NFL Daily with Gregg Rosenthal - Mega-Mailbag

Episode Date: May 31, 2017

A room filled with some heroes – Dan Hanzus, Marc Sessler, Gregg Rosenthal, & Colleen Wolfe – discuss all the latest news from around the NFL including Christian Kirksey inking an extension with the Browns, Andrew Hawkins signing with the Patriots, and Chip Kelly working with ESPN. The heroes then answer all of your Twitter questions in the Mega-Mailbag segment.Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comNFL Daily YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/nflpodcastsSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

This is an I-Heart podcast. The Around the NFL podcast. Come back to us. Welcome back to another edition of the Around the NFL podcast. My name is Dan Hansis, and I am joined by Roofville, the Some Heroes, Mark Sessler, and Connie Fox. What's up, people? Who's the Sum? Who's part of a hero here?

well we're missing we're missing west of course yeah and we're also missing gregg right now because he admitted himself that he had he had procrastinated with some type of child uh duty that he has with signing up his daughter for something like the whole being a dad thing yeah he pushed it back multiple times and now he had to do it and he was hoping to be back by the start of the show but he's he's stuck in traffic or something he will be here he's just not here yet hence some I think it's one of these, a good job by Greg on this because it's a PR-level campaign where very publicly, while all of us are here ignoring family members, Greg has put family first, he's out on the road, and most people think, what a great husband and dad, Greg is.

That's going to be the takeaway. It's going to help him. Well, is that how you view our jobs? Because I look at our jobs as supporting our family, not ignoring them. Well, that's a fair argument. But, I mean, during the season, you know, this is. This is the time of year where Greg in theory is doing the right thing. Also, is it good for the show?

It's not great for the show. Not the best. Anyway, by the way, speaking of the show, this is our first show without the great La Cid, who has moved on to greener pastures. They'll put it that way. Or Utah. Is it greener than Southern California? I don't know.

I thought you meant money. Probably making more money. We didn't get into the specifics. But yeah, I think. Also living in home for a well. So you're just, you're stashy. And she had the influx of cash from her own listeners. Basically, she basically is a trust fund set up for her own children one day.

Money is no object for her. It never will be again. Yeah. So behind the glass, filling in or in the interim, he is our interim producer, put it that way, much like a Dan Campbell. He's our Dan Campbell. He is Sully. What's up, buddy?

Oh, dear. What's up, guys and gals? How are we? Sully, of course, the producer of the, I was going to say popular, but the producer of the movie six podcast. I'm not going to be ignored, Dan. With Daniel Jeremiah. So thank you for sitting in the chair.

It is a big shoes to fill. Tiny feet for Sydney, but large shoes. But we have complete faith in you, Sully. Thanks, guys. Yeah, it's been a while. It's good to be back in the chair. I think I filled in for Sid going into last football season. That's the last time I was on.

So it's good to at least see a familiar face behind the glass, although it's bittersweet knowing that Sidney's gone. And I'm hoping to have a big announcement in the next week or so regarding that chair right there that Sully currently occupies. But Sully, a very busy man, not our full-time answer there, but in the interim. Dan Campbell, not the best choice to use. Who would be a better interim coach to throw out there? I like the Dan Campbell.

I did too. I mean, Dan Campbell, if anything else, was sort of a striking figure, very handsome, looked better, looked better as a football player than most of his players on that team. He was very in shape. Yeah. And didn't keep the job, though. I guess that's maybe where I'd rub you the little way. And, you know, barring Sully, pulling some sort of massive comeback, neither will he. I'm reading for you, Sully.

All right. Thank you. I appreciate it. Sully behind the glass. And today's show, Greg will join us eventually. This is a show that will feature some good things. I'm excited about the show. It's a very slow time, extremely slow time of year news-wise,

but we haven't been with you since last Thursday. So there are some things to talk about. And I will say, things are slow, things are dark. But today, Marks, we are 100 days away from real football. Hazzar! September 7th, 2017, the Chiefs will get waxed by the Patriots in Foxborough to start the 2017 season. and we are 100 days away, Connie. Is that why we celebrated this weekend at your house?

That is. It wasn't Memorial Day. No, although we certainly love and respect all the people in the armed forces that have served us, Colleen, past and present. Yes, like my dad, I know. Yeah, like your old man, Doug Fox. Close enough. What is your father's name? Haven't you met?

Ed Wolfe. Ed Wolfe, yeah. Maybe you haven't. Great name. Ed Wolf. Yeah, it is a solid name. Ed Sessler is not bad either. Good.

I mean, it's a name from a little bit of a different generation. Meet a lot of Ed Edwards at this point. Yeah, his name is Frenchy. I'm just not sure the origin of that, which is strange, yeah. Hey, Frenchie. Frenchie. We'll get into the party maybe a little bit later, but we have much to get to because we're also a mega mailbag episode.

Whoa. Who doesn't love mail? We got a lot to get to. A lot of listeners. It is a packed show, to say the least. It's 8.30. So much has happened. All right.

Let's get it going, Sully. Let's do some news. Oh, Sunday night. Cindy from Beyond the Grave, Mark. I think, you know, Sully is doing an excellent job out of the gate. Wow, thanks, guys. A lot of good nods. I had a good tip of the capital, I said.

Not surprised at all. It's a professional. I just, you know, you've been working on a show not quite. to par with ours, but you can... I'm not going to be ignored, Dan. This is a test. I'll just stop talking now. Let's start with the Cleveland Browns, who, listen, Browns are making moves.

Rap sheet reported on Tuesday that linebacker Christian Kirksey has signed a four-year, $38 million deal, packed a $20 million in guarantees. The team later confirmed the signing with executive VP of football. Football ops, Sashi Brown. Sashi. Saying in a statement that Kerksey represents, quote, another example of a young, talented football player that we want to be part of our organization for the long term.

Mark? I'm sure that's how he speaks. You got Kierksie fever? Well, I know that probably most people don't even know who Christian Kerksey is. And the one thing I'd say is, along with Joel Betonio, the only positive news to come out of a 2000. 2014 draft that was among the most disastrous for any team ever, Johnny Mansell and Justin Gilbert in the first round, that Kirksey has been, who would have thought that Christian

Kirksey, the third round pick, would have been far more productive than both of those players put together in times five. Yeah, I would multiply it by 12. But you could multiply it by 112. Yeah, people don't recognize his name, maybe, but he finished top three in the league and tackles. Only Bobby Wagner and Zach Brown had more. I mean, he is getting paid a ton. He's getting paid more than Donta Hightower. He's now the fourth highest paid. He's a weak side linebacker, a fourth highest paid inside linebacker in the league. And I will say that there was talk that Kirksey maybe didn't even fit in with Greg Williams' scheme.

