"Don't Say Super Bowl" & Buying the Hollywood Rights to Offseason Narratives

you were going to have a WiFi issue. Well, now we've lured you into this podcast and we're gonna go deep dive on a f C V n f C. Well you you are bait and switched me because Greg even went through the problem of coming up with six or seven news items that I spent a ton of time, you know, researching, But we're talking Pro Bowl. What man acture, Joe.

I had to check our old site NFL jesus dot com, um to make sure it is NFC a f C. Because as much as like that makes sense and I get it, I was more of a team Sanders guy, uh And I know, like Team Sanders, Team Irvan no longer with us, but I just I kind of wish they would just keep it that way. That was when

the Pro Bowl to me was at its peak. Team if you want to, well, they've done a really I have to say, we've done a really excellent job cultivating the archive on our website, so it's probably no way to find it. But once upon a time I was tasked with doing a live diary of the Pro Bowl Draft, the first ever. It was Rice Verse, Dion and Jerry. Rice had one of the worst drafts that you could possibly comprehend it. That's one of the only things I remember.

I also remember they did a stand up live hit that they threw it to at one point and it was I don't know who it was, maybe Irvan or Mooch, and they were by this like rocky uh see where the waves were crashing upon the jetty and it was like, oh my god, these guys are gonna get swept into the ocean and killed at the Pro Bowl live draft telecast utterly needless way die I couldn't would be a

terrible video. That's the same draft that Henry Hodgson almost ended uh someone's career in the newsroom and was very angry. It was very memorable he killed a man and got away with it. For not quite having the live draft on the website going in the time or as live as Henry wanted it to be. But handsome Hank is one of those guys. He's handsome, he's charming, He's British. But if you get on the wrong side of him, look out. He's He's also going to be Commissioner in

a couple of years. So the power his, his external power continues to grow by leaps and bounds. So I do my best to stay on his on his good side, right And in this case, he was on the side of the righteous because he was removing a thorn in everyone's side from that newsroom. So ultimately, someone's sometimes it takes a man like Henry to step up in that situation. All right. I don't know. I don't know if that was necessary context, but I guess it helps out Henry.

Ultimately it was. It was true. I was honest that that night and beyond. Wait a second, Wait a second, is that I think it is? That's Connie Fox's music. Look at this. That's right, there's a wolf in the podcast studio. Where what are you this? Wait a second, this is some epic bulls right here. First of all, Colleen, I'm so happy to see you. Welcome back to the Round.

The NFL podcast always a joy. But you're doing it from the Chris Westling podcast studio, the very studio that me and the boys have been banned from for going on a month. Now. This this is an issue. This, this could be a this could be a civil lawsuit. I'll leave it there. Yeah. Not only that, Um, I'm doing it from the studio. I'm doing the show from your chair, Dan, where you sit. I'm just keeping it warm for you. I mean, does that feel just to you, Colleen?

Do you feel good about the way this is the way you proceeded here? I think that this feel I feel very comfortable in in this situation in the seat. It feels nice. Yeah, the lighting is great. There's people buzzing around. I don't know why you guys aren't here. You should come check out the studio. It's beautiful place. Listen. I understand we are we continue, almost impossibly for two years running, to be in the grips of a global pandemic,

and everyone's trying to do the right things. But I think it's time for the boys to get back in that studio. Greg. What do we have to do? Is there a shadowy league figured door we have to knock on do we have to go see Dr Sills? Like, what do we need to do to be together again in the Chris Westling podcast studio. Maybe like just set up a little desk next to the desk or extend the desk, you know. I think that's that's the because remember that one week you weren't you weren't there, Mark

and I got to do it. The that's big enough for two people, not for three. Um. I feel like we could figure this out. We will try. Connie, how are you? Is a super Bowl week almost? It's the super Bowl bye week? And um, how you feeling right now? I'm feeling good? Um getting my energy up for this week. I was just taping a show, super Bowl Countdown Show and studio with David Carve. Talked to Lamar Jackson and

Stefon Diggs. I didn't know what we were talking about the Pro Bowl today, So that's some good breaking news. I'm excited about that. I'm gonna bring a lot of perspective for that topic. But guys, I've missed you. It's great to see you. Great to be back on the show, and I'm excited to hang out with you guys this weekend. It's gonna be great. Yes, it is gonna be excellent, Um to be together. We can't be together right now, but this weekend we'll be all together celebrating Chris Westling

on the year anniversary of his passing. Obviously sad, but also it's nice to be together and we're gonna do a lot of the things mark uh on Saturday that we're the hallmarks of the great times we had with Chris when he was with us. Yeah, I mean, I think it's like we all think so much of Chris

every single day. But one of the enduring um concepts that West brought to my life was that when you hang out on a Saturday, you do something that is extremely memorable every time, and it is never anything but original. West was one of the better hangs on planet Earth. So we will we will do it in his honor. M absolutely so. By the way, before we get into the show, we got a lot to get to. There's

some news. Obviously, the bombshell involving Brian Flores dropped right in the middle of our Tuesday show, so we'll get some updates where that story is from Tuesday afternoon to right now, and we tape mid afternoon on the East Coast after twelve years, so we're gonna check in on that story. Um. Also head coach hiring on the way in Minnesota, and it's not the guy that we kind of thought it was gonna be a day ago. And also this will be fun um thinking like when you

you look forward, you spin forward into the off season. Uh, we were very close to Hollywood County right now. You're technically in the district park called Hollywood Park, and we are. If you are where I live on a hill, you could see the Hollywood signs, so we are. We're not in the middle of it, all the glitz and the glamour, right, So what if you viewed the off seasons of upcoming team of teams upcoming off seasons through the lens of Hollywood.

And one of the things in the business, my wife works in the business, is securing the rights to tell a team's story. And you gotta get in early, you gotta get in. You know, somebody got it in early on the Kirk Warner story and that thing went all the way to the theaters and marks gonna gave a full review. Uh. Super Bowl Week happened of years after the real life events. But um, they were the first ones to nab it correct. So we're gonna get in

on the ground floor with telling. Some of this is projecting. We're using our football knowledge. What are going to be the best stories of the offseason, the teams that are gonna be the most exciting and are going to bring box office. So that's coming up later. We're gonna put on our studio Honcho. Uh, hairpieces and giant cigars and dark pasts hidden away. It's good. I already have my hairpiece on, so perfect, Dan, Dan, did you get a hair Dan always gets the haircut about like eleven days

before the Super Bowl. He likes to talk about the magic window. So that would mean you've already gotten yours. Yes, it's very good. Greg. See that's good. That's that's a personal side of you connected to me, knowing things about me. Because you've shaved, you've saved, you, your young sons. It's time. It's time to come out of the wilderness of the end of the regular season. So Papa Bear is coming out of the cave. Been trying to clean things up a little bit. And thank you for noticing. Uh, my

boys noticed you have noticed. Others have noticed. My wife is still not noticed that I shaved. I think that we I mean I noticed it two. But I have to you and Gregor are such indestructible bedfellows that of course you know he would he would verbalize at first, is there? And we got so much to get to. But Mark and I think you would handle this sense with with sensitivity. Can you send a message to my wife for not noticing that I got shaved? I can be shaved down here, like what's going on here? I

