Football Is Back And So Are We!

three months old today, so maternity leave is over. But I'm so excited there's a new man in my life, not just my new little baby boy, because this man, I don't have to change his diapers, so he's already good in my book. It's my new co host. He's an actor, producer, and once at a three point shot in the NBA Celebrity All Star Games, so you know he's got range. Let's see how he does on our microphones. Welcome to Unleashed, Jerry Ferrara, Olivia, I'm so happy to

be doing this with you. As you'll get to know me and my football fandom. You may have to change my diapers while watching Giant games because they drive me absolutely crazy and make me very very nervous, so I can't promise fully, but yeah, three months in, I'm glad that you're you're back now. But it's like back to school now, right, Like this season starting is a lot

of good stuff going on. I love it. This time of year always feels like, you know, the weathery're starting to get a touch cooler, you know, leaves are changing, and like I grew up with my whole family working in football especially, so this time of year always felt like back to school. And even my husband who plays basketball, this is when he goes back to this season, so this whole like I have a teacher's schedule. Everyone in my family as a teacher's schedule, so this should be

no different. What are you most excited for just to kind of like leave somewhere behind, move forward, get back into football. Yeah, it's uh, you know, football is the longest amount of time in between like Super Bowl ending to first season, and obviously I'm a big basketball freak too, so that gets to be going. But it's time now. Like I love all the sun. I have two kids, so I love all the Sunday fun days with the family. It's awesome. Wouldn't trade that for anything in the world.

But yeah, I'm about to enter season two of football watching on Sunday with two kids, switching from the zone to a man defense. So figuring out how I'm gonna watch all these games, timing up the naps and stuff like that, It's could be really interesting. Are you guys like sticklers where you log like they nap at this time, they pooped at this time to eat it this time? Are you like that? We did that with the first for like the first first kids for the first six months.

Let me say, the second one, you're kind of just like, he's probably good, it's probably it's fine, he's good. Let's go. Oh, I got an ages? What ages are your kids? So I got three and a half and one and a half. They're almost exactly two years apart. And yeah, like I said, with the one kid, it was kind of easy to watch football and do all my you know, my bets and fantasy stuff. And now with the second kid, that's definitely be a challenge. So things have to go in

my life. Unfortunately, like you, as you're learning, your bandwidth is only so big. The kid takes most of it up, and I have to make some tough cuts. I don't get to watch baseball as much, which makes me sad. If things have to go, I would go ahead and nix the three and a half year old. It just seems like they've had a good run. I mean, if you said things have to go, I don't know, like you have to pick one. Yeah. The unfortunately thing, I think I'm making a really tough cut this year and

some people. I know this might annoy some of you listening. Uh, I think I'm done with fantasy football. I know this is like sacrilogious to say, right, well, I mean now you're getting deeper into gambling, you're joining our show, You're more into sports gambling, and I bet you're going to watch sports a little bit differently now because every Tuesday you're gonna hop on the mic with me and we're gonna break it down. So, no, you don't have time

for fantasy football. I will tell you that. Yeah, And look again, I love all fantasy sports. I go back to I did fantasy baseball and I drafted Moist Salu and we used to have to score it ourselves with a pencil and a paper. So like, I love fantasy the camaraderie of it to me, which is what I used to love to live drafts talking trash. Here it's gone. It's all gone, and I've just enjoyed more. And this is not even like a bet MGM homwer thing. I'm saying.

I really just enjoy figuring out my own props for the weekend, make my own fantasy kind of element with some prop bets. So I'm sorry Fantasy Football. Although I'm getting a lot of heat from the commissioners about dropping out that people are pretty shocked by this. So I don't know if I if I'll hold strong, but I think I'm out. Well, yeah, and as I discovered, you have some pretty high profile commissioners, like how many leagues are you in? And who are some big names in

these leagues? Because what I told you, I said, oh, just tell your commissioner you're out. And he said, well, one of my commissioners is c J McCollum, so you've got to explain more about that. Yeah, he did. He put something out on Twitter about doing like a fantasy league. I just responded, I don't really know CJ, like on a personal personal level, and I would like for replying

on Twitter, It's all right, you're in. Someone's gonna text you and someone did, and I'm in this league and yeah, trying to like back out of this one, like not, guys, I'm out and getting pressure. Yeah, I'm gonna have to really hold the line here from from all but the other ones, Like there's a few of my friends. I'm like, I'm done, and I just put them all. I just basically ignore the text. Now I'm out. I got much more things to do with football season than fantasy. I

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he has his own wine label. You know, he's when he was up with the Trailblazers, he really got into the wine game. And he has a rose and it's delicious. C J. I gotta tell my wife that, because she's all about the road. I didn't know he has. You know, all right, maybe I'll stick around in the league see if I can get a free case of rose. Is like a concert coming in ninth place, which I probably would while I'm focusing all my energy on if Travis

Kelsey's gonna have nine and a half catches. Yeah. You know what's embarrassing though, is I reached out or I said on the podcast as we recorded, and I'm I don't shy away from asking for free things. You'll learn that about me. And I said, oh, c J, I would love if you could, you know, send some of that rose over. I never met a rose I didn't like. And he's like, okay, they sent me one bottle. I thought I was going to get a case at least one bottle. Come on, that's a that's a porch sipper.

Well maybe they just were you know, if you like it, you know, hit me back. Maybe he's don't want to be presumptuous, like you're gonna love this so much. I'm gonna send you nineteen bottles of rose, which you've got to figure out how to store properly for the next year. Oh, I can store it, and I've got thirsty friends. How are your Sunday's gonna be now? You know you've got the three month old, It's gonna be great, lots of naps and all that, but you know you are you

ready for this? Definitely gonna be different, It's gonna feel different. Yeah, so we haven't talked about this yet as you and I are getting to know each other. But I have two NFL teams, which I know some people think is kind of sell out of me. But to be fair, I've grown up in two places in my life and still own property in two places now as an adult with my husband, And that's Kansas City and that's where I am right now. That's my home, ba Ace and

grew up a Chiefs fan. My dad's career started with the Kansas City Chiefs. I you know, grew up running around Arrowhead and and love the Chiefs, but also the Green Bay Packers are so my team. Spent part of the year every year of my life in Wisconsin. My husband's from Wisconsin. Kind of long story, but we're huge Packer fans. Our first date was watching a Packer game. First time we said I Love you was about a month later at a Packer game. Like, we are Packers

through and through. My grandpa worked there for twenty years. I've worked there, like that's probably my bigger team. But to answer your question, my whole Sunday revolves around what time those two teams play, you know, so it's pretty easy and I like having an NFC team in an an FC team, you must have been a little nervous last year because the proposition of Chiefs Packers was definitely out there that that was a very that was very

