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God bless football, Mikey, eh?

God bless football, Fuentes.

God bless football, Billy Go. Hey, thank you. By the way, today's episode of God bless football is presented by DraftKings. Draftkings, the Crown is yours. So Stugatz is not here. He is traveling. He has some much deserved time off for all the hard work he does during the season, going to visit his family abroad and internationally and all that stuff. And it couldn't have come at a better time because the combine is going on as we speak. And so far, at the time of recording, the biggest story is Abdul Carter. Maybe injured, but doesn't need surgery. So maybe not that injured anymore.

It's one of those injuries, though, that's like, that's not something that's just going to go away real quick. It's like a stress fracture in his foot, and that's the thing where you're like, listen, I'm not saying he's not going to go top five. I'm hoping he doesn't. I'm hoping he goes top seven, wink, wink. But it's It's the thing that make you think just a little bit more about taking him.

Yeah. I got to be honest with you. I want things to be as dumbed down as possible to me when we're reporting injury, like a stress fracture I'm not a doctor. Didn't go to medical school. Is the foot broken? Is it going to break soon? What's going on there? Just give it to me in as simple terms as possible. Not, Hey, he's okay for now, but maybe this is going to be a thing down the road. Is he going to be the number one pick? Is he going to be a top five pick? Is he not? Just simple stupid for me.

He's going to be. It's a stress fracture. I don't know what that is, really. I'm not a doctor either, but I had one in my back, and it's not something that feels good.

Yeah. So we have a... You had one in your back. Hold on a second. I'm just going to move past. And what happened?

And he was like, You need to stop playing football.

Oh, you had this when you were a football player?

Yes. And did you have-I mean, he didn't mean like you have to stop playing for life. He was like, you just have to stop doing it now until it heals.

And what happened? How long did you stop playing for?

Six months because it was the end of the season.

Okay, so you're hearing it here first. Abdul Carter may be out for six months, at least, based on the experience Mike Yee had playing football in his stress fracture.

My high school and his doctor's same level.

Yeah. I mean, also probably 25 years ago or something at this point, right? Yes. Okay. We have a new game that we're going to play later today. It's called Grades. We also have an old favorite game that we're going to play called more Mikely, but that's going to be a little bit later in this show. Mikey, I want to address something now that Stugatz is out with you and with Mike Fuentes. I, in my professional universe, have an uncommon number of people around me with the name Michael. And that was something that happened at ESPN as well. Fuentes' name is Michael, but he goes by Fuentes. You go by Mike EA because the time when Stugatz was doing Weekend Observation, up in Bristol. Well, he wasn't in Bristol, you know what I mean? At ESPN, there was you, Mikeye, there was Mikey C, who we miss dearly. So he made you Mikey A because of Mikey C. Now, Mikey C goes by Mikey C and had gone by Mikey C before, I believe. You were never Mikey A. You're Michael or Mike. No, I'm Mike.

Nobody ever called me Mikey. I think it was Stugatz's way because I was in Bristol and he was in Miami, obviously. I think it was his way to be endearing without having to actually get to know somebody. I'm not going to call you Michael. I'm not going to call you Mike. To me, you're Mikey.

Yeah. Now, added to the complication was Mike Golic Jr, who became Jojo, Mike Golic senior, who was Mike. And then down here, we also have a Mike Ryan. So there's a thousand Mikes in this universe. And now that Sugats is in here, do you want to go by Mike this episode, or are you just married to Mike Ye? What do we do here? How do we give you your identity back, I guess?

You know what? Let's do it. Call me Mike for this episode. Let's throw people off.

Okay, I'll call you Mike. Now, I will say that I'm probably going to slip up a handful of times, but But I will do my best to call you Mike for this episode. You want to play a new game?

Real quick, should I just elbow my way in on Golic the next time we have him on? And every time stew says Mike and ask a question, just go over the top and answer it. Sorry, I'm the new Mike now, Golic. By the way- Mikey G.

Mikey G would be great. I think he would like that, too. He seems like someone that likes shenanigans. By the way, well wishes to Mike Golik. I believe he had, what, shoulder reconstruction yesterday? Shoulder replacement. Oh, my God. What I would do to replace some of my joints, you have no idea. I don't need it, but preemptive replacements on my shoulders, knees, hips, I'd do it. Could you imagine just having titanium joints It seems like it'd be awesome.

I got enough titanium already in my body that I'm good leaving it where it's at.

