Ross Tucker Loves Football More Than You | Hour 1

You are listening to The Down Levitar Show. In partnership with The Draft King Sports Act. Now live in all 50 estates. (upbeat music) - This episode of The Down Levitar Show was presented by Draft King Sports. Draft Kings, the crown is yours. - I told you guys yesterday that Ross Tucker is doing color commentary on football games as well as anyone in the game. Troy Ackman included and I want to see if we can get Ross Tucker to play in some of our shenanigans like Kyle Brandt and everyone else by getting the Greg Cody catch phrases somewhere on Westwood One or CBS Sports. Just a couple of phrases somewhere thrown into the broadcast. He may respect football too much to do this. We'll find out together. He's also the host of the Ross Tucker football podcast. Thank you, Ross, for joining us. And just off of the top here. When you listen to other broadcasts, who and I want to put you on the spot here a little bit, who do you hear doing color commentary who you would say their enthusiasm is bigger and better than mine? They love football more than I do. I can hear it in their voices. - You know what? I'm gonna tie, Dan, thanks for having me by the way. I'm gonna tie two things together. You just mentioned Kyle Brandt. You guys probably don't even know this. We were college roommates. College roommates. We played football at Princeton together. And the reason why I reference that is what he would tell you is that he's never met anyone that loves football as much as me. And that what you're asking, Dan, it's impossible. The answer is nobody. The answer is nobody loves football more than me. I honestly, whether I'm doing a high school game or the army games or whatever, I just love it. I always have, I think I always will. So I'm gonna say, D, none of the above. - So why do you love it that way? - You know what, man? I wish I knew my parents took me to a Penn State game when I was five years old and keep in mind, Dan, my dad's five, nine, a buck 65, okay? So I grew up in Eastern Pennsylvania, Reading, Pennsylvania, an hour west of Philly. They took me to a Penn State game and I just looked around at the green grass and the uniforms and I was hooked immediately. And what's funny is, you know, I think like everybody else growing up, I wanted to play for Penn State and then the Eagles. But then when I was like 13, I looked at my dad and I thought, well, neither one of those are happening. So I actually wanted to be a writer, like Greg Cody and Dan Labelter. I wanted to write for Sports Illustrated or be a broadcaster for ESPN. So I'm one of the weird guys that what I'm doing now is kind of what I dreamt of from 13 to maybe 18. And all of a sudden I kept kind of getting bigger and better and football helped me go to Princeton and then much to my surprise, actually playing the NFL for a while. And I think my family and friends would tell you that God made me just good enough at football, just barely good enough at football so I could get the broadcasting gigs I have now. So when you talk about your enthusiasm, so I want to see how it is that you're feeling about a particular thing involving the Rams, okay? We're already in the portion of the season where the important quarterbacks are going down. No one can stay healthy. I believe that Matthew Stafford should be in the hall of fame just because he's always available and tough. Like I don't understand how Matthew Stafford is not one of the guys who ever gets hurt given that I think his body is fundamentally broken from what Detroit did to him. - Well, and I'll give you another one. You're right about Stafford. I can't believe that Josh Allen never gets hurt. And I feel like I need to knock on wood or something because Josh Allen's like my favorite quarterback to watch. But Josh Allen, Dan, he gets hurt. And I know 'cause I've read stuff that you've written about Jason Taylor and stuff over the years, like Josh Allen gets hurt every year. And he just keeps playing. Did you see the off-season press conference? I can't remember. I think maybe it was when the bills traded for DJ Moore or they signed somebody to an extension. The bills are having a press conference. Josh Allen comes in on a scooter. You know, like when you have one leg on and your other legs on, he had just had foot surgery for a broken foot. Meanwhile, we don't watch them in the playoffs against the Jags and then the Broncos heartbreaker where the bills lost at the end as they typically unfortunately tend to do. Josh Allen was running around playing like a madman in those games with a broken foot. It really is remarkable what some of these guys are able to do. And you know, as a former player, Dan, the thing I tell people all the time, I don't look up to the famous skill guys or whatever. The guys I have the most respect for are the guys that tee it up every