Eagles Head Coach Nick Sirianni, Dianna Russini, Matthew Stafford Staying In LA + We’ve Made It To March

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Speaker 1 On today's part of my take, we have a twofer for the people, little Italian twofer. We got Super Bowl champion Nick Siriani, awesome interview with coach.

Speaker 1 And then we have one of our favorite recurring guests, Diana Rossini, talking some football. We are going to talk some football because we had some news over the weekend.

Speaker 1 Matthew Stafford, Debo Samuel. We're going to do a little national sports podcast talk as well.
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Speaker 1 Today is Monday, March 3rd, and we had our first domino in the QB shuffle. Matthew Stafford is staying in Los Angeles with the Rams.

Speaker 2 Ski trip didn't work out for Tom Brady.

Speaker 1 Ski trip did not work out. Well, it did work out for the rest of us because we got a reporter fight out of it.

Speaker 1 But yes, Matthew Stafford staying with the Rams, which I always always thought made the most sense because

Speaker 1 the Rams were, you could make the argument,

Speaker 1 like they played the Eagles the toughest in the playoffs.

Speaker 2 They almost won that game in the first quarter.

Speaker 1 And they had a really bad start to the season, but then they played great down the stretch.

Speaker 1 It feels like they still have a window with Matthew Stafford. I think it's a two-year deal.

Speaker 2 I was listening to Charlie Stafford's podcast. Okay.
And by listen to, I mean just like anticipating what she would say. My guess is she probably didn't want to leave L.A.
I would say so.

Speaker 1 And you're on it. Like, why would you, if you're Matthew Stafford, it never made sense, want to go to the Giants? No offense to the Giants, but the Giants aren't going to win a Super Bowl.

Speaker 1 The Rams could conceivably, in the next two years, compete for a Super Bowl. It would be crazy to leave that situation.
So, yeah, he's set, and now it's a question of where Aaron Rodgers will go.

Speaker 1 Giants. And he's probably,

Speaker 2 I've heard that he's trying to bring Devontae with him again. Yep.
So he has a wish list. And I feel like if I were Aaron, I would just want to stay in New York and just go to the other locker room.

Speaker 1 Yeah, run it back, get that solar, those solar panels on your house in New Jersey, finally, you know, get them fully installed.

Speaker 2 Stretch your legs, lay down roots there.

Speaker 1 Yeah, and then it feels like the Raiders might be in the Sam Darnold market from what everyone is saying.

Speaker 2 So I just love that there is a Sam Darnold market. Yeah.

Speaker 2 We need a Sam Darnold market.

Speaker 1 And the Steelers are just going to run it back with Russians. Run it back with Russi.
Yeah. And Kirk Cousins is going to be a backup.

Speaker 1 But this was the big, because if Stafford had gone somewhere else, it would obviously had a chain reaction down the line.

Speaker 2 Now, a lot of people are saying, what are the Cowboys up to? Wind Horse. Oh.
What are the Cowboys up to? Because Jerry Jones, he likes to talk. Jerry loves him, some media.

Speaker 2 He did not talk at the Combine this year. Oh, he did not address reporters.
And apparently, everybody else from the Cowboys is being very quiet.

Speaker 2 So what's going on in Dallas right now?

Speaker 1 Did you see that Daxi back? Dax cap hit, I believe. They'll probably restructure it and kick the can down the road, but I think I saw Florio report that Dak's cap hit this year is $90 million.

Speaker 1 Dak Prescott's cap number for 2025 is set to be nearly $90 million.

Speaker 1 A restructuring could drop it as low as $51 million.

Speaker 1 They'll keep kicking the can until they inevitably take a massive cap hit after he's no longer on the team. $90 million.

Speaker 1 I don't understand the cap. That feels like a lot.

Speaker 2 Dak, he took a pretty big cap hit in Panama City Beach. This one might be even bigger.
Yes. $100 million is a lot of money to pay anyway.
Again, if you're a Cowboys fan, you shouldn't really care.

Speaker 2 Whenever you see somebody be like, oh, you overpaid for this guy, who cares? It's not your money. But if it runs into this situation where you're not able to pay anybody else.

Speaker 1 Yeah, I would say if the team suffers for it, you should care. Yeah.

Speaker 1 And this feels like $90 million. Again, they'll probably restructure it.

Speaker 1 You know what?

Speaker 1 Who's a capologist that we can get on? We need to get a capologist on the show.

Speaker 1 Just explain it all to us.

Speaker 2 So there's a guy, what's his name? Jason Over the Cap. He runs Over the Cap.
Okay. I follow that guy online.
He's good.

Speaker 1 Oh, Breaking Moves.

Speaker 1 Breaking Moves.

Speaker 4 O.J. Simpson.
Yeah? Not in the memorial.

Speaker 2 Oh, they didn't include him in the Oscars Memorial? Shifty is.

Speaker 1 He's punching air.

Speaker 2 Well, he's the only one who respects OJ. Damn.

Speaker 1 We also had an AWL.

Speaker 1 Okay.

Speaker 2 I almost could see the Oscars honoring OJ more than I could see Adam Schefter honoring him. Yeah.

Speaker 1 Because he was

Speaker 1 in movies.

Speaker 2 Say what you want about him off the field,

Speaker 2 but on the silver screen, he was pretty good in Naked Gun. Yeah.

Speaker 1 Way better person than he was actor. Yes.

Speaker 1 No, he was a good actor.

Speaker 1 He wasn't a good actor. He was an actor.

Speaker 2 Did you see him try to put the glove on? That's true.

Speaker 1 Doesn't fit. It's too small.
That's true. That's true.

Speaker 1 Yeah, just a couple jokes about a double murder.

Speaker 2 I mean, when he said not guilty,

Speaker 2 somebody believed him.

Speaker 1 Yeah.

Speaker 1 So. Yeah, Chefty, by the way, thanks to NAWL who found it.

Speaker 1 He did put Aaron Hernandez in the In Memoriam Chefty tweet, which now has become the most important tweet I'm looking forward to this year.

Speaker 2 If anybody on this show passed away, God forbid, they got to make Shefty sweet, right?

Speaker 1 I think you and I would. I think Hank would.

Speaker 4 I'm on the Christmas list.

Speaker 1 Steven Che would. Chee would.
I don't know if Max and memes would maybe have to put a little, we'd have to maybe text them and let him know.

Speaker 2 I think Shefty would do it. Hey, Max died.

Speaker 1 Ingrown toenail.

Speaker 2 It is kind of crazy that every time somebody dies, the first thing Adam Schefter does is he runs to the dock on his phone. Yeah,

Speaker 2 he writes their name in.

Speaker 1 The death doc on the first hit list. All right, so Stafford staying with the Rams.
PFT, you got Debo Samuel. Got Debo.
Big time. Got Debo.

Speaker 1 You got a little upset in the group chat this weekend? A little miscommunication? A little miscue in the group chat.

Speaker 2 And hand up, I think I was like seven beers deep at the bar on Saturday. I was watching college basketball, watching some golf.
And yeah, I had a couple cocktails. And so the Debo news broke.

Speaker 2 I was pumped about the Debo news because I love watching Debo play play football. I think he won our first ever award on part of my take for a guy who I like watching play football the most.
Yeah.

Speaker 2 Debo's very fun to watch when he's in good shape. And a lot of people are like, oh, you got fat Debo.
He's so fat. You're going to hate that fatty.

Speaker 2 First of all, number one, let's not fat shame people. Agree.
This is not a James Harden situation. He looked a little slower last year.
Yes, I agree. I may have even said at one point he was fat.

Speaker 2 Please don't look up the tapes.

Speaker 2 But if anybody has perfect information on Debo Samuel, it's Adam Peters, who who I believe drafted Debo and worked around Debo for a long time in San Fran. He is now the GM of the Commanders.

Speaker 2 When I sat with him at the Combine, I told him, number one, if you need me to commit any felonies for the team, I'll do it. I'll be the fall guy.
I'm your guy for that. Number two, I trust you.

Speaker 2 If you like Debo, I trust your evaluation.

Speaker 2 He was like, I got it. And he's like, okay, I have the support of the fan base.
No, but I think he does know more than anybody what Debo is like right now.

Speaker 2 He's 29 years old. It's not like he's super old.

Speaker 1 Yeah,

Speaker 1 he's definitely on the wrong side of his career, but it doesn't matter because you're signing him. It's not like you're signing him for the next five years.

Speaker 1 You're signing him for this year. You just need him to be Debo for a year.

Speaker 1 The contract's big, but who cares? If he's good for a year, it doesn't matter.

Speaker 2 Yeah, fifth-round pick.

Speaker 1 Yeah, it would be one thing if you sign him and you're like, all right, new long-term contract for Debo.

Speaker 1 That's, yeah, he probably has lost the step and he's not the same as he was, but it doesn't matter. You just need like like 85% of Debo for a year.

Speaker 2 Yeah, I'm pumped to watch Debo. So what was the anger about?

Speaker 1 So the anger, so here, I'll read it to you guys.

Speaker 1 So memes, so PFT said fifth round pick fleeced. Memes said Cowboys traded fourth round for Mingo.
PFT said, okay, question mark. You traded a third to us for Dotson.
Memes said, I'm not Max.

Speaker 1 I'm saying that's good. PFT said, I'm sorry.

Speaker 1 I saw the M, my bad. So memes Max.
And then Max chimed in and said, we actually won a Super Bowl, though. So congrats on the offseason win.
We'll take the actual ring.

Speaker 1 PFT said, it's a what have you done for me lately? Keep living in the past, Max. And Max said, well, lately, I won a Super Bowl.
You, on the other hand, lost in the conference championship.

Speaker 1 PFT said, last month. Max said, by a lot.
Also, you want to take a look at those Miles Garretts, next team's odds thing? Things are changing. And PFT said, keep focusing on that ring.

Speaker 1 You already won loser.

Speaker 1 So I guess Miles Garrett.

Speaker 1 I mean, mean let's be honest max has been milking this fucking super bowl for everything it's worth yeah he took a vacation not on vacation week kind of a loser move to celebrate winning a super bowl on to the next you we were about to talk to nick siriani i think my first question was like hey dude isn't it bullshit you have to be at the combine he's like i've been working basically two days or day after the parade he's got a next man up mentality if i won a super bowl i wouldn't even celebrate it i'd my celebration would end this the second that the super bowl concludes super no super bowl sunday you get till super bowl sunday midnight yeah midnight Yeah.

Speaker 1 Midnight.

Speaker 2 And that's it. And whatever time.

Speaker 2 No parade. Midnight.
I don't think I'd participate in a marriage. Any good parade.
I wouldn't. That's true.
Yeah, but you've just been fake about being a winner this whole time, Max. Yeah.

Speaker 2 So, Miles Garrett. A month ago.
Max, are you going to get Miles Garrett?

Speaker 1 I don't know. Things are changing.
Things are changing. The Commanders were the heavy favorites

Speaker 1 other than the Browns.

Speaker 2 No, the Browns were the heavy favorites.

Speaker 1 Correct. But

Speaker 1 if you were to bet on any team other than Cleveland, it was Washington. And now it's Eagles and Washington have the same odds.
Whoa.

Speaker 2 Okay. So, but no one's a heavy favorite.

Speaker 1 No. Did Howie do it again or did Howie do it again? Howie could do it again.
He could do it again.

Speaker 2 I think what's happening here is the Commanders and the Eagles both want Miles Garrett just as much to have him as much to keep him away from the other team in the division that wants him.

Speaker 1 Do you think the Eagles are thinking about the Commanders?

Speaker 1 Max. Sure.
Okay. Yeah.
Yeah.

Speaker 2 That's all I ever wanted.

Speaker 1 Yeah.

Speaker 1 Yeah. I'll give you that.
Yeah.

Speaker 1 Have fun with Fat Debo.

Speaker 1 All right. Okay, Max.
Come on. You're the

Speaker 2 heaviest favorite on this podcast.

Speaker 1 I'm not a favorite. I'm just heavy.

Speaker 1 Obese. Obese.
You're an obese.

Speaker 1 That was from the yak chat. Yeah, the case race.

Speaker 2 Obese.

Speaker 2 I do love watching Debo when he has the ball in his hands. He's not.
I don't know if you can call Debo like a number two receiver. I feel like he's like he's a Swiss Army slot.

Speaker 1 He's just maximum violence.

Speaker 2 Maximum violence.

Speaker 2 That's what I want.

Speaker 1 He seeks violence.

Speaker 2 And you know what? He's a good blocker, too. That's very important.

Speaker 4 Bubble screen merchant.

Speaker 1 Bubble screen merchant, as some people would say. Maximum violence or bubble screen merchant.
Shane told me he had the least separation in the entire NFL last year.

Speaker 1 I don't know if that's true, but Shane said it.

Speaker 2 He's not a separation guy. He's married to the game.
Yeah, he's a yak guy.

Speaker 2 Bubble screen.

Speaker 1 There also is a theory that he could be unlocked now that he is out of Kyle Shanahan's offense because Kyle Shanahan did try to force the rock to Debo a lot last year.

Speaker 1 There was a lot of times where it was like they're just trying to get Debo going and it doesn't seem like the correct strategy.

Speaker 2 Yeah, what's the stat with Debo and the win-loss in terms of like when he plays and when he doesn't play? They're 52 and 29 when Debo Samuel does play.

Speaker 2 I'm trying to figure out what they are without Debo. 8-11 when he plays Samuel.

Speaker 1 How many times was Trent Williams included in that?

Speaker 2 This is a Debo Samuel stat. Okay.

Speaker 1 Because there were a couple times when Trent Williams and Debo were out. This is a good lose.

Speaker 2 Purely a Debo Samuel.

Speaker 1 Just a Debo Samuelson.

Speaker 2 52 and 29 when Debo Samuelson.

Speaker 2 By the way, senior, he's had sex. Okay.
Remember that. 52 and 29 when he plays, and when he does not play, they are 8-11.

Speaker 1 That's a pretty big difference. Okay.

Speaker 1 All right. So what else? Oh, Trey Smith got tagged, franchise tags.
So the Chiefs are keeping him, and then Kelsey officially

Speaker 1 is coming back. Yep.

Speaker 1 As for the combine, I had some winners and losers, and it's just based off of

Speaker 1 just tweets of videos I saw. Okay.
Loser Will Howard. Did you see the cut-up of him throwing passes? That was tough.
Very mean, whatever. Whoever did that to him.

Speaker 1 Will Howard also has nine-inch hands.

Speaker 2 That's tough.

Speaker 1 So does Cam Ward. Winner, Tyler Show, because he has nine and three-fourths inch hands.
Massive. Massive.
Also, winner,

Speaker 1 Jalen Milro. Jalen Milro

Speaker 1 at the Senior Bowl,

Speaker 1 he measured his hands, and I think they were eight and three-fourths, and he grew a half an inch on his hands to the combine. So now he's nine and a quarter.

Speaker 2 I love that. That's huge.

Speaker 1 Loser, Isaiah Bond, because he said he was going to maybe run a 4-1, and then he ran a 4-4, and he wasn't even the fastest Texas receiver. Matthew Golden ran a 4-3.
I don't know

Speaker 1 who in Isaiah Bond's camp

Speaker 1 is telling him what to do because you just, that's just simple,

Speaker 1 like where you're putting the expectations. You got to go in and say, I don't know, I might run a 4-7

Speaker 1 and then run a 4-4. Like, damn, I'm way faster than I thought I was because 4-4 is not slow, but it's not 4-1.

Speaker 1 And it wasn't even close to the fastest wide receiver.

Speaker 2 And he was calling out his, like, setting his shot, being like, I'm going to be the fastest to ever do it. And his former teammate, Xavier Worthy, is way faster than that.

Speaker 2 And he posted something like, respect those who came before you, young one. Yeah.

Speaker 2 Yeah. Yeah.

Speaker 2 Also, loser, Will Campbell.

Speaker 1 And winner.

Speaker 2 Will Campbell. I have him as a loser because his arm length is 32 and 5/8 inches.

Speaker 1 Yeah, there's a lot of arm length talk.

Speaker 2 The general consensus for a tackle is 33 inches. So he's 3/8 of an inch away from having tackle-length arms.
And so some teams are like, oh, got to move him to guard.

