NFL Daily with Gregg Rosenthal - Lindsay Rhodes Maternity Leave Spectacular

Episode Date: May 10, 2017

A room filled with heroes – Dan Hanzus, Marc Sessler, Lindsay Rhodes, & Gregg Rosenthal – recap all the latest news from Around the NFL including Brandon Beane taking over as the Bills general manager, and Michael Floyd signing with the Vikings. Then, in celebration of the upcoming arrival of Lindsay’s new baby, the heroes look into the future and predict what the NFL will look like when Lindsay returns from maternity leave on September 1st.Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comNFL Daily YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/nflpodcastsSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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And Greg Rosatha, what's up, boys, that woman? And there you go, thanks. Yeah, I was waiting for that. I feel a little responsible for the intro part about the Raiders. A little. A little. I just, you know, I haven't been on the show since you guys worked things out with Derek Carr. And let's right off the top.

I'm really happy that you did. We owe you a debt. of gratitude. I mean, listen, that would have never happened. Derek Carr, who had blocked Greg and I for unknown reasons. Lindsay pulling the strings with David, her colleague over at NFL's Total Access. And now it all came around. Derek, David, on the show, worked out a piece.

Greg and I unblocked. And yeah. Now you tweet at each other regularly, I'm sure, right? I mean, I wouldn't go that far. I think I'm laying low. But there was the agreement. And I don't know if you're aware of this. Lizzie.

Derek stipulated directly, yeah. I listened to the show. Really? I'm aware. Thank you. By the way, we've already watched that agreement. It was pointed out correctly by multiple listeners that on our last episode that we didn't mention the Raiders even once.

Snitches get stitches. Everybody piped down. We love the Raiders, and they are excellent. Right. And if we missed one, I mean, I will say, I... Does that count? It had been so long since I had seen Derek Carr's Twitter account since I was. was blocked.

It has really been a delight being back on board and enjoying all the great analysis he has. And also, I actually revisited some game tape before his unfortunate injury. And my goodness, what a player. So that covers anything that we've missed, I think. I don't know that any of those count. They were so cheesy.

It felt a little, let's try for, you know, more organic scenarios. All right, but he didn't stipulate that. That's true. That's true. He just said something nice. We did. For the sake of the listener, if nothing else.

This is the Wednesday edition of the Around the NFL podcast. And Lindsay's sitting in for the great Chris Wessling, who we hope to have back tomorrow. And this is a special show with Lindsay here because Lins, Lins is getting ready to pop. That's medical terminology. That's one way to put it. Yeah.

Lindsay is very deeply pregnant to the point where this is your second to last day here before you go on maternity leave. Yep. Tomorrow's my last day. Peace out, suckas. I mean, you know your big time, not to make this all about us, but you know that we're getting big time that Lindsay was thinking, what do I need to do before I, you know.

This is part of my nesting process. Right, have this maybe. Just about the last thing I need to do come on my favorite podcast because I'm going to miss it so much. That all checks out. I'm going to have to call in or something. We would love to have you on the phone. but for now, this is the Lindsay Rhodes

Baby Shower Spectacular. That's annoying. That is a hideous sound drop. Cessler, are you going to do that the whole show? I might have to. I feel very celebratory about this. The last three people she would invite to any sort of baby shower. Yeah, we are not on the list of, you know, of that type of event.

And a little bit of breaking news before we get into the real news. I do have the big news. Prior to the show, Lindsay agreed that the around the NFL podcast will be live in the delivery room. Whenever it does go down, so that will be podcast history. Thank you, Lindsay. Yeah, that's fine. I'll be on lots of drugs, so whatever. Today's show.

Nice show. I'm into today's show. what will the NFL look like after Lindsay's maternity leave? That's what we're going to talk about. Now we're making segments around this. Is that weird? Well, it is my shower. Yeah, this is a party.

I don't know how many of these you've been to, but they do tend to revolve around the person who is giving birth. And only now am I realizing we don't have any gifts, but maybe the gift is an entire segment devoted to what's going on in your life. It's just the knowledge. The gift is us. it's the interesting thoughts that you're about to utter so the NFL is going to look different so Lindsay's last day is May 11th and she'll be back I don't know like August or something

yeah I mean I would assume for training camp but for the purposes of this exercise I don't want to put that on the record but yeah we're we're going to we're going to look ahead to the first day of September and I'm like mentally back mentally you'll be checked out for about a month or so I mean I will phone it in for at least a month so yeah nobody can say anything I think she's like, Lindsay's not quite herself right now. Hey, back off. Not allowed to say a word about that. She's the Queen Bee of our flagship show.

Don't say a word to her. You don't know what could happen. But by September 1st, Lindsay's all the way back in. Yeah. I will stop sucking by then. We'll predict. We're going to make some predictions how the NFL will look different between tomorrow and September 1st when Lindsay is mentally back with us.

And also we're going to do a little news. And to do that, we'll go behind the glass. With another one of my favorite women in the office, she is the first lady of the around the NFL podcast. She is Sidney Carlson. Hey, guys. What's up, new money? Not childbearing.

No, definitely not. Just confirming that. Thank you. A slightly awkward start to the show gets even more awkward. You should go around the office and ask every woman if they're childbearing or not. I can tell typically, but I mean, yeah, you confirm. You could try to confirm it. Wait a minute, what?

You could tell? I mean, in later stages, you could. If someone's all pregnant, you could. I don't think you know a child-bearing means. If you, well, all right, not in the process of burying a child, I should say. That's a better way to put it. But yeah, wait, why would I not know what? If I'm, if I work coworkers with someone for months and months,

and suddenly they're in the late stages of a pregnancy, I can typically decipher that as could most, I think. Would you bring it up? Regular. No, I would not bring it up. No, if it was brought up in a group conversation, I'd be like the third or fourth. Oh, congratulations. But I would know in my mind.

get there Sherlock Holmes over there. Let's do some news. There's a cliche about assuming it can make patriots out of you and me. Tomlin. Oh, Mikey Tomlin. Speaking at Robert Mitchum. Morris. Morris University.

Robert Mitchum. Isn't Robert Mitcham like a mystery writer or something? He's somebody. He's somebody. I got kind of. Very famous. Anyway, he spoke, Google. There you go.