Sunday for years in the front seven. So if you're a guy that plays 10 plus years and you start 150 games or more, those guys are like my idols because it's hard to explain the mental and physical toughness that it requires to line it up every Sunday year in and year out. Ross is mentioning something there. Do you guys remember at all? Because I've had this mention to me for some reason five times in the last two weeks. The column that he's talking about that I wrote probably 10 years ago about Jason Taylor and Payne in the NFL. A couple of the people who have come to me recently are like Ross former players. And I'm surprised that they're surprised by the amount of pain in their sport. What is it about that particular, all of those revelations from Jason Taylor on all needed to have almost had compartment syndrome, almost needed his leg amputated played with a catheter that he shouldn't have been playing with that ran to his heart during games. Jackson Dart is trying to get back in the game last night because all of you guys are crazy. What is it about that particular column Ross that you're remembering that I'm having it mentioned all of a sudden again 10 years later? Yeah, I'll tell you exactly what it is. So first I worked with Jason for a couple of years at NBC Sports Network and we talked about this. It's the fact that he had whatever it was, the pick line or the catheter in underneath his shoulder pads and was still playing and it's like, hey Jason, you kind of are like one of the best defensive players in the league, you know, you make a ton of money, you go to the pro-boy every year, you don't like need this but that mentality as a Pittsburgh guy that went to Akron, it's that mentality which enabled him to be that good in the first place. I remember, I can tell you this right now. I'll tell you this story. My fourth year with the bills. Okay, fourth year in the NFL, I had made the league minimum the first three years. Now it's my fourth year and I'm starting and we're doing well. We won like nine games in a row. I was starting at left guard. I had a significant playing time bonus at the time, right? It was $150,000 which is more than I had made my rookie year, more than I had made my second year. I needed to play 80% of the snaps. Well with four games left, I found out I had, you know, I get an MRI on my back which is killing me and the radiologist is like, do you have a numbness down your legs? So I had a hernia disc in my back. But number one, we were winning. Number two, I wasn't like a starter every year. So this was my chance, you know, I'm starting, we're winning, we're good. I wasn't gonna give that up. Plus I wanted the playing time bonus. So I can remember the last game that year, we played the Steelers at home. My wife had to tie my sneakers. Okay, when I was leaving the house, I could not bend over to tie my sneakers to get to the stadium. I honestly can't even remember. I think it was like a couple flexural like muscle relaxants to try to let my back be better. Whatever Laura tabs were, I think I took one or two of those. I think that's for pain. And then I got a total shot in my butt. Somehow, you know, played the whole game. And what's really crazy about this guys is it, we lost and I was upset. But I locked in the 350 playing time bonus. So when I leave the locker room and go to meet my wife, who was my fiance at the time, that was the first time my father-in-law, who's from, you know, up in the cool regional Pennsylvania. That's the first time he hugged me 'cause he knew I went through some real, you know what? To try to get that money for his daughter and for our life moving forward. The crazy thing though is if we won the game, we would have made the playoffs and we would have played at the RCA Dome turf in Indy. And first round of the playoffs is $18,000. But I would have had to have still done the 80%. So I was really upset that we lost. Then happy that I got the playing time bonus and then relieved that I didn't have to play on the RCA Dome turf with a herniated disc in six days. - Did you ever say to yourself, wow, this is really stupid what I'm doing health-wise to get out there on the field? No, because you're in your 20s and you feel in your 20s. invincible. And also, you know, the real, the real interesting dichotomy here about being an NFL player is when you're in your 20s, you don't know how you're going to feel. Let's say you're 25. You don't know, you don't have the information or the access to know how am I going to feel at 35, 45, 55, 65, 75, if I do this right now. You know, it's probably a good thing that they don't have guys in their 60s and 70s, let alone 50s or 40s, talking to the guys when they're in 20s and say, yeah, no, you don't want to play through that bro. Because, you know, when you're in high school in college and you have an injury, you only ever look