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Speaker 1: everyone's having a good Wednesday. We are a day away

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Speaker 1: want does he not want to get hit anymore? Not

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Speaker 1: that he ever got pepper, because he's always been a

426
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Speaker 1: pretty good slider from baseball player, but that one interests me.

427
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Speaker 1: I mean, the last time they got a guy to

428
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Speaker 1: come in that organization and really shake it up, it

429
00:21:52,440 --> 00:21:55,119
Speaker 1: was just like not afraid to make people uncomfortable was

430
00:21:55,280 --> 00:21:57,480
Speaker 1: Lway at the t Bow era and then they got

431
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Speaker 1: Peyton Manning and the rest is history. And it's not

432
00:22:00,720 --> 00:22:03,000
Speaker 1: gonna be as easy of a transition given how much

433
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Speaker 1: they're paying Russell. Like they could just get away from TBA.

434
00:22:05,600 --> 00:22:08,159
Speaker 1: They can't really just get away from Russell. Uh So,

435
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Speaker 1: I know a lot of people have thought that, like,

436
00:22:09,840 --> 00:22:12,040
Speaker 1: if it doesn't go well, he'll just move on. I

437
00:22:12,080 --> 00:22:14,320
Speaker 1: just don't know how you move on. Speaking of some

438
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Speaker 1: veteran quarterbacks, you know, for a long time, Russell wasn't

439
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Speaker 1: that polarizing. We all just acknowledged that he was a

440
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Speaker 1: really good player. Two quarterbacks. To me, that beside Dak

441
00:22:23,440 --> 00:22:26,520
Speaker 1: and Cousins, that have been the most polarizing quarterbacks. And

442
00:22:26,560 --> 00:22:29,280
Speaker 1: that's just the nature of being, you know, between the

443
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Speaker 1: ten and fifteen mark, kind of being you know, better

444
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Speaker 1: than middle of the road, but not good enough to

445
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Speaker 1: be viewed as an elite player. Is Jimmy G and

446
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Speaker 1: Derek Carr, And I just I looked it up before

447
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Speaker 1: I press record. Jimmy G has made one hundred and

448
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Speaker 1: twenty five million dollars and Derek Carr has made one

449
00:22:46,440 --> 00:22:49,679
Speaker 1: hundred and thirty five million dollars. These guys, when this

450
00:22:49,760 --> 00:22:54,919
Speaker 1: season ends, combined earnings will be over three hundred million dollars.

451
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Speaker 1: And I think if you just asked the average fan,

452
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Speaker 1: they would say both guys are kind of below average.

453
00:23:00,560 --> 00:23:03,560
Speaker 1: I think both guys have low approval ratings right now

454
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Speaker 1: just in terms of being good players. Here's what I

455
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Speaker 1: say about Jimmy Garoppolo. I've seen him now. His team

456
00:23:08,760 --> 00:23:11,560
Speaker 1: was really good and his play caller was really good.

457
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Speaker 1: But he's been a part of a lot of wins

458
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Speaker 1: in his career. And Derek, like I had a front

459
00:23:16,200 --> 00:23:17,960
Speaker 1: row seat for the Raiders when they were in Oakland,

460
00:23:18,000 --> 00:23:22,320
Speaker 1: like it was a circus, like it can be not

461
00:23:22,440 --> 00:23:26,160
Speaker 1: the easiest place to just operate. If you're a normal

462
00:23:26,520 --> 00:23:29,840
Speaker 1: successful individual, it can eat you a live right, and

463
00:23:29,920 --> 00:23:34,000
Speaker 1: I saw Derek handle it pretty seamlessly. Now both guys

464
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Speaker 1: clearly Kyle was over him and Josh McDaniels was over Derek.

465
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Speaker 1: They get pretty big contracts. Jimmy's making twenty five this year,

466
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Speaker 1: Derek's making thirty. Both have a chance to kind of,

467
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Speaker 1: I don't want to say, resurrect their career. Derek definitely does. Actually,

468
00:23:49,040 --> 00:23:51,080
Speaker 1: I mean, if you can just get Dennis Allen, whose

469
00:23:51,240 --> 00:23:55,399
Speaker 1: career records pretty terrible. Now, granted in Oakland it was hard.

470
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Speaker 1: Last year with the Saints was pretty embarrassing. I know

471
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Speaker 1: their quarterback situation was kind of in flo But if

472
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Speaker 1: Derek can get the Saints back to the playoffs, as

473
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Speaker 1: he should, they should win the division. I'm sure if

474
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Speaker 1: you've listened to anyone talking about football, they've gone over

475
00:24:08,800 --> 00:24:12,600
Speaker 1: their opponents. Their quarterbacks are playing are pretty bad. Honestly,

476
00:24:13,359 --> 00:24:16,320
Speaker 1: they should win eleven games minimum. And if he does that,

477
00:24:16,440 --> 00:24:19,919
Speaker 1: like it'd be a pretty big muscle flex for Derek. Somehow,

478
00:24:19,960 --> 00:24:21,880
Speaker 1: he got the Raiders back to the playoffs a couple

479
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Speaker 1: times during his tenure. And then he goes to the

480
00:24:24,040 --> 00:24:26,359
Speaker 1: Saints that you know had fallen on some hard times

481
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Speaker 1: and helps them get back to the playoffs. And same

482
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Speaker 1: thing with Jimmy g Right, it would be big for

483
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Speaker 1: Josh McDaniels, who for a long time was once he

484
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Speaker 1: kind of got the Denver stink off of him. They

485
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Speaker 1: were having success again in New England. People wanted to

486
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Speaker 1: hire him, and the indie thing happens. He kept turning

487
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Speaker 1: people down. I thought, and listen, I might have been

488
00:24:47,560 --> 00:24:50,280
Speaker 1: naives the wrong way to put it, but just assumed

489
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Speaker 1: that he had figured it out. I'd be like, I

490
00:24:51,600 --> 00:24:53,840
Speaker 1: think Josh mcdam's gonna be a good head coach. And

491
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Speaker 1: then last year, like, I don't know, man, you're getting

492
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Speaker 1: Derek off a really good year. You got a lot

493
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Speaker 1: of good players. What the hell was that? So if

494
00:25:01,040 --> 00:25:03,400
Speaker 1: jim and Jimmy Garoppolo compete to get a wildcard spot

495
00:25:03,440 --> 00:25:06,000
Speaker 1: they win nine ten games, be a pretty big moment

496
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Speaker 1: for both guys. One thing that's going to be a

497
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Speaker 1: point of discussion all season long is tanking, and the

498
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Speaker 1: NFL is not the NBA, where you know you intentionally tank.

