NFL Daily with Gregg Rosenthal - The Feeling Themselves Power Rankings; Gronk Trade Talk and Woozy Bangers

Episode Date: April 2, 2018

A room filled with heroes- Dan Hanzus, Gregg Rosenthal, Steve Wyche & Colleen Wolfe get you up to speed with the latest news around the NFL including Gronkowski’s potential on returning to the league and playing for the Patriots (06:03), Josh Rosen’s former Coach Jim Mora on Sam Darnold fitting better with the Browns (13:41), the Raiders getting rid of Marquette King (21:30), and much more. The show concludes with The Feeling Themselves Power Rankings (32:11) where names like Sean Payton, John Gruden and Peyton Manning are thrown into the ring.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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A lot of them to my left. Colleen Wolfe, good to have her back to my right. Greg Rosenthal. What's up, people? Hey, now. And one other person in the room. Oh, yeah. He's the moral conscience of the news team, I call.

But also, if you want to have a glass of wine? I'll have a glass of wine with you. It's a big day. He is. NFL Network's own. proud Georgia native Minneapolis Minnesota

Via Georgia now in L.A. Oh yeah you heard his voice. Steve Weish baby welcome to the Around the NFL podcast. This is like this music is like you know It's perfect

It's like so Miami Vice that Crockett Tubbs are like in a real down moment they just blew a bust sitting dockside like smoking butts Right, like you almost had him. I'm sad you don't have sunglasses on right now. That could be arranged. Yeah.

You can make it happen. You know, or the T-shirt underneath the sport coat with the Super Bowl. Actually, you kind of have a bit of a Tubbs vibe. Like, I could see you in a reboot. We're not, you know. I'm not going with the Soul Brother Africa. No, no. Moral conscience, though.

That's interesting. That's how you see Steve's role at the company. I see Steve as the guy when we can kill it now, Erica. But we enjoy this. She's just smirking back. I see Steve as the guy when we have something serious breaks. And Steve covers all the football news great as well, of course. But when something heavy is going on and NFL Network needs somebody to give a steady hand,

of course, Rich Eyes and he's the face and all that. But in the closer in the newsroom and everything, Steve Weish, guiding hand for us. That's what happens. You're in the back nine of life, Dan. When you know, when you get, when you surpass 50 years old and you're an empty nester, you kind of get that, you kind of get that fiber growing inside of you. You need an adult to speak up on something.

You get Steve. Steve, it's not a bad thing to do. It's a very calming voice, too. Do not let the smooth tasteful. As Billy D once said. So this is good. We've done like 600 episodes of the show. So whenever we could have a new foursome, it's a different show.

It's a fun show. So we got Connie Fox. It was overdue to have Steve. Yeah. And Connie, you, we haven't seen you in a while. We were in Orlando last week. I know. I heard.

Where were you? What was going on? I was not there. I was having a lot of. FOMO while you guys were gone. But you know what? I had to do other things. I had to assimilate back into life, like society.

I'm watching shows again. I just started watching Grace and Frankie. I watched like five hours of Snap yesterday. So I've been really busy. Yeah? Yeah. Five hours of Snap. That is really not the binge whacking.

I feel like Snap is a show when the woman goes nuts and kills her husband, right? Well, I mean, that is in some episodes, but not all of them. I thought that's what the girlfriend. Or the boyfriend. Is Gonzo okay with this? He was at work. He laughed and I turned on snapped. Comes home and you're just like staring straight ahead in a dark and living room.

Hey, hon, how are you? Better. What did I do wrong? Yeah. So, all right, it's good to see you again, Connie. Connie, a weekly presence in the off season as you were during the regular season. Yeah, just always a weekly presence. You're a hero.

Greg, how are you? I'm great. I'm just excited to have this crew here. You know, we miss Marky somewhere over the. Pacific right now or the Atlantic. However, you get to Germany. I don't know. He's on a plane that's going over a body of water.

He's on the USO tour. Did you ever do one of those USO tours, Steve? I have not. So that's great. He's got a chance to do that. He's doing that right now. The only thing I asked Mark, because he's had some issues with Rex Ryan over the year, Rex is on the tour as well, clean slate and, you know, get to no Rex.

And we'll see what happens. How did Sessler get this gig? You know, Mark, he wanders around. Sometimes all of a sudden Mark's not around. Where'd Mark go? He's on the third floor, schmoozing, getting set up for different trips. Mark likes to be out of the nest himself. And what better way than under the guise of work be crisscrossing across the world?

I hope he's Instagramming. That's all I care about. Oh, I think he will. He texted me this weekend and asked, he sent me a picture of 15 different photo apps and said, am I missing any for my trip? Yes. And I said, yeah, try this one. There's that also.

We call him the quiet storm, Steve, for a lot of reasons, but also quiet ambition on Mark. He wants to get that message out there. And best of luck to him. I love the tech savviness. Sessler's all-rounded guys. Coming up on today's show, some news about Rob Gruncowski. We will also talk about this controversy with Josh Rosen and Colleen. I know you're doing work on path to the draft this year and his former college coach.

And we'll get into that also. Oh, yeah. This is a good one. Power rankings, but it's the feeling themselves power rankings. I love this. Yeah. I love this. And we'll get into what exactly that means, but the feeling themselves power rankings coming up today.

Title is evocative. I feel like it tells it. It says it all. I would say my only promises, because I know you're going to listen, is just don't skip ahead 20 minutes or so to get to it. We've got some good news coming up. We've got some trusted news minds. Connie Fox, you are on fire right now. course you know you are breaking news in the studio am i with mr mora you're doing oh okay yeah

i am we got a good team here greg this might just have to become the permanent team yeah well some hard conversations hey susley heard a guy wally bwally pipp and it's happened before let's do some news another back gronkowski now making progress coming to join dark acclaim and purser but it's nia letty she's tough out in front gronkowski near side hard at work purser over on the far side and then Dark acclaim, Nyoletti, hanging tough, iconic sunset, staying on Grancowski, and rallying Dark Erklaim, Grankowski, under the near side running rail from Percer and iconic sunset. It's Grunkowski. It's the longest.

It's going to go. The longest thing is staying on with dark acclaim, but it's Gornkowski doing enough. Could he be Kentucky Derby bound? Ronkowski won the Burden Stakes. There you go. I requested the whole thing, by the way, Greg. A horse named Rob Grunkowski, the full name. He will race in the country.

