The Killer B's: Joel Blank & Jeremy Branham
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Back it in, be a man and back it in. Troy, when you back in your truck and then you leave, what do you have to do? I pull straight out. I mean but either way you're backing out at some point, right? No one's abating that. Back it in, be a man and then pull straight out, Brian. That's the moral of the story from a man, Troy. It doesn't matter regardless if you're pulling in or if you're backing in and you're backing out or your vice versa, you're pulling it. You've still got to look for cars coming left and right. Right, so what is the matter? You do it, you back it in. Back it in between two cars and if it takes you two more than two times to get straightened up to come straight in between the cars, you shouldn't be backing in. Brian's trying to change the topic because, you know, he's getting killed. You got no one's debating that. Why would you have to back in if you're going to have to back out either way? There's a lot of reasons why 713 780 ESPN. Let's go back out to the HR and P listener. I Lance from Baytime. I got from Crosby, a guy from Baytime. I know how this is going to be too bad. This is going Jeremy's way. I got the wrong part of the city calling it. Lance, you pull in or do you back in? You back in every time because we live in Texas, specifically Houston. Most people will drive in with big trucks and the turning radius reversing is a lot easier than if you're pulling into a parking spot, immediately you're like directly to your right. You're going to clip the car so you swing wide to the left and back it in. There you go. Appreciate it, Lance. The Baytown, our very own Baytown body. So you got to cross people. People can't drive a baytown boy and say they back it in 7196. You're a bad word if you don't back it in. I'll let you use your imagination as to which bad word that he's saying. He said it about Brian. He didn't say it about false manhood at stake here. Oh, you got it back. I don't think it's false manhood. When Troy says you got to straighten it out if it takes you more than two times. Five, three, two, you got a problem way easier to back in as a UPS driver. We're we're trained to always back in when parking. So this is a professional driver. UPS is a much bigger vehicle though. Backing in gives you a faster escape. There's no doubt about that. It is a faster escape. Now it might be marginal. It might be very, very little, but it is a fast. I will concede that point. It is faster to get out if you do it the way Jeremy does, but I would argue what you just said. It's marginal and not really worth the difference. I care about my family. I want to see them. Three seconds matters to me. Three seconds added up. Three hundred and sixty five days a year. It just shows I love my family more than you do. Well, you're the math major. How much time is that? I need to calculate her. Blankers. Can I borrow your abacus? And I got to catch a stray off of that. You totally did give him a stray for no reason. Director anger over here. So much easier to back truck in than out. Only exception is a diagonal parking spot. Yeah, those can be a little bit tricky. I'll only back in whenever I have a trailer. No need for me to answer this. Troy nailed it. What happens when someone is behind you? That one is a little bit tricky. Now here because there's multiple ways to get to a single parking spot. Like if I notice there's somebody behind me, I'll just kind of like go around and then let them pass and then just kind of get on their tail and then back in. If you back in with a hitch, you're a POS. Just don't let the hitch hit the vehicle behind you. It's easy to do if you have a hitch. Just don't let you have a camera on the back of your truck. A lot of people are saying that I usually don't use my camera to back in though. No, no, not really. I'll use my camera to like to get really close to the car, but in order to get in the line, I don't use your side measures. Yeah, I'm saying to know how far back you can go and Brian's trying to act like I do have to back in again, you still have to back out. So I do have to use that camera. Let's go back out to the HRMP listener line. Robbie from Baytown. You're in the hive. What do you think wrong? How you doing today? Hey Robbie, what's going on? Baytown. You got crossbeat. Now you got date. I think I think you're the birch out of them both, though. Like you sound like Troy. It does sound like a date. You say it's from Dayton? Yeah. Oh, I guess Kevin is a lot of the construction company that I work for. It's a requirement that you have to back your truck to the parking spot. Whether you're in the plant on company property or anything requirement. Do you know why when you get out? People can drive. Do you know why? Do they tell you why it's a requirement? Yeah, because you have better visibility. When you pull out a true forward, then we didn't use back out and you're less likely to hit somebody. Okay, there you go. Thank you for the information. Thank you for the insight. That's very well explained. Again, backing in is the play. Josh from Seabro, it would depend on where I'm parking, but if I'm next to the building, I'm definitely backing into the spot because I'm always loading and offloading. That's the other thing. If you're loading something from your truck or out of your truck, it's easier, closer to the door. Brian's closer to the door. If you are closer to the building. No, look, I'm building a fence right now. So I've had to back into my driveway quite a few times recently for the exact reason to be able to have the quicker route to unload the lumber. But I mean, in a regular parkinglet situation, like here at work, there's no reason for it. Brian's really a victim of the signal, right? I know. If he's getting calls from the lights and down in the gallery, he might have won this one. I'm gonna just continue to pour salt in the wound here. I'm gonna put this on Twitter at Jeremy Brown. Do you have a truck? Do you back in A comfortable with my take or be pooling? You're the only one. You're very much to my. I can be on the right side of history, but still be the minority. All right. 