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Speaker 1: What is going on? Everybody? John Biddle, Coop three and

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Speaker 1: Out Podcast, Welcome back. I hope everyone had a great weekend,

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Speaker 1: had a good Mother's Day. You take care of your mom,

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Speaker 1: your wife, your baby's mama, whatever you had to do.

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Speaker 1: I went out to dinner with my mother and my

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Speaker 1: brother and his wife and his young son. David also

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Speaker 1: goes by DJ. He is a terror. I like him.

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Speaker 1: He's got he's got a he's got a large upside. Uh,

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Speaker 1: big personality, big smile, like like his energy level. But

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Speaker 1: obviously we're here to talk football, and that is what

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Speaker 1: we will do. I have some talks, because uh talks.

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Speaker 1: I have some thoughts. For a while, it looks like

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Speaker 1: O t A s we're gonna be canceled. But it

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Speaker 1: looks like the Union elites and those super rich players

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Speaker 1: have been outvoted and uh, something that would never happen

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Speaker 1: in society, but it happened in the NFL, and it

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Speaker 1: really stood out to me. The schedule release is this week.

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Speaker 1: The schedule release the great part of the NFL. We

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Speaker 1: literally know whatever team that you root for, who your

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Speaker 1: team is playing, and where the games are. We just

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Speaker 1: get to find out what week those games are and

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Speaker 1: obviously the primetime games Thursday night games. So I just

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Speaker 1: have a couple of things I'm looking for with every team.

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Speaker 1: I mean, the first thing that stands out to me.

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Speaker 1: I saw something. Tom Brady has already reached out to

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Speaker 1: Kyle Trask, and I just had some overall thoughts as

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Speaker 1: we kind of move away from this draft on, just

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Speaker 1: some philosophies I would have when uh type guys I

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Speaker 1: would look for when uh, when pulling the trigger undraft picks.

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Speaker 1: Definitely high high draft picks for sure. Uh. Then just

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Speaker 1: some other little things will dive into. Of course, Middlecoff

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Speaker 1: Mailbag at John Middlecoff is my Instagram, and if you

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Speaker 1: slide in that Instagram you get your questions answered here

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Speaker 1: on the Middlecoff mail back. Also, if you could, I

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Speaker 1: know many of you have, and I greatly appreciate it.

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Speaker 1: Subscribe to the Three and Out podcast separate from Collins feed. Also,

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Speaker 1: helps us with just everything we're trying to do here

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Speaker 1: in the three and Out podcast world. Quick opinion on

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Speaker 1: the news of the day, Tim Tebow after I saw

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Speaker 1: field Yates tweet it has not played or been on

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Speaker 1: an NFL team, and over three thousand days, almost eight

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Speaker 1: years ago is back. And my take was over the weekend.

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Speaker 1: I think as this thing started gaining steam, if he's

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Speaker 1: able to make the team at thirty three years old

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Speaker 1: at tight end, after taking years off to play baseball

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Speaker 1: and work in the media, it would be his most

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Speaker 1: incredible athletic achievement to date. That includes at Florida, that

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Speaker 1: includes winning a playoff game. That would be incredible. If

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Speaker 1: he can catch, get open and block defensive ends, I

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Speaker 1: would bet against him. My first take would be, I

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Speaker 1: I think it's an incredible, incredibly difficult ask. I get

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Speaker 1: why they're doing it, no harm, no foul, whatever. I

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Speaker 1: do think if he somehow is able to pull this

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Speaker 1: I guess he wouldn't start. But even if he just

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Speaker 1: plays one, they would move the needle immediately. In a

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Speaker 1: college area, right the South is owned by college football

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Speaker 1: even here, Like you know what, Drew Brees Sean Payton.

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Speaker 1: They're able to be relevant in a college town. That's great.

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Speaker 1: They say the same thing about Atlanta Falcons, like it's difficult,

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Speaker 1: it's hard. The only time Tampa's ever relevant is when

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Speaker 1: they win the Super Bowl. So for Tibow, listen, I

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Speaker 1: would bet against him making the team. It's just years old,

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Speaker 1: And I'm not not like I'm betting against the human being.

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Speaker 1: Are people gonna think that Tebow's the teacher's pet? Like

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Speaker 1: He keeps just creating content. I wanted to dive into

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Speaker 1: what's going on right now with the NFL p A

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Speaker 1: which is the union verse the teams and for a

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Speaker 1: million dollar acquisition, if you're making a hundred million dollar acquisition,

428
00:22:42,200 --> 00:22:44,919
Speaker 1: it's usually a business. It's uses like an entity. So

429
00:22:44,960 --> 00:22:47,680
Speaker 1: you're just bringing over the product. Right. Obviously there are

430
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Speaker 1: people within the buildings that make the product, but you're

431
00:22:50,200 --> 00:22:52,680
Speaker 1: ultimately just trying to buy the product and keep the

432
00:22:52,720 --> 00:22:58,760
Speaker 1: cash flow going in pro sports, but specifically football, you're

433
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Speaker 1: buying a player and putting them into a large group

434
00:23:01,240 --> 00:23:04,840
Speaker 1: of people. Like in basketball, you only got twelve guys

435
00:23:04,840 --> 00:23:08,159
Speaker 1: on the team right technically fifteen, but only seven or

436
00:23:08,200 --> 00:23:10,800
Speaker 1: eight play on Any team's worth a ship. Maybe some

437
00:23:10,840 --> 00:23:13,399
Speaker 1: teams played nine, but definitely wants the playoffs. You have

438
00:23:13,440 --> 00:23:17,560
Speaker 1: a clear hierarchy. In football. Everyone's kind of partaking, even

439
00:23:17,560 --> 00:23:21,399
Speaker 1: if you're just a random like special teamer, like you

440
00:23:21,400 --> 00:23:24,280
Speaker 1: play a role, if you're a gunner, your kickoff guy,

441
00:23:24,320 --> 00:23:25,760
Speaker 1: if you if you get into a pinch, like if

442
00:23:25,760 --> 00:23:27,560
Speaker 1: you're dressing it on game day, you're just an injury

443
00:23:27,640 --> 00:23:30,199
Speaker 1: or two away from playing on offense or defense. So

444
00:23:30,280 --> 00:23:33,480
Speaker 1: you have to be very, very careful. And I think ideally,

445
00:23:33,840 --> 00:23:36,280
Speaker 1: when you can set your franchise or set the tone

446
00:23:36,520 --> 00:23:40,600
Speaker 1: where your best players are, your best guys and best workers,

447
00:23:41,440 --> 00:23:45,080
Speaker 1: you have a blueprint to build a powerhouse team. Now,

448
00:23:45,119 --> 00:23:47,880
Speaker 1: obviously those guys gotta be good players, but I think

449
00:23:47,920 --> 00:23:51,879
Speaker 1: sometimes when you see bad teams, and definitely it happens

450
00:23:51,880 --> 00:23:55,280
Speaker 1: in basketball and in football too, where you get guys

451
00:23:55,359 --> 00:23:58,440
Speaker 1: that think more highly of themselves than they actually are,

452
00:23:58,560 --> 00:24:01,200
Speaker 1: Like they're not as good as they think and they're

453
00:24:01,240 --> 00:24:05,160
Speaker 1: not great teammates, and that's why you lose. Right, it's

454
00:24:05,280 --> 00:24:08,320
Speaker 1: to me, the best teams everyone understands their role, Like

455
00:24:08,359 --> 00:24:10,560
Speaker 1: look at last year with the Patriots, or excuse me

456
00:24:11,000 --> 00:24:15,240
Speaker 1: with the Bucks. Let's even take Brady out. Let's put

457
00:24:15,240 --> 00:24:18,800
Speaker 1: in Gronkowski. Grenkowski shows up. He's gonna be a first

458
00:24:18,800 --> 00:24:21,840
Speaker 1: ballot Hall of Famer. He's arguably the best tight end

459
00:24:21,840 --> 00:24:24,359
Speaker 1: of all time. Go down, as you know, one of

460
00:24:24,400 --> 00:24:27,760
Speaker 1: the great, truly great players of all time. Not one

461
00:24:27,800 --> 00:24:30,359
Speaker 1: issue in Tampa. Just comes in, helps guys out, help

462
00:24:30,440 --> 00:24:32,959
Speaker 1: guys learn the offense, help guys get used to Tom

463
00:24:33,400 --> 00:24:38,600
Speaker 1: never complains about his role, and just seamless transition that's

464
00:24:38,600 --> 00:24:41,600
Speaker 1: hard to do. Like I wouldn't even blame him, like J. J.

465
00:24:41,720 --> 00:24:44,600
Speaker 1: Watt this year with the Cardinals, he's gonna come in.

466
00:24:44,680 --> 00:24:46,600
Speaker 1: He's got a lot of pelts on the wall. I

467
00:24:46,600 --> 00:24:49,040
Speaker 1: would imagine he comes in to be pretty seamless transition.

