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"Sea of Green" episode 197 · DMV Mess Hall

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Hi folks, this is Rick Doc Walker to DOC.
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This is John Kind and you're listening to the mess hall with
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rally captain and Tailgate Ted. What's going on?
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Rally You ready for that last home game of the season?
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I'm so ready for that. I told everyone that I'm wearing
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throwback, and so because we were the Redskins, I'm wearing
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Redskins gear to culminate this Christmas Day matchup between
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the Redskins and the Dallas Cowboys for this week.
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I hear you, man. It's before we get into this
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week. We definitely got to talk about
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last week. Yeah, we got to talk about it,
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bro. Cuz you said some things that,
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that that kind of threw me for a loop.
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So I, I need to know, man. I'm like Clint Eastwood, you got
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5 bullets or six bullets. I need to know.
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I I need to know Dirty hairy. That was dirty hairy, by the
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way. So last week was it was an
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interesting time, right? You know, it's a Saturday game
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against the Eagles. And 1st off, thank you to
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everybody that donated tickets to Warrior Wishes.
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I had a bunch of those guys and gals come on through.
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There was an Eagles family that actually came on through.
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I'm thinking, I know I didn't approve you to come hang out
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with the tailgate. So what what's this about?
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But they were through Warrior Wishes, we gladly hosted them,
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made sure they were fed, they had a good time and appreciate
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all of you all for donating your seats.
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And I know some people have donated them for the Cowboys
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game on Christmas as well. So hats off to all of y'all for
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doing that. You know, you definitely made
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their day and help some people out.
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So I'm there and I'm hanging out and I'm cooking, I'm doing
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everything. The parking lot is, is pretty
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much dead. There's not a lot out there,
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right? And I mean, what time did you
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get to the game, to the stadium? So it was 5:00 game.
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I got there probably about 145, two o'clock.
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OK, so the red zone lot opens up at noon, What the scene look
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like at 1:45 or two? See a green OK in the red zone
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to put it to put it to put it mildly, I see a green in the red
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zone lot. Yes, that's crazy.
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Man. I ride in with my with my
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homeboy Rodney, with the Commanders truck, Redskin truck,
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Washington football team truck, if you want to say, because he's
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he's got all three on there. And all the Eagles fans were
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just pointing. It was like, that's a nice
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truck. That's a nice truck, but too bad
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you're going to lose. And hey man, it, it was just a
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sea of green, you know, looking. Out with the command corner?
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Or like, do they just have their own tailgates?
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Going they they just were there anywhere you turned they were
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there and walking through the lots to even to get to you.
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It was green. I mean, that's just how it was.
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But I but but before I go into that, I got to tell everyone.
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So back when we had to play Philadelphia in Philadelphia for
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the division championship, their stadium was was a sea of
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burgundy and gold. So I expected it because when
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when your team is losing, what does the home team do?
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They sell their tickets. And we were playing for the
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division and so obviously everyone took the trip up 95 N
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to witness us. When the division, it's no
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different. So don't.
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It's nothing to me to lose your hat over because I've seen both
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sides of it and, and quite literally, we expected it.
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Oh yeah, we knew it was going to happen, right?
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They're they're coming down 95. Ticket prices were dropping and
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it's a Saturday, so they still have the rest of their weekend
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to go do whatever holiday stuff they need to do and go from
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there. So I'm not going to hate on the
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fans that got rid of the tickets or whatever happened.
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It just wasn't what it was. Right?
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They, I'd say they outnumbered us at home just because I think
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it would have been a different story if we weren't so close to
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Christmas. I think if this was maybe 2
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weeks ago, our fan base might have shown up instead of, you
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know, dealing with the holiday stuff.
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I had people telling me, hey, I've got Christmas parties and I
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would rather deal with that and go have a good time and drink
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some eggnog and, you know, maybe find someone under a mistletoe,
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then deal with a bunch of drunk Eagles fans.
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Which was pretty much, what, the entire day and it turning out to
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be. So apparently Barstool Philly
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decides to reshare the video back from last January.
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Can't get away from it. Now I'm never going to be able
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to, right? It's following me everywhere.
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It is what it is, right? And you know, I'm not going to
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rehash what it was, but they obviously have nothing going on.
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So they felt like sharing it out again.
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And I guess I'm trending again. When I'm up in the morning, I
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don't look at my cell phone. I I tell people, if you're
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trying to get a hold of me, just come find me in the parking spot
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because I am so busy getting stuff ready for the game that
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day, the tailgate that day. And I actually used to have my
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outgoing message on game days. This is where I am.
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If you need me, come find me here.
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If you're not coming to the game, I'll talk to you tomorrow.
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All right? And I had to take that off
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because I was told it was unprofessional.
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But you know, it's just fact of the matter.
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You're busy cooking. Yeah, right.
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I don't have my phone on me. I'm not going to accidentally
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drop in the deep fryer, which one of our cooks did years ago.
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So. Oh yeah, the guy was also, you
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know, 3 sheets, so, and he probably never should have
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bought a deep fryer, but I'm the one that handles it now just to
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make sure that never happens again.
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And my phone's blowing up right? And I'm getting text messages,
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everything else. I have muted everything that
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says Philadelphia Eagles, Hard Rock, any iteration you can
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possibly think of because all their fans tagged me in it.
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And Twitter came out with the mute forever option before it
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was just 30 days. So now if you tweet me and tag
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me and do at Tailgate Ted and put any combination of those
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words in, I will never see it so it doesn't pollute my timeline
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and bother. Me at all.
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So it's fine. It's actually a nice feature
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that they came out with. But Needless to say that I had a
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bunch of Eagles fans coming up and harassing me during the
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tailgate and coming by. So I'm just, you know what?
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It's not worth wasting my time. I'm not going to engage, not
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going to say anything to do anything.
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So we have our tailgate, and it's our smallest tailgate this
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year, but we ended up raising some money for charity.
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So that to me is all that matters.
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Had a good time, made some cheese steaks.
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You actually got to hang out longer than I was expecting you
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to be there. So that was a pleasant surprise.
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And then I'm getting ready to go into the game.
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Oh no, let me change this up. Rewind real quick, this is the
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first time ever that we required a donation to be collected ahead
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of the game for over 2 decades. You just donate when you get
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there because I just trust you guys to show up and handle that.
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Well, we've changed it now because of what I found on a
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couple Eagle message boards. They were going and they were
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sharing out the Hail BBQ website and they were going to flood the
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RSVP and pretend to register and then just not show up.
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So that was their game plan was to have me buy all this food and
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get ready to cook all this food and then have it all completely
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go to waste and then lose thousands of dollars that I've
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spent. On it.
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Oh man. So that's how petty their fan
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base is where I'm trying to raise money for charity, right?
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We raised thousands of thousands of dollars this year and they're
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just trying to make me waste it all because I think it's funny.
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So from now on, that's just how it's going to be for division
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games, especially their division and dealing with that.
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And you know, probably night games because like the people
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that don't show up because of traffic and I've got food that
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goes to waste because they don't actually post.
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So we had to change it up because of them.
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And they're, you know, just mentality.
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But going into the game, I know you had your your meta glasses
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on. I'm rocking mine because I
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wanted to have them. I do like a little video of me
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cooking. Well, I want to take some videos
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of me walking into the stadium, just dealing with their fans.
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And I'm not. Going to be able to post those
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videos because I am afraid I'm going to get my account taken
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down because of some of the words and phrases that were
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being uttered during the audio portions of it.
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At you. Oh yeah, man.
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Yeah, so you know, it just and it's a vocal minority, right?
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Right. So I, I know what I'm getting
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myself into when I go up to Philly.
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I knew what I was getting myself into when their fans were coming
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down here. So it's all right.
