NFL Daily with Gregg Rosenthal - Will Peterson get traded?

Episode Date: April 16, 2015

A room filled with heroes -- Dan Hanzus, Gregg Rosenthal, Marc Sessler and Chris Wesseling -- sounds off on Adrian Peterson getting reinstated, gauging what impact he’ll have in 2015 and what uniform he’ll be wearing next season (7:00). Speaking of uniforms, the gang also reviews the Cleveland Browns’ new threads, offering an unrivaled breakdown of football fashion and athletic couture (17:00) before opening up the mailbag (31:20) and evaluating whether or not body language really matters for a quarterback (14:00).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 was overthrown by Peyton Manning. Welcome back to another edition of the Around the NFL podcast. My name is Dan Hansis and I'm joined by a room filled with heroes. Mark Sessler, Chris Wessling, and Greg Rosenthal. What's up, boys? Hey, Dan. Sorry to hear that you were overthrown by Peyton Manning.

Greenlighted that money drop. Who's coming up with you? these things. We had a whole list of things that we approved, and I have not heard any one of those. I sent like 20 of them. Is this all from the comedic genius mind of TD? Is that what's going on? He always blames it on someone else back there. Oh, that's Bobby Joe's. He was only here for a week, and it was the most important thing to him to get one in there. Yeah, no one's seen TD in five days. Do you have carrot top writing these? What's going on right now with these? Gold standard behind the glass. It's gold standard Friday. What's going on? Do you know?

I'm just the Mansell to the Hoyer. It's not. It's not a lot. on me you know that's a gold standard that's not how you want to position yourself he's a genius politician though because he knows how to pass that buck when it comes time to do it yeah so welcome to the around the NFL podcast we got a full house

for a great show when I'm looking forward to can't always say that personally a lot of times I'm coming up those stairs I'm dreading what's about to happen not today today I am amped up we're going to because first of all whenever we get to dissect a

Mark Sessler joint, blows my mind because I love it so much. It's like reading it twice. Have you even clicked on this item that was written today? Ten starters who could lose their jobs to rookies. Mark wrote about it this morning, posted it. I'm sure everyone listening now has read it. If not, click pause, read Mark's content and then come back to us. We're going to talk about it.

That's going to be great. And then we're going to open up the mailbag. We got a mailbag in the written form written by myself, Greg. Yeah. Post-in Friday. on Friday, but we're going to, of course, there's always plenty of questions from podcast listeners, so we're going to hit those up.

By the way, Mark, you're excited about the latest Star Wars trailer? Joey, we're home. Well, we might have swung for the fences a bit too far. I'm sure we'll get sued for that song, but sure, why not? Well, no, I'm... Wait, did I stumble into a Damashik podcast? What's going on here? I know we're killing Peyton Manning off the top. We're talking Star Wars.

What's happening? Well, I know Star Wars means a lot to you, Mark, and the trailer came out. It's a special thing to you. Well, I'm old, so it's the first movie that I saw in a theater with my dad. So it does for that reason. But, yeah, also they botched the last three they attempted to make in a considerable fashion. It was a disaster. So this looks a little better.

One of our loyal listeners, and he's actually, he was a contributor on the old ATL debate club, Jason Zumwalt, I clicked on my Facebook, and he said that he cried. when he watched the trail. So, and Greg, you made the point there's a disconnect. Well, yeah, Mark said I was crushing people's dreams because I pointed out that I felt disconnected to the average American populace because, you know, I could care less about the new Star Wars movie.

I'm not against it, but I would say out of 10 movies that are released, I'm closer to Greg on this. It would probably be, you know, number five. I don't want to see it. That's fine. I don't like it when the tact is we're too cool for it because part of me is it's just that it was part of my childhood. And I understand that where I'm at now, maybe you could be like this guy is a little off balance.

But Zumwalt and I, we text a little bit about this behind the scenes. I'll text with him about the developments. Got to have someone to reach out to. Greg is not a sounding board. The guy is like an English patient, too. Give you a phrase. Just because I don't like. English patient, too, still English.

Yeah. I love grown men running around. All right. Well, you already are showing. You don't understand what it's about. You watch football and write about it for a living, which is also. grow men running around in little outfits. West Nails home a very

solid point. We'll be talking about some little outfits in the news, by the way, Mark. All right, speaking in news. Wow, what a tease. The gold standard behind the glass, running out of time with Zachariah. In fact, you only have a couple of weeks left now. Yeah. Maybe even one show left with us, two

shows. Also true of Mansell, potentially. Through the draft. I'm going through the draft. You're all draft week. By the way, we haven't... Our favorite millennial. We haven't mentioned it. We're doing a few big shows during draft week, some videos on Monday, and then we'll have what's now an annual tradition, a draft after the first round on Thursday night, the only podcast that'll be up Friday morning, and then another one after it's all over on Saturday night. Great memories last year in Manhattan. Mark and I in a hotel room at 3 a.m. recording that

podcast. This year, West will be out in Chicago. I guess the time change will be advantageous to West, I would think, maybe by a little bit. But we can push it back a little. It will be a late night for West, too, for the pod. And maybe, Wes, you can, you know, maybe have a quick drink and a water, of course, just to get your nerves going and get excited. I have a built-in tour guide with Kevin Patra in Chicago. That's right. He's going to get you in some fist bites.

I can tell you that. Nice. That guy, whenever there's a problem, the solution is always fisticups. All right. Gold Center. Let's do some news. Let's do it. I'm in the news, sweetheart.

By the way, team McHenry. Just going to say it right now. with the tow yard and this is you know that that sound drop you approve of the way she spoke to that woman ESPN personality Britt McKenry has been suspended a week for berating a tow company supervisor of some kind said some horrible things do not I don't sure I don't get behind that but according to several things it's a crooked tow yard or they they towed her out of a restaurant parking lot when she was eating at the restaurant I'm not all about that why doesn't she take it up with the manager instead of

actually berating and hitting every point about a woman that you could possibly destroy. It was terrible, but I think the release of the video was punishment enough. Look, if you ever find a woman who treats service people like crap, do not ever hang out with that woman. She must be the worst woman on her. It is a good test of character. I think Dan's point, though, it's not so much boosting McHenry into the skies, but saying crooked tow yards, let's get on that. I believe Team McHenry is pretty much boosting her to the sky. That's true.

