Drinking Beer With A Hot Dog (Hour 4)

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Alright, what do you got for me? Alright Zach, college football right around the corner and the 2022 college football broadcast team for Fox is set to debut a week from Thursday. That game will be Penn State Purdue at Purdue. Nah, too bad that's not a happy valley.

Too bad. That would be a shame because a very familiar face will be on campus in Bloomington and also will be part of Big Noon Saturday each and every single weekend as the Fox pregame show that will be Urban Meyer. Remember last year he took the, did we say he took the season off to coach the Jaguars?

Is that fair to say? I don't even think you want to acknowledge that you coached the Jaguars anymore because he put zero effort into that. Like if I'm Urban Meyer I would say when people go to jail like oh I went away or I graduated and now I'm back.

That's what I would do. I would not even mention that you were the coach of the Jaguars because you were just brutal there. Terrible. It was like you were trying to get fired to get back to Fox.

I mean at the end it did look like it was, that was a goal for sure. So the three time national champ head coach, he was on the show for two years, 2019-2020 before he pulled a Tom Brady, took a sabbatical for the 2021 season. Now the pregame show for Fox. He pulled a Tom Brady, took a sabbatical. Brady was gone for a month and didn't disgrace anything or anyone. Well he just took a week off. You know, well he took a, you know.

Oh you took like a ten day thing. Yeah just you know Brady took a vacation. Urban took money from the Jaguars. Urban right. And then started to kick a kicker and just be a complete jackass and then get to the Urban Meyer Pinehouse after not flying back with his team and dance with someone that was not his wife.

One big colossal cluster you know what. Oh by the way, Jay and Alaska City doesn't support Liars and Cheaters. I guess Jay and Alaska doesn't support Fox bringing back Urban Meyer. I guess not. That is for sure.

It's interesting. This year the pregame show will be on the road each and every Saturday. Onside your offsides Fox made the right call in bringing Urban Meyer back. Wait wait wait. They're on the road each and every week this year?

That's right. It's going to be a college game day-esque set up each and every weekend on the road pregame show leading into the big new kickoff. Has Fox explored to fans now bringing signs because they may want to ban signs this year because those college students and deservedly so are going to go after Urban Meyer?

I'm sure there will be a few chances. Especially if you go to Michigan for a game. Ohio State is probably going to be fine but you know other big ten schools. Ohio State will be more than fine. They still love that guy. They think he did nothing wrong at Ohio State. Penn State, Michigan State, Wisconsin.

Yeah go to those schools. That would be fun. Now it's not comparable but when the Jaguars fans were chanting, ironically the Jaguars fans were chanting you sick bleep to Deshaun Watson. I wonder what the college students when they're on their 13th natty light by 8.30 am are going to be chanting whatever Meyer gets ready to the big chair for big new kickoff on Fox. Definitely have to get creative. Nothing comes off the top of my head right now. I'll get back to you.

I'll give some advice to the college kids. Oh is that going to be a home run? It is! Volgo back! 3-2 now.

Let's make a little dent into that 3-0 Yankees lead. Anyway your question was Fox made the right call in bringing Urban Meyer back. Urban Meyer was actually good on television. But imagine Urban Meyer now talking about discipline or lack of control or going after a college kid if he did something stupid off the field. Yes he's a great college coach. He's also a great pain in the ass. And he's also a hypocrite and he's a liar.

Kind of loses credibility. Fox though is saying we don't care. We want the biggest names on that show and I will say the Fox pregame show is phenomenal.

When you have Liner, Brady Quinn, Reggie Bush. Who's the name of the studio host? I always forget his name. Rob Stone. Rob Stone. I think he does a really good job. Very underrated studio guy.

So underrated I don't even remember his name. What happened to Snoopsie? Is Snoops out? One and done.

See you later. Wasn't great on TV. I thought he was fine. Doesn't really like to criticize anyone.

Well that's you know. But that was just in a radio interview when he joined us. So does he not work with Fox period? I don't know about that but I think he is off the pregame show. He just kept Urban's seat warm for that little sabbatical and now he's back. They dropped the ball here. Do you want to know why they dropped the ball? He was a fox.

Yeah. What did you much rather hear from? Gold Tigers. What do you much rather hear from Ed Orgeron?

