RE Show: Joe Lo Truglio - Hour 3

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844-204-RICH is the number to dial. Chris Brockman and TJ Jefferson, the reason why I bring you up. No offense, Jay Felley.

Good to see you here. Is because we are all in a fantasy league together that is currently still drafting. And a draft that started on Wednesday.

We're not even halfway done. Because each team gets eight hours to make a choice because it is a best ball league. Meaning, whoever you draft is yours for the entire season. If that player is hurt, too bad. You can't pick anyone up. There's no waiver wires.

There's no trades. You set it and literally forget it. Except we can't forget it. Yes, we can't forget it. And Joel Attrulio is the commissioner of that league. He's about to come out here in studio. I do believe it's entirely possible if people get a move on, he will be making a pick on the air, live on this program. It's entirely possible.

The gods may smile upon us in that way. Well, Jon Hamm picks twice between. He's been MIA. I don't know what's going on. Is he in an ashram like Donald Draper?

Like getting to Mad Men. He could be in the middle of nowhere. Anyway, long story short, he's about to join us. And he's a diehard Jet fan, so it'll be a fun conversation there.

But just to let you know how I put my words here into practice. I have been caping for one Dak Prescott. Because I think he is really good and has the abilities. To take the Dallas Cowboys where they can go, he's just got to stop throwing interceptions or his team mates have to stop bobbling the damn football and flipping it up in the air and putting that interception on his docket, even as a deserve it.

And he's never going to be that guy to go. Did you see me throw the ball into the guy's hands? Did you see it go through his hands and hit the chest and then pop up and then miracle of miracles right to the defense? Did you see that? It would be great if he did that though.

Wouldn't it be great? It's not him. There were six of those out of the 15 last year. I just want to throw that out. And it's not him also to just like have somebody whisper to somebody in the media and say, do me a favor. Will you just point this out? I'll do it for him. So I chose Dak Prescott in this best ball league. Oh, I know. I saw. I took him. Wow. I like that.

I took him and I believe. Interceptions are minus two. I understand that, Chris.

Oh my gosh. But touchdowns are four when you throw it and six when you run it in. That's why we took Justin Fields.

I bet you did. And before there was Justin Fields, there was one Dak Prescott doing it. And now I feel Brandon Cook's off the top, Michael Gallup and CeeDee Lamb pulling some games.

Watch out for Gallup. And all he's going to do is just flip it out to Tony Pollard and watch him go. And my buddy Deuce Vaughn.

Again, my my question about Dallas and that's what Greg Olsen had to say is like, OK, Mike McCarthy is calling the place now. So you remember the days of Eddie Lacey? I do. I do. You know what I mean?

But that's what he's going to probably try and bring. Run it. Run it. Run it. Play action. Run it.

Play action. Run it. Run it. Run it. Run it. And keep running it.

And then have your guy who's really special get out on the edge and make plays. I mean, Mike McCarthy won a Super Bowl in Dallas. I was there. Yeah. But it ain't 2010, man. I get it. Settle down just a little bit. Yeah.

And Greg Jennings not walking through that door, right? I mean, I don't know. I mean. But I'm just saying the way football's played at 2023, run it, run it, run it, play action.

That's going to get you fired. Well, my problem is, is that if you are going to be more conservative and run it more, why would you let Zeke walk? And not even try to bring him back? Right. I know. And you're hearing like typical of Belichick getting him for, yeah, the six million or whatever, just but it really it's really two with incentives.

Who the hell knows? All I know is I took Dak. I took him. I don't want the Dak that showed up in his first game coming back from his leg injury in Tampa. I need the 400 yard, three touchdowns, OK, one pick, whatever.

But run one in, throw for three, throw for 400, Dak, put him on your back and let's go. That's my man right there. Yeah. So I wanted to just throw that one out there. So I just talk about it.

I actually click the draft button on it. I saw when you did it, I was like, now we're going to talk nice about that decision. Almost took Brandon Cooks as well to try and pair him up. But I, I just love Quentin Johnson too damn much here in Los Angeles. I think, by the way, when you said Jackson Smith and Jigba is going to lead all rookies and receiving, don't forget that kid from TCU is a big, oh, my God, he ruined my New Year's Eve as a big kid. So I took Quentin Johnson. All right, another, let's, some very important coaching soundbites. First one from Cincinnati, Zach Taylor, boy, will he just give you nothing. He will give you nothing on Joe Burrow.

We had Peter King on last hour. He said he spoke to Burrow's dad and Burrow's dad didn't know anything about his son. How's that possible? I don't know.

Wow. I don't know. You know why? You know what?

If he doesn't know, if he doesn't know, it's because they're not Jewish. You shouldn't listen. Listen to my mother. Question me.

Honestly, I feel like I'm on the stand sometimes. That's what she, you know what she says to me? She says to me, what's going on? I should know about, oh, that's how she starts. Some of the sentences. Like you're just going to offer up information? I don't know.

Like it's, it's. Well, what's going on that she should know about? Seriously, a Jewish mother would know exactly what the hell's going on with Joe Burrow. Bubby. And make matzo ball soup. I don't know. Or the other way around, religion doesn't matter.

