NFL Playoff Questions (Hour 4)

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This is the Zach Gelb show, coast to coast on TBS Sports Radio. So going back to last year, here was your wildcard weekend in the NFL. You had Seahawks up against the 49ers, you had the Chargers up against the Jaguars, the Dolphins up against the Bills, the Giants up against the Vikings, the Ravens up against the Bengals, and you had the Cowboys up against the Buccaneers, and waiting there with a bye were the Philadelphia Eagles and the NFC, and then in the AFC, the Buffalo Bills. So let's go team through team. Well, we could stop the conversation on the Bengals, the Eagles, and also the Chiefs, right? All three of those teams, it would have to be a catastrophe this year for one of those three teams to miss the playoffs. So it's probably not even worth it, Hickey, to discuss the Eagles, the Bengals, and then also the Kansas City Chiefs, right?

I don't know. Eagles, missing the playoffs. Okay, fine.

I tried. So let's go through the wildcard weekend teams outside of the Bengals because the Bengals are definitely going to make the playoffs. The Seattle Seahawks.

I have the Seahawks making the playoffs once again. I think there's too much talent on the offensive side of the ball. Pete Carroll is a top five, top seven coach in the NFL.

I think he's a top five coach. I know there's some fear about regression with Geno Smith, but in a crappy NFC, I just think it's going to be really tough for them to miss the postseason. I will say no. I don't think they get him. Because of Geno.

Because of Geno. All right. 49ers. Locked to make the playoffs. Even if they don't have great quarterback play this year, we see them survive the QB carousel before and find a way to go to pretty damn good heights where it seems like each and every year, bare minimum, they wake up in the NFC title game.

All right. The Chargers. Crowded AFC. Not going to win that division because Kansas City is going to win it as long as number 15 is healthy.

You just pay Justin Herbert a five year, $262.5 million deal with 215 in total guarantees. Since the Chargers are going to be a wildcard team and not thought of as a division team, they get thrown in the hopper of those really dominant AFC teams and not everyone could get in. You only have three spots for wildcard teams. I just think there's too much talent there with guys like Herbert and Eckler and you add in Quentin Johnston and you have Keenan Allen and Mike Williams, Derwin James, Joey Bosa, J.C. Jackson, even though I think he's more a product of the Belichick system on defense, J.C. Jackson, you got to think is going to be somewhat good as long as he's healthy for the Chargers this year. And you also still have Khalil Mack too. I look at that Chargers team as a team that will make the playoffs, but I think it will be close because of the Chargers and also the AFC is absolutely loaded. I do not think they're going to make it. Paying Justin Herbert will result in going home after week 18. The Jacksonville Jaguars, I think they'll make it because of their division.

I will say luck. And also, I think they're a good team. Like I don't want to just poo poo it because of the division. They should be a double digit win team, bare minimum. The Dolphins. I think we're going to see the Dolphins win the AFCs.

I'll save you my thoughts on the Bills. I do have the Jets in the playoffs this year. And remember, the Jets did not make the playoffs last year, so I have to eliminate one of these AFC wildcard teams and I've not done so with the Chargers. You look at the Dolphins, I have them winning the AFCs, so therefore they're in the playoffs. But I got to cut one of these AFC teams out. So it's not going to be Miami. Do you think the Dolphins will rest this year?

No, I think they make the playoffs. I don't like the fact that I'm banking on two of being healthy. But everyone's saying he's not going to be able to make it through the year. And I think for the right reasons, because he hasn't been able to so far. And I'm very concerned with one head injury in week one, it could be all over.

It could be career ending. So I don't love the fact that, and I have a lot of talent obviously elsewhere, but if they don't have two, I don't think they have a chance to make the playoffs for a full season. I'm going to bank that he's healthy this season. They're going to make the playoffs. Buffalo Bills. I have them not winning the AFCs after winning what, three years in a row? I'm pretty sure. Right? 2019 was Brady's last year. 2020, 2021, 2022.

Yep. There you go. Three years in a row for the Buffalo Bills. I don't have them winning the division this year. I'm going Miami, but the Bills will definitely make the playoffs. And I would not be shocked whatsoever the Bills win the AFCs. Bills in the playoffs without a doubt. Giants. I think the Giants are going to miss. I like this regime with Brian Dabel and Joe Shane. I thought Joe Shane defeated Saquon Barkley today, which he's still getting $10 million a year.

And I thought that was a really savvy move by Joe Shane when a lot of public was saying, you got to do this, you got to do this, you got to do this before that July 17th deadline. And the fact that you got Saquon Barkley in camp is just a win for the Giants. It doesn't really make sense for Saquon Barkley. The thing that concerns you with the Giants is they exceeded any expectation that they had last year. There was no expectation for the Giants.

