Speaker 1: Good evening everybody. And are we fired up tonight?
Speaker 2: Yes we are and we're fired out?
Speaker 3: Absolutely? Who am I?
Speaker 2: Absolutely?
Speaker 1: Nfl Yay. I'm going to introduce my cast down underneath
Speaker 1: my little window. Here is mister Ralph Williams. Hello, Ralph,
Speaker 1: how are you tonight?
Speaker 4: I'm good, Candy, thank you.
Speaker 1: And next to him is another one of my co hosts,
Speaker 1: Jeremy Smokin' Bee.
Speaker 2: What's up, Candy? How are you? How are you? Scott
Speaker 2: and Ralph.
Speaker 4: Escape there survived the fire today, so.
Speaker 1: Awesome, awesome.
Speaker 2: He better to come out escape than having to remove Yeah.
Speaker 1: And we have a special guest on tonight's episode of
Speaker 1: Fire Up, but most of you know him for most
Speaker 1: of the shows he runs and hosts. It is none
Speaker 1: other than my husband, Scott the MotorCity mad Mouth Morgan Roth.
Speaker 1: How are you, Scott?
Speaker 3: Oh, Candy, it's great to be with you, Jeremy and
Speaker 3: Ralph tonight. It's good that you're in the hosting it
Speaker 3: instead of me. All. I got to just sit back
Speaker 3: and do what I do best and hope to not
Speaker 3: lose my voice. But I think we'll manage to make
Speaker 3: it work.
Speaker 1: I should make you produce because normally you make me
Speaker 1: produce when you host.
Speaker 3: Oh no, you want it done right. You don't have
Speaker 3: me to produce anything. Let him produce. I don't produce.
Speaker 3: All I do is produce controversy. Seriously, wait and energy.
Speaker 2: Guys produce the controversy.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's true. Good point there, Jeremy. Yeah, sometimes in
Speaker 3: that room does tend to be a bit on the
Speaker 3: interesting side to say the leaves. So go ahead, and Candy,
Speaker 3: we're gonna say.
Speaker 1: You also produce the book that's in the corner and
Speaker 1: right next to you over your shoulder.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 3: No, I'm proud of that thing. I'm working and part
Speaker 3: two will be coming out, you know, early next year.
Speaker 3: I'm gonna be working on part two, probably want to
Speaker 3: say November December. I'm trying to get the sports cycle
Speaker 3: done this year, and you know this one will be
Speaker 3: the good, the bad, and the ugly. Before we were
Speaker 3: giving acknowledgements, but well, you know, when you have to
Speaker 3: add a little more hay to make it real, you know,
Speaker 3: you never know it's gonna get in there. But I
Speaker 3: know you and obviously Katy, Ralph and Jeremy have been
Speaker 3: it will be And anybody's guess who's going to make
Speaker 3: it after that. So but now, with all due respect,
Speaker 3: though it is nice to be on your show. I'm
Speaker 3: proud of the job that Candy does, Ralph and Jeremy.
Speaker 3: It's really my night off, but every now and then,
Speaker 3: you know, I don't mind popping in from time to
Speaker 3: time because hey, you know, I don't want to be
Speaker 3: referred to as the boss, but Jeremy does a good
Speaker 3: job referring me to that, so I'll accept it. But
Speaker 3: without this platform, I'm nothing. I got to have a
Speaker 3: great supporting cast, and I'm thankful for all the shows
Speaker 3: that we have on that I'm able to go ahead
Speaker 3: and do executly that Robert Wardell when the digital version
Speaker 3: is you know, I've got a leading from my toast
Speaker 3: Masters group that volunteered to do it. She wasn't at
Speaker 3: the meeting last time, but I'm going to hopefully see
Speaker 3: her or Robert continue to ask, and I'll do everything
Speaker 3: in my power, buddy, to go out there and get
Speaker 3: it out. Thank you very much. It's good to see again, Pal,
Speaker 3: it really is. I'm glad that you're staying with us,
Speaker 3: and I'm making some major changes across the network to
Speaker 3: make a lot of the shows better. Robert. Great to
Speaker 3: see you tonight. They forgive it a part of your Thursday.
Speaker 1: So we're gonna start the show out with my what
Speaker 1: I introduced last week as the new segment. My new
Speaker 1: segment is did you Know? And so I'm going to
Speaker 1: ask you guys all and I think the first part
Speaker 1: of the question you guys will all get. I'm not
Speaker 1: sure you'll get the second part of it. So tell
Speaker 1: me what is the oldest NFL stadium in the league
Speaker 1: right now?
Speaker 2: Soldier Field?
Speaker 5: I believe I was gonna say Lamba, but but Jeremy
Speaker 5: beat me to what Soldier.
Speaker 1: Soldier Field turns one hundred this year. The next part
Speaker 1: of my question, though, is is what stadium has been
Speaker 1: used the longest by an NFL team.
Speaker 2: That would probably be the Green Bay Packers because they've
Speaker 2: never moved.
Speaker 3: Let's go to the chat room, all right, josh Door,
Speaker 3: Scotty Slapper and Smoking Jay. Yeah, pretty good. Stop, Joshua.
Speaker 3: Don't feel too bad, buddy about the stadiums that you
Speaker 3: didn't know, because a lot of people don't. So you're good.
Speaker 3: Las Vegas City is the newest. That's when we're gonna
Speaker 3: have to get to Joshua Door. Good stuff. Hell, good
Speaker 3: to have you on the night.
Speaker 1: It is good to have people in the chat room.
Speaker 1: We love it, we love it. We feed off them,
Speaker 1: especially on our show. Yeah sure, whoa.
Speaker 2: But we are up against opening night of football.
Speaker 3: Big deal. I don't care. None of that phases me.
Speaker 3: We got people giving us updates all day long. I
Speaker 3: don't care what night. It's our night. That's all that matters.
Speaker 1: Opening night of the NFL. Yes, and it is featuring
Speaker 1: Baltimore Ravens at Kansas City. Kansas City is at home.
Speaker 1: There are both tied right now, seven to seven in
Speaker 1: the first.
Speaker 2: And Ravens are punting the ball.
Speaker 1: Yes, yes they are.
Speaker 3: Now you're a wild car for the Ravens all year
Speaker 3: will be Derek Henry. Anyways, you talk about the big
Speaker 3: pickup that was definitely like your deal.
Speaker 1: Yea, that is true. So tell me, guys, let's let's
Speaker 1: make some predictions because we're let's face it, it's an NFL.
Speaker 1: It's NFL game tonight, it's NFL season. We've all craved
Speaker 1: this season. So who do you have coming out of
Speaker 1: Let's let's let's start. Let's break it down by division.
Speaker 1: Who do you who do you want? Which division you
Speaker 1: want to start with guys.
Speaker 2: And around the clock clockwise east southwest north and go
Speaker 2: in that order for both a f C and NFC.
Speaker 1: Okay, go ahead, start us off, Jemmy.
Speaker 2: And see east. I've got the Eagles winning, I got
Speaker 2: the Cowboys regressing. No Michael Gallup CD is out this week.
Speaker 2: If you expect them to go into Cleveland and win
Speaker 2: with that defense here, you bumped your head because they've
Speaker 2: got the AAARP running back room with two twenty nine
Speaker 2: year olds between Ezekiel Elliott and Dalvin Cook.
Speaker 3: All right, let me ask you a question. Did you
Speaker 3: get that AARP running back room watching my show on
Speaker 3: Inside the Face.
Speaker 2: Oh, I've been saying it for a week straight.
Speaker 3: Well I've said it on Tuesday Night. Yeah, no, I
Speaker 3: did the MGA well g yeah, right there you go.
Speaker 3: I like it when he steals all my line because
Speaker 3: he's been around me logging up and I probably brainwashed him.
Speaker 2: Ale so i' and then the AFC East until somebody
Speaker 2: knocks them off the pedestal. Last year, you got to
Speaker 2: stick with the Ravens. They're looking good going up against
Speaker 2: the Super Bowl champs. Right now, North, I'm gonna say,
Speaker 2: jets if Aaron Rodgers stay healthy. If not, it'll be
Speaker 2: the Dolphins. I see the Bills falling off.
Speaker 5: Okay, yeah, yeah, NFC North, if I see the Cowboys,
Speaker 5: probably in the Eagles. The Eagles have to win this year.
Speaker 5: To Nick Sirian, he's uh under a lot of pressure.
Speaker 5: If they don't go to the Super Bowl, he's fired.
Speaker 5: I think, uh, New York Giants. I think Brian de
Speaker 5: bow is under some pressure as well. And Dallas it
Speaker 5: looks like that could they could probably be the team.
Speaker 5: And the Washington Commanders we don't we don't know what
Speaker 5: to expect from Dan Quinn and Cliff Kingsbury there with
Speaker 5: a rookie quarterback and Jalen Samuels.
Speaker 4: So we'll see what happens.
Speaker 1: Okay, Scott, how do you feel?
Speaker 4: All right?
Speaker 3: Well, go ahead, let's break down the divisions or which
Speaker 3: one we're gonna start first with Jeremy NFC and a East.
Speaker 3: All right, the NFC East. I am going to go
Speaker 3: with Philadelphia, I have I agree with you. Dallas is
Speaker 3: going to regress. Mike Martin McCarthy will be out of
Speaker 3: a job at the end of the year. He's a
Speaker 3: lame gut coach. Give me another division. AFC East afcast.
Speaker 3: There's no way I'm going with the Miami Dolphins until
Speaker 3: they prove that they can go out there and win
Speaker 3: in December and January. This fish will be like ice fishing, okay,
Speaker 3: because that's what they do when it comes to those ones.
Speaker 3: I'm gonna stick with the Buffalo Bills, if for no
Speaker 3: other reason, the quarterback Josh Allen. Okay, and then we'll
Speaker 3: see what's going So give me another division, just lists
Speaker 3: of divisions for me.
Speaker 1: Wait, wait, wait, I don't think Ralf did.
Speaker 5: No, I didn't do the FC East. I agree with Scott.
Speaker 5: I think the Bills are it. I don't think that.
Speaker 5: I think the Jets are overrated. With Aaron Rodgers, I
Speaker 5: don't see him doing anything there. The Patriots, we don't
Speaker 5: know what to expect from them, although they have offensive
Speaker 5: coordinator Alex van Pelt.
Speaker 4: We'll see where the offense goes this year.
Speaker 5: And the Dolphins, like Scott said, they have to win
Speaker 5: in the you know, towards the end of the season.
Speaker 5: They can't choke in games. We're going to find out
Speaker 5: where Miami goes this year. But I'm taking the Bills
Speaker 5: like Scott.
Speaker 3: Okay, keep going with the division. Jeremy helped me out
Speaker 3: a little.
Speaker 4: Bit, all right.
Speaker 2: NFC South, I still say it's a toss up between
Speaker 2: the Falcons and Bucks. The Falcons added a lot of firepower,
Speaker 2: but the Bucks are the best roster in the division
Speaker 2: and they didn't lose a lot, So I think it's
Speaker 2: coming down to between them and in the AFC Ceult,
Speaker 2: I think it's going to be the Texans again because
Speaker 2: they added to that already powerful offense and defense.
Speaker 3: Yeah, you know what, I believe you're on target with
Speaker 3: both of those. Number one. I like what Houston is
Speaker 3: doing down there. They're a team that came out of
Speaker 3: nowhere a year ago with c. J. Stroud, and they
Speaker 3: have a young coach is going to considerably get better.
