Scott Hanson: We'll Have Double Digit Kick Off Return Touchdowns

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He is a very interesting guy who I think it's fair to say is somewhat unpredictable. Live from The Rich Eisen Show studio in Los Angeles. If the Jets knew about Aaron Rodgers plans to go to Egypt the whole time, why did Sola Flex was saying it was an excuse? Because it is an excuse.

There's your excuse or there's unexcused. Today's guest host of NFL Red Zone, Scott Hansen. Co-host of Good Morning Football, Jamie Erdal. And now, sitting in for Rich, it's Tom Pelissero. Welcome back to The Rich Eisen Show.

I indeed am Tom Pelissero. We are seven weeks away from football. We got the Texans on the field and yet somehow we spent the first 20 minutes of this show talking about me mailing back dirty laundry during training camp travels. Which was fantastic.

I was starting to get to Del Tufo's story because there's a brief mention about the exact thing that he says he would do ending his marriage. But we'll talk about that later. We'll save that for the moment. We got a very special guest in studio right here. I'm very fired up about this. He's going to take you from the NFL's Red Zone to NBC's Gold Zone during the Summer Olympics. Scott Hansen, my buddy in studio. Tom Pelissero, great to see you doing an awesome job filling in. I appreciate that, man. And let me just say this off the top if I can. And I mean this wholeheartedly and I hope Rich sees this as well. I love this show.

Or at least my phone thinks I love this show because every time I open up social media of any form, the algorithm is pushing me. Oh, Rob Reiner talking about Andre the Giant and Princess Bride? Yes, please. Kevin Costner, celebrity true or false?

Don't mind if I do. The social media operation. TJ and Brock on the cruise. And I have sat in my car and been delayed for meetings because I'm like, I got to get through Rich's pontification about the 2023 Michigan Wolverines football excellence here before I go on to the next part of my day. So it's a thrill to be here in studio. For all the viewers that are watching this, like me that have watched this for, and this is the first time I've been in studio, I've been on the show virtually a couple times, Zoom or whatever else.

The studio is super, it's beautiful on the tube, but it's great. Although Del Tufo, Brockman are way, way over there. We're trying to hide no teeth behind the cameras back there. We want the guests to see Mike. Yeah, no one wants to see me.

We've known each other for 20 years, 20 years, 20 years. What's your best Del Tufo story? Oh, I was thinking about Del Tufo on the way over here on the drive in. I'm like, I'm going to blow Del Tufo's eardrums out because everybody knows me on Red Zone. I see how far they put the microphone from your face. That's exactly two foot buffer.

That's the biggest gap I've ever seen on this show. That's my guy. And all the audio, all the amazing audio technicians that I've worked with through the years from NFL media, NFL Red Zone, NFL network. I test the meters. You've got to be on your point when I start picking up the excitement and the enthusiasm as I told you on Gold Zone. So we got the Gold Zone streaming live on Peacock 7 a.m. to 5 p.m. each day, July 27th through August 10th. It's you, it's Andrew Siciliano, Matt Isman, Jack Collinsworth serving as hosts of the Gold Zone Whip Around show, which will stream for the first time live on Peacock during NBC Universal's coverage of the Olympic Games Paris 2024.

So the NFL, you're seven hours of commercial free football every Sunday. I can't do that as well as you can, but the Olympics is a different cadence, right? It's not a bunch of similar events going on at the same time. So what is this actually going to look like?

Yeah, Gold Zone, Red Zone, everyone thinks it's a one for one, especially with my involvement, with Andrew's involvement from being the DirecTV Red Zone host for all those years that he excellently hosted that show. The Paris Games will be different. You're dealing with a six hour time change. We're going to be doing everything live.

I'll be handling the the primetime events, primetime Paris time, which will be middle of the day for the folks in New York and the East Coast, late morning for the folks out here on the West Coast. But you've got events that are not synchronized. They're not synchronized kickoffs like the NFL.

We're going to have commercials on Gold Zone. Spoiler alert. There are there are events that are untimed. The judging events have a way different pacing than than the clocked events.

So do you chop those up then? It's performance, judge, performance, judge. The concept is going to be the same as Red Zone. Whatever the most interesting thing in Paris, in or around Paris. And that means Tahiti as well.

I don't know if you knew this. They're doing Tahiti is going to handle the surfing for the Paris Games. The farthest away any event has ever been from the actual host city. It's almost 10000 miles away. So they gave the games to Paris. Then they're like, you know, we got a problem here.

