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Football is Back! · NFL Podcast Network Selects

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Speaker 1: When I woke up this morning, I was feeling pretty dangerous.
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Speaker 1: But we're on a Cincinnati it's my team, it's my quarterbit.
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Speaker 1: They are who we thought they were and we got
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Speaker 1: about Hello, you play to win the day. They want
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Speaker 1: you to cook the dinner. At least they ought to
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Speaker 1: let your shout for some of the grocery. And on
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Speaker 1: the way up, we're gonna buy the kneecap all getting
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Speaker 1: me playoffs. I'm just here so I won't get fine.
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Speaker 1: How could he not be romantic about football after let's
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Speaker 1: go baba, welcome to the bench with a podcast. There
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Speaker 1: you are, guys. We are back in studio and I
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Speaker 1: don't have COVID anymore. Who bye COVID, Bye covid. Uh
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Speaker 1: I talked too much trash about COVID and it found
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Speaker 1: my ass and whoops this guys. I'm so excited to
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Speaker 1: be here on NFL Network for the first time. What
0:54
Speaker 1: feels like a million years. I don't think we've been
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Speaker 1: in sudiographer since I left for this road trip. Is
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Speaker 1: that true? I believe that's true. I think our last
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Speaker 1: taping was in studio was like June second. Yeah, that's disgusting.
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Speaker 1: I was so excited to get here and see little
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Speaker 1: Justin Graver and see my little Mohan. M something's missing,
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Speaker 1: not the shot of the empty studio. Mohan went to
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Speaker 1: go hang out with his parents did week? Is that true?
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Speaker 1: He's with his parents. I can't remember what he said,
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Speaker 1: something about his parents. It's fine, it's the summer, Okay,
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Speaker 1: going Jay. But what I love about Mohan, and I
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Speaker 1: love Mohan dearly, is that his idea of his Homer
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Speaker 1: vacation is I'm gonna go hang out with my parents
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Speaker 1: for the week. It's cute. He's just a lover. He's
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Speaker 1: a family guy. Mohan, we miss you and we cannot
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Speaker 1: wait to all be back in studio next week, actually together.
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Speaker 1: But am I going to be having to be wheeled
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Speaker 1: in in a wheelchair next week? Because I am playing
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Speaker 1: in a celebrity flag football game with the fricking Los
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Speaker 1: Angeles Rams. I don't know who's team I'm on yet,
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Speaker 1: it's either Aaron Donald or Jalen Ramsey. I am intimidated
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Speaker 1: as hell. Do you guys think I'm gonna hurt myself? No? No, no,
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Speaker 1: you just have to not get crushed. But it's flag football,
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Speaker 1: so I know. But I'm such a competitive person. I'm
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Speaker 1: gonna like pull a hammy, like trying to run faster
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Speaker 1: than Jalen Ramsey or something like that. You know what
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Speaker 1: I mean. Yeah, it's gonna be a disaster. I cannot wait.
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Speaker 1: I'm honored that they even asked me. Apparently I get
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Speaker 1: some swag too, which is that August fifth? Right? I
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Speaker 1: don't know if people can come, I would imagine, so
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Speaker 1: I think it's there's a way to go if you're
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Speaker 1: in Los Angeles. Huh, why don't y'all just google that? Yeah?
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Speaker 1: I should probably know. Second annual Rams Celebrity Flag Football game. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: I'm so excited. I've never been. I've always wanted to
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Speaker 1: be involved in something like this, Like I really want
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Speaker 1: to play. This is so dumb, all also like I
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Speaker 1: shouldn't be playing in these games, but um, I really
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Speaker 1: want to play in the MLB All Star Game, like
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Speaker 1: just a random No one would know who I am.
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Speaker 1: But I could just be like a ringer and I
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Speaker 1: could come in and like play decently. Well. I think
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Speaker 1: that would be so fun. So I'm so excited to
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Speaker 1: do this, slash nervous that I'm going to embarrass myself
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Speaker 1: in front of a bunch of professional athletes. Uh so, yeah,
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Speaker 1: check that out and come watch. I guess I wonder
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Speaker 1: if they like broadcasted too. I kind of hope not. Yeah. Um, okay, guys,
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Speaker 1: training camp has started this like where it's real, it's happening.
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Speaker 1: We are I'm going into my second season with NFL Network.
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Speaker 1: I haven't even been here a year. Isn't that so weird?
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Speaker 1: I think I haven't even had my one year anniversary.
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Speaker 1: By the way, we should blow that up. Oh yeah,
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Speaker 1: one year anniversary on the pod. Let's do it right.
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Speaker 1: Moan will bring the fireball. I will tell him please
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Speaker 1: put it away. He won't. It'll be a great Can
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Speaker 1: we get a cake? We could totally get a cake.
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Speaker 1: Can we get shampagne? I think we get a cake
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Speaker 1: and a side of spam because I still want you
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Speaker 1: to try that. Yes, before the summer is through, but
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Speaker 1: training camps have commenced. Um. I unfortunately don't get to
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Speaker 1: go to any yet. But we are going to go
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Speaker 1: to the Are we allowed to say this? Yes, We're
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Speaker 1: gonna go to the Rams training camp on Monday next week.
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Speaker 1: On Monday next week, we're gonna interview some players, We're
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Speaker 1: gonna play some games gonna be very fun. And we
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Speaker 1: get to go to the Chargers training camp as well,
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Speaker 1: and we're gonna do the exact same thing. So let
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Speaker 1: us know who we should talk to, who you want
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Speaker 1: to get to know a little bit better. That'll be
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Speaker 1: so fun. I'm so excited to be taking this show
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Speaker 1: on the road. Um. So I'm excited because it feels real.
