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Speaker 2: he cannot win a backup job four years into his career. Honestly,

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Speaker 2: around the NFL. Good teams their backup quarterback knows their role.

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Speaker 2: Doesn't mean they don't have self confidence. They doesn't mean

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Speaker 2: that they don't think if they're given the opportunity, they

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Speaker 2: you gotta execute, everyone's watching you. It's hard like you

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Speaker 5: You know, I know I'm a starting quarterback in this league.

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Speaker 5: I have zero doubts about that. And you know, I

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Speaker 6: Out my way.

429
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Speaker 5: But I know what kind of player am, kind of

430
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Speaker 5: person I am, and like I said earlier, I'll be

431
00:22:35,160 --> 00:22:38,840
Speaker 5: ready to go if if I need to be. And yeah,

432
00:22:39,000 --> 00:22:40,880
Speaker 5: like I said, I have no doubts that I'm I'm

433
00:22:40,920 --> 00:22:42,480
Speaker 5: starting calender quarterback in this league.

434
00:22:42,600 --> 00:22:46,399
Speaker 2: I'm sorry. I just I couldn't if I owned the team,

435
00:22:46,560 --> 00:22:48,399
Speaker 2: if I was a GM, or if I was the coach,

436
00:22:49,160 --> 00:22:51,600
Speaker 2: couldn't have my guy with that attitude. I mean, there's

437
00:22:51,640 --> 00:22:55,080
Speaker 2: the chances he's a third quarterback and he believes he's

438
00:22:55,080 --> 00:22:57,439
Speaker 2: starting quarterback. And there's something to be said about, like

439
00:22:57,520 --> 00:23:01,520
Speaker 2: I said, having belief internally in yourself, but like, you

440
00:23:01,640 --> 00:23:04,800
Speaker 2: gotta know your role. The moment you don't know your role,

441
00:23:05,000 --> 00:23:08,480
Speaker 2: it's impossible to function in that role. And I wonder

442
00:23:08,520 --> 00:23:12,359
Speaker 2: if this offseason he thought this is my time to shine. Well,

443
00:23:12,480 --> 00:23:15,639
Speaker 2: I get the moment ota start, but then once the

444
00:23:15,720 --> 00:23:18,000
Speaker 2: draft happens and a guy's drafted in the top fifteen,

445
00:23:19,119 --> 00:23:23,840
Speaker 2: it's over, buddy, Like Sayonara, Like, they drafted this guy

446
00:23:23,880 --> 00:23:26,479
Speaker 2: for a reason and he's clearly a more talented player.

447
00:23:27,200 --> 00:23:33,240
Speaker 2: But I can't quite understand having that mentality when you've

448
00:23:33,240 --> 00:23:36,840
Speaker 2: started four career games, you're twenty eight years old, like,

449
00:23:36,920 --> 00:23:39,680
Speaker 2: you've never been a starter. The only time you started

450
00:23:39,880 --> 00:23:44,200
Speaker 2: is because of the starter, because of financial reasons, got benched.

451
00:23:44,800 --> 00:23:48,400
Speaker 2: So you have to wonder Sean Payton goes with Zach

452
00:23:48,400 --> 00:23:51,520
Speaker 2: Wilson as the backup, does Jared Sidham get shipped somewhere else.

453
00:24:01,160 --> 00:24:04,560
Speaker 2: Belichick's performance today on Pat McAfee for thirty plus minutes

454
00:24:05,320 --> 00:24:08,360
Speaker 2: was awesome. Belichick is really starting to come into his own.

455
00:24:08,680 --> 00:24:11,879
Speaker 2: He ripped some players. He's like, yeah, that contract Atlanta

456
00:24:12,359 --> 00:24:14,199
Speaker 2: gave to the corner, He's like, he doesn't have a

457
00:24:14,240 --> 00:24:16,680
Speaker 2: pick in two years, What the hell are they doing.

458
00:24:17,200 --> 00:24:19,080
Speaker 2: Maybe he's taking some personal shots because he didn't get

459
00:24:19,080 --> 00:24:23,040
Speaker 2: the job, but it was good. I highly recommend watching it.

460
00:24:23,119 --> 00:24:25,680
Speaker 2: But Bill said something. I was just watching it and

461
00:24:26,080 --> 00:24:30,040
Speaker 2: he mentioned something. I was like, damn, because I had heard.

462
00:24:30,240 --> 00:24:32,960
Speaker 2: Obviously when the Eagle season ended, a lot of people

463
00:24:33,040 --> 00:24:36,960
Speaker 2: thought Sirianni was gonna get fired, and then Bill was available,

464
00:24:37,680 --> 00:24:40,280
Speaker 2: and I thought, like, Bill, how would that work? And

465
00:24:40,280 --> 00:24:42,280
Speaker 2: then I remember in the early on in the off

466
00:24:42,359 --> 00:24:45,520
Speaker 2: season before the Super Bowl, just kind of doing some digging,

467
00:24:46,400 --> 00:24:48,040
Speaker 2: and a lot of people hit me with like, Yeah,

468
00:24:48,000 --> 00:24:50,600
Speaker 2: I think Bill and how He have a pretty good relationship.

469
00:24:51,440 --> 00:24:56,040
Speaker 2: I think Bill respects how He a lot. And then

470
00:24:56,080 --> 00:24:59,719
Speaker 2: I listened to Bill's take on the trade how he

471
00:24:59,760 --> 00:25:04,800
Speaker 2: made with the Commis, and I went, yeah, I think

472
00:25:04,840 --> 00:25:08,359
Speaker 2: what I'm hearing is real. Let's take a listen to

473
00:25:08,440 --> 00:25:09,600
Speaker 2: Bill on Howie.

474
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Speaker 1: But I thought it was a really interesting trade that

475
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Speaker 1: that Philadelphia and Washington had. I mean, to me, it

476
00:25:15,119 --> 00:25:17,359
Speaker 1: was another great trade by Howard Roseman. I mean, I

477
00:25:17,400 --> 00:25:19,680
Speaker 1: don't know how he keeps, you know, getting number one

478
00:25:19,680 --> 00:25:22,240
Speaker 1: picks for Carson Wentz and gets Dots in for basically

479
00:25:22,320 --> 00:25:25,040
Speaker 1: a fourth from the team in his division.

480
00:25:25,400 --> 00:25:26,840
Speaker 6: But it's a great trade how he.

481
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Speaker 1: You know, the Eagles don't have much money on their

482
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Speaker 1: salary cap, but they get a rookie contract, they get

483
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Speaker 1: a good player. I get it that he's not a starter,

484
00:25:34,160 --> 00:25:36,600
Speaker 1: but he'll be the third receiver. He gives a lot

485
00:25:36,600 --> 00:25:38,639
Speaker 1: of depth, and he'll be you know, nobody's going to

486
00:25:38,680 --> 00:25:41,000
Speaker 1: double Dots in there, right, I mean, he'll be the

487
00:25:41,040 --> 00:25:43,879
Speaker 1: third guy, you know, with Brown and Smith and maybe

488
00:25:43,880 --> 00:25:47,120
Speaker 1: even Goddard. So I think it's a great, great move

489
00:25:47,160 --> 00:25:49,560
Speaker 1: for Philadelphia. They really strengthen their team they really have

490
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Speaker 1: to give up anything there doesn't give them a salary

491
00:25:51,640 --> 00:25:54,520
Speaker 1: cap money as little as possible, and they gave up,

492
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Speaker 1: you know, really not much in the draft. I mean,

493
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Speaker 1: if you think about Philadelphia's fifth, which will you know,

494
00:26:00,320 --> 00:26:02,640
Speaker 1: probably or Philadelphi is third, which would probably be close

495
00:26:02,680 --> 00:26:06,760
Speaker 1: to a fourth, and Washington's fifth, which is probably gonna

496
00:26:06,760 --> 00:26:09,320
Speaker 1: be close to a fourth. Let's just say in the ballpark,

497
00:26:09,760 --> 00:26:12,160
Speaker 1: you know, you're really looking at not not too big

498
00:26:12,200 --> 00:26:13,760
Speaker 1: of a trade there you're throw in the sevens.

499
00:26:13,800 --> 00:26:15,800
Speaker 6: But I mean, it really isn't a big trade.

500
00:26:15,840 --> 00:26:18,280
Speaker 1: And I think it was a great trade by Philadelphia

501
00:26:18,359 --> 00:26:19,840
Speaker 1: and by how he I don't know how he keeps

502
00:26:19,840 --> 00:26:20,600
Speaker 1: pulling those off.

503
00:26:20,640 --> 00:26:23,199
Speaker 6: But I think you have a great value on this.

504
00:26:23,280 --> 00:26:25,440
Speaker 2: But if you're Bill Belichick and you're gonna come back,

505
00:26:25,880 --> 00:26:29,200
Speaker 2: it's pretty clear it's impossible to be the GM and

506
00:26:29,240 --> 00:26:32,800
Speaker 2: the head coach again. You need help, right, you need

507
00:26:32,800 --> 00:26:35,600
Speaker 2: someone to support you. Andy Reid did that when he

508
00:26:35,600 --> 00:26:37,680
Speaker 2: went to Kansas City, and who's one of Bill's best

509
00:26:37,680 --> 00:26:40,200
Speaker 2: friends in the league, Andy Reid went did Andy Reid

510
00:26:40,240 --> 00:26:42,360
Speaker 2: shoot like a rocket ship? And He's like, you know what,

511
00:26:42,480 --> 00:26:44,560
Speaker 2: I'm just gonna coach the team. I need someone I

512
00:26:44,560 --> 00:26:46,640
Speaker 2: can trust, and he had John Dorsey who known forever,

513
00:26:46,680 --> 00:26:49,400
Speaker 2: and then Brett Beach who's also known forever. Very comfortable.

514
00:26:49,760 --> 00:26:52,800
Speaker 2: You need someone who's good at that job. Well, what's Bill?

515
00:26:52,840 --> 00:26:56,800
Speaker 2: A big believer in value? You see Ceedee Lamb sign

516
00:26:56,880 --> 00:26:59,680
Speaker 2: this contract. Bill never did shit like that, Wait last

517
00:26:59,680 --> 00:27:03,199
Speaker 2: minute pay premiums like he hated that crack. So a

518
00:27:03,200 --> 00:27:08,359
Speaker 2: lot of people Dallas Bill Belichick don't see it because one,

519
00:27:08,560 --> 00:27:10,280
Speaker 2: even if he doesn't want to be the GM, and

520
00:27:10,320 --> 00:27:12,800
Speaker 2: he doesn't have a choice with Jerry, he doesn't like

521
00:27:12,840 --> 00:27:15,760
Speaker 2: doing business like that. The other team that I've thought

522
00:27:15,840 --> 00:27:18,600
Speaker 2: is like, well he's worked for the Giants right back

523
00:27:18,600 --> 00:27:20,520
Speaker 2: in the day, maybe as a soft spot for that.

524
00:27:20,800 --> 00:27:23,600
Speaker 2: They have no situation with their GM. That guy's completely

525
00:27:23,600 --> 00:27:27,639
Speaker 2: over his head. Well you got Howie Roseman, who is

526
00:27:27,680 --> 00:27:31,480
Speaker 2: an excellent drafter and who's excellent with value, who can

527
00:27:31,520 --> 00:27:34,159
Speaker 2: handle all that, and they have a team with a

528
00:27:34,160 --> 00:27:37,199
Speaker 2: lot of talent. So if that job does become available,

529
00:27:37,520 --> 00:27:40,680
Speaker 2: because the other thing I'd heard, and this is kind

530
00:27:40,680 --> 00:27:43,520
Speaker 2: of well documented, like they were very serious about Bill

531
00:27:43,920 --> 00:27:47,119
Speaker 2: if they had moved on from Sirianni. And I wonder

532
00:27:47,160 --> 00:27:49,800
Speaker 2: when you listen to those words like Bill respects this guy.

533
00:27:50,520 --> 00:27:52,719
Speaker 2: Bill ain't just getting on his knees and you know,

534
00:27:53,400 --> 00:27:57,000
Speaker 2: circle jerking everybody. That's not really his style. And if

535
00:27:57,040 --> 00:28:00,119
Speaker 2: you listen to that, you know his thirty minute. So

536
00:28:00,080 --> 00:28:02,440
Speaker 2: with McAfee, only couple guys. He gave a lot of

537
00:28:02,480 --> 00:28:06,680
Speaker 2: credit to Chiefs Eagles trade. I mean, he's not exactly

538
00:28:06,720 --> 00:28:10,399
Speaker 2: thrown around compliments. So this is something to keep an

539
00:28:10,400 --> 00:28:12,440
Speaker 2: eye on. Now you know where I've stood. I thought

540
00:28:12,480 --> 00:28:15,240
Speaker 2: Kellen Moore is a real player, and I do believe that,

541
00:28:16,000 --> 00:28:18,520
Speaker 2: But I also think Belichick's a real player, and I

542
00:28:18,560 --> 00:28:21,680
Speaker 2: think that would be difficult if the opportunity does present itself.

