October 13, 2023 • 60 mins
In a London theatre full of heroes - Dan Hanzus, Gregg Rosenthal, and Marc Sessler are LIVE! The heroes start the show by previewing this Sunday's game between the Ravens and Titans at Tottenham Hotspur Stadium (05:18), before they play a round of What's More Likely (15:48), they think tank ATN's next Flashpoint Focus (31:48), and sprinkle in some love for Marc's 50th birthday to wrap up the show (46:11).
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
The Around the NFL Podcast is feeling supersonic.
Speaker 2 (00:06):
Give me Jen and Tonic. Hey there it is. Welcome
all right to the Around the NFL Podcast from Londin.
(00:30):
I'm Dan Hansis and I'm joined by the heroes, the
old Boss, Greg Rosenthal.
Speaker 3 (00:42):
More of that.
Speaker 2 (00:43):
Please thank you throughout the show, sirs and the Quiet
Star and Mark Sisler, Uh.
Speaker 4 (01:08):
Thank you, thank you.
Speaker 2 (01:12):
Oh.
Speaker 3 (01:12):
This is a night long celebration of all things Mark.
Speaker 2 (01:17):
That was like, what what is it? What a football hooligans?
Speaker 4 (01:20):
Sound? That chance? Elevant to it?
Speaker 2 (01:23):
Mark, Happy birthday?
Speaker 4 (01:24):
You turned some age, some age this week, some age.
Speaker 2 (01:30):
This beautiful man.
Speaker 4 (01:31):
I ignore the number, but I embrace it too.
Speaker 2 (01:35):
I'm with you. Listen. It's so great to be here.
This is our as a group, fifth trip to London,
and it is I don't know, I feel like it
gets it gets a little bigger every year. And the
vibe I see you, mister Joe Nama, the jersey.
Speaker 3 (01:53):
It's always one of them and Gregor.
Speaker 2 (01:58):
We got the three games and we're going to be
at Baltimore, Tennessee and that's so exciting. It's it's so
great to be here.
Speaker 3 (02:05):
Yeah, we're we're we're back working with Sky, so if
you're at the game, you know, just yell at us
and make us seem like a big deal. It really
bothered Maury s Jones Drew a couple of years ago,
killed them killed when we were brought up on the
big screen and they introduced mauryast Jones Drew and it
was polite applause and then Dan and I come in
there and in the place went crazy. So so please
(02:27):
please look us up and I'm excited. If you're not
going to the game, we'll be on Sky.
Speaker 2 (02:30):
I got the exact words were, I won the rushing title.
Speaker 4 (02:36):
And we appeared on Sky today, Dan and I on
Sky Sports News. Yes, I don't know if you if
you've listened to the show for a while. A couple
of years ago, Dan and I had our first appearance
on that was more like Sky News. It was like
it was pretty hard, little rough, and we got like
four straight questions about Colin Kaepernick and our official stance
(02:56):
on Colin Kaepernick. It was just like it's like.
Speaker 2 (03:00):
Do you stand with Callan Kopanach? Are you against him
like the rest of the National Football League. Then we
we get back to where our staging area was sure
of course, like where's Wes and Greg? Yeah? And there
they are being interviewed by Hannah will Ray Hannah will Yeah,
(03:21):
and they're kicking back and relaxing and talking about fantasy football, like,
oh yeah, I think Derrick Henry is a great value.
And sitting at Mark and I looked like guys that
came home from war and saw too much.
Speaker 4 (03:33):
You're like they have like the like the beautiful British
like suns streaming in on them, and Dan and I
are like sweating, like we've got armpit stains. We're just
a hot mess.
Speaker 2 (03:41):
So it still sticks with us. Congratulations Greg, everything going
your way?
Speaker 3 (03:46):
Yeah, I mean I was. I was back with Hannah
today on her huddle. I guess just the women like me.
Speaker 2 (03:53):
There enough. Well, we've talked about him many times. Greg
was quite the cocksmen.
Speaker 4 (03:59):
Uh is high school years and uh the most high
school happened.
Speaker 2 (04:04):
And listen, there are many many, many, many, many, many
many many men here for those that are struggling in
the waves of the opposite sex or whatever, like do
you have any advice from your nineteen ninety seven So.
Speaker 3 (04:21):
Yeah, well, if you're if you're sure in scrawnie, don't
be aware of that, just like believe you're bigger.
Speaker 2 (04:30):
There's the lesson. Okay, let's talk about Ravens Titans real quick,
because who's going to the game on Sunday?
Speaker 3 (04:39):
Person who does yeuted Delaware out appreciate you?
Speaker 2 (04:42):
Where are the types? We want the tapes? You want
to talk a little bit about this game.
Speaker 4 (04:49):
That's why we're here. I meant, what do you think?
I just like cannot believe the so on NFL Plus.
We broke down Ravens Steelers about twenty five minutes, went
through all the plays, and I mean I grew up
not enjoying either one of these teams for very obvious reasons.
But I almost like it was the first time that
(05:10):
Ravens fans I kind of almost felt that for them
a bit because that game what seer your memory? It
was just like your expose.
Speaker 2 (05:18):
You loved it.
Speaker 4 (05:19):
I kind of loved it, but like, but I'm loving it.
Then the Steelers winning, so it's like there's no win here.
But I mean you you have to like dive into
the archives to find a Ravens game littered with that
many gaffes errors and like Lamar Jackson playing well, but
his wide receiver is just I don't know how many
acid tabs were handed out to that group of players
(05:40):
before the game that it's like they it had you know,
they were in effect in the bloodstream.
Speaker 3 (05:44):
So yeah, I am a Lamar believer, as you guys know.
I'm part of the we know, Lamar General of the
lam Armie, very like Bonaparte here in little Napoleon complex.
But I like to look at the positive. I like,
there's why open receivers for the Ravens now and you're
going up against the Titans team that's bad against the pass.
Speaker 1 (06:06):
Uh.
Speaker 3 (06:06):
Mike Rabel like talks defense, but his defenses are pretty mediocre.
Year after year. We got Odell Beckham, we got for
Shad Baban, who hasn't done anything. I feel like they
do and it's a really strong defense. You would think, Oh,
the Titans are the team that's better at stopping the run. No,
it's the Ravens. So I'm looking forward to this game.
I'm wondering, like, are there a lot of Ravens and
or Titans fans here? Okay, wait, where are the Ravens fans? Like?
Speaker 2 (06:31):
Did you almost die on Sunday? That was one of
the shiest losses. And I'm a Jets fan that that
was one of the worst losses I've ever seen, like
out on television. So like, I think that's what's so
interesting about this game because they both kind of need it.
So the Titans, they are two and four, two and three,
(06:53):
two and three, they six games, Yeah, thank you.
Speaker 4 (06:57):
That much have been a prophecy.
Speaker 2 (06:58):
Yeah, math is an issue state mandated top stitch. And
while the Ravens will survive, win or lose on Sunday,
it is you know, coming off the type of bloss
it was, and again the fact that you guys are alive,
that's good stuff. Like they kind of needed to just
get their kind of swagger back a little bit. So
it's two teams that really kind of need a w
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this weekend.
Speaker 3 (07:21):
And the Titans just feel like this show that's peaked
and has been on the air for a really long time,
and you're like, like, oh, Frazier is still on, Like like.
Speaker 2 (07:33):
They're they're introducing the like the red haired boy, that's
the orphan that showed up at the front step just
for comedies.
Speaker 3 (07:39):
And I like them, but it's like, oh, Kevin Byern
and Mike Griebel and Derrick Henry, all the guys that
you used to love when they were the one seed.
But there's just diminishing returns here. That's it. I think
before the season I had them winning this division, which
means they need to get some w's.
Speaker 4 (07:55):
And I'm caught in a major tough stitch. I do
I have to ask a couple of Ravens fans. I mean,
it was even literally last week that I went, you know,
out to an event with some people and meta race.
Speaker 2 (08:06):
What well, who talks like that?
Speaker 3 (08:08):
I don't know, so it is it.
Speaker 4 (08:12):
I went, I literally went to a baseball game, a
baseball playoff game, and it was with a hardcore Steelers
fan who I like knows is football. And then like
the comment came up when we talked about the Ravens
and the win over the Ravens and there's a boon
for a Steelers team that was lost at sea and
you know, oh, well, we know that the Ravens were
once the Cleveland Browns. And this was a person of
(08:32):
a certain age that would was alive when that happened.
No knowledge that was the Cleveland Browns. And this is
how many times you've been out with me when I
when I run into this type of Ravens fan, it's like,
please know the history of where your team came from,
or I'm gonna leave. I'm just gonna water. That guy's dead, right, No, no, no,
I I just realized, like, oh, that happened like thirty
five thousand years ago, and some people don't care.
Speaker 3 (08:53):
Yeah, you listen to the show long enough, you know
there is a dark Sessler.
Speaker 2 (08:57):
I mean, well, well let's see you see.
Speaker 3 (08:59):
You get you get the sunny version. But sometimes there
is like a point in the night where the roller
coaster is going up, up, up, up, and then it
starts going down, and that's where Dark Sessler arrives.
Speaker 4 (09:12):
That's after the show.
Speaker 3 (09:12):
If you happen to be unlucky enough to reveal that
you didn't know that the Ravens were ones the Cleveland Browns, Yeah.
Speaker 4 (09:20):
You are in trouble.
Speaker 3 (09:20):
You are in deep trouble.
Speaker 2 (09:21):
I do think that's a great for like kind of
counterculture programming Sessler after Dark.
Speaker 4 (09:28):
You see, it's better than a Frasier reboot, which is happening.
Speaker 2 (09:32):
La we do you need it? Nobody asked for it,
and yet here it is Greggy as captain of the
LAMARMI uh, do you think there's any way to lose
this game or where you sat on this one?
Speaker 3 (09:43):
Ah, I've thought a lot about this game, and I
want to tell you a little story.
Speaker 2 (09:52):
Uh yeah.
Speaker 3 (09:54):
The lam Armie has been around for years and we've
been waiting and we've been looking, and we've been saying
all we need is the right person to lead this,
like let's quit it with the college running style. And
then our guy, Captain Todd Monkan arrived.
Speaker 4 (10:16):
What are we doing?
Speaker 2 (10:17):
Balls for dramatic effect?
Speaker 4 (10:20):
You're trying, Greg, I appreciate it.
Speaker 3 (10:21):
I want to tell you another story.
Speaker 2 (10:25):
Another wait, that was the close of the story.
Speaker 3 (10:30):
There's two stories. They connect, all right, take two and
actually they connect, Okay, pausing it helps the comedic effect.
It's great.
Speaker 2 (10:39):
Failed it.
Speaker 3 (10:43):
There was a government a few years back and they
didn't like the bigger group of countries that they were
connected to. They wanted to escape that group. And in
the years after that, times were tough and there wasn't
(11:07):
as many pounds as they call it instead of euros
hanging around. And then one Sunday they went to Tottenham Stadium.
The hot Toddy and all the little Sylvia's and all
the little Ollie's looked up into the sky and it
was supposed to be a sunny day. But then the
(11:28):
clouds started rolling in and the rain decided to come
and it started raining.
Speaker 2 (11:36):
All over time from Hotspur.
Speaker 3 (11:39):
Stadium and the rain Maker gave all the money to
the boys and girls.
Speaker 2 (11:44):
To the rain.
Speaker 3 (11:48):
The rainmaker, let's go.
Speaker 2 (12:01):
Yeah it did. And it's important Mark that we again responsibility.
The rain maker last nime, he you know, took out
you know, he did the forecast. He said the Patriots
were gonna take care of business, right, and then little
Susie buck to Susie didn't get braces nope. Uh. And
(12:23):
you know that house they wanted to do, the addition
of the house didn't get finished.
Speaker 5 (12:27):
No.
Speaker 6 (12:28):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (12:28):
There's children that are using outhouses. There's no more toilets.
Like what at what point? What stops this? Man?
Speaker 4 (12:36):
I don't well, I don't know why you trust if
you you know, have money of your own. I'm just
looking at the fashion selection, the the whole the ensemble
is questionable. Greg. You know, there's some accountability that this
is needed on your part here. I mean, there are
people that no longer believe in the Easter Bunny because
nothing shows up on Easter morning. There's no funds. Santa
claus Is xt out.
Speaker 3 (12:57):
I shout out to Erica Tamposi. Are great for her
producer Ricky Hollywood. You know she's a she's a close
a close friend of me, of mine and I at
this point where she really didn't like me. She chose
this as the graphics for The rain Maker. But to
answer your question, Mark, I'd like to look back on
(13:19):
the last three years of The rain Maker and look
at the consistent success and all the coins falling from
the sky that little Ali. You just have to have faith.
Speaker 4 (13:28):
We don't have time to fact check it so that
we were we always go down this alley with you.
Speaker 2 (13:31):
Don't think you're work for it anymore? After what happened,
Patriots all right, shout? Should we move on anything else?
Speaker 3 (13:37):
Mark?
Speaker 4 (13:37):
I would I want to throw out one sandwich bet
that I feel. I feel strong it's a prop.