Dad's just not telling Peter King what the hell's happening with the son. Yeah, definitely not. Either way, you're asking a head coach in the National Football League about a quarterback's readiness. You're on it. Whatever. Here's Zach. So bless the media. They are trying hard to get an answer from Zach Taylor. This is a good one. How many reps will it take for Burrow to be ready for the season? Good way to go about it. That's a good question. Right? Good question.

How many reps will it take? Because you know, Joe needs reps. That's what I think. No, he doesn't. Have you seen that dude play quarterback?

But again, that's the point. He's just like, you're trying to go in through the side door. You can't just say, is he ready for week one? How many reps will he need to get ready? How does Zach Taylor answer that question?

Here you go. One rep. He needs one rep. No, but it's different. It's a different injury. I would imagine. I hate speaking for other people, but last year, it's an unknown how is contact going to feel?

How's it going to feel when I torque? There's a lot of things with an internal injury that I can't speak to. I would imagine that that's a whole different mindset you have to have. Whereas this one's, you know, in a calf and he looks great.

I mean, physically, just walking around, he looks probably as good as he's ever looked at this point. And so that's a positive. And we'll just go from there.

Yes, we will. All right. He's playing week one. Yeah, I would have been shocked if he sat out in week one. One rep. That was funny. One. Makes sense.

And I appreciate him giving us that information he gave after that, because what's the point of being coy? Because the one person, the one person the Browns are not spending their time preparing for is Trevor Simion. Or Browning.

I don't even know his first name. Well, here's what we're doing, guys. You know, it's what Jim Schwartz is getting in his meeting in Cleveland and Berea. Hey, here's what we're doing. We are breaking down Trevor Simion film all day today. That's what we're doing until we're blue in the face. OK, that we are we are we are we are going to never know, honestly, until until we just stare at him, Trevor Simion. And we are hallucinating and thinking he's Browning the elf. That's how we're breaking down this film today.

No, that ain't happening. But I appreciate that for Zach Taylor, appreciate that information. Speaking of Belichick, hey, because we just talked about Zach Taylor talking about an injury and, you know, you know, he didn't shut it down. Is Bill Bill? What would Bill's answer be?

How many reps does it take for his quarterback that's injured to be ready for week one? I don't know. But you know what?

It's just as we know, as I know. Having spent time with the man and NFL films, as you know, I'm by the way, I'm dining off that now, what, three years running? It's been a while. Plus, also, man texts. He uses exclamation points in his text.

Anybody who does that? Isn't he? He's got it.

He's got it. He's got an Elan. No, I don't think he's emoji. I don't think he's emoji. Nobody's an exclamation point guy in text. Oh, he's like, hey, hope.

Hope you're well. You know, like, oh, yeah, that's the way I read it. So that's an act. The whole shutdown is an act. He is a man in the world with interests outside of football, including going to the Taylor Swift concert when she came through to Gillette in apparently a rainstorm.

This was asked of Bill today on WEEI. Saw a little bit of Taylor. That's my guy. We were wondering about that. That was pretty impressive. Yeah. Yeah. Killed it. She's tough, man.

Just stood out there and played right through it. So are you officially you consider yourself to officially be a Swifty? No. Officially? I don't know about that, but I don't know what officially is.

Seems like Aaron Rodgers is. Yeah. What does that mean?

It's like you have a sweatshirt or something you can sing some of the lyrics. Look, I'm definitely on the you got to calm down. That's pretty good. You got to calm down. One of our best.

That's there's a lot of times when that's very appropriate. Yes. Got to calm down.

Excellent scoopage. Seriously, we're the only ones that didn't go to that concert this summer. Apparently so. Like the only ones on Earth.

Am I the only person on Earth who turned down Taylor Swift tickets? Yes. Yes. Geez, you're an idiot. Not to put too far a point on it. Come on. Exclamation.

Exclamation point. We also have had Rich Eisen show eyes on the Gillette concert scene. Bill was everywhere.

We have been told Bill was at the Beyonce concert. Of course. Yeah. Hanging out with Jay. Hanging out with the Obamas.

Apparently on the private Jay-Z riser. Yeah. Oh yeah. You're crazy for this one, Bill. So I'm telling you, the man has interests. This is all an act. It's all an act. You know what I like him to be interested in? All an act.

Coaching the football team and winning playoff games. Can we refocus? Enough about Beyonce. Oh my God.

Tell us about Taylor Swift and the rain and what the sweatshirt says, okay? Tell us who the quarterback is. You know who that is. Win games. You know you're gonna win games. You need the Jets like we've been doing for 50 years. Well, now you've got a problem. And the Bills.

Not recently. Let's go. Focus, Bill.

You're 71 years old. Focus. Why do you feel like Bills lost focus? That maybe, what, that third down play call that he doesn't override or the second down? Here's how I know Bill lost focus.

The defense, it's gonna be off because you went to a Taylor Swift concert? I've got four words for you. Here's how I know Bill lost focus. How we know. Matt, Patricia, offensive coordinator. That's how I know Bill lost focus.

Okay? And you know how I know he got it back? Bob Kraft said, hey Bill, come to my office. Here's what we're doing.