543
00:28:22,359 --> 00:28:25,480
Speaker 2: How serious the Eagles got there, because I think the

544
00:28:25,600 --> 00:28:28,760
Speaker 2: relationship with Howie just running all the deals and Bill

545
00:28:29,000 --> 00:28:31,439
Speaker 2: just focusing on coaching the team and working hand in

546
00:28:31,440 --> 00:28:34,800
Speaker 2: hand with him is pretty viable. The other thing that

547
00:28:34,840 --> 00:28:38,520
Speaker 2: he said that I had never thought about or heard. Now,

548
00:28:38,600 --> 00:28:42,080
Speaker 2: I'm not some special teams guru and texting people about

549
00:28:42,080 --> 00:28:48,000
Speaker 2: it because I really don't care. Bill Belichick equated the

550
00:28:48,040 --> 00:28:52,520
Speaker 2: new kickoff rule to golf. He believes you should have

551
00:28:52,600 --> 00:28:56,720
Speaker 2: done the same kickoff, but just move it back. Well

552
00:28:56,720 --> 00:29:00,440
Speaker 2: in golf up until the last fifteen to twenty years long.

553
00:29:00,520 --> 00:29:02,760
Speaker 2: Hitters hit it two hundred and seventy yards, a lot

554
00:29:02,800 --> 00:29:05,240
Speaker 2: of guys on the PGA Tour in the eighties and seventies.

555
00:29:05,280 --> 00:29:07,680
Speaker 2: Because of the equipment, we're hitting it drives two hundred

556
00:29:07,680 --> 00:29:10,520
Speaker 2: and fifty yards, So a part four there was four

557
00:29:10,560 --> 00:29:13,239
Speaker 2: hundred yards. If you hit it two fifty you got

558
00:29:13,240 --> 00:29:15,520
Speaker 2: another one hundred and fifty yards in. But if a

559
00:29:15,520 --> 00:29:18,160
Speaker 2: part four hundred and fifty yards are Rory McIlroy's playing it,

560
00:29:18,920 --> 00:29:21,280
Speaker 2: or Bryson d Chambau or Scotti Scheffler, they have a

561
00:29:21,320 --> 00:29:24,960
Speaker 2: flip wedgend. It's a different sport. So what they have

562
00:29:25,160 --> 00:29:29,440
Speaker 2: done to challenge players in the sport of golf is

563
00:29:29,480 --> 00:29:34,120
Speaker 2: they've elongated the course. They've pushed the teas back to

564
00:29:34,240 --> 00:29:36,400
Speaker 2: make instead of four hundred and ten yard part fours,

565
00:29:36,600 --> 00:29:38,960
Speaker 2: four hundred and ninety yard poart furs or five hundred

566
00:29:39,040 --> 00:29:42,560
Speaker 2: yard part fours where just a little more challenging given

567
00:29:42,560 --> 00:29:44,640
Speaker 2: the equipment and given how far these guys are hitting it.

568
00:29:45,520 --> 00:29:48,480
Speaker 2: And Bill essentially thinks this kickoff rule is stupid because

569
00:29:49,080 --> 00:29:51,600
Speaker 2: the everyone did it in the preseason. Why there were

570
00:29:51,600 --> 00:29:54,440
Speaker 2: no stakes, and he he thought that a lot of

571
00:29:54,480 --> 00:29:56,880
Speaker 2: coaches just went to the other coach like, no matter what,

572
00:29:56,960 --> 00:29:58,520
Speaker 2: don't kick it out of the end zone. Let's both

573
00:29:58,600 --> 00:30:01,640
Speaker 2: practice this and everyone when it was on board, But

574
00:30:01,720 --> 00:30:04,200
Speaker 2: in the regular season games, every single person will just

575
00:30:04,280 --> 00:30:06,240
Speaker 2: kick it through the end zone because it's not worth

576
00:30:06,280 --> 00:30:07,720
Speaker 2: And we've seen a couple. There was one in the

577
00:30:07,760 --> 00:30:10,440
Speaker 2: Niner game. There was one I forget the other game

578
00:30:10,440 --> 00:30:13,640
Speaker 2: that had happened. But I initially thought that, like go

579
00:30:13,720 --> 00:30:15,440
Speaker 2: up the middle, there'd be a lot of action. The

580
00:30:15,480 --> 00:30:17,960
Speaker 2: action's on the edges and if you can get a

581
00:30:18,000 --> 00:30:21,120
Speaker 2: close off block, you can get to the fifty pretty quickly.

582
00:30:21,520 --> 00:30:23,640
Speaker 2: And if that happens once a game, it is not

583
00:30:23,760 --> 00:30:26,440
Speaker 2: worth it. So are a lot of these teams just

584
00:30:26,480 --> 00:30:28,080
Speaker 2: going to kick it out of the end zone and

585
00:30:28,160 --> 00:30:30,560
Speaker 2: just basically wave the white flag to the thirty yard

586
00:30:30,600 --> 00:30:33,560
Speaker 2: line because that's what Bill Belichick thought they were going

587
00:30:33,640 --> 00:30:37,760
Speaker 2: to do. He wished, and I agree with this. Push

588
00:30:37,800 --> 00:30:40,040
Speaker 2: the ball back instead of kicking it off at the

589
00:30:40,120 --> 00:30:43,280
Speaker 2: thirty five, push it back fifteen yards. So it's basically

590
00:30:43,320 --> 00:30:45,959
Speaker 2: impossible to kick it out of the end zone, and

591
00:30:46,240 --> 00:30:48,520
Speaker 2: at best, your guy's going to get it to like

592
00:30:48,520 --> 00:30:51,160
Speaker 2: the goal line and have the old school returns. Now,

593
00:30:51,160 --> 00:30:53,880
Speaker 2: the pushback from Roger in the league is we're trying

594
00:30:53,880 --> 00:30:57,800
Speaker 2: to take out the collisions in this and like, we

595
00:30:57,840 --> 00:31:00,480
Speaker 2: don't want the concussions in that play and we want action.

596
00:31:01,200 --> 00:31:03,040
Speaker 2: But if everyone's just kicking out of the end zone

597
00:31:03,040 --> 00:31:05,120
Speaker 2: with a new kickoff rule, are we not gonna get

598
00:31:05,160 --> 00:31:08,000
Speaker 2: any action? Because I know this the forty nine ers,

599
00:31:08,000 --> 00:31:11,200
Speaker 2: who are for being a good team, their special teams

600
00:31:11,240 --> 00:31:14,800
Speaker 2: is historically just bad. They drafted a kicker last year

601
00:31:14,840 --> 00:31:17,000
Speaker 2: in the fourth round from Michigan with a big leg.

602
00:31:17,880 --> 00:31:20,120
Speaker 2: I'll promise to Kyle Shanahan's gonna say kick it is.

603
00:31:20,200 --> 00:31:22,280
Speaker 2: Their defense is good. Kick it out of the end

604
00:31:22,360 --> 00:31:24,800
Speaker 2: zone every play. And I think a lot of other

605
00:31:24,840 --> 00:31:27,760
Speaker 2: teams are gonna fall under that quickly because I said forever,

606
00:31:27,800 --> 00:31:29,120
Speaker 2: like the new kickoff rule is like, ah, this is

607
00:31:29,120 --> 00:31:32,360
Speaker 2: gonna be sweet. Well, why wouldn't you just put if

608
00:31:32,360 --> 00:31:35,200
Speaker 2: a ty game Tyreek Hill back there or Deebo Samuel

609
00:31:35,240 --> 00:31:39,600
Speaker 2: back there or whoever back there who's really good and explosive.

610
00:31:40,400 --> 00:31:42,920
Speaker 2: And Bill's like, yeah, the moment they do that, the

611
00:31:43,000 --> 00:31:44,760
Speaker 2: last thing you would ever do is kick it to

612
00:31:44,800 --> 00:31:48,320
Speaker 2: that guy. So I do wonder if this kickoff rule,

613
00:31:48,360 --> 00:31:51,600
Speaker 2: which was kind of exciting, I enjoyed watching it in

614
00:31:51,640 --> 00:31:55,080
Speaker 2: the preseason because everyone was actually just trying to follow

615
00:31:55,120 --> 00:31:57,640
Speaker 2: the rules and kick it in the little box. If

616
00:31:57,640 --> 00:32:01,760
Speaker 2: that stops happening, we're gonna get the same result as

617
00:32:01,800 --> 00:32:03,920
Speaker 2: previous years. Is gonna look different the moment they kick

618
00:32:03,960 --> 00:32:06,160
Speaker 2: it off, but at the end of the day, it's

619
00:32:06,200 --> 00:32:08,880
Speaker 2: just gonna start five years more, five yards more forward,

620
00:32:09,200 --> 00:32:10,640
Speaker 2: or I guess four if it used to started the

621
00:32:10,640 --> 00:32:14,720
Speaker 2: twenty if you kicked out of the Enzo the cutdowns.

622
00:32:15,440 --> 00:32:17,959
Speaker 2: Like most people when they first get hired in the NFL,

623
00:32:18,240 --> 00:32:21,920
Speaker 2: the one of your roles during training camp is to

624
00:32:22,000 --> 00:32:25,320
Speaker 2: be the turk, which I just call it that because

625
00:32:25,360 --> 00:32:27,000
Speaker 2: that's what they call it in Hard Knocks back in

626
00:32:27,000 --> 00:32:30,400
Speaker 2: two thousand and Basically, the majority of gms in the

627
00:32:30,480 --> 00:32:34,680
Speaker 2: NFL have done this role. The majority of scouts at

628
00:32:34,680 --> 00:32:37,160
Speaker 2: one point in time in their career have done this role,

629
00:32:37,920 --> 00:32:42,880
Speaker 2: and it sucks. Right now. It's a lot different than

630
00:32:42,880 --> 00:32:44,640
Speaker 2: when I was in the league because there were two

631
00:32:44,680 --> 00:32:48,080
Speaker 2: separate cutdowns. It was only eighty instead of ninety, and

632
00:32:48,120 --> 00:32:50,400
Speaker 2: then you went from like eighty to seventy and seventy

633
00:32:50,400 --> 00:32:53,000
Speaker 2: from fifty three. Now you essentially just go from ninety

634
00:32:53,080 --> 00:32:55,920
Speaker 2: to fifty three, and that's a lot of guys. So

635
00:32:56,480 --> 00:32:59,120
Speaker 2: some players have a pretty good idea I got no shot.

636
00:32:59,360 --> 00:33:03,120
Speaker 2: But it's a difficult moment for a lot of people. Now,

637
00:33:03,160 --> 00:33:06,520
Speaker 2: the good part is is like for all of us,

638
00:33:06,720 --> 00:33:11,000
Speaker 2: life is not about where you start. Where you start

639
00:33:11,320 --> 00:33:14,560
Speaker 2: and going through rough times. I've been fired a couple times.

640
00:33:14,760 --> 00:33:16,800
Speaker 2: I'm sure many people listening to this have been let

641
00:33:16,800 --> 00:33:19,320
Speaker 2: go from a job, have been part of a part

642
00:33:19,320 --> 00:33:21,800
Speaker 2: of a company that went belly up. Maybe you started

643
00:33:21,840 --> 00:33:25,880
Speaker 2: a company that went bankrupt. You got two options. Either

644
00:33:25,920 --> 00:33:28,760
Speaker 2: sulk about it or you realize the sun comes up

645
00:33:28,760 --> 00:33:31,400
Speaker 2: the next day and you keep swinging and you learn

646
00:33:31,480 --> 00:33:35,320
Speaker 2: from those situations. So a lot of guys that were

647
00:33:35,400 --> 00:33:38,320
Speaker 2: drafted over the last couple of years will be cut

648
00:33:38,360 --> 00:33:43,360
Speaker 2: on Tuesday. They will be added to the practice squad.

