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Gladys. That was funny, but yeah, our breakfast got delivered, so
k t rolled the audio. How to go? Here's Gladys? Okay?
Oh? Yes, around and around we go. H Gladys? How are
you? How's it going? What we have here has some chicken? I'm
Kevin, Yes, that's all that you. This is Danny. I'm Kevin,
Kevin. T oh, I can't keep the whole. I can't have
the whole bag. Wow, what an amazing amount of food we've gotten.
How Gladys, what you doing today? Continue today? Yeah, never stop,
not stopping. Yeah, be careful out there with theirs. Okay,
take care if out there. Gladys, love you, we love you.
I love you. She didn't say it back. Whoa, I'm gonna give
me some of that chicken bitch dance. She was very nice. Thank you.
Kevin tried to take the whole door dash bag, like the insulated bag
that she probably had to pay for. He just grabs the hold and she's
like no, no, all of Farmer's branch deliveries, three strikes on,
telling her your love her. I know there's nothing. He said. Good
luck with the squirrels out there today. Be careful, be careful everywhere right
now this time of year. I guess, well, thank you and well
done down there, and thank you, Gladys. Probably a listener, definitely
definitely buy it. Yeah, yeah, there's a big article in Sports Illustrated.
In Sports Illustrated, a lot of people were mad that the Rangers weren't
on the cover. I don't really know how that works anymore, don't care.
But they have this whole series and it's like, how does this work?
And they did an article on They sent a couple of riders down and
said, spend a week on the sideline of an NFL game. Now.
They said they're hoping it'd be a very normal NFL game. It turned out
it was the game where the Dolphins beat the Broncos like seventy to twenty,
So it's kind of historical now funny part of the article as it gets going.
He's like Mike McDaniel, the head coach of the Dolphins, and for
those that don't know, he's kind of the stoner talking guys. He's unconventional.
He's the the early thirties and if you saw him, you'd probably go,
there's a nerd. But he's very awesome and he started his career as
a ball boy for the Broncos. So if anyone needs to know about the
commitment that it takes to have a full sideline and how much of all of
that stuff means on a day to day operation, he would know they care
about the little guy. One quote that he had in there said people don't
understand the commitment of what it is to work a seven day week. I
was like, you know what a lot of people don't work seven day weeks.
The people that do are generally oil field types. But what is that,
Yeah, working all for ten days on ten days off, right,
is that how it goes? What type of thing? Two weeks on,
two weeks off. We're not oil men like you are, Kevin Well from
your ranch and only. But they started, they kind of broke down a
lot of different jobs of different people, like Patrick, the tech guy.
The tech guy shows up. Let's say it's a noon kickoff. He shows
up at eight am. He finds the guy at the purple hat. It's
the NFL league representative who's got all the tablets. And then Patrick is there
making sure that they meet all the tablets they need. For example, they
don't like to have the stylus attached to their tablets. That's right, pre
arranged stylus, no string, right, But if it's cold weather, they
do like to have the stylus attached because the players were the players coaches were
gloves to keep their hands warm. So he's got to make sure that all
of those were But here's what I didn't know about that. I didn't know
these team was only allowed to have sixteen tablets per game. There's like a
hard set rule on that. Yeah. I overall I found this whole article,
excuse me, incredibly interesting and it was little things like that that I
didn't know. You know, we watched so much football and it's just this
controlled chaos that you don't really appreciate or even know where to start on a
sideline. There's so many jobs that were I was kind of unaware of.
You're right, somebody in charge of these tablets and the league regulations of how
many you can have and what they're for, which is essentially all twenty two
cams. And they said they have two coaches that want the paper. They
want the paper still the photographs, like I don't want your tablet. No
tablets need analog information. So there's two coaches that still want the printed photographs
of the all twenty two instead of the tablets. And you know that's a
collective side from Patrick and his team, but you never know it spark off
the Mitchell report. Well you're at it there, pailf. Yeah, and
they say, within what five seconds of a play happening, there's a printer
on the sidelines and they can print this staple it all together. They've got
a runner and they run it to these coaches for the All twenty two,
which is fascinating. There's a camera directly above the fifty, right they say
that, and I'm like, yeah, at the fifty Okay, not directly
above obviously at that at hard Rock Stadium when there's nothing up there and then
a camera and jin zone. I don't know. I just among the many
things I learned in this article, that was one that I found very interesting.
