NFL Cover Zero: Heading to Buffalo for NFL Week 11!

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Speaker 1: NFL Cover Zero with Matt Jones and Drew Franklin is a production of the NFL and iHeart podcast. It is Week eleven of NFL Cover Zero. Matt Jones and Drew Franklin on the precipice of our trip this weekend to Buffalo for Buffalo and Tampa Bay. We are taking off from Kentucky on what will be certainly a beautiful drive up through Akron, Cleveland Erie, Pennsylvania. Some people call it America's most beautiful highway to Buffalo. Drew, are you excited for the first time NFL Cover zero goes on the road. I am very excited.

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Speaker 2: Always enjoy going on road trips with you guys anyway, But a Bill's game has been high on my sports bucket list for a long time. I even said that on the show You did too, before we even knew this was a possibility earlier in the season. So I am fired up to get out there. I'm a big tailgater. I want to see the mafia and in full speed. I'm looking forward to being a part of it. Weather doesn't look like it's gonna be too bad.

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Speaker 1: I mean, we wondered about that going through obviously the game is gonna be fun. Two great teams. Billy gets to see his Tampa Bay Bucks. I get to see my football crush, Josh Allen. But more importantly, have you ever made that drive before between Akron, Cleveland, Eerie Buffalo?

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Speaker 2: You would have been to Buffalo, but I think we were coming from the area, and this is one of the few major roads in America I've never been on. I've been up to Cleveland, but Cleveland to Buffalo.

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Speaker 1: You go along the lake, you get the Lake Effect snow, you get Lake Erie. Canada. You can like you can spit, although I think that'd be rude, but you could spin and it would go into Canada. I would like to take you all to Canada, but not one, but two of you do not have a passport, which is crazy to me. That's my bad. You're bad. I mean we ruse. You don't ruse how close we are to Canada there and we're not going to get to go. I might go and leave you. We might go get poutine and come back. We might go and leave you.

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Speaker 3: Well.

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Speaker 2: I know you've had issues at the border between king I.

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Speaker 1: Stopped at the Canadian border twice, but I feel like third times at charm.

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Speaker 2: I'm banned from a stadium in Canada.

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Speaker 1: That's true, also a problem. But we can leave you in Buffalo and then go across Niagara Falls to Toronto. But I am looking forward to it. We're talking about maybe staying Saturday night NEARI Pennsylvania, which people say what happens in Erie is not talked about, not because it's scandalis because no one wants to. But but it should be fun. And we have press It's the first time we've had NFL press credentials. How about that.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, we've We've had fun cover a lot of sporting events, but I've never been able to go to an NFL game. I guess we'll probably jump right in, do the interviewing like we're just one of the regular b reporters around there. I'll do a little working from the press box, whatever, whatever we're allowed to do.

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Speaker 1: I want to say, Tony Romo game or Tom Brady. Do I get to see one of those guys.

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Speaker 2: I'll look it up.

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Speaker 1: Do you know who the announcers are? We'll look that up'd be funny if our friend Iron Eagle was there. I will say this. They approve your credentials a lot faster when you're with the NFL. Usually, if I ask for credentials to an event like this, they called me, go, who are you? Why do you want to come here? Kentucky's not playing right this time? Thirty Secondariot, Yeah, got that approval, like almost instantly. They were very precise about their head shots. That took a little I even had to like redo it. So they want to make sure you're looking good on that pass. The other night said on a headshot, do not face to the left. I'm like, but that's my best side. Look see watch look at me right now in the video. Now go see why could not wanted to you see what I wanted to do? This should be your credential, just me, just me moving. Well, they didn't let me do that, but we're looking. We're looking forward to the trip.

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Speaker 2: It's an eagle and yeah, let's not tell him. Let's just walk up behind him.

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Speaker 1: So Ian's gonna be there and J well, I don't know JJ, but Iron's my buddy. Maybe we can go out Saturday night with Iron. Yeah, he's gonna talk about credential stuff. Why are you all here that he's gonna hit us a what the hell are you all doing to that would that that would be really funny if we did not. The problem is we probably can't get in the booth. But if we didn't even tell him slid up there and just walked behind him and gave him like a noogie collins Worth slide right, he'll chair up next to him, that would be the what are you doing here?

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Speaker 2: He could be listening to prepare for the NFL weekend?

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Speaker 1: Well, Ian, we'll see you. We'll see you on Sunday for Buffalo and UH and Tampa. If you're in Buffalo, come say hi to us. I can't tell you where, Billy, do you have a bar yet for us to do the show? Yes?

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Speaker 2: After the game.

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Speaker 1: I don't say it yet, okay, because we don't know for sure that's the place. You don't everybody going there.

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Speaker 2: I've been making calls though, so we will be ready.

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Speaker 1: What do you say to the people when you come? There's a main mainstream NFL podcast that would like to be in your building.

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Speaker 3: I was dropping the NFL like it was my job, Like, how what do you say? Hey, this is Billy Rutledge. I'm with iHeartRadio and the NFL and we're looking to collaborate.

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Speaker 1: I mean you felt you felt confident enough to say you were with the NFL.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, I mean I'm looking at the logo right behind.

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Speaker 1: That feels very confident to say you are with the NFL. I mean that would be only Look if there was an NFL organizational chart. I think it's fairly certain you're at the very bottom. But on the list you're not not with the NFL. But I wouldn't say you're with the NFL either. I think that's a stretch. Maybe I'm doing something for the NFL.

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Speaker 2: EH didn't have the same range it. I put NFL Network in my Instagram.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, come on, I don't have a bio.

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Speaker 2: I just tag every account, ksr ks bar all the stuff we do. And I just added an NFL network to the bottom and sneaking that in.

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Speaker 1: Yeah. Well, today I spoke at the university here in Kentucky and they asked and they asked me to do my bio and I was like, Tucky Sports Radio, ESPN Radio, blah blah. And then the professor goes, how about the NFL? And I was like, I don't know, if I feel comfortable that'd be like me just adding Netflix because I was on it one.

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Speaker 2: Oh good call documentary star.

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Speaker 1: Well, all right, so you you said I'm with the not with I'm from the NFL.

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Speaker 3: No, I'm with the NFL. And we're looking to collab with a local sports bar. We'll be able to give you some free promotion on a national show to the region NFL.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, all right, Well, hopefully we'll have some success. We're looking forward to it. And Erie, if you're in Erie, if you have a suggestion of what we can do in Erie seven seven to two seven seven four five two five for the text machine, let us know. Where do you eat in Eary? You know what is there to do? Where's the party? Where is the party in Erie?

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Speaker 2: Because we've had many random knights in Pennsylvania towns that aren't Pittsburgh or Philly had a good time.

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Speaker 1: Harri's never been We've never been up there like that little corner.

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Speaker 2: That state never lets us down. We have been there random towns.

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Speaker 1: That's true. All right, this is our midweek show, so we're going to try to get the news. Billy has come up with what he believes are the top ten NFL stories this week. These are a no particular order, right, this is not like an order of how important you think correct. So these are just randomly random NFL stories. Billy, I'm gonna let you go, and we're gonna do some commentary on Let's go. Yeah.

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Speaker 3: The first one is the Giants decided to fire head coach Brian Dable. They kept their GM, but Brian is out after a twenty forty and one record as head coach. He was Coach of the Year his first season in twenty twenty two, but with Jackson Dark and another poor start to the season, Brian Dable is out in New York.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, not a shock. I mean I think he probably he probably got fired the moment Jackson Dart got that concussion, right, because, I mean, the only reason you would have kept day Ball is the idea because you know he helped develop Josh Allen in Buffalo. Is that you go, Okay, well, maybe he can do it with Jackson Dart. Then once he's out with the concussion, there's probably not a lot of reason to rush Jackson Dart back. So you say, why am I doing this with day Ball?

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Speaker 2: Right, And it seemed like they were heading for this in the beginning of the year with Russell Wilson just chucking it out of the stadium every time he got a chance.

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Speaker 1: But then the.

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Speaker 2: Rookie combo of Darden Scataboo brought some swag, They got a few unexpected wins, got some life in that fan base. But then then with those two out, they've gone right back to dead and just that they needed to make the change.

