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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Speaker 2 (00:16):
Take for Granted podcast as well.
Speaker 1 (00:17):
Though it's been a while and Grant has decided he's
taking a vacation.
Speaker 3 (00:24):
Next week would be a new episode.
Speaker 1 (00:25):
Okay, I was like, I need to taking it for
the Taking It on Vacation podcast with Grant Smith as well.
Speaker 3 (00:31):
I am going on vacation and I will not be podcasting.
Speaker 2 (00:34):
Go go different locations. You could do like your own
you know, travel.
Speaker 4 (00:37):
Podcast thing does sound fun if someone else would pay
for it.
Speaker 1 (00:42):
I am like, all of a sudden, as I'm doing this,
I'm like, I should do this.
Speaker 2 (00:45):
This is an excuse to travel.
Speaker 5 (00:47):
I need this.
Speaker 4 (00:49):
Well, my dream as a kid was to have like
one of those travel shows. Yeah, you just get paid
to go to awesome places and try.
Speaker 2 (00:54):
Food and stuff.
Speaker 5 (00:55):
Yeah, well, well then I know you typically do well
when you met over Under. So I mean you could
become an official or unofficial sponsor for Grant's traveling around
the world. Now I'm sure, I mean Grant would be
okay with that.
Speaker 6 (01:10):
I don't know.
Speaker 3 (01:11):
I don't know what his wife sponsored by Ben's gambling.
Speaker 7 (01:14):
There you go.
Speaker 4 (01:15):
Yes, I don't gladly promote that except.
Speaker 1 (01:18):
Taking it on the road podcast. You're sponsored by Ben's degeneracy.
Speaker 5 (01:23):
Every once in a while on your travels. You allowed
Being to come on to talk about his over under wages.
Speaker 3 (01:28):
That's a great idea. You go, look at you.
Speaker 2 (01:31):
Or I could just pay myself to travel.
Speaker 7 (01:33):
No, I try all the food.
Speaker 5 (01:36):
No, no, see the food that you may try. I mean,
and I mean working with you for a while, we
know that you have a taste for the exotics, right,
the chickens, some of the stuff that you said that
you've tasted before over the years. Somebody don't understand, right,
and I don't get it. But but to get a
very authentic approach to it.
Speaker 1 (01:57):
Now you get to see me on cameras. You want
to see Grant. It was a Grant eating it.
Speaker 2 (02:02):
Some scorpions.
Speaker 3 (02:03):
People want the mustache fair.
Speaker 5 (02:06):
You get Ben sponsoring you. You get a mustache grooming
company sponsoring.
Speaker 2 (02:12):
You, like Harry's or something.
Speaker 3 (02:14):
You got to get a lot of their facebash, we
gotta get we gotta get that.
Speaker 4 (02:17):
Stas just saying good luck now, you know, maybe get
one on this show first.
Speaker 1 (02:23):
Yeah, somebody who doesn't need any sponsorship or might need
some sponsorship in narcotics.
Speaker 2 (02:31):
Anonymous Stefan Diggs. I don't know if you guys saw
this video float around?
Speaker 6 (02:35):
Oh yeah, it doing.
Speaker 2 (02:38):
His best LOLd the Island impression.
Speaker 1 (02:39):
I'm on a boat with uh, with a bunch of ladies,
including his his girlfriend Cardi b. But the ladies on
the video are approaching him and he appears to have
a pretty.
Speaker 7 (02:51):
Hefty sized bag of a pink substance.
Speaker 1 (02:55):
And I think if you are picking up what I'm
putting down right now. Uh, they may have been on
a boat, but it felt like they were going skiing.
Speaker 2 (03:02):
I don't know.
Speaker 5 (03:03):
Exactly what was going on in that situation. Fresh Yeah,
Uh that was pink.
Speaker 6 (03:10):
Though it was pink.
Speaker 7 (03:12):
That's the type of that's my two?
Speaker 2 (03:15):
Am I too? Am I getting myself away at this point?
Speaker 6 (03:17):
I don't, I don't know, I don't.
Speaker 4 (03:18):
I look it up when we were talking about it
on K Sports earlier this week.
Speaker 3 (03:22):
Did you never seen it?
Speaker 5 (03:24):
It was brand new to me because I was like,
wait a minute, why if everyone's making a big deal
out of it, it just kind of like some crushed
up apple jacks right in the bag.
Speaker 3 (03:32):
Yeah, it's.
Speaker 2 (03:35):
There, Clapton song.
Speaker 5 (03:40):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (03:40):
The original, the original compound of Tuosy had tucy B.
That's why it was called tussy, which is psych psychedelic
federal thing. I mean, but pink cocaine doesn't really have
that anymore. Mostly it's just cocaine has died pink. Sometimes
they'll throw something in their kedemene M D M A
or what.
Speaker 6 (03:56):
I don't know for sure.
Speaker 5 (03:59):
I haven't seen the story of read a story that
was really definitive as far as what was in the bag.