We sent out a press release. You see Bill O'Brien? We're hiring that guy. You know what he's gonna do? He's gonna get back to what we were two years ago because I need another one of these babies.

One of the, more and more of my rings. Dude, you gotta get past. Focus, Bill. Live in the present. Focus. Live in the present.

Gonna replace that. Live in the present. And by the way, Matt Patricia was not the offensive coordinator. We don't know what his title was. Guess where he is now. Not with the Pats anymore. Understood. See you later. Joe Judge is there still though, right?

Take your dumb pencil. Joe Judge still walks through that door, right? Yeah, I think he's been demoted to like video coordinator. No, he's not.

He's the one who gets the Taylor Swift tickets for him. Serious people. That's a good one. Serious people. He's not serious people. Serious people. Logan Roy chiming in.

Probably. So that's it. So you got one quarterback, one coach talking about his big time quarterback and his health, and then you got the modern day Lombardi quoting Taylor Swift. That's how we roll here on this program. I thought those were gonna be your four words, Taylor Swift and Beyonce.

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But the great, the delightful, the wondrous thespian and man about town, Joe LoTruleo. Good to see you, Joseph. Thanks for having me back. I love being here. I love having you here. We love having you here. This fantasy league that you are commissioner of, eight hours per pick, best ball.

We encourage you not to use the full window. We encourage everyone to have their queue ready and perhaps make a prudent and quick pick. Well, when we've been, we've been cultivating this caper to use a good fellow's phrase, you and I over the last 10 days, you said, maybe it's possible that when I'm on the air, one of us can be on the clock and the fantasy football gods smiled upon us.

Are they looking down on us today? I am on the clock. I'm on the clock right now. Oh, this is wonderful. You know, now, do you have an idea?

I have an idea and here's my problem. And I know what he's going to say. Sure.

Brockman. Sure. Is that I can make a pick for my team or I can make a pick for content purposes. And he always pushes me for content purposes. Yeah.

He's thinking, he's thinking like a real, real, real entertainment thinking about it. As a matter of fact, you made a content pick yourself, your last pick was Dalvin Cook, right? Overnight, TJ and I took Dalvin Cook. So you could come in and say, you know, when I took Breece Hall and you vault your mind or Breece isn't ready. Exactly. The Patriot fan will be using it. And the Cowboy fan. You feel okay about that? With Dalvin Cook? I mean, he's our fourth running back. Yeah. So we're in good shape. Yeah. We're running back from stacks. We're nice. So that's, that's the way this is rolling right now.

I'm, I'm very curious as to see where this is going to lead. You know, this is a very wide receiver heavy league. It is. I haven't chosen enough of them.

That's right. You got to think about the second half. This is the best ball league for any listeners and watchers. Back here. Hold on a second.

The radio audience has returned. Joe Letrulio is here, my friend and, and I'll call you a colleague from our fantasy world right now. Our best ball league.

I'm on the clock right now as you are here. So that said, you were, so the best ball league. Ball league is, you're going to, it incorporates the funnest part of fantasy football, which I believe is the draft. Yes. You know, you draft 20 players, you got nine active, three wide receivers and a flex in addition to the regular fantasy positions.

And. Minus the kicker. No kicker. No kicker. No kicker. There is a defense. So you got to think about the second half. Think about vets and, and rookies and people that may, may bring home the championship trophy for you at the end of the season. And you are also, however, in a more conventional league as well. Correct.

I am also in a redraft league and an auction leave. And somehow I still do have a marriage. It's managed. It's managed to still exist.

Redraft auction. And this one. And the best ball. That's right.

Now, and this is fine if you answer this question in the manner in which I think you will answer it. I do not take this personally because I'm in the best ball one. You do have one you want to win the most, correct? I do. Yes. I am in the league, which is called the McCoy's league.

This is a group of guys that I've known for a very long time. The league has been around for about 17 years. Whoa.

I think. And I have yet to win this league. I have been in the championship four times. I am the Buffalo Bills of this league in terms of reaching the big show, all due respect to the fantastic franchise in upstate New York. I cannot, I cannot take a title in the McCoy's league.

Okay. Who's in the McCoy's league? Is there anybody else that we know? We have some, I'll name drop a little bit. Please.

I'm asking you to. We have Bobby Cannavale and we have Paul Rudd. We have Jon Hamm and these are some of the big, the big hitters.

And then a plethora, David Zayas, plethora of fantastic New York actors. Okay. In that league. Okay. Yeah.

All right. Have the, any of the aforementioned won? I believe Cannavale has won. I believe Rudd hasn't won that one. I could be wrong. Forgive me, Paul.

So I don't think Hamm, I think Zayas has won. Okay. So you, what's the name of your, your team in that league?

Cause we've heard Paul, Paul giving us some very famous, funny names. The name of my team is Get a Load of These Guys. Get a Load of These Guys. Does that fit? Does that fit? It fits all, it's all one word.

G-E-D-D-A-L-O-A-D-A-D-E-E-S-E Guys. Okay. But if it's a certain website, you have to put Get a Loada on the one and then D's Guys on the other one. Yeah, you just Get a Loada on the one when they abbreviate. Yeah. Yeah. Get a Loada. Get a Loada, everybody.

