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Hour 1: Has the quarterback position made this Browns team unlikeable? + Quick Hits

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Hour 1: Has the quarterback position made this Browns team unlikeable? + Quick Hits

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The show is back Nick Wilson, Jonathan Peterlin for the next five hours. We are all yours, baby. We got a lot of rain in Cleveland and that might impact the whole double header thing, but we'll see how that shakes out. We got just over one week's time until the Browns and Jack wires actually get underway down yonder in Jacksonville. The waiting game continues, but college football is officially back Ohio state is back this weekend and we got a lot to talk to including. I remember reminiscing a little bit about the the fantasy last night, but that open courtesy of Jack's Gregory on the board. Yes. Hi, Jack. So it's good to see you, buddy. We got Jake Marin, man in the 92 three, the fan YouTube channel and producing is always you can listen to all five hours on 92 three, the fans on the station. You can also listen back on the Odyssey app. We're listening in real time. And you can watch us in real time. All five hours up there in real time on 92 through the fans YouTube channel.

Subscribe to 92 three, the fans YouTube channel. Ring that bell. Stop you corn, Lido. Suck it corn, Lido. There's always like our videos. We desperately like to be liked around here. And we got Riley Taina on the 2020. Today, Jack's going to be able to keep a straight face, buddy. When you love, Jack's just such a good groove. Yeah. That when Jack smiles and laughs, I smile and laugh. And that's a good sign. That's that's a, you're a special young man there, Jack's, but you kind of set me up to. You did that to yourself. I did. I did. I did. I know. Taina. Taina. Taina. Every time I hear it, I think of. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I get it. Yeah. Yeah. You hear it too. Taina. Yeah. No, I got it. Hi, JP. How you doing? Hello. How's it going today? Oh, it's another day in the neighborhood. It is. It is. Had a lot of fun last night. I did. I did. I am, I am tired. So I'm, I will do my best to deliver five hours of energetic, opinionated, fun sports

talk. I did not get home until about 11 o'clock last night. We woke, we got about six hours of sleep, which is good. That's not bad. But then we tried to go back to bed after the kids got on the bus today. And we were not having that. So we are, we're raw dog in the show today a little bit as the kids would say. And now that being said, that was a lot of fun last night. And I don't think anyone on the station has talked nearly enough about Andy Baskin starting the event on YouTube by calling Ken Carmen and A whole. Yeah, that was, that was something, wasn't it? Yeah. Was that your favorite part of the event? It was very well might have been because I don't think what I like about it beyond the obvious is I really liked that I don't think Ken sought coming at all. No, he was completely blindsided by it. That made it really humorous. Yeah. That's that's where we're at. He also, that Baskin said it. If we put like the big board of who was most likely to drop an expletive to start the event, I kind of think Baskin was like a plus 3000. Right. So here's the problem or at least the setup.

So a yesterday, Baskin's kept you in like, oh, who would win in a fight? Is it Nick? Is it Ken? Is it Anthony? Is it Jonathan? Oh, morning show versus the afternoon. A brew off in the ages. And then we all sit down and we're getting ready to be very proper and just kind of like do like, Hey, go go 92 three of the fans and Baskin stands up. You're in a hole in your day. Oh, and you're in a hole. And it only Ken. As if he had his mark picked out. Who knew he has been waiting 15 years to say that to Ken. Oh, no. And then we, we also found out that Jeff Phelps is seriously like protective of Roman sessions. Yeah. That was funny. Lime, Lime said, just all Lime said was, ah, Roman sessions was on that team. And Phelps was like, don't you say a thing about him? It was like, we stopped that there. Yeah. He was so serious about it. No, he's like, don't you even think about going after sessions? I was waiting. Don't even do it. Jackson, what I loved it. I was waiting for like, like, like a smirk. Cracked me up a lot during that event. I don't know that everybody else is loving it.

I was a loving Phelps in that event because he was so like, so Phelps, it was just so him. It was so perfectly him and I loved it. Even today, him still being very disappointed about people cursing at the event was probably the most on-brand Jeff Phelps thing ever. Yeah, it's great. Absolutely great. Because here's the thing I wanted to hear Jake Volnick curse last night. And that was the other thing because, you know, Baskin comes out with a hole just immediately. Yeah, right out of the shoot. He tosses a grenade in. I'm like, all right, now it's time. And I mean, you heard one and then I, you could tell. I've got a couple out there. You could tell you wanted to get in the action. And then it like, there was a time where I was like, I got like four curse words here and we're like, maybe 25 minutes in. It kind of felt like when a radio host first goes on serious XM radio and realize they can do that. Or, I almost mentioned a very specific name. Or like if somebody does like a YouTube only show and they just keep coming up to the point of cursing, but oh, oh, I'm not going to do it.