Speaker 7 (04:05):
Oh, nobody's gonna admit that. But we all know what's
in the bag.
Speaker 1 (04:08):
I don't know.
Speaker 7 (04:10):
It just the same end of seven, what's in the box?
What's the boss?
Speaker 3 (04:15):
We know what's in the box.
Speaker 5 (04:18):
I'm just I'm just as I'm saying, is describing this.
I'm just looking at Grant. He's looking at me like, yeah, Nick, no,
you can't say that we know what's in the bag.
Speaker 4 (04:27):
I love how Mike Rabral was like, yeah, we're aware
of it. The world is aware of it. Right, we'll
handle this internally.
Speaker 7 (04:35):
What does that you're getting the dealer's number listens.
Speaker 3 (04:39):
Never turned down a good time listening for a.
Speaker 5 (04:42):
Team that he has always pride themselves on being, I
want to say squeaky clean, but just kind of being
one of those teams that they're not letting anything out.
Speaker 6 (04:51):
I mean, this whole thing with Stephan Diggs.
Speaker 1 (04:53):
The Patriots, I mean well, yeah, I mean people had
a tight end that literally murdered the competition.
Speaker 7 (05:00):
Yeah, But other than that, we.
Speaker 5 (05:02):
Had never heard anything about the organization in that particular way.
Exactly the Patriot because it's like we're going to keep
everything in house. What Aaron and Hernandez did it, it
was horrific and it really kind of shocked some people
in the organization. This was Sefon Diggs. It's pure stupidity.
First of all, My whole thing was, who the hell
(05:23):
is standing there with the phone and did he not
see them? Like?
Speaker 7 (05:29):
What were you doing?
Speaker 4 (05:31):
Well?
Speaker 6 (05:31):
Okay with that?
Speaker 7 (05:32):
Was that a little like tell those girls to call
him daddy directly?
Speaker 2 (05:36):
First of all, if you got to tell somebody to
do that.
Speaker 1 (05:38):
Then you know it's like, you know, don't you know
who I am?
Speaker 7 (05:43):
Well that you're not important enough to know if you
got to ask me, I don't know.
Speaker 5 (05:46):
Just the whole idea is that we've seen individuals kind
of tell on themselves openly, like with the whole Shador
Sanders thing and the filming and then posting it.
Speaker 6 (05:57):
The idea is like, look, man, do what you want
to do with you.
Speaker 5 (06:00):
I'm not gonna sit here on some soap boxing and
tell you, okay, well do this with your life, even
though I wouldn't condone.
Speaker 6 (06:08):
What it looks like he did.
Speaker 5 (06:10):
But at the same time, why would you put yourself
in a position where something.
Speaker 6 (06:14):
Is on video? Right, it's on video. You can deny,
deny all you want to, But in this case.
Speaker 5 (06:21):
It's like, what's in the bag?
Speaker 6 (06:23):
What was it? Can you really tell us what was
in the bag?
Speaker 4 (06:28):
We know what was in the back, but he does
have deniability because no one really knows it was.
Speaker 7 (06:36):
I mean like at that point, at that point, it's
it's fund dip.
Speaker 1 (06:38):
It's one of those pixie straw like you you just
say those things directly in the camera with a knowing look.
Speaker 2 (06:43):
Can you say it's fund proves that it wasn't.
Speaker 4 (06:45):
Yes, right, I bet he's on the list to get
drug tested though.
Speaker 5 (06:51):
Probably remember what Denzel Watson character said the officer hoy.
I think it was hoy or whatever in the training day.
It's not what you know is what you can prove now.
Right now, everyone has seen the video and they have
speculated as to what the pink pottery substance was, but
no one truly knows. So so Ben and and I
(07:13):
guess with step fans probably take this kind of course
of action. You don't know what it is. Was Was
he acting erratic in his behavior? None?
Speaker 6 (07:23):
None of that.
Speaker 5 (07:24):
Now, did he probably violate his relationship cold? Probably?
Speaker 1 (07:28):
Well, I mean his girlfriend was there on the ball
with him, Yeah, I mean she was part of the
party now, right, So he was flirting with the girl,
so he might have violated that part of it.
Speaker 4 (07:38):
Well, do you think there's a lot of like a
relationship code between Cardi B and Stefan?
Speaker 1 (07:44):
I mean she's working through a divorce from Offset right now,
which is a contentious divorce, and this video I'm sure
is not you know, is going over well in his
camp because you.
Speaker 6 (07:51):
Know, custody yeah, with the kids.
Speaker 5 (07:55):
So I know what you're trying to suggest, Grant.
Speaker 6 (08:01):
And everyone has.
Speaker 5 (08:02):
A different relationship, right, Some people have this thing called
an open relationship. I'm not saying that that's what they have,
but some people have those types of relationship and it
works well for them. I don't. I'm not the type
of person that works well for me. I couldn't do that, right,
But I can see how someone can make a lot
of speculations having that thirty thousand foot view. But we don't,
(08:25):
we don't know. We don't know, but it's going to
come the past because there's going to be something maybe
some I don't know, investigation by the NFL trying to
make sure that there was no wrong doing because it
also puts them in the cross stairs as well.
