NFL Daily with Gregg Rosenthal - Bunkercast XI: Quarantine Pleasures

Episode Date: March 26, 2020

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Welcome to another edition of the Around the NFL podcast presented by Intuit QuickBooks, official sponsor. sponsor of the NFL. My name is Dan Hansis coming to you from a city filled with heroes and bunkers. Mark Sessler, Chris Wessling, and Greg Rosenthal. What is up, boys? Hey, Dan. Yeah. We got that bunker live. We're all about it. I'm pumped to be heading to the owner's meetings tomorrow. Finally, here, our Big Friday 26th, we got those flights booked a few weeks back. We are heading to where is it? Palm Beach. West Palm Beach. It would have been nice.

Would have been fun. We would have had our opportunity to sit down with multiple head coaches. We would have done our fun speed round. There would have been house music involved and would have made certain coaches uncomfortable. And yet, it's all wiped away because that's what happens now in society. Things that were supposed to happen now no longer happen. For example, the president of the Baltimore Ravens named. This is a good quiz for you, Greg.

I know you're really plugged in on the movers and shakers of the league. The president of the Ravens is named. I saw this news item earlier. So it was Dick Cass, right? I don't know if I would have gotten it otherwise. Is that Mama son? It is. It is. It is the son of Mama Cass.

It is. He expects the coronavirus in COVID-19 to lead to the cancel. of all off-season activities, which makes sense. It seems like we're heading toward it's been a very different march and it's unlikely to change or things will continue to change, I should say, as the springtime continues. And at least that's where it's heading. Great named Dick Cass. I guess like great-named Dix is just going around right now because Dick Pound, the famous

Olympian was kind of the guy who broke the Olympics are being canceled. One of the great names, Dick Pound. By the way, just the other day on Twitter, Dick Trickle, I believe, Greg, your son is into a racing man, Dick Trickle, I'm not sure that's, was that his birth name? That sounds confounding to me, but he was trending in Los Angeles area Twitter circles for some reason. I don't know why. I didn't investigate further.

He was in a book that Walker got out of the library that was called Great Racing Crashes. and as we're going through the book, the surprise ending is like seven people die. So this is a great book for a five-year-old. Good children's book. Chris Wessling, the stock market saw gains for the third consecutive day. So I imagine that stabilizes your portfolio. What portfolio?

I have no portfolio. I cashed in my 401k when I moved to Tybee. And it has not recovered. Well, I will say, Dan, you and I, We were on a text thread with some of your... Wait, Wes, you don't have a portfolio? It's shocking, I know. Dan, we were on a thread last night

with some of your longtime friends where we, and I actually brought this home to Simone to talk to her about it, just sort of said, we came up with an investment plan, and we could hatch this down the road, but you don't share great investment strategies. This industry, which is about to explode, we have a beat on this.

And if someone really wants to get in, hit us up DM us maybe maybe they don't know the idea so you're saying if you want to okay so if they want to follow us blindly uh because if they if we give them the idea they have to buy in well no it's i'm talking about people with with trench and you know like capital capital to come why don't you say it here just if nothing else just to save the last minute of the podcast absolutely not all the only heads i can tell you it's it's connected to the industry that is always on the cutting edge and ahead of the curve in finding ways to monetize things. And we have a billion dollar idea. And we're going to continue

that will be a percolation. We'll continue to develop that during the COVID-19 outbreak. Yeah. And in a part of humanity, the human experience that is not about to go away. Never. Any time soon. Never goes away. There's a lot of hustlers out there right now. I saw sign up like on a telephone poll nearby that said like, want to work out while social distancing. And it was like, you know, call this number and it was like a, you know, a personal trainer who's trying to do FaceTime workout. So people out there, they're just trying to make some money.

I saw one thing Erica could use. It was the video of a woman and a man, believe they were in a relationship of some sort with a dog and a harness where they, from a second-story balcony, lowered the dog down to the alleyway behind their apartment, allowed the dog to walk around for five or six minutes and do what it needs to do, and then lifted it back up and its harness into the apartment and it's i thought maybe of uh thor slash uh toto that you could uh do this thor you could do the same with him yeah or her thor is yeah is a boy it's a male animal do you think the dog enjoys that process no getting out of the house i mean maybe not being the lowering might be all right but bringing the dog back up might might not be so good for the dog well in a

body harness that was my question too it seemed cruel but it did it was it was wagging It's tail, sort of. We don't want to spread more false information, so just don't put your dog in a body harness. Like, just don't. Anything we say here, just do not do. Okay. Let's get into what's happening in the NFL.

It has actually officially started slowing down, and it has slowed down in a big way. The curve has been flattened in the NFL in terms of stuff to talk about. But there are certain items that we will hit. And then one thing I wanted to touch on here is everybody that has reached out to us on Twitter or the subreddit or however marks MySpace page and said, thank you, thank you, thank you for going five days a week for the past two weeks. Well, there's a way you can thank us that will be helpful to us. Head on over to iTunes and leave five stars and a review. That would be nice.

that's all we need in terms of payment and to Greg's point maybe you know five thousand dollars while you're at it I mean just you know yeah there's a lot of worthy things you could be giving to right now why not us so that doesn't seem like it's too much and we'll read we'll read a few reviews at the end of the show but let's uh let's hit some news my wife is on a soft reboot how is Emily is going on she's uh I would say say no longer in soft reboot, out of bed, mostly back to herself. So we are humming along once again as a family unit. And not a moment too soon, I should add.

