Speaker 1: Good evening, everybody, and welcome to another edition of Up.
Speaker 1: Are we fired up? Gentlemen?
Speaker 2: I am because the Penguins just tied it up at
Speaker 2: four against the Philadelphia Flowers. Let's go.
Speaker 3: Okay, and hey, if you stay ready, you ain't gotta
Speaker 3: get ready. So I'm fired up. We keep these fryers
Speaker 3: fired up over here, and uh yeah, to Pensman's point,
Speaker 3: I've got my South Carolina game Cocks. They just took
Speaker 3: a thirty three to thirty one lead going in close
Speaker 3: to halftime here against Old Miss. We'll see what shakes here.
Speaker 3: Old Miss has the ball, but just excited, talk about
Speaker 3: sports and have a good time.
Speaker 1: Awesome, awesome. We are missing two of our regulars. We
Speaker 1: are missing George Iichorn, who was actually on the scene
Speaker 1: of that Red Wings loss covering the Red Wings game.
Speaker 1: And then there's Ralph Williams, who is at a wrestling
Speaker 1: event I believe tonight, so he could is not on
Speaker 1: as well. So we missed those two regulars. But Pensman,
Speaker 1: you're back for more here on Fire Up. Of course, welcome,
Speaker 1: and then our guest JD tell everybody, because have you
Speaker 1: been on fire? You were on fire up.
Speaker 3: Though, Yeah, we yeah, just last week or the week before,
Speaker 3: I think we did one altigether Yeah. Yeah, so yeah,
Speaker 3: we've been here. We know what's up to roll.
Speaker 1: All right, Well, we are going to start with one
Speaker 1: of our first topics, and we're going to talk NFL.
Speaker 1: Even though the NFL is now in their off season.
Speaker 1: I mean the NFL combine Actually probably it starts what
Speaker 1: tomorrow I think I think it starts tomorrow the twenty
Speaker 1: eighth or today?
Speaker 2: Yeah, okay, it was the linebackers, linebackers.
Speaker 3: Well, then they actually had special teams yesterday because Kayak
Speaker 3: Kroger from South Carolina, he put on a performance for
Speaker 3: the game Cocks there. He had the highest hangtime I
Speaker 3: think of any punter there. So yeah, yesterday with special
Speaker 3: teams kind of got underway. But then today, yeah, we
Speaker 3: saw a bunch of the defensive linemen run in the
Speaker 3: forties and linebackers. Of course, the big story Abdul Carter
Speaker 3: and the stress. They're not even calling it a fracture.
Speaker 3: I forget what they're calling it stress reaction or something
Speaker 3: in his foot. It needed surgery, it doesn't need surgery.
Speaker 3: Who knows what's gonna happen there, But yeah, the combine
Speaker 3: fully underway.
Speaker 1: So for all you that think it's the off season, yeah,
Speaker 1: they might not be on the field, but they're doing
Speaker 1: their per putting in their good good time here to
Speaker 1: try and make teams show what they can do at
Speaker 1: the NFL Combine. But one of the things that was
Speaker 1: just released, and there's been a couple of little developments,
Speaker 1: but one of the things that was released is the
Speaker 1: NFLPA dropped the team report cards, which is compiled from
Speaker 1: survey responses of nearly seventeen hundred players from all thirty
Speaker 1: two teams. And when they great them, I'm gonna say
Speaker 1: they great them on coach, owner, food, travel, weight, room,
Speaker 1: and the treatment of their families, which I think is
Speaker 1: very interesting to be able to grade them on all
Speaker 1: those different things and then to release that to the
Speaker 1: public so we all can see that. I have to
Speaker 1: admit I was shocked by who was at the top
Speaker 1: of the top of the great and then who was
Speaker 1: on the bottom kind of surprised me as well. So
Speaker 1: when I say that the top of the top actually
Speaker 1: was Miami, which surprised me. Their owner, their coach was
Speaker 1: graded an A plus, their owner in A plus, their
Speaker 1: food A plus, travel, A plus, weight room a plus
Speaker 1: and treatment of family was an A. But at the
Speaker 1: bottom of that barrel was Arizona. Now they gave their
Speaker 1: coach an A and get to be fair, there was
Speaker 1: only there was three coaches that were graded a C
Speaker 1: and nothing lower than that. Now, but that was where
Speaker 1: Arizona really kind of the only thing they really shined.
Speaker 1: Their owner was given a D minus, their food a
Speaker 1: D minus. Travel was a B, so that's not too bad.
Speaker 1: Their weight room was an AT and the treatment of
Speaker 1: family was a deep plus. So what they did is
Speaker 1: they came out and said now they are gonna commit
Speaker 1: one hundred million dollars to building a new training facility. So, guys,
Speaker 1: what are your thoughts on, first of all, the whole
Speaker 1: grading system and that becoming public, and then what the
Speaker 1: Arizona colonels are doing as a result of some of
Speaker 1: those And we're gonna lead off with JD since you.
Speaker 3: Are our guests. Oh well, thank you, Oh appreciate it. So, yeah,
Speaker 3: the first thing that sticks out is, I mean just
Speaker 3: some of yeah, some of these rankings. So in my mind,
Speaker 3: the first thing that popped in my head as you
Speaker 3: were speaking about it there is like they're really Miami Miami,
Speaker 3: y'all got nothing but a plus's and a's all the
Speaker 3: way across the board. Like, yeah, Mike McDaniels are really cool,
Speaker 3: head coach, Miami is a great place to live. But
Speaker 3: what about the owner makes him a plus? I couldn't
Speaker 3: even name the owner, first of all, but I that
Speaker 3: just so to me, this strikes me as coach's poll nonsense.
Speaker 3: Somebody else filled out these report cards. So some of
Speaker 3: these teams that might be up here at the top
Speaker 3: and have these really high grades, I don't trust them.
Speaker 3: I don't trust them. What I will grade it on
Speaker 3: is I would grade it anywhere from maybe the tenth
Speaker 3: to like the twenty fifth team, because I feel like
Speaker 3: that's probably where you got the most accurate answers. I
Speaker 3: mean Arizona obviously, with two D minus's and an F
Speaker 3: and a D plus isn't very good. But again, Arizona,
Speaker 3: I mean, what makes them that we don't hear all
Speaker 3: these negative stories about Arizona that make them that way? However, right, Well,
Speaker 3: maybe Kyler Murray, but I don't see a quarterback grade
Speaker 3: up here anywhere, you know what I mean? Obviously, Kyler
Speaker 3: Murray's a very negative thing there. He plays too much
Speaker 3: Xbox or PlayStation or whatever it is. They say had
Speaker 3: a much better year this past year. But obviously that
Speaker 3: was a point of contention. But then, I mean, even
Speaker 3: you got Pittsburgh, you got their ownership at a du
Speaker 3: Carolina Panthers D minus. I absolutely agree with that one.
Speaker 3: So I mean there's certain grades in here though that
Speaker 3: I could go through and pick out is very accurate,
Speaker 3: but there's some I just really I really question the
Speaker 3: validity to it. So to speak. Pennsman, I mean, or Candy,
Speaker 3: what would you got to what? I'm thinking? That's my question.
Speaker 3: How how valid are some of these actual rankings, because
Speaker 3: I think anybody that got an A plus A plus,
Speaker 3: A plus, A plus A plus and an A that
Speaker 3: just screams to me that somebody filled these ballots out
Speaker 3: out and send him in. So I would grade it
Speaker 3: more like Dallas right there. I mean, how did Dallas
Speaker 3: end up at ten with A A, A B, A
Speaker 3: B plus, A B minus, A minus and A But
Speaker 3: some of the players complained about it being a zoo letting.
Speaker 3: Jerry Jones and his players are having fans and tourists
Speaker 3: walk through watching them work out, so how did they
Speaker 3: get that high of a ranking.
Speaker 2: Because everybody loves the Dallas Cowboys Stadium.
Speaker 3: Right, But if how valid know, if you fly.
Speaker 2: Over it, it looks awesome. And I heard that if
Speaker 2: you go inside. I'd never been inside. I've been fly
Speaker 2: flew over it, but if you fly when I fly
Speaker 2: over it, it's like, uh, yes, Brian, I know, thanks
Speaker 2: for bringing that up. I appreciate that. I know that, Ah, Brian,
Speaker 2: But yeah, that's the Dallas Cowboys Stadium. Is is phenomenal,
Speaker 2: It's awesome. I just you can't what Jerry Jones did
Speaker 2: to the old stam to the new stadium. You can't
Speaker 2: compare the old stam to the new one. And Arizona Cardinals,
Speaker 2: you better get your act together. You have a good team.
Speaker 2: The jerseys are cool looking. Kyler Murray is not focused
Speaker 2: on the team. He'd rather play Badden when he's already
Speaker 2: on the team. You need to have a good quarterback
Speaker 2: because you are a leader. Once you have that see
Speaker 2: you on your jersey, that means you're a captain and
Speaker 2: you have to lead your team in the right direction.
