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coverage throughout this entire coaching Saints search, one that has
many twists and turns. Nick, you just pulled into the
parking lot of Practicemobile. How we feeling about Senior Bowl week?
Speaker 6: Cold man? I wish it was a little bit warmer
than than it is right now. Yeah, it's going to
be an interesting week. I think. For the same time,
I can't imagine they'll have any of their execs here
because up from Philly right now, So I mean, I
imagine that won't be here today. We'll see tomorrow. But
a different feel. I mean, usually there's kind of like
the whole contingent out here, all the coaches, every every
single person in the organization that feels like it is
out at the Senior Bowl. And I think this year
is probably it's going to be Scotts wants they play
it on here later to that.
Speaker 3: So I want to ask you about a few things.
Uh the first so Joe Brady says no. At the time,
I said, you know, functionally, it's kind of not that
big of a deal, right because you still have options,
you still have guys that lay unimpeded like it's one person,
it's it is kind of whatever. But symbolically it did
cause a lot of reflection upon Okay, how are these
Saints actually viewed amongst NFL circles? Right, Like, how's the
front off, how's the organization viewed now? In a post
Tom Benson, post Sean Payton sort of era. Have you
gotten to the bottom of that answer.
Speaker 6: Yet, you know, I think it's an ego hit. Is
really kind of you know, it's how I oput it.
I think it's an ego hit if you're the organization,
because when you come out your public messaging and you know,
it's all good, everybody's wrong, We're not that far away.
Get healthy, everything's all good, got an attractive job, don't
need to sell it to anybody. And you can sit
there and you can say all that stuff to the
to the media and to the fans, and you know,
kind of dismiss them as you know, they're they're they're
too stupid to see the truth or whatever, like, And
I don't think that's that's the exact worrying, but like
that's kind of you know, well, these people can be ignored.
They don't know anything. Well, when it's Aaron Glenn, he's
been in your building and he doesn't want to come
down and do your your second interview, And when it's
Joe Brady who's been in your building and he doesn't
want to come down and do your second interview, I
do think there is some sort of value in that
opinion that you can't just ignore that it's a quality
of opinion that can't just be dismissed as you know,
you know, you get these idiots out of here, and
I think that's something you kind of got to take
a look at. And even with ag I think it
makes sense. Hey, if you can reconcile what he Johnson
is your owner, more cap space, better rush, it makes
sense to kind of go there. Joe Brady just saying
thanks but no thanks to coming down here. I think
that's a little bit of a hit. Then. I think
I think you have to take it on the chin,
on the flip side of that, if you want to
have the the other side of that, I think, you know,
if you're Joe Brady and you share an agent with
Kellen Moore, and maybe if you know that things are
leaning a little bit toward Kellen Moore, maybe you pull
yourself out of the situation. You know. I think I
think maybe it makes sense to do that to kind
of not make it look like somebody was picked over you.
That stuff kind of matters. In today's NFL, you see
a lot of people not taking you know, these interviews,
and I think also if you're Joe Brady, just the
truth of the matter is even if you were interested
in it, or you know, interested in being a head coach,
or you feel like you could interview better than Collin
Moore and get a job over over him. If you're
Joe Brady, you're the office coordinator of the bills, you
got Josh Allen, You're going to be right back there
next year. You know. I don't think it's a Bobby
Slowick situation where the bottom falls out on anything. You're
possibly the best option on the market a year from now,
and you can go somewhere and get your your Caleb
Williams or you know, your Trevor Lawrence or whatever. You
don't have to tie yourself to negative sixty million dollars
in cap space and a short term option in Derek
Carr and your best defensive players are older than you.
I mean, you know, I think I think that's probably
part of the equation too. So for Joe, I think
it makes a lot of sense to think get out
of there. I think I think it's a smart money
move for him to drop out. But if you're the Saints,
like you have to look at it and say, why
weren't we in a position to be able to attract
him to even accept this interview. And you know, I
think that's something that you have to do some real
reflection on.
Speaker 3: So uh and and a lot of times next being
of reflecting, like truth versus perception doesn't necessarily always matter, right,
And when you look at it, uh, it's kind of impossible,
like it's it's it's.
Speaker 4: A perfect storm of bad for Mickey Loomis.
Speaker 3: General public's already mad, they're already doubted him, they already
don't believe in him.
Speaker 5: Uh.
Speaker 3: Then this all comes about. Then you have something unrelated
but related in the Trent balk story right where Liam
Cohen says, uh, no, thanks, but secretly maybe letting them
be known. You know, I kind of don't like the GM. Okay,
they get rid of the GM, Like how how how
much is is this? Is this a Loomis? Is this
a Loomis problem? Specifically?
