The Good, The Bad & The Bubble

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This is the Command the Commute Podcast.
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Talking about the game, going to the game.
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Welcome to the Command the Commute Podcast.
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Wow, I came on a little hot there.
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Yeah, it's another exciting episode.
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You could have taken it down.
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Well, yeah, no, but they're excited to hear us, just as excited as I am to have the podcast today.
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So welcome everybody to let's hope so.
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Just so everybody knows, Mike is a little bit spicy this afternoon.
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I think it's because we were supposed to do the podcast Friday evening, but work got away from me and I rescheduled till after the game.
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So we're out of our we're out of our routine here.
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Uh that for for you guys that know.
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They don't care about any of that.
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See, I told you he's spicy today.
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So uh, but I've got a spicy podcast uh prepared for for for Mike.
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So um just to get into it, uh, welcome everybody.
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Of course, last week was the first uh uh command the commute on the way to the stadium for the podcast, and we appreciate those of you that stuck with us till the end because that traffic got brutal.
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Yes.
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If it was brutal for you, imagine how it was for us.
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But uh kind of just a rundown on what to expect for today.
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Uh in the first quarter, we're going to recap the first preseason Miami game from start to finish and all the way home.
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And then quarter two, we're gonna get into the Detroit game that obviously just happened yesterday.
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Uh, and then we're in quarter three, just a little bit of this, a little bit of that, uh, basically just this week's uh topics uh of the commanders, and then quarter four, our hodgepodge section of of the podcast just more of this and that.
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Yeah, a little bit more of this, a little bit more of that, but I do have something else prepared for for everybody.
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Uh and then just to kind of a little one more little tease is we do have our uh first official uh sponsor for the Command the Commute podcast.
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So you might hear an advertisement for for them.
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So at some point I'm sure they will.
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Yeah, yeah.
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So let's get right into quarter number one.
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Three wide receivers to the bottom of your screen.
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It's Henry again trying to fight to move around the outside.
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Robert Henry Jr.
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Touchdown Commanders.
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Some people are just gamers, man.
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You know, I think you make a great point there, Brian.
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And and you were one of those people.
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Practice for some guys, they don't show up.
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So, highlights, low lights, let's get into last week's game.
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I didn't like how we got there right at game time.
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Right.
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But we couldn't help it.
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Right, but as we discussed either on air when we were doing it or after, that's just what it happens when we're, you know, your work schedule, my work schedule, and we're getting down there at game time, and we're not there several hours as we're used to.
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So we we experienced, as I told you, we experienced what the common fan experiences when they show up at game time.
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It's a complete and total clusterfuck down there.
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Exclamation point, end of sentence.
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Okay.
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Yeah, it really, it really.
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Please don't get there right at game time.
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I highly recommend against that.
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We love to get there as close to when the lot opens as we can get.
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Because one, we like to have a little bit of time to upload the podcast.
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We like to have a little bit of time to just properly set up our tailgate.
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We like to have a little bit of time to get the TVs working and put on whatever pregame is going on.
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Um, and then obviously I enjoy the cook.
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So yeah, we we like to get there as early as possible and really enjoy the day because it's a big deal these NFL games for us and going to Omega.
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Yeah, it's it's an expensive.
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We only get eight, we only get eight this year.
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Yeah, eight regular, and then the one, yeah, the one preseason that we just had.
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So that's the nine that we're paying for.
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Yeah.
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But because the one home game they're giving us is over in London.
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Oh, that's right.
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I forgot about that.
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Yeah, so it is it is truly eight then.
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Yeah, yeah, I forgot about that.
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You're right.
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That's so um, so yeah, the traffic was was bad.
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On the way home, traffic was great.
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We left at the end of the third quarter.
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Close to the end of the third quarter.
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You know, it was a nice Friday evening going down, seeing a ball game.
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Um the tenders were good.
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They were different.
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We we got a comment on that.
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They were definitely different chicken tender surprise.
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It was like it was a chicken tender, but like an open, it was basically an open face chicken sandwich, but chicken tenders, because it was bread and a pickle, and the bread was soggy.
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You said, is that cornbread underneath there?
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And I said, No, I think it's just potato bread.
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I was looking forward to like a what you get during the regular season, which is like the chicken tender stadium basket type thing.
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Yeah.
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And then we got this like open-faced tender sandwich with soggy bread, and it just I mean, it was good because we were hungry because we've had it, you know.
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Uh I I don't know the last time I ate before the game, probably lunchtime, you know, whatever.
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And thank God they have those beers in the 24-ounce cans.
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You know, but they were you only need one or two of them.
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But I mean, they they were freshly made because I remember biting into the tender and it was like yeah, hot.
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It was hot, yeah.
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It was hot, it was hot.
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Uh the atmosphere was good.
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Uh it was a relatively full stadium for a preseason game.
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For preseason, I would say, would you say 70% full?
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Yeah.
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Yeah.
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70% full.
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Between 60 and 70 for sure.
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Yeah.
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It was a decent turnout.
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Yep.
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I mean, the fans that were there were all into it, happy for football to to be back.
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Um, you know, that's kind of the good and the bad of these preseason games.
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It's good that football's back.
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You know, it's bad because you know, the quarterback play and the football play is just it's hard to watch.
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Like I told you last week, if it weren't for two things.
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One, us being seasoned take-in holders, and two, us doing this podcast, I really wouldn't give a shit about re-season.
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I wouldn't.
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It's it is it is almost pointless.
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It's I mean, it's a glorified uh practice on TV, is is what we're really seeing.
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And it shows, but you know, I still I still love to see see the team running around.
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That was the uh another that's a comment I want to get into um into the second quarter here, too, because I love the uniforms we wore yesterday, but I love the uniforms.
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They were the same uniforms we wore in week one, but that's neither here nor there.
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Was it?
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Yeah, yeah.
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You're talking about the the white white on burgundy.
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Yeah.
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Yeah.
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They were the same ones.
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I love the white on burgundy.
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Uh it's it's a clean look, and I like the the the stripes that we have down the side.
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I actually think it's almost identical to the uh you know, to the picture right there.
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And you know, I mentioned to you during the game that from where from where we were sitting in the upper bowl, just looking at the uniform, even the the W that's on the side of the helmet, from that distance could maybe be something else that may or may not return at some point.
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The goal.
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It just it just it looked like what everyone else was saying, it looked like the old Redskins were playing, and that the thank God the commander portion of our history is uh only exists in name only at this point.
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Yeah, yeah.
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It it it is, and I was trying to figure out what t-shirt to wear for the podcast today, and I remember I bought us those uh um Red Wolves uh Harity t-shirts because I kind of thought that that was the route that they might go with the Red Wolves uh as opposed to Commanders, and I now that it it it's sunk in, I think I like Commanders better than than the Red Wolves just because it it does allow for the symbolism and a lot of the tradition to come back, whereas like a complete mascot change like to something that's got imagery behind it would make it impossible to add the spear or anything like that.
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You know what I mean?
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So like with the commanders, at least it's it's generic enough to where they can play with play with it.
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Because they're they're definitely embracing the the spear.
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I mean, uh it does feel like they're moving away from commanders because it's like the W, the spears, like it doesn't say commands.
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All of it.
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It's just yeah.
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The end zones got the old uh end zones back.
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You used to just see red skins in the end zone.
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Uh so they they went back to just having commanders in the end zone.
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Well, I think they're gonna spruce anything.
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They better because that was very just eh.
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It did seem kind of preliminary.
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It did seem like a base code because like even preseason fields.
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You know what I'm saying?
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Even the the font size of commanders in the end zone was too goddamn small.
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It needed to be a little bit larger and kind of spread out.
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There was too much free space in the end zone.
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I tend to agree.
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It did feel like it could have used up the space.
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The font size can be up two clicks.
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Yeah.
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Yeah.
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So if they're doing it, if they're doing like a 64, they can go up to you know a 78 or something.
