WEBVTT 1 00:00:24.440 --> 00:00:31.000 Good evening, gentlemen told me today, all right, all right, well 2 00:00:31.039 --> 00:00:37.479 I have I have an all star lineup tonight. I have mister George Ikorn, 3 00:00:37.520 --> 00:00:42.600 who hasn't been We're all you missed last week. You were at the 4 00:00:42.600 --> 00:00:46.679 hockey game. Correct, I've got hockey game and yeah and they and the 5 00:00:46.719 --> 00:00:49.960 Red Wings. Uh yeah, I did a nice job winning that, but 6 00:00:50.200 --> 00:00:53.439 I missed all of you too. Glad to be back on. Good to 7 00:00:53.520 --> 00:00:58.359 have you, Good to have you. And then mister smoking Jeremy b. 8 00:00:59.679 --> 00:01:00.880 Hello, Oh, good evening, everybody. It's good to see you. 9 00:01:03.280 --> 00:01:07.439 Good to be seen. And then mister Ralph, Yes, how are you? 10 00:01:07.599 --> 00:01:12.079 How's everybody? George, Candy and Jeremy and all those out there watching, 11 00:01:12.200 --> 00:01:18.079 how are you doing? Good? In fact, those watching we already 12 00:01:18.120 --> 00:01:23.319 have mister Will. Good evening, everyone, Good evening, Will Hi Will. 13 00:01:25.959 --> 00:01:34.840 So, guys, football, we're down to only two weekends left the 14 00:01:34.000 --> 00:01:45.000 NFL season this weekend Pro Bowl? Are you watching it or not? And 15 00:01:45.760 --> 00:01:52.040 if you're not? What could they do differently to make it more fun or 16 00:01:52.359 --> 00:02:00.000 more watchable or just better? Overall? We are gonna start with mister smoking 17 00:02:00.120 --> 00:02:04.840 Jeremy B. Well. I remember growing up the Pro Bowl used to be 18 00:02:04.959 --> 00:02:08.479 what two three weeks after the Super Bowl, so everybody could heal up, 19 00:02:09.080 --> 00:02:15.000 have a little time to reflect on what was the Super Bowl? The Daytona 20 00:02:15.080 --> 00:02:19.560 five hundred would go do its thing as the granddaddy of every major sporting event, 21 00:02:20.400 --> 00:02:24.599 and then you'd have the Pro Bowl. It would be in Hawaii. 22 00:02:24.680 --> 00:02:30.879 You'd have a better skills competition than this. What's the best catch? Uh, 23 00:02:30.919 --> 00:02:34.879 the tug of war has always been there because that's O line versus D 24 00:02:35.039 --> 00:02:38.319 line. That's the way it's always been and it's a fun thing to watch. 25 00:02:38.759 --> 00:02:44.039 But uh, the strongest arm competition, the accuracy competition and all that, 26 00:02:44.400 --> 00:02:47.719 and it was in Hawaii. It was an honor to get that trip 27 00:02:47.759 --> 00:02:53.159 to go to Hawaii and the extra bonus checks. And they actually played football 28 00:02:53.280 --> 00:02:57.360 then too. I remember they used to hit people. It was amazing. 29 00:02:57.599 --> 00:03:00.919 And they actually did call penalties, not like the penalties the day they know. 30 00:03:01.039 --> 00:03:02.960 They say, yes, even though this is the Pro Bowl, we 31 00:03:04.000 --> 00:03:07.120 do call penalty. Boll Star. You know, we didn't need the explanation 32 00:03:07.199 --> 00:03:10.800 back then because it was football. And if you want to take it back 33 00:03:10.800 --> 00:03:14.639 even further, in my opinion, if you really want to make it right, 34 00:03:15.240 --> 00:03:16.840 you go back to the way it was in the fifties and sixties. 35 00:03:17.479 --> 00:03:23.039 The Super Bowl champion takes on a team of fifty three players made up of 36 00:03:23.159 --> 00:03:29.800 all the best players from every team outside of the Super Bowl champion. Make 37 00:03:29.840 --> 00:03:32.280 it a bonus, Make the winner get so x amount of dollars, make 38 00:03:32.360 --> 00:03:38.360 the loser get half as much. Make it fun again, make the players 39 00:03:38.439 --> 00:03:43.680 want to go. Make it an honor. Not this fan popularity vote they 40 00:03:43.680 --> 00:03:46.360 have now. You almost should take the vote away from the fans because all 41 00:03:46.439 --> 00:03:49.159 they do is look for the big names they know, and they don't look 42 00:03:49.199 --> 00:03:52.960 for the stats, like the way do to vote people into the Pro Bowl. 43 00:03:55.159 --> 00:04:01.439 Okay, mister George Eichorn, your opinion? Are you watching the Pro 44 00:04:01.520 --> 00:04:05.360 Bowl and what do you think they could do to improve it? Well? 45 00:04:05.400 --> 00:04:09.319 I got to watch some of it. Are you kidding MEI there's seven Detroit 46 00:04:09.400 --> 00:04:13.719 Lions. I think Rag now is not going to play, right Jeremy, 47 00:04:13.719 --> 00:04:16.120 So that we would be down to six Lions that are supposed to participate in 48 00:04:16.160 --> 00:04:19.959 the game. And I don't think they'll play either. Oh that's right, 49 00:04:20.079 --> 00:04:24.879 yeah, yeah, So, I mean the Lions are blused. Obviously, 50 00:04:25.240 --> 00:04:28.680 it's a reward for a great season, but I agree with Jeremy. These 51 00:04:28.720 --> 00:04:31.759 contests that they're having and things like that just don't do anything for me. 52 00:04:31.839 --> 00:04:35.680 I know they're trying to appeal to the younger fans and they're trying to draw 53 00:04:35.759 --> 00:04:42.959 maybe perhaps a different audience. And I too, used to love it when 54 00:04:42.959 --> 00:04:46.240 they went to Honolulu, and I know they had to renovate the stadium, 55 00:04:46.279 --> 00:04:49.199 so I'm not quite sure if they're going to go back there. And I 56 00:04:49.240 --> 00:04:53.360 know for a while there that the attendance to drop off a little bit and 57 00:04:53.360 --> 00:04:57.959 they started rotating it and Florida's been having it for quite a number of years 58 00:04:58.000 --> 00:05:00.680 now. But that being said, yeah, there's gotta be more excitement in 59 00:05:00.720 --> 00:05:05.160 it. You know, I go back to the days and you might guys 60 00:05:05.199 --> 00:05:12.279 might remember when the Chicago hosted the All Star Game and it was all the 61 00:05:12.319 --> 00:05:18.680 college seniors would play the super Bowl champion or NFL champion in Soldier Field. 62 00:05:18.680 --> 00:05:23.199 Of course, that went away a long long time ago. But Jeremy, 63 00:05:23.199 --> 00:05:25.959 I think you're on a good track there. I think they got to design 64 00:05:26.040 --> 00:05:30.959 it in such a way that you could showcase more of the Super Bowl champions, 65 00:05:30.959 --> 00:05:33.759 like you said, and then the All Stars from around the lague. 66 00:05:34.600 --> 00:05:39.560 The other thing is is that this is the only All Star Game, folks, 67 00:05:40.160 --> 00:05:44.399 that's not played in the middle of the season. The NHL and the 68 00:05:44.519 --> 00:05:48.360 NBA and Major League Baseball, of course, all have an All Star break 69 00:05:48.399 --> 00:05:54.240 and roughly halfway through the season. And I know that they're afraid of injuries. 70 00:05:54.399 --> 00:05:57.279 Most of the players are, and it's a long season. There are 71 00:05:57.319 --> 00:06:00.279 many reasons why the NFL never wanted to go that way and have a mid 72 00:06:00.319 --> 00:06:04.360 season All Star Game, but I agree something's got to be done. We've 73 00:06:04.360 --> 00:06:09.199 got to make it more exciting, and we've got to come back with hitting 74 00:06:09.240 --> 00:06:11.759 and things like that. I mean, a little bit of contact. Come 75 00:06:11.800 --> 00:06:15.360 on. Easy for me to say, I'm not out there strapping it up, 76 00:06:15.439 --> 00:06:18.439 but I mean I think that they they definitely need to hear improve of 77 00:06:18.439 --> 00:06:23.480 them. So I'm interested in seeing what everybody on our panel also says, 78 00:06:24.920 --> 00:06:29.759 mister Ralph, are you watching what can they do to improve? Well, 79 00:06:29.800 --> 00:06:31.720 I'll tell you what I'm not watching it. I call it the pro Bore. 80 00:06:31.879 --> 00:06:35.879 Now, Okay, I used to watch it back in the day because, 81 00:06:35.959 --> 00:06:40.040 like Jeremy said, and like George said, it was fun to watch 82 00:06:40.560 --> 00:06:46.240 and it was in Hawaii. Okay, Roger Goodell has turned this into politics. 