Speaker 2 I think the Patriots would be very happy to get him and put him at tackle.

Speaker 1 I think he's I had him as a winner because he hurt himself early on in one of the drills and then powered through it and actually had

Speaker 1 a few of the drills he dominated. Absolutely dominated.

Speaker 1 He's going to be really, really fucking good. Yeah.

Speaker 1 He said, I think there was a quote. He was like, go look at my tape of the couple of sacks I ever gave up.
None of them had anything to do with arm length.

Speaker 2 Yeah, we're talking about three-eighths of an inch here. Yeah.
Guys lie about that all the time.

Speaker 1 And then I also had Tyler Warren has small hands and wing size, which I still would bet on him being a very good player, but loser.

Speaker 2 How small?

Speaker 1 His hands?

Speaker 1 I think it was like eight and three-fourths.

Speaker 2 Yeah, it's pretty small.

Speaker 1 Pretty small, and his wing size shockingly small. I have a winner.
Again, I think I would bet on Tyler Warren being a good pro.

Speaker 2 Yeah. My winner, Mason Graham.

Speaker 1 Yeah. Because

Speaker 2 he said, I'm going to go to the combine, but I'm only going to do bench press. Yeah.
Which rocks. Yeah.
He's like, fuck all this other shit. Just put me on the weights.
Love that. Watch me move.

Speaker 2 Beast. Loser, Shador Sanders.
His hat was three-quarters of the way backwards when he addressed the media. Uh-oh.
So Coward's watching that like a huge.

Speaker 1 Yeah. Also, winner Mason Taylor because he ran the line drill where you catch it, catch it, run straight across the field.

Speaker 1 And it was actually beautiful to watch because his steps never deviated from the line. It was a perfect, perfect drill.
So winner.

Speaker 2 That's one of those drills when you see somebody who's smooth and who's an actual athlete run it, it looks like the easiest thing ever. And then when you watch one of us try to do it.

Speaker 1 Well, I'd fall on my face. Yeah.
We already know that uh okay

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Speaker 1 All right, national sports podcast, should we do a little?

Speaker 2 Let's do it. This is March.
Yeah, this is March.

Speaker 1 Well, my first National Sports Podcast note was Ovi. Ovi scored another goal.

Speaker 1 So shout out Ovie. He did.

Speaker 2 And yeah, it was a nice goal.

Speaker 2 It wasn't your prototypical Ovi sitting up in the office. It wasn't an empty netter.
Nice little goal from the middle of the ice.

Speaker 2 A little wrister, top cheddar. 11.

Speaker 2 11 away. Is that what it is? I believe so.
I think it's 11.

Speaker 1 It was either 11 or 12.

Speaker 2 And then, yeah, he goes over, daps up his son. I've got a new favorite Caps fan, though.

Speaker 1 Who? Tuna. Oh.

Speaker 2 Have you seen Tuna?

Speaker 1 I have not seen Tuna.

Speaker 2 Bring Tuna's picture up on here. They showed this guy in the first period.

Speaker 1 Tuna fucking rocks. Okay.

Speaker 2 He's a kid, and he's wearing like Pit Viper shades.

Speaker 1 Max is 0 for 1 on searches.

Speaker 2 And a hat that just says,

Speaker 1 just got up the Ovie Gold. Now we're just looking at a huge tuna.

Speaker 2 Max, look up

Speaker 1 hashtag tuna.

Speaker 1 This will definitely work.

Speaker 2 It should.

Speaker 1 Oh, there it is. Tuna.

Speaker 2 Tuna. Love that.
Doesn't tuna rock?

Speaker 1 Just a kid named Tuna.

Speaker 2 Yeah, big tuna. Love that.
That's our new unofficial mascot right now.

Speaker 1 Tuna.

Speaker 1 Okay, yeah, this is March, though. It is March.
Big time. Had a great college basketball weekend.

Speaker 1 Hank,

Speaker 1 at what point, let's just get this out of the way. At what point are you going to start fading? I have not lost in March yet.
Just so everyone knows, I'm 8-0 in bets.

Speaker 1 I assumed Hank faded me when I got to like 5 or 6-0.

Speaker 1 When are you going to do it?

Speaker 1 Is it going to be tonight? It might be. It's going to be tonight.
It might be. Okay.
All right.

Speaker 1 I know you're so in my head about it that I know that when you do actually fade me, that will be when I lose.

Speaker 4 I feel bad for this one, though. I wasn't, I don't,

Speaker 4 I think it might be too early. Okay.
I might just stay away.

Speaker 1 Okay. I think it's

Speaker 1 pretty crazy.

Speaker 1 I haven't lost in March.

Speaker 2 If I know Hank's troll brain, he's going to kick it in right during the conference championship tournaments.

Speaker 4 That's usually, yeah. It's usually like,

Speaker 4 I don't want to be in this spot for the entire month.

Speaker 1 I did feel

Speaker 1 very stupid explaining to my wife that I was like, I might not lose a bet in March. And she looked at me like, that's the dumbest thing you've ever said.

Speaker 1 It's like, I've said much dumber, but as of right now,

Speaker 1 I have not lost in March. So what if I don't lose in March?

Speaker 4 Probably another global pandemic happening.

Speaker 1 Yeah, probably another global pandemic. All right, so college basketball Saturday was awesome.
Tennessee. That was such a good game.
Buzzer beater. Nadots, all-time choke job.

Speaker 1 Just not two timeouts, not calling a timeout when your team is getting a five-second call, taking his bigs out of the lineup on the free throw,

Speaker 1 just choking it.

Speaker 2 He lost that game more than Tennessee won it.

Speaker 1 He said it after. He's like, I was not good in the last 30 seconds of that game.

Speaker 2 I have a question for you about Rick Barnes. Yeah.
Is he on Ozimpic?

Speaker 1 I don't know. He's getting skinnier.
I think that's just also what old people do.

Speaker 2 He's just wasting away right now.

Speaker 1 Old people just get skinny and they just waste away. So that

Speaker 1 could be be bad. We also had no, he looks like normal Rick Barnes.
There was a couple of

Speaker 2 shots of him on the sideline when he was yelling at the refs and he looked like a ghost. He looks old.

Speaker 1 We also had Rick Petino white suit. Yeah.
Finally came back. They actually struggled a little bit, but they have clinched.

Speaker 1 They won the Big East.

Speaker 1 Congrats to Coach Petino. The white suit looked awesome.
They did a white out at the garden.

Speaker 1 Auburn is just really fucking good.

Speaker 1 That was my big... They went into Kentucky and they whooped the shit shit out of Kentucky.
A game that Cal would have lost.

Speaker 2 They feel, yeah, they feel inevitable.

Speaker 1 Yeah. Well, it's Auburn and Duke.
I keep trying to figure out,

Speaker 1 I keep trying to figure out who else could win, and it's going to be Auburn and Duke. I like Auburn, Duke.

Speaker 2 I'm going to put some money on St.

Speaker 1 John's and then Houston.

Speaker 1 Houston.

Speaker 4 Houston and Bama.

Speaker 1 Houston and Bama. Oh, you're going to be a Bama guy? Bama? Beat Oates guy? I'm in.

Speaker 1 Also, Kansas is very sad. Kansas lost to Texas Tech, who was a very good team, but then they had a controversy after a Kansas player posted, it was some fucked up things the fans were sending him,

Speaker 1 and then

Speaker 1 Bill Self had to release a statement basically saying we're trying our best.

Speaker 1 It just doesn't feel good for Kansas right now, which also speaks to how good Kansas is historically because they are still a tournament team.

Speaker 1 They're probably a five seed, maybe a six, and they have 11 losses, but it's still, it's time in Lawrence where they're releasing statements

Speaker 1 and saying, like, this is really bad.

Speaker 2 So right now they're saying the last four in, Oklahoma, Indiana, Ohio State, Texas.

Speaker 1 I don't, if they, I'll say this pre-selection Sunday.

Speaker 1 I don't, we don't know how the conference tournaments are going to go. Texas does not deserve to be in.
They're bad.

Speaker 1 If like Drake gets kept out instead of Texas, if Drake doesn't win their conference, I'll be very upset. The bubble is

Speaker 1 like some of these teams are just bad teams that because some of the smaller teams haven't had great seasons, I'll be very upset.

Speaker 1 So, I'm going to say right now, Drake deserves to be in no matter what. Absolutely deserves to be in no matter what.

Speaker 2 Yeah, Texas got smoked by Georgia.

Speaker 1 And that was the game they needed. All right, so yeah, they have Drake as a 12-seed right now.

Speaker 1 What do they have Wisconsin at? Two or three? Three. Yeah, the Michigan State game was tough.
Drake, Oregon.

Speaker 2 Michigan State's really good.

Speaker 1 First round.

Speaker 1 I also, let's see. Oh, shout out

Speaker 1 Omaha at the team. I don't know if you guys have seen it, but they've been doing these wrestling themes all throughout the season.
And it's very cool, like just small-time basketball,

Speaker 1 getting some energy.

Speaker 1 They did a... What? This was this has a...
Lenardi.

Speaker 1 Oh.

Speaker 1 This was last updated in February 28th. That's crazy.
Come on,

Speaker 1 he doesn't like to

Speaker 1 do his job. He's probably not.
He doesn't like to do his job. He only has one job.
Can you find the Omaha video, though?

Speaker 1 They won the conference, and

Speaker 1 it was very funny because they had the Chancellor pop out of a garbage can with the belt. Yeah.

Speaker 1 And it was just a very funny visual because it's like a smaller Asian woman is the Chancellor, and she just pops out of a garbage can for them. And

Speaker 1 they're what I love about college basketball, like these teams in the smaller conferences going on these awesome runs. They still obviously got a win to get in, but it's very fun.
No, that's not it.

Speaker 2 All right, so Lenardi did put out

Speaker 2 updated bracketology for Sunday, March 2nd. Okay.
Pre-game. This is before the games today.

Speaker 1 Again,

Speaker 1 there were some consequential games. Michigan losing to Illinois.
Look at this. Yeah.
I love this.

Speaker 2 That's awesome.

Speaker 1 Omaha Chancellor popping out.

Speaker 2 So, yeah, so he did update it. It didn't get updated on the website, but he posted it on Twitter.
And he says the last four in, Georgia, Arkansas, Nebraska, Oklahoma now.

Speaker 2 Last four in. First four out, Boise State, Xavier, UNC, and Texas.
Texas is now out per Joe Lennardi.

Speaker 1 Okay, good.

Speaker 1 And then Villa. No offense, Texas.
I've watched Texas play.

Speaker 1 The SEC is so deep that, you know, what does Texas have?

Speaker 1 Five conference wins or something? So that's the problem is that we're getting to 12, 13, 14 teams in the the SEC. It's like, all right, we got to stop at some point.

Speaker 1 Drake deserves, and again, Drake could just be in because they could win their tournament, but that will piss me off if we have some of these teams that were really bad, but they were in a good conference.

Speaker 2 I don't need that. So they've also, people are upset that Oklahoma is one of the last four ends.
Why would you put Oklahoma in over Texas? I wouldn't.

Speaker 1 I'd just kick them both out. Both out.
Xavier should be in. Okay.
Xavier's been playing hot.

Speaker 1 Well, it will all work out. It will all work out.
Yeah, look, they have Xavier in in as a first four.

Speaker 2 Nova, next four out.

Speaker 1 I need Max to get all the way back in on Nova. I really need it.
They got the talent.

Speaker 1 By the way, congratulations, PFT, on winning the Sun Belt. Well, I mean,

Speaker 2 regular season. Yeah.
Pretty good.

Speaker 2 The second half of the season was a lot better than the first. Yeah.
Looks like Stradlin's got the boys rolling. But now we have the Sun Belt tournament, which is insane.

Speaker 2 The format of the tournament is the better you are in the regular season, that determines how many buys you get. So the one seed and the two seed get an automatic buy all the way to the semifinals.

Speaker 2 So if you're the last seeded team, you have to win like seven games in a row

Speaker 2 against a bunch of teams that are fresh.

Speaker 1 Yeah. It's going to be an awesome tournament.
Also, congrats to South Alabama, Arkansas, State, and Troy for winning the Sunbelt. It was funny watching all four teams.
30% of the league won.

Speaker 2 See, I don't celebrate co-championships for my conference, unlike you.

Speaker 1 Well, I mean,

Speaker 1 four is a very funny visual. Yeah, no.
It is. It's a very funny visual.
I just didn't take my shirt off and paint my chest. You also took your shirt off.

Speaker 2 When?

Speaker 1 When we went to the Wisconsin game.

Speaker 2 I got caught off.

Speaker 1 Yeah, what are you talking about? I got caught up in Bucket Fever.

Speaker 1 You were right next to me doing the same thing. I know.
I just thought it was funny. 30% is very funny.
It was watching all of them post it. It's like, that's pretty cool.

Speaker 1 But yeah, the bracket is awesome.

Speaker 2 The bracket for the Sunbell tournament is going to be, it's going to rock.

Speaker 2 And then Hank, I guess we said it on the stream. Myself and Hank are teamed up again for the bracket busters.
Max is also involved. It would be a real shame if we picked against Wisconsin.

Speaker 1 Dude, I'm pretty confident in their first round this year.

Speaker 1 Not like last year where A.J. Stewart's.
Or we just take the Dukes.

Speaker 4 I was never picking against Wisconsin after that. Yeah, right, right, right.
Rolling J.Meal.

Speaker 1 That's fine. But yeah, so I have zero happiness in my life.

Speaker 2 There's the bracket real last year.

Speaker 2 The bracket is just insane. I love this format.

Speaker 1 It is insane. And it's going to be great because we already started.
I think there was a conference tournament game tonight.

Speaker 1 We've already started conference tournament week. But I need Max back in.
We need to get Max back in. Yeah.
All the way back in.

Speaker 1 And the last thing I had for the National Sports Podcast,

Speaker 1 can anyone make sense of the NBA debate, LeBron face of this league, future face of this league?

Speaker 1 Can anyone make sense of what's going on other than

Speaker 1 I don't understand?

Speaker 1 Here's what I don't understand. Anthony Edwards said he didn't want to be the face of this league.
Anthony Edwards doesn't get to decide that. No.

Speaker 1 And we get to decide that. Well, not only that, but when has there ever been a face of a league that didn't win? Right.
You have to win. Winning matters.

Speaker 1 You have to win a championship to be considered a face of this league. Agreed.
It's not, and obviously, if you win, that doesn't automatically mean you're the face of the league.

Speaker 1 Like, Jokic could be the face of the league, but he doesn't, he doesn't like the media. You could make the argument, you know, Tim Duncan won a lot.
He was never the face of the league.

Speaker 1 I don't understand how Anthony Edwards saying, I don't want to be the face of the league. Like, dude, no one said you were.
You haven't won anything yet.

Speaker 2 Yeah, so, I mean, we don't really have a face of the league right now.

Speaker 1 Well, it's the old guys.

Speaker 2 Yeah, is LeBron the face of the league?

Speaker 1 It's LeBron and it's Steph.

Speaker 1 And I also see the family.

Speaker 4 I think if the Celtics win this year, then Tatum's.

Speaker 2 Chillin' Brown.

Speaker 1 Fuck out of here, man. Max.
Come on now.

Speaker 2 Oh, nice, Max. I see what you did there.

Speaker 2 Hit you with the fuck up.

Speaker 1 He's playing the video right now. Do you want to talk about that at all, Hank?

Speaker 1 Yeah, I don't know. What happened for the listeners that don't know?

Speaker 4 The Celtics lost on Friday night. Porzingis wasn't playing, so they weren't fully healthy.

Speaker 1 Wait, it says right here they were up 25 to 3.

Speaker 4 Yeah, I mean, everyone knows the NBA.

Speaker 4 A lead doesn't matter that much until probably

Speaker 4 four minutes left in the third quarter.

Speaker 1 Jason Tatum said, fuck out of here, man. After being up 25.

Speaker 2 He did say, get the fuck out of here.

Speaker 4 Yeah, that's what you do.

Speaker 4 You want your face of the league to be cocky. You want them to say, get the fuck out of here.