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Right.
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Um now, as far as the football goes, I I mean, obviously, when you're watching the preseason game in person, it's a lot better than watching it on TV.
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Um, but the the highlights of the game really was our from our running backs.
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I mean, Catron Allen did did really good.
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And obviously the clip that leaded us into this portion of the podcast was uh Robert Henry Jr.
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He he looked good.
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And then, of course, from your average fan, they will text you and say something like, Wow, these guys look great.
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And it's like, yeah, they're playing people that are playing are gonna be playing.
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Right.
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Um, and half of them are gonna make it.
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And if you can say fifth and sixth and seventh string, because if you have that much depth at the position, then you would be still saying fourth, fifth, sixth, seventh, and like all the backups are playing.
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And so somebody's gonna look good.
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You know, somebody's gonna look good.
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You know, there's gonna be a fifth stringer that looks good, and these guys are all obviously still very talented, even though they're fifth on the depth chart.
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Uh, that's just a testament to how good the guys are uh ahead of them.
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But will Robert Henry Jr.
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make the team?
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I don't know.
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He look, I I kind of like the way he looks, but will he look that way against first stringers?
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I don't know.
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They would know because they practice.
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And just because you have one good game, that doesn't necessarily mean you're gonna make the team.
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Okay, you're gonna have one good game or one good series or whatever, and it it doesn't seal the deal for you.
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They they will cut you 9 a.m.
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the next day and not think twice about it.
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Well, this kind of leads us right into the second quarter of our podcast, and basically the Detroit Lions game from yesterday.
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Second down and eight.
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Talia Ak Manis reaches back, goes down the alley.
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Oh, what a catch! Jaden Bradley reels it in a marker comes flying.
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That is an outstanding grab for the rookie on a UNLV if it's Dan.
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Doctor.
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Fighting through all sort of contact.
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It looked like Yeah, so Robert Henry Jr.
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Um he fumbled the ball on on uh special teams yesterday.
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And this is that's really where he needs to thrive if he he wants to make the team because you obviously got Bill at number one.
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Um it's it gets really crowded after that because nobody even was hearing his name until last week's game.
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Um you like to think Catron's gonna make the team because he's the rookie, but I mean they're both rookies, but uh Catron was drafted uh and he looked good too.
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But I I don't know.
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I I think Jerome Ford's the odd man out in the running back room.
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Um, but we've we've got a couple we've got a couple days left to figure that out.
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Did you know that this season they're not doing like a staggered cut schedule like they've had in years past?
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With they're not?
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No, so typically it went from like a it went from like a 90 man and then they would and then you know after the first week or whatever, you write it on a 85 and then 80, and then because when you watch hard nuts, it's it's that it's a exactly that a staggered.
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The season they did it different.
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Uh the uh I because I was looking it up, I was curious when when the cuts are and when's the when are we gonna start finding out like who's getting weeded out here?
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Um Right.
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And August 30th.
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So next Sunday, the game the day after our race.
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So they're doing all the cuts in in one day.
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Is that how it's gonna work?
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Basically, everybody I think is everybody's pre last preseason game is at Saturday, Friday or Saturday, and then uh essentially each team's got 24 hours, like 6 p.m.
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on August 30th is when you got to have your 53-man roster down.
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So you can keep your 90 guys.
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After 30th would be Sunday, because our last game is this coming Friday.
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Yeah.
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So you by Sunday, sundown Sunday, you're going from bang down to the 5253.
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Yep.
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So we find out then.
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Uh I'm really curious about the running back for him.
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And obviously, we keep talking about wide receiver, but we've got lots of guys at wide receiver, okay?
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Um, and another guy added to the list, another guy that I didn't even really realize.
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But they bring all sorts of guys into camp.
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And when you're these guys aren't getting cut throughout camp, is when you have guys like Jaden Bradley, who had the awesome one-handed catch in yesterday's game.
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Kind of you're like, Yeah, I mean that was pretty awesome.
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I I will give it away.
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It was an awesome catch.
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It was an awesome catch from um what's the guy's name?
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Kalan Kamakinus?
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Uh Praying Manis.
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Praying manace.
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Let me see.
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Let me see.
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Um Kala Kamanis, I think is Kalakamanis.
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You like praying manis?
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Kalakazoo, who cares?
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Yeah.
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But I mean, he he's had pretty good preseason two games.
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He's he's he's he's he's done well enough to be in discussion as to whatever they're gonna do with quarterback now that you know Mariota is out for we'll just say the foreseeable future.
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Right.
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So so here's what I want you to do, Mike.
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Just for the second quarter of the podcast here, I've got the the wide receivers out here to the side, right?
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Okay, we've got Terry McLaurin, Stephon Diggs, McCaffrey, Williams, Brown, Lane, Jefferson, Nash, Jones, and Bradley.
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That are those are all the wide receivers listed on the depth chart.
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Now, Bradley, I don't I don't know just because I said his name last, I mean, I don't know if he was dead last on their death, official death chart.
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Yeah, who knows?
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So I want you to assume that we're gonna take six guys on the active roster.
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Okay, that's ten.
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So tell me four names that aren't going to make the team out of those ten names that I just went through.
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That's easy, it's the bottom four.
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Jefferson, Jones, Nash, and Bradley.
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Boom.
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You've got you've got them pretty much in the right order because you already know that Jefferson.
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Yeah, Jefferson, a lot of uh he he's he's a vet.
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Uh I mean, and Nash and Bradley and Jones, both all all those guys look great.
00:17:14.880 --> 00:17:18.079
But is it only because that's who we got to look at?
00:17:18.400 --> 00:17:20.079
Is that your your theory there?
00:17:20.319 --> 00:17:24.880
Or are we just playing these guys so we don't get any of our other guys hurt?
00:17:25.039 --> 00:17:27.279
I mean, Williams had some good playing time.
00:17:27.440 --> 00:17:29.359
Um I I mean that's what I think.
00:17:29.440 --> 00:17:45.279
I think you've got him in the uh the right order there, because it just that's what makes the most sense to me as a fan, and the little bit that I've been, you know, paying attention to preseason, that seems like the the right six.
00:17:45.519 --> 00:17:51.519
Don't cut yourself short because you pay attention to more preseason ball than than a lot of uh a lot of fans.
00:17:51.680 --> 00:17:59.039
Um but we'll know we'll know in like 10, 12 days if we're right or if I'm you know if we're wrong.
00:17:59.440 --> 00:18:02.799
But yeah.
00:18:03.200 --> 00:18:05.759
I mean on defense we looked awesome.
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I mean, we started the first series with uh Meek Robertson going up against his old team uh and basically sacking the quarterback, forcing the fumble, and then the scoop, and then the roll into the end zone for the score.
00:18:20.079 --> 00:18:22.240
So you gotta love to see that.
00:18:22.480 --> 00:18:34.559
And then uh this will kind of lead us into the the third quarter of of our uh podcast and kind of get into our question mark about your boy JD5.
00:18:37.599 --> 00:18:40.720
Uh honestly, it was just good to get back out there and play football again.
00:18:40.880 --> 00:18:45.599
It's been uh a little over eight months since I played live football, so it was good.
00:18:45.680 --> 00:18:46.880
It was good to go back out there.
00:18:48.079 --> 00:18:50.880
So did do so Jaden started.
00:18:51.119 --> 00:18:54.000
Um what are your thoughts on that?
00:18:54.559 --> 00:18:56.720
Well, he only played one series.
00:18:57.200 --> 00:19:04.880
Yeah, it was a three and out, so and he got sacked, which is probably the reason why he was taken out, because you don't want to risk injury.
00:19:05.359 --> 00:19:14.319
Well, I think Dan Dan Dan pretty much said it didn't matter if it was gonna be three plays or twelve, we were gonna give him the first series, and it just so happened to be a three and out, so they pulled him.
