NFL Daily with Gregg Rosenthal - Greatest Hits Vol. 1

Episode Date: July 4, 2016

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This is an I-Heart podcast. The Around the NFL podcast. Call the fight. It's the best podcast around. Welcome back to another edition of the Around the NFL podcast. My name is Dan Hansus, and I'm joined by a room filled with Heroes, Mark Sessler, Chris Wessling, and Greg Rosethal.

What's up, boys? Hey, Dan. A very special edition of the Around the NFL podcast. You know, we started the show as a foursome in July, 2013. It's now July, 2016, 13, 14, 15, 16, 4 years? No, no, no, no, no. Four years. Three years.

Well, we'll be entering our fourth year. Yeah. Okay. Math never your strong suit, famously. Famously. 39 on a state mandated math test mark and i of course the ATL debate club way back in the day is how this all got off the ground so this has really been going on uh since the 2012 uh nfl season which is wild when you think about it and you know some would say uh wait

you're going to have a best of podcast that means that's you've jumped the shark it's all over and i get that and you know oh this is this sounds lazy you guys just don't want to do a show during the quiet time of the season. Totally get that too. But in truth, Wes, we have great fans and the fans, whether it's on the subreddit board,

which continues to explode or on Twitter in social media where they always speak out, what they love. They love the show. A lot of fans listen to multiple, the show multiple times every time we put a new one out.

And this is kind of like a little gift to the fans some of the best moments of the show's history. Well, that's one way of looking at it. You could also say that we just want Brandon to do our work for us. Fair, sure.

Plus, you know, it's got some holidays. People are on vacations. If the alternative is no-show or we put something together. I just want to hear Mark's 50 edgitives for the Cowboys defense. Oh, you're going to hear that. You're also going to hear, I don't know, because Brandon's done all the work on this. But the one thing that we do need to get straightened out before we do throw it to Brandon to get us underway, is this the best of the around the NFL podcast or around the NFL podcast?

or around the NFL podcast, Greatest Hits. Greatest Hits sounds like, you know, we have, you know, hits that we play, you know, that we have tracks. Yes, great. That we have, okay, here's the five, that's not how we operate in five minutes, chunks. Well, we're the best of. I bristled at best of because the best is yet to come. That's another way to look at. I mean, we, Greg, we both agreed on best of before the show when we were not recording.

and Dan, in his intonation, when he sort of spoke both examples, clearly you are on the greatest hits side. Yeah, can you give us a little echo for this, Brandon? Around the NFL podcast, greatest hits. It just sounds good. It's kind of, it's a little cute little playing with the best of compilations and music. I mean, do we want to fight this battle? Thanks for spelling it out.

Well, it seemed like you were stumbling over it, like, oh, it's not technically a song. It's like what? It saves Greg and I multiple conversations with Dan about the subject, and it also meets Wes's point that the best is still ahead. I know the last minute of conversation would not be on any best of. No, no, it wouldn't. We're coasting right here. No, we're coasting.

So let's begin the show, and the master of ceremonies, if you will, is the great Brandon McGuinness behind the glass, the Irishman, who this is his big chisels moment. He wants to be up on Rushmore by the end of his time here, NFL media, and now the great test begins. Brandon, take it away, baby. Dan, we have a lot of great stuff to get to today, and as you're meaningless master of ceremonies,

I have the power to turn back time. Let's start where it all began in the old ATL debate club days on the Dave Damshack football program. Hands due to Mr. Fancy Pants, the flames need NFL news, and here's their chance. It's ATL,

Around the League Good morning and welcome to another episode of the Around the League debate club. I'm joined here, as always, by my partner, Dan Hansis. Dan, good to be with you this morning. It's always great to be with you, Mark Sessley. And a shout out to those of you that have just been listening to the Dave Damashek podcast and also to those of you that are catching us on the Around the League blog, which Dan and I write for along with our editor, Greg Rosenthal,

and our other partner, Kareem Copeland. What a team. What a team. Great team. Dan, so, you know, last night we got together to watch. I had you over my home actually. To your house. I had never been to your house before.

How did that go? It went very well. I mean, why don't you tell me how you thought it went? Well, I was nervous before you came over. I made sure to stock up on Heineken, which is your beer of choice. Yeah. And, you know, I knew the Browns were playing, so I didn't know what kind of mood you'd be in. But you were in the mood to watch football and drink beer, so everything went well, I thought.

I thought we had a good time. You know, it was, I was. went into the game with tempered expectations. That's what happens after 10 years of utter misery, you become numb to the Cleveland Browns in general. I mean, I don't believe you. It's not been a good ride for you since 99. Been a little rough, but I think we both, you know, I want to get your impressions on the game number one. I thought we walked out of this feeling like it wasn't an utter disaster. No, I think right off the bat, you have to be feeling good that the Browns had the ball

down seven with less than two minutes to go. I mean, just that they had the shot, And then, you know, Whedon, and we can get into Whedon shortly. But you have to give him some credit that he led them down inside the 20 there. The last pass was disappointing that he sailed it out of the back of the end zone. But I'll tell you what, on balance, it's a good night for Cleveland. I mean, when you're talking about the Browns, it tells you a lot about the franchise when they lose the game. And you're saying, oh, what a good night it was for the Browns. But that's almost how you have to look at it when you go into Baltimore, right?

