Alex Barth Joins the Show // 10 Questions From Around the NFL // Barth and NFL Draft Names - 4/1 (Hour 3)

I think that feels like a nice package. Yeah. Those phones lined up. It's delger and man. The sports. Bob and need him. Go ahead, Bob. Yeah, father, the reason the self expense wildly that one year was because they obviously knew they were so the team Jeremy Jacobs set up the salary capped to 49 million at first only because he had total control of the salaries. Then they were able to get the salary. They were able to get the salary that they were spending for 25 30 whatever it is. Bottom one. Yeah. And the red socks have now pulled so far back. It's ridiculous. And the only commonalities they spend that they charge the highest ticket prices, highest parking all that stuff, and they won't. None of them will spend any money anymore. It's insane that people still accept this nonsense with this money. You know what bothers me because they want their money. Like, you know the answer to that question. They want to keep their money or give it to their kids or their investors or whatever. So they care more about that than winning championships. Absolutely. That's it. See, that's the thing that it most everyone misses. You know the answer. Yeah, the compete for them is not on the field. What bothers me is that not enough people call him a bad guy. I don't want to talk about this. I just too many people who just cover for the teams. And anytime you talk about cap dollars, you're covering for the team. I hate to break it to you, Barthie and others. Mike and Norwood. Go ahead, Mike. What's up, guys? How's it going? Good. Hey, you were just talking about the variable press conference, and I've noticed this in the last few times since he's been speaking to the media. Maybe he's got a lot of people who don't know about this. Make you guys think that maybe he's involved with this AJ Brown situation. So is he like, yeah, so I'll go back and look at the answer. Did he mention a bunch of guys and leave out K. Shambhuti? He was asked about growth in the wide receiver room. I think he like very briefly. He said K Shambhuti's name, but then talked about future growth from Kyle Williams and pop Douglas. He talked. He's not saying that he's involved with this. But he's not saying that he's involved with this. Of course, you're looking at growth from him. Pop Douglas and K. Shambhuti are the same draft class. If you're looking at growth from one, you're looking at growth from the other and just to continue to connect the dots. The thing that burns the Eagles by waiting. I understand they have to wait because of the money thing. Over the last couple of years, they've been doing this for a couple of years. But this is June 1st. There's tremendous incentive for the Eagles to ask for a player for the Patriots to give a player back. Maybe instead of a pick. K. Shambhuti makes sense because if AJ Brown's here, I don't really know what K. Shambhuti's role is. That's essentially the role he played here last year. Meanwhile, the Eagles somebody who can fill in the game, but they're not going to be able to play or swap not a draft pick. Well, no, player and but maybe instead of two picks. It's a pick and second and K. Shambhuti, right something like that. Yeah. Second and K. Shambhuti for AJ Brown. You do that. Sure. Yeah, and I'll tell you why. Well, I like booty. Can I tell you why? Because booty is going to be up at the end of next year, and then they're not going to resign him. I'd be surprised if they resigned him and they're going to be able to play. But I think that's the role if AJ Brown's here soon be sitting on the bench. So why hold on to him? Okay, you have some depth. I guess I actually think the wider see where depth is okay. It's about getting a guy at the top of the depth chart. And if Philly says, Yeah, you know, we want maybe a second or third news that will offer you K. Shambhuti if it saves you top 100 draft pick top 150 draft pick for a guy this mass points out who's in a contract here. That feels like a no brainer to me, and I like K. Shambhuti because he's a big fan of the! I think he's going to be interesting. You got to get like. I love the profile of Demario Douglas and the thought of Demario Douglas. I love no one who likes shifty, undersized, high volume, slack guys and little receivers like me. I love that profile. Love it. I thought he would have been more. I think he should be more. Is it because they can't get him the ball or is he just not as good as I want him to be? So I can't quit pop. Douglas is a big fan of the! I think he's going to be interesting. I think he's going to be interesting. I think he's going to be interesting. That's what he makes most of his plays out when he's in the intermediate. The deep know he runs away from him. So I so then he's not the guy that I want him to be. I don't need a little guy running down the field. I want a little guy going against linebackers and safety and safety is in chewing up the middle of the. He can do that against man against zone. He's not as good at that. Why he's suck because he doesn't see