No relation to Abe Vigoda. I don't know why I'm saying that, but I just did. All right. Yeah. Richard, you're up, okay? You're taking, you're wasting time. Are you picking?

He's got seven and a half hours. Are you picking? Are you picking? You're up. You're the guy who sends an email to everyone to hurry up. You did put a lot of pressure on me.

But this is now about content. I did get the squeeze. Excuse me.

Excuse me. Rich, if you would hurry up with the content, we'd get Paul Rudd picking and then me and T.J. picking if you would just make your pick. Or I'm Jim Gray and that's LeBron over here and we're going to do it at the end.

How about that? So it doesn't care about us? We don't care about our pick? Did LeBron care about everyone else? Did Jim Gray care about anybody's interests a little? Wow. Do you want to get right into it right now?

Well, the kids weren't going to South Beach with LeBron. Okay, here we go. I have my, I didn't, I took Kadarius Toney earlier because I have a feeling that he, if he's healthy. If he's healthy, you've got, that's a steal.

Oh, we have the graphic actually. Here we go. Here's my team so far. My surprise party team. Dak Eckler was my first pick and then Davante Adams was my second pick.

Travis Etienne was my third. I went Breece Hall, McClure and Toney, Dallas Goddard because I needed a little tight end action and then Dak Prescott. So I'm about to add a ninth player to the team and the question is, do I continue to amass running backs and wide receivers? Do I get that second quarterback right now? This is a strategy because you know, the backs are a lot of the big, most of the big backs are off the board.

They are. But backs in general are going off the board and you could play quite a strategy. I know what you're going to do. Do it. But I got, I got three wide receivers and three running backs.

Rich, take that second quarterback. Just do it. I know. That's the one he's going to take. Just do it. See, he wants me to.

If you're going to be sniped. Do it. He wants me to take Aaron Rodgers, right? That's a homer pick, but you know what, a good one, right? Yeah, but I mean, I need to, I need to start amassing wide receivers and things that nature.

Yes, I, you know, again, I can't be partial, I can't, I can't lead the witness on what I would do. As a Jets fan. As a fair commissioner to my fellow players. You want me to choose Aaron Rodgers right now. It's the content pick.

The content pick. But I already have Dak and I'm not going to do that, so I'm going to take the kid that I wanted to take. I'm going to take Quentin Johnston.

I think he's really going to be good. Too bad. Sorry, I didn't do the pick. Here you go. But Aaron Rodgers clearly has you and I and the rest of Jets nation, if we refer to ourselves as that, or the Jets flight crew or whatever the heck. We, well, listen, I have, I have a confession to make. What's your confession? And this is actually going, you, you guys have the scoop. This is going to probably hit the headlines that, you know, a character actor from a Shelby unnamed sitcom is going to reveal something very controversial.

What's that? Well, you know, I've been a lifelong Jet fan. I devoted my life to the Jets. I wanted to make them a partner for life.

I saw myself drinking lemonade with them on the porch. I'm married to the Jets. And yet about seven years ago, I wasn't getting a lot out of this marriage. And I felt like my partner wasn't into the marriage as much as I was, and maybe didn't suit some of the needs that I needed. And I, I stepped outside, I straight, I stepped outside the marriage. I'm coming clean now. Well, hot little number came to LA in 2017 and I, I started to have a bit of an affair with the LA Rams. And I had to, um, you know, really kind of dive into that.

We had, it was, it was quite an exciting, uh, a party that we had with them, but now a dalliance. Joe, I got to tell you, I didn't, how did TMZ not catch wind of this? I don't know.

How did this fly into the Harvey Levin radar? I don't know. I had to, I had to come clean with a lot of the boys from the aforementioned lease that we were talking about. We're not happy about me stepping out of the marriage and gave me some beef for it, rightfully so. But look, I have to live my life, you know, I need to, I need to be happy too. And the jets were not making me happy. And I, and, and so, um, uh, yes, I indulge, however, yes.

What you realize is that you make a vow and that, that marriage is important. And if the jets will have me look, my ex was, you know, a wife is looking very good now, looking very good now and really kind of dolled themselves up and really looks like they put it together. Excuse me, the fan mail will be coming my way, fairly so. Uh, and, and now I kind of want to, I want to give it another shot if they'll have me.

And what do you think? Have you, are you, are you, did you throw yourself at, uh, I am throwing myself at, at, at, at the gang of green. Well, I think, well, I think what Aaron Rogers has to understand, uh, and the jets have to understand that they should do it for the kids. You have to do it for the kids.

Don't you think? You have to do it for the kids. Think of the children.

Think of the children. If it's not for me anymore, let's just have a civil relationship. Uh, them and I, and I think it'll be fine. We healthy.

We can show the kids that, you know, we could, we can make amends. You didn't divorce. You just uncoupled. We uncoupled for a little bit. You consciously, right?

You consciously uncoupled. Is that what they call it out here? I think so. Yeah, that's right.

