The 2026 NFL Draft Take Purge

Summary

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The Ringer Fantasy Football Show

"The 2026 NFL Draft Take Purge"

April 20, 2026
Hosts: Danny Heifetz, Danny Kelly, Craig Horlbeck

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Episode Overview

The annual "Take Purge" is back as Draft SZN hits a fever pitch. The hosts—Danny Heifetz, Danny Kelly (DK), and Craig Horlbeck—embark on a "consequence-free" hour of wild, bold, and soul-cleansing NFL and fantasy football takes they've bottled up all draft season. Inspired by the concept of "The Purge," for 60 minutes, all rational thought and professional credibility are suspended, and the trio voices takes they're normally too scared, ashamed, or rational to say out loud. The result is a whirlwind of NFL Draft hot takes, self-admitted intrusive thoughts, debate about players and coaches, and even a few hilarious detours into food, sleep, and the general decline of modern products.

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The Take Purge: What Is It?

[02:24] DK: “For one hour, we don’t know who we are outside the Take Purge, but I’m excited to be inside it.”

• For 60 minutes, hosts let loose every hot, unpopular, or ‘intrusive’ take on football—especially the NFL Draft—without restrictions.
• Professional credibility and rationality are "suspended."

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Key Discussion Points & Takeaways

1. Should NFL Prospects "Tank" the Combine?

[04:56] Craig: "Jeremiah Love should have just run slow at the combine on purpose to go to a better team."

• The hosts float the radical idea that NFL prospects, like RB Jeremiah Love, would be better off underperforming at the combine to fall to better teams later in the draft—flipping the script from teams tanking for picks to players tanking for landing spots.
• [06:51] DK: "Usually guys don’t attend the combine because they’re afraid of underperforming, but in reality, they should skip the combine because they’re afraid of overperforming and getting drafted too high."
• Real-life example: how slow 40s helped Puka Nacua fall to the Rams, a perfect fit, instead of being overdrafted by a bad team.
• Consensus: This could spell the end of the combine if it became widespread.

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2. Giants and the John Harbaugh Era: Unreasonable Expectations?

[09:14] Danny Kelly: "I am really worried that the John Harbaugh Giants are going to suck and it’s going to be a catastrophe."

• Despite general optimism, Danny is deeply anxious about John Harbaugh's fit and the staff ("Matt Nagy and Greg Roman…It’s a weird group of guys." [11:44])
• Parallels drawn to Pete Carroll's exit from Seattle as a cautionary tale of hiring coaches "out of touch."
• [13:12] DK: "The two coaches who have blown the most leads the last two years are Brian Daboll and John Harbaugh. That’s all. I’m worried."
• Overall mood: excitement mixed with deep skepticism; concern over "everybody universally loving the hire" and assembling a staff of discarded ex-colleagues.

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3. The Mike Vrabel Patriots Distraction: A Positive Spin

[14:22] DK: "The Mike Vrabel, Diana Rossini thing was good for the Pats. Now you have a much needed distraction after a perfect season, all of a sudden you’re an underdog again."

• In the wake of Vrabel's off-field drama after a surprise Super Bowl run, DK argues that the negative press and lower expectations are a blessing.
• [16:03] DK: "Expectations…are much lower now because of this and that’s ultimately a good thing."
• Vibes: “Start a bigger fire to put out an oil fire.” The team is back in an underdog role and can rally around adversity.

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4. Should Teams Trade for Coaches Instead of Players?

[16:46] Danny Kelly: "I’d rather trade for Jeff Stoutland than A.J. Brown."

• Debate over the value of coaches and where they’d be drafted if available.
• Example: Stoutland’s wildly successful run as OL coach (turning late picks and rugby players into stars).
• [17:56] Also speculation about A.J. Brown’s volatility, upside, and possible landing spots.

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5. Drafting Quarterbacks: Is the Consensus Forced?

[21:56] DK: "…Maybe the Raiders should trade out of the first pick. The quarterback class is bad. This is a bad quarterback class…"

• Discussion on how often a QB is taken No. 1 simply because he’s the best of a bad group, not actually a "first overall pick" talent.
• [24:53] Danny Kelly: "I think Fernando Mendoza is a Hall of Famer…Jeremiah Love’s a Hall of Famer…”

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6. Sleeper & Bust Picks: The Guys Who’ll Be Good (or Not)

Biggest Breakouts

• Max Claire, TE, Ohio State
  • [27:19] "I think Max Claire…is going to be the next Trey McBride slash Sam LaPorta type…most productive tight end in this class."
• D’Angelo Ponds, CB
  • [38:26] Craig: “He’s going to be the best cornerback in this class…turned up to 11 on every play…he’s like the Russell Wilson of cornerbacks—the only thing holding him back is he’s short.”

Deep Skepticism / Probable Busts

• Ty Simpson, QB: [43:03] Danny: "He’s the free space" (when listing who won’t be good).
• Kenyon Sadiq, TE: [43:08] "He’s fine. I’ve seen a thousand of him."
• Caleb Lomu, OL: [43:14] "Has everything…except doesn’t love hitting people."
• Kaden Proctor, OL: [43:35] "Huge, fast, doesn't like hitting people."
• Caleb Banks, DL: [44:05] "He hurt his foot twice in one year. No shot."
• Zechariah Branch, WR: [44:23] "Terrible hands, worst receiver I’ve ever seen that will be drafted in the first two rounds."
  • Debated! [44:41] Craig: "Zachariah Branch can catch. Heifetz says he can’t, but I say he can."
• Cassius Al, OL: [46:20] "His arms are short…he's got no chance."

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7. The “Perfect Situation” Problem for Non-Traditional Defensive Prospects

[29:23] DK: "Sonny Styles is just going to get drafted by the wrong team and be pretty mid."

• Tweener defensive guys (Sonny Styles, Arvell Reese) compared to developmental QBs—landing spot is everything.
• They can get lost, miscast, or stuck in losing organizations, derailing promising careers.

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8. NFL and Fantasy Philosophy Musings

• Would you rather have a generational coach or dynamic WR?
• Draft narratives: teams/players get overhyped by physical traits ("measurables") that may not really matter.
• DK’s "bad list": No more pretending every top-100 pick will hit; third are outright misses every year.
• Importance of "loving to tackle" for defensive prospects: "If someone even hesitates when I ask if they love to tackle…drop them down my board." [40:42]

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9. Off-the-Rails Takes: Life, Food, & Products

• Super Bowl is “the worst Sunday of the NFL season.”
  • [50:42] DK: “Usually the Super Bowl, you’re in the worst sports viewing environment of the year—surrounded by people who never watch the game.”
  • [51:36] Danny: “Super Bowl parties are awful. Like, truly bad.”
• NFL’s 18-game season: Danny is all in (“It’s going to be sick. Shut the [expletive] up.” [55:01])
• Old man yells at cloud: Everything is worse than it used to be—especially chairs, camp chairs, soap dispensers, and T-shirts.
  • [60:44] Craig: “Everything we now make works worse than how it used to work…”
• Bread at the start of a meal is a trap: [73:28] DK: “Serving bread to begin a meal is insane and they should stop doing it.” (Argues bread should come with the meal, not before.)

Sleep Hot Take

• [69:44] Danny Heifetz: "I don’t think you need a pillow when you sleep."
  • Leads to deep confessions about weird sleeping habits, like sleeping with the pillow over the head.

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10. Listener Emailed Purges & Final Bits

• [77:00] “Lions are the worst cats”—debated with references to their "PR campaign," lack of cuteness, and actual jungle-living credentials.
• [79:50] “JFK was killed by accident”—summary of "mortal error" theory (Secret Service agent may have accidentally fired fatal shot during confusion).

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Notable Quotes & Moments w/ Timestamps

• "Jeremiah Love should have just run slow at the combine on purpose to go to a better team."
  — Craig, [04:56]
• "Players should tank. Teams should stop tanking, but players should start."
  — Danny Kelly, [08:16]
• "I am really worried that the John Harbaugh Giants are going to suck and it’s going to be a catastrophe."
  — Danny Kelly, [09:14]
• "The Mike Vrabel, Diana Rossini thing was good for the Pats... a much needed distraction."
  — DK, [14:22]
• "I’d rather trade for Jeff Stoutland than A.J. Brown."
  — Danny Kelly, [16:46]
• "Fernando Mendoza is a Hall of Famer…Jeremiah Love’s a Hall of Famer.”
  — Danny Kelly, [24:53]
• "I think Max Claire…is going to be the next Trey McBride slash Sam Laporta type."
  — Craig, [27:19]
• "D’Angelo Pons is the best cornerback in this class."
  — Craig, [38:26]
• "Super Bowl parties are awful. Like, truly bad."
  — Danny Kelly, [51:36]
• "Everything we now make works worse than how it used to work."
  — Craig, [60:44]
• "I don’t think you need a pillow when you sleep."
  — Danny Heifetz, [69:44]
• "Serving bread before the meal is insane and they should stop doing it."
  — DK, [73:28]

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Episode Flow & Tone

The episode is fast-paced, irreverent, and confessional—drawing energy from the promise of take-based "amnesty." The hosts riff, debate, and challenge each other but always remain self-aware, leaning into the absurdity and humor of the format. No ad reads, intros, or outros included in the summary—content only.

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Important Segment Timestamps

• [02:19 – 04:50] – Opening Take Purge rules and mindsets
• [04:56 – 08:20] – "Tanking" the Combine for better draft landings
• [09:14 – 13:40] – Fears about John Harbaugh's Giants
• [14:22 – 17:14] – Vrabel Patriots chaos as a positive, trading for coaches
• [21:56 – 24:53] – Raiders/first overall QB, Hall of Fame hyperbole
• [27:19 – 29:47] – Tight End/Miscellaneous breakout players
• [38:26 – 40:06] – D’Angelo Pons (CB) “undersized” discussion
• [43:03 – 46:30] – Rapid-fire “won’t be good” list
• [50:42 – 55:44] – Super Bowl “worst Sunday”, 18-game season
• [60:44 – 63:45] – “Everything is worse now,” product rants
• [69:44 – 75:28] – Sleep, pillow discourse, bread at the beginning of dinner
• [77:00 – end] – Audience take purges (lions, JFK theories) and sign off

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Summary for the “Too Long, Didn’t Listen” Crowd

• Draft takes this year: It’s better for players to “tank” the combine and fall in the draft to get to a good team, not get overdrafted by bad franchises.
• The giants’ new John Harbaugh-led regime might flop; the hosts are deeply skeptical despite buzzy consensus.
• Patriots drama (Vrabel/Rossini) could reduce pressure, making them more dangerous.
• Coaches (like Jeff Stoutland) may be more valuable than star players in some cases.
• The top of this QB draft is underwhelming; not every first overall QB is a generational talent.
• Some prospects are sure things, some are sure busts: not every top-100 pick will hit. Max Claire and D’Angelo Pons are top breakout picks; Zechariah Branch and Ty Simpson are among those predicted to flop.
• NFL viewing and fandom: Super Bowl parties are bad, and Week 8 Sundays are just objectively more enjoyable.
• "Modern innovation" mostly makes things worse—especially chairs, camp chairs, soap dispensers, and T-shirts.
• Bread before dinner is overrated, sleep setups are weird, and lions are the most overrated cats.
• Hot conspiracy: JFK killed by accidental Secret Service fire.

Net result: The hosts have purged their wildest NFL/NFL Draft/fantasy/adjacent takes—most of which blend football insight with self-aware humor and relatable fan angst—setting the stage for true fresh thinking as draft season culminates.

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Transcript

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[Danny Kelly]

Welcome to the 2026 NFL Draft Take Purge. We are blessed today by the light of our Take God, Chris Sims. One day he'll join us for this. I'm joined by Danny Kelly and Craig Korlbeck, two men ready to cleanse their souls. Danny Kelly, are you ready to be purified in the light of our takes today?

[Craig Korlbeck]

I think I feel a little bit like what a gladiator must have felt like before they went out into the Coliseum. That's how I feel right now. I'm simultaneously jacked up and scared.

[DK]

I weirdly have a follow up to the two things you both just said that make sense. Where I was just in the Dolby Coliseum and in Las Vegas and in the Dolby Coliseum I saw Phil Sims, the father of our Take God, Chris Sims.

[Craig Korlbeck]

Nice.

[DK]

So I literally saw a Sims in a Coliseum in Las Vegas this last week.

[Danny Kelly]

Very oddly specific. Look, we do a lot of draft coverage, and it's too long. The whole thing takes too long. It's the season ends and there's.

[DK]

That would. I mean, if that is not something I've been harping on for years and years, that would have been a take Purge of mine is that the draft should be like, March 1st or the day after the comb, just day after the Super Bowl.

[Danny Kelly]

It'd be fine. And so look, throughout this, the course of this preparation, we're just doing so much research. You're doing so much. You're watching so many players, you're doing all this work, that the truth is you get a lot of intrusive thoughts, intrusive takes, if you will. Unwanted ideation. And we discovered years ago that the key to all of this really is we have to purge all of these takes.

[DK]

Because you know what? Sometimes the media doesn't let us say the takes we really want to say. Sometimes we're ridiculed for honest opinions, and that's what this episode is for. I think Ben Stiller should really thank us because we kind of invented severance, let's be honest.

