Adam Schefter, Live From The NFL Combine Plus Fyre Fest Of The Week
2023-03-03 01:47:12
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Maybe, maybe former good friend? Yep, it'll be, uh, let's just say it's a wild ride, it's a wild ride of an interview.
Great interview with Adam Schefter. We're live from Indy, talking combine, getting ready for the combine. We did some training today. We also will do Fire Fest the week and don't worry. We did film an extra lottery ball at the end. Uh, so maybe today's the day that Hank will get it.
I got good vibes I have, I'm feeling like this is the day I really do, so I'm excited.
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Welcome to part of my take. Today is Friday, March 3rd and we are live from the Combine Indianapolis, Indiana Hank playing Flip Cup. Max. Get us some more water.
Uh, yeah, boys, combine week, we're here. What a magical place Indianapolis is. I'm happy.
Football is.
Back football is officially back. It was a long week and a half kind of, I guess the XFL was around technically, but yeah, football's officially back. Uh, I'm, I've reached the point where I think I'm, I think I'm over combine week.
Maybe I'm just getting old, maybe I'm a very old 28 years old. Well, I have some thoughts, cause you'd go go on, but I agree I was going to say, it's, um, it's a bunch of football. Guys that flock to the same place, go to the same bars, eat the same shrimp cocktails. Like it's like March of the Penguins.
Yeah, if they were wearing lanyards and trying to bang waitresses, I so I agree for a different.
Reason Um, I just would like to do combine week, but with couches, so I was thinking about it. Last night we were at a bar and, uh, I've had the longstanding take.
It's not like some novel thing. Uh, bigger guys understand. Not being able to sit down at a bar is torture. It's, it's. It's no different than getting waterboarded, uh, so I was standing at a bar for about an hour and a half.
That's usually my capacity, and the whole time I was like, this would be sweet if I could sit down. Uh, so maybe that's the issue. Is combine week just needs to be in recliners and couches. Everyone's sitting in a big circle, maybe dozing off here and there. That would be nice.
You make a good.
Point because I, I hate networking, I hate it, but I think I would enjoy networking a lot more if there. If it was like a living room, sitting down, if it was at a house party. I think we pitched that to John Taffer when he came on the show. A bar, a bar with couches that were at like seven different bars inside the same restaurant. Yeah, we pitched the exact idea, cause, I said.
I was like, the problem with going to bars is if I can't find a seat, I want to go home, yeah.
No, I agree, I. I'm sick of standing. I don't like standing is the most overrated thing people can. That's actually. They should test players for that.
The combine who can just stand?
Dude, longest Apple watch? When it's like, Hey, you haven't stood up in a couple hours, I shut the fuck up. That's by design, I don't want to stand up. Mind your own business, stupid bitch.
But yeah, we are in combine week, we are doing some. Uh, I don't really think we network, we just see a couple of people that we haven't seen in a while. So Arthur Smith, Yeah, he looks good.
He looks great, chin, like a Greek God. Uh, we have, we have a couple of interviews coming up next week. Uh, we talked to Kevin Stefanski, which was a great interview. So it's always fun to come here. Because it does feel like the whole football world descends on Indianapolis. And it's a very different vibe than the Super Bowl, where it's, like, you know, flashy celebrities.
Here, it's like, who can eat the most steaks? While they're talking about, like, free agency wearing, the team issued polo. So, so it's funny because, uh, there was actually one person.
I was very excited to potentially see, and I'm, I still am, and that's Deuce. GruDen Yeah, I'm just on the hunt for. I did see him at that Starbucks that one year.
I saw him, I met him well, not really met him. I was starstruck by him. We got into an elevator together and then I just froze up and I was just like looking at him. And then he got off the elevator and I was like, that was awesome.
Deuce Gruden So I thought that I saw him last night at the bar and that I was nervous. And and Che was next to me, and I asked her friend, Steven Che, I was like, Is that Deuce? Gruden? And Steve was like, Do you want me to go up and say, Are you Deuce?
My friend over there.
Wants to meet you? He's going to introduce me. Do you like any of us here more than a friend?
He was going to be like, Hey, my friend over there thinks that you're cute, and then my friend would be me. And then I'd just be standing there, like staring at him. Yeah, so Steven went up to this guy and was like, Hey, are you deuce?
And the guy was like, No, no, I'm not deuce, and I was, so the wind was like, totally out of my shoes. He's, he's the one guy that I've been, I've been on the.
Yeah, that's, that's bullshit. Yeah, it was, it was not good, yeah.
It's, um, and then we did, yeah, I mean, we, we. Basically, you know, you go to a couple of bars, you see, uh, I did see Ciceliano. I think he realizes everything I've said about him. We were actually having a conversation about it after cause.
He was like, I bet you he knows all the shit you talk about him. And I realized, that's one of those guys that, like, if I was in a hallway with him one-on-one, I'd probably be like, Hey dude, I'm sorry, like you don't understand. The reason why I say I want you to get hit by a bus is because, uh, Jake Marsh just squirms so much when I say it, like, it's really nothing personal.
It's really just Jake's reaction has elicited this behavior, where I just want to wish the worst thing possible. Yeah, don't, don't take it personally, but I hope that you die, right? But only no. I hope he dies only when Jake is around to hear me say that.
Okay, so right now, I don't hope he dies if he got hit. What if he got hit by a bus in Indianapolis right now? But you could text, you could get Jake Marsh on FaceTime if I was like, facetiming him while it was happening, no afterwards.
Like, if you got to break the.
News tomorrow I could be interested in that. Yeah, yeah, um, and then the other con, like the big Combine news. We're just all waiting for Bryce Young to get measured, yeah.
Waiting with bated breath, I thought it was today, it's actually Saturday. He's not getting measured till Saturday. uh, I would assume he's just not going to shit for the next two days.
Yeah, he's.
Already stretched out on a rack somewhere, trying to do both. So he's got to get tall and he's got to get fat, you can't get taller, you can't, you can't be done. But I do think that there's something to be said for a theory that if you measure to the eyes, that's what's really important.
You shouldn't. The the forehead is wasted space as far as a quarterback is concerned.
Measure to the man's that maybe he's got high eyes, he's got high eyes. He also, um, I don't know what like his team is doing. There was a video of him walking into the combine next to a tight end. You need him walking next to Andrew Siciliano or Ian Rapp, or me.
Yeah, just I can find everyone that you basically have to. Tom cruise this. Like, make the doors really small in his, in his, you know, make like a miniature hotel room and take videos of him in his hotel.
Room Just being Andre the giant Pete, Prisco, Get Pete, Prisco to hang out with him for a while. I am interested to see how much he weighs in. Uh, that's going to be, it's going to be a big deal.
If he like, if he comes in under 200 pounds, well, the best part is Peter Schrager, a friend.
Of the program, Uh said that he spoke to multiple teams and they all had no issue with, like, his size. So I think it eventually will just not matter. It might matter when he's playing, but in terms of getting drafted, I don't think it will be that much of a bearing. I think he's going to go in the top five no matter what. So like, if he, maybe, if he like, is five, seven, one, 60. That'd be shocking to see that, but still someone would take a first round.
Pick on him, take a flyer on him. He played in the SEC and he was fucking awesome. So yeah, I, I'm more.
I'm more worried about what his weight's going to be because that is that is an actual factor. Where you get hit by people, giants are going to be smashing you into the ground. It would be helpful if you weighed over 200 pounds. But he did play in the SEC, he did so.