Kentucky Derby this weekend, or on May 5th, excuse me, next month after winning the Buradon Stakes in England on Friday. So that was kind of cool. I'm kind of sad that he didn't shorten it to Gronk. So maybe by the time he gets to, what's the first one? What did you say, Preakness? What's the first one? We open up in Kentucky Derby?

Oh, the Derby. Right, right. Preakness is the only one I've actually been to. So hopefully by the time the Derby comes around, maybe they'll start calling him Gronk. I can't wait until the pregame bit where they have like Gronk the horse takes. the same test as Gronk the person and like see who answers more questions correctly. So by the way, the horse itself, Rob Gronkowski, one, I guess it's a race analyst in that industry.

He's a lovely horse, very quiet, a complete gentleman. You call horses a gentleman? That guy does. What about that, dude. Well, Gronk will be at the derby, I'm sure, as well, watching his namesake. And we'll talk about Gronk now. We'll start there because, of course, it's the rumors and reports were percolating right after Super Bowl 50, to that a gronk may be ready to retire.

However, ESPN, Jeff Darlington reported this weekend that sources close to him say he has recently expressed that he is more likely to continue his football career than retire at 28 years old. However, that doesn't mean necessarily, Steve, if you continue to read into what's going on around the Patriots and Rob Mkowski, that he's going to be a member of the Pats. Are you buying this at all that he could actually be moved in a trade? Well, he could be moved amidst the Patriots. They could care less, but this would be devastating if they decided to do that.

First off, the ransom would be significant. And no one's – I don't think anyone – maybe – save for maybe the bottom six picks would trade the first round for Rob Grinkowski and older guys who had some injuries. If you're the Atlanta Falcons, you've got to sniff around that, maybe giving up your late first-round draft pick because that's a position where if they had, it'd be a wrap. But other than that, I just don't see it. I have, you know, we can say whatever we want about the Patriots and Gronk not like in Belichick. I don't think it's too many guys like Belichick, but they're winning championships, and there's something to say for that.

So if Gronk's not happy about it, he's still coming back to play. And I think he's going to be with the Patriots. I love that this is like a psychological game, too. So the longer that Gronk doesn't make completely. I feel like a psychological war between Gronk and Belichick is not an even matchup. It's not. It's not. But the more likely I feel like a trade is, the longer he kind of draws this out.

He's such a big personality, and obviously that's not something that is encouraged with the Patriots. So it's got to be something that's sort of weighed on him for a while, too. Well, it's interesting. It's April now, and this is still a thing because he wants it to be a thing. That report was from our old colleague Jeff Darlington, who said he was pretty certain Gronk would return. But that's not even 100%. So as different reporters have tried to kind of report throughout the offseason, like, he'll probably be back. Like, Gronk is the one, or through his sources, it seems, is like making it clear

and trying to make the Patriots feel a little uncomfortable that he's not for sure. Yeah, that's a dangerous game to play because they control your fate. And if they do trade you, they could really trade you to a place that's really life-altering in terms of absolutely miserable. I mean, these things do happen. Yeah. But I'm not going to say. They're talking about Jamie Collins?

Yeah, exactly. You know, there's some things that could happen that way. But it's, it's, I mean, it's the Patriots. But my whole thing is, we always say it's the Patriots, but doesn't, doesn't it seem like the bricks? I mean, they're not just being pulled out one at the time now. It seems like they're starting to fall. Well, if Gronquist traded, yeah, but I don't think,

I think the rest of the movement that's happened this offseason has been very typical. They've had many worse off seasons, I would say, in the Belichick, Brady, where they lost a lot of people and then, and they were fine. The problem is that they're, they're just getting old. direct quarter that it's Tom Brady that's the problem but Rob Gunkowski people are taking this stuff seriously at the owners meeting people were talking about there was some thought like maybe would Detroit be interested certainly could use the tight end got a couple former Patriots coaches there and GM but I think he's untradable because he doesn't know if he wants to play football anymore so are you

going to trade for a guy who's kind of has an injury history is talking about retirement and oh by the way if you trade for him, you have to make him the highest paid tight end in the league, I would think. How much is it, though, that he may not be sure if he wants to play football anymore, or if he's just done playing football for Bill Belichick in that building where it seems like he's bristling against how, you know, the Patriot way and how crushing that is? He sent out an Instagram when Amidola, Danny Amidola signed with the Dolphins and people read into this, that the caption read, be free, be happy. Oh, God. This idea, and we heard whispers in Orlando that big names feel the crush of being under Belichick year after year because it's a different type of scene. Maybe Gras just wants a new start.

And I would totally agree with that. Think back to when, which one of his teammates jumped on his back in a touchdown celebration? Oh, right. And he was like, I want to talk about this. Right, right. But I can't. You know, again, championships soothe. Champions have soothed a lot of, you know, but hurt feeling, so to speak.

But maybe it's just kind of coming to a point. And maybe this Malcolm Butler thing trickled down. Maybe teammates, you know, we don't know what happened there, but teammates could say, what he did really wasn't that bad. And they could pull that stuff on me just to prove a point. Maybe that's part of it we don't. It had been reported, you know, from Tom Caron, that Gronk was pretty unhappy with things last training camp,

that he was almost thinking of walking away from the team then because they wouldn't let him train in a certain way. But here's the thing. the Patriots aren't going to trade him unless they got value for him because he's the second best player on the team. And I don't think another team is going to give up enough. Like if some team wanted to pay Grunk all that money and give a good draft pick, I think they would do it.

But I don't think that's going to happen. Not concerned at all. Never. Never really is. Play first rounder and Tevin Coleman from the Falcons. I would do that. I mean, they would do that, I think, maybe. Let's move on and talk about Josh Rosen,

who is expected to go very early in the first round. of the draft now this month oh my goodness it's coming and uh his former coach at ucla jim mora surprised people went on nfl net sorry go ahead what are you muting dan right wow we're in the wrong we're wearing the wrong heads i think that was a power move wow that is okay is it okay if i can yeah go ahead this is from the patriots discussion i think just i know he's upset visual from it Jim Morris surprised people by saying, quote, fit, explained why he preferred Sam Darnold, or why he believed that Sam Darnold would fit in better with the Browns than his own ex-player, and that got some traction.

Then he comes on, or then he speaks with Peter King at Monday morning quarterback and gets into the millennial angle, has this to say he needs to be challenged intellectually so he doesn't get bored. He's a millennial. He wants to know why. Millennials, once they know why, they're good. Josh has a lot of interest in life. If you can hold this concentration level and focus only on football for a few years, he will set the world on fire.