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Speaker 1: I feel like we get hard knocks somewhat soon. That's
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Speaker 1: going to start up shortly, and then it's pedal to
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Speaker 1: the metal. Baby, are you ready for the season, graver,
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Speaker 1: I'm so ready. I am so freaking ready. I am
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Speaker 1: ready for this to start tomorrow. I want to be
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Speaker 1: in Sunday morning freaking five am Irvnoch, Kurt Warner, Rich Eyes,
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Speaker 1: and Cynthia Fraylan. Yeah, I cannot wait. To be absolutely exhausted.
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Speaker 1: I was excited, but I'm also really excited that training
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Speaker 1: camp started because we get to see these guys start
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Speaker 1: to roll in. Now. One is coming to mind. I'm
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Speaker 1: sure you guys have seen this photo of Aaron Rodgers
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Speaker 1: rolling into training camp looking like, Oh, I don't like
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Speaker 1: the look. I don't like the look. The hair is
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Speaker 1: too stringy and like greasy you know what I mean. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: it looks unwashed, It looks un camp. Guys, this is
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Speaker 1: not a cute look out a little way even there.
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Speaker 1: Put your hair in braids before you go to sleep. Um,
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Speaker 1: but he dressed us Nick Cage in Connair. I guess
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Speaker 1: why is he doing this? Do you know? Is he
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Speaker 1: just being fun? I think he's just trying to like
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Speaker 1: live a free, long hair life. I do love that
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Speaker 1: for him. Have you ever grow your hair out before?
6:00
Speaker 1: I have? How long about shoulder length? Yeah? It was
6:04
Speaker 1: pretty nartly. You didn't like it? It was cool, it
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Speaker 1: was a lot to take care of. And um, I
6:12
Speaker 1: mean I liked having long hair, but as soon as
6:14
Speaker 1: I cut it, I was like, oh yeah, creeze. It's
6:18
Speaker 1: so crazy because I feel like Aaron Rodgers started growing
6:20
Speaker 1: his hair out like last year for Halloween and everyone
6:22
Speaker 1: was kind of like trying to guess what his costume was.
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Speaker 1: Ended up being John Wick. He looked great, whatever, and
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Speaker 1: now it's still going anyway. So he dressed up his
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Speaker 1: Knick Cage from Cornair and it made me realize that
6:35
Speaker 1: I've never seen Cornair. And then that reminded me of
6:39
Speaker 1: earlier this week somebody that I know told me that
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Speaker 1: he had never seen the movie Titanic. Wow, how you
6:49
Speaker 1: must go out of your way in life to have
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Speaker 1: not seen the masterpiece, the three hours and fourteen minute
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Speaker 1: masterpiece that is freaking Titanic. I feel like every single
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Speaker 1: person in their lives had the double VHS. Yeah right
7:07
Speaker 1: it Remember it came in like a package deal because
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Speaker 1: he was so long. My cousins had it. So I
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Speaker 1: watched it and my cousins still. Somebody you, I really
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Speaker 1: feel like you have to go out of your way
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Speaker 1: to not see the movie Titanic. Yeah, that's a big one. Titanic.
7:22
Speaker 1: I watched it again for like the seventeenth time this year,
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Speaker 1: and it still slaps you, guys. Just FYI, if y'all
7:29
Speaker 1: haven't seen Titanic in a while, throw her back in
7:31
Speaker 1: the VHS because she's still slaps. I also watched Titanic
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Speaker 1: and then went on this crazy spiral of like just
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Speaker 1: ingesting the most Titanic stuff content. Discovery has like a
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Speaker 1: crazy documentary about Titanic. Disney Plus has a crazy Titanic.
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Speaker 1: I was watching all of the things. Anyways, it made me,
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Speaker 1: really it made me think of what is a movie
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Speaker 1: that I've gone my entire life without seeing and I
7:58
Speaker 1: asked you guys to do this as well. Um, I've
8:01
Speaker 1: never seen Field of Dreams. Oh wow, I've never seen
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Speaker 1: good Will Hunting. What. Yeah, there's like actually a lot
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Speaker 1: that I've skipped. I've never seen Karate Kid me neither. Huh.
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Speaker 1: I've seen the show Cobra Kai. Now never seen any
8:17
Speaker 1: of those things. What I ask you, Justin Graber and
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Speaker 1: also Sean Behind Justin Grab what is a movie that
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Speaker 1: you guys have somehow gone throughout your entire lives and
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Speaker 1: not watched. I've never seen Jaws. Yeah. Wow. John is
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Speaker 1: devastated because we were literally movies of all time and
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Speaker 1: he put Jaws on that list. That's what made me realize, Oh,
8:42
Speaker 1: I've never seen Jaws. You've never seen Jaws. It's amazing. Man.
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Speaker 1: I just feel like I missed it, you know, And
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Speaker 1: I'm at the point now where if I watch it,
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Speaker 1: I would just laugh at It's probably pretty. It's probably pretty. Um.
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Speaker 1: I When we first bought our house, we totally read
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Speaker 1: in the backyard and we put a project projector screen
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Speaker 1: out there and we started doing these like summer movie things.
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Speaker 1: So we would send a bunch of movies to all
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Speaker 1: of our friends and they would vote on what movie
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Speaker 1: that they wanted to watch that weekend. And so we
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Speaker 1: ended up watching Jaws last summer and it was really fun.
