Relatively Speaking Podcast

The Relatively Speaking Podcast is here to help you come down from a post-debate world. Honestly, just ignore the inevitable zombie invasion that is lurking around the corner, and instead listen to two not-yet-zombies discuss the realm of sports.

After Jared went 5-0 in his NFL picks over the weekend, he would like to declare himself champion of the world. When he is done gloating about his awesomeness, the guys move on to a different sort of greatness, which happens to be one Mr. Tom Brady.

Brady returned to the New England Patriots on Sunday and looked every bit as great as one would expect.

Other NFL thoughts discussed on the podcast this week are:

Vikings and Sam Bradford.

Dak Prescott and the Cowboys.

The Texans having the worst QB since ever.

Are the Eagles still good?

Rex Ryan is a genius again?

And other stuff.

Did you know David Price is a good postseason pitcher? No? Well, neither did the Relatively Speaking Podcast co-hosts. It is why this week's Bad Tweet segment is dedicated to a person who believes a historically awful playoff pitcher was brought to Boston for his ability to be a good playoff pitcher.

Absurd Questions are patently absurd this week. Joseph makes some weird Batman-to-politics allegory, while calling out Jared's friend as a serial killer, and Jared wants to know about toppings on pizza.

You can find both of the hosts on Twitter. Where on those mean streets? Well, it is complicated. We are sick of catering to lazy millennials, so now you must find them like a game of Where's Waldo.

The Relatively Speaking Podcast is here to help you come down from a post-debate world. Honestly, just ignore the inevitable zombie invasion that is lurking around the corner, and instead listen to two not-yet-zombies discuss the realm of sports.

After Jared went 5-0 in his NFL picks over the weekend, he would like to declare himself champion of the world. When he is done gloating about his awesomeness, the guys move on to a different sort of greatness, which happens to be one Mr. Tom Brady.

Brady returned to the New England Patriots on Sunday and looked every bit as great as one would expect.

Other NFL thoughts discussed on the podcast this week are:

Vikings and Sam Bradford.

Dak Prescott and the Cowboys.

The Texans having the worst QB since ever.

Are the Eagles still good?

Rex Ryan is a genius again?

And other stuff.

Did you know David Price is a good postseason pitcher? No? Well, neither did the Relatively Speaking Podcast co-hosts. It is why this week's Bad Tweet segment is dedicated to a person who believes a historically awful playoff pitcher was brought to Boston for his ability to be a good playoff pitcher.

Absurd Questions are patently absurd this week. Joseph makes some weird Batman-to-politics allegory, while calling out Jared's friend as a serial killer, and Jared wants to know about toppings on pizza.

You can find both of the hosts on Twitter. Where on those mean streets? Well, it is complicated. We are sick of catering to lazy millennials, so now you must find them like a game of Where's Waldo.

The Relatively Speaking Podcast is back to help you ease into your weekend. Luckily for those who like the shooty-hoops, Jared and Joseph now have the ability to talk -- wait for it -- preseason NBA!

What are the guys' biggest takes from the preseason so far? Joseph loves himself some Domantas Sabonis, Jared thinks the New York Knicks (still very much) stink, and the duo agree that the Golden State Warriors do indeed look like all that and a bag of chips.

The NFL also gets discussed this week. What is going on with the San Francisco 49ers? Jared and Joseph have theories!

Fan-favorite segment, That Don't Look Good, returns this week to discuss all the Odell Beckham Jr. hot-takes. Basically, it is apparently OK to play with a lot of emotion and fire... unless you play the receiver position.

Week five NFL picks:

Patriots at Browns

Texans at Vikings

Eagles at Lions

Falcons at Broncos

Giants at Packers

Things On Our Mind isn't a jokey segment this week. Jared and Joseph would simply like to offer their thoughts to the people who are dealing with the hurricane this weekend.

Also, Jared has finally started to watch Stranger Things. He agreed with Joseph on all his comparisons to the Goonies and old Stephen King mini-series he has been making over the last month or two. Exciting stuff, to be honest.

You can follow Jared on the mean streets of Twitter @JMintzHoops.

You can do the same with your good old pal Joey @JosephNardone.

The Relatively Speaking Podcast is back to help you ease into your weekend. Luckily for those who like the shooty-hoops, Jared and Joseph now have the ability to talk -- wait for it -- preseason NBA!

What are the guys' biggest takes from the preseason so far? Joseph loves himself some Domantas Sabonis, Jared thinks the New York Knicks (still very much) stink, and the duo agree that the Golden State Warriors do indeed look like all that and a bag of chips.

The NFL also gets discussed this week. What is going on with the San Francisco 49ers? Jared and Joseph have theories!