Robert Mitch, one of the great actors, and I thought it was an entire school devoted to his craft. But he took a little dig at the Patriots. He seems to embrace that. Maybe now that Rex Ryan's out of the picture, Tomlin sees his window to be the guy that tweaks Belichick now and then. But anyway. The guy that loses to Belichick.

It's got to be a new guy that loses. How about take a dig out of them when it actually matters on the field? All right. That's fair. That's fair. Let's start, though, with Rex Ryan's old team, because the Buffalo Bills on Tuesday announced that Brandon Bean, hey, Bino, has been hired to replace Doug Wellie,

who was fired along with his scouts after the draft, a close associate of new bills coach Sean McDermott, Bean got a five-year deal, same amount of years that the head coach has. This is all according to Rapsheet. Bean gets control of the 53-man roster. And here is a quote from Terry Pagula, and released by the team, During our search for a new general manager, Brandon stood out to Kim and I as he embodies the type of leader and type of person we want in our organization, 19 years, Mark, with the Panthers now with the bills.

I mean, that's code for this is the guy Sean McDermott wanted. They've known each other for a really long time. Being watched McDermott grow up as a coach and become a hot name in these searches. And I think it's good for the bills because a lot of people say, oh, you get the GM. first or the coach first. But if these two guys can work together, that would be a nice change for the GM and coach relationship in Buffalo. It's not been that way

in a really long time. And it's time for the owners to now that you've made your nice little announcement, to step back and let them work together and stop rocking the boat. This has been a situation that's been mismanaged. Really since the Pagula's arrived, we've criticized them a lot. I think the end result

right now is a good one, as you said. So it's... They got there. It's been clumsy. and even interviewing how many general managers did they interview five or six people they brought in and yet before this started everyone said it's going to be Brandon Bean it's Sean McDerm so why go through all that dog and pony show but it doesn't matter these two guys they can they know what each other wants and people get worked up about who has the final say I think finally for the first time in the Pagula run which is now since I think 2000 what they're

13 14 uh they have a GM and a coach that get along. Yeah, I think there's nothing, nothing bad about that, having a coach and a GM that speak the same language that can get in a room and that they know that they're going to want the same types of things that they're on the same page. They haven't like an important thing. Right. By the way, and it's a simple thing, but it's something, for instance, my Jets never get right.

Even now that the GM and the coach are answering to the owner and neither have to answer to each other. Half the league does not get it right at any given time. feels like the bit i'm doing this series uh on projecting starting lineups for week one this is definitely a may may type of exercise uh nfell dot com slash projected starters how about that what is it the head i don't get squeeze that in there if you uh the buffalo bills i noticed that they're defensive linemen there's four starting defensive lineman were drafted for four different bills coaches under three or four different general managers and none of those coaches by the way are Sean McDermott. They're all previous

coaches. So that's what happens in bad organizations. You have all these guys drafted for different schemes, different coaches, and like there's no way to have any sort of cohesion. That's why looking at their roster, there's a lot of talented players, but I don't know, they could be a total disaster because I don't know if

all these players who have some talent are really going to be what Brandon means looking for. The pieces don't all fit together. It's basically a jigsaw puzzle, and maybe they'll connect or maybe it'll be a giant disaster that just sits on your table on the study. And literally the language that you use to discuss them in the player evaluation process. I've been in my pregnancy and insomnia state reading War Room by Michael Hall of.

So with all of the stuff about Belichick and Pioli and how they kind of crafted like their whole language and their evaluation system and stuff like that. And it seems like that was so important in terms of establishing what the Patriots were going to be. And you see that around the league when people are on the same page. Yeah, and they graded well, too. But you're right, the year 17, 18 of that in New England, and the results are obvious. And one more note on this, Mark, just because I know this type of thing that gets on your radar and mine a little bit as well. The Bill's Twitter made the decision to get involved with this tweeting out yesterday afternoon. Hey, at Panthers, comma, sorry we keep stealing your staff, just know it's out of respect and then the fist of solidarity?

Yeah, well, look. Is this necessary? It is completely, like fist bump. Is it, but if it's up, see, it's up. It's this. It makes me think, it's like, yeah, you know, and we're in that time where that, that, that symbol is prevalent. Is there a fist bump that's not like that? Well, that's more going this way.

This is like, this, this fist is going up in the sky. Like, we are, somehow the bills and the Panthers are linked together now. Like, the only thing more annoying than that is all of the reaction when these things happen just been like, these guys, these teams get it, you know. It's like, I saw, like, the jazz got sweat. and the trailblazers sent, you know, a tweet to them after the jazz got swept because they had been swept, too. It's like, we feel your pain, guys.

And it's like, everyone's just like, oh, those crazy blazers. Yeah, they really get it. This is how sports media works in 2017. Now, let's go to Happy Hour. It's like 32 highly ponderous team Twitter accounts, you know, interacting at the value of no one. And in this case, you think Sean McDermott wants to hear that? I think he wants to go see that tweet? Oh, no.

I mean, it's just unbelievable. How about throw it up the ladder? Well, it's going to get back to him. You guys are angry about this tweet. You were getting riled up. Listen, because this is not the first time this has happened. This is like the 880th clunky social media experiment by these team Twitter accounts. When your job is to be on.

You hate millennials. No, I love millennials. That's what I just took away from this. Love millennials. I don't know who's putting these tweets. I don't know how old they are. Millennials. When your job is to be on Twitter all day long, there's a lot of things you find annoying.

Yeah, it started to turn Twitter off for five or six hours in a row, and it is just peaceful. It is beautiful. Try it. Good for you! Moving on. Michael Floyd has a new job. The former first round pick is signing with the Minnesota Vikings after what's been a pretty quiet

free agency period for him. Rapsheet had this on Wednesday. Floyd's 27 years old, most recently with the New England Patriots. He got cut by the Cardinals in mid-December, two days after. after a pretty hardcore DUI incident in Scottsdale. This is a heavily incentivized deal, as you may suspect, worth a million and a half dollars. Could get up to six.

