Good eating everybody. I welcome to another edition of fire Up. Round two
of our doubleheader began with an impressive episode of Pundit Expundt. We always keep
our shows probably over an hour because there's so many opinions that you couldn't go
out there and hit ping pong balls against the wall fast enough the way they
were bouncing these opinions. But it was a great show. Joined my colleagues
Jacob Christmer and Denzil Snips. These guys are great. But now I'll tell
you what. You have another foursome here, and a really good one.
It's called our Thursday Night foursome. Ralph Williams back in the house after a
week off, although the show was in good hands when we brought to our
army on last week. I'll welcome back. Thank you. I appreciate that
you're welcome, of course. Jeremy Ball, great time last week. Well
I'm glad No, No, I was at the run She is here a
fundraiser last week. That's where I was at. I got to meet Ryan
for a second time and it was sponsored by one of my sponsors for all
my show's draft for one two Yeah, which is actually we work well with
them on Saturday's show. And I should mention the sport order Jeremy is draft
our show. There was at the Eternal Bum podcast external bump. Yeah,
I knew it was. It was a bum X fell for it is what
its sports and I know it's a heck of a show. And the time
from nine thirties is really good. So that's fine. Thirty minutes. Show
goes faster than I can talk. I don't know, it doesn't probably care.
Let you be the judge. Just go out there and do that.
We gotta Denzil snipes, Uncle Scotty and Uncle George. Yeah, we got
what we Patty cry We got uncles into broadcasting business. I'm not gonna get
into the selling over there. George, it all too well. What's up?
And of course we got smoked in Jeremy Irregular on this podcast. This
guy's a very busy man. Would keep him busy at the Tribune and he
gets around. He's gonna be working on some new endeavors to compliment the old
ones. And I'm counting on Jeremy ball right before he has an opportunity to
really say something. Is to be a real big player on Fire Up Wisconsin,
that's a show that I really am counting on him to do. And
more importantly, he's outstanding a professor in the pupil. So he does a
good stop job. So all right, Jeremy, take it away. So
are we gonna be talking a lot about cheese? You know what they call
it? Broadcasting business? Jeremy, Yeah, I believe so diversity. No,
we call it TBD to be determined. Oh okay, I see that.
That's where you got a lot to learn, Barrock, it does okay,
all right, all right, back to Denzel Stive. We gotta keep
this chat one, Adam twelve down down Michigan respond going three, I don't
will you go? And lasting not least my tag team partner for the batter
Part up three, George General electric I Gorn Oh, I'm back, I'm
back, I'm back round two. There you go. All right, Well,
I got some great topics, a couple of parting shots. Let's get
to it right away, all right, Question number one, I'm gonna go
right to left in terms of how we move this bad boy along, and
Ralph Williams, you are on the clock. Okay, Well, Baker Mayfield
take advantage of his freshman in Tampa Bay. I think Baker Mayfield's got a
new team, a new atmosphere, a new offensive coordinator. And I think
Baker Mayfield's gonna take the ball and he's gonna run with it. And I
think he's gonna do a pretty decent show for Tampa Bay if he doesn't.
Ye have Kyle Trash right there. Okay, Well, you know, I
gotta go to the chat room before Jeremy's gonna have to wait another few seconds,
all right, George, Apparently he liked the way you want to It
sounds like you know what it sounds like, George. Here, here's what
this got written all over it. You struck accord with these guys. You
really really did the normal mellow George corn All, the second rapped up and
it took m l in soccer to wake him out and get him fired up.
There, Okay, if fire is super up, George again, look
at this, George, I have a feeling that Denzil Snipes is trying to
give you some tips how to handle him. Fun It's funny. I know
I'm looking for a president at my fan club. I don't know if Denzel
was available, never know, I'm Mike, all right, Jeremy take a
stab at Baker Mayfield. The only thing I worry about the reason why he
had success with the Rams in those five games that he was able to start
when they signed him, is that Todd mcvay's system is very close to that
Shanahan system that they run in Cleveland that he left. Is he gonna be
able to take that grasp or is he gonna look like he did in the
first few practices that I watched on YouTube where they were doing the music in
the background while him and Kyle trash through at the ground instead of the receivers.