Speaker 1 (08:40):
Well, yeah, I mean this is fairly obviously. I mean
it anyway. I just like, what are you doing? Man,
It's you're in the off season. Why you got cameras
on a boat? Why are you allowing that? Put them
in the You gotta put them in the bucket or
put them in the bag before you get on the boat.
Speaker 5 (08:56):
Lets you know how some wide receivers are And I
don't want to just kind of generalize all wide receivers.
But we've seen this before, remember when we seen the
giants wide receivers on the boat.
Speaker 7 (09:06):
The Vikings in the party boat on the boat.
Speaker 2 (09:09):
Like you guys had learned at.
Speaker 7 (09:10):
This point, that's the part that's just killing me.
Speaker 2 (09:12):
I'm like, bro, like you.
Speaker 7 (09:13):
Know, to put the phones, put the cameras in the bag.
Speaker 5 (09:16):
There you go. You got to treat it like a
comedy show. When you went to a comedy show. The
first thing they tell you walking through the door, put
you're throwing in the bag. But it's rowing the bag.
Speaker 3 (09:25):
I'm just saying, yeah.
Speaker 4 (09:26):
I mean, you gotta think that everyone is watching all
the time.
Speaker 6 (09:30):
Hey, big brother, always watching, and just think about it.
Speaker 5 (09:33):
If someone can get dirt on you in that way,
I mean, they're gonna try to and they're gonna try
to exploit you. But it just seemed like for him,
he didn't really care.
Speaker 1 (09:44):
He could wild and you got I mean, she's going
through your girlfriend's going through a divorce where the other
guy's asking for spousal support, which stuff.
Speaker 5 (09:55):
Okay, Hey man, look if your girl making more money
than you.
Speaker 2 (09:59):
I could never as a man, I could I couldn't
do it.
Speaker 5 (10:02):
I mean, okay, that's a whole of the conversation. With
that conversation I've never had. Oh I could never grant.
I'll ask you, right, and listeners, hey, feel free designment
On the text line, if you happen to be marriages
someone and she makes more money than you would you
(10:22):
ask for her to you know, but is it is
that alimonyous alfhol support.
Speaker 1 (10:28):
She's worth like eighty one hundred million, he's he's worth
like thirty million, he's worth thirty million.
Speaker 2 (10:32):
You had you like, dude.
Speaker 6 (10:34):
I could not grant.
Speaker 4 (10:36):
Well, in a world of equality, My.
Speaker 5 (10:44):
God, I love the way you said, in the world
of equality, right, all things being equal?
Speaker 3 (10:51):
Right, Just Stacy from Utah.
Speaker 1 (10:55):
What's in the bag that Jimmy Hendricks experience is what's
in the bag?
Speaker 5 (11:00):
Oh?
Speaker 7 (11:01):
Man, Like I know I could That's a man. I
couldn't do that. I could not know. I could not
do that.
Speaker 1 (11:06):
Why Okay, if I more than thirty million dollars.
Speaker 4 (11:11):
If you're also were a multi multi millionaire, you wouldn't
do it.
Speaker 3 (11:15):
That's just a petty moves like, I mean.
Speaker 5 (11:17):
Come on, well, we all know in divorces everyone becomes
really petty and nitpicky. Right. You know, if if there
was a let's say, you had to sign Michael Jordan
basketball his last shot for the Chicago Bulls where they
played Utah. Somehow you you found your way, you know,
getting that in some kind of auction, you get a divorce.
(11:39):
Guess what she wants that too? Right? Where's the equality?
Speaker 4 (11:44):
No?
Speaker 5 (11:44):
Right? No, she gets that too?
Speaker 7 (11:46):
No yes, no, no, how you said no?
Speaker 1 (11:50):
Prove I haven't so so bus in a bag.
Speaker 4 (11:56):
That's why the basketball ends up at Grant's house. Okay,
misplaced it.
Speaker 5 (12:01):
I don't know where that went so so all right,
now once again through the list it was. It was
on uh their manifest but now it's not here. So
where did it somehow disappear?
Speaker 3 (12:18):
Mean?
Speaker 6 (12:18):
Grants in the corner?
Speaker 2 (12:21):
Prove you know what, I'm in the shaggy deft.
Speaker 5 (12:26):
It's it's this is the part of the off season
that scares a lot of owners and coaches because you
leave guys to their own devices, and there's a lot
of things that can happen, and you expect for a
guy of his caliber, being a veteran guy, that he
wouldn't put himself in that predictament, especially with a new team.
But you know, I don't know how this thing is
(12:48):
going to end form. There's got to be an investigation.
Who knows who's in the pink bag? We don't know.