it. You can't feel vision thing. Yeah, Yeah, he can't see it. So this is the I'm just about to say this that is that he can't you know, he can't read zone defenses. So to me, buh-bye. 10 questions with the bartender right after this. Joe Haggerty here. If you were designing the perfect way to blow up a weight loss plan, my schedule would be a pretty good place to start. I'm in the car all the time running to ranks juggling two kids in hockey covering hockey myself. And half the time the day changes on me before it's even lunch a few weeks into Awaken 180. I'm down 20 pounds. That's real weight real fast. And the only reason this is working is because I'm not trying to figure it out on the fly anymore. Crazy thing is I'd probably be down 30 pounds, but had a couple slip ups early because of my hectic schedule. Big mistake. That's why I've never been able to do it before. Now I give my coach my schedule where I'm going, what's coming up. And he helps me plan for unexpected. Last week, I was going out to dinner and he gave me the meal options before I even got there. That's what I need. Not guesswork, not will power a real plan for real life. That's why Awaken 180 is working for me. Let it work for you online at Awaken 180 weightloss.com. That's Awaken 180 weightloss.com . This is 10 questions with Greg Bedard and Thelgar and Mass on 98 five, the Sports Hub. All right, ladies, we're doing a two hour football stint here with Barth on the Greg Bedard format. So let's do 10 questions around the league. Shall we 10 questions? 10 minutes. We have to stay on time. What are our buzzers, Jimmy? Masses, tears, masses, tears, tears, tears, scrumptiouss, scrumptiouss, scrumptiouss. they do. Last one. That's repulsive. You're the fans after you to the players. Zero and after you to the wraps. Some love in the air there on fellow grandmas. Go ahead. Jimmy had it. No, they need to see it on the video screen to believe it. Well, this is. Hold on. Frank. Number 10. One of the small rule changes made for the upcoming season is that a team can now declare to go for an onside kick at any point in the game. I had or behind or what it used to be just when you were behind thoughts on this. Or do you feel the place should even be in the game at all? There's a lot of people who want to eliminate the onside kick and go with like a fourth and 15 play. Where do you stand on all of it? I like the onside kick. I'm glad they're opening it up to the rest of the game. Still no more surprise, but people's biggest complaint about the onside kick seems to be it's too hard to recover. It should be hard. Think about what you're trying to do back to back possessions in a sports. It's not that's not designed for it. It should have a low success rate. I'm all for the onside kick. I think this is a good change. So look, the whole thing that in the middle of the game is about the element of surprise, right? So it's gone. I'll take it because I prefer to have that play in, but it's obviously nowhere close to what it was before. No, but I'm still for the onside kicks because fourth and 15. I think you've argued this, Mike. It's too easy in today's past happy quarterback driven NFL. I don't know if it's easy. You're more likely to get it. I feel like I just I feel like the entire game. I'm watching quarterbacks in the shotgun on fourth and 15. It's not for the 15, but you know what I mean? Like I want to preserve the kicking game because it just brings some variety to the sport quarterback in the shotgun throwing it 15 yards down the field happens all game long. I don't need to see another play like that. So I wish so. They had a way to figure out to keep the element of surprise. Is there a way I'm not looking for your calls on this, but you can send me an email. Is there a way to keep the current kickoff format? You know, this hybrid adjusted format and have a surprise onside kick. Is there a way to do it? Yeah. What if they turn the stadium lights off next? Go ahead. Next kick in the dock. That's what this is. Great. Number nine. Also for this year, the NFL passed a one time only rule that says the replay control center in New York can quote correct, clear and obvious mistakes made by on field officials that impact the game. Question. Should this be a permanent rule? I don't trust him with it in theory. Yes, but I don't trust him with it. The sky judge find the league office that's not there. No, I don't think so. Just pay the ref so they can do their job. How about that instead? Yes, it should be permanent. I like the idea of, uh, you know, clear and obvious. The one thing is I don't like the genesis of it that they're doing it in the year where the replacement reps are going to be on the field. It's one of the great sleaze bag moves of all time, but should it exist? Yes, should exist for all reps. Yeah, the reason it's happening is greasy. I'm with Maz on that. But look, accountability seems to be working with ABS and baseball. I want accountability in the NFL. Yes, you can just do it quickly and it's obvious and it's right in front of you. I Yeah, it should be permanent. Next. Masses, tears, tears, tears. Any