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Speaker 1 (00:00):
He shaved his head and spotted.

Speaker 2 (00:01):
I mean, I'm just saying think he kind of speaking
of dilfre He's losing Alabama State right now the half,
twenty one to seventeen.

Speaker 1 (00:09):
I can't remember how much they were favored by to
win that game.

Speaker 2 (00:12):
CSU rams no Oh Delpher, Oh Tredilpher u a B
I'll a better bring him. Yeah, they're losing, losing pretty
bad right now. I'm trying to figure out. I'm trying
to bring it up here real quick so I can
see what.

Speaker 1 (00:25):
The the pre game line was. Famous say you.

Speaker 2 (00:28):
Yes, that's yes, tread Delpher You can't win games by losing.
I'll never forget it. We have all our obrigatory Taylor
Swift shots from the UH Nebraska Cincinnati game there at
Arrowhead because obviously Travis Kelsey's there. It's his all modern
So yeah, you're gonna get a whole bunch of that
all year too. Are you excited for more Tite there? Grant?

Speaker 3 (00:50):
Oh, can't wait. That seems genuine and heartfelt. It's done
so much for the sport of football. Yeah, I didn't
even know the sport existed before Taylor Swift.

Speaker 2 (00:58):
Honestly five six six Zero's text line, you guys want
to get involved in the conversation depends with all Brian
Nick Ferguson here on Brooks Country Night, Grad Smith back
there producing and generally keeping us in line.

Speaker 1 (01:09):
Sort of try to he tries to. That's right.

Speaker 2 (01:12):
Thanks to Jody Jordan for that slice of cake. Cut
was delicious, by the way, Thanks Jody.

Speaker 1 (01:17):
And the cookie from Nick Ferguson. Oh you got the cookie?
Didn't you get a cookie too? I didn't.

Speaker 2 (01:22):
He offered me the cookie. Tell them what I would
actually have. I was gonna make something out, but what
actually happens. I already had the chippoll late chips and
cheese dip, and I was eating that and Nate Jackson
kind of was eyeballing the cookie, and so Nate Jackson
wound up with the cookie and I wound up just
eating my chips.

Speaker 3 (01:37):
In the case, Well, Nate Jackson got my second choice
of cookie because I got the double chocolate.

Speaker 2 (01:42):
Yes, oh so he got leftovers anyway, Yeah, I see,
I see how it goes around here to take care
of Yeah.

Speaker 1 (01:49):
We all know.

Speaker 2 (01:49):
Yeah, right, you always take care of the guy behind
the glass back there.

Speaker 1 (01:53):
They could change. Wow, that's the toughnesssion. They could change
the modulator on your voice or whatever all the time
to take care of Grant.

Speaker 4 (02:02):
Because the last time I was on with Ryan Edwards,
we were talking about the running backs and I might
have said a word in my conversation that, you know,
Grant made this.

Speaker 1 (02:18):
A thing, so I need to make it too high?

Speaker 2 (02:22):
What is that the one we've got them?

Speaker 1 (02:27):
But it was taken out of context though.

Speaker 2 (02:29):
Shut was just like Sean's just like Shawn's light today,
I'm like, oh my god, that's going.

Speaker 1 (02:37):
To wait a minute.

Speaker 4 (02:38):
That's different though, because we were talking about the how
we see the running backs and players and how the
roster is going to shape out, and I said I'm
higher on certain guys than others. And next thing I know,
Grant did his uh, you know AI thing and now
it's a thing now b too high?

Speaker 1 (02:58):
Too high? Like Ferguson toted pothead. You're just saying no.

Speaker 3 (03:03):
I thought maybe he was talking about or he's hanging
out at fulsome field in the second saying.

Speaker 1 (03:09):
Coach, smoke it up. Yeah, I smoked the trees. Man.
He's like, what's the weirdest thing about color? Yeah?

Speaker 2 (03:13):
Smell the godga in the second quarter. Weird how you
instantly identified that smell?

Speaker 1 (03:18):
Coach, listen instantly? Wait wait, First of all, there's some
good stuff.

Speaker 4 (03:22):
I've never tooked before, but I've grown up around so
to know the aroma.

Speaker 1 (03:27):
Oh you know what it is. I have definitely tooked before. Okay,
there it is, and continue to I just know the aroma.
I know what it smells like. You didn't inhale? No,
yeah I did? He didn't. That funny? Isn't it funny?
How like politicians like it's changed.

Speaker 2 (03:41):
Like ten years ago, politicians were like I've never touched
marrow one on my life. Now now you get interviews
and like you're like, yeah, yeah, I smoked that stuff
up a honey on the blood.

Speaker 1 (03:52):
Over Like you're like, what what we did this change?
Like we did?

Speaker 4 (03:56):
Well. The reason it changed because because it became more
so mostly acceptable.

Speaker 2 (04:01):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (04:01):
I guess as they legalized or whatever.