So they went above and beyond last year and then some. I don't think the Giants will be a disaster this year because I trust the GM and I trust the coach. But I do think they fall back just a little bit because even though they added in Darren Waller, you have Saquon Barkley back, but there is health concerns with him always.

They don't have a number one wide receiver and that's still troubling for me. And kind of what you saw with the Patriots two years ago, and they have a lot more competent offensive coaches than what Mac Jones had to deal with last year. But you had Mac Jones make the playoffs and I know it's not year one for Daniel Jones, but in year one for him.

And then the next year he regressed. I think you see some of those regressions this year with the Giants and they just miss out on the playoffs. Especially now that I think the word is out on Daniel Jones and what he can do well. And now just I'm interested to see how he adjusts because you know defenses are going to adjust and really try to take away that running game, especially not that Brian Dabile can't adjust because he's one of the best highlights of the NFL. Like I said, the wide receivers are very concerning. Saquon Barkley's health is a question mark, although I'm still getting the benefit of the doubt, but is a question mark. I don't like the talent a lot on this team.

I'm with you. I think the Giants miss the playoffs. I'm going to pick the Vikings to still make the playoffs this year. Are you out on the Vikings who had 13 wins last year? I'm not saying they're going to win 13 games this year. I think that's crazy, but I still think even with some regression, they'll still find the way to make the playoffs.

I'm with 100%. They're not going to win 13 games. They're going to regress down, but even regressing down nine wins, 10 wins, still definitely going to get you in the playoffs in the NFC. Still a lot of talent there.

You bring Brian Flores in through your DC. I like that a lot. I'm with you, Vikings in the playoffs. And they got to find a way to get that defense to be average. That defense has been God awful. You know, Ben Lieber got annoyed with me when he was on the air with us last. And I was like, yeah, that defense hasn't been good. He's like, Zach hasn't been good. They've been terrible. And that's a guy that gets paid by the Minnesota Vikings as one of their radio analysts, the Baltimore Ravens. Can the Ravens make the playoffs?

Absolutely. Lamar hasn't been healthy last two years. And we saw them make the playoffs last year and almost win that game up against the Bengals. Even with Tyler Huntley where the Bengals won 24 to 17 and Huntley thought he was like air Jordan, Michael Jordan at the goal line, which I still can't believe when he fumbled that football, but there's only three playoff teams in the wild card. I have the Bengals winning that division. I value the teams more in the AFC East right now, and I'm still going to put the chargers in. So I will, I will say that the Ravens missed the playoffs this year. Ravens chargers both pay their quarterbacks this off season. I think both are going to still miss the playoffs. Not a one on Baltimore.

A lot of questions. They don't make it. Bengals we already talked about are definitely in. Cowboys will still get in. I have Tampa Bay missing the playoffs. I know that you have the Bengals in. Cowboys, I'm assuming you're still saying they're going to make the playoffs even though we don't believe they go make a Superbowl in and you've been bullish on Tampa Bay. You went all in on Baker Mayfield last year said he was going to be a wildcard weekend quarterback and he's a top five quarterback in the NFC and even someone that was a big supporter of the Carolina Panthers the last few years.

I laughed at that. Bucks made the playoffs last year. I think they're in a rude awakening even though they have a talented roster. In some areas you lose Tom Brady only eight wins with Tom Brady. I don't trust Baker Mayfield. The bucks will miss the playoffs.

We'll see Baker Mayfield in a home playoff game in January. Bucks win the NFC South back in the playoffs. Can we make a bet here?

What do you want to bet? You go Baker Stash if the Buccaneers do not make the playoffs. Okay fine.

Wow. I'll go the Baker porno stash from like the dark 2021 days where I think if I'm not mistaken wasn't like in game where maybe that was another time where he shaved his beard like in game because he's struggling like during halftime. So I don't know if it was one or the other but I will go the Baker awful mustache if he is at home and not in the playoffs. Okay and I'll buy you dinner if the Buccaneers make the playoffs. Okay let's go.

Baker come on. Now you owe me a dinner still but you could have cheap. I could have got the burger. You could have got the burger. That was I got burger and broccoli tonight. That was about it.

Hell of a combo. Yeah the broccoli was aside. You know I'd say you know I'm watching what I eat these days or I'm also gonna have a gluttonous beach season still here so. Oh yeah.

Another month. Yeah. You'll probably confuse me with a whaler or two at the beach or something like that but maybe a dolphin. Dolphins are popular. Yeah but this is the Atlantic Ocean. This is gonna be a gluttonous next few days because I'm off Thursday and Friday.