468
00:24:49,840 --> 00:24:53,480
Speaker 1: But if it doesn't, if worst case scenario, and I

469
00:24:53,520 --> 00:24:55,160
Speaker 1: don't expect it to be like this, but a guy

470
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Speaker 1: with a long history of a lot of success, what

471
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Speaker 1: if he comes in, he walks in like his ship,

472
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Speaker 1: don't stink. The other guys on the team, Like, Bro,

473
00:25:01,880 --> 00:25:04,160
Speaker 1: we've been here for a little while. You know that

474
00:25:04,160 --> 00:25:06,760
Speaker 1: that mesching. That is pretty hard a J. Green. Think

475
00:25:06,760 --> 00:25:08,920
Speaker 1: about some of those big names you bring in, when

476
00:25:08,960 --> 00:25:11,000
Speaker 1: you bring in a big name, when you sign a

477
00:25:11,040 --> 00:25:15,399
Speaker 1: big name, how they enter the workforce in football, unlike

478
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Speaker 1: most of our normal jobs, like when you hire someone,

479
00:25:18,600 --> 00:25:21,600
Speaker 1: I mean most some of these guys making the middle

480
00:25:21,640 --> 00:25:24,600
Speaker 1: manager might make a couple hundred grand. Most employees aren't

481
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Speaker 1: making that much money. It's why it's easy to get

482
00:25:26,640 --> 00:25:30,080
Speaker 1: rid of hire and fire people. Where in sports you

483
00:25:30,160 --> 00:25:32,719
Speaker 1: not only know the person's resume, but you know how

484
00:25:33,040 --> 00:25:35,360
Speaker 1: money they're making. You know about their like what they've

485
00:25:35,400 --> 00:25:39,200
Speaker 1: done in other places, a very public job. And the

486
00:25:39,760 --> 00:25:43,080
Speaker 1: good teams they understand this and they build their culture

487
00:25:43,080 --> 00:25:46,680
Speaker 1: and they build their players or their team around those

488
00:25:46,720 --> 00:25:49,080
Speaker 1: type players. The ones that don't know what they're doing,

489
00:25:49,400 --> 00:25:51,199
Speaker 1: don't have a vision, and end up with just a

490
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Speaker 1: bunch of random guys. And even if you have talent,

491
00:25:54,400 --> 00:25:58,800
Speaker 1: it's why it doesn't usually equal wins. Chemistry matters. Even

492
00:25:59,000 --> 00:26:02,919
Speaker 1: the the advent ants of analytics and the power of numbers,

493
00:26:02,960 --> 00:26:06,320
Speaker 1: which is a real thing, right, and we've always used numbers.

494
00:26:06,320 --> 00:26:09,760
Speaker 1: I think it's actually a little overblown, but I'll never

495
00:26:09,840 --> 00:26:12,840
Speaker 1: forget when I first got a job in radio. We

496
00:26:12,920 --> 00:26:16,000
Speaker 1: have the Oakland Ace and they had a really good

497
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Speaker 1: team at the time, and they had guys like Josh

498
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Speaker 1: Donaldson who won an m v P, you know win,

499
00:26:20,160 --> 00:26:23,159
Speaker 1: a sespenist who was a badass. They just had some

500
00:26:23,240 --> 00:26:25,800
Speaker 1: badass players. I remember going to the locker room in

501
00:26:25,840 --> 00:26:27,840
Speaker 1: spring training. Got to go to spring training. It's pretty cool.

502
00:26:28,080 --> 00:26:30,200
Speaker 1: I had worked in the NFL, but when you get

503
00:26:30,240 --> 00:26:31,439
Speaker 1: to do something like that and go sit in the

504
00:26:31,440 --> 00:26:33,719
Speaker 1: locker room and watch games, it was like this badass

505
00:26:34,280 --> 00:26:36,399
Speaker 1: hanging out with like Bruce Bochi and you know, meeting

506
00:26:36,440 --> 00:26:38,520
Speaker 1: Bob Melvin and Bob Melvin saying he liked the show

507
00:26:38,640 --> 00:26:41,480
Speaker 1: is really cool kind of felt which I don't. I'm

508
00:26:41,560 --> 00:26:43,440
Speaker 1: kind of numbed all this stuff. Sometimes it felt like

509
00:26:43,480 --> 00:26:45,920
Speaker 1: a little kid again going into I'm in the big

510
00:26:46,000 --> 00:26:49,199
Speaker 1: league clubhouse and just seeing the way all these guys interacted.

511
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Speaker 1: They ended up winning the Did they win the division? Yeah,

512
00:26:52,240 --> 00:26:55,200
Speaker 1: they won the division, hosting playoff games like it was clear.

513
00:26:55,560 --> 00:26:59,600
Speaker 1: And Billy is known as this like forefather right of numbers,

514
00:27:00,119 --> 00:27:03,600
Speaker 1: and I truly believe he's one of the greatest general managers. Ever,

515
00:27:03,840 --> 00:27:06,240
Speaker 1: I know he's never won a World Series. His owner

516
00:27:06,400 --> 00:27:09,960
Speaker 1: is a joke. Without Billy being that franchise would have

517
00:27:10,000 --> 00:27:14,280
Speaker 1: gone bankrupt. They're a clown show. Yet every year google

518
00:27:14,359 --> 00:27:17,359
Speaker 1: their record. Right now, they win and he's doing it

519
00:27:17,359 --> 00:27:19,520
Speaker 1: with like the third iteration of group of players because

520
00:27:19,520 --> 00:27:22,520
Speaker 1: his owner won't pay anybody in the last decade. And

521
00:27:22,560 --> 00:27:24,720
Speaker 1: I'll never forget talking to people on the staff, on

522
00:27:24,760 --> 00:27:27,919
Speaker 1: the scouting staff and the coaches how much they valued

523
00:27:28,000 --> 00:27:31,600
Speaker 1: chemistry and they truly truly believed it because I remember

524
00:27:31,600 --> 00:27:34,800
Speaker 1: when the Warriors in the Rockets became big rivals. The

525
00:27:34,840 --> 00:27:39,160
Speaker 1: Warriors chemistry was elite. Ultimately, the Rockets didn't have great chemistry,

526
00:27:39,200 --> 00:27:41,040
Speaker 1: and the Warriors always got over on them. Even the

527
00:27:41,080 --> 00:27:43,320
Speaker 1: times when the Rockets probably shouldn't have won, there was

528
00:27:43,359 --> 00:27:45,119
Speaker 1: always a little bit missing because you know what, the

529
00:27:45,200 --> 00:27:48,200
Speaker 1: numbers can't quantify how much I like the guy standing

530
00:27:48,280 --> 00:27:50,520
Speaker 1: next to me, how much I care about his family.

531
00:27:50,920 --> 00:27:54,080
Speaker 1: Am I legitimately friends with the person In most of

532
00:27:54,119 --> 00:27:58,960
Speaker 1: our businesses, it helps, but it's not mandatory right now,

533
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Speaker 1: I do think it helps, Like if you're gonna go

534
00:28:00,440 --> 00:28:02,320
Speaker 1: on a sales call with another human, if you guys

535
00:28:02,359 --> 00:28:04,760
Speaker 1: have a good chemistry and your friends. Probably easy to

536
00:28:04,800 --> 00:28:07,040
Speaker 1: sell if you're working as a tandem, but if you're

537
00:28:07,080 --> 00:28:09,439
Speaker 1: just doing cold calls and cubicles like who cares if

538
00:28:09,440 --> 00:28:12,879
Speaker 1: you like everyone or not? In football and basketball and baseball,

539
00:28:12,880 --> 00:28:14,440
Speaker 1: when you're standing next to the guy, when you're playing

540
00:28:14,440 --> 00:28:17,159
Speaker 1: with the guy every day for months on months in

541
00:28:17,160 --> 00:28:21,400
Speaker 1: a public job with a lot of scrutiny, your character matters, right,

542
00:28:21,480 --> 00:28:26,360
Speaker 1: You're your emotional intelligence matters. Obviously mature as you go on.

543
00:28:26,680 --> 00:28:30,679
Speaker 1: Who you have looking up like, who you have as

544
00:28:30,880 --> 00:28:34,600
Speaker 1: stable veterans for your young guys to look up to matters.

545
00:28:34,640 --> 00:28:37,600
Speaker 1: Can you imagine Kyle Trash Now, Kyle Trash is coming

546
00:28:37,640 --> 00:28:40,120
Speaker 1: from the SEC. He just was a starting quarterback at Florida.

547
00:28:40,760 --> 00:28:42,880
Speaker 1: I bet when Tom Brady texts him like, bro, let's

548
00:28:42,880 --> 00:28:44,720
Speaker 1: throw soon, that had to be one of the coolest

549
00:28:44,720 --> 00:28:47,760
Speaker 1: text he's ever got in his entire life, like that.

550
00:28:47,880 --> 00:28:50,800
Speaker 1: That's that's what high level people do. Now, obviously he's

551
00:28:50,840 --> 00:28:52,720
Speaker 1: one of the best players ever, but that happens all

552
00:28:52,760 --> 00:28:54,920
Speaker 1: over the league with the good players and the high

553
00:28:55,000 --> 00:28:57,440
Speaker 1: character guys, and the guys the quote unquote get it.

554
00:28:58,200 --> 00:29:01,960
Speaker 1: That's why some teams win and some teams lose schedule

555
00:29:02,360 --> 00:29:07,760
Speaker 1: release week, Let's go baby. I used to laugh at this,

556
00:29:07,920 --> 00:29:10,280
Speaker 1: Now I take it really seriously. Part of it I'm

557
00:29:10,320 --> 00:29:12,800
Speaker 1: a content creator. The other part is, you know, I

558
00:29:12,880 --> 00:29:16,160
Speaker 1: just I get excited, uh, And I wrote down five

559
00:29:16,320 --> 00:29:20,880
Speaker 1: things that I'm looking for. You know, whatever your team is,

560
00:29:20,960 --> 00:29:23,560
Speaker 1: but just the things that jump out to me when

561
00:29:23,560 --> 00:29:26,480
Speaker 1: the schedule is released. Now, we already know who your

562
00:29:26,520 --> 00:29:29,920
Speaker 1: team is playing. We know the seventeen games, every single

563
00:29:29,920 --> 00:29:32,400
Speaker 1: one of them home and away. We just don't know

564
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Speaker 1: the order. So let's go. One is the first thing

565
00:29:35,960 --> 00:29:40,280
Speaker 1: I jotted down, When is your bye? I think we

566
00:29:40,440 --> 00:29:43,400
Speaker 1: all look for that. We always did well they added

567
00:29:43,440 --> 00:29:46,680
Speaker 1: a game, so wouldn't you imagine the bye is much

568
00:29:46,720 --> 00:29:50,320
Speaker 1: more important this year now? I think ideally you've always

569
00:29:50,400 --> 00:29:52,920
Speaker 1: rooted for your by to be somewhere between like seven

570
00:29:52,960 --> 00:29:56,440
Speaker 1: weeks seven and nine, somewhere in the middle. Most people

571
00:29:56,480 --> 00:29:58,520
Speaker 1: get really pissed when there by is like week four.

