CMC Trade Reaction; Saints-Cardinals Recap with Rachel Bonnetta (Friday Fun Show!)

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Speaker 1: Wheezy out. Welcome to the Friday Fun Show working title Dan Hands Us with Mark Sessler and Greg Rosenthal from across the south Land, across America all the way to the Jersey Shore. Welcome to our live stream episode of the week. As we get ready for Week seven, we see the message board the commenters already firing off, getting pumped up UM, and we will be reaching out and connecting with the listeners early on. Mark, I know this is your favorite show of the week for so many reasons, including this week. It's about me, will be about you, and it is about you, and you love that I do. I like the Spotlight UM focus directly on me at all times for both positive and negative news. And I didn't know that this was a thing that Mark pretended that he didn't like the Spotlight. This is like a new two trend. I don't understand. I feel like this has been an important week. Mark has often come at you and me Greg for saying we we seek contention in the Spotlight. But Mark has always been one of us. And now the monster within is coming above the surface of the water. Well, this is it's an absurd way to get into the show here. I have a question for you, damn, because I'm tracking this heavily. What did your mother make you for breakfast? Week? We got yesterday's eggs with um onion and pap rica. I think you said, like, what what happened today? We have so much to get to, including a blockbuster trade, but this is important as well. Yesterday yes eggs, onions and eggs with some paprika. Today we're down at the Jersey Shore. I went to the local coffee shop. I love Turnstile. I got a nice latte, I got an Alman croissant, and I watched the Thursday night football game. I was tied up with the Yankees failing in Houston last night's I got caught up prep for this show. And this is where we are very excited to get into today's show, boys, because we've got so much going on. We have the Thursday night football recap between the Cards and the Saints. We have Rachel Banetta joining us in just a little bit, one of our favorites. We have It's About Me with Mark Sessler. We have an injury update ahead of Sunday's games, and some fearless predictions. But first, yes, the huge blockbuster trade that went down late at the end of Thursday Night football kind of came out. The San Francisco forty nine are sending second, third, and fourth round picks and a fifth round pick in to the Panthers UM four star running back Christian McCaffrey. Adam Schefter broke it. It's official. It's a done deal. So McCaffrey, the former Offensive Player of the Year, the former one thousand receiving one thousand rushing running back, now joins the San Francisco offense that obviously got a lot more dynamic with a big trade. Here is GM of the Panthers, Scott Fitterer, when asked by well, actually it's hold on Scott talking about what's going on with the Panthers. Let's focus starting Greg with the forty Niners, a team that we were just talking about on Thursday show. Is this offense explosive enough? There's Jimmy g put a cap on what they can do. Well, you had a guy like McCaffrey just got a lot more feisty. Yeah. I mean, it's a it's an all in move, and I think it's interesting in this season in context of the Rams and how well Jimmy Garoppolo and there passing attack has been in the past, we always think like, oh, the running games kind of carrying the forty Niners opens Jimmy G's along for the ride. This year their seventh and passing d v O A and they're always solid, they're always efficient there twenty six and running they haven't been able to get the running game going, like Shanahan's lost his magic a little bit because of all the injuries and personnel and offensive line, and McCaffrey fixes all that, and I think they look at this offense, and they look at this defense if they can get healthy, and they say, like, we're one of the Super Bowl contenders this year. And I think they look at it in the context of the Rams, the moves that the Rams have made to try to push them over the top. And they got their Super Bowl a year ago. And who was the other team in the mix. According to our friend Jordan Rodrig of the Athletic Pushing Hard for Christian McCaffrey, it was the Los Angeles Rams, and I think that's why they had to pay so much. Scott Fitter You'll you'll get to it mentioned he thought this was equivalent of a first round pick getting a second and what was it, two thirds and fourth? Ultimately that a second, third and the fourth. He's right, that is equivalent to a first round pick. They got a totally fair value, a nice value for McCaffrey. It's a big risk for the forty Niners, but no one's gonna care if they make the super Bowl. And that's kind of the bar now. If they don't make the super Bowl, this was not in the next two years or win the super Bowl, this is gonna be a bust. I mean, I think if you if you look at what the Niners have done over the last couple of seasons, the move for Trey lance Um and it's not worked out to date, but had it um the way. The reason they did it was they viewed themselves back then as a player away from being Super Bowl gold. I mean, they got to the super Bowl with Jimmy G. But it's like a true quarterback would take us over the top. All right, they're gonna sit with Jimmy G. But again they say, in this environment in the NFC that we're in right now, where again we've talked about this all day yesterday on our preview show. It's such a water down league. Right now, there's really very few dominant teams out there, and the Niners probably look at Chris McCaffrey and say, once again, he's the guy that can put us over the top, especially when you think about how do you attack the teams we're gonna face in January the Eagles, a team like the Eagles that's stacked on defense. Christian McCaffrey is the guy that can change all that. And we always praise you know, Belichick's Patriots and days of old for having such versatile players. I mean, if you think about McCaffrey and Deebo Samuel, I think they look at the two of them and say, there's no combination of players who can do slot, wide, receiver, running back. They can do it all. Like those guys you're throwing Brandon you, Kyle Hues checked, George Kittle, And if if Jimmy g keeps the mistakes down and you have a top three defense that gets healthier and the line gets healthier, the Niners have a right to view themselves as the team to