Jalen Rose describes to David Jacoby the roles of every member of an athlete's entourage and explains exactly what happens when an athlete goes to a nightclub.
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1. DENARD
There’s a reason He is here, and that’s because He is an extraterrestrial being sent down to usher us into the future. I mean, His middle initial is X! Is that not enough proof for you? Remember that Twilight Zone episode when the kindly old traveling salesman comes upon a washed-up baseball player in a tavern that suspiciously resembles every tavern in every Twilight Zone episode ever, and the salesman offers him a bus ticket to Scranton, Pa., and then moments later, a phone rings and the baseball player has a job offer in Scranton? That’s Denard. He’s carrying our bus ticket to Scranton. He’s the harbinger of where football is headed, even if we don’t yet realize it, even if He may not be there to lead us.
After being briefly imprisoned for destroying his living room and threatening his neighbors after Sunday night's Cowboys loss, we posted bail for Cousin Sal in time for us to play one of America's 750 favorite running podcast gimmicks: "Guess the Weekly NFL Lines."
Sal kicked my butt in Week 1; could I rally back for Week 2? We also discussed things like, "Are there any teams we can write off after Week 1?" and "Can Tom Brady walk on water?" And Sal played an embarrassing voicemail that I apparently left him from the future.
After that, TV critic Alan Sepinwall joined me to wrap up Season Hate- er, 8 of Entourage, rehash the brilliant second season of Louie and figure out if there are any new fall TV shows that excite us. (The answer: Not really.) We both agreed on one thing: That we can live the rest of our lives happily knowing that Turtle finally has something for himself.