When? when is he going?
To get measured. And Saturday, 10 a.m. It's literally hurry up and wait. Yeah, we're just sitting here, I'm just refreshing the feed.
When is he going to get measured? I want to see those measurables.
Let's fucking go. It's also funny if you take probably everybody that's working out this week at the combine and you put them on the BMI chart, they're all clinically obese. Yes, yeah.
We're, like, probably in better shape than most NFL players, maybe not the skill positions, but yeah.
Yeah, probably not punters. Yeah, I was gonna say, wide receivers are definitely not obese.
100 not. I think. If you're like, six feet tall, six one and you weigh 220 pounds, that might be obese on the BMI chart. Maybe, yeah.
BMI is such a crock of shit, it's also.
Going to be very funny, whatever. Bryce Young weighs in, and his height is at, uh, everyone's gonna be like, That's bullshit, that's not real. Yeah, no matter what.
Yeah, like he could, I think people actually want it, like they are wishing for him to be five, six, it'd be very.
Funny if he was listed at Alabama as being six feet tall. It's so funny how in college media, guys, you can just make up whatever you want and you can just write down a number. Nobody will ever check it. Yeah, he should weigh in at the North Pole.
You weigh more at the North Pole than you do at the equator because of the bulge. Yes, that's true. Well, let's get that's where.
You should do his pro day. Yeah, um, all right, what else is going on? I mean, we have, there's.
Uh, Jalen, Jalen Carter, that was not good. Official statement, by part of my take, if you are implicated in leaving the scene of, uh, a vehicular was not a homicide, just a death death.
Double death shouldn't do that, not good, shouldn't do that be better.
Yeah, that's our official statement. There's room for growth. Be better, yes.
And again, it's another situation where everyone takes their like pause to say, Oh my God, this is horrific, and then he'll still go.
Top five Oh yeah, I mean, he's, he's a freak, right? And, uh, he released a great notes app, his Notes App.
I've never seen this before. It started with the word statement, which was nice of him to clarify what it was. It was all caps not good, and then he switched it to a very serious font.
Yes, so as far as he put it in crop and didn't crop, he didn't crop it. That's my big issue. Everything else. He tried to format it to make it look as professional as possible while still taking a screenshot of your phone. Uh, and it looked like it was taken from a screenshot of a phone that was an Android, maybe because the dimensions were all on it.
And it's a, it's a.
Very sad story, but it's also the NFL loves these stories where something bad happens before they become get drafted. So Goodell can literally be like, not my problem. It does make me laugh.
Thinking back about about the Laramie Tunsil thing, where he got. The video came out of him smoking weed and a gas mask. On draft night, like right before the draft started, and then every team was like, Well, we can't be seen drafting this guy. He smokes weed well, it was the gas.
Mask. I think if it was just a joint, it would have been a little different. He did the gas.
Mask is a visual. He did look a little bit like like a terrorist, because he had he had the mask on and then he had, uh, the Confederate flag behind it. So it's kind of like the ISIS of the South.
And here's the thing. If you're smoking weed out of a gas mask, that wasn't your first time. And that me like. The gas mask is like five or six steps down the weed ladder, where it's like, you really like to smoke weed again. I have no problem with that, but you like you, you know what I mean, like, you start getting very creative, like a gravity ball and gas masks.
Those are both kind of in the same category where it's like, you got bored with smoking weed, which is almost.
Impossible to do. Yeah, my my concern is less the gas mask and more that he was videotaping himself, ripping a bar out of a gas mask. Which is cool. No, no, it's kind of cool, no, but not it's send to your friends.
No, it's cool, it's cool to do, but it's it's kind of corny behavior, oh.
I don't know if you take a video of yourself doing that. I'm smoking a gas mask, my boys don't know about it. What kind of friend am I? instant giggles on the gas mask and don't send it to me, I'll be offended.
Yeah, okay, it's actually way, it's way bigger of a loser. Move to smoke out of a gas mask and just never have proof of it. I don't know about that, no dude.
If you're.
Alone, smoking with a gas mask. Yeah, I'm not, I'm not out here for cloud, I'm not out here for cloud.
Yeah, no, yeah, oh, you're, yeah right. I'm not a guy who does drugs on camera.
Yeah, that's really.
The only time it's really, yeah, I'm here for Cloud I. There have been times when I have smoked out of a gas mask and didn't record it, not recently, okay.
Yeah, before cell phone videos.
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Um, the other big story was we had the report cards for all the NFL teams, the NFL PA. Great article. Um, seems like the Ravens are kind of falling apart because they got an f minus in strength and conditioning. And then they had multiple players tweet today being like, Yeah, I never was injured, came to the Ravens, got injured, shot. Bateman was basically like, stop pointing the finger at us.
Like, you guys get us injured all the time.
If you look back on the last two years of the Ravens being the most injured team at football, something weird is going on there, and that's. It's actually vindication for us as stupid fans. Whenever we see a bunch of soft tissue injuries, we're always like, they should fire that trainer. Strength and conditioning is a problem.
I think maybe it is actually a problem with Ravens.
And I actually don't, I know you. You don't want to talk about this because the commanders were the last, but I. They did not lose in this. Because the stories that came out of it were the rats in Jacksonville. And then the big story was the fact that the cardinals charge for dinner.
Yeah, there's, that's an insane thing. The let's be honest, the big story that came out of it was the commander's getting an F minus, which isn't really a grade, and F minus doesn't exist.
They made up the new straight ups, they made up plus in strength staff or strength staff. I think that way better than the Raven. Yeah, they did get, they did get. An f in treatment of families, which seems like a pretty, pretty important thing to to be above an f in is how you treat families.
Yeah, the Jags were an f in that. And it was because, uh, players wives were breastfeeding on the floor of the restrooms in the stadium. They didn't give them a space they didn't have.
A space for that? Well, I, I just think that an f minus okay with that, I'm saying that makes.
Sense why they got an f, yeah, and the rats, they had multiple weeks, they said of rats.
So I ran the numbers, I ran Cat, I ran the numbers on on the Get a jack, yeah.
Get a Jaguar patrol, put a Jaguar in the fucking locker. I ran the numbers on what the GPA should be, I took all the commander's grades and put them into a formula. And then I even included F minus as being worth negative 0.5 on the GPA scale, and they ended up with a 0.9..
So an F plus is what they got. F minus doesn't exist. If you get an F minus, that's good. L saying, I should drone strike your.
Franchise it should not exist. But here's the thing. Like everyone expects the commanders to be the lowest part of the lowest rated team. The stories like the Bengals off days.
Don't, you can't even get a banana? That's what they said. They're like, if you show up, they tell you to come in and train. In the off days on, like Tuesdays in the season, and the cafeteria is completely closed.
And if you wanted a banana or a gatorade?
They don't have that. Making you pay for meals is bad, it's really bad. Rats exist in nature, some people eat them on the streets of New York.
According to a video that I saw.
There's a long line to wait for the Chargers showers. Yeah, that sucks. There should not be.
A wait for a shower? If you're a professional, those are the stories. How is that? Because they?
Share no stadium with the Rams? No, no, so their facility is under construction, so they're in a.
Warehouse. Right now, their practice facility is under construction. There was, there was a part of the commanders that said, Uh, they don't have hot water. That's another thing that should probably be important to have as a as a sports team. Goes out sometimes also cool.