I guess as a former resident of Hoboken, New Jersey, which was a crooked town when it came to towing and tickets. Like, I have that in my heart. I remember what it was like to be treated poorly by those people. But it doesn't, you know. Look, if we've talked about this too long, but, you know. Look, if Boss Hogg is the crooked one, you deal with him, not the low-level representative out front at the desk. She shouldn't have said those things. And by the way, the first story we're going to talk about here, Adrian Peterson, you would think him being reinstated, effective Friday would be the biggest story in the newsroom.

but right around the time this happened, this Brit McHenry thing went down. What do you think everyone was talking about? I would like to see the football story that got the NFL network staff as excited about this as this Brick & Harry's right. So anyway, so yes, while Britt McHenry's career was, you know, under fire,

Adrian Peterson was getting his career back. How you like them apples? The Minnesota Vikings running back, according to the league, which announced Thursday, Peterson will be reinstated Friday as an active NFL player and may participate in all scheduled activities with the Minnesota Vikings. And according to Rapsheet, there will be no further suspension upon reinstatement. There is some legal stuff still going on behind the scenes.

But as far as football and Adrian Peterson, everything's clear to go after missing 15 games last year going back to his child abuse situation. Adrian Peterson back, Greg. No further suspension, no surprise here. And now they have two weeks. to decide whether they can trade him or not. Unlike the Philip Rivers conversation, which we talked about on the last show,

I think the river's trade, if it ever happens, has to happen during the draft. If an Adrian Peterson trade happened, I think it could happen at any point in the next two weeks. Yeah, yeah, I agree. And to me, it depends totally on whether his camp can convince all parties involved that it's beneficial, and the Vikings are going to be the hardest one to convince.

Yeah, it seems like that he got his wish because what Ian Rappaport, NFL Media Insider reported last week, because the one thing he just wanted to get this cleared out before the drafts so that this could happen at the right time. But getting the Vikings to move on a trade between now and two Thursdays from now, that is a tall order. Well, I think it's harder really to just find the team that's willing to give him that much money

and enough draft picks to get it done. It's almost more up to the Cardinals and the Cowboys, I guess, are the two teams that we could see doing this, really stepping up to the plate saying, we'll pay you $20 million over the next two years and we'll give you a second round pick or whatever it's going to take to get him and just being aggressive and going after him.

Because otherwise, it's not like the Vikings are just going to trade him to trade. Vikings think he's good. I mean, Vikings think they're good. They know Peterson is great. To me, there is no reason to trade him unless some type of Godfather offer came up on the table an Achilles Smith type offer, Wes, involving the Saints or something, you know, something like that.

Otherwise, you keep him in there, and this team with Teddy Bridgewater progresses. They can win 10 or 11 games, in my mind. This team is pretty good, potentially, so you run with it. Maybe the reason, you know, Dallas or Arizona comes around, you both got aging, late 30-year-old quarterbacks here, and you've got big holes in the back field. That killed Arizona in the playoffs last year.

They could do nothing with the run game, and Dallas loses their number one guy. This is your Super Bowl window for these two teams. What do you guys think happens in the end? I think he stays home. I've been saying how long I think he'll get traded. I'm going to stick with that. So before the draft, during the draft, sometime, he'll be traded.

I'm not putting a deadline on. I think he'll go through the draft, not get traded. I eventually think the Vikings will give him some money for 2016, guarantee him some money, bring him into that new stadium that they've built. Everyone's happy. file this under surreal former Patriots titan Aaron Hernandez is a convicted murderer

the New England Patriots star A former star was convicted of first degree murder sentenced to life in prison without possibility of parole in connection with the deadly late night shooting of Odin Lloyd a supposed friend who this all went down

a couple years ago the trial now took place after deliberations the jury decided that Hernandez, whether or not he was the trigger guy, he was there, he was responsible, and barring an appeal, Aaron Hernandez will never get out of prison. That's it. Your thoughts, gentlemen. Well, he's also going to have another trial soon for a double murder charge, so he's not done with trials.

And all I could think about is if I was a Patriots fan growing up and you were 16, 17 years old or something when this verdict came down, that is a moment that as a sports fan, you will never forget. where you were. Maybe it didn't have that big of an impact nationally, although it certainly was a big story. To see a guy who played in the Super Bowl and was such an integral part of your team be convicted

for murder, there's not much precedent for that. Yeah, I mean, this case and this situation didn't capture the zeitgeist the way the OJ Simpson situation did, and that's, I remember I was 14 when that went down and I remember listening to WFN

in New York when they first, the news broke that there was the double murder, and then all of a sudden, it just got, it kind of spun into this Greek tragedy. That, to me, is the thing, what I always think of, like, the most shocking sports moment is when that went next level, you know, with the white Bronco chase and everything. I mean, so Aaron Hernandez, to me, never had that type of grip on the world or this country, but at the same time, it's just absolutely, I said before, surreal, that this guy who was one of the top tight ends in football,

who was a stud that just signed a $40 million contract, was killed a guy and now it's all now he's in prison for the rest of his life it's a big waste it's terrible it's a really sad story

I think it's weird that the final if this were the final scene in a movie about this scenario that he's in jail and you can hear the sounds of Foxborough

in the stadium in the distance from where he's stationed that would seem like a cheesy close out to a movie because it's almost too unbelievable

to grasp a mile and a half away and from what I understand you basically drive past it on the highway It's insane He threw away a career with a Hall of Fame ceiling Yes

And a chance at multiple Super Bowl rings Crazy In other news That's a tough one to transition from But in other news Oregon offensive coordinator Scott Frost has been asked a lot about Marcus Marriota

As people try to figure out what the ceiling is Of the quarterback Who is expected to go Pretty high in the first round In the draft at the end of this month Frost has also said a lot of the questions he get, he's gotten, are pretty stupid. Here's his quote,

some of them were great questions, and some of them were some of the dumbest questions I've ever heard. He told OregonLive.com, is it Oregon or Oregon? Or something in between. Oregon. Oregon. I don't know, but I don't know if that's right. I think it's an individual case.

Okay. I think it's ridiculous to think Marcus is too nice to play football. If that was the case, he wouldn't have won so many games around here. I agree, by the way. I was at the Combine and, like, one of the popular talking points was like, look how he carries himself. You know, I don't think that guy's, he doesn't look like a star NFL quarterback to me.

What does that mean? It doesn't mean anything how he walks around or how his shoulders or how he carries himself. Enough of that. I'm sorry, T.D., who's not here, but this body language stuff, people got to calm down about. That's a legit question that team, it's not just the media. When I listen to DJ's podcast, Move the Sticks on his Marriota 360, I know Hansis isn't a fan of it. You know, he said that was one of the number one concerns with Marriota.

Is he a leader that teams aren't sure about that? And Cessler and Dan and I, actually, we were texting about it. You had some hot takes this weekend, unprompted about it. Well, number one, we haven't been not been studying these players at all for the most part. So, yeah, okay. But so I don't have a hot take. I mean, I watched, you know, on a hot, sober day. Very sober, slow, hot take.

