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second so we will have 14 people in the finals regardless y we'll have the link up to the contest in the YouTube chat each and every day obviously um also on all of the social medias you can find it the QR codes will be floating around on social media out there somewhere um want to get everybody uh as involved as possible in this year's battle for the belt it's going to be awesome daily fantasy football we've got bangers coming your way this week as the NFL or excuse me as the college football season gets underway the NFL is just oh one week away today a huge day in the NFL roster cut day we'll be looking at all 32 teams the final roster Cuts being made 53 men enter and hopefully 53 exit but we know that's not going to be the case injuries do happen we got a lot more injuries at the beginning of a year this year than I feel like we've had in a long time or at least there's more names that are being added to the p list as the roster cuts are being made TJ hackinson I think is uh one of the one of the more recent names that was officially put on the pup list I think he I mean he's all he's always been a good candidate for it well we always assumed that he would probably start the year on the pup list uh he got hurt late in the year everything I've heard out of Minnesota is that they expect in week five when he can come off the pup list he should be fine I feel like teams are being safer with the added you and I were talking about this before the show now you can put a guy directly on the pup list you don't have to keep him on the 53 and then move him to the PB yes and that's beneficial yes you you can keep the extra player you don't have to subject him to waivers it's um I I do feel like there's more guys on pup now than I've ever seen TJ hackinson Nick chub uh uh Bradley Bradley chub Bradley chub got put on it as well um I'm looking at the list here the Carol Panthers local team uh has Jonathan Brooks on the pup list so he will be out for the first four weeks of the Season that is always how that was going to go regardless um DJ wanam and Amari barno are both on the pup list which means Carolina um your ability to rush a passer is going to be Jade devian Clowny Centric for four weeks uh nobody's shocked that there is a Baltimore Ravens running back on the pup list is it JK dobins it is not JK Dobbins he's in Los Angeles I don't care he's still it's Katon Mitchell he's uh he'll start the season on pup as well um Charles am minu from the Kansas City Chiefs was a recent addition today to the pup list as well uh New England Patriots also have Cole strange the great first round pick of a couple of years ago out of UT Chattanooga uh tank I need you to tune up you know the song I want it's the it's the AF SPCA song oh uh I because we got two that are I we got two that have literally just legit broken my heart Dallas I mean hey Dallas you know that thing I tried to tell you a Carl Lawson sucks I tried to tell you yeah hey but he might make it back to the practice squad God I remember how excited you were when yall were getting Carl Lawson yeah and then his leg exploded now in a foot race I think he would lose to me it's is BR which is very sad it's just okay he's not good at football I I I do need you to keep that button close because I feel like not for right now just over the course of these three hours I feel like we will be just inundated with Sarah mlin bangers don't don't close the window is is what that said to me so I'm going keep her head back here could you possibly tell me any other song Sarah mclin ever did and didn't she do the Dawson's Creek song wasn't that her I don't want to wait for our lives to be over I I don't want to wait song to be over what will it be by the way those are the only words to that song that I know and and and my wife knows this because I sing them at random points all of the time and I have for 20 years your radio partner knows that too well that's because you used to watch the show like and there's nothing wrong with it I'm not throwing shots Dawson's Creek was the Banger of a show for kids in our generation I mean and Katie Holmes was a SM show before she got crazy and dated Tom CR yeah or was married to Tom I never I never was a Dawson's Creek guy like I only knew James vanderbeek from Varsity Blues I knew it existed but I never watched it you want to see new Twitter in and dance you know want to call it new Twitter inzone dance oh yeah Scott con what ever happened to Scott con who knows he went into the pit his dad probably killed him and buried him in the desert somewhere because his dad's not gar Brooks I mean I'm just I mean of all the people in Hollywood ever I would think James KH and Christopher wal have many bodies on their you know toll right right they're responsible for several deaths and as a man that's as close to Chris for walking as I am I asked just one question what are you a cop it is cut day in the NFL and it's a you know it's a day for like I I say this all the time same thing about late rounds of the draft I'm not really sure I'm I'm swayed by anything that happens today I'm not really sure that there's any groundbreaking thing that's going to happen well we have two super chats and one of them is a ground breaking thing so I need the Super Chat uh Sounder yeah uh Soaring Eagle said and by the way this is a great way to get into the program Super Chat and YouTube coming our buddy soring Eagle said he just looked at the schedule for the Ohio State Buckey and it is NI I nice it is nice uh outside of Oregon you don't really play a game that I think there's even a possibility that you lose uh quinan Judkins they did fix the Judkins glitch from college football 25 but I have a feeling that the Big 10 is not going to fix that glitch what is the Judkins glitch oh he could Spin and he could spin like Sonic the Hedgehog really he was Unstoppable I was torturing people with that online they would see me playing with Ohio State and immediately quit of I I don't I don't want let's let's not do that uh our buddy uh the sports accuracy the oo who we have an announcement about later on in this here program yeah he said goodbye Bailey zappy oh I mean I feel like that's Sarah mclaughin worthy for sure I would but the era the Great era of Bailey zappy I will I mean I I didn't need a reason to drink tonight but now I got one I'm sad cuz without bayy zappy I just don't know what we're going to do in New England you remember how Patriots fans were so excited about Bailey zappy for a half of football God that was like the first time you saw boob I just I've never been that excited in my life of New England Patriot fans who have tortured my nightmares for 20 years are getting excited by a guy who has the athleticism of a wet heart but he threw for 70,000 yards in college W he also played against a bunch of guys that are plumbers now sweet poor Bailey zappy getting cut loose he's the odd man out for the New England Patriots that means they will have jacobe brassette Drake May and Joe Milton as their three quarterbacks going into this year and Drake May I'm not going to be shocked if he's the starter I will be nominally shocked if he's not the starter yeah yesterday Gerard Gerard Mayo came out and said it's clear to everybody that Drake has been outplaying jacobe doesn't mean that he's the starter I mean because he did say he did say after the preseason game where jacobe went down with the injury that he could have stayed in this game but it's the preseason guys we're not risking him to throw him back out there after he landed on that shoulder the way he did so I I don't know what to make of that scenario right now all I do know is that jacobe Brett's Lifeline as a starting quarterback in uh 2024 is on very thin ice if he even does start right uh it it won't last long the oo said we were not excited the same Patriot fans that were excited about that are also currently excited about Joe Milton I don't disagree with you look we have aans we have a different brand of patriot fan that listens to us because the Joe Milton Bailey zappy ones have already decided that they purely hate me I'm talking about the ones that we saw on I I I want to say it was like a Thursday night game where M Jones got benched and all of a sudden we started seeing dudes with makeshift zappy jerseys in the crowd those are the fans that I'm talking about not the Smart Ones oo I'll never lump you into the you Bill budich no Smiles y'all are smart patri absolutely not and that's why we love you around here cuz cuz you you are intelligent right uh uh Patriot fans we also have we got a new one oh a new Super Chat yeah no a new release oh the Tennessee Titans are releasing Caleb oh oh shoot I mean I feel like so much fun I remember and the 14 seconds he played yeah I was about to say we should really take 11 seconds to reflect on the greatest place in Caleb Farley's career because that's all you need yes uh that was he was the guy for those who don't know who Caleb Farley is he was the guy that Tennessee drafted four years ago ago I believe it three years ago and two seconds after the draft he went ah my back Hurtz and done l m n o dead and that was so much talent with no physical ability to get onto a football field another sad case in the NFL uh it definitely is he he did not play a lot of snaps in his career no no do you know how many snaps he play he played is it is it like higher than 300 no is it lower than 150 no but you're close like 175 164 oh that was look if you ever want to know why we talk so much about medical records and things like that at the combine Caleb Farley is the living embodiment of it yes because it was his medical from what I've been told was just a nightmare nightmare absolute nightmare it came out that he had a back issue and then like I said two seconds after the draft it was oh God he needs to have surgery on this yes and there were a lot of teams that knew that going in they just straight up said there's no shot that he's going to be ready to play he played very little early on uh I mean it took him forever to get on the field I mean it's sad case I hope he latches on somewhere he strikes me as the kind of guy that will get a second shot on somebody's practice squad yep and there could be a second act for him uh here's a report out of Cleveland relatively significant quarterback news from Cleveland backup Dorian Thompson Robinson has been informed he made the team and now the team is Fielding offers for jamus Winston and Tyler Huntley to see if anybody wants them because apparently DT R has done enough to make the three-man cut which is insane because they were Fielding calls on him yesterday I just says could you make up your mind please both Winston and Huntley just joined the team as veteran insurance so I guess apparently the medical has checked out on uh Deshawn and and DTR well the the medical has not come out on on DeShawn yet he's got a Sher issue I won't be shocked if they keep four quarterbacks honestly I will not be shocked at all if they keep four all right all right all right um Noah Brown also cut loose today from the Houston Texans Houston just okay how did you think you were gonna be able to carry all these guys I don't know they traded for Ben saronic and he got cut loose today if Noah Brown doesn't go back to the Dallas Cowboys I I think we need to take the team away from Jerry Jones because he's smoking some kind of crimes and that's where he came from I would have to imagine that that's first on the on the list no doubt Noah Brown can be a starter in this l i mean unless the Carolina Panthers snatch him up you worry about Carolina's receivers way more than you should I mean they're they're already looking to get Terrace Marshall out of town well because he's bad of course see it needs so Noah Brown would be an upgrade right this would be a great time for me to say Carolina Panthers if you had just hired me four years ago you'd have never done this Terrace Marshall thing cuz I would have told you how bad he was he told you he is everything that Justin Jefferson was supposed to be if Justin Jefferson was purchased from Teemu he you would have gotten Terrace Marshall I do love a receiver that's big bodied and really fast and can't catch that's or separate some out that's confounding to me the Houston Texans obviously you know they went you know we're we're just going to bring everybody into Camp here and we're going to see what wide receivers fit best with our Superstar Young quarterback Al although I really don't think he needed 12 of them but here we are and that's how you get to this point where Noah Brown's been cut loose who will definitely be snatched up in a heartbeat and main reason I said that about Carolina was because Carolina has the number one priority so Carolina can just pill for anybody that they want so if you're looking for a wide receiver um little guy to run out of the slot Dave Canales he's looking no Brown's not a little guy is he not I thought he was the little guy no who in that in that Brown's 6'2 is he really 220 I think he was that big no Noy no Brown's a dog the only problem is he can't stay healthy to save his life right but man when he's on the field he is he can be special he's had some huge games and these are the kind of guys look you're going to see a lot of players get released over the next 2 hours and 43 minutes that are going to make rosters in other places you're going to have a lot of practice Squad shuffling and San Francisco Baltimore a lot of these teams have taught us over the years it's really important what you grab here mhm and at the end of the show I have a rant that started in the mind of mullet senior who then projected it in a text message to me and the more I thought about it the more I think he might have a point oh you're in the sports Ury and this is zspn Asheville Friday October 18th the orange peel presents 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linebackers left on the roster after Matt Milano's injury went no we're good yep yep uh CJ Henderson another one being cut loose by the Houston Texans I'll never figure out what people saw in him I will never figure it out well I mean I guess there were physical tools there that at some point maybe he could be transformed