will handle that. Yes, I will handle that. Right after the show ends. Just have twenty clowns show up at Dan's house. You're like, You're like Jim Harby, you just you just want to be wanted, just to see, like you want more attention. All right? So this is um. I know I have mentioned super Bowl already. We got Bengals. Who are they playing? The Rams? Mark's favorite team, Bengals Rams? Super Bowl fifty six a week from Sunday, and we're gonna get into that and dive deep next week with

three shows from Radio Row in downtown Los Angeles. It's gonna be sick. And then Sunday Night, the flagship show, the final show of the season, where we break down everything that happened in the game. I don't know if anybody had anything they wanted to share about the Super Bowl, because I'm about to shut down the term super Bowl for the rest of this episode. UH penalty is loss of limb if you even reference uh super Bowl. Anybody

have anything to say about the game so far? I know it's been a little quiet on both fronts, Uh understandably, So I just want to say, super Bowl, you know, just get get out of my system. Just feels good.

Super Bowl, super Bowl, super Bowl. I do like that the Bengals have to practice at the University of Cincinnati this week because they don't have an indoor facility and they're gonna be playing the Super Bowl indoors, and it's it's cold there, and since then it if West was here, he would note some things about the angles still haven't changed. It's it's one your your billion dollar NFL franchise. How do we go get an indoor facility to practice that

that's fair? Maybe maybe the increased revenues that comes with being a winner and having a franchise quarterback and going to a super Bowl. Maybe the Mike Brown uh family will you shouldn't be focusing on the negative. It's a beautiful time. It's a beautiful time. All right, let's lock it up. Super Bowl, super Bowl, super Bowl, super Bowl. Hey, Ricky, let's send the super Bowl downstairs to the basement. That's good. But let's that's let's keep going. Let's take it a

little further. Put it behind it. I want to put it in a bank vault. Yes please? Whoa, yeah, all right, why don't we uh put it behind a door? Getting locked? So that was the ocular cavity access drop. Very good. So we have this thing buried. There is no conversation about the super Bowl. I just did it. I thought it was in the sub basement. Come on, blew it. So this is yeah, it knows where the sound effects

that before, right in that clean shaven cheek. Actually, Dan, if you had to lose a limb, which limb would you lose first? Uh? Thank you to? Thank you to? Does that count? That's not a limb. That's not a limb. That doesn't count as appendance. It's like a lower digit. I mean, that's that's kind of what I had in mind in terms of penalties. But I guess since I said limb, oh, I don't know. Uh, it's got to be an armor leg then maybe we can decide for you. Yeah,

I'm fine with toe Dan. You know I noticed your hair, your mark. I only want to take the toe off. Dude, you're the best buddy. All right, let's do some news, and let's start with a story that rocked the NFL. The day after announcing his lawsuit against the league. Giants, Dolphins, and Broncos, Brian Flores has now elaborated on his allegations of discrimination, discrimination, racial discrimination, and unethical practices involving uh certain figures in the league, and he was on CBS

Morning show. Flora's was on Wednesday, and Nate Earlson, our former colleague, asked how it felt to be part of what Flora's alleges was a sham process during the interview with the New York Giants. How did that make you feel, knowing that you were walking into an interview where a decision might have already been made. It was a range of emotions humiliation, uh uh, disbelief, um uh anger Um.

I worked so hard to get to it, um to where I am from uh in football, to become a head coach um for eighteen years in this league, and it was uh to go on what was going to be? What felt like or what was a sham? Who I was? I was hurt. After Flora's filed his lawsuit, the NFL issued a statement saying it had no merit but um that, according to ESPN, was only connected to the accusations of

discrimination and hiring processes. The ESPN source said the league will investigate allegations that Stephen rossa Dolphins owner, offered Flora's money to lose games and tank the Dolphins twenty nineteen season to get the number one overall pick, which would have been Joe Burrow. So, Greg Um, where are you on the story? What? What do you feel like? We've learned since Tuesday to now? I think Cameron Wolfe's reporting Um,

who's now with us at the NFL Network. We've had him on the show The wolf Pack in effect with Colleen and Cameron. Um. He's had some reporting where he he talked to a witness who said he heard Stephen

Ross say those words. So that that is providing more evidence into the investigation that it is a little easier to see the NFL following through to the utmost degree in the in the in the coming weeks and months if they were to fine that is true, and Stephen Ross came out with a very strong statement, uh, saying it was all malicious lies and uh that that's gonna be a big story that we follow for a while.

Wolf said that, uh, there's or Flores's team rather said that they have corroborating evidence, including messages from the general manager Chris Greer, so that goes to the integrity of the game, which I think was very pointed that he put that item and the Broncos item into the lawsuit because it made it bigger than than just trying to prove the discrimination, which which the Belichick text obviously will will assist him in doing that, and really makes it bigger.

And it comes very specifically after one over Stephen Ross, who who like I said, it took him almost two days, but did release a statement around midnight on Wednesday, Miami time. I think it's interesting to um that when you look at Hugh Jackson coming out and he sort of backtracked the claim that the Browns offered him money to lose games. He went on Sports Center and said, basically, the way that the team was built, there was no chance to

win at a high level. But I thought that that was really interesting when those reports first came out that Hugh Jackson was also in a situation where he was being offered money to tank. I mean, this is just

so incredibly messy for everyone involved. And watching Brian Flores on ESPN and on these various outlets, I just see a man that was driven to the absolute brink and he is obviously to a point where he's willing to risk it all just to get the story out there, just to maybe help inspire some type of change for people to come after. Well, he really thought he had the Giants job, right, right, He he really thought he

had the Giants job. And once I got to read all the details that that was part of it is he he really thought he had an inside track there based on things someone in the front office had told him there. Uh, and he said that was his dream job, essentially working for the Giants in the way it flipped essentially when Joe Shane became the general manager. Also points out something we kind of talked about, like why are

they doing these interviews without the general manager? Um, it just it's sort of a confusing way to go about it. They sort of did these preliminary interviews and so that that I think that was part of it, the heartbreak of that how that Giants thing played out. And it will be interesting to like Belichick will be asked about this event, Jean, whether he's going to need to cooperate it if it ever does go to a civil trial,

Like that's a long way down. Yeah, I mean I want to I want to know how Belichick got that information. I mean we all do. And I I I think with like you look at the Broncos situation, because John Elway came out, um very strongly to say, hold on, um, your your perception of that interview, um, is not the same as mine. And you know Elway was described as disheveled um in the suit, you know, during that Broncos interview.

And you know, the more we're learning that that that Denver um what didn't get into Providence, Rhode Island for that interview till two in the morning. I think they had been interviewing Mike Munchak for the job back in the day before. And um, so Elway kind of came up with, here's why I maybe presented myself that way to you. But we've been through a long day that's said.