Speaker 3: As far as the NFC South, there's no doubt I'm
Speaker 3: going with the Buccketeers. Baker Mayfield got a new contract,
Speaker 3: They have essentially a lot of the same personnel offensively,
Speaker 3: and I like Todd Pooles. Everybody get out his case,
Speaker 3: but this guy's a pretty good coach.
Speaker 4: Mm hm oh yeah, absolutely, I think. Yeah.
Speaker 5: At the NFC South, I think it's gonna be Tampa
Speaker 5: Bay because Atlanta Carolina our first year of coaches, and
Speaker 5: I don't see them doing anything. And then the New
Speaker 5: Orleans Saints. I've never been sold on tennis Allen. Uh
Speaker 5: you know, he's stunk when he was the coach in Jokelin.
Speaker 5: Uh So, I mean, you know so, I think so anyway,
Speaker 5: but I think that you know, it's gonna be the Buccaneers.
Speaker 5: Even if they're nine and eight, I think they can.
Speaker 5: They're still going to go to the playoffs like it
Speaker 5: did last year.
Speaker 3: I didn't think he had it in yet.
Speaker 4: Seriously, Chokelin like it.
Speaker 3: Hey, Williams, there might be hope for you. Hey Williams,
Speaker 3: let me tell you something, man, there might hope. There
Speaker 3: might be help for you, hope for you in the
Speaker 3: broadcasting business. After we called Ralph so here, we got
Speaker 3: your name here on fire up tonight, Ralph Jokeland Williams. Okay,
Speaker 3: so that's her.
Speaker 4: You know what.
Speaker 3: Jeremy put it in the chat room right now. Ralph
Speaker 3: Jokelin j O A K L A N D. Williams
Speaker 3: is a new name. Okay. If you bother the trademarket
Speaker 3: do anything with it, that's okay. That's a free b
Speaker 3: from me since you bought the book. So there you
Speaker 3: are Ralph Jokeland Williams there.
Speaker 4: We have a community in Pittsburgh, and I called Choke.
Speaker 2: My buddy Michael Johnson joining in. He's a Vikings fan
Speaker 2: that comes on my NFL Roundtable talks.
Speaker 3: Hey, Jeremy, you have to spell a J O A
Speaker 3: K L A N D.
Speaker 2: I like Jokeland.
Speaker 3: I know you do, but do it like I.
Speaker 4: Wanted to do.
Speaker 3: Okay, Well that done, man, and we can put it
Speaker 3: up there toys. We're all having a good old time anyways.
Speaker 5: And I agree with the AMC South on the Texans.
Speaker 5: I think the Colts. Uh, we'll see what second hear
Speaker 5: coach Shane Steisan does. Jaguar they might be close. It's
Speaker 5: gonna be between the Texans and the Jaguars. I believe
Speaker 5: the Titans. They have a new coach. I don't know
Speaker 5: where they're going to go, so we'll see.
Speaker 1: Okay, So Jeremy, let's go NFC West.
Speaker 2: NFC West until somebody knocks them off the pedestal. It's
Speaker 2: the forty nine ers, especially since they got both deals
Speaker 2: done with Ayuk and Trent Williams over this past week.
Speaker 2: I don't see anybody beating them. And with the mash
Speaker 2: unit that the rams o line has over the next
Speaker 2: four weeks. They're going to struggle at the start of
Speaker 2: the season.
Speaker 1: And the AFC West, it's.
Speaker 2: The Chiefs until somebody knocks them off their pedestal. And
Speaker 2: I don't see a team in that division good enough
Speaker 2: to do it.
Speaker 1: Okay, Ralph, you.
Speaker 4: Cardinals, I don't know about them.
Speaker 5: The Rams, as Jeremy said, they go a lot of injuries,
Speaker 5: and then they got Jimmy Garoppolo who's always in the
Speaker 5: medical tent. They have him there. And then the Seahawks
Speaker 5: have a neue coach. So it's the forty nine Ers.
Speaker 5: It's as simple as that. You know, that's a no
Speaker 5: brainer right there. As far as the AFC West goes Chiefs, Broncos,
Speaker 5: Raiders and Chargers. I look at the Chiefs, and then
Speaker 5: the Chargers might sneak up in there. Jim Harball wins
Speaker 5: everywhere he goes, so I think it's going to be
Speaker 5: the Chargers and the Chiefs, and I believe the Broncos
Speaker 5: are going to regress in the Raiders, I don't know
Speaker 5: what to expect from them yet we're going to see.
Speaker 2: I actually don't expect the Broncos to regress that much
Speaker 2: because one thing I can tell you about bow Knicks
Speaker 2: as a quarterback, He's had a different OC every year
Speaker 2: he was in college, and every year he improved as
Speaker 2: a quarterback. So he's used to that struggle of learning
Speaker 2: a new system every damn year. And we know OC
Speaker 2: is one of those positions that can change on a
Speaker 2: dime in the NFL.
Speaker 3: Tell me about it. I've seen enough of that over
Speaker 3: the years. So definitely justify what you're talking about.
Speaker 1: Okay, Scott, So you NFC West.
Speaker 3: You know NFC West is no talking go to forty
Speaker 3: nine ers. Yeah, it's really hard to go against them.
Speaker 3: You know what. I'm gonna call it a toss up. Actually,
Speaker 3: I'm gonna call it a toss up between the Chargers
Speaker 3: and the Chiefs. I am. I'm gonna I just I'm
Speaker 3: gonna call it a toss up. I'm gonna go one
Speaker 3: at one and one A and one B.
Speaker 1: Fair enough, Okay, So, Jeremy, the NFC nor the Norris divisions.
Speaker 2: Until they're knocked off their pedestal. It's the Lions and
Speaker 2: the Packers and the Bears and the Vikings end the story.
Speaker 2: And in the AFC North it's Ravens and then it's
Speaker 2: a toss up for second place because all those teams
Speaker 2: are good defensively. I don't care what anybody says about
Speaker 2: the offenses. Defenses win championships.
Speaker 3: Okay, woea pinned for years. Anyways, I don't know why anybody.
Speaker 4: I agree with Jeremy this point.
Speaker 5: The Packers and the Lions, Vikings, I don't know they
Speaker 5: they're in a There are a lot of guys in
Speaker 5: the medical tent there. And then the Bears. Uh, well
Speaker 5: we know what the Bears are, so forget that. But anyway,
Speaker 5: that's that. And in the FC North, uh, if I'm
Speaker 5: a Homer, Steelers are going to take the division. But
Speaker 5: being not a Homer, Cincinnati and the and the and
Speaker 5: the Ravens look pretty good this year in Cleveland. Will
Speaker 5: regress with Deshaun Watson.
Speaker 3: Okay, Scott, all right, I'll go with the Lions for sure,
Speaker 3: but I'm not going to give it an overwhelming prediction here.
Speaker 3: I need to make sure that Dan Campbell and the
Speaker 3: rest of this group here realizes that they're being hunted now,
Speaker 3: and they're not. They're not a secret anymore. I think
Speaker 3: they'll still be awfully good, and I do believe they
Speaker 3: can win the division. Yet again, the Packers were coming
Speaker 3: on strong and made a great run to get to
Speaker 3: the player. Uh, the Bears are much better than most
Speaker 3: people think. And the Vikings, well, I don't know. That's
Speaker 3: all I can tell you.
Speaker 2: Now after I'm going to give you an update on
Speaker 2: the game. After trading punts back and forth, Lamar and
Speaker 2: the Ravens just bumbled the ball back to the Chiefs.
Speaker 3: Okay, well that's fine, no problems the Steelers, Yeah, well no,
Speaker 3: I would go that far. Don't push it down. Steelers.
Speaker 3: Remind me of haven't Costello. They don't know who's on first,
Speaker 3: what's on second? But their quarterback. Yeah, they won't even
Speaker 3: know either when you think about it. But I'll give
Speaker 3: the Ravens the benefit of the doubt to win that division. Anyways. Again,
Speaker 3: I'm a hardball guy.
Speaker 1: Whether donn or damn, it doesn't Okay. So now I
Speaker 1: want you guys to pick a sleeper team that you
Speaker 1: think people really need to watch out for, and instead
Speaker 1: of breaking it down, just one from the AFC and
Speaker 1: one from the NFC. Some sleeper team that you could
Speaker 1: creep up and maybe get into the playoffs, maybe even
Speaker 1: go to the Super Bowl that we aren't projecting.
Speaker 2: One team that I see out of the AFC, even
Speaker 2: though they have a new coach, they have a nice
Speaker 2: nucleus of a good, good defense. It's the Titans that
Speaker 2: could possibly squeak in as a wild guard team. And
Speaker 2: in the NFC, I'm going to go, much as I
Speaker 2: hate to say it, if Caleb Williams is fifty percent
Speaker 2: of the hype he's received coming into the season, they'll
Speaker 2: make the playoffs.
Speaker 1: Okay, Ralph, how about you?
Speaker 3: Well?
Speaker 5: In the AFC, I think the Colts might sneak in
Speaker 5: there stay if if Richardson stays healthy and Shane Steichen
Speaker 5: can have a second year a decent second year and
Speaker 5: not have second year blues like some other new coaches.
Speaker 5: As far as the NFC goes, I think the Washington
Speaker 5: Commanders might be able to with Dan Quinn and the
Speaker 5: guys here. You know, it'd be interested to see his
Speaker 5: second stint as a head coach. I think he might
Speaker 5: sneak up in there somewhere and being a wild card
Speaker 5: that could happen.
Speaker 1: Yes, the good Scott, what about you?
Speaker 4: No?
Speaker 3: You know what, Joseph Osin, I like what you're doing
Speaker 3: with this one. With the Colts, I really do. I mean,
Speaker 3: you know what. To me, this is a team where
Speaker 3: the quarterback do stay healthy. Well, let's not forget that
Speaker 3: the running back Jonathan Taylor is the guy that he
Speaker 3: has a good year, and I mean a really good year,
Speaker 3: he'll gobble up a lot of ours. As for the NFC,
Speaker 3: I don't know why I'm I think I'm drinking the
Speaker 3: Bear's kool aid, but i am. Anyways, they have surrounded
Speaker 3: Caleb Williams with weapons, but they couldn't do it for
Speaker 3: Justin Field. Give me a break. Really.
Speaker 2: The only caveat that I have to that I hope
Speaker 2: they did enough on o line to keep Caleb from
Speaker 2: having to run for his life.
Speaker 3: Oh, no questioning about it, Jeremy, What do you think
Speaker 3: that Justin Fields didn't only run for his life, he
Speaker 3: had to run out of town and go to RaSE Pittsburgh.
Speaker 5: You know, but he might he might be starting this
Speaker 5: Sunday too, because Russell Wilson has a CAF injury.
Speaker 3: Well, Russell Wilson to me to go back to another
Speaker 3: match in it And the fact is I hear he's
Speaker 3: a low investment anyways, didn't pay him a lot.
Speaker 5: Of well paid a million dollars and and thank you
Speaker 5: Denver because they're paying the rest of his sellar.
Speaker 2: All right, so what you know, it's not just Denver
Speaker 2: paying him. He's on the last year of the guaranteed
Speaker 2: money from the Seahawks to you.
Speaker 3: That so you know what, here's a deal. Russell will
Speaker 3: you know who? Russell will Wilson reminds me of will A
Speaker 3: Tigert the Florida for Florida Atlantic University. Yes, getting paid
Speaker 3: from everybody had the planet that he was in the NFL.