83 00:06:46.680 --> 00:06:48.279 Roger Goodell, the union, and the owners have turned this into a 84 00:06:48.319 --> 00:06:54.519 bunch of politics. Well, well, we can't have hitting because the union 85 00:06:54.879 --> 00:06:58.000 is upset because they don't want their players getting hurt. I get it, 86 00:06:58.279 --> 00:07:01.079 all right. Roger Goodell has screwed this thing up so bad since he's been 87 00:07:01.120 --> 00:07:06.519 commissioner that it's very unacceptable to me, and I don't like it, and 88 00:07:06.600 --> 00:07:10.360 I think that it needs to go back to some old style. I will 89 00:07:10.360 --> 00:07:13.639 be watching the senior pool in the East West Shrine game. I will not 90 00:07:13.759 --> 00:07:18.360 be watching none a lot of Pro Bowl activities. So let's go to the 91 00:07:18.480 --> 00:07:23.680 chat room. Jeremy, you want to read with some of these my thoughts 92 00:07:23.680 --> 00:07:26.279 on the Pro Ball. I haven't watched it in many years. My favorite 93 00:07:26.279 --> 00:07:30.519 Pro Bowl moment was two thousand and eight when Sean Taylor hit on her Brian 94 00:07:30.560 --> 00:07:34.279 Mormon. That was a huge hit. I will not watch for Pro Bowl 95 00:07:34.399 --> 00:07:40.920 anymore. Ever, since they stopped tackling. Bring back tackling. That's why 96 00:07:41.000 --> 00:07:46.399 I stopped watching it. The golf closest pin, stupidest thing that is a 97 00:07:46.439 --> 00:07:51.600 still challenge now it has nothing to deal with football. And then Joshua Burstein 98 00:07:51.680 --> 00:07:56.000 says, where's is the mad Mouth? This is his night off. He 99 00:07:56.120 --> 00:08:00.439 just got done with the Joe I believe, so Joshua, Yes, uh, 100 00:08:00.839 --> 00:08:05.959 the MotorCity mad Mouth doesn't come uppear on this show unless he's asked or 101 00:08:07.839 --> 00:08:11.199 unless he needs to fill in. This is actually my show that he gave 102 00:08:11.319 --> 00:08:16.839 me, and I do it with Jeremy. We do it normally Thursday nights, 103 00:08:16.839 --> 00:08:20.680 and then we do a version. It's just Jeremy and I on Sunday 104 00:08:20.680 --> 00:08:26.160 mornings. So we appreciate you missing the MotorCity mad Mouth, but we have 105 00:08:26.240 --> 00:08:33.840 our own version, you know. So Pro Bowl am I watching? According 106 00:08:33.840 --> 00:08:35.960 to my husband, we're not watching and we're not gonna be watching the super 107 00:08:37.000 --> 00:08:43.120 Bowl. Pro Bowl is a snooze fest. Let's face it. It's just 108 00:08:43.159 --> 00:08:48.480 not what It's not the honor that it used to be. It's is it 109 00:08:48.519 --> 00:08:54.080 really even a football game? It's like football exactly. Yes, well this 110 00:08:54.200 --> 00:09:00.639 year and yes, flag football is growing in clarity, but it's not the 111 00:09:00.759 --> 00:09:07.519 NFL. It's a whole separate So do I like it? Do? I 112 00:09:07.639 --> 00:09:11.879 like skills? I like skills competition, but not what we're doing here. 113 00:09:11.159 --> 00:09:16.200 I like the accuracy. I think they should have running backs. Run and 114 00:09:16.240 --> 00:09:22.480 who's the fastest man in a certain category and who has the biggest leap, 115 00:09:22.679 --> 00:09:28.120 and you know, things that are false skills. Seeing them excel at those 116 00:09:30.879 --> 00:09:35.840 specific skills would be great, But some of these other things no, no, 117 00:09:37.120 --> 00:09:45.759 I can do without. Josha, Yes, I we agree. None 118 00:09:45.840 --> 00:09:48.840 of us think that the Pro Bowl is anything that it used to be, 119 00:09:48.279 --> 00:09:54.440 anything that it's worth watching now the George, you bring up an interesting point 120 00:09:54.480 --> 00:09:58.720 that all the other sports put it in the middle of the season. The 121 00:09:58.759 --> 00:10:05.080 one thing that that us is depending on how many of participating in it would 122 00:10:05.399 --> 00:10:11.000 also mean the rest of the team would be healing because they'd have at least 123 00:10:11.039 --> 00:10:18.279 two weeks to heal up special football. Would that give an advantagement team that 124 00:10:18.360 --> 00:10:22.720 isn't doing as well and it would almost be like a bye weeks. That 125 00:10:22.759 --> 00:10:28.399 would be an interesting concept. And obviously there's there's going to be hits and 126 00:10:28.480 --> 00:10:31.519 you can get injuries, and that's the whole reason why they don't put it 127 00:10:31.559 --> 00:10:41.159 there. Jeremy, for that, I'm sorry. Go ahead, you do 128 00:10:41.240 --> 00:10:45.759 away with the bye week. You have an off week the week before the 129 00:10:46.000 --> 00:10:50.639 All Pro Game, and then you have a week off after the All Pro 130 00:10:50.679 --> 00:10:58.679 Game for all sixteen teams. Yeah, season is going to be longer. 131 00:10:58.559 --> 00:11:03.200 Well no, it'd still be only eighteen weeks. Well yes and no, 132 00:11:03.279 --> 00:11:05.600 because if you look at it, you take the week off or the Pro 133 00:11:05.720 --> 00:11:09.360 Bowl in between with the playoffs, you'll be doing that week off there. 134 00:11:09.399 --> 00:11:13.639 Every team gets a week off or the bye week, but the other teams 135 00:11:13.679 --> 00:11:18.440 play. It stretches it to an eighteen week season already. We give them 136 00:11:18.480 --> 00:11:22.919 the extra week off before they even start the season, after the three weeks 137 00:11:22.919 --> 00:11:26.720 of preseason bull crap they give us. We're no starters up to the field. 138 00:11:30.360 --> 00:11:33.879 I just way they have to go with it. You do away with 139 00:11:33.960 --> 00:11:39.000 the bye weeks. Everybody gets the week off before, everybody gets the week 140 00:11:39.039 --> 00:11:43.879 off after. I mean, you're only having it one week that way, 141 00:11:45.200 --> 00:11:48.480 and then have a lottery drawing us to who's going to be the coach. 142 00:11:48.039 --> 00:11:54.200 That's what you do. I think that it's gonna be difficult because your stars 143 00:11:54.200 --> 00:11:58.240 are going to have to play in that game, so they're going to sacrifice 144 00:11:58.799 --> 00:12:03.320 some of their what you said, Jeremy, bye week time, they're still 145 00:12:03.360 --> 00:12:09.000 preparing, although it's not intense, they'd be preparing for that Pro Bowl game. 146 00:12:09.639 --> 00:12:13.399 I mean there they could work it out somehow in the middle of the 147 00:12:15.159 --> 00:12:20.159 in the weekend week after off, Like I said, that's a week off 148 00:12:20.200 --> 00:12:24.200 that's not prepping the teams. Oh, I got you. Work is the 149 00:12:24.240 --> 00:12:28.679 week of the Pro Bowl, right, So you still get that week off 150 00:12:28.759 --> 00:12:33.080 before. In the week off after, you could run replays of all the 151 00:12:33.080 --> 00:12:37.559 playoffs like wild card and Divisional round on the one week, and then the 152 00:12:37.600 --> 00:12:41.879 next week you run the After that you run the reruns of the previous year's 153 00:12:43.039 --> 00:12:50.039 championship round in the Super Bowl. So my question would be is, because 154 00:12:50.080 --> 00:12:54.360 they've been playing a lot of international games, would you change that Pro Bowl 155 00:12:54.440 --> 00:13:01.120 to an international game and put that over there because the you have the traveling. 156 00:13:01.200 --> 00:13:03.639 Let's face it, that's a lot of times why teams have buys are 157 00:13:03.759 --> 00:13:09.159 after the traveling and coming back from overseas. So could you possibly make the 158 00:13:09.200 --> 00:13:16.320 Pro Bowl an overseas game? Yeah? I think that would require more time 159 00:13:16.360 --> 00:13:20.279 off because, yeah, because that's what the type the players are complaining about 160 00:13:20.360 --> 00:13:26.480 now, especially the ones that play on a Sunday and then come home and 161 00:13:26.559 --> 00:13:28.879 have to play on a Thursday. Yeah, they want to do the bye 162 00:13:28.960 --> 00:13:33.960 week before or after half the time. For those teams, it just doesn't 163 00:13:33.000 --> 00:13:39.919 right, So I don't think overseas for that would work. Maybe if it 164 00:13:39.000 --> 00:13:43.919 was like they decided to do it in Canada to promote football in Canada, 165 00:13:45.080 --> 00:13:48.120 or if they decided to go back to Mexico City, as long as they 166 00:13:48.159 --> 00:13:52.320 got the drainage right for the big Bulls fighting arena that they built built up 167 00:13:52.360 --> 00:13:58.960 to do it the last time. Okay, interesting conversations. I love it. 168 00:14:00.200 --> 00:14:01.559 I love it. That's what this that's what this show is all about. 169 00:14:01.600 --> 00:14:07.759 Getting fired up about something. So we introduced a new segment last week 170 00:14:07.960 --> 00:14:13.200 and it was called My Town and it is where each of us can talk 171 00:14:13.279 --> 00:14:18.679 about either a team that we are currently living in or a team from our 172 00:14:18.720 --> 00:14:24.000 hometown if some of us have moved and relocated, and it might be one 173 00:14:24.000 --> 00:14:28.840 of the only ones for that. But so we are going to start out 174 00:14:28.919 --> 00:14:31.960 that segment and we're going to start out with mister Ralph Williams. Ralph, 175 00:14:33.000 --> 00:14:37.240 what's happening in your town? Well, the Steelers signed Arthur Smith and have 176 00:14:37.399 --> 00:14:41.919 hired him to be our new offensive coordinator. Those of you who don't know 177 00:14:41.960 --> 00:14:46.200 who Arthur Smith is, he was the former head coach with the Atlanta Falcons. 