They absolutely do. So I hope they have me back. At least when you, when you went outside the marriage, you got a, you got a w. Oh, I got a w. It was fun.

I'll be honest. It was a lot of fun. We had, we had a great time. We had a great time. Oh, it was beautiful. The parties we had.

Yeah. Uh, lots of dancing, lots of drinking, uh, has lovely confetti confetti. Don't forget the confetti confetti. That's what makes it great. But throughout the entire time, as fun as it was, I did feel a little guilty. I mean, I didn't think about, I did think about my ex.

A lot. So I'm glad that it looks like it's going to work out. It looks like it's going to work out. You know, Aaron Rogers and I have the same birthday. I did not know that.

So this is why I'm hoping, um. Well the thing is that I knew Rogers was perfect for the Jets because I too understand that the Jets caused me to sit in darkness for many, many days on end. And when he did that prior to joining the Jets, I'm like, he gets it. Yeah. He gets it. He's more jet-like than just sitting in your own, just going into a cave and thinking about how to handle things. He's manifesting now.

How about him saying he's got a few, he wants to play for a few, a few good years, beautiful thing, by the way, great Aaron Sorkin movie and, and then, and then he wants to then hand things off to Zach for another 15 years. That's a big number. That's a big number. You know?

How about that one? I, you know, I love, I love, it's an ambitious, it's an ambitious goal and I hope that comes true. But you know, look, Zach Wilson is not Aaron Rogers yet. Perhaps he turns into it, but like for right now, the fact that Aaron is there ready to kind of create a, uh, uh, you know, dynasty with this team.

I love the attitude. All right. Yes or no question. Sure. Does Zach Wilson start a game this year? I think he starts, uh, I think he starts a game week 18 cause you gotta arrest Rogers for the playoffs. I think so.

Yeah. When we're, when we're 12 and four, they're like, you listen, give him a break. Give him a break.

Get him out. Let him rest up. Why does he need to play Belicheck in week 18, by the way, that's what it is. Week 18, Belicheck in new England. Imagine send Zach Wilson out there to take one for the team. Week 18, you go out there, Zach, you face Belicheck one more time in new England, home, home of the three, three game that the Jets lost because they frigging punted it to somebody that could be for the division.

Get out of here. Look, it was, it was tough. This is why I, you know, there's some rough times in the Jets marriage, you know, our marriage weathered the butt fumble.

So that's not easy for the kids. I stayed, I stayed with her after the butt fumble. I tried. Joe, that happened on Thanksgiving. I know that was a terrible move on my part to leave then that happened on. Thanks frigging.

I didn't leave. Yeah. Okay. Oh, come on now. By the way, this is a recording producer who's putting that up on the screen as a diehard Buffalo bill fan who I think is potentially very upset with you cause you called it upstate New York. I just want to make sure you understand.

Yeah. It was referred to Buffalo. It is Western New York. Thank you. Thank you for the correction.

You call it upstate New York. Thank you. They will come at you. Yeah.

They will come at you at the bowling table. Fair enough. You will do that. I do apologize to the fans up there. Yes.

I just want to make sure. West up there. I want to leave you in a better spot.

Thank you. So who's on the clock right now, Chris? Did Max choose yet? Cause he's up next. I don't know. Max is up. Ah.

I don't think he's listening to me. Oh no. There he is. Right.

I said, you need to pick. Live on the air. Live, yeah. Yeah.

I'll run on deck and then T.J. Iyer in the hole. Okay. I, I, I, I'm not going to text while I'm on television and radio. Because the word that he texted, I'm not allowed to say on the air. I don't know. I don't, I don't have the board as a, I don't know how many, where he is on roster players and position players.

We can predict what he, what he's going to choose though. So let's take a look at Brockman and T.J.'s team as it currently stands. Cause this is the way we can help chop up a little fantasy football. Very young team you've got.

Nice. Fresh legs. Very young team.

So Godwin's, Godwin, Chubb, Debo and Dalvin are very veteran presence to offset Justin Fields, Bijan, Isaiah Pacheco and George Pickens. Solid. Solid team there. Vibes.

High vibes. Oh, solid is fighting words around here by the way for me. Only the rich know it is. I don't know if you're aware of this. Yeah. Tell me more.

I don't think it's a compliment. Yeah, he hates the word solid. Really?

Yeah, I do. How, how so? Cause you could use a much better adjective if it was better. Oh, that's true. You could say that's a terrific team. That's an outstanding job out of here. You go solid. Okay. You know what I mean? Solid.

Okay. People use the word solid as if it is a compliment. If you call something I do solid, hey Rich, you got a solid show. Your studio looks solid. Your guys are solid. I'm like, there's a better adjective I think.

Oh, well this is good to know before I leave. Solid show today guys. Don't ever say it. Don't ever say it. Solid job. Don't ever say it. Solid job out of here.

Particular show guys. You know what I think? Much better. Much better.

That's exactly right. You know, there was a friend of mine, an old, an acquaintance I should say, that did a standup routine. This is many, many years ago, over a decade in New York City, and it did not go that well.

And I don't like lying. And I wanted to be honest because he was kind of clueless as to how well it went. He thought it went a little bit better, but it was very clear it did not. So when he came off, I said, you really went for it, man. Oh, that's high register. And it went up. And it went up.