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It's fine. If I had, I'm telling you, no
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joke, maybe let's just say $10.00 for every person that
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walked up to me in an Eagles jersey that asked to take a
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selfie. I could have paid for my NFC
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Championship game this past year.
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The question is, did you? Did you take a selfie with them?
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Hell no, I didn't take a selfie with these Bamas.
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I mean part of me want to grab their phone and throw it on the
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ground, but then that would be destruction of property.
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So I decided no, I just wait. Wait, wait, wait a minute, Ted.
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Wait a minute, Ted. Why didn't you take a selfie
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with them? Because all they're going to do
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is share it with Barstool and just keep it going.
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All they're going to do is post it online and keep it going that
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this isn't Where's Waldo, right? I'm not here for it.
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Honestly, it felt like I was a zoo animal in my seats because
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every time I would turn around to look at my boy Chuck or
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someone else there someone and they weren't videoing the game,
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right? There was no play going on or
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anything happening. It was just zoomed in on me the
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entire time, all right. And.
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It's just, it cracks me up because obviously once again, I
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I still live rent free and I know it's going to be that way
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for a very long time and I'm fine with it because I got broad
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shoulders. I know I can handle it.
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But. The entire game's going on and
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this is actually when our fight happened and we'll get to the
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game here in a bit. I just want to talk about my
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experience. So this is when the fight after
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two point conversion happened. This group think of like four or
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five guys, four or five white dudes behind me.
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I'm sitting in the aisle and they are in the aisle one row
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back, one section over, right. Guy's been heckling me the
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entire time under his breath and I I can hear everything he's
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saying the entire game. It's the fourth quarter and he
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comes over to apologize and those they can't see.
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I'm putting my hands up. You know, a little quotes.
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God wasn't trying to apologize. He was just getting in my face.
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And at this point, thank goodness my little brother had
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left, right? My sister in Some other people
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are gone because I didn't want Missus Tailgate coming to this
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game because I don't want her. To be around these people.
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So you're solo Dolo at this moment?
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Yeah, I was right. And that's when the guy chose to
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come over to come talk to me, right?
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So I'm sitting here thinking, OK, you know, all right, if if
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we got to go, we got to go. So he is literally this close to
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my face talking to me, and I'm just sitting there and saying,
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go back to your seat, man. Just go over there and go back
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to your seat. And he said, I'm apologizing.
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He said all you need to do is go back to your seat.
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Just go back to your section right over there.
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I can see your seat with your boys.
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Just go back over there. His friends the entire time are
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videotaping, right? Because they're just waiting for
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something to happen. So you know, I'm not going to
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sit there and fall under their bait.
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There's a gentleman behind me. He's a awesome season ticket
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holder. He and his daughter come 76 year
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old larger carriage African American man.
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And then some of the other season ticket holders around me
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start getting involved saying basically this little white kid
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is going to get his ass beat by these older African American
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gentlemen if they don't leave me alone and go back.
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The kid just wouldn't move, wouldn't get out of my face.
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So at that point, still sitting there, I just pulled my
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mouthpiece out out of my pocket, put it in, said OK, if you're
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ready, let's go. You're in that damn mouthpiece.
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At that point he ran back to his seat and went to go sit his ass
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back down and he and his boys freaked out.
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Like you're going to invade my space and come over here and act
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like you're going to attack me, then I'm going to be ready for
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it. And he went back over and I
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didn't bother turning around and looking at them.
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But it was just to me, the ignorance in their fan base.
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That's the part I'll never get over, right?
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There were little children that were my nieces and nephews, age
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maybe six or seven that were cursing at Washington fans when
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they were leaving during the during the game saying go to the
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F home and their parents were cheering them on, right?
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And I just, that's the part that I don't get where they think
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it's OK behavior, right? That's the part that I don't
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understand. Like to be proud of just that
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kind of behavior. OK, you guys won the game.
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But to act like that, to act like just act like you've ever
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even been there before. And obviously they have because
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they've been a good team for quite some time.
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And they won back-to-back, you know, NFC East championships for
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the first time and, you know, over 20 years, whatever the hell
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that record is. But I have never hated a group
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of individuals more in my life. Well, I guess I'm sorry to hear
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that for you, man. I really am because we just saw
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the Pittsburgh Steeler guy get into the, the altercation with
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DK, get into the altercation with the fan.
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And you know, at some point in time, you know, even though
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there is a code of conduct, it needs something needs to be
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enforced. I had just the opposite time.
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No one really said anything to me.
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And I guess I'm, I'm, I'm cool with that.
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And, and not that I, I needed anyone to say anything because
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sitting next to me was, was a Philadelphia fan and, and then,
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and then the, the front row had Philly fans.
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So, you know, it was all good for me.
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You know, they were like, hey man, if we, we know who you are,
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we appreciate their, their fans said we appreciate you and would
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you mind if I take a picture with you?
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So I was like, OK, cool. You know, I don't have a problem
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with it. If you use my face for darts, so
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be it. But they they were, they were
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cool asking for a picture. So I I said, all right, why not?
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And I told him, I said I'll see you guys in Philly in three
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weeks. And they said, all right, we'll
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be there. So I I'm sorry you had to go
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through that, bro. I I really am, but you, that
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mouthpiece, man, that's. That's been, so I told you
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offline what happened to me in Philly.
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Yeah, yeah. So it, it hasn't come out what
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happened? But I got jumped and we were up
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there, right? I, you know, I, I got jumped
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when I was in the bathroom and we were up there and I, I
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brought it for a reason. Chief Z was a friend of mine.
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He was like a father of me, right?
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I ended up helping clean out his house after he passed away.
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I planned his freaking memorial and his funeral with the team,
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right? And they threw him in a dumpster
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and broke his orbital bone, right?
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I just know how that fan base can be and how just caveman they
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can act. So yeah, best believe when I go
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up there, if I'm going to put myself in a situation, I'll be
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prepared, right? And when I was up there at the
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link for the championship game, I'm standing at a stall, right?
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Yeah, at a No, I'm not. I'm not saying you're on.
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I'm standing at an actual, you know, like toilet stall.
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So there's a barriers beside me where the door was, you know,
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open at that point, because I'm just taking a leak.
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A couple people come up behind me and start punching me, right?
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I've got my back to them. I can't do anything.
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And then luckily a couple people pulled them off of me and I just
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finished my business and I walked back to my seat.
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I didn't even bother engaging, washed my hands off and went
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back. Right.
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And that's just the interaction that I have had with them.
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And I haven't wanted to come out with and say anything about it
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because they'll get a kick out of it and think it's hilarious.
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It was the video that someone took of me leaving and they
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thought I was leaving the game. No, I stayed until you guys got
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your trophy, right? I paid for my ticket.
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I'm not leaving the game. I was leaving to go take a piss
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right? And last time I checked that
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wasn't illegal. And that's when I ended up
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getting jumped in the bathroom right?
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And it I wouldn't put it past them to try and do the same
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thing at our stadium because. Unfortunately.
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This past week, it was not our stadium.
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No, it wasn't. It really wasn't.
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And it's and it's sad, but I get it at the same time, you know,
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a, a better product on the field or a winning product, you know,
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would stop that. And so I think that if we had a
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better season, that wouldn't have happened.
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It just wouldn't have. I mean, they obviously they
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would have had a group of numbers that have come down to
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see us, but I don't think it would have transpired the way
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that it did. You look at the lower bowl, even
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I'd say from from from end zone to end zone on that side, it was
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all Philly. And then even for the home side,
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there were a lot of Philly fans who filtered on the lower bowl
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and, and I just, I understood it.
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I, I don't like it, but hopefully, you know, we can do
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better and get better for next year so that that won't happen.
