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Speaker 1: So let's start with Monday Night Football and uh, the

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Speaker 1: to trade him. You probably have to bite the bullet

424
00:21:06,080 --> 00:21:08,280
Speaker 1: and take like a six or seven. You're not gonna

425
00:21:08,320 --> 00:21:11,080
Speaker 1: cut him because financially it doesn't make sense. This is

426
00:21:11,119 --> 00:21:14,679
Speaker 1: the problem. This is why Mike Mayock would fundamentally be

427
00:21:14,760 --> 00:21:18,479
Speaker 1: opposed to this type player because he's so good the

428
00:21:18,520 --> 00:21:21,000
Speaker 1: moment you acquire that guy and then you then you

429
00:21:21,080 --> 00:21:24,679
Speaker 1: financially empower him. He's got you by the balls. So

430
00:21:24,720 --> 00:21:27,040
Speaker 1: they're like, Mike Mayock can act like a tough guy,

431
00:21:27,119 --> 00:21:28,960
Speaker 1: and I think he is, and I think yesterday was

432
00:21:29,040 --> 00:21:31,959
Speaker 1: piste off and it was awesome. I mean it was sweet,

433
00:21:32,400 --> 00:21:34,679
Speaker 1: but there's only so much he can do. Like they

434
00:21:34,720 --> 00:21:36,639
Speaker 1: need Antonio Brown, they need him for a week one.

435
00:21:36,640 --> 00:21:38,560
Speaker 1: They're kind of screwed. And this is why I said

436
00:21:38,560 --> 00:21:40,240
Speaker 1: it didn't make any sense. Once you get rid of

437
00:21:40,240 --> 00:21:41,800
Speaker 1: clear back, and you get rid of Mark Cooper and

438
00:21:41,800 --> 00:21:43,720
Speaker 1: you get all these draftnicks. I thought they were starting

439
00:21:43,720 --> 00:21:46,359
Speaker 1: over at scratch. But the problem is John Gruden changed

440
00:21:46,400 --> 00:21:49,359
Speaker 1: his mind every ten minutes. He has unlimited amounts of power,

441
00:21:49,720 --> 00:21:52,600
Speaker 1: he has all this money, He's unfire able. No one

442
00:21:52,640 --> 00:21:54,359
Speaker 1: can tell him anything, mainly because no one in the

443
00:21:54,359 --> 00:21:56,520
Speaker 1: building knows what the hell they're doing beside Gruden and

444
00:21:56,520 --> 00:22:00,520
Speaker 1: Mayock and some of Gruden's coaches. So it's just it's

445
00:22:00,600 --> 00:22:02,679
Speaker 1: it's a ship show. That that's really what it is.

446
00:22:03,200 --> 00:22:05,439
Speaker 1: And the sad thing is and I feel, and I

447
00:22:05,480 --> 00:22:08,080
Speaker 1: know a lot of older Raider fans like this still

448
00:22:08,080 --> 00:22:10,320
Speaker 1: hold on to like the seventies and the early eighties

449
00:22:10,480 --> 00:22:14,280
Speaker 1: eighties with Stabler and Tom Flores and Jim Plunkett and

450
00:22:14,320 --> 00:22:16,960
Speaker 1: Fred Blitt and a Cough and Howie Long. I mean,

451
00:22:16,960 --> 00:22:19,919
Speaker 1: they have some of the most iconic players ever. The

452
00:22:19,960 --> 00:22:22,919
Speaker 1: old Room in what they call like where their conference

453
00:22:23,000 --> 00:22:24,919
Speaker 1: room is, it is called the Hall of Fame room

454
00:22:24,960 --> 00:22:27,439
Speaker 1: because Al Davis, I think, has introduced the most amount

455
00:22:27,440 --> 00:22:29,480
Speaker 1: of people inside the Hall of Fame in the history

456
00:22:29,480 --> 00:22:32,560
Speaker 1: of the NFL. They are so far away from that

457
00:22:32,960 --> 00:22:35,800
Speaker 1: in two thousand nineteen, it's not even funny. And I

458
00:22:35,880 --> 00:22:38,879
Speaker 1: said it all along that this team the Bay Area

459
00:22:39,080 --> 00:22:41,439
Speaker 1: is on one of the great twenty year stretches in

460
00:22:41,560 --> 00:22:45,080
Speaker 1: financial history. There is more goddamn money around this place.

461
00:22:45,640 --> 00:22:47,280
Speaker 1: I need to get my hands on more. But even

462
00:22:47,320 --> 00:22:49,960
Speaker 1: a guy like me that can start from scratch multiple

463
00:22:50,000 --> 00:22:52,160
Speaker 1: times and make a lot of money, it's pretty easy.

464
00:22:52,160 --> 00:22:54,680
Speaker 1: There's a lot of cash flowing around here. Jed York

465
00:22:54,920 --> 00:22:58,679
Speaker 1: is swimming in it is absolutely swimming in cash. And

466
00:22:58,720 --> 00:23:01,240
Speaker 1: the Raiders, now, I'll defend them a little bit. The

467
00:23:01,280 --> 00:23:04,560
Speaker 1: politicians in Oakland probably one of the more messed up

468
00:23:04,760 --> 00:23:08,040
Speaker 1: little communities in America, but still they have they have

469
00:23:08,080 --> 00:23:11,719
Speaker 1: a famous brand. It's the NFL. I mean, the Warriors

470
00:23:11,720 --> 00:23:13,840
Speaker 1: are crushing it, the Giants are crushing it, the Niners

471
00:23:13,840 --> 00:23:15,879
Speaker 1: are crushing it, win or loose. They printing money. The

472
00:23:15,960 --> 00:23:18,240
Speaker 1: Riders have never been able to turn a profit, and

473
00:23:18,280 --> 00:23:20,080
Speaker 1: they're just gonna move and figure out how to turn

474
00:23:20,080 --> 00:23:22,399
Speaker 1: a profit. So why I always said I I listen.

475
00:23:22,400 --> 00:23:25,200
Speaker 1: I think the league is in a very very tough

476
00:23:25,240 --> 00:23:27,920
Speaker 1: spot allowing them to go. Obviously they had to allow

477
00:23:27,960 --> 00:23:31,480
Speaker 1: them go when the money was free, but the infrastructure

478
00:23:31,640 --> 00:23:34,439
Speaker 1: of non football people's not there. And then even with

479
00:23:34,520 --> 00:23:37,920
Speaker 1: the football people. Now John Gruden, who you thought would

480
00:23:37,960 --> 00:23:39,920
Speaker 1: come back, kind of guns blaze and can't even handle

481
00:23:39,960 --> 00:23:43,960
Speaker 1: his own players. So it's just this organization. It's just

482
00:23:44,080 --> 00:23:46,679
Speaker 1: always something with them, drip drip, drip drip, and and

483
00:23:46,760 --> 00:23:50,080
Speaker 1: Raider fans get so offended, especially in this area because

484
00:23:50,080 --> 00:23:52,480
Speaker 1: they're kind of the redheaded step child of the other team.

485
00:23:52,800 --> 00:23:54,960
Speaker 1: It's they're always compared to the Niners. The Niners always

486
00:23:54,960 --> 00:23:57,560
Speaker 1: get more media coverage. Even the nine are the craziest

487
00:23:57,560 --> 00:23:59,239
Speaker 1: things that come out of there are never quite as

488
00:23:59,240 --> 00:24:00,879
Speaker 1: crazy as stuff that umes from the Raiders. And it

489
00:24:01,040 --> 00:24:05,439
Speaker 1: never ends, it never ends. And it's like Drew Rosenhouse,

490
00:24:06,040 --> 00:24:09,040
Speaker 1: Drew Rosenhouse is made, as someone tweeted at me today,

491
00:24:09,640 --> 00:24:11,720
Speaker 1: he could sell sand to the King of Egypt. He

492
00:24:11,760 --> 00:24:15,320
Speaker 1: could sell ice to an Eskimo. Drew Rosenhouse was born

493
00:24:15,400 --> 00:24:20,000
Speaker 1: for chaos. Terrell Owens, Tyreek Kill, Antonio Brown. I watched

494
00:24:20,040 --> 00:24:23,280
Speaker 1: him talking, not even sweating. It's just normal to him.

495
00:24:23,359 --> 00:24:27,280
Speaker 1: He thrives in that environment. Honestly, I think he likes

496
00:24:27,280 --> 00:24:30,000
Speaker 1: it when his players are kind of crazy, made for it,

497
00:24:30,359 --> 00:24:33,359
Speaker 1: like it just doesn't even FaZe him. Some agents want

498
00:24:33,440 --> 00:24:36,159
Speaker 1: no part of guys like that. I think Drew Rosenhouse.

499
00:24:36,280 --> 00:24:38,600
Speaker 1: Maybe it keeps him interesting, maybe it keeps him locked in.

500
00:24:38,760 --> 00:24:41,360
Speaker 1: I don't know, but he clearly likes a player kind

501
00:24:41,400 --> 00:24:44,119
Speaker 1: of on edge. He doesn't mind it, and when they

502
00:24:44,160 --> 00:24:46,879
Speaker 1: do kind of cross the ledge, he's right there with him.

