gotten you both fired. Panic just watched over Greg's face. Yeah. It really has.

So if you're an OG listener. of the Rosenthal and Jessel Nick Vanity Project, R.JVP. That was a podcast. I don't know if you remember this, Colleen. Yeah, I do, of course. In 2015, Anthony and I launched the podcast that ran through the NFL podcast division and is still up there amazingly right now. I don't want to say to-

Greg is shocked by it. I don't want to say too much more about it because I want people to go listen to it. It's great stuff. I'm proud of it. And yes, throughout that whole time there, you were very angry at our executive at the time, Tom Brady and really the whole organization, not only would they not pay you or us extra for doing it, but they would not send you a car to pick you up every week. And it was just, you got increasingly angry throughout the course of the season. Hey, but things are changing. Yes. Now I can get a car. Now I'm going to be here every day, I think. I think I'm going to be seven days a week NFL daily just to promote the special. Yeah. Just to tell you what new awards I've gotten. and, yeah, if you guys send me car every day.

Two-hour round trip? I'll take that hour commute while I read. Well, now you can appreciate that when I was driving from here to Burbank for the Jessel Lick and Rosenthal Vanity Project, R.combe, V-B-G-V-V-P-P-P-B-P-B. Come on, bro. You know, what a hike it was. But, yes, we have seen each other a lot recently because we just taped what might be the last episode of our other podcast, and we called it later Alligators.

and Anthony has just spent like the last handful of podcasts threatening our listeners that he's going to quit. And then finally we did what might be the last episode, but I don't believe it at all. So he's just like putting them through unnecessary stress. Oh, you guys keep ending podcast together. So let's get this one going. I mean, Colleen doesn't know what we're talking about.

Colleen's on TV. Yeah. Colleen and I are TV people. You're a podcast boy. So we can end podcasts to start podcasts whenever we want. We're TV people. It's a power that we have. It's a look.

You know, it's a vibe. I do. I am on a show called NFL game day view, which they play increasingly early in the morning. They told them it's a TV show. I think you have to get up at 4 a.m. to see it. But Colleen once hung with us in Montreal, I believe, not in Montreal. I've never been to Canada. I don't know why I said Montreal, because I've never been to Montreal with Anthony.

San Francisco, when we did a live show of our podcast and you were just there at the Comedy festival? Am I? Oh, yeah, that's right. And we all sat around a fire, I think, in like really comfortable big chairs. Yes, Cluster Fest. Back when Comedy Central was still a power. Yes. When they had money to send us there, I stayed like in a nice hotel. It was awesome. Okay, we're here. We're promoting the special. New York Times is getting in it love. I loved it. Colleen hasn't yet watched it. But I will say, I did download it for my flight home from New Orleans, but I fell asleep because it was a 6am flight, so I didn't get to start it yet. But I didn't fall asleep because I had started it, it was because I only had three hours of sleep.

That went right. Right from compliment to insult. If you would cut it off in the beginning, it's like, thank you, Colleen. I've said too much. Why? Why are you saying? But I'm going to go home and watch it tonight. No, it is like a trait sometimes you see a listener in the wild or whatever. And they're like, yeah, I haven't like listened to the new podcast, but I love the old one. Or just, you know, things like they think they're, you know, I haven't listened to a while.

I used to listen all the time. I like what people are like, what are you doing now? What are you doing these days? People don't realize they can just lie to you. Right. Love the new special. That's all I need. I'm not going to ask for details.

I'm not going to say, what part did you love? What was your favorite joke? I'm just going to say, thanks. Well, I'm learning today, so that's great. But I'm going to watch that gesture that you had when you looked at your watch when everyone was laughing. Wait, so New York Times did like the best comedy awards.

It was like, it was like, the community of the year was Nicky Glazer. And it was like, special the year was this, like best joke was this. And then I was best gesture. which is kind of like the New York Times wanted to throw me a bone. Yes. You know, but it was like, hey, diversity. So let's give the white guy the diverse gesture. That's you just raging against cancel culture.

I'm so mad about cancel culture. I mean, listen, I could take up. I could take up the rest of the NFL daily. I could take up the whole daily. His eyes are lighting up right now. Cancel culture, guys. I have no idea how long this NFL daily is going to go. but I do, I do want to talk a little football in it.