Rosen for his part, and, you know, you could connect the dots here. Tweet it out right before we went on today. Why? Question mark, a shrug emoji. Hashtag why? Colleen, we'll start with you on this one. You are on set with Mr. Mora. He's a colleague.

You spoke to him about this situation. What was your vibe on Mora where he's coming from? Because he's kind of getting killed right now. Right. So, okay, Jim, we've talked about this a lot. And Jim Morris said, you know, he's known Josh Rosen since Josh was about 14 years old. He's like watched him grow up. He knows him really, really well.

And what he was basically saying is in order for him to succeed, the best situation for him to succeed is to be surrounded by a coaching staff that is going to challenge him. and a coaching staff that he is going to respect and respect in terms of their football knowledge. So if he doesn't have that, then it's not going to be a good situation for him because he's going to maybe check out. And I'm not saying that he, the gym said that he's going to check out, but that's sort of what I gathered from it, that he needs to be surrounded by the perfect situation. And you know what that kind of tells me, first off, at UCLA, maybe he had some coaches that he didn't respect that he checked out on.

I know Jim well. I covered him when I covered the Atlanta Falcons. I covered Jim's whole tenure there, which was started out like gangbusters, went to the NFC championship game, lose to your Philadelphia Eagles, and then it kind of, you know, devolved. There's a lot going on there with Michael Rick and Jimora. Well, I mean, well, Mike and Jim had a great conversation,

but a lot of things going on separately between them. And unfortunately for Jim, what he talks about things a lot, trying to explain himself, another trap door opens. And by him saying he's known him since he was 14, Okay, well, if you're John Dorsey or if you're Mike McCaghan, like, oh, well, he really knows him well. So if he's telling me this guy's going to check out, if he doesn't like what's going on right here, that's not great. Now, most GMs are not necessarily going to handle this. And some are actually going to appreciate this because so many times these coaches will sit there,

oh, this guy is the greatest kid in the world and this and that. He's going to work hard. Then he gets to a club, and he's a turd, and he's lazy. Okay, so Jim is kind of letting everybody. Okay, if you draft this guy, this is what you're going to get. I don't think Cleveland is going to take him at one, but Todd Haley's going to keep him engaged, whether it's positive if you or negatively. Okay.

Is that going to happen anywhere else? We'll see. I mean, there's some offensive coordinator head coaches that aren't great, but he will be challenged. He will, I mean. You should worry about your head coaching staff if they're not challenging and intellectually stimulating the franchise quarterback. And I'm not saying every coaching staff maybe is prepared for that.

They're not all great. But that's what you want. I mean, you want a quarterback that comes in there. I thought the Destination Dallas segment that Josh Rosen and Aaron Rogers did together was really good stuff. And maybe those are two similar types of players. That's what you want is someone that can question that wants to know everything. Those are some of the best quarterbacks of all time. And I think when you see this, I think that was a smart point to say,

did he have some issues with the offensive coaches at some point, Steve at UCLA? I mean, there was not a successful run in the end under Josh Rosen and Jim Moore in UCLA in UCLA. I think that should at least be pointed out. Jim Moore is no longer the UCLA head coach because it didn't go very well, that he didn't have enough success considering he had such a great quarterback. And Jim Mora really likes Rosen. I mean, this is not to say that he doesn't think he's a good quarterback. He was just saying that that's the scenario where he would really flourish in.

He did say he's without a doubt the number one quarterback in the draft in his franchise changer in the same MFTV article. Connie, put him on the spot with that. Ooh. So just to wrap this up, Coach, where do you rank him among your quarterbacks of this draft? Well, he was my quarterback. So he was number one or almost my quarterbacks. How about that for answer, huh? I snuck out of that one.

Backdoor. He pulled a fast one on me. That was good. Pulled a fast one. Why? Why did you think? Oh, you thought he would give you a different answer? Well, no.

I mean, yeah. Why did you say, Dan? Because. You don't like listening to your sound of my voice. I have to hear it all the time. I did put that in on purpose. By the way, Greg, a member of the tribe, Josh Rosen. Yeah.

Where you stand on him potentially being the greatest Jewish NFL player of all time. Who's he at the beat? Sid Luckman, I think, you know, Hall of Famer. I think one of the original. One of the originals. No, I can't. None of us are going to say like, oh, wow, Sid was great back in the day. I mean, who knows what that guy looked like.

One of my favorite things from the Combine when I talked to Josh Rosen, how everybody knows how he had a hot tub in his dorm room. Did you see that? So when I was talking to him about it, he said that at first he ordered it and he gets a call one day from his mom. And his mom was like, did you order a hot tub?

So I guess he ordered it from like Amazon and sent it to his house instead of his dorm. And so then she drove it over to him. Wow. I love it. I mean, wow. That's awesome.

They've been the hot tub story. I was like my hero. It's Carpe D. I mean, it's like he knows who he is. He's at UCLA. Let's live it up. I mean, more I think got in trouble with the MMQB stuff just because of the millennial stuff. Yeah.

It's like pipe down with the millennial, like that you've somehow got a great read on this generation of people just because he asked a lot of questions. No, I think I think being curious, I think that that translates across generations. Different people have different personalities. You've raised slash raising a millennial yourself, Steve. Three. Multiple. Three. So do you know what he's saying when he's explaining it?

They want to know why? And what is that even all that? I don't even know what that means. I wish my kids would want to know why. Yeah. I think it means that they're going to cut the cord and just go to Netflix all the time. No, it's interesting with quarterbacks because I've covered a lot of them. And I've had several players and GMs say like this.

Some guys function well being told what to do. Other guys function well by asking why or figuring it out themselves. And so Josh Rosen is one of these guys. okay why are we doing this when I see this coverage or see this personnel explain to me why we're doing this instead of that a lot of coaches do not have the patience especially with young people just like we as parents may not have the patients with young people why are you questioning me I'm your parent or I'm your coach you're you're my child or you are my player just do what we tell you to do

whereas some coaches like I'm glad you're asking me why I've got the whole the world is your oyster let me explain it to you just that transparency it's you know There's all kind of, I mean, Matt Ryan, when he came to the Falcons, this dude figured out on his own really quickly how to handle locker room as a rookie quarterback, how to deal with great receivers like the Roddy White's of the world. He figured that out on his own. It made it easier for the coaching staff, whereas his predecessor was Joey Harrington. It was during the dogfighting scandal, so that was not who Bobby Pacino came to Atlanta to coach. And Bobby was, why are we doing this? Why are we doing that?