Speaker 3 (13:43):
We actually are gonna maybe put this out as an
actual podcast. So y's a sandwich prop. Sandwich props. We
are not going to any of the casinos in the UK.
Speaker 4 (13:51):
I will call it what I wish, but I would
tell you like I you know, I know you're thinking, oh,
look like an animal is gonna bite someone on the forehead, like,
I'm not going down that road with this one. Okay,
all right, what do we got? This is hardcore football.
So back on September twenty six, twenty twenty one, all right,
with the Detroit Lions as the opponent in the Baltimore
(14:12):
Ravens facing them, someone that we love on the show
achieved the longest field goal in NFL history sixty six yards. Still, okay,
of course he did. That won't be the longest field
goal come Sunday night. That will not. This is my
sports lock of the week. So you just take it
(14:34):
from there, and you say, I will not even challenge
you because I know it's going to happen.
Speaker 3 (14:38):
One of my favorite things about Mark is that he
loves to listen to AM radio in the United States,
which is mostly programming to men over seventy three years old, alright,
and he loves to listen to the sports lock of
the week guys, talking as you're coming into once in
a while. I love this. I mean for it to
happen outdoors here would be bold. I'm going to take
(14:58):
you up on it just cause I love sandwiches.
Speaker 2 (15:01):
Yeah, no, that's that's definitely a take. It's supposed to
get a little chilly this weekend.
Speaker 4 (15:05):
It's inclement weather. That's what makes it all the more courageous.
I actually I did not say it could be. It
could be one of two kickers, all right.
Speaker 2 (15:15):
Did it? I said? Damn it?
Speaker 3 (15:24):
Live from the Shaw Theater in London, England, It's time
for everybody's favorite game show.
Speaker 2 (15:32):
What more likely? Yes, giving up by the way, that Eric,
our producer, that was very good voiceover work. Given up
for Eric. He's not awesome work. Rap rabbits and with
the magnic thumb. You guys should see it.
Speaker 3 (15:48):
And it was thirty minutes ago. We're not last minute
doing these things at all, all right, So.
Speaker 2 (15:53):
What's more likely? Those that have listened to the show
for many years. No, it is a war wars for
us because it allows us to throw out two possibilities
within the universe.
Speaker 4 (16:06):
We're the only show that has ever produced a segment
like this.
Speaker 2 (16:12):
Sell it, Sessler, I love it.
Speaker 3 (16:14):
Although we have noticed certain segments on our show popping
up on other programming. It's part edit out of the
podcast we're released.
Speaker 2 (16:23):
Yeah, this show, by the way, will be posted to
the world, which we don't typically do. So even if
it's not funny the jokes or the comments, just give
us a little pop. That's all we ask. That's all
we ask.
Speaker 3 (16:36):
Also, we're incredibly insecured. It makes us feel better temporarily,
and you have to keep refilling over and over and over.
Speaker 2 (16:44):
But then the whole remains, and it's a hole that
cannot be filled. All right, So what's more likely, Greggy?
Why don't you get us going?
Speaker 3 (16:53):
I want to fast forward a little bit. Let's go
to the day after the wild card round has ended
in twenty twenty four. It's a little bit in the future.
At that point in time, Bill Belichick is still the
coach of the New England Patriots.
Speaker 2 (17:17):
WHOA what does that mean? What are the sounds meaning?
Speaker 6 (17:23):
He go?
Speaker 3 (17:26):
Of course I be a head coach.
Speaker 2 (17:29):
Either game on Monday.
Speaker 3 (17:31):
Or a team from the NFC South is still alive
in the playoffs. Are we gonna do better than that?
Speaker 2 (17:45):
We're gonna be on the world. Let's go. That's good?
All right? Bill still has a job where the Falcons
get to the second round.
Speaker 3 (17:56):
Any NFC South team is still alive in the Division
around playoffs? Correct, Okay, all right?
Speaker 4 (18:03):
I I have some things to say about Belichick in
a minute myself, but which.
Speaker 3 (18:10):
I thought we went over this.
Speaker 4 (18:12):
We attempted to cross plan for about twelve minutes before
the show, and I maybe was not I was shut
down at that point now listening, But I think in
an NFC South team, winning a playoff game is not impossible.
They're weird, they're kind of sexy. The Falcons can hurt
you in a number of ways. They can hurt themselves.
Speaker 3 (18:30):
Which which team do you guys think would be the
most likely NFC South Falcons.
Speaker 2 (18:36):
That's curious, that's part of I think to say it's
probably no, all right, because their defense is very good.
We've seen that, and I think that especially will continue
to help them during this regular season where they're it's
pretty soft schedule for both all these teams. And then
you know, I like Derek Carr more than others, so
(18:58):
and I think if with Alba Kamara there, if they
get Chris Alave more involved than Michael Thomas Day is healthy,
I think they're gonna be the best team coming out
of there. And then you get a home game and
then the Superdome, maybe you win with but I think
it's more likely that Beljick stays I think that even
it feels very and that's why, you know, when we'll
talk about it a little bit later. Flashpoint Focus is
(19:20):
the most pression of all programs on the podcast in
the podcast world, because we're ahead of the story always.
It's obviously a big story that the Patriots are struggling
the way they are, but I also think they are
more likely unless there's a real clash behind the scenes,
which is possible, that they would go, let's say four
(19:41):
and thirteen and then kick the quarterback out and let
Bill start over with a quarterback. I just think, even
though Kraft said it in the media before the season started,
I'd think Kraft wants Bill to be on the sideline
when he set break Schul's record. I think he wants to.
Speaker 4 (19:54):
Give him but that could take three years with the
team they have right now.
Speaker 2 (19:57):
Well you never know though the NFL, the way teams
quickly rebuild. I just think it's I don't think he's gone.
I think he'll survive this year, but.
Speaker 4 (20:06):
Think things can get so dark though. It's like, I mean,
what's happened over the last two weeks, like it has
us talking about and on our Flashpoint Focus series, which
if you go look at the athletic Like days later,
there's like eight features talking about what we talked about
four days earlier. So just a little nod to us,
But it could get so dark that maybe the whole
(20:26):
relationship just crumbles. Although I just picked the NFC South
team winning, so I'll just stop talking now.
Speaker 3 (20:32):
I think it's the NFC South team because you figure
what that's like not to be you know, boring analytical
Greg here, But what have they got a forty percent
chance and they're gonna have a home game in the
playoffs no matter who they're playing. Maybe they're playing the
Seahawks or something like that. They're slight underdogs. I see
you twelve. We can't initially, what is up with the
(20:52):
UK Saints fans. There's weirdly a lot of UK science fans.
There's actually a UK Saints podcast, which I'm just surprised
there's enough people to score them. That's amazing, Like, congrats,
check it out.
Speaker 2 (21:05):
I mean the person that hosts the UK Saints podcast
are you here? Are you now that podcast? Plugging that
in the building, Then we'll plug it, GREGGI.
Speaker 3 (21:19):
I actually, if I had to guess, I would go
Falcons slightly over Saints and Bucks, although I feel like
it's way closer to one third chance for all three
that I feel like the Falcons upside is the highest
where they actually could be a really good team. But
the Patriots setting your showing out to me, if they
go five and twelve, they he gone like four and
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thirty he gone like they said that going into this season.
They've lost the last two games by seventy two to three.
How much darker can it get? We've got this more week.
Speaker 2 (21:50):
He's not every coach like you're kind of using like
this against what other coaches would get them fired. This
guy he's been to like nine super Bowls or that's
how I would feel.
Speaker 3 (22:00):
But I am not Robert all right, how about this
and have a lot of the ego and want to
make the Hall of Fame and show who's in charge.
Speaker 2 (22:06):
I think he's gone. If that's what it's about, that's gross.
I guess just giving them so much? How about this?
Speaking of the Saints. Former Saints head coach involved with
this one. So here we go. The Miami Dolphins. Any
Dolphins fins you the Miami Dolphins finish with the most
yards in NFL history or Sean Payton goes full Urban
(22:32):
Meyer and doesn't see a second year in Ded Brook
whoa all right on the count of three, one two, three,
all right, Well, well do.
Speaker 3 (22:49):
You know leading the league in yardage after five weeks
that was the goal of the whole thing.
Speaker 2 (22:55):
I told Greg on the Monday Show that I understand
now there's a kinship. There's some times of invisible straand
that ties Greg to Mike McDaniel, And I think we
should all listen very closely to Greg and he talks
about McDaniel because he understands McDaniel in a way none
of us can't.
Speaker 3 (23:14):
That's the nicest thing you've ever said to me. I
think it's Mike McDaniel on these Dolphins keeping it going.
It's a little hard to imagine because the stats are
so inflated early in the season, the weather gets bad,
they'll have to go to Buffalo, YadA, YadA. But the
other option includes Sean Payton, who pretty much has all
of the national media like on his payroll. I consider
(23:36):
like no one plays like still though.
Speaker 2 (23:42):
No, maybe not.
Speaker 3 (23:44):
He he knows how to play the media game, and
he gets the most favorable coverage possible. And weirdly, I've
learned over the years that actually matters. He got this
ownership group even though he was the third pick for
the job, which he doesn't like to bring up. They
wanted to make O'Ryan's, they wanted dan Qui. He somehow
gave got like the biggest contract in the entire NFL.
(24:04):
That's a lot of guaranteed money. They don't want to
look like dummies. So he'd staying, no matter what, all right,
who's next?
Speaker 4 (24:11):
I will go? So I do ranch into something that
you mentioned, but it's a little bit different here a
dog biting thing. No, no, no, we're not doing that.
Speaker 2 (24:19):
So did you say a bite on the forehead?
Speaker 4 (24:22):
Yeah, well anywhere with the angle forehead would be tough
to uh. Not a lot of fleshy skin there, all right,
defying the laws of medical science. Aaron Rodgers fulfills his
quest to return this season. He talked about it, marching
into Foxborough on January seventh, handing the ball off to
(24:42):
Bresee Hall twenty seven times and completing fifteen of seventeen passes,
with a ninety eight yard touchdown strike to Garrett Wilson
in the final fifteen seconds of regulation. The other one
hold on with a fiery middle finger aimed at the
football gods. The Jets squeak in as the AFC's seventh
playoff team and usher in the firing of Bill Belichick.
(25:06):
All right, that'd be a rough end.
Speaker 2 (25:09):
Or you have me intrigued, right.
Speaker 4 (25:11):
Or the Jets pee their pants to a six win campaign,
but hold on, the Patriots look like a team on
a psilocybin mono diet, farting out three lowly victories. Belichick
resigns before Kraft can dump them. Smart Woody Johnson gets
crazy and fires his entire coaching staff and in comes Belichick,
(25:34):
fueled by anger and hatred and revenge, to become the
Jets head coach with a super Bowl level defense and
Aaron Rodgers is his quarterback come next September.
Speaker 2 (25:49):
There is nothing, There is nothing and no one in
the world that hates anything more than Bill Belichick. Bill
Belichick hates the New York Jets.
Speaker 4 (26:04):
I hear you up till now.
Speaker 2 (26:05):
Now. There is something twisted in perverse about him going
back to the Jets where he was the DC years
ago and saving them, and almost in a way that's
kind of burying the Jets by saying, like the only
way you were ever going to be saved is by
me eat it and maybe he resigns again immediately after
(26:26):
and sticks it to us. But I just think that
is an impossible scenario, if anything, and I think so
he doesn't like to admit to it the birthday boy.
But the scenario that really is saucy is Belichick getting
fired by the Pats and going back to the Browns.
And I know you think about it a lot. Yeah,
(26:48):
you know the mark.
Speaker 3 (26:49):
If you need a couple of minutes.
Speaker 4 (26:50):
I could take a few minutes, like I you know,
I just like you, Greg. I read like all the
Belichick you know, biographies and all the publications about him,
wrote to him when I was young. Others got that
on my on my resume. But he hes all he
talked about over and over was ownership is the most
important thing. So Whatody Johnson stands out as a bit eccentric.
(27:11):
But the Haslims, I mean, they're lucky that they didn't
that they escaped like an FBI bo. So I don't know,
I'm just trying to tell you what we know.
Speaker 3 (27:20):
I do got to hand it to you, that was
an amazing what's more likely just like sometimes you got
to give it up. There's no joke to it. I
will answer that.
Speaker 4 (27:30):
When you don't sleep for twenty two hours straight, things sort.
Speaker 2 (27:33):
Too greatness erupts from you.
Speaker 3 (27:35):
Yeah, I think I will go with the first option
because I'm I'm with Dan. And when Bill Belichick got
the job, Woody Johnson was the Jets owner and he
infamously was quoted in one of those books saying I'm
not working for that.
Speaker 2 (27:54):
Yeah, he kind of cluses to the dune.
Speaker 3 (27:57):
I also want to know what a mono scillo cybe
diet is.
Speaker 2 (28:01):
Well, you got diet.
Speaker 3 (28:02):
We've got two pretty clear days here before Sunday.