Yes. But he missed it. It didn't try. He's like, yeah, I thought I did. I did.

He was kind of, I don't know whether he was in shock or otherwise, but that was the best I could do. You know, I didn't say solid. We have a term here, higher register, that if we call people out on that, is that, you know, I think that's a pretty good team. Like you don't really believe it.

You got to go higher register to say something that you don't really mean to make it sound like you believe it. Convince yourself. For instance, let's take a look at your solid team so far. Let's take a look at your solid draft choice. There's going to be some arguments here. I think it's a pretty good team you got here.

It went up. Jalen Hurts, by the way, is he the greatest fantasy quarterback that could be had right now? What, him and Mahomes, I guess?

Or Hurts? Hurts could be a thousand yard rusher. He could. Look, I mean, I think many people would look at this team and say, like, what are you doing? And that's fair. But again, I like to, I like to invest in like young and great wide receivers. Jamar Chase, or you got Devante Smith to pair with Hurts, Christian Watson, Jordan Addison. There's a young, you couldn't, you can't quit the Jets.

There's Elijah Moore, Miles Sanders and Brian Robinson, who I hope does very well in his career for various reasons, especially because if you think Bijan is going to do very well, it's it's just the difference between a J and an R and then, you know, just scramble the first name, you know? Right. So you never know. You never know. You never know. OK. That's not a bad. That's that's a very good taste. I think it's a good team.

It'll come down to the points, as it always does. Have you, that's why they play the game. Have you done your draft in the other leagues? No, we have we have an auction coming up on Wednesday. You like the auction? I do like the auction. Yeah.

It's an auction keeper. Yeah. League.

So who are you keeping in that league? Well, a lot of the contracts have gone up. Contracts?

Yeah. There's a four year contract limit. So, you know, after you keep a player for four years, you've got to go. So I think I'm keeping a lot of my guys expired, like AJ Brown has gone.

So I think I have Chris Olave and ATN. You keep him? Yeah.

A lot of the really, really studs I had to let go. So it'll be a rebuilding year. Is that right?

Building year for me, yes. That's right. Yeah. OK.

So the four year contract for AJ Brown is up? It's up. OK.

It's gone. Yeah. And Chubb as well.

Chubb is gone. This is get a load of these guys? Is that what that is? No. This is, this team is called the Nunzios.

OK. And this is just a nonsense word that I've, that has stuck. OK. And that league, yeah, that's called the League of Extraordinary Gentlemen. Who are the Extraordinary Gentlemen? We have a couple of people from the other league that I mentioned and a couple of others. Is Rudd in that one too?

Rudd is also in that one, yeah. He had, man. It's unbelievable. How does he have 10 teams? Tell us he's in like four leagues. Didn't he tell us that one time? There is another league that I forgot to tell you that I am in.

Oh gosh. And that's called the- Is it a secret league? No. It's like Fidelio?

You have to say that together. This is called the Guillotine League. Are you guys familiar with the Guillotine Leagues? No.

No. So Guillotine League is you draft, the computer randomly picks an entire team. Okay, so you'll draft, you'll pick a whole team. But you don't pick it.

The computer does? The computer picks the whole team and then you look, there's a draft order and you'll see like, oh, this team has like Bryce Hall and it has Chase and it's already picked. And you're like, oh, it's got Jalen Hurts, but it's got this other player I don't want. So once you have the whole team, whoever comes in last for that week, out.

And so you just keep chipping away until whoever's left. So how many, how many are in this league? This league I believe is 12. 12.

Okay. So then you get a, you get a draft order, say you're seventh, right? So then, then you log on to the site. There are 12 teams that have been drafted completely automatically. You don't watch them come in.

They're just boom. Yes. Here are the 12 teams. Whoever's drafting first gets the first shot and then you get the seventh. So the seventh roster will be your choice. More, more, more, more Rit Kelly's choice.

More choice. Yes. So you have, once you do that team, you have to stick with that team for a week, once that will for the, for, for week one, and then you could start dropping players and getting off the waiver wire.

Okay. It is a waiver wire. It is a pickup team. There's no trades, but you can drop and pick up. So it's like a shamble.

You have to play the drive and then you could, you play, then you shoot from there your own shot. Correct. Okay. And so then, and then whoever loses week one, so it's, it's a total point total. Yeah. So you are in last in week one, done. You're out. So you're one and done?

If you're set, yes. And if you're second to last, you get five bucks because the age of the waiver wire is a, is a, is, is money. Okay. So you'll get an extra $5 if you're second to last.

In other words, if you, if you make it, if you make the cut to spend on the waiver for that week, you know, if you, and the cut team's roster goes back into free agency. Correct. That's what I was reading here. Correct. Yes.

That's kind of interesting. So what you're doing now and in a league with us where you can't make any changes. Correct. And it's your team for the entire year. That's why you're done. Once you're done drafting, that's it. There's nothing you can do. But we're never done drafting because this league takes forever to draft. That's right.

It's called eight hours or die, you know. Has Max not picked yet? He's got the green dot. So I think he's actually online.

