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Rich Eisen Interview + Conference Championship Preview · NFL Podcast Network Selects

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  Speaker 1: And when I woke up this morning, I was feeling
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  Speaker 1: pretty dangerous tonight. It's mc cornick. They are what we
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  Speaker 1: thought they were and were not about. Hello, you play
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  Speaker 1: to win the gate. They want you to cook the dinner.
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  Speaker 1: At least they ought to let your shop for some
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  Speaker 1: of the grocers. And on the way up, we're gonna
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  Speaker 1: buy the kneecap off playoffs. You're kidding me. I'm just
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  Speaker 1: here so I won't get fine. How could he not
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  Speaker 1: be romantic about football? Welcome to bench? Can okay, nobody
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  Speaker 1: freak out. Nobody freak out. We've got a huge get today.
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  Speaker 1: He's looking, he's find a mirror, rich eyes and rich
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  Speaker 1: eyes and is on bench switch but not a folks.
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  Speaker 1: I feel like everyone's like a high tension right now.
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  Speaker 1: It's like show has got to be good because pro rich.
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  Speaker 1: So we gotta prepared professionally. I'm not prepared for anyone
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  Speaker 1: else but you. Well, I'm glad that I don't feel special.
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  Speaker 1: Um okay, first things first, it's just dropped. We gotta
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  Speaker 1: get your opinion in on it. Nathaniel Hackett is now
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  Speaker 1: your offensive coordinator for the Jets. I listened to the show.
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  Speaker 1: You seem positive is this a kind of thing like
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  Speaker 1: I'm gonna be positive about it and I'm gonna feel good,
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  Speaker 1: like kind of like you're putting that out into the universe. Um,
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  Speaker 1: I don't know. I I you know, hope that he's
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  Speaker 1: gotten his um problems communicating and coordinating for a guy
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  Speaker 1: named Wilson out of the way. He's now doubled his
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  Speaker 1: number of Wilson's. Um, he's got Zack and Garrett. Oh yes, Um,
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  Speaker 1: so he can't quit Wilson. Um. Maybe he'll get the
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  Speaker 1: you know, the volleyball, the volleyball from from uh Castaway
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  Speaker 1: that's shipwrecked movie. At any rate. I don't know. I mean, look,
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  Speaker 1: I'll I'll just say I want. I want the guy
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  Speaker 1: who almost took Blake Bordles to the Super Bowl. So
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  Speaker 1: that's the guy I want. I'm gonna say that he
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  Speaker 1: still in there, still that guy inside of him, deep
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  Speaker 1: inside somewhere. And the issues that he had this year, Um,
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  Speaker 1: you know in some parts are our issues that won't
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  Speaker 1: be on his plate, you know, like kicking ninety yard
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  Speaker 1: field goals as opposed to letting his quarterback cook m
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  Speaker 1: or um. You know, whatever the defense thought of his offense.
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  Speaker 1: That's a Robert Salad problem now. So I'm going to
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  Speaker 1: hope that the guy that almost took Blake Bortles to
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  Speaker 1: the Super Bowl can turn Zach around. I've heard some
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  Speaker 1: whispers about what the quarterback situation. Could you imagine if
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  Speaker 1: it's Aaron Rodgers. I've seen some photoshops of Rogers in
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  Speaker 1: a Jersey. How do all of those things? I thought
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  Speaker 1: it was on ayahuasca when I saw that. That's like,
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  Speaker 1: I'm like, what's in my chees? Give me some more?
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  Speaker 1: Need some more of that? I need championships from him? Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: so you would be into that, I guess. You know
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  Speaker 1: if that comes baggage a little bit, don't you think?
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  Speaker 1: I think so? But also comes the thirty nine year
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  Speaker 1: old who can be dynamite quarterback. And you know Brady's
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  Speaker 1: years thirty nine to forty one were championship years, and
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  Speaker 1: he is a better athlete than Brady entering his thirty
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  Speaker 1: ninth year on the planet. So there's no way he's
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  Speaker 1: done though, right like that, That's the whole thing with him.
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  Speaker 1: I have no idea and and um, I don't know
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  Speaker 1: why he'd want to do it. I would think he
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  Speaker 1: should stay in the place where he is beloved. Um
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  Speaker 1: where he he You know, his car already knows its
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  Speaker 1: way to work, unless he is sitting there saying I've
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  Speaker 1: done this one way for almost twenty years. Before I'm
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  Speaker 1: done playing, maybe I should try someplace else. Um, I
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  Speaker 1: just it would be stunning, stunning to me if he
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  Speaker 1: chooses the same post Green Bay team, same one as Farves.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, it would be weird. That would be wild,
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  Speaker 1: and that was a terrible mix. But um, you know
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  Speaker 1: Robert sala Is and Eric Mangini and the team that
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  Speaker 1: the Jets have currently on defense, he knows very well
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  Speaker 1: because half of them were sitting in his lap when
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  Speaker 1: they visited him in Green Bay. I think it was
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  Speaker 1: Week four this year. So, I mean, I would just
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  Speaker 1: be stunned if he's like, I'm done with Green Bay. Yes,
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  Speaker 1: I want the Jets. Do you think that there's a
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  Speaker 1: part of him though, that is like, you know, he's
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  Speaker 1: a little bit younger, but he's looking at Tom Brady,
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  Speaker 1: Tom left he won a Super Bowl immediately Do you
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  Speaker 1: think that part of him is just like I could,
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  Speaker 1: I could do that. I'm in the same conversation as Tom.
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  Speaker 1: Obviously I am officially out. I'm gonna choose benched with
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  Speaker 1: Bonetta to announcement, I am officially out of the guessing
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  Speaker 1: what's in Aaron Rodgers head business? WIT's official? Should I
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  Speaker 1: jump on that train as well? Well? Actually, what that
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  Speaker 1: means is it's it's there for you to fill the
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  Speaker 1: void if you care to. I am out of the
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  Speaker 1: what's Aaron Rodgers thinking? What's in his head? Business? All right? Verified?
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  Speaker 1: I shan't go in that direction. Is there has there
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  Speaker 1: ever been a time because I love your attitude on
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  Speaker 1: Sunday mornings, You're you're very much like love hate the Jets.
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  Speaker 1: You always have, always will. Has there ever been a
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  Speaker 1: moment where you're like, I'm actually done, Like I'm like
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  Speaker 1: a fireman where I'm out. Yeah, Like I'm not going
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  Speaker 1: to return to if I was never out? When Sanchez
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  Speaker 1: ran into the ass of his teammate, When am I
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  Speaker 1: ever going to be out? You know? Like that's what
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  Speaker 1: we would call the floor. Um, there's nothing worse than
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  Speaker 1: that Adam Gaze, googly eyed Adam Gaze press conference. I
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  Speaker 1: wasn't out then. I can't imagine when I'd ever be out.
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  Speaker 1: So you've never been close, then, I can't. I mean
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  Speaker 1: it's almost like you love to be like full of hatred.
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  Speaker 1: At some point it's going to change. I mean it
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  Speaker 1: was when I was an embryo they won. Um, so
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  Speaker 1: it's it's it's going to happen at some point in
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  Speaker 1: the history of planet Earth. I would like to be
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  Speaker 1: above ground for it. And I'd like to still be
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  Speaker 1: on board, you know. I mean, who what what what
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  Speaker 1: terrible luck that would be if I was out you know. Um, well,
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  Speaker 1: here's the deal. Um, my wife is from New England. Um,
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  Speaker 1: and so we first had a kid in two thousand eight,
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  Speaker 1: so right after the undefeated regular season. Um. And Tom
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  Speaker 1: Brady is also a Michigan guy, me too. For me
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  Speaker 1: to have basically said to my wife, you know, hey, um,
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  Speaker 1: we need to raise our children a jet fan in
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  Speaker 1: the midst of a magical run um involving Brady and Belichick.
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  Speaker 1: Uh well, I I think child Services would have come
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  Speaker 1: to remove custody rights on the spot. I put my
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  Speaker 1: marker on the Yankees. That was one that I kind
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  Speaker 1: of got my one preremptory. Um, that's where I did it.