That's great. Good news. Yes. All right. Let's get into it. We'll start. Wes, I want to tee you up on this one. Rapsheet.

Rapsheet reports of the Cowboys and quarterback Dak Prescott have re-engaged long-term talks. Here's more from Rappaport. Sources say the two sides are communicating and would like to work out a deal with a contract this complex. There are so many details. It's difficult to gauge where it stands, but they are working. And Rappaport added that there's no rush here. But it looks like if the Cowboys get their way, if Prescott gets his way, he's playing on a long-term deal. And there's another mega contract on the books for that offense.

Yeah, my analysis of this is that I'm happy Rap Sheet has a job and that he's good at it. But the football industry should maybe hire their standard for what is news. And we're talking about a contract. I don't know if that really fits into NFL Network's definition of news or anyone's definition of news. Well, it fit into ours. We just started the show with it. You could have just shot it down before we started. I will be impressed if you guys have some serious analysis.

of this, because I have nothing to go on. Wes, I'd throw it to you this way. I mean, you're the one, you're sort of the flag bearer on this, you know, network quirk that if it's the Cowboys, it leads. If it bleeds, it leads. If it's the Cowboys, it leads at NFL Network. And, you know, if you, why not? My one concern, when they talk about no rush, how about Rush?

Because this feels like it could be, it's, we get one of these every year, if not to, the most ponderous, daily updated news story. from now until like two days before week one when they extend Dak Prescott and everyone's running through the city streets with a bunch of banners and flags. Like, tell us then. I don't need to hear about it until then.

It's always the Cowboys, too. It feels like there's always some type of contract drama that we need to be plugged in on 24 hours a day, seven days a week. It's going to get done. Dak's not going anywhere. They'll figure it out. How about this?

Do you want to put a moratorium on DAC Talk until the contract's not? I would say it's a general all contract talk until it's done. That's a big blanket. We got four months to go here. We got five months to go. They might push back that deadline for him to sign this thing. We've been talking about this contract for how long?

I don't know. 18 months. I feel like there's a decent chance we'll be having like the Kirk Cousins-Dack Prescott conversation in the regular season, if there is a regular season. Hubba, hubba. In other rap sheet reporting during this suddenly quiet time, I'm on the calendar. The Cincinnati Bengals are open to keeping Andy Dalton for the 2020 season.

Rappaport said all options are still on the table. Before a free agency started, I wrote a piece on the, I think it was like 15 veteran quarterbacks with some level of intrigue around them or doubt or questions around them. And under worst case scenario for Dalton, I wrote that the Bengals, do something very bangley, which is just keep Dalton as a quote-un-un-court mentor and straight-up take away a year of his prime just because that's what the Bengals do. And now there's a real report that that could happen. Come on, Cincinnati. Do what's right. It might be his best chance at making $17.5 million, which he's set to make right now. I can't imagine any other team considering paying Andy Dalton that,

but maybe. Andy doesn't play for the money, Greg. Annie plays for the nine and seven. But maybe Mike Brown is looking at what's happening in the world. He's very conservative in general. Heck, they started John Kittna over Carson Palmer for 16 full games when they drafted him number one overall. And in a situation where maybe they're not practicing until August, they actually think, just keep him, see what happens. He's probably going to be the backup, but not bad to have him there. Like if Jacoby Brissette is going to make $16 million to be a backup,

I guess it's not that crazy for Andy Dalton to do it. Yeah, I think the Bengals are the only team that would pay Andy Dalton $17 million right now. I think that is true. And I think the Bengals may also see their former offensive coordinator, Jay Gruden, now running the offense down in Jacksonville, and assume that he wants Dalton. And their stance is you're going to have to pay to get him. We're not just going to let him go to the free agent market.

I will say, like, there is this other scenario where it's a bit depressing if he stays in Cincinnati as a backup. But the first football moment that came to mind, because I think Andy Dalton deserves like a truly special Bengals moment is let's say Joe Burrow comes in and does sort of the Tom Brady and everyone's comparing them to Tom Brady in all these different ways and say the Bengals like sneak into the playoffs, win a divisional round game, get to the AFC championship for some reason or not.

I'm not, I know Wes is laughing at that. Well, I'm just saying there is a parallel here where Andy Dalton, the sort of disgraced starter, comes in the same way that Drew Bledso did when Tom Brady got hurt. Did you say disgraced, sorry? Well, he is a bit disgraced. He's not being celebrated. They're trying to trade him off the roster.

They benched him for Ryan Finley. Drew Bledsoe came in for an injured Tom Brady and won that AFC championship. If you go back and look at that game, at the end of that game, like everyone from like Robert Kraft to Bill Belichick to every Patriots teammate were like pumping their fists

and so happy for Drew Bledsoe. I would not mind Andy Dalton being on this roster and having one ultra-heroic moment before they just give it to Joe Burrow for 19 more years. That might be the nicest thing you've ever said about any Dalton. Well, I don't think it's a bad idea in this, and I hate hitting on this again. It's like, it's not a great year to be a rookie quarterback. Like, you're not going to even be with your teammates until like four hours before week one.

