Speaker 1: Good evening, everybody, and welcome to another episode of five Up.
Speaker 1: I hope we're all fired up tonight.
Speaker 2: I am, I am, I am all right, and I'll
Speaker 2: say this, bang bang, Southern Fried gang, let's do this thing.
Speaker 1: Alright, alright, Well, we titled tonight's episode the NFL Schedule Special.
Speaker 1: We all know it came out yesterday. So comments thoughts
Speaker 1: about your team, how the schedule is, how it looks
Speaker 1: for your team. Do you think it's fair. Do you
Speaker 1: think it's not fair? Do you have too many prime
Speaker 1: time not enough prime time? Let's go around the horn
Speaker 1: and tell me your thoughts. What stands out about your
Speaker 1: team's schedule. Let's start Pensman, let's start with you.
Speaker 3: Well, I just as Southern Fried knows down there, I
Speaker 3: just did a short video of this and I just
Speaker 3: fried dan Orsky and he said that the Steelers are
Speaker 3: oh and six going oh and six at the start
Speaker 3: of the season. But I say, no, he is completely wrong,
Speaker 3: because I think our schedule's fair with who we're facing.
Speaker 3: We have the Jets week one, Week two, we have
Speaker 3: the Seahawks. Week three, we got the Patriots. Week four,
Speaker 3: we got the Minnesota Vikings Week five. Is is a
Speaker 3: bye in week six and seven is against the Browns
Speaker 3: and the Bengals. So we are not, dan Orsky, if
Speaker 3: you're still listening, we are not going to oh and six.
Speaker 3: So I think our schedule's fair. It's gonna be another
Speaker 3: ten and seven record in the first round, the first
Speaker 3: round exit. That's why I think the Steelers is gonna.
Speaker 2: Do Kah, Ralph can I.
Speaker 4: I'm sorry, go ahead, I hear you.
Speaker 2: Now, No, no, no, Ralph, go ahead.
Speaker 4: Bud oh go ahead, Jadure.
Speaker 2: Okay, Well, yeah, I was just going to respond to
Speaker 2: what Pensman said there and something I actually asked him earlier.
Speaker 2: My friend Pensman, how many games can that team actually
Speaker 2: win without a quarterback? Dan Orlowsky might have been onto
Speaker 2: something here, bro Me.
Speaker 5: I mean I said it last week. I mean we
Speaker 5: have a quarterback right here on the bench if you
Speaker 5: need one through for five hundred yards in the game.
Speaker 2: Some mirror work in the trades. Now he's become pretty.
Speaker 5: Good swack surf. I mean, we have one.
Speaker 2: What would you unload him for, Samir?
Speaker 5: Anything? Like?
Speaker 3: Even if it's like.
Speaker 2: A cool could I interest you in some Southern fried
Speaker 2: chicken tenders and French fries in a trade for Kirk Cousins.
Speaker 4: Oh my.
Speaker 3: Anything I wish Atlanta.
Speaker 2: Would you know, I would make up his mind.
Speaker 5: Bro, you're going.
Speaker 3: Fourteen to four because you have the easiest schedule. Bro,
Speaker 3: That's why you're fourteen and four, because you have you're
Speaker 3: not playing anybody, you know, it's.
Speaker 2: Get listen, no chance, forty no forty nine ers, all right,
Speaker 2: and so hold on, let me tie this together and
Speaker 2: we have rout and well I was I'm going to
Speaker 2: tie this up in a knot and a k not
Speaker 2: real quick for us between Pensman and his Pittsburgh Steelers,
Speaker 2: and then we'll go to what you want to say.
Speaker 2: So I asked him how many games he might could
Speaker 2: win without a quarterback. I'll say the Steelers end up
Speaker 2: at like seven and ten, eight and nine. I think
Speaker 2: this will be the year that Mike Tomlin streak is
Speaker 2: possibly broken. Justin Field's going to them week one. He's
Speaker 2: mad that they benched him after going four and two.
Speaker 2: So these teams will be very interesting. But then, of course,
Speaker 2: I mean, they still they still got to figure out
Speaker 2: the quarterback situation. At the end of the day. They
Speaker 2: they don't have I mean, Ma Rudolph Pensman. You can't
Speaker 2: honestly tell me, Ralph, you can't honestly tell me you
Speaker 2: think you're gonna win ten games with Mason Rudolph as
Speaker 2: your starting quarterback in Pittsburgh.
Speaker 6: Well, I will say this though, Mason Rudolph and you're
Speaker 6: right about that. In twenty nineteen lost out his job
Speaker 6: to a guy named Duck Hodges Devlin Duck Hodges, Okay,
Speaker 6: who came on as an undrafted free agent. Okay, So
Speaker 6: just to let everyone know about Mason Rudolph. And he
Speaker 6: failed in Tennessee last year a couple different times, maybe
Speaker 6: more than once. All Right, if you talk to Robert Butler,
Speaker 6: all right, he'll tell you that.
Speaker 4: Okay.
Speaker 6: But what I'm saying is is I believe that they
Speaker 6: could win. They could go nine and eight or eight
Speaker 6: to nine or whatever, like you said with Mason Rudolph.
Speaker 4: All Right.
Speaker 6: Mike Tomlin, unlike Mike Sullivan, of course, will not get fired.
Speaker 6: Mike Tomlin's gonna ride out his contract. He has two
Speaker 6: more years left, he'll have his years in and I
Speaker 6: think he's gonna walk away. I think it's his time,
Speaker 6: it's time for him to go. I think the Steelers
Speaker 6: are gonna say, you know what, it's time for you
Speaker 6: to go.
Speaker 4: Your spoo is too much.
Speaker 6: And you know, maybe he might go to another team
Speaker 6: and do better, you know, like myself, Mike Tomlin might
Speaker 6: need a change of pace. You see what I'm getting at?
Speaker 4: And uh, I believe that.
Speaker 6: You know this, This could be a bad year for
Speaker 6: Mike Tomlin if he doesn't get a quarterback. They got
Speaker 6: to get somebody in here. Ice and Rudolph's a good backup,
Speaker 6: quality backup, don't get me wrong, but he can't win
Speaker 6: ten games.
Speaker 4: I don't see him doing it. So you know, but
Speaker 4: he won.
Speaker 6: He was three and one last year or two years ago.
Speaker 6: I'm sorry, two years ago. It was three and one,
Speaker 6: So I'll give him that.
Speaker 4: That's it for me.
Speaker 2: Gee, do you want to talk to me or do
Speaker 2: you really think that Mason Rudolph? Yeah, I'll I'll dive
Speaker 2: into it. I want to hear Samir real quick, let
Speaker 2: me ask him question. Yeah, no, nobody, honestly, nobody wants
Speaker 2: to talk about the Panthers, not assault.
Speaker 4: In a bad place. I think, Dave.
Speaker 5: Think what.
Speaker 2: I'll address that? So, yeah, Samir, do you think that
Speaker 2: Mason Rudolph could win ten games? In Pittsburgh. I mean,
Speaker 2: do you see them you think the trade will happened
Speaker 2: between and.
Speaker 5: Then well, I think it makes sense for both sides
Speaker 5: if they don't sign Rogers, because if in the case
Speaker 5: of Pittsburgh, you won't have a quarterback like your quarterback
Speaker 5: room right now is Mason Rudolph Will Howard and.
Speaker 3: Scull Thompson and Scott thoms Thompson.
Speaker 5: So how are you going to compete, especially in the
Speaker 5: AFC North with that QB room? I mean, like realistically,
Speaker 5: And if you're Atlanta.
Speaker 3: We're gonna split the series. That's how we wanna do.
Speaker 5: Yeah. And if you're Atlanta, you don't need your young
Speaker 5: quarterback looking over his shoulder every time he makes a
Speaker 5: mistake when you have a forty million dollar backup on
Speaker 5: the bench. And and I and secondly, I just don't
Speaker 5: want him. After the way last season ended, the way
Speaker 5: he wasn't really all that transparent about his health, I
Speaker 5: don't want him. I just don't want him back. In
Speaker 5: an overwhelming majority of the media here in the Falcons
Speaker 5: fan base feels the same way, Like you cannot go
Speaker 5: into let's say, training camp with fans there and all
Speaker 5: this excitement about Michael Pennix, and you have that distraction there,
Speaker 5: you know what I mean, You can't have that, especially
Speaker 5: in the locker room. I just feel like you'd be
Speaker 5: a distraction, right.
Speaker 2: I can understand that.
Speaker 6: Brian Pettitt, I'm not ignoring you, but hello, thank you
Speaker 6: for the helloes and thank you for the concern.
Speaker 4: My back is fine now, don't think god JD.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, no, that's fine. I was going to see
Speaker 2: if anybody wonder to react to what Samir said before
Speaker 2: I tie what he was saying into my Carolina Panthers
Speaker 2: to segue in this.
Speaker 4: Well, as I said, JD.
Speaker 6: The Carolina Panthers, h Dave Knelis is a good coach
Speaker 6: in a bad place.
Speaker 4: He's got a bad owner. Who is who?
Speaker 6: And what I can't still can't figure out is here's
Speaker 6: a guy that graduated from Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh,
Speaker 6: one of the most expensive universities in the entire world.
Speaker 6: Here's a guy that's got all kinds of degrees and
Speaker 6: you don't know how to run a football team, okay,
Speaker 6: or he doesn't care to run a football team the
Speaker 6: way he should, all right, And that puzzles me.
Speaker 4: That's what puzzles me. Right there.
Speaker 6: If you come to Pittsburgh, you go out to the
Speaker 6: Carnegie Mellon University campus, everything is Tepper Hall, Tepper lunch room, temper,
Speaker 6: this Tepper that. That's Dave Tepper, that's his family. I
Speaker 6: worked with one of his cousins. Okay, So what I'm
Speaker 6: saying is is, here's a guy that's bright, but he
Speaker 6: don't know how to run his football team, right or
Speaker 6: you don't know. You know, he's not a good owner,
Speaker 6: you know. So you know, Dave Canellis is a good,
Speaker 6: bright young coach. It's just sad that he's there.
Speaker 2: That's all right, Smile well, and I will speak right
Speaker 2: to that and we'll tie it right into their schedule
Speaker 2: and everything this year. So, yes, David Tepper might have
Speaker 2: one of the most expensive college degrees in the world,
Speaker 2: but you want you want me to tell you which
Speaker 2: one he's missing? Common calls No, it's called the football degree.
Speaker 2: And yeah, common sense, absolutely common sense. Common sense would
Speaker 2: tell you to hire the best possible people, put him
Speaker 2: in the position to succeed, and get out of the way.
Speaker 2: Get out of the way. And that is one thing
Speaker 2: I can say. Tying this all back in together, is that.
Speaker 2: Guess what. I have not heard a thing about David Tepper,
Speaker 2: not not since they said he was gonna go radio silent.
Speaker 2: Haven't heard a word from him. It's been a beautiful thing. However,
Speaker 2: I'd completely disagreed with them taking a wide receiver at
Speaker 2: number eight. They should have did what the Falcons did,
Speaker 2: and so their schedule we went through it today. I
Speaker 2: went winnable versus not winnable, and they had about seven
Speaker 2: games on their schedule that I would consider not winnable.