possible for the Super Bowl last year. So you you would just root for the Packers, but you wouldn't be sad if like the Chiefs won. Yes. So in my family, I'm one of four kids, so we're all kind of in the same position, but some of us, for whatever reason, lean heavier one way, and a sister, one of my sisters and me die hard Packer fans, like go to most home games a year, I gotta say. And then my other two siblings are bigger Chiefs fans. But I don't know. It's like if our parents were to get

divorced and we'd have to split down the middle. I think we know how we'd split it. Whoever has the Packer tickets? Yeah, that was like that Super Bowl isn't Niners Ravens with both Harbob brothers. I asked my mom, Mom, if that were me and my and my brother's name is and that like me and Anthony, what do you do? And I kind of called her out because he's the first born, and I just, I'm I just, I'm a big believer, Like, I don't think there's favoritism, but the

first born, it's just different. Like I was talking about my second already, just like he'll figure it out, you know that first year you're logging in when they pee and poop into an app and do stuff like that. So I think my mom, if I was coaching against my brother in the super Bowl, deep down, would be like, come on, Anthony, you can win this one. She'll never admit that. Oh my god, oh that's horrible. I can admit. And I know my three siblings don't listen to my show.

But my mom one time told me I was her favorite. She told me, and it was recent too, it's like last year. Oh gosh, well yeah, my grandmother did tell me one time. She said, you know, Jerry, you're like, you're cute. Your brother is handsome, Like, oh my god, that's grandma. We're airing out all the family laundry early on this shot. Yeah, And to make it worse, I'm the third kid, like I met such a random mortar of the four, and I'm still the favorite. So that's

probably like my favorite thing. About myself. One of my favorite things about you, Jerry, is a lot of people when I told him you're the new co host, like friends, family, strangers, on the street, they all say, oh my gosh, Turtle. It's Turtle from Entourage. How often do people just yell out to you on the street or in an airport or something, Turtle, I love you, man. So look like if you, if you kind of turned the clock back to, say two thousand six, when the show was really kind

of red in its height. We were in like the third or fourth season, it's like a twenty five year old meat head fresh out of Brooklyn. Yes it was. It was more often than not Turtle over Jerry. As the years wore on and kind of eleven itself out. Then I go and do power. I played a character and they're called Procter. So now it's kind of like split down the middle, Procter Turtle. I want you know what, Okay,

this is a perfect time for the story. So obviously you and I are just getting to know each other. But I have met your husband before, very very long time ago, and I hope he remembers this because I remember in this Okay, So all during that magical run Wisconsin had when Sam was playing and Frank Kaminski was there. Great run, great teams, super fun to watch, and I

think it was Kaminsky. I think it was Frank who was very much on Twitter talking about how Entourage was his favorite show and was always quoting lines from the show that was quote Johnny Drama going like victory, all this stuff. So we would lean into that and we we became fans of theirs, pulling for them. So when they were out in l A, I think it was l A. Yeah, well they was somewhere in cal Yeah, it was l A. I don't know what point in

the tournament they were at. It's like the Elite eight. Yeah, the Elite eight. This was right before Entreas movie is getting ready to come out. And again they you know, they were the toast of the tournament, that Wisconsin team. They really were. So I don't know who reached out to who. It might have been some agents who went to Wisconsin, but somehow we set up a screening for the Wisconsin basketball team and then like a little meeting of sorts. I went to a practice with our writer

producer creative enter. I was Doug Allen. I think someone else was there. We drove out to wherever they were practicing, and I literally catch them coming off the bus and I have these pictures. I'll send them over to you, just like Frank literally saw me and Doug and like jaw dropped, dropped his bags on the floor, was like frozen and gave him a full hug. And I met Sam, talked to Sam, full of it. You go inside the practice and you know the shooting around. I'm standing in

the corner with Doug and I don't remember who. I want to say it was, Sam, might not have been. I think it was someone as I'm like talking to dog. Just fires passed to me in the corner and instantially, and I played basketball in my whole life, obviously not nearly on a realistic level, but my instincts just kicked in. Caught the ball and then I looked in the entire team and coaches now looking at me at college three point corner and I just launched it and I'm not

gonna lie. I leave my hand and I'm like, oh, that's a little short ship. It's a little short went right in the whole place, exploded. That was my intro to the Wisconsin basketball team and your husband and my guy Frank and um, yeah, and I think they watched the movie that night. I'm pretty sure they got an early screening of I believe. So, yeah, we have a past. Yeah, let's get of Sam the dime on that one. I

think it was. If I had to bet, and this is a yeah, if I had, I would say he's easily like minus one fifty to be the guy who threw the past. Okay, Okay, then, so that's a pretty cool three pointer made like perfect time pressures on. Everyone's watching the other one NBA All Star Game? What year was that and who else was playing? Like set that one up for me? That was I think it was. It was when it was in l A. So I think it was, like I really have to look. I

think it was or nineteen. It was at Staples Center. I got real shook up on that one though. There I got stories Olivia, and there's a story with this one. Problem with all these celebrity games, whether it's basketball, golf, there's a lot of proms all this stuff. I take it serious, like I want to win, I want to play well. I want to win, and no one's really like there's a few people taking it seriously, but no

one's really playing. So I'm at the arena early. I got on my Kobe threes, I got from the Kobe pack, my Jeorge, my Kobe three's. I'm like, matched up in all purple, ready to go, and I hear a rum. I'm in the locker room, feel like t Max in the locker room with me, and I hear like fans like screaming and mainly women, but lots of screams. And I'm like, what is that? And someone comes in and it's like, do we have an extra blank jersey? I'm like,

I don't know. And I hear not scheduled to be there or play in the game, justin Bieber was now going to come play. Never told anyone I was in the starting line of our coach Rachel. Yeah, I was, but I was slated to start. I wasn't have the ball in my hand. This was gonna be my shot. And Bieber comes in, super cool, says what's up to everybody? Like very you know, taking pictures with everyone, and like cool guy. But of course I get it, Like who

are you gonna start? Ferrara or Bieber? I understand the mechanics of it. So I got bitched. I got straight up benched for Biber shot one for you, Oh my god. And then the one guy in my mind Jason Williams. Jason Williams is on the other team, and I'm like, god, I really hope I don't have to ever guard Jason Williams because I just don't want to look foolish, you know. That's you know, he made a lot of people look

foolish in the NBA. So the one time Rachel looks like calls through me off the bench like go in, like whom I got Jason Williams, I'm like, son of got really? And Jason Williams like dribbling the ball down the corner. Yeah, I'll guarding him. I'm like, Jason, don't do it, please, I'm all, please, don't embarrass me. My wife's here. And he took it real easy on me, thankfully. Okay, I just typed in justin Bieber All Star Game. Are you sure it wasn't that long ago? Again, he was

not scheduled to be there. That's the thing in probably was this was a just a drop like I'm here, hey, Like that's like if you if I rolled up to the park and like you and your family are out there playing. I'm like, can I get in? You're like, yeah, sure, Jerry. He rolled up to the NBA Celebrity All Star Game and the announced. I was like, hey, can I get to run? And everyone's like, yeah, sure, come on in.

