January 9, 2025 • 53 mins
A very special Big Show means a very special guest on this week’s Calm Down with Erin and Charissa. They welcome in Fox Sports NFL & College Football rules analyst Dean Blandino to cover everything from instant replay, getting cussed out by coaches, to getting your dating profile right. Dean shares an awesome story about working Super Bowl XLII and what happened after David Tyree’s famous helmet catch as well as some unforgettable airport bar stories featuring Erin and the A crew.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
And he texted me after the game and I just
want to mind my language, but he was like, I'm paraphrasing,
but he's like, Hey, if we're going to get screwed
again next week, I'll make sure to bring the lube.
So that that was a Rex text message that I've
saved because it was one like like what do you
say to that? Like, okay, coach, yeah, bring it.
Speaker 2 (00:20):
Calm down with Erin and Chrissa is a production of iHeartRadio.
Speaker 3 (00:29):
The official title of Dean Glanbino, Fox College Football, Fox
NFL Sunday Rules Expert. That's not the effect. Is that
close enough?
Speaker 1 (00:40):
That it's close enough. Actually, I'm a master of ceremonies.
On the on the A Crew Good New Kind of meetings,
we did a whole whiteboard type breaking down all the scenarios,
the week eighteen scenarios, and I'm happy to say that
all of our predictions came true. Oh yes, eating, the seating,
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the matchups, everything except we didn't think we were going
to get Green Bay Philly and we got Green Bay Philly. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (01:06):
Look at that is the gift that keeps on giving,
and so is Dean Blandino. And with that, we welcome
you to the Calm Down Podcast. Your inaugural appearance on
the SAMED Calm Down Podcast.
Speaker 1 (01:17):
I mean everywhere we go there's Calm Down Podcast fans. Yes,
we run into them. Just happened in Tampa, I mean
literally just happened.
Speaker 3 (01:27):
So tell us the story of because again, Aaron and
I would love to break our own arms patting ourselves
on the back, but why don't you give us a
little perspective of actually being out with you know, beatles,
like kind of individuals like.
Speaker 1 (01:39):
It is Beatles, I mean, think of I try to
think of the most. I mean, maybe it's like the
boy band craze of the nineties. I mean it's like
Backship and Sync ninety eight degrees all together in that
if it's our bock. I mean we're sitting at the
bar and these.
Speaker 2 (01:56):
We weren't sitting. We weren't sitting, we.
Speaker 1 (01:58):
Were we were kind of owned this one section of
the bar, and Aaron was like, I mean it was great.
She was on it when we walked in because we
went to dinner. I got in late, met a group
for dinner, and then we met Ea at the bar
and she was already.
Speaker 2 (02:19):
Like, yes, Tampa brought it, and they don't.
Speaker 1 (02:23):
You don't have to ask me twice, So I'm like,
let's go. And then it was just people watching. And
then we had this group of girls that were big
Calm Down fans taking pictures. Whoa there was, there were
changing numbers, exchanging numbers. There was pop collar guy. We
were giving people nicknames. There was Dave Canalis look alike guy.
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There was a lot. There was the guy that came
up to Erin and he was a listener, but he said,
you're not good at karaoke.
Speaker 2 (02:56):
You got, you got aggressive, you got I remediately.
Speaker 1 (02:59):
Got whoa whoa? Listen. If you got it, then you're
gonna have to sing something. And we tried to get
Jesse's girl played on the but the DJ wasn't having it.
Speaker 3 (03:09):
Okay, So I'm gonna put a pin in that for
one second. For those of you that are new to
the Calm Down Podcast, first of all, we welcome you,
but also, Aaron, I'd like you to explain Dean as
I mentioned the rules analysts and expert for Fox Sports
for all things, but explain what he does when he
goes on the road and how that all works with
your crew, because sometimes he's in studio across from the
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the glass little partition that him and I share on Sundays.
And then sometimes he's not so explain for people that
don't know why Dean goes on the road, what it's
all about.
Speaker 2 (03:39):
This is your first year with us, right.
Speaker 1 (03:41):
Dean, first year? Yeah?
Speaker 2 (03:42):
Wow, so memorable. And as I was getting ready to
come on today, I was already like, Mike's gonna be
so pissed when he finds out they pissed immediately. We
love you, Mike, We love you so much. Mike Perera
normally comes out with our crew and he is up
there in the booth. He used to be with Joe
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and Troy now and then Greg and Kevin and now
with Tom and Kevin and basically Dean, you are there
for the exact reason that we saw yesterday during that
drive that the Bucks had. There is problems like you know,
if there's a question with a call, if you know,
we want to get your opinion on the call, if
you know what really should happen, I'll let you kind
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of elaborate more.
Speaker 1 (04:24):
Yeah, it's there. I'm there, and I can talk to
our producer, Richie's Aiens directly. I can talk to Kevin,
Burt Carter, Tom Brady directly, and it's just.
Speaker 2 (04:33):
You don't talk to New York though, right, I do
not talk to New York now texting with New York.
Speaker 1 (04:38):
They can text me, Yeah, they'll text me different things.
So if something comes up, I can get in their ear.
I can give them okay, here's the relevant rule or
what my opinion is. And then if it's big enough, they'll,
you know, we'll go on the air. And like we
did yes in the game in Tampa where they had
a penalty enforcement, it was taking forever and Bray, Tom
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and Kevin were talking about their holiday plans while the
officials were trying to figure it out. It was legitimately
like four minutes. Ye, but it's like that kind of
stuff that and then then when I'm in the studio,
like Chrissa was saying, we're doing the other games. So
you're only doing one game when you're on the road,
and then you're doing the others when you're in.
Speaker 2 (05:17):
The studio and team because I'm not with you in studio, sorry, CT,
how do you keep track of everything that's going on?
So literally, Dean will come on in how many games
do we have CHRISA going on at one time.
Speaker 3 (05:28):
Depends, Like yesterday there was four early games and three
late games, so just depends.
Speaker 1 (05:33):
Yeah, exactly, and so yeah, three or four and you're
we have a big monitor wall and we're watching all
the games. I have access to all the games. I
can jump to anyone. I can talk to the producers
in the truck and uh yeah, it's just and we
have a couple of people in there that are monitoring
things and pointing things out, and you just kind of
bounce around. But I'm used to it. When I was
at the League office, I mean we had we could
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have ten or eleven games going on, so so you're
used to it.
Speaker 2 (05:59):
And that's what I want. I want to go back
because I would love for It's fascinating to me. And
this is where Fox is so innovative because they were
the first ever broadcast network to bring an official into
the broadcast. Because there's so many times that you know,
the play by player analysts, you know, color commentator doesn't
want to make assumptions about things. So to bring in
an analyst, a rules analyst was so smart and now
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you see every network do it. So Fox being the
first to do that give us a little background, Dean,
and because I don't know all the details either, how
did you get into the business, why did you want
to get into the business, and how you are here
present day.
Speaker 1 (06:32):
Yeah, my path was different unique. I didn't have an
officiating background. I didn't I didn't do it. I didn't
have any interest in it. I just loved sports. I
played sports my whole life. And I grew up in
New York. I went to school in New York. The
NFL has their offices in New York, and I just
sent my resume. Wow, major League Baseball and NHL and
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NFL and NBA, and the NFL happened to call and
they had a bunch of internships, and I was lucky
enough to go interview a couple of different departments, and
I interviewed in officiating and they liked me and they
offered me the position. And I just went from there and.
Speaker 2 (07:08):
Just learned what wasn'tating.
Speaker 1 (07:11):
I was an officiating intern. I was doing everything anything, stats, video.
I was picking up Mike Pereira, who was the head
of officiating, not at that time, but his predecessor, Jerry Seaman.
I was picking him up at the airport, you know,
just whatever and anything you had to do.
Speaker 3 (07:28):
Yeah, so if you didn't love officiating, but you then
became immersed in it with the internship and you were like, hey,
maybe I could make this into a career.
Speaker 1 (07:36):
Yeah. I just started to really learn about it. And
then really the big break for me, and I was
so lucky and so blessed to be in the right
place at the right time, was when instant replay came
back to the NFL in nineteen ninety nine, and I
was heavily involved in that process, both on the technical
side and the software and hardware and all that, and
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then on the rules side, and that really it took
off from there. So I was really lucky.
Speaker 2 (08:02):
Cool is So I was telling you before you got
on Dean just Mike Tomlin and how excited he was
to see you could have cared less about all of us.
Just kidding, but I thought it was fascinating. Did you
watch the clip I sent you?
Speaker 1 (08:12):
I did, I did.
Speaker 2 (08:13):
Yeah, it was so great. But he was just talking
about how you guys had a fantastic relationship when he
was young and starting out, and can you just tell
us stories like that, like what happened when you finally
you know, got to be involved and then got to
have like one on one relationships with guys like Tomlin
which are legendary and other guys your friends.
Speaker 1 (08:31):
With no doubt, and that was it was. I always
felt like it was building those relationships. Always not officiating
is not a positive thing. When a coach is calling you,
he's not like, yeah, they did a great job. You know,
you know, it's always bad. And I always thought I
gotta have good relationships because then at least if we
have a good relationship that listen, we can get to
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some common ground. And always built those relationships. Sometimes maybe
I went a little too far with some of those
relationships and was on a party bus at one point, but.
Speaker 2 (09:00):
Okay, the ones we want to hear about.
Speaker 1 (09:04):
Yeah, but I blamed Glazer for that one. But guys
like Mike Tomlin, who was on the competition committee, I
told this story. I don't know who I was telling
the other day. But when I was up for the
job the head of officiating, it was always like an unspeaking,
unspoken rule that because I never officiated on the field,
I couldn't get that job. And I was like, you
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know whatever, I'm going to go for it. And I interviewed,
and I got pretty close to the end and they
were going to decide between me and one other person.
I remember being in Indianapolis at the Combine and everybody's
you know, hanging out. We were at you know whatever
Prime almost.
Speaker 2 (09:40):
I just remember Conrad.
Speaker 1 (09:42):
Exactly, and I remember Mike pulling me aside Mike Tomlin
and like giving me this pep talk like you're the guy,
you you have the most experience, you have the most
and I just was like I was ready to go
run through a wall after that, and he's exactly. I
was like, give I actually after that, I was like,
give me some more of that cocktail sauce. Let's go.
(10:05):
And but yeah, he's awesome. He is awesome. Love that guy.
Speaker 2 (10:12):
That's great. But go ahead, ct No, no, no, you go.
I was just gonna say, like, when you think about
like your memories of doing it, I don't worry. We're
going to get into Jared's hint tender page and all
that crap in a minute. Yeah, but yeah, we'll get there.
But just some of your favorite moments of the jo
Oh my god.
Speaker 1 (10:28):
So many. There are so many coaches that I really
there isn't a coach and people ask me who was
the biggest pain in the ass, and they were always
they're just there. They're head coaches. There's so much on
the line for them. It's emotional. So I would always
get it. I mean, I remember Tom Coughlin like letting
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me have it. They lost a game to the Patriots.
It was a regular season game. There was a big
hold that we missed on the field, and he called
me after the game and let me have it for
like twenty minutes straight. And his assistant texted me like, hey,
don't take it personally. I get this like three times
a week. So guys like that. And then you have
like Ron Rivera's who's one of my favorites, who I
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remember meeting his wife for the first time and she's like,
you know, you're higher than me on the favorites list
in his phone, like you just so it's like those guys,
and I did. I told the story about Rex Ryan
to the guys on the crew because you know, now
he's interviewing for the Jets job. And I said, you
know when when the first time he was with the Jets,
he he it was a week one game and we
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had like twenty penalties on the Jets and they lost
and some of them, some of them weren't great calls.
And he texted me after the game, and I just
want to mind my language, but he was like I'm PARAPHRASINGBO.
He's like, Hey, if we're going to get screwed again
next week, I'll make sure to bring the loop. So
that that was a Rex text message that I've saved
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because it was one like like, what do you say
to that, Like, okay, coach, yeah, bring it.
Speaker 2 (11:58):
I wish I did the like button thumbs out, okay,
got fireworks.
Speaker 1 (12:03):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (12:03):
You don't have to have such a good personality and
sense of humor to take just the berating every single
but that's actually a really good mindset to have. Like
jobs are on the line, you know, lives are. It's
just where you maybe you know, raise your kids because
you could get fired and things like that. Hardest part
of the gig that people don't understand.
Speaker 1 (12:23):
Hardest part I just I just think there's such a disconnect.
There's a disconnect between how the game's officiated on the field,
Like those officials get one look at it at full
speed from their one angle, and then how do we
get to judge them? Six different slow motion replays and
super and so we sit there and we go, how
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did they miss that? We'll go out and you've both
like you've done it more than most You've been on
the sideline of NFL games. How fast is it? How
how much taking place? And there's only seven officials for
twenty two players. And I think that's the disconnect sometimes
with officiating. And yeah, sometimes they screw it up and
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they've got to be better, But I just think sometimes
it's an unreasonable standard that we that we kind of
hold them to.
