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k t rolled the audio. How to go? Here's Gladys? Okay? Oh? Yes, around and around we go. H Gladys? How are you? How's it going? What we have here has some chicken? I'm Kevin, Yes, that's all that you. This is Danny. I'm Kevin, Kevin. T oh, I can't keep the whole. I can't have the whole bag. Wow, what an amazing amount of food we've gotten. How Gladys, what you doing today? Continue today? Yeah, never stop, not stopping. Yeah, be careful out there with theirs. Okay,
take care if out there. Gladys, love you, we love you. I love you. She didn't say it back. Whoa, I'm gonna give me some of that chicken bitch dance. She was very nice. Thank you. Kevin tried to take the whole door dash bag, like the insulated bag that she probably had to pay for. He just grabs the hold and she's like no, no, all of Farmer's branch deliveries, three strikes on, telling her your love her. I know there's nothing. He said. Good
luck with the squirrels out there today. Be careful, be careful everywhere right now this time of year. I guess, well, thank you and well done down there, and thank you, Gladys. Probably a listener, definitely definitely buy it. Yeah, yeah, there's a big article in Sports Illustrated. In Sports Illustrated, a lot of people were mad that the Rangers weren't on the cover. I don't really know how that works anymore, don't care. But they have this whole series and it's like, how does this work?
And they did an article on They sent a couple of riders down and said, spend a week on the sideline of an NFL game. Now. They said they're hoping it'd be a very normal NFL game. It turned out it was the game where the Dolphins beat the Broncos like seventy to twenty, So it's kind of historical now funny part of the article as it gets going. He's like Mike McDaniel, the head coach of the Dolphins, and for those that don't know, he's kind of the stoner talking guys. He's unconventional.
He's the the early thirties and if you saw him, you'd probably go, there's a nerd. But he's very awesome and he started his career as a ball boy for the Broncos. So if anyone needs to know about the commitment that it takes to have a full sideline and how much of all of that stuff means on a day to day operation, he would know they care about the little guy. One quote that he had in there said people don't
understand the commitment of what it is to work a seven day week. I was like, you know what a lot of people don't work seven day weeks. The people that do are generally oil field types. But what is that, Yeah, working all for ten days on ten days off, right, is that how it goes? What type of thing? Two weeks on, two weeks off. We're not oil men like you are, Kevin Well from
your ranch and only. But they started, they kind of broke down a lot of different jobs of different people, like Patrick, the tech guy. The tech guy shows up. Let's say it's a noon kickoff. He shows up at eight am. He finds the guy at the purple hat. It's the NFL league representative who's got all the tablets. And then Patrick is there making sure that they meet all the tablets they need. For example, they
don't like to have the stylus attached to their tablets. That's right, pre arranged stylus, no string, right, But if it's cold weather, they do like to have the stylus attached because the players were the players coaches were gloves to keep their hands warm. So he's got to make sure that all of those were But here's what I didn't know about that. I didn't know these team was only allowed to have sixteen tablets per game. There's like a
hard set rule on that. Yeah. I overall I found this whole article, excuse me, incredibly interesting and it was little things like that that I didn't know. You know, we watched so much football and it's just this controlled chaos that you don't really appreciate or even know where to start on a sideline. There's so many jobs that were I was kind of unaware of.
You're right, somebody in charge of these tablets and the league regulations of how many you can have and what they're for, which is essentially all twenty two cams. And they said they have two coaches that want the paper. They want the paper still the photographs, like I don't want your tablet. No tablets need analog information. So there's two coaches that still want the printed photographs
of the all twenty two instead of the tablets. And you know that's a collective side from Patrick and his team, but you never know it spark off the Mitchell report. Well you're at it there, pailf. Yeah, and they say, within what five seconds of a play happening, there's a printer on the sidelines and they can print this staple it all together. They've got a runner and they run it to these coaches for the All twenty two,
which is fascinating. There's a camera directly above the fifty, right they say that, and I'm like, yeah, at the fifty Okay, not directly above obviously at that at hard Rock Stadium when there's nothing up there and then a camera and jin zone. I don't know. I just among the many things I learned in this article, that was one that I found very interesting. It makes me think that they've got a couple of old guys in their coaching staff, and if they just give those guys, they could move away
from having to have a printer to what it's said liked. And they made a point to say that the names of those people that it printed out, yeah, out of deference to them, they did not choose to have their names disclosed, I guess, or the article didn't whatever. Man. The thing I got out of this is basically, these teams sixteen seventeen weeks out of the year, have a big production, big budget movie to make every week, yes, and six days to prepare for it. Yes. I
think that's well put. It's incredible the amount of moving parts and just anonymous figures involved with doing this, and you know what, every one, you know what as far as the sport goes, like, there's only sixteen games, there are one hundred and sixty two in Baseball sixteen, so you already know how like the condensed stress of these sixteen how much it means for the team, But then apply that to everyone the entire theatrical performance, however you
want to put it. Yes, it's amazing. Everyone was making sure that they go to every link imaginable to make sure that if something screwed up, like we lossy, to make sure that nothing screws up because of how much weight it has if they do screw it up, and then they're the ones to blame. Yep. Like the guy was talking about the Wi Fi connection and he's like and he told the story, this is a big guy.