Patrino was like, dude, we've got 45 seconds. on the play clock get the call in and run the play i'm tired of you asking me why uh so i mean it's up to the coaches it's up to the players you have different people but rose may want to know why but if he can figure it out i mean a beautiful mind is a terrible thing to waste that's fair moving on the oakland raiders have decided to part ways with punter marquette king as came through on the transaction wire on friday surprising a lot of people uh gregg king who's always statistically performed well, but also was known for some flamboyance. He's a guy that's not afraid to celebrate after putting one inside the 10.

And the reports out there were that John Gruden was sending a message that from Bill Williamson covers the NFL was sending a quote message that that type of behavior is not tolerated on my football team. Your thoughts? That's preposterous. I mean. The report or the possibility that it's true? It's probably true, because there's no other reason to cut market king.

I saw a lot of people like, well, they can save money against the cap. That's important. It's like the average punter makes $2 million. He makes three, and he's the best, one of the best punters in the league. God forbid anybody have a personality. And they have 17 million done in cap space. And there are some reports, they're a little castrapped, but it's not like you're suddenly saving a ton of money by cutting your punter.

So it doesn't, it doesn't really, it doesn't pass the smell test at all. Because there's a lot of, there's other personality. on that team. Marshawn Lynch is on that team. Yeah, there are not many, many more. They're going away. I mean, that's, as someone who's talked to Gruden a lot and it kind of knows that locker room pretty well, I'm in Oakland an awful lot.

This is John Gruden putting a stamp on here. This is like, we're not going to have a flamboyer punter. We are going to be nuts. But does that possibly affect the whole team that you have a flamebole? I will say this, that locker room got a little loose last year in terms of, you know, Michael Crabtree was unsettling.

Marquette King. I mean, you've got a punter who's actually making headlines. There's a lot of coaches who do not have that, whether it's 1998 or 2018, they're not a punter. You just punt the ball, okay? This is the $10 million head coach. This is the dude who's got a 10-year, $10 million contract. He is coming in. He is changing whatever.

The only stars on that team are going to be Derek R, Amari Cooper, and Cleal Mack. That's clearly the message John Gruden is anymore. You know, Marshawn, you're going to run the ball, but you're a quiet guy as it is. You know, your only headlines are just you doing maybe some crazy things on the field. John Gruden is coming and is, oh, Marquette King, you want to Photoshop yourself into my press conference picture. Ha ha, ha, you're cut. Totally can see it. Oh, my God.

I can see Gruden watch. The principal's office. In the Monday night football booth watching a Raiders game and seeing the celebration, be like, oh, that guy, I don't want him. Like, you could tell Gruden would be that type of guy. I covered Jimmy Johnson. We took over for Don Chuel. And Don Chul was the toughest coaches ever when I worked in Miami. And Jimmy Johnson came in, and anybody.

I remember tied in Eric Green. who was a heck of a player who they just signed like a year or two earlier in free agency and he's come to Jimmy and interrupt their press conferences Jimmy's like ha ha ha ha you're cut oh my god Keith Byers one of the most outstanding gentleman I've ever met hey Keith you know our tight ends are all hurt in training camp can you come here and play tight end for a week or so sure coach oh our tight ends are healthy Keith you're cut yeah okay it's a new day and so all that's why I get worse like that that sounds great but there'll be some weeks

six game where they'll now have a league average or worse than league average punter and you can look at the punting and it might cost them a game and you can say like why get worse oh no no no tell me in your lifetime have you ever said you know what they lost that game because they're punting sucked never no because I'm too stupid never never he thinks they got better he thinks the locker room is going to be better he thinks that the team is going to be tighter and more disciplined I think don't you feel like there's some games where you think the punter Help them win that game that they're going to Giants Eagles. Are you going like way back?

I feel like, though, this is a situation where he's putting his own ego in front of the team. And that could be a complete demise to his own demise. It's a John Gruden show. Like, I'm the star of this team and I'm making moves to show that everyone gets in line behind me. Sounds to me like this could be a tease for who's feeling them. Oh. Stay tuned, everybody. Don't you dare fast forward.

I swear to God. That's how you treat your audience. It's good. Moving on, some free agency moves. Gino Smith, your boy, Greg Rosenthal, got a job, signs a one-year deal with your team, the Chargers. You have to be feeling hot in the pants about this one. Wow, I wouldn't go that far. Dan's feeling of something right now.

You're about to say. Yeah. I will be feeling myself if we're... What? I don't know. Don't ever do that. You know, fast forward to January. Philip Rivers suffers.

an injury. Unfortunately, they're in like the divisional round of the playoffs. Gino comes on the field and he has his moment. You know what I'm saying? Like what a perfect system. I don't know what you're saying. It's the perfect system for Gino Smith. He's been a Gino truther for four years now. He held on to a four game stretch with the Jets in December about three or four years ago.

Now he's talking about the one giant start where he lost two fumbles on a loss, that that was a very promising game. He looked pretty good. To Jack Del Rios Rators. Yeah, look pretty good for the Raiders. Yeah, look pretty good against Raiders. Nice spot for him. You know, you guys make fun of Gino, still getting jobs.

You know what we do? He also tweeted out today, you know, I'm looking forward to this. I have a huge chip. I'm like, shut up. It's just got to work. And hopefully you get your opportunity. Oh, you're so angry about Gino's. You know, it's Anthony Lynn's guy.

Anthony told me last week he's like, yeah, we're probably at the league meetings. Like, you know, Gino's a guy will probably bring in and see because I was asking about Lamarck. You're a good backup. Yeah, I mean, Cardell Jones, a guy, they're still a little curious about. They just don't know what he is yet. So they're ringing in Gino, just in case. He knows the system. That four-game stretch you mentioned with the Jets.

That's really the last time he's played. Which is the problem itself, isn't it? I wouldn't be surprised if they still draft a quarterback, too. I mean, with Philip Rivers, 37. I agree. They've got to start developing one. Here's another move. They are going to bring pressure again.

Rogers is going to roll away, throws it up in the air, says a prayer. And Janice. Oh, stop. Oh, please. I love this stop. That's insane. Oh, my, that may be one of the great throws ever made. It really was.