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Speaker 1: And the Bears knocked him out too. I mean the Bears were, They're up two scores against the Bears, they blow the game, have a chance at the end. Russell Wilson looks like Drew out there playing quarterback at the end. It is odd to me though they kept the GM, and maybe it's because of hard knocks sort of associate those two at the hip, you know, and the fact that they kept one and not the other. And I would assume that means they're keeping Joe Shane during the offseason, like there would be no reason not to fire him now if you're going to keep him at the end of the year.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, And it shows how close it was and people thought might ever happened, because every story I read it's like very intentional in the headline, you know, coach fired, kept GM. They want they make they're making that point, because a lot of people assume that they both would go about the same time.

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Speaker 1: Do you think she said to the GM, Yeah, I mean was it a I don't know, was it like you have to fire him or else you're gone? I mean, I don't I never understand who makes these decisions. Like in theory it should be the GM, but if you also might lose your job, I guess it's the president, right.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, or the owner right over your shoulder that doesn't like what the GM's doing.

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Speaker 1: Well, he seems very involved from hard Knocks Mara like he was in the he's in the draft room and stuff.

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Speaker 2: So, but they had an incredible draft. I think that's probably why the GM stayed. I mean they got Abdull Carter at three or whatever, and then Scataboo looks like he panned out, and then talk Dart was a gamble. You know, everybody was talking in that spot. So I guess with the GM, you're like tough to fire him after the.

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Speaker 1: Draft he had. He did have a really good draft. You are the owner of a team, would you be involved, Like let's say Drew Franklin gets to own the Titans. How much are you involved in the day to day decisions.

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Speaker 2: I would want to for a little bit, but I would also recognize, like quickly, if I'm not good at it, I would get out of the way. There's a lot of owners that can't look in the mirror and realize that they're, you know, doing too much, not capable of it, and they just messed things up. I would be in the room for a few days, a few weeks, and if I realize I'm in over my head, I'm like, all right, I'm getting out the way. I'll be in my suite watching you all bring me a good team.

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Speaker 1: See, I worry I'd be really involved. You would be very involved, like the I mean, I would be very involved. You don't know that. Well, we watched you see people at our restaurant. What I knew you were going to say that. I knew you were going to be a jerk, and I knew you were going to say that. But you're right, I do do that. Yeah, I don't know, because I would definitely want to know, Okay, why are you doing this? But I would probably let them make the decision. So I don't think I would be Jerry Jones. But I also would do something right, like what was the point of buying the team unless I can.

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Speaker 2: I would want to be liked by my fans, And there are a lot of owners whose fans do not like them because their hands are too involved team's not good.

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Speaker 1: What would you do to be liked?

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Speaker 2: Stay out of the way when things aren't going.

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Speaker 1: When they're bad, they're going to blame you anyway, like you're gonna get it. It's like again, you use an example of the restaurant. If somebody comes to the restaurant and has a bad meal, they blame me, even though I didn't cook it. So shouldn't I try to make sure as much as I can it's cooked.

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Speaker 2: Well, Yeah, I guess owning the team though, if I don't know what I'm doing, I'm just removing myself and then blaming everyone. I'm like, I'm in my suite having fun with my friends.

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Speaker 1: I have a witched owner.

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Speaker 2: That's probably what I would do. Okay, you asked me the question. Yeah, that's probably what I would do. I would not want to be Jerry with my hand on everything.

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Speaker 1: It's interesting. So the owner, like the Bears owner, is an old lady McCluskey. McCluskey, McCluskey anyway, she's beloved. She's like in her eighties, and I think people know she's not. She didn't select Caleb Williams, and the Bears haven't been particularly good. So maybe that's what you want to be. You need to be the little old lady in her pearls. I will happily be a little old lady.

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Speaker 2: Now, if we have the number one pick or something, Hey, I'm getting in there, and so you are going to be I'm listening. But if I have a quarterback I love or something, I'm gonna have a little influence. I would not override everyone, but I would be in the room like, hey.

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Speaker 1: Okay, so that's really like question. All right, So it's Caleb Williams Jadeen Daniels, and you're the Bears, and you own the Bears, and you've seen both these guys play and they say, I want to pick Jayden Daniel. But you really believe Caleb Williams is better, Like you really believe what are you doing? This is easy.

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Speaker 2: I'll look at him, I say, look, I really like Kay Williams. I'd love to see him in my uniform. But I hired you all to make these decisions. If you go the other way, that's fine, but you will be quick to the unemployment office if it doesn't work out.

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Speaker 1: How are you going quick to the unemployment off.

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Speaker 2: Like, I'm letting you do it, but just know that I have this in mind. But it's all on you, and if it works, I'm putting the credit on.

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Speaker 1: Youbo you knew, Okay, in that case, you could have made a case for both of them. What if it was somebody like Anthony Richardson that you knew you and I knew when he was in Florida he was a bust and they come to you and say, we're picking Anthony Richardson. Are you vetoeing it? Yeah? I think I'd have to think if.

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Speaker 2: It's someone that I truly believe that will they will not work out. I couldn't, you know, with my own money. Let my GM go do it time.

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Speaker 1: But if it's closer, I ty gos the GM.

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Speaker 2: But I'm putting all the credit one way or the other on them.

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Speaker 1: Yeah. I think I would be very involved, but I wouldn't. I would not pick the seventh round pick.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm not out there watching the lineman. I'm going to But if we have the number one pick and there's like some because that's your franchise, that's your marketing, that's your whole thing'd be a little more active in that.

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Speaker 3: We've seen Jim Ursay's daughter really be involved. She's wearing a headset on the side.

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Speaker 1: I don't know why that bothers people because I actually think as long as she's on the sideline and she's not communicating, she's just listening. What is wrong with wanting to know what's happening? Again, to use the restaurant example, that would be like me sitting in the back and watching the cooks. Shouldn't I want to know how my restaurant is run, how my coaches do their jobs. Is that wrong?

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Speaker 3: No, I think it's a great idea. I just think the narrative would be different there.

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Speaker 1: She's gotten a lot of criticism for that some and I don't think that's fair. I think she I think she should do that.

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Speaker 2: Seems to be staying out of the way and just listening. Like Eve, when you see her, she's off by herself. She's got a little notepade. You know, she's writing stuff down. She also did something what I would do when I saw about me being an owner when they were in Berlin. Did you see she went to the bar full of Colts fans and picked up the tab just strolling.

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Speaker 1: That's the kind of stuff i'd he do, a thing you do as an owner. You come in and you go, okay, I got this for everybody.

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Speaker 2: They're loving her, right players fans of course, team being eight and two helps, but uh, you know this is their first season doing all this and they're loving her.

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Speaker 1: Yeah. I think you do a lot of that stuff because because if you're that rich, you know, one five thousand dollars bar tab.

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Speaker 2: I went to the Titans played the Chiefs in the playoffs, and I made the trip. We weren't supposed to be in the game. It also had to go and we had a Titans party and the owner came in.

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Speaker 1: She didn't bother the round.

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Speaker 2: But it was like everybody celebrated and she was going around meeting people city.

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Speaker 1: She didn't buy anything though, I don't remember her buying her round.

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Speaker 2: I didn't see much, I don't know, but just just being in there like you're the road team, you're you're the away team, you're out numbered. It's like we're all in the same spot. And then ownership in the GM roll in and start hanging out. That's pretty neat. I think I would do a lot of that ifire in their shoes. Well, sorry to Brian day Ball. He'll find an OC job.

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Speaker 1: Somebody will, somebody will hire him like he's he's had enough success at it, He'll he'll get one.

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Speaker 3: Well, there's rumors that the Bills might bring him back since they've been stagnant on offense.

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Speaker 1: And wouldn't make sense. He obviously has a good relationship with Josh Allen, so uh uh, you know, it's kind of like in uh old Brother, where arn't theyu? When he sees the the what's the guy's name? That Rob's Banks baby face? He says, I don't think that's the last we've seen of old baby face Nelson.

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Speaker 2: It's funny bring that up. I might be watching that movie tonight. It's like tonight and excellent.

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Speaker 1: I have that. I now have that in my top five of movies I really do like in terms of rewatchable, I may have seen. If you're saying what movies Matt Jones and no one's saying this, but if they were, what are the five movies you've watched the most? Caddy Shack is number one brother, where Art thew might be number two. It's that or The Godfather.

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Speaker 2: I'm married into an Old Brother family. Anytime they're together, it's like, well, let's watch Old Brothers. So that's become like a tradition. Even though I loved it when it first came out, now I've seen it so many more times in the past few years.