Okay, all right, George. By the way, before I go
to Georgia, Mayfield goes through more coaches, and I was getting, no
wonder what that meaning. Mayfield goes from more coaches than most people go through
underwear in a week. Anybody else, all right? Anybody else on a
fill in the blank? You got a better one in that, Ralph?
Well, No, I mean, you know, he does go through a
lot of coaches. He's been through on some teams. But we'll see what
happens. This new offensive coordinator for Tampa that has come from Seattle's going to
working with quarterbacks and We're gonna find out if his running the football system is
gonna work. They have to run the football this year in order to succeed,
and I think if he just manages the game, I think he'll be
a decent quarterback. George, you want to answer that question, I'm staying
away from that. Well, you know, you know, let's be honest
here. It's not all Mainfield's fault. They go through a lot of coaches,
okay, And this is something that we've talked about before on other shows.
When you got to keep going through a new quarterbacks coach or a new
offensive coordinator or this or that, obviously it takes a toll. No,
I'm not trying to make excuses for Mayfield, okay, because like you said,
Jeremy, I mean, he was really good for the Rams when he
stepped in. He did a nice job when Stafford was heard out there.
But the bottom line is, hey, he doesn't have anybody but himself.
He's got to do it now on his own, so to speak. In
Tampa, Okay, there's no Tom Brady around anymore. They need a first
class quarterback if they're going to contend. And I know that the vision is
a little bit weaker, but still, I mean, he's got a good
tools. He's got a lot of good tools. I mean, I like
the things that he brings to the table. But again, you know,
let's not forget that when you bring these guys in and they got to go
through different playbooks and different coordinators, it does take a toll. That being
said, Hey, okay, so give him a couple of games to get
things together. I did not see that what you mentioned Jeremy about throwing throwing
passes in the dirt or the ground. That's not a good sign. But
hopefully it wasn't a sign that doesn't have it doesn't have anything left anymore.
The tag. Yeah. The only I'll say about Mayfield, he could say
Mulligan. As far as I'm concerned for the Cleveland Browns, they went through
a lot of coaches being traded over to Carolina and I don't think get much
of a chance there either, and to go to LA for a little brief,
I think he could have been their apparent Matthew Stafford. Had he has
stayed that I wanted to play now, so I really am pulling for him.
All he has to do is stay off and not worry about commercials and
focusing on the playbook. If he does that, he's me fine, all
right, I gotta go through these comments in the chat room and we'll catch
up there. I think everybody feels comfortable with it, that your thoughts are
with may feel correct everybody, Okay, So Denzil Nice, I'm running for
press. There you go. George reach out to me better than what we
have, So there you go. Yeah, yeah, there we go.
I think George's club. Yeah, America, you've been gaining run for America.
I think any one of us here could do better than what we've got
in the White House. Yeah, no comment, I'm laving that one.
I don't hey, what you say, what can be held against you in
the court of your public opinion. But I'm the I'm the guy running this
platform, so I don't want to nobody coming at me. I don't want
people upset with me because I said I wouldn't supposed to say for you.
Whatever you do, you know you're doing it for you. You're doing nothing
for me with that. I am staying away. I'm taking a bet,
all right. You know, I don't know. Nice, Try Jeremy hat
stays on and I'll take the fifth end of the story. Okay, all
right, let's keep going here. This has part and become a blast already.
So all right, Denzil may Mayfield still has weapons. If you canna
be twenty Mayfield, Tampa can won the division because the division is still bad.
Oh that's really true. We're probably gonna get to that in a little
while, so we'll sit on that one now. I think Mayfield will be
the Cleveland Mayfield. I guess it means well. Then again, I think
Pensman is from Pittsburgh too, so I can understand why he might make a
comment on there. Guy, Yeah, you know what, he like.