00:19:14.960 --> 00:19:26.160
Uh I my feeling is uh I don't think uh I don't really think it's necessary for your starting quarterback to play in preseason.
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If for no other reason what everyone else is saying, you don't want to risk injury.
00:19:30.720 --> 00:19:45.440
Because even though it's preseason and you know, maybe he he's going up against the starters, maybe he's going up against, you know, the fourth, fifth, sixth, seventh, eighth string, you know, some guy that's gonna be bagging groceries at a Kroger.
00:19:45.680 --> 00:19:51.119
Uh I just don't think you want to risk injuring your your starting quarterback.
00:19:51.200 --> 00:19:53.200
I'm gonna say that for any team, okay?
00:19:53.359 --> 00:20:02.240
Look at look at Burrow, look at us, look at, you know, anyone else who's got a marquee quarterback who is essentially the face of the franchise.
00:20:02.400 --> 00:20:02.640
Yeah.
00:20:02.799 --> 00:20:04.960
So you can't ri you can't risk it.
00:20:05.200 --> 00:20:06.079
Uh yeah.
00:20:06.160 --> 00:20:11.039
I mean, I guess if you're if you're just keep them loose in your in your training camps.
00:20:11.440 --> 00:20:21.920
If you're a bottom half a league quarterback and you're fighting for the starting job, then obviously that's a different scenario than you should play.
00:20:22.079 --> 00:20:30.319
But like when you've already got the starting job, when it's clear-cut and like you're saying, face of the franchise, I tend to agree he probably doesn't need to.
00:20:30.480 --> 00:20:45.680
Uh because how but there is how pissed would we be if if he was playing yesterday behind a banged up O line and then you know went down, had any number of injuries, concussion, anything, it doesn't matter.
00:20:46.000 --> 00:20:51.119
We we would be pissed that they were playing him to begin with, because why why the hell are they doing this?
00:20:51.440 --> 00:20:52.799
I I tend to agree with you.
00:20:52.880 --> 00:20:56.880
I mean, that I mean that all of those are very, very valid points.
00:20:57.039 --> 00:21:07.839
Uh I there is the other little side of me that says, well, I mean, preseason is a dress rehearsal, so like why would you train camp?
00:21:08.000 --> 00:21:20.880
If you want to get it, if you want to keep them fresh and loose, run them hard in the training camp where it's a more controlled environment, but you can still simulate the game activity.
00:21:21.200 --> 00:21:24.000
Yeah, no, I I I I tend to agree.
00:21:24.079 --> 00:21:45.440
I I I but I I wouldn't totally disagree with the people out there that are saying, like, you know, one series and having them dress and get out there and go through the motions and be out there, you know, that's what preseason is here for, because I'd rather them do that then than week one and and like get the jitters out of the way now.
00:21:45.599 --> 00:21:48.400
That's why uh because week one is the real deal.
00:21:48.480 --> 00:21:59.759
So if you've got anything that you need to be, and he he was in and out of the field all year last year, and he's still a young player, even though he is our franchise.
00:22:00.400 --> 00:22:02.799
Marquee, face of the franchise guy.
00:22:02.960 --> 00:22:05.359
You know, he's came off his rookie year.
00:22:05.440 --> 00:22:10.240
Basically, he had a rookie and a half kind of a year, is the way I'm looking at it.
00:22:10.400 --> 00:22:10.799
You know?
00:22:11.119 --> 00:22:12.480
You can look at it that way for sure.
00:22:12.559 --> 00:22:12.960
No argument.
00:22:13.279 --> 00:22:21.519
I mean, I know that it was his year, officially it was his year two, and this is his year three, but he he was out of the lineup for a lot.
00:22:21.759 --> 00:22:31.200
So I I don't hate the idea of him getting one series underneath his belt and then coming off.
00:22:31.599 --> 00:22:38.160
But I tend to agree with you if I'm if I'm just playing the steel man of kind of going against myself there.
00:22:38.400 --> 00:23:04.559
Um but a behind an offensive line, though, is where I do agree with you because it's like our line is without tunsil, and I know you want those guys and you want him to kind of see live action behind all of our guys, but El Gretti's calf is still tight, and that's got me nervous because the center position seems like it's very, very important, especially with your quarterback.
00:23:04.720 --> 00:23:05.359
Well, yeah.
00:23:05.680 --> 00:23:13.759
And then obviously, left tackle, a tunsel out, and just still making sure that we're good there at left tackle.
00:23:13.920 --> 00:23:19.519
I mean, I still wish Coleman would be at left guard, but I I don't know.
00:23:19.680 --> 00:23:20.160
I don't know.
00:23:20.240 --> 00:23:21.200
I wouldn't be surprised.
00:23:21.279 --> 00:23:22.720
I I said it last week.
00:23:22.799 --> 00:23:32.240
I'm kind of surprised we didn't make a move this past week, but I'm gonna say the same thing I did say last week, which I want them to get uh an offensive linebacker.
00:23:32.559 --> 00:23:34.720
Well they they might be waiting until cut day.
00:23:35.119 --> 00:23:39.839
They could be, and in which case I hope they have a good two.
00:23:40.400 --> 00:23:49.839
So between you know August 30th and uh week one, Wednesday, which is what September, I don't know, sixth, seventh, something like that.
00:23:50.079 --> 00:23:54.640
Okay, that that week there, that's when they'll that's when they'll make a move.
00:23:54.880 --> 00:23:56.400
Yeah, I don't know.
00:23:56.720 --> 00:24:08.880
But and then the quarterbacks, just to kind of wrap up the quarterback conversation, I mean, do you think that we're gonna carry three quarterbacks into the you have to with the unknown of Mariota?
00:24:08.960 --> 00:24:09.440
You have to.
00:24:09.680 --> 00:24:11.119
Yeah, I would say so.
00:24:11.359 --> 00:24:25.200
And then so you so you think you think uh Hartman's on the practice squad and uh praying man is what however you said it, Calicamax.
00:24:25.519 --> 00:24:26.400
As of today, yes.
00:24:26.640 --> 00:24:30.799
Yeah, you don't his stats are better through both preseason games.
00:24:30.960 --> 00:24:32.720
He's looked cleaner to me.
00:24:32.880 --> 00:24:36.799
I mean, he looks a little bit more polished as a quarterback than Hartman does.
00:24:37.039 --> 00:24:40.000
I mean, Hartman looks like he tries really hard.
00:24:40.319 --> 00:24:51.839
And and like we've been saying, we said it last week, we said it last season, they've had plenty of time to look at Hartman and give him a little a legitimate shot.
00:24:52.000 --> 00:24:53.839
And they didn't do it last season.
00:24:54.000 --> 00:24:58.319
And you know, we saw how he played in the preseason opener.
00:24:58.559 --> 00:25:01.359
It was okay, it wasn't great.
00:25:01.599 --> 00:25:02.240
Let's be honest.
00:25:02.720 --> 00:25:06.160
It was it was typical Hartman, it was standard quote.
00:25:06.480 --> 00:25:09.759
If we cut Hartman, nobody else is gonna pick him up.
00:25:10.000 --> 00:25:15.359
I mean, if he doesn't sign to our practice squad, he won't get signed to another practice squad.
00:25:15.599 --> 00:25:16.880
Well, that's what happened last year.
00:25:17.039 --> 00:25:18.400
We signed him back to the practice.
00:25:18.960 --> 00:25:19.440
I don't mind.
00:25:19.519 --> 00:25:21.440
I mean, we you need a practice squad guy.
00:25:21.599 --> 00:25:26.640
If he's good in the locker room and he's and he helps the locker room, then whatever.
00:25:26.799 --> 00:25:27.519
I get it.
00:25:27.680 --> 00:25:28.880
Keep him on the team.
00:25:29.359 --> 00:25:32.880
But to what point?
00:25:33.119 --> 00:25:34.960
I mean, how long are we gonna wait?