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  Speaker 1: But no, I couldn't, you know, let me let me
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  Speaker 1: place all of this emotional baggage upon my children. I
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  Speaker 1: can't do that. Um, Richie, We're just looking around this
• 7:07
  Speaker 1: studio and you were like, this is insane, which Chriss
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  Speaker 1: wrestling studio at NFL Network. It's absolutely amazing. Talk to
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  Speaker 1: me about you were mentioning that you were like the
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  Speaker 1: first NFL podcast way back when this place was in
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  Speaker 1: Culver City and not looking as glamorous as that is.
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  Speaker 1: That how the rich Eyes in the show got started.
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  Speaker 1: It started a podcast, it did. Um. I was thinking
• 7:28
  Speaker 1: about what else could I do, you know, with the
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  Speaker 1: platform that NFL Network had grown into, and you got
• 7:35
  Speaker 1: to NFL Network, When when did that start? The first
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  Speaker 1: three I was employee on air, employee one. Yeah, I
• 7:41
  Speaker 1: was maybe employee three or four. Period. Okay, hold on
• 7:43
  Speaker 1: pause there for a second. Because you came from ESPN,
• 7:45
  Speaker 1: that must have been like scary. Um, it was quite
• 7:49
  Speaker 1: a time, you know. I mean it was I'd been
• 7:52
  Speaker 1: on Sports Center for seven years and I wanted to
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  Speaker 1: do something other than just Sports Center alone. Yeah, um,
• 8:00
  Speaker 1: and UM was essentially told no. I held my breath
• 8:05
  Speaker 1: for a while, and then they finally came around and
• 8:09
  Speaker 1: offered me a show called Cold Pizza, and um, they
• 8:14
  Speaker 1: wanted me to be the first host of cold pizza,
• 8:17
  Speaker 1: and it spoke to me because it was being done
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  Speaker 1: out of New York, where I'm from originally, and I
• 8:21
  Speaker 1: kind of wanted to get out of living in central Connecticut. Um,
• 8:26
  Speaker 1: but it just the fit, quite honestly didn't feel right
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  Speaker 1: that I thought like that show could get canceled within
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  Speaker 1: a year, and then I stuck around to do something else,
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  Speaker 1: and now I'm just still doing two hundred sports centers
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  Speaker 1: a year, a hundred whatever I was doing, which was great.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, I loved it, but you know, not to
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  Speaker 1: get too deep in the weeds at the time, you know,
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  Speaker 1: I first went to Sports Center. It was a show
• 8:46
  Speaker 1: where everybody tuned in to see either what happened because
• 8:51
  Speaker 1: they didn't see the game or they only saw it once,
• 8:54
  Speaker 1: and there were no phones to see everything in the
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  Speaker 1: palm of your hand. I legitimately wanted to relive a
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  Speaker 1: game and see it in the highlight form. And towards
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  Speaker 1: the end of my tenure there, people were already seeing
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  Speaker 1: it on the internet. I mean, phones weren't, you know,
• 9:07
  Speaker 1: weren't terribly prolific, but people were already They were Sports
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  Speaker 1: Center executives and assumed everyone was watching the show fully
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  Speaker 1: knowledgeable what happened, so it can't turn into an argument
• 9:18
  Speaker 1: show where two analysts came on to argue about why
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  Speaker 1: something happened. So I wasn't really into that anymore. I
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  Speaker 1: think that's not popular anymore. But that's that's where it
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  Speaker 1: was all headed. And so um I had an opportunity
• 9:31
  Speaker 1: to come out here and start NFL Network, and um
• 9:35
  Speaker 1: I kind of dug it, but ESPN broke up with
• 9:38
  Speaker 1: me first, and coming out here was unbelievable. But it
• 9:43
  Speaker 1: really was jarring, you know, I mean, we're we NFL
• 9:46
  Speaker 1: Network was in twelve million homes when we started, was
• 9:48
  Speaker 1: on direct TV and just a handful of small cable outlets.
• 9:53
  Speaker 1: This is a dumb question. Is twelve million homes very few? Yeah?
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  Speaker 1: I mean ESPN Sports Center back the day when I
• 10:00
  Speaker 1: was on it was in like a hundred and ten.
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  Speaker 1: So I basically cut my my my exposure coming here
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  Speaker 1: and uh and it was mind blowing. But it was
• 10:13
  Speaker 1: just a small group of us, about twenty of us
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  Speaker 1: that started. And it was one of those things when
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  Speaker 1: we would go home before leaving because there was no
• 10:24
  Speaker 1: news desk, there was no anything that we're in this
• 10:26
  Speaker 1: palace right now, which is amazing. We would um use
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  Speaker 1: this new fangled um portal called Google News. I'm not
• 10:35
  Speaker 1: kidding you, Like I was like, wow that Google It's
• 10:38
  Speaker 1: started a news page. So so we would look at
• 10:42
  Speaker 1: it to see did any stories break before we closed
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  Speaker 1: up Total Access before the end of the night. And
• 10:48
  Speaker 1: I remember driving home every night I would listen to
• 10:50
  Speaker 1: local sports talk radio here like kind of white knuckling
• 10:55
  Speaker 1: every time they did an update involving the NFL, thinking
• 10:57
  Speaker 1: that I'd have to turn around and the back. What
• 11:02
  Speaker 1: was the setup of it? Was it like a twenty
• 11:04
  Speaker 1: four hours Was it just broadcasting like old games? We
• 11:07
  Speaker 1: were We were showing a lot of NFL films, Yes, Steve.
• 11:10
  Speaker 1: Without Steve Sable, this place would never existed whatever. So
• 11:14
  Speaker 1: it was a lot of NFL films. And then it
• 11:15
  Speaker 1: was just a couple of shows. It was us on
• 11:18
  Speaker 1: Total Access as show called Coach Speak, where it was
• 11:22
  Speaker 1: Marv Levy and U Mike Ditka talking about news, uh,
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  Speaker 1: you know, items of the day. And it was like,
• 11:29
  Speaker 1: you know, like the two muppets in the in the
• 11:33
  Speaker 1: you know, in the balcony just talking football. Um and anyway,
• 11:37
  Speaker 1: I just called to Hall of Fame coaches Muppets. But
• 11:40
  Speaker 1: that's the way we that's the way we started. So
• 11:42
  Speaker 1: this along winded answer for what you're saying. I just remember, um,
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  Speaker 1: my wife, Susie was working here in Los Angeles and
• 11:50
  Speaker 1: was covering the Lakers and and so we went to
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  Speaker 1: the NBA All Star Game in February of oh four
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  Speaker 1: and nflm that came on the air in the middle
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  Speaker 1: of November of oh three. So we were about three
• 12:04
  Speaker 1: four months old, and I went to the NBA All
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  Speaker 1: Star Party that she got us uh tickets too. So
• 12:11
  Speaker 1: we're in there or she got the passes, and we're
• 12:12
  Speaker 1: in there and somebody comes up to me and says, man,
• 12:15
  Speaker 1: I love watching you every morning. And I'm like, I
• 12:18
  Speaker 1: found somebody who's got NFL network. This is great. I'm like,
• 12:21
  Speaker 1: what do you like about NFL Network? And he says
• 12:24
  Speaker 1: to me, what are you talking about? And I'm like,
• 12:26
  Speaker 1: I'm on NFL Network. He said, quote unquote, what's that. Um.