Apparently they've now decided that he will fit into Greg Williams' scheme, whether Greg Williams likes or not. I would hope that he had a say in this. The key is their problem is they keep finding players that fit into fill in the blank defense the coordinator's scheme, and then the guy's gone two years later. It doesn't work. He's already switched away. He was inside. He's now going to move outside.

He's not a good coverage linebacker. It wasn't last year, but he's a great run stuffer. And bottom line, they don't have a lot of players. They've got to keep adding. But their defense is getting a little bit better if you look at. It is an improving defense that Justin Gilbert has nothing to do with, Mark. You mentioned him as one of the busts of that infamous draft class for Cleveland. Justin Gilbert has been suspended by Rog for four weeks.

The first four weeks of the 2017 season, Courtney Fallon of NFL Network reported rap sheet reported it was due to violating the NFL substances of abuse policy. The number eight overall pick in the 2014 draft was cut by the Browns last year or they was traded by the Browns last year to the Steelers for a sixth round pick. Next year's draft, he played 12 games with the Steelers last year, but then was released in February. I don't know. We're going to see him again in the NFL?

Colleen. Ooh, he's not helping himself here. cuts in three years and now he suspended the first four games. I mean, this is a guy who uses, I don't know if you guys remember this story, but he uses 10 daily alarms to beat over sleeping and missing meetings. And they did not do the proper homework before they brought him in to find out of what kind of guy. If you look at quickly at the players drafted in between Gilbert and number eight in 2014

and Manzella 22. This is a depressing exercise. You've got Anthony Barr, Taylor Luan, Odell Beckham, Aaron Dollar, Ryan Shazir, Jack Martin, it goes on and on. Brandon Cooks, I mean, it was a major whiff. And Gilbert, who they traded up for is a ridiculous misfire. And I guess they didn't draft O'Dell Beckham because they had Josh Gordon in the house coming off like an 1,800-yard season.

It was essentially, it was hours later. We found out the next day that Gordon was sent back into the wilderness. I hate that whole story. I just feel so bad for Josh Gordon. I know he did it to himself, but, oh. And finally, in Brown's news, Deshaun Kaiser. Things are looking good. Wait.

What? Sully. Vito Powers activated. Vito Powers activated. Wow. I'm nixing this news item. I call Vito on it. All right.

This is, all right. Very good, Connie. This is a new tool that each of us will get one per month. You have veto activation powers at any point during the news to completely wipe out a story. You don't want to hear about Deshaun Kaiser. No, because we're going to keep hearing about this all preseason, all season, up until they finally kick off. Look, I mean, you see these quotes.

He's attached to. Wait, now you're talking about it. Oh, I thought I had to explain myself. Oh, cool. That's even better. Activated it. I'm done. I'm done with the story.

My only issue would be why only once a month. I could use that all day long. I didn't know about this caveat before picking this. It would become our entire news. If we had more than one per show or poor week per month, that would all the news would become around here. That's true. Because I think the next news item is definitely worth talking about.

Here's, yes. We should not next this. And guess what? Today's May 30th. So you get a fresh new veto June 1st. So at the time it works out for you. That's great. Moving on.

Good strategy by Colleen. Michael Vic. Oh, this was funny. It was Sunday night. I believe I was on my couch. Everyone else was asleep. and I was just scrolling through, I think it was ESPN. And I saw this headline, Michael Vic, colon, no talks with Falcons on one-day retirement deal.

And I thought to myself, we've done it. We have reached the bottom of the barrel in the 2017 off-season news cycle. We cannot go lower than Michael Vic clarifying that there have been no talks yet on a one-day retirement deal to retire as a falcon. Who, by the way, Mike, you know, come back to us just a little bit. Why would the Falcons, a team you were electrifying in your first several years of the team, but then basically submarine the entire franchise for, you know, two years about with your dogfighting stuff that led to a federal prison situation, your antics. I mean, antics, antics feels almost a little weak in this. Yes, it does.

But he was at a home game during the regular season. I think Arthur Blank maybe invited him to the final game of the regular season in Atlanta. So maybe things are a little bit better. I'm just saying that's fine. I don't think he should be run out of town forever. He's obviously cleaned his life up and done the right things since getting out of prison. But that doesn't mean now that the Falcon should call a press conference to retire your, you know. What if Michael Vick was just like sitting at home or was out somewhere and,

a reporter or a writer just saw him and just asked him randomly about this. And now all of a sudden we're like, Michael, Vic, calm down, man. Nobody cares. That's exactly what happened. This is what Vic told the SBN. Well, I haven't talked to anybody about it specifically. It's something that I've really been thinking about trying to get done. I was asked the question the other day, is that what I want?

And I said, yeah. So yeah, I think in due time, it's something that can potentially happen. Oh, my God. We're at the bottom. This is the bottom. It is. I mean, news, they talk about news being information. that you don't already know, and you might not like when you get it. And this is not news.

I could care less about this story. But I do think that one thing, if you're Michael Vick or if you're someone with a complex past, think about how you want to retire, I would just ghost out of there. Yeah. When I leave this company, I'm just going to ghost out. You don't want to retire here? I will vanish one day. Well, I would retire here, but you just, you disappear entirely.

Do you need a party in 18 going away events? No, you just, you. It's a weird thing that guys do. I mean, I sort of understand it, but also it's kind of like, okay, that's enough. You're done playing. What, you need another ceremony now? Ouch. Is that too much?

Too much? All right. They're just people. We went too hard on that. Mark, by the way, of all of us, at least in the newsroom portion of the around the NFL group, he's best equipped to just pick up and go. You don't have a lot of items on your desk. I think you've done it before in the past, haven't you?

where you just basically pick up one picture frame and maybe one notebook and just walk away forever. Not as a married person because you've got a different level of responsibility, but in your 20s, you know, you're working some temp job. Just send in like a typewritten note with the other friend that you had that was working there, give it to the boss and you never reappear. Greg just got here and he's doing something behind the glass and I don't understand. Greg, what are you doing?

I know you can hear us. Why don't you just come sit down? You have a bit planned? He's putting on head. Are we stepping on a bit? I think he brought in his own headphones. Here he comes, everybody. He's coming.

We'll get him on the mic here in a second. This is the grand entrance. There he is. NFL network, Greg Rosenthal. Thank you very much here with nfell.com's Greg Rosenthal. Oh, excuse me. Oh, dot com. The enabelle.com.

The enabelle.com. The NFL.com. See, if you had stood up, Dan, you could see that I brought my daughter, Ellison. And I was setting her up because we were running late. And so I was trying to set her up at a station. Hi, Alice. Are you going to come in here and sing Daddy Bubbles? So you were doing a good job.