Not doing a lot of surfing. Exactly. And the sin only goes so, so hard, so fast. So they're out in Tahiti. But anyway, we will go wherever the action is hottest at any given moment, just like we do on Red Zone. That's the basic concept. But we're all a little it's like, let's see how this plays out, because sometimes there'll be lulls in the action.

There there are a few I've gone through the entire day by day, hour by hour. There are a couple of witching hours built in there, which for the NFL Red Zone fans, I'm sure they just had a Pavlovian response to me bringing that up. But there are some times where there's going to be amazing. The gymnastics or the swimming or the track and field and a wrestling event and USA basketball are all going to hit at the same time.

And it's going to be fun to rock and roll on Gold Zone. You're always in one of my years on Sunday, whether I'm at a NFL stadium or if I'm at home, I'll be watching one game on my TV and then on my laptop, I'll have you so that I'm not missing because, you know, what I do as an insider, it's tracking injuries, it's tracking. Yeah, guys, you got ejected fines, you know, interesting storylines, whatever it might be. And I'm always amazed you can draw when you got the Octobox, you had eight different games and you you can keep up ninety nine point nine percent of the time with the names of the players. Now, all of a sudden you're talking about bad men.

How in the world do you prepare for all these different not just the sports, but the names and the people that are in. Yeah. Yeah.

And to try and not only remember the name, but then to say it's just lava skittish Vili, the backup goaltender for the water polo team from Turkey. There's no way that's the real person. It's not OK. I just checked.

I was very solid. You should just do that. Throw in names that don't exist and see who picks up. His mom's not watching from Turkey. So, you know, I'm probably in the clear on that. Definitely not since he doesn't exist.

There you go. Yeah, no, I'm I'm daunted by the preparation. I have an email sitting in my inbox with an attachment that is one hundred and forty five pages of nothing but handball. Now, have you ever watched the handball before, Tommy P? I can't say that if you said, Tom, go play handball, I'd even know what that entails.

I wouldn't have a clue. Handball is basketball meets water polo in terms of throwing a ball into a net. See, I would have thought it was hand like slapping the ball. You do use your hands. No, it's not like a racket sport like that on a basketball court, though, with with some maneuvering that's kind of almost like field hockey without sticks.

And that's a very yeah, a very, very juvenile description of what handball is. But but yeah, the research is prohibitive. I've got I brought my research binder here and this is just one of this is like the cover page.

And this is like 50 pages of just high level stuff. What we want to do is we recognize that it's only once every four years, three years in this case since the Tokyo games with the delay because of covid that people they know Simone Biles is name, right? Everybody knows Katie Ledecky's name. But there are some top top American athletes who you only hear their name once every four years. Ryan Krauser, one of the greatest shot putters of all time, well deserving of amazing national and international attention.

But he might only get it on the world stage once every four years. We want to be able to tell those stories. And I've got to be well read hour by hour when we could be going to any one of these events there. You want to do 39 sports. 329 medal events from more than 205 countries slash delegations. More than 10,000 athletes at a couple of dozen venues.

It is. It's daunting and there's always changes every year. There's always sports that drop and they're at what's new. What's new in these limits?

Well, I'm glad you asked. New this year, breaking AKA break dancing. Yeah, break dancing is this year. Yeah, I mean, they tried it out. You know how they do? They ramp it up. They do it like the NFL will do it with a rule change.

Sometimes they'll try it just in the preseason, but not implemented for the next regular season. So breakdancing has been a competitive sport worldwide for awhile, but an official Olympic medal sport, this Paris games. And do you want to know the history?

And I had to study this, so I'm going to, I'm going to, whether you say yes or not, I'm going to tell please do we got all the time in the world for you. You want to know who knows the history of breakdancing? I mean, I've seen breaking to electric boogaloo. That's about where it starts and ends for me.

The byline on that very good back in the day, a little cardboard box down on the ground. We should be boxing Egyptian lover style. You know what I mean? Well, yeah.

Oh, you got a little, did you take my camera? Okay. Hold on, hold on, TJ, get up, give us a little bit. Okay. We go do a little pot locking. I was expecting, you know, that's all I got right now. A nine 20 head spin, but we'll have enough, you know, we're on the turf here. I can't, you know, that would take off.

That's the problem. So, so breakdancing, it's actually a pretty interesting story. It goes back to the audio experts in the world. There was a DJ, a Jamaican American DJ in the 1970s, mid 1970s, mid to late 70s, who would DJ parties. And of course, back then it wasn't about, you know, mixing necessarily turntables, certainly not the electronic apparatus. You'd literally put on a record and play cassette and just play it and get the next one ready and try and blend it in. Well, this DJ would notice doing parties for young people, that the crowd would dance more vigorously during the non lyric portions of the songs during the break, the break of a song.

