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Welcome to Good Calls with Dean Blandina,

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a production of I Heart Radio. Hey,

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welcome to another episode of

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Good Calls. I'm

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Dean Blandino. We are back, and we are back

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in person social

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distance, of course. Travis is wearing

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his mask. Sounds a little

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better. Joe the audio guy, is this

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is this harbind harbinger

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or harbinger? Is a harbinger or harbinger?

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Are you guys know what word? I'm I know the

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word? I don't know? Is this harbinger of

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things to come? This type of crisp,

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clean audio. It sounds quite

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a bit better than the zoom. It does sound amazing.

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You guys look or ain't both rock and beards?

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Yes, I put my hair for the occasion, and

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and brought in fresh flowers to see that. You got

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some nice gerber daisies here, and we got

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and we've got Week one of NFL football

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to talk about. And uh, what

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a week it was,

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wrapping up with two

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games Monday night and

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uh and my Titans winning

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a close one. We'll talk about that a little later. Um,

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what did you guys from a from a fans

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perspective? What what were your takeaways

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from from Week one? NFL did it. Did

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it feel different than a

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regular week one? It did,

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because it kind of just snuck up on us without the preseason,

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with without having a couple of weeks

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of college football, or at least two

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weeks in front of the first NFL game,

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that that kind of just kind of stuck up on us. But as far as

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football win, it was. It was amazing to see

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football being played on Sundays again.

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I loved it. I thought Tom Brady was

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less than so taking

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a shot at Brady l right, I know. I just I

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wanted to see that game. I wanted to see

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him. Travis

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is going in on Brady, I just

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wanted to see I just wanted to see more on him.

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I think I think Bruce arians wanted to see more

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too. Nice every

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Boast game and on Monday, I

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didn't know that, Yeah, saying he needs to play better. He

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was surprised he didn't play better. He said, well,

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b he's going to call you out. That's not That's

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not nothing new, I I

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thought. I actually was pleasantly

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surprised at the production and it wasn't as politically

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driven as I thought it was going to be. It

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seemed pretty normal with the exception of some of

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the masks that I thought it was done

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pretty well. Yeah.

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I think for me the takeaway and we'll

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get into the officiating part of it, I

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have no fans didn't

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really, it didn't. It

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wasn't a big impact, like

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like the the artificial noise and the

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background noise I didn't

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have. It wasn't like, oh no,

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this feels so much different without the

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fans, without all

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the bells and whistles. Yeah, And to me

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it didn't. It didn't feel any different either. It's

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like we we pay a little closer attention than if

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you're you're at home watching a baseball game like we had

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been doing for the last few months, and you're kind

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of always on your phone or looking at your computer doing

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something while the game's on, and if you're not paying

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attention to it just seems like a normal game

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with like the artificial fan noise. I

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think the question is if you were

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asleep, you were in a coma since and

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you woke up and it was football Sunday,

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would you have noticed the chief different? I think I

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think I think some of the when you looked and

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it was an empty stadium, I think that that definitely

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would I

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feel like they didn't. They did a pretty good job of not

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really showing the stance. Yeah, I think

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sometimes it's hard if you're showing

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a certain angle, if you're showing a certain replay,

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you're gonna get that background with the the empty

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stadium. But they it's not like they were

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highlighting obviously empty

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stadiums. And that was a directive. I know from a Fox

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Sports perspective, we we

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weren't going to come out and say, keep

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beating you over the head. Well, there's no fans. There's

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no fans, so it's it's about football. And

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I think from from a social justice

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standpoint, honestly, I think look

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after the anthems, UM, then

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it was pretty like it was interspersed

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and there were things that were obviously talked about,

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uh, commercials and things,

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but it wasn't um.

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You know, there's a whole bunch of people out there to say, oh, I'm

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not watching the NFL blah blah blah blah

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blah, and then don't watch the NFL. Right,

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and you know what was what was the overnight travis

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for Saints Bucks, which

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is was the highest in four

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years per week, one per week, one um,

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and you made a comment about that over text that like

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we look, week one, we always

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knew Week one was gonna be was gonna be huge

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capital you and because

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it's week one after

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a pandemic when we didn't think we

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were gonna have football for from for a minute

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there what the true test

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is going to because remember two thousands sixteen,

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you had you had, you had Colin Kaepernick,

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the whole kneeling thing, you had the election,

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and ratings were down right. This year

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we have certainly the Kaepernick thing

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um is still part

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of the conversation social justice

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the election. Are people

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going to you know, are people going

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to turn away from the NFL

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um in October November remains to be

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seen. There certainly are people that are

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very vocal, Like we talked about, there's this vocal

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minority that says, I don't

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go to watch football for for political

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statements things like that. But

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I think the the majority of NFL

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fans are gonna watch and but it

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will be I'm I'm very intrigued about

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what the ratings are going to be in in October

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November. For sure from

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an officiating standpoint, and we'll get into

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the cause of the week. But

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here's here's basically

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what happened in week one. When you look at

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the foul numbers and everybody says, okay, let

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him play great, not

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a lot of fouls, let them play

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you know, the game flows better, and

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and I think that's there's something to be said

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for that. But when you look at week one and

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we average twelve and a half penalties

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per game um in week

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one, compare that to nineteen

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point three per game

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in two thousand nineteen, and Travis is

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really just distracting

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me tremendously right now. We're

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back in person. Now I gotta see everything

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he does. He's closing windows. So

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I'm gonna I'm gonna start over. But

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okay, penalties down twelve

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and a half per game in week one compared

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to nineteen point three last year.

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Nineteen point three is is a

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high number. Offensive was

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crazy. So but when you look at the

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average, the average has been right

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around sixteen per game, and

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when you're talking about twelve and a half, that is a

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significant drop. It's only one

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week, it's a small sample size, but

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line of scrimmage in fractions of those twelve

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and a half pousd per game thirty two percent, we're

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line of scrimmage and frash, which is your false start,

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you're off sides, the formation stuff

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that you can't ignore. Thirty two percent

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is is where the number

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normally is, you know, somewhere between

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thirty two percent historically.

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So if that number is the same, that means

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on the major fouls like holding, past

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interference, unnecessary roughness,

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those fouls were not called nowhere

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near the same rate. And

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I think that's twofold. I think the

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game officials were given the directive clear and obvious,

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don't make a lot of don't don't. Don't call

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a lot of fouls we didn't have preseason.

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But what concerns me the most is

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offensive holding. When you look at

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two thousand nineteen week one, we had

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eighty two offensive holes

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in two thousand eighteen sixty four and two

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thousand seventeen fifty eight in two thousand,

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sixteen fifty five. How many holding

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calls do you think we had in week one? After

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I just rattled off those numbers forty

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about eighteen eighteen

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twelve on offensive lineman. So when you're talking

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about you think offensive lineman got that better

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in in in the off

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season, Well they had all that time,

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YEA in a zoom. Off season, they got better

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at hand placement and feet and everything

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else. So what concerns

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me about that? And it is one week, but

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when you start talking about eighteen

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offensive holds, twelve on offensive

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lineman, sixteen on on scrimmage plays,

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um, what that means is every team

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in the league is now going to have meetings with their offensive

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line and they say we're gonna hold the ship

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out of the defense, and that will the close

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line play will become an absolute

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war that will break down, Defenders

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will get will get frustrated. Then

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you get the risk of of of altercations

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other things. So that is

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a number to just watch out

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for. I remember in the a F and the Alliance

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of American Football, we wanted to

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promote offense, so we said we weren't gonna

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call holding unless it was obvious. The

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takedowns, the bear hugs. By

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week three we said, no, we gotta

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call this is getting ridiculous. Defenders are getting

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tackled. We have to call um these

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holes because it leads to other things.