00:25:35.039 --> 00:25:40.880
Because we've already proven that if we get down to four quarterbacks, then he's still gonna be number five.
00:25:41.119 --> 00:25:41.759
Number five, yeah.
00:25:43.200 --> 00:25:54.480
Because he should have he should have been the quarterback last season, but you know, they went with the other option, and we were sitting there like, but why?
00:25:54.640 --> 00:26:01.200
You have you have Hartman, he's essentially the next one in line, and you're you're bypassing him.
00:26:01.440 --> 00:26:04.880
So he's basically just he's a placeholder.
00:26:04.960 --> 00:26:09.599
And if he's there for morale, great, but that's not a reason to have a roster spot.
00:26:10.559 --> 00:26:11.920
Yeah, yeah.
00:26:12.240 --> 00:26:22.000
I mean, he annoys me because I know that his he it's like good luck, good looks privilege.
00:26:24.799 --> 00:26:29.680
Ah, I mean, maybe I don't know.
00:26:29.839 --> 00:26:32.000
I mean, I suffer from the same thing.
00:26:32.319 --> 00:26:33.119
Don't we all?
00:26:34.240 --> 00:26:37.279
You know, that's uh that's pretty funny, Mike.
00:26:37.440 --> 00:26:40.559
It's uh it's uh it's a heavy bag to carry, I don't know.
00:26:40.640 --> 00:26:42.160
Yeah, that's that's pretty funny.
00:26:42.400 --> 00:26:44.079
Well, I'm a fucking funny guy.
00:26:45.200 --> 00:26:45.839
Whoa.
00:26:47.119 --> 00:26:48.880
Sorry, was that too hot?
00:26:49.279 --> 00:26:50.799
No, no, no.
00:26:50.960 --> 00:26:54.240
I'm just saying you're pretty you're pretty funny.
00:26:54.559 --> 00:26:55.359
Funny how?
00:26:56.640 --> 00:26:57.680
No, no, I don't know.
00:26:57.759 --> 00:27:01.200
I'm just saying you're you're I'm just saying you're funny.
00:27:02.079 --> 00:27:02.720
Funny how?
00:27:03.119 --> 00:27:03.920
Give me something.
00:27:04.079 --> 00:27:05.920
No, I'm just like the way you talk.
00:27:06.079 --> 00:27:08.319
Just just the way you just the way you say things.
00:27:08.480 --> 00:27:11.200
I'm surprised it took you this long to figure this out.
00:27:12.000 --> 00:27:12.960
Oh, okay.
00:27:14.640 --> 00:27:15.279
Yeah.
00:27:15.599 --> 00:27:21.039
No, I I mean you're funny, kind of like uh I I just know that you put ketchup on chicken.
00:27:22.960 --> 00:27:24.640
What else would you put on chicken?
00:27:24.799 --> 00:27:27.839
Oh, well, I'll tell you what you should put on chicken.
00:27:28.319 --> 00:27:28.799
What?
00:27:29.119 --> 00:27:30.720
Half Chicken Man.
00:27:32.079 --> 00:27:32.880
Good call.
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00:27:59.599 --> 00:28:01.039
It really is exciting, isn't it?
00:28:01.200 --> 00:28:01.920
It's so exciting.
00:28:02.000 --> 00:28:04.880
It's like this whole thing is becoming real life for us, Michael.
00:28:05.039 --> 00:28:05.680
Yeah, you know.
00:28:05.839 --> 00:28:12.559
And look, it's not just that our um who knows, maybe eventually we'll have human monies.
00:28:12.799 --> 00:28:22.960
No, we'll we're definitely gonna get human monies because look, here's the thing you guys need to support this podcast because we want to keep going to these games.
00:28:23.119 --> 00:28:28.880
We want to keep talking about the game on the way to the game to pay for the game.
00:28:29.039 --> 00:28:32.000
Like, don't you guys want us to keep going to the games?
00:28:32.160 --> 00:28:38.640
So right, this is why they need to uh go get the uh our new sponsor, the half chicken.
00:28:38.880 --> 00:28:39.200
Exactly.
00:28:39.359 --> 00:28:49.359
You support him, he supports us, we all support you, and the best thing about the half chicken man sponsorship that is that it supports our bellies at the very least.
00:28:49.519 --> 00:28:54.079
Because let me tell you, I mean, the hot honey rub, it's my favorite.
00:28:54.160 --> 00:28:58.880
You can basically put it on anything, and I'm saying anything.
00:28:59.119 --> 00:29:00.160
Let me get it right here.
00:29:00.480 --> 00:29:00.799
Okay.
00:29:03.119 --> 00:29:06.079
Hot honey rub, a balanced, sweet heat.
00:29:06.240 --> 00:29:14.000
It says on the side here pairs well with chicken, pork, cheese, whiskey, and beer.
00:29:14.559 --> 00:29:17.599
I mean, that's like all the food groups that you need.
00:29:19.519 --> 00:29:21.759
Let's try it on some whiskey right now.
00:29:22.400 --> 00:29:23.920
Oh, left.
00:29:24.559 --> 00:29:28.559
He just gave me this this week, so shipped it into mail.
00:29:28.720 --> 00:29:39.279
Which, by the way, speaking of mail, my I checked uh my um my date name is right.
00:29:39.759 --> 00:29:43.599
I checked my well, I didn't really have to check it.
00:29:44.079 --> 00:29:45.279
It sends it to me.
00:29:45.359 --> 00:29:52.160
My phone sends it to me uh about the the what you did this time last year, memories, whatever.
00:29:52.400 --> 00:29:53.440
Oh, yeah, yeah.
00:29:53.759 --> 00:30:00.799
And uh this time last year, they sent the seas uh the 2024 season ticket holder gift.
00:30:01.119 --> 00:30:02.720
Well, I haven't gotten anything yet, have you?
00:30:02.960 --> 00:30:06.319
No, but I'm just saying today's a Sunday, so maybe tomorrow.
00:30:06.480 --> 00:30:06.720
Okay.
00:30:06.799 --> 00:30:08.640
Well maybe it's after the second preseason.
00:30:09.039 --> 00:30:25.039
It's funny you brought that up because I've I've seen on on the TikTok, I've already tried seen what it is, and I will say that it is very similar to what we got uh last year.
00:30:25.359 --> 00:30:29.200
Oh like deadly, like same same?
00:30:30.319 --> 00:30:34.799
Basically, same same, but different as a friend of ours would say.
00:30:35.039 --> 00:30:36.160
All right, well, don't spoil it.
00:30:36.319 --> 00:30:37.599
I hope we get it.
00:30:39.599 --> 00:30:41.039
Let me know what you think of that.
00:30:43.039 --> 00:30:45.440
It it it it oh, there it is.
00:30:45.519 --> 00:30:46.079
There, yep.
00:30:46.799 --> 00:30:47.359
Sweet heat.
00:30:47.440 --> 00:30:49.039
Yeah, there it is on the back of the throat.
00:30:49.200 --> 00:30:49.680
Yep.
00:30:50.000 --> 00:30:51.440
That ain't bad.
00:30:51.920 --> 00:30:52.559
Yeah.
00:30:53.039 --> 00:31:04.559
Honestly, yeah, it's a it's a barbecue rub, but when the when it says parasite beer and that's the first time I've ever put a chicken seasoning in a whiskey.
00:31:04.640 --> 00:31:06.000
So don't get it twisted.
00:31:06.079 --> 00:31:10.720
I mean, it's half chicken man, but his other ones are Jackalope and Yeti.
00:31:11.279 --> 00:31:20.400
So the the logo looks like a damn uh But we'll be we'll be sampling those as the uh regular season commences.
00:31:20.640 --> 00:31:26.720
And if you come by our tailgate, there is without a doubt you will be able to try this.
00:31:26.880 --> 00:31:29.680
I am thinking hot dogs this season.