• 12:31
  Speaker 1: I explained to him what it was. He says, you're
• 12:33
  Speaker 1: not on Sports Center anymore. I'm like, no, I haven't
• 12:36
  Speaker 1: been on since last May. And he paused and he
• 12:38
  Speaker 1: looks at me, goes, are you all right? And I'm like,
• 12:41
  Speaker 1: you know, I can fog up a mirror in front
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  Speaker 1: of you if you'd like. I mean, I'm talking to you.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, I'm I'm I'm taking in oxygen and putting
• 12:50
  Speaker 1: out carbon dioxide like we can. We're talking. But that
• 12:54
  Speaker 1: was the general sense of what the hell did you
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  Speaker 1: just do with your life? But what I did was
• 12:59
  Speaker 1: I bet on the NFL, and I bet on myself,
• 13:02
  Speaker 1: and I bet on living in California, and I bet
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  Speaker 1: on all of that, and and I just again remember
• 13:08
  Speaker 1: the first Super Bowl we did, which was Brady versus
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  Speaker 1: Jake Dilome, uh Patriots Panthers in Houston, and um, we
• 13:17
  Speaker 1: were on in every hotel room. I mean, Steve Bornstein
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  Speaker 1: in the league and did an incredible job of getting
• 13:23
  Speaker 1: us out there. We were on every hotel room. Every
• 13:26
  Speaker 1: media bus had a TV on it, Like I don't
• 13:29
  Speaker 1: know how they did it, but the TVs were on
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  Speaker 1: NFL network and media buses in every hotel room. When
• 13:35
  Speaker 1: you went in the convention center, every five feet was
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  Speaker 1: a television with NFL Network on it, and um, I
• 13:42
  Speaker 1: just remember that's what it felt like being fully distributed
• 13:45
  Speaker 1: for the first time. And it was by the end
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  Speaker 1: of the weekend. We crushed it. Like our guest list
• 13:53
  Speaker 1: was amazing. We had we had a whole bunch of
• 13:56
  Speaker 1: people because it was Houston, and um, uh, Bob McNair,
• 14:00
  Speaker 1: the owner of the Texans, brought uh Bush forty forty
• 14:05
  Speaker 1: one and so I interviewed an actual president camera president,
• 14:09
  Speaker 1: and uh, the CBS crew came by, and that was
• 14:12
  Speaker 1: the first time Dion Sanders ever appeared on NFL network
• 14:15
  Speaker 1: because he was on CBS at the time. We interviewed
• 14:18
  Speaker 1: the co m v p s of the NFL, which
• 14:20
  Speaker 1: is Peyton Manning and Steve McNair. Um, we had everybody.
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  Speaker 1: Belichick stopped by on a Tuesday night he was coaching
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  Speaker 1: in the game happening. It felt I felt validated walking
• 14:31
  Speaker 1: out of the Convention Center, like Okay, this is what
• 14:34
  Speaker 1: it can be like, and we're gonna be good. And
• 14:38
  Speaker 1: then the off season hit and we're like, what the
• 14:40
  Speaker 1: what are we doing now? You know, it's so crazy
• 14:43
  Speaker 1: because like Canada has ts N, which is like ESPN sister,
• 14:47
  Speaker 1: but we also had like Sports Center every single night,
• 14:49
  Speaker 1: and and and Jy on right and Danio told they
• 14:51
  Speaker 1: were gods, they're they were gods among us. Mirror mortals,
• 14:57
  Speaker 1: Like I remember seeing Jay. I was in a cab
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  Speaker 1: and I saw Jay cross the street and I was like,
• 15:02
  Speaker 1: that's Jay On right, Like, oh my god. First off,
• 15:04
  Speaker 1: he's like seven ft five. You can easily pick him out.
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  Speaker 1: But like what I mean to say is like being
• 15:08
  Speaker 1: on Sports Center is such a huge, massive role, and
• 15:12
  Speaker 1: I can imagine how scary that was to give that
• 15:14
  Speaker 1: up and then to come here. I remember my first
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  Speaker 1: day coming here. It was the grand opening of this building,
• 15:20
  Speaker 1: and you came and did a speech downstairs, and you
• 15:22
  Speaker 1: got a little bit emotional, and I had no idea
• 15:25
  Speaker 1: like the history of this place. I kind of was just,
• 15:27
  Speaker 1: you know, I just popped into sports in a weird way.
• 15:29
  Speaker 1: But um, now that I'm now hearing you tell that
• 15:33
  Speaker 1: story and then thinking about how far this place has come,
• 15:35
  Speaker 1: like from the from our morning show, Good Morning Football,
• 15:38
  Speaker 1: all the way to like I don't you know, I'm biased,
• 15:41
  Speaker 1: but I think our Sunday show is the best Sunday
• 15:44
  Speaker 1: morning show on air. We are biased, but everyone says
• 15:48
  Speaker 1: that everyone, but but but yeah, Like you know, I
• 15:51
  Speaker 1: did a total access from the inception of the network
• 15:56
  Speaker 1: to two thousand eleven to the lockout when the lockout
• 15:59
  Speaker 1: was over. That's when Thursday Night Football became more I
• 16:04
  Speaker 1: think this is the order of events. It was on UM.
• 16:07
  Speaker 1: Your Thursday Night football when it started was just from
• 16:09
  Speaker 1: Thanksgiving on UM, and then they wanted it every Thursday.
• 16:14
  Speaker 1: So doing my show and my podcast UM and Total
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  Speaker 1: Access and then Thursday Night and then Sundays was just
• 16:23
  Speaker 1: an impossibility. So I was off of the Total Access
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  Speaker 1: UH Daily Grind, but UM from oh three to two
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  Speaker 1: thousand eleven, I did Total Access in the same seat.
• 16:36
  Speaker 1: And by the same seat, I mean the actual freaking chair.
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  Speaker 1: And like around two thousand eight, I'm like, I'm going
• 16:42
  Speaker 1: to go on the air and it's gonna freaking break,
• 16:44
  Speaker 1: Like can we get a new chair please? And and
• 16:48
  Speaker 1: like that was the way we started. And so when
• 16:52
  Speaker 1: I walk into this building every time, I'm like I
• 16:55
  Speaker 1: cannot well, I'm assuming, but you know, it is incredible
• 17:00
  Speaker 1: across the way from from a stadium that when we
• 17:04
  Speaker 1: first started NFL Network, like why are you putting in
• 17:06
  Speaker 1: Los Angeles, Like there's no teams there, and like the
• 17:09
  Speaker 1: answer was because Steve Bornstein has a house there quite frankly,
• 17:12
  Speaker 1: so that's why we were here. And I like being
• 17:14
  Speaker 1: here and I love that it was out here and
• 17:16
  Speaker 1: it was in the lure for me to come here
• 17:18
  Speaker 1: as well. But now the fact that, yeah, like everyone's like,
• 17:22
  Speaker 1: what's this about? What's this channel about? What are you
• 17:24
  Speaker 1: going to talk about when you're not you know, um,
• 17:28
  Speaker 1: when you're not playing games? What's what? What is it
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  Speaker 1: going to be? Like? Why are you in Los Angeles?
• 17:34
  Speaker 1: And now we're in this spot and there's that stadium
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  Speaker 1: across the street. I do I do shake my head
• 17:40
  Speaker 1: every time I walk in. Yeah, it's I mean, I'm
• 17:41
  Speaker 1: emotional even just like hearing about it. It's so amazing
• 17:44
  Speaker 1: that you took that plunge and then also with your
• 17:47
  Speaker 1: own show, so it started as a podcast. Now you're
• 17:49
  Speaker 1: on Roku every single day Pacific, right. Um, Like I said,
• 17:54
  Speaker 1: you're a big get on this show and we've had
• 17:57
  Speaker 1: justin Jefferson Okay, like thrown that out. I mean, I
• 18:01
  Speaker 1: think I'm grabbing your questions one handed. I think you
• 18:05
  Speaker 1: know what. I mean? What else? Who is your you know,
• 18:08
  Speaker 1: since you've you know, the rich eyes and shows blown
• 18:10
  Speaker 1: up just as much as this place has from from
• 18:12
  Speaker 1: the bottom up. Who was your who's been your biggest get? Who?
• 18:16
  Speaker 1: What is like the biggest accomplishment of that show, oh man.
• 18:19
  Speaker 1: Just the biggest accompliments show is that it still exists.
• 18:25
  Speaker 1: I'm not kidding you, you know, Like, um, I got
• 18:28
  Speaker 1: you know the all right, So I did the podcast
• 18:31
  Speaker 1: here and and um around, I got a call from
• 18:35
  Speaker 1: Direct tv, UM an executive and Chris Long, who's got
• 18:39
  Speaker 1: his roots from Fox Sports as well. UM and he says, um,
• 18:44
  Speaker 1: Dan Patrick's show, we want to have another show after it.
• 18:48
  Speaker 1: How about your podcast coming over and doing that? Because
• 18:52
  Speaker 1: Dan and I go back to when I first started.
• 18:55
  Speaker 1: He I mean, he was hazing me the first minute
• 18:57
  Speaker 1: I walked in the door. That yeah, I mean, I'll
• 18:59
  Speaker 1: never forget. Just you know. I would do the two
• 19:02
  Speaker 1: am Sports Center. He would do the eleven o'clock with
• 19:04
  Speaker 1: Keith Olberman, and the tapes of the highlights would come
• 19:08
  Speaker 1: up in this plastic bin. And as soon as they
• 19:11
  Speaker 1: came up, I was twenty six years old, and um,
• 19:14
  Speaker 1: I voraciously took them and watched the highlights first. Otherwise
• 19:18
  Speaker 1: I would be doing it blind for the first time
• 19:20
  Speaker 1: on the air. So like I remember the first time,
• 19:23
  Speaker 1: I'm doing this and I'm staring at the screen, I'm
• 19:25
  Speaker 1: taking notes and I'm making sure it's all set, and
• 19:27
  Speaker 1: I feel this presence to my left. It's Dan Patrick.