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And that's my my biggest takeaway

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from week one in terms of the officiating is

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you can't when when historic numbers

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are fouls per game sixteen and

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you you dropped to twelve and a half.

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If we stayed twelve and a half, I guarantee teams

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around the league are going to to start

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to send in questions about no calls. And

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I lived this in ten when I took

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over UM in officiating. The

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fouls were down the last couple of years, and the

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committee got together and said, hey, we're

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this game is getting out of control. We need to rein

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this back in. So we just I would be mindful

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of that. Other other numbers, points

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per game UM up forty nine.

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That's a very healthy number UM.

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The plays per game really good. A hundred

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and fifty eight plays per game. That's great. Margin

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of victory was less than ten oh, that's

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the spread UM nine

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point five. Great, Passing yards per game

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was down compared to last year. Passing

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yards per game, rushing yards way up.

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UM two and thirty

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eight per game compared to two hundred sixteen

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replay. Remember we took away

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past an afferance, so replay was down

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twenty reviews compared to twenty seven last

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year. And overall game time was right

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around three three oh four forty

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five UM, which is down from last

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year. In the NFL, likes that number. They want

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the game to be a little bit shorter.

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Um. So that's from a

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general perspective, from from a from

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a specific call perspective. The

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call of the week was was

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was Travis's Cowboys right? And and

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this was the Sunday night game. You guys

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texted me immediately, this is Michael Gallup

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third and ten, um,

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Cowboys down by three. Dac

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throws a deep pass that would have was caught

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by Gallup would have put the Cowboys in field goal

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range, potential hop oportunity to take the lead.

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And and we had two flags on the play from

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the deep wing official and the back judge offensive

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past inferience push off. What did

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you guys think of the call? As soon as I saw

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it, I thought it was pasting inferenced by the

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by rule, like he extended the arm and

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gained a step on on Ramsey.

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And so I got text instantly

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from like five different people that you know,

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whether it's a Cowboys fan, friends or or

11:24

people who hate the Cowboys, which they're usually

11:26

the ones that chime in more. But they

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were all saying, oh, the Cowboys got hose. I was like, well,

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actually I thought the call was was the

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right call. I don't like it because I'm a Cowboys

11:34

fan, but I thought it was the right call. I

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thought it was a right call to and I'm a Rams fan,

11:38

so I liked it. You liked

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it double double double, like double,

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like you liked your own text, you liked

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your own life, which

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is illegal. Look, I get

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it. It's it's obviously a big call. Um,

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it's a critical juncture of the game. It's the Cowboys

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on Sunday night, right, so so

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it's gonna have that added element. Cowboy

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fan have been known, they are very gracious

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in defeat, and they definitely

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do not bring up ship from the past

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ever. What what I didn't

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like about it is Collinsworth and

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al Michaels are usually against the Cowboys always

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when they're calling things. But they're like, oh, that was a

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bad call, that shouldn't have been. But I think if it wouldn't

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have gotten called, they would have been even worse, saying oh,

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I can't believe they missed that call. I

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think it would work, and I think people just

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react to what they say on the air. There's

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no question if if Collinsworth

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and and Michael's

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and even Terry McAuley who's the rules analyst.

12:34

If they had come out and said they agreed with

12:36

the call, I think that's going to influence people without

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question. That's the power that that the broadcasters

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have um and we understand

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that. But if we look at

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it, let's let's break it down. Gallop

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and Ramsey are running, They're running stride for stride,

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and people are saying, well, Ramsey hooked

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Gallop's arm right and and

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and so Gallop couldn't get his arm

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free. If you watch the play, a Gallop

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was perfectly fine where his hand was. Gallop

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was always the receivers taught at

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that list if you can if you can create

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a little bit of space, you want to do it legally. But

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if you can create a little bit of space, there's nothing wrong

13:12

with that hand fighting. Ramsey

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has has his arm inside of Gallop's

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arm, but Gallop it's not like Gallup is trying to pull

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his arm free. He's perfectly content

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with his arm in hand there. And

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then at the last second you can

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see it's It's interesting because

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it's not with the palm of the hand, it's

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almost the back of the hand that he

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pushes into Ramsey's body. And

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he clearly creates space. Ramsey

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embellishes without question, but he

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definitely feels the contact. It takes

13:41

a step away from him, it creates separation.

13:44

And uh, you know, and I thought it was a foul.

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It was. It wasn't much different. You

13:48

remember the Super Bowl kiddo got

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called for for near the end of the first

13:52

half for an offensive past inference and the

13:54

and the Niners were and would have put the Niners

13:56

in field board range. Um that was somewhat

13:59

similar. And uh and again

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Pool report, Tony Crenny, the

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referee, did talk to Edward or after the game.

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What was what was his his comment? What

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was his statement said, I can tell you it was clear and obvious

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on the field of the hand into

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the opposing player, a full arm extension that

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created separation. In all situations

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that would be called. We're not going to

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allow that at any time of the game.

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So and that now Tony Creny is the referee,

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it's not his call he's getting

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he's getting information from the covering officials,

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which would have been the the side judge,

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field judge or the back and and the back judge.

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And uh, and so they felt it was clear

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and obvious. Remember that language clear and obvious,

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because that's what the officials are being taught right now,

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to to call clear and obvious

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foul. So if they don't feel it's clear and obvious, they're

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not going to call it. They obviously felt it

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was it raised to that level,

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and uh, and obviously all the fallout

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and everybody's up in arms about because

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again, just like and I hate to bring it up, but

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just like the Deaz play, because we

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reverse the des play, the Cowboys didn't win the

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Super Bowl. It's that simple. Do

15:05

you think this is going to be a Super Bowl? So

15:07

if the Cowboys, if the Cowboys the

15:10

playoffs by a game, this

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call will be We ask a question,

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do you think, because

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Ramsey is now the highest paid cornerback in the

15:20

league, do you think he gets any preferential treatment

15:22

whatsoever? Absolutely not. The officials

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have no. They did for the officials.

15:28

He's not come on in

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that moment. In that moment, the

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officials running full speed trying to get

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in position watching is

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it past inference? Is it on the offense? Is

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it on the defense? Is it a catch? The

15:41

last thing they're thinking about is Ramsey's

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hundred and whatever million dollar deal. No, I

15:46

understand that. But when you think

15:48

about that, Okay, if he's supposed

15:50

to be allegedly the best cornerback in the league,

15:52

he's making the most money. So do you think

15:54

the best cornerback in league gets a little

15:56

bit more?

