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Speaker 1: What is going on everybody, John middle Coop, that's me

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Speaker 1: three and Out podcast. That's what you're listening to. Appreciate

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Speaker 1: everyone for tuning in. And we are often running on

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Speaker 1: a on a really busy day. I'm recording this on Monday. Uh,

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Speaker 1: we got a lot of moving parts here. The Dallas

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Speaker 1: I didn't expect to. I mean they were just stringing

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Speaker 1: have a coach and it's Mike McCarthy. Little shocked might

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Speaker 1: it over? Uh? And just some thoughts on just that

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Speaker 1: franchise wild Card weekend. As I record this on Monday,

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Speaker 1: it feels like Houston the Buffalo game, the first game

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Speaker 1: just it's wild how that works. Uh. The divisional round.

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Speaker 1: pretty good matchups, some some really good matchups, some really

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Speaker 1: good quarterbacks, and then some headlines of Sean McVeigh fired

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Speaker 1: a coaching cycle is just it's big time for business,

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Speaker 1: at least in my business. If you're a fan and

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Speaker 1: it's a cool time. And then of course Middlecoff mailbag

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Speaker 1: Twitter handle. My Instagram d ms wide open. You can

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Speaker 1: That's how I interact with you guys. You just were

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Speaker 1: I got a YouTube channel, John Middlecoff just just doing

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Speaker 1: So if YouTube's your thing, find me there. But let's

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Speaker 1: start with the Cowboys and one listen. I I said

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Speaker 1: it earlier. I didn't expect this to happen. I don't

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Speaker 1: know why. Maybe I thought McCarthy would end up with

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Speaker 1: it process in your head, it makes sense. I don't

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Speaker 1: I can go that far. Hopefully eighty, who knows, But

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Speaker 1: he's not trying to overthink this, and he meets Mike McCarthy.

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Speaker 1: All of a sudden, Mike McCarthy starts telling about his accomplishments.

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Speaker 1: He's won a twenty five regular season games. For example,

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Speaker 1: very prideful because in Jerry's mind, he's done this all

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Speaker 1: And then you get rid of Mike McCarthy, you bring

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Speaker 1: And I'm not rooting. I hope Jerry lives in another

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Speaker 1: He has had success. He has ran an enormous like

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Speaker 1: take a hit, It really would, because these guys have

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Speaker 1: twenty years of equity and twenty years of controversy and

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Speaker 1: winning and stories that you just can't make up. Like

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Speaker 1: part of Michael Jordan's legacy was he was in our

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Speaker 1: lives for a long period of time, and crazy things happened,

431
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Speaker 1: from him getting his ass kicked by the bad boy Pistons,

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Speaker 1: from him finally getting over on the Pistons and them

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Speaker 1: not shaking his hands, and then beating Magic, and then

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Speaker 1: a couple of years later him being the biggest star

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Speaker 1: in America and his dad has found dead in a ditch,

436
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Speaker 1: and then he leaves basketball, he's plays baseball, and then

437
00:23:05,280 --> 00:23:08,680
Speaker 1: he comes back and he loses. It was like Michael

438
00:23:08,680 --> 00:23:12,000
Speaker 1: had a long history of just crazy things happening kind

439
00:23:12,000 --> 00:23:15,720
Speaker 1: of like the Patriots and that stuff. It's hard to duplicate.

440
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Speaker 1: Like for as great as Aaron Rodgers is, first ballot

441
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Speaker 1: Hall of Famer Russell Wilson, they're just not as interesting

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Speaker 1: as the Patriots to the casual fan. So if this

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Speaker 1: is if that was it on Saturday night, losing to

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Speaker 1: the Titans, kind of getting you know, props to brain

445
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Speaker 1: will kind of worked them. Derrick Henry ran it down

446
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Speaker 1: his throat. We'll get into the games a little later.

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Speaker 1: I'm gonna miss him, and everyone in sports media should

448
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Speaker 1: should miss them too, because they will be missed. Now,

449
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Speaker 1: if you're a Jets fan, if you're a Bills fan,

450
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Speaker 1: a team kind of on the come, you should applaud it.

451
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Speaker 1: You should want Brady to leave. And if my gut,

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Speaker 1: if I had to guess right now, I do think

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Speaker 1: after Brady canvasses everything, if Robert Kraft just doesn't allow

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Speaker 1: Belichick to lowball him, I think he'll be back. I

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Speaker 1: would lean probably sixty he's back, but that is still

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Speaker 1: a pretty big percentage of like he might leave. And

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Speaker 1: if he leaves, I know this, I'll be said, Okay,

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Speaker 1: let's uh, let's dive into the games. That just got played,

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Speaker 1: and just some things that I jotted down, some some

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Speaker 1: notes that I made, and just thoughts that I have

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Speaker 1: not gonna spend too much time because by the time

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Speaker 1: you're listening, I mean, we're already on a divisional round.

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Speaker 1: You know, in this in this world, in the way

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Speaker 1: society works, you can't you just can't look back. You

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Speaker 1: gotta look forward. And that's the tough part about doing

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Speaker 1: a podcast on Tuesday with some of these games that

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Speaker 1: happened on Saturday. But it's the NFL, so we can

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Speaker 1: do it. Houston Buffalo the way that game started, an

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Speaker 1: incredible opening drive by the Buffalo Bills, the sweet play

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Speaker 1: with Josh Allen running like quarterback sweep power and then

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Speaker 1: hit that trick play where Josh Allen scores and they're

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Speaker 1: up sixteen nothing. And if you've watched the Houston Texans,

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Speaker 1: they are a basketball team. They got two dudes and

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Speaker 1: went full is playing. They got three. Now J J.

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Speaker 1: Watts back, but I didn't see a snap count. He

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Speaker 1: played what probably twenty snaps and he had a big sack.

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Speaker 1: He actually kind of gotta going. But they are an

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Speaker 1: NBA basketball team. They are they are carried by two

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Speaker 1: stars and Watson was off, Hopkins couldn't get the ball.

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Speaker 1: But the second half, especially down the stretch, those two

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Speaker 1: guys heat up. And when four and ten get going,

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Speaker 1: they can play with anybody. Four has been doing it.

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Speaker 1: And I got TV on the background, Clemson highlights are playing.

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Speaker 1: He was winning Natty's against saving with stacked teams against

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Speaker 1: stack teams. He's a playmaker. And Hopkins, for my money,

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Speaker 1: I I would feel as good going to war with

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Speaker 1: that guy as my wide receiver as any guy in

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Speaker 1: the league. Baller and those two guys took over. It

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Speaker 1: was really that simple. And Deshaun Watson, for his talented

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Speaker 1: is is uh, Josh Allen is. And when it comes

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Speaker 1: to just athletic ability and just physical characteristics, he possesses

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Speaker 1: it all the size, the speed, he can make these

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Speaker 1: throws across his body thirty yards down the field that

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Speaker 1: are just like Jeez, Louise. He's basically I mean, he's

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Speaker 1: like a he's like a less accurate cam. Uh. He's

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Speaker 1: a freak show. But he's also a roller coaster ride.

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Speaker 1: And there was that stretch of plays where it's you know,

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Speaker 1: it's like second and ten, then all of a sudden

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Speaker 1: it's third, and twenty seven, then he takes another sack.

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Speaker 1: He's a roller coaster and he's a young player. I

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Speaker 1: actually think if I wasn't a big fan of him

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Speaker 1: coming out, he's much better than I thought he would be.

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Speaker 1: Uh And if you're Buffalo, you still have a long

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Speaker 1: way to go with him, but at least he's got

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Speaker 1: something there. But Deshaun Watson that that that's what a

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Speaker 1: star quarterback does, and he even took it to I

507
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Speaker 1: mean that play he made where he bounces off the

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Speaker 1: two guys, that's just that's an incredible play. I mean,

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Speaker 1: that's just I've been watching football thirty plush years. You

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Speaker 1: just don't see that very often. That's that's a freak show. Now,

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Speaker 1: Bill O'Brien not that big of a fan as a

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Speaker 1: coach anymore. He's just he's just pretty black. He's pretty

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Speaker 1: men and I think four and ten they can carry you.

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Speaker 1: But I think it's gonna come to an end when

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Speaker 1: they play the Chiefs. Uh So that was it was

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Speaker 1: an impressive Houston was not playing well and they pulled

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Speaker 1: it out. Jiji Watt that sack kind of changed the game. Tennessee,

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Speaker 1: New England. Derrick Henry's a stud I mean he was

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Speaker 1: kicking their ass up and down the field. He looks

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Speaker 1: like a defensive end just toting the rock right between

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Speaker 1: the tackles, outside the tackles and screenplays. He's he's a monster.

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Speaker 1: Talk about a guy that's made himself a lot of money.