So he's like, how can I elongate to keep my parties being the best parties? This was in the New York City area. I want to say Brooklyn made it. And it's got this DJ cool Herc, I believe you're speaking about. Yeah, absolutely. Yeah, good, good knowledge. Cool Herc, DJ Cool Herc, or goes by Herc, H-E-R-C, which I assume is short for Hercules in some way.

I'm not sure, but. And he was credited being the godfather of what became breakdancing when he started elongating or figuring out a way to elongate the breaks of a song, which also intertwined with hip hop music and rap music and the origin of that. So now here it is all the way in the Olympic Games. And we've got a couple of Americans, Victor Montalvo, and I believe his last name is, he goes by B-Boy Victor, is the gold medal favorite.

So American sports fans, you'll be rooting for your boy, Victor, to pop it and lock it and put a gold medal in here, star-spangled banner. And there's no question this will be one of the most popular events for people to watch. You're trying to get young people to watch the Olympics.

That's going to be huge for them. I went down a rabbit hole because the New York Times did this story a couple of months back that was about the origins of the Olympics. Because people might go, all right, breakdancing, this isn't a sport. But in the early days, it was a sports and arts competition. So there were literature medals, there were art medals. And so the Times story was basically trying to find the artwork, sculptures and paintings, and they're all over the world.

Some of them are publicly displayed, some are in warehouses in different places. And so this was always part of it. We always just think, OK, it's the decathlon and more recently basketball. But it's all these different things that kind of make this a unique event. Well, you've got the ancient games, which was revisited when Athens hosted back in, what, 2004. Right. You've got the ancient Olympics, which was running and jumping, as you would imagine, the human activities that we do on the earth.

But a lot of that was geared also towards soldiers back then. Like modern pentathlon was basically done by the founder of that was also the founder of the modern Olympics, which is more like 100 and some years old that that wanted to say, what would a soldier, a courier, a military courier have to do? Well, he'd have to ride a horse. He'd have to run for a bit. He might have to shoot.

He might have to swim. And that's how the modern pentathlon came about. So, of course, you know, throughout human evolution, all these different aspects of different games, we've got 20 different forms of kayaking. There's 22 different cycling, metal events that are out there.

What's the one where they're in the like, they ride in a circle the whole time and like a weird, it's like it's like the yeah, it's well, there are a bunch of different names for those that I'm still actually memorizing. Cycling, believe it or not, has the third most metals of any of the sports. Everybody knows there's a million track and field events, right? There's like 47, I want to say, track and field metals. And that includes the throwing events, the jumping events, right? Then swimming has the second most something like 36, I believe, metals handed out in which is how inevitably you have some swimmer who wins like eight medals in the game because they just keep swimming. Exactly. And Katie Ledecky could become the most decorated female Olympian of all time in this one, which is she's just otherworldly.

But cycling has the third most, 22 metal. I've got all this information that I'm trying to, you guys are my test audience for the Olympics. So you're going to have a similar type, right? You're going to be in a booth calling this, but you're going to have a desk.

So is there just a stack of every different sport or how are you organizing this? I'm a little bit of a hard copy guy. I do like hard papers in front of me sometimes and I like to write my own notes. I do this on Red Zone as well because I feel like if I put my hands in the sauce, we have our excellent research teams with whom we work at NFL media. And I'm sure you work here when you're guest hosting the Rich Eisen show. I could let them do all the work, but it's got to get into this brain. So I like taking some of that and just manipulating it myself, putting it on my own spreadsheets and everything, which gets it into my mind, which means I like hard copy paper.

But yeah, I'll be married to the computer, the hard copy. And then I have a personal researcher shout out, Kirk Meyer, if you're watching this one, young man from UNC Chapel Hill. And he is my go to on anything Olympics. If he doesn't know it, he knows where to find it.

And we all know that as talents, we are beholden to the folks that know where to get all the information. So I also know what a news junkie you are when it comes to the NFL. So this is happening July 27th, August 10th on NBC and peacocks.

That is the heart of those first two weeks of training camp where normally you're sitting there interviewing, you know, Josh Allen or something to training camp. Yeah. Are you going to have somewhere? I know you've got every monitor in the world is one of these going to be tuned into NFL network? Are you going to in your after hours, you're going to catch up on NFL news? Yeah.

Great, great question. Two things about that. One, thank you to the executives, both at NFL media and NBC Sports. Contractually obligated here to provide this. Able to let Uncle Scott do double duty this year with the Olympics and with football season coming up.