I remember this game last year was Week seventeen or eighteen. The Jets and the Dolphins lost their in headset communication and he had to go through a checklist head of NFL headquarters or whatever on like here's how we're gonna do this, and then here's a walkie talkie that we could use as our third backup option, and to make sure that they can't talk, because that's the thing that's never talked about enough to me, the coach at fifteen seconds on the play
clock, the coach and quarterback can't talk. I mean, the coach can't talk to the quarterback anymore. I don't know if you're Peyton Manning talking about this on the on the Manning cast, and he's like, I always want the coach to shut up, like, just tell me the play and then
don't don't be in my ear. But I imagine with some quarter back, especially younger quarterbacks, they are getting a coach telling them here comes the linebacker or watch out for that, and then fifteen seconds goop it cuts off.
So msually have to do that with a walkie talkie. And this guy's talking about because the Wi Fi could be a problem because during COVID they spread out the benches, so the sideline got a little bigger and longer, and it wouldn't reach and it wouldn't reach all the way down as long as far as you might need it to go time. It was just crazy to me, And we never think about that when we're watching guy hit, guy tackle, tackle score, you know, when we watch our lovely football, we're talking
about this article that came out in Sports Illustrated I guess yesterday. So it's basically about what the hell goes on on the sidelines, behind the scenes to get from basically Monday through Sunday in an NFL game. They followed the Dolphins in particular on this the week that they beat Dinver seventy to twenty. And I want to ask you, guys, this, the the job that seems like the most demanding and difficult is probably the one that pays the least,
and that would be the assistant freaking equipment manager. Yeah. He was the last guy that I think so yeah, and just oh my god, the amount of responsibility, not only the amount of the diligent checklist this guy must go through every week, every day, numerous departments that he has to deal with, but the having to be fluid with requests. Yeah, because you know how high maintenance some of these players can be. Yo, man, I like that hoodie that I had last Tuesday, you know, the green
one with the thing on it. I needed like three of those. Yeah, what, okay, let me write that down. He's got on a sea of face masks and straps and he's like, yeah, sure, let me get you that. But what I found interesting, I think is what Kevin just brought up is how all these people, every one of them, all their job is to make that kid think of nothing but what he has to do on the field. Yeah, and they don't like almost by default.