Got all my reservations going to the Jersey Shore. So I'm trying to be careful what I eat. Like when we were talking about the burger and we came up with this I was like a little hesitant at first because I didn't want to down a burger but it was only an English muffin and an eight ounce patty. So I think I'll be OK. That maybe was 98 ounces.

So there you go. It was definitely eight ounces just because you had a crappy push up for him and my mother. I'm just criticize your form.

Don't criticize the push up and the burger a little on the smaller side if we weighed it would be closer to seven six and a half or eight. And you're happy I had a lot of burger in my mouth when I was doing this because I wanted to go through the other side of the glass and smack you around your head when you're commenting on the size of the burger when I'm trying to down this burger. I'm just giving the audience the realistic perspective of what I'm seeing. Like I am the only eyes and ears for the audience that they have right now in this challenge because like I said you are just garvoning the burger in 90 seconds or less which you did a great job at. So I'm just trying to paint the realistic picture I'm not you know I'm not pro gal but not anti gal.

I am someone who's right down the middle who is just caught as you see it and let the audience make their own judgments. What did you say? Garvoning. Is that a word?

Oh yeah. Garvone. I don't think there's a V in it. Maybe I'm wrong.

I think there is. I couldn't spell it for you. How do you think that's spelled? I have no idea. I think it's Italian word so I mean I'm sure it's not spelled anywhere near the way you think.

If you just had to take a guess. I mean J-A-R-V-O-N-E right? V-O-N-E?

Say that one more time? J-A-R-V-O-N-E? Okay when I that's how I typed it in. And then it came up as G-A-D-R-O-O-N-I-N-G. Oh Garvone. I put an R in there.

I'm sorry. Garvone. Oh I've never even heard this word.

Because when I whatever gadrooning or whatever this is it's with a laboratory carved or molding. You're in the wrong area. Yeah so that's not the right word. Garvone. How do you spell it? G-A-V-O-N-E. G-A-V-O-N-E. Okay. Garvone.

You figure out a new word each and every day. Look at that. So right now your playoff teams as we just do this at training camps opening on the league July 25th. Not set in stone predictions but you would think for the most part barring a big injury they would stay the same. Your AFC East winner I'm going Miami you're going? I will still go Buffalo.

That's the one I don't feel great about but I'll stick with the Bills. AFC North I'm taking the Bengals you're taking the Bengals as well. The South Jaguars.

Yes. Chiefs in the West. Chiefs. So my three wildcard teams in the AFC right now Miami and no excuse me in no order Buffalo the Jets and the Chargers.

So my seven playoff teams Buffalo Miami in no order Jets Bengals Jaguars Chiefs Chargers. Your three wildcard teams I know you like the Cleveland Browns this year right? Cleveland Browns are one. And the Broncos. Denver Broncos are another. And the Miami Dolphins playoff team as well.

Those are some ugly colors for wildcard weekend. The Cleveland Browns. The Browns uniforms are beautiful. The Denver Broncos. Have you seen the Broncos new white helmets they released today?

Oh my god I think if any of those are going to be three tremendous. Well me and the Dolphins I'm not a big fan of the Dolphins uniforms unless they go back to the retro look. But I mean they go back to the retro look you were talking about three beautiful uniforms. I love Browns fans. Those uniforms are great. Browns are top three uniforms in the NFL. I do have a Browns uniform actually.

Like Pee-Wee? No. A friend of mine used to work on the Tide campaign.

Okay. And they sent out Tide jerseys. So I have an enormous this is a little bit larger. I just ginormous number one Cleveland Browns jersey on the back it says Tide on it. Is it the older jersey they had in like 2019, 2020 that like that ugly rebrand? Or is it like a new throwback? It's old.

It's like a few years old. So like the Baker Mayfield. Yeah.

Ugh those are disgusting. Yeah it is a big brown jersey. NFC East Eagles winning. Eagles. NFC North. You know what? I'm still going with the Vikings.

Hmm. I'll take the Lions. NFC South. I'm taking the Falcons. Buccaneers. NFC West. We're both going the 49ers. Niners. My three wildcard teams in the NFC and I know this is going to annoy one fan base and I apologize because I love this fan base and I hope they make the playoffs this year. The three wildcard teams. I'm taking the Dallas Cowboys. I am taking the Seattle Seahawks in order. And I'm going with the Green Bay Packers. I do not have the Detroit Lions in the playoffs this year.

I don't feel good about that one. I want them to make the playoffs. But everyone's just assuming the Lions are going to win that division.

Everyone. And I know Jared Goff played well in the last year or two. I'm just.

And I like Aiden Hutchinson a lot. I'm just a little skeptical until I believe it. They played really well down the stretch. I think everyone's too in love with the Lions. Your wildcard teams, your three in the NFC? Dallas Cowboys. Minnesota Vikings.