Please. You're a big fan of the Steelers. I'm from Pittsburgh, born and raised, so yes, you are. It's in my blood. This is the most promising Steelers season. In a while, I was going to say since that pandemic year where they had a really good record, but it was an old Ben Rothesberger,

and by the time they got to the playoffs, they were pretty creaky. I actually can't remember a Steelers team in recent in a while that I actually thought well they could be in the Super Bowl they could be in our college place New Orleans

and they could be playing they absolutely could be I do not trust Kansas City I do not trust Buffalo I think the Steelers can pull it out this year I think Russ is cooking and I'm loving it and if Russ goes down we got fields as soon as Pickens comes back and I hear

I hear he's getting crazy stuff injected in him so he's going to be back sooner than you think. So I think it's all about injuries like it is every year, but I think the Steelers have a good chance this year. What about this week, though? Playing the Eagles.

Okay, well, hold on to that. Hold on to that. We haven't gotten to our big segment yet. I've got plenty of this. Which is called Jessel picks. Yeah. Very excited for that. We had an old segment back in the day.

And again, Colleen, I really recommend you more than anyone should go back and listen to this. One of our hit segments was crunk or funky, funky, fresh. And we would just go through the games that were happening that week, and Anthony would

decide whether that game was crunk or funky, funky, fresh. And what people don't, people forget is that I was right. All the time. Oh, yeah. If you look back a week later, like, I nailed everyone. Yeah. I was really... Well, everyone still talks about it here. I believe it. Yeah. I believe it. It's actually not true because no one that was at the company in 2015 still works here. Oh, I believe that is. Just Colleen and

I was going to say that, yeah, I think everyone's gone. I think you guys traded in employees for a new podcast studio. I did introduce Anthony to, yeah, to Eric behind the glass. Chris is back there as well and, you know, made a reference to our old producer, Brandon Marcus. But, like, no one in there had even ever heard of them. Things change fast. But that's why I'm holding on for dear life. It's a fun little thing for the listener who definitely knows who Brent and Marcus.

The Steelers, though, like. Like, in a big game, let's say they're in the divisional round, they're playing in Buffalo. What is your trust level with Russell Wilson? Like, T.J. Watt, for all the great things that he's done in his career, like, how many, how many playoff wins have they, have they had since T.J. Watts's been there? Like, zero? I could even think of it. I would assume zero. I don't think they'd want to play. Maybe one at most. And that's okay. You know, we're building the team. The standard is the standard. standard. We've got these games. We've got Philadelphia. We've got Baltimore. We've got Kansas City. I think we play them in like 11 days. It's something nuts where if we get through that two and one guaranteed Super Bowl, we could go 0 and

three and still, I think, make the Super Bowl. Again, it's going to come down to who's healthy at the right time. Do not bet against Tomlin. And again, Kansas City is a champion. I think he should be coach of the year. Definitely coach. You know he's never been coach of the year? I do know that because I did a whole thing on one of the episodes that probably aired before this or after this. I don't know. But how has that happened? Racism. It's, you know what?

Yeah. I mean, if you like go to this. It is one of those things that you go through year by year. And it's like, oh, that guy made sense in that year. That guy made sense in that year. But it's because it's because it's because of the standard. Because he, the expectations are so high every year that when they just kind of meet him, that you don't give it to it. It's always someone like Kevin Stefansky

who leads the Browns to 10 wins with Joe Flacco instead of like a great coach. Like Andy Reid never wins it. To win a single game with Kenny Pickett should have given him coach of the year. To win one game over three seasons, they should just give him. They should rename the award after him.

It is kind of amazing. Kenny Pickett's on your team. A little rivalry here. Steeler's Eagles, Pennsylvania rivalry. It's not really a... Not a thing at all. No, everyone's trying to make it a thing. No, no, it's too, they're too far away.

It's an eight-hour drive. But they're playing each other this week. That makes it a thing. Yeah, but they play every four years maybe. Like, it's not a, no one's like, it's exciting to see how good are we. Yeah. Because we're both, I think you're, what, 11 and 2? You've got two losses.

We've got three. So yeah, I think this game is going to say a lot about the state of both of these teams, but I don't think it really means anything. Not anything about the state in general of Pennsylvania. No. the Keystone State. Right. Keystone State battle is what I keep hearing.