Speaker 2 (13:12):
Yeah, Aaron and I always talk about pinch me moments
right in our career. Are things that we've done or
people that we've met, or you know, standing on the
sideline of the David Tyree catch on the Hilmet and
you're like watching Randy Moss walk off the field before
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the game's even over because he knows it's done. It's
just like these moments where you grow up as sports fans,
you obviously yourself and played sports and having a front
row seat to all of these things, what's been You
have a myriad of them. I'm sure a real pinch
me moment where you're like, this is fucking cool.
Speaker 1 (13:50):
Oh my gosh, I remember.
Speaker 2 (13:51):
Ray in Tampa last night that too.
Speaker 1 (13:54):
Oh my god, that was that? What a great find
if you're in well that terminal? What is that a terminal?
A Tampa Tampa International? Pay a May that is way
May Pay May Pay Way. It is away hidden gem
in the back kid in gem.
Speaker 2 (14:15):
What are you hold the lighter up for? Over there?
Speaker 1 (14:17):
We are?
Speaker 2 (14:19):
Oh, but pinch me moment.
Speaker 1 (14:22):
I mean, I do funny story about the David Tyree catch.
I was in the replay booth for that. And you
know you're in, you're working, You're in the replay booth.
It's Patriots Giants, Patriots trying to be the greatest team ever.
And I know and my mom, who's the most unintentionally
funny person on the planet, like she knows I'm working,
don't call me during the game unless it's an emergency.
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So that play happens. We're actually reviewing it and I
see my phone. I have it on the counter and
it's my mom and I'm like what And I don't
answer it, and then she calls back and I'm like,
oh no, what what is going on? So we review
the play and she calls a time and I finally
pick up. I'm like, Mom, it's the Super Bowl. What's
going on? She goes, did you see that catch? All right, Mom,
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I'll talk to you after the game. Bye. It was amazing, amazing, Yeah, unbelieved,
so good, so many Kinchby moments. We're so lucky. We
really are.
Speaker 2 (15:16):
We are lucky, and we are so lucky for the
friendships and the families that we create on the road.
Because as much as we complained, like whatever, we stay
in great hotels. Last night we got off a flight, Chrissy,
you know it five and a half hours from Tampa.
I mean, we are still carrying the sweat and the
crap that we had when we were on the field
at eleven am. It's a long ass flight. You're on
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the tarmac, everyone's coffin snort and they're snot and we
just got off the plane. We're like, fuck, that was long.
But we still were laughing because it's Kevin me Dean
to get each other so much, and we're.
Speaker 1 (15:50):
Back each other. Yeah, we're like, and we couldn't. We didn't.
We weren't sitting together, but we were texting each other.
And then we land and the pilot who was the pilot,
that guy was when we because it was our flight
was delayed, and he's like, I know, our flight's delayed,
but we got this baby filled up with gas and
to the metal. And I was like, this guy is
definitely not a nibbler.
Speaker 2 (16:11):
Not a nibbler.
Speaker 1 (16:12):
He is not he is he is not. And but yeah,
on the tarmac and there was a delay, we didn't
have a gate and all this stuff, and and KB
was like, get me off this plane, like yeah, oh
my god.
Speaker 2 (16:27):
And the friendships of the cruise and stuff, which is
the best part, and like, yeah, like the other night
we got on this before you got on and our
producer and Crisic, so how did this come about? It
go Tampa brought it. We were lit and Dean was like,
I want to be on calm down, and I was like,
let's freaking.
Speaker 1 (16:43):
Go, let's go, let's go.
Speaker 2 (16:46):
So we go ahead.
Speaker 1 (16:48):
No, no, no, I just say we were on one and
it was so much fun. But I cannot I cannot
emphasize enough. This has been my most fun season by far.
And I love this duty with us, and I love
the studio and Christinos. Everybody in the studio is awesome.
We have a lot of fun. But being able to
do both. This year was so much fun.
Speaker 2 (17:11):
That's what. So people always ask me, oh, what do
you like better?
Speaker 3 (17:13):
Do you like being in studio or being on the road,
And my answer is always like, thank God, I'm lucky
enough to do both, because there's benefits of the studio.
You get in your car, you drive up the ten
or whatever, the four or five, you go to work,
you're not on a plane, you get back home.
Speaker 2 (17:25):
Cool being on the road, the stories that come from
the road, the Shenanigans, all that stuff. So like having
the hybrid of both like is the best case scenario.
Which gets me to Jared Klein, who used to be
my researcher, jaredy Cline.
Speaker 1 (17:39):
I love that we're just by name now Jared's ou
We're not we're talking about Jared look kind of taking
him under my wing.
Speaker 2 (17:47):
He has Jared taking him under my wing.
Speaker 3 (17:50):
If you want to be a big boy and be
parading around the stadiums, whatever, you also have to recognize
that part of the locker room is giving each other shit.
So sure Line used to be my researcher, sitting next
to me for down and distance, different things that I
would need for a highlight.
Speaker 2 (18:06):
Got it. This is the fourth touchdown of the day.
Speaker 3 (18:08):
This is you know, Aaron Rodgers spotfit whatever, whatever pertinent
information I need for a highlight.
Speaker 2 (18:12):
Jared did that.
Speaker 3 (18:12):
Well, Jarrett's very good at his job. So you guys
stole him and now he's on the road with you guys. Okay,
no problem, but Jarrett. My long history with Jarrett is
he's been looking for a lady for a while. Okay,
He's always talking about how he can't find the right one. So,
unbeknownst to me, Aaron is choosing to keep him anonymous.
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And again I don't know that she's talking about Jarrett.
Last week when it.
Speaker 2 (18:37):
Whatever hinge profiles brought.
Speaker 3 (18:39):
Up and she's like, there's this guy hinge Da da da,
And as she's talking, I'm.
Speaker 2 (18:43):
Like, oh, I fucking know who this guy is.
Speaker 3 (18:45):
I was like, it's Jared Cline. I was like, let's
just call okay the dog picture the shirtless one. For
those of you that didn't listen to last week's episode, again,
we'll fill you in. We have a thing about hinge
profiles or any profile when dating. Just take your sunglasses off,
don't be shirtless in a pooled, don't be a douchebag
with your arm around an athlete.
Speaker 2 (19:01):
Just be normal. Okay, Dean was playing photographer at our game.
Speaker 1 (19:05):
This was taking pictures of him before the game or
his hinge profile because we're doing a total overhaul, Like
I don't need stop with the because again, these are
not these are not organic.
Speaker 3 (19:17):
Shots, yes exactly. So I'm just filling in the blanks
for anyone that's not familiar with what happened. So that's
Jerrick Kleine. We all love him. We want to see
him with a woman. He's actually gotten some inquiry. But now, Dean,
take us where are we at currently with Jerick Leine?
In the profile and the up.
Speaker 1 (19:34):
This was, I mean it came out of the blue.
We were at dinner, I think in Green Bay, and
he just talked about TMI. He just went all in
on his dating life and this one young lady that
he was dating and they you know, it was like
the fifth date and he thought things were going really well.
Speaker 2 (19:52):
But oh god, she's listening to the podcast right now
breaking down Tom's seven Super Bowl ring and then this
side of the table is fucking roaring and I'm like, wait,
great on the goat over here, what's going on exactly.
Speaker 1 (20:04):
Yeah, we had Tom on one side and we're talking
about football and we're talking about, hey, what about between
two thousand and seven, what did Belichick do? And then
on this side we've got Jared talking about this girl
that he's dating and how they both they both really
like the butter cream cake from Ralph's and he got
her the cake and it was like two very different conversations.
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And I'm not gonna lie, the butter cream conversation was
more interesting to me. Yeah, and he just you know,
and then things didn't work out with that young lady.
And now we're just back on the horse and we're
just trying to get you know, we got to give
in a file together. We got us, you know, get
some good pictures we got We even went and went
through like sayings for his his his pictures, and so
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we're hoping, we're hoping that we can find love, we
can find.
Speaker 2 (20:52):
Jason because I'm not done with this, because I'm all
in on this as well. So Aaron and I talked
about how we don't like the you're in the pool,
the shirt list whatever, or you're next to a dog.
You don't even have a dog. Somebody else's yeah, so
what what are your like the guys you know perspective
on another, like what what are your good advice to him?
Speaker 1 (21:14):
For me? And I'm I've been my own experience, like
my original before I got married. Before it wasn't dating
apps like you, you had to risk something so I
have to go up to you in a bar or
wherever it is. And now it's just like so I
don't like all that, but I realize that that's how
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today is and that's how people meet each other. And
I just think it's just like be yourself, Like you know,
I get it. There's there's there's physical attraction and you
have to put your best foot forward because that's what
people are going to see. But you don't need to
try that hard. Like we don't need to have the
glamor shots and the and the you know, the wait,
the shirtless shots. I mean, even if you look like
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you know whoever, you don't need the shirtless shot.
Speaker 2 (22:00):
It's not you know, it's so great, you know, it's
so great about your Dean.
Speaker 3 (22:02):
So if you don't know Dean, you're just like, oh,
it seems like you know, so like oserved and like.
Speaker 2 (22:08):
Not yeah, button up like whatever.
Speaker 3 (22:10):
When you get to know Dean, You're like, this guy
is fucking awesome.
Speaker 1 (22:14):
Thank you. I appreciate it. I don't. I don't open
up very quickly, and I like to observe and I
like to just once once we're in, then it's like, okay,
no holds.
Speaker 2 (22:28):
Bar, wheels off, let's go.
Speaker 1 (22:32):
In the bar in Tampa. Getting lippy and we got
to move to the next bar.
Speaker 2 (22:35):
Oh god, I caught myself. I look, I said, I'm
getting lippy.
Speaker 1 (22:39):
We need to get out.
Speaker 2 (22:40):
I caught myself when.
Speaker 1 (22:43):
People were walking by us and she's like pointing it
like this guy. I'm like, oh boy boy, here we go.
Speaker 2 (22:51):
The only time I got upset was we had an area,
We had an area, we had been there for a while,
and then like, you know, I like to watch what's
going on. And there are some younger women, you know,
trying to get close to the Dave Canalis look alike
or the Paul mal Moro look alike that we had
at the bar, and so I liked watching their moves.
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And their moves were come lean up against the chair
that had my coat and my purse on it. Casey
and Dean were sitting by then we're one cheek on.
Then we're one cheek on with our cocktail laughing. Now
mid laugh, we're two cheeks on and we're sitting on
my coat and my purse.
Speaker 1 (23:32):
Lippy.
Speaker 2 (23:33):
Carissa, after you've had a few, what are you doing?
Oh hey, hey, let me move this for you, because
you're asking. I already know what this is.
Speaker 3 (23:39):
The problem is that we, by the way, we need
a rules analyst between you and I when we go
out Giallo.
Speaker 2 (23:47):
And besides encroachment, we also had a very fun dinner
at a place that gronk I guess hat the money
in which I yeah, it was phenomenal.
Speaker 1 (24:08):
Let's give a shout out to Broke a great food.
But we have this fun little you know, we're twelve
of us and so.
Speaker 2 (24:18):
You can't give out names.
Speaker 1 (24:19):
Who can't give out, won't give it, can no, we
won't give out names.
Speaker 2 (24:22):
But I'm looking at people differently now in one hundred percent.
Speaker 1 (24:25):
So the fun game was if you could be a person,
any person for the day, who would you be and why?
So like that's fun. We're all drinking, like read the
room people, but somebody did you? I loved you? I
said you hefner great because I'm a degenerate, but anyway,
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so so. But some of the answers were, well, one, well,
we can call out Jared because this is this is
kind of harmless.
Speaker 2 (24:54):
Jared, it's getting so much play right your hair?
Speaker 1 (24:57):
You say, you saying both?
Speaker 2 (25:00):
What a loser? But I was like, by.
Speaker 1 (25:05):
Like you say both on a regular Tuesday, Like what
are you getting out? Like maybe during the Olympics. But
he was like, it was so cool to be the
fastest man in the world. And I'm like, yeah, but
like you've got to like, yes, if you're in a race,
but what does you saying both get you on a
Thursday at three o'clock at the supermarket, Like you're he
and I are on the same footing in that in
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that mode. But there was some very disturbing answers.
Speaker 2 (25:31):
Like I cannot look at some people this.
Speaker 1 (25:33):
There was one that said that I would be a
young child because I could see the world the wonder
of the world again. And my response really can't be repeated,
but I yelled and it was not complimentary of what
that of what that was. And then another a guy
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on her crew, said his wife and I thought, I
immediately looked at Kevin at KB I was like, oh,
that's a badass answer because his wife is so lucky
to be married to him.
Speaker 2 (26:05):
Yeah, that's what you're thinking.
Speaker 1 (26:06):
That's what we all thought. That's what we all thought.
But then he explained that no, so then I can
understand her feelings and where she's coming from, and I
can understand her. But which which if it was just heated,
if it was me and him at the bar, like
talking about life and feelings, great, great answer. This was
not the it was not the room. Oh my god.
Speaker 2 (26:27):
I also showed up at this stadium and I love
this guy, but I'm judging back now.
Speaker 1 (26:32):
Love him, love him back, love him.