at it in, I'm out two to four weeks or whatever. It wasn't until a few years into my NFL career. And I think maybe the back surger I had in Buffalo that I realized, oh, wait, no, this is, this is going to be like a rest of my life thing. Because I played to that herniated disc to get the playing time bonus. Well, in, in March or April, I have the surgery. They did a discectomy, laminatomy and framinatomy at L4, L5. And the Bills team spine guy said L5, S1 wasn't looking real good. So I did that too. So by the way, I didn't even know you could do it. I didn't know you could like go under for a surgery, wake up and they, they fixed you at multiple levels. And interestingly, and you guys will appreciate this. I never start another regular season game. So I started 24 games, my second, third and fourth year. But what I tell people all time is like, I was probably average athlete, average explosiveness at best to start. And then when you have that back surgery, you're just a little bit less explosive, a little bit stiffer, a little bit less athletic. That's the difference. That, that, that like tiny bit is different between starting and not or being in the NFL or not. And the best way I can describe it to someone is like, that tiny minuscule difference, picture a running back. 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If there's anything you want to elaborate on, we'll do it on the back end. But I'm going to ask you some rapid fire questions here. Tour of false. This is the year the bills get to the Super Bowl. True. Tour of false. I'm worried about Drake May. False. Tour of false. What the jets have looked like the first two games of the season is what they're going to look like all season. True. Tour of false. The Miami Dolphins will have a point spread of plus 20 plus this season. False. It's super high. Tour of false. The Bengals defense has fixed everything. True. Tour of false. The Ravens look real good in the first game because they're healthy. But by mid season, they're all going to start to break. False. Tour of false. Deshawn Watson is going to stay the quarter back of the Browns for a considerable period. False. Tour of false. The Steelers are not worth watching this season. False. They're on CBS one PM Eastern on Sunday and everybody should watch because I'm calling the game. And I was listening to the show yesterday that they totally gasped me up. They acted like I'm the greatest broadcaster ever. And those guys have amazing taste. What part of no elaboration did you not. I was needed though, Dan to be fair. Yeah, he didn't need that. Tour of false. I do not trust Jacksonville. False. Tour of false. The Houston Texans offensive line is one of the five worst in the league. False. Tour of false. Cam Ward can't play. False. Tour of false. The chiefs are going to look like the 2022 chiefs. True. Tour of false. The Raiders are for real. False. Tour of false. The Chargers are in big trouble. True. Tour of false. The Giants you saw last night are the real giants, not week one. False. Tour of false. Dallas Cowboys defense is going to keep them from doing anything meaningful this year. True. Tour of false. The Vikings aren't for real. What is for real? I mean, you know, you know what you're doing. True. Tour of false. The NFC South is going to be one by the Saints. True. Tour of false. That offensive. The Saints is for real. True. Shuck is the real the outside. Tour of false. Bad money spent on Baker Mayfield. False. Tour of false. The Atlanta Falcons not being in the red zone. The first two games of the season is as damning a stat as I've ever heard. True. Tour of false. There is no circumstance under which Jackson Smith and Jigba should be 20 yards behind your secondary on the first pass. True lock is throwing in a game. True. Any of those that you wish to elaborate on? Oh, I like this. Well, first of all, I am very fired up for Bangal's Steelers on Sunday because I live in Central Pennsylvania now, so there's a ton of Steelers fans around here. So it'll be cool to be in the booth for that one. You know, the for real term is such an interesting thing because I don't know really what that means. That could mean different things to different people, but no, I think that's it. There was too many for me to even remember Which ones to go back to allow right on now? Me? I will say, I will elaborate, I'm a believer in Tyler Schuck in New Orleans. You know, Daniel Bridgett, this every station I went on before the season, who's your surprise team? Who's the team that, you know? And I don't like, I guess I'm not that creative. I don't have that many surprise teams, but the Saints were my default answer Because I think they're going to win the division and I think Tyler Schuck is the real deal. I like killing more as a coach And super impressive in the second half. I mean, they had to play at Detroit and