[Danny Kelly]

Yes.

[DK]

For one hour, we don't know when this horn is about to play, but for one hour, our minds are wiped. We are in the Tate cage.

[Craig Korlbeck]

Oh, it's starting.

[Danny Kelly]

Wow.

[DK]

I don't know who I am outside the Take Purge, but I'm excited to be inside the Take Purge.

[Danny Kelly]

All right, boys. One hour of consequence free takes. All professional credibility is suspended for the next 60 minutes.

[DK]

To the extent we had any. Yes,

[Craig Korlbeck]

I know. I feel like maybe we don't even need the purge anymore. Who knows?

[Danny Kelly]

There is true. Do we go the age of beauty here? DK Craig, who wants to start off here?

[Craig Korlbeck]

I'll start out. I'll do it. I'll get the ball rolling.

[DK]

Wow.

[Danny Kelly]

Beauty.

[DK]

You want something? You want to get something?

[Craig Korlbeck]

Here's my take. Here's my take. And I. I genuinely believe this. Jeremiah Love should have just run slow at the combine on purpose to go to a worse team, to go to a better team.

[DK]

I mean, that's what I meant. Sorry to go later in the draft. He's.

[Craig Korlbeck]

He is too fast for his own good. He's. He is too good for his own good. I am. I'm definitely afraid that we're going to see Jeremiah Love go to a team where his talents are not being properly utilized, and he's not going to do anything of note, anything actually important until year six.

[Danny Kelly]

What team are you talking about? Dk God.

[Craig Korlbeck]

I mean, like, first of all, Tennessee. Tennessee is like, one of the ones that are connected to them. Like, can you imagine the degradation having to go there? And. And for four, probably five years at least. God, I just don't want to see that. Arizona, the worst team in the NFL in terms of franchise health and goodness to the players. I don't want to see him go to freaking Arizona. That. People are talking about that today. The Giants, if it's. Look, I love you, man, but the whole time I've known you, the Giants have been fucking terrible. I don't want him to go the Giants. I don't want him to have the career track of Saquon Barkley. I don't want him to finally do something worthwhile in year six or seven. TK yeah.

[DK]

You've touched on something fascinating.

[Danny Kelly]

Okay.

[DK]

We have a huge problem in the NBA right now. It's the topic of the season is tanking.

[Craig Korlbeck]

Yeah. Yeah.

[DK]

And we don't like to see it. We don't want to see teams tank to get a higher draft pick. But what you've just put in my brain, something I've never considered before, which is tanking the NFL combine players tanking.

[Craig Korlbeck]

That's what we need to see, which

[DK]

is absolutely fascinating that, you know, oftentimes we see players not finish out the rest of their season because they don't want to get hurt and because then they would get drafted later. However, if you make it through the season and you're a highly projected pick, who you. Who expect. You know, you expect to make a lot of money in your career, so that's not a huge issue. All right.

[Craig Korlbeck]

You're betting on yourself. Really?

[DK]

You're betting on yourself. You. Actually, you would. Usually guys don't attend to the combine because they're afraid of underperforming, but in reality, they should skip the combine because they're afraid of overperforming and getting drafted too high.

[Craig Korlbeck]

That is, they need.

[DK]

I don't know if that's what you were thinking, but if you were, that's genius.

[Craig Korlbeck]

Yes, they need to stop mogging other players.

[DK]

Yes.

[Craig Korlbeck]

Just be in the background.

[DK]

We learn Mogging is not doing well right now. Clavicular is struggling.

[Craig Korlbeck]

I mean, he was in the hospital.

[DK]

Yes.

[Craig Korlbeck]

He might not be able to stream anymore. I don't even know what that means.

[DK]

I don't want to live in a world where Clavicular is not streaming.

[Craig Korlbeck]

I don't even want to see that Future for my. For me or my children.

[DK]

So, yeah, this is fascinating. Tanking the combine. This is.

[Craig Korlbeck]

Yeah, tanking on. You know what I mean? Look, they can't. They can't.

[DK]

This is the Tank purge.

[Craig Korlbeck]

They can't admit to it, but maybe just fall down in the 40, you know, have your dick fall out. That worked out for Chris Jones.

[Danny Kelly]

Yeah, because it's. It's really good. Like, if pukinakua had ran a 4:3, he would have gone really high instead of 4:6. And the Rams took him. And Sean McVeigh is like, this guy's good. More players like Sonny Styles is going to go to a shitty team, but he should have ran and could have gone to a good team because it's.

[DK]

It's different than not showing up. Because if Jeremiah Love faked a hamstring too, obviously people and. And people know how great he is. He needs to legitimately underperform at the combine so that people lower him down their board. That's fascinating.

[Danny Kelly]

That's.

[Craig Korlbeck]

That's really good. I like that you turned that into a semi.

[Danny Kelly]

Serious players should tank. Team should stop tanking, but players should start. That's pretty good.

[DK]

Well, and I feel like that will ultimately lead to the end of the combine, which I'm ultimately for, because, you know, it's a long week.

[Danny Kelly]

Okay. Did you want to go, Craig? I have something a little.

[DK]

Do you have a follow up to that? I have a complete pivot, but then

[Danny Kelly]

I have somewhat related.

[DK]

Okay.

[Danny Kelly]

So, dk, you're saying that the teams Jeremiah Love could go to are bad? Is that what you're saying? Are you including my New York Giants in that?

[Craig Korlbeck]

Yeah. Yeah, for sure.

[DK]

Okay. Yeah, for sure.

[Danny Kelly]

It's messed up, man. All right. I. I do have something I've been wanting to get off my chest, and I. This is a true take perch. Some of these are things we believe and we're afraid to say. Some of these are, though, are like, truly, like, true unwanted ideation thoughts have been trying to push to the periphery. But the only way to get rid of this is to just say it. And I'm going to say I'm going to leave it behind here at this hour. Okay, you guys ready?

[Craig Korlbeck]

Mm.

[Danny Kelly]

I am really worried that the John Harbaugh Giants are going to suck and it's going to be catastrophe.

[Craig Korlbeck]

I almost trolled you about this today, like, legitimately today. Like, like, I saw an interview with. I believe it was Zay Flowers, and I can't remember who he's talking about. I think it was maybe Leonard Fournette or somebody. And on a podcast he was talking about how he feels bad for the Giants because John and they were. He was happy to see John Harbaugh go because part of the reason, part. A big part of the reason he thinks that they were struggling late in the season so many times in the playoffs is because they were injured because they were doing too many padded practices. He's, like, too old school. He's, you know, grinding these guys down. They're all injured or hurt or tired by the end of the season. They can't play to their peak.

[DK]

Luckily, the Giants don't really have any injury prone players.

[Craig Korlbeck]

Right. Sure.

[DK]

Their quarterback, running back and wide receiver are, you know, beacons of health.

[Craig Korlbeck]

Anyway. Fascinating, fascinating stuff.

[Danny Kelly]

Concerned look, first of all, strike one with the Harbaugh thing. To your point, dk, it's just kind of old. Like, he's an old guy. This is kind of like stuck in his thing all over again. Like, did we learn anything from last year? We're like, Pete Carroll forced out of this situation where he won a Super bowl and was there forever because he's out of touch with the league and can't win. Then he went to the Raiders. We're like, oh, God, an adult in the room. Finally. Aren't we doing the same thing with Harbaugh and the Giants? And also, strike two. Everyone, unanimously, universally is like, great job. Which. When does that work? Yeah, that.

[DK]

I mean, that's probably the smartest.

[Craig Korlbeck]

Take big red flag.

[DK]

He is 10 years younger than Pete Carroll. He's not 73.

[Danny Kelly]

No, he's not 73. And again, I'm excited about this and I want to be. But you know, what else?

[Craig Korlbeck]

What's Pete Carroll's biological.

[DK]

You're just afraid because, like, something good happened to the Giants and you don't know what to do.

[Danny Kelly]

I am. And I'm. I am afraid that's 100% accurate. I'm also a little bit afraid of the staff he's collecting.

[Craig Korlbeck]

I know. This is what I was going to say. Hi. I feel like we're brushing over or glossing over the fact that the Giants, after all the, you know, interviewing everybody to be their OC just brought in Matt Nagy, who the Chiefs just were happy to let go.

[Danny Kelly]

Dude, Andy Reid has been with Matt Nagy and he was like, what? We got to just separate because. And you know who else did that? They have Greg Roman, who John Harbaugh had to fire even though they've been friends forever. And then Jim Harbaugh took him in. And then Jim Harbaugh had to fire him because he couldn't hang on. And now he's back with John. And I'm like, it's Matt Nagy and Greg Roman who were forced out by their, like, long term friends. And then Brian Callahan, who I just.

[Craig Korlbeck]

Callahan on the staff.

[Danny Kelly]

He's the quarterback's coach and he's overqualified. He's a head coach. But it's like, look. And you're like, it's a weird group of guys. And I'm, I'm just, I'm. I'm a little afraid. And also, guess what? When Joe Shane or Dave Gettleman draft a running back with the fifth pick, everyone makes fun of them. Well, you know what? John Harbour is going to take a running back with the fifth pick. And you know what? I'm a little worried that he. Someone emailed in. He's Mike McCarthy with the gym membership.

[DK]

Hey, easy.

[Danny Kelly]

I'm just saying, like, I'm a little worried. Like, everyone just. I just feel like I get handed all these flowers and medals and congratulations and I'm the guy in the podium, like, biting the metal. And I look down, I'm like, we're gonna come in ninth in the nfc.

[Craig Korlbeck]

Yeah.

[Danny Kelly]

I'm like, I just, I'm a little whiplash. That's all.

[DK]

All the time that, that John Harbaugh spending in the gym. McCarthy's crushing tape.

[Craig Korlbeck]

So I know he's, he's watching every single game in the.

[Danny Kelly]

Yeah. Watched every single game.

[DK]

He's consuming tape and other things. Okay. You know what I will say though? The John Harbaugh thing is a floor raiser. The Giants haven't have had one season with a winning record since like 2016. Harbaugh. You might be right. But don't you think at the bare minimum, like, Harbaugh will make the team competent and that. Absolutely. That is the goal.

[Craig Korlbeck]

That's what I said with Pete Carroll.

[Danny Kelly]

Well, let's say Brian Dable had such an awesome offense with the Giants that did a great job. Jackson, Tartt, man, they just kept blowing all these leads with the Giants. And so that's why they brought in John Harbaugh, who, let's see here, was run out of town by the Ravens because he kept blowing. Fuck.

[DK]

Okay, but aren't you the one who's defended like, it's a Zay Flowers fumble. It's a Tyler Loop missed kick. It's like, it's all these reasons that aren't Harbaugh's fault. They just are unlucky happened on his team.

[Danny Kelly]

Yeah. No, I'm. I'm just saying. The two coaches who have blown the most leads the last two years are Brian Dable and John Harbaugh. That's all. I'm worried. I'm just trying to talk to you guys here. I'll leave this year. I'm never gonna bring it up ever again or admit that or acknowledge I said this.

[DK]

Your fear is warranted. I understand you're afraid. You should be. It's like you just found $100,000 on the ground and you're like, this can't be right.

[Craig Korlbeck]

I'm gonna get in trouble for this.

[DK]

Someone is. Someone is aiming a gun at me.

[Craig Korlbeck]

What is the. No country for Old Men? Guys, he's gonna be following me around.

[Danny Kelly]

That is exactly how I felt with John Harbaugh. Wow. Anton. Yeah. Look at this giant suitcase of money. There's no problem here.

[Craig Korlbeck]

So.

[DK]

So he's Tommy Lee Jones. That's John Harbaugh. Is that you? I don't know.

[Danny Kelly]

I don't know either.

[Craig Korlbeck]

Okay, that's valid. Yeah.

[DK]

Buckle up here.

[Craig Korlbeck]

Oh, God.

[Danny Kelly]

Strap in.

[DK]

The Mike Vrabel, Diana Rossini thing was good for the Pats.

[Craig Korlbeck]

Oh, okay.

[DK]

I believe that. We talk all the time about. We talk all the time about how a Super bowl loss destroys a. The Pats were already going to be everybody's pick to regress. They were going to be the 20, 25 commanders. Oh, the fourth down thing for the commanders. They're going to regress. And then they did. Vibes are horrible. Jaden Daniels got hurt. Everybody was right. The Pats are going from an inexplicable. Inexplicable, surprisingly successful season. 14 wins with variable, they make the super bowl. And now everyone's like, well, that's obviously going to regress. They went from the easiest schedule in the league to now probably one of the hardest. A first place schedule. Now you have a distraction. Now you have a much needed distraction after a perfect season, all of a sudden you're an underdog again.

[Danny Kelly]

Galvanizing force. They're coming to coach.

[DK]

You have adversity. You know what I mean? Now you can rally behind Mike Vrabel and you know who can sympathize with getting caught? Cheating athletes.

[Craig Korlbeck]

Wow. This is. This is like galaxy brain now. Now doesn't even explain it.

[DK]

Yeah, now this is an impossible season. This is an insurmount. They are no longer the team that. That needs to win 14 games again. It's like, oh, my God. Can. Can this team do anything? Are they Going to break. Now they're back. Now they're back where they were a year ago.