Speaker 6: Well, I mean no, not not not necessarily that of
where and look, I know there's stuff that's said, but
I can only report what I know, and what I
know doesn't leave me to believe that the rumors that
are out there. I can't again, you know what I mean.
Speaker 3: That's why I did the truth first perception thing, right,
because it doesn't really like the truth can be whatever,
but people are.
Speaker 4: Going to people are going to believe that.
Speaker 3: I I yeah, just because what went down with Balkey
how went down? Uh, like you said, people say no
to these second interviews in New Orleans, fact that Mickey's
been there forever, Like it just it feels it feels
like a perfect storm of not good pr wives for
Mickey right now.
Speaker 6: Yeah, And like I was just trying to figure out
how to word that because like I don't want to
say somebody is wrong because I don't know what they know.
All I know is I don't know what they know.
I haven't been able to get anyone to confirm that.
I haven't been able to hear anything. And you know,
somebody might just have better information than me, and that
that happens, Like you know, it's possible, but I just can't.
I can't sit here and say like that's the truth
because I don't know it and most of what I
have heard it leads me in it for direction. But
I will say that I don't think it's an issue
in terms of that, but I think in an indirect
but also direct way, like yeah, if you have a
situation that isn't attracted to somebody, it goes back to
the general manager, and it goes back to the negative
tap space, the roster that that's getting old, the bad
draft picks, not having the right quarterback to take you
into the future. Like all that stuff is a situation
that is created by them. So if you can't get
the candidate you want, like I would say, yeah, it
is an issue related to him. And then also, you know,
if you're airing the len and you can choose alignment
with your general manager or like feeling that you're going
to work for somebody, you're probably going to choose to
go into that with somebody that you that you want to,
that you're aligned with. And that isn't necessarily like hey
get them out of here, but hey, if I can
choose between this and this, I'm going to do it
with with you know, I'm going to go create with
my guy. Like I think that's something too, So yeah,
I mean I think those things can be more attractive
for certain people. On the flip side of that, you
saw Ben Johnson choose to go work for Ryan Poles
in Chicago, Like who's already there? So it isn't always that,
but I think all things considered, if there's an even
field and it's kind of a coin flip, you probably
are going to go that way. So yeah, I think
all those things kind of lead lead back to that
is it's a situation they created. Having said that, I
think three years ago, when you know, the perception of
your team is quite different and you're more competitive and
you have a better roster and all that stuff. Like,
I think that it was a much more attractive situation
when they had Dennis Allen and they probably could have
went out and got pretty much anyone they wanted at
that point in time because it didn't feel so helpless,
and that's just you know, I I think as you
look back on it, like, I think they missed a
big window to take a very very different swing of
the bat at the time for one, maybe one of
the top candidates I don't know who would have done
at that time. I guess Kevin O'Connell, you know, but
I don't really remember dying like Ben Johnson at the time.
But I think that's the one that you you kind
of missed on big time. So yeah, I mean, look,
all of it falls back at the feet of the person,
but yeah, I mean, it's kind of kind of the
same thing but completely different vein at the same time.
As far as like Jacksonville comm.
Speaker 7: So, what does a timeline look like, Nick, Like, what's
the last day that you think that the Saints are
going to go without a head coach?
Speaker 4: Like, do you think it's this weekend?
Speaker 7: Because you mentioned it off the top, and we know
we've been here for you know what, four or five
years in a row. Like the Saints they're the closest
team professional team to Mobile Alabama. I mean they send
everybody to the Senior Bowl. And so like, you don't
have a head coach right now? Practice stars today and
I know you can have people here, but is it
the right people.
Speaker 4: It's a big deal to be here.
Speaker 7: And so like with every every day that passes, you
feel like you're missing something. You're the only team that
doesn't have a head coach right now, So like, what's
the deadline? Like what day do we get to because
it already feels like it's past the do date?
Speaker 6: Well, I mean if it's tell them more, it's February tenth,
you know, so it's going to be a little bit.
It would be a couple of two more weeks if
it's him, if it's if it's not him, you know,
I think, you know, Mike McCarthy probably gets hired by
the weekend. Like that would probably be my guest of
how it plays out. Uh, that that interview I think
is supposed to happen the end of the week. There
was a plan in place. You know, I think the
word scheduled would be a little bit too strong, which
is interesting. You know, I asked about scheduled and it
was pushed back. You know, that's not the right word planned.
So it seems like they were waiting to see how
the keller More thing went to decide to schedule that,
so that you know, I don't know, connecting dots reading
key leaves. I could be completely wrong on that, but
like that kind of this little thing there makes you
think like, oh, like they aren't going to talk to
him unless they feel like they need to talk to him,
and that might indicate, you know, what they're thinking with
with with Kellen Moore at this point in time. So yeah,
I mean, look, it is It is definitely something where
if you can have your guys in place, like you
can scout something like this, you can take advantage of
the interviews. You have your position coaches in here. You know,
if Jarry Evans is part of your staff, he's working
with the offensive line, and I think there's valuable insight
in that. At the same time, though, I think I
think you can make up for it. You know, your
scouts are out here, they have the interviews. I think
you just have to lean on them a little bit more,
and I think you can still have a successful draft.