Kenny Pickett was so bad in the preseason that there was like a big, you know, people wanted him benched, people wanted him cut from, you know, and they thought it was just favoritism and whatnot because of the trade that they made, that they gave up something that the Eagles even made him their backup. Like your quarterback wasn't even good enough to be their backup. I don't know what he's good enough to be.

But not the Steelers starter because that's Russ's job now. Russ. I'm all about Russ. Like, but as a long-term thing? I think Russ can play for 10 more years. I think Russ can play at a high level for 10 more years. I do, like, there is something about it that's a great story that you spend, I spent many years kind of thinking he's, you know, pretty low on the list of like people you would want to hang out with in the NFL. Not that any of them would want to hang out with me or that it'd be like that. But he just didn't seem like like a fun guy.

and they seemed a little overrated. He's the biggest dork in the NFL. He's the biggest dork in the NFL. He decided in high school he wanted to marry Sierra, and then he married Sierra, and then he told people that. You shouldn't have told anybody that, Russ. You should have just done it, and it would have been cool.

Who was the guy? He used to be a running back for Green Bay, and he was obsessed with Batman. And they did a thing of the NFL. I'm on green, I think. It was, I'm on green. He was the biggest dork in the NFL for a long, long time. He was the biggest dork.

And then when he retired, now Russell Wilson is the biggest dork. I mean, how can you be the biggest dork, though, if you did marry Sierra? Like, I know it's not a cool move to tell everyone that ahead of time. I had not heard that story. But the fact that she's okay with him telling that story, he's bringing it. We see crazy things happen every day. Sierra wants dork. Sierra wants a dork.

Sure. You've seen any of the videos they do together. Russell's not saying anything. He's just standing there holding her hand while she. you dances, which good for him. I'm not knocking him. I'm just saying he's a dork, but you want your starting quarterback to be a dork. Tom Brady was the biggest dork in the world right behind Russell Wilson for a long, long time. Yeah, now he's, now he's a broadcast. You tell me Patrick Mahomes is cool. Patrick Mahomes is a dork. You're thinking of his

brother. His brother's cool. Don't point at me. His brother's cool. They did spend like too much time on that. What was it? What was it? Hard Knocks? No, it was the quarterback show of just like, walking around with him at, like, an amusement park with his family. It was perfectly nice family, but it does kind of support your theory that it wasn't that interesting. The quarterbacks are never, like, the most interesting player on the team. They're not supposed to, if they're the most interesting person on the team, they're getting cut. Like, those days of, like, McMahon, you know, behind center are over. You need to sober up and memorize the plays.

Jalen Hertz is not, like, that interesting. Have you heard about this little controversy in Philadelphia this week? Probably not between there was a story that came out from Brandon. You explain it. Okay. Jalen Hertz, quarterback, and A.J. Brown. After the game the other day, A.J. Brown was asked what needs to change with this offense, even though they won the game. And he said the passing game because he wasn't getting the ball.

They're not really throwing the ball right now. And he said it with like this smirk on his face, whatever. So then it kind of like starts to become a little bit of a thing. Brandon Graham, whose season has ended, he has a radio show in Philly weekly. He goes on his radio show and he says, hey, they used to be friends, but sometimes, like people change and they can't let the personal stuff get in the way of the business stuff. Then after that happens, he walks it back, Brandon Graham does and says, it's fine. Like, you know, everything, there's nothing wrong here. There's nothing that's like happening between the two of them. So obviously, there is something

happening between the two of them. Obviously, I mean, big advantage Steelers, I think, is what that says to me. This is actually, you mentioned, you know, I've seen each other twice in such a short period. Yeah. Because we just, you know, did what could have been the last J.R.V.P. We'll see. When do you think the next time we'll see each other? Because now, like, that little conversation, AJ Brown, Jalen Hertz, you know, that made me think it's important to keep the personal touch

is close. Maybe that's what broke up J.RVP is the personal problems. I can, I mean, definitely egos got involved. You know, ego is frayed as we went on. You know, in the locker room culture at JRPP was pretty hazeful, hazeful and brutal.

I would guess we would see each other on New Year's. I bet I'm back. When does your family get back from Japan? After New Year's, yeah. Yeah, see, I get back a little bit before New Year's. You're back New Year's. I could see, you're looking to Colleen, like Colleen, why did you do a party. No, I'm trying to leave the country.