I could do it because it's on YouTube. But I'm not going to do it. Okay, then. What were you thinking of? Nobody specifically. I'm just saying like kind of like you with a serious thing. Just kind of saying when they get a chance, when they get a chance to go, they go. I thought one moment I was delivered. Why would it a nice job? I'm seeing that was a much I'm a for me if we're being honest. Now the funny thing, I don't know if you notice this or not. And so we had a little bit of a mic issue and there weren't as many mics as there were people. And so a couple ofiles though. And so, so why am I would like give me the mic or then give Darryl the mic who he would off to his right. Any time there was a moment that he felt like, all right, you guys can chime in. And it was basically any time he felt like I was getting ready to like basically go after Canon some sort of way, all of a sudden the mic became open. All of a sudden it was like, oh yeah, yeah, I think you have a point on this right? You're on a thing. Oh, okay, all right, good. Yeah, now we have an opportunity. That's great. But no, there's a lot of fun to everybody that showed up. We appreciate you. But if you weren't there, again, I thought Jeff made a great point today when they were talking about it on their show. Of like, you know, as many callers as we have, we know that there's, you know, 10 times of people that listen,

but they don't call in, but still support us. And so to everyone, and this, and this goes to everyone that has worked at this station, including people that don't work here anymore. That is a giant celebration of everybody. There were eight guys on the stage that got to take the credit for it and got the love for it. But I mean, it is 15 years in the making of love and hard work and passion and fighting with each other, driving each other crazy, making each other laugh. And it was, you know, to be on that stage at any point in there, it was definitely an honor to represent the station. I just, really, it's a really special thing. And I don't want to get sappy here or anything like that either. But like, I always tell you, I feel like I'm the new guy here constantly. And I've been here for 10 years, Nick. Like, I've been here 10 years of built a family, built everything in Cleveland. And in radio terms, being in a spot in 10 years, you're the oldest guy at a radio station if you've been there for 10 years. I'm still, I'm the new guy to all of you guys. Yeah. And that's what's fun about that. Like, you don't, you don't have stations that are built like that where you have Ken that's been here from the beginning,

you that's been here from the beginning, Lyme, from the beginning, Baskinim, Phelps, all from the beginning. And it's, and again, Jake's obviously newer than I am. So he's going to have some of this and it's going to at 10 years from now, he'll be laughing the same way I am. I would say you're never going to escape the new guy mentality. But stations aren't like this across the country where you have this many people that have been at a spot for as long as we've had it. And I just, it's something that's really special. That's actually where I do get very weepy about this for as many shots as I take. And as many things as I've said, I mean, Baskin's kids were little when the stations started, you know? Yeah. They were younger than, than my kids are now, right? You came here single and ready to mingle and you found a lease and you had kids. My kids have gone from one year old and then the twins were born while I worked here. To now I have a teenager and two more teenagers on the way in about three months time. So it's just, it's hard not to look at that and just get a little misty eye there. Yeah. And you just don't see that in radio where you can have that many people that have all lived through the lives of each other.

Is this the same way? Because in radio, again, like 10 years at a place, I'd be the oldest guy there by a long shot. That's just not how it works. And so it's a, it's special that we have that. By the way, on the caller side of things, like, uh, Chris and Chicago, like this. Yeah. There's all sorts of guys that just never thought I wouldn't meet. When we do these events, we've done so many different like tailgates and we do remotes. And it's a lot of the, you get a lot of the same guys that come out and we always appreciate that. And we do love that. But you know, last night, there was a lot of guys, I'd never met Demos before. Like a lot of callers we've had forever that just came out. And I thought that was awesome. And we got to say, Demos tried to pull the card of, you know, it, you know, it's been Demos and Shaker for 15 years. He's like, I'd actually tell the board ops. It's now Demos on Shaker. Yeah. Well, and I was like, I was like, I can't do that seal. I can't, you know, I, I listened, Prince. I'd love to go ahead and change your name, but you're Demos in Shaker. I can't get to the on shaker. That's too much change for me. Yeah. It was very cool. Very fun. I'm sure I, I just one of those nights, you just, uh, you'll remember for a while. It was great. I think we should do it again next month. You just want some on. Yeah. Yeah. But maybe, sure.