499
00:25:21,640 --> 00:25:26,600
Speaker 1: Greg Popovich has done that for like five years. Absolute embarrassment. Obviously,

500
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Speaker 1: Sam Hinky did it for a long time. A ton

501
00:25:28,520 --> 00:25:30,760
Speaker 1: of teams do it, and it's it's got to stink

502
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Speaker 1: on the NBA, to be honest with you, because people

503
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Speaker 1: that the most valuable thing any of these leagues have

504
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Speaker 1: is their games and the time us as fans give

505
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Speaker 1: those games. And when you turn on the games and

506
00:25:43,560 --> 00:25:47,240
Speaker 1: the teams say we don't give a shit about the product,

507
00:25:47,640 --> 00:25:50,120
Speaker 1: you're basically just a middle finger to us, the consumer,

508
00:25:50,160 --> 00:25:52,960
Speaker 1: who literally pay the bills. So I think the good

509
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Speaker 1: part about the NFL is even if you suck, It's

510
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Speaker 1: not like coaches say this about Arizona, who I defe

511
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Speaker 1: for cutting Colton McCoy. Most people online acted like they

512
00:26:03,200 --> 00:26:05,400
Speaker 1: just cut Peyton Manning in his prime. Colt McCoy has

513
00:26:05,720 --> 00:26:09,320
Speaker 1: started like ten games a decade. Like, let's not act

514
00:26:09,359 --> 00:26:12,719
Speaker 1: like he's any good. But the Cardinals roster sucks. They

515
00:26:12,760 --> 00:26:14,520
Speaker 1: were terrible last year and they were trying to win.

516
00:26:14,840 --> 00:26:17,240
Speaker 1: A lot of teams that try to win are also bad.

517
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Speaker 1: It's not like Jonathan Gannon and his coaching staff are

518
00:26:20,640 --> 00:26:24,160
Speaker 1: gonna work three hour workdays. They're gonna try to win games. Now.

519
00:26:24,200 --> 00:26:25,760
Speaker 1: Maybe by the end of the season, they're just so

520
00:26:25,840 --> 00:26:29,520
Speaker 1: bad it won't even matter. But no one truly tanks

521
00:26:29,560 --> 00:26:32,919
Speaker 1: in the NFL. The Cardinals are gonna lose games because

522
00:26:32,920 --> 00:26:36,080
Speaker 1: they're really bad. Now, I think the curveball in this

523
00:26:36,200 --> 00:26:40,200
Speaker 1: season is the talent at quarterback in college football a

524
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Speaker 1: huge part. Like there's no point to tank if there

525
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Speaker 1: aren't sweet players. I'm all for losing games in December

526
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Speaker 1: if you got two or three wins and there are

527
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Speaker 1: incredible players in the draft, which based on a couple

528
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Speaker 1: of weeks in the college football season, technically just one.

529
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Speaker 1: I know it's week two coming up, but week zero

530
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Speaker 1: I don't count. There is gonna be a lot of

531
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Speaker 1: talent in this draft at quarterback and in other positions.

532
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Speaker 1: But I think the word tanking and the tank for

533
00:27:07,960 --> 00:27:12,600
Speaker 1: Caleb and Drake May and Penix and just the countless quarterbacks.

534
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Speaker 1: If I had to guess right now, I would say

535
00:27:15,080 --> 00:27:17,760
Speaker 1: six quarterbacks go in the top fifty of this upcoming draft.

536
00:27:17,960 --> 00:27:20,879
Speaker 1: So it's a very very good quarterback draft. And anytime

537
00:27:20,920 --> 00:27:23,920
Speaker 1: you have a good quarterback draft, the bad teams get

538
00:27:23,960 --> 00:27:27,080
Speaker 1: associated with those guys. Now, what makes it unique with

539
00:27:27,160 --> 00:27:29,879
Speaker 1: Arizona is they got Kyler Murray and I know Lombardi

540
00:27:29,920 --> 00:27:32,040
Speaker 1: made some waves last week when he talked about them

541
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Speaker 1: not playing them because the injury guarantees. The Cardinals named

542
00:27:36,920 --> 00:27:40,879
Speaker 1: Kyler Murray captain, and my spidery senses went off. Do

543
00:27:40,920 --> 00:27:42,840
Speaker 1: you know what they want to do? They want to

544
00:27:42,880 --> 00:27:47,000
Speaker 1: improve his value around the league, And they can't do

545
00:27:47,040 --> 00:27:49,440
Speaker 1: that because he can't play right now because he doesn't

546
00:27:49,440 --> 00:27:52,120
Speaker 1: have a torn acl anymore. But he's recovering off that injury.

547
00:27:52,440 --> 00:27:55,080
Speaker 1: So the only way you can increase his value around

548
00:27:55,080 --> 00:27:57,439
Speaker 1: the league is act like he's doing the right things.

549
00:27:57,680 --> 00:27:59,880
Speaker 1: And listen, I'm not saying he's not doing the right things.

550
00:27:59,880 --> 00:28:02,760
Speaker 1: He's probably attempting to be a really good guy to

551
00:28:02,840 --> 00:28:06,560
Speaker 1: come in early, maybe even watch a little film. But

552
00:28:06,640 --> 00:28:08,920
Speaker 1: when you name him a team captain, you're kind of saying, listen,

553
00:28:09,280 --> 00:28:12,800
Speaker 1: he's turned a new leaf. Better guy, Come get him.

