NFL Daily with Gregg Rosenthal - Bunkercast XVII: Text or Tweet

Episode Date: April 3, 2020

A bunker filled with heroes - Dan Hanzus, Chris Wesseling, Marc Sessler and Gregg Rosenthal bring you the latest news around the NFL including Derrick Henry signing the franchise tag, the latest update with SoFi Stadium and some other BIG important news. Marc and Ricky set up Friday's segment of "Text or Tweet" where the heroes have to send a tweet or text to someone that might make things a little awkward.Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comNFL Daily YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/nflpodcastsSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

This is an I-Heart podcast. The Around the NFL podcast has a close eye on Vons. Welcome to another edition of the Around the NFL podcast. My name is Dan Hansis, and I'm coming to you from a city filled with heroes in bunkers. Mark Sessler, Chris Wessling, and Greg Rosethall. What is up, boys? Hey, Dan. What's that, Wes?

You're all right, buddy? Hey, Dan. You seem to be in a weakened state initially, and, you know, given the times that we live in, immediately, you know, alarm bells go off here at Zeus or Manor. Everything okay over there. Everything is copacetic. Good. Good, good. We had a fun little Zoom cocktail hour last night.

Oh, yeah. What a star-studded affair. Greg, you were there for the earlier part, but it really popped off a little later on. We had Zach Goldman drop by. Handsome Hank, Colleen Wolfe, Mark. Gonzo, Emily Hansis. Erika never showed up. Lakeisha.

And it did bring back memories, Erica, when you missed out that amazing night in Indianapolis, where things just went off and you were in your hotel. similar situation with that. Yeah, it's sort of a disturbing formula that you departed or didn't show up and the night just unfolds into, I mean, we had a great time. Well, I think you guys have me to thank. You know, it's like when I don't go, you guys having an incredible night. Maybe there is some correlation there. This is the Friday edition of the Around the NFL podcast.

We're going to hit a little bit of news, not much to hit, but we'll hit on a couple of items. And then Mark Sessler is going to debut a game that he's been. cooking up in his scientist lab for a few days. Along with Ricky, we are co-hosting this affair. Okay, so it's Erica and Mark Sessler joint together without getting too far into it because we'll give it more of a background when we get to it, Mark. But what is a 15-second explanation of what's coming up later today? Name of the game is text or tweet.

And we all will have a turn to pick text or tweet. and the chaos will ensue from there. Interesting. A game of chaos. Greg, this game I feel like would especially maybe not sit well with you or your thoughts. Why would that be? I'm open to it. We need to mix it up a little here.

I don't think we need to go any deeper on Derek Henry signing his franchise tag tendons. So bring me text or tweet. All right. Let's get to the news that we will hit. Hit it, Ricky. All right. Let us start with really the most good job football cognizante. This whole podcast, everyone else that follows the sport and has a pulse,

never believing anything Ryan Pace had to say at the end of season press conference about Mitch Trabisky being his guy, the starter next season, blah, blah, blah. They go and they upgrade the quarterback room by trading for Nick Foles, the former Super Bowl MVP. And now Ryan Pace says in a conversation with reporters that there will be a, quote, open competition at quarterback between Foles and the incumbent first round pick of 2017, Mitchell Trabisky. He put it like this.

When we walk out on the first day, whenever it is, whether it's OTAs or whether it's training camp, Mitch will be going first in the huddle. This is from Matt Nagy, actually, the Bears coach. But it's going to be equal with. Foles. There will be equal reps with similar players and against similar players. It's going to be extremely competitive. Translate Greg Rosenthal. I mean, my translation is Nick Foles is going to be their week one starter. Not that Trubisky wouldn't be giving a fair chance, but just he's not

as good a player. And if you look at Foles's contract, which Ian Rappaport put out the details a few days ago. It's an interesting one, but the key was that they're still giving Nick Fools $21 million guaranteed over the next two years. The Bears chose to do that. And so I don't think you're going to choose to do that unless you are ready to play Nick Foles. I think if you bring in Nick Foles after all that's gone down with Mitchell Trabisky, I mean, what was told to Nick Foles other than you are our starter? Because I don't, competition is fine, but unless you want to come across is utterly psychotic to your fan base. You don't pitch this as anything less than a one-on-one competition