of the rule changes you liked or didn't like anything they should have addressed, but didn't. I'm glad that we're done trying to ban the push push that that didn't even come up this year. It's a football play. I don't care what people say. It is a football play. You don't want teams to do it. Don't let him get in a third and short. Figure out ways to defend it. It's not automatic because the other teams can't run it. And it seems like now the Eagles suddenly can't do it and they needed to officiate it better, which they're doing now that they're doing that and teams actually learned how to defend it. Look at that. It's just like any other play. I'm glad we're finally leaving that stupid thing alone. This one's easy, but eliminating the kick out of bounds from the 50 yard line because teams were exploiting that. I'm glad they got rid of it. Well, they made that a touch back to the 20 not the 35. Yes. Yes. I mean, that was too, you know, that was way too easy for kicking teams to be able to do that. Simple loophole. Yeah, I they had to get rid of that. That team's exploited that they should have addressed the touch push. It is not a football play. It's a stupid rugby rugby play. Barth. I hate it. I'm sick of watching it. I hate the Eagles. They still do it better than anyone. Everyone else get rid of it. Oh, I hate it. So a few Barth. Here's one little thing that they did that I read. Thank you that I read that. I think it was Ben Voland wrote this and it's really small, but I really like it. This is the one thing I like that they did. I'll just read from his Sunday notes column. For fans of minutiae, the NFL is also going to implement a clock tweak that the league hopes will add two or three more plays each game. This specifically in the final two minutes of the first half and the final five minutes of the second half, the game clock stops anytime a ball carrier runs out of bounds outside of those times. The clock stops temporarily, then resets and restarts on the referee's whistle. Well, the competition committee, they looked at this and they said that the officials have been restarting the clock too soon with 37 or 38 seconds left on the play clock. This year, the referees will instruct to restart the game clock when the play clock hits 33 seconds. We were down to 149 plays per game and we prefer to be 153 to 155, said Rich McKay, who's on the competition committee. All we're saying here is the clock operator should not start it with the referee until we get to 33 seconds and we think that will give us about two plays back in the game. Does that all make sense to you? Yeah, yeah, totally. I'm all for more plays. Some of these games, I think are too quick. There's not enough plays. The clock runs too much. You know, I know people complain about college football being too long. I think NFL games often are too short and there's not enough plays and this is one little tweak. If I hope you followed that, when a runner goes out of bounds, the clock stops just temporarily, but then they start the game clock, what they're saying is a little too quickly. Let that breathe a little bit before you start the game clock and that's going to put a couple more plays back on the board. What's caused the decrease in plays? Completion percentage? No, well, this, well, this is one of the little things that they think that is that they're starting that clock too soon when they go out of bounds. All I know is they're trying to put more plays into the game, which is what I want. I hope that didn't give you a popsicle headache. Probably did next. Oh, that's repulsive. F you to the fans, F you to the players, zero to the reps, F you Barth. Number six, do you like the idea for Robert Kraft and apparently his fellow NFL owners on a ball? I think you missed one. Number seven, the NFL also announces week that the Monday night double headers will be eliminated. No more Monday night double headers and those games will instead be placed around the calendar, including unconventional slots like the Wednesday before Thanksgiving. So there were five such Monday night double headers last year. So expect five more random games in random spots this year. Do you like it? I like less double headers. I hated that thing defeats the whole point of because they're not really double headers. It's Oh, and by the way, games kicking off 15 minutes after you. The whole point of those prime time games is you're the only show on TV. That's what's great about them. But I said this with you guys a couple of weeks ago. I just know they're going to try to weasel in more weekday games. They're going to make things tougher on the players and lessen the product. I want to enjoy it because I hate those double headers, but I don't think it's heading anywhere good. I'd rather have the Monday night double header than then the random game floating around and like, you know, now I got to figure out when it's going to be. So like Wednesday, Friday, I just I say this with all the love in my heart. I love the sport. I don't want to watch it every day. One of the beauties of the NFL to me is that it's really two or three days. You can watch the whole league. You expand it to five. It becomes like baseball. Yeah, we're too far through the door, though. The scarcity of it is gone. So get rid of that stupid Monday night double double header. Good riddance to that thing. Next. Why are they? Fuck. Now, number six, do you like the idea for Robert Kraft and apparently his fellow NFL owners on a proposed schedule change? 