Maybe we just don't invite some people. No, I said that's it. Oh, no, I'm kidding. I'm kidding. Who could that be? Well, because I think that was my favorite part of it is there was some ballbusting going on. And there was some needling. And I will tell you, I was not planning on being that cagey, but we just did five hours. We stepped right into this scenario. And you boy, your boy hadn't eaten. Yeah. And you boy didn't eat all night. It was kind of, I compared it to like your wedding. We're just, there was so much going on. Any time you tried to make it over there, it just never happened. But like, so what ended up happening is by the end of that, after about seven and a half hours of talking and Keith actually shorted us a half hour in the, uh, in the, in the email today, a special shout out. I feel like we always get shorted in those emails. I never get mentioned. I like that we got mentioned. It was a very nice shout out. It was seven and a half hours of talking by the end of it. We ended it when we needed to because another 30 minutes in Nick Wilson talking and, um, I would have been like a suspension handed out or, hey, what, we have this, you, you're saying this thing on YouTube? We needed a handler is what we needed.

We needed somebody to be like, now here's the food. Let's put the food in front of you. Now you guys eat and make sure you take care of yourselves because we stopped. We stopped. You're wedding analogies great and perfect because it's exactly how that worked. Uh, but we stopped taking care of ourselves. Is there reality in that? And more than one way for me, we're supposed to take care of our own selves. Uh, but we just stopped taking care of ourselves and instead just talked to everybody. But no, it was, uh, it was seriously great, guys. It really was. Thank you for coming out. Uh, anybody that supports the station. Thank you. And into everybody that showed up, whether they're in every day, uh, you know, host, uh, whether you're a part time or with us, we thank you guys as well. And I, I know sometimes I can be very, uh, irreverent and dismissive of things. It is so cool to work on the station and to be here 15 years in. And I don't think I'm making it to 20, but we'll see. Why aren't you making it? That's what there's only five years from now. You mean like physically, you're not going to make it? No, I think I'm going to make it physically. Okay. Good. Then I say a lot of things. Yeah. Yeah. And that eventually catches up with you. I am kind of the

ultimate, uh, volume shooter of just, I think we all know how this is going to go down. Don't, yeah? It's like it. It won't be today. It won't be tomorrow. Uh, no, you're the one that says, like 10 wrong things for my one. I'm the one that's going to get sniped. That'd be funny. It's going to happen. It'll be something I say is the one that gets us and everybody like, wait, well, hold on. Yeah. We knew somebody on that show was going to get caught saying something wrong and I would come out Jonathan that said it. And I would come out the day after and I would cut a scorching promo. And I would say this is a family man. This is my, this is my best radio friend. How dare you do this to him? He deserves better. And I would say like 10 things worse than what you got fired for. No, you have an easy out and I would get a promotion. Yeah. You have an easy out. You just be like, Jonathan's a company man. And as a, as a company man, he'd respect me taking the company line and saying, well, not everything in life is good. That happens. I think we both know that's not happening. Sometimes changes necessary. Sometimes people need to be punished for their words. I think he'd given his best take on the air so far. That was my, I didn't think

he had another one in him. 2 1 6 4 7 4 0092. And it Wilson says at Jake Peterlyn on social media, social media reactions on X powered by Shive and Jewelers Cleveland's premier jewelry store. We got quick hits coming up at 240. We got Ohio's Tate. That's Ohio's Tate of barstool sports. He's got his punishment list for the Ohio State schedule. We're going to get to Jordan Schultz actually going to join us. Late edition here NFL reporter at 420 today. And then Bobby Carpenter coming up at six o'clock today, former Ohio State linebacker and 971. The in Columbus, Big 10 network analyst as well. We'll talk the little Ohio State with him as well. 2 1 6 4 7 4 0092. Big thanks again about the fan of versus when we come back as the quarterback position made this Brown's team unlikable and shoot it in five minutes on 92 through the fan. Quick hits coming up in about 20 minutes. Nick Wilson, Jonathan Peterlyn back on the fan.

Still waiting on a guardians game time start there. We'll say it does. It really doesn't look that bad outside right now. And I haven't heard some any, any thunder rumbles now. Once we have a first pitch time, of course, we'll let you guys know we do have to have the Travis Pazana conversation today is well, but again, quick hits coming up in about 20 minutes. And the, the Dishon Shedore conversation rages on. And I think what is surprised me about all of this because I've known the starting quarterback for the 2026 season was going to be either Shedore or Dishon for like six weeks or six months now. So I even, even though I still was pretty enraged when they actually named Dishon the starter, I've known it was a possibility for a while. And so what my preparation for this season has been JP is I'm taking whatever I feel about Dishon and putting it over here. And I'm not allowing that to contaminate what I think about Mason Graham and KC