that heavily favors Nick Foles. I mean, he'd have to utterly collapse in whatever they have before week one to not start that game. I'm with Greg. Yeah, we saw glimpses of development in 2018. And if you were a Bears fan who did not want to count out your number two overall draft pick and alleged franchise quarterback, you could try to make excuses for last season

and point to the non-throwing short. shoulder injury, but then you look deeper, and that happened about halfway through the season. He was terrible in September when he was healthy. It's just hard to come up with reasons to believe that Trubisky would beat out Nick Fools in an open competition. In other news, the defending Super Bowl champions will have one of their top wideouts on the roster, it looks like, when 2020 begins whenever that may be. The Chiefs and Sammy Watkins agreed on a restructured contract.

What is it? It's a haircut, industry jargon. Sammy Watkins will make less money. It's now a one-year deal. It'll make $9 million in base. He can get up to $16 and additional incentives. It creates in terms of cap relief, $5 million of relief. And that's pretty incredible.

When you think about this wide receiver market, if you're plugged into this free agent market and things like Amari Cooper obviously got his payday, but nobody else came, you know, sniffed. even 15 million and to see that Watkins was on the books for 21 million is pretty outrageous considering his production. Then again, Chris Wessling, this is a good guy to have around because you never know when he's going to fulfill that great potential and carry your offense and spots. Yeah, there were games last year where, you know, beyond the numbers, he looked

explosive. He had great open field agility. He was able to get open. We saw even in the Super Bowl when he got open on Richard Sherman with the game on the line. Ripped one on him. The chiefs love him. And I'm surprised they were able to bring their entire starting offense back. This is a team that, as of a couple of days ago,

was sitting $177 under the salary cap. That's about as tight as I've ever seen it. That's a blue Yeti microphone right there. And then they're over it. That's outrageous. And it's amazing they got him to take that big of a pay cup. But I guess he just didn't think he could make it up elsewhere.

I just wonder, how are you going to stop the Chiefs? I know things change in the NFL, but the Chiefs are good at changing too. Andy Reid's in his bunker right now. They sent out a picture. He's in his shorts. I mean, he's going to be cooking up something the rest of the league's not ready for in September when everyone comes back. And he's got the best offensive team he's ever had to work with.

That shot of him in his basement, that must have been him trying to figure out how to stay under the salary cap because that's hard work. I can't even, I've never heard a number that close to the limit. That's outrageous. Finally in the news, this is a little bit of local NFL news. The Rams have a new stadium that everyone is expecting to be ready for the start of the 2020 season, SoFi Stadium. But now there's a real element of doubt involved because of obviously the COVID-19 pandemic and what that means for everyone in construction, slowing down and stopping. Kevin Demoff, the C-O, the team said this is not the time you want to be finishing a stadium in this environment as you prepare.

We'll see what happens. Now, I would imagine the Coliseum is still available, but I'm not sure anymore. I don't have any more knowledge or depth on this story, but they do seem to have a fallback plan unless something's going on with the Coliseum. But they were pumped to open that facility, just another side effect. of what's going on to the world. Well, it's fascinating because in theory, they're setting up the schedule for the season, you know, in a month. And you would assume, well, first of all,

they're going to have to set up the schedule, but for the Chargers and the Rams, you know, 16 dates at that stadium. It's like MetLife in New York. But you assume they're going to have a high profile, you know, first game there. And maybe it might be week two. It might be week two, you know, Sunday night or Thursday night. Who knows?

But how can you set that up in a class? I mean, you don't know if the stadium's going to be finished. It just is another reason why everything about this season seems crazy, especially setting the schedule in the next month. I'd imagine that with any, you know, open a new stadium on this date plan, you'd like to think that there were clear cut in place, you know, back plans where like this, for whatever reason this doesn't happen, here's where we go. If that's not the case, I'd be concerned.