I mean, my takeaway from Brian Flores through all of this is that, um, this is one of the biggest sports stories UM that will ever deal with because if real change comes through this, and you know, there's always there's a reason to be suspicion is of the owners in general that real change is not happy happily had coming easy to them on this front, and it's it's not happened. But Brian Floores, UM, this is not just trying to get back at someone or be vindictive at all.

I mean, he talked over and over about change, and just my takeaway from him getting to know more through these interviews is that he is putting his entire career in life on the line for this and it's for other coaches, and I like, I just I see someone

who genuinely believes what he's doing. And that's how I do think that the NFL could be changed forever UM coaching practice wise, because Rooney rule, like the way it came in and the way it's being used, and X, Y and Z, it's just simply not working there and finally going for it. There are two huge stories here, obviously, so one and there both massive in terms of the NFL. One is the hiring practices and and all the issues and problems that continue to plague the NFL in that realm.

And then there's the competitive issue and the the talk of tanking and paying a coach to make the team lose. And then Hugh Jackson, who was involved with one of the worst teams in all of all time with the Browns when they went what were they one in thirty one or whatever it was over uh two seasons, he comes out and he says, uh, it doesn't hide behind anything. He says alleged. He says that he was the same

thing was done. Basically, he was being told by ownership it's okay to lose because we're trying to build towards something. And I just think that is I don't know how they fix how they fixed the issue with hiring the right people in head coaches and front offices, because it is a thorny issue and there's a lot of layers to it, and that's something the NFL is gonna have to look in the mirror on and and ask some

hard questions and figure out some answers. This other side of this is the one that's like whoa, I mean this could be lead to owners exiting the picture. This could lead to major sanctions. Again, it's various teams, and you wonder, as we peel back the layers of the onion here, if the story is just just gonna keep ballooning. We've talked about it in broad terms for years, and it's not just the NFL the idea of tanking and how teams are trying to lose to get that hot

shot coming into the draft to rebuild the organization. But what what would happen if there was actually proof that teams are doing it and monetary rewards for losing. Meanwhile, the fan the big loser and all this is the fan. Uh, if this is true, you're charging the fans the same amount of money you are if if they're trying to win, or as if you're actively trying to put a losing product on the field and asking people to pay two hundred dollars for a ticket and eighty dollars for parking

and two under for concessions like this, this is massive. Well, I think we would learn a lot more too if it gets to the point where this lawsuit moves to the discovery phase and then that's when it really gets messy, but also a starting point for moving in the right direction and changing some of these hiring practices that we've seen,

is how about a black owner in the NFL. I mean, that's that's probably one of the main things that needs to happen to have that representation at the absolute highest level. And then another thing, I just want to clarify real quick. Are we saying that like Bill Belichick is saying that he got the wrong information. Um, but when you look at the text messages, I think it's clearly that Belichick

just texted the wrong Brian because he got confused. He got confused, just making sure that Belichick for do for mixing up the Brian right. I was surprised that people were like, well, how would Belichick even know? It's like, what are we talking about here? Like every they're all in the same industry, coaches, I'll talk to each other, and it's not like he's like reporting it on a national level. But whoever he's talking like they're all they

all work together. He's in the middle of hiring offensive staff, defensive staff, like it's a it's a network of people who talk, and he had clearly had information probably from you know, a very high level that that he believed like he he knew what was happening there and he and he he sent the wrong text. And it is interesting because I think without that text, not none of this is happening. That's the most granted piece of evidence,

and that's and that's really the focus. I think it's key when you look at the the the lawsuit, you know, it starts talking about Black History Month and and everything to do with the black coach, and that's really the focus. And that's what started this. And I think his anger and hurt about the giants things started it. And then while he's there, you can imagine Brian Flores and you could hear him talk about it in these interviews. Um, how upsetting it was to be offered yea, that money.

You know what he's alleging that he's held on too that for a while and that you know now that he's doing doing the coaches. He he went for the whole thing, and I think it's instructive. Mark, as you said that the statement was reportedly about the coaching hiring, and that our reporter Ian Rappaport, you know, I said that an investigation is expected into the competitive has to be right. But that's that's that right off the bat, that that is is hitting a different bell inside the

league office. We should note that he is UM. Brian Floores is a finalist UM along with Jonathan Gannon and Josh McCown for the Texans job. I mean it would you'd like to see Brian Flores, who is a very talented coach, still get a chance to be a head coach. I hope that's the other side of this. He's acknowledged, you know, this may end my chance to do that, and he loves coaching football, and it's like it shouldn't, but that the way this league works, you never know.

The general the general takeaway out of all this is that Brian Flores is forfeiting a chance to be a head coach again in the NFL, and that certainly is possible. I think it would be obviously, it would be a positive sign if if he was hired because he is uh and I mean higher now, because he is obviously qualified for the job. And what he's bringing up is are the very same issues that we've talked about on this show with Steve Wish, who has been incredibly informed

and sharing information on this for a long time. He's just bringing it up in a much more broad way that shines a spotlight on the issue. UM, so we'll see he is a finalist. You're right, they announced that. So does he have a chance to get a job? I don't know. Is he out of the league completely? It's certainly a possibility. It was a bold gambit. There's there's no doubt about it. Um. All right, let's check in on what else is going on in our league?

The Minnesota Vikings. Huh? How about that here? The Minnesota I don't know. Did you guys read there is speaking of the athletic? Did we bring up the athletic? I don't know, Chad Brad, I don't need to last show, and I just consider any time in between shows. It's kind of a waste of time. Our lives are lived on air, right. Did anyone UM read the piece from Chad graf in John Krasinski? Uh, on the Vikings head coach. It is tremendous. It is very well, very well done.

That is that is great work, um. And it tells the story with inside nuggets from people that were inside the building or connected directly yesterday. How it all happened with Jim Harbaugh, who, Um, I think the general vibe from US and many others was that, Okay, Harbaugh is flying in Minnesota. There's reports out there that when he left Michigan it was kind of like a goodbye, this is a done deal. But the real story of this, uh, Marcus, you know, is that Jim Harbaugh was never quite the

leader in the clubhouse. In fact, the Vikings during a very thorough search to replace Mike Zimmer, they were a little bit spooked by the idea after a taskmaster, a guy that was kind of a hardass in Zimmer, was finally moved out of the building, do you want to bring in another guy that has kind of an edge to him, especially after they flew to l A and an interviewed Kevin O'Connell, who blew them away. And and

that's ultimately where they decide. They never even offered hardball contract. Yeah, I mean they talk about, you know, literal line from the articles that Harbaugh arrived at the Vikings headquarters early in the morning, brimming with his trademark confidence. And you know, there was a sense that I think for Vikings fans that you know, you're getting Jim Harbor on the building. Maybe this this is just um a coronation that of course he's going to get the job, and these other

names don't mean anything. UM. But they made it clear to him, abundantly clear. It said that Hardball was coming in to compete with the other guys for the job, and they had really already been super sold on Kevin O'Connell. They loved him, so it was not this UM. It wasn't like those interviews had no meaning. They absolutely did, and they I think that the questions they started to ask him UM lead them as a group, the search committee, in a direction where maybe they were just not comfortable