649
00:33:43,600 --> 00:33:45,960
Speaker 2: And the best part about the practice squad is one

650
00:33:46,120 --> 00:33:50,720
Speaker 2: it's eligible to basically everybody now and there are sixteen spots. Well,

651
00:33:50,760 --> 00:33:52,880
Speaker 2: the season has never been longer. They added a game,

652
00:33:52,920 --> 00:33:55,520
Speaker 2: and we know they're going to add another game. Is

653
00:33:55,560 --> 00:33:58,520
Speaker 2: that you are one step away from being active on

654
00:33:58,560 --> 00:34:01,640
Speaker 2: game day, even if you're on the practice squad. But

655
00:34:01,680 --> 00:34:03,960
Speaker 2: when you get cut, like when you get fired or

656
00:34:03,960 --> 00:34:06,400
Speaker 2: when you go belly up or when you go bankrupt,

657
00:34:06,640 --> 00:34:08,840
Speaker 2: you get to realize, like, what did I do wrong?

658
00:34:09,480 --> 00:34:12,000
Speaker 2: What do I need to improve at? How do I

659
00:34:12,120 --> 00:34:14,719
Speaker 2: get better? Because that team goes Listen, you're not gonna

660
00:34:14,719 --> 00:34:17,120
Speaker 2: make the fifty three. We want you on the practice squad.

661
00:34:17,560 --> 00:34:20,680
Speaker 2: You need to do a B and C to help

662
00:34:20,719 --> 00:34:22,880
Speaker 2: our team, and we need you to get better at

663
00:34:22,880 --> 00:34:25,880
Speaker 2: this that and if you show that we have a

664
00:34:25,880 --> 00:34:28,000
Speaker 2: lot of belief in you, We've invested a draft pick

665
00:34:28,400 --> 00:34:31,000
Speaker 2: for you. We think there's a spot for you with

666
00:34:31,040 --> 00:34:34,440
Speaker 2: this team. It could be week one if you're the

667
00:34:34,480 --> 00:34:38,880
Speaker 2: guard or linebacker whoever on the practice squad, that linebacker

668
00:34:38,920 --> 00:34:43,360
Speaker 2: breaks his arm that you know, uh, corner pulls a hammy,

669
00:34:43,920 --> 00:34:46,400
Speaker 2: all of a sudden he's out. Well, what happens. The

670
00:34:46,400 --> 00:34:49,960
Speaker 2: backup becomes a starter, The practice squad guy gets elevated

671
00:34:50,000 --> 00:34:53,160
Speaker 2: to the active roster, and boom, you're automatically playing on

672
00:34:53,160 --> 00:34:56,160
Speaker 2: special teams and you're a rolled ankle away in week

673
00:34:56,200 --> 00:34:59,880
Speaker 2: two from being on the field on defense or O.

674
00:35:01,040 --> 00:35:04,279
Speaker 2: So I would say it used to be a lot

675
00:35:04,320 --> 00:35:06,680
Speaker 2: more negative to be cut because when I was in

676
00:35:06,680 --> 00:35:09,880
Speaker 2: the league, the practice squad restrictions were really, really harsh.

677
00:35:10,440 --> 00:35:12,759
Speaker 2: And they were very punitive for young players who had

678
00:35:12,800 --> 00:35:16,040
Speaker 2: already played. So if you had already played, you were

679
00:35:16,040 --> 00:35:18,360
Speaker 2: like a seventh round pick on a bad team and

680
00:35:18,400 --> 00:35:20,239
Speaker 2: you had got a bunch of action in the regular season.

681
00:35:20,280 --> 00:35:24,080
Speaker 2: Your practic squad eligibility was gone last couple years. Jason

682
00:35:24,120 --> 00:35:26,439
Speaker 2: Peter's like forty one years old. He's been on practic squad.

683
00:35:26,440 --> 00:35:29,600
Speaker 2: So it's incredible you have your practice quad eligibility does

684
00:35:29,680 --> 00:35:32,880
Speaker 2: not run out. I'm sure there are some stipulations, but

685
00:35:33,320 --> 00:35:35,880
Speaker 2: not many of Jason Peters can be on practic squad.

686
00:35:36,040 --> 00:35:38,640
Speaker 2: So the opportunity to go on a practice squad, if

687
00:35:38,640 --> 00:35:41,400
Speaker 2: this team used a draft pick on you and invested

688
00:35:41,440 --> 00:35:44,560
Speaker 2: in you, I would work my ever loving ass off

689
00:35:44,560 --> 00:35:47,400
Speaker 2: because the difference of it's it's a big financial difference.

690
00:35:48,120 --> 00:35:50,080
Speaker 2: There's a big difference between making one hundred and sixty

691
00:35:50,080 --> 00:35:53,239
Speaker 2: grand and making a million dollars. But you are so

692
00:35:53,480 --> 00:35:57,960
Speaker 2: close and you're still, you know, in the fire. It's

693
00:35:58,000 --> 00:36:00,680
Speaker 2: not like you're removed from it. It's not like you're fired,

694
00:36:00,719 --> 00:36:05,680
Speaker 2: you're done, you got no shot. So I think it'll

695
00:36:05,719 --> 00:36:07,160
Speaker 2: be a big deal when you see the list of

696
00:36:07,160 --> 00:36:10,040
Speaker 2: all these guys getting cut, But it does not determine.

697
00:36:10,160 --> 00:36:12,919
Speaker 2: We see how many guys get cut in their first

698
00:36:13,000 --> 00:36:14,880
Speaker 2: or second year and go on to have long careers

699
00:36:15,280 --> 00:36:18,759
Speaker 2: eventually get a big contract. Happens all the time in

700
00:36:18,800 --> 00:36:22,800
Speaker 2: this league. Okay, a couple other NFL stories I saw today.

701
00:36:22,880 --> 00:36:26,600
Speaker 2: Jeremy Fowler on ESPN kind of went viral. In forty

702
00:36:26,680 --> 00:36:30,200
Speaker 2: nine or Land said that Trent Williams will not end

703
00:36:30,239 --> 00:36:36,800
Speaker 2: his holdout until they figure out his contract situation. Well, yeah, no, shit,

704
00:36:37,239 --> 00:36:40,719
Speaker 2: isn't that why he's been holding out? Like, how is

705
00:36:40,719 --> 00:36:44,640
Speaker 2: that news? He's holding out four more money and he

706
00:36:44,680 --> 00:36:47,239
Speaker 2: won't end the holdout until he gets more money. That's

707
00:36:47,400 --> 00:36:51,480
Speaker 2: literally what's going on. That's what he's been doing. I

708
00:36:51,520 --> 00:36:53,319
Speaker 2: love it when something like that said is like, oh

709
00:36:53,360 --> 00:36:56,799
Speaker 2: my god, he just said what's literally been happening for

710
00:36:56,840 --> 00:36:59,680
Speaker 2: the last thirty plus days. Now, pressure on the Niners.

711
00:37:00,080 --> 00:37:02,120
Speaker 2: Time to get this thing done. Time to get Trent

712
00:37:02,160 --> 00:37:05,520
Speaker 2: Williams taken care of, get him in camp. You got

713
00:37:05,520 --> 00:37:09,080
Speaker 2: no choice because you need him and he's got leverage.

714
00:37:09,320 --> 00:37:12,600
Speaker 2: But yeah, he wasn't just gonna show up because he

715
00:37:12,840 --> 00:37:15,560
Speaker 2: didn't want to take part in some practices. He wants

716
00:37:15,800 --> 00:37:19,760
Speaker 2: more money, and based on these other contracts, he deserves

717
00:37:19,760 --> 00:37:26,560
Speaker 2: more money. I think the Patriots man are just I

718
00:37:26,600 --> 00:37:28,480
Speaker 2: said this a couple of weeks ago, when Drake May

719
00:37:28,520 --> 00:37:32,240
Speaker 2: barely played in the first preseason game. You signed Jacoby Brissett,

720
00:37:32,920 --> 00:37:36,080
Speaker 2: who's thirty one years old, who's played in a lot

721
00:37:36,080 --> 00:37:39,520
Speaker 2: of regular season games. These your team's not gonna be

722
00:37:39,560 --> 00:37:43,600
Speaker 2: any good. He does not need preseason reps. It made

723
00:37:43,680 --> 00:37:46,759
Speaker 2: no sense to not give all the reps I get.

724
00:37:47,040 --> 00:37:49,239
Speaker 2: Plays Zappy a little bit, try to increase maybe get

725
00:37:49,239 --> 00:37:52,720
Speaker 2: his trade value, but playing obviously, Drake May and Milton

726
00:37:52,760 --> 00:37:55,160
Speaker 2: play your young guys. Let them get reps now, because

727
00:37:55,160 --> 00:37:57,440
Speaker 2: ideally they're not gonna have to play in the regular

728
00:37:57,440 --> 00:37:59,840
Speaker 2: season game for a while while you suck and Jacoby

729
00:37:59,880 --> 00:38:05,160
Speaker 2: is sacrificial lamp Well, Sunday football happened. I turned it

730
00:38:05,200 --> 00:38:06,880
Speaker 2: on a little late, and Drake May was already in

731
00:38:06,920 --> 00:38:09,760
Speaker 2: the game. Then they showed Jacoby Brissett and he's injured,

732
00:38:11,000 --> 00:38:16,359
Speaker 2: and I just went, what are these idiots doing? I

733
00:38:16,400 --> 00:38:20,040
Speaker 2: think the Patriots have no clue what's going on, honestly none.

734
00:38:20,800 --> 00:38:25,480
Speaker 2: Someone could have said, like, listen, Jacoby Brissette was signed

735
00:38:25,560 --> 00:38:29,640
Speaker 2: simply to be a placeholder for Drake May. He's gonna

736
00:38:29,680 --> 00:38:31,520
Speaker 2: get hurt more and likely in a regular season game

737
00:38:31,560 --> 00:38:34,920
Speaker 2: because our O line sucks. This is not some twenty

738
00:38:34,920 --> 00:38:37,760
Speaker 2: four year old bridge. This guy who's over thirty, who's

739
00:38:37,800 --> 00:38:40,360
Speaker 2: played a lot of football. Let's just wait till the

740
00:38:40,360 --> 00:38:43,320
Speaker 2: regular season to plan. And if our timing is a

741
00:38:43,320 --> 00:38:46,239
Speaker 2: little off, who cares for him to get hurt in

742
00:38:46,239 --> 00:38:48,040
Speaker 2: a preseason game and it might be nothing. What we'll

743
00:38:48,080 --> 00:38:51,279
Speaker 2: see is more information comes out. This feels like a

744
00:38:51,280 --> 00:38:54,799
Speaker 2: team that just has no direction. And if if he

745
00:38:54,880 --> 00:38:56,799
Speaker 2: is injured and they gotta throw Drake May out there,

746
00:38:56,840 --> 00:39:00,239
Speaker 2: who got some talent. I like Drake May, he might

747
00:39:00,280 --> 00:39:03,840
Speaker 2: get murdered because that offensive line is gonna be the

748
00:39:03,840 --> 00:39:07,960
Speaker 2: worst in the NFL. And luckily he can move. But

749
00:39:08,120 --> 00:39:11,520
Speaker 2: that was not the plan. The plan was to sit them,

750
00:39:11,920 --> 00:39:14,319
Speaker 2: and they execute that plan by paying ten million dollars

751
00:39:14,360 --> 00:39:17,200
Speaker 2: to a bridge quarterback. Then to get him hurt in

752
00:39:17,280 --> 00:39:21,600
Speaker 2: a meaningless game on Sunday Night football. It's kind of

753
00:39:21,600 --> 00:39:24,840
Speaker 2: an embarrassment, honestly. A lot of guys headed to PUP

754
00:39:25,239 --> 00:39:27,319
Speaker 2: right If you're not healthy right now and you go

755
00:39:27,400 --> 00:39:30,800
Speaker 2: to PUP, you've got a minimum miss the first month

756
00:39:30,800 --> 00:39:33,239
Speaker 2: of the season, so that can be a big block.

757
00:39:33,440 --> 00:39:35,799
Speaker 2: Some guys aren't as shocking as others. Like I saw

758
00:39:36,239 --> 00:39:38,880
Speaker 2: Nick Chubb going to going to pup, Well, yeah, his

759
00:39:39,000 --> 00:39:42,560
Speaker 2: leg got snapped about seven different directions. Guy, he's gonna

760
00:39:42,560 --> 00:39:44,840
Speaker 2: be ready for week one. Then there are the guys

761
00:39:44,880 --> 00:39:47,840
Speaker 2: that maybe tore acls or whatever early in the season.