Speaker 4 (04:03):
And so every politician is trying to fit in with
potential voters. So you have to say, well you think
that best suits them.

Speaker 1 (04:12):
That's what happens. Grant just save that. I just watched
them save that audio.

Speaker 5 (04:17):
All of this got started used up my audio when
I talk about oh, what did I say that.

Speaker 3 (04:22):
I.

Speaker 5 (04:25):
Say that that's gonna be a promo around here. Yeah,
I put honey on the blunt. All this got started.

Speaker 2 (04:33):
Because my phone creeps me out, because it keeps sending
me these reminders of like things that I did a
few years ago, you know or whatever. It's like two
years ago, you sent Ryan Edwards the following text, Maybe
eating tacos wasn't cheating on my diet. Maybe going on
a diet was cheating on my tacos too high. And
then like the Instagram thing, you know, you'd all those

(04:54):
sends you the reminders. I got that photo shoot that
we did six years ago. We're I'm wearing a jacket.
It looks like a Valet parking car, and Ryan looks
like Trent Dilfert headed to a funeral.

Speaker 1 (05:04):
You do like a Valet. It's like a Burgandy jacket.

Speaker 4 (05:08):
Yeah, like some some place in Britain, Wood in California.

Speaker 2 (05:11):
Right, I looked like I should be parking cars for
tips at that point.

Speaker 1 (05:17):
Absolutely ridiculous. Five six, six, nine texts. I got a
lot of texts coming in.

Speaker 2 (05:20):
Somebody said, hi, guys, is the new Potter considered an
international player? Well, yes, he is an international player, but
that doesn't change any the logistics for anything. The only
thing it would be is if he were on the
practice squad, it would give you one extra practice broad
squad spot. But we already have that with uh Patrick,
don't call him captain myrtal.

Speaker 1 (05:41):
Well, actually you know what, I met him today? Yeah.
Have you seen that high like reel him catching that ball? No,
Oh my goodness, that's this dude's an athlete. He's a freak.

Speaker 4 (05:53):
Well, I guess the question is, well, we know he's
going to make the defense better running scounty, you hope.

Speaker 2 (05:59):
So, I mean that's that's the hope, having him out
there and hope that you can develop into something. But
Ryan texted me at seven something this morning and it
was like, you sent me the Captain Murtaal from Lethal Weapon.

Speaker 1 (06:08):
Yes you know, And I was like, yes, this is
your best work.

Speaker 4 (06:12):
Yes, man, it's you know. I love this time of
year college football. This year the Boston Georgia take play Friday.
There's a number of key games slated for Saturday.

Speaker 1 (06:25):
I love this time of year. Football is back. We
got college football going on.

Speaker 2 (06:29):
There's gonna be pro football a week from the day,
a week from today.

Speaker 1 (06:33):
Speaking of which, Bryant.

Speaker 4 (06:35):
Are you guys in fantasy football leagues?

Speaker 1 (06:38):
Yes, yes i am. I'm in two leagues. Both my
drafts this weekend. I've been two leagues. One has already drafted,
one is drafting here soon. Yeah.

Speaker 4 (06:48):
I'm in a fantasy league to the NFL itself, and
we started drafting on Sunday.

Speaker 2 (06:56):
So, yes, do you have any players in mind you
you're gunning for here? You really hope you end up with?

Speaker 1 (07:00):
Well, for me, I'm looking at running backs.

Speaker 4 (07:04):
I think about John Robinson, Karen Williams who plays for
the Rams.

Speaker 2 (07:08):
Don't be like that one guy who went at the
number one to pick overall and slapped Brian Robinson for seconds.

Speaker 4 (07:15):
You see that? Yeah, I saw that. But as crazy
as that seemed that first, it might work out. Knowing
as though Brian Robinson has now been traded to the
San Francisco forty nine, is.

Speaker 2 (07:27):
You McCaffrey's backup, Well, he's.

Speaker 1 (07:29):
Going to get touches. The one thing we know in the.

Speaker 4 (07:32):
Mike Sanah and Kyle Shanahan offense, they're using at least
two three running backs, And what's the probability that throughout
the entire season?

Speaker 1 (07:42):
That remains healthy. I still would not draft Brian Robinson
with the first overall pick.

Speaker 4 (07:48):
I'm not saying take it him with their first overall pick,
but he might be someone you may want to select
and stash on your roster.

Speaker 2 (07:54):
Might be might be, so we'll uh yeah, we'll see.

Speaker 1 (07:58):
And they let him change it anyway, let him go
back and put Jeanne in there. After they made that video,
I was like, man, that's a card lades card played.

Speaker 2 (08:04):
Man, yeah, I can't pick that back.

Speaker 1 (08:08):
Lots of hands off.

Speaker 5 (08:10):
This dude strutted up there, slack it on there, wipe
you down a little bit.