with the concept of Jim Harbaugh on all fronts. You said, sometime around three pm, for reasons that are not exactly clear, things started to take a left turn. The tenor started to change, and if there was any momentum at Hardball's back as he tried to secure the job, it disappeared. So it's almost like, I don't know if you've ever had a job that you thought you'd get, Um, you went for that last interview and somehow you don't get it. I mean, I typically nail these things, but UM, you know,

it doesn't always happen to everyone. You can lose it in an interview, and I think that Harbaugh probably did not think that someone named Kevin O'Connell was going to come and influence the way he did. I mean, they it seems like they found their guy. Despite Harbaugh, for Jim Harball to interview on National Signing Day, one thousand percent,

he thought that he had this job. There is no world, no way that he is flying to Minnesota and and risking losing the job and having everybody see him lose the job like this is a man who's super proud. What why? Why would he do that on such an important day on the college calendar too, and the group there were reports that he was telling his recruits that he might be gone and sort of being transparent about that. So I think for me, clearly Jim Harball wants to

maybe leave college and get back into the NFL. But I really thought, I think that he thought he had this in the bag, right, Yeah, I mean, he he works for the you know, the University of Michigan, and people there thought he was leaving the Wolverine dot com, which is you know, I guess a premier the premier website essentially covering Michigan football. I I mean, I I don't know if there's a better one out there, but

it's the Wolverine or nothing. It's it's prominent. Uh. And I saw other places kind of running with this too, of like, well if the Wolverine says, so he's gone. Uh. And they said he was gone because he started saying some goodbyes and he's just like assuming that he has the job. And whether that was right or not, I mean,

something happened. ESPN reported that he should that essentially he acted like a guy who thought he didn't really have to interview for the job either, Like he kind of just showed up and was expecting to get it, and that that that created an awkwardness. And I was reading between the lines a little bit mark in that piece and there when they talk about the search committee met with O'Connell and they were blown away. He had studied

the team's roster from the previous season. He came prepared with ideas on how to improve the team and was able to offer a nuanced review of quarterback Kirk Cousins, whom he coached for one season in Washington. I read him through that. It almost feels like Harbag just like rolled in with some you know, big energy, big blank energy, and maybe when they said all right, what's your plan, He's like, well, I'm Jim Harbaugh, go look at my resume.

Absolutely I think that I think to what Colleen and Greg said, that's exactly the case that you know these days you have to go in with Kevin O'Connell did what you should do in an interview, have a dense, you know, thought out plan for the people that are on your roster you're gonna be taking over in a week or so, and he had that in. Harball just said, look at me, I've already done this. I'm rolling in and being Jim harbaughts like that's not gonna quite cut it.

And their new GM had worked with Harball in San Francisco. They asked some pointed questions about what happened at the end of that run, because it got ugly and like what happens to the vikings into the Jim Harball experience. Not in year one or year two when things tend to go well, but when you start to get grumpy and angry and um at wanting, it's starting to have a wandering eye. That's where the Jim Harba experience goes south.

And I don't think he was able to answer those questions, and it probably became more tense and uncomfortable, and I just wish I had been able to been able to see it. It sounds quite delightful. Give me that hard knocks behind the scenes wandering high part of this too, I think is really interesting because now he goes back to Michigan with everybody knowing that he has this wandering

eye and that the it wasn't reciprocated. It was not he was trying to get out like he assumed he was getting an NFL job to do all this stuff. He let his defensive coordinator go to his brother John in Baltimore that that was part of it too. He thought this was gonna happen, and the and the Dolphins are are a little part of this. And there's there's

some conspiracy theories out there. I don't know if I'm gonna believe him or not, but Stephen Ross, the owner of the Dolphins, said publicly because he is one of the biggest, you know, Michigan donors and backers, he's a Michigan grad, that he would not be the guy to take Hardbaugh from Michigan because he didn't he didn't want he didn't want to do that to his college. Now, he was the guy who tried to hid higher Harbaugh in the same cycle that he ended up going to

the forty Ironers way back, struck out. Didn't didn't happen, And it's it's just fascinating because some people think that's a marriage that that would happen if not for what's happening now, or that Ross didn't want to make that

look bad with Michigan. Meanwhile, our guy Ian rap War reported that it really that it was Tom Brady who was set to meet Brian Flores on that boat with with ownership in Miami again in a Michigan alum, so he can sort of, you know, connect the dots all there and it's just like all this stuff is swirling together and it is a wild pre super Bowl week.

But Stephen Ross saying that he didn't want to like mess up the whole relationship that Jim Harball and everything he had going on at Michigan for him to come to Miami, that feels not true, Like why that's either coming from Harball not wanting to go there, or Steven Ross not actually wanting him, because if Harball is doing interviews with teams like the Vikings, obviously the want was there. Well, these guys always tell the truth, so I know, I

just believe it. Also, there is a you know, a sea change in the NFL, and there's a thirty six year old offensive hot shot connected to Sean McVeigh and all this stuff that carries a lot of weight. And I know Harball is a ton of success, but he's an eccentric, fifty eight year old guy. I think the league is just getting younger at the position. Um young GM two. I think that seems awkward, like an awkward fit. A guy who's the first time uh GM in a

dopo mena and and Harbaugh trying to work together. We we should talk O'Connell because, like, he's an interesting guy. You mentioned he worked with Cousins. Cousins had a good year with him. He was his quarterbacks coach in seen Washington, went to the Pro Bowl, one of the better Kirk Cousins seasons. Never been a play caller though, you know,

was drafted. I remember when Patriots fans were furious that uh the team drafted him in the third round because people were like, why are you burning third round picks on backups? They ended up doing that a million times with Jimmy g and Jacoby Brissette and Ryan Mallett, and that's just was sort of their thing that they did. But O'Connell was the first one. And it's just it's

insane that he was like a bat. He was supposed to be the backup to Tom Brady like eight seasons into his career, and yet he's now a head coach in the NFL. It does, you know, point out some of these guys rise pretty quickly, And I think that's why some of the blackhead coaches that have been around longer or had bigger experience get upset when when someone like O'Connell kind of skips to the head of the lines. Alright, and other news, Yes, it is indeed the Washington Commanders.