Yeah, you know, when it comes to, you know, Whedon has been kind of, this hot cold act. He did a nice job against the Bengals. And in fact, I read this morning on Twitter, he's one of a small group of quarterbacks that is a rookie have thrown for over 320 yards twice in this short season. That group includes Peyton Manning and also Cam Newton and Warren Moon among others. So I'm encouraged by that, but they're also throwing the ball in outrageous amount of time. And it's not a balanced offense. He made a dire mistake down the stretch there with that pick six but he recovered from it i know and i will say this also i mean watching the game with you as a browns fan that's you know you want weedin to work and i'm rooting

for the guy too i mean when you have a 28 year old rookie it's it brings back memories of scott bacula from necessary roughness you always root for a bacula type character right and what we had here was weed in making some nice throws and moving the ball and moving the team at times but also making a lot of poor throws and you know maybe being a step slow in his judgments throwing the horrible pick six sailing the last pass of the game out of the end zone and not giving his team a shot from my perspective i still i am not sold on weed in and i i really have to think because now the browns are owned four correct yeah they're you know let's say they finish three and thirteen which is something that obviously can happen and they're sitting on the first pick in the draft or

the top three pick there's going to be some good qbs out there let's say matt barclay whomever you think is the top guy. If the Brown's had the chance to get him, I'm thinking you have to get him. You've got to go get the top young quarterback and move on from Whedon if he doesn't progress. I know he's shown some signs overall through four games, but I'm not seeing enough to say,

you know, let's pass on a potential stud in the draft. Well, and I think, you know, you brought up the parallel last night. Are we looking at, you know, Jimmy Clausen, the year before a Cam Newton is available to a team that might have a number one pick? My one thing with Cleveland, and they've rebooted the engine like 25 times.

A little patience. It's four games in. I'm seeing some encouraging signs from Whedon. I'm seeing some issues, too. But I'd like to see this team stick to the plan for once. Literally, they start over every two years. And you just can't get it done in the NFL doing that. Well, speaking of starting over, my New York Jets are potentially in that situation now that my beloved Durel Revis is finished with a ACL tear.

That was a... Why did I laugh when you said that? not funny at all. Well, I think actually, see, I would get upset if you were a Ravens fan or a Giants fan or a Patriots fan, but since you're part of the Loser Brotherhood that makes up Jets and Browns fans and a couple other

franchises, we kind of, you know, it's almost like a helping thing, you know? So that's cool with me. But, I mean, that was a devastating setback for both the Jets and the fan base. Where do you think the Jets are at this point as a franchise now with Revis on the show? I wasn't hot

on New York as a playoff team with Revis. I know you were. I think that they've moved into project mode, but it made me think of 2008 when Belichick lost Brady right off the bat. And a lot of people saying, you know, this team, well, of course, you're not going to be the same team without essentially your best player and maybe the best player in football. I look at the Jets the same way in that, you know, this is Rex Ryan's opportunity this season to show us what kind of coach are you when you've lost, what is essentially the guy that everyone has to game plan for. That's funny you bring up Rex, because I do think Rex, despite what you'll see some calmness

right, is more comfortable in his job security than most NFL coaches. You know, I'd put him in that upper tier of in terms of hot seat. I don't think that's a hot seat at all. But at the same time, there is a potential for the wheels to come flying off here. And a lot of that comes down to if Sanchez continues to be inconsistent, which now coming off that one good game he's had now two straight really poor games and I don't think I don't I don't think the Jets are a Super Bowl contender anymore you know I don't think they ever really were this season but now I don't think they're a playoff contender to me this

season becomes about what is Mark Sanchez is he the future of this franchise and after this season you'll have four full years and if he is the same Sanchez we know which is a guy that gives you flashes of skill and then long periods of ineffectiveness. I think that tells the Jets it's time to go in a different direction. I mean, so let's say he has a typical Sanchez season.

It duplicates essentially what he did last year, which his numbers actually last year, when you go back and look at them, they're surprising. They're not as bad as we tend to view Sanchez in terms of some of his down moments. Do they jump ship from this guy? I think, yeah, I think that he has to be better

than last year. I think he needs to show real growth. And I've been a guy that's always been behind Sanchez, but I've been disheartened by what I've seen so far, because it's been the same guy. It concerns me, though, because, well, I think there's a couple things going on. You've got Rex Ryan is Sanchez was his first draft pick. And really, I mean, his early legacy in New York is tied to Sanchez, whether he wants it to be or not. But secondly, I mean, Sanchez is going to be viewed as a winner or loser based on that record. And so, you know, you're not predicting playoffs. You're thinking what? Maybe six wins. Six, seven wins, I'm thinking now.

How does Sanchez survive the perception game in that city if that's how it plays out? I think he's in a tough spot. I think the whole franchise is in a tough spot, and that includes Tanibam, who I think, the general manager, whose job is potentially in danger now as well, because it's going to be very hard to put together a successful season without your best player. I mean, I'd almost got, Revis's injury almost got swept under the rug in the way, which is shocking because it's the Jets and it's New York. Right.

But with all the replacement ref Jama, and thank God they're back. And also, thank God, Gene Sterator, who, you know, he was the guy who was leading the refs yesterday. And I'll tell you what, impressive guns on Sterator. Impressive guns. And, you know, there's got to be a little in-house competition on the gun front with some of these, you know, alpha male types. Hockey, yeah, if Hockey Lee is like the Schwarzenegger and this, or let's say, the Stallone and this expendables type setup, hockey league, I don't know, maybe Sterator is, you know, Dolf Lundgren, I don't know. Yeah, no, that makes sense.

I mean, it's, you know, he sort of came out of the shadows. I'd not really, I can't say that I knew a lot about this, this man before last night, but Gene Steretor has easily got the most swagger of any official in the NFL. That's our producer, Bryce, jumping in with his thoughts on that. I don't know, I don't know, what does that mean? He just, just the way he delivers himself and what he says and the way he says it when he talks about challenges, there's just. I could hear, I could hear like Bryce's heart. Mark skipping a beat as he talks about this referee.

I'm a huge fan of Gene Stator, so I'm surprised you guys haven't heard of them. Well, no, I think... Well, we've heard of the guy. I mean, that's not what it is. It's Ed Hockley's game, let's be honest here. Well, that's all the time we have. How did you think it went today, Mark? It's shot by in a minute.