Speaker 1 (08:15):
And then step back.

Speaker 2 (08:16):
And then the other guy was like, wait a minute,
that's his junior.

Speaker 1 (08:20):
D Jon Robinson.

Speaker 2 (08:21):
What idiot?

Speaker 1 (08:23):
What a loser?

Speaker 2 (08:24):
Rate moments in fantasy football. It was phenomenal. I loved
h I love their part of that five six six
times the text line seven too. What effect makes Albright
sound like an airplane pilot?

Speaker 1 (08:37):
I don't, I don't airline pilot. Do I have an
airline pilot?

Speaker 4 (08:39):
One?

Speaker 1 (08:39):
I don't remember doing that.

Speaker 4 (08:40):
I don't.

Speaker 1 (08:41):
I don't recall that airline pilot.

Speaker 2 (08:44):
No.

Speaker 3 (08:44):
Uh, you were now free to move about the cabin
we'll be landing in Denver?

Speaker 1 (08:49):
Is that what I do? I sound like an airline pilot,
is it?

Speaker 5 (08:52):
No?

Speaker 1 (08:52):
Okay? I didn't think so. I mean I would not
if I heard me coming over the lounge speaker, like
I would get.

Speaker 4 (08:56):
On the.

Speaker 1 (08:58):
Where is a raft? Right? See this guy's certifications? How
many hours have you lonched?

Speaker 4 (09:05):
Sir?

Speaker 1 (09:07):
I would not be okay with that. Check who's sitting
in that exit?

Speaker 3 (09:09):
Bro?

Speaker 1 (09:09):
Yeah, make sure you need to switch it? Like, uh
so my chair commused as a flirtation device? Uh what
else do we have? They get a seatbelt figure of
tightening it up?

Speaker 2 (09:19):
Like, are you an airplayer? You're you're in a missile
through the sky. You're worried about your seat belt. I
always found that to be to be fascinating. Anything about
this Broncos roster, this fifty three minus roster, this practice squad,
that you change anything about this that you didn't like
the construction of, because I think we all saw it
pretty much coming together the way that it did, more
or less outside of the trade of ale.

Speaker 1 (09:39):
I think that there wasn't any real surprises here.

Speaker 4 (09:43):
I think for me it was Bailey the linebacker on
the practice squad. Yeah, you know, I thought, in my opinion,
he thought he did enough to remain on the fifty three.

Speaker 1 (09:55):
But the beauty of it all is that Parker talked
about it.

Speaker 4 (09:59):
You have four linebackers that made the fifty three, but
then you have three other guys in a practice squad.

Speaker 1 (10:06):
So that's the.

Speaker 4 (10:07):
Team, you know, doubling down on idea that Okay, well
they are not one to percent sure that both Alex
Singleton and you know, Drake Greenlaw are going to be
healthy throughout the season.

Speaker 3 (10:20):
Well did and Sean say today that they're going to
limit their snaps at the beginning of the season.

Speaker 1 (10:24):
Well, I mean, yeah, you said that.

Speaker 4 (10:26):
But it makes sense though as a guy that well, yeah,
it is why as a guy that has had two
knee surgeons myself, when you're coming back right mentally, you're thinking, okay,
well I can go out and do the same things
that I did before. From a body standpoint, it's a
little different now.

Speaker 1 (10:43):
I can tell you.

Speaker 4 (10:44):
Once that surgeon cuts into any part of your body,
it is not the same.

Speaker 1 (10:49):
It is no longer the same. So to keep.

Speaker 4 (10:52):
Those guys on the pitch count, you keep them healthy.
But that also means though that you have enough depth
that you have actually believe it.

Speaker 1 (11:00):
Just think about Justice Strenard.

Speaker 4 (11:03):
He is the one guy that's going to you know,
benefit from this because he got a chance of playing
last year when Alex Singletoom was out right, no Cody Barton.

Speaker 1 (11:12):
But but he's also dealt with injuries. Yeah, but not
like this, right, it's been.

Speaker 2 (11:17):
It's been pretty checkered for him throughout his That's what's
held him back throughout the development of his career. I
think the reason Bailey went to the practice squad is
they thought that Karan Reid was gonna get claimed by somebody,
and so they moved Bailey through. Bailey will get called
up and may get and we'll probably get more snaps
than Karan Reid.

Speaker 1 (11:31):
I think it's just a twofold deal.

Speaker 2 (11:32):
Ryan pointed something out that I thought was interesting that
maybe they kept Karan Reid because he was the only
undrafted player that was kept on the roster, keeping that
sort of streak that they have alive. Maybe they did
that as a selling point for undrafted free agents after
the next draft. Look, hey, we got undrafted guy every year,
so you can you make this roster comes side with
the Broncos.

Speaker 4 (11:49):
I can I can I can see the team, you know,
doing that, because when you do that, you still you
send a message to other.