Speaker 1: So going back to the well, first of all, let
Speaker 1: me say, Brian, you talk about the Patriots. I just
Speaker 1: had that up the Patriots travel, the players give it enough,
Speaker 1: So your point to them not having Wi Fi in
Speaker 1: the plane, that might be one of the things that
Speaker 1: the players are looking for because that entertains them or
Speaker 1: allows them to do things on the plane when they
Speaker 1: are traveling.
Speaker 3: They got to be able to bet on the game, right.
Speaker 1: That's true. That's true.
Speaker 2: So.
Speaker 1: The Arizona Cardinals said they are planning to invest roughly
Speaker 1: one hundred million to build a new training facility at
Speaker 1: the team's current location, following the lowmarks for facilities in
Speaker 1: the yearly NFL Players Association survey that was released on Wednesday.
Speaker 1: Their goal is to provide the best possible environment, facilities,
Speaker 1: and resources, and to give our team the greatest opportunity
Speaker 1: to succeed. The Cardinals said in a statement, we're working
Speaker 1: hard to achieve that. Last season, we shared with our
Speaker 1: players the plans for a new training facility at the
Speaker 1: existing Tempe location, with a targeted completion date of twenty
Speaker 1: twenty seven. They've hired a leading architecture firm that has
Speaker 1: worked with a number of NFL teams on the new
Speaker 1: facility and the design processes underway. The Cardinals did score
Speaker 1: well in certain areas including an A for head coach
Speaker 1: Jonathan Gannon, B for A team travel, and B for
Speaker 1: the nutritionist diet Titian. Their owner Michael Bidwell received a
Speaker 1: D minus from the players. I thought some of these
Speaker 1: were interesting, like if you think about it, so we
Speaker 1: all know that I'm a Packers fan, or if you
Speaker 1: do or you don't, but like they're not. They don't
Speaker 1: have an owner, they're owned by the shareholders, so they
Speaker 1: got an A minus. Well, who are you ranking at
Speaker 1: that point? Are you ranking Murphy that's you know, really
Speaker 1: running it, or are you because they're really not owned
Speaker 1: by one person, I think, And they're trashing.
Speaker 2: And they're trashing Lambeau too by coming coming at seventh.
Speaker 1: Well, they're giving the weight room an A, so they
Speaker 1: come in at seventh. But I think that the part
Speaker 1: of it was all the A minuses for food, travel coach,
Speaker 1: we're all A minuses owners A minus, weight room was
Speaker 1: A and the treatment of family was a B. The
Speaker 1: one that I found kind of very interesting is treatment
Speaker 1: of family was an F for Jacksonville and F minus
Speaker 1: for Cincinnati, UH, and then a D plus for Cleveland
Speaker 1: and Arizona, a D for the Rams.
Speaker 2: Guys, How can Steelers be twenty eighth. Like with Brian said,
Speaker 2: but the only a we have is like Tomlin, the
Speaker 2: stadium is awesome. There Aftershure Stadium is awesome. Heinz Field's
Speaker 2: awesome just because we got the get rid of the ketchup.
Speaker 2: It's a b or C. Come on, the stadium is awesome.
Speaker 1: There they're not talking about their playing facilities. They're talking
Speaker 1: about their their weight room.
Speaker 3: Yeah yeah, yeah, there was six categories, right, Candy, Yeah,
Speaker 3: well just on these report cards, it's yes, coach, owner, food, travel,
Speaker 3: weight room, and treatment of family, which Candy was just
Speaker 3: mentioning treatment of family, and that's one thing I wanted
Speaker 3: to mention there. A lot of these cities aren't known
Speaker 3: for having a very good crime rate, so I'm very
Speaker 3: curious about is this the treatment of family get all
Speaker 3: lumped together by how the family of players are treated
Speaker 3: by the team, or is it about the community life
Speaker 3: of which they live in.
Speaker 1: I don't think it's the community life. I think it's
Speaker 1: how the team, maybe the owner, and what they do
Speaker 1: for the family, Like do they when they like, let's
Speaker 1: face it, like the Jags play over season internationally, do
Speaker 1: they pay for all of the family to go see
Speaker 1: that game, and do they pay for any of that?
Speaker 1: I'm not sure exactly because I don't have a ballot
Speaker 1: in front of me. That would be an interesting question.
Speaker 3: Right well, and to your point though, too Ill and
Speaker 3: I will say this, and I'll anybody else can go
Speaker 3: after this, or Pensman or if you got anything else
Speaker 3: to say, whatever, however we need to do it if
Speaker 3: we need to move topics. But oh yeah, if the
Speaker 3: treatment of family though, so, if we are gauging this
Speaker 3: based on how the franchises treat the family of their players,
Speaker 3: and you see them getting some of the grades they're getting,
Speaker 3: can you imagine what the treatment of fans is like?
Speaker 3: And why isn't that part of this report card? That's
Speaker 3: the most important thing? Right mm hmm? I mean are
Speaker 3: they are they treating the fans properly?
Speaker 2: And that's what I was just gonna stay there, JD.
Speaker 2: Who's who's actually giving these reports out? Who's actually voting
Speaker 2: for these.
Speaker 1: The NFLPA, so the Players Association, Yeah.
Speaker 2: What do they know? Ye? What do they know?
Speaker 1: They would know quite a bit, I would say.
Speaker 2: What I'm just saying that the Eagles are twenty second,
Speaker 2: the Chiefs are twenty seventh, so and they were the
Speaker 2: Super Bowl contenders, and Eagles won the championship this year,
Speaker 2: as everybody know. But they're twenty second.
Speaker 1: Exactly. But I think they're for that reason. I think
Speaker 1: they're probably out of all the categories. They probably are
Speaker 1: weighing certain cagories more now. I don't know which ones
Speaker 1: and why they ranked them from one to thirty two like.
Speaker 2: That, right that.
Speaker 1: I don't know. I just found some of these interesting,
Speaker 1: Like when you're talking about coaches and you're giving them
Speaker 1: a grade, and yet how many of those coaches did
Speaker 1: we move on from this year? You know, Jacksonville, we
Speaker 1: all know that Doug Moron was the coach. He got
Speaker 1: a C. He's out. The Bears, they had a coaching change.
Speaker 1: They also gave their coach a C. Just find the
Speaker 1: Jets they had a coaching change, they had a B
Speaker 1: grade for coach. I just think some of those are
Speaker 1: very interesting and they could be telling too. Do we
Speaker 1: all agree with them? No? Probably not, but we're not
Speaker 1: on the inside and don't have all of those. The
Speaker 1: Jets owner he had an F.
Speaker 2: I agree with that. I agree with that. Jay mm hmmm,
Speaker 2: Jets Jets owner head enough. But but giving mine D
Speaker 2: gives him a D.
Speaker 1: Maybe they feel that he hasn't done enough to change
Speaker 1: the culture of the team.
Speaker 3: Well, no, the problem, the problem with Rooney is he
Speaker 3: hasn't fired his A rated head coach yet. That's what
Speaker 3: That's why.
Speaker 2: He got the D.
Speaker 3: But they gave they gave tom One the A. So yeah,
Speaker 3: that's Rooney's problem. They just he hadn't fired Mike Tomlin yet,
Speaker 3: his A ranked head coach. And it candy, if I may,
Speaker 3: I was gonna say, just as y'all were talking about that,
Speaker 3: this thought come in my head. I think it was
Speaker 3: rush hour three or something, or rush hour two.
Speaker 2: They like.
Speaker 3: They will, they light up the counterfeit bill, remember, and
Speaker 3: it burns real bright to me. That's what you can
Speaker 3: do with this NFL report card. I don't believe any
Speaker 3: of its validity. You can light it up its counterfeit,
Speaker 3: and I think it should get fired up on fire
Speaker 3: up this evening.
Speaker 1: Well, so here's one thing I'm gonna say. I'm going
Speaker 1: to read some One of the core jobs as a
Speaker 1: union is to improve the overall working conditions for our players,
Speaker 1: which includes the daily experience of players at the team's
Speaker 1: facilities away from the lights and cameras. Sixteen hundred and
Speaker 1: ninety five of our players provided information to share with
Speaker 1: one another about their current club to not only help
Speaker 1: them make important career decisions, but also to help raise
Speaker 1: standards across the league. Our goals were to highlight positive teams,
Speaker 1: identify areas that could use improvement, and highlight best practices
Speaker 1: and standards. And this is from I'm actually on the
Speaker 1: nflpa's web site and their report, so I wonder if
Speaker 1: it tells us anything more about.
Speaker 2: But the Steelers play at Saint Benson College and Latrobe.
Speaker 2: But that's a really good college to play with in
Speaker 2: the fields, cleaned, everything's there. They get thousands of people
Speaker 2: at training camp, I don't know, and Philadelphia goes away
Speaker 2: to New Jersey to practice.