And Lindsey Floyd, when he was, had his head on right and was in that Cardinals offense that was humming, was a big piece of that offense. Do you think he is in addition to the Vikings? Positive addition. It feels like a low risk move for the Vikings. I suppose, especially now that that compensatory pick period has passed that deadline yesterday. So it feels like, you know, especially since it's a incentive-based contract,

that it feels like a good move for the Vikings. But I'm curious to see how he fits in there because they have a lot of receiving weapons. So what does this mean for like Laquan Treadwell and how does he get to shake out? He'll be all right this year. Kwant's got to get to work. I mean, he's feeling, he's not loving this signing. They didn't get anything out of him last year. They need to get something out of him.

But this is kind of a backup plan if they don't because they're kind of, they're similar players. I'm surprised. Wes and I do our top pre-agents list. He was the highest guy left on that list. He was in our top 40 overall. Maybe we overrated Michael Floyd. But any, I know he's had off the field issues, but any guy that's shown he can produce at a very high level as a vertical receiver and age wise 27 is right in the middle of his prime

I would have thought there would have been more I don't think you overrated his ability you guys but maybe you underrated the toxicity of his situation the fact that he had the DOI at Notre Dame he got the second one and maybe there's talking league circles about what kind of issues he might have that could have yeah those guys talk and then if he had a very clunky camp he's easily cutting room floor material I mean, I think they keep him, but don't forget about Mo Beringer is still in that organization. How could we forget? Hey, listen.

Is he still there? Yeah, he's still around. I mean, they're like slow cooking him, and he's going to be devastating. How many hours did you spend on total access in, like, the week after the draft on Mo Oranger? Oranger, or maybe building up to it. Such a great draft story. Aren't you so excited to be going away now? That's a good time to be going away.

Lindsay won't say it because she can't because she's a professional. But this is the perfect time to go on the attorney to leave. You don't have to do 7,000 updates on Mo Boringer and the like. Bowringer. When Lindsay gets back in the mix, which is technically August 1st, but in reality, September 1st, she gets to dive right into real football again. You got the whole thing figured out. This was very well timed by you.

Thank you. By the way, Michael. Very good at this. Michael Floyd was not active for Super Bowl 51. but boy boy got a ring for that and i just want to tell you something we live in a world there's a lot of stuff going on in the world right now that i am not on board with there's a lot going on right now but the fact that michael floyd gets an extreme DUI and gets a ring like a month and a half later larry fits is in arizona

no ring what are we doing here society i think it's amazing i love the fact that it's called an extreme DUI yeah is that only in arizona I don't know, but Ian mentioned that on the air yesterday, and I thought, wow, what an adventure. I don't even know if by the legal, that's not the right word, but I mean, it's like, what a way to tag that. I don't know legally if they did that, but they have, like, TMZ footage of it. And I'm just calling it an extreme DUI. I've seen it in quotes. Yeah, that's how they think.

That's how they say. It's not a good thing. It's not a good thing. It's not a good thing. It's not a good thing. It's not a good thing. But really, in any sport. Says the pictures, man.

I'm just saying. Rings aren't a big deal. We all get them. I'm just saying it doesn't... Things are so cool for me. You just pointed it out. Michael Floyd just got one for them. I mean, he helped out in week 17 against the Dolphins.

My point is not that that ring means a lot to Michael Floyd. It's that a ring would mean so much to a classy professional like a Larry Fitz. And that window's closing on the guy. If he goes broke at some point, it will mean quite a bit. Yeah, that's true. That's usually how you hear about these rings a second time. Moving on. Shows up at Eddie Lacey's garage sale.

Mm-hmm. Alberto Riveron was named the senior vice president of officiating the league announced Wednesday morning filling the role vacated by former official head of officiating Dean Bungee and let me tell you something I can confirm I don't need rap sheet for this I can confirm that this happened Wednesday morning because they done did it to me again daddy's sleeping daddy's in bed daddy's struggling right now at home okay your daddy and I'm assuming I'm the father in this scenario and Dan

likes to go third person and daddy's phone it goes off at like 630 in the morning to tell me that some dude just got promoted in my at my company just like a couple weeks ago i got the i got another breaking news text alert that some guy just handed in his two-week notice i don't care that much wait why does daddy have the volume on his phone go why i silence everything and in sleep through the night sometimes because what if somebody needs to reach you that might have to do with fact that he is a daddy, you have to be reachable. I mean, but your child is not calling you in the middle of the night. No, no, my children, my two and a half year old and six-month-old are not using phones at this point.

But, yeah, I don't turn my phone off. Is that what I have to do here? No, uh-uh. No, but you can put it on vibrate. This is a total sidebar. You cannot turn your phone off, says. What do you mean? I don't turn it off, but I have.

If something happens to a family member in the middle of the night, and they call and they say, hey, so-and-so had a hard attack, you have an hour for them to live, come to the hospital, but your phone was off. That's irresponsible. I could not achieve that with any of my family members who are all in the East Coast. But I will say this, like that feels like you're living waiting for the other shoe to drop. Like, I also wake up about every hour in the night for some reason. I think they survived, or maybe not, for the other thousands of years of recorded human history

that you didn't have a cell phone next to a while you're... The phone right. But you have a home phone back in the Diz-A. Haven't you ever seen any movies or it's like the phone range? in the middle of the night? I suppose the issue here is, do you get email alerts that make noises?

Wait, you hear the thing. That's a bad call. It's your fault that it's not just vibrating. You can just make it vibrate. It's not going to wake you up. Like you vibrate. Are we a little off topic? Yeah.

Were we supposed to be talking about Riveron? And in Riveron, he's got the Dino job. And I guess the point is is that it's so important that they need to break it. And Roger Goodell released a statement where he called Alberto Al four times. That's notable to me.

And my question is, can Al give ultra-serious rule explanations live on NFL network, sometimes to Lindsay Rhodes, while holding an Xbox controller like an 11-year-old? Greg, your thoughts. That was an art form that Dino pulled off. I feel like that was a question for Lindsay.