Really? Where do you have titanium?

I'm just going to drop. I got metal in my leg and my arm and bad breaks that needed Needed special fixings.

Wow. Jeez. Yeah. How about that? I thought you were an Abdul Carter stress fracture injury expert, but you have- Maybe I'm just weak. You know all the... Yeah. Did you drink milk as a child? What's going on here? Like early onset, osteoporosis or something? Probably. Not that we're making fun of anyone with osteoporosis. Thoughts and prayers to anyone with osteoporosis. You want to play a game I like to call Grades?

Yes.

Okay, great. So this is a game that I like to call Grades, presented by Smirnov. The World's Number One Vodka, Please Drink Responsibly. We play this game roughly every year, and the way that grades works is very simple. The NFL Players Association every year releases a report card of their grades, where they have a number of different categories, and each team ranks on a grade scale, like a school grade scale, A through, apparently, F minus, or I guess A plus through F minus, which we didn't know was a grade.

I didn't know F minus was a thing.

Yeah, So F minus is a thing because as we found out, a number of teams received F minuses in different categories. So we're going to go over some of these grades and see what stood out to who and what our thoughts are on what. Mikey, does that sound good to you? Do you want to go back and forth on this, or how do you want to play grades?

Let's go back and forth, and you can start.

Okay, I'm going to start with, and this is probably going to lead to a rant, and it's a weird rant. I'm going to start with the Miami Dolphins, because the Miami Dolphins, overall, were the highest graded team out there. They had A's across the board, A's, A pluses, A pluses, A's. They didn't even have an A minus in the major categories, from treatment of families to food and dining, nutrition, locker room, training room, training staff, weight room, strength coaches. All of them were in the A's. So it is regarded as, I guess, the top tier professional franchise in the NFL in terms of the grading system and the players grading. Now, here is where I have a quam. I believe the Buffalo Bills, and I saw it, it's not here in the main categories, but I believe the Bills had an F in terms of travel, correct?

F minus in travel. Travel, one of four F minuses, the Buffalo Bills in travel.

So they finished dead last, 30-second F minus in Team Travel. And the Miami Dolphins, as I mentioned to you before, A's across the board. Everyone's happy about everything, and they were first overall. Now, I, someone who lives in Miami, a Miami Dolphins fan. Give my team an F in Travel and have them make the AFC Championship game, okay? I'm sorry, and this sounds ridiculous. I don't care about the players' comforts. And then ranking A on these scales, I want more wins. In fact, if I was management, while this is a great thing for management, and now we can get free agents, everybody's happy here, whatever, I want to make the team less comfortable. I want the team to be hungry when they come. I want them to say, you know what? I don't want to get on that plane. We're going to be a number one seed, so we have home field throughout the playoffs because I don't want to travel on an airplane, whether it doesn't have Wi-Fi or the seats aren't big enough, or I read that the seats have ashtrays still. That is the team accommodations that I want for my team to motivate them to not want to travel in the playoffs.

Now, we also have the problem that the Dolphins need to make the playoffs. Now, if they make the play, making the playoffs is the first step. But once we get to the playoffs, I want the accommodations for travel to be so bad that they're motivated to not have to travel. I think the Bills are doing a great job. An F minus on the grade book, an A plus in terms of strategy, if you ask me.

I don't disagree with you at all. It's hysterical to me that the Dolphins are the only team that don't have anything lower than an A. They're the only team that doesn't even have a B plus on the thing. Then you look at some of these others and you just go like, the States have a D minus or something in food. If you say New Orleans, the first thing you think of is food. How does New Orleans have a D minus in food? Some of these grades are absolutely bananas to me.

I think that the Saints, maybe because we You were in New Orleans a couple of weeks ago. I think that if you think New Orleans and you think food, you go to the Saints, you're like, You know what? This is going to be an incredible experience. I'm going to go in. I'm going to play for the Saints. It's going to be be beignets every day. This is going to be awesome. We'll have a king cake, whatever. Then you go in and it's gluten-free, whatever, and you're like, Okay, this food sucks. I can see how you got a D minus if you go to the Saints and you think, Okay, this is going to be great food, great eating, maybe some jambalaya, and then it's all healthy options for everything.

Yeah, I just I mean, some of these grades, you look at them and you're like, how are you a professional franchise with an F as a weight room? Where else are you putting money in your facilities, if not the weight room?