But I, you know, the Rams, I appreciate Demoff. being totally up front about the deal. I mean, like, there's no, none of this, any, any messaging we're getting about anything from anywhere. And I'm talking even outside of the NFL where they're saying, things are fine. Everything's, you know, word go. It's like, come on. I mean, just be real.

We have no idea. We're meant to move to that facility at a certain point. That equally seems unknown. We as in our network, yes. Yeah, next, that would have been about a year from right now, we were, we're scheduled to move there. And that's a good point, Mark, that that might get pushed back to. Hey, Ricky, and more immediate danger is the first event at the brand new venue, which is Taylor Swift's.

Swift, yeah. Her tour was supposed to open or play a date in L.A. or a weekend, July 25th. While we're here, I would like your Mount Rushmore of Taylor Swift albums. Go. Oh, my God. Mount Rushmore. Put them in order. How many do we get? There's seven albums. She has seven studio albums. You get four.

Well, Mount Rushmore, famously the three best presidents ever. So there you go. True. So you got four. Put it in order. 1989. That's correct. That is number one.

Is number one. Absolutely. Number two, speak now. Okay. Okay. Okay. Number three, lover. Okay.

Interesting. Yeah. Lover comes back. Lover comes back. And you can't overlook the red album. Okay. You can't. Very good.

you can't i had i had 89 at one lover at two red at three and reputation at four i don't really mess with her country stuff so i know other people like the earlier stuff old zeuser likes her pop stuff so which of those album includes the uh i knew you were trouble when you walked in baller that's red that's red that gets played in our house a lot enjoy that song oh java job yeah speak now west is shaking his head and rolling his eyes west the floor You don't mess with her country stuff, yet her roots are as a country singer. Listen, she's from Pennsylvania, so let's calm down.

Pensatucky. I only like jazz, the only true form of music. I like all kinds of music. I know. I mean, speak now, though, mine, you are the best thing that's ever been mine. Sparks fly, like back to the set. Like that album then, you got to go back. back and re-listen it's so good okay

fan base called what is the nickname for is it the swifties or something the story of us like why you got to be so mean the swift boaters I think I think they're swifties I think that's what they are I remember the old swift boat story oh yeah we gotta bring that that had traction for

a while that yeah and enchanted if you want to like be transported to another world put on enchanted and just let the little dream of like falling in love just come oh my God, Enchanted. So good. Wow. Okay. Well, there you go, listeners.

Oh, speaking of listeners, let me check right in. I put a challenge out to the listeners a week ago today. That's what's happening in the news. I put a challenge out there a week ago today that I wanted 5,000 ratings of our podcast. Let's see if they did it. This is a major, this is happening in real time. This is no joke. This is radio drama. Let's see where we're at. I don't remember where it was before, but it was pretty far off. This is like the old 1940s fireside radio dramas where you just, you know,

the whole family is hanging on by the edge of their seat for the result. It's like pre-podcast when you could edit dead air like this out, you know. Oh, wait. The only dead ass you. Listen to this. 5,057. Woo! Greetings.

Thank you. Thank you, listeners. I know you guys didn't think this. is worthy of putting in the show. But this is important. This shows that you listen to us and helped us out when we asked for it. So again, the bond between the listeners and the around the NFL. It was worth it.

It was just the in between. Let's get it up to six. Let's crank it. Let's crank. All right. Let us crank. All right, Mark, take it away, buddy. I don't have any real knowledge of what the game is, nor does the rest of the heroes.

Apparently, Ricky does. So what's going on here? Yeah. I mean, she and I have, you know, put this together behind the scenes. It's a relatively simple game because it's Friday. You know, let's not get too taxed and burdened down with the whole thing. You choose, we're going to start with Greg because I liked his attitude coming out of the gate here about this game. Good attitude.