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Speaker 1: Was it big when it first came out. I don't remember. I think it's one. It's like Office Space another Office Space bombed when it came out and then got it's huge, like everybody knows office Space now. But I don't think anybody watched it when it.

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Speaker 2: Came I don't remember it being that big when it was out. I just remember catching with Clooney and the music and bluegrass kind of type stuff.

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Speaker 1: Liking it.

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Speaker 2: But uh yeah, it's one of the more rewatchable movies for sure.

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Speaker 1: I'm not kidding what.

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Speaker 2: I'm probably gonna watch it tonight.

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Speaker 1: We have have dialed up, all right, what's next?

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Speaker 3: Former Tennessee Titans wide receiver AJ Brown made some interesting comments over the weekend. Now with the Philadelphia Eagles, he was on a Twitch stream playing mad everybody's.

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Speaker 1: On twitch streams and they all say, say, does anyone ever say anything intellectual on a twitch stream? It feels like every time the story starts, he was on a twit stream. Then you get something that makes people mad.

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Speaker 2: Do we need to be twitching?

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Speaker 1: Mario? Shall we be twitch streaming that? I'm you act like I don't.

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Speaker 3: He acts like Mari and I haven't talked about us already. We'll be doing that next summer, all right, go ahead? Yeah, so he said, in reference to the Eagles offense, it's a bleep show.

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Speaker 2: I'm struggling. If you got me on fantasy, get rid of me.

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Speaker 3: And then when reporters asked him about it today, he doubled down and it said, it's not just solely about my situation.

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Speaker 2: I want to win too.

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Speaker 3: I think if we're really focused on winning and doing our job, we can't just keep slapping a band aid over the defense doing their job and getting us out of trouble. At what point are we going to pick up the slack as an offense that.

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Speaker 1: You would hear those quotes and you would think they're awful, but they're seven and two, right? So is he mad that he really thinks the offense is bad? Or is he mad that he's not getting the ball. Yeah, there was. They had a couple of weeks, but that's since been fixed. They did to be fair against green Bay, but they.

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Speaker 2: Will sure the green Bay game One is good out just I like aj Arthur one is what I call him. But he's got to be the NFL Arthur one, Arthur one Brown. He has to be the NFL's leading diva right now. And I say that would love. I feel like we've had six of these stories this season of him little.

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Speaker 1: Comments here and there. What do you think if they were five and four but he had his yards up?

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Speaker 2: Do you think you would complained? Probably not. He says he wants to be a part of winning, but they're winning. I know, Jay. He says he wants the conversation to be winning. It's like, well, you're one talking. Jalen Hurts said, we have to stop shining light on all these stories pretty much like.

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Speaker 1: Well, I mean they craig me if I'm wrong. They won the Super Bowl Lash, Yeah, defending champs. They are currently tied for first in the NFC this year. Correct, yep, what does he want the ball because he's a wide receiver.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, he took a back seat to Saquon when Saquon ran for two thousand yards last year. So exactly we thought this year was going to be his big year and just hasn't happened.

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Speaker 1: So he was on a Twitch stream. What were they streaming Madden?

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Speaker 3: They were playing Madden?

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Speaker 1: Who's they? Who's he playing? Whoever?

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Speaker 2: The Twitch streamer that is hosting the stream?

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Speaker 1: So you're telling me that, like just some kids playing Mad Yeah, And then all of a sudden, AJ Brown plays.

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Speaker 3: They're playing with aj Yeah, and he's on the mic talking to them, and he's streaming it. I'm not sure. I don't think he is. I don't think he's the one hosting the stream. I think it was another person.

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Speaker 1: So did they know each other before?

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Speaker 2: Don't know that either. It does seem most news comes from all the players having their own podcast or streaming a game. It's you know, they say nothing to the media now, and then they just go home and turn on the computer and say.

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Speaker 1: But what I don't understand is why don't they advertise that? Because I feel like if people knew that AJ Brown was playing like a nineteen year old kid from South Korea, there would be people that would watch it wouldn't they. I would probably want to do they advertise it and I just don't get to see it because I'm not watching those channels.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm not sure. They probably would make some money, but they probably are just trying to.

00:21:09
Speaker 3: Relax a little bit.

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Speaker 1: Then why do they stream it?

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Speaker 2: They're not streaming. It's the person they're playing with, So.

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Speaker 1: Why didn't they? Why don't they say turn it off? Kid? Seat? I see what you're telling me. This was a random kid's stream that somebody happened to be watching.

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Speaker 3: Well, probably a lot of people were watching because AJ was playing with But how did they know AJ was playing?

00:21:28
Speaker 1: Oh?

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Speaker 2: Word gets around?

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Speaker 1: Right?

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Speaker 3: You just send a tweet out AJ's on the stream, he's playing with us.

00:21:32
Speaker 1: Word gets around but didn't get to me?

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Speaker 3: Are you on the TikTok I?

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Speaker 1: Like how you said that the TikTok I am but it didn't come into my feed? AJ's streaming here.

00:21:43
Speaker 2: Looks like he was playing with someone, Janki Rondo.

00:21:47
Speaker 1: Oh, I like Janki run. I don't follow him enough. That's why we missed. This is Jankie Rondo famous?

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Speaker 2: Uh, looks like he does some so he.

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Speaker 1: Plays against famous people. Oh, Jankie Rondo. It sounds like a nickname people had for people in Middlesbrough. Don't go, don't get your car fixed, don't Yankey Rondo sales what.

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Speaker 2: A world though you're just a guy playing a video game. You bought a game.

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Speaker 1: Stop.

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Speaker 2: But on the other end, h you know, pro bowlers leaking news.

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Speaker 1: This goes all over the NFL. You never know when you watch Jankie Rondo what he's going to do, what's next.

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Speaker 3: Matthew Stafford is in his seventeenth season in the NFL. He's won a Super Bowl and he's the favorite to win the MVP right now at plus two sixty odds. But the stat is that he just reached five hundred for a winning percentage of his career after two hundred and thirty one starts, he has now one hundred and fifteen, one hundred and fifteen and one.

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Speaker 1: That's amazing because didn't he start out his first year He's like one in fifteen, right.

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Speaker 2: That the Lions were bad?

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Speaker 1: Yeah, well, I think his first year they were literally maybe one in fifteen, So he probably had a big hole speaking to guy. It doesn't his wife didn't she.

00:23:06
Speaker 2: Stream He was a podcaster what does she had?

00:23:08
Speaker 1: She does like a Christian thing, right.

00:23:10
Speaker 2: I'm not sure, but she's made news talking.

00:23:14
Speaker 1: It's something like she's like everybody drink milk or something like that, isn't she.

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Speaker 2: That's Jim Harbaugh. Okay, she had a beef with somebody, was another player? Yeah, I don't know, a couple of years ago she had a beef. Yeah, there was some podcast beef.

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Speaker 1: I'm so old. I remember when the picture of them dating went viral when he was in college Georgia. Look who Matthew Stafford dates this sorority? And now she's like milk podcasting?

00:23:42
Speaker 2: Where are you getting the milk?

00:23:43
Speaker 3: So?

00:23:44
Speaker 1: Is it not milk?

00:23:47
Speaker 2: It's on Jackie Rondo's That's where we got to see it. I love the staff though that you know, this long career, got a Super Bowl ring, he's Hall of Famer.

00:23:57
Speaker 1: Yeah, just got to five hundred, has he he's Has he ever won the MVP before?

00:24:02
Speaker 2: I don't think so.

00:24:04
Speaker 1: So. I mean there might be kind of a lifetime achievement ord to this a little bit.

00:24:09
Speaker 2: And as his career winds down, I know they're good, but he's got to be careful to get above five hundred and stay there. You can't retire under a five hundred. For Matthews, do you think.

00:24:16
Speaker 1: His career is winding down? I mean, these guys play.

00:24:18
Speaker 2: Forever now, right, He's got to be getting close to Fordy. But then again, I'm Flacco and Rogers are still out there.

00:24:25
Speaker 1: Do you that trade between them and delroyit? Yeah, that's one of the very few trades of high profile people that kind of worked out for everybody, didn't it?

00:24:37
Speaker 2: Yeah? Both quarterbacks quarterbacks? Right, Well, Stafford was always good. He was just on a bad Lions team. So he finally got somewhere.

00:24:44
Speaker 1: He goes and wins the Super Bowl.