572
00:29:58,960 --> 00:30:02,080
Speaker 1: You would not want your by week four. You would

573
00:30:02,360 --> 00:30:06,719
Speaker 1: much rather have your bye week ten or eleven than

574
00:30:06,840 --> 00:30:09,840
Speaker 1: week four or five, So that to me is always

575
00:30:09,880 --> 00:30:12,880
Speaker 1: a key. Now. I do think one day, as they

576
00:30:12,920 --> 00:30:16,960
Speaker 1: probably eventually get to eight teen games, implement two buys,

577
00:30:17,160 --> 00:30:20,160
Speaker 1: but that's that's kind of irrelevant because we're not there

578
00:30:20,200 --> 00:30:23,840
Speaker 1: now and we're in a one by seventeen week system.

579
00:30:23,880 --> 00:30:26,920
Speaker 1: So to me, you want your buy week eight on.

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00:30:27,600 --> 00:30:30,520
Speaker 1: If your buys a little earlier, it's just not ideal.

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Speaker 1: Number two. Now, maybe this impacts you know, us out

582
00:30:37,160 --> 00:30:39,560
Speaker 1: on the West more than some of you guys. Definitely,

583
00:30:39,600 --> 00:30:41,920
Speaker 1: the Midwest probably doesn't have as big of an impact.

584
00:30:42,520 --> 00:30:44,719
Speaker 1: And if you are on the East coast, when you

585
00:30:44,800 --> 00:30:48,000
Speaker 1: play out on the West coast, you gain time, so

586
00:30:48,080 --> 00:30:50,040
Speaker 1: there is no better feeling. I know when I lived

587
00:30:50,040 --> 00:30:51,920
Speaker 1: in Philadelphia and when I come out here for work

588
00:30:52,080 --> 00:30:55,560
Speaker 1: or vacation, it was incredible getting hours back where it

589
00:30:55,680 --> 00:30:58,320
Speaker 1: is really difficult. And the first time it really hit

590
00:30:58,360 --> 00:30:59,840
Speaker 1: me working in football was when I worked in for

591
00:30:59,920 --> 00:31:05,040
Speaker 1: US in State. We played Wisconsin my first year, I

592
00:31:05,080 --> 00:31:07,600
Speaker 1: guess it would have been my second year at an

593
00:31:07,600 --> 00:31:11,800
Speaker 1: eleven am kickoff, which was a nine am kickoff for

594
00:31:11,960 --> 00:31:15,200
Speaker 1: US West Coasters, and you know, you get up five

595
00:31:15,280 --> 00:31:17,959
Speaker 1: hours or four hours before the game, so you're eating

596
00:31:18,680 --> 00:31:21,640
Speaker 1: breakfast on your body clock like five in the morning.

597
00:31:22,400 --> 00:31:25,960
Speaker 1: So it's difficult for West teams to go east and

598
00:31:26,040 --> 00:31:30,280
Speaker 1: the Niner Seattle Arizona, the Rams, the Chargers, Denver. Any

599
00:31:30,360 --> 00:31:33,920
Speaker 1: kickoff against any of the Eastern Seaboard teams or the

600
00:31:33,960 --> 00:31:38,080
Speaker 1: Eastern you know, time zone teams that are ten am

601
00:31:38,160 --> 00:31:40,840
Speaker 1: are not easy. They are hard on the body clock

602
00:31:41,280 --> 00:31:45,360
Speaker 1: and a massive advantage for the East Coast team. I

603
00:31:45,400 --> 00:31:48,640
Speaker 1: think it is much easier for the East Coast teams

604
00:31:48,680 --> 00:31:51,240
Speaker 1: to come out West because those games are also at

605
00:31:51,320 --> 00:31:54,200
Speaker 1: one o'clock right on the West, so it's really it's

606
00:31:54,200 --> 00:31:57,520
Speaker 1: four o'clock like they're wide awake. So the time zone

607
00:31:57,560 --> 00:32:01,560
Speaker 1: games for the West Coast teams. Your Thursday night game,

608
00:32:03,800 --> 00:32:07,000
Speaker 1: every team has one. They're unavoidable. The first thing you

609
00:32:07,040 --> 00:32:11,400
Speaker 1: look at is the game homer away. You would every

610
00:32:11,560 --> 00:32:14,680
Speaker 1: you know, you would much rather have the Thursday home game.

611
00:32:14,800 --> 00:32:18,160
Speaker 1: Clearly right, it's much easier. But even if you have

612
00:32:18,320 --> 00:32:20,720
Speaker 1: the Thursday night home game, the first thing I look for,

613
00:32:20,880 --> 00:32:24,800
Speaker 1: what's your week before? It's very very difficult for teams

614
00:32:24,800 --> 00:32:26,680
Speaker 1: that have to play a road game. And maybe they

615
00:32:26,680 --> 00:32:28,840
Speaker 1: have a new rule. Maybe this is the rule. You

616
00:32:28,880 --> 00:32:31,080
Speaker 1: can't come off a road game and then play a

617
00:32:31,080 --> 00:32:33,360
Speaker 1: Thursday night game, even though if I remember correctly, that's

618
00:32:33,400 --> 00:32:37,600
Speaker 1: definitely happened recently. But who are you playing before is

619
00:32:37,640 --> 00:32:39,840
Speaker 1: the big time game? Are you playing like a Sunday

620
00:32:39,920 --> 00:32:42,520
Speaker 1: night marquee game and then you have a Thursday night game,

621
00:32:42,560 --> 00:32:45,440
Speaker 1: even if it's a home game. Who you play before

622
00:32:45,480 --> 00:32:49,680
Speaker 1: the Thursday night game does matter. That clearly is probably

623
00:32:49,720 --> 00:32:52,360
Speaker 1: not as hard of a game as we once kind

624
00:32:52,360 --> 00:32:54,680
Speaker 1: of talked about four or five years ago. I think

625
00:32:54,680 --> 00:32:57,360
Speaker 1: guys have gotten more used to it. But it doesn't

626
00:32:57,360 --> 00:33:00,680
Speaker 1: matter what time of the season. Talk thinking about the buy,

627
00:33:00,800 --> 00:33:03,560
Speaker 1: you would much rather have to buy later. I would

628
00:33:03,720 --> 00:33:07,400
Speaker 1: much rather have my Thursday night game week three or four. Right,

629
00:33:07,600 --> 00:33:10,800
Speaker 1: I'm fresh, I'm into the season. I basically get an

630
00:33:10,800 --> 00:33:13,600
Speaker 1: early You know, if you win that Thursday night game,

631
00:33:14,320 --> 00:33:17,840
Speaker 1: it's like a three day weekend, right, you get Friday, Saturday,

632
00:33:17,840 --> 00:33:21,160
Speaker 1: Sunday off. It's an incredible little mini by It can

633
00:33:21,200 --> 00:33:23,640
Speaker 1: be used as a huge advantage. So when is the

634
00:33:23,680 --> 00:33:26,400
Speaker 1: Thursday night game on your schedule? Who are you playing

635
00:33:26,440 --> 00:33:29,400
Speaker 1: the week before your Thursday night game? Homer away, That

636
00:33:29,480 --> 00:33:34,120
Speaker 1: to me really factors in. UM obviously love the prime

637
00:33:34,160 --> 00:33:38,920
Speaker 1: time games, the Sunday night games. Monday night games are

638
00:33:38,920 --> 00:33:42,400
Speaker 1: a big deal. They just are you know, Monday night football.

639
00:33:42,400 --> 00:33:44,040
Speaker 1: I think is having somewhat of a little bit of

640
00:33:44,040 --> 00:33:46,840
Speaker 1: a renaissance. It's kind of back. We're feeling good about

641
00:33:46,880 --> 00:33:50,200
Speaker 1: it again. Who even called oh his Riddick and those guys.

642
00:33:51,120 --> 00:33:54,760
Speaker 1: It's now flexible. So who you play on Monday Night football?

643
00:33:55,040 --> 00:33:57,400
Speaker 1: Maybe I'm of a generation where it still means everything.

644
00:33:57,400 --> 00:34:00,040
Speaker 1: Obviously everyone older than me. It still matters. Like to

645
00:34:00,080 --> 00:34:03,400
Speaker 1: night football batters your marquee. You're by yourself. Do you

646
00:34:03,440 --> 00:34:06,000
Speaker 1: get a couple of Monday night games? Sunday night game?

647
00:34:06,080 --> 00:34:09,200
Speaker 1: I think after week eleven is flexible this year, Monday

648
00:34:09,320 --> 00:34:12,880
Speaker 1: Night is flexible too, But Sunday Night, it just depends.

649
00:34:13,320 --> 00:34:16,279
Speaker 1: If it's September October, you're playing that Sunday night game.