beat in the NFC because the Rams have fallen off a cliff and it really comes down to the Philadelphia Eagles. I think, well, it's it's a double it hits double hard for the Niners and their fans in terms of celebration because you you're in love with the upside of this trade and you stick it to the Rams, who I think we're getting into this place where we are in the football world now where they're just you're gonna assume they're always gonna be the team that pulls off the big deal. So you finally got a guy that the Rams wanted. And yeah, deebot deebo i, you kittle CMC, that's a great recipe for Kyle Shanahan to give us go full Shannahan. Who was it that rush for two d yards and four touchdowns against the Packers in the NFC title game a couple of years back? Was that most dit that? I mean, you now have the type of running backing McCaffrey who could deliver a game like that if the if the things are at the stars are aligned, and and you put the San Francisco off in in a place where, yes, there's still not going to be a deep strike, big play attack in a traditional sense because Jimmy g puts a cap on that somewhat. But if you trust Shanahan's ability to call plays and and get the most out of a running back like CMC. This is exciting. Now. The reason why they had to give up so much UH in terms of draft capital is you are trading a for the idea of CMC from a couple of years ago. UH. And also the idea this is not a rental. He's he's doing an outrageous amount of money next year that you would think there might be a restructure to make it all work for San Francisco's books. But I don't think they do this trade unless there's an understanding. And I know the McCaffrey's and the Shanahan's go way back, so all of this makes sense. However, and it's a big However, McCaffrey can't stay healthy and the San Francisco forty Niners are a snake bitten team with health. Now, I don't think it makes him more risky at risk for injury because now he's a forty Niner. That would be stupid. But at the same time, we need to see McCay affrey in this offense and stay healthy because if he gets hurt, they're kind of right back to where they started. The one thing. I'd say though, I think one of the reasons the Rams were very into McCaffrey beyond just the idea of what he could do for their offense and would fill a void for them, they just played him and they just saw him, and he looks like the old McCaffrey. I mean, I think he's he's also been healthy this season, he's been great, and so that's where that bidding war came from. I think on one level was like they saw him up close and personal and thought this guy could change our offense. So it is a huge win for the Niners on that front. And I would just say the only thing is like they've you know, Shannahan's never had a thousand yard Russia in this Niners offense, which is kind of crazy because he's probably you know, it's always been a committee and these guys are getting hurt left and right. Um. The only thing about it like that I kind of view is a bit excessive, is that I don't know if Shanahan in most of his years needed McCaffrey to have a great running game, he hasn't. He's he's turned Jeff Wilson into that guy. So I mean, it's a bit of a luxury. But I love the idea of like, if you're gonna go for it, if this is your window, you're not gonna have Jimmy g next year. You don't know what trade lance is, do it now? I like that. I like the risk taking, daring, dew element of the whole thing. I'm with you on that too, Mark. I think it's a big swing for the fences by the Niners. Love the trade on the on the Carolina side of things, Greggy, I know you loved her nerd out on this stuff. It's interesting to me how we've talked about how the Panthers have tried and tried and tried to make a big splash in recent years and the fates have just not aligned. And I thought this is interesting, even this trade where they had this guy that was a generational talent at running back when healthy uh and a market with two Super Bowl contenders and the two teams at the forefront were missing the one thing that the Panthers really wanted. Here's GM Scott Fitter talking about the trade market and clearly referring to the Forts, yes, but also the Rams. But we talked to the teams, um, you know, a couple of teams didn't have first round picks. You know that we thought, you know, in that area was probably the right area for Christian with regarding everything. Um, so they complicated that there wasn't a first round pick to be had, So we had to figure out what's the equivalent of a first round pick? If that's the case, just Greg, kind of a bummer for the Panthers. That, yes, the Rams traded their first round pick, as they always do, so it wasn't there in trade lance that trade, let you know, first round pick for a San Francisco It is a bummer. Yet, I if I'm a Panthers fan, I'm pretty happy about this trade. I'm not happy where the franchise is, and I'm not happy that Christian McCaffrey thing hasn't worked out. But to get off this contract and get three mid round picks and then another fifth feels good like he's done before the season. Greggy, If if you would have told Panther Spans you're gonna trade McCaffrey a week and a half before the deadline and you won't get a first round pick, they would they would not be happy with that. Well, that that's that's totally fair because it would indicate that their season has gone totally haywire wire. But I think the trade compensation, just in a vacuum, was pretty good for a running back. If anything, it makes the crazy contract that they gave Christian McCaffrey, which people were like, don't pay running backs like that, feel a little better because you got all these picks back. I mean, ultimately you did get something out of him. And one thing I do want to say, just on the financial side, people have kind of looked at it like, oh, McCaffrey's worth so much, and Warren Sharp sent out a tweet that had all the cap numbers wrong because he put like the signing bonus into the cap numbers, and the Panthers already paid that signing bonus. They're just eating that dead cap. He's under contract pretty cheaply, I think, fairly for the next three years at eleven, twelve and twelve million dollar cap number. I don't think they have to change his contract at all. He's still one of the higher paid running backs in the league. But it's not outrageous. I don't think for a guy like McCaffrey, and they got these yak bros. And I include McCaffrey in that mix together for a while, so it's