That's the New England Patriots have an F for weight room. That seems like probably the one that you want to rank the highest in. Your Jets ranked 29th out of 32 teams overall. The low light is the F, not an F minus, but an F, which I don't understand because they finish dead last in terms of ownership, but it's just an F, not an F minus. I don't exactly understand how you get the F, not the F minus. Also, your locker room was a D So the 29th... Is it really?

Yeah. Like within the last decade.

I also wonder because the head coach received a B, who were we grading on that? Because you just hired a new head coach and he hasn't coached a game yet.

It was last year.

Were we happy with Salah? Because that's bad. Also, somehow, even with a B, the Jets' head coach ranks 25th out of 32, which seems crazy. So I don't know if these players are afraid that their head coach is going to know what their grades are. None of them seem to care about the ownership whatsoever. The ownership grades across the board seem to be pretty bad. But head coach, you give them a B, 25th out of 32 is crazy. Also for the Dolphins, Mike McDaniel got to look A plus, which is like, let's pump the brakes.

Are they are they worried it wasn't as anonymous as they pretended to be?

That's what I'm wondering, if they wonder. And then where is it that they're willing to step up? Because I feel like ownership is like, they're the ones that sign the check. So if you're ranking your owner an F, that seems crazy to me.

Yeah, and ownership, by the way, in the overall scale, weighted more than any other category at 15% of the grade.

Really?

Thank you, Woody Johnson.

The commanders have an F in their locker room. They have an A in ownership. They also have an A plus in head coach. So the commanders have the highest grade for the coach. I'm trying to go through the other F minuses real quick as we play grades for them.

Cleveland and Arizona Locker Room, Cincinnati Treatment of Families, which is its own thing. How do you treat families so bad that the players give you an F minus? And Buffalo Travel, those are the four F minuses.

The so the bangles have two different Fs, but are still only 24 out of 32 somehow. Treatment of families, F minus, and food and dining area is an F. What are you doing to these families that you've given them an F minus? Because that seems like an insane grade. I guess they don't have daycare, you were saying was one of the complaints for the bangles. But also, that has to be game day, right? Because there's no one that's clocking in. They go and they scan in with their key card, and it's like, take your child to work day. I got to take you to care for us. Hey, Coach, sorry. A little Jimmy was crying a little bit when I tried to sit him down in his chair at daycare today at the facility.

Yeah. So apparently, all 32 teams, either, I would say 31 of 32, offer either daycare during games or a family room. And the bangles are the only organization to offer neither. And they also said the family meeting area for postgame parties and after the all the families meet is like a four out of 10. It was ranked.

The Jacksonville Jaguars also have an F in terms of treatment of family. They're 31st out of 32, so I suppose they're just ahead of the bangles. We talked a lot of jaguars last week because friend of the show, but really friend of Studio Gots, Tony Basselli is now running the show over there, and they had an opening for a general manager. We came up last last week with the idea of, let's get Stugatz to apply for the job of general manager. No more than 24 hours after we came up with this plan, the Jaguars announced that they had a general manager. Unfortunately, Stugatz never even had a shot of applying, which I think is not a good sign in terms of where his relationship with Tony Basselli stands, because if your friend is making the call, you can't even get a pity interview I don't know how strong that friendship is. I'm willing to, and I don't know if you're feeling the same way as I am, Mike Ye. I'm willing to go out on a limb, and I can't outright ban Tony Basselli from being on the show, but I maybe want to put him on suspension for a little bit just because of the fact that he wouldn't interview Stugatz.

Now, it could be a convenient suspension because I don't know that Tony Bussoli will overcome on the show again, even though he keeps telling Stugatz or Stugatz keeps telling us that he keeps telling Stugatz that he's going to come on the show next week, next week, next week, which is weird because last week we were told next week, which is this week, and Stugatz is in Australia. And best to my knowledge, those trips don't materialize within 24 hours. So I think maybe they knew that this week wasn't going to happen, and it was just going to be up to us to figure out what to do with this situation.

I feel like basically they heard Stugatz wanted to interview, and they knew that if he did, he'd the job. So they quickly made the decision to save themselves from themselves. And Tony Basselli not being on the show anymore. I mean, there's a big difference between morning drive host and former player and VP of football personnel or whatever it is that his new title is coming on a show like this. So I get it.