You were doing Dad. Yeah, I was trying to set her up. She was, I was funny. She was disappointed. She was like, oh, is Sidney going to be there? And I was like, no, she's gone at Sully. And she was like, Sully. Come on.

Yeah, who's that? Did you say, no, honey, Sydney quit on us. Did you say that? I would never. You've just left her in Sully's care for the next 30, 40 minutes. I can see here. I got my eye, Andrew. Let's move on, and it's good timing, Greg,

because now we're on to the throne of ease. Which is a place I know that you know very well. Very comfortable place. The New England Patriots have added yet another wide receiver to their group. They announce the thief. excuse me, Andrew Hawkins announced that the former Cleveland Browns wideout is joining the reigning

Super Bowl Champions rap sheet. It said it's a one-year deal. The whiteout turned down more lucrative offers elsewhere to join New England, and maybe that won't be the best decision we'll see. But there's a lot of wide receivers on the paths, including Julian Edelman, Chris Hogan, Malcolm Mitchell, and Danny Amiddle. Not to mention

Brandon Cooks. It's even going to make this team, Greg. I would say he has a less than 50% chance to make the team but you would think sometimes injuries happen in training camp on paper you would think him and Danny Amandola at best would be fighting for one spot and I would give an old baby hawk a chance at winning that battle Is that his nickname?

Yes it is. This is a guy who a month ago went into the front office of the Browns and basically asked to end his career with the team and months later here he is in New England I mean, he just got his degree right from Columbia. Yeah, about a week ago. Last week. So he's clearly a smart guy.

One of my favorites going way back in the day, one of the first athletes ever, I think, to tweet at me because I was a big fan. I was a big fan of Michael Irvin's. I probably told this story before. Michael Irvin's reality show, fourth and long, where they were going to find a player that could join the Cowboys for training camp. It was actually a pretty good show.

And Baby Hawk came in second. on that show did not get the free spot but he did you know he was kind of a fan favorite and ended up having a nice little career here you have referenced that program before near and dear to your heart yeah it was fun i was like the only person watching it and uh i think baby hawk appreciated my weekly recaps on pro football time i think his brother too talked him into playing for them because his brother spent some time with the team it i mean it's a curious decision considering you took half as much as other teams were offering him with the plethora of receivers they have there it's crazy they're they're basically building like an all-slot offense. Edelman, him, gronk, cooks. It's like everything

is between the numbers. Is Hogan the tallest one? Hogan's a big guy. I think he's like, I think he's the tallest dude and the rest of him are under six. Hogan's big. Malcolm Mitchell's big, but yeah, the rest of them. Sounds like a fatal roster construction for the Patriots. Seven and nine. Here we come. Can't do it. Moving on. Ooh. Ooh, ooh, it's time to talk bucks kickers. folk two men enter one man lives

all right here we go it's aggressive wow that sound drop almost didn't even sound like a sound drop just sounded like our normal I didn't know they were playing for their lives either on some level it's his football life I would say

Robbie Aguayo certainly the second round pick who struggled in the two practices and OTAs that were that the media could watch. Aguayo went five for nine, including, of course, we know one for four on the narrow goalposts. He missed those three kicks.

Yeah, eight and a half feet wide. And as our friend Joe Bucks fan reported, you could hear a pin drop on the practice. Total hush. Total hush fell over the crowd. And the next practice, Greg was like, Oh, who cares? What about the next practice?

Well, he did better. He went four of five from 35 for 35 to 40 yards on regulation posts, which, by the way, Mark, are 18 and a half feet. Good to know. You are on top of this subject, and you have been from beginning to end. Four or five is not even that good from 35 to 40. I mean, that's fine. It's passable.

Do the math. Five for nine. Foraguayu. Nicky Falk, by the way. for nothing, the most accurate kicker in Jets history. Nine of nine. Yinks. And now, Dirk Cutter spoke to Rick Stroud

of the Tampa Bay Times about the situation. The competition has definitely started. I know everybody feels it. There's a little tension when we're going through that. That's a good thing. That's a good thing. This is pro football. They're supposed to be competition.

Whoa. Aguio. Folk. It's a hard knocks life. Get it. There you go. There's your update. I'm just so happy that I have Dan through this entire process to update us on everything.

Well, Gonzo's in, too. That's true. That's true. But you really are our expert with the kicking battles. And I'm just, I'm so happy. that we have you to... Well, 18 and a half feet. Keep us up to date.

This is going to end with Aguayo like on a car chase in the middle of Tampa somewhere in the final episode of Hard Knocks. I'm a little worried they're not going to have any time left for the rest of the Bucks that the kicker battle

will essentially take over all of Hard Knocks. Woof. And in other Bucks news, Cutter is not happy with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers social media team. Uh-oh. Hello. Which, I don't think we talked about this last week,

but I did write about it on the end of round. They had trolled the Atlanta Falcons on Twitter, the Buck's social account. Oh, that's wonderful. I love that. Yeah. This is part of this whole culture.

Anyway, they had posted a photo. The Falcon social team had tried to get into a little back and forth, fun back and forth with the Bucks. Oh, so thirsty. And then the Bucks replied with a comment, we ain't worried about nothing. And then a photo of, who is that, Greg? I think that's Vernon Hard.

Graves. Vernon Hardgraves, the running back number 28, fist pounding, number three, James Winston in the Bucks locker room at some point last season, 283, which of course has become kind of an internet meme of sorts for taunting Falcons, the team, and their fan base. And Derek Cutter had this to say once that went viral. I want to make sure on behalf of the Bucks organization that I apologize to the Falcons for whatever that was supposed to be that went on social media. that's not what our organization is about.

Somebody's getting fired. Well, this is the multiple incidents this offseason of team executives having to apologize for the clunky, like, you know, team versus team tweetoffs. It's ridiculous. I don't know why they're apologizing. Yeah, they don't need to apologize.

Who cares? The NBA does it all the time, and it's fine, and it's funny, but I don't think anybody thinks the head coach is the one that's tweeting it out. I'd just say if you're the Bucks and, you're tweeting out 28 to 3. You're tweeting in a team that just got to the Super Bowl. You haven't won a playoff game

since you won the Super Bowl in 2002. They would say the Falcons started it. You know, the Falcons started a little business. They didn't. They were, it was pretty, it was very mellow, their reply. It was supposed to be kind of sweet. And it was clear they just were looking to have some fun

and then they got totally buried. Yeah, it was almost, it's almost too much, though, to apologize for something so minor it makes it. Well, you bring more attention to it. Yeah, exactly. And dirt cutter, let's be real. He worked for the Falcons for many years.