not just a one year move. I think they should have Debo i U who's on his rookie deal, Kittle who's under contract, that that should be the pass catching I'm gonna run for fifty yards when Jimmy g drops it off five yards core for a little while, which is nice. I would also say, I mean they they You can say you want multiple first round picks. I want to lie they were never get that. I don't get everything I want and neither where the Panthers gonna get everything they wanted here? That was pie in the sky to trade him now when there's just this distinct need, um with a couple of teams that thought he is the final piece. They got more than they would have gotten trying to trade him in the off season. I just believe that I think it would have been. This is about as much as they could have asked for. They're in a tough position. Um. Also, I think part of it is where are you going to be with Christian McCaffrey next season At this time or the year after. They were a rebuilding team that has no idea who their quarterback is Christian McCaffrey does not fit into that offense right now. All right, let's check in with the listeners streaming live on the Friday Fun Show. Working title about this big trade. Uh, let's check what do you got where his grave? Digger? Grave digger? Huh? Whoa got it? Hey? Has it? On the soap Bottles wants to know will the Panthers go scorched earth? Scorched earth and trade? Everything not nailed down now? Well, Fitterer was asked about that and he said, this is not a rebuild. We're trying to win, but get out of here with that. Sometimes you just wish that there would be just honesty from the GM. That's like, listen, our plan it has not worked out. We're we're trying to get this thing right, and we didn't want to trade CMC. He's a foundational piece, so we thought he was. But we got to take a different approach here and uh, yeah, we're building for tomorrow. Just say that. Why not? It depends on the players. You know, I think they're putting DJ Moore, for instance, in a different bucket that like, we still need to keep young um players that we have under contract that are good. They might not want to trade him. If someone comes in over the top rope for Brian Burns and offers a first and to me, he would probably have more value than Christian McCaffrey. I would think they would have to listen to that. But I think they'll they'll play a little harder to get with the rest of their roster. They've they have already picked up what four or five picks here between him and Robby Anderson? This is not bad? Yeah? What else we got? Great? Bigger? All right, I'm gonna throw two at you that are related. The first one Eric Boogie will see MC start and get a majority of the touches for San Francisco at running back this week. Only one man has that answer. It's Mark Sessler. What's part two? I have both debot and CMC, but as Niners on my team now doing trade one or keep both? See? I also have Christian McCaffrey in the fantasy league. What the heck should I do this week? Stack? Yeah, I think we're going to see him this weekend. I don't. I don't think that it's not you know, you're not asking to come in and play quarterback in a scheme. He's never heard about. I mean, this is a running back. I think they've already talked about red zone kind of thing. This was my lock. The chiefs um, I am reserving the right to rethink that, uh, that lock because it's you know, the elements have changed, the weather has changed. That's good because they said red zone. But I bet it's one of those things that he gets into the game a little bit and then they feel like they can't resist just playing him more and more. He definitely and set him in fantasy. By the way, Graver like, even if he only played snaps, I feel like, you gotta play Christian McCaffrey unless I can't now because I would have put DeAndre Hopkins in. But I'm gonna I'm gonna highlight this one. Aaron Castillo sharp as attack. I think Dan essentially acted as Fitterer's puppet by stating exactly what Fitterer would say for him without him having to do it. He got me, fitter got me, But you've put his hand right up me and turn me into a puppet. Oh my goodness, sorry, probably not long for that job. I suspect he's which is a weird thing. He's making these trades and I kind of don't expect him to know that's a good point. And I did cross my mind as well this morning, Greggy, like, you always run the risk of holding onto a guy too long, especially somebody like CMC struggled and say healthy, but maybe that's a piece that the next guy gets. But I mean, there's just so much stuff going on with this organization. Aaron Jaffey is CMC to the Niners the biggest running back trade of the decade? Uh? Well, I would say Trent Richardson got a first that was bigger. Actually, I mean, he wasn't a bigger star, but it was. It was more surprising and he got more um. Of course, there was the herschel Walker trade. Herschel Walker famous now for other reasons, but he used to be famous for setting up that Cowboys dynasty. I don't think this is going He's famous for having a clear eyed look into the future of America. How about Marshawn Lynch. That was a big trade, although at the time people really thought he was used goods and that it wasn't that big of a deal. But they got a lot for him when they trade him from the Bills to the Seahawks. The way the question is phrased, wouldn't it actually be just from two now? Yeah? So I got one for you, David Johnson for DeAndre Hopkins. Yeah, so I'm gonna go ahead and say, yes, this has been the biggest trade of the decade. One more. Then we're gonna get Rachel and Eric boogie again. The boogie. The Boogieman is having a big Halloween season. He's got good questions. Are we entering a golden era for NFL trades? Oh? This has got greggy written all over it. Why is trading so much more prevalent than it was just a few years ago. Well, I gotta say the trade tsunami was slightly ahead of its time. But I the trade tsunami I was predicted from a four or five years ago has hit. It's because it's easier to get people under the cap now, like the cap is so high. I think they structure these trades, uh, these um contracts in a way that just makes it easier for people to trade and move money into the future, and people aren't that close to the cap all the time. It's a beautiful thing. It's makes the NFL much more interesting. You know what's you know what else is a beautiful thing, this world that we live in, an NFL media where this woman now counts as a colleague