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Speaker 1: What is going on? Everybody? John Middlecop back at it

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Speaker 1: a good Thursday afternoon recording this bad Boy Freeing l podcast,

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Speaker 1: My guy Colin Cowards podcast. Network Football is here. Thank

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Speaker 1: you Jesus, because I had an epiphany any day that

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Speaker 1: I can't do like the NBA off season and then

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Speaker 1: the Odell Beckham articles. I can't take it anymore. For

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Speaker 1: the love of God. I just want to talk about

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Speaker 1: the games, the practices, the players. I can't do the

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Speaker 1: off the field fluff anymore. Don't get me wrong, I'm

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Speaker 1: not trying to act like I'm on my moral high

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Speaker 1: horse here right. I like it as much the next guy.

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Speaker 1: But it feels like this year two thousand nineteen, especially

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Speaker 1: the last couple of months, has just been more than ever.

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Speaker 1: And I've officially tapped out and I'm ready for football,

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Speaker 1: and thank god it's back, because I if we like

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Speaker 1: had two more months of the offseason, I might quit.

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Speaker 1: I don't think I could do it anymore. But we

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Speaker 1: got actual football, actual things that impact the teams and

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Speaker 1: the players and the coaches. Thank you Jesus. Uh, And

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Speaker 1: we'll get into all that. We'll get into Jalen Ramsey.

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Speaker 1: He showed up in a brink struck. I'm a little

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Speaker 1: and maybe it stems from I am tired of the

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Speaker 1: get the bad culture. We're gonna dive into that in

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Speaker 1: a second. Nick Bose assigned that there are three teams

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Speaker 1: right now in the league that are just operating at

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Speaker 1: a different financial level, just in terms of the way

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Speaker 1: they do contracts, how forward thinking they are. We'll talk

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Speaker 1: about those. Uh, the Odell Beckham. I'll give Odell Beckham

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Speaker 1: credit for this. He just took over my timeline today

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Speaker 1: and it had nothing to do with Pat Shermer, It

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Speaker 1: had nothing to do with the trade. It was just football,

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Speaker 1: and god, he looked good. He is a transcendent allent.

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Speaker 1: We'll dive into Beckham. And one thing I'm gonna do

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Speaker 1: is I wrote down just some topics, some things around

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Speaker 1: training camp. This is what you do when you work

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Speaker 1: in the NFL. You keep track of every team. Just

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Speaker 1: some things that kind of caught my eye and I'll

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Speaker 1: hit on them all. And then, of course Middlecoff mail

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Speaker 1: bag at John Middlecoff is my Instagram. I'm gonna start

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Speaker 1: doing three or four Instagram videos a day, just kind

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Speaker 1: of short, two or three minute ones on just topics. Obviously,

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Speaker 1: I always take your guys questions my my d m

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Speaker 1: s in my Instagram or wide open slide right in

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Speaker 1: and I'll get your questions here on the podcast. But

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Speaker 1: I want to start with this. I've had enough of

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Speaker 1: the get the bad culture of players that have already

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Speaker 1: made money. I cannot take it because in every walk

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Speaker 1: of life beside pro sports, no one cares about rich

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Speaker 1: people in the sense that we don't have any sympathy

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Speaker 1: for him. I saw this quote the other day. Someone

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Speaker 1: sent me this article about Peter Course, you know, the

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Speaker 1: guy that runs Miller Course. Uh was bitching and moaning

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Speaker 1: about like aluminum terroiffs and how it was costing the

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Speaker 1: you know, the business money. And it's like I understand,

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Speaker 1: like and you're I'm as pro business as anyone in America,

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Speaker 1: but most of us don't have the energy unless it's

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Speaker 1: our own business or the business we work in the

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Speaker 1: feel bad about other rich people like those are rich

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Speaker 1: people problems. We literally that's one of the defining kind

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Speaker 1: of like political waves of this last you know election.

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Speaker 1: What's gonna come up in this election? It's just rich people.

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Speaker 1: They all it's always they're screwing America. They're getting off

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Speaker 1: blah blah blah blah blah it they don't get the

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Speaker 1: that's I don't care. Yet for some reason with pro athletes,

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Speaker 1: were always like they're getting screwed. They're getting screwed. Get

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Speaker 1: the bag, get it, Anthony Davis. Anthony Davis deserves more.

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Speaker 1: It's like he's just making a hundred fifty million dollars.

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Speaker 1: Jalen Ramsey, pay the man. Do you know that. Jalen

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Speaker 1: Ramsey when he was drafted three years ago, so he's

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Speaker 1: going into his fourth season, was paid twenty three million dollars.

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Speaker 1: I rounded up it was twenty two point nine but

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Speaker 1: I think Nick Bosa just signed today for over thirty

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Speaker 1: it down to football. No one said for all the guys, now, listen,

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Speaker 1: Jalen Ramsey has been a great player. We all thought

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Speaker 1: you know what he should give all that money back?

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Speaker 1: Do you know another big pet peeve of mine, really

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Speaker 1: quick before we dive into Jalen Ramsey, is they did

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Speaker 1: all I've seen on Twitter is life. I'm so tired

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Speaker 1: of the NFL. They do not honor the contract. A

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Speaker 1: deal is a deal. Well, actually, the deal with Alan

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Speaker 1: time in the contract and not have to pay him. Clearly,

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Speaker 1: the same thing with Mike Daniels. So yeah, they did

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Speaker 1: honor the contract because if it was a true four

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Speaker 1: put the blame on the agent slash player? Alan Hearns

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Speaker 1: signed that contract. Clearly he probably wanted a little more

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Speaker 1: they could get rid of them. They literally honored the contract.

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Speaker 1: They're just falling the letters of the law. That's welcome

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Speaker 1: to business. This is not a charity. This is professional football. Now.

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Speaker 1: I understand Jalen Ramsey thinking he's worth more. I'd argue

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Speaker 1: I understand the argument where he's coming from. But Jalen Ramsey,

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Speaker 1: like there is something to be said for having a

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Speaker 1: doesn't sign the checks, but he's in charge of giving

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Speaker 1: maybe an NFL history that would enjoy seeing a human

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Speaker 1: if Tom Coflin is not one, he's in the competition

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Speaker 1: The one thing we've learned definitely in the NBA and

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Speaker 1: to Khalil Max, the Aaron Donald's, the Jalen Ramsey's, the

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Speaker 1: Odell Beckhams. You will get paid, whether the Jacksonville Jaguars

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Speaker 1: fourth year. He already earned it. So the quote unquote

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Speaker 1: He's just trying to get another back. I don't understand,

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Speaker 1: like I I get where you feel some sympathy for Dak.

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Speaker 1: disagree whether your pro pro management, pro player, pro big business,

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Speaker 1: pro employee, whatever. That's just common sense, right. But I'm sorry,

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Speaker 1: I'm not losing much sleep. For a guy making seven

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Speaker 1: Not everything happens overnight. That's not the way business works.

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Speaker 1: There's the reason they signed you do five year contract.

