Friday Fun Show! Bengals-Dolphins TNF Recap + Final Thoughts for Week 4

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Speaker 1: Wheezy. Yeah, ah want to rush. It's the Friday Funk Show working title from the Wilton Arms and Knight's Bridge section of London. There it is Voice Crack number one. Dan Hands is here with Mark Sessler, Greg rose Baal, great digger on the ones and twos. Uh, Yoko Yessica taking photos looking wonderful. John Gonzalez sitting in from Sports Illustrated Fame and Colleen Fame and uh, here we are boys. I like that you started the show with what Mark and I are treated to before. You know, most shows, if you really wanted to get the experience going, you would also give them a little like, uh, next week's show, we'll be I'll give you some tiger blood, Charlie. Yes, here we are the Wilton Arms. Um our public choice so far this week and it's been um quite a day and you'll hear in our voices and the way we speak in general a little bit loopy. After our Thursday night live show at the O two Forum and cut this down huge hunt boys, UM, and thank you to everybody who came out and um turned it into a special night. And of course Rachel Bonetta and Neil Reynolds are very special guests. Um even Jessica herself made an appearance at the end of the show. So this was it was quite It was quite a night. We even saw Justin graver dance to the bongo song and that was something that I will never forget because you could see the way Justin danced that inner theater kid came out, kid went to like theater camp in summer in high school. Did you he was on stage loving it? Wow? Um No, I took theater in eighth grade for a semester. But I was a theater child, Like as a six year old, I was in like the Plaino Children's Theater production in Texas, and I said, but I saw that boy in dancing with a big smile on your face and was very nice. It was it was my favorite. It was one of my favorite moments because it had come right after we did our tribute for West, which is emotional and it was great. And then to cap that with some bongos and then Graver dancing, I feel like encapsulated our podcast perfectly. But the fact that then me walking off the stage with his girl right well, the fact and I want to get to topical and there there are some pictures out there of that. I think maybe Grave real post him because we had a photographer there. The fact that the final shots of the night are like the crowds, you know, clapping and in it's Dan and Yessica just waving goodbye to the crowd. Like it's like like the President and the First Lady. I was a bizarre way. I do have a question for you, uh justin Yes, you were a child Despian a child actor. Were you are were you in um in this theater company? Were you a child playing a child or were you like in a child like you would be doing Serpico as a child kind of scenario. More like I played Hercules and Hercules, I played Harry Potter and Harry Potter I was the lead lead quite often that's a lot of lots, so you only pay you, Jessica. Were you aware of this? The lead Harry Potter to Jessica sincerely, She was of great help to us and all the people at the O two form very cool vibe. We had like close to a thousand people at the show. Was it was pretty special. So we are kind of in the afterglow of that might have hit it a little bit hard after the show a little bit of a celebration, hung out with the Good Morning Football crew. I thought that was a rewarding experience. Me and Jason mccordy realized that we're both from the same area of New York and we had some good conversations about Rockland County and some cold town talk. And we're gonna have him on the show in the off season to break break that down. He did sort of slightly dispel the concept of the cold town, which I don't think that you were aiming for that. So you were very drunk countries like the best city to raise like, you know, polo players, slightly confused by your memory of the town in general. Do you think you guys are stupid? Uh? Well, I think that's what the problem is here. Um. Anyway, so that was great, uh, And today's show we will short and sweet because we really do need to enjoy ourselves in London because it's fast approaching an end. It's already now maybe Friday, Today's Friday it is And if you do hear this early and you're in town, will be on stage or the London Eye at the NFL event around twelve thirty on Saturday. YEP, with Neil Reynolds on stage with us. We'll do probably twenty minutes or so with Neil. If you want to come through, we'll do twenty. Mark will do fifteen. Speaking of which, Mark, some weird vibes from you as usual, But it's ramping up as the week is going along out here. Um what New texted us about ninety minutes ago when we were all still at the hotel? Will we be cleared by five thirty? You think have some crazy stuff tonight? And then there was a follow up text, Hey, can you take my backpack with whatever is in it back to the hotel for me? All right? And then when we got to the bar and we're like all right, Mark stopped at the ps like what are you doing after the show? You're like nothing. I am doing nothing as of this moment. I have um friends, business partners, associates, partners scattered throughout many, many states and countries. Tell us the truth right now, you can tell the truth of all you two. I