A blink, Dan. I'm not really sure what happened here. There's a blur. Do you think things got weird with the Starator stuff? A little bit, Dan. Man, I'm glad I wasn't here for that. But thankfully, since then, we've added more heroes and got to know some of them better

in Gold Standards game show Two Truths and a Lie. All right, here we go. So we just talked about getting to know me and TD. Now we're going to get to know each other. We're playing a little game of two truths and a lie.

So you're going to read three facts, two of them are true. By the way, do the stakes ever rise where the point value gets higher? Yeah, yeah. That Brad Johnson thing cost me four points. Yeah. Well, yeah.

Anyways, read off three facts. two of them will be truths one will be a lie your fellow heroes need to choose which one's the lie both people will be allowed to pick there's no dinging okay

all right so let's start with I think we should write it down so that we're not influenced okay okay that's good it's good on the pen working the king's out I like it

Greg you go first okay my three things two truths and a lie got to pick out the lie yep all right I'm gonna read Greg's face as he says it

I once delivered strawberries up and down the east coast. That's number one. Number two, I was working with Chuck Woolrie at a mall on the day the U.S. toppled Saddam Hussein's statue in Iraq. Saddam Hussein. Saddam Hussein. Number three, I once delivered a hot tea to Penelope Cruz. You choose one of those three. Do you want me to repeat them? Nope.

All right. Let's flip them over. Shall we? Dan chooses. Cruz is the lie. Dan is right. I didn't write in time. Oh.

I don't have a pen. Wait, you're supposed to write. Sabotaging my game. Ask for a pen. What have you gotten a right? Huh? Well, he's disqualified. Well, but let's be honest.

What have you gotten it? No comment. I won't believe no matter what I said. I know, but I can see if I don't look at your face. I'm sorry. I blew it. one point poorly organized I don't think that's that

Dan's catching up because of that nonsense I got it right alright what did I do wrong you picked it out I didn't do anything wrong Greg all right Greg just sabotaged your point what were you gonna say what were you going to say no comment well you obviously would be fighting for it if you had I could try what you look

all right all right Dan you're up okay here we go to reveal the thing there you go yeah there's my pen here we go two truths and a lie I was once defeated by more than 15

points in a ping pong match against a prominent star of a daytime soap opera. Number two, I spent part of my 21st birthday in an ER after a mishap that followed a particularly reckless college drinking game. Three, I rigged the class vote in my senior year of high school, the result being our prom song was Eternal Flame by the Bengals, not all my life by Casey and Jojo. While you're thinking about it, just enjoy the bangles We're ready? We're ready.

Right. Maybe you reveal to us. Hold on, hold on. I will reveal it, and then you guys turn the card over. You want to do it that way? That's good. Yeah, that's good. C's pro.

All right. The falsehood is the 21st birthday adventure. Bang. Got it. Wow. They both got it right. Both got it right. Mark and Greg, well done.

The other two were too Danish. By the way, I did pass Penelope Cruz in the hall as an NBC page. I don't want to hear another word about it. I thought that might have thrown you off the path. I don't want to hear another word about that anecdote. Does anybody want to know, by the way, how I rigged the vote? Are you any interest in that? Learning the secrets, maybe our audience.

Let me have the music again. Okay, yeah, sure. Yeah. Just got to get a hold of the paperwork or the voting. Oh. And anyone in the class, the class had 156 people. people. Let's say about 80 people voted and Casey Jojo is the way in the head over the five options. Anyone that did not vote, I just checked the box for Eternal Flame. And that

carried the vote. Nice. Highly unethical. Highly unethical, but a worthy project. And a good song. Let's look back. Well, for the greater good, I think. Yeah. All right. Mine are a little longer. I didn't realize this is meant to be like a hot button. I don't know what the deal is here. By the way, no one's surprised that yours are longer. One of mine was long. It was at the mall with Chuck Woolery when they were toppling the statue or whatever. All right.

Well, here we go. Number one. I spent the spring of 1994 living in a youth hostel in the Red Light District of Sydney, Australia. My roommates were an angry German soldier on leave who railed against America and ate only McDonald's.

His name was Hans. Also, two 19-year-old girls from Auckland, potentially runaways named Greta and Violet. The girls were hooked on mystery novels. The soldier was prone to angry rages. The scene crumbled one day before dawn, I packed up my belongings and vanished to the other hostile two miles away. My new room overlooked an alleyway drug den. I would watch 15 to 20 people shoot up per day.

This was during a time when I was trying to write a novel bridging the gap between Empire Strikes Back and Return of the Jet. Is this all three or the first one? That's the first one. Oh, okay. Number two. In between semesters at American University, I lived in Towson, Maryland during the summer of 1995. I was dating a girl named Elian. Because she loved the Baltimore Orioles, we saw a string of games leading up to Cal Ripkin's consecutive games record.

Elian was very into terra cards. She loved driving around at night. We broke up in August when she became increasingly interested in becoming a Wicca. Number three. I was once seized by the cops for mail fraud after friends and I used the stamp machine at St. Mary's Church to send out 200 letters, 199 of them to women and one to a gentleman, inviting them all to an end quote, special party at a local restaurant called the Rusty Nail. We were finished when an undercover plain-closed cop caught us videotaping the event

from the bushes across the street. The owner of the restaurant was steaming mad, citing concerns over terrorism, but the Rusty Nail broke its own record for revenue that day. Okay. I will wait until Greg is also ready. Look, you can't complain at all. You didn't have the right answer. I can't complain about anything I want to complain.

I saved you the embarrassment of guessing wrong. All right. I had it right. All right. The one that is a lie is number two. I got it. I had the hostile as the lie. No, no, that was deadly.