It helps that they pass along a couple billion dollars between them and a Sunday Night Football package. But and then two, as I am in your ear when you're out, if you're out at an individual stadium, you, my friend and my Garifolo and Ian Rappaport and the rest of the great crew at NFL media are going to be in my ear while I'm hosting gold zone because I have to, I will, I will keep in touch, whether it's through the, you know, websites, you know, after the fact, or, you know, curating some of the stuff that my buddies will be watching all day on NFL media while I'm busy with the Olympics, just catching up on the little twists and turns during the preseason. And I've got like a week or two before the at the end of the Olympics before the beginning of week one red zone, September 8th, 2024 coming at you at one o'clock in the p.m. hitting that Octobox that I'll really, really cram and catch up on.

I'm fascinated. I heard your discussion about the kickoff, the new kickoff, how they play it out in the preseason will be interesting. Well, and I think that the things we've talked about a lot through the offseason is it rarely goes the direction that everybody's saying out of the gate because you're going to have some experimentation. Nobody tackles in training camp. You're going to be figuring out what your kicker can do. Is there anyone else on your team who can actually accomplish that part of it? And then the idea that you could have a ton of kick return touchdowns, which is great excitement on red zone, but they also don't want to overemphasize that play. And so how do you guard against that?

How often do you just simply go? You know what? We're going to, we're going to take the touch back. I heard you say it's like cover zero. Is that an original Tom Pellicero? I believe somebody may have mentioned that to me, but yes, I had not heard that description. I thought that's a perfect description. People, when I bump into people in the summer and the offseason, they always ask, what's your bold prediction? What's your, and they want a Super Bowl champion out of nowhere, whatever. I said my bold prediction this year is that we'll have double digit kickoff returns for touchdowns.

I'm with you. These guys are actually trying to put it in the landing zone and let people return. There will be bad fits with the, with the, the blocking wall, if you will, and the tackling wall, a la cover zero, and you get past that little first six yards, you're in the open field. And if you aren't using a safety or whatever to kick off, that kicker is not going to make that tackle. So I think we could, the average NFL season has three, roughly three, four kickoff returns for touchdowns.

It's plummeted obviously in recent years. Almost everything's a touchback now. Every kickoff in the Super Bowl was a touchback.

If these are live plays every time to start a game, every time to start a second half, every time after a score, if these are live plays, we're going to see double digit kickoff returns for touchdowns. When you finish a seven hour red zone shift where you finish an all day gold zone, how long does it take Scott Hansen to calm down? I know this is really you and you're just kind of always at this level. I have to imagine when you're going and going and going, do you like, how do you get yourself out of that? Like I got to call my brain down and you're going to think I'm doing this for effect.

I finish red zone. My bladder is famously trained enough that I don't even go to the bathroom right when I take the microphone off. Are you drinking water? Are you drinking coffee?

Nope. So you just dehydrate yourself. I dehydrate myself. I have one bottle of water and I'll have a like a Diet Pepsi for a little caffeine kick. I hate coffee.

Diet Pepsi, official soft drink of the National Football League. This is why this is why he gets the big bucks. That's three hours before showtime. I like to be the first one in the studio. I eat sitting at the desk in NFL media headquarters. And then I cut off all liquids, all food, three hours before, use the facilities twice in the last hour before we start the laser show.

And then it's the willpower of a ninja for the rest of the show. I don't even have to go to the bathroom. I can drive home. And by the way, I'm driving home. You know where we're located.

For those who don't, NFL media is located on the grounds of SoFi Stadium, literally sitting in chargers or Rams traffic 15, 16 weeks out of the 18 weeks of the regular season. So it takes me an hour to get home. I don't even have to pee until I get back to my house. But I tell you this in terms of how I when I I just say the bladder stuff because people are fascinated with it.

Yeah, it's what you're most famous for. On my wall in my living room, I have a media wall that I had custom built where I have five televisions, a 70 inch screen flanked by 50 inch screens. And I turn all five of them on and I want or not I want.

I'm just so accustomed to the constant stimulation. That's that's exactly what I thought it would be like. I put I put Sunday Night Football on in the big screen. I put NFL Network to watch all the highlights to do a mental checklist. Yeah, we showed that on Red Zone. We showed that on Red Zone.

We showed that on Red Zone. I'll put if ESPN has a highlight show on, I'll put that on. And then for kicks, I'll put on a news program.

And then I'll put on a, you know, a Marvel movie or a Star Wars movie that I've already seen before that I don't need the audio for. And I can I can have all that stimulation. And it's not an issue. In fact, it's kind of a comfort zone that I realize I am bizarre.