Speaker 1 (11:57):
Undrafted free agents. Because Sean Payton talked about it.

Speaker 4 (12:00):
When you when the draft is over, you're calling guys
and you call him at a high rate, and it's
like speed dating. Okay, listen, we got a spot open
or whatever. Everyone's cheer. We're trying to get this guy
to sign. And you see that they not only get
guys to sign, but you have an opportunity to make
the roster if you do the right things. So it's
a great promotion apiece. But no one as though. You

(12:20):
still have guys on the roster who know the defense
and they can operate if something were to happen to me.
I think it's the best of both worlds. It's best
for Sean and Vans. Joseph, Yeah, I think so too.

Speaker 2 (12:30):
I didn't there was not any I mean, other than
the Courtney Jackson thing, which I think they wanted him back.
They just dragged their feet a little bit about getting
him that offer, trying to get everybody else back together,
and Courtney was like, I'm not waiting around the NFL.
If I wait around, then all of a sudden, the
music stops. I don't got a chair. Yeah, so Seattle
came calling, and he just took it and ran with it.

Speaker 1 (12:48):
And I'm not mad at him for it, you know, to.

Speaker 4 (12:51):
Be totally honest, that's a tough situation. I thought he
did enough to make this roster as well, but knowing
as though he's going to Seattle where at some point
he will have an opportunity and I just think about
Clint Kubiak in that offense, establishing the run game play
action and being able to take those shots down the field.

(13:12):
But also with Courtney Jackson, he's gonna get an opportunity
in the return game as well.

Speaker 2 (13:16):
Yeah, and that's uh. We saw they kept Michael Bandy,
Joe Lombardi's guy.

Speaker 1 (13:22):
You know, he's sneaky fast, you know what I like.

Speaker 4 (13:26):
I like Bandy, right, And I was that was one
of the guys that I was heavily rooting for because
just think about it, we've all had the doors slam
in our face at times, told that no, we were
not good enough for something that we really wanted.

Speaker 1 (13:42):
But to see that he's still on this roster.

Speaker 4 (13:46):
And this was this is what his second and third
training camp with the team. So you got to think
sometimes you may get discouraged because you like it.

Speaker 1 (13:54):
At what point will I break through?

Speaker 4 (13:57):
And you have to figure if you're rooting for him
or you like too for underdogs. Maybe next season is
going to be the season that he breaks through.

Speaker 1 (14:05):
Maybe.

Speaker 2 (14:06):
I mean he's been with he's been with Joe Lombardi
since Lombardi was the OC of the Chargers though, I
mean he's been you know, he's been Joel Lombardi. He's
like the river of creak Craft, like like he falls
into ship ahead offense every year. Wherever Joe Lombardi goes,
Michael Bandy will always have a job.

Speaker 1 (14:19):
Hey, everybody's got a guy. You just hope to be
someone's guy in that case. Yeah, I mean it's a
little bit.

Speaker 2 (14:24):
I mean like he's that's his guy, Like that's his dude,
not like the Billy Turner and Nate Hackett stuff.

Speaker 1 (14:30):
Yeah. Yeah, of course I'm not gonna talk about that
out loud. What is it up here?

Speaker 3 (14:36):
Yes, now we've got some breaking confirmed from Parker Gabriel
himself at Parker J.

Speaker 1 (14:45):
Gabriel on Twitter.

Speaker 3 (14:46):
Oh okay, he was walking and pushing the stroller while
doing the interview.

Speaker 1 (14:52):
Look at that? Look at that.

Speaker 4 (14:53):
Yeah he's sound. Hey listen, I know you guys have been.

Speaker 1 (15:00):
Each out of his owner. Did you did you salute that?

Speaker 4 (15:02):
Okay, okay, I know you guys haven't reached the point
of having kids yet, but I can tell you it's
one of the best jobs that you could ever have.

Speaker 1 (15:12):
I will, honestly, I'll take you. Wherefore have we.

Speaker 2 (15:13):
Met your son the other day when he came in.
I'll take your word for that. I don't need a
younger handsomer media's competition. No, don't ban would try to
get my son to talk on the air.

Speaker 1 (15:22):
Oh yeah, I was so trying to.

Speaker 2 (15:23):
He was like, he was like, no, d told me
before I came in here, and if I said.

Speaker 1 (15:27):
A word, I was crowding for lights and I'm like,
not at all. Pull up a microphone. Let's let's get
the dirt. He said, right there. I'm not giving him nothing.
He taught him. Well, yeah, I was like you, thank you.
Ed Man rules has that man is the master off
his no wain. I'm just saying, NFL six pack we
come back. Mudgement all right.

Speaker 2 (15:49):
Nick Ferguson zax Seegers stepping in for the sixth background
Smith back there producing I six sixty nine zero.

Speaker 1 (15:55):
He's the text line.