Yeah, I am wondering what Colleen's going to do. No, I'm hanging out by myself. You won't be there to go with me on Christmas Day to the same Holocaust movie that we went to last year on Christmas Day. I always want to call it a sound of freedom, but that's not it. That is the opposite of the time. What the hell did you guys do on Christmas? It was a Holocaust movie where it was just, you just heard it? The zone of interest.

Zone of interest. Yeah, we saw it. Which was a great movie. Yes. And the sound was memorable from it. If you've seen it, you kind of know what I'm talking about. How festive. And we just thought, you know, what's the most kind of badass thing we could do?

What's the opposite of Christmas? Right. Let's see the zone of interest. And it was good. And then I went to work later that day and did Monday Night Football. We once saw cats on Christmas. We did. As well.

That was fun. Very unsope. This is what happens when your family leaves you. And then when you bring it up that your family leaves you on Christmas, like people think you're not a good person or not a good father or husband. But it's just every family is different. I'm upset that you guys can't do something together this Christmas. Well, he's going home.

I'm going to see my family. My family loves me. And so they want me there. Oh, that's so nice. What's that like? You know, I tried to explain it to Greg several times and it's almost impossible. It's almost impossible to let them know. What is the reception for you back in Pittsburgh these days?

A parade. You know, you're here with the leather jacket. That's been a thing for a while. But the hair is becoming increasingly. Long? Yeah. Yeah. Just unique.

Just not Pittsburgh style. So you show up there. Pittsburgh doesn't believe I'm from Pittsburgh. Pittsburgh thinks I'm Los Angeles. So when I show up, it's like, I see some people from high school and they're like, okay. But otherwise, they're just like, what are you doing here? But I'm going to a Penguins game and maybe I'll run into some family. there. I usually see a couple people, but Pittsburgh is proud of me if they know I'm from

Pittsburgh, but they don't believe it, because I'm a suburb guy. Are you a suburb of Philly? Yeah. Yeah. That's where, that's where the soul is. It is. That's what they say. It's the city. It's the suburbs. Yeah. Yeah. People, if you are listening, by the way, and wondering, like, why is Anthony on the show? And I should have explained as a, as a better host off the top that we're learning. That we're friends, best friends, going back to college. at Tulane, and that was the genesis of doing our JVP back at the NFL. We went out to L.A. together to have an internship between our junior and senior years of college.

Anthony hooked me up with it. I had nothing to do that summer. He had come with me to Massachusetts the summer before and waited tables and worked at a restaurant and Martha's Vineyard with me. And I had nothing to do that summer. I didn't want to hang around New Orleans. I was like, can I tag along with you? So Greg's just been riding your coattails for

How many? To L.A. Ever. Five. And then who do you think stood out more as like a long-term employment candidate at that company as an assistant at an African-American movie production company? If you were going to hire either me or Greg to answer the phone. This feels like a trick question.

It was Greg. It was not even a question. It was that Greg got the job. And then I became a stand-up comedian. But if I had gotten that job, maybe I'm not doing stand-up. Yeah. Maybe I'm host an NFL. and Colleen's a chef.

You don't know what could have happened. Yeah. It's a sliding door situation. And maybe the personal animus that came up for me getting all the buzz on J.R. J. Jellnick and Rosenthal Vandy Project, J.J.R.V.P. For being the funny one. And that, like, Anthony just couldn't take that after a while.

That so many of our fans were just like, we love Greg. Like, more Greg. A little less. Greg has this dream almost every night. A little less Anthony. like Greg is so funny like less Anthony. It's weird. Let's say we did an episode and I was like, oh, welcome to JFVP. Greg's not here today. Do you think anyone turns it off? Do you think a single person? Do you think anyone notices? Yeah. I don't think so. I think if you said, welcome to JRVP, Anthony couldn't be here, you're hearing some clicks. You're hearing them live. Yeah. I am wondering, like, there were people, you know, very excited. They still are inside this company for you to be coming. This was, this was mostly inside this room seen as a big as a big time get i'm wondering if they've listened to this 20 to 25 minutes whether they still feel the same our our producer eric just sounds

confused back when we did our jvp i remember after we finished i had a meeting with the the main guy at the nfl network at the time and he said would you like to work with the nfl network in the future and i said do you guys think that you can work with me right and he laughed and he said yeah you're right and then i left was it charlie yuk was it tom brady yeah but there's There's nothing on the NFL network where I could fit in without. Like, someone's getting in trouble for this, for sure. I don't know. I think we're good.