What do you think your dream job is, Mikey? I know that this is a question out of left field, but Bessele went from football player, radio host, Hall of Famer, now is President of Football Operations in Jacksonville. So what do you, I guess, where's your end game? If you were to say, This is the job that I want to have. I paid my dues. I did the grunt work early in my career. I worked up until this moment. Because look, let's... Mike. See, I did it. Mike Fuentes, which is confusing because his name is Mike Fuentes. Audience. I'm not going to speak for Mike A, which is just Mike today. I'm not going to speak for Mike, but I'm going to guess the dream is not God bless football. Now, nothing personal against God bless football or Mike or Stugatz or anyone involved in the process, the mojos, the K-Funks of the world, even though if we're going to be honest, Mike may have dodged K-Funks last week. We don't need to talk about that. Mike, I didn't say that.

You know he's going to get you in his notes.

I didn't find. The dream job is to be the Mike on God bless football. Wow. Well, today... The Mike. Well, sad news. Today, we reached your dream. It's not it. No, it's not. So downhill from here. We got Fuentes.

We got Fuentes.

So you want us to fire Fuentes?

Yeah, but if you're already-Reassign him is fine. But if you're already calling me Fuentes, that means you're already the Mike on God bless football.

That's what I'm saying.

Because you didn't refer to me as Mike.

I mean, we have to eliminate Golik. Do you want to eliminate Golik from here?

I Listen, I don't want to eliminate anybody. I just want to be the Mike. I want when you say Mike, there's only one person that's going to answer, and it's me.

Yeah, I would say, and I don't want to hurt your feelings, I would say Have a different dream. Dream differently. Just dream differently. Not bigger, smaller, just different dream. I would say bigger, too, but just different dream because I don't think that that one's going to happen.

But aim for the middle and you won't miss.

No, I guess. Yeah, dream a little bigger. Also, we didn't really hear from Gold that much this year at the end of the year. I don't know what was going on there. He's busy. Yeah. Well, he is recovering from his replacement as we got to a little bit earlier today, again. Good vibes his way. I don't want to say thoughts and prayers because I feel like that's just attached to people dying. No tease and peace. Yeah, tease and peace seems like it's just when someone passes away. It's finally happening. Winter is thawing. Enjoying. The cold weather is leaving, and the cold ones are entering my hand as things warm up. From basketball and hockey to game night, winter means warm moments with the coolest people in your life. Make these moments even better with Miller Light, the great tasting light beer for people who love beer. Now's a perfect time for friends, family, and great tasting light beer. Tastes like Miller Time. You know what I'm going to do? That affermenchant cold one, I'm going to raise it up and toast to springtime, to friends, to family. Here here for Miller Light, just brewed for taste.

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Hey, it is what it is at this point. I appreciate you trying. It's more than Stugats ever did. As far as this audience is concerned, I am Mikey. I accept my fate.

I'm sorry. Well, if we drop the A, is that better?

Yeah, well, until Mikey C finally shows up here.

He's never going to show up is what I've learned.

No, he's never going to show up.

He's never going to show up. That's never good. Can I tell you something? I'm I don't mean to betray him, but also I don't care. Sure. We did a watch along for, I think it was the last game of the regular season where the dolphins were potentially going to make the playoffs if the Broncos lost and they won, I think. So I did a watch along on that Sunday, and I was trying to set up a number of things, almost all of which fell through. It ended up just being me and three other doing it. I didn't even bother you, I don't think, for that because I was like, this is not worth bothering Mikey on. But I was trying to set up a dream of mine, and I think a sick dream that both of us have had, and I was going to have you be involved in it, but it fell apart. I was trying to get Mikey Cee on, and I told him so that he can go and ask the higher-ups, whoever it is that he needed to ask to make sure. They ended up coming and saying, Maybe not on this situation or whatever.

But it made it seem like it was hopeful for whatever. But the dream scenario that we have had that I was trying to set up was Mikey C and KFunk on together, just potentially arguing with each other or whatever, which in hindsight, it's better that Mikey C wasn't allowed to do it because KFunk would have said something that then would have triggered Mikey C to say something. Then that's where the whole thing would fall apart for everybody involved.

I want to pitch an idea for the future of God bless football, and that is to take KFunk away from the betting segment. From that betting segment.

What would we use him for?

Add him to a separate segment where it's just him and Mikey C arguing over who is more important and who should get more air time on the rest of the episode.

I I like that, but I like that and never airing that, which doesn't help the audience at all. No, we don't have to. I think that maybe we should schedule... And this is not a joking matter, so we should not be joking about this. But maybe we schedule some intervention or something for someone, and we just have both of them in there as attendees. It's really just to have them interact with each other and maybe fight. Then maybe we release it as a stupidity or something, which I don't think has been active in a year, but we'll be popular with that.