00:31:29.920 --> 00:31:35.759
You want to come by, I might have a hot dog for you with any of these rubs on it, and it's gonna be banging.
00:31:36.160 --> 00:31:42.240
Um but in not when's our next command the commute?
00:31:42.400 --> 00:31:44.319
When are we when's the next time we're going?
00:31:44.559 --> 00:31:46.319
When's week three is our first scheme.
00:31:46.559 --> 00:31:55.039
Yeah, week three, because we're so for week three, I'm gonna have um Tom Clark, owner of Half Chicken Man on the pot.
00:31:55.119 --> 00:31:55.920
He's gonna call in.
00:31:56.160 --> 00:31:58.240
Huge on huge commanders.
00:31:58.799 --> 00:31:59.759
That's a big gap for us.
00:31:59.920 --> 00:32:01.599
Yep, huge commanders, huge red skills.
00:32:01.839 --> 00:32:02.720
Hope we can make time.
00:32:02.880 --> 00:32:04.319
Um, he'll make time.
00:32:04.400 --> 00:32:07.920
He's he he's he's gonna come later on in the season to our tailgates, too.
00:32:08.079 --> 00:32:12.799
So um, but yeah, so looking forward to this partnership with everybody.
00:32:12.880 --> 00:32:16.000
Uh give Half Chicken Man a uh a look.
00:32:16.400 --> 00:32:28.160
Um but let's kind of roll that right into uh oh I will before we finish up to quarter number three, we made a decision on the kicker position this past week.
00:32:28.319 --> 00:32:35.519
So I know it, you know, isn't it funny how I it's like we found out like, oh yeah, they don't have to cut anybody until August 30th.
00:32:35.759 --> 00:32:38.079
Well, we got Jake Moody's ass out pretty quick.
00:32:38.160 --> 00:32:38.720
Yeah.
00:32:39.039 --> 00:32:41.279
I think he was the one that dinged it off the upright.
00:32:41.759 --> 00:32:43.680
Yeah, he was doinking too many kicks.
00:32:44.079 --> 00:32:47.680
For a 29-yarder that was uh too close to call.
00:32:48.079 --> 00:32:50.160
Um shouldn't have that much nerves.
00:32:50.240 --> 00:32:52.960
I don't know what happened there, but we don't need that mistake.
00:32:53.119 --> 00:33:05.039
Um, supposedly, your boy Drew Stevens, undrafted rookie out of Iowa, um supposedly he went like 46 for 49 in camp.
00:33:05.200 --> 00:33:07.519
Uh that's the report out there.
00:33:07.759 --> 00:33:11.039
Uh and the longest that he hit was a 60 yarder.
00:33:11.359 --> 00:33:12.720
That's I mean, hey.
00:33:13.039 --> 00:33:14.720
Hey, I I've been saying for years.
00:33:14.880 --> 00:33:17.519
As long as it goes through the uprights at the end of the day.
00:33:17.759 --> 00:33:24.880
I've been saying for years I would love to get a kicker that stays on the team for a long time.
00:33:25.039 --> 00:33:25.839
That means he's good.
00:33:26.160 --> 00:33:27.599
But we do that in trustway.
00:33:27.759 --> 00:33:30.799
Is it too much to ask for us to get it in the guy that scores us?
00:33:31.359 --> 00:33:43.359
Well, yeah, because kickers like that, like your venataries and stuff, they're so rare that I can't get over how how this half chicken man tastes in a jack and ginger.
00:33:43.920 --> 00:33:45.599
It is quite tasty.
00:33:46.240 --> 00:33:52.880
Let me see if these other ones do these other ones say it pairs well with no.
00:33:55.200 --> 00:33:55.519
No.
00:33:55.759 --> 00:33:58.160
Well, at least he knows his product.
00:33:59.599 --> 00:34:03.359
The other one the hot honey is the only one you can pair with whiskey.
00:34:03.440 --> 00:34:03.759
Got it.
00:34:03.920 --> 00:34:06.000
I did peep his website earlier today.
00:34:06.079 --> 00:34:13.760
He's coming up because all is that one's the OG half chicken man, and then his Yeti, and then his Jackalope.
00:34:13.840 --> 00:34:18.000
So it's all like these legendary craft seasonings, right?
00:34:18.320 --> 00:34:23.760
And so he's got this one coming up called Trunco, which basically looks like Dumbo.
00:34:24.000 --> 00:34:24.320
Okay.
00:34:24.480 --> 00:34:24.880
I don't know.
00:34:24.960 --> 00:34:29.440
There's some kind of urban legend about some kind of what's the what's the flavor association?
00:34:29.519 --> 00:34:29.920
Do you know?
00:34:30.159 --> 00:34:30.960
Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.
00:34:31.039 --> 00:34:40.639
That's I because I texted and I was excited for that because I said I want some trunco winks, um, because it's like a lemon pepper type of uh okay.
00:34:40.719 --> 00:34:41.440
Cool, cool, cool.
00:34:41.599 --> 00:34:42.000
Yeah.
00:34:42.480 --> 00:34:52.960
Um but yeah, so I've been saying for years I'd love to get a good kicker at at that that to that just stays with us and that can be accurate.
00:34:53.119 --> 00:34:56.239
Somebody that's just not like the head coach's guy.
00:34:56.480 --> 00:34:59.119
Um, because I feel like that's who we've had.
00:34:59.199 --> 00:35:04.079
It's just a bunch of head coaches, like, oh yeah, he was with me here and we brought him back.
00:35:04.400 --> 00:35:06.559
Well, maybe maybe Stevens is the guy.
00:35:06.639 --> 00:35:06.960
Who knows?
00:35:07.039 --> 00:35:07.440
We'll see.
00:35:07.599 --> 00:35:07.760
Okay.
00:35:08.000 --> 00:35:12.960
Stevens Stevens is uh I like the name Stevens, you know.
00:35:13.039 --> 00:35:18.719
Uh you can really holler it at the TV one way or another, good, bad, or ugly.
00:35:18.960 --> 00:35:19.519
You know what I mean?
00:35:19.760 --> 00:35:20.159
Yeah.
00:35:20.480 --> 00:35:23.199
So uh I I appreciate that.
00:35:23.440 --> 00:35:26.719
Um, but let's just roll this right into our quarter four.
00:35:26.800 --> 00:35:30.719
We're cruising right along at our home podcast here in the preseason.
00:35:30.960 --> 00:35:34.400
So um, you want to start with any hodgepodginess?
00:35:34.480 --> 00:35:36.800
You haven't really inputted very much here today.
00:35:37.039 --> 00:35:38.480
I've inputted enough.
00:35:38.559 --> 00:35:39.840
Okay, mind you.
00:35:40.960 --> 00:35:42.719
I told you it was spicy.
00:35:42.800 --> 00:35:47.039
It's so spicy for this podcast with our seasoning sponsor.
00:35:47.760 --> 00:35:48.559
Subtle.
00:35:48.800 --> 00:35:50.480
Yeah, man, we're all over it.
00:35:50.800 --> 00:35:51.280
All right.
00:35:51.599 --> 00:35:55.360
So have you been following at all?
00:35:55.519 --> 00:36:01.199
I mean, not that it's been something to follow, but anything with uh the NFL expansion?
00:36:01.280 --> 00:36:07.840
Do you know anything about oh the the um like over in Europe and Yeah.
00:36:08.320 --> 00:36:21.440
I all I saw was like a little comment on some type of an article or video or or post that said Goodell was quoted saying if um the NFL will be over the won't be global or worldwide.
00:36:21.760 --> 00:36:30.000
Yeah, I mean I I saw that today when I did a little bit more research because I stumbled on something on Facebook earlier this week.
00:36:30.239 --> 00:36:41.280
It was posted by DraftKings, and uh this is posted by DraftKings, but per pro football talk.