conception and Denzel Boston. And I'm trying to do the same with Todd Munkin, by the way, because it's you know, two weeks of Dishon, is it worth my feelings for the next four years, potentially, about a Todd Munkin. What is stood out to me and what certainly stood out to me last night talking with a bunch of people at the fan ofversary and just interacting with Brown's fans on social media heavily these last couple of days as we start doing predictions and teams tears and all this stuff. Uh huh. It's just how many people are not doing that. The weather and it's not just Dishon, by the way, but it is either Dishon and or Shedore, the dislike from Brown's fans for one both or either quarterback. I don't know. I said either after that, but has impacted their feelings about how much they actually like this Brown's team, which kills me. Because if we just separate the quarter back spot over here, I think there's tons to like with the actual Brown's team themselves. Yeah, but I think it's I think it's really hard. It's been hard for myself. There is a lot that I

like about this Brown's team, but it's been hard for myself to to say like, oh, I love everything about this Brown's team. When I know I don't love the quarterback and Dishon Watson. And I think that what he's done with his play over the previous few years is just enough for me to get angry about the whole ordeal. And then in turn, because they make the decision, you start to question some of the other people in charge like I liked Munkin initially. You like him more than I do. You always have. But I like Munkin. But as we've moved on with this and the decision has been made, it makes me question whether his judgment is right to all these other things. And then it makes me question some of the front office. And it just it just puts a damper on all of it. Yes, it does. Well, and I think this was highlighted by the cat Hickman thing. I don't think anyone would have cared if the if the Brown said, but name even Kirk cousins who I don't know any of us would have been crazy about. But if the Browns had gotten Kirk cousins this off season and brought them in and he was automatically the starter, I don't know the cat Hickman thing on social media goes the way it does. But people are looking for any place to put their rage about this Brown's team. And I

just I think what's so easy for me to compartmentalize one again, I had six months. And I did make sure to listen to every time they told anyone that would listen, I shot it down and said it's absolutely insulting and crazy. But I listen to every time somebody from that organization said nice things about to Sean, right? I just disagree with it. But it's not like that. So I've had time to to really prepare for this. But like, I don't know, I come back to listen, if we get eight weeks in and he's not playing very well and there are one in 17, I probably am going to have a really hard time with this. But I'm just airing on the side of if he's playing that bad. And so this is where you can't have it both ways if you're Todd Monkin. You can't say, DeSean gives you the best chance to win. And if he comes out those first two weeks and he just looks non functional or he just looks like he did in that second preseason game, there's you have no chance. Like you keep talking about in your and I understand why you're saying it. And I, I think you're saying it for good reason.

But you keep talking about they need, you know, indefatigable proof that DeSean is a broken tool. I like my word better. But was your word indefatigable? Okay. So I make sure I okay. Okay. That's fine. It cannot be defatigable. I think you can get that in two games. And I think there's a strong likelihood that they're getting it for two games. So I just, I can't bring myself to be like, that guy is going to poison one more second about how at least the players are saying here's how I get the front office thing. But when it comes to these players, I think, I think we're going to end up loving a lot of these guys. I'm really excited to watch these kids play. I'm going to put this in cooking terms for you since you like to cook. Okay. You ever have like a great dish and you have you use all sorts of nice meats and you have all sorts of nice sauces and all sorts of nice. I'm just trying to put this all in a boiling pot together. Okay. Okay. Is it is there meat and sauces? Me too. Yeah, just do. I'm making a nice I'm making a nice do you said cooking? We got we got meats. We got

sauces. We got all sorts of things. You got spices. I think about a real cage and flare to this. Okay. I don't know if you're a telly. That's it. It's too much of a gumbo. I know you're a cooking guy. You really want the difference between a stew and a gumbo. Okay. Chili, by the way. Here's the problem. Dishon Watson is the salt in this equation. All right. And we put too much salt in the dish. And so is the whole dish bad now? Yeah. You put too much salt in the dish. It can become bad. And that's the Sean Watson in this conversation. But you can remove the salt. He has, again, you're now your food networking me. You're doing you give you a different food analogy here. No, I'll pick apart that one too. All right, let's do it this way. Mustard on a hot dog. The hot dog can be good. The bun can be good. Catch up can be good. You put too much mustard on the hot dog. We have too much mustard in this hot dog. It's too much. I can just wipe the mustard. It's too much. We put too much on. I told you it's too much. But you wiped it off. I clearly not. I put too much in. Yes, if I get too hot, I put too much salt in stew. How do I get rid of too much salt in stew outside of just adding more beef? Is that the idea? Yeah, add more water. Yeah, just a bunch more water. And we leave

that thing out. Yeah, yeah. And then basically you can drain the liquid and then we put the liquid in. You still probably have a little bit, a little bit touch of salt there, but it won't be, it won't be killer. I got too much of a salt here. You've done the whole entire, you've done too much of salt. The whole salt container into the man. It all spilled. That's too much salt. It is not like an oops. I just I just poured a couple shakes too many. No, no, no, oops. The whole entire container of salt is now in this stew. The stew is not good anymore. No water saving this stew. That's to Sean Watson. Okay. It's too much salt in the meal. The meal's gone bad. And other ingredients in the meal could have been great, Nick. Could have been awesome. Could have been the best you've ever seen. What part did I, why, what accident did I do there? No, it was normal people could have accepted my salt in the stew. It was the imploring. It was imploring with my hands. It was like Ernest Angelie was standing in front of me. You be he. Oh, no, rat it to do it. It's a rat it to do it. It was a little mouse.