• 19:30
  Speaker 1: I look up and he looks down at me, goes
• 19:31
  Speaker 1: so you're nervous like Dan. So it's like where where
• 19:37
  Speaker 1: we go? Way back? And so the answer to that
• 19:40
  Speaker 1: was absolutely. Of course, I had to give up my
• 19:42
  Speaker 1: firstborn child in order to get a chance to do that.
• 19:45
  Speaker 1: But thankfully the NFL and everybody played along nicely, and
• 19:48
  Speaker 1: eventually I got to do it in two thousand fourteen.
• 19:51
  Speaker 1: And then in late nineteen I got a call from
• 19:55
  Speaker 1: the powers that be a Direct TV that they were
• 19:57
  Speaker 1: shuttering the network, that that the show was on, and uh,
• 20:02
  Speaker 1: this show was legitimately over. And it was two days
• 20:05
  Speaker 1: before Christmas in and then I went to that Super
• 20:09
  Speaker 1: Bowl which was the the Chiefs and the the Niners
• 20:14
  Speaker 1: in Miami. This was just a couple of years ago there,
• 20:17
  Speaker 1: Oh yeah, oh yeah, Chiefs and not it was the
• 20:19
  Speaker 1: Chiefs not in Miami what it was, So it's interesting
• 20:22
  Speaker 1: it could be like a potential repeat of it. But
• 20:24
  Speaker 1: any rate, so I'm there trying to find a new
• 20:27
  Speaker 1: partner potentially and kicking tires there, and then the pandemic hits,
• 20:33
  Speaker 1: so I've lost my television partner, my radio partner, and
• 20:35
  Speaker 1: then there's something called, you know, a pandemic. So I
• 20:39
  Speaker 1: ended up coming back from that combine in and going
• 20:42
  Speaker 1: only on YouTube. UM took the show to NBC Sports
• 20:47
  Speaker 1: Net for nothing, just to get some exposure. So I
• 20:49
  Speaker 1: was doing the show every day, um self funding it
• 20:52
  Speaker 1: at some point no way, yeah, just to keep it
• 20:55
  Speaker 1: alive and see what would happen. And then Peacock came
• 20:58
  Speaker 1: along in late saying we'll take you, and so that
• 21:02
  Speaker 1: helped keep the show alive, and now we're on Roku
• 21:06
  Speaker 1: and um it's I own the show. So when I'm
• 21:10
  Speaker 1: not working on it, I'm making phone call. I've never
• 21:13
  Speaker 1: I mean, it's huge, thank you for saying that, but
• 21:15
  Speaker 1: I I you know, I don't. I mean, I've never
• 21:17
  Speaker 1: thought I was management as well as on the ear too,
• 21:21
  Speaker 1: like alright, I'm learning on the fly. So the fact
• 21:24
  Speaker 1: that it exists is its biggest to come. Do you
• 21:27
  Speaker 1: like that that you've gone from you know, having somebody
• 21:31
  Speaker 1: help you make it to be like now this is mine.
• 21:33
  Speaker 1: I mean, I know there's a lot of responsibility that
• 21:35
  Speaker 1: goes with that, but there must be a lot of like, wow,
• 21:37
  Speaker 1: I own this, do you like when people tell you
• 21:39
  Speaker 1: what to do, No, okay, there you go. I don't
• 21:44
  Speaker 1: know if they're in there in there in their office,
• 21:47
  Speaker 1: but yeah, I mean like so, of course though I
• 21:49
  Speaker 1: have partners and I have people that are are keen
• 21:52
  Speaker 1: to hear certain things, see certain things that I need
• 21:56
  Speaker 1: to um, you know, a cater to. But it's it's
• 22:00
  Speaker 1: been great and I do love having the guests on
• 22:02
  Speaker 1: and chopping it up. And and that's the other thing too,
• 22:05
  Speaker 1: is doing you know, what we do UM is great.
• 22:10
  Speaker 1: And every single executive that I've ever met wants to
• 22:15
  Speaker 1: make a connection between the shows and those at home watching,
• 22:20
  Speaker 1: and we try to do that all the time with
• 22:22
  Speaker 1: you know, our schedule release show, like how do we
• 22:25
  Speaker 1: get fans interested in the schedule coming out? Like literally
• 22:28
  Speaker 1: the schedule release is essentially a show about the the
• 22:31
  Speaker 1: release of paperwork, the document that you could easily exactly
• 22:35
  Speaker 1: like hey, let's go Like so one year, you know,
• 22:37
  Speaker 1: we wound up sending reporters to sports bars and instead
• 22:40
  Speaker 1: we you know, just to hear what the fans have
• 22:43
  Speaker 1: to say. Poor Albert Brier sitting there in a Washington
• 22:46
  Speaker 1: sports pub and there's the caps on behind him. Nobody's
• 22:49
  Speaker 1: thinking about the new Washington football team's schedule or whatever.
• 22:53
  Speaker 1: So the answer is to have a show like the
• 22:56
  Speaker 1: one that I am. Let's have fans, like having fans
• 22:59
  Speaker 1: actually call in and give their thoughts and chop it
• 23:03
  Speaker 1: up with them. I love doing that. I had. I
• 23:05
  Speaker 1: did stand up in college. You did stand up for
• 23:09
  Speaker 1: how long? Uh? Four years? WHOA? Yeah, really try to go.
• 23:15
  Speaker 1: I'm not surprised because you are very funny at that.
• 23:18
  Speaker 1: Just stand ups terrifying. It's nothing I've ever done approaches it.
• 23:23
  Speaker 1: It's made everything else I've ever done in my career easier.
• 23:25
  Speaker 1: That's why I love doing improv, because going on television
• 23:28
  Speaker 1: it's like I don't well. I mean, you definitely have
• 23:31
  Speaker 1: the chops. I mean the videos that you put out
• 23:33
  Speaker 1: are laugh out loud hilarious, and I don't know how
• 23:35
  Speaker 1: you come up with these things, and you know how
• 23:37
  Speaker 1: you spend time and you're what appears to be your
• 23:39
  Speaker 1: apartment playing dress up and all that crazy, which comes
• 23:42
  Speaker 1: out to me every single Sunday without fail, after we've
• 23:44
  Speaker 1: played something and he puts his hand on my shoulder
• 23:46
  Speaker 1: and goes, what is wrong with you? I love it.
• 23:48
  Speaker 1: That's great. And by the way, I've told him he's
• 23:52
  Speaker 1: got full of stories. You did one segment on our
• 23:55
  Speaker 1: show this year about right about you retelling the mooches
• 24:00
  Speaker 1: stories and having him tell him and you kind of
• 24:02
  Speaker 1: reenact him. He is one of the greatest storytellers ever,
• 24:06
  Speaker 1: and there are so many more that he should put
• 24:09
  Speaker 1: into your He was so uneasy about us doing that.
• 24:12
  Speaker 1: I don't know why, because I think he was just like,
• 24:14
  Speaker 1: I don't know what you guys are getting up to,
• 24:15
  Speaker 1: but I'll tell the story, but like, I don't know
• 24:17
  Speaker 1: what you're doing. He told one story and I'll tell
• 24:21
  Speaker 1: it here because I've made him tell it on my show.
• 24:24
  Speaker 1: He told a story based on I don't know if
• 24:26
  Speaker 1: there's I can't keep track of all the conference rooms here.
• 24:28
  Speaker 1: It's the other place. They were only a handful of them.