After eighty seven years with the former name. There were two years as the Washington Football Team, which will never, for me ever be anything other than the stupidest thing in the history of the NFL. The franchise announced Wednesday morning that its new name would be the Commanders. That also unveiled the new logo and uniforms. So yes, Joe Eisman, you know he did give it away. And I and

since we're since we're talking about Joe Tisman. I don't know, Connie, if you listened to Tuesday's show, but Joe had some real trenchant thoughts on commanders. So listen to a lot of commanders in Washington, D C. And the Pentagon. That's true. I mean, I said, that's it's hard to argue that you can't argue. I heard Sessler go pretty hard on the Pentagon. Came after the Pentagon hard controversial, Like it seemed like the Pentagon is, you know, writing poetry and

looking doing nice things. Again, a lot of commanders in Washington, D C. And the Pentagon. Once again, Mark, there's no there's nothing saying the Pentagon is this paragon of purity they met. He merely mentions that commanders reside within the Pentagon's walls. A lot of commanders in Washington, D C. In the Pentagon. Was I too critical of of the goings on inside the Pentagon? Care for potential? Careful? I mean it's you know, you think they took out you know,

JFK So he's upset. No, no, no, that's that and that's just reducing it down to something you know, that's that's folly. I mean there there is. There's nothing but a continual drumbeat of the Pentagon doing things that are just vicious along with things that we can wave our flag about two if you want to do that. I mean there is, there's there is something about it, just it's a random Rhoto pa Pat Doherty for at Rhodo World. Who I like a lot, he said. He said it

sounded like who I like a lot? Yeah, well I also enjoy him. We all like Greg like some cool Greg, I said. I said, we like him? Uh oh no, I meant you know, I don't know. I don't know what your thoughts are. Maybe your big anti Rhodo Pad. Remember when we did our Fantasy Spectacular and I said we got to get Rooto Pad on the show. That was good. I believe that I either back to you or actually came up with that idea on my own. So he wrote that the Commander sounds like the first

team to hold the XFL and USFL championships simultaneous. That's something with I think it's it's it's very easy. That's a great sweet but it's very easy for the old standard, like whether it's a uniform change or a team name. Oh man, that's like a fake name from a football movie. It's like, well, yeah, it kind of is. I'm more annoyed with you can't shorten it. How we're going to shorten this thing because because the other and this is

not funny. But it's like they're already be called the Washington Commies, which is a mixed message in terms of the comms. It's just not gonna be a great look when they finished last in the division and their name is the Commanders, Like they're not going to be commanding. Do you think less of Giants now? Like large giant people now that the Giants are like the worst team in the n s A. Someone noted though it's the

longest name, Washington Commanders is twenty letters. You gotta put that ghost characters in in the headlines a lot the battle from Washington, d C. And the Pentagon. I get Joe, Joe, we get it. You educated us through this whole process. And finally we should mention, by the way, what a week for the what is this? We should mention episode? While we're talking commanders to mess up is transition again, right,

But I I showed it before the show. You mentioned that that Dan Snyder that yea, their owner had to put out a lengthy press release denying new allegations of sexual misconduct directly against him. Um, that came out in a press conference this week. So that was time specifically with this name change. But uh, it's it's an insane it's a quite a week that he had to release that.

And Greg, I'm not going to end there either. I don't make light of this cy it sounds you know, you take that with with with gravity, the whole thing. But it was a cheerleader, as I mentioned, or sandwich props prior to the season that um, you know, unfurled the allegations against in Snyder. So just that's that only backs up my sandwich prop, which I already won because a cheerleader already had been involved in Probably what do

you mean you get your sandwich? Yeah, I'm saying, but even you're just spiking, Yeah, it just shows you that you're spiking the ball connected to some hideous allegations. I said, I do not back then it's been I'll see you later. I gotta get out of here. Um. Finally, if there's anything else. Uh. Patriots head coach Bill Belichick, who's been in the news this week, Amana Hammeda and he has an iPhone, Ricky and Connie. Uh, He issued the following

He issued the following statement on Tom Brady's retirement. I'll just would lead a read a piece of it. Hit it, Ricky. I am privileged to have drafted and coached Tom Brady, the ultimate competitor and winner. Tom's humble beginning in professional football ultimately ended with him becoming the best player in NFL history. Blah blah blah blah blah blah dash, Bill Belichick. I just want to tell you something. Belichick is a

smart guy. I mean, he's stupid in that one instance that's caused a major issue in the NFL, but otherwise, very shrewd, very smart. This is what you do. It was very small of Tom not to mention the Patriots. Bill rolls in with a glowing, glowing statement and it just makes him look better. Well, he's also doing some damage control right now. Oh, you think it's connected the subject.

He had a very similar statement when when Brady left the first time, Brady did respond, you know, in very twenty twenty two fashion, you know, in his Instagram stories, you know, showing that he showing that statement and then saying best coach ever. I love you heart emoji, heart emoji,

heart emoji. So once once you go triple heart emojis, I feel like everything's cool now everything It's gonna be emotionally taxing to Dan on multiple levels when Brady with no complaint rolls into Foxborough and you're filling the blank um from all to bowl, you know, Patriots ceremonies and um, feel good scenarios like I just I don't see the

grudge um at this point. Well he here he heard the feedback because he released another video on Thursday and he said thank you to all my supporters and teammates and everything, and he capitalized all and it was heavy on Patriots, and I did. I did get a note from a communication professional who his theory and he at the levels now, a friend of mine who had worked the highest levels. He said, you'd be surprised, like when when it's stuff like this and it's panicked. He thought

it might have just been user error. He really thought it might have been a panicked like quick thing, and it wasn't a lot of thought put into it because the user error by Tom Brady with his statement right essentially that look they and that there was a lot of that wasn't just pressing like control all the lead by mistake. I mean, he know, but he's effort put

into that message. There was a lot of effort, but that it just went out too quickly, and it's like it wasn't really too to well communications former White House work. I'm not gonna go even but he just thought, he just thought, he just thought. Basically, the rapid response of tom Brady's team was just bad. He's coming back from the other other or something. Were you speaking with Oliver North? I mean, who's the operative he had? He had a

good theory too. Is like that it was so hard on Tampa early because he knew how Brady was feeling very um apologetic. That basically the part that Adam Schefter's report coming out really Yeah, he hadn't told the Bucks. I'm saying he hadn't told the Bucks yet, and that's what the chef. Why is he? Why must he keep his identity secret? It feels like he's just sort of throwing out it's worth fun that way, all right, but is this a friend to you? I have no idea

what's happening at this point. That's what's happening in the news. Let's take a break and then let's head to Hollywood. All right, welcome back. Hit it Reggy, Hollywood something something something, Holly would Holly would something something. But it's in glamour and fair mhm official lyrics. Here's how it works in

the business, this glitz and glamour. I feel like I need a feather boa right now, Martini, would you know you kind of have the look, Connie, especially now you have the short do compared to when we first met you, when it was long, like you could easily if you had like a flapper type get up, you would. You would look right. If you put somebody in those like nineteen twenties shots, bang, you're an old Hollywood flapper. That's me, the only California roo in your house. I mean, it

just it fits too well. All right. So in in the business as it will be referred to going forward, because only people in the business called the business and wearing the business of show. That's where Greg jumps in. Well, before we move on, we should say one thing, you have an update on your on your inside source from the White House, your communications guys, that dude, who is he? That was good? I'm really glad I did that wasn't glad? Um.