But obviously I think all hands on Decker is a
much better thing. But if Kellen Moore's the right eye,
like you know, it's just two weeks and you can
make up for it. So yeah, but it's definitely on
a on a different timeline than everybody else, and it's
just unsettling even even if you knew, even if it
was one of them situations where it's like all right,
like we know they're hiring, tell them more, but they
can't officially do it, just like they kind of know
it's settled and it's all in place, and you know,
you have ag not coming down here and Joe Brady
pulling out in Cliff Kingsbury, as far as we know,
pulled out at this point, I haven't been able to
get anything that says that you've taken this interview if
I could obviously change and you know at a moment.
But yeah, I mean I just think I think there's
just like a lot of insecurity around this right now,
just with kind of the way it's it's it's gone.
It I hasn't been a strong process, you know, is
how but it can still end up with a very
very good result. But yeah, to this point, I mean,
I think it's just very very discomforting kind of with
how it's played out.
Speaker 3: Uh so real quick, and this isn't just this can
be a very simple answer. If there's not much there,
what what is? Do you have any details or explanation
of the Saints being quote unenamored with Mike McCarthy or
not an I don't think.
Speaker 4: Unamoraged the word.
Speaker 6: And I'm sorry you kinda hey you got me?
Speaker 4: Oh yeah, sorry, got again? Do you have any in this? Again?
Very quick?
Speaker 3: If there's nothing there, but do you have any details
on the Saints being not enamored with Mike McCarthy.
Speaker 6: I don't think that's the truth. Okay, I don't think
that's the truth. Yeah, I don't think that's the truth.
Like I think that they haven't talked to him, you
know what I mean, Like I like, I don't, I
don't know how it could be, like like yeah, I
get I guess. I guess there's definitely like a level
of we thought the interest was gonna be a lot
stronger than it is. But I think that he's just
kind of like where's Mike gonna go? Like that's kind
of the kind of the thing right now, like where's
he gonna what's he gonna do? Like there's nothing else
for him to do, Like you could you can afford
to have him him wait, And I think that they
do like him, And I think there's people in the
building that really like him a lot. I mean, before
he even got out of Dallas, it was it was
someone like if he hits it, like, yeah, he's going
to be He's going to be somebody that will be
interested in was kind of the feedback that was coming
out of that. But he doesn't have other options Jacksonville
got hired. I think before the Jacksonville hire happened, there
was a little bit more momentum to like trying to
get him into the building because like, I think there
was a thought that that he was going to maybe
go there and then they hire Liam Cohen and it's
just kind of like all right, whatever. But you know,
I think I think they like him. I just don't
think they like him as much as is you know, hey,
top of the list, have to get this guy. I
think it's like, yeah, like he's an option, but we
like him as much as some of these other guys.
I thought he'd be a favorite. The fact that he's
not a favorite and everybody thought he was a favorite,
I think maybe we're hearing now and kind of what's
coming out in the reporting is that like, hey, like, yeah,
maybe they don't like him as much as everybody else,
and then that gets overstated because the interest was initially overstated.
But I don't think it's true that they don't they
don't like him. I would I would disagree with that wording.
I just don't think it's I think it's just kind
of that he's the safety school. Is really how I
put it. I think he's the safety school. And look,
tact of the matter is is he you know, the
Saints were kind of his safety school. He wanted Chicago,
you know, and I think that's slowed down that process
at the beginning, had he not been holding out for Chicago,
maybe there is an interview kind of right away and
there's momentum behind that. But I think just kind of
the way it played out was he had them on
hold and now they have him on hold. And you know,
like if Mike doesn't get a job to cycle, like
he could very easily end up in that Ron rivera
area where you're a good coach, a lot of a
lot of you know, success, but if you don't get
a job to cycle, that could be it too. So
I don't I just don't think Mike has a lot
of options, and he just kind of asked to wait.
And if anything, the way I've heard it is that,
you know, maybe Mike's a little bit frustrated with them,
Like I don't think it's really the other way around,
But that doesn't mean anything, Like as soon as they call,
he's gonna have to show up, he's gonna have to
take the interview, and if they offer him the job,
he's gonna accept it.
Speaker 3: As always, some excellent insight and perspective from our guy
Nick Underhill at Nick Underscore Underhill. Nick, thank you so much, brother,
you have an excellent day. We'll see you out there,
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Speaker 3: All right, I forgot to confirm anything with what's up.