She's the one that spent so much airtime, Dino. I was trying to help Lindsay, but yeah. What? I've never spoken with Al, Riveron. so I wouldn't know but I look forward to working with him these are very nice answering for official review on NFL total access You know what I noticed though in this

announcement is that before Blandino was doing everything and Alberto Riveron is not the Dean Blandino who's just the final say when they go to New York they hired some other guy for that Yeah so so I've asked several follow-up questions I should know his name

because I've found this to be incredibly confusing So they essentially, my understanding is that they took Dean Blandino's job and then they split it into three jobs. Like he was doing so much that now three people will be doing his job. So Al will kind of be the voice and the person who's at the top of the pyramid of the officiating world in NFL. But there is somebody who's in charge of directing the replay room on Sundays. Russell, Yerick. Yes. But so I have also been told as it pertains to the new replay rules

and how everything comes out of New York, that that doesn't necessarily mean that it's either going to be Al or what's his name again, Yerke? Old Russ. Okay, or Russ. Old Ross. That it will be a combination of the three people. Maybe that is why Dean Lantino, when he tweeted out,

you know, congratulations to Mr. Riveron, he wrote the complaint window is now closed. I mean, that guy was doing. He was doing so much. And I always got the sense that Blandino, when this announcement happened, my thought was, my God, this guy has so much on his shoulders. All you're asking for is the entire world to come at you minute after minute every Sunday. Is that appealing?

So you know what it also might be. They're trying to protect themselves a little from this job just being a launching pad where people leave every three years. Right? Or TV. Although if Riveron is going to be the face and the voice on both social media and television, then if he's good at that, he still puts himself in a position to launch right on out. So Riveron's holding the Xbox controller.

Yep. Okay. But he's playing against at least two other people. It sounds like in this equation. And he might not be the one making the call on the other end when the call goes to New York. I mean, he's not one of the accounts that Mark's watching late night on Twitch or anything. Love Twitch. Connor and I will be on there soon.

I'll tell you one thing. This was a good move by the NFL. It's so confusing to figure out who is accountable that we have no idea who to blame. Really good move by the NFL. Good strategy. This is an interesting note. Let's head back to the throne of slees

where the New England Patriots made with the Boston Herald termed a ruthless business decision yesterday extending a rarely used tender to running back to Lagarde Blunt. blunt is in a tough spot now potentially because under the terms of this little known tender that the Patriots exercised he can now negotiate with any other team until July 22nd if he signs with the team before that date the Pats get into the compensatory mix if he does not sign by that date he can only sign with the Patriots at least until week 10. It's basically Patriots or Busses.

He doesn't find a job in Lindsay. This guy scored 18 touchdowns for you. This guy won two rings for you. This is how you do them to get like a fifth round pick. Come on. Well, I mean, they're the Patriots, right? Like, of all the teams in the league that are going to find that one little loophole in the rules that works in their favor, it's got to be them. He could sign, he's got plenty of time to sign with another team.

But this does, I think, impact the amount of leverage that he's. has financially. I like Roto World, like their first, their first sentence in trying to describe this transaction was simply, huh? Like, it's like, so rarely used. It's because we've never, I've never heard of this. I feel like I follow transactions and stuff, you know, barely closely. I have never heard of this tender.

And the whole, you know, oh, even in our copy, we're calling it call it callous and you're getting on in Boston Herald's calling it to, I don't know. it's a rule in the NFL. You know what else he can do? He can sign the tender and have a job with the Patriots and get paid the same amount of money that he was getting paid last year when he was starting for the Super Bowl, and then he's on the Patriots.

Right now he can do that? Absolutely. That's what it is. They just offered him a contract. It's his option to sign it. Yeah, he can sign it, and then he becomes their seventh string running back. enters the most crowded backfield in the NFL.

It's not a good spot for him, and the Patriots have no designs on having blunt on their team. I see both sides, but if Blunt goes in there, and if he is the seventh guy they like, which I would think it would be higher than that, and they cut him, then he's free again to go find a team. It's not, it's not, it's quite a bit of money. Here's a thing, though. You can't imagine he's the seventh guy. Right, he would play.

Absolutely. It is a little weird. I mean, just, it does seem weird to imagine him on that team, and they have to be totally prepared to that's happened if he would sign the deal. Here's a thing. He was going to sign his contract before July 22nd. What were the odds that he wasn't? I mean, he's just going to sign the same deal that he's going to sign. But I'm just saying as of now, as of May 10th, he is not.

And it now puts an extra layer of stress on the guy to get something done or else. He has more else on him. Can you imagine if he went there and the Giants had what they have? It's like, so this is the other team that, you know, has been thrown out there as a possible landing spot. And he ends up back in New England. That would be ridiculous. By then he will find work. And it could be with New York or something.

somewhere else. I would make a lot of sense. But let's flip this a little bit. Let's say he can't find work and no one wants him. In a way, you could say New England is saying, hey, you can't find work. No one values you. You sign this tender. You got some money. We love you for saying thanks to you. I'm just saying like it's, that's what it is. I can see it both ways, but in a way it's a safety net for him if he can't find work. It's a little bit of a May 10th story, but it's also just bizarre. I mean, Ian called it ruthless too. I wouldn't be surprised if that's the most money he's offered. You know, just because Wes isn't here doesn't mean you have to carry the water.

I'm not carrying the water. Listen, I don't think the Patriots to me, if anything, one of the reasons they, year from year, they are never sentimental. They are always ruthless. So if this is ruthless, it's the same thing they do with all sorts of players that other teams would keep for an extra season two or three. I didn't realize there was a number attached to it. I thought that he could only negotiate with the pay.

Patriots once training camp started and that that put him in a position where it was like, okay, here's how much we're going to pay you, veteran minimum, have fun, and he had to take it if he wanted to play at all. But if there is a number that's attached, that's what he was making last year, then... I would like to

hear what he thinks that is. I was just about to say. That would settle a lot of this. Everyone else weighing in on whether it's positive or negative. Maybe he's fine with it or maybe he's not. That would settle it. They brought in Kristen Michael yesterday, which makes no sense to me. Yeah.

What are they doing? I hear something in the distance. It could be what they call a trooper. Trojanat. Troopanat. Troopanat. Troopanat. Jack Prescott.

Dallas Cowboys quarterback. Mark, he wants to take a larger role in the team's locker room this year. With Tony Romo in broadcasting. and guess what, Jason Whitten, he's on board with it. He told the Dallas Morning News, DAC has earned that. He's the quarterback. That voice needs to be heard.