Speaker 2: So automatically, you're looking at ten and seven if you
Speaker 2: can win all of your fifty to fifty games as
Speaker 2: what I would call them, and I don't see the
Speaker 2: Panthers doing that. However, I do think that Dave Canalis
Speaker 2: and Bryce Shong and Dan Morgan, they've been giving the
Speaker 2: leeway that they need in order to make this work potentially,
Speaker 2: Tedoro McMillan, Xavier Legette, Hunter, renfro Adam Dielin. I mean
Speaker 2: they have surrounded Bryce with offensive weapons and they are
Speaker 2: going to find out if he and Dave Canalis are
Speaker 2: the future going forward.
Speaker 1: So can I put one little bow on it? Interesting
Speaker 1: quirk about your schedule. The Panthers to the super Bowl
Speaker 1: the Carolina Wait a minute, Wait a minute, Carolina opens
Speaker 1: against Jacksonville. It's the third time ever that your team
Speaker 1: has played jackson the Jags in Week one, and the
Speaker 1: other two times are when you reach the super Bowl
Speaker 1: in two thousand and three and twenty fifteen. How interesting
Speaker 1: is that? Just a kind of a quirk, you know,
Speaker 1: putting that bowl.
Speaker 2: On that that is very that is that is so interesting, Candy.
Speaker 2: I mean, listen, listen, listen, listen, listen.
Speaker 5: Go.
Speaker 2: Samir as a as a Falcons fan, though, I think
Speaker 2: he can attest that the NFC South is a toss up.
Speaker 2: I mean, yeah, Tampa Bay has ruled it the last
Speaker 2: couple of years, but they've alternated winners literally like every
Speaker 2: year since the division has been in place. There have
Speaker 2: been very few back to back winners of the NFC South.
Speaker 2: It's been a steady who knows. I mean, I don't
Speaker 2: think the Panthers have the defense. I think the Falcons
Speaker 2: might be the ones this year.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I mean, I mean, it depends on a variety
Speaker 5: of things. And that's what I was going to get
Speaker 5: to regarding the Falcons. I think when you look at
Speaker 5: the Falcons schedule. I think it's proof that you know,
Speaker 5: when people talk about a team's strength of schedule, or
Speaker 5: this team has the third easiest or the third hardest schedule.
Speaker 5: I just think that that needs to be taken with
Speaker 5: the grain of salt, because obviously teams changed throughout the season,
Speaker 5: throughout the offseason. Some teams get better, some teams get worse.
Speaker 5: You could and the thing is, it's solely based off
Speaker 5: of last year's record, and you could have had a
Speaker 5: team that ended up missing the playoffs because of injury,
Speaker 5: or you could have had a team that may be
Speaker 5: overachieved and made the playoffs, or a playoff team that
Speaker 5: lost pieces. So all of that needs to be taken
Speaker 5: with the grain of salt. But with that being said,
Speaker 5: once again, just like last season, that early stretch of
Speaker 5: games for the Falcons is a brutal It's a pretty
Speaker 5: tough one last year. I don't think it's as brutal
Speaker 5: as last year, but it's pretty tough. I remember last
Speaker 5: year first three games Pittsburgh, Philadelphia, Kansas City, our first
Speaker 5: six games Tampa at home, which is usually a toss up.
Speaker 5: I think it's gonna be a good game again. You
Speaker 5: have Minnesota on the road, Carolina on the road, Washington
Speaker 5: and Buffalo both at home, then you're at San Francisco.
Speaker 5: So that is not an easy stretch of games by
Speaker 5: any means, even if we did sweep the Bucks last year,
Speaker 5: and even if you know, like again, the forty nine
Speaker 5: Ers are an example when we talk about strength of schedule.
Speaker 5: They went six and eleven, but they had a bunch
Speaker 5: of injuries. I don't it's fair to assume they're not
Speaker 5: gonna have that many injuries this season, and they're gonna
Speaker 5: they still have Kyle Shanahan as their head coach, so
Speaker 5: I think they're definitely gonna be in the mix, even
Speaker 5: if they have lost a lot. Again, Washington, Buffalo, those
Speaker 5: are gonna be tough games at home, and of course
Speaker 5: Minnesota on the road. I know a lot of people
Speaker 5: have questions about Minnesota, especially with JJ McCarthy now as
Speaker 5: their quarterback, but Kevin O'Connell's had his way with quarterbacks
Speaker 5: and I think in that system, I think JJ McCarthy
Speaker 5: will be successful. Now. With that being said, I don't
Speaker 5: like the early Week five by usually like the buye
Speaker 5: around week ten, eleven or twelve, but this one is
Speaker 5: pretty early. That means you've got thirteen straight weeks of games,
Speaker 5: and that includes a stretch of six road games in
Speaker 5: eight weeks from weeks nine to sixteen, including a game
Speaker 5: against the Colts in Berlin, and that is a game
Speaker 5: I think the Falcons should win, but who knows, you know,
Speaker 5: those international games are always interesting, to say the least.
Speaker 5: Now hindsight twenty twenty, where I think the Falcons will
Speaker 5: be record wise, I could see a range from seven
Speaker 5: to ten, which I know a lot of people aren't
Speaker 5: gonna like, to ten to eleven wins, So ten and seven,
Speaker 5: eleven and six. And the thing is they're a young team,
Speaker 5: a lot of exciting pieces, especially with the draft we
Speaker 5: just had. But whether or not the Falcons are successful
Speaker 5: as season is going to depend not just on the
Speaker 5: development of Michael Panics and whether he continues to take
Speaker 5: strides and build off of, you know, his fourth quarter
Speaker 5: against the Commanders in the last game of the season
Speaker 5: against Carolina, but it's also going to depend a lot
Speaker 5: on the group of defensive players we've drafted over the
Speaker 5: last couple of years and whether or not those guys
Speaker 5: take that next step. Defensive tackle from Clemson drafted him
Speaker 5: in the second round. Not only that, we traded up
Speaker 5: to get him, So he's gonna start and I think
Speaker 5: he's and he's gonna have to contribute early. Zach Harrison.
Speaker 5: He was drafted as a defensive end out of Ohio
Speaker 5: State a couple of years ago, but Raheem Morris and
Speaker 5: Jimmy Lake moved him inside. He was still productive and
Speaker 5: quite frankly, didn't get enough snaps. I think he Snappedcout's
Speaker 5: definitely gonna go up this year. Brandon Dorless, another defensive
Speaker 5: lineman we drafted out of Oregon. Again, like the rest
Speaker 5: of the rookie class last year, didn't get a lot
Speaker 5: of playing time. It's gonna get a lot more snaps
Speaker 5: this year. And Brayln Trice third round pick. Washington was
Speaker 5: a captain on that team that went to the National Championship.
Speaker 5: Along with Michael Pennix, led the NCAA in pressures in
Speaker 5: twenty twenty three. He unfortunately towards ACL against the Dolphins
Speaker 5: in the preseason, so he wasn't able to play at
Speaker 5: all last year. Question about him is where is he
Speaker 5: gonna end up in the rotation, especially you know, coming
Speaker 5: off that injury and with the additions of Jalen Walker,
Speaker 5: James Pearce, and Leonard Floyd. Also Grady Jared's not here anymore,
Speaker 5: so somebody needs to step up as basically that guy
Speaker 5: for the defense and the vocal leader in the locker room.
Speaker 5: It looks like from what I've heard that Aj Terrell
Speaker 5: has kind of embraced that role. He appeared on the
Speaker 5: water Boys podcast not too long ago and he talked
Speaker 5: about since Grady was not here anymore, he's going in
Speaker 5: the year six now and he has to kind of
Speaker 5: take that veteran leader role. So it seems like it's him.
Speaker 5: So again, not an easy schedule, but a lot to
Speaker 5: be intrigued by in regards to the Falcons, a lot
Speaker 5: of pieces to be excited about. So but again just
Speaker 5: a lot of question marks. So it really depends.
Speaker 2: Can I just applaud you for saying a row row row.
Speaker 5: Yeah, it took me a lot of learning.
Speaker 2: Tenor row was hard for me.
Speaker 3: Can I say one more thing, Sir Rudolph knows the system.
Speaker 3: Mason Rudolf can win ten and because of the defense alone,
Speaker 3: that's how we're gonna win ten. JD. That defense is stacked,
Speaker 3: So I think the defense is going to carry us
Speaker 3: through that. That's just my that's that's my spoiler alert.
Speaker 3: It's not a prediction. It's a spoiler alert. Okay, it
Speaker 3: depends how our defense holds.
Speaker 2: All right. So okay, so that's all well and good.
Speaker 2: So I'm the Southern Fried gentleman. So let's make a
Speaker 2: gentleman's bet, shall we? The Pittsburgh Sailors if they win ten?
Speaker 2: If they win ten, the Panthers win twelve. All right,
Speaker 2: that's what it is. So the gentleman's bet will be
Speaker 2: I've seen it. Have you seen yours? Have you seen?
Speaker 3: Yeah?
Speaker 2: I have you seen your quarterback?
Speaker 3: Yeah?
Speaker 2: I know you got a backup quarterback as a starting quarterback.
Speaker 2: All right, you listen, Sean McVay coach, that those the system.
Speaker 2: It's a crappy system.
Speaker 3: But what's what's the what's the bet?
Speaker 2: I mean, first of all, it's a happy system. Arthur
Speaker 2: Smith is your offensive coordinator who got fired from the
Speaker 2: Falcons for running a crappy offense, Samir, I'm sure you
Speaker 2: have a comment about that. Yeah, but yes, so it's
Speaker 2: the crappy system. So yeah, mate, listen, I know math,
Speaker 2: I know that two plus two equals four. But guess
Speaker 2: what that is it's easy. There's some offensive systems that
Speaker 2: are just easy. And so I'll let me get this
Speaker 2: one out, yep, cause listen. The gentleman's bet, though, the
Speaker 2: gentleman's bet will be if your Pittsburgh Steelers win ten games,
Speaker 2: I will. I don't know what the BET's gonna be yet,
Speaker 2: but listen, we'll make a bet Steelers will not win
Speaker 2: ten games, and if they do, that means the Panthers
Speaker 2: win twelve. And we'll figure out the stipulations of this
Speaker 2: bet because I'm not gonna I'm not gonna be like
Speaker 2: the Florida State guy and say I'm gonna eat a
Speaker 2: cup of poop and not do it. So I don't know.
Speaker 2: Maybe I'll get my first tattoo or something. But gentlemen's bet,
Speaker 2: Steelers no chance winning twelve games or ten games, that's
Speaker 2: bottom line. So do you agree, you say they'll win
Speaker 2: ten games, pensmanth.
Speaker 3: Depends what the bet is. Then well we'll talk. We
Speaker 3: both we both can. We can both have each other's
Speaker 3: phone numbers, so we could talk about it.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it won't. It won't be nothing crazy. Somebody will
Speaker 2: have to go like put a squirrel in the fryer.
Speaker 2: Or something. Maybe I don't know, we'll figure it out.
Speaker 3: Yeah, we'll full.
Speaker 2: Fire or maybe we can just got something open and
Speaker 2: open fire for fire up. Okay, Candy wrangled us in.