Speaker 4 (28:05):
Yeah, well you can there's a lot of options. A
mono diet is where you would you know, some people,
you know, we live in LA. You'd eat like maybe
a type of fruit for like ten days. Right, But
if it were psilocybin and combine it with mind all
during drugs, yeah, or just that like you you go
other places?
Speaker 2 (28:21):
All right, last one, last one be? And I literally
can't answer that question. I just don't think there's any scenariore.
Either happens under any world. So I what's working?
Speaker 3 (28:33):
And if Belichick went back to the Jets, he would suck.
It would be like a reverse Revus where Revis had
to come to the Patriots.
Speaker 2 (28:41):
Probably all right, the San Francisco forty nine ers, A
forty nine ers fans.
Speaker 3 (28:45):
Of the House, Okay, we hear you.
Speaker 2 (28:49):
They go seventeen and zero this year in the regular season.
Or we getisode number two of our favorite podcast, hit It.
What's Up?
Speaker 7 (29:09):
It's Nate Burlesson and they gave your man my very
own podcast.
Speaker 2 (29:14):
I'm calling it The Process with Nate Burlesson.
Speaker 3 (29:16):
We're going to talk about greatness on this show.
Speaker 2 (29:23):
You don't really have to answer.
Speaker 3 (29:24):
That one, but I really want everyone just thank you
for laughing at that. For the rest of my life
being here tonight, That's what I will remember.
Speaker 2 (29:32):
Thank you, all right, Heny Jason.
Speaker 8 (29:46):
And now we take you inside the mind of Dan
Campbell an internal monologue.
Speaker 6 (30:03):
Meat Man, I tell you what I just love, ripping
the flesh of an animal and noting on the bone
like a lion. I'm built for this.
Speaker 3 (30:16):
Man.
Speaker 6 (30:17):
Our defense is primed. The HGH I gave Jared Goff
is working. Everything is perfect, except we lost those NFL
podcast Bozo's all I wanted, All I ever wanted was
to be the first team in history to be the
(30:37):
team of atl for two straight seasons.
Speaker 3 (30:40):
We're built for this, but they gave.
Speaker 5 (30:43):
Up on me.
Speaker 6 (30:44):
Hell Mark was barely on board last year. Dan so
sad about the Jets. He can't even see what's right
in front of him.
Speaker 3 (30:53):
Greg's cool, Maybe it's not too late.
Speaker 6 (30:58):
I'm just a man, stay and in front of a
podcast asking it to love them.
Speaker 3 (31:04):
They can hear this, right, Well done, sir.
Speaker 2 (31:16):
All right, it's time now we talked about it. It
is a important segment that we have. By we, I
mean Mark and I have cultivated co creators. Yeah, I
mean segative producers.
Speaker 3 (31:32):
I mean associe a producer. You guys said last night.
Speaker 2 (31:35):
What do we say, assistant to the best boy?
Speaker 4 (31:39):
It was our best grip I think it was, or
junior grip.
Speaker 2 (31:42):
He was junior to the junior grip. Anyway, that's not important.
What is important.
Speaker 3 (31:46):
It's time I literally came up with the guests that
you guys have been bragging about seeing into the future.
Speaker 2 (31:51):
Okay, see that you're never gonna get promoted. And with
that type of that's not a good culture. It's not
a good company, you know what. Sean McVay with the
culture fit, Like we're starting to think should we trade
you for a twenty twenty nine seventh round pick. You
don't want to. We think you have about all right, anyway,
it is exactly what you know. It is hit. It
(32:24):
is last point focus, where we get ahead of a
story and tell you what everyone will be talking about
down the line. And yes, we had a flashpoint focus
about the Patriots about I don't know, two weeks ago,
and now every publication that covers pro football is all
about the Patriots. Other examples include.
Speaker 4 (32:45):
Mark, you know, we were at the combine and we
were just sort of talking about the concept of this
is a while ago, what would happen to Baker Mayfield,
who seemed cemented as Cleveland's quarterback? Like all right, you're
cemented to, but like about a ma'am about a fortnight later.
Speaker 3 (33:04):
Just that you're here and that you're a woman, you
can scream out as much as you want.
Speaker 2 (33:08):
Yeah, you want to come on the stage.
Speaker 4 (33:11):
We had Baker Mayfield. I mean, we just it's been
such a series story. I mean, it's just I mean,
it's uh, Dan, you and I created something very special.
Speaker 2 (33:19):
You and I we did. We did Mark.
Speaker 3 (33:22):
Yeah, if you guys could give out awards, you would
give them to yourselves for this segment repeatedly.
Speaker 2 (33:28):
All right, So here here is what we're gonna.
Speaker 3 (33:30):
Where is that Stitcher Award?
Speaker 2 (33:31):
By that? I don't know, I'm still looking for it.
Speaker 6 (33:34):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (33:34):
Here's what we're gonna do. We're gonna kind of fast
forward two months from tonight, so that would be December twelve,
twenty twenty three, and we're gonna look at this as
a like a pre production meeting what will be around
the NFL's next flashpoint focus. I'll get this one going.
I was I have to admit, uh, and Mark you
(33:56):
were you were pressing on this yourself. Sure, yeah, Dallas boys,
that was a hideous egg laid in primetime against the Niners.
And I understand that the Niners are a superpower right
now and there not to be messed with. And you
maybe shouldn't take too much out of a team going
up to their house and getting stumped. However, I'll get
(34:20):
to that. However, I look ahead and what I think
is gonna happen two months from tonight, and this is
pretty while on December eleventh, which will be the day before,
by my man, they they will play the Philadelphia Eagles,
who are another superpower, and I think they will lose
(34:42):
that game, and I believe it will lead to a
lot of hysteria. And I believe it will lead to
a lot of hysteria because the Dallas Cowboys at that point,
this one, I'm not sure they're either gonna be six
and seven or seven and six. Either way, it's not
gonna be what people were expecting or what the people
meaning you well, I mean everybody I thought. I feel
(35:04):
like a lot of us thought they were going to
be successful in this regular season. And this is where
it becomes a story because at that point when people
are kind of like, what's going on with Mike McCarthy,
as he said, is Dak Prescott the long term future
at quarterback? Here's their schedule after we do our flashpoint
focus on the show, twelve seventeen, do you guys do
(35:24):
seventeen twelve? Oh you all right? All right? Seventeen twelve.
I need to get home at Buffalo Christmas Eve twenty
four to twelve at Miami thirty one twelve New Year's Eve.
Speaker 3 (35:47):
And that just doesn't even sound like a day. That's ridiculous.
Speaker 2 (35:53):
You know what I wrote the can someone look up
on their phone who they're playing on Christmas Eve?
Speaker 3 (35:57):
Jeez?
Speaker 2 (35:58):
So I wrote down Denver here, they're not playing Detroit.
They're playing Detroit. Okay, that is a murderer's row. And
if they are in a bad position or a vulnerable
position going into that stretch of games, and I think
they will be, that's gonna be a big story.
Speaker 3 (36:14):
I agree, And it's gonna be tough for Zaddy Nation
because no one's gonna be more in the crosshairs than
you boy who got rid of Kellen Moore and maybe
at that point is looking at a very productive Chargers offense.
Everyone was excited all off season that the whole point
was like Dak won't throw as many interceptions anymore, but
(36:35):
all the rest of our offensive numbers are gonna go
through the floor and we're gonna struggle. Like that's not
an exciting way to run offense, or reminds me a
little bit of Aaron Rodgers and the Packers. I can
see this happening, and I can see it dominating our January.
Speaker 4 (36:48):
Yeah, I'm gonna voiced my suspicions about the Cowboys for
a while and an about like McCarthy. I know he
went away for a year, he had this like epiphany
where he started watching offensive tape from teams other than
his own team and realize, like, whoa, there's other ways
to attack defenses. So it's been a nice story. I
(37:11):
think the story is gonna get very ugly very soon.
And what owner comes out publicly more than Jerry Jones say,
of course I support my coach. Of course I support
my quarterback. It's like we were saying it too much here.
Speaker 2 (37:23):
I think it's gonna be on two fronts. I think
internally there's gonna be externally as well, but internally a
ton of heat on McCarthy, who's been there for a
few years. Externally and I'm talking about us, we'll do
it artfully, but everywhere else, all the dumb talking head
shows will be going nuts about DAK and you're gonna
get You're gonna be getting it on two different levels.
(37:45):
And the people that are like, who's sick of the
cowboys being talked about all the time, here's the other part,
And I like, I'm not hoping this happens, but yes,
they will be even if they are six and seven
or seven six, they'll be the biggest story in the NFL.
Speaker 3 (37:59):
If it gets to this bore, I do not want
this to happen. I want them to coast along at
this like wild card level where they don't get as
much attention, because if you were there for the Quincy
Carter years they got that much attention, then it sounds rrib.
Speaker 4 (38:12):
I mean, even to go lose a wild card game.
I think your scenario of utter chaos unfolding is very possible.
Speaker 3 (38:18):
But if McCarthy was on the ropes and if the
Patriots were struggling, now that is something I can absolutely
see following in the path of his format.
Speaker 2 (38:30):
Well, chick doesn't like Bill Parcells much either. I know
what you're saying, But what do you want to follow
his pacess? Maybe? All right, Greg, how about you flash
by focus fidget all right? Fastest is a big chance
for you.
Speaker 3 (38:41):
By the way, pretend you know it's it's December twelfth.
We're coming off Thursday Night football. Pat Steelers Al Michael's
sounding visibly bored in the middle of the third quarter
as Kenny Pickett and Mac Jones have combined for a
(39:02):
one point two yards per attempt in a game that
doesn't matter. Coming up next week, Chargers Raiders eight and
O'Connell's seventh start for a team heat seeking the number
one overall draft pick. We got a Rams scenes game
(39:27):
that I hope is good just because I'm taking my
family there and it's around Christmas time. Then we cap
it all off final week of the season with Jets,
Browns the Misery Bull. At this point in the proceedings,
they actually just pre record Kirk kurb Street's analysis of
(39:49):
the program. It's also coming on the heels of a
Chief sixty four to twenty win in Week six.
Speaker 2 (39:59):
That was great.
Speaker 3 (40:00):
Remember that more Steelers a Panthers Bears matchup more Jets
on Black Friday, making one of our most hallowed holidays,
and you know, a deal with the devil. We are
going to be looking ahead and the rest of the
league is going to be talking about do we even
need a Thursday night football with this sort of sleep?
Speaker 2 (40:22):
Yeah, well, the NFL we need our money, so we're
gonna Thursday night football is not going away. But how
annoyed will you guys be if al Michaels falls asleep
in the booth and it's like nine to thirty pm
his time, and it's like four thirty am for.
Speaker 4 (40:39):
You guys disrespectful.
Speaker 2 (40:40):
That just feels like, come on, al, it's like the least.
Speaker 4 (40:42):
You could do, Greg, I previous. I appreciate the argument,
of the thrust of your argument, but you are the
only person I've ever met that was openly a couple
of years ago, openly pitching and lobbying for football, primetime
football every night of the week, which I think you
know that's not.
Speaker 2 (41:00):
A joke, that's not an exaggeration.
Speaker 4 (41:01):
No, this was a pitch.
Speaker 3 (41:02):
It was two games a night, but they weren't on
at the same time for the entire season. And if
you do the math, it actually works out you can
work the bye weeks. Now that I have kids, I'm
less into that idea.
Speaker 4 (41:14):
Yeah, I haven't heard it recently, but your kids were
alive when you were floating.
Speaker 3 (41:18):
Yeah. I barely paid attention the first few years. This
is one of those conversations. You know, it's not going anywhere.
The money is good. You know, we had we're gonna
be doing a seven minute T and F recap of
Panthers Bears after week ten, so we need to get
our listens in.
Speaker 4 (41:37):
Find me a bow and arrow.
Speaker 3 (41:38):
It's more just it's more just a conversation of what
can we do to solve it? Can we replace Al? Like,
how can we help Thursday nightful?
Speaker 2 (41:47):
You know, I root for Al the time, and they
actually made a concerted effort to make this schedule better.
But you can't you don't know what it's gonna be
until the team start playing Mark close it out.
Speaker 4 (41:57):
I think by December twelfth that a team that already
has been set on fire, and not in a good way,
the Carolina Panthers. I want to look back a couple
months too.
Speaker 2 (42:09):
Wow, there's a good way to be set on fire.
Speaker 4 (42:11):
Well, I guess you could. There's a it's a it's
a turn of phrase. Things could be positive, but I
would I guess in this reality it is December something.
So I'm looking back to this past week where I
thought some very compelling, strange comments came from Frank Reich
in a press conference where you don't get a lot
of this. The owner is the boss. You just say,
it's so wonderful to work for set owner, no matter
(42:34):
what the relationship is. And David Tepper has his hands
in the cookie jar apparently multiple times a week, with
like Greg was my boss and he was a really
great boss. Like, but no matter what happened with Greg,
we did not have like behind closed doors meetings that
sort of like threw you into a psychological blender.
Speaker 3 (42:57):
I know you guys talked about me, well no, I mean,
and probably vice it was.
Speaker 4 (43:02):
I mean, but look at we're here now. I mean,
I don't think Frank Reich and David Tepper are going
to be here now come the end of the season.