I'll just kind of let I can't even say the
legal process because he wasn't arrested, so.
Speaker 3 (13:00):
I think he's fine.
Speaker 5 (13:02):
Five.
Speaker 2 (13:03):
Yeah, he's to be five in the legal process. The
question is, you know, is the NFL's policy.
Speaker 1 (13:07):
Or whatever, and whether or not Mike Rabel wants to
put up with it? Is the juice worth to squeeze
on Stefan Diggs?
Speaker 2 (13:11):
But you don't.
Speaker 6 (13:11):
Once again, is not what you know?
Speaker 5 (13:14):
So you can prove Now no one knows what what
the pink substance was.
Speaker 4 (13:17):
Could they avoid his contract like if.
Speaker 6 (13:21):
It depends it depends on.
Speaker 1 (13:24):
The language and and and he'd have to violate the
NFL Substance Abuse policy or be charged. They couldn't avoid
They could just avoid it, just avoid it, like like.
Speaker 3 (13:33):
Because of a picture.
Speaker 1 (13:34):
They'd have to you have to have some recourse in
there for him to be able.
Speaker 3 (13:37):
To contend his innocence.
Speaker 5 (13:39):
One of those women in the video would have to
be sought after to say that, hey, listen, this is
what it was. That's the only that's the only way.
Speaker 1 (13:49):
Even then, I mean, you know you because it's a
different you know, it's a different there's no chain of
custody from from the boat to now that parts over you.
He would have to test positive or be in order
for the for any of the contract to be avoided.
Speaker 3 (14:02):
And I'm not sure what the void language in there is.
Speaker 4 (14:04):
Did you ever have to talk to any of your
teammates about their off season shenanigans. I'll put it like, hey, dude,
calm it down a little bit.
Speaker 5 (14:12):
You worked for never because we always got that talking
to by Mike Shanahan before we left, and it was
just like, listen, I don't want anyone showing up on
the Four Letter Network talking about, hey, what happened to
this particular player, because you always talked about your your
family name, then the team and the reputation and the
(14:34):
owner and how damaging that would be. And he was
just like, listen, if there's something that you're going to do,
make sure you don't embarrass yourself in the team. And
most of the guys took that to heart. So we've
never been in a situation like this before. Now we've
had guys who have been in fights at I hop right,
(14:55):
but a fight about it the I Hople.
Speaker 7 (15:00):
I expected classy joint.
Speaker 5 (15:03):
And I'm just saying we got didn't fight at the eyehout.
But that's that was kind of kind of it that
far as our Broncos controversy. Yes, good And the same
person who had to fight in the iHeart who broke
his hand, we was at what is it to fill
his green? We were at the concert and he tried
(15:25):
to fight me. You try to fight me, I'm laying
bread crumbs if you could figure out who I mean.
Speaker 7 (15:31):
I think I figured who it is, but I'd be like,
what did what did you do?
Speaker 2 (15:33):
Did you turn a gaate ray table.
Speaker 3 (15:34):
Over on them?
Speaker 5 (15:35):
No? I didn't. This This person had a little of
that don't fluid in him and got kind of, you know,
confused a little. It was dark, right, and he must
have mistaken me from someone else, and all of a
sudden he got overly aggressive.
Speaker 3 (15:52):
What was the concert?
Speaker 7 (15:53):
It fiddlers out cast.
Speaker 1 (15:57):
And hundred three thousands trying to hit the pan flute
and this dude said, down here trying to fight.
Speaker 5 (16:02):
Yeah, yeah, oh my goodness, But that's the worst that
I've been experienced here in Denver.
Speaker 1 (16:09):
Sounds like he had a whole six back in them.
We got one coming up next to Broncos Country tonight.
Speaker 6 (16:19):
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Speaker 2 (16:20):
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Speaker 1 (16:21):
With you, Zack Secrets doing an NFL six pack, proper
NFL six pack.
Speaker 2 (16:26):
I wonder if this will have Justin Fields in it.
It does, yes, because it gives me a chance to
drop some knowledge.
Speaker 3 (16:32):
It takes time for the NFL six pad.
Speaker 5 (16:35):
I'm gonna drink a lot of beer.
Speaker 3 (16:36):
Insight and insight information you can't find anywhere else. I know,
the top six NFL headline.
Speaker 7 (16:44):
What Justin Field said this? Yes? You know, Hey, hey,
I know he's stuff at the top.
Speaker 6 (16:51):
No shame.
Speaker 8 (16:52):
Justin Field said this week that he believes he can
be great with the New York Jets starters or for starters.
Speaker 6 (16:58):
How many playoff games will he win?
Speaker 8 (17:00):
This here, and more importantly, how many more touchdowns than
Russell Wilson?
Speaker 7 (17:04):
Will he score?
Speaker 2 (17:06):
Zero?
Speaker 3 (17:06):
And zero?
Speaker 2 (17:08):
On both counts.