And that's probably why I'm not married either. It's exactly what I figured you'd be like, which is there's no way like even I do in the insider thing like I find it hard just to sit still with nothing going on and just watch the game. I love football.

I really enjoy football. But I'm like, I got to be texting somebody at all times. I'm on the phone.

I'm checking up. I'm updating my injury spreadsheet, all this different stuff. And like for you, I just imagine like you get home probably about halftime right of the Sunday Night Football game. It's like an hour and a half of Scott Hansen on the couch and the Bud Light starts now.

There's no way you just go from 100 to zero on this. No, I take the stimulation. I'll I'll open up social media. I'll sift through my rich eyes and push through videos that I'm sure accumulated throughout the week. I'll go.

And then I'll go I'll go to, you know, Twitter X, look through some comments about what people said about Red Zone, see if there's any mistakes that we made, whatever else. And now it's a good night. And then I then I rehydrate, which is always, you know, the nice.

I'd imagine you're completely dehydrating yourself for 10 hours. And then, yeah, a couple of a couple of pops or whatever. What's your go to?

What do you do? First of all, I got to have water based, right? Smart idea.

If I enjoy something, I'll do a I'll do a, you know, a nice because keep it simple, nice vodka soda, you know, and I'm not going to name brands unless they keep those calories down. You know, as you're repping Paris and NBC here, of course, for people who cut the checks. Speaking of which, I do come bearing gifts. Hey, little something.

And well, because NBC Sports spent an ungodly amount on Olympic rights. So I appreciate that, man. Thank you very much.

Can we do a little? I don't remember last time I was on this show. You should remember this because it was a great mess up the hair.

Chris moment. Oh, you know, I thought about that. Put it right here.

Wear it out. No one gives you. There you go.

Unless you get one of those. Before before before you get to where you say, what would be your Olympic event that you would want to do or what would be the coolest one you think to compete in? To compete in? Yeah, for yourself personally.

Wow. Badminton, I think would be super fun, like something crazy off the wall. What do you think you could do? What event do you think if you had like three years to train?

What do you think? What's the quality of the Summer Olympics? Because currently, that's definitely the Winter Olympics one, right? If any of us became an Olympic athlete, anyone in this room, it's currently the things that look the hardest that are supposedly apparently one of them is dangerous to that for whatever stupid reason. I think I thought I could do.

I'm an elder statesman now, but back in my I think I could have pole vaulted. Oh, which is extremely dangerous. Very dangerous. Like you could get some nasty, nasty compound fractures and everything else like that because you're fearless. Why could you have done?

I think I would get myself to a place where I'm like, you got to get that full head of steam. You got to jam that pole down into that into that. I don't know whatever that thing is, that little tree thing. Yeah, I want to avoid the terminology because it could go somewhere else and the algorithm will put Scott Hansen out in wrong context. It already is.

I'm not going to have that, but and then just get that. Just bend, lean back, use your body weight, flip over on gravity and the joy that those guys and gals have when they crest and they can the fall and they know they know by the time their nose clears the bar, did it that they are clean on that jump and they're celebrating a gold medal or a new personal best or a world record on the way down for whatever reason. Now that doesn't really answer your question because I would probably end up in the ER. I want to see you pole vault Scott and I think four years from now we're going to have to make this happen. I would try it once, but that pad that they have there, that pad, they hit it on the entire track and field infield.

The entire thing, including where I'm running. Another one I would say. So I played football at Syracuse as we, you know, as we know, go winning the ACC this year. We're winning the ACC this year. We're going to go to the college football playoff.

You're here first. We have such an easy schedule. I'm all in on Fran Brown. I'm all in on Fran Brown. I had lunch with Coach Fran Brown, who is the new head football coach at Syracuse University. He was one of Kirby Smart's top assistants at Georgia. One of the best recruiters in the nation. One of the best recruiters in the nation.

And you've seen that with who we've been able to get and pry away in the portal. Has Jersey and New York ties, so is comfortable. Killing it. And dude, that guy, I mean, we had dinner.

We had dinner out here in Beverly Hills when he was on a west coast swing kind of learning all the different, you know, orangemen and whatnot. And he got me jacked up. Oh, I mean.