You know, I watched his stuff with Gruden, which I think, you know, it's a 20-minute segment. parceled out and edited. So it's very much how they want to make it. I get that. But looking at him and looking at Winston, Winston to me seemed the way he came across in this short thing and the way Gruden responded to him and what he said later was just that he's like a football life. He just is all about football and super intense. Marriota did not give off that vibe, but that's a 20-minute little program. So I'm not making a conclusion. But that's what everyone says about Mariotta. Right. But I don't know anything. When you watched him on NFL Network with Winston, too, I mean, he's flatline. He's he's. He's, he's, he's, he.

seems he makes Joe Flacco look like They're also young though Like who would this guy be Three years from now When he's in the NFL We don't know that

Well yeah And two words Joe Flacco Two more words Eli Manning You don't have to be Some wildly charismatic Guy like James Winston

Supposedly is To be a successful NFL quarterback You just got to be able to play Right Yeah So I got It reminds me a little bit of David Robinson

For the Spurs Too nice Way too nice Right He's in the Hall of Fame Here's how you lead If you're good If you're good at football

all you lead. So even though I agree with you, Mark, that he does seem very flatline. Does that really matter? I mean, that was the same criticism of Carson Palmer. Yeah. I mean, if you, if Marriota's career ends up like Palmer's, I consider that a success. And if we want to study these Gruden segments or his Mariucci segments, and not to take away from your point, Mark, but if we went back

and looked at, I don't know, Jake Locker's segment or Blaine-Gabbard segment, and they probably came off tremendously well and well-mannered and charismatic and knew all the chalkboard plays. Like, you know, but what does it actually mean come August? Well, if teams got any better at predicting quarterbacks over the last 10, 15 years, well, we wouldn't have been with seeing them whiff over and over on these guys. So I don't think they know anything. The thing is the players to a certain degree and the coaches do believe it matters,

even if we don't. So it's weird to totally dismiss that. I've heard Steve Young talk about it, that the most, if not the most important thing that you need to do as a quarterback is look the other men in the huddle and have their confidence. And that's the number one thing a quarterback. I don't know how you define

that. I don't know how you get that exactly. Maybe Marcus Marriota can do that even though he's not too talking about. Moving on, a big day, big day for the Cleveland Browns on Tuesday where they unveiled their new uniforms after. What is that?

Wow. This crowd is so thrilled with what they are looking at right now. The Browns have unveiled their new uniforms after months of speculation and hype and Mark Sessler going through fan sites and writing up little blog posts, all excited. They unveiled them. Never have I done that. They were unveiled and really kind of an over-the-top type thing at a convention center

that was actually had an in-house feed run by the Cleveland Browns.com site with two hosts including that, that nice woman who we just heard. The bottom line was that it was, you know, a bunch of little changes or significant changes. There's a lot of different combos, but why am I talking? Mark, your thoughts about the New Brown's uniforms. Well, you know, I'm very glad I was not in the newsroom when this was happening because I'm out to dinner. I'm trying to go out to dinner with my wife, very rare event when you have kids. We're going to go see a movie.

And all I'm my Twitter is lighting up with just hot takes on happening. how terrible this organization is, and what it looked like an Illuminati ceremony, and what a devastating flop it was. I looked at him. Look, number one, you got a tough palette of colors to work with out of the gate. Are they Tampa Bay Bucks?

Bad? Hell, no. I mean, they're fine for me. They're fine. I don't love them, but I didn't expect to love them. They have nine combinations. Some of those combinations should not make it to the field, and I don't think they will.

assortment of uniforms I don't know to tell you I mean I'm not that broadcaster That maybe wasn't the best person To assign them They were handing her $20 bills After each compliment Yeah I don't know

Did I catch a glimpse of Cleveland down the side Of the band? That's not even Amazingly that's not even accurate There's browns down the side And my only take is The Cleveland on the front

That's okay I can deal with that The Browns down the side Kind of feels pajamasy to me or like arena footballie, didn't love that. But it's not like they desecrated their look or anything. Gold standard has a hot thing. Well, no, it's just so good that she didn't say,

am I seeing a little bit of browns going down the side of the fans? I liked them. I just was wondering why, Mark, it really seemed to matter to you what the reaction. You were very fearful of the reaction to the uniform. I don't think I was fearful. I think I was a little anticipating and I was correct that there would be a bunch. A lot of people like them now.

Yeah, but there's the flood of hot takes about how much of a disaster the Browns are and enough is enough. You know what, and Mark, I know where you're coming from on this because back, like post-Tibo, post-butfumble, Rex Ryan Jets, the Jets, if you're a fan, you went into fan prison, and it became a point where not only that sucks,

the team wasn't good, it was just fun for people to just bury your team no matter what they were doing. Right. And you're kind of, you're in that place now after several Brown's missteps in the last few months. That is accurate. They've become fun to make fun of it.

But by the way, Just so you might get excited about this, you might have missed this during the telecasts because you were in the theater. There's also, the uniforms might give them an advantage this season. A lot of features in these that make them very breathable, which is good for players to wear. You know, maybe September, October in Cleveland. They have to take a trip out to San Diego at some point. So, again, very cool uniforms, very player-friendly. And you can tell the input that they put into these is top-notch done exclusively for the Cleveland Browns.

I would think it would be for the Browns. I think what I'm discussing is unfolding right here on this podcast. Player friendly. I mean, I think it would be done exclusively for the Browns. If I had known, had I done, I did my AFC North Roster reset a week ago. Should I waited until after this information was, you know, unpacked. Very breathable. Dan and I were having a delightful time watching this unveiling.

And I was thinking you were right that you were happy to not be in the room. It was really just the eyes wide shut hoods that they were wearing. and then they all threw him off at the same time. That was really the one moment. Gabriel couldn't get it off his helmet. Taylor Gabriel. Look, I mean, I'm not defending that. I just think it's like...

The pre-interview where Brian Hartline was in a burqa covering up the uniform so that they couldn't see it. So he was just... You know how like... Like wearing this, like, big blanket? You know how like... They had already been released. Well, yeah, not at that point.

They had a pregame show. You know how like every once a while on the web, like some, like, video will pop up from the early 90s and then the whole everyone writes but look how cheesy this is 20 years so now this will be one that will be written about um all right so that's what's happening nothing personal mark you know that i feel your pain is a brown span maybe not as quite as much but i get it i get the uniforms well i'm learning with every passing day to detach myself further from the entire operation west nodding his head yes do it um all right so speaking of Mark. Let's talk about his great feature, 10 starters who could lose their jobs to rookies.