I'm like, oh my god, I got some nineteen year old who thinks he's the king of the world, you know, But they don't even think like that. They think like, how do I do? What do I do to make this guy's life easier on him? Whether it be the perfect tape job on his wrists or his ankles? And they have the girl they talked about for that. She's like, if they don't, if they're not hurt, or if they don't even need it. They just want to look good, yes, she said. And yes, some of them just
have tape because they think it looks cool. It means nothing, and she said that's part of a performance. If they feel like they look good, maybe they'll perform back. Yep, that's very Ian golf attitude. You know it look good, play good. The attention that is given to these players on any given day is next to probably royalty. And I thought of, you know, because I'm watching the crown right now for the first time through and uh, just the amount of hand servants that those people that monarchy has
were. Basically, the guy is holding you, handing you a toothbrush that's already pre loaded pre dust in water however you prefer it, and holding a bowl under you your face to spit in, and you hand him the tooth brest. Basically, all you're doing is brushing your teeth and spitting and everything else is taken care of. It's kind of like that mentality for these guys to make sure they are so catered to. So, like you said,
all they're thinking about is effing footput to that and his second phone. That same guy you brought up, the assistant equipment manager, you know, he's like he's scouring the sidelines making sure everybody's good. He's like, if he sees a shoe untied, he will run over and tie it. And he's like, yeah, they could tie their own shoe, but that's two full seconds that they're not thinking about what a coach talking or what they should be
preparing for. And that's like insane and it might be stupid, but if you can justify that. Dude made one play in one second, the change is the result of a regular season game that got to the playoffs, that you won the super Bowl. I mean, like you can kind of justify it like that, like why wouldn't we do everything to make their lives just
a fraction of a percent easier? And that that's the thing is when you have teams that pay that much attention to detail, that give them that if it increases their percentage of winning or something good happening for them, that's what it's all about. It's putting yourself in the best possible scenario to be you
know, to be successful. And I mean those metrics, once you add them up across the board, it might maybe it equals a win, right it does, which then equates to making the playoffs or not, which then equates to more revenue being earned. So yeah, they get money. It sounds and things like that, which I think is important to like you're playing
for something there. It does sound a little bit more money would go to the entire staff as well, but like that's all Like the commendment level is always very cool to see on some of this when they're talking about do what I have to do? I remember the guy who is the uh the gay basically had to handle it services in the building. It was like, the problem is some coaches stay at the office till two am. Some coaches come in to work at three am, and if something's wrong, I gotta be
there. And if oh, I got to fix this thing. But Hewlett Packard can't come in and fix this computer at this time. I've got to be there and meet him at one thirty am to make it work, find a find a way. It does not matter because they got to have their stuff. I like the assistant athletic trainer, the girl, and she was talking about just kind of knowing which players prefer pedialyte versus which players prefer pickle
juice when they're cramping up. And then she talked about also they don't players don't really care about what color the gatar ade is, but they can't use red, and the reason being because red could be confused as a stink, as a blood stain if it's billed on you. And some players are allergic to the die. I don't know. There must have been one player, probably the kicker. Yeah, Jason Sanders, Thanks, I'm allergic, Okay, Jason, we'll have something else then. Jason had to stay home from
school a lot. Jason, the guy who talked about the coach is getting jammed up. That was interesting to me, and we talked a little bit about it, but he said that headset troubleshooting isn't his main job. He's got to do the thing. And this is what I think Julie's husband used to do this with the Stars, the video coach, the amount of crap that they have to piece together from a data standpoint, and I've seen this
firsthand. Me and Kavanaugh used to go up to the Dallas Stars facility thanks to our friend Brian Rodis, and we will watch anything the Cowboys had and it was amazing. Okay, so let's just go to the twenty sixteen draft. I want to watch tape of Dak Prescott. Okay. I want to see every touchdown pass Dak Prescott through this shar Well, hit a button. There they are. It's thirty plays. Yep. I want to see every interception. Here they are. Here's eleven plays. I want to see every
incompletion. I't to see every completion over twenty five yards, every screen pass, you know, every deep But it's more than that. He said that within five minutes after the game. He he could McDaniel could do every bit of that for the game that was just played. But they're doing advanced scouting too, and he will be in the bus thinking about the next opponent. Yeah, and he's like, I want to see every time our next opponent's
defensive tackle lined up in the one technique versus the three technique. Crazy, and they have this all searchable. Again. He's like, I might need it might take me a few minutes, but I can. I can have that delivered quicker than you'd imagine. It's it's amazing, Like I remember watching we can go watch players at the Star or Valley Ranch even way back in the day, and offensive linemen and be like, well here he played left tackle and left guard. Hit the button here, all this snaps the left
tackle. Yep, here all of snaps the left guard. All therefore, you just it was so easy to find. I didn't put together. And they have a league wide hub that they have to submit all their own video to within a few minutes after the game. I think that every league, every team in the league has access to so it's all shared. I don't know if that's checks and balances to prove that you're not shooting the sideline and getting you know, stealing whatever or or what it is or just for fairness.
Oh, it's just stuff I didn't know. Man, fascinating. And the these houses didn't have like a big staff either. I mean said he has staff of three that as far as filming, that filmed the play from each angle. So like this do is might help explain why. I mean, look at like sports and played sports growing up on stuff. But in sixth grade the year before junior high, but I was, you know, a manager. So there was a bunch of us who are water boys.
We're in junior high, but we were managers for the for the Varscoal. Is this going to apply to the NFL? Well, we'll see. Well, for each home game we had a rolls, but for each road game we would draw out of a hat where our rolls were. You always wanted to be the ball boy. You just follow the ref all the day and just make sure that the balls are dry and all that stuff. Water boy.