Oh I found it. Yep. Oh God. Should I watch the whole highlights or just take your word for it? You could take my word for all I know is I'm pissed and every single every anytime they come to me a bad expression on my face. Okay, to make this all full circle, this, uh, my dad always does the celebrity game dunk contest all that for Turner, and he would have been there and Sam was playing for the Clippers and we were in l A. Now we didn't go this night. I forget why. I think we

had friends in town. We were, you know, out doing the scene that young kids, young childless in love people. But yeah we were there. So look, full circle, full circle. I can't believe you met Sam back in the day. Yeah, a long time ago. So I don't know how we got to where we are right now. With me. This is what happens. You start telling stories and you're like, how do we get back on the path here? No, that is why I'm glad you're here, because I think

you have so many stories. And that's something about Entourage that I think it's so cool, is that sports are kind of woven throughout it. But Darry, I got I gotta tell you. I gotta admit something. I've never watched Entourage, so so don't say anything. I don't say anything. I I didn't watch the Office until I met my husband. I'm just now watching Seinfeld. I mean, some of the most classic shows of all time. I just didn't grow

up watching. So I here's how I want to make this up to you, is I want to start Entourage from the very beginning now that we are co host, co workers, friends, and I wanna pick your brain as I watch. And I think that'd be really fun to do on air. So you can keep telling stories, you can keep filling me in and tell kind of the behind the scenes stuff. What do you think about that? First of all, Yeah, I'm glad that we actually met before you went and watched the show, because now you're

gonna actually watch me age we're in reverse. You're meeting me now forty two years old, You're gonna start this show, and I'm twenty three years old, fresh out of Brooklyn. Some people don't even understand me when I spoke because my accent was so thick. Okay good. We definitely could do that. And I've always wanted to take a peek back at some of these episodes because there's so much great sports stuff, from the cameos that of athletes that we've had on the show to just the references. It's

like a time capsule for that time period. You know. I do think I at some point in the first episode I were a very very vintage like Bernard King jersey that people still ask if I have, and I do. I wasn't able to bring it out this episode, but it will make an appearance on this show. I have that jersey from that pilot. So of all the athlete guests, who who do you think is the biggest name or who was the coolest? Like who did he really enjoy being such a sports guy. I mean, it's hard to

really just choose one. But this is gonna pain me to say this. I don't take any joy in saying this at all. I don't want to say this, and you'll get there in the show. It's probably season five. I think Tom Brady was pretty awesome. Why does that kill you so much just because you're a Giants guy? He was Patriots, Well there's that and that that's in the episode. That's woven into the episode right in a really cool way. But he actually like bowed us out.

It was initially written and you'll watch the episode. There's originally written for Peyton Manning and Eli Manning because they I think had requested and asked to be on the show. So our show runner wrote this whole episode based around Peyton and Eli and then like a month before we were about to shoot, they called and canceled, Oh, we can't do it. Whatever the reason was, who knows, which is easy for them to do. But now we have

this episode and we're already shooting. So that's where having Mark Wahlberg as your executive producer kind of helps out, because he basically was like, well, you want me to call Tom, who were like Tom who was like Brady like yeah, yeah, you wanna whip out your phone and called yeah, that'd be great, And in two weeks Tom Brady was there. This was the year he got hurt.

I believe. The year prior was I think believe was against your Chiefs where he got rolled up on on his knee, So no one seen him play football in over a year, and no one's really seen much of him at this point. It was the only significant injury in his career. And then you know it was the off season from obviously he came in on short notice and crushed it. Crushed the episode. You'll get there, you'll get there. He crushes the episode. So I gotta make it to season five to see this. That is the

way is away. I mean, you could jump forward. It's not really gonna make a lot of sense for you if you do jump forward. But that is the fleet one of the more memorable episodes. That one's always popping up on my Twitter feed clips from that from that show. Oh I'm looking forward to that. Will there ever be an Entourage reboot? Oh, coy smile. I don't think so. I really don't, because anything could happen. They reboot everything

now every they're they're rebooting reboots like insane. Obviously there's you know, a premium on original content. Yeah, we did almost a hundred episodes. We did a movie. I'm forty two going on forty three. Like in the show, as you'll see, we used to all like live together. We are we still living together. Now it's just gonna be creepy. At this point we're like old men. Maybe if you've got a time machine, we could reboot the show. I

think there's a lot of potential. They're even like bring in former guests who have now completely gone into new chapters of their career. Like Tom Brady is gonna retire soon, so perfect, and he's you know, going to be working for five Sports, so he'll be in l A a bit more if he's doing games and some studio. I

don't know, I see a lot of potential here. Well, if whoever were to happen, my plan my suggestion was always you do it, kind of like how Karate Kid did their show Cobra Kai, where all the original members were still in it, but there's like an all new cast and now we're just like, oh, it's like old uncle Turtle, let's go talk to my owld. It's like my nephews now, like the guy or something, and then we just are the old heads who provide wisdom. Okay, okay,

I like that. Alright, So you did mention Giants are your team. You're born and raised New York. I still here a little New York accent, although you claim that it used to be much stronger. How do you say water? By the way, now I say water, but that you'll hear in in the early entourage. Everyday I got a glass of water, he will be like, excuse me, what did you what a glass of water? Oh? God, yeah, bad. So part of your accent metamorphos has to be because

you live in the Midwest. Now why are you in Cleveland? If I could, I ask myself that quite often. So I love Cleveland. It's great. Uh, you know, New York for twenty years, l A for eighteen years. Cleveland. Now for two simple answer. My wife is from here. You know when we started having kids, she has a large family. You know the term it takes a village, that's the village takes many hands. So yeah, and you know we

want a little more space and room New York. We were back in New York at this point and it was a little claustrophobic with the kids. So yeah, But I mean I have been around more Browns fans, and I call them my team in law. That's like my team in law. You know, I root for them because I like my in laws happy. But you know, push comes to shove. I would never say I'm a Browns fan. It's hard to like hate on the Browns now. I know it's maybe getting easier, but until this year, it's

been hard. Up until this year, it's been hard to hate on the Browns. It used to be like, oh, the poor Browns. You know. Now obviously this year it's kind of going a lot of different directions. I don't know. And we lived in Cleveland for a year two and Sam played for the Calves. In fact, I pulled out his Calves picture just so you could see that, just for a little solidays be there. And I gotta say

I love Cleveland. I loved living there. I'm just curious what massage parlors when you're going to I think everyone's kind of on high alert. Definitely not Yeah, I'm just trying to figure out where I'm going to travel this winter because the you know, New York winters are rough, and you know, when you know, Wisconsin, I'm sure is not much better. But this I'm learning what the lake effect is. Never heard of a lake effect before. I'm learning now what that is and went there and man,

it's uh. Someone asked me a little Browns game last year in December, like you're out of your mind. Ye,

I'm just not happening. I will say. The one fun place to be in let's say just the Midwest, like upper Midwest when it's that cold is at a football game, whether it's like an Ohio State football game, Wisconsin Badger football game, or NFL games, because you're like shoulder to shoulder with all of your people and you're wrapped head to toe and you're drunk, so you've got a lot going for you to keep you a little bit warmer. And it's about as good a place to be when

it's zero degrees. I've been the one Browns game. It was November, it was cold. We were here visiting, we were at a wedding the night before. I remember asking some of her friends we were going to roll with them, and they're big tailgators and like, what time we're gonna leave for the game, Like, I'll probably leave it, you know, nine am. I'm like, gee, nine am for one o'clock starts kind of early, Like, oh no, it's a four o'clock. I'm like, wait a minute, what it's a four o'clock game.