554
00:28:13,080 --> 00:28:15,360
Speaker 1: Because I'll promise you this, if they can get out

555
00:28:15,359 --> 00:28:18,280
Speaker 1: of that contract, they will get out of that contract

556
00:28:18,840 --> 00:28:21,320
Speaker 1: so fast your head would spin. And I don't know

557
00:28:21,320 --> 00:28:23,080
Speaker 1: if they end up playing him this year, I would

558
00:28:23,160 --> 00:28:26,160
Speaker 1: imagine they don't. Now, Kyler can make it a stink

559
00:28:26,240 --> 00:28:30,879
Speaker 1: really fast. But Kyler has the balance of making a

560
00:28:30,920 --> 00:28:34,080
Speaker 1: stink and just if they leaked. I want to play.

561
00:28:34,280 --> 00:28:36,399
Speaker 1: That doesn't make Kyler look like a bad guy. That

562
00:28:36,440 --> 00:28:39,240
Speaker 1: would turn it on Arizona. So things could get very weird.

563
00:28:39,440 --> 00:28:41,680
Speaker 1: But if they are headed toward the number one overall

564
00:28:41,720 --> 00:28:44,560
Speaker 1: pick like that is a pretty valuable thing. But having

565
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Speaker 1: the number one overall pick or having the number two

566
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Speaker 1: overall pick, you could argue you're gonna get a star

567
00:28:48,720 --> 00:28:51,160
Speaker 1: quarterback no matter what. So I think the Kyler situation

568
00:28:51,400 --> 00:28:53,960
Speaker 1: is going to be very fascinating if they can kind

569
00:28:54,000 --> 00:28:56,880
Speaker 1: of rehab his image. And even if he doesn't play

570
00:28:56,880 --> 00:28:59,600
Speaker 1: this year, he's fully healthy, he's gonna have a trademarket.

571
00:29:00,000 --> 00:29:02,640
Speaker 1: He was the number one overall pick whatever four years ago.

572
00:29:03,040 --> 00:29:07,240
Speaker 1: He is a remarkable talent when he's been healthy. Listen,

573
00:29:07,280 --> 00:29:11,080
Speaker 1: I'm not a huge fan, but I've never disputed how

574
00:29:11,320 --> 00:29:14,000
Speaker 1: talented he is. I'm not a Trey Lance fan because

575
00:29:14,000 --> 00:29:15,880
Speaker 1: I don't think the guy can play. I know Kyler

576
00:29:15,960 --> 00:29:18,800
Speaker 1: Murray can play like Kyler Murray is not just an

577
00:29:18,880 --> 00:29:21,840
Speaker 1: NFL player when he's right. He's a high end NFL player.

578
00:29:22,280 --> 00:29:25,560
Speaker 1: Now more comes with that at quarterback, but teams are

579
00:29:25,560 --> 00:29:28,280
Speaker 1: desperate for quarterbacks, and one thing Kyler Murray would give

580
00:29:28,360 --> 00:29:31,280
Speaker 1: you with some life with your franchise and the potential

581
00:29:31,400 --> 00:29:34,080
Speaker 1: he's proven, like he can lead a team to the playoffs.

582
00:29:34,400 --> 00:29:36,680
Speaker 1: That's something that none of these quarterbacks in the draft

583
00:29:36,720 --> 00:29:38,600
Speaker 1: are gonna be able to say. Now. I would much

584
00:29:38,680 --> 00:29:40,239
Speaker 1: rather have one of the guys in the draft when

585
00:29:40,280 --> 00:29:44,360
Speaker 1: you factor in their contract, than taking on Kyler Murray's whatever.

586
00:29:44,400 --> 00:29:47,040
Speaker 1: He has left one hundred and fifty million dollars and

587
00:29:47,480 --> 00:29:49,280
Speaker 1: you know, just still some of the question mark. I

588
00:29:49,320 --> 00:29:50,920
Speaker 1: don't think you just all of a sudden you're some

589
00:29:51,000 --> 00:29:54,520
Speaker 1: film guru. But that's definitely a storyline that is just

590
00:29:54,600 --> 00:29:56,840
Speaker 1: gonna be all season long. I also think some other

591
00:29:56,840 --> 00:29:58,600
Speaker 1: teams are gonna throw their hat in the ring. Right

592
00:29:59,320 --> 00:30:03,480
Speaker 1: if Houston any good? I mean, I think Houston infory.

593
00:30:03,520 --> 00:30:06,240
Speaker 1: They should be improved, but who knows, Maybe they're competing

594
00:30:06,280 --> 00:30:09,560
Speaker 1: to be a top team. I think Caroline is gonna

595
00:30:09,560 --> 00:30:12,440
Speaker 1: stink their offensive line. If they can't block anybody, they

596
00:30:12,440 --> 00:30:16,960
Speaker 1: don't have any weapons. That could be a disaster. The Rams.

597
00:30:17,200 --> 00:30:20,640
Speaker 1: I have them circled for being gone awful and people

598
00:30:20,680 --> 00:30:23,760
Speaker 1: are already talking about it, and rightfully so are they.

599
00:30:24,000 --> 00:30:27,000
Speaker 1: Are they a team that could trade Aaron Donald? Why

600
00:30:27,040 --> 00:30:30,040
Speaker 1: not blow the thing up? Compete to get Caleb Williams.

601
00:30:30,120 --> 00:30:32,320
Speaker 1: You don't think Stan Kronk, who just a couple of

602
00:30:32,400 --> 00:30:34,680
Speaker 1: years built the stadium that an he wins the Super Bowl,

603
00:30:35,400 --> 00:30:38,920
Speaker 1: wouldn't mind a big star again with this franchise. So

604
00:30:39,120 --> 00:30:42,000
Speaker 1: I think I got them circled big time. I do

605
00:30:42,120 --> 00:30:45,600
Speaker 1: think two teams. I mentioned him a little earlier. You know,

606
00:30:45,640 --> 00:30:48,000
Speaker 1: in the AFC, there's so many you know, the Rogers

607
00:30:48,040 --> 00:30:49,840
Speaker 1: story has kind of played out this point because of

608
00:30:49,840 --> 00:30:52,040
Speaker 1: hard knocks. We've been talking about it for six months straight.