joining us. Now she's got bangs Rachel Bonetta. Listen to listen. It's not make a big thing about it, okay, mentally to our YouTube. Fine, mentally, That's all you need to know is that a thing. Is there a correlation with women getting bangs with some type of So I've gotten so many messages like are you doing okay? I called my mom and she she just said, oh, sweetie, well what is that shirt you're wearing? Rage for you? That's a beautiful throwback New York Jet screen sweatshirt. This is also a good luck chart. My friend, I wore this right before I think they played the Browns. All I bought this before they played the Browns them no problem, interesting that one. All right, welcome back to Bangs with Banetta. Thank you Jason Joseph for that. So Rage. We're going to get into a bunch of things, but we're gonna start now by transitioning to the Thursday night football recap. You're ready to uh hit that hard. I'm ready to rock. Let's say to hit it at a mediocre pace, We'll be right back. Dalton straight dropped back but rolls over the middle and a rum heading interception by Isaiah Simmons in midfield runs it back to the left of the forty pat the thirty at at the pet Simmons in back to back intercepting returns for touchdowns by the Cardinals at the end of the half. The third peck thrown by Andy Dalton and the Cardinals defense but takeaways, turning them directly into scores. How about that? As Mark exits the shot, tries to get back into the shot in time, but fails to. Marco Wilson and Isaiah Simmons scored touchdowns on pick six is within a minute of each other late in the first half, and it was the driver for the Cardinals and a forty two to thirty four win over the Saints. And the Saints of the Cardinals improved to three and four, it's the first time they've won in their building in a year. And for the Saints, we're gonna get to the Saints because we've talked a lot about the Saints in the summer and it's time to re examine that situation. Rachel. Let me start with you on this one because when you were uh kind enough to join us in London on stage to talk about the figures in the NFL that fascinate you, Kyler Murray was one of those figures. And this was another spotlight game with people paying attention not just to the game, but what's going on with the Arizona operation. And I think people will remember this game for two things, the double pick six by Dalton only ones his fault, and then the Kyler Murray sideline. I don't know, altercation feels strong with Cliff Cliff Kingsbury, but he ran up to his coast racially and said, calm down, what do you what do you think about this game? For the car There's a few more words in that sentence. Yeah, I don't think it was calming down. There's a few more things. And then he kept going, your thoughts on the state of the Cardinals after that game? Just if I'm de Hopp and I'm coming back, I'm like, oh God, can can I be Christian McCaffrey? Can I go somewhere else as well? Like, it's just it's such a it's such a mess. You can you can get excited about the Cardinals because of the two picks and and then winning and putting up a lot of scores on the board, Deander Hopkins being back. But then it's just that one moment that tells you so much more than the score does. And this scheme is a absolute mess. You've got Kyler who is seemingly very immature, and to be honest, I kind of thought I was putting all of the problems on Kyler and then you see him wigging out over Cliff, seemingly yelling and getting upset, overly upset in his ear. And I don't know if you guys heard his Like the post game, he was like, um, Cliff was like, it's just a bunch of gen Z stuff. They're like they care about what you look like on television. Like it's a mess. It is a full blown mess, and I kind of love it. Yeah, Michael Morgan chimes in with youth and Kyler yells at this much at his CEO D Friends Online. That's called says that exact same sentence, And that's why it came out of his mouth so easily. It's because he just yells that all the time. But I love how messy it is. It's just gross and I wanted to keep on. I don't want Clif to go anywhere. I want them to ride this out. D Hopp was just like, I'm not married, but it's like, you know, seems like what a marriage would be like, Um, it's kind of right, by the way, Yeah, I wouldn't know, But what's that what's that show a marriage story? What's the one with Adam Driver and he's this is marriage story NFL? And know how that movie right? It could have been called divorce story? And uh, one of those guys makes a lot more than the other, and I don't know, he seems the one that would stick around more. It was kind of funny because as much as Kyler yelled at him to come, you know, they left down and then continued to scream at him for another twenty second. Cliff listened. He was kind of just sitting there being like, okay, thank you, and then Kyler just kept yelling and then walked away. And by the way, the score was fourteen to six at that point. If that was Tom Brady doing that, maybe we'd give Tom Brady credit for inspiring the troops because they had their best twenty minutes of the season right after Kyler did that I think it is like a marriage though, because I mean, Kyler and Cliff have known each other since Kyler Murray was in high school. It's been a long time, and it does remind you kind of like when you're in that break up phase and you're getting like in fights at like a Chinese restaurant and out out in the street like they're all over each other. It's been like weeks in a row where Kyler Murray's sort of nonplussed with the way that Cliff Kingsbury comports himself on the sideline. And now gen z comment was like, I like to be emotional, and he's coming and telling me to try to be the cool guy, saying calm down, keep a chill. But they're in each other's ear and stuff, and it seems to just not quite be working in concert on any j Z comment is condescending. He's calling him immature, and they're taking by your player as condescending. I mean that put Cliff in a tough spot and a little bit emasculating that that jumps to mind, and I understand now that would never happen in the eighties or even the nineties, or even the beginning of the New Century where a player would do that. The dynamic between players and coaches in general is a lot more chill and different than it was like when Bill Parcels was, you know, ruling the world with an iron fist. But still, yeah, it is. It's it's pretty unusual for the quarterback to every very publicly tell the