It is absolutely a trope. It is another example of the kind of stories Lindsay will be completely avoiding. And if I had the ability to have a baby, I would have had one too to get out of this kind of storytelling. But it is what it is. And the only little thing that I think is important there, is that if Tony Romo had a best friend and probably someone who sided with him

all last season, it was Jason Witten who is legit his best friend. And so you're winning over, it sounds like elements of the Cowboys locker room that might have, if they were, been a little bit divided at points of last season. We got one more. One more.

It's that time of year, folks. Troplanet. Trojanet. Trooperat. Trooperat. Trooperat. The Panthers defensive line, Coach Eric Washington, told the team's official website that Julius Pepper's, quote, looks like he did seven years ago when I had the first opportunity to coach him. Peppers is 37 years old.

Veteran. This is Trope Article 14C. Coach says aging veteran better than ever. I hope he has a nice season. But doesn't that a little bit kind of like, let's let Julius Peppers have his nice. you know going away season we don't have to put undue expectations on the man that's where i it's always it's always it's always he's seven years younger it's always no one's ever like it's never been eight like no one's ever like yeah we you know we just signed uh le garret blunt you know 30 years

old he's really kind of plays like a 33 year old he's three years older i would say that he really looks and uh finally in the news jeff fisher of course was uh relieved of his duties at the end of last season in Los Angeles, and all or nothing, the Amazon NFL Films Joint released their first trailer of their new season, which is coming out June 30th. And in that trailer tease, we do hear, we do see the moment, at least briefly, where Fisher addresses his team the day he was fired, which is a pretty outrageous thing. Here's a little sound bite from that. We've had some great teammates. This is one that you're probably going to remember because I'm no longer your head coach I'm going to synthesize I mean the music so good

I'm going to synthesize that that trailer is so well done because I'm not going to lie that's a tough it's a tough season to sell right in retrospect it's like you go into the season thinking hey this is the team we're going to follow and they're going to have a new coach and a new city and it's going to be so exciting and then it just kind of falls flat and how do you sell that and they did a great job the trailer looks good i wrote on end around that i don't know what's going to happen with the rest of the season but the uh whoever edited the trailer deserves a sports emmy uh just like the uh first season with the cardinals won a sports amy yesterday so this is obviously a really good show and then it did get me thinking that yeah first of all

fisher is it weird that fisher almost was like kind of chewing the scenery there it just that's a very practice line but i will i think yeah just it just happened that way but the way he paused like like he was sort of revealing something. It was very much from like a TV show or something, some sort of drama. It was crazy. But there is NFL films like, Mark, we love teams that suck. You remember when you were a kid when they would have the end of season,

like 30-minute recap NFL films? And like 15 of them, yeah. Your team could go three and 13 and then they would go through it real quick. And then the last line would be like, Harry Calis would be like, was it Harry Cat? No, it was the Philadelphia legend. It was off to Vesenda. John Chavisenda.

Anyway, who it was? It would go like, yes, the Jets had their issues, but in 1994, they'll be ready to soar. And it was always spinning positive. Well, because they'd always come out around late May or June. They obviously took a lot longer to put together back then. And it was getting you galvanized for the next season. And the last year's 3 and 13 disaster run suddenly looks poetic.

It looks fantastic. There's hope. There's young players that they're developing. So much to build on. Then you go four and 12 the next year. It was a bad Hard Knocks episode, season with the Rams, one of the worst ones. And I love Hard Knocks, basically my favorite show on TV.

Maybe the fact that things went so poorly with Jared Goff and Fisher and just moving around and London. Like, that actually might make for better TV. I'm not trying to sell it here. I'm saying that probably is going to be more interesting than if they had just rolled out another seven and nine Jeff Fisher. You know what I mean? So here was part of my problem with the hard knocks. It felt like there were a couple of episodes where Jared Goff didn't necessarily look like he was developing

at the rate that you would want if you're a Rams fan. And then it felt like there were a couple of episodes where they went way out of their way to make him look like he had fixed all of those problems. And now we've got a guy here who might be the guy. And it felt like there had been a message kind of that had gone out, like stop making our guy look so bad. we're trying to develop him

and so I felt a little bit like I was being lied to like I wanted to see where he really was and I wonder how that's going to play out in all or nothing because the same message is going to go to them you're not going to be like hey go ahead

and make him look as bad as he might possibly look that's not to say that he totally looked bad behind the scenes all the time but I want to see what's really going on if you're going to show me a reality show I want it to be real yeah I think like I the one thing in that in that preview when they showed golf and all the training cam stuff.

I was like, ugh, I don't want to see all that again. But it looks like they are going to, if you're going to teach people something new, show a different part of it. It's a great show. It was well put together. I don't know why they ever came to the decision to use the same team for both of these vehicles. Well, it's the inherent danger slash flaw of all or nothing is that you don't know what you got until you're already in too deep.

But back to my point that I was making is what Greg said was we're going to be able to see something different that NFL films hasn't typically covered. which is what happens when a season goes to hell, which is exactly what happened for the rain. Speaking of trope alerts, by the way, you can expect, you know, when you return from your time away in maternity leave. Jared Goff is going to be the king of the trope alerts this year.

In terms of like he's got it. We were calling that. Things have gotten better. It's a new offense. I could see them actually kind of trying really hard in the preseason and it going well in the preseason. They're actually being a little bit of buzz building about like, hey, it's not Jeff Fisher, it's McVeigh, it's Gough.

You guys are sleeping on Blake Bordles. Well, he's, but he's gotten that treatment before. Dan, we all have small kids. I will say this. That trope alert lady, I'm going to start piping that through my household because my two are on fire and they're not listening these days. I'm just going to start to blare this at high levels. This will straighten them out.

In what sense? It will, it sounds like there is a need for order. It does. I thought you were going to go in another direction that you, You want to start making some babies with this trope alert lady. Whoa. Not what I'm saying. Greg.