Speaker 1: So they've done this for This is the third year
Speaker 1: that they've done this survey, and in our first year
Speaker 1: we had a sixty percent league wide response rate. Each
Speaker 1: of the last two years we have seen a seventy
Speaker 1: seven percent response rate across the league. It reinforces we're
Speaker 1: always working to make this resource even better. So this
Speaker 1: year's edition includes several enhancements, partnerships with a strategy group
Speaker 1: to help fine tune the survey design data collection. Keeping
Speaker 1: the categories consistence from here to two to three makes
Speaker 1: it easier to track improvements in both overall grades. They've
Speaker 1: added additional questions in certain areas to get a deeper
Speaker 1: understanding of player feedback. Now, letter grades can be sorted
Speaker 1: within each category. For example, B plus grades can be
Speaker 1: arranged from highest to lowest. Let's see fourteenth place ranking
Speaker 1: with a B plus is still a sign of a
Speaker 1: strong player focused environment. From the outset, This initiative has
Speaker 1: been guided by two core goals. Keep players informed. With
Speaker 1: thirty two different workplaces, even small details can impact players'
Speaker 1: daily experiences. For those with the options to choose their team,
Speaker 1: knowing how others rate their workplace is invaluable. And to
Speaker 1: drive improvement. Report cards highlight areas where players can believe
Speaker 1: teams can do better, giving clubs actionable feedback to enhance
Speaker 1: facilities and support systems. It also so I find it
Speaker 1: very interesting because I would say this for like the
Speaker 1: draft picks, that this might be a tool that they
Speaker 1: might use to see what other players that are in
Speaker 1: these different systems where they're going to what you know,
Speaker 1: what is a focus, what is a weakness, that the
Speaker 1: players think of. I think it gives we all look
Speaker 1: at it as fans. We all look at the you know,
Speaker 1: the teams.
Speaker 2: Yes, Addie preaches.
Speaker 1: But I mean if you sat there, and let's face it,
Speaker 1: if you sat there and did a survey like this
Speaker 1: of your workplace, what would you say? And you know,
Speaker 1: we don't all have that opportunity that to go out
Speaker 1: and research. Yeah, let's face it, these the top echelon
Speaker 1: players can really write their ticket and go wherever they want.
Speaker 1: So what like the Matthew Staffer, Let's face at Matthew Stafford. No,
Speaker 1: not that he can go wherever, but he's one of
Speaker 1: these quarterbacks that is he going to stay with LA?
Speaker 1: Is he going to go someplace else? Aaron Rodgers? Is
Speaker 1: he going to go someplace else? Do they put any
Speaker 1: stock in this survey? And would that sway them one
Speaker 1: way or the other if they're trying to just curious?
Speaker 1: You know?
Speaker 3: Oh? Yeah, no, I agree, I hear you. The one
Speaker 3: thing though about being drafted is unless you're Eli Manning
Speaker 3: or Philip Rivers, you don't really have much of a choice,
Speaker 3: or maybe should do or Sanders Ish. I mean, apparently
Speaker 3: Dion said there's only certain teams that can draft a door, right,
Speaker 3: so unless you don't really have much control over it.
Speaker 3: But I mean, it is really cool. I think the
Speaker 3: one thing that the one word I think that was
Speaker 3: missing in order to get a really accurate reading from
Speaker 3: what you were reading about it is anonymous. I think
Speaker 3: anonymous would be a very valid key word to add
Speaker 3: into that. If these players could do this anonymously, I
Speaker 3: feel like because I mean, obviously, Mike McDaniel he's a
Speaker 3: super cool coach in Miami. I mean, if he knew
Speaker 3: that his players were getting this and he's trying to
Speaker 3: attract free agents, of course you would want to manipulate
Speaker 3: these surveys the best way you could, or you would
Speaker 3: want to give it to all of your happiest players.
Speaker 3: You would want to give it to the ones who
Speaker 3: listen and do what's right and all of that kind
Speaker 3: of thing. So, I mean, it's it just depends on
Speaker 3: how this all went down, but it is really cool.
Speaker 3: I know Jay over here, I would shout him out.
Speaker 3: He's hilarious because he ranked his his employer, Amenda in
Speaker 3: the comments. I don't know if y'all call it or not,
Speaker 3: but it was like it sucks it's terrible. I need
Speaker 3: new job. All that good stuff pretty much, but all
Speaker 3: needs improvement. Yeah, my job, it'll be Yeah, it's hilarious. Jay,
Speaker 3: that is funny enough.
Speaker 2: Right there, Brian said, this is a c.
Speaker 3: That's hilarious, y'all.
Speaker 2: I just think it's.
Speaker 1: Funny because like none of us, I mean, I don't
Speaker 1: know about you guys, but I don't take it. I
Speaker 1: shouldn't say that. I do take a survey about my job,
Speaker 1: about things that they can improve about the company and
Speaker 1: stuff like that, but it and as a manager, I
Speaker 1: get results for that survey as well. It's anonymous who,
Speaker 1: but let's face it, if I'm a manager of ten people,
Speaker 1: I might have an idea if someone puts a comment,
Speaker 1: who wrote that comment, even though it technically is anonymous.
Speaker 3: Right, absolutely, But I think it's just.
Speaker 1: Interesting from a fan perspective because none of us are
Speaker 1: inside any of those locker rooms or any of those
Speaker 1: you know, and we all have our teams that we
Speaker 1: like and we think, ah.
Speaker 3: That's what I was laughing about. I'm sorry.
Speaker 1: No, and yes, one hundred percent would know who wrote it,
Speaker 1: especially if it has a comment section, and yes most
Speaker 1: of them do. But I just think from a fans perspective,
Speaker 1: for us to see that that, you know, you might
Speaker 1: have a blind you might have a blinded eye when
Speaker 1: it comes to your team, because you might think of
Speaker 1: your team and whatever, respective whether you think there's you know,
Speaker 1: they're the greatest things in slice, spread or not. That
Speaker 1: sometimes that we forget about all these little other things
Speaker 1: that the team has to deal with and the players
Speaker 1: have to deal with, you know, the travel, like are
Speaker 1: they taking the way? I'm going to bring it back
Speaker 1: to a movie Major league? Remember how the owner she
Speaker 1: wanted them to lose? So what did she do? What
Speaker 1: plane did she give them? What did how did they travel?
Speaker 2: Like?
Speaker 1: And I don't think we think of all those little things.
Speaker 1: And especially when now you're talking about NFL players and
Speaker 1: playing internationally. Your take, you know you're going to international travel.
Speaker 1: So I just find it kind of interesting. That's all.
Speaker 1: That's why I thought we would bring it up tonight. Yes, yes, Jake.
Speaker 2: Show Family Show.
Speaker 1: That was that was.
Speaker 2: There? You go there it is.
Speaker 3: Family show. People eyes up here there it is.
Speaker 1: Well and this one was just it was a picture
Speaker 1: and they just took an it was PG at the
Speaker 1: end like they had. We won't get into that the
Speaker 1: rest of that because some of that movie, although it
Speaker 1: was very good, but so it just proves to you
Speaker 1: that what teams do and what you can go through.
Speaker 1: And I don't think we always realize and see that
Speaker 1: think of it from for NFL or any of the
Speaker 1: major sports, right, you know how good their facilities are
Speaker 1: and how good they're treated, and how their families are treated.
Speaker 2: And the like.
Speaker 3: And this will be a question for another day too,
Speaker 3: and I'll throw it to you Candy, so well, this
Speaker 3: one will be for next time. Should some of the
Speaker 3: like the chiefs, I think it was they said they
Speaker 3: couldn't take their shoes off in their hotel room or something.
Speaker 3: But let's be honest. I mean, if you're Patrick Mahomes
Speaker 3: and you're making forty million dollars a year, fifty million
Speaker 3: dollars a year, sixty million dollars a year, whatever some
Speaker 3: of these quarterbacks make, should you even have to worry
Speaker 3: about what the team accommodations are anywhere? I mean, can
Speaker 3: you not just pay for your own room? Well, I
Speaker 3: mean some of these dudes, they're only making three four
Speaker 3: million a year or less than that league minimum, like
Speaker 3: Rock Party, so they kind of rely on what the
Speaker 3: team is giving them for a hotel. But yeah, I
Speaker 3: wouldn't want to hear. That's another thing too. I would
Speaker 3: like to see about who did these surveys, because I
Speaker 3: would like to see who exactly is it your superstars
Speaker 3: on this team complaining or is it somebody that should
Speaker 3: be really complaining about how they're getting treated?
Speaker 1: Mm hmm. Most college teams traveling planes could be better
Speaker 1: than the NFL.
Speaker 3: I talked about this the other night. My wife's getting
Speaker 3: on a plane soon. I'm super nervous about it. Sorry,
Speaker 3: that's really random, but it ties into what he just said.
Speaker 3: She's getting ready, she's going to a bachelor atte party
Speaker 3: in April. And yeah, there's been way too many plane accidents.
Speaker 3: Can we figure out airplanes? I asked that question please
Speaker 3: the other day. Y'all thoughts and prayers over here, thought
Speaker 3: some prayers.
Speaker 1: Definitely, definitely, definitely. Okay, three Please, I need you to
Speaker 1: pay for my hotel room. I can't afford it.
Speaker 2: Go fund me, Go fund me, what might help you? Jay?
Speaker 3: Right? No, Well, he was talking about what I was
Speaker 3: saying to about some of the players making like three
Speaker 3: or four.
Speaker 2: But that's where he was getting that. I'm trying to
Speaker 2: bust on me every week.