I think we're good so far. I hope so far. So far, but I even got, I haven't. There were moments where we were pitching television shows with the two of us. That's how it started. Like, oh, yeah, maybe it could be like a Friday afternoon show. And it ended up being a podcast that, that you didn't get paid for. But it was meticulously planned.

It's worked out great for you. Anthony. Anthony would like want every segment planned out. It was like we did more prep than than college. You wanted to be prepared?

I mean, I'm extremely prepared for what we do. And that's why I'm excited about this final segment we're going to do. If you had told me that we hadn't started taping yet,

I would believe that. That's the way you run the show. If you had been like, all right, are you ready to go? I would be like, okay. We're normally,

we're normally talking about football. So this is a little different. It's a little something extra. We're actually going to take a quick break. We made it this far in the show And we're going to come back And we're going to do Jessel picks

The first and last time We're going to Hey this Matt Jones And I'm Drew Franklin And this is NFL cover zero We're just here to try to give you an NFL perspective a little bit different Did you see the Colts pretzel

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before you are on your Christmas break. This sounds like the soundtrack to like the trailer of a movie where someone with an axe is walking through a hospital. That's what it seems like. This Christmas. Get ready. I would see that.

The real Christmas miracle. I don't have anyone to go with me on Christmas this year. So make that movie for me so I can watch it at home. I saw Gladiated too. Go see that. Okay. It's great. I would see that.

And yes, yeah, Anthony has been touring this material for two years. I was there when he was first kind of trying it out. That's the time when I like to jump in is when he's just doing those 15 minutes at the comedy store, which you'll probably be doing again soon when you start just working it up from scratch. And that was more than two years ago. It was a journey that took you all around the world, biggest theater tour you had.

Like what was, I don't know, what was your most fun stop? I mean, London was amazing. It was great to go back and see the progression. The first time I played London, I played for 70 people. The second time I went back a few years later, 400 people.

And this was 3,500 people. Oh, man. like, wow. Like, they're responding. Berlin, the last time I played Berlin, it was 100 people sitting on the floor. This was 2,500 people. My parents were there. Like, that was crazy. It was, it was great to just see the audience as responding to the last special. As a comic, you put out a new special and you don't know how well it does until you go on tour again. And then see people buy tickets. It's like, okay, they liked it. So it takes a few years. That's cool. And it's not like you guys where like you do something and immediately people are like,

you suck. Instant gratification. Yeah. I mean, I know. I know right away. Like, what are you wearing? What are you saying? Fire this person.

Why do you have a job? Yeah. I just know. Yeah. I can take the temperature very easily. And you, I remember, yeah, we were taping the last J.RVP and you said that that was the last thing you had to do as a part of this whole tour and promotion. And you have a feature that was done in Vulture.

But no, it's NFL Daily, your home. That is the very last thing that you will do. This is the big, this is the cherry on top of the Sunday. All right. Let's do it. It's time. Everything has led to this. For Jessel picks.

This weekend is crazy. The 425 window has two of the very best games of the season in Steelers, Eagles, and Bill's lines. Potentially Super Bowl previous, we're going to get to those in a second. But in terms of two games with teams with that high winning percentage this late in the season, it has never happened in NFL history that two teams. teams that, you know, two games that good are going to happen at the same time. But at the very same time, there's two other big time games. And yes, we're into the segment of the show called Jessel Picks. Both Colleen and I have to make picks in really high stakes environments. I do it

against Cynthia Freeland. And I do it on Game Day View. You do it on Game Day Morning. You got to come up with your upset picks. So we thought Anthony can help us make our picks this week. Yes, please. We're going to Start with Colts and Broncos. Now, you might think Colts Broncos, that's not that big a game. Oh, you're wrong. Six of the seven AFC wildcard spots are all but decided. Like 94% chance to make the playoffs enough for six of those teams. There's really only one spot left.

And it is Colts as the underdog, the unofficial team of Colleen Wolfe. It is. Every damn year. Every year, she's always into the Colts. They're always a little me. They always let me down. And the Broncos, led by Sean Payton, who got rid of your boy, Russell Wilson, didn't like them at all. That would be a spicy playoff matchup.