Speaker 4 They lost a regular season game. Max, it's a regular season.
Wake me up in the conference championship. A fully healthy Celtics team is not losing to the Cavs.

Speaker 4 It was an absolute ref show, but it was, it was, I mean, it's good.

Speaker 4 Missoula loves those games. He loves having things that he can use to motivate the team and losing to a team that's going to have a better record than them going into the playoffs like that.

Speaker 4 That's good.

Speaker 4 That was a good statement loss.

Speaker 2 Yeah, it's like what Petino was saying, right? Like, you want to have these things to motivate your guys. Yes.

Speaker 4 And then they came out and beat the Nuggets.

Speaker 1 So no issue.

Speaker 2 But Hank, you could also make the argument that the Cavs are the one seed right now, correct? Correct.

Speaker 2 So wouldn't the Celtics already be taking them seriously because they're the one seed in the Celtics?

Speaker 4 No, they're taking them seriously, but now they're really going to take them seriously.

Speaker 2 Okay, seriously or

Speaker 2 got it.

Speaker 1 Also, Joan beats out for the year. Yeah.

Speaker 2 He's the knee of the NBA.

Speaker 1 I really need the Bulls not to make the play-in game.

Speaker 1 It's a race right now.

Speaker 1 I was watching the Sixers Warriors game last night, just actively rooting for the Warriors, and it's a weird place to be in, but you got to do it.

Speaker 2 Have they said if they're going to break his hip or if they're going to do the normal knee surgery? Yeah, how are they going to do this?

Speaker 1 He may never play again.

Speaker 2 He might not walk again.

Speaker 1 But he did get that MVP. Yeah.
Yeah.

Speaker 1 He's done so much for the city.

Speaker 2 I think Peyton Britchard might be the face of the NBA.

Speaker 1 He might be. Six's about to be six winter.

Speaker 1 Do you guys, but it's become a big story because LeBron, I don't understand. And then LeBron said the media, you wouldn't want to be the face of Lee because the media is so mean.

Speaker 1 I don't think the media is that mean to nba players i think twitter is like the like the faceless twitter trolls are but the media yeah shaq and chuck they they do a show that the that busts on people but what i i i actually think that like i think the nfl has way more of a media microscope on their players.

Speaker 2 I would agree. It's just that people, I think players in the NBA are addicted to reading all the hate online.

Speaker 1 Yeah.

Speaker 2 Just like you should never log on. If you're LeBron James, you have nothing to gain by logging on.

Speaker 1 It's just, it's very weird to me because LeBron, and it, like, talking about respecting the game and stuff. And listen, I think J.J.
Reddick's doing a great job. He's a friend of the program.

Speaker 1 J.J. Reddick also did say that in the 50s and 60s, they were plumbers.

Speaker 1 So, I mean,

Speaker 1 he was part of that media at one point, but he also respects, I know he did a show that he was respecting the game a lot and how skilled these guys are. LeBron gets endless praise.

Speaker 1 I don't understand why he is pretending like he's getting torn down all the time.

Speaker 2 He does get shit on.

Speaker 1 He gets shit on, but it's not like,

Speaker 1 again, it's by like idiots like me and like idiots online that we don't mean anything.

Speaker 2 So yeah, I think trolls are the face of the NBA right now.

Speaker 1 Yeah, he's basically saying the trolls run the show. They run the league.
It's Barcelona After Dark. Yeah.
The chat runs a stream.

Speaker 2 I feel like NBA players more so than any other athlete, they're just very, very unhappy.

Speaker 1 It's crazy to me. I don't get it.

Speaker 1 I just, the face of this league, again, you don't get to decide who's the face of this league.

Speaker 1 It's going to be whoever is a young dynamic player who wins a title.

Speaker 1 Jason Tatum is, you think he's got the aura?

Speaker 4 Yeah, if you win back-to-back,

Speaker 4 gets a final MVP in there,

Speaker 4 it's tough to argue. He's 27.

Speaker 1 It's also just such a funny thing to say, like, face to, who's the face of this league?

Speaker 2 He might be the shoulders of this league.

Speaker 1 He does have six shoulders. Shouldn't you have to win

Speaker 1 a finals MVP?

Speaker 4 Yeah, so like one minute ago, I just said that.

Speaker 1 He said

Speaker 2 if he throws in an NBA Finals MVP, should I toss one in the middle?

Speaker 1 What if Jalen Brown wins it and then it's face to face of the league? Yes. Yeah.

Speaker 2 He wasn't even on Team USA.

Speaker 1 Can you play the clip? Just keeps going.

Speaker 1 This discussion about face of this league has been happening pretty much non-stop for five days now, and all I can think about is

Speaker 1 Scotty Barnes, future face of this league.

Speaker 2 Giannis had like

Speaker 2 a 13-month span when he was the face of this league. Yeah, he was.

Speaker 1 Scotty Barnes, future face of this league.

Speaker 1 People don't talk about this video as much as we talk about this video. No one talks about this video.
I know, but the video is so good.

Speaker 1 Let's find it.

Speaker 1 It's the Raptors head coach, Coach Darko, talking about Scotty Barnes, future face of this league.

Speaker 1 But yeah, LeBron, I don't get it. And he just...
LeBron's also done active campaigns, like GOAT campaigns.

Speaker 1 He's actively trying to get people to be like, hey, you're the GOAT.

Speaker 1 So to then turn it around and say the media is the problem.

Speaker 2 That's why he's weird to start his own league.

Speaker 1 Yeah.

Speaker 1 He's just listening to the trolls too much. Scotty Barnes is going to be all-star.
He's going to be the face of this league. And what's happening over here during his family?

Speaker 1 And he didn't say future face of this league. We made that part up oh no oh max oh no he says face of this league he should have said

Speaker 1 future face of this league he's going to be the face of this league

Speaker 1 it's total crap face of this league yeah i don't uh

Speaker 1 nba players are are upset and then yeah the lebron went on s with svp and uh prayers up for svp that that maryland loss was tough on him yeah last week yeah right in his face yeah oh yeah oh yeah uh Okay, let's do who's back.

Speaker 1 Then we have Nick Siriani. Is there anything happening in the Oscars that we care about at all?

Speaker 4 No.

Speaker 1 Okay. Jerry O'Connell's there.
That was our Oscars recap. Good Oscars recap.
Jerry O'Connell looked hot. Yep.

Speaker 2 No one got slapped.

Speaker 4 How many of these movies have you seen? Like, I haven't seen most of them, so I don't know.

Speaker 2 We saw Dune 2 two summers ago.

Speaker 1 I saw.

Speaker 4 Yeah, Dune 2 came out in March 2024, for those wondering.

Speaker 1 I saw A Complete Unknown. I saw Concave, and I saw Moana 2.

Speaker 2 I don't think I saw any of them.

Speaker 1 So, and I think there's a new Paw Patrol movie.

Speaker 1 Yeah.

Speaker 1 I liked Conclave. I liked A Complete Unknown.
Brutalist won best original score.

Speaker 4 Should have been Dune 2. Wasn't nominated somehow.
Okay. Best movie score of all time.
That makes no sense. Yeah.

Speaker 4 Oh, I'm still here.

Speaker 4 What's that? Best International Feature.

Speaker 1 What's that? What is that?

Speaker 4 It's a movie. About what? About what?

Speaker 1 Who's still here?

Speaker 4 That's Stafford.

Speaker 1 Okay.

Speaker 1 That's our Oscars recap.

Speaker 1 All right, let's do Who's Back of the Week?

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Speaker 1 Hank, who's back of the week?

Speaker 4 My who's back of the week is John Cena.

Speaker 1 Yeah, I had it as well.

Speaker 1 WWE.

Speaker 2 So he turned heel?

Speaker 4 Saturday night, he turned heel, the golden boy, pretty boy of WWE for his whole career.

Speaker 1 Pretty fucked up to do the week that Gene Hackman died.

Speaker 1 Why? No, that's a good point. Like, because he was a human being, and his wife.

Speaker 1 And he just decided that, like, oh, this is the week I'm going to do it. Gene Hackman just died.
It's true.

Speaker 4 It was a great, I mean,

Speaker 4 I'm not watching WWE every week, but a heel turn like this and just watching the wrestling community freak out about it is, can't beat it.

Speaker 2 Because didn't he retire?

Speaker 1 No, he's doing a retirement tour.

Speaker 2 And he turned heel on his retirement tour.

Speaker 1 Correct. So he said that he would never, ever turn heel.

Speaker 1 There was many chances for him to turn heel. And then in his retirement tour, going up to WrestleMania, he has gone heel.

Speaker 2 pretty crazy. How did he go heel? He beat up Cody Rhodes?

Speaker 4 Yeah, he's hugging Cody Rhodes.

Speaker 1 And then he not, yeah, Rock said, hey, do it. Rock's also heel right now.

Speaker 1 It's awesome. I mean, I don't watch wrestling anymore, but I think about moments when I was a kid watching wrestling.
Like, when a good guy does turn heel, it is electric.

Speaker 2 So is he going to change out the Jorts for like leather pants?

Speaker 1 You know, go with Hollywood Hogan on him, yeah.

Speaker 4 So they're saying this is the modern birth of the NWO.

Speaker 1 Yeah, it's pretty cool. It was a shocking moment, and it makes WrestleMania great, and Triple H is running basically WWE now, and he seems like he's doing a good job.

Speaker 2 And didn't Travis Scott, like, smoke a blunt, put it out on somebody?

Speaker 1 He's Travis Scott, like, punched the fuck out of Cody Rhodes.

Speaker 4 He actually punched him. Yeah.

Speaker 1 It actually, I know people were saying, like,

Speaker 1 it's an all-time moment, and Travis Scott was there, which is confusing. I think it actually is kind of funny because they

Speaker 1 were like focused on Travis Scott being there saying this makes no sense. And then you have the heel turn, which is shocking.
So it kind of elevated the shock factor of it.

Speaker 4 Yeah, I think the pick, like the heel turn picture where it's Cena, the rock, and Travis Scott, who's like the biggest rapper in the world in the ring, like that's a that's legendary. Awesome.

Speaker 2 Awesome. This is quite a quite a slap that Travis Scott gave.

Speaker 1 Dude, he fucking smoked him.

Speaker 2 So is John Cena going to stop doing Make a Wish now?

Speaker 2 How deeply is he going to be committed to being the heel?

Speaker 1 No, he's Team Cancer.

Speaker 1 Okay. Yeah.

Speaker 1 It's got to to be. I mean, I would like to interview him again and just ask the same questions and see if he remembers.

Speaker 1 But yeah, Gene Hackman. Upstaged by John Cena turning heel.
R.I.P. R.I.P.
Gene Hackman. Awesome, awesome actor.
Who's yours? Best? Crimson Tide.

Speaker 1 Okay, PFT.

Speaker 2 My who's back is Hard Knocks.

Speaker 2 Hard Knocks offseason is coming back, but it's not going to be in the NFL because the Giants screwed that up last year.

Speaker 2 And I don't think any, I think we predicted that on the show, which is that no front office is going to want to have every move they make documented so that when it doesn't work out, it gets thrown back in your face.

Speaker 2 So every team opted out. They couldn't find a team to do it.
So instead, they're going to do it with Bill Belichick at UNC.

Speaker 2 Tard Knox.

Speaker 2 With UNC.

Speaker 1 I don't know if that's going to.

Speaker 4 I don't know if that is legs.

Speaker 2 You don't think that one. Tard Knox?

Speaker 2 T-A-R apostrophe D.

Speaker 1 Tard Nox. Tard Knox.

Speaker 2 You don't like it?

Speaker 4 Nah.

Speaker 1 I like Tard Nox. Are you pumped for this, Hank? Very pumped.

Speaker 4 It's hilarious. The Bill Belichick college story is the gift that keeps on giving.
It's like everything that he didn't want to do and didn't seem like he would ever do in the pros.

Speaker 1 He's just

Speaker 1 doing all of it.

Speaker 2 Ooh, you know how they always have like some behind-the-scenes stuff on the coach, like Maddie Brafluk's got a haircut last year?

Speaker 1 Yeah, that changed everything.

Speaker 2 You think we're going to see Bill Belichick hanging out with his girlfriend? Like date night?

Speaker 4 I would say definitely.

Speaker 2 Date night with Bill and his lady? Yeah. Yeah, for sure.

Speaker 1 I love that. Oh, yeah.
Jordan Jordan is going to be all over that.

Speaker 2 Mike Tannenbaum, he's in the front office down there, right? Yeah. I imagine we'll get to see him a lot again.

Speaker 1 No, Mike Lombardi. Yeah, Lombardi.
Mike Lombardi. Lombardi is.

Speaker 4 You're still thinking Gene Hackman.

Speaker 1 Hmm? Royal Tannenbaum. Oh, yeah.
Yeah, yeah. Royal Tannenbaum.
Yeah, yeah.

Speaker 2 But yeah, I'm actually excited to watch this. I want to see.
It's going to be a giant commercial for UNC. That's the reason why he's doing it, obviously.

Speaker 1 It's smart. It's smart.

Speaker 2 It's very smart. You get a lot of publicity.
Guys want to come play for you. It's going to be good to have Bill.

Speaker 1 It's going to be so grumpy. Yeah.
So grumpy.

Speaker 1 Okay. I had John Cena as well.
I guess I'll pivot to my second one.

Speaker 1 Daylight savings is back this Saturday. Finally.
Again, the later sun, sun, what is it?

Speaker 2 Spring bass.

Speaker 1 Yeah, so we're finally going to have

Speaker 1 a little more light out at night. Golf time.
Ready to go.

Speaker 1 Wait, it actually is?

Speaker 1 Oh, fuck. Sunday, March 9th.
Oh my shit.

Speaker 1 I was was gonna say this is fucking missed it damn it although I was joking I thought it was still another two weeks if you if you fuck

Speaker 2 so you're we're setting the clocks back correct shit

Speaker 1 I swear to God I thought that we had until like the second or third week of March and I was doing this

Speaker 1 that might be it

Speaker 1 might be over The joke might be over. I fucked up.
What? This actually happened the last time.

Speaker 1 I feel like every single year they say that they're, they're taking away daylight seeds. Yeah, it's just something that people like to say.
Why? It doesn't make sense.

Speaker 2 Because it's easy to complain about. Be like, this sucks in the wintertime.
Yeah. I think everybody agrees that it sucks.
But then if you, what was the thing?

Speaker 1 I love it now. It would be worse.

Speaker 4 It would be worse if they got rid of it. We'd actually lose summer.

Speaker 1 Yeah, we'd lose. And people,

Speaker 1 I didn't, I always was like, let's not do it because I don't want it to go get dark at 4.30.

Speaker 1 And someone said once they're like, well, what about kids going to school in pitch black? And I was like, good point. That's a fair point.
Yeah. Because

Speaker 1 if we didn't do it, it would stay light out till 5.30 or 6 o'clock, but the sun wouldn't rise till like 8 a.m.

Speaker 1 Which would kind of be fucked up if you had kids having to go to school in pitch black and like walking on the streets, like getting on buses and stuff.

Speaker 2 If you're complaining about the clocks and how it works in the wintertime, what you're doing, you're just complaining about winter. You're just saying like winter sucks.

Speaker 2 I wish wish this didn't happen.

Speaker 1 Wait, so this rocks. We made it.
Yeah. We're back.
That's huge. We're all the way.

Speaker 4 I actually got pre-mad at you there. Yeah, I know.

Speaker 1 It's not. Because I really did think that it was not even close.
I thought it was halfway through March.

Speaker 1 That's huge. That's so huge.
What are you doing? You're just looking at the weather, Max? I mean, I do it all the time.

Speaker 1 Yeah.

Speaker 1 How are we looking? I mean, it's not crazy.

Speaker 2 It was like 58 last week.

Speaker 1 And then we had a.

Speaker 1 But you know what? The sun was nice this weekend.

Speaker 1 What do we got next Tuesday? This is

Speaker 1 62.

Speaker 1 Oh, I'm seeing 40s and 50s. We can deal with 40.

Speaker 1 Anything in the 40s is fine.

Speaker 1 40s feel tropical.