503
00:24:46,920 --> 00:24:50,200
Speaker 1: He's the opposite of the Raiders, Like when chaos hits them,

504
00:24:50,280 --> 00:24:53,399
Speaker 1: they're double screwed because they're never good enough and second

505
00:24:53,440 --> 00:24:56,320
Speaker 1: of all, they're never equipped to handle it. Rosenhouse like

506
00:24:56,400 --> 00:25:00,560
Speaker 1: doesn't even flinch. It's like he's like a everyone you know,

507
00:25:00,600 --> 00:25:02,400
Speaker 1: when there's like a fire or something and the first

508
00:25:02,400 --> 00:25:06,320
Speaker 1: respondals all run in and everyone's running out, it's like Rosenhouse.

509
00:25:06,359 --> 00:25:10,520
Speaker 1: Most organizations run away from craziness. Rosenhouse runs at it.

510
00:25:10,960 --> 00:25:14,800
Speaker 1: And I've always been entertained by Rosenhouse. His brand is

511
00:25:14,840 --> 00:25:18,040
Speaker 1: pretty special to me. His brand is kind of chaos. Obviously,

512
00:25:18,080 --> 00:25:21,760
Speaker 1: the most you know, memorable moment was Terrell Owens in

513
00:25:21,800 --> 00:25:24,720
Speaker 1: the in the driveway, But today kind of making the

514
00:25:24,760 --> 00:25:27,639
Speaker 1: television rounds, this is Drew Rosenhouse. He He's made for this.

515
00:25:28,440 --> 00:25:31,600
Speaker 1: The Raiders are not, and it's already a complete disaster.

516
00:25:32,359 --> 00:25:36,359
Speaker 1: And it's where I will always defend Derek Carr if

517
00:25:36,680 --> 00:25:39,359
Speaker 1: you think that you could have put Peyton Manning or

518
00:25:39,400 --> 00:25:41,960
Speaker 1: Tom Brady or John Elway in this organization, they would

519
00:25:41,960 --> 00:25:44,480
Speaker 1: have succeeded. You're out of your mind. They would have failed.

520
00:25:44,800 --> 00:25:49,960
Speaker 1: This organization destroys people's careers, and the guys are lucky

521
00:25:50,040 --> 00:25:52,000
Speaker 1: enough to get away from it and then still have success.

522
00:25:52,040 --> 00:25:54,480
Speaker 1: Even some of Al Davis is crazy quote unquote, Mrs

523
00:25:54,800 --> 00:25:57,280
Speaker 1: Darius Hayward Bay still playing the league. Mike Mitchell went

524
00:25:57,320 --> 00:25:59,440
Speaker 1: on to have a long career like once the guy

525
00:25:59,560 --> 00:26:02,080
Speaker 1: Khalil act. You know, he was doing well and then

526
00:26:02,119 --> 00:26:04,120
Speaker 1: even he had to get away and became He's gonna

527
00:26:04,119 --> 00:26:05,760
Speaker 1: become an all time He's gonna become a Hall of

528
00:26:05,800 --> 00:26:09,520
Speaker 1: Famer with the Bears. This organism Amori boom. It's crazy, crazy,

529
00:26:09,520 --> 00:26:13,360
Speaker 1: and in Oakland goes to Dallas kills it. This organization

530
00:26:13,480 --> 00:26:17,160
Speaker 1: brings players down and it's sad, and it always starts

531
00:26:17,160 --> 00:26:20,119
Speaker 1: at the top with ownership. But the thing about you

532
00:26:20,240 --> 00:26:22,480
Speaker 1: Mark Davis is he's not like some micro manager. He

533
00:26:22,600 --> 00:26:25,000
Speaker 1: is so dependent on his little cronies around him. The

534
00:26:25,000 --> 00:26:27,800
Speaker 1: non football people did they create this, and it's just

535
00:26:27,840 --> 00:26:30,720
Speaker 1: a never ending cycle. So when the Raiders moved to

536
00:26:30,800 --> 00:26:33,840
Speaker 1: Las Vegas, nothing is going to change. They're just gonna

537
00:26:33,880 --> 00:26:37,120
Speaker 1: owe an astronomical amount of money on the stadium, which

538
00:26:37,160 --> 00:26:39,720
Speaker 1: they've never been able to make money. And it makes

539
00:26:39,720 --> 00:26:42,119
Speaker 1: me nervous. Like if I was Roger Goodell, I'd be like,

540
00:26:42,200 --> 00:26:44,879
Speaker 1: oh my god, what did we get ourselves into? And

541
00:26:44,880 --> 00:26:47,520
Speaker 1: as long as Mark Davis alive, he's gonna own this team.

542
00:26:47,600 --> 00:26:51,399
Speaker 1: So I mean, one day the ownership will change and

543
00:26:51,400 --> 00:26:53,840
Speaker 1: will probably the healthiest thing to ever happen to the franchise.

544
00:26:54,320 --> 00:26:56,680
Speaker 1: But this is and I think it's crazy. At the

545
00:26:56,760 --> 00:26:59,720
Speaker 1: end of the day, Mike Mayock all these chances over

546
00:26:59,720 --> 00:27:01,679
Speaker 1: the year is to come back to the league. And

547
00:27:01,720 --> 00:27:04,400
Speaker 1: I get when you're the Raiders nostalgia. It's really cool

548
00:27:04,440 --> 00:27:07,080
Speaker 1: for football fan and clearly Mas a football fan. But

549
00:27:07,160 --> 00:27:09,560
Speaker 1: he he might have hitch his wagon like many players

550
00:27:09,560 --> 00:27:12,800
Speaker 1: this this this might be a short lived career for

551
00:27:12,880 --> 00:27:17,280
Speaker 1: him with the Oakland Raiders. Okay, let's dive into the

552
00:27:17,320 --> 00:27:21,480
Speaker 1: New York Giants and their ownership. I think if you

553
00:27:21,520 --> 00:27:26,840
Speaker 1: read about any successful business, whether it's football, whether it's finance,

554
00:27:27,440 --> 00:27:32,919
Speaker 1: whether it's I don't know, NBA, any walk of life, medical, sales, farming, operation,

555
00:27:33,119 --> 00:27:37,080
Speaker 1: you name it. The guy that runs the organization, whether

556
00:27:37,119 --> 00:27:40,040
Speaker 1: he's the owner, whether he's a CEO, whatever he does,

557
00:27:40,160 --> 00:27:44,200
Speaker 1: whether he's a head coach. You can't micro manage everything.

558
00:27:44,640 --> 00:27:48,160
Speaker 1: It's impossible. As your business grows, there's just too much

559
00:27:48,160 --> 00:27:51,480
Speaker 1: going on. You will waste time, you will be less

560
00:27:51,480 --> 00:27:54,600
Speaker 1: efficient if you would tempt to get into everyone's business.

561
00:27:54,880 --> 00:27:57,479
Speaker 1: Now you can keep tabs on things, but there are

562
00:27:57,520 --> 00:28:01,359
Speaker 1: certain things you should focus on more than you did

563
00:28:01,760 --> 00:28:04,240
Speaker 1: before you own the company, right or before you became

564
00:28:04,280 --> 00:28:07,240
Speaker 1: CEO of the company or whatever. You just there's only

565
00:28:07,359 --> 00:28:09,600
Speaker 1: so much you can do. Just like what you do

566
00:28:09,680 --> 00:28:12,320
Speaker 1: as a quarterback coach, you're gonna do different stuff when

567
00:28:12,320 --> 00:28:14,920
Speaker 1: you're the head coach or even the coordinator. Well, when

568
00:28:14,960 --> 00:28:19,120
Speaker 1: you own a football team, you especially in two thousand nineteen,

569
00:28:19,560 --> 00:28:22,040
Speaker 1: you're paying a head coach anywhere between five and ten

570
00:28:22,080 --> 00:28:25,600
Speaker 1: million dollars, and you're paying a GM a couple of

571
00:28:25,640 --> 00:28:28,119
Speaker 1: million bucks. Depending on who you are, that number changes,

572
00:28:28,720 --> 00:28:32,080
Speaker 1: but you are paying them a lot of money to

573
00:28:32,200 --> 00:28:35,840
Speaker 1: decide who plays and who doesn't play. And right now,

574
00:28:35,880 --> 00:28:39,360
Speaker 1: the New York Giants might have the biggest micro manager

575
00:28:40,520 --> 00:28:43,440
Speaker 1: owner in the league. And I was told this because

576
00:28:43,480 --> 00:28:47,120
Speaker 1: I was, like, I bet two years ago when when

577
00:28:47,200 --> 00:28:52,240
Speaker 1: Josh McDaniels, you know, spurned Indianapolis and Matt Patricia was

578
00:28:52,320 --> 00:28:55,120
Speaker 1: kind of interviewing around. I was told there's no way

579
00:28:55,160 --> 00:28:57,600
Speaker 1: he'll go to the New York Giants from someone that knows.

580
00:28:57,680 --> 00:29:01,640
Speaker 1: And I said why, and they said because as Belichick's

581
00:29:01,720 --> 00:29:05,120
Speaker 1: never been comfortable with their ownership. He thinks they dabbled

582
00:29:05,120 --> 00:29:08,120
Speaker 1: too much. And Mara's brother, I think his name is

583
00:29:08,200 --> 00:29:11,400
Speaker 1: Chris Mara, is also in the front office. He's like

584
00:29:11,840 --> 00:29:16,959
Speaker 1: basically the assistant GM, like he runs personnel stuff. So

585
00:29:17,000 --> 00:29:20,000
Speaker 1: they are they're not. They're a little closer in terms

586
00:29:20,000 --> 00:29:24,040
Speaker 1: of raiders than nostalgia and holding on now. They're much

587
00:29:24,120 --> 00:29:27,200
Speaker 1: much higher level. They've obviously won championships with Tom Coughlin,

588
00:29:27,520 --> 00:29:29,400
Speaker 1: and I don't think they did it with Tom Coughlin.