Speaker 4: Florida State too. He was with Florida State.
Speaker 3: Oregon. Yeah, so Oregon, Yeah, yeah, we're gonna so who
Speaker 3: So what are we gonna do. We're gonna call Weller
Speaker 3: at the equivalent to Russell Wilson. Good stuff only on fire.
Speaker 2: By the way, and I actually think the Colts might
Speaker 2: as much as everybody says it's not. If Anthony Richardson
Speaker 2: gets hurt, they might be better off. But Joe Flacco, well.
Speaker 3: We all saw what happened with Joe Flacco. Also a
Speaker 3: note I should mention for Cleveland for those out there
Speaker 3: that haven't heard it yet. Andrew Siciliano will be the
Speaker 3: new play by play guy for the Cleveland brown just
Speaker 3: so you know, and wow, wow, Yeah, Andrew's a good announcer.
Speaker 3: He obviously worked with the NFL Network for a lot
Speaker 3: of years, substituted last year, and I felt and they
Speaker 3: feel like he's the ideal bet And I'm happy for
Speaker 3: Andrew Siciliano that he is going to be the new
Speaker 3: play by play broadcaster for the Browns, so more powerful.
Speaker 4: Good for him. Yes, the only.
Speaker 2: Reason I'm going the way I'm going in the divisions
Speaker 2: is look at the over unders all the way around.
Speaker 2: Right now, they have the over under for the Bucks
Speaker 2: and the Falcons exactly the same at nine and a
Speaker 2: half wins. They have the over under for the Lions
Speaker 2: at eleven and a half wins, the Packers at nine
Speaker 2: and a half wins. They have the over under in
Speaker 2: the West. I'm sorry, it's still forty nine Ers at
Speaker 2: eleven and a half, and the Rams are a game
Speaker 2: below them at ten and a half. You know, you
Speaker 2: have to look at those over unders, and they gave
Speaker 2: the Eagles and Cowboys the same over and under. And
Speaker 2: if if I'm a betting man, I'm doing a two
Speaker 2: leg parlay in the nfcast and I'm taking Eagles on
Speaker 2: the over and Cowboys on the under because when they
Speaker 2: lose at Cleveland it'll be their first of ten losses.
Speaker 4: Wow, makes sense.
Speaker 1: So Bear's gonna be looking for a new coach next
Speaker 1: year in.
Speaker 2: If they don't make the playoffs. I agree with that.
Speaker 3: Well, you know what, wait a minute, let's back up
Speaker 3: on that one a little bit. If they can win eight,
Speaker 3: nine ten games, whether they make the playoffs, I think
Speaker 3: abra flu survives another year. I'm not talking about playoffs.
Speaker 3: I'm talking about improvement. There's a difference between playoffs and
Speaker 3: improvement as long as because the last thing you want
Speaker 3: to do is continue to change coaches during a quarterbacks development.
Speaker 3: How many times have we seen that? So I'm looking
Speaker 3: for improvement. Yes, are they striving for playoffs, course, everybody
Speaker 3: is right now, But I don't know about But you know,
Speaker 3: as possible. You know, the NFL coaches coaching jobs turn
Speaker 3: up all the time, and there's always going to be
Speaker 3: a black money and there might be a surprise to you.
Speaker 3: Just never know.
Speaker 1: Okay, So my next topic, I want you to pick one,
Speaker 1: and I'm saying one game that you are most looking
Speaker 1: forward to this weekend, whether it be college or NFL
Speaker 1: but only one.
Speaker 4: Right, I know the game.
Speaker 5: The game I'm looking forward to is to is to
Speaker 5: Green Bay Eagles game down there in Rio de Janeiro
Speaker 5: or Brazil or wherever they're at. I'm interested to see
Speaker 5: how that game's gonna go. That's that's the one I'm
Speaker 5: looking at.
Speaker 3: Sal Paulo brother. Rio's got all the bikinis and sal
Speaker 3: Pablo has a crime.
Speaker 2: Sorry, they didn't want to have one hundred and six
Speaker 2: paternity cases if they went to Rio.
Speaker 5: Exactly exactly, despite the fact I stopped talking about Pitt.
Speaker 5: I'm interested to see what they're going to do against
Speaker 5: Cincinnati this week at Cincinnati. They lost last year at home,
Speaker 5: and Cincinnati had the same record. The Bearcats had the
Speaker 5: same record that Pitt had. So we're gonna see what
Speaker 5: happens there.
Speaker 1: Wait a minute, I said, one.
Speaker 4: Oh one, Okay, that's fine.
Speaker 1: That's okay, Jeremy. What one.
Speaker 3: External bump here is trying to push the system a
Speaker 3: little bit. You can't get away with it on his show.
Speaker 2: All right, you know who it is. You've seen my
Speaker 2: allegiance somewhere right here. It's the Rams versus Lions, the
Speaker 2: wild card rematch. And even though it's an O line matchup,
Speaker 2: and I expect even if it goes bad, the Lions
Speaker 2: win On Sunday. I'm excited to see what this new
Speaker 2: secondary looks like versus some good wide receivers.
Speaker 1: Okay, our guest, Scott, what one game are you most
Speaker 1: looking forward to?
Speaker 3: One game these two guys wouldn't even think of talking about.
Speaker 3: The one I'm interested in is the one I'm covering,
Speaker 3: and that's going to be the Miami Hurricanes against Florida
Speaker 3: A and m Rattlers. Why would I do that because Miami.
Speaker 3: Of course, Candy and I had covered it last week.
Speaker 3: Went out there and crushed the Gators, is what they
Speaker 3: did in Gazel. What an electric atmosphere. Now, I want
Speaker 3: to make sure that the Canes come back strong and
Speaker 3: don't feel that this particular game against Florida A and
Speaker 3: M as a trap game in terms of what they're doing.
Speaker 3: And I love what coach Crystabal was doing. Most people
Speaker 3: were thinking my older days in Michigan, Texas. Yeah, it's
Speaker 3: an intriguing game, but I'm going to lean more towards
Speaker 3: Miami and Florida A and m I say what you want,
Speaker 3: but when I see a team progress year in and year out,
Speaker 3: and I see you have a guy like Mario Crystobal
Speaker 3: who knows this area real well, and all these guys
Speaker 3: are getting on his case. I would tell these people
Speaker 3: when I went on many shows, shut up, give this
Speaker 3: guy an opportunity to win here, because all he's done
Speaker 3: is win everywhere else he's gone. So Miami in Florida.
Speaker 3: Am I'm going to go with that?
Speaker 1: Oh I'm surprised. I thought for sure you would say Michigan, Texas.
Speaker 3: That was the old Scott. This is a different Scott
Speaker 3: and I have a different U of m than I'm
Speaker 3: working with and except in the reality. But yeah, like
Speaker 3: I said, that's the game. I'll be recording it anyways.
Speaker 3: But you know, I really am into the Canes. This
Speaker 3: is one thing that I live for because I really
Speaker 3: love covering this program in a lot of different ways.
Speaker 3: And a few people realize they've only won five national
Speaker 3: championship and produced a ton of pro players, So I mean,
Speaker 3: so yeah again, Kady, when you come on the show,
Speaker 3: you don't bring only the Boss. You bring a guy
Speaker 3: on here. And obviously, and I'm just kidding with the Boss,
Speaker 3: that's all fun. The guys. I ride with it, But
Speaker 3: but you know, let's face reality, the guy that wants
Speaker 3: to cover a sporting of it is not out of
Speaker 3: my system yet and God only knows when it ever
Speaker 3: will be because I like being being a part of
Speaker 3: it all. So now, yeah, if I mentioned.
Speaker 2: The game, I'm gonna give my one comment on it,
Speaker 2: because you remember last year we played a Cupcake in
Speaker 2: Week one for Michigan and JJ McCarthy looked awful. He
Speaker 2: threw three picks in that game. We had the same
Speaker 2: vanilla offense we had then, because I think that was
Speaker 2: the vanilla offense that Sharon Moore used to hide it
Speaker 2: for a better appoint ponent. And this Warren kid actually
Speaker 2: did pretty good and didn't throw a pick. So when
Speaker 2: you think about that, JJ McCarthy was just a first
Speaker 2: round pick because he won a national championship. This kid
Speaker 2: looked more poised in his first start as a Michigan
Speaker 2: quarterback then JJ McCarthy looked after and going into his
Speaker 2: third season.
Speaker 3: But Jeremy, I was It's funny how you mentioned it
Speaker 3: because I was reading up on it. I think this
Speaker 3: is his sixth year with the program and he's been
Speaker 3: dealing with a lot of medical issues and just kind
Speaker 3: of hanging in there. So you know what, I'm glad
Speaker 3: you brought the guy up. I read if everybody knows
Speaker 3: how much time I spent on my phone because I'm
Speaker 3: reading up on this stuff as part of what I
Speaker 3: have to do anyway, But you know what, You're right.
Speaker 4: I mean this.
Speaker 3: You know you're you're bringing in a new guy like
Speaker 3: Sharon Moore. Not a new guy, but he is okay
Speaker 3: because now he is a head coach, okay. And you
Speaker 3: you bring in a guy like this who's been around
Speaker 3: six years, that means he knows a system he does.
Speaker 3: And you know what, for all you Michigan detractors that
Speaker 3: think on the ncuble gonna file on, you know what,
Speaker 3: you can only pile on so much. They're not losing
Speaker 3: the National championship because in college football playoff is going
Speaker 3: to make sure No I didn't you know, they played
Speaker 3: this game and they want decidively with bow. So I
Speaker 3: won't get in any NC double a talk. But you're right.
Speaker 3: I'm looking forward to seeing it, whether a DVR or
Speaker 3: I'm there yet, but it'll be a pretty interesting situation
Speaker 3: to see how it plays out. But yeah, Candy, if
Speaker 3: I surprised you, well, so what. It's good stuff because
Speaker 3: obviously I like being where, you know, I mean heavily
Speaker 3: involved with what I have to do.
Speaker 1: Okay, okay, And well, is anyone watching the Chiefs game.
Speaker 1: I think most of us have it on. It is
Speaker 1: in the background. For me, it's what what's the score?
Speaker 4: Ten Kansas City ten?
Speaker 2: Seven Kansas City?
Speaker 4: Yeap?
Speaker 2: Yes, yes, restaurant and Raven ouched that desert must have
Speaker 2: just stopped him again or he threw a pick.
Speaker 1: I am going to throw all of you for Luke
Speaker 1: because I did not prep you guys with any of
Speaker 1: the topics.
Speaker 2: Oh they went for it on fourth down and got
Speaker 2: brought down by Trent McDuffie.
Speaker 3: Trying to get a job as a color analyst or
Speaker 3: a play by play guy. Why okay, yea, yeah, there
Speaker 3: you go. I was about to say that just you know,
Speaker 3: just scared me a little bit. I rubbed off mind
Speaker 3: you too much. Seriously, good stuff.
Speaker 1: Okay, So my question is, have you guys heard who
Speaker 1: is going to be on as Celebrities Dancing with the
Speaker 1: Stars this season.
Speaker 2: I pay attention to Celebrity to the Stars as much
Speaker 2: as I do the Bachelor or Bachelorette. So no, I
Speaker 2: haven't heard.