We're leaving at nine, And we did and man the tail because Giants. You know, Giants Stadium is interesting. It's it's good tailgating, but not like anything in the Midwest. I mean, there's like different parking lots to get different. It was insane. My wife was doing keg stands. It was crazy. Oh yeah, I gotta meet the mrs. She has better half. I act like I do a hegstand all the time. I haven't done that. And she's a lot more fun. She might be if your wife, she

might be co hosting with you. By the end, you might get rid of me and just start hanging aure.

She's way more fun than I am. Oh my god. No, I don't know if your wife went through this, but after you know, you can't drink for nine months, or if you do, you're sneaking a glass of wine here there, but you're you have this like moment where you're so excited just to go to a restaurant and order what you've really been wanting to order for a long time, instead of like of one glass of like savignon blanc ice, you know, and for me, it was that like spicy

skinny mes cal margharita. Did your wife go on a bit of a tear after she had her babies? Uh? Still on that tear. The tear is not over. Still on a tear. I don't care if you're listening, Brie. I don't care if you hear me right now. I don't care. You're still on the tear. It's still going, and God bless good for you. We went to a wedding pretty soon after my baby was born, and my parents were going to watch, and it was actually a J. Dillon's wedding. He's a packer running back and it was

up in Wisconsin. You know, it's everyone in Wisconsin somehow knows each other. And I'm pretty sure everyone in Wisconsin was at this wedding. I want to get a J on the show. By the way, we got to get him, but they had a three hour cocktail hour. I guess that's just very Wisconsin e too. But my god, my husband had to like carry me out of there and my dad picked us up because it was right down the road from their house, and he's like, I'll drive

you to this wedding. Oh my god. So that that post baby low tolerance is no joke, but a three hour cocktail hour and postpartum woman not a good combination. Yeah, I can't do anything for three hour. I can make like I can watch sports for three hours. It's like the only thing I could do without falling asleep. So three hour, Yeah, you must have been having fun. Good job, Age. I hope he's on the show because I want to ask about the three hour cocktail party. Oh my god.

He's a great dude, especially looking forward this season, you know, and we can get into the NFC next week. We're going to break down the a f C today. But he's gonna have a big year. He's gonna have a really big year. And he was the only player to score in the forty Niners score a touchdown in the forty Niners Packers game to end the season, and then he got hurt, so that was I mean, there's so much to talk about with A. J. Dillon, with the Packers, with the NFC. I cannot wait to get to it.

But what do you say we break down the a f C. Now? Yeah, let's let's do it, because I already feel myself wanting to talk NFC and I'll cap that with a j deal. I'm heavily looking at all his I'm gonna be looking at his props weekly. That's someone I'm definitely targeting prop wise and okay, over guy. But yeah, it's it's a it's a f C S turn, and it should be because there's a lot to talk about, both exits and those wise and also just storyline wise.

It kind of feels almost like the w W E with these storylines, like you couldn't have scripted him any better. You really couldn't have. I don't know where you want to begin. We could just throw a dart at a division. Yeah, let's see that you do it. Let' let's start a f C North. Let's start with Cleveland your team. And I was joke about the massage parlors, but I'm not kidding. It's in Deshaun Watson's contract that the only treatment he

can receive is with team personnel. And I mean, we we heard all this stuff with Kyler Murray and the Cardinals having to do four hours of homework on his own, like all that. It's all funny as layman as non athletes, non athletic regular people narps. But I do love that and Deshaun Watson's contract, he can't go get a massage, So I was having some fun with it. But is the vibe in Cleveland in tense? Are people mad? Are

people excited about Deshan? I mean, just from some of my talks with some of the Browns fans here, it's to them it's just kind of like, we just really want to see him play and not. I think it was the not knowing that was driving everyone crazy. Is he gonna get a year? Is he gonna get like? I think it was more that I think now that or at least four just for now, is the suspension is what it is? I mean, I know there's appeals

and stuff. I think now that they could just set there like the Jacoby Brissette era has begun, you know, so I think they're gonna probably also want to extend Kareem Hunt. I mean, I know he wants a contract extension. Maybe they shout it up like they're just gonna have to heavily rely on those two running backs. And uh, I know they upgraded their receiving corps. They made a

lot of moves. Defense has always been pretty stout in the last few years, but this to me, the North is the toughest division because it has the most questions. Like we could talk about the Steelers all we want and say it isn't to be like a new QB. I get all that, but they still got Mike Tomlin and now Brian Flores as a coach there, Like you could outcoach your way into a lot of winds in this division. That's a good point. That's a good point.

I don't know if I think they're the toughest division. I think the a f C West because of the good quarterback play. I mean Raiders, Chiefs, Chargers, Denver, Let's ride. So I think a f C West maybe the better quarterback division, and at n mg M, a f C West has the best odds to win the a f C. But you bring up good points. I mean Steelers, what do you see there with their quarterback shuffle? It's kind

of like pick your best of these three. Mitch Robinsky seems to be kind of the leading candidate right now, and then the draft pick. Can you pick it? And then Mason Rudolph who's been the old guy there and knows the playbook the best. But I don't know, Steelers don't really raise my pulse at all. No, and please let me I didn't mean the North is like the

toughest in terms of skill. I mean it's the toughest of the side who's gonna win this division at least with the And I know the West is like that too, at least with the West. Like if if you said my Chiefs are gonna win the division, like I can make an argument, but no one's really going to be like that has no chance. Like in the North, I really maybe with the exception of the Steelers, I I have no idea who's really coming out of this division. I don't know what the Steelers I my opinion. Again,

I'm not like XS and oh is hard. I just unleashed the rookie I know, least here. I know you like you want to bring rookie is along slowly, but rookies play a lot more than they ever have in

the NFL. Quarterback Like, let's see what we got. Because unless it's really like you think you have to bring them along slowly, or unless Mr Rabinsky really can reclaim the hype he had around the draft, I don't I don't know if it's Mason Rudolph, Like, are you really gonna He's you know, we're really going to compete for the division. So I'm not really worried about that. I want to know, I'm most curious about the Ravens and and Lamar you know, loses Hollywood brown you know, the Drafters.