589
00:29:29,840 --> 00:29:32,200
Speaker 1: You know, people weren't downing Tom coflin what to do,

590
00:29:33,440 --> 00:29:36,480
Speaker 1: but for the most part with Macadoo and then clearly

591
00:29:36,680 --> 00:29:41,400
Speaker 1: right now with Pat Shermer, John Mara is deciding who

592
00:29:41,400 --> 00:29:45,000
Speaker 1: should be the starting quarterback. Here is the quote from

593
00:29:45,040 --> 00:29:47,680
Speaker 1: Pat Shermer. Because one thing is pretty clear and I

594
00:29:47,800 --> 00:29:51,320
Speaker 1: told everyone this, which is as crazy as Dave Gentleman's

595
00:29:51,360 --> 00:29:54,640
Speaker 1: pick of Daniel Jones wasn't six. The crazy part was

596
00:29:54,680 --> 00:29:57,600
Speaker 1: not the player. Because I've said this on this podcast

597
00:29:57,680 --> 00:30:00,719
Speaker 1: multiple times. I had friends in the se see they

598
00:30:00,720 --> 00:30:02,560
Speaker 1: all had first round grades on the guy. Now, they

599
00:30:02,560 --> 00:30:04,600
Speaker 1: did not think it was a top ten pick. But

600
00:30:04,640 --> 00:30:06,239
Speaker 1: if you want to take him at seventeen, no one

601
00:30:06,360 --> 00:30:08,840
Speaker 1: was gonna argue with you. Pretty clear he would have

602
00:30:08,920 --> 00:30:11,240
Speaker 1: been there at seventeen. I am very confident of that.

603
00:30:11,360 --> 00:30:13,280
Speaker 1: They could have taken Daniel Jones and seventeen. They could

604
00:30:13,280 --> 00:30:16,280
Speaker 1: have drafted Josh Allen at six. But whatever, we've moved

605
00:30:16,320 --> 00:30:20,320
Speaker 1: past that. But when when Daniel Jones proves that I

606
00:30:20,360 --> 00:30:22,400
Speaker 1: got news for He's probably better than Eli Manning. Right now,

607
00:30:22,560 --> 00:30:25,479
Speaker 1: you just play him because Eli Manning, you last won

608
00:30:25,520 --> 00:30:28,280
Speaker 1: a Super Bowl in two thousand and eleven. It's two

609
00:30:28,320 --> 00:30:33,280
Speaker 1: thousand nineteen. Stop holding onto the past. The past is over.

610
00:30:33,720 --> 00:30:36,000
Speaker 1: I get piste off around these parts with the San

611
00:30:36,000 --> 00:30:38,280
Speaker 1: Francisco Giants. They do the same thing, like talk about

612
00:30:38,560 --> 00:30:40,760
Speaker 1: we're winning world championship in two thousand ten or two

613
00:30:40,760 --> 00:30:43,480
Speaker 1: thousand and twelve, two fourteen. Now you win three. It's like, guys,

614
00:30:43,520 --> 00:30:46,120
Speaker 1: it's two thousand nineteen, and finally this year people started

615
00:30:46,120 --> 00:30:48,760
Speaker 1: moving on. I hate holding onto the past when it

616
00:30:48,840 --> 00:30:51,040
Speaker 1: limits you from moving forward. Now, if you can hold

617
00:30:51,040 --> 00:30:53,280
Speaker 1: onto the past and move forward, like the Patriots are

618
00:30:53,280 --> 00:30:55,880
Speaker 1: good at that, the Warriors are getting good at that.

619
00:30:56,160 --> 00:30:58,280
Speaker 1: Certain teams are good at that, most teams are not.

620
00:30:59,280 --> 00:31:02,880
Speaker 1: Here's what Schremer said after the game regarding a quote

621
00:31:02,960 --> 00:31:08,000
Speaker 1: unquote quarterback controversy. John Mara owns the team. Right, We're

622
00:31:08,040 --> 00:31:10,880
Speaker 1: on the same page. There really is not much more

623
00:31:10,880 --> 00:31:14,000
Speaker 1: to say. I think I've been saying it all along.

624
00:31:14,760 --> 00:31:16,920
Speaker 1: I just don't get a sense once in a while

625
00:31:17,840 --> 00:31:22,040
Speaker 1: that when I answer the questions, none of you believe me. Well,

626
00:31:22,080 --> 00:31:25,920
Speaker 1: you heard it from the owner. So basically, bat Tremer's saying,

627
00:31:27,360 --> 00:31:29,880
Speaker 1: whether I'm saying it or not, the owner said it,

628
00:31:30,000 --> 00:31:32,360
Speaker 1: Eli is going to start, and I just take a

629
00:31:32,360 --> 00:31:35,800
Speaker 1: step back. Whired God's Green Earth? Is John Mark commenting

630
00:31:35,840 --> 00:31:38,400
Speaker 1: on Eli Manning being the starter? Or who if Daniel

631
00:31:38,440 --> 00:31:41,040
Speaker 1: Jones is gonna be the starter? You hired Pat Shermer.

632
00:31:41,120 --> 00:31:43,040
Speaker 1: And don't get me wrong, I think Pat Shermer's the

633
00:31:43,040 --> 00:31:45,960
Speaker 1: worst head coach in the NFL. I believe that to

634
00:31:46,080 --> 00:31:49,080
Speaker 1: my core. That's just an opinion I have. I might

635
00:31:49,080 --> 00:31:51,720
Speaker 1: be wrong. I'm pretty sure I'm closer to being right

636
00:31:51,720 --> 00:31:55,720
Speaker 1: though than wrong, And I think Gettelman is an egomaniac

637
00:31:55,760 --> 00:31:57,760
Speaker 1: guy in his late sixties is living in a little

638
00:31:57,760 --> 00:32:00,800
Speaker 1: bit in the past. I would never have hired him

639
00:32:00,800 --> 00:32:04,360
Speaker 1: with a ten foot poll. But even if they had

640
00:32:04,440 --> 00:32:10,240
Speaker 1: hired Bill Belichick or Ron Wolf or you know whoever,

641
00:32:10,440 --> 00:32:12,960
Speaker 1: they could have Jim Harbaugh, it would have been a

642
00:32:13,000 --> 00:32:16,600
Speaker 1: problem because John Mara can't keep his fingers off this

643
00:32:16,720 --> 00:32:21,120
Speaker 1: quarterback situation. If Eli Manning beats Daniel Jones out in

644
00:32:21,200 --> 00:32:24,640
Speaker 1: training camp, he should be the starter. If Daniel Jones

645
00:32:24,680 --> 00:32:27,240
Speaker 1: you feel like, is better than Eli Manning, this is

646
00:32:27,280 --> 00:32:32,160
Speaker 1: two thousand nineteen not to you should start him because

647
00:32:32,160 --> 00:32:34,880
Speaker 1: this situation. Also, Dave Gettleman made the comparison to we

648
00:32:34,920 --> 00:32:36,840
Speaker 1: want to do it like the Chiefs did. Do you

649
00:32:36,880 --> 00:32:40,200
Speaker 1: know what the Chiefs did? They sat Patrick Mahomes because

650
00:32:40,200 --> 00:32:44,200
Speaker 1: that year I'm pretty sure they won the division and

651
00:32:44,240 --> 00:32:48,240
Speaker 1: Alex Smith had his best year of his career. Eli

652
00:32:48,280 --> 00:32:51,480
Speaker 1: Manning is coming off a pretty down year and he's

653
00:32:51,520 --> 00:32:54,320
Speaker 1: just he's got very good player anymore. He can't move

654
00:32:54,400 --> 00:32:57,200
Speaker 1: behind an offensive line that's average at best. Well, Dania

655
00:32:57,280 --> 00:33:00,200
Speaker 1: Jones a much better athlete, and it's pretty clear he's

656
00:33:00,200 --> 00:33:03,280
Speaker 1: not bad player. He's really accurate. He's probably got a

657
00:33:03,280 --> 00:33:06,200
Speaker 1: better r at this point than Eli Manning. See if

658
00:33:06,240 --> 00:33:09,440
Speaker 1: if it's even close, why delay the inevitable? This is

659
00:33:09,440 --> 00:33:11,960
Speaker 1: not a twenty year old, wasn't the a fifth year

660
00:33:12,040 --> 00:33:15,600
Speaker 1: senior like this is a pretty mature individual. He's not

661
00:33:15,640 --> 00:33:19,240
Speaker 1: coming from community college. He's coming from Duke, you know,

662
00:33:19,320 --> 00:33:23,440
Speaker 1: probably a top seven or eight academic institution in America.

663
00:33:23,720 --> 00:33:27,600
Speaker 1: And if he's capable of handling it, put about there. Now,

664
00:33:27,640 --> 00:33:29,880
Speaker 1: if Eli Manning beats him out in training camp, which

665
00:33:30,160 --> 00:33:32,120
Speaker 1: I'd be hard pressed to think he could, maybe he

666
00:33:32,120 --> 00:33:35,760
Speaker 1: can just because you kind of rig it toward him. Okay,

667
00:33:35,800 --> 00:33:38,960
Speaker 1: but why does the owner have anything to do with this?