You want that? Los Angeles Rams. They are back, folks. No loss. Stafford.

Cup. Donald. They're not back.

McVeigh. Yeah, who's blocking on that offensive line? They were banged up last year. They had, they were, they were arguably the most injury ruled offensive line in the NFL.

They were one inch away from you getting the call. That offensive line. They are now.

Still on paper stinks. Back healthy. Stafford is back. This team, I'm telling you, they're under, you tell them under the radar. Nobody is talking about the Rams. Nobody's looking in the Rams direction. Yeah, nor should they. They're going to sneak into the playoffs.

It's a weak NFC. They got the playoff experience. They'll be back outside of Aaron Donald, Matthew Stafford and Cooper cup. Who are the guys you really like on this team? Just wondering those three guys.

Okay. I'm talking players. Any other player you like on that, on that roster? Cause I'm looking at this roster and you're going to tell me I need to get excited over Tyler Higby.

So tight ends. I got to get, uh, who's the guy? Scoronic, whatever the guy's name is. Van Jefferson. Van Jefferson, solid receiver. 2-2 Atwell, who has some speed. He's small, but he has some speed.

2-2 is like 110 pounds. Cam Akers, who never wants to be there. Solid when he's healthy. You're banking on Sony Michelle. I know you're going to say, Oh, he was the leading roster for two teams that won a Super Bowl.

Touchdown machine, Sony Michelle. Veteran leadership. What Bobby Wagner did this off season tells me everything I need to know about what he thinks about the Rams this year. I would be very surprised if the Rams make the playoffs, even in a week NFC.

Cause I think there's too many guys there that are one foot in one foot out. And once again, that offensive line absolutely stinks. But I'll give you some credit there.

Hickey. You're going out on a limb with some of these teams. You're picking the bucks when no one's picking the bucks. You're picking the Rams with no one's picking the Rams and uh, you're supporting the Cleveland Browns this year, which they have a very talented roster, but not a lot of people are supporting the Cleveland Browns heading into this season. And you're doubling down on your Denver Broncos prediction. So those are four teams right there that I think a lot of people are listening. They're like, Ooh, some hot takes from hickster. Listen, I know I may go to inside baseball here.

I apologize. Rob Haven, Stein, Brian Allen, Joe note, boom. These are starters on the Superbowl winner winning team two years ago. This team is good. No people are looking at last year when they were banged up all over the place. And then this team sucks. That ain't the case. They were injured last year.

They're healthy this year. You'll see. I'll see you in January. Okay. Are you done with your, your Ted talk for today? Your, your passionate rant about the Rams and their offensive line. I am done. Matthew Stafford.

See you in January. Yeah. Can we get Baldy on the phone, Brian Baldinger? And let's ask Baldy what he thinks about the Rams offense does he not like the Rams this year?

I don't know. I would trust Braldinger's evaluation. I'm just saying when I hear a high pitched voice, Hickey, who's never known anything about offensive line, tell me how much he loves an offensive line. Like if it was coming from Baldy, I'd be like, okay, three starters on a Superbowl winning team. You'll still be about how this Colts offensive line is so great. And they were highly paid and they stunk last year. Well, they know left tackle and no right guard.

And they had a statue back there. No, I'm saying they played, they played bad. They were bad last year. I'm not saying they were good. They were bad. The Rams are injured. There's a difference. If the Rams were in the AFC, would you be making a case for the Rams to make the playoffs? No, not as much. It's part of it is the NFC is open again.

So you're trying to put lipstick on a pig. I'm not telling you it's crazy for them to make the playoffs, but it's amazing how confident you are for finding a sixth or seventh team in the NFC that we're talking about consistently, that it's a two team league and no one else is really standing out or impressing than anyone I name is putting lipstick on a pig at that, at that point. So sure, but I think part of the reason why I'm picking the Rams is it is open. I like their play of experience, Seahawks, no Seahawks. I don't trust Geno Smith at all.

I'm sorry. Do you know how to great year last year? I think it's a one year wonder and I'm going to bank on that being true. I hope Geno Smith wins the MVP of this year. He won't, but how great would that be? Geno Smith wins the MVP and it gets up there at the podium when he, when they give him that MVP at that award ceremony, Superbowl week, cause they won't be in the Superbowl and he just goes, Ryan Hickey wrote me off, but I didn't write back.

No, actually that would have been normally more than me being wrong about Geno in general. That'd be great for your career. Geno Smith mentioning you at the MVP ceremony.

Stupid line out. That would be great. That'd be, that'd be awesome for you. Come on, Hickster. Take it, take it on, Geno. Let's go. Let's go. I'm ready to battle Geno. It's the NFC West battle.