Speaker 8 (17:10):
I wanted to get you on the on the record
on the touchdown one. Yeah, because he's scoring more touchdowns.
He's been to zero playoff games in his career. KURR
fourteen and thirty is a starter.
Speaker 1 (17:20):
Forty five passing touchdowns CAMEROONI rushing touchdowns over the course
of four seasons.
Speaker 2 (17:24):
I'd have to go back to look.
Speaker 1 (17:28):
Yeah, apparently, according to Connor Rodgers, who's out there practice.
Speaker 3 (17:31):
Every day, he looks terrible.
Speaker 7 (17:34):
That's not a great sign.
Speaker 8 (17:35):
But I'm gonna go with the cope of you know,
this is OTAs who cares.
Speaker 7 (17:40):
He's learning the offense.
Speaker 3 (17:41):
Okay, all right, fair enough.
Speaker 5 (17:43):
That's interesting coming from a guy who's not one of
the biggest Justin Field's fans. But I'll say this, I
don't think he's going to throw for more touchdowns than Russell.
We're talking about Russells in his time with the Denver Broncos,
of course.
Speaker 2 (17:56):
But you talk about right, he said, I thus you
would ust with the Giants.
Speaker 6 (17:59):
Oh, oh, rust with Giants in.
Speaker 7 (18:00):
The New York market, the two quarterbacks going head to head.
Speaker 6 (18:03):
Oh, I think that Russ may throw some more touchdowns.
Speaker 7 (18:05):
Yes, score, I said, score.
Speaker 8 (18:10):
Yeah over here, if those rushing touchdowns are enough for
you four more touchdowns than Russell Wilson, Yeah.
Speaker 2 (18:17):
I does a touch I still go with Russ.
Speaker 6 (18:20):
Yeah, and you might get best before the.
Speaker 3 (18:22):
Rocks game et Justin Fields might too.
Speaker 5 (18:27):
Yeah, I mean, to be honest, one he's got thirty
six year old.
Speaker 7 (18:33):
To Rod Taylor. The other's got a first round rookie.
Speaker 5 (18:37):
I'll tell you what. Neither the Giants nor the Jets
are going to be winning the playoff games any soon.
Speaker 3 (18:41):
I mean, yeah, that was a shot event.
Speaker 2 (18:43):
I was just just choking around.
Speaker 3 (18:45):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (18:45):
He threw for five touchdowns in six games last year,
like terrible.
Speaker 7 (18:49):
He's so bad.
Speaker 1 (18:50):
Justin Fields Strawberry Fields, Missus Field's cookies.
Speaker 2 (18:53):
No matter Russ wins two.
Speaker 8 (18:57):
Kobe Myers said during the start of O t As
that she Smith brings a presence he hasn't felt from
the quarterback position since he was in New England and
playing with Tom Brady. Do you think Gino Smith will
give the Denver Broncos defense some problems this season and.
Speaker 2 (19:11):
She'd give it him problems before.
Speaker 1 (19:13):
I mean, as much as we like to make jokes
about that, he's given them problems before, had said. Jacoby
Myers is not exactly the authority on great quarterback play,
since he was mostly the post Tom Brady era in
New England and the Raiders. The last two years of
the combination of Aiden O'Connell, Gardner, Minshew and whatever other nonsense.
They tried it out there, So I think Desmin Ritter
played a game for him or something like that. Yeah, yeah,
(19:34):
I mean cool. He's the best quarterback that Jacoby Myers
has played with. He's a decent quarterback, don't get me wrong,
and the turnaround in his career late is a phenomenal story.
But I think the Broncos gonna have something for the
Raiders this year.
Speaker 6 (19:46):
I mean, I think the Broncos is going to have
something for the Raiders. But still, at the same.
Speaker 5 (19:49):
Time, I still think that Gino as a different element
to the Raiders' offense. This is what Jacobin Myer's talking about,
because he hasn't really played with any decent quarterbacks since
I'm Brady. So you take the fact that you got
broad Bauers, you have a competent quarterback. You should have
a better offensive scheme with Wolf was the.
Speaker 7 (20:08):
Guy choke Kelly.
Speaker 5 (20:10):
Choke Kelly run in the offense and you have what
hell of a young running back?
Speaker 6 (20:14):
Right, So he's good change.
Speaker 5 (20:16):
I mean, I'm not saying gonna beat the Broncos, but
that game's gonna be real competitive.
Speaker 8 (20:19):
Yeah, you know, you you'd hope the guy you just
traded for this offseason is going to be better than
Jimmy Garoppolo and Mac Jones.
Speaker 7 (20:25):
The bar's low, but the bars always are not always over.
Speaker 8 (20:29):
These past two and a half decades been low consistently
for the Raiders at quarterback. Them having a pretty you know,
locked in top fifteen, top sixteen guy at the position,
it is a meaningful positive difference for the team.
Speaker 2 (20:41):
I'm just surprised that.
Speaker 1 (20:43):
Jacoby Myers would say that, knowing that in twenty twenty
he played with the spark cherch stead on.