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Speaker 1: It's like camp be bad, but it's still it's still like,
9:18
Speaker 1: oh it's still scary. Sharks are freaking scary. Man. Oh great,
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Speaker 1: will you watch Jaws this week? Give us a review
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Speaker 1: next week? You really? Okay? Sure? Love that for us. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: I'll do that, Okay, mandatory we introduce Sean so people know. Wow,
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Speaker 1: Oh I got a great introduction. What is going on?
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Speaker 1: Thanks for joining the pod. I am out here wrapping
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Speaker 1: the eagles. All right, go birds, all right, to all
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Speaker 1: the bench up and then the listeners go birds, go birds.
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Speaker 1: Thank you. I'm honored to be on the party. You've
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Speaker 1: been replaced a new guy. We got a new guy here.
9:52
Speaker 1: I will only talk about the Eagles. Rachel's team should
9:55
Speaker 1: be the Eagles. By the way, just just plug it's
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Speaker 1: still on the running. We'll get to that later. But um,
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Speaker 1: you actually stole my movie. Um so I have a
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Speaker 1: second one, which one field of dreams are good will hunting,
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Speaker 1: good will hunting. I haven't seen it, but you took it.
10:09
Speaker 1: So I'll go for my number two options, which is
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Speaker 1: I've never seen Back to the Future. What what in
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Speaker 1: the hell is going on here? I just it just
10:19
Speaker 1: never got around the seeing it, and everybody's talking about
10:22
Speaker 1: it and I still haven't seen it, And like, is
10:23
Speaker 1: that another Spielberg? Is that two Spielberg's we just name
10:26
Speaker 1: is that? Did he do that? Did he do that? No,
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Speaker 1: he didn't do that. I feel like that sounds right. Actually,
10:30
Speaker 1: we are we confusing it with like ET or something. Oh,
10:34
Speaker 1: that's maybe I haven't seen I haven't see at ET.
10:41
Speaker 1: Of course I knew that ET is amazing because it's
10:45
Speaker 1: a it's a story of alien, it's a story of friendship,
10:49
Speaker 1: and it's beautiful and it's amazing. Okay, I need to
10:51
Speaker 1: watch ET. You need to go and watch Jaws, and
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Speaker 1: you need to watch good Will Hunting, and we all
10:57
Speaker 1: need to watch Big Man. Big Man. We're gonna do
10:59
Speaker 1: a good Hunting just like Squad beat up movie Night
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Speaker 1: Play Them Apples. Yeah, I don't get that reference. Is
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Speaker 1: that from the movie? It is well way to make
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Speaker 1: a reference that we obviously don't know. Guys, listeners, please
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Speaker 1: let us know if there is an Americana classic that
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Speaker 1: you have not seen. I wanna. I want to know Titanic.
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Speaker 1: I feel like it's got to be up there. For
11:24
Speaker 1: number one is like, what, it's amazing for you and whatever,
11:28
Speaker 1: even if you don't think it's amazing anymore. It has
11:30
Speaker 1: stood the test of time. Let me tell you that.
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Speaker 1: But um, I just don't know how that's happened. Anyways,
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Speaker 1: let us know the movies that you have not watching
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Speaker 1: that you were embarrassed about, and we've got some homework
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Speaker 1: to do. Um. Back to Aaron Rodgers. Back to training camps,
11:44
Speaker 1: bring it back to football is back? Football is back?
11:48
Speaker 1: Another thing, another hot topic of discussion this week. Kyler
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Speaker 1: Murray has an addendum in his contract. I don't know
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Speaker 1: if I'm saying the legal the legal speak right, but whatever,
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Speaker 1: He's got something in his contract that is he is
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Speaker 1: required to watch what is it four hours of film
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Speaker 1: every single week and scale back on like video games
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Speaker 1: and watching TV. This is humiliating. Oh my god. I
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Speaker 1: have secondhand embarrassment from this, like the fact that your
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Speaker 1: bosses needed to say, hey, you're not fifteen anymore. You're
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Speaker 1: an adult that's making two hundred bajillion dollars. Now you
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Speaker 1: need to watch some film and do your job. It's
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Speaker 1: truly incredible, and it's a bad look for both sides
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Speaker 1: because it's like, Okay, obviously it's a bad look for
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Speaker 1: Kyler Murray does he not watch film? But also the
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Speaker 1: fact that the organization felt like they had to put
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Speaker 1: this in the contract. Couldn't have been a conversation like hey, congratulations,
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Speaker 1: we're happy to have you. Just make sure you're you know,
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Speaker 1: like watching your film and you know, working hard this year.