To make a movie's a long process. But the first thing if you're telling a true story is you need to gain the rights and marks that such a long and winding career as a writer before becoming a NFL network personality. Maybe even Mark investigated this for one of the fascinations he's had in his past. Um is that true? By the way, absolutely? UM. I had come up with two concepts that hit a hard all. UM. One was

an adult Nancy Drew who had a major pill issue. UM, but she she had cast off the idea of being a girl investigator to be an adult, but then she comes she gets pulled back into her true destiny. The second was UM E T two where like Elliott, Elliott and Gertie are adults and UM, clearly they're totally fucked up mentally because as kids they met an alien and no one believes them. So it's you know, at them

in their current state. And both both ideas they were said like the idea, UM, you're not going to be the person to write it, and you certainly are not going to get the rights. Have a nice day, okay, all right, Well that's what we're speaking to, where you know, on this guy thinking he'd get the rights to E. T two, Right, I didn't think. I wasn't talking about like that's existing. I p e T. Okay, So well I'm talking about We'll use Kurt Wander again as the example.

Kurt Warner, what a story. I want the rights to his story, So I will pay Kurt Warner lock that in so no one else could tell this story. Okay, at least not with his guy in hand. Okay, We're gonna tell the story of an NFL team this offseason. Now, this where it gets tricky. You have to kind of look into the crystal ball a little bit. You gotta look at where the team is right now and how things can play out before figuring out who's the story

you want to tell. So I'll get it going just because it's easier that way, and then we could all get a get a shot at this UM and this this area of the football universe is sometimes um not properly. Uh, the story isn't told. So I'm actually gonna shine the light on the NFC South and the Carolina Panthers. I'm buying the rights to the Carolina Panthers off season because there are certain there are several situations, several things going

on at the same time here. Um, as we've heard for years, David Tepper since buying the team, he wants results. He wants to be a big fish. He wants to be the NFL version. This is all kind of conjecture and hearsay, but let's buy into it. He wants to be bomber over in the NBA. The Clippers owner, a guy that comes in it makes a grand entrance, buys the biggest players in free agency, immediately puts together a contender.

He's learning temper that it's hard in the NFL to do such a thing, especially if you don't have a quarterback. So you have this in play, the Sam Donald drama. It didn't work out with Bridgewater the year before. He needs a quarterback. He's now been waiting for three plus years since being over being becoming owner, uh, to find a quarterback. So there's a QB panic going on right now and that could lead to some things. Uh, some

drastic measures being taken. Now you have the possibility as well of the best player on the team being traded. That is Christian McCaffrey, who has made thirty million over the last two years to play about seven games uh injuries, but when on the field, remains an electric presence and arguably the best running back in the game. Could Christian McCaffrey be used as and dangled as a trade chip

to bring in the quarterback we want? So we got an angry owner, we got a uh, scared as hell head coach who knows he's on very soggy ground right now, and a huge hole in the center of the roster. Give me those rights. Let's follow along with this story because I think there could be some splashes. I would watch that. I like it. I think you can get really involved. Keep Pounding, I would think would be the

title keeping keep pounding man. That is a really nice element to the sag that I wish we would have thought of before. Have a title for the movie. Um yeah, I'll work on that. I'll workshop that. But keep pounding is the working tight another industry more industry jargon. Also, remember that the Panthers went hard for Matthew Stafford last year. So they want to find and identify someone like that again this year. All right, Connie, how about you? Okay, Well,

I actually do have a title for you. It's a working title. I'm just spitballing here, but my movie would be called how We Doing and We're going to Philadelphia? I know, shocker, but there's just way too many fun things happening there for it to not be a movie. And we've seen so many movies being made about Eagles fans Philadelphia fans in general. So there's a rich history of movies coming out of that Sports City, Silver Linings,

playbook Invincible. Who doesn't love those movies? But Howie Roseman is the point of how We're Doing the GM. We've seen him drunk with power before and this year. I

don't think it's going to be any different. He has three first round picks, and with the way that the Eagles season ended, wonderful that they made the playoffs, the expectations, I don't think we're anywhere near this being a playoff team at the beginning of the season, with a brand new coaching staff and Jalen Hurts only getting a full season to be the starter, they ended up in the

wild card spot. They got embarrassed in Tampa Bay, and I think that going into that game, I'm not sure a lot of people thought that the Eagles would by chance maybe move on from Jalen Hurts. But that game was just so god awful that I think it's sewed some seeds of doubt. So I think his future is super super interesting. Jalen Hurts, you have the quirky kind of bro head coach and Nick Sirianni that's a great character.

So there's there's a lot to work with their But really it's just all the drama with the quarterback position, because that's all Philadelphia. That's what Philadelphia specializes in, is backup quarterback love. And so we'll see what they do with those three first round picks. But we've seen Howie in the past before makes some huge trades and move up.

He's not afraid of doing it. He's also not afraid of drafting players that are not on his scouts boards, like a guy like Jalen raagor perhaps over Justin Jefferson. So so much drama just already built in story rights itself. I can I interrupt the pitch here, your this is

the meeting, this is the meeting at Paramount or wherever. Um, what about the news that Jalen Hurts underwent surgery on his ankle and the fact that he really was a rising talent before he hurt himself, and the Eagles probably more than likely are going to say, let's get this guy back and see if you could build on what was really promising medical drama medical drama. Well, I'm just gonna say medical drama if it's a serious surgery. But I don't know what the level of the ankle surgery.

It just could be it could lead to a bit of a deflating of the balloons story wise, if it's just like, oh, yeah, he's gonna get his ankle done and he'll be okay again. So so what I would do in that situation, Dan, And you know what, I love the point that you brought up. I thank you obviously are really great. You're you're so talented at this. What I would do is use that as a big

reveal in the middle of the movie. Because also you have to consider that Jalen Hurts has never had offensive or play callers in the same play caller and back to back seasons. You gotta go all the way back to when he was sixteen years old about and his head coach was his dad. That was the last time. So his offensive coordinators and play callers are constantly changing.

There's no continuity. So I think if he's healthy and he's able to kind of get used to an offense and find his rhythm in it and build up on it, that's how the second part, the second half of the movie ends and resolves itself. But the whole beginning, we're gonna green light it. We're gonna green light it. Amazing, that's great. Love it. By the way, I thought of the title of my movie. You know how the like a prestige picture. Uh, it's sometimes like a one word

in this little ponderous My movie is called Pounds. It's it's it's a good sign when you can just start to see it. It's just very easy to visualize Dan, which all lowercase. I think it's gritty looking. Yeah, that's a big picture of like Matt Rule and a sweatshirt and pound mm hmm. Anyway, any thoughts on Ricky Connie's pitch there for what was the film called again? How are we doing? Like the title suggested, maybe there could be some elements from some comedy in there. Right, we

need more comedy. I feel like we need more comedy. I think, yeah, Jaguett Jeffrey Laurie son has been like showing up to the Senior Bowl. Get him more involved with the story. I think, um, that that could be. That's great, big Hollywood guy. I think, right, his son, Gregg has his buddy that works for the Eagles. You could have Greg and a walk on cameo some comedy. Really, he can bring his communications professional with him for um, you know, to do him a favor after he did

us a favor. So I like that he had the man is a communications professional. And his theory was that Tom Brady forgot the Patriots. Not really so much forgot, but just like you know, it's like in succession, like things happen quickly in these in these situations, in major responses. Maybe not like that. Maybe less thought goes into it than you thought. Do you have a comedy? Yeah? I like it, you know, I think, um, I think Philadelphia

has been overrepresented at this point in moment. It's very Eagles fans to like make um silver linings playbook about them when it's like a like a men you know, it's sort of about like mental health in this relationship. It's like, oh no, it's an eagle. It's also all about Eagles fans. It's very much about the Eagles. I just said, do you have a comment, and I that's all I had. And you were an extra in Silver