00:24:46
Speaker 2: Yeah, but then Jared Goff and the Lion as soon as he gets there, they're on the uptick and you know, a contender this year. So it is one of the rare where it worked out both ways.

00:24:53
Speaker 3: Kelly made news in twenty twenty four when she revealed that she dated Matthew Stafford's backup quarterback at Georgia to make him jealous.

00:25:01
Speaker 2: I knew she was this big story.

00:25:02
Speaker 1: I did not hear that. Oh yeah, I thought it was just milk. So what what happened?

00:25:07
Speaker 3: She dated Matthew Stafford's backup quarterback was at the university word to Joe Cox, who she publicly apologized to.

00:25:14
Speaker 1: Why does she apologize to Joe Cox?

00:25:16
Speaker 2: Well, she said, I don't want his identity to get out, and then she said he was Matthew Stafford's back up his senior year. It's like, well, we can figure that out pretty easily.

00:25:23
Speaker 1: She said she didn't want the idea, so and then she never said his name.

00:25:26
Speaker 2: She just kind of was given clues of who it could be, but it was like, well, that has to be the backup quarterback.

00:25:30
Speaker 1: So she apologized to Joe Cox. Yes, did she apologize to Matthew Stafford? Yeah?

00:25:35
Speaker 2: I mean probably they got kids now figured it out somewhere along the way, and so this cast the moment I was thinking.

00:25:41
Speaker 1: Of, they can't. This came out on her milk podcast.

00:25:44
Speaker 2: I don't know about the milk.

00:25:47
Speaker 1: You're right, though. She had a beef with somebody. I don't remember who it was, but she got into it with like Drew Brees's aunt or something.

00:25:59
Speaker 2: I love a milk podcast.

00:26:02
Speaker 1: With Drew Brees's aunt. It was somebody, you see I she Drew is right.

00:26:07
Speaker 2: She had a beef the morning after with Kelly Stafford.

00:26:11
Speaker 1: That's a very seductive name, isn't it.

00:26:14
Speaker 2: Yes, they're dropping storm after.

00:26:18
Speaker 1: Is that on the NFL network when you drink your milk? Okay, well, would you vet? Would you vote for him for MVP? Right now?

00:26:26
Speaker 2: I don't know where you're about to ask me, because I was thinking the third podcast and milk anything. Drew Brees' aunt.

00:26:33
Speaker 1: MVP. She's a nice lady. Yeah, I know, clearly I don't.

00:26:38
Speaker 2: I don't want to let the Patriots fans win, but if they don't start losing games, Drake May is gonna be your MVP.

00:26:43
Speaker 1: No, or Taylor give it to the seventeenth year guy instead of the same He's got plenty of time. I don't disagree. What if the culture Patriots if he ends up stinking and then you're like, remember that year we gave it to Drake Bay.

00:26:55
Speaker 2: And we all laugh.

00:26:56
Speaker 1: Yeah.

00:26:56
Speaker 2: I saw Jonathan Taylor about to hit the hit the triple Crown of yards per carry touchdowns and told the yards or not about to he's on pace two to win all three of them, and that hasn't been done in forever. Maybe I think maybe Terrell Davis or somebody did it. So if he were to do that and the cults still be good.

00:27:12
Speaker 1: That'd be hard. I'd like to see him win, just because running backs don't ever win.

00:27:15
Speaker 2: I know, I always wanted Henry or the years Henry were so spectacular, I wanted him to be in the conversation.

00:27:19
Speaker 1: Is it weird that every time I'm watching a game they say Jonathan Taylor. I just want to say, Thomas go back to Home Improvement. That's good.

00:27:32
Speaker 2: It's a good home I've been rewatching it lately.

00:27:35
Speaker 1: I mean, he was a like teen idol. He was.

00:27:38
Speaker 2: He said teen Bop, Tiger Beat, Tiger Beat and Team Bop those were the two.

00:27:42
Speaker 1: Yeah, Pyle doesn't know about Tiger Beat. You don't know that era.

00:27:46
Speaker 2: There was nothing more intimidating then you know the elementary middle school dating scene.

00:27:51
Speaker 1: If you ever were lucky enough to.

00:27:52
Speaker 2: Even go in their home because you're young, should probably shouldn't be doing that. You go in there and there's just posters of JTT everywhere, and you see him, Like, what am I supposed to do against that?

00:28:00
Speaker 1: It would interesting, be interesting to see a hall of Fame of Tiger Beat, so first ballot, new Kids on the Block and like in Sync and Backstreet Boys that they would be first ball. I've got a deep cut embarrass I'm gonna say it. Kurt Cameron, he's on there. He was big. Let me, I'm gonna do uh Mark, Paul Gossler and Mario Lopez and then JT. T is on there for sure.

00:28:25
Speaker 2: I think he's like the face of that era.

00:28:28
Speaker 1: Of that era. But I think you go back to New Kids on the Block, they were right there too. Okay, so what who else would you add to the time.

00:28:35
Speaker 2: There's a guy who's in a bunch of movies that he just disappeared. Is there Andrew Keegan? Something like he has like pulled back hair. That's not I'm gonna I'm gonna pull him Up're gonna know as soon as I show it. He was in all the teen movies.

00:28:48
Speaker 1: I think you're making that.

00:28:49
Speaker 2: No, yep, that's his name. Got him right here on the cover of Tiger Beat too. He's on the cover of Tiger with JTT. No he's not by side, No he's not. Look it says JTT and Andrew. Well, all right, let's look Andrew Keegan.

00:29:04
Speaker 1: Yep. Oh yeah, he just fell off the grid. He was in everything for a few years. He was in ten things I Hate about you. Yeah. Also a movie called he was in Some Bad Movies Teenage Caveman Returns. Was that a sequel? I don't. He must have been, because I don't think he was there to begin with. I just want to see, because you know, the internet has everything. Has anyone ever made a Tiger Beat Hall of Fame? Okay? No, I mean because listen if that's if that happened, I would be impressed. Tiger v. Not We're going to do it. Oh, this is uh Detroit Tigers Hall of Fame. What does Tiger Woods need to do to go to the Hall of Fame?

00:29:48
Speaker 2: I'm on oprah dot com. It has forty five years of Tiger Beat covers. It's the closest I can get.

00:29:57
Speaker 1: Well, oh, here's some old ones. There's uh oh these are really old. Oh oh, here's a good one. Scott Bayo.

00:30:03
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, do you know Scott No, No, Charles.

00:30:08
Speaker 1: In charge of our days and our lives. We're straining a little bit from football on this week's episode, Just a little bit. What's next Tiger beating over.

00:30:21
Speaker 3: A name that you guys already mentioned. Drew Brees is joining Fox Sports's NFL cover, which he will be debuting in the Green Bay Packers New York Giants game on Sunday. Through for over eighty thousand yards and five hundred and seventy one touchdowns over twenty seasons, and will now join Tom Brady and Greg Olsen on the network.

00:30:38
Speaker 1: He's an example of why you can't just completely dismiss an announcer when they start, because you remember his first game was just atrocious. He kind of looked at the camera and was like, I like football, throwball downfield, and now I actually think he's a pretty good announcer. So he's replacing I guess Mark saying Jay, and I think he'll be good. I like that higher. He's also going to become the firstnouncer for Fox to ever be allowed to call for another network, because he was already scheduled to do Netflix this Christmas take game.

00:31:13
Speaker 2: Yeah, the Christmas game. Yeah, I like hearing it. And Brady also had a rough start.

00:31:19
Speaker 1: That's still I'm not a huge I'm he's better. He's better.

00:31:23
Speaker 2: But every once in a while when they lock into that brain that only a few of them have and they tell you something you don't know or what to look for, not so much the Romo calling plays, but when they get in depth, those guys that truly know it and you grew up watching it is different. And I like him out there. And Brady's still pretty rough, but Breeze has improved.

00:31:39
Speaker 1: Who would you say, give me your MVP of NFL color announcers today? Who's the top of the chart, who's the best?

00:31:48
Speaker 2: I'm still upset Greg Olsen got passed?

00:31:50
Speaker 1: Greg? All right, so let's do our top four. For me? It would be Greg Olsen one. I'm gonna still go, Chris collins Worth. Two, I'm gonna go. I'm gonna go three arising J J. Watt Oh, Okay, is that because he's with your body. I think he does a good job. I really do. And then I'll go four. Aiightman Not even so much because I think he's good. I just think he signals like it's a big game because Troy Aikman's on it. So uh, That's how I'm doing. What's yours?