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Speaker 1: Uh's fifth year option. I guess not a fifth year

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Speaker 1: option because he wasn't a first round pick, but he's

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Speaker 1: gonna be. You know, they're gonna franchise and they're gonna

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Speaker 1: have to. He's kind of their team. Ryan Tannehill. I

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Speaker 1: know he threw front or a a hundred yards, but if

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Speaker 1: they probably the best move of the off season, if

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Speaker 1: they would not have, you know, doubled down and had

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Speaker 1: a contingency plan for Marcus Mariota, who wasn't just bad,

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Speaker 1: who was atrocious early on, and had Ryan Tanniel. They

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Speaker 1: don't make the playoffs. Let along beat the New England Patriots.

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Speaker 1: Ryan Tannehill for John Robinson, the general manager. What a move.

534
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Speaker 1: Mike Vrabel then outsmarting the Fox that that was just

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Speaker 1: the ultimate double middle fingers across the field, like Bill,

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Speaker 1: I'm doing what you do to me, and you're so

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Speaker 1: mad over there, and I'm taking these off sides and

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Speaker 1: I'm running the clock down to five minutes and you're

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Speaker 1: so angry, And I loved it when analytical twitter at

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Speaker 1: what was it like fourth and two or fourth and

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Speaker 1: four or fourth and one, whatever it was. You gotta

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Speaker 1: go for it, you gotta go for it. It's fourteen

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Speaker 1: to thirteen. Was six minutes left in the game. This

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Speaker 1: is not random game in October. This isn't an Excel

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Speaker 1: spreadsheet just uh exercise. This is an NFL playoff game.

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Speaker 1: The New England Patriots have thirteen points. They can't move

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Speaker 1: the football, and then he does his deal where he

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Speaker 1: takes the off sides and he gets a couple more

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Speaker 1: yards and he punts it and they get the ball back.

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Speaker 1: And like the twelve or fifteen someone tweeted at me, John,

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Speaker 1: they only gained twenty five yards. Well, yeah, guys, if

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Speaker 1: they're playing Oklahoma or Joe Burrow or thet or twenty

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00:29:11,320 --> 00:29:14,680
Speaker 1: five yards isn't far. But if you watch the Patriot offense,

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Speaker 1: twenty five yards is a long way to go. It

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Speaker 1: was one million percent the right decision for Rable one

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Speaker 1: to run the clock down and to the punt, not

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Speaker 1: go for it. You do not give them the ball

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Speaker 1: at midfield, not with Tom Brady. I don't love kicking

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Speaker 1: it to him either, but the circumstances of the game

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Speaker 1: dictated they can't move the ball. That that was. That's

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Speaker 1: not an opinion, that's a fact. Their offense wasn't shambles. Nikkill,

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Speaker 1: Harry can't get open. Edelman had a bad drop, and

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Speaker 1: he's just old and kind of banged up. The running

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Speaker 1: backs are just kind of average. I actually think Brady

565
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Speaker 1: was okay, but God, that was just Tennessee just beat him.

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Speaker 1: I really think it was just that simple. They did

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Speaker 1: one thing really well, and that was Derrick Henry just NonStop,

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Speaker 1: over and over and over again, and the Patriots couldn't

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Speaker 1: match that. I think that was really the end of

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Speaker 1: the story. Derrick Henry was the best player on the

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Speaker 1: field start to finish. Saints against the Vikings. You tip

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Speaker 1: your hat to Kirk Cousins because I thought he was

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Speaker 1: shaking the majority of the game, and luckily he didn't

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Speaker 1: have to carry him because Dalvin Cook was killing him.

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Speaker 1: But he made two huge throws down the stretch the

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Speaker 1: past he made to Finland. And then anytime you have

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Speaker 1: a walk off touchdown pass, you tip your hat that's

578
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Speaker 1: for the eight five million dollars. Winning that playoff game

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Speaker 1: wasn't worth at all, but that was probably worth about

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Speaker 1: forty million of it. Winning a winning a playoff game

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Speaker 1: against the Saints as an eight point underdog, when there

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Speaker 1: wasn't a soul, not a soul outside that locker room

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Speaker 1: that thought they would have win the game. I would

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Speaker 1: imagine the Minnesota Vikings fans listening. Let's be honest, you

585
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Speaker 1: guys didn't think you were winning either. You shouldn't have.

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Speaker 1: I mean, the Saints are the first team in NFL

587
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Speaker 1: history to go thirteen and three or better and not

588
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Speaker 1: advance the divisional round, the first team in NFL history.

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Speaker 1: I'm driving around picking up dinner last night thinking, I

590
00:30:59,480 --> 00:31:01,800
Speaker 1: thought the Aints all season long, we're a top two

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Speaker 1: or three team in the league, and they just lost

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Speaker 1: the Vikings at home in the first round of the playoffs.

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Speaker 1: How does that happen? It's one thing to lose, and

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Speaker 1: they lost in overtime. They were flat, They looked awful.

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Speaker 1: What was Sean Payton doing? Why was Drew Brees throwing

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Speaker 1: that ball up at the end of the half and

597
00:31:17,880 --> 00:31:22,080
Speaker 1: throwing the throwing the interception? What was going on? Breeze

598
00:31:22,120 --> 00:31:25,760
Speaker 1: looked old. They were playing so well down the stretch,

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Speaker 1: and then to play a game like that. Now, sometimes

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Speaker 1: you gotta tip your hat to Mike Zimmer, one of

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Speaker 1: the best defensive coaches in the league, Hunter Griffin, Kendricks,

602
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Speaker 1: Harrison Smith. I mean, these guys are premium players and

603
00:31:37,320 --> 00:31:39,360
Speaker 1: they got the best of the Saints, and this the

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00:31:39,440 --> 00:31:43,160
Speaker 1: Saints kind of era is a little like the mccarthierra

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Speaker 1: with Rogers, where we go, God, we've had so much success,

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Speaker 1: but we only have one super Bowl to show, one

607
00:31:48,880 --> 00:31:51,800
Speaker 1: super Bowl the last ten years. Think about that, Saints

608
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Speaker 1: and No. Nine Packers the next year, and they got

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Speaker 1: one super Bowl between them, and they won so many games,

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Speaker 1: they had so many top seeds, so many home playoff games.

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Speaker 1: It hurts. Man. I I feel for you as a

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Speaker 1: Saints fan because you go, we've been we've been winning

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Speaker 1: so much and we end up with this. It's kind

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Speaker 1: of baffling. It really is an Eagles Seattle one. There's

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Speaker 1: a lot of talk on Twitter about the dirty hit.

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Speaker 1: I don't think Clowney's a dirty player or was that

617
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Speaker 1: a dirty hit? I mean, yeah, you'd have to say

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00:32:20,360 --> 00:32:23,880
Speaker 1: it was a dirty hit. Carson Wentz I was I

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Speaker 1: had money on the Eagles. That sucks, man, I mean,

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Speaker 1: we got this far. He played fully healthy all season

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Speaker 1: long for him to get knocked out of the game.

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Speaker 1: Would the Eagles have won the game with Carson Wentz

623
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Speaker 1: in there the whole time? I don't know. Because Seattle

624
00:32:38,000 --> 00:32:40,840
Speaker 1: plays the same freaking game every week. The score has

625
00:32:40,880 --> 00:32:43,000
Speaker 1: just changed. So maybe if Carson been there, the score

626
00:32:43,040 --> 00:32:45,080
Speaker 1: would have been twenty five to twenty two when they

627
00:32:45,080 --> 00:32:48,320
Speaker 1: still win. I don't know, but I wanted to see

628
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Speaker 1: Carson Wentz play a playoff game, go toe to toe

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Speaker 1: with Russell Wilson, and we got robbed to that because

630
00:32:52,880 --> 00:32:56,360
Speaker 1: he got a concussion, and that that just sucks. I

631
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Speaker 1: thought Josh McCown did a admirable job. Russ A Wilson

632
00:33:00,640 --> 00:33:02,760
Speaker 1: just you know, just finds a way to make plays.

633
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Speaker 1: D K mccalf. You know, the one thing that stood

634
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Speaker 1: out to me is size rank. We all know that

635
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Speaker 1: the picture on the internet two of his catches, uh

636
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Speaker 1: one earlier in the game where he caught a ball.

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00:33:16,160 --> 00:33:18,840
Speaker 1: They give him a touchdown, or maybe Marshawn scores the

638
00:33:18,880 --> 00:33:20,840
Speaker 1: next play, maybe they called him down. I can't even remember.

639
00:33:20,880 --> 00:33:23,040
Speaker 1: I got so much football run through my head down

640
00:33:23,120 --> 00:33:26,160
Speaker 1: the down the seam earlier in the game. He puts

641
00:33:26,200 --> 00:33:29,640
Speaker 1: his hands out last second, a little like Randy Moss.