This is maybe a bit of a hot take, and
I don't think it's going to be I had this
weird feeling that it's not going to be David Tepper
forcing Frank Reike out. David Tepper, by all accounts, picked
the quarterback, the number one pick that's not working. The
(43:25):
demeanor of Frank Reich in that press conference was a
man with some weight on him. And I mean, Frank
Reich's about as respected as it gets league wide, and
I think what he was trying to tell us between
the lines was this is not a healthy situation. And
if Frank Reich looks at his entire career, I'm not
saying that he'll be fired. I really think that we're
going to be flash pointing. A couple days before Frank
(43:48):
Reich walks away from the Carolina Panthers.
Speaker 2 (43:51):
You could also simply say he.
Speaker 4 (43:53):
Would just say, I down very nice.
Speaker 2 (43:57):
All right, stay right there, working class.
Speaker 1 (44:06):
And now we take you inside the mind of Taylor's
swift and internal monologue.
Speaker 5 (44:25):
Newsflash, I don't waste my time worrying about what others
think about me or anyone in my circle. I mean,
it's absurd to me people saying this thing with Travis
is some sort of publicity stunt. Come on, guys, I'm
Taylor Swift. Travis is everything a girl could ask for.
And while we're at it, his brother Jason is the sweetest.
(44:49):
Do you know what he did? He came over and
chopped down that dead tree in the backyard unannounced. So cute.
I like that Travis looks like a cop hanging out
at the Blue Oyster Bar. I do, but I also
keep thinking about Jason's big, super manly beard. I just
want to grab it, Travis says, abs. But there's something
(45:12):
about Jason's cuddly round belly and wild, untamed eyebrows that
make me feel this thing inside. I like Travis. I
like him a lot, I.
Speaker 4 (45:23):
Did, I do, but.
Speaker 5 (45:27):
I can't stop thinking about that big cute bear of
a brother. What's a girl to do?
Speaker 2 (45:34):
Wow, that's tricky. That is tricky. You know what view
I view that Kelsey Brothers podcast as a threat and
a competitor. So I am all four. Yeah, that tearing
them asunder.
Speaker 3 (45:55):
Never say that Mark Sessler doesn't have rains.
Speaker 4 (45:58):
That was incredibuk. Yeah, I'm trying to figure out how
I was tailor swift.
Speaker 2 (46:02):
But that's how you pulled it off. Well, man, friend,
all right, move on here by bye by? All right,
here we go, Mark, you are fifty and in love
(46:23):
with Jason Kelce, And may I say I've known this
man for twelve years. He is looking sexy for fifty.
Speaker 3 (46:36):
Didn't that show those little bracelets when you were a
forty five? And I did?
Speaker 6 (46:39):
You?
Speaker 2 (46:40):
All right? All right, So I just want to say,
let's well, get into a little conversation here. I know,
turning fifty, it's probably in terms of mentally there's a
lot of things going on, and there's this idea that
now that I'm fifty, what do I have to offer anymore?
Is it basically a wrap on me? And like, is
it basically I had my opportunity to make an imprint?
Now it's just like counting down the days. Still it's
(47:01):
all over.
Speaker 3 (47:02):
Don't look at it that way, all right, thank you,
because I was just I would be crazy to look
at it like that.
Speaker 4 (47:06):
You're inside my head.
Speaker 2 (47:07):
I was sitting on the plane and I'm thinking, like,
it doesn't have to be that way, because it's all
a matter where your your head's at. So I did
some kind of kind of brainstorming, like who are some
people after their fiftieth birthday who had a like a
meaningful contribution to society. Okay, so this is what I
came came up with, if you could, Jason, and this
(47:29):
is important, so please Mark, let me take a look. Yeah.
Number one, that's Winston Churchill. I don't like at that one.
Speaker 3 (47:38):
Wrong tough crowd.
Speaker 2 (47:41):
I thought he helped. I don't know, and I thought
that was an easy one. But like Margaret Thatcher, So
all right, all right Churchill, big job, clutch, big spot
w W two. Yeah, there we go.
Speaker 3 (47:54):
There is that at fifty one years old, looking great.
Speaker 2 (47:56):
There is fifty one? All right? Another one, This one
was easy for me. Hit it.
Speaker 7 (48:05):
Gene Shallett. Now you guys don't know who Gene Shallat is.
I know that you don't know who Gene Shallat is.
He was an American movie critic like twenty seven years ago.
But I thought it would be funny for us on
the stage, So just give us that.
Speaker 4 (48:19):
I think he's like thirty six there strangely, just remark
it's worth it.
Speaker 2 (48:23):
And here's another.
Speaker 4 (48:24):
One that's the trajectory. That's a triplet.
Speaker 2 (48:27):
Carl Sanders tasty fried chicken from the head of KFC
and like, just to be totally honest, like that was
all I could come up with.
Speaker 4 (48:38):
Hey you tried. I mean, that's a hard exit left
for me if that's what's coming up tomorrow.
Speaker 2 (48:42):
So with that said as a pivot point, first of all,
never give up. Also, why don't why don't we throw
out some figures in the NFL that have aged like
fine wine, like a Churchill, like a shallot It, like
a Sanders. Yeah, Mark, we.
Speaker 4 (49:02):
Were cabbing around. I don't know what's going on with
the cab drivers here, but we nearly killed four bikers
on the way.
Speaker 2 (49:07):
But like that guy was legitimately psychotic.
Speaker 4 (49:10):
I kind of appreciate him because he's like, I'm gonna
get you there on time. But like they were multiple
near deaths. But we were discussing this in the back
of the cab, you know, We're sitting facing each other,
and I was like, it came right to my mind.
I mean, I want to take a look at someone
that I thought was like one of the most uber
nerds around and uh, you know, let's just say, you know, oh, yeah,
this this is Andy Dalton. When it was like I
(49:31):
was a relatively high draft pick, made good money. Yeah,
he put like, I mean, are are you gonna sink
even like a dime or a or a two pence
into like your looks here and it's like you just
sort of like a floating ginger. You don't have a
lot of direction. The Bengals reflected that, but then suddenly
he's like, I'm done with the old Bengals thing. Yeah,
(49:52):
he's what's going on here? It's like a Nordic warrior.
I mean this he literally he got am I am
I wrong here about five hundred and twelve times hotter.
Speaker 2 (50:06):
We're very comfortable with our sexuality on this stage. But yes,
he does look like someone that's coming over on a ship,
and everybody get the out because that's going to do
some damage.
Speaker 3 (50:16):
Right When when he was Young, mostly known as the
progenitor of the Dalton Scale, of course, made by a
great friend, Chris Wesseling, and he was he was the
median of all quarterbacks. Now he's on a team with
the number one overall draft pick, and he's the best
quarterback on the team by far. He was replaced by
(50:37):
a guy making thirty five million dollars and he's better
than anyone on the Saints roster too.
Speaker 2 (50:43):
Well. By the way, next time I see Bill Gavin,
I'm telling him to get this haircut. All right, how
about you, Gregy?
Speaker 3 (50:48):
Okay, I wanted to think about our trajectory because, unlike Dan,
I do think you have a lot more years to
give a lot of.
Speaker 2 (50:58):
Right, I'm just saying that hours of research and I came.
Speaker 3 (51:02):
It was just it was just kind of in the subtext.
And you've often said to me, and I take this
as a compliment, like, Greg, You're gonna be doing this forever.
You just football, whatever happens to this podcast or life.
I'm just gonna keep trying to get after. But I
think in your heart of hearts, you love football that
much too. And I think someday we're gonna be eighty
four years old, much like Buck's assistant coach Tom Moore.
(51:27):
Hell yeah, and we're still gonna be going through the
grind of the season. Uh.
Speaker 2 (51:33):
This is such a Greg poll.
Speaker 3 (51:34):
By the way, Peyton Manning, you know, the greatest statistical
quarterback throughout his whole era, the one who everyone thought
was Tom Brady his whole career until Tom Moore left
him under this guy. Baker Mayfield now playing his best
football under this guy, and he loves it and he's
still getting after it. His wife of thirty seven years says,
(51:56):
Tom is absolutely delivering.
Speaker 2 (51:59):
Tom Moore, that's good. That's something to aspire to. Mine
is all right. Mine's complicated in this personally and psychologically.
It is the head coach of the Seattle Seahawks, Pete Carroll.
(52:22):
Tell you a little story about Pete Carroll. Guys, settled
down right.
Speaker 3 (52:30):
We heard you hit the bar pretty hard before the
the you know, the showrunners here were saying, could you
please do this again? They've never sold more before a show.
Speaker 2 (52:40):
Beautiful hooligans. So we have Pete Carroll here, and many
people don't know this because first of all, was a
million years ago, and secondly, it was a blank and
you missed it, but he started his head coach career.
After a successful run as the DC of the forty
nine ers, the Jets hired him and he was a
rookie head coach in nineteen ninety three and things started
(53:02):
very well. They didn't end so well. In fact, he
was the head coach on the sideline when the fake
spike occurred with Dan Morito in nineteen ninety four, and
that led to a five game losing streak. He got fired.
But the point of the story is my mom, Debbie.
She was all about Pete Carroll back in nineteen ninety four.
(53:26):
She thought he was the dreamiest man alive. And now
every time he comes up on TV and my mom
is in the area, she continues Mark to mention that
Pete Carroll is a silver fox. And it's really tough
for me because I struggled to well, you have a dad.
How much does my mom think about Pete Carroll? Where
does Keith land on this? Yeah, the whole thing. It
(53:47):
makes me uncomfortable. But I have to give the man
credit that the fact that he is the oldest coach
in the NFL and still moves with grace and speed
and he chomps on that gun, which means his teeth
are natural. Give it up for Pete Carroll.
Speaker 4 (54:01):
Oh, a much better example than the Kentucky Fried Chicken guy.
I mean, this is life energy, and he's bringing something
to the tape.
Speaker 3 (54:14):
How old were you Dan when you realize your mom
was a sexual being?
Speaker 2 (54:19):
I think that was my awakening and it was very difficult,
very difficult, GREGGI all right with that. I'm gonna go
get a chair. Your moms are sexual beings too. Heal it.
Speaker 1 (54:37):
And now we take you inside the mind of Brock
Perdie an internal monologue.
Speaker 2 (54:58):
I am so sick and tired of people not giving
me the damn respect that I deserve. I'm the little
boy who has been giving all these wonderful toys, and
the whole world is patting me on the head wall
I play under the tree. Well, thank you for the
blessings Father Christmas. Well, guess what you're the little boy?
I'm a man. Can't people see that I'm special, that
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I'm not a product of a system, That I am
the system?
Speaker 4 (55:33):
Man?
Speaker 2 (55:33):
Don't people even know what time it is? Does Brock
need to go out there and tell the people what
time it really is?
Speaker 5 (55:44):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (55:45):
Yeah, I'll tell you what time it is before me?
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Two quick things. The one thing missing from these trips
is Chris and you guys have done been so important
to us from the very beginning when we lost him
and even when he was sick and helping us kind
of process losing Wes and moving on as a show.
And the reason we're still here and doing the show
(57:21):
is in large part because of you guys. Thanks for
hanging around. Thank you, and more importantly, give it up
for Chris Wesson.
Speaker 3 (58:07):
It's very cool. We'll play that for Keish. Like right
before we came out, we were texting with Lakeisha and
she sent the message to me yesterday to talking about
London and just how that first trip here he had
already overcome cancer one time, and that trip and meeting
literally some of the people in this audience and interacting
(58:29):
at the stadium and doing our live show and listening
to some of the music actually that you guys heard,
it's the same playlist that we played out, made him
realize in a way that he hadn't I think in
a profound way that actually we probably don't really understand
because he had been through so much, how much he
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had accomplished in his life, and what a special, like
really cool thing it is that we had this, and
we had no idea that we could come across to
London and have this sort of connection that was bigger
than football. And for him, who was like grew up
just loving the game more than almost anything out, I
think it was beyondwards. So it meant a lot to
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him and and I love that about him, and coming
here makes me think of him quite a bit.
Speaker 4 (59:17):
And there was no greater person to go to, you know,
a typical London pub with and Wes absolutely get a
few beers in and you get a different west.
Speaker 2 (59:24):
So he was built for this city and we miss him.
We miss him every day. And before we signed off
for good again, this guy, well for tonight, this guy again.
He celebrated a birthday and it's it is a milestone
birthday and it's it's wonderful that you've been in our
lives for so long and will continue to be in
(59:46):
our lives. And it's a big one mark. So how
about one more time and let's bring out a little
tree for our body. Let's say it one more time
on three one two three.
Speaker 3 (59:57):
Happy birthday? Two you, Happy birthday? Do you? Happy birthday?
Speaker 2 (01:00:08):
Dear sest dog, Happy birthday.
Speaker 3 (01:00:14):
Do you thank you?
Speaker 4 (01:00:26):
You have to actually eat it, Mark, I will eat
it in time.
Speaker 3 (01:00:30):
I'll carry it off with me.