• 24:31
  Speaker 1: So there was a conference room in the in the
• 24:34
  Speaker 1: previous spot we were in called the Montana Room, named
• 24:37
  Speaker 1: after the great Joe Montana, And in the room there's
• 24:41
  Speaker 1: a photograph of Montana. It's an iconic photograph of Montana
• 24:46
  Speaker 1: and Bill Walsh taking a knee on the turf and
• 24:49
  Speaker 1: Candlestick Park, apparently drawing up a play on the on
• 24:53
  Speaker 1: the turf it's it's an iconic photograph and it's on
• 24:57
  Speaker 1: the wall. Do you know the story? But right, so
• 25:01
  Speaker 1: he tells the story. We're just sitting there and just
• 25:03
  Speaker 1: out of many great things in our business, it's born
• 25:07
  Speaker 1: out of sheer boredom. Mooch tells the story of how
• 25:10
  Speaker 1: he loved this photograph and he always wanted a moment
• 25:13
  Speaker 1: like this with Steve Young, And unbeknownst to Steve Young,
• 25:17
  Speaker 1: he went into a game where he thought like this
• 25:20
  Speaker 1: is possible. Like he went into games thinking if there's
• 25:22
  Speaker 1: a blowout, I'm gonna do this. And so one time,
• 25:26
  Speaker 1: third quarter or late second quarter, the games out of hand,
• 25:29
  Speaker 1: he fires off a time out because he notices the
• 25:31
  Speaker 1: team photographer to his left, and um, he calls a
• 25:35
  Speaker 1: photographer over, fires off a time out and has Steve
• 25:38
  Speaker 1: Young come over, and Young is like what. First of all,
• 25:40
  Speaker 1: it's like, why do you call time out? I'm not
• 25:42
  Speaker 1: coming Like while am I coming over? He's just get
• 25:44
  Speaker 1: over here, you know how Mooch tells stories, And so
• 25:48
  Speaker 1: he wound up attempting to get take a knee and
• 25:51
  Speaker 1: Young it's like, what the hell are you doing? And uh,
• 25:55
  Speaker 1: just as he was taking a knee with Steve Young.
• 25:58
  Speaker 1: The gatorade guy came on to give Young, you know,
• 26:01
  Speaker 1: the usual time out hydration and in the way of
• 26:04
  Speaker 1: the shot, he never got his shot. And Young never
• 26:08
  Speaker 1: knew that story, and I told I had much tell
• 26:12
  Speaker 1: it on the show, and I played it for Steve
• 26:15
  Speaker 1: Young is young It never what was his reaction? Couldn't
• 26:19
  Speaker 1: you know? He he couldn't believe it, but he totally
• 26:22
  Speaker 1: believed it of course something. I don't know why I
• 26:25
  Speaker 1: ended up telling you this story, but we you know,
• 26:29
  Speaker 1: we do love Wow. So doing stand up I did
• 26:32
  Speaker 1: that for four years. It's made everything else that much easier.
• 26:35
  Speaker 1: And um, and that's why I like mixing it up
• 26:38
  Speaker 1: with with fans, you know, I like chopping it up.
• 26:41
  Speaker 1: What because you've been so dedicated your entire life to sports,
• 26:45
  Speaker 1: is what was the backup plan? Like? What would you
• 26:47
  Speaker 1: be doing in this life if sports for some reason
• 26:50
  Speaker 1: didn't exist? I don't know, because I couldn't play it.
• 26:53
  Speaker 1: You had no other backup plan. I couldn't play it,
• 26:56
  Speaker 1: you know, Um, would you go in the news in
• 26:59
  Speaker 1: a first My first job was as the you know, uh,
• 27:03
  Speaker 1: the beat reporter for my hometown newspaper. Used to have
• 27:09
  Speaker 1: to you used to have to like work the teleprompter
• 27:12
  Speaker 1: with your foot while you were as That was after
• 27:16
  Speaker 1: my first job was actually working from my hometown newspaper writing,
• 27:20
  Speaker 1: and I just I wasn't cut out for it. I
• 27:23
  Speaker 1: wasn't cut out for you wrote a book, I know,
• 27:25
  Speaker 1: but I wasn't cut out for news like I mean,
• 27:27
  Speaker 1: I just hated going to hard news stories. I'm I'm
• 27:32
  Speaker 1: I'm more of a you know, fun and games guy.
• 27:36
  Speaker 1: So I really wasn't cut out for doing it. And
• 27:37
  Speaker 1: I have nothing but the greatest respect for those who
• 27:40
  Speaker 1: are cut out for it. But I went back to
• 27:43
  Speaker 1: school for TV, and then I did get to read
• 27:45
  Speaker 1: in California where I did work the teleprompter with a
• 27:48
  Speaker 1: foot pedal, which is like tapping your head and rubbing
• 27:52
  Speaker 1: your belly. And found me there but on live television,
• 27:55
  Speaker 1: and here I am benched with you, benched with me maybe, Okay,
• 28:00
  Speaker 1: let's talk about actual football. I've loved going down memory
• 28:03
  Speaker 1: Lane with you. That was really awesome. The m v
• 28:04
  Speaker 1: P finalists were announced. We've got Josh Allen, Joe Burrow,
• 28:08
  Speaker 1: Jalen Hurts, Justin Jefferson we love to see it, and
• 28:11
  Speaker 1: Patrick mahomes Um you have the media votes on this?
• 28:14
  Speaker 1: Do you vote on it? No? I actually you've you've
• 28:18
  Speaker 1: hit on a very source of object because the AP
• 28:21
  Speaker 1: runs it. I'm an NFL employee, why would you not
• 28:24
  Speaker 1: be able to vote on it. I have spoken to
• 28:28
  Speaker 1: the Associated Press and personally told them they suck. I'm like,
• 28:33
  Speaker 1: who sees more football than me and and who has
• 28:35
  Speaker 1: proven over twenty years that I am not beholden to
• 28:39
  Speaker 1: this so called party or company line. But because I'm
• 28:43
  Speaker 1: an NFL employee, they will not give me a vote.
• 28:47
  Speaker 1: I haven't had a vote in twenty years. Wow. And
• 28:49
  Speaker 1: I'm like, come on, what was the reaction to you
• 28:52
  Speaker 1: telling them but this is the policy, it's not my
• 28:56
  Speaker 1: what's the policy? Immediate vote on it? No? But I
• 29:00
  Speaker 1: m an NFL That seems ridiculous. So I do not
• 29:05
  Speaker 1: have a vote. If I had a vote, I'd give
• 29:06
  Speaker 1: it to Jalen Hurts. Oh how come? Um? I just
• 29:11
  Speaker 1: think what he has turned himself into is remarkable. I think, um,
• 29:16
  Speaker 1: we saw what the offense also looked like with Gardner Minshew.
• 29:20
  Speaker 1: With all due respect to him, I think, um he
• 29:22
  Speaker 1: is he is? Um. I love him, But I mean
• 29:26
  Speaker 1: I just had Dallas Goddard today on the show, we
• 29:28
  Speaker 1: speak to any Eagle and they will talk about Hurts,
• 29:32
  Speaker 1: his value, how incredible he is. Well Nick Sirianni just
• 29:35
  Speaker 1: referred to him as Michael Jordan. I know, so he
• 29:37
  Speaker 1: has that he has this um mentality that's all business,
• 29:42
  Speaker 1: um and also very um philly like you know, I
• 29:48
  Speaker 1: think that he's he's a coach of a son, which
• 29:50
  Speaker 1: means he's a son of a gun as well. And
• 29:53
  Speaker 1: he is he is um everything that this team needs
• 29:56
  Speaker 1: him to be. And when they have big wins, he says,
• 29:59
  Speaker 1: we're not done. Yeah, I mean they follow his lead
• 30:01
  Speaker 1: in every single way. And um, I think he is
• 30:05
  Speaker 1: the most valuable player. You normally give it to somebody
• 30:08
  Speaker 1: on the team that has the most wins, and you
• 30:10
  Speaker 1: give it to a team that is um showing it's
• 30:13
  Speaker 1: worth And um, I know he missed two games and
• 30:16
  Speaker 1: that's why people discounted, but I just think, you know,
• 30:22
  Speaker 1: also it's it's a total, as you know, um subjective award.
• 30:28
  Speaker 1: You could easily, you know, give Coach of the Year
• 30:30
  Speaker 1: to Belichick and read every year you know, and you don't,
• 30:34
  Speaker 1: so I means already has when I'd give one a
• 30:36
  Speaker 1: hurt because it's voted on by the media members. It's
• 30:39
  Speaker 1: almost like every every single time I've ever like spoken
• 30:42
  Speaker 1: about this on TV and broken it down, it's like,
• 30:44
  Speaker 1: what is the best storyline? I think Joe Burrow is
• 30:47
  Speaker 1: very interesting. You know, there's the Super Bowl hangover that
• 30:49
  Speaker 1: everyone always talks about that people get stuck in, and
• 30:52
  Speaker 1: they kind of did have it for a couple of weeks.