I feel like they would just both be pissy at each other because the other one was taking the other one's air time.

I think that KFunk would be... No, I don't know who would strike first in their argument because I would think it would be K-Func, but I could see Mikey C making the first little comment now that I think about it.

Mikey C would call K-Funk like... Mikey C is the Ogie K-Func. He's the original, I latched on. I have weird habits even while we're on the air.

Supreme confidence.

You're just a copy of what I do.

Yeah. I hope they interact, and I do hope that he says that to him. I have something. By the way, Michael, who calls you Michael in your life?

My parents and a couple. Really? My parents are really the only the ones that ever called me Michael. It's funny because I have a son named Nicholas, and when we named him, I thought we were going to call him nick. And I only call him Nicholas, and then I hear his friends call him nick, and I'm like, That's weird.

That's weird. He's Nicholas. Well, You named him and you thought you were going to call him nick.

Why have you never called him nick? I don't know. I honestly don't know. It was just what I thought was going to happen.

And and, no, he's no Nicholas. He's not full. Is he a Nicki to anyone or no?

No, not yet.

Okay. You think he's going to grow into Nicki? I feel like he'd grow out of it at a certain point.

Yeah, I got to imagine, though, that there's always those friends of Nicki boy. I could see it happening.

I have a cousin who... His name's Matthew, and we always called him Matthew growing up. Always, always, always. Matthew, Matthew, Matthew, Matthew, always, Matthew. Then I don't know if it was his friends or himself that created a rebrand where he's Matt. He was like, Matt, starting in high school. They'd be like, Matt? I'm like, No, Matthew. Who's this Matt that you speak of? Then I think that he calls himself Matt. Then in my head, I'm like, Did you name yourself Matt? Did they name you Matt? Also, am I supposed to call you Matt now? Because we've never done this before. We're 10, 15 years into him being a Matt now, and I'm still not used to the Matt. His wife calls him Matt, and I'm like, I don't know who this Matt is. You're Matthew. And the weird thing is, is that's coming from someone who tells other people to call him Billy when his name is Guillermo. So I have no leg to stand on on this situation.

I feel like there's some awkward moment in all of our lives when it's some fourth-grade teacher on the first day that goes, Guillermo Gill. Would you prefer Guillermo? And all of a sudden, you're on the spot. You have to make the decision. Because what you say right then is going to be your name going forward. And I even remember my teacher asking me, Michael, are you Michael or are you Mike? And I went, Mike. And from then on, that's who I was.

Okay. It's funny that you should say that because I had a situation, I think in 10th grade, and we're going to get to football in a I had a situation in, I think, 10th grade where it was always that, right? First day of school, first couple of weeks of school, they just read the roster and it's Guillermo. They would go and they'd take attendance, and it'd always be Guillermo, Guillermo, Guillermo, whatever. Then I would go, and I remember it was probably two weeks into a new year in 10th grade history class. This teacher liked giving pop quizzes all the time. Time. It would be a Scantron pop quiz, 10 questions, whatever, which is a waste of a Scantron, but whatever. We do a 10-question Scantron pop quiz. I think this was the second or third pop quiz, which is crazy, considering I'm not even thinking how early in the year was. The teacher's going around and he's reading off the names, handing back the Scantrons. Then he's like... I think that they would say Mr. Gill or Mr. Whatever when they're doing that thing. Then he said, either like, Kieran was like, Mr. Gill. Then he goes, Apparently, you'd prefer to be called Billy.

And he hands me the Scantron because I would write Billy on the Scantron all the time. Which, by the way, has to be very confusing and disarming to the teachers who are just getting to know you. If you're writing your nickname and they're like, who the hell is this? This person is not on my roster. I don't know who this child is.

Going up and down the list going, I don't see a Billy. I don't see a William. I don't see- Where is this That could be this person.

Which now makes me think, and maybe I'll tell my daughters to do this, and maybe you can tell Nicholas to do this. What if Nicholas just decides to prank his teachers one year and just call himself something like Crash? Nice train. Yeah, he just puts like, Crash, and then like, Crash, last name, whatever, right? And they're like, Crash? He's like, Well, yeah, I'm crashed now. What are you going to do about it?