762
00:39:48,280 --> 00:39:50,279
Speaker 2: Are you comfortable with where they're at because they got

763
00:39:50,280 --> 00:39:53,040
Speaker 2: to take a fifty three man spot. A lot of

764
00:39:53,080 --> 00:39:56,000
Speaker 2: hard conversations right now are happening in all these buildings

765
00:39:56,400 --> 00:39:58,480
Speaker 2: as they're kind of putting their roster together even though

766
00:39:58,520 --> 00:40:01,520
Speaker 2: they've known. But I need to go ahead from your doctor.

767
00:40:01,560 --> 00:40:04,239
Speaker 2: You gotta feel like talk to the player. And some

768
00:40:04,280 --> 00:40:06,279
Speaker 2: of these guys go on pump might not want to

769
00:40:06,280 --> 00:40:08,040
Speaker 2: go on pump. They think they're a little closer. But

770
00:40:08,080 --> 00:40:09,920
Speaker 2: maybe you feel more comfortable with the guy that's been

771
00:40:09,960 --> 00:40:12,560
Speaker 2: out there during training camp, and then you go give

772
00:40:12,600 --> 00:40:14,799
Speaker 2: that guy basically an extra month to keep rehabbing and

773
00:40:14,840 --> 00:40:19,400
Speaker 2: practicing to make the transition. But that's a huge conversation

774
00:40:19,520 --> 00:40:21,120
Speaker 2: going on right now, because if you put the guy there,

775
00:40:21,719 --> 00:40:23,719
Speaker 2: you can't bring him in week two, like it kind

776
00:40:23,719 --> 00:40:25,920
Speaker 2: of is set for a while. And then last but

777
00:40:26,000 --> 00:40:28,640
Speaker 2: not least, And this I was gonna say, this leads

778
00:40:28,640 --> 00:40:32,160
Speaker 2: into my spicy take. But this is separate from that

779
00:40:32,160 --> 00:40:36,759
Speaker 2: that the Ravens Joe Diasat I don't they'd call him

780
00:40:36,800 --> 00:40:41,160
Speaker 2: Joe d Their offensive line coach, passed away over the weekend,

781
00:40:42,160 --> 00:40:44,640
Speaker 2: and he had been with the Ravens since twenty seventeen.

782
00:40:44,680 --> 00:40:50,239
Speaker 2: He was seventy years old. Just in a vacuum. That's

783
00:40:50,280 --> 00:40:54,520
Speaker 2: just awful. I mean, losing anyone's life. It's seventy in

784
00:40:54,560 --> 00:40:56,879
Speaker 2: twenty twenty four. Like to me, seventy is kind of young.

785
00:40:57,880 --> 00:41:03,040
Speaker 2: Had an acute illness diagnosed over the summer. Clearly bad

786
00:41:03,080 --> 00:41:08,640
Speaker 2: stuff happened quick and he died. And I think that

787
00:41:08,680 --> 00:41:13,919
Speaker 2: can be a huge, huge, powerful moment in a bad way. One.

788
00:41:14,120 --> 00:41:18,800
Speaker 2: You can't replace your offensive line coach, right, that's that's irreplaceable.

789
00:41:19,400 --> 00:41:22,200
Speaker 2: It's going into week one. But this is a guy

790
00:41:22,239 --> 00:41:25,760
Speaker 2: that's been there since twenty seventeen. So all these offensive linemen,

791
00:41:25,840 --> 00:41:30,360
Speaker 2: the homegrown guys, all your offensive players from Lamar to

792
00:41:30,400 --> 00:41:33,400
Speaker 2: Mark Andrews, think how much time they have spent around

793
00:41:33,400 --> 00:41:35,719
Speaker 2: this human. I mean you could tell John Harbaugh, who

794
00:41:35,719 --> 00:41:38,120
Speaker 2: tried to keep a professionals pretty rattled by this, and

795
00:41:38,160 --> 00:41:43,360
Speaker 2: rightfully so did one overall take. I have just I

796
00:41:43,400 --> 00:41:45,279
Speaker 2: think the AFC North is not going to be as good.

797
00:41:45,760 --> 00:41:48,759
Speaker 2: And I think specifically looking at the Ravens, like you

798
00:41:48,800 --> 00:41:51,839
Speaker 2: lose your defensive coordinator, you elevate a guy who's never

799
00:41:51,880 --> 00:41:55,120
Speaker 2: called defensive plays, and then you have something like this

800
00:41:55,239 --> 00:41:58,360
Speaker 2: happened that this is a heavy thing that you carry

801
00:41:58,400 --> 00:42:02,600
Speaker 2: with you, Like this is someone that you your coaching staff,

802
00:42:02,640 --> 00:42:05,920
Speaker 2: your team, your front office. Like football buildings are not

803
00:42:06,000 --> 00:42:10,040
Speaker 2: that big. There are fifteen to twenty coaches, they're sixty

804
00:42:10,080 --> 00:42:13,480
Speaker 2: to sixty five players, training staff, equipment staff. Like everyone

805
00:42:13,520 --> 00:42:17,319
Speaker 2: knows each other intimately knows your wives, knows where you live,

806
00:42:17,640 --> 00:42:22,000
Speaker 2: like you just spend so much time together. This is hard, man.

807
00:42:22,640 --> 00:42:25,439
Speaker 2: And when I was with the Eagles my last year,

808
00:42:26,160 --> 00:42:31,320
Speaker 2: you know, Andy soon passed away at the in training

809
00:42:31,320 --> 00:42:34,320
Speaker 2: camp and he was working with a strangth coach. Everyone

810
00:42:34,320 --> 00:42:37,400
Speaker 2: in the staff knew him. It's just hard. It's something

811
00:42:37,440 --> 00:42:40,960
Speaker 2: that's hard for a team to shake. And I don't know, man,

812
00:42:41,160 --> 00:42:45,000
Speaker 2: I think this got a chance to just not derail

813
00:42:45,080 --> 00:42:48,000
Speaker 2: the Ravens season, but I already had him taking a

814
00:42:48,000 --> 00:42:50,400
Speaker 2: step back. I think this is hard to overcome. And

815
00:42:50,719 --> 00:42:52,840
Speaker 2: I'm just down on the AFC North in general. So

816
00:42:52,920 --> 00:42:56,680
Speaker 2: like hot take spicy take. I don't think the AFC

817
00:42:56,719 --> 00:42:59,000
Speaker 2: North is gonna be very good. I don't. Obviously, they

818
00:42:59,000 --> 00:43:01,640
Speaker 2: have really good players in the division, some of the

819
00:43:01,640 --> 00:43:04,760
Speaker 2: best players in the league in the division. But the Ravens,

820
00:43:04,960 --> 00:43:07,719
Speaker 2: we just talked about the Browns. I'm sorry. When that's

821
00:43:07,719 --> 00:43:11,799
Speaker 2: your quarterback situation, I'm out. I'm out. The reason that

822
00:43:11,880 --> 00:43:15,120
Speaker 2: they saved their season last year is Joe Flacco who

823
00:43:15,200 --> 00:43:16,960
Speaker 2: was listening to a fantasy podcast or like he had

824
00:43:17,000 --> 00:43:21,720
Speaker 2: one of the great fantasy Decembers last year. The Steelers situation,

825
00:43:22,560 --> 00:43:27,319
Speaker 2: I can't get behind it. The Bengals Jamar Chaseman holding out,

826
00:43:27,400 --> 00:43:30,440
Speaker 2: Joe Burrow can't practice four straight days. So this was

827
00:43:30,480 --> 00:43:32,640
Speaker 2: a division that we all viewed as the best division

828
00:43:32,640 --> 00:43:36,120
Speaker 2: in football coming into the season. Last year, three teams

829
00:43:36,160 --> 00:43:39,160
Speaker 2: made the playoffs. The Ravens were the one seed. The

830
00:43:39,200 --> 00:43:41,520
Speaker 2: Browns were really good. I mean, they won eleven games

831
00:43:41,560 --> 00:43:45,000
Speaker 2: with Flacco playing the majority of it, and the Steelers

832
00:43:45,000 --> 00:43:47,640
Speaker 2: were just their typical ten wins. Like it wouldn't shock

833
00:43:47,680 --> 00:43:49,400
Speaker 2: me if only one team makes the playoffs out of

834
00:43:49,400 --> 00:43:52,799
Speaker 2: this division. I guess you would have to lean with

835
00:43:52,880 --> 00:43:57,320
Speaker 2: the Ravens. But I'm telling you, man, it just feels weird.

836
00:43:57,440 --> 00:44:00,520
Speaker 2: This division feels weird. I don't even even think that's

837
00:44:00,560 --> 00:44:14,200
Speaker 2: really debatable at this point in time. Okay Middlecoff Mailbag

838
00:44:14,239 --> 00:44:17,720
Speaker 2: time at John Middlecoff at John Middlecoff is the Instagram

839
00:44:17,760 --> 00:44:20,120
Speaker 2: fire in those dms, get your question answer here on

840
00:44:20,200 --> 00:44:26,760
Speaker 2: the show. This preseason, the Giants quarterbacks did not throw

841
00:44:27,160 --> 00:44:31,919
Speaker 2: a touchdown for the mailbag Number one pick. You can't

842
00:44:32,000 --> 00:44:37,160
Speaker 2: tell me otherwise, John, I swear I would be hard

843
00:44:37,160 --> 00:44:39,279
Speaker 2: pressed to see the Giants being the number one overall pick.

844
00:44:40,120 --> 00:44:44,680
Speaker 2: I think there could be similarities to last year where

845
00:44:44,680 --> 00:44:47,560
Speaker 2: they're kind of competitive in some games when their quarterback

846
00:44:47,600 --> 00:44:51,359
Speaker 2: plays well, and probably draft somewhere between six and ten.

847
00:44:52,239 --> 00:44:53,960
Speaker 2: I think they are much more likely to be the

848
00:44:54,000 --> 00:44:57,480
Speaker 2: eighth pick than they are the second pick. They have

849
00:44:57,560 --> 00:45:00,960
Speaker 2: a good defense, maybe neighbor goes off in a couple

850
00:45:01,000 --> 00:45:03,440
Speaker 2: of games like I got him in that five to

851
00:45:03,440 --> 00:45:09,120
Speaker 2: six win range. I think the Patriots are gonna be horrendous.

852
00:45:09,640 --> 00:45:11,440
Speaker 2: I don't think the Panthers are gonna be that good.

853
00:45:14,480 --> 00:45:17,080
Speaker 2: I think the Giants. You're gonna have some moments, maybe

854
00:45:17,080 --> 00:45:19,680
Speaker 2: in the first month of the season where fans go, oh,

855
00:45:19,680 --> 00:45:23,440
Speaker 2: we're kind of competitive. Does come down to the quarterback.

856
00:45:23,480 --> 00:45:25,520
Speaker 2: I mean, if they're not gonna throw any touchdown passes,

857
00:45:25,600 --> 00:45:28,600
Speaker 2: you're screwed. But you guys won't be as bad as

858
00:45:28,640 --> 00:45:34,440
Speaker 2: people think. That would be my guess. Question for the mailbag,

859
00:45:35,280 --> 00:45:37,839
Speaker 2: what are your thoughts on the NFL changing the preseason

860
00:45:37,880 --> 00:45:42,040
Speaker 2: cut dates from two dates to one. Why was this

861
00:45:42,160 --> 00:45:47,400
Speaker 2: rule proposed and accepted? Having two cutdown dates benefited players

862
00:45:47,400 --> 00:45:49,759
Speaker 2: on the bubble because they had more time to sign

863
00:45:49,840 --> 00:45:53,880
Speaker 2: with a new team. Wasn't one huge cut day with

864
00:45:53,960 --> 00:45:56,520
Speaker 2: all the movement happening at one time. Now teams go

865
00:45:56,560 --> 00:45:59,120
Speaker 2: from ninety to fifty three at one time, make the

866
00:45:59,120 --> 00:46:03,480
Speaker 2: cut day more difficult the managed signing guys. Well, I

867
00:46:03,520 --> 00:46:08,280
Speaker 2: would disagree. I like this this way. It'd be harder

868
00:46:08,560 --> 00:46:12,640
Speaker 2: if you were a personnel guy watching the guys because

869
00:46:12,680 --> 00:46:15,920
Speaker 2: you have more players at once. But when you cut down,

870
00:46:16,160 --> 00:46:19,960
Speaker 2: I forget, was it ninety I mean eighty to seventy

871
00:46:20,000 --> 00:46:22,600
Speaker 2: and then seventy to fifty three. Those guys that got

872
00:46:22,600 --> 00:46:25,800
Speaker 2: cut in the initial cut down for the most part

873
00:46:26,080 --> 00:46:27,920
Speaker 2: like there was a reason they were getting cut early.