You and Pensman get along really good. But he's big on Twitter. So
Ralph, when you start getting more involved with Twitter, you'll you'll find out
who the pens Man is. And he's gonna tell you now when you get
on here. He wants you to subscribe to his YouTube channel, and I'm
gonna make sure it's a requirement to keep you there. You go. There's
a little throwing your bone here from your brother out in South Florida. Okay,
so if that said, okay, let's keep it rolling, all right,
here we go. Mayfield does good in Tampa when he plays the Lions.
All Right, you know what, I'm not touching a lot of this,
all right. I agree with George c Alex Smith, you know what,
there you go, get it. And Denzel twenty twenty four futiful stuff.
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popping number two. According to Yeah Who's Sports ESPN, analysts, John
McEnroe to miss the US Open coverage after testing positive for COVID nineteen. There's
nothing to laugh about with this, folks. COVID nineteen, Beck, We
don't take it seriously. A lot of us could have some problems, even
though we're probably a lot more heavily vaccinated. All right, Ralph, go
ahead, Yes, when we're on parting shots you start, we got we're
not letting you off that fast. So we're on topic number two, okay,
So I'll repeat it back to you just so everybody can comment as well.
According to Yah who sports ESPN analysts, John McEnroe to miss the US
Open coverage after testing positive for COVID nineteen tough for Johnny mac all right,
Ralph, Yeah, that's that's said that John macro has COVID. Everybody has
to be serious about this, especially in a sports world, you know,
around people and everything else. You need to get your shots. That's exactly
what happened. I don't blame the ten of spokes. We're doing this too
John McEnroe at all, you know, for testing positive for COVID and you
know, not being able to be involved in any kind of tennis matches or
whatever. Okay, Oh, Jeremy, it's a shame in COVID nineteen has
never gone away yet You're just hearing about less cases because I heard the new
strain is weaker, but it's more communicable. But it's still going to affect
the older crowd the way it did before. So therefore, if you think
you're sick, stay home, okay or not. George, Yeah, it's
gonna be tough to miss McEnroe. I mean, that guy's been an institution
on television ever since he hung up his tennis shoes. And I'll tell you
what. I look forward to his coverage of the US Open, and I
look forward to his commentaries every year. He's a really good analyst. He's
really gotten better, I think too, over the years. So he's doing
the right thing, and so is the USTA. I mean, they don't
want him around. He should not be around other athletes and other people because
of the fact that it is possible for him to give give it to somebody
else. So as hard as it is, this is like the Super Bowl
for Mac. I'm sure he's he's not very happy about this. I know
that because this is the biggie, this is the Biggie the United States is
greatest tournament in tennis is this tournament at the Arthur Ashe Stadium and Flushing Meadows.
So all I want to say is good luck and get healthy, John
Mac and we'll see you again next time. And they I'll say about COVID
nineteen, it took the closest person in my life, my angiity strolls.
So you know, I don't think to this day i've really fully ever gotten
over her passing way too soon COVID nineteen and when I was up and mentioned
when my mom was dying, think about my wife and I had to stay
in hot till for two and a half weeks taking leftover. So it's tough.
So the only thing I'll say is Johnny Mack, hope you get back
there next year. I know it's probably hard for you to miss these tournaments.
You've certainly established yourself after your playing career as a dynamite announcer. They'll
get will soon. John, You're being missed, but certainly not being by
no means you know we're thinking about you. All right onwards we go Max
Sure's are booed by Mats and in return to New York anybody's surprised at this
one, all right, Ralph, Oh yeah, I'm not surprised at all
about that. And the end of the Mets have been sort of average this
year, but they they're stepping it up. I think they're gonna they may
do better as the season rules to the closure Buck Show, Walter has that
he's always been a good manager, but you know, he needs some improvement.