178 00:14:46.639 --> 00:14:50.759 He also was the offensive coordinator for four years down in Tennessee, and 179 00:14:50.799 --> 00:14:56.919 he was around Tennessee before. Isn't an assistant coach quality control coach, you 180 00:14:56.960 --> 00:15:01.960 know? I think he was the equipment manager and whatever what. Tennessee did 181 00:15:01.000 --> 00:15:05.480 a lot of stuff at Tennessee. So I think that this is a good 182 00:15:05.559 --> 00:15:09.639 hire. Steelers need to run the football, they need to have play action 183 00:15:09.799 --> 00:15:13.600 and make it as simple as possible for Kenny Pickett. The only thing I 184 00:15:13.639 --> 00:15:18.600 have a problem with this is is I hope that he opens up the playbook 185 00:15:18.639 --> 00:15:22.519 a little bit more. We do some Donfield throwing and some other stuff and 186 00:15:22.600 --> 00:15:26.879 none of this think and dink stuff. All right. Also, he's supposedly 187 00:15:26.919 --> 00:15:33.000 going to be bringing Mike Munchak with him, former offensive line coach with the 188 00:15:33.039 --> 00:15:35.840 Steelers here, he's coming back if Arthur Smith is to coach, and I 189 00:15:35.919 --> 00:15:41.720 hear Mike Kopka from the Giants is coming with us as a quality control coach 190 00:15:41.480 --> 00:15:46.879 or a passing game coordinator. Mike Sullivan might be staying as quarterbacks coach and 191 00:15:48.000 --> 00:15:50.080 Eddie Faulkner might be staying as running backs coach. But we're going to find 192 00:15:50.080 --> 00:15:56.639 out what Arthur Smith decides to do and we'll see where the Steelers go with 193 00:15:56.759 --> 00:16:00.240 us, as well as far as the Penguins go. They're off for the 194 00:16:00.279 --> 00:16:03.080 All Star Game, and I hope they can retool and get this roller coaster 195 00:16:03.159 --> 00:16:08.639 season out of the way. And the Pirates just signed a couple signed a 196 00:16:08.639 --> 00:16:12.960 guy from Texas, and they signed a couple of non roster invities for their 197 00:16:12.960 --> 00:16:21.200 pitching staffs. So that's what's going on in Pittsburgh. Okay, mister George, 198 00:16:21.279 --> 00:16:26.080 let's go to you tonight. Well, there's a lot that going on 199 00:16:26.200 --> 00:16:27.879 in my town, as you guys know, and Jeremy's gonna talk a little 200 00:16:27.919 --> 00:16:37.519 bit about it too. But obviously everybody's disappointed in the Lions exiting NFC Championship 201 00:16:37.559 --> 00:16:40.559 Game loss. I'm not going to get into that too much. A lot 202 00:16:40.600 --> 00:16:44.960 has been said and read and heard about that. The good news is both 203 00:16:45.000 --> 00:16:49.440 their offensive defensive coordinators are coming back to the team, so that's wonderful news. 204 00:16:51.320 --> 00:16:53.320 And a story that kind of got drowned out a little bit by the 205 00:16:53.360 --> 00:16:59.600 local media is the fact that that Detroit Tigers did something that they normally don't 206 00:16:59.639 --> 00:17:06.039 do. They signed a young man to a contract even six years and this 207 00:17:06.119 --> 00:17:10.759 young man can play second or third, and he has not played a single 208 00:17:10.920 --> 00:17:15.960 game nor made an appearance in the major leagues yet. So I look back 209 00:17:15.039 --> 00:17:18.279 in this and that it's unusual for the Tigers to do that. It's not 210 00:17:18.440 --> 00:17:23.799 totally unheard of. In Major League Baseball. There runs many examples of locking 211 00:17:23.839 --> 00:17:29.319 a young man in from the draft. He's twenty two years old. His 212 00:17:29.440 --> 00:17:33.680 name is Colt Keith, kind of a strange name. Colt is his first 213 00:17:33.759 --> 00:17:38.640 name, lt last name Keith. He had a superb year last year in 214 00:17:38.720 --> 00:17:45.079 the twenty twenty three season in the minor leagues in the Double A Eery and 215 00:17:45.480 --> 00:17:51.279 Triple A Toledo. In fact, he hit more home runs. I believe 216 00:17:51.319 --> 00:17:56.960 that any other Tiger in the minor leagues last the two twenty twenty three season. 217 00:17:57.279 --> 00:18:00.279 It's a bit of a gamble because the Tigers, as you know, 218 00:18:00.400 --> 00:18:06.319 do not have a lot of big names for ours. Spencer Toorko Sen and 219 00:18:06.920 --> 00:18:11.799 Riley Green are two of the other position players that obviously are very well regarded 220 00:18:11.359 --> 00:18:15.960 here in Detroit. But they really broke down a little bit of feeling. 221 00:18:17.240 --> 00:18:21.240 And you know, I'm not going to complain about this too much because they're 222 00:18:21.319 --> 00:18:26.839 using money that hopefully will be well spent. I mean, if they lost 223 00:18:26.839 --> 00:18:33.079 this kid to arbitration or they lost them they couldn't afford him anymore, they 224 00:18:33.119 --> 00:18:36.279 wouldn't. That would be a hopeless situation. So what they're trying to do 225 00:18:36.359 --> 00:18:40.720 is get ahead of the game part in the pund and signed Keith to the 226 00:18:40.880 --> 00:18:48.000 six year contract with eight million dollars with club options for twenty thirty, thirty 227 00:18:48.000 --> 00:18:52.240 one, and thirty two. I believe. So it's a it's an interesting 228 00:18:52.279 --> 00:18:56.880 story in Detroit. I welcome the kid. It looks like they'll be playing 229 00:18:56.960 --> 00:19:00.480 him, hopefully full time. He's going to get down to spring training in 230 00:19:00.519 --> 00:19:06.359 Lakeland in another week or two. So that was my top story in the 231 00:19:06.400 --> 00:19:15.000 old hometown here, non related obviously to our Detroit Lions. Interesting stat for 232 00:19:15.119 --> 00:19:19.079 you, though, while he was in the Double A and Triple A minor 233 00:19:19.160 --> 00:19:26.559 leagues for Detroit, he had a nine hundred ops batting left and right handed 234 00:19:26.599 --> 00:19:32.240 as a switch hitter. Wow, that is a huge boost. Not just 235 00:19:32.359 --> 00:19:34.680 home runs either. I mean, yes, he led the leagues and home 236 00:19:34.759 --> 00:19:38.359 runs for the last two years and the respective leagues he was in, but 237 00:19:38.440 --> 00:19:44.759 he also was leading in doubles and he also even I think he plays fourth 238 00:19:45.240 --> 00:19:49.839 in triples last season, so he has some wheels. He's a five tool 239 00:19:49.880 --> 00:19:56.359 player that's developing his defense, is what I heard. They started bouncing him 240 00:19:56.400 --> 00:20:00.119 back and forth between second and third because of injuries to the mud Hens last 241 00:20:00.160 --> 00:20:04.880 year, so I applaud the move. I think it's a great move because 242 00:20:04.920 --> 00:20:08.720 if they didn't do that and put him on the MLB roster this year, 243 00:20:10.079 --> 00:20:18.279 he'd hit the MLB Rule five draft in June. So that's the big thing. 244 00:20:18.319 --> 00:20:22.000 I wanted to thank you a those are good points, thanks for sharing. 245 00:20:23.680 --> 00:20:29.359 First off, I want to say kudos to replacing the guy who could 246 00:20:29.359 --> 00:20:33.839 get pressure but no sacks as our d longing coach. Since Todd washwalked out 247 00:20:33.880 --> 00:20:37.400 the building after the twenty twenty two twenty twenty three season, we hired the 248 00:20:37.440 --> 00:20:41.559 guy from the Tennessee Titans, Tyrell Williams, who has ties back to Dan 249 00:20:41.640 --> 00:20:48.559 Campbell back when he was the interim head coach at Miami who stepped in when 250 00:20:48.559 --> 00:20:51.960 the defensive coordinator was fired. He had to step up and be the defensive 251 00:20:51.960 --> 00:20:56.319 coordinator. What's funny about Terrell Williams. He's one of the guys that helped 252 00:20:56.359 --> 00:21:00.680 in Domicon Sue clean up his game. Till he wasn't getting his penalty. 253 00:21:02.240 --> 00:21:07.599 Now he's also the head coach at the Senior Bawl for the American squad, 254 00:21:07.079 --> 00:21:12.319 and he's getting working with the guy that I have been scouting for hopefully our 255 00:21:12.400 --> 00:21:17.960 second round pick in the draft, to and Andre Sweat, defensive tackle, 256 00:21:18.000 --> 00:21:21.200 lot of tackles. The kid is six ft four, three hundred and sixty 257 00:21:21.240 --> 00:21:26.559 two pounds. He has been pancaking centers to get to the quarterback and practice 258 00:21:26.599 --> 00:21:30.279 so far, and he's taken on double and triple teams free en up other 259 00:21:30.359 --> 00:21:33.039 players at the same time. You put a guy that big next to Alle 260 00:21:33.119 --> 00:21:38.440 McNeil, your left end doesn't have to be fantastic to make much good. 261 00:21:41.000 --> 00:21:45.559 The only other thing I'm gonna say, while everybody is jumping up and down, 262 00:21:45.640 --> 00:21:48.720 we kept our coordinators. I'm gonna give you some stats that tells you 263 00:21:48.839 --> 00:21:56.440 where they need to improve on offense. It's the scoring per quarter seven point 264 00:21:56.480 --> 00:22:00.640 one, good enough for second in the league in the first quarter, eight 265 00:22:00.680 --> 00:22:07.240 point two in the second quarter. Points per quarter that's seventh in the league. 266 00:22:07.519 --> 00:22:14.720 Fourth quarter eight points a quarter is the average that's third in the league. 