All the salt in the stew. It's too much salt, Nick. There's no recovering with this meal. Yeah. The meal's gone bad. Okay. But Sean Watson's the if I'm aware of what it is. But it's two weeks. Like it's anywhere from two to eight weeks. Eight weeks. It is like I said, this is where I am giving it to you. If it is eight weeks, it is going to be it's going to be tough to keep that salt out of that stew. Thank you. Yeah. But two weeks we're going to forget about the Dishon Watson era in 2026 by mid October. If Dishon Watson, I mean, I'll be exact. It's going by two weeks, but I don't I don't I maintain this. I don't think that he's just going to be gone by two weeks because we we hope and dream that that'll be enough in the Browns. I'll have the answer. I feel like I'm just using logic on that. Dishon Watson is a broken toy and the Browns aren't going to be able to hide it with. Oh, no. Well, operationally he looked great against Jacksonville when he threw four underceptions and flipped off the crowd. I understand I'm in the minority when I say eight weeks. I understand I'm in the minority

when I say that I think the Browns are going to give it again undeniable proof is what they're going to need before they before they bench Dishon Watson. But let's wake up and say six, seven, eight weeks, whatever that is. That's that we're entering half your season. That's that's a that's a whole bunch of football to have to watch with Dishon Watson. And yes, I do think it'll be easier to stomach. It'll be easier to take in when he's not the quarterback of the team. That's kind of the whole point. Wait, we're going to start to like a lot of these players a lot more when Dishon Watson is not around. I think we should like those players regardless because I think those players count towards the future more. And again, so maybe the point is, and again, I'm making an assumption here. So I'm I'm instructing people to do something to not do something that I'm doing. If if your assumption is he's going to start eight games, I would just stop making that assumption. It doesn't mean you're wrong, by the way. You I think you have a better chance of being right than I do. I'm just going to stop making my assumptions on things. Stop making your assumption after week two. I'm no, yes, I'm pointing to my hypocrisy. Stop ruining my my gumbo. But I do think like

I just if you don't know the difference between two games and eight games, why the hell are we then putting it on the rest of the team or putting it on Monkin? I just like I'm not trying to say enjoy it because we try to go full Paul Dolan because we don't know until he's actually gone after week two, we have to live with the idea that this team will continue to do the improbable because that's what they did all off season long. It sounds like snowball into me to use a psychological term. It sounds like we're expecting the worst, which I get why we do it. Because that showed us the entire time. I understand they programmed me to think the worst is always coming because every time I try to believe in this team, they give me the worst. Yeah, but it's this is I wouldn't say all the time. It's been the last two years. And by the way, one of the guys who did that of this to show the program experience, they've given me the worst outcome imaginable every time. I understand. I don't think to show on watch and defines this season because I think if he is that bad, I think he'll be out the door and Shador will be in the door. And I think and by the way, even if you don't like Shador, I think Shador might actually have a chance to play well. That's a different conversation. If you defines a season, if we look back on 2026 and we say

to Sean Watson to find the season, that's a different conversation than how I feel right now about this Brown's team and what they've done and making to Sean Watson. How many times have we gone in with a negative attitude about a team and then whether anything other than, you know, 650 winning percentage changes our opinion on that team. Like I just I hate to poison 90% of the gumbo for potentially 10% or 5% when eventually that 10% of the gumbo isn't going to matter anymore. And I think that's what the only thing Brown's fans have been hanging on to is the other percent. They've been trying to hang on to what'll happen with Quinshaw this year. What'll happen with the wide receivers? What's going to happen with the offensive line? We've been trying, but quarterback just matters so much in this sport that it's just hard to overlook at all. 216 474 0092 has the quarterback position made this Brown Brown's team, unlikeable. I'm getting very it's the gumbo. It's getting to me already. That's the salt in the gumbo. It is too much salt. I agree. Yeah, we should have drained it and put more water in new water, better water. New water has new water.