Speaker 1: So Anna Delvey, who is her real name is Anna Sorkin,
Speaker 1: is one of the stars. She gained notoriety for posing
Speaker 1: as a wealthy German heiress and used her social standings
Speaker 1: to defraud wealthy people banks and hotels. She was arrested
Speaker 1: back in twenty seventeen and convicted of grand larceny in
Speaker 1: the first, second and third degree, as well as theft
Speaker 1: of services. Her sentence included four to twelve years in prison,
Speaker 1: which was she was cut short when she was released
Speaker 1: in twenty February of twenty twenty one for good behavior.
Speaker 1: But she has been living under house arrest in New
Speaker 1: York City while she's trying to fight a deportation case.
Speaker 1: She is going to compete with the bracelet around her
Speaker 1: ankle because she's still in house arrested at this point.
Speaker 1: So how do we feel about h celebrity being on
Speaker 1: Dances with the Stars that is wearing an ankle bracelet
Speaker 1: because she isn't.
Speaker 4: That'll be a first wow.
Speaker 2: Let's see, that would be like me wanting Isaiah Bugs
Speaker 2: back on the Lion's roster with the bracelet get out
Speaker 2: of here.
Speaker 3: Well, you know what, I don't have a problem as
Speaker 3: long as she was. As long as she gives that
Speaker 3: money back to the people she ripped off, I don't care.
Speaker 1: She has no regret about what she did and what
Speaker 1: she is I have read out here.
Speaker 3: Well, then send her all the way to the Bermuda Triangle.
Speaker 3: And usually when they go there, they don't come back.
Speaker 1: I understand. I understand.
Speaker 3: And by the way, Katie, you know when you do
Speaker 3: the hashtags put permu to trying to in there. I
Speaker 3: wonder how many times you'll ever get from you.
Speaker 1: I had to throw, you know, something in there that
Speaker 1: you guys wouldn't have.
Speaker 2: Since since it is opening week of football, I've got
Speaker 2: this NFL book of Trivia and it's got some interesting
Speaker 2: tidbits in there. Who was the tallest wide receiver to
Speaker 2: ever play football in the NFL?
Speaker 4: The tallest G Thompson He was six ' six.
Speaker 3: Nope, I'm gonna take a stand, Batic.
Speaker 2: What is it Harvey Carmichael six foot eight that played
Speaker 2: for the Eagles?
Speaker 3: You mean Harold Harold?
Speaker 4: Yeah?
Speaker 3: Whatever, all right, but here I helped you on the
Speaker 3: other half, it's Harold Carmichael. Put them a book away.
Speaker 3: Once you get to a Carmichael, there's only one.
Speaker 2: What the that guy should just be on it and stuff.
Speaker 2: Joel Davis actually did dance in college and in high school.
Speaker 2: So uh, but that's.
Speaker 3: The last question. Well, can I ask you a question?
Speaker 3: Who is the quarterback that through the Harold Carmichael?
Speaker 2: Wasn't that Randall Cunninghame?
Speaker 4: Nope? Ron Jaworski that's it?
Speaker 3: And who's jaws?
Speaker 4: Oh?
Speaker 2: It was good for me because that's when that didn't
Speaker 2: they have when they got the polly off the streets
Speaker 2: at that time?
Speaker 4: Yes? Yeah, good job, Ralph, thank you?
Speaker 2: And how many with the first pick overall? How many
Speaker 2: times in NFL history has a quarterback been taken since
Speaker 2: nineteen thirty six?
Speaker 3: Wait, I'm sorry, repeat your question.
Speaker 2: With the first pick overall in the NFL draft, which
Speaker 2: started in nineteen thirty six, how many times has a
Speaker 2: quarterback gone first overall?
Speaker 4: One hundred times?
Speaker 3: No, Usually most people give you multiple choice questions on that.
Speaker 2: I know. How about how about fifty less than fifty
Speaker 2: and more than what Joseph Austin just said?
Speaker 3: How two?
Speaker 2: Very close?
Speaker 3: Thirty three.
Speaker 2: Closer? It's thirty five? Everybody had their guests, Wow, thirty
Speaker 2: five times? And you want to know what's bad about that?
Speaker 2: Only eight of them have made it of anything of note.
Speaker 2: The other the other twenty seven of them.
Speaker 3: But you know what, though, if you're going to go there,
Speaker 3: you know what I suggest you do. I suggest you
Speaker 3: talk about how many Heisman Trophy winners have won the
Speaker 3: whole thing too. I tell you right now, not that
Speaker 3: many wh Hall of Fame. But I'm just telling you,
Speaker 3: believe it or not, Jim plunk At won a Super Bowl.
Speaker 3: But he did it with the Raiders, not with the
Speaker 3: team that originally drafted with him. And that happened to
Speaker 3: be Jim Pluckett was with the New England Patriots back.
Speaker 4: In the day.
Speaker 2: And here's one other NFL's back to it. I want
Speaker 2: to throw out before we go into the next one, Candy.
Speaker 2: Out of the last three seasons, rookie quarterbacks have combined
Speaker 2: for a record of zero fourteen and one. In Week
Speaker 2: one of the NFL season, it's.
Speaker 3: A good note. I like that ghost. So what do
Speaker 3: you think the odds are that one of them is
Speaker 3: gonna get a win this week?
Speaker 2: Uh? Somewhere between slim and ten.
Speaker 3: Okay, what do you got? Well, how many were drafted
Speaker 3: in the first round this year?
Speaker 2: And can remember, well, one's already injured, so he's out.
Speaker 5: You got bone, Nick, Caleb Williams, Bonet William Caleb Williams, J. J.
Speaker 4: McCarthy, Yeah, exactly, there's four.
Speaker 2: Yeah, there's more left.
Speaker 4: Yeah, we'll see.
Speaker 3: I don't know that's a good I like you throwing
Speaker 3: facts like out there that makes people think a little bit.
Speaker 3: But see, I'm not really supposed to think a whole
Speaker 3: lot tonight because Candy's the host.
Speaker 2: Said something is for the gambling gamblers out there in
Speaker 2: the chat and watching, right, make sure you realize this
Speaker 2: before you place money on a rookie quarterback to win
Speaker 2: a game.
Speaker 3: Well, I would tell you I've always had a firm
Speaker 3: believer at rookie quarterbacks. Just sent a minimum of one
Speaker 3: year anyways, period. I'll never back down from that, no way.
Speaker 3: Even Tom Brady went on record saying that they should
Speaker 3: do it, and Patrick Mahomes is a good illustration. All
Speaker 3: you should when he had Alex Smith, Andy Reed played
Speaker 3: that card as brilliantly Asia Candey and he's only one
Speaker 3: of five coaches that have won three plus Super Bowl
Speaker 3: So right, a lot of information right, people.
Speaker 2: Defense made a stop. They are getting ready to go
Speaker 2: for a field goal at fourth and five outside the
Speaker 2: red zone. Uh Nate Wiggins just broke up a big
Speaker 2: play on their first round wide receiver. They took, so
Speaker 2: first round corner versus first round wide receiver. The corner wins.
Speaker 4: Well, the coodn't news had all this at least say
Speaker 4: the lea points on a field case.
Speaker 3: So you know, right well, Kansas City's got bigger things
Speaker 3: to worry about. You know what that is where they're
Speaker 3: going to play in seven years with Kansas City, Kansas
Speaker 3: or Kansas City, Missouri.
Speaker 2: Oh, I think that's coming. I think it's gonna be Missouri.
Speaker 3: I think it's would be Kansas.
Speaker 2: I I mean Kansas, I mean Kansas City, Kansas. Because
Speaker 2: Kansas City, Missouri is not wanting to fund any upgrades exactly.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I know, I I we could get into that
Speaker 3: another time, but I just thought I was reading it tonight.
Speaker 3: Instance we're talking Kansas City. It happened to be their
Speaker 3: big night. Actually, you know what, I'm going to throw
Speaker 3: the numbers out here. The cost that the sales tax
Speaker 3: was rejected was two billion dollars. And right now the
Speaker 3: Kansas City, Kansas people have wheready said we got three
Speaker 3: point five billion dollars raised for two stadiums. Go figure.
Speaker 3: I don't think it takes rocket scientists or whatever her
Speaker 3: name is to figure out, or any rocket scientists of
Speaker 3: that matter. They're headed to Kansas to join the NASCAR
Speaker 3: tract that's out there. And I've been to both places too.
Speaker 3: Kansas City was there in Kansas City, Kansas, although it
Speaker 3: wasn't much what I was out there before.
Speaker 2: And also Kansas City, Kansas is where the of the
Speaker 2: semi pro soccer team that Pat Mahomes owns.
Speaker 3: Well, there you go. It's all there.
Speaker 1: Mm hmm, okay, okay, guys.
Speaker 2: My town. Sure, who do you want to start?
Speaker 1: We are gonna let our guests, mister Scott, you're telling
Speaker 1: them that you'd like to talk.
Speaker 2: About you got Detroit or down there in your neck
Speaker 2: of the woods, whichever way you want to go.
Speaker 3: All right, I'm gonna go in mid town. I got
Speaker 3: an ideal with this one. We're gonna have a little
Speaker 3: fun with this one. Okay. FAU is gonna be army
Speaker 3: this weekend over at FAU Stadium, and they're calling it
Speaker 3: military appreciation and this is the first conference game for Army,
Speaker 3: so you know what, hats off to Army and FAU
Speaker 3: as we acknowledge our military that they're going to play
Speaker 3: this game and they're calling it military appreciation. I already
Speaker 3: gave it up to Miami one because I felt that
Speaker 3: was more important to what we were looking to do
Speaker 3: in terms of gas. But I want to acknowledge FAU
Speaker 3: An army. You know, army is now in a conference
Speaker 3: and you know what, we'll see what is going to
Speaker 3: do under second year coach Tom Herman. It's an important
Speaker 3: year for them up there. I know what you want now.
Speaker 3: You know how much you learned in Night Way. It
Speaker 3: was pretty good, right, Plus you got a new nickname, Jokelin.
Speaker 1: Okay, Ralph, what's happening in your town?
Speaker 5: Well, I had a fire my apartment building today. That's
Speaker 5: what's happening here. But other than that, the Steelers are
Speaker 5: getting ready for their first game against Atlanta with new
Speaker 5: coach Rohee Morrise, and we're going to find out what
Speaker 5: what happens in this game. It's looking like Russell Wilson
Speaker 5: has a calf injury. Not sure if he's going to
Speaker 5: start or if he'll play a little bit. And then
Speaker 5: they're going to include Justin Fields into the into the
Speaker 5: fray here and the Pirates. They won tonight nine to four.
Speaker 5: They've been sort of roller coaster up and down, up
Speaker 5: and down, up and down, lose five games, win two.
Speaker 4: Uh, you know that can't happen.
Speaker 5: Peg Wins are getting ready to start up and then
Speaker 5: real soon here Crystal tang Want was traded to Montreal
Speaker 5: because he wants to be in his hometown of Canada.
Speaker 5: And the Sydney Crosby deals about to get done. Cam
Speaker 5: Heyward still got done, and we're about to get Pat
Speaker 5: Firemouth his deal done too, as far as that goes.
Speaker 5: And so far, that's my town, all right.