They helped out his career. You know, had a big time, you know. He has friends there. He's embarrassed by it. So he's embarrassed. Like, I can't imagine Bruce Ariens apologizing for something that the Cardinal social account puts out. And they put out some funny stuff. I can see him writing the tweets, Bruce Adams.

Right. We're laughing at them. It was a tough week. Well, they would be funny. This one was less funny. It was a tough week for the Buccaneers equivalent to Bryce Gustafson. You know, the goose, our social media maven here. Yeah, goose who hasn't had a day off or left this office in roughly two years.

No days off for him. They keep them in a locked room and they have a little hamster wheel for him to get some exercise. And they say keep on updating our various social accounts here, including our own around the NFL count. Does a good job of it. Yeah. Finally, in the news, Chip Kelly has resurfaced. How about that? According to ESPN.

He's coaching again? Not quite. ESPN reports that Kelly will be a studio analyst for the sports network, mainly on ESPN2, oof, for, quote, college football pre-games, halftime, and studio wraps each Saturday. This according to a release sent out by the company, Kelly will also appear on Sports Center on Fridays and Sundays, offering insight on college and NFL games. Now, I know a lot of people are going to quick to say, oh, this is going to be bad. Chip Kelly's a stiff. He doesn't know how to be a human being. But you know who I really like?

I don't know if he's still there, but Eric Mangini does a nice job in the studio. And Eric Mangini is the last guy that I thought would be good in front of the cameras. So I kind of see Chip and Manjini in a similar way on some level. I could see that. I see it. Chip is really quick and he's witty. Like I remember that just from being in Philly and covering the Eagles when I was there. He would, I mean, he talks really fast, trying to just log the sound bites and everything when we would get back.

it's a nightmare a little bit, but I think that he would actually be kind of good at just explaining things and kind of messing around with the other guys on the panel. You know who's the best, Mark, in our earlier days here at this company when one of our tasks,

and we still do it on things from time to time, but when we had to transcribe a lot of press conferences and interviews and things of that nature, by far the best person to transcribe was Jerry Jones, who speaks in a very measured cadence in a Texas draw

and it was easy to transcribe. Jera, Chip Kelly might be the opposite. The complete opposite, a nightmare to transcribe. I think Chip will be good. I think this helps set him up to, first of all, he's getting $5 million or more from the Yorks this year, so you make a little scratch on top of that. And then you're watching all the trends that are out there in the college game,

maybe putting them back into his pocket to use either in the NFL next year as a coordinator or maybe he returns to college as a coach. It's a nice little landing spot for a year or two to kind of watch the game from a bird's eye view. I did do a piece last year talking to coaches where they took a sabbatical year most of them forced into it, but they said exactly that, that you actually, for the

first time in half a decade or a decade, take a step back and see other players that you're going to compete against. But come on still, with Chip Kelly, we are three, four years removed from writing insane, long think pieces about this guy and how he's revolutionizing the NFL, and he couldn't even find

an offensive coordinator job this offseason. You know who never bought it? The old Zeus She never bought it. Well, good for you. Well done. Gold star, Dan. His little remote control cars on the field and his little shakes, smoothies.

It always felt transparent that he didn't fit in. I wonder if he'll give up on the NFL dream and go back to college where he was highly successful. There's some big jobs opening up potentially next year that he could easily, my alma mater being one of them. Would you like to see him at Tennessee? I would love to see him at Tennessee. I think any college fan would be happy to see him. I don't think he wants to.

I think if that, supposedly, that Atlanta job, he would have had a good chance if Sarkesian didn't work out. And if he could get the right job, I think he really wants to stay in the NFL. Who wants the mess? Who wants the mess with, you know, amateur athletics is a sham. It's a lower quality of play. You get paid. It's an easy, cushy job.

You're not always going to get fired. Some people don't want it easy, though. They want football all year round, all their life. You know, they just want football. I'm not sure that most college coaches would consider coaching a top 10 division one school easy it's not easy number one I think they think it's easy compared to the NFL

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This one is seven minutes longer than the regular mailbag. Which makes it mega. That is mega, mate. Oh, Gary Barnage, poor guys. Sending out like flares up into the sky now. Hey, hire me. Poor guy. Pretty good tight end.

You should have them on. You'll get a job. Okay. What, do you have some inside info, Mark? It's just how these things work. I think Greg wrote about this last week with contracts. are all these pro-rated, you know, prolonged, like, hold out or looking for a work thing. It all gets worked out.

Just fast forward to August. Just a reminder, though, Mark, if you do want to go with this, triple source. What hand gestures are you doing right now? What is what was that? Any breaking news, that's all. Not treating it is breaking. It's just the way things are in the NFL. I've got 4,000 sources on that.

All right, let's open up the mailbag and we'll start. And by the way, again, thanks to everyone. one who sent in mailbag queries. We got many and we respect you. First up, Chris McCarthy gets the honor of our first question at another Chris MC.

How do you think the OT rule change will affect strategy? Will teams take more risks? Now, again, I asked Greg, I said, Greg, try to make sense of this to me. The new overtime policy shortened to 10 minutes and it was

ostensibly about player safety or whatever. But how do you think it changes, Colleen? I mean, I think when you look at it and you want to say it's about player safety, I don't really buy that at all. I think that it's going to change the way the teams are calling. Why do they do it then? But I have no idea why, because what's five minutes less? Why not just get rid of the whole overtime then if you're really worried?

Colleen, the question, how do you think the OT rule change will affect strategy? Yeah, I think it'll make teams more aggressive in those five minutes. They'll call things a little different. Without those five minutes. Yeah. Yeah, I mean, when you get... I guess. If you don't get the ball first,

I think you'll be a little more likely to go for fourth down if you're at midfield. You know, you might not assume you're getting the ball back a second time if you're the second team to get it. More importantly, you know that the game's ending with 10 minutes left, so it just abbreviates everything. It's going to change the decision. You're going to get into your hurry up offense quicker.

That's why everyone's saying, like, well, there only would have been a couple games that would have gone to over them. knows how they would have gone last year because if you're at if the overtime's only 10 minutes you're going to play it very differently yeah and if you go up tempo you're going to be running more snaps anyway but there's an overtime rule that was put in a few years back where unless you score a touchdown or a touchdown scored in a possession the first possession or it's a turnover for a touchdown the other team gets the ball can you now conceivably take the ball march down the field get deep into your opponent's territory run the clock all the way down and have essentially

10-minute drive and get a field goal. That's one way it could change. I mean, granted, you're not going to be looking to get a field goal at the end of that. But if you could end up slowing the game down, having a long drive, and making it very difficult. Imagine if you, yeah, that's a great way to do it, Dan. Maybe that's a way to do it. That's a strategy. If you can pull off 10-minute drives, you don't need to wait until overtime to try that.