Has the quarterback position made this Brown's team, unlikeable to you? Quick hits in five minutes on 92, three, the fan. Mr moment in our show, use the rewind feature on the free Odyssey app presented by integrated restoration, your local experts in water, fire in storm disaster restoration. I'm not going to mention their comments because usually they are they're filthy, but the special shout out now that we're 40 minutes into the show for the 92 through the fan at YouTube, Chatsy and a little Dallas cowboy there. J Dub. That's not that's not the J Dub. That's that. That's a different J Dub. K slate David Bowles on other J Dub. I think we have two J Dub's there. And David and Troy. All right. Big thanks to everybody for for showing out. You guys make the world go round. All right. No chase for today on I don't know or corn lead on not taking a Friday off early. I know we got a big weekend coming up. Are they taking Friday off to see Jake in

there, but well, you know, some people just celebrate Labor Day harder than others. Yeah, I'm all right. People in radio that have four day weekends, by the way, must be nice. Must be real nice. I was hoping it'd be us. Oh, no, I definitely would take it if it was offered, but it was not offered. No, I mean, like we can turn the show into our offering of it, but that's just not how we roll. I mean, after that, just to do analogy that, honestly, I just sidebarred and just got argumentative about. I think maybe I have. I thought it worked. You disagreed. I'm glad you thought that. I'm glad you thought that. What part of it? If you weren't such a cooking guy, it might have landed a little bit better. Generic. You get some meat in there. You get some sauce. You get some spices. Yeah. Yeah. And the Sean Watson's brain. It's a whole bunch of salt. Just get some grain in there. And you're like, oh, we can just add water. We'll add water. We'll fix the dish. Oh, thank you, literal. Will we over there? Like great. You're going to fix my dish. Okay, great.

I think I already fixed your dish. What I should have done. Never mind. It doesn't matter. No, what should you have done? Well, I mean, if you give me a redo on the take to make it to make it Nick proofed, is that right? Can I do that? Let's see. All right. Waiter brings a dish over. Okay. Because you're at a restaurant now. Okay. Waiter brings the dish over. Yeah. And it looks like a pretty good dish. Yeah. You're in a pasta. You got all sorts of stuff. Yeah. You're already nice and tagging me. All right. And then and then they they come on over and they're like, eight, so this is on the fly. By the way. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. What do you like? Any Parmesan cheese? You know, we're at known as table. Like any Parmesan cheese. Can we get any? Have you served you up any? No, I don't know. For that pasta that you're ordering. Can any Parmesan cheese? Would you like that? And you're like, sure, I'd love that. And then just as they go to spill the, you know, do the Parmesan cheese. Oh, no. The whole chip. All right. On the pasta. All right. And that's all. Yeah. That's not. That's not. That's the. No, no, no. This is so much cheese. You can't even comprehend. This is the whole everything of cheese. And it's like, oh, no. I mean,

I can't. What am I doing now? Did somebody put angel dust in the cheese counter? My dish is my dish. That's the only way we're doing this. My dish is gone now. And and top of that, a whole bunch of salt. And you had Italian. A whole bunch of salt just got poured right in there as well. And you eat Italian food too much salt. To my back. To the two salt. I brought it back. Well, because the salt one works for a reason. Too much salt is gross in anything guys. It's just, it's gross. And just showing Watson's the salt. And it's a great. It could be a good. There's also salt. Good meal. Too much. Too much salt over. And all of it. And that's, that's the problem, guys. And no, there's no, there's no amount of water that can fix this stew dish that is apparently being fixed by our literal wooly over here trying to make, uh, trying to make my analogy suck. Well, Jack, do you think he pulled it off? No, because if the cheese fell on it, it's just, it's only good. Yeah. Oh, no. Too much. Too much. Too much cheese. There is such a thing. It's too much cheese. We changed it up on the fly. I should have stayed with the salt. It's like the guy from Jamira. I should have stayed with the salt breaking up with way known a writer. Because you guys know, you guys know, she was too chestily endowed. And she'd like going to bedroom too much. Yeah, that's what you just said right there with too much cheese.

You guys know the salt one worked. And the idea that now I've given you one that was, you could just just pivot off of when it was, it was, it was, it was bulletproof is what it was. I think not. I think not. This is like one of those preachers that like, I can't be killed by this snake as I am driven by the power of the Lord. The snake bites and they immediately dropped dead. That was your analogy. Most people would have been like, you're right. Too much salt in the dish does ruin it. That's a good, that's a good one. Let's, let's keep that going. Instead, I get a whole breakdown of all the different ways that a, the meals just not accurate according to your interpretation. One of these, one of these days, you'll, you'll, you'll be a better cook, little muckeroo. Yeah, maybe I doubt it. I'm, I'm an all right cook. I'm not, I'm not ever going to be a great cook. You got to want it. Yeah, you do. You got to want it. It's an effort game. I feel like a lot in the kitchens and effort game that I just don't have same with the analogy game. Let's get to quickets from the latest news and rumors around the sports world. You ruined it. To the sound bites you need to hear. It's quickets. Let me say, usually you're graded analogies. You should. It was a good one. You just ruined it.