Maybe they made a run. You just said no. Matt. Reggie. Brady. You know but there's some fine looking women on the sideline.

I was at Josh Booty's Super Bowl party and I'm single now. What coach will be any good on TV? Yeah.

Can I understand what he's saying? Well we have him on this show. Isn't he good on this show? He's funny. He's great on this show.

I think he's phenomenal whenever he joins us. And he could have like some subtitles too. Give a raise to whoever is doing the subtitles for Fox. Eventually Urban Meyer is going to go back to Fox. If I was Fox I'd have some standards though and I would wait.

Like you could wait a year. I don't think you need to put him back on Fox this year. So I don't think Fox made the right call and bring Urban Meyer back so I'm going offside.

Offside. How about you on that one? I would agree. Wait a year. Wait two years. Not even that. You don't need him for that show to be successful. You could find another coach.

And it's like how can you take anything he says seriously? Yeah. You got to be more disciplined. You got to be about character roles. Here you are you know.

Doing X, Y, and Z. Well I read an article today. I think it was Dimitri from Barrett Sports Media. He's saying on the ESPN College Game Day show it's sometimes more than football. Like it's always a football related story but you do some of those really emotional pieces and inspirational pieces as well. He's saying Fox is all about football, football, football, football and just talking about football and this is a move where you're just going to be talking about football.

But if there's an issue that overlaps football and then doing the right thing away from the football field it's going to be weird when Urban Meyer does opine on let's say those issues. That is for sure. Shams Sharani of The Athletic is reporting today that the Grizzlies have become the latest team to join the Kevin Durant sweepstakes. Memphis has five first round picks available.

Four of them are unprotected plus a bevy of young players. Although Shams is reporting that the Grizzlies will not include either Jairon Jackson Jr. or Desmond Bade in a trade for Kevin Durant. Now league wide the Celtics are viewed to be the favorites to land Kevin Durant in part because they have the best player so far offered on the table. That is Jalen Brown.

Right now zero momentum for any trade has been had. Onsides or offsides, Kevin Durant will be a net by opening night game one of this season. Yeah because the Rudy Gobert trade is going to set the return just out of whack and then Mitchell I do think will get traded and then the ante is going to be upped even more. I believe Durant's going to be there.

I don't think he's going to finish his career in Brooklyn but I think he will be on the Nets roster by game one of the season so I'm going onsides on that one. You still agree with that? Yes. So we have not wavered off that yet? No sir.

After taking 11 days off. You know we just agreed on back to back questions. We need to be like a contrived program and just start having you disagree just to simply disagree.

How could you say Kevin Durant is going to be a net? Coming up next son. What is that show? Undisputed?

Fox is our best friend today. Shannon Sharpe is going to say something and I'm just going to disagree with it and then probably attack LeBron James' son because I hate LeBron. I'm Skip Bayless.

Drink Mountain Dew. So they're taking 11 days off in the middle of training camp. Tom Brady returned to Buccaneers practice on Monday. Pro Football Network has reported the seven times Super Bowl winner's absence was primarily for family time as the Brady family took a trip to the Bahamas. The Bahamas. My vacation spot.

Yeah not bad right? I think Brady would go to Greece though now. I feel like everyone is going to Greece now. How about Australia? Maybe just go off the map. I could see Brady doing some social media content with some like kangaroos or something.

From the Great Barrier Reef. Here I am getting ready for the season. And like some douchey hat like some chapeau. Oh by the way Brady remember earlier I said there would be a photo that would emerge of Brady on vacation?

Yes. And how until I see one I'm going to be skeptical? I don't. Now this could be in Tampa and this is not Tom Brady but he's trying to claim it's Tom Brady. There's a guy on a motorcycle and it's definitely not Tom Brady. But then Brady quote tweeted and wrote wasn't on the Masked Singer last week was wearing a mask though and it was a big helmet. Now it's definitely not Brady because if Brady was on a motorcycle hey this guy is too short to be Tom Brady but that could be a contract violation but the Bucks basically let him do whatever he wants anyway. So we've still not seen a photo yet of Brady on vacation or a video which I find hard to believe when it's Tom bleeping Brady not another rich person would take a photo of him at one of these resorts. Seems bizarre. Unless if he rented out the entire resort.

Which could be I guess a possibility when you have Giselle and Tom Brady money. Yeah I think that's the entire Bahamas island. I'm coming here for a few days.