Me versus Geno. Do me a favor here. But me is in the form of Matthew Stafford and the Rams. So I'm not here Thursday and Friday.

You are. Can we get the ball rolling on the Seahawks? Reach out to the Seahawks.

Cause I have to be their most vocal advocate this year on the national radio landscape. I remember they gave us Shelby Harris last year. Who's no longer on that team, but we got to get someone off in the Seahawks.

I like the Seahawks a lot. I'm rooting for this. How about Jamal Adams? You want Jamal Adams on? He'll cut you a promo. I think he would hang up the phone on me cause Jamal Adams does annoy me. So maybe pass him Jamal Adams.

But like, let's reach out for Bobby Wagner. Um, you're talking to DK Metcalf and his diet? What candy's eating today?

Yeah, that's fine. I take DK. I love Kenneth Walker. I'm gonna ask for Geno. Tyler Lockett, who's been on the show before. Jackson's been in Jigbo. I thought we hit it off during the, uh, the draft right before the draft.

Yeah. Hey, you go ask for those guys and just, uh, maybe we get one of them on. I even, I, I dip my toe in the waters of, uh, Noah Fanta or even Will Disley, even any of those guys. I like Will Disley. I had him on, on Ion Football. I was just going to say, he's a friend of the, well, I guess not friend of the show, but he's been on the show.

Yeah. You got to be on at least three times to be a friend of the show, but I just gave you all those names. Maybe Quandre Diggs as well, or Tariq Woulin. Those nine or 10 names, the Seahawks have been usually pretty good PR department. They should be able to get us one before the start of the season. Okay.

I'm putting that on your plate to get taken care of for when I come back or at some point in August. And, uh, we got some college football coaches that we'll talk off the air that we have to circle back before the start of the season. Coming on back, Zach Gelb's show. You're listening to the Zach Gelb show. Alrighty, Zach Gelb show CBS sports radio 8 5 5 2 1 2 4 CBS 8 5 5 2 1 2 42 27. Let's take some calls here. We'll go to Dan and green Bay next up on the Zach Gelb show. Danny what's happening. Hey Zach, how are you doing? Great.

What do you got? Hey, I take great exception to your defense of Michigan. Um, I'm a big 10 guy. Um, I can't think of a university in the big 10 that's been more corrupt over the last 35 to 40 years in Michigan. I mean, you can go back to Dr. Ed Martin and the fab five multiple minor violations. And now this, look, I understand what you're saying in terms of this particular violation, but the rules are the rules.

Okay. And, and, and, and, and the NCAA has always gone out of their way not to penalize major name schools like Michigan, like Ohio state, like Texas, like Alabama, like, and the only reason they're having a punishment here is because they weren't happy that Harbaugh wasn't truthful with them. So we're punishing them not for a minor infraction. It's because the coach lied. Well, don't you think that's a good reason to punish them for lying for games?

I think that's a bit excessive for saying like, what I misremembered about getting a kid a hamburger. Well, again, he knows the rules and, and I mean, the, the NCAA has always been very hypocritical. I mean, exactly.

They're hypocrites. Yeah. Yeah.

But let me give you an example. They don't touch their name schools unless they almost have to. I mean, do you think they have to hear?

Yeah. Why did they broke the rules? Because they broke the rules. I mean, if you're rich to Wisconsin, I'm a badger fan. Got, got lost scholarships in basketball, um, football and hockey, uh, because players on campus were, were receiving unadvertised discounts from a local shoe company who, who the owner didn't even wasn't even an alumni of the university of Wisconsin.

And by the way, you, I could walk in to that place and, and negotiate with them and get it because they bought basically overruns of stock and all this other stuff. You and I could do the same thing the damn athletes are doing and they, and they, and they literally for brutal to Wisconsin. So Dan, so here's the part that optically I think it makes the NCAA look bad. And I know that the NCAA did not suspend urban Meyer and it was the school, but urban Meyer with the whole Zach Smith situation where he lied his ass off for a much serious issue here. When we're talking about domestic violence, urban Meyer only got three games protecting his guy, but Jim Harbaugh goes out and buys a few kids, some burgers and has some coach watching a zoom.

And now he's going to get four just cause he lied. You're making a decent point, but I think both of them should be penalized. Okay. Well Dan, appreciate it. I think four games is excessive.

It's up against four cupcake teams, so it doesn't matter, but everyone's entitled to have a difference of opinion and always enjoy a different opinion on the show. Thanks so much. Let's go to rich in Chicago next up. Rich, what do you got? We'll talk about your playoff picks and I like a lot of them, but there's a couple of things that maybe you haven't considered that we've kind of been following here that I think are worth at least consideration. Maybe you changed your point of view. My friends think the saints are big favorites in the NFC South.