18 games, two by weeks and one international game per year. I don't know about like come to terms with the question for me is what comes with this. Are they going to add an eighth playoff team to make those late season games more competitive? What was week 18 this year? Everybody was either in or out. It wasn't competitive. If they do that, is there and there goes the buy week for the playoffs. What does that mean for the top of the standings? How are the two buys going to be structured? Are we going to get some weird thing where a team has a buy week eight week 10? Like I fine. I get why they're going to 18 games and frankly, like 18 more than 17, even though 16 was perfect. I got to see the details on how they're going to do this though. Before I rubber stamp it. So look, we all knew this was coming at some point. The one thing I'll say that I like is if you're going to go 18, you got to have two buys. So I do like that part of it. But I mean, I was okay with where it was before. I'm okay with 17. I don't need an 18. I've accepted the 18 game schedule. It's going to come if you're going to do it have the two buys enough at the stupid international games enough. So I'm in on 18 games. I always have been as I've told you many times, I used to be a huge USFL fan. This is before your day, Barth. But I was just I know about the USF for some reason, like a nutty little USFL fan, but 18 games, everyone was fine. So I don't mind the 18 games at all. Here's my one question or reservation. So 18 games and two buy weeks. If we're going to keep the buy week between the AFC title games or the conference games and the Super Bowl, for example, do you know when the Super Bowl would come this year? If they did that this year, do you know when the Super Bowl would be? Let me answer February 28. Oh, wow. Wow. Wow. The buy week would be President's Day weekend. And the Super Bowl would be on February 28. So I just did it because again, 20 weeks in the regular season, right? 18 games, two buy weeks, that's 20 weeks. Then the regular playoff schedule, the buy week to the Super Bowl. I just counted out the Super Bowl on February 28. Is that too late? Yes. No, I could live with it. Nope. Nope. Because there's nothing going on in there. Anyway, February, unless unless there's Olympic hockey, February can F right off. As far as I'm concerned. No, you really kind of fill that gap. Yeah. So give it to me. Yeah. So don't pencil that in though, because some of the college football people have talked about their season starting a week earlier. F them. I don't care about those football. The rumor was they're doing that because they're here. The NFL might start a week earlier instead of pushing it back two weeks, put one week on the front end, one week on the back. NFL is not going to start on Labor Day. They changed that 20 years ago, how longer? 30. Yeah. They realized that's a, you know, for TV ratings, it's a black hole. Everyone's out barbecuing or whatever. So they know the NFL will not start on Labor Day. They're gonna start the week after Labor Day. So just pull out a calendar like I got and start the week after Labor Day, like they're doing this year and every year this year, opening day is September 13th. This year, the Super Bowl is going to be on President's weekend, just because the schedule, just because the calendar, the way the calendar lays out. But any given, you know, this year Labor Day is the seventh. So like the calendar sort of back this year for some reason, but opening days, September 13th, that would put this year's Super Bowl on February 28th. Are you ready for that? Next. No, they need to see it on the video screen to believe it. Well, this is, hold on. Frank, nervously farting or burping. It's weird. Toolbag question. In honor of the NFL owners meetings, give us the current biggest NFL toolbag owner. Oh, it's Sherry Jones. Sherry Jones. I'm going with Jimmy Haslam, who's actively talking up to Sean Watson, who just needs to go away at this point. Jerry Jones. Now that was quite the quote from Haslam. He's like he's one season away from going, what was it from like a failure to a great success or something like that? Jerry Jones. Jimmy next, please, if you could. No, they need to see it on the video screen to believe it. Well, this is, hold on. Frank, number four, Barthie and the crew predict the next quarterback to pull a Sam Donald, meaning resurrect their previously sucky career. Who was the next zombie quarterback? As Gasper would say, I got two for you. Mack Jones, Anthony Richardson, Anthony Richardson. No, did Anthony Richardson sign somewhere? He still hasn't been traded. There's that clip. Kevin O'Connell loves him. I just