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That's all I can say, man. You travel for games, I travel
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for games, right? I know what it's like to be in
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someone else's house and to win one of my top three moments as a
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fan of this team will forever be winning that division game
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against the Lions, right? But the difference is the Lions
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fans were 100% class. Right.
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No, no, Sir. Not not to me they weren't.
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Now that, yeah, now that that I can say for me.
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No, but I was getting cussed out.
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I was getting cussed out. I was getting everything.
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And so it's totally reversed. I'd rather have almost the Eagle
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fan at home than than these Detroit fans.
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They tried to be like a little deep little little Philadelphia
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man. It was, it was rough for me bro.
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Was this any in Detroit? In Detroit, Yeah, yeah.
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So for me, they were inviting, right?
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They were inviting Washington fans down to take their seats
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because they saw our fans in the standing room area behind and
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come on down here, right? You guys, you've been through
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hell like us for a long time. I'd say probably worse than them
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because they still own their name, right?
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And they were having people come down and take their seats and go
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sit in their spots because they realized that game was out of
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hand, right? And I to this day, my worst
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experience, all OK, second worst experience.
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Now, you know, the Eagles game definitely tops.
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That would be a wild card game against the Seahawks when Sean
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had passed away. I organized a tailgate out in
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Seattle with a bunch of the family of, you know, different
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players. And they trashed everybody's
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cars, right? They zip tie people in porta
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Johns. The point of we lost a couple of
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people for a little bit thinking, oh, where'd this guy
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go? Dude was locked in a porta pot,
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all right? And it was just, they destroyed
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people's rental cars, right? And it actually got picked up by
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the Washington Post. And one of my quotes was it
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remind me of that scene from Gladiator when Marcus Aurelius,
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whatever is going through and it just got people in both sides of
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them yelling and screaming. That's really what it felt like
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when I was in Seattle going in and the article got back to
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Seattle ownership and they invited a bunch of us who were
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mentioning the article back out to Seattle because we played
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them in O 8 the next year. I refused to go and I did not
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want their blood money for a ticket or a flight to go out
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there. To me, I'm just going to
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remember how your fans are and how your place is, and I'll kill
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you with kindness when you come to my town, but I'm not going to
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contribute to your economy. See, I had just the opposite
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time in Seattle. Everybody was was welcoming to
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me in Seattle. So wow, totally different.
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But then again, playoffs, regular season, you know.
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Mike Sellers started right, Mike Sellers said.
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It's not that loud out there, which definitely egg their fans
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on. And it's just to give bulletin
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board material like that to a fan base and just a team when
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you're about to play them in the playoffs just dumbfounds me.
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Don't know why Big Mike thought that that was OK And, you know,
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I'm not sure what's going to happen in two weeks when we play
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them again. You know, getting into the game
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itself, the fight happened in your end zone.
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All right. First, what did you think when
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they were going for two? The Beyoncé did.
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I didn't care. It's, it's football.
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I, you know, I, I, I thought, hey, you know, maybe not that
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well, there's always a chance that we could come back.
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Who knows what could happen? We weren't going to come back
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when. We come back, man.
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Not with Josh Johnson. I mean with Mariana maybe, but
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not with Josh. Johnson, not with JJ, but
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anyway. Dude haven't thought of past
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since 2022. I got you, brother, I got you,
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but at the same time, there was a part of me that was just like,
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it is what it is, you know, and I and I just let it go.
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I'm not, I'm not one of these guys that's going to get up in
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arms about it that you're trying to pile on or whatever.
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Because if it was us and we did it, hey man, it is what it is,
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bro. So I, I just let it like a lot
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of things in my life just roll off my back, man, because I, I
22:46
got too, too much other stuff to worry about in my life.
22:49
Then then a two point conversion or trying to run the score up.
22:53
I've I've been to games where the score is going to run up.
22:56
So that's so we're not new to this.
22:58
So that's my biggest thing. It's happened before and
23:01
probably will happen again at some point time.
23:03
I will not allow what happens on the field to dictate what I do
23:08
in my personal life. I just can't do it.
23:10
So they did it. And then you're right, the fight
23:14
on the field happened and then there was a fighting in my end
23:16
zone. Yeah, there was a fight and they
23:20
wound up tossing the guy out. I mean, I, I really couldn't see
23:23
it, but I just heard it, you know?
23:25
You you heard the oh, oh, you know what I mean?
23:27
You know how it is when people fight.
23:28
All of a sudden you hear the crowd and you just kind of
23:30
stand, try to see where it's coming.
23:31
From you turn yeah you turn around and all of a sudden you
23:33
you see the the the punches flying or whatever have you sold
23:37
but I I will never allow that to dictate how I act because I can
23:45
only control my ATI can't control what somebody else does
23:47
now now some you know me, Ted. I've always said I will not put
23:52
my hands on someone or that someone puts their hands on me
23:55
and then it's a, it's a whole different story game on.
23:59
But I will never initiate anything.
24:02
And so with that said, man, I, I let things happen the way they
24:07
happen and, and well, they say life be life and if you will.
24:12
So I, I just let it happen man. And, and luckily I didn't have
24:17
any of those problems. But what those those guys get
24:20
paid to fight on the field and truthfully, I I see why they did
24:24
fight. To me, if you're insulted or you
24:30
think it's disrespect that they're going for it, stop them.
24:33
Don't let them score right. It's just I was annoyed because
24:37
you got all of this fight coming out of the guys and I understand
24:41
why they fought, but yet you couldn't tackle Saquon a couple
24:45
of times, right? You're just letting them bust
24:46
these long runs. You obviously got some energy in
24:49
you. Why don't you use some of that
24:51
to stop some of these plays on the field during an actual play,
24:54
not after a play, right? And DQ was asked about it.
24:56
This is what he had to say. Obviously it's their choice to
25:00
go for two there and you know, it's your job to stop them.
25:03
But is there an unspoken respect between coaches, teams where you
25:07
know in a game in that situation, you you don't do
25:09
that? And kind of did you feel like it
25:11
was a little bit of a sign of disrespect?
25:13
Yeah, I can only answer from my, you know, my side what I would
25:15
do, but Amen. Like that's how they want to get
25:19
down. Then, like all good, we play
25:21
them again in two weeks. I really wish DQ would have left
25:26
that. We'll play them again in two
25:26
weeks. Part out right, because what are
25:28
we going to do in two weeks when we play them?
25:30
All right? Odds are Mariota ain't playing
25:34
that game. And I'm just going based upon
25:36
hearing how bad his hand is. It is Tuesday the 23rd right now
25:41
we're recording this. His hand is still swollen and
25:44
he's got stitches in it. So what happened with his hands?
25:46
Somebody stepped on it, right? Yeah, it was a cleat.
25:49
He got a cleat on his hands. So first he was being evaluated
25:51
for a concussion. Actually, you know what?
25:53
Let DQ talk about it. I got a clip right here with
25:56
with Mark, first of all, like how many stitches?
25:58
What happened with the hand and how did he hurt it?
26:00
And then is there a realistic shot for Thursday, then with?
26:04
Him, I don't know the amount of stitches.
26:05
John, the quad in the hand happened on the same play.
26:08
It was a cleat that got to his hand on the top, but I don't
26:14
know yet swollen. So I'd say we're going to, you
26:19
know, call it day-to-day right now of where it's at both with
26:22
the hand and with the quad. And so let's see, you know, what
26:27
tomorrow is and the following day.
26:29
Then I'd say by, you know, 2 days from now we'll have a a
26:31
very good estimate of where he's at.
26:35
So that was coach talking on Sunday.
26:37
Well, it's two days from now and that thing is still hell
26:40
swollen. And Mariota was not out during
26:42
the media portion of practice. So Mariota ain't playing.
26:46
All right. It's going to be Josh Johnson,
26:48
and we'll get into, you know, what the hell Sam Hartman's
26:53
doing on this roster in a minute, but it's just
26:59
frustrating to see, man. All right, And I don't know.