Speaker 1: I'm going to because I want I want to talk
Speaker 1: about the Chargers toying with jet lag. Jim Harbough and
Speaker 1: company are scheduled to travel thirty seven thousand and eighty
Speaker 1: six miles season, the most in the NFL. In addition
Speaker 1: to the game in Brazil, the Los Angeles Chargers have
Speaker 1: six Eastern time zone contests. They travel for forty two
Speaker 1: time zones, the second most behind the Los Angeles Rams
Speaker 1: forty four. Meanwhile, the Cincinnati Bengals will travel only eight thousand,
Speaker 1: seven and fifty three miles. Thoughts is at a big
Speaker 1: disadvantage to the Chargers. And we'll start with Ralph.
Speaker 6: Well, Candy, that's something called uh, you know, plan ahead,
Speaker 6: or something called We're gonna find out what this Chargers
Speaker 6: team is made of. Can the players survive the jet lag?
Speaker 6: Can they survive? They should? They get paid a lot
Speaker 6: of money. And I believe that, you know, if the
Speaker 6: NFL sticks it to the them like they stuck it
Speaker 6: to the Steelers over the years, Okay, I think that
Speaker 6: the Chargers could survive Jim Harpole. As a strong coach,
Speaker 6: you can get as players motivated for these games, despite
Speaker 6: the fact that I will we have to travel what
Speaker 6: eighty million miles or whatever to get where we need
Speaker 6: to go, and if we have the highest travel miles
Speaker 6: in the in all the NFL, let's see what they're
Speaker 6: made of. Are they a strong team to survive? Is
Speaker 6: its survival of the fittest you know out there? And
Speaker 6: real quick JD. Carolina. It's better to be lucky than good,
Speaker 6: because they're not good. They're gonna be lucky this year
Speaker 6: if they do win.
Speaker 4: So there you go. That's it.
Speaker 1: Samir, You want to talk at all about the traveling
Speaker 1: of the Chargers.
Speaker 5: I mean, yeah, I mean, I guess it's it's not
Speaker 5: ideal for any team to travel that much and have
Speaker 5: that many East Coast games on the rule, but in
Speaker 5: a way, I think it's a trade off. They play well,
Speaker 5: actually not really, because they lose a home game because
Speaker 5: they play the Chiefs in Brazil, which I don't like.
Speaker 5: But I agree with what Ralph said. If there's a
Speaker 5: coach out there that can get them prepared for that
Speaker 5: kind of scenario. It's Jim Harball. I do think overall,
Speaker 5: I don't know if they'll be as good as they
Speaker 5: were a year ago. But one thing you also have
Speaker 5: to look at is the spread, like how their schedule
Speaker 5: is spread out, so they have Chiefs in Brazil, then
Speaker 5: they go to Vegas. But I think the brutal part
Speaker 5: is they go from having Denver at home after a
Speaker 5: short week coming off that Vegas game, then they travel
Speaker 5: to the other side of the country and they're at
Speaker 5: the Giants. So there's a lot of traveling, especially in
Speaker 5: the early part zill Vegas, then back home, but then
Speaker 5: they go to New York or Mental or East Rutherford.
Speaker 5: Then they go back to LA then without a bye week,
Speaker 5: they go to Miami. So it's just like that first
Speaker 5: part is a brutal stretch of you know, back and
Speaker 5: forth for the Chargers. But again, as I said, and
Speaker 5: as Rolph said, if there's any coach that can get
Speaker 5: them mentally prepared for that, it's Jim Harbaugh. And you
Speaker 5: also have you know, even though I think he is overrated,
Speaker 5: you have a veteran quarterback in Justin Herbert, which also helps.
Speaker 2: All right, Hey, kenn I did that was one thing
Speaker 2: I was gonna mention too, was the Chargers, y'all. And
Speaker 2: we've got one of my guys. He's been on my
Speaker 2: show before, Madcraft. He's my resident Charger fan, Candy out.
Speaker 2: I've told him to call the number four because he
Speaker 2: was like, JD open up the phone lines. I was like, man,
Speaker 2: I don't have that capability. I don't even have a phone.
Speaker 2: I mean, you can try to call me on my
Speaker 2: cell phone, but I can't get you on mad Craft.
Speaker 2: But he's over here, man, he's open up the phone lines.
Speaker 2: The Chargers will be just fine, Candy. Alwa says, my
Speaker 2: bolts will be just fine, Candy, and then he also
Speaker 2: says Chargers answered this question in their draft old school
Speaker 2: bully ball a Marion Hampton. Is that dude, Trey Harris
Speaker 2: can't be worse than QJ talking about Quinn Shot Judkins. No,
Speaker 2: not Judkins. Oh what is it? Quintin Johnson? Quentin Johnson's
Speaker 2: the wide receiver name. And so Madcraft, listen, I know
Speaker 2: you're the Chargers man. And I was gonna say this.
Speaker 2: I think the NFL punished Jim Harball for the NCAA.
Speaker 2: Why else is it that they have the only schedule
Speaker 2: that they travel more in miles than three other teams combined.
Speaker 2: Is that punishment? Or could Jim Harball great coach like
Speaker 2: you guys just mentioned, Could he make it into great chemistry?
Speaker 2: Can he help build those plane rides into culture? Because
Speaker 2: we've already seen the Chargers coming up. I don't trust
Speaker 2: the Raiders in that division. Obviously. The Chiefs are susceptible
Speaker 2: with all of their one possession wins last year. I
Speaker 2: mean it's not like they're unbeatable. They're beatable, they're friable,
Speaker 2: they're fireable, They're right there. So the Chargers, though, I
Speaker 2: do think that's my main takeaway from this is did
Speaker 2: the NFL punish Jim Harball for the NC Double A?
Speaker 2: We already seen Sharon Moore, Connor Stallions all that stuff
Speaker 2: with the cheating Jim Harball went to the NFL so madcraft?
Speaker 2: Were they punishing Jim Harball for the NC Double A?
Speaker 2: Here with this ridiculous road trip and he's just gonna
Speaker 2: handle it because nobody has it better than us, right,
Speaker 2: Matt c And who's got it better than us? Nobody,
Speaker 2: says the Harballs, So Chargers. I already I predicted him
Speaker 2: last year to be a playoff contender, super Bowl contender.
Speaker 2: There's no doubt in my mind that Jim Harball and
Speaker 2: the Chargers will overcome these plane rides. He'll figure out
Speaker 2: a way.
Speaker 1: Ends many of your thoughts.
Speaker 3: Jim Harball can prepare, Justin Herbert is a good quarterback.
Speaker 3: It's just how well prepared they prepare. The Chargers are
Speaker 3: a good team, like Mad says, but we'll see how
Speaker 3: they prepare from weekend and week out. And it depends
Speaker 3: if it's a short week two that you gotta look
Speaker 3: at that too, because there's Sunday and Thursday, so you
Speaker 3: gotta prepare for that too. Chargers are a decent team
Speaker 3: when we play them in Week ten, and I have
Speaker 3: them losing to the to them, So that's what's that's
Speaker 3: what's gonna happen. I think they're gonna playoff team. I
Speaker 3: think they're gonna make the Divisional round and lose to
Speaker 3: the Chiefs or the Buffalo Bills. So we'll see.
Speaker 2: Oh and Jim Harball loves game cocks, by the way,
Speaker 2: I mean, I forgot about that part.
Speaker 3: I figure you'll.
Speaker 2: Know that he always he's always drafted gamecock players. He
Speaker 2: got a few of them. This year, he'll I mean,
Speaker 2: he's a smart guy and.
Speaker 3: I and I have breaking news to share to the
Speaker 3: Carolina Hurricanes just defeated the Washington Capitals and eliminated the
Speaker 3: Washington Capitals four to one series. So Vechkin is no
Speaker 3: longer playing until October. So if you're a Capitals fan,
Speaker 3: I'm sorry not, I know you're not. Well, you might
Speaker 3: be because he moved, so.
Speaker 1: Is not really breaking one minute behind game Chuck, Chuck,
Speaker 1: who already said that.
Speaker 3: So just so now I know, all right, I just
Speaker 3: I just saw it there. So well, they eliminated.
Speaker 1: Are you know our guys in the chat room, if
Speaker 1: they're they're on top of things, that's awesome.
Speaker 3: Yeah, but they eliminated for the series is four to one.
Speaker 3: I had them going to Stanley Cup, but fortunately they
Speaker 3: didn't make it.
Speaker 1: Awesome awesome. Okay did we all talk about Chargers? Did
Speaker 1: anybody else have any commenting back and forth on the Chargers?
Speaker 3: No?
Speaker 1: Okay, how about the fact that the Philadelphia Eagles play
Speaker 1: on five different days of the week this year. They
Speaker 1: will say they have a contest on Sunday, Monday, Thursday, Friday,
Speaker 1: Black Friday, and Saturday. A little unusual to be playing
Speaker 1: on all those different days of the week. But hey,
Speaker 1: they're the Super Bowl champions. Shouldn't be no sweat off
Speaker 1: their back, right.
Speaker 4: Absolutely?
Speaker 2: Okay, isn't that a song candy Sunday, Monday, Wednesday? What
Speaker 2: it like? Isn't that a song though that sings all
Speaker 2: the days of the week or something?
Speaker 1: Yeah?
Speaker 2: Yeah, Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday.
Speaker 3: Saturday, easy, happy days easy easy?
Speaker 2: Well no, yeah, that's happy days for sure. But yeah,
Speaker 2: there was another song though that I'm thinking about out there.
Speaker 3: Talking about happy days like easy happy days. Ay, come
Speaker 3: down souther fright, Fonsie, mad.
Speaker 1: Go out there and uh follow all of us and
Speaker 1: all of us hosts here.
Speaker 2: Hey mad so yeah? Sameir is at at L Underscore, Samir?
Speaker 2: What was it, Sir?
Speaker 5: I'm pulling it up now because Matt.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Madcraft's on Twitter. He stays active. He he's uh
Speaker 2: what I like to call the Braves Sunshine Pumper. He's
Speaker 2: been telling us all to be positive about the Braves
Speaker 2: since they went oh and seven, and here we are,
Speaker 2: we're about five hundred and it's all because of mad.
Speaker 5: Craft at L Underscore twenty four to one. That is
Speaker 5: my Twitter.
Speaker 2: There you go, Matt Craft. Hit him up, my man,
Speaker 2: I'll make sure I'll post it out too and let
Speaker 2: you know. And then hey, are you following Ralph Madcraft?
Speaker 4: Ralph?
Speaker 2: What's your Twitter handle? Brother?
Speaker 4: Uh, it's Ralph Williams r W Media.
Speaker 2: Hit him up plenty of stuff.
Speaker 3: And then Pensman, thank you that's already following me because
Speaker 3: you tagged me in the post.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, we got yeah, we got all old last week.
Speaker 2: Yeah yeah, Andy tell him at Tribune South.
Speaker 1: So my question to all of you, the number one
Speaker 1: pick in the draft and he has no primetime games.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I thought he would at least get one. Usually
Speaker 5: past few years or for a while now, the number
Speaker 5: one pick, especially when it's quarterback, has usually gotten at
Speaker 5: least one or two prime time games. But in regards
Speaker 5: to the Eagles, they do play ten playoff teams from
Speaker 5: last year. But again, that's something I've always taken with
Speaker 5: the grain of salt. As I said earlier, I think
Speaker 5: they'll be fine regardless. They did lose a couple of pieces,
Speaker 5: but they're loaded. Howie Roseman drafts out of his mind
Speaker 5: virtually every year. But yeah, yeah, I was going to
Speaker 5: circle back.