642
00:33:29,680 --> 00:33:31,800
Speaker 1: So if you put your hands out early. I'm not

643
00:33:31,840 --> 00:33:35,160
Speaker 1: a wide receiver coach, but it's just human physics. You

644
00:33:35,240 --> 00:33:37,720
Speaker 1: have to kind of slow down. But if you can

645
00:33:37,800 --> 00:33:40,160
Speaker 1: run full speed. This is why Randy Moss shot his

646
00:33:40,200 --> 00:33:43,280
Speaker 1: hands up at the last possible second, because you don't

647
00:33:43,320 --> 00:33:46,280
Speaker 1: need to break stride. And you watch his ball skills.

648
00:33:46,320 --> 00:33:48,480
Speaker 1: He shoots his hands out and he catches the ball perfectly.

649
00:33:48,480 --> 00:33:51,959
Speaker 1: It's like that is that's impressive. And then the final

650
00:33:52,160 --> 00:33:55,240
Speaker 1: completion of the game, that that ice it for Seattle

651
00:33:55,800 --> 00:33:57,880
Speaker 1: went on third down and the Eagles are calling time out.

652
00:33:57,920 --> 00:33:59,520
Speaker 1: You're like, the Eagles are gonna get the ball back,

653
00:34:00,000 --> 00:34:02,320
Speaker 1: and they go for the kill shot. He beats the

654
00:34:02,400 --> 00:34:04,720
Speaker 1: dbs and instead of letting the ball come to him

655
00:34:04,760 --> 00:34:07,080
Speaker 1: and maybe catching the bread basket, maybe they break it up.

656
00:34:08,040 --> 00:34:10,320
Speaker 1: He does what you're taught to do. He high pointed

657
00:34:10,360 --> 00:34:12,440
Speaker 1: the ball because you had to assume the Eagles dbs

658
00:34:12,440 --> 00:34:14,800
Speaker 1: we're gonna jump to they didn't a high point of

659
00:34:14,840 --> 00:34:17,200
Speaker 1: the ball. Caught the ball at the highest point and

660
00:34:17,440 --> 00:34:19,640
Speaker 1: just a fantastic catch like that guy's got ball skills.

661
00:34:20,520 --> 00:34:22,799
Speaker 1: He may be a little limited in terms of his

662
00:34:23,040 --> 00:34:26,600
Speaker 1: you know, lateral movement, but he is a really, really

663
00:34:26,600 --> 00:34:30,640
Speaker 1: skilled player. And you listen, I think the Packers should

664
00:34:30,640 --> 00:34:33,400
Speaker 1: win this game going into it, but Seattle is just

665
00:34:33,760 --> 00:34:36,480
Speaker 1: they're like a roach. You just you just can't kill him,

666
00:34:36,920 --> 00:34:39,600
Speaker 1: you really can. And a huge reason the culture Pete

667
00:34:39,600 --> 00:34:42,680
Speaker 1: has and Russell in these plays that he made, and god,

668
00:34:42,719 --> 00:34:47,239
Speaker 1: the DK Metcalf what what a draft pick? You know,

669
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Speaker 1: there's a reason that quarterbacks get the girls, Quarterbacks get

670
00:34:51,560 --> 00:34:55,040
Speaker 1: all the fame, and quarterbacks get the most money. They're

671
00:34:55,080 --> 00:35:00,080
Speaker 1: just more important. And it's everyone acknowledges this and this

672
00:35:00,200 --> 00:35:04,640
Speaker 1: point right, it's not nine with Parcels screaming, just like

673
00:35:04,640 --> 00:35:06,680
Speaker 1: we can get by it with anybody you need a

674
00:35:06,800 --> 00:35:12,040
Speaker 1: star quarterback. We are two upsets away with the Vikings

675
00:35:12,080 --> 00:35:17,360
Speaker 1: and the Titans from having Jimmy Garoppolo, Drew Brees, Aaron Rodgers,

676
00:35:17,520 --> 00:35:21,360
Speaker 1: Russell Wilson, Lamar Jackson, Tom Brady, Patrick Mahomes, and Deshaun

677
00:35:21,440 --> 00:35:24,279
Speaker 1: Watson as our final eight quarterbacks. And I think we'd

678
00:35:24,320 --> 00:35:27,200
Speaker 1: all say maybe Jimmy, Jimmy's played like a top eight

679
00:35:27,200 --> 00:35:30,600
Speaker 1: guy in the last month or two, but it's fair

680
00:35:30,640 --> 00:35:32,480
Speaker 1: to say that he has. It's not really what he's

681
00:35:32,600 --> 00:35:35,000
Speaker 1: you know, first half of the season, he definitely wasn't.

682
00:35:35,000 --> 00:35:38,720
Speaker 1: But I believe Jimmy Garoppolo is a top ten quarterback

683
00:35:38,760 --> 00:35:43,040
Speaker 1: in the NFL and should just stabilize himself as one. Obviously,

684
00:35:43,120 --> 00:35:46,280
Speaker 1: Rogers and Russell Hall of Famer's Breese Hall of Famer,

685
00:35:46,440 --> 00:35:50,560
Speaker 1: Brady Goat, Lamar Watson, Mahomes just the sweet young guys.

686
00:35:51,320 --> 00:35:55,040
Speaker 1: This is a quarterback league. Now, Cousins outplayed Drew Brees.

687
00:35:55,960 --> 00:35:59,000
Speaker 1: I wouldn't put him anywhere in this category, but he's lucky.

688
00:35:59,040 --> 00:36:02,640
Speaker 1: He's on a really good team in Tanny Hill. And

689
00:36:02,800 --> 00:36:06,000
Speaker 1: even think about this, Cousins and Tanny Hill, who I mean,

690
00:36:06,080 --> 00:36:09,440
Speaker 1: they didn't necessarily knock out Breeze and Brady, but definitely

691
00:36:09,520 --> 00:36:12,320
Speaker 1: Cousins played a bigger role than Tannie Hill. But Tanny

692
00:36:12,360 --> 00:36:14,040
Speaker 1: Hill is a big reason why the Titans are still

693
00:36:14,040 --> 00:36:16,000
Speaker 1: around and are in the second round of the playoffs.

694
00:36:17,160 --> 00:36:19,919
Speaker 1: That Jimmy Garoppolo paid, you know, a hundred million dollars

695
00:36:19,960 --> 00:36:22,839
Speaker 1: seventy guaranteed, Kirk Cousins got eighty five million dollars, Aaron

696
00:36:22,920 --> 00:36:25,400
Speaker 1: Rodgers over a hundred Russell Wilson over a hundred. Lamar

697
00:36:25,480 --> 00:36:28,040
Speaker 1: Jackson gonna get a huge money. Tanny Hill was once

698
00:36:28,080 --> 00:36:31,120
Speaker 1: a top pick who also got paid. Mahomes would be

699
00:36:31,120 --> 00:36:33,480
Speaker 1: the highest paid player everyone. Deshaun Watson gonna get stupid

700
00:36:33,480 --> 00:36:36,640
Speaker 1: amount of money. There's a reason why you trade up

701
00:36:36,640 --> 00:36:38,759
Speaker 1: for quarterbacks. There was a reason you put all your

702
00:36:38,800 --> 00:36:40,920
Speaker 1: chips in the middle of the table like the Eagles

703
00:36:40,920 --> 00:36:44,160
Speaker 1: did once upon a time for Carson Wentz, because you

704
00:36:44,280 --> 00:36:48,080
Speaker 1: have no shot, would just average Joe. So if your guy,

705
00:36:48,840 --> 00:36:51,799
Speaker 1: if you're going into this offseason, and you can break

706
00:36:51,840 --> 00:36:55,040
Speaker 1: down all you want about we need pass rushers, we

707
00:36:55,080 --> 00:36:58,160
Speaker 1: need better corners like we need better cover guys on

708
00:36:58,200 --> 00:37:02,960
Speaker 1: special teams. If your quarterback is not a player who

709
00:37:03,000 --> 00:37:05,359
Speaker 1: can consistently be a top ten player, now he doesn't

710
00:37:05,360 --> 00:37:07,319
Speaker 1: need to be Tom Brady, he doesn't need to be

711
00:37:07,320 --> 00:37:09,080
Speaker 1: Aaron Rodgers, but he got it has to be a

712
00:37:09,120 --> 00:37:12,000
Speaker 1: guy that he should be considered a Pro Bowl type

713
00:37:12,040 --> 00:37:16,160
Speaker 1: guy every single year. In Minnesota, they don't have that.

714
00:37:16,360 --> 00:37:18,880
Speaker 1: But at least they kind of thought that they overpaid

715
00:37:18,880 --> 00:37:20,919
Speaker 1: a guy. They wanted to get him in they thought

716
00:37:20,920 --> 00:37:22,719
Speaker 1: that he would take him to another level. Now they've

717
00:37:22,719 --> 00:37:25,560
Speaker 1: been a little disappointed, though He's kind of earned his

718
00:37:25,600 --> 00:37:29,799
Speaker 1: stripes with that win on Sundays. The whole point of

719
00:37:29,800 --> 00:37:33,000
Speaker 1: this thing, because I've been in these meetings where you're

720
00:37:33,000 --> 00:37:35,399
Speaker 1: talking about free agency and all these other positions. If

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00:37:35,440 --> 00:37:39,400
Speaker 1: you don't have the quarterback, nothing else freaking matters, nothing

722
00:37:39,719 --> 00:37:43,719
Speaker 1: at all. We talked about Mike McCarthy taking the job one.