All right, Bengals said coach Zach Taylor talked about something he secretly desires for his children on the fits with podcast. It is going to create a mental toughness for them. That's critical because they're going to face adversity. I love seeing my kids lose games because Brooks is in eighth grade. He's got some tremendous basketball teams and sometimes they lose in a Jamestown game. And I'm, I'm sitting back to thinking perfect. He threw two picks and they lost perfect. You know, because it doesn't need to be all easy going in high school and you got to have some adversity. And so I'm maybe in the minority sitting at Stans, but there's sometimes we're secretly I'm like, let's take those losses. You know, and so you can learn from it before you get in high school. Have you secretly rooted for your kids to fail? Well, my kid is three and a half Nick. Yeah. So I haven't come across a time. Do you ever get, do you ever just like when she's like trying to like sound out a word and you just go, that's not what this block is. And I'm throwing it against the wall. Yeah, I don't, I don't think she needs that adversity in life. I feel like I feel like she needs more people that proper up and make sure that she does all right. Yeah. I, but I also feel like even in the sports world of this, I understand wanting to build character.

I understand wanting to build adversity can be a good thing. I get all that. But if you want your kid to play pro, which I assume is the is where they want him to go. I wouldn't want my kid to own interceptions in seventh grade football. I just, I, you want to dominate. You want to make it where you, there's just no, there's no amount of mistakes that happened because most people that end up going and playing pro just straight up dominate seventh eighth grade football and it's nothing close. I also think there's this, this idea that adversity, that the more adversity, the better I would disagree. Adversity is one of the best ways you can learn lessons on this planet. It's also a great way to crush your spirit. So, you know, like the idea of like, ah, I was going to trust you the most. Right. I'm going to test you the most and I test me a little less. I've got, that's why I need with a solid analogy. It's a lesson, adversity. Test me a little less. That would have been bulletproof. Yeah. If I just hadn't shot those bullets at you, just me a little less on that one. Oh, my, just accept too much salt. Pretty good.

You know what? Pretty good. You're damn right. I don't want too much salt. I'm too much salt and there's two. It's bad. It makes it bad instantly. Rukters lost his 30 point favorites. Uh, uh, a, Shiono is not going to survive this. I, I don't know why they didn't fire Shiono today. This is awful. Uh, and not only did they lose to UMass, UMass was open 12 last year and, uh, they won 3721. Entering the game FPS teams favored by 29 plus points were two, 213 and 0 since 2024. Rutgers 16 point win. Uh, loss was the fifth of largest by a favorite of 25 plus points is 2000, just embarrassing. What's crazy about this is Rutgers is kind of been Rutgers under Shiono. The same way it was the first time. They had a couple high water marks. He's been right around a 500 team. So I was caught off guard by people suggesting this gets you fired. Because I've seen good, I've seen good schools get popped off by a random team. That being said, UMass is a special level of dog butt. And they were, they didn't have a single win last year.

Yeah. They were oh and 12. They didn't have a single game last year where they scored more than 26 points. They averaged 11 points a game last year and they waxed you. I can't remember who did it. But the Michael Sarah doing the Tony soprano. Michael Sarah, you have, you have, you have, yes, thank you. Uh, but say Twitter user posted that saying Brian Kelly when he gets Greg Shiono's job in two months and it's you have no clue what be your number one is. Yeah. Cause he's a code switcher. Is this payback for that? Yeah. That's fine. That's fine. They were having fun. All that salt men. You little too salty. There we go. Nicely done. Von Miller signed with the Cowboys late in the offseason. It took all preseason to secure the rights to his number 40 from fullback Hunter Loupke, who's won the number in Dallas since 2023. The eventual price at loopkey received a percentage of Miller's not how you say his name. I'm going to price you twice now to be bet. Just that day. It's lipkey. Lipkey. Yeah.

He's a fullback. I don't care. Lipkey received a percentage of Miller's chicken company greener pastures chicken. Yeah. Is one is potentially one season of wearing a number worth the upside of chicken for life. I thought this is pretty good swap. All things considered. Uh, you always hear about these valuations that, uh, I don't know. And I, maybe this turns into like no one Ryan beef in Texas, where it's just one of the things like, like Von Miller's chicken is just across the board in every grocery store in Texas and then a couple other states and is just awesome. And the valuation is massive. It's going to be way higher upside. I love this. You get them invested into the business. You give him. You cut them off some piece of that bread. This is, this is good. I like this. Good, good, good swap. What I like about it is, uh, money is temporary. $50,000 is temporary. And that chicken stock could go a while plus. You also, thank you very much. Get free chicken. So it's, there's, there's so many benefits to this. A's a fallback. He's going to need something to fall back on. I don't know that they're necessarily, I don't know if they