668
00:33:39,320 --> 00:33:41,720
Speaker 1: You know where the owner has nothing to do with anything.

669
00:33:42,160 --> 00:33:45,600
Speaker 1: All the good teams, every team in America. Now, maybe

670
00:33:45,720 --> 00:33:49,160
Speaker 1: Robert Kraft got involved with Jimmy Garoppolo, but that was

671
00:33:49,800 --> 00:33:52,920
Speaker 1: it wasn't gonna change Tom brady status that season. He

672
00:33:52,960 --> 00:33:55,480
Speaker 1: would never tell Bill Belichick who to start. Now, he

673
00:33:55,520 --> 00:33:58,440
Speaker 1: may say, Bill, you can't cut Tom Brady. But the

674
00:33:58,480 --> 00:34:00,400
Speaker 1: way that season played out, Tom Brady he ended up

675
00:34:00,400 --> 00:34:02,160
Speaker 1: winning the Super Bowl. They wouldn't have been able to

676
00:34:02,200 --> 00:34:05,760
Speaker 1: move on from as a super Bowl champ anyway, you

677
00:34:05,880 --> 00:34:09,080
Speaker 1: can't dictate who's starting and who's not starting. As an owner,

678
00:34:09,520 --> 00:34:12,960
Speaker 1: what's important paying your coach all this money, especially in

679
00:34:12,960 --> 00:34:15,880
Speaker 1: football where it is a little more complicated, especially with

680
00:34:15,880 --> 00:34:19,279
Speaker 1: with quarterback, where it's clear you can't win with Eli

681
00:34:19,400 --> 00:34:23,920
Speaker 1: Manning anymore. You invested a very, very high pick, Like

682
00:34:24,000 --> 00:34:25,879
Speaker 1: in a perfect world. You know what, the Chiefs would

683
00:34:25,880 --> 00:34:28,480
Speaker 1: tell you, we were lucky we had Alex Smith and

684
00:34:28,480 --> 00:34:30,720
Speaker 1: it may be the best thing to ever happened for Mahomes,

685
00:34:30,719 --> 00:34:33,040
Speaker 1: and it probably did help, but they did lose out

686
00:34:33,080 --> 00:34:35,959
Speaker 1: on a year of Mahomes. Is there a chance even

687
00:34:36,000 --> 00:34:38,120
Speaker 1: as a rookie and I don't know this, you'd have

688
00:34:38,120 --> 00:34:40,799
Speaker 1: to ask coach reader Beach and even deep down they

689
00:34:40,880 --> 00:34:43,520
Speaker 1: don't quite know because they didn't see it. Could they

690
00:34:43,520 --> 00:34:47,719
Speaker 1: have been better that Mahomes the first year? Seriously? And

691
00:34:47,760 --> 00:34:50,520
Speaker 1: you also, maybe maybe he wins, maybe wins the MVP

692
00:34:50,640 --> 00:34:54,560
Speaker 1: as a rookie. I mean it's not probably likely, but

693
00:34:54,760 --> 00:34:57,640
Speaker 1: maybe he throws thirty five touchdowns. Maybe instead of losing

694
00:34:57,640 --> 00:35:00,360
Speaker 1: Tennessee in the first round, they win a couple games.

695
00:35:00,440 --> 00:35:02,600
Speaker 1: Now it's hard to maybe they lose a couple more

696
00:35:02,640 --> 00:35:05,480
Speaker 1: games in the regular season. Who knows, But like, the

697
00:35:05,560 --> 00:35:08,720
Speaker 1: one problem with the way they did it with Mahomes

698
00:35:08,719 --> 00:35:11,440
Speaker 1: sitting in that year was you do kind of waste

699
00:35:11,440 --> 00:35:13,839
Speaker 1: the year of him on a cheap contract. Now they

700
00:35:13,920 --> 00:35:16,520
Speaker 1: knew it going in, but then once they got their

701
00:35:16,520 --> 00:35:18,480
Speaker 1: hands on them, they realized, Holy hell, this guy is

702
00:35:18,520 --> 00:35:20,960
Speaker 1: really good, but there's nothing they could do. Part of

703
00:35:21,040 --> 00:35:24,719
Speaker 1: having what's so the strength of having a young quarterback

704
00:35:25,200 --> 00:35:26,960
Speaker 1: is when you draft him in the first round, you

705
00:35:27,040 --> 00:35:29,880
Speaker 1: have him for four years on a cheap contract, a

706
00:35:29,960 --> 00:35:33,239
Speaker 1: really cheap contract relative to what you pay the guys, right,

707
00:35:34,120 --> 00:35:36,279
Speaker 1: So you wasting a year and they've even talked about

708
00:35:36,280 --> 00:35:40,160
Speaker 1: wasting a two year. That's the whole you know, kind

709
00:35:40,200 --> 00:35:44,120
Speaker 1: of Billy being. Advantage of drafting a first round quarterback

710
00:35:44,200 --> 00:35:46,960
Speaker 1: is you can load up other parts of your team,

711
00:35:47,000 --> 00:35:49,799
Speaker 1: and the Chiefs immediately went into that mode last year

712
00:35:50,120 --> 00:35:52,680
Speaker 1: with Sammy Watkins trading for Frank Clark going to get

713
00:35:52,680 --> 00:35:55,480
Speaker 1: the honey Badger. But their timeline, because he didn't start

714
00:35:55,520 --> 00:35:57,720
Speaker 1: that first year, is kind of a three year window

715
00:35:57,800 --> 00:36:01,960
Speaker 1: before Mahome starts making huge. So if if you did

716
00:36:02,040 --> 00:36:04,440
Speaker 1: hit on Daniel Jones, which I would imagine if Pat

717
00:36:04,520 --> 00:36:07,200
Speaker 1: Shermer or Dave Gettleman was saying here, we're gonna make

718
00:36:07,200 --> 00:36:08,960
Speaker 1: you all look stupid because we think we hit on them.

719
00:36:09,000 --> 00:36:11,520
Speaker 1: And I it just going off two preseason games. I'll

720
00:36:11,560 --> 00:36:13,759
Speaker 1: be the first to say it looks awesome. And maybe

721
00:36:13,800 --> 00:36:15,680
Speaker 1: they do hit on him, but if you do hit

722
00:36:15,719 --> 00:36:18,359
Speaker 1: on him, play him now. None of your fans like,

723
00:36:18,520 --> 00:36:20,879
Speaker 1: stop holding on to two thousand and eleven. It's two

724
00:36:20,920 --> 00:36:24,960
Speaker 1: thousand nineteen, John Mara, get out of the personnel meeting.

725
00:36:25,360 --> 00:36:27,960
Speaker 1: Let them tell you what they're going to do. That's

726
00:36:28,000 --> 00:36:32,640
Speaker 1: why you hired these people. If they think Daniel Jones

727
00:36:32,719 --> 00:36:35,759
Speaker 1: is better, he should play now. Pat Shermer is just

728
00:36:35,800 --> 00:36:39,440
Speaker 1: the ultimate, you know, team company man. But that's embarrassing.

729
00:36:39,760 --> 00:36:43,560
Speaker 1: Like that quote to me, jumped out saying the Giants

730
00:36:44,440 --> 00:36:46,960
Speaker 1: might be one of the sneaky biggest debacles in the NFL,

731
00:36:47,080 --> 00:36:49,920
Speaker 1: just the way their franchises ran. Now they're one of

732
00:36:49,960 --> 00:36:51,880
Speaker 1: the more profitable ones. They have one of the biggest

733
00:36:51,880 --> 00:36:55,040
Speaker 1: fan bases because of where they play. But don't let

734
00:36:55,040 --> 00:36:59,920
Speaker 1: that get twisted. They got major issues. Okay, let's die

735
00:37:00,040 --> 00:37:03,960
Speaker 1: been to the Cowboys, who were basically the profitable good

736
00:37:04,080 --> 00:37:06,280
Speaker 1: version of what the Raiders kind of wish. They were

737
00:37:06,280 --> 00:37:09,799
Speaker 1: pretty dysfunctional. But again, like a lot of teams in

738
00:37:09,800 --> 00:37:14,279
Speaker 1: the NFL they can handle this function. And Zeke, I

739
00:37:14,719 --> 00:37:18,799
Speaker 1: want to play you this bit or this sound. It's

740
00:37:18,840 --> 00:37:21,200
Speaker 1: not a bit. I mean Jerry Jones is actually talking

741
00:37:21,680 --> 00:37:24,839
Speaker 1: about when he's asked about Paulard, the young running back

742
00:37:25,040 --> 00:37:27,879
Speaker 1: who's had a good preseason, looks pretty talented. Actually here

743
00:37:27,920 --> 00:37:53,719
Speaker 1: here's Jerry Jones netated with zl Okay. So Jerry, I

744
00:37:54,000 --> 00:37:55,920
Speaker 1: don't think he quite knew the camera was on him

745
00:37:55,960 --> 00:37:58,919
Speaker 1: at first, but it was really pretty harmless, like when

746
00:37:58,960 --> 00:38:03,000
Speaker 1: you listen to that that everyone's laughing. The question was,

747
00:38:03,080 --> 00:38:05,600
Speaker 1: do you think Pollard is your best negotiating ploy? And