Speaker 4 (01:00:31):
It's no, there's no utensils.
Speaker 3 (01:00:36):
Than thank you.
Speaker 2 (01:00:38):
Everybody, thank you, you preceive the call, thank you,
The Around the NFL Podcast is feeling supersonic.
Speaker 2 (00:06):
Give me Jen and Tonic. Hey there it is. Welcome
all right to the Around the NFL Podcast from Londin.
(00:30):
I'm Dan Hansis and I'm joined by the heroes, the
old Boss, Greg Rosenthal.
Speaker 3 (00:42):
More of that.
Speaker 2 (00:43):
Please thank you throughout the show, sirs and the Quiet
Star and Mark Sisler, Uh.
Speaker 4 (01:08):
Thank you, thank you.
Speaker 2 (01:12):
Oh.
Speaker 3 (01:12):
This is a night long celebration of all things Mark.
Speaker 2 (01:17):
That was like, what what is it? What a football hooligans?
Speaker 4 (01:20):
Sound? That chance? Elevant to it?
Speaker 2 (01:23):
Mark, Happy birthday?
Speaker 4 (01:24):
You turned some age, some age this week, some age.
Speaker 2 (01:30):
This beautiful man.
Speaker 4 (01:31):
I ignore the number, but I embrace it too.
Speaker 2 (01:35):
I'm with you. Listen. It's so great to be here.
This is our as a group, fifth trip to London,
and it is I don't know, I feel like it
gets it gets a little bigger every year. And the
vibe I see you, mister Joe Nama, the jersey.
Speaker 3 (01:53):
It's always one of them and Gregor.
Speaker 2 (01:58):
We got the three games and we're going to be
at Baltimore, Tennessee and that's so exciting. It's it's so
great to be here.
Speaker 3 (02:05):
Yeah, we're we're we're back working with Sky, so if
you're at the game, you know, just yell at us
and make us seem like a big deal. It really
bothered Maury s Jones Drew a couple of years ago,
killed them killed when we were brought up on the
big screen and they introduced mauryast Jones Drew and it
was polite applause and then Dan and I come in
there and in the place went crazy. So so please
(02:27):
please look us up and I'm excited. If you're not
going to the game, we'll be on Sky.
Speaker 2 (02:30):
I got the exact words were, I won the rushing title.
Speaker 4 (02:36):
And we appeared on Sky today, Dan and I on
Sky Sports News. Yes, I don't know if you if
you've listened to the show for a while. A couple
of years ago, Dan and I had our first appearance
on that was more like Sky News. It was like
it was pretty hard, little rough, and we got like
four straight questions about Colin Kaepernick and our official stance
(02:56):
on Colin Kaepernick. It was just like it's like.
Speaker 2 (03:00):
Do you stand with Callan Kopanach? Are you against him
like the rest of the National Football League. Then we
we get back to where our staging area was sure
of course, like where's Wes and Greg? Yeah? And there
they are being interviewed by Hannah will Ray Hannah will Yeah,
(03:21):
and they're kicking back and relaxing and talking about fantasy football, like,
oh yeah, I think Derrick Henry is a great value.
And sitting at Mark and I looked like guys that
came home from war and saw too much.
Speaker 4 (03:33):
You're like they have like the like the beautiful British
like suns streaming in on them, and Dan and I
are like sweating, like we've got armpit stains. We're just
a hot mess.
Speaker 2 (03:41):
So it still sticks with us. Congratulations Greg, everything going
your way?
Speaker 3 (03:46):
Yeah, I mean I was. I was back with Hannah
today on her huddle. I guess just the women like me.
Speaker 2 (03:53):
There enough. Well, we've talked about him many times. Greg
was quite the cocksmen.
Speaker 4 (03:59):
Uh is high school years and uh the most high
school happened.
Speaker 2 (04:04):
And listen, there are many many, many, many, many, many
many many men here for those that are struggling in
the waves of the opposite sex or whatever, like do
you have any advice from your nineteen ninety seven So.
Speaker 3 (04:21):
Yeah, well, if you're if you're sure in scrawnie, don't
be aware of that, just like believe you're bigger.
Speaker 2 (04:30):
There's the lesson. Okay, let's talk about Ravens Titans real quick,
because who's going to the game on Sunday?
Speaker 3 (04:39):
Person who does yeuted Delaware out appreciate you?
Speaker 2 (04:42):
Where are the types? We want the tapes? You want
to talk a little bit about this game.
Speaker 4 (04:49):
That's why we're here. I meant, what do you think?
I just like cannot believe the so on NFL Plus.
We broke down Ravens Steelers about twenty five minutes, went
through all the plays, and I mean I grew up
not enjoying either one of these teams for very obvious reasons.
But I almost like it was the first time that
(05:10):
Ravens fans I kind of almost felt that for them
a bit because that game what seer your memory? It
was just like your expose.
Speaker 2 (05:18):
You loved it.
Speaker 4 (05:19):
I kind of loved it, but like, but I'm loving it.
Then the Steelers winning, so it's like there's no win here.
But I mean you you have to like dive into
the archives to find a Ravens game littered with that
many gaffes errors and like Lamar Jackson playing well, but
his wide receiver is just I don't know how many
acid tabs were handed out to that group of players
(05:40):
before the game that it's like they it had you know,
they were in effect in the bloodstream.
Speaker 3 (05:44):
So yeah, I am a Lamar believer, as you guys know.
I'm part of the we know, Lamar General of the
lam Armie, very like Bonaparte here in little Napoleon complex.
But I like to look at the positive. I like,
there's why open receivers for the Ravens now and you're
going up against the Titans team that's bad against the pass.
Speaker 1 (06:06):
Uh.
Speaker 3 (06:06):
Mike Rabel like talks defense, but his defenses are pretty mediocre.
Year after year. We got Odell Beckham, we got for
Shad Baban, who hasn't done anything. I feel like they
do and it's a really strong defense. You would think, Oh,
the Titans are the team that's better at stopping the run. No,
it's the Ravens. So I'm looking forward to this game.
I'm wondering, like, are there a lot of Ravens and
or Titans fans here? Okay, wait, where are the Ravens fans? Like?
Speaker 2 (06:31):
Did you almost die on Sunday? That was one of
the shiest losses. And I'm a Jets fan that that
was one of the worst losses I've ever seen, like
out on television. So like, I think that's what's so
interesting about this game because they both kind of need it.
So the Titans, they are two and four, two and three,
(06:53):
two and three, they six games, Yeah, thank you.
Speaker 4 (06:57):
That much have been a prophecy.
Speaker 2 (06:58):
Yeah, math is an issue state mandated top stitch. And
while the Ravens will survive, win or lose on Sunday,
it is you know, coming off the type of bloss
it was, and again the fact that you guys are alive,
that's good stuff. Like they kind of needed to just
get their kind of swagger back a little bit. So
it's two teams that really kind of need a w
(07:20):
this weekend.
Speaker 3 (07:21):
And the Titans just feel like this show that's peaked
and has been on the air for a really long time,
and you're like, like, oh, Frazier is still on, Like like.
Speaker 2 (07:33):
They're they're introducing the like the red haired boy, that's
the orphan that showed up at the front step just
for comedies.
Speaker 3 (07:39):
And I like them, but it's like, oh, Kevin Byern
and Mike Griebel and Derrick Henry, all the guys that
you used to love when they were the one seed.
But there's just diminishing returns here. That's it. I think
before the season I had them winning this division, which
means they need to get some w's.
Speaker 4 (07:55):
And I'm caught in a major tough stitch. I do
I have to ask a couple of Ravens fans. I mean,
it was even literally last week that I went, you know,
out to an event with some people and meta race.
Speaker 2 (08:06):
What well, who talks like that?
Speaker 3 (08:08):
I don't know, so it is it.
Speaker 4 (08:12):
I went, I literally went to a baseball game, a
baseball playoff game, and it was with a hardcore Steelers
fan who I like knows is football. And then like
the comment came up when we talked about the Ravens
and the win over the Ravens and there's a boon
for a Steelers team that was lost at sea and
you know, oh, well, we know that the Ravens were
once the Cleveland Browns. And this was a person of
(08:32):
a certain age that would was alive when that happened.
No knowledge that was the Cleveland Browns. And this is
how many times you've been out with me when I
when I run into this type of Ravens fan, it's like,
please know the history of where your team came from,
or I'm gonna leave. I'm just gonna water. That guy's dead, right, No, no, no,
I I just realized, like, oh, that happened like thirty
five thousand years ago, and some people don't care.
Speaker 3 (08:53):
Yeah, you listen to the show long enough, you know
there is a dark Sessler.
Speaker 2 (08:57):
I mean, well, well let's see you see.
Speaker 3 (08:59):
You get you get the sunny version. But sometimes there
is like a point in the night where the roller
coaster is going up, up, up, up, and then it
starts going down, and that's where Dark Sessler arrives.
Speaker 4 (09:12):
That's after the show.
Speaker 3 (09:12):
If you happen to be unlucky enough to reveal that
you didn't know that the Ravens were ones the Cleveland Browns, Yeah.
Speaker 4 (09:20):
You are in trouble.
Speaker 3 (09:20):
You are in deep trouble.
Speaker 2 (09:21):
I do think that's a great for like kind of
counterculture programming Sessler after Dark.
Speaker 4 (09:28):
You see, it's better than a Frasier reboot, which is happening.
Speaker 2 (09:32):
La we do you need it? Nobody asked for it,
and yet here it is Greggy as captain of the
LAMARMI uh, do you think there's any way to lose
this game or where you sat on this one?
Speaker 3 (09:43):
Ah, I've thought a lot about this game, and I
want to tell you a little story.
Speaker 2 (09:52):
Uh yeah.
Speaker 3 (09:54):
The lam Armie has been around for years and we've
been waiting and we've been looking, and we've been saying
all we need is the right person to lead this,
like let's quit it with the college running style. And
then our guy, Captain Todd Monkan arrived.
Speaker 4 (10:16):
What are we doing?
Speaker 2 (10:17):
Balls for dramatic effect?
Speaker 4 (10:20):
You're trying, Greg, I appreciate it.
Speaker 3 (10:21):
I want to tell you another story.
Speaker 2 (10:25):
Another wait, that was the close of the story.
Speaker 3 (10:30):
There's two stories. They connect, all right, take two and
actually they connect, Okay, pausing it helps the comedic effect.
It's great.
Speaker 2 (10:39):
Failed it.
Speaker 3 (10:43):
There was a government a few years back and they
didn't like the bigger group of countries that they were
connected to. They wanted to escape that group. And in
the years after that, times were tough and there wasn't
(11:07):
as many pounds as they call it instead of euros
hanging around. And then one Sunday they went to Tottenham Stadium.
The hot Toddy and all the little Sylvia's and all
the little Ollie's looked up into the sky and it
was supposed to be a sunny day. But then the
(11:28):
clouds started rolling in and the rain decided to come
and it started raining.
Speaker 2 (11:36):
All over time from Hotspur.
Speaker 3 (11:39):
Stadium and the rain Maker gave all the money to
the boys and girls.
Speaker 2 (11:44):
To the rain.
Speaker 3 (11:48):
The rainmaker, let's go.
Speaker 2 (12:01):
Yeah it did. And it's important Mark that we again responsibility.
The rain maker last nime, he you know, took out
you know, he did the forecast. He said the Patriots
were gonna take care of business, right, and then little
Susie buck to Susie didn't get braces nope. Uh. And
(12:23):
you know that house they wanted to do, the addition
of the house didn't get finished.
Speaker 5 (12:27):
No.
Speaker 6 (12:28):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (12:28):
There's children that are using outhouses. There's no more toilets.
Like what at what point? What stops this? Man?
Speaker 4 (12:36):
I don't well, I don't know why you trust if
you you know, have money of your own. I'm just
looking at the fashion selection, the the whole the ensemble
is questionable. Greg. You know, there's some accountability that this
is needed on your part here. I mean, there are
people that no longer believe in the Easter Bunny because
nothing shows up on Easter morning. There's no funds. Santa
claus Is xt out.
Speaker 3 (12:57):
I shout out to Erica Tamposi. Are great for her
producer Ricky Hollywood. You know she's a she's a close
a close friend of me, of mine and I at
this point where she really didn't like me. She chose
this as the graphics for The rain Maker. But to
answer your question, Mark, I'd like to look back on
(13:19):
the last three years of The rain Maker and look
at the consistent success and all the coins falling from
the sky that little Ali. You just have to have faith.
Speaker 4 (13:28):
We don't have time to fact check it so that
we were we always go down this alley with you.
Speaker 2 (13:31):
Don't think you're work for it anymore? After what happened,
Patriots all right, shout? Should we move on anything else?
Speaker 3 (13:37):
Mark?
Speaker 4 (13:37):
I would I want to throw out one sandwich bet
that I feel. I feel strong it's a prop.
Speaker 3 (13:43):
We actually are gonna maybe put this out as an
actual podcast. So y's a sandwich prop. Sandwich props. We
are not going to any of the casinos in the UK.