874
00:46:28,200 --> 00:46:30,440
Speaker 2: They weren't good enough, they weren't as good as the

875
00:46:30,440 --> 00:46:32,799
Speaker 2: other guys making the team, or I mean, you know,

876
00:46:32,880 --> 00:46:35,279
Speaker 2: continuing on to the last preseason game. So to me,

877
00:46:35,440 --> 00:46:40,920
Speaker 2: that group usually was pretty irrelevant. Obviously there are examples,

878
00:46:40,960 --> 00:46:45,480
Speaker 2: I'm sure, but I like it more. I like the

879
00:46:45,520 --> 00:46:49,279
Speaker 2: three preseason games more. I like this where you get

880
00:46:49,280 --> 00:46:51,560
Speaker 2: more time going into Week one, you get this whole

881
00:46:51,600 --> 00:46:54,440
Speaker 2: week off, and then you get another normal week leading

882
00:46:54,440 --> 00:46:57,800
Speaker 2: into Week one. I think it's easier on the teams.

883
00:46:58,160 --> 00:47:01,319
Speaker 2: Obviously they changed it because of the but they're never

884
00:47:01,360 --> 00:47:05,520
Speaker 2: going back, and they shouldn't go back, so I think

885
00:47:05,520 --> 00:47:07,360
Speaker 2: they're gonna have to figure it out when they inevitably

886
00:47:07,360 --> 00:47:11,680
Speaker 2: go to two preseason games. How to space out a

887
00:47:11,719 --> 00:47:15,319
Speaker 2: little bit so the league can, you know, kind of evaluate.

888
00:47:16,040 --> 00:47:20,040
Speaker 2: But talk to somebodies that are pro scouts, and they're

889
00:47:20,080 --> 00:47:23,440
Speaker 2: watching hundreds of guys, I mean, right in one hundred

890
00:47:23,480 --> 00:47:27,000
Speaker 2: reports a week, and some of the most of those

891
00:47:27,040 --> 00:47:30,160
Speaker 2: guys will be practice squad. But if you can find

892
00:47:30,200 --> 00:47:32,080
Speaker 2: five or six guys that you really like and pound

893
00:47:32,120 --> 00:47:35,600
Speaker 2: the table for if those are up positions a need

894
00:47:35,600 --> 00:47:37,640
Speaker 2: that maybe your team can claim. I mean, it's a

895
00:47:37,640 --> 00:47:40,560
Speaker 2: big time of year for that type stuff. Question for

896
00:47:40,600 --> 00:47:44,480
Speaker 2: the mailbag, hope I make it straight up. Who had

897
00:47:44,520 --> 00:47:48,920
Speaker 2: a better NFL career farv or Ben love the show.

898
00:47:51,200 --> 00:47:56,520
Speaker 2: Brett farv one three straight MVPs, three straight MVPs. Both

899
00:47:56,560 --> 00:47:59,719
Speaker 2: of them some issues off the field, But if we're

900
00:47:59,719 --> 00:48:03,880
Speaker 2: just fucking player, it ain't even close. And Ben's a

901
00:48:03,920 --> 00:48:06,040
Speaker 2: Hall of Famer. To me, Ben's a first ballot Hall

902
00:48:06,080 --> 00:48:13,600
Speaker 2: of Famer. Farv is I mean, one of the most

903
00:48:13,880 --> 00:48:17,640
Speaker 2: popular athletes of the nineties, one of the most famous

904
00:48:17,680 --> 00:48:21,600
Speaker 2: athletes of the nineties. Roethlisberger was never even viewed as

905
00:48:21,600 --> 00:48:23,840
Speaker 2: like one of the more popular quarterbacks in the league.

906
00:48:24,600 --> 00:48:28,080
Speaker 2: Manning and Brady were in a different world. And then

907
00:48:28,080 --> 00:48:30,359
Speaker 2: once Rogers kind of hit the ground running, like he

908
00:48:30,400 --> 00:48:33,680
Speaker 2: was viewed as a better player. So, and I'm not

909
00:48:33,880 --> 00:48:35,839
Speaker 2: this is not trying to be a criticism of band.

910
00:48:35,880 --> 00:48:38,879
Speaker 2: I loved him as a player. He was elite. Ben

911
00:48:38,880 --> 00:48:43,640
Speaker 2: in his prime was a badass. But this, it's like

912
00:48:43,640 --> 00:48:49,160
Speaker 2: comparing apples and oranges. Three straight MVPs. You know one

913
00:48:49,280 --> 00:48:52,279
Speaker 2: watching that documentary on Steve McNair on Netflix. If you

914
00:48:52,280 --> 00:48:54,719
Speaker 2: haven't seen it, go check it out. I'd forgotten about this,

915
00:48:55,080 --> 00:48:57,160
Speaker 2: not the story. I mean, I knew he was killed

916
00:48:58,400 --> 00:49:01,680
Speaker 2: one you watch the documentary in your real like this

917
00:49:01,760 --> 00:49:05,880
Speaker 2: girl did not kill him, Like no chance she killed them,

918
00:49:06,120 --> 00:49:11,040
Speaker 2: someone killed them both. The other thing, because Maria watches

919
00:49:11,239 --> 00:49:16,560
Speaker 2: so many of these murder shows, one takeaway I have

920
00:49:16,760 --> 00:49:20,799
Speaker 2: unless I never judge anyone's relationship. The only people that

921
00:49:20,960 --> 00:49:24,560
Speaker 2: know how things are going are the two people sleeping

922
00:49:24,560 --> 00:49:27,440
Speaker 2: in that bed every night together. But clearly a lot

923
00:49:27,480 --> 00:49:30,160
Speaker 2: of famous people over the years and just I mean,

924
00:49:30,360 --> 00:49:34,320
Speaker 2: they're not alone people that sleep around when you get older.

925
00:49:34,320 --> 00:49:37,640
Speaker 2: And Steve McNair, even a good buddy in this documentary,

926
00:49:37,680 --> 00:49:41,319
Speaker 2: said like he slept around a lot, And I think

927
00:49:41,360 --> 00:49:44,440
Speaker 2: when you do that, the older you get, you are

928
00:49:44,480 --> 00:49:49,279
Speaker 2: putting yourself in some compromise situations. And I've seen enough

929
00:49:49,360 --> 00:49:52,319
Speaker 2: murder mysteries that Maria's watching, all these different shows of

930
00:49:52,520 --> 00:49:57,640
Speaker 2: dudes losing their life because they're sleeping around. And you

931
00:49:57,680 --> 00:49:59,680
Speaker 2: start sleeping around, you don't know these people. You have

932
00:49:59,719 --> 00:50:02,200
Speaker 2: to be scree you get, especially as you get older,

933
00:50:02,200 --> 00:50:04,440
Speaker 2: you get involved with some younger women, you have no

934
00:50:04,520 --> 00:50:08,000
Speaker 2: fucking clue what they're doing. I have seen three or

935
00:50:08,000 --> 00:50:12,719
Speaker 2: four murder mysteries in twenty twenty four that had parallels

936
00:50:12,840 --> 00:50:16,200
Speaker 2: of this. And listen, I'm not wanting to tell you

937
00:50:16,280 --> 00:50:20,400
Speaker 2: how to live. I don't care. I do not you

938
00:50:20,560 --> 00:50:23,880
Speaker 2: do you I'm not one to pass moral judgments on

939
00:50:23,960 --> 00:50:27,400
Speaker 2: any human being, but like when I see these situations

940
00:50:27,440 --> 00:50:29,600
Speaker 2: of these guys, and I saw it. We watched the

941
00:50:29,600 --> 00:50:33,920
Speaker 2: show on this Fox executive that was sleeping around and

942
00:50:34,000 --> 00:50:37,560
Speaker 2: the ex boyfriend killed him. And in this McNair situation,

943
00:50:37,960 --> 00:50:42,560
Speaker 2: you just put yourself in arms away. Sad story though,

944
00:50:42,640 --> 00:50:44,960
Speaker 2: because his football, like the football stuff in that show,

945
00:50:45,000 --> 00:50:48,160
Speaker 2: You're like, God, this guy was good. I mean he

946
00:50:48,480 --> 00:50:50,839
Speaker 2: was big, he could move, he had a huge arm,

947
00:50:51,200 --> 00:50:54,080
Speaker 2: he was calm in the pocket, he was tough as nails.

948
00:50:55,440 --> 00:50:57,759
Speaker 2: What a baller. One of the great players. I don't

949
00:50:57,760 --> 00:51:00,439
Speaker 2: think we talk about it enough. Won an MVP using

950
00:51:00,520 --> 00:51:03,200
Speaker 2: my daughter's Instagram. Listen to you on the daily in

951
00:51:03,280 --> 00:51:05,440
Speaker 2: regard to your story about your dog in the er.

952
00:51:05,640 --> 00:51:09,040
Speaker 2: My wife works in one in Charleston. Recommend coming out,

953
00:51:09,040 --> 00:51:13,800
Speaker 2: beautiful city, world class golf, kew Island, love to come anyway.

954
00:51:13,880 --> 00:51:15,879
Speaker 2: She tells me stories all the time on the daily

955
00:51:16,000 --> 00:51:20,000
Speaker 2: of people dropping thousands and weekly ten thousand dollars on

956
00:51:20,120 --> 00:51:24,239
Speaker 2: their pets, and that her company, a national company, made

957
00:51:24,400 --> 00:51:28,000
Speaker 2: billions last year. It's a boom and market. You know

958
00:51:28,040 --> 00:51:31,160
Speaker 2: what's funny is I had a lot of people I

959
00:51:31,239 --> 00:51:34,120
Speaker 2: think some girlfriends and wives of people that were either

960
00:51:34,320 --> 00:51:36,239
Speaker 2: told about the rant and then listened to the rant,

961
00:51:36,320 --> 00:51:39,200
Speaker 2: came at me and said, it's not the Vet's fault.

962
00:51:39,920 --> 00:51:43,080
Speaker 2: I didn't blame the vet, like I don't go to

963
00:51:43,360 --> 00:51:46,320
Speaker 2: Safeway or Fries and get mad at the butcher that

964
00:51:46,480 --> 00:51:50,400
Speaker 2: the meat is expensive. They're not picking the price points.

965
00:51:51,480 --> 00:51:54,000
Speaker 2: All I said one is I wanted in on the business.

966
00:51:54,480 --> 00:51:57,640
Speaker 2: Like it's if you said, hey, John, the v R

967
00:51:57,760 --> 00:51:59,959
Speaker 2: that you went to, you give them a hundred grand

968
00:52:00,280 --> 00:52:02,879
Speaker 2: to give you a percentage. I would have that check

969
00:52:02,920 --> 00:52:06,880
Speaker 2: written yesterday. I mean it's one of the great businesses

970
00:52:06,920 --> 00:52:10,960
Speaker 2: I've ever seen. Obviously, the hospital business makes a ton too.

971
00:52:11,920 --> 00:52:16,080
Speaker 2: I think it's complicated because your pet that most human

972
00:52:16,200 --> 00:52:20,000
Speaker 2: beings are gonna do everything humanly possible a lot, like

973
00:52:20,000 --> 00:52:23,920
Speaker 2: a family member to keep alive, cannot speak. So when

974
00:52:23,920 --> 00:52:27,359
Speaker 2: you're giving these amounts, which are a lot, it's never

975
00:52:27,480 --> 00:52:29,200
Speaker 2: like I just went it was like twenty seven dollars.

976
00:52:30,320 --> 00:52:32,200
Speaker 2: I was just I had triple A com did nothing.

977
00:52:32,239 --> 00:52:34,320
Speaker 2: It was free. It's like pay my monthly deal, No

978
00:52:34,400 --> 00:52:38,480
Speaker 2: big deal, you go there. I had multiple people reach out,

979
00:52:38,680 --> 00:52:42,279
Speaker 2: like the independent ones, I mean making five to eight

980
00:52:42,400 --> 00:52:44,520
Speaker 2: million dollars a year. I mean they are cash cows

981
00:52:44,800 --> 00:52:48,200
Speaker 2: and rightfully sold my capitalism. I'm pro business here. It's

982
00:52:48,320 --> 00:52:50,000
Speaker 2: just you have no clue and you get this bill.

