*The Joe K NSFL Podcast #20!

[JKortesi81]

RE: Logos

1. New Python best Python. I'm sorry if you have a bad perspective on it, but the new logo is so much cooler and more meaningful and representative. I didn't want it to be such a polarizing thing in the league, but here we are, don't worry about sharing your opinion on it whatever it is, I can take it. We've got one of the coolest brands in the team now, and I still have plenty of "style."

2. I've heard a lot of people continue to talk about the money pot for the Portland contest, so I'll continue to say this: Portland as a team had no control over the pot for the contest. If I HO or the rules would have allowed me, I'd have paid $40+ million out of my own account for the contest, but that just wasn't allowed.

3. We took the white, orange, and green team first, step the hell off buddy.

Anyways, I knew that not everyone was going to love whatever new branding we came out with but hey, I won't be in this league forever, so hopefully whoever comes after me can fix most of my fuck-ups. Keep the heat coming.

This feels like an aggressive response, and that's not the avenue i want to take with it. Let's clear up a few things that I should've said better on the pod, but i didn't.

1. I took a longer look at everything, and I'll say that the issue i have isn't with your meaningfulness. The 4 pointed logo/compass is awesome, and it means something for the city. My issue is only with the python itself. It just looks "incomplete". It's simply because the snake is just white. I mean, you have the Python "green" as the outline, what does it look like flipped? And even if you wanted a white snake (HERE I GO AGAIN ON MY OWNNN), pythons have such cool markings that you could've had incorporated those to make it pop a little more. Maybe you tried that it looked like shit, i dont know. But from someone who wasn't directly involved in the process (97% of the league), it looks like the logo wasn't like, finished. Which is where it looks like soft serve vanilla ice cream. I was a Python before i was anything else in this league, so i'm not shitting on you just to do it. It's just because i really revere this franchise i want the best for it. I'll hopefully be wearing this logo in about 4-5 seasons.

2. To be honest, i didn't know there was a money pot for you guys. I didn't even know there was a Portland contest, because my life has been so busy. What I was referring to was that I personally wanted to do this like a season and half ago for Austin, and it's still on the To Do board in the war room. I hear you, i wish you could've gave out the 40 million too. Logos are a BIG DEAL and deserve to be treated as such.

3. So mad about it, but i don't think i'd use the orange anyway if i went Jade/White or Silver. it's a good look. But luckily, you're just a DSFL team, so the big league teams can do whatever they want :-D lolol.

Anyway, i'm sorry if you were real life mad about anything, i didn't want to piss you off directly.

[JKortesi81]

Another great listen. <3

Did my response to your agent question make sense?

[qWest]

This feels like an aggressive response, and that's not the avenue i want to take with it. Let's clear up a few things that I should've said better on the pod, but i didn't.

1. I took a longer look at everything, and I'll say that the issue i have isn't with your meaningfulness. The 4 pointed logo/compass is awesome, and it means something for the city. My issue is only with the python itself. It just looks "incomplete". It's simply because the snake is just white. I mean, you have the Python "green" as the outline, what does it look like flipped? And even if you wanted a white snake (HERE I GO AGAIN ON MY OWNNN), pythons have such cool markings that you could've had incorporated those to make it pop a little more. Maybe you tried that it looked like shit, i dont know. But from someone who wasn't directly involved in the process (97% of the league), it looks like the logo wasn't like, finished. Which is where it looks like soft serve vanilla ice cream. I was a Python before i was anything else in this league, so i'm not shitting on you just to do it. It's just because i really revere this franchise i want the best for it. I'll hopefully be wearing this logo in about 4-5 seasons.

2. To be honest, i didn't know there was a money pot for you guys. I didn't even know there was a Portland contest, because my life has been so busy. What I was referring to was that I personally wanted to do this like a season and half ago for Austin, and it's still on the To Do board in the war room. I hear you, i wish you could've gave out the 40 million too. Logos are a BIG DEAL and deserve to be treated as such.

3. So mad about it, but i don't think i'd use the orange anyway if i went Jade/White or Silver. it's a good look. But luckily, you're just a DSFL team, so the big league teams can do whatever they want :-D lolol.

Anyway, i'm sorry if you were real life mad about anything, i didn't want to piss you off directly.

Hey, we're totally good! I was trying to match your same kind of shittalking energy that I love hearing in listening to your podcast, I guess it's much harder to achieve in text! I quite like how simple and clean the logo looks and I love what we've come to in a lot of working and iterating, so I'm always going to keep defending it! I just wanted to keep the conversation going and keep in the fun, punchy mood, but I'm sorry if it didn't come off that way to anyone reading. I appreciating you clarifying your point and I understand a lot more where you're coming from now.

[Billybolo53]

Did my response to your agent question make sense?

For sure. Agents as they are now are pretty pointless. If agents had some leeway to get around the tampering rules then I could see the benefit for players wanting max deals. Most people don’t need the money but I think some diva characters could make free agency more fun.

[TeyonSchavari]

The music at the start always gets me ready to listen, glad I was able to tune in! Best wishes to the pupper!

edit: also yes please take the CBotY award from Leonard and give to Lattimer as his stats that put him above me came from playing Baltimore and Chicago at the end of the season...kidding Leonard is cool I just want an award man lol