That was Chris Collinsworth, and, of course, the great Al Michaels. Jeff Janice's moment in the sun in the 2015 NFC Divisional Round with the Hail Mary Reception. But in four years with Green Bay, you never could really get it going. And now he was on the street. And now he's a member of the Cleveland Browns. Steve, over under Jeff Janice receptions this year, 26. He was Icarus moment in the sun. Got a little too close.

Look, he's got to make the team. You're going to see this whole regime in Cleveland start poaching a lot of the Browns bottom end of the roster guys because they know them. You know, it's not just John Doris, it's Alonso, Highsmith. It's Elliot Wolfe. Packers, right? Yeah, the Packers, former Packers, who are now with the Browns.

So Janice, we'll see. He's got to make a team. Over under 26 and a half receptions. Not for Cleveland. That's way under. That's all you got to say. I don't need any condensate. I just said over under.

Great special teams. Oh, come on. I mean, look, he's going to be a returner for them. Thomas Rawls, who had a moment in the sun with the Seattle Seahawks before that broken leg really seemed to mess up his career. He signs with the New York Jets, the team announced on Friday. And speaking of that, I should tell you, Greg, you remember I had my dream, my vision, that I saw Kirk Cousins and he had signed with the Jets. And I went up to him and I wished in the best of luck. I had another dream slash premonition.

Well, you're 0 for 1. So this happened last night, waking up Easter morning. I was in it. It was a big house party. And it was the night before the Super Bowl, and the Jets were in the Super Bowl. I'm not saying when. I don't know what year this was. But everybody was fun.

There was a big pool. There was multiple floors to the house. And everyone was like congratulating me. He's like, oh, you must be so excited. Finally. Finally, the Jets are in the Super Bowl. And I was like, yeah. And then I went together.

I got something in my bedroom, so I guess I lived in the house, which is a nice job. We got a pool. And I took a moment and processed it, and I started to cry. So I was so excited that the Jets have made the Super Bowl. This is so sad. And then I woke up, and you can cut the music, and I realized that it was April 1st. You play yourself. No.

I gave myself an April Fool's joke. Oh, my God. What kind of life is this as a fan? You're a prisoner. I thought this was going to end with some sort of like Thomas Rawls. has risen thing. Maybe that he was back. I like the signing.

Josh Rosen was a quarterback getting stimulated by the coach. I do like the April Fool slash Easter slash Passover all on the same day. I feel like can't we can't we work it out to just make that a permanent thing? Yeah, why not? Let's do that every year. Kendall Wright is staying in the NFC North. The former Titans and Bears Whiteout signed with the Vikings on Friday last season in Chicago. He led the team with 59 catches for 614 yards and a touchdown.

But he didn't stick around there. You like this move, Connie? I like it. He's good in the slot. And then you have another option with Stefan Diggs and Adam Thiel in there. I mean, it could be good for them. Kyle Rudolph, too. But Kirk Cousins, I mean, that's the man with the big hand.

He did not lead the Jets to the Super Bowl. No, no. That was, it was after, it was prior to Free Agency. And I had the dream that he signed with the Jets and I congratulated him. And he's like, thanks a lot, man. But now maybe what that really was, it wasn't that he was signing the Jets. I was just wishing him luck. and maybe that premonition,

I knew he wasn't going to come to us. And the dream of the Super Bowl is all part of a bigger set of visions that I'm having. And that's why you were crying? Josh Rose, but here's the thing. Was it like a week, were you weeping? There's a lot of, especially in this room

between you and Mark, there's a lot of just, I just want to make the Super Bowl. But I think as a fan, you'll realize if they lose that Super Bowl, that it was horribly disappointing. That was worse than even not making us. They give the Red So, Once you got there and you got past the Yankees,

if you would have blown it against the Cardinals, it would have been even more painful. Sure. Yeah, I'm with you 100%. But let's just get to us. Yeah, someone who grew up in Minnesota, those four Ls in the Super Bowl still staying. Yeah.

All right, that's what's happening in the news. Okay, here we go. Thank you for not fast-forwarding. And if you did, just hit stop and delete this podcast. Because I don't want you listening. We don't want you listening, right, Greg. Don't even help out our sponsors. No, don't dare.

Don't do anything. This is our feeling themselves power rankings in which we will each nominate, this is how it's going to work, two individuals, two football humans. It could be a coach. It could be a player. It could be a GM. It could be an owner. It could be whatever you want. Could be a whole team?

Sure. Whatever you want. And you nominate them because they're really feeling themselves right now. And then once we go around the room twice, we'll put a top five power ranking. And based off that power rank. nothing else will happen. I was going to say there would be one more step, like that person, that team or person would be alerted

and we get a trophy. Who's the judge? Do we eliminate? It's going to be kind of like a group thing. It's going to be Dan. Yeah. But no, I will, I will. You clearly haven't listened to how this show works.

No, this will be a group conversation. Yeah. Right. Totally. So I might throw out more than two. This was Greg. You came up with this idea. No, West did.

We totally. Oh, West really had the kernel of it. I said, oh, we should do that, you know, we should do that as an article. or a pod. Yeah, but that's how history works. Someone has the colonel, and then some guy picks up the baton,

he gets all the credit. I'm trying to give it to Wes. So Greg came up with the idea. We didn't have anything while you're gone, so now we're using your idea. Wes is listening. God damn it, I don't never trusted him. All right.

Get us going, Greg. First nomination for the feeling themselves power rankings. Well, this comes, and maybe this was part of the germ of the idea, was being down in Orlando, and it's that time of year. It's the time of year to feel yourself. Oh, absolutely.

feel themselves and one guy that really I didn't I wasn't aware just going so many different did not realize one of the one of the guys who it just felt like he had a different aura about him this year as opposed to one year ago at this time and that's Sean Peyton of the

I like it saints and they had sort of been the New Orleans Saints had been in NFL purgatory there for a while a lot of drama sort of at the end of every season whether Sean Payton was going to leave, whether Drew Breeze, you know, is past his prime, just drama all the time. And then suddenly they get the best rookie draft class in NFL history. It's amazing, yeah.

You get Drew Breeze playing, I mean, there's never been two rookies of the year on the same. Yeah, the same team. I think the Pittsburgh Steelers have had a couple of Hall of Fame. In terms of rookie production in your first year, it's tough to beat them. And then two or three other starters who are playing really well. And he just has a different glow. about him right now. He is walking around Orlando.

The jokes are funnier. He's staying out maybe a little bit later. He's just, he's feeling himself. He's putting up with Cessler when he, Cessler rolls over to their, like, corner of the bar. Maybe he wouldn't have done that a couple years ago. I love that story, by the way.