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Now? Now, it's like, that's the whole argument

16:02

about Tom Brady gets gets to you

16:04

know, gets the calls, and and the rookie,

16:06

you know, Josh Allen isn't gonna get isn't gonna

16:08

get the call. That's not the case. The officials

16:11

are evaluated. There is no profession on

16:13

the planet um that is that

16:15

is scrutinized more than than

16:18

professional officials. I don't think there is one.

16:20

From a from an internal perspective

16:22

and obviously from external from media,

16:25

from coaches, players, fans, it

16:27

is. It is an

16:30

unbelievable evaluation

16:33

process that they go through, and and for

16:35

them to think that they can get away with giving

16:37

Jalen Ramsey the benefit of the doubt when they're

16:39

gonna get great and that great is going to impact their postseason

16:42

assignment and whether they get kept on at the

16:44

league. No way. I

16:46

think the only job that's hated more for doing

16:49

your job is the parking meter who writes the parking

16:51

tickets because the rest do their job, they make the

16:53

calls. People hate them when they go against

16:55

their team. Yeah, the people

16:59

ticket, Like just stop eight

17:03

thousand people watching you, Like you could

17:06

just skip skip the car, Like skip

17:08

the blue range they've got, They've

17:10

got to skip the red teslat Yeah, can

17:13

you just move on skip them? You're not supposed

17:15

to be giving electric vehicles tickets anyway. We're

17:17

saving the planet one car at a time.

17:21

Yeah, And and it's a good

17:23

back in person. We're talking about the Tesla. Then

17:27

you compared you compared to A J. Green? Right?

17:29

A J. Green had another big O p I call at

17:31

the end of that game that took back what most

17:33

likely would have been the game when he touched down the Chargers

17:35

and Bengals game went down to

17:37

the wire. Joe Burrow is first real two

17:40

minute um exposure in the

17:42

NFL, and UH drives him

17:44

down a parent touchdown called

17:46

back on a on an offensive past appearance. And I

17:48

think this one was more obvious, but I

17:50

think from a just a setup

17:52

it was different. We're Gallop and Ramsey are

17:55

both running down field in

17:57

the same direction. This

17:59

one Green, he's the defender,

18:01

is facing him Green is facing trying

18:03

to turn back for the ball, and he clearly pushes off

18:05

create space and comes back and uh

18:08

and makes the makes the catch, and that was

18:10

called back. And I thought that was a good call too.

18:12

And these are offensive

18:15

past inferences. Is an interesting

18:17

call because it may not look

18:19

like a lot, but it has a significant

18:22

impact when you're running full speed.

18:25

Um, it doesn't take much to

18:27

kind of knock you off balance or to create

18:29

that little space, that little separation

18:32

when you're talking about the best athletes in the world.

18:34

And uh, and so just that that

18:37

one half step it took away from Jalen

18:39

Ramsey is going to make a

18:41

whole lot of difference. Um. But look,

18:43

the Cowboys were the benefit of

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of up until that O p I the BA. The

18:47

Cowboys were the benefit of of the biggest

18:50

call or non call in the game up until

18:52

that point with Aldon Smith, who had

18:54

a great game. UM, great story,

18:57

come back, you know, after being out of the league,

18:59

trained with our our our colleague and buddy

19:01

Jay Glazer at Unbreakable Jim, You're

19:03

welcome. Jay named up and

19:06

um the you

19:08

know hit to the head of golf on an interception

19:11

that led to three point a field

19:13

goal for the Cowboys that was missed,

19:15

and I thought that was one that uh,

19:17

you know would have been the story of the game at the Cowboys

19:19

come back to win. That that certainly was a big,

19:22

big deal. Um. The other

19:24

play that got people riled up is

19:26

the Jamie Collins ejection. And then

19:28

this was stupid.

19:33

It was just dumb Detroit

19:35

head of rough my

19:38

people, they're my people, they are Detroit

19:40

is my people. And and did

19:42

they call you about this one? They want to get you on the show? Yeah,

19:45

the Lines podcast guys, UM did

19:47

contact me and I want to reach out to my

19:49

people, my my my

19:52

Verners people. UM

19:54

in Detroit Motown had

19:56

a rough day when Mitchell Trobiskie

19:59

is basically Brett Farve

20:01

in the fourth quarter, you have

20:03

a big lead, You're going in for

20:06

the victory, and then Robiskie turns into

20:08

you know, Bart Star in the fourth

20:10

quarter. And then you get the the Jamie

20:12

Collins ejection earlier,

20:15

where it's obvious that Collins is not

20:18

contacting the official in a malicious

20:20

way, but he was like he

20:22

was trying to show that that

20:26

it was the running back. UM was that Andrews

20:29

was was was lowering

20:31

his head and uh, you know, dropping

20:34

his helmet and he was trying to show that to the referee

20:36

and he ended up making contact with the referee.

20:39

It just didn't look great

20:43

like it didn't. It looked like, I

20:46

don't know, it looked like if you were trying

20:49

to draw an offensive foul in basketball

20:51

and trying to flop a little bit. It looked

20:53

a little like that. But the bottom line

20:55

is, and the players know this, you can't contact

20:58

the game official. And I don't think the

21:00

referee in that situation had any option

21:03

other than to eject him. As as

21:06

as bad as if it may have looked,

21:09

I think Jamie Collins just has to be a little bit

21:11

smarter and and we're in twenty twenties

21:13

for social distancing should be first

21:15

and foremost. Don't drop your head

21:17

that close to the referee where you could potentially

21:20

make contact. So I was okay with the ejection,

21:22

although social media was not happy. But it

21:24

looked like he caught the guy, like the referee, off

21:27

off guard because he was kind of looking off to his left

21:29

and then he put his head down. I don't think he would

21:31

have expected that a player is gonna be coming at him with his

21:33

head, so then he kind of at the last second

21:36

season out of the corner's eye and kind of flinch his back

21:38

a little bit. So it looks a little bit worse than it probably

21:41

was. Had he been engaging and actually listening to

21:43

what Jamie Collins was telling him, not that

21:45

it would have made a difference. He probably would have been

21:47

able to move himself. And maybe there's

21:49

no contract. I think it did make that. I

21:51

think it did catch him by surprise because you could

21:53

just see the way he reacted because

21:56

he didn't. I think if had he had and he

21:58

been, you know, cognizant of what was coming,

22:01

I think I think it would have been a much different result.

22:03

But it was just alliance.

22:08

How do you blow that lead? Oh God,

22:10

they've they've made a habit of it. Well, how

22:13

about the guy dropping the past in the end zone

22:16

for the game winner? Since

22:22

to be I like, I don't even remember when

22:24

they weren't doing this, since the Calvin Johnson

22:26

call, right like ever since then, it's like I kind of

22:29

been watching a little closer, and he just

22:31

seemed to find ways to lose games in the world,

22:33

that's possible. The Lions joke

22:35

this guy being around officials,

22:38

especially when I first started, and I was around old

22:40

officials and they would tell these corny jokes.