Sorry I got distracted there. I'm looking now at Vogelbach slowly. Little like cocky dance right there. Daniel Vogelbach kicking out the legs. That guy running. Got to love that. Love the confidence. Pro football and Eric also reporting back to Tom Brady that the quarterback was not expected to retire during this little 11 day break slash sabbatical.

A.K.A. Hickey said that he was going to retire and the next thing you know Brady was like we can't have that Colts fan be right. I was going to retire but now just to spite Ryan Hickey into back Zach Gelb I am un-retiring from retirement. On August 18th Ryan on Discord Hickey 3 on Twitter. Go give him a follow.

You give me a follow as well at Zach Gelb. Shameless plug. If I were a betting man. This is from Hickey. Hot take Hickey. Hot take Hickey. If I were a betting man. Hot take Hickey. I'd bet Tom Brady retires before he plays another game. Hot take Hickey. This absence and now lack of a definitive timeline for a return is too fishy. Hot take Hickey.

I think we've seen the last of TB12. Hot take Hickey. Wrong take Hickey.

Nailed that one. I may have started my Saturday morning show. You've seen the last of Tom Brady. Did you really?

Oh yeah. How many calls did you get from people from Boston because we're on in Boston at that hour and also Tampa telling you that you're just an idiot. Not a lot of people were in agreement.

There was some in agreement but mostly disagreement. Why does Tom Brady need training? Hot take Hickey. Blah blah blah blah blah. That's a hot take. Well, missed on that one. Onsides or offsides though, 2022 Zach will be Tom Brady's final season playing in the NFL.

I thought this before this vacation. He already is going to be going to Fox now. That only goes into effect when he retires. And it's 10 years to under 75 million dollars.

He walks away then comes back. I think this is the final season for TB12 in the NFL as a quarterback and as a football player. So I will go onsides on that one. Fox Sports is Jay Glazer. You disagree though on that, right? No, I actually have changed my stance.

Damn, I was looking for some contrived radio right there. Yes, I think he's done after this year between the sabbatical. You thought he was actually done. I thought he was already done.

A few days ago. Now, you know, he can't go to the Dolphins and be the owner slash quarterback because you never want to improve that. That would be the biggest Hickey take in the world. If you go, yeah, no, he's definitely going to retire and not going to come back. And then I just asked you, oh, so do you think this is the final year? Oh, no, I actually think he's going to play three more years.

2023, guaranteed playing. Lock it up. Flip flop, Hickey.

Okay, go ahead. I guess you had to change your take at that point. Yeah, that did not age well, that is for sure. I'm proud of you because usually you get your heels just dug so deep in and you refuse to change your opinion.

And you change your opinion on that one. Good job by you. You're learning.

Once in a while. One day at a time. Now we're trying to get things right on the first try.

That's the next goal. Jay Glazer, though, reported on Sunday that the Ravens have made a contract offered to Lamar Jackson that exceeds the contract Kyler Murray just received from the Cardinals. But Glazer also said that it's, quote, an uphill climb, end quote, to get a deal done before week one. Glazer cites to Sean Watson's $230 million contract that's guaranteed as the biggest roadblock as Lamar is looking for something in that vicinity, while Baltimore reportedly doesn't want to give him that much guaranteed money. Onsides or offsides, Lamar Jackson and the Ravens will agree to a deal by week number one. I don't think so.

I'm going offside here. I really do Lamar, believe that Lamar. I'm not saying he's not trying to get a deal done. He waited, though, last year. And we saw Josh Allen get paid, even though I think Josh Allen's a better quarterback, but Lamar's MVP Josh Allen doesn't, so he can make the case that I deserve more money. And he was seeing if Baker Mayfield was going to get paid, and we know that did not happen. Now, Kyler Murray just got a deal done. Watson, like you were saying, got a deal done, too. I think he may franchise tag it and then see what happens after this offseason with Burrow and Herbert, who are going to be due extensions as well or eligible for extensions.

So I think he's going to wait at least another season before he actually gets a deal done. By the way, I'm watching a video from this Mets-Yankee game. There's a Yankee fan, and this is not in the upper deck. This is in good seats. Good seats, first level? Yeah, I like sitting in the upper deck, but when you go to the upper deck, you get some rowdy behavior. Like guys like me in there, cursing at, you know, players.