Speaker 2: On that, right well, and we'll see what and all
Speaker 2: that can or Candy or Pensman takeover whoever.
Speaker 3: Except for this year. I was surprised, but go on, jd.
Speaker 5: Well, John Campbell was a steal at a thirty one.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I give him that, but the other draft really can't.
Speaker 2: Yeah, well, what you were just mentioning though about the
Speaker 2: Eagles playing ten playoff teams? There's a stat? Madcraft, Madcraft, madcraft?
Speaker 2: My guy, can you remind me there was that old
Speaker 2: radio host we used to have here in the Upstate.
Speaker 2: I won't mention his name, but he there was a
Speaker 2: stat and it's something like fifty percent of playoff teams
Speaker 2: year to year do not make the playoffs the following year,
Speaker 2: and it might be a little less he gets sixty. Yeah,
Speaker 2: there's a stat though, So, yeah, who cares about Eagles
Speaker 2: playing ten? Of what the fourteen playoff teams last year,
Speaker 2: half of them probably aren't going to be there in
Speaker 2: the playoffs again this year. So I mean you can't
Speaker 2: really gauge it on that. I mean, if we could shoot,
Speaker 2: we would all predict the future and make tons of
Speaker 2: money gambling, right, exactly.
Speaker 1: No love for the Saints. The Saints, don't they have
Speaker 1: no primetime appearances. It's first time they got shut out
Speaker 1: of the primetime slate since the two thousand season.
Speaker 5: You love to see it.
Speaker 6: I'm interested down there. I will tell you this much.
Speaker 6: He wants to make a trade for Kenny Pickett.
Speaker 3: Well, well, well, Aaron Rodgers go to New Orleans too.
Speaker 5: I don't see what.
Speaker 3: Don't see that happening.
Speaker 5: I think it's Pittsburgh he's retiring. But yeah, I hope
Speaker 5: it's not surprised. The Saints are not viewed highly in
Speaker 5: regards to their roster. It's aging roster. They've been in
Speaker 5: cap hell for a couple of years now, and now
Speaker 5: it's kind of that time to pay the piper. The
Speaker 5: Falcons have not swept the Saints since twenty sixteen, the
Speaker 5: Super Bowl season. If there is any year for them
Speaker 5: to do it, this is the year. Saints have always
Speaker 5: played us hard. It's, in my opinion, the best rivalry
Speaker 5: in the NFL because, no matter what the records happened,
Speaker 5: no matter what the all time series, it's tied. It's
Speaker 5: been going back to the late sixties. The all time
Speaker 5: series is deadlocked. And again, as I mentioned, no matter
Speaker 5: what the what record each team has, the games are
Speaker 5: always close. Like one time in twenty nineteen, the Saints
Speaker 5: were seven and one, we were one and seven. We
Speaker 5: went in there and we went in there and beat
Speaker 5: them pretty good. And then of course we were six
Speaker 5: and three they were seven and two. This past year,
Speaker 5: it just fired Dennis Sallam. They beat us. So it's
Speaker 5: it's always a pretty tight game no matter what.
Speaker 2: Well hey, yeah, hold up, hold on, no, yeah.
Speaker 5: I'm not the Saints. Not many people lifefully so.
Speaker 2: Yeah okay, so okay, Samir love you man, go ahead,
Speaker 2: but before these two AFC North dudes fry you up,
Speaker 2: I'm going to give you the opportunity to say that
Speaker 2: the Atlanta Falcons and the New Orleans Saints are possibly
Speaker 2: one of the most competitive series in the NFL. But
Speaker 2: I think you might have to backtrack about it being
Speaker 2: the best rivalry in the NFL, Pensman Ralph.
Speaker 5: In my opinion, I think it said that because it's
Speaker 5: not just the teams, it's within the it's within the
Speaker 5: fan bases, the culture between the two cities.
Speaker 2: Like you've obviously never been up to the AFC North games.
Speaker 2: I mean, the Buffalo Bills throw people through tables. Okay,
Speaker 2: we don't we're crazy down here out, but we don't
Speaker 2: do that.
Speaker 5: Bunch of Falcons fans going when the Saints come here,
Speaker 5: A bunch of Saints fans always come.
Speaker 6: Cleveland Browns will throw bricks through your window. If you
Speaker 6: have a Pennsylvania license plate and they're parking in one
Speaker 6: of their stadium parking lots, they will put your car
Speaker 6: up on Jackson, steal your tires. That's what goes on
Speaker 6: in Cleveland when they're playing the Steelers. And then on
Speaker 6: top of that too, when you go to Baltimore. I
Speaker 6: heard there's some some things there with the Ravens fans.
Speaker 6: I told my wife, if we do go to a
Speaker 6: Ravens Steeler game at Ravens Stadium, we're just gonna sit
Speaker 6: there and not cheer because I don't I don't. I
Speaker 6: don't want to get myself thrown, thrown, something thrown.
Speaker 4: At me or whatever. You know.
Speaker 2: Cutral colors. Yeah, there you go, Pensman, go ahead.
Speaker 3: You got oh my, I can't believe you said Carolina Atlanta,
Speaker 3: but you got Philadelphian, you got philled Okay, still, you
Speaker 3: got Philadelphia in Dallas.
Speaker 5: Okay, those two the NFC East rivalries up, Yeah, those
Speaker 5: two teams has.
Speaker 3: Stay with me, bro, stay with me. You got the
Speaker 3: Steelers and Ravens. That's another one. You got Chiefs in Buffalo,
Speaker 3: that's another one. You got Lions and Bears.
Speaker 5: Oh my no, no no no, no, no, no, no no no.
Speaker 1: You got the rivalry in the NFL is Packers Bears.
Speaker 3: Yea.
Speaker 1: They have played each other ten times since.
Speaker 4: Nineteen Yeah, Detroit be.
Speaker 1: If it's the best rivalry, if it's the most glorified,
Speaker 1: is it the oldest. We just got to be very
Speaker 1: careful with the terminology that we use when we are trying.
Speaker 5: To most competitive? Does that work? Most competitive?
Speaker 3: There we go.
Speaker 2: I'm trying to save you. I said that.
Speaker 5: Because look, if the Falcons ever went to and fifteen,
Speaker 5: if those two winds are against the Saints, like but
Speaker 5: it kind of softens that blow. Definitely.
Speaker 1: It's the same for the Packers Bears. I'll be honest
Speaker 1: with you. The Bears that you know, they all always
Speaker 1: And that's the way I would say it is with
Speaker 1: most rivalries that are divisional rivals, worries that if you
Speaker 1: beat the person the other team in your division, whether
Speaker 1: you win the rest of the games, that's what matters.
Speaker 1: And because now Green Bay and Chicago is also probably
Speaker 1: one of the closest proximity wise, okay, mileage wise, I'm
Speaker 1: guessing they're with it. I think i'd have to check
Speaker 1: it out. I will get that stat while you guys
Speaker 1: keep talking, but I will get that how close they are.
Speaker 3: Or is it? Or is it? And Vikings no, because
Speaker 3: I'm just standing the competitive one.
Speaker 1: I mean, everybody in the NFC North, but I wouldn't
Speaker 1: say necessarily. Okay, Chicago, I know about the.
Speaker 3: Pack, but I thought the Lions had another one too.
Speaker 4: It's just like with pensmen or they're all competitive two hundred.
Speaker 1: And two miles the.
Speaker 2: Okay, and so I know we can't cuss. I'm not
Speaker 2: gonna cuss. But my question that came.
Speaker 4: Last year they were sad.
Speaker 2: Who would be y'all's biggest Who would be y'all's biggest
Speaker 2: considered B word in all of the divisions? So like
Speaker 2: when you think about your bottom feeders like the Cardinals
Speaker 2: or what used to be the Lions or the Panthers
Speaker 2: when they were winless, who would be considered the biggest
Speaker 2: B word like bottom feeder of a division? I mean,
Speaker 2: would it be the Lions?
Speaker 5: Would it be the Browns, hence down things.
Speaker 2: So the brown Yeah, the Panthers haven't been around Longhouse obviously.
Speaker 5: Right, I mean, I mean there, I mean right, sounds
Speaker 5: to be an argument made for the Falcons, because the Bucks,
Speaker 5: even with the lowest win percentage in in NFL history,
Speaker 5: have the most Super Bowls. I've got to well, and
Speaker 5: he said it does for the NFC East, and the
Speaker 5: Saints have won and the Panthers have been to the
Speaker 5: same number of Super Bowls and have won the division
Speaker 5: more times than the Falcons and have been around about
Speaker 5: half as long as the Falcons have. Panthers have been
Speaker 5: around for thirty years. The Falcons are going on year sixty.
Speaker 5: The Falcons are also the only team in the NFC
Speaker 5: South to have not won it in consecutive years since
Speaker 5: it became a thing in two thousand and two two
Speaker 5: thousand and three. But yeah, we are the only team
Speaker 5: to not have won the division in consecutive years, and
Speaker 5: we've had even when we have had chances to do so.
Speaker 5: So right now it's the Aints, but I think you
Speaker 5: could make an argument for overall from historical ads, it's us.
Speaker 6: Yeah, Well, Atlanta hired a guy named Arthur Smith be
Speaker 6: their head coach, and that kind of derailed them a
Speaker 6: little bit. I'm we'll see what Whrahie Morris does. This
Speaker 6: is his second time around as a head coach. Usually
Speaker 6: the second time is better than the first. Samere So
Speaker 6: we're gonna find out where some where he goes.
Speaker 5: You know, we'll see.
Speaker 1: I mean, you could you can make a case about
Speaker 1: like the Lions, they've never made it to the Super
Speaker 1: Bowl and they've been around for how many years?
Speaker 6: Yeah, my co host, smoking Jim Fraser Candy calls it
Speaker 6: the Bobby Lank curse. He comes up, he calls it
Speaker 6: the Bobby Lank curse. Just like the Steelers he calls
Speaker 6: it the San Antonio Holmes curse. With the Penguins he
Speaker 6: calls it the Marc Andre Fleury curse. So you know,
Speaker 6: he comes up with these curses all the time.
Speaker 5: Yeah, that's for the NFC South, but for the NFC East.
Speaker 5: The interesting part is each one of those teams has
Speaker 5: had a period or a long period of success. So
Speaker 5: would you mean who would be the bottom feeder of
Speaker 5: that division? You can't mean. The Giants are in a
Speaker 5: bad place right now, but they have four Super Bowls.
Speaker 5: You're not going to say them in the Washington they had,
Speaker 5: they had the they had the Dan Snyder era, but
Speaker 5: seemed like Jayden Daniels and the new ownership with Josh
Speaker 5: Harris Mike Dave rejuvenated that franchise. You're not gonna say
Speaker 5: Dallas or Philadelphia, even as much as we like to
Speaker 5: laugh at Dallas for their lack of postseason success, and
Speaker 5: obviously you're not going to say Philadelphia.