267 00:22:15.279 --> 00:22:21.079 The third quarter four point two. It's twentieth. Now let's go to 268 00:22:21.160 --> 00:22:26.079 defense. Four point two points given up in the first quarter. As good 269 00:22:26.079 --> 00:22:33.880 as that sounds, that was seventeenth in the league. Second quarter sixth point 270 00:22:33.839 --> 00:22:37.200 per quarter is what it broke down to when you added it up in the 271 00:22:37.200 --> 00:22:41.000 game. That was ninth in the league. So far. That's not bad. 272 00:22:41.039 --> 00:22:45.440 That's an average of twelve fourth quarter six point four points. That's twenty 273 00:22:45.480 --> 00:22:52.599 first in the league. Third quarter on defense, it ranks dead last in 274 00:22:52.599 --> 00:22:56.240 the league at six point nine points per quarter. Now, if you want 275 00:22:56.240 --> 00:23:02.759 to tell me why we lost the NFC Championship and the other five games throughout 276 00:23:02.759 --> 00:23:07.200 the season, I think the third quarter tells the story. That is where 277 00:23:07.240 --> 00:23:11.920 both coordinators need to improve. The adjustments on defense. When we had a 278 00:23:12.000 --> 00:23:17.440 lead, and of what I've seen throughout, we have they go to this 279 00:23:17.599 --> 00:23:22.519 base defense, back to just the four two five, which you normally is 280 00:23:22.559 --> 00:23:29.039 a dime defense. You have the two guys for the linebackers back there. 281 00:23:29.079 --> 00:23:32.240 It could be an outside linebacker and a middle linebacker or two middle linebackers, 282 00:23:32.279 --> 00:23:36.559 it's whatever combination you want. And then you've got five guys in the secondary 283 00:23:36.599 --> 00:23:41.759 with four down linemen. When you go that route and you don't change that 284 00:23:41.839 --> 00:23:47.400 formation, and you don't swap out players to benefit having fresh legs on the 285 00:23:47.400 --> 00:23:52.880 field, and you don't add an extra blitzer in that third quarter. That 286 00:23:52.079 --> 00:24:00.759 is the downfall in the third quarter. I don't know why, but Ben 287 00:24:00.839 --> 00:24:06.079 Johnson this past season remind me a lot of Jim Caldwell. For every game, 288 00:24:07.640 --> 00:24:10.720 we have a running game going good in the first half, we'd have 289 00:24:10.799 --> 00:24:14.119 the passing game and the play action working in the first half, and then 290 00:24:14.160 --> 00:24:17.039 all of a sudden, we only run the ball three times for the entire 291 00:24:17.119 --> 00:24:22.079 quarter in four drives. There's there's something wrong with that. You don't make 292 00:24:22.160 --> 00:24:32.519 adjustments and change from what works very good. I agree wholehearted and those statistics. 293 00:24:32.519 --> 00:24:37.240 Thanks for sharing those geremually because those are very important. I mean, 294 00:24:37.279 --> 00:24:40.519 you know, I I all the time the third quarter collapse and then, 295 00:24:40.799 --> 00:24:42.119 like you said, that's got to get it. That's got to stop. 296 00:24:42.160 --> 00:24:45.319 For the Lions, it's got to get better. Next year. I'm sure 297 00:24:45.359 --> 00:24:49.119 there will be focused on that, and hopefully the new additions that they'll pick 298 00:24:49.160 --> 00:24:55.759 up through draft and free agency will help as well. Yeah, you can't. 299 00:24:55.839 --> 00:24:59.640 You can't lay an egg in a big game. That's that's the word. 300 00:24:59.680 --> 00:25:02.519 Of problem. You know, when you get to the AFC or the 301 00:25:02.599 --> 00:25:06.200 NFC Championship game, that's the game that you can't afford to make mistakes and 302 00:25:06.279 --> 00:25:11.720 beat yourself. And that's what Detroit did. As much as I want them 303 00:25:11.720 --> 00:25:15.960 in this Super Bowl, but that's you know, unfortunately they had the luckiest 304 00:25:15.000 --> 00:25:21.799 break of that NFC Championship game. Happened when Kendall Vildor was in position to 305 00:25:21.839 --> 00:25:26.680 make the interception and he's a secondary person, not a wide receiver for a 306 00:25:26.720 --> 00:25:30.079 reason, it went between his hands, and of all the luckiest bounces in 307 00:25:30.119 --> 00:25:36.319 the world, it ends up in Brandon Autan as he's jumping over him while 308 00:25:36.319 --> 00:25:41.440 he's falling down, And that was a momentum shift right there. Oh yeah, 309 00:25:41.039 --> 00:25:45.279 yeah, is the biggest momentum shift of the entire game. And once 310 00:25:45.359 --> 00:25:48.720 that happened, it was a snowball effect. It was a as much as 311 00:25:48.720 --> 00:25:52.640 I hate to quote a movie that's fictitious, but it was based off of 312 00:25:52.759 --> 00:25:56.599 something that really happened. You remember the Lockout, and then they did that 313 00:25:56.680 --> 00:26:03.240 movie. The replacements with John Madden and Past Summer all were the announcers every 314 00:26:03.240 --> 00:26:07.839 game, but they use real NFL coaches for the other opponents. They used 315 00:26:07.839 --> 00:26:12.119 real NFL players sprinkled, whether through the regular roster that they had on that 316 00:26:12.160 --> 00:26:21.319 show or the other opposing teams. And prior to the season, the coach 317 00:26:21.359 --> 00:26:26.559 asked the team, what is the thing you're most afraid of? And everybody 318 00:26:26.640 --> 00:26:29.599 is saying the normal stuff, you know, spiders, snakes, this, 319 00:26:29.839 --> 00:26:33.519 that the other, and Keanu Reeves, who was the quarterback of the team, 320 00:26:33.599 --> 00:26:37.279 Jane Balco says quicksand he goes, oh, yeah, you can't move 321 00:26:37.319 --> 00:26:41.119 and bubb blah he goes, and Geene Hagen goes, that's not the type 322 00:26:41.160 --> 00:26:44.279 quicksand he's doing. Tell them what you're talking about, and everybody asks him. 323 00:26:44.319 --> 00:26:48.880 Yeah, Shane, what's up? He knows well Quicksand in sports is 324 00:26:48.880 --> 00:26:52.079 when you have a mistake happened, and you dwell upon it and you try 325 00:26:52.119 --> 00:26:55.599 your hardest not to make another one. You make another one, then you 326 00:26:55.640 --> 00:26:59.039 make another one, and eventually you're up to or your neck and the stress 327 00:26:59.079 --> 00:27:02.200 and the pressure of all those mistakes and you can't even move or breathe. 328 00:27:02.759 --> 00:27:07.119 Yeah, true, that's exactly what happened in the third quarter to Detroit. 329 00:27:07.559 --> 00:27:15.839 Yeah, yep, So Jeremy, let's read what will his town is Charlotte, 330 00:27:15.880 --> 00:27:22.160 North Carolina. My town Charlotte North Carolina has hired Dan Morgan, former 331 00:27:22.240 --> 00:27:26.039 linebacker a lad as GM for the Carolina Panthers and used to play for them, 332 00:27:26.319 --> 00:27:30.119 and hired Dave Canalis, the OC of the Buccaneers, to be the 333 00:27:30.160 --> 00:27:40.680 head coach. And rookie Brandon Miller of the Charlotte Hornets got named to the 334 00:27:40.880 --> 00:27:45.759 NBA All Star Rising Rising Stars Game. And then thank you Ken a little 335 00:27:45.839 --> 00:27:53.400 late but here and I'm glad you're joining us. I smoking Dad. Okay, 336 00:27:53.440 --> 00:27:57.039 So my town, I'm not gonna go with the town I live in 337 00:27:57.480 --> 00:28:00.960 because we all know I'm not as big give a fan down here as I 338 00:28:02.000 --> 00:28:06.519 am with my beloved Wisconsin teams. And I know that's to the chagrin of 339 00:28:06.599 --> 00:28:12.200 some of you. But the Green Bay Packers had what I would say a 340 00:28:12.400 --> 00:28:19.279 much improved end of the year where nobody thought they would end up. Kudos 341 00:28:19.319 --> 00:28:26.240 to them. Nineteen of their twenty two starters from the game they played with 342 00:28:26.279 --> 00:28:33.559 the forty nine ers are signed for next year. We'll be back. One 343 00:28:33.599 --> 00:28:37.319 of the big ones that they need to, in my opinion, sign is 344 00:28:37.400 --> 00:28:42.839 Aaron Jones. He is our running back. Not only is he our running 345 00:28:42.880 --> 00:28:51.200 back. He is Jell the excitement. He's the guy that gets the locker 346 00:28:51.279 --> 00:28:56.279 room going and all of the guys together and hyped up. And from what 347 00:28:56.400 --> 00:29:02.200 I've been told, he is just a re the good guy that helps all 348 00:29:02.240 --> 00:29:07.079 of those young rookies. You need to sign him then, because, let's 349 00:29:07.119 --> 00:29:14.240 face it, the Milwaukee Brewers let Josh Hater and traded Josh Hader years ago 350 00:29:14.359 --> 00:29:18.960 and let him go. He was that same guy in their locker room, 351 00:29:18.119 --> 00:29:22.720 tanked at the end of the season when you needed him most. Now, 352 00:29:22.799 --> 00:29:29.200 the Packers also have five picks in the first three rounds. Yes, I 353 00:29:29.240 --> 00:29:33.599 know Detroit has more, but they still have five. Oh, they only 354 00:29:33.640 --> 00:29:37.039 have four. Okay, we have five in the first three rounds. And 355 00:29:37.440 --> 00:29:44.000 because we shipped Aaron Rodgers off to the Jets, we have more cap space 356 00:29:44.039 --> 00:29:48.960 available now too, so we have room too if we want to trade some 357 00:29:49.039 --> 00:29:53.599 of these picks or anything like that, we can. It gives flexibility. 