Speaker 3: So oh yeah, no, Ja, hilarious.
Speaker 2: Go fund me and then you can get your three
Speaker 2: four million hotel room. You can have done, you can
Speaker 2: afford it.
Speaker 1: And let's face it, I know this. We weren't going
Speaker 1: to talk about this, but let's face it, Kelsey, he
Speaker 1: doesn't want to go out that way. He's going to
Speaker 1: be back next year. Jay I says, he loves your
Speaker 1: go fund me idea.
Speaker 2: There you go, start it tomorrow morning. Mm hmm.
Speaker 1: But there is another sport that just started playing games,
Speaker 1: not what a week ago about. MLB is back, so
Speaker 1: anybody there what? Pensman? Finally, finally, yes, baseball is back.
Speaker 1: So thoughts about some of the changes they have made
Speaker 1: and what they're doing this year. Pensman, I know you
Speaker 1: wanted to really talk about this. I'm gonna let you
Speaker 1: take the lead on telling everybody what what has changed
Speaker 1: and what they're trying out here in spring training.
Speaker 2: All right, but first I gotta do this. Give me
Speaker 2: your money, sorry JD. If you're drinking, that was just
Speaker 2: perfect hash tag give me your money. But now the
Speaker 2: challenges are phenomenal as much as I've seen in spring training,
Speaker 2: and I watched the Yankees and the Phillies and they
Speaker 2: tied at seven to seventh. That's the only thing I
Speaker 2: don't like about spring training games is the tie. But
Speaker 2: if a pitcher and catcher don't agree, the catcher can
Speaker 2: go like this, and they can go like that, and
Speaker 2: then the umpire will see that they can challenge it.
Speaker 2: If if the ball is close to it and they
Speaker 2: call it a ball and it should be a strike,
Speaker 2: the catcher will do what I just did and they
Speaker 2: can challenge it and some and during the Yankees and
Speaker 2: Tampa Bay game last Friday, I think it was they
Speaker 2: just did it for fun. I think I don't. It's
Speaker 2: not totally sure that's done and over with. But it
Speaker 2: was clearly a ball, but they wanted the catcher wanted
Speaker 2: to challenge it, and they said it was a ball,
Speaker 2: even though it was a ball. But what they did,
Speaker 2: what the season's coming up is gonna be so great.
Speaker 2: It's gonna it speeds it up. There's no questions about it.
Speaker 2: There's there's no if there's a strike, if it's a ball,
Speaker 2: you can't do anything. But now you can do something
Speaker 2: about the questionable strikes and ball counts. That's what I
Speaker 2: like about.
Speaker 1: It, okay, j D thoughts.
Speaker 3: My first thought is, and I'll say this about NFL, NBA, MLB, hockey,
Speaker 3: whatever sport it is that we're playing. I just want
Speaker 3: it to be right at the end of the day.
Speaker 3: I don't care if you need to review it. I
Speaker 3: don't care if you need to challenge it. I don't
Speaker 3: care if the referees need to get together in a
Speaker 3: huddle and discuss what happened on the play. I just
Speaker 3: want it to be called one hundred percent accurate, one consistent.
Speaker 3: And I'm sure many gamblers out there who put money
Speaker 3: on these games and all of that stuff, who lose
Speaker 3: sometimes over these bogus calls. I mean, we all heard
Speaker 3: the Chiefs thing and all of this stuff. So I
Speaker 3: just want it to be right. In this ABS system,
Speaker 3: it has the chance to get balls and strikes right.
Speaker 3: I saw a video the other day four ninety five
Speaker 3: mile an hour plus fastballs all right down the middle.
Speaker 3: Last year, every one of them in the strike zone
Speaker 3: called a ball.
Speaker 2: Was it the Philip game there?
Speaker 3: It was like four of them. No, it was all
Speaker 3: different teams. I forget which yeah, yeah, it was four
Speaker 3: completely different.
Speaker 2: I thought you're talking about what Shore going like this
Speaker 2: to Angel rnandez.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, well, and thank goodness that that man retired.
Speaker 3: First of all. Yeah, of course he was gosh awful.
Speaker 2: And I get it.
Speaker 3: You're not gonna get every call. You're not. Sometimes they're
Speaker 3: gonna be too close. But to be able to have
Speaker 3: the technology to get it right, to me, that is
Speaker 3: the logical explanation. Just get it right. Like I said,
Speaker 3: I don't care what you gotta do to do it. Yes,
Speaker 3: I'm fine with the human element staying in the game.
Speaker 3: I still want some umpires. I'm good with all of that.
Speaker 3: But to be able to have this technology, like with
Speaker 3: the NFL we were, I'm sure that was probably gonna
Speaker 3: come up to they're looking at doing their hawkeye thing
Speaker 3: or whatever, where they'll be able to tell where the
Speaker 3: ball is. But even then, aside, judge will still spot
Speaker 3: the ball. But at least if you aimed a first down,
Speaker 3: they'll know for sure if you gain the first down.
Speaker 3: And to me, I don't care the judge. After I
Speaker 3: get that first down, he can spot the ball six
Speaker 3: inches a yard back. I don't care. I got the
Speaker 3: first down. That was the objective, So I'm good. Just
Speaker 3: get it right, I would agree.
Speaker 1: Now, I can tell you that they are trying this
Speaker 1: out in Major League in spring training. The earliest it
Speaker 1: would take in effect, if it goes into the regular season,
Speaker 1: would be twenty twenty six. So this is something they're
Speaker 1: just trying this spring training season. The other thing is
Speaker 1: is these calls the only player, the only people that
Speaker 1: can challenge the call of the ball or the strike,
Speaker 1: or the pitcher, the catcher or the batter. So it
Speaker 1: can't be any of the coaches. It can't be anybody else,
Speaker 1: you know, off off on the side or anything like that.
Speaker 1: The whole problem take here's the thing. The whole process
Speaker 1: takes about fifteen or twenty seconds. It is not does
Speaker 1: not take a long time. So for people that are
Speaker 1: worried that it's going to start extending the game, you
Speaker 1: know when we've been trying to shorten the time for baseball,
Speaker 1: it's not gonna do that much. And it's gonna get
Speaker 1: the call right, let's face it.
Speaker 2: Well.
Speaker 3: The only issue though, too, is they only get two
Speaker 3: of them per teen. Also, regardless if you get them right.
Speaker 2: Or wrong, wrong, wrong, wrong, if you win it, you
Speaker 2: keep it, If you lose it, you lose it.
Speaker 3: Oh, I thought they said it was going to be
Speaker 3: two period, but either right, either way too yeah, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 3: I thought it was going to be hard too there,
Speaker 3: but either way, it's only been fourteen seconds per so
Speaker 3: you're talking about less than a minute from a game.
Speaker 3: They've already cut back an hour in the last year overall.
Speaker 2: Yeah, if you lose it, you lose it. If you
Speaker 2: win it, you we gain it.
Speaker 1: So this ABS challenge system was in effect for any
Speaker 1: tria A games last season, along with Arizona Fall League
Speaker 1: games starting back in twenty twenty three. On average, there
Speaker 1: were about four challenges per game, the MLB says, roughly
Speaker 1: half of which were overturned. Challenges by the defense were
Speaker 1: slightly more successful on average than challenges by batters.
Speaker 2: Let's go, Let's go. Pengua was just defeated the Philadelphia Flyers.
Speaker 2: I just want to point that out, breaking news.
Speaker 3: And like I said, just get it right. So the Flyers,
Speaker 3: I guess winning, that's getting it right. And so yeah,
Speaker 3: just get the calls right though at the end of
Speaker 3: the day, like I said, I don't care what you
Speaker 3: gotta do to.
Speaker 1: Do it correct. I agree, I agree. I think it's
Speaker 1: just something very different, you know, and maybe it'll help
Speaker 1: the game, because, like you said, it should get more calls.
Speaker 2: Right, I'm just gonna miss the managing managers and the
Speaker 2: arguing if they ever do to go there. But that
Speaker 2: is exciting, especially if you go to a game when
Speaker 2: you see, like for me, I go see Aaron Boom,
Speaker 2: go out yell. I love it.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, there's nothing like a good epic manager rant
Speaker 3: for sure, there's nothing like it. Remember the dude through
Speaker 3: the grenades he was for the braves and like double
Speaker 3: a he got out behind the mail though and was
Speaker 3: like throwing the rosenbag is like grenades at the umpire epics. Yeah,
Speaker 3: oh god, you'll have to look it up. It's hilarious.
Speaker 3: I'm sure there are some people that know about it.
Speaker 3: But yeah, you got to keep the human element. But
Speaker 3: at the end of the day, give them the technology
Speaker 3: or the ability to just get the call right. Then
Speaker 3: if there's any question, if you hear the fans say boo,
Speaker 3: let's go check it out all right, or even if
Speaker 3: the players are like, hey, no, you got that wrong,
Speaker 3: you know, let them challenge it.
Speaker 2: Just most of the catchers are right on it to
Speaker 2: like see if they know something, they go right to
Speaker 2: the face mask and they see like there's no should
Speaker 2: I or shouldn't I. It's like, okay, let's do.