Speaker 6: They're all they've all been successful team similar. That's going
Speaker 6: to be a really tough question right there for that division.
Speaker 2: Not for me. It isn't not for me, It isn't here.
Speaker 2: We're you can answer that right now. And I got
Speaker 2: a bad I got a bad story. It's tell all
Speaker 2: these Dallas Cowboy fans it's you right now, my friends,
Speaker 2: Dallas Cowboy fans, if you're a Dallas Cowboy fan, listen
Speaker 2: to this. My son has a go kart. All right,
Speaker 2: it's stopped working. I found out that the choke switch
Speaker 2: it wasn't working. Right, I put a Dallas Cowboys sticker
Speaker 2: on it. It's fired up fine. Every single time since
Speaker 2: the choke switch with the Dallas Cowboys sticker on it,
Speaker 2: it works. And guess what, not only that the Giants
Speaker 2: and the Eagles have won super Bowls since the Commander
Speaker 2: or since the Cowboys last have. The only one who
Speaker 2: hasn't is the Commander's But it would be a tough listen.
Speaker 2: I would say one A and one B or four
Speaker 2: A and four B. When it comes to the Cowboys
Speaker 2: and the Commanders being the bottom feeders of the NFC East,
Speaker 2: how many playoff victories do the Cowboys have compared to
Speaker 2: not lately? None, none and none. I mean the Commanders
Speaker 2: made it to the NFC Championship Game this year. That's
Speaker 2: more than the Cowboys can say for a long time. So,
Speaker 2: Dallas Cowboy fans, I hate to tell you all this,
Speaker 2: but you're the bottom feeder of the NFC East.
Speaker 5: Yeah. And I was going to circle back to again
Speaker 5: the NFC South. When it when when you when it
Speaker 5: comes to the Falcons, it's not just the lack of
Speaker 5: historical franchise success. It's not just sixty years no Super Bowl.
Speaker 5: It's not just your twenty eight to three that like
Speaker 5: that surface level stuff. It is just the way like
Speaker 5: there is never a dull moment with this franchise, Like
Speaker 5: you can go back to Jerry Glanville purchasing tickets for Elvis.
Speaker 5: He purchased tickets for Elvis Presley. Elvis Presley had been
Speaker 5: dead for like a while at that point. And then
Speaker 5: it's like the it's just never again, never a dull moment.
Speaker 5: You look. Nineteen ninety eight, we upset the Vikings where
Speaker 5: we make it to the super Bowl. The night before
Speaker 5: the Super Bowl, Uh, Eugene Robinson safety, he won, he
Speaker 5: won the Walter Payton Man of the Year. He gets
Speaker 5: busted for let's say, not very not very ideal. Yeah,
Speaker 5: you probably know the story. He gets before the night
Speaker 5: before the Super Bowl. And then it's the Mike, the
Speaker 5: Michael Vick, the way the Michael Vick era ended, the
Speaker 5: Bobby Petrino saga, losing the twenty twelve NFC Championship. And
Speaker 5: it's just the last five years alone. You could like
Speaker 5: the last five years alone, since like twenty twenty, the
Speaker 5: team did not have fallen on an on side kick
Speaker 5: against Dallas. They let Nick Foles with the Bears come
Speaker 5: back and beat them. You hired Arthur Smith as your
Speaker 5: head coach. You went into a season with Desmond Ritter
Speaker 5: as your starting quarterback. You lost to Josh Dobbs, a
Speaker 5: guy who had just been traded to the Vikings, like
Speaker 5: two days before the game, didn't even know the system,
Speaker 5: didn't know his teammates, comes here and beats us. And
Speaker 5: then you got this season six and three and again
Speaker 5: they just find the most creative ways to lose games, right.
Speaker 2: Well, hey, and the Chat, I gotta mention the chat
Speaker 2: real quick. We got Pete Digits, we got Brian, we
Speaker 2: got Madcraft. All of these guys they've kept us in
Speaker 2: check here on some bottom feeders. They were like, hey,
Speaker 2: how about the Jets, how about how about the Dolphins?
Speaker 2: The Dolphins being bottom theaters. I mean these guys, they
Speaker 2: were tapped in on it. Brian even mentions Lions, Vikings, Titans, Chargers, Browns, Bills, Bills,
Speaker 2: Chargers too, I mean the Bills Chargers.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I mean, like I call the Chargers the West
Speaker 5: Coast Falcons, like they will just find ways to lose games,
Speaker 5: like like you've never seen.
Speaker 6: How about the Raiders. I mean, the Raiders were once
Speaker 6: a great football team. Look at where how they have fallen?
Speaker 6: How the mighty have fallen? Yeah, and now they got
Speaker 6: seventy year older, seventy five year old Pete Carroll to
Speaker 6: try to bring them.
Speaker 2: Back, Candy. I'll let you rein it right in after this.
Speaker 2: I gotta ask, though, since you just mentioned the Raiders,
Speaker 2: have y'all seen the new Amazon movie coming out with
Speaker 2: Nicholas Cage playing John Madden and Christian bell playing Al Davis.
Speaker 2: Look up the picture, y'all. I'm telling you right now,
Speaker 2: it'll be the best thing you've ever seen in your life.
Speaker 2: I swear to you. Look up the Amazon documentary picture
Speaker 2: of Nicholas Cage as John Madden and Christian bell A
Speaker 2: is Al Davis. They're sitting there, both with their Super
Speaker 2: Bowl ring like pointed forward, and Nicholas Cage looks just
Speaker 2: like John Madden.
Speaker 4: Wow, I gotta see that.
Speaker 1: So I gotta go to a comment here in the chat.
Speaker 1: How many times has a Giant got a top three
Speaker 1: pick in the last thirty years? I don't have that stat,
Speaker 1: but I have a different stat most top ten draft
Speaker 1: selections from twenty sixteen to twenty twenty five. The Giants
Speaker 1: have the most at eight. They have the most top
Speaker 1: ten draft selections in the last ten years with eight.
Speaker 7: Feels like there's one team that has zero, and that
Speaker 7: would be my Green Bay Packers.
Speaker 1: Everybody else falls in between at seven, just wanted to
Speaker 1: put that out there. I do want to talk a
Speaker 1: little bit about my Packers.
Speaker 7: The fact that this is the first this is the
Speaker 7: first time that the Packers open under the Matt Lafleur
Speaker 7: coaching at home in Lambeau.
Speaker 1: They match up with Detroit. The other interesting which I
Speaker 1: don't really particularly care for. Of the last seven games
Speaker 1: of the season, five of our divisional opponents, So we
Speaker 1: opened the season and then we end the season, and
Speaker 1: there's I also saw that there was four other teams
Speaker 1: that within a three week period play a divisional rival twice,
Speaker 1: So it's interesting exactly. I thought that was really interesting.
Speaker 1: Anybody else want to talk anything more about a schedule
Speaker 1: at this point? Any predictions on which international game are
Speaker 1: you guys most looking forward to?
Speaker 2: I mean none of them.
Speaker 5: I mean, well, Falcons Coults, mainly because of personal bias,
Speaker 5: but I fid my way there would be an international
Speaker 5: games because number one, I don't think it's fair that
Speaker 5: you're basically taking a home game away from its team.
Speaker 5: And number two, the look, I just wish Roger Goodell
Speaker 5: would stop this attempt to try and globalize the NFL.
Speaker 5: It's not the NBA. It's not basketball. It's never going
Speaker 5: to be a global sport. And that's just how it is.
Speaker 5: That's the way I see it.
Speaker 2: Don't I don't know if I would go as far
Speaker 2: as to say that he should stop trying to globalize it,
Speaker 2: I would say that the NFL Europe was once a thing.
Speaker 5: Yeah, well why is anymore?
Speaker 2: Right? Well that that was gonna be? My point is
Speaker 2: I think they started it too soon now. I think
Speaker 2: with all of these overseas games, I think they're getting
Speaker 2: to that point. I mean, right now, there's already betting
Speaker 2: odds on how long it will take for there to
Speaker 2: be an overseas Super Bowl, And in order for that
Speaker 2: to happen, there's gonna have to be overseas teams first.
Speaker 2: So I mean, obviously we're talking ten twenty years down
Speaker 2: the road.
Speaker 5: I mean, I just don't see how it could work
Speaker 5: for geographical reasons, like how would you align the divisions,
Speaker 5: Like if they're going to visit an overseas team, only
Speaker 5: like that would make sense in my eyes is maybe
Speaker 5: if you put one in Toronto, because the they've had
Speaker 5: the they had the Bills play a couple of games
Speaker 5: there for years. A while ago and it's right here,
Speaker 5: especially right here.
Speaker 1: But again it's going against the CFL then, because they
Speaker 1: already have a league there.
Speaker 5: Yeah right. I just don't see them expanding team wise overseas,
Speaker 5: mainly for geographical reasons. And I think thirty two is
Speaker 5: the right number. I think thirty two is a perfect number.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I agree.
Speaker 5: But my last thought on the schedule, the New York Giants,
Speaker 5: they got a raw deal. Like through their first like
Speaker 5: six games, they have They're at Washington, at Dallas, Chiefs
Speaker 5: at home, Chargers at home, They're at New Orleans. Then
Speaker 5: they have Philadelphia, Denver and Philadelphia again. So there's a
Speaker 5: very good chance that they could start two and six
Speaker 5: one in seven. But again, I know that kind of
Speaker 5: goes against them. Take the strength of schedule with the
Speaker 5: grain of salt, but man like, that is a brutal
Speaker 5: start to your first half of the season, especially when
Speaker 5: you have Brian Dable and Joe Shane on some pretty
Speaker 5: hot seats like that is not an ideal schedule.
Speaker 4: You know, Samir, they should have been fired after this season.
Speaker 5: I was surprised they weren't.
Speaker 6: I know, so was I. I just I couldn't believe.
Speaker 6: I'll scratch my head, I'm like, what are you doing?
Speaker 6: You bring them back the same failing.
Speaker 3: Ralph. Yes, this is the Let see if I can
Speaker 3: do this. That's the picture that Jitty was talking about.
Speaker 4: Oh okay, I s what you're saying.
Speaker 3: All right, Yeah about John Madden, he looks just like
Speaker 3: him to.
Speaker 4: A t.
Speaker 2: Oh.
Speaker 4: I got to look at that. I gotta see that.
Speaker 4: I gotta talk about that.
Speaker 2: Okay, No way, gang Chuck who walked Candy?
Speaker 3: Candy? I got one more international thing to say. I'm
Speaker 3: looking I'm looking forward to the Steelers and Vikings. One
Speaker 3: Steelers or my team and Vikings is because of JJ McCarthy,
Speaker 3: because of him playing at Michigan. I want to see
Speaker 3: how he reacts this year, even though they're playing each other. Yeah,
Speaker 3: that's that's gonna be rough. That's gonna be rough. What
Speaker 3: I agree with some here what he said. So what
Speaker 3: he said was point on. So that's what that's what
Speaker 3: I got for that. I'm just looking forward to Steelers
Speaker 3: and Vikings because of JJ McCarthy. See how he reacts overseas,
Speaker 3: and this is his first action in the NFL because
Speaker 3: he got injured last year. So I'm just curious how
Speaker 3: he will do this year.