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back in mentally and emotionally for her job right around September 1st. And so we'll go around the room a couple times making predictions on how the NFL landscape will be different on September 1st. And Mark, why don't we start with you how something that's going on now and now you're going to read through the tea leaves and tell us what it's going to look like then. All right. By the first of September, Broncos headquarters will be abuzz with whispers of a shocking coup d'etat. Following an ugly preseason of Trevor Simeon operating as a ho-humed jabroney

and Paxton Lynch looking gangly and wicked erratic, attention inside the building will shift to Mr. Irrelevant, Chad Kelly. Whoa. The rookie hailing from the lineage of Hall of Fame quarterback Jim Kelly. In quotes, The kid has all the tools, one source will tell NFL networks Mike Garifolo, while a second whisperer will tell Kay Adams of Good Morning Football

through a message that arrives parcel pouch in a covert drop box in Manhattan. In quotes, I promise you, Chad Kelly will be Denver's week one starter. Remember Russell Wilson, reducing Matt Flynn to a pile of salt in Seattle? This is that situation times six. John Elway has unearthed a generational gem September 1st. Wow. So she checks this drop box regularly?

I don't know how that all went down. Speaking of Kay Adams and how she found out the information. I don't know how that all went down. That's the information. I thought there was a vanilla envelope. Yeah, manila envelope was dropped in a drop box. A parcel. And the source dropped the knowledge.

that inside that. That's how people communicate now. That's true. She's checked it every day since she's been hired, but this is the first time someone dropped it in. She's like, don't text me.

Send it. I think that's accurate. Wow. By the way, Chad, I'm just learning of this. And I don't think that's going to happen. But you never know. You're looking into the crystal ball,

Mark, and I respect you. That apparently... The fact that you added that makes me concerned that that might not be true. I don't even know if I want to talk about this, actually. What? Oh, no, he's been through some stuff. Well, he's, apparently there's an adult film star that has been taunting him on Twitter

because he had reached out to her multiple times. Didn't know about that. That's a little strange. Does that affect anything? Not one iota. I tell you what, that's not happening to Trevor Simeon. He's going around. He's, you know, has skittles coming out of his coat.

I'm trying to think of. I like that little thing he had at the Super Bowl. I mean, he's a wholesome, clean-cut guy who's focused on football. He's not losing to any rookie. We'll see. He's got his mind on other matters. That's fair. We will see.

We're big Simeon fans in this room. By the way, this is a, just again, this is in celebration of Lillian. Don't like them as much as the Raiders, obviously. Oh, the Raiders. God. They're beyond and above all. They're so good. Pretty good.

I feel like there should be a thing. All right. Let's get a ding in there. That cover. We're covered for the week now. All right, I'll go next. Listen, that was a great little fantasy there, but I'm just going to keep it real.

September 1st, Deshaun Watson is going to be locked and loaded as the Texan starting quarterback. Locked and loaded. And I'll just, just so everybody knows the scheduling here, August 31st is the final preseason game. It's a Thursday for all the NFL teams. And I believe by then,

not only will Deshaun Watson be playing well through the summer because I got a good feeling about this guy he'll have that job in his back pocket week one starter I feel it lins okay I can see that I think that's more likely than Chad Kelly taking over I mean you wouldn't write a football life about this one as much as quickly as you would Chad Kelly but I can also promise you that there will be a lot of himming and high and pretending like this isn't going to happen in Houston up until the day that it does oh we are oh we are knee deep in that right yeah I mean it's unbelievable Tom Savage is I'm sure you're sure, if he's a real person, is a very nice guy. But this idea, this idea that we're being, like, told, like, how excited he is and this is his job to lose. It's like, that's Tom Savage. What are we talking about?

They just drafted a quarterback in the first round with ownership that is totally impatient to have a quarterback. Many picks. I could do things. I would be surprised if this is what Lindsay's talking about when she returns from her maternity leave because Tom Savage has been in the system for three years. Assuming he is

not a figment of the draft industrial complex and he's a real person, Bill O'Brien chose him, and I think he's going to feel like he sort of owes it to him. And I think after three years in the system and being in the NFL, he should be ahead of Deshawn Watson, owes it to him to give him a few starts at the beginning of the season. And we've seen

with O'Brien, he has a quick hook. Maybe it's as early as week three or four or five that he takes him out. Right. This is where Wes would be going nuts Because what happened in week one Was it last year or was it the year before? Two years ago with Brian Hoyer, yeah

Guy couldn't even get through a game Anyway Well, I'd say this Despite all this ridiculous protesting The Tom Savage they believe in Blah Blah You gotta do it with your actions They went out and did everything They could to get a quarterback in the first round

They've seen Tom Savage That tells me we know what we have in him He's serviceable But you don't go get a quarterback in the first round if the guy you have is there. Chiefs. The Chiefs to me, they're saying the same thing in a little bit of a different way.

Alex Smith has a definitive bookend on his career. I don't think he's going to get bumped right away, but with Tom Savage, he's a much lower, in my opinion, blockade than Alex Smith, who we talk about knowing the system. Alex Smith has shown he can do it. I would like to see Savage play. We use him as a punchline.

How much? I just want to see. He played six, seven, quarters last year it looked pretty good i i west disagrees somewhat on how that that game against the bengals went for instance but he played really well the week before you he didn't make any big mistake he played two games and he looked okay yeah i'd like to see a little more before just deciding this guy's a bum hey onesie how's your baby shower going so far are you enjoying this it's so good you guys the games are fun okay great you're up all right uh maybe what you would like for a baby

shower is a big time defensive lineman trade happening before you come back. I know that'll get you excited. Well, who's the defensive lineman? This is, Lindsay like, I'm cutting short. My maternity leave. Got to get back. Got to get back in. Because I want to talk about the fact that Sheldon Richardson is no longer a member of the Jets

because after a couple of ugly preseason games, after a couple ugly seasons, the Saints getting desperate. feeling like they got to win now, feel like they're the team, I think, that just decides, hey, let's take a chance. Let's actually give up another one of our draft picks. We've already traded away one for next year to move up for Alvin Kamara. Let's trade another one away. Let's say a third round pick.

Take Sheldon Richardson. Richardson knows that this is kind of a contract year for him. He's kept his nose clean. He's played pretty well in the preseason, raised his value, and the Jets are happy to get rid of him. He's a member of the Saints. There's logic to it. here's all right here's the thing they every issue they had in the locker room last year was connected directly to sheldon richardson and they're making a real concerted effort to clean up the locker room whether it was his beefing with brandon marshall uh him showing up late to practices with mo wilkerson whether it was the the snapchat on the saturday night game where he said he didn't want to be there or something uh all it was sheldon richerson i think they definitely want to get rid of them but they've been trying i mean they're putting it out there but but even the New York dealings saying they've been trying after the draft.