650
00:34:16,960 --> 00:34:19,919
Speaker 1: If it's you know, late November, your team better be good,

651
00:34:20,520 --> 00:34:22,359
Speaker 1: but they'll kick you out of there, and they don't

652
00:34:22,400 --> 00:34:25,360
Speaker 1: care who you are. I'm pretty sure they they flexed

653
00:34:25,520 --> 00:34:29,280
Speaker 1: a Dallas Cowboy game last year, like they will flex anybody.

654
00:34:29,320 --> 00:34:32,000
Speaker 1: Because the great part about the NFL, it's a national sport.

655
00:34:32,719 --> 00:34:34,719
Speaker 1: If your team is good. If the Jags are a

656
00:34:34,760 --> 00:34:37,560
Speaker 1: twelve win team, they will get flexed into Sunday Night.

657
00:34:38,320 --> 00:34:42,200
Speaker 1: It will happen. If they suck. We like, we're not

658
00:34:42,200 --> 00:34:45,160
Speaker 1: gonna watch the Texans this year. We're probably not gonna

659
00:34:45,200 --> 00:34:48,000
Speaker 1: watch much of the Jets this year. The bad teams

660
00:34:48,000 --> 00:34:50,000
Speaker 1: are just we're not gonna watch much of the Lions

661
00:34:50,040 --> 00:34:53,520
Speaker 1: this year. But if you win, if the Lions somehow

662
00:34:53,600 --> 00:34:57,520
Speaker 1: or ten and two, they will get flexed. So the

663
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Speaker 1: prime time games, for know, I'm like Kansas City's one

664
00:35:03,160 --> 00:35:07,799
Speaker 1: question mark two is Rogers Packers Chiefs. Like that was

665
00:35:07,840 --> 00:35:10,400
Speaker 1: gonna be probably the best game on paper on the

666
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Speaker 1: schedule release. Rogers gonna be on the team. I don't

667
00:35:14,400 --> 00:35:17,960
Speaker 1: know what would you do if you're the NFL. If

668
00:35:18,000 --> 00:35:20,359
Speaker 1: I was Roger, I would say put it in primetime game,

669
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Speaker 1: make it later in the season so it's flexible if

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Speaker 1: somehow the Packers trade Rogers in Jordan's Love and the

671
00:35:26,640 --> 00:35:28,759
Speaker 1: team doesn't turn out to be good. But if the

672
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Speaker 1: if it, we just put it in a flexible spot.

673
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Speaker 1: Even if they trade Rogers, if they're still good, the

674
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Speaker 1: Packers are a massive brand. I Packers Chiefs, I'm good

675
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Speaker 1: with that. I'd say the biggest game on the schedule release,

676
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Speaker 1: probably just on paper, is gonna be Tom Brady returning

677
00:35:46,360 --> 00:35:50,799
Speaker 1: to New England. That game feels like an absolute lock.

678
00:35:51,560 --> 00:35:54,920
Speaker 1: I'd probably go Monday Night. You could Thursday night feels

679
00:35:54,960 --> 00:35:56,319
Speaker 1: like a little bit of a rush. I would put

680
00:35:56,320 --> 00:35:59,719
Speaker 1: that on Monday night, non flexible. I would probably have

681
00:35:59,800 --> 00:36:02,719
Speaker 1: that Monday Night football in September. I would have that

682
00:36:02,800 --> 00:36:07,520
Speaker 1: early on. And remember, Tampa gets the first Thursday night

683
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Speaker 1: game because they won the Super Bowl, so that probably

684
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Speaker 1: game is gonna be against I saw Dallas, uh, some

685
00:36:14,520 --> 00:36:18,760
Speaker 1: of the good teams that they play, So Dallas Tampa

686
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Speaker 1: could be the opening game this week and then the

687
00:36:21,760 --> 00:36:24,239
Speaker 1: other game. Again. This impacts us a little more on

688
00:36:24,280 --> 00:36:28,120
Speaker 1: the West Coast just because we have nice weather but

689
00:36:28,440 --> 00:36:30,919
Speaker 1: cold weather games. You know, if you're a Steeler fan,

690
00:36:31,080 --> 00:36:33,759
Speaker 1: like you're just you're playing cold weather games, Patriot fan,

691
00:36:33,880 --> 00:36:37,680
Speaker 1: jas fan, whoever? For us? Like if you're the Rams,

692
00:36:37,719 --> 00:36:40,920
Speaker 1: the Chargers, the Cardinals, the Niners, the Raiders, just these

693
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Speaker 1: West Coast teams that do not even the Colts. Do

694
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Speaker 1: you have two or three potential snow games in December?

695
00:36:48,280 --> 00:36:51,800
Speaker 1: Do I have to go to Baltimore in late December?

696
00:36:52,080 --> 00:36:57,480
Speaker 1: Do I have to play at lambeau Field in November? December? Philadelphia, Washington,

697
00:36:58,360 --> 00:37:01,920
Speaker 1: the New York's, New England like that matters? Cleveland, Cincinnati,

698
00:37:02,000 --> 00:37:05,600
Speaker 1: like those those plays are cold? Miami every year when

699
00:37:05,600 --> 00:37:08,080
Speaker 1: their schedule comes out. Well, their division all plays in

700
00:37:08,120 --> 00:37:11,640
Speaker 1: cold weather cities. All of them are outdoors. Do I

701
00:37:11,640 --> 00:37:16,360
Speaker 1: gotta go to Chicago December twenty or whatever? So to me,

702
00:37:16,520 --> 00:37:20,600
Speaker 1: cold weather games especially for certain players. Let's face it,

703
00:37:20,880 --> 00:37:24,359
Speaker 1: some quarterbacks you feel more comfortable in a windy, cold

704
00:37:24,360 --> 00:37:28,840
Speaker 1: weather game than others. Derek Carr and Jared Goffs record

705
00:37:28,840 --> 00:37:32,439
Speaker 1: in cold weather not good. I don't really trust Matt

706
00:37:32,520 --> 00:37:35,600
Speaker 1: Ryan in a rainstorm. I like my chances more of

707
00:37:35,719 --> 00:37:40,440
Speaker 1: Russell Wilson, right, Tom Brady, Aaron Rodgers guys are good

708
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Speaker 1: in the cold. So I'm going when you're by the

709
00:37:43,520 --> 00:37:48,239
Speaker 1: time zones, the Thursday night game week and who you

710
00:37:48,280 --> 00:37:52,320
Speaker 1: play before primetime games? And then of course I've actually

711
00:37:52,360 --> 00:37:54,880
Speaker 1: got my air conditioning on. It's a little chili. I

712
00:37:54,880 --> 00:37:56,640
Speaker 1: had to put on slippers because I had sandals on,

713
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Speaker 1: and I was like, I'm cold. You know, it's sixty

714
00:37:59,120 --> 00:38:02,040
Speaker 1: nine degrees. So US guys out West, we're a little

715
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Speaker 1: soft when it comes to weather. We like our Son

716
00:38:05,719 --> 00:38:10,399
Speaker 1: Middlecoff mail bag at John Middlecoff Instagram. Fire in there

717
00:38:10,600 --> 00:38:12,480
Speaker 1: you get right here on the pod. I also throw

718
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Speaker 1: this up on YouTube. John middlecoffs the page I throw

719
00:38:14,960 --> 00:38:17,239
Speaker 1: a bunch of the podcast content up there as well,

720
00:38:17,760 --> 00:38:20,319
Speaker 1: easy for people to find. Try to try to get,

721
00:38:20,440 --> 00:38:22,680
Speaker 1: try to be with the times. You know, two thousand twenties,

722
00:38:22,680 --> 00:38:27,800
Speaker 1: new decade, heading into a brighter times, hopefully. Quick question

723
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Speaker 1: for you, do you think Fitzpatrick is getting a little overhyped?

724
00:38:31,400 --> 00:38:33,799
Speaker 1: The dude has never won. The dude has never made

725
00:38:33,840 --> 00:38:36,719
Speaker 1: the playoffs in a sneaky old thirty eight. He'll be

726
00:38:36,760 --> 00:38:40,360
Speaker 1: thirty nine this season. He is very streaky and not

727
00:38:40,480 --> 00:38:42,800
Speaker 1: everyone can play lights out into their late thirties and

728
00:38:42,880 --> 00:38:47,600
Speaker 1: early forties, like Brady and probably Rogers. The Washington football

729
00:38:47,640 --> 00:38:49,600
Speaker 1: team has a great defense, but it's hard to keep

730
00:38:49,640 --> 00:38:54,040
Speaker 1: the defense that good every season. I agree. Do you

731
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Speaker 1: think Washington has a real chance to win the division?

732
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Speaker 1: I like chance. Dallas's chance is better. Uh, I think

733
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Speaker 1: who wins the NFC East? I'm with you. The Eagles

734
00:39:06,120 --> 00:39:08,879
Speaker 1: just have a lot of moving parts. New coach. If

735
00:39:08,920 --> 00:39:13,520
Speaker 1: Washington gets the Ryan Fitzpatrick from Miami, yes they will

736
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Speaker 1: win the division. Dallas offense is gonna be awesome. Their

737
00:39:17,680 --> 00:39:21,360
Speaker 1: defenses and shambles. Now should it be better with Dan Quinn?

738
00:39:21,480 --> 00:39:25,440
Speaker 1: Yes in theory, but have we watched the Falcons defense

739
00:39:25,640 --> 00:39:31,279
Speaker 1: they were atrocious. They were terrible. The Giants a little

740
00:39:31,280 --> 00:39:34,239
Speaker 1: bit like Washington is just solid. But as Daniel Jones

741
00:39:34,320 --> 00:39:37,000
Speaker 1: any good, I could envision all three of those teams

742
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Speaker 1: winning it. Now on Fitzpatrick, he was awesome last year.