I forgot to confirm anything with dev. So we are
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Speaker 4: We're just gonna call him live.
Speaker 3: Let's let's see if our guy depn snow aka hold
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Speaker 7: This is not totally risky, but it's got some risk.
Speaker 3: Oh man, And now the bluetooth is it's you know,
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Speaker 4: It's all good, all.
Speaker 3: Right, well y'all, you know, do something entertaining.
Speaker 4: I forget.
Speaker 7: See when you say this, here's the problem. Like, here's
the problem.
Speaker 4: Counner Hill again. Okay, okay, here we go last time.
Here here's the problem in radio.
Speaker 7: Anytime you do that, it's like, okay, like what do
I get into? Do I get into something like serious?
But then it's like, okay, shut up.
Speaker 3: See don't you wish you had a don't you wish
you had a uh? Don't you wish you had a
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Speaker 1: Yes?
Speaker 4: I don't have that. I don't have that. He ain't answered.
Speaker 3: Okay, No, it seems like that's Bobby kept saying I
want that. I want that because of radio. He's listening. Yo, Quad,
what's up dude, Hope you're doing great? Miss you, bud.
Uh but I need yet to stop being such an
a hold mom okay, Like.
Speaker 4: Stop how you're gonna say, lock up the trash, throw it.
Speaker 3: Say every single meal. Stop throwing every single piece of
food that you have.
Speaker 4: Like when you're.
Speaker 3: Done with something, you don't have to throw when you're frustrated,
you don't have to throw it. You don't have to
yell and act like a complete second. But I love you, Bud,
I love you, Quad. I hope you're having any great day.
And uh, Kate, if you're out there listening, I hope
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Speaker 7: That is a quote that yeah, you know, I've heard
and I appreciate it.
Speaker 4: But what do we do? It is something about our face?
Like what do we about that?
Speaker 9: Now?
Speaker 4: Nick's calling me back, my bad, but sheesh, what a
disaster of a segment. Oh, I know what we can do? Adaya.
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Speaker 10: All Right, guys, there's a lot of great quarterbacks in
the NFL, but we may be without one next year.
So is Aaron Rodgers going to call it quit? He's
been mom on his future and we know Aeron he's
kind of done that the last couple off seasons. But
you know, he was asked recently, Aeron, are you playing
next year?
Speaker 4: Like yes or no?
Speaker 10: And he said, well, you know, that's that's something I'm
gonna have to seriously evaluate. Then Aaron Glenn was asked
about him yesterday at one of his first press conferences
has taken the job, and he said, Aaron will be
talking bout We'll cross that bridge when we get there.
He goes, We're we're discussing options about Aaron with him,
with the front office and with other players on the team,
whether or not they want to be a part of
it as well.
Speaker 4: So it kind of sounds like Aaron.
Speaker 10: Rodgers leaning towards maybe not retirement, but not necessarily going
back to the Jets.
Speaker 3: What did Brett Farv do to Aaron Rodgers to make
him so closely emulate his entire career now even into
taking over the offseason news psycle Willa.
Speaker 4: Will he or won't he? Sedect? Does he go to
the Vikings next? Yeah?
Speaker 10: No, that that's that's what's gonna happen. So they're gonna
they're gonna get rid of Sam Darnold. JJ is not
gonna be ready yet. It's gonna be Aaron Rodgers for
a year.
Speaker 4: Aaron Rodgers.
Speaker 7: Remember, so Brett goes to the Jets and it wasn't great.
I mean it's okay, exactly great exactly, but he still
had some juice. Yeah, I mean they were, you know,
a game away from getting.
Speaker 4: To the super Bowl.
Speaker 3: So what you're telling me is Aaron Rodgers to the Vikings.
But it's actually good, Yes, actually good Aaron.
Speaker 4: I mean he should.
Speaker 3: If you can't be good with Jets, you can't be
a good quarterback anymore. Like if Aaron Rodgers were to
go to the Vikings and not be good, I mean,
then it then it's just it's it's it's all over.
Uh wait too, Seriously, though, Tay, do we know at
all where he would where it potentially go?
Speaker 4: No?
Speaker 10: But I mean I mean if you just look at
at spots that need a quarterback, I mean the Raiders
are out there, he could work with Tom Brady. I
mean the you know there there's a number of teams
out there that wou they would fight for his services.
I would imagine New York Giants if you just go
right across the streets, across the bridge a little bit,
hang out with the other New York team.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean, I guess, I guess it's true. They
what are they going to do?
Speaker 3: Krk his draft draft to Shuder, good little camp Ward.
Speaker 4: Are they going to be there? I don't know what
pick are they? Because then they ended up playing their
self Liken to the Giant the Giants three, because.