Speaker 3: You know, I'm going to add something to my town
Speaker 3: here in South Florida, and I really say about what
Speaker 3: doing here. Okay, Fire Up Florida is a show that
Speaker 3: I've actually been able to recreate into a hockey show
Speaker 3: with my co host Rod Peterson. I'm excited about some
Speaker 3: of the things that we're doing with it. And of
Speaker 3: course the Motor City man Mouth is still doing a
Speaker 3: lot with that as well, just trying to figure out
Speaker 3: I'm working on that with two platforms. But this show
Speaker 3: Fire Up Florida has the potential to do some pretty
Speaker 3: good things. And I have a guy who's as compassionate
Speaker 3: and energetic as I do. And you know, he believes
Speaker 3: in planning. And when I told him that I plan
Speaker 3: about as thorly, he said, I you know, wherever you go,
Speaker 3: I go. And as Jeremy has found out, you know,
Speaker 3: when you build relationships, which is what my book is
Speaker 3: about anyways, among other things, it's important to realize that
Speaker 3: these relationships are priceless. So I just want to give
Speaker 3: a plug out to fire Up Florida and working on
Speaker 3: building that. I want every show on this network to
Speaker 3: be strong anyways, you know, but why not? I mean,
Speaker 3: I just love what we're doing, but I feel we
Speaker 3: have a long way to go. Okay, there you go.
Speaker 3: I have a good Monday night doubleheader between Hire Up
Speaker 3: Florida and Baseball and inside the Piskin stands alone on
Speaker 3: Tuesday night.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's funny you mentioned baseball because That's where I'm
Speaker 2: going with my town. The hottest team in the Major
Speaker 2: League right now is Detroit. Everybody said they should sell
Speaker 2: and trade away Schooble. Thank god Scott Harris didn't listen
Speaker 2: to all those fans that wanted us to trade him
Speaker 2: for a million prospects because guess what they traded away
Speaker 2: mister Flaherty, who was a damn good starter, but he
Speaker 2: was the number two on this team. Schoobl's gone five
Speaker 2: and one, and in the bullpen days because now they
Speaker 2: have two bullpen starts in that rotation without a valid
Speaker 2: number two starter, they've gone three and two in those
Speaker 2: starts that Jack Flarerty would have started, which if you
Speaker 2: look at his track record all season, they'd have done
Speaker 2: the exact same thing because he's not inconsistent, not consistent
Speaker 2: enough to win four or five games in a row.
Speaker 2: So kudos to Scott Harris to not folding to the
Speaker 2: pressure of fans and sticking to his guns. Keeping Schooble,
Speaker 2: who he mentioned as one of his core players.
Speaker 3: Well, hed he have done that. You know what, aj
Speaker 3: Hinch would resign, he'd have been done because he knew
Speaker 3: they wanted committed to winning and aj Hinton they're not
Speaker 3: getting rid of school. And you know what, don't kid yourself.
Speaker 3: Tray Sweeney, who's been playing, was that was a part
Speaker 3: of that trade. You know what, he's not doing too bad,
Speaker 3: So he's a chorus stone to that team. Yeah, and
Speaker 3: I don't know what Flarerty's record is, right now in LA.
Speaker 3: But the Tigers, I've seen moves, and I've seen moves.
Speaker 3: This certainly wasn't a make or break move. It was
Speaker 3: a pretty thawn out intriguing move. So more power to
Speaker 3: the Tigers.
Speaker 2: In that first bullpen day, that was Jack Flaherty's start
Speaker 2: after the trade, the relief pitcher we got from the
Speaker 2: Dodgers who hadn't played a inning for the Dodgers was
Speaker 2: playing for the Great Lakes Loons right here in Midland.
Speaker 2: Michigan came in and start struck out too, and forced
Speaker 2: a ground out to take care of the side in
Speaker 2: order in the sixth inning in that bullpend start. So
Speaker 2: I'd say overall, the Tigers may have won that trade
Speaker 2: in the long run because they got prospects that show
Speaker 2: promise for the future of this franchise.
Speaker 3: Well, but what you're saying is they may be more
Speaker 3: major League ready than most people give them credit for,
Speaker 3: because on the surface it looked interesting and all of
Speaker 3: a sudden, Sweeting's up within a few weeks from that trade.
Speaker 3: So I'm with Jeremy, are you sure you're okay right
Speaker 3: now because you're talking baseball or is there something?
Speaker 2: And wait, Cole Keith has been batting almost four hundred
Speaker 2: since the streak since the All Star break within my
Speaker 2: ps over eight and a slugging percentage close to one.
Speaker 2: What's going on with the Tigers? Oh, that's right. Bayazard
Speaker 2: is back and can't play. We got better everybody some traction.
Speaker 3: Yeah, And you know what I'm gonna say, what's going
Speaker 3: on with Jeremy Ballrick? He's talking baseball? Oh my gosh.
Speaker 2: And the new top one hundred list came out And
Speaker 2: with all the call ups we've had, and if they
Speaker 2: take any professional innings, especially with so many at bats,
Speaker 2: they can't be listed in the top one hundred anymore.
Speaker 2: And the Tigers still have seven players in the top
Speaker 2: one hundred for next year.
Speaker 1: Job, good job, Okay, So my town isn't really happening
Speaker 1: in my town, and that's going to be one of
Speaker 1: my rants here tonight. So the Green Bay Packers, as
Speaker 1: everybody knows, is traveling to Soowl Powell. The Brazilian soccer
Speaker 1: club Corinthians, the team turning over at stadium for the
Speaker 1: first NFL game to be played in South America, dislikes
Speaker 1: anything green so much that executives tried to paint the
Speaker 1: field black about a decade ago. Players can be fined
Speaker 1: if they're spotted wearing clothes or shoes of that color,
Speaker 1: and sponsors need to adapt if they want to be
Speaker 1: associated with a club that has more than thirty five
Speaker 1: million fans. It's all done in an effort to steer
Speaker 1: Corinthians fans away from any reference to local rival Palmarans
Speaker 1: they've been feuding for more than a century. On Friday, however,
Speaker 1: at the Arena will be a wash in Green when
Speaker 1: the Green Bay Packers and the Philadelphia Eagles play the
Speaker 1: second game of the NFL season. In sent Salopowell, why
Speaker 1: I get the nfls trying to expand. I get the
Speaker 1: NFL as trying to get audiences from around the world,
Speaker 1: But why would you go to a stadium that bans
Speaker 1: people from wearing green and put two football teams in.
Speaker 2: That both are Come on, do you want to hear
Speaker 2: the craziest thing about it? So the Geess the Eagles
Speaker 2: are home and they're wearing their black helmets and white jerseys,
Speaker 2: and the Packers are wearing their home jerseys.
Speaker 1: The Eagles are designated host team in an attempt to
Speaker 1: sway some Brazilian fans to their side. They will wear
Speaker 1: the black helmets, white jerseys and black pants, which are
Speaker 1: the Corinthians colors. Now right, Yes, Corinthians official told the
Speaker 1: Associated Press on Sunday that the move came after a
Speaker 1: request by its president, who claimed green was only allowed
Speaker 1: for visiting teams. So yes, the Packers will play in
Speaker 1: their traditional white, yellow and green jerseys, similar to the
Speaker 1: colors of the Brazilian national flag. Now, there was a
Speaker 1: little bit of a hiccup here. Earlier on Thursday, the
Speaker 1: Packers made a gaff by giving Corinthians goalkeeper Hugo Susa
Speaker 1: a green Bay Packers jersey with the name of the
Speaker 1: Brazilian club on the back, which irritated many of its
Speaker 1: fans on social media because of course it was green.
Speaker 1: But here's my point. Are part of my point NFL.
Speaker 1: You're trying to get people to expand the NFL and
Speaker 1: to make more money. I get that. But the players
Speaker 1: have been told don't bring your families over here because
Speaker 1: it's not safe. The players have been told to stay
Speaker 1: in their hotel until the team bus takes them to
Speaker 1: the stadium and go back and not venture out. So really,
Speaker 1: how much money are you gonna are you really making
Speaker 1: and are you really expanding, and are you exposing a
Speaker 1: bad city because you're telling everybody stay away only and
Speaker 1: players don't go out. Really, NFL, you couldn't have done
Speaker 1: better than the.
Speaker 4: I would rather play in Mexico.
Speaker 1: You know so many other places to play.
Speaker 2: And until the a QI from that Amazon fire cleared up,
Speaker 2: they were about to make them play in Philly instead
Speaker 2: because the air quality was so bad. Come Sunday and Monday,
Speaker 2: they were talking about moving the game to Philly, so
Speaker 2: it would have been played at Link Lincoln Financial instead.
Speaker 2: I wish they would have done it just to stop
Speaker 2: it all, and then everybody could have wore their regular
Speaker 2: jerseys and Nope, there would have been none of this.
Speaker 4: And then the NFL and still put egg on their face.
Speaker 3: But and then you're.
Speaker 1: Only gonna you're putting it in this new country, and
Speaker 1: you're only going to put it on peacock except for
Speaker 1: people that live in Philadelphia, Milwaukee or Green Bay.
Speaker 3: If you're going to drop the hammer in Brazil, what
Speaker 3: are you gonna do with the way you're talking about?
Speaker 3: When the Olympics are there in Rio, the water quality
Speaker 3: was bad and they were there as well. So I
Speaker 3: haven't seen anything. I haven't seen anything compelling here to
Speaker 3: me that paints Brazil in a very positive way. And
Speaker 3: I'm not knocking the people up there. I'm just saying,
Speaker 3: between this situation and the water quality, you know, and
Speaker 3: yet real Dejonniro, I hear is the first world class city.
Speaker 3: So I'm not I'm not not gonna not that. But
Speaker 3: you know, all the things that we're talking about are related.
Speaker 3: But yet you know, but at least in your case, Candy,
Speaker 3: the Packers didn't lose a home game over it Philly,
Speaker 3: did I know?
Speaker 1: Still, but still to take it to a city that
Speaker 1: it's not safe to go to. You're telling the NFL players,
Speaker 1: don't go out of your out of your hotel room,
Speaker 1: don't bring your friends and family.
Speaker 4: You know.
Speaker 1: I know there's still Packer fans that have gone out there,
Speaker 1: but really, NFL, and then you put it only your
Speaker 1: telling us not to go out there, and then you're
Speaker 1: only going to put it on a paid streaming service.
Speaker 3: How much you want to bet they would have taken
Speaker 3: their friends and family to Rio instead of a sail.
Speaker 1: Follow of course, of course, but that's.
Speaker 3: That's that's that's that's subject for discussion later. Rio is
Speaker 3: a huge Favella, and so is salth Powell. All Right,
Speaker 3: I can't disagree with that, but who knows. Go figure.
Speaker 3: I love your rant though. I think it's great.
Speaker 4: Cans being fired up.
Speaker 3: I think it's appropriate coming from you anyway, So it
Speaker 3: doesn't really matter.
Speaker 1: I'm sure we'll hear all kinds of stories.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and it's not so much gang violence. It has
Speaker 2: to do with the whole green thing. What they're worried
Speaker 2: about is them going out and running into the fans
Speaker 2: of that team. That's what they're worried about, because guess
Speaker 2: what all of your regular apparel that you can buy,
Speaker 2: for the most part, for the packers in the Eagles,
Speaker 2: it's green, from the starter jackets to the jogging suits,
Speaker 2: to the sweatshirts, the T shirts, and I'm quite sure
Speaker 2: they're swimming trunks. For those of you crazy enough to
Speaker 2: buy Team Morient and stuff.
Speaker 1: Exactly, you could have put the game that's on tonight
Speaker 1: in Brazil. Neither of those are green. Kansas City Chiefs
Speaker 1: and the Ravens they have quite the same backlash. It
Speaker 1: still is not a safe city that they're saying. But really,
Speaker 1: come on, really, well.