713780 row ESPN, Demico Ryan's the other day. He said that, uh, he said that Jordan Love is the best quarterback. The Texans will have played to date. We had a, we had somebody that texted in mansplaining to us that coaches, they, they have coach speak during the week and they talk up their opponent. Thank you for that. We appreciate it. The coach speak aspect of what Demico Ryan's doing is doing. Same thing. Um, with all respect to Demico Ryan's and could it be coachpeak? Absolutely. It probably is coachpeak. But for the sake of the conversation, I disagree with Demico Ryan's. Here are the best quarterbacks the Houston Texans have played to date. I don't love this guy. I think as a turnover machine, I wouldn't trust him with my organization and the playoffs, but at the top of the list is Josh Allen. Now I don't disagree with Demico Ryan's too much. I have Jordan Love is the second best quarterback the Texans will have played to date. I have Sam Darnell three Caleb Williams four, Anthony Richardson five Trevor Lawrence six and then Drake May seventh. Now the last three kind of interchangeable in my opinion, but again, Alan Love, Donald Williams, Richardson Lawrence may disagree at all. What are your seven? Joe's gonna have Jordan Love at the bottom, obviously. No, he's not the bottom because there's a lot, because there's Drake May involved and Trevor Lawrence is, is hot garbage, but I had Allen number one. I had Darnell number two. I had Jordan Love number three. I had Richardson four or I said Caleb for Richardson Lawrence and May. Okay. So we had the same last three. Yeah. You had Williams ahead of Richardson. I did. I had Williams Williams. Say one more time. Just one through several quick. Okay. I have Alan, then I have Darnell, then I have love, then I have Caleb, then I have Richardson, then I have Lawrence and then I have May. Okay. So the only thing we had different was Love and Darnell. You had Darnell to handle up. We flip very interesting for this year. Yeah, there's going to be a texture to get you're going to see this too. You're going to see this this weekend, Brian. We Jeremy and I have the same top three. Josh Allen, Jordan Love, Caleb Williams. Actually, I know it's hard to understand Darnell three. So we flip flop three and four. I have Caleb Williams three, same Darnell four, where we get different in our list is towards the bottom because I have five, six, seven as Trevor Lawrence, Drake May and then Anthony Richardson, dead last. He doesn't back in his truck and he has Anthony Richardson last. Does a lot of Richard Street last? Drake May move the ball more. Okay. All right. He is big shot down the field. What is your top quarterbacks the Texans have played to date 713 780 ESPN. If Jerry Jones gave one oh five three the fan and ultimate them, the Cowboys are the hosts. Who do you think Odyssey would pick in that dilemma? 713 780377 six. It's the bees on ESPN 97 five and ESPN 92 five. You listening to the killer beads with Joel Blanket, Jeremy Branham. On ESPN 97 five and 92 five. Broadcasting live from the Veritex community bank studios. 1290 best segment at all. Had all week two five eight five. Can we back into some more sports talk, please? I'd rather pull in some more sports like that. You know, it's a good conversation when you have those two texts three two, two, seven pass it in a patty here. I always pass it in a for a while respect to pass it in a baddie a six six three zero. Thank you Lance. That is 100% the reason turn radius. If you drive a standard crew cab truck, it's about turn radius, not like BMAC's baby truck. We didn't have a Lance call, did we? Yeah, we did. Oh, there was a land. Yeah, there was a land after Troy. My bad. I thought he was calling the same size. So I thought he was calling one of us Lance. You guess measure? No, but I can eyeball it. You don't know if you drive the same truck as the texture? No, I'm saying you. Yeah, he didn't the texture didn't say me though. Oh, the texture said I know, but he's saying turn radius is the reason we drive basically the same size truck and we're on opposite end. So it's I don't think it's really drive my truck with a little bit of respect. I got cut off today, by the way, no, I would have been the one delivering the bird. The big truck with a big trailer cut me off. I actually respected the move when I passed in my cap. I promise you, I promise you. Why did you respect the move? No, no, no, I respected the move. I just, not that I deserve the cut off, but he was trying to get over immediately because the exit was rapidly approaching. And there was a lot of vehicles behind me. So his move was either cut me off or miss the exit. I can respect the move. I respect. So if you're out there, big, which he probably listened to me now, Brian, a big truck driver with a big trailer that he's pulling, I respected the move that cut off was okay. Okay, with me. If you thought I was mad, I was not. I understand where