748
00:38:05,680 --> 00:38:10,360
Speaker 1: he dropped Zeke, Who he's kidding again? How could it

749
00:38:10,400 --> 00:38:13,879
Speaker 1: be that emotional? Zeke? He drafted you fourth overall. Every

750
00:38:13,920 --> 00:38:16,200
Speaker 1: time you get in trouble, he's got your back. So

751
00:38:16,280 --> 00:38:19,560
Speaker 1: then his agent comes out and tells more reports some

752
00:38:19,600 --> 00:38:23,200
Speaker 1: guy named Rocky Arnas Sasio. I've I've never heard of

753
00:38:23,239 --> 00:38:26,360
Speaker 1: this guy now, granted, like one of the reasons I

754
00:38:26,360 --> 00:38:27,960
Speaker 1: can let it rip where I think a lot of

755
00:38:27,960 --> 00:38:30,600
Speaker 1: people in the media don't. I'm not friends that many agents,

756
00:38:30,840 --> 00:38:33,840
Speaker 1: they don't dictate my thoughts. I pissed the friends that

757
00:38:33,880 --> 00:38:36,880
Speaker 1: I do have I probably piss them off sometimes, you know,

758
00:38:36,880 --> 00:38:39,840
Speaker 1: I'm buddies. The Cliff Kingsbury's agent came on my show,

759
00:38:40,280 --> 00:38:42,480
Speaker 1: I don't know six months ago I blasted Cliff Kingsbury

760
00:38:42,719 --> 00:38:47,000
Speaker 1: like we have in in my relationships with you know,

761
00:38:47,080 --> 00:38:49,120
Speaker 1: people in the league. They might get mad at some

762
00:38:49,160 --> 00:38:51,160
Speaker 1: things I say. I mean, that's just part of the

763
00:38:51,200 --> 00:38:53,880
Speaker 1: reason I am who I am. You know, I I

764
00:38:53,920 --> 00:38:56,440
Speaker 1: don't get I don't buddy buddy with agents because I

765
00:38:56,480 --> 00:38:58,400
Speaker 1: will not support their client if I think they're in

766
00:38:58,440 --> 00:39:01,040
Speaker 1: the wrong or were they play back, I'm not. I

767
00:39:01,040 --> 00:39:04,320
Speaker 1: can't show for you that way. Here's what Ezekiel Elliott,

768
00:39:05,239 --> 00:39:08,880
Speaker 1: Zeke Elliott was not amused with Saturday. Zeke you Zeke

769
00:39:08,920 --> 00:39:12,600
Speaker 1: who quit from Jerry Jones and thought it was disrespectful.

770
00:39:12,920 --> 00:39:15,960
Speaker 1: According to Elliot's agent, I didn't think it was funny,

771
00:39:16,000 --> 00:39:19,200
Speaker 1: and neither did Zeke. We actually thought it was disrespectful.

772
00:39:20,360 --> 00:39:22,160
Speaker 1: What did you guys think when you ran into the

773
00:39:22,200 --> 00:39:24,279
Speaker 1: law for the fifteen times as being in the league

774
00:39:24,280 --> 00:39:25,880
Speaker 1: for three years? What do you think when you got

775
00:39:25,920 --> 00:39:28,560
Speaker 1: spending for six games and Jerry Jones went to war

776
00:39:28,920 --> 00:39:31,879
Speaker 1: let me repeat, went to war with Roger goodell over

777
00:39:31,920 --> 00:39:34,400
Speaker 1: you what do you think when when Jerry Jones, when

778
00:39:34,400 --> 00:39:36,839
Speaker 1: everyone told him he was an idiot, you should not

779
00:39:36,960 --> 00:39:39,080
Speaker 1: draft a running back fourth overall, you should take Jalen

780
00:39:39,160 --> 00:39:41,920
Speaker 1: Ramsey stood up and turned in the Zeke card. What

781
00:39:41,960 --> 00:39:46,240
Speaker 1: do you think about Jerry Jones supporting you across every line? Clearly,

782
00:39:46,280 --> 00:39:49,120
Speaker 1: if you watched the video, Jerry's laughing, it's not that funny.

783
00:39:49,200 --> 00:39:53,000
Speaker 1: It's not disrespectful. He's made you countless offers. You've put

784
00:39:53,040 --> 00:39:56,400
Speaker 1: yourself in this situation. I'd argue that Zekiel Elliott and

785
00:39:56,480 --> 00:39:59,560
Speaker 1: his agent have been disrespectful to Jerry Jones. You're offten

786
00:39:59,640 --> 00:40:02,799
Speaker 1: Cobb when he's paid you a premium. He supported you

787
00:40:03,120 --> 00:40:07,080
Speaker 1: through just, let's frankly, being an idiot, being an idiot,

788
00:40:07,200 --> 00:40:08,880
Speaker 1: not being able to do the right things, and you

789
00:40:08,920 --> 00:40:12,560
Speaker 1: can't figure it out, and you get all sensitive, become

790
00:40:12,560 --> 00:40:16,000
Speaker 1: a sensitive Sally, become like Kevin Durant over a pretty

791
00:40:16,040 --> 00:40:20,000
Speaker 1: innocuous comment which he's clearly laughing and joking about, like

792
00:40:20,040 --> 00:40:22,360
Speaker 1: this is why I can't deal with agents, Like is

793
00:40:22,360 --> 00:40:25,840
Speaker 1: he serious in that quote? We felt disrespected? Did you

794
00:40:25,840 --> 00:40:28,360
Speaker 1: feel disrespected when he's offered you like forty five million

795
00:40:28,360 --> 00:40:30,600
Speaker 1: dollars and you keep turning it down? Like what are

796
00:40:30,600 --> 00:40:34,760
Speaker 1: you guys talking about? And this type stuff, which maybe

797
00:40:34,800 --> 00:40:37,560
Speaker 1: I'm more worn out of it now than ever because

798
00:40:37,600 --> 00:40:40,320
Speaker 1: I follow the NBA so closely and having Kevin Durant

799
00:40:40,360 --> 00:40:42,640
Speaker 1: and just the stupid NBA stories that I've had to

800
00:40:42,640 --> 00:40:45,000
Speaker 1: deal with in my backyard for the last couple of years.

801
00:40:45,200 --> 00:40:50,480
Speaker 1: This this and Antonio Brown, it feels very NBA ish, Like, hey, guys,

802
00:40:50,560 --> 00:40:53,800
Speaker 1: there is no disrespect. They've paid you like thirty million

803
00:40:53,800 --> 00:40:55,799
Speaker 1: dollars through your first four years to play running back.

804
00:40:55,800 --> 00:40:58,400
Speaker 1: Now you're really good player, but you've been in troubled NonStop,

805
00:40:58,440 --> 00:41:00,120
Speaker 1: and Jerry Jones is still trying to pay you and

806
00:41:00,120 --> 00:41:04,799
Speaker 1: you consistently turned down his offers. So like this is

807
00:41:04,800 --> 00:41:08,680
Speaker 1: a type story. Honestly kind of pisses me off because

808
00:41:09,200 --> 00:41:12,520
Speaker 1: one there if they're either saying that because they're trying

809
00:41:12,520 --> 00:41:16,080
Speaker 1: to get public, I don't know like support on their side.

810
00:41:16,320 --> 00:41:19,040
Speaker 1: Most humans with common sense look at you like you're

811
00:41:19,040 --> 00:41:22,359
Speaker 1: an idiot too. Do they really believe that? Like? Are

812
00:41:22,360 --> 00:41:26,440
Speaker 1: they honestly disrespected by that? And I never wanted to

813
00:41:26,480 --> 00:41:29,000
Speaker 1: tell someone when they should be or shouldn't be mad

814
00:41:29,160 --> 00:41:31,600
Speaker 1: or triggered or whatever. We're all our own person. You

815
00:41:31,600 --> 00:41:33,839
Speaker 1: can get mad at whatever you want. It might maybe

816
00:41:33,840 --> 00:41:35,680
Speaker 1: it's a character flaw of me. I don't. I'm not

817
00:41:35,719 --> 00:41:39,239
Speaker 1: offended by much. I really am not, And maybe that

818
00:41:39,320 --> 00:41:41,399
Speaker 1: helps me live my life on social media a lot

819
00:41:41,440 --> 00:41:44,040
Speaker 1: easier because I just now I'm just unaffected by anything

820
00:41:44,080 --> 00:41:46,520
Speaker 1: I see. I was offended by this. If I was

821
00:41:46,560 --> 00:41:48,920
Speaker 1: a Cowboy fan, I'd be a little piste off, like

822
00:41:49,160 --> 00:41:51,480
Speaker 1: what what's because you know what, Jerry Jones is not

823
00:41:51,600 --> 00:41:53,560
Speaker 1: running he's not running a clown show. He's trying to

824
00:41:53,600 --> 00:41:56,160
Speaker 1: win a super Bowl. He's made offers all these guys.

825
00:41:56,520 --> 00:41:58,640
Speaker 1: And here's the other thing. Hey, Zeke, Well you're off

826
00:41:58,640 --> 00:42:02,160
Speaker 1: in Cabo Claim and you're down to five drinking my ties,

827
00:42:02,600 --> 00:42:05,759
Speaker 1: eating card Asada street tacos, which I wouldn't blame you, uh,

828
00:42:05,760 --> 00:42:07,640
Speaker 1: and getting your lift on and running on the beach.

