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Steve Palazolo is a co-host of Check the Mike who does consulting work for various teams across professional and college football.

He previously worked for PFF for well over a decade.

He's an East Coast dad, a former professional baseball player, and he's almost definitely taller than you are.

These are his late-round perspectives.

I saw our Twitter DMs went back to at least 2015,

so I'm assuming maybe slightly before that, various interactions. So it's been like a decade at least, right? And this is the first show that we've done together, I think. It is. Yeah. So a long time coming. This is a big one. I know, man. Very rarely, though, too, do I meet? Because we got to meet each other IRL at the Super Bowl at Radio Row this year and I

knew you were tall but like you were like another it's like when you go there and you're walking by

and like Derek Henry walks by and you're like oh wow he's even bigger the one that got me this year

was Cam Hayward like he oh yeah like you know that he's massive but i guess because they're down a lot right

like like ready and like you don't and then you think to yourself like how can an offensive

lineman possibly like how can another human possibly block this man right like that was the

but then i saw you and i'm like you're even bigger than i thought you would be and i get that a lot

it's funny because a co-host sam and I talk about this all the time.

Like when you're on Radio Row and you see Ryan Leaf walk by or when we've been around guys like Boomer Ossison, it's like I kind of get why NFL teams get swayed by the in person. Like this guy looks like an NFL QB and then like Bryce Young rolls in or whatever. It's like, I kind of get why they get influenced a little bit by that, even though I don't think it's smart overall.

That was, yeah, exactly. That was my, because like I've always been comped physically to Joe Flacco, like jokingly. Like people always just say, and it's really just like the thick eyebrows and the hair. And we also went through a very similar timeline journey-wise of like a glow-up,

if you will. Like we, neither of us cared about our looks in our 20s. And then, you know, we started to care more as we got married and started having families and like had to start, you know, you have to start caring a little bit as you get older and stuff. And, uh, I got a picture with him at Radio Road just for

for the memes, right?

Yeah, that's great. And like got a picture with him at Radio Row just for the memes, right? Yeah. That's great.

And like, that's a perfect example where you're like, oh my God. Like I'm six, I'm not like short. I'm six one, you know. And Flacco's standing there. I'm like, this guy is gigantic. He's huge. Yeah.

It's crazy.

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