Plunges are back in Joe Rogan's taught us about that. Oh, that was your day with a cool plunge and boom.
You're able to kick anyone's ass. That was actually, the Chargers said. That the cool.
Cool plunge is never cold, it's not cold enough that would. That would be a plus for me.
That's so brutal to just be like, all right, going cold therapy. And they just had, and they said the hot tub didn't work a lot, so they just have two lukewarm bodies of water in the.
Facility. I just think an f minus is it's rubbing salt in the wound. Yeah, f minus. Come on, but that.
Was, I mean, it's cool? I think this is the first year they did this, where they did a full. It was almost more than half of the players. Uh, you know, commented on the poll, totally anonymous. Hopefully teams will be like, Oh shit, maybe we, maybe we are getting everyone injured. Shout out to Vikings, it just fit.
The Ravens are the real story because they're in the middle of talking to Lamar Jackson, who has been injured the last two years. And now players are saying, like, yeah, their strength. I think there was one guy who said he tours ACL and they had him doing a leg single leg strength exercises five months later. And he's like, it still hasn't sat right with me. That shit is like, real shit that free agents definitely should pay attention.
They talk to each other also about that. The guys are like, Yeah, you don't want to go here, they don't care about your health, I think, Matthew Judon says. Like I told the Rave, I told my friends on the Ravens that they should fire their strength coach like two years ago.
Who is this guy? We had to fucking find him. He seems kind of awesome, he's probably like the.
Best Oh. If we met him, we'd be like this guy in the world, I would. I would run through a brick wall for this guy. And that's probably something that he has you do when you're rehabbing from a concussion, yeah.
Um, all right, other sports. uh, big story in the NFL, uh. Jerry Richardson passed away. Oh yeah, rip. I am wearing jeans for jeans Friday in his honor.
Yes, so he's out and.
Then another Jerry, fully out. Very interesting way to talk about someone who just died, he's out.
Dead, Yeah, uh. Jerry Jones has a lawsuit that's just been reinstated against him for, uh. Grabbing a woman in his in his box and then forcing her to kiss him. And that got thrown out a while ago.
Now it's back in, so I'm going to say that happens.
I've seen enough. If I were the judge, I'd be like, Wait, Jerry Jones grabbed a woman in his box and try it. Yep, that happened it.
Allegedly definitely happened, and Jerry at this point should just have a sign up. You know, when you go, uh, like, into a place where they're filming a TV show. It just said it should say, like, by entering this suite, you consent to being grabbed or having an 80 year old suck on your face.
For a couple of minutes, that's that takes. Like legal work, you need a lawyer to set that up. Just have a sign outside of his suite, that's just it, says Kissing Booth.
Yeah, kissing booth, you can't, I mean, that's legally binding by you go into a kissing booth or maybe just line the entire ceiling with mistletoe by. Yeah, there's nothing that they can do about that. I like that.
By entering the premises, you agreed to be softly mauled by a billionaire. Smooched. Yeah, um, I do.
Want to shout out Stephen A. Smith? He pretended to take a nap today on first take when they were talking about Aaron Rodgers? I stand with Stephen A. Smith.
I'm sick of talking about Aaron Rodgers. Okay, so that's my Aaron Rodgers update. It's just like, Dude, stop holding everyone hostage. He was, he really hammed it up.
Like, he was snoring, like, fully out, and he's like, sorry.
I don't really care about this. How awesome would it be if just no team wanted Aaron Rodgers next year? It would be great, it would be great they should band together.
The owners should form a union. Yeah, I guess that is the N.FL. Yeah, um, all right.
Other sports LeBron is pretty much done, three weeks, three weeks, he'll be real re-evaluate. He's got a tendon issue in his ankle.
So we're down to nine important games for LeBron. Yeah, he's. It's this laker season is over well.
What if the Lakers got good without Lebron? They could? Do you think he LeBron would hate that?
Oh yeah, oh yeah, he would absolutely hate that. Kevin Durant's back looks good.
Sons are going to be a problem. Circle that until Chris Paul and Kevin Durant get injured again, they're a problem. They're going to be the best.
Like, would have showed a team if they don't win the title, like.
Man, if they didn't get a window, they're going to win, they're definitely going to win the title.
This is your for Chris Paul. No, you don't think so, Hank, you don't know ball back in first, yeah.
Nice congratulations. So one day out of first place was a long, long day. It was the.
Longest day of your of your life? Oh, uh, there was also something else that came out of a bike. McCarthy's press conference. He said that him and Kellen Moore had conflicting opinions on how to run Hank's Cowboys last year. How to run the offense. Kellen Moore wanted to score points as many points as possible, and Mike McCarthy said Not always are points good.
You need to be able to run the ball and run. He even said, Run the damn ball, okay? He said. I wanted to run the damn ball and Kellen Moore wanted to score points in this office. Translation Mike McCarthy saving his.
Job with Jerry Jones Jerry Jones paid as you go in a lot of money and was like, we need to run the.
Ball, yeah, he said. Mike McCarthy thought the Cowboys problem was they scored too many points. That's it could be.
Sometimes you score too many points. He was saying it under the guise of I wanted to rest my defense a little bit more often. Yeah, but Mike McCarthy, I mean, for being such a, you know, he's like a diehard analytics guy.
He spent like a subscription, he spent 999 a month.
On his profile, No, no, no, no, he, oh dude, he definitely went to 1999, he went Premium.
Yeah.
Oh yeah, oh yeah, so he's a big, he's a big numbers guy, right? That would be funny, though.
If he didn't go premium and he just tried to guess, cause, you know how? They like, lock the premium, yeah, they lock like the grades. And he was like, Well, I think this might be the ranking.
He just uses Incognito mode, oh, he's got like three different phones that he can open up. And that's why the Cowboys tail off at the end of the season. Because he's, he's used all his free articles, yes.
Yes, that's exactly what happened, that's probably what happened, but it is funny to hear Mike McCarthy be like. Our problem was Kellen Moore was too focused on scoring points, yeah.
Well, no shit, Mike, he's the offensive coordinator. Yeah, um, all right. So the other.
Other thing I had was a dude's rock moment that I told you about last night. PFt, Uh, Illinois Matthew Mayer, uh, was out with caffeine poisoning, so, uh. He said. He drank five monster energy drinks while playing video games on Sunday after the Ohio State game, and his first day of practice back of practice was Wednesday. That's just a total dude's rock that's a long, long time to miss.
With caffeine, I mean, he just, he just fucking got locked into a game he got.
What are you going to do? He got really hyper, yeah, and then when he had, like, heart palpitations, it is funny the hospital get rehydrated.
What do you do if you have caffeine poison? Because a lot.
Of these, like dumb injuries, like the baseball, dumb injuries. I'm always like, why would you, even why would you even admit it, right? But this one, you should admit, because I think everyone stands with him. It's like, all right, dude, if you're gaming and you and you're doing well and you got.
To stay up, you should. Rockstar Energy referred to as a heated, heated gaming moment. I think that isn't that what Myers Leonard said about this, about who I think is back, kind of back, yeah.
Where is he? He signed a 10 day, maybe with a box. Oh, I was going to say jazz would have been good. Yeah, oh, they would have loved him.
Yeah, that would have been a good place, maybe with the box also. Illinois Team up with Box, team up with Kyrie Scumbags, yeah.
Um, all right, well.
Anything else that we missed? Uh, let's see. No, that's it. We literally covered everything in.