Speaker 4 (13:51):
I will call it what I wish, but I would
tell you like I you know, I know you're thinking, oh,
look like an animal is gonna bite someone on the forehead, like,
I'm not going down that road with this one. Okay,
all right, what do we got? This is hardcore football.
So back on September twenty six, twenty twenty one, all right,
with the Detroit Lions as the opponent in the Baltimore
(14:12):
Ravens facing them, someone that we love on the show
achieved the longest field goal in NFL history sixty six yards. Still, okay,
of course he did. That won't be the longest field
goal come Sunday night. That will not. This is my
sports lock of the week. So you just take it
(14:34):
from there, and you say, I will not even challenge
you because I know it's going to happen.
Speaker 3 (14:38):
One of my favorite things about Mark is that he
loves to listen to AM radio in the United States,
which is mostly programming to men over seventy three years old, alright,
and he loves to listen to the sports lock of
the week guys, talking as you're coming into once in
a while. I love this. I mean for it to
happen outdoors here would be bold. I'm going to take
(14:58):
you up on it just cause I love sandwiches.
Speaker 2 (15:01):
Yeah, no, that's that's definitely a take. It's supposed to
get a little chilly this weekend.
Speaker 4 (15:05):
It's inclement weather. That's what makes it all the more courageous.
I actually I did not say it could be. It
could be one of two kickers, all right.
Speaker 2 (15:15):
Did it? I said? Damn it?
Speaker 3 (15:24):
Live from the Shaw Theater in London, England, It's time
for everybody's favorite game show.
Speaker 2 (15:32):
What more likely? Yes, giving up by the way, that Eric,
our producer, that was very good voiceover work. Given up
for Eric. He's not awesome work. Rap rabbits and with
the magnic thumb. You guys should see it.
Speaker 3 (15:48):
And it was thirty minutes ago. We're not last minute
doing these things at all, all right, So.
Speaker 2 (15:53):
What's more likely? Those that have listened to the show
for many years. No, it is a war wars for
us because it allows us to throw out two possibilities
within the universe.
Speaker 4 (16:06):
We're the only show that has ever produced a segment
like this.
Speaker 2 (16:12):
Sell it, Sessler, I love it.
Speaker 3 (16:14):
Although we have noticed certain segments on our show popping
up on other programming. It's part edit out of the
podcast we're released.
Speaker 2 (16:23):
Yeah, this show, by the way, will be posted to
the world, which we don't typically do. So even if
it's not funny the jokes or the comments, just give
us a little pop. That's all we ask. That's all
we ask.
Speaker 3 (16:36):
Also, we're incredibly insecured. It makes us feel better temporarily,
and you have to keep refilling over and over and over.
Speaker 2 (16:44):
But then the whole remains, and it's a hole that
cannot be filled. All right, So what's more likely, Greggy?
Why don't you get us going?
Speaker 3 (16:53):
I want to fast forward a little bit. Let's go
to the day after the wild card round has ended
in twenty twenty four. It's a little bit in the future.
At that point in time, Bill Belichick is still the
coach of the New England Patriots.
Speaker 2 (17:17):
WHOA what does that mean? What are the sounds meaning?
Speaker 6 (17:23):
He go?
Speaker 3 (17:26):
Of course I be a head coach.
Speaker 2 (17:29):
Either game on Monday.
Speaker 3 (17:31):
Or a team from the NFC South is still alive
in the playoffs. Are we gonna do better than that?
Speaker 2 (17:45):
We're gonna be on the world. Let's go. That's good?
All right? Bill still has a job where the Falcons
get to the second round.
Speaker 3 (17:56):
Any NFC South team is still alive in the Division
around playoffs? Correct, Okay, all right?
Speaker 4 (18:03):
I I have some things to say about Belichick in
a minute myself, but which.
Speaker 3 (18:10):
I thought we went over this.
Speaker 4 (18:12):
We attempted to cross plan for about twelve minutes before
the show, and I maybe was not I was shut
down at that point now listening, But I think in
an NFC South team, winning a playoff game is not impossible.
They're weird, they're kind of sexy. The Falcons can hurt
you in a number of ways. They can hurt themselves.
Speaker 3 (18:30):
Which which team do you guys think would be the
most likely NFC South Falcons.
Speaker 2 (18:36):
That's curious, that's part of I think to say it's
probably no, all right, because their defense is very good.
We've seen that, and I think that especially will continue
to help them during this regular season where they're it's
pretty soft schedule for both all these teams. And then
you know, I like Derek Carr more than others, so
(18:58):
and I think if with Alba Kamara there, if they
get Chris Alave more involved than Michael Thomas Day is healthy,
I think they're gonna be the best team coming out
of there. And then you get a home game and
then the Superdome, maybe you win with but I think
it's more likely that Beljick stays I think that even
it feels very and that's why, you know, when we'll
talk about it a little bit later. Flashpoint Focus is
(19:20):
the most pression of all programs on the podcast in
the podcast world, because we're ahead of the story always.
It's obviously a big story that the Patriots are struggling
the way they are, but I also think they are
more likely unless there's a real clash behind the scenes,
which is possible, that they would go, let's say four
(19:41):
and thirteen and then kick the quarterback out and let
Bill start over with a quarterback. I just think, even
though Kraft said it in the media before the season started,
I'd think Kraft wants Bill to be on the sideline
when he set break Schul's record. I think he wants to.
Speaker 4 (19:54):
Give him but that could take three years with the
team they have right now.
Speaker 2 (19:57):
Well you never know though the NFL, the way teams
quickly rebuild. I just think it's I don't think he's gone.
I think he'll survive this year, but.
Speaker 4 (20:06):
Think things can get so dark though. It's like, I mean,
what's happened over the last two weeks, like it has
us talking about and on our Flashpoint Focus series, which
if you go look at the athletic Like days later,
there's like eight features talking about what we talked about
four days earlier. So just a little nod to us,
But it could get so dark that maybe the whole
(20:26):
relationship just crumbles. Although I just picked the NFC South
team winning, so I'll just stop talking now.
Speaker 3 (20:32):
I think it's the NFC South team because you figure
what that's like not to be you know, boring analytical
Greg here, But what have they got a forty percent
chance and they're gonna have a home game in the
playoffs no matter who they're playing. Maybe they're playing the
Seahawks or something like that. They're slight underdogs. I see
you twelve. We can't initially, what is up with the
(20:52):
UK Saints fans. There's weirdly a lot of UK science fans.
There's actually a UK Saints podcast, which I'm just surprised
there's enough people to score them. That's amazing, Like, congrats,
check it out.
Speaker 2 (21:05):
I mean the person that hosts the UK Saints podcast
are you here? Are you now that podcast? Plugging that
in the building, Then we'll plug it, GREGGI.
Speaker 3 (21:19):
I actually, if I had to guess, I would go
Falcons slightly over Saints and Bucks, although I feel like
it's way closer to one third chance for all three
that I feel like the Falcons upside is the highest
where they actually could be a really good team. But
the Patriots setting your showing out to me, if they
go five and twelve, they he gone like four and
(21:41):
thirty he gone like they said that going into this season.
They've lost the last two games by seventy two to three.
How much darker can it get? We've got this more week.
Speaker 2 (21:50):
He's not every coach like you're kind of using like
this against what other coaches would get them fired. This
guy he's been to like nine super Bowls or that's
how I would feel.
Speaker 3 (22:00):
But I am not Robert all right, how about this
and have a lot of the ego and want to
make the Hall of Fame and show who's in charge.
Speaker 2 (22:06):
I think he's gone. If that's what it's about, that's gross.
I guess just giving them so much? How about this?
Speaking of the Saints. Former Saints head coach involved with
this one. So here we go. The Miami Dolphins. Any
Dolphins fins you the Miami Dolphins finish with the most
yards in NFL history or Sean Payton goes full Urban
(22:32):
Meyer and doesn't see a second year in Ded Brook
whoa all right on the count of three, one two, three,
all right, Well, well do.
Speaker 3 (22:49):
You know leading the league in yardage after five weeks
that was the goal of the whole thing.
Speaker 2 (22:55):
I told Greg on the Monday Show that I understand
now there's a kinship. There's some times of invisible straand
that ties Greg to Mike McDaniel, And I think we
should all listen very closely to Greg and he talks
about McDaniel because he understands McDaniel in a way none
of us can't.
Speaker 3 (23:14):
That's the nicest thing you've ever said to me. I
think it's Mike McDaniel on these Dolphins keeping it going.
It's a little hard to imagine because the stats are
so inflated early in the season, the weather gets bad,
they'll have to go to Buffalo, YadA, YadA. But the
other option includes Sean Payton, who pretty much has all
of the national media like on his payroll. I consider
(23:36):
like no one plays like still though.
Speaker 2 (23:42):
No, maybe not.
Speaker 3 (23:44):
He he knows how to play the media game, and
he gets the most favorable coverage possible. And weirdly, I've
learned over the years that actually matters. He got this
ownership group even though he was the third pick for
the job, which he doesn't like to bring up. They
wanted to make O'Ryan's, they wanted dan Qui. He somehow
gave got like the biggest contract in the entire NFL.
(24:04):
That's a lot of guaranteed money. They don't want to
look like dummies. So he'd staying, no matter what, all right,
who's next?
Speaker 4 (24:11):
I will go? So I do ranch into something that
you mentioned, but it's a little bit different here a
dog biting thing. No, no, no, we're not doing that.
Speaker 2 (24:19):
So did you say a bite on the forehead?
Speaker 4 (24:22):
Yeah, well anywhere with the angle forehead would be tough
to uh. Not a lot of fleshy skin there, all right,
defying the laws of medical science. Aaron Rodgers fulfills his
quest to return this season. He talked about it, marching
into Foxborough on January seventh, handing the ball off to
(24:42):
Bresee Hall twenty seven times and completing fifteen of seventeen passes,
with a ninety eight yard touchdown strike to Garrett Wilson
in the final fifteen seconds of regulation. The other one
hold on with a fiery middle finger aimed at the
football gods. The Jets squeak in as the AFC's seventh
playoff team and usher in the firing of Bill Belichick.
(25:06):
All right, that'd be a rough end.
Speaker 2 (25:09):
Or you have me intrigued, right.
Speaker 4 (25:11):
Or the Jets pee their pants to a six win campaign,
but hold on, the Patriots look like a team on
a psilocybin mono diet, farting out three lowly victories. Belichick
resigns before Kraft can dump them. Smart Woody Johnson gets
crazy and fires his entire coaching staff and in comes Belichick,
(25:34):
fueled by anger and hatred and revenge, to become the
Jets head coach with a super Bowl level defense and
Aaron Rodgers is his quarterback come next September.
Speaker 2 (25:49):
There is nothing, There is nothing and no one in
the world that hates anything more than Bill Belichick. Bill
Belichick hates the New York Jets.
Speaker 4 (26:04):
I hear you up till now.
Speaker 2 (26:05):
Now. There is something twisted in perverse about him going
back to the Jets where he was the DC years
ago and saving them, and almost in a way that's
kind of burying the Jets by saying, like the only
way you were ever going to be saved is by
me eat it and maybe he resigns again immediately after
(26:26):
and sticks it to us. But I just think that
is an impossible scenario, if anything, and I think so
he doesn't like to admit to it the birthday boy.
But the scenario that really is saucy is Belichick getting
fired by the Pats and going back to the Browns.
And I know you think about it a lot. Yeah,
(26:48):
you know the mark.
Speaker 3 (26:49):
If you need a couple of minutes.
Speaker 4 (26:50):
I could take a few minutes, like I you know,
I just like you, Greg. I read like all the
Belichick you know, biographies and all the publications about him,
wrote to him when I was young. Others got that
on my on my resume. But he hes all he
talked about over and over was ownership is the most
important thing. So Whatody Johnson stands out as a bit eccentric.
(27:11):
But the Haslims, I mean, they're lucky that they didn't
that they escaped like an FBI bo. So I don't know,
I'm just trying to tell you what we know.
Speaker 3 (27:20):
I do got to hand it to you, that was
an amazing what's more likely just like sometimes you got
to give it up. There's no joke to it. I
will answer that.
Speaker 4 (27:30):
When you don't sleep for twenty two hours straight, things sort.
Speaker 2 (27:33):
Too greatness erupts from you.
Speaker 3 (27:35):
Yeah, I think I will go with the first option
because I'm I'm with Dan. And when Bill Belichick got
the job, Woody Johnson was the Jets owner and he
infamously was quoted in one of those books saying I'm
not working for that.
Speaker 2 (27:54):
Yeah, he kind of cluses to the dune.
Speaker 3 (27:57):
I also want to know what a mono scillo cybe
diet is.
Speaker 2 (28:01):
Well, you got diet.
Speaker 3 (28:02):
We've got two pretty clear days here before Sunday.
Speaker 4 (28:05):
Yeah, well you can there's a lot of options. A
mono diet is where you would you know, some people,
you know, we live in LA. You'd eat like maybe
a type of fruit for like ten days. Right, But
if it were psilocybin and combine it with mind all
during drugs, yeah, or just that like you you go
other places?
Speaker 2 (28:21):
All right, last one, last one be? And I literally
can't answer that question. I just don't think there's any scenariore.