you're coming from. I think I can show what handle that differently. I definitely would have had without question on a handle differently. And it could have ended differently if there was contact made with if you said there was all that traffic behind you. Yeah, I slowed down though. So I didn't allow them in a little bit. What if the people behind you didn't see you slowing down? Well, if they were to hit me, they would have had to pay because that's how that's how it works. I've been hit on the rear a couple of times. No, did he? Jerry Jones is in a TIFF with 105 the three, the fan. Ultimate him. He says that he owns the station, which isn't technically true, but they are in bed with the Cowboys. So it's kind of true. And a lot of people are like going to bat for these hosts, which I understand like I'm on the host side of this too. It's a very dangerous place to be whenever you are the flagship of a very specific team. But people are like, Oh, you know, the host or, you know, whatever, blah, blah, blah, blah. And people are saying that, you know, if Jerry Jones did fire him, that there's going to be everybody's gonna be mad at him. All of this stuff. The question that I have is if Jerry Jones gave 105 three, the fan and ultimately Jerry Jones went up to him and he said, okay, here's the deal. I want those hosts fired. And if you do not fire them, I'm pulling the Cowboys and we're going to your competitor. We're going to your rival. If Odyssey and Odyssey is the station that owns or the company that owns 105 three, the fan, if Jerry Jones went to Odyssey and said it's the Cowboys, or it's the host, who do you think the who do you think Odyssey would pick? I think there's no doubt in my mind taking every right versus wrong out of this equation. I think Odyssey is going to go with the Dallas Cowboys and they are going to release those two announcers because the Dallas Cowboys are big money and professional sports teams are big money. And when you're in that market and the Cowboys are as big as they are in that market and with the network and with all the sponsors and everything that goes with it, I don't know all the details of their contract. But I got to believe that that is a pretty, pretty potent deal for the station in terms of finances. And I think that that's the way you go. I don't think it's going to get to that point. I don't think that Jerry Jones is going to do it. I really don't. And I certainly hope he doesn't because they don't deserve to be fired. But under this scenario, this ultimatum. Jerry Jones says the Cowboys are it's the host. I have zero down in my mind that Odyssey would say, I am sorry, Mr. Jones. We will find somebody else. Keep the Dallas Cowboys on our station. Yeah, no doubt about it. No doubt because the money talks in the almighty dollar means a whole hell of a lot. If you got the Cowboys on your station, look, I think that I'm a little skeptical on Jerry Jones is going to handle this going forward because he doubled down when he had a chance to actually apologize or say he was wrong. And then it's going to get real dicey because from what I was reading on Twitter this morning, at least one of the two hosts decided that they weren't going to back down either. And they were going to just tee off and blast, which is either the station PD and powers that be saying, you do you go get them? Because we're getting a whole lot of run out of this or you're flirting with your own and not that they wouldn't find another job because from what I've heard, it's a fine line. It is a fine line. But I don't think that Jerry would fire them. And the host going back at Jerry is radio gold. It is fantastic. It is awesome. It is great drama. It is great intrigue. I'm sure they had a bunch of people that wouldn't ordinarily listen to that station or to them during that time slot that are listening. So this this is ratings goal. This is great. And again, I ultimately don't think that Jerry Jones will have them fired. But if given the ultimatum, they would get rid of those hoes like that just like that. And the key is is that again, we don't know what the discussions were behind the scenes. But the fact that they made four segments out of it this morning and that people on Twitter were literally showing how they were pulling over the side of the road or were not going to go into meetings because they this was can't miss radio means that it is radio gold for them regardless. I think they know they can call Jerry Jones bluff because of the public and media outcry to his reaction or what he said so far. I mean, he certainly is I mean, as the owner of the Cowboys, if you really wanted to, he can make this happen. But I don't think he's I don't I don't see his advisors and him ultimately once he has time time to calm down feeling like it's worth the negative outcry. So they're going to call his bluff and push him knowing that Jerry's ultimately not going to want to take the backlash for making the move as bad as he looks now. He would look 10 times worse if he actually followed through and also fired them. And I don't think he wants that either. But at this point in his life and his career, I could see him doing it anyway. Not not the conversation. I agree. I told you which way I think and if you take the local angle of this, if Cal McNair and not the Cal McNair would do this because Cal McNair is an upstanding human being who has never ever quit has a great admiration for life and great desire and never taps out never submits. He is a role model for us all. If the Baytown baddie in the show ticked off