Speaker 10: It's it's Titans, Brown's Giants.
Speaker 3: Yeah, promise Cam Sugar who ends up in the Cleveland
Graveyard next.
Speaker 10: A lot of people are saying it's actually going to
be Travis Hunter at to the browns oh.
Speaker 4: QB at one QUB or QB at three.
Speaker 3: So just spending resources they get to get to get
the Giant.
Speaker 7: The guy would then take Sugar Sanders and pair him
with Maleikue neighbors, and you know that'd be prettydamned.
Speaker 4: You don't think I.
Speaker 3: Worry about Shoter from an NFL perspective is how long
he'd hold on the ball in college. But that did
feel like choice, not like he couldn't read fast enough.
Speaker 4: He was just always trying to make a play.
Speaker 3: He's gonna have to say the Caleb Williams done and
he got him into trouble this year in the NFL,
Like he's gonna have.
Speaker 4: To dial that back a little bit.
Speaker 7: There was a rumor out there, and I know bamac
Gump's mentioning that that jay Len Milrod to the Giants
at three had some steam.
Speaker 4: If yeah, what we said about y'all if they do that?
Oh whit? She got tiny hands? What is this? More
big handed?
Speaker 5: Uh?
Speaker 4: Uh uh uh? What's word I'm looking for?
Speaker 7: I can't imagine having a quarterback under nine inches?
Speaker 4: Look at the boys, what are they going to do? CEQ? Snapcount?
What are they doing?
Speaker 7: They're going through snapcount quarterback running back? Exchange, Yeah, quarterback
running back? So we call that oh yeah yeah, And
they're going through the kids. You know why because half
those cats have never taken a snap in the center,
I know, and never.
Speaker 3: Taking any snaps with each other or anything.
Speaker 4: I'm sorry.
Speaker 3: What we're reverencing here is we're looking through the curtains
to our right, and you can see the boys headed
the first practice today getting in some warm up walk
their rep.
Speaker 7: Penny Jackson Dart I don't use hands, so oh yo,
they're not They're there, you just can't see them.
Speaker 4: You got a.
Speaker 3: Squint coach O to the Saints. Yeah, hell yeah, dude,
that'd be that'd be that would be the best.
Speaker 4: That'd be the best.
Speaker 7: Uh in every interview with a hood at Hell yeah dude,
Hell yes, dude.
Speaker 3: I'm in good all right. When we get back here
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Speaker 4: See if the answers. Uh more OTB coming up.
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Speaker 4: What going to answer? I do not think he's going
to answer.
Speaker 7: Yeah, I mean, if it's not in my contacts, I'm
not answering. No, it's my phone, it's your phone. We
got a chance, then, yeah, we got a change. I'm
not calling him number.
Speaker 4: I thought you were calling from the station phone.
Speaker 3: But it's not like ringing. Oh boy, oh wait hello,
no a lot. I'm gonna try more time. I'm gonna
try one more time. I didn't have it turned up. Actually,
it probably was ringing that whole time. All right, let's go,
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People want to hear your thoughts on the Greek, on
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come on, Ken and wake your ass up.
Speaker 4: He's still sleeping nine.
Speaker 3: Yeah, he sleeps intil like ten every day.
Speaker 4: He stays up late. Good for him.
Speaker 7: God, I really hope he has a voicemail like where
it's him talking voicemail.
Speaker 3: I'm just mad he no longer has the ring back
tone hard years and years he had this stock like
I would get hit with Mozart every time I would
call him.
Speaker 7: Und I've only known two people to ever have that,
and he's the second.
Speaker 4: Philip Rivers has that as well. There it must be.
It must be a quarterback. It has to be unfortunate.
Speaker 3: Guys. Doesn't look like we'll get the can on later
in the week. Okay, I'll make that promise to you. Uh.
Teams were walking by for watching on YouTube.
Speaker 4: Check it out. You can look behind us, see a.
Speaker 3: Bunch of big dudes, big dudes, big hard Doddy but yeah,
somebody said that there's a lot of high and tight backpacks.
Speaker 4: For sure, they wear them, so I need some comfort
in chill out.
Speaker 3: You're like, you're like what you call it in the
New twenty one Jump Street one shoulder? Well yeah, you're like,
you're like, uhler trying to wear like one shoulder be cool?
Speaker 4: And now everybody's like, what are you doing?
Speaker 7: One shoulder was definitely the move when I was in
school though, Oh yeah, oh yeah, one shoulder.
Speaker 4: Well, I mean, we can talk about the Super Bowl
a little bit. I guess, Oh the Chiefs again?
Speaker 7: Ah crap, Well, the same matchup we saw two years ago.