Either happens under any world. So I what's working?
Speaker 3 (28:33):
And if Belichick went back to the Jets, he would suck.
It would be like a reverse Revus where Revis had
to come to the Patriots.
Speaker 2 (28:41):
Probably all right, the San Francisco forty nine ers, A
forty nine ers fans.
Speaker 3 (28:45):
Of the House, Okay, we hear you.
Speaker 2 (28:49):
They go seventeen and zero this year in the regular season.
Or we getisode number two of our favorite podcast, hit It.
What's Up?
Speaker 7 (29:09):
It's Nate Burlesson and they gave your man my very
own podcast.
Speaker 2 (29:14):
I'm calling it The Process with Nate Burlesson.
Speaker 3 (29:16):
We're going to talk about greatness on this show.
Speaker 2 (29:23):
You don't really have to answer.
Speaker 3 (29:24):
That one, but I really want everyone just thank you
for laughing at that. For the rest of my life
being here tonight, That's what I will remember.
Speaker 2 (29:32):
Thank you, all right, Heny Jason.
Speaker 8 (29:46):
And now we take you inside the mind of Dan
Campbell an internal monologue.
Speaker 6 (30:03):
Meat Man, I tell you what I just love, ripping
the flesh of an animal and noting on the bone
like a lion. I'm built for this.
Speaker 3 (30:16):
Man.
Speaker 6 (30:17):
Our defense is primed. The HGH I gave Jared Goff
is working. Everything is perfect, except we lost those NFL
podcast Bozo's all I wanted, All I ever wanted was
to be the first team in history to be the
(30:37):
team of atl for two straight seasons.
Speaker 3 (30:40):
We're built for this, but they gave.
Speaker 5 (30:43):
Up on me.
Speaker 6 (30:44):
Hell Mark was barely on board last year. Dan so
sad about the Jets. He can't even see what's right
in front of him.
Speaker 3 (30:53):
Greg's cool, Maybe it's not too late.
Speaker 6 (30:58):
I'm just a man, stay and in front of a
podcast asking it to love them.
Speaker 3 (31:04):
They can hear this, right, Well done, sir.
Speaker 2 (31:16):
All right, it's time now we talked about it. It
is a important segment that we have. By we, I
mean Mark and I have cultivated co creators. Yeah, I
mean segative producers.
Speaker 3 (31:32):
I mean associe a producer. You guys said last night.
Speaker 2 (31:35):
What do we say, assistant to the best boy?
Speaker 4 (31:39):
It was our best grip I think it was, or
junior grip.
Speaker 2 (31:42):
He was junior to the junior grip. Anyway, that's not important.
What is important.
Speaker 3 (31:46):
It's time I literally came up with the guests that
you guys have been bragging about seeing into the future.
Speaker 2 (31:51):
Okay, see that you're never gonna get promoted. And with
that type of that's not a good culture. It's not
a good company, you know what. Sean McVay with the
culture fit, Like we're starting to think should we trade
you for a twenty twenty nine seventh round pick. You
don't want to. We think you have about all right, anyway,
it is exactly what you know. It is hit. It
(32:24):
is last point focus, where we get ahead of a
story and tell you what everyone will be talking about
down the line. And yes, we had a flashpoint focus
about the Patriots about I don't know, two weeks ago,
and now every publication that covers pro football is all
about the Patriots. Other examples include.
Speaker 4 (32:45):
Mark, you know, we were at the combine and we
were just sort of talking about the concept of this
is a while ago, what would happen to Baker Mayfield,
who seemed cemented as Cleveland's quarterback? Like all right, you're
cemented to, but like about a ma'am about a fortnight later.
Speaker 3 (33:04):
Just that you're here and that you're a woman, you
can scream out as much as you want.
Speaker 2 (33:08):
Yeah, you want to come on the stage.
Speaker 4 (33:11):
We had Baker Mayfield. I mean, we just it's been
such a series story. I mean, it's just I mean,
it's uh, Dan, you and I created something very special.
Speaker 2 (33:19):
You and I we did. We did Mark.
Speaker 3 (33:22):
Yeah, if you guys could give out awards, you would
give them to yourselves for this segment repeatedly.
Speaker 2 (33:28):
All right, So here here is what we're gonna.
Speaker 3 (33:30):
Where is that Stitcher Award?
Speaker 2 (33:31):
By that? I don't know, I'm still looking for it.
Speaker 6 (33:34):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (33:34):
Here's what we're gonna do. We're gonna kind of fast
forward two months from tonight, so that would be December twelve,
twenty twenty three, and we're gonna look at this as
a like a pre production meeting what will be around
the NFL's next flashpoint focus. I'll get this one going.
I was I have to admit, uh, and Mark you
(33:56):
were you were pressing on this yourself. Sure, yeah, Dallas boys,
that was a hideous egg laid in primetime against the Niners.
And I understand that the Niners are a superpower right
now and there not to be messed with. And you
maybe shouldn't take too much out of a team going
up to their house and getting stumped. However, I'll get
(34:20):
to that. However, I look ahead and what I think
is gonna happen two months from tonight, and this is
pretty while on December eleventh, which will be the day before,
by my man, they they will play the Philadelphia Eagles,
who are another superpower, and I think they will lose
(34:42):
that game, and I believe it will lead to a
lot of hysteria. And I believe it will lead to
a lot of hysteria because the Dallas Cowboys at that point,
this one, I'm not sure they're either gonna be six
and seven or seven and six. Either way, it's not
gonna be what people were expecting or what the people
meaning you well, I mean everybody I thought. I feel
(35:04):
like a lot of us thought they were going to
be successful in this regular season. And this is where
it becomes a story because at that point when people
are kind of like, what's going on with Mike McCarthy,
as he said, is Dak Prescott the long term future
at quarterback? Here's their schedule after we do our flashpoint
focus on the show, twelve seventeen, do you guys do
(35:24):
seventeen twelve? Oh you all right? All right? Seventeen twelve.
I need to get home at Buffalo Christmas Eve twenty
four to twelve at Miami thirty one twelve New Year's Eve.
Speaker 3 (35:47):
And that just doesn't even sound like a day. That's ridiculous.
Speaker 2 (35:53):
You know what I wrote the can someone look up
on their phone who they're playing on Christmas Eve?
Speaker 3 (35:57):
Jeez?
Speaker 2 (35:58):
So I wrote down Denver here, they're not playing Detroit.
They're playing Detroit. Okay, that is a murderer's row. And
if they are in a bad position or a vulnerable
position going into that stretch of games, and I think
they will be, that's gonna be a big story.
Speaker 3 (36:14):
I agree, And it's gonna be tough for Zaddy Nation
because no one's gonna be more in the crosshairs than
you boy who got rid of Kellen Moore and maybe
at that point is looking at a very productive Chargers offense.
Everyone was excited all off season that the whole point
was like Dak won't throw as many interceptions anymore, but
(36:35):
all the rest of our offensive numbers are gonna go
through the floor and we're gonna struggle. Like that's not
an exciting way to run offense, or reminds me a
little bit of Aaron Rodgers and the Packers. I can
see this happening, and I can see it dominating our January.
Speaker 4 (36:48):
Yeah, I'm gonna voiced my suspicions about the Cowboys for
a while and an about like McCarthy. I know he
went away for a year, he had this like epiphany
where he started watching offensive tape from teams other than
his own team and realize, like, whoa, there's other ways
to attack defenses. So it's been a nice story. I
(37:11):
think the story is gonna get very ugly very soon.
And what owner comes out publicly more than Jerry Jones say,
of course I support my coach. Of course I support
my quarterback. It's like we were saying it too much here.
Speaker 2 (37:23):
I think it's gonna be on two fronts. I think
internally there's gonna be externally as well, but internally a
ton of heat on McCarthy, who's been there for a
few years. Externally and I'm talking about us, we'll do
it artfully, but everywhere else, all the dumb talking head
shows will be going nuts about DAK and you're gonna
get You're gonna be getting it on two different levels.
(37:45):
And the people that are like, who's sick of the
cowboys being talked about all the time, here's the other part,
And I like, I'm not hoping this happens, but yes,
they will be even if they are six and seven
or seven six, they'll be the biggest story in the NFL.
Speaker 3 (37:59):
If it gets to this bore, I do not want
this to happen. I want them to coast along at
this like wild card level where they don't get as
much attention, because if you were there for the Quincy
Carter years they got that much attention, then it sounds rrib.
Speaker 4 (38:12):
I mean, even to go lose a wild card game.
I think your scenario of utter chaos unfolding is very possible.
Speaker 3 (38:18):
But if McCarthy was on the ropes and if the
Patriots were struggling, now that is something I can absolutely
see following in the path of his format.
Speaker 2 (38:30):
Well, chick doesn't like Bill Parcells much either. I know
what you're saying, But what do you want to follow
his pacess? Maybe? All right, Greg, how about you flash
by focus fidget all right? Fastest is a big chance
for you.
Speaker 3 (38:41):
By the way, pretend you know it's it's December twelfth.
We're coming off Thursday Night football. Pat Steelers Al Michael's
sounding visibly bored in the middle of the third quarter
as Kenny Pickett and Mac Jones have combined for a
(39:02):
one point two yards per attempt in a game that
doesn't matter. Coming up next week, Chargers Raiders eight and
O'Connell's seventh start for a team heat seeking the number
one overall draft pick. We got a Rams scenes game
(39:27):
that I hope is good just because I'm taking my
family there and it's around Christmas time. Then we cap
it all off final week of the season with Jets,
Browns the Misery Bull. At this point in the proceedings,
they actually just pre record Kirk kurb Street's analysis of
(39:49):
the program. It's also coming on the heels of a
Chief sixty four to twenty win in Week six.
Speaker 2 (39:59):
That was great.
Speaker 3 (40:00):
Remember that more Steelers a Panthers Bears matchup more Jets
on Black Friday, making one of our most hallowed holidays,
and you know, a deal with the devil. We are
going to be looking ahead and the rest of the
league is going to be talking about do we even
need a Thursday night football with this sort of sleep?
Speaker 2 (40:22):
Yeah, well, the NFL we need our money, so we're
gonna Thursday night football is not going away. But how
annoyed will you guys be if al Michaels falls asleep
in the booth and it's like nine to thirty pm
his time, and it's like four thirty am for.
Speaker 4 (40:39):
You guys disrespectful.
Speaker 2 (40:40):
That just feels like, come on, al, it's like the least.
Speaker 4 (40:42):
You could do, Greg, I previous. I appreciate the argument,
of the thrust of your argument, but you are the
only person I've ever met that was openly a couple
of years ago, openly pitching and lobbying for football, primetime
football every night of the week, which I think you
know that's not.
Speaker 2 (41:00):
A joke, that's not an exaggeration.
Speaker 4 (41:01):
No, this was a pitch.
Speaker 3 (41:02):
It was two games a night, but they weren't on
at the same time for the entire season. And if
you do the math, it actually works out you can
work the bye weeks. Now that I have kids, I'm
less into that idea.
Speaker 4 (41:14):
Yeah, I haven't heard it recently, but your kids were
alive when you were floating.
Speaker 3 (41:18):
Yeah. I barely paid attention the first few years. This
is one of those conversations. You know, it's not going anywhere.
The money is good. You know, we had we're gonna
be doing a seven minute T and F recap of
Panthers Bears after week ten, so we need to get
our listens in.
Speaker 4 (41:37):
Find me a bow and arrow.
Speaker 3 (41:38):
It's more just it's more just a conversation of what
can we do to solve it? Can we replace Al? Like,
how can we help Thursday nightful?
Speaker 2 (41:47):
You know, I root for Al the time, and they
actually made a concerted effort to make this schedule better.
But you can't you don't know what it's gonna be
until the team start playing Mark close it out.
Speaker 4 (41:57):
I think by December twelfth that a team that already
has been set on fire, and not in a good way,
the Carolina Panthers. I want to look back a couple
months too.
Speaker 2 (42:09):
Wow, there's a good way to be set on fire.
Speaker 4 (42:11):
Well, I guess you could. There's a it's a it's
a turn of phrase. Things could be positive, but I
would I guess in this reality it is December something.
So I'm looking back to this past week where I
thought some very compelling, strange comments came from Frank Reich
in a press conference where you don't get a lot
of this. The owner is the boss. You just say,
it's so wonderful to work for set owner, no matter
(42:34):
what the relationship is. And David Tepper has his hands
in the cookie jar apparently multiple times a week, with
like Greg was my boss and he was a really
great boss. Like, but no matter what happened with Greg,
we did not have like behind closed doors meetings that
sort of like threw you into a psychological blender.
Speaker 3 (42:57):
I know you guys talked about me, well no, I mean,
and probably vice it was.
Speaker 4 (43:02):
I mean, but look at we're here now. I mean,
I don't think Frank Reich and David Tepper are going
to be here now come the end of the season.