723
00:37:43,760 --> 00:37:45,640
Speaker 1: He would have taken the Cowboys job no matter what,

724
00:37:46,000 --> 00:37:48,239
Speaker 1: but it makes it way more exciting for him going

725
00:37:48,360 --> 00:37:51,040
Speaker 1: I got Dak Prescott, And we can argue all day

726
00:37:51,080 --> 00:37:53,879
Speaker 1: long where Dak Prescott falls in the hierarchy of things.

727
00:37:54,400 --> 00:37:56,640
Speaker 1: He's still proven to be a pretty good quarterback in

728
00:37:56,640 --> 00:37:59,240
Speaker 1: this league. You definitely can win go to the playoffs

729
00:37:59,280 --> 00:38:01,640
Speaker 1: with him playing order back for you. That's the problem.

730
00:38:01,640 --> 00:38:03,400
Speaker 1: Like when you look at some of these open jobs,

731
00:38:03,920 --> 00:38:06,919
Speaker 1: you go, is Baker Mayfield that good? Because I'd say,

732
00:38:07,000 --> 00:38:11,200
Speaker 1: right now, I'd have some serious concerns. The Carolina Panther job. Yeah,

733
00:38:11,280 --> 00:38:13,239
Speaker 1: And listen, there's only thirty two of these, so I

734
00:38:13,360 --> 00:38:15,880
Speaker 1: understand it. You go, well, it's Cam ever gonna be

735
00:38:15,920 --> 00:38:17,560
Speaker 1: the same. If we do cut Cam, what are we

736
00:38:17,600 --> 00:38:19,399
Speaker 1: gonna do the Giants? What if I don't think Danny

737
00:38:19,440 --> 00:38:22,760
Speaker 1: Dime is that good? Because if you that's the starting point.

738
00:38:22,920 --> 00:38:25,520
Speaker 1: If you don't have it, it's you're just wasting time.

739
00:38:26,239 --> 00:38:28,640
Speaker 1: So you think that Bill O'Brien is glad that they

740
00:38:28,640 --> 00:38:31,080
Speaker 1: traded up and got Deshaun Watson? Do you think Andy

741
00:38:31,120 --> 00:38:33,120
Speaker 1: Reid's glad that they traded up and got my homes?

742
00:38:33,880 --> 00:38:36,360
Speaker 1: Do you think John Harbaugh is glad that this Lamar

743
00:38:36,440 --> 00:38:39,680
Speaker 1: Jackson situation has played out the way it has. Obviously

744
00:38:39,760 --> 00:38:42,680
Speaker 1: Rodgers and Russ they've had forever. Think of what Ryan

745
00:38:42,719 --> 00:38:46,480
Speaker 1: Tannehill has meant to the to the Tennessee Titans. No

746
00:38:46,600 --> 00:38:48,319
Speaker 1: chance they're here with Mariota. I mean, they're not even

747
00:38:48,320 --> 00:38:51,040
Speaker 1: in the playoffs. They're they're not. Now. The Cousins thing,

748
00:38:51,120 --> 00:38:53,480
Speaker 1: we could go back and forth of, you know, if

749
00:38:53,480 --> 00:38:55,400
Speaker 1: they just would have kept kse Keenum, who knows. I

750
00:38:56,120 --> 00:38:59,400
Speaker 1: don't know. I don't really have an opinion there. I

751
00:38:59,440 --> 00:39:01,840
Speaker 1: would say probably be pretty similar, but maybe Cousin a

752
00:39:01,880 --> 00:39:06,759
Speaker 1: little bit better. But the Jimmy Garoppolo thing, like Kyle Shanahan,

753
00:39:07,000 --> 00:39:08,839
Speaker 1: I text people with the Niners is all the time,

754
00:39:08,880 --> 00:39:11,680
Speaker 1: like you guys gotta send Belichick thank you guards because

755
00:39:11,719 --> 00:39:14,000
Speaker 1: once upon a time, three years ago he sent you

756
00:39:14,000 --> 00:39:18,840
Speaker 1: guys Jimmy Garoppolo at a pretty cheap price. Like what

757
00:39:18,920 --> 00:39:21,080
Speaker 1: would he have said? What would Kyle Shanahan said, can

758
00:39:21,120 --> 00:39:22,759
Speaker 1: we have your first round pick for Jimmy? What do

759
00:39:22,800 --> 00:39:26,359
Speaker 1: you said? No? You know he got a second round

760
00:39:26,360 --> 00:39:29,440
Speaker 1: pick for Jimmy Garoppolo. Who's gonna be the starting quarterback

761
00:39:29,480 --> 00:39:34,800
Speaker 1: for the next I mean at minimum six seven years.

762
00:39:34,840 --> 00:39:37,600
Speaker 1: So if you're if you're wasting time with the mid

763
00:39:37,680 --> 00:39:39,520
Speaker 1: level quarterback, just go around the league. Like if you're

764
00:39:39,520 --> 00:39:41,560
Speaker 1: Arizona right now, you hope Kyler can be the guy.

765
00:39:41,560 --> 00:39:43,560
Speaker 1: And I like Kyler, but is he gonna be a

766
00:39:43,640 --> 00:39:45,920
Speaker 1: top six seven guy in the league? I don't know.

767
00:39:47,080 --> 00:39:49,239
Speaker 1: I don't know. Like if you're Tampa, it's probably the

768
00:39:49,320 --> 00:39:52,000
Speaker 1: argument of like not worth franchise and Jamis you got

769
00:39:52,000 --> 00:39:54,399
Speaker 1: Bruce arians go draft a guy, go develop a guy.

770
00:39:54,800 --> 00:39:57,640
Speaker 1: Don't waste your cast on cash on him. Don't don't

771
00:39:57,640 --> 00:39:59,839
Speaker 1: do it. That's why I think some people are thinking,

772
00:39:59,840 --> 00:40:01,680
Speaker 1: Like in Pittsburgh right now, what are we gonna do?

773
00:40:01,680 --> 00:40:03,759
Speaker 1: We got Roethlisberg coming back because he's too old, he's

774
00:40:03,800 --> 00:40:07,880
Speaker 1: too hurt. Cleveland boys, Baker Mayfield good enough, the Lions

775
00:40:08,000 --> 00:40:09,920
Speaker 1: like a Stafford? Can he is he old? Now? Can

776
00:40:09,920 --> 00:40:13,839
Speaker 1: you stay healthy? Mr Bisky, were screwed. Just just go

777
00:40:13,920 --> 00:40:15,960
Speaker 1: around the league and that's where the Eagles. You know,

778
00:40:16,080 --> 00:40:19,200
Speaker 1: it sucks, he got hurt. That was my response. It sucks.

779
00:40:19,719 --> 00:40:21,919
Speaker 1: I wanted to watch Carson Wentz play a playoff game.

780
00:40:22,360 --> 00:40:25,080
Speaker 1: But at least, you know what, we gotta dude, We

781
00:40:25,160 --> 00:40:28,279
Speaker 1: gotta dude now, yeah, we just we gotta protect him.

782
00:40:28,320 --> 00:40:31,520
Speaker 1: And this year he played sixteen games, so I do

783
00:40:31,600 --> 00:40:33,360
Speaker 1: think and that was a freak deal. He got his

784
00:40:33,440 --> 00:40:35,719
Speaker 1: head slammed on the ground. Could have been Brady, could

785
00:40:35,719 --> 00:40:37,560
Speaker 1: have been Jimmy, could have been anybody. It would have

786
00:40:37,840 --> 00:40:40,080
Speaker 1: just would have got a concussion. Unless you're Julian Edelman,

787
00:40:40,160 --> 00:40:43,360
Speaker 1: you just shake it off. Edelman shakes off concussions. Everyone

788
00:40:43,360 --> 00:40:47,640
Speaker 1: else getsking cussed. But this divisional round is really I mean,

789
00:40:47,680 --> 00:40:51,480
Speaker 1: great teams, big time coaches, but this thing is being

790
00:40:51,560 --> 00:40:55,120
Speaker 1: led by the best quarterbacks in the league. Okay, let's

791
00:40:55,160 --> 00:40:58,000
Speaker 1: talk about a couple of different headlines around the NFL

792
00:40:58,080 --> 00:40:59,440
Speaker 1: that I just want to hit on before we get

793
00:40:59,440 --> 00:41:03,160
Speaker 1: in the middle. Cop mailbag. I think we've known about

794
00:41:03,200 --> 00:41:05,160
Speaker 1: that he was gonna do this. It was kind of

795
00:41:05,960 --> 00:41:08,640
Speaker 1: I guess making the internet rounds. A couple of weeks

796
00:41:08,680 --> 00:41:12,520
Speaker 1: ago that Wade Phillips would not be retained technically as

797
00:41:12,600 --> 00:41:15,279
Speaker 1: contracts up and they didn't extend it. Now here's the

798
00:41:15,280 --> 00:41:18,240
Speaker 1: thing with Wade Phillips. One, he's just an accomplished defensive coordinator.