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Speaker 1: They had to put it in the contract. I won
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Speaker 1: Or if they did this kind of as like a
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Speaker 1: slight in a way, like they knew people would find
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Speaker 1: this as like a little easter egg and so many people,
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Speaker 1: you know, like Kyler didn't look great this year with
13:12
Speaker 1: putting out the letter and that did it all. But
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Speaker 1: of course, as Kyler, they're gonna have to pay him
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Speaker 1: because he's super talented, he's a superstar. I wonder if
13:20
Speaker 1: they kind of put this in as a little easter
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Speaker 1: egg for all of us to find and talk about
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Speaker 1: all week long, because it doesn't look good on Kyler's
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Speaker 1: end at all. Yeah, I think it looks worse on
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Speaker 1: Kyler than it does on the team. Having to do
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Speaker 1: this agreed. It's It's interesting though, because everywhere you look,
13:33
Speaker 1: people who know contracts and NFL contracts, they say, this
13:35
Speaker 1: is like the first time they've ever seen a clause
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Speaker 1: like this. Yeah, and I want to read you a
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Speaker 1: quote that was published in a twenty twenty one New
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Speaker 1: York Times article from Kyler Murray. Oh quote. I think
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Speaker 1: I was blessed with the cognitive skills to just go
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Speaker 1: out there and just see it before it happens. I'm
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Speaker 1: not one of those guys that's going to sit there
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Speaker 1: and kill myself watching film. What I don't sit there
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Speaker 1: for twenty four hours and break down this team and
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Speaker 1: that team and watch every game because in my head
14:02
Speaker 1: I see so much. Huh. Well, maybe that's why the
14:06
Speaker 1: Cardinals haven't done much the last week. Kind of explains
14:09
Speaker 1: why they peter off towards the end of the season,
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Speaker 1: because the defenses have more film on Kyler and he's
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Speaker 1: not watching film on defense. This is so disappointing. Like
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Speaker 1: Kyler is such potential to be like the greatest quarterback
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Speaker 1: in the league right now, Like you can just tell
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Speaker 1: he's just got all of this pizzaz all of the
14:27
Speaker 1: special qualities. He's so fast, he's so talented, and then like,
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Speaker 1: what do you do? Just go home and sit and
14:32
Speaker 1: play video games. I know he's huge on video games.
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Speaker 1: I've literally hosted a Madden tournament with him in it.
14:37
Speaker 1: Oh my gosh, like two or three years ago. I
14:40
Speaker 1: did that totally. Why did I do that? Somebody was bored.
14:47
Speaker 1: Obviously he's got these interests and that's fine, but like,
14:50
Speaker 1: you are an NFL quarterback, You've got all of this
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Speaker 1: potential and like a pretty decent team behind you, and like, yeah,
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Speaker 1: then you go and play the Rams in the playoffs
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Speaker 1: and it's like the most boring game anybody's ever seen,
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Speaker 1: and then you're just done. Yeah, and you keep on
15:04
Speaker 1: getting injured. Yeah, weird, weird vibes. So when we were
15:09
Speaker 1: talking about us in New York, this obviously hadn't come
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Speaker 1: out yet, and he hadn't signed any contract or anything
15:15
Speaker 1: like that. Darius Butler and I were filling in on
15:20
Speaker 1: Good Morning Football, and I asked him, what's it like
15:24
Speaker 1: being a part of a locker room when somebody is
15:26
Speaker 1: being so immature like that, and he was saying his
15:32
Speaker 1: answer was actually pretty interesting. He was like, when it
15:34
Speaker 1: comes to money and things like that, people just mind
15:36
Speaker 1: their own business? Am I petty to think like, I'm sorry,
15:40
Speaker 1: but I'm sitting here watching film. I'm here every single
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Speaker 1: day practicing. I'm not making two hundred and sixty million
15:47
Speaker 1: or whatever the number was that he just got. It
15:51
Speaker 1: just seems arrogant and really immature, and like I just
15:55
Speaker 1: can't help but think, like, I don't know, Darius, Butler's
15:59
Speaker 1: obviously a very emotionally mature for that not to bother him,
16:02
Speaker 1: but like you gotta think that somebody in that locker
16:04
Speaker 1: room is going to be like, you know, let's screw
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Speaker 1: this guy. Is this supposed to be the leader of
16:08
Speaker 1: our team. He's having to be like grounded? Yeah, essentially
16:12
Speaker 1: from like mom and dad, like sorry, we're taking away
16:15
Speaker 1: your PlayStation, Kyler. Sorry no more Xbox nor phone. It's
16:20
Speaker 1: just so embarrassing. What do you guys think that he
16:23
Speaker 1: needs to do this year to like for all of
16:26
Speaker 1: us to kind of get back on his side, because
16:27
Speaker 1: right now I feel like I'm kind of out on Kyler.
16:29
Speaker 1: I think that Cardinals have to make the playoffs, win
16:32
Speaker 1: a playoff game, maybe win a playoff game, or at
16:34
Speaker 1: least show up for a player, don't get blown out.
16:38
Speaker 1: Yes in your first playoff game. I totally agree. I
16:41
Speaker 1: think that this team needs to, especially because they're how
16:43
Speaker 1: long has a dehap suspended for six six six games?
16:46
Speaker 1: Especially because they are missing him and like all the
16:48
Speaker 1: drama that came with that last year. Honestly, so much
16:50
Speaker 1: has happened, you forget about that. They did trade for
16:53
Speaker 1: Marquise Brown, who played at Oklahoma with Kyler, so there's
16:57
Speaker 1: some connection there. But I think that they need to
16:59
Speaker 1: come out of the game. It's just like absolutely on fire.
17:01
Speaker 1: And then all of us, like even if week one,
17:03
Speaker 1: like Kyler balls out, I'll be like, all right, I'm back. Yeah,
17:06
Speaker 1: Like let's go, let's go cards. That would be so fun.
17:09
Speaker 1: But I feel like out of the gate they need
17:10
Speaker 1: to or else all of us are going to start talking. Yeah,
17:14
Speaker 1: and that's not going to be fun for them, fun
17:17
Speaker 1: for us because we'll have stuff to talk about. But
17:20
Speaker 1: and then the last piece of news that I kind
17:22
Speaker 1: of wanted to talk about at the top is I
17:23
Speaker 1: guess we were like waiting for this to happen. But
17:26
Speaker 1: Kyle Shanahan has officially said that Trey Lance is the
17:28
Speaker 1: guy for the forty nine ers and Jimmy g is
17:30
Speaker 1: I guess just in purgatory. I'm a little bit disappointed.