So you either, he's going to basically, using Greg as an example, is going to pick, I want a text or a tweet. And so what's going to happen is if he picks text, for instance, Erica, who, organized Greg's material is going to read out loud the text that Greg has to send and make very clear who he has to send it to. If you pick tweet, Erica will read the tweet that she created for you to tweet out as soon as the show ends because what we're going to do is you don't have to transcribe. We're going to send you the exact text or tweet over our IM client and you will you know within 15 10 15 minutes of the show ending the content must be up on said don't we want the content up in real time so we can get any potential reactions i don't want

to step on the toes of the game no i would love that but i i you know i don't know what people are dealing with tech wise i could we could easily send it to you and you can send it out as soon as possible that's what we should do and if uh anyone here's the thing you cannot own up on twitter or on the on said text thread until midnight Los Angeles time that this is a ruse, that it's not you. You cannot just 15 minutes now be like, uh-uh, this was Erica and Mark, like, not me. It's like you've got to let it marinate. Till midnight. For till midnight. And if any rules are broken or if you in any way, and we're each going to have one too, so it's not just on the three of you. If any of us, you know,

break any of these rules, it is an immediate $100 donation to the Los Angeles Regional Food Bank, which I will also send the link to, and I need photographic proof. We both do that this has been done. So shouldn't we just all donate $100 anyway? Now that you brought it up, it's kind of a silly thing. You are more than free to do that, but it will be an extra 100. I mean, just saying, you can't put that out there and not do it.

I think that's a great idea. But we will do the exercise. That is a great idea, but it's just so that there has to be some accountability on this front. And I was thinking that I would automatically be like, oh, I want to go text because tweets out. there and you know you're going to have to deal with a lot of gibronies hitting you up i would just caution you that um i've couched within it for a couple of you some some tweets that are rather benign and may have very little effect on you or at least certainly nothing that you couldn't

that wouldn't be lost in the ether two hours from now some of the texts you don't want to deal with so just don't assume that there's an easy way out here does and i might have gone the opposite exactly so you just don't know you don't know what's what's coming and and and and Question. Yeah, yeah, go ahead. I missed a portion of that text part. So you are crafting a text that we are sending to the chain that we have? No, to, we've decided who will be.

It could be one person that you're not expecting. It could be a group text of some nature. Okay. And you've got to just sit on it until midnight. Yep. All right. All right. I'll go text. Text.

Okay. I will say one last thing. We did not, we intentionally, we're not creating anything that makes you seem ridiculous from a football opinion standpoint that makes fun of coronavirus or would get you in trouble with a higher up for the most part. These are, we're not out to bury or end the show. Okay. I like this. This also, there's something in here DNA-wise that, Mark, you have a tendency to write things that put you an uncomfortable almost Larry David-esque situations. Schreger, D-led. And it's almost like you're taking that property.

and pushing it on to us, which I'm kind of into it. I like kind of being in the mark zone a little bit. Well, we'll see what happens. This could fail titanically. Well, go ahead, Greg. All right. I'm waiting. Greg, you choose.

Okay, text or tweet? Yeah, text. Text. So, Greg, you have to send a text to Peter Schrager saying, hey, man, let me know if you need help with the microphone. I know we joke a lot, but wanted to send you a text and just let you know that the fact that you respect me the most out of the ATN guys just really means a lot to me. Maybe it's the quarantine that's making me so reflective, but I sincerely appreciate you and look up to you.

That's it. I mean, I got off easy. Send it to me right now. I'll show it to you in my sense. I mean, please. Thank you. And okay, well, that's, so that's the, uh, that, you know, this may not take four hours to go through here. We're going one round each, but, uh, Greg, you get to pick of the remaining group, who goes on next? All right, well, let's put Mark in his own game. I want to see what's happening for the Mark answer. Oh, wait, so I guess Erica must be throwing out the Mark answer. Yes.

That's okay. Okay, Mark is a text to Simone. I love you, honey. Yeah. She's like, this can't be him. This is not coming from Mark. Text or tweet. I'm going to go tweet.

Why not? I'll just, I'll. Okay. It scares me more. Raging Stone Ponyes unite. let's leave this dimension and start a new world order together sustainable food in a nudist colony and no machines of any kind

respond to this tweet with a unicorn emoji and I will contact you directly away we go he's already sent that yeah that's from November of 2013 I don't know what the nudist colony I'm not sure nudist colony is going to sit well with my employer but I will uh...