00:32:31
Speaker 2: I don't know if I can do Collinsworth. I might put even though you.

00:32:34
Speaker 1: Wouldn' put him anywhere in the top four.

00:32:36
Speaker 2: I just I have collins Worth exhaustion.

00:32:38
Speaker 1: Okay.

00:32:38
Speaker 2: It could be from you on all the time, the signal you don't want me to do? No, no, you keep doing it, But I just think the real call Collinsworth is suffering because of it.

00:32:48
Speaker 1: Okay, doesn't me doing Okay.

00:32:51
Speaker 2: Give me your five again? I putt I go one hold on. Let me let me collins Worth. What I'm gonna put Romo in there instead of Collinsworth, even though I do get annoyed when he tries too hard to call out the place. I enjoy listening Romo and I like watching the Cowboys when he gets a Cowboys game, that's fun. This guy's new and just getting started. But I always love mccordy on NFL Network in the talk show, and now he's starting to get a chance.

00:33:19
Speaker 1: He's not in my top five, but I'm really rooting for him. Is Charles Davis still doing it?

00:33:23
Speaker 2: Charls Davis, he's pretty good.

00:33:27
Speaker 1: I like him. I didn't. I wasn't familiar with Vilma until he interviewed Trump. He's a beautiful pay. It's a big pay.

00:33:35
Speaker 2: Did you say Romo might have been fifth?

00:33:39
Speaker 1: For me? Romo I got. I had some Romo exhaustion, like we get it, man. You know the plays, but I think they told I do like how excited he gets about it though, like he does, he does get excited about the games, and I like that for announcers. Charles Davis actually probably would be fifth for me. He's probably the He's interesting because he wasn't that good a player, and yet he keeps rising up the charts, which I think is good.

00:34:04
Speaker 2: Is uh is Darryl Johnston still out there?

00:34:07
Speaker 1: Is he still doing it? Yeah?

00:34:08
Speaker 2: I think he still thinks.

00:34:09
Speaker 1: So the problem is we still get to hear a lot of these announcers because I'm watching red Zone. So if you do a one o'clock game, I may not hear you never call a game.

00:34:18
Speaker 2: Well, I watch at one o'clock my Titans, and they ain't getting the A team to B team.

00:34:24
Speaker 1: You get a lot of what Actually, I've had some lot of Adam Aman, I've had.

00:34:28
Speaker 2: We've gotten some Iron Eagle JJ Watt a few times this year. So that's been a nice treat.

00:34:33
Speaker 1: Okay, I can't believe we can see Iron Egle.

00:34:36
Speaker 2: That just adds to an already fun trip.

00:34:38
Speaker 1: I'm gonna do something. It's gonna be our first attempt to this. Can we call Iron Eagle live on the air? Hang on this mell what hey, Bud, Can I call you back in two minutes. I'm just getting in an elevator. Yes, call me back in two minutes. All right, Oh, we're in. That's all you get to hear. I just wanted you to know that I knew Iron Egle. So when he calls me back to tease, we won't. We won't. We won't talk about just about you, just we will know that's the name we actually dropped.

00:35:12
Speaker 2: How about you don't talk to him until we get to Buffalo. Don't call him back. If he calls back, don't answer.

00:35:19
Speaker 1: He's done that to me before. By the way, though, can I get you No, I'll call it. He'll go CALLI right back, and then I hear from him six months later, and you're like, hey, you said you're getting elevator.

00:35:27
Speaker 2: Blayddeen.

00:35:28
Speaker 1: Let's keep going until I and calls and then we'll take a break.

00:35:31
Speaker 3: Go ahead, okay. The Texans announced that C. J. Stroud will not play this Sunday against the Titans. That means we get more Davis Mills.

00:35:39
Speaker 1: Is he hurt or is Davis Mills won the job as one of the best quarterbacks if the second best College of By the way, we forgot Jim Plunkett as a Stanford quarterback, maybe a little better than Davis Mills.

00:35:51
Speaker 2: To wait till he plays the Titans on Sunday. So is Stroud hurt or concussion? He's concussed? I mean Davis Mills did well, didn't he?

00:36:01
Speaker 1: Yeah?

00:36:01
Speaker 2: I mean he made our Stanford us the best quarterbacks ever?

00:36:08
Speaker 1: Who are they playing the Tights.

00:36:10
Speaker 2: That's why I'm saying Davis Mills is about to have another big game.

00:36:13
Speaker 1: I think they're gonna win. Yeah, right, this could.

00:36:15
Speaker 3: Be the start six point favorite big season for Davis Mills.

00:36:18
Speaker 2: Tidan's coming off the bow week film. Look out you doing all kinds of stuff.

00:36:37
Speaker 1: Okay, we're back from the Iron Eagle call. I'm gonna try to see him in Buffalo. Maybe we can do a little quick thirty second interview with Iron with with cover zero. Wouldn't that be exciting?

00:36:49
Speaker 2: Absolutely, we'll be in the press box. I'm sure he's going to be somewhere in there. We'll just walk around till we see him. It's right, we'll go exploring.

00:36:56
Speaker 1: I don't think I've ever had press credentials for an NFL game before ever. Yeah, so I don't know what it's gonna be like. You might get a free lunch, maybe free coffee. I judged teams by what they give you at the game. U of L the other night played Kentucky. The Louisville food a lot better than Kentucky's food.

00:37:16
Speaker 2: I talked to a lot of people that come to Kentucky from other schools, and they're like, how do you hold through this year?

00:37:24
Speaker 1: It's bad? But Buffalo I'm feeling like wings, bananas, like everything you would want.

00:37:32
Speaker 2: Wings and bananas. Are we gonna get Maybe they'll have media room wings, but are we going to get the local buffalos?

00:37:40
Speaker 1: You and I have eaten that once.

00:37:42
Speaker 2: A Mario over here likes chicken wings, so we'll have to get them back.

00:37:45
Speaker 1: I mean, there's a place where they originally go, but people tell you not to go to that. They say that there are better places. We went to Buffalo. It was really depressing. I'm hoping to have a better Remember we went city was shut down, nothing was going on. Yeah, so I'm hoping we have a better impression this time.

00:38:01
Speaker 2: We got there kind of late, it was dark. We went and got Buffalo wings and that was kind of the extent of the I.

00:38:07
Speaker 1: Thought, I found a place for us to stay, and it said church slash basketball court slash Airbnb. I felt like that was a good commination.

00:38:15
Speaker 2: You're just gonna run us a community center. Big money over there. You call him tell me work for the NFL.

00:38:24
Speaker 1: Well, so I wrote them it was a little expensive, and I was like, if okay, so if you could bring it down, well, it was two dollars for two nights. I was like, if you could bring it down to like fifteen hundred, I'd before it. And she said, we're focused on monthly rentals. So here's my question, who's written that for a month? What are you doing with it?

00:38:46
Speaker 2: Playing basketball? Maybe maybe they get a Bills player coming through temporarily to finish out the air and.

00:38:54
Speaker 1: Do it and make them make them accept me, just to see what it's like. All right, what's next?

00:38:59
Speaker 3: The NFL has their final international game of the season this Sunday in Madrid, Spain, and they got a good one. Commander's dull. Since Daddy Yankee is going to perform at house, I'm Daddy Yankee.

00:39:10
Speaker 1: Who's that first? Well, I'm not Daddy any with Daddy Yankee.

00:39:14
Speaker 3: I believe he's a rapper, but mainly of a different dialect than English.

00:39:19
Speaker 1: What dialect is he?

00:39:21
Speaker 2: I believe it's Spanish.

00:39:22
Speaker 1: So why would a Spanish rapper call himself Daddy Yankee? Yankee is an American?

00:39:27
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean you know you'd have to ask him.

00:39:29
Speaker 1: All right, Well, let's look it up.

00:39:31
Speaker 2: And a couple other storylines from that game.

00:39:32
Speaker 3: It's a battle of Hawaiian quarterbacks with Marcus Mariota and to tagle Violin.

00:39:36
Speaker 1: Well that's kind of cool.

00:39:38
Speaker 3: Washington has allowed eighty two points in the last two games, so Dan Quinn says he's taking overplay calling dut he's on defense.