ordered the backpack is in my room. I handled that. That was more my concern because I left my backpack, my passport, all my possessions in the UK office and had to go on the side, and we just sort of delighted. I think these different words of last night. But you did give Dan at one point the line that you had a heart out, and Dan was like, we got a heart out in London? Where are you going? We we can't do it. I also got a call from Mark after the taping yesterday, after Mark overslept and then we all got together at the hotel or at the NFL office. Hey, can you go back to the office for me and get my plug? Well? No, you said you were hanging around that area to get a hair cut, and I'm like, what's going on with this guy? I can't go back. I acknowledge acknowledge that yesterday, the morning portion of yesterday was a disheveled scenario, but I think I recovered. Well. We did the live show. You were excellent, you know, and it was very nice Mark. I must say, there will be no more roughing of assessly here. It was very nice to do the show yesterday with you. We weren't able to do it last year because of some unfortunate things that were going on with you physically, but you were able to come here, survived the flight over, do the show with us, and it's great to have us all together and share that moment with Justin. I had a great time, and it reminded me that one's life on stage is too brief. There should be more opportunities where you just you're just up on stage exuding, and I want to be I want to be in a play. I want to do what Justin did when he was six. I don't know why you bailed on that career. I'm not sure why you did. Here's what happened. When I was about ten, there was an audition for Barney the show Barney and my mom told me about it afterwards, and I was like, why didn't you take me to that audition? I would have crushed it. And then I was so just sad by that by missing that that ill way to well. I would be worried. I agree with you, if you're not spoken to. Your mom said, it would be fun to do that more and more often. And some people you know are on stage a lot. There positions, their their stand up comics, or they do more live stoves. Maybe we can, but I would be a little worried about Mark because it is one of my favorite nights of the year. Two when we come and do this. It's just like a guaranteed good time. But I'd be worried because at one point Mark started just gesturing towards the crowd to make them all chant. What more likely, But he just was doing it even when it wasn't time to do it. And he's like, I just like the power of it, that power I like to control them. I feel it was a great, great night. Coming up today we'll have Mark, this is your chance to have even more power because the floor is your segment of the Friday Fun Show. It is your turn, sir, So that's coming up. I have a point to I know that, and that's what we're hoping for. We hope that you planned for it, and we're gonna listen into it. We have our week four hero predictions and by the way, we hit on a couple and week three, so we're getting hot while some of us did. Um. Also, I mean you position your Matt rule thing as it doesn't matter if he or loses, So I don't know if I totally accept that. Okay, well that doesn't matter because Justin did and he is the arbor around this one. We will do our injury minute. The Greg Roshalt injury a minute, he's all over that and uh but before that, let us hit and I watched us kind of in a boozy hayze um second that. So I have, I have my takes might be a little maybe amazing, more horrible. But I did watch the game last night at like four in the morning Thursday night football. Burrow is eight of fifty fairly over fifty percent, goes deep down the left sideline and that's caught. That's Teve Higgins to Leanjong. So the crowd was growing impatured. The next thing you know, you got a fifty nine yard touchdown over ride Shavian Howard's tag Al Michael's with the call Amazon Prime, Cincinnati is back on track. Two more touchdown passes for Joe Burr through seven averaged over nine yards an attempt, no interceptions, pass rating one sixteen. Bang. That's Shoe Burrow right there. Running game is still stuck in mud. But Tee Higgins is the other star wide receiver of the Bengals, and he goes off seven touch and win over the Miami Dolphins. Dolphins fall for the first time. They are three and one. Get to the Bengal side of this, but Greg let's start with what was the biggest news out of this game, and really it was tough to watch. It was scary, uh, to a tungo by Loo who suffered a quote unquote back injury in week three, gets thrown down to the turf around midfield in this game and suffered it's a very scary head and neck injury. Taken to the hospital, fortunately released, travel back home with the team and seems to be in a good place. But at the same time, when he goes down and he's in the fencing posture, and it brings up a whole bunch of questions about how this was handled. Yeah, I think we just have to clarify what the what the time of all this was when he had that injury last week, which you know, to most people, including this week, right, that's true. It was it was just Sunday. It was just four days before this game when he suffered that injury, which two people who know a lot more about concussions, doctors and