Speaker 3: Why didn't the NFL get Taylor Swift to do the
halftime show? Is it because she has too much of
a rooting interest? I mean, I don't know. It feels
like it would just be like one to one. Maybe
he's like, she wouldn't want to do it. Potentially, I guess.
Speaker 4: I have no idea. Are we all cheering for.
Speaker 3: The Eagles though? Is that what's actually happened? I hear rivers,
why don't you pull up a chair? Ime on, come sit?
I definitely why are you acting like this?
Speaker 4: You're annoying me.
Speaker 7: I definitely think that the world is going for the Eagles.
Speaker 3: Yeah, which is wild. The Eagles have somehow, you know, a.
Speaker 7: Lot of time it's nothing to do with the Eagles.
I think it's just more to do with everyone's so
tired of the chiefs.
Speaker 4: Uh no, exactly, That's what I'm saying.
Speaker 3: But a lot of times they say, you live long enough,
you know, you see yourself become the villain. This might
be the only case in the opposite where the birds
have lived long enough to now see themselves become the
good guy, the hero rivs.
Speaker 4: What's up? How's it going?
Speaker 5: Wait?
Speaker 1: Who do you think that Jason Kelly's gonna Kelsey is
gonna cheer for Oh?
Speaker 4: That's a real I mean he's got.
Speaker 1: I mean for sure weird, Right, does not play it's weird.
Speaker 4: Because if it's not, but.
Speaker 3: If it's like if it's if it's your brother's first
ever Super Bowl thousand choosing your brother, but your mother
has such an embarrassment of riches, right, you both already
have super Bowls?
Speaker 4: Like, yeah, I think you.
Speaker 3: I think you actually cheer for the Birds.
Speaker 4: Now, not like a hardcore is one? Like how many?
Speaker 3: That's what I'm saying three. No, I think Mahomes is one. Yes, three,
it should be mahomes fifth super Bowl. He's playing it,
so at this point, that's what I'm saying. That's that's
a that's a great question there. I didn't even consider that. Uh,
but I mean, you know, I think you cheer for them,
but in not like a like.
Speaker 4: You're not mad.
Speaker 3: Obviously you're not mad of trap gets. Another one obvious
is Jason one thousands. That's a cheer for Philly. He
should wear the I can't remember what character was. Maybe
it's from Johnny Carsoner's so old TV show. Maybe it's
a Philly thing, but he should wear that kind of
Mummers uniform parade in the U in the stadium, that
would be.
Speaker 4: That would be excellent.
Speaker 7: Yeah, I mean like his parents like, yeah, they're going
for the Chiefs, you know, once your son's not playing
for the Eagles and whatever, like you hope they do well,
but you're gonna root for your child.
Speaker 4: But when you like, how many years did he give them? Ten?
Speaker 6: A lot?
Speaker 3: Probably yeah, at least at least had in.
Speaker 4: Years, Like that's his squad.
Speaker 7: I don't know, like you said, if Travis hadn't won one,
but he's one third.
Speaker 1: He got to cheer for him last year. It was fine.
Speaker 3: I mean it's crazy, you know what. I can't believe.
So they sell their podcast for over one hundred million
dollars and then her podcast it's like number one, like
number one, number one, right.
Speaker 1: Beat out Joe Rogan.
Speaker 4: How is that possible?
Speaker 1: She's very very good.
Speaker 3: I know, and I'm not even saying it like that.
My point is like, you're right, obviously you can't remember
one if you're not, but like, how is it possible
to wear because like and she's maintained it.
Speaker 1: I mean you can. You can get that bump a
little bit at first, because you know, she's popular right now.
Speaker 4: Bailey welch to a girl, she got to like fifth
in the world.
Speaker 1: Yes, well her name is associated, you know, right, talk
to her.
Speaker 4: But that was because it like got memed right.
Speaker 1: Everybody was like, yeah, but her name right now, I mean,
she's popular, Jason has his new show and so like
people are talking about her. But that doesn't you know,
you don't maintain that just from the bump. No, she
stayed up there. She's very good, like.
Speaker 4: It's just life and she's funny.
Speaker 1: She's so funny, and she's so well spoken and like
she's interesting.
Speaker 3: And if they sell I watching the old line fire
off over there.
Speaker 4: Oh yeah, boys get it.
Speaker 3: Yeah, if they sell their podcast for a hundo, though,
what are you selling hers for? If you're number one
in the world, Like, what's the value on that, like
a two hundred million dollar deal like I have I have?
Speaker 4: That's that's crazy.
Speaker 3: Who bought the Kelsey's I think Amazon. I'm not one
hundred percent on that, so you might want to fact
right though, but I think Amazon did.
Speaker 1: I mean what, She's just very relatable. So it's like
if you're a woman, no matter where you are in
your life, she's just very relatable.