They're a little bit to get where he needs to be. Jeremy,
it doesn't really surprise anybody that the New York City fans boo anybody when they
come back when they're with another team. I think they boo their own moment
they signed with another team. I mean, they're so salty. You know,
they hardly ever talked to each other walking down the street unless they are
together. You can have five people walk past each other and nobody lifts an
arm to say hi. Granted because the sidewatchers so back because you can't drive
downtown. That's interesting, all right, George, Well, this is a
really interesting situation because the way I understood it, Max Scherzer told the team
and wanted to know, from team ownership, where is your commitment to winning
this title? This year. He was questioning their desire and their moves prior
to the trading deadline. So if I'm a Mets fan, you shouldn't be
booing him. You should be cheering what he did. He standing up for
Prince of all, he stood up for your team and stood up against that
owner, mister spendthrift out there, and yeah, thank you cold and you
know, so it's crazy, but it goes back to what Jeremy said.
I mean, anybody that comes back to that city after leaving it will be
booed. But I don't. I don't like this one because, like I
said, he smelled a dirty rat ureser and that's why he opened his mouth
and said, Hey, if you're not committed, then I'm out of here
too. So justin Verlander left and he left, and the whole bottom fell
out. Sure, Ralph, they might play a little bit better or win
a few more games the rest of the year, but they're not going anywhere.
And obviously that's that's a terrible, terrible black mark on Cohen's face.
Yeah, you know, the reality is we don't know that New York Mets
were spending money like there was no end to it, and all of a
sudden they find themselves near the bottom of the division. I mean, but
you know what, guys, I always say this about when when team spent
a lot of money players that doesn't necessarily guarantee them to go to the World
Series. These guys could get hurt and a lot of other things could happen.
Look at the Dodgers. The Dodgers had all these players last year and
they blew it. They laid an egg, So I mean it could happen.
Well, look a look at all those great Yeah I'm sorry, Scott,
but look at all those great Atlanta teams too. Bobby Cox he won
one World Series one. He may have won a dozen Pennants or whatever division
titles and all that. But the Braves are another one that comes to mind
because they laid an egg and never got more than one championship. Under Bobby
Cox, they got one championship. I'd be more harder on if they got
zero for eleven instead of one for eleven. So getting the rain certainly takes
a little bit of heat off, for sure. But remember winning about baseball
carry another story. One hundred and sixty two games, You're gonna have injuries,
You're gonna have a lot more players to use during the course of that
period, right, and let's say his reality. I don't think everybody thought
that the New York Mets were going to be great with Justin Verlander and Max
Scherzer at the helm. As it turns out, they're playing in the state
of Texas. And you also have to remember too that no state income tax
carry on off of feet off dependent. Don't forget the suspensions as well.
I got to have a view of those two. So luck show Walter can
only do so much at some point or another. The players have to play
to their capability. So you know what I deal with mentor New Yorkers down
here, I don't. They don't bother me, I really don't. I
just listen what they have to do. That they are who we are.
People in the Midwest are who they are and accept them forward there you take
opinions, trust them the way we see fed. So I don't think anybody
expected the mess. I think a lot of people expected the Mess to be
ready for postseason play, not what we experience in twenty three Onwards, we
go to the final topic of the night before we go to a partying shot
NFC Division winners, our predictions. All right, you know what we're going
to start off with Ralph the Williams. I think it's gonna be the forty
nine Ers. They have a good team. You know, Shanahan's gonna have
his team ready this year, and they have rock perty back, so their
defense is good. It's either gonna I think it's gonna be the forty nine
Ers. I'm talking about eats divisions. See, you're not getting out of
it with one division, Pale I got you, or New York and Giants.
I would think also in the week division, it's probably gonna be Tampa
Bay unless Carolina sneaks in there with Frank Raich. We'll see, Okay,
keep going, Uh let me see, I'm trying to think of who the
other division is. I'm sorry about this. Mind n all eight divisions?
Oh AFC. Well, I think the FC North. I think the Steelers
might have a chance. The Bengals. I will see what Joe Burrow does.
Their offensive line is bad again in Cleveland. I don't even care about
Cleveland. I think the Fanski's on eggshells this year. And Baltimore, Uh,
let's see what happens if if they have any injuries, if they you
know, if they sustain a lot of injuries, I think they're gonna go
down. But I think the Steelers might have a chance this year. I'm
looking at you know, for them twelve and five keep going, and then
in the AFC South, I think the I think Kansas City, you know,
we'll get it again, and Tennessee See might be in there and the
other AFC division there. I believe Tennessee could possibly stroll in there. They've
improved their defense and we'll see what their offense does. And I also forgot
two guys on the NFC to mention the Eagles stables have a chance as well.