[Craig Korlbeck]

Wow. Okay. I'm trying to unpack this because I feel like losing a Super bowl is already kind of like right hard on a team.

[Danny Kelly]

It wasn't a must win game. We talked about that. The super bowl for the Patriots was not a must win game.

[DK]

Yeah. Now the expectations that they set, I think they're much lower now because of this and that's ultimately a good thing.

[Craig Korlbeck]

That, that I can see. That I can see 100%. It lowers. It lowers expectations, takes the pressure off a little bit.

[Danny Kelly]

They call. Did he? 4. There's this random thing where they're like, you know how to put out an oil fire, Start a bigger fire?

[DK]

It's like, look over there.

[Craig Korlbeck]

This is. This is diabolical.

[Danny Kelly]

Craig.

[Craig Korlbeck]

And like, even for the take.

[Danny Kelly]

Purge.

[Craig Korlbeck]

Yeah, that's good. I kind of believe it. I kind of believe it

[DK]

anyway, by the way.

[Craig Korlbeck]

And they're gonna trade for A.J. brown soon.

[DK]

Yeah. Yeah.

[Danny Kelly]

Oh, I have something related to that actually.

[Craig Korlbeck]

Okay.

[Danny Kelly]

I've thought about this a lot and I'd rather trade for Jeff Stoutland than A.J. brown.

[Craig Korlbeck]

Can you do that?

[DK]

You can trade coaches, right?

[Craig Korlbeck]

I know, but I thought he was

[Danny Kelly]

coach and he quit.

[DK]

He's under contract for a year, right?

[Danny Kelly]

He quit. Yeah. He quit because he hates Nick Sirianni and they can't work together. But he's under contract and I'd actually. If I'm like a late first round pick, like the Patriots. You have the 31st pick. I think the Patriots should actually trade for Jeff Stoutland before they trade for Adrian. I'd rather get the 31st pick for the coach than they.

[DK]

That's. Is that even. Is that like a dark, deep, dark thought or is that just a good idea?

[Danny Kelly]

I don't know. Well, I'm like, you trade for 64 year old coach. Okay, cool. Who's going to make the offense better? Jeff Stoutland, who again, just like orchestrated the Eagles pulling offensive linemen out of their ass for 15 years. Or like AJ Brown, he's gonna be like 29. Jason Kelsey is a six round pick and he's gonna go to the hall of Fame.

[DK]

Yeah.

[Danny Kelly]

Jordan, my lot had never played football and he's a top five left tackle. I'm like, give me Jeff Statland. He's clearly more important.

[DK]

I go back and forth on like who I'd rather. Would I rather be the team acquiring A.J. brown or the team getting rid? I still don't really know.

[Craig Korlbeck]

Right. There's not a very good answer on that.

[Danny Kelly]

A.J. brown is.

[Craig Korlbeck]

No. Clear.

[Danny Kelly]

Extremely underrated because of the, like, I think A.J. brown's way better. I also am just kind of dubious. I don't know. I don't know who's trading for him, but.

[DK]

Because like, every, every possibility seems totally like, reasonable, like, of what could happen. Like, he could go to the Pats and have 1400 yards and 12 touchdowns and I'd be like, yeah, I could see that. Or he could like, get hurt and get in a fight with his teammates and like, mail in the season and like, he's like, not in the league in two years. I don't know.

[Danny Kelly]

But don't you think that when A.J. brown gets traded and then they play the little highlights on television, you're like, oh, yeah, right. He's so good. This is good.

[DK]

Of course.

[Danny Kelly]

Like, like, like pop quiz. Do you know many games Trey Hendrickson played last year? Seven. Okay, well, when he signed with the Ravens, everyone's like, wow, God. Fucking geniuses. Ravens flip Crosby for train. He barely played last year. Yeah, but then you sign the guy, goes to a new team and everyone's like, genius.

[DK]

Like, I can't tell. Is it as simple as the Eagles literally didn't throw to AJ Brown and Jalen Hurts pretty much just wasn't throwing to AJ Brown. And Drake May, who has a much more diverse skill set throwing the ball, will just obviously throw to AJ Brown way more all over the field and he'll be happy and everything will be roses.

[Craig Korlbeck]

I kind of think it is that simple, actually.

[Danny Kelly]

Yeah, I do too. It's like Josh Allen getting the flood dates. It's like, oh, yeah, right. That was good.

[DK]

Yeah.

[Danny Kelly]

That leads to my next take. Related to the Eagles. I think the Eagles should draft Ty Simpson.

[Craig Korlbeck]

Yeah.

[DK]

Okay, Start preparing quarterback factory.

[Danny Kelly]

Bama. Ty Simpson waited his turn. Jalen Hurts got there. Bama waiting his turn. And Ty Simpson can sit there, iron sharpens. Iron man sharpens.

[DK]

Man hurts can get benched for another Alabama quarterback.

[Danny Kelly]

Yes. As time is a flat, as the prophecy foretold. Goddamn right.

[Craig Korlbeck]

Another noodle armed Alabama quarterback. No, he doesn't have a noodle arm. Well, there's something there. One of my takes was basically a Ty Simpson related thing. It's. And it's simply, I refuse to be gaslit that Ty Simpson is a first round quarterback. I'm sorry. He has 15 starts in his career, which is like enough for me to say, no, I'm not doing that.

[DK]

He.

[Craig Korlbeck]

And he's small and he was hurt for half the Year. And as Heifetz likes to point out, I don't know if this is factual, but it's definitely something people are saying. Many people are saying this, that he left for the pros because Alabama just wanted to start his backup anyway, next

[DK]

year they kicked him out.

[Danny Kelly]

They have a quarterback competition and Ty Simpson might have come in third.

[Craig Korlbeck]

I don't know if that's true, but I'm going to choose to believe it's true for this. And by the way, who are the two teams in the last week, and we know that rumors start to really heat up in this time of year. Who are the two teams, the chorus of team and. And that are connected to Tysons. And right now the two teams are Arizona. And I think Daniel Jeremiah said today it's all but a given that Tyson is going to end up in Arizona and then the Jets. Good luck, buddy.

[DK]

But they're not saying Arizona. Obviously not Arizona taking him at three. They said they're going to trade coming

[Craig Korlbeck]

back into the first or, you know, early in the second.

[DK]

Yeah.

[Danny Kelly]

The point you made, the funny thing about Ty Simpson too is the charitable interpretation of Ty Simpson season is he was so horrific in November and December, just abominable because he was hurt. But he was hurt because he hurt his back and then had to take pain pills. And his stomach lining eroded and basically lost like 12 to maybe almost, almost 20 pounds during the season because he couldn't really digest anything, which at least he has half a season of good tape at most. But also doesn't really have NFL caliber stomach lining

[Craig Korlbeck]

fortitude.

[Danny Kelly]

He does not have the intestinal fortitude. Like if you tell me he's a small guy who can't take pain pills,

[DK]

it's like a problem.

[Danny Kelly]

At the NFL level.

[DK]

You're going to have to eat a lot of uncrustables at the NFL level. You need to be able to withstand that.

[Danny Kelly]

It eats the peanut butter and jelly on the lining. Yeah, exactly. You got to get that down your esophagus.

[DK]

I have a follow up kind of in the quarterback class category. Okay. Which is that part of me thinks not all of me. Like, this is a real, like, intrusive thought. I just had one time where I'm like, maybe the Raiders should trade out of the first pick.

[Craig Korlbeck]

Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.

[DK]

I'm kind of like, are they ready? The quarterback class is bad. This is a bad quarterback class. And like, maybe you don't have to take Mendoza just because he's the only decent one available. You know what I mean? It's like this feels like. It feels like an arranged marriage between the Raiders and Mendoza where it's like,

[Craig Korlbeck]

I guess just go home and crank one out. You'll feel better in the morning kind of.

[DK]

I'm like, look, you just got Clay Kubiak, like, settle in a little bit. You know what I mean?

[Craig Korlbeck]

You don't have to. Then don't make a bad decision.

[DK]

You know, next year the quarterbacks are going to be great. Like maybe, maybe give it a year. It's like we don't think Fernando Mendoza is Drake May or Jaden Daniels or Caleb Williams. Like, a lot of people think he's closer to the Bo Knicks Michael Penix camp. So it's like, okay, don't take him. There's been reports that people have been interested in the first pick, maybe trade it away. Do you really want to just be like, yeah, we'll take Kirk Cousins. We're just going to get Kirk Cousins? Maybe, maybe, maybe not. Just a thought. Capitalize and sell high right now.

[Craig Korlbeck]

Yeah.

[DK]

I don't know. Do you guys. Does any part of you think, like, because there are certain drafts where the first quarterback taken is more because there's no one else than there is because they are. They have the talent of the first overall pick. Does that ever cross your mind?

[Craig Korlbeck]

Like, I think It's. It's like 50, 50 probably. You know what I mean? In terms of like, how many quarterbacks

[DK]

that go first overall in your mind, have the talent of a first overall pick?

[Craig Korlbeck]

That's a good question. I think it's probably 25 or something like that. You know what I mean? Especially if you look at drafts, there's been a handful recently where I think

[DK]

it's very much like Caleb, Jaden and Drake May, probably all correct.

[Craig Korlbeck]

If they had been spread out, they probably would have each been first overall picks. Total drafts. But then you go back over the years and I think the quarterback position pushes guys up for sure.

[Danny Kelly]

Like those three guys, if they were dropped into 20, 23, would all go ahead of CG Stroud and Bryce Young.

[DK]

Yeah. And they would all go ahead of Cam Ward and they would all go ahead of Fernando Mendoza.

[Craig Korlbeck]

It's kind of crazy thinking that Bryce Young was the first overall pick at his.

[Danny Kelly]

That was weird.

[Craig Korlbeck]

Yeah. Wait, that happened, right?

[DK]

Yeah.

[Craig Korlbeck]

That was a thing. Yeah.

[DK]

It's crazy.

[Craig Korlbeck]

This is. This is a very fascinating thought experiment though, Craig, because I think you're absolutely right that I think general consensus is he's not a quote unquote first overall pick type player. Even though you're settling might end up. He might end up being the next Joe Burrow for all we know.

[DK]

Of course, he could be Tom Brady.

[Craig Korlbeck]

Right.

[DK]

But, you know, I feel like Mendoza

[Danny Kelly]

is a Hall of Famer.

[Craig Korlbeck]

Really?

[Danny Kelly]

I think he's gonna win multiple super.

[Craig Korlbeck]

Is that your take? I. I think, yeah. The way just everything we know about him, like his personality, I'm like, yeah, I could see this.

[Danny Kelly]

This dude. People keep saying this is a bad draft. Meanwhile, I'm like, I think Fernando Mendoza is a Hall of Famer. Jeremiah loves a Hall of Famer. I think Caleb Downs is a Hall of Famer. And I think, honestly, they're one of the top eight top ten pick. I. I do. I think Caleb Downs a Hall of Famer. Love is a Hall of Famer.

[DK]

And keep in mind that a year ago, h. Had said that Travis Hunter was going to be the greatest player in the history of the NFL.

[Danny Kelly]

Yeah. Can't call it a comeback if you don't have nothing.

[DK]

You know what?

[Craig Korlbeck]

We can't. We were not supposed to talk about that. Craig, Right?

[Danny Kelly]

I've never.

[DK]

Well, no. In the take purge. The only. The only outside knowledge I have is of other take purges.

[Craig Korlbeck]

Because it's your drunk memory.

[DK]

This is my innie. My only knows other purges.

[Craig Korlbeck]

Yeah.

[DK]

Because that was just yesterday. It felt like, you know.

[Danny Kelly]

Yeah. My any is just like. You know what? I was dead right when I said that. Saying God bless you after you sneeze is ridiculous. I still feel that way.

[Craig Korlbeck]

Yeah.

[Danny Kelly]

Oh, you're gonna make everyone else feel better because I sneeze. It's like just. Just. That's insane. Say, excuse me. That's where we left off.

[Craig Korlbeck]

Who else did we open? We opened last year's take perch saying that Travis Hunter was just going to play one side of the field and be fine.

[Danny Kelly]

Yeah. Craig was like the easiest trade out in the history of trade Brown.

[DK]

Yeah. I love. Yeah. I was like, just absolutely sell high. Why, what the hell wouldn't you. And then the Browns did.

[Danny Kelly]

The hit rate on this episode in the past is shockingly high.

[Craig Korlbeck]

Yeah, it's weirdly high.

[Danny Kelly]

Dk, you have any other per. You have another purge?

[Craig Korlbeck]

I've got a few here. These are less like crazy things and more just stuff I've been pondering. This one is might come as a surprise to you guys because we haven't talked about them a whole lot, but I think Max Claire, the tight end from Ohio State, is going to be the next Trey McBride slash Sam Laporta type of player. He got lost in the shuffle this last year for Ohio State because he was playing alongside Jeremiah Smith and Carnell Tate. But if you looked at what he was doing at Purdue in 2024, the year before AS, and he was a featured part of this offense, I. To me he looked like a Trey McBride type player. You run after the catch, strong hands, really explosive speed to beat guys in yards after the catch, toughness, body control, acceleration. He has all the traits on tape. And then this year, this last year, he just wasn't like as big part of the thing. And obviously I understand that he's going to be with good players in the NFL and but I do think like any tight end, where they land is going to matter and if he can land in a system where they're going to feature him in the offense, I think he could put up big time numbers.