into a cornerback but into a usable cornerback but it didn't work for Jacksonville and it didn't work for Carolina and now Houston's going you know what we're good Houston looked at Jeff Auda and went no we're good with that one what we have a slew of just absolute bust corners on this team we'll go with that one well it also doesn't hurt that you that you drafted one this year last that's going to start that's all I've been hearing is Kamari Lasser has been just tearing it up Kamari lwami Lasser was the receiver for the Bengals that got cut last night Kamari Lasser from the Georgia Bulldogs has had a hell of a camp yes and he is uh still I believe the projected starter he is on the other side he is could be a dep guy Derek Stingley uh Desmond kinging I think I saw where he had been cut loose as well he was another one of those that I went man man a team was still holding on to you really you've been bad forever how a team builds their team or builds out the rest of their team fills their spots with these guys how much does that matter though it matters a lot uh I can tell you and I'll just give you an anecdotal piece of evidence of my team team that I know the best last year the Jets kept nine linemen they regretted that decision within two weeks and Joe Douglas has said that probably a hundred times different Zoom press conferences I've been in on I bet I've heard Joe say that a hundred times yeah so this year they will keep 10 and if you look at how that affects things down the roster you can only keep so many guys all right so there uh there are not that many roster bills the question is is your team going to keep two quarterbacks or three the Jets have one that will stop on ir and Jordan Travis because he's not ready to play yet MH so they'll keep Aaron Rogers and tood Taylor most teams keep four running backs at this point most teams keep six wide receivers wide receivers is the first place where you really see some fluctuation some keep seven some try to get cute and keep five and they have one of the practice squad that they could Elevate if they needed to then you get a tight ends lineman basically one way or the other you're either going to keep 10 offensive linemen and nine D linemen or it and it it does matter it really matters based on your roster construction where I I'll use Carolina Carolina's an interesting one for me and I I don't know about you but I've been going through and reading the beat Riders who they think is going to end up on the roster I've been doing it for every team yep and I look at Carolina and I think they might be I'm not going to say the most interesting team but they're one that when the roster cut down I'm going to be really interested to see who's still standing mhm because they have some deficiencies that that number one waiver priority is obviously going to help but I don't think I view those in the same way that a lot of other people do okay you seem to be worried about receiver way more than I am I believe it is a position of need I don't I'll tell you why okay you have Deontay Johnson Adam thel and Jonathan Mingo M you took Xavier Le get uh in the first round this year that's four Amir Smith maret's probably the five and I think You' got six with Jaylen Coker I don't really think you're gonna upgrade that I mean so like Noah Brown he wouldn't be better than Jaylen Coker Noah Brown the problem with him is that he's not Noah Brown's not subject to waivers he's a fre he's five years vest at the league okay so he just goes out into the open market right and I feel like he looks at Dallas where he came from goes I can be the three in Dallas I'd be lucky to be the five in Carolina I'm not going to do that now you get into younger guys okay but you've got a t you would have to tap out theoretically on air SMI Smith marett or jayen Coker which are your guys that already know your system right that's something that I I I feel like a lot of fans and I'm not talking about you here I feel like fans on the whole they don't really understand the that if you have a guy like no Brown for instance let's say he was subject to waivers he's never played with Dave Canales he doesn't know this Playbook at all he's just been inundated with the Texans playbook for two years so you're going to have to push that out of his brain and then get him acclimated to what you're doing in 11 days MH that's a lot it will take two to three solid weeks to even get a guy really field ready you can set a package of plays for them look look at what happens with the receivers when they get traded midweek I can get you ready for 12 plays you're running five routes probably and so I can almost shorthanded where you play so few snaps that I can just tell you on the sideline when your Personnel Group goes in I can tell you five and so you know going in I'm running a five route or I'm running a seven route or whatever the case may be it takes a while for you to get acclimated so you're better off with a Jaylen Coker who knows your roster was really good in the preseason as opposed to finding a receiver that somebody else cut because what you saw you you still got your grades this is the reason I keep grades for I mean I keep them forever but I I keep them right here at my finger click for three years y because guys get cut I go back and look at how I evaluated them what I thought about them coming out and that's what NFL teams are doing it's another reason that you really don't want to fire GMS and coaches as willy-nilly as fans often say you do cuz you want some continuity there you want that depth of this is how we felt about this guy we missed on this guy in the draft now we get second draft or as rafy in the league called it Second Harvest uh you get that here and you can actually add a couple late round flyer draft picks basically for nothing yep uh Carolina Panthers have already Cut Loose Michael Strahan not Michael strachen yes Mr Straten um they've all also cut loose Dylan Johnson who was the fourth running back on the team he'll make it back on the practice squad um Lamar Jackson also cut loose sadly teas and peace I remember when he was oh wait not that Lamar Jackson the cornerback Lamar Jackson he used to play for the Jets MH he's actually not bad he'll probably latch on to I would say he probably latches on to Carolina's practice squad as well uh also Mike bone is going to be a casualty but they plan to add him back to the roster after W he'll probably make it back you've got a handful of running backs um B Malik in our YouTube chat asked if uh Dalvin cook was worth grabbing in a deep Dynasty because he is visiting the Dallas Cowboys I'm just all I can tell you is what I saw of him with the New York Jets which was that car is not just out of gas we don't even have the vapor in the tank left to start the car so if you put it on a hill and let it roll down then maybe maybe but if you're thinking that thing's going to self start uh you're gonna be sorely disappointed yeah and if I was dvin cook why would I want why would I why want to do that opportunity I guess with running backs it gets to a point samaj perun's going to run into the same thing because Denver is basically releasing every veteran that's not na down yeah anybody doesn't have guaranteed money 10 JP R because they're tearing it down to the studs right in front of your face now why they're doing that with a rookie quarterback starting I don't know but you are you're in the sports Ury and this is zspn Asheville don't forget to get in on the battle for the belt our uh yearly fantasy contest is going to run week to week this year go on uh to the sports 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wondery not sure what wondery is you know a wondery not a clue is okay all right just curious uh the deal announced today gives exclusive ad sales and distribution rights to wondery so the new heights podcast apparently reaching New Heights let's see what you did there I mean it makes all the sense in the world and you can take that out of your hands you don't have to do that yourself you have to pay somebody else to do that and they're going to pay you to do to to take that on for you that sounds like a wonderful idea I actually feel like $100 million was light they've done almost 300 million what video views holy cow in two years that's Insanity let me let I wonder what the growth was after Taylor though I mean I know it was already popular we already talked about it as sports fans but then after the the relationship became a thing cuz remember it was from their podcast that we were telling the story that we because that's where we heard it of Travis Kelce giving the bracelet when did the Taylor the Taylor thing started what September last year that was yeah September October it was right before the season started let's take a again just just curious I mean that's got to be an audience growth of five times at least they went from oh yeah the I can actually tell you exactly where it was okay because they added almost 200,000 new subscribers on o between September 25th and October 2nd last year year that was when it happened they've only done over a 100,000 in a week one other time and that was the Super Bowl yes so I think I know I mean it was doing fine sure it was it was good we're hanging out doing stuff and then Tay Tay the week Taylor Swift showed up they did 17 million video views in back-to-back weeks they had done just under six 60 million total in the year that they had been doing the podcast before that mhm so yes Taylor Taylor had a a significant bump to the new heights the uh the podcast of the year at the 2024 iHeart podcast Awards let's go how's that Bob how's that for your mention that would be AD Sports dayn he knows where to find me uh New Heights uh according to wondery CEO Jen Sergeant she says New Heights on the surface is a sports podcast and sports is such a well listened to category but it's really become a cultural phenomenon they're in that cultural Zeitgeist yeah yeah I just don't I mean is is the retention there like the swifties are signing up but are they watching just curious watching the podcast or watching the yeah I'm like the swifties are signing up but are they watching the podcast well I mean they stuck around and they basically take the offseason off yeah so I mean their numberers crater than the off season but I'll wager when the first one comes out uh just fine we'll sh as long as he keeps telling Tay Tay stories they'll keep listening we have a vote with NFL owners today they're they're meeting in Minneapolis okay and basically there's only one question on the itinerary are we going to allow private Equity Funds to buy up to 10% of our football teams and I can't see a way that this gets shot down it happens in every other Sport and tank asked me a few questions about this before the show mainly what the hell does this mean cuz I have what's the big deal all right so basically what this means is that 10% of the team is going to be offered like a stock option so people billionaires basically can buy in it's a flood of cash and what do NFL teams what is what is happening to the to the value of NFL teams it's booming it's going up so give me a team any team uh let's go Kansas City Chiefs okay if you look up NFL team values it's approximately what a team would sell for if they were put on the open market right now Kansas all right you're going have to give me a Kansas City is not in the top 10 so you got they don't own their stud oh okay uh let's go bigger than Kansas City would it be the Chargers you suck at this game so awful more money than good God no City they probably don't have more money than anybody they split their Stadium they have one of the smallest fan bases in the league and they have one of the cash poorest owners in the league let's go Washington Washington commanders you're that was the one to go with Rams is a good one CU they their owner thinking crony I said the wrong team yeah the Rams are two so in theory if the Rams went up for sale they would be valued at somewhere between 7.75 and 8 billion okay what this means is that the NFL is going to open up 10% of the ownership stake they are silent Partners they have no vote they have no nothing the board they don't affect the Board of Governors they don't affect anything so basically $800 million worth of stock option would come open on the Rams okay the intention is that 10 years down the line the Rams aren't going to be worth $8 billion they're going to be worth $1 billion and so that Equity stake would then be sold back to the team for the difference in the money for a profit but I just gave you $800 million that you can use to do whatever you want to do if you want to build a new parking lot if you want to sign a new star receiver I don't really care what you do with the money there's the money it's basically like a giant loan against your team NFL teams were not allowed to do that the thought process is that it kind of mitigates this doesn't happen as much anymore but there are teams that are cash poor the Chargers are a good example that's a team that is Cash poor the Spanos family is not as wealthy as a lot of other owners in sports and they own the team solely you look at a team like Washington Washington has seven owners there's one governor and then there's seven underneath them and I think between the seven of them they're worth like $240 billion dollar or something ludicrous like that obviously there's a discrepancy there this allows you to pull money to not be cash poor okay so this is the bailout the Raiders fund kind of that's a decent way to say all right Patrick Hol said so they're doing reverse mortgages now kind of that's actually that's a really apt comparison that's good and that is that is a good way to put that but it's a rever it's a reverse mortgage with absolutely no chance of the market downt turning mhm basically the billionaires are looking at this going I get sweet seats at a Raiders game and I can invest my money in something that I have no doubt will be worth more 10 years from now than it is now now there is a downside what is that um seven years ago I think the last time we talked about doing this one of the most vocal that he wanted to buy an interest in a team was Jeffrey epin so yeah you can run into some problems