It makes me think that they've got a couple of old guys in their
coaching staff, and if they just give those guys, they could move away
from having to have a printer to what it's said liked. And they made
a point to say that the names of those people that it printed out,
yeah, out of deference to them, they did not choose to have their
names disclosed, I guess, or the article didn't whatever. Man. The
thing I got out of this is basically, these teams sixteen seventeen weeks out
of the year, have a big production, big budget movie to make every
week, yes, and six days to prepare for it. Yes. I
think that's well put. It's incredible the amount of moving parts and just anonymous
figures involved with doing this, and you know what, every one, you
know what as far as the sport goes, like, there's only sixteen games,
there are one hundred and sixty two in Baseball sixteen, so you already
know how like the condensed stress of these sixteen how much it means for the
team, But then apply that to everyone the entire theatrical performance, however you
want to put it. Yes, it's amazing. Everyone was making sure that
they go to every link imaginable to make sure that if something screwed up,
like we lossy, to make sure that nothing screws up because of how much
weight it has if they do screw it up, and then they're the ones
to blame. Yep. Like the guy was talking about the Wi Fi connection
and he's like and he told the story, this is a big guy.
I remember this game last year was Week seventeen or eighteen. The Jets and
the Dolphins lost their in headset communication and he had to go through a checklist
head of NFL headquarters or whatever on like here's how we're gonna do this,
and then here's a walkie talkie that we could use as our third backup option,
and to make sure that they can't talk, because that's the thing that's
never talked about enough to me, the coach at fifteen seconds on the play
clock, the coach and quarterback can't talk. I mean, the coach can't
talk to the quarterback anymore. I don't know if you're Peyton Manning talking about
this on the on the Manning cast, and he's like, I always want
the coach to shut up, like, just tell me the play and then
don't don't be in my ear. But I imagine with some quarter back,
especially younger quarterbacks, they are getting a coach telling them here comes the linebacker
or watch out for that, and then fifteen seconds goop it cuts off.
So msually have to do that with a walkie talkie. And this guy's talking
about because the Wi Fi could be a problem because during COVID they spread out
the benches, so the sideline got a little bigger and longer, and it
wouldn't reach and it wouldn't reach all the way down as long as far as
you might need it to go time. It was just crazy to me,
And we never think about that when we're watching guy hit, guy tackle,
tackle score, you know, when we watch our lovely football, we're talking
about this article that came out in Sports Illustrated I guess yesterday. So it's
basically about what the hell goes on on the sidelines, behind the scenes to
get from basically Monday through Sunday in an NFL game. They followed the Dolphins
in particular on this the week that they beat Dinver seventy to twenty. And
I want to ask you, guys, this, the the job that seems
like the most demanding and difficult is probably the one that pays the least,
and that would be the assistant freaking equipment manager. Yeah. He was the
last guy that I think so yeah, and just oh my god, the
amount of responsibility, not only the amount of the diligent checklist this guy must
go through every week, every day, numerous departments that he has to deal
with, but the having to be fluid with requests. Yeah, because you
know how high maintenance some of these players can be. Yo, man,
I like that hoodie that I had last Tuesday, you know, the green
one with the thing on it. I needed like three of those. Yeah,
what, okay, let me write that down. He's got on a
sea of face masks and straps and he's like, yeah, sure, let
me get you that. But what I found interesting, I think is what
Kevin just brought up is how all these people, every one of them,
all their job is to make that kid think of nothing but what he has
to do on the field. Yeah, and they don't like almost by default.