Yeah, I wouldn't say that you're that rowdy, but okay. This guy has a hot dog in his hand, no bun. He takes the straw from his beer and pokes a hole through the hot dog, then puts the hot dog in the beer.

No! And uses the hot dog as a straw to drink the beer. This is disgusting!

Ew! Why do people have to dip a hot dog into beer? I thought it was weird when people would dip a chicken finger into a beer, but yes, he pokes a hole through the hot dog. Then I thought this was a cigar at first. I'm like, what the heck is he doing?

This is not going to light. And then, he puts the hot dog in the beer and uses the hot dog as a straw to drink the beer. This is disgusting! That's a Yankee fan for you right there. How did you know it was a Yankee fan?

I'm assuming, is it? I'll send you the video right now so you can see this. This is disgusting!

Alright, I just sent it to you. I need your live reaction on the air. This is gross. I already know what's going to happen. I know, but I just need to see your reaction. So, he's picking up his phone right now. He's looking at the video.

He's smiling. I already see the... That's fine. There's no vulgar language.

I don't think there is any. Oh my! That's disgusting!

He dips the straw and sucks out the little piece of hot dog. You gotta be... That's disgusting! That is one of the most repulsive things I've ever seen at a stadium. They should ban this man from the stadium.

Now, he did pay for a hot dog and a beer. There were some acts that went on at the A's game this weekend. That is not as bad as what we are watching.

Some lewd acts that the cops are investigating. Oh! I read about that! That is not as bad as what we just are witnessing right now.

When I was flying back today, I saw the article. Did a couple get bored at the game? First off, there's a thousand people at an A's game.

I was going to say, that's like pick your section night. If I heard this story correctly, didn't the couple go to the upper deck and have a little bam chicka womp womp time? A little nookie time? Not exactly, but there were some acts, we'll say, allegedly. Allegedly, of course.

Sexual acts? Yes. In the upper deck?

All the way. Top floor. What base? Third base.

Keep that PG-13. Third base. Oh, okay. As you could say, that's one of the perks of having no one at the stadium. If the man lets out a little grunt, though, if you do that at Yankee Stadium, you may not hear it. But at the A's game, you're definitely going to hear that.

Oh, they are high up. I mean... Still, though, there's no one in that stadium.

They got like a thousand fans a game, if that. That's, uh... And that, what we're describing, again, is better than what we are watching right now. Now, to be fair, I have not watched... Wait, wait, wait.

What did you just say? This is more repulsive, watching a guy drink beer in a hot dog. I don't think I want to watch whatever was going on at A's game.

Now, I have not read the article, but can I just say something here? Sure. If you felt compelled to go to third base, and I'm not talking about being a player on the field, wouldn't you just go home? Well, I think it's more just the thrill of just like, hey, like, you know, one of those bar stories.

Guess what I did at the A's game today? Cross that off the bucket list. Kind of like the Mile High Club. Like, you know, there's no, there's literally no reason to... I don't know. That's, baseball stadiums would be pretty gross. Oh, I would agree.

But it's just more, you know, it's not just because you're in the moment, it's more just, hey, let's check this out the bucket list and let me just brag to my buddies. Guess what happened? Yeah, I don't know. I would just go home. You guys, you guys go to watch the game. I go play the game. Yeah, okay.

I would just go home. And finally, a year ago... I said offside, by the way.

I don't think we've always had a deal done by week one. Offside! I think you already played the sound. I just wanted to... Just to reiterate. We went off the train tracks there for a little bit.

Trying to get back on course here. You talk about hot dogs. You talk about beer. You talk about some acts at the A's game.

You never know where my brain goes. A year ago last summer, 2021, Tom Brady was talking on HBO's The Shop about his free agency experience. Here's what he had to say. There was a story in free agency. One of the teams, they were interested and all of a sudden they weren't interested at the very end. I was sitting there thinking, you're sticking with that motherf***er.

Are you serious? Tom probably had no desire to go to that team, but now it's like, why don't you want me? Absolutely.

Absolutely. When I look back, I'm like, I just don't f***ing know where I went to that team. But they said they didn't want me and I know what that means.