983
00:52:50,040 --> 00:52:54,200
Speaker 2: You know nothing about your animal can't speak and looks

984
00:52:54,239 --> 00:52:56,640
Speaker 2: like she's gonna live. I mean she's still we haven't

985
00:52:56,680 --> 00:52:59,960
Speaker 2: slept much in the last week. But I'm not blame

986
00:53:00,040 --> 00:53:03,480
Speaker 2: aim in the vets. I don't blame my doctor for

987
00:53:03,600 --> 00:53:07,359
Speaker 2: the for the hospital bill. He's not hospital administration. He's

988
00:53:07,400 --> 00:53:10,560
Speaker 2: not setting the prices. I've been a consistent listener for

989
00:53:10,640 --> 00:53:12,840
Speaker 2: the pod for a couple of years now, appreciate the content.

990
00:53:13,280 --> 00:53:16,920
Speaker 2: With Pete Carroll making his way back to SC I

991
00:53:17,080 --> 00:53:18,799
Speaker 2: was wondering if you ever got the chance to watch

992
00:53:19,160 --> 00:53:24,000
Speaker 2: ESPN thirty for thirty, the Trojan War documentary highlight documentary

993
00:53:24,360 --> 00:53:28,560
Speaker 2: highlighting the rise and collapse of the USC tenure. Also,

994
00:53:28,960 --> 00:53:32,200
Speaker 2: do you believe the NFL he's a lock for an

995
00:53:32,320 --> 00:53:36,000
Speaker 2: NFL Hall of Fame. I think Pete Carroll's a lock, yeah,

996
00:53:37,200 --> 00:53:40,120
Speaker 2: because part of it, which it's the NFL Hall of Fame.

997
00:53:40,239 --> 00:53:42,239
Speaker 2: But like I think USC cemented him. I mean he's

998
00:53:42,280 --> 00:53:45,000
Speaker 2: one of the best, think of the best coach in

999
00:53:45,040 --> 00:53:49,320
Speaker 2: the last twenty five years. Who comes to mind immediately, Belichick, Saban,

1000
00:53:49,360 --> 00:53:53,200
Speaker 2: Andy Reid. I think Pete Carroll's right there, you know,

1001
00:53:53,680 --> 00:53:57,880
Speaker 2: Urban Meyer, Kirby Smart, Pete Carroll. I mean, it's a shortlist,

1002
00:53:58,320 --> 00:54:01,560
Speaker 2: and he's definitely on it now he's the only guy.

1003
00:54:01,960 --> 00:54:03,800
Speaker 2: And I think Jim Harboss throwing his hat in the

1004
00:54:03,880 --> 00:54:06,200
Speaker 2: ring now that he won the national championship, won in

1005
00:54:06,360 --> 00:54:09,880
Speaker 2: college and pro. You know, I think part of I

1006
00:54:11,480 --> 00:54:14,520
Speaker 2: I don't know if I've seen it or not. I

1007
00:54:14,560 --> 00:54:18,279
Speaker 2: don't feel like I have, but I lived it, you know,

1008
00:54:18,920 --> 00:54:21,680
Speaker 2: I lived it living being in college in that era

1009
00:54:22,239 --> 00:54:28,080
Speaker 2: and then going to Fresno state that we recruited, Southern California,

1010
00:54:28,160 --> 00:54:32,120
Speaker 2: So I mean I saw their dominance. But back then,

1011
00:54:32,239 --> 00:54:35,680
Speaker 2: you know, it wasn't legal to cheat, and the stuff

1012
00:54:35,719 --> 00:54:39,319
Speaker 2: that happened was just stupid. But Pete was legit. Pete

1013
00:54:39,400 --> 00:54:43,400
Speaker 2: is legit. It's just kind of sad that, I mean,

1014
00:54:43,440 --> 00:54:45,719
Speaker 2: it ends for everybody. So there's nothing really you can do.

1015
00:54:47,560 --> 00:54:50,920
Speaker 2: Two questions. Why are the NFL players under contract allowed

1016
00:54:50,960 --> 00:54:53,400
Speaker 2: to hold out? If this is now common practice in

1017
00:54:53,440 --> 00:54:56,160
Speaker 2: the NFL, which it seems to be, why even sign

1018
00:54:56,239 --> 00:54:59,520
Speaker 2: a lengthy, big money contract. What does players sitting out

1019
00:54:59,560 --> 00:55:02,400
Speaker 2: to a team and team morale. Seems like Trent Williams

1020
00:55:02,440 --> 00:55:05,480
Speaker 2: for the San Francisco is gonna miss some games. Well,

1021
00:55:05,480 --> 00:55:08,279
Speaker 2: they're not allowed to hold out. Hassan Reddicks then fined

1022
00:55:08,360 --> 00:55:11,719
Speaker 2: fifty k a day. Trent Williams has been fined every day.

1023
00:55:12,640 --> 00:55:15,560
Speaker 2: I don't have the exact dates that they've missed, but

1024
00:55:15,880 --> 00:55:19,319
Speaker 2: do the math. If you miss ten days, that's five

1025
00:55:19,440 --> 00:55:23,719
Speaker 2: hundred grand. Well it's August twenty six. I'm recording this.

1026
00:55:23,880 --> 00:55:28,279
Speaker 2: When did training camp start? July twenty fifth? So I mean,

1027
00:55:28,320 --> 00:55:32,319
Speaker 2: are we talking one point five million dollars? Like they're

1028
00:55:32,320 --> 00:55:37,720
Speaker 2: getting fined? Real money? And a fine is not gross income,

1029
00:55:38,640 --> 00:55:42,560
Speaker 2: it's net income. So if you're making ten million dollars

1030
00:55:42,760 --> 00:55:46,160
Speaker 2: and you know one point five, well you get tax

1031
00:55:46,239 --> 00:55:48,080
Speaker 2: on the ten million dollars. So if you see six

1032
00:55:48,200 --> 00:55:51,439
Speaker 2: million of it, you start doing the math. It gets

1033
00:55:51,520 --> 00:55:54,719
Speaker 2: kind of complicated. Now with players like Ceedee Lamb, you

1034
00:55:54,800 --> 00:55:57,040
Speaker 2: can waive it because they're on the rookie contract. Brandon

1035
00:55:57,040 --> 00:56:00,920
Speaker 2: Ayuk Jamar Chase a little less complicated. I think we're

1036
00:56:00,920 --> 00:56:04,600
Speaker 2: seeing holdouts at a much higher rate because the money

1037
00:56:04,640 --> 00:56:08,600
Speaker 2: we're talking about, and all of us in a position

1038
00:56:08,680 --> 00:56:14,279
Speaker 2: where it's like, hey, you are going to sell this operation, John,

1039
00:56:14,360 --> 00:56:19,120
Speaker 2: this podcast operation for one hundred million dollars. Would you

1040
00:56:19,400 --> 00:56:21,640
Speaker 2: risk doing something to screw that up if you could

1041
00:56:21,680 --> 00:56:26,000
Speaker 2: avoid it? Of course not. It's like anyone listening, whatever

1042
00:56:26,080 --> 00:56:27,799
Speaker 2: business you're in, if I told you you could sell

1043
00:56:27,840 --> 00:56:31,439
Speaker 2: your business for if you're especially small or medium, signed

1044
00:56:31,440 --> 00:56:35,880
Speaker 2: business for one hundred million dollars, guaranteed you would avoid

1045
00:56:36,080 --> 00:56:39,040
Speaker 2: all disasters. Well, their disaster is like if I haven't

1046
00:56:39,040 --> 00:56:41,080
Speaker 2: signed the contract yet and I'm a practice someone falls

1047
00:56:41,120 --> 00:56:43,840
Speaker 2: into my leg, guess what happens in that contract? The

1048
00:56:43,920 --> 00:56:47,160
Speaker 2: owner wipes his ass with it, I mean, gets ripped up,

1049
00:56:47,239 --> 00:56:52,719
Speaker 2: gets shredded, no moss audios. Well it's it's all over.

1050
00:56:53,320 --> 00:56:56,200
Speaker 2: It's not worth it. So I do understand where these

1051
00:56:56,200 --> 00:56:59,640
Speaker 2: guys are coming from. Okay College buddy Nick Right had

1052
00:56:59,680 --> 00:57:01,600
Speaker 2: a common on TV a few weeks ago about the

1053
00:57:01,680 --> 00:57:05,480
Speaker 2: two hottest new teams people are getting behind this upcoming season,

1054
00:57:06,120 --> 00:57:09,520
Speaker 2: the Texans and the Packers. He claimed that if history

1055
00:57:09,520 --> 00:57:12,560
Speaker 2: has taught us anything, one of these teams won't succeed

1056
00:57:12,680 --> 00:57:16,440
Speaker 2: this season, that is, make the playoffs. If you had

1057
00:57:16,480 --> 00:57:18,440
Speaker 2: to bet only on one of these teams to get

1058
00:57:18,480 --> 00:57:20,880
Speaker 2: back where they ended up last season, and make the playoffs.

1059
00:57:20,880 --> 00:57:24,440
Speaker 2: Who would it be? I think one of my bets

1060
00:57:24,520 --> 00:57:30,040
Speaker 2: that I've been circling is I had already kind of I.

1061
00:57:30,200 --> 00:57:34,200
Speaker 2: I was played golf on Saturday, got home, had a

1062
00:57:34,240 --> 00:57:40,440
Speaker 2: few cocktails, was watching Nevada play SMU. I felt a

1063
00:57:40,440 --> 00:57:47,000
Speaker 2: little left out, and I had my second Tito's and watermelon,

1064
00:57:47,200 --> 00:57:50,360
Speaker 2: like you know, a little cocktail mixer, and I was

1065
00:57:50,400 --> 00:57:51,760
Speaker 2: like feeling good. So I was like, you know what,

1066
00:57:52,040 --> 00:57:54,760
Speaker 2: I'll throw a little live bet on this. Nevada was

1067
00:57:54,840 --> 00:57:59,880
Speaker 2: kicking their ass and my producer James text me, as

1068
00:58:00,120 --> 00:58:03,640
Speaker 2: I mean, they're up nine or they're up eleven, it's

1069
00:58:03,680 --> 00:58:07,520
Speaker 2: just cruise control, text me, did you cash out? The

1070
00:58:07,680 --> 00:58:10,200
Speaker 2: moment he text SMU hit a play and we never

1071
00:58:10,240 --> 00:58:13,280
Speaker 2: looked back. And I did not cash out at too.

1072
00:58:13,400 --> 00:58:15,560
Speaker 2: I was going to turn two fifty into twenty six hundred,

1073
00:58:15,920 --> 00:58:17,880
Speaker 2: and I was able to cash out at twenty one hundred.

1074
00:58:17,920 --> 00:58:20,600
Speaker 2: I didn't do it, and then he texted immediately the

1075
00:58:20,680 --> 00:58:24,040
Speaker 2: all time jinks. I've never experienced anything like that. But

1076
00:58:24,160 --> 00:58:27,080
Speaker 2: I had already thought of taking that twenty five twenty

1077
00:58:27,120 --> 00:58:29,360
Speaker 2: six hundred that I was gonna make, and I was

1078
00:58:29,400 --> 00:58:32,200
Speaker 2: going to allocate it, and one of my bets was

1079
00:58:32,240 --> 00:58:33,800
Speaker 2: gonna be. I was gonna put a one thousand on

1080
00:58:33,960 --> 00:58:36,680
Speaker 2: bow Knick's Rookie of the Year. I was going to

1081
00:58:36,800 --> 00:58:40,640
Speaker 2: put one thousand dollars or maybe maybe seven fifty on

1082
00:58:41,040 --> 00:58:43,400
Speaker 2: something on the Saints to make the playoffs, and something

1083
00:58:43,480 --> 00:58:45,680
Speaker 2: on the Houston Texans. You can get them right now

1084
00:58:45,720 --> 00:58:48,960
Speaker 2: with DraftKings eight to one, eight to one to be

1085
00:58:49,040 --> 00:58:54,600
Speaker 2: the number one overall seed. So I don't have that

1086
00:58:54,680 --> 00:58:58,320
Speaker 2: money because it disappeared all time jinks. Nevada lost their

1087
00:58:58,400 --> 00:59:02,400
Speaker 2: quarterback sucks, but still I was cruising to a victory

1088
00:59:03,440 --> 00:59:07,280
Speaker 2: and I didn't place the bet yet because the money

1089
00:59:07,320 --> 00:59:10,000
Speaker 2: didn't come into my account. It left. So I like

1090
00:59:10,080 --> 00:59:12,800
Speaker 2: the Texans a lot, and I think the Packers like.