Fan-favorite segment, That Don't Look Good, returns this week to discuss all the Odell Beckham Jr. hot-takes. Basically, it is apparently OK to play with a lot of emotion and fire... unless you play the receiver position.

Week five NFL picks:

Patriots at Browns

Texans at Vikings

Eagles at Lions

Falcons at Broncos

Giants at Packers

Things On Our Mind isn't a jokey segment this week. Jared and Joseph would simply like to offer their thoughts to the people who are dealing with the hurricane this weekend.

Also, Jared has finally started to watch Stranger Things. He agreed with Joseph on all his comparisons to the Goonies and old Stephen King mini-series he has been making over the last month or two. Exciting stuff, to be honest.

You can follow Jared on the mean streets of Twitter @JMintzHoops.

You can do the same with your good old pal Joey @JosephNardone.

The St. John's Red Storm are in a weird phase of its sixth-ish rebuild since the Lou Carnesecca came to an end in 1992. Chris Mullin is entering what will only be his second year (ever) coaching a basketball team, the squad remains disturbingly young, and the annual potential awakening of this New York sleeping giant always appears to prefer to hit the snooze button.

What's a dark horse anyway?

That's an important question to ask. In Today's U series of Major Conference Dark Horses, certain teams like Kentucky or Duke or Xavier, obviously need not apply. Nor do teams with an overwhelming surplus of hype. After all, how can the horse be in the shadows if everyone -- as well as their respective mothers -- is pounding their chest, screaming about how awesome that team will be.

This makes this practice inherently odd. One must find a team who is a combination of not expecting to do well, with rather low expectations, but has the potential do magically find its way to the glorious land of over-achievement. This is where the Red Storm comes into play, as the aforementioned youth, which can be somewhat tied to the idea of potential, gives them a puncher's chance to knockout destiny.

Don't get it wrong, however. The Johnnies enter the season a broken, flawed, and riddle with more questions than answers type of team.

St. John's returns several key players of consequence. That's the good news. That bad, well, those important pieces to last season's squad only managed to win a grand total of eight collegiate basketball games. For those even inept in the math department, that is less than ideal.

Still, those less than ideal players from a previously abominable team have potential. Each of them, with presumed growth, can help turn the Red Storm around.

There's Federico Mussini. An irresponsibly confident player. The kind who is crazy fun to watch when playing well, but makes fans sick to their tummies whenever he hurls a 30-foot bomb.

Mussini is an inefficient guard. As

The St. John's Red Storm are in a weird phase of its sixth-ish rebuild since the Lou Carnesecca came to an end in 1992. Chris Mullin is entering what will only be his second year (ever) coaching a basketball team, the squad remains disturbingly young, and the annual potential awakening of this New York sleeping giant always appears to prefer to hit the snooze button.

What's a dark horse anyway?

That's an important question to ask. In Today's U series of Major Conference Dark Horses, certain teams like Kentucky or Duke or Xavier, obviously need not apply. Nor do teams with an overwhelming surplus of hype. After all, how can the horse be in the shadows if everyone -- as well as their respective mothers -- is pounding their chest, screaming about how awesome that team will be.

This makes this practice inherently odd. One must find a team who is a combination of not expecting to do well, with rather low expectations, but has the potential do magically find its way to the glorious land of over-achievement. This is where the Red Storm comes into play, as the aforementioned youth, which can be somewhat tied to the idea of potential, gives them a puncher's chance to knockout destiny.

Don't get it wrong, however. The Johnnies enter the season a broken, flawed, and riddle with more questions than answers type of team.

St. John's returns several key players of consequence. That's the good news. That bad, well, those important pieces to last season's squad only managed to win a grand total of eight collegiate basketball games. For those even inept in the math department, that is less than ideal.

Still, those less than ideal players from a previously abominable team have potential. Each of them, with presumed growth, can help turn the Red Storm around.

There's Federico Mussini. An irresponsibly confident player. The kind who is crazy fun to watch when playing well, but makes fans sick to their tummies whenever he hurls a 30-foot bomb.

Mussini is an inefficient guard. As

The Relatively Speaking Podcast is here to take you to the deepest parts of space. No. For real. Jared has a plan to join Elon Musk, and take us to Mars. As for Joseph, he just wants to know if he were to go there to be one of the first people to live on the planet, if he can then say "I am the best sportswriter on the planet."

Anyway, Josh Gordon has entered rehab. While the timing of it, especially considering he is soon to come off suspension, is less than ideal, both of the hosts agree that it is far more important for Gordon to get mentally and physically healthy than it is to catch a football for an awful football team.

NFL picks are back again this week. Joseph and Jared are 9-3 each -- which means, basically, you are rich if you listen to them speak on a sport they barely know... We are kidding obviously, as Joseph might as well be the offensive coordinator for the Oakland Raiders.