I know what that feels like and I'm going to f*** you up because of that. A few quarterbacks that were thought to be that mother bleepers were described by Tom Brady, including Ryan Fitzpatrick, Ryan Tannehill. Even Jimmy G was thought to be the guy. I always thought it was Tannehill. Or offside. So here we go. For the longest time I was thought to say that.

Oh, maybe a changed company. Onside or offside, Zach. Derek Carr is that MF'er Tom Brady is referring to. I always thought it was Tannehill, but then after this Dana White story coming out that grew to nix the Brady deal, it's like if Brady went to the Raiders. I know we maybe look at the Raiders differently. They didn't have Devante Adams. They went to Gronk and Darren Waller. But is anyone saying, wow, like this Raiders team is loaded. Like when he went to the box, everyone goes, wow, how did we not see this one coming? If he went to the Raiders, I think a lot of people would have said, Brady's Brady, he'll be fine.

But that's not the greatest roster in the world. And Carr had a good year last year, but he's not easily a top 10 quarterback in this league without hesitation. So now I'm going to say that Derek Carr was that mother bleeper. Onsides.

Zach Gelb Show, CBS Sports Radio. Has no clue he's getting filmed. And he looks just like a regular guy at a baseball game, except doing something that is absolutely repulsive. What goes on at Yankee Stadium that forces fans or has them thinking like, I'm going to do the most disgusting thing I can with food and drink. Remember a few years ago when it went viral, you had one Yankee fan take a chicken nugget and dunk it into a soda. Disgusting.

Who would ever think to do that? I have Yankee fans thinking, oh, let me carve out a hot dog, put it in my beer. That's the best. Nothing tastes better than a beer with a little hot dog taste.

Let me do that. I will say. What do you do the soggy dog afterwards? Oh, no, you definitely eat the hot dog afterwards. Oh, I'm going to. You have to. I would agree. I'm just going to puke.

How soggy that is. If you're using the hot dog as a straw, you obviously then enjoy the taste of the hot dog and the beer together. So you then probably.

No, you definitely finish at the end. The hot dog is marinating in the beer. You eat the hot dog. I actually am very much looking forward to Mraz's take on this on the DA show tomorrow. Because he is. What did he say? He likes dongs to the face.

That's what he calls hot dogs. His words. I could actually see Mraz defending this. Oh, he's going to defend it for two reasons.

One, because it's the opposite thing to do. And he was a Yankee fan. Now, I did text Mraz this weekend. Ironically, I have to find this text and it had to do with the hot dog. There was a video. There's an account bleeped up looking food. It's the F word.

I just can't say it on the radio. It was a hot dog with ketchup, mustard, shredded cheese, chocolate syrup, and sprinkles. Would you ever eat that, Hickey? A hot dog with ketchup, mustard, shredded cheese, chocolate syrup, and sprinkles. No, but not for the real. Like, if you had no mustard, no ketchup.

Can we just be honest? I would try it. Maybe I would try it. If I had to, I would, I don't know, have a bite. I could be on an edible and I would not even want to try that. That's disgusting. Ketchup, mustard, cheese, chocolate syrup, and sprinkles.

That's gross. Like, I could be as bleeped up as possible I would not be eating that. So, when I texted that to Mraz, because whenever I see Bizarre Food, I just text Mraz. And he goes, the mustard is the worst part of that.

Agreed. So, I guess that's Mraz saying he's okay with the hot dog, with ketchup, shredded cheese, chocolate syrup, and sprinkles. But the moment you put mustard on it, that's a violation. If you had, I wouldn't like... Just the look on your face. You look so flustered. You can't even process disgusting food. I'm sick to myself. Like, honestly, I'm probably more sick to myself than I should be. I'm just so repulsed by just the action. And now we're talking about hot dogs and other gross combos.

It just, nothing's sitting well right now. And you know what annoys me a lot about this? Now, this is not a pig in a blanket. But I say this all the time. The pig in the blanket is the great unifier in our country. It doesn't matter what your problem is.

It doesn't matter if you like someone or not. You put a pig in a blanket in front of two people that can't stand one another, whether it's politics or whatever. They could bond over a great pig in the blanket. So, the hot dog is very important.

And it's an important part of American culture. But to ruin a hot dog and disgrace a hot dog like this by dunking it in your beer and using it as a straw, and then whatever, making like a sundae out of your hot dog for dessert, that's where you cross the line. That's where you go a little bit too far. Because who doesn't like a good hot dog? Why can't you just put ketchup or mustard on the hot dog? Maybe a little relish too.