And we just talked about the Browns. We just talked about the Jets and right at the top of Mark's list. He has Gino Smith as the number one guy who is primed to lose his starting gig. And behind him, the Josh McCown, Johnny Mansell combo in Cleveland. So I guess this ties back to the guy we were talking about earlier. I would guess, Mark, Marcus Mariotta. I mean, I think both teams have been talked about as potential move-up targets, and I'm basing it on the fact that Cleveland over and over is a potential swing for the fences. Now, if the Chargers want to come up and do that, that's not going to be easy to do.

But the Jets also, they talked about the Jets as a team that they want to add Todd Bolso that we want to add another quarterback. So how's that going to happen if you don't draft someone? I like it. I can see it. It's happening. Wes, your thoughts? Sure. I agree. Wait, what more do you want to say? Yeah, Gino Smith could lose his job if they draft a quarterback.

I agree. All right, well, then let's move on to number three on this list. Danard Robinson and Toby Gerhardt in Jacksonville, the Jags. We know they went hard after DeMarco Murray, so it would not be surprising if they made a push and a draft class that's loaded with running backs. To me, they are the two and three. They are the number two and three backs already for that team,

so they just need to find the starter. If they somehow don't find the starter, I don't know. They're not going to be getting, you know, I don't think Robinson is going to get 20 carries a game regardless. I mean, Gearhart sounds like he's becoming a full back that by the time the season starts might not even be anything more than a special team or the way his trajectory is going.

If you believe the Tennessean, there's no way Zach Mettenberger, number four in Mark's list, is going to lose his job. They see him according to the Tennessean as a poor man's Tom Brady, the Titans do. But still, they have the number two overall pick. We were just on our previous program talking about the Kevin A.C. article in U.T. San Diego about Philip Rivers.

The time is now to trade him, which you wonder if there was something to read into that story. And it makes too much sense for Rivers to go to Tennessee. And Greg, what do you think about that? I can't get out the opinion that Greg Koselt would rather have Zach Mettenberger than James Winston. Wes, this rubbed you the wrong way, didn't it? The NFL film's curious. It's ridiculous.

It's ridiculous. But we don't know anything about Winston. Maybe Winston isn't a great prospect for all we know. I've seen enough out of Mettenberger to think it's ridiculous. And I think that if he's the quarterback next year, Ken Wisenhunt loses his job. Rustin West, Rubston Webster loses his job too. That's part of the thing I don't get, no, I don't kind of buy it. I don't buy anything anybody's saying about Zach Mettenberger right now.

I agree with that. I mean, I buy that Kosell believes he's better than Winsden. Oh, yeah, I mean, I buy that he believes that. But I don't get it because you're right. If Wisen Hunt, if they don't make a move, you can see them getting cleaned out. But if they do get Marriota or Rivers, you're locked into the Wizzing-Hunian-Hon experience for a few years. If Mattenberger is their quarterback next year, they won't win more than four games. I wonder of Tennessee, which has always sounded open to shopping the number two pick in some fashion,

is doing their pre-draft PR about how much they like. this guy in case they're stuck with him after the draft. All right. Number five, this one, to me, it might not be sexy enough, but I would have put it at number one. Brandon Oliver and San Diego, I know he had some moments last year, but it seems to me after they let Ryan Matthews go that they are going to go hard after one of these running backs. The Chargers seem primed for that. It would make a lot of sense. So, Mark, you see at number 17, Todd Gurley, or Melvin Gordon being two top priorities for them potentially? I feel like, along with Arizona, they're a team that feels very,

or the Cowboys very ready to draft a running back in the first round, if they must. Their backfield isn't that bad, though. If they liked a different position in the first round, it's like you could take a second third round guy and then have some sort of Oliver Woodhead, you know, third round pick. Donald Brown? Combination. It's not too bad.

If you look at the stats, because I remember writing a Chargers thing earlier in the offseason, how much they leaned on Philip Rivers and how unsuccessful they were running the ball and moving the ball on the ground, I mean, you can't do that. You can't do that. If Rivers is still there, you can't do that because he's going to be 34. If you bring in a new guy, if bringing Marcus Marietta, you definitely can't do that. It's one thing to rely on an undersized guy like Oliver for a three or four game patch during the season.

It's another thing to go into the season with him as your starter. Plus, Brandon, spelled with an E.N. at the end. Questionable. I don't know if I can trust that. 6, 7 and 8 on this list. Jermaine Curse for the Seahawks. Mark, don't let any of the Seahawks wide receivers see this article. They'll be very upset with you because.

so they think they're awesome. Legarrett Blunt in New England. I didn't even realize he's their number one, is he? I think he is right now. Yeah, he's their number one. I guess so, he is. And then Andre Ellington in Arizona this time last year, a lot of people were excited about Andre Ellington.

I think this room as well. But now we're kind of seeing that this guy is not a workhorseback or a guy you can expect to give the ball a ton to. So you've got to get somebody else in there. Maybe Adrian Peterson. But that wouldn't be a rookie, so he shouldn't be on this list then. I think this point. I think this podcast said exactly that last year that he wouldn't hold up for a season.

You can't make him your workhorse. When you say this podcast, are you saying Chris Wesley? No, I'm saying a few of us on here said that. Down in the Chile Netherworld studio where we were in camp for two months, I remember Wesleyan saying exactly that. Wow, Wesleying backing off some of his hubris from an episode ago when he challenged the entire universe to come up with someone that's predicted the Raiders' demise better than him. I'm not backing off that one bit.

on Raiders analysis. Ken Becker, he lives in Cleveland, actually, hates the Raiders. This list is reminding me how many teams need starting running backs. So we say how, you know, devalued the running back position is, but there's six, seven teams that need a running back out of this class. And, you know, by all accounts, this is the right class for it. Very deep at running back. Chewy, we're home.

Number nine, Dwayne Bow. All right, you know what? And Brian Hartline, the Brown's wide receivers, both signed. this would be quite a bummer for these two guys. They just got to town. They're going to lose their jobs because Mark thinks it's possible that Browns get one of these big time, these big shot rookies, and Bob, Booy.

Brian Hartline all of a sudden is not a starter anymore. You have two number ones, and I get this vibe from last year that Ray Farmer isn't big on drafting wide receivers. Well, you simply cannot ignore that. Cleveland might have the worst group of wide receivers in the conference right now, if not the league. Wow.

Do they? You're right. I don't know. They got to be down there. I guess they got to be down there. There's not many that are worse. They signed a player away from the L.A. Grabears.

They have no tight end to throw to. So the whole group is a mess. And they have no one that you can get excited about two years from now. You don't like Hauser. I like him all right. I kind of like that signing. It's not Jordan Cameron. No, he's not.