27:05
All right, well, let's just jump into Hartman now.
27:07
What the Hell's? He doing on this roster bro.
27:11
The last time we saw him was the preseason and let's face it, he
27:17
looked like hot garbage. He he just did.
27:19
Now I don't know if if he's got an end with ownership or or
27:25
whatever have you, but I've never seen someone who could
27:28
stick around as long as he has without being able to even he
27:32
hasn't even suited up. That's what that's what gets me.
27:35
He He's always in plain clothes in.
27:38
Practice squad, so he's not going to suit up since he's on
27:41
the practice squad. I, I understand, I, I, I got
27:45
you. But he could have suited up this
27:49
past game when Mariota was as his backup.
27:53
But Josh was. That's my point.
27:55
You're on the practice squad, but but you can be elevated.
28:00
And so will he be elevated this week?
28:04
Well, I'll tell you right now, no, he's not.
28:07
So the team signed Jeff Driscoll.
28:10
So Jeff Driscoll is going to back up Josh Johnson and I've
28:16
got let me see if I can pull it up.
28:18
This was Kingsbury talking about it.
28:21
Go ahead. I was going to say, I feel like
28:23
Ricky Ricardo, you got some explaining to Lucy.
28:26
I don't understand that. How can a cat be on your team?
28:29
Well, actually, you know what? I know what he's going to say.
28:32
I know what he's going to say. Well, he probably hadn't taken
28:35
any snaps or he probably hadn't done this or done that.
28:37
The fact is you have you been on the practice squad taking snaps?
28:42
You you you've been throwing the ball.
28:43
You haven't just not been doing anything.
28:46
You're not coming off of an injury where you haven't suited
28:48
up for had pads on at all. Now, if you guys decided not to
28:53
have him do some third string reps, then that's on you.
28:57
But but don't say, well, you know, I don't want to hear that
29:01
excuse while he's on the practice squad because he's on
29:03
the practice squad. You throw the ball, you hand the
29:05
ball off, you run the fundamentals of football and I
29:07
know that you still do drills and I know that you do plays for
29:14
my team, but go ahead, man. So this is a quote from
29:18
Kingsbury, Why Driscoll over Sam Hartman?
29:21
Kingsbury said. Having a guy on a short week,
29:24
particularly, that has played NFL games before, is comfortable
29:27
with our system is why we felt good about bringing him in.
29:31
Driscoll was on a practice squad for another team, right?
29:34
He has not been in your building during the quarterback meetings,
29:39
right? Hartman has.
29:40
So JP Finley said that Hartman's basically, and I'm paraphrasing
29:44
the vibes guy, right? Everyone likes him in the locker
29:48
room. He helps book, you know,
29:49
organize team dinners and get togethers, right?
29:53
So don't you have? Assistance for that?
29:55
Don't you have assistance? You have assistance for that?
29:58
But I. Put his way, I don't.
29:59
I don't. I don't ever want to get in the
30:01
way of anybody getting their bag.
30:03
I, I, I don't and, and if you want, if you hired me to be the
30:06
team's organizer, then so be it. I can help put dinners together.
30:09
I, I can court help coordinate events.
30:12
That's what I do. I must be events, baby.
30:14
So if that's what you need, say that that money and, and let's
30:17
put somebody who to use, who can, who can really fulfill that
30:20
position. I mean, I'll be a lot cheaper
30:23
than him because I'm sure he's, he's making more than league
30:25
minimal. So.
30:27
Well, no, since he's on the practice squad, he's not right.
30:31
He's so his total career earnings.
30:36
No, it's not league. You don't make league minimum
30:38
when you're on the practice squad.
30:40
So it practice squad you get paid just a tiny amount.
30:45
Granted, a tiny amount is still a lot that compared to us, but
30:48
he's not. 1000. No, no, no, no.
30:52
I think it's around 200 something 230,000.
30:56
Oh cry me a River, $200,000. It's I'd I'd kill for that,
31:01
right, But it's since it's practice squad, it's completely
31:05
different than being on the active roster because he's not
31:07
on the active roster. So you're not going to get the
31:09
lead minimum unless you're on an active roster is what I'm trying
31:12
to. Say, all right, all right, well,
31:14
as I said, I don't ever, as I said, I don't ever want to get
31:18
in, in, in anybody's bag. So if that's how you got to do
31:21
it, that's how you got to do it, and that's what they want to do,
31:23
then so be it. I, I just don't understand it.
31:26
I'll say that. I'm right there with you.
31:29
So players with two or fewer accrued NFL seasons, which would
31:33
be Hartman, get $13,000 a week on the practice squad.
31:39
So that's not. 1000 a week, yeah.
31:44
Compared to an NFL salary, right, that's not a lot.
31:47
That's peanuts. I got you.
31:48
Yeah. So if he's doing 18 weeks,
31:52
13,000, that's $234,000 a year, right?
31:55
If he gets elevated to the active roster and gets called
31:58
up, then that's a different story.
32:00
So he would get more money. But he's been on the practice
32:02
squad this entire time. For me, my whole thing is, yes,
32:06
your practice squad is. So you have someone there that
32:09
can run, you know, the scout team, things like that.
32:12
But you're also grooming that individual.
32:15
So what the hell are we grooving Hartman for, right?
32:18
So now you have 5 quarterbacks on the roster, right?
32:21
None of which are on IR cause Jayden's not on IR.
32:25
And then there are fans that are yelling and screaming.
32:27
Well what about Jayden playing this week right?
32:29
Because he was limited in practice.
32:31
This is DQ talking about Jayden's status.
32:33
We would not consider playing Jayden.
32:35
So the first two options are the ones you were leading into or
32:40
Josh and Sam. What we consider somebody else
32:42
coming in if he's not able to. Yeah, all those are on the
32:44
table. That's something that Ed and I
32:46
are discussing tonight and we did today.
32:51
So Jaden's off the table. He's limited in practice and
32:55
Mariota, I don't think practice today.
32:58
Yeah, he was ADNP. So it's going to be Driscoll
33:03
coming here from Arizona to backup Josh Johnson, right.
33:09
And I just, I know it's not a big deal because obviously
33:13
Hartman has not shown what the coaches want to see for him to
33:17
earn that spot. But if you wanted Driscoll to be
33:22
your backup, then why didn't you put him on your practice squad
33:26
over Hartman? I, I just, I don't know, I don't
33:29
get that part because Driscoll was here last year, the other
33:31
year, but he's been in the system.
33:33
That's why they brought him back so.
33:37
I, I, I don't know, that's one of the things that I will
33:40
scratch my head on, but once again, I don't get paid millions
33:43
of dollars to no, neither do you, Ted.
33:45
So obviously there's a, a reason behind it.
33:49
We just haven't figured it out. Well, we got two games to to
33:53
figure it out. Rumor is these boys with Jaden
33:56
and you know, that's but I'm sorry, I just do not see Adam
34:00
Peters saying Jane, you like this guy, I'm going to keep him
34:02
on the roster. You only have so many spots or
34:05
on the team, you know, practice squad spots.
34:06
You only have so many practice squad spots.
34:08
Like why do? That no man.
34:11
You got, you know, 46 year old Philip Rivers coming out and
34:15
actually doing stuff and then we got Josh Johnson, like before
34:19
Johnson came in, right? What did you think when all of a
34:22
sudden they fumble the opening kickoff, right?
34:25
And we recover that thing? Like what was going through your
34:27
head at that moment? I said, oh boy, we got a game on
34:30
our hands. Said, oh man, these guys are
34:32
fired up. They're tired of this nonsense.
34:34
It's time to show and prove and, and, and here we are.
34:37
Let's go ahead and make this thing happen and that we got to
34:40
feel Lord out of it. That was a bummer, right?