1091
00:59:12,920 --> 00:59:16,000
Speaker 2: Their defense is always a question mark. This new coordinator

1092
00:59:16,000 --> 00:59:19,160
Speaker 2: who's never been a coordinator in the NFL. I guess

1093
00:59:19,200 --> 00:59:21,400
Speaker 2: a lot of credit for one year at Ohio State

1094
00:59:21,520 --> 00:59:23,520
Speaker 2: being a co coordinator, Like I got news for you,

1095
00:59:23,760 --> 00:59:26,920
Speaker 2: Ohio State's defense most of my life has been fucking awesome.

1096
00:59:27,920 --> 00:59:29,600
Speaker 2: So it's like most people that go there to be

1097
00:59:29,680 --> 00:59:32,320
Speaker 2: the coordinator succeed. Is it gonna work? I don't know.

1098
00:59:33,000 --> 00:59:34,640
Speaker 2: I think their offense will be fine, but if their

1099
00:59:34,680 --> 00:59:37,120
Speaker 2: defense sucks. Like you can have a great offense if

1100
00:59:37,120 --> 00:59:41,080
Speaker 2: your defense is bad or below average, Like, it's pretty

1101
00:59:41,080 --> 00:59:43,000
Speaker 2: easy to be the difference of like eleven and nine wins.

1102
00:59:43,800 --> 00:59:46,560
Speaker 2: So I think the Texans. I think Texas can be

1103
00:59:46,600 --> 00:59:50,920
Speaker 2: a number one seed. I love that Bet. Actually, good morning,

1104
00:59:51,320 --> 00:59:55,080
Speaker 2: sitting here in Kansas City watching your pod. Have a

1105
00:59:55,160 --> 00:59:59,240
Speaker 2: conversational topic for your mailbag or just for you, we'll

1106
00:59:59,240 --> 01:00:02,320
Speaker 2: do it on the mailbag. This from Neil Brett Peach.

1107
01:00:02,920 --> 01:00:06,640
Speaker 2: I'm neutral on him. He's had some hits in the draft,

1108
01:00:07,560 --> 01:00:10,280
Speaker 2: but he has some big misses too. Is this normal

1109
01:00:10,760 --> 01:00:13,840
Speaker 2: or is he riding the coattails of Andy and Mahomes.

1110
01:00:14,320 --> 01:00:16,920
Speaker 2: I don't ever hear him mentioned in the same breath

1111
01:00:17,360 --> 01:00:20,360
Speaker 2: of Howie Roseman or John Lynch. I put him in

1112
01:00:20,440 --> 01:00:30,120
Speaker 2: that category. I honestly, Neil, you're insane to have reservations

1113
01:00:30,160 --> 01:00:36,080
Speaker 2: about Brett Veach at this point. He traded tyreek Hill,

1114
01:00:37,560 --> 01:00:40,240
Speaker 2: which was pretty crazy at the time. Even if you

1115
01:00:40,280 --> 01:00:43,360
Speaker 2: don't want to give him that much credit for twenty nineteen, Okay,

1116
01:00:43,640 --> 01:00:46,640
Speaker 2: I'll let you argue that. But these last two drafts

1117
01:00:48,400 --> 01:00:51,880
Speaker 2: know on tyreek Hill. They trade him, they get Trent McDuffie,

1118
01:00:52,320 --> 01:00:54,320
Speaker 2: who is one of the best DB's in the league,

1119
01:00:54,760 --> 01:00:58,840
Speaker 2: as well as Korlowski's free up cap room to enable

1120
01:00:58,920 --> 01:01:01,360
Speaker 2: themselves to invest Chris Jones, who's one of the best

1121
01:01:01,400 --> 01:01:05,480
Speaker 2: defensive linemen in the league. Travis and Patrick Mahomes never

1122
01:01:05,520 --> 01:01:08,520
Speaker 2: stopped talking about how great he is. They just signed

1123
01:01:08,560 --> 01:01:10,040
Speaker 2: one of the best centers in the league, might be

1124
01:01:10,120 --> 01:01:14,240
Speaker 2: the best center now that Kelsey's retired, and I'd say

1125
01:01:14,280 --> 01:01:19,360
Speaker 2: he's been pretty awesome. I would say Veach has done

1126
01:01:19,400 --> 01:01:22,440
Speaker 2: a pretty good job of building your roster, has done

1127
01:01:22,480 --> 01:01:25,680
Speaker 2: a really good job. So I don't know how you'd

1128
01:01:25,720 --> 01:01:29,360
Speaker 2: beat Luke warm on him your team. Most of my

1129
01:01:29,520 --> 01:01:35,920
Speaker 2: life never sniffed a Super Bowl, and then he's helped

1130
01:01:36,040 --> 01:01:39,320
Speaker 2: be a huge part of leading back to back Super Bowls,

1131
01:01:39,960 --> 01:01:41,840
Speaker 2: let alone the one he was a GM of five

1132
01:01:41,920 --> 01:01:46,200
Speaker 2: years ago. I have a hard time with that one.

1133
01:01:47,600 --> 01:01:49,040
Speaker 2: You'd be like middle golf if you know him. I'm

1134
01:01:49,080 --> 01:01:56,800
Speaker 2: just telling you here's another one. I'm a forester in

1135
01:01:56,840 --> 01:01:59,240
Speaker 2: Michigan and I appreciate having your podcast. Why I listened

1136
01:01:59,240 --> 01:02:02,120
Speaker 2: to cruising around. My wife and brother in law are vets.

1137
01:02:02,160 --> 01:02:04,400
Speaker 2: With my brother in law being an emergency VET. It

1138
01:02:04,440 --> 01:02:06,800
Speaker 2: makes about one hundred and sixty K a year after

1139
01:02:06,920 --> 01:02:09,400
Speaker 2: Texas costs are so high because vets are in such

1140
01:02:09,480 --> 01:02:13,840
Speaker 2: high demand. I'm not disputing the business model that this

1141
01:02:14,040 --> 01:02:16,240
Speaker 2: is not one of those whack job media guys that

1142
01:02:16,360 --> 01:02:21,120
Speaker 2: hates business like they got that fucking lane covered. This

1143
01:02:21,440 --> 01:02:24,959
Speaker 2: was simply an eye opening experience of how much money

1144
01:02:25,040 --> 01:02:26,720
Speaker 2: these things are making and how I would love to

1145
01:02:26,800 --> 01:02:29,360
Speaker 2: be involved, and now too, you have no choice as

1146
01:02:29,400 --> 01:02:34,880
Speaker 2: a consumer. Right, It's like insurance, Like I understand why

1147
01:02:35,000 --> 01:02:38,640
Speaker 2: insurance exists, yet it's a business where I pay it.

1148
01:02:38,800 --> 01:02:42,720
Speaker 2: I pay property insurance, I pay car insurance, I pay

1149
01:02:42,800 --> 01:02:46,840
Speaker 2: insurance on every I mean a ton of things, right, health, insurance,

1150
01:02:46,920 --> 01:02:50,000
Speaker 2: you name it. Well, they have no problem accepting my

1151
01:02:50,240 --> 01:02:53,240
Speaker 2: monthly rate. Yet the moment I need something from them,

1152
01:02:53,280 --> 01:02:55,760
Speaker 2: it's a pain in the ass. But I get the

1153
01:02:55,800 --> 01:02:59,160
Speaker 2: business model. Who's a huge investor insurance companies guy named

1154
01:02:59,200 --> 01:03:04,800
Speaker 2: Warren Buffett. Why credible businesses monthly revenue cash flow? That's

1155
01:03:04,840 --> 01:03:07,280
Speaker 2: all I saw with this thing, And like I said, like,

1156
01:03:07,400 --> 01:03:09,440
Speaker 2: what was I gonna say? They could have said it

1157
01:03:09,560 --> 01:03:11,360
Speaker 2: was eighteen hundred. I paid and then we had to

1158
01:03:11,440 --> 01:03:13,200
Speaker 2: go back and we got to go back again tomorrow.

1159
01:03:13,320 --> 01:03:15,880
Speaker 2: We've already paid twenty eight hundred. Well what if that

1160
01:03:16,080 --> 01:03:18,400
Speaker 2: was ten grand? What was I gonna say? No, they

1161
01:03:18,480 --> 01:03:20,600
Speaker 2: got me by the balls. Like I said, it supplied

1162
01:03:20,600 --> 01:03:23,880
Speaker 2: to mand. I'm not pushing back against the business model.

1163
01:03:24,200 --> 01:03:26,600
Speaker 2: And I don't blame the vets. The vets we've dealt

1164
01:03:26,600 --> 01:03:28,840
Speaker 2: with were great. It's like most doctors I deal with

1165
01:03:28,880 --> 01:03:33,520
Speaker 2: are great. Then I get the bill it's just business.

1166
01:03:34,440 --> 01:03:37,040
Speaker 2: But still get to complain about the prices. It's pretty high.

1167
01:03:37,320 --> 01:03:38,760
Speaker 2: I do a lot of things in life, and that's

1168
01:03:39,480 --> 01:03:42,240
Speaker 2: one of the just more eye opening bills in recent memory.

1169
01:03:44,040 --> 01:03:47,400
Speaker 2: And like I said, the one great advantage is it's

1170
01:03:47,440 --> 01:03:49,040
Speaker 2: a lot And I said this last week, it's a

1171
01:03:49,040 --> 01:03:52,160
Speaker 2: little like a mechanic. If you don't know anything about cars,

1172
01:03:52,280 --> 01:03:54,200
Speaker 2: there's nothing you can say to argue with these people.

1173
01:03:54,320 --> 01:03:55,920
Speaker 2: You can go get a different quote if you want.

1174
01:03:56,880 --> 01:03:58,800
Speaker 2: But unlike with the vet, Like what am I supposed

1175
01:03:58,800 --> 01:04:01,040
Speaker 2: to get a different quote on my dog's survival and

1176
01:04:01,080 --> 01:04:04,520
Speaker 2: they're like, yeah, she needs blood transfusion right now, you'd

1177
01:04:04,520 --> 01:04:07,960
Speaker 2: be like, I'll I'll just see if the VET across

1178
01:04:08,080 --> 01:04:11,800
Speaker 2: the across the highway has any openings. Well, it might

1179
01:04:11,840 --> 01:04:14,000
Speaker 2: be life or death. I guess you get a different

1180
01:04:14,080 --> 01:04:15,960
Speaker 2: quote but even then you still don't even know what

1181
01:04:16,000 --> 01:04:20,320
Speaker 2: you're talking about. People think I'm like anti Iowa, not

1182
01:04:20,560 --> 01:04:29,120
Speaker 2: anti Vets anything. I'm pro the business, live it out

1183
01:04:29,120 --> 01:04:33,400
Speaker 2: here in Europe. Love the pod. It keeps me connected.

1184
01:04:35,120 --> 01:04:37,040
Speaker 2: One of my favorite things you do is compare the

1185
01:04:37,120 --> 01:04:40,240
Speaker 2: game time strategies to personal life strategies. You we football

1186
01:04:40,240 --> 01:04:42,320
Speaker 2: and everyday life question. As a huge Bills fan, I

1187
01:04:42,400 --> 01:04:45,360
Speaker 2: keep watching Buffalo come so close only to blow it

1188
01:04:45,480 --> 01:04:48,400
Speaker 2: year after year. How do you see this happening before

1189
01:04:48,520 --> 01:04:52,240
Speaker 2: Josh Allen bails on the team. He obviously elevating his

1190
01:04:52,360 --> 01:04:54,840
Speaker 2: team in a lot of situations, and I imagine he

1191
01:04:54,920 --> 01:04:58,040
Speaker 2: doesn't want to waste his prime years never quite going

1192
01:04:58,080 --> 01:05:00,320
Speaker 2: all the way. Or do you see this coming At

1193
01:05:00,360 --> 01:05:03,400
Speaker 2: Jim Kelly's story, you think he stays forever because the

1194
01:05:03,440 --> 01:05:06,240
Speaker 2: city has adopted him so fully. What do you think

1195
01:05:06,360 --> 01:05:08,280
Speaker 2: are the real obstacles? And the Bills can overcome a

1196
01:05:08,360 --> 01:05:15,440
Speaker 2: championship without blowing it? Well, quarterbacks are kind of stuck, right,

1197
01:05:15,720 --> 01:05:19,960
Speaker 2: think some recent famous guys that were traded. Rogers was

1198
01:05:20,120 --> 01:05:24,200
Speaker 2: with the Packers from two thousand and what six or

1199
01:05:24,320 --> 01:05:29,840
Speaker 2: five till twenty twenty two. Matt Stafford was there from

1200
01:05:29,960 --> 01:05:34,720
Speaker 2: two thousand seven, two thousand and seven to twenty twenty one.