because now you have more people that could get in trouble and do nefarious things that are attached to your institution is it is it one of those also that you you can't pick and choose who buys in or do you have control over that that is one of those things that's kind of team by team specific okay um CU I was just curious like if you put this out you put this $800 million stake up and you start getting all these billionaires into it can I tell him no right if I have that owner that I don't want to be a part of it can I tell him no or is it to the public in a to let him it's not to the public okay it's not to the public this is a you've got to have a lot of money you got to have a lot of cash and you have to be able to produce a lot of cash immediately this is not like buying a team I you see like Mark Cuban getting his foothold in NFL this way so something that not a lot of people know when when an owner buys a team they don't necessarily show up and go here's $4.7 billion in cash you get into equities you get into different leans on things that you have it's not always just a cash Straight Cash sale it is sometimes but it's way more common the other way another thing that a lot of people don't understand is where you keep your money if you have that much money because you can't just go to the bank and go I would like to deposit $472 million do that one day just tell that to the bank teller and watch them poop in their pants cuz they will straight up they will cuz they don't know what to do with it I actually used to have a a a a business partner on another entity that I had years ago and this dude had I don't know how much money he had but he had a boatload if we were quantifying it in crap loads I don't know if he had 40 crap loads but I know he had 20 crap loads right and I did once see him go to the bank with a bag full of cash and I watched a bank teller I believe defecate on themselves of I can't take that uh because we don't have enough room in our safe and if somebody were to Rob us the insurance yeah yeah none of this is good none of what you're wanting to do can I physically do for you see those are things that normies like me we don't we don't get to experience those things I show up I show up to the bank and go to the teller and I'm surprised she doesn't ask me for money tank shows up with seven Rolls a quarter just going I'd like to get my account back into the black doubt about it I have been I have been in a bank for that reason way more times than I want to admit I have forsaken doing laundry this week because I need you to let me use my credit card again we uh I didn't plan on that going that way but it was we're glad it did we're all we're all we're all better off for it going that was an unexpected turn to that uh I have been requested because we have a super chat yeah and soaring has asked forona Cardinals you built that up so sad you built that up in a [Music] way oh were you getting your hopes up there's going to be like a name it was going to be like something we could talk about no Desmond Ritter got cut I just Googled famous Desmond and he's not even in the top 10 Desmond Howard's got to be one uh Desmond Howard is three um Desmond Elliott is one Desmond who is that I have no idea okay uh getting a wide range of of of people here Desmond Harrington no he was an actor on Dexter nope he was the uh the cop that dated Dexter's sister the guy that always wore like the the cool guy shirts that were unbuttoned like yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah uh the rest not the not the hispanic guy no no no no no no no no no the oh the bo okay all right now I'm the boyfriend that actually he had those cheekbones that you can't tell if he's had work done or my my my teenage son started watching Dexter is that bad that I like him watch that show yes okay it curious 100% it is I've never seen it I mean I've seen like two or three episodes I've never seen like anything super outlandish while I'm sitting down with it well I mean they watch Marvel movies I mean even Marvel movies have blood these days yeah not like this okay I somebody watch series all the way through three times I'll let him watch Deadpool is I mean it doesn't seem that that bad to me Dexter's a little darker anyway the only thing about Dexter that that skes me out it's not the murder it's not it's not the psych the psycho ay of it all it's it's the fact that I feel like there's something going on between brother and sister there and that's just weird they have a weird chemistry yeah you uh yeah you need to get to the end of the show oh well cuz you're you're you're picking up what they laying down okay all right well as long as I'm going down the path here cuz I walked in the other day and there was a scene and I'm and and I'm looking at Josh and I'm like so he's married to her and he goes no that's his sister and I was like well they want to do stuff to each other well he he was married to her in real life oh was he yeah okay well then maybe that's what I'm picking up I'm picking up like the natural chemistry between the two of them is coming over in the show but yeah they were they were married when they were doing the show and played brother and sister okay yeah the guy that played Dexter lives in Asheville now yeah really yeah he lives in Michael SE Hall no Michael Anthony Hall no that was the Michael seah Hall Michael seah Hall Anthony Michael Hall was the guy from the brat pack in the'80s yes he was the one that nobody liked so it was like John crier and uh Anthony Michael Hall people go how did you get to me more like that just that's not doesn't make sense he did that terrible teenager football movie Yes Johnny Johnny Be Good I think was the name Steven to I mean I feel like Dexter's old enough that I can I can ruin this for you uh Dexter was adopted so that's his adoptive sister yeah but you don't figure that you don't find that out until later ah okay all right all right that shows I'm glad my kids I'm glad my kids are in school right now cuz I'm not sure they've seen that part of the show yet so yeah sorry spoilers it's it's it's been a while 20 years ago right like you can feel free to fill me in cuz I ain't seen it yet I'm probably not going to see it it's a great show you should definitely watch it it's all right this the episodes I've seen are all right yeah Steven to said this whole Dexter segment is cringe a it's cringe that you use the word cringe in that form B Desmond Ritter is cringe and that's how we got there that's right I can always tie it back might have to work a little bit but somehow some way we're going to put a bow on this uh put lipstick on this pig so to speak I don't want to put lipstick on this pig a bad idea didn't ask you to do anything more than that with the pig it's not me I'm worried about tank it's not me I'm worried about make her look good okay that's all it's all we need NFL cut day following all of the news as it comes out yes Desmond has been cut by the Arizona Cardinals um that means uh Clayton ton is the uh backup there R will go be someone's fourth running back or fourth quarterback excuse me the Carolina Panthers have now officially parted ways with ter former second round pick Terrace Marshall that was always going to happen uh apparently he had a solid training camp but did not make the got after catching 64 passes in three years oh no we got two more oh shoot New England Patriots are cutting Chad Ryland what are we going to do stop drafting kickers ever don't do it in the third round don't do it in the seventh round it's never a good idea ever nope I mean they're not not all going to go as terribly as Jake Roar waser but you're going to kill you're going pretty close I was going to say you're going to kick yourself for doing it uh we have another one you don't have to play the song but uh uh I mean this one is teas and peas friend of the show constantly mentioned on this show the Jacksonville Jaguars have released CJ beart I I'm just oh no I'm distraught oh no did I see did I did I also see that Donovan peoples Jones got cut uh probably and that that my friends does [Music] deserve oh Donovan what never was it's it's just it's it's it's a sad day so s i this is actually the first all right so in the off season we kind of redid the studio so now I have an actual monitor that shows me what tank is do doing I just saw the songs you have on the button bar for the first time since we've been doing this and I'm I must say I would have thought there were more now these are just the usuals I keep them on a separate window in case I need to go to them quick that's I I mean oh there's one of those that's going to be playing the next hour let's go all right you're in the sports Ury and this is ESPN Asheville 92.9 FM 880 a.m. and, 1400 back after the top of the hours we continue you to watch the cuts being made around the NFL hey there Gerber life would like to talk to you about the importance of guaranteed life insurance for when you uh no thank you I I get it nobody likes to think about life insurance because it means having to think about the end of so I'll make this short and sweet if you're 50 plus or 50 to 75 in New York you can apply for Gerber Life Guaranteed Life Insurance with guaranteed acceptance regardless 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the Engle [Music] Studio it is ESPN Asheville this is the sports ocracy 92.9 FM 880 a.m. and 14400 we are heard everywhere you go on the iHeart Radio app you can take us with you live or on demand also you can see us everywhere you go on YouTube just go to the sports oy.com click the live video link subscribe to the channel and you can join us in the chat uh today is cut down day in the NFL all 32 teams have to be down to 53 man rosters well 53 man rosters plus the puff list uh and we got quite a few names on the pup list we have all the cuts rolling in we have been playing the Sarah mlin music for the entire first hour of all the saddest names to come across uh not really a sad name but I tried to tell you so Isaiah Spiller released by the Los Angeles Chargers yep uh you know you said this is like a trip down memory lane for me this is like a n n boo boo sticker head and dooo I tried to tell you on damn near all of these guys right draft KN I told you you shouldn't do that like have we said a name yet that I was super high on yeah or is it a lot of guys that you remember me going it is it is I don't know it is a lot of those of you know I'm trying to I'm looking I don't really see a name popping out to me of a guy that you excited about here's what I can tell you my hit rate is cons considerably higher than Trent balky hit rate as of right now we're not to the we're not to the deadline yet M but uh I would say I would take my record against against old old t-s any day of the week yes uh and for all of the guys that you go out on the limb for I call it going out on the limb you call it doing research on uh when you know when we get to those later rounds I the fact that I haven't seen one of those names yet should tell you everything that you need to know sheldrick redwine there you go you said one good thing about him 10 years ago and seen that's the best example I have the only thing I got is I once said his name sounded delicious uh oh here's one Samari Tor I remember you liked him uh yeah Green Bay has 87 receivers they can't carry them all uh this is a good time to to point out our buddy at DC streams uh Justin Harvey messaged me at some point overnight I got it this morning um about davien Wicks that's a name I didn't specifically say but I do like him a lot for Fantasy Football it's just way too many miles to feed it's not it's not you're doing that thing Target share all right we didn't intend on doing a Fantasy Football here but the Packers just released Shawn Clifford they traded for Malik Willis which whoa if Malik Willis is considered an improvement uh wow Sean Clifford must not he must thought he was playing rugby he was trying to like spike the ball I was say did you did did you not watch him in college yeah he's not CU he wasn't good well I watched him in college which is why he would never been on my roster but apparently Green Bay tears um Green Bay is they're an interesting team in that they have a lot of mouths look at who carves out a role all right so who are the receivers you're worried about in Green Bay with quote unquote too many mouthes to feat well I have Christian Watson yeah who's hurt all the time sure he's also a gimmicky player that you have to really manufacture Touches for because he still can't run a route he can get open MH running a route and getting open are two completely different things Romeo dubs guy there for me Rome he's not the guy Romeo dobs is I would say he's probably the most consistent guy but he's not a burner by any stretch of the imagin and I promise you I'm getting I'm going somewhere with this I I would hope so uh then you got uh Reed Jaden Reed the slot guy he's the tactician running routes that's really going to just kill you underneath and then you got Wix davien Wicks and Bo mton who I think will be the five okay Bo mton is the only one that's also a deep threat davien Wix is the specific I can beat you over the top take the top off the defense receiver where I look at in situations like this and Green Bay is the ultimate example of this I'm looking for the guy that can't be replaced by somebody else Christian Watson and Jaden Reed could be interchangeable pieces okay Romeo dobs has a legit spot but it's not donaven Wick's spot that's why I look at Wicks and go if I'm in a duper League or I get to like the 14th round and I need to take a flyer on a guy if Christian Watson gets hurt or which you don't want to forecast injuries but he's been hurt a lot and he's hurt right now as a matter of fact yes he is if Don tavan Wicks got into that starting lineup he immediately becomes a top 36 receiver in the NFL because he can take the top off his play his snap count is going to go through the roof and he's the only legit deep threat mhm without Christian Watson I don't think Christian Watson's a legit legit deep threat oh okay he can run nine routes he doesn't consistently take the top off the defense because he's not a good route Runner so I know if I see him running if I see