[Danny Kelly]

I love that take. And I actually don't think Kenyan Sadiq will ever outscore Max Clear in fantasy football.

[Craig Korlbeck]

See, that's where I was. I was thinking about going there is like, I think Claire. I think basically what I'm saying is I think Claire is going to be the most productive tight end in this class. In fantasy.

[DK]

Anytime DK has a feeling like this, I usually trust him.

[Danny Kelly]

It usually is correct.

[DK]

It's usually correct.

[Danny Kelly]

I think you're right, dk. I don't think Kenya Sidi's even the best set out in Oregon.

[Craig Korlbeck]

And I think Max, that's like everybody was like, yeah, talking about the guy that he played with. So yeah, I think Max Claire is a name to keep in mind for, for leagues especially tight end heavy or tight end premium leagues. Because I don't know, man, I just think physic, physical makeup and athleticism right after the catch, toughness.

[Danny Kelly]

You know, it's funny, dk, another thing that happens sometimes it's a mix of like people watching tape and then you talk to coaches and stuff and all these people do that in the industry. And half the problem for Max Claro is that he's on Ohio State and at best he's like the 14th guy that gets brought up right? Like, like there are so, like there are so many players at Ohio State the last two years that you could talk to Ryan Day for like an hour and he might not even come up.

[Craig Korlbeck]

Can I ask this is just a random question that popped in my head because I think obviously the response would be like, if he couldn't be featured in his college offense, why would he be featured in the NFL? How many NFL teams have better receivers than Cardinal Tate and Jeremiah Smith right now.

[Danny Kelly]

Oh, like most.

[Craig Korlbeck]

Like what, How. What number of teams would have a better receiver duo than those two guys? I wonder. I think you're right. It's probably like six or seven.

[Danny Kelly]

I mean the Eagles and they're trying to break it up and the Bengals, and that's the only ones I can say like 100%.

[Craig Korlbeck]

Like Jeremiah Smith is probably going to be, apart from quarterbacks, the top ranked player in the draft, maybe the first overall pick next year. And then Cardinal Tate looking like a top five pick. Pretty good. So anyways, that's just the thought I had. The more I watch him and I went back and watched him again the other day just because Max Claire. Yes, Jeremiah Smith's awesome too. But just watching Max Claire, just the way he moves, it really reminds me of Those guys, the Laporta McBride style players.

[DK]

Can I stay? I want to stay at Ohio State for a moment.

[Craig Korlbeck]

Yes.

[DK]

Part of me kind of thinks that Sonny Styles is just going to get drafted by the wrong team and be pretty mid.

[Craig Korlbeck]

I like this, actually. That's good.

[DK]

People are tantalized by his measurables, but he needs to be in like a perfect Mike McDonald esque system to be deployed correctly. And I feel like some idiotic team is just going to be like, he jumped, really? And he has a cool name and they'll take him like in the top six and then he'll kind of just be pretty average. It's like, oh, it's cool when a defensive back is big, but now it's like, oh, he's a linebacker that might be a little bit thinly framed and like the Bengals might just take him and Derek Henry will just fucking run right through him.

[Craig Korlbeck]

This is good. This is what I'm. This is that what this is what this is for trying to. It's like, because I remember prior to the draft he was. He had some hype or. Sorry, prior to the combine he had a good amount of hype. But then when he came out of the combine, it was like, holy.

[DK]

If you look at any mock in February, he was not a top 10 player and many mocks, he was not a top 15 player. And then the same thing happens that always does. It's these measurables, right? He jumps. He has a 43 and a half inch vertical, he runs really fast, all that stuff happens. And then everyone's like, actually, should he go third? And I don't know, maybe the initial projections were right. And I. But I more think that it's like he's not going to fit on every team. And if the wrong team takes him, he's going to get screwed. Because this, you know, this is a. Linemen are getting bigger, teams are running more. And if he's on the wrong team, in the wrong position, he might just be pretty average, not saying any names.

[Danny Kelly]

Name a team, name a team name

[DK]

any team, name a woman in the top six. Arizona, Tennessee.

[Danny Kelly]

Yeah, that ain't for the wrong teams.

[Craig Korlbeck]

This is how, this is how I feel about a lot of tweener players. High Fitz. I feel like the tweener defensive players that kind of don't have a real position in, in college or at least maybe that a position that doesn't translate exactly to the pros are similar to quarterbacks in some ways because when you get drafted highly by a team that's taking you in the top five, top eight, top seven or whatever, there you run into the same problem as the quarterbacks that have that happen to them. Where after one year the coach is gone, then a new guy comes in. Now, now they want you to gain £15 and play off the ball or now they want you to whatever. You know, I think it'd be the opposite. Gain 15 pounds and then play on the ball. Gain, lose 10 pounds and play just linebacker or whatever. And then you get lost in the shuffle along the way as the team, as the new regime starts taking guys that they want to play. And you see this happen all the time with, with quarterbacks where it's like, oh God, I'm on my fourth quarter offensive quarter coordinator now what it does happen with defensive players too, where these tweeners that need a little bit of development or don't have a very clear trajectory in the NFL because we're saying the same thing about Arvel Reese where it's like, okay, where do you play him? Is he an off ball linebacker or a pass rusher or both?

[Danny Kelly]

Couldn't agree more.

[Craig Korlbeck]

And so not that I think this is going to happen to these players because I think they're supremely talented. With Arvell Reese and Sonny Styles, they're both supremely talented, obviously. But Craig, you bring up a great point because landing spot is going to be important for any of these guys.

[Danny Kelly]

I couldn't agree more. What is the Arval Reese in particular? What is the hit rate on guys who could be like, oh, he could be anything. And it's like usually you don't know.

[Craig Korlbeck]

Yeah.

[Danny Kelly]

And it's like your match.

[DK]

He could be anything, even nothing.

[Danny Kelly]

Exactly. And Arvo Reese, I think two things are true he's the best defensive prospect in the draft even with my beloved Caleb Downs. And I also think he will not have a good rookie contract because Arvo Reese is going to be draft. I think drafted by the Jets, Aaron Glenn's gonna exactly what you just said. They're gonna try to make him be a defensive end hand in the ground and then he's gonna get fired. And then Arvo, I mean he's Aaron Glenn and his three years are cooked right there. I, I, I really do think that happens all the time. But like if you go back, this has happened so many players I'm worried.

[Craig Korlbeck]

I'm definitely worried.

[Danny Kelly]

Call anything else in the Ohio State guys?

[DK]

Nope.

[Danny Kelly]

I have a coach related one.

[DK]

Is it Mike? Variable related. I'm ready to keep going on that.

[Danny Kelly]

Oh no.

[Craig Korlbeck]

You got more variable?

[DK]

No, no, no. Just if you wanted to. But, but if not, that's okay.

[Danny Kelly]

I have no, I got one. So Vikings head coach Kevin o'. Connell.

[Craig Korlbeck]

Where's this going?

[DK]

Former Aztec.

[Danny Kelly]

Everyone thinks Kevin o' Connell is a quarterback whisperer. Kevin o' Connell is not a quarterback whisperer. He's just hot.

[Craig Korlbeck]

Is this a good fit or is he just hot?

[Danny Kelly]

It's just a very attractive tall man. That's it.

[DK]

So why, why is him being hot? How does that help Sam Darnold play better?

[Danny Kelly]

Sam Donald just won a Super bowl without him.

[Craig Korlbeck]

He's good. Sam Darnold's just good.

[DK]

Sam Donald's just good.

[Craig Korlbeck]

What about all the other guys learned

[Danny Kelly]

from Kyle Shanahan, you know what happened? You know who was a good quarterback whisperer? Grant Udinsky, who was working for Kevin o'. Connell. You know where he played last? You know, he coached last year, the Jaguars, you know, played great down the stretch. Trevor Lawrence, you know, played like ass. All the quarterbacks in the Vikings, Grant Udinsky was the brains in Minnesota. Kevin o' Connell's a pretty face.

[Craig Korlbeck]

Oh my God. I love the, the incredible amount of just assumptions being made here. It's great. And yet it's like Sherlock Holmes level deduction. You see? You see he has a little bit of a tan line on his wrist and therefore he was in the French Riviera last March.

[DK]

Behind every great coach is, is a, behind every hot great coach is, is a ugly play caller who really pulls the string. That's what you're saying.

[Craig Korlbeck]

Just a Cretan.

[DK]

With that said, I don't know what Grant Yudinsky looks like. So maybe, maybe he's handsome.

[Danny Kelly]

Doesn't look like Kevin o'. Connell.

[DK]

Oh, okay. Kevin o'. Connell has a great jaw, I'll give him that. He's all jaw.

[Danny Kelly]

And because he's tall, all you look at is the jaw.

[DK]

Former quarterback.

[Danny Kelly]

Yeah. I'm just saying, Kyler Murray like that. Vikings might even start hot because Kyler Murray starts hot. I'm just saying we're going to convince ourselves five weeks in, because the Vikings are going to start 41 or 50 that Kevin O' Connell did it again. And it's going to be like every Kyler Murray season ever, which is they're going to just completely fade in December and January. Just completely fade. It's going to be like everything else.

[DK]

There is a lot of hype for Minnesota. I do feel like 10 wins is like the floor. Like, I feel like that that is needed if for the season to not be considered a disappointment, which is a lot of pressure. That's great.

[Craig Korlbeck]

By the way, Grant Yudinsky, he has nice hair.

[DK]

Good hair. Let me pull it up. Which, which Kevin o' Connell thinning a little bit. He looks great in a hat.

[Danny Kelly]

Oh, a year from now, A year from now, Kevin o'.

[Craig Korlbeck]

Connell.

[Danny Kelly]

Shine's gonna come off great. Udinsky. Shine's gonna come.

[DK]

Oh, Yudinsky's got a great head of hair. Oh, he's not a bad looking guy.

[Danny Kelly]

It's like Playmobil here. It's pretty impressive.

[DK]

He's. He's nice looking. Only 30 years old.

[Danny Kelly]

He's going to be head coach next year or two years.

[Craig Korlbeck]

The world hasn't worn him down quite yet.

[Danny Kelly]

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[Craig Korlbeck]

All right, what else you got? Want me to go?

[Danny Kelly]

Please.

[Craig Korlbeck]

D' Angelo Pons is the best cornerback in this class. Yeah, he's going to be the best cornerback in this class and I don't even think, I don't even know if he's going to be a first round pick. He's 5' 9, 180 pounds. Typically those guys don't go in the first round. Typically. Not all. Sometimes maybe, but not usually. But if you look at everything about him from production, the way he plays, like temp, like tenacity. He's turned up to 11 on every single plate. He gets his teammates fired up. He has incredible instincts and coverage. He's super tough, super dependable, versatile, can play outside, can play in the slot, probably could play safety if he wanted. Instinctive and coverage. He reads quarterback's eyes, jumps, routes, ball production, it's all there. He plays above his weight class in terms of his toughness and physicality. At the catch point. You only gave up one touchdown in coverage. The only thing that's holding him back, he's like the Russell Wilson of cornerbacks. The only thing that's holding him back is he short. I think he's gonna be awesome in the end.

[Danny Kelly]

I I want to just co sign this. I want everything Dick is said to just be like Michael Scott. It's like Danny Kelly Yeah, yeah.

[Craig Korlbeck]

I don't know man. He's just fun to watch and I just like the way he plays. I think that translates to NFL. I understand he's not very big but I think he makes up for it with everything else he does.

[DK]

I do think you have a great read on undersized prospects who will outperform their grade. Like people like Devon Hn. Like I feel like you have a good sense of guys who are undersized and if they'll actually be okay in the NFL.

[Craig Korlbeck]

Yeah, the HN one, I mean he, he's got a defensive version of this because I think people were talking about Hn, he's going to be. Have to switch to receiver or something because he's too small. But Ponds, I mean the way he moves is, is different.

[Danny Kelly]

So what about Keonte Scott?

[Craig Korlbeck]

I, I sure he's up there too man.

[Danny Kelly]

Yeah, part of me just wants to counter. Scott's gonna be the defensive rookie of the year. He's the 21st. He's going to be 25 year old rookie as a cornerback for Miami and he can't really cover, which is an insane thing to say about a quarterback, safety, whatever he's going to play. But I just look at counter Scott, I'm like he's the fastest player I've ever seen that loves tackling and loves run defense. He's. I've never seen a 4:3 player that like a legit 4:3 speed that loves tackling.

[DK]

If I can only. If I only had one question to ask a defensive prospect in a meeting I think it might be do you love tackling?

[Craig Korlbeck]

Yeah.

[DK]

Because if, if, if, if somebody even hesitates for a second, I drop them down on my board.

[Craig Korlbeck]

Oh 100 Craig. I completely agree. There's guys in college, when you watch their tape they're like, they just, they, they look a little aloof or something. They're just not, they're not as intense and connected and like conflict.

[DK]

Avoid it.