I'm most curious what we and no one's really talking about the Ravens as much in that division. It's really Bengals and Browns getting all the chatter right now. Yeah, and when people do talk about the Ravens, it's about Lamar Jackson's contract. You know, he's wanting an extension. He's on the last year of his rookie contract and his mom is doing the negotiating. You know, he doesn't have an agent and his mom's his manager, and this is just I think more from a you know, personal worry.

Everyone's curious how this one plays out. And Lamar Jackson is one of those players who's easy to cheer for. I don't know if it's because he's so funny on Twitter or there's something kind of like naive about him. And I mean that in the nicest way, like he seems kind of unassuming. I've interviewed him once his Heisman season at Louisville, And I mean, I just was like, he's a just a nice kid. And again he was in college then, but even now, Like there's something kind

of sweet about not having an agent. I don't know, you're in show biz, what do you think? Well, I tell you, if my mom was negotiating my contract for Entourage, right, he would give it to Anthony. She probably would think. She would for sure think I should be the highest paid actor of all time. That's just how she views me. She thinks I'm the greatest actor to ever walk the face of the earth. And just like I'm pretty sure Lamar's mom thinks he's the greatest quarterback to ever live

and she should think that that's her son. And when push comes to shove, I'm always like, moms are the best. So I think that it's gonna work out. I don't think it's gonna be that big of a deal. I think he's going to get what he should get and what he deserves because he's a great quarterback. And I do feel like we're not we're not talking about him as like the player as much. And I can't forget

he's not that far removed from an MVP season. They are well coached, they do have good backs, the defense is always good. They are the favorites in the division as of right now, even over the Bengals. Bet MGM has him at plus one sixties. So if I wore picking my division winner, I would lean Ravens at the plus one sixty, although I'm not buying any Bengals hangover right, I don't even know is that really a thing? Super Bowl loss? Hangover? How is that a thing? Is it

a thing? I think because then they assume that everyone comes in like all bitter the training camp. I think quite the opposite. I think you had a long season, you restructure how you want, and everyone knows the storyline with the Bengals last year was bad. Old line. Well, they've greatly improved that week area. They've had three new starters now, and so I don't know, but we should do that. Let's really pick our team for each division.

You're taking the Ravens. I think I'm gonna take the Bengals. And I'm marking this in our notes because we cannot forget this. You hear me, No, we can't, and and and look plus eight there. The Ravens aren't heavy favorites. The Bengals are right there. I don't buy Super Bowl hangover. I think the only thing with the Bengals that could happen is you're not catching anyone by surprise anymore. Everyone

knows you have three amazing receivers. Everyone know Burrow is outstanding, and the defense, which got criticized all year last year, had one of the best playoff runs the defense has had. So I don't think it's hangover. I think a lot of teams now know you guys are great, so they will maybe prepare even harder than they would have potentially so, but I I respect your pick, But yeah, I think those are the two teams to beat over there. Okay,

see it's fun to disagree a little bit. Okay, we mentioned the AFC West, thought to be the best quarterback division and all of football. Right now, I made a joke about this ride wrestle. Well, let me hear you say it. Let's hear let's right, let's ride that's pretty good. I think Keen Alan says it better than everybody. I watched that clip a hundred times today. Let's play that in right here. That's pretty good. And I think Russell

Wilson is just so easy to make fun of. I mean, would you be willing to say on camera that he's kind of a square? Um? No, because I don't know in person, maybe his public persona. I really don't. I've I've met him a couple of times, but I have no idea to say that like that's him as a person. I think maybe the image that he's presenting, whether he wants it to be or not, is that maybe that's what he wants. I don't know. I wouldn't say no, he's that guy's a square, but I'll take anyone's word

for it. Who knows him better than I do. I'm not gonna question. I do respect that that's where he ended up in that division. I don't know how much control he had over where he was going to go, but man, for any division that you I mean, think about him in the a f C South. If he ended up in on like the Cults instead of Matt Ryan, a lot softer landing for him and the freaking a f C West. So I am excited. This is this

is the heavyweight division everyone's lining up. These are gonna be you know, pay per view events, these games, Oh for sure, for sure. We know chiefs are cooking. Uh you know, I'm here in kans City, so I'm watching a lot of the local coverage of it. And actually, a cool thing with this whole division is the wide

receiver market trickle effect. Because as the Raiders got Davante Adams and paid him, he got the bag, it sent this whole domino effect and that ended up affecting the Chiefs because then we saw Tyreek Kill go to Miami for like record money, they got Juju Smith Schuster from the Steelers. All these receivers started just getting paid like crazy and just moving like crazy. And a lot of

this was pre NFL Draft. So that's definitely a storyline here as we look at the f C West, as we look at the NFL in general, is all these new homes for all these new receivers. And then, not to mention, the draft happens and it was so heavy for wide receivers and so heavy defense. So yeah, five wide receivers were taken in the first round of the NFL Draft and the first five draft picks or defense. I mean, it's it was crazy. So it is fun when we talk about some of these quarterbacks that none

of these I mean, can you pick it aside. But none of these are that rookie you know, Marvel that we're so excited to talk about. These are names that were used to spitting around. So with that, Derek Carr, Raiders, with the Vonte Adams, what do you expect in Vegas? Okay? Uh? Well, for you are not getting off the Chiefs conversation this

easy at all. We're going to stick with them. We're gonna We'll come back to the Chiefs in the second because I have some but talking about the Raiders, and again I go off of gut and feel anytime I do. I do the massive amounts of research, and I listened to every sharp do their trends of why they should bet this team. I get all that, and I'm not smart enough to keep up with all of it. I've won a lot of bets in my life, and I've lost a lot of bets. But I when I get

the feeling, I get the feeling for me. If you're gonna put money on anyone in this division, I'm just talking about value play money wise. Raiders plus six fifty coming inside and came in second in division last year. They lost twice to your Chiefs. I think they kind of split with everyone else, or they swept the Broncos. And I think they actually split with the Chargers. I think that's the best odds. I can't really you know, Chiefs or plus one fifty five Broncos not bad. Plus

two sixties pretty good. Chiefs Raiders are plus six fifty Davante. Everyone's saying like, oh, what's Aaron Rodgers gonna be like without Davante Adams. What's Davante Adams gonna be without? I think both of them are gonna be fine. I think they're both amazing players. I think Aaron Rodgers are going to elevate all the receivers in Green Bay and I think Davante islands and they're gonna be unstoppable. I really do. And that's what I would put some money on the