I like Baby Hawk. Sure. But again, these guys are all, it's like the Jets before they got Brandon Marshall. They're all shoved one or two spots ahead of where they should. and that equals six wins. Excellent analogy, Mark Suss. Mark, awesome job. Number 10, Justin.

What is happening in this episode? This episode is an outraged. Why? Why do you say that? I don't know. Because of the Star Wars stuff? Or the uniform, too? Yeah, I mean, just a non-slot of it's like...

I really meant that was excellent. The comparison to the Jets, I think you're right. I think Chris is being condescending, actually. I don't know. Now, that's an outrage. Actually, this might seem like we're teasing you, but this is almost like a love fest for you. It's almost like a roast on some level.

I can roll with that. How many more minutes? More to intervention. Number 10, Justin Forset, the Ravens running back, really came out of nowhere one of the pleasant surprises of the 2014 season. But however, Peter King of Monday morning quarterback, one of Wes's favorites, believes that more outrage. Melvin Gordon will, quote, not get past the Ravens at 26.

So, Mark, after Justin Forset has that great season, they're already looking to stick them back in the depth chart. Well, I'll let the boss explain this one. This was your pick. What my suggestion? You know, your names of the top of this column. Wow, it smells like plagiarism. Throwing each other under the bottom.

No, no, no. I don't disagree, but I put it at the bottom because I don't think it's a likely one, but they've talked about potentially drafted and running back. So you not only disagree with me, you disagree with MMQB's Peter King. And yourself. I see it as the least likely of these possibilities. For set, I think a guy, you looked at what they're paying them. Follow the money.

They're paying them like a backup. They're not paying them. He's one of your favorite players in the NFL. I love Justin Forsett, but I think the Ravens are going to look for a running back of the future, yes. And that is a good class for it. That would be smart. That's it. Great, and that's it.

So that was Mark's feature. Make sure you check it out at around the NFL.com slash Mark's latest feature. Out of the URL. Not a website. But it is on NFL.com. You could read it. All right, let's hit the mailbag. Tons of good stuff.

You guys always send great questions to us, so we've got to get through a bunch of these. Where do we want to start? And the other three of us have not seen these questions. No, for the most part. I think I might have run a couple of them by, but for the most part, this is all, you guys are flying blind here.

Well, let's start with something football nerdy, okay? This is from Steve Mansfield at SFMans. If you could add a completely new rule or completely abolish an existing one, which would it be? Start with you, Chris Wessling. That one's easy. Okay.

Get rid of the worst role in sports, that stupid catch rule that nobody understands. So what would it be? You have to replace it with something. If you catch the ball, it's a catch. It's easy. I mean, stop with this. You've got to make 18 plays after the catch. And whether you tumble to the ground nonsense, if you catch the ball, it's a catch.

That's what I'm with you on that. Logically, that has to be number one. I like all this extra point jive, all this nonsense, everyone coming up with 65-yard extra points. what you do is you put the end zone, the goalposts, on a high speed pivot. And when you line up from the extra point at the normal location, it is spinning at a super high speed. So you have a chance to get it through, but it could easily hit a solid and bounce away. I love this idea. First I've heard of it.

That's amazing. You came up with that right off the top of your head. I can't even follow that. End of conversation. Mark took mine, so. Yeah. I like with the extra points, just make it. Make them go for two.

Let's get rid of as much kicking as possible. Just make them go for two. Also, I've been honking about those cameras on the goal line, so it's not a very exciting one, but let's get that. Excellent use of honking. More notably, Bill Belichick has brought that up as well. I would definitely take a closer look or redo the rule involving late hits on quarterbacks and wide receivers.

So that drives me crazy on a weekly basis. Dan is the guy at the bar who's like, oh, let him play football, guys. It's like, what happened to football? They're out there playing powder puff. They should be breaking each other's skulls. This is what happens when you give every kid a trophy. Dan hasn't watched a football game in a bar in four years. Yeah.

Oh, that used to be so fun. All right, moving on, what team is according. Ooh, great name. We've got a great name alert. Sebastian Seneca. Hi, I'm Sebastian Seneca. You want to go to the movies? At Sebastian Seneca.

What team? He's singles ladies. Sebastian will be missing an opportunity if he doesn't record that from Danny and make that his answering machine message. That's true. People have answering machines? Maybe.

Well, you don't. We called your cell phone like twice on the show last week and not set up. That's not by accident. All right, here's from Sebastian. What team is most likely to go from worst to first in the division? And let's take a look at the NFL standings from 2014, just as a refresher for me.

You hear your choices. The Jets, the Browns, the Titans, Tatans, Raiders, Redskins, Burrs, Bucks, and Rams. This is a particularly depressing. It's a rough list. Exercise. I usually would think it'd be easier to come up with. This is an easy one for me. Okay, what is it?

The Jets. Yeah. They're the best team. They're the best team. out of all of those. And you could say the Rams, but I just got done... They were outscored by 118 points last year. They stunk on the year.

And they... Two of our riders picked them as the best offseason so far. The Jets. The Rams, you could pick them, but I just got done watching every target throwing to Jordan Matthews last year, and the difference in ball placement between Mark Sanchez and Nick Foles was startling.

Sanchez leaps and bounds better than Nick Fools. That's startling, indeed. And Mark, that sets you up well for the one you had planned. I did have St. Louis, and, well, no, but with a caveat, with a caveat, that it only happens because something absolutely disastrous happens very early in the year in Seattle. That's the only way that team's winning that division. Well, no, I mean, there are many factors.

Like what? Like an absolute centerpiece player on offense is gone. Not Seattle breaking off into the ocean. Yeah, that doesn't count, but you can't like, it's like, He's saying the Jets are in, if Boston gets so Boston strong, they get reided out and they get caught or something. It makes sense. What if Brady gets traded to the Browns? Yeah.

Just as impossible is for me to see the Patriots fall off a cliff. Wait, but you got to pick a team without any crazy circumstance. I think the Rams are the best last place team. I don't think it's a crazy thought at all. You need the Seahawks to fall off, but I think they're a better. I think the Browns are better than the Jets. But my answer is going to be the Washington Redskins. Even though I don't really imagine it happening,

I just think that's the lame enough division, and I could just see they go 9 and 7, 10, and 6, win a bad division. Redskins would be my answer. Wow, that is wild. I predicted in my own head that you would go for the Redskins for exactly that reason. Well, it's a good, it's logical.

And in my heart of hearts, I want to go with the Jets. It's really, if you want to read between the lines, that's who I'm picking, but I'll go with someone else, though. I'll just pick it. Yeah, no, I don't want to do it, though. I thought about the Jets too. I don't want to bank him too. I already got them covered him anyway, so I'm happy about that.