The reason I thought that number two was the lie. Actually, I'm all mixed up. The reason why I thought number two was you trying to throw off the set and was the baseball angle. I thought, oh, he's going to think. He did a good job at the game, basically. He got me crossed up. I did go to plenty of Orioles games, but not with a girl who wanted to be a wicker.

Yeah, that's the thing. Have something there. It's a little true. Learned a lot today. We did learn a lot that day, Gold Standard. Since then, Wes has established himself as an NFL trivia officinado, and Mark has a way with words to go along with his sarcasm. Win West's Toaster.

All right, let's get out of here. That's it. Wes, congratulations. You're feeling pretty good about yourself. You probably don't think you'll ever be beaten now. I wouldn't say that. Yeah. No, I wouldn't say that.

I do worry Wes is at the point in his career. He's no longer even enjoys the championships. All he can do is... Whoa. Oh, what's this? Wow. What's happening here? Oh, my God.

That's Dave Damashch's music. That's Dave Damashch's music. It's Damashik's music. Oh, no. Wow. It's interesting, sir. Did you remember when... in uh in dark night when uh when when when batman has his back broken and he's thrown in that

hole and then he escapes and he's born anew that's what damasheck is now get ready to meet your mate do you want me to answer the question no i've never seen dark night wow dave damasheck and you know this came together very quickly wow apparently because i saw just this morning on twitter uh sheck made that same dark night analogy spoiler alert But that means, and what's the little time machine? Dave knows his football. Absolutely. But I think, Wes, you put it well on Twitter.

Dave runs into an issue, at least the first time we played, which was what? His expansive mind has to explore every contour of every question, which means that the 60 seconds that we get, he uses on the first question given to him. Check has never opened his mouth without it staying open for at least four or five minutes, so it's difficult. He's got a look in his eye. Look at this guy. Westling. I'm taking you down, and then soon after I'm going to come up there,

and I'm going to take Greg Rosenthal and throw him off the top of the parking garage for his mean-spirited words. I will say this. Great choice of intro music, Dave, of Living in America by James Brown. I will throw out there that the last time someone used that intro music was Apollo Creed, and he was murdered in the ring, literally murdered by his opponent that same night. I am also Drago's reckoning. I'm making things right 30 years.

later on behalf of Creed, the greatest of all pugilists. All right. Now, as the host of the game show, I must first, out of respect to the champion, whereas Dave says the champion, you have to accept the challenge. I won't make you take on day. No, no, of course. I accept it. You will take all comers.

Greg, note that in your history books and your record keeping. No, boy, he sounds exactly like Steph Curry. Wait, Kyrie Irving's not playing. Yeah, I guess we'll finish off the series. Yeah, I guess we could go ahead and play this thing, may as well. And I just so happened to write six more additional questions. So it's the other thing I was prepared for this. You had a backup?

Maybe. I don't know. You are the most prepared host I've seen in a while. All right. So, Dave, just the quick refresher of the rules. You're going to get 60 seconds. Keep that in mind this time. You only have 60 seconds. Six questions.

You can go back and skip and go back. But keep in mind that the tiebreaker is the clock. So if you finish with the same number of answers, Wes but he does it quicker you lose all right wait wait I went here we go Chris Wesley I want to no I want to look at West the whole time I have to leave the room look at the giant nose deal with this giant nose wrestling it's intimidating yes it is you better where are you by the way I don't even want to know Chris Wesley be gone beat it it west is out of here yeah better beat it yeah you better run yeah you better run

keep going you out the door I live on an island I like to drink beer on an island Damashire I don't wear shoes some of the time I am trying to figure out where you are I can't I can't do it Well all we need to know is

It's time Dave all right We got to start the game I'm ready I'm ready respect we got to go All right here we go at the start of the eerie 80s Stallone movie synthesizer music we're going. It all ties together. Perfect. Name the Raiders tight end who was named to the 1970s

all decade team. Dave Casper. This photo sharing app currently has an ad campaign that features Dick Butkus and Kristen Cavaleri, aka Mrs. Jay Cutler. I don't want that's what I don't know. Next. This defender was a nine-time pro bowler who had his number retired by the Eagles

in 2012. Nine-time Pro bowler. I'm going to go with Bill Bergey. Two teams have defeated the Patriots at Gillette Stadium in the playoffs in the Belichick-Bradie era. Name them. The Ravens and the Belichick era. Come on, Damashik.

Come on. Ten seconds. Broncos. What is the home stadium of the Miami-Dohs? Dolphins. Pro player stadium? Who is the Packers' all-time leading receiver? Time.

Don Hudson. All right. Official score, I have two. No, that's not right. Oh, excuse me. I have one. You have one. One.

Wait, was it Reggie White? Wait, Dave's, Wes is coming back in. It was not. One! All right, well, he can't know that, son. All right. All right, Wes, a chance to go three for three. Now, take a good look at Dave and tell me if you think that he killed it

or once again struggled on the big stage. He's trying to throw me off him. I don't even care what he did. Wow. Saucy. All right, let's start the timer. Name the Raiders tight end who was named to the 1970s all-decade team. Dave Casper.

This photo-sharing app currently has an ad campaign that features Dick Buckus and Kristen Cavalary, aka Mrs. J. Culler. What is it? Pinterest? This defender was a nine-time pro bowler who had his number retired by the Eagles in 2012. Nine-time pro... Pass. Two teams have defeated the Patriots at Gillette Stadium in the playoffs in the Belichick era. Name them. The Jets and the Ravens

What is the home stadium of the Miami Dolphins? Sun Life Stadium Who is the Packers' all-time leading receiver? 10 seconds. Antonio Freeman? Do you want to go back? Yes. This defender was a nine-time pro bowler who had his number retired by the Eagles in 2012.

Brian Dawkins? One, two, three, four, is that correct? You got five correct. Five. Wow. Five out of six for Wes again. Dave got just one. Did you get to the second question?