34:43
And we go into halftime 6:50, we still have the lead.
34:47
Right. Going into the 4th, right, it
34:49
was only 14 to 10. Then when Mariota goes down, I'm
34:53
thinking, all right, you got to be kidding me.
34:55
It's just, it was just another comical thing.
34:59
And Mariota was the only one that went down.
35:00
There were so many injuries this past week and this is actually
35:04
DQ talking about a couple of them.
35:06
Start with Marcus, he had stitches on his right hand and
35:08
he's also dealing with a quad injury.
35:12
So Week 16, every team's dealing with stuff, but for guys like
35:16
Marcus fighting hard, we know how much he means to us as a
35:19
leader. And so we're certainly
35:22
disappointed for him. We'll see really day-to-day as
35:25
it's going to go. I'll give you updates through
35:27
the week of where he's at. Laramie Tunsil, work with the
35:31
trainers today. We'll see as it gets closer to
35:34
the game for him tomorrow, be more like in a, you know,
35:39
jogging through pace. Brandon Coleman with the shin.
35:42
We're hopeful that this can turn quickly, that he'd be available
35:44
for the game. Sam Cosmi is in the concussion
35:47
protocol and Johnny Newton has cleared concussion protocol and
35:54
Jaylen Lane with his ankle. It would be tough for this
35:57
Thursday and so we'll see what it looks like, but it would be
36:01
tough to match up for this week so.
36:05
So Lane's out. They put him on IR.
36:07
Cosmi also went on IR. He's out, right Tonsil, DNP,
36:13
right? Duron Payne, DNP Nick Velour,
36:17
DNP So it's just right now we're The Walking wounded going into
36:23
this Cowboys game and I've just, I don't know who we're going to
36:27
have actually suit up and dress come Christmas.
36:31
I mean, I'm still amped up from this past week, so I'm happy to
36:35
put some pads on and go out there.
36:37
I can still run a mean 40, right?
36:39
But they are, they're pulling in guys from other people's
36:43
practice squads at this. Point to just try and.
36:46
Get enough people. That's terrible, man.
36:49
It really is on so many levels. I wish that this would be the
36:53
last game of the season. I I really do, because morale is
37:00
down When when when your buddy goes down.
37:03
Yeah, it gives you an opportunity to possibly feel
37:06
that slot and shine, but you hate to see it.
37:10
And and we're so close to the end of the season to where I'm
37:14
afraid that guys will start making business decisions if
37:18
they haven't already done so. I mean, they'll still fight, but
37:23
it's one of those things, hey man, you know what?
37:26
I what are we playing for realistically?
37:30
You know what I mean? And at the end of the day, you
37:32
can, you can say what you want to say.
37:34
They're human beings. I will I will always tout that
37:37
they're human beings who have feelings, who think just like
37:40
everybody else. So you do it at your job and and
37:45
although they may be getting paid at a little bit more than
37:48
than us or a lot more rather a. Lot more.
37:50
Yeah, yeah, a lot more. Their mind is the same.
37:54
It's, it's, it's the same, it's just on a different scale.
37:57
And they're putting their bodies on the line 'cause now you say,
38:02
well, damn. Not that I not that I wish the
38:05
injury bugle anybody, but if I get hurt this this time of the
38:08
of the year, that prolongs my recovery and I may miss a
38:14
preseason game or depending on how bad it could be.
38:18
So you have guys that are saying, OK, let me make this
38:23
decision. Yeah, I mean, I don't think
38:28
Duron Payne's going to be here next season, right?
38:31
Just based on his contract, No, I don't think so, right from a a
38:35
contract number. It's the whole issue we had
38:38
with, you know, John Allen, not a bunch of guaranteed.
38:41
I don't think he has any guaranteed money next season,
38:45
right? So I think Duron's going to be
38:47
gone. So Duron, I'm not saying that's
38:51
why he didn't practice. I'm not saying that's why he's
38:52
not suiting up with the boys and going to war with them.
38:55
But would you really want to risk it knowing that next year
39:00
look 2026? He has.
39:04
Yeah, I mean, 27, he's an $11 million dead cap hit and his
39:11
base salary, yeah, I'm not seeing anything crazy guaranteed
39:15
for him. They have a potential out in
39:18
2026, the team does. So that's why a lot of people
39:21
thinking he's gone, right, Tunsil is going to be signing or
39:26
looking for a big contract this offseason.
39:29
He's under contract, but he doesn't have any guaranteed
39:32
money on his deal, right? So it's the whole kind of Terry
39:35
thing all over again where there's no guaranteed money, so
39:38
he's going to be looking for a payday you.
39:41
Think we'll sign him? He's AD and Pi, don't think you
39:43
trade for him unless you know you're going to bring him back,
39:47
right? And you know, obviously they
39:49
traded for Lattimore. That one didn't work out.
39:52
Tunsil's been a baller. So I think he deserves to get
39:55
paid. And in fact, Kingsbury even said
39:57
during one of his press conferences he's going to get
39:59
paid this offseason. And I'm sure Peters was not
40:01
happy that Kingsbury said that. But you know, he was just
40:04
stating the obvious, right? But talking about things to
40:07
things to play for, Von Miller is at 7 sacks.
40:11
If he gets two more sacks, he gets $1,000,000 bonus right?
40:16
So Frankie Louvou, is it 4 sacks?
40:19
If he gets two more sacks, he gets a $325,000 bonus, right?
40:25
Mariota was getting a bonus for if he played 60% of the snaps
40:30
and actually got a win in that game.
40:31
He got a $200,000 bonus per game, right?
40:35
I don't think he's going to get that the rest of the week's
40:37
coming up just because. But you know, there are guys
40:41
that are still playing for stuff and guys that are playing for
40:42
contracts flat out next year. It's just when coach says we see
40:46
that we're going to see you in two weeks.
40:48
What do you realistically think this roster is going to do in
40:50
two weeks? And I don't care if the Eagles
40:52
are playing the starters or their backups.
40:55
I just I'm hoping it's a Bill Callahan coach, you know, play
40:59
called game where it's a two hour and some change game
41:02
because we're just run the ball, run the clock out.
41:06
And so you're Bermuda? Yeah.
41:09
There we go Cancun, right? And that's one of the guys
41:14
season ticket horse behind me was asking when are you and
41:16
Rally going to talk about draft picks and positions and this and
41:19
that. Like what?
41:20
We still got games left, but realistically I think the
41:22
highest we can get is 6th because no other yeah, no other.
41:28
We are in 7th right now. No other team has four losses.
41:31
Everyone else has two or three or five.
41:35
So because of that, the way things are panning out, OK, what
41:39
are we going to if we accidentally win, we're going to
41:41
go from, you know, 7th to 8th. We're not going to get better
41:45
than the 6th pick. We're not going to get the 4th
41:47
pick or the third pick just based upon how things have run
41:49
out. And I don't know you guys, I'm
41:51
tired of watching us lose, right?
41:54
And I thought we had a chance at halftime.
41:57
Yeah. But.
41:59
I thought we did as well, man. Yeah, it's just the, the, the
42:04
way that the season is is turned out for us, you know, And that's
42:08
why I said I really do wish that this was the last game of the
42:10
season. And that way we could ride off
42:13
to the sunset, put a tuck our tail between our legs.
42:16
It's like a cat that has fallen and embarrassed itself.
42:21
You won't see that cat. That cat will go up underneath
42:23
the couch and hide until he gets himself, his or herself
42:27
together. And then after that, All right,
42:30
let me have forgotten about it. I'll come back out.
42:33
That's what cats do. And so I see that kind of same
42:37
thing for us. Hey, look, let's just get this
42:38
over with. We'll go, We'll we'll regroup
42:41
because I do believe we're going to regroup.