Speaker 1: It, but let's face it one of the And Scott
Speaker 1: will tell you. Because Scott was a catcher, I can
Speaker 1: tell you I was a catcher at times that a
Speaker 1: catcher's job is to frame that pitch and to move it,
Speaker 1: like if they think it's outside that they're gonna quick
Speaker 1: try and bring it in so it looks. So this
Speaker 1: might take a little bit of that element out, I think,
Speaker 1: whereas sometimes they had Yes, JI, well, J I'll be
Speaker 1: honest with you, there isn't a position on the field
Speaker 1: that I have not played. I have played all of them.
Speaker 1: I played softball for years and years. I played both
Speaker 1: fast pitch and slow pitch, and I was a pitcher
Speaker 1: in both, so I could I could do both. And
Speaker 1: I've been catcher. I've played first, shortstop, second, third, and
Speaker 1: in the outfields. So there isn't a position that I
Speaker 1: have not played. But Scott was really a catcher. And
Speaker 1: what one of the things he'll tell you is is,
Speaker 1: and this is gonna be really hard to believe, he
Speaker 1: was a talker. So he would talk to the batters
Speaker 1: and try and get them being in distract them and
Speaker 1: stuff like that so that I can totally see him doing.
Speaker 1: But well, no, not on the same play. J I
Speaker 1: am not that good, but everything, but catch seriously, really seriously, yes,
Speaker 1: j I and j I. I have to say thank
Speaker 1: you because one of the episodes you were on and
Speaker 1: you sent a picture. So j I had a baby
Speaker 1: in the last couple of months, and he sent a
Speaker 1: picture of the baby to Scott, and so I got
Speaker 1: to see cute, cute, cute kids.
Speaker 3: So man, yeah, congratulations for sure. Don't worry. They'll be
Speaker 3: five and three like mine are before you know it,
Speaker 3: So enjoy it.
Speaker 1: Yes, yes, baby's three months old. Wow, you're welcome. Thank
Speaker 1: you for sending the picture because I love pictures of
Speaker 1: little kids.
Speaker 2: But Mackey, say, see Scott doing that?
Speaker 1: Yes, I can do. So I'm going to bring up
Speaker 1: a topic that I didn't talk to you tell you
Speaker 1: guys about. Let's talk just a little bit because I
Speaker 1: think you guys will be fine with this. The NFL
Speaker 1: and the NFLPA agreed to a two hundred and seventy
Speaker 1: nine point two million dollars salary cap for twenty twenty
Speaker 1: five that represents a nine point three increase from last
Speaker 1: year's two hundred and fifty five point four million. Total
Speaker 1: total player costs, including benefits, are projected to be roughly
Speaker 1: eleven point six billion league wide. The league previously informed
Speaker 1: teams that the cap would fall between two seventy seven
Speaker 1: and two eighty one. The NFL salary cap has increased
Speaker 1: by one hundred and fifty nine million since twenty eleven.
Speaker 1: That is a huge pay increase. I'm sorry and I
Speaker 1: was looking. The salary cap from twenty twenty was at
Speaker 1: one ninety eight. In twenty twenty five, we're talking to
Speaker 1: seventy nine. That's a huge increase. Guys, your thoughts, like,
Speaker 1: my salary hasn't gone on that much in five years?
Speaker 1: What do you guys?
Speaker 3: No, absolutely not. Golly, you gotta you gotta fight tooth
Speaker 3: and nail to get a raise doing anything these days.
Speaker 3: And what's crazy to me, I think the NFL is
Speaker 3: gearing up because they realize that the NBA is far
Speaker 3: and away paying their superstar athletes way more money than
Speaker 3: a lot of the NFL superstars are. Granted, they have
Speaker 3: a shorter life span. You never know, you know when
Speaker 3: an injury might come down, But even then we saw
Speaker 3: Deshaun Watson he got his two hundred and fifty million.
Speaker 3: We see Dak Prescott making sixty million dollars a year.
Speaker 3: To me, what's wild is how they find a way
Speaker 3: to fill the team still. Like you just said, it was,
Speaker 3: what two hundred and fifty four jumped twenty four million
Speaker 3: or twenty seven million, whatever it is. They're just getting
Speaker 3: ready to hopefully get that huge billion dollar deal like
Speaker 3: the NBA got. And they realized that the league minimum
Speaker 3: the NFLPA, like we've talked about earlier, They're gonna make
Speaker 3: sure that league minimum has to climb soon. And I'm sure,
Speaker 3: I mean, there's no other way for it to go
Speaker 3: other than up.
Speaker 1: So the roster size, as far as I know, has
Speaker 1: stayed the same. It's fifty three players, split on offense
Speaker 1: and defense and special teams. There are play plus they
Speaker 1: have a practice squad of up to seventeen players. Now,
Speaker 1: the teams can carry ninety players in the off season,
Speaker 1: but must be down to fifty three by the deadline
Speaker 1: in August. So and only forty eight can participate in
Speaker 1: the game. So, and the NFL settled on fifty three
Speaker 1: players all the way back in at least nineteen ninety three,
Speaker 1: So that gives you an idea for roster size and
Speaker 1: how they've increased. And I know I didn't didn't prep
Speaker 1: you guys on that one, but I just thought that
Speaker 1: was kind of an interesting.
Speaker 2: I got some add to that. Yes, by all means,
Speaker 2: of course, you got to hear this because I'm a fan.
Speaker 2: But the Steelers are up by sixty million dollars now
Speaker 2: because of that pay we're increased. That can't he just
Speaker 2: mentioned that takes us to nine in the NFL. So
Speaker 2: justin fields get signed, t J. Watt gets signed. So
Speaker 2: we have the money before this increase, we were tight.
Speaker 2: Now that we got the increase, we got sixty billion,
Speaker 2: let's go out there and let's get a contending team
Speaker 2: and let's actually win a playoff game. Can we thank you?
Speaker 3: Shoot? Man Hey, the Carolina Panthers, even though they have
Speaker 3: really no superstars that it feels like they're paying somehow
Speaker 3: or another, they're very low in cap space. So yeah,
Speaker 3: hopefully this increase helps the Carolina Panthers out as well.
Speaker 3: I don't know if they'll be able to attract any
Speaker 3: free agents this year, so hopefully we nailed the draft
Speaker 3: and don't do anything crazy. Maybe with this abdual Carter
Speaker 3: stress fracture thing, maybe he'll slip down to eight for
Speaker 3: the pants. There's to gobble him up. I doubt it,
Speaker 3: but we can all hope, Right.
Speaker 2: Judy, I got I got something to tell you that
Speaker 2: Panthers just moved up to twenty eight million dollars.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's biggo Like who are they paying?
Speaker 2: Right?
Speaker 3: Like Bryce Young is still on a rookie contract. I mean,
Speaker 3: I know we sers to like nine million dollars a year, Like.
Speaker 2: You got that pay you got that pore paying?
Speaker 3: I don't know, it makes no sense, like we literally
Speaker 3: I mean Jadeveon Clowney, No, we weren't paying him a
Speaker 3: whole lot. Shaq Thompson, he wasn't making all them. I mean,
Speaker 3: are we still paying Luke Keickley? Did we forget to
Speaker 3: remove him off the payroll or something? Did we forget
Speaker 3: to remove Cam Newton from the payer?
Speaker 2: Like?
Speaker 3: Who are we paying people to have the low it
Speaker 3: like most ridiculous cap space and so Yeah, But all
Speaker 3: and all in all, the NFL contracts will continue to
Speaker 3: go up. It'll be interesting to see if people start
Speaker 3: paying running backs again.
Speaker 2: Jay your Detroit Lions are fifty two point sixty nine
Speaker 2: million dollars of pay increase.
Speaker 3: In New England one hundred and twenty eight million, says.
Speaker 1: The Raiders ninety six commanders eighty one.
Speaker 3: That's what the Panthers should be at. I mean, the
Speaker 3: Panthers aren't paying anybody better than the Patriots are.
Speaker 2: You got it?
Speaker 1: How seven Panthers are paying seven or seven million in
Speaker 1: dead money, So I don't know who they're paying. This
Speaker 1: site doesn't.
Speaker 2: All's not what is it making big money? Yeah?
Speaker 3: No, nobody's making big money. It doesn't seem like I mean,
Speaker 3: even like I said, Miles Sanders, he got four years,
Speaker 3: thirty three million, So that's what eight point twenty five
Speaker 3: million a year? And yes, I just did that math
Speaker 3: off the top of my head, and yes it's accurate. Sure, yeah,
Speaker 3: four yeah, thirty three divided by four eight point twenty five.
Speaker 3: But to me, that's the biggest contract that the Panthers
Speaker 3: have out there. So I just I can never figure
Speaker 3: out their cap space.
Speaker 1: Non non active roster cap charges dead money. Shaq Thompson
Speaker 1: three point one million, Jonathan Mingo one point seven, Dane
Speaker 1: Jackson one point five, Johnny Hecker and fifty one and
Speaker 1: Jamie Robinson one hundred and sixty four for a total
Speaker 1: of seven point seven million and dead non cap ross,
Speaker 1: non active roster cap.