17:35
Speaker 1: I feel like I wanted Jimmy to have one last shot,
17:40
Speaker 1: and I don't know what he would have done with that,
17:42
Speaker 1: But I feel like people, listen, if they had another
17:46
Speaker 1: quarterback last season, I think that they could have gone
17:49
Speaker 1: even further. But like, look at where they got to
17:53
Speaker 1: and Jimmy had like a torn ligament in his throwing hand.
17:56
Speaker 1: He was injured, maybe something was going on with his ankle.
17:58
Speaker 1: I can't remember, but he was not one hundred percent
18:01
Speaker 1: and he still took them to where they went. Yeah,
18:06
Speaker 1: I know, he's built a little bit like a glass house,
18:08
Speaker 1: and you know, anything can go wrong. And obviously he
18:10
Speaker 1: got like the shoulder surgery at the end of the season.
18:12
Speaker 1: Nobody even really knew that there was a problem with
18:14
Speaker 1: the shoulder. That's a little scary, But I don't know.
18:17
Speaker 1: I just wanted to give him one more shot. You know.
18:19
Speaker 1: There's as much as like people like to talk about
18:22
Speaker 1: him having limitations and they can do better or whatever.
18:26
Speaker 1: I feel like there's something to be said about the
18:27
Speaker 1: fact that Kyle Shanahan's record with Garoppolo compared to all
18:31
Speaker 1: the other guys that have had to play like he
18:34
Speaker 1: just wins with them, and he took them to a
18:37
Speaker 1: super Bowl. Once he took them they won a playoff
18:40
Speaker 1: game last year almost went to the NFC Championship. I
18:43
Speaker 1: don't know. I feel like there is potential that or
18:46
Speaker 1: they won two playoff games last year. They did go
18:47
Speaker 1: to the NFC Championship. So yeah, I mean, if Trey
18:51
Speaker 1: Lance is really really good, then they could be better.
18:53
Speaker 1: But if Trey Lance struggles as a young second year
18:56
Speaker 1: quarterback with very little experience in the NFL, then that's
19:00
Speaker 1: the thing. Guys, Like, I feel like I'm a little
19:02
Speaker 1: bit worried because if Trey Lance was at the place
19:05
Speaker 1: that he should be, don't you think we would have
19:07
Speaker 1: seen more of him this past year? Like he was
19:10
Speaker 1: barely you know, And it's not like Jimmy was wowing
19:14
Speaker 1: us during the season, Like I think that they really
19:16
Speaker 1: stepped up and became this like Cinderella story almost in
19:18
Speaker 1: the playoffs. But I just feel like we would have
19:21
Speaker 1: seen more of him. But I know that everyone's like
19:23
Speaker 1: George Kittle was just like, oh my god, Trey Lance
19:25
Speaker 1: was like far and away better than the last time
19:27
Speaker 1: you saw him. He has to say that, Yeah, what
19:30
Speaker 1: else is he gonna say that? How does a team
19:32
Speaker 1: that I'm very curious to see come out Week one
19:35
Speaker 1: that's probably up there in like the top three. Yeah,
19:38
Speaker 1: Cardinals Also, Um so I guess Trey Lance is the guy.
19:42
Speaker 1: What happens to Jimmy G? Where does he go? Now?
19:44
Speaker 1: What does he do? It's so gonna take him on?
19:47
Speaker 1: Like the only team that doesn't really have a settled
19:50
Speaker 1: starting quarterback Seattle, I mean, Pittsburgh has a competition, Atlanta
19:54
Speaker 1: maybe has a competition, but like, somebody's gonna win the
19:58
Speaker 1: job on those teams Seattle, I mean Geno Smith or
20:00
Speaker 1: Drew Long. They say that they're comfortable having a competition
20:03
Speaker 1: between those two. But Jiff, if they can get Jimmy G.
20:07
Speaker 1: Then the question is because I kind of love that.