Linings Playbook. Yeah. Oh you were in the dance competition, right, that's right, it's really that was my big break was Johnny in it too. No, just me. I was like, I gotta go do this thing. So it was fun. Well who did you dance with him? Oh? I don't. Just a bunch of randos that Once I was there, I was like, this was a terrible decision. Why am I doing this? And I was locked into three days? You didn't keep in touch with him? No, they nobody

noticed anything. Various male dancing partners over the course of three days. Interesting because we're friends with john too, So it's kind of now we're in a tough spot of like should we tell him. I don't think we I don't think we should. It's in our place to bring it up, and it would drop me off. I'd be like, have fun. I don't know why. He doesn't know what he's dropping you off with no concept of what you're

doing inside the behind the wall of a building. So, I mean, I'm sure it was very pure, you know, I'm sure it was fine. All Right, you got a room dancing, alright, you have nobody cares you have a picture? Greg, Do you have a comedic pitch whatever you got, No, it's not, it's not comedic. It's it's more dramatic Hollywood something something, Holly. We're gonna call this Rocky Mountains, the story of power of intrigue, um of some of the biggest names, uh in the NFL, and it's in Denver.

It starts actually last off season when lawsuits between the Bowland family start between the Bowland ownership trusts different family members, very succession like uh, all of those lawsuits and really families breaking apart over money. It's it's tough. It's a tough thing eventually settled and leaves us to the point where the Broncos are for sale. In one corner, we've got Peyton Manning involved in trying to buy this team.

Another subplot, John Elway just just brought up in our news segments involved in in an ownership uh, you know fight. So this bidding um is going to be the centerpiece of the story, but it's not it. We have a fresh faced new head coach in Nathaniel Hackett, trying to lure one of the marquee stars of the NFL, Aaron Rodgers, to come to his town amidst all of this ownership drama above him. We got A stories, we got b stories and uh and Jerry Judy is our comedic relief.

Just a hilarious lot, a lot of Jerry Judy. He's really gifted. He's a physical comedian, is how I would characterize him. Comment Instead of Rocky Mountains, Um, it's not a great title. I would go Englewood, not Inglewood, but Englewood where their player complexes. It's sort of it's interesting, kind of strange. We don't know exactly what it is. What about it? You know Englewood parenthetical up to No Good. We are see where this is how these this is

how these projects start to come together. So it's like if you don't even you don't even know what the A story is here? Is it the ownership? Uh? Some people sink their teeth into that. Is it the pursuit of Rogers? Other's people will sink their teeth into that. There there's a lot, there's a lot going on the there's a lot, there's juice even beyond so um the former owner pat Bowl and passes away, and as Greg saying, their siblings, and they couldn't figure out who should be

leading the way on it. And then on top of it, there was this this other juice before Bowl and the owner was Edgar Kaiser Jr. And his heirs wanted to go through a loophole and say that they had the right of first refusal to get back in and rebuy the Broncos. And then another part of that, this is

good because money makes the world go around. As Mrs Miller said, my social studies teacher pro over middle school that but well she that was her way to express how so many things, how things move in the world. And it's true. The team is valued at just under four billion dollars right now in North America. Steve Cohen just paid two point four billion uh in for the Mets. This would go for four billion in that neighborhood. That's

a lot. And by the way to buy in as a and so on some level, I think Peyton Manning would have to like put together over a hundred million dollars of his own money something maybe even something more than that. So it's he would he would if here always especially Manning were involved, maybe as a you know, it's a relatively minor partner or somewhat minor, but might

might have an executive type role. There's a lot going on, and just with all these lawsuits and everything going, I mean, how how that all that billions of money is getting split up is also you know, maybe still up for grabs well and Greg, what's more poetic than we could have a flashback to Alway, Um, you know, doing what he did to get Manning into the building back in the day, but now it would be Manning who would

help get Rogers in. So it's there's a lot of you know, there's a lot what if there's like and

it could connect to the news this week. Elway, it's he needs to to get this done, um, and he knows he needs to look right, so he actually does like an American psycho type beauty routine and there's like no one's gonna say, I'm gonna look the shoveled for this, and he's like peels his face and does a hundred thousand crunches and he's in the white boxer briefs and he just stares in the mirror menacingly for twenty five minutes. And we do it in real time in the movie.

That's the visual that just takes off in the mind. This peeling face mask is for John. All the drama with the ownership. I think I feel like they need Lakisha to bring over her stage. And it was kind of like, I think what you're saying is my movie is box office is what I think. There's a lot. I think you're you're cashing in on the succession angle, which is I don't watch Billions, um because typically steer clear from showtime. I don't know why, but uh, I

think that's a similar show that's about general rule. You just don't want for me. It's like it's HBO or I'm out on the previum cable. Like if I it's just if it doesn't have that HBO stamp of approval, I don't watch it. You're not You're not like a p Valley fan on Stars. You know. I was gonna say, like, who do any of you watch a show on Stars with a Z? I not? I actually just purchased upon great recommendation from our friend Lukisha P Valley for the

first season, and I'm excited about it. That's right, get back to us. Let us know how P Valley is. UM are going to close this out all right? Well, you know, not every UM movie needs to detail heroic events necessarily. I mean, a good movie has a lot of conflict in it. So I want to go to an organization, UM in massive flux. UM. We're gonna be

calling this working title Jackie Bang Bang UM. It's going to take place in Houston, inside the Texans organization, and we're going to look at an organization with a lot of warring elements within within the building. UM, jack Easter be to start the fact that this movie begins right about now where they're making a decision between two potential head couch cud coaches, Josh McCown or maybe even Brian Flores.

Either scenario UM would be highly gripping to observe because number one, Josh McCown, who was simply a player a couple of years ago, UM, and you could even have a flashback of him on the Eagles when he was there in your movie, colleaguen to link these two together. But he comes in as a head coach UM in a way that is almost Hollywood esque. There's no resume. It's like a very bizarre hire um. Or you get Brian Flores returning UM to the head coaching spot, which

would be incredible and incredible story in itself. And then you know you've got a quarterback scenario where Deshaun Watts and UM, we don't we. You go in not liking this character and you probably don't like him ever in the whole thing, but he he was interested in Brian Flores in Miami. That was one of the draws there. So what happens there? Do you start over with it? Maybe someone steps in and just says, listen, we're gonna

do the right thing at quarterback. We're gonna start over, and you just find someone that comes in again like Josh McCown an unknown and there's a lot of like you know, worst the first UM heroic type stuff happening here. But you've got to I don't want to call it a bumbling owner, but an owner with some questions to answer on their own front. And Cal McNair, you've got Um, You've got Nick Serio the second year GM who wants to follow up Patriots plan. They put a bunch of

one year contract dudes out there. But now everything starts to come but to come together, and this laughing stock turns into something else. And maybe along the way we learned that Jack Easter be Um painted as a total villain? Is he more? Is that all he is? Do we learn about him? Is their character transformation here and we leave the film thinking maybe this Easter big guy had it right all along, or maybe not. There's just a lot to learn about this team. And I'm saying going

behind the curtain of the Texans is fascinating. And I do said because I just rewatched randomly the pilot of Friday Night Lights, the television show, and maybe Josh McCown could be played up as a almost like a Matt Saracen type where he's like he's an innocent almost and he's he just loves ball and he just was coaching the high school Sons high school football team as an assistant, and he's wide eyed and he just wants a shot.