Speaker 3: That's right, hold on, Pennsman. I was gonna yeah, so basically, Candy,
Speaker 3: I was gonna. Honestly, at first, when I heard that number,
Speaker 3: I was like, Ah, that's not a big deal. But
Speaker 3: when you think about it, that's two one year contracts
Speaker 3: at three point eight and three point nine million dollars
Speaker 3: to get you a nice filler player, whether it be
Speaker 3: a defensive back, lineback or whatever. So yeah, yeah, seven
Speaker 3: point seven million, Yeah, that's a pretty big deal. I guess.
Speaker 1: Well, and let's face it, the Saints. The Saints have
Speaker 1: negative forty seven.
Speaker 2: Wow.
Speaker 3: Yeah, oh yeah, well they've ad they're already talking about
Speaker 3: making Spencer Ratler QB one. I've seen that so many
Speaker 3: times now as a game Cock fan. Literally everybody, yep,
Speaker 3: Cars gone, Cars going to be the next Kirk Cousin.
Speaker 3: Spencer Ratler's taken over for him. I've heard all of.
Speaker 2: Car had his potential chance but he blew it.
Speaker 1: But let's face it, Marshawn Latimore, they're still paying him
Speaker 1: thirty one point six in dead Cap Michael Thomas nine
Speaker 1: point one, Jameis Winston seven point three million. So that's
Speaker 1: where part of that's where.
Speaker 3: They're no, no wonder Jamis Wentz. I had so much
Speaker 3: fun at the Super Bowl. You're getting seven point three
Speaker 3: to not even play for that team, and he was
Speaker 3: playing for the Browns. He oh yeah, I would have
Speaker 3: had a good time at the Super Bowl too.
Speaker 2: Brother, is Eddie still here? Because the Cowboys have one
Speaker 2: point three million dollars to play with with the salary increase,
Speaker 2: So that's because of Prescott, Ceedee Lamb, Ezekiel Elliott. So yeah,
Speaker 2: you pay your high ed, you're gonna get blown away
Speaker 2: and you're gonna get burnt.
Speaker 3: So they still got Eddie, they still gotta pay Micah.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Michael Parsons, Yeah, Eddie's not happy. He's not happy.
Speaker 2: I'm just don't blame me.
Speaker 3: Aw shucks, that's funny.
Speaker 2: Tell Jerry, tell Jerry Jones not to spend money on
Speaker 2: press guy and see thee Lamb and all these players
Speaker 2: that supposed to pull forward but they don't perform, Well.
Speaker 3: How are you using that tour money towards the player contracts?
Speaker 2: If Jerry Jones would restruct your deals and actually keep
Speaker 2: players instead of getting them and tossing them around. You
Speaker 2: might actually have a budget. That's why because Dak is
Speaker 2: in the top ten quarterback exactly, but with his contract
Speaker 2: they can't do anything. And if you subscribe to my channel,
Speaker 2: you'll see that I trashed the Cowboys. That'd be fund
Speaker 2: of them all the time.
Speaker 1: So, and Jay, I know you're a Lions fan. So
Speaker 1: the non active roster dead money Carlton Davis nine point
Speaker 1: eight million, Cameron Sutton six point five, and Marcus Davenport
Speaker 1: two point two So for eighteen point eight million in
Speaker 1: dead cap space that they're but they have fifty one
Speaker 1: million out there available to spend. So yes, money, money money.
Speaker 3: Okay, guys, dollar dollar bills.
Speaker 1: JD. Melting, you want to talk a little bit about
Speaker 1: the Ian Rappaport and Schultz Tobacco with Stafford and the
Speaker 1: Brady story.
Speaker 3: Yeah, sure, we can talk about it. Okay. First of all,
Speaker 3: I just think it's funny we finally we get all
Speaker 3: of these college players, all of these NFL scouts and
Speaker 3: head coaches, and I'm sure some of the players bring
Speaker 3: some family members and they all go stay in the
Speaker 3: same hotel and we're also reporting about free agency with
Speaker 3: Matthew Stafford, and Jordan Schultz reported that Matthew Stafford and
Speaker 3: Tom Brady met at Tom Brady's Montana ski house, and
Speaker 3: Ian Rappaport reported shortly thereafter that that was false, that
Speaker 3: they just happened to have a house in the same
Speaker 3: ski community. And then I've also seen the report today
Speaker 3: though that the RAMS did in fact grant Stafford the
Speaker 3: permission to meet with Brady to join the Raiders. And
Speaker 3: so at this point I'm just really confused. But apparently
Speaker 3: Jordan Schultz and Ian Rappaport were not confused. They were
Speaker 3: convinced that one was lying and one was correct, and
Speaker 3: they tried to throw some fists in a Starbucks in
Speaker 3: the Marriotte in Indianapolis for the NFL. And so to
Speaker 3: me that was just it's funny. I mean, it's bound
Speaker 3: to happen, right when you're competing trying to be the
Speaker 3: first one to broadcast the news out there, and all
Speaker 3: of a sudden you see someone who just called you
Speaker 3: incorrect sitting across from Starbucks. Now, hey, don't come at
Speaker 3: me before I've had my coffee. But if I had
Speaker 3: me a nice little Starbucks Nitro whatever they call Nitro Colebrew. Yeah,
Speaker 3: I might be ready to throw fists about eight o'clock
Speaker 3: in the morning at the NFL Combine. Maybe, I don't know.
Speaker 3: What are you guys think? Did y'all hear this story?
Speaker 1: I did. I did. Reporters trying to make something out
Speaker 1: of I think one of them was trying to make
Speaker 1: something out of nothing and the other one was like,
Speaker 1: wait a minute. They both live in the same community.
Speaker 1: They ran into each other, like, and to be honest
Speaker 1: with you, this is where it gets. This is where
Speaker 1: the whole Brady thing gets. And people call it in
Speaker 1: the question like is he acting as an owner or
Speaker 1: is he part of the media? And where it is that?
Speaker 1: Where are the boundaries? Like, but anybody can Hey, we
Speaker 1: live where we live, we shop, we go out, we
Speaker 1: see you see people.
Speaker 3: Ah, you know, yeah, who's to say they're not just friends? Right,
Speaker 3: who's to say they're not just friends? And yeah, like
Speaker 3: they just happened to live down the door and they
Speaker 3: were talking. I mean, I know, we just saw something
Speaker 3: with Rob Polenka and Nico Harrison after the Luca trade.
Speaker 3: The photo of them came out supposedly at a coffee
Speaker 3: shop but yeah, I can't. Has anyone seen the photo
Speaker 3: though of Schultz and Rapaport at the coffee shop yet?
Speaker 3: Because I want to see the video. I want to see.
Speaker 3: Give me the security footage. I'm sure there's security cameras
Speaker 3: and a Starbucks. Can we see it? Because I think
Speaker 3: some of the listeners over here Jay, they want to
Speaker 3: know who would win in a fight. Man, I couldn't
Speaker 3: tell you. I've never seen any of the one on fight.
Speaker 3: But we can put odds on it, we can bet
Speaker 3: on it.
Speaker 2: For that too.
Speaker 1: One of the things that surprised me when I was
Speaker 1: covering the Super Bowl and I got to see, like
Speaker 1: I Scott got a picture with him and Ian Rappaport
Speaker 1: and the same and I actually got a picture with
Speaker 1: me and Adam Schefty. I was surprised that they're not
Speaker 1: as tall as I thought they would be. And so
Speaker 1: I think, you know, when we when we sometimes see
Speaker 1: people on air or on set, they're normally sitting down,
Speaker 1: they're behind it, and you don't necessarily see not that
Speaker 1: you have to be tall to be a good fighter
Speaker 1: or anything like that, but I think you get you
Speaker 1: have this perception maybe and and you picture them because
Speaker 1: a lot of times you're just hearing their voice and
Speaker 1: stuff like that, and you don't see him standing next
Speaker 1: to other people that I think that makes it very interesting.
Speaker 1: I was just surprised that they weren't taller than they actually,
Speaker 1: but they are.
Speaker 3: I think I've heard that about Schefter before that, Yeah
Speaker 3: he's not as tall as you would think he is,
Speaker 3: or something like that. Yeah, he's like five six maybe
Speaker 3: or so five eight, five six, five.
Speaker 1: Maybe maybe five. I don't think he's five eight maybe
Speaker 1: five six, because he was just slightly taller than me.
Speaker 2: I did think Jon Candy said that Candy is like Chevy, no.
Speaker 3: What I'm over, I'm I'm five foot two.
Speaker 2: She didn't mean it, Manny. She didn't mean manny. Patio
Speaker 2: shit mean.
Speaker 3: It five to one hundred and ten pounds, soaking wet.
Speaker 1: Oh you guys are funny.
Speaker 2: You guys are Danny Patio was like five eight something
Speaker 2: like that, five seven something like that. He can still
Speaker 2: fight though, didn't mean it, Banny.
Speaker 3: Right, Well, oh that's what I was about to say
Speaker 3: to Candy. I'll throw it back to you. So have
Speaker 3: y'all seen about the John Rocker and Patrick Mahomes Senior fight.