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Uh, this is also Peter Schrager, I think. Reported this Iowa State Pass rusher Will McDonald. The fourth. I think that's how Roman numerals work. Ivy came down with a fever close to 104 degrees on Tuesday evening.
He's insisting on working out today despite still being sick and losing weight over the past 48 hours. That's a very, that's a very high fever, but also, like Iowa State Pass, Rusher insists on practicing through fever. I'm sold. Yeah, I've seen everything I need to see.
High motor guy that's all like, I mean, we the the Bears, uh. Entire draft strategy is they have a hotel suite with ping pong, darts and like pool, and they're just testing everyone's.
Competitiveness and putt, putt, yeah, they have. putt. I would prefer a guy that's not great at putt, yeah.
But that's actually one of those sneaky ones where it's like, if this guy's lights.
Out at putt putt, kind of a creep, yeah, but just compete, just see how they compete, compete.
Compete, compete, compete. It does sound like small stream stadium. Yeah, it does.
That'd be funny if we we actually. If we were, if we were GMs of a team and we were drafting players to have them play. Uh, Jenga verse Frank. The tank would be the ultimate test of their.
Toughness? Yeah, if you can stay in touch, stay focused when that's happening. The War 54. Yeah, I would. uh, yeah, I would pay good money to see that, yes.
Yes, that would be incredible and have Frank just come up with songs for him. Yeah, I would do the thing where it's like I would the lions that don't concern themselves with the opinion of sheep. I would actually have that.
I would have the sheep in my interview room and see if they paid attention to it. Yes, yes.
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Okay, we now welcome on a very special guest. It is a annual tradition. We're in Indianapolis for the NFL combine and we always have Adam Schefter on the show. Shifty. Where the Fuck Is the DES tape?
Let's just start, let's just get right back into it. Where's the? We'll do this every year for the next 25 years. And I'll be like, give me the DES tape, and you'd be like, Well, guess what, I don't have it. It still hasn't surfaced.
Okay, all right. Excellent use of the passive voice there. Why has it not surfaced?
You have it in one of those two phones, it's.
Sort of like one of these tapes that's like missing underwater, at sea and will one day surface. Like, I was just thinking that I met Sam Ponder's mom at the Super Bowl. She was on the set the last day. She's an archeologist, so she'll find it for us.
She was telling me as they uncovered something in Israel, in Israel, where she spent six months of the year. Some stones and rocks from prehistoric times that prove that certain people she may have. That's probably how she found the.
2013 episode of Barstool Pick'em. That's exactly what happened. God damn it now, let me also say.
This? What's also funny is I have my own podcast. Yes, I don't think I've ever been stopped by anybody to this day, having that podcast for five years. Who said to me, Hey, Adam, really like your podcast?
But I've been stopped innumerable times by people who say, Hey.
Hurry up Love You on PMT. I love that, that's our favorite thing that we hear, yeah.
It's like.
That's the best. It's so true. We have you trapped now. That's the thing our fans are best, uh.
Like publicity, because when they do that and they reaffirm to people, it's like, Yeah, that was fun.
Those guys are fun. I've never had anybody stop me and say, I really enjoy your podcast.
Shay will do that. But, um, like, we're going to get into everything. But give us a quick state of the league. What's the what's the buzz? What's going on in Indy? Well, everything's being held up.
Right now by the quarterback in Green Bay, but he's out of the darkness. Once that happens, he's the first quarterback domino, then all the other quarterback dominoes begin to fall.
We're waiting on Derek Carr, who's here in Indy himself. Lamar Jackson, Um, we've got a bunch of quarterbacks, right that, Nathan Peterman, Nathan Peterman, Blake Bortles, Heineken.
Bortles retired. Did you report that? Oh, no, that was us. We broke that you guys are the.
Blake Bortles whispers You guys are the ones that are on that. I'm not going to try to compete an area that I have no luck, no shot of competing in as far as Aaron Rogers goes.
I remember way.
Way back in the day, old school journalism, uh. Dan rather went on the air. And he took heroin on the air to describe what it's like because of this new epidemic. He did heroin on the air. Yeah, on the radio. He had a sheriff that locked him in a dark room, administered to it. Then he described the effects on the air in order to get in Aaron Rogers brain.
Would you ever drink ayahuasca tea and then try to predict what he was going to do? Well, I would say this, I know people were.
Discussing that darkness retreat, I would love to go on a darkness retreat. That's what we said. Honestly, you're the father of two kids, right? You get a third away.
It'd be great. How many?
Kids you have 50, uh, zero. My fictional son Chris, he's four years old.
He loves to live.
Tour Well, there you go. Yeah, okay well, anyway, you would know what it would be like to escape.
Chris The idea of he's a piece of shit, what an asshole, the idea of going into darkness.
For four days. Yes, that's what I said. You would get stressed out, though you would.
Yeah, imagine.
Because there's an understanding you're going in for four days, you're going in for four days.
And it's like, no phones. Worst four days for you to go in. Well, on the calendar year it would be.
The draft free agency, free agency, without question. No, no question. Yeah, you know, a couple of years ago, a few years ago, I was invited to the Masters for the first time and my friends invited me down. I went down there and I was like, it was right towards the end of the pandemic.
I hadn't traveled all, it was the first trip fly down there and, uh, it was really hard to leave your family at that time. Hard thing to do.
Leave work behind. So I'm going to go to the core circuit. Great. Leave your phones at the house. I'm like, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait.
What, yeah, you were like the scene at Donnie Brasco when he wouldn't take his boots. Wait.
Wait, wait, he said. We weren't going to tell you that in advance because we knew that that would make you not make this trip. So you would leave your phone for three days at the Masters, literally nothing, no access. And when that first happens, what you find is that you're, you're sticking your hand in your pocket. It's like someone trying to quit cigarettes.
I would imagine that you get the shakes, like you're reaching into your, you get the phantom vibrations.
On your leg, you think your phone is going off, but you don't even have your phone, exactly.
Exactly it was. It was a very weird sensation, so but to go into.
Darkness for four days, no phones. Yeah, you do it, I like it. So what's? What's the latest, though?
It feels like Aaron Rodgers is not going to be on the Packers next year. Is that a fair assessment?
You know, here's the thing. This has been going on now for three years. And I would have thought two years ago that he wasn't going to be on the Packers that year. And the two sides circled back and all of a sudden he shows up at training camp. But then last year, there really wasn't a lot of talk about it. They get the contract extension done.
He stays.
And then this year, there seems to be more and more smoke to the fire. And it's remarkably similar how much his case is, like Brett Favre's case, same age, like same years, and it's almost like history repeating itself. He ultimately has to be the one that's going to break up with them.
And I think there are people around the league who believe that they the Packers are perfectly fine with that. Yeah, yeah, here's the thing you got two quarterbacks there.
So if Rodgers says, I want to come back, guess what? Now we're going to spring a leak on Jordan Love, right? like, is Jordan Love going to want to be there, right?
So somebody doesn't fit in Green Bay, right? We're just waiting for the man to emerge from the darkness to tell us which quarterback.
That's going to be you don't think that? There's a world where the Packers tell Aaron Rodgers, like, straight up, we, it's probably best if we split ways. They're doing all the waiting and.
Aaron's doing all the deciding but. But they could do that, but why wouldn't they have done it already? They seem to be waiting. It almost is to me. It's like both sides are passive aggressive about this. Both sides seem to want to break up, but nobody's willing to be the one to break up.