Like no one wanted him for the draft. Okay, we're still trying. But here's the flip side. If they get a third round pick from the Saints for him, wouldn't they get a third round pick in compensation if he left after the season and free agency? It really comes down to how desperate they already unload him because he is a good player who is better than people realize last year

despite his issues. Well, you have to wait an extra year to get that pick. You don't necessarily get a compensatory pick because it's all a formula in terms of whether you signed more free agents than you lost. So if they sign a ton of free agents, it would cancel it out. You don't necessarily get any pick. And it's money in hand because I don't think there's any chance he's on the team in

2018. So they feel like they got a guy, you know, you get a pick for you. If you get a third round pick, it happens. And the Saints are the team that is going to make a crazy move. I was going to say that the T leaves are there because the Saints have been talking about moving picks for players in multiple ways all offseason. It's a great landing spot by Greg on that one. And if you're the Jets, if you really are going to.

going to try to get this quarterback. If that's what this whole season is about, at least from the fan angle, then you need to add picks because you're going to have to compete against potentially a team like the Browns that is stockpiled picks. So you don't wait another year to get a valuable third round. Third rounders don't mean much during the season, but then come draft time, they're incredibly valuable. So if you really want to make a move for this, you can't mess this up Jets. If you can't go 6 and 10 and be one of the teams that doesn't get one of these quarterbacks. By the way, the only way the Jets get the number one pick is if they crater because teams like the 49ers and your browns have so much you know matter what the jets do

the browns and niners have more stock i think well this was trade to the top of the this was a sheer lock coming from you a few uh about a month ago so you're what that they're nervous no i mean i think the jets will drop a nice four and twelve hammer i don't know if that'll be enough but it could there's a bunch of quarterbacks you don't need to get the number one pick by the way i don't I'm going to hear from Saints fans that are like, oh, salary, cap, space. It's like they can figure it out. Of course, always. They take some moves around.

What do you think their depth chart at running back looks like September 1st? The Jets? The Saints. The Saints. Well, we've. Ingram or Peterson at number one. Well, Wes would tell you Peterson, because the amount of guaranteed money he got tells you, there's no way Peterson takes that deal unless he knows he's the number one guy.

Peterson doesn't typically ever play in the preseason, though. So are we going to get to? to see him. I think we'll see him this year. It's almost a trick question. Because of that game is in Minnesota, I think they're going to, they would start Adrian Peterson. I think in reality, it, it almost doesn't matter because I think they're going to play about

equally. Ingram, I would think, would play even more snaps than Peterson because he's better on passing downs, but they'll both play a lot. But now I'm thinking Monday night in Minnesota, like they're just going to start Adrian Peterson because that's just kind of a thing you do. That's a type of thing that Sean Payton like. like send a message. We just deviate.

I guess I meant more like is he back and does he surpass Mark Ingram on the depth chart? I think he's split. I think he's going to get every chance to be the starter because of who he is. And but it's not a one back field. I think I think they'll split it very evenly. We've just deviated from the structure of the segment a little bit, but it is your baby shower. I didn't come with like a short story like Sessler did. Well, I've had time to work on this.

All right. One more time around the horn, Mark Sessler. All right, this is a little bit of a longer story, but it is going to be a longer. We do have to get Lindsay to her live program in less than an hour. It starts very soon. Not a lot longer. Here we go.

Is that a highlighter on several parts of it? Yeah. On the 1st of September, Lindsay, while driving home to see the new addition to her family, will receive the following email on her phone from NFL security. Will there be an audible alert, though, like on day? Dan Hanson. You're smarter than that. Not before 7 a.m.

Not before that. In quotes, a crime was committed today on the Culver City campus. NFL security officers were alerted to a case of vandalism. As you may know, the League current recently installed a new mural outside the second floor bathroom. A large-scale image featuring four members of the Around the NFL podcast. Hey. Finally. While we understand that company reaction to this foursome and their show is mixed at best within the building,

it is a crime for someone to spray paint the words, podcast bozos over their faces and low-level wardrobes. NFL security is on the case and has already wrangled two suspicious parties. Now, here's a statement from someone else. I've never heard of this podcast or the people who stage it, said one high-ranking executive from a third-floor office, but it seems wrong to paint over their pale faces and unimpressive bodies. As a counter-argument, I'm not sure why we need podcasts in NFL media to begin with, said the

executive. I certainly don't value that medium, so maybe it's... It's for the best. This is a good time to check the sink on these podcast posals? The two people taken into custody are they Dave Damashek and Daniel Jeremiah. Whoa. I'm not going to be ignored, Dan. Goes much higher.

Wow. Interesting. Well, I would take that as a net win if we were on the wall. I'll take the event. Well, there have been whispers of that. I believe that was a little like, you know, chase the carrot, boy. I like that you placed it above the bathroom, though. Just outside the guy's bathroom.

I like how this executive not only questions the legitimacy of podcast, but, you know, makes fun of our bodies and our skin tone. It's not a, there's not like a... Watch out. When you get that anonymous quota, they start to unleash. All right. Last one for me. Let me find it again.

Got a whole system here. Oh. The Jaguars will quietly phone Jay Cutler's agent after Blake Bortles badly underwhelms in the final week four preseason tune-up in Atlanta, a game in which they let him play several more series than they had originally intended because they just wanted him to go out on a good note. And instead, Blake Bortles throws three picks in that last game

against a bunch of like UPS drivers and bar bouncers, guys that aren't going to make the team, in other words. And Jay Cutler's agent gets a call. And what does he say? whatever lights up a cigarette I don't know what he says but I'm just saying that

Because I don't know Lindsay Like a choose your own adventure Kind of This is what happens on September 1st You're going to have to wait September 2nd to find out Sorry But I think

And I don't know I believe you guys talked about it on TA Is that That when they asked Cutler in an interview recently Are you definitely Are you done with football and he had a long hesitation, a pregnant pause.