Speaker 4: Yeah, the NFL really has got egg on their face
Speaker 4: on this one.
Speaker 3: You know what, Ralph, Yes and no. I mean, I
Speaker 3: get where everybody's coming from. But the NFL is expanding
Speaker 3: all over the place. For all we know, they may
Speaker 3: have a game in Israel one day. You never know
Speaker 3: if things ever clean up, and it's not a while.
Speaker 3: I'm just saying. I'm not saying that it will happen,
Speaker 3: but you know, right now they're playing all kinds of
Speaker 3: places to promote the game. You know, who knows, maybe
Speaker 3: the Detroit Lions will get out in Israel against the
Speaker 3: New York team. You know, you got a high Jewish
Speaker 3: population with blue and white. I'm just having fun with
Speaker 3: this topic, but the reality of the situation is, while
Speaker 3: I am having fun with it, you know, Brazil's an
Speaker 3: area where there is a fascinating interest out there, and
Speaker 3: recently the NFL assigned the team to a particular region
Speaker 3: about where they can promote their international rand. I don't
Speaker 3: know how much of that factors into that. We'd have
Speaker 3: to have to research it, but you never know. The
Speaker 3: NFL has assigned teams in a certain market and that
Speaker 3: may have played in this decision to put these particular
Speaker 3: teams down there. I don't know. But it's something to
Speaker 3: think about.
Speaker 4: Here, Candy. I'll give you an example here the WWE.
Speaker 5: They have two paid per views a year in Saudi Arabia, Okay,
Speaker 5: and you know that when the women wrestle, they always
Speaker 5: wrestle in you know, some sexy garb Well, when there
Speaker 5: is in Saudi Arabia, they have to cover up because
Speaker 5: of their their laws there and if anybody is uh,
Speaker 5: you know, Arab descent or Saudi Arabian descent or whatever,
Speaker 5: they're not allowed to wrestle. So there's a lot of
Speaker 5: things with that. And it's a similar situation almost, you know,
Speaker 5: like I said with the w W in the NFL,
Speaker 5: with this thing in Brazil, we'll figure out.
Speaker 2: Well, if everything just happened like I just saw because
Speaker 2: I switched over for a second to look on the
Speaker 2: other page, Patrick Mahomes just threw a pick to Rokwan
Speaker 2: Smith in the middle of the field where there wasn't
Speaker 2: even a receiver targeted.
Speaker 4: Wow, Baltimore surreal with their defense, is sure?
Speaker 2: Yeah, and Tucker missed a field goal prior to this, so.
Speaker 4: Oh he never misses. Yeah.
Speaker 3: Well, let me tell you one thing. Will we talk
Speaker 3: about the opening game of the year, and it'll be
Speaker 3: more of a factor. Okay in a couple of years
Speaker 3: when they ultimately go down to two preseason games. That's
Speaker 3: what happens, and you don't play your regulars as much
Speaker 3: as they do and they're protecting them from injury. Okay,
Speaker 3: that's what's gonna happen. So that first week of the year,
Speaker 3: everybody's trying to work out the kinks and the rust
Speaker 3: and all that. And you know, I mentioned this once
Speaker 3: on Inside the Pitching and I'll mention it again. You
Speaker 3: we talk about these teams practicing against other teams. You know,
Speaker 3: I got dinged for a couple of hundred grand doing
Speaker 3: it or both these teams. Did you know, what, what
Speaker 3: are you gonna do? I mean, you know, nobody wants
Speaker 3: to go ahead and see three precon three preseason games,
Speaker 3: So they're gonna go down to two eventually with two
Speaker 3: bye weeks. That's inevitable. But that's what you're dealing with, Jeremy,
Speaker 3: when you're talking about a first game of the year
Speaker 3: where a lot of those things that should have been
Speaker 3: worked out later in the preseason with more reps. That's
Speaker 3: what you have here tonight.
Speaker 2: But at the same time, guess who start their starters
Speaker 2: for two games in a row for a quarter.
Speaker 3: Who's that that's okay?
Speaker 2: So Andy Reid is a firm believer in that. That's
Speaker 2: why he does that. He doesn't do the dress preview
Speaker 2: in game three because there isn't a Game four for
Speaker 2: that to happen. So he has to evaluate who he's
Speaker 2: keeping and who he's getting rid of in game three,
Speaker 2: the other three quarters each of the first two games,
Speaker 2: and that third game to evaluate a depth of talent.
Speaker 3: Yeah, but then we'll see what it's like when he's
Speaker 3: only got two games.
Speaker 2: I know it's gonna get worse because that means he
Speaker 2: can That's my point, and it's gonna get worse across
Speaker 2: the NFL. What they need to do is bring back
Speaker 2: a couple of key things. If you're gonna shorten the
Speaker 2: offseason like they're talking about doing it, doing a ramp
Speaker 2: up to the preseason, not doing any OTAs or camps
Speaker 2: until June, and then you just play straight through the
Speaker 2: preseason into the season, they're gonna have to do two things.
Speaker 2: They need to bring back two A days. As much
Speaker 2: as everybody hates it, the guys were in better game
Speaker 2: shape with the two A days since twenty seventeen when
Speaker 2: they stopped it, when Corey Stringer had what happened to
Speaker 2: him with Minnesota Vikings when he dropped and passed away.
Speaker 3: Well, let me tell the audience. Let me tell the
Speaker 3: audience this. I covered the Miami Dolphin, Jeremy Candy and
Speaker 3: Ralph when they had three days and you know who
Speaker 3: the coach was, Don Shula. Right, you talk about working
Speaker 3: for your first NFL coach and I work with Don Shula,
Speaker 3: and boy, they used to call it Camp Shula.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 2: As soon as to A days stopped, soft tissue injuries
Speaker 2: increased by thirty three percent alone, and then it increased
Speaker 2: by another eight percent. Once they decrease the three season games,
Speaker 2: soft tissue injuries are going to continue to increase if
Speaker 2: they don't at least bring back the two A days
Speaker 2: to get guys in game shape.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
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Speaker 5: and I will talk with everyone next time. Thank you,
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Speaker 2: You, thank you, Thanks Thanks Ralph, You're welcome. But that's
Speaker 2: my rant about the whole shortened preseason and everything else.
Speaker 2: You know, it all stems back to when they took
Speaker 2: away two day two a days. When they came to
Speaker 2: nflpat pressure all that players didn't want it.
Speaker 3: Well, that's exactly what they did. They did came to
Speaker 3: the NFLPA. I know, I know that's but what are
Speaker 3: you gonna do. It's not gonna get it easier. Just
Speaker 3: be thankful. You have the United Football League too, where
Speaker 3: you're producing a lot of these guys had reps and
Speaker 3: you have more game films. So you know, the UFL
Speaker 3: has been an asset to the NFL. So I'm glad.
Speaker 3: I look forward to today when there's a little bit
Speaker 3: more expansion. Maybe they get a team in Florida, or
Speaker 3: I could get up and check out some of those games.
Speaker 1: Go ahead, Candy, I was gonna say, any other topics
Speaker 1: you guys want to discuss tonight.
Speaker 3: Well, you tell me. I think it's be interesting college football.
Speaker 3: A lot of good games here, and you know, I
Speaker 3: think the only one thing I'd like to add to
Speaker 3: this whole thing is to this whole thing really, which
Speaker 3: is interesting. I found it hard for me to know
Speaker 3: that I was rooting for the USC to beat LSU
Speaker 3: when they were in the Big Ten, and that Texas
Speaker 3: is representing the SEC against Michigan. So I think some
Speaker 3: of these major for things are going to go out
Speaker 3: there and I have to get used to him. So
Speaker 3: around that, let's promote the book, Candy, that's what it
Speaker 3: will help us out a little. Go ahead, do your
Speaker 3: station break, okay, of sorts.
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Speaker 3: Actually, I like this comment from prosky Beer. I'm changing
Speaker 3: the name of the kickoffs with the whack of it's
Speaker 3: so lame. Tell me how you really feel.
Speaker 2: You know, I still like these new kickoff rules better
Speaker 2: than the fair catch rule of last year. At least
Speaker 2: now we get to see some kick returns. Maybe maybe
Speaker 2: when some of these special teams coordinators actually coordinate and
Speaker 2: get some plays together for the this new type of format,
Speaker 2: we'll see some exciting thing.
Speaker 3: Yeah, Jeremy, people are just gonna have to You're right, Jeremy,
Speaker 3: people are just gonna I'm sorry to interrupt you, but
Speaker 3: people are just gonna have to acclimate to it. And
Speaker 3: that's what as I continue to retranscript, Jeremy, I'm glad
Speaker 3: you brought that up, because I'm that's the one thing
Speaker 3: I'm trying to get out to a lot of our
Speaker 3: followers here on my as well as yours, because you're
Speaker 3: very good about when it comes. They're sharing the contents.
Speaker 3: I'm trying to get as much kickoff information to educate
Speaker 3: people about it, so good like continue.
Speaker 2: On, yep, and the score up date. Dwayne Keen just
Speaker 2: put it in there. Ravens scored it just before halftime.
Speaker 2: It is now thirteen to ten, So it's one heck
Speaker 2: of a slabery knocker. But I warned everybody more than
Speaker 2: likely this was not going to be these teams scoring
Speaker 2: thirty forty points against each other because both these defenses
Speaker 2: are very good and offenses tend to struggle to gel
Speaker 2: at the start of the season.
Speaker 3: Yeah, well that you know what, that reminds me of
Speaker 3: Jeremy how sometimes in baseball you're favorite sport tonight because
Speaker 3: that's where you went with your town. Anyways, is a
Speaker 3: lot of times it takes the hitters a little time
Speaker 3: to acclimate to the weather early and then they pick
Speaker 3: it up during the summer. And if more, you depend
Speaker 3: on pitchers early in the year in baseball and then
Speaker 3: hitters later on. So that's a good point. Yeah, the
Speaker 3: first couple of weeks, I think that the offense itself
Speaker 3: does take a little while. So you're on point our
Speaker 3: x Jay Hello friends, Hello to you as well.
Speaker 1: So I'm going to go back to the kickoff because
Speaker 1: i want to talk a little bit about that. They
Speaker 1: were talking before the game before the Kansas City Ravens
Speaker 1: game tonight about that and how they think weather we'll
Speaker 1: play more of a factor in it this year because
Speaker 1: of the kickoff rules. They also think that in the
Speaker 1: beginning more of the mediocre teams will do better, and
Speaker 1: that this will really be there'll be a big difference
Speaker 1: come the fourth week, because in the first two weeks,
Speaker 1: everybody's trying to feel each other out, how they kick,
Speaker 1: how the returns game is going, who you kick to,
Speaker 1: who you don't kick to, And so come weeks four
Speaker 1: and five, I think we'll really see a big difference
Speaker 1: with this rule than what we saw before.
Speaker 3: Well not only that, though, think about it, Katie. We
Speaker 3: were up at in Gaye, Oh, Florida Field, Ben Hill
Speaker 3: Griffith Stadium, Okay, and we're watching the old kick off
Speaker 3: rules in college, So now I can compare the old
Speaker 3: and the new, and yet we have tvds connected to
Speaker 3: the new right. So yeah, well it's the interesting thing
Speaker 3: to see both ways. Twenty five the touchbacks and that
Speaker 3: other that other business in between two where they haven't
Speaker 3: set up. So you know, yeah, you know, any time
Speaker 3: you implement a rule change where there's a significant impact,
Speaker 3: it's going to take a little time to acclamate. And
Speaker 3: that's what and that's all it's going to deal.
