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00:00Mike Schopen, the Bulldog, at Seneca Buffalo Creek Casino today,
00:05promoting their upcoming football survivor contest.
00:11I mean, I'm such an easy mark.
00:15I entered twice just now.
00:18I gave him my number, my email, my birthday, the signature, my player's card.
00:24You found an ATM.
00:25I found a working ATM, and I'm ready to go.
00:30And I entered twice.
00:31You can enter five times.
00:33I mean, I'm not a sicko.
00:37No.
00:38Please tell me you agree.
00:40I'm not a sicko.
00:40No, I think you need to get to the limit.
00:46Or be mad that you can only enter five times.
00:49That would be sicko behavior.
00:51Like you're in here raising, you've got enough to enter ten times.
00:56You've come here with that money, and you want to do that,
00:59and they tell you you can only enter five times, and you insist on seeing the manager.
01:05And then the manager, Tony, says, I am the manager.
01:08And you say, okay, I want to see your manager.
01:11And you're just in here yelling.
01:13That's sick.
01:13That'd be sicko behavior, I'd say.
01:15Well, you know, you come in with a friend, and you each enter five times.
01:19And now you're at ten.
01:21I'm sure there will be plenty of that.
01:23I'm on my own.
01:24I entered twice.
01:25And I am so ready to dive in to week one.
01:29We already have picks in, by the way, for week one from like a month ago.
01:33At least.
01:34We do.
01:34When the schedule came out.
01:35Yes.
01:36You picked Chicago.
01:38I did.
01:39Yes.
01:40Minus two and a half, I think it was, at Carolina.
01:42Oh, the closing line value for Bulldog just continues to shoot up with this injury today.
01:48What a gift.
01:48I mean, just you were right on time with that.
01:50Yeah.
01:51And I'm on Atlanta.
01:53Why?
01:55At Pittsburgh.
01:56Well, unless somebody's keeping track of these things.
01:58Plus two and a half.
01:59By someone, I mean you.
02:00That's good.
02:01Maybe tomorrow we make one more.
02:02I believe you.
02:03It's Friday.
02:03I remember doing this now.
02:06We each locked in one pick.
02:08Yeah.
02:09For week one.
02:11You know, that clip that we just heard, Joe Marino talking about Coleman.
02:16Yeah.
02:17I think it might be interesting, maybe even informative.
02:23It also could be a mistake to pay any attention to it.
02:28But, like, Joe's talking about there some of what goes through my mind when he's talking about, like, you know,
02:33camp highlights and everybody's raving about him is the plays that the team Twitter account sends out.
02:42Like, highlights of.
02:43And there was a lot of that with Coleman.
02:45Enough to.
02:47It felt like an effort.
02:49Like, let's establish that this guy, we want our fans, who's watching Bill's Twitter?
02:55Bill's fans.
02:56Yes.
02:57If not people around the NFL, too.
02:59But, yeah, Bill's fans.
03:00That's who you're trying to appeal to.
03:04So, we want Bill's fans to see, look, Coleman is, he's going to be good.
03:09They're looking for validation there.
03:11It's going to work.
03:12Let's get optimistic about Keon Coleman after a, you know, uneven at best rookie year.
03:18I wonder if that will be the same.
03:22You know, like, if this year's training camp comes and it's next Wednesday or Thursday and they're on the field
03:28and if I'm getting super slow-mo highlights of Keon Coleman in the corner of the end zone making a
03:35one-handed catch.
03:36Well, it's wild to me how maybe relevant that is.
03:45Because, I mean, I'm gullible.
03:47So, when I hear on our morning show last week that the Winnipeg Jets have tweeted their opening night tweet,
03:56fill the building, whatever, and Connor Hellebuck is not in the picture, that that means something.
04:02Follow up on that.
04:03Did you see Sneaky Joe today?
04:04The Jets had some fun with LeBron James yesterday.
04:07Yes.
04:07And so, Joe quote tweeted that with, tweets including LeBron James from the Winnipeg Jets.
04:13One, Connor Hellebuck, still zero.
04:16Sounds like Joe.
04:17Right.
04:17Clever.
04:18So, yeah, I mean, I wonder if they'll be in the, it might be noticeable if there aren't any highlights.
04:25And, like, we're talking to Seth, like, well, Keon Coleman made a great play today over the middle.
04:28La-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da.
04:30Where is it, Bill?
04:31And we don't see it.
04:32Because, like, I wonder, like, Joe Marino, who, again, we heard that clip already five minutes ago,
04:38you know, is, you know, telling you there, like, you know, they're pushing him and, you know, that kind of
04:45thing.
04:46And I just wonder if that'll be status quo or if that's just whoever makes a good play, it gets
04:52on there.
04:53You know, that's how maybe you think it should work.
04:56But I feel like there's always some – I felt like there was a concerted effort last year to let
05:00us know
05:01or try to make us know or make us think, oh, yeah, it's coming up.
05:06I bought it.
05:07One of the reasons I'm making this point is, like, I fell for it.
05:10If I fell for it.
05:11Like, it was some, you know, suspicious plan or something.
05:16Yeah, right.
05:16You know, I might be completely –
05:18It wasn't the Kennedy assassination.
05:19It might just be some 20-year-old intern out there just shooting whatever.
05:22Like, look, I got a good shot of Coleman.