799
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Speaker 1: So it's gonna be very difficult for Sean McVeigh to upgrade.

800
00:41:21,239 --> 00:41:24,160
Speaker 1: I don't know what he's gonna do. Kind of hope

801
00:41:24,160 --> 00:41:28,439
Speaker 1: that he hireds like Steve Belichick or something, but probably doubtful. Uh,

802
00:41:28,600 --> 00:41:32,239
Speaker 1: Wade Phillips makes a lot of money. My guests is

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00:41:32,280 --> 00:41:33,919
Speaker 1: he was probably making like two and a half million

804
00:41:33,960 --> 00:41:36,440
Speaker 1: dollars for the Rams he was, so you know, in

805
00:41:36,520 --> 00:41:39,280
Speaker 1: three years he probably made about seven eight million dollars.

806
00:41:39,560 --> 00:41:40,919
Speaker 1: It might even be more. It might have been three

807
00:41:40,920 --> 00:41:45,080
Speaker 1: because McVeigh really needed him. I thought once they got

808
00:41:45,160 --> 00:41:48,240
Speaker 1: Jalen Ramsey, their defense was a lot better. They also

809
00:41:48,320 --> 00:41:52,960
Speaker 1: fired their running back coach. I think Skip Pete. It's like,

810
00:41:53,440 --> 00:41:56,359
Speaker 1: well he was he was he a genius two years

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Speaker 1: ago when Todd Gurley was running. Maybe it's Todd Gurley's nee.

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00:41:59,040 --> 00:42:02,000
Speaker 1: This is the bad about the NFL. And I I've

813
00:42:02,040 --> 00:42:05,759
Speaker 1: had some friends who got fired in college. You just

814
00:42:06,200 --> 00:42:08,240
Speaker 1: you're not always fired because you're not a good coach.

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00:42:09,200 --> 00:42:11,680
Speaker 1: You know, a lot of it is just office politics

816
00:42:11,760 --> 00:42:14,960
Speaker 1: in the NFL, the the owner, especially once you get

817
00:42:15,040 --> 00:42:17,759
Speaker 1: high price to like Wade Phillips level, it's like, is

818
00:42:17,800 --> 00:42:20,920
Speaker 1: this guy really worth paying all this money too? I

819
00:42:21,239 --> 00:42:23,640
Speaker 1: don't know how they're gonna upgrade. I there's a chance

820
00:42:23,640 --> 00:42:26,520
Speaker 1: the Rams was worse next year with whoever their defensive

821
00:42:26,520 --> 00:42:30,840
Speaker 1: coordinator is to a Tonga by Loa declared for the

822
00:42:30,920 --> 00:42:34,279
Speaker 1: NFL Draft. We don't really have that much clarity. I

823
00:42:34,280 --> 00:42:37,960
Speaker 1: watched the press conference this morning about his injury, because

824
00:42:38,000 --> 00:42:41,000
Speaker 1: even he doesn't know, and as he said, I'm kind

825
00:42:41,000 --> 00:42:43,320
Speaker 1: of taking a leap of faith. You have a better idea.

826
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Speaker 1: I think of a three month mark with the hip.

827
00:42:46,680 --> 00:42:49,440
Speaker 1: But there is no guarantee that he's gonna be just one.

828
00:42:50,880 --> 00:42:53,520
Speaker 1: So for me to make some declaration where he's gonna go.

829
00:42:53,680 --> 00:42:55,759
Speaker 1: If they can give him a bill of health that

830
00:42:55,880 --> 00:42:59,160
Speaker 1: says clean and he's gonna be one by week one,

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Speaker 1: he he's going in the top five lock lock, top

832
00:43:02,800 --> 00:43:06,160
Speaker 1: five pick hell. He's the second quarterback off the board.

833
00:43:06,160 --> 00:43:08,960
Speaker 1: He's going above Justin Herbert. But if there are question

834
00:43:09,000 --> 00:43:12,600
Speaker 1: Mark said, well he might be okay in a year. Well,

835
00:43:12,920 --> 00:43:15,839
Speaker 1: you know he might never be the same. Then it's

836
00:43:15,880 --> 00:43:17,920
Speaker 1: just up in the air. And then a team is

837
00:43:17,920 --> 00:43:20,160
Speaker 1: still gonna draft him in the first round, but it

838
00:43:20,200 --> 00:43:24,200
Speaker 1: would be a I don't know, pretty big calculated risk.

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Speaker 1: I hope he's gonna be okay. He sounded in good spirits,

840
00:43:27,840 --> 00:43:30,560
Speaker 1: really impressive. I haven't really heard him talk that much.

841
00:43:31,000 --> 00:43:33,160
Speaker 1: You can see why everyone in that program loves him.

842
00:43:33,480 --> 00:43:36,880
Speaker 1: His tape speaks for himself. He's like a little Russell Wilson, uh,

843
00:43:37,000 --> 00:43:40,759
Speaker 1: just an accurate down the field killer. He's not as

844
00:43:40,800 --> 00:43:43,279
Speaker 1: mobile as Russell, but he's gonna he Here's the other

845
00:43:43,320 --> 00:43:46,840
Speaker 1: thing from a scouting perspective, he's got a legit red flag.

846
00:43:46,920 --> 00:43:50,479
Speaker 1: Even if this hip is gonna be a one. He's

847
00:43:50,480 --> 00:43:53,080
Speaker 1: injured ankles multiple times in college and then in a

848
00:43:53,160 --> 00:43:55,799
Speaker 1: hip injury. And it's not like he's a five year

849
00:43:55,960 --> 00:43:59,360
Speaker 1: player and he's played three years and couldn't make it

850
00:43:59,360 --> 00:44:01,800
Speaker 1: through a full sea eason this year. Obviously, with the

851
00:44:01,880 --> 00:44:04,440
Speaker 1: hip and his freshman year, he didn't really play a

852
00:44:04,440 --> 00:44:06,560
Speaker 1: full season because he was always alternating in and out

853
00:44:06,560 --> 00:44:09,120
Speaker 1: with Jalen Hurts. So you really just have the one

854
00:44:09,239 --> 00:44:12,239
Speaker 1: season where he was the full time starter last year

855
00:44:13,480 --> 00:44:16,520
Speaker 1: and now thinking about it, Remember he got hurt I

856
00:44:16,560 --> 00:44:19,600
Speaker 1: think in the SEC Championship game against Georgia. Jalen Hurts

857
00:44:19,640 --> 00:44:21,200
Speaker 1: came in, won the game. Then they ended up going

858
00:44:21,239 --> 00:44:23,839
Speaker 1: to the the National Championship where they lost. But he's been

859
00:44:23,920 --> 00:44:28,000
Speaker 1: hurt in games both the sophomore and obviously this year.

860
00:44:28,120 --> 00:44:31,880
Speaker 1: So he's gonna be an interesting prospect that, you know,

861
00:44:32,239 --> 00:44:34,279
Speaker 1: even if he does get the full clean bill of health,

862
00:44:34,360 --> 00:44:36,400
Speaker 1: just in the sense that he's got a lot of

863
00:44:36,440 --> 00:44:40,200
Speaker 1: injuries over the years. The Browns, they're just interviewing everybody.

864
00:44:40,719 --> 00:44:43,360
Speaker 1: Clearly they it feels like they want Josh McDaniels. It

865
00:44:43,360 --> 00:44:45,160
Speaker 1: feels like Josh McDaniels is gonna have his pick of

866
00:44:45,200 --> 00:44:47,440
Speaker 1: the litteral whether it's the Giants, whether it's the Browns,

867
00:44:47,800 --> 00:44:50,440
Speaker 1: whether it's the Carolina Panthers. It's kind of gonna be

868
00:44:50,480 --> 00:44:52,959
Speaker 1: up to him. If I had to guess right now,

869
00:44:56,160 --> 00:44:57,880
Speaker 1: I would say that he ends up with the Carolina

870
00:44:57,880 --> 00:45:00,480
Speaker 1: Panthers if he leaves, you know, is he gonna go

871
00:45:00,480 --> 00:45:04,200
Speaker 1: to New York Giants, Davietteleman, no chance, the Browns while

872
00:45:04,239 --> 00:45:07,120
Speaker 1: they have talent. Is he gonna go work for Dee

873
00:45:07,160 --> 00:45:09,360
Speaker 1: Podesta and Jimmy has them that that would be my

874
00:45:09,480 --> 00:45:12,160
Speaker 1: question mark. If I was ranking it, I would probably

875
00:45:12,160 --> 00:45:14,479
Speaker 1: go Panthers one, just because he can get a clean

876
00:45:14,520 --> 00:45:17,680
Speaker 1: slate do it all himself. I know they kept Marty Hernie,

877
00:45:17,760 --> 00:45:19,919
Speaker 1: but I think Josh if he wants Marty Hernie out

878
00:45:20,560 --> 00:45:23,600
Speaker 1: that Dave Tepper would fire him. The Haslum and then

879
00:45:23,640 --> 00:45:27,839
Speaker 1: probably the Giants last, if they're gonna keep Gettleman. The Patriots.