22:42

And the Lions joke was that, you know, they

22:45

had this season ticket the year they went oh

22:47

in sixteen, and it was like week twelve

22:49

in the season ticket holder was like, you

22:51

know, I'm not going to the game. So he

22:53

just left the two tickets on the windshield

22:55

of his car with a note, Hey, anybody

22:58

wants to go to the game, And when he came back,

23:00

there were six tickets

23:04

than by

23:06

thank you. Because but

23:08

on that note, let's let's take a break.

23:10

We come back. Well, we'll talk a little college

23:12

football, We'll talk survivor

23:15

pool and uh in a little baseball

23:17

playoff announcement. Next on good Calls. M

23:22

M all

23:32

right, We're back on good Calls

23:34

and UM survivor

23:37

pool living on the edge.

23:40

UM. We have we have two survivor pools. We

23:42

have a survivor pool in the studio

23:45

with all of us, and we have

23:47

monitors that would come in normally,

23:50

but obviously with health and safety protocols,

23:53

UM, we we need to restrict UM

23:56

people in the room. So shout out

23:58

to all of our monitors. I know you're all

24:00

listening, especially you, Nelson. Nelson

24:03

never sells. Good luck Nelson. How did your

24:05

pick through this week? Nelson? Indianapolis

24:08

great pick. So now, speaking in Indianapolis,

24:10

there's two pools survivor pools.

24:12

There's the studio pool and then Joe has a

24:14

separate pool, but they're

24:17

both managed on the same website. So

24:19

I had to put in my pick for the studio

24:21

pool. And I logged

24:25

into the website to

24:27

put in my pick for the studio pool,

24:30

and I put in the Indianapolis Colts.

24:32

I felt like the Jaguars. Everybody,

24:34

you know, the kind of the firesale, the

24:36

Colts, you know, with Philip Rivers, blah

24:39

blah blah. That was gonna be the pick, right, So what happens

24:41

to Colts lose? I think I'm out of the studio

24:43

pool. We think

24:45

that a lot less. I

24:49

put the pick in for the other pool,

24:52

Joe's other pools. So I lived

24:55

to make another pick in the studio pool,

24:57

and I picked the Titans on Monday

24:59

night. Who Stephen Guskowski

25:02

wanted to single hand, single footedly keep

25:04

me out of the pool after week one, but

25:07

thankfully he made that kick at the end, so I

25:09

live another day in the

25:11

pool. That was the intent though that

25:14

what do you think You can't officiate

25:17

intent? Yeah, you can't. You can't officiate

25:19

intent. And my intent was to pick the colts

25:21

in the studio pool. But I picked the colts

25:23

in the other pool. So I'm out of the other pool,

25:25

but I'm still in this. I love it because the other pools

25:28

five times the price of the studio pool.

25:30

But you're so excited that you're still

25:32

in our pool at the studio because because

25:35

yeah, the end backstory.

25:37

There's been a little bit of controversies because

25:41

once I lose, I basically

25:44

basically try to buy other people's picks.

25:46

And Nelson, who I referenced earlier, is

25:48

like, oh, you know, he's some reason, he's

25:51

the moral compass, and he won't he can't be

25:53

bought to the point where his name

25:55

is now Nelson never sells

25:58

Now he's out, so good luck now. But

26:00

everybody everybody has a price.

26:03

Okay, I've got a price, call me. Everybody

26:05

has a price. So when I

26:07

do go out, I will buy. I will buy

26:09

somebody's back, so that if

26:11

you never go out, you could win. That's

26:14

great. If I win, then that's great. Um.

26:16

So that's that's the pool college

26:19

football. You know, it was interesting because it was our

26:21

first week in the studio

26:24

for college football. But

26:26

it's just college football just feels weird

26:29

right now, Like it feels weird because

26:31

it's just like normally we'd have everybody

26:34

would be playing. They would have SEC

26:36

and and and Big ten and Pac twelve

26:38

and A C C and everybody. But now it's like kind of

26:41

like piecemeal where we had we

26:43

had Big twelve playing some

26:45

A C C and a lot of

26:47

just my favorite

26:49

conference with you all know sun

26:52

Belt, which we talked about months

26:55

ago that this was gonna be the sun

26:57

Belt coming out party, was gonna be

26:59

the sun Belt on My party. And what happened

27:02

three and oh against the Big twelve concluding

27:06

with our coastal Carolina

27:08

Shante Clears, Okay,

27:11

what is this, Shante clear It's a proud

27:13

rooster. It's a fierce Roosters

27:17

rooster. Travis a fierce

27:19

rooster. And they went

27:21

into Kansas and in front

27:24

of that big crowd and they

27:26

put the put the smack down. Which is

27:28

crazy because there were so many people at the

27:31

k State game. There were so many students. I

27:33

don't understand. It seemed like there

27:35

are also a lot of people. I thought there was a lot of people at

27:37

the Chiefs game. Yeah,

27:39

they had seventeen thousand. And it's

27:42

so, But Kansas

27:45

City Chiefs are in Missouri, so

27:47

that's that, and Kansas is in Kansas,

27:50

so two different states. But k State

27:53

is also in Kansas Manhattan, Kansas

27:55

Manhattan, and so

27:58

I don't understand why case they can have

28:00

fans and Kansas can't, Like,

28:03

I don't get that. What seems like it's

28:06

nobody get anything right now, an

28:09

say you can do stuff, and then then maybe the school can chime

28:11

in and say we're not going to have people. I

28:14

guess. So there's just there's

28:16

no rules that are justly across

28:18

the board on this. So that's where

28:21

that's where we stand. With speaking of you

28:24

know, this week, I think we could

28:26

have some some clarity on the Big Ten. I mean

28:28

the Big Ten met on Sunday, UM.

28:30

I think they were meeting again during the week to

28:33

UH to talk about a return to

28:35

play, which could take place UH

28:38

as early as October. And and then I

28:40

read another article that the PAC twelve is thinking

28:42

about coming back. So imagine a

28:44

Pact twelve, Big Ten coming back playing

28:47

a conference only schedule finishing

28:49

with the championship game and then having the

28:51

Pack twelve Big Ten

28:53

champions playing the Rose Bowl. That

28:55

would be pretty cool. So are they not going to be

28:58

in the playoffs that? I

29:00

don't know. I don't know how that works,

29:02

Like, I don't know if if if they would, I

29:04

would imagine they would have

29:06

to start soon. I don't

29:08

think you could start playing in in late October

29:11

and be eligible for the CFP if you're gonna play

29:13

on time. But who

29:15

knows. I think we're just making making it up. Right

29:17

now. Everything is day to day,

29:19

every everywhere you go, it's just making stuff

29:21

up. You're not allowed to get COVID if you're sitting down

29:24

unless there's seven people with you, then you can get it. Then

29:26

you can get it. If you have six, you're good. Yeah,

29:29

well you know, I agree, it's both.

29:31

Speaking of that masks, NFL

29:33

sent out a memo to the coaches after

29:36

Sunday to all clubs that there will be discipline

29:38

if you do not wear your masks. Obviously,

29:41

UM kind of pointed

29:43

more at the head coaches because those are the coaches that are

29:45

going to be on camera more. But it was

29:48

interesting to see the variation who who

29:50

are your who are your favorite masked

29:53

characters of the weekend? I

29:55

know obviously Andy reads, Andy

29:58

got We love Andy in in.