20:09
Speaker 1: Does San Francisco want to help a division rival by
20:13
Speaker 1: giving them a quarterback that they don't want? So maybe
20:15
Speaker 1: they don't think it's helped. Maybe they're like, yeah, yeah,
20:18
Speaker 1: can take Jimmy G. Yeah, you guys take him, Wake
20:21
Speaker 1: Wake Nuche nutche because they obviously don't believe it him right,
20:24
Speaker 1: Um whoa, I'm just getting so freaking excited about football,
20:29
Speaker 1: all right? Coming up after the break best slash worst
20:32
Speaker 1: thing that I saw this week, we got a couple
20:34
Speaker 1: of things on the list of don quit Anywhere's the
20:44
Speaker 1: bast Okay. First thing on the list is some television
20:53
Speaker 1: that I must recommend because we were talking about this
20:56
Speaker 1: before the show even started. Guys, the rehearse on HBO
21:02
Speaker 1: is the craziest thing that I have seen in a
21:05
Speaker 1: very very long time. If you are not familiar, Gosh,
21:09
Speaker 1: you should probably go and watch Nathan for you before
21:11
Speaker 1: you watch the rehearsal Right. I was trying to describe
21:13
Speaker 1: it to somebody last night and I could not do
21:16
Speaker 1: it because if you don't know Nathan Fielder's comedy, then
21:18
Speaker 1: it's very hard to describe even about. Also, there's only
21:24
Speaker 1: two episodes out, so we don't even really know what
21:26
Speaker 1: it is because the two episodes are very different. Yeah, basically,
21:30
Speaker 1: he's giving these opportunity, these people opportunities to rehearse these
21:35
Speaker 1: very big life events. Like the very first episode. I
21:38
Speaker 1: don't want to spoil anything, but this guy has been
21:41
Speaker 1: lying to his trivia team about having his masters. Nathan
21:45
Speaker 1: builds him the bar that his trivia nights take place in,
21:48
Speaker 1: and they do a horror guys, don't listen to what
21:52
Speaker 1: I'm saying. Just go and watch the show. It's so elaborate,
21:55
Speaker 1: it's honestly insane that he has like a production budget
21:59
Speaker 1: to pull off what they're doing, and God bless HBO
22:03
Speaker 1: for giving him that. It's like, like you said, it's
22:05
Speaker 1: like Nathan for You, but state like, yeah, the funny
22:10
Speaker 1: thing about Nathan for You is I feel like the
22:12
Speaker 1: people he gets on that show were always kind of
22:14
Speaker 1: the butt of his jokes. Yeah, whereas with this show,
22:17
Speaker 1: it's sort of the same ish idea, but he's he's
22:20
Speaker 1: actually helping people and you're still kind of the butt
22:22
Speaker 1: of the joke, but they're being helped in a way
22:24
Speaker 1: that they aren't on Nathan. Well. I kept on thinking
22:26
Speaker 1: about the first episode, and I'm so sorry if you
22:28
Speaker 1: guys haven't actually watched this, this is not going to
22:29
Speaker 1: make any sense to you. But I kept on thinking
22:31
Speaker 1: in the first episode because the guy was just like, no,
22:33
Speaker 1: I'm not familiar with your work, and I'm like, why
22:36
Speaker 1: are you still here? Keep billing you a bar an
22:39
Speaker 1: exact replica bar, Like this is weird? Get out? Yeah, okay,
22:45
Speaker 1: so go and watch that. It's called the rehearsal. It's
22:47
Speaker 1: on HBO. I'll give you my log in if you
22:49
Speaker 1: don't have one. I'm just kidding, I won't do that.
22:51
Speaker 1: The second one that I'm really liking is The Bear
22:55
Speaker 1: on FX. I think, whoa, I'm only a couple of
22:59
Speaker 1: episodes in, but it is dark and really good and
23:03
Speaker 1: Mattie Matheson I think created it, and he is a
23:05
Speaker 1: very famous Canadian Toronto chef and I'm a big fan.
23:10
Speaker 1: So go and watch those two things. It is so good.
23:13
Speaker 1: A couple of other things that I have loved slash
23:15
Speaker 1: hated to see this week. I don't know if you
23:18
Speaker 1: guys saw, but Baker Mayfield posted a little video. He
23:24
Speaker 1: posted a video of some training that was happening, and
23:28
Speaker 1: I freaking loved it because it was Baker throwing. It
23:32
Speaker 1: was Sam Darnold throwing, it was Matt Corral throwing. Like
23:35
Speaker 1: it was just very selfless and like, I'm a part
23:41
Speaker 1: of this team and I want the best quarterback to
23:44
Speaker 1: be out there. I just thought it was really mature
23:45
Speaker 1: and really cool. Yeah, because so many other quarterbacks, if
23:48
Speaker 1: there was like a you know, a Geno Smith Drew Lock, like,
23:51
Speaker 1: they're probably not posting videos of the you know what
23:54
Speaker 1: I mean. It was very much like may the best
23:56
Speaker 1: man win. I really liked that. Yeah, Baker's brinker, or
24:02
Speaker 1: maybe he just knows that he's QB Wine and he's
24:04
Speaker 1: just like, let me throw the bone. God. I hope
24:07
Speaker 1: he starts. He's got to right against Cleveland Week one here, guys,
24:11
Speaker 1: he's got to h The only thing I'm bummed about
24:14
Speaker 1: is that it's not in Cleveland, because if it was
24:16
Speaker 1: in Cleveland, I would be up in my I would
24:18
Speaker 1: be up in my boss, Charlie Yuke's office and saying,
24:22
Speaker 1: you have does end right at Cleveland. I don't end it.
24:27
Speaker 1: It is in the addendum in my contract, um man.
24:32
Speaker 1: There's so many good Week one games, uh, Seattle and
24:35
Speaker 1: Denver included. So I really loved seeing that. Um guys,
24:41
Speaker 1: does Gronk stay retired with Julio Jones joining the Bucks now?
24:48
Speaker 1: I don't know. I feel like he sees it like
24:50
Speaker 1: this is just another reason for Gronk to not stay retired.