Speaker 3 (20:49):
Jeez, don't stuck that story. He must have forgotten instead.
Speaker 2 (20:54):
I'm that must have been an overset all forty four
of us passes that year.
Speaker 8 (20:58):
In his first media session during ot he He's Caleb Williams.
I addressed the recent reports about him attempting to avoid
landing in Chicago. Do you think this story will follow
him throughout the season or throughout his career?
Speaker 1 (21:13):
It'd be different if it came out and he'd forced
his way out of Chicago, or you know, he's in
Chicago for a year. But he's one of us, now,
you know. Air quotes the Bears fans, so he's their guy.
You got Ben Johnson in there. If it doesn't work,
then maybe it gid fuy it comes back, you know
kind of thing. But it's one of the things I
think most people expected to work with Ben Joinson there.
Speaker 5 (21:32):
I think this is kind of a dead story. It's
something that you put out there for the dead period
right now. And since everyone's talking about Chicago, what's gonna
change with Ben Johnson being in the full and all
the additions and the coach and the airbnb being there
running by coach.
Speaker 6 (21:46):
So I just think it's something for.
Speaker 5 (21:48):
The moment Chicago Bears go out there and they start
winning games. No one really cares about this particular situation.
Speaker 6 (21:54):
It's just kind of a water.
Speaker 5 (21:55):
Under the breeze.
Speaker 3 (21:56):
Yeah.
Speaker 8 (21:56):
I think it might continue to follow him, even if
it's positive because the Minnesota Vikings. I think Vikings fans
JJ McCarthy that might not pan out. I mean, he
looked good in the one preseason game last year, but
who knows. These these quarterback prospects are always a roll
of the dice, and you know, if that doesn't pan out,
I think they might be sitting here wondering, you know
what if he took the nuclear option, maybe we'd be
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sitting here with the franchise quarterback instead of with nothing
once again for another quarterback star franchise.
Speaker 1 (22:25):
I mean, you know, end of the day, that's Nick's right.
This is the kind of stuff that you get during
the offseason.
Speaker 2 (22:29):
When there's not other things to talk about or.
Speaker 8 (22:32):
Terry Bradshaw recently called the Pittsburgh Steelers pursuit of Aaron
Rodgers a joke and Unsteelers like, do you guys think
there's a line in the sand that the Steelers might
eventually draw before Aaron Rodgers signs with the team, or
do you think they're pot committed at this point?
Speaker 2 (22:47):
They're pop committed.
Speaker 1 (22:48):
I think if Rogers winds up with the Steelers, I'm
with Bradshaw.
Speaker 3 (22:51):
I think it's a joke.
Speaker 1 (22:51):
But right now, Rogers wants to be able to do
Rogers the things during the offseason, and the Steelers don't
want to have to answer questions about Aaron Rodgers, So
since they can't answer questions about players that aren't in
their contract, it's a mutually beneficial situation not to have him.
Speaker 2 (23:06):
Signed right now.
Speaker 1 (23:07):
And it's OTAs who cares he'll be there for training camps.
Speaker 5 (23:11):
I think if I'm the Stillers organization, or better put,
if I am a fan of the Pittsburgh Steelers, I'm
upset about this notion that you're waiting for Aaron Rodgers
to make his decision to add him to your team.
Speaker 6 (23:25):
It's basic football. Either you want to play or you don't.
Speaker 5 (23:28):
And I know we're in the time of the season
where you had the phase where there's OTAs and voluntary stuff. Fine,
you can sign with the team and then take your
time away, But to hold a team ransom like you
did with the Packers for two years, kind of like
what you did with the Jets. And I'll even go
as far as saying what you did with the Broncos
in a sense, and we've seen how that's worked out
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for every single team. If I am Mike Tomlin, I'm
going to let this dead dog lie and I'll just
kind of go get Mason Rudolph and just kind of
ride off into the sunset, eating on Anon Rodgers. This
is a bad deal for the Steelers.
Speaker 8 (24:03):
Especially with him being I don't know, such a toxic
personality these last few years that I think he was
a big part of the reason the Jets thing blew up.
I think he was a big contributing factor to that.
I wonder, you know, we saw what Kirk Cousins was
before the shoulder injury last year. Same question to David
Ryan yesterday. The Falcons are trying to move off that
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contract so they can clear things up for Michael Pennix.
Maybe they get a draft pick that at the very
least they might free up some cap space by moving
off him via trade. Is that really a much worse
option than Aaron Rodgers at this point? I bet Kirk
Cousins shows up to practice tomorrow and is committed and working.
Speaker 7 (24:39):
With the players.
Speaker 8 (24:40):
In that last year, they were not that different from
each other.
Speaker 5 (24:43):
That guys can mold in the pocket.
Speaker 2 (24:45):
Kirk Cousins and Arthur Smith offense is a recipe for disaster.