Cal McNair and Cal McNair doesn't really have this personality, but they did you think Cal McNair could have those guys fired? If you really want to know this. P&P. Now they have it. I mean, P&P have a great relationship with the Texans like they would never cross that line and Cal would never be that upset with them. But if something did happen, would Cal be able to pull that off? No question. Yeah. Absolutely. He could. The Rockets have had something like this with Ennis back on their flagship with more. I was in the middle of it, but he didn't ultimately have fired though, right? They just like stopped doing interviews with them. It was more than one time. It was once with Tad and it was once with once with Darryl that spilled into another with Darryl where he went on just to blast Josh. Yeah. Darryl was cool enough to say I'm not trying to get his job. Tad wanted him fired. But the ultimate didn't get fired, but that also wasn't the owner. It was also the fact that we had several meetings to try and talk to Tad about what Jerry's dealing with. Like you want to talk about a really, really bad optic right here? Yeah. Go ahead and try and follow through on that because he wanted his press pass taken away too. And you just can't do that. That's a James Dolan move. And if y'all didn't talk him out of it, he probably could have had that happen. No question about it. Andy wasn't the owner. Like he wasn't even the owner. Ennis also had the thing with Kubiak. Whenever Kubiak would do the show with Hillman and Rich. He would like the coach would actually go on the radio each and every week. Ennis got blackballed from having that segment. Like he could no longer be in part apart of asking Kubiak question. So if you don't think that Jerry Jones could have those hosts fired, you don't know what you're talking about. That's right. That's exactly right. Didn't Clann get suspended for something he tweeted about Dusty Baker? Well, not only that, but then he had to he said he called James Harden a cup. Yeah, but different thing, different thing. I think he faced the music for that too. Yeah, but I think he got not arguing with you. But I also think most recently he tweeted something about Dusty. I think that's true. Like for a show or a couple of shows. I mean, not to not to spill inside information. But Jeremy, do you remember the late of the late night host we had on 16 briefly? Matthew Jureki? I do. He got fired because the Texans were unhappy with what he was saying and he got he lost his job. Not to spill inside information and then wait five seconds to say something. I don't work for 16. Jureki's not in the markets. I don't. I don't know. I'm cool. Spilling it. I just the setup was funny not to spill it. But here he is. Here's the we're just gonna refer to him as the guy that used to be on airways. Here's his name. No, I mean, I I've been calling out after Jureki, but he was funny. He was he was good to me. I thought he was a talented house, but I think he I think didn't he like read like a state of the union, like in a really like dumb voice and pretend like he was cow. Maybe he is, but I think Cal did the press conference thing and he was playing the press conference. He called him like, you know, he went after Cal a few times. He went after the Texas management and he got pushed out pretty quickly. I got I got reprimanded twice talking about the Texans. Whenever they hire Jackie Easterby, I was like, they're giving way too much power to a chaplain. They reprimanded me. Don't say that. You don't know. You don't know what's going on. Okay, my bad. And then whenever they cut Deontay Forman, I got a call in between during the show. I you can't don't talk about a Brian cutting Deontay Forman like that. You can't say that in a like it was a bad thing. The irony of me having to be the home team hitman was I had to be the guy that had to call up all the time and say, talk to the the the the talent or the PD to talk to the town. You can't say that. And then two days later, later, later, I had to call them and say, Hey, can you do us a solid and take down the podcast of Daryl putting his foot in his mouth and mentioning multiple players that he's going to get fined for? And it was just it was uncomfortable all the time. Yeah, Jerry Jones can have those guys axed those contracts and the money you talk about the fact that I'm here. It's a right to work steak, but the highway to hell with the suite, with all the tickets, with all the sponsorships, with the fact that it creates outside revenue. They're not good. That's that's a no-brainer decision. 6/8. Yeah. Key from L.A. If y'all had Jerry Jones on this radio station, would y'all have done the same thing? Probably. Yeah. I don't think we had him on as a guest. It's different that if we had him as the flagship, because you're going to get your wrist slapped real quick. If it's if it's the flagship, but even if I was the flagship, I would have done the same thing. Now to be fair to the host, I don't think they ever crossed the line. They would get fired if Jerry Jones wanted him fired, but they never crossed a line at all. No, they didn't. And I thought they did it as as diplomatically as they possibly could instead of just saying, hey, Jerry, you said this, you haven't done anything like it. You could have gone at him a lot harder than they did. I think he was having a bad day. He knows he's wearing it, and he just took it out on them. You know, the theory that's out there is that he did that kind of cunningly. If that's a word, it is with the idea of taking the distraction of how bad the cowboy is against the lions, not a bad. This is hey, stop looking over here at the fire and look over here at this new fire that I'm creating. So you're not talking about this fire that actually matters. That's the theory that's out there. 