24:53
Speaker 1: It's like, if you're the Bucks and you're Gronk, You're like,
24:56
Speaker 1: we're loading up for the Super Bowl run. I still
24:58
Speaker 1: think he doesn't want to do training camp or early
25:00
Speaker 1: season we've established the break. We broke the news last week. Okay,
25:03
Speaker 1: Gronk is coming back. But it's kind of getting me
25:06
Speaker 1: excited about the Bucks that they're like making these moves
25:09
Speaker 1: and like that's exciting. Well, how do you feel about
25:11
Speaker 1: that as a Titans fan? I know he's not with you,
25:13
Speaker 1: he was a free agent before this, but you know
25:15
Speaker 1: you're very famils with his work. How do you what
25:17
Speaker 1: do you think this is going to look like? The
25:19
Speaker 1: Titans traded for Julio Jones before last season. They gave
25:21
Speaker 1: up a second round pick, they paid him money, and
25:24
Speaker 1: he played like barely half the year. He didn't catch
25:27
Speaker 1: a touchdown until the last game of the season. He
25:29
Speaker 1: made a couple of big plays in the playoff game,
25:31
Speaker 1: but then on the final drive of the playoff game,
25:33
Speaker 1: Tanna Hill throws interception Julio Jones on the sideline for
25:36
Speaker 1: who knows why. He really dealt with this hamstring thing
25:39
Speaker 1: all year long and the Titans were counting on him
25:42
Speaker 1: to be a big part of the passing game. That's
25:44
Speaker 1: the thing with the Bucks is he doesn't have to
25:46
Speaker 1: be a big part of the passing game. Anything he
25:48
Speaker 1: gives the Bucks if he only plays five games, but
25:51
Speaker 1: he plays in the playoffs. That's a win for Tampa Bay,
25:54
Speaker 1: I think because they have Mike Evans. Chris Godwin's gonna
25:57
Speaker 1: be at training camp. Despite tearing his ACL in January,
26:00
Speaker 1: He's cleared for camp already. So I think it's a
26:03
Speaker 1: great move for Julio. Go play with Tom Brady, the
26:06
Speaker 1: guy who beat you in a super Bowl that you
26:08
Speaker 1: were winning twenty eight to three, and us that that
26:11
Speaker 1: super Bowl that was my very first super Bowl. Oh wow,
26:13
Speaker 1: that's cool. Um. I also love that he just signed
26:16
Speaker 1: a one year contract. I always think that that's really interesting. Obviously,
26:18
Speaker 1: they want to make sure that he's because of like
26:20
Speaker 1: the work that he's been put up the last year
26:23
Speaker 1: and like his injury and all that stuff. But like
26:25
Speaker 1: I think for Julio, it's like, all right, let's get
26:27
Speaker 1: to work like this next year, is it? Yeah? I
26:30
Speaker 1: don't have any security after that, which is obviously terrible
26:33
Speaker 1: for Like I obviously want players to get paid and
26:35
Speaker 1: be taken care of and stuff like that. But I
26:37
Speaker 1: just find it really interesting, like the pressure has been
26:39
Speaker 1: turned all the way up and like, let's see if
26:41
Speaker 1: he can handle it, and I think it could be
26:43
Speaker 1: really interesting. Yeah, uh bench bachelor at time. Now here's
26:48
Speaker 1: the thing, Sean, you are joining us for the first
26:50
Speaker 1: time on this show. Happy to have you, Thank you,
26:52
Speaker 1: happy to be here. I always love our chat it.
26:56
Speaker 1: Now you're an Eagles fan, huge And as we told
27:00
Speaker 1: you before the show. You asked, are the Eagles still
27:02
Speaker 1: in the lips And I said, Sean, yes they are.
27:05
Speaker 1: I'm touched and they are still on that list. Right now,
27:11
Speaker 1: I want you to tell me in thirty seconds why
27:14
Speaker 1: the Eagles should stay today. Because they've got a star
27:17
Speaker 1: next to their name, John, Yeah, that means they're on
27:20
Speaker 1: the chopping block. They are on the chopping block I
27:22
Speaker 1: have seen. But here's the reason you need to be
27:24
Speaker 1: with the Eagles. The Eagles are a young, budding team.
27:26
Speaker 1: We are not the team that won the Super Bowl
27:28
Speaker 1: in a weird way in twenty seventeen. No, we are
27:30
Speaker 1: a young, building up team. One of the best offensive
27:33
Speaker 1: lines in the league, top rated mad and offensive line
27:35
Speaker 1: in the league. We have Jalen Hurt's one of the
27:37
Speaker 1: youngest budding quarterbacks who just got an All Pro wide
27:41
Speaker 1: receiver from whose team? Graver's team, and and he's gonna
27:45
Speaker 1: be thrown him all year. Defanta Smith all year young.
27:48
Speaker 1: Everybody's gonna be smiling, touchdown celebrations out the wazoo, Nick
27:52
Speaker 1: Sirianni he hass okay, he's he's rocking it. He's preaching competition.
27:57
Speaker 1: I'm like the environment. It's just bumping. We're gonna have
28:00
Speaker 1: such a fun time. Come down the Philly grabb a
28:02
Speaker 1: cheese steake, hit up the link. Okay, that was pretty good, Sehn,
28:10
Speaker 1: thank you, but you did. You did bring up a
28:14
Speaker 1: sore moment for me that I associate with the Eagles
28:19
Speaker 1: and will for the rest of my life. And I
28:20
Speaker 1: don't think I'm gonna be able to let go of
28:22
Speaker 1: the image when you guys won the Super Bowl of
28:26
Speaker 1: a grown man eating poop in the street. Okay, look, no, no, no, no, no,
28:32
Speaker 1: let let that. Let that breathe for a sec. That
28:37
Speaker 1: is something that happened. And you show up to work
28:42
Speaker 1: every day and you still wear that hat, and you
28:43
Speaker 1: still wear that logo on your chest. We're so happy
28:47
Speaker 1: run that Super Bowl, Sean. I'm so sorry. I'm gonna
28:50
Speaker 1: have to let the Eagles go today. No, they are
28:55
Speaker 1: officially eliminated. I'm crushed. I have no ties to Philadelphia, Okay,
29:05
Speaker 1: I care about you as a person. I respect your fandom,
29:08
Speaker 1: but I cannot be associated with that group of fans.
29:11
Speaker 1: Thank you for your honesty. Too many things have happened.