42:43
I don't know what we're going to do, how we're going to do it,
42:46
why we'll do it, but I do believe it'll happen.
42:49
And I just want to believe that the powers that be, you know,
42:54
all we hear is we got all this cap space money.
42:57
I'm hoping that they that when the time comes that they put it
43:01
to use the right way and and pick who we need or pick, pay
43:06
who we need and go from there. But that's for another show as
43:09
well. We still got two games left and
43:13
the Dallas Cry boys who didn't make the playoffs are coming to
43:17
town. And so realistically, kind of
43:21
the same things is going through their mind, you know, even
43:25
though DAC will play because that's he's the starting
43:28
quarterback or will they make a business decision and shut him
43:31
down? And yeah, he's he's I'm just
43:35
saying he's going to hear you. But but but but how long until
43:38
the game will he play? You know what I mean?
43:42
Yeah, and the Cowboys right now are 7 point favorites.
43:46
I don't. I actually thought that this
43:49
game, the Cowboys game was going to be our least attended
43:52
tailgate. I actually have a good crap
43:53
coming out for this one. I'm not saying that you know,
43:56
it's a a barometer for what the stadium's going to look like,
43:59
but typically, you know, I've been doing this for over 2
44:01
decades. If our numbers are low, not a
44:05
ton of fans are coming out, right?
44:07
I'd typically be full at capacity way before this.
44:11
But you know, I don't know how many Cowboys fans are going to
44:14
be out there. I don't think we're going to get
44:17
the Cowboy fans from Dallas to this game.
44:21
I think it's going to be the Cowboy fans from PG that have
44:24
never been to Dallas. They're going to be coming to
44:26
this game just because. Are you going to leave your
44:30
family and come see this game if you don't live around here on
44:35
Christmas Day for a meaningless Christmas game?
44:38
Well, I look at the aspect from the travel industry, if you
44:44
will. A lot of people booked their
44:48
trips early on and I think that you still will have a good
44:54
amount of people from outside region who are going to come to
44:58
this game that are Cowboys fans because as I said, hey, you
45:02
know, it's Christmas. This could be a Christmas gift.
45:05
It'll we'll be able to see the nation's capital.
45:06
We no one knows what the team's going to, you know, what the
45:10
barometer will be as far as the wins and losses, but you just
45:15
know in the back of your mind, hey, we can go to the nation's
45:17
capital, see the sights taking a football game.
45:20
And, and I, and I said it because when I was in Dallas,
45:26
when we played Dallas early on, I had people who were in the
45:30
same hotel as us who are Cowboys fans.
45:32
And they were saying, hey, if I wanted to sign up for this trip,
45:36
what do I need to do now to be able to come?
45:39
And so they're thinking about people were talking about it.
45:42
I'm very interested to see what you know the tickets are going
45:47
for now as as you I see, I see you pulling, I see you pulling
45:53
up the hub. So yeah, you know, to see what's
45:56
going on, but, but Long story short, people have made these
45:59
plans a while ago to get here. And if you were were able to
46:04
have a cancellation policy or trip insurance or whatever have
46:07
you, I'm sure that maybe they did back out.
46:09
But I think about the people when we would go to Texas during
46:13
this time of year, no matter what our schedule was or, or
46:16
what not our schedule, but no matter what our our wins and
46:19
losses were, people have already signed up.
46:22
They'd already paid their money. And, and you know, with my
46:24
trips, it's always a payment plan.
46:27
So people will still making their payments to go because
46:30
they want to get out of town. So we'll see what happens.
46:33
I I think it's going to be a good crowd, Ted.
46:35
So I just, I know a lot of fans that really they don't buy until
46:42
they see how their team is doing that season.
46:44
And I know for you, it's your groups, it's a little bit
46:47
different because people put these things on plans earlier.
46:50
I just, I know a lot of fans that my team's trash.
46:53
No, I'm not going to waste my money and do that.
46:55
And I, I don't blame them. Right now you can get a lower
46:59
level ticket for as cheap as $112, right?
47:02
My face value on that ticket is 255, but that is cheap in the
47:08
lower level for, you know, $1.12.
47:11
So that to me means fans are just dumping seats and the
47:16
market really isn't there. And I'm just, I'm not sure what
47:22
to expect from our team who's going to come out and fight,
47:26
right? I wanted to ask you, what are
47:29
you looking forward to watching on game day now?
47:34
Because there's no Jaden, right? And it's been pretty tough.
47:39
Like are are there any particular players you're
47:41
watching when the games are going on or what are you looking
47:44
for? I want to see the resolve with
47:47
the fellas on the team because we said it for the last several
47:50
weeks. No, you may not be.
47:54
We may not win the game, but you're playing for your future.
48:00
The tape will not lie. And if you whiffed on some
48:03
plays, you are the one who possibly are, is dictating
48:09
whether you stay on the team or whether you get traded to
48:12
another team or you're out of the NFL.
48:15
So I'm expecting to see a good effort at least show me, show me
48:23
something that I can say. All right, I'm looking forward
48:28
to seeing this guy next year or I'm looking forward to seeing
48:32
this happen. That's where I am.
48:35
I I don't necessarily believe that we're going to win the
48:38
game, but how you lose the game is something that we always talk
48:42
about. Don't just go down there and get
48:44
your back blown out, you know, give some fight.
48:47
Let let me let me see it so that I can say yes, all right, we're
48:52
going to be OK in hypothetically in this position or in this
48:57
area. But you know, right now I can't
49:01
say where we're going to be OK at.
49:04
I, I, I don't know. I mean, besides quarterback,
49:07
obviously we, we, we, we have a quarterback always said it
49:10
running healthy. Yeah, presuming he stays
49:13
healthy, always say that running back.
49:15
I have a feeling we're going to bring somebody else in it
49:16
running back. We know what we need.
49:19
We we know we need a larger receiver, we know we need
49:23
defensive ends, even though our guys went down and they should
49:26
be healthy. But we just don't have that big
49:30
name that everyone is looking for, You know, will you bring
49:34
someone in? So we've got a a lot of things
49:38
that can look, you know, McGee, when when McGee comes in, but to
49:43
me, he he shows out. Will this be Wagner's last year?
49:49
I I don't know. So if you have, if you have
49:53
someone outside of Wagner who can wear the green dot or who
49:58
you're thinking is on the squad, then let that person let, let
50:04
Wagner get a breather and let's see how somebody else handles
50:09
the position because we aren't we, we aren't going anywhere.
50:13
We aren't doing anything. Let these guys play.
50:16
You got to see what what they're about and and if we get romped
50:22
by putting forth the best effort, then so be it.
50:25
That's what happens. Yeah.
50:27
So that's, that's honestly what's frustrated me because
50:31
Jordan McGee had a play where he just went sideline to sideline
50:36
with some speed and it was a beautiful tackle out of nowhere,
50:40
right? I want to see more of that.
50:42
But yet you've got Bobby in there playing 100% of the snaps.
50:45
And there are three players that have had over 2000 career,
50:52
actually 2000 career tackles, right?
50:56
Bobby Wagner needs 25 more to get to that and I honestly think
51:02
that they're keeping him in there so he could do this.
51:06
So it's Ray Lewis, London Fletcher and Bobby Wagner.
51:11
So I I feel that they are letting the man play because he
51:15
has a chance to break some of these records does not help the
51:19
advancement of your younger players, right?
51:22
And that's why I've been watching.
51:23
That's why I've been going back and watching the all 22, even
51:26
though we're getting our ass kicked, because I want to see
51:28
how these younger players are playing, right?
51:31
Looking at the PFF grade on defense for us, Bobby was our
51:37
number one player on defense, which is great.