head coach to pipe down in the middle of a prime time game. But you know, on the other end of it, they moved the ball well for stretches of this game. They did a nice job essentially putting this game away in the second half and never letting New Orleans really get back into it. So I thought that was progress. And on the on the saint side of the ball um mark you have. You have a team that we talked about in the summer. We said, this team probably has the highest ceiling potentially of these kind of fringe E contender teams, but also pretty low floor. And this is one of the most penalized teams in the league. They have the worst turnover differential in the NFL. The defense is underperformed, and all of a sudden, Andy Dalton now is looking like Jamis Winston. And at that point it's like what's the point, just play Jamis Winston. Another tough night for the Saints and what's been a tough season. Yeah, they're they're disorganized, they're a mess. And when we talked about the floor before the season, we're seeing the floor because what I thought they would have um before they traded away Gardner Johnson was one of the nastiest secondaries in the league. Well, they don't. And their defense in general is simply not the Saints defense that we grew accustomed to over the last couple of seasons. And the quarterback situation, I mean, they went into this season with two veteran quarterbacks with overt issues and limitations, and so that's what we're getting now, a dueling banjo job between two quarterbacks with overt situations that are problematic. And Andy Dalton and me. I mean that Marco Wilson flip behind him as he's walking away, Uh, just leveled. It's essentially his move right when they when he goes into the we know the Hall of Fame of like mezzanine level quarterbacks that that will exist at some point. That will be the tape they show when he's inducted, because it was one of the greatest things I've ever seen in slow motion in my entire life. That's two weeks in a row. Do you guys? What was it that? What was the cam? Was that the Giants cam that went kind of crazy last week and like it was like inception and like turned on an angle. Then we had this shot this week. You know how like at the end of the year, National Geographic will put together like the greatest moments in photography over the past. That's got to be in there. And I am voting for it. Dang it. Do you have a vote? Are you on the community? I feel like that will live on. I think I should be. Let's start a petition now you do with the banks. It's like it deserves something for years and it's Andy Dawton's career in a nutshell because I don't know one wants to hear it. But Dalton played pretty well last night. He had one bad, one really bad throw in the red zone where they lost four points out of it. He forced it in there. One of the pick six is was a drop right. It was perfect past that was just dropped wide open. The other pick the other one he got hit as he throw as he threw, which you know, you gotta be aware of the pressure. But he got hit as he throw and the other guy makes an insane one handed catch. And whether a ball is returned on a like for an interception or not is just completely luck. Whether a guy makes like a one handed catch is completely lucked. And he threw it well. Basically for the rest of the night, they moved the ball. They had five yards. My point is more that quarterback was great, Greg He was absolutely stunning to to observe that. Just stick with for real, the which part of that argument do you disagree with? Just over his career is gonna cost you. He's gonna cost you. Point there. They were missing there, What the to their top four cornerbacks in this game? They missed seven starters And Dennis Allen afterwards had such a bad quote saying like, what's your biggest concern for this team? And he was just like, well, just that my players aren't healthy. And it's just like, Dennis Allen, to me as a head coach, is just uninspiring. They're so sloppy. You mentioned the penalties and the turnovers and the excuses any and he's right, like they are one of the most devastatedly injured teams, and it is worth mentioning they also lost Bradley Roby in that game. They were down their top two wide receivers, in their top three cornerbacks, and a couple other starters like that, that is significant. But Allen's reasons and like even after halftime they asked, all right, what what did Anny Dalton need to do different? And I and I know, I just you know, it's said how two of those were basically just bad luck. One what has not on him at all and the other one happens uh. And he was just like, Oh, he doesn't have to do anything different, just just keep doing the same thing. Listen. That was always a thing with Dennis Allen. This was something that I feel like was overlooked consistently this summer that Allen would be a huge downgrade from Sean Payton. I think you're seeing that in both the discipline of the team and the bottom line record. I I don't feel like going back and forth with you on this one, Greg, but I don't know why you're making excuses for Dalton here. I'm just saying he threw dime after dime. The reason he was through some beautiful passes he do an end zone interception. The Isaiah Simmons play was a great play by a former first round pick. But also that ball was fired right in the orbit of a lindbacker in the middle. He was like hit in the side as he was throwing it, So you have to admit there's some a lot of luck going on it. But I mean, I don't know to use your logic. If Sam Donald does the same thing, you're not making excuses for Sam Donald would not have thrown like three and four touchdowns and like graded very well. I'm just saying, like Dalton, he graded well, Okay, now this is adding up. He graded one. I think we need to appreciate quarterbacks. Everything's fine. I think we need to appreciate more of like the Jamis Winston's that throw like Hella touchdowns and Hella picks, because if you were not invested in those teams, that's fun football, both of those picks. Last night we were screaming about all of the touchdowns. We were screaming about unless you're boring and like defense, which I feel like is I don't know Mark's vibe. I like this kind it is chaotic, it's exciting, and I want to watch more of it. You know what I noticed on this show a couple of times when Rachel's appeared, it was like, if you get caught, if you get into a jam, just send a flaming arrow into Mark's head. That's how you get out of the corner. It's