743
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Speaker 1: I mean it was just from the eye test and

744
00:39:43,719 --> 00:39:45,960
Speaker 1: I have to pull up his bio, but I don't

745
00:39:45,960 --> 00:39:47,799
Speaker 1: know if it was the best statistical season of the year.

746
00:39:48,320 --> 00:39:51,160
Speaker 1: I test it's as good as he's played I've ever

747
00:39:51,160 --> 00:39:54,200
Speaker 1: seen since maybe that one Buffalo Bill season. He was.

748
00:39:54,440 --> 00:39:56,759
Speaker 1: He was lights out. He came to he came to

749
00:39:56,840 --> 00:39:59,880
Speaker 1: Levi Stadium in the Bay. I remember the guy Lo

750
00:40:00,080 --> 00:40:03,200
Speaker 1: like Dan Marino. It was at every time Tool would

751
00:40:03,200 --> 00:40:05,279
Speaker 1: get benched, he'd come in and they'd be awesome. He

752
00:40:05,400 --> 00:40:08,080
Speaker 1: was fantastic. But I'm with you, not only is he streaky,

753
00:40:08,120 --> 00:40:11,080
Speaker 1: he's kind of like an overachiever, And I do think

754
00:40:11,080 --> 00:40:15,760
Speaker 1: it's hard when you're an overachiever in sports. In life,

755
00:40:15,960 --> 00:40:19,080
Speaker 1: like you can fail whatever, get knocked down. If you're

756
00:40:19,080 --> 00:40:21,680
Speaker 1: an overachiever, you ain't gonna stay down long. It is

757
00:40:21,800 --> 00:40:24,719
Speaker 1: really easy to kind of regain yourself even in tough

758
00:40:24,760 --> 00:40:28,560
Speaker 1: times for overachievers, because that's the mindset in sports like Ultimately,

759
00:40:28,600 --> 00:40:31,080
Speaker 1: you need your body to cooperate. So one thing, like

760
00:40:31,120 --> 00:40:33,400
Speaker 1: in the business world, if you just have your mind,

761
00:40:33,520 --> 00:40:37,240
Speaker 1: your mindset, your will, your ambition, like you just keep charging,

762
00:40:37,800 --> 00:40:40,440
Speaker 1: like Ryan Fitzpatrick is always charged. It was just sometimes

763
00:40:40,440 --> 00:40:42,600
Speaker 1: it's talent. It's not good enough. He doesn't have a

764
00:40:42,600 --> 00:40:46,680
Speaker 1: great arm um and eventually father time catch us up

765
00:40:46,719 --> 00:40:50,439
Speaker 1: with you. So it's it's a risky move. I don't

766
00:40:50,440 --> 00:40:53,480
Speaker 1: know what else they were supposed to do, though. My

767
00:40:53,600 --> 00:40:57,799
Speaker 1: question is about the Pittsburgh Steelers. Kevin Colbert in the

768
00:40:57,840 --> 00:41:03,120
Speaker 1: front office seemingly hits and runs every draft, especially on

769
00:41:03,160 --> 00:41:06,640
Speaker 1: the offensive side. Why does it seem that they cannot

770
00:41:06,760 --> 00:41:10,640
Speaker 1: figure out the not so distant future of the quarterback position.

771
00:41:11,200 --> 00:41:14,239
Speaker 1: Their backup quarterbacks have been marginal at best, and they

772
00:41:14,320 --> 00:41:17,399
Speaker 1: bring on a known problem with Haskins. It at least

773
00:41:17,400 --> 00:41:19,799
Speaker 1: appears that they think Big Ben is gonna last a

774
00:41:19,840 --> 00:41:25,200
Speaker 1: lot longer or they have a little faith in their backups. Well,

775
00:41:26,320 --> 00:41:29,439
Speaker 1: they make the playoffs every year, so their first round

776
00:41:29,440 --> 00:41:31,960
Speaker 1: pick is never high. They never even have like a

777
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Speaker 1: three or four or six win season where they draft

778
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Speaker 1: like tenth, and the one year when they went eight

779
00:41:37,320 --> 00:41:39,640
Speaker 1: Nate they traded their first round pick from Menca Fitzpatrick.

780
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Speaker 1: But even when you go eight, Nate, you draft eighteen.

781
00:41:42,719 --> 00:41:44,480
Speaker 1: So it's a tough spot to get a quarterback. You

782
00:41:44,520 --> 00:41:47,120
Speaker 1: saw it with Washington this year. They decintly needed a quarterback.

783
00:41:47,239 --> 00:41:49,280
Speaker 1: They would have loved to take Trey Lance or Justin Fields.

784
00:41:49,280 --> 00:41:52,400
Speaker 1: They're drafting too far away. So the Steelers are almost

785
00:41:52,440 --> 00:41:54,680
Speaker 1: a victim of their own success when it comes to quarterbacks,

786
00:41:55,040 --> 00:41:58,799
Speaker 1: and they've drafted mid round guys Mason Dobbs. Now, I

787
00:41:58,880 --> 00:42:01,760
Speaker 1: never like Dobbs. I didn't know that much about Mason.

788
00:42:01,800 --> 00:42:03,359
Speaker 1: I watched him play him, not that big a fan

789
00:42:04,000 --> 00:42:06,800
Speaker 1: as a player. I just don't what are they supposed

790
00:42:06,840 --> 00:42:10,799
Speaker 1: to do? Now what I might have done. I would

791
00:42:10,840 --> 00:42:14,399
Speaker 1: have taken a flyer on Sam Donald, but maybe Kevin

792
00:42:14,440 --> 00:42:16,280
Speaker 1: Colbert says, I don't like Sam Donald as a player,

793
00:42:16,480 --> 00:42:20,480
Speaker 1: so I would trust his you know, uh, professional opinion.

794
00:42:20,640 --> 00:42:23,960
Speaker 1: He's arguably the best GM in the league, one of them,

795
00:42:24,000 --> 00:42:25,719
Speaker 1: but part of being a GM, he's gotta figure this

796
00:42:25,760 --> 00:42:29,120
Speaker 1: situation out. It is hard to acquire him, right, I'm

797
00:42:29,200 --> 00:42:31,440
Speaker 1: with you. I'm not touching Dwayne Haskins with a ten

798
00:42:31,480 --> 00:42:36,400
Speaker 1: foot poll. But their organization has always been a little

799
00:42:36,400 --> 00:42:38,960
Speaker 1: bit like a more buttoned up raiders. They take chances

800
00:42:39,680 --> 00:42:43,719
Speaker 1: because their culture, their infrastructure, Mike Tomlin. They mold you.

801
00:42:43,719 --> 00:42:46,080
Speaker 1: You're either shape in or they shape you out, and

802
00:42:46,160 --> 00:42:49,080
Speaker 1: most guys shape in. So if Dwayne Haskins can't make

803
00:42:49,120 --> 00:42:51,799
Speaker 1: it in Pittsburgh, he's out of the league. It's over.

804
00:42:52,400 --> 00:42:54,560
Speaker 1: But I'm with you, like, I don't think that's gonna

805
00:42:54,560 --> 00:43:00,040
Speaker 1: do much for him. I uh, yeah, I just I

806
00:43:00,280 --> 00:43:02,680
Speaker 1: don't think there's an easy answer. I guess it's my

807
00:43:02,760 --> 00:43:05,840
Speaker 1: ultimate take here. I don't think they had an easy,

808
00:43:06,160 --> 00:43:09,520
Speaker 1: no brainer option. I mean, they thought about cutting men,

809
00:43:09,800 --> 00:43:11,799
Speaker 1: but they were just so financially tied to them they

810
00:43:11,840 --> 00:43:16,080
Speaker 1: had to stick it out. What's up? John? I listened

811
00:43:16,080 --> 00:43:18,360
Speaker 1: to the podcast every time there's a new one available.

812
00:43:18,440 --> 00:43:23,279
Speaker 1: I'm twenty and I live in Central Florida. I am

813
00:43:23,280 --> 00:43:27,800
Speaker 1: wondering if going into scouting is even possible at this point. Also,

814
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Speaker 1: would it be worth it to leave a job I'm

815
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Speaker 1: at to get into scouting. Right now, I'm making thirty

816
00:43:33,800 --> 00:43:36,600
Speaker 1: five K a year, So how much of a loss

817
00:43:36,640 --> 00:43:38,719
Speaker 1: do you think I would have if I tried to

818
00:43:38,760 --> 00:43:43,680
Speaker 1: get into scouting. Well, my first year with the Eagles,

819
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Speaker 1: I was twenty five or twenty four. In two thousand ten,

820
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Speaker 1: I think I made twenty five thou dollars and that

821
00:43:51,840 --> 00:43:56,560
Speaker 1: was the lowest position in the franchise in the scouting department,

822
00:43:57,760 --> 00:44:00,640
Speaker 1: twenty or twenty five. I think it was five because

823
00:44:00,640 --> 00:44:03,120
Speaker 1: I remember thinking hearing the stories about the guys in

824
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Speaker 1: New England who were called twenty for twenties, twenty hours

825
00:44:06,640 --> 00:44:10,040
Speaker 1: a day. I was like, I'm making more of those guys. Uh,

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Speaker 1: But yeah, you don't make much, so you would take

827
00:44:11,920 --> 00:44:15,040
Speaker 1: a pay cut and listen. I also was coming from

828
00:44:15,040 --> 00:44:17,719
Speaker 1: college football, so if you just if you wanted your

829
00:44:17,719 --> 00:44:19,319
Speaker 1: in and you didn't have a background, you might have

830
00:44:19,320 --> 00:44:22,440
Speaker 1: to take like an unpaid internship, assuming that you could

831
00:44:22,480 --> 00:44:25,239
Speaker 1: even get in the door. So yeah, I mean, you're

832
00:44:25,280 --> 00:44:27,680
Speaker 1: not your first year, if you have no experience, you're

833
00:44:27,719 --> 00:44:30,640
Speaker 1: not gonna be making thirty five grand. Promise you that.