05:23Like, okay, that's great.
05:24Put it out there.
05:25Well, this – I really should know something about that.
05:31Not that it would be the same on every team because, like, there's a couple things I wish I had
05:36more access to.
05:37I don't need to talk to players.
05:39You know, I don't long for that.
05:41I don't wish for that at all.
05:42I'd love to be in a draft room, even if it's just, like, private because it would have to be
05:47what are they talking about?
05:51What is the stuff they never want out?
05:53Right?
05:53So, I'd love that.
05:55And then also, this is on a lower scale, but wouldn't you kind of love to know what the limits
06:01are or what the directives might be to the person who runs the Twitter account?
06:07Like, is it completely random if John Smith, who runs the Twitter account, uses a Coleman highlight, can he just
06:16do that and nobody says it doesn't mean anything?
06:20Because in the world now, we do kind of wonder if that means something.
06:24Like, whenever good or bad, whether it's you or whether it's not you, like, we're often attaching some sort of
06:32importance to that.
06:33There almost has to be some plan with how often are you giving me Josh Allen?
06:42Like, they should want to do that every hour and the hour if they have enough highlights, right?
06:48You should want to look at what Josh, even the goofy handshake stuff.
06:52Like, I don't think that's by accident.
06:55Like, Josh Allen's on your team.
06:56You should make sure that you're highlighting that as often as you can to the point of almost maybe making
07:03your fans sick of it.
07:04But that's what you should do.
07:06And so...
07:07The Chiefs do that.
07:08Right.
07:08So I think that that's true, probably true.
07:13I would believe it to be true.
07:14And so if that's the case, then there would, I think, be guardrails the other way, too.
07:21Right?
07:21Like, not overdoing it with someone who...
07:25Because a part of this, I lost the plot in the middle of what I wanted to say about Marino.
07:29Because at the end there, he talks about Brady, what Brady said to try to offset what Pagoula, how Pagoula
07:35sounded about him at the news conference.
07:36And I have never for one second wanted to take that seriously.
07:40That Joe Brady says, the best thing that's ever happened to you is that I'm your head coach now.
07:45I feel like that's just what you do when you're trying to not absolutely, completely torpedo a guy's value.
07:55So we'll see.
07:57That's why I'm even bringing it up.
07:58I think if they want to put him out front again like they did last summer, that might be telling.
08:05And if they don't, that also might be.
08:07Might be.
08:07I'm only saying might be because I don't know.
08:09This whole thing could be just a house of cards.
08:12I think what you're saying is it's possible that the hidden messages from the Twitter person at the Bills is
08:22more meaningful than what Joe Brady says in public.
08:25Yeah.
08:26Yeah.
08:27Which I kind of love that.
08:29I mean, if you use the Winnipeg example, is it a coincidence?
08:34Is somebody in the Winnipeg Jets, what could that position pay?
08:40Is somebody in charge of the Winnipeg Jets Twitter deciding for him or herself to not use Connor Hellebuck in
08:48a graphic?
08:49No way.
08:49No way.
08:50The GM has told someone under the GM, and that person went and told the Twitter person, hey, don't post
08:57anything with Hellebuck.
08:58Well, that makes that person in charge of the account exactly where does he or she rank in the hierarchy
09:07of the organization.
09:08Like third?
09:10I mean, how many people?
09:12It could just be, and it probably is only, we don't know.
09:15So, okay, let's say the GM or his assistant and the Twitter person have a conversation like that.
09:23You're saying, you assume that they have.
09:25In Hellebuck's case, I think absolutely.
09:27Okay.
09:27So, they have this conversation.
09:29Look, we don't know if he's going to be here.
09:32Maybe it's a general rule.
09:33Let's only use guys we know are going to be here.
09:35Well, I have SpotTrack.
09:37I can see the list.
09:38Well, you know, Hellebuck has a contract, but we're saying no to him.
09:42So, we've got this sort of list, right?
09:48And only players from this list can be in the graphic.
09:50You do the rest.
09:52Well, how many people in the organization have had the same access to that?
09:56Do the scouts know that?
09:58Does the head coach know that?
10:02Who's the head coach of the Winnipeg Jets?
10:04Scott Arneal?
10:05I would say the coach knows.
10:06So, all right.
10:08Do the players?
10:10I mean, whether the coach knows that the Twitter person has been told not to highlight Conor Hellebuck, I don't
10:16know.
10:16But the coach knows that Hellebuck's existence as a Winnipeg Jet is in peril.
10:21Right.
10:21So, that's the point.
10:24The coach has, or rather the GM, has a school of thought on whether, in this case, Conor Hellebuck will
10:32be back.
10:33Will be on the team.
10:34And some, I mean, the interns don't sit in those meetings.
10:39Who doesn't sit in all the marketing people, do they?
10:42Does the head of, is that somebody, I mean, I'm just asking, is that somebody who rates?
10:47And, you know, you're trying to sell tickets?
10:49Well, we don't know if he's going to be here.
10:51Like, that's all really fascinating to me.
10:56How many people are privy to just the giving credibility to the speculation that, yeah, we're talking with teams.
11:06We're talking with Buffalo.
11:06Like, it might happen.
11:08He wants to leave.
11:10It's good stuff.
11:12803-0550 to join us.
11:13We're at Seneca Buffalo Creek Casino today.
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