358 00:29:53.640 --> 00:29:57.599 And I know Ted Thompson was not one about going out there and signing free 359 00:29:57.599 --> 00:30:03.920 agents. He really fel you had to draft and build from within. Gutenkurst 360 00:30:03.039 --> 00:30:08.880 He'll do either. And there have been some moves that maybe people have questioned, 361 00:30:10.039 --> 00:30:14.240 but they've really turned out, like look at this team now. The 362 00:30:14.279 --> 00:30:19.880 big news of today obviously has to be my Brewers and them trading Corbyn Burns. 363 00:30:21.319 --> 00:30:23.160 And there's a lot of people out there saying, oh no, we're 364 00:30:23.200 --> 00:30:29.359 tanking the season the way we're tanking the season away. The Milwaukee Brewers play 365 00:30:29.519 --> 00:30:33.400 in a small market, medium to small. I don't care. I love 366 00:30:33.480 --> 00:30:38.000 my Brewers, but it's a smaller market. They don't have the deep pockets 367 00:30:38.000 --> 00:30:42.559 that the Yankees do, and some of these other owners they have to make 368 00:30:42.599 --> 00:30:45.599 the most out of what they have. Corbyn Burns is going to be a 369 00:30:45.640 --> 00:30:52.440 free agent next year, so the only time his trade value is high is 370 00:30:52.599 --> 00:30:56.279 going into this last year, or maybe if he's having a really good year 371 00:30:56.279 --> 00:31:00.720 in the middle of this year. But you can't bank on that because what 372 00:31:00.759 --> 00:31:04.079 if all of a sudden he gets injured or hurt. So right now is 373 00:31:04.119 --> 00:31:07.680 the best time that you can trade him. So for all you were fans 374 00:31:07.720 --> 00:31:14.240 that are thinking that this is a horrible trade, this gets you something for 375 00:31:14.319 --> 00:31:18.960 him now. And we got three prospects. One is a draft prospect, 376 00:31:19.039 --> 00:31:26.519 two were young players. I can't fault them because they have to do what 377 00:31:26.559 --> 00:31:32.279 they have to do to make the team relevant and relevant now. They also, 378 00:31:32.960 --> 00:31:38.319 from what I've been told, renovated and have this brand new big scoreboard 379 00:31:38.359 --> 00:31:44.480 out in seven field. So I'll be exciting to see the new digs out 380 00:31:44.519 --> 00:31:47.720 there. I don't know when we're gonna be out there, but I can't 381 00:31:47.720 --> 00:31:51.119 wait to see it. So those are the two big things. I mean. 382 00:31:51.160 --> 00:31:55.839 Obviously, Doc Rivers now is coaching Milwaukee Bucks, but right now he's 383 00:31:55.839 --> 00:32:04.079 oning too. In the Pastuc Rivers, Wow, Rivers, the guy that 384 00:32:04.200 --> 00:32:10.559 goes places to have playoffs die. It made one play one team that's made 385 00:32:10.559 --> 00:32:15.359 it to the finals he's coached other than the superstar team that was the Celtics. 386 00:32:16.000 --> 00:32:20.720 I don't follow NBA that much, Jeremy, but I haven't heard of 387 00:32:20.759 --> 00:32:27.559 any there is. He's what six and ten I think in the in the 388 00:32:27.599 --> 00:32:31.960 playoffs. So he's not having good record. Was with the Boston Celtics. 389 00:32:35.200 --> 00:32:37.279 Yeah, six, six and ten. You're talking about the playoff series. 390 00:32:37.920 --> 00:32:42.759 Yes, not his one lost record, but the series that he coached Jack, 391 00:32:43.440 --> 00:32:49.640 Yeah, that's in his playoff career as a coach. He's six and 392 00:32:49.680 --> 00:32:53.920 ten, and four of those wins was when Boston won at all, Right, 393 00:32:54.279 --> 00:33:02.279 Right, four rounds of yess yep. I don't know, an you 394 00:33:02.319 --> 00:33:05.680 don't know what. I just don't know. I just don't know if he's 395 00:33:05.680 --> 00:33:08.559 the answer. But that's beside the point. I mean, the Bucks made 396 00:33:08.559 --> 00:33:13.799 the decision and that's the direction they wanted to go. I think it's crazy, 397 00:33:13.839 --> 00:33:22.480 but we'll see. I agree to a certain extent. I think it's 398 00:33:22.519 --> 00:33:27.440 a homecoming for Doc Rivers because he did play for Marquette. He does have 399 00:33:27.480 --> 00:33:31.480 a banner up in the rafters. There is that the only reason why you 400 00:33:31.480 --> 00:33:38.519 should bring a guy back. No, but he has experience and maybe that's 401 00:33:38.599 --> 00:33:44.559 what this team needed. Now, let's face it, this team traded away 402 00:33:44.640 --> 00:33:49.279 their defensive player of the year, so our defense has really gone down. 403 00:33:49.720 --> 00:33:53.920 So maybe Doc can reinsurge that defense. That's, you know, a big 404 00:33:53.960 --> 00:34:00.799 part of what we need. My question is in the n B, a 405 00:34:00.839 --> 00:34:10.480 is a head coach as influential and as has as much. How should I 406 00:34:10.800 --> 00:34:21.320 say that influence influence as like an NFL coach? No? No, no, 407 00:34:21.360 --> 00:34:27.679 because different different thing championships. It's so different in the NBA than what 408 00:34:27.800 --> 00:34:30.239 it is in the NFL. And I'm just saying the NBA, you've seen 409 00:34:30.280 --> 00:34:35.719 an influx of coaches from college to pro and be just as successful. And 410 00:34:35.760 --> 00:34:40.079 then you've seen the ones that go college to pro and flop. There's no 411 00:34:40.199 --> 00:34:44.639 in between with them, it's all over the place. We've seen them be 412 00:34:44.679 --> 00:34:49.760 successful. Look at Eric Spolstra, pat Riley looks like a genius. Keep 413 00:34:49.760 --> 00:34:52.840 in him there. They make the playoffs every year, they make a deep 414 00:34:52.920 --> 00:34:58.559 run, they get close to the conference finals every year. So kudos to 415 00:34:58.639 --> 00:35:02.840 him. He he found his guy and he didn't need Lebum to stay there 416 00:35:02.880 --> 00:35:07.639 the entire time to do it. The difference I think with the NBA in 417 00:35:07.679 --> 00:35:12.440 the NFL, Jeremy, is the fact that you know, the NFL, 418 00:35:12.519 --> 00:35:15.719 you have some prima donnas, but you don't have as many as you do 419 00:35:15.760 --> 00:35:20.400 in the NBA and the NBA. No matter who to coach is, you're 420 00:35:20.400 --> 00:35:22.519 gonna have a bunch of prima donnas there that are just And that's one of 421 00:35:22.559 --> 00:35:28.880 the reasons I stopped following and even talking about it. Well, the NFL 422 00:35:29.039 --> 00:35:32.480 is more of a team sport, though teams like exactly the quarterback doesn't do 423 00:35:32.519 --> 00:35:37.440 it all by himself, whereas, let's face it, forward or a guard 424 00:35:37.760 --> 00:35:40.559 he could dribble the ball all the way down and take the shot and be 425 00:35:40.679 --> 00:35:45.320 done and then go back on defense. So you really could do more of 426 00:35:45.360 --> 00:35:50.000 it yourself. So I think it's more of an individualistic team, yes, 427 00:35:50.239 --> 00:35:53.880 or individual sport than it is than NFL. So do I think they need 428 00:35:53.920 --> 00:35:58.719 the same coaching? Probably not, and they're not drawing up I don't think 429 00:35:58.760 --> 00:36:02.400 the same schemes like an NFL coach with the offense would do, or the 430 00:36:02.440 --> 00:36:08.639 same with the defense. So does the coach matter as much? So it'll 431 00:36:08.639 --> 00:36:14.719 be interesting to see what happens with Doc and how far they get, because 432 00:36:15.320 --> 00:36:21.360 let's face it, there's still a team that should be rooted to go far 433 00:36:21.840 --> 00:36:24.800 in the playoffs. Now we'll see if that happens. I want to say 434 00:36:24.960 --> 00:36:32.559 congratulations, Candy. Last week your Packers did the amazing thing. They aspired 435 00:36:34.119 --> 00:36:40.880 Joe Barry. Yeah, now they've former Boston College head coach Jeff Hanley. 436 00:36:43.239 --> 00:36:47.199 And when you look at the Boston College defense in their division, which isn't 437 00:36:47.320 --> 00:36:54.159 really a superpower by school, it makes you wonder if he's going to be 438 00:36:54.199 --> 00:36:59.280 the guy or not too because that was one of the bottom dwellers and defense 439 00:36:59.320 --> 00:37:02.159 in their com prince. So I hope he's good for you, I really 440 00:37:02.159 --> 00:37:05.880 do. He can't be worse than Joe Berry, that's all I got to 441 00:37:05.880 --> 00:37:08.880 think. Well, he was the defensive coordinator here at Pitt for a little 442 00:37:08.920 --> 00:37:13.719 bit, and uh he was okay when he was here, and you know, 443 00:37:14.119 --> 00:37:17.159 yeah, but then now and he got out of Boston College because he 444 00:37:17.239 --> 00:37:22.239 said he's tired of the NIL and the transfer portal. It burned him out, 445 00:37:22.800 --> 00:37:27.159 and it's burned out all these coaches anyway. Great, yea, most 446 00:37:27.239 --> 00:37:32.280 school like the boosters to have the big money to support the high NIL to 447 00:37:32.360 --> 00:37:37.760 get the upper end players. Yeah, the bigger schools can because they have 448 00:37:37.880 --> 00:37:43.000 better boosters. Yea, say what you want. It's just a way for 449 00:37:43.079 --> 00:37:45.119 the boosters to be able to pay these kids to play football for colleges. 