the certainly looked like a concussion just to the naked eye. Four days ago. He was tested for a concussion during last week's game. Uh, the doctors there cleared him to return to the field in that game, which which to me was was where this all started. It wasn't that he started last night, it was that they let him return to the game. Uh last week. Uh, he was not in the concussion protocol during the week where where they took additional tests, and I think that's where the Dolphins will come under some criticism. Before this game even happened, the NFL p A had started in an investigation into whether they followed the protocol correctly a week ago, but that investigation takes a week or two. And then he played this game on Thursday night. So that's all to say. Going into the game, there was a lot to be concerned about with Tuah, and then when he suffered that it was just one of those moments that you feel like we've covered the NFL a long time and the way they've handled concussions is gonna be an inflection point because, uh, there's a lot of people understandably upset. It was upsetting to watch it, and uh, I thought Andrew Whitworth on the postgame show on Amazon gave some good context of how he's passed those concussion tests as a player, that it's that he can do it that they can figure out a way to answer those questions. And he mentioned the time that it took that passed the test but still has a head injury, right. He he was he was totally um, he said, woozy and and not feeling right at all, but he was able to get past the independent neurologists and get back on the field and that it took a teammate of his UH to take him off the field and says, that's what it is. That's what happens a lot, that it takes a player or someone else to pull you aside because you're gonna just lie and try to be a warrior to get back out on the field. You hope that's not what happened with to a week ago, but there's obvious questions whether that was what happened. There's so much going on over the past five or six days with this, and a lot of blame has sort of right, I guess, suspicion has been thrown at Mike McDaniel at the Dolphins at TWA himself, I mean to a who said it was a back injury verbally after Sunday's game. Um, was that something that he was using verbally to curve around what was really going on, I don't know, But the thing is, to me, what's the broke down part of the process is the concussion protocol to begin with. I don't really know if I'm willing to blame the Dolphins or suspect that some larger, some sort of conspiracy is going on here. But the other part of it is find me a player who thinks that Thursday night games make any sense. I know it's good for the fans, it's good for the league to have there's name football. I mean, I know there's college football. But if it were Saturday night football, you're talking about two extra days for players to recover. Why was to a out on the field to begin with? If there was a head injury, if the Dolphins knew that at they're and he I don't think it's almost like you don't want to know it. I mean, he played in that in the same game. It's not that even four days later he played that day. And I think that I think there's questions of why doesn't the protocol include further testing after? Like, right, everyone you could did not pess the smell test from the start. What happened on Sunday in the win over Buffalo, the way he reacted, and then for then to be turned into it was a back injury, and then for now not to be more testing, and of course the Dolphins could come back and say, well, yeah, that wasn't a concussion and this was a separate injury suffered and it just looks bad. Yeah, just a lot of smoke around this, And I think it's so important, especially for players on the short week because Thursday night football, Mark is not going anywhere, and it's on Thursday because that's the biggest rated TV night that on television, h much more than Saturday, which is the college football domain. So there's business interests involved and that's just the way it is with the or with this corporation in the NFL. But it's just tough. That was a tough that was a tough site. It was a tough site, and I'm sure it's not the last we hear the story. On the other side of this with the Bengals, yeah, I think I feel like they've really um gotten a little bit of their swagger back here that this is a nice win. I think Mark the Dolphins. The Dolphins. You could say whether or not you buy into the Dolp Dolphins and if Teddy Bridgewater has to play multiple games or even our game, we'll see how they do. They got the um, they have have to check their schedule, but you have now the since they got the Jets, Vikings and Steelers up next. Okay, that's not too bad. UM. As far as Cincinnati, they now have a big matchup against Baltimore in Baltimore and to be able to get back to five hundred. They've studied the ship here uh the last two weeks. If you're a Bengals fan, you're back in a good place. It was just so critical. And do I think that they there was an advantage to the fact that Teddy has worked really well in this offense, went out and was Teddy came in for for two UM? I do. I think that's not a huge drop off for the Dolphins, but for the Engles side of it. UM. I don't come out of watching what I watched, and it was