834
00:44:32,280 --> 00:44:35,120
Speaker 1: But I advise every single human that I ever meet

835
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Speaker 1: through this, follow what you want to follow. Take a swing.

836
00:44:40,160 --> 00:44:43,400
Speaker 1: You'll never live with regret. But you're not making a

837
00:44:43,480 --> 00:44:46,040
Speaker 1: hunter grand, So you're not giving up ultimately that like,

838
00:44:46,080 --> 00:44:48,840
Speaker 1: you can find another job whatever you're doing, if you

839
00:44:48,920 --> 00:44:50,719
Speaker 1: really want to try it out and something you think

840
00:44:50,760 --> 00:44:52,800
Speaker 1: about put all your chips in the middle of the table,

841
00:44:53,280 --> 00:44:55,680
Speaker 1: and if it doesn't work out, so be it. And

842
00:44:55,719 --> 00:44:57,560
Speaker 1: if it does, it's the best thing that you'll have

843
00:44:57,600 --> 00:45:00,440
Speaker 1: ever done. But you can't be afraid of, especially in

844
00:45:00,480 --> 00:45:03,879
Speaker 1: your twenties, to take a huge swing. Now's the time

845
00:45:04,760 --> 00:45:06,960
Speaker 1: because hopefully, if things keep going on in life, you're

846
00:45:07,000 --> 00:45:08,879
Speaker 1: just gonna keep making more money and it's gonna be

847
00:45:09,080 --> 00:45:11,600
Speaker 1: definitely hard to ever make the jump. So if you're

848
00:45:11,600 --> 00:45:13,480
Speaker 1: thinking about it right now and you got an in

849
00:45:14,160 --> 00:45:17,360
Speaker 1: or you know someone or whatever, you're just gonna just

850
00:45:17,400 --> 00:45:18,800
Speaker 1: put all your chips in the middle of the table

851
00:45:18,920 --> 00:45:21,160
Speaker 1: or just start working the back channels now, and if

852
00:45:21,160 --> 00:45:24,560
Speaker 1: you get the opportunity, take it. Then you can never

853
00:45:24,800 --> 00:45:26,680
Speaker 1: live with regret or say, you know, I didn't try

854
00:45:26,719 --> 00:45:28,799
Speaker 1: this one thing I wanted to do, because life does

855
00:45:28,880 --> 00:45:31,640
Speaker 1: get away from you. Once you start making a certain

856
00:45:31,680 --> 00:45:35,000
Speaker 1: amount of money, whatever that number is for an individual,

857
00:45:35,120 --> 00:45:38,080
Speaker 1: or have a kid or get married. Life becomes more complicated,

858
00:45:39,520 --> 00:45:42,759
Speaker 1: that's for sure. So I would recommend if it's something

859
00:45:42,760 --> 00:45:47,080
Speaker 1: that itches at you, scratch it. Scratch that itch, baby,

860
00:45:47,880 --> 00:45:50,120
Speaker 1: Is it just me? Or The Dolphins put to a

861
00:45:50,239 --> 00:45:53,560
Speaker 1: in a lose lose situation last season coming off a

862
00:45:53,600 --> 00:45:58,160
Speaker 1: busted hip with no offseason to their then taking over

863
00:45:58,200 --> 00:46:00,640
Speaker 1: the starting job of a core her back who was

864
00:46:00,640 --> 00:46:04,320
Speaker 1: playing winning football. Also, could people quit acting like Preston

865
00:46:04,360 --> 00:46:07,760
Speaker 1: Wilson is some great talent. Guy is average at best.

866
00:46:08,760 --> 00:46:13,000
Speaker 1: POD's awesome. Appreciate it, Jacob, Yeah, I mean it was

867
00:46:13,040 --> 00:46:17,400
Speaker 1: a tough situation. But Ryan Fitzpatrick looked good when he

868
00:46:17,480 --> 00:46:19,799
Speaker 1: was in, as we just talked about. He he didn't

869
00:46:19,800 --> 00:46:22,520
Speaker 1: just look good, he looked really good, like maybe not

870
00:46:22,640 --> 00:46:24,839
Speaker 1: Pro Bowl good, but like fringe Pro Bowl. He had

871
00:46:24,880 --> 00:46:27,840
Speaker 1: some games when I was like, this guy is playing

872
00:46:27,880 --> 00:46:30,640
Speaker 1: like a high end starter. So once they benched him,

873
00:46:30,920 --> 00:46:33,719
Speaker 1: the bar was kind of high. And then Tua comes in,

874
00:46:33,840 --> 00:46:36,040
Speaker 1: Like you said, he had come off of injury. He

875
00:46:36,160 --> 00:46:40,120
Speaker 1: was a rookie. It's not easy, but he looked dramatically

876
00:46:40,160 --> 00:46:42,680
Speaker 1: worse than Ryan Fitzpatrick. Now you could if I was

877
00:46:42,760 --> 00:46:45,680
Speaker 1: countering it. Ryan Fitzpatrick has been the league for fifteen years.

878
00:46:45,680 --> 00:46:48,600
Speaker 1: Of course, Ryan Fitzpatricks gonna be more comfortable, true, But

879
00:46:48,680 --> 00:46:50,839
Speaker 1: then as the season went on, it felt like two

880
00:46:50,880 --> 00:46:52,960
Speaker 1: of got a little worse. And I'll never forget the

881
00:46:53,040 --> 00:46:55,319
Speaker 1: Raider game. I think it was a Saturday night game

882
00:46:55,400 --> 00:47:00,160
Speaker 1: or Thursday night game. Saturday and Fitzpatrick comes in and

883
00:47:00,320 --> 00:47:04,120
Speaker 1: saves the game, and that was later on in the season.

884
00:47:04,680 --> 00:47:06,680
Speaker 1: It's like to of wouldn't let it rip? Now we

885
00:47:06,719 --> 00:47:08,719
Speaker 1: could argue did they have great weapons? Of course not,

886
00:47:09,520 --> 00:47:12,760
Speaker 1: But you know, I think it's okay to go listen.

887
00:47:13,200 --> 00:47:15,920
Speaker 1: I'm not gonna make an overall judgment of Tua that

888
00:47:16,000 --> 00:47:18,840
Speaker 1: he's good or he sucks, but I think it is

889
00:47:18,880 --> 00:47:24,080
Speaker 1: fair to say not an ideal start. Now. Life football

890
00:47:24,239 --> 00:47:27,160
Speaker 1: not about where you start how you finish. So he's

891
00:47:27,200 --> 00:47:31,640
Speaker 1: getting a pretty good start now, right. They just drafted

892
00:47:32,160 --> 00:47:36,600
Speaker 1: uh Jalen Waddle number six overall, didn't they sign will Fuller?

893
00:47:36,719 --> 00:47:38,719
Speaker 1: Like they just added some speed. Now. Will Fuller gets

894
00:47:38,760 --> 00:47:42,160
Speaker 1: injured a lot, but time to put up or shut up?

895
00:47:42,200 --> 00:47:44,040
Speaker 1: Down and not put up or shut up, but like

896
00:47:44,520 --> 00:47:47,879
Speaker 1: he should show that he's a pretty good player this year,

897
00:47:50,840 --> 00:47:54,400
Speaker 1: following the big guy around all day to day. I

898
00:47:54,400 --> 00:47:57,000
Speaker 1: think he means Bryson t Shambo. Do you think his

899
00:47:57,160 --> 00:48:00,520
Speaker 1: roller coaster of emotions will prohibit him from winning frequently?

900
00:48:01,160 --> 00:48:03,319
Speaker 1: Or when he's riding high, he can just kill it?

901
00:48:03,920 --> 00:48:07,400
Speaker 1: Love the pod heard you on Collins Feed picked up

902
00:48:07,400 --> 00:48:11,640
Speaker 1: You and Guys podcast. I appreciate it if you're talking

903
00:48:11,719 --> 00:48:16,560
Speaker 1: d Shambo. I would say that he basically missed the cut,

904
00:48:16,760 --> 00:48:20,080
Speaker 1: flew back and still finished top ten. If he is

905
00:48:20,160 --> 00:48:22,879
Speaker 1: hitting his driver straight, he's easily one of the best

906
00:48:22,880 --> 00:48:25,839
Speaker 1: players in the world. He's an unsoppable force. But when

907
00:48:25,840 --> 00:48:28,400
Speaker 1: you hit the ball three and seventy yards and if

908
00:48:28,400 --> 00:48:30,400
Speaker 1: he's not hitting it straight, and in the course like

909
00:48:30,480 --> 00:48:34,680
Speaker 1: Quail Hollow where it's got some thrick some thick trees

910
00:48:35,480 --> 00:48:37,399
Speaker 1: and it's if you're off the beaten path, you're kind

911
00:48:37,400 --> 00:48:40,319
Speaker 1: of screwed. It can look ugly. And I bet on him.