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Speaker 1: But if legally they were not obligated to, no player

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Speaker 1: And for people that don't live in California, Dean Spanos

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Speaker 1: at every moment. Well, Joey had some issues with the

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Speaker 1: sign these rookies, let's just use a flat number. Let's

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Speaker 1: and his number is twenty million dollars, is what you

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Speaker 1: for words. It was incredible because at the end of

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Speaker 1: the day, she is as talented of a performer just

428
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Speaker 1: when you factor in her looks or just she can dance,

429
00:22:27,520 --> 00:22:29,080
Speaker 1: and then her voice is as good as it gets

430
00:22:29,119 --> 00:22:33,359
Speaker 1: as we've ever seen. Now that was I don't remember

431
00:22:33,440 --> 00:22:36,119
Speaker 1: really that Whitney. I remember the one that struggled with

432
00:22:36,160 --> 00:22:38,440
Speaker 1: drugs and one that was married Bobby Brown, the ones

433
00:22:38,560 --> 00:22:41,719
Speaker 1: whose life was in shambles. So but at the end

434
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Speaker 1: of the day, she's probably if we did a you know,

435
00:22:45,680 --> 00:22:49,520
Speaker 1: American idol from scratch with every performer in the history

436
00:22:49,520 --> 00:22:52,240
Speaker 1: of the world, I don't see how at minimum she's

437
00:22:52,280 --> 00:22:54,760
Speaker 1: not in the final four. She might even she would

438
00:22:54,800 --> 00:22:57,120
Speaker 1: be a one scene, she might even win the whole thing.

439
00:22:58,119 --> 00:23:02,080
Speaker 1: And I think today on my Twitter timeline, Now, obviously

440
00:23:02,119 --> 00:23:05,439
Speaker 1: this guy hasn't had issues with drugs, though there was

441
00:23:05,640 --> 00:23:08,359
Speaker 1: might have been a little cocaine on that Paris or

442
00:23:08,400 --> 00:23:10,360
Speaker 1: wherever the hell he was in Europe with the pizza

443
00:23:11,040 --> 00:23:14,240
Speaker 1: uh in the picture. But to me, O'Dell's career has

444
00:23:14,280 --> 00:23:17,280
Speaker 1: become about a lot of stuff that's not football. It's

445
00:23:17,320 --> 00:23:20,200
Speaker 1: just a lot of a lot of not good stuff.

446
00:23:20,240 --> 00:23:23,160
Speaker 1: Even though, unlike Whitney and I'm the parallels don't work

447
00:23:23,200 --> 00:23:27,520
Speaker 1: perfectly because Odell hasn't been arrested, he's not really not

448
00:23:27,920 --> 00:23:29,800
Speaker 1: really a big problem, but he kind of is a

449
00:23:29,800 --> 00:23:32,439
Speaker 1: problem for some of the teams it's little things and

450
00:23:32,440 --> 00:23:35,680
Speaker 1: they just add up. But today I took a deep

451
00:23:35,720 --> 00:23:38,720
Speaker 1: sigh of relief and said, thank God, we have Odell

452
00:23:38,840 --> 00:23:42,840
Speaker 1: the football player back in my life, not Odell the celebrity.

453
00:23:43,040 --> 00:23:46,199
Speaker 1: Because Dustin Fox, who played in the NFL, fallowing on

454
00:23:46,240 --> 00:23:50,520
Speaker 1: Twitter great follow, hosts a radio show in Cleveland. I

455
00:23:50,520 --> 00:23:52,440
Speaker 1: think he works for the Cleveland Browns too, which just

456
00:23:52,480 --> 00:23:57,680
Speaker 1: at practice tweeting videos of Odell just demoralizing and destroying

457
00:23:57,800 --> 00:24:01,000
Speaker 1: every defensive back in his way. He looked incredible. You

458
00:24:01,080 --> 00:24:04,840
Speaker 1: know why, because he is incredible. He is as talented

459
00:24:04,880 --> 00:24:07,800
Speaker 1: of a wide receiver that's coming to the NFL in

460
00:24:07,800 --> 00:24:09,679
Speaker 1: the last twenty years. Now. I'm not saying he's the

461
00:24:09,680 --> 00:24:11,720
Speaker 1: best wide receiver. Hell, he's not even the best wide

462
00:24:11,720 --> 00:24:14,800
Speaker 1: receiver in the NFL right now. Like Antonio Brown has

463
00:24:14,840 --> 00:24:17,159
Speaker 1: consistently been that guy for the last six years. But

464
00:24:17,200 --> 00:24:19,320
Speaker 1: Antonio Brown was drafting a six round for a reason.

465
00:24:19,480 --> 00:24:22,240
Speaker 1: He was nowhere near the talent that O'Dell was coming

466
00:24:22,280 --> 00:24:24,440
Speaker 1: in this league. You can't run like him. Now he's

467
00:24:24,480 --> 00:24:27,119
Speaker 1: worked his way and become a great player. O'Dell's biggest

468
00:24:27,160 --> 00:24:29,560
Speaker 1: problem it's to two fold. One, he's playing with a

469
00:24:29,560 --> 00:24:33,360
Speaker 1: shitty quarterback. And just a terrible offensive operation the last

470
00:24:33,400 --> 00:24:36,920
Speaker 1: several years and two he gets hurt. He just can't

471
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Speaker 1: stay on the field. But there is no disputing his

472
00:24:39,640 --> 00:24:42,040
Speaker 1: Talent's why I wanted the forty Niners a trade for him.

473
00:24:42,160 --> 00:24:44,960
Speaker 1: I'm watching that thinking, I can't believe the Cleveland Browns

474
00:24:45,480 --> 00:24:48,760
Speaker 1: got this guy from basically the seventeenth pick into brill Peppers.

475
00:24:48,920 --> 00:24:52,920
Speaker 1: That is insanity, That is nuts. That's the easiest trade

476
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Speaker 1: John Dorsey will ever make. And when it comes to Odell,

477
00:24:56,040 --> 00:24:57,880
Speaker 1: and I know Colin talks about this all the time,

478
00:24:57,960 --> 00:25:00,840
Speaker 1: He's basically an NBA player in the NFL, and it's

479
00:25:00,840 --> 00:25:02,560
Speaker 1: even more than that. He has become one of the

480
00:25:02,560 --> 00:25:04,280
Speaker 1: most polarizing players in the league. He's one of the

481
00:25:04,320 --> 00:25:08,199
Speaker 1: most famous play easily the most famous non quarterback in

482
00:25:08,240 --> 00:25:10,679
Speaker 1: the league. But for a lot of the wrong stuff.

483
00:25:10,680 --> 00:25:12,879
Speaker 1: It's about stupid stuff. It's about stuff that's just starting

484
00:25:12,880 --> 00:25:16,200
Speaker 1: to wear me out. Because I love Odell the football player.

485
00:25:16,240 --> 00:25:18,720
Speaker 1: I want to watch him play football. He's a really

486
00:25:19,080 --> 00:25:21,400
Speaker 1: he has a chance and I know he it kind

487
00:25:21,400 --> 00:25:23,640
Speaker 1: of sounds like hyperbole when he says I'm chasing Jerry

488
00:25:23,680 --> 00:25:25,439
Speaker 1: Rys trying to do this. He can do whatever. He

489
00:25:25,440 --> 00:25:26,920
Speaker 1: wants to do. He just gotta stay on the field,

490
00:25:26,920 --> 00:25:28,680
Speaker 1: because I promise you this, When he's on the field,

491
00:25:28,720 --> 00:25:31,160
Speaker 1: no one can cover him. And in these next four

492
00:25:31,240 --> 00:25:32,919
Speaker 1: or five years, in the prime of his career, if

493
00:25:32,960 --> 00:25:34,560
Speaker 1: he can stay on the field, no one will be

494
00:25:34,600 --> 00:25:37,760
Speaker 1: able to cover him. I promise you that. I've been

495
00:25:37,760 --> 00:25:40,200
Speaker 1: watching the NFL for a living now for ten plus years,

496
00:25:40,359 --> 00:25:42,320
Speaker 1: and they're just not many guys like him to come through.