Speaker 8 (24:49):
I think those two guys, if you were to like
compile all their games from last season, Kirk Cousins had
the best to last year.
Speaker 6 (24:55):
That smells like desperation.
Speaker 7 (25:00):
I mean, look at what they're doing with Aaron Rodgers
right now, because go with.
Speaker 5 (25:06):
To just let it fly.
Speaker 3 (25:07):
Will Howard, Baby.
Speaker 1 (25:08):
Yeah, yeah, they got Will Howard waiting to wait. If
I'm the Steelers at this point. And I'm Arthur Smith.
I might even call Ryan Tannehill if he wants to
come out of retirement for a season, since he's played
in the offense before.
Speaker 7 (25:18):
No, Look, come out here and play a couple of games.
Speaker 2 (25:21):
Let Will Howard get up out of them.
Speaker 7 (25:22):
Will Kirk Cousins, No, it's not.
Speaker 6 (25:24):
At least Sandy Hill can brunk?
Speaker 5 (25:26):
Yeah, I mean Kirk Conny, he's a set of dug
you years. Wait, Zach, you saw the game with Kirk
Cousins played against the Broncos last year. You saw how
terrible that look.
Speaker 8 (25:36):
I absolutely he is more removed from the Achilles now.
I feel like he will be moving better. It's the
same argument for Rodgers.
Speaker 5 (25:42):
By the way you said moving better, that's like an
old man in the wheelchair.
Speaker 8 (25:46):
I'm arguing against Rogers are against the forty year older
and Rodgers here getting around pretty good today.
Speaker 7 (25:52):
Exactly.
Speaker 1 (25:54):
He had.
Speaker 6 (25:54):
He's on his meds, right.
Speaker 2 (25:58):
Tannill played in twenty twenty three. He just didn't play
last year.
Speaker 8 (26:01):
Yeah, one year too, I'll tree.
Speaker 1 (26:05):
But he got bench for Will Levison twenty because he
was four touchdowns to seven picks.
Speaker 3 (26:09):
He couldn't throw anymore. He could still run, he just
couldn't throw anymore.
Speaker 7 (26:12):
I don't think that's a great argument for him.
Speaker 4 (26:14):
Well, it's like justin Fields and with New York Hey,
justin Fie.
Speaker 7 (26:24):
Records Steelers team last year. Not every quarterback in the day.
Speaker 2 (26:28):
That might be the Mother and Dragons because he just
said for cars.
Speaker 7 (26:33):
Uh.
Speaker 8 (26:35):
Patrick Mahomes and Matthew Stafford both said they don't expect
to play in the twenty twenty eight Olympics, with both
citing age as the major reason. Why do you think
Team USA might struggle to find NFL players as they
try and build out their roster? And do you think,
you know, maybe some of these quarterbacks passing opens the
door for bow Knicks to beat the Olympic quarterback.
Speaker 1 (26:56):
I would bet anything it won't be bow Nicks. I
don't think they'll strug the fine players at all. I
just think good guys like Mahomes or Stafford especially who
would be but you know, forty something years old. Yeah, point,
It'll probably be somebody like Lamar Jackson or Kyler.
Speaker 2 (27:11):
Murray with a little bit of mobility.
Speaker 1 (27:13):
Seven on seven games all about speed anyway, So yeah,
I don't I don't think they'll have any issue finding
somebody to especially receivers, to go out there and try
to win a gold medal.
Speaker 5 (27:25):
See he goes back to what Ben just saying. I'm
talking about Kirk Cousin. We're talking about quarterbacks, We're talking
about NFL. We're talking about flag football and Olympics speed,
speed and mobility.
Speaker 6 (27:34):
That's a huge part of it.
Speaker 5 (27:36):
For me. I would say it would be great to
have Lamar Jackson, Kalla Murray and the Olympics.
Speaker 6 (27:42):
You know, it would be great for the brand.
Speaker 5 (27:44):
But there are a lot of these guys who spend
a lot of time playing flag football, who understand the
fundamentals and they're great at it. Let those guys get
to Sean. Let those guys have their opportunity. If you
want to have Justin Jefferson b a wide receiver or
Tyreek Hill, do that, but let these other guys who
missed out on their high school or pro a college,
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let those guys shine. You don't.
Speaker 6 (28:06):
You don't need Stafford or Mahomes.
Speaker 3 (28:08):
I don't know.
Speaker 7 (28:09):
I think it'd be cool for an NFL player.
Speaker 8 (28:11):
You're you're going to be in a club more exclusive
than you know. The Hall of Fame in a way,
there's gonna be fifteen guys in you know the history
of football with a gold medal unless they gets picked
up as a permanent sport. But that's not very likely.
Speaker 9 (28:21):
What happens that they lose, So you're not, well, you're
looking at this, Koby Myers could be the featured receiver
on that flag football team and he's.
Speaker 1 (28:31):
Gonna put the rope and dope on some South Korea
corner while they're dunking all the way to one hundred
to seven victory.