Speaker 2 (26:34):
But I'm judging him now. And when I got to
the stadium, he goes, ea, I'm doubling down on what
I said. I was like, you can't, you cannot.
Speaker 1 (26:42):
It was it was there was some answers. Another guy
in our crew, and this one's harmless Nelly. He wanted
to be president for the United States. But she had
given this some thought because he went through some of
his policies and some like real like thoughtful went into it,
like with tax reform and all these things. It was
imperform was really impressive, and my stupid ass is like you.
Speaker 2 (27:09):
Have to and it was just and Jillian goes Dolly Park.
Speaker 3 (27:15):
It's fine, Yes, yeah, it was. That's a reallyef That
is a very fun game. Another one that I've done
before is like what animal would you be? And you
really discover like people like I want to be a laboratory.
You're like, okay, you like relax, you know, like I.
Speaker 2 (27:27):
Want to be the lion of the jungle. Okay, So
turning it back real quickly to the NFL for a second,
because we'd be remissed since we have you on it
is week eighteens over the playoff schedule set you alluded
to at the beginning of this. You had all the scenarios,
so you had the whole bracket, right, I mean, walk.
Speaker 1 (27:47):
Me through the NFC because we knew that we'd have
an NFC game, So we did the NFC. Okay, did
the NFC.
Speaker 3 (27:53):
So then we'll go over to the AFC for a second.
Can you have an opinion on who you think is?
I'm probably not you can't, right, I love this, Okay, great?
Who do you like?
Speaker 1 (28:03):
Who I like? See, well, it's really hard to go
against the Chiefs. It's really hard to go against Mahomes,
They're just it's it's just they find a way and
look at you look at last year and they weren't
playing very well in the middle of the middle of
the way, and then they just turned it on and
they go and win another Super Bowl. Now they're they're
fifteen and one. They've got to buy It's really hard
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to bet against them. In my heart, I know the
matchup I want to see as a football fan, and
that's Bill's Lions. I just think that two fan bases
that have never won a Super Bowl, that are two
of probably the greatest fan bases. I would love to
see that. I don't know, it's just tough to bet
against the Chiefs in the AFC. I think it's crazy,
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you know, it's just really I think the Bills and
maybe the Ravens could could could give them a run
for their money. I'm just not sure. I just hate
to go against Mahomes and Andy I love. It's just tough.
Speaker 2 (29:02):
Is there a thought process out there, you guys that
if a team in the AFC were to beat the
Chiefs and go on to the Super Bowl, they would
be the ones to win the Super Bowl because you
already just beat the hardest you know out out there.
You know what I'm saying, Like, that's the super Bowl,
the AFC Championship against the Chiefs. But if like they
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win it, it's like, how could you stop the Omnum?
Speaker 1 (29:25):
Of course you.
Speaker 2 (29:25):
Could, but I would say too, I love the you know,
of course we all love Josh Allen. We love the
Bill's mafia. Like it's so easy to root for them,
like you mentioned their fan base. Yeah, I'm gonna say
this right now.
Speaker 3 (29:38):
Though again we know him because you know, I had
pledge we worked with him at Fox Sean Payton watch
out though.
Speaker 2 (29:45):
Yeah, I just that defense.
Speaker 3 (29:47):
And you've got a guy like bo Nix who doesn't
know I mean, he just has this unbridled confidence where
it's like, I don't know. I just think that that
could be a potential upset, even going into Buffalo and sure,
you know the Uels are supposed.
Speaker 2 (30:00):
To win, and you know the Broncos just got it.
I just I'm really curious to see how that one
plays out. It's what we saw last year, the wild card,
you know, Dallas Green beads, Like you could just feel
how tight Dallas was. You could sense they're supposed to
have was like the guy that was just like I'm
gonna sling it.
Speaker 1 (30:20):
Yeah that's like any given Sunday, and yeah, you know
we could sit here and predict, but who knows. But yeah, Denver,
I mean there were all any somebody has a bad
day injuries.
Speaker 2 (30:35):
Even what we saw last night with the Lions.
Speaker 3 (30:36):
Everyone's like, oh, you got fourteen guys on the defensive
side of the ball that are on ir like whatever,
and they showed up last night against the Vikings.
Speaker 2 (30:45):
So yeah, this is why we love the NFL. What's
your favorite thing about the league?
Speaker 1 (30:49):
I love that favorite thing about the league. I just
think because I do. I think it brings people together.
It really does, like I think because it's unlike any
other sport, and I love you know, I grew up
playing like baseball and hockey were my two sports, Like
like I always love football too, but but that's like,
you know, there's more games. There's there's three or four
games a week. Baseball it's like five or six games
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a week, where football is like it's appointments viewing. It's Sunday,
we're all going to get together. I know now we
do Thursday and Monday and Saturday, but it's really still like,
I just think it brings people together, because if we
were on the road doing four or five games a week,
like I mean, there's some people on the crew I
might not like as much. You know, it's it's me, Hi.
Speaker 2 (31:36):
I'm the problem.
Speaker 1 (31:37):
I just love that. I love that, and I know
it sounds corny, but they it is. It really does
bring people together, and it's been it's I think it's
that's why it's the most popular sport by a long
shot in this country.
Speaker 2 (31:50):
How freaking fun is it still, Dean? Even though you
and Kevin and I are so awkward because everybody just
wants to talk to Brady and see Brady, So the
three of us go off on our own and do
our own thing. But how fun is that still? To
be on a field like we're on a freaking football
field for pre game like this is insane.
Speaker 1 (32:06):
It's wild and that people, And that's that's like you
talk about pinch me or just or just never forgetting
that that you don't take it for granted because how
many people, how many millions and millions of people would
give anything just to be on a field pre game, right,
and we get to do it all the time, and
that's where for me, it's like, don't ever take that
for granted. You never know when it can be taken away.
(32:28):
And it's just so cool. And and this year with
Tom has been great because you really see I mean
he is a rock star, right and and and you
see the passion you see and it's it's it's been
a lot of fun. And yeah, we kind of stand back.
I like joke, I'm an extra security guy. I just
kind of stand back and and make sure we monitor
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who's who's talking to Tom.
Speaker 2 (32:50):
Yeah, you gave me the coach star or what's that
I said? You Dean gave us some of the coaches
stories about like the voicemails, the Rex, right, but I
need a Tom Brady story that now is funny because
you work with him.
Speaker 1 (33:02):
Oh good, Oh okay, I'll give you the Tom Brady story.
So Tom, like Tom is for like he's he really
is awesome and he's down to earth and he just
he's such a he's like wants to be a good teammate.
He really does. And I'm not blowing smoke, like he
is just really like wants to learn, wants to and
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he just like comes to dinner, does everything that we
do other than like three am at the bar, which
I understand, I understand, but.
Speaker 2 (33:32):
His skin looks like that because he doesn't do three
He doesn't.
Speaker 1 (33:35):
Do right exactly. So but so all year I'm kind
of joking with him, like I'm just I want to
get you to get a drink at dinner, Like I
feel like a degenerate like me, Chris and KB, Like
it's like cocktail and wine, Like what are we doing?
You know, I'm like dugit and tonics and then KB
then you get the wine, and so it's like, oh,
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you're trying to get him in. Finally, we were in
Philly a couple of weeks ago. We went to this
like tiny, awesome Italian restaurant named Aroma, and and it's
like this family place and it's and we didn't have
a private room and we're out amongst everybody, and finally
we get him and it was a lemon Cello shot.
So we're not talking about you know, we're not talking
(34:17):
about it was Lemonell, but hey, baby steps and and
finally we got shots and he did it like he
did the shot, and I was a little annoyed that
he did it without cheering anybody.
Speaker 2 (34:29):
He didn't tell any of us.
Speaker 1 (34:31):
It was like he didn't wait wait, I was like, what,
I wanted to do the shot with you?
Speaker 2 (34:35):
But he cheers him he did. I just cheers the goat.
Speaker 1 (34:40):
He did. He did, so we finally got him to
do a shot, So that was fun. That was fun.
Speaker 2 (34:45):
Yeah, he's, like you said, he walking on the field
you kind of forget, which sounds so lame, being in
meeting rooms with him, just talking ball with him, talking scenarios,
gossiping with him, stuff like that. He's the goat, and
then you go out on the field with him pregame
and you're like, oh, yeah, okay, now I got it. Yeah,
But he's been great.
Speaker 1 (35:04):
He's great, and I love listening to him talk about
football Hall and it's it's been a lot of fun.
It's really been a lot of fun.
Speaker 2 (35:10):
Any Dean a piece of advice because keV has graced
us with his presence on this podcast as well, and
he took my favorite word, circuitous route to become a broadcaster.
He was a car salesman.
Speaker 3 (35:21):
You mentioned you started as an intern, So what advice
do you have for people that want to get into
the business and just think like, oh, I have to
do this, this, this, and this, but it doesn't always
you know, you don't have to. There's a done a
ton of different ways you can arrive at the same.
Speaker 1 (35:36):
There really is. And like I think everybody that we
work with, nobody, there's no cookie cutter, there's no blueprint.
We've all done it differently. And I think it's about relationships.
I think it's about networking. I remember we were There
was the young lady that came up to you aarin
before the game who worked for Tampa PR and she
was asking EA about advice, and I thought your advice
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was so good in terms of go reach out to
the local television stations, the radio stations, connect with those people.
And I think that's it. It's about those relationships. Because
for me, and I didn't tell this earlier, but the
only reason I found this out later, the only reason
I even got a phone call from the NFL because
I went to Hofstra University in New York. Go Wayne Quebet,
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Marcus Colston football NFL factory by the way, and so
I went to Hofstra and the girl who was working
in human resources also went to Hofstra, didn't know me,
but put my resume on top because we went to
the same school, and it's just like those relationships and
meeting people and networking. You just don't know. You don't
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know because there's no one path and there's no there's
no easy way either. You got to put in the work.
So I love that.
Speaker 2 (36:49):
Yeah, well, I was coming back to HR one way
or another, Folks, doesn't it God damn, oh my god,
HR your old representative years. You know what that means? Hey, wait, Handan,
you know this story, do I? I worked at HR
in Fox. That was my first job. Shut up, yes,
(37:09):
because I wanted to become a sports broadcaster and the
only job they had to fail it was the assistant
and so then yeah, and I went through it.
Speaker 1 (37:19):
You are so cut out for HR. Let me tell you,
it's amazing, so especially so comfortable coming to you with
my issues and yeah, it's great.
Speaker 2 (37:37):
Wait, I have to ask you this question. If you
could change one.
Speaker 1 (37:41):
Rule, what would it be? Yeah? One?
Speaker 2 (37:45):
Or get rid of one rule?
Speaker 1 (37:46):
One? I do think we've talked about it a lot
this year, and I know Tom it's like a pet
peeve for him, like the quarterbacks with the late slides,
and it does it put like we had to play
yesterday yesterday with Baker and he slid late and he
got hit and everybody jumps up and it's like, oh
my god, you hit the quarterback. And so I do
think that that that late slide that has to be
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something that And I'm not sure what the answer is
because the defenders are in such a tough spot, Like
here's mage're trying to tackle Josh Allen and you're getting
ready to hit him and all of a sudden he
slides at the last second and it's right at the
line in the game, guys. But I think that's that's
something to look at because I do think the onus
has to be on the player, the quarterback to slide early,
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and sometimes they don't, and it does put the defense
in a tough spot.
Speaker 2 (38:34):
Can I add this, what would you like to see?
Would there be a role you would add?
Speaker 1 (38:40):
You know, I do think we're gonna I do think
we're going to expand instant replay, and I do I
think ultimately that's a good thing when we do have
the video. Because we talked about earlier, officials get one
look at it full speed and they may miss it,
and so if we can have an opportunity to correct them,
it's got to be game changing. You don't want to
reofficiate the game through replay, it would you know, think
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about four and a half minutes yesterday, we're all sitting
there waiting. So I think there is an opportunity to
use technology to help get get the plays right because
there is so much riding on these games.
Speaker 2 (39:11):
Yeah, I was wondering if you could explain to everybody
what the hell you're doing on camera behind Kevin and Tom.
There was a little meme about that. Yeah, it did
go viral. Well, I feel like you should tell everyone
the game was created of the different poses Dean will
do it is. Yeah, so it's a weird like some
of the booths.
Speaker 1 (39:27):
They've got this I don't know what they call the camera,
but it kind of shoots. It's not the head on
shot that when when KB and Tom will be on
camera talking to the audience. It's kind of like an angle.
And so when they shoot that shot, I'm in the
corner and it just kind of looks weird, like I'm.
Speaker 2 (39:45):
Just like standing there, insane.
Speaker 1 (39:48):
Yeah, and so Art and so Rich Russo who who
He'll He'll be like, hey, Dean, you're in the shot,
and I'm like, I don't want to just stand there.
Looks weird. It looks like I'm just like, hey, who's
got like weird owner? And so I just started doing
like different hand gestures and I told them I'm like, kyb,
I'm going to do the I'm gonna do like the
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double point. And he's like, please don't do it. I'm like,
I'm doing it. And then they came on and I
did the double point and he couldn't get through his next,
you know, his next couple of comments. So yeah, so
we're kind of like and I've got I've got pretty
much like a bunch more that we can do. So
maybe we'll just you know, do that every every week.