Raiders for sure to win that division. And it's the long shot, and I respect that and it should be, but I think there's a lot of value that the Raiders were tough last year without Davante Adams. And I know Russell Wilson's in the division, so you might not get to Broncos wins. But if I'm putting down any of my heart earned entourage cash down I'm gonna put I'm gonna I would put a little bit on the Raiders to win that division, but it's a blood bath

in that division. And think about everything the Raiders went through last year and they still were able to have piecemeal together a really great season with an exciting finish and in good run there. But did you see what Davante Adams said when they asked him what's it like going from Aaron Rodgers to Derek Carr And he said, well, you know, it's it's going to be different going from

one Hall of Famer to another Hall of Famer. And then they asked Aaron Rodgers what's it like going from Davante Adams to Alan Lazard and he said, well, you know, it's the flight going from one Hall of Famer to another Hall of Famer. I I live for some of these training camp press clips, like people, it's really happening. Like you could tell those guys had a lot of Yeah, they had a lot of respect for each other obviously,

but I think it's great. But yeah, they have some weapons there and in Vegas, but obviously like way more fandom. I mean, I know there's a huge Raider fans, but in that building. You know, they turned out last season like they had they had a real home field too. So in Chandler Jones on defense, they're stacking up new coach, and you know they're gonna show up in those Charger games. You know the Raider fans are going to show up in those Charger games. So that road game is like

another home game. So I'm looking at the Raiders hardcore. Okay, what do you want to say about the Chiefs that you haven't said? When's the last time you were this nervous about a Chief season? Oh? Home, like before you have to be a little bit nervous, not that like you aren't gonna be good, but your expectations are obviously super Bowl championship, those are your expectations because they're great, but you gotta be I really looked up and down

that roster. It's a great roster, but you do see that one big missing Tyree Kill name there and kind of trying to look at I know they're trying to plug the hole with four guys and all that. Yeah, I don't know. I'm not down on them, but a little nervous. What about McCole Hardman, He had such a good season he's in what like his third or fourth year or something. He went to Georgia with me. I know him. I love Nicole, but then also Jujus ms Schuster,

he's got some wiggle in there. He's he's great, and then their run game is gonna be so much better with Clyde Edwards Hilaire. He's a great number two. And then they've invested so heavily in their old line. I'm not that worried about the chief, So I was surprised. Do you even ask me that. I'm just trying to spice.

So I do think Edwards Hilary is going to be a big you know, I think they gotta really I know, keep saying unleash and might be trying to throw the pod cast name, and I do think they got to unleash him and like, let just let him cook a little bit, because uh, and I listened to all this stuff about mahomes how he was looking to downfield and holding onto the ball too long and there's fifteen yard

routes that were open that he passed. And I love my Homes's he's I think he's my favorite quarterback to watch in the NFL. Yeah, I was just checking with you. I want to see if I can get a little poker face out of you, but if you have any nerves, but well, well played, well played, well a little fresh prince of bel air pun mahomes to hell Aire. I think we're gonna be hearing that a lot. I can't you. I stole that from somewhere. I don't even remember I

hear that. Okay, charges, let's finish up the West Chargers. They've been underachieving. They bring in Khalil Mack on defense, They've they've stacked up a little bit on defense with cornerback j C. Jackson too. That was a big signing. They sailed Joey Bosa and then Justin Herbert, who at any moment I think can be m v P. Yeah, I and I do think we joked about the Keenan Allen clip earlier. He's kind of like mocking Russell Wilson.

But I think that's exactly what that team needs. Not saying that it was like a like a swagger clip from him, but that like, and to me, that's kind of like, I don't know how serious, not that they're not taking the Broncos serious on the field, but like I think if you asked him, he thinks the Charges are way better than the Broncos, and the Broncos are going to be a problem for a lot of teams. I think that's exactly what the Chargers need. They need a little bit of that swag, a little bit of

that confidence. Keenan Allen has earned every right to be confident going up against the Broncos or any team in the West. For the for the Charges, it's always like, can they stay healthy? Can they stay out of their own way? I think they can now. I think those kind of demons have been exercised, all the missed field goals and extra points and things, and and how just health. Health is going to be a big, big component. Can the run games stay healthy? Because you know what Herbert

is gonna do. So but I do think they need that second level of offensive threat. And Cleo Mack if nothing else, And I was getting a little up there, but that guy is still scariest help on the defensive side of the ball. So that division is insane, It's beautiful, It's gonna be great. The games are going to be great. That is hands down the best division in the NFL. Just storylines alone, Like you mentioned, but in the a f C East, the favorite to win it all Buffalo Bills.

They're the highest ticket and handle at bet MGM. And we're recording this on Tuesday. Unless by Thursday Josh Allen breaks his leg. I would say that's gonna be the way it is for the next couple of weeks until the season starts, and probably up until February. So Bills are you buying in um? The value is not great? But do you like the Bills? Yeah? Well, I mean

what's not to like? Right, Really, what's not to like is the odds, Like, you know, it's really hard to lay to twenty minus two, Like that's a pretty that's a heavy favorite. It's hard to really But in the same breath, I can't really justify put money on I mean, maybe the Dolphins at plus four fifty to win that division. You kind of know what's not gonna happen. To me, that's sort of dead money. But if I had to choose another option, that Dolphins offense is ridiculous. Offensive line

is really gonna have to to show it. And let's just say to us not getting sort of the same relief that like saying Daniel Jones is getting where Daniel Jones like, well, this has gotta be the year and it wasn't the year. Well, now this has got to be the year. And it's like with two of like, this is the year. You have weapons, you have quarterback coach that, you have gurus, like, this is the year.

So if you believe in two uh, and I do, I think that plus four fifty with the Dolphins is That's the only other thing I can wrap my head around. I'm not trying to relax Patriot fans. I'm not trying to count you out. You never count out Belichick. But no, back to the Bills, No, there's not. They had Von Miller, who's just come off a Super Bowl. The only knock I could find on them is Josh Allen's golf game and that foursome that they played with Brady and Roger.

That's the only knopf I could find on him is that like Brady kind of talk trash to him and he like laughed it off. That's the only negative I could find for the Buffalo Bills this year. Okay, you mentioned the Patriots year two under Mac Jones. I'm hearing rumbles that Belichick might retire after this season. Do you buy any of that. I don't like he's all sure because you just look at it on on the surface.

But I mean, when have you When has there ever been a rumbling about the Patriots that's been proven to be true? Like everything is usually pretty air type, So you can never count out Belichick. And that is a playoff team. That's a wild card team barring any crazy stuff happening with the Bills. Matt Jones is really good. If he continue, if he evolves and has a even better year two, it's they're gonna be a tough out. They always are. But you know, you just look at

those two rosters. It's really Bills pats. It's and even Dolphins pats. But you just can't count out that Patriot it way and the belt. You just can never count that out, as annoying as it could get for all of us non Patriot fans. Really the Giants because we sort of figured that out a long time ago. I can't count them out. But uh yeah, the only the only negative thing I can find about the Buffalo Bills with Josh Allen's golf matchup, that's it. That's some good scouting. Jerry,

You really are you going to mention the Jets. You're just gonna go right over there brush Jets. No, let's let's do the Jets. Obviously, the big story of the Jets to top ten picks, one on each side of the ball ride receiver Garrett Wilson, cornerback Sauce Gardener, maybe the best name in the draft, Sauce Gardener. I love that. I don't know you got anything else. You like Zach Wilson.