Speaker 4 But once you see 60s, that's when it's on.

Speaker 1 Oh, that's then it's on. Then it's fucking on.
Wait, is that

Speaker 4 Chalam lost best actor?

Speaker 1 63 on March 11th. Put your circle it.
That's going to be a day, boys.

Speaker 1 Saturday for Patty's Day.

Speaker 4 Rainy, that's ass.

Speaker 1 Oh.

Speaker 1 When St. Patty's Day is

Speaker 1 beautiful, there's just really nothing better.

Speaker 4 It's crazy, and I love it that Chicago goes harder. It seems like Chicago goes harder for St.
Patty's Day than like Boston. It's like the biggest day of the year.

Speaker 1 Well, it's also the end of winter.

Speaker 4 I know.

Speaker 4 I know.

Speaker 4 It's crazy. It's like people go fucking nuts for St.

Speaker 2 Patty's Day. You know what a sneaky good St.
Patty's Day city is? Savannah, Georgia. Yeah.
Savannah, Georgia Fire Department.

Speaker 1 Fuck out for St.

Speaker 2 Patty's Day.

Speaker 1 Yeah, I miss getting fucked up on St. Patrick's Day.
Should I do it?

Speaker 2 Yeah, you should. I think I'm going to do it this year.

Speaker 1 I don't think so.

Speaker 2 And by getting fucked up, I mean I'll probably start drinking at 8 a.m. and then I'll go home at like 2.30.

Speaker 1 Yeah. It's going to be awesome.

Speaker 1 Yeah.

Speaker 1 Just do it.

Speaker 1 Just send the kids away.

Speaker 1 I just leave food out for them. Yeah.
It's fine. Put a timer.
One of those cat food distributors. We've got an issue in my house right now.
There's an obsession with Max's butt.

Speaker 1 The Cats family loves Max's butt.

Speaker 1 It was because of the combine on Thursday, which I fell, and then I came home, and little kids just love any type of injury, and they just asked me a thousand questions about my knee, and then to get them distracted, I was like, look, here's my buddy Max.

Speaker 1 His butt was hanging out, and now all they... My daughter literally was asking two days later, like, can I see Max's butt?

Speaker 1 They just love

Speaker 1 with

Speaker 1 his butt.

Speaker 2 It'll come out again soon. Yeah, always does.

Speaker 1 Max is just a hit in my house. There's been a lot.
I've sent him the videos. There's just been a lot of discussion about Max's butt.
I need to see Max's butt. Just keep asking to see Max's butt.

Speaker 1 Can I see Max's butt? Yeah, guys, your daughter literally. Can I see Max's butt? I want to see Max's butt.
It's something about my genetics. Just got to see Max's butt.

Speaker 1 Yeah.

Speaker 1 All right.

Speaker 1 Let's do our interviews. We got Nick Siriani, Diana Rossini, and then we'll finish off with lottery balls.
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Speaker 1 Okay, we now welcome on a very, very, very, very special guest. It is Super Bowl champion head coach Nick Siriani from the Philadelphia Eagles.

Speaker 1 Does that sound good? Has that gotten old yet?

Speaker 4 No.

Speaker 4 Never will.

Speaker 1 My first question, actually, like, and you can be honest with us, like, I think it's bullshit that you have to go back to work only three weeks after winning the Super Bowl.

Speaker 1 Like, I was thinking about it. You're in Indy right now.
You're doing work. Was there a part of you, like...

Speaker 1 Me personally, if I won a Super Bowl, I'd fuck off forever.

Speaker 1 I wouldn't get that hunger back. But how is it, like, it's it's bang bang.
The NFL schedule doesn't stop.

Speaker 4 You know,

Speaker 4 it started right away because we had some coaching turnover, right? And so

Speaker 4 this is not my first day back. We've been interviewing and trying to hire coaches and exit interviews with players, stuff like that.
And, you know,

Speaker 4 it takes what it takes. It takes what it takes.
So, you know, obviously

Speaker 4 we enjoyed ourselves. You saw the parade.

Speaker 1 Yeah.

Speaker 4 We enjoyed ourselves. Yeah, we enjoyed ourselves.

Speaker 4 We had some other nights that we enjoyed ourselves, but it's right back to work to try to, you know, to go through the steps to put you in position to be able to do it again.

Speaker 1 Yeah.

Speaker 2 The exit interviews after winning Super Bowl have to kick ass. It's just people being like, yeah, that was fucking awesome.

Speaker 4 That was cool. One of the questions at the exit interviews is like, what do you think went well as a team?

Speaker 4 And so like after the first three where they were like, coach, we won the Super Bowl. I got it.
So

Speaker 4 I rephrased the question, besides winning the Super Bowl, what do you think went well as a team? Yeah. So

Speaker 4 yeah, those are good exit interviews.

Speaker 4 But, you know, just love spending time with the guys and continuing the relationships and everything like that.

Speaker 1 Okay, so be honest with this one, too. At what point during the Super Bowl were you like, we got this? It's over? Because I know the coach speak.

Speaker 1 You can be like, it's, you know, you got to play 60 minutes. You never know.
It's Patrick Mahomes. But, I mean, come on.
Halfway through the third quarter, you're like, this is, it's over.

Speaker 1 We got this.

Speaker 4 You know, in 2022, we were up 24, 14 at halftime, and they were getting the ball to come out of half, and they went down and scored.

Speaker 4 You know, and we were up 24-0 at halftime there, and they were getting the ball come out of half, and so we knew how important that drive was going to be.

Speaker 4 You know, I think at 40, when we were up 40 to 6,

Speaker 4 I remember saying to our staff, I'm like,

Speaker 4 I think...

Speaker 4 I think

Speaker 4 let's take the starters out.

Speaker 4 And one of the coaches was like, Coach, you sure? It was like six minutes left. And I go, yes, I'm sure.
We can take the starters out right now.

Speaker 4 Let's get everybody in the game and let them all and all play. So I think

Speaker 4 it took a long time.

Speaker 4 That's a phenomenal team. We played with phenomenal coaches,

Speaker 4 phenomenal players, maybe one of the best players of all time on the other sideline. And

Speaker 4 so

Speaker 4 it wasn't, hey, until the fat lady sang,

Speaker 4 we knew at some point it was 40 to 6 with five minutes left to go,

Speaker 1 we could be there. That was very nice of you, but you beat their fucking ass.
You did. It was an ass kicking.

Speaker 2 It was an ass kicking. You stopped them.

Speaker 1 It was great.

Speaker 2 And now that you're a couple of years removed from the first Super Bowl, I think you can say it without it seeming like sour grapes or like you're complaining about it.

Speaker 2 but the grass, the sod father from the Chiefs, he fucked you out of that circle.

Speaker 1 You know,

Speaker 4 the whole time during the parade and really a couple of the celebrate, you know, celebration, it really was the parade. I was like, it just, I don't know, it's just

Speaker 4 the way it is sometimes. You're like, man, I wish I'd have been able to do this in 2022.

Speaker 4 And it was like you're enjoying it, and the parade was awesome, and the people of Philadelphia are unbelievable, and the celebration was great, the players, everything.

Speaker 4 But there are moments that you have when you have the beer in your hand and you got to point it over to the crowd like, man, I wish I would have been able to go through this two years ago.

Speaker 4 We weren't.

Speaker 4 They beat us and they had to play on that field too. So I'll never give an excuse on that.

Speaker 1 Can I tell you when I think you won the Super Bowl? When I was like, I think this is over? When you didn't cry during the national anthem.

Speaker 1 Was there any part of you that was like, this time, don't cry? Because that was also when you lost the Super Bowl in 2022.

Speaker 1 2022 it's like dude you can't cry during the national anthem like you got to save the tears for winning the super bowl was there a part of you in game prep where you're like okay i know they're gonna sing this song like don't cry like practice and in front of the mirror like have the last chris stapleton last time singing it and i just sit in front of the mirror like don't cry don't cry you're stronger than that

Speaker 4 don't do it uh football's an emotional game uh you know i i would i would say it's just an emotional game and all the emotions yeah maybe it was maybe you know what what?

Speaker 4 I'll tribute it to that. Yeah, good.
I love it. I love it.

Speaker 2 They had a crier, too, Chris Jones. He cries during the national anthem as well.
I thought it would be just like an arms race. You guys would even cry harder this year than you should.

Speaker 4 Should they have to stand like right next to each other just face to face and just look and see who cried first? Yeah. Yeah.

Speaker 2 No, but it was a great season for you guys. How much credit do you give to Big Dom versus how much credit do you give to shaving your head?

Speaker 1 Oh, good question.

Speaker 2 How do you balance that?

Speaker 4 So, nobody, nobody, nobody in the NFL does their job as good as Dom does his.

Speaker 4 Let me brag on him for a second.

Speaker 4 Nobody wants to help people more. Like it is what in a world that we live in where there's so many people about themselves and this and that.
That's what I loved about our team too.

Speaker 4 We were a completely selfless team. No one cared how we won.
They just wanted to win,

Speaker 4 which is really special.

Speaker 4 I wish people were talking about that more, especially in the world we live in today.

Speaker 4 Our guys wanted to sacrifice for each other and win for each other and be selfless with it. Well, that's how Dom lives every single day.

Speaker 1 He lives to help other people.

Speaker 4 Domini here?

Speaker 1 Yeah,

Speaker 4 he lives to help other people do their job.

Speaker 4 And it's special.

Speaker 4 It takes special qualities. And yeah, so that has way more effect on when I didn't have time to get a haircut on Friday when we normally get haircuts.
And I'm like, you know what?

Speaker 4 My hair's a little long. I'm just going to do it myself.

Speaker 4 It didn't look great when I did it myself. So my assistant had to kind of trim me up there.
My daughter,

Speaker 4 I got my wife hates when I do that. I do it, I do it in the summer every once in a while.
Like, you know, I don't, I don't, my daughter, so my wife, I know my wife hates it.

Speaker 4 And then my daughter said to my wife, like, are you going to divorce daddy now that it has? I'm like, whoa, she's seven. She didn't even know what that means.

Speaker 4 So obviously she's heard that from somebody else. I don't know what's going on here.

Speaker 1 Yeah.

Speaker 1 Is that is you have three kids, right? Three. Which one is your favorite human shield?

Speaker 4 Well, if you look at when Howie got hit by the beer can at the

Speaker 4 end during the parade, it whizzes by my wife.

Speaker 4 There's a couple angles because it's like they have a very different angle.

Speaker 1 Yeah.

Speaker 4 I really, I actually think

Speaker 4 I could make a montage of all the angles of the beer can hitting Howie in the head. And there's one angle where it whizzes by my daughter and

Speaker 4 my wife, and it hits Howie. And I'm like, oh, you know what? Better Howie than my two beautiful girls.

Speaker 1 And it would have been bad because, you know, obviously, after it was at the Cleveland game where you brought your kids to the podium,

Speaker 1 that's where you're going with this.

Speaker 1 I tip my hat to you. I have three kids.

Speaker 1 Like, I know that, listen, I love my kids, but really, their purpose is: if I ever get into trouble, I'm just going to bring them around and be like, Look at my three kids. Do you know?

Speaker 4 It's so hard to win a game in the NFL. My moment was never to be like, I'm going to shield him from a tough question.
We just won the game. Miles Garrett jumped over.
We were up, what, 10-0?

Speaker 4 And it was about to be 13-0 and a half. He jumped over someone, blocked a kick, and they returned it for a touch.
It's hard to win.

Speaker 4 And so my whole thing there was like, let's go celebrate the win.

Speaker 1 Some people in the media didn't take it that way.

Speaker 4 So I got it. I got it.
So my wife said, no more, no more kids up at the podium anyway.

Speaker 2 This year was kind of crazy for you because it started out, things seemed to be like they were a little bit rocky at the beginning.

Speaker 2 And then they kind of turned around a little bit after that Saints game. Do you remember the ending of that Saints game? I think it

Speaker 2 Dallas caught that long pass, right? It really broke the game open. Did you feel like the season switched at that point?

Speaker 4 No. No.
I mean, because the next week, I think it was the next week, we got our butts kicked by Tampa.

Speaker 1 Okay.

Speaker 4 But that was a huge play, and it was an awesome play. You know, as I remember it, we're like third and 16.
Jalen puts it perfectly. We had perfect protection up front.

Speaker 4 We hadn't been doing much on offense. The defense was playing their butts off, and we haven't been doing much on offense all day.
We get great protection up front. Jalen delivers the ball perfectly.

Speaker 4 Jahan Dotson kind of gets Dallas Goddard open. I think like three of their guys ran into each other, and Dallas went and ripped it.

Speaker 4 But it is plays like that that you're like, yeah, I think there's so many moments in a season. You're like, man, that play, that play, that play, that play.
And that's what's cool about it, right?

Speaker 4 And there's teams that lost or didn't accomplish the goals they wanted to accomplish. And they look, that play, that play, that play.

Speaker 4 It just makes you know how important the day-in, day-out work is so the breaks go your way.

Speaker 2 Yeah. So we've defended the tush-push on this show.
I think I do have something. And I think

Speaker 2 as a commanders fan. I am not going to complain my way out of getting my ass kicked.
Like, that's not how football should work, right? It's a football play.

Speaker 2 Other teams are free to use it if they want to. They're just not as good at it.
I saw that you were insulted by the fact that the Packers are trying to get rid of the rule.

Speaker 2 You should feel complimented by that.

Speaker 4 You know,

Speaker 4 the compliment that I do feel from it is that it's stretched to every portion of football, right? It's showed in college football, pro football, high school football, peewee football.

Speaker 4 My son scored on it this year. Oh,

Speaker 2 that would piss me off.

Speaker 2 If I was like, if I had a son that was playing against your son and fucking Siriani's son is pushing on me, I'd be like, yeah, get that play out of football.

Speaker 1 It's bad for the game.

Speaker 4 Insulted because

Speaker 1 we work hard at that thing.

Speaker 4 It's automatic. Well,

Speaker 4 it's automatic because of the work that's put in and because of the players that we have that are performing it. It's not automatic throughout the entire league, right?

Speaker 4 It's not, okay, well, Steph Curry shouldn't be allowed to shoot threes. Only in the fourth quarter can Steph Curry shoot three.
Like, what are we talking about?

Speaker 4 You can't just make a roll-up because, right, it's benefiting one team and everywhere else, it's not quite as good. I mean, we saw it in one of the championship games.

Speaker 4 One of the teams got stuffed on it.

Speaker 1 turnover and downs yeah and then and the in the game over yeah it's also very funny because it's like how do you stop the tush push like don't let the eagles get to fourth and two yeah there's three other downs and you can stop them no doubt um we've we've been putting a lot of respect on your name even before the Super Bowl because it is like when you take a step back, I know Philly's a tough place to coach sometimes, but you guys, you know, I think you have the highest winning percentage of any active head coach right now.

Speaker 1 Four years in the playoffs, two NFC championship games, Super Bowl, and you've done it all coaching Italian. You're Italian.

Speaker 1 Is that hard where like sometimes your anger, like you want to bang on a pot and pan or like just scream? And like, that's got to be difficult. You're doing it all under the influence of Italian.

Speaker 4 I think that's emotion, right? Yes, emotion, right? And that's what makes me unique. It's my emotion, and it's all Italian right there.
No doubt.

Speaker 4 Yeah. You just try to be who you are.

Speaker 4 Players see through that if they're not. So the emotion of the game, the anger at times, right? The celebrations at times, the talking with our hands at times.

Speaker 4 Whether I'm talking to a referee, whether I'm talking to a player, or whatever it is. Yeah, I embrace that.

Speaker 1 Do you guys do you think you have too many Italians? You have a lot of Italian.

Speaker 4 You got a lot of Italians. Yeah.
Can you ever have too many Italians? I don't know.

Speaker 1 Like it just gets combustible.

Speaker 4 There's so many Italians.

Speaker 1 No, no. No.
You got Fangio.

Speaker 4 Now our coordinators,

Speaker 4 you got Fangio. Yeah.

Speaker 1 You got Petulo. You got Siriani.

Speaker 4 You got Dom, you got Dom, and you got Michael Clay. Yeah.