Speaker 1: Any other comments on the NFL schedule. I have another
Speaker 1: NFL topic I want to get to here.
Speaker 6: Real the Steelers are playing. I got the twenty twenty
Speaker 6: seven preliminary schedule that might be coming out. I'm sorry,
Speaker 6: twenty twenty six schedule. The Steelers are playing the They're
Speaker 6: playing the Jacksonville Jaguars in Vietnam. So they want to
Speaker 6: expanded into Vietnam. I'm just kidding. So sorry.
Speaker 2: That's good, Ralph. You got me on that one, because
Speaker 2: what I was going to say, though, is we were
Speaker 2: talking about Samir said he didn't want to go overseas
Speaker 2: and it would be too much travel and all of this,
Speaker 2: and so to tie it all in a nice little
Speaker 2: bow about the Chargers we were talking about earlier. Would
Speaker 2: any of those overseas teams travel farther than the Chargers
Speaker 2: this year? Can be back to you.
Speaker 1: Interesting question. No, I don't think so.
Speaker 2: I mean, they're traveling farther than three other teams combined.
Speaker 2: Coreer Chargers are.
Speaker 1: It's crazy. It is crazy. My next topic, NFL owners
Speaker 1: are going to discuss a proposal to allow players under
Speaker 1: contract to participate in flag football when the sport makes
Speaker 1: its Olympic debut in twenty twenty eight in Los Angeles.
Speaker 1: How do we feel about players playing flag football? Now,
Speaker 1: mind you, the Olympics will be played, this would be
Speaker 1: played in July, I believe when the twenty twenty eight
Speaker 1: games will be held from July fourteenth to the thirtieth.
Speaker 1: Training camps would typically open for teams that summer in
Speaker 1: the final week of July. Based on the currently schedule.
Speaker 5: It'd be interesting to see how many NFL players actually
Speaker 5: participate because I mean, yeah, it's flag football, but again,
Speaker 5: one wrong turn, you fall the wrong way, that can
Speaker 5: have an impact. And I don't know if any NFL players,
Speaker 5: especially big names or stars would want to risk that.
Speaker 1: Patrick Patrick Mahomes, and Tyreek Hill have already expressed interest
Speaker 1: in participating in the Olympics.
Speaker 6: The US has to do whatever it takes to win candy.
Speaker 6: They did it with the NBA players going in for
Speaker 6: basketball when the college players couldn't get it done. I
Speaker 6: don't blame them for throwing this. I have some concerns
Speaker 6: about injuries. Like Samir said, you know, but I think
Speaker 6: it's a good idea because our country that do whatever takes.
Speaker 4: To win the Olympics.
Speaker 5: The goal.
Speaker 4: Do it.
Speaker 6: You know, I don't think there's anybody out there better
Speaker 6: than us anyway, as far as that goes football.
Speaker 1: Pennsman thoughts Australian rules.
Speaker 3: They're already they're already doing flag football and the Pro Bowl,
Speaker 3: so I can see him doing so exactly. That's good move.
Speaker 3: And what what Ralph said about whatever the US has
Speaker 3: to do to Windy Olympics, I go for it.
Speaker 4: Do it.
Speaker 3: They're already doing it. So if you don't make the
Speaker 3: Super Bowl, you get to play flag football all year round.
Speaker 3: So and for some reason, the ratings were up in
Speaker 3: the Pro Bowl when they when they were when they
Speaker 3: were playing flag football, the rings went up and it
Speaker 3: was competitive, So why not?
Speaker 6: I always called it the probe bore because it was
Speaker 6: always boring. It didn't tackle nobody, it didn't, you know
Speaker 6: what I mean? You know, so maybe everybody liked the
Speaker 6: idea of flag football.
Speaker 4: You're not going to tackle him. Also, just do flag football,
Speaker 4: you know, j D your thoughts.
Speaker 2: I honestly I don't think that the n NFL will
Speaker 2: allow their players to do it. I think that maybe
Speaker 2: not the NFL. Maybe I should rephrase that. I don't
Speaker 2: think the teams in their contracts. If this becomes an
Speaker 2: actual thing, obviously they're not gonna let the biggest stars
Speaker 2: of the NFL go over here and play in a
Speaker 2: potential We see non contact injuries all the time. We
Speaker 2: see torn acos, we see torn achilles, we see injuries
Speaker 2: like that that happen, and if they're playing a regular season.
Speaker 2: I mean, most of the baseball players we just now
Speaker 2: saw the United States get into too the World Baseball
Speaker 2: Classic again, and because of the timing of it, a
Speaker 2: lot of the best baseball players can't go participate. So
Speaker 2: guess what happens with the NFL players. Yeah, I mean
Speaker 2: it's starting to become a little bit bigger now. I
Speaker 2: think it's way off for the NFL. I just don't
Speaker 2: see it. I think there will be women's flag football
Speaker 2: games or listen, there's a lot of really good simp.
Speaker 2: I don't know if you guys have ever looked up
Speaker 2: videos of flag football on YouTube or anything like that before.
Speaker 2: I have. There's a lot of freaking good flag football
Speaker 2: players out there. No, I mean, I'm just I've seen them.
Speaker 2: I know I got enough stuff to keep up with,
Speaker 2: trust me, two kids, a doll fire up with candy
Speaker 2: and the South Florida Tribune Southern Sports. I got some her,
Speaker 2: I got everybody I got. We gotta keep up with
Speaker 2: everybody around here. We're too busy to just be bored JD.
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Speaker 1: team has the richest owner in the NFL?
Speaker 5: Which team is the richest owner? It's not Jerry Jones,
Speaker 5: I know.
Speaker 3: That, Robert Kraft.
Speaker 2: No, no, is it a let me think we know
Speaker 2: it's not Green Bay they don't have an owner.
Speaker 5: Yeah, correct, it's not the Roonies and of that m
Speaker 5: some Broncos.
Speaker 1: Correct, the Walton family at seventy seven point four billion dollars.
Speaker 5: The yee yeah, Walmart.
Speaker 4: That's why the prices went up at Walmart.
Speaker 1: And it's really interesting because there's a huge drop off
Speaker 1: between them and number two.
Speaker 2: Okay, can I say this one thing too about Walmart?
Speaker 4: Real quick?
Speaker 2: Yeah, and I'm sorry Walmart tonight, it's your turn to
Speaker 2: get cooked.
Speaker 5: Uh Ya?
Speaker 2: How do you have self checkout lines that are closed?
Speaker 2: How does that make any sense? It's a self checkout line,
Speaker 2: like you don't even need a cash here there to
Speaker 2: watch it. There's literally a camera right there. And if
Speaker 2: somebody steal something or if their weight doesn't match like
Speaker 2: you can so no wonder. The Waltons are so freaking rich.
Speaker 2: Jesus Christ. That's it that I'm not gonna cook in it.
Speaker 2: I don't want to overcook it.
Speaker 1: So guess is who's the second richest. It's a big
Speaker 1: drop I'll tell you that.
Speaker 4: Or the Davis family.
Speaker 5: Jerry Jones.
Speaker 2: Here, I'll go with the chat. I'm gonna say, uh
Speaker 2: we got a pick for the Browns, the Bears, or
Speaker 2: the Jaguars, and we have a Washington Commander pick.
Speaker 1: Nope, I'm Jaguars are one, two, three, four eighth. They're
Speaker 1: in eighth place.
Speaker 4: At a lot of money.
Speaker 1: Yeah, twelve point two billion he has. Jerry Jones has
Speaker 1: thirteen point eight billion.
Speaker 2: I swear to God, you better, David Tepper, I swear
Speaker 2: you better, say David.
Speaker 5: David a lot of money?
Speaker 2: One point three billion.
Speaker 1: He's third, he's third?
Speaker 3: Yes, what about Howie?
Speaker 1: Who do we think? Who do we think?
Speaker 3: What about Howie? Howie Rose for the Eagles?
Speaker 5: He's a he's a.
Speaker 3: Yeah, No, just wondering.
Speaker 4: Loose six billion.
Speaker 2: Glows or whatever their name is, Spagnol New York Giants.
Speaker 4: It's got to be one of the New York teams,
Speaker 4: has to be.
Speaker 1: It is not. The New York Giants have two.
Speaker 5: Who was the Bowl this.
Speaker 1: Last week year?
Speaker 3: You guys?
Speaker 4: Dog?
Speaker 1: Twenty four point eight billion? They are second. Wow, so
Speaker 1: highest as Broncos. Second is Kansas City, Third is Carolina,
Speaker 1: fourth is Seahawks. Fifth is the Rams, Jets, Dallas Jags, Patriots, Dolphins, Buccaneers, Commanders, Falcons, Browns, Ravens,
Speaker 1: Bill's Saints, forty nine Ers, Houston Eagles, Indianapolis Chargers, Raiders, Giants, Lions, Titans, Cardinals, Vikings,
Speaker 1: Bears and Steelers, and then of course the Packers don't
Speaker 1: have an owner.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's what last mad Craft just said that.
Speaker 6: It doesn't surprise me Pensman, because would they would squeeze
Speaker 6: a penny and then Lincoln's head would come out.
Speaker 3: George Pickens was right about.
Speaker 4: Us, what being cheap?
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, we're the cheapest organization according to George Pickens.
Speaker 6: Well, George pickens Man, well, he was stealing his rookie contract.
Speaker 6: We'll see what he does in Dallas. Look even bigger
Speaker 6: thumpster fire down there.
Speaker 2: See and then a Candy Madcraft right before that he
Speaker 2: mentioned the Packers there too. He said, technically we're unaware
Speaker 2: of how much the Packers have, and he's true, but
Speaker 2: Pat Pensman and Ralph y'all called it cheap. You let
Speaker 2: me tell you what I'll call it getting bang for
Speaker 2: your buck.
Speaker 6: Yeah, yeah, we have cheap owners in Pittsburgh. Bob nuttings
Speaker 6: that he makes a ton of money off the Pirates,
Speaker 6: don't put nothing into his team.
Speaker 2: Make hey making the playoffs though, and you're not spending
Speaker 2: much money. I mean, the Eagles are getting super Bowls
Speaker 2: in there. What do you say, Candy on the Eagles
Speaker 2: twenty third or something like that.
Speaker 1: Yeah, they are four. They're worth four point six.
Speaker 2: Billion twenty third.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 2: I mean, hey, what we call bang.
Speaker 3: For you speak, You speak about the Eagles and Mark
Speaker 3: shows up.
Speaker 2: Some in the ghost.
Speaker 1: Okay, guys, any other topics you want to bring up
Speaker 1: before we go to my town? Anything burning? Nope, So
Speaker 1: let's go back to my town, Ralph. Since you just
Speaker 1: moved and you have a new town, you can depending
Speaker 1: on which town you want to talk about, but you
Speaker 1: can go first. The floor is yours.
Speaker 6: Well, I'm going to talk about Pittsburgh because that's where
Speaker 6: I'm from, and I'm still gonna be talking about Pittsburgh.
Speaker 6: But nothing going on here as far as sports wise.