30:01

It was amazing that, you know, he

30:03

had the shield and it just felt like he was like

30:05

the defrost buttons not working, like give

30:07

or not when you're in the car and it's like the defrost button just

30:09

won't work and you just wait till it gets

30:11

cold. And he's wearing and so

30:14

and so. That was hilarious. There were a couple

30:16

of I think Sunday Night

30:19

Mike McCarthy wore at the entire game.

30:22

Like McCarthy didn't take it off. Sean

30:24

McVeigh has been even on even

30:26

on Hard knock. Sean is not a

30:29

big mask guy. Like he's

30:31

he's out there. You know it's it's

30:33

because he's good looking. You don't want to for

30:36

personal experience. You don't want to put a mask on when you're

30:38

when you're a handsome dude. It ruins everything.

30:41

It does.

30:44

You can't the mask certainly does.

30:47

It does kind of give you,

30:49

you know, less of a chance to to kind

30:51

of peacock Um

30:53

the Steeler's offensive coordinator.

30:56

Um, who was that Randy

30:58

Fitchner? He

31:00

was amazing Monday night. He

31:03

had the full like he looked. He was like a babushka.

31:05

He had like my my, my old

31:08

Italian like great aunts and grandmother

31:11

and every like when they would wear like didn't car

31:13

didn't cam Newton wear that same thing in a postgame

31:17

press conference. But I was like my grandma used to

31:19

wear My nona used to wear the kerchief

31:22

like around like completely covered up.

31:24

He like all you saw was like the slits of his

31:26

eyes, which was which I thought was hilarious.

31:29

What's interesting about the mask though, is remember

31:32

now these play callers, they don't have to put the

31:34

call sheet over their mouth to

31:36

cover to cover their their lips, so they're

31:39

not getting read. My brother, my brother always

31:41

used to get frustrated because he didn't know and

31:43

it was it was what's his face?

31:46

Macadoo Ben macadoo when he was with

31:48

the Giants, and he always used to yell.

31:50

He be like, why is McAdoo with his f

31:52

and kids menu? That's all he's doing.

31:54

He's not coaching. He's just looking at his kids menu

31:57

because they're laminated and he has in front of

31:59

his face. Um, but now you don't need to

32:01

do that because you have in the mask. I think it was McAdoo,

32:03

who out of habit was covering his

32:05

face and he had his mask ondo

32:07

still coaching someone.

32:11

Which game were we on, or maybe it was

32:13

I'm thinking it was Shermer.

32:16

I remember one of the games that we were on on Sunday

32:18

in the studio. The it

32:21

was either offensive, offensive or defensive

32:23

coordinator. He had the mask on, but

32:25

he just had it. People

32:28

like that whole time, Like they they're walking

32:30

out and about and they've got the mask around their

32:32

neck, like, don't even don't even pretend,

32:35

don't pretend. Just go just that I'm not wearing

32:37

the mask. Don't worry about your neck. Like

32:39

it's not COVID doesn't it doesn't

32:41

go through Radham's apple, like stop like

32:43

putting on. McAdoo is the quarterbacks coach

32:46

with the Jaguars. But I was thinking he really, yeah,

32:48

I was thinking of I was thinking of Pat

32:50

Shermer. He had the mask on and he was still covering

32:52

his face. He's still just the muscle memory he's

32:54

just used to um

32:57

So Baseball made an announcement

33:00

bull format Travis, where are we gonna

33:02

where are we gonna be watching postseason baseball?

33:04

But Al is going to be playing in San Diego

33:06

in l A. Which is cool, and

33:09

then yeah, cool because we can go because

33:11

we can't go, but at least, at least when my twins are

33:13

playing, I'll be I'll be closer to them when there

33:15

he goes into the Eggies, you know, it'll

33:17

be proximity loss. And you know what's

33:19

speaking of there, I have a bone

33:21

to pick with you. I feel like we could

33:23

have You could have

33:25

pulled some strings that got us into that Rounds game. Yeah,

33:28

Joe, Like, so I had a friend

33:30

post something on Instagram. He was there at the game. I'm

33:32

like, this guy's like, I don't know, he was

33:35

laying out watching the game. No,

33:37

he had to be there in a working capacity. They're not just

33:39

letting Joe Schmo like hang out and

33:43

yeah, I know what I wanna say. So, like two hours

33:45

before kickoff, he's like, Hey, why can't we just go

33:47

over to the new stadium because

33:50

there's no because it's the pandemic and

33:52

they're not gonna let us in. You gotta throw around

33:54

your weight a little bit more. Yeah. Yeah,

33:56

you get the credential, Like I get all the emails

33:59

from the teams, the credentials go out. It's like a complete

34:01

you only that you can only let in so many people,

34:03

Like you don't think they're gonna let this guy in. Don't

34:06

let him in, but not the bodyguard.

34:10

Yeah, I don't think that's gonna

34:12

continue, Travis World. So then the the

34:14

NL is gonna play in Houston,

34:16

so your Dodgers could go working

34:19

on getting back to the series and win those

34:21

games in Houston, and then

34:24

then the other than the other games for the NL

34:26

will be in Arlington at

34:28

the New Globe Life and that's where the World Series will

34:31

be and for the first time since all

34:33

the games, the entire World Series will be

34:36

in one one look so interesting.

34:38

And obviously the team with the better record will have

34:40

the home field, which they'll bell bat last.

34:43

But other than that, it's like it's

34:45

like a neutral site game, Like it's like the Super

34:47

Bowl, right, you go into a stage and no fans though,

34:49

So yeah, I think,

34:51

um, Baseball

34:55

I think has

34:57

after that initial scare when we thought

34:59

like the world was to see the sky

35:02

was falling with the Marlins, I think baseball

35:04

has pretty much figured it out. Knock on wood. Um

35:07

with with COVID football,

35:09

I haven't heard anything, right, we've played

35:11

a full week. We were traveling

35:14

about Kansas City and these

35:17

guys are getting tested every day. So

35:19

knock on wood. People are doing the right thing. And

35:22

uh and we're gonna, you know, we're gonna see another week

35:24

of football at least, and we'll be we'll be in

35:26

the studio for we got

35:28

big new kickoff Saturday. Baby.

35:32

You said, Houston O

35:34

U, S T O N and Baylor.

35:38

Have you ever been a Waco? No, I

35:40

haven't. I've been a Waco. I was at I was

35:42

at the game Baylor versus Texas

35:44

when R G three Texas

35:46

A and M Baylor Texas A and M r

35:49

G three through like five touchdowns and it was like his

35:51

coming out party. You have the weirdest flexes

35:53

and you also have the most Like your

35:55

memory is amazing, and we'll give you

35:57

that. I remember because the

35:59

game into the game was insane

36:02

and it was like sixty two and

36:04

I missed my flight and I had to spend the night at

36:06

the the Houston Airport Marriott.

36:09

How was it? It was fine, It

36:12

was fine. Mariots are fine. Um,

36:14

all right, let's go to break, we come back.