at Baltimore And if they get the two point conversion in overtime and Detroit, they win both those games So yes, especially when you look at the makeup of the rest of the NFC South, I like the Saints quite a bit. How do they start faster Ross? Because like the first half of those games, they're not good and then all of a sudden they catch fire in the second half and everything is off the fourth quarter Yeah, that's a great, that's, you know, I think coaches struggle with that and they try to figure that out You know what happens sometimes is the defense changes a little bit and the way you're calling the game changes You know, it's kind of like there's always fans out there like well, they just do the two-minute drill all the time Because in the two-minute drill, they always move the ball Well, part of the reason why in the two-minute drill a lot of times you do move the ball is because the other team maybe has a lead Maybe it's a two-score lead and maybe they're willing to reluctantly yield yardage And so it's a little bit easier, you know, the old pre-vent defense that people hate That's part of it, but I do think, you know, the thing I'm concerned about with the Saints is their left tackle Kelvin Banks Jr., who's really a good young ascending player He got hurt and I think he's going to have to have season ending surgery Those are the things, you know, I guess what I'm always curious about is do we feel like the injury prevalence helps the NFL or hurts? It certainly makes it more interesting, more intriguing because things can change so quickly The flip side is, you know, I think we all want to see Jane Daniels out there We all want to see Caleb Williams out there, we all want to see Jackson Dart out there It's actually interesting to me that the injury rate in the NFL has not made it less popular It's almost like it adds more intrigue to what goes on in the league on a week-to-week basis Ross, I invite and encourage an elaboration on the chargers Because they're going to, at home, against teams that they were favored to beat How nervous should Mike McDaniel be right now? I think they should all be really nervous because their schedule coming up is about to be brutal I mean, if they don't fix it and quick, you know, you're talking about one and eight maybe I mean, it's, it's ugly I think one thing that I've learned over the years is that we actually understate how important coaching is I mean, a lot of it guys is like you're playing a video game and who has the controller in their hands, the chargers lost Jesse Mentor, who's about as good of a defensive coordinator as there is in the NFL, he went to Baltimore, he's their head coach now, you know, I think that they were hoping and thought they would get more out of the offense, which is why they brought in Mike McDaniel. You know, Mike McDaniel could have gone a lot of places as the OC, he picked the chargers, he hand picked the chargers, I think he wanted to work with Herbert, I think he knows that Harbaugh likes to run the ball, you know, they have a good running back in Hampton, he wanted to be there and so far it has been really, really poor, shockingly bad to lose at home and not just lose, they lost by double digits to the Cardinals and the Raiders, two teams coming into the year that people thought would be among the five or six worst. - I want your help with something as we let you go here involving #tuckspreads, that's a dangerous hashtag, but I want to go through something that you do in press boxes around the American landscape, but before I do that, because you have Buffalo sources, I don't have Buffalo sources, can you check on something for me? Because you mentioned McDaniel had a lot of options, I was told but have not been able to confirm anywhere in a way that I can report it with confidence that McDaniel could have had the Buffalo head coaching job, but didn't take it because he's friends with McDermott and he didn't like how that all went down with McDermott. Can you check for me and relay back to me whether or not that has any validity to it? Because I can't report it as fact, because I don't know the people in Buffalo, I would need to know in order to report that. - Wow, yeah, I mean, I can certainly, I mean, I know what they're gonna say now, they're gonna say there's no chance that that's not what happened. - Then you don't have the sources I think you have in Buffalo. You can find out if you wanted to find out, they're not gonna lie to you if you have the sources. - Are you attacking Ross Tucker? - Well, because I believe you, look, I've heard him drive through that Arctic landscape to get to Westwood one radio assignment that puts in 700 million miles from the action where the players are ants running on the field, I know he's got sources, but they've got to be sources that tell you the truth, Ross. - Well, I will say this, Dan, just