497
00:25:42,359 --> 00:25:47,240
Speaker 1: And I'm even talking great players. He is uncoverable. So

498
00:25:47,400 --> 00:25:49,119
Speaker 1: at the end of the day, for all the fluff

499
00:25:49,119 --> 00:25:51,119
Speaker 1: and all the comments and all the g Q articles

500
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Speaker 1: and all the stupid ship that surrounds him, the great

501
00:25:54,640 --> 00:25:56,719
Speaker 1: part about having football back because we just get Odell

502
00:25:56,800 --> 00:25:59,000
Speaker 1: the football player back. And I was thinking today watching

503
00:25:59,040 --> 00:26:01,680
Speaker 1: him at Cleveland Browns for Aractice, I actually think being

504
00:26:01,680 --> 00:26:04,280
Speaker 1: in somewhat of a smaller market, though he's going to

505
00:26:04,320 --> 00:26:05,800
Speaker 1: be on a team that's gonna be covered like a

506
00:26:05,840 --> 00:26:08,400
Speaker 1: big market, is going to help him a little bit.

507
00:26:08,920 --> 00:26:10,240
Speaker 1: I don't know if he's gonna be able to fly

508
00:26:10,320 --> 00:26:12,560
Speaker 1: under the radar, because once you become Odell Beckham, you

509
00:26:12,600 --> 00:26:15,520
Speaker 1: don't fly under the radar. But when you play in Cleveland,

510
00:26:15,520 --> 00:26:18,280
Speaker 1: it's not the same as playing in New York. Now,

511
00:26:18,400 --> 00:26:20,320
Speaker 1: would he be as famous if you would start in

512
00:26:20,359 --> 00:26:23,719
Speaker 1: Cleveland and not New York? Probably not because when you,

513
00:26:24,359 --> 00:26:27,960
Speaker 1: as I said on my last podcast, when O'Dell claimed

514
00:26:27,960 --> 00:26:29,760
Speaker 1: that the New York Giants were only playing on primetime

515
00:26:29,800 --> 00:26:32,760
Speaker 1: games because of Odell Beckham, No, Odell, they were playing

516
00:26:32,800 --> 00:26:35,080
Speaker 1: on prime time games because they're the New York Giants.

517
00:26:35,160 --> 00:26:37,040
Speaker 1: They just happened to have Odell Beckham. They played on

518
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Speaker 1: primetime games, and they at LT they played on primetime games.

519
00:26:39,240 --> 00:26:41,080
Speaker 1: They had Michael Strahan, They've been playing on prime time

520
00:26:41,119 --> 00:26:43,720
Speaker 1: games when they had Carry Collins. They play on primetime

521
00:26:43,720 --> 00:26:48,040
Speaker 1: games because they probably have fifteen million fans and networks

522
00:26:48,160 --> 00:26:49,760
Speaker 1: like a lot of people to watch because that's how

523
00:26:49,800 --> 00:26:52,680
Speaker 1: they make money on ratings with advertising, and that's where

524
00:26:52,680 --> 00:26:55,800
Speaker 1: the cash comes from. So Odell, yeah, you helped. I mean,

525
00:26:55,840 --> 00:26:58,600
Speaker 1: people want to watch you play. But the main reason

526
00:26:58,640 --> 00:27:00,520
Speaker 1: that they get play on Monday NFL Ball, on Sunday

527
00:27:00,600 --> 00:27:02,359
Speaker 1: Night Football, on Thursday Night Football, it's because they're the

528
00:27:02,359 --> 00:27:05,080
Speaker 1: New York Giants. Now, at the end of the day,

529
00:27:05,080 --> 00:27:09,080
Speaker 1: with Odo Beckham, if he can kind of somehow just

530
00:27:09,280 --> 00:27:13,200
Speaker 1: stay focused on football, the sky is the limit now

531
00:27:13,280 --> 00:27:17,520
Speaker 1: I'm not some Whitney Houston, you know historian. I don't

532
00:27:17,560 --> 00:27:20,040
Speaker 1: know all about her ups and downs, but clearly she

533
00:27:20,119 --> 00:27:23,360
Speaker 1: got involved with the wrong guy. She got involved with drugs,

534
00:27:23,400 --> 00:27:26,919
Speaker 1: and it derailed her career. Because you watched this video

535
00:27:27,240 --> 00:27:29,480
Speaker 1: her with Letterman and a lot of earlier stuff in

536
00:27:29,480 --> 00:27:32,000
Speaker 1: his career. Even you know, I was listening to Kevin

537
00:27:32,000 --> 00:27:35,240
Speaker 1: Costner podcast he did with Bill Simmons, and one of

538
00:27:35,240 --> 00:27:38,760
Speaker 1: my best friends has a has a cabin up at

539
00:27:38,760 --> 00:27:41,000
Speaker 1: this place called Fallen Leaf Lake. And if you've ever

540
00:27:41,040 --> 00:27:43,840
Speaker 1: watched the movie The Bodyguard, that's where Fallen Leaf Lake.

541
00:27:43,920 --> 00:27:46,560
Speaker 1: That's where they shot the movie. It's where that boat

542
00:27:46,560 --> 00:27:49,160
Speaker 1: blows up and Kevin Costner dives into the water when

543
00:27:49,160 --> 00:27:52,280
Speaker 1: Whitney Houston's kid was there, and she clearly had the

544
00:27:52,320 --> 00:27:54,320
Speaker 1: world by the balls. She was the most talented singer.

545
00:27:54,960 --> 00:27:57,480
Speaker 1: She was just stunningly beautiful, and she was even a

546
00:27:57,520 --> 00:28:00,919
Speaker 1: good actress, and their life just fell apart. And I

547
00:28:00,960 --> 00:28:04,320
Speaker 1: think we often see that not necessarily parallel that perfectly

548
00:28:04,359 --> 00:28:07,480
Speaker 1: with with great talents in pro sports, but we see

549
00:28:07,520 --> 00:28:09,800
Speaker 1: guys that don't get to live up to their potential,

550
00:28:10,320 --> 00:28:13,240
Speaker 1: because really the sky is the limit. For Odell Beckham,

551
00:28:13,320 --> 00:28:14,680
Speaker 1: just like it was at one point in time for

552
00:28:14,720 --> 00:28:16,920
Speaker 1: Whitney Houston, and you can say, well, he's already become

553
00:28:16,920 --> 00:28:18,879
Speaker 1: really famous, he's already really made a lot of money.

554
00:28:19,280 --> 00:28:21,800
Speaker 1: He should be able to do so much more like

555
00:28:21,880 --> 00:28:23,800
Speaker 1: he should have a six or seven year run like

556
00:28:23,840 --> 00:28:27,000
Speaker 1: Antonio Brown just had. You know, that's that's what he

557
00:28:27,000 --> 00:28:29,360
Speaker 1: should have, not because you could argue right now he's

558
00:28:29,480 --> 00:28:33,159
Speaker 1: underachieved and watching him play and at the end of

559
00:28:33,160 --> 00:28:36,200
Speaker 1: the day, what I like most about pro sports are

560
00:28:36,240 --> 00:28:39,640
Speaker 1: the elite talents Like I want to watch Lebron James,

561
00:28:40,000 --> 00:28:42,920
Speaker 1: I want to watch Mike Trout, I want to watch

562
00:28:43,000 --> 00:28:46,800
Speaker 1: the Odell Beckham's I don't watch pro sports for overachievers.