Didn't know how to use them. I mean, perhaps. If they win this game with their rookie quarterback, Bo Nix, they're all but guaranteed to get that seven spot. And the Colts are all but done. So it's sort of a loser goes home game, at least for the Colts. Colts Broncos on Sunday. Who do you like? You know, I think it's a be a tough game.

I think it's going to go into overtime for sure. Mm-hmm. I'm thinking extra, extra quarter, extra 10 minutes of play. I think Jesus Christ comes back and five minutes left comes down on 50-yard line, introduces John Candy. Oh, wow. To the audience. Who immediately spikes a football and tears down the goal plate.

I mean, ratings would be through the roof. Ratings are the winner. Uncle Buck, too, like. McCulley, Gall gets too old for Uncle Buck, too. so it's just a tie it's the game is over at that point with the tie well they that would be good actually for the NFL

this is what my sources tell me right both teams stay alive in that scenario like it doesn't totally eliminate the Colts maybe they're in the mix yeah it's very belie for the division more than anything it would be great for like the post game shows

we have Chris Rose for instance doing our post game show we have Jesus on the NFL Network the highlights would be incredible. Who do you think people want to talk to more Jesus or John Candy? So I'll tell you right now. You've got

you're going to wait in line behind me to talk to John Candy. He's America's sweetheart. They're still playing planes, trains, and automobiles in the theater. It's a classic. At the arrow right near my house. I just docks myself. All right. Colleen. Okay. Why don't you introduce this next game?

All right. Bill's Lions? Buck's Chargers. Let's go Buck's Chargers. Okay. Bucks Chargers. Can the Chargers beat a team with a winning record? That's sort of been their deal this year. They've had all of these close wins or losses, but they are only one and four against teams that are above 500.

And the Bucks, somehow, some way, they have been able to weather the storm without their wide receivers when Mike Evans and Chris Godwin were down. And now they all of a sudden are leading the NFC South. They are a playoff team, and they want to stay there. So what do you think here? The Chargers, they have the best scoring defense

in the entire league. Can the Bucks keep scoring against them? I think you're right in everything that you said. I believe that the Chargers are going to win this game. I believe that Harbaugh is too big a psychopath. Yeah. Not to win this game. And I've been told by my sources

that during pre-game warm-ups, that Justin Herbert is going to go over two, who's the Bucks quarterback? Baker Mayfield and tear off his face. I've heard this. He's going to wear it. He's going to just tear it off and then keep it so he can't put it back on to play the game. He can still play. That's savage move. Yeah. It's a savage move. It's a hard bond move. It's kind of silly too. It would expose the Bucks. I think their backup quarterback is a gentleman by the name of Kyle Trask. I feel like that's advantage charges charges with. I think I think you're right

unless the Chargers backup quarterback whose name I do not know goes over and tears off his face that would be the move but that would be tough to do once you see somebody once you see one of your teammates tear off another guy's face

you want to get in on an action yeah all bets are off yeah I love that I love that if I reached over right now and ripped off Greg's face Colleen what's the first thing you're doing I try and rip your face off exactly everybody knows

I love that I'm definitely taking charges because of that all right Packers Seahawks that's the Sunday night football game. Big game in the NFC. Seahawks, one of my favorite teams

because of Gino Smith and how he's resurrected his career, the high level he's playing at, at 8 and 5. In first place, the NFC West, people didn't think they'd be there. Packers, in this weird spot in the NFL right now. They're 9 and 4, you think that's great. That only makes them third in the division.

You lose this. game. And who knows, you might have to even start worrying about not making the playoffs at all. A tradition of quarterbacks unlike any other, from Brett Fav to Aaron Rogers to Jordan Love. Do they go on the road Sunday night football and end the Seahawks winning streak? I got to tell you this right now, Seattle people, I'm sorry, your stadium's too loud. It gets too loud. You guys need to shush it up a little bit. I'm trying to enjoy the game. I think the Seahawks are going to win. I think they're going to win big. I think you're going to see Aaron Rogers on the sidelines with Joe Rogan openly weeping throughout the game. Okay. That's my

prediction. Now, he's not on the Packers, of course. He's just attending it as a fan. He didn't give anything to get back into a dark room and pick the, pick the Packers again. That's, that's, that's, that's That's your guy, Joe Rogan. I mean, they're buddies, Aaron Rogers. You were buddies back in the day, right? He's my best friend in the whole world. Okay. I talk to him every day.