Wait a second. Antonio Freeman is correct? No. All right. Here are the answers. Dave Casper was that tight end. You both got that right. Wes, I'm so proud of you about this one.

Pinterest is the photo sharing app. All I could think of was, um, no dick, butchus. Ah, no dick buckets. Brian Dawkins. That's a trivia question. That's ridiculous. Shame on all. Brian Dawkins is the defender, nine-time pro bowl. I was surprised they retired his number before he retired.

Two teams have defeated. Well, they did. When did he retired? He just retired a couple years ago. Yeah, 2012. They retired his number. It was right up playing for the Broncos. The Ravens, well, it doesn't matter.

The Ravens and Jets are the two teams. I can't believe I didn't get the Jets. The Ravens beat the Pats. You have to know your host. And almost three times, by the way. Helps to have experience in the win West's Toaster. You have to know your host. He's going to ask Jets questions.

But I talked to Bart Scott about that game two days ago. Sun Life Stadium is the home stadium of the Dolphins West. And finally, neither of you got this one, right? Because this is a tricky one. Donald Driver is the Packers' all-time leading receiver in both receptions and yards. And not that close. At least receptions wasn't close. but yards you've got.

Jordy Nelson will probably catch him, but not yet. All right, Dave, again, you have been vanquished, but it was nice to have you on. Trying to kiss hands as goodbye. Oh, there we go, buddy. Love you. Like your beard. All right, that's it.

Dave is out. Creepy. Again. The most entertaining tomato can we've ever had. Also, the tomatoist of the tomato cans. You know, we should have Dave somehow take on Dave, where we ask him the same questions, like a month apart, see who wins that would be interesting i don't know seriously how many questions did he get to uh he got

he got through all them got to the mall got only got one of them all right right exactly so west i will tally it up now out of 18 questions you got 16 correct which is right about at your average you're like the bowler that averages 260 or so that is um guys on top of this game yeah excellent i mean tremendous even Greg your final thoughts well i i like the job that sean did and TD and everybody back there everyone did a good job as toasters go this was palatable all right that's it west this thing whatever it is it's yours baby then it remains yours Cessler

Mark Sessler will start with the Cowboys and Chargers a game that if you're a Cowboys fan you're a little nervous about what that defense is going to do this season or not do. You have some reason to be concerned. The Chargers had no problem moving the ball in the Cowboys. And the only real bright spot was Brandon Whedon, which tells us a lot. So, Mark, want to tell us a little bit about what you saw from both teams. I will let others chime in on aspects of the game.

I, on the way home, I got caught the 405, which is a terrible highway that runs north-south in California. All five lanes shut down. for some two exit long construction problem. So I had to go on like an 18-mile circuit around up some strange road, got home around 2.30 in the morning. Standstill traffic came up with a list about what annoyed me most about what I saw in the field. Ooh.

Oh, I like this. I like this. Why don't we hear them? Let's hear the list. You sure? I would like to hear it. I don't know about you, fellas. I would love to hear it.

It is a 50, 50, 50. words to describe the Dallas Cowboys defense that I saw last night. I got a good feeling about this. All right, let's hear it. Hang with me here. Here we go. Putrid. Shipwrecked.

Dreaming in space. Mealy. Dog bit. Moist. Abyss. Beber-like. Rustic, but not in a good way. Cowed.

Overly cute. Unabashedly feminine. Men, lost in a fog of incorrect thinking, control, alt-delete, wind-damaged, childlike, but not to suggest innocence or purity, an eternally open door, the frightening laughter of the idiot, ultra-hazy, viciously below average, we're 20 in, a picture of societal norms. They were 20 in out of how many? 50. A picture of societal norms unhinged on the grid iron. Wait, so that counts only for one word. Yes, it is terms.

That's only one word. It is terms or phrases. 20. Let me know when you get to 30. Let me know that you get to 30. Distressing. A scorched meadow. A dystopian wasteland of the mind.

A 400-year stay in Paramus, New Jersey. Oh. Every horrible. Good mall there. Every horrible ex-girlfriend embodied in a loose 4-3 scheme. All right. Can we stop you there for a second? Yes.

And then we're going to get back to the back-out-to-the-list. Because we need to digest the first. The front of that. No, that's fair. Very fair. I was expecting Marinelli to be one of the words. Well, we're not done yet. By the way, so what were your thoughts on the defense?

I'm not sure where you were going with that. Everything San Diego tried to do. Everything San Diego tried to do, it did in spades. Philip Rivers looked outstanding. Every running back they put out there is plowing for 6, 7, 8, 9, 22 yards of carry. Well, Jason, Gary. Garrett and Rod Marinelli, their quotes weren't quite as colorful as yours, but they were along the same lines.

Garrett's quote after the game was, sometimes they did okay when asked about the defense. That's not really like a motto you want to print up on your t-shirts. Cowboys defense 2014. Sometimes they did okay. And Marinelli said we have to tackle better. I wouldn't be too worried. It was only the first week of the preseason.

Well, I am taking the liberty to completely overreact. Why don't we play it out with Cessler finishing? up his list of Dallas Cowboys defense commentary. It's 50 terms of why they are. Yeah, where are we at right now? We are at 23. 50? I feel like it's 500.

All right, go ahead, Mark. Well, it does feel a tad long. Here we go. Every horrible ex-girlfriend embodied in a loose 4-3 scheme. Sterile, a wasteland of ideas, the bottom of the food chain. I'm going to go back to the human attraction. Dead leaves, a corpse. Yeah, I'm checking out too.

A wreckage, scattered parts, fat-faced, never sexy, intellectually suspect, untravelled, pot-marked, soiled. I'm going to go get some lunch. Swirling into a pit. It's not always happy times here for our heroes or their friends. Sometimes you just have to say, Or are you kidding me live! Yes. Yes.