Speaker 3: But it's like even then, it's like I guess, I mean,
I just don't.
Speaker 4: I don't listen to podcasts, and I.
Speaker 1: Haven't listened to her podcast. I've just seen clips from it,
and every clip I've seen has been so funny and interesting.
Shocks about her kids a lot, talks about being a mom,
she talks about sports, She kind of touches on everything.
Speaker 3: Was doing great, making the most of her fifteen minutes fames,
so she got back with Crypto Bros.
Speaker 1: She did some weird. She did some weird you know.
Speaker 3: It's not like she like less stufful but it's just
saying that happened to the walking Bets girl though she's
out walking again. But no, I do I do love
though that Welch has just been like, ah, I do whatever.
I've made a lot of money. I'm disappearing for for
a hot million.
Speaker 9: Oh.
Speaker 3: Mac Lindsay says her podcast as is under the one
hundred million dollar deal with what value in that by then?
Speaker 6: Oh?
Speaker 3: Yeah for you because that would have been before was
number one.
Speaker 4: I feel like, good for you, Zo.
Speaker 1: Good for Amazon?
Speaker 3: Are I can impost? Now you own the number one
podcast in the world.
Speaker 4: Just control everything? Why not? Is he still trying to
buy an NFL team?
Speaker 3: Uh? Well no that I mean they wouldn't let him in,
that's right, blocked up the commanders.
Speaker 1: Yeah that's good, good for them.
Speaker 3: I mean, I thought that was kind of funny because
it very much felt like guys who are used to
having everything threatened by the one guy who would have
been like way bigger than all of it and be like, actually, no,
you know what, No, dude, you can't come Like it's
the only time Vizos can ever get told no basically,
and the NFL owners were going to Uh.
Speaker 7: He got got different money than even all those guys.
Speaker 4: That's what I'm saying.
Speaker 1: No wad he has rights to games though.
Speaker 3: Yeah, so like.
Speaker 4: He's on he plays the game every week.
Speaker 8: Who is it?
Speaker 1: I can't remember. So his current current his current fiance,
I can't remember her name. We've seen her.
Speaker 4: She checking out.
Speaker 1: She has a her ex boyfriend who also yeah, who
she also has a child with.
Speaker 4: He now works for Amazon Amazon Yah football.
Speaker 1: Yeah, so weird weaved circle there.
Speaker 3: I don't think I could have sex as good as
Tony Gonzales. I'd be intimidated by that. X.
Speaker 1: You know, I think if you have a certain amount
of money, you just don't you're not intimidated anymore.
Speaker 4: That's true.
Speaker 3: That's probably true, to be fair, Jeff's you know, I
don't know if it's like the tea or whatever, but
you know, there's some pictures of him looking kind of
kind of built out there, definitely more than he was
Tokyo guess or with the actual sports sock.
Speaker 4: What gave it away to talk to a podcast.
Speaker 3: Was that when you knew Chilvane says, Kylie has a
Brashes said, allows a real conversation that more button up
people don't have.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 3: Yeah, they do strike me as my kind of people
in terms of their their their language.
Speaker 1: I think it's funny. I mean, have you heard the
story that she tells about how she met Jason. They
met on a dating app. So she's like, I don't
know if it was tender or whatever, but she's like swiping.
She's in Philly, and she's like, and she was just
on the dating app. Yeah, so they so she so
she's like, wait, this guy looks familiar. No, he's playing
in the NFL at this point, and she's like, he
looks familiar. Wait, She's like no way. She's like he
plays with the Eagles. Like no way. She's like this
is fake, Like it's not him. They plan to meet
up at a bar, and so she's like, well, this
will be a good story either way, either it'll be
him or won't be it'll be funny, you know. So
she and her friends go. So her friends go with her.
They pull up, sure enough, it is Jason Kelsey and
he got so drunk that like fifteen minutes into the date,
he passed out on the bar. Oh my god, where
she still enso marrying him. You know, it's like she
stayed with him. But she was a huge Eagles fan. Uh,
she was like her dream.
Speaker 4: Yeah, like it was.
Speaker 1: She's like, how is this real?
Speaker 3: The rare clee chasing opportunity? That uh, that that works
out my mom. They used to call them a little
more demeaning than clee chasers. They used to call them
jock sniffers, which is so uh and shout out Toky, Dooky,
that's my guy.
Speaker 4: He was just messing.
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the Bench with Esther and t Bob.
Speaker 3: All right, welcome back. We're here about to head out
to practice.
Speaker 4: As soon as the show ends.
Speaker 3: As you can see behind as the convention halls cleared out,
we got walkthroughs going on to our right for the
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morning long with nobody else to absorb the blows.
Speaker 9: Titan and I have actually been kind of chilling today.
The takes were taken like before the show started.