It would be a viral moment. Do you talk to him more than Greg? I talk to him more than Greg. Yeah. Greg's a texter where Rogan wants to talk. Rogan wants to say good morning. You know, what are you going to do today? Yeah.

Daily affirmation kind of thing. That's a Rogan. That's a Rogan's just like, I love you. Heart emoji. Not to take too much of a side tour here, but are you going to watch the Aaron Rogers Netflix show and have you seen the promo for it. Rogan's not on the promo. I saw a promo where he's wearing like it looks like he's wearing like sleep gear. I thought it was a joke. That's a real show. Yeah, that's a show. About Aaron Rogers. And it's called

Enigma and he, you know, helped produce it kind of one of those self-made documentaries. Of course it's called Enigma. If you like, remember when Aaron Rogers was likable? Remember when he? No, I can't remember he was he was likable so long ago and then he's done everything it's like he's been following a playbook on how to not be likable that that i would believe if he was sacrificing himself for the greater good we found out one day i would believe it he's doing the opposite of russell wilson oh yeah yeah that's polar opposite he got divorced from sierra yeah didn't tell anyone about it no i i couldn't agree more you almost forget yeah at one point like iran rogers was the most exciting quarterback I've ever seen.

You rooted for him. And I didn't know that that much about him. And now I know way too. You remember when the first time you got a hint that he was off as Rocker? I do. What was it for you? 60 minutes did a profile on him. And he meets a fan.

And the fan goes, I thought he'd be taller. And Aaron Rogers loses his mind. He loses his mind. I really don't appreciate that. I don't appreciate that. And the guy's like, oh, you're like 6'1. I just thought you like, I don't appreciate that. it all. And they left it in the interview and then Aaron Rogers got mad at 60 minutes for leaving

it in. If you're over six feet tall and you're insecure about your height, I'm six too. A six five guy can walk in here right now. Nothing he can do to me. All right. I'm immortal. So if you're six one and you're bothered about your height, something's weird. Something's wrong. What about if you're five, six rounding up? That's fine. If you're below six feet, that's your world. You live in it. Yeah. Yeah. That makes sense. You're fine. Wow, when was that? It was a long time ago, because people were surprised. You were, like, ahead of things then.

It's my sources. Man, they were good. My first hint that I remember off the top of my head was the Mena Kimes profile of him, which Mena is a lovely human being, like, very smart. And it was a very nice profile of him, but there were just these little things in it that was just like, oh, yeah. picking up on them. This guy.

I guess there were more moments in that way. I don't know. For me, it was when he was like, oh, yeah, Green Bay, a real vacation destination for people. When they were trying to talk about like free agents coming in and Aaron Rogers having more control. Just like, why, what? Why the shot at like your, your team's base? Really? Yeah.

All right. Let's get back to Jessel Picks. My Super Bowl pick before the start of the season was Bills and Lions. And if you're a regular listener to NFL Daily, I haven't let you forget about it because it's looking good. It is. So you've got to just honk about it while it's looking good. Eric's Bills, I know they're like the two or the three seed right now,

but to me, the best team in the AFC, the best quarterback in the NFL right now, Josh Allen. You got the Lions. They've won 10 straight. They're everyone's favorite team in Detroit. This Sunday could be a Super Bowl preview. Bill's, Lions, Jess will pick time. Look, I, smart money wants to say Lions.

I think the Lions have been getting lucky and they've been getting cocky. It's kind of like the Chiefs, we're like, how long can they keep this up for? The bills are coming off a loss, if I'm not mistaken. I think the Bill's got everything to play for. But however, I think we've got a Dark Night Rises situation. We're during the opening kickoff, the entire field explodes. Oh, my God. And only the player returning the kickoff survives.