I'm going to go with the Bucks. The NFC South stinks, and I know the Bucks stink too, but, you know, you get James, listen to my thought process, West. What an awful team they are. James Winston comes to town, and he's the real deal. You know, things, weirder things have happened, and I don't think you're going to need more than nine wins to win that division again, potentially.

So I'm going to go with the Bucks. Why not? Good thing this has been recorded. Did you pick one yet? Cam Newton and Matt Ryan and Drew Beezer in that division. That's why not. That's not that. I think the NFC saw the bounce back. It's just how it goes. Things go up and down.

This from Cathill McCabe at Cathill 41. Two men enter. One man leaves no weapons. J.J. Watt versus the Rock. Who wins? Cathill, just so you know, says J.J. I say J.J. My fiance says the Rock. What say you? Drops a damage check line on this.

Well, I don't think this is close. I'm giving it to J.J. Watt. The Rock is an entertainer who's in his 40s. He's not even, I mean, I know he's athletic, but it's a little different. Watt is working out like Rocky and Rocky 4 right now. I don't know if Rock's doing the same, but I agree with Greg. He's got. Tremendous age, edge, and he's in the prime. He's in excellent physical condition.

I got to go with Watt. I have to go Watt, too. If you talk about them both in their prime, interesting battle. It's not like the Rock is some sort of weakling that got shoveled out of an accounting office, but we got to go Watt. I'm going to go with the Rock, and I'll tell you why. I know wrestling is not real, but the agility that he has and his ability to be quick on his feet

and enact different type of moves in the ring, I think his ability as someone that knows his way around grappling would take him over the top. Watch's not going to allow, I mean, what's not going to be in on it? Rock's going to say, hey, I'm going to do this move to you and what's getting up now. How about you don't?

How about the movie that the Rock made where he was like the dad and involved the Patriots in some way? Do you remember that movie? Yeah, that's why J.J. Watt will win. That's why J.J. Watt. Yes. I'm just saying anyone that makes that movie is not going to win a bare-knuckle brawl with J.J. Watt.

I think the rock is physically stronger as well. What about the tennis gal pal Watts picked up? Is she softening him some? Potentially. Wow. I like gear on top of things. This is from our good friend Jim Lorgan at Jim Lurgan. Can we have a game where the winner gets a hansis pie?

That's really from my wife and mother-in-law and gets to garage drink. with Chris Wessling. I want to win this game. Got to get in that garage at Tybee. You know, there's only a few people I would not allow to garage drink with me, so yeah. Name them. I can't do that. How about you and Britt McHenry?

I was going to say, yeah. I have issues with Britt McKenry. We have a winner. Mark Sessler's won this game in the game of life. I mean, you've hung out with Wes and had many of a drink, had some. Not in the garage, though. I don't know if you've had any of the hansies. Probably had some of the pie, too.

You could. But not in... I've had hands to spy and drank in a garage. Right. We need to get into that specific garage, though, on Tybee Island. We can make this happen. I think the answer is no? I don't know.

No, probably no. We can make it happen. I will return to Tybee again next year or the year after, and if you want to meet me there... All right. Two years from now, when West goes back to Tybee... Unless you're a Raiders fan, because I'm afraid you'll try to kill me? I'll send a pie to Tybee also. And if you fly your own airfare to Tybee West...

might put you up. Yeah, I'll give this like a 3% chance of happening. This is from Neil Dutton, one of our favorites, at Neil Dutton. He actually likes stale bread. He does like stale bread. At N. Dutton 13, what sport other than football would you guys most like to sit around together? It's an important word there. Together watching with a beer or two.

Other than football. I think the thing that we might be able to all agree on, maybe the NBA finals? I would say the NBA. Yeah, I could watch that. If it gets to the point where there's like eight minutes left. I will throw one out there too, in the honor of the gold standard, a U.S. World Cup match. Oh, yeah. We've done that, and we had a great time.

That would be number one. That's number one. Are you proud of me? So proud. Thank you guys. Wes and I, we should do it. We watched a female or women's UFC fight, and we had a good time. The Ronda Rousey when it was over in like eight seconds.

That sounds right. We did watch the World Cup, yeah. Yeah, the four, at the garage? At the garage. A local brewery. We gave you a definitive answer there, okay? This from William Holcomb, West, this one's toward you. Kelly's son.

At Billy the Wrench. He sounds like an enforcer. Looks like one, too. Why is the media so down on the Raiders every season, but always seems to be hopeful for teams like the Jags, Titans, etc. What do you want for me? The Raiders are awful and they run a bad operation. None of their moves makes sense and they have no plan. The Jaguars have a plan and the Raiders don't.

I mean, what is the Raiders plan? Sign a bunch of veterans and hope their draft picks work out? I don't know. And nothing they do to make sense to me. And they couldn't have been watching film to trade for Matt Scha. I would challenge the notion we've been, we're overly positive on some of the bottom feeders like the Jags and the Titans. We're not.

We bury them. And here's why, to answer the question, Here are the win totals from the Raiders since 2003. 454-2-4-8-8-48-4-3. Yeah, Billy the Wrench. Answer to me this question. Be careful, by the way, what you said to Billy the Wrench. Why do Raiders fans knee-jerk defend everything that their front office does

and they haven't made any good moves in the last 10 years? Yeah, that's what I'd say. I think if anything, I'd like to see the Raiders. The NFL's a better place when the Raiders are kind of a rough-and-tumbled good team. I absolutely agree with that. I love their franchise. I love their history. They just run a bad operation.

I mean, so we're sort of sticking up for the fans, if anything, by saying, come on, get it together. Exactly. Right. Mark Sessler nails it again. I thought. Condescending. I thought Mike Silver, who's a big Hugh Jackson fan, was, you know, kind of overreacting when he said.

He's a big huge accent fan? Huge accent fan. It was a little overreacting when he went crazy when they fired Hugh Jackson saying, what a terrible decision it was for the franchise. And I think, but looking back, I mean, they won two, eight games, really, because of Hugh Jackson, two straight years. That was a ridiculously terrible move. I like Marksak.

We are advocates for Raiders fans. They just won't accept our advocacy. That's what you need to stress to them, Wes, next time they come after you on Twitter. No, they don't come after me anymore. They don't exist on my Twitter feed. He blocked every Raiders fans. I blocked all of them, but Damian Pittman and two other guys.

This is from Steve Booth, at Steve Booth 87. Probably means he was born in 1987. That's possible. Less is 1887 years old and he changes his Twitter account. graduation year. First kiss? Any chance the ATN, he calls us the ATN, would pick the 49ers as the team of ATN, been knocked down a few rungs and fortunate situation, hashtag intrigue.