He seems happier. I mean, who wouldn't be? He got Drew Brees back, you know, on this contract this year. And I think they're just kind of feeling like they're back. They've got such a nice nucleus here, and they're ready to go. He was feeling himself, though, during the season. season too when he's like taunting the fans during the games and in the locker room with the broom well he has a he has a naturally high level of feeling himself so i feel like so when you've got a little team success behind it then he's going to be walking around kind of with with his chest puffed out to your point last year and we got maybe a little blowback internally over this when we did our hot butt segment like who could have a hot butt entering the season steve do you know about this yes okay um i will you stop hitting my cough Well, someone took the, you know, we're wearing the wrong headset.

Blame it on someone else, okay. I had thrown out Peyton potentially just because I think they're coming off three straight, seven, and nines, and, you know, maybe he would have a wandering eye if things started to get a little uncomfortable. And now it just seems like everything's back to the good old days post-super ball. All they need to do is get back to the big game. Yeah. Especially with that defense, too, now.

It's a defense. I mean, look, to that on a serious note, the one month, the most, the most, underappreciated guy in that organization is Jeff Ireland. Because he went down there and all of a sudden they started knocking out draft picks left and right. So he's done a good job. But I think organization they're feeling themselves. And they even sort of lost on a fluke play.

Cameron Jordan was in here last week. And I asked him, was he annoyed, you know, kind of watching that Vikings game? Because they're watching that thinking, they're watching that, watching the NFC championship thinking, man, we could have, we could have done a lot more in Philadelphia than the Minnesota Vikings. All right. Let's not get it. You're going to win on that play.

And then I'm not saying they're going to win or something, but they're not going to lose 38 to 7 with Drew Brees. Give me a break. All right, Steve, make your first down. I'm taking, I'm taking this to a whole different level. Okay. I know you were trying to say, like, individually, but I think the Los Angeles Rams as an organization

are completely feeling themselves, okay? That's great. They get a keep to leave. Great move in a trade, okay? They actually get a key back out of a trade that was signed to yield and delivered with the 49ers to say, You reported on that. I feel like that's kind of been under the radar.

They got him to back out of a 49. Back out. They get Marcus Peters. Now they're like, huh, that great locker room culture we did last year. Let's throw Adomacomacan Sue in here. And you know what? This Odell Beckham thing that everyone thinks is like just, oh, that's just talk. No.

Really? Yeah, really. No, no. Speaking to people at the league meet, it's all the Giants. This is 100% of the Giants court. If they want to trade him, Los Angeles will do. do what it takes to get him. They want him on their team.

They will give up the first rounders. A 23rd pick. Fine. Odell is a young player. He's dynamic. Oh, and we're in L.A. It's perfect. And we're going into a new stadium.

And we've got this offensive play caller. And we just lost Sammy Watkins. So if you traded Odell for a first rounder, you would have to throw another player in there too. So who would you throw in there too if you were in the rails? I mean, I'm not giving up Todd Gurley, but who do you want? Do the Giants want Robert Woods? You think the Rams have to throw in another player?

I think so. I mean, you may have to throw in more picks. No, no, I think the Rams would give up a second round in next year. Yeah. You know,

and I think that maybe that's all the Giants want. Dave Gutteman is a guy. Remember, he's the one running the show. And he got rid of Josh Norman. I mean, peace out, Josh. I mean, so it's interesting.

John Merey, I make the call. But I think the L.A. Rams I'm totally. I'm telling themselves with a lot with you. I had them in mind. And McVeigh, obviously, a young guy carries himself with a ton of confidence.

and Celeste Sneed was on our show in Orlando last week. And I said similar thing to him. Like, it takes some onions. They hung onions this off season. They could have sat on a very good team and went into next season. Instead, they are feeling their personnel department. They're feeling their gut on this. And like, no, this we could upgrade here, here, here.

And maybe it works out. Maybe it doesn't. But you don't make all these moves and maybe then go get Odell if you're really. And they're also feeling the appeal of Los Angeles. You better believe that sell. And, you know, that's where your, that's where your chargers better start picking of the patient, understanding where they are because the Rams are pushing. That was to you, Greg.

Yes, it was Greg. I mean, I like the Rams. Rams are team of ATO. You know, you know, Les, I love that one. You know the Rams are feeling themselves when Les has a head of hair like that, and he didn't even know off the top of his head what his hair care product was when Dan pushed him on. I think he did because he was sheepish. He was worried about the price point on it, which was north of $40, I believe.

And Bacara, the Sneed, she just, she sent it to me. Really? Everyone knows, yes. What is it again? I'll have to go through my job. It would have violated the NFL sponsorship policy. That makes sense. Connie, nominate.

Okay. You actually brought his name up, Steve, Dave Gettleman. Dave Gettelman right now. He's feeling himself. He's kind of in this, like, wistful honeymoon phase right now with the Giants. He came into a pretty decent situation where it's not a total train wreck there. They're not completely starting over, but he does have the luxury of sort of slowly. erasing Jerry Reese's influence on the team there.

They just moved JPP, and that saves them a ton of money in 2019. And he's kind of making some moves here for the future. They gave Nate Solder a boatload of money. So finally sort of addressed the offensive line that's been an issue for so long. And obviously, as soon as he came in, you know, he said that there was going to be a complete overhaul and how they approach the draft philosophically, how they put together their draft board and I mean what he said at the owner's meetings in terms of Odell I mean that right there he's feeling himself I mean if Beckham especially if Beckham gets moved how could you be feeling

yourself more as a GM a transformational talent the face of might not last long but you go to MetLife Stadium he's the new face of the franchise Dave Gettleman I think Giants fans are not going to be happy about that but like you go to a Giants game uh in October and there are 60,000 Odell Beckham jerseys if you trade that guy you better be ready for the backlash well that That's because if you trade that guy, then you're also going to, you know, Eli, we're drafting your successor because this is a tear down. Yeah. Yeah. He was a guy.

Think about how he came up. Giants was his first big job in the NFL. He was there for 13 years. So he is kind of at the end of his career here, coming off of getting fired in Carolina and suddenly lands his absolute dream job. And he's someone, I don't think he's bothered by the New York media. I think he kind of likes it. He has fun with it. He's feeling himself.

Is this a situation, though? I mean, this is a weird. And to inherit a team, kind of in flux like this is not necessarily an ideal situation. I think it's going to be a tough. That's why I don't think they end up trading O'Dell. I don't know. You got a number two pick.