Speaker 6: But I will say if you're in the rock and roll,
Speaker 6: we have Saturday and Sunday the rock Fest going on
Speaker 6: on the Boardwalk here in Ocean City. Some great bands, Flepper,
Speaker 6: Alice Cooper who was filling in for Motley Crue who
Speaker 6: will not be participating because of Vince Neil's health issues,
Speaker 6: and also Allison Chains will not be performing. I forget
Speaker 6: who they have to replace him. Brett Michaels from Butler
Speaker 6: County near Pittsburgh. He's part of this thing as well.
Speaker 6: So come on down to the boardwalk in Ocean City.
Speaker 6: Guess where I'll be right here in my house, still
Speaker 6: unpacking boxes and crates. You know why, because I'm not
Speaker 6: going donner and standing dinner or sitting dinner with all
Speaker 6: those people donner in a big crowd. I don't get
Speaker 6: into that anymore. I'll sit at home and watch it
Speaker 6: on YouTube. So there you go. But anyway, steeler wise
Speaker 6: or steeler wise, I called the George Pickens trade. The
Speaker 6: only thing is I didn't call is when I said,
Speaker 6: I actually thought it was gonna happen in draft, and
Speaker 6: it did not, but it happened now. And I'm glad
Speaker 6: he's gone because i'd fighting with referees, beating up fans,
Speaker 6: yelling at players, you know, yelling at the owner, at
Speaker 6: the other team, the popcorn vendor, and whoever else he
Speaker 6: could yo at because he's a big baby.
Speaker 4: I'm glad he's.
Speaker 6: Down in Dallas where they're gonna fail, because I'm interested
Speaker 6: to see what Brian Schottenheimer's made of. So we'll see
Speaker 6: what goes on down there with him. And you know,
Speaker 6: we're a little shorthanded right now, But We'll get a
Speaker 6: wide receiver in here. There's plenty out there. Keenan Allen's
Speaker 6: still sitting there. There's a bunch of guys. I hope
Speaker 6: we get Nick Chubb as a running back. We need
Speaker 6: some help here, you know, on that position. Two other
Speaker 6: things I called Caleb Johnson and I called Jack Sawyer.
Speaker 6: Those are the two I called for the drafts. You
Speaker 6: don't believe me, asked Luther Dupree was sitting next to
Speaker 6: me at the draft party I was at, and I
Speaker 6: said Caleb Johnson and I said Jack Sawyer, and both
Speaker 6: of them were drafted by the Steelers.
Speaker 4: So I've been pretty.
Speaker 6: Right in the last few weeks or months here about
Speaker 6: some things. But I was wrong about Shirra Sanders. I
Speaker 6: thought the Steelers would take him when he arrived at
Speaker 6: number twenty one, and he did, and the Steelers didn't.
Speaker 6: And from some of the things reports I've read and
Speaker 6: some things I've heard, I'm glad we didn't. You know,
Speaker 6: I'm glad we got who we got. And I was
Speaker 6: a little unhappy about that, but you know, because they
Speaker 6: made me wrong. But I would But I was right
Speaker 6: three times in wrong one, so three and one. So
Speaker 6: there you go and I'll let Pensman tell you about
Speaker 6: the rest of it.
Speaker 1: Okay, you want to follow up.
Speaker 3: We are not gonna get Nick Chubb because we got
Speaker 3: Trey Sermon. So Nick Chubb is yeah, he's going to
Speaker 3: be out the window. So I'm just glad that George
Speaker 3: Pickens is gone because Ralph forgot that. He was kicking
Speaker 3: footballs into the stands too. I got.
Speaker 4: I got everything else.
Speaker 3: Yeah, he got everything else. He just for got the
Speaker 3: football in the stands again.
Speaker 4: He was even harassing the popcorn vendor.
Speaker 3: Yeah, so I'm glad. But what's going on my town
Speaker 3: is the Pittsburgh Pirates fired their coach last week, Derek Shelton.
Speaker 3: But I don't know if Ralph agrees with me or not.
Speaker 3: But Don Kelly bade this tea team, a fighting team.
Speaker 3: They are in a lot of games. They took two
Speaker 3: out of three against the best I think. But these
Speaker 3: team has really improved. I don't think they're gonna go
Speaker 3: to the playoffs, but as far as a fighting team,
Speaker 3: I think they are approved majorly from Derek Shelton to
Speaker 3: Don Kelly, I think it's a big improvement.
Speaker 4: Yeah, anything's better than Derek Shelton.
Speaker 1: Okay, Samir, what's happening in your town?
Speaker 5: All right? So, since last week regarding the Atlanta Hawks,
Speaker 5: they are still conducting their search for the next president
Speaker 5: of basketball operations. There were some names that have popped up. Yes,
Speaker 5: there were some names that had popped up previously, including
Speaker 5: former general manager of the Kings Calvin Booth who's currently
Speaker 5: with the Nuggets. Danny Fairy, he was our former general
Speaker 5: manager a while ago, Elton Brand and pulled his name out.
Speaker 5: A candidate has emerged as of yesterday, a new one,
Speaker 5: and it is current Raptors general manager Massaiu Jeeri. He's
Speaker 5: he's been a great executive for a long time, one
Speaker 5: of the most well respected. He had a pretty good
Speaker 5: run with the Denver Nuggets and now he's been with
Speaker 5: the Raptors for the last twelve thirteen years. Built that
Speaker 5: championship team in twenty nineteen, and I feel like if
Speaker 5: the Hawks could somehow get him in here, that'd be
Speaker 5: a great hire. Another guy they're considering is Trey Young's agent,
Speaker 5: part of Creative Art Creative Artist Agency Sports. They are
Speaker 5: also considering Jannis's agent as well, so that is something
Speaker 5: to look to watch out for. Actually, with the trade
Speaker 5: rumors surrounding Giannis. But ultimately what I think is about
Speaker 5: that is, you know, is it really gonna matter if
Speaker 5: Tony Wrestler, who the owner, who's the owner, doesn't change
Speaker 5: his philosophy. For those who don't know, he's owned the
Speaker 5: team for about a decade now, he has never gone
Speaker 5: into the luxury tax at any point during his ownership.
Speaker 5: So if you bring in a new president who's gonna
Speaker 5: want to be aggressive and make moves to improve this team,
Speaker 5: is he going to be willing to open his wallet? Now?
Speaker 5: Regarding the Braves own seven start, they are now back
Speaker 5: at five hundred.
Speaker 4: They are.
Speaker 5: They have been twenty two and twenty two and twenty
Speaker 5: two and fifteen sorry since their own seven start. Drake
Speaker 5: Baldwin top prospect going in the season, he is slowly
Speaker 5: playing himself into the National League Rookie of the Year conversation. A. J.
Speaker 5: Smith Shaver, another potential National League rok of the Year candidate,
Speaker 5: has improved virtually every start with time. He was peaking
Speaker 5: at the early nineties with his fastball. On Tampa, he
Speaker 5: hit ninety eight today beat the Nationals five to two.
Speaker 5: Michael Harris is starting to turn the corner Austin Rallies
Speaker 5: and Matt Olson. That middle of lower has been a
Speaker 5: little cold. Ozzie Alby's had his first hit in I
Speaker 5: think twenty seven played appearances the other day, So bullpen's
Speaker 5: been a little shaky this series. They blew a four
Speaker 5: to one lead last night and they gave the national
Speaker 5: They put a couple runners on for the Nationals in
Speaker 5: that eighth inning, but they held on and got the win. Falcons.
Speaker 5: We talked about it. Schedule was released yesterday, although I
Speaker 5: don't think it's as hard as the first three games
Speaker 5: were last season, opening with Pittsburgh, Philadelphia and Kansas City.
Speaker 5: That Bucks game, which is a toss up, is going
Speaker 5: to be, in my opinion, a game that you have
Speaker 5: to win, especially at home Week one in front of
Speaker 5: your fans. You've got to win that game because at
Speaker 5: Minnesota Sunday night, that's not gonna be an easy game.
Speaker 5: Even at Carolina, who has improved. I don't think they
Speaker 5: beat us last year. With our season on the line,
Speaker 5: that's not gonna be an easy game. So they've got
Speaker 5: to get that Week one win against the Bucks Minnesota Carolina.
Speaker 5: Then you've got back to back home games separated by
Speaker 5: bye between the Commanders, who in my opinion, we should
Speaker 5: have beat last year, and the Bills. Commanders are a
Speaker 5: gettable one. They're gonna be a tough game, but it's
Speaker 5: a definitely gettable one for the Falcons given how we
Speaker 5: played them last year, and then the Bills. I don't
Speaker 5: see us winning that game unfortunately. But yeah, that's all
Speaker 5: I have right now for my town.
Speaker 1: Okay, JD, what's happening in your town?
Speaker 2: Well, I will segue it off of what Samir was
Speaker 2: just saying. Yes, the Braves indeed started oh and seven
Speaker 2: and are back to five hundred by game number forty two.
Speaker 2: There have only been four other teams that have started
Speaker 2: oh and seven and reached five hundred, and only one
Speaker 2: was before game forty two. It was this year with
Speaker 2: the Braves. But the nineteen forty five Boston Red Sox
Speaker 2: they made it back in game thirty eight, which they
Speaker 2: probably only played like sixty six games back then.
Speaker 3: I don't know.
Speaker 2: The nineteen eighty three Houston Astros they made it back
Speaker 2: to five hundred by game sixty two, The two thousand
Speaker 2: and eight Detroit Tigers they made it back to five
Speaker 2: hundred at game eighty, and the nineteen eighty Braves. They
Speaker 2: made it back to five hundred after starting oh and
Speaker 2: seven at Game one twenty six. The only problem with
Speaker 2: all of these oh and seven teams is that none
Speaker 2: of them made the playoffs. And I'm sure mad Craft's
Speaker 2: probably gonna get mad at me because I told y'all
Speaker 2: he's a Braves sunshine pumper. So I still don't see
Speaker 2: the Braves making it back to the playoffs this year.
Speaker 2: But credit to the stream for keeping me up with
Speaker 2: my game. Cox Baseball team, who in fact beat the
Speaker 2: number one LSU Tigers tonight. And so Madcraft he presented
Speaker 2: this question to you to us earlier in the chat.
Speaker 2: He said, it was a wild pitch and we took home,
Speaker 2: so he didn't call it a walk off. That's a
Speaker 2: walk off, right.
Speaker 3: That's a walk off.
Speaker 2: Yeah, if it happens at the bottom of the night,
Speaker 2: it's a walk off. He was like, well it was,
Speaker 2: it wasn't a hit, so but that, yeah, that's a
Speaker 2: see mad crab man, he's got some quirky takes sometimes,
Speaker 2: y'all got he's learning learning.
Speaker 5: I still think that we will make the playoffs. But
Speaker 5: if you were to ask me, is this the World
Speaker 5: Series team not even close.
Speaker 3: But you're going to get you guys, get limited by
Speaker 3: the Mets.
Speaker 2: No way, Listen.
Speaker 5: That would be the worst. That's my worst nightmare.
Speaker 2: That's why I said, here's why we won't make the playoffs.
Speaker 2: I've got bad news. The Padres lead the West, all right,
Speaker 2: so that puts the Rogers in a wild card. All right.
Speaker 2: You got the Cubs, Cubs leading the Central, Matt's leading
Speaker 2: the East, all right, and then you've got the Phillies
Speaker 2: and whoever else in the Central. Plus the Braves like.