like, that's gonna not that's gonna stop working. At some point, Rachel on the sixth floor of the Texas book that I believe it is. She's not. She's not stacking school books either. I can tell you kind of Dan and I's move over the years too, So it's like to be a co host. I just slipped right in. Um, all right, any other thoughts on the game? M D. D. Hop does make like the entire difference like that. I don't think there was anything different in this Cardinals offense other than DeAndre Hopkins was there. That was it. And I think Kyler's willingness to run the last two weeks. He picked up some really key first downs early in the game because he's willing to run again and that's what kept them in it early. But there was really nothing different. It's just like, oh, you got new cop comes back in that like totally changes your offense, which is when do we get the hard Knocks out because I am launching the CRAPU November eight or something like, oh god, they're sneaking a perfect team for this. I am perfect and it's coming at the right time, like when they always start to fail there. I don't think that they'd be starting to film yet, but like we got this game on on episode that usually in season hard knocks isn't typically my jam. But if this season really did devolve into petty soap opera drama between the head coach and quarterback, I'm all in. If I'm if I'm like part of the Cardinals though, I'm panicking, but they're like, we agreed to this because we thought we were going to be good and d hops coming back and everything's like all hunky dory and it's not. I'm panicking. I'm calling Mr Hbo himself and asking, can we, you know, do this? Who? Who is Mr Hbo? Do we know? I think it's where you're calling their team owner, who's always just like, oh, yeah, sure, we'll do it. How many different card knocks and all or nothing? Sly? Then Oh it's that time on the Friday Fun show working title where one human gets the floor and this week it's Mark Sesler. It's about me. I uh, this is my time to make it about me, but I am going to make it a little bit about um everyone. Uh it is Uh. This week I did a QB index that essentially just had a high coup for all thirty two starting quarterbacks. Um, but I wanted to It was a good hook. I mean, I'm not sure the editors agreed with that, but um, apparently some readers potentially did. I want to expand that out to make some high coups about some of the people old that star on this show. Um, and so here we go. Wait before you do that, Yeah, we're there. Actually was there actual pushback from the edit desk. I don't rather not dig too deep into that, but there was there were I think there was some hesitation about what might be the final products might look like. We also had a couple of podcasts exclusive Dan because there were high coups too hot for NFL dot Com that we just read on the podcast. Some had to be re reworked. Let's put it that way. Probably true of these as well. All Right, we're gonna start with a high coup for for Dan. Okay, we're gonna put these up on screen, mealing down to pull a stray leaf from his swimming pool, old tugboat tugs. Mm hmm. I want to keep that, Benige, because if I lose Dan early in this, we're gonna be in hot water. So I just wanted to keep that. That's sort of the nice side to Dan. He's home in his house. Let's go to Greg. Don't don't forget those line breaks we heard from the listener. You know, well they can read it on screen here too, but I will Gregg Rose and Dolls hit the trifecta at Belmont well dressed up in women's tennis gear. Beautiful. I like that, and I do love a nice women's tennis hoodie and the tub. That's right, um, grave digger, it wouldn't be so fun to be a real grave digger. Dead bods in hot June's all right now. I was gonna say, like in the maybe like you're just tossing in an old corpse, but usually they're sealed in a cat. But you're right, you know, not everyone can afford a like a four thousand dollar casket. I would imagine, right, some people are just put an old mom in the backyard. You know exactly now we're going to do we got We got Rachel because she's our guest today. So we have one for Rachel scared, a new sun Rises, a new me, smoking tree with Mooch before game day? Do you do drugs with Steve Mariuchi? I don't smoke trees with Sea may Well, not yet. In our last one. This is for Grave Diggers um side piece Yessica, who who wa It's not a side piece. She literally came to live together. Alright, his his live in mate, Yessica from the East. I hail poor Justin has no clue. I'm Russian mafia. All right, that's it. I'm into that. M very good. Yeah, Mark's long term plan to break up Yessica and Justin adds another element. We Yeah, we see the guys in season hard Knocks. I'm interested in following this storyline. That's not we see. We see the long game him, You're playing with Jessica and we don't approve of it. We've really develop relationship with Justin. He's a great producer, and you have to understand there's a responsibility that comes with your role to get involved and set the marginalize their relationship for starters, it's just the red flag subscribe. I mean I would I would suggest that, um, you re route that. That the whole theory there. If anything, Justin had a chance to knock that down, he willingly published it because I think, if anything, the two of them enjoy as much attention as they can possibly get. You know, I do love you know what's going to happen, Grave, They're suspiciously silent right now. They do curl up on like a Friday night after the Friday Fun Show, after everything's been put to bed and they're they're planting their own trees, they go and sit in front of the fireplace and they'll listen to this show and just like look at each other and give a little like knowing smirks and like snuggle in front of a hot fire. That accurate answer for yourself, Grave Digger, we need you here. Accurate you have a fireplace? Okay, brag um, all right, good job, Mark, you nailed it. Uh. Let's check back in with the listeners slash viewers on the Friday Fun Show. Working title Mika Lebano Miko Lebano over here. Would you rather be a packers or Broncos fan over the next ten years. Oh wow, that's a big one. Um Packers history fun go to Lambeau. But it's tough. It's a toughie. You're making a face, Rachel. Yeah, well, I guess I just don't know. I feel like the Packers future is more unclear than the Broncos. I guess. I mean, how many more years is Aaron Rodgers have? Maybe that's a good thing. I don't know. If I