We'll see what they do. Dallas don't look too bad either. We'll
see what happens there. With the NFC, I'm sorry to go back,
but as far as the AFC goes, I think that, you know,
we could see Kansas City as far as that as that division goes, Tennessee
and UH, and then the Steelers are for the AFC North and then UH.
I think Miami might even have a little bit of a chance, depending
on if they don't blow it in the playoff game with one point in a
bad kick. So we'll see what happens, Jacksonville has a chance to Okay,
so Jeremy, he's he's able to get all the divisions. Then he
skipped one division and they have that team that I got hanging behind me in
it. Yeah right, that's yeah, yeah, you know what, you
know what, Jeremy, Detroit might do pretty good this year with Dan Campbell,
he's stock about some talent. I think they're gonna do pretty good.
He got rid of that bump Any Smell, who's a bump. He got
rid of him. He was a bumb here and he's a bump there.
They got Cam Sutton. Cam Sutton's a good corner. He was, he
was good with the Steelers. I think Dan Campbell might might have a shot.
We'll see what Detroit does this year. Really believe that to be the
case. Minnesota, We'll see what Minnesota does. You know, they were
in the playoffs last year and they blew it. We'll see what happens with
Kevin McDonald that team up here. All right, I'm gonna go to the
chat room. Will click. Patty grinds my hot takes emces for New York
Chets and Philadelphia failed a win the division. Okay, Patty New York Jets
might not do too bad this year. They got Aaron Rodgers, you know,
got him some receivers in a running game. They got Devin Cook,
they got Hizzy a band of Canada. We'll see. Let's go to Pensman
George read it. Detroit NFC North Championship Giants, NFC East, and Atlanta
NFC Atlanta. Okay, okay, all right, it's okay. These opinions
are great. All right. I think I think we got Ralph all covered,
right, Jeremy, Yep, alright, Sorry, I was a little
tugging. Yep. Don't worry about it, Ralph Lavan. Jeremy, Well,
I have it coming down to possibly be in a tie and going to
the coin flip in the NFC West with it being Seattle and San Francisco at
the top. I don't see the Rams getting back to greatness yet. They've
got too many question marks on their offense as well as their defense. Then
you got the Cardinals, which I think they're fighting for the Caleb Williams draft
pick, and they're fighting with the team that they got the draft pick from
the Texans, So I think they end up with Caleb Williams and Marvin Harrison.
That being said, you've got the NFC North. Minnesota lost a lot
on that defense, a lot of leaders and a lot of Pro bowlers,
and I don't know if they did enough to supplement that with what they got
in the draft and free agency. And then you got Detroit, of course,
who upgraded their worst part of their defense, which was their secondary.
When you're number one rated PFF corner is Will Harris, you've got issues.
But Chicago, they're the most upgraded team in the North, but they also
were the bottom dweller last year. Will they make a rise to nine wins
like Detroit did from their three thirteen in one year? I don't know.
There's too many question marks. Did Justin Fields learn how to read a defense
in an offseason? Who knows? But and then Green Bay, we don't
know what you have in Jordan's Love. Yes, he looked good in preseason
against twos and threes, but we don't know what he's gonna look like against
NFL starting talent. So they're gonna have to be a very run heavy team.
I got the Lions win in the North. In the East, I
think it's coming down to Eagles or Dallas. I don't know who's gonna be
one and who's gonna be two. In the South, I think it's Carolina
because they've got a much improved defense and they I think they personally improved over
Jamis Winston by getting Derek Carr. I mean, you had the thirty th
the first thirty thirty quarterback in history, thirty touchdowns and thirty interceptions as your
starter. Yes, but anyways, Uh, okay, that's the af C.