There was, My second son, we had a different name lined up. Then when he got born, my wife was like, No, he's Christopher. I did not want him to be named Christopher. I wanted him to be named this other thing. As he's grown up, he's totally this other name, and he's not Christopher. He's like, if you just look…

Can you just tell us?

It's Rocco. He should have been Rocco. Rocco. He is a Rocco through and through. Her wanted him to be named Rocco because that was his father's name. He is a Rocco through and through. I just wanted to be like, maybe, maybe.

Did you have a middle name?

Gregory.

Jeez, these are very formal names. Oh, yeah.

We're old school.

Christopher Gregory. I can see why Rocco doesn't fit to the old school name, but could you just call him Rocco?

I would love to. The worst part is, do you know Christopher has so many damn letters for my son in kindergarten. It has so... Everything that we want personalized, you can't fit it. You can't fit Christopher because it's too many damn letters.

I would run out of space on standardized test for my first name because it's nine letters long, which I couldn't... Every time I would get it back, it'd be like Guillerm because I'd run out of letters on the first name.

Do you remember when you had to fill out the Scantron seats and you had to write your name with the bubbles? He'll be He'll be filling out bubbles for 20 minutes before he gets to answer a question. C-h-o-r-o-r.

You got to tell little Rocco that his name is Chris. Like, buddy, don't even bother with the second half of your name. Just be Chris. Or is he not a Chris? Do you call him Chris or is it Christopher?

He's not a Chris. I call him Christopher. He's not a Chris. He's a Rocco.

Is your family like royalty? Everybody goes by their legal names in your household. What's going on here?

Well, it's funny because he wants to be called Chris because he doesn't want to have to write Christopher.

Yeah, well, it makes sense. Because it's too many letters. Call him Rocco. Just start calling him Rocco. Have you and your wife had this conversation? Like, he's a Rocco.

Yeah, and she's like, yeah, you were right. He's a Rocco. I messed up. I messed up.

What happened? Just last minute panic?

It was in the running. It was the least offensive name we both liked.

I don't want to know what the other offensive name was.

Offensive is the wrong word. It's like the one we both hated the least.

Okay. Well, who hated Rocco? Your wife? It's a family name on her side.

It's funny because my father-in-law obviously wanted my first son to be named Rocco. We were like, No, we don't like Rocco. No, we don't like Rocco. Then we had Nicholas, and then we were having our second one. I was like, You remember Rocco? That's actually growing on me. I think we should do the Rocco thing. She's like, You know what? I was thinking the same thing. Then game time came, kid came out, and she's like, Christopher. I'm like, No, I thought we said day, a minute of. In arms, his name is Christopher.

Was Christopher ever discussed?

Like I said, it was like, I guess we could do Christopher. That one doesn't bother me. Now, after having lived with it for five years, I'm like, Yeah, we should have done the Rocco thing.

Strange timing. I agree. Just to decide, let's do Christopher.

She says it was the drugs.

I was just going to ask if- She says it was the drugs. Because I would never suggest this to the listeners or to anyone, but it's a situation where she's on the pain medication and just go to the nurse like, It's Rocco. Then if she says, Oh, Christopher's like, No, we never had that conversation. Christopher, what are you even talking about? Is this a dream Team of yours? What are we talking about here? It was always Rocco. We've never once had that conversation, and then Rocco stuck. Can I tell you something football-related since we're doing a football show? I guess. Yeah. I have weird I'm not one to get this. I have weird FOMO on the combine. I'm not one that gets FOMO. There's a weird situation at this office in particular where everyone gets FOMO for everything, and I never do. Anytime anyone goes out to cover a game or do this or do that, if you're not there, everyone has FOMO. Everyone's like, Why wasn't I there? I wanted to do this. I wanted to do that. I never get that. And granted, I've been part of some of the cool trips that we've done as a company, and I get to do Super Bowl, stuff like that.

So I've been very fortunate on that front. We did the Dayton 500 a couple of weeks ago, and that was basically just because we could drive up to Dayton from Miami, right? It was an 11th hour situation where we were even like, Okay, you guys can go do that, take the camera, whatever. But it was bare bones. We drove up, and We got an Airbnb that we all stayed in, so it wasn't like, We need three hotel rooms or four rooms or whatever. I did it the cheapest way possible. We went to this welcome party with Demi Lovato. I've talked about this. She's performing. It's a corporate event, and we went right up to the stage because no one's paying attention. We put up a picture that we took with Demi Lovato that she just posed behind us while she's singing a song. I've never experienced the level of hate that I had from everyone in the office. They were all like, Why didn't you tell me? I wish I would have gone on this trip. No one told me, blah, blah, blah. Then when we put up that we were at the Dayton 500, I was like, I would have gone to the Dayton 500.