609
00:30:52,520 --> 00:30:54,800
Speaker 1: The AFC East is going to be a fascinating division,

610
00:30:55,080 --> 00:30:58,400
Speaker 1: and beside the Chiefs, there are clearly six seven teams

611
00:30:58,400 --> 00:31:00,960
Speaker 1: who we probably feel can compete to not just make

612
00:31:00,960 --> 00:31:03,480
Speaker 1: the championship Game, but represent the AFC in the super Bowl.

613
00:31:03,560 --> 00:31:06,120
Speaker 1: That is not the case in the NFC. Right, Honestly,

614
00:31:06,160 --> 00:31:08,040
Speaker 1: I would imagine if you talk to most people, they

615
00:31:08,040 --> 00:31:11,200
Speaker 1: wouldn't even include the Cowboys. I do, but the two

616
00:31:11,200 --> 00:31:14,080
Speaker 1: teams that they'd be like, I could see a rematch, right,

617
00:31:15,000 --> 00:31:17,560
Speaker 1: Eagles forty nine Ers. Well, here's what I know about

618
00:31:17,600 --> 00:31:21,080
Speaker 1: both teams. They're gonna get treated like they're a champion

619
00:31:21,160 --> 00:31:23,840
Speaker 1: level team by every team that plays them. So every

620
00:31:23,880 --> 00:31:27,080
Speaker 1: team that plays them is gonna approach them like, I mean,

621
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Speaker 1: it's one of the biggest games for their season, right

622
00:31:29,760 --> 00:31:31,520
Speaker 1: when you're playing the forty nine ers and you're playing

623
00:31:31,560 --> 00:31:35,680
Speaker 1: the Eagles, and Kyle like kind of went all in

624
00:31:35,760 --> 00:31:38,160
Speaker 1: on Purty, and I don't blame him. Purty was easily

625
00:31:38,160 --> 00:31:40,400
Speaker 1: the best quarterback he's had since he was with the

626
00:31:40,400 --> 00:31:43,520
Speaker 1: forty nine ers. When they got Purty with Christian McCaffrey,

627
00:31:43,560 --> 00:31:47,200
Speaker 1: they were scoring well over thirty points a game. I

628
00:31:47,200 --> 00:31:50,880
Speaker 1: saw Mike Tomlin say that the difference when Jimmy Garoppolo

629
00:31:51,000 --> 00:31:53,560
Speaker 1: and Brock Purty was a ten point difference, or maybe

630
00:31:53,600 --> 00:31:56,440
Speaker 1: it was when they acquired Christian McCaffrey. But then you know,

631
00:31:56,800 --> 00:31:59,200
Speaker 1: Rock Purdy got the majority of Christian McCaffrey. They were

632
00:31:59,200 --> 00:32:02,560
Speaker 1: averaging thirty points game. Are those teams just gonna keep

633
00:32:02,600 --> 00:32:04,840
Speaker 1: the train on the tracks? Just be twelve, thirteen to

634
00:32:04,880 --> 00:32:07,480
Speaker 1: fourteen win team, No problem, Because I've seen the forty

635
00:32:07,560 --> 00:32:10,440
Speaker 1: nine ers. Shit can get weird quick. The Eagles and

636
00:32:10,440 --> 00:32:14,120
Speaker 1: they got two new coordinators, Jalen. They gave all this money. Now,

637
00:32:14,280 --> 00:32:16,720
Speaker 1: I bet on Jalen. I think he's the type guy

638
00:32:16,760 --> 00:32:18,840
Speaker 1: you've been on. But you know there's gonna be a

639
00:32:18,920 --> 00:32:21,120
Speaker 1: ton of pressure on him, a ton of and their

640
00:32:21,160 --> 00:32:24,640
Speaker 1: division is really really difficult. If Washington is the worst

641
00:32:24,680 --> 00:32:27,560
Speaker 1: team in your division, you have a fantastic division. The

642
00:32:27,640 --> 00:32:32,160
Speaker 1: talent on that team is I mean pretty freaking loaded. Whoever,

643
00:32:32,400 --> 00:32:33,880
Speaker 1: when they fire Ron River at the end of the

644
00:32:33,960 --> 00:32:36,400
Speaker 1: year and they hire someone like it's a pretty desirable job,

645
00:32:36,920 --> 00:32:39,120
Speaker 1: get a quarterback, you figure it out, and you start

646
00:32:39,160 --> 00:32:42,440
Speaker 1: rolling because they got talent and they hell, they beat

647
00:32:42,440 --> 00:32:45,520
Speaker 1: the Eagles last year. So I think those two teams

648
00:32:46,000 --> 00:32:48,960
Speaker 1: fending people off, even though the NFC is clearly not

649
00:32:49,000 --> 00:32:52,719
Speaker 1: as talented as the AFC is gonna be. Just when

650
00:32:52,760 --> 00:32:54,400
Speaker 1: the Eagles and forty nine ers play, I mean, we're

651
00:32:54,440 --> 00:32:57,240
Speaker 1: all paying attention. They're clearly two of the biggest draws

652
00:32:57,240 --> 00:32:59,560
Speaker 1: in the NFL, and they clearly have two of the

653
00:32:59,600 --> 00:33:02,360
Speaker 1: best runs in the NFL, if not the two best rosters.

654
00:33:02,400 --> 00:33:06,160
Speaker 1: So I'm just fascinated to watch those two teams speaking

655
00:33:06,200 --> 00:33:10,200
Speaker 1: about a roster that is just incredible job retooling it

656
00:33:10,360 --> 00:33:12,480
Speaker 1: their draft last year, hit it out of the park.