8807 tonsil almost fired, Branham. Yeah, it's a good point. Good times. I couldn't say his name last year for the second half of the season. All right. One more on the truck thing. Robert's been waiting for a long time and we don't want to keep Robert waiting for a long time. 713780 ESPN. Robert, you're the final for the humble Brian. Robert from humble. You're the final verdict on pulling in or backing in. What is it? What's the right thing to do here, Robert? Back in. It's always backing in because the simple fact is that if my car can't sort, and I need to get a jump, then I can either pull another vehicle right in front of it and start it. Now, while while I got y'all here, isn't that, isn't that radio station that took on Jerry? Isn't that an affiliate of ESPN? No, it's Odyssey station. Okay. Well, then they never mind. All bets are off because if a radio station that was backed by ESPN said that kind of stuff, I mean, Jerry's not going to take on the mouse. Yeah. Yeah, a little, I mean, yeah. Okay. Appreciate the call, Robert. A little different because ESPN is kind of like independently, you know, owned whenever you use the name, affiliate stations. They're not really like, we wouldn't have national ESPN support if we got in trouble. No, but also remember we had national ESPN coming at Lance. Sure, sure, sure, sure, sure, but that's not how Robert meant it. Robert meant it that Jerry Jones wouldn't take on the big bad ESPN if they were an ESPN station. That's, that wouldn't help us. We wouldn't have corporate ESPN. Oh, yeah. Yeah, that's, that's the way Robert made the rock. That was a great point by Robert, you know, if you have your, if you need your battery charged, if both people, if both people pull in your cross from someone who's going to help you jump. Yeah, if you need your, well, that's, that's, that's a million, both. Well, okay. Well, it's the same as flag and someone down to come. It's not the same because you had, you only have one option in your scenario, where my scenario, I have any option that I see moving, you have to go find the person, they have to be in the building. You have to have had this exhaustive search on finding that one particular car versus anybody can potentially be an option. He does have a point there because otherwise to have someone jump you and you pulled in, then you could have to, you have to have someone pull up on either side of you as opposed to just driving right up to the front of the grill of the car. I mean, you can also have, I mean, there's two spots on either side of you. You can have someone jump. There's cars in both spots. Brian, can you grab this football with the reach in that you're doing a Tom Brady, you got to prove for 10% stake in the Raiders. What does this mean for his Fox job? Should Fox be upset? 713 7803776. It's the BZ, ESPN 975, ESPN 9225. You're listening to ESPN 975. You're locked in with a Killer B's on ESPN 975 and 925, live from the Veritex community bank studios. Here's Joel Blanken, Jeremy Branham. All right, Tom Brady, he got approved for his 10% stake in and what is this music? You're all over his tunes today. I didn't expect, what instruments you play right there? Coming off guard, I'm trying to like, you know, tease the segment here and get into the segment. I was like, what is that instrument? That got me feeling a little good. It's not as emo as the other story of old school, like, you missed a lot of emo to this. This is, this is like a sign of a family stonish. It's beastie boys. This is the spec. He went from emo to basketball boys playing the whole spectrum today. I just went down my playlist to pull a bunch of songs. What can I say? I like it. They were mixing up the bumper music coming off guard. All right, Tom Brady got approved for 10% stake in the Raiders. What do you think Fox is thinking here, Blankers? This is crazy. And the more I was reading about this, the more this is a bigger deal. And if I'm Fox, I want a refund. I want my money back. I want this contract done with Tom Brady because he got 10%. This is what this goes back to like when Magic Johnson had staking the Lakers and then wanted to coach or even do broadcasting because of the fact that he has ownership. He is now banned from attending any other team practices cannot be in any of the team's facilities, cannot be part of any broadcast production meetings or interviews in person or remotely can't do them at all. And he cannot criticize teams or referees. So then what am I paying $375 million for 10 years for if I'm Fox? Because to me, it also opens the door for me to get the best analyst that I think was out there in Greg Olson back to my A team. And I can get out from under this $375 million deal for Tom Brady. I didn't think it was that good to start with. Maybe he'll get better and he doesn't know the game. But the fact that he're taking all of this away so that he doesn't have the ability. This is what this is a dream for Tony Romo. Because this is the deal Tony Romo wants because he doesn't want to go to the practices and he doesn't want to go and interview the players. This is the things that you're supposed to do when you're doing the the TV. And now as part of the game on TV, yeah, you better be talking about the X's and O's because you can't say that was a bad call. You can't say anything about