Yeah. No one's talking about Carr resurrecting his career. Well, everyone's picking the saints to make the playoffs this year. I know I didn't. I know Hickey didn't. I just don't believe in car. That's just me.

Okay. Uh, the one thing I do want to point out that when you talk about the giants, they did pick up the blood and the cough winner at wide receiver, the Hyatt kid from Tennessee. I don't think there's, there is deficient as you might think about the giants. He's going to be a star. I've seen him for three years in the FCC. He's really good. So I like Jalen Hyten. He had a monster year last year, no question, but I'm still outside of Darren Waller who has injury concerns and you have Saquon Barkley as well. Maybe Jalen Hyatt turns out to be a great player in the NFL, but predicting wide receivers are very tough. I still don't look at that roster and see a without a doubt number one wide receiver.

I think he's better than you think, but that's what we'll find out, right? The, uh, Jeff, I think they're third in the, in the, in the AFC East. I don't know if you think they're going to make the playoffs. They've got the third toughest schedule in the league. They're going to play the AFC West and their non-divisional non-conference.

Good luck with that. Playing all those guys. If they win, I think best case and I kind of listen to the schedule and you can look at it yourself. Best case, nine games.

I don't think nine games gets you a wildcard for them. I would fade the jets. Miami, like you guys talked about, that's my pick in the AFC East.

And then you got to take a look in San Diego. I couldn't remember if it was you or Hickey that picked the Chargers. You got Herbert who lost a 27 to nothing lead last time you played. So the guy stinks all of a sudden. So Matt Ryan's an awful quarterback because he choked up a 28 to 3 lead too, right?

No, that's not what I'm saying. I'm saying in the playoffs, you really want to trust the guy who's doing that. And you got Staley as one of the most horrible coaches in the NFL. I do not trust Staley, but they got to the playoffs last year and that's where I think they'll get to the playoffs again and then they'll have a shortcoming in the postseason.

All right, let me give us some quick ones too. Up and down because I think this is going to be really interesting. I think the Vikings are done. They lost too many guys. I think Green Bay isn't going anywhere with love. Believe it or not, I don't think the Bears are going to make the playoffs, but I think they're going to be a surprise team. I think you can see eight or nine wins out of the Bears, which is going to put pressure on the Lions and the Vikings and the Packers.

Rich, I got to run, but I appreciate it. I can't sit here and preview all 32 teams. The Bears has come from Chicago. I don't know if he's a bear fan or not. They got a lot of work to do and they put Justin Fields in a better position to succeed bringing in DJ Moore.

We'll see how improved that offensive line is, but I'm not ready to go eight or nine games for the Chicago Bears this upcoming season. El Capitan Marco Belletti is standing by and I know I just asked you this question and this is going to be really bad, but your new son is Matthew, correct? Am I right on that? I got that. Okay.

Yeah. Well, Hickey and I, we got you a little gift for Matthew with football season coming up. We think when he's hopefully sleeping on dad's shoulder and chest and watching the football games with you, he will be properly dressed as we got some New York Giants gear, won a traditional New York Giants logo. The other I think you'll like, eat, sleep, drool and football, which hopefully he's not drooling over you when the Giants are happening.

And this one, I don't know if you will like because I think you do want him to nap on game day, but this one says I will not nap on game day. Very nice. Wow. So here we go. Congratulations. I'm becoming a father again. I'm stunned. This is very nice of you guys. These are always useful.

There's a lot of spitting and drooling and disgustingness. So constant wardrobe change is automatic. And Hickey and I, we made an intelligent decision here because so many people are getting you zero to three months right now.

I think it's six to nine months on there. Which again, not yet, but it'll fit perfectly. Definitely. And especially during the season. We wanted to get you something right with all, with everyone popping out babies here at CBS Sports Radio, their wives popping out babies with Baladi and the Bourbon Bell. I gotta be honest.

I was unaware. Well, I was sitting here and I was talking to Hickey and I go, cause it was the Bob's Bar show. So I thought it'd be funny with me dressed up as Matt Ruhl if I got DA and Baladi some Nebraska baby gear. Cause they always like to poke fun at my friendship with Matt Ruhl. And I'm like, man, we never got Marco anything.

We got to get Marco something. I appreciate that. I never thought of it. Really. I'm very surprised, but very appreciative. It's nice to you guys.

It really is. During the break, I go into the, the little studio, little closet. You can say it's all right.

The little closet that I got. Yeah. I'm aware that Marco prepares diligently for, for, for our show to do the last update of the, of the hour. And I'm like, what was your son's name again? I think it starts with them. You're like Matthew. And you looked at me as if you were, you were saying what the bleep are they up to? Well, it's an odd question when you just come racing into the club. Hey, what, what's your new son's name?