51:40
Von Miller was up there too. Preston Smith, three, Guess
51:44
what? All three of those guys are old
51:46
as hell. They're not the future of this
51:47
team, right? What the hell did Johnny Newton
51:50
do, right? What the hell?
51:52
Johnny Newton was 14th, had a 49th grade.
51:56
But if we're going to lose, we're not going to do well then
52:00
I would rather lose with these young kids and have them get
52:03
some experience under their belt, then have these old heads
52:06
in there that are not going to be on this roster next year or
52:09
should not be as big a contributing piece on the roster
52:13
next year. And, and it goes back to
52:18
obviously I'm not a pro, never played a pro, but it goes back
52:20
to the, the human aspect of things.
52:24
I look at when I was playing JV football and my goal was to make
52:29
varsity. And, and it was a situation
52:32
similar to where we are, where the coach said because of the
52:37
effort that I showed I'm a movie up to varsity now.
52:42
We only had a couple games left where a lot of kids may have
52:46
thrown the tile in because they just, but I, I wanted to show
52:50
them something. And so that's why I say free,
52:52
forget the pay, if you will. They're humans who want to
52:57
succeed. If, and, and I had the
53:00
opportunity to, when I got in to play hard and to, to read my
53:05
keys and to, to get the quarterback sack or to, to, you
53:09
know, TfL. So I, I know it is, it's the
53:14
same in the professional league from college on down the to, to,
53:18
to, to high school. You know, you want to get in
53:20
there and make that play. So let these guys who are
53:23
anxious and to truthfully see what you have, because
53:26
realistically I take that back. The coaches know what they have.
53:32
We as fans don't know what we have and we want to see, if you
53:37
will, but they know we as fans want to be able to see.
53:40
I don't know if they do though, man, because you talk about it,
53:43
right? You love saying, well, it's
53:45
practice. You're going up against your
53:46
brother, You're not giving 100%. Well, you're giving it 100% when
53:50
you're going up against a guy wearing a different colored
53:53
jersey who was also playing for a contract or a spot in a
53:56
roster, right? I'm not saying guys are dogging
53:59
it in practice, but if you really want to see the merit of
54:02
a player, you see it in a game during live hits, live reps
54:07
where it counts, right? And you only have so much time
54:12
during practice. You only have so many padded
54:14
practices a season to begin with, right?
54:16
And this week going into Dallas, super short week.
54:20
What the hell are they going to see out of these guys?
54:22
Nothing. So that's when you need a Johnny
54:25
Newton to show you something. That's when you need a Jalen
54:29
Holmes to show you something or Jordan McGee to show you
54:31
something. Because I'm not seeing what I
54:33
want to see out of some of these younger pics, right?
54:37
I'm sorry, but Ben said it has not impressed me at all.
54:41
And I don't know what's going on because said it was a shame that
54:46
Earth's went down, but it's a chance for the younger kids to
54:50
step up. I'm not seeing the younger kid
54:52
step up. You had Coulson yank off your
54:54
other tight end go out and not play this game either.
54:58
Ben said it gets a ton of snaps, doesn't contribute at all.
55:03
Right? What what is going on with this
55:05
kid? You you move up to get him in
55:07
the second round. And I am not seeing anything
55:10
that's warranted that move, right?
55:13
And maybe he's just not performing in practice, I don't
55:17
know. But I'm also not seeing perform
55:19
on the field. He had two targets, one catch
55:21
for five yards. That's it.
55:23
And to me, if he's supposed to be the heir apparent to Zach
55:26
Ertz because it's not John Bates.
55:27
John Bates is a blocking tight end.
55:30
So to me said it is your ertz next man up.
55:34
I'm not seeing it at all. Well, maybe he might develop in
55:39
the offseason, too. I don't know, but agreed we need
55:46
to see more and how many guys at once again.
55:51
So it's stats like that. They say I like you, but I can't
55:58
keep you. I it's one of those things that
56:01
that's what we're, we're going to see a lot of that I've I
56:03
would imagine. Yeah, I mean, Drake Jackson got
56:09
22 snaps, right, left outside linebacker, OK.
56:13
Jacob Martin got 43 snaps, right.
56:15
You mean to tell me that some of those snaps couldn't have gone
56:19
to Kate Medrano, This kid that was touted a ton during
56:24
preseason and training camp about his speed and what he can
56:28
do at linebacker who is not getting any reps at linebacker.
56:32
He's in on pretty much every special teams tackle, but
56:35
they're not letting him get in and linebacker, right?
56:38
And I'm at the point of that's what I want to see.
56:41
That is why I'm watching the game.
56:43
These are glorified pre season games for me at this point
56:46
because I don't think we're going to win.
56:48
And really the wins don't matter, right?
56:51
I know what I have in a Bobby Wagner.
56:53
I know what I get with a Frankie Louver, right?
56:56
I don't know what I get with these other young kids and are
57:00
we going to see that against true competition?
57:03
That's what I want in these next two games, not Bobby breaking
57:06
some record or Vaughn, you know, getting his $1,000,000 bonus
57:11
because he gets his two extra sacks.
57:13
I want to see these other guys and say OK, well because he did
57:17
this and showed he could do that.
57:19
Maybe that's not a spot that we need to worry about in the draft
57:22
because we only have 6 picks next year.
57:24
Well, that's not a spot we worry about during free agency and I,
57:26
I'm. Not saying that right now, yeah.
57:29
And it, and it's one thing to where guys say like, I can do
57:32
it, I can do it. Well, you're doing it in
57:34
practice. And as you said, now it's live
57:36
fire. The bullets are coming at your
57:38
head. How are you going to react?
57:41
So I, I agree with you, we, it needs to be seen.
57:45
And I would imagine if second quarter or not second the
57:50
second-half, we'll see that. I would I wouldn't imagine at
57:54
the Philadelphia game second quarter, seeing that, you know,
58:00
it's like you said, a preseason game and a lot of times the
58:03
preseason guys, what do they do? They play a couple series and
58:06
then they come out and let the other guys showcase their
58:09
talents to see what they have. So, so this is actually, like
58:12
you said, Ted, the second-half of preseason, but for the
58:17
regular season. Yeah, and I know there are fans
58:20
that are paying their hard earned money to go to the game
58:23
and that they don't want to watch that.
58:25
They want to watch the starters go out there.
58:27
But from my perspective, I want to see what Burks can do, right?
58:30
Can Burke step in and be that number 2, assuming that Debo's
58:35
not here next year because we need someone else to do it.
58:38
And Lane is on IR, Mccaffrey's staying on IR.
58:41
They're not bringing him back, right?
58:43
I, I don't, sorry. Chris Moore does not excite me,
58:46
right? What Burks has done with the
58:49
opportunities he's been given does.
58:51
Are we going to get a chance to see that with Josh Johnson
58:53
throwing him the ball or Jeff Driscoll throwing him the ball?
58:57
I highly doubt that. But you know what reps are reps
59:01
and that's why I'm excited to be there on Christmas Day.
59:06
On top of the fact that we only get 8 games, eight regular
59:10
season games, so there's no way in the world I was going to miss
59:14
this one, even though it is on Christmas.
59:17
I'll be hanging out there and just looking forward to it.
59:20
And when the game is over, I'm going to be the last person in
59:23
that parking lot smoking a cigar, whether we win or lose,
59:27
just because the season's done and we're not going to be back
59:29
there at Northwest until September.
59:31
And that's that's what really bums me out is that this season
59:34
of so much hope is just ending with so many questions at this
59:39
point. And you hear a lot of people
59:42
talking about will, will Cliff be here?
59:45
Will are they going to keep? Damn, yes, they're going to keep
59:48
Dan Quinn because they realize that we were decimated with
59:52
injuries. And no matter who you are, if
59:57
your if your first or second guy isn't playing, you're in
1:00:00
trouble. So that's going to be their
1:00:03
excuse. Will it hold for if it happens
1:00:09
next year? Maybe not.