You didn't want to do water boy that sucked towels just fine. There could be the cords that you if you're running the cords or spasical making sure the coaches don't get tripped up. But for home games, I went up in the big like an electric company's cherry picker. You know. They would take me up before each game. I get into the cherry pickers sixth grade, Kevo. But I would film the game so there was an All twenty
two look. I mean, dude, in small towns, not every school is getting an All twenty two look like that from like behind the uprights. So I'm going up and man, I tell you what a few times that if they kick a field goal with extra point, the balls coming up at you while I'm filming it. But I would film that and the coach would have it after the game. And that coach really liked me because of that, because I was giving him good film copy to look at. And then
he left and went to a different town. So my hopes and dreams of been quarterback were shot because he took another job. You didn't consider transferring. I did not. Where do you go, Steven? I'm sorry? Uh at the West sweet Water? Sweet Water, Sweetwater. That's the home of the rattlesnake Round up, Mikey Yanks, What about the protector? Larry Jeriga sixty four to three pounds. He's the security guard. But home games he takes Mike McDaniel's wife and kids to the game. Going away games, he's
there like on the field. And his advice was, if there's a guy that ever runs on the field security guarding one oh one, let him run for a little bit, let him get tired, and then go get him. Yeah, oh that was great. And what do you have like twenty seconds of burst? Yeah, basically, and then that energy bar depletes and he's don't don't check an easy play, don't chase, wants to run and right out of player, don't chase. That's interesting in the level of alcohol
just disascerbates. Oh yeah, the whole process. But I like that. Yeah, because he has all these jobs. But on game day, a few hours before the game, he goes to Mike McDaniel's house and picks up his family and he's like, you know, it seems odd, but the last thing on a coach's mind needs to be are my kids in good hands? Do they make it to the whatever? Everything is just to clean the minds of those who have to focus for that three hours. Being a coach
is like having a double life. I think that was yeah, and this may be where you're going during the season. That One other thing that I wanted to bring up is the twenty four to seven availability that most all of these people have to have that are involved. You're always on call and you better pick up your phone if it's during the season. Yeah, including that guy who's on his honeymoon, and like Iceland, he's answering it questions. M Well, you're a part of the most popular thing in America. You
don't like your job, someone else will take your job. I used to think about that way about radio, but then I realized that no one really cares about radio anymore. What do they think they're the ticket? I know, right, it's very strange. But I don't know if that was a good article. That was a lot of fun, good reading. It's like
it's good from more perspective on that. I know, Mikey, you and I just went to two road games, you know, this year in the NFL, and you do You're taken aback when you look all the way up and down the sideline, I'm like, God, there's a bunch of people on this sideline. I mean, you see it on TV every week we see a guy get hit you know, you know, hard on the sideline and you're like, why is there so much crap on the sideline? This
is this article kind of explains why there's so much crap. It's all needed. They had the one wide shot of the entire sideline with all the arrows pointing at every person's job. Incredible. Again, this is all in sports illustrating. You can just google just go Sports Illustrated Dolphins and scroll down a little bit and it's Yeah, I don't remember the title, but you'll find
it. It's a real long, in depth read. But I thought it was excellent, man, very fascinating, fantastic and just like how much crap they got to move to go on the road. Yea, that's like that part of it is like a traveling rock and roll tour. Yes. Like when they had the joint practices with the Texans, Yeah, like god,
that's a pain because they need multiple everything for multiple days. You have to say, hey, Texans, do you have an extra blocking sled or do we need to bring one, you know, a thousand pounds blocking sled. Yeah, throw that truck in one of your many trucks or planes and prioritize
what goes in the truck versus what goes in the plane. And then just like the molding of all their heads in training camps, of their helmets on the inside to make sure the helmets fit absolutely to perfection, and then sterilizing the helmets like the Thursday before the game, and then on Friday replacing all their face masks because you have brand new face masks every game. I don't you know that, no brand new face mask every game. I always wonder
if it's brand new shoes, brand new helmet. I assume the helmet stays for the whole year, but I don't know. That's also in high school, like probably not. It was a very good reading. If you don't lack reading, just listen to our segment again because we podcast every single segment after the show. Coming up next in the scuttle But I've got a bone to pick with the restaurant and I'm gonna annihilate them next. I'm ninety seven, won the Freak