Speaker 2 (15:56):
He's got his fantasy draft this weekend, thinking of taking
Nick's number one overall?

Speaker 1 (16:00):
Is he too high? I don't even know how to
respond to that. Yes, yes you are. Do not take
potus number one over too high dangerously? Yes. So with that,
let's get to the NFL six PA. It's time for
the NFL six pad.

Speaker 4 (16:17):
I'm gonna take a lot of insight and insight information
you can't find anywhere else, I know, the top six NFL.

Speaker 1 (16:25):
Headlind What.

Speaker 6 (16:28):
During a recent press tour with Nick Saban, coach Prime
so that he believes college players should receive a bonus
for reaching a financial bonus that is, for reaching the
college football playoff, and an additional financial bonus for each
game they win along the way, with them escalating along
the way and there being a large payout for winning

(16:49):
the national championship. He thought it should be spread out
evenly across the team, not you know, favoring star players
or anything, but you know, so everything would be fair.
Do you think this is a good idea idea from
Coach Prime and what do you think would.

Speaker 1 (17:02):
Be the fairest way of structure.

Speaker 2 (17:05):
My love the concepts, as long as it doesn't cost
taxpayers money, as long as it's financed by private whatever
however that's done.

Speaker 1 (17:14):
Yeah, I'm I'm for it.

Speaker 2 (17:16):
How you'd structured I don't know, thousand dollars bonus for
one of the first one ten thousand, How are you
going to work it out? Keep in mind, you got
ninety something people on that roster, and not everybody there
is making big time innil money. Some guys aren't making
much at all, So you know, that may sound low,
like a low number, but the reality is for most
of that roster that's going to be a significant bonus,
whereas you know, the three or four guys that are

(17:36):
making absurd money, it's really not.

Speaker 1 (17:38):
Of course, the.

Speaker 2 (17:38):
Teams that are making the playoffs all got big money anyway,
so I don't you know, Then again, I might be
I might be wrong on that.

Speaker 4 (17:44):
I like the concept because it's the guy who was
a former walk on.

Speaker 1 (17:47):
At Georgia Tech. Yeah.

Speaker 4 (17:48):
That means guys like myself a little bank in their pocket, right,
And I think look college football now with transfer port
to NILS, it's basically pro sports getting we look at
as the amateur sport anymore.

Speaker 1 (18:02):
So in the pros you.

Speaker 4 (18:03):
Get a suit amount of money as you go along
in the playoffs and you win the Super Bowl, So
why not?

Speaker 3 (18:08):
But you never really had to worry about Georgia Tech
making in college?

Speaker 4 (18:11):
Oh wow, wow, damn No.

Speaker 1 (18:16):
The score of the Runtgers game again?

Speaker 3 (18:18):
Hey, thirty four to thirty one. Ohio held their own,
but they lost primac Are you feeling confident for tomorrow?

Speaker 1 (18:27):
Moved on too? In the new Brady.

Speaker 6 (18:32):
Versus Belichick by longtime NFL book, that is, by longtime
NFL reporter Gary Myers, Moe Lewis, the Jets linebacker who
injured Drew Bledsoe and opened the door for Tom Brady,
said it was Bledsoe's Bledsoe's own fault.

Speaker 1 (18:47):
That he got injured.

Speaker 6 (18:49):
Drew Bledsoe just signed a one hundred million dollars deal
to be what type of quarterback? Lewis said, a passing quarterback? Correct,
Had he not got outside the pocket and ran with
the ball, would will you be talking about this? Who
caused the event? The person who is with the ball?
Now he's doing this, and now he's doing what he
didn't sign up for. He signed up to be a

(19:09):
passing quarterback.

Speaker 1 (19:10):
What do I do?

Speaker 6 (19:11):
I stopped the people with the ball. It's just another
play for me, but it's a different play for him.
Do you agree with this statement from mo Lewis? And
what do you make of.

Speaker 1 (19:19):
Him making these comments now over twenty years after the fact.
I mean, I think the taken and himself a student.
What do you mean false? It was an injury. It
happens his football. It has a collision contact sport. It happens.
It was specifically. I guess he gets.

Speaker 6 (19:33):
Blamed by Jets fans for beckoning in the Brady era.

Speaker 1 (19:38):
How was he supposed to know the beat drumbeck a
quarterback was gonna go on to be one of the best.
Thing like, this is stupid.

Speaker 2 (19:45):
Jets fans are blaming a Jets player for injuring a
rivals quarterback and ushering in their backup who wound up me?

Speaker 1 (19:53):
This is this is stupid.

Speaker 4 (19:57):
If there is a Jets fan who believes mo Lewis
it's his fault for ushering in Tom Brady, I agree
with Ben. This is ridiculous. And here's something interesting about this.
I had a bird's eye view that played because I
played in that game.

Speaker 1 (20:12):
Yes, I didn't know that.