So it's like, is it so bad to keep a trusty veteran around? Like, they're going to have to go find some other backup. Who will that be? Dan does not agree. He's smirking and, like, drinking his ice tea. Have fun with your little ice tea or whatever. I have not bought into the theory yet that no teams are going to have a chance to compete this year because of missed off-season workouts.

Also, Drew, not compete. It's just more, would you acknowledge that it's a more complex situation for a rookie quarterback to come into than other years? Or is it just business as usual? We'll see you in, like, August 29th. I think there's something to that. But the last time I heard this argument, I believe, was 2011 after the lockout. People said rookies were going to be behind the eight ball. And then Cam Newton came in, had an awful training camp,

and then broke about every rookie passing record in the books. Yeah. Well, maybe it goes great. But, I mean, I'm not sure I trust the Bengals organization to figure that out the same way. That's all. Chet. People forget Drew Bledsoe through two interceptions in that game and then went behind Tom Brady's back to try to get his job back for the Super Bowl.

Well, he also had, he led them to a quick score also, and they won the game. So who cares about some of the other business? They won. They used to win. Speaking of the Patriots, Tom Brady, the former Patriots quarterback. Uh-oh. Hey, Walker. He's back.

Walker. He can't hear anything. Oh, that's right. Give him a headphone. Now we'll just encourage him. We got, like, you know, a little bit to go here. Walker, you want to say hello? Okay.

Tom Brady, the former Patriots quarterback who was signed with the Buccaneers officially last week. You may remember a couple of years ago that Brady tried and failed to trademark Tom Terrific after angry Tom Seaver fans got fired up. Well, he's back at it again. He is attempting to trademark TB times, like multiply sign TB. The day that he signed officially with the Bucks, March 20th, he filed an application for the trademark. I really hope this works out for Tom because I've never heard anything quite as catchy as TB times TB. Sounds like, it sounds like you've caught something to me. It doesn't sound positive.

Well, also like, and as you know, I'm not a quote unquote math guy, but would it be TB plus TV? like why what's what why are we multiplying well wouldn't it be tb squared well that would be multiplying but it at least would look better mark i agree tv squared at least i feels like it has a you know a catchy it looks cooler tv times tv just does look terrible but why again why is it multiplied well it's actually when you apply math to something that's not mathematical so i don't it's it's it's confusing at its core the first one of these athletics trademark things that I remember goes back to Pat Riley in the three-peat and I was reading something the other day. West Matthews, a backup point guard on that team, actually came up

with three-peat. Pat Riley cut him after the first two titles. He went to the CBA. The Lakers did not win their third title, but Wes Matthews won the CBA title and he said, stick it, Riley. I'm the only one who three-peated and you stole my trademark. It's pretty good. Anyway, good luck to you, Tom, on that. By the way, has anyone checked in on Julian Edelman? Yeah, I texted him. Because that's more than just like buddies.

That was his father figure slash best friend slash life partner. And now they're separated. And I feel like Julian is a type of dude that might be maybe like a drift to a point that he's inconsolable. Hmm. He, the cat, the Patriots do need some cap room. Maybe, uh, maybe swing a trade, send jewels down there. Well, crazier things have happened. Uh, in other quarterback news, the Sean Watson, this is something to keep an eye on as the news slows down. We've all been wondering about how Watson feels about Bill O'Brien's decision, uh, to send off his all pro wide receiver DeAndre Hopkins for 50 cents on the dollar. Uh, he had,

I believe one, I don't know if he's spoken out, but he's had some tweets. Initially, the tweets were pretty much bland and weren't creating any drama. But lately, you know, they're starting to enter that dig zone, Stefan Digzone, where it's a little bit cryptic and you're wondering what's going on. Here's one for March 25th. When was that? Is that yesterday? Don't deal with the lies and the frauds.

That's why I don't get involved. What's up? parse that one mark parse it um well i feel like i you know i wish i had a hot take on this i think he's probably just a tad disgruntle but it could have been something to happen to him locally he feels like someone that uh he's sort of a bro and maybe he got beaten like at a pool hall by some bros like an underground pool game in this corona uh world but i that's as deep as i can go i'm sure someone else has a a better explanation of the tweet which is probably entirely unnecessary. I don't know why he needed to write that.

So it's like an underground pool hall that doesn't fear COVID-19 and they're just shooting stick? I would imagine there's a bunch of like sort of and maybe Erica can confirm this like sort of mass hole types that are just like, I'm bigger than this disease and like I'll continue to like drink like butt heavies

and play pool and pool halls. Do you just say that's me? No, I'm saying you could confirm if that's true if it's in like Dorchester or whatever if like that's what's happening there. Greg's looking at me like I don't understand Massachusetts. it's Greg, so I don't know. Neither do I.