I have read that exactly exact tweet on Mark's feed after three Chardonnays about seven times in the past five years. So I'm going to be tweeting out now. It's like, one of those you wake up. You're like, oh, let's check into the replies to that wild mark tweet the next day and it's deleted. You're like, okay. He wise. Well, I don't, yeah, I won't delete this, but I don't believe that all tweets need to sit there for seven years.

I think that some of them I treat like Snapchat. I'm with you. I'm with you on that. And I will pick, let's see, I will pick West to go next. I will also do the tweet. All right, Wes. I would say that you, what the other option for you would have been problematic. So you've chosen the correct door.

Your tweet reads like this. Wait, can we know the text at some point? Yeah, after we can go back. Yeah, we could read some of them that hit the cutting room floor after. Your tweet, Wes, reads as follows. And I'm going to be DMing it to you very soon. top five ice creams colon five fudge swirl four stephen colbert's americone dream all right three rocky road two prelines and cream one duh none of the above i don't do dairy anymore

send this out now to all your followers you say send it out now yeah right now send it out now You send it to me and I'll copy and paste it. It has been sent. You want to text Greg that text so you could send it to Peter? I already slacked it to him. Maybe people will reply. It's already set. You texted it?

Can we see it? Greg. Yeah, prove it. My tweet is out there. I did lose dairy for a while during chemo. Not far off. Not totally fictitious. And so I guess we would be going, you can pick Erica or you can pick Dan.

let's save dan for last let's go erika all right uh Erica you um can text or tweet let's do tweet okay your tweet um reads as such everywhere I go I see powerful women and that's spelled W-O-M-Y-N everywhere I go I see powerful women changing society

meanwhile dudes are like where can I eat my next unhealthy fast food meal and or gets smashed in my basement on Yeager hashtag SMH shaking my head send it, let's go that almost feels tame for Erika I feel like I could have another revision on that

Oh I already got I got a reply from Ely Saying what? What a twist All right All right, we will move to Dan then. Mark, I want you to pick whether I text or tweet. You're going to tweet. Okay. Although I think also that I would have liked to see what

happened on this text thread. So we can, we can mention that after. Okay. Maybe I'll do both, but let's tweet. Your tweet. With the world going crazy. I'm going to do it in real time. Go ahead. Okay. With the world going crazy, I've been thinking about how lucky I am. As of right now, I'm opening up my DMs to hear from you. Hit me up with anything you want to get. about let's do this thing and then it's going to have a I have a photo of Bono to attach to it as well so I'm sending that over your way right now and with the world going crazy I've been thinking about how lucky I am as of right now I'm opening up my DMs to you I sent you the text because I there's some some some words are capped and everything so you need to send out as as I've

said to you and then here comes the Bono photo along with it through our client we're all tweeting like weird stuff all right now. I think people might be on to it. They might. They might. Somebody screen grapping me and Mark together. Yeah. It's the range of personality.

This picture. Okay. Dan, so should we go through the one or two of the ones that didn't make it? Yeah. Yeah, I'd love to hear them. This would have been a text that you sent to Jason Zumwalt, to Dave Damashek, to Hank, to Lakeisha, to our friend Nicole Phelia, to me, to go. Gonzo to Eric

to Patrick Claibon and to Erica Garbage movies I'm not falling for 2001 A Space Odyssey E2 Mama Tambien Mean Streets In parentheses a mess Anything by David Fincher

Little Women Last Temptation of Christ In parentheses more like last time I watch a movie A bit of a swing and a mess from Scorsese That text sounds realistic Right I like that My text

If had Mark picked text It would have been a text It would have been a text to Jane Slater And it would have said Hey just a quick question Why don't you like once upon a time in Hollywood I'm not going to judge And I know we've talked about this

But I'm just really having a hard time with it Because it's my favorite movie on the planet I don't need to disenfranchise Yeah, we should do that. Let's do that. Yeah, let's do that one. That's way better than the tweet. I am not doing that.