• 30:53
  Speaker 1: They went oh in too, and now they found themselves
• 30:56
  Speaker 1: back in almost the big Dance. Yeah. I mean what he's,
• 30:59
  Speaker 1: what he's become is and it doesn't seem like he cares.
• 31:04
  Speaker 1: It's because he's he's he's just um, he's a machine.
• 31:09
  Speaker 1: It's what it looks like, which is why I knew
• 31:13
  Speaker 1: something significant was up with the mar Hamlin the night
• 31:16
  Speaker 1: that happened when you saw Burrow looking like frightened and
• 31:21
  Speaker 1: worried on my child, him and Josh Allen, right, Josh,
• 31:25
  Speaker 1: and but seeing Joe Burrow's face looking anything like the
• 31:29
  Speaker 1: face we always see on him was jarring to me
• 31:32
  Speaker 1: because he always when he walks in the building and
• 31:35
  Speaker 1: he taps Chris Collinsworth on the back at security but
• 31:39
  Speaker 1: keeps walking, or he walks into a press conference room,
• 31:43
  Speaker 1: or he walks in with hottily goes back on a sideline.
• 31:45
  Speaker 1: He's the same guy and um, you know, um, he
• 31:51
  Speaker 1: what he's becoming is unbelievable and um Brady like, there's
• 31:57
  Speaker 1: no other way to describe it. The way that he operates,
• 32:01
  Speaker 1: the way that he um wins, the way that he
• 32:03
  Speaker 1: cuts your heart out, the way that he uh pre
• 32:07
  Speaker 1: snapped neck up diagnoses plays, the way that he does everything. Um.
• 32:13
  Speaker 1: And it may not only include another Super Bowl appearance
• 32:18
  Speaker 1: or win, but potentially this uh spring one of the
• 32:22
  Speaker 1: old Brady hometown discounts. When the Bengals you know, talk
• 32:25
  Speaker 1: contract with him, We'll see what he does on that front. Um.
• 32:29
  Speaker 1: But he is a revelation and you know, um, sometimes
• 32:34
  Speaker 1: we all get caught up, as you point out narrative storylines.
• 32:37
  Speaker 1: We were all coming in the season, Can Alan and
• 32:39
  Speaker 1: Mahomes do it again? Like what what? What? You know?
• 32:42
  Speaker 1: The concept when we were all choosing the Bills back
• 32:44
  Speaker 1: in September, Um, it was like, not will Mahomes and
• 32:49
  Speaker 1: Alan fight it out for the a f C? In
• 32:52
  Speaker 1: which round of the playoffs will they meet? With the
• 32:55
  Speaker 1: question will it be divisional again or will it be
• 32:57
  Speaker 1: the a f C championship again, and the answer was
• 33:00
  Speaker 1: not at all, because Burrow has raised his hand and said,
• 33:02
  Speaker 1: hold on a second, get you know, like better, get better,
• 33:05
  Speaker 1: sending those refunds, you know like that. That is his
• 33:08
  Speaker 1: so far mantra. I think it's been a perfect words
• 33:11
  Speaker 1: for him to come out of his mouth this past week.
• 33:14
  Speaker 1: So I think he's incredible too. But like I said,
• 33:17
  Speaker 1: it wasn't a full season for him like it was
• 33:19
  Speaker 1: for Hurts. So that's why I'd go with you, hurt Well,
• 33:22
  Speaker 1: associated Press, you're missing out. Look at that beautiful analysis.
• 33:24
  Speaker 1: And by the way, it wasn't like hold I mean,
• 33:27
  Speaker 1: let me check my notes. Roger Goodell says, give it
• 33:30
  Speaker 1: to Hurts. You know there it is. Email just came in.
• 33:35
  Speaker 1: So I'm so glad I'm making him happy. All Right,
• 33:38
  Speaker 1: We're gonna take a quick break more benched with Banetta
• 33:41
  Speaker 1: after this. Don't go anywhere. We'll get some I were saying,
• 34:03
  Speaker 1: all right, welcome back. We're hanging out with Rich Eysen.
• 34:05
  Speaker 1: Let's get into the playoff preview presented by DraftKings Sports Book. Okay,
• 34:08
  Speaker 1: forty niners, they're heading to Philly, where they are underdogs
• 34:12
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• 34:14
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• 34:17
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• 34:22
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• 34:25
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• 34:28
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• 34:40
  Speaker 1: who are you going with? I feel like I'm going
• 34:42
  Speaker 1: to change my mind several times before we get to Sunday.
• 34:47
  Speaker 1: I don't know, Um God, I do love what's going
• 34:51
  Speaker 1: on with the Niners so much, and I saw it coming,
• 34:56
  Speaker 1: and you know, I mean, we're seeing Kittle here and
• 34:59
  Speaker 1: he is I mean, Purty has totally turned the light
• 35:02
  Speaker 1: on back on for Kittle in a way that even
• 35:04
  Speaker 1: Jimmy g hadn't this year. Pretensive the questions in the
• 35:10
  Speaker 1: same way that the Eagles weren't the Vikings, you know, um,
• 35:15
  Speaker 1: and we saw what happened with the Giants. You know,
• 35:17
  Speaker 1: the Niners aren't the Giants either, So I'm wondering if
• 35:24
  Speaker 1: the Niners can somehow stop the run and stop A J. Brown.
• 35:29
  Speaker 1: I just don't know if they can. The way that
• 35:32
  Speaker 1: the Eagles are playing right now, I think they shouldn't
• 35:34
  Speaker 1: say can if if they will, just I don't know. So, UM,
• 35:41
  Speaker 1: if IM pressed now on this show, I'm I'm kind
• 35:44
  Speaker 1: of leaning on flipping both scripts because mahomes ankle, even
• 35:48
  Speaker 1: though I I've been giving a team coverage on my
• 35:50
  Speaker 1: show every day, best ankle coverage in the business, apparently
• 35:53
  Speaker 1: didn't even walk out with the boot no boot. And
• 35:57
  Speaker 1: the difference is, you know, because again I'm all over
• 36:00
  Speaker 1: this story. Um, yesterday, Um, he walked off the podium,
• 36:07
  Speaker 1: which is not too high up. It's too little mini
• 36:09
  Speaker 1: steps all right, No, I mean we didn't measure the steps,
• 36:13
  Speaker 1: but I mean, um, you look at the video and
• 36:16
  Speaker 1: he took the mini steps down and he and he
• 36:18
  Speaker 1: and he went down with no problem, like he kind
• 36:20
  Speaker 1: of hopped down them and yeah, yeah, like it was
• 36:23
  Speaker 1: it was. It was. It was not like slow and
• 36:27
  Speaker 1: steady wins the race. He just negotiated the too mini
• 36:31
  Speaker 1: steps very easily, you know. And by the way, it's
• 36:34
  Speaker 1: significant when Romo you know, normally calls his shots pretty
• 36:38
  Speaker 1: damn well finished the Bills Bengals game and said if
• 36:40
  Speaker 1: the ankle is really bad, he'll be on crutches Wednesday.
• 36:44
  Speaker 1: So not only was he not on crutches, he wasn't
• 36:45
  Speaker 1: in a boot. And he he walked down these two steps.
• 36:48
  Speaker 1: There's too many steps today, same podium, same riser. He
• 36:53
  Speaker 1: didn't even go down the mini steps. He just went
• 36:57
  Speaker 1: down off the riser in one step, landed on the ankle,
• 37:02
  Speaker 1: and kept walking without a hitch. This was the Olympics.