He's online. What's he doing? So you've got like, is his magazines out or what?

It's just like, I gave him a heads up 15 minutes ago and he's grinding. Yeah. Well, run is in another country and he's managing to do it.

Rudd is making his picks. Very. From Romania. And by the way, that's not a metaphor.

He's legitimately Budapest. Is that where it is? I believe so. Yeah. Mm hmm. You want to talk about your Mets or no?

I'll pass. Yeah. Yeah.

You and TJ, you and TJ are in that. You know, Joe, one time after I think game four or five of the 15 World Series, you and I were in the elevator together, we were leaving after I think I forget how the Mets lost that game. It's just five of the Royals.

The Royals. Yes. Yeah. So we were in the elevator coming down from some section together. I was up in the box.

It was that one. Harvey went about. Harvey came back out. Yes.

And he should come out for the night. Yes. Yes. Yes.

Yes. Oh, that was that was that was brutal. I was happy for Kansas City. Great town. Great town, great people, but I didn't want to I didn't want to lose to them. Definitely. I didn't want to lose to them.

I didn't want to lose to them. Great. Great. Great food. Great food. Barbecue runs from there. Big slick. Great part of the country.

Barbecue is excellent. Yeah. Yeah.

But yeah, that seems I want to lose to him, though. That's brutal. I'm glad that the Mets this year threw in the towel and did not, you know, go to the way of the Angels and the Padres and kind of stuck it out. But they chose a lane. The Yankees are five and 12 since Brian Cashman said, we're going to I believe in the guys here.

I'm not making any moves. They're five and 12. Yeah. That's how they rewarded him. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, just thank you for the help, Brian. We're going to win five out of 12, five out of 17 games.

We're going to go through a four game stretch where our entire team output is going to match Julio Rodriguez's who won, by the way, 17 for 21 over a four game stretch, three straight four games. All right. You know, I again, yeah, I think it was the right move. We it didn't work.

It did not work. We saved a little bit of money. I just hope what's important to me is that they get Pete on the team for a long time next year after next year. And because he's I hope he remains a lifelong met. I hope he becomes like what David Wright was to the to the team and just stuck around for a long time. He's a delightful human.

And I think the Mets, the only people that don't want to see Pete Alonso in the league is anybody who comes up with their first career hit and the ball winds up in his hands. He'll just throw it right into the stands. He made up for it. He apologized.

He sent a bottle in 1942. Did he get the ball back? He got the ball back. Apparently it's when whenever a ball is ruled by an umpire to be out of play, he does all the time.

It's firing into the stands. And then he overheard the umpire after this cardinal came up with his first career hit saying we're going to need a new baseball. And he heard that and he just fired into the stands. And you could see immediately after is what he said. He looked at the dugout. He was like, my bad, my bad, my bad. Got the ball.

They got the ball back. He sent a bottle in 1942. You know, that ain't cheap.

Yeah, that ain't cheap. An autographed bat. You know, and I'm with you, Joe. You know, these guys brought me to tell you, Peter Monzo was my favorite baseball player from week one of his rookie season. But I'm at the point now where if we get into like year 10 and the Mets aren't doing anything, then I kind of want to see him go somewhere and win. I think he deserves to win. You know, my out from that.

So I'm with you. He deserves she deserves a ring. I hope the Mets could bring it. You know, I have a seven year old and last year for his first baseball game, we went down to Petco Stadium, which is a terrific stadium. And the Mets got thumped.

This is last year, about 13 to one. And I was terrified that my son was no longer going to want to be a Mets fan. And quite frankly, he didn't.

He's like, this is the terrible. And I said, listen, why don't we why don't we go watch them play the Angels a few days later? And so we got tickets. We went to Angel Stadium and luckily they won. And Peter Monzo knocked one out of the park and my son saw it.

Now he's an Alonzo fan. And I and I and I saved that relationship and I feel very proud of that. Well, I'm glad at least some relationship was saved with your son after you left the Jets for the Rams. I know. Well, but just tell your son you're coming back for him.

Coming back. Yeah. So he's seven. Can you just play old YouTube videos of the eighty six season and trick him? That's right.

That's some of those wonderful highlights. Yeah. Before there was before there was a Betts, there was another Mookie son. Thanks for coming on, man. Thanks for having me.

Good luck. You want to hang out for the rest of the show? OK. Don't go anywhere. All right. He's got nowhere to be. Joe out of here. Max is still on the clock.

All right. Let's call him a new commercial break. FaceTime him right now.

Because what is Rugg like sitting in Bucharest ready to draft? Rugg has the green dot. That means you're online. That means you're online.

Here's what it means. Take a break. Break. You you can we get Rugg on the phone and pick up. All right.

As long as Max makes a pick. Don't. Nobody move. There we are. Nobody. Nobody.

Everybody. Just remain calm. We have a solid move we're going to make.

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And everyone just like it during the time I was like, ooh, boo, boo, boo. That's that next thing you're gonna tell me Jack Nicholson was at the Lakers game. McEnroe, McEnroe was there. I know he was right there. He was like, practically in Oakley's lap. Was Woody Allen there? He was not.