So pumped. But that's a bold, bold prediction there. Win the ACC. Anyway, so I was talking about the Olympics. Flag football is on its way for the Olympics. Patrick Mahomes is on record as saying he wants to be the American quarterback. Well, that'll be some interesting decisions for the NFL to make because they're throwing everything they have behind. They obviously made this push internationally to get flag football in the Olympics. The idea they're not going to release their players to participate in it seems far fetched, but that's also a pretty good chunk of time through the offseason. Then you got guys flying back internationally to go right into training camp two weeks before the season. Do they let Justin Jefferson go out there and play wide receiver?

Maybe not. But the the the benefits of spreading flag football globally with the face of the NFL, Patrick Mahomes playing no question relatively flat footed quarterback. One year, 1992 dream team style and just let them go and absolutely dominate.

Right. I don't see how we all understand that the NFL protects the product is as strong as any industry forget sport, any industry in the United States. I don't see how they pardon the double negative. I don't see how they don't let it happen. I think it absolutely has to happen where big time NFL players will participate and the benefits for the game of football for the Olympics and for the athletes who want to mix. They Patrick Mahomes is a sports fan man. You don't think he would like you can't show up there with like the ufl no offense to the ufl the ufl equivalent of like the guys who didn't make a team you go to NFL legends. I suppose guys who recently retired that would be another way to do without using current NFL players. They'd still stop in Ochocinco and Tio out there. Even give me like JJ Watt shows up as Mike Vick at quarterback. Let's have some I mean Mike's getting older though. Now I'm like just just well I mean I'm sure he can run around everybody but there's gonna be 20 year old dudes out there sign up for that expand his brand RG3 could still run a 4-4 like let's go Tom Brady in a in that setting would be phenomenal. You want to hear a Tom Brady in that setting story yeah of course please two years in a row Tom by the way big NFL red zone fan even when he was playing and I'm not just saying that because I'm sitting here but he used to tell me he he loved the bye week he loved playing on Thursday night football so he could watch red zone all throughout his Sunday. So a couple years in a row I played in Tom Brady's charity flag football game okay and it's Brady this is back in the in the New England Patriot days and it's back like 10-12 years ago his he all kinds of celebrity we had uh who is uh from the shield the actor Michael Chiklis I think he's been on the show yeah big Boston fan yeah big Boston fan he played in it and then you had like Carl Lewis showed up to it then you had Scott Hansen running around and then you had Julian Edelman a young wide receiver Julian Edelman before many people knew his name would come out he would play in it and then you had guys that were big money guys that donated to uh to uh best buddies was the charity that benefited which is an amazing organization google best buddies when you get a chance that donated these guys were weekend warriors you know 30 40 pounds you know on on the bad side of their high school football glory days Brady warms up with everyone he was quarterback for both teams he warms up with everyone he hit everyone on stride was able to calculate oh that's Julian Edelman going on the nine route an actual NFL wide receiver and I could hit him he's running a 4-4 up the scene and oh there's Scott Hansen running a 10-yard dig and yeah he used to be sub five but he ain't now and then this dude who is you know works at Fidelity Investments that donated fifty thousand dollars to be on the team to catch a pass from who's kind of oompa-loomping around he hit everyone on stride he calculated okay here's my personnel and it was it was one of the most remarkable things to see at field level and then on the field as well and I'll admit it because he'll bust my chops next time I see him I dropped the first pass he ever threw to me and it was the most gorgeous pass and I was I played wide receiver at Syracuse at the end of my at the end of my time I was mesmerized he threw from me to you and I was like this is the most beautiful pass I've ever right through my hands it's right here what did he say I was going this way the next year I played in it and he goes you're not going to drop any more passes are you he remembered he throws 300 passes during this he remembered he goes you're not going to drop that I caught a two-point conversion later in the game that helped our team to victory and I returned to kickoff about 50 yards as well but that's neither here nor there he remembered the drop pass and he busted my nuts about it I thought this dude yeah so Brady I think a hundred percent he'd be in on some Olympic flag football 50 years old in 2028 but for flag football which stand in throw it to really fast guys yes and we've been seeing his social media posts he's he's still on the avocado and the and the tb-12 yeah no it looks great he's still yeah looks fantastic yeah all right nbc's gold zone stream live on peacock from 7 a.m to 5 p.m each day july 27th to august 10th this guy scott hanson one of the hosts up to 40 events happening simultaneously during the paris 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hanson lot going on gold zone red zone tom brady flag football stores great having him jamie urdahl good morning football is going to join us in uh just a little bit here we got some other nfl items let me tell you guys something real quick i did not have scott hanson breaking down the history of breakdancing on my favorite card right that's for sure never thought that i'd ever get a chance to say dj cool herc's name on this microphone yet which he assumes is short for hercules but he better look that up prior the gold zone july 27th through august 10th all right some other nfl items we got training camps underway texans on the field