the referees. You can't talk about other teams, especially as it relates to players. What are you paying for? Um, okay, I slightly disagree here. I will start off by saying I don't believe in paying. I shouldn't say this because I am a broadcaster. I don't believe that you should pay broadcasters heavy money. There's 32 teams in the NFL. You start looking at Fox CBS, NBC, Amazon. The you can pay the 17th best play by play guy and the 17th best color guy $1 million a year. And that game's going to pull the same ratings as the 18. So I'm not a big believer in spending big money for broadcasters. I think that they're just giving away money for free quite frankly. You can find really good play by play guys and all the play by play guys would do it for a million dollars a year. Yeah, you get your dances of the world that are making 40 or whatever. But what's the point? I love dance. Good cooks. Um, no one's tuning into the NFL games to listen to the broadcasters. Now, if they're really, really bad, they might, you know, not tune in. They might go away, but you can find the 20th best play by play guy and the 20th best color guy that would be really good. That would do a good job. That's not turning viewers off and still pull in the same rating. So I don't believe it is sound business strategy to pay broadcasters tons of money. I want to preface it with that. Now, do I think Tom Brady's going to be a lesser broadcaster because he's not in production? And it said they couldn't be there in person and he couldn't zoom in. Right. He could have the phone there. He could easily be on the phone. The way that I read it, he could be on the phone. I don't think that's, I think it says remotely. So I think you said zoom. The one I said saw the verbiage was you can't, yeah, because if you're somewhere else and you dial in. I think that he could be on the phone. I don't believe it's okay. I'll concede that point. Whatever. You can't even be on the phone. Hey, producer, ask these questions for me. Hey, director, these are the questions I want to know. The director's doing most of that work anyways. Like the director's the one that's building out the graphic or at least the production team. They're the ones that are building out the graphics. They're the ones that are really leading the show. And then you have the Brady's and the color commentators and the play by play guys that are also involved in that. And they're reading it and they're like, okay, they know it. They know about it after the meeting. This is the stuff we're going to go through to the show. This is the run of show. These are our talking points. But the color guy does not need to be there in terms of the broadcast suffering. The fact that Brady not being a production meetings regardless of the medium of communication is not going to force the broadcast to suffer at all. Brady's going to be the same color guy, even though he's not at the production meetings, that the critical of the officials, like I think you can still say that a call was not properly made. Now you're not going to dive in and be like, Oh, these guys are awful. And these guys are brutal. Was Brady going to do that anyways? The criticizing teams, I think it's a very gray area. I don't think he wants to like, I don't think the NFL wants him to look at a specific player and like just absolutely rip them. I don't think that we're going to notice a difference with Tom Brady is the color commentator pre ownership and post ownership. I think he's going to sound the exact same. I disagree in terms of the color analysts going to and be not just the interviews, but the practices and being involved to where you have those intimate conversations that aren't suitable for air that you find out Intel that you can then translate to the broadcast about the game plan for that week or injuries or, you know, different things with different players and the Intel that goes with a week to week with every team in the league. And so I think that there is plenty to be gained there and a guy that carries his clout. A lot of guys are going to open up a lot more to a guy like that. So missing all of that. Yes, he can ask those questions. And then the other question is, can he, can he give the answers? Can he talk about what they found out for him? Because he's talking about teams and he's talking about players. Yeah, I think you'll be able to. I don't think that you're going to notice a difference with Tom Brady. I really don't. I think that what we've heard from Tom Brady is a color commentator will not change. I think it's pretty good. Yeah, I did too. I think that he's getting much better. I don't I didn't mind listening to him. I think Greg Olson is definitely great. Brady's improved quite a bit over the first few weeks. I like to listen to Brady. Now what I tune into a game only because Tom Brady's calling it no, but I also wouldn't do that for Greg Olson. I also wouldn't do it to Jim Nancy. He's my best friend. We talk all the time. And honestly, to me, I mean, I mean, I wouldn't pay Tom Brady or any broadcaster 300 million for because I agree with Jeremy's point. But as far as what he brings to the table, I'm not tuning into Tom Brady. I'm not paying Tom Brady because of the conversation he had with the team's OCs. I'm paying him and having him on the broadcast because his mind as an NFL Hall of Famer greatest quarterback of all time is being in reacting to what he's seeing on the field and telling us, you know, what play is going to happen, what he thinks of the scheme, blah, blah, blah. It's not really the conversation