Speaker 3: That's supposed to go down. So yeah, maybe we can
Speaker 3: just get Rappaport and Chefty maybe they can be the
Speaker 3: undercard or no, not Schultz and Rappaport. We can just
Speaker 3: get those guys to be the undercard and then you
Speaker 3: can have John Rocker and Patrick Mahomes Senior follow it
Speaker 3: up later on in the evening.
Speaker 1: That is funny.
Speaker 3: Those two really are supposed to fight. If y'all haven't
Speaker 3: seen that video, I highly suggest checking it out as well.
Speaker 3: John Rocker and Patrick Mahomes Senior in New Orleans. As
Speaker 3: a matter of fact, Kenny, I'm surprised y'all weren't there.
Speaker 3: I'm surprised you didn't see it. They almost got into
Speaker 3: a street fight John Rocker and Patrick Mahome Senor.
Speaker 1: No, I did not see that.
Speaker 3: Yeah, they're in the super Bowl correct. Yeah. Yeah, highly
Speaker 3: recommend y'all check that video out. But yeah, apparently they're
Speaker 3: gonna fight and box, So yeah, that.
Speaker 2: Was what that was going on. They're probably on Bourbon Street.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I think, well that I think that's where they were.
Speaker 3: If if they weren't on Bourbon Street, they were somewhere
Speaker 3: close to it, because yeah, New Orleans ain't that big
Speaker 3: kind of big, but it ain't that big.
Speaker 1: That's funny. That is funny. Okay.
Speaker 3: Oh oh, I'm pretty I'm pretty sure they were both inebriated. Yeah.
Speaker 3: Check the video. Just go look at the video. It's
Speaker 3: it's pretty good. So we'll just get Rappaport and Schultz.
Speaker 3: We'll put them as the undercard and they can do
Speaker 3: get out.
Speaker 1: Okay, guys, it's time. Unless you guys have anything other
Speaker 1: topics you want to quick bring up. I was gonna
Speaker 1: head to my town. Let's do it. Okay, mister j D.
Speaker 1: Why don't you lead off?
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, I'll be happy. Yeah, you gotta take it
Speaker 3: real quick. That hid by the way, Hey Ben, appreciate
Speaker 3: you being here. You got here just in time for
Speaker 3: Furman basketball. So last night they absolutely smoked the Citadel.
Speaker 3: I looked up one time it was twenty eight to seven.
Speaker 3: Looked up another time it was thirty one to seven.
Speaker 3: Tom House. He is the only player to shoot more
Speaker 3: than five to three pointers in one game and make
Speaker 3: all of them. He had nineteen points. He was six
Speaker 3: of six from three point range, first ever Furman player
Speaker 3: to do that. Garrett Heen hit the one thousand point
Speaker 3: mark last night. He also has five hundred rebounds, two
Speaker 3: hundred and fifty assists, and he's played there for five years.
Speaker 3: He's been very loyal to that program in a day
Speaker 3: where it's hard for players to be loyal. He was
Speaker 3: babysitting the basketball, he was given the game ball, and
Speaker 3: in the press conference. If you check my page, you
Speaker 3: can check out the interview that we had with Heen
Speaker 3: and coach Bob Ritchie after the game. But they bleue
Speaker 3: Citadel away eighty five to forty two. And we have
Speaker 3: the SoCon Tournament coming up this next week. I will
Speaker 3: be there in Ashville to watch Furman and Wafford and
Speaker 3: Mercer and East Tennessee State and Sanford and all of
Speaker 3: these wonderful teams. And to be honest with you, this
Speaker 3: is my hot take about my hot town for the evening.
Speaker 3: The SoCon deserves to be a two bid league if
Speaker 3: one of these teams that isn't supposed to win the
Speaker 3: tournament gets the automatic conference bid by winning the tournament.
Speaker 3: Furnman has a seventy two percent win percentage, as does
Speaker 3: Chattanooga and Stanford. They all have won seventy two percent
Speaker 3: of their games, and so one of these teams will
Speaker 3: deserve to get into the tournament even if they don't
Speaker 3: get the automatic bid. So can we please make the
Speaker 3: Sokon a two bid tournament and I'll throw it back
Speaker 3: to you.
Speaker 1: Guys, Bensman, what's happening in your town?
Speaker 2: The Pittsburgh Penguins win tonight five to four against the
Speaker 2: Philadelphia Flowers. They are slowly creeping up on the standings,
Speaker 2: but they need to get more wins together. They lost
Speaker 2: last night to the Philadelphia Flyers. They went played back
Speaker 2: to back, lost one win one. I just want to
Speaker 2: get wins under my belt. Mik Solivan, I don't know
Speaker 2: what you're doing at Pittsburgh. You played USA, you had
Speaker 2: a stacked team. You took that team to the championship.
Speaker 2: I covered that the whole four nations. You did good
Speaker 2: against USA. Put this team together so you can beat
Speaker 2: the Pittsburgh USA team. Just do something that puts Pittsburgh
Speaker 2: back and bring joy back in our lives in sports.
Speaker 1: Please, So, I guess previous on the previous Sports Exchange
Speaker 1: it was a hockey themed show. Well, my parting shot.
Speaker 1: I have two of them and they're both hockey related
Speaker 1: as well. The first one is if you guys are
Speaker 1: at all interested. Over the weekend. The Red Wings are
Speaker 1: actually gonna be playing Columbus Blue Jackets at Ohio Stadium
Speaker 1: at the Horseshoe, So that's an outdoor series. I think
Speaker 1: that's pretty cool if the NHL is doing that, So
Speaker 1: those of you that want to see that and watch it.
Speaker 1: For those of you that live back in my hometown,
Speaker 1: back in Milwaukee, you know that there's an NHL. It's
Speaker 1: an AHL team, the Milwaukee Admirals, which they're affiliated with
Speaker 1: the Nashville Predators, but they're known as the Milwaukee Admirals. On
Speaker 1: Friday night, Tomorrow night, they're gonna be known as the
Speaker 1: Milwaukee cow Bells. They are gonna attempt to set a
Speaker 1: world record on Friday for the most cowbells rung at
Speaker 1: one time for the second time this week. The Admirals
Speaker 1: will take the ice. Friday is the Milwaukee Cowbells. The
Speaker 1: team hosts the Iowa Wild at seven pm, and we'll
Speaker 1: try to set the record during the game. The team said.
Speaker 1: The world record attempt will take place during the media
Speaker 1: timeout after the ten minute mark of the second period.
Speaker 1: The current world record of five thousand, seven hundred and
Speaker 1: forty eight was set back in two thousand and three
Speaker 1: at Missississippi State. According to the team, the first six
Speaker 1: thousand fans to attend Friday's game will receive a cow
Speaker 1: bell courtesy of Pottawatomie Sportsbook. The Milwaukee cow Bells abbreviated
Speaker 1: rebrand began on Tuesday night and featured more cow bells
Speaker 1: specialty jerseys inspired by the twenty fifth anniversary of the
Speaker 1: famous Saturday Night Live skit featuring Will Ferrell. Those jerseys
Speaker 1: are available for bid, be a silent auction and will
Speaker 1: be given out by the players to the winning bidders
Speaker 1: following the game on Friday.
Speaker 2: You got a couple of questions.
Speaker 1: Why would a team in Waukee be called the Admirals? Oh,
Speaker 1: now you're asking me questions, and I'm not sure I
Speaker 1: know the answer to where did they come up with
Speaker 1: that name? Let me see, let me do a little
Speaker 1: better research.
Speaker 3: Off the top of your head. While you do that research, Candy,
Speaker 3: do you know what the capacity of the stadium is?
Speaker 3: Since they were offering the I think you said six
Speaker 3: thousand cowbells.
Speaker 1: The first six thousand are gonna do it.
Speaker 3: Let's see, so they would have to be probably nine thousand.
Speaker 3: I would say ten thousand possibly.
Speaker 1: Let's see they play, it says from places, so I
Speaker 1: got to see where they're playing.
Speaker 2: San Diego, could be the Admirals, not Hawaukee.
Speaker 3: Hey, well, we don't. We don't know what we don't know, Jay,
Speaker 3: I say that all the time, man, people, Hey, don't Hey,
Speaker 3: don't worry. There's receipts on Google. We'll find out while
Speaker 3: they'll call it. I guarantee you there's a reason they
Speaker 3: just didn't pull that name out of nowhere. People that
Speaker 3: do marketing and stuff are much smarter than that. Believe
Speaker 3: you me mm hmm.
Speaker 1: Let's see.
Speaker 2: Sh Mickey wants to know if do you get cowboy
Speaker 2: hat as well?
Speaker 1: No, no, sorry.
Speaker 2: Mickey, no cowboy hat as well, just a cowbill.
Speaker 3: Let's see.
Speaker 1: They play in the Panthers seat. The arena seats as
Speaker 1: many as twelve thousand, seven hundred, So that's how many
Speaker 1: the capacity of the stadium that they're playing in right now.