I'm like, oh my god, I got some nineteen year old who
thinks he's the king of the world, you know, But they don't even
think like that. They think like, how do I do? What do
I do to make this guy's life easier on him? Whether it be the
perfect tape job on his wrists or his ankles? And they have the girl
they talked about for that. She's like, if they don't, if they're
not hurt, or if they don't even need it. They just want to
look good, yes, she said. And yes, some of them just
have tape because they think it looks cool. It means nothing, and she
said that's part of a performance. If they feel like they look good,
maybe they'll perform back. Yep, that's very Ian golf attitude. You know
it look good, play good. The attention that is given to these players
on any given day is next to probably royalty. And I thought of,
you know, because I'm watching the crown right now for the first time through
and uh, just the amount of hand servants that those people that monarchy has
were. Basically, the guy is holding you, handing you a toothbrush that's
already pre loaded pre dust in water however you prefer it, and holding a
bowl under you your face to spit in, and you hand him the tooth
brest. Basically, all you're doing is brushing your teeth and spitting and everything
else is taken care of. It's kind of like that mentality for these guys
to make sure they are so catered to. So, like you said,
all they're thinking about is effing footput to that and his second phone. That
same guy you brought up, the assistant equipment manager, you know, he's
like he's scouring the sidelines making sure everybody's good. He's like, if he
sees a shoe untied, he will run over and tie it. And he's
like, yeah, they could tie their own shoe, but that's two full
seconds that they're not thinking about what a coach talking or what they should be
preparing for. And that's like insane and it might be stupid, but if
you can justify that. Dude made one play in one second, the change
is the result of a regular season game that got to the playoffs, that
you won the super Bowl. I mean, like you can kind of justify
it like that, like why wouldn't we do everything to make their lives just
a fraction of a percent easier? And that that's the thing is when you
have teams that pay that much attention to detail, that give them that if
it increases their percentage of winning or something good happening for them, that's what
it's all about. It's putting yourself in the best possible scenario to be you
know, to be successful. And I mean those metrics, once you add
them up across the board, it might maybe it equals a win, right
it does, which then equates to making the playoffs or not, which then
equates to more revenue being earned. So yeah, they get money. It
sounds and things like that, which I think is important to like you're playing
for something there. It does sound a little bit more money would go to
the entire staff as well, but like that's all Like the commendment level is
always very cool to see on some of this when they're talking about do what
I have to do? I remember the guy who is the uh the gay
basically had to handle it services in the building. It was like, the
problem is some coaches stay at the office till two am. Some coaches come
in to work at three am, and if something's wrong, I gotta be
there. And if oh, I got to fix this thing. But Hewlett
Packard can't come in and fix this computer at this time. I've got to
be there and meet him at one thirty am to make it work, find
a find a way. It does not matter because they got to have their
stuff. I like the assistant athletic trainer, the girl, and she was
talking about just kind of knowing which players prefer pedialyte versus which players prefer pickle
juice when they're cramping up. And then she talked about also they don't players
don't really care about what color the gatar ade is, but they can't use
red, and the reason being because red could be confused as a stink,
as a blood stain if it's billed on you. And some players are allergic
to the die. I don't know. There must have been one player,
probably the kicker. Yeah, Jason Sanders, Thanks, I'm allergic, Okay,
Jason, we'll have something else then. Jason had to stay home from
school a lot. Jason, the guy who talked about the coach is getting
jammed up. That was interesting to me, and we talked a little bit
about it, but he said that headset troubleshooting isn't his main job. He's
got to do the thing. And this is what I think Julie's husband used
to do this with the Stars, the video coach, the amount of crap
that they have to piece together from a data standpoint, and I've seen this
firsthand. Me and Kavanaugh used to go up to the Dallas Stars facility thanks
to our friend Brian Rodis, and we will watch anything the Cowboys had and
it was amazing. Okay, so let's just go to the twenty sixteen draft.
I want to watch tape of Dak Prescott. Okay. I want to
see every touchdown pass Dak Prescott through this shar Well, hit a button.
There they are. It's thirty plays. Yep. I want to see every
interception. Here they are. Here's eleven plays. I want to see every
incompletion. I't to see every completion over twenty five yards, every screen pass,
you know, every deep But it's more than that. He said that
within five minutes after the game. He he could McDaniel could do every bit
of that for the game that was just played. But they're doing advanced scouting
too, and he will be in the bus thinking about the next opponent.
Yeah, and he's like, I want to see every time our next opponent's
defensive tackle lined up in the one technique versus the three technique. Crazy,
and they have this all searchable. Again. He's like, I might need
it might take me a few minutes, but I can. I can have
that delivered quicker than you'd imagine. It's it's amazing, Like I remember watching
we can go watch players at the Star or Valley Ranch even way back in
the day, and offensive linemen and be like, well here he played left
tackle and left guard. Hit the button here, all this snaps the left
tackle. Yep, here all of snaps the left guard. All therefore,
you just it was so easy to find. I didn't put together. And
they have a league wide hub that they have to submit all their own video
to within a few minutes after the game. I think that every league,
every team in the league has access to so it's all shared. I don't
know if that's checks and balances to prove that you're not shooting the sideline and
getting you know, stealing whatever or or what it is or just for fairness.
Oh, it's just stuff I didn't know. Man, fascinating. And
the these houses didn't have like a big staff either. I mean said he
has staff of three that as far as filming, that filmed the play from
each angle. So like this do is might help explain why. I mean,
look at like sports and played sports growing up on stuff. But in
sixth grade the year before junior high, but I was, you know,
a manager. So there was a bunch of us who are water boys.
We're in junior high, but we were managers for the for the Varscoal.