Speaker 1: Dodgers are ahead of the Padres actually by half a game.
Speaker 2: Oh did they just take it? Because yeah, last I checked,
Speaker 2: they yeah, they were like second.
Speaker 5: I mean, I'm being optimistic.
Speaker 1: But.
Speaker 2: You and Madcraft will get along great, Samar.
Speaker 5: I mean, I mean, I feel like we've got Spencer
Speaker 5: and Ronnie amping up to come back. But the thing
Speaker 5: with Ronnie is when he was the season he was
Speaker 5: coming off of his first st ACL Tier twenty twenty two,
Speaker 5: he had a down year. Uh you could like he
Speaker 5: even admitted that he wasn't comfortable, and you could see it.
Speaker 5: His power wasn't there. He didn't steal as much. But
Speaker 5: with Spencer's the one I'm concerned about he already had
Speaker 5: Timmy John surgery before in college. I believe in he
Speaker 5: just had a UCL surgery last year. And even though
Speaker 5: it may not be something that I'd worry too much about,
Speaker 5: especially in a simulated game, his fastball was kind of
Speaker 5: topping off at around the early nineties.
Speaker 2: Right, Okay, well, sorry, har to finish up my town
Speaker 2: that I was going to try to tie that all in. So, yeah,
Speaker 2: the Braves, I don't think they'll make the playoffs. My
Speaker 2: games baseball team, they did win a game and beat
Speaker 2: the number one LSU Tigers, so they're trying to finish
Speaker 2: at five hundred. However, for the first time ever in
Speaker 2: this state, there are two softball teams hosting regionals at
Speaker 2: the same time, the South Carolina Game Cocks and the
Speaker 2: Clemson Tigers. Clemson just started a softball program very recently,
Speaker 2: just won the ACC championship, so they're gonna be hosting
Speaker 2: a regional game. Cocks will be hosting a regional And
Speaker 2: what all happened to the WNBA talk? So women's sports
Speaker 2: are blowing up here in South Carolina. I think they're
Speaker 2: blowing up everywhere, but the WNBA, for whatever reason, haven't
Speaker 2: heard a word about it, haven't seen a game, haven't
Speaker 2: even seen it. Able to watch on TV because I'm
Speaker 2: constantly seeking out sports. So my town always ends up
Speaker 2: being like a my rant. But at the same time,
Speaker 2: Gamecock softball, Clemson softball doing great things. B Digits Clemson
Speaker 2: fan Mark Gamecock fan. I can't believe the game Coox
Speaker 2: baseball team just beat LSU though we've been giving up
Speaker 2: twenty runs all the time. I can't believe it. I'm stoked.
Speaker 1: Okay, so my town Milwaukee Brewers are not doing the greatest. Eh, Yes,
Speaker 1: they do better. There is a lot of trade talks
Speaker 1: and talks about where will Giannis end up? Will he stay?
Speaker 1: He's under contract for two more seasons, but the Bucks
Speaker 1: don't have a lot of draft picks coming forward, so
Speaker 1: it would be their best interest to trade him now
Speaker 1: when he has a big upside, and is he gonna
Speaker 1: request a trade for all the other off seasons when
Speaker 1: that has come up. He has always said he's gonna
Speaker 1: stay true to and wanted to play for the Milwaukee Bucks,
Speaker 1: but he has said now that he is open as
Speaker 1: I think he realizes small market Milwaukee might not not
Speaker 1: have another championship behind him for a while, So we'll
Speaker 1: play the waiting game. This will be an interesting offseason.
Speaker 1: As far as hockey AHL, the Milwaukee Admirals, who are
Speaker 1: National Predators affiliate, they're in the playoffs, but they did
Speaker 1: lose tonight game one of the second series of the playoffs.
Speaker 1: They lost four to two to Texas. I believe it
Speaker 1: was tonight. That was only game one of their series.
Speaker 1: So and as far as where I live now, I
Speaker 1: live in Florida, and the Florida Panthers took it to
Speaker 1: the Toronto Maple Leaves last night to take a lead
Speaker 1: in the playoffs, and they come home and play tomorrow
Speaker 1: night hoping to eliminate the Toronto Maple Leafs. So we'll
Speaker 1: see if that happens or not. That's kind of what's
Speaker 1: been happening in my where I live now and where
Speaker 1: I'm from. So we're going to go around the room
Speaker 1: and you can tell everybody how people can find you,
Speaker 1: get a hold of you, watch you subscribe, re whatever
Speaker 1: it is that you guys do. We'll start with JD.
Speaker 2: Start with you, Oh beautiful. I had this comment highlighted
Speaker 2: that I missed from mister p Digits. He says in
Speaker 2: my town, I gotta cut the grass, put a grill together,
Speaker 2: and wash the truck, and bro I'll tell you what.
Speaker 2: I've got to cut my grass. I got to finish
Speaker 2: putting my kid's swing set together. I've got to put
Speaker 2: cages around my tomato plants and my cucumber plants. And
Speaker 2: I got to put new brakes on my car. And
Speaker 2: I got a wife and a kid, and a dog
Speaker 2: and two cats to take care of. And so that
Speaker 2: is why it's such a privilege for me to come
Speaker 2: on and do this show once a week to vent
Speaker 2: to all of you and be the Southern Fried gentleman
Speaker 2: that I am. I try to be as nice about
Speaker 2: it as I can, but I love you all. I
Speaker 2: love all of you, who commented Ralph Pensman, Sameer, Candy,
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Speaker 2: make sure to hit like, follow, subscribe. Everything you need
Speaker 2: to know is at the bottom of the screen at
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Speaker 2: Sports JD on YouTube, where some of you are watching
Speaker 2: and listening.
Speaker 3: Now.
Speaker 2: I just really appreciate all of you guys and being
Speaker 2: able to do this. I haven't been able to do
Speaker 2: it much. I try to go live three times a week.
Speaker 2: We even had our technical difficulties, but hey, thanks to
Speaker 2: this nice little ethernet cord right Chia, we've been able
Speaker 2: to stay on and be heard and it's just a pleasure.
Speaker 2: I have a great time. I ain't got nothing to
Speaker 2: complain about. Man, life is good. I hope everybody else
Speaker 2: is good.
Speaker 1: Okay, Samir, how can people find you? So?
Speaker 5: I'm still trying to make it a goal to get
Speaker 5: my own YouTube channel up, get my own show, my
Speaker 5: own podcast up. So right now, follow me on Twitter's
Speaker 5: slash x at ATL Underscore SAMEIR twenty four oh one.
Speaker 5: Again that is ATL Underscore, SAMEIR twenty four to oh one.
Speaker 5: I have a I have almost all my articles published there,
Speaker 5: and I'm gonna try to get some clips from the
Speaker 5: show up. You can find me on Fired Up Thursday night,
Speaker 5: and I'm currently trying to arrange to get on Inside
Speaker 5: the Pigskin on Tuesday night. So thank you again.
Speaker 1: Okay, mister Ralph, how can people find you? In that
Speaker 1: new studio?
Speaker 6: Yeah, studio ten down here in Ocean City, Maryland. I
Speaker 6: love every minute of it too, but I've been busy
Speaker 6: as well as JD has uh you know, on packing boxes.
Speaker 6: Uh you know, trying to get over the screwjob my
Speaker 6: friends gave me. But anyway, also I'm working on uh
Speaker 6: you know, putting up gates around the back deck area
Speaker 6: so that my dog don't run out into the wherever. Okay,
Speaker 6: and uh you know I got some stuff going on
Speaker 6: as well here. But anyway, Uh, you can get a
Speaker 6: hold of me at YouTube channel Ralph Williams r W Media,
Speaker 6: Twitter x Ralph Williams RW Media. Also don't forget I'm
Speaker 6: on Facebook, Tumbler and LinkedIn as well. Uh LinkedIn, I
Speaker 6: am on very briefly, I'm kind of angry with them.
Speaker 6: They've they've been charging me money every month but won't
Speaker 6: tell me why I can't get on their network live. Okay,
Speaker 6: So since they won't tell me why, I'm not.
Speaker 4: Giving them any more money. So there you go.
Speaker 2: That's garbage.
Speaker 6: I want you want to play games with me? Fine,
Speaker 6: guess what You're not getting no more mom on. So
Speaker 6: that's what I'm doing there. And I also want to
Speaker 6: announce at starting in June, all all my social media
Speaker 6: programs will be on the Oracle Talk Radio Network. Just
Speaker 6: signed a contract and we're set to go coming in June.
Speaker 6: All of my shows well that are on social media,
Speaker 6: we'll be on our We'll be on the Oracle Radio
Speaker 6: Network as well as these social media platforms here, YouTube, Facebook, Twitch, Twitter,
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Speaker 6: Scott Morgan Roth and the Sports Wrap Show will be
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Speaker 4: I can't wait.
Speaker 6: It's gonna be great, two great legends in the sports
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Speaker 6: as well. And we're gonna be back on Saturday at
Speaker 6: nine am. And also don't forget about the Sports Corner
Speaker 6: Radio show every Saturday two to three pm on twelve
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Speaker 6: and you can catch my shows and also r W
Speaker 6: www dot rw Media Productions dot com and we have
Speaker 6: some great advertising rates as well. You can reach me
Speaker 6: also mailbag Ralph Williams seven three seven at gmail dot com.
Speaker 6: That's how you can get a hold of it. That's
Speaker 6: what I'm what's going on in my what's going on
Speaker 6: with me?
Speaker 4: Thank you, Candy, You're welcome.
Speaker 1: Pensman. How can people find you?
Speaker 3: You can find me on YouTube or Pennsman Sports. Find
Speaker 3: me on Twitter x at.
Speaker 2: Pens eight hundred subscribers eight or five body, so I
Speaker 2: can only wish.
Speaker 3: Yeah, you'll get there, Rolf, You'll get there. You can
Speaker 3: find me on discord what you can find me on
Speaker 3: discord Discord at pensmanth Sports, and you can find me
Speaker 3: on Twitch at pensmanth Sports. Oh seven. So that's how
Speaker 3: you can find me.
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Speaker 1: do want to thank everybody that's been in the chat room.
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Speaker 1: got his channel. He was talking earlier. You just did
Speaker 1: a short on what was it Pensman?
Speaker 3: I did talked about dan Orski ESPN, about the schedule,
Speaker 3: health the Steelers. The Steelers are going oh at six
Speaker 3: and the Steelers are not going oh at six. I
Speaker 3: don't care what anybody says. J Yeah, he's not going six.
Speaker 6: Dan Orlovsky couldn't find his way out of a paper bag.
Speaker 3: There you go.
Speaker 5: They won't go in six because they'll have Kirk cousins.
Speaker 2: Dan Orlovsky once ran out in the back of the
Speaker 2: end zone for no reason.
Speaker 3: Yeah, which I mentioned to on the stream.
Speaker 1: So if you would all support everybody here on the panel,
Speaker 1: I want to thank all my panelists. You guys did
Speaker 1: an awesome job tonight. I look forward to us talking
Speaker 1: again next week. Everybody, have a great weekend and enjoy
Speaker 1: all the sports out there.
Speaker 2: Bang Bang Southern frag Gang. Sorry I had to synk
Speaker 2: that in.
Speaker 1: That's okay, no problem.