912
00:48:40,360 --> 00:48:42,480
Speaker 1: I put a hundred dollars on him. The first couple

913
00:48:42,520 --> 00:48:44,799
Speaker 1: of days. He was all over the map. He's not

914
00:48:44,840 --> 00:48:46,680
Speaker 1: gonna play well at these hard courses when he's in

915
00:48:46,719 --> 00:48:49,560
Speaker 1: the trees. But when he's hitting fairways. I mean, Rory

916
00:48:49,600 --> 00:48:51,440
Speaker 1: was hitting in three fifty and he was hitting fairways

917
00:48:51,440 --> 00:48:53,920
Speaker 1: and he was unsoppable. If Bryson's hit fairways all week

918
00:48:54,000 --> 00:48:56,279
Speaker 1: like he would have been right there with Rory. I

919
00:48:56,280 --> 00:48:59,840
Speaker 1: think his high ends really high. And yeah, he's emotional.

920
00:49:00,000 --> 00:49:03,280
Speaker 1: Gen Rom's emotional. A lot of golfers, like Justin Thomas,

921
00:49:03,320 --> 00:49:06,799
Speaker 1: pretty emotional. One thing I think Rory really Benet Rory

922
00:49:06,840 --> 00:49:09,879
Speaker 1: has become pretty even keel, Dustin Johnson very even keel.

923
00:49:10,120 --> 00:49:13,680
Speaker 1: If you get really emotional on golf, it's hard. Sometimes

924
00:49:13,760 --> 00:49:16,960
Speaker 1: Bryson gets um. Yeah, I mean, he's got to learn

925
00:49:17,000 --> 00:49:19,759
Speaker 1: to gather his emotions. But he's pretty freaking good, so

926
00:49:19,800 --> 00:49:21,640
Speaker 1: he wants seven eight times. He already got a major.

927
00:49:23,480 --> 00:49:26,120
Speaker 1: Like to me, he easily could win another major this season.

928
00:49:27,640 --> 00:49:30,080
Speaker 1: I'm a big Charger fan, and I can't understand why

929
00:49:30,080 --> 00:49:32,880
Speaker 1: we don't go all out to surround Herbert with talent.

930
00:49:33,280 --> 00:49:35,239
Speaker 1: I know this fan of his family has historically been

931
00:49:35,320 --> 00:49:39,239
Speaker 1: labeled as cheap. However, surely every NFL GM has a

932
00:49:39,280 --> 00:49:44,120
Speaker 1: license to use the full cap, rendering that narrative redundant.

933
00:49:44,520 --> 00:49:47,680
Speaker 1: We are the Golden window, great quarterback talent plus rookie contract.

934
00:49:47,920 --> 00:49:53,439
Speaker 1: We need to get aggressive. Yeah, I mean, I'm I'm

935
00:49:53,440 --> 00:49:56,200
Speaker 1: with you. I don't think that's gonna change. Though your

936
00:49:56,239 --> 00:49:59,000
Speaker 1: owner pitches pennies. Uh, he's one of the cheapest guys

937
00:49:59,000 --> 00:50:01,839
Speaker 1: in the league. It's not even just he operates cheap.

938
00:50:01,960 --> 00:50:05,160
Speaker 1: He he he thinks cheap. And when you think cheap, it's

939
00:50:05,200 --> 00:50:08,879
Speaker 1: hard in a league full of absolute ass kicking rich

940
00:50:08,960 --> 00:50:12,919
Speaker 1: guys who think aggressive, who think about spending who think

941
00:50:13,000 --> 00:50:15,600
Speaker 1: they'll do whatever it takes to win. There's a reason

942
00:50:15,680 --> 00:50:18,880
Speaker 1: the Chargers always under a chief. It's not the owner.

943
00:50:19,200 --> 00:50:23,200
Speaker 1: Ultimately he has the money, they have cash, it's his mindset.

944
00:50:25,160 --> 00:50:27,360
Speaker 1: What's crazy is I've known a lot of rich people

945
00:50:27,400 --> 00:50:30,200
Speaker 1: that have inherited some wealth. Sometimes they tend to be

946
00:50:30,200 --> 00:50:33,440
Speaker 1: pretty aggressive and then get you in trouble. It's to me,

947
00:50:33,480 --> 00:50:35,520
Speaker 1: it's weird when you inherit a bunch of wealth and

948
00:50:35,560 --> 00:50:39,080
Speaker 1: you get really tight and cheap. I don't understand that.

949
00:50:39,239 --> 00:50:42,480
Speaker 1: The Steinbrenners are kind of like that. And even though

950
00:50:42,520 --> 00:50:45,480
Speaker 1: they are much much higher level than the Spanos, but

951
00:50:45,600 --> 00:50:48,760
Speaker 1: like they're not like their dad. You think George, George

952
00:50:48,760 --> 00:50:51,000
Speaker 1: has spent way more money. They have way more money.

953
00:50:51,200 --> 00:50:52,719
Speaker 1: Part of the reason all these owners spend way more

954
00:50:52,719 --> 00:50:55,719
Speaker 1: money out they have an unlimited amount of wealth. Spanos

955
00:50:55,760 --> 00:50:59,680
Speaker 1: is such a small time thinker that it's just it's

956
00:50:59,719 --> 00:51:01,680
Speaker 1: kind of sad because I'm with you. They should have

957
00:51:02,600 --> 00:51:04,960
Speaker 1: emptied the kitchen sink, which I mean, they added a

958
00:51:04,960 --> 00:51:09,640
Speaker 1: couple offensive linemen. Their their general manager is good. They

959
00:51:09,680 --> 00:51:12,640
Speaker 1: always hire coaches also that feel like they're cheap. Even

960
00:51:12,640 --> 00:51:15,160
Speaker 1: though Brandon Stateley might become a really good head coach.

961
00:51:15,440 --> 00:51:19,800
Speaker 1: He definitely was not very expensive. They never ever swing

962
00:51:19,880 --> 00:51:22,840
Speaker 1: for the fences, like they would never hire a Lincoln Riley.

963
00:51:22,920 --> 00:51:26,880
Speaker 1: An urban Meyer thought of the perfect trait scenario for

964
00:51:26,920 --> 00:51:30,280
Speaker 1: the Packers and would love to know your thoughts. Trade

965
00:51:30,360 --> 00:51:36,160
Speaker 1: Jordan's love to Atlanta straight up for Julio Jumps solves

966
00:51:36,239 --> 00:51:39,000
Speaker 1: both teams problems. Green Bay gets a top flight receiver

967
00:51:39,520 --> 00:51:43,840
Speaker 1: and gets rid of Jordan's love to appease Rogers. Atlanta

968
00:51:43,920 --> 00:51:46,680
Speaker 1: fixes their cap problems and gets potential air to Matt

969
00:51:46,760 --> 00:51:50,719
Speaker 1: Ryan and Arthur Smith. If I was Arthur Smith and

970
00:51:50,800 --> 00:51:53,960
Speaker 1: I love Jordan's love coming out, I would be intrigued

971
00:51:54,000 --> 00:51:59,200
Speaker 1: by that. I really would. He's cheap, we can develop them.

972
00:51:59,239 --> 00:52:01,440
Speaker 1: I would one how to send you that. Now, the

973
00:52:01,480 --> 00:52:03,759
Speaker 1: Packers don't necessarily have the cap rooms, so I think

974
00:52:03,760 --> 00:52:07,200
Speaker 1: they would have to cut somebody. But I've been saying

975
00:52:07,239 --> 00:52:09,920
Speaker 1: all along, whether they trade Jordan's love for Julio, the

976
00:52:09,920 --> 00:52:13,080
Speaker 1: Packers should be all over Julio Jones. What does it

977
00:52:13,120 --> 00:52:15,560
Speaker 1: take to get him? Because all of a sudden, Okay, Rogers,

978
00:52:15,560 --> 00:52:18,120
Speaker 1: I get it, you're pissed. You hate Gudikins. How about

979
00:52:18,160 --> 00:52:22,480
Speaker 1: this Davante Aaron Jones Julio Tanyan, let's fucking rock and roll.

980
00:52:22,960 --> 00:52:24,440
Speaker 1: What are you gonna do? So you want to go

981
00:52:24,480 --> 00:52:27,920
Speaker 1: to the Raiders over Julio and Davante. Come on, bro,

982
00:52:28,560 --> 00:52:31,120
Speaker 1: but the Packers actually gotta do it? Are they going

983
00:52:31,200 --> 00:52:33,640
Speaker 1: to pull the trigger? I think we'd all bet against

984
00:52:33,680 --> 00:52:36,959
Speaker 1: them not doing it. Thirteen year old in New York.

985
00:52:37,000 --> 00:52:39,880
Speaker 1: I like the young demo. I want to hear your

986
00:52:39,960 --> 00:52:44,040
Speaker 1: rundown on the Giants offseason and draft. Thanks. I love

987
00:52:44,080 --> 00:52:47,080
Speaker 1: your pot and keep up the good work. I think

988
00:52:47,080 --> 00:52:49,839
Speaker 1: the Giants on paper are pretty solid, right. They get

989
00:52:49,840 --> 00:52:52,839
Speaker 1: se Quan coming back, they add Gola Day, they add

990
00:52:52,920 --> 00:52:55,480
Speaker 1: Tony in the draft, smart move by Gettleman at a

991
00:52:55,480 --> 00:52:59,880
Speaker 1: first rounder. Their defense is solid. They retained all their coaches.