Speaker 4 (20:14):
I played in that game, and I was wondering, why
did Drew Bletsoe run it doesn't know Moe Lewis's hunting,
two hundred and fifty eight pounds of it just crushed
it and all of a sudden he had to collapse
long and believe it or not, it was really serious.
They had to actually put like a little two band
into release his lung because chess cavity was filling up

(20:35):
with blood.

Speaker 1 (20:36):
It was that bad. But Tom Brady came in and.

Speaker 4 (20:39):
We were like, hey, who is this scrony looking guy? Oh,
now we know so, yeah, I played in that game.

Speaker 1 (20:45):
That's fascinating. You were there for the start of Tom
Brady's career. Wow, I never did three.

Speaker 6 (20:53):
Speaking of the Jets, Jets GM Darren Mugie said that
Justin Fields could follow in the footsteps of Am Donald
and Baker Mayfield as highly drafted quarterbacks who finally developed
in different settings. What percentage chance would you give Justin
Fields to experience such a turnaround, Ben?

Speaker 1 (21:11):
And will he be a top or sorry, will the
New York Jets draft a quarterback in the first round
in twenty twenty six?

Speaker 2 (21:19):
Well? The only difference here is that Sam Darnald A
Baker Mayfield could actually throw the ball, So that's sort of,
you know, that's sort of a prerequisite for playing the position.

Speaker 1 (21:28):
I don't believe Justin Field is going to turn it around.

Speaker 2 (21:31):
And yes, I believe the Jets will be in the
market for a quarterback, whether that's in free agency or
through the.

Speaker 1 (21:35):
Draft in the following year. Yeah.

Speaker 2 (21:40):
I don't know what else to say to this, say,
Justin Fields has put up with four years of staggeringly
bad to mediocre tape. I don't know what else to
do at this point.

Speaker 4 (21:48):
Well, I do think that the Jets will be looking
for another quarterback because obviously, I mean, I'm not down
on Fields, as though you two guys are.

Speaker 2 (21:57):
But I don't think he is the field supporter put
that down for the All right, Okay, guess I can
support Justin field goals all you.

Speaker 4 (22:03):
Want, Okay, but I think he's not like a long
term solution.

Speaker 1 (22:08):
He's a guy that can fill the gap.

Speaker 4 (22:10):
He's a bridge player at this particular moment. What ben
I speak ferguson Okay, he's bad, keep bad, No, it's
not translator.

Speaker 1 (22:21):
Keep I'll be the luthor. If you're you're a your translator.
The idea is that he's not a long term solution
because he's not good.

Speaker 4 (22:28):
Well, he can help them get through this this situation
with the season.

Speaker 1 (22:32):
Because he's an available body, and.

Speaker 4 (22:34):
Also their defense is going to help them out, which
is going to help Feels out. But they're still going
to need to draft another quarterback.

Speaker 2 (22:40):
Defense is going to have to carry the load because
he sucks out loud, he's lighting it up.

Speaker 1 (22:44):
I'm just translated. I'm just translating that. I'm translating. I
speak Ferguson. Who do you think will.

Speaker 6 (22:49):
Be the next quarterback to maybe have that Baker Mayfield,
Sam Darnold bounce back to their career?

Speaker 1 (22:56):
Uh, Trevor Lawrence, I believe this year.

Speaker 2 (23:00):
I mean you're talking to Ethan Cohens run the office,
the same guy the turn Baker around four thousand yards
whatever was last year.

Speaker 4 (23:05):
That's even wild that you even say that a bounce
by gear. That means as though you think that Trevor
Lawrence just had a bad career. I mean there are
people in sayd he's bus what the only problem is
is that he couldn't control it. But he was drafted
by Jacksonville. That's what I'm saying, not his fault. I'm
just saying his first coach. Oh my god, don't get
me started.

Speaker 1 (23:22):
Is that his fault? No, I REMI god, it was
so bad.

Speaker 2 (23:26):
I'm just saying, like you know, Trevor Lawrence, he played
ten games last year, two thousand yards, eleven touchdowns. I
didn't get it done as the number one overall pick
four years in. I think he's gonna have a bounce
back this year, dude ball four.

Speaker 6 (23:42):
Of course, there is that Elak Neighbors missed twelve days
of practice and two preseason games earlier this month with
a back injury, but he told reporters this week that
it wouldn't be a concern for him going forward. That said,
are you worried about Neighbors saying healthy this season or
his back in flaring up? And do you think he
will cement himself as a top ten wide receiver five

(24:05):
seasons end?

Speaker 1 (24:06):
Yes, he's too. He's too.

Speaker 2 (24:07):
He's got too much ego to not be out there
like he's that guy right. Plus he's got a bet
to win me him and Russ. He's gotta bet to
win me over you, young sleeakers.

Speaker 1 (24:16):
So he's catching a lot of touchdowns from Jacksonville.