in houston seven weeks out from the regular season opener here uh and davante adams is still talking he's on the club shay-shay podcast with shannon sharp everyone everyone goes everyone breaks news right aaron rogers opened up the uh proverbial uh pandora's box when he said he looks forward to playing with davante adams again here's uh here's a little of what davante adams had to say about that possibility i'm actively on the raiders what do i look like sitting here talking to other people about being on another team right you know and that's how i still feel about it right now like i'm locked in with with the raiders and and i really feel good about this team um and and you know as far as i know they feel good about me i have always appreciated davante adams always enjoyed talking with him interviewing him because he will say what's on his mind he will give you a pretty honest answer to a lot of different questions you know he's talking about how what would i look like here talking about playing on another team well he just did that after aaron kind of put him in that that type of situation i would say this on the davante adams front because there's been a lot of things that have been said there's a lot of things that have been i would say people jumping to certain conclusions for whatever their reasons might be on this davante adams is entering the last real year of his contract with the raiders he's due a little under 17 million dollars fully guaranteed this year he's then got these lump sum 36 plus million dollar uh numbers over the next two years which at the time he signed the contract were definitely outrageous they're slightly less outrageous now when you've got justin jefferson making 35 a year but then the intention was never that he was going to see those years those were put on the end to up the the paper average of the deal and make him the highest paid receiver in the nfl he's gonna be 32 later this year he's on a raiders team that finished hot last year there's no doubt about it they play a lot better with antonio pierce they also and i think that adams made this clear on the receiver's show you know he was ready he said he signed off on the benching of jimmy garoppolo decision obviously he thought that there was something there with aden o'connell they did win games with aden o'connell at quarterback now gardner minshew is also part of that team we'll see what direction the quarterback competition goes the reality of the nfl is this guys at davante adams age who make as much money as davante adams rarely stay on bad teams for the whole season if the raiders come out hot and one of those quarterbacks is playing well and they're four and one or whatever davante adams is probably going to play out this year with the raiders and then we'll see it's probably not gonna be on the same contract they probably have to do something else the raiders start one and four and it's a mess i would not be surprised at all if joe douglas is calling the raiders at some point before the end of this before the trade deadline which is november 5th this year it's the only thing happening on november 5th as a matter of fact it's quite the quite the scheduling tuesday and november no one's reacting no one gets it politics presidential election same day as the nfl trade deadline it's an odd it's an interesting piece of timing there why would they do that it's always the same day that's when they they pushed it back one week and now here it is historic election might want to move things maybe well they actually did they pushed it back a week to november 5th they can push it back two weeks and gone a little wednesday right what are we doing that's where it is it's on it's on the same day and so my sole focus will be on the nfl trade deadline and at four o'clock i'll see what else is going on in the world uh at some point yeah if the raiders are in bad shape i i would be surprised if they don't call why wouldn't you right wouldn't you but you're still going into this season tavante adams could have pushed a lot of buttons to get himself out of las vegas now i know he built a house out there he's wanted to be there there have been a lot of changes since obviously they moved on from derek carr last year things didn't work out with josh mcdaniels things didn't work out with jimmy garoppolo and now here we are with him doing interviews i don't think by any stretch it's far-fetched i think that if depending how the season goes this is an absolute conversation in october and the first four or five days of november the tavante adams potentially could end up as a new york jet but that's totally dependent on where the jets at that point where the raiders at that point and oh yeah the jets have a lot of salary and a lot of cap on their books there'd probably have to be some other maneuvering in order to make this possible but is it possible yeah absolutely and especially if you watch receivers i don't know if you guys have you see he this was last year obviously but he was not happy at all well he was he was not alone in that yeah there were a lot of unhappy people it just it was not the right fit with the way that they were running that program the way that josh mcdaniels set it up josh mcdaniels is a good football coach you have this renegade bunch of dudes though in that locker room you know max crosby is one of the guys who runs that organization and you know it wasn't a good match antonio pierce takes over they win a game max is hugging antonio and smoking a cigar in the locker room and what's gonna happen with josh you know that dynamic we talked about it yesterday it's one thing to do that for on an interim basis through the end of the season totally different thing to do it for a full season i'm fascinated to see how things go with the raiders they've got their work cut out for them in a division with the chiefs as well as jim harbaugh taking over the chargers and sean payton with the broncos they tapped into something will it will it continue into 2024 we'll see let's let's take a quick break here we still got what's more likely coming up we still got jamie urdahl with good morning football coming back she is