36:16

Um, we're gonna talk about my birthday and how I almost

36:18

spend my birthday in jail. Next on

36:21

good calls. M

36:36

all right, we're back on good calls. And

36:39

um, it was it was call

36:42

it kiss met and call it luck, call

36:45

it whatever you want to call it. But my birthday

36:47

happened to fall on opening Sunday of the NFL.

36:50

Uh season. Serendipity, serendipity.

36:53

It was very serendipitous. Um,

36:56

and so I've got a lot of birthday wishes. It's

36:58

funny because Twitter, it

37:01

was, was a place full of

37:03

love and wonder on Sunday for a

37:05

little bit there when people found out it was my

37:07

birthday because Kevin Burkhard mentioned

37:10

it on the air and uh, and

37:12

people were there was some love and then and

37:14

then Sunday night the OPI against

37:16

Dallas, and then there was a lot of heat and

37:19

uh but how many year and

37:21

refs cost us? This always

37:23

my refs. Then I got blamed some guys,

37:27

some guy, not all, not all, some guy

37:29

blame me, called me an all around douche

37:32

bag for the Calvin Johnson play

37:34

in two thousand ten. Well, news flash, I wasn't

37:36

with the NFL. I was actually at

37:38

a bar with Joe's brother during

37:40

that game. It was my first it was

37:43

my first football season outside

37:45

the NFL. I left and

37:47

I was living out here in California, and it was

37:49

my first experience with breakfast.

37:51

NFL Like the game starting

37:53

at ten am, and we went and had

37:56

like breakfast, you know, buffet,

37:59

and we're watching and Jared's

38:01

Jars a Lions fan. Yeah, Jared's

38:03

Allions fans were watching that game in the

38:05

bar and everybody's looking at me,

38:07

like, what's the call? What's the call? And I was like, you're

38:09

not gonna like you like

38:13

you said, it's gonna hit the fans,

38:15

Gonna hit the fans those days. And I

38:17

mean, that's actually one thing about working

38:19

in the Cube I really do miss is those

38:22

those bottomless mimosa brunch mornings

38:25

at the pier. Fifteen years

38:27

in California, I've never had one of those,

38:31

but how much fun even last year,

38:33

and I think we can you know, obviously it's

38:35

it's the pandemic, so hopefully

38:38

we'll be able to experience this in future years.

38:40

But last year, and we had a couple of saturdays

38:42

off, going down and watch the college football

38:45

was so much fun. And then we watched the CFP

38:47

because we don't have those games. Obviously, we

38:49

watched the two CFP semifinal games

38:52

out and it was a blast. We

38:54

had such a good time. It was funny. But

38:56

every call the whole bar was

38:59

giving in and

39:02

IM PROMPTU rouse review in the bar.

39:05

Hilarious. But my birthday almost started off.

39:08

UM. Maybe I wouldn't have went to jail, but maybe it

39:10

would have been it would have been interesting. I went to UM

39:14

right aid before the

39:16

studio and I went to pick up penut Eminem's

39:18

for everybody, thank you, welcome, and

39:21

I went to pick up UM magic

39:23

tape. I grabbed some peanut Eminem's

39:25

and magic tape Scotch tape, and

39:28

for some reason, I wasn't even thinking about

39:30

it, but I was carrying the Eminem's. I grabbed

39:32

the tape and put the tape in my back pocket. Go

39:35

to the counter, go to the checkout, give the girl

39:37

the Eminem's and she's checking me out. I'm going

39:39

where the hell's scotch tape? Like where

39:41

is it looking?

39:43

And I'm like, oh, oh yeah, and this and I pulled it out

39:45

of my pocket in her hand. She's like looking at me like

39:48

what, like what are you doing? So

39:50

and Joe just you know, Joe, being the

39:52

the career shoplifter that he is, said

39:54

that if I had walked out, that wouldn't have beat

39:57

right, that the Scotch tape wouldn't have been don't

39:59

think they have a sensor on the They don't have a sensor on the

40:01

Scotch tape, so I can so there could have been surveillance

40:03

watching you exactly. So that would have been Ian

40:06

Blendino. Why this

40:10

mug shot like you'd have the mug shot would be all

40:12

over right, the Scotch tape mug shot.

40:14

We would have scotch taped that mug shot up in

40:17

we could use the actual I would

40:19

have asked, can I keep that evidence for

40:22

you know, once we're done with the trial of

40:24

the century. But that was on

40:26

my birthday. Started problem

40:29

was exactly, but

40:32

it actually started the night before. We

40:35

were in the studio Saturday night, and

40:37

I got a really thoughtful

40:39

and amazing birthday gift from

40:41

you guys. It was a cameo

40:44

from my guy Weston Bouche,

40:47

who is my who's my man

40:49

consultant? Um and who

40:52

else? Grooming tips and

40:54

other things. And I got a call about

40:56

we've talked about his Yeah,

40:58

and I got a cameo from Weston, and

41:01

then Weston hit me up on Instagram

41:03

and followed me. Um, I did accept

41:06

the follow up requests, and I'll probably shoot him a d M

41:08

and thank him for the cameo, and

41:10

um, you know I have M Have you

41:13

have you? Because he when I sent

41:15

the cameo request, I told him and

41:17

we've talked about you on the podcast, so

41:20

he sent me. Um,

41:22

he sent me like, hey, I'd love to listen, you

41:25

know, send me the episode. So I sent him

41:27

the episode yesterday. Actually, oh nice. Maybe

41:29

we can get him to come on. And I

41:31

can't. I can't imagine that at

41:33

some point in time, we don't like grab a beer with the dude

41:35

because I'm

41:40

gonna shoot you. I'll send him a d M and

41:42

uh like, hey, thanks for the cameo. You

41:44

know, blah blah blah. If you ever, you

41:46

know, if you're a near Cineamonica, let's go get

41:48

a drink or South Bay and we'll definitely

41:51

hang out. You should give him some pointers on his cameo.

41:54

So here's what we Western does, which is amazing.

41:56

He's a he's been a he's a model, and he's

41:58

been in the modeling industry, and he does you know a lot

42:00

of grooming tips and and and skincare

42:03

and just workout tips and

42:06

in all these things. And what I would like

42:08

to do is I'd like to start my own cameo

42:10

consulting business because

42:14

because I'm

42:16

like, I take my cameos very seriously

42:19

as as you guys know. And if anybody

42:21

checks me out on cameo, um,

42:23

I just finished my busy season like an accountant

42:26

during tax time. I just finished my

42:28

busy season, which is fantasy

42:30

draft. And now that's over. We're

42:32

in. Now we're into like I'll get a steady

42:34

flow. But but August and September

42:37

crushing it early September.

42:39

And uh, but I put a lot into my cameos.

42:41

You're gonna get, You're gonna get

42:43

you. I feel like you should probably

42:46

nominate me for cameo because I was recognized

42:48

in New Orleans at one time as

42:51

the as Joe with a tesla. Oh

42:53

yeah, you charge, and you could

42:55

you could just do cameos about your

42:59

first altant client.

43:01

I can work with you on how to how to do cameos.