I mean, start that at the beginning of the game, do that to your time. You matriculate down to their 25 or so. And it takes like seven minutes to do it, right? Then they might start having to use timeouts. Yeah, yeah. You get two timeouts, I think, in overtime. Then it becomes a, I could see, you know, Belchick will be the first guy to bang somebody on this.

It'll be the Chiefs, actually. And that game ain't going over time. That will be a bloodbath. What team is going to be the most improved of the upcoming offseason? This from CM Punk, but Socialist, at Mitchell Cares. It's a complicated name. a little bit strange, but respect you, buddy. All right, so now let's pure wins and losses.

I'm looking right now at the 2016 standings. So most improved by wins, boys and girls. And, you know, the Browns make sense. They're going to be a popular choice by a lot of people. Even if the Browns don't make real noise this season, if they go six and ten this year, they've improved five games. And with the talent they have and some good vibes and a couple of things go their way.

I feel like if you were somebody that goes to the desert or, you know, we're associated with some of the people Greg associates himself. Oh, giving a break. The Browns make a lot of sense. I mean, by odds, it's hard to duplicate a one in 15 season. Some teams do it, but even during many of their crappy years, they won six games.

But how about a team like the Chargers? You, I think at 5 and 11 last year, you underperformed record-wise from what you were, and they could easily, see them going 11 and 5. That's a six game positive plus. I don't see the Browns going 7 and 9 or the 49ers going 8 and 8 necessarily.

I like the Chargers. I feel like they lost a lot of games that they almost won right at the end just because of the amount of injuries they had too. But if we're going sheer wins and losses, I'm going with the Patriots. What? Listen, they, I know it's so scary.

Wait, improve. They're better. They can only get two games. They can only get two games. It's improvement. Exactly. They're better than they were last year. I see what you're saying.

I mean, look at what they did. Even the draft aside, they got Brandon Cooks, Connie Ely, they held on to Malcolm Butler. They signed Stefan Gilmore. They can improve. This team looks better than they did last year. Don't get sucked in on the Jaguars people. I think the Jaguars are, I agree. The Chargers are the first.

You can't have a newcomer come in and steal a show. Chargers are the first team that came to mind, but I think the Jaguar's six. and they're at three. All they got to do is get to eight or nine in a lousy division. That's asking a lot of that franchise. I know, but they're a good candidate to make a big jump. You're jumping on the Jagsman wagon right now? What about the Panthers?

Six and ten last year. Panthers are a good one. Bengals only had six wins last year. I can see them back in the playoffs. And then a real dark horse because they only went four and 12 last year. You get Wade Phillips running the defense. You scratch out just kind of an ugly nine and seven record. Maybe that division's not as good enough.

I think the Rams could be in that mix of the most improved. Mr. Roosevelt, you had a sit down with a son of bum recently, didn't you? I did. I spoke with him on Friday. We'll be using that for an upcoming piece. How was he? He was great. I mean, he was exactly how you'd expect very plain spoken and just kind of,

what you see is what you get. Like, Wade Phillips is not trying to sound like hide anything. He's not trying to be anything other than he is. He's like his dad, bum Phillips. In his book, which he was promoting, he's got a lot of great stories about getting hired and fired. And you realize how much the NFL is like other working environments, how stupid the owners are sometimes, like how random the hirings are. And if you look at his track record, he improves every single defense that he joins significantly. And they were kind of middle of the pack last year.

So if they have a top defense and he's got the players, he was really pumped up about Robert Quinn. and he reminded him a lot of DeMarcus Ware thinks he's going to be huge. If they can have a top-level defense, you know, maybe they scratch out eight, nine wins. The press conference after the Broncos won the Super Bowl two years ago, Cam Newton melting down was, obviously was the big news after the Super Bowl,

which happened on the other side of this curtain. But my favorite memory from that Super Bowl was being right in front of Wade Phillips after he finally won a Super Bowl. And Tim just totally a down-to-earth guy, chill dude that you could clearly tell like he had reached a major milestone in his career. It just seems a guy you like to root for. He's been in the league 40 years and he's done it his way,

like in a league where you're not supposed to become friends with your players or be a player's coach. Like that is what he is. He's like wearing their gold jean. He's been unapologetic about it the whole way and he says he doesn't buy into the whole way. I love it. Moving on, this one from Matt Churchward at Not So Secret. mysterious

all right this one is more there's no offense to Matt but if the heroes were the four characters and the hangover who would be who first of all

it's a bad state of major commercial release comedies that we're still citing the hangover is a recent comedy hit but more about this because we got this a lot

like if you the four heroes were the Beatles who would be who usually in this scenario there's always one guy that nobody would want to be so in this scenario

would be Zach Alfenackis Ringo Star for the Beatles. So I'm going to, a moratorium on rank four heroes in this other group of four where one of the group is like a total moron or seen as far inferior because it's going to lead to hurt feelings. Good move. Good moratorium. Protecting the group.

I like that. Yeah. Is that all right, Craig? That makes sense to me. I'm not overly familiar with the hangover, so I'm pleased to skip it. Moving out. Ooh, Greg. This one's right up your alley.

Oh, no. Eric Jensen at Eric 18, Utah. What are Greg's top five rap artists? Greg is, you know, in terms of street cred, Greg, is way off the charts when compared to the rest of the- This is ridiculous. Fan of hip-hop, Greg, who are your top-off? First of all, I love lots of other different types of music. Yes.

Just a real rap hit. Well, I had written this down earlier, but that was, you know, back earlier the day when I am my computer. I don't want to get this wrong. All right. You got to start. Little Wayne is right there. Is he your number one artist of all time? He's just in the top five.

He's in the top five. Okay. Little Wayne just as a pure MC. Jay-Z is absolutely in there. Now, this is my personal one. Maybe not the greatest, but, you know, my personal. Then it's Kanye. Yep.

I'm going to put Kendrick in there now because I cannot stop listening to Damn. I can't remember how I'm more addicted to just let my kids like it. They like, you know, the censored version. Oh, you put the censored version. And then I'm going to cheat, and I would think number one overall, and it's a group, but that's Outcast. So if I have to set them up, separate them in terms of MCs, I'd put them both in there and kick Kendrick out. No big calls? But Outcast is number one on my list.

Three weeks ago, you were saying Chance was already. I said he had it. I said, well, this is only five. Now Kendrick comes in, and he's the new kid on the block. Steels the show. Unreal. The other Kendricks weren't as, you know, re-listenable over. and over and over so that that was missing but okay he's got the talent all right good there you go

greg's rap corner uh moving on jimmy tunes at tunes tunes uh is welcome back to another edition deliberately incorrect surely either welcome to another or welcome back to the atm podcast uh you know jim i honestly never thought of it he's absolutely right but welcome back to another edition why isn't that work You've not been at this new edition before. We're welcoming you back to the show that you've listened to, but this edition you've never been to. He's right. You know, I'm going to block Jimmy right now.