Speaker 2 (24:19):
Yeah, he's gonna He's gonna catch a lot of darts
from Dart and practice and then real TV is from
Russ in the games. So yes, I believe he's gonna
be healthy and cement himself as a top ten receiver.

Speaker 4 (24:28):
How can you not be a few elite neighbors? Like
last season he was their number one target. I don't
see that changing for the Giants, whether it's gross dart,
but James Winston.

Speaker 6 (24:40):
Jamis and Dart are gonna be eating Russ's w's and
I'm gonna be eating a delicious steak dinner.

Speaker 1 (24:45):
Courtesy of Ben Albright m and what Happened? Okay five.

Speaker 6 (24:52):
San Francisco forty nine Ers kicker Jake Moody said that
he has changed his kicking technique or kicking for him,
however you want to label it, After missing thirty percent
of his attempts last season and nearly losing his job
in San Francisco this previous season, he went five for
six in the small sample size that said, are you
more confident now that he's overhauled his kicking technique or

(25:16):
does the fact that he's overhauling his kicking technique two
three years into his NFL career.

Speaker 2 (25:21):
You know the signal concern. Well, I think that signals
concerned for sure. But if it works for him, it
works for him. I think the question is how you
know when you get out of the field, you can
say you've done everything in practice, and it's real easy
to do stuff when there's no live bullets flying. But
then with live bullets fly, you tend to revert to
what you know. You tend to revert to muscle memory.
So did this technique really set in or is this
something he's kind of doing, you know, in practice, and

(25:43):
then he gets out there and he's gonna start.

Speaker 1 (25:45):
Shanking kicks again.

Speaker 4 (25:46):
Well, I wish Jake Moody all the best, but it's
great no matter at what point of your career. That
and the ideas for it to happen sooner rather than
later that you realize there's some flaws in your technique.
Is that the part of being a professional and not
an amateur anymore. And this is the idea of why
you have coaches, why you have a kicking coach, to.

Speaker 1 (26:06):
Find to your game and get better. Now once you
get to the games and there's.

Speaker 4 (26:11):
A final kick under twenty seconds with that pressure, can't
he kick it through?

Speaker 1 (26:16):
Well? Like to see or will he do with visit?

Speaker 2 (26:21):
You got a game on the line right you all
you can't think about is God, I gotta hit this
caick And you're not thinking, well if I tuned it
up so that I do one inch to the left
here and the rotational porque angle of my leg, you
know they're not thinking about that. You go back to
muscle memory, what you've done your whole life, so like
that's that's the thing. I don't believe in it.

Speaker 6 (26:39):
Until I see it, and it is so mental and
confident space kicking that is kicking.

Speaker 1 (26:44):
I would be worried that.

Speaker 6 (26:46):
It seems like you don't have that much confidence in.

Speaker 1 (26:48):
Your game that you went back to the drawing board.

Speaker 6 (26:50):
This offseason and clearly he had the yips last year,
missing as many kicks as he did. You overall everything,
maybe it does pan out, but I don't know.

Speaker 2 (26:57):
It seems more frog who knows what the overhaul really
is too. It might just be a confidence thing. When
he's got a superstitious double stamp of his right foot
now and that's got his head back in the game,
and it's a miracle cure.

Speaker 1 (27:09):
And that's all it takes. Just get it through the rice.
That's it.

Speaker 2 (27:14):
Six.

Speaker 1 (27:15):
This last one really surprised me.

Speaker 6 (27:18):
The American Gambling Association projects legal NFL betting to reach
an excess of thirty billion dollars in total wagers this season.

Speaker 1 (27:26):
I can't believe it's grown that. I can't believe they
only surveyed me.

Speaker 6 (27:34):
Are you surprised at how quickly this has gotten so
large the NFL gambling scene, that is, since it's becoming legalized,
And do you think a Vegas influence on the league
becomes a greater concern as they become a larger and
larger share.

Speaker 1 (27:47):
Of the revenue potts.

Speaker 2 (27:49):
Well, First of all, no, not even slightly surprised, because
I know what the offshore numbers were prior to this
being air quotes legal. Second of all, I don't think
Las Vegas, which is a term we use interchangeably, has
anything to do with In fact, I think that city's
influence has diminished as everybody is allowed to legally gamble
from their couches with devices on their phone instead of
being there in Las Vegas, which is why tourism is

(28:09):
down part of it. Why tourism is down there, I guess.

Speaker 6 (28:11):
I mean the casinos, are we worried about gambling and
whatnot having more of an influence on the NFL maybe
even outcomes I guess worst case scenario, But any sort
of greater influence as they become more and more responsible
for the NFL's revenue.