Speaker 8 (28:38):
I don't think you can think that way. I don't
think these these the guys who would be eligible for
that team have the mentality of like, I don't know, man,
pulling might like what might lock me up outside list man.
Speaker 5 (28:48):
We've seen NBA players lose to other countries so much so,
I mean.
Speaker 1 (28:53):
The rest of the world's gotten good at basketball, like
Serbia and Spain have good basketball league.
Speaker 5 (28:58):
So it's just our way of just kind of taking
advantage of those other countries who have not kind of
caught up as far as flag football is concerned.
Speaker 7 (29:04):
Yeah, I'm just the world.
Speaker 1 (29:07):
I am so ready for some mediocre NFL receiver to absolutely.
Speaker 3 (29:11):
Put a French corner in a blender.
Speaker 4 (29:13):
This is the most we're talking about how Americans are
viewed in other countries. The player this is the most
American thing to do is throw flag football into the
Olympics when it's in LA and eight.
Speaker 2 (29:23):
Right, Hey, France got breakdancing to the turbot from breaking.
Speaker 8 (29:31):
Jason Kelsey and Travis kelcey to what we were just
talking about, suggested on their podcast that Team USA's flag
football squad should be determined by a game between the
NFL players and these.
Speaker 7 (29:43):
Flag football guys.
Speaker 8 (29:44):
Let's see them play on the field and determine who's,
you know, the better squad, that the better team to
compete for the gold medal. So I was curious, what
do you guys think that game would look like. Do
you think it'd be competitive? Do you think the flag
guys could maybe even win or with the NFL guys boat.
Speaker 2 (29:58):
Race depends on how the flag guys can play defense.
That really would be because I don't doubt that.
Speaker 1 (30:04):
The flag guys have a better concept of how the
offense works in that sport.
Speaker 3 (30:08):
You don't have to be big, you gotta be fast.
Speaker 1 (30:10):
But then you look at the other side and like
some guy who's working at ACE Hardware is not gonna
shut down Tyreek Hill out there the whole The USA
playbook is gonna be the four verts play for Madden.
Speaker 2 (30:25):
There's lighting up for nine billion yards.
Speaker 5 (30:27):
Listen. I got a difference of a pain. I'm gonna
go with the flag guys. Reason being because we've seen
this experiment play out on the NFL network right when
they had NFL players playing against flag guys, and the
NFL players thought they were gonna win, but guess what
happened and the end of it, they end up losing
to just regular dues.
Speaker 7 (30:46):
They lost the regular dues. Well, this was their life.
Speaker 5 (30:48):
They did this on an everyday basis, and it's hard
for wide receivers who now have to play defense and
know how to snatch a flag. I mean, I'm gonna
go with it the guys who've been playing flag football
for a while.
Speaker 8 (31:00):
I think an exhibition is different than when you have
a gold medal on the line. And I agree that
speed is going to be most important in a flag
football game. But fast for you know, the NFL pool
they're going to be drying from these elite receivers at corners.
Speaker 3 (31:13):
It's like four to three speed.
Speaker 7 (31:15):
How many guys in.
Speaker 8 (31:16):
The Flag Football League, international flag football scene can run
a four to three have that type of speed?
Speaker 7 (31:22):
Or you look?
Speaker 5 (31:25):
I know guys. I know guys back in my who
for whatever reason didn't get a chance to go to
Florida State, but they still can ball.
Speaker 6 (31:33):
These are the guys that we're talking about.
Speaker 4 (31:34):
Don't you think, regardless of who you think would win,
this has to happen, right.
Speaker 3 (31:39):
I want to watch so bad. I want to watch
it so bad.
Speaker 6 (31:41):
And what if they lose?
Speaker 1 (31:42):
The flag football guys go receiver for the USA men's
team runs a four or five two.
Speaker 6 (31:49):
I just want.
Speaker 5 (31:51):
But I'm just trying to tell you there's some dudes
and who that can go, right, I'm telling you they
can go.
Speaker 3 (31:58):
They gotta they gotta.
Speaker 1 (31:59):
Velt Brown Junior is a wide receiver dB and he
runs a four or five to two.
Speaker 5 (32:03):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (32:04):
So they got Courtland Sutton out there is their speed demon.
Speaker 1 (32:06):
Okay, Wow, Look I'm just saying. I'm just saying, like
they're gonna run. It's just on athletic talent. I get
what you're saying.
Speaker 6 (32:16):
But you said, guys gonna.
Speaker 8 (32:18):
Get put on an island with worthy guy's gonna get
put on an island with Savior Worthy.
Speaker 7 (32:21):
That's what's gonna happen.
Speaker 5 (32:23):
Okay, I'm just I'm just saying I'm here for put
the game together, here for some.
Speaker 3 (32:28):
Of that fun depth of Stefon Diggs was here, and
they're gonna go. We'll go. Brought this country died back
after this.
Speaker 2 (32:33):
It's not what you know, is what you can prove.