00:39:43
Speaker 1: Daddy Yankee, by the way, is Puerto Rican. He's dubbed the King of Reggaeton is how you say it?

00:39:52
Speaker 2: Well, that sounds about right.

00:39:54
Speaker 1: He is, Uh, he's older than I am. He's forty nine. He also goes by the Big Boss in Winchester.

00:40:02
Speaker 2: I've heard Daddy Yankee. I'm familiar. I'll drive around listening to a lot of it. But I the name him like he has been. He's a feature and a lot of stuff I hear. What do you know the name of his biggest song of all time? Couldn't tell you. Oh wait, does he sing? He doesn't sing Gasolina?

00:40:16
Speaker 1: Does he? That's what it is? Told you.

00:40:19
Speaker 2: I know Daddy Yankee. He was big time for a while. He's getting a little old.

00:40:23
Speaker 1: How did you know Gasolina? I'm telling you it was a big deal. I know, I'm familiar.

00:40:28
Speaker 2: With with Daddy Daddy Yankee. It's just he's getting old. Bad Bunny pushed him out of the way and took over.

00:40:34
Speaker 1: Wow. He was cited by seeing it as the most influential Hispanic artist of the early two thousands. It's a very specific award, but that's a big award.

00:40:44
Speaker 2: I would think you would know Gasolina if you heard it. I don't know where the music rights we have.

00:40:49
Speaker 1: Do we have the music rights for Gasoline?

00:40:50
Speaker 2: Eleenelena?

00:40:54
Speaker 1: See?

00:40:55
Speaker 2: We all know Daddy Yankee?

00:40:57
Speaker 1: Wow? Was he in? He was also in uh a movie called Gasolina. Well there you go. Who knew? Well, so he's performing and what else is happening? The Hawaiian quarterbacks.

00:41:14
Speaker 3: Hawaiian quarterbacks Dan Quinn's taking over play calling on defense and then the NFL is adding games in Australia and Brazil next year.

00:41:22
Speaker 1: Well, they played in Brazil last couple of years. Australia. That's far away man, like you're.

00:41:27
Speaker 2: A is is McDaniel going to drop by the Commander's bar in Spain? If they win do the little lap is victory lap?

00:41:35
Speaker 1: That Yeah, I did a victory lap. You should do a victory lap. He's staying for the rest of the year. I thought you talk about I had him fired every week we did. We just well, next show who will be the new coach?

00:41:44
Speaker 2: And he goes and beats the bills by a million?

00:41:47
Speaker 1: Yeah? You like ways in Madrid? Yes, yep, So just to the record couple teams. If I ever disappear and I go off the grid, that's where you're going. I will be in Spain. Spain is my favorite. Spain's my favorite country to potentially like live it. Why just the whole vibe. Take naps in the afternoon, so i'me in. Yeah, I mean dinner starts at like eight thirty. You stay up late, sleep late, works like nah, you know, get around to it. Tapas see, I like tapas because you go to a restaurant and you order like nine things.

00:42:26
Speaker 2: I love Atapas restaurant and.

00:42:27
Speaker 1: They're just they're small, but like you don't have you know, You don't have to sit there and go, oh do I get the chicken or the fish? You just get it all.

00:42:32
Speaker 2: Sometimes, you know, have three or four things, You get three or four people.

00:42:35
Speaker 1: To go with you. Y'all have singria, and then it's like, uh, you know, and then the the soccer is is fun there and they you know, Spanish. I can speak a little enough Spanish to know what's going on, and I'm not fluent, but I can, so I just feel like I would enjoy it.

00:42:53
Speaker 2: Could you give us a little of that now?

00:42:56
Speaker 1: I mean gasoline.

00:42:59
Speaker 2: I got kicked out of the Foreign Language Festival Atmurray State. I was in there in the Spanish competition, and I left campus to get pizza. And when I came back, they said, we told you not to leave campus. You are disqualified. That was the end of my Spanish speaking. Was this like last week was in high school? I was in Spanish too. We traveled to go show off our Spanish. I got a pizza craving, We got pizza, came back and they said, no, sir, we know you went over there.

00:43:20
Speaker 1: Why can't you have more authentic place to show off you're Spanish than Murray, Kentucky.

00:43:25
Speaker 2: It's the Spanish language festival.

00:43:27
Speaker 1: We were trying to broaden our horizons in West n If I can do it, I can like listen to it and kind of get it. I'm actually not the best at speaking. I know. It's it seems weird you do both, but like I have to sit there and think about grammer because I don't want, you know, and I don't do.

00:43:44
Speaker 4: That masculine or feminine thing. Yeah, yo, lo tango, biblioteca library. It's amazing that that's a word we all know. I couldn't tell you library and another language. But all right, that's nice. I hope they have a good time. What's next?

00:44:01
Speaker 2: Big matchup?

00:44:01
Speaker 3: At four o'clock in the NFC West, the forty nine ers will travel to take on the Arizona.

00:44:05
Speaker 1: Cardinal for the fourteenth time this year.

00:44:08
Speaker 3: Arizona's three and six this year, and they'll have to play without Marvin Harrison Junior this week. He's missing his first game of his career after emergency appendicitis surgery.

00:44:17
Speaker 1: I saw that, you know, appendicitis, that's when your appendix is it? When it bursts?

00:44:23
Speaker 3: I think, yes, I believe, so, so what what does your appendix do? I don't know, but people get it removed a lot, I know, and it's often like it's a serious thing, right, Yeah, you can get really sick when it bursts.

00:44:38
Speaker 1: So why don't we do it like wisdom teeth and just have everybody take it out? Does it some serve some purpose?

00:44:44
Speaker 3: I'm not sure.

00:44:45
Speaker 2: So you're saying, like, everyone turns fifteen, let's just go get our appendixes removed.

00:44:49
Speaker 1: Well, I just feel like it's it feels like the cost benefit ratio is I mean, Marvin Harrison is one of the best athletes in football maybe in like so if he gets it and it's an emergency surgery.

00:45:02
Speaker 2: And all the football he's played, never missed a.

00:45:04
Speaker 1: Game, never high school, college, and then this, So there's part of you that goes, well, why do we have it?

00:45:11
Speaker 2: It's on the lower right side of the abdomen.

00:45:13
Speaker 1: I know that much.

00:45:14
Speaker 3: You do not need it to survive, so that's why you see it commonly.

00:45:17
Speaker 1: But why do you got health?

00:45:19
Speaker 2: It's a critical role in digestion overall health.

00:45:23
Speaker 1: It can't be that critical if you can take it out, yeah, I mean, it's being real. If you can take it out, then how critical can it be? Yeah, it's there.

00:45:33
Speaker 3: But like if the government or the body were to shut down, you know they would, it wouldn't be like a critical employee, you know.

00:45:38
Speaker 1: Government, what you're saying, Yeah, I cut you off too early. It's not a critical employee. Yeah, but it would be nice to have it sort of like the park right. Yeah, they're not critical, but it's good to have them.

00:45:52
Speaker 2: Gut health, you'd appreciate a park ranger.

00:45:55
Speaker 1: That's a phrase, by the way, that we also never used to say, gut health. Yeah, you remember hearing that. Until like three years ago, people be like, how's your gut health?

00:46:04
Speaker 2: No, no, no, dude, all right, I guess feeling pretty normal.

00:46:08
Speaker 1: I mean, yeah, well, I hope he gets better. Arizona's like what, they're three and six, three and six, Yeah, so it's not gonna really matter, but hopefully he gets healthy. He's a really talented guy. Wish he wasn't playing for you know, Larry Fitzgerald played for Arizona forever. I felt like I saw him make two catches ever and he's one of the best of all time just because no one the games.

00:46:29
Speaker 2: Yeah you mean you didn't mean he was only getting making two catches? Not significant?

00:46:35
Speaker 1: What NFL team have you seen, you think, collectively the fewest minutes of their games in history?

00:46:43
Speaker 2: Probably the Chargers.

00:46:46
Speaker 1: The Cardinals at least made a Super Charge Cardinals. Though the Chiefs and Chargers are always on TV, the Chargers made a Super Bowl. When I was a kid in the eighties, Dan Fouts, they would show those a lot. I think it's the Cardinals. I mean, they had that one year with Kurt Warner m But when when's the last time you've cared about a Cardinals game?

00:47:13
Speaker 2: Well, that is the only win my Titans have this year when they were tripping over the football in the fourth quarter.