657
00:33:13,600 --> 00:33:17,320
Speaker 1: I think the question with Seattle is because player for

658
00:33:17,400 --> 00:33:23,080
Speaker 1: player skill guys, high end players, young tackles. They got

659
00:33:23,080 --> 00:33:25,680
Speaker 1: some good young defenders. They get Bobby Wagner back. The

660
00:33:25,800 --> 00:33:29,640
Speaker 1: roster's legit is Gino Smith. Just back. He's just gonna

661
00:33:29,680 --> 00:33:33,360
Speaker 1: be a consistent Pro Bowl level guy. Because I'm thirty

662
00:33:33,400 --> 00:33:35,600
Speaker 1: eight years old, been watching the NFL for a long time.

663
00:33:35,720 --> 00:33:37,760
Speaker 1: Is that just the way the NFL works? A guy

664
00:33:37,880 --> 00:33:40,760
Speaker 1: like this just shitty shitty, shitty, bad, backup, back up,

665
00:33:40,800 --> 00:33:42,840
Speaker 1: and then all of a sudden gets in his early thirties,

666
00:33:42,840 --> 00:33:45,480
Speaker 1: gets an opportunity to start, goes on a four year run.

667
00:33:45,800 --> 00:33:49,040
Speaker 1: Last guy I can remember that happening too is Ridge Cannon. Now,

668
00:33:49,360 --> 00:33:52,240
Speaker 1: he went on to win an MVP and was remarkable

669
00:33:52,280 --> 00:33:55,479
Speaker 1: for the Raiders. But if Gino pulls this off and

670
00:33:55,560 --> 00:33:57,800
Speaker 1: just maintains a high level of play, and anytime you

671
00:33:57,840 --> 00:34:02,440
Speaker 1: hear him interviewed or talk, it's very understandable. How he

672
00:34:03,240 --> 00:34:08,160
Speaker 1: maximized his career, his mindset, his outlook on life, slashed

673
00:34:08,239 --> 00:34:10,680
Speaker 1: the game. How good of a teammate, What a high

674
00:34:10,760 --> 00:34:13,640
Speaker 1: level guy. He's an easy individual to root for. I've

675
00:34:13,680 --> 00:34:15,640
Speaker 1: never heard him talk since he took over at Seattle,

676
00:34:15,680 --> 00:34:17,960
Speaker 1: and he's like, God, I really like Geno Smith. But

677
00:34:18,040 --> 00:34:21,040
Speaker 1: from a football standpoint, it's not that normal to do

678
00:34:21,120 --> 00:34:24,880
Speaker 1: what he's doing. So last year in some big moments

679
00:34:25,000 --> 00:34:28,440
Speaker 1: like didn't quite look the same. Now they add the

680
00:34:28,480 --> 00:34:31,120
Speaker 1: Ohio state wide receiver, they add another running back, their

681
00:34:31,120 --> 00:34:34,280
Speaker 1: offensive line should be really good. They got DK's a stud.

682
00:34:34,880 --> 00:34:37,120
Speaker 1: Lockett feels like the most underrated player of the last

683
00:34:37,160 --> 00:34:40,359
Speaker 1: decade in the NFL. It's all air for him, man.

684
00:34:41,239 --> 00:34:43,279
Speaker 1: But and if he keeps doing it, it's one of

685
00:34:43,400 --> 00:34:47,560
Speaker 1: truly the great comeback stories we've ever seen. And like

686
00:34:47,600 --> 00:34:50,000
Speaker 1: Gino said, they wrote me off, I just didn't right back.

687
00:34:50,840 --> 00:34:54,000
Speaker 1: It's hard to beat that line. Speaking of another quarterback

688
00:34:54,040 --> 00:34:58,319
Speaker 1: who took the league by storm. He just was, I mean,

689
00:34:58,400 --> 00:35:00,960
Speaker 1: won the MVP. It was just one of the more

690
00:35:01,000 --> 00:35:03,359
Speaker 1: fun players to watch. If I you know, I haven't

691
00:35:03,360 --> 00:35:05,400
Speaker 1: played really video games since I was in college. But

692
00:35:05,440 --> 00:35:08,399
Speaker 1: if I still played video games three four years ago,

693
00:35:08,440 --> 00:35:11,239
Speaker 1: I would have been the Ravens and I would have

694
00:35:11,320 --> 00:35:14,080
Speaker 1: ran around with Lamar Jackson until you caught me, because

695
00:35:14,120 --> 00:35:15,359
Speaker 1: I used to do that when I was in high

696
00:35:15,360 --> 00:35:17,759
Speaker 1: school with Michael Vick. You'd be the Falcons and you

697
00:35:17,800 --> 00:35:19,759
Speaker 1: would be Michael Vick and you would trade for a

698
00:35:19,800 --> 00:35:22,000
Speaker 1: sweet wide receiver and you'd just run around and it

699
00:35:22,040 --> 00:35:25,840
Speaker 1: was awesome once you get paid this money. The team's

700
00:35:26,000 --> 00:35:29,239
Speaker 1: mindset of you changes because they go can I just

701
00:35:29,600 --> 00:35:32,319
Speaker 1: I don't want to just run you NonStop because I

702
00:35:32,320 --> 00:35:35,279
Speaker 1: can't risk you getting injured. Because I'm paying you a

703
00:35:35,320 --> 00:35:37,480
Speaker 1: ton of coin. You got guaranteed a lot of money.

704
00:35:37,560 --> 00:35:41,040
Speaker 1: I need you. The health of our organization depends on

705
00:35:41,160 --> 00:35:44,560
Speaker 1: you being healthy, on you being around, and you being successful.

706
00:35:44,880 --> 00:35:48,440
Speaker 1: So part of Lamar now is like, is he just

707
00:35:48,600 --> 00:35:51,000
Speaker 1: are they gonna have a throwing offense? I'm just fascinated

708
00:35:51,040 --> 00:35:53,839
Speaker 1: to see what their offense looks like because forever Todd,

709
00:35:53,920 --> 00:35:56,120
Speaker 1: Munkin and everything coming out of the Ravens was like,

710
00:35:56,280 --> 00:35:58,239
Speaker 1: we're gonna pass more, We're gonna spread it out. Are

711
00:35:58,880 --> 00:36:02,000
Speaker 1: they just saying that or are they actually gonna live it?