And I remember a couple of years ago, it felt to me, it just felt to me like he was the one that wanted out. But he didn't want to say I want out because he didn't want to be the one that was.
Being blamed for ending that relationship. He didn't want to be Brett Favre, right because he grew. He came into the league behind Brett Favre, he saw what Brett was doing.
He's like, I'm never going to be this ass, It's like when he grew up saying, I'm not going to be like my dad.
It's cats in the cradle, yeah. And then someday when Hank played that after I had my son.
Which was the meanest thing that anyone ever saw. One day, one day, you start like mispronouncing words like your dad, did you start doing things? He's doing stuff like Brett Favre did, yeah.
So now he's going, or is this your way of saying he's going to go to the jets? Well, to me, that.
Is the one that makes the most sense by far, and it's not. If he is going to be traded, that's the.
Place it would be, give us, give us an off the radar one that people aren't thinking about. With Rodgers. Yes, cause I, you know, we've heard jets.
I think some people float around, maybe Raiders. I think the Panthers have checked in. Okay, that would be interesting, they would.
Be a good team, but I don't think the Packers want to send them in the NFC. Yeah, so now we're.
Back to the AFC, but wouldn't they want to send him in the NFC because he's not good in the NFC playoffs? So, like, it's actually a bonus, like, hey, if we play him in the NFC Championship?
We're going to win. That would be one way of looking at it. But you know, when you think about the NFC South for one moment, all these teams that are looking to get a new quarterback. If somebody trades up for one, somebody signs one, somebody trades from wherever it is, there's a real opportunity there. We got Kyle Trask in Tampa, Desmond Ritter in Atlanta.
Aren't they giving Kyle Trask like free reign to interview new coaches?
Yeah, they want his input on, they wanted his input. When they hired Dave Canales, he got Kyle Trask's blessing on that. Yeah, so Stephen Shay is in the room right now.
And.
When you said the words NFC South, I'm not, I'm not kidding. He was in the middle of a bite, and he froze his hands and wouldn't move until you finished.
Here's the thing he could look forward to Kyle Trask being his quarterback.
Yeah, no, he already has, he's already talked himself into it. So, and then, I mean, are the Saints going to run back? Is Jameis on?
He's on, he's under contract right now. There's a cap savings if they move on there. They've checked in with Derek Carr. Obviously they had enough interest there that they brought him into New Orleans and met with him at the combine.
So clearly they're looking to add to the position. Carolina We don't know who's playing there, so literally there is a quarterback question with every team in that except Tampa, where we know Kyle Trask.
And you're saying so, you're saying, once Aaron Rogers makes the decision, then we'll see all these other guys now, Derek Carr could always say.
You know what, I'm not waiting for Aaron Rogers anymore, but I think that Aaron Rogers is the first QB domino. I think once he decides, well, now, look, this could blow up. Right. By the time you run this podcast, that would be so funny if you were still wrong.
Yeah, you have to look like a total fool. It wouldn't be the first time.
Congrats on being the first on Tom Brady's retirement by about exactly one year.
You nailed it, I have a theory. Yeah, I have a theory about that. You had it again this year, but you didn't want to become the ire of, like, all this hate.
But you know what's funny? There was a night where we were driving back from my first encounter with Mr. Che over there in Tampa. It was in December. We were going back to the hotel.
I was in with Larry Fitzgerald. We walk into the lobby of the hotel, there where the Brady's the parents always stayed, and Larry knows the parents very well. And so they come over and they say, This is Adam Schefter. Hey Mr.
Brady, how you doing so? We had the chance to talk then, there was no mention about anything at the moment.
They probably don't like you, you know what? He was very pleasant and enjoyable to talk to. He did not bring it up. But did you have it this year?
You had it this.
Year, I think you had it, no, and you were like, I'm not going to do this again, we're going to.
Let this guy retire on his own terms and not try to cock the entire No. But clearly he wanted to do it his way this year because it happened so quick. I'm like driving my daughter to school. Tom Brady just retired again one year.
Wow, that was quick. Yeah, again, he probably had that.
Timed out knowing him, he's like, all right, Schefter takes his daughter to school. The Funny.
Part is we go back to Tampa, we go back to Tampa for the playoff game and I'm going back with Susie Colbert. We get to the elevator after the game, and who gets into the elevator that night? Tom Brady's parents.
Again, second time, same hotel, almost like the same schedule they're following.
You, Yeah, that's how they know when you're taking your daughter to school, I think it's the other.
Way around, I think Brady's parents were like, Schefter's on to you again.
He's showing up in.
All these places. We said, sorry about the game, he said, Yeah, and Mr. Brady said, Yeah, well, it was a. It was a hell of a way to end.
If if that's the way, if that's the way it is, if that. He caught himself right away and I said, Don't worry, Mr. Brady, we're going to leave you.
Alone this year, we don't want anything now. Do you count the first retirement of Tom Brady? That's a mark on your record because he didn't fully retire? I got a lot of marks.
Yeah, no, but that one, that one, you, you, you, we count that against you, right? If we're doing a full tally. Because I think that will just be your obituary someday, hopefully a long time from now. It'll just be the ones you got right, and once you got, I would prefer that you give the mark.
To Jeff Darlington. But that's, that's just, yeah, how does that work when you're doing?
You're doing a co-scoop with somebody like that, and it's like, per Jeff Darlington and me, how how do you guys both put out a scoop at the same time? Well, in that particular case last year. Oh, oh yeah, go ahead, go for it. What is it?
Oh, hold on a second.
He's pranking us, he's pranking us. Let me see it, hold on, okay?
Now this is from Dan Snyder saying, You know what's the No? One's allowed to tweet, right? Yeah? Dan Snyder just said, Uh, hey, thank you so much for sending us that first draft. There's no way.
There's no fucking way this is real. You're setting me up, we're not going to run this.
No one's allowed to tweet. This will be awesome. This is a setup I'm being, I'm being set up. I, it's a it's something about, uh, Lamar Jackson.
We don't say who sent it well.
I'm not going to say who sent it, but if this is true, we saw the person right. I'm a psychic.
Just a heads up, just a little heads up, this deal, we could say now Friday, okay, and if it does.
If you tell us, we'll edit it up, okay, but no tweeting, right? no tweeting. We know everyone showing his hands.
We don't need to see your hands.
Just a little heads up this deal with Washington, Lamar is starting to pick up with what they're offering. It's now looking like it'll get agreed to tonight. Someone here will keep you posted when it's about to be finalized. It wanted to be, you'd be ready.
Talk soon.
This is not real, this is not real. There's no, you're just a setup. We set you up with Colin Kaepernick.
When you first came on our show, we tried to trick you. This is a lie.
You fucked me on Carson Wentz last year and you?
Yeah, but you fucked me, you gave me.
Carson Wentz I contracted Carson Wentz from you. No, no, no, wait, wait, wait, hold on.
What's your response? Be like, Uh, I'm with the PMT guys, they don't believe it, say, uh, yeah.
Say, Yeah, uh, PMT broke this three months ago out of wishful thinking. I don't think he's replying any of that. This isn't real, this isn't real.
I mean.
It would be an all time moment. If it is real, it's not real. Because he, Hey, PMT, let me be the first to congratulate you, he remembered that last year with the PMT guys, they don't believe it.
Here we go, ready. Yeah, wait, I would like to be the.