You got O'Dell, Shepard, Ingram. It's not bad. I will nominate. I will nominate John Dorsey. And I call him the Cowboy of Cleveland. You know what I liked about John Dorsey? And I'm not even sure he's having a great offseason or anything. But he just, he is.

he doesn't care about 0 and 16 or 1 in 32 or 4 and 45 though you just want to go back three years what's going on here at the combine when they would you trade the first pick his answer give me a call see what's up that's what you're feeling yourself like for a guy that's taking over the laughing sock of football which is what the browns have been unfortunately you don't usually hear a guy that he's got he's talking a big game he's not afraid to make a ton of moves the flurry of trades they've added 12 players and free agency. And I just think Dorsey is the right guy there for right now for that fan base because he's a guy that says, I'm not afraid to just go all in and try to completely fix things. I don't know if it works or not. We've seen it fail too many times in Cleveland. But I think they got a bit of a cowboy in that position.

And I think that's what they needed, though, in that position. They needed somebody to come in who just was going to completely overhaul everything. He's like, though, he landed in a great situation. The expectations couldn't be lower. They literally could not have been left. He's got all these picks. He's not responsible for any of that. He's like when Tom Brady and Giselle,

they spent like $10 million on their house out here in L.A. And then after they did that, they were like, actually, we don't want to live here. And they just sold it. So all that work, someone else just got to come in live there. Well, I mean, one thing about Dorsey, this is speaking to people around the NFL, they've got people in that building that who know what they're doing.

Again, it's Dorsey. It's Alonzo Heismith. that's Elliot Wolfe. They've got people who know how to build an organization through the draft, and Dorsey has shown trade-wise. You know, last year with Kansas City when he's a GM, traded up to get Patrick Mahomes. You know, they've got people who've got an eye for talent.

Look what they've done. They've got Jarvis Landry, you know, to go with Josh Gordon. They go out and get Tyrod Taylor. So they're going to put some pieces in place. I mean, they're not going winless this year. It's just going to be interesting to see if they do have a slow start, if Hugh Jackson has got the luxury of pay. that they've shown him thus far yeah and this is the most important draft he's not feeling himself as

much this there's a there's a there's a difference he's feeling himself i don't think he jackson's they got the first pick and the fourth pick and we'll see we'll see how much he feels himself if he gets a little cute with trading and we'll see one more time around i i've got a theory here and uh my next guy on this list is going to be bill belich i think he's feeling himself when you would think he's coming off one of the worst losses of his career here, probably taking as much criticism for a decision that he made in that game as he has for any decision in New England for a long time. Since fourth and short against the Colts, brother.

I don't think about just listening to him, watching him work out Bradley Chubb at NC State and going around and seeing him at the owner's meeting, I think he is in a different phase of his life where the loss, all that stuff bothers him. But I think getting that fourth and especially the fifth Super Bowl, I think he feels like he's playing with house money he knows exactly who he is which is if not the greatest coach of all time certainly the greatest coach of the last you know 30 40 years or 20 30 years and i don't think like that stuff at this stage in his life i think he wants to enjoy it i think he wants to enjoy being an NFL coach and be the bill belichick that he's kind of worked all these years

and that's why he's like i'm not changing who i am as a coach for tom brady if gronk wants to be a pain like i'll i'll trade him like i don't think the stuff bothers him in the same way or, like, drives at him. He seems about as comfortable and happy as someone who's watched Bill Belichick, you know, from afar, admittedly, but as I've ever seen him in his entire career. He just seems good. You know, when you're feeling yourself, when at the coaches' breakfast, when you decide to show up, you don't even sit at the table.

Yeah. Make their reporters come to you. You show up late. I'm not doing to big attention to myself. I'm just going to do the one thing that the other coaches aren't doing. Right. He's just like, you know, we were a Hail Mary pass away from still winning that game, no matter what you want to say about Malcolm Butler.

Yeah. So that's, you know, he's got every right to feel him. Do we have any players who are feeling themselves? Are you guys going to go there? Because I might pull an audible for, yeah, throw it out there. I got one. Go ahead. You've got one?

Yeah. You know, I was going to say John Gruden because he's definitely feeling himself. Absolutely. But since we have a lack of play, Levion Bell is feeling a lot of himself right now. I mean, always. All we heard, all we heard after the Super Bowl was, hey, they're close getting a long-term deal done. So I'd speaking to Kevin Colbert. at the league meetings he's like well you know we'll get to him so they've got a little jousting

back and forth and levy oh that says well how can you be a hero in your city when you're portrayed as the villain uh last i checked the heroes in pittsburgh our name bradshaw and joe green and you know rocky black all these guys have brought you know some trophies there you're big ben you know but lev you're a great player you want 17 million you know you get this franchise tag number he's he's got every right to feel himself right now but i said you know what we're not getting any players here we're going real establishments i just wanted to get a guy on the field okay that's a good one i'm going to i'm going to follow it up then with mine kirk cousins how can he not be feeling himself right now he spent the entire offseason being courted by fans players from different teams front

offices just you know see him what's out there seeing what he can get and then he signs this record breaking deal he changes the way that these contracts are done, who knows how much that continues in the future, but he did it. And then he doesn't even spend money as it is. He's this really frugal guy that just got so much money, and he goes to a better situation, too. And he's got new offensive coordinator, John DiFilippo there. Of course, they have Stefan Diggs and Adam Thielen, and you have a healthy Dalvin Cook coming up this year, plus that defense.

Right now, they haven't played any games. So he is golden and feeling himself. Now, if he cannot play up to that potential, going to be a big problem. There's a lot of pressure on him and the Vikings in general. But he wouldn't be feeling himself to take the two straight franchise tags. He always believed in himself and was feeling himself. I don't know. He doesn't, when I think Kirk Cousins, I don't think that there's a guy that's feeling himself.

You don't find him. Really? That's crazy. I do. You think he hasn't manipulated the, oh, you like that? thing oh he's feeling himself i just like how wolfie says yeah he's in a better situation oh wow leaving washington could that be a better situation uh yeah yes like yes what a toxic situation um you know what i think he has to be nominated okay so i will say john gruden got to do it wow

to me just to cover our bases here uh just that he has a vision here it's uncompromising marquette king knows it now uh our own mike garifola reported that Marquette King. Yeah, he just wanted to meet the new coaches. He wandered into the facility on Friday just to see if coaches were there. They weren't. And then the GM's like, hey, let's take a seat. And that's how I found out he got cut.