• 37:05
  Speaker 1: You would give him close to a ten. It was
• 37:08
  Speaker 1: he stuck the landing, and he stuck the land It's
• 37:10
  Speaker 1: just but to me, he's not thinking about it. He's
• 37:12
  Speaker 1: not thinking about it. Like if if if I had to,
• 37:15
  Speaker 1: if I had to just use these mini steps versus
• 37:19
  Speaker 1: riser scenario as an indication of anything. Um it said,
• 37:25
  Speaker 1: he's playing Sunday, so um but let's just say Trey
• 37:30
  Speaker 1: Hendrickson takes him down the wrong way or Sam Hubbard,
• 37:34
  Speaker 1: you know, gives him a shot and there's a little
• 37:37
  Speaker 1: friendly fire, goes down and he hits the ankle. Then
• 37:40
  Speaker 1: there's a whole different ball at WAX. I think they're
• 37:42
  Speaker 1: definitely taking the snow globe play out. I would hope,
• 37:46
  Speaker 1: so by a million, that would be scary. I just
• 37:50
  Speaker 1: don't know if you even want to run the if
• 37:52
  Speaker 1: you're up by a million, even with the bye week,
• 37:54
  Speaker 1: you don't want to run the risk of making a
• 37:56
  Speaker 1: lateral pre snap, pre post huddle breaking moment by putting
• 38:01
  Speaker 1: your main guy on the on the line like a
• 38:04
  Speaker 1: bold move. So all that said is I'm I'm thinking
• 38:08
  Speaker 1: of calling my own mulligan and going Bengals and Eagles.
• 38:17
  Speaker 1: So I have a Kelsey Brother super Bowl. Yeah, yeah,
• 38:21
  Speaker 1: I think I think the bearded one makes it fearlessly.
• 38:25
  Speaker 1: That's what I'm sac, I guess, so I shouldn't say that.
• 38:28
  Speaker 1: Um yeah, that's what I'm leaning towards right now. But
• 38:30
  Speaker 1: I've got two more days to talk myself out of it.
• 38:32
  Speaker 1: I know. That's what I love. You know, last weekend's games,
• 38:35
  Speaker 1: there are some pretty big favorites, like summer favorite a
• 38:38
  Speaker 1: whole touchdown. These ones are like you were just trying
• 38:41
  Speaker 1: to find that needle minus two and a half. The
• 38:43
  Speaker 1: Chiefs are only favored by one, which Cynthia said on
• 38:47
  Speaker 1: our last week's show that she was thinking that the
• 38:48
  Speaker 1: Bengals were going to be favored, especially because of that sprain.
• 38:52
  Speaker 1: You didn't see him come off the riser today, did you.
• 38:54
  Speaker 1: She didn't take that into I don't know what I said.
• 39:00
  Speaker 1: She might not have the whole riser step thing in
• 39:02
  Speaker 1: her in her mathematical equation. I don't know. So that's
• 39:08
  Speaker 1: what I'm saying. You just need to take this all
• 39:10
  Speaker 1: into account. And by the way, I could take the
• 39:13
  Speaker 1: easy way out. What's the easy way. Well, I already
• 39:16
  Speaker 1: chose Chiefs and Nineties, so I've got a stick with it,
• 39:19
  Speaker 1: which is I don't that's not servicing the audience right now.
• 39:23
  Speaker 1: I don't think so. Either I'm afraid of geting a
• 39:25
  Speaker 1: tweet from cold takes or old takes. I already I
• 39:28
  Speaker 1: already no, I already at them say I don't care
• 39:32
  Speaker 1: what you think. I literally said that, ass But seriously, like,
• 39:38
  Speaker 1: that's not servicing the audience by saying I'm not telling
• 39:41
  Speaker 1: you what I think now, I just want to remind
• 39:44
  Speaker 1: you I have the opportunity to have been right. Also,
• 39:47
  Speaker 1: it's ridiculous that you're going to take picks from like preseason,
• 39:50
  Speaker 1: mid season I saw that Thanksgiving Chiefs Niners, and then
• 39:56
  Speaker 1: when I've given a chance at the outside of the playoffs,
• 39:58
  Speaker 1: I stuck with it, so I'm gonna ride it all
• 40:00
  Speaker 1: the way out of it. But you know, uh, if
• 40:03
  Speaker 1: Mahomes is compromised and the Eagles you're playing at their
• 40:08
  Speaker 1: top level again, which I didn't see in the three
• 40:12
  Speaker 1: weeks prior to sticking with them to begin the beginning
• 40:15
  Speaker 1: of the playoffs, then UM, you know, I just gotta
• 40:19
  Speaker 1: I gotta take it all into account. So this is
• 40:21
  Speaker 1: the way I'm leaning right now. Okay, I love it. Um,
• 40:23
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• 40:27
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• 41:33
  Speaker 1: before we let you go, thank you so much for
• 41:34
  Speaker 1: giving us so much of your time. I have a question.
• 41:37
  Speaker 1: It is considered the question of the Bench with Benetta podcast.
• 41:41
  Speaker 1: Some people have started to put it into their dating
• 41:43
  Speaker 1: profiles because it's such a good conversation starter. Except four.
• 41:48
  Speaker 1: Every time I ask it on this podcast, people melt down.
• 41:51
  Speaker 1: They feel like they need to have some like grand answer.
• 41:54
  Speaker 1: I don't want you to feel that way. I just
• 41:56
  Speaker 1: feel like you're you're gonna have a thoughtful answer. I
• 41:58
  Speaker 1: know that about. So here's what happens. You die, okay not,
• 42:04
  Speaker 1: it's not a bad death, it's just you've float off whatever.
• 42:07
  Speaker 1: You get to come back to earth dismember. We don't
• 42:13
  Speaker 1: you don't actually know how you die. Well let's start there.
• 42:16
  Speaker 1: You don't know how you die with you're dead. You
• 42:18
  Speaker 1: get to come back to earth for thirty minutes. You
• 42:20
  Speaker 1: cannot see anybody that would know you because they know
• 42:24
  Speaker 1: that you're dead, so if they saw you that they
• 42:25
  Speaker 1: would be freaked out. Can't see anybody that you love,
• 42:28
  Speaker 1: can't see anybody that you know. Thirty minutes? Where are
• 42:32
  Speaker 1: you going? And what are you doing? And take all
• 42:35
  Speaker 1: the time you need. It's the beauty of editing. What
• 42:40
  Speaker 1: am I doing? Where are you going? All right? So
• 42:42
  Speaker 1: is it a meal? Are you sitting on a favorite bench?
• 42:44
  Speaker 1: Are you looking living? Oh? People are But I'm not
• 42:49
  Speaker 1: allowed to see anybody. You're not allowed to see anybody
• 42:51
  Speaker 1: that you love. Because the typical answer would be like, well,
• 42:54
  Speaker 1: I want to go home, I want to see my family,
• 42:57
  Speaker 1: I want to hang out with my friends. We're taking
• 42:59
  Speaker 1: that off the table, all right, Um, and where do
• 43:03
  Speaker 1: I still look like myself? Do I come back as Brad?
• 43:05
  Speaker 1: Pitt you click, Am I am? I Joe Black Like,
• 43:09
  Speaker 1: I mean like it's because no, but these are important.
• 43:17
  Speaker 1: I would say, you're you're you, but I can't be
• 43:20
  Speaker 1: around anybody. He's like a football fan or something. You
• 43:24
  Speaker 1: people can't really like see your face. You're just so
• 43:29
  Speaker 1: I'm like a thumb, like like a face of a
• 43:32
  Speaker 1: thumb of human. You're invisible. Okay, alright, thirty minutes. Would
• 43:42
  Speaker 1: you go maybe to a football field? Sit down? Okay,
• 43:47
  Speaker 1: where would I go? I don't know, same Michigan, something
• 43:49
  Speaker 1: I don't know. It's worth noting. Kyle Brandt refused to
• 43:52
  Speaker 1: answer this question so hard. We all know his answer.
• 43:57
  Speaker 1: It's wherever Josh Allen is. But he can't see anybody.