feel like he's going to end up in Minnesota in that offense with Justin Jefferson. And there's going to be enough around him that it'll, it'll work like with Sam Darnold in Seattle. He got it half right. Minnesota, Kyler Murray. Kyler Murray is the guy to watch and not because I like him, but Kevin O'Connell will get something out of that guy. Everybody will take the cheese and then they'll be hyper on Kyler Murray. Kyler Murray because Kevin O'Connell is the guy who started this in the first place by bringing Sam Darnold back from the dead. So why not with Kyler Murray who's got more talent physically next. He is. He's like a witch doctor. That guy kept Kevin O'Connell. Oh, that's repulsive. F you to the fans, F you to the players, zero and F you to the reps. F you. Number three thoughts on the Steelers, apparently keeping a seat open for Aaron Rodgers. Do they have a better option? They missed out on fray to see the draft sucks. I know he said he's going to decide before the draft, but even if he does, I don't like any of the picks for him like Ty Simpson. Come on. I don't love it, but I don't know that there's a better course of action. It's stupid and it's lazy. How many years are you going to do the same old thing and bring a veteran guy in and just take the oldest guy on the scrap heap and throw him into your offense? Much like to Sean Watson. Just go away at this point. Go away, Aaron Rodgers. It is so. I mean, lazy is a good word. It is just, I was going to say beneath them, but it's just the way they've handled that. Rodgers specifically, it's not just hanging on for like, it's bad enough. They're just stuck on this hamster wheel and apparently okay, just being stuck there going after old quarterbacks and stopgat quarterbacks. It's that a hole that organization killing a hole that guy. One thing I was like Joe Flacco, who seems like a good guy and a dedicated pro and like a stiff, right, but seems like a decent human being that brick. That's what you're going to put your whole franchise, hold your franchise hostage. It's a good point for this freaking piece of garbage. Good grief. What is wrong with them next? These grassy, which is what? Oh, this is great. Can you mention this video before? Widely circulated video of Mike Vrable working out a prospect on a recent pro day with two of them grappling, hand fighting, pretty good on a pass rush drill. You have to pick one, Barthi. Only one. Is that one? A useful scouting tool on the part of Vrable or two? A useless, hard-o showoff move. I think it's useful because you get an idea of how the player takes the coaching and how he handles, you know, that situation. It is hard-o. I'm not going to say it's not hard-o. I said pick one. I said pick one. Hard-o. Pick one. More useless than hard-o, but it is hard-o. No, useful. Hard-o. More useful than hard-o. You think that's useful? I think you learn about the guy when you get him in that situation. Ah, it's hard-o, it's hard-o. It's not the most useful thing. You learn what the guy helps. You learn about the guy from the film and when you're coaching him during practice. He still wants to play hard-o. You can only pick one, Barthi. Is that actually useful or a hard-o move? I think it's useful. Hard-o. Hard-o. I do like it. If I was a player, I would think it would be kind of cool. Because players are dumb. Toucher and hard-o. It is such a useless, hard-o move. Give me a break. Grappling with a 40, I don't care that he's an ex-player. How old is he? 50, I think. A 50-year-old man is going to tell you if he can take on Joe Alt coming off the edge or handle, oh, he's a tackle, right? Or handle some, one of these, stop it. Well, because you make adjustments. You see how he handles the coaching. It's not, if he just did one rep, hard-o. Spending time on it and seeing how he gets coached, I think is useful. Let me go get my hands on this guy and see what it feels like. Obviously compromised. Gotta get my hands on it. Patriots fans, if you saw Jim Harbaugh doing this, what would you say? What would you say? Gotta see if he can handle me. Stop it. Next. Barth, if you were trying to be an NFL player, this is a serious question. If you were trying to be an NFL player and you were trying out for an NFL team, if you had a pro day, the Alex Barth pro day, and you had to sell them on any one thing, physical, mental, film study, a drill, if you want a job in the league as a player, what would you have them test you on? What would be your number one most marketable NFL skill? Certainly not physical, right? So I have to go mental. So what would you do? Oh, what would I do? Yeah, probably like you saw in the offseason hard knocks, get on the board, drawing up plays, that kind of thing. I don't want them to see me moving around or anything like that. I think you do on the Wonder Look. I do on the Wonder Look. Okay, I'm not good at math. We already established that. So if there's math questions on there, I'm in trouble. So you on the whiteboard dies diagramming a play. Yeah. Locker room. I'd be a good locker room guy. No, I would. I'd show that at a pro day. No, he