You can explain. Never lived in Boston. Here's another tweet. I don't know how I'm going to make it out of here clean. Can't even keep track of who plays for the other team. Iconic duos rip and split at the seams. That was Sean Watson. Yeah.

He's saying everybody's going. He doesn't even know who's who. I mean, that's a Drake lyric, which is a, you know, Stefan Diggs type of move to use the lyric to express your deepest feelings. so he's in his feelings like Drake here's one more from yesterday never take advice from a person who don't love you you got to walk light got to stay above water feels like a lyric too

I'm not saying it doesn't need to be an original composition to kind of represent his feelings you know he might relate to the lyric Wes break it down I feel like it's okay to separate love and advice For instance, you may have a great teacher in your life, some kind of mentor. There may not be a love relationship there, but advice can still work. That tweet makes me think this really isn't about Bill O'Brien necessarily. This feels like a little more personal.

The ripping up the iconic duos, that was a little closer to the DeAndre Hopkins idea. I think that might actually be a lyric from YFN Lucci. He's pretty good. he's doing some good stuff right now. See, you've got Google, huh? We've got actual football news. So there you go. Deshawn Watson is doing some digsy stuff.

What was that, Wes? We've got actual football news. Oh, let's hear it. Rapsheet reporting, former Vikings cornerback, Xavier Rhodes, signing a one-year deal with the Colts. Okay. So Rhodes has really fallen off last year, led to his release, stand out at one point, now gets a chance to resurrect himself. And Indy, do we like that signing?

Well, not the way he's played the last couple of years. It's a little bit perplexing that they would release Pierre Desir, who then the Jets picked up, because the Jets pick up every Colts cornerback release. That's a role now. That's in their entire cornerback core in New York. So I'm guessing the Colts just wanted size there. Other than that, it's hard to explain. probably not for much money we don't have the money details it's just like a a shot in the dark

but yes he was he was playing very poorly what's so funny uh i just i noticed something that our producer um did that was humorous to me if you're watching the video version of this what'd you do i i was just making a funny face total dorchester move yeah there's a lot of downsides of um not being in the same room together when we do the podcast and one of them is like looking at like the faces of you like horrified when you make a point that you don't like or or the people not paying any attention or like all of that it's just I totally I have to say I totally glazed over prior to hearing the laughter and then I woke up again around the NFL podcast coming to you daily during the coronavirus

hey Cody Lattimore got a job the Redskins signed the white out formerly of the Giants. Wow, he's hung around for six years, and now he gives the Redskins a little bit of depth. Coming off a career, high, 300 receiving yards last season. You might be the second best receiver on that roster now. Hell yeah. He'll decide in a week that he doesn't want to be there

and demand that management trade him like every other Redskins player. Ooh, take down. No, I don't know. Speaking of that region, trouble in, for the newlyweds, Michael Brockers and the Baltimore Ravens, the athletics, Jeff Zribeck. Zrebeck. Oh, speaking of which, Wes, I did some research. And I believe you're right about the New York Post media columnist, Andrew Marchand. That's just my, you know, as I've stated multiple times before, I was the French club president in high school.

When I see a Marchand, you know, it's got to be. Oh, yeah. You got to lock it in. The Ravens have not announced that the signing of Michael Brockers because of his physical red flag here. He signed a three-year, $30 million deal last week. But the ankle injury that Brockers suffered last year put the Ravens raise the red flag high enough to delay the signing. It should be noted that Zeribiyak believes the deal will still happen. But it is not done.

So that is something to keep in mind. We might see some teams pulling out a deal. There's another one with the Jaguars. They're no longer doing a deal with Dark West Deneard. Supposedly that's not related to the physical. But this weird situation that they're in, you could imagine just people backing out of contracts now because of the physicals. I'm surprised there aren't more of these situations to be.

It's that this is sort of the only health-related one that we've seen in this situation. Back to Deshaun Watson a second. Does anybody else get a feeling that there's at least an outside chance that he never signs that second contract with the Texans? And all this meddling from O'Brien and the fallout of all this creates a toxic situation where Deshaun Watson could potentially hit the market via trade or free agency? that would be pretty wild I see where you're going with that the franchise tag just makes it so hard for any quarterback to escape

I'm not putting anything past Bill O'Brien Bill O'Brien could do anything at this point you would think that the ownership would step in and just make a choice Watson over O'Brien at that point but I am not putting anything past Bill O'Brien trying to get a massive deal for Deshawn

Watson you wouldn't think it would be this off-season but I mean if Watson ever was was available, you know, imagine what you could get. And, you know, Brian, if nothing else has shown us, he don't care, he's going to do whatever he wants. Especially, yeah, if you get on his wrong side and he has a chance to, I mean, what kind of trademark, and obviously I'm getting ahead of myself now, but what kind of trademarked would Deshaun Watson have?

Three first round picks? I mean, we're talking about a franchise level star quarterback, not even in his mid-20s. I could see Bill O'Brien going crazy. He is like that old Bill Simmons-ism. the Tyson zone where anything you see in the news on Mike Tyson, this was years ago, you would believe it. With Bill O'Brien, it's kind of the O'Brien zone now where anybody could say something about Bill O'Brien's personnel maneuvers

and you just kind of believe it on face value. Yeah, at the rate they're going down there, he could be half owner of the team in a couple of years. I mean, with Ryan Mallet as a starting quarterback on a second, you know, on a career comeback journey. And finally in the news, good news. Sean Payton has recovered from the coronavirus. And he urges people to quote, be smart.