Speaker 1 Michael Clay is our special teams coordinator.

Speaker 2 So many Italians. There is one thing that pisses me off that you do, and I want to confront you face to face.
As a football viewer,

Speaker 2 when you line up to go for two in the first half, try to get them to jump off sides. They don't jump off sides.
Then you call a timeout. Then you kick the extra point anyways.

Speaker 2 As a fan of watching football on TV, that's a tough minute for me. You don't like it? I get mad.
Well, it's because I think that there's about to be a play. There's no play.

Speaker 2 You're excited for the play. He's just going to kick it.
He used the timeout.

Speaker 1 That's a very smart football move.

Speaker 4 You know,

Speaker 4 for you to notice it, I love that. I love that you noticed that that's what we were doing.

Speaker 4 Because it could be like, oh, they just messed it. I don't think your average fan notices that that's going on.
They're like, oh, they didn't have the right formation. They just banged the timeout.

Speaker 4 It's very

Speaker 4 impressive. But I mean, we get.
Did I change your opinion on that?

Speaker 1 No, no, no.

Speaker 4 You complimented your idea.

Speaker 2 I appreciate the compliment. I think you're right that I'm a very insightful football fan, but just the, it just delays.
We get enough commercials already, Washington.

Speaker 1 I hear you. I hear you.
Yeah.

Speaker 1 Point taking. Yeah.

Speaker 2 So just think of the fans when you do that next time. It's mildly annoying to a casual football viewer.

Speaker 1 Did you, this year, did you ever go to Saquon and be like, hey, dude, can you just do that 60-yard run thing where you do?

Speaker 4 Yeah, I think that's the game plan every week.

Speaker 4 remember where you, remember when you jumped over the guy backwards? Can you do that?

Speaker 1 Do the touchdown play real quick. Do that again.
I mean, he was, it was insane.

Speaker 1 Was there a moment where you're like, this is, this is just not normal that like every, it felt like every week he'd just rip a long one.

Speaker 4 Yeah, no, that's, that's how it feels right there. Like, I think that the moment that I love the reaction of our sideline when he jumped over that guy.

Speaker 4 And that's what we, you know, I think we saw that every day at practice.

Speaker 4 I mean, not that he was like, we're not tackling full speed and he can get jumping over guys, but like you just see the athletic, the freaky athletic ability that he has.

Speaker 4 Man, and I'll say this: like, what an unbelievable person.

Speaker 4 Like, if you, if we just, if you said, Saquon Barkley, go, the first thing that would come out of my mouth is, this guy's an unbelievable person. This guy's an unbelievable teammate.

Speaker 4 This guy's an unbelievable leader. He's an unbelievable worker.
And then we could start talking about the plays that he makes. It's all those things that make him who he is.

Speaker 2 You think he's a better human being than football player?

Speaker 1 Yeah. No.

Speaker 4 There's no chance.

Speaker 1 He's the best running back on the league. You think he's one of the best? You think he's a top 0001% human? Yes.
Worldwide? No chance. Yes.
No chance. He's better at football than I is.
Look at me.

Speaker 1 Yes. Take the sunglasses down.
Yes.

Speaker 1 If I had sunglasses, I'd look him up. Like you have eyes.

Speaker 4 What about him?

Speaker 1 But he's one of the best football players in the world.

Speaker 4 And that's what I'm saying. He's one of the best humans in the world.

Speaker 2 Like, probably we're talking top 10 human being in the entire world. You're going to say he's a top 10 human being.

Speaker 4 I don't, is that if he's the entire world?

Speaker 1 He's a top 10 football player in the world. Top 10.

Speaker 4 There's a lot of more people in the world

Speaker 4 as human beings.

Speaker 4 I'd say the top thousand human human beings.

Speaker 1 So, okay, so better football player than human being.

Speaker 1 You just admitted it.

Speaker 1 Thank you. Point us.
He's awesome.

Speaker 1 He's awesome.

Speaker 2 What's it like knowing that at any given time, Howie could be working on something just insane that will make your life very complicated the next like 24 hours?

Speaker 4 Insane.

Speaker 2 No matter who is available, who's not even available, I feel like Howie is always cooking something up.

Speaker 4 Yeah, it's going to make my life.

Speaker 4 The secret to good coaching is get good players. Howie does a great job of that.
So

Speaker 4 he's making my life easier and easier every move that he makes. It's awesome.

Speaker 2 I guess just like more exciting. Maybe complicated is the right word, but at any given time, he could surprise you with a present.

Speaker 1 I love it.

Speaker 4 It's the best. It's the absolute best.

Speaker 4 He is the best GM in the world. I have no doubt in my mind.

Speaker 1 He is pretty damn good.

Speaker 1 The proof is in the pudding.

Speaker 2 Do you want to get Max involved?

Speaker 1 Well, let me ask you this. Coaching in Philadelphia is tough.

Speaker 1 I think it's pretty crazy the swings you've had where, you know, like I said, you've been to the playoffs four years in a row.

Speaker 1 You've gone to two Super Bowls, won one, but you were also, some of the fan base had you on the hot seat

Speaker 1 at the beginning of the year. Some people in this room had you on the hot seat.
Who was it? That would be Max.

Speaker 1 This is fake.

Speaker 1 You 100% had him on the hot seat. Come on, that's not true.
Okay. There's no proof of that.

Speaker 1 Also, let me ask you this. So, yeah, Max, come on in here.

Speaker 1 Super Bowl, after the Super Bowl, you guys go to the party, you're at the hotel. I would assume, like, this is the pinnacle of your career.
People are asking for pictures.

Speaker 1 You love taking pictures with people. Like, that's a moment that, like, hey, this is what I want to do.
Share it with the fans. Sure.

Speaker 1 Is that fair to say that you love taking pictures with people in that moment?

Speaker 4 I love taking pictures with them.

Speaker 1 In that moment.

Speaker 1 Perfect answer. Perfect answer.

Speaker 4 I think it's the right thing to do.

Speaker 1 Okay.

Speaker 4 And it's an easy way to. Here's my opinion on it.
Do I love, like, when I got my son, or my, do I love taking pictures?

Speaker 4 I wouldn't say I love taking pictures, but it's such an easy thing, like, it's such an easy thing to do to show, to help somebody make their day or show gratitude to that person.

Speaker 1 But, like, was it, let me phrase it a different way. Would it, it was an appropriate time for people to ask you for pictures.
Yeah. Yeah.

Speaker 4 Now, I had to, like, I normally stop and take a picture with everybody. Right.
But with that mass of, like, I had to, I had to keep going. So sorry to anybody I didn't take a picture.
No, you did.

Speaker 1 So, so you took a picture with Pug. Okay.

Speaker 4 Did I dice somebody in this room? No, no, no.

Speaker 1 Max thought he was like, he was like, I'm so much better than everyone. I'm not going to ruin this moment and ask for a picture.

Speaker 1 Do you want to do a picture now? You do it after, yeah. I didn't ask for a picture because I was like, you know, this is the best night of his life.

Speaker 1 I wanted you to, you know, enjoy the night and not get hounded by a bunch of pictures. So I thought out of respect for you.
He wants credit for that.

Speaker 1 I don't want credit for that. Max naught.
I just got ridiculed by everyone by not getting fired. Wait a second, Max.

Speaker 4 You wanted me fired. So never mind.

Speaker 1 That's not true. That's not true.
Yeah, you did.

Speaker 1 You had him on the hot seat. I didn't want him fired, but you had hot seats.

Speaker 2 You had your eyes on Sirianni.

Speaker 1 People in Philly, you know, sometimes we get over-emotional and we say things that we don't mean. Max is also very Italian.
We actually are like the Eagles. We have our entire behind-the-scenes.

Speaker 1 What does he look like?

Speaker 4 Has there ever got Matt Patricia?

Speaker 1 Oh,

Speaker 1 he cosplays his Kelsey. Yeah, he cosplays.
Little Kelsey.

Speaker 4 Little Patricia. You guys see it?

Speaker 1 Yeah.

Speaker 1 But we have all of our support staff is all Italian. So we're kind of modeling after the Eagles.

Speaker 4 Do you have too many Italian? We do have too many Italians Italians.

Speaker 1 I think we do.

Speaker 1 Not enough.

Speaker 1 But yeah, so Max is very Italian. He gets very emotional.
He might have had you on the hot seat.

Speaker 1 High season. Sometimes you say things you don't mean.
That's all. That's all.
Okay, so go.

Speaker 1 All right, first question going off of that, how does it feel now to be in this class of immortality in Philadelphia? Like going into the year was obviously

Speaker 1 a little feisty with you and the Philly fans. And now no matter what you do,

Speaker 1 you're automatically on the pantheon of like all-time greats.

Speaker 4 know, you know what I'd say about that? You know, someone, a couple people have asked me,

Speaker 4 why don't you get up and be like, look at me, like, do something like that, right? And I'm like, you know, I'm actually grateful for,

Speaker 4 and this is, I'm gonna, this, I know, this is in the mood we're in right now, but like, because we're having fun, but I'm grateful for the criticism.

Speaker 4 I'm grateful for the adversity because it truly makes you. And I look back at my entire life, the adversity has made me who I am.

Speaker 4 I have no doubt in my mind that it would have been hard to win the Super Bowl this year if we didn't finish the season the way we did last year. And I'm grateful for the adversity.

Speaker 4 I'm grateful for the criticism. And the reason I'm grateful for the criticism is because, you know, I got three kids that I'm going to raise in this social media world

Speaker 4 that they're going to get criticized, right? And I'm going to have to be able to parent them in those scenarios.

Speaker 4 And what a great opportunity I have and a great experience I have of what we went through, right, with the light on the other side of the tunnel.

Speaker 4 And then also, you know, we have a ton of players that get criticized. I love Brandon Graham when he talks about how he was criticized so early in his career.
He put his head down.

Speaker 4 He worked his butt off. He learned from the adversity.
He got better.

Speaker 4 And

Speaker 4 he has the 15-year career, you know, 15-plus-year career that

Speaker 4 he's had. And I love that.
I love that. And now I'm able to share that too with guys.
And so I'm grateful for it. And,

Speaker 4 you know, it sucks when you're going through it, but I'm grateful for it now.

Speaker 1 Let's get back to some fun. Well, I would imagine it makes it sweeter.
Like, you know,

Speaker 1 If everything's easy, then the great moments don't feel the same. No doubt.

Speaker 4 What 50 Cents say in that one song? Pain Wouldn't Feel So Good?

Speaker 4 I'll take you to the candy shop?

Speaker 1 It's your birthday.

Speaker 4 No, I think I'll take you to the candy shop.

Speaker 1 Yeah, you're right.

Speaker 4 You're right. And then they did that movie with Old School where they remade it.
That's one of my favorite lines.

Speaker 1 By the way, another Italian has walked in. Diana Rossini is here.
So we just are, we're full of Italians. Yeah, this is a great room.

Speaker 1 We're close to having a Rico act on this whole room. All right, Max, go.

Speaker 1 Number one, that was great. I'm happy that you're in this moment now because Howie Roseman is another one that

Speaker 1 people really criticized him after the Jalen Rager, Justin Jefferson thing. And I see how you criticized them.

Speaker 2 You see this pattern here?

Speaker 4 BG, myself, Howie Roller.

Speaker 1 It's good. It's good.
And

Speaker 1 I'm happy Philadelphia's turned on people who deserve to be turned on for the better.

Speaker 1 You're turned on. No.

Speaker 1 This guy just loves to twist your words. I try and say something right.
Never works. All right.
Next question.

Speaker 1 Back to Italians. Is Kevin Petulo Italian? Because I'm seeing different reports.
What are you seeing? This is a report. A lot of people are saying that it's actually a Scottish name.
I'm

Speaker 1 not sure. I just want to dismiss those rumors.
He's been lying to me for, I've been working with him for eight years.

Speaker 4 All right. All the way back to Indy and then here.
Like, if he's been lying to me about being Italian for this long, he can't be.

Speaker 1 Who can hold a lie for that long if it's not?

Speaker 4 Because he's been lying to me for eight years if he has. No, I love it.

Speaker 4 He'd be like George Costanza if he can hold a lie for that long.

Speaker 1 I believe it. I just wanted the people of Philadelphia to know coming from you that he's a certainty.

Speaker 4 Dom Italian?

Speaker 1 Italian. Certified.
Stamped.

Speaker 1 Follow-up question to that.

Speaker 1 Let's get the boys fired up about this.

Speaker 4 No questions on Fangio, though.

Speaker 1 Well, obviously.

Speaker 1 His name's Vic Fangio.

Speaker 1 Vic Fancio. Vic Fangio.
We got another guy. He's a nice vison.

Speaker 4 If you have a question about this guy or one of our

Speaker 4 senior special teams assistant, Joe Penunzio. Any questions?

Speaker 1 No, no questions.

Speaker 4 No questions, right?

Speaker 1 An excellent pie is on.

Speaker 1 No,

Speaker 1 I believed it. I just wanted the people to stop putting out these fake rumors.

Speaker 4 Yeah, good. I'm glad I was able to clear that up.

Speaker 1 But following up on Kevin Petullo, can we get the Eagles fans fired up? Like, what's he going to bring to this offense? Tell me about Kevin Petullo.

Speaker 4 Kevin, I haven't made a decision over the last five years, or really even going back to indy without the assistance of kevin petullo and that's just in whether it's offense whether it's uh head coaching whether it's something to do with anything he's my the guy i lean into the most and that's really you talk to shane steichen you talk to brian johnson you talk to kellen moore they all say the same thing uh this guy is a star um you know loves football, bleeds football, wants to do everything, like has a great,

Speaker 4 look at all the what the player, all the players said about him after he got, after he got hired and the endorsement endorsement that he gave that every one of them gave him.

Speaker 4 He's a special coach.

Speaker 4 And

Speaker 4 when you have a coach that you can keep consistency and continuity in the building for your offense that can be promoted, you do that. And we had a guy that was there ready to do it.

Speaker 4 And I'm excited about his opportunity. And I want him to do so well that he gets job interviews next year, but doesn't get them.

Speaker 4 But doesn't get the, you know, because I don't want to move on. And then I hope he does so well again

Speaker 4 that he gets those job interviews again and he strikes out and being a head coach again. And then maybe the third year does so well again, misses out on it one more time.

Speaker 4 And then the fourth year of him being the coordinator, then he goes.

Speaker 1 That seems fair to me.

Speaker 1 Let's get Jason continuity. Yeah, that's a good plan.
All right, that's it. That's a question.

Speaker 1 Good question.

Speaker 1 Do you want to apologize for putting him on the hot seat?

Speaker 4 He didn't actually apologize.

Speaker 2 He said that's just the way we are.

Speaker 4 You know, it's like I yell at the rest. It's just the way I am.

Speaker 1 No, I'm Italian. I'm an emotional guy.
I'm an emotional guy. He said, You're welcome.
That's exactly where I'm going. Wherever

Speaker 1 you go,

Speaker 2 I have a question from Max 12 months ago. Oh, Max, 12 months ago, would ask you.

Speaker 1 No, no, no, no, no, no. Come on, this is.

Speaker 2 This was a question that you had a year ago.

Speaker 1 That's a different guy. Yeah, but let's just ask you: what do you do during games? No, no, no.
I just kind of hang out. I just kind of hang out.

Speaker 4 you lost it yeah i just kind of i just kind of hang out during games high five people that's what max thing yell at people yell people high five people that's about it yeah flip off a guy in the stands

Speaker 4 i never i didn't do that he encouraged you right he was like he was like we got to run saquon more and you're like i will and then you did it and we did it and i'm like did you like that and you said yes and i said okay and then it kind of became a little bit more of a topic than it was yeah the guy do you know that guy actually called in and said he wasn't talking to the whole fan?

Speaker 4 He was talking to me and he was having fun with me and nobody went with that story. I know.
The evils of, I'm sorry, the evils of the media.

Speaker 4 We'll listen to what we want to listen to and not put out the other things.

Speaker 1 Oh, yeah, you definitely spread that you were yelling at a fan. Yeah, not me.
Absolutely.

Speaker 2 No, I think we did read it because I think he wrote online. He was like, hey, this is me, the fan.