would. He'd come and he'd give everyone a nickname. Yeah, I'm a glue guy. Like Maz is the guy that stands by the cop here and hey, it's the bartender. Hey, that's actually a good one. I just don't show that at a pro. It's not a train. Pull it off. I'll find a way. I'm a cool guy. Now film study for me because I can retain information well, so I could watch film and then regurgitate it back to these coaches and make it act. I could act like I knew what the hell I was talking about. I suck at that. So two things for me. I have a lead hand. I'm not even making that up. I have a lead hand. I so put me on the jugs machine and just watch me snatch the ball. I'd represent. Okay, there. And number two, I played high school football. I was the backup long snapper and I know how to I can. I know exactly how to do it. And it's really not that hard of a skill. They can't touch you now. No one can line up over the long this like the easiest job in sports now. They can't hit you. They can't even line up over you. So it's really just a free. Yeah, it's a free throw. And I do some long snapping for him because I can actually still do that. So those are the two things I had been good at the three cone two now that I think I'm late as usual update them back to your phones. Don't go anywhere. Joe Haggerty here. If you were designing the perfect way to blow up a weight loss plan, my schedule would be a pretty good place to start. I'm in the car all the time running to rinks juggling two kids and hockey covering hockey myself. And half the time the day changes on me before it's even lunch, a few weeks into awaken 180, I'm down 20 pounds. That's real weight real fast. And the only reason this is working is because I'm not trying to figure it out on the fly anymore. Crazy thing is I'd probably be down 30 pounds, but had a couple slip ups early because of my hectic schedule. Big mistake. That's why I've never been able to do it before. Now I give my coach my schedule where I'm going, what's coming up. And he helps me plan for you unexpected last week, I was going out to dinner and he gave me the meal options before I even got there. That's what I need. Not guesswork, not willpower a real plan for real life. That's why awaken 180 is working for me. Let it work for you online at awaken 180 weight loss.com. That's awaken 180 weight loss.com. Christian and Wyndham on 31. Go ahead, Christian. Who do you expect to see who might not be a specific positional player, but just the best talent overall at 31. Caleb Banks is a defensive tackle from Florida. CJ Allen is a linebacker from Georgia. The manual McNeil Warren is a safety from Toledo. And then the wild card for me is Spencer Fanot from Utah. Don't you know why didn't you what you lead with Fanot Spencer Fanot like he's obvious. Some people have is a projected top 10 pick, but he has 32 inch arms as a tackle. So I don't know what that is. You don't like short F for no. Yes. Well, the league does Barthi offensive tackle Max Hini anchor. Do you want me to help me? I eat a hatching or a hatching or yeah max idiot. I listen to Hannah Chor Dante Corleone. Oh, good job. You want any guesses on his nickname? Dominique Orange. They call him big citrus. I like Blake Miller from Clemson and Max Ihanichor from Arizona State in that order. Max Ihanichor. So the number one riser for the Patriots and this can be that first round pick. It can be anywhere on the draft. Someone you just think fits wherever here in this selection process for the Patriots in the draft who's rising on the Alex Barthi big board and why I'm going to start off with Gabe Ackis from Illinois. He's an edge rusher. You got him Murray. I'm a big Ackis guy. Love a big Ackis. So it's spelled J A C A S. The word they keep using for their defense since Vrabel got here has been violence. He is one of the most violent players in this draft. It pops off the tape. What's his name? Gabe Ackis. J. Jack. Game Jackass. Number two riser Demetrius Crownover from Texas A&M. You got this guy. No. No. No. No. Crownover. Why have a crown when you can have a crown over crown Royal 36 inch arms by the way 36 inch arms on crown over Jacoby Thomas Miami. He's a safety Cornell Tate. He's going to be a top 10 pick Eli Stowers tight end from Vanderbilt are Mason Thomas are Mason Thomas. There it's just are it's just are Mason Thomas. No punctuation. So it's not are and then his last name is Mason Thomas are Mason Thomas army. Romelo. You got to be there. Romelo Heights the big one. George Gums from Florida would be another guy like that. Offensive tackle Isaiah World from Oregon. Markel Bell from Miami Jude Bowery from Boston College. I thought you guys might like that one. So this is just mine. It's why it's really a line of demarcation for me with a lot of things. If there's just too many names I just and I think listeners it's just whoosh and not the hardcore is the hardcore is the hardcore is but NFL draft is just name after name after name after name Western Conference Hockey NCAA tournament four million schools with 14,000 names that people are just not going to keep track of. I'm a reader. I