Or you know what? I'm okay when you add a little chili sometimes to a hot dog. Like, if you go to Rutt's Hut in New Jersey, you get a cup of chili, you get a well-done Frenchy hot dog, you want to dip the hot dog in the chili or put some chili on the hot dog, that's fine. But when you start putting the hot dog as a straw in a beer or you're making a vanilla fudge sundae out of a hot dog, that's disgusting. We really agree on anything food-wise. Yeah, because your taste buds suck.

We both are in agreement on this without a doubt. If it ain't broke, don't fix it. The hot dog is fine the way it is.

You don't got to reinvent the wheel. You don't got to be dipping it in beer. The straws are great. Listen, I will say, I respect you saving the turtles. You don't want to use a plastic straw. You want to use the hot dog as a straw, saving the environment.

But let's not get crazy here. I don't know if they're trying to be offensive to big people. This guy was in fine shape.

The girl that was at the chicken fingers in the soda, I remember she was a good-looking gal. Why do normal people have to be offensive to us large people who appreciate the art of the hot dog and just the traditional hot dog? I'm offended by this.

The skinny folk are now. I don't get offended by much, but you skinny folks that like to ruin hot dogs, shame on you. Shame on us. You guys are disgraceful to this country.

Although I don't participate in a disgusting acts. There are disgusting acts on the field. Where's Joe Buck when you need him? Get him in the booth tonight. All right, let's go back to some cheesy radio then. Why don't we?

We had Lincoln Kennedy on earlier. He says it's a make or break year for Derek Carr once again. But then I said, is it Super Bowl or bust? He says he does not view the Raiders as a Super Bowl or bust team.

It doesn't view them as a Super Bowl caliber team. How many Super Bowl or bust teams are there in the NFL this year, Hickey? I have a list right in front of me that I compiled. I have one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight teams that are Super Bowl or bust. Is your list north or south of that?

South. How many? I think five. Five. Okay.

I will give you my eight. You tell me if you agree or disagree. Buffalo Bills, Super Bowl or bust. Totally agree.

Okay. The Los Angeles Rams, Super Bowl or bust. I disagree. Because they just won the Super Bowl year before. I get it's a failure per se, but it's not the end of the world.

Different degrees of failure. If you don't win the Super Bowl this year if you're the Rams, it's not, oh wow, they suck. They just won the Super Bowl year before. But the only way they can have success this year is winning the Super Bowl. Right.

And have a more successful season last year. Tampa Bay, Super Bowl or bust. I'm going to say yes. Green Bay Packers, Super Bowl or bust. Yeah. So there we go. Now the Rams aren't on your list?

The Rams are not. Okay. So then you have two more to go.

Two more to go. I put the Kansas City Chiefs as a Super Bowl or bust team. I would agree. I put the Cincinnati Bengals as a Super Bowl or bust team. I would also agree.

Okay. So there's your five. Now the two that I have that are not in your five. Or well, I also have three because I also have the Rams. The Baltimore Ravens to me are Super Bowl or bust. Just because I love Lamar. They've been to the playoffs a few times and they missed the playoffs this past year.

Until Lamar wins a Super Bowl, you're just always going to have people be critical of him. So you've been close the last few years. You've had a lot of competitive games and good games against the Bills and the Chiefs. It's now time to take that next step. And the other team that I have in there, and I'm surprised this team's not on your list.

And I remember this was something we debated over the summer. Or, you know, once they got Russell Wilson. And you have guaranteed that they're going to win the Super Bowl this year. No Denver Broncos on your list. So my eight teams to be clear, and you can give me your five of them.

Who are your five one more time? I have the Bills, we're in agreement. The Bengals, Chiefs, Packers, and Bucks.

Gotcha. And I have the Bills, Ravens, Bengals, Chiefs, Broncos, Packers, Bucks, and Rams. Why aren't the Denver Broncos, who you have so arrogantly said are going to win the Super Bowl this year. Not a Super Bowl or bust team.

Two reasons. Number one, Russell Wilson, new year, or new team I should say. If we're sitting here and they make it to the AFC title game, and they lose. I think that's still a successful season.