Speaker 4 He was talking directly to me. That's what the guy said.
I was talking directly to him. And nope.
And I'm like, nobody even went with it. The story was written the way it wanted to be written.

Speaker 4 And that's where it went from there.

Speaker 1 By the way, I think you misquoted Max. I think his quote was,

Speaker 1 what does he even do during the game?

Speaker 1 I don't think that that's how that went at all. Well, it's

Speaker 1 making this up out of it. Huh? You get a Super Bowl.
Yeah, no.

Speaker 4 These are the burdens of leadership, right? Leadership's not always seen, right? It's not always seen. And you know what?

Speaker 4 I know what I signed up for.

Speaker 4 I know that there's criticism that comes when you don't perform the way that you need to perform. And that's what we signed up for.

Speaker 1 I also think when Max said that you're like, you know, immortality, I would say

Speaker 4 until we win three and out.

Speaker 1 Yeah, one and four.

Speaker 1 You're going to be back on Max's hospital. That's incorrect.
That's incorrect. Well, you know,

Speaker 4 the last time they told me about this when I first got here, they said, you know, we won the Super Bowl in 2017. I'm like, oh, yeah, I remember that.

Speaker 4 And then they're like, well, the next year in 2018, we went three and out our first drive and they were booing. It may have been, and I may be exaggerating that, and it also may have been

Speaker 4 we didn't score any points at halftime and they were booing. I'm like, shoot.

Speaker 1 That's Philly.

Speaker 1 I love it.

Speaker 4 You better score some points.

Speaker 1 You got to score some points. Don't go three and out.
Yeah.

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Speaker 1 Our mutual friend Jason Candle,

Speaker 1 you got to hire him. I know he's killing at Toledo, but

Speaker 1 he's a hell of an offensive coach. He's a stud.
Yeah.

Speaker 4 Yeah, he's a stud.

Speaker 4 And he's done an awesome job at Toledo. Jason and I were teammates, right? Jason and I were teammates.

Speaker 4 His senior year in 2001, all right, and my sophomore year, it took me a little, it really was like my second, I had three more years after that because it took me some more time to graduate.

Speaker 1 Italian. Yeah.

Speaker 4 Him and I were the starting receivers. For the first two games, I got hurt and I was out the rest of the year.
But then Jason,

Speaker 4 was my coach. You know, in 2002 and 2003,

Speaker 4 he was my receiver coach.

Speaker 4 right so imagine the guy you drink a lot of beers with and hang out with a lot now he's telling now he's yelling at you and telling you what to do and everything like that but he's a great he was he's a great coach then fast forward to when i now i'm going into coaching and i and i take a job uh at mountain union now not only is he my roommate my uh you know because i'm gonna live in his house he's my roommate um

Speaker 4 he's my colleague and he's my landlord because he's charging me money to live in a home right listen to this A lot of coaches lived in that.

Speaker 4 There was about five coaches that Jason was making money off of, all of us, you know, charging us rent.

Speaker 4 I got the room because

Speaker 4 they were all a year or two older than me. And I got the room that

Speaker 4 was in the living room. It was connected to the dining room.
I had a sheet.

Speaker 4 For a little bit of privacy. No heat in that room.
So I had a space heater. Right.
And so, and I was still getting charged the same amount of rent as everybody else. So,

Speaker 4 yeah. And so, no, Jason's.

Speaker 1 Entrepreneur. Yeah.

Speaker 1 There you have it. You said it.

Speaker 1 Did he tip you off last year being like Quinnion Mitchell?

Speaker 4 Oh, yeah, he gave us great, great insight. Yeah.
Yeah.

Speaker 1 I just wanted to pump Jason Candle's tires because he's awesome.

Speaker 4 He's awesome.

Speaker 4 He's done a great job.

Speaker 4 Really value his opinion on things and find myself checking in with him on what he would do in certain situations.

Speaker 4 And, you know, I know he's come and watched us practice and we share information and great relationship there.

Speaker 4 And always proud to check his scores or watch his games. And, you know, I don't shy away from telling people in the building, like, they don't see Mountain Union scores.

Speaker 4 So I'm like, hey, do you see Toledo? Yeah, that's my guy who won that game.

Speaker 2 What is it about Mountain Union that real football guys know? Like there's something special about that college when it comes to coaching.

Speaker 1 We learned how to win there.

Speaker 4 And the coach that we all played for, Larry Karis,

Speaker 4 taught us how to win, taught us. And then the guys that wanted to, that came back and coached for him, taught us how to coach.

Speaker 4 in Jason's case taught him how to take advantage of his tenants and his in his uh in his house um with the with the heat no heat and everything like that but no he just taught us how to win and taught us how to coach and taught us you know everything that he had to offer us to to get better as football coaches and you know

Speaker 4 How awesome is it for Coach Karris now to see Matt Campbell doing the things that he's doing at Iowa State and Jason doing the things that he's doing at Toledo and then

Speaker 4 obviously us winning.

Speaker 4 He's, you know, he's got another guy here on the Colts that's the tight end coach. He's got coaches everywhere that have either played for him and coached for him, both my brothers included,

Speaker 4 that he's touched our lives and helped us reach our goals.

Speaker 1 Well, Coach, thank you so much. Also, congrats on the new contract.
I don't think it's happened yet, but winning a Super Bowl right before a contract year.

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That's some good shit. Yeah.

Speaker 1 Yeah, that's some good shit. I know that you've you've probably been like, ah, that's pretty good.
Yeah, yeah. But yeah, congrats on that.
Congrats on all the success. And appreciate you stopping by.

Speaker 1 Yeah, thanks for having me.

Speaker 4 It was fun.

Speaker 1 Give it up for Chicago.

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Speaker 1 Okay, we now welcome on a very special guest, our good friend, Diana Rossini from the Athletic. You can listen to her podcast, Scoop City.

Speaker 1 Great podcast, by the way.

Speaker 4 Diana Rossini podcast.

Speaker 1 Daniel Never City podcast.

Speaker 6 Where's the invite? I've invited PFTs.

Speaker 8 Come on. I've sent you numerous letters.

Speaker 1 He did not send me an invite. I never have.

Speaker 8 He wasn't very good. So my thought was: all right, I'm going to avoid these guys for a bit, let them find their rhythm again, and then I'll invite Big Cat.

Speaker 2 So wait, I wasn't very good on your podcast and your little pod?

Speaker 8 Our downloads weren't very good.

Speaker 2 Oh, that's not true. That's fake.

Speaker 1 No. You are bad.
I'm going to

Speaker 1 solidarity. Yeah, no.

Speaker 2 What she did was.

Speaker 8 I know you guys were so nervous about us jumping you guys as the number one sports podcast on the planet. So Scoop City.
Yeah, yeah, Scooby City City.

Speaker 1 We don't even, a lion doesn't concern themselves with sheep. No.

Speaker 1 Yeah. All right.
So, Diana, we're here at the Combine.

Speaker 2 What's the buzz?

Speaker 1 What's the biggest story right now at the Combine?

Speaker 8 The fact that you guys did not go out at all last night. That is the buzz.

Speaker 8 Babies, you turned 40 and you lost all your stamina. That's fast.

Speaker 8 Texting with you guys, like, nope. Go to bed.
It's 8.45.

Speaker 2 No, I stayed up till 10.

Speaker 1 Also, I want it on the record that I went home at 11 o'clock, but I didn't go to sleep till 1 because I watched New Mexico lose and not cover till 1 o'clock. Fair.

Speaker 8 So I'm not 40 yet, so I don't know what that's going to feel like.

Speaker 8 But I'm learning that it hits you hard, huh? Yeah. It comes at you quick.
Yeah.

Speaker 1 Yeah. And we're losers.
So what would

Speaker 2 this is going to get community noted?

Speaker 8 What's that?

Speaker 2 You're 42.

Speaker 8 Why would you do that?

Speaker 2 Well, because you were talking about downloads.

Speaker 1 Oh, shit.

Speaker 1 I believed it. I believed it.

Speaker 8 42 is the amount of downloads I got.

Speaker 1 It's a community. I believed it.
So wherever Aaron Rodgers lands, will the team let him do the Pat McAfee show per year reporting?

Speaker 8 I said that the Jets discussed with Aaron Rodgers what this year would look like if he stayed a Jet, right? How are we going to do this Pat McAfee thing?

Speaker 8 We would really like you to cut back on a lot of this stuff, the distractions, so we could all be one, keep it all out, new chapter, new New York Jets.

Speaker 8 There was no ultimatum ever made.

Speaker 8 Aaron Rodgers is not in New York anymore because he can't do Pat McAfee. That never even, it was never that hard of a conversation.

Speaker 8 It was just, look, I was giving the Jets credit through the whole thing: how about them taking their team back? Hey, Aaron Rodgers, you haven't performed up to the level that we've wanted you to.

Speaker 2 You're mad in rating, Tim.

Speaker 1 We've given you

Speaker 8 every player, everyone that you want, and it's still not good.

Speaker 8 So, we're going to start treating you the way everyone else should be treated. And I think Rodgers appreciates that.

Speaker 8 Like, I think he's the type of player where maybe it appears that he wants that special treatment, but he lives in a space of the best coaches lead by holding the best players accountable.

Speaker 8 And everyone gets that same kind of treatment. And I think that's what the Jets were trying to do.
And in the end, I think both sides were like, yeah, no, this isn't going to work.

Speaker 8 Not just because of that. I think there's a series of reasons.
Yeah.

Speaker 2 What about Miles Garrett? What are you hearing with him?

Speaker 8 Yeah. So, look, Cleveland is yelling from the rooftop.
We are not moving him, but just we've seen this a million times.

Speaker 8 They say that now, but I think when we get closer to the draft, we'll see some movement. I think Philly's going to try to go hard here.

Speaker 8 I think Howie is going to make some decisions here in free agency and determine who he can live without. And I think some of these guys that are up, he's going to be comfortable walking away from,

Speaker 8 despite the fact they obviously just had so much success with this roster. But I think you make those kind of moves and you take a big swing for someone like Miles Garrett.

Speaker 8 And Howie will tell you, and I'm sure Nick said it too when he spoke to you guys, like they build their team, you know, through, through their lines.

Speaker 8 So, I mean, what, what better ends than bringing a Miles Garrett?

Speaker 1 Yeah. Yeah.
Was this the first year that you had an MVP vote?

Speaker 8 It was my second year. Second year.
It was the first year it was revealed to you. Yeah.
And I did not know that.

Speaker 8 And I was out to dinner and my phone was blowing up with people in football. very angry that I voted for people that I voted for.

Speaker 8 So that stunk. I wish I knew that because I think it would.
Would it have changed your vote? It would not have changed my vote, but

Speaker 8 I love Josh Allen and I am

Speaker 8 for a really long time.

Speaker 8 I'm well aware.

Speaker 1 I was really thinking about him winning the MVP.

Speaker 8 I feel like I have to apologize. I still believe my vote was right.
Like, I think

Speaker 8 I was looking at it differently than I think the other voters were.

Speaker 8 I felt like there were games in which the defense in Buffalo helped Josh more in winning those games where I felt like Lamar had to do it more on his own because he didn't have that type of defense this year.

Speaker 8 That was kind of how I viewed it.

Speaker 8 It was, look, there were days I woke up and I thought it was Josh. There were days I woke up and thought it was Lamar.
I like stressed about it. But in the end, I did vote for Lamar.

Speaker 2 You told me, I believe it was the Tuesday of Super Bowl week, Lamar Jackson 100% winning MVP. And you knew that I had a future on Lamar to win that MVP.
Correct. You said 100%, don't worry about it.

Speaker 2 It's already done.

Speaker 2 That was very mean.

Speaker 8 Yeah,

Speaker 8 I purposely lied to you because I knew how much you had on that, and I just thought it would just be fun to play games with you there. That was very funny.

Speaker 1 How'd that turn out?

Speaker 2 It was not ideal.

Speaker 1 All that does.

Speaker 8 The excitement in your face when I told you that Lamar was winning that whole thing was you're like, oh my God, oh my God, you were shaky, like freaking out about it.

Speaker 2 I mean, winning a big bet in New Orleans, it's going to be fun. Yeah, I was just excited to have fun that week.

Speaker 8 How'd you guys do in New Orleans? Like, just on all your bets? Uh,

Speaker 1 Eagles won the Super Bowl.

Speaker 2 It's pretty good. I made money the Super Bowl, which is it's rare did you go to the casino no did not go to the casino

Speaker 8 you guys killed at the casino in vegas yeah yeah remember you guys were posting photos of like all these that was a little gross actually

Speaker 8 showing off do you like new orleans as a super bowl city it was unbelievable it was very fun that was the i've i've done 12 super bowls that was the best super bowl i've ever been to yeah um everything from from just the logistics the excitement there was something to do everywhere it didn't you didn't need a plan you could just like go anywhere and it was fun and i just thought this the fact that the Eagles just absolutely destroy the Chiefs, the celebration afterwards was one of the best post-games I've ever covered to in any sport.

Speaker 8 Yeah. Obviously, you saw Saquon

Speaker 8 going berserk. I've never seen him like that ever.

Speaker 8 Like, even in some, he's had success, obviously, in his career.

Speaker 1 And

Speaker 8 it meant so much to him. And I think it was such a

Speaker 8 yes, I knew I was this guy, despite the fact that New York didn't think I was. Yeah.
You felt it.

Speaker 1 Vindication. Yeah.

Speaker 1 Question for you personally.

Speaker 1 You left ESPN. I feel like the bet has paid off.
How is it going? Like, that's a scary thing for a lot of people to leave ESPN because it is kind of, you know, the mothership and all that stuff.

Speaker 1 And you've been crushing it in your new role at the athletic and your podcast. Do you look back and you're like, that was an awesome decision by me? Because it takes balls.

Speaker 1 Like it was, you know, that's to make that jump, it does. Thank you.

Speaker 8 Yeah, it was hard. And you guys are, you know, you knew what was going on with me on the mental side of it.
It was hard to say, I love my job. I love ESPN.

Speaker 8 I was having success there, but I felt like I needed to go somewhere to challenge myself. And this job is so much harder than what I was doing on TV.
It's not even close.

Speaker 8 Like to have to write what you know.

Speaker 8 the written word compared to what you can say in TV, I just feel like it lasts forever. And

Speaker 8 once you collect that information and you put your name on it and it never goes away,

Speaker 8 One, I'm proud of it, but it's definitely challenging. I'm getting exactly what I wanted.
I can tell you that.

Speaker 2 You're a columnist.

Speaker 2 I am.

Speaker 2 It's big. And your column comes out Saturday, which great job figuring that out.
Like good job putting out your column one day before everybody else. That is so funny that you say that.
Very smart.

Speaker 1 Very smart.

Speaker 8 You think I planned it that way. I did not.
Okay. So I was doing it on Sunday and, you know, it wasn't really getting much traction because Adam and Ian, you know, they're so great at what they do.

Speaker 8 And they were putting out news and I I was putting out the same stuff. So it was like, why are people going to read my column if they've already seen it on TV?

Speaker 8 So I was trying to, one weekend, just get ahead of stuff because I wanted to go to an actual game on Sunday. So I was like, you know what? Why don't we just publish this on Saturday?

Speaker 8 I just threw it out there thinking it wouldn't really result in anything. And it was the best decision I made because I got ahead of the news cycle.

Speaker 8 Whereas like Saturday can put out all the stuff about the games and obviously people want to hear it and read it.

Speaker 1 Yeah.

Speaker 2 Do you, so it comes out Saturday. when you write it? Do you write it like Friday night?

Speaker 8 Yeah, I write it like midnight sometimes.

Speaker 8 No, so no, my Friday nights are horrendous. I remember you used to write a column?

Speaker 2 On Monday, yeah, Monday morning.

Speaker 8 Remember that stress you used to have writing that? I mean,

Speaker 2 it takes a long time to write, yeah.

Speaker 8 Okay, I think there's a little difference in what you're writing about.

Speaker 2 No, yeah, my shit was good.

Speaker 1 No, no, yours is, it was good, but it wasn't, it wasn't journalism.