like the clarity that is Russell Wilson guarant seed money the next three or four years. I go Packers just because yet you mentioned Lambeau, but also the history, Like there's this idea that the Broncos are this like super well run organization. But they've had their ups, they've had their downs. It's a new ownership you have to deal with that. It could be coaches, g M. The Packers always seem like they know what they're doing. They'll find a way. I'm going hard head in London and those things really retain like sweat. It was soaking wet and I can't I can't go back to that. So you're saying Sauce Gardner might have like caught some disease and then he kind of like started to like calm down and look around. And I think that that was the moment that he was like, this is soaked, and I was coming from a sweaty man. What else do we do? Ronald Bodenham, Roland Rolandingham favorite Bonetta impression, Cooper Cup or Mike McDaniel Napoleon. Mike McDaniel was just lay aired. I had so many influences, Napoleon Dynamite being one of them, Mark Sessler being another. I think you like McDaniel Mike McDaniel. Now, when I watched him talk, I just kind of hear him as Napoleon Dynamite and there's a lot in there. So I'm gonna go I couldn't believe that nobody else saw that before. That's just you opened our eyes. That's your skill, that's your talent, because I just think that was more like the method and you it was like you had studied the essence of Cooper Cup and gotten every inflection. And yeah, he's got a little bit of a fun twang to him, and he's got all the facial hair and a right one. More Zach cl with all these jets wins, how come we haven't heard from Keith at all. Well last week. Today's Keith's birthday, actually happy birthday. So my old man um has been busy hung out with his his brother ed uncle ed less Sunday and watch the Giants game. Uncle has a big Giant's and so he had DVR the Jets game, so he wasn't able to give any reaction to the Green Bay game in real time. So Dad, do you hear it? Here he comes, People want to say hello to you. They can't. You can't really hear him, but I just want to see you on the He's also been on a wild bend. We we can hear you said, happy birthday, Thank you very much. This is a great day with Daddy coming here to New York, you know, and going to the Yankee game tomorrow, looking forward to it. I always like seeing everybody here. You know, that's Rachel. You haven't met Rachel. Rachel? What are you working on outside that right now? Dad's always working in the front in the backyard, just picking up a few things. Just cut the grass this morning. And uh, you know that's what I do on my birthday. You know, I got a super there you go, Super Bowl forty nine that was one of them, like, yeah, yeah, we're look at this all right. Hey, I like that, right, I like that. I like that? All right, Papa, Okay, I'll see you in a little bit, all right. Same hair, exact same hair that my dad he only wears free merch from the NFL. Now that's exclusively my dad's wardrobe. Um, all right, So there you go, a little drop in from Keys. So there he is. You're making your dad do yard work on his birthday. Why why couldn't you have said? Let me absolutely would have and I always do when I come home, take care of the lawn. But I was preparing for this show, being a pro. Unfortunately my dad retired. You know, he has more time than I do. Right now, you know nothing, let's move to Oh I always love this part of the show. It is time now for the Greg Rosenthal Week seven Injury Minute, presented by Acrasshure. A milkshake for old Lady Bones. Uh p, J Walker's back. Sorry he's starting for the Panthers again. No Donald or Mayfield this week. Mark Andrews returned to practice. Bad news for Mark Sessler's brown so it looks like he will play Denzel Ward will not play for the Browns. Neither were Wired teller. Jadavian Clowney did return to practice and looks like he probably will play. J K. Dobbins will be out for the Ravens. On the other hand, Kenny Picketts looks like he's starting. That's not announced at quarterback, but he's cleared the concussion protocol. So as Pat Friar muth Logan Wilson, the good Bengals linebacker is out. Shack Leonard will not return for the Colts this week, which is bad news. Jonathan Taylor will play. Kristen Watson is out another week for the Packers. We'll see if Sammy Watkins plays. He might come on come off I R for that game. And that was the Greg Rosenthal injury minute presented by Akrasher. What is it again for old Lady bone? Nobody, nobody knows for sure? Um all right, time now before we say goodbye Week seven predictions, let's go over the Week six predictions. First, Mark non QB will score five t d s. Also separate wager Titans players or prediction get into a whole bunch of trouble over bye week. That's a that's a double x I believe. Yeah, there's no evidence of the Titans players getting in trouble. We don't know for sure, but nothing to suggest. And he gets over two and moving right along from double X to triple X. My prediction was that Mark celebrates in a unique Cecelarian way for his his birthday. And UM, you know, we don't have confirmation on this, but I got a feeling Mark at a good time last weekend. I'd give you at least half a win on that. Um, if not a full win, I'll take the full win. Okay, thanks, you left it open, I'll take it. Greg. The Eagles d ends the Cooper Rush hype with two turnovers. I got it? Uh, did you, though? I said to more. Cooper Rush turns the ball over twice and the hype train ends. The Eagles defense ends it with a thud with a couple of turns. We gotta give you the X because he turned it over three times. Sorrybody, I mean I think anyone listening can know where where to get their accurate predictions from M. Mark. Go ahead, Mark, you decide on that one. Is that an X or a check marks? Yeah? Big time? All right? And finally, Clay bound said the Browns win and Chubb has three t d s, and we know right now with the Browns that ain't happen all right, now, on to the week seven predictions. You want to get us going on this one, Vanetta, m my week seven bold prediction. The first one would be if I threw a party and invited all three of you guys, none of you would show up. That's my first I'm just kidding. I'm just kidding, Rachel. You know, the as a family man on the other side of the city, that was a big ask, and I made that clear to you. It's fine, Michael, Irvan showed up, but I went out. I was literally out of town. So I think will continue to invite