43:05

Um, but it's cameos

43:07

are a lot of fun. I love doing them, So

43:09

hit me up, you will, Like I said, it goes to

43:11

charity UM school lunch

43:13

ferry dot com giving kids

43:15

that can't afford school lunches UM

43:18

access to obviously school lunches and

43:21

uh yeah me up you you won't. You won't

43:23

regret it, trust me. Um

43:26

So talk speaking of

43:28

flexes, Joe, what's

43:30

what's happening with the peloton? Where? What's

43:33

Joe? Got a peloton? Do you

43:35

want to used one? Secondhand? I

43:37

bought it used because there was

43:39

like a six week but it wasn't. It wasn't

43:42

it was like one of those like like

43:44

it was it was. It was pretty much

43:47

brand new. It's like the car you get. It was like the car

43:49

they use on the lot. For a friend,

43:52

a friend of mine, he ordered

43:54

it um uh

43:56

peloton and then it was like a six week wait.

43:59

So he went and found one on Craigsist. So he bought

44:01

it second hand, and then when his came in six weeks

44:03

later, it's like, you want to buy mine from me? You don't have a guy

44:05

to get a pelotons? My wife. I actually do have

44:08

a guy, but like you can't

44:10

get it, you can't get him rushed. I actually got

44:12

in touch with the CEO of Peloton and was

44:14

like, look, I need this now, and he's like, there's nothing of the fulfillment

44:16

in Pelton. Think about the workouts. I like,

44:19

I don't know how a lot of people just aren't going to

44:21

go back to Jim. It's like they're doing all the home workouts.

44:23

I know I've been working out from home and um,

44:26

but yeah, the Pelotons, it's a good

44:28

workout. Yeah. So I don't know what this flex is

44:30

all about. The flex is Joe. He

44:32

said his his PR, which

44:35

for those of you that don't know, the PR is your personal

44:37

record. So what was your personal record?

44:39

Joe? I don't. I don't

44:42

the number. I don't even remember. It's like it's

44:44

measured in like output er. I just don't always

44:46

say that. And then and

44:48

then's why I was just like, I wanted to engage with you. What's

44:51

your what's your national ranking? Now? He's always

44:53

always a national ranking presenting,

44:59

of which I don't think you are. If there's twenty thousand,

45:02

that ten percent or you're still it's

45:05

close, You're you're no lance Man, that's

45:07

for sure. I mean here, I'm

45:09

two thousand people. That's that's

45:12

It's okay. Top ten percent sounds a lot better

45:14

than two thousand. I'm ranked two thousand. Yeah,

45:17

you know what I'm saying. Ten percentile. I

45:19

never knew what whenever they would say, like

45:21

when I go and they say, oh, you're your

45:23

height is in the percentile? Is

45:26

it? Is it? The lower the

45:28

number, the taller you are.

45:31

Yeah, So if you're in the third, if

45:33

you're in the third percentile, only

45:35

three, you're only three percent. There's only three

45:37

percent that are taller than correct. That's what it means.

45:39

That's how it works, because I thought it when I'm measuring

45:41

my kids now I see, like my son's one

45:44

pounds of six months, he was in the ninetent.

45:46

Yeah, I think it's opposite when you're I don't

45:48

know. Yeah, now that I think about, I'm not sure.

45:51

If

45:54

you're in percentile, does that

45:56

mean you're like percent

46:00

think you're the one percent in that in that the

46:02

way that the doctors say when you have a baby.

46:05

I know for a fact, I can tell you right

46:07

now that the fifti percentile, you're

46:09

right in the middle. I know that. And

46:12

how tall is that for a guy? Is it what? I

46:18

believe? It's five eight one sixty five

46:20

is like the average man one

46:22

sixty five seems whoa

46:24

I just I just did average five for man,

46:27

it's just five six and females five

46:29

to five six seems six seems

46:32

it's because you live in southern California where everyone's

46:34

a giant. Well, and all of us are are

46:36

six one?

46:39

What are you talking about? Five? If

46:41

you're six one, then we're both six to fine,

46:45

we both have these nice average

46:47

Wait it is and

46:51

he's always saying I'm the I'm the complete average dude,

46:54

And he's right, it's tiny. One sixty

46:56

five. I would have thought like least

46:58

one eight. Yeah, but you're six one and you five

47:01

or one? Says how much does the average

47:04

American man waste? Says twenty

47:06

years old, hundred nineties

47:08

seven pounds. What that's not

47:10

right? It probably not right then if

47:14

well, maybe, okay, I don't I don't think I looked up

47:16

American. I think I just looked at average. Well

47:18

European, no question has gotta be

47:20

is gonna be smaller? Wait? Wait, everything

47:23

is small. I can't even go shopping out now. If you

47:25

go like the European cut, I think it's

47:29

it's definitely a slimmer slim so

47:32

American men. It's it's five nine,

47:34

so that must have been global. So that yeah, I

47:36

think it's five s five is like the average

47:39

dude. No, it can't be. It's

47:43

got to be at least one sevent. Can

47:45

you do your job? I'm trying. I just I'm not very

47:47

good at typing. Nothing's

47:52

changed in a year. How upset did he

47:54

get Sunday? The

47:58

reason for me to be here's the

48:00

thing, Pereira. Mike Prayer is in the studio

48:03

with us now on Sunday, and Mike normally travels

48:05

with with our a crew Joe Brock

48:09

I didn't put Terry Andrews and

48:11

and that whole crew. So

48:14

they're trying to set up this

48:16

point to point conversation, trying to make

48:18

this like so they can see Mike,

48:21

so Troy and Joe if

48:23

they're talking about something officiating related,

48:26

rather than have Mike in their ear because

48:28

normally they're in the booth together they can do hand signals.

48:31

So they're trying to shoot this camera on Mike and

48:33

communicate with Mike, and it just wasn't

48:35

happening. It was not happening on Sunday,

48:38

and Travis was getting so

48:40

worked up, like frustrated,

48:43

and I certainly was not helping because

48:46

I was lucky because all I called

48:48

you was a jerk and the timely

48:51

like during halftime, and Travis coul because

48:54

you were making it so much worse and

48:57

didn't see how we took it out of me get the shot

49:01

back fire because

49:03

you didn't realize like spitting

49:06

seats in your I

49:09

don't care what the situation is. I

49:11

will never pass up an opportunity to bust

49:14

shops, like literally, like I'm

49:16

the guy that like the world

49:18

could be ending, and I'm gonna be like, Travis,

49:20

dude, that's like, what are

49:22

you doing? And this

49:25

is what was happening? Like it was so like

49:28

the president of Fox Sports came in

49:30

to like check on what was happening, and

49:32

Travis was so worked

49:35

up trying to make sure it was gonna work. And I'm sitting

49:37

there going, oh, well, you know not, don't

49:39

mind us over here. We're just you know, we're

49:41

chopped liver over here. It was, it

49:44

was, it was fantastic, and then he just he ripped

49:46

into me week you find the weekly the

49:49

shot, so then every time you went on,

49:51

I would back I don't know if you noticed this or not trap.