712
00:36:02,040 --> 00:36:04,320
Speaker 1: Because coaches say a lot of things and then do another.

713
00:36:04,760 --> 00:36:08,400
Speaker 1: Is it still gonna have resemblance of what the offense

714
00:36:08,480 --> 00:36:11,279
Speaker 1: look like, you know a couple of years ago with

715
00:36:12,239 --> 00:36:15,040
Speaker 1: I would call it much more collegiate of their running

716
00:36:15,040 --> 00:36:17,960
Speaker 1: attack or does their offense look much more like a

717
00:36:17,960 --> 00:36:21,440
Speaker 1: lot of other NFL offenses. Clearly he's still gonna run

718
00:36:21,480 --> 00:36:27,040
Speaker 1: and scramble, But is his running ability what they lean

719
00:36:27,080 --> 00:36:29,480
Speaker 1: on or do they go four or five wide? And

720
00:36:29,680 --> 00:36:32,160
Speaker 1: some of those could be tight ends right and just

721
00:36:32,200 --> 00:36:35,440
Speaker 1: slinging around NonStop. It's gonna be fascinating to watch. I mean,

722
00:36:35,480 --> 00:36:38,600
Speaker 1: he's I don't want to say he's not really that polarizing,

723
00:36:38,640 --> 00:36:40,440
Speaker 1: because he's really one of the more likable guys. But

724
00:36:40,560 --> 00:36:42,759
Speaker 1: just his situation last year with the injury, they're not

725
00:36:42,840 --> 00:36:45,200
Speaker 1: paying them. They finally pay him, they capitulate. Now they're

726
00:36:45,200 --> 00:36:47,200
Speaker 1: all on the same page. Everything's hunky dory. They add

727
00:36:47,239 --> 00:36:49,400
Speaker 1: Odell Beckham, they draft a wide receiver last year, so

728
00:36:49,600 --> 00:36:53,080
Speaker 1: got Mark Andrews. I'm fascinating to watch the Ravens. I mean,

729
00:36:53,480 --> 00:36:55,239
Speaker 1: that's the best part about the NFL. It's why it

730
00:36:55,280 --> 00:36:59,400
Speaker 1: really shines is so many teams are interesting, so many

731
00:36:59,440 --> 00:37:03,000
Speaker 1: individuals players are interesting. It's obviously a quarterback league. Speaking

732
00:37:03,000 --> 00:37:07,080
Speaker 1: at quarterbacks, Kirk Cousins last year of his contract, there

733
00:37:07,080 --> 00:37:10,520
Speaker 1: were some rumors this off season they thought about unloading him.

734
00:37:11,040 --> 00:37:14,200
Speaker 1: Minnesota tried to trade for Trey Lance around the draft.

735
00:37:14,719 --> 00:37:17,120
Speaker 1: The forty nine Ers wouldn't do it. Actually, it a

736
00:37:17,160 --> 00:37:19,440
Speaker 1: weird way made the right decision because they ended up

737
00:37:19,440 --> 00:37:21,759
Speaker 1: getting a better pick than Minnesota clearly would have give

738
00:37:21,760 --> 00:37:25,880
Speaker 1: of them out of Dallas. But it's pretty obvious that

739
00:37:26,040 --> 00:37:29,160
Speaker 1: Minnesota does not want to give Cousins another contract, right,

740
00:37:29,200 --> 00:37:31,960
Speaker 1: they don't want it because it's gonna be more money

741
00:37:32,000 --> 00:37:33,680
Speaker 1: than what he signed for previously. And it's like, do

742
00:37:33,719 --> 00:37:36,080
Speaker 1: we want to give a guy at thirty five years

743
00:37:36,120 --> 00:37:39,560
Speaker 1: old two or three years at forty three forty four

744
00:37:39,600 --> 00:37:43,799
Speaker 1: million dollars? Kirk Cousins likes his money guaranteed. Now here's

745
00:37:43,840 --> 00:37:47,360
Speaker 1: the problem for the Vikings. How do you upgrade? It's

746
00:37:47,360 --> 00:37:49,839
Speaker 1: a great quarterback draft, but your team's not gonna suck.

747
00:37:50,000 --> 00:37:52,759
Speaker 1: Even if you don't make the playoffs this year. You're

748
00:37:52,760 --> 00:37:54,719
Speaker 1: not a four win team. You might not be a

749
00:37:54,760 --> 00:37:57,560
Speaker 1: thirteen win team, but you win eight to ten games,

750
00:37:58,040 --> 00:38:00,239
Speaker 1: and that puts you in the middle ground. Now might

751
00:38:00,280 --> 00:38:03,160
Speaker 1: be a deep enough quarterback draft. Do you draft one

752
00:38:03,200 --> 00:38:05,200
Speaker 1: of those guys in the middle of the first round

753
00:38:05,320 --> 00:38:08,000
Speaker 1: or you know, pick nineteen or twenty or whatever. But

754
00:38:08,080 --> 00:38:10,920
Speaker 1: it is very, very hard to upgrade when you have

755
00:38:11,800 --> 00:38:14,120
Speaker 1: that group right starts with like Dak and Cousins or

756
00:38:14,160 --> 00:38:17,440
Speaker 1: Cousins and Dak, Jimmy Carr. We've seen it over and

757
00:38:17,480 --> 00:38:19,880
Speaker 1: over and over. You don't upgrade. The forty nine ers

758
00:38:19,880 --> 00:38:23,040
Speaker 1: attempted to do it, and Trey Lance couldn't sniff beating

759
00:38:23,080 --> 00:38:25,799
Speaker 1: out Jimmy Garoppolo. Now he goes to the Cowboys. Dak

760
00:38:25,840 --> 00:38:28,520
Speaker 1: Prescott's in a different universe than him. The Raiders get

761
00:38:28,600 --> 00:38:31,440
Speaker 1: rid of Derek Carr, what'd they do? They had Jimmy Garoppolo.