Year one, he's still young. Nathaniel Hackett, new coaches. Although a lot of the team is still the same, and basically only quarterback and head coach are different.

I think it's still unknown. And number two, I don't think expectations of the Broncos are high. I am on an island for sure in picking them to win the Super Bowl. I don't think they're going to make the playoffs.

And let me be clear, I'm not down on them. I still think they're going to be a 9 or a 10 win football team. I've just been basing this off of even when Brady won, and then when Stafford won, there was a point of the season where things got a little bit ugly, and a little bit questionable. You get a little bit ugly and a little bit questionable in the AFC West, that could be the difference of making or missing the playoffs this year with how loaded that division is. I feel like if you took just a straw poll of everyone in the media where their picks are, I would say the Broncos are more likely around third place than first or second. So it's not like expectations are high going in.

Or Lasky loves them. That's a big voice. That is, but that's one guy.

I feel like I've seen a lot where not a lot of people are very, very, very high. That's not your 8-man or Romo saying it, but... So it's like also, I feel like to be Super Bowl or bus, you need high expectations going into that year. I don't think the Broncos nationally have expectations that high. Here's why I put them in the Super Bowl or bus conversation. And I don't think they're winning the Super Bowl this year.

I don't think they're making the playoffs. When Russell Wilson got traded there, everyone crowned that move as, oh, that's the missing piece. That's the missing piece for that team. If that's the missing piece, now you could say I could see a vast improvement and it could not be a Super Bowl win this year.

I get that because his team only had seven wins last year. When you make that move, that's okay. We're going for it. That's why I put them in the Super Bowl or bus category for the Denver Broncos.

It is Zach Gelb's show on CBS Sports Radar. Come on back, we'll wrap up the show. Tell you whose stock is booming, whose stock is dooming. Please stop dipping a hot dog in a beer and using it as a straw.

Disgusting. And you can think of all the auto parts for all your car care needs. Get guaranteed low prices and excellent customer service from the professional parts people at O'Reilly Auto Parts. At Zach Gelb on Twitter, the Steelers this year will, final poll calculations, we'll give them to you right now, win the AFC North, be a wildcard team or miss the playoffs. 12% win the AFC North, 31% be a wildcard team, 57% miss the playoffs.

I'm going with the 57% hickey. I do not think the Steelers make the playoffs this year. They should and I hope they will. And I'm thinking they will start Kenny Pickett, but out of the weird bizarre chance that I'm wrong and they start Mitch Trubusky, that's going to put them in a hole, offensive line, question marks, good wide receivers, a really good tight end, defense going to be solid. I just look at the Steelers as a nine win team this year and I see the AFC, you're going to need bare minimum 10 to get in. And when I look at a team like the Ravens, when I look at a team like the Bengals, the Bills, even the Colts, Tennessee, Chiefs, Chargers, Raiders, Broncos, I just think they're better than the Steelers. So I'm saying the Steelers are going to miss the playoffs.

Hickey, yourself? I'm with you. 58% now. Mark it up.

Miss on the playoffs. No, now we've got to redo all the calculations and everything. Come on. Like six minutes out. The more math the better on this show. Six minutes out from leaving after I've been up since 5.30 in the morning because I had an early flight and now you're trying to make me do math? Oh, yeah.

For a long day. Brain exhausted, more math here. That's not going to happen. That's what I'm going to say. Hey, this is my show. Shut your mouth. That's what I'm going to say.

Real quickly. I was actually, I think I was off. Oh, no, I was hosting Maggie and Perloff. For Maggie and Perloff, the day when Baker Mayfield got traded to the Panthers and you were filling in after me on my show. And you started off that show and now Baker Mayfield has officially been named the starting quarterback in Carolina.

Surprise, surprise, not really. You said that day that Baker Mayfield was a top five quarterback in the NFC, which I disagree with. And you said the Panthers are going to be in the playoffs.

As we sit here, August 22nd, Baker's been named the starting quarterback in Carolina. Are the Panthers still one of your seven NFC playoff teams? Because they're not one of my seven. I hate to say it.

No, nothing new with Baker. Who are your seven? I have the NFCs, Cowboys, Packers, Bucks, Rams, 49ers, Cardinals.