worked out in the details how much free chicken he gets each year, just because you own a part of the chicken company doesn't mean you necessarily get free chicken. If I own part of a chicken or meat company, I'm getting some of that chicken or meat. You know, also a part owner of this chicken company, which is be further, a lot of names. Furthermore, why it's a good bet. Uh, Patrick Maholms. Maholms are part of this. I think Maholms is betting on bad chicken. No, I don't think he did. I think he's going to side, I think he's going to side with some, some quality chicken there. You think he just walks through and he can just pick a good chicken out. He's like, uh, chicken over there's dog bleep. Funny with it. He goes, this is the chicken of champions. I got this whole like chicken of champions thing that is just hysterical to me. Would you buy, would you buy meat or chicken or anything like that just because of a, because of a celebrity that was on the cover of it or an athlete that was on the cover of it? I have bought Joe Thomas' Pacanja because of it. As day and answer. There we go. Yeah. I mean, it like it does work. I get it. I mentioned Nolan Ryan's beef. When I first moved to Texas, when I lived in Houston, one of the first things you do is you're like, Oh, Nolan Ryan's on every package of meat in the

entire state. I guess I'm buying some Nolan Ryan beef. You had some of Nolan Ryan's meat. A lot of people did. Yeah. A lot of people did. Oh, the 70s and 80s friend. A lot of people did. Just slaying that meat left and right. All right. This came out of the, uh, out of Minnesota. Uh, Kyler Murray has reportedly been arriving at Vikings practice on time. And they're like, good news. He's showing up. The bad news part of this is that, and this is where Vikings fans, I think they're just going to little overboard, but I'm not sure. They go, it's never a moment sooner. And he's usually one of the first to leave when practice ends. And so he's, he's not beating the charges. Remember back in Arizona, they put a stipulation in the contract when they gave him that massive deal that basically said the amount of times that he had to be in the building and was required to do actual studying because the MO on him was that he liked to play video games and he was not a first and last out guy. He was the farthest thing from a first and last out guy. If you're a Vikings fan, is it concerned you that Kyler Murray is basically being Kyler Murray at this point? Yeah. I think, I think your damage to enough from even though they've

had a lot of success, I can understand if they're damaged by just the amount of quarterback hopping they've done. And if they feel like this game of musical chairs is eventually going to have them on their ass, I get that. I do, especially if this is the one thing Kyler Murray's known for other than being a micro machine, I get it. I get it. But again, if he's on time, like I think that's, I think you are, I think you probably are going too far with that. He's not, he's not wait. He's never late. He's never early. But he's never late. And he never stays late either. You know, JP hurt people hurt. You know, that's just the way that the Vikings fans are hurt right now. I think they are. You're a JJ McCarthy watching Sam Donald go off yonder and winning a Super Bowl. Kirk cousins being Kirk cousins. I get it. You have to think like it like circa 2017. Ah, well, well, I there's 2018, 2019 when they when they signed Kirk cousins, you have to think they thought we'll get one in his next seven or eight years. We're going to get one Super Bowl. And then they keep getting close. And then they just keep getting yanked back.

They finished the year five and oh last season. Finished on a real high for those nine wins. You have KOC. You have an awesome defense. They probably should want more in life. But Kyler Murray is what they get. I actually think they're going to be a little bit better than people expect. They're going to be better than they were last year. I mean, I think that's going to be an obvious right? If you've got anything close to the defense of prowess that they had last season. Everyone anyone that seen my 2020 2016 tears. Well, no. I'm a little more bullish on the Viking. So John going chat GPT on that by the way. I know that is much nicer than in years past when you've made graphics. That one looks really nice. They also the one thing I had to get them to change is they did grades at the bottom. Okay. So like awful was like F and then the next tear up was like D minus and I was like I got a couple I kind of couple all encompassing that's not like you're actually good or bad. It's just you're better or worse than expected. I had to correct chat GPT. It's funny how mad people water on that. It's funny how mad people get about a chat GPT when they're like, oh, it's just AI slop and everyone gets all angry and it's like, hold on. You weren't going

to commission someone and pay someone to do to make this anyway. This is the perfect example when you should use chat GPT. It looks much cleaner. It looks much nicer and it's not as if it's like, oh, you're going to spend a hundred bucks on this to spend and make somebody else make it nice. Like, no, that wasn't going to happen. You're about to get a lecture from Meredith on chat GPT. You better watch out. I'm going to not take that call. Is it time to have a conversation about Travis Pazana? We're going to do that in five minutes on 92 three to fan.

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