You'd think that our office was in North Carolina where all of a sudden everyone became the biggest NASCAR fans of the world. It was the craziest thing. Fomo all the time in the office. I rarely get it and have even been told by people, higher ups in the company, do you not care? Everyone else seems to I totally know.

I know you enough to know exactly what they're talking about while still knowing that, yes, you care. But I totally get why they'd be like, do you even care about... Do you even want to do this?

But they They ask them, it's like, I'm not complaining because it's good, but everyone else complains about not going to things. We tell you, no, you're not going to do it. Okay, that's fine. I'm not going to go. Whatever. They're like, Are you everything okay? Do you not care about things? I'm like, No, I'm just fine. I don't need to go to things just because other people are going. But that's all to say, I have FOMO now with the NFL Combine. I did not think I would ever feel I did not think I would ever long to go to Indianapolis, but I see that the movers and shakers are there. I see that everyone is in Indy, and I'm like, Why aren't we there? I think it's because we weren't paying attention to the calendar. But I'm like, Why aren't we there? I didn't feel it early in the week when I would see the different shows were there. I saw Pam McAfee was there, and he has his whole crew there, and he's from Indy. For him, it's not a big deal at all. They're going home. Exactly. They're set up on the concourse, behind all the seats.

One of the shots has the field behind the guests or whatever. Then when they do the one cam on him, you just see the concourse, and it's a closed food vending concourse, and there's someone walking around holding a camera, someone sweeping, and I'm like, I do not feel FOMO at all. When I felt It was when I read the story yesterday that Jordan Scholes and Ian Rappaport were fighting with each other in a Starbucks, which I believe was described as It was like such a ridiculous... It wasn't like verbal assault, but it was something like that. It was like, okay, let me read this story. Let me read this story. Then when I read the story, it was the lamest fight that I've I've ever heard of. And it was just two guys saying, you better not ever do that again. If you do that again, you're going to pay Mr. I'll be there. Exactly. Why I ought to. And then NFL Security was involved because the why I Rada, I guess, raised it to the level of potential physical violence, threats, and there were maybe profanities, but Jordan says that he doesn't remember any profanities.

And I think it stems from Jordan revealing that someone was visiting visiting a team, and then Ian said it wasn't official. They just bumped into each other, and then he's like, You better never do that again. Then he's like, Me and me, whatever. They're just screaming at each other in a Starbucks, and then other people are watching this happen. Then I was like, You know what? We're missing it.

I wish we were there. I think the combine might be the most fun of all the NFL get-togethers that there are during the year. I think- No, I think all the handshake deals happen at the draft and at the Super Bowl. But I feel like all the partying, all the let's have a good time. The Combine is essentially the NFL's version of a guy's trip. It's like we're all going to leave. We're all going to drink too much like we used to. We're in college and we're not. I think we're missing out big not being there. I think we're going to too many of the important events and not enough of the fun ones.

Wow. Okay. Let me make a note of this so that maybe we can do this next year. I'm going to put NFL Combine, and I'm moving away from the microphone, which is not good for me. Nfl Combine 2026.

Just get us a table with an extension cord at at Saint Elmo's, and I guarantee you we'll have the best show on the whole thing.

All right. So I put NFL Combine 2026. Hopefully, do it because I saw Chris Sims and Mike Floria were there, too. And this Chris Sims, what a trolleyb, huh? I mean, I guess he's not because he's just doing his actual job with the people that pay him. But, man, he's at everything, and he never invites us anywhere. We had a conversation about how we're going to have dinner together in New Orleans. That never happened. That was never going to happen. Never came close to happening. He's like, Yeah, no, you know what? This is actually a good day. Let's do it this year. Last year, we couldn't because it was an NBC game, so I had a lot more. This year, I'm going to be so much more free. Never happened. Not a once. Anyway.

Yeah. I certainly wasn't at dinner, but that's because I have FOMO because I missed it.

Yeah. Look, let me tell you something, Michael. I have right here written down on this piece of paper, NFL Combine 2026. Now, I'm going to have to not lose this paper in the span of a year. So I'm going to keep this here for now, and hopefully my wife doesn't come by and try to clean up this situation because while this looks organized here, this here- Behind you.