mostly the forty minute condensed version today because I was with you Dan last night on a bit of a cloud during the actual airtime. I don't come out convinced that they fixed their issues because I still see like it really mysteriously defunct ground game. Uh, they're struggling to get their big plays they got they got enough of them last night with Higgins like for it to work. Um, I just I think that there there's issues here and what's the systemically is the problem with the Bengals and they're lying in the running game and everything. It's not last year's offense. And they the way that they dominated the Ravens in two matchups a year ago, I don't see that offense right. But they're they're getting better. We we This is also the time of year to work out of that season is like an in evolution, and I thought their offense probably looked the best it looked. Burrow said that he believed that was the best past protection he has ever received as a pro, and I would agree. They're run blocking is terrible. You you mentioned the key points leading into the game, Dan, but like they gave up on running. They tried a third and one, they tried a fourth and one, they tried to short yardage on the goal lines, and then Zach Taylor just waved the white flag and everyone was killing them on Twitter like I can't believe you kick the field go and that I was like, I don't know, man, they are admitting that they can't get a yard, but I'm kind of with them. They just went like over five trying to get one yard. I it's not that crazy to take the three points in that scenario. But they protected him really well. It should be pointing out that the Cowboy the Dolphins defense played ninety two snaps on Sunday in a crazy weather game, and their defense maybe didn't have as much use. But to your point mark of like, you're not sure that they have issued a point, I think I think. I think you're right. Offensively, they're not there. Defensively, I think this is one of the most consistent sound defenses in the NFL, and they're very hard to like score big points off of. I think it's a really good defense. We're not worried about them the way we were a fortnit ago. By the way, there was no there was no Teddy played pretty well. I think that last interception was probably on Mike KASICKI uh not reading the coverage, and I think he he did play quite well. He had a crazy deep throw. I think they can survive with him as my butt. Look at this guy. This guy's we're in a league right now where Greg every week is getting a big helping of Gino, a big helping water. And now he's getting Andy Dalton for the Saints, likely on Sunday. And I don't know why Andy Dalton is becoming my guy. I want the Daltonnissans with the Saints, although the way the Saints have looked up a little week, this this endless striving for quarterback mediocrity as a bizarre quest, but Greg is winning it at the moment. I know. The two thing is a little bit cloudy um clouds of situation a little bit, but it's on my radar a little bit. That the Dolbins have scored on offense thirteen points, nineteen points, fifteen points. And then that random, insane fourth quarter against the Raiders, right and they were starting, they were struggling before to uh left that game. And what Teddy did was similar, which was like they moved the ball, but they weren't finishing drives all right, hit gravers. The graver's out late too, So does this many for this drop hit what exactly? He doesn't know that there is a drop for the floor is yours. It's a horn, it's a it's ay yes, no, no, I knew it. You got it. You're you're with us. Give me just a second now, because I wasn't ready to play behind the curtain. He was feeling drink until now we were maybe edit free and now you're probably editing you keep this in here? Well cough, that's on my phone. All right, here is it's time for Mark. The floor is yours. Ah, you know the sound last week he pushed it off to because he wanted to watch the Browns at a bar, but out that you can no longer. You can no longer fight off your responsibility, Mark, because the floor is yours. You know. I'm glad I did that last week because that has a lot to do with what I'm about to mention to the two of you, to justin to uh, Gonzo, to Jessica, to a bar full of patrons who can't hear me because they're in his separate room. To the listener, I mean, Gonzo and Jessica are both like faced, first into their phones, right and then to raise their interests. But I am I have no hopes. Uh. Last night at our live show, I thought one of the most um you know, I missed it last year and there was a lot of honor and tribute given to West in that show. But last night we closed our show with a tribute to West. That brought the house down. It created a standing ovation, as it should, and I think it really to me was a re emphasis of the glue of what our show was. And Gregg has tattooed on his body. He had the call we end every show with. He had the call all and I want to talk about a little bit what I think that means um to me because West with West as he had the call. I think about the fact that all four of us, When I think how we got to the fact that we were doing a live show in London, it's pretty crazy. Uh. Dan is someone who took a somewhat atypical route to get there. There was some journalism school, but it was