And now it's time. I'm just thinking back and I'm just got to enjoy the rest of this segment. Let's just, you want to take some video? What do you have to get off your chest this time, Connor, now that you're in Los Angeles, or are you kidding me live? I think for the first live one, I think we should really, we should tackle the big problems, the biggest major issue in the United States,

which is inter-united States commercial air travel. We've got to ban all the airlines. Break them up. Ban the airlines. They're all terrible. All right. So why? Perfect.

I was on my way out here, and I was, like, 20 minutes into a documentary about Faberjeet eggs, and the guy trying to get out of my seat smushed the input cord on my brand-new custom Bose headphones and rendered them completely useless for the rest of the trip. Oh, man, that's my private property. That's messed up, man. I just think that, you know, I think, like, I'm not meant to be out here, you know.

Like, I'm kind of, I've developed my, I've evolved to the point where I can live in New Jersey. I can't be, yeah. You're a married guy in the suburbs. You got a wife. You got a house. You got a mortgage. You don't need any of this L.A. stuff. Don't need it.

And I don't think other people do. You just stay. Stay where you are. Stay where you're comfortable. Never take a chance. All right. What else is going on? What else is grinding your gears right now?

Here, you know? I mean, I'm out here, you know, and this is just like, it's not my scene at all, you know. What? Where we live or coming to work at the NFL media? What do you mean? I like the office. I like you guys, but L.A. is the worst, man.

L.A. It's filled with plastic people. What do you mean? Because that to me sounds like a cliche, Connor. I mean, like my phone doesn't work as good here. What? Stupid. I hate that. Yesterday, like, cab driver did something, like,

really, like, distractingly nice to me, and, like, there was nothing that I could do about it. There's just no, there's no flavor in this town. It's got no heart. Well, you do make it. Well, you're not making a lot of good points here, but I will say that I was struck when I moved to L.A., that people are really nice, almost annoyingly so,

like the guy that works at the supermarket will be a little too nice where he's telling you where the green peas are. You're talking about that type of thing. It just gets on your nerve. Like, you know when your mom always said to combat with kindness, but you didn't do it, but then everybody who did do it just moved out here, and so they all hate you, but they're also really nice to you. I can feel that.

I can tell. You know, Connor, what's your problem, man? Why don't you ever live outside your own box? Any other problems with L.A.? I'm good, man. All right, so I guess I have just one, you have one more thing to say, don't you? Are you kidding me?

Yeah. Beautiful. We jumped the shark in an amazing way. No, that was amazing. Patrick, what a performance. Yes. Patrick Cagongo, is that pronounced correctly? Patrick Cagongo.

with the axe wearing beautiful stuff now what i'm we meant to get david ely on the phone uh yesterday who's a downstairs a big panthers fan um who is crushed absolutely crushed when uh his team lost the super bowl and of course he uh you know brought champagne to the newsroom to celebrate that's never a good move bringing his cam newton t-shirt try to call him yesterday and uh we have some photos actually of I think Lindsay you took one from the newsroom that showed him upset that he didn't get the phone call

I mean this is life as David Ely in modern time so let's I don't know if it was that he was upset that he wasn't getting the phone call or upset that you were calling him a loser in a graphic yeah well let's let's get him on the phone again let's try again David Ely the downstairs desk editor huge Panthers fan

of course the phone might not work again but News desk, Tommy. Hey, Tony, what's up? This is Dan Hansus in the studio. Andrews. What's up, buddy? Can we talk to David Ely?

Yeah, man. All right, cool. One sec. Hi, Tony. I like that there's a chain of command to get to David Ely. Yeah, right? He's running the show on the death. He's an important guy.

NFL, this David. Ely, what's up? Welcome to the round of the NFL podcast. What's going on? I was listening to Yeez of Season 3. You caught me off guard. Oh, God. What were you listening to?

Yeezed Season 3. Connie just dropped his new album. Oh, he called it Season 3? No, he's having his fashion lines. Oh, that. Season 3. Wait, you're working right now, right? It's the off season.

I hope no Shadowy League figure is listening right now. None. No, no, no, no. We only just passed the 20 million download mark. Ealy, so you, we just want to touch base with you, because you, of course, are a Panthers fan, Super Bowl Sunday. You opted to work during the game. It seemed like a move that was a little bit done out of, I don't know.

Hubris? Hubris, because you wanted to be the big shot at the desk. You brought champagne. Is it fair to say that you kind of got overconfident in a big spot? I don't know if I would call it a hubris move. I definitely wanted to do the push alerts that the Panthers that won the Super Bowl. That's a true statement. That's such a desk editor move?

This was all based on the push alert? I wanted to be there when the moment happened. I don't know. I had a good thing going watching them in the office all season, so there was a little bit of superstition. Where did it rank the loss? And we love talking with Ely about his personal life and about, like, girls and all the different things that are going on.

A lot to unpack there. A lot to unpack. I mean, that had to be one of the worst moments of the last few years that Super Bowl defeat, right? And, I mean, I wouldn't call you like a Charlie Brown figure, but sometimes a lot of bad things happen to you, and you kind of deserve the Super Bowl win, and you didn't get it. I mean, I have a wealth of disappointment to prepare me for this kind of moment,

but I put it on par with my girlfriend breaking up with me a few years ago, that kind of moment. I mean, yeah, take us through that because you loved her, didn't she? I mean, I don't know if we want to go down that road necessarily, but some life lessons to be learned there for sure. Because you don't ever know. I thought about texting her this week saying remember that night when you dumped me. Don't.

I thought this was on par with that. By the way, what's up? David, scale of one to ten, how much of a loser do you feel like right now? Well, everyone's looking at me right now in the office, so that's kind of magnifying it. So I'd say a solid eight. Here's the thing. Ely is not a loser. Not only is an excellent editor.