Speaker 1: They're playing in there what's called the UW Milwaukee Panther Arena,
Speaker 1: which is formally the Mecca Arena. Uh, it's downtown. It's
Speaker 1: not too far from the Feisser Forum. But let's see,
Speaker 1: after a household of plants, I don't know how the
Speaker 1: Admirals got their name.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I can't find it either, I'm looking. I know
Speaker 3: they went to the Admirals after their first season.
Speaker 1: Right, they were the Wings before that?
Speaker 3: Yeah, correct, and then they I think, and I think
Speaker 3: they have probably changed from the Wings.
Speaker 1: Because it's too close to the Red I would think,
Speaker 1: but I don't know.
Speaker 3: Let's see, you had a pretty good history though. They've
Speaker 3: won seven AHL titles. Their most recent was last year
Speaker 3: twenty sixteen, twenty eleven. Yeah, that was some division titles
Speaker 3: for the seven. Yeah, they won one calter Cup, three four.
Speaker 3: But yeah, there's literally nothing about why they're called their admirals.
Speaker 3: Maybe Jenny, take your three or four million dollars and
Speaker 3: hire an investigator.
Speaker 2: What guys do that? What? Then? What are you talking about?
Speaker 2: Best fambies? As far as what what are we talking about?
Speaker 3: Ben? I don't know what Ben's talking about because he
Speaker 3: just asked me who's my team? And Ben knows who
Speaker 3: my teams are? He over, you're tripping. You know, I'm
Speaker 3: a game cock, I'm a panther, I'm a brave you
Speaker 3: know all this. Ben, don't be coming here playing dumb.
Speaker 3: You know, you know, you know you.
Speaker 2: Know, Jay said, Ben's tripping.
Speaker 3: Yeah, obviously Ben Ben Ben tuned into my show. He
Speaker 3: knows I'm a panther, a game cock, he knows, he knows,
Speaker 3: he knows. Speaking of game cock, so hey, they're they're
Speaker 3: winning against Ole Miss and the biggest college baseball rivalry
Speaker 3: in the nation's charts tomorrows it has the entire place.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I don't see where. It just says that it
Speaker 1: was renamed in nineteen seventy one when Bill Chimo purchased
Speaker 1: the team. But I'm gonna keep looking at Maybe I'll
Speaker 1: have to follow up with that on the next episode.
Speaker 1: A fire up, guys.
Speaker 3: I'm sure there's a reason there has got to be somewhere.
Speaker 3: But yeah, it might take some investigative reporting. I think
Speaker 3: he can handle it. Candy, I think that's a Scott question.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I don't know if it's even as a Scott question.
Speaker 1: That should should be I should know the answer to
Speaker 1: this question. But I'll keep looking it up. There's gotta
Speaker 1: be a way, there's gotta be Okay, but oh, Ben's
Speaker 1: asking a question.
Speaker 3: The Miami Hurricanes. Okay, I don't know. Yeah, yeah, he
Speaker 3: knows he's asking the wrong person. Man, He knows I
Speaker 3: don't pay attention to hockey. I try, I can't see
Speaker 3: the puck. We talked about it last week, Ben, bro
Speaker 3: you stop tripping, Ben.
Speaker 2: Ben, I'm the hockey man. He can't even see the puck.
Speaker 3: Yeah, but hey, if you're if you're regarding the hockey
Speaker 3: or the Miami Hurricanes, the Miami Hockey. Caines the Miami Hurricanes.
Speaker 3: How about that story where Cavender said she didn't have
Speaker 3: anything to do with Carson Beck transferring to mind said blindness.
Speaker 3: That's good, that's funny.
Speaker 2: Jay.
Speaker 3: But yeah, Haley, Hannah, Hailey, whichever twin he's dating, she
Speaker 3: said she had nothing to do with Jets.
Speaker 2: Hold hold on, hold on, Now he's got me fired up.
Speaker 2: The Jets don't need a President's Cup. The president Cup
Speaker 2: is whoever gets the most points of the season, and
Speaker 2: the way the Jets are going, they deserve it completely.
Speaker 2: Come on, Ben, what are you thinking? Ben? Mhm? It's
Speaker 2: whoever wins the regular season and points. The Jets obviously
Speaker 2: deserved it from start to finish. Ben is cooking right now.
Speaker 2: I cannot see the puck, but I love hockey. Mickey says, may.
Speaker 3: Not try, I got but I gotta see. I'm a
Speaker 3: baseball player, so the whole concept is to keep your
Speaker 3: eye on the ball. So I'm constantly trying to watch
Speaker 3: the pup.
Speaker 2: And that's fine, Ben. They can. They deserve it. They
Speaker 2: just don't want to win the Stanley Cup. That's fine, okay.
Speaker 1: So whoever said back they were whoever said it was
Speaker 1: after a brand of household. So the Milwaukee Admirals hockey
Speaker 1: team was named after a brand of household appliance is
Speaker 1: sold by one of the team's investors. They were originally
Speaker 1: called the Milwaukee Wings. In night teen seventy, Irwin J. Mirror,
Speaker 1: an impliance store owner, bought the team. His best selling
Speaker 1: appliance was the Admiral refrigerator, so he thought the name
Speaker 1: Admirals would help him publicize the team. The Admiral's logo
Speaker 1: have always had a nautical theme to it.
Speaker 3: I said there was a reason. I didn't say there
Speaker 3: was a good one.
Speaker 2: Yes, yes, everything's how, everything's how it should be. Hold
Speaker 2: on j D. Everything's fine how it is when you
Speaker 2: win to Stanley, when you win the Stanley Cup, it's
Speaker 2: Lord Stanley. When you read when the regular season, it's
Speaker 2: the President's Cup. That's how it should be. That's how
Speaker 2: it's always will be. Whoever wins the regular season is
Speaker 2: the President's Cup. Work if you win the playoffs, it's
Speaker 2: this Lord Stanley Cup. That's how it should be, and
Speaker 2: that's how there's no way of changing it.
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Speaker 3: You can find me at Southern Fried Sports JD on
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Speaker 1: So Ben, I just want to kind of clarify. So
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Speaker 2: I'm gonna laborate. But that's what makes fun. Go back
Speaker 2: to that one. Go back to that one where he
Speaker 2: but that's whoever someone's ever won the President's Cup and
Speaker 2: the Stanley Cup, that's what makes it fun. That's the
Speaker 2: same thing with the NFL. You win the Lions did
Speaker 2: this year. They were the best team and they had
Speaker 2: their buy. The Commanders come in and they beat them.
Speaker 2: So that's what happens. Same thing with hockey. You win
Speaker 2: the President's Cup, you get beaten in the playoffs. You're
Speaker 2: just not prepared enough in the playoffs. You're prepared in
Speaker 2: the season. So that's how it goes. I'm the hockey man,
Speaker 2: but I'm Pensman Sports. I'm on YouTube at Pensman Sports.
Speaker 2: You can follow me on x at Pensman Sports.
Speaker 1: Awesome, awesome, let's see. Yes, Penman does great play by play.
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Speaker 1: sports this weekend. There's baseball, there's college basketball, there's NBA,
Speaker 1: there's NHL. So there's there's a lot happening, even if
Speaker 1: in the NFL Combine, if if you're at all interested
Speaker 1: in that as well.
Speaker 2: So everything, and where's the race this week?
Speaker 3: Coda? Yeah, sir man, you think you didn't think I
Speaker 3: was gonna know? Did you? A lot of people actually,
Speaker 3: I don't know if you guys saw this or not.
Speaker 3: So they cut out like three quarters of a mile
Speaker 3: half mile of the track, and everybody was asking about
Speaker 3: the layout because they literally go from turn six to
Speaker 3: turn twelve, and everybody couldn't figure out how NASCAR math worked.
Speaker 3: And so yeah, the chorus numbers they stay the same.
Speaker 3: They just eliminated part of the track, so turn six
Speaker 3: leads to turn twelve. I don't know about it really
Speaker 3: all that much yet, but we'll we'll find out when
Speaker 3: we go racing on Sunday.
Speaker 2: There you go, there's NEASCAR on Sunday, and he puts
Speaker 2: up all some shorts. I put up shorts on Sunday,
Speaker 2: So watch for the shorts on Sunday.
Speaker 1: There you go. And we keep putting up little videos
Speaker 1: that we've taken from Super Bowl, our experience there. We
Speaker 1: put up a great video last night. We did a
Speaker 1: show with about the Wounded Warrior Program and how the
Speaker 1: NFL supports veterans and the Wounded Warrior Program and.
Speaker 4: How there was a couple in how she she had
Speaker 4: PTSD and she was very depressed, but how the Warrior
Speaker 4: Program kind of saved her.
Speaker 1: And so I would encourage everybody to go out and
Speaker 1: watch that video in that interview that Scott does with them.
Speaker 1: But again, thank you everybody for being on the show.
Speaker 1: Thank you j j I for yeah it doesn't share,
Speaker 1: Yeah yeah here in that jay I. Thank you all
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Speaker 1: Fensman for sharing you know, a little over an hour
Speaker 1: with me and talk in sports. Everybody, enjoy your weekend
Speaker 1: and enjoy all the sports that are out there.
Speaker 2: And everybody, we'll be back next week.
Speaker 1: We will, yep, everybody should be back next week. Than