450 00:37:45.400 --> 00:37:51.159 Is exactly what the NIL is. Well, Penn State has seventy million dollars 451 00:37:51.199 --> 00:37:54.639 every year and their budget budgeted for NIL. Pitt, on the other hand, 452 00:37:54.920 --> 00:38:00.519 has a committee out here called Insurance for one two and that group goes 453 00:38:00.559 --> 00:38:05.000 out in a solicit money for the NIL. They go to Canada at the 454 00:38:05.079 --> 00:38:07.960 games with a little cop out there saying donate or whatever. I don't know 455 00:38:08.000 --> 00:38:09.880 what they do. They're at the games. I haven't been to one in 456 00:38:09.880 --> 00:38:13.599 a while. But what I'm saying is I'm told they're they're you know, 457 00:38:13.639 --> 00:38:15.519 they have a little desk set up and they're saying, please give us donations 458 00:38:15.559 --> 00:38:19.559 to help with the nil. Okay, they're doing that. They're going not 459 00:38:19.599 --> 00:38:22.599 getting boosters whatever they're doing, and that's all Pitt's doing it. But Penn 460 00:38:22.639 --> 00:38:28.559 State hasn't in their budget seventy million dollars, right. I think that's the 461 00:38:28.559 --> 00:38:30.960 same with a lot of the big Power five school Yes, that kind of 462 00:38:31.000 --> 00:38:36.840 money in their boosters club, in the alumni fun and stuff like that. 463 00:38:36.840 --> 00:38:40.679 That's what I'm getting. At all these smaller schools, You're either going to 464 00:38:40.719 --> 00:38:45.119 see them rise to the top and get better boosters and better sponsors to be 465 00:38:45.159 --> 00:38:50.480 able to compete, or you may see them start to dwindle and do away 466 00:38:50.519 --> 00:38:53.559 with some of the major sports because they won't have the money to compete to 467 00:38:53.639 --> 00:39:00.639 compete. Right. Yeah, that's true, very true. So I will 468 00:39:00.719 --> 00:39:05.840 say that on Sunday, and I know Sunday was a football game day, 469 00:39:06.079 --> 00:39:10.440 but before the football games, I had the honor and privilege of going to 470 00:39:10.599 --> 00:39:16.360 the FAU men's basketball game and I got to take pictures which meant I actually 471 00:39:16.400 --> 00:39:22.000 got to sit on the court and to take pictures. Now, when I 472 00:39:22.159 --> 00:39:28.760 tell you this was one exciting game, I can't tell you enough. I 473 00:39:28.760 --> 00:39:34.639 don't think the score ever varied more by more than five points towards the North 474 00:39:34.679 --> 00:39:44.639 Texas team, but FAU hit a winning shot with point five seconds left on 475 00:39:44.679 --> 00:39:50.480 the clock to win that game. I think they were ahead by me for 476 00:39:50.599 --> 00:39:54.840 maybe three minutes of the whole game, but yet they found it in them 477 00:39:54.880 --> 00:39:58.480 to win. And like I said, it was a seesaw battle back and 478 00:39:58.559 --> 00:40:04.800 forth getting close either tie game or down by two. But it was just 479 00:40:05.760 --> 00:40:09.079 it was my first college basketball game in a while, and the excitement. 480 00:40:09.679 --> 00:40:17.599 And I'll tell you, FAU plays in what is arguably probably one of the 481 00:40:17.679 --> 00:40:24.559 smallest stadiums out of all of college basketball. But I'll tell you the excitement 482 00:40:24.719 --> 00:40:29.719 level in there and then the fans, that's what makes the difference. You 483 00:40:29.760 --> 00:40:32.639 don't have to have a big stadium. In fact, I was talking with 484 00:40:34.079 --> 00:40:39.440 one of the announcers for the North Texas game beforehand, and he was telling 485 00:40:39.519 --> 00:40:45.800 us how some of the schools are actually starting to downsize some of their gyms 486 00:40:46.280 --> 00:40:51.039 because they don't aren't drawing the big crowds, and so when they have a 487 00:40:51.079 --> 00:40:55.239 smaller stadium, the crowd is more involved and it gives them more of a 488 00:40:55.280 --> 00:41:01.960 home court advantage. I mean, look at you a UAB the Blazers, 489 00:41:02.440 --> 00:41:09.440 that small little thing you have seen. Power five schools get intimidated and lose 490 00:41:09.519 --> 00:41:15.440 that UAB Because the cheering section looks like it's right on top of the basketball 491 00:41:15.480 --> 00:41:20.599 hoop. You can literally make out faces through the clear glass. It's funny 492 00:41:20.679 --> 00:41:24.840 to see, but it actually is an intimidating factor. It no more intimidating 493 00:41:24.880 --> 00:41:29.679 than it is where the people using the thunderclappers at the Pro Games, when 494 00:41:29.719 --> 00:41:34.480 the guys are trying to make shops. It does affect you for the away 495 00:41:34.519 --> 00:41:39.719 team any movement like that, it can track your eye away. Well, 496 00:41:39.760 --> 00:41:45.320 we don't have any problem at all here in Detroit because the University of Detroit 497 00:41:45.400 --> 00:41:52.400 Mercy Titans are oh and twenty three talking about it. There's plenty of available 498 00:41:52.519 --> 00:42:00.440 they played Robert, you would block off seats candy here at University Detroit. 499 00:42:00.440 --> 00:42:07.639 Ellahan Hall on the Dick by Jel Cork. I have to say, though, 500 00:42:07.679 --> 00:42:14.559 George, I do remember covering Jacksonville a number of years ago before they 501 00:42:14.599 --> 00:42:19.719 got better in the Trevor Lawrence and all of that, and their upper bowl 502 00:42:20.000 --> 00:42:24.159 they would actually cover with a big tart that had a big Jacksonville logo on 503 00:42:24.239 --> 00:42:29.119 it, so it didn't look like they were seats that weren't there. But 504 00:42:29.519 --> 00:42:35.719 they did that because they weren't selling the tickets. So I understand not having 505 00:42:35.760 --> 00:42:38.719 as many fans in the sands. Yes, yeah, that's talking about doing 506 00:42:38.840 --> 00:42:45.239 that for football got here because they only draw not even forty thousand fans to 507 00:42:45.280 --> 00:42:50.119 a game anymore, and the only time they sell out is if we're playing 508 00:42:50.159 --> 00:42:52.719 like Tennessee, Notre Dame or somebody like that, or West Virginia or Penn 509 00:42:52.719 --> 00:42:57.119 State. We haven't sold a game ont in the last couple of years, 510 00:42:57.159 --> 00:43:00.480 I don't think. I mean, we've had some good crowds. Akrosure Stadium 511 00:43:00.519 --> 00:43:07.559 seats about seventy thousand people. So they're talking about putting tarps over the over 512 00:43:07.599 --> 00:43:09.920 the upper bowl and all that stuff because they don't really draw that well. 513 00:43:09.960 --> 00:43:14.519 And when I worked there in the past, they didn't draw that well. 514 00:43:14.519 --> 00:43:16.880 When we were in the Big East, we had to give our tickets to 515 00:43:16.960 --> 00:43:21.679 have people come from the upper bowl. They actually will give us free tickets 516 00:43:21.679 --> 00:43:23.880 to handle people to come down from the upper bowl and sit in the lower 517 00:43:23.960 --> 00:43:29.280 bowl and fill it in for TV. Well, the Detroit Shock of the 518 00:43:29.320 --> 00:43:35.360 Women's Basketball Association too did that and they covered up the top part of the 519 00:43:35.440 --> 00:43:40.239 Palace of Auburn Hills obviously the same stadium that did Detroit Pistons used. So 520 00:43:40.519 --> 00:43:46.159 the teams have done that before where they've had large parts. That does help 521 00:43:46.280 --> 00:43:52.760 a little bit. The quickly goal the college football ball on December twenty sixth 522 00:43:52.039 --> 00:43:57.559 at Ford Field, you'm deck, the second deck, whatever you want to 523 00:43:57.599 --> 00:44:00.920 call it, that was all empty. But they didn't have the money to 524 00:44:00.920 --> 00:44:07.000 obviously put tarps over a huge deck like that. So I've seen those things 525 00:44:07.039 --> 00:44:09.599 happen before, Ralph, when they put those tarps up, and it's not 526 00:44:09.800 --> 00:44:14.599 bad. You know, It's one way to make it look at a little 527 00:44:14.599 --> 00:44:22.440 bit. Cozier, I agree. Any other topics anybody wants to bring to 528 00:44:22.519 --> 00:44:25.280 the table, well, I just wanted to share one thing, Candy. 