He's going to make a girl. very happy one day. It might be a few years from now, but it's going to happen. He's still got a great football team. Ken Newton is the best young quarterback in football. So, Ely, you know, one day Lucy's not going to pull that ball away. I have a question for you guys, actually. Let's go around the horn and what should I use my champagne for? Oh, I was going to ask what happened to the champagne. I've got nice. We're going to do the thing, hang up and listen, Ely, because I didn't, you know, you asking a question. It's kind of a weird move. Ballsy. We're going to let you have it, but we're going to say goodbye.

I think he pulled it off. I'll hang up to work. David Ely, everybody. I think he should use that when he gets a girlfriend. Yeah, you've got to save it. It was meant for what I think would have been the most inspiring moment of Ely's life. So you've got to hold on to it for the next potentially inspiring moment. Could have to wait a bit.

Hot tub. Tonight. His next date. Oh. Champagne, hot tub. Lindsay. But then what if that girl breaks up with him? Right.

The former one did. You have to make sure that this bottle of champagne is not going to waste. That's a good way to insure it. Lindsay, you're... Just drink it. That way it won't go to waste. Maybe you can offer some advice to Dave. Lindsay, you know, you are married now, but you're once in the dating circle yourself, dating pool.

What is the number one thing a man should be projecting to win a comely woman? Aside from champagne? Aside from booze, yeah. Okay. Yeah. Confidence? I'm going to go with confidence. So he should just wear that my team lost, like a badge of honor, own it. It's great advice. Are you listening, Dave?

I think he should go into the date without the Panthers being any factor whatsoever. Why does his football team have to weigh? Yeah, keep it out. Perspective on a date. All right. Well, it could. I mean, maybe the right woman for him is someone that's going to appreciate that. Well, the idea of being confident

would be a great note for Ely He's a confident in some areas Not every area, but this would be a good takeaway Well, that was depressing Anyway, let's pick up our spirits With a speed round of our best ATN quotes So now it's time for Oddenans

Let's get some odds and ends Get your odds and ends Right here What a rendition. How about that? I love the show. I'm really excited about the show. B minus pre-gates.

Five words, guys. And it could have been taken right out of an RG3 tweet from 2013. Don't afraid to be great. Don't afraid to be great. Whoops. Don't be afraid to be great. Six words. Yeah.

The only name you can trust in sports journalism him, colon, Mark Sessler. And this is where it's, you've got to hang on you. If you're not hanging on you, you're going to get called out on it. You'll be called a fool! Seinfeld sucks, too. I don't care. Doesn't matter.

Guy Bonner's here. I picked up a knock near me, Kibbles and Bits. They say I'll be ready for training camp. That's a bit of a trope, eh? Oh, down the middle, Sessler. Hell, he calls him out. Life on the fence. Is this how you guys do it on the podcast?

No. No. It's no Sugar Ray, but... Sugar Ray. It's not going to play. No, we're not going to play. Brandon went in to get on the board. I had to swap him.

Brandon just threw a fit because he didn't get Sugar Ray play. No, no. He is jumping around. Oh, my God. My ears. No. He's going to hit some home runs right now and tell us three sleeper home run picks from the 2016 NFL draft. Get us going, Spicy.

Well, I. I got to tell you, I didn't listen to a thing you said the last 90 seconds or so. Dan's not even listening right now. Dan, I'm producing. You have to listen. I'm producing. I just, I wanted to vocally congratulate you on your new trial. I'm not usually, uh, wow, pro-human procreation, but you seem like you got it under control, so.

All right. I didn't hit enter. Oh. Oh. Oh. Oh. Oh. Oh.

Oh. Oh. You're all baboons. Uh, Ely. In terms of your disappointment level up right now, where does it rank, like, this suspension and the embarrassment comes with this, and, you know, what happened with your college girlfriend and how that didn't work. She gave me the courtesy of breaking up with me face-to-face, other than an email. Wow. It was a press release.

And, okay, that's it. That's it for odds and ends. Lindsay, hit it. Odds and ends. That snuck up on me. Don't break. That was good. I love that Chris is dancing with me.

Okay, thanks. That was good. Yay, there you go, whatever. It's fun to look back, but our heroes are always looking towards the future. That was even more apparent when our heroes voted on new outro music for the podcast. A couple weeks ago, I was listening back to the show as I do taking notes, pros and cons in each of the members of the show. and the outro music played and let's just hear the outro music for our show

and it occurred to me that I'm a little and let me know if you guys agree I'm a little over the outro music I don't even I don't even really remember anymore how it came to be but I feel like maybe we can do better am I crazy to think that I'm as over this outro music as I am of TD's cool and the gang drop okay well that says that speaks volumes right there

So what I did was I asked each of the members of the Around the NFL team, and I included myself in this, to put the faith in the hands of Sully and TD behind the glass, and I don't know if the Irishman McGuinness is involved with this, but I said this is what we're going to do. Each of the members of the podcast, the four of us, are going to give you 10 words to describe what we imagine the new outro song of the Around NFL podcast to sound like. And then it will be up to you to go through our library and choose something that's similar to that.

And then hopefully, A, behind the glass, you guys do a good job picking something that's representative of the explanation that we provided. And, B, maybe as a group, the four of us, or maybe the listeners can decide what to actually use. So I thought this would be a good exercise. I mean, Christ, it's July 7th. So, let's do it. So, TD, at first, before we tee up the first description with the accompanying song, did you find, and Sully, did you find this to be difficult? Not at all.

As you guys may not know, in my other life, I was a breakdance dancer. In this life, though, I am a pretty good house party DJ. All about the music. And the trick is you don't set the mood, you compliment the mood. You see what's going on, and then you hit the tracks and everyone has a good time. So I had fun with this one. Sully involved in this as well, and he was loving it. And he was downstairs laughing like usually does coming up new stuff.