No, not needed. Okay, I won't. All right, Jimmy. I will not take that under advisement, but you are correct. I am not technically accurate in the intro of the show for the past five years. It could be a little more concise. Think of all the time.

Like, if you added up, taking out that word over the years, you could have saved an hour and a half of someone's life. I've taken so much time from you guys. and I can never give it back to him. Sorry. This one was kind of interesting. It was from Chris Goldby, at C. Goldby.

And I, first of all, I was kind of drawn to it because once again, Greg is rocking a Henley right now. It's got wooden buttons, I think. Is that wooden buttons on your Henley?

Three buttons up. These are plastic. Okay, plastic. It kind of look like wood. How much of a is Don Henley for doing shows as the Eagles without Glenn Fry? I'll hang up and listen off air.

Now, Glenn Frye it was like a one-two pun you know a lot of legendary bands it's usually two guys it's the singer and the guitarist and they do the songwriting and obviously the singing and everybody else is kind of interchangeable in the band ultimately they don't want to hear that the drummer doesn't want to hear that the bass player doesn't want to hear that but all the great bands it's two guys maybe the Beatles with it besides wringo are an exception here but even then Obviously, Lennon and McCartney, Jagger and Richards. It's like this show.

You and Sully. You're the two guys. Everyone else is replaceable. So Glenn Fry passed away, sadly, last year, suddenly. And Don Henley is now going on in a big money-making tour under the Eagles name. Glenn Fry would not like that, by the way. The question here is how much a jerk is Don Henley for doing it? He's a pretty big jerk, I would say.

Would we, if one of us were to kick the bucket, would the podcast continue? Would we go on or would we do a different project? I guess that's what we're, should we not pot call kettle black thing, you know? I mean, a lot of times it's that there's listener demand that long time fans of the band want this. Like Phil Lesh and Friends has been fronting the Grateful Dead for for ages now and there isn't a wild issue with it. But if they. Well, just Jerry Garcia like spinning in his grave, probably. I guess, what's the other option that everything that you did goes totally dark

and you're quickly replaced by a bunch of forgettable music in its place? Yeah, why not? I'm not even a huge Eagles fans. I can't know less about the Eagles. Yeah. In that person's name, why don't you just keep it going? I feel like sucking as much cash out of baby boomers' pockets as humanly possible is right in the Eagles wheelhouse.

That's their brand. Is he like up on stage bad now? Enough with the Eagles. Well, they had a very, they had a contentious relationship. I am not a huge Eagles fan myself. It seems like you are. I'm a fan of rock music and they are, they have a big place in rock music's past. And they put out an amazing documentary, which I, even if you're not an Eagles fan,

it's just a great look at 70s rock that's on Netflix. Don't watch part two, though, but part one, I highly suggest. It's long. It's very long. So anyway, I come down that we would like, if I kick the bucket and then you, You guys kept going if you were on the NFL podcast and just, like, plugged in somebody for me, like Colleen, who's gunned in Ford, obviously, anyway. Logical choice. I'd be upset. I'd be upset.

I would haunt you. Really? I would haunt your dreams. He would just sabotage the pod. Yeah, I would definitely. I don't think it would go on in that situation. Right. So. I curse you.

That would be me in Greg's Santa Monica home. I mean, I would want everyone to, you know, continue to make their, to make their living. What else are they going to do? I would final destination all of you if you didn't. So you would want everybody to just like be miserable. Just be like, that's it. Like Colleen, Colleen Wolf of NFL media strangled herself with tooth, her own dental floss somehow. Like just elaborate final destination deaths for all of you.

It's so dark. It just always gets so dark in here. I get it kind of. Moving on. What a way to go, too. Yeah, strange. Simon Wynn Stanley at Simon York, CA. who has more rushing yards this season,

all 50 Patriots backs or Levy on Bell. Now, you laugh, ha, ha, ha, funny, funny. But then I did some research here, Lagarde Blunt, Dionne Lewis, and James White, who were the three primary ball carriers for the 2016 Patriots, 1872 yards in total, 3.9 yards per carry, 19 touchdowns, and 482 carries. the Patriots have a little bit of a different look in their backfield this year.

A big one, actually a big difference with that blunt there. So, yeah, I think the Patriots, 50 running backs, however many, probably will get more than Lev Bell, but you wouldn't sell Bell short either, would you? I mean, Bell is one player. Yeah, one magnificent player. He had, and we, they did an NFL media research team, did a bunch of 100 related things for this, 100 days to the start of the regular season One of them was that Lev Bell

I believe had the most 100 yard gains or the second most 100 yard games He only played 12 games last year Because that's suspension What would we see if Lev Bell was Lev Bell for 16 weeks I think you could see him Take a crack at the yards from scrimmage record Which no one's really gotten near in a while

I think it's over 2,500 yards is the record And I could see him pulling that out But for this question, I'd definitely take the four Patriots because all you need is another Love Bell suspension or injury. Hey, side injuries, yeah. Patriots are set up well. They're only going to, you know, there was a good article showing, they probably only use Dionne Lewis now 15, 20 snaps a game.

Going to save them for the playoffs in theory. Yeah. Real quick, Gabrielle Martins. Must be nice. At Gimor-Eirah Martins. What is the non-English-speaking country where you guys have the biggest audience? I'd put a sandwich on Brazil. The correct answer is Sweden.

Really? Sweden is... Really? Yes. So pay up, send sandwiches. Sweden beats Mexico? Sweden, according to, yeah. I want a sandwich, too, if this actually happens.

Figures on our agent that we use. Sweden, followed by Denmark, followed by Deutschland. Wow. Oh, shout out, guys. There you go. Dushland, I believe it's pronounced. Some people do. Come on, step up, Mexico.

Mexico. We're right next door. Let's go. Where's Canada? T.J. Dittweiler, 15. Well, they're English speaking for the most part. Oh, right. That was a terrible, terrible. It's okay. It's okay.

It's really the population of Quebec. There's some French-speaking individuals in Canada. Nice recovery. Nice recovery. This from X-15. How much of the podcast is Schick? 70, 75%. Depends, so you ask. Yeah.