529 00:44:25.320 --> 00:44:30.119 I didn't chime in when you guys were talking about coaches. The thing is 530 00:44:30.119 --> 00:44:38.320 is that with championship teams, you always have a leadership situation. I can't 531 00:44:38.400 --> 00:44:43.800 remember how many times they would say Michael Jordan is running that team, Bill 532 00:44:43.920 --> 00:44:47.400 Jackson's running that team, Michael Jordan's running that team, or Isaiah Thomas is 533 00:44:47.440 --> 00:44:52.000 running the Detroit distance. So all I was going to add to that discussion 534 00:44:52.000 --> 00:44:58.639 about coaches that yes, the coach is important in the NBA, so are 535 00:44:58.679 --> 00:45:04.360 the superstars. The superstars that drive that winning team, that drive that championship 536 00:45:04.400 --> 00:45:08.159 team, as we all know, have a huge say in the lineup and 537 00:45:08.239 --> 00:45:13.440 the game plans and stuff like that behind the scenes, because people wouldn't be 538 00:45:13.519 --> 00:45:16.199 making those kind of comments if it wasn't true. Chuck Dailey was a great 539 00:45:16.239 --> 00:45:20.559 coach, Don't get me wrong, I love them here in Detroit, but 540 00:45:20.679 --> 00:45:24.360 Isaiah Lambert and Mark cguire kind of were the three that kind of ran that 541 00:45:24.440 --> 00:45:30.239 Piston team, and Michael George Middle and Scottie pipping those guys in Chicago. 542 00:45:30.119 --> 00:45:34.239 So anyways, I just wanted to throw that out there. You don't have 543 00:45:34.280 --> 00:45:37.599 to respond, but I just wanted to also add that a lot of those 544 00:45:37.199 --> 00:45:44.920 coaching teams use senior leadership on the court in other words, and superstar players 545 00:45:44.920 --> 00:45:49.760 too. I agree. And let's face that Milwaukee wants to keep Giannis happy, 546 00:45:49.840 --> 00:45:54.920 so I know that Giannis had talked with Doc Rivers before and everything like 547 00:45:54.960 --> 00:45:59.880 that. So they really want to keep him happy because they want to keep 548 00:46:00.119 --> 00:46:06.960 seeing good quality basketball and he's he's made a good home in Milwaukee and they 549 00:46:07.000 --> 00:46:13.360 embrace him, and he is so far has embraced Milwaukee too, so hopefully 550 00:46:13.400 --> 00:46:19.119 they can keep it up. Anything else, guys, No, I'm good, 551 00:46:20.079 --> 00:46:24.039 I am good, good, good. Well that's gonna conclude this episode. 552 00:46:24.079 --> 00:46:28.719 I'm gonna take take you around the horns. You guys can let everybody 553 00:46:28.760 --> 00:46:31.400 know how they can get a hold of you or find you on other shows 554 00:46:31.440 --> 00:46:37.719 besides this show. So let's start with mister Ralph. Oh. Yeah. 555 00:46:37.760 --> 00:46:42.679 You can find me on Facebook, YouTube, LinkedIn, and Toombler, and 556 00:46:42.719 --> 00:46:46.400 you can also find me on I have my own YouTube channel and I'm also 557 00:46:46.440 --> 00:46:52.480 on Twitter acts excuse me as well. And I have a radio show on 558 00:46:52.559 --> 00:46:58.320 Tuesday nights called Sports Corner Radio Show with Me Ralph Williams and Smoking Jim Fraser 559 00:46:58.920 --> 00:47:02.760 and from four to six pm on Biaber County Radio and also on Wednesday nights. 560 00:47:04.400 --> 00:47:06.880 Now, I have a neot show on Block Talk Radio, and I 561 00:47:06.920 --> 00:47:10.440 have three shows on block Talk Radio. And you can the Dollan at five, 562 00:47:10.559 --> 00:47:14.639 six, three, nine, nine ninety three seven four zero, including 563 00:47:14.679 --> 00:47:19.559 tomorrow morning at ten thirty am the External Bum Show with Me, Scott Morgan 564 00:47:19.679 --> 00:47:22.840 Roth from the South Florida Tribune, and JT. Todd from Draft four one 565 00:47:22.880 --> 00:47:31.719 two. Okay, I before I get to Smoking Jeremy B. I have 566 00:47:31.840 --> 00:47:37.719 to say I had the privilege on Monday night of coming on his show. 567 00:47:38.519 --> 00:47:43.639 And the reason why I want to say kudos to Smoking Jeremy B is because 568 00:47:43.960 --> 00:47:49.760 it was his one thousandth episode. So kudos to you, Jeremy, and 569 00:47:49.840 --> 00:47:52.480 thank you for inviting us on your show. I had privilege and had a 570 00:47:52.480 --> 00:47:55.880 great time. Oh it was my pleasure to have you. I mean, 571 00:47:55.920 --> 00:48:00.159 you guys are a big reason on why I'm here and why I have so 572 00:48:00.199 --> 00:48:05.559 many shows. I think I've done more shows than the entire cast of Big 573 00:48:05.599 --> 00:48:10.840 Bang Theory. But anyway, if you add in all the South Florida Tribunes 574 00:48:10.840 --> 00:48:15.280 and all the other guest appearances I've had over the past two years since I 575 00:48:15.360 --> 00:48:21.159 created my channel, and the ones that I did even before I created it, 576 00:48:22.599 --> 00:48:25.039 if you added up all my shows, I'm almost a two thousand right 577 00:48:25.079 --> 00:48:30.079 now. And now I'm doing eight shows a week during the season, and 578 00:48:30.199 --> 00:48:35.119 five shows during a week during the odd season, just on my channel alone. 579 00:48:35.840 --> 00:48:38.039 That's a lot of work. And people don't realize because if you haven't 580 00:48:38.039 --> 00:48:44.519 produced a show and coming up with your own topics and come up with the 581 00:48:44.559 --> 00:48:49.039 guests and the lineups for each show, you do not understand the amount of 582 00:48:49.760 --> 00:48:55.079 pre and post production work there is. And so my hat's off to everybody 583 00:48:55.320 --> 00:49:00.119 who's done their own broadcast, done their own broadcast, done own radio show, 584 00:49:00.440 --> 00:49:04.199 because you know what, I know how much work it is, and 585 00:49:04.239 --> 00:49:07.039 I know what type of grind it is. Thank you, share me, 586 00:49:07.239 --> 00:49:12.719 appreciate it. Eddie grinds from here in Graham Blank mentions my mom's dog. 587 00:49:12.760 --> 00:49:15.599 But you're not as good looking as Benny. No one here is as good 588 00:49:15.639 --> 00:49:20.440 looking as that cute little puppy. Takes me ours, share me to do 589 00:49:20.519 --> 00:49:25.079 my radio show notes ours. But you know, coming up with the topics, 590 00:49:25.199 --> 00:49:29.679 it's real easy. You get a headline, that's the easy part. 591 00:49:29.920 --> 00:49:32.639 The topics are the easiest thing to come up with. You just look at 592 00:49:32.840 --> 00:49:38.199 NFL News Today or Detroit Lions News today and boom, you take your top 593 00:49:38.239 --> 00:49:44.000 three headlines. As long as it's not the room. I like being a 594 00:49:44.039 --> 00:49:47.920 fact wall show, not the rumor base show. So I try to stay 595 00:49:47.920 --> 00:49:51.920 with the one who should we trade for? Or who should we sign? 596 00:49:52.039 --> 00:49:54.199 And who should we do this and who should we do that? No, 597 00:49:54.360 --> 00:49:59.000 I look at what are the team's biggest needs in the next off season, 598 00:50:00.039 --> 00:50:05.719 and then I'll formulate my own hypothesis about by looking up who's available, doing 599 00:50:05.719 --> 00:50:08.599 the scouting reports and everything else, and coming up with the plan that I 600 00:50:08.679 --> 00:50:16.559 think the who's our team the best money wise, cap wise, fits culture, 601 00:50:17.639 --> 00:50:23.039 all big things in Dan Campbell and Brad Holmes world. That being said, 602 00:50:24.000 --> 00:50:30.480 so kudos to Candy Scott and Ralph I know you guys produce your own 603 00:50:30.519 --> 00:50:35.599 shows. I know you do your own content, your own intros, all 604 00:50:35.679 --> 00:50:39.760 that stuff. Kudos to my friends from the Lions Villain Squad who invited me 605 00:50:39.840 --> 00:50:45.239 to be a part of their network because he does the intros for everybody shows 606 00:50:45.280 --> 00:50:51.679 because he's got the copyright for the music and stuff like that. But my 607 00:50:51.880 --> 00:50:54.920 channel, I'll start there. I'm gonna work in reverse order. This time 608 00:50:55.920 --> 00:51:00.760 is Kneecap Biting with the MotorCity Lions. Can check us out there on YouTube. 609 00:51:00.920 --> 00:51:06.239 I also air into Twitter, Facebook to the MotorCity and Decat Fighters page. 610 00:51:06.519 --> 00:51:10.920 Also into the Lions Villain Squad. You can also find me on Twitter 611 00:51:12.239 --> 00:51:17.159 at Smoking Jeremy Beyond Next and then you can find me as a guest sometimes 612 00:51:17.199 --> 00:51:22.159 on Talk Sports with Micro or Mike. You can find me on Roar of 613 00:51:22.199 --> 00:51:27.960 the Lions UK. Sometimes you could fight me. You never know who's gonna 614 00:51:27.960 --> 00:51:31.840 add me. I've been on different sports shows, across Sideline Sports, across 615 00:51:34.519 --> 00:51:38.599 a numerous other places that I shall not be named because well I don't talk 616 00:51:38.639 --> 00:51:46.320 to them anymore. I don't know why they're lost. Then there is the 617 00:51:46.360 --> 00:51:51.280 South Florida Tribune. It's not only the YouTube channel, but it's also dot 618 00:51:51.320 --> 00:51:54.280 com where I'm a writer for the MotorCity Tribune with the great authors such as 619 00:51:54.599 --> 00:51:59.719 George Eichorn himself there, who has his own book which I have over here 620 00:51:59.760 --> 00:52:05.840 on coffee table somewhere. And there's Scott Morgan Roth And the logo's not there, 621 00:52:05.920 --> 00:52:08.960 so I can't really touch lessons from the microphone. Is that what it's 622 00:52:09.000 --> 00:52:14.159 called? Yeah, there it is. That's the one I'm talking about up 623 00:52:14.199 --> 00:52:22.199 there over there by Candy. Go to Amazon check it out. And on 624 00:52:22.239 --> 00:52:24.599 top of