00:47:17
Speaker 3: But before that none our video game. Mario had a great Larry Fitzgerald moment. Do you remember that?

00:47:24
Speaker 1: Yes, he asked you that was true. We went to a party and Mario, who's twenty five twenty six, went up to Larry Fitzgerald and asked for a picture. And Larry Fitzgerald thought he meant he wanted a picture, and he instead wanted Larry Fitzgerald to take a picture of us.

00:47:43
Speaker 2: He's like, I'll just get this guy and take a photo and produce.

00:47:46
Speaker 1: Larry Fitzgerald was so he asked Larry Fitzgerald. If Larry Fitzgerald would take a picture of us not be in and not be.

00:47:54
Speaker 2: In it nice Gatto took a good picture.

00:47:57
Speaker 1: He didn't take he took it, didn't he? I think he did?

00:48:00
Speaker 3: What a nice guy?

00:48:02
Speaker 1: Can you imagine that?

00:48:03
Speaker 3: By the way, It's like a prank thing somebody would do.

00:48:06
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, I know Larry Fitzgerald, but they did that to me. He got the U L game. The other night, I was talking with the Craig Greenberger mayor Louis who was my friend. Guy walks up to him and goes, guy, I get you a picture and he hands it or can I get a picture? And he hands it to me and then takes once Craig, It's like, come on, man, it's good. So the same thing with that. What's next?

00:48:42
Speaker 3: The Eagles just traded for JayR Alexander to bolster their secondary right before the trade deadline. He just decided this week to step away from football to get right physically and mentally.

00:48:52
Speaker 1: Yeah. I was sorry to hear that. I mean, they just made a trade. Would they give like a six or seven round pick for him?

00:48:57
Speaker 2: It was a late round pick swap, so it was a.

00:48:59
Speaker 1: Late round said not much. Yeah, well, I hope he's sorry. That kid played at Louisville. Seemed like he was good for a long time. So well, I hope whatever it is, it makes it better. You know what, if something's happening where you don't feel like you can be at your best, good to step away and go take care of it.

00:49:15
Speaker 2: So yeah, long Tom Packer was with the Ravens just for a little bit and now this so he's battling something.

00:49:20
Speaker 1: And talking about guy he's gotten on three good Yeah, I mean he talked about getting three good at organizations. But he's only with the Eagles.

00:49:26
Speaker 2: For a week and then he was out and Ravens was just the beginning of this year. So I hope he gets better. He's still still young ish for his position.

00:49:34
Speaker 1: Got a little more football in him, says right, they played with Lamar played or was it maybe a little bit for.

00:49:38
Speaker 2: I don't know exactly what games, but uh, he was with them for a stint a cup of coffee, as they say.

00:49:44
Speaker 1: That's right, what's next?

00:49:45
Speaker 3: And finally we started with the Giants, will end with the Giants after firing their head coach and with Jackson Dart still in concussion protocol. Jamis Winston will be making the start this week.

00:49:55
Speaker 1: That's exciting, can't wait. Jameis Winston. He's talking about guy. He's got have a good television career. Although I don't know what you can put him on because he could say anything.

00:50:06
Speaker 2: Whatever it is, I'll watch.

00:50:07
Speaker 1: He is very entertaining and the video of him at the press conference.

00:50:11
Speaker 2: Was excellent singing Hamilton.

00:50:13
Speaker 1: He sang he was singing Hamilton, that's right, and he was like tenth anniversary. Uh is Russell Wilson like, is he okay?

00:50:21
Speaker 2: He says he's not retiring. He just thinks.

00:50:23
Speaker 1: I guess boy, nobody has had a more precipitous fall in all parts of life than Russell Willson.

00:50:30
Speaker 2: He said he hasn't asked for a release. He wants to stick around and do what back up James Winston.

00:50:35
Speaker 1: I guess let's ride. Is this one of those you just like you do like an office space and you give him a smaller and smaller locker, making him fly Charter Spirit.

00:50:47
Speaker 2: Put the practice squad guy between him and Jamis, make him third yeah, where.

00:50:52
Speaker 1: He's Russell Eving gonna be the backup? Yeah? Thank you? So what if they bring in in Bailey's Appy. I feel like every time Bailey's Appy gets brought in, you know it's over.

00:51:02
Speaker 2: That's a Western Yeah, that's.

00:51:05
Speaker 3: Like Naords right now, by the way, so keep your name out of did you cover him?

00:51:12
Speaker 1: Master? But I do feel like anytime something's gone really bad, Bailey Zappy is involved, Like when he came in and Sdor Sanders got demot the practice squad for Bailey Zappy. I think I think Bailey Zappy was like who got brought in to kind of end Mac Jones's time in New England. They're like, oh, here comes Bailey Zappy. True. So I think that's always a signal when you see Bailey Zappy things are not going well.

00:51:39
Speaker 2: Do you think you have like a cave at his house? He's just sitting in there with pads all around him, just waiting for that signal to go off. Somewhere in the league.

00:51:45
Speaker 1: I do wonder if those guys that are known but not on a team, like Flacco, just watch and flip from channel to channel hoping somebody gets hurt.

00:51:55
Speaker 2: Studying every offense receivers where you want to go.

00:51:58
Speaker 1: Somebody goes down and they're like, come on, please, I'm not sure if Zapy does that, he probably wouldn't a Western man like, Yeah.

00:52:08
Speaker 3: I mean, backup's a good job. I mean, you hold a clipboard. You make millions of dollars.

00:52:12
Speaker 2: He was my homes back out.

00:52:14
Speaker 1: Yeah, I don't think you make millions. I mean some of them do, but I don't think. I don't think let's go take I don't think Bailey Zappi is getting milled practice.

00:52:22
Speaker 3: Squad would be a good job in the NFL.

00:52:25
Speaker 1: Yeah, you don't do anything.

00:52:27
Speaker 3: And you still make six figures.

00:52:28
Speaker 2: Oh, Bailey Zappi's on a one year, one point one million dollar Oh, no way millionaire.

00:52:34
Speaker 1: Bailey' zappy makes one point one million dollars.

00:52:37
Speaker 2: According to the Internet.

00:52:38
Speaker 1: Wow, what a good life. I should have been better at quarterback. Yeah, Jeff Tigue, which has nothing to do with Bailey Zappy, But I was listening to Jeff Teigue this morning and he had a great thing about guys making money. And he was like, when I was young, nobody told me you could make money with money. He was like, when I made five million dollars, I was like, well, if I live fifty years, I could have one hundred thousand dollars a year and somebody was like, you could put it in a saving an account and it makes interest, and he just said he said. I looked at that guy and went you crazy. I thought was one of the great clips. You need to look it up. Jeff t talking about interest is a really good clip.

00:53:24
Speaker 2: Maybe he could lead a financial literacy class for the NBA.

00:53:27
Speaker 1: I think they should teach that for a lot of a lot of guys. All right, so you to look up Billy the playoff situation? Yeah, do you have that for it? I do. So if the playoffs started today, what would it look like?

00:53:39
Speaker 3: Do you want the NFC or the AFC. First, Let's start with the AFC AFC. The Colts would be receiving a bye. The two seed Broncos would take on the seven seed Jaguars.

00:53:48
Speaker 1: The Pats Broncos Jaguars. That would be the Saturday noon game. You know how they have three games each day. I can guarantee you Saturday noon that's when they played Broncos Jaguars. Yeah, I would agree without question. What's the next one.

00:54:05
Speaker 3: Would be three seed Patriots versus the six seed Bills. That would be a nice AFC's there, and then you have the four seed Pittsburgh Steelers versus the five seed la S Chargers.

00:54:17
Speaker 1: Were you figuring that out in a real time what LAC stood for? No?

00:54:20
Speaker 2: I was just adding that for flair. So right now the Chiefs would not be in a good flair correct? And the Chiefs played the Broncos this week?

00:54:28
Speaker 1: Big game for the Chiefs game, Big game for the Chiefs. That would be crazy because I still think they're the best team and if they're not even in the playoffs, that would be nuts. Are the NFC?

00:54:38
Speaker 3: NFC, the Eagles would receive a buye as the one seed. It would be the two seed Seattle Seahawks versus the seven seed Green Bay Packers. Okay, it would be the three seed Detroit Lions versus the six seed Chicago Bears.