1:00:11
Because if you were going to say, well, you had the
1:00:13
opportunity to draft better. When you did have an injury that
1:00:17
someone who's on that same caliber or or close to it should
1:00:22
be able to step in. And we always hear next man up,
1:00:25
but our next man up have been falling short, if you will.
1:00:29
They not to say they haven't put the effort, they just don't
1:00:31
falling short. And in the NFL, you stick around
1:00:36
by the amount of games you've won and they'll they'll take the
1:00:41
the injury bait for a little while, but you can't hang your
1:00:44
hat on it. No, you can't, all right, and
1:00:47
I'll give them a little bit of slack with some of it, but you
1:00:52
have a 53 man roster for a reason, right?
1:00:55
We are not the only team that has been hit with injuries.
1:00:58
The 49ers have been decimated by injuries, but yet they still
1:01:02
find a way to win or have competitive games and put stuff
1:01:05
up. And it's just they had they lost
1:01:08
their starting quarterback. Purdy missed what, 9 games this
1:01:11
season and they're still winning, right?
1:01:13
They had Christian McCaffrey, you know, they other things that
1:01:16
they do to pick up that slack. It's just the roster was so bare
1:01:21
when Peters took it over and he worked a miracle with a last
1:01:26
place schedule, right? The Patriots had a last place
1:01:30
schedule this season and we saw what happened.
1:01:33
We moved to a not first place schedule, but pretty damn close
1:01:37
to it and we just couldn't hang on the competition.
1:01:39
That and our actual injuries are why we've only won four games
1:01:44
this year, right? Next year we're going to have an
1:01:47
easier schedule. That's why the NFL, you can go
1:01:49
from worst to 1st so easy because of what they do from a
1:01:53
parody perspective with the schedule and how all that works
1:01:55
out. But in actuality, I'm watching
1:01:58
these teams like the Rams, like the Seahawks, like the Broncos
1:02:03
in their games, right? Watching the freaking Packers
1:02:06
Bears game the other night when Caleb chucked that ball down
1:02:09
there and won that thing in OT, I just don't see our team doing
1:02:15
that right now the way this roster is constructed.
1:02:18
Which not going to lie, concerns me, right?
1:02:20
Because Peters went all in to really get us back to that
1:02:25
championship game because we were 64 freaking quarters away.
1:02:29
So I can't blame him on that. But he his one of his first
1:02:33
press conferences was he's going to build this team through the
1:02:36
draft, not free agency. That shifted when we were that
1:02:40
close and Jaden was actually that good.
1:02:43
Well, the problem is now we robbed Peter to pay Paul, gave
1:02:46
up those draft picks. And we don't have a lot of
1:02:50
people to fill in some of these holes that are still obviously
1:02:52
apparent on this roster. And like you always like to say,
1:02:55
that's why he gets paid the millions and we don't.
1:02:57
So let's see if he can earn that paycheck.
1:03:01
You got to juggle. You better be a good juggler.
1:03:04
And it's coming, it's coming out and maybe he's not a good
1:03:07
juggler. He can handle it, but he's just
1:03:11
not a good juggler. But we'll see.
1:03:14
It's too early to say change everything.
1:03:18
These people are in place for a reason.
1:03:20
And I think that, you know, we're going into to to the third
1:03:25
season or the second season with Peters, but the third season.
1:03:29
So we're going to see how it goes, man.
1:03:33
We're going into the third season.
1:03:35
So you got to give somebody enough time and and a lot of
1:03:39
times we call for their heads very early.
1:03:43
What did they say? The microwave society heat and
1:03:46
eat. Well, unfortunately, this is
1:03:50
going to be a oven. It's it's not going to be a
1:03:52
microwave. And that oven takes a little
1:03:54
while to heat up. So just just hold on to yours,
1:03:58
ladies and gentlemen, as hard as it may be.
1:04:02
Yeah, it's it's going to be interesting offseason wise.
1:04:05
I, I really cannot wait to hear the press conference that Peters
1:04:08
is going to have at the end of the year where Josh Harris
1:04:10
beside him. Because I also, I don't want
1:04:12
them to blame the entire season on injuries, right?
1:04:15
I think it was way more than that.
1:04:17
I think there were a lot of other factors and I I hope they
1:04:20
don't ignore those other things and we'll talk about that at
1:04:24
another day. But in the meantime, you know
1:04:26
how many sleeps in a wake up. Well today is Tuesday, so we got
1:04:34
Wednesday. We got one day and a wake up
1:04:35
Ted. One day and a wake up brother
1:04:38
before we play the blue and silver.
1:04:40
My Christmas Eve, I'm doing all my tailgate shopping.
1:04:43
I confirm that all the stores I need to hit are going to be
1:04:45
open, so I'm out the door at 6:00 AM to get that done.
1:04:49
I can't wait to see you and the rest of the Burgundy and Gold
1:04:52
they're going to be out there. I, I typically have a bunch of
1:04:55
Cowboys fans that request permission to come join us
1:04:57
because we're a Burgundy and gold tailgate first.
1:04:59
You know, I'm, I'm going to enjoy a silver and blue day at
1:05:02
least during the tailgate and we'll see what happens during
1:05:05
the game and right, we'll let the boys handle that.
1:05:09
I'm looking forward to, you know, no more fights on the
1:05:12
field. And actually, did you hear what
1:05:15
DQ said after the game? Like why he just kind of stood
1:05:19
back to watch everybody, why he was waiting to see.
1:05:24
If anyone else is going to get into another fight.
1:05:27
During the handshake. Oh, OK, OK, I got you.
1:05:33
Luckily nothing happened because you know our guys.
1:05:35
You know, getting suspended. Good news is.
1:05:37
The guys that got kicked out, none of them are suspended for
1:05:40
the game this week. So they're going to get fined,
1:05:44
obviously. And oh, I can't wait to see what
1:05:46
Hard Knocks is going to say here in a couple of hours with what
1:05:49
the hell just happened. But in the meantime, we got
1:05:52
Dallas. Let's focus on we got Dallas and
1:05:55
and as I said, guys. One game a year I pay homage to
1:06:00
our old name and our old uniform.
1:06:02
So I'll I'll be representing the skins on Thursday and I can't
1:06:08
wait to break out my old gear and pay homage.
1:06:12
And those of you that don't have Netflix, the game will be on.
1:06:16
Broadcast TV by I'm going to say it has to be it has to be on
1:06:20
broadcast TV because there. Are a lot of people that were.
1:06:21
Asking just search I think it's going to be on CBS don't quote
1:06:26
me but it will be on broadcast TV so just try and find if you
1:06:29
guys don't have Netflix so still get a chance to watch it yeah
1:06:32
well hey you guys if we don't see.
1:06:34
You have a Merry Christmas, a happy holiday, happy Hanukkah,
1:06:38
happy Kwanzaa, anything that you believe in and I missed out.
1:06:42
Don't chalk it up to the heart, not the head.
1:06:45
And hey, we will go from there and see you guys on Thursday
1:06:49
because we got a football game to play.
1:06:52
Win, lose or tie 00, we got a we got.
1:06:57
Could you imagine that? No.
1:06:59
That means we're going into overtime and stuck there longer
1:07:03
and no. Please don't.
1:07:06
It's that bad. They've already told boys.
1:07:09
Yeah, yeah. So all.
1:07:10
Right, guys? But seriously though, we'll see
1:07:12
you on Thursday and we've haven't had a good season.
1:07:16
But at the same time, you guys are still repping it hard.
1:07:18
And like I always say, you repping harder, you don't Rep it
1:07:21
at all. Rally, Captain Tailgate, Ted DMV
1:07:23
Mess Hall Peace, Merry Christmas and Happy New Year.