[Craig Korlbeck]

Yeah, it's like I, I kind of refer to them. I don't know if this is a term or not but like pile watchers, the guys that just kind of like run over and then watch the other

[DK]

guys kind of lean on it at the end.

[Craig Korlbeck]

Yeah, they're like you know, doing their part like they put their hand on it. But I, to me the guys that the, the famous scouting term is they like they can stick their face in the fan, they just want to fucking tackle. They want to go down in there and friggin hit somebody. And those are the guys Generally speaking, sometimes they don't have very long careers but they're awesome in the NFL because they're just so willing to and they love hitting and they love ball. Didn't hyphens, didn't you say Kante Scott was like living in the weight room or something?

[Danny Kelly]

He lived in the facility by the field.

[Craig Korlbeck]

I want that guy in.

[Danny Kelly]

He learned that practice when he was broke and had no money. But then he got an nil deal for hundreds of thousand dollars and was like it, I'm, I just bought any of your matches so I'm gonna live in the Miami facility. He went to sleep every night staring at Ed Reed's jersey, hanging the rafters. He's like, I just want to look at that. And he just woke up and he just was like this way, I'm always here. But he had money.

[DK]

Where's he going to go in this draft? Dk how high?

[Craig Korlbeck]

Well, probably day two. I don't, I don't think he'll be a first rounder just because he's older.

[Danny Kelly]

Old cornerback speed based is like speed gets drafted but old cornerbacks don't get paid. And so I have no idea.

[Craig Korlbeck]

I think he'll be a second or third or third rounder. I don't think he'll follow the fourth.

[Danny Kelly]

I, I would, I would guess relatedly if you guys anything to add to this, I'm curious. I had, I just wrote as a take Birch. I just wrote a list of players who will not be good.

[DK]

Oh, okay.

[Danny Kelly]

I, I all we talk about, well

[Craig Korlbeck]

this is actually we should do this every year.

[Danny Kelly]

Every year. All we talk about this whole here' this, this guy's good, this guy's good, this guy's good. And then at the end of the draft got like 100 players.

[Craig Korlbeck]

So the should have done this. They're all good before I did my top 100 ifits but yeah, this is fine. Tell me now.

[Danny Kelly]

I'm just saying like I you pull up any draft, a third of them are not good.

[Craig Korlbeck]

I know it's crazy.

[Danny Kelly]

So I just figured I'd save us all some time. I'll tell you guys ahead of time, it's not going to be good.

[DK]

Okay.

[Danny Kelly]

So I mean Ty Simpson quarterback, obviously I goes without saying he's the free space.

[DK]

Of course.

[Danny Kelly]

Kenyon Sadiq, he's not, he's fine. I've seen a thousand of him.

[Craig Korlbeck]

He's literally the fastest side end of all strong.

[Danny Kelly]

That sucks.

[Craig Korlbeck]

We've seen a million of these guys.

[Danny Kelly]

He'll be fine. He's A first round pick. I please, I, I please again. Jamar, a year from now we're going to be like, well, Jamar Johnson was always better as a tight end at Oregon. And Sadiq Tackle to this conversation we just had Caleb Lomu from Utah. Someone's gonna take him in the first round. Caleb Lomu has everything you could want in an offensive lineman, except doesn't love hitting people.

[Craig Korlbeck]

This take is good.

[Danny Kelly]

He doesn't like hitting people. He. Well, he likes it, doesn't love it. Kind of the only part of the job that really matters, loving hitting people, doesn't have that. Similarly, Kaden Proctor, huge, fast, doesn't like hitting people. I Not if you're. It's like there's one problem. Happy, if you're so big and so strong and so fast, why the fuck aren't you better at blocking?

[Craig Korlbeck]

I mean, that's a valid. That's a valid question.

[Danny Kelly]

Caleb Banks, Florida defensive tackle, is going to be going in the second round. He hurt his foot twice in one year. No fucking shot. Just no fucking shot. He's 350 pounds. Zachariah Branch, receiver from Georgia, sucks unbelievably terrible. Take the worst receiver I've ever seen that will be drafted in the first two rounds. Hands wise. I've never seen a worst receiver of the football.

[Craig Korlbeck]

How many drops did he have this last year?

[Danny Kelly]

Well, who knows because they just throwed him behind the line of scrimmage. He cannot catch.

[Craig Korlbeck]

He had two drops, a 2.4 drop rate. 2.4.

[Danny Kelly]

Yes, because everything was under one of

[Craig Korlbeck]

the lowest drop rates of any receiver.

[DK]

They were handoffs.

[Danny Kelly]

Who's like, car key.

[Craig Korlbeck]

He's still gotta catch these swing passes. All right, he could catch the ball. By the way, let me sneak my purge in here because you're gonna step on it. Zechariah Branch can catch. That's my take because you've been. I literally wrote this. I want to share my doc with you. Zechariah Bratch can catch. Heifet says he can't, but I say he can't. I say he can.

[Danny Kelly]

Okay, cool.

[Craig Korlbeck]

He can catch.

[Danny Kelly]

So then why does he suck?

[Craig Korlbeck]

He doesn't suck. He led the SEC and catches by

[Danny Kelly]

the light of scrimmage.

[Craig Korlbeck]

I mean, look, this is like saying why they give Christian McCaffrey like, carries because he's good. That's what they did with Zachariah Branch because it was useful and it was working when he was catching those passes.

[DK]

Sorry, too busy winning.

[Craig Korlbeck]

Yeah, I was too busy fucking taking these things and averaging eight Yards after the catch.

[Danny Kelly]

All right. Would you take him with the Seahawks with the 32nd pick?

[Craig Korlbeck]

Well, let's not get ahead of ourselves.

[DK]

Maybe it's tricky because it's like saying Blake Griffin can't shoot because all he does is dunk. And you're like, yeah, but it works. Like, why would he do anything else?

[Craig Korlbeck]

That's like, if you're the offensive coordinator, do you want to have points? If you're, if you're offensive coordinator, do you want to have the quarterback throw it 8 yards over your receiver? Or just give the ball to Zach Branch and let him run 8 yards? He averaged 8 yards after the catch.

[Danny Kelly]

That. Actually, I, I wish I'd come up with the take. I just did, which is. You called him Zach Branch. Zach Branch would never have been the

[DK]

number one in high school.

[Danny Kelly]

Zachariah Branch. His whole name being Zachariah is why he was racing.

[DK]

It does a lot.

[Craig Korlbeck]

Zachary Branch can catch. I have it written down. Okay.

[DK]

Oh, sorry. No, keep going.

[Craig Korlbeck]

Do you have more bad finish your

[DK]

list or is there more?

[Danny Kelly]

Oh, just players. Cassius Howl. His arms are short. He's gonna.

[Craig Korlbeck]

I love this.

[Danny Kelly]

This is actually 29 inch arms, tailored. My arms are longer than Cash's.

[Craig Korlbeck]

Al.

[Danny Kelly]

He's got no chance.

[DK]

Fair.

[Danny Kelly]

But, yeah, I'm good.

[Craig Korlbeck]

This is actually really fun. Here's a list. You gotta, like, pull out one of those scrolls and read it. Like, all these players are gonna be terrible.

[DK]

Like, we, like, have a trumpet next to him as he reads it.

[Craig Korlbeck]

Put on your little specs.

[Danny Kelly]

Just save us all some time.

[Craig Korlbeck]

Yeah, that's good. All right, Craig, what do you got?

[DK]

I, I, I keep having this thought that Fernando Mendoza is just going to completely embrace Las Vegas and he'll be dating a supermodel by the end of next year.

[Craig Korlbeck]

He's gonna do the.

[DK]

I just think the man we see as Fernando Mendoza today is going to change. And he's going to love being famous. He's going to love Las Vegas. He's going to be at nightclubs, at the Bellagio, and he's going to be dating, like, addison Rae in 12 months.

[Danny Kelly]

Honestly, Sydney Sweeney's dating Scooter Braun now, and I was kind of thinking Mendoza might slide in the DMS.

[DK]

No, because Mendoza's 23, not 43, and I think that's, that's a big key for Sydney Sweeney for some reason, but

[Craig Korlbeck]

43 you say, huh?

[DK]

DK.

[Craig Korlbeck]

It's an interesting number you threw out.

[DK]

Well, hey, Shooter. Shoot. Just because there's a goalie doesn't mean you Can't.

[Craig Korlbeck]

His name is Scooter, not Shooter.

[DK]

That's right. What? You know, I. I saw. Did you guys see Fernando Mendoza on the COVID of Esquire?

[Craig Korlbeck]

Yeah. Yeah.

[DK]

Looking all swanky, dripping sex. Yeah. I'm like, this guy's gonna be dating some star, and he's gonna love it. I mean, he wants to be Tom Brady.

[Craig Korlbeck]

Yeah.

[DK]

Tom Brady was married to Gisele Bundchet. Tom Brady was dating a supermodel by 2004. Tom Brady was dating Bridget Moynihan by 2004.

[Craig Korlbeck]

We've all seen the picture of him at the combine. Yeah. That's pretty good.

[Danny Kelly]

That's a pretty good take.

[Craig Korlbeck]

He's going to be indebted to some, like, casino after, like, the first year. He's going to owe, like, $17 million.

[DK]

He's going to look at Justin Herbert, be like, give me one of them big ones. That seems like a great life.

[Craig Korlbeck]

Give me one of those.

[Danny Kelly]

A really good take.

[DK]

He's gonna love being famous. He's gonna love Vegas.

[Craig Korlbeck]

Kirk Cousins isn't gonna work.

[DK]

No.

[Craig Korlbeck]

Bringing Kirk Cousins in as his moral

[Danny Kelly]

compass, he's gonna be dragging the most. Mendoza's not even gonna be hungover when Kirk Cousins brings him to the church. Mendoza is going to still be drunk.

[DK]

He's gonna love. He's gonna love the sphere, nightclubs.

[Craig Korlbeck]

It is intoxicating.

[DK]

Yeah.

[Craig Korlbeck]

Literally and figuratively. Craig did just get home from Vegas, so. Yeah, here's one. Jonah Coleman is going to be the only other productive running back in this class. And this is more like a fantasy thing. I'm not sure that Jadarian Price is a real player. I think he's, like, an industry plant. Don't really know much about him. Don't think he's going to be anything in the NFL. Dwayne McFarlane. Sorry. Mike Washington. I saw this from Dwayne McFarland, who does great work over at my fantasy life, and he has three closest comps in the supermodel to Mike Washington, Isaac Garendo, Israel Abanakonda, and Isaiah Pacheco. Gah. Freaking brutal. Freaking brutal. The Penn State guys both suck. And Coleman is a dog. Just.

[Danny Kelly]

What about Eli Heidenreich, who we haven't talked about?

[Craig Korlbeck]

He's going to be a slot receiver. He's not even a running back.

[Danny Kelly]

White Navy running back.

[Craig Korlbeck]

Yeah, he's. He's a receiver. Receiver.

[DK]

I mean, it's going to be tough. One of the Penn State quarterbacks literally played in the 1990s, so it's going to be Hard running back.

[Craig Korlbeck]

That was the funniest thing.

[Danny Kelly]

Did we forget what happened with that? He didn't see this, like 40 years ago.

[Craig Korlbeck]

Adam Schefter.

[Danny Kelly]

Singleton.

[Craig Korlbeck]

Adam Schefter tweeted out a pic. Something about Patron Allen or was recording this Friday. No, it was Nick Singleton. He. He tweeted something about Nick Singleton, like healing up and being ready to work out and being cleared physically. And then he included a picture. It was legitimately at least. Least minimum 30 years.

[Danny Kelly]

It's from before cricket. I were born.

[DK]

Yeah.

[Danny Kelly]

And I don't know how you could possibly.

[Craig Korlbeck]

We narrowed it down to two possible running backs from the 1990s at Penn State. I'm like, there's. This is like tweeting out a picture of the boss and being like, our Mason Thomas is ready for his workouts at Oklahoma's Pro Day. It's like, what are we doing?

[DK]

It's a master class. I have to say, the memes were incredible.

[Craig Korlbeck]

Yeah.

[DK]

He crushed it.

[Craig Korlbeck]

Anyway.

[DK]

Yeah.

[Craig Korlbeck]

Jonah Coleman.

[DK]

I have an off season. Related one.

[Craig Korlbeck]

All right.

[Danny Kelly]

Please.

[DK]

I don't know if I've ever discussed this with you, but it's something I've always felt. I think that the super bowl is the worst Sunday of the NFL season.

[Craig Korlbeck]

Okay. That's the opposite of what they're hoping. Craig.

[DK]

That's right. I think it is the worst championship of any sport by a mile.

[Craig Korlbeck]

Really?

[Danny Kelly]

Yeah.

[DK]

I think it sucks that you wait two weeks. I think the wind in the sails of the season is gone. There's way too much expectation. More often than not, the game is a disappointment because you've been waiting so long for it. I can make an argument for every Sunday just being straight up more enjoyable. Usually the Super Bowl. You're in the worst sports viewing environment of the year. Surrounded by people who never watch the game.

[Danny Kelly]

Football basically talking during the game so they can hear the commercials.

[Craig Korlbeck]

Yeah.

[DK]

Half the people that there want to watch the. The commercials in between the game. Football basically already feels over. You're kind of sad. I don't look forward to it.