880
00:45:27,840 --> 00:45:29,920
Speaker 1: I saw another thing on the ticker right now. I

881
00:45:30,000 --> 00:45:32,080
Speaker 1: got a Louisiana Miami of Ohio game on in the

882
00:45:32,120 --> 00:45:39,600
Speaker 1: background that the Saints, excuse me, Eagles Seattle was the

883
00:45:39,640 --> 00:45:42,759
Speaker 1: highest rated games as the Super Bowl. The Patriot game

884
00:45:42,840 --> 00:45:46,400
Speaker 1: did about thirty million people. It's just the the NFL

885
00:45:46,800 --> 00:45:49,319
Speaker 1: is really the only place that can generate that many

886
00:45:49,360 --> 00:45:52,680
Speaker 1: people at one time watching one event. It's life sports,

887
00:45:52,680 --> 00:45:55,080
Speaker 1: but it's specifically the NFL. Like the NBA can't do that,

888
00:45:55,120 --> 00:45:59,359
Speaker 1: Baseball can't do that, Tiger Woods can't do that. It's

889
00:45:59,400 --> 00:46:02,440
Speaker 1: just that, like an election, that's that's the power of

890
00:46:02,480 --> 00:46:04,600
Speaker 1: the NFL. That's why these guys are printing money. So

891
00:46:04,719 --> 00:46:07,480
Speaker 1: thank you Russell Wilson, thank you Tom Brady, thank everyone

892
00:46:07,520 --> 00:46:10,080
Speaker 1: for watching. So I have a job. It's cool to

893
00:46:10,120 --> 00:46:12,520
Speaker 1: see the power of the NFL, which is just rolling

894
00:46:12,600 --> 00:46:16,319
Speaker 1: right now. Okay, let's dive into the Middlecoff mail bag

895
00:46:17,680 --> 00:46:21,600
Speaker 1: dive right in Tom podcasts. Where do you see sports

896
00:46:21,719 --> 00:46:24,520
Speaker 1: data analysts going in professional football and you think it

897
00:46:24,560 --> 00:46:27,200
Speaker 1: will work in the NFL. It seems like the NFL

898
00:46:27,280 --> 00:46:29,839
Speaker 1: is slightly behind basketball and Major League Baseball in terms

899
00:46:29,880 --> 00:46:33,440
Speaker 1: of data movement. I'm particularly interested in how you, as

900
00:46:33,480 --> 00:46:38,320
Speaker 1: a former scout feel about when analyzing potential perspect prospects

901
00:46:38,400 --> 00:46:40,759
Speaker 1: or trade acquisitions. Is it a tool that helps or

902
00:46:40,800 --> 00:46:44,560
Speaker 1: something that trumps the gut instinct. Seems like sometimes there's

903
00:46:44,600 --> 00:46:48,319
Speaker 1: tension between data data analysts and scouting. Yeah, I mean

904
00:46:48,320 --> 00:46:51,120
Speaker 1: I think I say it all the time. I think

905
00:46:51,680 --> 00:46:54,959
Speaker 1: numbers have been a huge part of football forever, from

906
00:46:55,120 --> 00:46:59,440
Speaker 1: speed to wait to production to even the in depth

907
00:46:59,520 --> 00:47:04,640
Speaker 1: analysts like analyzing different individuals at the combine, Like numbers

908
00:47:04,640 --> 00:47:07,279
Speaker 1: are a huge part of any what any scouter front

909
00:47:07,320 --> 00:47:13,680
Speaker 1: office does. I think there's some some you know, you know,

910
00:47:13,760 --> 00:47:15,759
Speaker 1: push and pull. I would say with some of the

911
00:47:15,840 --> 00:47:19,960
Speaker 1: in game stuff, always going forward on fourth down, Some

912
00:47:20,080 --> 00:47:22,279
Speaker 1: of that type stuff I think can be argued. My

913
00:47:22,400 --> 00:47:25,040
Speaker 1: my I said this last podcast. My question always is

914
00:47:25,040 --> 00:47:28,120
Speaker 1: why can't the data people ever admit they're wrong, And

915
00:47:28,160 --> 00:47:30,239
Speaker 1: they would just say, well because the numbers say it's right,

916
00:47:30,920 --> 00:47:32,600
Speaker 1: and say, well, you went for two there and it

917
00:47:32,600 --> 00:47:34,839
Speaker 1: didn't work. You went forward on fourth down to day

918
00:47:34,960 --> 00:47:37,520
Speaker 1: I heard of Mike Rabel wasn't idiot for punting? You

919
00:47:37,560 --> 00:47:41,200
Speaker 1: won the game. But yeah, in terms of players yards

920
00:47:41,239 --> 00:47:44,879
Speaker 1: after catch, any in depth numbers that you can give

921
00:47:44,920 --> 00:47:47,680
Speaker 1: me that I don't have readily available, why why wouldn't

922
00:47:47,719 --> 00:47:50,640
Speaker 1: you take it? But this notion that just you can

923
00:47:51,360 --> 00:47:54,240
Speaker 1: determine a player, here's the difference. Like toughness and baseball

924
00:47:54,320 --> 00:47:57,759
Speaker 1: doesn't matter as much in football. You have to be

925
00:47:57,800 --> 00:48:01,279
Speaker 1: able to have toughness and grit and determination, Like that's

926
00:48:01,320 --> 00:48:04,200
Speaker 1: what separates football players. We're in baseball. It's just like

927
00:48:04,200 --> 00:48:06,120
Speaker 1: a bunch of individual It's like a stock market of

928
00:48:06,160 --> 00:48:10,640
Speaker 1: just individual players were ultimately all sports are. But in football,

929
00:48:10,640 --> 00:48:14,400
Speaker 1: when analyzing a player and just in terms of toughness

930
00:48:14,400 --> 00:48:16,800
Speaker 1: and and will power, especially like in the trenches, that

931
00:48:17,000 --> 00:48:20,799
Speaker 1: they are just stuff that are hard to quantify and

932
00:48:21,040 --> 00:48:25,480
Speaker 1: I think are unquantifiable. Like is everything quantifiable with Tom Brady,

933
00:48:25,760 --> 00:48:28,839
Speaker 1: I'd say no, not even close. Now you can tell

934
00:48:28,880 --> 00:48:32,440
Speaker 1: his height and his arm strength and his completion percentage.

935
00:48:32,840 --> 00:48:37,920
Speaker 1: What makes Tom Brady great like his just discipline, his

936
00:48:37,960 --> 00:48:40,799
Speaker 1: willingness to do whatever it takes. As he said on

937
00:48:40,840 --> 00:48:44,319
Speaker 1: Tom Versus Time, if you're gonna beat me, you better

938
00:48:44,360 --> 00:48:46,719
Speaker 1: be willing to go every step of the way, because

939
00:48:46,719 --> 00:48:50,360
Speaker 1: I've dedicated my life to this, my eating habits, my

940
00:48:50,480 --> 00:48:54,480
Speaker 1: sleeping habits, my film habits. You ain't gonna outwork me.

941
00:48:55,520 --> 00:48:59,759
Speaker 1: I've given up. I've given up ice cream. He did,

942
00:49:00,000 --> 00:49:03,920
Speaker 1: wouldn't give a ice cream for football? Load the pod.

943
00:49:04,160 --> 00:49:06,400
Speaker 1: I'm twenty four year olds Lions fans, so I have

944
00:49:06,680 --> 00:49:09,120
Speaker 1: never seen them win a playoff game. Damn. I know

945
00:49:09,200 --> 00:49:11,520
Speaker 1: you feel about their dysfunction as an organization, but could

946
00:49:11,520 --> 00:49:14,919
Speaker 1: you create a reality where that happens next season other

947
00:49:14,960 --> 00:49:17,520
Speaker 1: than all the other NFC North teams ship in the bed?