This week's games:

Bills at Patriots

Browns at Redskins

Titans at Texans

Seahawks at Jets

Chiefs at Steelers

That Don't Look Good returns this week. Obviously, it means something in the world of sports isn't looking so swell from an optics standpoint. Listen to find out what it is this week.

Jared also educates us on his ineptness as a human. He can't feed himself when his fiance is outside the house. Not because he is incapable of cooking, but he needs to be told what to eat. What a bum, in my humble opinion.

Other sports stuff inside, too.

Follow them on Twitter. You need to work for it, though, as we won't make it so easy for you by plugging it at the end of these here podcast posts that no one reads.

The Relatively Speaking Podcast is here to take you to the deepest parts of space. No. For real. Jared has a plan to join Elon Musk, and take us to Mars. As for Joseph, he just wants to know if he were to go there to be one of the first people to live on the planet, if he can then say "I am the best sportswriter on the planet."

Anyway, Josh Gordon has entered rehab. While the timing of it, especially considering he is soon to come off suspension, is less than ideal, both of the hosts agree that it is far more important for Gordon to get mentally and physically healthy than it is to catch a football for an awful football team.

NFL picks are back again this week. Joseph and Jared are 9-3 each -- which means, basically, you are rich if you listen to them speak on a sport they barely know... We are kidding obviously, as Joseph might as well be the offensive coordinator for the Oakland Raiders.

This week's games:

Bills at Patriots

Browns at Redskins

Titans at Texans

Seahawks at Jets

Chiefs at Steelers

That Don't Look Good returns this week. Obviously, it means something in the world of sports isn't looking so swell from an optics standpoint. Listen to find out what it is this week.

Jared also educates us on his ineptness as a human. He can't feed himself when his fiance is outside the house. Not because he is incapable of cooking, but he needs to be told what to eat. What a bum, in my humble opinion.

Other sports stuff inside, too.

Follow them on Twitter. You need to work for it, though, as we won't make it so easy for you by plugging it at the end of these here podcast posts that no one reads.

It is Monday. Do you know what that means? Well, outside of the fact that you have five full days of sitting next to that jerk in the cubicle next to you, it also means the Relatively Speaking Podcast is back refreshed from a weekend of resting on its laurels.

After starting the show to remember the lives of two of sports' recently deceased athletes, the discussion turns into other somber -- but not that somber -- turn of events in sports.

Les Miles was fired from LSU. What's next for the program? Both Joseph and Jared agree that the Tigers aren't going to get a better coach than the man who eats grass.

Paul Pierce is coming back for another NBA season, but he stinks.

Chris Bosh is unlikely to ever play another game in the NBA due to blood clotting. This is sad, but it is important people realize that him playing basketball is not worth the very real risk of him dying.

Joseph and Jared also send out heartfelt apologies to Trevor Siemian, who they said was the worst quarterback in the NFL. Using hindsight, we now know that the honor should have gone to Ryan SixPicktrick.

Other NFL news and happenings are discussed. It is well worth your valuable time to hear the guys' hot-takes. One of them includes the decision to play a wide receiver at quarterback.

Bad Tweets is about John Elway and small sample sizes.

As for Absurd Questions: Your life will forever be changed after listening to that segment. Slight hyperbole, it is worth noting, might apply to that statement.

You can follow the guys on Twitter, but only if you search for them.

It is Monday. Do you know what that means? Well, outside of the fact that you have five full days of sitting next to that jerk in the cubicle next to you, it also means the Relatively Speaking Podcast is back refreshed from a weekend of resting on its laurels.

After starting the show to remember the lives of two of sports' recently deceased athletes, the discussion turns into other somber -- but not that somber -- turn of events in sports.

Les Miles was fired from LSU. What's next for the program? Both Joseph and Jared agree that the Tigers aren't going to get a better coach than the man who eats grass.

Paul Pierce is coming back for another NBA season, but he stinks.

Chris Bosh is unlikely to ever play another game in the NBA due to blood clotting. This is sad, but it is important people realize that him playing basketball is not worth the very real risk of him dying.

Joseph and Jared also send out heartfelt apologies to Trevor Siemian, who they said was the worst quarterback in the NFL. Using hindsight, we now know that the honor should have gone to Ryan SixPicktrick.

Other NFL news and happenings are discussed. It is well worth your valuable time to hear the guys' hot-takes. One of them includes the decision to play a wide receiver at quarterback.

Bad Tweets is about John Elway and small sample sizes.

As for Absurd Questions: Your life will forever be changed after listening to that segment. Slight hyperbole, it is worth noting, might apply to that statement.

You can follow the guys on Twitter, but only if you search for them.