00:36:41.679 --> 00:36:48.480
Um eventually they are going the NFL is gonna expand to 40 teams.
00:36:48.880 --> 00:36:53.519
So, you know, eventually probably means within about three to five years, right?
00:36:55.199 --> 00:37:05.760
So they're gonna expand to 40 teams, including a conference restructuring featuring featuring four teams in Europe.
00:37:06.960 --> 00:37:15.280
And and again, you can find this on Facebook, but I'll for the sake of the pod, I will walk us through it.
00:37:15.679 --> 00:37:31.119
And what I'm about to go over with you is how the AFC renamed the Eastern Conference could look, including two teams in England, one in Germany and Spain.
00:37:31.760 --> 00:37:38.880
The Eastern Conference would be broken into one, two, three, four, five divisions.
00:37:39.360 --> 00:37:49.920
You would have the Northeast Division, which would include Buffalo, New England, the Jets, and the Giants.
00:37:50.800 --> 00:37:58.960
Okay, so some NFC teams are switching over to this AFC slash Eastern Conference.
00:37:59.119 --> 00:38:01.920
That's the Northeast Division.
00:38:02.079 --> 00:38:09.440
The Atlantic Division would be the Eagles, the Commanders, the Ravens, and the Panthers.
00:38:10.719 --> 00:38:19.440
Okay, then you've got a Central Division, which would be the Steelers, the Browns, the Bengals, and the Lions.
00:38:20.239 --> 00:38:29.039
Then you have a Southeast Division, which would be the Dolphins, the Buccaneers, the Jaguars, Falcons.
00:38:29.280 --> 00:38:38.159
And then you've got your Europe division, which would be two teams in London, one in Munich, Germany, and one in Madrid, Spain.
00:38:38.480 --> 00:38:45.360
That would be the Eastern Conference, which is the would be the new AFC.
00:38:47.840 --> 00:38:49.920
Where's the other four teams?
00:38:50.320 --> 00:39:04.480
This is the only thing I could find, but so any anything else that's not the Eastern Conference would be whatever the other conference is, but I couldn't find anything on what the other lineup would be.
00:39:04.960 --> 00:39:11.199
But this would essentially be the new F the new AFC slash Eastern Conference.
00:39:11.440 --> 00:39:12.320
I don't know.
00:39:13.199 --> 00:39:15.519
I don't know how I feel about all this.
00:39:19.360 --> 00:39:20.880
It's a lot to take, it's a lot to take.
00:39:21.199 --> 00:39:27.599
I like tradition and yeah, I don't know.
00:39:27.760 --> 00:39:28.239
I don't know.
00:39:28.400 --> 00:39:30.159
I don't know how I feel about all this.
00:39:33.440 --> 00:39:40.639
I mean, I think the talent pool is big enough to support more teams, and I know that they want more.
00:39:40.880 --> 00:39:44.880
I know they've been pushing over to Europe, so I think it feels like it's inevitable, you know.
00:39:45.199 --> 00:39:46.719
Yeah, they're, you know.
00:39:47.760 --> 00:39:55.679
It's it's always been bound to happen at some point, as much time as they've been uh really spending on these.
00:39:56.159 --> 00:39:57.119
What do they call it?
00:39:57.440 --> 00:39:58.880
Football league?
00:39:59.519 --> 00:40:00.719
Can't call it football.
00:40:00.800 --> 00:40:02.159
It's gotta be called something else, right?
00:40:05.039 --> 00:40:05.760
I don't know.
00:40:06.000 --> 00:40:15.519
But that's again, it was just uh a fly by night thing I saw on uh on Facebook earlier this week and thought it was No, that's very interesting.
00:40:15.599 --> 00:40:18.159
I'm gonna have to deep dive into that a little bit more.
00:40:18.960 --> 00:40:22.320
I'm gonna have to deep dive into that more, as well as the PSLs.
00:40:22.400 --> 00:40:25.440
We were talking about that right before the podcast started here.
00:40:25.679 --> 00:40:37.599
But uh Buffalo's come out with theirs, and Buffalo's new stadium is getting a lot of flags, some of a lot of their blinds, some obstructed views, so hopefully our stadium won't suffer the same.
00:40:37.920 --> 00:40:42.320
Listen, there's there's I mean, I get it.
00:40:42.880 --> 00:40:47.840
You're gonna those things are gonna make headlines, but geez.
00:40:48.320 --> 00:41:16.960
But based off of the PSL chart that they released, what, a week, a week and a half ago at this point, if you look at that diagram, and it's all online so people can find it, if you look at their diagram and compare that to where we're sitting in Commander's Stadium, okay, we're looking at a PSL cost of about$2,500.
00:41:17.440 --> 00:41:17.760
Okay.
00:41:18.000 --> 00:41:21.840
Oh, it's a big jump down from the$15,000 we were right.
00:41:22.239 --> 00:41:30.639
So happy about that if the cost, if it translates to our stadium and it's in that ballpark, and then inflation.
00:41:30.960 --> 00:41:50.400
But then so here's the thing the PSL cost of$2,500,$3,000, whatever that number ends up being, you have to purchase the license just to be able to be considered to purchase the season tickets that you may or may not already own.
00:41:50.800 --> 00:41:56.159
And it's a one-time, it's a one-time cost, so basically once a year, right?
00:41:56.320 --> 00:41:56.480
Right.
00:41:56.880 --> 00:42:04.000
So before you can renew your season tickets every year, you have to buy the seat license.
00:42:04.159 --> 00:42:18.960
And the seat license, depending on the event, basically guarantees you like a first dibs at like if there's a WrestleMania in the stadium or some some concert or other special event.
00:42:19.119 --> 00:42:27.360
The only thing it does not guarantee you is a Super Bowl ticket because the stadium is not selling the Super Bowl tickets.
00:42:27.519 --> 00:42:31.039
The NFL is controlling the Super Bowl tickets.
00:42:31.199 --> 00:42:36.480
So your PSL does not help you in getting a Super Bowl ticket.
00:42:38.719 --> 00:42:40.719
Oh, that's all very informative.
00:42:41.199 --> 00:42:44.960
I'm gonna have to do my own deep dive so I can understand it all a lot better.
00:42:45.119 --> 00:42:46.880
But yes, thank you.
00:42:48.320 --> 00:43:04.960
Quite uh it's interesting, but I'm glad from a PSL cost that we're much more we're much more in a range that while not completely affordable, is in theory affordable to us, the common thing.
00:43:05.519 --> 00:43:12.880
I think it makes sense too to where if we end up selling those tickets that somebody's buying the PSL from us.
00:43:13.280 --> 00:43:13.599
Yeah.
00:43:14.480 --> 00:43:20.000
If you're yeah, like if you're not gonna renew, you're basically selling your your PSL.
00:43:20.480 --> 00:43:24.000
So the PSL goes up, we get more.
00:43:24.480 --> 00:43:26.159
I mean, that's the going rate.
00:43:26.239 --> 00:43:26.400
Yeah.
00:43:26.559 --> 00:43:28.880
That's why that I I I've kind of thought about it.
00:43:29.119 --> 00:43:30.960
No, that all makes sense.
00:43:31.280 --> 00:43:48.880
Um towards last week's podcast, towards the end in our hodgepodge section, as we got closer to the stadium and sat in traffic, and I was kind of thinking over the last week, we need we need something in our back pocket that's uh that we can talk about.
00:43:49.039 --> 00:43:56.800
And you know what we do when we go sit at the edge of the bar and kind of bullshit about nothing, is we throw out those uh F Mary Kill.
00:43:57.199 --> 00:43:57.599
Uh-huh.
00:43:57.760 --> 00:43:59.599
And everybody knows what I'm talking about when I say F.
00:44:00.079 --> 00:44:01.360
F yeah, people aren't dumb.
00:44:01.519 --> 00:44:02.320
They know what you're talking about.