you guys to things. And it's okay if you guys don't know what Mark was doing. But I was in San Diego. I mean that was like, that is unnecessary, Like to just the way Greg operates in general is unnecessary. Rachel. She just wanted to happy birthday to you as well. Rachel. Thank you, my my week seven bold prediction. Maybe this is a little bit lame, but I know that going into this week, everyone's like, oh, these games. I actually think this is going to be one of the more exciting weekends. And I was saying this even before Christian McCaffrey joined the forty Niners. We got chea forty Niners, which is interesting. Chargers Seahawks I find interesting. The Seahawks have been putting up points. Their defense is awful. I feel like that's going to be a spling fest. Colts Titans shout out Graver. I feel like that might be fun. Uh And I think that next week we're gonna be like we're Nins. Jimmy Chick, you love Jimmy, that's your team. Those are my predictions. This week is gonna be good. It's gonna be fun, alright, Greg, Yeah, it was as if Andy Dalton heard a message from the league office increased points and he's just a good company man, and that's what he did. It's coming week seven. My prediction is that Bill Belichick will break out a play or a move something directly inspired by George Hallis in this win over the Bears. Most likely it'll be like running a T formation like the nineteen thirties offense that George Hallis broke out to help change the NFL. But he'll do something as a historical nod to George Hallis during this game as he passes in because that's just the type of guy that And you know what, when it's thirty to six in the third quarter, he'll have, you know, some wiggle room to play with on that right. It's like that drop quick kick he had Doug Flutie do uh in Doug Flutie's last game. I believe it was like fifteen years ago. He'll do something fun. How about you? Mark? All Right, it's a two parter um both both of these things have happened. Well, because I am telling you the I'm I have two visions, two locks. These are absolute locks. Both of things things have occurred in NFL history. We were at a game where this occurred. Um A, a wide ranging power outage occurs at one NFL stadium and causes a massive disruption delay slash delay. All Right, we solved the Super Bowl. Can happen again? Number part B or number two? Um A player is involved in a major mishap involving the team bus that again causes UM like issues where like will player X be there by kickoff? Like he gets run over by the bus? No, I would say more like there was I think was Adrian Peterson like a decade plus ago, like missed the team bus and they were unsure if you'd get there by kickoff, and it caused all these like pregame you know, issues and consternation. So something of that nature I guarantee will will occur. But why do you want, um chaos and pain and these things to happen. Why do you want to root for? Why is that always what comes up? I don't think anyone is getting There's no pain, no one's getting hurt here, Like a power outage could be be peaceful. Um it was at the super Bowl and the player just simply there's a mishap involving the bust me that question, Greg, Like Alfred said in the Dark Night, some people just won't to watch the world burn. My prediction is and Rachel is already hinting at it, although I did not know what athletic wear she would have on today. Um, Rachel on bab Bench with Banetta, her podcast which everybody should check out, has been searching for a new team. She settled on the Chargers, and I stressed settled and I told her after I pitched the Jets to her an April, you gotta give the Jets a look. They are the team to get behind. They are building a new core. There's a lot of excitement. This could be the team. She laughed at me. She eliminated the Jets in August, and I told Rachel on her show this week and a message, no hard feelings. The doors still open. And after the Jets pants the Broncos on predicting, Rachel on her podcast this week's She she does it. She announces that the Jets are a new favorite. Wow, so she you're predicting. She announces her Jets fandomb even bolder than a mishap on a bus. Are you? Are you at all worried? Dan Elijah Moore, who's now going to be inactive for this game because he requested a trade, is the is the thing that turns this into a Jets season? Um, you can stop with that negative energy Patriots fan. But I'm not happy with the situation. I have to tell you, like Elijah Moore has got to pipe down a little bit there. It's everything's going well for the team and they're still transitioning with Wilson after all the issues like waited out, um and and kind of be a pro. But I understand the frustration, but I don't like that it's come to this in a trade demand for a second year player. Hopefully cooler heads prevail. And I like at this point the way the Jets have handled it, which is they sent him home. They said, you're not playing this week, but we don't want to trade you, and we're not going to trade you. And I hope cooler heads prevailed. But no, Greg, I didn't like that. That's been It could be. It could be a big Keith Hands this weekend because Denzel Mims steps in for the well, that would be a big Bob Bates d D. That's right, Bear man Um, all right, good stuff, Rachel, you've said it all. I had that Frank Sinatra poster in my apartment in Hoboken, New Jersey, back in the mid offs. It's a beautiful one. He looks still in that photo. Let's be honest here, he really does he really does? Anything you want to say, Rache? Before are we say goodbye? Um? Taylor Swift is not that interesting? WHOA the trailer thing they showed during Thursday night football sum that was such a letdown? What even was that? It was not what I was? What a bomb? From Vanetta Bombetta. I heartily disagree, and I'd love to maybe come on your podcast to discuss it. I am Are you going to listen to the album? Is it come? Did it come out last night? To come on today? It came out at midnight? Rage it's called midnight. What were you and Keith up at midnight listening to it? Yeah? You know it sitting in front of the fire like grave Digger and uh and yessica. Yes, all right, that's enough. We've had our fun and now the fund has ended. Everyone, So a great weekend, Rachel. Please throw another party when the season's over, and I promised I'll be either lucky. And thank you everybody for watching along and listening and enjoy the football and Sunday Monday and we'll see you come the Flagship show head the Call