Let's start with the West Kansas City until someone had thrown them. In
the North, I have a two horse race between the Bengals and Steelers because
I can't trust that the Ravens stay healthy. In the South, I think
it's Jacksonville again because they improved and they looked very much improved in that preseason
game. Their depths beat our depth. Okay, nope. And what was
the other one I gotta do yet? AFC East? Oh yeah, I
think that's a two horse race between the Jets and Bills, with the Finns
possibly being second place. Whoever loses between those two is going to be behind
the Fins as long as TWA stays healthy. Okay, fair enough, all
right, They're all set, Okay, George, go ahead. Well,
the nfcast obvious that I'm going with the Eagles. I mean, they were
the class of the division last year and the conference. So I'm taking Philadelphia
again in the East. In the North for all the same reasons that Jeremy
and Ralph touched on. I looked for a drop of the Vikings they lost
instead of gaining gaining extra strength, they lost their strength. And Detroit just
finished with a bang as we know last year, just barely missing out Seattle
grabbing that last wild card spot. So I'm gonna go with the Lions to
win the North. In the South, I'm gonna I'm gonna go with New
Orleans. I mean it's gonna be a tight race. I mean, Jeremy,
You're right about Carolina. They got some good stuff going there and Atlanta,
but I'm gonna go with New Orleans as my favorite in the South.
Over in the West, U s. Stafford and the Rams. It could
have another long season. Clearly, Seattle and San Francisco to me are the
top picks out West. I'm gonna go with Seattle. I'm gonna say that
the Seahawks are going to take that division this year and swinging over to the
AFC. Well, the big news obviously is Aaron Rodgers going to the Jets
and then being on HBO. But all that is, you know, in
check right now, because they still got a dethroned Buffalo. And I'm still
gonna say Buffalo's got it until I see otherwives from Miami or the Jets contending
with that new England. No way, I don't think. In the North,
I'm gonna go with Cincinnati over Baltimore, Cleveland and Pittsburgh. I'll be
in the second tier there. I'm gonna go with I like what I see
out of the Bengals. Again. In the AFC South, I can't go
against Jacksonville. What a great job they've done. They put together a great,
great offense and and like Jeremy said, they showed some depth when they
played the Lions in the preseason. And they're also coming off of a fantastic
finished last year at Jacksonville and they won that playoff game. And out in
the West, the AFC West, well, I got to give it to
Patrick Mahomes and the Chiefs. They're the Super Bowl defending champions and until somebody
can take that title away from them, they deserve to be the favorites in
the AFC West. So that's what I got, Scott, all right,
I'm gonna start out in the AFC AFC East. Gotta go Buffalo. I
really do believe the Buffalo is way better than anybody else. You know,
Let's see how Aaron Rodgers handles and boozing New York when things go badly.
We're got so well for Max Scherzer, so uplow easily, you know what,
George, I have a feeling about Cincinnati. I don't know why.
Joe Burrow is gonna be ready for opening Day, and they've got some pretty
good offensive complimentary pieces Jamar Chase and Joe makes them. So I'm going to
ride you there with Cincinnati South. I have to go with the Jacksonville Jaguars.
Doug Peterson's a heck of a coach. He's such a heck of a
coach. It's too bad that he had to cut his son, you know,
made one of the final customers. I don't think it's going to affect
their Thanksgiving dinner. I think Daddy will find a role from somewhere which is
not playing football this year, unless he needs them later. But I gotta
go Jacksonville West. That's the easiest one of the group. Tory Harmon could
be in Kansas City by the end of the year. The guy was out
last week when with to the Kansas City Chiefs, I should point out a
really good following with you Chiefs fans out there, so keep supporting us.
We appreciate you. But I definitely like the Chiefs to the NFC East.