Hate to say it. I don't believe in this quarterback, but the schedule and the team. I'm gonna go to the Eagles. Oh, I think Eagles are going to win the division. No love for the Cardinals? Cardinals, yes. Cardinals, 49ers, Eagles. No love for the Vikings? No love for the Vikings. Don't trust the defense and I'm still not sold in Kirk Cousins.

Ah, okay. You can't vehemently disagree with any of the seven you mentioned. I like the Panthers.

I don't have the same seven. You love the Panthers. Christian McCaffrey. People think I'm the big Panthers fan on this show.

I think it's you. Offensive line. Ben McAdoo. The more I know their schedule is not easy. Alright, let's get to the closing bell. 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. Did I just see Albert Poulos left the building again? What's hotter than scorching hot?

Like white hot? Whatever it is, that's what Albert Poulos is right now. Redonkulous, that's what I would say. So that puts him at what, 693? 7 away. 693, yeah.

7 away from 700. Wow. That's crazy. I picked him up in fantasy today. He's only owned by 14% of the Leagues. As I'm trying, I sold but I'm trying to get that last wildcard spot in my fantasy baseball playoffs.

Trying to get the best of both worlds. Give a stock up to the machine, Albert Poulos. Alright, I said I was going to have one stock up. That was before I just saw the Poulos thing. Yudonis Haslam. He's coming back. Yes, he still plays.

He's coming back for his 20th season. Give Yudonis Haslam a stock up. And we give him a stock up because if we didn't, I'd be afraid that he would kick my ass, Hickey. Very smart man.

Very smart man. Alright, let's hear Dana White. This is Dana White to Gronk on this UFC broadcast talking about how Gronk and Brady were very close to becoming members of the Las Vegas Raiders before Jon Gruden said, let me tell you what man, it's not going to happen. I'm the one, I worked to put that deal together for Brady and Gronk to come to the Raiders and it was almost a done deal. And at the last minute, Gruden blew the deal up and said that he didn't want them.

And all hell broke loose man. It was crazy and Brady was already looking at houses and it wasn't being said yet that Gronk was coming. So Las Vegas would have had Brady and Gronk the year that the Fox won the Super Bowl except Gruden blew the deal up. And there's so much story that goes along with this behind the scenes. I was never going to tell that story until Gronk just said it.

And Dana, that is exactly what happened and you just told the story. Let me tell you what man, Jon Gruden, are you kidding me? Knock on wood if you're not with me.

Do you understand this at all Hickey? Like from Gruden's perspective of why he would say no? Other than he's just a narcissistic jerk? No. I don't.

Control freak? There was all that conversation that Gruden was going to get rid of Carr and Carr is his next door neighbor in Las Vegas, or was at the time. Were we joking like he's not going to even make it to Vegas? Like he bought the house and it's like he's not even going to- Some people thought that because his contract, even now with the extension, it's easy to get out of that contract from my understanding of the contract. Not a lot of belief from Gruden, at least publicly.

And you didn't know McDaniel- Well, you didn't know a lot was going to happen with Gruden, but McDaniel's is now there. It's easy to look at it now, but even then, how would you not want Tom Brady? He's the GOAT.

Even back then and now he's even more so the GOAT. Stock down to Jon Gruden. And finally, this idiot Browns fan who took his son, I believe, to the game and had signs that said, bleep them hoes, free Watson. You're a moron.

And you're a terrible father, all right? What an idiot. And then I saw some other guy- I thought it was photoshopped at first, then I see some other guy that's selling shirts. That's just so disgusting.

It's just- there's part of me that goes, okay, if you root for Watson because he's on the Browns, that's one thing. But when you try to just throw it back in the victim's face, when this guy, according to Judge Sue Robinson, you know, committed nonviolent sexual assault, whatever the heck that means, and this guy showed zero remorse to bring those signs to a game or anywhere, just disgusting. Stock down to that idiot father. Give me the you idiot one, please.

You got that sound effect there, idiot? Thank you. Get back in there at once, it's so, so- Jackass, what a moron. That's the Zach Gelb show on CBS Sports Radio. Big thanks to Lincoln Kennedy for stopping by, each and every one of you.

Hot take, hickey. We won't boot you off this show even though they booted you off the stage at that wedding for drinking, but that's fine. We'll be partying again tomorrow. See you then, we'll rock, 6 p.m. Eastern, 3 p.m. Eastern. This is reality, bye-bye, peace.