49:53

I would back back into the other

49:55

room. I

49:57

was like going to fall down the steps. Actually

49:59

just created a funny performance.

50:02

It was perfect. It was perfect. Um.

50:04

All right, let's let's do a brain of Blandino.

50:07

Wait, I want to talk about what I want to talk about the pick

50:10

point? Yes, so let's talk about castle point. So

50:14

we we started the contest, me versus

50:16

the genius kids from New Jersey. What school?

50:19

What do you remember the school they went to? They're going to UM,

50:21

They're at some tech school.

50:24

Like smart kids. They have algorithms,

50:26

they have ways to pick games. And I'm

50:29

just, you know, an idiot who

50:31

doesn't even really watch all that much football except for

50:33

when I'm with Dean because he makes me um.

50:35

And we are going to pick different

50:37

games against one another. So

50:39

this week I had and it is against the spread, so

50:41

I had the Rams plus two and a half. I won that one at

50:45

the Saints thanks to the OPI I call

50:48

thank your reths. I appreciate that. I had the Saints,

50:51

uh, and I had Miami plus six and a half. So I

50:53

lost. Miami won the Saints one. The Rams. They

50:56

had Buffalo minus six and a half Philly minus

50:58

five and a half. See how minus

51:00

two and a half, So they won Buffalo and

51:04

three week So we're gonna put

51:06

in we'll we'll put in you guys. You'll go up against

51:08

the analytics guys and we'll see, we'll keep a record.

51:11

So you're both too in one right now against

51:13

the spread, and we'll and we'll go from

51:15

that. Now. They've been doing a bunch of really

51:17

cool things. UM. They just

51:20

release their Fantasy football died

51:23

UM. That's something

51:25

that they've in

51:27

terms of fantasy football. Trust me, these

51:29

guys are looking at everything. I

51:31

think for next year for season,

51:34

that's going to be the go to UM

51:37

for fantasy football. They pick and they compare

51:39

themselves when they look at the way

51:41

they their rankings. UM.

51:44

If you go on on check them out on Instagram

51:47

and on Twitter, Castle Point Analytics UM.

51:50

Compared to ESPN's experts, they

51:53

far and away beating ESPN's experts

51:55

and fantasy football. They also have an index

51:58

to help UM. You know sport gamers

52:00

with UFC and they are

52:03

with twelve four four teams. In the

52:05

last three they were eleven eleven with two

52:08

three big upsets like they I was

52:10

pretty impressed with that. They did a great job so check

52:13

them out on Instagram and Twitter, and uh

52:15

yeah, this is so we'll keep a running tab see

52:17

how Joe works, because that's the whole

52:19

idea, Right, there's the old Joe's

52:21

the old baseball scout that

52:24

you know, you know, he's the guy that they I

52:27

have a feeling about this kid. I have a feeling

52:29

about this kid. I don't care what is his

52:32

his ops is and and I

52:34

don't care what you know, the war and everything

52:36

else. I got a feeling about this kid. And

52:38

these castle Point Analytics, those are the the

52:41

Ivy League tech guys

52:43

that come in and got these

52:45

these crazy algorithms and all

52:47

this fancy tech and and we're

52:49

gonna see the old grizzled scout

52:52

versus the new school analytics

52:55

and see who comes out on top about their season

52:57

total. They predicted for the books. They

52:59

predicted six winds for the

53:01

box yesterday, and oh

53:04

man, they might be onto something. Well,

53:09

I like my shots so far. I'm we're I'm right

53:11

there with the smart kids. Vegas has the Bucks at

53:13

nine and a half winds, And after watching

53:15

that yesterday, I don't know the castle

53:18

Point un man. Yeah,

53:23

let's do it, all right, Let's

53:26

go Brandon Blondino there

53:30

are many ways to skin a cat? Okay,

53:34

right, So that's a saying, right, you're not you're supposed

53:36

to use that anymore. I think Peter has put a put

53:38

a stop to that. But that's that was has always been a

53:40

saying there are there are many ways to skin a cat?

53:43

How did that start? Like was a guy skinning

53:45

a cat? And then another guy came

53:47

by was like, hey, you know, there's there's another

53:49

way to do that? Like what like who

53:53

came up with that? But are there really more than one

53:55

way? That's my thing?

53:57

Like apparently there is and somebody

54:00

and it was, But this is the

54:02

anything that doesn't become

54:04

a saying if it's not widespread,

54:08

Like that's not like one dude in

54:11

Arkansas skinning a cat and

54:13

and somebody's saying, you know, there's another way that this

54:15

is. There was a lot of cats being

54:18

skinned at some point, and I

54:20

feel like a lot of these sayings like killing

54:22

two birds with one stone, like

54:24

between skinning cats and throwing rocks

54:27

at two birds, Like how are you? Like

54:30

how like who? What?

54:32

What kind of animal cruelty is

54:34

happening when these sayings were made,

54:38

Like I I just don't. I don't understand.

54:41

I am fascinated, fascinated

54:43

by how sayings come into like normal

54:46

lexicon. I mean, I think the killing two birds

54:48

and one stone at least makes sense. But when I really

54:50

think about it, I don't know if there's more really

54:52

more than one way to skinny cat. Not that I don't skin the

54:54

cat, but there's one one way to

54:56

do something. I understand that. But when why

54:58

were you using skinning cats as the example?

55:01

Yeah? Why when? Why wouldn't we use like deer

55:04

or things that actual? Why would we? Why

55:06

would we? Why would we talk about

55:08

cruelty? And I wouldn't we just say there's more than

55:10

one way of changing the oil on your

55:12

there's more like you know, you know what I'm gonna, I'm

55:15

gonna, but there's nothing you

55:18

know, you're

55:20

wanting to change attire? Like, can we

55:22

can we come up with a different way

55:25

to say there's more than one way to do things? Are you?

55:27

Is this the placification of America? We can't talk

55:29

about anything. I just don't like skinning

55:32

a cat is really appropriate. It's

55:34

just the same if it was skinning the dollar, people

55:36

would be going crazy, Like you can't talk about

55:38

dollars people that you know, that's

55:40

interesting because there is an animal hierarchy

55:43

and and there's no question. I feel

55:45

like we're getting a second brand of there's an animal

55:47

hierarchy, without question, and dogs are completely

55:50

at the top of it, without questions.

55:52

Dogs are number one. Dogs are far

55:54

and away number one without question. You

55:57

cannot do anything to a dog, people

55:59

will lose their ship. Cats are

56:01

not on the same level as dogs. They're just

56:03

not. They're just not. Forget about pigs

56:06

who are supposed to be smarter. Octopus,

56:08

octopus are like the smartest animal dolphins.

56:11

Octopus is like have you ever seen an octopus?

56:14

If you're an octopus in the wild, the

56:16

ship that that that thing can do changes

56:19

colors and the way they can like change their size

56:21

and shape. And what are we doing? And

56:24

what we're doing is where every menu, every

56:26

restaurant, it's octopus with its

56:28

with and and then he gives a ship

56:31

throw up, throw up a Pekinese on

56:33

on a menu and people will

56:35

lose it. So I'll have the duction

56:38

right exactly anyway,

56:41

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56:43

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