a truly unique dynamic there, where you fire the head coach, then you interview all these other guys, and then you promote the offensive coordinator, because to your point to your question, you know, Joe Brady, you know, obviously was with McDermott, he probably couldn't have felt great about what happened with McDermott, but he accepted the head coaching job. So, that does not seem accurate to me, Dan, but I will ask 'cause I, hopefully I'll get another Bill's game here soon. - It doesn't seem accurate to me either, but the reason I'm bringing it up is just, oh my God, did McDaniel just ruin his career, because he could have had Josh Allen for a while, and he made some sort of principled stand that no one cares about or knows about, 'cause he didn't like how McDermott was treated, and now two games into his career, Cody's asking, is he even safe with the chargers, two games into Justin Herbert? That's why I asked the question. But more important matters, let's get to, take us through what you're doing here with this, what press box is this that we're going into, that looks like it has, you know, either an airport food possibilities, or a 7/11 food possibility. - Well, so I am the world's foremost expert on press box food, and I created the genre of press box food videos, this is Denver Sunday. They did have, that was like Berea taco stuff, and then they did have a carving station, which is always clutch. That was like sweet potatoes you're looking at right there. - That's really cool. - Carving station was big, that was big. - That's exceptional. - You know what I'm real, are you guys illustrating, by the way? - Yes, Chris, go ahead. - Go ahead and straight, yeah, yeah, yeah. - Let's go ahead and get here. Yes, let's go ahead and tell us straight the video, and you walk us through the video, and Chris Cody will tell us straight, if you want us to stop at any point, just give us some instruction here. This has got to be top five press box in all the leaves, right? - This is an unbelievable spread. - I would say it's probably not top five, actually. - Really? - I would say it's middle of the pack. That is unique right there. The pre-packaged foods, like that. You don't see that very often. And then let's go to the next, let's go to the next play here, the next slide. I try as a recovering offensive lineman to eat decently healthy. Those were cheddar aged grits. My grandma's from South Carolina. I do love grits, probably not the healthiest thing, but those were cheddar aged grits, not bad, but then right after it, as you continue to go behind the left tackle over here, fried chicken. That reminds me of the team meal when I played for the cowboys. It was a lot of fried chicken in the team cafeteria, and I was like, what are we doing here? We're trying to be professional athletes. Must've been before they got the memo, but I am, this is gonna sound like, like I, you know, whatever, but I am much more of a grilled chicken guy at this stage of my life than a fried chicken guy, and it's not the health consequences. I genuinely think it tastes better. Like my wife gets mad when I say this, but I don't like the crunchy outside. So there you go. That's that, we can keep it moving. Bad take. Okay. - Yeah, two more of a fried chicken guy. - Yeah, so terrible take. Nobody agrees with that. I don't like the fried illustrator. - Yeah, it's a good question. Anything else here that needs commentary or illustration, anything else. - So this was crazy. Those were fried chicken sandwiches. - Nice. - So it's like, you had a choice. Did you want to go with the fried chicken, or did you want to go to the next station, careful with that drawing? You fried chicken. - He knows what he's doing. - The fried chicken station. - Down lebatar. - Yeah, very hell. - And that's if someone told you you couldn't have a Corvette. - I'm a grown ass man who's not, who's not filthy rich. - I can't afford a Lamborghini. - Great Cody. - Well, I probably can, but that's-- - Whoa! - Hey! - Oh my gosh. - What the heck? - Hey, great. (upbeat music) - This is the down lebatar show. (upbeat music) - Ross good seeing you again. He is CBS Sports, Westwood One, NFL Analysts. He's the host of the Ross Tucker Football Podcast. And his enthusiasm for the sport is infectious. He really is doing it very well. Thank you, Ross. Good talking to you. - My pleasure. Thank you guys everything for what you guys said. Mike, I heard what you guys said. I have a buddy that's a big fan, so he sent it to me. I don't care if anybody else says about you guys, you know what you're talking about when it comes to broadcasters. - Greg, go ahead and give him some phrases here that he might be able to put. Ross, are you willing to do this for us? Are you willing to try and see if you could sneak any one of these Greg Cody phrases into any of the broadcasts you're doing this weekend