him get past that 12 to 15 yard increment I know he's going deep he might slide in on a skinny post but it's not like he's going to duck in and run a dig at 15 yards yeah I know you can't do that because he rounds off routes and there's all kinds of things that go into that sure that means donaven Wix has the safest workload for the Packers because Jordan love has a big arm and you got to have somebody that takes the top off the defense that was a weird place for me to put that in but it was something that I wanted to say because Justin Harvey pointed it out asked me what I thought about Don tavan Wicks and I went hey not weird at all you're not weird at all because anytime you have a fantasy question you have a strategery question throw it into the chat hit us up on social media we're always willing to talk about it cuz I'll be honest with you with every question you guys ask and every question I ask I learn a little bit more uh the oo pointed out that this would be a good time for an announcement and he's right so for those of you that that listen to us on terrestrial radio exclusively uh the oo is David Smith which is our fantasy football partner on Sundays that show will be coming back this year we will be doing it from our respective house is uh tank maybe from the mo parks for mobile Studio cuz I don't know how good his internet is uh I know how good mine is uh I came here and went H man I wish I had internet as good as I have in mullet better because that just screams anyway oo has been doing baseball and hockey and it's it's David and dubs Stone Sports podcast uh another great friend of ours here all of those things are going to continue but with tank and I having a markedly more difficult schedule this year and having David who is well let's face it he's every bit as good as us if not better why would we not use that so we are starting tomorrow going to be taking the oo and we are rebranding it to the sports ocracy the great North nice David lives in Canada he is gonna do he's gonna continue doing baseball he's going to continue continue doing hockey but he's also picking up the northern teams obviously tank and I are in the South so we fixate more on Carolina Tennessee Atlanta Miami Jacksonville New Orleans uh the Texas teams the Jets because fan I think I said Tampa Bay if I didn't I meant to so that just takes some of the pressure off us and gets fans of those Northern teams a little more love with the same quality that you would expect from tankery we're very excited about it I will be joining them on the sports Ury the great North tomorrow night at 8 o'clock Eastern uh for a live stream first time that either one of us have been on that show uh and we will do we'll we'll we'll we'll crack it up about Northern football teams CU I don't know Squad about baseball he didn't ask me but I'm just going to look at you and go that's that sport that comes on that I immediately turn off right yes for when I go to the league or Dexter or friends or something of that nature yes yes or or or like I did or have been doing since what was that mid July um hey let's turn on let's see what the Red Sox are oh we're losing four to one in the third inning yeah I don't care let's go play college football 25 that's where I've been at um just looking down the list here the RS releasing their roster Cuts getting their roster down to 53 men they've Cut Loose Boston Scott which is one of those names oh shoot maybe I lost my window of course I did of course well he asked me where I found it and then I had to pull it up and show him and then I lost it it's all col's fault you know that Olu is a mediocre linebacker S rodri Thompson also cut loose who would have thought a 260lb running back wouldn't work in the NFL uh on ahed no more with the Miami Dolphins and also the legend has been released White Mike what yeah yeah the next Tom Brady Tom Brady 2.0 come back home white Micha we will appreciate you in New York Miami did not appreciate you you did great things for us every word I say I feel like I'm sliding into Donald you are you are be a huge reunited be the biggest reuniting in the history reunited New York for white bike yeah everybody's got to get down to 53 by 4 o'clock this afternoon so the final roster cuts are being made and we're just we're just saying goodbye to some of our friends it's you know it's it's really a this is almost like a a a a sad show some of these guys will just never see again just going to go one about their life work and work at the Home Depot or maybe they'll be your server in a Chili's or an app or they'll decide to take pay cuts from those jobs and join the XFL ah I could be the I could be the happy hour bartenders at at the Applebees for dollar Mars or I could be the starting running back for the Arlington Renegades or the San Antonio bras TR and Jeff coat sitting back right now going you know what I could be manager within six months they have a really responsible match on my [Laughter] retirement that 401 I love working for Geico because really they give me the tools to be My Own Boss Tar Hill fans uh will remember this name Marcus McKean it's been cut loose uh by the New York Giants the Giants just went you know what I'm not sure how we're gonna decide who's the worst on this roster but I think we're just we're just gonna play Rock Paper Scissors and so lining up at the door today rather than using their key cards Brian Deo was sitting outside just rock paper and scissors with everybody I feel like they drew straws and whoever got the Short Straw is who made the team you lost which means you got to come play poor marus McKean I mean to get cut as an offensive lineman for the New York Giants Sho buddy M you got when you're the baddest of the bad that doesn't feel awesome like you don't walk away from that feeling hunky dunky also um you know Joshua Kelly being cut loose that's another one of those like you couldn't be a running back 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Georgia number 16 Clemson Tigers it's going to be a phenomenal kickoff to the season there is a lot going on Thursday night's going to be fun uh especially for North Carolina football fans Tar Hill fans will have football here on ESPN uh 570 will have the wolf pack taking on Western Carolina Wake Forest is also playing on Thursday night like they told everybody that they had to play on Thursday night in the state of North Carolina um and then you got Friday Night Football and then on Saturday you got College getting underway in Earnest with every team Under the Sun going to have a game this weekend and the big ones are all going to start right there in that noon slate with Georgia and Clemson oh yeah you've got a good slate of games uh you got Colorado probably losing to uh North Dakota State that's that's a thing it's probably GNA happen I'd love it I I I have gotten to a point where I am adamantly rooting against Dion Sanders this thing with the reporter I I I got into a long discussion about this last night of no no no no no no you got to read through the nonsense here this is not how programs act he didn't make a personal attack at Dion Sanders he literally just called him on the carpet and Dion didn't like it and now he's frozen out I'm good I'm good and I love Dion I have a helmet with his signature on it right behind my head right now but but we love the thought of Dion I love the player Dion we love the idea of Dion I love the player Dion I I love the personality I love all those things I don't want them to be my head coach no you look I when Two and a Half Men was really popular I love Charlie Sheen you know what I wouldn't love him as my babysitter that's that's I have no interest in that all right Bert Cher is a great friend of mine you know what I don't want him to be my designated driver yeah just because I like you does not mean that you fit into a role just it it's just after you know we've been working on a special project with uh with a great coach here in town that you're you're going to hear much more about through the rest of the season but but you know in discussions with people who actually have the best intentions for everybody under their watch that's what a great coach is a great coach is somebody that comes in and is able to inspire the guys to be better than they are not just on the football field but as people and Dion doesn't do that at all and every piece of information that we have coming out of Colorado since he signed the contract before he even set foot on ground it's been a disaster if that's how you mark success which I think most football fans either do or should you should gauge success by the characters that you're building and Dion is doing nothing but creating seven more little Dions well I'm not going to go on that path the where I'm at is you've either got to be a great leader of men or you have to be at least a decent leader of men and winning football games you're leading guys I mean basically you're bullying guys from what some of these guys have come out of this program and said no doubt and you're still going for8 I that's just to me it's it's a joke as a it has become a joke where I've just come to realize the punch line a't coming mhm like this is I I I fully understand why a program like Colorado would hire Deion Sanders I also fully understand why the only program that would hired Deion Sanders was Colorado I I get it it it now makes all the sense in the world to me you know I've heard people talk about he could be the next head coach at Florida are you out of your mind they have run Billy Napier out of town because he has no idea how to handle people mhm and you think that Dion comes to town with that Swagger and goes three and N in Florida how do you think that's going to play 4-8 for Colorado is an improvement M and how many how they're already being sued by recruits who have been misused or mis promised things or whatever what do you think is going to happen with Dion I don't know I I got a good feeling that this is not only is this not going to end well in Colorado it's going to be something that hangs for a long time I I feel like you know Dion decided that he didn't want to answer uh the reporter's questions anymore so I feel like we should go in reverse yep and Go full conversation probation until you win a game against a team that actually makes a bowl game yep that's a good one we will talk about you again when you beat either an FBS team that qualifies for a bowl nope that's it I really don't anything more than that that probably means that I'll never have to talk about you [Laughter] again it's very quite it's quite very and guess what I'm not credential with you so you got nothing oh you're going to freeze me out cool I I didn't ask that'd be like somebody taking my Rocky Mountain Oysters well you can't have these I didn't ask for them didn't want them you throw those in the old garbage that' almost be like offering somebody a priceless gym and never asking how much how much didn't even ask how much didn't even ask how much for those of you who don't know I was offered a speckled piece of road Rock from a less fortunate Soul outside of a local gas station I think everybody that listens to the show now knows that story I hope so I'm just thinking on the off chance and somebody's listening they go what the hell are y'all talking about a guy walked up to me outside of a gas station at East Asheville looked looked he had a rock in his hand and he goes would you like to buy my rock no he said but you didn't even ask how much I don't care how much I'm not even giving you a penny for that thing I am shocked that over all the years we've done this show and as much as I'm in public nobody's ever picked up a handful of gravel and going you [Music] won't they will now 100% guarantee they will now uh following all the cuts being made across the NFL the uh Green Bay Packers have cut cut loose Anders Carlson just once again proving that kickers aren't people stop drafting kickers did they draft him yes I had to think about that yes they okay all right I'm I'm going to pull up the list of the last handful of kickers that got drafted in the NFL and you're very quickly gonna realize why I keep saying this because you know who's not on this list Justin Tucker's not on this list mhm it's a lot of not good uh you had a handful this year I'm going to bypass those okay because obviously can't cast dispersions uh Jake Moody he's been incredibly inconsistent this was in the 23 draft uh Chad Ryland and Andrew Carlson both cut today uh year before that Kade York traded earlier this week yep year before that Evan mcferson okay that one worked out year before that Justin roarer Tyler bass and Sam slowman you see the trend here M you're before that Matt gay and Austin cybert oh by the way Matt gay was drafted by the Buccaneers he's played for three teams since then Austin cyber's the backup kicker for the Jets right now yeah it's kind of just proving a point kicker kicker kicker stop doing it yeah don't waste draft capital on a kicker yeah Harrison bucker yeah he got drafted by the Carolina Panthers uh he didn't play for the Carolina Panthers MH his best days when if he ever gets inducted to the Hall of Fame he will mention Carolina and there will be a comma in that sentence where he starts talking about his actual career who does today mean the most for though in the NFL that's that's the major another major question I have about NFL cut day of teams like is it teams like the the Carol Ina Panthers they have the most to gain I would imagine certainly by being the team that is the worst in the league or was last year they have the number one waiver priority they're very thin at some spots but imagine they're on the list well I mean just you look at Carolina and and we are a Carolina affiliate we're in the market you're going to have Jonathan Brooks on pup you've already cut Terrace Marshalls so I believe you're at maybe six receivers maybe they keep the six that I said which would be Johnson th and Mingo Legette Smith marett and Jaylen Coker tight end you're not good you have three guys that I'm not sure you belong on this roster uh and jatavian Sanders I think you're going to see them take a lot of shots because there are just a bunch of bottom of the roster guys that can you name a