00:54:50
Speaker 1: Three seed Detroit liell That would be fun. Would That would be exciting? A good rivalry game in the playoffs.

00:54:56
Speaker 2: And then the four to five would be Bucks Rams.

00:55:00
Speaker 1: That would be the other contender to be at one at noon on Saturday. That would be the noon on Sunday game.

00:55:05
Speaker 2: The Seahawks are both seven to two and play this week, so that will go one way or another.

00:55:11
Speaker 1: That will change. Well, let's make some picks. All right, Billy, you have won the survivorly, that's right, but I want to see how long you can keep going, all right, because Drew and I are out. So what are the teams you've picked so far? Yeah?

00:55:25
Speaker 2: I don't have that in front of me.

00:55:27
Speaker 3: Let me get that and then I'll be able to make my pick here.

00:55:30
Speaker 1: What do you mean you don't have it in front of you.

00:55:32
Speaker 3: I don't have my uh home, No, I got it here. I'm just highly unorganized like you the other day. Should be behind your debty Yankee notes. Okay, here it is, I got it, I got it.

00:55:43
Speaker 1: Okay.

00:55:44
Speaker 3: So I have Jags, Cards, Bills, Colts, Chiefs, Patriots, and then the one that I did last week, which was Seattle. And then I also have yeah, Seattle.

00:55:54
Speaker 1: So who do you like here?

00:55:57
Speaker 2: You know it's tough.

00:55:58
Speaker 1: I mean, the biggest favorite Patriots, but you can't pick them.

00:56:01
Speaker 2: No, can't pick the Patriots here.

00:56:03
Speaker 3: I'm almost inclined to take the Texans over the Titans.

00:56:07
Speaker 1: When else you can pick the Texans. It's just Davis. It's only five and a half points.

00:56:10
Speaker 3: Davis Mills though, and he's kind of become our like podcast icon here.

00:56:16
Speaker 1: So yeah, I mean I get that. I think I would probably if I were you. So if I was still in the game, I would probably take Packers over Giants. No offense to Jamis.

00:56:28
Speaker 3: I took the Packers already.

00:56:30
Speaker 1: Okay, see I don't think I.

00:56:31
Speaker 2: Oh, I'm sorry, No, I haven't.

00:56:32
Speaker 1: Well, do you want to switch?

00:56:33
Speaker 2: No?

00:56:34
Speaker 1: All right, you're gonna take them? No, I do not.

00:56:37
Speaker 2: No, I'll stick with the Texans.

00:56:38
Speaker 1: Actually, I don't think I've picked the Patriots yet either, so I could have picked them. All right, So let's do our touchdown game. I think I go first this week. And let's see. I'm going to take Stefan Diggs tonight. Oh, he's been good for me on Thursday Night football. I'm gonna take Stefan Diggs. I've not picked him as my wide receiver. Drew your next. He's hearing a quarterback, a running back.

00:57:09
Speaker 2: I've been betting on him, he's been hitting.

00:57:11
Speaker 1: I will take.

00:57:12
Speaker 2: I'm gonna go running back.

00:57:15
Speaker 1: Try. Have I used any running backs?

00:57:16
Speaker 2: Do you have my list? I don't know who I've used? Have used saque? I know I don't have the list. I know I'll get a I'll get one that's off the Grid that I haven't used. I'll say Josh Jacobs against the Giants. I know I haven't used him. That should be a blowout.

00:57:31
Speaker 1: Josh Jacobs. All right, So Stefan Diggs, Josh Jacobs, Billy. That means you got to pick a quarterback? Yeah, who have you picked?

00:57:38
Speaker 2: Jackson Dart?

00:57:39
Speaker 1: All right? That's it? Yeah?

00:57:40
Speaker 2: I believe?

00:57:41
Speaker 1: So okay, So what quarterback do you want?

00:57:43
Speaker 3: I'm sticking with the Giants. I'm going Jamis Winston. Give me a brushing touchdown for the famous James.

00:57:49
Speaker 1: You got, Jalen Hurts, you got my homes, you got Lamar. You're gonna take. You're gonna take Jamis Winston. I like it. Bill.

00:57:56
Speaker 2: The last time you did this was Jackson Dart and all he does is rush touchdowns.

00:57:59
Speaker 1: So you're up four to three one, you are, I'm up four to three one, and you think the way to catch up is to pick Jameis Winston. Yeah.

00:58:05
Speaker 3: I mean anybody could pick Josh Allen and Jail and her.

00:58:08
Speaker 1: But you haven't yet.

00:58:09
Speaker 3: You could do it. Yeah, maybe a fun Maybe I will later. Who bets on the favorite? How many and how often you.

00:58:15
Speaker 2: Get Jamis starting?

00:58:16
Speaker 3: I mean you maybe the rest of the year, the one guy I was too afraid to go up to and ask for a picture.

00:58:23
Speaker 1: Oh you were scared?

00:58:24
Speaker 3: Yeah, you thought he was gonna get angry at you. No, he'd be the one guy that'd be nice enough to do it. But as a big Tampa fan.

00:58:30
Speaker 1: And just what are you gonna do when we get in that locker room.

00:58:34
Speaker 3: I'll be fine, I'll vi I'll be fine. You're toss it around the NFL and talking to Baker.

00:58:41
Speaker 1: And Billy Billy Billy reutlive NFL.

00:58:44
Speaker 2: Billy are sports. That's probably what he'd know me by NFL.

00:58:48
Speaker 1: Do you think you wouldn't know you? But I don't know how.

00:58:50
Speaker 3: They do it, Like do they still open the locker room or is it like I think like them all?

00:58:56
Speaker 1: Yeah, I don't know. I mean, like it's the whole thing is gonna be interesting because we're not going to fit in with these people. Yeah, I mean with the rest of media, we're not going to fit in. We're gonna be trying to break into Iron Eagle and JJ watts booth.

00:59:09
Speaker 2: I'm gonna have pieces of a table in my back when I'm checking into the press box.

00:59:13
Speaker 3: Yeah, probably can't wear Tom Brady Jersey into them.

00:59:16
Speaker 1: A couple of rules here for you two. You cannot wear I mean, you can wear whatever you want, but you can't wear team gear. So you can't wear Bills gear in the press box. Now, you could wear it if you want to wear it. When you're out in the parking lot, you can't. But you can't wear it in the press box. I don't even know if you have Bills gear, which means you can't wear Tampa gear. Okay. I don't want you all to embarrass me. I've traveled enough with Drew. I know he won't embarrass me. Mario, you can't ask people for pictures selfie, I'm serious. Don't run out there to Josh All Baker Mayfield go what up, bro, big fan? Can we get a selfie? You can't do that, all right?

00:59:57
Speaker 3: Or or asked Baker to take a picture of you.

01:00:01
Speaker 1: You can do that.

01:00:02
Speaker 2: Oh you can't do that, Billy.

01:00:04
Speaker 1: The bucks of your team. Please when we walk in, don't cry.

01:00:09
Speaker 2: I can handle that, all right.

01:00:12
Speaker 1: Are you gonna ask a question? Oh?

01:00:13
Speaker 2: Yeah, no, leave aside the player thing. That's easybody can do that. But in the media setting with the coach Todd at the podium. You got a Todd question, Todd, I'll think on I can think of one.

01:00:24
Speaker 1: Yeah, be thinking of one for you to ask. I asked a question at the Ryder Cup. For that reason. I was like, I want to say that I asked a question at the Ryder Cup. So I asked Lee Westwood a question. I said, what he thought of Kentucky? Yeah, and he was like, Mike, it's brut.

01:00:42
Speaker 2: You could say, you have to introduce yourself. Billy roliche KSR pre show in the NFL.

01:00:48
Speaker 1: Billy Rudlige NFL NFL Billy Relige personal assistant Roger Good you can you can do.

01:00:55
Speaker 2: That one, because it sounds like you've already been introducing.

01:00:57
Speaker 1: Yourself like that for a few weeks now. So you got that one done. Well. We will see everyone in Buffalo Sunday night. The podcast will be from Buffalo, allegedly at a bar. If Billy can find one, we'll figure it out. Otherwise it might be from our house in Erie, Pennsylvania. But thank you all very much for listening. We'll see you later. This is NFL Cover zero. NFL Covers zero with Matt Jones and Drew Franklin is a production of the NFL and iHeart podcast. For more podcasts from Iheartradiovi is the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.