a man who was writing for the Patch in various counties and cities, very Patch in Long Island, that's too, uh, the Rocky County Times and the Journal News by Coastal by Coastal. I like that Greg was the brick by brick guy and and I. But he also had a for a where he just went to Hollywood to try to learn the Hollywood business, so he's been in and out of things west of all people. Was a freaking mailman. There was no schooling to do what he did. He was a freaking mailman. Like I did a thing where I went and like got obsessed with in college, went to work for Baseball Weekly and moved like eight miles away from my college to live in a bizarre apartment, beaut of a are across from Baseball Weekly, and then realize I don't like baseball. But then I got out of the whole industry for fifteen years, then came back into it. So it's like, there's so many different ways to do this, but how we got there? Last night? The one thing that I thought I felt great honor about was that our lives have changed a ton during this. We've gone through so much, and all the time we get the question like how did you guys get here? What is it you do? And I think for me, he had the call is there are these inflection points, these moments in your life where you either make the choice to do the uncomfortable thing, where you take a chance. Maybe it's when you're you're fifteen years old. It's like either like tell this girl, I like her. I don't. If you're fifteen years old and you're sitting in your room and you're scared of call her, call her up. If you are applying for a job and you're thinking, you know what, I'm gonna take the safe job because I don't really want to leave the thing I'm doing right now. I want to just continue along this boring career path that doesn't help me at all. Digit change. If you're in a relationship that doesn't work, change, make change. He the call to me is you just find that thing in your life. You know what it is. If you're listening, there's just things you're avoiding doing. Go do it. And I never want to forget what the message the West sent to us with the way he lived, what he did. And I thought, lastly, it came through so loud and clear, and it really you can see the effect that West had on everyone in that audience. And that's really all I have to say. No, that was well, said Mr Sessler. Um We spoke, We spoke about West, all three of us. There was a gentleman in the crowd during the Q and a portion that was wearing a Cincinnati Bengals jersey number one with West on the back, and he was a Cardinals fan, but it was his love of of Chris and what he meant to the show meant to us that shot shine through and then and I think we'll post it on social but the video that that we played um as part of the show, that was really special. So yes, West is with us still to this day, and and that message really does resonate. Yeah, that was really will I did notice that Jessica left during what I was saying, so that what is that it didn't resonate with everyone? I um. I got a comment on on the pictures I put on Instagram today about the West tribute and saying like, I felt bad for you guys up there, but I'm really glad that you shared it. And I responded and I was like, well, don't feel bad that that is a moment where we felt or that speaking for myself, I think it's true for you guys. I felt West closer to me than than I than I ever do these days like that, that was where we felt him as close as possible. And to see all these people and for us to be involved celebrating him, it was an is a joy like that. It's it's it has sadness to it, but it's a total joy. So don't don't feel bad for us, Like that is a great thing to be able to feel close to him. David Choplin was there taking photos for us last night, and he got an incredible shot of the three of you guys standing on the stage holding your mics and West above you on the projector screen holding his mic, and it was like he's watching over you and podcasting with you, and it was like it gave me chills. I saw that, and I agree with one thing, and this is more on a personal note in just the timing of how everything went down with with Chris. He got sick and then eventually we lost him in the middle of COVID and so we didn't really get to be with him and around him when he was sick. Didn't even get to see him in the hospital. There was no funeral service or anything like that. So that was that was just on top of everything else. Um, for him to just be gone the way he was, it was difficult. So a moment like yesterday, yeah, it felt like he was with us and that that's cool. That's cool, all right, Mark, good job there. Um I don't know how we transition, but we will. With the Greg Rosenthal injury Minute presented by Accrashure, a premium decomposition agent for luxury crematoriums. That's just a guess. That's right on the injury minute this week, that dal tones Son's is here, Andy Dalton's starting. They didn't announced that, but Jamis Winston's doubtful. Yeah, he's he's doubtful. He's listening. And as it was reminded to me today, Annie Dalton Kirk cousins played against each other in London before as members of Washington and Cincinnati, and I think it was like a thirty five to thirty five overtime tie where they had seven forty two yards. So so Jamis is probably missing the game. Andrew Speed