762
00:38:31,880 --> 00:38:35,560
Speaker 1: So those quarterbacks are all kind of the same because

763
00:38:35,640 --> 00:38:38,080
Speaker 1: you can't just like, there's no just landing Trevor Lawrence,

764
00:38:38,360 --> 00:38:41,680
Speaker 1: there's no just signing Justin Herbert, right, you usually don't

765
00:38:41,680 --> 00:38:44,319
Speaker 1: get an opportunity to draft those guys, especially if you're

766
00:38:44,320 --> 00:38:47,000
Speaker 1: not drafting the top two or three picks. So I

767
00:38:47,040 --> 00:38:49,880
Speaker 1: do think Minnesota's in this weird spot where it feels

768
00:38:49,920 --> 00:38:52,320
Speaker 1: like they've already moved on from Cousins. I would expect

769
00:38:52,320 --> 00:38:54,960
Speaker 1: Cousins to have another really good statistical year. It's not

770
00:38:55,000 --> 00:38:57,680
Speaker 1: like he's gonna retire. But were they just gonna let

771
00:38:57,760 --> 00:38:59,360
Speaker 1: him walk? You're just gonna say, see it, What the

772
00:38:59,400 --> 00:39:01,239
Speaker 1: fuck are they gonna How do you look at the

773
00:39:01,280 --> 00:39:05,080
Speaker 1: fan base and go, listen, guys, we all acknowledge we

774
00:39:05,120 --> 00:39:06,960
Speaker 1: would love to have one of the top ten guys.

775
00:39:07,200 --> 00:39:10,120
Speaker 1: But Cousins is like eleven or twelve. He has his flaws,

776
00:39:10,120 --> 00:39:13,200
Speaker 1: but he's clearly pretty good. If you watch the documentary,

777
00:39:13,200 --> 00:39:16,200
Speaker 1: on Netflix. He's actually pretty likable. He does gives you

778
00:39:16,480 --> 00:39:19,439
Speaker 1: everything he has to be as good as he can

779
00:39:19,560 --> 00:39:23,680
Speaker 1: be at NFL football. I mean literally dedicates his life

780
00:39:23,719 --> 00:39:27,000
Speaker 1: lays on the line. Just seems like a hardworking, geeky

781
00:39:27,560 --> 00:39:29,200
Speaker 1: just the type guy you would want you never have

782
00:39:29,239 --> 00:39:32,000
Speaker 1: to worry about. Yeah, we'll just move on and do

783
00:39:32,120 --> 00:39:36,239
Speaker 1: what good trade for Kyler. Attempt to draft a guy

784
00:39:36,239 --> 00:39:39,560
Speaker 1: at nineteen, Well, the chances history of the league would

785
00:39:39,560 --> 00:39:42,759
Speaker 1: say guy's not gonna be as good as cousins. So

786
00:39:43,239 --> 00:39:45,640
Speaker 1: I do think they're kind of in this weird spot

787
00:39:45,680 --> 00:39:47,799
Speaker 1: that I don't think we really have an answer to.

788
00:39:48,600 --> 00:39:52,040
Speaker 1: And yeah, I mean a couple other I can see

789
00:39:52,040 --> 00:39:54,120
Speaker 1: this coming from a mile away. This isn't NFL, but

790
00:39:54,200 --> 00:39:57,320
Speaker 1: this is college. And I think now with the amount

791
00:39:57,320 --> 00:40:01,719
Speaker 1: of money that these colleges pay their coaches, like Texas,

792
00:40:03,040 --> 00:40:05,080
Speaker 1: if Sark doesn't win this year, that job is gonna

793
00:40:05,080 --> 00:40:08,320
Speaker 1: become available either this year or next. So if Texas

794
00:40:08,400 --> 00:40:11,360
Speaker 1: becomes available again, they're gonna stop trying to get on

795
00:40:11,360 --> 00:40:13,799
Speaker 1: this hamster wheel of hiring the Sarks and hiring the

796
00:40:14,160 --> 00:40:16,479
Speaker 1: Tom Herman's, Like they will offer one hundred and fifty

797
00:40:16,480 --> 00:40:21,000
Speaker 1: million dollars right Florida. They call him Sunbelt Billy. That

798
00:40:21,040 --> 00:40:24,720
Speaker 1: thing is a disaster right now. They got fucking worked

799
00:40:24,760 --> 00:40:27,399
Speaker 1: by Utah. They didn't even that. The thing didn't even

800
00:40:27,480 --> 00:40:31,120
Speaker 1: look close. Now he has a thirty million dollar buyout?

801
00:40:31,160 --> 00:40:33,440
Speaker 1: Does he last another year? Those are two jobs that

802
00:40:33,560 --> 00:40:36,760
Speaker 1: even if they rolled it over, it's got dem standards

803
00:40:36,760 --> 00:40:40,520
Speaker 1: written all over it. Both those two teams are gonna

804
00:40:40,520 --> 00:40:42,640
Speaker 1: want to go big. Obviously. Texas will be in the

805
00:40:42,680 --> 00:40:46,560
Speaker 1: SEC with Florida. Both those budgets have an enormous amount

806
00:40:46,560 --> 00:40:49,040
Speaker 1: of money. Texas has more in Florida, but Florida is

807
00:40:49,120 --> 00:40:52,160
Speaker 1: not afraid to pay. I got Deon Sanders like, I'm

808
00:40:52,200 --> 00:40:55,120
Speaker 1: not rushing him out of Colorado. I think for sure,

809
00:40:56,120 --> 00:40:58,240
Speaker 1: I don't know this. I mean, I'm just gonna assume

810
00:40:58,280 --> 00:41:00,880
Speaker 1: Shador is there for two years to play with Travis,

811
00:41:00,920 --> 00:41:03,279
Speaker 1: to play with his dad, to play with his brother Shiloh.