Speaker 3: That well, I mean, he can't help himself right when
you walk in. He's always got some stuff dialed up.
Speaker 4: He has one in the chamber.
Speaker 3: But this is good and laundry and granted, I guess
you all been riding to work too.
Speaker 4: That makes sense.
Speaker 3: Y'all reach an excellent point in of friendship where you
can sit in silence that you have actually made it well.
Speaker 9: Taylor and I have also like worked together at LSU
before I worked here, so.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I knew her before she started here. Yeah. Years
have you all been working together then?
Speaker 10: Oh twenty twenty one?
Speaker 9: Yeah, about twenty two years maybe?
Speaker 4: Uh all right, asked the bench.
Speaker 3: Friday Oysters and Fred Shrimp's Fred Trimp Shrimp raw, Yeah.
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Speaker 3: Daniel wants to know what's the best part about me
and Jake not being in studio.
Speaker 9: I've said it many times that I don't like when
y'all aren't in studio, Like I actually find it very boring,
and uh yeah.
Speaker 4: I mean this is easy for me.
Speaker 10: The obvious answer is that Bomb is not here, Like
that's that's easy.
Speaker 3: He's escaping the daily and incessant bullying that I heap
upon him. As eventually there be any whiskey and wine
for this year's Elshie baseball season, if you know the
big games, like did.
Speaker 1: Y'all do that last year?
Speaker 4: No?
Speaker 3: Last year, but we certainly did during the Natty run.
Speaker 4: I'm always down.
Speaker 3: You know, that's just about like sponsors and uh do
they want or not? Because those are some of the
most fun shows that we did. The night in which
they won the national championship at Don Wand's is one
night that I will always remember. I mean, we were
straight cutting up in there, dancing.
Speaker 1: As opposed to what she normally do up there.
Speaker 3: But it was like it was he no, it was,
it was. It was even different though, because like I
don't know.
Speaker 4: It was awesome. It was, it was. It was the best.
Speaker 7: Think that whole roam was fun because like there was
different portions of it.
Speaker 4: It was like the wake Forest game.
Speaker 7: Oh yeah, the Florida game, and like you had like
kind of three Tennessee that you celebrated, right, I mean,
Harlow literally came right after Tommy Tanks hit the walk
off against wake Forest.
Speaker 4: Like that's something obviously never forget.
Speaker 3: Is the Saints franchise officially worse at this point than
they were before Sean Payton and Drew Brees.
Speaker 4: I say, yes, I don't know, y'all. Y'all we were
wearing bags over.
Speaker 3: I mean, I don't think. I don't think it can
ever be worse, simply because you've proven what you can do,
as Taylor pointed out, now that the Commanders have made
a conference championship, the Dallas Cowboys are I think the
only team, maybe in the NFL, but definitely in the
NFC to not make a conference championship since they last
won a Super Bowl.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 10: Also, the Philadelphia Eagles had more rushing touchdowns against the
Commanders on Sunday than the Cowboys had all years, So, uh,
keep making the big wins there, Jerry.
Speaker 9: Also, we were talking about Kenny Pickett earlier. He has
more wins championship wins than Dak Prescott does than Dak Prescott.
Speaker 4: Wait, what about Uh?
Speaker 3: What did Jerry did anybody I didn't understand the gloryhole's
comment from Jerry.
Speaker 1: I don't think I know what you're to do.
Speaker 4: What a gloryhole was?
Speaker 3: He said, there's a small percentage of the of the
reaction that's all smiles and gloryholes.
Speaker 1: Jerry does not know what a gloriole is.
Speaker 3: I've seen some of the pictures of how Jerry gets down.
I'm not willing to say that Jared doesn't know what
a glorihole is.
Speaker 1: Meaning you think Jerry's reached old guy datus where he's
just saying whatever he wants.
Speaker 7: Oh, I mean I think Jerry, I think he wants
for thirty years he's probably been there, but now that
he is older, he feels like I can get away
with him.
Speaker 4: Eighty is tonight karaoke night? Is that tomorrow night? No,
that's that we don't do karaoke here. I I'll do
that immediately, right. Yeah, I'm excited for a little Florida tonight. Though.
Speaker 3: I think we're gonna go over to that Mobile Speak
Easy that I think is uh is so cool.
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Night or whatever. I know you're disappointed.
Speaker 4: Yeah, saw night. They teach how to They clear.
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Speaker 4: Is that what it was last time you went?
Speaker 3: No, it's never badly, you've never been.
Speaker 4: I've always wanted to.
Speaker 3: Uh, I've always wanted to to know how salsa to. Yeah,
I know.
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and they they have foo doors there for you, so
it's uh, it's not you don't for you.
Speaker 4: I don't think I did. I'll wear one this time
and they offer me again though.
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