I am not doing that. And Greg's tweet would have been thinking about watching every Wimbledon final from 2000 to 2020 and live streaming myself watching it like Shia LaBuff. Who's in? Hashtag Nadal can get it. Here's one from, Wes. Too muscular, though. You know what I mean?

It's too much. Can't handle that? That's what people feel. You know, Wes, your text was going to be to... More of a Djokovic guy. To Brassy, our friend from the softball team, our co-worker. Showtime. Who, by the way, I sent her a link to our cocktail hour.

No response. No, dice. Well, there's probably some social classism going on. Wait, Greg, you didn't send it. This is just a picture of you typing it out. No, it's sent. Oh, okay. Maybe I did that.

We've got to see the response to the Schreger text. So yours to Brassy, Wes, was... Jonah, I could use your wise counsel as a treat for Lakeisha during her pregnancy going to surprise her by dressing up as a woman can explain more later but have no idea where to buy an affordable wig and how to find the right lipstick, etc.,

especially with the whole city on lockdown, any ideas. Oh, Brassy would have come through with some answers there. I thought she would be amenable to that concept. Hang on, I've just updated my DMs to receive messages from anyone. So I guess I should respond to all these people too. Are people answering you? I haven't checked replies yet, but it would be kind of messed up to open my DMs and then not have them actually open.

Well, I think this is the type of move you've always appreciated, Dan, like the kind of person who opens their hearts, you know, who thinks about more than just themselves and thinks about all the followers who would like to share some of your wisdom. I'm getting so many responses. Probably not a tweet I'd send out. That are like, oh, I'm triggered. I'm a guy. Someone else was like, we're not all bad. Tamposy and then someone else was like did someone hurt you again and then someone was like we dudes do suck don't be that guy you're gonna get a lot of white nights coming to your

assistance there are there rules as far as retweeting each other no I would I'd say let's hang off that for now until this gets out on the show too oh I wanted to send a whole zombie apocalypse into Dan's DM oh my god that you can do someone just quote you could do that tweeted my tweet that's a guide and they they quote tweeted the tweet with just stf you I have my first DM but it's from Schrager oh my god incidentally who will be joining us on the podcast next week so this has nothing to do with anything else but uh developing news peter schrager who just released his first mock draft will be on the pod to discuss that and more we haven't been able to catch up with Pete about his elevator encounter with mark sessler and what's

going on with good morning football we'll do that next week did he reply to you first or Greg I'm still waiting I guess we see the pecking order maybe the respect well that's displaced uh oh that's all we've got from a text or tweet oh man that's so good that's so good it's a nice way to go go into the weekend you know that's fun good game guys a little social experiment mark good work yes Ricky I mean you you put the accoutre on on it, and it was a nice job by you. Thank you. Mark, you know, it's got your fingerprints all over it, and we all appreciate it.

All right. Thank you. Enjoy your weekend. Oh, are we done? I think we are. I don't have anything else to say. No, I think we've said enough. All right, so we'll see. We'll follow up with a, uh-oh, I got, I'm up to nine DMs. I got a lot of work to do.

I feel like mine is going to have the most in terms of like, unless I want to be a jerk and not reply to anyone, I need to now follow up with this. So I'm going to be busy. Yeah. I think yours is the most uncomfortable. Mine maybe is number two. I'm not uncomfortable at all about it. I'm really not.

I just, you know. I was thinking about like just how crazy we could go with it and being like, Wes has to text like Andrew Siciliano and be like, I think you're full of shit. Like just you like sitting up at that desk. Like you think you're all that. I don't know. That would have, yeah, that might have caused some long term damage. Somebody replied that Bono is a pox.

All right, this is going to be fun. All right, everybody, enjoy your weekend as much as you can. And thank you for listening to our podcast. This is our third week of going five days a week, and we're having fun doing it. So continue to listen, and we will be here. And with that said, I haven't told the people in a while, to wash the hands still relevant

more than ever wash the hands including the web people 30 seconds and you'll be safe maybe Dan Hansa signing off for Quiet Storm

the mailman the old boss Ricky Hollywood behind the glass Till Monday Thank you. This is an I-Heart podcast.