Speaker 2 Yeah, no, I broke some news, but yeah, that's, that's fair.

Speaker 8 You know, so it's stressful when you're putting information out that you know is going to piss people off too, right?

Speaker 8 Because that's the other part of this is when you report stuff, I think people just take the information and run. The rest of my day is filled with taking calls from agents, players, PR people.

Speaker 8 Hey, I didn't like the tone of that. What do you mean by this? Even when I write like glowing

Speaker 8 reports about teams or a coach or a player, someone's always mad. So I publish Saturday morning at 10 a.m.
I spend my whole day dealing with the memes of the world.

Speaker 1 I could write

Speaker 1 there. Someone's always mad.
He's right there.

Speaker 8 I can feel it.

Speaker 8 Memes, why are you so angry?

Speaker 1 Memes, get out of here. Let's go.
Let's go. Why are you angry?

Speaker 1 You have a lot of hate in your heart. Let it out.
Let's go.

Speaker 2 Oh, he's got a document ready to go on his phone.

Speaker 1 Oh, nice.

Speaker 1 Oh, the group is chat. Group chat is angry.

Speaker 2 He's going to ask questions.

Speaker 1 You pissed off the group chat.

Speaker 1 The text from Jack Mac said you did report the ultimatum.

Speaker 8 No, I didn't. I never said the word ultimatum.

Speaker 1 She did report that.

Speaker 8 You can write back here. Take a video of me.
Ready? I didn't report that. Listen to Scoop City.
Hi. What's his name?

Speaker 1 Jack Mac. Inventor of Scoop City.
Jack Mack. Jack Mack? Yeah, he actually invented Scoop City.
You stole the name from him.

Speaker 2 Oh, he was the one with the original skin. With the TikTok.

Speaker 1 Jack, I'm so sorry I took the name.

Speaker 8 Either way. The Jets never made it an ultimatum, and I never reported that.
I'm sorry you took it that way. And who cares at this point? Oh, Jets fans care.

Speaker 1 The Jets fans care a lot. The Jets.
So here's the thing.

Speaker 2 Here's the thing with memes is memes, you can look up and see if she used the word ultimatum.

Speaker 8 You can listen to the podcast and you can read my article and you can see what it says.

Speaker 1 No, reading a headline and basing all your facts on that is actually the correct way to do it. So memes, what do you have?

Speaker 1 Let's get it. Here's my strip the band.

Speaker 8 Why are you guys on such a hunt to find out or discover if my reporting's wrong? It's never been inaccurate. Not one thing I've ever reported about the New York Jets has been wrong.

Speaker 1 Well, I think your reports, the problem is the aggregators take your report and the way you word your report make it seem like you're coming directly after the jets.

Speaker 1 Feelings are hurt.

Speaker 2 So your problem is your problem with the aggregators.

Speaker 8 So that's not, so we don't really have a beef.

Speaker 2 No, she is Dove Kleinman, also. That's her, that's her all.

Speaker 1 She's ML football.

Speaker 1 So, so what's your beef, memes?

Speaker 4 The ultimatum.

Speaker 1 That's my beef right now. What else?

Speaker 8 Did the Madden stuff bother you? The what stuff? The Madden stuff?

Speaker 1 No. Well, yes, because the Ravens also use Madden rating.
Oh, okay. So you should have put that in the comments.

Speaker 8 I didn't criticize it. I didn't have an opinion about it.
I just said

Speaker 1 you had the report that got it out there. They were like, hey, we have an 18-year-old running the team,

Speaker 1 which is a problem. But.

Speaker 2 So again, your problem is not with her or her reporting. It's the fact that

Speaker 1 she's reporting something. There's 31 other teams.

Speaker 2 Let's be even with it. Yeah.

Speaker 8 Oh, so you want dysfunction on it on every other team? You want me to go find that?

Speaker 1 There's dysfunction everywhere.

Speaker 8 Not as much as in New York.

Speaker 1 Look, I think.

Speaker 1 Oh, my gosh, I broke your heart.

Speaker 8 I didn't mean it that way. Look, I think things are going to get better.
Like, how about the fact that Woody Johnson came out and said, I need to be a better owner? I thought that was awesome.

Speaker 8 That was self-awareness. I don't think the article calls that.
I think he's looking at his body of work going as an owner. This isn't good.
This isn't good at all.

Speaker 1 He got an F today, but

Speaker 1 if your reporting helped get Woody Johnson out, that's fine.

Speaker 8 What else can I do?

Speaker 1 If you're taking down the new leadership, the head coach.

Speaker 8 I can't win with you. That's what I realized.

Speaker 1 No, he's going to be mad at you. I think it's really just like the don't shoot the messenger, shoot the message.
He's just going to shoot the messenger every time.

Speaker 8 Yeah, I represent

Speaker 8 the stuff that bothers you. And I don't want to.
You realize I love the Jets. Like, I grew up a Jets fan.

Speaker 1 No, you hate the Jets. I don't either.

Speaker 1 I don't know what the Jets ever did to you, but you hate the Jets. All right, so memes, do you have anything else besides the ultimatum that is bothering you right now?

Speaker 1 No. We could be friends if your reporting gets Woody Johnson out.
Oh.

Speaker 1 Okay, so there you go. You've got your mission.

Speaker 8 No, I'm good there. I don't want to be friends.
I just want to be cool. I feel like there's just so much tension between us.

Speaker 8 Like, because Max and I used to have a little tension because of our situation, but we've now worked that.

Speaker 1 That reporting could have been a lie.

Speaker 2 Oh, now it's all called into question.

Speaker 1 Wow.

Speaker 1 Now I think that reporting was incredible.

Speaker 8 Wait, you are questioning my.

Speaker 1 We don't have to talk about that reporting. That reporting is fine.

Speaker 1 We don't need to bring that back up.

Speaker 8 Again, we are not going through this again, but I can tell you. Stand by.
I will stand by that one for a while.

Speaker 1 I will also stand by that reporting.

Speaker 1 That's a fact.

Speaker 2 What if she just reports occasionally better stories about the Jets?

Speaker 1 That could work. What if you guys win games?

Speaker 8 It's a start.

Speaker 1 That could also work. That could also work.

Speaker 2 I mean, if you go through a season where you fire a coach without a plan in place to replace him, and then the guy that you use to replace him, his unit goes to shit.

Speaker 2 And then your quarterback has the most drama-filled year ever where he's talking about running for vice president.

Speaker 4 I feel like he.

Speaker 1 Oh, he didn't talk about that. You talked about that.

Speaker 1 You were the first person to bring that stuff up.

Speaker 2 I was the first person to report you. It was true, but it was true.

Speaker 8 Dan, I wrote some stuff about the Bears. Yeah.
How did, like, did you

Speaker 8 call me like

Speaker 1 no? It's usually, I actually appreciate reporters because they bring to light things that should be brought to light.

Speaker 1 So it's like, when there's a problem, I want it reported so that they can be embarrassed by that problem.

Speaker 8 So that's what I thought fans wanted as well.

Speaker 8 I thought that type of reporting and journalism was something that was missing because there's not a lot of outlets that are doing that type of reporting anymore.

Speaker 8 But I found in New York, the fans actually don't want to know.

Speaker 1 They don't

Speaker 8 just say it's awesome.

Speaker 1 It seems you would rather, like, the fact that the Brick Johnson playing Madden as the shadow GM, that's a good story to come out because then the Jets might look in the mirror and be like, oh shit, this is stupid.

Speaker 2 We should stop doing this.

Speaker 1 If Diana doesn't report that, they just can keep doing that and no one will ever know. But did you hear what I said, that the Ravens do that and they're one of the best organizations?

Speaker 8 Except the raid and Madden, Madden, the Madden ratings are looked at by the adult general manager, not the child of the owner.

Speaker 1 A very, very important distinction. Which we stand by Brick.

Speaker 1 Brick's great.

Speaker 1 I hope Brick turns out to be an awesome owner.

Speaker 8 You know, we'll see. He's getting his feet wet.

Speaker 2 Yeah. So what are some storylines that you're working on this week besides Miles Garrett? Names are good.
Matt Stafford.

Speaker 8 Well, the receiver market, right?

Speaker 8 The whole Bengals situation.

Speaker 1 Like, how are they going to pay for these guys? So they're going to, they're going to, if they, I have a prediction.

Speaker 2 This is bold. But if they franchise tag T.
Higgins,

Speaker 2 I think maybe maybe the hamstring injury might crop up once or twice next season. Yeah,

Speaker 8 he doesn't want to be tagged.

Speaker 8 Like, they, they came out publicly and said what, what I've been hearing is that they, they do want to work on a long-term deal, but I can tell you teams that are interested in T are operating like he's not leaving Cincinnati.

Speaker 8 They, they, most elite thinks he's going to get tagged in the end, as, as you said, but I don't think that's going to be the good play.

Speaker 8 Um, but I just have a hard time like doing the math of how this can all work, of how they can bring all these guys back when they, they're claiming it's going to be done soon, too.

Speaker 8 And like, if they do, that's awesome. But so I'm keeping an eye on that one.
And then just Kansas City, you know, like we saw what the Eagles did to them. They got to get better on the offensive line.

Speaker 8 They're trying to get Trey Smith done.

Speaker 8 I think he was going to hit free agency, too. But then they saw what happened to Patrick in the game and they're like, shit, like we probably need to bring him back.

Speaker 8 So I just, I like this idea that the Chiefs are going to revamp here and try to fix it the way they did after Tampa because it looked almost identical. Yeah.
You know, I I felt that same panic.

Speaker 8 And I think we saw it in Patrick, right? After the second play, it was like, oh, this, this is not the normal, chill Mahomes with some time.

Speaker 8 He sees the problem, you know, Jalen Carter. Right.

Speaker 1 So is there a team that you talk to and you're impressed and being like, maybe they haven't taken that step and been a playoff team or like a Super Bowl contender, but you're like, they're doing things the correct way and it's coming.

Speaker 8 And it's important too because to differentiate, because I think a lot of teams teams talk about what they want to do, and there's those that are actually doing it.

Speaker 8 I think the Denver Broncos are on their way.

Speaker 1 Yeah.

Speaker 8 You know, I think Sean Payton's got one of the best

Speaker 8 grips on a team. He's so good at knowing what's best for them.
He's hard.

Speaker 8 Like, you go to their practices, they're brutal to watch. He's a little bit like Andy, where they, you know, they just go hard, all, all, all sober.

Speaker 8 But just the fact that he hit on Bo Nicks and they're just going to continue to build around him, and they've got him on a young rookie deal, and they've got a little swag to them.

Speaker 8 Like, they want to compete they want to play the chiefs um

Speaker 8 so i'd say that they're they're a team and new england right now they're i'm probably most excited to see what they're going to do this is a gigantic offseason for the new england patriots for the future like i i don't i don't think they're going to be that great next year like i think they'll probably win seven eight games well actually that's probably good considering where they came from but or where they were last year But I think it's the next, it's 26, right?

Speaker 8 Where I think that's, that's where it's going to,

Speaker 8 they're going to be contenders.

Speaker 8 They're going to be guys that are going after giving Josh Allen a problem.

Speaker 1 What are you hearing about the draft in terms of there are teams that

Speaker 1 you expect to be aggressive, possibly moving around,

Speaker 1 possibly trading up? It's a weird draft because

Speaker 1 it doesn't feel like teams are totally sold on both quarterbacks, but we know that both quarterbacks are going to get drafted really high because that's just how it goes.

Speaker 1 But how are teams approaching it?

Speaker 8 I know it's funny. It's that idea of like you don't go to the grocery store hungry, right?

Speaker 1 Everyone's crying.

Speaker 1 I always every single time. It's the worst.

Speaker 2 Why else are you going to the grocery store?

Speaker 1 And then I start eating when I'm at the grocery store. Yeah.

Speaker 2 I need seven types of Oreos.

Speaker 8 I was going to say, why do you always crave weird stuff when you go to the grocery store? Right. I'm like, I'm eating Twizzlers, but I really want to, I want eggnog, I think.

Speaker 8 It's like, that makes no sense.

Speaker 1 Well, that might be because you're pregnant.

Speaker 2 Not right now. Wait, but you were.

Speaker 1 Do you crave?

Speaker 1 I see Dan last night and he goes, he's right.

Speaker 8 By the way, what an observation by you.

Speaker 1 I got the eye for that.

Speaker 8 Because I walked up to the table drinking water, which I guess in Indy, nobody's drinking water, and I'm definitely never drinking water.

Speaker 8 But I was like, I need, I need to take a break. I've been going so hard from New Orleans to now.
I need to just, I need one hour. And I just happened to see you and I had that water.

Speaker 8 And you gave me that look. I was like, you looked in my soul.
Like,

Speaker 1 you went for three years. This is context because we have discussed the difference between two and three and how much it changes everything.
So I was like,

Speaker 8 I can't do it.

Speaker 8 Physically, mentally.

Speaker 8 My husband is the happiest I have ever seen him right now because of the Eagles winning. Yeah.
That I don't want to rock the boat. I don't want to shake things up in my house because, like, even

Speaker 8 like, you guys know how it is. Like, I'm on the road.
I got the two little guys back at home. Kev hasn't even texted me one thing since I've been here.
No, actually, he did.

Speaker 8 He asked me about something with Jalen Carter, just a stupid football question.

Speaker 1 But you know, like, no, he loved it. He just, oh, he just uses you as like anything easy.
Constantly.

Speaker 8 But in terms of like

Speaker 8 the happiness, the joy in our home right now is better than it has ever been.

Speaker 8 It wasn't like this after we got married, not after Mikey, not after Joey. Like, it is so good.
And we got to squeeze this thing out always.

Speaker 8 Birds.

Speaker 8 Every time I see Howie, I just like hug him. I'm like, you saved my marriage.

Speaker 1 Like, things were so rough right there.

Speaker 8 Especially when they, you know, when I wasn't too sure what they were going to be.

Speaker 1 Max had Siriani in the hot seat.

Speaker 8 Max had sirian i i was doing the same thing because there were there were people around the league looking at it the way i think the fans were looking at it which is with all of this talent and all the pieces that howie has put uh to assemble this championship team the coach can't be the reason this doesn't happen right you know um and so credit to siriani for i think growing in all of this.

Speaker 8 And he even sounds like he's grown from it. He was tremendous.

Speaker 8 He talked to me right after they won, right on the field. And he was so reflective of just owning that it hasn't been perfect.

Speaker 1 And I love that about him.

Speaker 8 I'm like, yeah, like, I wasn't good. I was too emotional.

Speaker 1 Wait, so we went on a tangent back to the question, who's going to be aggressive?

Speaker 8 Oh, I think the Giants are going to try to get up to trade out with the Titans. I think they're going to be aggressive in this.
They're obviously also keeping their eye on Stafford.

Speaker 8 And Tennessee is open for business. Like, I think the approach that they are going to have headed into this is we need to get some picks.

Speaker 8 We need to continue to build because they were the worst team in football last year after having a free agency spending.

Speaker 8 They went crazy bringing in players, but they didn't really find any pillars.

Speaker 8 They didn't find any blocks that they're going to use to continue to get better in the future.

Speaker 8 So that's really where I'm keeping my eye on. And I think the Raiders are going to be making moves.

Speaker 8 I have my eye on them outside the Stafford thing, as I mentioned before.

Speaker 8 Tom Brady has a lot of influence on what's going on there and he wants to shake it up there. They want to do it that way.
So we'll see what happens.

Speaker 8 Max Crosby is obviously a player that tons of teams are interested in if he'd be made available, but I think Brady's smart enough to know

Speaker 8 you don't move a guy like Max Crosby. Yeah.

Speaker 2 What's up with his contract? Isn't it

Speaker 2 non-guaranteed? He's got two years left, no guaranteed money.

Speaker 8 They keep saying that they're going to be extending him or at least working on it, but until you have a deal, right? It's like zero outing until you got a deal, you know, a deal.

Speaker 8 I think his situation is different than like Miles Garrett, where

Speaker 8 look, Miles wants to get paid, of course. He's he wants to be paid the highest in that position, but uh, he really wants to win.