Don't forget the last year preseason, Aaron Rodgers was singing Zach Wilson's praises, So there's there's something with Zach Wilson. I think that's big. Yeah, he couldn't have been more excited about him. I know a lot of Jeff fans. I have a lot of Jeff fans in my life growing up in New York, and the trash talk has always been amazing amongst us. Both have really not had much the trash talk over the last I don't know

how many years, but the Jets do. Like, even when the Jets have been bad in the last few years, they still compete, and you know, I like Robinson, I think they're gonna continue to compete. And they're just so young so it is. But they're I think they definitely have the most fun team they've had in a long while. They're super young. But Jeff fans, you know, if he asked Jeff Fans, they're still standing by when all of them told me Sam Donald was gonna be first battlet

Hall of Famer and maybe he will be. Who knows. He still has he's still playing, he's still out there. But they'll still say but it still was the right pick and it doesn't matter. I'm like, well we could they just you know, they're they're super positive and maybe they should be. No. I just love that look, great helmets. You know they did the kind of new helmet thing, great helmets that could be a banner. You could hang that up, like really don't helmeto. You know, that could

fly in the in MetLife stadium. That's that's No. They'll be really fun and they have a lot of lot of young talents. So who the heck knows? Yeah, who the heck knows. I like your optimism. What do you think about the Jets? I don't think about the Jets other than Aaron Rodgers saying that that that's really good that you have not yea you don't really have an opinion. No, I mean they're they're not even really on my radar

in in just the a f C. East. I feel like in general, I'm I'm just focused on the Bills and I don't know. You you even, I think are giving the Dolphins a little too much credit. I think what's going on with their offseason events and tampering and whatnot and finds and whatnot. And now obviously a lot of their punishment is going to affect them moving forward,

not this season. They lose a draft pick, first round draft pick this time in draft, in a third round pick the next year, and what a million and a half dollar fine. That's nothing to their owner, who's worth eight billion. I don't know. But is it just distraction and people getting sick of them? I don't know. Does that play out on the football field, I don't know. But other than that, I don't know. It's just it's the Bills and no one else in that division. I think.

Do you think, though it's Fairest, Dolphin's offense is loaded, right, I mean, I we've got to acknowledge that they are loaded. Yeah, right, they're loaded. The Chiefs gave him the option to pick where he went and he I'm just I do want to see what it how it looks. I agree, I agree. Now Tyreek is a beast. We've had the pleasure of having him in Kanas City the last handful of years and it's fun to see cheetah. Okay, let's move on to a f C South, which again not so many

sexy headliners. You mentioned earlier with Matt Ryan going to INDI what do you think that does to a team who lost the season so brutally with Carson Wentz but to Jacksonville in the final week of the regular season seen the playoffs, I mean that was that was horrible. What does Matt Ryan do to spark something I have always enjoyed? Matt Ryan. You know, we talked earlier about fantasy football. He's arguably one of the greatest fantasy football quarterbacks,

especially in especially down to ten. You could count on him putting up two touchdowns that don't really do a whole lot, but we'll will help you win your fantasy matchup. But that being said that, the cults are so balanced and Matt Ryan we talked about him a lot, but you know, Jonathan Taylor's who we got to talk about on that offense, Like, I just hope that they really just let him do, like let him ball out. That

dude is so talented and scary for a defense. And the Colts they like, they're just I mean, gosh, if they to lose this divisions. It almost feels like an impossibility for him to lose this division. I do think Matt Ryan gives them a enough experience and stability that maybe they just have not had at the court back positions since Andrew Andrew Luck. You know that Wentz game, and I know there was circumstances at the end of the year and how healthy was he who knows, But yeah,

that loss was one of the biggest. Yeah, I mean, I don't know what I don't remember. I remember the odds last year talking about that one of the most memorable games of the season. I thought last year in a game that no one, everyone already circled that game. They already penciled and where the Cults might end up in the playoffs. And that's what's really gonna make this division interesting to me. I mean, it's hard to find a lot of tons of things that are interesting this division.

But and I know, like the Texans, right, like, wow, they might struggle this year, and we said the same thing last year, but they're plus to win their division plus. Yes, So you're stepping away from the division odds for a second though. But Houston was eight and nine versus the spread last year, eight and nine some of the but some of those were you know they you know it's not even research. I was on them last year. I love looking for those under I just love on the dogs.

I always have always will you want to talk home dogs on grass? I go off on that. So they they paid out last year like they I'm gonna be watching the Houston Texans. They're gonna win two or three games, and you just want to really try to find one of them. Okay, then that all season just find me too,

Texans wins. I don't know, it's gonna be really hard, but they're they're they're on the schedule somewhere, and I don't even know if they're all gonna be against the Jaguars this year, because I do think the Jaguars are improve and I think Trevor Lawrence could be a lot off that last game against the Colts. Would you have any Jaguar takes? How much. How much Jaguar research if you've done so far, well, we just got to see them, you know, in the Hall of Fame game. They have

the number one pick, Traymon Walker. He was a beast. He proved he was worth a salt. And Doug Peterson, I Doug Peterson's hard to you know, overlook. So yeah, I'm I'm not down on the Jaguars at all. And that's the thing about a bad team like the Jets, like the Jaguars. Teams that have been bad recently is did they get better as the season went on? And the Jaguars did, I mean to finish how they did was exciting, So I think it gives you momentum going

into your off season. So I like, look, their plus seven fifty to win the division. I don't know if I would put too much on that, but maybe i'd sprinkle a little bit of your entourage money on there. But the Colts at minus one twenty, I feel pretty good about that. And like you said to me, Jonathan Taylor's the bigger story than Matt Ryan. And that might sound like sacrilegious, but I just I'm more excited about

Jonathan Taylor. You know what, I don't think even bet MGM could have made the odds for is that of this entire division, the last we haven't even brought up the Tennessee Titans. Yeah, And is that a bad sign? Apherly vibes wise a bad sign that we haven't even brought up the Tennessee Titans. Well, and we've seen especially I mean, look, I'm a Chiefs fan and the Titans always are a pain in our side. So I'm not gonna undersell them. And how much load does Derrick Henry

carry for them? And I mean I'm looking there their plus one sixty two to win the an FC South, So that's that's not terrible odds. I don't know, maybe maybe that's what you stick out your neck for a bit? What do you think? I just you know, I do think the A. J. Brown loss will hurt. I mean, he's sucked that dude like he's He definitely was a kind of a safety valve that is a luxury to have because he could, you know, turn a ten yard slant into a sixt r touchdown or so I'm curious

to see how the offense looks without him. And but Derrick Henry can absolutely carry you to a victory over anyone if he if and and they just know exactly who they are and how to use them. And I just wonder, like do they have enough because they've been on a great run the last few years and we all keep sleeping on them, and they all keep going deeper in playoff runs and you know, knocking on the door.