What the hell does that mean? Like, yeah. Uh, Matthew. Yeah. And I can see why you'd be a little, I didn't know where we were going out as a pair.

I didn't know where we were going. Well, I guess when the Deebo stuff happened, for some reason, people thought they needed to create like five or six, or maybe it's when my credit card got hacked. I don't know, but someone thought they needed to create five or six fake Zach Gelb Instagram accounts.

And I, I found this out over the weekend. Um, I have a lot of friends that love to just Google my name and then send me about it. And a lot of times it's them saying, Oh, you're on this Reddit thread getting blasted or you're on this. Uh, someone's talking to you in this radio show and they're going after you and they like to bring that up and, and say, Oh, when I went after Ben Roethlisberger for the whole COVID stuff and, and how he's complaining about their bi-week getting taken away. They're like, Oh, this guy said you look like Mason Rudolph got stung by a bee. Isn't that a hilarious? So my friends love to do that, but one of my friends usually trolls me. I thought that was a good one too.

It's a good job. But you know, Steelers fans could actually troll the 49er fans, the 40 whiner fans, excuse me, we're all weak. There wasn't, wasn't anything that was really great outside of them saying my mother should have done something.

Um, which I did think was kind of funny, but most of it was pretty lame by the 40 whiners fans. But I had one of my friends text me, he goes, Hey, I know I usually troll you this word for word. I don't usually troll you when people go after you, but I was searching you the other day to find some of that stuff in the aftermath of the Debo and all that other stuff. And I saw that there was five fake Instagram accounts made and they all have my profile picture and then like personal pictures, like family pictures, pictures of me and my niece who's seven months old, me doing a take, talking to Mike Breen.

And I know it's all public and it's out there, but they were, they really dressed up those fake pages, the niece and the kids. I don't like leave that stuff out. Everything else though, very creative. And I liked that.

That's, that's good. I mean, and it's also flattering and people take the time. They obviously like, yes.

Or they feel another way about you, which is even better. So that's something that they take the time that definitely flattering, but take the little the kids, take that out. Yeah. Kids and just letting you know, just take the, take the kids out.

They are, there's a lot of things that are, you know, on the table. Kids take the kids out and I'm reporting and blocking the account and all that stuff. And Instagram's like, Oh, there's nothing wrong here. I go, what do you mean there's nothing wrong here?

This is intended to be me. You got Musk and Zuckerberg fighting over the most ridiculous things that we can't get this person, all of these five or six fakes at Gelbs off. Well, we got to worry about X and meta and whatever else nonsense that I don't know about. So you're on Twitter or X, whatever it's called. Yeah. Twitter. Yeah. Whatever. You've seen the new logo, right?

I have. When it just sits there in your browser like that and you see an X. I didn't even realize that. I think that there's only on it on my phone.

Yeah, that's, um, that's not a good look that that's, I mean, Musk should be a little bit smarter than that. If they're going to take away the traditional Twitter logo, they should've found the way to still incorporate the blue bird, like somewhere in the X. So it's still clear that it's Twitter. Well, it also doesn't make a lot of sense then because then what you're not tweeting anymore.

If it's not Twitter, you're not tweeting. So what are you doing? It's just posting. We're Xing. We're Xing.

I mean, that sounds like sexing. It's again, it's just, it feels like we're reaching for things that, you know, trying to fix things that aren't broken. We're reaching for things that don't make any sense. So I don't really know what the end game is for Elon Musk other than to drive this thing completely into the ground and no one ever uses it again. I feel like that's where we're headed. I think he's, and I still think Twitter will always be around, um, in some capacity, but you're not wrong where like the last few months, ever since he's really taken over and this guy spent, I know he's worth so much money, but he spent $44 billion on this and it's as if he spent $44 billion on this just to troll everyone else.

Well, that's what it feels like. That's what I mean. Again, good for you if that's the end game, but I mean, like you say, well, it's always going to be around. I think MySpace is still somewhere too, right? That doesn't mean anybody actually is on it.

That is fair. So I don't even know if my MySpace account, I never had one, but I am aware that it was out there. Again, it's just, look, we can all have the issues that we have with it. It was just the idea that it was a place that gave you information quickly, concise, and it was, you knew was real. Now we don't know what the hell's going on.

I don't even know what the name of it is anymore. It's just kind of like, what exactly are we trying to do? Are we trying to destroy it?

Because if you are good for you that you're trying to destroy your own company, but you know, let us sit on the joke at some point. Uh, Hickey, just a quick question. Cause I don't see it on the cut sheet. So if you don't have it, it's all right. Do you have that Jamis Winston sound by any chance or no? If you don't, it's fine. I just got to edit it a little bit.