00:44:02.559 --> 00:44:07.920
F in the good way, not the bad way, like F off, but like the good way.
00:44:08.159 --> 00:44:09.199
F Mary Kill.
00:44:09.280 --> 00:44:10.400
You guys all know what I'm talking about.
00:44:10.559 --> 00:44:18.880
So I've I thought maybe we'll just have in our back pocket a uh hell yes, a hail, and a hell no.
00:44:20.320 --> 00:44:23.440
Hail yes goes without saying.
00:44:23.599 --> 00:44:24.000
Right.
00:44:24.239 --> 00:44:25.039
The hail.
00:44:26.000 --> 00:44:26.400
Yeah.
00:44:26.639 --> 00:44:27.760
That goes without saying, right?
00:44:27.840 --> 00:44:28.320
You follow me?
00:44:28.480 --> 00:44:29.119
Hail no.
00:44:29.280 --> 00:44:29.519
Right.
00:44:29.679 --> 00:44:30.320
Yeah, everything's not.
00:44:30.800 --> 00:44:31.519
In the order.
00:44:32.559 --> 00:44:35.440
Mary Coo, hell yes, hail, hail no.
00:44:35.519 --> 00:44:36.159
You follow me?
00:44:36.320 --> 00:44:40.320
Alright, so just uh I just got a couple examples here.
00:44:40.480 --> 00:44:47.360
We'll have more in our back pocket for when we get on the road, but I thought we'd wind down the podcast with this today.
00:44:47.679 --> 00:44:50.639
So just just I'll start easy.
00:44:50.960 --> 00:44:58.480
Um wings, subs, burgers for tailgate food.
00:44:58.800 --> 00:45:01.760
Hail yes, hail, and hail no.
00:45:03.039 --> 00:45:05.840
Wings, subs, burgers.
00:45:05.920 --> 00:45:10.000
Now I know subs is very broad, but I did that by design.
00:45:11.360 --> 00:45:19.440
So hail no on the subs.
00:45:19.679 --> 00:45:21.440
Hail no on the subs.
00:45:22.000 --> 00:45:24.159
And a steak sub is pretty good.
00:45:24.400 --> 00:45:26.559
No, no, and you didn't specify.
00:45:26.719 --> 00:45:27.840
So when subs.
00:45:28.159 --> 00:45:28.400
Right.
00:45:28.559 --> 00:45:31.039
So when you think subs, you were thinking turkey.
00:45:31.360 --> 00:45:34.000
Yeah, like a like a turkey sub, a ham sub, something.
00:45:34.239 --> 00:45:34.320
Okay.
00:45:35.119 --> 00:45:35.280
All right.
00:45:35.760 --> 00:45:37.440
Okay, hail no to the subs.
00:45:37.679 --> 00:45:38.159
Right.
00:45:38.400 --> 00:45:47.920
And uh hail yes to the burger, and then hail to the wings.
00:45:48.320 --> 00:45:49.119
Alright.
00:45:49.440 --> 00:45:49.760
Okay.
00:45:50.239 --> 00:45:55.360
I uh next week I'm gonna have I'm gonna track this now, now that I know.
00:45:55.599 --> 00:45:56.159
Alright.
00:45:56.800 --> 00:46:01.599
Hail yes to the burgers, hail to the wings, and hail no to the subs.
00:46:01.760 --> 00:46:02.159
Correct.
00:46:12.800 --> 00:46:19.440
Alright, mix drink canned beer with jello shots for the tailgate.
00:46:19.760 --> 00:46:22.400
Hail yes, hail, and hail no.
00:46:24.559 --> 00:46:27.199
Uh hail no on the jello shots.
00:46:28.559 --> 00:46:30.239
You don't like a jello shot?
00:46:30.480 --> 00:46:31.679
Not for tailgating.
00:46:32.000 --> 00:46:32.320
Okay.
00:46:32.559 --> 00:46:32.880
Okay.
00:46:33.039 --> 00:46:34.800
And then what were the other two options?
00:46:35.119 --> 00:46:37.039
Mixed, drink, and canned beer.
00:46:37.760 --> 00:46:46.639
Uh hail yes on uh mixed drink and hail on beer.
00:46:47.039 --> 00:46:48.320
All right, last one.
00:46:50.000 --> 00:46:54.320
Alex Smith, RG three, Taylor Heineke.
00:46:59.760 --> 00:47:07.360
Uh so the hail no is RG three.
00:47:08.719 --> 00:47:11.039
Hail no on RG three.
00:47:11.360 --> 00:47:12.559
Hail yes.
00:47:14.400 --> 00:47:19.119
Hail yes would be Alex Smith and then Hail.
00:47:19.360 --> 00:47:20.480
Hail Heineken.
00:47:21.039 --> 00:47:23.840
I I agree, uh I agree on that one.
00:47:24.000 --> 00:47:31.280
And I agree on um I would go hail yes on the wings.
00:47:31.519 --> 00:47:34.079
Yeah, you're you're more of a wing person than I am.
00:47:37.360 --> 00:47:38.079
You can fry.
00:47:38.480 --> 00:47:43.840
But again, it's like when I think subs, I think like a turkey sub, a ham sub, so like you gotta get rid of that stuff.
00:47:44.000 --> 00:47:46.159
You can grill them, you can salt ham.
00:47:46.639 --> 00:47:49.519
There's wing creole, there's wing kebabs.
00:47:51.199 --> 00:47:52.960
That's all I'm really gonna say about that.
00:47:53.119 --> 00:47:54.159
That's all that needs to be said.
00:47:54.480 --> 00:48:01.920
No, burgers is a good one to go hell yeah on because burgers are very versatile, very easy, and always so good.
00:48:02.079 --> 00:48:04.960
Lots of lots of food in your stomach for the tailgate.
00:48:05.519 --> 00:48:10.800
Well, remember one of the early tailgates that we did way before received ticket holders.
00:48:11.280 --> 00:48:15.440
We did some kind of like bacon cheeseburger, something or other.
00:48:15.519 --> 00:48:17.760
There was some kind of burger that we we did.
00:48:18.000 --> 00:48:18.960
I'll have to go back through.
00:48:19.360 --> 00:48:24.320
Because we we had one for tailgate, and then because we had so much, we had one on the ride.
00:48:24.639 --> 00:48:26.880
Oh yeah, now I recall.
00:48:27.119 --> 00:48:35.599
It was like a bacon, I want to say like a bacon cheeseburger, but I don't know if it if it was that, but it was That's my favorite hack there.
00:48:35.760 --> 00:48:42.400
When you what you gotta bring some tinfoil to the tailgate, and because that's exactly what we yeah.
00:48:42.480 --> 00:48:43.840
So here's the hack, right?
00:48:44.079 --> 00:48:48.719
So cook you're gonna cook more than enough food at the tailgate, right?
00:48:48.960 --> 00:48:57.920
So you gotta bring tinfoil, wrap that burger up because you're gonna love that burger on the drive home.
00:48:58.079 --> 00:48:58.639
Trust me.
00:48:58.719 --> 00:48:59.199
I don't care.
00:48:59.360 --> 00:49:04.880
Yeah, I don't remember what kind of burger it was, but yeah, put it in the cooler, it'll be good cold.
00:49:05.440 --> 00:49:07.039
It hit the spot on the ride home.
00:49:07.119 --> 00:49:07.760
I didn't know that.
00:49:08.000 --> 00:49:10.800
I don't even think we put it in a cooler, I think we just put it on the dash.
00:49:11.119 --> 00:49:16.960
Yeah, that's always it was lukewarm by the time the game was over, and it was fined.
00:49:17.199 --> 00:49:23.920
Yeah, it was because it was you know because we were you wrapped it up as soon as it came off the grill.
00:49:24.159 --> 00:49:25.440
That's the hack right there.
00:49:25.519 --> 00:49:27.679
You gotta wrap up the leftovers.