948
00:49:18,120 --> 00:49:20,200
Speaker 1: How would you handle the third pick? And is there

949
00:49:20,200 --> 00:49:22,960
Speaker 1: a possible free agent for them to target to make

950
00:49:23,000 --> 00:49:26,160
Speaker 1: this fairy tale universal reality. I think the roster is

951
00:49:26,160 --> 00:49:29,359
Speaker 1: decent enough. I would agree to complete, but Patricia, as

952
00:49:29,400 --> 00:49:31,840
Speaker 1: a joke, would love to hear your thoughts and continue

953
00:49:31,880 --> 00:49:35,919
Speaker 1: doing your thing in two. Thanks well, I would say

954
00:49:35,920 --> 00:49:38,239
Speaker 1: at the third overall pick with two a coming out

955
00:49:38,320 --> 00:49:41,200
Speaker 1: is a good thing for the Lions, assuming Stafford's healthy,

956
00:49:41,200 --> 00:49:42,880
Speaker 1: and I think I saw him claim a couple of

957
00:49:42,920 --> 00:49:45,320
Speaker 1: weeks ago, maybe it was less than that he's fine

958
00:49:46,480 --> 00:49:48,880
Speaker 1: for his back is gonna be fine. They do have

959
00:49:48,960 --> 00:49:52,319
Speaker 1: some pieces offensively, the running back from Auburn Johnson, the

960
00:49:52,360 --> 00:49:55,360
Speaker 1: wide receivers they have Hockinson. If Stafford's healthy, their offense

961
00:49:55,400 --> 00:49:57,879
Speaker 1: is really good. Defensively, they gotta get a lot better.

962
00:49:57,880 --> 00:50:00,400
Speaker 1: I mean, they traded their starting safety the Seattle Seahawks.

963
00:50:00,400 --> 00:50:04,880
Speaker 1: He was good. Uh. They Trey Flowers, solid player, a

964
00:50:04,960 --> 00:50:08,840
Speaker 1: little overpaid, but I think you could potentially trade back down,

965
00:50:09,239 --> 00:50:11,000
Speaker 1: you know, three or four spots to someone who wants

966
00:50:11,000 --> 00:50:16,440
Speaker 1: a quarterback, get multiple ones and really kind of uh,

967
00:50:16,719 --> 00:50:19,319
Speaker 1: you know, just add to the war chest because you

968
00:50:19,320 --> 00:50:21,880
Speaker 1: guys need a lot of talent, especially on defense. Now

969
00:50:21,920 --> 00:50:24,200
Speaker 1: you could say Patricia's a defensive coach. Shouldn't he be

970
00:50:24,239 --> 00:50:26,279
Speaker 1: able to figure that out? And in theory should, But

971
00:50:26,320 --> 00:50:28,040
Speaker 1: when you look back at his time with the Patriots,

972
00:50:28,040 --> 00:50:30,319
Speaker 1: the Patriots defense got a lot better the year he left,

973
00:50:30,360 --> 00:50:32,399
Speaker 1: and then it was good again this year when he

974
00:50:32,440 --> 00:50:35,200
Speaker 1: was there, it wasn't ever as good. Is there a

975
00:50:35,239 --> 00:50:39,279
Speaker 1: little fraudulent characteristic to him? You know, I think it

976
00:50:39,320 --> 00:50:41,839
Speaker 1: could be argued. But then you go, well, you think

977
00:50:41,880 --> 00:50:45,239
Speaker 1: Belichick would just let some fraud be around him? You'd say,

978
00:50:45,280 --> 00:50:47,480
Speaker 1: probably not. I mean, the guy is really smart and

979
00:50:47,480 --> 00:50:49,360
Speaker 1: I think he worked really hard, But is he that

980
00:50:49,440 --> 00:50:53,399
Speaker 1: dynamic of a coach. I don't know. I think that's

981
00:50:53,440 --> 00:50:55,960
Speaker 1: gonna be your problem is because they were in a

982
00:50:55,960 --> 00:50:57,960
Speaker 1: lot of games early before they lost a bunch of

983
00:50:57,960 --> 00:51:00,600
Speaker 1: injured guys. Because their office, they could really score. But

984
00:51:00,719 --> 00:51:03,279
Speaker 1: he's got nothing to do with the offense. I just

985
00:51:03,320 --> 00:51:06,600
Speaker 1: think that he's just the wrong guy. How do you

986
00:51:06,600 --> 00:51:08,920
Speaker 1: think the Rams are gonna handle their cap space issues?

987
00:51:08,960 --> 00:51:11,720
Speaker 1: We have Goff, Girly, Donald and Cook's hitting heavy against

988
00:51:11,719 --> 00:51:13,880
Speaker 1: the cap, and now Jalen Ramsey needs to be signed.

989
00:51:14,239 --> 00:51:16,919
Speaker 1: We also have at least six key defensive players to sign,

990
00:51:16,960 --> 00:51:23,040
Speaker 1: including Dante Fowler, Littleton and Roby Coleman. I I just

991
00:51:23,080 --> 00:51:26,000
Speaker 1: don't know how you build your team around having five

992
00:51:26,080 --> 00:51:29,360
Speaker 1: guys accounting for fifty percent of the salary cap, and

993
00:51:29,400 --> 00:51:32,439
Speaker 1: the salary cap is two hundred million dollars, and even

994
00:51:32,560 --> 00:51:34,200
Speaker 1: Ramsey on his fifth year option to go with the

995
00:51:34,280 --> 00:51:38,320
Speaker 1: other four guys is almost a hundred million dollars salary

996
00:51:38,320 --> 00:51:40,360
Speaker 1: caps two d million dollars, so you can't afford to

997
00:51:40,400 --> 00:51:43,440
Speaker 1: have many like ten to fifteen million dollar guys. I

998
00:51:44,080 --> 00:51:47,279
Speaker 1: think they are majorly screwed because the girl's contract. They're

999
00:51:47,280 --> 00:51:49,279
Speaker 1: paying him a lot, and he's not He's just not

1000
00:51:49,400 --> 00:51:52,280
Speaker 1: physically able to do it. And you've got Jared Goff

1001
00:51:52,320 --> 00:51:56,040
Speaker 1: who was overpaid and he's If you're gonna make a

1002
00:51:56,120 --> 00:51:58,840
Speaker 1: hund ten million dollars, you have to play like Russell Wilson.

1003
00:51:59,440 --> 00:52:02,880
Speaker 1: You have to play like Deshaun Watson or Patrick Mahomes.

1004
00:52:03,440 --> 00:52:05,680
Speaker 1: You you can't play like Jared gott like you gotta

1005
00:52:05,680 --> 00:52:08,160
Speaker 1: be able to carry me, and it's hard for him

1006
00:52:08,200 --> 00:52:11,800
Speaker 1: to carry anyone because he can't get away from pass

1007
00:52:11,880 --> 00:52:15,560
Speaker 1: rushers because his offensive line is not very good. Well,

1008
00:52:15,600 --> 00:52:18,680
Speaker 1: what do offensive linemen usually cost a lot of money?

1009
00:52:19,080 --> 00:52:20,880
Speaker 1: Either got to draft him high. Well, they don't have

1010
00:52:20,920 --> 00:52:23,680
Speaker 1: first round picks and they don't have much money to spend,

1011
00:52:24,239 --> 00:52:26,600
Speaker 1: so you're gonna have the draft and develop. This is

1012
00:52:26,640 --> 00:52:30,480
Speaker 1: gonna be a really, really challenging year for Sean McVeigh because,

1013
00:52:30,520 --> 00:52:33,640
Speaker 1: like you just listed those guys, like, why wouldn't the

1014
00:52:33,680 --> 00:52:36,279
Speaker 1: Chiefs offer little in some money? All these teams around

1015
00:52:36,280 --> 00:52:38,359
Speaker 1: the league are gonna want Littleton Roby's a really good

1016
00:52:38,440 --> 00:52:40,680
Speaker 1: nickel corner. When you want a guy like him, These

1017
00:52:40,680 --> 00:52:42,840
Speaker 1: guys are gonna get paid, and they're gonna get offered

1018
00:52:42,880 --> 00:52:44,600
Speaker 1: because the way it works in free agencies, when you

1019
00:52:44,680 --> 00:52:47,080
Speaker 1: hit the open market, it drives up the price because

1020
00:52:47,080 --> 00:52:48,719
Speaker 1: you got multiple teams bidding at you, and they're not

1021
00:52:48,760 --> 00:52:51,200
Speaker 1: gonna be able to bid just because they're gonna have

1022
00:52:51,239 --> 00:52:53,960
Speaker 1: a limit on how much they can spend to be.