I mean, that guy, he is outgoing and friendly, and he's got a sense of humor to him. That's silly. Yeah, that guy, man. It's a weird stash, but, you know. A little bit weird. All right. So, why do we, I'll go first. So, again, these are the rules, and I hope, and I didn't see anybody else's, but I hope everyone followed the rules.

Ten word, max, okay? This is what I wrote. Hip-hop, hip-tinted. victorious celebratory adventurer's spirit sonically fresh and let's hear what you got what you got out of it

all right here's what we got a little tinge a little bouncy all right listen I'm going to say right bang drop it oh yeah yeah okay you guys did a great job

with this is this is exactly when I this is an adventurer's spirit to this open it up to the floor I like it that's a really strong opening salvo I even told you at the time you sent that out by mistake to everyone

you haven't seen ours we were told to send it out to everyone well whatever it was no I was sent it to the people behind the glass I was told by TD to send it to this is my all Nusha when Dan sent that out I said that that's the song I want that he pretty much

he really stole what I was high five that was it that was it TD did it maybe I'll go next then let's see what you have mine's a little different let's see if it's the same song What's, or who knows? Okay, what was yours, Greg? Mine was foreboding, rhythmic, end of days, youthful, parties over, jaunty.

Ooh. Backstories of this, too. Greg then came over. It's like 14 different things. How can it be jaunty and party? That's why I'm. End of days slash jaunty. Gotcha.

It's like, it's like the end of days is coming. No more description. Part of this exercises, they just get. Well, Greg also came over to my workstation. and we spoke about Lil Wayne and the Chaudet three albums Cheating. That's cheating. You were politicking? All right, that should be held against Greg's pick.

It was the Carter, too. All right, go ahead. The outro. It takes a while for it to drop. Which is exactly what you want in a 10 second action. Yeah. You're building it up. All right, till Thursday.

What is it? Yawning. What was that? Let me just try this one out. I like this. That's it for another edition of the Round of the NFL podcast, blah, blah, blah. We got to do it again. You've got to be doing that while it's rising.

Okay, okay. Let's do it. All right, let's go. All right, that's it for another edition of the Roundle League podcast. I'm going to go home and drown myself in my bathtub. And I hope you guys will come to my funeral. And whoever's taking out the show after me, good luck. Until Tuesday.

Oh, that sounded good. That was pretty good. That sounded good. The room explodes. Wait, Dan, you did an excellent job. You got to nail the timing on that one. Apoliticking against Greg to remove his song, but then it went back against you because of that perfect drop right there.

That was nice. I think what you did was you listened to the words they gave you very well, no matter what. Whether it's better than Dan the song or not, I think you... I like them both so far. I didn't like that little, like, scratch thing. I was kind of like Hansen Dust Brothers-y, and I wasn't into that, but everything else was good.

Wes, yours. Inspired, Sing. syncopated funk dropped from Mount Olympus like manna from heaven. Interesting. And this feels like something TD and Sully

might struggle with but let's see what they got. So yeah, to pull the curtain back, we're already up in the studio at this point. So Sully went on this. I have full faith in him.

But in case it messes up. That's that buck. This is all of Sully right here. Let's check it out. It takes a little while for the drop as well. We have Rises music

because I'm not worried about that. So funky Okay I was thinking more along the lines Of parliament Or Shaka Khan and Rufus This seems a little more blues rocky Yeah

I don't I will say Although I liked West's description Not an easy thing to work off In terms of putting together The Sonic palette That was tough Yeah

We still have to like I think it's safe to say That one's a loser It does not reflect Either on Sully or less I must not have reported it. Whoever's the generic artist, be better. Now finally, Mark.

Hold on. It's right there. All right, ten words, hallucinogenic, boundary-stretching, alien mind from solar depths, not Kanye. I like Kanye. That's like you needed. It's the last bit. All right. Let's go.

And that's it for another edition of the Around the NFL podcast. it was a great show no that's all it does it just sits there kind of like Mark doing a podcast oh wow can't go a show without just some wild shot

from TD that makes no sense um yeah no it I feel like it does sync up with the description what do you think Mark is this what you have to mind I like it I like it

I don't think it fits the what we're looking for I wouldn't call that boundary stretching not quite all right finally so I think we can narrow it down to the first two. So can we hear the first two one more time? All right.

And maybe, I don't know, should we decide here or should we have the listeners decide? Let the listeners. Okay. All right. Here we go. And, Tita, you figure out how to facilitate this on Twitter. But this is, let's call this the old zooser option. The outro, the outro.

That's it for another edition of the Around the NFL podcast. We will be back next week with Billy Crystal and Shaka Khan. Until then. Quite a pool. I would say it needs to be versatile enough because sometimes if we have some outtakes that we want to put on the back end, it must be good enough to be underneath.

And now, finally, Gregs. This would be the boss version. I like it I like it I don't know why it works I guess the row going

I like them both I like a ball I actually kind of like Dan's I do and I like mine a little better but I wouldn't fight this one I like them both

I think mine is more more better across the board but yours has the real moment of splendor it does have a moment of splendor it does require you to do

some more work though I know I don't like that I don't show is a little bit better I want to do any more work but it's not my decision it's the listener it's like counting you down live TV, you know?

All right. Just since we'll never hear it again, let's do an actual outro with Wes's clunker. Because we got to go. We got to go to a meeting right now. All right, partners. That's it for another edition of the Roundy NFL podcast. We'll be back Thursday with another show. It's going to be a rollicking good time.

This is Dan Hansa signing off for Quiet Storm, the mailman, the boss, and Tatey and Sully, and the Irishmen behind the glass. I don't like them Irishmen. Until that As you're As your meaningless Master of Ceremonies, Thank you for listening. For all the heroes, this is the Irishman.

Make sure you continue to tune in. it's only going to get better from here. This is an IHeart podcast.