992
00:53:00,800 --> 00:53:03,239
Speaker 1: I mean to me, it comes down to simply, is

993
00:53:03,440 --> 00:53:06,319
Speaker 1: Daniel Jones any good? Is Daniel Jones someone you pick

994
00:53:06,400 --> 00:53:08,600
Speaker 1: up his fifth year option? Is Daniel Jones someone you

995
00:53:08,600 --> 00:53:11,000
Speaker 1: would think about giving a contract extension. If he is,

996
00:53:11,480 --> 00:53:14,879
Speaker 1: they should win nine games. If he's not, they could

997
00:53:14,880 --> 00:53:17,719
Speaker 1: be a five or six win team. Again and complaining

998
00:53:17,719 --> 00:53:22,399
Speaker 1: that the Eagles, you know, bench their quarterback. I think

999
00:53:22,440 --> 00:53:24,960
Speaker 1: their office, their coachs look solid. It feels like they

1000
00:53:25,040 --> 00:53:27,759
Speaker 1: got a solid group of guys. Leonard Williams resigned him.

1001
00:53:28,560 --> 00:53:31,120
Speaker 1: Lennon Williams is really good. Give Gettleman credit on that.

1002
00:53:31,760 --> 00:53:33,680
Speaker 1: I thought that was kind of a weird trade. It

1003
00:53:33,719 --> 00:53:36,720
Speaker 1: was good. He had a breakout season with all the sacks.

1004
00:53:37,360 --> 00:53:39,360
Speaker 1: He was a guy that could never land the quarterback.

1005
00:53:39,840 --> 00:53:43,840
Speaker 1: Gettleman believed in him and it was proven right. I

1006
00:53:43,880 --> 00:53:47,399
Speaker 1: look at the the Giants and the Washington football team

1007
00:53:47,560 --> 00:53:51,120
Speaker 1: very very similarly. Both of them have a very very

1008
00:53:51,239 --> 00:53:55,800
Speaker 1: solid core of just tough, physical minded guys, good defensive players.

1009
00:53:56,640 --> 00:53:59,000
Speaker 1: Can they get your quarterback play? Now? I bet on

1010
00:53:59,040 --> 00:54:02,560
Speaker 1: Fitzpatrick being armed Daniel Jones. But if Daniel Jones can

1011
00:54:02,600 --> 00:54:05,480
Speaker 1: just have a Ryan Fitzpatrick type season, Giants could win

1012
00:54:05,480 --> 00:54:10,200
Speaker 1: the division. I totally agree the NFL shouldn't move a

1013
00:54:10,239 --> 00:54:13,759
Speaker 1: franchise to London, and they would be competitive free agent

1014
00:54:13,760 --> 00:54:16,400
Speaker 1: disadvantage and the fan interest would wayne and the novelty

1015
00:54:16,440 --> 00:54:21,160
Speaker 1: factor of new visiting teams keep the current rotation approach. Secondly,

1016
00:54:21,760 --> 00:54:25,160
Speaker 1: the international image image of the league is moving toward

1017
00:54:25,280 --> 00:54:30,160
Speaker 1: high profile players rather than teams. Is there a concerned

1018
00:54:30,160 --> 00:54:33,720
Speaker 1: that the league moves towards an NBA player power model

1019
00:54:34,160 --> 00:54:37,680
Speaker 1: where the strength of the team franchise is diminished in

1020
00:54:37,800 --> 00:54:42,560
Speaker 1: order to maintain interest in their star names. Cheers UK

1021
00:54:42,640 --> 00:54:45,120
Speaker 1: based listener, but I love the international listening. I need

1022
00:54:45,160 --> 00:54:47,880
Speaker 1: to get to the UK. It feels like just a

1023
00:54:47,880 --> 00:54:51,040
Speaker 1: cool place. Never been there, would would love to go.

1024
00:54:52,000 --> 00:54:54,360
Speaker 1: I don't think that's the case, because I think basketball

1025
00:54:54,400 --> 00:54:57,000
Speaker 1: has failed that way. At the end of the day,

1026
00:54:57,080 --> 00:54:59,200
Speaker 1: if you grew up in l A, you're a Laker fan.

1027
00:54:59,760 --> 00:55:02,279
Speaker 1: You'll love Kobe because he became a Laker and spent

1028
00:55:02,320 --> 00:55:04,680
Speaker 1: his whole career as a Laker. You like Jack when

1029
00:55:04,680 --> 00:55:07,200
Speaker 1: he was on the Lakers. Once he started bitching and moaning,

1030
00:55:07,239 --> 00:55:09,120
Speaker 1: he traded him my way, like he wasn't your guy anymore.

1031
00:55:09,600 --> 00:55:11,520
Speaker 1: One of the reasons the NBA, to me, has had

1032
00:55:11,520 --> 00:55:14,760
Speaker 1: a precipitous drop off and fan interest. They stopped putting

1033
00:55:14,760 --> 00:55:19,400
Speaker 1: the fan first. Fans care about teams. Wherever you grew up,

1034
00:55:19,480 --> 00:55:22,520
Speaker 1: you watch the Lakers, the Mavericks, the Nicks, whoever. You

1035
00:55:22,560 --> 00:55:24,719
Speaker 1: care about the team first. Obviously your team has a

1036
00:55:24,719 --> 00:55:28,480
Speaker 1: great player, you for that player. But when your team sucks,

1037
00:55:28,520 --> 00:55:31,480
Speaker 1: what all these players leave? That sucks. Like even if

1038
00:55:31,520 --> 00:55:33,360
Speaker 1: you love James Harden when he was on the Rockets,

1039
00:55:33,680 --> 00:55:35,600
Speaker 1: once he demands a trade and says, screw you to

1040
00:55:35,640 --> 00:55:37,680
Speaker 1: the city Houston trades. What are supposed to do? Just

1041
00:55:37,719 --> 00:55:40,560
Speaker 1: follow him wherever he goes? Your team then sucks. That's

1042
00:55:40,600 --> 00:55:44,120
Speaker 1: awful for the fan. Like ultimately, I think most Packer

1043
00:55:44,200 --> 00:55:46,839
Speaker 1: fans want Rogers to come back, but they're gonna keep

1044
00:55:46,880 --> 00:55:50,160
Speaker 1: rooting for the Packers. They just really are. Because I

1045
00:55:50,160 --> 00:55:53,240
Speaker 1: think right now, if you're a Packer fan, you go Aaron,

1046
00:55:53,680 --> 00:55:56,560
Speaker 1: your team is pretty freaking good. You've had it pretty awesome.

1047
00:55:58,000 --> 00:56:00,360
Speaker 1: I'd say Tom Brady is somewhat of an outlier. He

1048
00:56:00,480 --> 00:56:04,160
Speaker 1: brought them six championships. Six So if you're a new

1049
00:56:04,200 --> 00:56:06,319
Speaker 1: England fan like Listen, Tom was forty two years old.

1050
00:56:06,640 --> 00:56:09,600
Speaker 1: He wanted a new start, a new team, we get it.

1051
00:56:10,160 --> 00:56:13,080
Speaker 1: So I'd say Tom's now he brought us the greatest

1052
00:56:13,080 --> 00:56:15,960
Speaker 1: twenty years will ever have. We can't thank him enough.

1053
00:56:15,960 --> 00:56:18,680
Speaker 1: He's a legend, but he's our guy and I'm gonna

1054
00:56:18,719 --> 00:56:21,120
Speaker 1: root firm in Tampa. To me, the way he didn't

1055
00:56:21,120 --> 00:56:23,880
Speaker 1: handle like Rogers either. He was a free agent, he left,

1056
00:56:24,320 --> 00:56:27,520
Speaker 1: it was clear Belchick wanted to move on from Rogers

1057
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Speaker 1: is like destroying the franchise. So I I don't think

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Speaker 1: that will be the case because I think deep down

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Speaker 1: we root for the team first. Now the players come

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Speaker 1: with the team, but fans are team first because usually

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Speaker 1: you root for a team where you live. You care

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Speaker 1: about where you're from, even if you leave. I'm someone

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Speaker 1: who's left come back, and I live, you know, an

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Speaker 1: hour forty five minutes depending on traffic away from where

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Speaker 1: I grew up. I take pride and where I grew up, right,

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Speaker 1: I mean, I grew up a big kid fan, and

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Speaker 1: I still kind of subtenly root for them. Not really,

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Speaker 1: but if they were good, I'd be a fan again.

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Speaker 1: I doubt you have time to read all your d

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Speaker 1: m s, but it would be willing, would be so

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Speaker 1: awesome to meet you and ask you a few questions.

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Speaker 1: I live in northern California and can come to you.

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Speaker 1: My dream is the Scout. I would like to pick

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Speaker 1: your brain. I'll buy we can go to any restaurant

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Speaker 1: you choose. Ruth Chris Flemings, I'm just kidding. Uh yeah,

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Speaker 1: I'll shoot this guy. DM. Well, I get this question

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Speaker 1: a lot. The best thing you can do, you gotta

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Speaker 1: get involved in football. If you truly want to work

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Speaker 1: in football, you just gotta get involved whether that means

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Speaker 1: starting at the high school level, whether that means getting

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Speaker 1: involved in the college level. You gotta get in football

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Speaker 1: because you can't just be not in football and have

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Speaker 1: no football experience besides maybe like played in high school

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Speaker 1: and be and think you're gonna get an in because

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Speaker 1: they're like, well, do you know what you're talking about?

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Speaker 1: Just because you're a fan of whatever. You gotta get involved.

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Speaker 1: That would be my number one recommendation. Find a way

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Speaker 1: into a college program. And it might be working for free.

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Speaker 1: It sucks, but I did it when I was at

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Speaker 1: cal Poly and it helped kind of open doors and

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Speaker 1: get me in places like Fresdl State, And I would

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Speaker 1: never have worked in the NFL if it wasn't for

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Speaker 1: Fressen State. Zero chance, no chance, zero, I mean, it

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Speaker 1: would not have happened. So you gotta find a way

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Speaker 1: in that. That's always my my number one advice. Appreciate

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Speaker 1: everyone listening, Have a great week. Audios