So it is one of the hardest teams for me to ever read because I don't feel like they should have been successful there, but they always they are always there in the end in that division. So I think I really haven't we haven't. We didn't talk about them at the top because it really is just hard for me. It's hard to get a read or a feel for how good they're good. They're going to be good. The

question is how good are they going to be? And Tannehill's contract, I think a lot of people think is too long and too much and has kind of tied their hands a little bit. That people are hot and cold on tanne Hill. But boy are they're gonna by the way, Texans beat them. Texans beat the Titans. Texas the Titans last year. Let's offer you the Titans last year. My homework assignment for you for next week is going to be picked the two games on the schedule that

the Texans win. I'm gonna hold you to that one. Alright, alright, it's early, but very early for I will do it because you know it's episode one. I gotta prove myself to you and to the listeners. I'm down. I just give me like subject to change. We'll I'll just put the little asterisk next to it. It is subject to change during the season based on information. But I'll give you some preseason Texans upset alerts. I'm not scared. Okay, okay,

I love it. I love it. Hey. By the way, one thing that is kind of fun again not in the a f C, but this week the Detroit Lions are on Hard Knocks and that comes out this week. So my question you one, do you watch Hard Knocks? Do you like it? And to do you care about the Detroit Lions or there another team you would have put in there. So I've always been a Hard Knocks fan, always, and from me that's kind of always where I start locking into football season. Right back in the day, used

to be like get your fantasy football magazines. That's that was always at the time Okay, it's time to start hard knocks. Always for me, he's like, Okay, I'm gonna start really locking in and get back to consuming information. I've been in a little rough the last two years, won't I haven't really kept up with him as much as I as I kept as much as I used to. But and no disrespect to the lines, they gave us some amazing entertainment and wins. At the end of the year.

They had a really great draft. I have one of my best friends as a Lions fan, and you know, he's a very realistic Lions fan, so lots of love for the lines. We went through too Bengals hard knocks seasons and you know, we had Ocho Sinko. It was a lot of entertainment, but like they weren't really a threat to do any damage. Wouldn't this have been an ideal time to get the Bengals And I'm sure they tried, and I'm sure or maybe like, no, we're locked in

on winning a Super Bowl. We're not doing hard knocks. No cameras here, but man, we we watched the Bengals twice already on hard knocks and that team didn't really go so far. I would love to have seen the Bengals this year. Loved You know who I would want

to see this year is the Panthers. And I don't know when they pick the team for Hard Knocks, but it was probably well before you know, Baker Mayfield was going to Carolina, but with Christian McCaffrey coming back healthy and he's dating Olivia Colpo, I would have loved to see like a cameo of Olivia Culpo. She's my girl crush. And then also just the Sam Donald Baker Mayfield competition, as well as getting Malik Willis as QB three from All Miss in the draft. And now what I'm hearing

is that Sam Donald is being chopped around. They're not going to cut you know, at what five year old guy who was the number three pick a couple of years ago, but I do think they would trade him for a couple of draft picks. Make Baker the starter, have Malik Willis the rookie b the number two, which I don't think he's necessarily ready for at but I mean the Panthers are a story like that. There's a lot going on there, so I would love to have that as the hard knocks. As a hard knocks, but

that wouldn't be fair to do to Baker. He already had to do that with the Browns. Be on hard Nucks. Remember sitting in that little trailer and did you watch that season? That's right? Yeah, I do, right, that's where I get yes, And those are one of the last seasons for me and I didn't really keep up with that Chargers season. Those some of the lost seasons for me in there. But you know what, you you laid out a really good case. I think you just swung

me Bengals. Sure, we get it. We saw a lot of Burrow being cool, all right, you swung Panthers would have been a better maybe soap opera play. Yeah, yeah, you just want the drama. I'm with you. You sold me. Oh that was really fun. What do you think, Jerry? Your first episode? I think I probably talked too much. So I gotta work on that. That's what my wife tells us. I'm going to work on for next week. I'm gonna do my homework on the Texans. I would love to do this in person one of these days.

I hope we get the opportunity to do that, maybe a live show something like that. But this, this was great. I'm ready for the season to start, and I'm you know, I I'm ready to not talk to my friends on the phone about all this stuff over and all and just actually talk to you in a professional environment and interact with our fans and really like lock into this year. I'm ready for it. Oh yeah, no, there's there's so

much fun. It's so fun, like you know, everyone else goes to work, right, and like this is our job and we are joking earlier as now parents of young ones especially, is we've got to start telling our spouses that this takes a lot longer than it does, just so we can kind of be left alone for a minute too, like look at sports memes online and to be like check in on degenerate gambling sites to for like I just want to scroll on my phone and disturb for a minute. So yeah, there's a lot more

we can do. But I mean next week, Hey, we do this all again next week, Yes, and we will. We will navigate the the kids situation and how we have to do what we have to do to get yes, yes, because they're they're just still too young to watch this stuff just yet, but hopefully they'll be watching with us in a few years, and uh, we could have them on the podcast to talk about why the Texans are gonna upset a really good team at some point. And that's something to do when we get off this call

right now is I'm gonna start researching now. Wow, it's not gonna be like Texans beating the Jets. I got news for all of you. It's not gonna be. No, they're gonna upset a good team, a really good team this year. That's what we're looking for. You're gonna start looking at like linebacker depth or something to really see where we stay. You're not going to mess around. Also, Jerry. Next week we are joined by Levyan Bell. What are you excited to talk to him about? That's gonna be good.

What am I not excited to talk to him about? I don't want to give away too too much, but a lot to ask Mr Bell. I mean, he's gonna be ringing the bell right, this is gonna be this is gonna be pretty insane when he's got coming up, yeah, up coming fight against a p Adrian Peterson and maybe he'll let us know to what he thinks of his former teammate Antonio Brown's rap career or just Antonio Brown in general. That's pretty good. But I'm excited for next week. Yes,

I'm very excited to talk to him. Yeah, and I'm gonna be watching a lot of Entourage, so get ready next week. I'll text you what episodes I've notched, and then I love to get some behind the scenes and you know, if anyone wants to tweet at me questions or some of their favorite episodes, let me know because then I can make sure to ask Jerry about that. We're gonna get all the behind the scenes scoop. But it's gonna be fun, my friend. I'm excited. Yes, good

episode one. I'm ready for episode two right now. And yeah, let's just keep this going. I love it. See you next week.