563
00:28:47,040 --> 00:28:49,000
Speaker 1: If I want to do that, I go to day

564
00:28:49,040 --> 00:28:51,760
Speaker 1: liss Oul High School, which is five minutes away from

565
00:28:51,800 --> 00:28:54,080
Speaker 1: where I'm sitting right now, and I go watch their

566
00:28:54,080 --> 00:28:56,240
Speaker 1: football practice, because yeah, they got some good players, but

567
00:28:56,240 --> 00:28:59,000
Speaker 1: they got a lot of overachievers in that operation. When

568
00:28:59,000 --> 00:29:00,920
Speaker 1: I sit down, I watched the NFL. I want to

569
00:29:00,960 --> 00:29:03,480
Speaker 1: watch the best of the best, and that's what Odell

570
00:29:03,520 --> 00:29:06,320
Speaker 1: Beckham is and it kind of felt the last year

571
00:29:06,320 --> 00:29:08,200
Speaker 1: and a half he wasn't really living up to that.

572
00:29:08,680 --> 00:29:10,880
Speaker 1: In New York. Now, it wasn't all his fault, but

573
00:29:10,960 --> 00:29:12,800
Speaker 1: I really hope that he's able to live up to

574
00:29:12,840 --> 00:29:15,080
Speaker 1: that in Cleveland because he's too talented not to go

575
00:29:15,120 --> 00:29:17,000
Speaker 1: down as one of the all time great wide receivers.

576
00:29:18,480 --> 00:29:20,560
Speaker 1: Here's what I'm gonna do it now that we have

577
00:29:20,760 --> 00:29:24,840
Speaker 1: so much going on, if there's not like ten topics

578
00:29:25,440 --> 00:29:28,040
Speaker 1: you know that I'm super passionate on, I might just

579
00:29:28,080 --> 00:29:31,040
Speaker 1: write down like a bunch and just have a segment

580
00:29:31,160 --> 00:29:33,960
Speaker 1: on every podcast up until the season starts, where I

581
00:29:34,040 --> 00:29:36,000
Speaker 1: just go around the league and just things that kind

582
00:29:36,000 --> 00:29:37,840
Speaker 1: of stood out to me or a story I saw

583
00:29:37,920 --> 00:29:40,240
Speaker 1: and just hit on it. We'll move to the next one.

584
00:29:40,320 --> 00:29:43,640
Speaker 1: That's what we'll call it. Training Camp Lived. No, I

585
00:29:43,720 --> 00:29:46,000
Speaker 1: just made that up, but yeah, Training Camp Live. Start

586
00:29:46,000 --> 00:29:50,160
Speaker 1: with this. Mike Tomlin gets a one year extension. Only

587
00:29:50,240 --> 00:29:53,320
Speaker 1: in pro sports do you just randomly give the guy

588
00:29:53,440 --> 00:29:56,040
Speaker 1: the one year extension when you know it's kind of

589
00:29:56,040 --> 00:29:59,320
Speaker 1: a maker break year. To me, it's kind of stupid. Now,

590
00:29:59,440 --> 00:30:02,719
Speaker 1: I do think that Mike Tomlin, who's probably coaching for

591
00:30:02,800 --> 00:30:06,200
Speaker 1: his job somewhat this year, has earned it. I mean,

592
00:30:06,200 --> 00:30:08,640
Speaker 1: they have won so much. He's made the franchise so

593
00:30:08,760 --> 00:30:12,120
Speaker 1: much cash, he's kept them consistently winning. I don't really

594
00:30:12,120 --> 00:30:15,400
Speaker 1: have a problem for it. My way too early prediction

595
00:30:15,440 --> 00:30:18,560
Speaker 1: here on July, I actually think the Steel is gonna

596
00:30:18,560 --> 00:30:20,760
Speaker 1: win the division. But let's just say they don't. Let's

597
00:30:20,760 --> 00:30:22,800
Speaker 1: say they don't make the playoffs again, I think he

598
00:30:22,800 --> 00:30:25,280
Speaker 1: gets fired and I think he's the head coach at

599
00:30:25,320 --> 00:30:29,640
Speaker 1: USC next year. What's his name, Lyn Swan? What's his name, Yeah,

600
00:30:29,720 --> 00:30:32,800
Speaker 1: Lyn Swan, that's his name, is the athletic director of USC.

601
00:30:33,040 --> 00:30:35,520
Speaker 1: I think that he would offer him eight or nine

602
00:30:35,560 --> 00:30:37,760
Speaker 1: million dollars to be the head coach at USC now.

603
00:30:37,840 --> 00:30:40,680
Speaker 1: I also think Mike Tomlin would have NFL offers, but

604
00:30:40,800 --> 00:30:43,560
Speaker 1: that's a way too early prediction. If they don't win

605
00:30:43,560 --> 00:30:46,920
Speaker 1: the division, which I think they're gonna win. Pat Shermer

606
00:30:48,240 --> 00:30:50,440
Speaker 1: in that g Q article, which I still kind of

607
00:30:50,480 --> 00:30:52,600
Speaker 1: refused to read, but I read a lot of excerpts

608
00:30:52,640 --> 00:30:58,360
Speaker 1: from it, Odell Beckham had a line that said Pat

609
00:30:58,400 --> 00:31:02,280
Speaker 1: Shermer had texted the moment after he was traded, and

610
00:31:02,280 --> 00:31:05,560
Speaker 1: it just said, oh, I just saw the news, and

611
00:31:05,640 --> 00:31:10,440
Speaker 1: O'Dell basically responded, no, ship, you made the news. I

612
00:31:10,480 --> 00:31:12,760
Speaker 1: think Pat Shermer, if I had to rank one through

613
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Speaker 1: thirty two. He would be my last head coach that

614
00:31:15,200 --> 00:31:17,320
Speaker 1: I would want. I think he's the worst head coach

615
00:31:17,320 --> 00:31:19,280
Speaker 1: in the NFL, and I also think he's a pretty

616
00:31:19,280 --> 00:31:23,240
Speaker 1: big fraud. Like Pat, this isn't nineteen sixty seven. We're

617
00:31:23,280 --> 00:31:29,920
Speaker 1: not completely more dumb. We understand what's going on, players, coaches, fans,

618
00:31:29,960 --> 00:31:33,040
Speaker 1: like we understand that you did not like Odell. You

619
00:31:33,080 --> 00:31:36,720
Speaker 1: can't text him, Oh, I just saw the news like

620
00:31:36,920 --> 00:31:39,920
Speaker 1: you weren't in the loop, like you weren't working hand

621
00:31:39,920 --> 00:31:44,400
Speaker 1: in hand with David Gettleman. I don't. I I was

622
00:31:44,440 --> 00:31:46,800
Speaker 1: critical of O'Dell for some of the comments in that article.

623
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Speaker 1: This one I completely support. Pat Shermer looks like an

624
00:31:49,920 --> 00:31:55,040
Speaker 1: idiot on this text message exchange the Washington quarterback race,

625
00:31:55,160 --> 00:31:57,680
Speaker 1: I saw j Gruden said it's gonna come down to

626
00:31:57,760 --> 00:32:01,760
Speaker 1: the wire. H Alex Smith careers over. So it's basically

627
00:32:01,800 --> 00:32:05,440
Speaker 1: just case Keenum verse Dwayne Haskins. I think at the

628
00:32:05,560 --> 00:32:07,440
Speaker 1: end of the day, if you're Ja Gruden and he's

629
00:32:07,480 --> 00:32:11,040
Speaker 1: also basically admitted, or he's already admitted that he's coaching

630
00:32:11,080 --> 00:32:14,520
Speaker 1: first job, they gotta make the playoffs or be pretty

631
00:32:14,600 --> 00:32:16,440
Speaker 1: damn good. I mean, I would imagine if they went

632
00:32:16,560 --> 00:32:18,600
Speaker 1: nine and seven and Haskins look good, he would not

633
00:32:18,600 --> 00:32:21,480
Speaker 1: get fired. But that's the key Haskins to look good.