New Orleans, Greg, your land during college is really getting hit hard right now. Louisiana, the numbers are doubling and tripling. And Peyton is an example of how anybody can get this. This is a multi-millionaire living behind castle walls and a moat. And he got the coronavirus. So a little, he's back to normal. He's back to himself. But he is the first NFL figure to be connected to the coronavirus.

And I can guarantee you he won't be the last. Yeah, it's sad. New Orleans, like, has a lot of issues that would make them susceptible. Mardi Gras just happened. It's like the most, it's such a condensed city. It's such a city. What would happen to Mardi Gras that would. It's a city based on tourism, so people are just coming in and out all the time.

And it also makes me worry about, you know, the future of New Orleans because they're going to get hit particularly hard. But hey, like, if there's a government that I trust to really hook it up, it's Louisiana. There was a video I saw yesterday of Bourbon Street, which like so many major city streets throughout the country are, you know, it's deserted. And the rats and the mice have taken back over. And they're just openly running around in the streets. They don't care. They're kind of like what it's like when you have kids in your house. The kids have taken over.

And they're having the time of their lives. Well, rats, you've, yeah. Rats procreate at such a voluminous level that throughout history, humans have tried to eradicate them. And it's not until the last few years that this company, these two female scientists in Arizona came up with a drug that you can give to rats. and stop the procreation so we might finally win the war on rats

if this drug becomes affordable. Wow, way to go, female scientists. Do we want to get rid of the rats? I guess so, yeah, they carry disease. This war has been going on for thousands of years. I mean, why do you think cats were domesticated? They almost beat humanity before COVID-19 came on and has taken their big swing.

There was, of course, the famous, plague, the bubonic plague. That was all about the rats, right? That was like the McHale Closlines Kurt Rambis of the Humans versus Rat fight. They are a fierce rival. Absolutely. Absolutely.

Any other rat takes from anyone? I don't know why you mentioned cats, why cats exist. I'm not quite certain why we need them, but I'd extend that to rats. To kill the rats. To kill the rats. So remove rats and remove cats.

and this cycle that is needless is not part of our experience anymore. Other vermin will fill the vacuum. I don't like, I don't love cats. I'm allergic to them, but I know cat people out there, they love the felines. So I don't see any reason why they should be wiped off the face of the earth. Let me ask you this, though, out of 10 cat people that you could pick at random, how many of them would you trust, Dan? Wow.

We had cats growing up. It's not nine or ten. It's not nine or ten. You what? Colleen and Gonzo are cat people. That's two. Well, they're the one out of ten that I believe I trust them. They essentially run a zoo over there at this point, John and Colleen.

They're like the Tiger King and Queen. All right. Check out. By the way, John Gonzalez wrote a banger on the ringer about once upon a time in Hollywood, Rick Dalton, the character played by Leonardo DiCaprio, all the movies and TV shows that he is, power is flickering in my garage. This could be the end.

Oh, what happens if we, if power goes away? What happens if the grid shuts down? Well, then the riots start. There's been no, yeah, there's been no indication of that. We've got some good internet lately, some good, uh,

some good power. Okay. But this Gonzo article, which was fantastic. Anyway, he wrote, yes, he wrote about, I think he, it was essentially a countdown of the best Dalton projects that get referenced in the film once upon a time in Hollywood. And John, as we learned, the last time we ever had a social gathering in our lives, maybe ever, when we hung out with John and Colleen and Lakeisha right before things went crazy, he had revealed that, or Colleen had revealed that John had watched once upon a time in Hollywood multiple times. I'm talking a half dozen, maybe closer to a 10 times, and was just buying it over and over again on the cable box rental platform.

Renting, not buying. He just kept renting it. To the point. And Colleen's like, John, I mean, you're killing me over here. So Colleen finally just gets him the Blu-ray. And so if you're looking for it, if you love that movie, the way I know, Mark, loved it the way I loved it, read that piece. Did a great job with it. He was the right person to write that.

Blue Ray's still a thing? Blue Ray's popping off, bro. It is? Well, it's still got the special features going for it, the commentary tracks and a movie like Once Upon a Time. I think they have extended scene. I don't know. Who cares?

Sean Payton is okay. Good. Anything else in the news that I'm missing here? I think we covered everything. Did I get the Cody? Stents of me. You got Latimer. Cody Latimore?

They got Cody. Got Rockers. Do you guys know? that Cody Lattimore at 300 yards last year? That's surprising. At least. All right, let me read a couple of iTunes reviews. Again, it's all we ask for.