First, to congratulate you, you would not send that to him if if you would not want him to.
Know that we knew, okay, I'm looking, I'm seeing, there's nothing. What about the past tense? I'm looking, I'm looking, I'm looking, I'm looking, I'm looking, I'm looking.
It's not, it's not.
It's not him, it's not him. This is a setup. I got bubbles, I got bubbles.
I got, I'm not bullshitting, oh shit in rap report just tweeted about that.
Hold on Bubbles, Bubbles, Bubbles, Pft.
I was the first to congratulate you. It's not, it's not real, I wanted on the record, it's not right, it's not real.
It's not real, it's not Hank, you were so wrong, it's not real.
You were.
So wrong, it's not real. There's a lot of bubbles about Lamar going to Washington. Have you seen the photoshops that we've done? Did that have anything to do with it?
Uh, okay, let's go.
All right, we should, probably shouldn't say all this.
Okay, all right, it looks. That doesn't look like it could be fake. Oh no, he said. Who about the PMT guys?
Oh, shit, hey, we have his number.
Shifty, or be honest, hold on, hold on, hold on. Is that real?
Cause, this exact scenario is coming.
Down my fan fiction that I wrote, Did I tell you about Carson Wentz last year? Yeah, you.
You did, and you're a piece of shit for you ruined my year and you want to read that, I mean.
You read that this is not, we see it right now. All right, okay, so what are you going to do with this information?
Cause, if this, if this breaks before the podcast comes out, it'll be an all podcast moment. So tell us what the next step is? Well, hopefully, but what is your next step? Do you then go source it somewhere else, or you just let it rip? I would let it rip when I get done.
With the podcast, Okay, I will call this gentleman. Do you want to take a break? No.
So this is why.
Cause, he says, it's coming down tonight. Here's why it's not real, because you would be on Twitter.
Right now, he can't say anything. Right now, he was getting a heads up, he said. Just a heads up.
Adam, do you swear to God? I swear to you. Look, oh, you didn't swear to God.
Swear to God What does swear to God mean? Yeah, yeah, you're not going to swear to God.
Swear to God, you're not swearing to God. Let's read the second text. That really hurt, though.
Second text Hold on, he says. Not sure I've seen anything like this. As it heated up, Dan Snyder jumped in to take it to the finish line by adding another first round pick and fully guaranteeing six years. I mean, I would love that.
He has to be viewing this as his last move in Washington before he sells. That's how it looks to me. We'll be back in touch soon, please.
Keep it quiet for now until this is all done. If this is a if this is a prank, this is the meanest thing that I will hit. You have made a very powerful enemy. You know what I'm going to do? If this is a prank? I'm bringing back my dead dog, Leroy, and he's going to beat you to every.
Scoop possible I've been out of the scoop game for a while. I have five dogs and they have Leroy.
Envy? Yeah, I bet they do, cause Leroy is a great boy, but this is, this is mean this is.
History, though, if. Schefter If this ends up happening, chef, we owe you, like, I mean you, you brought the goods, literally unfolding as we're sitting here. Yeah, okay, holy shit.
Now I'm.
Now I'm just happy, but I'm also sad because I know that this is all fake. Yeah, like, I'm, I'm a hundred percent sure this is fake, but I'm still ecstatic about just imagining it happen.
Yeah, okay, all right, let's do, let's do a palate cleanser. Um, have you stood next to Bryce Young?
Yet how tall is he?
How tall is he for real? They're saying, six foot, right? Yeah.
No, have you stood next to him? No, McShay said. He's five, 10 and a half and that he'd be scared.
To death of draft. Yeah, but listen, if we could get used to, I heard McShay say that he was like.
A smallish Patrick Mahomes Yeah, mini Mahomes is Mini Mahomes, right, and like the Steph Curry.
Of the N.FL, yeah, cause he played point guard as a kid. Steph Curry is also like, six, three.
Which is something that people forget. He was much shorter than everybody else in the league at the.
Time, right? Uh, so is he going to? what's he going to measure in at? My guess is five, 11, okay.
Get a couple of. He's hired nutritionist to put on extra weight, so maybe you come in one 95, 200, you really don't need a nutritionist for that. You can, you can hire us donuts, right?
Yeah, pretty much it's not that hard. Hey, with Big Cat on Saturday mornings, there's just 10 pounds. Sit on your couch, watch college basketball, eat donuts.
15 pounds.
I want to jump back to, uh, maybe the best quarterback in the league. We briefly glossed over him, Jameis Winston. We love Jameis dude, he's exciting.
Stop it just because Steven's in the room doesn't mean everyone catches his gullibility. You and I are now.
Lockstep? When people say that our quarterbacks are running backs, we got to fucking just we're like the Avengers. Yeah, I guess I'm happy about, but it's not real.
Yeah, we just fucking go on, we just Facebook people who say they're running backs. How happy will you be when that?
Deal is finalized, I will come. Yeah, I know it's seriously, I'm, I'm, I'm. I'm going to ejaculate, it's not going to be sexual or anything.
It's just my body, but they threw.
In an extra one, and they're guaranteeing six years now. So this is what makes me so suspicious.
Is because the way that you're presenting this right now is exactly how I laid it out in my fan fiction. That Snyder is selling the team. He would have no problem fucking over the next owner of the Washington Commanders, while also giving a fully guaranteed contract to fuck over every other owner in the NFL. And at the same time having it be his last legacy. Here's Lamar Jackson. But you're good with it, if it happens, I'm very good with it.
How could you not be good with it?
It's Lamar Jackson. So you envisioned the future and manifested it to happen. Yeah, kids use drugs.
Occasionally, now, here's the thing we have on the table. Either an all time moment of breaking news, even though it will already be broken by the time this comes out. Or the greatest like prank that has ever been pulled by a guy who I didn't think had it in him. And if that is the case?
My hat's off to you sir. I've. I've decided for the rest of this interview to believe you. Just because it's way more fun living in that world. Congratulations, thank you, yeah.
Thank you. It's, um, yeah, I'm going to believe it, because I want to believe it. yeah, it's huge.
Explains a lot about the world. Uh, Jameis Winston, though, so he's one of our favorite quarterbacks. What the hell happened last year? Our theory was that he got injured early on and then the team somehow mismanaged his injury.
They were afraid to put him back in as the season progressed because of something that was going on behind the scenes. Why did they stay with Andy Dalton? Why not Jameis last year? It's not going to be the answer you want, I think.
I think they liked Andy Dalton. I think Andy Dalton is somebody that goes where he does. When people kind of like the guy. He's a nice guy, really nice guy.
I think he's a better quarterback than people realize I do. I kind of like Andy Dalton as a quarterback. I do, too. He could quarterback my team.
Well, he's a nice guy. Do you like him in Chicago? He's a nice guy, I think we've said enough. See, that year he went to Chicago.
He should have gone to San Francisco, San Francisco was interested at that time. That would have been a good move and you would have seen that he was a better quarterback than people realize. So I just think that they started rolling with Dalton.
They kind of liked it. Never went back to your guy. Jameis Okay, I don't, I don't.
I don't like that, though, cause Jameis the league is more exciting when Jameis wins his.
Playing quarterback, he's fun. Yeah, he's fun. Uh, let's talk about a very important subject.
Sodgate isn't that amazing? I mean, you agree with me, as Meena Kimes dubbed it, turf wars, like George Tomah, calling out the NFL.
He threw everyone onto the bus.