29:13
Speaker 1: I've seen too much. I've seen too much. I'm sorry
29:16
Speaker 1: Eagles fans, but there's snowballs at Santa Claus. One time, fly.
29:22
Speaker 1: You don't mess with Santa Claus and you don't eat
29:24
Speaker 1: poop in the street. You do things one time man.
29:29
Speaker 1: I do love Philadelphia and I do love a cheese steak.
29:31
Speaker 1: Also cheese steak. I was so surprised to learn that
29:34
Speaker 1: it's just like cheese whiz. It depends on where you
29:36
Speaker 1: go sick, depends on what place you go and how
29:39
Speaker 1: you get it. There's usually the top three cheese or
29:41
Speaker 1: cheese whizz American and Provolone provolone man myself, but cheese
29:45
Speaker 1: is definitely a fan favor for a lot of people.
29:47
Speaker 1: Is cheese whiz a popular thing in the United States
29:51
Speaker 1: of America? Yeah, because it's very popular in Canada. I used,
29:54
Speaker 1: but it depends on where you put up with cheese steaks,
29:56
Speaker 1: it's the most popular. I used to eat that stuff
29:58
Speaker 1: on toast and probably believe every day. Wow, yeah, stam
30:04
Speaker 1: on there Oh yeah, that's probably why I don't have
30:06
Speaker 1: a goal bladder anymore of it. Okay, playing the music,
30:10
Speaker 1: I'm ready to kick off the next team. There's two
30:14
Speaker 1: other teams on the chopping block today. I love this power.
30:17
Speaker 1: It's disgusting. The Chicago Bears are on the chopping block.
30:25
Speaker 1: The Minnesota Vikings, well, NFC North Action there are the
30:32
Speaker 1: chopping block. I'm actually quite torn about both of these
30:37
Speaker 1: because neither one of them really makes me that exciting. Chicago,
30:45
Speaker 1: you've not really done anything the last few years. Vikings,
30:51
Speaker 1: the Vikings. That the thing that I could be excited
30:54
Speaker 1: about the Vikings is I believe that they were the
30:58
Speaker 1: team with the most one score losses last year. They
31:04
Speaker 1: kept their games the most close. It was like either
31:06
Speaker 1: that in the Chargers they were like hand in hand,
31:09
Speaker 1: so a couple of different plays things could have changed. Actually,
31:15
Speaker 1: let me try and remember this stat that I said
31:16
Speaker 1: on Good Morning Football. It was something crazy like every
31:19
Speaker 1: single game that Kirk Cousins started, every single loss was
31:25
Speaker 1: by one score, and the only time the Vikings had
31:28
Speaker 1: a loss that was more than one score was the
31:30
Speaker 1: game that he did not play in. Wow, that's kind
31:34
Speaker 1: of crazy. And they have a new head coach. Maybe
31:36
Speaker 1: that's the difference. That's kind of crazy. Okay, I've made
31:41
Speaker 1: up my mind. Chicago Bears, even though you had a
31:44
Speaker 1: lovely pr person, email me this week and say, hey,
31:47
Speaker 1: big fan, anytime you want to come hang, you can
31:49
Speaker 1: come hang. Love that, thank you, but your time has come.
31:53
Speaker 1: I will not be coming in hanging. Actually, I would
31:56
Speaker 1: still actually love to do that, because I really love Chicago.
31:58
Speaker 1: Great city, great city, great franchise. Yeah, but not my franchise.
32:03
Speaker 1: No Chicago Bears, I'm say sorry, your time is gone. Eagles, Bears,
32:09
Speaker 1: the animals sit, they are getting the boot. Vikings. You're
32:12
Speaker 1: still in this thing, baby, Let's see what happens. I
32:16
Speaker 1: think we're only gonna do too today. Right, we're only
32:18
Speaker 1: murdering too that's strong language, but yes, we're only murdering
32:25
Speaker 1: the relationship of two teams. Guys, We've only got a
32:29
Speaker 1: couple of weeks left, and like every single team that's left,
32:31
Speaker 1: I'm kind of stoked on. We got the Bills left,
32:35
Speaker 1: the Chargers, the Colts, the Dolphins are still very much
32:39
Speaker 1: in this thing. The Jets. We gotta have hands is
32:43
Speaker 1: back on, Lions. You guys know, I'm stoked on the Lions, Panthers, Raiders, Ravens, Vikings.
32:53
Speaker 1: That's who's left. It's a good group. I am patiently
32:56
Speaker 1: waiting for you to kick the Colts out of this game.
32:58
Speaker 1: But hey, I still think there's some redeeming qualities about
33:02
Speaker 1: the Quilts that I'm very excited about. Mattie Ice, Jonathan Taylor,
33:07
Speaker 1: He's fun, he's fun, fun, he's fun. He's no Derrick Henry,
33:11
Speaker 1: but I mean I roll Um. Guys, that's our show
33:15
Speaker 1: for this week. We love you so much. Please tell
33:20
Speaker 1: us what movies you've not watched. We've got some homework
33:23
Speaker 1: to do. Also, follow us on Instagram and Twitter. I've
33:25
Speaker 1: benched underscore pods. Wait quick announcement. Our YouTube channel has changed,
33:30
Speaker 1: which is why we haven't posted any YouTube. Didn't clear that,
33:33
Speaker 1: so we are now just no more NFL podcasts. That
33:36
Speaker 1: has moved into a solely around the NFL video channel.
33:41
Speaker 1: Thank everything. You can find the video version of this
33:44
Speaker 1: show where you can see Sean and I in the
33:46
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33:51
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33:54
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