Speaker 2: With, Rosky Bear. But if the kicker actually has the
Speaker 2: accuracy to be able to kick that low line drive
Speaker 2: kick that's gips from the one end of the end zone,
Speaker 2: the opposing team starts at the twenty. So all that
Speaker 2: tells me is that the kicker is kicking it too
Speaker 2: damn hard. He's not landing in the landing zone because
Speaker 2: they penalize the teams for not trying to catch it
Speaker 2: within the twenty to the goal line.
Speaker 3: Yeah, but you said the two key words of most
Speaker 3: NFL people are gonna have to get used to landing zone.
Speaker 3: The only time that landing zone ever mattered to me
Speaker 3: is when I was flying to make sure we were
Speaker 3: on the runway, not the landing zone in the NFL.
Speaker 3: Remember that, I just wanted to.
Speaker 2: Add that in there is a landing zone now for no.
Speaker 3: No, I think it was appropriately added. I'm just how
Speaker 3: many times are you used to hearing the words landing
Speaker 3: zone and pro football. You're not until now.
Speaker 2: Like kicking it too hard, Like I said, that's off,
Speaker 2: not really, because before it came out to the twenty five,
Speaker 2: and then it was already coming out to the thirty.
Speaker 2: I think after they were already talking about making it
Speaker 2: them out to the thirty when they added the fair
Speaker 2: catch rule, right, Yeah, the NFLPA and the owners shot
Speaker 2: that part down. They didn't allow it. If it's a
Speaker 2: fair catch, it comes out to the thirty because guess what,
Speaker 2: nobody would have returned to kick last year if that
Speaker 2: was the case.
Speaker 3: Well, the reality of the situation is Jeremy, when you
Speaker 3: talk about it. At one point they were thinking about
Speaker 3: eliminating the kicking game anyway, and there's no way you
Speaker 3: were going to do that. So you know, it's like
Speaker 3: they've been tickering with this as much as they've been
Speaker 3: tickering with the Pro Bowl format as well. You know,
Speaker 3: so they kept it in and you know, look, the
Speaker 3: UFL doesn't even have any extra points. You know, they
Speaker 3: have a well, yes, one, two and three points on it.
Speaker 3: So still be interesting to see what other things happened
Speaker 3: to it.
Speaker 2: As wellll I did see the stupidest rule in the
Speaker 2: CFL I ever heard, Well, if you miss a field
Speaker 2: goal by just like just pushing it outside of the
Speaker 2: uprights for the final play of the game, it counts
Speaker 2: as a point. So if it's a tie game and
Speaker 2: your kicker just misses, you get a point in the CFL.
Speaker 2: That's the stupidest rule I ever heard of in any
Speaker 2: professional football league.
Speaker 3: Yeah, well, you know, I try to no disrespect for
Speaker 3: our friends from the North, Okay, But the reality of
Speaker 3: the situation is I've never seen I've seen games where
Speaker 3: you had sixty to one. And I tried to watch
Speaker 3: it a little bit before this year just to try
Speaker 3: to gain an understanding of the two down thing. And
Speaker 3: I was fighting with it and I wasn't making it
Speaker 3: the halftime. But I really really tried to acclimate it.
Speaker 3: But I wasn't doing good enough. But when you want
Speaker 3: to see football, you want to scout players, which is
Speaker 3: what I like to do. I don't watch football at
Speaker 3: times just to watch the game. I'm interesting about potential
Speaker 3: future NFL players. That's why I'm you and I are
Speaker 3: Jeremy or students of the game. We really really are.
Speaker 3: And I know that when we were at the NFL Draft,
Speaker 3: we had a very spirit. The debate about the two Lions,
Speaker 3: right and Darien Arnold.
Speaker 2: Is that his name Terry and I didn't have a
Speaker 2: problem with no, I know.
Speaker 3: But we were talking about both and I was telling
Speaker 3: you a restaurant, Jeremy, you're not seeing it in a
Speaker 3: certain way, brother. I mean, they think this is not
Speaker 3: gonna be a physical hitter. They like him, but you know,
Speaker 3: but again, it's not me putting doubts. That's the fact
Speaker 3: that I've seen. I've talked to so many coaches and
Speaker 3: been in so many war rooms and stuff like that,
Speaker 3: and how but you know, now that we're talking about record,
Speaker 3: the guy that we debated on, how is he dealing
Speaker 3: with the Lions? You see the potential of this guy.
Speaker 2: I see potential, but he is still like the fourth
Speaker 2: corner on the roster, on the depth chart right now.
Speaker 2: Right now, it looks like Terry On Arnold is getting
Speaker 2: the CB two, Carlton Davis is the CB one, and
Speaker 2: Emik Robertson will be taking the nickelback duties. They moved
Speaker 2: Brian Branch to safety to make it so that he
Speaker 2: can stay on the field more because he doesn't get
Speaker 2: enough snaps at nickelback.
Speaker 3: So my question to you is, okay, is do you
Speaker 3: see more potential in this guy now than he did
Speaker 3: when he initially spoke about it.
Speaker 2: I said exactly what I said. I didn't like him
Speaker 2: in zone coverage, and I saw this preseason, but I
Speaker 2: loved him in man coverage. He is good in man coverage.
Speaker 2: He's not good in zone.
Speaker 3: Still.
Speaker 2: I did see that and it translated onto the field.
Speaker 2: It backed up my statement. I do like his tackling.
Speaker 2: I do like his man coverage skills. He's much faster
Speaker 2: than his combine time, much like Terry on Arnold was.
Speaker 2: And I pointed that out to people that was clamoring
Speaker 2: about it. Oh we got slow corners again. We're gonna
Speaker 2: get beat left and right.
Speaker 3: I'm also the bottom right, the bottom line. It goes
Speaker 3: back to what I learned when I was covering the
Speaker 3: Dolphins that Don Shula taught me, and that's really carried
Speaker 3: over to a lot of coaches. Dan Campbell's doing what
Speaker 3: Don Sulla preach. Play a guy to his strengths, and
Speaker 3: that's what's going to happen with this guy, and that's
Speaker 3: why he'll be a factor. That's all I'm saying. That's
Speaker 3: why I brought it right.
Speaker 2: Oh, I see it. I see him developing fine in
Speaker 2: a year or two.
Speaker 3: Yeah, well, well that's okay, that's why we brought in that.
Speaker 3: We did well. Everybody knows that the average roster turnover
Speaker 3: thirty to forty percent every year anyway, So I.
Speaker 1: Want one one nugget from the game tonight that's happened
Speaker 1: so far. Patrick Mahomes rewrote more Kansas City Chiefs history Thursday,
Speaker 1: replacing Len Dawson as the franchise's all time leader in
Speaker 1: passing yards. Mahomes entered the season opener versus the Ravens
Speaker 1: only eighty three yards behind lost Lawson, who passed for
Speaker 1: twenty eight thousand, five hundred and seven yards in one
Speaker 1: hundred and eighty three career appearances with Kansas City. Mahomes
Speaker 1: broke that mark in his ninety seventh regular season game.
Speaker 1: That tells you how much the game has changed and
Speaker 1: how much the passing game it has become.
Speaker 3: Well, yeah, you just said it right there. Back then,
Speaker 3: there was more balance than to run in the past,
Speaker 3: and I was pretty one sided. That's what everybody wanted.
Speaker 3: That's what they ended up.
Speaker 2: As much as they're passing now, I still think it's
Speaker 2: crazy that it was Jim Hardy, the quarterback of the
Speaker 2: Chicago Bears in nineteen fifty that set the record only
Speaker 2: trying fifteen passes with eight interceptions.
Speaker 4: Wow.
Speaker 3: Well, once upon a time, Jeremy, I once thought that
Speaker 3: Dan Marino's record of sixty thousand plus yards and they
Speaker 3: would be broken. And now this guy who set records
Speaker 3: that were apparently unbreakable, it's probably like eight or ninth
Speaker 3: due to the fact that the league has changed. And
Speaker 3: I'll say the thing about not only that, I'll tell
Speaker 3: you anything about Dan marino personal feelings is lie. People
Speaker 3: that know me know I don't like the guy. But
Speaker 3: I'll tell you one thing as an objective you have
Speaker 3: to be objective in this business. Is he had the
Speaker 3: quickest release I've ever seen in my life, and he
Speaker 3: avoided because of that quick release. I've never seen a
Speaker 3: quarterback ever, I swear, ever have his quick release of
Speaker 3: Dann ma Reno. And that's why he racked up a
Speaker 3: lot of yards. And it hadn't hurt that Don Schull
Speaker 3: has had a lot of great receivers in there, so
Speaker 3: we could throw it where we needed to throw it too.
Speaker 3: So there's a combination with that quick release, Jeremy, I'm
Speaker 3: telling you, if you look at oh, yeah, it was unbelievable.
Speaker 4: Right.
Speaker 2: Oh, I know, Dan Reno is one of the greatest
Speaker 2: quarterbacks ever played the game. That's undeniable as a person.
Speaker 2: But anyways, when it comes to these records being broken,
Speaker 2: they're going to continue to be broken. Why because back
Speaker 2: then when Len Dawson played, you had twelve games in
Speaker 2: a regular season. Now there's seventeen. It's increased three times
Speaker 2: since Len Dawson played the game of football. And every
Speaker 2: time it's increased, the passing game has become more and
Speaker 2: more prominent each time. And it's a passing league now.
Speaker 2: There's so many rules to help quarterbacks and wide receivers
Speaker 2: now it's almost hard to defend them.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and in a couple of years will be eighteen games.
Speaker 3: It doesn't matter, Well, there'll be eighteen. Did you know
Speaker 3: how many games of the old USFL played.
Speaker 2: Oh they played eight games a year if I remember right.
Speaker 3: No, the old USFL back in the nineteen eighties.
Speaker 2: Oh, that one was, what's four six games something like that.
Speaker 2: I can't remember.
Speaker 3: The old United States Football League back in the Yeah,
Speaker 3: they played eighteen games.
Speaker 2: Oh, they did play eighteen.
Speaker 3: Okay, yeah they did. They played eighteen games back and
Speaker 3: I covered the USFL Championship in Tampa back then, eighteen
Speaker 3: games can you play? And they didn't have any preseason and.
Speaker 2: Right, that's why you know eighteen is the magic number,
Speaker 2: and I'm going to tell you why. That's what has
Speaker 2: been pushing for for a long time. And we're gonna
Speaker 2: end up with two by weeks. And if you actually
Speaker 2: look at how it falls down, there's gonna be one
Speaker 2: week where it's the whole NFL and then the other
Speaker 2: one's going to be that rotating by week like we have. Now,
Speaker 2: you're gonna have a set by week probably in the
Speaker 2: middle of this and everybody else is going to rotate
Speaker 2: from week three through week fifteen. Other than that.
Speaker 3: Yeah, but here's what you everybody has to understand. When
Speaker 3: you got to seventeen, you knew eighteen was inevitable, but
Speaker 3: you have to check. You have to carve it out
Speaker 3: one game at a time. But in this case, it
Speaker 3: was different in terms of expansion. Katie, I'm getting a
Speaker 3: good education tonight from US two. I know she's enjoying this.
Speaker 2: So and also when they lower the preseason games to
Speaker 2: two there's a reason they do not want preseason and
Speaker 2: the regular season to exceed twenty games a season for
Speaker 2: the NFLPA. That's why. You know, at one time it
Speaker 2: was it was four preseason games, even when they had
Speaker 2: fourteen games. That's because eighteen was the goal to get to.