defensive lineman on that team that's not Derek Brown uh DJ wam is the only one I know and he's hurt he's on pup and that's the only reason I know the name is because they've been saying oh he's gonna start the season on pup Shai Tuttle asan Robinson Nick Thurman lebrian Ray and TJ Smith I'm gonna be honest with you I graded every one of these guys three of them are not roster B NFL players M so they could make the roster and then not make it to week one because look you're going to see a lot of teams a lot of high-end teams that are cutting super talented players have you noticed that all the teams that we've talked about that have really already put out their their list they're all bad you know why that is because they're not worried about you picking them up yeah the guys that they want to keep they're going to be able to keep because everybody's sitting around waiting on the 49ers and the Jets and the Ravens and the Eagles and and really good deep teams that have hit a lot of undrafted guys the Jets have seven players that were undrafted free agents that I could make a case deserve to make this roster really you can't keep them all because you've drafted well I might have a I might have a little rant at the end of the show a plea to Roger Goodell if you will about udfas yeah comes from mullet senior I will give I will give mullet Senor all the credit for he put it in my head and the closer I get to having to say farewell to 37 Jets I'm starting to see it his way you're in the sports Ury and this is zp and Asheville 92.9 FM 880 a.m. and, 1400 when we come back we'll get 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every interaction this is JW general manager at parks Ford Hendersonville experience the parks promise today at parks for hendersonville.nc this summer dalees pel salutes freedom freedom in Fabric or the fabric of Freedom denim Dales available for a limited time in the blue jean Box Dale salutes everyone who works hard plays hard and relaxes hard life's more than about what you pack in your dinner though we're packing beer so we win seize the dals unwind and style with a cool breeze up the jorks just look for the beer in the blue jean box on the weird scale there's Vegas there's Florida and there's Ashville let's get weird [Music] Asheville we're back at the sports Ury on on ESPN Asheville it's time to get weird I like weird stories I like sports and see when I see weird Sports stories I just have to bring it to you today this week is a big week apparently in one uh UK neighborhood or Village or whatever the hell they call them uh municipality maybe I don't know if they go by that either over there anyhow this week is going to be the uh long or this week was the long awaited Return of the world gravy Wrestling Championships I chose a bad time to stop paying attention the world gravy Wrestling Championships the International Event named one of the top 10 weirdest sports in the world saw 16 men and eight women battle in 2,000 leaders of gravy for you know stuff I mean there was a nice little silver trophy that they gave out at the end of it you know what they should have they should have given out an angioplastic as 18-year-old Jo George Young took home the title for the men the uh winner of the women's division was Christine Rogers a six-time competitor who slid her way to Victory dressed as Barbie Q get it see aha yeah contestants must wrestle in the gravy for two minutes with points awarded for fancy dress comedy effect and entertainment the event also raises cash for hospice so that's a good that's a good cause we like that uh even the local fire brigade it says gets involved by washing down the wrestlers between the bouts according to the organizers of the event at the Rosen bow Rose and in Bowl Pub not the Rose Bowl the roseen bowl Pub in Rosendale quote serious aggressiveness roughness or unsportsmanlike conduct results in a disqualification so this is so it's so it's like a show you know we don't we we're not really trying to hurt each other here it's like it's it's like pro wrestling Only You Know Much lesser athletes and they're all covered in brown gravy oh no oh it's brown gravy yeah it's the gross brown gravy gross yeah oh that does make me feel better about what I saw on your computer search history earlier today my story is about nol and Liam Gallagher they have been feuding for 15 years mhm did you know this I mean I knew they were fighting they haven't spoken to each other in 15 years okay until now okay because now we have an oasis reunion tour see that's bigger than Creed well a no it's not B it's only in Europe they will be playing shows in Ireland and in England limit of four tickets per purchase and it has sparked a great outrage online oh yeah between Gen X and j z okay CU Gen X which I am a member of believes that gen Z should not be allowed to buy tickets because you were not around for Oasis and we don't want you ruining our time this is happening right now all over message boards all over Ticket Master it's happening WID spread of there should be an age limit on this show and it should be over 25 and I think think it's brilliant I'll tell you why mhm you took a pot shot at Creed which just you know in life there's only two things you can show your ignorance in your ass and you showed them both greed was great Banger [Music] Banger you got to wait for the drop yeah okay I'm just going to go can I can I tell you something about me that you might not know when that Rift came on it was in the second Encore and Jeremy was learning things about himself and it was him and a bunch of other about 40y old dudes that were having us just big old time little girls oh 100% singing every word just Scot St and you know what would have ruined it a bunch of teeny bummers that don't know the words I agree with you Gen X we must stand up to the plague that is the younger generation in their God AF of music and tell them you cannot enjoy it you are not allowed to enjoy good music you sit at home you think about what you did with Drake and sexy red and all this other crap you put on radios you leave Oasis and and Creed and and good music you leave that to us we get it Crash Test Dummies yes Hoody and the Blowfish is coming to greeville next month and guess what I'm going be there yeah that's that's a great show Hood's so good I met Darius Rucker many many moons ago yeah top five nicest people I've ever met in my life I met him at South Carolina game I met him he came by uh when I was oh just a we lad working in radio he came he cuz you were never a we lad well no that's true you were a young lad I was a young lad you're uh yeah 20 some years ago working down in Charleston he's from Charleston hangs around all the time he came out to the radio station he sat there and talked to me for 45 minutes about sports until his manager had to run him out of the room like we have to go we've got lunch with Kuba Gooding Jr would you come on that's I made that up he did not have he did because because I mentioned that to him while we were talking was if I next time you're here if I bring you a football will you sign it no I am not to Todd uh rod de well hoodie and then Kuba was in town doing radio and I wanted him to get to sign the same ball that said I am not hoodie Rod Tidwell I thought we could auction that off for charity it' be a great idea couldn't get him in couldn't get him in the same room together I tried oh I tried they weren't receptive to that idea no I'm shocked no we have another one which one is this the super chat or is this releas another is this or this might actually be worth everybody Hurts oh [Music] okay for this show who is the greatest name that I could say has been officially waved has a great tie into this show and maybe one of the most famous moments we've ever had oh I was going to say baker Mayfield but I know he's not getting cut the Kansas City Chiefs are waving cadarius Tony the last need that we needed no how why he's so good at football but according to Ian raport he will have a market elsewhere where is elsewhere uh notice he didn't say he will have a market in the NFL yes he might have a market in Canada uh he is going to be the newest receiver SL weapon for uh douche uh mallister or whatever his name is that runs the fantasy football or the flag football league his name is Deuce oh Deuce no it's hoos that's it it's ho ho du set sorry I screwed that up yeah you did Freudian slip some might say his name's not douche are you sure because I think that would look better on a on a jersey at sports TN yeah I do believe that cadarius Sony will probably have a job as a receiver on a dock at Lowe's he will be receiving shipments yes at Lowe's the Home Improvement Superstore yes he will be he will be the fastest getting buggies at the local supermarket no doubt no doubt about it ah he's got a future in the XFL well that Canary sing me is proof positive of when you tell me how fast a guy is you should probably quantify that with can he catch cuz you can be just lightning fast but if you can't run routes or catch that's kind of a problem I would have thought too with the new kickoff rules like that might be down his alley it it might he may end up getting a job like that look I've I've Beed witness to that kickoff rule in three separate scenarios I've watched it evolve from the Hall of Fame game where you and I were where I swear to God I don't think anybody told the Bears I I think they just made a line up and they went what are we doing this I don't I don't go here I go back there was cuz they did something on every they did something different on every kickoff there was no solid there was no static coverage it was hey let's just see what works here the the Bears were certainly trying something MH just to see maybe it'll work then Titans 49ers I definitely saw a level of we're getting more comfortable with the rules now we're getting acclimated to well there's a lot of stuff we can do now then I went to Jets Panthers the Jets ran a reverse on a kickoff that I saw that and immediately went oh there's there's a lot of opportunities there then I watched the Steve McNair documentary and saw the Frank week Mira Music City miracle and I went yeah it's not gonna take long before we see that yep that's coming and it ain't gonna take that long yep by the way have you watched that documentary I have not it's it's well done that that Untold series on Netflix okay it was and this was all about the miracle no no no this was about uh the death of Steve McNair oh and the investigation and all the things and there were some conspiracy theories at the end I I don't know what to do with that I hate when documentaries do that like it don't tell me something that is give me the facts and I'll ascertain my own conspiracy okay you leave the conspiracies to me he's I got that un lot all right they're trying to help the rest of us that don't think like that well maybe okay so I'll have to check that out got your Amazon devices that they can read your thoughts but you don't think the birds have something to do with that okay who's the crazy one now well I mean you we so we we were talking about Carolina earlier like Amir Smith marett he's he's going to be the return guy isn't he for the Carol I would rather have air Smith maret than cader Jamal ago's name came up today as a guy to watch because he's apparently getting interest with all these teams making Cuts yes because he's such a good returner we saw already in the you know early stages of the off season the Pittsburgh Steelers went out and got Cordo Patterson and a lot of it was for that very reason was that he's so good with the ball in his hands maybe he'll be used more in that return game or whatever gadget Play they want to draw I I don't think that's is you've said that a couple times about Cordo Patterson he knows the the offense because he was with Arthur Smith in Atlanta I think it had way more to do with that than it did kickoffs um I could be wrong but Pittsburgh has several guys that could return kicks so I I would be Justin Field's one of them the Justin Field's gonna be playing quarterback the problem that I have and at least what I'm seeing and and Kelvin jiner who is a he's a football coach and has a really good point here he said your blockers only half to get to linebacker depth you're basically running actual plays on a kickoff now that's where I look at these guys that have a running back background vus Jones is the one that I keep coming back to I've seen him on Hard Knocks a handful of times you have a role in this league because that's basically what this is MH if you look at the way kickoffs break down now it almost turns out the only thing I can think about is playing Madden when you do the little training camp drills and you have the one where you have to it just waves the guys and you weave in out that's what it feels like is that you've got blockers that set up to basically wall this off and it's just a big glorified Run play can you find the hole and then can you outrun these guys when you get to depth I think it's really interesting I put it out on our social media of do you like the new kickoff Rule and universally it was no no and nobody really gave me a reason why because it's boring because you hav no what it was was boring no I'm saying you haven't because you haven't seen it yet right all of the those of us who don't watch all of the games right we haven't seen a highlight yet of this actually working and every report that I have read on this all the statistics are they gained a yard I think that was where we were at after three weeks of the but but that's how fans judge this of I don't like this because it's different I'm not used to it and guess what it hasn't done anything for the game yet so to me that argument is absolutely insane mhm all right so in the preseason where you're not even really sure who you're putting back there and at times you're putting four to six guys back different guys back there a week of course it's not doing much here's what it does open up it's no longer a formality this is to me it's the same thing that we saw with the extra point but the extra point back at the 25 yd line now it's 42 yd kick there's a possibility you could miss that mhm I'm not saying you're going to miss a lot of them but you