Oh, everyone else is. gone. A lot of death and destruction during the Jessel picks. Keep going back to that well. Don't get into that game late. It's like that your sources seem to keep keep hearing everything. Well, that's true. If it's a long-term thing, that would be a very lion'sy way for the season to end. It would be. Just the, the team is gone in the crowd potentially. But Heinz Ward is okay. Wasn't Heinz Ward

blocking on that play? Greatest Heinz-Ward play ever. Hindsward scored and then turned around. I was like, that was the best acting ever was when he turned around and saw. that all his friends were dead and he just dropped the football. Love Hydeward. Let's wrap it up with your game. I mean, it's our game, I would say. Eagles and Steelers, the Eagles, they should be, everything should be lovely. Rosie right now, nine straight wins, but, you know,

hearing the stuff that I explained to you about Jalen Hertz and A.J. Brown, even though Sequin Barkley is absolutely crushing it, and when you just give him the ball if you wanted to move the offense around, whatever, against the Steelers. your team that has been, I think, one of the biggest surprises this year because the expectations were a little bit lower than usual coming into the year because you didn't know what you had at the quarterback position. I'll say this.

And I'm going to kind of, I'm going to kind of split the difference with you, Colleen. I know you're such a big fan. That's great. I believe that for all the reasons you just mentioned, nine wins in a row, you can't maintain that. You got locker room drama. You can't maintain that. I believe the Steelers, even without Pickens, I think they've learned to play without pickings.

I think they're getting more inventive. I think the offense is getting more exciting. I think that the Steelers will win this game this weekend, but I think that's a bad thing if we do end up matching up in the Super Bowl. I think whoever wins this game if we play in the Super Bowl will lose the Super Bowl. So I'm rooting for the Steelers, like the way you're rooting for the Eagles. But if the Steelers lose, I'm not mad about it because I know we're going to come and take that trophy.

The rematch is the one that matters. Yes. I do believe these teams are coming out. into the Super Bowl. Wow. Yeah. So four Jessel picks where faces are getting ripped off, John Candy and Jesus are involved,

the field explodes. But Steelers Eagles, it's just like you're playing Patty Cake with Kalina. We're both winners here. And nothing happens crazy in the game. What happened to your swords? Jesus Christ is not like Santa Claus. He can't be everywhere at once.

He can only be the one game with John Candy. That was Anthony Jesselnick. You got to check out Bones and all. Check out Bones and all. Watch it. If you don't like the first 15 minutes and how that...

The first 15 minutes is brilliant. The first 15 minutes is the best work I've ever done in my life. The rest of it's great, too. But the first 15 minutes is the best work I've ever done in my life. This is my fifth hour of stand-up comedy. If you, people were like,

I watched the first 15, turn it off. No, you didn't. You're just Joe Rogan fans and you're mad at me. You get any of life. Bones and all. I'm getting a little. I haven't watched a lot of the,

I haven't seen a lot of the regular comments. It's doing great. I keep seeing it on the, like they have that Netflix top 10 or whatever and there's. That's why I downloaded it. I saw it on the top 10. I was like, oh my God.

I had the conference call with Netflix today. They're very happy. It's already doing better in like, because they look at how many people watch it, but how many people finish it is the big thing. And right now it's already outperforming my last special Fire and the Maternity Award in terms of people finish. it. So the first 15 minutes is so brilliant. They're like, throw away the remote.

Give it to John Candy. He's back. That's what they say. That's what we all want. And I hope, you know, someday we'll have you back here. We're now nine years between appearances at NFL network. I guess it would have been like Super Bowl 2016. So yeah, you will then, you'll be here in what, 233. Look, I've enjoyed the hell out of my time here. Walking through that room wasn't great. I'm not going to lie to you guys. That was kind of tough for me. But you know what it is. Yeah. But it's the drive. It's the commute. Yeah, that's a lot. That next time, if Colleen picks me up and brings me into the studio, I will come back. And listen, guys, playoff time comes. You need to steal this fan hand of rep. Okay. Okay. I will be back. You just keep sending me cars.

I mean, I could, I could do it. Send me a car every day. And if I want to come, I'll jump in the car. There was one J.RVP episode where you insisted you had only tape it if I picked you up and brought you there. And you did that? I did it. I mean, it's not that far out of the way. No. It's L.A. It's Hollywood. You know, the things I've done for this man over the years, you know.

His friendship. It's adorable. And what he's done for me. Let's get out of here. Play the music. Eric, yes, for Anthony Jastelnick, check out his special phones and all. Thank you guys. Great to see you. Hey, this was fun. Check out. You should do it again very soon. I'll pick you up. Colleen on

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