829
00:42:08,080 --> 00:42:11,320
Speaker 1: Dak Amari in the other eighty nine guys are here working.

830
00:42:11,760 --> 00:42:14,400
Speaker 1: We're building the foundation to try to win. You know,

831
00:42:14,520 --> 00:42:16,040
Speaker 1: last year we want a playoff game. This year we

832
00:42:16,080 --> 00:42:19,040
Speaker 1: want to win two or three. So if you were

833
00:42:18,840 --> 00:42:21,960
Speaker 1: they're not paid yet, they're having no issues. We're not

834
00:42:22,040 --> 00:42:24,200
Speaker 1: having you know, I guess a little bit with Dak

835
00:42:24,280 --> 00:42:27,080
Speaker 1: pissing contest through the media, and maybe that's a character

836
00:42:27,120 --> 00:42:29,760
Speaker 1: flaw a little bit of Jerry that when you always

837
00:42:29,840 --> 00:42:32,360
Speaker 1: talk to the media, obviously they're gonna ask you about

838
00:42:32,360 --> 00:42:35,840
Speaker 1: the main stuff. And Jerry's got a big personality. You know,

839
00:42:35,880 --> 00:42:38,920
Speaker 1: I'd be a terrible NFL owner. I just wouldn't talk

840
00:42:38,960 --> 00:42:41,120
Speaker 1: to the media because if I did, I just b

841
00:42:41,400 --> 00:42:43,080
Speaker 1: s and I would say ship like that. I think

842
00:42:43,080 --> 00:42:45,680
Speaker 1: most of us would. So you're probably best off just

843
00:42:45,840 --> 00:42:48,600
Speaker 1: never saying anything and just avoiding the cameras. But Jerry

844
00:42:48,640 --> 00:42:51,160
Speaker 1: likes it, and Jerry's team you can do whatever he wants,

845
00:42:51,640 --> 00:42:54,560
Speaker 1: but to be if they're truly offended by that comment,

846
00:42:56,200 --> 00:42:58,839
Speaker 1: we just learned Zeke's agent or two of the two

847
00:42:58,920 --> 00:43:03,320
Speaker 1: the most easily triggered people we have in America. Okay,

848
00:43:03,400 --> 00:43:06,040
Speaker 1: let's get into the middle. Cup mail back. It's where

849
00:43:06,040 --> 00:43:09,800
Speaker 1: I answer your questions from Instagram into my d M s,

850
00:43:10,239 --> 00:43:13,760
Speaker 1: which a lot of you guys have slid into and uh,

851
00:43:13,800 --> 00:43:16,320
Speaker 1: we'll talk about it. So we got a cup some

852
00:43:16,400 --> 00:43:22,279
Speaker 1: old ones here. Start with I can't even read this

853
00:43:22,320 --> 00:43:24,839
Speaker 1: guy's name, Hey, John, can you explain why people hate

854
00:43:24,880 --> 00:43:27,799
Speaker 1: Goodell so much? I personally think he's a decent commissioner

855
00:43:28,000 --> 00:43:30,520
Speaker 1: and booing him on Draft night makes no sense unless

856
00:43:30,520 --> 00:43:33,960
Speaker 1: I'm missing something, you know. I think the most basic

857
00:43:34,000 --> 00:43:38,479
Speaker 1: element of this is people hate power and people hate

858
00:43:38,480 --> 00:43:42,279
Speaker 1: successful people. And the media really went after him. I mean,

859
00:43:42,320 --> 00:43:44,919
Speaker 1: the Ray Rice thing was a debacle. There's no way

860
00:43:44,920 --> 00:43:47,640
Speaker 1: around it. If he saw the video, and it'd be

861
00:43:47,719 --> 00:43:49,520
Speaker 1: it would be hard pressed to think he didn't see

862
00:43:49,520 --> 00:43:52,800
Speaker 1: the video. I also think the media looks at the

863
00:43:52,920 --> 00:43:56,440
Speaker 1: NFL like the conservative league, unlike the NBA that they

864
00:43:56,520 --> 00:44:00,200
Speaker 1: view as the liberal league. I really believe this. In

865
00:44:00,239 --> 00:44:04,480
Speaker 1: the media, we all know of them are extreme left wingers,

866
00:44:05,080 --> 00:44:07,880
Speaker 1: and they just know the Goodell's the guy leading the charge,

867
00:44:07,960 --> 00:44:10,200
Speaker 1: even though he's technically not. He works for the owners,

868
00:44:10,560 --> 00:44:13,120
Speaker 1: so they go after him. Uh And it was you

869
00:44:13,239 --> 00:44:15,880
Speaker 1: easy to use him as a symbol of their hate,

870
00:44:16,440 --> 00:44:23,000
Speaker 1: you know. And I also think that Goodell, you know,

871
00:44:23,280 --> 00:44:25,200
Speaker 1: the one thing that always bothers me about the media

872
00:44:25,280 --> 00:44:27,799
Speaker 1: when they go after the the NFL. I say this

873
00:44:27,840 --> 00:44:30,560
Speaker 1: all the time. The NFL is not the police. If

874
00:44:30,560 --> 00:44:33,000
Speaker 1: a guy doesn't get arrested or he's let off. The

875
00:44:33,280 --> 00:44:35,920
Speaker 1: NFL is a private sector business. They have two goals,

876
00:44:36,160 --> 00:44:38,840
Speaker 1: make money and try to win games. The individual franchise,

877
00:44:38,920 --> 00:44:42,520
Speaker 1: but Roger has one, and that's print cash for everybody.

878
00:44:42,560 --> 00:44:45,160
Speaker 1: So like everyone is so caught up and thinking he's

879
00:44:45,800 --> 00:44:48,960
Speaker 1: he's not an FBI investigator here, that's not his job,

880
00:44:49,080 --> 00:44:52,200
Speaker 1: that's not the role of his of his business, of

881
00:44:52,239 --> 00:44:56,000
Speaker 1: what he's been paid forty five million to do. And

882
00:44:56,239 --> 00:45:00,000
Speaker 1: someone tweeted out, I guess CBS merged with some company

883
00:45:00,040 --> 00:45:03,920
Speaker 1: me and they listed like a list of some of

884
00:45:03,960 --> 00:45:08,960
Speaker 1: these CEOs from like Robert, not Robert, but who's the

885
00:45:09,000 --> 00:45:12,960
Speaker 1: CEO of Bob Iger? And what less moon Vez used

886
00:45:13,000 --> 00:45:14,920
Speaker 1: to make at CBS. I mean, the CEOs of these

887
00:45:14,920 --> 00:45:17,719
Speaker 1: major companies are making fifty to a d million dollars

888
00:45:17,760 --> 00:45:19,919
Speaker 1: a year, Like that's what CEOs make. So I also

889
00:45:19,920 --> 00:45:22,919
Speaker 1: think people are jealous that Roger makes so much money. Yeah,

890
00:45:22,920 --> 00:45:25,680
Speaker 1: he runs a twelve billion dollar business. They pay him

891
00:45:25,719 --> 00:45:30,000
Speaker 1: forty five million dollars. Welcome to the private sector. Maybe

892
00:45:30,000 --> 00:45:33,440
Speaker 1: they don't teach that at Syracuse in the journalism school.

893
00:45:33,920 --> 00:45:35,880
Speaker 1: But I think a lot of it is is with

894
00:45:36,000 --> 00:45:39,680
Speaker 1: the media and their hatred toward hatred is the wrong

895
00:45:39,760 --> 00:45:42,840
Speaker 1: word probably, but you know, capitalism sometimes at the highest

896
00:45:42,920 --> 00:45:46,520
Speaker 1: level bothers them and they freak. Now, Roger did some

897
00:45:46,600 --> 00:45:49,160
Speaker 1: things that like he should have been criticized for the

898
00:45:49,239 --> 00:45:52,279
Speaker 1: Ray Rice stuff. But you know, for the most part,

899
00:45:52,840 --> 00:45:55,600
Speaker 1: the league has been a booming success under his watch.

900
00:45:56,520 --> 00:46:00,360
Speaker 1: I don't always agree with everything he does. Uh, but

901
00:46:01,120 --> 00:46:03,640
Speaker 1: he has the power. Why because the players gave it

902
00:46:03,719 --> 00:46:06,480
Speaker 1: to him. You know, at the end of the day,

903
00:46:06,520 --> 00:46:09,640
Speaker 1: the players gave it to him. They decided that he

904
00:46:09,680 --> 00:46:14,719
Speaker 1: should have the power the the NFL Union, which is

905
00:46:14,760 --> 00:46:18,200
Speaker 1: all the players. That happened, So I'm with you, Like

906
00:46:18,760 --> 00:46:21,320
Speaker 1: I'll tell you he's not a good commissioner, Adam Silver.