634
00:32:22,040 --> 00:32:24,800
Speaker 1: If I'm Jay Gruden and I feel that Haskins is

635
00:32:24,840 --> 00:32:27,080
Speaker 1: better than case Keenum, and I don't see how he

636
00:32:27,120 --> 00:32:29,880
Speaker 1: would not feel that. I don't think Case Keenom' is

637
00:32:29,920 --> 00:32:32,880
Speaker 1: that good. I would just start Dwayne Haskins from the jump,

638
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Speaker 1: because that would give you the best chance that maybe

639
00:32:35,280 --> 00:32:38,239
Speaker 1: by October November he can get a feel for it,

640
00:32:38,400 --> 00:32:40,080
Speaker 1: he can get in the groove, and he can give

641
00:32:40,120 --> 00:32:42,480
Speaker 1: you the best chance to win. Because we know with

642
00:32:42,560 --> 00:32:45,840
Speaker 1: Case Keenum your team has to be pretty super super

643
00:32:45,880 --> 00:32:47,960
Speaker 1: loaded for you to have a chance. If you're on

644
00:32:48,000 --> 00:32:50,120
Speaker 1: a flawed team like he was last year, you're gonna

645
00:32:50,120 --> 00:32:52,880
Speaker 1: get your ass kicked. So Case Keendom is a good backup.

646
00:32:53,160 --> 00:32:56,840
Speaker 1: I would just roll with Dwayne Haskins from snap one.

647
00:32:56,920 --> 00:32:59,520
Speaker 1: Now I don't know, Like I haven't seen any clips

648
00:32:59,520 --> 00:33:02,560
Speaker 1: of Dwayne had Maybe Dwayne Haskins just terrible. I'm saying,

649
00:33:02,640 --> 00:33:06,240
Speaker 1: if it is close, I lean with Haskins, and I'm

650
00:33:06,240 --> 00:33:08,640
Speaker 1: going to assume. I don't know why I would assume this,

651
00:33:08,680 --> 00:33:11,120
Speaker 1: because I'm not even the biggest Dwayne Haskins fan. But

652
00:33:11,200 --> 00:33:13,440
Speaker 1: he should be able to beat out case Keenum in

653
00:33:13,480 --> 00:33:18,160
Speaker 1: training camp. I said last week, when a player goes

654
00:33:18,200 --> 00:33:21,520
Speaker 1: on pup, and he did, was not injured in in

655
00:33:21,680 --> 00:33:23,680
Speaker 1: the O, t A s it's a big deal. And

656
00:33:23,680 --> 00:33:25,680
Speaker 1: I said, you know, J J. Watt being on pup

657
00:33:25,760 --> 00:33:28,320
Speaker 1: scares me a little. Well, he passed his physical and

658
00:33:28,360 --> 00:33:30,560
Speaker 1: he's off pup, so it clearly wasn't that big of

659
00:33:30,600 --> 00:33:32,560
Speaker 1: a deal. But then I saw that t J. Watt,

660
00:33:32,640 --> 00:33:35,600
Speaker 1: his brother, pass rusher for the Pittsburgh Steelers, is now

661
00:33:35,600 --> 00:33:38,840
Speaker 1: on pop. I'm telling you, my little brother is a

662
00:33:38,840 --> 00:33:42,160
Speaker 1: member of this country club close to Sacramento. And I

663
00:33:42,200 --> 00:33:44,520
Speaker 1: went to play in the Skins game on Wednesday night

664
00:33:44,880 --> 00:33:47,200
Speaker 1: and I was playing with the guy he's a big

665
00:33:47,280 --> 00:33:49,720
Speaker 1: Niner fan, and he was telling me. He's like, you

666
00:33:49,760 --> 00:33:52,880
Speaker 1: know what, I play Fantasy, but holy hell, and this

667
00:33:52,920 --> 00:33:55,320
Speaker 1: guy's a lawyer, really smart, went to Duke, really sure.

668
00:33:55,360 --> 00:33:58,400
Speaker 1: I actually I was impressed. He's like, it's really hard

669
00:33:58,440 --> 00:34:00,000
Speaker 1: to keep up with the NFL. I don't know how

670
00:34:00,000 --> 00:34:01,560
Speaker 1: how you do it. I'm like, I don't even do

671
00:34:01,640 --> 00:34:04,040
Speaker 1: it that well. I feel anymore than what I did

672
00:34:04,080 --> 00:34:07,040
Speaker 1: in the NFL, Like when I was a super NFL geek,

673
00:34:07,280 --> 00:34:09,040
Speaker 1: and I felt when I was in the NFL, I

674
00:34:09,080 --> 00:34:13,040
Speaker 1: didn't know enough information. It is a really really hard

675
00:34:13,080 --> 00:34:15,400
Speaker 1: sport to keep up with the amount of players, the

676
00:34:15,400 --> 00:34:19,360
Speaker 1: amount of transactions, especially over this next month. It is

677
00:34:19,400 --> 00:34:23,919
Speaker 1: pretty crazy. So just I go to RTAL World five

678
00:34:24,000 --> 00:34:25,680
Speaker 1: or six times a day, just trying to pick up

679
00:34:25,680 --> 00:34:29,920
Speaker 1: with what I've missed. Julian Edelman, I don't know if

680
00:34:29,920 --> 00:34:32,520
Speaker 1: he heard his thumb in spring O t a s

681
00:34:33,239 --> 00:34:35,319
Speaker 1: It looked fine when he was doing his big tour,

682
00:34:35,480 --> 00:34:39,360
Speaker 1: you know, for the the documentary that he filmed on Showtime,

683
00:34:39,360 --> 00:34:41,560
Speaker 1: which someone actually told me a buddy of mine, I

684
00:34:41,560 --> 00:34:44,000
Speaker 1: think text me, or maybe someone told me out last

685
00:34:44,040 --> 00:34:46,719
Speaker 1: week that it's really good. I need to check it out.

686
00:34:47,200 --> 00:34:48,840
Speaker 1: He has a hurt thumb, and he's gonna miss a

687
00:34:48,880 --> 00:34:52,000
Speaker 1: couple of weeks. I know this if I'm Julian Edelman,

688
00:34:52,040 --> 00:34:55,960
Speaker 1: and Julian Edelman's a championship player. I love Julian Edelman.

689
00:34:56,040 --> 00:34:58,839
Speaker 1: I love everything about him. I would imagine the back

690
00:34:58,920 --> 00:35:01,280
Speaker 1: of his mind. He he's gonna be a little nervous.

691
00:35:01,480 --> 00:35:04,520
Speaker 1: The Patriots drafted slot receiver every year. They drafted the

692
00:35:04,520 --> 00:35:08,320
Speaker 1: Barrios kid from Miami a couple of years ago. Uh,

693
00:35:08,400 --> 00:35:11,160
Speaker 1: I mean they just they always have that position. How

694
00:35:11,200 --> 00:35:15,120
Speaker 1: did Julian Edelman get his job? He Wally Pipped LUs Walker.

695
00:35:15,640 --> 00:35:18,120
Speaker 1: If you're a Patriot and you come in injured to

696
00:35:18,239 --> 00:35:21,040
Speaker 1: training camp, now I'm not saying he's gonna get cut,

697
00:35:21,080 --> 00:35:25,560
Speaker 1: but you kind of spark that thought in Belichick's mind.