could miss it and that changes things there the kickoff had become completely irrelevant you might as well have just given teams the ball in the 25 yard line and now there's a level of strategy to it because if you kick in the end zone they get it to the 30 I don't know if you've ever looked at the the metrics of how much more often you score points getting it at the 30 than you do with the 20 it's a lot it's not as significant as when you get to the 40 into the 50 mhm but it's still a significant jump and I think over time we will come to really like this you've just got to be open to the idea that you're you've opened the ability to have big plays come out of the kickoff I'll again use my team there's a kid on the Jets right now his name is Brandon codrington he's specifically a kick returner he was a corner in college played at North Carolina Central or North Carolina ENT one of the one of the schools of the middle of State he is a phenomenal kick returner I mean is one of the best I've ever seen he has yet to have a kick return that didn't gain positive yards kick or Punt and he's just electric with the ball in his hand I don't know how you keep him I have no clue the jetra Stacked a corner but could you keep him as just a kick returner you have Xavier Gibson who can do it but he's not as good doing this as Brandon codrington is Brandon codrington doesn't offer the value to your offense that Xavier Gibson does he plays defense he doesn't offer the same thing to your defense either because he's not a very good corner right but I do think it's we're to a point now where it's at least a discussion I don't think you can keep the guy solely because he returns kicks he has to give you value somewhere else and that opens up a cadarius Tony of he's not as good returning kicks as Brandon codrington is but he can actually give you some form of value as a receiver if you had an injury he can play in the slot and at least justify being on the roster that's one of the interesting things of today is that you I I think you're going to see a team that will keep a specific kick returner because it's such a big part of the game now mhm if you have a guy that rips off three kickoffs in a year is that worth more than your sixth Corner because I would say yes yeah I still stand by what I said when we came back from the Hall of Fame game I still believe that there are going to be a bunch of big plays out of kickoffs this year just because you haven't seen it in the preseason yet I don't think that should concern you um there are some people who like it there are a lot of people who are just opposed to change it happens a lot with NFL fans we're opposed to anything different this ain't the game I grew up with how many times have we heard that well I mean in part two-point conversion is not something you grew up with that's an improvement to the game sure sure it is but every time there's something new some other development for the most part it makes the game different from what we're used to and so we don't like it now there are have been massive changes to the game over the years where yeah we don't like that right we we don't we don't older fans don't like the fact that the game has become less physical right that you it's it's less rough all the player safety things right the tapping a quarterback on the helmet we all lose our minds when stuff like that happens college football with the targeting rules and all of that by the way have you noticed that the number of those has gone through the floor yeah yes am I the only one that's noticed that I saw one in the Florida state Georgia Tech game and went oh I mean that's obvious it wasn't even mentioned couple other because I watched every game I don't remember some of them especially those that were after later in the evening uh but there were several times that I thought that's targeting and it was never referenced mhm me I think if it were me I'm not saying this is the case but if it were me I'd dial back on all that stuff especially in the first week of the Season you're the only game on television right now everybody's watching are we going to start this argument on week one when we should be talking about what a great job uh you know Georgia Tech is doing or what a horrible job Florida state is doing let the game do the talking let's not be I would have had that discussion with the referees before we go out there U just be mindful guys maybe today's not the day to go letter of the law I doubt that conversation was had but it could have been you never know I just I still feel like o the the over under is at nine and a half and I'm still on the over I think we're going to have that many touchdowns on kickoff returns this year after seeing it up close and personal I don't disagree with you you're in the sports accy this is ESPN Ash 92.9 FM 880 a.m. and 1400 we got one more one more hour to go we'll be back in a moment everyone's favorite the Canton Labor Day Festival returns September 1st and 2nd at sarles Park the Canton Labor Day Festival returns with food trucks breweries craft vendors a classic car show parade ultimate air doogs Kid Zone Canton splash pad and more plus legendary Marshall Tucker ban 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Radio App live or on demand and we are seen everywhere you go with your smart tube right there that little thing in your hand the old YouTubes go to the sports oy.com click the live video link subscribe to the channel that'll get you into the chat with us um and uh that also will be another way that you can keep up with our travels on the live in the dream tour Coastal Carolina and Jacksonville State play on Thursday night and fler domis going to be hitting the road early this week W to be going down to see the Shanta CLE and the Gamecocks um those are two teams that don't I mean is Jacksonville State good because I don't because Coastal Carolina I know they lost Grayson McCall and I don't think they're expected to do anything now that they've lost him I was looking through the other day and I think they were probably like seventh best team by the media picked to uh finish in the Sun Belt this year third third really third in the East oh third in the East behind JMU and App State okay and I know South Alabama's at the top on the other side are they in the west of the Sun Belt uh they are fourth overall on the west they're on the west the fourth in the west okay I thought they were higher than that who's the top of the West they lost uh they lost a good amount of talent oh okay all right well who then who's at the top of that division is that L Louisiana Texas State Texas State the Bobcats yes but I mean you you do know who the head coach at Jacksonville State is right no R Rodriguez is it really wow I did not know that yeah he's been the coach there for a couple years huh huh interesting interesting that was one of the reasons I wanted to go plus it was the only game within I don't know oh Rich Rod four and a half hours of Atlanta yeah because the big one the big uh game is of course Saturday at noon mercedesbenz Stadium number one Georgia number 16 Clemson that's going to be your major kickoff of the college football week I know we have games on Thursday I know we're broadcasting games on Thursday some people probably might get upset by me saying that's the major kickoff but that's when most football fans are going to be tuning in is uh that that routine right you get to fall back into your fall routine of wake up in the morning shake off the the drunk from the night before sit down and you know you go to church right you sit down with the rest of the congregation around the country we're we're all dialing in remotely and we're all here to see the game day crew and you know see all the picks that are made and then kickoff begins at noon you got the big noon kickoff is going to be Penn State and West Virginia Which it's in Morgan I mean is that you've been saying for the last three days that West Virginia might be better than anybody's giving them credit for so I mean is uh is is James Franklin and the and the little kitty cats are they in trouble uh in trouble I I I can't necesserily say that I think they are going to be I think it's going to be tough for Penn okay I'm not saying I think West Virginia's going to win I just I don't think this will be the walk in the park that everybody seems to think that it will be uh for uh more local teams of course uh we'll have oh Tennessee and UT chattanoga very better tune in for that one boy the hatches CU there's going to be a lot of points and almost all of them are going to be an orange poor Ferman has to go to to Old Miss and and play the fight in Lane keins that's not going to be fun that's not going to be awesome I mean the Western Carolina catamounts they'll be on Thursday night on 570 ww NC as they'll be taking on the NC State wolf pack so that's not much better for their you know for that socon team either well I mean based on NC State schedule that might be the third toughest game that they play I don't I would just love to know how NC State got a culinary school and a School for the Blind on their schedule in the ACC yeah could be pretty light uh also just taking the larger view of the Saturday schedule here in the top 25 we' we've got the Notre Dame Texas A&M game uh which right now on paper is a top 25 matchup it will not be after the game is over that that has for me there's only two outcomes there either that's a complete keer kicking and Notre Dame beats them by a lot on their home field or it's the game of the week it's the best game we see all week long and I think it's the ladder I was going to say we'll come out of there thinking oh Notre dameco is just a way better Coach than Jimbo Fisher and this team's not as infuriating when he's not here but is that one you'll come out of it if Notre Dame does lose that game you'll go okay there's some serious questions about Notre Dame uh no Notre Dame will come out of that game and I'll go cool you you play one more game all year that you could lose so so it wouldn't really affect you if they lost it not really okay all right uh it's hard to go on the road and win in college football especially in a stadium like that where they have momentum that's something you're going to hear me talk about in bangers a lot M then we have Sunday football Sunday Night Football in college LSU USC was not going to go well for USC no sir uh and then and then there's Monday and do you want to talk about Monday are you no okay no Florida State's on conversation probation until they beat a team that I care about in any shape for profession you'll probably lose to Boston College bunch of losers Florida State Boston College on Monday night 7:30 another Standalone game which was exactly what you know Mike Norville wanted was yeah this is going to be great we get two Prime Time games where we the only teams on first one didn't go well second one you better hope it goes well I don't care I know you don't care I'm thinking about the I'm thinking about his livelihood I'm seek rested out I don't care sorry guys I'm trying to bait him and he's just not he's not taking it've already had Mor you'll see a little you'll see it sprinkled in every once in a while uh also on this NFL roster cut day uh we have some more college football news here one game suspension being handed down for DeMarco Murray how bad do you have to screw up at this point to get suspended in college football well I mean you break the uh you know you break the calendar rules right there are calendar rules on when you can talk to recruit and when you can't talk to recruits there's a certain date I don't know what that date is but whatever date that is they apparently don't have calendars in Oklahoma because DeMarco Murray who is in his Fifth Season as the run as the running backs coach at Oklahoma will serve a one game suspension and it says um NCAA division one committee on infractions says that Murray imp permissibly contacted prospects and their families before he was allowed to a total of 17 prospects over 16 months including 65 impermissible phone calls and 36 impermissible text messages learn a calendar or just why do we even have these rules at this point well you can talk you can take him a big bag of cash in a McDonald's bag but you can only do it from January 15th to March 26th that's stupid just uh he do away with the NCAA he told the NCAA that he was not aware that the covid-19 waiver for recruiting contact that that had expired he just thought ah you know four years 15th Wave It's still coming like we can still contact whenever well I mean he was probably looking at Brent venal for Direction but he was too busy haunting the barn who that he does he does kind of look like an owl uh Brit venal Brit venal looks like the skeleton that hosted taals from the Crypt the Crypt Keeper yeah yeah Brent venal is one of the most singly terrifying looking humans I've ever seen in my life if he walked up to me on the street I would do that Bugs Bunny thing where I jumped out of my skin mhm like you would just see a little caress rabbit shoot out and there would be rabbit fur sitting there like ah no they now will have to pay a $5,000 fine as a school this would be a great time to have the Joe Exotic I will never financially recover from this uh they have also uh the NCAA has imposed on Oklahoma a three- week ban on recruiting phone and electronic correspondents didn't say anything about letters between December the 8th and March 31st of this year I'm up on them postage stamps bro you know about that snail mail let's go also no unofficial visits they get no unofficial V visits during the season opener that's shoot you we don't get to bring anybody to watch us in Temple yeah oh shoot tens and tens of people will be just devastated that five-star running back was really just hoping to pay us a little drop in visit for temple that that one recruit that Philadelphia has was he was coming to Oklahoma for that game see to me the the punishments sometimes from the NCAA and the NFL are as comical as the infractions themselves CU they don't make sense a lot of the times especially when you have well we're self-imposing a suspension who was this that did this late most recently it was um Iowa Iowa got Kirk fence yeah