This is maybe a bit of a hot take, and
I don't think it's going to be I had this
weird feeling that it's not going to be David Tepper
forcing Frank Reike out. David Tepper, by all accounts, picked
the quarterback, the number one pick that's not working. The
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demeanor of Frank Reich in that press conference was a
man with some weight on him. And I mean, Frank
Reich's about as respected as it gets league wide, and
I think what he was trying to tell us between
the lines was this is not a healthy situation. And
if Frank Reich looks at his entire career, I'm not
saying that he'll be fired. I really think that we're
going to be flash pointing. A couple days before Frank
(43:48):
Reich walks away from the Carolina Panthers.
Speaker 2 (43:51):
You could also simply say he.
Speaker 4 (43:53):
Would just say, I down very nice.
Speaker 2 (43:57):
All right, stay right there, working class.
Speaker 1 (44:06):
And now we take you inside the mind of Taylor's
swift and internal monologue.
Speaker 5 (44:25):
Newsflash, I don't waste my time worrying about what others
think about me or anyone in my circle. I mean,
it's absurd to me people saying this thing with Travis
is some sort of publicity stunt. Come on, guys, I'm
Taylor Swift. Travis is everything a girl could ask for.
And while we're at it, his brother Jason is the sweetest.
(44:49):
Do you know what he did? He came over and
chopped down that dead tree in the backyard unannounced. So cute.
I like that Travis looks like a cop hanging out
at the Blue Oyster Bar. I do, but I also
keep thinking about Jason's big, super manly beard. I just
want to grab it, Travis says, abs. But there's something
(45:12):
about Jason's cuddly round belly and wild, untamed eyebrows that
make me feel this thing inside. I like Travis. I
like him a lot, I.
Speaker 4 (45:23):
Did, I do, but.
Speaker 5 (45:27):
I can't stop thinking about that big cute bear of
a brother. What's a girl to do?
Speaker 2 (45:34):
Wow, that's tricky. That is tricky. You know what view
I view that Kelsey Brothers podcast as a threat and
a competitor. So I am all four. Yeah, that tearing
them asunder.
Speaker 3 (45:55):
Never say that Mark Sessler doesn't have rains.
Speaker 4 (45:58):
That was incredibuk. Yeah, I'm trying to figure out how
I was tailor swift.
Speaker 2 (46:02):
But that's how you pulled it off. Well, man, friend,
all right, move on here by bye by? All right,
here we go, Mark, you are fifty and in love
(46:23):
with Jason Kelce, And may I say I've known this
man for twelve years. He is looking sexy for fifty.
Speaker 3 (46:36):
Didn't that show those little bracelets when you were a
forty five? And I did?
Speaker 6 (46:39):
You?
Speaker 2 (46:40):
All right? All right, So I just want to say,
let's well, get into a little conversation here. I know,
turning fifty, it's probably in terms of mentally there's a
lot of things going on, and there's this idea that
now that I'm fifty, what do I have to offer anymore?
Is it basically a wrap on me? And like, is
it basically I had my opportunity to make an imprint?
Now it's just like counting down the days. Still it's
(47:01):
all over.
Speaker 3 (47:02):
Don't look at it that way, all right, thank you,
because I was just I would be crazy to look
at it like that.
Speaker 4 (47:06):
You're inside my head.
Speaker 2 (47:07):
I was sitting on the plane and I'm thinking, like,
it doesn't have to be that way, because it's all
a matter where your your head's at. So I did
some kind of kind of brainstorming, like who are some
people after their fiftieth birthday who had a like a
meaningful contribution to society. Okay, so this is what I
came came up with, if you could, Jason, and this
(47:29):
is important, so please Mark, let me take a look. Yeah.
Number one, that's Winston Churchill. I don't like at that one.
Speaker 3 (47:38):
Wrong tough crowd.
Speaker 2 (47:41):
I thought he helped. I don't know, and I thought
that was an easy one. But like Margaret Thatcher, So
all right, all right Churchill, big job, clutch, big spot
w W two. Yeah, there we go.
Speaker 3 (47:54):
There is that at fifty one years old, looking great.
Speaker 2 (47:56):
There is fifty one? All right? Another one, This one
was easy for me. Hit it.
Speaker 7 (48:05):
Gene Shallett. Now you guys don't know who Gene Shallat is.
I know that you don't know who Gene Shallat is.
He was an American movie critic like twenty seven years ago.
But I thought it would be funny for us on
the stage, So just give us that.
Speaker 4 (48:19):
I think he's like thirty six there strangely, just remark
it's worth it.
Speaker 2 (48:23):
And here's another.
Speaker 4 (48:24):
One that's the trajectory. That's a triplet.
Speaker 2 (48:27):
Carl Sanders tasty fried chicken from the head of KFC
and like, just to be totally honest, like that was
all I could come up with.
Speaker 4 (48:38):
Hey you tried. I mean, that's a hard exit left
for me if that's what's coming up tomorrow.
Speaker 2 (48:42):
So with that said as a pivot point, first of all,
never give up. Also, why don't why don't we throw
out some figures in the NFL that have aged like
fine wine, like a Churchill, like a shallot It, like
a Sanders. Yeah, Mark, we.
Speaker 4 (49:02):
Were cabbing around. I don't know what's going on with
the cab drivers here, but we nearly killed four bikers
on the way.
Speaker 2 (49:07):
But like that guy was legitimately psychotic.
Speaker 4 (49:10):
I kind of appreciate him because he's like, I'm gonna
get you there on time. But like they were multiple
near deaths. But we were discussing this in the back
of the cab, you know, We're sitting facing each other,
and I was like, it came right to my mind.
I mean, I want to take a look at someone
that I thought was like one of the most uber
nerds around and uh, you know, let's just say, you know, oh, yeah,
this this is Andy Dalton. When it was like I
(49:31):
was a relatively high draft pick, made good money. Yeah,
he put like, I mean, are are you gonna sink
even like a dime or a or a two pence
into like your looks here and it's like you just
sort of like a floating ginger. You don't have a
lot of direction. The Bengals reflected that, but then suddenly
he's like, I'm done with the old Bengals thing. Yeah,
(49:52):
he's what's going on here? It's like a Nordic warrior.
I mean this he literally he got am I am
I wrong here about five hundred and twelve times hotter.
Speaker 2 (50:06):
We're very comfortable with our sexuality on this stage. But yes,
he does look like someone that's coming over on a ship,
and everybody get the out because that's going to do
some damage.
Speaker 3 (50:16):
Right When when he was Young, mostly known as the
progenitor of the Dalton Scale, of course, made by a
great friend, Chris Wesseling, and he was he was the
median of all quarterbacks. Now he's on a team with
the number one overall draft pick, and he's the best
quarterback on the team by far. He was replaced by
(50:37):
a guy making thirty five million dollars and he's better
than anyone on the Saints roster too.
Speaker 2 (50:43):
Well. By the way, next time I see Bill Gavin,
I'm telling him to get this haircut. All right, how
about you, Gregy?
Speaker 3 (50:48):
Okay, I wanted to think about our trajectory because, unlike Dan,
I do think you have a lot more years to
give a lot of.
Speaker 2 (50:58):
Right, I'm just saying that hours of research and I came.
Speaker 3 (51:02):
It was just it was just kind of in the subtext.
And you've often said to me, and I take this
as a compliment, like, Greg, You're gonna be doing this forever.
You just football, whatever happens to this podcast or life.
I'm just gonna keep trying to get after. But I
think in your heart of hearts, you love football that
much too. And I think someday we're gonna be eighty
four years old, much like Buck's assistant coach Tom Moore.
(51:27):
Hell yeah, and we're still gonna be going through the
grind of the season. Uh.
Speaker 2 (51:33):
This is such a Greg poll.
Speaker 3 (51:34):
By the way, Peyton Manning, you know, the greatest statistical
quarterback throughout his whole era, the one who everyone thought
was Tom Brady his whole career until Tom Moore left
him under this guy. Baker Mayfield now playing his best
football under this guy, and he loves it and he's
still getting after it. His wife of thirty seven years says,
(51:56):
Tom is absolutely delivering.
Speaker 2 (51:59):
Tom Moore, that's good. That's something to aspire to. Mine
is all right. Mine's complicated in this personally and psychologically.
It is the head coach of the Seattle Seahawks, Pete Carroll.
(52:22):
Tell you a little story about Pete Carroll. Guys, settled
down right.
Speaker 3 (52:30):
We heard you hit the bar pretty hard before the
the you know, the showrunners here were saying, could you
please do this again? They've never sold more before a show.
Speaker 2 (52:40):
Beautiful hooligans. So we have Pete Carroll here, and many
people don't know this because first of all, was a
million years ago, and secondly, it was a blank and
you missed it, but he started his head coach career.
After a successful run as the DC of the forty
nine ers, the Jets hired him and he was a
rookie head coach in nineteen ninety three and things started
(53:02):
very well. They didn't end so well. In fact, he
was the head coach on the sideline when the fake
spike occurred with Dan Morito in nineteen ninety four, and
that led to a five game losing streak. He got fired.
But the point of the story is my mom, Debbie.
She was all about Pete Carroll back in nineteen ninety four.
(53:26):
She thought he was the dreamiest man alive. And now
every time he comes up on TV and my mom
is in the area, she continues Mark to mention that
Pete Carroll is a silver fox. And it's really tough
for me because I struggled to well, you have a dad.
How much does my mom think about Pete Carroll? Where
does Keith land on this? Yeah, the whole thing. It
(53:47):
makes me uncomfortable. But I have to give the man
credit that the fact that he is the oldest coach
in the NFL and still moves with grace and speed
and he chomps on that gun, which means his teeth
are natural. Give it up for Pete Carroll.
Speaker 4 (54:01):
Oh, a much better example than the Kentucky Fried Chicken guy.
I mean, this is life energy, and he's bringing something
to the tape.
Speaker 3 (54:14):
How old were you Dan when you realize your mom
was a sexual being?
Speaker 2 (54:19):
I think that was my awakening and it was very difficult,
very difficult, GREGGI all right with that. I'm gonna go
get a chair. Your moms are sexual beings too. Heal it.
Speaker 1 (54:37):
And now we take you inside the mind of Brock
Perdie an internal monologue.
Speaker 2 (54:58):
I am so sick and tired of people not giving
me the damn respect that I deserve. I'm the little
boy who has been giving all these wonderful toys, and
the whole world is patting me on the head wall
I play under the tree. Well, thank you for the
blessings Father Christmas. Well, guess what you're the little boy?
I'm a man. Can't people see that I'm special, that
(55:28):
I'm not a product of a system, That I am
the system?
Speaker 4 (55:33):
Man?
Speaker 2 (55:33):
Don't people even know what time it is? Does Brock
need to go out there and tell the people what
time it really is?
Speaker 5 (55:44):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (55:45):
Yeah, I'll tell you what time it is before me?
(56:58):
Two quick things. The one thing missing from these trips
is Chris and you guys have done been so important
to us from the very beginning when we lost him
and even when he was sick and helping us kind
of process losing Wes and moving on as a show.
And the reason we're still here and doing the show
(57:21):
is in large part because of you guys. Thanks for
hanging around. Thank you, and more importantly, give it up
for Chris Wesson.
Speaker 3 (58:07):
It's very cool. We'll play that for Keish. Like right
before we came out, we were texting with Lakeisha and
she sent the message to me yesterday to talking about
London and just how that first trip here he had
already overcome cancer one time, and that trip and meeting
literally some of the people in this audience and interacting
(58:29):
at the stadium and doing our live show and listening
to some of the music actually that you guys heard,
it's the same playlist that we played out, made him
realize in a way that he hadn't I think in
a profound way that actually we probably don't really understand
because he had been through so much, how much he
(58:49):
had accomplished in his life, and what a special, like
really cool thing it is that we had this, and
we had no idea that we could come across to
London and have this sort of connection that was bigger
than football. And for him, who was like grew up
just loving the game more than almost anything out, I
think it was beyondwards. So it meant a lot to
(59:11):
him and and I love that about him, and coming
here makes me think of him quite a bit.
Speaker 4 (59:17):
And there was no greater person to go to, you know,
a typical London pub with and Wes absolutely get a
few beers in and you get a different west.
Speaker 2 (59:24):
So he was built for this city and we miss him.
We miss him every day. And before we signed off
for good again, this guy, well for tonight, this guy again.
He celebrated a birthday and it's it is a milestone
birthday and it's it's wonderful that you've been in our
lives for so long and will continue to be in
(59:46):
our lives. And it's a big one mark. So how
about one more time and let's bring out a little
tree for our body. Let's say it one more time
on three one two three.
Speaker 3 (59:57):
Happy birthday? Two you, Happy birthday? Do you? Happy birthday?
Speaker 2 (01:00:08):
Dear sest dog, Happy birthday.
Speaker 3 (01:00:14):
Do you thank you?
Speaker 4 (01:00:26):
You have to actually eat it, Mark, I will eat
it in time.
Speaker 3 (01:00:30):
I'll carry it off with me.
Speaker 4 (01:00:31):
It's no, there's no utensils.
Speaker 3 (01:00:36):
Than thank you.
Speaker 2 (01:00:38):
Everybody, thank you, you preceive the call, thank you,
Host
Gregg Rosenthal
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