698
00:35:25,640 --> 00:35:27,440
Speaker 1: He goes, well, we can just get this guy for

699
00:35:28,280 --> 00:35:31,719
Speaker 1: you know, an eighth of the price. So I, I,

700
00:35:31,719 --> 00:35:35,080
Speaker 1: if you're Julian Edelman, clearly, I mean, Edelman is one

701
00:35:35,080 --> 00:35:36,719
Speaker 1: of the toughest guys in the league. If he's heard,

702
00:35:36,760 --> 00:35:39,719
Speaker 1: he's hurt, but you better get back on that field

703
00:35:39,719 --> 00:35:42,440
Speaker 1: as fast as possible because there's a chance that one

704
00:35:42,440 --> 00:35:44,799
Speaker 1: of these guys that the hoodie has drafted these last

705
00:35:44,840 --> 00:35:47,759
Speaker 1: couple of years just starts dominating at that position. And

706
00:35:47,840 --> 00:35:52,759
Speaker 1: again the hoodie, who's basically an NFL economic professor, will

707
00:35:52,960 --> 00:35:55,880
Speaker 1: just do the math. So I I'm nervous for Julian

708
00:35:56,000 --> 00:35:57,879
Speaker 1: Edelman that he's gonna get Wally Pips sooner or later.

709
00:35:57,920 --> 00:36:00,640
Speaker 1: Now it's inevitable in New England, but quickest way to

710
00:36:00,640 --> 00:36:04,960
Speaker 1: do it is be injured. Josh Rosen I saw that.

711
00:36:05,440 --> 00:36:07,840
Speaker 1: I almost called the Pat Fitzgerald. Pat Fitzgerald went on

712
00:36:07,880 --> 00:36:10,480
Speaker 1: that ran about phones are the reason that people are

713
00:36:10,480 --> 00:36:14,240
Speaker 1: not attending games. Pat. While I agree phones are somewhat

714
00:36:14,280 --> 00:36:17,279
Speaker 1: a societal problem right now, they're not the reason people

715
00:36:17,280 --> 00:36:21,040
Speaker 1: are not attending Northwestern games. Probably overpriced, It's just we

716
00:36:21,040 --> 00:36:22,560
Speaker 1: can just watch it our home in front of our

717
00:36:22,600 --> 00:36:27,680
Speaker 1: seventy inch television the stackfrigerator. But I read that, uh,

718
00:36:27,840 --> 00:36:31,920
Speaker 1: Ryan Fitzpatrick. The I almost said the Tampa Bay the

719
00:36:31,960 --> 00:36:35,840
Speaker 1: Miami Dolphins quarterback. He's been on fifty different teams. The

720
00:36:35,880 --> 00:36:39,839
Speaker 1: Miami Dolphins quarterback is taking first team reps. And I

721
00:36:39,960 --> 00:36:42,680
Speaker 1: was on Doug Gottlie's radio show today and I said,

722
00:36:43,320 --> 00:36:47,759
Speaker 1: simply put, under no circumstances when you were gifted this

723
00:36:47,880 --> 00:36:51,440
Speaker 1: former number ten overall quarterback that a couple of years

724
00:36:51,480 --> 00:36:54,200
Speaker 1: ago was viewed as the number one quarterback prospect in college.

725
00:36:55,560 --> 00:36:58,360
Speaker 1: You acquired him for I think pick sixty two. You

726
00:36:58,440 --> 00:37:01,240
Speaker 1: have to start him this season. You have to see

727
00:37:01,480 --> 00:37:05,080
Speaker 1: for sixteen games, get a sample size of what this

728
00:37:05,120 --> 00:37:07,760
Speaker 1: guy can bring to the table. Maybe you have something

729
00:37:07,760 --> 00:37:12,280
Speaker 1: in Josh Rosen, maybe you have a franchise quarterback. Maybe

730
00:37:12,320 --> 00:37:15,160
Speaker 1: you don't, but the only way to find out is

731
00:37:15,200 --> 00:37:19,000
Speaker 1: to play. Because here's what we know, Ryan Fitzpatrick is

732
00:37:19,040 --> 00:37:21,480
Speaker 1: one of the better backup quarterbacks in the last decade.

733
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Speaker 1: He's not a starting quarterback. He's not good enough to

734
00:37:25,120 --> 00:37:28,319
Speaker 1: get you to the playoffs. But having him around, having

735
00:37:28,400 --> 00:37:30,360
Speaker 1: him coach up Josh Rosen and just having him be

736
00:37:30,400 --> 00:37:33,239
Speaker 1: around Josh Rosen is a good thing. But kind of

737
00:37:33,239 --> 00:37:36,920
Speaker 1: like Washington, but even differently because Josh Rosen is already played,

738
00:37:37,320 --> 00:37:40,520
Speaker 1: so he's already got NFL snaps. Make him your starter,

739
00:37:40,960 --> 00:37:42,560
Speaker 1: see what you have, and then at the end of

740
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Speaker 1: the year, if you suck, draft a quarterback if you

741
00:37:45,239 --> 00:37:48,160
Speaker 1: don't keep wrong with Josh Rosen. But to me, the

742
00:37:48,200 --> 00:37:51,719
Speaker 1: biggest no brainer is Josh Rosen has to start Week one.

743
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Speaker 1: Let's get to the middle Coff mail bag. Slide up

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00:37:55,280 --> 00:37:58,920
Speaker 1: in the d M s at John Middlecoff and uh

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Speaker 1: I'll entwer your your questions right here. Two questions for

746
00:38:03,560 --> 00:38:05,960
Speaker 1: the pods. What are the stats that you look forward

747
00:38:06,000 --> 00:38:08,520
Speaker 1: to tell if a team is performing well. I've heard

748
00:38:08,560 --> 00:38:11,239
Speaker 1: Colin reference yards per attempt to tell if a quarterback

749
00:38:11,719 --> 00:38:14,680
Speaker 1: is protected by his offensive line, and things of that nature.

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Speaker 1: Just curious to hear your perspective on the topic. Also,

751
00:38:18,760 --> 00:38:21,640
Speaker 1: what's a storyline that is being undercovered? Going into the

752
00:38:21,680 --> 00:38:23,799
Speaker 1: season or something that you're keeping an eye on the

753
00:38:23,840 --> 00:38:27,200
Speaker 1: most the people aren't think about that my first one.

754
00:38:28,080 --> 00:38:30,760
Speaker 1: I think it depends on I know, Gambler's yard per

755
00:38:30,800 --> 00:38:35,080
Speaker 1: play is a big one for me. I'm just talent

756
00:38:35,440 --> 00:38:38,879
Speaker 1: and how good a team is. Total yards don't mean

757
00:38:38,920 --> 00:38:42,880
Speaker 1: that much to me. Uh, I'm big on just on defense,

758
00:38:43,000 --> 00:38:45,080
Speaker 1: scoring defense. I mean, at the end of the day,

759
00:38:45,320 --> 00:38:48,520
Speaker 1: the goal of the sport is to not allow points.

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Speaker 1: Scoring defense, turnovers, sacks, those are the number Those are

761
00:38:52,680 --> 00:38:55,520
Speaker 1: things I look for, you know, in football, and obviously

762
00:38:55,640 --> 00:38:59,319
Speaker 1: more in depth analytics. Pressures, I mean, getting pressure on

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Speaker 1: the quarterback to me is huge offensively. One thing I'm

764
00:39:04,280 --> 00:39:06,840
Speaker 1: gonna start monitoring, and I've been thinking about this a lot,

765
00:39:07,200 --> 00:39:10,719
Speaker 1: is how many catches your running backs half? Because successful

766
00:39:10,760 --> 00:39:13,040
Speaker 1: offenses throw the ball to the running back a lot.