If you're happy that we've been coming to you every day during this calamity, then just pay us back by leaving us five-star review and a review, any review you like. Do you guys want to hear a favorable one or a critical one from the audience? One of each. Yeah, a little of both. Let's start with critical. Keep us humble. start with critical. Okay. Yeah, let's get it over with. Okay, here we go. Losers, one star by nude, nude dude. And nude is spelled N-O-O-D. Dude, D-O-O-D. First time I listen to this podcast, these dudes start talking about how no one recognizes them out in public. But when they do, they don't want anyone to say anything to them. Then they start going on about the

coronavirus. So maybe there's good episodes, but the first couple minutes of listening to this group of individuals, they were annoying. Get over yourselves. Talk about football, not your sad life. Not a long time listener, I'm gathering. Not very far off either. No, not at all. No, that's all right. The first five minutes are just like a kind of a challenge, you know, some, some novels put in a really difficult first chapter just like, if you can get over to that hump, you'll enjoy the rest. Exactly. All right. Here we go. Now a favorable one.

Six stars from heck yeah. Thank you so much for five shows a week. Very entertaining and excellent analysis. Thank you so much for five shows a week. Five stars for saving my sanity. I sincerely appreciate all your hard work and I hope you are all safe during the crisis. Thank you so much for five stars a week. Well, that's very nice. I'm happy to see that our sad, pathetic lives could entertain someone. All right. The bad ones are funnier, so I'm going to read another one of those.

Please do. Yeah, I like the, I like the negative ones. Too much off topic, one star, Tony D-765. Similar. These guys joke around. Tony Danza, go, please. How about revive your television career while you're at it? Tony Danza's had a tremendous career.

I'm just saying, what's he doing right now? He's like 80. He's probably in hiding trying not to get the coronavirus. He's a Broadway star, Mark. It's funny because I'm trying to read this review and it's playing right into one of his criticisms. These guys joke around and make fun of people, which is not funny. They typically cut each other off and impossible to follow as they jump all over the place. Maybe you'll like it.

I didn't. I have not found any fault with any of these reviews so far. Here's another one. Not bad is the title. One star. Well, listen, you idiot, dart dude. If it's not bad, give us two or three stars out of five. Fool.

Decent podcast. The more I listen, sadly, the more I dislike each person on there. Mark, with a K, being the most tolerable. Seems like most of the, quote, analysis, closed quote, these guys do, isn't watching or studying NFL. I'd like better if didn't have favorite teams. you all aren't funny, your jokes are terrible, most overrated podcast I've ever listened to, straight garbage with three slammers. And yet, the title of the post is not bad. It's a manafel.

He knows how to craft a message. Right. Headline writing there. That was rough. Yikes. All right. So there's a lot of positive ones. There's some negative ones. We have 4,706 ratings right now. Let's try to get to 5,000's audience, 5,000 ratings on iTunes by this time next week. There is the challenge out to you.

Please help us out because it does make a difference in certain metrics and how they judge how a podcast is doing. And it might keep us employed, let's be honest. Everything's up in the air right now. And if you leave less than five stars, not just for our podcast, but if you go to the trouble of logging on to iTunes or on your phone and leaving less than five stars, you are a bad person for any podcast. I'm not saying there's like an afterlife and you'll be punished there. You know now you're a bad person.

I'm going to locate a nude dude and he's going to be punished. What are you going to do with him? TBD. I mean, you have to find out who it is. I'm going to find out. I'm clicking into his profile. Then you, you know, yeah. I think he wrote the first one.

He wasn't the three slammers one. No, but new dude did not have a positive review. Yeah. Well, they're both in trouble. It looks like he signed up just to leave that review. He has not left any other reviews. So let me check out Dart, dude. Let's see what he's else.

I'm really trying to fill the time here. Great. Five stars. The Ross Tucker podcast gets five stars. Great. What? Wait, he has five stars for every other podcast. Colin Cowherd

five stars Jim Rome five stars DA is that Damon Amadolaro our old NFL films friend I think it might be five stars

and then our podcast one star not bad though not bad not bad at all all right your mom's not bad your jokes are funny

got him that's exactly what I'm talking about clown loser zapped him troll all right before we go coronavirus straight up it's a thing

it's popping off it's a lot of trubs and in these times where human existence is challenged and we're all you know batting down the hatchets as it were, what are some pleasures of life that you've uncovered since life has changed?

Ricky Hollywood, I'd like you to get us going on this. Yeah, so I think a couple things that I've been really getting me through is obviously Netflix, like just TV in general. I've been watching Love Island, which is a sort of reality spinoff of multiple people being dropped into a house to separate and find love. there's like challenge it's crazy it's wild um so stuff like that i really love tiger king i've been reading a little bit and i think it's really important to find time for yourself you know that's not just sitting around waiting all day like sort of i put aside a little bit of time for me i like that

i like that yes tiger king west i know you're watching it too and no spoilers because i just finished episode three emily and i it is bonkers and riveting and i'm always surprised when certain stories I completely miss the don't F with cats Netflix series same thing I totally missed that when it was in the news cycle and this one I was totally unplugged on so it's kind of like seed of your pants on a roller coaster with these insane people yeah Keish and I just finished it last night right about the point where you are after like three episodes I compared it to competing cat cults it was like Manson families but instead of LSD and Belladonna it was just

brainwashed people messing with exotic wild cats and it gets worse it gets the show gets better but the things that the people do on the show get worse and more imaginative and creative and it just goes in a thousand different every time a weirder person comes on the screen

another weirder person trumps that person in the next scene it's just it's mind blowing just to be clear my anti-cat commentary from before does not put me into one. I do not desire or approve of these cults with whatever they're doing to cat bodies.