Kirk ference like we're getting ahead of this thing we're going to miss the first uh game of the season against Youngstown State and I think that should be fine it should be all good the only thing I can compare this to is when you were a kid and you were in the second grade and you had that one Heathen that was in your class the Heen the heathen that could not um That Couldn't behave and so they would try their best I you knew just damn well that there was a paddle in that school somewhere and that teacher wanted toorn it but they couldn't mhm like oh here's your punishment you go to lunch five minutes late when there's no line little Timmy you little you little Jackal mhm you you lose two minutes of recess frankly that's all I can handle you being in this room before you go terrorize the other children yeah that that that really didn't work for me when I was they used to try to sit me at the table with the teachers like that's your that's your punishment your punishment is now you can't shut up in class now you don't get to sit with everybody else you got to sit with us well tank I'm about to tell you something that might break that glass in your brain but that wasn't actually a punishment that was the only chair you fit in I want to say FCC words to you right now don't make it so easy cuz I'm back now well what they found but what they found out was once they sat me at the table that was just a better audience like now you guys are going to get the jokes that the 16-year-olds don't get that didn't last long it was like damn it you're going to go eat lunch in the cafeteria or in the uh in the bathroom go eat lunch with the janitor maybe he could teach you a skill cuz that's your future would you stop talking actually the replacement for the janitor when he retires you're up every teacher that ever found out what I do for a living none of them 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hop back to the hotel in Atlanta and do the show the the show from the hotel on Friday and then I'll be out and about Atlanta left to my own devices for a night and that is dangerous for all involved could be could be a little scary uh with with with no tank there to keep you in check well uh you you will find this out the hard way at some point because you'll be there from Pillar To Post for one of these Atlanta trips uh National Title gam is what I'm specifically thinking of I have a bunch of former uh business associates that live in downtown Atlanta and um I've told you a few of these stories um uh the the duty airport story was yeah that's one of these guys and they they they have lives that are there's something if alcohol is poison there's something in them that they're trying to kill right and uh good luck tank these like to indulge good luck it's the best I can tell you yeah I don't think we can shoot video from inside Magic City but if they allow us to uh his eyes got real big okay Tes like oh crap so honey um I don't know if the Atlanta Trip's the one that you want to tag along on or not um you know it's just it's just the guys you know it's just business going to be a lot of a lot of meetings it's really going to be a [Laughter] and just by the way um what is the best way to remove glitter from your person uh that's how I got caught last time so that's the best way I think I still got some in my hair eight years ago she always finds out with the glitter it's all part of the plan it's part of it's part of the business plan see they add the glitter so then you get caught then you get divorced and you come back more yeah and then you're and now you're a repeat [Laughter] customer oh good night all right we got uh four o'clock this afternoon the final roster Cuts have to be made we got breaking news who's going to break the news who's going to break the news who's going to break the news who's going to break the news I love days like this a lot because it's just a NeverEnding cycle the Los Angeles Rams are trading Ernest Jones to the Tennessee Titans whoa that's a good move for Tennessee that was I I think it was Matthew Hoffman asked me over the weekend where I thought he could go because they gave him permission to seek a trade Tennessee was one of the teams I said and I'm I'm telling you that Tennessee defense is not GNA be that's not gonna be fun no no the fact that they have rebuilt the secondary you've got Harold Landry coming back from injury I mean that that right there alone was enough for me to go okay you know what their offense might suck it could I don't think the offense could be that it could I'm just saying it could you know will Levis there's there's a lot of us who are not on the believer side of him just yet might have seen a flash or two but I mean he's kind of in the Sam darnold category for me I mean he he gets a little bit more of a break than Sam does cuz I haven't seen him in this league that long but that's that's one of those I I'm not really sure what to expect it might be okay for some of the players on that team but if if the offense does sputter the defense is going to be hard as hell to score on because you can't just wi nearly throw on them anymore do you know how many new starters they have on defense I would take a guess and say it's seven it's more than it's eight eight eight tandre SWAT Sebastian Joseph day uh Harold Andre was out last year so I counted him as a new one yep Ernest Jones Kenneth Murray chub wozi lerus Sneed quandre Diggs that's a good defense it is that's a really good defense now their schedules evil and I don't know exactly how good will Levis is going to be but you got a defense that is not to be messed with did you say Kenneth Murray yes okay I was gon to say I don't remember you hearing that name and he's also new to this team he is look I I love this moov I don't know what they gave up I I don't have I don't have the compensation yet but that's a that's a good move for Tennessee what's too much if it's just strictly draft com I think it's going to be uh probably a fourth or fifth round pick cuz you got to pay him I was thinking a five uh five five was what was in my head but I'm giving Tennessee a little wiggle room right because I hate when I say something and then it winds up higher than that it looks like they overpaid depending on if you worked out the contract ahead of time I mean look the highest paid off ball linebacker in the NFL makes like $19 million a year so it it's not a crazy amount and he's a really good young player who replaces him in La though the only reason I asked the question is because the you know the the situation like like this weekend when this came up I didn't even know this was a thing until the story came out that he had been given permission to seek a trade but it was he's on the last year of his contract and he wants an extension and they can't agree on the money I'm trying to think like are you that stocked toward the good that you can just go yeah go ahead we're a million2 million apart you go it's either Troy reader or Jake hmel I think Jake humble is probably starter anyway so Christian Rose Boomer Troy reader yeah of which I mean I I don't like that you didn't want to pay him but I'm also looking at the Rams going you're gonna get to that point where you can't afford everybody CU you're doing that thing where you draft too well and you got too many players and you can't pay everybody signal caller of the defense now goes to the Tennessee Titans that's a big thing too I mean strengthening yeah the fact that he is the guy he's the point guy on the offense and has been for two years yes that's it's pretty important position I don't know what he wanted I haven't seen anything reported on what the you know what number he had in his mind or how far I was how far apart they were I would say that he was probably at 15 and they just I don't necessar know that it say far apart yeah you know I mean I'm I'm reading some of these Cernic's uh comments of well Rams were going to cut him anyway no they W no they were not you don't cut that they might have let him become a free agent at the end of the year mhm uh but they certainly weren't going to cut him no and Tennessee's got a good amount of money so they spent a good amount of money don't get me wrong but yeah yeah so we'll have to wait and see what the uh official compensation is on that that'll probably come down in the next few moments should uh and then maybe maybe with that we will we will know a number if they had already worked that out uh in the meantime because this was this was a fast moving thing or at least as far as the media was concerned Saturday the the news came out I believe it was late Saturday night that this came out that Ernest Jones was being given permission to seek the trade and now we're just three days later and somebody has already worked it out hopefully this isn't a New York Jets move where they trade for him and then go no we're not gonna pay you screw you and then the guy never shows uh Jet's still not uh totally saying that he will that ass re will not be ready for week one he needs a G new contract for it though in the right in theory I mean I get that uh I don't know are you are you are you playing that how long are you playing that game I guess I mean I don't think you have an alternative yeah you can play that game because you traded into this game and here you are and here you are you're stuck with it we had the big contract yesterday for CD lamb his massive contract making him the second highest paid wide receiver in the NFL second highest paid non-quarterback in NFL history just behind Justin Jefferson you know some guys you know you can play that game I don't feel like uh I don't know Ernest Jones he ain't getting that kind of money he ain't get well obviously he's not getting $30 million but is he getting top five at his position money he could he's a very good young linebacker m I mean PFF had him graded as the 14th best linebacker in the NFL last year and that that math Maths for me okay I mean I know he's good but just how good he's not great in coverage that's the but that's honestly one of the reasons I liked him so much with Tennessee is that he's really solid against the Run he's a really good pass rusher and I don't necessarily need you to be a great coverage guy because I got some many corners I mean Tennessee can play a lot of man defense and never really worry about dropping linebackers out or anything I mean you're going to do it don't get me wrong but I I the more I think about this the more I absolutely love this move yeah the only the only problem that I do see is having Kenny Murray and and um Ernest Jones next to each other that is a recipe for tight ends are going to eat your lunchbox well look you were worried last year about everybody eating your lunchbox if we can narrow that down just to the tight ends I feel like we're in a better spot because there are way fewer tight ends that can do that to us in this league than there are wide receivers but you're also going to be able to heat up quarterbacks that probably cranks up the number of interceptions you produce gives put puts will Levis in a short field more often and look Tennessee did that thing that a lot of teams do under new new ownership and new GMS you make a couple moves that you go oh boy that's not great and then I believe Amy Adam shrunk has just handed this to the football people and the football people have absolutely killed this offseason I could make the claim that nobody has had a better 2024 NFL off season than the Tennessee Titans that feels like we should carry that discussion on into the next segment sounds like a winner to me almost like we planned it that way but we didn't you're in the sports accuracy and this is ESPN Asheville this is your exren Temporal Scanner weather forecast on ESPN Asheville hot afternoon at 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trying to intice the cats do you just W to die or there's video there's video of this woman stand like they they you can see watch her climb over the rail that and then you have to like climb over the moat and all the you know the different uh obstacles that they have in the way and then there's another fence on the other side of all the obstacles and she just walks right up and like is like sticking her hand in the in the gate to to pet the cat and of course the tiger looks for a second like he likes it and the whole time I'm watching the video I'm going do it just do it would you please teach this woman a lesson am I really a tiger I don't feel like a tiger just wait on the day that any this is not a drill right like I was immediately flashed to the Tiger King right we all watched it during the pandemic it was the only thing on television to watch that in the office apparently apparently everybody got caught up on the office during the during the pandemic like I did but it was like that scene that where you're just waiting for that animal to clutch on and never let go thankfully for her it never did however yes uh they posted out after her arrest do do not climb over the fence climbing over any Zoo fence is against it says city ordinance but I would say the laws of humanity you can't be that dumb you can't just go ah you know what I want play with that big kitty cat over there and you know what this is why Jeremy can't be a zooman because I would stand up where it was safe and go you wanted to play with Tigers play with tigers yeah I got a rope not going to throw it down there that tiger might get a hold of it I play i w play that [Music] tiger believe there was apparently she uh she also did the same thing at the bear enclosure maybe we should just let her die at sports. ESPN I didn't say you were wrong I just didn't agree with you out loud and according to the laws of the Catholic church that means I didn't do anything wrong Bingo my story is from Santa Barbara big issue with porch Pirates Santa Barbara this got so bad that a woman was having things stolen stolen out of her post office box yikes I don't even know how that happens but she had several packages that went missing and she got a bright idea she decided to mail herself an Apple Air tag and see where it went that is brilliant what is an air tag so air tag is that little silver circle that you can attach to your phone or your wallet