767
00:39:13,480 --> 00:39:16,040
Speaker 1: So that's definitely something I'm looking for. Yards per tempt

768
00:39:17,000 --> 00:39:18,680
Speaker 1: is you know, it's a big thing to tell how

769
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Speaker 1: much a quarterback is pushing the ball downfield. Uh, you know,

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00:39:22,920 --> 00:39:26,719
Speaker 1: tendencies on third down? You know what your conversion rate

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Speaker 1: is on third down? I mean that's the must down,

772
00:39:28,360 --> 00:39:31,359
Speaker 1: that's the must have down. I would imagine just thinking

773
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Speaker 1: out loud, how many yards you're gaining on first down.

774
00:39:34,280 --> 00:39:36,799
Speaker 1: I would imagine most of the best offenses in the

775
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Speaker 1: league have the highest yards or average yard gain on

776
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Speaker 1: first down because it just makes the sport easier, right

777
00:39:45,719 --> 00:39:47,840
Speaker 1: if you have to go less far on second and

778
00:39:47,920 --> 00:39:54,040
Speaker 1: third down. Storyline that's being undercovered would probably be like

779
00:39:54,280 --> 00:39:57,000
Speaker 1: Zimmer and and Tomlin coaching for their job. I think

780
00:39:57,000 --> 00:39:59,040
Speaker 1: how crazy that would be. Can you imagine if the

781
00:39:59,120 --> 00:40:01,280
Speaker 1: Vikings missed the play ups? With how much they're paying

782
00:40:01,280 --> 00:40:04,240
Speaker 1: other players and their quarterback. I think Zimmer would get fired,

783
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Speaker 1: and I think if the Steelers, who I think are

784
00:40:06,360 --> 00:40:09,640
Speaker 1: gonna win division, so that's my prediction year, but I

785
00:40:09,680 --> 00:40:12,960
Speaker 1: don't feel great about that. I think he'd get fired

786
00:40:12,960 --> 00:40:15,279
Speaker 1: too if he if he didn't make the playoffs. So

787
00:40:15,320 --> 00:40:18,360
Speaker 1: that would be pretty crazy if two guys Zimmer and Tomlin,

788
00:40:18,600 --> 00:40:22,520
Speaker 1: you know, lost their jobs. How much does Aaron Rodgers

789
00:40:22,880 --> 00:40:25,680
Speaker 1: constantly get so much love and he constantly misses the

790
00:40:25,680 --> 00:40:30,200
Speaker 1: playoffs or no shows in big playoff games. I'd have

791
00:40:30,280 --> 00:40:32,200
Speaker 1: to go back and dive through his numbers. I mean

792
00:40:32,239 --> 00:40:35,880
Speaker 1: I remember vividly off to hand, he wasn't that bad

793
00:40:35,920 --> 00:40:37,800
Speaker 1: in some of the games they lost. First the Niners.

794
00:40:37,840 --> 00:40:42,560
Speaker 1: Their defense was atrocious. Now that game that they lost

795
00:40:42,600 --> 00:40:46,000
Speaker 1: to Seattle, I would imagine if you're having beers with

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00:40:46,080 --> 00:40:48,160
Speaker 1: him now. I don't know if he'd have beers with

797
00:40:48,320 --> 00:40:50,920
Speaker 1: normal humans. You know, he's Aaron Rodgers, kind of an elitist.

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00:40:51,280 --> 00:40:54,080
Speaker 1: He'd probably tell you that McCarthy screwed it up. I

799
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Speaker 1: think Rogers has the perfect balance right now. And I

800
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Speaker 1: think Lebron kind of got this. Most people consider him

801
00:41:01,320 --> 00:41:03,480
Speaker 1: to be the best quarterback, and he takes a lot

802
00:41:03,480 --> 00:41:07,239
Speaker 1: of ship, you know, for getting coaches fired, missing the playoffs.

803
00:41:07,880 --> 00:41:09,319
Speaker 1: When you're at the top of the mountain, the wind

804
00:41:09,360 --> 00:41:12,160
Speaker 1: blows the fastest, right, So I think right now he's

805
00:41:12,160 --> 00:41:14,719
Speaker 1: the perfect balance of most people say that is the

806
00:41:14,760 --> 00:41:18,960
Speaker 1: most talented quarterback before we learned about Mahomes last year

807
00:41:19,000 --> 00:41:23,759
Speaker 1: in the league. But he has his flaws as a personality,

808
00:41:23,840 --> 00:41:25,920
Speaker 1: like he's not feels like, not the easiest guy to

809
00:41:25,960 --> 00:41:28,000
Speaker 1: get along with and not the easiest guy to coach.

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00:41:28,719 --> 00:41:31,680
Speaker 1: So I'd have to dive through the numbers. I feel

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Speaker 1: it off the top of my head. Remember the one

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00:41:33,200 --> 00:41:36,440
Speaker 1: year who they lose to Atlanta. I know because I

813
00:41:36,560 --> 00:41:38,840
Speaker 1: bet on the Packers in the NFC championship game, remember

814
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Speaker 1: how terrible the defense was, and he rattled off two

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Speaker 1: playoff victories. He went to Green Bay and one I

816
00:41:44,600 --> 00:41:47,239
Speaker 1: forget who they beat in the first round. Oh, they

817
00:41:47,320 --> 00:41:50,160
Speaker 1: beat the Giants and they beat the Giants. Yeah, they

818
00:41:50,160 --> 00:41:52,359
Speaker 1: beat the Giants. That was the Odell Beckham when they

819
00:41:52,360 --> 00:41:56,279
Speaker 1: had to buy so or no, they had to buy Well,

820
00:41:56,320 --> 00:41:58,319
Speaker 1: that was just when O'Dell went to Miami for the day.

821
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Speaker 1: But he beat him. Was that a different Now I'm

822
00:42:00,440 --> 00:42:02,839
Speaker 1: getting my years mixed up, but I remember one year

823
00:42:02,880 --> 00:42:04,960
Speaker 1: that they went to the NFC Championship Game and they

824
00:42:04,960 --> 00:42:06,839
Speaker 1: lost to the Atlanta Falcons. The year that Atlanta went

825
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Speaker 1: to the Super Bowl and Rogers just carried a terrible defense.

826
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Speaker 1: So at the end of the day, Rogers stud He's

827
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Speaker 1: just flawed. I mean, we're just most players are. I mean,

828
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Speaker 1: Brady's flawed. He can't move. Hey Man. Question from the mailback,

829
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Speaker 1: where does Jamal Adams rank among NFL safeties. I'd argue

830
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Speaker 1: top three and give him an outside shot at Defensive

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Speaker 1: Player of the Year. I'll be completely honest. I haven't

832
00:42:32,040 --> 00:42:35,080
Speaker 1: watched that much just football. I like Jamal Adams a

833
00:42:35,080 --> 00:42:38,520
Speaker 1: lot coming out of UH coming out of college. But

834
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Speaker 1: I've probably watched the Jets play twice in the last

835
00:42:40,960 --> 00:42:44,359
Speaker 1: couple of years, in last year, bits and pieces of them,

836
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Speaker 1: so to make like a definitive take, you know, I've

837
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Speaker 1: watched a ton of Ed Reid when when Ed was humming,

838
00:42:50,640 --> 00:42:53,760
Speaker 1: I'd watched a ton of Earl Thomas. I had watched

839
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Speaker 1: a ton of I'm just trying to think of recent

840
00:42:56,239 --> 00:42:59,200
Speaker 1: in recent memory, really good safeties. I haven't watched that

841
00:42:59,360 --> 00:43:03,760
Speaker 1: much Jamal Adams. Now, people I trust speak really highly

842
00:43:03,800 --> 00:43:07,080
Speaker 1: of him. He's an active I mean, he's just a versatile,

843
00:43:07,120 --> 00:43:10,239
Speaker 1: physical player. Uh. Yeah, it's a big year for him.