that, while you're watching us here on YouTube on the South Florida 625 00:52:24.639 --> 00:52:29.760 Tribune channel. Don't forget to like, subscribe and share, get this out 626 00:52:29.800 --> 00:52:31.760 to all your sports fans. Because you notice we touched a little bit on 627 00:52:31.840 --> 00:52:36.960 baseball. We touched on some basketball. We touched a lot on football because 628 00:52:37.000 --> 00:52:40.960 guess what, the season's still going. It has the fewest games, but 629 00:52:42.039 --> 00:52:47.840 the longest season. It's ridonculous because it goes because once the Super Bowl's done, 630 00:52:47.840 --> 00:52:51.360 a couple of weeks later, we start talking about all the stuff with 631 00:52:51.400 --> 00:52:54.599 the scouting combine and everything else. And don't forget the bull game that I'm 632 00:52:54.639 --> 00:52:59.639 the happiest to see is the one that's played Saturday, the Senior Bowl, 633 00:53:00.039 --> 00:53:09.360 which is basically the all star game for college Okay, George, how can 634 00:53:09.480 --> 00:53:13.840 people get a hold of you? Well, you can find me, as 635 00:53:13.880 --> 00:53:19.679 Jeremy mentioned that the South Florida Tribute under the banner Motor City Tribune at the 636 00:53:19.800 --> 00:53:22.719 end of every column, I have a link if you care to purchase Detroit 637 00:53:22.760 --> 00:53:28.360 Sports Broadcasters on the Air. It's a book I published several years ago, 638 00:53:28.480 --> 00:53:34.039 and Scott'son and Ernie Harwell, George kel Van, Patrick, Ray, Lane 639 00:53:34.159 --> 00:53:38.400 Lolld great announcers in Detroit history. Also, you can reach me at Yahoo 640 00:53:38.440 --> 00:53:45.519 at gi corn at yahoo dot com or on LinkedIn. I am on with 641 00:53:45.679 --> 00:53:52.719 my name George Corn on LinkedIn and also on Twitter, I use a name 642 00:53:52.840 --> 00:53:57.280 that's not too familiar, but sand g Sports just like it sounds, and 643 00:53:57.320 --> 00:54:01.840 then the number ninety nine. You can reach me on Twitter and find me 644 00:54:01.920 --> 00:54:05.920 on the one hundred eight Stitches show, find me on the Sports Exchange, 645 00:54:06.000 --> 00:54:09.000 find me on fire Up, find me on Punnit's punted. Wherever Scott and 646 00:54:09.039 --> 00:54:14.360 Candy need me, I'm I'm there and happy to help out and really appreciate 647 00:54:14.400 --> 00:54:19.480 the opportunity to be on your shows. Well, thank you, thank you. 648 00:54:20.000 --> 00:54:24.920 And I have to just have to add that George and Scott have been 649 00:54:24.960 --> 00:54:32.239 working together for over forty years in the media, so in some shape or 650 00:54:32.360 --> 00:54:38.400 form, whether it be on the radio or writers or on our YouTube station, 651 00:54:38.719 --> 00:54:45.599 and he writes for me forty three so we really appreciate obviously, and 652 00:54:46.000 --> 00:54:51.679 don't give it. I appreciate Jeremy, I appreciate Ralph, but George was 653 00:54:51.719 --> 00:54:54.559 actually in our wedding as well, so George is a good friend besides being 654 00:54:54.599 --> 00:55:00.960 a cold for George. There, thank you, thank you, so yes, 655 00:55:00.480 --> 00:55:06.559 yes, yeah, thank you, appreciate it. You're watching. Yeah, 656 00:55:08.679 --> 00:55:15.320 so Sellth Florida Tribune YouTube channel like it, share us with everybody, 657 00:55:15.360 --> 00:55:22.400 comment, come and watch our shows pretty much. You can find us Tuesday, 658 00:55:22.440 --> 00:55:27.280 Wednesday, Thursday nights, Sunday mornings. We have Inside the Pigskin. 659 00:55:27.360 --> 00:55:30.079 If you like football, we have one hundred and eight such as Baseball Talk 660 00:55:30.119 --> 00:55:34.039 if you like baseball, Sports Exchange if you like all of the sports. 661 00:55:34.079 --> 00:55:37.280 Because you never know what sport we might be talking about. He talks about 662 00:55:37.320 --> 00:55:42.360 everything. He's even talked about corn hole on Sports Exchange. Yes, I 663 00:55:42.440 --> 00:55:49.199 said corn hole. We all of our broadcasts are also on podcasting, so 664 00:55:49.280 --> 00:55:52.159 if you like to listen to podcasts, you can hear any of ours on 665 00:55:52.199 --> 00:55:59.320 there. Scott is now reintroducing his MotorCity Man Mo Show, which is the 666 00:55:59.400 --> 00:56:05.239 one on one interview show, and he interviewed Bokrouch this week, which is 667 00:56:05.239 --> 00:56:09.360 one of the guys that does our YouTube on our YouTube channel on Inside the 668 00:56:09.400 --> 00:56:15.039 Big Skin. He's based out of Seattle, and he talks about his playing 669 00:56:15.159 --> 00:56:20.599 days and what he's doing now. So go check out that show. Go 670 00:56:20.639 --> 00:56:23.440 to our website www. Dot Selth Florida Tribune dot com. You'll be able 671 00:56:23.480 --> 00:56:28.320 to see some of my pictures that I've taken be able to read what Jeremy 672 00:56:28.960 --> 00:56:32.880 wrote about pretty much most of the time about the Lions. And then he's 673 00:56:32.880 --> 00:56:38.559 got a little link to his channel too, so you can always click and 674 00:56:38.639 --> 00:56:43.800 watch his stuff. George, like he said, he writes, he also 675 00:56:43.920 --> 00:56:46.719 has a link for his book. Go buy his book. Scott wrote a 676 00:56:46.760 --> 00:56:50.400 book, Scott to my husband. He's the one that's been in the media 677 00:56:50.440 --> 00:56:54.079 business for over forty four years. His book talks about all of it, 678 00:56:54.239 --> 00:56:59.960 not all some of his experiences, because he's had so many that one book 679 00:57:00.000 --> 00:57:04.199 wouldn't It wasn't enough to hold it. But he even has pictures because he's 680 00:57:04.239 --> 00:57:09.119 interviewed the likes of Tommy Lasorda, Mohammad Ali. The book talks about that. 681 00:57:09.159 --> 00:57:15.039 The book has some pictures in there about some of those. Go check 682 00:57:15.119 --> 00:57:17.679 it. Check out the book. It's available on Amazon or on Kindle. 683 00:57:21.079 --> 00:57:25.159 Let's see what else. Oh n GBN TV is the newest and latest. 684 00:57:25.559 --> 00:57:34.760 It is going to be a streaming TV station and we are our Sports Exchange 685 00:57:34.800 --> 00:57:37.760 is going to be picked up on that show on that streaming TV. It 686 00:57:37.840 --> 00:57:43.119 is gonna be on Amazon, It's gonna be on Roku TV, It's gonna 687 00:57:43.159 --> 00:57:47.360 be on all Android devices. It's gonna soon be on Apple and we're gonna 688 00:57:47.360 --> 00:57:52.639 be broadcasting live on that station. So you want to go out and check 689 00:57:52.679 --> 00:57:59.760 out that. That station is really designed to entertain, inform, educate, 690 00:58:00.119 --> 00:58:02.639 especially men in their forties, fifties, and sixties, because we're trying to 691 00:58:02.639 --> 00:58:08.719 reduce the suicide rate. And that is the highest rate of suicide in that 692 00:58:08.800 --> 00:58:14.360 age group in men, So we're trying to support them and give them something, 693 00:58:14.440 --> 00:58:21.320 give them an outlet, yes, mister Jeremy. And in that age 694 00:58:21.360 --> 00:58:28.920 group, it's highest among veterans. Yes, please make sure you support your 695 00:58:29.000 --> 00:58:35.519 veterans. Suicide Helpline hotline can be found online. All you gotta do is 696 00:58:35.519 --> 00:58:38.559 search it. If you need somebody to talk to, they're there. If 697 00:58:38.639 --> 00:58:43.079 you know me personally, reach out, I'll talk to you. I've faced 698 00:58:43.079 --> 00:58:46.559 my own demons with that. Many of us here has faced way more than 699 00:58:46.599 --> 00:58:54.519 most people realize, and we can handle it. We can. In fact, 700 00:58:54.519 --> 00:59:00.639 if you go to soult Florida Tribune, Scott just recently wrote an article 701 00:59:00.079 --> 00:59:07.039 about suicide and the NGBN TV and it's a very touching story. So I 702 00:59:07.159 --> 00:59:12.559 encourage everybody to go to www dot Sulflord Attribune dot Com and read it. 703 00:59:14.119 --> 00:59:16.400 Well, guys, it's been an absolute pleasure. I want to thank Ralph, 704 00:59:16.519 --> 00:59:20.480 I want to thank George and Jeremy, and I want to thank all 705 00:59:20.519 --> 00:59:22.960 the people that were in the chatroom. We appreciate it. Without you people 706 00:59:23.000 --> 00:59:27.280 in the chatroom, we wouldn't keep doing this. We never reason. So 707 00:59:27.360 --> 00:59:30.159 thank you for being out there and thank you for commenting. And catch us. 708 00:59:30.239 --> 00:59:34.519 You're going to catch us Sunday morning. I don't know set a time 709 00:59:34.599 --> 00:59:37.880 yet, but watch watch for it. We'll advertise it ahead of time and 710 00:59:37.920 --> 00:59:42.440 then catch us next week. You can find us every Thursday night, normally 711 00:59:42.480 --> 00:59:47.320 around nine thirty. Thanks everybody in enjoy the Pro Bowl. If you're gonna 712 00:59:47.320 --> 00:59:55.079 watch, yeah, but in your bowl. Thanks guys, have a good 713 00:59:55.079 --> 00:59:57.280 one. Good Bye,