he had in a conference room with the players. But he's going to get so much out of the guys he's talking to. We really don't know that it's certainly possible. It's certainly possible. And I agree with a lot of the points you make are good points. And you're right, like players would be more open to talking to Tom Brady than Kevin Parkard. Yes, or some random director, you know, that looks like Brian. No offense. He's probably a very good looking. Like, yeah, you're right about that. But we don't know that Brady's actually doing that. We don't know if Brady is approaching his players or these coaches and being like, Hey, you know, give me the good stuff. We don't know. It could be. He could be. We just have no idea. Right. Because a lot of guys are really involved in it in that practice and after practice. Like Romo, you said it. Well, no, probably don't want to do it. Yeah, he they said early on he was all about it. And now he doesn't even want to show up until right before the night before the game doesn't want to go to any practices or meetings or anything. And because he got so much credit for all the ways that he was reading plays that people thought he was better the most. I will ask you guys then because of the fact that because I agree with you, there's plenty of good play by play guys out there and guys that can call games. But we just got done talking about Al Michaels and Bob Castis. Yeah, it's also going to be noticeable if they're bad. Sure. So there's a fine line between, yes, you could pay a couple guys a million dollars each. Right. But they still have to be at a certain level. Otherwise, it is going to be noticeable for people. No, they had to be competent. They can't be they can't be bad to where you're turning them on. I'm not turning off Al Michaels. I'm watching Amazon. I'm watching Al Michaels. I don't think that Al Michaels is very good. I don't think Al Michaels is a top 100 play by play guy in the world right now at this stage. It used to be used to be number one. But I'm not turning him off because it's the NFL, which proves the point of you're not watching NFL games for the broadcasters. Yes, they can't be incompetent and poor to where you're like, I can't listen to this and flipping it off. Like I did do that with Bob Castis. I was going to say there's not an NFL. Yeah, I'll turn off Costis. I don't mind listening to Michaels because he can let Herb Street talk part of that too is the sport. Like if Costis was calling the NFL, would I turn off probably not because NFL is more national. I have more interest in national NFL than I do in Yankee Royal Baseball. Quite frankly, I have no problem turning that off. And then your point about the like you you did this with the Rockets for years, you were at shoot arounds and you know, I do that with you of age. There are certain play by play guys that are there for shoot around, whether it's the day before, whether it's that that morning. Same thing with some color guys. There's some that don't, there's some that don't and are the ones that are going to shoot around better than the ones that don't. I don't think so. I think it's that's just more about the summation you give, right? It can be. Yeah, especially with play by play like for for color when you know you had coaches that didn't want you any part of it. Just do your bet. Do your best and I'm not going to get mad at you no matter what you say because I don't want you in my practice, Jeff and Gundy or Kevin McHale that would say I want you there every day because if you're going to be talking, I want you to talk from a position of knowledge knowing that this is what we're trying to do defensively. This is what we're trying to do against this player. It's a little different when it's you though versus the national guy that's coming in for one off because you don't trust him as much as you do like your team personnel too. Yes, you're not really telling, you know, local guys telling the story of the team where the national guy is really not. But I think that you're to your point on like turning would you turn it off? You have to have an alternative. So if you've got an alternative on the radio or another broadcast, then it's easier to say I'm not listening to that. I'd rather listen into my home guys or it's Bravo. Instead of watching Bob Costas, you're turning on real housewives. But then you're not watching the game. Right. Right. Right. But the alternative can be a hundred different things. But I'm saying if I'm turning him down, if I'm turning up the volume, I'm still and still watching the game. I got to have another way to listen to the body. I want to hear somebody calling the game. But if you're muting the TV or the television stations, not losing the viewer, no, they're not losing the viewer. That's so again, why are you paying? Yeah, I'm saying for my own personal preference, if I'm going to turn off a Bob Costas, then I want to turn on the ESPN radio feed or something to where I can hear Shambi or somebody else calling the same game. 0 7 2 1, calling is worth is not good. But check Sunday night football ratings. I think calling is worth all right. He's not my favorite. He takes a lot of strays. But they all do. They all take a lot of strays. Every single one of them. Why? Because everybody's watching the NFL and it's fun to mock and ridicule. Yeah, I think that some guys deserved it more than others. I think like when you talk about like Phil Sims or guys in the studio that get kind of really just tragedy for the sake of being tragedy, as opposed to Collins word played the game. He does like to study the game. I think he's very knowledgeable at the game and he takes a lot. Sometimes I think it's a lot unfair. Yeah, I would agree with that. I think Collins was better than like the public perception. 