That answer depends on which one of you ask. Now, I don't want to speak for Wes, but I feel like Wes and I would say most, it's not that much of a stick. I mean, it's a little bit of a shtick, but basically, basically just we are who we are. I mean, how many minutes did we spend listening to robot voices say different things before the podcast? Oh, this is a thing now, Greg, by the way, you'll want to know this. Mito Powers activated. Mito Powers activated. Once a month, each of us can veto a news item and shut it down.

to make it go away and we won't have to talk about it. I'm just sad we didn't come up with this earlier. I know, Colleen's box with a big move there before the show. And she actually activated her veto for May. Running out of time here. What did you veto? Deshaun Kaiser. Listen to the show.

Okay. You got to listen to the show. That's the way to do it. All right. Here we go. This is a good one. Mark, you got to go. So maybe we'll go out on this one.

You ready? Sure. I got three minutes. I'm trying to find this. Just two and a half a take in your top. Here we go. This is from Brandon Smith at Brandon Smith 52. Who are the other three people dead or alive?

You would want to complete your foursome for a game, whether it be golf or cornhole or whatever. You ought to construct a forcum for a nice afternoon into evening. Something like that. Mark, get us going. I thought about this. You sent me the question. and I would want something to come out of this other than like a photo or, you know, some,

hey, I beat so-and-so in golf. I don't even play golf. I would get JFK, Lee Harvey Oswald, and Jack Ruby. I would find out exactly what happened because now there's nothing to lose. And I would write a devastating investigative report from, as you say, triple sources, the best triple sources you can get. And I would, in history. That is quite a triple source.

Yes, it would be. I like your agenda, too, on them. I mean, I don't need to play golf for these people. For younger listeners who may not know, Lee Harvey Oswald assassinated John F. Kennedy. How young. JFK, one of our presidents back in the day. Jack Ruby, I don't think our entire listeners, especially overseas,

Jack Ruby then killed Lee Harvey Oswald while he was in police custody. But wouldn't it be, and Mark, you admire JFK, as do I. Wouldn't it be kind of messed up to make Joe? JFK spent an entire day with his murderer, potentially? No, I think that he would care about the truth coming forward and that this would do that. Wow. I have to go, though.

Because if you think about it, now I'll leave while you shoot the whole thing down. He might not be like that reliable, a narrator for his own death. I don't know what more he's going to bring to the table. I think he would be wrong. He would know a lot of stuff that was happening behind the scenes. As president, you know a lot more. Farewell.

Funny enough, I also have John Kennedy involved. my threesome would be 1962, Jack Kennedy 1982 Jack Nicholson Jack Nicholas Who's the golfer? Nicholson.

I'm looking for the actor. Yeah, Nicholson would be a lot better Nicholas would be a strange choice. Yeah, that would be very sure. I mean, might be kind of fun though. Hey, let's get the golden bear in the mix. And a 2,042 Jack Kansas.

Get my son as an adult and all the Jacks and we just spend a nice day together. That sounds lovely. We're going to do 18 holes. Funny that Mark and I both had JFK. Weird. I feel like John Kennedy would be more comfortable potentially with this scenario.

Probably. Looking out for the like. Mark said he wanted more than just a picture. But imagine if he did get that picture. Oh, my God. Just him golfing or whatever, doing whatever with JFK and Oswald and Mark. That would be a tough one to explain. Also, like you're only going to take your one son.

Well, it's a jack thing. Harrison will understand. I beg, Harry. You'd be like, hey, it made sense on the pot. It seems problematic. Like, I could get Harry Hansis, Harry Truman, and Harry Hamelin together. You could do that.

At another time. That would work. Harry Houdini, get him in the mix, maybe. Anyway, what about you, Colleen? Okay, I would go with Chrissy Teigen because I would like to, she looks really fun. Yeah, and then, like, hopefully there's a friendship there,

so then that includes John Legend, so that's two friends and one. Obama, because I feel like he's a pretty ethnic, athletic and would be an interest. I mean, he's good at golf. He seemed like it would be a great hang. Yeah, and I know that Chrissy's been to the White House, so I feel like there's already a relationship there,

so they would get along. Put a lot of thought into it. I know. And then I would have Hunter Thompson because he would be an amazing time, I think. It's good. I like that. I would love to get Obama a couple of whiskeys deep and just have them. Just get stories.

Just going nuts about. Donald Trump. I'd love to hear Obama like talking about Trump in detail in a drunk state. That'd be kind of fun. That's a pretty perfect, pretty good looking group too. I was thinking about Dave Chappelle at some point, but Hunter Thompson won out. Yeah, Chappelle would be. You say good looking group, Obama and Hunter S. Thompson or.

Well, you know, Codies or something? I don't know. There's some pictures of Hunter Thompson when he was like young in his prime writing with who's like he's got a cigarette behind his ear and a typewriter and he's on like the cliffs in Malibu. I don't think Obama's a bad-looking guy. I didn't say it was a bad-ling guy. He's handsome.

I'm going to go nuts about Obama physically. I'm not going to go nuts. I don't know. That's good. Let's stress this. I don't have an answer. I don't know. Okay.

That's fine. You don't need an answer. It's all good. It's all good. I'll throw this one to you, Greg, from at Johnny Boar. What are the best games to rewatch from last season on GamePass? How about one game?

Give them one game to watch. I think the best game of the season was Steelers Ravens on Christmas. People saw that, but I think people forget how many twists and turns and just the rivalry and the great players involved. And you saw a great defense in that. You saw a little bit of everything. Yeah. They just aired that on NFL Network, in fact.

I also think Packers Cowboys, the divisional round game, because neither team ended up moving on will be forgotten. That was a great NFL. football game and a meeting of Dak Prescott at this certain point in his career just starting out and Aaron Rogers at the height of his powers and back, like it was really back and forth. People thought the Cowboys are totally

out of it to like teams that are the teams in the NFL. To me that was a classic NFL game. I was going to say that one and just like the NBA is getting killed, rightfully so for two months of bad playoff action. The playoffs last year were not good in the NFL but that game

definitely helped that and the Super Bowl obviously both helped to save the playoffs last season. Chargers Falcons was a really fun one too last year. That was a really good game. It was an afternoon game. I think it went into overtime. Was that the pick six on the two-point conversion attempts?

Was it that game? That was a different Falcons game. That was like the next week. They played two great ones. But Chargers Falcons had an unbelievable comeback. That was such a fun game. Both quarterbacks played well. That's a great choice.

Moving. And of course, the Bryce Petty game with the Dolphins where the Jets Offens alignment didn't block. and got Bryce Petty literally sandwiched. Make sure you check out that. Oh, no. Classic. Damien Pittham.

At Damian Pittum. Just how good is Derek Carr and the Raiders? I mean, they are the best, right? So good. Absolutely. Saw some OTA footage of them today, and I just thought, what great uniforms. Woo! You know?