Which makes me think he's even more responsible for what happened. I mean, that field.
That was not we should replay the Superbowl, you know? It was amazing, I think, Philadelphia.
Agrees? Yes, and I agree too. I have no dog in this. You are kind of running PR for him, though.
You're like for for the the sod father, you let him get his his explanation out that they over what you're doing, you're doing propaganda for. For his little grass field that he put out.
There, all I did was I posted to the article that ESPN posted with the guy that wrote it, That's all I did. And yet sounds like Kyrie's excuse. Yeah, exactly.
Exactly, well, you know, what was amazing to me is on SuperBowl Sunday. I'm watching the game with a few of my ESPN colleagues who played the game and know a lot more about it than I do. They picked up on the field within moments. They're all over the field. Randy Moss, Teddy Brewski, Matt Hasselbeck.
They're like, this field is horrendous. What's the deal? And the regular groundskeeper for the Cardinals? His last name is Levy. Okay, good, the guard is one of the best.
Sod groundskeepers that there is in the league. And somehow George Tomar got involved and now the field was over watered. And and he and I think, I think PFT's theory was exactly right. What Nick Sirianni's tears contributed to this?
Oh, that's true. He was leaking on the game, he wet him up. Can't cry that much on the field and expect that there's going to be no.
Effect Does the NFL see that as an issue? Or they're just like, Nah, I was good enough, well.
I can tell you this much, that grass they grow outside the stadium and they bring it in. Yeah, Las Vegas also does it that way, Las Vegas is the side of the Superbowl next year. I guarantee you that this is not going to be repeated next year.
And they're going to make sure that that grass is not over watered, that no head coaches are allowed to cry. The national anthem before is going to be a memo passed. They may vote on that at the owner's meetings this year. Just have a terrible national anthem. Have Fergie come out, yeah.
Something that's upbeat and not as patriotic and as emotional as the version this year. And no crying. Yeah, no crying, it was a great week for.
The Superbowl I heard you had a fantastic week leading up to the game. Let me tell you something.
This was an unbelievable story. So we finished. I finished doing the six o'clock Sports center one night. Now. I never, never go out super week, like my wife has never seen me drunk to this.
She's a little annoyed by the whole thing. Yeah, so I get a text right after the six o'clock sports center from PFT's friend Diana and Jeff Darlington. They're at a bar that's like two storefronts down from the set. They said, Come on by here.
I'm like, Okay, so we go there. One of my college buddies came by. Four of us were sitting around there for two hours, two hours that you would never expect to have. Totally unplanned, totally spontaneous. We're in old town.
It's called friendship. Yep, okay, I don't know what that is. What a novel concept to break out of my little shell into this world.
That's known as friendship. Wow, you go to a bar and have fun. I didn't know that this thing happens in life. Like to me, it's all darkness, like Aaron Rodgers, but there was light.
We had the upstairs, we're drinking. Did you guys laugh? We had a great time, but here's the great part, here's the great part.
So afterwards, we had to go to my favorite Houston's. I love Houston's. And there's a lot of traffic, can't get Ubers. So they had these golf cart rides that you could take wherever you want. Three rows.
Jeff Darlington gets in the back row, me and Diana Rossini get in the middle row, and the driver gets in the front row. We start driving down the main street out of Old town, and this woman in a truck pulls up next to our golf cart and she points at Jeff Darlington. And she says, you. He said, me, he said, Yeah.
480-321-1968.
What? And she said, That's my number, why don't you come back with me tonight?
Jeff's like, I'm married, and she's like, That's your loss. She turns and points to our row to Diana and says, you 480-321-1968, and Diana got embarrassed. Turns around, No, no, I'm married.
No, no, no, no, no, thank you Ma'am. I'm not interested. She rolls up her window and says, You're lost and drives off, Oh, no.
How do you think? I felt that everybody in that golf cart except me got propositioned, yeah?
So it was a great night while we were out drinking at the bar. And then, well, I'm going to tell you, I mean, Jeff's Jeff.
I might live stream it. Actually. Jeff is a handsome guy, Diana's a beautiful woman. The woman didn't give two craps.
We'll work our way up there, that's how I know.
Night one, you go out and you learn how to have drinks socially with people, then night two.
We'll, we'll work on the one night stand, yeah.
But Jeff and Diana both got propositioned and hit on. That's an amazing story. And I didn't, and that's the way it goes, you're never going.
To go out with friends again, that's how it ends up. You're like, This is why I don't go outside.
You go with friends that make you feel good, right? They made me feel bad, yeah, bad about myself.
Yeah, um, all right, can we talk? Yes, it was. It was a very fun shoot and I look forward.
To your live stream later Yeah, it's awesome, your live stream, yeah.
If you build it, I will.
Come, um, can we talk about the number one pick real quick? Absolutely, I just have a couple questions.
One is, Uh, your tweet that was like announcing the Bears are officially okay to trade this. That was a scheduled tweet, wasn't it? It happened exactly at 7. No, you scheduled that.
No, because I posted something right before that. Jalen Carter before he had trouble. No, I. I've never scheduled the two of my life ever. I don't even know how to do it, okay.
Don't even know how.
To do it okay, truly all right. Well, you should.
Let us schedule the Lamar Jackson news for later.
Night We're going to have to start right as soon as this ends, we are writing up, Okay, all right.
Closing in on finalizing it, why don't you tell me when? when are you going to be able to break?
This i I you see the text, imagine this is like, uh, the plot to like speed in uh, NFL circles.
We get Adam Schefter's login.
It's now looking like it'll get agreed to tonight. Okay, agree.
To it can't process it. I got to put a future in on the commanders. No, you can't do that.
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Illegal? Okay, it's now looking like it'll get agreed to tonight. Keep you posted when it's about to be finalized. Just want you to be ready.
Yeah, I won't put a future in because I don't want you to feel like we're using you for your information. That would be bad.
That would be inside information.
Listen.
If you, if sarcastically real, you should let us log into your Twitter account and schedule a tweet at 7.
And it's like, he has to get the news, I don't know what time it's going to be.
Before the tweet goes off, Yeah, you know, what'd be awesome is if this whole thing was a ruse and we scheduled that tweet. And then you had to pull strings behind the scenes to make to make it actually happen. Yeah, to be right.
Yes, have you ever influenced a trade? influence to trade?
Yeah, have you ever? You know you're? You're always hearing all these things, so I don't know.
How I would have influenced one. Yeah, you don't ever pull. Like the parent trap thing where you call up the jets and you're like, Hey, I hear Aaron Rogers really likes you call up Aaron Rogers. Hey, I hear the jets really like you, that sort of thing.
Matchmaker Aaron has returned my calls.
Yeah, he called you out. what'd you think about that? He called you out big time. He's like, no shit about me.
So you, that's just how it goes. It's fine, okay, it is what it is. He's a bad guy.
Sorry, it's the number one pick. What are the bears going to get for it?
Well, you know what? The great part is, you could trade, if you wanted, maybe to two and then go from two to four and four to six. But what I think, I think you want to be in the range where you are assured of getting. Either. Will Anderson and I would have said Jalen Carter, and I still think Jalen Carter. But let's see what happens legally now with this pending situation. Tragic situation that killed two people in Georgia on January 15th.
So you want to leave yourself in a position, if you're the bears, to somehow come with one of those blue chip players. If you can. And still get a bevy of dry to me, what do you think they get if they go one to four?