Speaker 8 Like, he's got this attitude, like, it's not happening here in Cleveland. Like, I don't like your plan.
And I think we could all agree that the plan's not great, right?

Speaker 8 I don't even know what they're going to do in terms of quarterback here. Um, I mean, I think they're going to wind up drafting one, probably.
That's definitely on the table for them.

Speaker 8 Uh, they poked around on the Stafford stuff a little, but they're not as aggressive as the Giants and uh the Raiders at this point. But um, I think for Max,

Speaker 8 he just wants to win too.

Speaker 8 But he's going to get paid.

Speaker 2 Do you miss at all the

Speaker 2 Sunday morning routine of going?

Speaker 1 Freezing water? Yeah,

Speaker 2 that was an all-time clip. Love that when you were like, look how cold it is at Foxborough.
You turn the water upside down and it was cold water.

Speaker 2 You didn't point out that it was cold water. You were just like, oh, it's still liquid.

Speaker 1 But it was really cold.

Speaker 8 I know it doesn't shock you guys because you know me for so long, but my dad said this to me once.

Speaker 8 He's like, you're the smartest dumb person i know like i have moments where i think that's a good place to be great that's really good

Speaker 8 actually like that you are the poster child yeah it's a great you have some brilliant um like just you're a talented human being but i'm and you say things but i've heard you say things where i'm like yeah Dad is dumb.

Speaker 1 Well, because you never know, you can keep people on their toes. Like we did a Pope watch on Monday and people were like, dude, you just said a bunch of like St.
Louis Cardinals prospects.

Speaker 1 I was like, I did that on purpose, but I also could have made a mistake. Kind of never knows.

Speaker 8 It is a good way to keep people

Speaker 8 ready for or unready

Speaker 8 for what you got. Yeah.

Speaker 1 A team we haven't talked about in a while, I feel like,

Speaker 1 the Cowboys. Was the league shocked when they went with Brian Schottenheimer in that entire coaching search? Because it didn't feel like they did a coaching search.

Speaker 8 Yeah.

Speaker 8 I'd heard they did a little bit. I'd heard that they did some backdoor stuff.
They weren't sure they were really going to move on from Mike. So let's start there, right?

Speaker 8 So there was obviously not some big plan, right? Because most of these teams know, all right, we're going to, we're firing this guy. Let's start putting the feelers out.

Speaker 8 Let's, let's have a, let's meet and think about what it is that we're looking for in this next head coach.

Speaker 8 But I think for Dallas, they weren't sure how that was going to go with Mike. I think they thought he'd stay.
I thought that they'd be able to knock out a contract.

Speaker 8 They obviously were not able to do that after having conversations with him.

Speaker 8 And at the time, Belichick was already kind of doing the North Carolina thing.

Speaker 8 And I'd heard that Dallas had some feelers out to him.

Speaker 8 So if that's their search, I mean, it probably could have been better. They probably could have gotten more opportunities with other coaches if they made the call earlier.

Speaker 1 Right.

Speaker 8 So you could be critical of that.

Speaker 1 Yeah, it felt clunky.

Speaker 8 Very clunky. And I can tell you, though, from the perspective of the Dallas Cowboys, Brian Schottenheimer had to be a piece of it.

Speaker 8 Whether that meant head coach, OC, they were not parting ways of Brian Schottenheimer.

Speaker 8 So, yeah, surprised that he's the head coach, but not a surprise knowing that that was part of the formula for what they wanted in next. Right.

Speaker 2 They also had a phone call to Deion Sanders. Yeah.
Right. You talked, Jerry Jones, talked to him.

Speaker 8 I remember. So that story came out.
And, you know, you, you make, you, as a reporter, you start making calls like, is this real? Like, this is crazy.

Speaker 8 And everyone that I trust was like, this is, this is not real. This is not the, I'm like, I'm going to go hard on this.
If I go hard, you know.

Speaker 8 The chances of Deion tweeting about it are probably good. Like, if I'm wrong on it, so I'm like, you know, I'm just going to go for it.
And obviously it panned out to just be light flirting.

Speaker 8 Maybe not even.

Speaker 1 Like a call of like, how are you, how are the kids?

Speaker 2 He's batting his eyes at Dion. Yeah.

Speaker 8 An ultimatum. Yeah.

Speaker 1 All right. I had one last question.
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Speaker 1 So we had Schefter on on Friday's show.

Speaker 1 I'm going to ask you a similar question.

Speaker 1 The NFL can't do a Super Bowl abroad. Can you make sure that doesn't happen? Why not? Why don't you want to do it? It would suck.
It's our game. It sucks.

Speaker 1 Don't do that.

Speaker 8 I mean, look, coming off New Orleans, it's hard to imagine the travel. Like, if you took the logistics out of it, would you be into it?

Speaker 1 No, no, no. It's our game.

Speaker 2 It's America's game.

Speaker 1 You can't give the game to another country.

Speaker 2 The food in London sucks.

Speaker 1 It doesn't have to be.

Speaker 2 The teeth are bad. You're going to have media members just complaining all week.
Teeth are bad.

Speaker 8 You think the teeth would affect the

Speaker 1 teeth are bad in London. I'm sorry.
They have bad teeth.

Speaker 8 Okay, what if it was in Italy? And we got to eat really well.

Speaker 2 Too many perverts. And what are the teeth like in Italy?

Speaker 8 Are you calling Italians perverts?

Speaker 2 I just, I don't think that the NFL should do an overseas game for the Super Bowl.

Speaker 2 I'm open to it.

Speaker 1 Okay. I don't know.
I'm open to it. I like to say that.
So

Speaker 1 we can't rely on Superfund.

Speaker 8 You can't depend on me to say that.

Speaker 1 Memes are starting to be a single person.

Speaker 1 I see what you're saying.

Speaker 2 This is a bad, bad opinion that you have to say.

Speaker 8 As somebody who is complaining about the travel to every Super Bowl, you're right.

Speaker 8 Taking a 10-hour flight for that week would be miserable.

Speaker 2 Imagine being stuck next to Max on the flight over to London.

Speaker 8 Yeah, not great. Yeah.
We're talking about

Speaker 1 literally not talking about that. He'd gas you out.

Speaker 2 I do have a complaint. Sure.
It seems that you've turned your back on Washington, D.C. What? You used to be, you used to dabble in D.C.
homerism.

Speaker 1 I'm all, I tweet every time they win.

Speaker 8 Like, I can't imagine what it's like in Washington. Holy crap, Jaden's amazing.
Like, Dan Quinn, coach of the year. Like, what are you talking about?

Speaker 2 He used to gas up the Capitals occasionally. You talk about

Speaker 2 it.

Speaker 1 I was watching Ovie the other day.

Speaker 8 How is he still playing? It's crazy.

Speaker 1 You want to talk about us being old? Like, he He is old and he's out here chasing.

Speaker 1 Look, I think

Speaker 8 it's almost unbelievable. I think that's what it is.

Speaker 8 It's been so good. And it appears from ownership down and the way they're building it that it's almost hard to fathom that it's real, you know? So it's not that I don't want to jump on it.

Speaker 8 It's just I need it. I need one more year to be like, okay.
They're really good. This is great.
Cause my hopes now are high.

Speaker 1 My hopes are high for the Bears.

Speaker 8 If they can improve Caleb, get him an offensive line, get get a couple of weapons on defense, I think.

Speaker 1 It's a lot of things you just said.

Speaker 8 It's a lot. But Ben Johnson seems like he's the guy.

Speaker 1 I think so.

Speaker 2 I think he is.

Speaker 1 And this, oh, man. All right.
Well, Diana, thank you as always. You're the best.
It's great having you on.

Speaker 1 Full Italian podcast with you and Nick Siri. So much.

Speaker 8 Big time.

Speaker 1 We need big food. That's my neat thing.
I think it's for us.

Speaker 2 How to get those numbers up on Scoop City?

Speaker 2 I think you need to rebrand the Diana Rossini podcast featuring Diana Rossini.

Speaker 8 You think that's how it came out?

Speaker 1 I think James called it. Yeah.
The Diana Rossini podcast. Uh-huh.
Yeah.

Speaker 8 You don't like Scoop City? No, I like Scoop City.

Speaker 1 You stole it from Jack Mac, but I like Scoop City.

Speaker 8 I told you how people were asking me in football if it was a podcast about ice cream.

Speaker 1 That would be cool. I would listen to Scottish city.

Speaker 1 You know what? I'll break my boycott and I'll come on if we only talk about ice cream. Perfect.
That's it. No questions about ice cream.
Nothing else, just ice cream talk.

Speaker 8 Have all the Bears fans tune in thinking that they're going to give the hot takes about it.

Speaker 2 Even call it like the Sunday mailbag, but it's spelled S-U-N-D-A-E.

Speaker 1 Oh, that's smart. I'll take my shirt off and eat some ice shirts.

Speaker 8 Yeah, another good idea. So I'll take it.
I'll take it and run with it. So thank you.

Speaker 1 All right. Thank you so much, Diana.

Speaker 1 Should I have a third?

Speaker 1 Yeah, yeah.

Speaker 1 It's a lot, but it's also going to be awesome when they're all a little older.

Speaker 8 Let's just go for two back-to-back Super Bowls. Yeah, there you go.

Speaker 1 That's what I'll look for.

Speaker 1 Then you'll have the third after you win a second Super Bowl. Yeah.
Super Bowl, baby. Yeah, exactly.
All right. Thanks, Diana.
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Speaker 1 Okay, let's wrap wrap up. Adrian Brody threw his gum at his wife.
That's our other Oscars. Brutal.
Yeah. Why? I don't know.
Because he had to go up and give a speech.

Speaker 2 And he threw his gum at her?

Speaker 1 He had gum in his mouth and he tossed it back at her. This is some high-level Oscar stuff.
I would never do that.

Speaker 1 Will Smith has been topped. He has.

Speaker 1 Just search Adrian Brody. What are you doing? Best Picture.
That's all fine. I don't know.
Shane's. Oh, that's weird.

Speaker 1 Max searched Best Picture, and it was just a highlight of Cooper Dejine's pick six.

Speaker 1 No, it wasn't. Oh, it was Devontae Smith.
Sorry.

Speaker 1 All right. Thank you, Nick Siriani and Diane Rossini.
Let's do numbers. We've got to get it.
Someone's got to get it. Six, three.
It's been a while. I think memes are going to get it today.

Speaker 1 That would be sick. Pug, are you a little upset at yourself because someone pointed out that if you had continued your working backwards from 99, you would have gotten it on Friday at 93?

Speaker 2 Yeah, I would have kept getting it if I kept going down from 98, but I couldn't forgive myself if 99 did show up, and I went like 94 or something. Yeah.

Speaker 1 So I just got to stick with it. Brutal put.

Speaker 1 Okay.

Speaker 1 Say the numbers again.

Speaker 1 3.

Speaker 2 6. 27.

Speaker 1 I'll go 77 for Luka. 99 put.

Speaker 2 24. Luca might be the chins of this league.
21.

Speaker 1 11. Memes, you ever gotten this? Nope.

Speaker 1 Well, I have. Are you ever going to get it? I think memes are going to get it today.
Memes, would you pick? Three.

Speaker 1 Here comes three, memes. Happy so sick.

Speaker 1 Memes' birthday, by the way. 30.
Happy birthday, meme.

Speaker 8 Happy birthday, memes.

Speaker 1 Wait, today's your fucking birthday? Well, not today. Today, tomorrow.

Speaker 1 Yeah. Which is today, if you want to see.
Oh, so I didn't miss your birthday. No.
I got all day to fucking

Speaker 1 throw gifts at you.

Speaker 2 Memes, I got your present.

Speaker 1 Did you? Yeah. Cool.
It's flight simulator.

Speaker 2 It's getting delivered to the office. Oh, fuck it.

Speaker 1 32.

Speaker 6 There's a three in there, memes. You know what?

Speaker 1 For memes' birthday, let's run it again. This count.
Yeah, okay. Three.
Let's go. Come on, memes.
11. I'll go 30.
I'm glad that wasn't 33 because that was the other one. 33.
I'll go 33, memes.

Speaker 1 Damn it.

Speaker 4 It's your birthday, memes. 30th.

Speaker 2 I'll go five.

Speaker 1 99, Poke.

Speaker 1 77.

Speaker 1 Jack picks 77.

Speaker 1 Oh, you fucking dick, Jack.

Speaker 1 He did 77? Yeah, 77. Right after I did.

Speaker 1 He didn't even know. He doesn't have headphones.
Oh, he didn't even know. What was your number last time, Jack?

Speaker 1 24. All right, I'll go 24.

Speaker 1 So you're out on 33? I'm out on 33.

Speaker 1 I'll take 33. All right, everyone say their number: 5.
30. 11.
3.

Speaker 1 28 wides max.

Speaker 1 9 or 9. Poke.

Speaker 1 24.

Speaker 1 77. 3.

Speaker 1 people are gonna think from the time stamps that someone got it

Speaker 1 five five

Speaker 1 let's go yes memes are the only thing memes had over you you've now erased jaden on his birthday happy birthday

Speaker 1 i thought you were gonna say i got some you had over here you know what

Speaker 2 you know what he said i i got i got memes a present it's the number five Memes. I'd like you to have this.

Speaker 1 I'd like you to go fucking me.

Speaker 1 Memes said I'm taller than him, so technically I have everything over him. That's good.
That's good.

Speaker 2 Memes, I want to award this five to you.

Speaker 1 Not going to get angry. Wow.

Speaker 2 Am I allowed to do that? Can I give memes mine?

Speaker 4 No, you're not, but it's a nice gesture. No, you can't do it.

Speaker 2 I wanted to. I wish we would.

Speaker 1 Hold on,

Speaker 2 I'm literally trying to do that right now.

Speaker 1 Hold on, let me pull up the bylaws. Okay.
Real quick.

Speaker 2 Because as it stands, this five that I just picked for myself, I would rather memes have it. I want to give that five to memes.
I want memes to get his first hit.

Speaker 1 Okay, all right, I'm finding it.

Speaker 1 Under section 17, rule number 84, it says that no lottery ball participant can give their winning ball to anyone else, even if it's their birthday.

Speaker 1 Even if it's memes' birthday, is actually what it says. Except for that one.

Speaker 1 Well, no, that wasn't different. No, that wasn't it.

Speaker 1 That was before the selection. Yeah, some stupid fucking rule.
But now, memes,

Speaker 1 you got nothing. Man, shit.
You got nothing. Yeah, I got nothing.

Speaker 2 Happy birthday, memes. Memes, you know what?

Speaker 1 One more just for you. You're the only one who can say the number.
It's got to be three. Okay.

Speaker 1 Yeah, it does, doesn't it? Yeah.

Speaker 1 Oh, memes. It's got to be three.
So do. Are you sure?

Speaker 1 It has to be. Are you sure, memes? I don't think it's going to be three.
You should pick another number right now. No, it's going to be three.
You should pick another number right now, memes.

Speaker 1 It's not going to be three.

Speaker 2 I can't believe he's never gotten this.

Speaker 1 Come on, memes. It's so easy.
You got this.

Speaker 1 Oh, six. You're so close.
Damn.

Speaker 1 Didn't Hank pick that before?

Speaker 1 Oh,

Speaker 1 fuck. I picked six.
Memes.

Speaker 1 I told you to pick a different number. You want to do one more memes? All right, one more memes.
Yeah, we'll keep going.

Speaker 1 Memes, there's an obvious meme. He's never going to get it.
There's an obvious number. Is it three? No.

Speaker 1 Seven.

Speaker 2 Five, six, seven.

Speaker 1 But I'm going to pick seven, and then three's going to pass. No, you got it, memes.
Pick your number.

Speaker 1 All right, seven. Okay.

Speaker 1 I hope it's three so bad. I wanted three and three so bad.

Speaker 1 Nothing would be better.

Speaker 1 Ah, 81. Not even close.

Speaker 2 Not even close. Memes, you're going to get this.

Speaker 1 No, he's not. He's never going to get it.
Happy birthday,

Speaker 2 happy birthday.

Speaker 2 Tard Nox was crazy.

Speaker 1 Love you guys.

Speaker 2 Love you, memes.

Speaker 1 Yeah, fuck off.