You know what I'm not going with against Philadelphia? Oh way, Yes,
they lost to coordinators, it doesn't matter, and then lose a head coach
and they still have a heck of a quarterback. Until anybody goes out there
and on seats the Eagles, I am not going against them. I'm going
to go with the Lions definitely. In the NFC North, have to want
to believe that they made some upgrades. I think a lot of the draft
choices that most people thought weren't any good are going to surprise a lot of
people, and a lot of draft prognosticators are going to be eating crow Now
Green Bay, we'll see what happened with Jordan Love. At least he won't
have to be over Aaron Rodgers shadow. You know, I don't know why
I'm going to New Orleans as well for some reason or another. Dennis Allen
was seven in Ton last year and brings in Derek Carr. And sometimes there's
a feeling when coaches get a second opportunity that they make the best of it,
and I have a fearing that then as Allen will be one of those
guys that does it in the West. I want to say San Francisco,
I really do, but I'm not comfortable with it. So I'm going to
go with Seattle as well, if for no other reason. I like the
job Pete Carroll's doing, and they always finds Diamond and Roughs over in the
drafts. So there you have it from all four of us. If you're
listening and you didn't get it the first time, feel free to read listen
to the show. You'll get it, And then we'd like to have our
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it personally, because I'd like to see how many people in the NFL ever
get it right anyways, and see what their early Super Bowl excitement turns out
when it comes down to the following calendar. Yeah, beautiful stuff. All
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go to this point in the broadcast where we're gonna have a parting shot.
George and I have decided to defer against them, so we're gonna do is.
We're gonna let Jeremy have his parting shot first. Okay, kudos to
Brad Holmes for trading away and getting draft capital for TJ Hocketts and who just
reset the tight end market as the highest paid tight end in the NFL at
seventeen point one million dollars per year with sixty two percent of his salary fully
guaranteed over a four year span. I mean, good for TJ that he
got paid, but if he'd have been exactly what Detroit drafted him for,
guess what he'd got that money here. But the fact that he's bottom five
blocking tech talent and top ten receiving talent as a tight end makes him about
a fifteen to twenty tier tight end in the league as a starter. And
bear in mind University of Iowa football, they produced tight ends. I think
they're considered a tight end factory as well. So I like that one,
Jeremy. All right, Ralph, you're parting shot my parting shot is I'm
glad that some of these guys who played for the Steelers are on other teams
and get cut. Party Burns has got cut again. Now he's from Seattle.
And then Benny Smell. I call him Smell because he stinks got cut
by the Detroit Lions, and you know so. And Devin Bush barely made
Seattle's team. The only reason he made it was because one of their linebackers
got hurt and they had to move him in there. He was about to
get cut. So I'm glad that some of these teams are finally seeing the
Steeler saw and these guys, and it was sad that that we had to
put up with them. Out of the three of them, two of them
were number one draft picks. Arty Burns was a number one draftick and so
was Devin Bush. And the other one of them produced. Neither did Bense
Now, so I'm glad they're all gone. And I'm glad, and I
wish Will Will or Cam Hey, We're I'm sorry. Kam Sutton a lot
of good fortune up there in Detroit. He's he's a great cornerback and a
good character got too. So that is my parting shot. Very good.
Also, I just want to point out on Saturday morning, nine thirty Eastern
time, they have the External Pump, the External Pump Show, and that's
with myself, you Mark Mancini, and I believe Joe Kuklist joins us on
there as well. That's the fastest thirty minutes on Mancini Media that you're going
to see. So I feel free to go enmate. It is fast,
you know. I mean ral certainly has a lot of advertisers, and he
makes sure that they get their time. For sure. There's anybody definitely gets
time, it's Ralph. I just wish she can speed through the advertisers as
fast as I go through some of these promos. Just I try to spread
them out now on that half of our show. Well, I'm not busting
your jobs. I just know that I talk away faster than you. I
have to somehow infuse that speed inside of you so that we can get another
two three minutes. I'm just kidding with your Ralph all care, I you
know, I it's no, it's a good show. I've enjoyed being on
it, I really do. I mean we go to the topics really fast.