Is this going to apply to the NFL? Well, we'll see. Well,
for each home game we had a rolls, but for each road game
we would draw out of a hat where our rolls were. You always wanted
to be the ball boy. You just follow the ref all the day and
just make sure that the balls are dry and all that stuff. Water boy.
You didn't want to do water boy that sucked towels just fine. There
could be the cords that you if you're running the cords or spasical making sure
the coaches don't get tripped up. But for home games, I went up
in the big like an electric company's cherry picker. You know. They would
take me up before each game. I get into the cherry pickers sixth grade,
Kevo. But I would film the game so there was an All twenty
two look. I mean, dude, in small towns, not every school
is getting an All twenty two look like that from like behind the uprights.
So I'm going up and man, I tell you what a few times that
if they kick a field goal with extra point, the balls coming up at
you while I'm filming it. But I would film that and the coach would
have it after the game. And that coach really liked me because of that,
because I was giving him good film copy to look at. And then
he left and went to a different town. So my hopes and dreams of
been quarterback were shot because he took another job. You didn't consider transferring.
I did not. Where do you go, Steven? I'm sorry? Uh
at the West sweet Water? Sweet Water, Sweetwater. That's the home of
the rattlesnake Round up, Mikey Yanks, What about the protector? Larry Jeriga
sixty four to three pounds. He's the security guard. But home games he
takes Mike McDaniel's wife and kids to the game. Going away games, he's
there like on the field. And his advice was, if there's a guy
that ever runs on the field security guarding one oh one, let him run
for a little bit, let him get tired, and then go get him.
Yeah, oh that was great. And what do you have like twenty
seconds of burst? Yeah, basically, and then that energy bar depletes and
he's don't don't check an easy play, don't chase, wants to run and
right out of player, don't chase. That's interesting in the level of alcohol
just disascerbates. Oh yeah, the whole process. But I like that.
Yeah, because he has all these jobs. But on game day, a
few hours before the game, he goes to Mike McDaniel's house and picks up
his family and he's like, you know, it seems odd, but the
last thing on a coach's mind needs to be are my kids in good hands?
Do they make it to the whatever? Everything is just to clean the
minds of those who have to focus for that three hours. Being a coach
is like having a double life. I think that was yeah, and this
may be where you're going during the season. That One other thing that I
wanted to bring up is the twenty four to seven availability that most all of
these people have to have that are involved. You're always on call and you
better pick up your phone if it's during the season. Yeah, including that
guy who's on his honeymoon, and like Iceland, he's answering it questions.
M Well, you're a part of the most popular thing in America. You
don't like your job, someone else will take your job. I used to
think about that way about radio, but then I realized that no one really
cares about radio anymore. What do they think they're the ticket? I know,
right, it's very strange. But I don't know if that was a
good article. That was a lot of fun, good reading. It's like
it's good from more perspective on that. I know, Mikey, you and
I just went to two road games, you know, this year in the
NFL, and you do You're taken aback when you look all the way up
and down the sideline, I'm like, God, there's a bunch of people
on this sideline. I mean, you see it on TV every week we
see a guy get hit you know, you know, hard on the sideline
and you're like, why is there so much crap on the sideline? This
is this article kind of explains why there's so much crap. It's all needed.
They had the one wide shot of the entire sideline with all the arrows
pointing at every person's job. Incredible. Again, this is all in sports
illustrating. You can just google just go Sports Illustrated Dolphins and scroll down a
little bit and it's Yeah, I don't remember the title, but you'll find
it. It's a real long, in depth read. But I thought it
was excellent, man, very fascinating, fantastic and just like how much crap
they got to move to go on the road. Yea, that's like that
part of it is like a traveling rock and roll tour. Yes. Like
when they had the joint practices with the Texans, Yeah, like god,
that's a pain because they need multiple everything for multiple days. You have to
say, hey, Texans, do you have an extra blocking sled or do
we need to bring one, you know, a thousand pounds blocking sled.
Yeah, throw that truck in one of your many trucks or planes and prioritize
what goes in the truck versus what goes in the plane. And then just
like the molding of all their heads in training camps, of their helmets on
the inside to make sure the helmets fit absolutely to perfection, and then sterilizing
the helmets like the Thursday before the game, and then on Friday replacing all
their face masks because you have brand new face masks every game. I don't
you know that, no brand new face mask every game. I always wonder
if it's brand new shoes, brand new helmet. I assume the helmet stays
for the whole year, but I don't know. That's also in high school,
like probably not. It was a very good reading. If you don't
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