I don't know why that's funny. John Lithcomb? Was John there? Steve Earle was there. I saw Steve Earle.

This is the new Madison Square Garden. Leon was there? Oh, sure. He was there. What about... Bob Costas? Boja? Costas now. Oh, yeah. Can you tell this story?

Not feeling me. You gotta tell the Costas story. Tell the story. When I was like 21 years old, I went to the, I went to the, what was it?

The Heisman Trophy. At the downtown athletic club? Yeah.

I managed to get invited. Like I had an extra ticket or somebody gave me a ticket and I went through the thing. And I went to the bathroom and Bob Costas was in the next urinal. And I was like 21.

So this was 1990, 91. And I said, when I was peeing, and I went, I'm a big fan of yours. And he told me, and he went, don't you know the rule? You're not supposed to talk when you're in the urinal. And I was like, oh, I didn't.

That's how I learned the rule. Anyway, I saw him at the Knicks game. I learned about the Knicks game and I was, I'd never met him before, since then. And I said to him, hey, Costas, Bobby Cannavale, I just wanted to introduce myself and say, when I was 21, I told him the story and he went, it doesn't sound like something I'd say. And I was like, just, please shoot down. Twice. Well, he was also sitting on the toilet when you told him the second time. He was, he was, he was, he was, he was, yeah, he was like, hey, and shut the door, dude.

I don't care that you have two Emmys. Shit. Shut the door, Chip.

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Joel Attrulio, you were saying last week, going to come on Monday, maybe you can make a pick live or you could make a pick live in our best ball league where you choose a player and he's yours for the year. Yeah, that's it. Okay. One and done.

And the roster just gets set by the computer based on point totals. Correct. Okay. I made a pick. Yeah.

All right. Now Max Handelman just made a pick, meaning Paul Rudd is on the clock. Who did Max pick before we... Max picked, hold on a minute. Zach Charbonnet. Zach Charbonnet.

Oh, okay. Seattle. So Rudd's on the clock. What time is it in Bucharest? I think it's almost nine o'clock. All right, here we go. I'm going to call him.

What's he going to make of his pick live on the air? Oh no, it's almost 10. It's 9.51 PM. Hold on a minute. Hold on a minute.

Here it comes. It's not making the boop. It's not making that noise.

The blip? It doesn't... It's not looking out. Here we go. It's like a call waiting.

Here it is. Hello? Paul Rudd? Are you there, sir? Hi, Rich. Hi, Paul. Say hi to Joe LaTrulio, Paul. Hey, buddy. Hi, Joe.

Oh. I miss you guys. I miss you too.

I miss you too, fella. So are you ready to make your choice live on the show, Paul? Yep. Yep. Okay. I am. Okay. Oh, by the way, you're being billed on the screen as fantasy football professional right now, Paul. What graphic. Years of service.

Say it again, Paul. As false advertising. Okay. Where are you? Are you literally in Europe right now? Is that where you are?

Making this pick? I am. Okay. I am. This is dedication. I am. And yeah.

And thanks to the internet, it's showing up in Los Angeles on your show. This is it? Okay. So go for it, Paul Rudd. Make your choice. Here we go. If you want to walk, talk us through it like it's, you know, who wants to be a millionaire, go for it. Go for it.

I was scrolling through, looking at all the players, looking at needs, and players that I like and possibilities, and I thought, hmm, who has a name that I will never in my life ever be able to pronounce correctly, and that person is this guy? Okay. Oh gosh. Wow.

He's right. Did it come up? Yes, it did.

Yes, it did. It's a tight end? Yes, it's a tight end.

Yes. I got a tanquo. Yep, I got a tanquo. Oh, I already went Tennessee Titan.

Tanquo, yeah. Very nice pick. Very nice pick, Paul. You went tight.

I'm a tight end. Nice. Okay.

I was thinking about picking him. Well done. Okay.

Well done, Paul. Well, thanks. You know, this is the thing, and you know, guys, we talk every year. We go through this. Oh yeah. You and I. Yeah. And we always know who the other guy is going to pick, because Joe and I study the exact same stuff. That's right. We share the same cheat sheets.

What is more United Nations than an American in Romania choosing in a conquo? Sniping a close friend. There you go. Bless you, Paul. We love you, Paul.

Thank you for the call. Take care, bud. Take care, Rich. Bye, Joe. Bye, Paul. Nice to meet you. Bye, Paul. That's Paul Rudd, everybody.

Actor and fantasy football professional. Fantastic. Ah, wonderful. That was a big finish. Look at that. That was a big finish. That was... More than solid, right?

International showed it. If you said that was a solid finish, you can't. Spectacular finish. Attaboy.

Spectacular finish. And guess what? On our Roku channel, you guys are on the clock to finish up. Hey. Oh, look at that.

People are getting Roku right now if they don't already have it. I want to thank Greg Olsen, and I want to thank also Peter King and you, sir, Joe Letrullo. And then we'll talk about what you want to talk about on the back end. Beautiful. That's next here on The Rich Eyes and Show. We'll see you the rest on Tuesday. For over three decades, nobody has had a wrestling career like Arn Anderson.

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