That's awful. I mean, because the coach didn't want him. That made me wonder, did that timing change because of that or something? They were like, hey, guys, like, Marquette's just like walking around looking for people. Okay, let's just cut them now. But when you got a 10-year, $100 million deal, and it's guaranteed money, right? you're a head coach you're a head coach you're getting it so you get a hundred you got not only get a hundred million you're a hundred percent confident that all your philosophies that worked and a lot of

people are making a lot of the 1998 stuff but you're confident all those philosophies remain sharp and will be successful and i don't care what anybody thinks about my moves that i'm bringing on too many old guys i'm doing that for a reason that i'm getting rid of my special teams aces i'm doing for a reason, I feel myself and I trust in myself and my ability to shepherd this franchise. And you can say this. There was nobody at the league meetings who was walking out with a puff

of your chest. Really? These guys. Oh, he's so ready to get on the field with this guy. Oh, and he loved it at the combine. Like, he had the biggest group around him. He's just like looking around. And you could tell he's happy that he's the big

man on campus. Good for him. Did I throw a bonus one in there before we go to you? Sure, sure. because I was going to use them, but I'll throw Peyton Manning in the ring. Mm. You know, Papa Johns, he starts getting a little mouthy. And he says, I'm out on Papa Johns.

ESPN and Fox, they go all, like, courtship all the way in. Bidding war. Take him all the way up to, he gets all the way up to, like, make out point with him, hops out the front seat and heads back down the hill, said, no, thanks. I'm not interested. Peyton does what he wants, what he wants. He's feeling himself. I'm not ready to do anything yet.

I'm just going to keep being Peyton Manning for the time. being that just leaves with so many loaded things out there I hope all the listeners just leaving the CBS box and all the right they're hanging and make out point

yep but is Peyton that's feeling himself he also by the way Indianapolis you know a giant bronze statue I probably said I'll come back to Indy yeah just build me a giant statue put the sheriff on it

nobody called me that but just put it on there anyway I'm Peyton Manning I'm feeling myself all the time he's running things all right Greg I want to go back I was looking for this article that I had read last week

which really cracked me up to support Steve's point on Levi-on-Bel feeling himself here is an actual paragraph from an article on billboard.com you know a real a real thing yes bell released his eight-track

no announcement project as a surprise drop in February the set which Bell says he recorded mostly over the 2017 is largely introspective nocturnal sounding affair featuring the rapper's heavy baritone over booming trap beats. The set convincingly posits Bell as one of the strongest rapper athletes out there right now with the MC even finding two different rhymes for Byron Lefwich on Emancipation Proclamation.

Anytime you can get left. I mean, you're feeling yourself. You know what? The competition is Tom Bahali right now. I mean, his first video, Shade Room, coming out soon, a woozy banger that catches. Bell in a moment of contemplation about the intersection between his rap and football careers. You're not making the

woozy-banger video to Shade Room. With Cardi B on the remix. Yes. That's very good. That's very good. Any other nominations, Greg? I'll do a quick one. I think the Jaguars as an organization are feeling themselves. Just in general, just feeling good.

They're like, no, we're good with Blake Bortles. I think that's a feel-in-themselves type of move that they think they're as strong everywhere else that they're just like, Yeah, Blake, it's Blake. I'm not going to need to upgrade there. Did they kind of box themselves in, though? A little bit.

A little bit. A little bit. A little bit. I think they're confident. I wonder if everything worked out with where he wasn't hurt, didn't have that surgery. If they would have, if Kirk Cousins would be on that team. There's a pretty good chance that Blake would not be the guy. There's some people in that building who love him, who drafted him.

There's some people there who didn't. All right. Before we go, it's nice. is coming for your ATN insider status here. Well, he's an actual NFL insider where I kind of... Erica, you would say that I'm more like an ATN media insider. AT&A, AT&Media, media, inside, inside, dance, hands, for the truth, go to the zoos. That is a woozy-banger in the morning.

That is! A woozy-bangar is a pretty excellent way to describe something. All right. Top five. Okay. I think I think Gruden has to be in the top five. Gruden's got to be in there. I think Cousins has to be in there.

I love it. All right. Yeah. I'm down with that. Cousins, Gruden. Does Bell get in there? Woozy banger? He's got a lot.

I feel like we should put Lev, maybe in the bottom. Sean Payton. Oh, yeah. Sean's up there. We've put a lot of people in here. We've got four right now. This is where it gets tough. Does Dorsey make the list?

I don't know. All right. Okay with that. The Rams don't? I feel like the Rams should be. Rams should be in there. I think that's your five right there. You've got Gruden, Cousins, Payton.

I don't know what the order is. Gruden, cousins, Peyton, Bell, Rams. Who's feeling themselves the most in the NFL right now? Gruden, right? Those are the final. I think Rams. Yeah, Gruden may be number one. Go Rams number two.

All right. Gruden. Here's the final rankings. Gruden one, Rams two. Cousins? Cousins three. Peyton four. And Lev Bell and his woozy bangers.

Number five. That's good. I like this. That's good. Those are good power ranking. And just to like, just to confirm Sean Payton, not Peyton Manning. No, Peyton Manning. Got it?

This is the top five, but he is feeling himself. Really always has. Okay. Steve, you've done it all. You've said it all. And this shouldn't be the first time. I'm so honored that this is this is one hell of a maiden voyage. A woozy banger, I'd say.

It was a woozy banger of a podcast. That has got to be like the hook. Yes. Erica, that's the cell, right? Yep. It is a woozy banger. Especially the way Greg Rosenthal said. Say it again, Greg?

It's a woozy banger. I don't know. Now I tried to change it up. I don't know what I was going for there. Super cool. That was definitely some base over some trap beats there. Yeah, for sure. Yeah, so Steve, thank you for coming on.

It will not be the last time we will ask you. It took too long to have you on the first place. Thanks so much. It was great. Onward and upward with Steve Weish on the team. I'm back. It's great to have you back. Can you come back on Wednesday?

Sure. She's back on Wednesday. How about that? So, yeah, we'll be back on Wednesday. Hopefully, maybe we'll get to hear from Mark Sessler, who's somewhere in the world right now. And maybe open up the mailbag. Let's have some fun. Let's have some fun this week.

I can't wait. I love fun. All right. This is Dan Hansa signing off for Steve Weish, Conscience of NFLB. Howdy Bob? The old boss. and the loose cannon behind the glass. Till Wednesday!

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