844
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Speaker 1: I don't know, just thinking off top of my head.

845
00:43:11,840 --> 00:43:14,120
Speaker 1: How good is their defense. They have Letter Williams, they

846
00:43:14,120 --> 00:43:17,040
Speaker 1: have Quinn and Williams. But yeah, it's it's definitely a

847
00:43:17,040 --> 00:43:19,480
Speaker 1: big year for the corners. Kind of suck who they

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Speaker 1: have at linebacker. I mean they got rid of gern Lee,

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Speaker 1: So yeah, I mean, I think if the Jets were

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Speaker 1: to make the playoffs, he definitely have a chance to

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Speaker 1: be the defensive player of the year. After your experience

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Speaker 1: in an NFL organization, do you think a female coach

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Speaker 1: will actually be able to make an impact in the league.

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Speaker 1: I think at the end of the day, if you

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Speaker 1: can help a player, he doesn't give a ship if

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Speaker 1: you played, if you never played, if you're white, if

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Speaker 1: you're black, if you're a dude, or your female. If

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Speaker 1: you can coach wide receiver or coach a quarterback and

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Speaker 1: give him an edge on game day, which means he's

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Speaker 1: gonna play better, which means in turn, he's gonna get

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Speaker 1: him the money. They don't care who is coming from. Now,

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Speaker 1: it's a little different. I guess a quote unquote female girl,

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Speaker 1: whatever you want to say, than a guy. I've been

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Speaker 1: around a lot of shitty guy coaches, so to think

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Speaker 1: that if she is qualified, whoever she is, and I

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Speaker 1: know there's several female coaches throughout the league. Now listen,

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Speaker 1: there are a lot of guys that don't deserve to

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Speaker 1: be coaching in the NFL is just because they know

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Speaker 1: the right people. So I yeah, I don't think it

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Speaker 1: has any bearing. It's just how good of a coach

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Speaker 1: are you? You know? And that's that that would be

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Speaker 1: the separating factor in which division do you think coaching

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Speaker 1: will determine who makes the playoffs? Who and why? Every division?

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Speaker 1: Literally every division? I mean, you can't make the playoffs

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Speaker 1: without a good coach. I think it's it's really hard

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Speaker 1: to have a Jim tom Sula, you know, to have

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Speaker 1: Steve Wilkes advanced Joseph. If you're a bad coach, you

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Speaker 1: will not make the playoffs. It's just that's a fact.

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Speaker 1: So I would say, you know, you might be able

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Speaker 1: to go the a f C North because Freddie Kitchens

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Speaker 1: probably has one of the most talented teams in the league,

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Speaker 1: and he's it's gonna be playoffs or bust. I don't

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Speaker 1: know if he'd be a one and done coach, but

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Speaker 1: if the Browns want seven and nine, could he get fired?

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Speaker 1: I don't think he'd be a locked to keep his job,

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Speaker 1: so I'll go the a f C North mail back

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Speaker 1: question out of the players holding out, Zeke Gordon, Mike Thomas, Clowney,

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Speaker 1: Chris Jones, the Chiefs, which of these players do you

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Speaker 1: think are needed most by their franchise and which team

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Speaker 1: should sign extend these guys A sep. Well, listen, I

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00:45:34,880 --> 00:45:38,520
Speaker 1: I've been hard on Zeke, but I will not dispute

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Speaker 1: his importance to the Dallas Cowboys. My main issue is,

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Speaker 1: like Zeke, you don't get to really hold out when

894
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Speaker 1: you've just been a problem child. But Jerry's kind of soft.

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Speaker 1: Maybe he would pay him. They need him, to me,

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Speaker 1: Melvin Gordon, by far, is needed the least Mike Thomas.

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Speaker 1: Check out how much they depend on Mike Thomas in

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Speaker 1: the passing game. So he'd be right up there with

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Speaker 1: Zeke Clowney. I think they could get by, but one

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Speaker 1: of the things they hang their hat on is that front,

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00:46:05,760 --> 00:46:08,400
Speaker 1: the defensive line. Him and j J. Watt cause a

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Speaker 1: lot of problems, I actually think when you think about it,

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Speaker 1: last year j J, who I did not expect to

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Speaker 1: be as good as he was. Part of the reason, though,

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Speaker 1: is you have so many him and Clowney you can't

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Speaker 1: double team them all. So you kind of rotate between

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Speaker 1: the two of them, and j J gets to get loose.

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Speaker 1: While Clowney is not some dynamic pass rusher, he still

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Speaker 1: is a major threat. And when it comes to the

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Speaker 1: run game, you have the double team Clowney because he

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Speaker 1: will destroy you. So I would say Clowney would be

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Speaker 1: above Melvin Gordon. The Chiefs their defense isn't great. Chris

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Speaker 1: Jones is clearly their most talented. Well you got Frank Clark,

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Speaker 1: you go, well, you got him and Frank Clark together,

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Speaker 1: that's a pretty talented defensive line. You add the Honey Badger,

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Speaker 1: they should be much improved. So I put Chris Jones

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Speaker 1: right up there too. But Mike Thomas is very important

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Speaker 1: to what the Saints do. Zeke's very important to what

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Speaker 1: Dallas does. Chris Jones is very important to what the

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Speaker 1: Chiefs do. You go, well, the Chiefs defense sucks. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I'm pretty sure they lead the league or like second

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Speaker 1: the league last year in sacks. I'm getting a lot

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Speaker 1: of questions. I posted on my Instagram feed. I'm kind

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00:47:14,000 --> 00:47:17,520
Speaker 1: of hooked. It's like basically my bats Theorette or my

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00:47:17,880 --> 00:47:23,239
Speaker 1: you know, Real Housewives is the uh, the Last Chance you.

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Speaker 1: I'm not on season four yet. I'm on season three

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Speaker 1: with this coach, Jason Brown that they brought to the

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Speaker 1: middle of Kansas. He's this white dude from Kansas, but

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Speaker 1: he's just insane. It is just I can't turn it off.

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Speaker 1: It's it's kind of sick because, I mean, this dude

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Speaker 1: swears every other word. Just a disaster. I mean, I

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Speaker 1: don't even know if he knows that much football. He's

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Speaker 1: just cussing everyone. It's it's terrible. TV yet I I

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Speaker 1: cannot turn it off. I'd highly recommend season three. Uh,

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Speaker 1: season three, last chance you. Let's see if I can

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Speaker 1: find another question. That's it, so hit me up on

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Speaker 1: Middlecoff mail back. I'm running out of questions. I got

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Speaker 1: so many tms right now. I've answered them all. And

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Speaker 1: if I if I haven't answered you, hear I've I've

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Speaker 1: answered you directly. Appreciate everyone interacting. Enjoy the weekend your

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Speaker 1: football teams back in action. Can't wait. We'll actually have

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Speaker 1: padded practice starting next week for every team in the NFL.

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Speaker 1: Buckle that chin strap, baby, and if you're a fan,

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Speaker 1: get your fingers ready because you're probably about to draft

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Speaker 1: fantasy in the next month, so start locking in. I'll

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Speaker 1: be here to help again. Thanks everyone for listening, and

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Speaker 1: let's get ready for some football