seth roberts very much in the competition for one of those wide receiver positions and he played well here in the fourth quarter. >> al: first and goal from the 9. >> cris: another penalty. sometimes on the screen pass coming out of the backfield you'll see a defender grab the running back. >> referee: holding defense number 96. half the distance to the goal. automatic first down. >> al: right here i think. >> cris: the back comes out and through. martin sees it is going to be a screen and takes him down kind of sort of. maybe. >> al: debatable. first and goal. incomplete at the goal line. tompkins looked around. this time there is no penalty. second down and goal. >> cris: we haven't seen any change in strategy, have we? james bettcher just keeps firing those blitzes. i would expect this one to be some sort of a pick play. you have avenue got to take advantage, some sort of a bumplbumplnch. it is like a pitcher in baseball. if you can figure out what he's going to call, you can make the appropriate play call against it. but this one feels not quite as man-to-man blitzish as some of t

seth roberts very much in the competition for one of those wide receiver positions and he played well here in the fourth quarter. >> al: first and goal from the 9. >> cris: another penalty. sometimes on the screen pass coming out of the backfield you'll see a defender grab the running back. >> referee: holding defense number 96. half the distance to the goal. automatic first down. >> al: right here i think. >> cris: the back comes out and through. martin sees it is going to be a screen and takes him down kind of sort of. maybe. >> al: debatable. first and goal. incomplete at the goal line. tompkins looked around. this time there is no penalty. second down and goal. >> cris: we haven't seen any change in strategy, have we? james bettcher just keeps firing those blitzes. i would expect this one to be some sort of a pick play. you have avenue got to take advantage, some sort of a bumplbumplnch. it is like a pitcher in baseball. if you can figure out what he's going to call, you can make the appropriate play call against it. but this one feels not quite as man-to-man blitzish as some of t

seth roberts very much in the competition for one of those wide receiver positions and he played well here in the fourth quarter. >> al: first and goal from the 9. >> cris: another penalty. sometimes on the screen pass coming out of the backfield you'll see a defender grab the running back. >> referee: holding defense number 96. half the distance to the goal. automatic first down. >> al: right here i think. >> cris: the back comes out and through. martin sees it is going to be a screen and takes him down kind of sort of. maybe. >> al: debatable. first and goal. incomplete at the goal line. tompkins looked around. this time there is no penalty. second down and goal. >> cris: we haven't seen any change in strategy, have we? james bettcher just keeps firing those blitzes. i would expect this one to be some sort of a pick play. you have avenue got to take advantage, some sort of a bumplg. bumplg nch. it is like a pitcher in baseball. if you can figure out what he's going to call, you can make the appropriate play call against it. but this one feels not quite as man-to-man blitzish as some

happy. [ laughter and applause ] >> seth: you've worked with so many fantastic actors over the years. robertg to him about working with marlon brando on "the godfather" films. >> the great marlon brando. >> seth: you worked with him on a film called "the freshman," which is a movie i love. >> yeah. >> seth: and robert duvall -- and he showed up at -- robery duvall, they said that -- you'd have to write marlon's script on cue cards and just hold it. like, they taped it to robert duvall's chest. 'cause marlon brando did not want to learn his lines. did you have anything like that? were you guys holding up cue cards during "the freshman"? 'cause that's even later in his career. >> yeah. no, by the time i got to marlon, or we got to marlon, he had discovered -- he had an ear thing -- an ear piece. everybody knows this, and he had -- his secretary would read his dialogue to him from a quiet room somewhere. >> seth: during the take? >> during the take. >> seth: wow. >> so you would speak. and there would be a -- [ muffled noises ] [ laughter ] "yeah, i know. but that's why i'm telling you to get t

you, man, i appreciate it. [ cheers and applause ] >> seth: now you had appeared on "30 rock" in different characters so you knew tina, you knew robert carlock. you have such a great cast on this show.

. >> seth: and you also just finished a movie with robert de niro. >> yes. >> seth: and one of my favorite moments in "neighbors" is you and dave franco doing de niro impressions. so my question is, when you then work with de niro, do ask him if he saw that? >> that's the tough thing. any -- it's hard it ask him questions. [ laughter ] in general. like, what am i supposed to do, like walk up to de niro and say, dude have you seen one of my films? [ laughter ] like how do you ask that question to robert de niro. he is like a legend. like, i was afraid to tell him i had seen all of his films. >> seth: right. and he's not coming up to you being like, "you seen 'taxi driver?' very good." >> yeah, exactly. [ laughter ] like, it was just so taboo. i think it might of felt wrong. but i think i overheard somebody -- somebody brought it up at lunch one time. "oh you know what, in 'neighbors,' zac did a slight impression of you." he goes, "oh, yeah, i saw that. [ laughter ] i saw that." and i was like, "no way. [ laughter ] that's awesome." >> seth: very, very high praise from de niro. i saw that's

. >> seth: all right, well -- >> okay, it's true. [ light laughter ] no, robert colesberry, rest in peacee wire." and he was integral in putting together the docks, the second season. that was his baby. >> seth: right. >> and he was in the casting session with david simon who's the creator. and he heard right before i came in for my final callback for the hbo taping testing that i had asked the casting assistant for her phone number. >> seth: okay. >> who's also a lovely actress now in her own right, named jennifer lafleur. >> seth: oh, okay, gotcha. >> any how -- hi, jen. >> seth: all right. >> so, you know, i guess he was -- he was very impressed with my -- >> seth: did you just think you were someone who wow, this guy's not nervous at all if he's asking for a number right before he's -- >> that may have been it, yeah like, just throw it all out there and try and get a date instead of a job. >> seth: there ya go. i like it. [ laughter ] and then you ended up getting the job. >> sort of stupid, but here i am. >> seth: it worked out. and then, you know, obviously no reflection on you, but

you, man, i appreciate it. [ cheers and applause ] >> seth: now you had appeared on "30 rock" in different characters so you knew tina, you knew robertid you bond with this group immediately? >> no, we actually hated each other. >> seth: okay, that's good. [ laughter ] you definitely covered it up. >> yeah, i'm surprised i'm working in it. it was wonderful. we had a lovely time. >> seth: you and ellie are so wonderful together. did you -- had you met her before? >> i had not met ellie yet, until the final day of the call back. we got to the first day of shooting and we were sitting together. she was like, let's take a picture. i was like, oh, i hate pictures. and so, she takes out -- i take out my phone and she sits on my lap and the picture didn't come out so great. she got into this giggle fit and she actually peed on my leg a little bit. >> seth: oh, really? [ laughter ] >> it's true. [ laughter ] >> seth: that's like an acting exercise, i guess. [ laughter ] >> no, i made sure i got her some depends in case that happened. >> seth: that's good, yeah. [ laughter ] i want to ask you about this. because you are a stage actor as well,