their uh tackles out, our guard Marcus May, their safeties out, and Michael Thomas is out, so they are quite big. Uh. Christian McCaffrey looks like he's genuinely questionable, maybe on the maybe on the wrong side of questionable. Dalvin Cook will play Hunter. Renfro, who started his career with a concussion, looks like he's gonna miss his second straight game with a concussion. Uh Canarius Tony and Wandale Robinson don't appear any close to being back your guys for the Lions, Dan, i'man ras St Brown and DeAndre Swift are out. Although I'm moving off my luck. Okay, do you want to move off with me? Where do you want? You know? I do want to move off, but I don't. I'm not prepared to announce where I'm going with that. We must make an actual Twitter announcement before a verbally before we make that announcement. I think that makes sense. And that was the end of the minute. Uh Yet I can't see them winning this I think they're gonna win this game anyways. And Dan Campbell is going to have like a great thing of like we were down this guy, we were down five starters and we found a way to win. And it'll be ugly and they'll find a way. Are we going to the game with forty two injuries? By the way, Uh, well, there's injuries everywhere. Just illustrated. Had just lost another starting left tackle, Harry Witherspoon just ended up. But I can't seem relatively harder. But the Saints are quite baking. I did not like the way the I don't like the lines defense at this stage really, although there have been some bright spots, Um, Jeffer Cudas taking that leap Hutchinson. You know, well he had one good half in terms of stats. But anyway, I don't trust the events yet, and I didn't like when I saw it from the offense last week, so I gotta move off that pick. All right, let's see, let's see, let's see, let's see Hero of the Week prediction as we bring this thing in for landing and again we'll be back Sunday night Flagship Show. If you are Um, if you are in London, come see us tomorrow at the river bank. Tell what it is, River Hedge. It's by the eye, the south Bank. Thank you. It doesn't even it's just a region. It's just a yeah, the river hedges by the river. They're trimmed back nicely. All right, your Hero the Week prediction, Greg, I'm gonna stick with my lock and and sin. Before we do that, let's go over last week's predictions. Greig. I'm sorry, this is part of what we do. You had Tom Brady, uh, some type of prediction of greatness from Tom and he did not find a way if he would have completed that pass almost tied the game the two point conversion than one. You would have had it, but you didn't Mark Sessler. You had Mark, you had jumping anytime. I'm attempting to recall I don't even remember last night at this point, but Marca Drake London, remember about forty nine yards or something like that a touchdown critical than for yards. He had the last score of the game, which game with thirty five seconds left in the third quarter that put the Falcons ahead, nailed it. So basically the game winning touchdown, you know, get you a hundred dollars. Now to the payroll. You're on the payroll. I have to raise something on this one. Cordrell Patterson had like a hundred and something sixty total yards on a touchdown. Drake Lendard wasn't even the if he scored. He scored the final touchdown. That said, he had a fewer yards. I think last week, what are we asking a football player to do? And he scored the final touchdown. You're you're coming out of what you want to that's considering you're going to make the case for yours. I don't have to make a case, Matt rule. I spoke the Matt Rule with great respect and integrity and said see him as a human. And guess what happened. Not only the Panthers get their first win, the Panthers team gave Matt Rule the game ball, which was showing to them, showing from them to Matt that we know you've been going through a lot. We respect you. We're gonna fight hard for you. That's a that's a big I can't it. But I just want to point out, as you were saying that last week, you were like, this isn't even about him winning or losing, just respect him as a total Like waiting for Bridget to chime in here, it literally gave him the game ball to show they respected. I'm let to see you. That's a good argument. All right now it's time Greg you're hero of the weak prediction. Okay. Like I said, I'm staying on the Titans train. They were my lock, and I've appreciated the maturation of Ryan Tannehill over the years and this year I think that's the Steelers your lock. Okay, I totally forgot about that. We're a little bit rough shape. He also said, you did also say, yeah, you know what I put the rainmaker on the Titans to cover. That's where I'm getting confused. I think if you watch Ryan Dannehill play after play, you can understand he's now a quarterback that makes the people around him better and that even though things aren't great around him, I think he is doing like a really credible job. He is like in that top twelve quarterback credible, not incredible, but like I think he's like above the Kirk Cousins line. Like I think he's like very solid. He's now developed into a guy who I think makes people better around him, and I think incredible. Well, so why would incredible and incredible are they connected? He was educated at D I believe I went to