6357 Gary Danielson and Brent Musburger were the worst to listen to and Bama would play. I don't think he means I think he means Nestle. I think he means Brad Nestler. Maybe he doesn't. Maybe he's going back. Maybe he's going back. That was that was no because remember Brent was doing the game with him when he liked AJ McCarran then girlfriend. That's just a long time ago. There it is. Like Nestle has been with Danielson for probably 10 years. Still doing games. They're doing one of the games the last weekend. They're doing the top big 10 game ever since they've been retired whenever that was the honestly. Honestly, I think Nestlers a couple years. I think Nestlers entering costus Michael's territory. I didn't like the list in the other day. No, he's and he's getting real opinionated outside of games and stuff too, which I don't think they're very fond of. Oh, really? If you get him on the radio and he just starts spewing bullets on the NCAA and stuff and they're like, Oh, hey, yeah. But yeah, no, I think Nestlers lost his fastball for. He's he's had a hell of a run. He and there's another guy looks just like him too that has done the game's forever like Nestler. Yeah, and sounds like him too. Tim Brando. Oh, Brando's on Fox. Brando's a very nice man. Yeah, he is. Nestler and Brando both have been a top of their game for a long, long time. I don't think they look like each other. I think they might sound like each other, but I think both had the comb over. I don't think so. Well, it's kind of gone now. Yeah, Brando's like, you know, that's just kind of lost his like going bald, I think. Costas and Verducci actually cringe every time cost is a super cringe. Verducci's pretty cringe. Verducci takes those long, dramatic causes. And it's like what you're saying in time with a calendar. That interesting. What are you doing here, Verducci? You got a manager in game. He wants to do it as quick as possible. And you're like, Dave, yeah, Robert, last inning when you had a runner on and Dave Robert's like, let's go. I got to get out of here. Can we go a little bit faster, man? Yeah, let's watch Brady though. I will be intrigued to see if we can pick up a noticeable difference of how he sounds post ownership versus pre ownership. But I wouldn't pay anybody this much money to call a game. Yeah, the NFL money is coming in at 10% and the TV money is massive. Yeah, I much rather have 10% ownership stake than didn't do work. You don't have to do a darn thing. And you're going to be printing money every year. Yeah. I mean, it's what happens when you're the greatest football resume of all time. What is your car wreck of the day? 713 7803776, car wreck of the day, which Brian is a higher percentage of getting in a car wreck each and every day. It is the bees on ESPN 97 5 and ESPN 95. Hey, before we go to the break, a word for my bookie.ag my bookie.ag place you want to be. If you want to put some money down on the Dodgers and Mets tonight and you think you got a hot streak going or you feel something in a certain way about a game, go to my bookie.ag they got all the college games, the pro games with basketballs on the horizon as well with college and pro. You've got golf, UFC and so much more. If there's a sport on TV and you want to bet on it, chances are you can bet on it. 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What is your car wreck of the day? 7, 1, 3, 7, 8, 0, 3, 7, 7, 6. Well, you got a Yankees win last night and we all hate that. But on top of that, John Sterling's back doing radio calls of Yankees games and for whatever reason, he ain't holding back and if the Yankees are bad, he's going to tell you about it. The 0-2, a bouncer and Rizzo is going to be picked off. He's in the middle between second and third. Hedges now throws to second on the way to third, back to second, back to third, tagged out end of inning. Boy, if that wasn't the Yankees, that's, that's what they do. Run the bases like drunk. Like drunk. Well, Gleyber will lead off the next inning. That's the best part. The very end, and Gleyber will lead off the next inning. That's a professional. I want to get to that point where I can just blast it. That kind of do the Yankees win. I want to nominate Lieutenant Dan. Lieutenant Dan of Hurricane Milton fame lives on that boat, stayed during Hurricane Milton. Well, stories are coming out today that he tried to light a woman on fire in 2023. Allegedly, as the great general would say. So this forever a lesson, kids. Kind of like Kai, the, remember Kai, the hatchet guy? Yeah. Yeah, there's an old Netflix document. I feel bad that I beat up on you a little bit too much today. But yeah, another example, kids, have do not meet your heroes. Don't meet the leg in the peg. Do not meet Lieutenant Dan. Do not meet your heroes. Brian, what you got? All the people who assist to backing into parking spots if I can't drive. What's winning? Brian. Brian. Brian. Brian got all the votes from the listeners. Fine. I'll take the slings and errors. Some other I said history. Go for it. If you want it. Congratulations. You got it. That's your only win today. So Brian is the the victor. Thanks to Brian for the hard work that takes not so great. He's blank on Brian. I'm talking to you tomorrow. Mike Elko coming up at 73830 Hall of Fame. 9 to 10. 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