[Danny Kelly]

You're losing money. The Steelers are never in it.

[DK]

That too. Plus we. We. We watched DK watch his team in the Super Bowl. He didn't even have a good time. Well,

[Craig Korlbeck]

I've never once had a good time during a Seahawks game. Had a good time once.

[Danny Kelly]

I think this is a phenomenal take.

[DK]

I just don't think it's that good of a Sunday.

[Danny Kelly]

Like, super bowl parties are awful.

[Craig Korlbeck]

Awful.

[DK]

You show up week eight. I'm having more fun that Sunday. Than the Super Bowl,

[Craig Korlbeck]

Week 8.

[DK]

Yeah, 100%. We gave him, like, ooh, oh, we got Cowboys, packers on Sunday night.

[Craig Korlbeck]

There's more intrigue.

[DK]

My fantasy team still has hope. Yeah, I think.

[Danny Kelly]

Yeah. No, this is. This is pretty good.

[Craig Korlbeck]

It's the Super Bowl.

[Danny Kelly]

No, but he's kind of right, though.

[Craig Korlbeck]

Even so. Even the finality of it, because, like, most of the other sports have series, and that's like, a game one is whatever.

[DK]

Yeah, that's right. I mean, a baseball World Series, going to game six or seven. Fantastic. NBA. Awesome. The last round of the Masters. Great Super Bowl. It's okay.

[Craig Korlbeck]

I can't. I can't pick that many holes in it because I agree with you. The way that it feels during the super bowl, it's, like, kind of anticlimactic a little bit, in a way.

[DK]

Like, the giddiness I feel waking up on week one versus the dread on Super Bowl Sunday. Plus, it starts so late. Yeah.

[Danny Kelly]

The same reason football's so popular, which is the finality of the importance of each game. You're right. Like, by the time you get to the super bowl, it's more like the death of something. Yeah, I think you're right.

[Craig Korlbeck]

I think it's a funeral. It doesn't help either that it's been, like, the same five teams in the super bowl every.

[DK]

The last two have sucked. I'm just, like.

[Danny Kelly]

It also feel like we actually have been living up to it. We. We've been kind of, like, dancing into a purge this entire season, which is. Watching your teams is horrible. Like, watching sports kind of sucks. Like, when it's your team. When your team is playing well and playing in important games, it's really fun.

[DK]

At any point, it's dreadful.

[Danny Kelly]

It's horrific.

[DK]

Like, it's also very isolating because everybody else hates you for. For being stressed because they're like, come on, dude, your team's good. Yeah, cry more. And then you have to be like, you don't get it. Which they don't. But they also are making a good point.

[Danny Kelly]

DK is watching the Seahawks in the Super bowl. They're winning by 20. And we're like, can we make content? He's like, no.

[DK]

He's like, get that camera. So, like, up 19 in the fourth, and he's still holding his breath.

[Craig Korlbeck]

Yeah, it's tough. It's a miserable experience.

[DK]

He said they have, like, the eighth best vibes this off season. You know, you won the Super Bowl.

[Danny Kelly]

DK never even really enjoyed it at any point. We were with him the entire Time.

[DK]

No, he's like Belichick, he's like, we're so behind on scouting.

[Danny Kelly]

We have the last pick in the draft.

[Craig Korlbeck]

It's 100 true. I'm like, I gotta pay attention to the Super Bowl. I'm behind on my big board.

[Danny Kelly]

Yeah, Craig, that's a great take. I think that's the clubhouse leader. Super bowl kind of sucks.

[Craig Korlbeck]

That is interesting. Now I'm going to think. Now I'm going to be thinking about this all year. Someone, we need a Super bowl to save the Super Bowl.

[Danny Kelly]

Yeah, we.

[DK]

Yeah, we put it in the sphere. Do something interesting.

[Danny Kelly]

Yeah. To make it fun. Something's kind of related to this. Not quite the same thing, but similar. Everyone keeps bitching about this 18 game season. I can't wait. It's going to be awesome.

[DK]

No, come on. No.

[Danny Kelly]

Everyone's like, get out. 18 games. It's going to be sick. Shut the up.

[DK]

You want the 18 week two by the 20 week season.

[Danny Kelly]

You're in mean, it's gonna be awesome. And I can't believe what's gonna be cool.

[DK]

Why is that better than what we have now?

[Danny Kelly]

It's gonna be better.

[DK]

Why?

[Danny Kelly]

Because it's another week better than the Super Bowl. You might as well be adding a Super Bowl.

[DK]

It's just better just because it is

[Danny Kelly]

second buy. I'll be resting.

[Craig Korlbeck]

That's what they're telling the NFLPA right now. Yeah, tell us them, tell us why this is better. Because.

[Danny Kelly]

And everyone's like, well, player safety. We can't. It's one more game. It's fine.

[DK]

Yeah, big deal.

[Danny Kelly]

You ever watch the wild card round and be like, this is the line. This is too much like, come on, it's 18 games. It's fine.

[DK]

It's going to be great because I said so.

[Craig Korlbeck]

I do think there's something to the schedule changing slightly in the playoffs and having the super bowl week where you have a Monday off could be cool.

[Danny Kelly]

Adding one more game maybe that the amount of buys is just. That's better. Better.

[Craig Korlbeck]

Is that how the super bowl gets better is you don't you just get blacked out, you get hammer drunk. I guess people already knew that.

[Danny Kelly]

Well, a lot of people made fun of me because I was saying that, like, not everyone else work off on President's Day, which is a fair point. But then I felt crazy and I was like, it is a federal holiday. People do have. Public schools are often President's Day, but I forgot, like, who have. No. It depends what job you have, whether that actually happens. But schools are Often President's Day.

[Craig Korlbeck]

Sometimes you have to speak in generalities.

[DK]

You know, to be honest though, I mean, who are we kidding? It's not like people don't drink on Sundays. Isn't the super bowl like the most alcohol consumed in America? People are still having a good time even though they're working the next day.

[Danny Kelly]

I imagine that.

[Craig Korlbeck]

But it's Sunday Scaries. It's, it's hard to enjoy a Sunday scaries.

[Danny Kelly]

That's. Oh, try drinking.

[Craig Korlbeck]

Yeah, but drinking that drinking on a Sunday makes you even more paranoid because you're like, damn, I'm gonna be hung over at work.

[DK]

It depends when you stop.

[Craig Korlbeck]

But yeah, you gotta power through that part.

[DK]

No, I completely agree. I, I. Sunday is just like a bad day of the week. I much prefer I like a Thursday to me is just way better than a Sunday. Sunday's hell on earth.

[Craig Korlbeck]

Craig, I saw somebody and I'm gonna apologize for, for not crediting where this

[Danny Kelly]

Lord's day is a hell day. Sure, keep going deep.

[Craig Korlbeck]

I actually, yeah, I agree with that. This the reason I thought of this is so I saw this. A guy posited that if you look at like life like every week is just trying to win a seven game series. So you're just trying to win four games in a week. You're just trying to win four days in a week.

[DK]

Monday automatic. Monday. Yeah.

[Craig Korlbeck]

Sunday, Monday automatic schedule loss.

[DK]

Exactly. Friday and Saturday are wins. So now it really just comes. Yeah. Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday. Can you get a win out of one of those three games? That's it.

[Craig Korlbeck]

Yeah, yeah.

[DK]

Or two. I gave you two out of three.

[Craig Korlbeck]

Can you take one on the road?

[DK]

Yeah, you know what I mean?

[Craig Korlbeck]

Can you get a W on the road is really all it comes down to.

[DK]

It's really a three game series. It's really Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday.

[Craig Korlbeck]

And I'm sorry for whoever said that because it's brilliant. But I don't credit you on this, but yeah, I saw that. I was like man, I'm gonna. That changed my life right there. Just gonna win this week. I think we should do. Unless you guys have any more good football related purges. Do you want to do a few like just general purge. Purge your soul of other general takes.

[Danny Kelly]

I have a couple football ones. Do you guys.

[Craig Korlbeck]

Oh, you have anything else, Craig?

[DK]

Yeah, no, I, I was, I was workshopping like Will Howard will be the best first year quarterback in the league next year. But I couldn't get there. I couldn't get there, not even in the purge.

[Danny Kelly]

It was funny. I, one of Mine was going to be Mike McCarthy. Steelers will be exactly the same as Mike Tom and the Steelers. But I. I don't even know if that's a purge. It's obvious. It's like they won't have a losing record. That seems like, obvious.

[DK]

I think that is likely to happen.

[Danny Kelly]

The only other ones I want to say are I think everyone keeps talking about the substation and the 49ers, but the 49ers are not getting injured because of the substation. The 49ers are getting injured because of Kyle Shanahan.

[DK]

Right?

[Craig Korlbeck]

This is like Occam's razor.

[Danny Kelly]

It's what DK said about John Harbaugh. It's like, right, Kyle Shannon, hardest practices in the league. And it's like. It was like, you think the substation's hurting the football players?

[Craig Korlbeck]

I think. I think it's the invisible radio waves that are drenching our bodies all day.

[Danny Kelly]

I believe Kyle Shannon started this rumor. It's like, you think it's the fucking substation.

[DK]

He's in the fucking hot dog suit. He's like, we're trying to figure this out.

[Danny Kelly]

Who could it possibly be? What possible thing? Meanwhile, it's like.

[DK]

Anyway, he's like, keep running.

[Danny Kelly]

It's like. He's like, you know what? You gotta. He talks about you need callous. You gotta practice three days in a row. Meanwhile, let's see here. NFLPA survey. Where do the Niners trading staff ranked this year? Let's see here. Dead last.

[DK]

What's counter.

[Craig Korlbeck]

What's the movie where.

[Danny Kelly]

30 second.

[Craig Korlbeck]

What is the movie where they guide. They just have to keep running. And the last person's not dead.

[DK]

Oh, the Long Walk. It's a Stephen King book, I think, isn't it? That's like 49ers, like walking on nubs.

[Danny Kelly]

Notoriously difficult.

[Craig Korlbeck]

Yeah.

[DK]

The Revenant counter. What has he been to three Super Bowls in 10 years? Not bad.

[Danny Kelly]

Well, every. There you go.

[Craig Korlbeck]

They keep getting hurt in the super

[Danny Kelly]

bowl, though, if that's true. Well, that game sucks.

[DK]

I think my favorite take is. Is DK right out the gate talking about how Jeremiah Love should tank the combine, which I think is amazing players.

[Craig Korlbeck]

You made a mistake.

[DK]

I think that is so good, dk.

[Danny Kelly]

All right.

[Craig Korlbeck]

He should have run all funky, like, with, you know, like duck feet or like his feet out or something like that. He should have just done something real weird.

[Danny Kelly]

All right, Ticket. Do you have a non football take you want to give here?

[Craig Korlbeck]

I do. And I want to say this in the right way. So, so People understand. I, I've reached a point in my life and I think humankind has reached a point in its existence that everything we now make works worse than how it used to work. Of course, I don't know if this is even a hot take.

[Danny Kelly]

I think that's just a fact. There are books about it.

[Craig Korlbeck]

In other words, with almost everything and this is excluding like life saving technologies and breakthroughs that are going to help people to be more healthy and all that stuff. Everything else I'm like, I think I prefer the old way that this worked more.

[Danny Kelly]

Sure. I don't think it's a purge. There's a book called Inshidification which is about how they planned obsolescence. It's about.

[DK]

I have that book.

[Craig Korlbeck]

Yeah. And ification, it's called insidification.

[Danny Kelly]

Literally they're like, if you make it worse, it's more money.

[Craig Korlbeck]

I just think there's too many people now. Like Craig always says, there was not enough people back in the 50s and now there's too many people. We've gone over, we've gone overboard. Now everyone has to justify their whatever what they're inventing. Like now we have to have instead of push, you know, pulling a handle to open a door, you have to push a button that then lets the handle out and then you pull the door open.

[DK]

I don't think I've been more confused about a new invention than I have with the Tesla door handle.

[Craig Korlbeck]

It's unbelievable. I'd literally crank. I'm not even, not even kidding. This is probably on video because I think all Teslas record you. I couldn't get out of a Tesla one time. I was like, I'm the last person on earth that's been in a Tesla. I don't know how to fucking get out of this thing. Is this the window button? Yeah, I'm rolling down the window to try and get out of the door.

[DK]

I need to, I actually need to like do my own research. I need to like watch videos of people and like to Tesla describing why they designed it.

[Danny Kelly]

But you know the answer decided it. Elon Musk was just like the window should be the door and it's. He just thinks that. You think anyone else decided that? Oh, I wants that.

[DK]

I'm not talking about the window button. I don't love. I'm talking about the outside handle.

[Danny Kelly]

Oh yeah.

[Craig Korlbeck]

Right where you.

[Danny Kelly]

Well, it's aerodynamic and so yeah, it's

[DK]

like you have to push your thumb in so that it opens and then hold your thumb there. Get your, grab it. It Makes. No, I don't get it at all. I would love to hear somebody describe why that makes sense. Because even if you can make a flat door handle that has an indentation and you can put your hand under it and pull a door handle, he

[Danny Kelly]

bought Twitter and named it X. He just thought it's cool because he said 11 year old child.