Oh, that was a good way to work that in. Thanks. And to me, it was the sirens, a different type of siren than the trope alert, that this guy is still open for business if you want to come get him. But ultimately he answered the question and said, like, yeah, I'm done. Romo wouldn't even say that. Yeah. Romo has never uttered the words retirement.

Jay Cutler's like, sure, let's go down that road. Is there paperwork I need to fill out? I don't know. Yeah, I mean, I'm glad none of a, you know, Mark resisted having any quarterback get injured in this scenario. Or I thought about doing that, too. Like, because, you know, that is a very possible August story. Like, we don't want to predict that happening, but it's a very possible August story that a starting quarterback gets hurt. And then the immediate, the moment a starting quarterback gets hurt this August, Cutler and Romo, people are at least going to be asking the question.

Yeah, but I think, like, with Romo, he is locked and loaded as the number one color guy for one of the major networks. I can't remember this ever happening. That's a real, that is a 100% hardcore real second career that he's launching. I find it hard to believe that CBS would allow that to happen. I would love to know what was in that contract, whereas Cutler, he's like, I'm the third guy in the booth for the number two team for Fox. Like, they could survive if Jay Cutler disappears. CBS would probably be furious if the same thing happened. It's not like you can go get Phil again and say, hey, Phil, Tony changed his mind.

Can you come back with Jimmy? It's a whole different situation. I'm with you. I cannot help but wonder if behind the scenes, if the Cowboys and through Romo and Romo through CBS, if there's something going on, if they ever lost Dak Prescott, that that would be the one team he could potentially go save at some point in the season. Unlikely, but it seems like, A, it would be the most impressive story, incredible thing to ever happen either.

But Cutler and Greg, you pointed out. Jerry Jonesy, too. Yeah, I mean, you could just see maybe that's happening. But the three-man booth makes Cutler's, you know, cut and run scenario, if that's what he ends up doing, totally different. Should have went with Cutler and Run. I just don't feel like he wants it as much, though. Like, there's a part of Romo that I think is longing for that call.

You've never. Maybe to turn it down. I'm with you. But I don't feel like Cutler wants that. I think to a degree he's kind of at a point mentally where he's like, I'm going to move to Nashville with Kristen and just do this. TV thing and F-all y'all. What if the Cowboys called, though?

And he's going to say y'all because he's going to live in Nashville. The Falcons or some great, great-looking team. I don't know. Depends where if you're J. Keller, where your body is at that point. If he stops working out right now and then it's late October. I mean, I guess if you're a quarterback. Well, we know what his body looks like right now. Don't set yourself up to fail.

Yeah. Right. Come in and take over like some great team and then they go 0 and 4 over the next month. And then you have no stock and you're not getting back in the broadcast booth. All right. Wrap us up, Greg. Yeah. I know Lindsay's got to go.

So I will keep this quick as I try to remember it. They're going to call Lindsay up and say, I know you weren't scheduled to be on for your first show back until the total access tonight, but we need you in here now. Siciliano is on hour three of Marshawn Lynch, re-retirement news. We need someone to come in after a pretty rough-looking preseason

where he wasn't the worst player ever, but he just didn't kind of have it. He realized, I just don't love the game anymore. Also, him of Jack Del Rio aren't seeing eye to eye. I don't love the game anymore. As much as I thought. You racked up all of these positive credits for the Raiders at the beginning of the show. And now you're like racing them.

I hope this doesn't happen. Derek Carr is going to block you again. And I will not step in. Lindsay, shut up. Well, one thing. Yeah, exactly. We can be sure he's not listening to the program that we know. I hope it doesn't happen, but that's what's going to happen.

That is so wrong. That is so wrong. That is like the one storyline that I absolutely do not want to play out. Just because football would be as fun if he did that. I love the idea of Marshawn Lynch in an Oakland Raiders uniform. I'm with you. The visuals of him out there at their phase two workouts on the field with a smile on his face taking a hand off from Derek Carr,

like the fact that he's even there. Right. I love, like I love this Raiders offense. I love that they're in prime. I love that they're in prime time all the time. I think he would be, you know, a lot of fun, but this is a story, and I knew Mark was going to come with some heaters. This is a big-time story that I think you can totally imagine happening.

It feels entirely possible to me. We've seen it happen with players before. I honestly, and I believe this, since the second I heard this storyline coming that he was interested in playing again, and the Raiders surfaced as the team. This feels 55-45 that it's going to work out. 5545, that might be a little bit kind of mine. Listen, Lindsay, I know you're getting upset,

but it's not about like whether we wanted it or not. Let's just like take a step back. Will it actually work? Will this guy that was gone for a couple of years? But even if it doesn't work, he's not like retiring in September for crying out loud. He's an unpredictable guy. How does it go that poorly?

There's no way. Not for Oakland. That's his team. That's his city. The town. There's bidness to do. We'll have to cut that, please. Let's isolate that, please.

On that note. That is how Lindsay goes into maternity leave with an epic Marshawn Lynch quote utterance. It could not have been whiter. That can replace the dorks sound draft. Lindsay, thank you very much. I hope you enjoyed your baby shower here at the around the NFL podcast.

We look forward to the live Skype. from the delivery room when you'll be on a ton of drugs. That's when we get the real stuff from Lindsay. Yeah. Feel free to ask me anything. Mark, prepare like a dossier, like a whole list of questions. What do you want to know? Yeah, I mean, I know Lindsay could not be more excited about having,

if she had a lot, you know, power rankings, the people she wanted in that room. No question. The three of us are on that list. No question. Top five. I actually think we would be like, I know you can't say really. But Wink, if we would be top 10.

like people to be in the room if you had to have people in the office in the room. I won't say what you did. All right. All right. We will be back on Thursday tomorrow with another show.

Lindsay will be back at some point in the summer. Later. Mentally, September 1st. So thank you, Lindsay. And best of luck with everything. We're very excited for you. Let's go.

Let's move on. Let's move on to the next portion of our day. And Lindsay, total access, Monday to Friday, 7 p.m. Eastern. Stan Hans is signing off for Quiet Storm. Lins, the boss, a new money behind the glass. Tell Thursday. Hey everybody, Daniel Jeremiah here. And I'm Bucky Brooks.

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