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Although I'm not going to be with you guys in
the playoffs. I don't love this.
Speaker 2 (40:34):
No offense to Mike Prearra. I think we we have
dual sideline. We should have dual rules.
Speaker 3 (40:39):
Double double your pleasure double.
Speaker 2 (40:44):
I'm going to I'm going to give a shout out
to this. And we talked a lot about this at
Payway and when you called me Cursa, I these officials
get a lot of ship. You know, as Dean said,
you have to have fixed skin, a sense of humor.
There was a moment yesterday where tired Matthew was messed up.
He was trying to he was trying to get the
con webs out. He was trying and Clinton, my security
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and I are watching this and we're like, holy shit,
he is like feeling it. They did another play. He's
still trying to shake his head, thank god. And I
almost turned into a mom Actually question, could I have
told the official, hey, check on him? I probably would
have gotten in trouble.
Speaker 1 (41:20):
No, I think you could have. You could have. There's
nothing we and we and we have said that. This
goes back when I was still at the League office
and we wanted the officials. If you recognize a guy
who's struggling, who gets up and you know, loses their
bouth there, clearly they've gotten something, some something's going on,
potential headneck injury. You get him out, don't don't just
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get him out of the game. And we also have
the you know, the spot or upstairs that you do that.
So I remember you saying that, which was awesome because
you want that player to because because these guys are
such competitors, don't want Yeah, and sometimes.
Speaker 2 (41:57):
So this official took the guy and let him over
to the sideline to the Saints. It's not a guy,
it's Tyron Matthew led him over there, like go get help.
And I was telling Dean, I was like I all game,
I wanted to get his attention and be like thank
you for doing that because we know Tyron Matthew like
he's not going to come out and it was kind
of a scary moment. But I had actually thought of
asking you that, Dean, Like I wonder if I could
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have said in a time out, go check on him.
Now that probably would have pissed off the team if
they wanted him out there, but he needed some assistance.
Speaker 1 (42:25):
Sure, No, there's no doubt he did. And I think
that's that's the official's job and that in that moment
to get that player, it doesn't matter who it is,
get that player out of the game to get checked,
because that's that's the player safety. That's so important.
Speaker 2 (42:37):
Yeah, there's so many fascinating I know it is. It's
been so interesting, well because you know, we're lucky enough
with our jobs to have the curtain pulled back and
you get to see all of these different facets, Like
people didn't know what a Steve didn't know what a
spotter was. He's like, wait, who's the guy in the
booth with al what's a spot Like? Yeah, so it's
really cool.
Speaker 3 (42:57):
So Dean, thank you for shedding some light on an
incredible part of the game and, by the way, an
unenviable part of the game because you're like the manager
of the restaurant that everyone's going to bitch to you
at their table. So you have to have a temperament
like you have to customer service.
Speaker 1 (43:15):
You're the gate agent.
Speaker 2 (43:16):
How do they get your phone number? Or all the
coaches intertiable.
Speaker 1 (43:20):
Yeah, you'd give I'd give them my phone number and
they text and call. And Sean Payton we mentioned Sean
Eli boy, Sean he would call and Sean was the
one guy and I love him to death. Most coaches
I could get to some common ground if Sean is
like the sky is green right now, and I'm like, coach, no,
it's blue, and he's like, no, it's green, and you're
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not going to convince me otherwise, And I'm like, all right, coach,
I'll talk to you tomorrow.
Speaker 2 (43:47):
And he can keep you on for a while.
Speaker 1 (43:48):
Oh yeah, he's the best. They're They're all and like
we like we said, they're under so much pressure, all right,
and today like you get I mean, you see the
coaches getting fired.
Speaker 2 (43:58):
It's sucks idea who will get some of these jobs?
I know your friends with a lot of guys. You
want to break some news here, Jay Glazer, No.
Speaker 1 (44:05):
I leave that up to Jay. You know, Jay, he's
the guy. He is the guy that that that that
does those those scoops. And but there's a lot of
you look at all the candidates, and we were talking
about it. You have these You have a guy like
Ben Johnson, who is an incredible play caller, who's been
incredible for the Lions. Can he be a head coach? Right?
Because it's a different it's a different skill set. It's
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you've got to now be like I always think of
Mike Tomlin. You know, he's a leader of men, he's
a man, he manages everything. And the guys that can
and I think Ben Johnson could do it, but we
just don't know, right. So you have these guys that
I think we'll get opportunities and and and we'll see.
Speaker 2 (44:44):
Well you see it. You see the Shane Steichens that
go from an offensive coordinator position to a head coach
and then all of a sudden that you get or
the Brian flores Is of the world that went and
became a head coach, and it was like, hey, you're
better served actually just maybe staying in your specialty, because
I feel like it's got to be one of those
things you get further further removed from your your specific
specialty because you're trying to manage everything. Now, some guys
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obviously do it seamlessly, and you've seen, you know, a
lot of examples of that. But yeah, very think such
a cool job, but a lot of pressure and not
a can handle it like yours. Dean, you're the best.
Speaker 1 (45:17):
Well, I appreciate you guys having me on.
Speaker 2 (45:20):
We have to be careful.
Speaker 1 (45:20):
We love Mike, We love Mike, but I do feel
like I'm probably I bring a little bit more to
the table in terms of the late night stuff than Mike,
but sure, but on the officiating stuff, Mike is the goat.
He is, he was the first one to do it.
Love Mike to death. I've worked with him forever and
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there was a time and I've we can tell stories offline,
but there was a time when Mike used to get
after it too.
Speaker 2 (45:47):
Oh yeah, oh yeah, last year, No, two years ago. Hey,
what's one thing about traveling with announcing crew that people
maybe would have no idea about, Like, what's something pull
back the curtain on that?
Speaker 1 (46:00):
Just the logistics Our cu is so good. Everybody on
that crew like I've never and it makes me uncomfortable
a little bit, like I like I never had. It's
like people are picking you up, and people are they're
they're doing, and it's like everything is buttoned up and
you and I never have a question about you know,
(46:22):
my flight or or being picked up from the airport
or being like I always get that information. Hey, so
and so is going to pick you up at this time,
here's the number, here's the information, and it's like all
those logistics, Matt Gail is incredible, the jack all those guys.
Shout out to all those guys, because there is so
much that goes into it and just getting getting into
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the stadium, right, when are we going to leave, how
are we going to get how we getting out of
the stadium, all those logistics, and that's just a little
part of what goes into putting on a football game,
and there's so many other moving parts.
Speaker 2 (46:55):
You're a goddamn.
Speaker 1 (47:00):
Today. Yep, five and a half hour. So yeah, little
jet lag, but we'll we'll get through it.
Speaker 2 (47:05):
We'll power through.
Speaker 3 (47:06):
So Dean, as you know, since you are a loyal
Calm Down listener, okay, longtime listener, first time caller. There's
a bunch of different stories that Aaron and I have,
whether it's you know about Mac, whether it's about Steve,
whether it's about Jarrett, whatever it is. So most recently
going to Chicago for my Thursday night game, there was
I let Steve have the full ruins of the travel.
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It got all screwed up, ended up at different airports.
The bag is the whole thing, Okay, but I had
given him full authority to take control. He said he
got it and he screwed it up. I need your take,
and this is going to be an official A Rules
segment with Steve off sides or not or hold a
mess up with the travel.
Speaker 1 (47:46):
He definitely offsides, definitely offside. You know it was, But
I feel for him because I've done I had a
similar experience when I went to see you two at
the Sphere with this girl I was dating and all excited.
We're in Vegas. It's great we're gonna go. We show
up at the Sphere and the girl looks at my
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phone and she goes, these tickets are for tomorrow night.
Speaker 2 (48:13):
And there you're walking.
Speaker 1 (48:15):
In there there at the at the door and we're
leaving the next day. So we're not even and it
was my I never Thankfully, luckily story ends well. Our
Fox crew was doing the Raiders game. A group from
that crew was it was eb Eric Billinger's crew. They
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were going to the Sphere. We were all supposed to
meet up. I texted him like, hey, got a problem,
can you help out? And they got us into a
suite and it actually worked out. It actually worked out.
But I have that feeling that it was such a
sinking feeling. So I can only imagine how Steve felt
when that was, you know, the wrong airport.
Speaker 2 (48:58):
That's an incredible start. No oh oh, good follow up,
good follow up. Here's the problem Steve, because he lives
on you know, in La La Land. In the best
way possible, everything can be made into a positive. He's like, look,
I got to meet the baggage claim attended at O'Hare,
so he'll find a silver lining and anything. Okay, now
here's another situation. Off sides or not on red receipts.
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So Vince Spawn said that he was going to come
on the podcast. This was year one, We're in year three.
Speaker 3 (49:26):
Kept saying he's going to come on whatever, which we
were so excited for. So I kept texting him like, hey,
can you come on this week? Would show that he
read it, but then never responded, never reigned. Finally, now
I'm ticked. I screenshot the messages and I think I'm
sending them to Aaron, but I send them back to
Vince Spawn and I'm like, this fucking guy right.
Speaker 2 (49:49):
Her chest so bad when you see that you committed
that bad.
Speaker 1 (49:54):
That is yes, definitely off sides, and I've done that,
and that's what I person. And you're the sinking, feeling burning.
Speaker 2 (50:05):
Tell me what yours was. Tell me what your off
side was.
Speaker 1 (50:07):
So it was it was somebody not to name names.
It was somebody from the league office who texted me
something so ridiculous about a play, and I screenshotted it
and I was going to send it to my friend
who works for the team, and it was similar, like
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you look at this bullshit, And I sent it to
the person who sent it to me, and it was like,
and you're just waiting, And then I'm frantically like, is
there can I delete this? Can I get it? And
then they did respond like what do you mean? And
I was just like, oh, you know your response was
so ridiculous. I wanted you to read it again. I
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like that. I like that. Yeah, good, so it was.
I get it. But definitely off sides, no doubt, no doubt.
Speaker 2 (50:54):
Aaron, you have to have one for him offsides or not?
Is it a Jarrett Snoring story? What is it? Give
me something for him? I'm trying to think Dean hears
about it all weekend.
Speaker 1 (51:02):
I know I do hear about it. I do want
to hang out. I want to hang out with Jared.
I want to hang out with Steve. I think we
all need to go out.
Speaker 2 (51:08):
Oh my god, we would have a tough triangle with
these three. We wouldn't even see him. We would lose
Dean as a friend.
Speaker 1 (51:15):
I know I would. I'm not gonna lie. I would
probably ditch you too, and just it would be the three.
It will be the three of us.
Speaker 2 (51:22):
But that's what happens. Super Bowl. It's gonna happen.
Speaker 1 (51:24):
It's super perfect super Bowl.
Speaker 2 (51:26):
It is Hey, do we need to help you with
any of your d ms or are you good? Oh,
here's I'm good right now.
Speaker 1 (51:32):
I'm good right now. Like I want to get through
the season. I'm just focusing on the kids being a
better co parent. But then once the season ends, we'll see,
we'll see. We'll nibble later.
Speaker 2 (51:42):
Okay, I will never nibble. I don't want to.
Speaker 1 (51:44):
We'll gobble, well, yeah, gobble.
Speaker 2 (51:46):
Okay, this is taking a turn.
Speaker 1 (51:48):
Yes, and anybody out there, any any single young ladies
that want to slide into Jared Klein's DMS, go for it.
Speaker 2 (51:54):
So SA go for it.
Speaker 1 (51:57):
Slide Google Dolls. That's our song, by the.
Speaker 2 (51:59):
Way, got in yesterday.
Speaker 1 (52:02):
What a good song.
Speaker 2 (52:03):
That should be your karaoke song. We played it in
Philly a couple of weeks ago.
Speaker 1 (52:08):
Yeah, it wasn't quite a karaoke session. It was more
of us just dancing and screaming and I just something else.
In the meeting room. I had three chairs lined up
and I was dancing on the chairs, like walking from
one chair.
Speaker 2 (52:21):
It was yeah, is there footage of that? Yeah, get
under the undisputable video evidence.
Speaker 1 (52:27):
Me enough and Jason Thorne and other great guys. All
through we reenacted the dirty dancing. We reenacted Patrick Swayze
and Jennifer and I was Jennifer Gray and he was
Patrick Swayzee and so I jumped into his arms, his
strong and capable arms. It was amazing.
Speaker 2 (52:46):
Oh my god. All right, we'll land this plane. But
I have to end it with your karaoke song is.
Speaker 1 (52:52):
My karaoke song, And I'm not gonna lie. I'm actually
pretty incredible in karaoke. And if you hear me do
with or without you by you two, you might actually
not like the YouTube version anymore.