Yeah. Very much- Out of shot.

Very much not organized. So this paper that I have here is going to sit on top of the this organization, and maybe it will sneak by because it'll blend in with the other disorganization, but also maybe we'll have a spring cleaning situation, in which case I'm going to lose that paper. But I have NFL Combined 2026 written down to try to do that and Super Bowl next year. I think I'm going to... I tried this year. I don't know what happened. I obviously didn't try hard enough to get you there. I did get you to the draft last year, but I got you close. But you did.

But you didn't.

Yeah, I didn't even get to go to the draft last year, which seems like it would be a cool event. You could also argue you don't know because you didn't actually go to the draft. You went to Troy, Michigan. No. You know, whatever.

We were drafted, Jason. We were drafted. By the way, are we going to be drafted Jason this year? Are we going to be like, Pick a Jason? Or are we going to be like...

That's all very much up in the air at the moment. The locations that I have heard are Troy, Michigan. Nashville. No, it would be funny to go back to Troy and just do a draft party in Troy every year. You know what? I'm going to send a message to someone right now.

Please don't. I love our friends over in Troy, Michigan.

Listen, let's go back to Troy. Let's do it again. Let's make this an annual tradition. No, I I think we might be in Nashville. Then they also said maybe New York, in which I wrote back why. Why? I don't know if that's going to happen, but maybe New York, maybe draft, or maybe Nashville. I think Green Bay is out of the running, which sucks Because while everybody says, Why would we go to Green Bay? I think it'd be fun to go to Green Bay. I mean, it'd be more fun to go for a game, right? But I don't know. Tbd on the whole draft situation, I don't know where we're going to be for the draft. We should know soon because it's about a month away. But who knows?

We might be in Philadelphia next year in September.

Oh, wow. You know what?

No Kansas City this year.

You're right. I'm going to write that down, too. Kickoff.

Philadelphia.

I'm going to kick off Billy. All right. It's been written down on a sheet of paper, and hopefully, it doesn't get lost.

That's a very important piece of paper.

It really is. The thing is that I wrote it on the bottom of it, and half of the paper is nonsense. It just says NFL grades. It says if the season started today, which we didn't do. Then, oh, here's something that it says, When we come back, according to my sheet of paper, a new edition of More Mikely.

Oh, let's do it.

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I apologize. That's okay. All right. I got one good more Michely here. Okay. More Michely, to go first to worse. The lions or the Rams.

Wow. Okay. Now, here's the interesting thing about the Rams, and we haven't discussed it yet, is the Matthew Stafford of the situation, which I'm wondering if you, as a Jets fan, sees that Yes. Okay. I don't even finish that situation. Yes.

That Stafford to the Jets, it'll be everything Aaron Rodgers was supposed to be.

Dude, if you guys end up with Matthew Stafford, that is an incredible situation for you based on what we thought the situation was going to be two weeks ago for the Jets.

It's just not going to happen. But anyway. Really?

Why is that?

Because the Jets have an F in ownership, as we learned in grades earlier in the show.

Yeah, Yeah. So you think that that's going to be the deciding factor? What is he looking for? What's his problem, basically, Matthew Stafford? $50 million.

Money in a shot. Yeah, $50 million. Money in a shot is what he's looking for.

I mean, you guys, what's your cap situation Do you have money you can give them?

If that's what we need, then, yeah, we'll find $50 million. You'll find $50 million to get Matt Stafford if he legitimately was like, Yeah, I'll totally play for the Jets.

All right. So worst to first. The Rams. What was the other team? The Lions. The Lions. I'm going to go with...

Tough division, lost both four meters.

I might go with the Lions. I know it's... I think I'm going to go with the Lions. That's crazy to say, but I think I'm going with the Lions on that one, even though Rams might lose their quarterback.

I'm going to say the Rams just because I don't know what is their plan after Matt Stafford. Are they going to go after Sam Darnold? Who's their guy? Sean McVay is their plan after Matt Stafford. That's what I'm saying. Jimmy Garoppolo. Ron McVay. What's your deal?

I just don't know who it is, an unknown, so I'm going to have to go with Rams. Wow. Can we do another one real quick? Just lightning round? I know we're up against it.

More Mike Lee, worse to first. 49ers or bears.

49ers.

Yeah, 49ers because the division is just too stacked for the bears.

They're also now negotiating with Purdy. I don't know what that means because they're going to probably pay them way too much money.

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