1023
00:52:54,200 --> 00:52:57,120
Speaker 1: You know, guy like Stan Cronker, you probably love, I

1024
00:52:57,160 --> 00:52:58,960
Speaker 1: guess in theory. I mean a lot of people say

1025
00:52:58,960 --> 00:53:01,680
Speaker 1: they would, but they wouldn't ext expend it. And you know,

1026
00:53:01,760 --> 00:53:04,120
Speaker 1: no salary cap, but there is a salary cap. That's

1027
00:53:04,160 --> 00:53:07,960
Speaker 1: the rules. Why aren't people talking about Tom Brady and

1028
00:53:08,000 --> 00:53:10,719
Speaker 1: Josh McDaniels are the Panthers. They have a new aggressive

1029
00:53:10,760 --> 00:53:13,200
Speaker 1: owner with a solid defense and a plethora of offensive

1030
00:53:13,200 --> 00:53:16,600
Speaker 1: pieces for them to work with. Well, I could, like

1031
00:53:16,640 --> 00:53:19,480
Speaker 1: I do think Josh McDaniels might end up there. I

1032
00:53:19,680 --> 00:53:22,719
Speaker 1: just have a hard time thinking Tom Brady is gonna

1033
00:53:22,760 --> 00:53:26,360
Speaker 1: play for the Carolina Panthers now. As someone in the

1034
00:53:26,440 --> 00:53:29,040
Speaker 1: league told me a while back, Tom, you know, Joe

1035
00:53:29,080 --> 00:53:32,600
Speaker 1: Montana played for the Kanci Chiefs right, Brett fav played

1036
00:53:32,600 --> 00:53:35,920
Speaker 1: for the Minnesota Vikings. Guys, just no one saw that coming.

1037
00:53:36,440 --> 00:53:39,600
Speaker 1: So I will not discount it. I still will be

1038
00:53:39,640 --> 00:53:42,840
Speaker 1: shocked if Tom Brady goes to a team like a

1039
00:53:42,920 --> 00:53:45,800
Speaker 1: small market, and I don't. Caroline actually a growing market.

1040
00:53:45,840 --> 00:53:48,040
Speaker 1: But you know what I mean, you know, not like

1041
00:53:48,080 --> 00:53:51,760
Speaker 1: a blue brought blood huge top three or four market

1042
00:53:51,760 --> 00:53:54,960
Speaker 1: in the country. But it does make sense from a

1043
00:53:54,960 --> 00:53:58,959
Speaker 1: football perspective for Tom to go with Josh. So yeah,

1044
00:53:59,000 --> 00:54:02,799
Speaker 1: I don't. It's a tough call. I I you know,

1045
00:54:02,800 --> 00:54:05,719
Speaker 1: they got McCaffrey, they got DJ Moore, they got Samuel

1046
00:54:05,800 --> 00:54:08,120
Speaker 1: You're right, They've got some weapons and defensively they got

1047
00:54:08,120 --> 00:54:10,640
Speaker 1: some pieces. It's not crazy. Maybe I just convinced myself

1048
00:54:10,680 --> 00:54:12,680
Speaker 1: maybe he does go there. Maybe he's a Caroline Tom

1049
00:54:12,680 --> 00:54:15,080
Speaker 1: Brady's at Carolina Panther. It's hard to even say that

1050
00:54:15,080 --> 00:54:19,400
Speaker 1: out loud, Hi, John. How significant are the differences in

1051
00:54:19,480 --> 00:54:23,000
Speaker 1: state income tax affecting the teams in the context of

1052
00:54:23,040 --> 00:54:25,520
Speaker 1: free agency. The issue gets referred to in passing from

1053
00:54:25,560 --> 00:54:27,640
Speaker 1: time to time, but surely it's a major obstacle to

1054
00:54:27,680 --> 00:54:30,399
Speaker 1: the league providing teams with the level playing field. If

1055
00:54:30,440 --> 00:54:34,239
Speaker 1: the league is serious about uh, equality of opportunity for

1056
00:54:34,239 --> 00:54:36,879
Speaker 1: all teams? Should they not base the cap on post

1057
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Speaker 1: tax I e. Take home salary? My understanding is that

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Speaker 1: it is instead based on pretext salary. But I may

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Speaker 1: be wrong. I love the podcast. Yeah, I think it's

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Speaker 1: a complicated matter. I don't think it's incumbent on the

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Speaker 1: league to do that, you know, I mean, it doesn't

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Speaker 1: work that way in society. Right If if Facebook wants

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Speaker 1: to make a competitive offer to a guy that's working

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Speaker 1: in Texas, you gotta overpay. You want to get to

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Speaker 1: the forty niners, maybe they have to overpay. I've never

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Speaker 1: been offered millions of dollars and I've lived in California

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Speaker 1: and made a pretty good living, so it definitely impacts.

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Speaker 1: But there's a reason you pay more to be in

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Speaker 1: San Francisco. It's a bigger market. There's more money to

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Speaker 1: be made here. Same with l A. There's a lot

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Speaker 1: of you know, a lot of these professional athletes have

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Speaker 1: homes in l A. They suck it up. The same

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Speaker 1: with New York, like there there is more business to

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Speaker 1: be done here. Now you can go play for Jacksonville

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Speaker 1: or Tampa and yeah, you might get some more salary.

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Speaker 1: How the businesses around there. I promise you they ain't

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Speaker 1: like they are here or l A. Now. Dallas is

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Speaker 1: the perfect combo of it both no state income tax,

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Speaker 1: massive market, massive brand. That's where i'd go. But I

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Speaker 1: listen if someone's offering you, if the Niners off some

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Speaker 1: offer someone a competitive offer, and you can play for

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Speaker 1: the Niners. There's so much money to be made around here.

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Speaker 1: I I think they can land guys now in baseball,

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Speaker 1: I've seen the Giants come up short with a lot

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Speaker 1: of people. Now it's hard to hell if they're just

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Speaker 1: they want to be talked about like they're in the mix,

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Speaker 1: even though they don't actually want to pay the guys.

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Speaker 1: But it's cost them a little bit. I just I

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Speaker 1: don't know. It's a it's a good question. I think

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Speaker 1: it's a little overblown. But if all things are equal,

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Speaker 1: you know, like this offseason, let's say this, You're a

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Speaker 1: free agent and the forty Niners offer you ten million dollars,

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Speaker 1: the Raiders offer you ten million dollars. In the Houston

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Speaker 1: Texans offer you ten million dollars, and you're you're a cornerback.

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Speaker 1: You can start a corner for any of the three teams.

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Speaker 1: Is it just strictly like where you can win, Like

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Speaker 1: what are your priorities? You want to win? You go

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Speaker 1: to Vegas and hang out. You probably aren't gonna go

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Speaker 1: to the playoffs because Raiders never go to the playoffs. Texans, Yeah,

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Speaker 1: you might go to playoffs. You might be one and done.

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Speaker 1: Or hell, let's say the forty Niners, you know, go

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Speaker 1: to the super Bowl this year. You go, i might

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Speaker 1: be the missing piece to get a championship, but I'm

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Speaker 1: gonna make the least amount of income from the forts Now. Also,

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Speaker 1: professional sports on sixteen games, you don't get sixteen games

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Speaker 1: California tax because you play some games out of state.

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Speaker 1: So it's it's a little complicated. I'd actually actually that

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Speaker 1: need to ask people in the league exactly how that works.

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Speaker 1: But it's not like a black and white. You get

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Speaker 1: all your tax from California when you play like Arizona,

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Speaker 1: your tax of the Arizona rate. I've been a Dolphins

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Speaker 1: fan my whole life, and it's pretty miserable up to

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Speaker 1: this point. I'm only twenty four, but I'm actually liking

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Speaker 1: the spot we're in right now. I'm loving coach Flores.

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Speaker 1: No nons guy who wants to win. This draft is

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Speaker 1: obviously huge for the team, and I was curious your thoughts. Obviously,

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Speaker 1: I'm thinking a quarterback with the number five pick, But

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Speaker 1: who do you think they should do with the other

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Speaker 1: three picks? The other three first round picks they have,

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Speaker 1: they got three first round picks, well, I guess they

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Speaker 1: only got two other ones this year from Manca and Tuntil. Uh.

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Speaker 1: That's a good question. I think you take two of

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Speaker 1: Herbert at number five, probably Herbert because too you might

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Speaker 1: have to trade up, like if you want to, you

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Speaker 1: might have to trade up to number three with the

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Speaker 1: Lions to get to AH, which I think that's the move. Ceilia,

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Speaker 1: Joe Burrow, go on, you let Chase Young go to

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Speaker 1: When you trade up to number three and you get

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Speaker 1: to h that that to me is the play. And

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Speaker 1: then with your other picks, just take sweet players. You

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Speaker 1: gotta need some offensive lineman. You're gonna need dbs. I mean,

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Speaker 1: you traded these guys. I haven't seen much of it

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Speaker 1: beside it came across the ticker like a week ago.

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Speaker 1: Xavier and Xavian Howard, you guys best corner? Did he

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Speaker 1: did he get arrested for hidting his girlfriend or wife?

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Speaker 1: So that might be game over for that dude. I

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Speaker 1: would say the number one thing you need to do

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Speaker 1: is landed quarterback and Fitzpatrick did an incredible job this

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Speaker 1: year given what they had, but they need to get

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Speaker 1: a Ta or Herbert whoever you like, more and then

1141
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Speaker 1: just take best player available with the other two picks.

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Speaker 1: That that, to me is the key it. Load up

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Speaker 1: on the talent, Load up on the talent. Appreciate everyone listening,

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Speaker 1: thanks for reaching out. Middlecoff mail bag always wide open

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Speaker 1: to you guys, and enjoy the week. Talk to you soon.