Speaker 2 (53:03):
Wow, there is a cheat. And I'm not even I'm
not even going to have you do it here because
I need to see this in person or at the
Super Bowl Championship game. We'll do it, and we will
take a video of that and we will play it
right here because that is worth the wait. And here
here she goes. Do you You're the Best? Calm Down
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or wherever you get your podcasts
And he texted me after the game and I just
want to mind my language, but he was like, I'm paraphrasing,
but he's like, Hey, if we're going to get screwed
again next week, I'll make sure to bring the lube.
So that that was a Rex text message that I've
saved because it was one like like what do you
say to that? Like, okay, coach, yeah, bring it.
Speaker 2 (00:20):
Calm down with Erin and Chrissa is a production of iHeartRadio.
Speaker 3 (00:29):
The official title of Dean Glanbino, Fox College Football, Fox
NFL Sunday Rules Expert. That's not the effect. Is that
close enough?
Speaker 1 (00:40):
That it's close enough. Actually, I'm a master of ceremonies.
On the on the A Crew Good New Kind of meetings,
we did a whole whiteboard type breaking down all the scenarios,
the week eighteen scenarios, and I'm happy to say that
all of our predictions came true. Oh yes, eating, the seating,
(01:00):
the matchups, everything except we didn't think we were going
to get Green Bay Philly and we got Green Bay Philly. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (01:06):
Look at that is the gift that keeps on giving,
and so is Dean Blandino. And with that, we welcome
you to the Calm Down Podcast. Your inaugural appearance on
the SAMED Calm Down Podcast.
Speaker 1 (01:17):
I mean everywhere we go there's Calm Down Podcast fans. Yes,
we run into them. Just happened in Tampa, I mean
literally just happened.
Speaker 3 (01:27):
So tell us the story of because again, Aaron and
I would love to break our own arms patting ourselves
on the back, but why don't you give us a
little perspective of actually being out with you know, beatles,
like kind of individuals like.
Speaker 1 (01:39):
It is Beatles, I mean, think of I try to
think of the most. I mean, maybe it's like the
boy band craze of the nineties. I mean it's like
Backship and Sync ninety eight degrees all together in that
if it's our bock. I mean we're sitting at the
bar and these.
Speaker 2 (01:56):
We weren't sitting. We weren't sitting, we.
Speaker 1 (01:58):
Were we were kind of owned this one section of
the bar, and Aaron was like, I mean it was great.
She was on it when we walked in because we
went to dinner. I got in late, met a group
for dinner, and then we met Ea at the bar
and she was already.
Speaker 2 (02:19):
Like, yes, Tampa brought it, and they don't.
Speaker 1 (02:23):
You don't have to ask me twice, So I'm like,
let's go. And then it was just people watching. And
then we had this group of girls that were big
Calm Down fans taking pictures. Whoa there was, there were
changing numbers, exchanging numbers. There was pop collar guy. We
were giving people nicknames. There was Dave Canalis look alike guy.
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There was a lot. There was the guy that came
up to Erin and he was a listener, but he said,
you're not good at karaoke.
Speaker 2 (02:56):
You got, you got aggressive, you got I remediately.
Speaker 1 (02:59):
Got whoa whoa? Listen. If you got it, then you're
gonna have to sing something. And we tried to get
Jesse's girl played on the but the DJ wasn't having it.
Speaker 3 (03:09):
Okay, So I'm gonna put a pin in that for
one second. For those of you that are new to
the Calm Down Podcast, first of all, we welcome you,
but also, Aaron, I'd like you to explain Dean as
I mentioned the rules analysts and expert for Fox Sports
for all things, but explain what he does when he
goes on the road and how that all works with
your crew, because sometimes he's in studio across from the
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the glass little partition that him and I share on Sundays.
And then sometimes he's not so explain for people that
don't know why Dean goes on the road, what it's
all about.
Speaker 2 (03:39):
This is your first year with us, right.
Speaker 1 (03:41):
Dean, first year? Yeah?
Speaker 2 (03:42):
Wow, so memorable. And as I was getting ready to
come on today, I was already like, Mike's gonna be
so pissed when he finds out they pissed immediately. We
love you, Mike, We love you so much. Mike Perera
normally comes out with our crew and he is up
there in the booth. He used to be with Joe
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and Troy now and then Greg and Kevin and now
with Tom and Kevin and basically Dean, you are there
for the exact reason that we saw yesterday during that
drive that the Bucks had. There is problems like you know,
if there's a question with a call, if you know,
we want to get your opinion on the call, if
you know what really should happen, I'll let you kind
(04:23):
of elaborate more.
Speaker 1 (04:24):
Yeah, it's there. I'm there, and I can talk to
our producer, Richie's Aiens directly. I can talk to Kevin,
Burt Carter, Tom Brady directly, and it's just.
Speaker 2 (04:33):
You don't talk to New York though, right, I do
not talk to New York now texting with New York.
Speaker 1 (04:38):
They can text me, Yeah, they'll text me different things.
So if something comes up, I can get in their ear.
I can give them okay, here's the relevant rule or
what my opinion is. And then if it's big enough, they'll,
you know, we'll go on the air. And like we
did yes in the game in Tampa where they had
a penalty enforcement, it was taking forever and Bray, Tom
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and Kevin were talking about their holiday plans while the
officials were trying to figure it out. It was legitimately
like four minutes. Ye, but it's like that kind of
stuff that and then then when I'm in the studio,
like Chrissa was saying, we're doing the other games. So
you're only doing one game when you're on the road,
and then you're doing the others when you're in.
Speaker 2 (05:17):
The studio and team because I'm not with you in studio, sorry, CT,
how do you keep track of everything that's going on?
So literally, Dean will come on in how many games
do we have CHRISA going on at one time.
Speaker 3 (05:28):
Depends, Like yesterday there was four early games and three
late games, so just depends.
Speaker 1 (05:33):
Yeah, exactly, and so yeah, three or four and you're
we have a big monitor wall and we're watching all
the games. I have access to all the games. I
can jump to anyone. I can talk to the producers
in the truck and uh yeah, it's just and we
have a couple of people in there that are monitoring
things and pointing things out, and you just kind of
bounce around. But I'm used to it. When I was
at the League office, I mean we had we could
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have ten or eleven games going on, so so you're
used to it.
Speaker 2 (05:59):
And that's what I want. I want to go back
because I would love for It's fascinating to me. And
this is where Fox is so innovative because they were
the first ever broadcast network to bring an official into
the broadcast. Because there's so many times that you know,
the play by player analysts, you know, color commentator doesn't
want to make assumptions about things. So to bring in
an analyst, a rules analyst was so smart and now
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you see every network do it. So Fox being the
first to do that give us a little background, Dean,
and because I don't know all the details either, how
did you get into the business, why did you want
to get into the business, and how you are here
present day.
Speaker 1 (06:32):
Yeah, my path was different unique. I didn't have an
officiating background. I didn't I didn't do it. I didn't
have any interest in it. I just loved sports. I
played sports my whole life. And I grew up in
New York. I went to school in New York. The
NFL has their offices in New York, and I just
sent my resume. Wow, major League Baseball and NHL and
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NFL and NBA, and the NFL happened to call and
they had a bunch of internships, and I was lucky
enough to go interview a couple of different departments, and
I interviewed in officiating and they liked me and they
offered me the position. And I just went from there and.
Speaker 2 (07:08):
Just learned what wasn'tating.
Speaker 1 (07:11):
I was an officiating intern. I was doing everything anything, stats, video.
I was picking up Mike Pereira, who was the head
of officiating, not at that time, but his predecessor, Jerry Seaman.
I was picking him up at the airport, you know,
just whatever and anything you had to do.
Speaker 3 (07:28):
Yeah, so if you didn't love officiating, but you then
became immersed in it with the internship and you were like, hey,
maybe I could make this into a career.
Speaker 1 (07:36):
Yeah. I just started to really learn about it. And
then really the big break for me, and I was
so lucky and so blessed to be in the right
place at the right time, was when instant replay came
back to the NFL in nineteen ninety nine, and I
was heavily involved in that process, both on the technical
side and the software and hardware and all that, and
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then on the rules side, and that really it took
off from there. So I was really lucky.
Speaker 2 (08:02):
Cool is So I was telling you before you got
on Dean just Mike Tomlin and how excited he was
to see you could have cared less about all of us.
Just kidding, but I thought it was fascinating. Did you
watch the clip I sent you?
Speaker 1 (08:12):
I did, I did.
Speaker 2 (08:13):
Yeah, it was so great. But he was just talking
about how you guys had a fantastic relationship when he
was young and starting out, and can you just tell
us stories like that, like what happened when you finally
you know, got to be involved and then got to
have like one on one relationships with guys like Tomlin
which are legendary and other guys your friends.
Speaker 1 (08:31):
With no doubt, and that was it was. I always
felt like it was building those relationships. Always not officiating
is not a positive thing. When a coach is calling you,
he's not like, yeah, they did a great job. You know,
you know, it's always bad. And I always thought I
gotta have good relationships because then at least if we
have a good relationship that listen, we can get to
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some common ground. And always built those relationships. Sometimes maybe
I went a little too far with some of those
relationships and was on a party bus at one point, but.
Speaker 2 (09:00):
Okay, the ones we want to hear about.
Speaker 1 (09:04):
Yeah, but I blamed Glazer for that one. But guys
like Mike Tomlin, who was on the competition committee, I
told this story. I don't know who I was telling
the other day. But when I was up for the
job the head of officiating, it was always like an unspeaking,
unspoken rule that because I never officiated on the field,
I couldn't get that job. And I was like, you
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know whatever, I'm going to go for it. And I interviewed,
and I got pretty close to the end and they
were going to decide between me and one other person.
I remember being in Indianapolis at the Combine and everybody's
you know, hanging out. We were at you know whatever
Prime almost.
Speaker 2 (09:40):
I just remember Conrad.
Speaker 1 (09:42):
Exactly, and I remember Mike pulling me aside Mike Tomlin
and like giving me this pep talk like you're the guy,
you you have the most experience, you have the most
and I just was like I was ready to go
run through a wall after that, and he's exactly. I
was like, give I actually after that, I was like,
give me some more of that cocktail sauce. Let's go.
(10:05):
And but yeah, he's awesome. He is awesome. Love that guy.
Speaker 2 (10:12):
That's great. But go ahead, ct No, no, no, you go.
I was just gonna say, like, when you think about
like your memories of doing it, I don't worry. We're
going to get into Jared's hint tender page and all
that crap in a minute. Yeah, but yeah, we'll get there.
But just some of your favorite moments of the jo
Oh my god.
Speaker 1 (10:28):
So many. There are so many coaches that I really
there isn't a coach and people ask me who was
the biggest pain in the ass, and they were always
they're just there. They're head coaches. There's so much on
the line for them. It's emotional. So I would always
get it. I mean, I remember Tom Coughlin like letting
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me have it. They lost a game to the Patriots.
It was a regular season game. There was a big
hold that we missed on the field, and he called
me after the game and let me have it for
like twenty minutes straight. And his assistant texted me like, hey,
don't take it personally. I get this like three times
a week. So guys like that. And then you have
like Ron Rivera's who's one of my favorites, who I
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remember meeting his wife for the first time and she's like,
you know, you're higher than me on the favorites list
in his phone, like you just so it's like those guys,
and I did. I told the story about Rex Ryan
to the guys on the crew because you know, now
he's interviewing for the Jets job. And I said, you
know when when the first time he was with the Jets,
he he it was a week one game and we
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had like twenty penalties on the Jets and they lost
and some of them, some of them weren't great calls.
And he texted me after the game, and I just
want to mind my language, but he was like I'm PARAPHRASINGBO.
He's like, Hey, if we're going to get screwed again
next week, I'll make sure to bring the loop. So
that that was a Rex text message that I've saved
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because it was one like like, what do you say
to that, Like, okay, coach, yeah, bring it.
Speaker 2 (11:58):
I wish I did the like button thumbs out, okay,
got fireworks.
Speaker 1 (12:03):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (12:03):
You don't have to have such a good personality and
sense of humor to take just the berating every single
but that's actually a really good mindset to have. Like
jobs are on the line, you know, lives are. It's
just where you maybe you know, raise your kids because
you could get fired and things like that. Hardest part
of the gig that people don't understand.
Speaker 1 (12:23):
Hardest part I just I just think there's such a disconnect.
There's a disconnect between how the game's officiated on the field,
Like those officials get one look at it at full
speed from their one angle, and then how do we
get to judge them? Six different slow motion replays and
super and so we sit there and we go, how
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did they miss that? We'll go out and you've both
like you've done it more than most You've been on
the sideline of NFL games. How fast is it? How
how much taking place? And there's only seven officials for
twenty two players. And I think that's the disconnect sometimes
with officiating. And yeah, sometimes they screw it up and
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they've got to be better, But I just think sometimes
it's an unreasonable standard that we that we kind of
hold them to.
Speaker 2 (13:12):
Yeah, Aaron and I always talk about pinch me moments
right in our career. Are things that we've done or
people that we've met, or you know, standing on the
sideline of the David Tyree catch on the Hilmet and
you're like watching Randy Moss walk off the field before
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the game's even over because he knows it's done. It's
just like these moments where you grow up as sports fans,
you obviously yourself and played sports and having a front
row seat to all of these things, what's been You
have a myriad of them. I'm sure a real pinch
me moment where you're like, this is fucking cool.