school. Is incredible the root word of incredible, the root word. But but Gonzo, why would in if you add if the route is credible, which means we you, you have validation, we believe in you, and you add in like you add into the beginning of it. So it's like sane, insane, so credible incredible. I just want to say that I flew all the way from Los Angeles and I came to see you guys, and this is what you have me on the pod board. I have no idea what this conversation is about. We're wrapping up that. That's my gift to you. We're almost done. I did enjoy the West tribute, so let's get loose right after Allis born in March twelve, nine seventy seven is an American sports writer who's married to NFL media broadcaster calling Wolf John, who is a Pisces besides in Los Angeles with his wife and two dogs. All right, that's why Gonza and I get along. We're both Pisces. You know, West too, to be two magnets, though you might, you know, reject each other absolutely, Why I don't think that's happening. Graver and I and and Gonza and West just as he's gang. All right, here we go, mark your turn. I'm gonna go. Zach Wilson, You're always on the Jets in one way or the other. This is a positive thing, I know. But it's interesting you always plugged him on the Jets. Is it because of me? I do care about you, But I also think that the Zach Wilson journey, it has this variance where it's gonna get really, really dark and lead the Jets in the Jets fan base to a really dark place, or after all this hullabalo, he comes onto the field and performs not just credibly maybe, so, I mean, what you're gonna bring the I n you're at top to pick in the draft. At some point you've got to stop toying around with your mom's friends, put on some football equipment, and start doing football things that you can keep doing that you do that when you're actually performing on the field, though otherwise it's sort of a sad story. Am I wrong? But I mean, even for Jets fans, what would the think about where you're gonna be comes Sunday night? If he goes out there and he totally lays an egg versus he goes out and plays really admirably and you're thinking, you know what, this whole thing might finally work. He's definitely hit the way room looks beefy, all right, I don't I don't want. It's almost like I'm so nervous about the possibility of four and thirteen right now that I don't want to think about it. But this will be hell. It will be very helpful to the offense and an offensive line that's been dealing with injuries to have a mobile quarterback. It's got the playmakers. Let's see what happens. I like it, you got me back. I'm optimistic. I will go with the apple mentioned Andy Dalton. This is it. This is his last channel. I got your ass um but I even let you go first because I wanted you to have the chance. You let you set the table. That was That was it. He comes to London and he's the hero. But then again, let's remember the history of this podcast that I am the Dalton defender like you're Johnny Come Lately. Uh in the Dalton world. Um. I have always liked Andy Dalton and he's in London and he's taking over for Jamis Winston who has a back injury and has not been playing very well. Hey, he, like Zach Wilson, has some pieces around him that he could run this offense. He did some things with Dallas when Dak went down a couple of years ago. I really think this is his chance to take this job and run with it. And it starts with absolutely lighting up the Vikings on Sunday. I would love that. To me, is a London the big story. Andy Dalton comes in and saves them banged up. It is a little bit of a bummer because last time we watched the game at the Hot Toddy or two years ago, we saw Jamis Wintson throw six interceptions. We don't get that this time. But how At Dalton throws six touchdowns? That would just be credible, that would be incredible. We we started this with some questions about the Dolphins medical staff. Well, Jamis Winston broke four bones in his back, then played the next two games. There's no new injury, and now he can't practice. So I don't know what happened there. I find that suspicious. Um. All right, there you go. That's the Friday fun show. We will Now you know, we're gonna have a couple of We're gonna have a couple of pos. We're gonna get some dinner with Johnny Mark. Where are you going? There? Are you hanging out with us? Are you leaving? I'm hanging out with you guys. You are I don't understand that something fall through? What's the true story? It is only six thirty PM or at this point or something. I can do anything I want to do, but I will be spending time and get some information. Let's talk out there, Jessica, you hanging out with us tonight. You hanging out with there tonight. It's unfortunate. But if Jessica is there, of course good point. All right, Um, people are asking Dan, will the live show last night be uploaded as a podcast? Uh, we might upload elements of it on the Graham and other social platforms, but at this time we weren't planning on it. But we're gonna listen, We're gonna see, if we're gonna see, if there's something we can put into the show, we'll we'll see. And again, thank you to everybody who came out last night. That was one of the more special nights in the history of around the NFL, and you made it happen Until Sunday Heat the call m