also coming up on this show and after this we've got some some more non-negotiables let's tackle the afc south right after this on 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somewhat anonymous you had the you know the nico collins of the world making a lot of plays for you you had a defense that was you know there were a lot of veterans on that defense that they had added but they weren't high profile types of additions this year among the additional mouths you've got to feed are joe mixon who's never been in a locker room issue but you've added joe mixon you've added stefan digs you still have nico collins you've got tank dale you've got dalton schultz you got a lot of a lot of mouths to feed on that team and with a guy like digs who i've covered his entire career he's a good dude he's a fun guy to talk to he's a hell of a player he also wants the football and so this isn't a matter of you got to force the ball to stefan digs what i'm saying is they've got to figure out ways to make sure that everybody keeps pulling the same direction on this team because you've got some heavy workload type of guys who may not have quite the same role that they have in the past and any time that you integrate a ball dominant wide receiver into a team that had a really strong passing game there's always some different dynamics at play i'm not anticipating problems there if anybody can handle it's damico ryan's and cj stroud because from every postgame video i see they really seem to run that locker room but that's the biggest key keep the peace for the colts pretty simple anthony richardson needs to play smarter he's got to as dwight free said on the insiders on nfl network a couple days ago he's just got to get down sometimes he can't take the hits that he did last year i don't care how big you are he's 6-5 i believe he said earlier this offseason he's now up to like 245 or 250 one of the biggest humans we've ever seen play nfl quarterback still can't get hit like he did last year four starts knocked out of three of them got to have more to it got to be able to get on the field because when he has been out there they've seen flashes of why they drafted that guy as high as they did because there are bigger humans hitting him correct he's the biggest quarterback we've seen a long list of big guys at quarterback cam newton being a principal example the biggest who eventually it adds up over the course of time and some of that too i mean shane stiken jim bob cooter they gotta they gotta scheme things maybe a little bit differently than they did a year ago but you can't take away the threat you just want to call him jb that'd be better technically dan mcguire was the biggest quarterback right at 6-8 back in the day but that's a history lesson tall i mean brock osweiler was like 6-9 he was 6-9 okay six look it up yeah he was 6-8 6-9 he's a big guy at all but he had like my my body shape just like you stretched me out like gum but gummy uh jaguars non-negotiable get trevor lawrence in rhythm we've seen trevor lawrence play really good football good football we've seen him play not really good football and down the stretch last season it was not a trevor lawrence issue it was the whole jaguars team but they were not the same he's not making 55 million a year he's being paid like one of the best quarterbacks in the nfl i don't think there's a whole lot of people out there right now just to be completely honest if you're making a list of the top five quarterbacks in the nfl i don't think trevor lawrence is on it for very many people i don't know how many people he's on a top 10 quarterback list and that's because the inconsistencies they got to find a way to keep him being the same guy all the time and then for the titans there's a lot of different ways that this could go we know that they made a lot of additions we know they were active in free agency they got to figure out is will levis the guy those are all important things i'm going to say it's fine to run game i'm going to say well you know you got levis and he's got a cannon of an arm and he's tightly wound dude and he's gonna he's gonna put in every bit of effort you could possibly get out of him and i've talked with brian kellian we've had him on the insiders too and he i know that he's he's excited about the possibilities with levis he signed calvin ridley he signed tyler boyde you still got the andre hopkins but how are you going to run the football and keep all the pressure from being on him they signed tony paulard they got taz's spears okay they still got hisan haskins and julius chestnut and those guys but it's really a matter of finding that balance not having all the pressure on a young quarterback shoulders who really probably isn't ready at this time to have it and that rhythm and timing is going to take time to build non-negotiable we'll talk more about this i'm sure when jamie urdahl joins us at the top of the hour i'm just excited that we've got training camps underway i'm excited that i honestly can't believe it i i'm also excited that um the story of me mailing back my laundry uh the past two years during my inside training camp tour crushing it on twitter not only has del tufa laughing the way he's laughing right now but brought up he mentioned briefly we need to clarify this yes go ahead how did your marriage end by uh because this was the question my wife opened the box that she thought was a gift and was addressed to me and it was my dirty laundry literally dirty laundry uh did you have some dirty laundry in your email that uh basically i did but the fact was she broke into my emails breaking into something hold on hold on hold on she discovered my password i could broke into your email guessing the password this was like not when this so she guessed your password and got in and probably illegal yeah what was that no i said something wrong that's not legal to guess someone's password the fact was that accessing something that's not yours me opening a box that you sent to your house and your wife's like what is in there like and you didn't did you tell her no that's what i'm saying your 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