Speaker 1 (13:50):
Oh my gosh, I remember.
Speaker 2 (13:51):
Ray in Tampa last night that too.
Speaker 1 (13:54):
Oh my god, that was that? What a great find
if you're in well that terminal? What is that a terminal?
A Tampa Tampa International? Pay a May that is way
May Pay May Pay Way. It is away hidden gem
in the back kid in gem.
Speaker 2 (14:15):
What are you hold the lighter up for? Over there?
Speaker 1 (14:17):
We are?
Speaker 2 (14:19):
Oh, but pinch me moment.
Speaker 1 (14:22):
I mean, I do funny story about the David Tyree catch.
I was in the replay booth for that. And you
know you're in, you're working, You're in the replay booth.
It's Patriots Giants, Patriots trying to be the greatest team ever.
And I know and my mom, who's the most unintentionally
funny person on the planet, like she knows I'm working,
don't call me during the game unless it's an emergency.
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So that play happens. We're actually reviewing it and I
see my phone. I have it on the counter and
it's my mom and I'm like what And I don't
answer it, and then she calls back and I'm like,
oh no, what what is going on? So we review
the play and she calls a time and I finally
pick up. I'm like, Mom, it's the Super Bowl. What's
going on? She goes, did you see that catch? All right, Mom,
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I'll talk to you after the game. Bye. It was amazing, amazing, Yeah, unbelieved,
so good, so many Kinchby moments. We're so lucky. We
really are.
Speaker 2 (15:16):
We are lucky, and we are so lucky for the
friendships and the families that we create on the road.
Because as much as we complained, like whatever, we stay
in great hotels. Last night we got off a flight, Chrissy,
you know it five and a half hours from Tampa.
I mean, we are still carrying the sweat and the
crap that we had when we were on the field
at eleven am. It's a long ass flight. You're on
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the tarmac, everyone's coffin snort and they're snot and we
just got off the plane. We're like, fuck, that was long.
But we still were laughing because it's Kevin me Dean
to get each other so much, and we're.
Speaker 1 (15:50):
Back each other. Yeah, we're like, and we couldn't. We didn't.
We weren't sitting together, but we were texting each other.
And then we land and the pilot who was the pilot,
that guy was when we because it was our flight
was delayed, and he's like, I know, our flight's delayed,
but we got this baby filled up with gas and
to the metal. And I was like, this guy is
definitely not a nibbler.
Speaker 2 (16:11):
Not a nibbler.
Speaker 1 (16:12):
He is not he is he is not. And but yeah,
on the tarmac and there was a delay, we didn't
have a gate and all this stuff, and and KB
was like, get me off this plane, like yeah, oh
my god.
Speaker 2 (16:27):
And the friendships of the cruise and stuff, which is
the best part, and like, yeah, like the other night
we got on this before you got on and our
producer and Crisic, so how did this come about? It
go Tampa brought it. We were lit and Dean was like,
I want to be on calm down, and I was like,
let's freaking.
Speaker 1 (16:43):
Go, let's go, let's go.
Speaker 2 (16:46):
So we go ahead.
Speaker 1 (16:48):
No, no, no, I just say we were on one and
it was so much fun. But I cannot I cannot
emphasize enough. This has been my most fun season by far.
And I love this duty with us, and I love
the studio and Christinos. Everybody in the studio is awesome.
We have a lot of fun. But being able to
do both. This year was so much fun.
Speaker 2 (17:11):
That's what. So people always ask me, oh, what do
you like better?
Speaker 3 (17:13):
Do you like being in studio or being on the road,
And my answer is always like, thank God, I'm lucky
enough to do both, because there's benefits of the studio.
You get in your car, you drive up the ten
or whatever, the four or five, you go to work,
you're not on a plane, you get back home.
Speaker 2 (17:25):
Cool being on the road, the stories that come from
the road, the Shenanigans, all that stuff. So like having
the hybrid of both like is the best case scenario.
Which gets me to Jared Klein, who used to be
my researcher, jaredy Cline.
Speaker 1 (17:39):
I love that we're just by name now Jared's ou
We're not we're talking about Jared look kind of taking
him under my wing.
Speaker 2 (17:47):
He has Jared taking him under my wing.
Speaker 3 (17:50):
If you want to be a big boy and be
parading around the stadiums, whatever, you also have to recognize
that part of the locker room is giving each other shit.
So sure Line used to be my researcher, sitting next
to me for down and distance, different things that I
would need for a highlight.
Speaker 2 (18:06):
Got it. This is the fourth touchdown of the day.
Speaker 3 (18:08):
This is you know, Aaron Rodgers spotfit whatever, whatever pertinent
information I need for a highlight.
Speaker 2 (18:12):
Jared did that.
Speaker 3 (18:12):
Well, Jarrett's very good at his job. So you guys
stole him and now he's on the road with you guys. Okay,
no problem, but Jarrett. My long history with Jarrett is
he's been looking for a lady for a while. Okay,
He's always talking about how he can't find the right one. So,
unbeknownst to me, Aaron is choosing to keep him anonymous.
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And again I don't know that she's talking about Jarrett.
Last week when it.
Speaker 2 (18:37):
Whatever hinge profiles brought.
Speaker 3 (18:39):
Up and she's like, there's this guy hinge Da da da,
And as she's talking, I'm.
Speaker 2 (18:43):
Like, oh, I fucking know who this guy is.
Speaker 3 (18:45):
I was like, it's Jared Cline. I was like, let's
just call okay the dog picture the shirtless one. For
those of you that didn't listen to last week's episode, again,
we'll fill you in. We have a thing about hinge
profiles or any profile when dating. Just take your sunglasses off,
don't be shirtless in a pooled, don't be a douchebag
with your arm around an athlete.
Speaker 2 (19:01):
Just be normal. Okay, Dean was playing photographer at our game.
Speaker 1 (19:05):
This was taking pictures of him before the game or
his hinge profile because we're doing a total overhaul, Like
I don't need stop with the because again, these are
not these are not organic.
Speaker 3 (19:17):
Shots, yes exactly. So I'm just filling in the blanks
for anyone that's not familiar with what happened. So that's
Jerrick Kleine. We all love him. We want to see
him with a woman. He's actually gotten some inquiry. But now, Dean,
take us where are we at currently with Jerick Leine?
In the profile and the up.
Speaker 1 (19:34):
This was, I mean it came out of the blue.
We were at dinner, I think in Green Bay, and
he just talked about TMI. He just went all in
on his dating life and this one young lady that
he was dating and they you know, it was like
the fifth date and he thought things were going really well.
Speaker 2 (19:52):
But oh god, she's listening to the podcast right now
breaking down Tom's seven Super Bowl ring and then this
side of the table is fucking roaring and I'm like, wait,
great on the goat over here, what's going on exactly.
Speaker 1 (20:04):
Yeah, we had Tom on one side and we're talking
about football and we're talking about, hey, what about between
two thousand and seven, what did Belichick do? And then
on this side we've got Jared talking about this girl
that he's dating and how they both they both really
like the butter cream cake from Ralph's and he got
her the cake and it was like two very different conversations.
(20:24):
And I'm not gonna lie, the butter cream conversation was
more interesting to me. Yeah, and he just you know,
and then things didn't work out with that young lady.
And now we're just back on the horse and we're
just trying to get you know, we got to give
in a file together. We got us, you know, get
some good pictures we got We even went and went
through like sayings for his his his pictures, and so
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we're hoping, we're hoping that we can find love, we
can find.
Speaker 2 (20:52):
Jason because I'm not done with this, because I'm all
in on this as well. So Aaron and I talked
about how we don't like the you're in the pool,
the shirt list whatever, or you're next to a dog.
You don't even have a dog. Somebody else's yeah, so
what what are your like the guys you know perspective
on another, like what what are your good advice to him?
Speaker 1 (21:14):
For me? And I'm I've been my own experience, like
my original before I got married. Before it wasn't dating
apps like you, you had to risk something so I
have to go up to you in a bar or
wherever it is. And now it's just like so I
don't like all that, but I realize that that's how
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today is and that's how people meet each other. And
I just think it's just like be yourself, Like you know,
I get it. There's there's there's physical attraction and you
have to put your best foot forward because that's what
people are going to see. But you don't need to
try that hard. Like we don't need to have the
glamor shots and the and the you know, the wait,
the shirtless shots. I mean, even if you look like
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you know whoever, you don't need the shirtless shot.
Speaker 2 (22:00):
It's not you know, it's so great, you know, it's
so great about your Dean.
Speaker 3 (22:02):
So if you don't know Dean, you're just like, oh,
it seems like you know, so like oserved and like.
Speaker 2 (22:08):
Not yeah, button up like whatever.
Speaker 3 (22:10):
When you get to know Dean, You're like, this guy
is fucking awesome.
Speaker 1 (22:14):
Thank you. I appreciate it. I don't. I don't open
up very quickly, and I like to observe and I
like to just once once we're in, then it's like, okay,
no holds.
Speaker 2 (22:28):
Bar, wheels off, let's go.
Speaker 1 (22:32):
In the bar in Tampa. Getting lippy and we got
to move to the next bar.
Speaker 2 (22:35):
Oh god, I caught myself. I look, I said, I'm
getting lippy.
Speaker 1 (22:39):
We need to get out.
Speaker 2 (22:40):
I caught myself when.
Speaker 1 (22:43):
People were walking by us and she's like pointing it
like this guy. I'm like, oh boy boy, here we go.
Speaker 2 (22:51):
The only time I got upset was we had an area,
We had an area, we had been there for a while,
and then like, you know, I like to watch what's
going on. And there are some younger women, you know,
trying to get close to the Dave Canalis look alike
or the Paul mal Moro look alike that we had
at the bar, and so I liked watching their moves.
(23:13):
And their moves were come lean up against the chair
that had my coat and my purse on it. Casey
and Dean were sitting by then we're one cheek on.
Then we're one cheek on with our cocktail laughing. Now
mid laugh, we're two cheeks on and we're sitting on
my coat and my purse.
Speaker 1 (23:32):
Lippy.
Speaker 2 (23:33):
Carissa, after you've had a few, what are you doing?
Oh hey, hey, let me move this for you, because
you're asking. I already know what this is.
Speaker 3 (23:39):
The problem is that we, by the way, we need
a rules analyst between you and I when we go
out Giallo.
Speaker 2 (23:47):
And besides encroachment, we also had a very fun dinner
at a place that gronk I guess hat the money
in which I yeah, it was phenomenal.
Speaker 1 (24:08):
Let's give a shout out to Broke a great food.
But we have this fun little you know, we're twelve
of us and so.
Speaker 2 (24:18):
You can't give out names.
Speaker 1 (24:19):
Who can't give out, won't give it, can no, we
won't give out names.
Speaker 2 (24:22):
But I'm looking at people differently now in one hundred percent.
Speaker 1 (24:25):
So the fun game was if you could be a person,
any person for the day, who would you be and why?
So like that's fun. We're all drinking, like read the
room people, but somebody did you? I loved you? I
said you hefner great because I'm a degenerate, but anyway,
(24:46):
so so. But some of the answers were, well, one, well,
we can call out Jared because this is this is
kind of harmless.
Speaker 2 (24:54):
Jared, it's getting so much play right your hair?
Speaker 1 (24:57):
You say, you saying both?
Speaker 2 (25:00):
What a loser? But I was like, by.
Speaker 1 (25:05):
Like you say both on a regular Tuesday, Like what
are you getting out? Like maybe during the Olympics. But
he was like, it was so cool to be the
fastest man in the world. And I'm like, yeah, but
like you've got to like, yes, if you're in a race,
but what does you saying both get you on a
Thursday at three o'clock at the supermarket, Like you're he
and I are on the same footing in that in
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that mode. But there was some very disturbing answers.
Speaker 2 (25:31):
Like I cannot look at some people this.
Speaker 1 (25:33):
There was one that said that I would be a
young child because I could see the world the wonder
of the world again. And my response really can't be repeated,
but I yelled and it was not complimentary of what
that of what that was. And then another a guy
(25:53):
on her crew, said his wife and I thought, I
immediately looked at Kevin at KB I was like, oh,
that's a badass answer because his wife is so lucky
to be married to him.
Speaker 2 (26:05):
Yeah, that's what you're thinking.
Speaker 1 (26:06):
That's what we all thought. That's what we all thought.
But then he explained that no, so then I can
understand her feelings and where she's coming from, and I
can understand her. But which which if it was just heated,
if it was me and him at the bar, like
talking about life and feelings, great, great answer. This was
not the it was not the room. Oh my god.
Speaker 2 (26:27):
I also showed up at this stadium and I love
this guy, but I'm judging back now.
Speaker 1 (26:32):
Love him, love him back, love him.
Speaker 2 (26:34):
But I'm judging him now. And when I got to
the stadium, he goes, ea, I'm doubling down on what
I said. I was like, you can't, you cannot.