read books and I read fiction books. I'm reading fiction books. I do reading one now when they have too many characters. I know they're hard to keep track of. I'm like I forgot who that is. Would you tell me who that is again please. I like the books out of a glossary and back that you know will sometimes they'll give you the names and back and I can go look up who this is again. And if you've and if you've thrown too many names and too many characters at me me. I'm going to kind of lose track. So when you come back to a character tell me that he's the plumber or the cop or the nurse so I can remember who that is or give me a glossary and back of the book. See a good writer would do that. You know what I mean. Of course. And it's like if you just I don't exactly what you mean this a fluvium. This just this deluge of names. I just it's and it's so dorky. I love you Barthi more than anything. It's just so often dorky. It is. It's dorky not nerdy as long as you understand the difference. What is the difference. Nerds are smart. dorky is more just like be nerds is like math. And nerds is the analytics. OK. Which are dumb. Dorks is just being obsessed with something. I think it's also important to know if you are a dork or a nerd and you make fun of yourself as such then you become just a little less dorky or nerdy a little more likeable. The worst is the nerd that is defensive and gets angry when you challenge the angry nerd the theorems and doesn't understand he's a nerd. You know you paid you played Dungeon and Dragons Dungeons and Dragons and you make fun of yourself over it. OK. That's that brings you one step out of the Dungeons and Dragons nerd dork. I know I'm a dork. OK. But the draft stuff I just those names I can't remember a single one except for the jackass. You remember that one. Yeah. But don't look at it. And again I would say especially in this market if we worked in Tallahassee or something it might be a little different who the hell knows any college football guys up here other than Gasper and Barth like those two. And exactly. And I stand by we just don't follow other players on other hockey teams. Never mind those in Edmonton. We just don't. But anyway a couple of follow ups on what we're just talking about with the rule changes. Yeah. Jason writes and I also keep hearing that with the 18 games and two buys that no player will play more than 17 games. Does that mean you have to sit your QB one for one of your games. Dork. Oh my gosh. Don't say QB one. Say starting quarterback. You've just exposed yourself as some sort of fantasy dork who probably doesn't even know it. Anyway if so that sucks for fans who buy tickets for the game and the quarterback sits not for injury but because of this rule. Jason and Malden. So that's something that was proposed like if you go to more games every player has to sit out at least one or two most proposals of that rule have an exception for quarterbacks. I think quarterbacks don't need to sit that one extra game. No the court. I think you know I'm not saying that they're not football players but obviously the wear and tear is not near on them. That is another position. But I still would hate that rule. Why. Oh for that reason because you built no because you build the team because you build the team to go play. Oh no we're adding more games now you don't get to have your full team every week. And what's going to happen is you're going to have a bunch of bad teams that just sit players early because they want to tank and then well now we're out of it so we're going to rest these guys or the opposite. Let the players play. Let the players play. I'm all for player safety but that's a dumb rule. That's not the way to go about it by any means. Bart thanks for coming in. It was a great pleasure for us. Always a pleasure Alex. I enjoy it believe it or not. I do enjoy it. I do. It gets berated for two straight hours. I mean it really does help my mental state. It's like you know you got to take your crap out on someone. Usually it's just the show but Barthes is a little more direct like it's you can really he's right there. The dork pinata nerd. No dork dork. Don't call me a nerd. I'm a dork. I know that. Don't call me a nerd. I thought you said nerds were smart. Well nerds. Well nerds is like math analytics stuff that's more that realm because I don't like analytics. I'm not an analytics guy. He sucks at math and you call the analytics. The analytics is the nerds. Oh I don't want to be a part of that group. I'm doing my own thing over here. It's very dorky but it's over here in separate and Barthee there's bonus felger time for you today. Big there is Barth will be doing the off air show with me starting at six o'clock. So oh that's going to be smart. I apologize. You deserve like a hazard pay today but anyway Barth will join us in an hour over on the off air show. Meanwhile when we come back talk about masses Boston Red Sox. I can be a ball. Hey. How do you feel about your Boston Red Sox coming home at one in five. The real post game show. The real Red Sox post game show comes your way next at 6177790985.