Speaker 2: That's what it was all about.
Speaker 3: Well, here, I'll even throw something out on your plate.
Speaker 3: You know, by next Labor Day, they're gonna have games
Speaker 3: five days leading up to it, and after it's inevitable
Speaker 3: they're gonna take over labor and they're like like baseball
Speaker 3: the July fourth holiday. Auto racing has Memorial Day, right,
Speaker 3: and then the NBA has Christmas, although the NFL is
Speaker 3: going to get piece of that action. The NFL has Thanksgiving.
Speaker 2: And here's the crazy thing. When they do that, that
Speaker 2: means the Super Bowl every year should fall on President's
Speaker 2: Day weekend. You know what it means that Monday's a
Speaker 2: national holiday. The post Office, all government buildings are closed,
Speaker 2: and most schools are too.
Speaker 3: It's all coming your way, folks. We're giving it to
Speaker 3: you Barwrick and the Motor City Man tonight. We're giving
Speaker 3: it to you. Sorry, Candy, I know you're the host
Speaker 3: of the show, but sometimes it is hard for me
Speaker 3: to keep quiet from time to time.
Speaker 2: And I think that when they do that, they need
Speaker 2: to expand the rosters.
Speaker 3: Well, they will, they will. It needs to be.
Speaker 2: Expanded to a sixty man regular roster.
Speaker 3: And well they're going to do that. I mean, what
Speaker 3: if you're going to go out there and have eighteen games,
Speaker 3: you know, there's gonna be more jobs that will be
Speaker 3: all part of the collective bargaining and neghost to get
Speaker 3: you to eighteen.
Speaker 2: And I think I think that's the perfect number if
Speaker 2: you think about it, with the number of added games
Speaker 2: and the number of added injuries over the past few years,
Speaker 2: since they added the seventeenth game, adding that seven man
Speaker 2: to the regular roster and then adding another six to
Speaker 2: the practice squad, there will be no team without enough
Speaker 2: depth to be able to withstand injuries.
Speaker 3: Bingo, bullseye, two bees like fucking boots bingo and bullseye. Oh,
Speaker 3: we're in a beast state of mind. A night on
Speaker 3: fire up. Oh, we have to see who's the host
Speaker 3: of the show.
Speaker 1: Andy, it's all good, it's all good.
Speaker 2: Well, and I think it's time for me to say
Speaker 2: where they can find me now, Okay, I'm just guessing, Well,
Speaker 2: you can find me right here every Thursday on Fire
Speaker 2: Up and occasionally on Tuesdays if Scott needs me. And
Speaker 2: who knows, after what I just dropped for my mid
Speaker 2: Town segment, I might get a shot to be on
Speaker 2: one hundred and eight Stitches again.
Speaker 3: You know, actually, I'm actually kicked the idea because you
Speaker 3: did show me a little bit of something tonight. I
Speaker 3: might give you a cameo on that after what I
Speaker 3: saw tonight, I was going to tell you that off camera.
Speaker 3: But you know what, I might consider throwing you in
Speaker 3: once in a while.
Speaker 2: I just was throwing it out there.
Speaker 3: Rambled off all that baseball stuff. This guy is trying
Speaker 3: to get airtime anyway. Get it. The one way he
Speaker 3: might crash the party might be on baseball. I was
Speaker 3: surprised you what with Tigers of all things? Keep going,
Speaker 3: I mean her.
Speaker 2: Up and then you also have my writings on the
Speaker 2: South Florida Tribune dot com. You have my channel which
Speaker 2: is Kneecap Biting with the MotorCity Lions, which airs on YouTube,
Speaker 2: Facebook soon to be Twitter again. Because I just didn't
Speaker 2: want to pay for the premium service. I got mad
Speaker 2: at elon Musk and I'll explain that after the show.
Speaker 2: But I also go live on Roku, Firestick, and Amazon,
Speaker 2: so I'm everywhere times a week.
Speaker 4: On my own channel.
Speaker 3: The guy gets around the amount of shows that you do.
Speaker 3: My voice would be worn out by now. It's already
Speaker 3: been worn out after forty What.
Speaker 1: The times are your shows, Jeremy?
Speaker 2: I have from noon to one Monday through Friday, which
Speaker 2: is Lions Talk with Smoking Jeremy B. It's nine times
Speaker 2: out of ten, just me by myself every now and
Speaker 2: then my co host gets to have a day off
Speaker 2: and join in. Then we have my Monday Night mash
Speaker 2: up with him where we talk Lions and Giants news.
Speaker 2: On Wednesdays we have the NFL Roundtable Talks where we
Speaker 2: do the weekly pick thems where I pick every game
Speaker 2: in this NFL schedule. It's not against the spread, it's
Speaker 2: just to pick them people. And then on Fridays is
Speaker 2: the Lions Fan Cave Chat. And I was doing Sundays
Speaker 2: for the NFC East North and East Power Hours because
Speaker 2: we get got fans of other teams in both divisions
Speaker 2: and we talk about the news throughout the week. But
Speaker 2: now that the Lions play this Sunday. I think I'm
Speaker 2: gonna have to cancel my show because I'm not gonna
Speaker 2: be talking live on a lion show.
Speaker 3: Well, I'm sure that. I'm sure that's going to really
Speaker 3: break here heart, seriously, but I don't even say as
Speaker 3: loud as I have to. I have to make sure
Speaker 3: we protect these bad boys, because I do have plans
Speaker 3: to do some public speak. Yes you do, so I
Speaker 3: have to make sure.
Speaker 2: I'm proud of you for being here for over an
Speaker 2: hour and us just bullshitting back and forth. Scott jear me.
Speaker 3: It's fun. And by the way, you sick them head.
Speaker 3: You forgot to mention one thing. You're in the book, Okay.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, I am. I am in the book. Towards
Speaker 2: the back half of the book, when he talks about
Speaker 2: people he's led into the business, he mentions me and
Speaker 2: what I've done. And I also have read the book
Speaker 2: and I have left my review without even mentioning myself.
Speaker 3: Well, you earned your way in the book, and I
Speaker 3: ended up finding you from a doormat place which I
Speaker 3: don't even know if they're even in business anymore. If
Speaker 3: they are now, I'm not mentioning any names. I don't
Speaker 3: want to do that. But the bottom line is I
Speaker 3: created Grand Lars and he's snapping you up from there
Speaker 3: and it is what it is, and I'll leave it
Speaker 3: at that. But good stuff. You know, I love talking football,
Speaker 3: talking sports, and Candy, with all due respect, does an
Speaker 3: outstanding job on the show. I'm proud of what she's done.
Speaker 3: She's she's remarkable. She really is. Am I biased. I
Speaker 3: don't have to be biased towards the woman. If she
Speaker 3: makes mistakes, she'll hear a lot it like anybody else.
Speaker 3: But the bottom line is she's a very coachable woman
Speaker 3: who does a lot for this network as well as
Speaker 3: the publication with her commitment towards making sure the written
Speaker 3: stuff is in there and of course the show and
Speaker 3: now she's playing with these real things. Don't even think
Speaker 3: I don't even know how to do that. So I
Speaker 3: just potted off on her to do it if I
Speaker 3: come up with an idea. So but you know, you know,
Speaker 3: but we'll all do respect. This is a good show
Speaker 3: on Thursday night, and I'm glad we have it on
Speaker 3: Thursday night, and people are going to give the outdates
Speaker 3: and my and our goal is, you know, they're Candy
Speaker 3: is gonna come up with their own style, and I
Speaker 3: like what she's doing everything. I just got in the
Speaker 3: mood to come on at night, which is what I did.
Speaker 1: But well, you're welcome anytime, anytime.
Speaker 2: Always, always boss man, miss talking sports with you.
Speaker 3: Yeah. So meanwhile, you know, I don't know which football
Speaker 3: I'm going to watch the night. I know Bucky and
Speaker 3: Boots are waiting to come out here and hang out
Speaker 3: with Mommy and Daddy after I'll watch a little bit.
Speaker 3: But at least it's close enough to know that the
Speaker 3: game isn't in doubt quite yet.
Speaker 1: Nope, that's anything.
Speaker 3: But so you know, there's one thing I do want
Speaker 3: to mention that the Chiefs said very classy tonight when
Speaker 3: they talked about their four banners, is Chad Hanny that
Speaker 3: he was out there and got to go ahead be
Speaker 3: part of the opening ceremonies. For those of you that
Speaker 3: don't know much about Chad Henny, he's a former quarterback
Speaker 3: at the University of Michigan. So Chad actually retired after
Speaker 3: that Super Bowl and he went out on top. He
Speaker 3: wasn't a starter, but he want to keep playoff game.
Speaker 3: Anytime you want to play key playoff gave you st
Speaker 3: Patrick Malmes win it that she's handled it the right way.
Speaker 3: The only question we'll all have about, and she says,
Speaker 3: you'll find out on our networks, is are they going
Speaker 3: to be in Kansas City or are they're gonna be
Speaker 3: in Missouri. They're gonna be in Kansas TVD Well, so
Speaker 3: that teaser out there.
Speaker 2: Kudos to Chad Henny doing something one of the greatest
Speaker 2: backup quarterbacks never got to do. What's that's Ryan fitzmagic.
Speaker 2: He never got to win a playoff game for any
Speaker 2: team he played for. Chad Henny got to win one
Speaker 2: when Pat Mahomes went down, led a ninety six yard
Speaker 2: drive to put him in the Super Bowl.
Speaker 3: Well, you know, the last time that I remember of
Speaker 3: any significance that that happened was many years ago during
Speaker 3: the Dolphins underbeated season. Earl Morrile is the one that
Speaker 3: carried the ship when Bob Greasy went out and Bob
Speaker 3: Greasy finished the job. So there's a little bit of
Speaker 3: hands that are watching the broadcast. You know what, with
Speaker 3: all due respect, I know a lot about the fish
Speaker 3: there as well.
Speaker 2: Go ahead, and then prior to that, Don Shula was
Speaker 2: coaching a little upstart team called the Colts that had
Speaker 2: Johnny Unitas who got her in. Earl Morrell won those
Speaker 2: two playoff games.
Speaker 3: Don Schuell is not stupid. I was joking around the
Speaker 3: other day that I hope that Bill Belichick likes his
Speaker 3: time in the media so that Don Schuele's record will
Speaker 3: of being the all time winning his coach and Pat
Speaker 3: called me a little bit more of a Don Shuele guy.
Speaker 3: But then again, I worked with him for a couple
Speaker 3: of years and learned a lot from coach. So I mean,
Speaker 3: for those of you that want to reach says, I
Speaker 3: can tell you stories about him in my short two
Speaker 3: year period, and I attribute a lot of that to
Speaker 3: my good buddy Chip name. This is as you haven't fun? Yeah,
Speaker 3: I'm enjoying all right, Well Andy, all right, proper.
Speaker 1: Take it away, Jeremy. You always get to end their show, Okay.
Speaker 2: Try every day to be a better person than you
Speaker 2: were the day before. It's the only way to make
Speaker 2: the world a better place. It starts right here within yourself.
Speaker 2: Much love to everybody in the jet. Have a great week, everybody.
Speaker 3: Yeah, God blessed. We appreciate the chat room participation. Outstanding.
Speaker 1: Thanks everybody, have a great week. Good night,