Speaker 1 (26:42):
It was it was there was some answers. Another guy
in our crew, and this one's harmless Nelly. He wanted
to be president for the United States. But she had
given this some thought because he went through some of
his policies and some like real like thoughtful went into it,
like with tax reform and all these things. It was
imperform was really impressive, and my stupid ass is like you.
Speaker 2 (27:09):
Have to and it was just and Jillian goes Dolly Park.
Speaker 3 (27:15):
It's fine, Yes, yeah, it was. That's a reallyef That
is a very fun game. Another one that I've done
before is like what animal would you be? And you
really discover like people like I want to be a laboratory.
You're like, okay, you like relax, you know, like I.
Speaker 2 (27:27):
Want to be the lion of the jungle. Okay, So
turning it back real quickly to the NFL for a second,
because we'd be remissed since we have you on it
is week eighteens over the playoff schedule set you alluded
to at the beginning of this. You had all the scenarios,
so you had the whole bracket, right, I mean, walk.
Speaker 1 (27:47):
Me through the NFC because we knew that we'd have
an NFC game, So we did the NFC. Okay, did
the NFC.
Speaker 3 (27:53):
So then we'll go over to the AFC for a second.
Can you have an opinion on who you think is?
I'm probably not you can't, right, I love this, Okay, great?
Who do you like?
Speaker 1 (28:03):
Who I like? See, well, it's really hard to go
against the Chiefs. It's really hard to go against Mahomes,
They're just it's it's just they find a way and
look at you look at last year and they weren't
playing very well in the middle of the middle of
the way, and then they just turned it on and
they go and win another Super Bowl. Now they're they're
fifteen and one. They've got to buy It's really hard
(28:25):
to bet against them. In my heart, I know the
matchup I want to see as a football fan, and
that's Bill's Lions. I just think that two fan bases
that have never won a Super Bowl, that are two
of probably the greatest fan bases. I would love to
see that. I don't know, it's just tough to bet
against the Chiefs in the AFC. I think it's crazy,
(28:48):
you know, it's just really I think the Bills and
maybe the Ravens could could could give them a run
for their money. I'm just not sure. I just hate
to go against Mahomes and Andy I love. It's just tough.
Speaker 2 (29:02):
Is there a thought process out there, you guys that
if a team in the AFC were to beat the
Chiefs and go on to the Super Bowl, they would
be the ones to win the Super Bowl because you
already just beat the hardest you know out out there.
You know what I'm saying, Like, that's the super Bowl,
the AFC Championship against the Chiefs. But if like they
(29:22):
win it, it's like, how could you stop the Omnum?
Speaker 1 (29:25):
Of course you.
Speaker 2 (29:25):
Could, but I would say too, I love the you know,
of course we all love Josh Allen. We love the
Bill's mafia. Like it's so easy to root for them,
like you mentioned their fan base. Yeah, I'm gonna say
this right now.
Speaker 3 (29:38):
Though again we know him because you know, I had
pledge we worked with him at Fox Sean Payton watch
out though.
Speaker 2 (29:45):
Yeah, I just that defense.
Speaker 3 (29:47):
And you've got a guy like bo Nix who doesn't
know I mean, he just has this unbridled confidence where
it's like, I don't know. I just think that that
could be a potential upset, even going into Buffalo and sure,
you know the Uels are supposed.
Speaker 2 (30:00):
To win, and you know the Broncos just got it.
I just I'm really curious to see how that one
plays out. It's what we saw last year, the wild card,
you know, Dallas Green beads, Like you could just feel
how tight Dallas was. You could sense they're supposed to
have was like the guy that was just like I'm
gonna sling it.
Speaker 1 (30:20):
Yeah that's like any given Sunday, and yeah, you know
we could sit here and predict, but who knows. But yeah, Denver,
I mean there were all any somebody has a bad
day injuries.
Speaker 2 (30:35):
Even what we saw last night with the Lions.
Speaker 3 (30:36):
Everyone's like, oh, you got fourteen guys on the defensive
side of the ball that are on ir like whatever,
and they showed up last night against the Vikings.
Speaker 2 (30:45):
So yeah, this is why we love the NFL. What's
your favorite thing about the league?
Speaker 1 (30:49):
I love that favorite thing about the league. I just
think because I do. I think it brings people together.
It really does, like I think because it's unlike any
other sport, and I love you know, I grew up
playing like baseball and hockey were my two sports, Like
like I always love football too, but but that's like,
you know, there's more games. There's there's three or four
games a week. Baseball it's like five or six games
(31:11):
a week, where football is like it's appointments viewing. It's Sunday,
we're all going to get together. I know now we
do Thursday and Monday and Saturday, but it's really still like,
I just think it brings people together, because if we
were on the road doing four or five games a week,
like I mean, there's some people on the crew I
might not like as much. You know, it's it's me, Hi.
Speaker 2 (31:36):
I'm the problem.
Speaker 1 (31:37):
I just love that. I love that, and I know
it sounds corny, but they it is. It really does
bring people together, and it's been it's I think it's
that's why it's the most popular sport by a long
shot in this country.
Speaker 2 (31:50):
How freaking fun is it still, Dean? Even though you
and Kevin and I are so awkward because everybody just
wants to talk to Brady and see Brady, So the
three of us go off on our own and do
our own thing. But how fun is that still? To
be on a field like we're on a freaking football
field for pre game like this is insane.
Speaker 1 (32:06):
It's wild and that people, And that's that's like you
talk about pinch me or just or just never forgetting
that that you don't take it for granted because how
many people, how many millions and millions of people would
give anything just to be on a field pre game, right,
and we get to do it all the time, and
that's where for me, it's like, don't ever take that
for granted. You never know when it can be taken away.
(32:28):
And it's just so cool. And and this year with
Tom has been great because you really see I mean
he is a rock star, right and and and you
see the passion you see and it's it's it's been
a lot of fun. And yeah, we kind of stand back.
I like joke, I'm an extra security guy. I just
kind of stand back and and make sure we monitor
(32:49):
who's who's talking to Tom.
Speaker 2 (32:50):
Yeah, you gave me the coach star or what's that
I said? You Dean gave us some of the coaches
stories about like the voicemails, the Rex, right, but I
need a Tom Brady story that now is funny because
you work with him.
Speaker 1 (33:02):
Oh good, Oh okay, I'll give you the Tom Brady story.
So Tom, like Tom is for like he's he really
is awesome and he's down to earth and he just
he's such a he's like wants to be a good teammate.
He really does. And I'm not blowing smoke, like he
is just really like wants to learn, wants to and
(33:23):
he just like comes to dinner, does everything that we
do other than like three am at the bar, which
I understand, I understand, but.
Speaker 2 (33:32):
His skin looks like that because he doesn't do three
He doesn't.
Speaker 1 (33:35):
Do right exactly. So but so all year I'm kind
of joking with him, like I'm just I want to
get you to get a drink at dinner, Like I
feel like a degenerate like me, Chris and KB, Like
it's like cocktail and wine, Like what are we doing?
You know, I'm like dugit and tonics and then KB
then you get the wine, and so it's like, oh,
(33:56):
you're trying to get him in. Finally, we were in
Philly a couple of weeks ago. We went to this
like tiny, awesome Italian restaurant named Aroma, and and it's
like this family place and it's and we didn't have
a private room and we're out amongst everybody, and finally
we get him and it was a lemon Cello shot.
So we're not talking about you know, we're not talking
(34:17):
about it was Lemonell, but hey, baby steps and and
finally we got shots and he did it like he
did the shot, and I was a little annoyed that
he did it without cheering anybody.
Speaker 2 (34:29):
He didn't tell any of us.
Speaker 1 (34:31):
It was like he didn't wait wait, I was like, what,
I wanted to do the shot with you?
Speaker 2 (34:35):
But he cheers him he did. I just cheers the goat.
Speaker 1 (34:40):
He did. He did, so we finally got him to
do a shot, So that was fun. That was fun.
Speaker 2 (34:45):
Yeah, he's, like you said, he walking on the field
you kind of forget, which sounds so lame, being in
meeting rooms with him, just talking ball with him, talking scenarios,
gossiping with him, stuff like that. He's the goat, and
then you go out on the field with him pregame
and you're like, oh, yeah, okay, now I got it. Yeah,
But he's been great.
Speaker 1 (35:04):
He's great, and I love listening to him talk about
football Hall and it's it's been a lot of fun.
It's really been a lot of fun.
Speaker 2 (35:10):
Any Dean a piece of advice because keV has graced
us with his presence on this podcast as well, and
he took my favorite word, circuitous route to become a broadcaster.
He was a car salesman.
Speaker 3 (35:21):
You mentioned you started as an intern, So what advice
do you have for people that want to get into
the business and just think like, oh, I have to
do this, this, this, and this, but it doesn't always
you know, you don't have to. There's a done a
ton of different ways you can arrive at the same.
Speaker 1 (35:36):
There really is. And like I think everybody that we
work with, nobody, there's no cookie cutter, there's no blueprint.
We've all done it differently. And I think it's about relationships.
I think it's about networking. I remember we were There
was the young lady that came up to you aarin
before the game who worked for Tampa PR and she
was asking EA about advice, and I thought your advice
(35:58):
was so good in terms of go reach out to
the local television stations, the radio stations, connect with those people.
And I think that's it. It's about those relationships. Because
for me, and I didn't tell this earlier, but the
only reason I found this out later, the only reason
I even got a phone call from the NFL because
I went to Hofstra University in New York. Go Wayne Quebet,
(36:22):
Marcus Colston football NFL factory by the way, and so
I went to Hofstra and the girl who was working
in human resources also went to Hofstra, didn't know me,
but put my resume on top because we went to
the same school, and it's just like those relationships and
meeting people and networking. You just don't know. You don't
(36:43):
know because there's no one path and there's no there's
no easy way either. You got to put in the work.
So I love that.
Speaker 2 (36:49):
Yeah, well, I was coming back to HR one way
or another, Folks, doesn't it God damn, oh my god,
HR your old representative years. You know what that means? Hey, wait, Handan,
you know this story, do I? I worked at HR
in Fox. That was my first job. Shut up, yes,
(37:09):
because I wanted to become a sports broadcaster and the
only job they had to fail it was the assistant
and so then yeah, and I went through it.
Speaker 1 (37:19):
You are so cut out for HR. Let me tell you,
it's amazing, so especially so comfortable coming to you with
my issues and yeah, it's great.
Speaker 2 (37:37):
Wait, I have to ask you this question. If you
could change one.
Speaker 1 (37:41):
Rule, what would it be? Yeah? One?
Speaker 2 (37:45):
Or get rid of one rule?
Speaker 1 (37:46):
One? I do think we've talked about it a lot
this year, and I know Tom it's like a pet
peeve for him, like the quarterbacks with the late slides,
and it does it put like we had to play
yesterday yesterday with Baker and he slid late and he
got hit and everybody jumps up and it's like, oh
my god, you hit the quarterback. And so I do
think that that that late slide that has to be
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something that And I'm not sure what the answer is
because the defenders are in such a tough spot, Like
here's mage're trying to tackle Josh Allen and you're getting
ready to hit him and all of a sudden he
slides at the last second and it's right at the
line in the game, guys. But I think that's that's
something to look at because I do think the onus
has to be on the player, the quarterback to slide early,
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and sometimes they don't, and it does put the defense
in a tough spot.
Speaker 2 (38:34):
Can I add this, what would you like to see?
Would there be a role you would add?
Speaker 1 (38:40):
You know, I do think we're gonna I do think
we're going to expand instant replay, and I do I
think ultimately that's a good thing when we do have
the video. Because we talked about earlier, officials get one
look at it full speed and they may miss it,
and so if we can have an opportunity to correct them,
it's got to be game changing. You don't want to
reofficiate the game through replay, it would you know, think
(39:00):
about four and a half minutes yesterday, we're all sitting
there waiting. So I think there is an opportunity to
use technology to help get get the plays right because
there is so much riding on these games.
Speaker 2 (39:11):
Yeah, I was wondering if you could explain to everybody
what the hell you're doing on camera behind Kevin and Tom.
There was a little meme about that. Yeah, it did
go viral. Well, I feel like you should tell everyone
the game was created of the different poses Dean will
do it is. Yeah, so it's a weird like some
of the booths.
Speaker 1 (39:27):
They've got this I don't know what they call the camera,
but it kind of shoots. It's not the head on
shot that when when KB and Tom will be on
camera talking to the audience. It's kind of like an angle.
And so when they shoot that shot, I'm in the
corner and it just kind of looks weird, like I'm.
Speaker 2 (39:45):
Just like standing there, insane.
Speaker 1 (39:48):
Yeah, and so Art and so Rich Russo who who
He'll He'll be like, hey, Dean, you're in the shot,
and I'm like, I don't want to just stand there.
Looks weird. It looks like I'm just like, hey, who's
got like weird owner? And so I just started doing
like different hand gestures and I told them I'm like, kyb,
I'm going to do the I'm gonna do like the
(40:09):
double point. And he's like, please don't do it. I'm like,
I'm doing it. And then they came on and I
did the double point and he couldn't get through his next,
you know, his next couple of comments. So yeah, so
we're kind of like and I've got I've got pretty
much like a bunch more that we can do. So
maybe we'll just you know, do that every every week.