I mean, so I want to go out there and check us out
and you can also find I'll preview it on my profile on Facebook and good
time. We go through it real quick and I look forward to it every
Saturday. So just to let everybody know what my schedule is, I had
in the next couple of days. Tomorrow night over at hard Rock Stadium,
I have the Miami Hurricanes taken on the Miami of Ohio. Is it Hawks
the red Hawks? I think it's the red Hawks. Red Hawks. I
really better Roethelsburger graduating it right, Yes she did. And then of course
on Saturday night, Florid Atlantic University Hank takes on Monmouth and the debut of
Tom Herman. So I think Tom Herman is going to do a great job
there. And Mario a good coach, oh he is. I think you
should be thankful that they have him. And I can't tell you how much
admiration I have for for to me Mario Chrystobell. This guy's going to do
some unbelievable things, and I'm glad I had the opportunity to work with both
of those. First class coaches are unbelievable and I want to think to treat
them a Cormack of Florida Atlantic University has been a great person to work with
in Cameron Gorby for Miami. You can't ask for a whole lot better pr
people who work within them. So with that said, Ralph, how don't
you will everybody know how they get ahold of you? Oh yeah? R
r W media dot org, www dot rw media dot org. Ralph William
seven three seven at gmail dot com, Facebook, LinkedIn, and X and
I have my own YouTube channel. Very good, Okay, Jeremy, go
ahead. Well, as you can see, I have my ex handle right
on here at Smoking Jeremy B. Which has been my nickname ever since I
got into this broadcasting podcasting thing. That being said, you can find my
writings on South Florida Tribune dot com under the MotorCity Tribute editing underneath authors such
as Scott Morgan Rock and this guy next to me here who wrote a book,
Scott there George Eichorn. I'm reading it right now. It's actually a
good read. It's got lots of pictures too, so the pages go real
fast, so I think I'm halfway through, only spending ten minutes a night.
But that league said, you can also find me on my channel on
YouTube, which is Kneecap Biting with the Detroit Lions, where I do my
NFL roundtable talks with Pickums throughout the season on Wednesdays, and then you also
have my Lions fan Cave chat on Friday's postgame shows depending on which night the
game is on, and various other platforms throughout YouTube, Facebook, Twitter,
LinkedIn. You'll see my face everywhere, all right, go back to chat
room for a term of George. Thanks Pennsman for your painting RedHawks Ben Robinsburg
job confirming what we already suspected we knew, all right, George, go
ahead, uh yeah, And thank you Jeremy and Scott for being part of
my success of my book Detroit Sports Broadcasters on the Air. It's still available,
and as Jeremy mentioned, I write for the South Florida Tribune as he
does under the Motor City Tribune. And there'll be a link at the end
of my column to order yourself a copy of the book, and you find
your way over to the Amazon site or whoever is managing that link. But
you can find me too on inside the Pigskin one hundred eight stitches of sports
Exchange and obviously Fire Up really appreciate Punin's pundent. It's been a great,
great group of people that I've met, all you great guys on there,
you know, Jeremy, Ralph. I mean, there's so much talent.
It's really fun working with everybody on the on the platform, and Scott and
Candy do a great job. Of course, as the jb ellis. You
can reach me oh at yahoo dot com, so Gi Corn at yahoo dot
com or LinkedIn it's my full name, and also you can read me locally
in the Downtown Monitor newspaper. Yeah. The one thing I'm really trying hard
to do during the week, especially with my schedule of being what it is,
is I'm trying as hard as I can to go ahead and double up
a lot of different things. So so yeah, and of course Jeremy Vullrik
I like when he comes up with this closing line, so we'll let him
do that. So the one thing I'm trying to do though is make sure
we have back to back shows, doubleheaders as often as I'm able to do
it. Thursday night, I really like the line up when you have pun
a fun of leading in a firefar, so we'll let Jeremy wrap it up
with his closing line, and I want to before he gets his closing line.
I want to make sure everybody has a great Labor Day weekend and we
look forward to the next episode. I'll close it after Jeremy finished his final
thought, go ahead. I just want to tell everybody in the chat and
those watching at home and around the world, try every day to be a
better person than you were today before, because that's the only way to make
the world a better place. It starts within here hold one, Okay,
I like that message, very positive, very update what that said. I
mean half of Ralph Williams, Jeremy Bullrich, George I Icorn. My name
is Scott Morgan, Ralphil morg City, Madmouth. Thank you for joining us
on this addition of the Fire Up, and we will catch you the next
time. Good Night and everybody,