Do they get first round or next year? Yeah, second round this year. Hold on, first of all.
The Niners went from 12 to three and gave up three ones. So to go from one to four, it's a minimum of two ones. And then some, and then some, it's a lot. This is an unbelievable windfall for them. That the Houston Texans allowed Davis Mills and Brandon Cooks to play. Brandon Cooks had over a hundred yards of receptions.
What are you doing? I know Lovie Smith see the players, they're always going to play to win because they're trying to prove themselves in the contracts always. But I mean, somebody should have stepped in and said, What are we doing here? We're going to sit this guy.
We're going to sit that guy. I know you're going to try to win and I wish you the best, but we're not going to try to win. It was the best day of my year. Oh my god, yeah.
It was unbelievable to watch that, that fourth down completion.
Yeah, was it like fourth and 11 made Max go bowl? It was incredible.
Yeah, he had to get a bowl for like, eight hours and eat 14 hot dogs because of that, so it was.
Great, you know what? It reminded me of it, reminded me of the jets going into Los Angeles a couple of years ago. When they were, they hadn't won a game yet, they were in the number one spot to be able to take Trevor Lawrence.
They beat the Rams and fell out of the number one slot. They won two games down the stretch, but that was the one that kind of got him rolling and then Jacksonville jumped them. But the Jets will always have that big win in L.A. to look back on.
Yeah, the sliding doors are insane, so, um, sliding doors, I mean, it's nuts to think about.
How about how about? The Philadelphia Eagles last year tried to sign Alan Robinson during free agency. They thought they had a deal done. It fell apart. He goes to Los Angeles and they're stuck trading for A..J. Brown.
Pretty good, and Alan Robinson is in L.A. and I think the Rams feel about having Alan Robinson under contract now. $15 million guaranteed this year.
Is Justin Fields definitely going to be the Bear starter next year?
I expect him to be the starter. I don't know why that would be different.
Well, I threw out the theory and I don't want this to happen. But could potentially. Is there any smoke around the Bears? Potentially trading both the One and Justin Fields and getting all the draft picks?
Well, I would argue the other way. If you're the Bears, you just stay in your spot and take a one. But you know, quarterbacks are the most valuable commodities in all of sports. And you remember, I think it was Jimmy Johnson. They had Troy Aikman and they used their first pick in the supplemental draft on the Miami quarterback, Steve Walsh.
And then eventually, they traded Steve Walsh, I believe, to Minnesota. And so quarterbacks are something that are currency, so while we're talking about trading that pick for multiple ones and other draft goodies. You could take a quarterback and if he is really good, you could look at both quarterbacks and trade one of the quarterbacks for a lot. Also, it's just another way. Do I think that's going to happen?
No.
No, I want Justin Fields to be the Bears quarterback, I just don't know. I think the Bears should keep everything open to try to maximize all of this. Because it is a once in a lifetime situation to have the number one pick and also think you have your franchise quarterback at the same time.
You would hope, and you would think that they will never be in this position ever again.
No, they probably will, that's, that's, that's not. Are the bears going to move to Arlington Heights?
That sounds like it's definitely happening.
Okay, yeah, I mean, I think you're going to move to Arlington Heights? I will not. But listen, if they want to build us a fun factory out there, we'll go do, we'll do stuff out there.
They should do that when they're building the stadium.
I don't think the bears would do that for us, but I it will happen, right, like it's going to happen, because I'm I'm thinking it's expected to. Okay, all right, good.
Thank you.
And if the stadium is like everything they play in a fucking Rinky, dink so. It is beautiful by the lake, but.
It's it's not a good facility. It's a beautiful state like, beautiful by the lake. Oh, yeah, yeah.
But the state is kind of weird, it's a small stadium in the NFL. The best part about social?
Field is the the overhead shots on the blimp when they show like, here's where it's being played.
It looks beautiful, right? And you see Lincoln Park. It's hard to get out Lincoln Park or Washington Park.
No, there's Grant Park, Grant Park, Grant Park, yeah, yeah, and the old stadium that they played in that that was that was beautiful looking.
Which one? Oh yeah, before they renovated it, yeah, they basically put a spaceship.
On top of Soldier Field, that's exactly right, Soldier Field in its initial construct, right? I thought it was it was kind of looked like a Roman Coliseum kind of thing.
But it's time to modernize. It's like, you can't, you can't have the smallest stadium in the NFL, especially if the team gets sold at some point in the future.
I remember being in graduate school and going to games at Soldier Field, seeing Barry Sanders trample, Wait, where'd you go to graduate school?
Northwestern Oh, crazy, you know? They lost their accreditation. Yes, so no longer an actual.
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Who would you say is more influential on the Northwestern community? You are, Darren Ravel.
Darren Ravel Yeah.
So speaking of college, your coach is going to just keep doing this every year, huh? Jim Harbaugh?
Look, I think people will approach him, but I think after a while.
He'll always be a desirable guy because he's a great coach. But I think at some point, NFL teams say people went there and they don't, and they just move on to the next guy. That's that's my guess. So I think for the benefit of the Michigan football program. I think he's going to be at Michigan for a while. I think he's shown that he loves the school, loves the players.
Like even this year, ultimately, he couldn't pull himself away from it, and there were people who thought he might, it just didn't happen. And if he didn't do it last year in Minnesota, he didn't do it this year in Denver, why is he going to do it next year for Team X, right?
And is that team next year going to be more or less likely, after these two years to go after him? If he wins a national championship, he's he's going to be really hot. He's a great coach and he'll always be attractive. But I think the more of these, the more time that goes by.
Yeah, yeah, that makes sense. He, he half-assed the whole flirting.
With the N.FL process this year, I think he likes having the leverage, he likes getting more money. But he did what? Like a Zoom interview for the for the Broncos, yeah.
So did he do one in person as well? Yeah, oh, I didn't know that. I thought it was all done like remotely, that was close.
So the Broncos end up going with Sean Payton. Sean Payton is going to come in and fix Russell Wilson. Is Russell Wilson fixable? I think Sean Payton thinks he is, you know, here's the thing.
These two guys have really liked and respected each other for a while, and, you know, they've wanted to be like. Sean Payton was the guy. No matter how many other candidates Denver went through that Russell Wilson was praying for, right? He that was the guy he wanted. It would it would have been the guy that he would have handpicked at the beginning of the process.
And Sean Payton has always liked and respected Russell Wilson's game. And look, here's the deal. Russell's got a lot riding on the year, right? So if anybody's going to get it out of him, it's going to be Sean Payton. And if Sean Payton can do it, then great.
He gets Russell back to where he was, and if not, then Russell's time in Denver probably won't be very long. Yeah.
Yeah, and it'd be crazy if that, if it ends that quickly and his quarterback coach is.
Going to be Davis Webb that that, to me, is the most bizarre part of this entire story.
You know, you know, it's interesting. Last year, Buffalo wanted Davis Webb to be its quarterback coach, and people have been touting this guy as a coach to be in training for a while now. He wound up going to the Giants to back up. Daniel Jones started a game turned out to be a swan song as a player.
And all of a sudden, he goes into Denver, meets with Sean Payton. I don't know that Sean Payton was thinking that he was going to hire this guy, like there was no real connection. There were other people that had worked with Davis Webb, had trained with Davis Webb, knew what kind of guy he was. Sean Payton met him that one day. I believe it was a Friday, and was like, I'm hiring this guy.
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