907
00:46:21,719 --> 00:46:26,000
Speaker 1: He does nothing under his watch, Like his his claim

908
00:46:26,040 --> 00:46:28,680
Speaker 1: to fame was kicking Donald Sterling out of the league. Like,

909
00:46:28,719 --> 00:46:31,319
Speaker 1: oh wait to get him there? Adam, you mean just

910
00:46:31,480 --> 00:46:34,319
Speaker 1: a known slum lord racist who's worked in the league

911
00:46:34,360 --> 00:46:37,320
Speaker 1: for thirty five years. That's your crowning achievement. Because the

912
00:46:37,400 --> 00:46:41,600
Speaker 1: ratings are plumbing on your watch. The consumers constantly getting

913
00:46:41,640 --> 00:46:43,360
Speaker 1: screwed when they go to these games and the players

914
00:46:43,360 --> 00:46:46,680
Speaker 1: are sitting. You would never hear the media speak a

915
00:46:46,800 --> 00:46:49,680
Speaker 1: terse word about Adam Silver. I'll promise you, I'll tell

916
00:46:49,719 --> 00:46:52,080
Speaker 1: you he was a good commissioner. David Stern. Media didn't

917
00:46:52,120 --> 00:46:55,160
Speaker 1: always love David Stern. You know, if the commissioner doesn't

918
00:46:55,200 --> 00:46:57,799
Speaker 1: like you in a pro sports league. Probably means your

919
00:46:57,800 --> 00:47:00,239
Speaker 1: sports league is doing well, unless you're bud Sea League

920
00:47:00,239 --> 00:47:03,400
Speaker 1: and then you're just a clown. What is the Jets

921
00:47:03,400 --> 00:47:06,960
Speaker 1: biggest need? Corner, defensive end, offensive tackle, or wide receiver?

922
00:47:07,920 --> 00:47:09,879
Speaker 1: What it makes sense for them to offer a fourth

923
00:47:09,920 --> 00:47:13,359
Speaker 1: round pick for Clowney four? I would offer a fourth

924
00:47:13,400 --> 00:47:16,600
Speaker 1: round pick for Clowney. I would offer a fourth round

925
00:47:16,640 --> 00:47:19,160
Speaker 1: pick for Clowney if I was the Jets. Now. Do

926
00:47:19,239 --> 00:47:23,439
Speaker 1: I think that Joe Douglas, their new general manager, would

927
00:47:23,440 --> 00:47:27,279
Speaker 1: do it? Probably not. I was hearing someone talk on

928
00:47:27,320 --> 00:47:30,200
Speaker 1: a podcast or maybe a coach talking that they think

929
00:47:30,200 --> 00:47:31,799
Speaker 1: their offensive line man. It might have been on Peter

930
00:47:31,880 --> 00:47:34,920
Speaker 1: King's podcast that they felt pretty strong about their offensive

931
00:47:34,920 --> 00:47:38,240
Speaker 1: line or better I think than the outside people think. Uh,

932
00:47:38,400 --> 00:47:40,120
Speaker 1: you know, the wide receivers have looked pretty good with

933
00:47:40,160 --> 00:47:42,960
Speaker 1: Sam Donald Levian won't play all preseason, but we know

934
00:47:43,040 --> 00:47:46,880
Speaker 1: he's a star. They did lose Avery Williams, but they

935
00:47:46,960 --> 00:47:50,080
Speaker 1: got Leonard Williams. You drafted Quinn and Williams, so their

936
00:47:50,080 --> 00:47:52,560
Speaker 1: front should be pretty solid. They got Jamal Adams, who's

937
00:47:52,600 --> 00:47:55,399
Speaker 1: a playmaker. I like their team. I think either them

938
00:47:55,480 --> 00:47:58,160
Speaker 1: or the Bills are gonna be I don't know which one.

939
00:47:58,200 --> 00:48:00,239
Speaker 1: I leaned the Jets, but the Bills are kind of

940
00:48:00,239 --> 00:48:02,480
Speaker 1: growing on me. With Josh Allen balling, one of those

941
00:48:02,480 --> 00:48:05,759
Speaker 1: two teams gonna win nine games, I'm not sure. And

942
00:48:05,800 --> 00:48:07,440
Speaker 1: if you said, like middle Coff, you've gotta put a

943
00:48:07,440 --> 00:48:11,360
Speaker 1: thousand dollars, I probably just put five on both. I

944
00:48:11,360 --> 00:48:13,960
Speaker 1: don't feel confident about either, but I am confident one

945
00:48:14,000 --> 00:48:15,399
Speaker 1: of the two of them is gonna be good because

946
00:48:15,400 --> 00:48:18,919
Speaker 1: I like Adam Gates, I love Donald I like I

947
00:48:19,000 --> 00:48:21,520
Speaker 1: like Sean McDermott a lot. Their defense is gonna be good.

948
00:48:21,600 --> 00:48:23,560
Speaker 1: Josh Allen's really growing on me. One of those two

949
00:48:23,560 --> 00:48:25,319
Speaker 1: teams are gonna be good. I'm telling you, I promise you.

950
00:48:26,400 --> 00:48:28,200
Speaker 1: I'm a new hand listener, and I was wondering what

951
00:48:28,320 --> 00:48:31,120
Speaker 1: your thoughts are on the Colts plus the luck situation

952
00:48:31,160 --> 00:48:34,399
Speaker 1: following tonight's game. Brissette looks solid tonight, and of course

953
00:48:34,400 --> 00:48:36,600
Speaker 1: the Colts have a good offensive pieces do you think

954
00:48:36,600 --> 00:48:38,719
Speaker 1: the Colts will end up being fine if luck mrs

955
00:48:39,160 --> 00:48:42,759
Speaker 1: worst case probably up to like four games? Well, so

956
00:48:42,840 --> 00:48:44,960
Speaker 1: this You probably sent this to me on Saturday night,

957
00:48:44,960 --> 00:48:46,839
Speaker 1: and I watched the first couple of drives Jacoby had

958
00:48:46,840 --> 00:48:49,439
Speaker 1: a great drive where you hit Ebron in the back

959
00:48:49,480 --> 00:48:51,560
Speaker 1: of the end zone. Eric Keybron is just turned into

960
00:48:51,560 --> 00:48:55,080
Speaker 1: a monster. You know, it's crazy in this league. It's

961
00:48:55,080 --> 00:48:57,000
Speaker 1: a little like this is the NBA too, but definitely

962
00:48:57,000 --> 00:48:59,160
Speaker 1: in the NFL, where sometimes a first round pick, for

963
00:48:59,200 --> 00:49:04,280
Speaker 1: whatever reason, scheme fit, immaturity, physical immaturity just doesn't work

964
00:49:04,560 --> 00:49:07,200
Speaker 1: and then he goes to his new place. And I mean,

965
00:49:07,320 --> 00:49:09,680
Speaker 1: Erica Ebron is the best version. I mean, he's becoming

966
00:49:09,680 --> 00:49:13,880
Speaker 1: a lock pro bowler every year touchdown he had double coverage.

967
00:49:13,960 --> 00:49:16,080
Speaker 1: Who are they playing the Bengals. I did see a

968
00:49:16,120 --> 00:49:19,719
Speaker 1: clip though of Andrew Luck warming up and he looked

969
00:49:19,760 --> 00:49:23,200
Speaker 1: pretty good. Just his his legs obviously we know shoulders

970
00:49:23,239 --> 00:49:26,640
Speaker 1: okay now, but the bone. He did some bag drills.

971
00:49:27,640 --> 00:49:29,640
Speaker 1: I feel like Andrew Luck is not gonna miss a

972
00:49:29,680 --> 00:49:32,479
Speaker 1: game now. I don't have any inside information or anything.

973
00:49:32,480 --> 00:49:35,160
Speaker 1: I'm just going off a Twitter video, but I would

974
00:49:35,160 --> 00:49:38,359
Speaker 1: be you know, what's August nineteen. I'd be a little

975
00:49:38,360 --> 00:49:40,520
Speaker 1: shocked if Andrew Luck missed the game. I am not

976
00:49:40,640 --> 00:49:43,440
Speaker 1: expecting him to miss any games, but I'm with you.

977
00:49:43,440 --> 00:49:45,799
Speaker 1: If he had to miss four, I think a three

978
00:49:45,800 --> 00:49:47,319
Speaker 1: and one or two and two with Jacoby. No problem.

979
00:49:47,400 --> 00:49:49,160
Speaker 1: Jacobe is gonna be a starter in the league next year.

980
00:49:49,920 --> 00:49:52,480
Speaker 1: I know Dak Zeke and Amari is the talk in Dallas,

981
00:49:52,520 --> 00:49:54,560
Speaker 1: But why is no one paying attention to Trafick fred

982
00:49:55,160 --> 00:49:58,600
Speaker 1: Travis Frederick coming back in my opinion, top three center

983
00:49:58,600 --> 00:50:00,720
Speaker 1: in the league is coming back to a great online

984
00:50:00,760 --> 00:50:04,520
Speaker 1: and haven't heard a word about it. Uh, you know,

985
00:50:04,600 --> 00:50:06,799
Speaker 1: as I'm gonna put this about as simply as I can.

986
00:50:07,080 --> 00:50:09,640
Speaker 1: No one cares about offensive lineman really until they're gone.

987
00:50:10,239 --> 00:50:13,120
Speaker 1: You know, in this in the league, the talking points

988
00:50:13,160 --> 00:50:16,600
Speaker 1: or quarterbacks and skill guys and coaches, we don't talk

989
00:50:16,640 --> 00:50:20,640
Speaker 1: about guards and centers. You know, it's kind of hell.

990
00:50:20,680 --> 00:50:22,800
Speaker 1: It kind of bores me. And I talked about football

991
00:50:22,840 --> 00:50:25,040
Speaker 1: for a living. Now, I hear you, he's a stud.