00:49:28.000 --> 00:49:32.800
Oh, you know, were we no, we we're probably in coach.
00:49:32.880 --> 00:49:38.079
We probably had a refrigerator in the car and probably I don't think that was a coach thing.
00:49:38.239 --> 00:49:39.119
I don't know.
00:49:39.440 --> 00:49:41.840
I think that was like uh I don't mind it.
00:49:42.000 --> 00:49:46.239
I don't mind, I don't mind uh that's I mean that's the move there.
00:49:46.320 --> 00:49:52.079
It's your it's your after during the tailgate, cook your meal on the way home.
00:49:52.239 --> 00:49:56.480
Uh and then honestly, you know, I'm gonna go hell no on the canned beer.
00:49:56.559 --> 00:50:00.719
I'm gonna go hell on the jello shots, but hell yes to the mixed drink.
00:50:00.800 --> 00:50:03.760
You know, I've gotta have my Jane Daniels on the rocks.
00:50:03.920 --> 00:50:04.880
Uh with the big thing.
00:50:04.960 --> 00:50:10.960
I I just don't think I just don't think jello shots have a a place in tailgating it.
00:50:11.280 --> 00:50:12.239
They're fun.
00:50:12.960 --> 00:50:14.719
They are, but it I don't know.
00:50:14.800 --> 00:50:15.840
For me, it just doesn't.
00:50:16.079 --> 00:50:23.760
Would you feel differently if the jello shot was more of like a jello whiskey glass and I gave it to you with a spoon?
00:50:24.400 --> 00:50:26.320
How come that's never caught on?
00:50:26.480 --> 00:50:31.199
Maybe because that would get you really drunk of a whiskey glass full of jello.
00:50:31.599 --> 00:50:33.599
That you'd have to spoon all of jello.
00:50:33.920 --> 00:50:36.320
I mean, you'd have uh nice and refreshing.
00:50:36.400 --> 00:50:38.639
Put some put some boozy fruit in there.
00:50:38.880 --> 00:50:39.599
I think I just can't.
00:50:39.760 --> 00:50:42.159
I think I just maybe we'll maybe we'll try that this year.
00:50:42.400 --> 00:50:43.199
We're gonna do that.
00:50:43.360 --> 00:50:54.719
I'm gonna take some boozy fruit and I'm gonna put it into a jello uh shot, and I'm gonna put it in a whiskey glass, and then we're gonna eat it with a spoon at the tailgate.
00:50:55.519 --> 00:50:57.519
And then we're gonna track the jack.
00:50:57.760 --> 00:50:59.119
Let's try it.
00:50:59.440 --> 00:50:59.840
Ha ha.
00:51:00.000 --> 00:51:01.039
I've got you on board.
00:51:01.119 --> 00:51:03.119
I'm a better salesman than I thought.
00:51:03.440 --> 00:51:09.280
Get you sold on jello shots, but I guess it's not that hard when we're competing against canned beer.
00:51:09.440 --> 00:51:09.679
Right.
00:51:09.920 --> 00:51:11.840
But man, canned beer is so good.
00:51:12.079 --> 00:51:13.760
As long as it's a light beer, that's all.
00:51:13.840 --> 00:51:14.400
I I don't think.
00:51:14.719 --> 00:51:20.320
I knew you were an Alex Smith fan, so that last question was a talk, like was an easy one.
00:51:20.800 --> 00:51:30.239
It's just on pure skill set and I'm putting you on the spot here, and so you might say no, but do you have a hail yes, hail hail no for me?
00:51:30.800 --> 00:51:31.599
No, I don't.
00:51:31.840 --> 00:51:33.199
I figured as much.
00:51:33.519 --> 00:51:36.239
Uh let me see if I can come up with one off the top.
00:51:36.400 --> 00:51:41.119
How about um all right?
00:51:41.360 --> 00:51:44.079
Uh all right, I got it.
00:51:44.159 --> 00:51:44.880
I got it.
00:51:46.159 --> 00:51:50.480
Traffic on the way to the game, all right.
00:51:51.599 --> 00:51:55.199
Traffic going home from the game, okay.
00:51:55.519 --> 00:51:55.840
Okay.
00:51:56.800 --> 00:52:00.400
And then getting to your seats late.
00:52:02.079 --> 00:52:03.599
So what do you Right?
00:52:03.760 --> 00:52:08.079
So you you you you're either hitting traffic when you're going to the game, right?
00:52:08.639 --> 00:52:12.880
You're either getting to your seats late for whatever reason.
00:52:13.039 --> 00:52:24.800
There was a huge line, uh, you know, Secret Service had to scan everybody to get their tickets or whatever, or there was just a huge line trying to get into the stadium, right?
00:52:24.880 --> 00:52:27.199
That's a whole that's a just a huge mess.
00:52:27.360 --> 00:52:30.239
Because typically it's just smooth sailing getting in here.
00:52:30.960 --> 00:52:36.639
But every once in a while they'll cut off a couple entrances and then just siphon everybody into one.
00:52:37.119 --> 00:52:42.719
Again, because you know, you attend a game in present, it's gonna be or your traffic on the way home.
00:52:42.800 --> 00:52:45.920
What what's your hail yes, hail, and hail no?
00:52:46.079 --> 00:52:47.280
You gotta you gotta assign.
00:52:47.599 --> 00:52:48.719
Oh, I thought this was for you.
00:52:48.800 --> 00:52:49.360
I thought I thought.
00:52:49.920 --> 00:52:53.519
If I asked you to put me on the spot, you couldn't come up with one of the spot.
00:52:53.760 --> 00:52:55.199
So I came with one on the spot.
00:52:55.280 --> 00:52:56.159
Now you gotta answer.
00:52:56.800 --> 00:53:01.119
Well, the the the hail no is going to your seats late.
00:53:01.280 --> 00:53:01.519
Yeah.
00:53:01.679 --> 00:53:02.880
Like absolutely not.
00:53:03.039 --> 00:53:03.280
Right.
00:53:03.519 --> 00:53:08.400
Uh so as long as I get to my seat on time, everything else be damned.
00:53:08.800 --> 00:53:16.960
So from there, um I'll say the because the other stuff was the traffic before the game or after.
00:53:17.280 --> 00:53:21.039
So and they all kind of go together.
00:53:21.119 --> 00:53:35.119
So if you're gonna be at your seats late, which is uh hail no, hell no, you might as well then hail the traffic before the game and hail yes, the traffic after.
00:53:35.519 --> 00:53:40.079
Okay, now let me take out the that hail no, and let me see if I can add in one.
00:53:40.400 --> 00:53:43.599
Uh propane tank for the grill didn't work.
00:53:43.760 --> 00:53:48.320
Take out the late to your seats, traffic there, traffic back.
00:53:48.559 --> 00:53:50.159
Propane didn't work for the grill.
00:53:50.239 --> 00:53:51.599
We got no food.
00:53:52.800 --> 00:53:54.639
That's fine because you have stinking food.
00:53:54.880 --> 00:53:56.320
So, okay, so you're same, same.
00:53:56.480 --> 00:53:58.639
So you're so your tailgate goes to shit.
00:53:58.719 --> 00:54:00.320
It happens, but you got food and stinking.
00:54:01.280 --> 00:54:02.400
So you got you got stinking food.
00:54:02.639 --> 00:54:03.679
Not gonna happen this year.
00:54:03.760 --> 00:54:12.639
We gotta make sure we got that half chicken man dogs for our viewers uh and and followers of the podcast.
00:54:12.719 --> 00:54:17.840
And this is where we ask everybody if you've listened this long, we appreciate you so much.
00:54:18.079 --> 00:54:22.320
Thank you for riding along with us all season long to and from the games.
00:54:22.480 --> 00:54:27.039
Uh, this is Mike and Bob signing off with uh the Command and Commute podcast.
00:54:27.119 --> 00:54:28.400
Thank you guys very much.