as an homage to some of our fans? Do you think you would remember or do you think you respect what you do too much to do any of this nonsense? - It greatly depends on what the phrases are and how feasible it really would be. If I could do it seamlessly, if it's like something ridiculous that would be clear and obvious that I was trying to get it in for some reason, I absolutely am not doing that because I like my job and I'm trying to keep it. - Greg, what are you gonna offer him here? - Okay, Ross, I have hand curated these to blend seamlessly into your broadcasts. Okay, the first one is, I'm visiting a one-armed paper hanger. Next. (laughing) - The next one. - Yes. - Do you want a feedback? - Just say yes, just say yes or no. We wanna see what's a maybe and we might have to go to the hole. Okay, no, all right, go ahead, no. - The next one, do it to your satisfied. - That's a maybe. - Okay. - All right. - All right, I'll take a maybe. The next one. Gotta wanna learn, gotta wanna earn. - Gotta unlearn. - No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. - Guy. - Gotta wanna learn, gotta learn. - He says no, keep it moving. - Okay. - He says no. - All right. - And the final one said just like this. - Very good. - No, he's not gonna do that. (laughing) - You gotta say very good. - Very good. - Greg, I'm gonna push like a carrot. - Greg, let's do this. - Very good. - Let's update your entire list of catch phrases here. Let's do the entire list of catch phrases and see if there's any one of these that he's interested in, that he might do. Ross, you tell us whether any one of these have a chance to be on any telecaster on this weekend. Let's begin with number 70, and we'll update the list at a later date. - I say I'm quickly, so you might wanna take notes. Number 70, I'm fuller than Vern Fuller. 69, where's my click, click, 68. Hey, Butterfinger. 67, punt. 66, Scranton. 65, I'm a businessman, I'm a paper hanger. 64, charge, charge, charge. 63, I'm the kind of guy that 62 ball on the jack. 61, hey, hey, with a monkey, baby. 60, thank you, Billy. 59, I love 'em like a pet. 58, who made it a salad? 57, we're rolling now, huh? 56, your brain beatin' me. 55, let's go, states. 54, driver, comfort is paramount. 53, dummy up. Save up. 52, catches catch, can, 51, doesn't make it right. 50, so on and so forth, 49, very good. 48, the little league theory, 47, nice hat, asshole. 46, the others, they all learn from me. 45, don't go, shower, and to try to please me. 44, look at that jerk, 43, it's like a packing house in here. There should be hams hanging from hooks. 42, what'd you learn? 41, he haught three. but they have 40. I'm not going to take a quiz. 39. Sassafras. 38. Well, we break a window. 37. Hello. 36. Who won? 35 trailers for sale. Oh, rent. 34. You got to eat a peck of dirt before you die. 33. Three words. We are the Lobos. 32. You're going to go to Buffalo with Bernie, Palmley. 31. RappiCack. 30. Another crisis solved. 29. Nice chatting with the 28. He ain't heavy. He's my blank. 27. Hey, that's what I'm talking about. 26. Who let a pet? 25. Good on you. 24 dancing swords. 23. QK. Quick crap. 22. Bay. 21. Blank in it. 20. That's a fact. Jack. 19. Got to want to learn. Got to want to earn. 18. Put a Lobos mint under your pillow and dream. 17. Quite a bit. 16. Take the rest of the day off. 15. Do what now? 14 right on. 13. Who shot John? 12. If I had a hammer. 11 rap, rap, rap. They call them the rapper. 10. Do it. You're satisfied. 9. Me maximum. 8. The burp suite. Brad. S wipe. Sack. Yikes. 7. 6. Zagaki. 5. Baby. Four. Who needs me? Who needs me? Three. And you know it. Two. Yeah, never know. All right, hold on. Don't give away number one. I'm not because we got 71 to 75 as a bonus. Ross, do any of those speak your language? So I wrote down if the if the if the Steelers offensive line is like performing better and Rodgers is having a good game. I could say listen, driver comfort is paramount. Rodgers needs to have a clean pocket. So that's a that's a maybe or if like the Steelers coming off a really bad game, if they perform better, especially on offense, I can say towards the end of the game. You know, I and another crisis solved here in Pittsburgh after a tough week. So that's an option. Nice. And then a picturing like TJ watt having a huge let's just say TJ Y is a huge game or anybody in the game, right? And maybe maybe they're even up by a couple scores. Let's say TJ watt gets a third sack late to clinch it for the Steelers. Maybe I could be like take the rest of the day off, TJ. You've had one. I like it. All of those are good. Also, if someone drops a ball, it would be pretty easy, I think to do. Hey, Butterfinger, I think. So, but just so that you know Kyle Brandt threw on good morning football, he managed to seamlessly and nonsensically because you're using logic. Kyle Brandt did this for us