• 44:04
  Speaker 1: He can't go because he loves him and Josh, Kyle,
• 44:08
  Speaker 1: you wouldn't answer, he deflected. He made a joke. Well,
• 44:13
  Speaker 1: I mean that's kind of what I've been doing for
• 44:15
  Speaker 1: the last two three minutes because I haven't thought about it,
• 44:17
  Speaker 1: you know, like, where would I go? Um? What would
• 44:20
  Speaker 1: I do? Said? There's this place that I grew up,
• 44:24
  Speaker 1: this lake. It's always like so warm, and I had
• 44:27
  Speaker 1: one day where I just escaped, turned my phone off
• 44:29
  Speaker 1: and I just flow. But half an hour, I would
• 44:32
  Speaker 1: just go back and have a little float. Go back
• 44:34
  Speaker 1: and have a float. Um, all right, I would. I
• 44:38
  Speaker 1: would get a slice of New York pizza from where
• 44:41
  Speaker 1: a certain place doesn't matter. O Um, I'd get a
• 44:46
  Speaker 1: slice of New York pizza. And then I would I'd
• 44:51
  Speaker 1: probably go to like Yankee Stadium. Really yeah, just sit
• 44:56
  Speaker 1: outside or go inside taking a game. Wow. Yeah, thirty
• 45:00
  Speaker 1: minutes and hope like a moonlight Graham and they get
• 45:03
  Speaker 1: back on that diamond. I throw a no hitter? Can
• 45:06
  Speaker 1: I throw a no hitter? You can do it? I mean,
• 45:08
  Speaker 1: I'm calling attention to myself, just the thumb. I'm just
• 45:13
  Speaker 1: a thumb throwing a no hitter for the Yankees. Can
• 45:15
  Speaker 1: I come back with Can I come back with like powers?
• 45:18
  Speaker 1: Or I'm myself? Okay, this is getting too simple. It's
• 45:24
  Speaker 1: not simple laughing because they know how many times I
• 45:29
  Speaker 1: failed at this. It's not simple. Like if I come
• 45:32
  Speaker 1: back with like superpowers or something like that. If I
• 45:35
  Speaker 1: couldn't come back with a ninety our fastball for half
• 45:39
  Speaker 1: an hour, that what I should ask. Thirty minutes, you
• 45:41
  Speaker 1: get to come back there. If you have a superpower,
• 45:43
  Speaker 1: do yes? It's much better than like what am I
• 45:46
  Speaker 1: gonna do? You can't see anyone you love, they can't
• 45:49
  Speaker 1: see you. You've had a horrible death or a great death.
• 45:52
  Speaker 1: It depends on however you imagine your death. I mean,
• 45:54
  Speaker 1: like that puts your guest on, you know, on the
• 45:57
  Speaker 1: heels to begin with, like what happens like I don't know? Um,
• 46:01
  Speaker 1: you know, and I can't see anyone I love. They
• 46:04
  Speaker 1: people can't know who I am. So you know, Um,
• 46:09
  Speaker 1: that's what I would do. Yeah, I'd have a I
• 46:12
  Speaker 1: have a slice of pizza. I'd get a Yankee game,
• 46:15
  Speaker 1: and I try to like like moon like rain. I
• 46:17
  Speaker 1: go back on the field and I become you know,
• 46:21
  Speaker 1: Gerard Cole, Yeah, you know and strike people out. Is
• 46:25
  Speaker 1: that a problem? No problem? No problem here because I
• 46:28
  Speaker 1: don't know these rules that you come up. There's no rules,
• 46:31
  Speaker 1: because this question is never gonna existed. Rich Eyes and
• 46:39
  Speaker 1: about five minutes ago. Alright, big thanks to Rich eyes
• 46:43
  Speaker 1: in for his time. I feel like this is a
• 46:46
  Speaker 1: real show today. We got coming up after the break.
• 46:50
  Speaker 1: We're gonna get back to our old Shenanigans. We are
• 46:53
  Speaker 1: talking the best and the worst things that I saw
• 46:55
  Speaker 1: all week. To go anywhere alright, time to talk about
• 47:12
  Speaker 1: the best and the worst thing that I saw all week.
• 47:15
  Speaker 1: You know, we were talking about Joe Burrow earlier in
• 47:17
  Speaker 1: the show and just how calm and cool and collected
• 47:21
  Speaker 1: he is. But there's sometimes that will people will hit
• 47:25
  Speaker 1: a nerve with him, and all he's gotta do is
• 47:26
  Speaker 1: say like one little line. Uh and and somebody somebody
• 47:30
  Speaker 1: asked him old question last week. Let's see what he
• 47:34
  Speaker 1: had to say for everyone talking about a neutral championship game,
• 47:39
  Speaker 1: not even thinking about you guys, how much did that
• 47:42
  Speaker 1: motivate you coming into this? You better send those refunds.
• 47:49
  Speaker 1: You can't even see his eyes, little room sounds just calm,
• 47:54
  Speaker 1: cool and give the m v P. Just because of
• 47:56
  Speaker 1: his postgame sounds. Um. Absolutely loved to see that Joe Burrow.
• 48:00
  Speaker 1: Like I was saying earlier, Super Bowl hangover, where is it?
• 48:03
  Speaker 1: It's nowhere to be found. They started the season oh
• 48:06
  Speaker 1: and two and they've found themselves back in the NFC Championship.
• 48:09
  Speaker 1: Is pretty incredible. Okay, uh, next up, this is fascinating. Okay.
• 48:14
  Speaker 1: The Bengals have claimed quarterback Chris Lammon's off waivers from
• 48:20
  Speaker 1: the Chiefs. Move is deferred until day after Super Bowl,
• 48:23
  Speaker 1: so he cannot play for the Bengals. Bengals are straight
• 48:29
  Speaker 1: up just trying to get some info. They are just
• 48:32
  Speaker 1: trying to figure out what the Chiefs are up to.
• 48:35
  Speaker 1: This kind of like this is kind of somewhere in
• 48:38
  Speaker 1: between best thing and the worst thing that I saw,
• 48:41
  Speaker 1: Like it seems a little bit cheeky, like you shouldn't
• 48:44
  Speaker 1: really have to do this, but at the same time,
• 48:46
  Speaker 1: like a trip to the Super Bowls on the line,
• 48:48
  Speaker 1: So like, I don't know, you guys, tell me, does
• 48:51
  Speaker 1: this feel like a little bit like, yeah, there's something
• 48:54
  Speaker 1: a little bit about it. So I think I'm gonna
• 48:58
  Speaker 1: put this like somewhere right in the middle between the
• 49:00
  Speaker 1: thing and the worst thing that I saw. Bengels, you
• 49:01
  Speaker 1: don't need it, you don't need to do this, you
• 49:03
  Speaker 1: don't need to like it seems a little cheeny. I'm
• 49:06
  Speaker 1: gonna whisper it seems a little cheeny, Like I don't
• 49:09
  Speaker 1: like it. Okay. Then the worst thing that I saw,
• 49:11
  Speaker 1: which was actually kind of like the best thing that
• 49:13
  Speaker 1: I saw, unfold over the week. Mike Hilton Um after
• 49:16
  Speaker 1: the Wind said we'll see you all in burrow Head,
• 49:21
  Speaker 1: and then Travis Kelsey went on his podcast new heights
• 49:24
  Speaker 1: and said, oh, you guys are given us bulletin board material. Um,
• 49:30
  Speaker 1: I cannot wait for this game. I love bulletin board material.
• 49:34
  Speaker 1: I am very pro bulletin board material. On both sides
• 49:38
  Speaker 1: rub it in and then the other side gets mad
• 49:41
  Speaker 1: at it, so we all have something to talk about
• 49:42
  Speaker 1: on television. It is absolutely beautiful boys and girls and
• 49:45
  Speaker 1: everybody else. That is our show that is benched with Banetta.
• 49:49
  Speaker 1: Huge thanks to rich eyes In for joining. I can't
• 49:53
  Speaker 1: believe he came and did the thing and answered the
• 49:56
  Speaker 1: question and shouts to Parker who works on our show.
• 49:59
  Speaker 1: She had the best answer to the question. Okay, this
• 50:02
  Speaker 1: is the last time we hear about this. It's not
• 50:03
  Speaker 1: I'm totally gonna ask this question again. She said that
• 50:07
  Speaker 1: she would rob a bank, okay, and then leave the
• 50:11
  Speaker 1: money somewhere her family could find it. And I think
• 50:14
  Speaker 1: that that's the best answer of the question that we
• 50:17
  Speaker 1: have gotten so far. All Right, she's not going to
• 50:19
  Speaker 1: grab the slesa peza. She's not gonna go have a
• 50:21
  Speaker 1: little float in the lake. She's robbing a bank. Keeps
• 50:25
  Speaker 1: where you gonna where did you find anything to rob
• 50:27
  Speaker 1: a bank with your thumb? We'll answer that question next week.
• 50:31
  Speaker 1: Thanks for listening, we'll see you enjoy all the football.
• 50:34
  Speaker 1: We'll see you back on Tuesday with Kyle Brant, Posyna
• 50:44
  Speaker 1: Sank