Very good. I don't know what they're doing. They're making a TV series based off the characters and Kate McKinnon is going to play the crazy cat lady. Oh my God. It's time for her to get out of SNL. Yeah, she's fantastic. She's fantastic.

Wes, since you were talking about the Tiger King, what about you? Pleasures, pleasures. I've been reading a ton of, At one point, a lot of Muhammad Ali, who just a fascinating, beautiful man. Lately, a lot of Lakers and Celtics rivalry, been going down the wormhole of, like, demagogues, gurus, brainwashing, megalomaniacs, that wormhole. So the Tiger King is right there. It fits right in with all that.

I'm not going to say that was the inspiration. the inspiration it may have come at the highest levels of our government, but also on a better note, our neighbors next door, good old Lynette and Rick have been throwing like happy hours every day at 5 o'clock when the sun's out. So the neighbors will come and bring a lawn chair and sit like eight feet apart, have some drinks and just chat for an hour or two. Ooh, that's nice. That's a good job by you, Wes. And it doesn't surprise me that you would find a community element in times like these. yeah it's i blame myself for not getting to know the neighbors better before we were shut in hmm you know your your neighbors better than anyone i know even before this shut in just for my limited uh interactions with you and them you're you're you're man of the people now we extend it to the whole neighborhood instead of just the people next door west is a bit he's big on uh the more the merrier and if there's a social gathering he doesn't really care who comes over

just come on over right difference between me and him. But I kind of, I'm jealous that you have that ability to not care who's around. Because for me, for instance, I only feel like I could be myself around people that I know, but you are not like that. And I think it's a positive trait that you have. Thank you. Sometimes I, I wonder if I should be more like you. So that's good to hear. Somewhere out there, there is someone with the middle bowl of porridge that is just perfect social person. Thank you. What about you, Greg? Um, I've been reading a decent amount. I love this book, leaving the Atachi station from by Ben Lerner. It's probably like the best book, funniest book I've read in six or seven months.

I like the David Chang show on Netflix, Ugly Delicious. He has a great show. He has such an interesting mind for how he thinks about food. They get into some like crazy big topics. But if you love food and like, man, they spend a lot of money on that show. Like, he'll go to India for like five minutes of the show. I'm like, like, what is the budget on this show? You are on seven continents for one 50 minute episode, but it's really good. I also shout out to just like walking around your neighborhood. You know, I think it's an underrated activity all year round. And now I see the people are the people are getting into it now because you have no other choice with the kids.

Just just walking. Walking's good. It's been keeping humanity going for hundreds of years. David Chang is doing a good job attempting to fill that void left by Anthony Bourdain's death. like a guy that's well-traveled and loves to taste different food and meet different people. That's like a, that's a good lane to be in that I feel like. And yet totally his own personality. Like I love, like that show and I, you know, I wouldn't eat 90% of what they're cooking.

But I love the adventure and the conversation and some of the weirder elements that pop up in what they discuss. I think of you a lot, Mark, whenever they're just like cranking out some like intense like it's all the, the, you always make a joke. what did you just have like a bull's head or like a lamb's testicle but they like really are eating that on that show yeah i always thought bourdain had the coolest job in the world that was the one i was most jealous of you get to meet so many fascinating people you get to see so many cultures eat the food just so many memorable nights that guy got to have where they're pure moments for sure um i am revisiting some things that i loved that i you know otherwise didn't think i had time to like revisit so I'm rewatching 30 rock right now which is to me one of the greatest

sitcoms of all time and in fact I think it's in the conversation for best sitcom of the 2000s and it's also very interesting as a rewatch because I don't think a lot of things would fly that they joke about the the type of humor that's used in a show that came out in 2006 and ran until like 2012, things have changed about what's acceptable in terms of humor. And this was on a broadcast network. So it's a little bit of a reminder of how the world is always changing. But it's excellent. I also, I wanted to cross my mind again, it's been sitting on my bookshelf for many years, infinite jest by David Foster Walls. I'm just not ready for it. I was thinking about reading it. Instead, I'm going to read a book that I just had delivered.

speaking of greatest sitcoms of the 2000s, The Office. It's a whole retrospective of the series, the American Office, so I'm reading that. And last night, I found myself with a couple hours to kill before bed, and my wife had gone to sleep ready. This is a good time just to binge on stuff that you loved, like I said, and has disappeared from your mind, and now all of a sudden, fill that you got time to fill.

So I rewatched Jerry McGuire for the first time last night in about 15 years. What a perfect movie. Oh, my God. And Cameron Crow, that guy, things went sideways in the last 10 years or so. But Cameron Crow's run that he went on from about 89 to from Say Anything and then to almost famous in 2000. Incredible. And I thought Jerry McGuire was his best movie.