on good morning football, used two Greg Cody catch phrases, and it didn't make any sense. Winnow driver comfort is paramount. So I need the whole phrase so that it doesn't make any sense because he chose that one as well. And he also did you never know in the same phrase to get the whole thing. Do you have the whole thing or you don't have that? You were everywhere yesterday. How was it? You survived. We're happy to see you back on GMFB. That was great. I was with all of our ESPN brothers and sisters yesterday. I was on get up and first take and I was on, I think I they put me on cold pizza sports center and striker show and everything. And it was really, really fun. But we have a great game tonight with two quarterbacks. And you know, the bills will probably win at home, but you never know those lions. That's what the standard is right now. You can top that, Ross. Hey, I love it. You know, it's so funny, by the way, because as you guys know, or you probably can guess, all of our other friends, like all of them are in finance. All of our other roommates from college are like private equity or wall shoot or whatever. Meanwhile, all six of us were just sitting there watching Roger Lodge and blind date at 1130 at night eating Papa John's pizza. And yet Kyle and I just talk about football for money. It's hilarious. Ross, good seeing you. Thank you, sir. We'll be listening this weekend. Thank you guys so much for having me. Appreciate it. Do not disappoint our audience, sir. I've been talking up. I've been gassing up. Do not disappoint our audience. I won't, man. I do the same thing every week. I'm ready to roll. See you later. Thank you. So last night's game, Greg Cody, the Rams and the Giants. It would appear that the way that the Rams looked the opening week of the season has to do with travel schedule and exhaustion and the ridiculousness of how it is that they went there. Sean McVeigh now regrets how they went to Australia. But it is fairly amazing to see Devonte Adams have that game. Oh my God. Pukinakua is out and it doesn't matter whether it's Cooper Cup. Like they're going to get their 200 yards from that coach in that quarterback from the receiver position. That was like 10 yards off of Devonte Adams career high. And he was the guy that they had they were going to either throw to him or the tight ends. It's like they got out well running around out there. But Matthew Stafford is playing at a level that the last couple of seasons that is as well a quarter as a quarterback in play. Devonte Adams had a game that is going to be remembered all season. That was a remarkable game by him. I love it when older players who have to listen to whether or not they're washed have a game like that. In my fantasy draft, when I drafted Mike Evans, everybody hauled with laughter. Guess what? Mike Evans has a lot left in the tank. Love that. Love it. And let's quit writing off teams like the Rams after one game. The Rams are back nothing they ever left. And they're still the betting favorite to win the Super Bowl at one and one. Just so you understand how rare it is what we just saw there in terms of age from Devonte Adams because I think Kenan Allen is the oldest receiver in the league at 34. That stat output last night is the most since from players over 33 years old since Steve Young to Jerry Rice. Like it was a really unusual thing. And here's McVeigh admitting, yeah, I screwed up the whole thing about how we flew to Australia at the last minute. Sometimes you win. Sometimes you learn. And you know, sometimes you have a dumbass coach that, you know, makes travel plans that put you in the bath spot. That was funny. I don't know. They lost the 49ers who are clearly really good. Who they'll know is if it's because of the travel. They lost to a really good team. Oh no, but wait a minute, those as yes, they lost to a really good team, but they didn't lose a game like that all of last year. Like the Rams are good enough to play everyone close. Every game they played last year was a close game. We haven't seen the MVP staffer doesn't lose like they lost in week one where no one's got their legs and they score seven points. Even if they're going to lose, they're not going to lose scoring seven points. That's that's what got golf gone from a Super Bowl when they when when golf scores three points in a Super Bowl against Tom Brady. A McVeigh offense with Stafford at the Helms not scoring seven points in a game against anybody, right? I mean, that seems absurd given how good they are at offense. No, no look passes in the Super Bowl when Cooper cups the only guy Stafford can throw two. I mean, I could also use the exact same logic and they just beat the crap out of the New York Giants who have not been good in years and lost their quarterback last night, but gained a quarterback. James is back. He's not who needs me who needs me.