992
00:50:25,200 --> 00:50:27,239
Speaker 1: If he's playing there in good shape. If they can

993
00:50:27,239 --> 00:50:29,480
Speaker 1: get their starting offensive lineman on the field, and Zeke

994
00:50:29,560 --> 00:50:32,640
Speaker 1: comes back and dacks there, and Amri he's there, they're good.

995
00:50:33,040 --> 00:50:36,480
Speaker 1: Their defense is really good. I've I've kind of I mean,

996
00:50:36,520 --> 00:50:38,720
Speaker 1: I might lean picking the Cowboys to the Super Bowl.

997
00:50:39,160 --> 00:50:41,640
Speaker 1: I'm becoming a little less confident with Zeke. I don't

998
00:50:41,680 --> 00:50:43,600
Speaker 1: I don't never know when he's coming back from Cobo.

999
00:50:43,640 --> 00:50:45,200
Speaker 1: If Jerry's gonna trade him on, what the hell is

1000
00:50:45,239 --> 00:50:47,480
Speaker 1: gonna happen? Mar He's kind of banged up with a

1001
00:50:47,480 --> 00:50:54,239
Speaker 1: bad heel, But yeah, I don't know. So I just

1002
00:50:54,239 --> 00:50:58,080
Speaker 1: think it's simple. Did people get people? The casual fan

1003
00:50:58,440 --> 00:51:01,000
Speaker 1: and most people that probably listen to this aren't like

1004
00:51:01,760 --> 00:51:05,279
Speaker 1: red seven football stuff. You know every offensive line but

1005
00:51:05,719 --> 00:51:08,040
Speaker 1: fantasy football. You know the quarterbacks, you know the skill guys,

1006
00:51:08,040 --> 00:51:10,840
Speaker 1: you know the running backs. We just don't care about centers,

1007
00:51:11,040 --> 00:51:13,040
Speaker 1: you know, even the best ones. I mean, I got

1008
00:51:13,080 --> 00:51:15,080
Speaker 1: Rodney Hudson in my backyard. Rodney Hudson has been a

1009
00:51:15,160 --> 00:51:17,960
Speaker 1: top you know, probably ten offensive lineman in the NFL

1010
00:51:18,040 --> 00:51:21,480
Speaker 1: for five six straight years. I bet most NFL fans

1011
00:51:21,520 --> 00:51:26,600
Speaker 1: couldn't point him out in the lineup. Okay, you think

1012
00:51:26,600 --> 00:51:28,960
Speaker 1: he's embarrassed this on well, well a b. You think

1013
00:51:28,960 --> 00:51:31,799
Speaker 1: he's embarrassed about his dumbass with the cryotherapy and his

1014
00:51:31,840 --> 00:51:35,120
Speaker 1: feet are worse than everyone thinks hbo boost for hard

1015
00:51:35,160 --> 00:51:37,520
Speaker 1: knocks and all the drama, or just a diva and

1016
00:51:37,560 --> 00:51:39,560
Speaker 1: he's trying to prove a point to the NFL all

1017
00:51:39,600 --> 00:51:42,000
Speaker 1: the eyes on me, or he's just proving a point

1018
00:51:42,000 --> 00:51:43,680
Speaker 1: to the Raiders and his teammates that he's the man

1019
00:51:43,760 --> 00:51:47,240
Speaker 1: and he does what he wishes. I e. Trainer, trainer

1020
00:51:47,320 --> 00:51:51,680
Speaker 1: at the Raiders practice and all this stuff. Uh, you know,

1021
00:51:51,760 --> 00:51:55,000
Speaker 1: I I've kind of stopped trying to figure Antonio Brown out.

1022
00:51:55,040 --> 00:51:56,920
Speaker 1: I think it's a combination of it all. He's a

1023
00:51:56,920 --> 00:51:59,560
Speaker 1: big diva, he's a big me guy. He's gonna do

1024
00:51:59,600 --> 00:52:02,480
Speaker 1: anything he wants. I think he legitimately hates the new helmet.

1025
00:52:03,560 --> 00:52:05,560
Speaker 1: I think that he thought he could wear the old helmet.

1026
00:52:06,280 --> 00:52:08,600
Speaker 1: I think he's so rich and powerful he knows that

1027
00:52:08,640 --> 00:52:11,560
Speaker 1: he can kind of do whatever he wants. I'd be

1028
00:52:11,600 --> 00:52:15,319
Speaker 1: a little shocked. Like people say that this is for

1029
00:52:15,440 --> 00:52:19,640
Speaker 1: the for the Hard Knocks cameras, I disagree. Like you

1030
00:52:19,680 --> 00:52:21,920
Speaker 1: saw it, watch Mike Mayock talk. Why why would he

1031
00:52:21,960 --> 00:52:24,279
Speaker 1: allow like, let's say Hard Knocks came to him with

1032
00:52:24,320 --> 00:52:27,560
Speaker 1: an idea they were gonna run like a real world

1033
00:52:27,680 --> 00:52:30,960
Speaker 1: the Hills, you know, a fake storyline. Why would he

1034
00:52:31,040 --> 00:52:33,759
Speaker 1: let this happen? I I think they would not allow it,

1035
00:52:34,480 --> 00:52:38,200
Speaker 1: no chance, you know, for his it does It does

1036
00:52:38,320 --> 00:52:40,120
Speaker 1: make some sense when you say it out loud from

1037
00:52:40,239 --> 00:52:43,320
Speaker 1: HBO standpoint, because it is really good for the ratings

1038
00:52:43,320 --> 00:52:46,279
Speaker 1: and people do care. I I just I'm telling you

1039
00:52:46,400 --> 00:52:50,799
Speaker 1: I have a hard time imagining the Raiders signing off

1040
00:52:51,719 --> 00:52:55,560
Speaker 1: on the hard Knocks faking a story for Antonio Brown,

1041
00:52:55,840 --> 00:52:58,120
Speaker 1: like I think this is legitimately real. I think he

1042
00:52:58,200 --> 00:53:02,080
Speaker 1: hates the the new helmet. I think that at the

1043
00:53:02,200 --> 00:53:03,920
Speaker 1: end of the day. I think that's the biggest issue.

1044
00:53:04,000 --> 00:53:07,319
Speaker 1: He legitimately hates the new helmet for whatever reason, he

1045
00:53:07,400 --> 00:53:10,200
Speaker 1: can't see it's not comfortable. I don't know he loves

1046
00:53:10,200 --> 00:53:13,440
Speaker 1: his old helmet. Doesn't quite add up. Question for the

1047
00:53:13,480 --> 00:53:16,000
Speaker 1: pod what do you think the best case, worst case

1048
00:53:16,000 --> 00:53:18,640
Speaker 1: scenario for the Jets is this year? And how do

1049
00:53:18,680 --> 00:53:20,359
Speaker 1: you think the revamped old line will do. I gotta

1050
00:53:20,440 --> 00:53:23,960
Speaker 1: get a lot of Jets questions. Like I said, I'm

1051
00:53:24,000 --> 00:53:26,239
Speaker 1: going back and forth on them and the Bills. I'd

1052
00:53:26,280 --> 00:53:29,080
Speaker 1: probably lean the Jets. I think there's a chance maybe

1053
00:53:29,080 --> 00:53:31,000
Speaker 1: the Jets go nine and seven, eight and eight and

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Speaker 1: the Bills go seven and nine, like they're both kind

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Speaker 1: of in that same realm. I think the best case

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Speaker 1: scenario for the Jets is Sam Donald has like an

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Speaker 1: m v P type season, you know, and for him

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Speaker 1: it wouldn't be like Mahomes. They don't quite have the weapons.

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Speaker 1: It would probably be like thirty five touchdowns and maybe

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Speaker 1: ten picks, which ten picks would be a big deal

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Speaker 1: for him because he's inclined to throw some throw some interceptions.

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Speaker 1: And Levian Bell has a huge year. Their defense is

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Speaker 1: good under Greg Williams, I I think, so the best

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Speaker 1: case scenario is there is just have a really really explosive,

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Speaker 1: you know, really explosive offense and their defensive solid and

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Speaker 1: Adam Gates a really good coach and Sam Donald is

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Speaker 1: just a superstar. Worst case scenario, their offensive lines and disaster.

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Speaker 1: Levian's really rusty. Sam kind of struggles, they don't get

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Speaker 1: much pass rush, and they suck and they win five

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Speaker 1: or six games. But you look at Adam Gates's history,

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Speaker 1: like Adam Gates wins, So I would probably lean no

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Speaker 1: on that. That'll do it. That'll be my last question. Well,

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Speaker 1: enjoyed it. The forty niner game now is twenty three

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Speaker 1: to nine. That's a great thing about the preseason is

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Speaker 1: if your starter suck, like, you don't get any credit

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Speaker 1: for anything that else happens after the game, you know,

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Speaker 1: like beginning in the second quarter, no one cares. It's

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Speaker 1: all about the starters. That's the only questions Kyle's gonna

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Speaker 1: get after this game, twenty three to nine, forty Niners

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Speaker 1: in a route, even though it feels like they got

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Speaker 1: blown out. It's kind of crazy how the preseason works.

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Speaker 1: Appreciate everyone listening. Those d ms are wide open. You

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Speaker 1: can slide up been him at John middlecoff my Instagram handle.

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Speaker 1: Come on and play baby, and I'll answer your questions

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Speaker 1: right here. Three Now Podcast audios, have a good week.

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Speaker 1: Talk soon.