there's a spot in my wallet for an air tag okay put it in there and it'll tell you anywhere in the world that it goes MH so she mailed herself an air tag and then didn't check her mail for a couple days Y and she waited until somebody grabbed her mail and then she went took her phone to the police off to police station and went hey wherever that air tag is that's who's stealing my mail and that's exactly what they did they went 16 miles from the post office arrested a 2 7y old woman from Santa Maria and a 37-year-old man from Riverside they not only found the victim's mail they found mail from over a dozen other people wow get a job horri the lowest form of crap on this planet stealing from other people yeah it's awful and in California you probably get away with probation mhm remember that story of few years ago of we had a local I think it was I think it was local you hell you might have probably worked with him there was a local post Postman that got busted for stealing everybody's junk mail do you remember that story I this was it was a handful of years ago but the report on that was Astro I mean it would like the guy's entire house was just packed with junk mail of all things well why would you do that well junk mail you wouldn't be stealing you would be loading it in your truck and then taking it to your house because you don't want to deliver it because junk mail okay maybe that's what it was that's 100% what it was because there's no reason for you to steal it otherwise now if you get super behind I mean unless you're couponing yeah I mean I'm not saying I ever did that I did not do that just it may have happened once or twice is that what you say I hated junk mail like nobody cares about your stupid catalog bu this guy had like rooms and room of mail that never got delivered God I can't remember it's Bed Bath and Beyond I think it's Bed Bath and Beyond somebody sent out a card about once every two weeks and I think the card stock that they used was somewhere between a machete and a razor blade cuz it would just cut your hands to Pieces yeah it was awful I have I'm GNA tell you I'm GNA tell you something about me that you might not know okay I don't even have a key to our mailbox okay I mean I have a PO Box we have a a a mailbox at our house they all have keys I have no keys to any of those things but why I don't care I do not care about anything you could possibly send me hey you know what they they have this thing it's crazy it's called an email email it to me and if I if you want me to read it there's a better chance that I'm gonna click your email then go to a box pull out your flyer and go it's 1974 and I got to keep this here cing I'm not going to do that ever save paper go green Jeremy and I are different in so many ways this is one way that he and I are completely in lock step on this view a couple of weeks ago a tree fell out of our neighbor's yard those terrible storms that came through a few weeks back tree comes down takes out the mailbox I just replaced the mailbox like last Friday last Thursday something like that it had been several weeks my wife goes to the mail or goes to the post office to pick up our mail she caught all kinds of flack apparently from the woman behind the counter like you're supposed to do that you're supposed 10 days you should have your mailbox back up and run and I went I'd never want to set it back up nothing good ever comes in that thing but bills and those I pay online so what are we doing here oh look I'm going to be 100% for you all right so the the the clerk at the post office there are only three kinds of those MH that sounds like somebody who retirement is so close that they can taste it I wouldn't doubt it and they hate all of you like you show up they hate you because you open the door most of them are great people then you get the I'm retiring in 3177 days my wife came back to me I mean she was she was kind of shaking she was like the woman at the post office she just read me the riot act about how it was federal law that I was supposed to put my mailbox up back with back up within 10 days like somebody going to come check on that cuz I bet they don't Xerox your bear keer on a xerox machine and put it on the door of a little teeny ity little bit bitty box uh and legally you have done nothing wrong [Laughter] that is not good Federal advice don't no probably wouldn't do that I wouldn't have a mailbox I don't care yeah that's way that's the way I was Andy was like aren't you g to fix the mailbox this week nope nope don't care can't don't want to don't care can't run a saw uh Steven T asked how I wonder how many Christmas cards I've missed I'm this is honest God's truth I have never opened a Christmas card in my entire life from anybody from anybody like your grandma never sent you one when you were in college and you no why what okay I mean let's be real honest here yeah what is the purpose of a Christmas card Hey look it's the people that if you liked me more you'd see me more often and this is what my little two Rugrat evil Heen stepchildren look like I don't care okay all right now now I have to ask the question of are you getting Christmas cards in the mail and just throwing them in the trash Maybe you know people put money in those right stupid people uh people that don't make any sense to why would you say if I wanted to see you I would see you okay if I don't see you there are some people that probably you know what your invitation probably got lost in the mail by mail man all right I I just what is the purpose of that look we put on mashing sweaters and we went down to the CVS and got us a picture taken here now you have it what am I supposed to do with that I I will line the parrot cage with that how don't you have a parrot no you just put it on the fridge and forget about it oh so I I think the same thing with Christmas cards that I think when random people hand me Flyers downtown they look at me and go here you throw this away I don't want to throw it away so you do it wow okay hey you really want me to get a Christmas card take that picture and email it to me and maybe just maybe I will see it one day so like if it came with your like your mom's never sent you a Christmas card when you living I my mother once a week no but I was saying like when you when you lived I still saw her and you commuted when you lived in Greenville so yeah well not the whole time I lived down there for three years right but um but not to the point where she would have to send you a Christmas card or something like that all right I gu I mean I guess there's a world I'm just my mind immediately goes to all of the all of the Christmas cards and birthday cards and letters that I got from my grandparents who lived in Florida when I was a kid and every birthday there was another you know there there was another 25 bucks in there from granddaddy Spencer and I yay yeah my my family's like mafiosos we're pretty good at just doing the $100 handshake hey big no I don't need to I do not need to get the federal government involved into this H uh it also reminds me of if you have not watched it yet it's worth the watch on peacock the new Steph Curry sitcom that's on it's it's pretty funny pretty funny but there's a scene in there where one of the spoiler alert there's a scene in there where one of the guys is like reuniting with his father who's been gone for 20 years and he was like you just disappeared out of my life and he was like well I wrote you once a month at least and he said I never want to hear from you why would I ever open that and I threw him away he was like oh well I put $100 in each one of those letters every month for 15 years oh well no I mean actually I put 500 in for your birthdays and holidays and things like that he's like over 15 years that's a lot of money well you know here's the thing a don't send cash through the mail bad idea um that's a B I actually dated a girl whose family did A Christmas newsletter every year where they would detail the the events of the family was it actual events or was it like funny stuff no it was like actual events and I wanted to hijack that so bad and right Grandy is back from the methodone Clinic uh and you know he only takes 11 pills now uh he's no prescriptions uh and just hijack that and send it to everybody they know that is the way you do they would at least laugh yeah that is the way you do that when you get the family newsletter then you respond with your own version of the family newsletter here's the thing this is how I feel about written mail the day that God or Steve Jobs or whoever invented the computer I don't know and I don't care the day that happened is the day that the typewriter was eradicated I don't do any of that anymore um the day the DVD was invented is when the VHS became worthless because it's obsolete technology so once you have gone obsolete I don't find myself want I've never looked at a horse and going you know what I think I'm going to trade my truck in for Sea Biscuit over here prob nope email me uhhuh email me okay uh we have it's the most Millennial thing you've ever said ah you know that's what you do uh we have an update on compensation for Ernest Jones okay the Rams traded Ernest Jones and a 2026 sixth round pick to the Titans in exchange for a 2026 fifth round pick that is a whale of a move by the ten good for them I gave up nothing but paying basically but paying him basically I'm in come in he dropped probably 45 picks once all said that's if Tennessee is bad and the Rams are really good and that's even two years from now so not Sol solid move by the not a bad price to pay for the the greatest Gamecock to come out of there since I couldn't think anything Debo Sam oh yeah I forgot about Debo he did terrorize SEC nightmares for a while Frank Gore Jr probably not going to have the career his dad had in the NFL no he got cut loose today oh yeah yeah casualty of the cuts of the Buffalo Bills victim of a crowded backfield although he had 101 yards on 18 carries in the uh in the preseason yeah if you played in the last preseason game I hope you're renting uh and I I hope it was a short-term Airbnb rental I was going to say we're all staying at the uh extended stay down the H down down down the street so don't stay there it's a good place to no Extended Stays that's a good place to meet a guy that runs that their place that wants to take a nap with you like the home to that's that's a cool place isn't it home to is not an Extended Stay I thought that was one of those Extended Stay places oh my bad no Extended Stay is a brand there is like oh there's an extended St I did not know that I thought those like home and sweet things those were Extended Stay basically anything that's in one like the Mountaineer in if it's in one flat I don't I don't I don't want to meet a guy that runs this hotel yeah I don't want to meet a guy that runs this hotel and now we've become fris at the point that he wants to cuddle with me and I don't want to do that geez no I need it to say Hilton somewhere you know what Hilton means Hilton means there's no chance that somebody else has a key to this room and you're going to have a new snuggle buddy I definitely don't want to stay at one of those stabb and sleeps that place is not something's going to creep out in the middle of the night more than likely it's going to be some kind of Critter or a bed bug and I any place that looks like it would be a split use of you can bathe yourself or skin a deer or worse there's one resident there called bed bug and you just wake up with a stranger in your bed every night cuz Ah that's bed bug there he is there he is old bed bug a he cool he likes to Cle ah he didn't even ask how much either uh the Chicago Bears release quarterback Brett rippen speaking of snugglebug uh Brett ripping no longer with the Chicago Bears so that means uh oh I done Austin Reed gets to keep his position as the third quarterback for the Chicago Bears and Tyson bent oh yeah Tyson b i you know I did enjoy the hard KNX episodes this year I really appreciate Tyson be's dad oh his dad's just a big meatball that's just cool his dad's just a big meatball it's like I could squeeze your head like a great the world champion arm lifter or arm lifter arm wrestler he's an arm lifter he just lifts arms yes he does this better than anybody look I raised it all the way no B nothing did he did he got it sorry I thought of a really mean joke that I shouldn't tell I mean he's dead but I still shouldn't tell that joke at sports take ESPN if I'm in here tomorrow by myself you'll know tank ah it wasn't good yes Chicago Bears cutting down there quarterback room to just three Nathan Peterman also a victim of today's Cuts in the NFL as all teams have to get down to 53 Men by 4:00 this afternoon could we not have made this 4:00 David Smith's time so so we could know all the cuts by the end of the show yes that's that's my only request yes bayy zappy Desmond Ritter also among the quarterbacks that were released today by their teams the pup list continues to grow actually I don't think we've had any added to the pup list since we hit the air so it's still the names that we gave you at the beginning of the program but TJ hackinson both of the chub cousins Bradley and Nick starting out the year on the pup list um keep you up to date on all of the uhoh there's one more one Austin Reed they're only keeping two oh shoot his mama is going to be so tore up that was one of the best parts of that whole series was watching his mama just so concerned after that Hall of Fame game when she only thought her son was going to get a chance to throw two passes in a preseason game well I mean on the bright side if Blink 182 needed a new front man he looks like he would fit in Jes bet you he sings way better than the one they got uh could be hard to be worse exactly you're in the sports ocy and this is ESPN Asheville sorry Steven had to do it we are two American idiots very much so wrong band but I'll give you points anyway uh we'll be back with you tomorrow right here on ESPN Ash Green Day I said Flink I meant I meant Green Day in my head they both suck equivalently so I just I confused him my manad ah we'll have more dumbassery for you tomorrow right back here in the 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