How about that, fellas? The Niners coming off just a hellacious off-season, tons of losses with a, you know, likable coach, it was in a tough spot, good quarterback with upside if he puts it together. could they get a little frisky with everyone picking them to stank? Well, I don't sit in the closed-minded corner, so I'm open. Oh. I'm open to the possibility. I figured that the contrarian corner over here would be way open to that one.

No, I was just saying I'm open to it. It would be a very surprising. The contrarian corner loves to do what people will make. I'm the buffer between the two worlds, and sometimes it gets hot. They aren't in the first wave of teams that I'd remove. No, it would be a surprise, but I wouldn't totally rule it out. If only because they have Tom Sula, which to me is overall, I'd be along for that ride if it gets fun.

There's some comedy potential there. It's interesting. Kaepernick is a fun guy to watch. We'll see. Got a chance. This is from Nick Boyd at Nikki B. 720. I know 420, that reference. 720 is at like a higher level?

You do other things at 720. Okay. When do... There's a little typo in here, Nikki. Come on, buddy. When do you come to London? fancy going for some fish and chips and a pint

when do you come to London fancy doing some fish and chips in a pint Is that a good accent? No, Zach. That's perfect. That's exactly what they sound. When do you come to London, fancy doing some fish and chips in a pint?

You're from like East Liverpool now. I like that you do fish and chips too. Anyway, so let me just say one thing here. We have high hopes that we're all going to London. but it might, I'm not saying it's going to happen. It could be, it could be an uphill battle here. Greg, you hinted at it. We're getting some people that are in offices that are telling us, you know, it's a pipe dream.

Shadow elite figures. People have not said it's a pipe dream. You're dreaming? There's a high-octane proposal out there. I mean, we're trying to push it through the corporate. I think what's happening here is Shadow Elite figures are multiplying. So here's my, here's an idea. Help us out, shadowy.

I had. We do have, it's funny enough, one of the people, people that have an office is named Henry Hotson, who happens to be known as handsome Hank. And, you know, if you listen to Damashik show or you've listened to him on our show, British man. So I want everyone that's listening to the podcast right now to hit up at NFL UK Hank on Twitter with the hashtag onto London for the ATN boys. Because I really do think Henry is the guy who can get it done for us. So let's go straight to Henry. everyone at NFL UK Hank hit him up flood his timeline yeah you know we can't stress enough

if you if you've added him on Wednesday on Twitter it's fine on Thursday Friday Saturdays multiple tweets add up and they're going to mean something in this battle and to answer the question yes I fancy that yeah I would fit it oh that's you know who else might be there then Nick that sounds great how far away from London will you be I'll be a couple hours and when when do you get there August so we'd have a producer I've shot down a million You dare. That sounds good, Dad. You could make it down.

You don't have to write any midterms about which free agent, you know, soccer players to pick up. No, I'm good. United Kingdom. More than just England, though, Zach, and something you should know when you go out there. You don't want to make a faux pa. That's true. That's true. People would be very angry with me.

Vincent Petty. Vinny. Hey, oh, Vinnie. When Michael Bennett insulted at Dan Hansis, why didn't he respond? Well, that's not what your mother said last night. Michael Bennett famously derided my private parts after the Super Bowl lost to the Patriots. Now, the reason I didn't engage,

first of all, he's much bigger than me and stronger than me, and he would destroy me, but also it wouldn't be a good look for me to be going back and forth in what was a classless move by Bennett, talking about my genitals. But I'm not going to be getting in the back-and-forth of them. You just got to back off.

You took the high road. Plus, you had a job to do. You had to write some posts that night. Not a lot of work to do that thing. Do some podcasts. You were thinking about the team. Dan is a professional journo. I thought it showed your true professionalism.

Right. And thank you guys. And Vincent actually puts hashtag journal fail. But the truth of the matter is I had to be a journal in that spot. But if I would, if we were in the school yard and, you know, and Bennett and I were like the same type of, you know, physical type person, I would definitely drop a mom joke at him. Well, I think that would even be a better situation for you to say nothing. I don't, in a school yard.

I don't know if our friend Vinny knows what a journal is. Because a journal comes with responsibility. It's very true. May that be a lesson to take out of today's podcast. This from Randall, at Truth is Told to You. Okay. Have we heard anything on a ruling for deflategate yet or swept under a rug? Yeah, how about that, Greg?

What happened to deflategate, which really ruined all our lives for about a two-week stretch in January? Well, maybe the NFL has decided it's such a boring, unimportant issue. They're just going to ignore it forever. That's what I hope. It is crazy that it's still going on. By the way, we're all cool if nothing ever comes of it. I bet Robert Kraft and some other people in New England would like some type of, you know, an apology or attraction, but we would love to never hear about it again.

People in New England would like it since we were told by almost the entire media that this could really affect the legacies of Bill Pelichick and Tom Brady and basically keep them out of the Hall of Fame. That was a dark time in the season. And what was kind of a rough season in a lot of stretches for different reasons? That's right. It was a final kick in the nuts

because you thought you were out of the woods in terms of, oh, it hadn't been any bad stories for a while. To watch 90% of the people covering the sport completely lose their mind. Yeah. This from Jeff Slunt. At Jeff B. Slunt. Hey, Slunt.

Get over here. Has Greg? received more free haircuts at work. I can answer this question, by the way. Greg has got now multiple haircuts in the makeup room. He looked splendiferous the other day. Producted his hair. It looks good.

And I'll just say this. I don't want to talk out of school here. Greg is my boss. But Greg is the only non- like NFL network talent to be doing this. The people are in NFL now and that have a podcast, us, don't typically get the haircuts. But Greg is maybe a trendsetter, the only one doing it. The man wanted to cut my hair.

It just came up a natural cover thing. It was an honor for him. Like, he saw your hair. He's like, get over here right now. Total McHenry. It came up, it came up naturally. You know, it wants to work on his craft. Now look, Greg might be more well-coffed than you all.

It is, because I don't have it as often. So that's how we're drilling down to the real story here. Dan doesn't like someone step into his throne. Well, by the way, let's be honest. I'm not going to go crazy about you here right now. You're talking about Chuck Daly Jr. We have an HR folder on Greg. Daddy Rich.

An HR folder on Greg downstairs that today alone is added 10 or 12 loosely pages. How am I the bad guy in this one? He's walking around like he's God's gift of hair. I mean, hey, we can all challenge for the title. Just saying you are someone that's putting yourself on the radar. We cannot all challenge for the title. You do not want to get into that battle, Greg. Give me some time, give me a haircut and a little bit of my Redkin product.