Let's not forget fast times at Ridgemont High. Fast times, yep. Back in, I guess, 83. or so. So he, I mean, I think he kind of gets slept on because his last few movies have been terrible. But Jerry McGuire is awesome. And if you're like a sports fan, I remember seeing that movie in the theater when it came out in 1996 and thinking briefly that I wanted to be a sports agent because it just seemed like the coolest life. Yes, it makes you feel that way. Yep. And then watching it again because there's so much like, quote unquote, inside baseball stuff, it is kind

of cool that that's kind of we work in that sphere that behind the scenes sports sphere. My 16 year old self would be very excited to know that I ended up working for a job where I work behind the scenes and I'm at league events and I'm in that mix just like Jerry was even if he was an agent and I am not putting out a show that got one star from nude dude

I mean it's everything you could have imagined and finally Mark what are you doing for your pleasure center I kind of like one thing I love to same with you guys like watch shows and read and all this stuff but I'm not great at it when unless I'm kind of alone and I I went into this very concerned about, frankly, like the overall upkeep of our home and family

during this. And I don't mean from a coronavirus, but more from a, how is anyone not going to come out of this without basically nuclear bombing one another? And it's, to my pleasure, it's been the opposite. It took a couple days. But this whole homeschooling thing, I mean, our kids have a lot of, they're at the age where they're getting like three or four hours a homework a day and I thought that was just going to drive me crazy and what I learned and I'm not trying to be like syrupy about it at all but it's like I kind of like my kids have been going through these grades and you'll find it out with your own when they get up into second third fourth grade that like you just see them at the beginning of the day in the end and you don't really

know what they're up to for the most part but like going through with Colton specifically each day his work and learning about how he learns and what he's what he's into and what makes him excited and how good he's doing at certain subjects. Like, I kind of think this was something that is a dad that I need it. Now, I'll leave it there at that because it's been, like, much better than I think. Something that I really have enjoyed is, which is a little eerie, but driving around L.A. With, like, you might stare down Sepulveda Boulevard, and there's, like, one car. And it's like, I'll drive on the left side for five minutes.

Because also, again, there's no cops anywhere. And it's, like, weaving and doing what I want to do and kind of drive, like, in a totally formless. matter. There was a jungle gym in our yard that no one's climbed on because they're too big now, and I just climbed up to the top of that and fell asleep for 15 minutes and got like a semi-suntan. It's like, I don't really need to be anywhere. I kind of am warming up to this whole thing. I've talked to my parents every day, which I hadn't done that for years and years. And it's like there is this, like I'm on all these text threads with friends and reconnection. And I'm kind of over the busy schedule that we had before. And the,

concept of having no idea what is coming up next was scaring me a little bit before. Now I'm kind of like, I don't love it, but it's like, all right, maybe some of this is a little bit better. And also the new Pope on HBO, I think, is the follow-up to the Young Pope, is an incredible show. And it's not for everyone, but I absolutely love it. Do you have it on good authority that there are no police officers out when you're doing all these wild maneuvers? I'm just saying, especially in our part of town where you cut through like Venice, Washington, Sepulveda and you're in like hot spots like I just see cops everywhere and I was kind of

trained to just stay in your lane literally on a road and I'm like I don't do well I know but it's like there's no car around me it's like I can Mark's not the best driver either so staying I got better driving though side of the road well it's perfect for me it's perfect for me but it's like I just it's like I just feel that we it's if it could turn lawless but I don't see any policeman eyeing anything that I'm up to and I enjoy that and I'm just taking advantage of that human freedom it's like you live in the middle of a field in another country it's nice well i was super on board with all this stuff about your kids not so much about the driving thing um but spot on about spending all this extra time with our kids which one day we're going to um not be able to

spend any time with them so the fact that out of nowhere the face of intervened and we get to spend all day with them every day it's a little bit annoying um when you kind of are in it but at the end of the night, Emily and I have had talks about that, that it's pretty cool also to be able to spend all this time with them, especially when they're this young. Yep. Because they won't be young forever. I'm trying to wrap up Emily for number three, but she doesn't want it. So, you need a COVID baby. I think that's probably going to be a big thing. There'll be a whole generation of like C-19 babies. I always tell handsome Hank. I always tell handsome Hank that, you know, he has three healthy, wonderful children. But it should have never went with three because

his life is constantly underwater at home because he's just so much damn children running around, so many damn children running around. But then once his second kid, your second kid starts to get a little older, I'm getting that, you know, that kick. Like, I want another baby around. But the wife has a pretty big say in that, unfortunately. Handsome Hank is making his rounds in the neighborhood. We've got like three or four drop-bys in the past week or two.

He brought his new puppy over. Disko. Yeah. It's because he needs to get away from the... Aren't you supposed to not be hanging out with anyone, Wes? No, he knocks on a door. He knocks on the door, then he goes back down to the driveway and stands out there about 10 feet away and waits for me to come out. Beautiful.

He's brought a specific British strain of C-19 over to introduce you to. Are people calling it C-19 now? Well, I mean, if I'm going to have to say the word 40 times a day, I'm going to just shorten it as much as I mean. I'm down with it. I kind of like C-19. From the makers of RG... What was it? Robert Griffin 3. It's C-19. All right.

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