What a great team to just get going. They had Marshawn Lynch's out there, like punting balls and things. John went to Oakland and brought me back a Raiders. shirt. John. Who? You guys know, John. Ronald Gonzalez, born March 12th, 1977, is an American sports writer who's

Mayor to NFL media broadcaster, Colleen Wolf, John, who's a Pisces resides in Los Angeles with his wife and two dogs. This one from Yev's or Coro. Did you already speak about how much this bit is starting to annoy Gonzo in real life? It's the best thing that thank, I want to just thank all of the listeners for this, because it's the best present I could ever have. It's the greatest gift in the world. So keep it going.

Like, if you were thinking, you know, should it should have. I tweet that or not. Yeah, just go for it. It's awesome. I learned something about God at the little barbecue at a hands of scanner yesterday, is that he has the disease. What? He has the disease of being overly competitive with stupid things. I have the same thing.

Oh, God. And John, he was getting a little. And listen, I don't want to, I don't want to, with him not here, I don't want to get into it. Actually, I have a response from him. because he knew that this would come up. It almost didn't because this is deep into the show. But yeah. Well, a response to what?

To the game and to him being overly competitive. All right. So I'll set it up. It was, you know, later in the barbecue, everybody's just thrown some corn. And Wes is teamed with Gonzo. And I was teamed with Ali, who is regressing outrageously. No. I love Ali.

and I think he's a listener of the show. But so, you know, but West was stacking up points, piling up points. And then Gonzo had one or two good rounds. And he starts puffing out his chest about how great he was. And I had to call him out. I said, I never heard a teammate of Wes, you know, get so Buck Wild in this situation. And that really fired him up. So after two games where I think John, Gonzo maybe outscored me in the two games where I was kind of,

I'll be honest with you Not too plugged into the game There's a lot going on to my own home They're like 14 kids My son was by my side the whole time So I said John you don't want to do this You don't want me to take this seriously Your wife is here

You don't want this Gonzo Your wife is here You don't want this to turn badly for you But if you really want to play again And sure enough Once I took it seriously I outscored him

9-2 in our final game Well this is Including a 9-0 run to end it but the response that he he would like me to share. Yes. John Gonzalez, an official spokesman for John Gonzalez, has prepared the following statement on John Gonzalez. After winning the first two games of corn in decisive fashion,

Mr. Gonzalez lost track of the score. While he cannot confirm or deny the outcome of game three, his left bicep was pleased to win the two-man photo shoot with Mr. Hansis' flip-flops. Mr. Gonzalez looks forward to more hangouts with the heroes in future showings of bilateral corn cooperation, end statement. Well, first of all, don't get after a man wearing flip-flops in his own home. John wears flip-flops all the time.

No, John, but I will say I'll take it. I whipped up on him in the third game when I said I was going to be serious with him. But the big takeaway for me was that he has the disease, and we certainly need more cornhole players in Southern California, especially with Ali's continued regression. You're looking at one behind the glass. I know, but I've invited you several times. I know, but I've been out of town for both times.

Both times you've got to go to Alabama's fourth spring game. Wes said it was the best talking he's ever heard. Yeah, he was, Wes was fired up on the other side. It was fun entertainment. I was happy to see Gonzo have the disease. He has it. Everything is the competition. Let's see.

Is there anything else? Well, I'll do one more here. Tide Declare. This would have been better with Mark, but Colleen's a supporter of the Eagles. O'4.51 with the Super Bowl. I am a Jets supporter, one for 51, but oh for their last 48. And Mark, of course, well, they were out of the league two years,

so I think 0 for 49 for the Browns in the Super Bowl. Would you give up an organ to bring your team a Super Bowl, Colleen? Yeah, like, but an organ that I don't really need. Like, isn't there, like a, is a gallbladder, does a gallbladder count? Sometimes you can, sometimes you can live without a kidney, right? Yeah, but then you're flirting with danger if the other. Yeah, if the other one fails. I think I need my kidneys.

No, I need my liver. I need my liver. I need your liver. Especially if you're going to make this beer to vodka transition. Right. It's a healthy new me. I'm giving up beer and drinking only hard alcohol. It would have to be, yeah, I would have to talk to several doctors to find out what is the least

an important organ within your body. And then I'd think about it. I feel like I kind of need all my organs. These are real. Like I was in my daughter, Ellis, who's out there. I had to take her to the emergency room last Friday. She had an allergic reaction to peanuts. Ouch.

And that was terrible. But she was fine and she was resting comfortably. And once we got to that point, I realized I'm there. There's no Wi-Fi in there. I've got nothing to read. My phone is dead. Oh, no. And I was thinking, like, what would I give up at this moment just to have a book or to have, like, you know, my phone?

And I was thinking, like, just a little tip of your finger. I would give up a tip of my finger just for that two hours. But you would be so much pain, right? Well, he's in the ER already. I guess. All right, how about this? What about Colleen your pinky toe? No.

Like, why do I have to give up my pinky toe when there's so many other fans? I don't want to give up my pinky toe. I feel the same way. Yeah? I can deal with it. I'm not going to risk my life for the Jets who have... You can get an infection. Brought me nothing but pain and misery.

Like now I'm going to actually sacrifice... And suffer more. And suffer now physically. You've already sacrificed plenty of money, time, and energy and love and all that. Now I've got to give up an organ. How hard is it to get your appendix taken out, though? Yeah, people do that. Oh, that's what it is, right?

Not a ball bladder. I think you need that. Yeah. Get your scalples away from me, Jets. I may just draft the quarterback. quarterback. It's been 40 years since no name it's retired. This is definitely the show to bring Ellis too. Oh, sorry.

It's fine. She's got her headphones on back there. Hi, Alice. All right. She's so cute. You got me angry. We'll be back on Thursday with our second show of the week. And hopefully, hopefully Chris Wessling will be with us. And if so, we will.

we'll have a great time talking about football and life. So thank you to everyone. And Sully, nice job behind the glass. Appreciate it, guys. A couple minor hiccups, but it's not expected for you to hit the ground sprinting. I need a couple shows to get everything. Reps. You'll get it.

It's a basic reps situation. The real test will be if you edit out that F-bomb, Dan just said. Yeah, there's a few of them. There's a few of them. It'll be fun. It's a little different when, you know, Jeremiah, who's a very, you know, listen. Jeremiah is the son of a very successful preacher. Probably not a lot of F-bombs on the Move the Sticks podcast.

None. Zero. All right. I'm not saying it makes us better or worse. It's just a reality of the game. Till Thursday. Stan Hans is signing off for Mark Sessler, the Sizzler, an absentia. Connie Fox, the old boss.

There he is, Sully, behind the glass. Tell Thursday. This is an I-heart podcast.