But it's like the personality of Saracen, but the looks of Tim Reggan's that's that's what I mean, Josh McCown is made for cinema. I mean the hair, the jaw line, right, I mean, he's perfect for this. You don't need to const it with some you know Ham and Egger. You just put him in it and imagine all the opportunities that you'll have for flashbacks. I mean the Duyne Brown trade to Seattle and all of the drama was going on.

There was it Ryan Mallett. That was he the quarterback that overslept and missed like the team bus for a game or something. Was it him? I can't know if that's like one of the top moments in their history, because there is a there's a narrative thread that might bog down the film a little bit or like ramp up the stakes and make it more interesting. Did you mention Deshaun Watson? Yes? I did, Okay, Yeah, that's where you were you sleeping during that part of the pitch.

It was a rambling. But you're like them Friday meeting where the guys have been getting pitches all day. People mentally left the building, you know, a half an hour ago. I get that, but we could get you know, our friends Seth Payne. You imagine we opened you know with him in his studio with all these fans calling in.

They're furious at the Texans. The thing is a disaster and there's a lot of Seth pain through it and like, but then he has to if the team starts to rise, you get your you were in the first hand look at Seth Payne in the radio show having to look at this team differently. We're starting to fall for them, so you and Seth will take a job. Is the audience conduit here right? Like he's doing a lot of the narrative heavy lifting which the announcers in sports movies

often do. They are really like explaining a lot of of what just happened, like that you can bring in Lancer Line to to help with things. I mean, I don't know if McCown is going to have the time to act in the movie starring himself while he's also being the head coach priorities, but um that's for another And you could also have um Dolph Lundron play Josh McCown's father, or it's a movie about creating a movie about the Texans where Josh McCown he is actually the coach,

but also an actor playing himself as coach it's very meta. Um, you have no idea what's reality, what's not? It breaks in the documentary then has you know featurettes that are fictional. Yes, it's very very Sinadeck, New York. Or however you pronounced that movie which it's also film given for me was too much. We can film in reverse order like Memento. That's the next thing I do with it. Alright, Jeff film in Vancouver to save money. That's true. We could

subb in Vancouver, Houston. Anyway, let's let's wrap this up. The four films all greenlit. By the way, here in Hollywood they're handing out money like there's nothing here in tensel Town, saying there's the gritty um drama Pound all owercase, there is the Eagles feel good tale. How you doing? How we how? Oh how how we got here? I just got it. That's like I thought, how you doing? It's like a Brooklyn thing. But I don't know Philadelphia. I don't. Wait's trying to get that title right, because

that's so stylized. Mostly about the title. It was mostly the title. Did everyone else get that? I didn't get that until she explained that that's my that you know that's on me and I take full responsibility. The right people got it? Does it pass the billboard test? Like if it says how we doing Howie? It's just funny too because like it's thinking of Howie on the billboard. It's just that him in at the most Goodwill Hunting is literally the worst movie title ever. And that's a

great Hey, that's gretty. We have anglewood open parenthetical up to no good clothes parenthetical. That's up to you. That's your project. It's your project, Greg, that's just the workshop within the meeting. You could lose the parenthetical, but you might lose some funding as well. I'm fine with it. I don't have a I don't have anything better. All I have, you know, all I had was Rocky Mountains, pretty rough. So and then Jackie bang Bang on the

Texans right film order. By the way, Jackie bang Bang it's a documentary within a film within a documentary film and reverse order. Oh, I just got the Jack Easter be part of jack Jack bang Bang. Because on the side Jack Jack used to be, we learned is also committing um I think it's too exercise sort of um

inner demons. He he commits small crimes all around Houston. Um, you know, sticks up small convenience stores and things on the side, and you're gonna need Frank signettistig just so you guys know, Um pound is a hard are How are you doing? Is pg? Thirteen angle it up to no good? They're they're not sure yet. It might be Pg thirteen. He could go our Jackie Jackie Bang Bang

is n C seventeen at best, Thank you. There's a lot of there's like a surprising amount of nudity in Jackie Bang Bang well to the point where you're wondering about the man behind the project, what he's seeking to accomplish. True, it's like it's like, oh, it's like we oh, we get it. We're very progressive. Lots of full male news to me. But like you know, there's there's sometimes just too much a all right, all right, we are we're

done for the week, no Sunday show. For the first time, i'd be I gotta say this before we move on. I gotta be greg for a second. I have had my finger on the on the trigger all show, and you guys didn't even come close to saying the word that we weren't a loot. It would have been way more fun if you guys had slipped up or whatever. I feel like we need to do this again. You're dealing with professionals here, so you know, we understood that.

But I thought I thought you guys might slip up and it would add a little show up, like you just want to shoot you want to shoot Greg in the neck with that dark dunch. Yeah. I thought he would be like, oh, and then you know super Bowl. Oh that's Coory. Next time you hear from us, it will be Tuesday. We're gonna be We're not getting on a plane. We are gonna be right here in Los Angeles side of blank blank And see if you wouldn't have jumped in there, Ricky, I would have absolutely said

it just now if it had come up. It's just we were talking about movies. Yeah, that's that's really. So we're gonna be at Radio Row Tuesday a show. We'll have a show for you Tuesday, So no show Sunday, no show Monday. Uh, Wednesday, we'll have a show for you. And then Friday we got a double dip for you. We have the around the NFL Broadcast super Bowl Special on NFL Network and also our annual Friday super. I

didn't say the second word. I don't know if that I took the dart anyway, but right in the jugular our preview of the game, and then of course Sunday night the recap VABA game and maybe some surprises along the way. So thank you, Connie, you've said it all. Thanks Dan, And if you're going, I'm sure you had to raise that seat about two ft. If you could just return the seat to its prior. I actually had to lower the seat. And now I'm putting my feet

on the desk. That's just disrespect. I don't like to disrespress. It is that gum on the bottom. That's just the way that. Okay, let me, you know, please clean up the workspace around you. Don't leave, you know, rappers, bottles of water. It's not it's not someone else some notes. Let us back in our studio please, whoever is listening, all right, that's it, Thank you everybody for listening. Have

a great weekend. Um and gang will see you on Saturday and Ricky as well as we celebrate the great Chris Wesling, who was known to say a phrase that we all have come to admire. Greg even has a tattoo uns on heed the call