Speaker 2 (28:26):
I don't think so, because the books will make their money.
And this is I had a meeting. I had a
business meeting with the sportsbook that's going to be sponsoring
our gambling show on Sundays. By three sixty five. I
was over at their offices their headquarter here in Colorado
was over their offices was last week, I think it was,
And we were talking about that. One of the sales
reps with the iHeart sales reps with me or talking
about stuff, and I was like, well, but they're.

Speaker 1 (28:47):
Not trying to do that. They're just raking the vig.
They don't care. I had explain what that was. But
the books don't. They don't need the influence.

Speaker 2 (28:54):
As long as they balance the bets on both sides
of rake the vig, they're fine, right, So that's what
they're doing.

Speaker 1 (29:00):
Taking that. That's one that minus one ten on each side.

Speaker 2 (29:02):
They're raking the middle and taking the ten percent and
they're just taking their cut every time. And they're fine
if it happens to get lopsided and they win one
that way, cool, But really they just want to balance
the bets on either side so they can rake the
big and not have to.

Speaker 1 (29:12):
Worry about it.

Speaker 4 (29:13):
The relationship between the NFL and the sports books, it's
only grown and expanded the game. Like you said, thirty billion,
you've got to figure in the next ten years, there's going.

Speaker 1 (29:23):
To be more than that.

Speaker 4 (29:25):
And the crazy part about is that during my plan days,
it was kind of forbidden, especially with Paul Tagnivu, that
the league would never go in this direction. And that,
first of all, gambling in Vegas with the team in
Vegas is like no years ago, you couldn't put those
two together.

Speaker 1 (29:42):
But we do. And here's what we do know. Even
though in every professional.

Speaker 4 (29:46):
League it's been stated that that league's policy that you
shouldn't gamble, especially if you employee on how many coaches,
how many players have we seen go down that road
and get caught?

Speaker 1 (29:59):
Right, the money starts.

Speaker 4 (30:00):
To increase, is all going to increase people's idea of
guess what, I'm not going to get caught.

Speaker 1 (30:07):
Yeah, I think the main thing to worry about it.

Speaker 2 (30:08):
The only concerns that I have is that you know
the rules the NFL has, and players who do a
lot of them like.

Speaker 1 (30:13):
To gamble violating those rules.

Speaker 2 (30:15):
Who's already seen here in Denver with Oazo Rique around
the league, guys like Calvin Ridley, whatever.

Speaker 1 (30:22):
So I think those are the things to keep your
eye on.

Speaker 2 (30:24):
I'm not worried about their influence on the outcome of
games again because they.

Speaker 1 (30:28):
Don't care or sportsman doesn't care. They reckon the think
they don't care what the outcome is. So you know
that that's I think they care.

Speaker 4 (30:35):
I would cause you on that because thinking about what's
happening in the NBA with a couple of players and
the way that they but.

Speaker 1 (30:41):
That's what they hear. They've been poisoning. It's not the
it's not the outcome of the game. It's like in
those propits, the betting you unders.

Speaker 2 (30:47):
But the other thing about the say the sportsbooks, they
have sophisticated AI software that scans for abnormal all of
a sudden were getting a bunch of bets on somebody's
underj was.

Speaker 1 (30:57):
Talking about on the podcast.

Speaker 6 (30:59):
He's like, hey, why not tell a bunch of your friends,
because exactly that's how you get caught, right, they'll trace
the back. Hey, all of a sudden, twenty of MP's friends,
twenty guys took the under on this random players, you know,
weird undertotal or whatever.

Speaker 1 (31:13):
Yeah, the prop bencers and that kind of stuffs where
you get from. But the books have sophisticated software to
check that stuff.

Speaker 4 (31:18):
And here's the other thing too, somehow the NFL, of course,
they contact information in every player. Those algorithms they get you. Yeah,
like Kevin really thought they got it.

Speaker 1 (31:28):
Yeah, problems text Kendler. Yeah, they the books they don't.

Speaker 2 (31:33):
I mean, they don't care about most of the outcomes
as long as the books are balanced on the bets
on both sides of something, because they're just raking the
percentage they're they're taking their cut, and then the balance
bets pay each other off. Right, So they don't They're
not invested in an out unless you have a lopsided
betting total, which means we've got a bad book or
a bad line. They don't care, Like those guys, what
the people that care are referees who are making secret bets,

(31:54):
players who are making secret bets, and that's the part
that you have to watch out for. Do you think
we'll see more layers get popped for betting on the side,
even if they're not fixing games, point shaving whatever.

Speaker 1 (32:04):
No, I think you are less.

Speaker 2 (32:06):
I think more because I think they'll think of their
genius and you can get away with it. And don't
realize these books are so far ahead of you. It's
not even funny at the end of the day. It's greed,
agreed overtakes logic. So many times, so many appreciate you,
Zach Broncos Country and like I.

Speaker 4 (32:22):
Have this said in bove Meza, what'd you say with
a two pieces of a biscuits?

Speaker 1 (32:26):
Yeah, I put honey on the plunk,
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