[Craig Korlbeck]

Do you want to. Do you want to hear some of the list of things I made? So the reason I thought of this two, two fold. First off, I saw a tweet of a guy who was doing a mock draft on his refrigerator screen. There was a refrigerator. This refrigerator had a TV screen and he was doing a mock draft on it.

[DK]

He was probably like also watching like Arrested Development on it somehow at the same time.

[Danny Kelly]

I'll tell you, I placed it in Airbnb for a wedding. I got a fridge to play our podcast. The fridge had a camera inside and they were like, it's so you can look at your fridge. What's in there without opening it. It's like, that's so they can have a camera in your fridge.

[Craig Korlbeck]

But sure, sure. Here's a couple, Here's a couple examples. I think we, I think we figured out chairs. I think chairs are fine. We can move on. We don't need to keep working on new chairs, are we? Yeah, there's all kinds of new weird ass chairs. I think chairs peaked in the 1940s or 50s.

[DK]

Really?

[Craig Korlbeck]

Yeah, just a normal chair. There's too many bells and whistles on chairs. Get camp chairs. Speaking of, give me one of those metal fold out things with like the, the, you know, the fabric strips. What those? Those are way better than any of the contraptions you have to get into now if you're going camping.

[DK]

Okay, I guess if I'm right now I'm sitting in like an ergonomic cover and it's fantastic.

[Craig Korlbeck]

No, I'm not talking about, about sitting at my desk. That would be a little insane. I'm just saying, like, we don't need to have any more new camp chair designs. Automatic soap dispensers. I, I've always wondered this. Were people like going out of business because people were wasting soap? Is. Is like soap waste. People couldn't stay open because people were using too much soap.

[Danny Kelly]

Touch it.

[DK]

I think people like hand free because you're in the bathroom.

[Danny Kelly]

I don't want to touch it.

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It.

[Craig Korlbeck]

Oh, none of them. They don't work.

[Danny Kelly]

No, they don't work. Of course they don't work. And I don't know why Like, I

[Craig Korlbeck]

can understand, I guess, but if you're touching it, then you can wash your hands.

[Danny Kelly]

No, but after someone else touched it before, they wash their hands, which is horrific. That's.

[Craig Korlbeck]

I know, but then you wash it off the germs that you. I don't want to add touching.

[Danny Kelly]

I don't want to add the. No, I don't want to touch.

[Craig Korlbeck]

You're literally touching it. So soap comes out. But you can use that soap. Soap clean your hands, wipe their hands. You're touching everything.

[Danny Kelly]

Why the would I want to touch that if I could not touch it?

[Craig Korlbeck]

Everything's covered.

[Danny Kelly]

Not touching it. I'd rather not.

[Craig Korlbeck]

You're just. You're defending soap. Automatic soap dispensers are the worst thing in the world.

[DK]

Do people feel strongly about automatic. I never thought about them once in my life.

[Craig Korlbeck]

Automatic paper towel dispensers, all the. It drives me insane. You can't. None of them work. If. If they did work, maybe that's a different discussion.

[DK]

You know the paper towel dispensers where it's like. Like there's like a tiny strip of it poking out and you have to, like, grab it with your wet hands and try to. So small, you have to try to, like, softly pull it and sometimes you rip it because your hands are wet.

[Craig Korlbeck]

Yeah.

[DK]

Don't understand those.

[Craig Korlbeck]

No, dude. Back in the day, Craig, I don't know if you guys even aware of this. They used to have this in, like, schools and stuff in the 80s and 90s. And people, the older generations will remember this. It was literally just a rat. Like a.

[DK]

A rag.

[Craig Korlbeck]

Like it was on a. You know what, like, what are those things you walk? Like, not the escalator, but like the things you exercise on? Treadmill is like a treadmill of cloth, and you just pull it down and like, wash your hands with this. Dirty, disgusting.

[DK]

Anyway, but ultimately, dk, I think you're right. I think back in the day, it was like a company that wanted to make T shirts was like, well, well, we'll sell the most T shirts by making the best quality T shirts. And now that idea is completely gone. And maybe in the beginning it's high quality, and then once it's successful, private equity buys it, strips it, and then just sells the shittiest fucking thing possible and spends the money on marketing. And I do agree. I mean, there's a reason why every time they hand out T shirts, like, whenever you're at some dumb event, you're at a game, they like, shoot the T shirt can all these things suck now you bring that. You put the T shirt on, it shrinks immediately.

[Craig Korlbeck]

How can this T shirt be possibly be this terrible?

[DK]

And yet some random shirt that my dad wore like 500 times in the 90s is still in great condition.

[Craig Korlbeck]

Dude, I'm telling you, you. Yeah, like, you buy. You can go on ebay or just at Value Village or whatever and buy T shirts that have been around for 30 years and they fit better and they feel better.

[Danny Kelly]

Le Creusets. I have a le crusade for my grandmother that was made before I was born and will be there long after my grandchildren die.

[DK]

Yeah.

[Craig Korlbeck]

Yeah.

[Danny Kelly]

That thing is going to last 150 years.

[DK]

You're talking about like a crock pot or something.

[Danny Kelly]

Yeah, like a Dutch oven. Yeah, it's. It's that, like kitchen aids, like, that lasts forever, I guess.

[Craig Korlbeck]

This wasn't a very hot take. Maybe just a general take.

[DK]

Old man yells at C.L.

[Craig Korlbeck]

it was. That was kind of what I was going at. The reason I'm like, dude, that. Just give me some knobs. I want to be able to push a button. Fans. You know, just the normal fan that you have in your house, it doesn't need to have a digital display with eight different settings. I need two to three buttons and a knob that you pull up or push down. That's all I need. It's gonna. It's gonna rotate. It's all. Fans do the same thing. They push air in your direction. There's a. There's an old jack handy quote that I really love. Probably the earliest fly swatters were nothing more than some sort of striking surface attached to the end of a long stick. I just think it's like, we have already figured this out. You can move on. We don't need new things that we don't need another one.

[DK]

Yeah, we do spend a ridiculous amount of time trying to solve problems that don't exist. Because you can make a lot of money on that versus problems that don't reap the benefits as much.

[Craig Korlbeck]

I don't want any more of that shit.

[DK]

Sure. Anyway.

[Craig Korlbeck]

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[DK]

Hi, Vince. What is your non football take take

[Danny Kelly]

between a couple here, But I.

[Craig Korlbeck]

When he looks like this something.

[DK]

You better hurry. The horn's gonna play. Pick one.

[Danny Kelly]

I don't think you need a pillow when you sleep.

[Craig Korlbeck]

What? This is horrific. No, no, no, no. What?

[DK]

Let me tell you something, Pitz.

[Craig Korlbeck]

Oh, my God.

[DK]

Well, you guys have slept in an Airbnb with me once. Yeah, I. I don't use a pillow when I sleep. I sleep. I sleep and everyone calls me a freak. I sleep under a pillow, flat.

[Craig Korlbeck]

Like you just put. You put it on top of your head.

[DK]

I sleep on my stomach to cover

[Craig Korlbeck]

up all the screams.

[DK]

I burrow like a dachshund. I sleep on my stomach. Sometimes the pillows just like. Like propped up and not kind of on my head. Sometimes it's on my head.

[Craig Korlbeck]

How is this not.

[DK]

I feel like we.

[Craig Korlbeck]

I knew that you sleep on your stomach because you said that I'm like, that's not good for you.

[DK]

Yeah, well, if. If I'm on my side, I'll use a pillow.

[Danny Kelly]

But if I'm not arms. Or do you just lie there? Do you go like you put your arms underneath?

[DK]

Do I do this? I don't. I don't.

[Danny Kelly]

So you think.

[DK]

Do you have any neck?

[Craig Korlbeck]

Wait, so high?

[DK]

Fitz, no.

[Craig Korlbeck]

Slow down. We're losing. You don't use a pillow either?

[Danny Kelly]

No, but I'm curious. I do. But I'm curious because a couple times I haven't used the pillow to sleep. And I'm like, I don't think I need. I think big pillow has convinced me.

[DK]

I think it's bad for your neck. You're at an angle.

[Danny Kelly]

Well, that's the thing is, I'm like, man, my neck hurts, my shoulder hurts, all this stuff. And I'm like, maybe I don't actually need a pillow at all. Because when you sleep without a pillow,

[Craig Korlbeck]

there's a problem for me. How about this? There's a Goldilock. There's a gray area here. How about just a thin pillow? Pillow?

[Danny Kelly]

Dude, I've tried the pillows.

[Craig Korlbeck]

I have. I use very thin pillows.

[DK]

If you sleep on your side, you should have the pillow between your knee and then a pillow under your head, and then your spine stays flat. But I think there is something, too, sometimes. Like, you ever just lay on the floor? You ever just lay on the floor on your back? It feels great.

[Craig Korlbeck]

At 43, if you lay on the floor on your back for a while, it feels good until you try and get up. Then you're like, I feel. I've never felt worse in my life.

[Danny Kelly]

Go back to sleep.

[Craig Korlbeck]

My body hurts.

[Danny Kelly]

Hurts.

[DK]

Yeah. I. I. Look, I know everyone. I. I can't. You can't help how you sleep. I know I sleep weird, but I sleep on my stomach.

[Danny Kelly]

Can we go back to the sleep? The pillows on top of your head?

[DK]

Yeah.

[Danny Kelly]

What the is that?

[Craig Korlbeck]

I make it a little concrete.

[DK]

Well, it's not like. It's, like, propped up. It's not like I'm, like, suffocating myself. Hold on.

[Danny Kelly]

Propped up on what? Your face?

[DK]

Yeah.

[Danny Kelly]

I think this is the weirdest thing Craig's ever shared.

[Craig Korlbeck]

You said it.

[DK]

Okay.

[Danny Kelly]

The pillow on the face.

[Craig Korlbeck]

So, you know, so, like, he's, like, laying.

[Danny Kelly]

It's like this.

[DK]

So it's like. It's all. I got air right here.

[Craig Korlbeck]

So you. So how often. How often are you, like, hurting your head? Are you going both ways?

[DK]

Yeah, I go both ways.

[Craig Korlbeck]

Okay.

[DK]

Only that way. Only in the bed.

[Craig Korlbeck]

Oh, only in the bed.

[DK]

Only for sleeping,

[Craig Korlbeck]

sure.

[DK]

But, yeah. And then. And then on my side, I will use a pillow. And then if I go on my back. Back, I use a pillow usually. So it kind of varies.

[Danny Kelly]

Just picturing you, like, underneath.

[DK]

Yeah.

[Danny Kelly]

Ostrich.

[DK]

Oh, yeah. My mom, dude. And when I was growing up, I sleep like a psycho. Like, when my mom would come in the room in the morning, like, get me up for school or whatever. Like, you can't. You can't find me because I'm under everything. There's, like, blankets and comforters and pillow. I'm just, like, in a. I, like, burrow.

[Craig Korlbeck]

Every morning is like, I hope he's alive.

[DK]

Yeah. Literally, she asked. She's like, it's like the people stabbing the Trojan horse to check if anyone's in there. Like, that was. That's my mom.

[Craig Korlbeck]

Oh, my God.

[Danny Kelly]

You just look like Ferris Bueller. Like, hiding, running from school.

[DK]

Yeah.

[Danny Kelly]

All right, so what's your. What's your take? Purge Craig.

[DK]

I Think. I think serving bread to begin a meal is insane and they should stop doing it.

[Craig Korlbeck]

But you like it.

[DK]

I like it a lot. It is the most. Most filling food in the world. And they give it to you first

[Craig Korlbeck]

so they can give you a tiny meal.

[DK]

I think the bread should come with the main course. Then I'm happy with it.

[Danny Kelly]

But then you great take.

[DK]

You mix in a bite of bread. I don't want. I'll just eat all the bread and then I'm full. And then I'm uncomfortable.

[Craig Korlbeck]

I don't have any self restraint.

[DK]

I don't like it.

[Danny Kelly]

It's a great take.

[DK]

Why? I. I don't even get it. Like, I don't know why they do.

[Danny Kelly]

Because.

[DK]

Because.

[Craig Korlbeck]

Because people are hangry when they get to the restaurant. They're waiting around.

[Danny Kelly]

No, but now it's. The margins are so thin. It's like, we'd order more food if you didn't give us that bread.

[DK]

Totally. Or give them something different. Not the most. The most filling food you could possibly find.

[Craig Korlbeck]

Lambus bread.

[DK]

It's just like one bite.

[Craig Korlbeck]

One bite is enough to fill the belly of a large man.

[DK]

And then it's like they come back, you want another basket of bread? Everyone's like, yes. What are we doing?

[Danny Kelly]

Losing recipes.

[Craig Korlbeck]

That is like the whole deal. When you go to a Mexican restaurant, you're like, why do I feel like hell after eating this dinner? It's like, oh, it's because I ate two giant bowls of chips.

[Danny Kelly]

Did you eat 14 tortillas? No. That's insane. What? A second one.

[DK]

Well, also, like, when you make dinner at home, do you eat bread before you. Are you, like, eating bread an hour before you eat dinner? No. You have bread with dinner.