So yes and no. Okay. Nevermind. Cause did you, you found that Jamis Winston sound, right? It's in the morning show folder.

Hickey, if you want to look for it quick. Well, we're up against it. So I'm going to play it on the other side. How the heck did you come across that one? You just saw that on social media somewhere. I don't know exactly where I found Jamis Winston singing. I don't know why he's singing. I don't know what he's doing. I'm a guy always.

It's Jamis Winston. I don't know where exactly. I mean, that's half of the night I'm fine. I'm scouring for stuff. When did I come across that?

I don't know, but I came across it at some point last night. Well, I'm happy you brought it to our attention because I heard that audio being played this morning and we'll play it for you next. And we will end the shot in style with the closing bell. You're listening to the Zach Gelb show. Another day is in the books and we're taking stock of the sports world. It's time to find out who's up and who's down.

Let's end the day right and hit the closing bell. Only on the Zach Gelb show. The defensive play of the week is sponsored by the Navy federal credit union who proudly serves the armed forces, DOD veterans and their families. Their members are the mission.

Learn more at Navy federal.org. How about Royals catcher Salvador Perez? He became the 10th catcher in MLB history to 200 career home runs as he joined the exclusive club with a two run shot in the sixth inning in Kansas cities, eventual five to three win over the guardians of Monday night.

The Homer was his 17th on the season. Give Salvador Perez a stock up. Let's hear future American idol star Jamis Winston. Slow motion, slow motion, baby.

My baby told me to stroke it with your motion, stroke it with your motion. That's just amazing. I love that. Give a stock up to Jamis Winston, Jalen Brown. We'll talk more about this tomorrow, but he agreed on a five year, $304 million supermax contract extension with the franchise. That is the richest deal in NBA history.

Now I do have some questions about that. We'll delve more into that tomorrow, but a great day for Jalen Brown. Give him a stock up. We continue to show you the money right here on the Zach Gelb show on CBS sports radio, where we go to Chargers quarterback Justin Herbert, a five year, $262.5 million extension.

Give Justin Herbert a stock up and one more with the dinero, one more with the cash, one more with the moolah. Trayvon digs of the Cowboys agreed to a five year contract extension with $97 million. According to rap sheet, it becomes one of the highest paid quarterbacks of the NFL.

Sources say he could get a max value of $104 million. Give a stock up to Jamis Winston. I mean, uh, Jimmy Graham, he didn't play last year and he's making a return to the saints who that, who that, who that say they're going to beat them saints. Probably a lot of teams, but give a stock up to Jimmy Graham. Stock down to Saquon Barkley.

Now I know that that audio where he was saying that things may have to get all ugly and maybe doesn't show up at all was before the July 17th date, but July 17th didn't go in his favor. And there's no reason to go to training camp. And it's not as if you got that big of an increase on your salary. It's the same base salary. You get 2 million upfront. The franchise tag is fully guaranteed anyway. And they added in like an extra three incentives with $300,000 each that are all contingent on you making the playoffs at all individual stats as well with how much talk there was about the running backs.

It once again shows you there's really no leverage. Now, Josh Jacobs is going to wait probably to the end of training camp to show up right before the start of the season, maybe miss a game or two. I would think right before the start of the season of week one, but Saquon Barkley, even though it's a good job by it from a team standpoint, in terms of him being a team player, I don't really see the purpose of him taking this deal right now.

I would have waited. So stock down to Saquon Barkley. And finally, the NCAA.

What are we doing? You want to suspend Jim Harbaugh for bleeping games because the guy brought a few bought a few cheeseburgers for some recruits and some other minor infractions. No, it's because he lied. Give me a break with how much they cover up those hypocrites of the NCAA. This is what they're going to try to fight. I remember a few years ago, I went off on the NBA for selective tampering. This is selective punishment by the NCAA. And I don't like it.

Don't like it whatsoever. So give a stock down to those frauds, those hypocrites, those losers at the NCAA. Alrighty, that's the Zach Yelp show on CBS Sports Radio. Big thanks to Ike Reese for joining us. And, uh, Hickey, I thought we had fun eating a hamburger for, for one Jim Harbaugh, where I devoured that bad boy, that eight ounce burger in one minute and 11 seconds. We'll be back tomorrow.

Justin Herbert got paid, so we'll talk to a man that protects Justin Herbert. Zion Johnson is going to be joining us. And then we also have Tracy McGrady T Mac gracing us with his presence on CBS Sports Radio. It's a whole lot to do on a very busy Wednesday on CBS Sports Radio.

And you never know what other surprises are going to pop on up. All right. Talk to you tomorrow, everybody. We out. Bye bye. Thank you for listening.