And the world stops Still step to Daddy Rich James Cochran So yes Greg is getting multiple free haircuts From the makeup room At James Cochran He lets us know

This is a correction From last week's pot I think Yes When we were talking about The Australian rugby player Signed by the Niners Jared Hayne He was referenced at one point

as an enigmatic kangaroo. Right. And I forgot that that, well, go ahead. The kangaroos are the name of the Australian Rugby League national team. Oh, that's not nearly as funny. No. And actually. Classic Daily Telegraph.

Anti-climactic. Generally, like the Olympic teams, I think they're called the kangaroos, too. And now I'm probably messing out. Well, leave it to the Daily Telegraph to completely confound their international audience. What have you known that? Classic journal work in the Daily Telegal. Old standard. No, I mean, I know that the soccer team is called the Socceroos, which is cool.

That's what I was thinking. Wait, do they call football soccer there? Mm-hmm. Yeah, because they have Aussie rules football and technically rugby football. Have you ever watched the little rugby? Oh, yeah. Really? Really?

I'll be in England for the Rugby World Cup next year. You guys can do that and do the international series. Sweet. Just watching it or you just happen to be there? I'll be in the stadium with a non-alcoholic beverage and a pennant. waving it around. We'll have fish and chips and pints. We need to have a night out, by the way, Gold Center before you leave as a group.

All right, this from Zach Smith. This is kind of a Damasekian program question, but I was legitimately interested because I don't know the answers for you guys at Zach and Maru. What are your favorite breakfast cereals? Now, I know maybe you don't tend to have a lot of breakfast cereal in the morning, but if you were having a breakfast cereal and you could choose one, Mark, we'll start with you. I don't eat cereal, but growing up, I would eat bowls and bowls of it a day, and Lucky Charms was where I'd go.

What you do is you eat the oats first, the oat parts. Oh, wow. Then as the little marshmallows get sogier in the milk, you just go down each of the mushrooms and you save the green leprechauns for last. You eat those up. Then you drink the milk, which is a sugar. By then, it tastes like a big sugar water. What was?

As a child, Raisin Bram was my go-to because we weren't allowed to have sugar cereals. but now I'll occasionally I'll partake with some fruity pebbles Wow interesting Greg Well we're talking now right So I mean it sounds boring But frosted miniweets I think that's the champion

That's my number one sugar on top of Wicker baskets Versatile You can have it dry if you need to You could take it out with it Anything kids love it I know it's a very bad for you But cinnamon toast crunch to me

Like so much This came up on Dave's show and they sent us like 30 boxes. Oh, yeah. Did that impact your decision? I guess I'm out of it. So, yeah, if the cinnamon toast crunch people are listening, I need some more. But love cinnamon toast crunch.

Also, Kix, sneaky kicks. Oh, no. No, no, I agree. Kicks taste. Mother-proof. Taste great. What? My daughter came home from school the other day talking about the kicks that she was given.

She just loved it. It tastes great, but you're never full after the kicks. That's one of the advantages shredded wheat has. You're full after those big hunts. How can you get? it enough milk or water or whatever you throw in your cereal to make it not drop. I'm with you.

It's like eating the dust bowl. Interesting. I took Greg for a grape nuts fan with the classic old, you know, the question is not if you're good enough for grape nuts. Well, that is the question. What are you talking about? Grape nuts. A healthy

cereal from the 80s that Greg's never eaten, apparently. Like Suzanne Summers was what used to do like the... I like cinnamon life too. Gold standard, yours. This might surprise. I'm not much of a cereal guy, but I do like a bit of corn pops in the morning. Have you had corn pops?

Okay. I always thought it was interesting, and it was in the silver bag. Yeah, right. I loved that as a kid. That was maybe my number one. Captain Crunch also. Remember the variety packs when we were a little kid?

Yeah, those are good. Like, we would only get them if we were going camping. Well, you had seven brothers. I understand why parents wouldn't want to inject sugar into the equation. Yeah. What a household that must have been. Seven Wes is running around. Not hyped up on.

sugar. Well, that's true. That had to help. All right. Let's do one or two more. At Malcolm McSweene. McSweene, 10. If Wes had to choose one celebrity Cornhole partner, who would it be? Wow. First one that comes to your mind.

David Simon? I was just about to say, because you said David Simon would write your memoirs last week. I find it to be an interesting guy. I feel like I could learn from him. I don't know. No, I don't know. David Simon sucks a cornhole by. who would be I have this

good corner order I don't really think it should be an athlete David Simon's a great answer you can talk about all sorts of things yeah but you want to win terrible at cornhole

yeah give you another guess I mean you want to make sure you advance in this tournament this pro M maybe Pete Rose oh he's so old what about Akely Smith

definitely not Akely Smith Lee Johnson and finally this from Tony Tovar at cheese Tony and I'm only bringing it up because this guy I can't believe this is something

we got What do you say to Packers fans who get upset at Ted Thompson for not being more active in free agency? Are you kidding me? Are you kidding me? Get a grip? That always, it happens every year, though. I know where he's coming from. These Packers fans are crazy. They're always complaining about Thompson and Mike McCarthy.

McCarthy, I can get a little bit, but Thompson, you know, look at the record. Look, if you're a Packers fan, you've had nothing but Brett Farve and Aaron Rogers since 1992. You don't have a whole lot to complain about. Sit down. weather. Mark got angry, got agro. No, I just, I don't see a whole lot of open doorway to, you know, get aggravated with the Packers at this point. It's working.

You had to have the biggest collapse possible. That wasn't Ted Thompson's fault not to make the Super Bowl last year. Tushay. I'm in the news, sweetheart. That's it for Thursday's, or Friday's edition of the Around the NFL podcast. We will be back two shows next week. Don't expect one on Monday. We're going to come back on Tuesday.

with the whole group, two shows next week. And then, I don't know, maybe. I'll tease it, I'm not sure. Maybe our AD scale show next week. Maybe. It could happen. It's a possibility. Might even sneak in an extra show for a little schedule release special.

It's all the things. Tasting. And then the week after that, of course, is draft a week, and that's a fun week because Wes will be in Chicago. We're going to have a Connor Ore, Space Ghost, Coast to Coast is going to be here. We're going to do play Go Get My Lunch Jerk Face We're going to of course

Do our post draft wrap up after round One and then another podcast at the end of the draft So a lot of great stuff coming up So keep listening That's it This is Dan Ansus Signing off Boar Quiet Storm The Mailman, the boss

And the Gold Standard behind the glass Until next week Go get my lunch clown car Go get my lunch clown car This is an I-heart podcast.