(40:30):
Although I'm not going to be with you guys in
the playoffs. I don't love this.
Speaker 2 (40:34):
No offense to Mike Prearra. I think we we have
dual sideline. We should have dual rules.
Speaker 3 (40:39):
Double double your pleasure double.
Speaker 2 (40:44):
I'm going to I'm going to give a shout out
to this. And we talked a lot about this at
Payway and when you called me Cursa, I these officials
get a lot of ship. You know, as Dean said,
you have to have fixed skin, a sense of humor.
There was a moment yesterday where tired Matthew was messed up.
He was trying to he was trying to get the
con webs out. He was trying and Clinton, my security
(41:06):
and I are watching this and we're like, holy shit,
he is like feeling it. They did another play. He's
still trying to shake his head, thank god. And I
almost turned into a mom Actually question, could I have
told the official, hey, check on him? I probably would
have gotten in trouble.
Speaker 1 (41:20):
No, I think you could have. You could have. There's
nothing we and we and we have said that. This
goes back when I was still at the League office
and we wanted the officials. If you recognize a guy
who's struggling, who gets up and you know, loses their
bouth there, clearly they've gotten something, some something's going on,
potential headneck injury. You get him out, don't don't just
(41:43):
get him out of the game. And we also have
the you know, the spot or upstairs that you do that.
So I remember you saying that, which was awesome because
you want that player to because because these guys are
such competitors, don't want Yeah, and sometimes.
Speaker 2 (41:57):
So this official took the guy and let him over
to the sideline to the Saints. It's not a guy,
it's Tyron Matthew led him over there, like go get help.
And I was telling Dean, I was like I all game,
I wanted to get his attention and be like thank
you for doing that because we know Tyron Matthew like
he's not going to come out and it was kind
of a scary moment. But I had actually thought of
asking you that, Dean, Like I wonder if I could
(42:18):
have said in a time out, go check on him.
Now that probably would have pissed off the team if
they wanted him out there, but he needed some assistance.
Speaker 1 (42:25):
Sure, No, there's no doubt he did. And I think
that's that's the official's job and that in that moment
to get that player, it doesn't matter who it is,
get that player out of the game to get checked,
because that's that's the player safety. That's so important.
Speaker 2 (42:37):
Yeah, there's so many fascinating I know it is. It's
been so interesting, well because you know, we're lucky enough
with our jobs to have the curtain pulled back and
you get to see all of these different facets, Like
people didn't know what a Steve didn't know what a
spotter was. He's like, wait, who's the guy in the
booth with al what's a spot Like? Yeah, so it's
really cool.
Speaker 3 (42:57):
So Dean, thank you for shedding some light on an
incredible part of the game and, by the way, an
unenviable part of the game because you're like the manager
of the restaurant that everyone's going to bitch to you
at their table. So you have to have a temperament
like you have to customer service.
Speaker 1 (43:15):
You're the gate agent.
Speaker 2 (43:16):
How do they get your phone number? Or all the
coaches intertiable.
Speaker 1 (43:20):
Yeah, you'd give I'd give them my phone number and
they text and call. And Sean Payton we mentioned Sean
Eli boy, Sean he would call and Sean was the
one guy and I love him to death. Most coaches
I could get to some common ground if Sean is
like the sky is green right now, and I'm like, coach, no,
it's blue, and he's like, no, it's green, and you're
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not going to convince me otherwise, And I'm like, all right, coach,
I'll talk to you tomorrow.
Speaker 2 (43:47):
And he can keep you on for a while.
Speaker 1 (43:48):
Oh yeah, he's the best. They're They're all and like
we like we said, they're under so much pressure, all right,
and today like you get I mean, you see the
coaches getting fired.
Speaker 2 (43:58):
It's sucks idea who will get some of these jobs?
I know your friends with a lot of guys. You
want to break some news here, Jay Glazer, No.
Speaker 1 (44:05):
I leave that up to Jay. You know, Jay, he's
the guy. He is the guy that that that that
does those those scoops. And but there's a lot of
you look at all the candidates, and we were talking
about it. You have these You have a guy like
Ben Johnson, who is an incredible play caller, who's been
incredible for the Lions. Can he be a head coach? Right?
Because it's a different it's a different skill set. It's
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you've got to now be like I always think of
Mike Tomlin. You know, he's a leader of men, he's
a man, he manages everything. And the guys that can
and I think Ben Johnson could do it, but we
just don't know, right. So you have these guys that
I think we'll get opportunities and and and we'll see.
Speaker 2 (44:44):
Well you see it. You see the Shane Steichens that
go from an offensive coordinator position to a head coach
and then all of a sudden that you get or
the Brian flores Is of the world that went and
became a head coach, and it was like, hey, you're
better served actually just maybe staying in your specialty, because
I feel like it's got to be one of those
things you get further further removed from your your specific
specialty because you're trying to manage everything. Now, some guys
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obviously do it seamlessly, and you've seen, you know, a
lot of examples of that. But yeah, very think such
a cool job, but a lot of pressure and not
a can handle it like yours. Dean, you're the best.
Speaker 1 (45:17):
Well, I appreciate you guys having me on.
Speaker 2 (45:20):
We have to be careful.
Speaker 1 (45:20):
We love Mike, We love Mike, but I do feel
like I'm probably I bring a little bit more to
the table in terms of the late night stuff than Mike,
but sure, but on the officiating stuff, Mike is the goat.
He is, he was the first one to do it.
Love Mike to death. I've worked with him forever and
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there was a time and I've we can tell stories offline,
but there was a time when Mike used to get
after it too.
Speaker 2 (45:47):
Oh yeah, oh yeah, last year, No, two years ago. Hey,
what's one thing about traveling with announcing crew that people
maybe would have no idea about, Like, what's something pull
back the curtain on that?
Speaker 1 (46:00):
Just the logistics Our cu is so good. Everybody on
that crew like I've never and it makes me uncomfortable
a little bit, like I like I never had. It's
like people are picking you up, and people are they're
they're doing, and it's like everything is buttoned up and
you and I never have a question about you know,
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my flight or or being picked up from the airport
or being like I always get that information. Hey, so
and so is going to pick you up at this time,
here's the number, here's the information, and it's like all
those logistics, Matt Gail is incredible, the jack all those guys.
Shout out to all those guys, because there is so
much that goes into it and just getting getting into
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the stadium, right, when are we going to leave, how
are we going to get how we getting out of
the stadium, all those logistics, and that's just a little
part of what goes into putting on a football game,
and there's so many other moving parts.
Speaker 2 (46:55):
You're a goddamn.
Speaker 1 (47:00):
Today. Yep, five and a half hour. So yeah, little
jet lag, but we'll we'll get through it.
Speaker 2 (47:05):
We'll power through.
Speaker 3 (47:06):
So Dean, as you know, since you are a loyal
Calm Down listener, okay, longtime listener, first time caller. There's
a bunch of different stories that Aaron and I have,
whether it's you know about Mac, whether it's about Steve,
whether it's about Jarrett, whatever it is. So most recently
going to Chicago for my Thursday night game, there was
I let Steve have the full ruins of the travel.
(47:27):
It got all screwed up, ended up at different airports.
The bag is the whole thing, Okay, but I had
given him full authority to take control. He said he
got it and he screwed it up. I need your take,
and this is going to be an official A Rules
segment with Steve off sides or not or hold a
mess up with the travel.
Speaker 1 (47:46):
He definitely offsides, definitely offside. You know it was, But
I feel for him because I've done I had a
similar experience when I went to see you two at
the Sphere with this girl I was dating and all excited.
We're in Vegas. It's great we're gonna go. We show
up at the Sphere and the girl looks at my
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phone and she goes, these tickets are for tomorrow night.
Speaker 2 (48:13):
And there you're walking.
Speaker 1 (48:15):
In there there at the at the door and we're
leaving the next day. So we're not even and it
was my I never Thankfully, luckily story ends well. Our
Fox crew was doing the Raiders game. A group from
that crew was it was eb Eric Billinger's crew. They
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were going to the Sphere. We were all supposed to
meet up. I texted him like, hey, got a problem,
can you help out? And they got us into a
suite and it actually worked out. It actually worked out.
But I have that feeling that it was such a
sinking feeling. So I can only imagine how Steve felt
when that was, you know, the wrong airport.
Speaker 2 (48:58):
That's an incredible start. No oh oh, good follow up,
good follow up. Here's the problem Steve, because he lives
on you know, in La La Land. In the best
way possible, everything can be made into a positive. He's like, look,
I got to meet the baggage claim attended at O'Hare,
so he'll find a silver lining and anything. Okay, now
here's another situation. Off sides or not on red receipts.
(49:20):
So Vince Spawn said that he was going to come
on the podcast. This was year one, We're in year three.
Speaker 3 (49:26):
Kept saying he's going to come on whatever, which we
were so excited for. So I kept texting him like, hey,
can you come on this week? Would show that he
read it, but then never responded, never reigned. Finally, now
I'm ticked. I screenshot the messages and I think I'm
sending them to Aaron, but I send them back to
Vince Spawn and I'm like, this fucking guy right.
Speaker 2 (49:49):
Her chest so bad when you see that you committed
that bad.
Speaker 1 (49:54):
That is yes, definitely off sides, and I've done that,
and that's what I person. And you're the sinking, feeling burning.
Speaker 2 (50:05):
Tell me what yours was. Tell me what your off
side was.
Speaker 1 (50:07):
So it was it was somebody not to name names.
It was somebody from the league office who texted me
something so ridiculous about a play, and I screenshotted it
and I was going to send it to my friend
who works for the team, and it was similar, like
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you look at this bullshit, And I sent it to
the person who sent it to me, and it was like,
and you're just waiting, And then I'm frantically like, is
there can I delete this? Can I get it? And
then they did respond like what do you mean? And
I was just like, oh, you know your response was
so ridiculous. I wanted you to read it again. I
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like that. I like that. Yeah, good, so it was.
I get it. But definitely off sides, no doubt, no doubt.
Speaker 2 (50:54):
Aaron, you have to have one for him offsides or not?
Is it a Jarrett Snoring story? What is it? Give
me something for him? I'm trying to think Dean hears
about it all weekend.
Speaker 1 (51:02):
I know I do hear about it. I do want
to hang out. I want to hang out with Jared.
I want to hang out with Steve. I think we
all need to go out.
Speaker 2 (51:08):
Oh my god, we would have a tough triangle with
these three. We wouldn't even see him. We would lose
Dean as a friend.
Speaker 1 (51:15):
I know I would. I'm not gonna lie. I would
probably ditch you too, and just it would be the three.
It will be the three of us.
Speaker 2 (51:22):
But that's what happens. Super Bowl. It's gonna happen.
Speaker 1 (51:24):
It's super perfect super Bowl.
Speaker 2 (51:26):
It is Hey, do we need to help you with
any of your d ms or are you good? Oh,
here's I'm good right now.
Speaker 1 (51:32):
I'm good right now. Like I want to get through
the season. I'm just focusing on the kids being a
better co parent. But then once the season ends, we'll see,
we'll see. We'll nibble later.
Speaker 2 (51:42):
Okay, I will never nibble. I don't want to.
Speaker 1 (51:44):
We'll gobble, well, yeah, gobble.
Speaker 2 (51:46):
Okay, this is taking a turn.
Speaker 1 (51:48):
Yes, and anybody out there, any any single young ladies
that want to slide into Jared Klein's DMS, go for it.
Speaker 2 (51:54):
So SA go for it.
Speaker 1 (51:57):
Slide Google Dolls. That's our song, by the.
Speaker 2 (51:59):
Way, got in yesterday.
Speaker 1 (52:02):
What a good song.
Speaker 2 (52:03):
That should be your karaoke song. We played it in
Philly a couple of weeks ago.
Speaker 1 (52:08):
Yeah, it wasn't quite a karaoke session. It was more
of us just dancing and screaming and I just something else.
In the meeting room. I had three chairs lined up
and I was dancing on the chairs, like walking from
one chair.
Speaker 2 (52:21):
It was yeah, is there footage of that? Yeah, get
under the undisputable video evidence.
Speaker 1 (52:27):
Me enough and Jason Thorne and other great guys. All
through we reenacted the dirty dancing. We reenacted Patrick Swayze
and Jennifer and I was Jennifer Gray and he was
Patrick Swayzee and so I jumped into his arms, his
strong and capable arms. It was amazing.
Speaker 2 (52:46):
Oh my god. All right, we'll land this plane. But
I have to end it with your karaoke song is.
Speaker 1 (52:52):
My karaoke song, And I'm not gonna lie. I'm actually
pretty incredible in karaoke. And if you hear me do
with or without you by you two, you might actually
not like the YouTube version anymore.
Speaker 2 (53:03):
Wow, there is a cheat. And I'm not even I'm
not even going to have you do it here because
I need to see this in person or at the
Super Bowl Championship game. We'll do it, and we will
take a video of that and we will play it
right here because that is worth the wait. And here
here she goes. Do you You're the Best? Calm Down
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