812
00:41:03,840 --> 00:41:07,480
Speaker 1: But I think Dion's gonna come in such demand with

813
00:41:07,840 --> 00:41:11,640
Speaker 1: the Big Boys or Texas. Obviously, he lived in Dallas

814
00:41:11,719 --> 00:41:14,600
Speaker 1: for a long time, played for the Cowboys, you know,

815
00:41:14,800 --> 00:41:17,080
Speaker 1: and I do think, you know, if McCarthy thing ever

816
00:41:17,120 --> 00:41:20,040
Speaker 1: got weird the next couple of years, Prime Prime might

817
00:41:20,080 --> 00:41:23,439
Speaker 1: be the real deal, and sometimes people push back. People

818
00:41:23,440 --> 00:41:25,000
Speaker 1: push back, and then it's just like, yeah, this is

819
00:41:25,840 --> 00:41:28,439
Speaker 1: this is is what it is. Has a little Jim

820
00:41:28,440 --> 00:41:31,000
Speaker 1: Harbaugh field to it, like, yeah, he's a little quirky,

821
00:41:31,120 --> 00:41:35,040
Speaker 1: He's different than all these other coaches. His shit works, right,

822
00:41:35,120 --> 00:41:37,680
Speaker 1: So I already got a couple of program circle. The

823
00:41:37,760 --> 00:41:40,640
Speaker 1: other thing, I read this article the other day from

824
00:41:40,640 --> 00:41:44,080
Speaker 1: one of the big blogs at Ohio State, and one

825
00:41:44,080 --> 00:41:46,160
Speaker 1: thing that it mentioned because this guy was being very

826
00:41:46,200 --> 00:41:51,440
Speaker 1: critical of Ryan Day, and Ohio State has five assistants,

827
00:41:51,760 --> 00:41:54,719
Speaker 1: the two coordinators and three other assistants that make over

828
00:41:54,800 --> 00:41:59,239
Speaker 1: a million dollars. Their defensive coordinator makes about two heartline

829
00:41:59,360 --> 00:42:01,720
Speaker 1: isn't even the opsive coordinator. He makes like one to seven.

830
00:42:01,960 --> 00:42:05,120
Speaker 1: Their on line d line coach both make a million. Obviously,

831
00:42:05,200 --> 00:42:09,040
Speaker 1: Ryan Day makes a ton. That program pumps as much

832
00:42:09,080 --> 00:42:13,760
Speaker 1: money into their football as most NFL teams. Clearly Ohio State.

833
00:42:14,200 --> 00:42:18,120
Speaker 1: I would put Ohio State, you might name them number one.

834
00:42:18,640 --> 00:42:20,719
Speaker 1: Bam would be up there. I think Georgia now too.

835
00:42:21,200 --> 00:42:23,880
Speaker 1: Of just like we operate like the NFL, there is

836
00:42:23,920 --> 00:42:27,360
Speaker 1: no cost, we circumvent whatever you need, We got you.

837
00:42:28,320 --> 00:42:33,080
Speaker 1: This means everything to us. And I know he made

838
00:42:33,120 --> 00:42:35,760
Speaker 1: the playoffs last year and easily could have beat Georgia

839
00:42:35,800 --> 00:42:39,760
Speaker 1: in a fantastic game. But he does not feel like Saban,

840
00:42:39,920 --> 00:42:42,960
Speaker 1: He does not feel like Urban, He does not feel

841
00:42:43,040 --> 00:42:47,560
Speaker 1: like he's just got the job forever. And he is

842
00:42:47,600 --> 00:42:50,680
Speaker 1: a nine and three season away from just people turn

843
00:42:50,760 --> 00:42:54,239
Speaker 1: on and you get turned on, right, you can just

844
00:42:54,280 --> 00:42:56,400
Speaker 1: suck at your job and people can move on from you.

845
00:42:56,800 --> 00:42:59,440
Speaker 1: But the moment you start making a ton of money,

846
00:42:59,800 --> 00:43:01,960
Speaker 1: if things are going well, no one thinks twice you're

847
00:43:01,960 --> 00:43:04,120
Speaker 1: earning that, right. You pay a premium for a premium,

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Speaker 1: but you start getting paid a ton of money and

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Speaker 1: things start getting weird, like, yeah, I don't know if

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Speaker 1: this is working out, we might have to go in

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Speaker 1: a different direction. And I just to me, Sark and

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Speaker 1: Billy Napier are different than Ryan Day. He's made the playoffs,

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Speaker 1: he's had success, but their standard at Ohio State, you

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Speaker 1: could argue, is just unfairly high. And that's a program

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Speaker 1: with how much money everyone's cutting, with how much pressure

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Speaker 1: there is. Now he's losing to Michigan. You know, it's

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Speaker 1: just something to keep an eye on. Now. I don't

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Speaker 1: know would they hire Prime in like two years if

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Speaker 1: they moved on from Ryan Day. I don't know, Prime

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Speaker 1: feels more like Texas or Florida, but who knows. I

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Speaker 1: mean they will, There's no amount of money they won't spend,

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Speaker 1: really so, and I don't think we're that far away

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Speaker 1: from potentially ever seeing like a coach in the NFL

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Speaker 1: gets stolen to college, Like here's twenty million dollars, here's

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Speaker 1: twenty million dollars, Come take our job. It hasn't happened,

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Speaker 1: and maybe it never does. But these colleges, especially the

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Speaker 1: big boys, have budgets that can go toe to toe

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Speaker 1: with the owners. Okay, that should do it. Till tomorrow's

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Speaker 1: podcast leading in to the opening game, Chiefs hosting the Alliance,

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Speaker 1: Dan Campbell, Jared Goff, Mahomes and maybe nobody else. Just

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Speaker 1: Mahomes out there playing by himself, Travis Kelce injured, Chris

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Speaker 1: Jones sitting on his couch and all of us watching.

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Speaker 1: So hell, I'd watch Patrick Mahomes throw passes, Dandy Reid.

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Speaker 1: Let's enjoy yourself. Let's continue to have a good week,

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Speaker 1: and thanks for listening and check out. We got way

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Speaker 1: more content coming today tomorrow not stopping Baby Football's back.

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