[Danny Kelly]

That's a good point. Think about crazy it would be if you, like, went to someone's house and you, like, sat down at the. Not like, you know, around, like, couch or something, but at the dinner table and they're about to serve you. But before, they're like, hey, here's two slices of bread.

[DK]

Yeah. Here's an entire sourdough loaf and really nice butter that we'll just eat for an hour before I serve you your chicken. No one does that because it doesn't make sense.

[Craig Korlbeck]

Whoa.

[DK]

Where am I?

[Craig Korlbeck]

A tremendous weight has been lifted.

[DK]

What just happened?

[Craig Korlbeck]

Yeah.

[Danny Kelly]

I can't wait for the Giants to win the division with John Harbaugh.

[DK]

You think, baby. You think. Anybody said anything about Varel? Doubt it. No, that'd be crazy.

[Craig Korlbeck]

I love automatic sensing hand soap dispensers. It's the best. I love sitting there like a maniac trying to get. Shake my hand under it. Trying to get it to make some. Give me some goddamn soap.

[DK]

God, that.

[Craig Korlbeck]

Yeah, that was good.

[DK]

I do feel. I feel cleansed. I feel 10 pounds lighter. We recorded this on a Friday. I'm gonna just. Just breeze into the weekend.

[Craig Korlbeck]

That beer's about to hit your hand like molnir.

[Danny Kelly]

Yeah, my soul's way lighter now. So please email [e-mail] Please email us your take purchase and we'll read the best of the best here on the show. The cream rose to the crop here. So again, email [e-mail] if you think you got something. Something like that.

[DK]

What did I say? You said it rose to the crop.

[Craig Korlbeck]

You. You mixed metaphors. Cream rose to the top or the cream of the crop.

[Danny Kelly]

Whatever. This one's from Tom. Breakfast is tuna and egg salad. Sam, he said tuna egg salad sandwich pack. God, we can't comment on these. This is bacon breath in the morning latte.

[Craig Korlbeck]

Morning breath's got to be tough on that one.

[DK]

I'm biting my lip right now.

[Craig Korlbeck]

Yeah, I know.

[Danny Kelly]

God, he owed it. He ate it at one o'.

[Craig Korlbeck]

Clock.

[Danny Kelly]

Says it's up to you if it's breakfast.

[Craig Korlbeck]

Oh, that's fine.

[DK]

Hey, broke fast, right?

[Danny Kelly]

Yeah. Okay. Tom's take perch. Lions are the worst cats.

[DK]

Okay,

[Craig Korlbeck]

that's pretty good.

[Danny Kelly]

Lions give up.

[Craig Korlbeck]

They're lazy.

[Danny Kelly]

As Tom says, lions give up trays that make cats awesome to live in packs. Agreed. Ticket. They sleep 22 hours a day. Lions are watered down cats for dog pee. People just go, enjoy wolves. Lions hunt in packs. They're const. Lions are constantly warfed. I thought that meant getting worked and as a typo. But warfed, I guess is a movie term or a TV term of like you have a character show up in a superhero movie and they beat the out of the first character to be like, oh, yeah, that's how tough this guy is. He beat up that guy so lot. When you hear stories about other big animals in the same ecosystems, you'll always hear, well, that they can kill lions. Hippos way deadlier than lions. Elephants can stomp lions to death. Ospreys can kick lions to shreds. Fucking giraffes can kick the head off of a lion. You don't hear stories about tigers getting their heads kicked off. Lions are not as cute as other cats. Lion kittens are not as cute as other Cats. Tigers. What? Leopards are cute.

[Craig Korlbeck]

Okay.

[DK]

Lion cubs are really cute.

[Danny Kelly]

Book of Tiger Cubs. They're cute by the standard. Pizza is good. Domino's is good because it's fucking pizza. It's not as good as other pizza, like lion cups.

[Craig Korlbeck]

Lion cubs are really cute. I. I can't get. I can't.

[Danny Kelly]

Lions can't purr and frankly, Lion King and the king of the jungle thing, they don't even live in jungles. Let's start there. They don't even live in the jungle. They're living a lie.

[Craig Korlbeck]

They live on the Serengeti.

[Danny Kelly]

They don't live in the jungle. How'd they get that term? Where did they even come from? Tigers are the king of the jungle.

[DK]

It's. It's great pr. They did a great. They, they hired name brand and they

[Craig Korlbeck]

crushed up there with Got milk.

[DK]

Their main. Carries so much weight. And I, I do think they. That's why they're king of the jungles because, like they're. They're a decent fighter and they just have a sick mane and they have a good roar. They're golden. They look royal.

[Craig Korlbeck]

They do. They are resting on their laurels a little bit, though.

[Danny Kelly]

I thought that was a good purge.

[DK]

I think I could take a tiger prop. I mean, a lion probably, right?

[Danny Kelly]

I mean, if anybody else can kill it, why can't you? They need to. Well, here's the thing. Eight of them. No. Could you take one lion?

[DK]

Obviously, I've been within five feet of a lion and I was terrified.

[Danny Kelly]

I honestly got a shot.

[DK]

Like, I'm a firm.

[Craig Korlbeck]

I'm sorry to admit this, but I was scared of the lion.

[DK]

I was in a van that had basically no doors on it and homeboy was sleeping real close to me and I. I was uncomfortable.

[Danny Kelly]

I'm man enough to admit l. Lions scare me.

[Craig Korlbeck]

Saw the size of the big old balls on that thing and I was

[DK]

like, they are larger than you think.

[Danny Kelly]

The men don't do anything.

[Craig Korlbeck]

The women do the balls or the lions.

[DK]

Yes.

[Danny Kelly]

Okay, one more. One more purge. Here. This is from Errol.

[DK]

Errol.

[Craig Korlbeck]

Errol Flynn.

[Danny Kelly]

The subject line of Errol's email is, take purge. JFK was killed by accident.

[Craig Korlbeck]

All right. By whom?

[DK]

Good.

[Danny Kelly]

So Errol writes, there's actually a book called Mortal Error.

[Craig Korlbeck]

And is it his book?

[Danny Kelly]

No, it's written by this guy in the 90s. He was actually one of the guy. It's a legit guy because they invited like eight guys to try the rifle that Harvey Arsewalt shot from the depository. And they actually like, this was the official government investigation. Twenty years later, they had like nine experts come and try to shoot in as quickly as they thought he did. This was the guy who did the best, the fastest. He expanded the scope of their investigation because he was actually able to load the rifle so quickly. So he was like literally given inside information. What's this guy wrote a book and this guy, his take is that this is what happened with jfk. Lee Harvey Oswald shot once and then he missed. Lee Harvey Oswald then shoots a second time and he hits JFK through the neck. And then the car behind JFK's car has secret Service agents. And one of the Secret Service agents stands up in the car on the seat in the backseat and tries to shoot Lee Harvey Oswald. But then the car speeds up and the guy falls back into the seat while he's pulling the trigger and he shoots JFK in the head.

[DK]

Is that true about that? The guy standing up and falling down.

[Danny Kelly]

There is footage of him standing. It all gets pulled piece together, but the idea being the Warren Commission did not interview any Secret Service agents. They didn't talk to them officially.

[Craig Korlbeck]

Didn't think they were allowed to talk. Oh, interesting.

[Danny Kelly]

The Secret Service was not interviewed by the Warren Commission. And the thinking is the government did want to not want to admit that actually we accidentally panicked and shot the President in the head.

[Craig Korlbeck]

So the shot to the neck wouldn't have killed him.

[Danny Kelly]

It might have, but like the head,

[Craig Korlbeck]

you would have had a chance.

[Danny Kelly]

The.

[Craig Korlbeck]

The big.

[Danny Kelly]

Yeah, it would. Had a chance. The head. Like there's a theory here. Erol's take, which is the take of this book, which is. It's. It. There's more to it than I thought when I read it, is that maybe they accidentally. Just accidentally shot him, man.

[Craig Korlbeck]

Yeah, I haven't heard that. Certainly, Certainly plausible.

[Danny Kelly]

I. I read it and I laughed and I was like oh, like this is a funny joke. And then I was like, okay, there is, There is a school here.

[DK]

This is also. I feel like anytime the answer to a really complicated question was like, yeah, it's probably just like an accident. She was right.

[Danny Kelly]

So Errol says if this, if you're. Errol literally writes. He's like, if you're listening to this and you think that's insane, remember that what actually World War I started because Franz Ferdinand, they tried to assassinate him, fucking failed. Went to a coffee shop, basically a bar, lamented that they failed. And then he pulled up in the broken down.

[Craig Korlbeck]

They got behind, they got lost, they took a wrong turn they took a wrong turn and ended up. I mean, think of crazy. Think about the freaking sliding doors on that. It's insane.

[Danny Kelly]

Maybe the all time sliding doors.

[Craig Korlbeck]

Yeah. Because then World War II doesn't happen if World War I doesn't happen. I mean, maybe it was all eventual gonna happen, but man, mortal error.

[Danny Kelly]

It reminded me because I was like, man, JFK is just Pulp Fiction. You shot Reggie in the face.

[DK]

This is good. I never heard that before. I've never heard this tape.

[Craig Korlbeck]

I didn't see that. I didn't see us going into JFK stuff. Stuff today. I didn't know.

[DK]

I wonder if Bill's aware of this theory. Bill's a big JFK conspiracy theorist.

[Danny Kelly]

I'm gonna have to send it to him. Yeah, it's intriguing. All right. Email should purchase.

[Craig Korlbeck]

That was good. I feel good about that.

[Danny Kelly]

Thank you, dk. Thank you, Craig. Thank you, everyone. I hope everyone's your everyone feels your souls are lighter after this experience. Please email us whatever you have to purge from your soul. I'm glad you guys could be cleansed, bathed in the light. And now we can continue on with draft season. Lighter for the wear. Thank you, dk. Thank you, Craig. Thank you to Chris Sims, obviously.

[DK]

Thank you, Chris. Genuinely thank you.

[Craig Korlbeck]

Yeah.

[Danny Kelly]

And Phil, his forefather. Thank you, Cam. Thank you, Austin. Thank you, Carlos. Thank you, Abu. Whoever did the purge, none of us have seen the movie yet.

[DK]

I've seen the movie.

[Danny Kelly]

You have?

[DK]

Yeah.

[Danny Kelly]

All right. I saw the first half, but I never finished it.

[Craig Korlbeck]

Did you see the second one?

[Danny Kelly]

No.

[DK]

No? No.

[Craig Korlbeck]

Okay.

[DK]

You bet. You bailed before the. I feel like that's the whole point. The purge. You want to wait till the purge happens. So you just watch setup and then bail failed.

[Danny Kelly]

Oh, the purchase started. I. I don't know.

[DK]

It's good. It's actually really good, but. Oh, I. I really. I enjoy the film.

[Danny Kelly]

Oh.

[Craig Korlbeck]

Oh.

[DK]

There's a reason they made like nine.

[Danny Kelly]

Yeah. Thank you, Lord.

[Craig Korlbeck]

Lord. Thank you, Cass Elliott, AKA Mama Cass.

[DK]

Of course. I listen. I was listening to California Dreaming today, driving to the office.

[Craig Korlbeck]

I was listening to that song, the. You've got to make your own music.

[DK]

Yeah. Oh, that's. That's a Cass Elliott song. Yeah. Make.

[Craig Korlbeck]

I'm not even gonna try and sing it.

[DK]

Yeah. Kind of music. Sing your own special song.

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Yeah.

[DK]

Great.

[Craig Korlbeck]

It's also like a huge meme right now, I feel like.

[DK]

Is it?

[Craig Korlbeck]

Yeah, it's like. It's from the Unbearable.

[DK]

Oh, right. What's Pedro Pascal? The Unbearable. Weight of massive talent.

[Craig Korlbeck]

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[DK]

Is it when he's, like, looking at him in the car. Yeah.

[Craig Korlbeck]

He like Phaedro Pascal's like a high as a kite or whatever, driving.

[Danny Kelly]

I know that part of what you're saying.

[Craig Korlbeck]

Anyway, great song.

[DK]

That's a great shout out. I'm a huge fan of the Mamas and Papas. I have their. Their, their.

[Danny Kelly]

Is that who this is?

[Craig Korlbeck]

You've got something in the background, right? Yeah, there it is.

[DK]

There.

[Danny Kelly]

She's in the Mamas and the Papas.

[DK]

Yeah, she's one of the. The two female vocalists. Fun fact, that album behind me is signed by Michelle Phillips, the other female vocal vocalist.

[Danny Kelly]

Blur it out on Netflix.

[DK]

It's blurred behind me, naturally.

[Danny Kelly]

Oh, great.

[DK]

The depth of field is Shower behind me. You can't really make it out, but yeah. Michelle Phillips. She lives in la.

[Danny Kelly]

Okay, cool.

[DK]

Nobody.

[Danny Kelly]

Well, not Cass Elliot.

[DK]

No. She died a long time ago.

[Craig Korlbeck]

Right. She died in 1974.

[Danny Kelly]

So who's. Who lives near you in LA?

[DK]

Michelle Phillips, the other member of Mamas and the Papas. Got it? Yeah.

[Danny Kelly]

All right. Glad we settled that.

[Craig Korlbeck]

Settled it.

[Danny Kelly]

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