1201
01:05:35,680 --> 01:05:38,280
Speaker 2: You know these guys and Rogers was having success. It

1202
01:05:38,320 --> 01:05:42,920
Speaker 2: was agreement packers. But Stafford's a good example. You just

1203
01:05:43,040 --> 01:05:44,760
Speaker 2: kind of stay because they keep paying you a lot

1204
01:05:44,800 --> 01:05:48,440
Speaker 2: of money, and the market size doesn't determine whether your

1205
01:05:48,440 --> 01:05:50,160
Speaker 2: team's good or bad. You're still a star if you're

1206
01:05:50,160 --> 01:05:53,000
Speaker 2: a good player, and again you make a lot of money.

1207
01:05:53,280 --> 01:05:59,080
Speaker 2: So we haven't seen many recent examples of quarterbacks kind

1208
01:05:59,120 --> 01:06:01,960
Speaker 2: of going NBA player. Now, maybe that's inevitable. It doesn't

1209
01:06:02,000 --> 01:06:04,240
Speaker 2: really feel like Josh's style. I think he's got a

1210
01:06:04,240 --> 01:06:09,680
Speaker 2: pretty special thing in Buffalo. I think sometimes, you know,

1211
01:06:09,720 --> 01:06:14,760
Speaker 2: I think the shitty part about sports is, you know,

1212
01:06:14,840 --> 01:06:16,680
Speaker 2: you can have a lot of success, you can keep

1213
01:06:16,720 --> 01:06:18,600
Speaker 2: going to the playoffs, but if you just can never

1214
01:06:18,680 --> 01:06:22,360
Speaker 2: get over that hump, it's just hard to shake right,

1215
01:06:22,960 --> 01:06:26,440
Speaker 2: and it just follows you forever. I mean, we talk about,

1216
01:06:26,600 --> 01:06:28,440
Speaker 2: you know, in golf, guys that can never get over

1217
01:06:28,480 --> 01:06:31,400
Speaker 2: the hump and win a major. We talk about it

1218
01:06:31,640 --> 01:06:33,920
Speaker 2: in you know, Charles Barkley's like the greatest player to

1219
01:06:34,000 --> 01:06:37,720
Speaker 2: never win a championship, Dan Marino, Jim Kelly. It's something

1220
01:06:37,760 --> 01:06:41,760
Speaker 2: that becomes part of your story. But because in most

1221
01:06:41,840 --> 01:06:44,160
Speaker 2: of our lives, right, if you're having the equivalent of

1222
01:06:44,240 --> 01:06:46,920
Speaker 2: that much success, you're doing so well. It doesn't like, Okay,

1223
01:06:47,040 --> 01:06:48,959
Speaker 2: one company makes a little more than you, who cares?

1224
01:06:49,000 --> 01:06:51,680
Speaker 2: I'm making so much money. It gets to the point

1225
01:06:51,680 --> 01:06:53,400
Speaker 2: where it's not really about the money or the fame.

1226
01:06:54,000 --> 01:06:55,800
Speaker 2: It just all gets down to like, can you win

1227
01:06:55,880 --> 01:06:59,360
Speaker 2: that last playoff game? Can you get to that AFC championship?

1228
01:06:59,400 --> 01:07:02,080
Speaker 2: Can you get to that super Bowl? And there's no guarantee,

1229
01:07:02,920 --> 01:07:07,320
Speaker 2: there is zero guarantee of it ever happening. So we

1230
01:07:07,440 --> 01:07:10,960
Speaker 2: might have passed Buffalo shot. Right, they might be average

1231
01:07:11,000 --> 01:07:12,520
Speaker 2: for the next couple year. I don't agree with that, Like,

1232
01:07:12,560 --> 01:07:14,840
Speaker 2: I think they're gonna be fine this year. But if

1233
01:07:14,880 --> 01:07:16,280
Speaker 2: you tell me that they go nine to eight, miss

1234
01:07:16,400 --> 01:07:19,240
Speaker 2: the playoffs, not inconceivable. And then all of a sudden

1235
01:07:19,320 --> 01:07:22,040
Speaker 2: like did you miss your window? Which is it happens

1236
01:07:22,080 --> 01:07:24,840
Speaker 2: in football all the time. Back to the Steve McNair documentary,

1237
01:07:24,960 --> 01:07:26,960
Speaker 2: Like the Titans had really good teams there for like

1238
01:07:27,080 --> 01:07:28,800
Speaker 2: three years, they went to a super Bowl, they got

1239
01:07:28,800 --> 01:07:30,280
Speaker 2: to the one yard line, they went to the AFC

1240
01:07:30,400 --> 01:07:32,800
Speaker 2: Championship again, they lost the Raiders. It's like they were

1241
01:07:32,880 --> 01:07:37,640
Speaker 2: so close and then it just didn't happen. So sometimes

1242
01:07:37,680 --> 01:07:39,240
Speaker 2: you get there and you just rattle off a couple.

1243
01:07:39,960 --> 01:07:42,560
Speaker 2: Sometimes you just get there once, you win it right,

1244
01:07:42,720 --> 01:07:46,840
Speaker 2: Sometimes like the Giants out of Nowhere twice. Sometimes you

1245
01:07:46,960 --> 01:07:48,960
Speaker 2: just never win it. You know. It's what it feels

1246
01:07:49,000 --> 01:07:50,600
Speaker 2: like to be a Buffalo fan. He goes, are we

1247
01:07:50,760 --> 01:07:53,240
Speaker 2: just cursed? Minnesota Vikings fan? Like, are we ever gonna

1248
01:07:53,240 --> 01:07:56,680
Speaker 2: make it? I can't tell you there's a guarantee. I

1249
01:07:56,800 --> 01:07:58,840
Speaker 2: would bet when you have one of the best players.

1250
01:07:59,560 --> 01:08:01,720
Speaker 2: I like chances. So if you just look at it

1251
01:08:01,800 --> 01:08:05,560
Speaker 2: like a statistical you know, coin flip, like, what is

1252
01:08:05,680 --> 01:08:08,840
Speaker 2: my percentage chance? Well, we know you need an excellent

1253
01:08:08,880 --> 01:08:11,479
Speaker 2: quarterback to have a shot. In the history of the league,

1254
01:08:12,240 --> 01:08:14,760
Speaker 2: there are some outliers that had great defenses the eighty

1255
01:08:14,840 --> 01:08:19,120
Speaker 2: five Bears two thousand, Ravens two thousand and two, Tampa right,

1256
01:08:19,360 --> 01:08:21,479
Speaker 2: But for the most part, you need a Hall of

1257
01:08:21,600 --> 01:08:24,760
Speaker 2: Fame worthy guy playing at a really high level. Where

1258
01:08:24,800 --> 01:08:26,960
Speaker 2: a really good player gets super hot at the right time.

1259
01:08:27,600 --> 01:08:29,280
Speaker 2: You got one of the best players of his generation.

1260
01:08:30,439 --> 01:08:34,439
Speaker 2: So it's on the roster management, it's on hitting on

1261
01:08:34,560 --> 01:08:38,920
Speaker 2: these draft picks, it's on him staying healthy. But I'd

1262
01:08:39,040 --> 01:08:42,200
Speaker 2: like my chances if I were you. Question for you,

1263
01:08:42,800 --> 01:08:46,040
Speaker 2: if we see Kyler and Marvin Harrison can't connect and

1264
01:08:46,120 --> 01:08:49,240
Speaker 2: put points on the board on a consistent basis, what

1265
01:08:49,400 --> 01:08:51,200
Speaker 2: do you see the next step for the Cardinal offense

1266
01:08:51,240 --> 01:08:53,720
Speaker 2: to become more of a threat for the rest of

1267
01:08:53,800 --> 01:09:01,200
Speaker 2: the division. Well, they got three really fantastic players, right Kyler,

1268
01:09:02,800 --> 01:09:06,280
Speaker 2: Trey McBride, and Marvin Harrison. I still believe there are

1269
01:09:06,280 --> 01:09:08,800
Speaker 2: a couple of years away from building this roster. I mean,

1270
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Speaker 2: the defense is not gonna be good, but if they can,

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Speaker 2: if they can find a second receiver to go with Marvin,

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01:09:18,960 --> 01:09:21,360
Speaker 2: like with Kyler, it makes the running game way easier

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Speaker 2: because he's a threat any zone read stuff. I just

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01:09:26,040 --> 01:09:28,960
Speaker 2: think you have to have balance, Like it can't all

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Speaker 2: beyond March, Like, they just have to find a number

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Speaker 2: two wide receiver. And that number two wide receiver doesn't

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Speaker 2: need to be like t Higgins and Jamar Chase or

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Speaker 2: Brandon a YOUU can Debo just needs to be a

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Speaker 2: credible guy. And if you can find that, then all

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Speaker 2: of a sudden, you take some pressure off Marvin. If

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Speaker 2: you have a good tight end, Like it's hard to

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Speaker 2: double team them because your safety's got a cheat to

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Speaker 2: the wide receivers and your quarterback can take off at

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Speaker 2: any moment. So I just think that I think you're

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Speaker 2: obviously going to be pretty interesting, to be honest with you.

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Speaker 2: Who's your running back? James Carnis, sure you're running back

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Speaker 2: teams James Connor on right now? He's on the Cardinals.

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Speaker 2: I like James Connor. James Connors is a good player.

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Speaker 2: So you got James Connor who had a thousand yards

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Speaker 2: seven touchdowns last year. You got Kyler, you got Marvin Harrison,

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Speaker 2: got training pride like you got some you got some

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Speaker 2: building block skill. Guys. I don't know if James Connor

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Speaker 2: is a building block, but he's you know, how old

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Speaker 2: is he right now? Twenty nine? He's just a really

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Speaker 2: good player, really solid player. You feel good about him.

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Speaker 2: I think Cardinals are a fun watch, I really do.

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Speaker 2: Who would you rather have a linebacker? Patrick Willis or

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Speaker 2: Fred Warner?

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Speaker 1: Come on?

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Speaker 2: I like Fred, but different. There's levels of this stuff. Hey, John,

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Speaker 2: question for the mailbag. Do you think it's more likely

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Speaker 2: the Cowboys missed the playoffs this year or make the

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Speaker 2: NFC Championship? Well, I mean if you're just based on

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Speaker 2: the last twenty five years, you have ever say, missed

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Speaker 2: the playoffs because they never go to the NFC Championship game.

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Speaker 2: I think they're gonna go to an NFC Championship game inevitably.

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Speaker 2: I think it's gonna happen. One issue, and we talked

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Speaker 2: about this, was stucky. The NFC is as good, if

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Speaker 2: not better than the AFC. The Chiefs best team in

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Speaker 2: the league, back to back Super Bowl champs. Let's look

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01:11:30,479 --> 01:11:32,720
Speaker 2: at the rest of the depth. The Bills lost a

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Speaker 2: bunch of guys. The Jets we have Noe, it's Robert

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Speaker 2: Solad any good Chargers rosters, pretty decimated, Broncos starting a

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Speaker 2: rookie quarterback. AFC North all sorts of issues. AFC South

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Speaker 2: actually pretty good. But I went from like kinda wan

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Speaker 2: and picked the Colts to win the division. And I

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Speaker 2: still like them. But when you watch it the Origins

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Speaker 2: in the preseason, just's in with talent ease in which

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01:12:02,160 --> 01:12:05,320
Speaker 2: he throws the hunter mine. Our fastball doesn't always know

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Speaker 2: where it's gonna go. So it's like, wait, I'm gonna

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Speaker 2: bet on this guy who's just not gonna be accurate

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Speaker 2: this year. Maybe he becomes more accurate. It's not happening

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Speaker 2: to right off the bat when I just have this

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Speaker 2: pocket quarterback who knows how to play. As a loaded team, yeah,

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Speaker 2: I'll just go with the Texans, Chiefs Texans again. I

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Speaker 2: think the Ravens step back Bill's Jets. I think the

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Speaker 2: NFC is just loaded Niners, Rams, Packers, Lions. I think

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Speaker 2: a couple teams in the NFC South. I mean, the

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Speaker 2: Bucks have made the playoffs four straight years. The Saints

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Speaker 2: won nine games last year, and I think are gonna

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Speaker 2: be good. The Falcons have everyone picking them, The Eagles,

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Speaker 2: the Cowboys, you could argue the Bears. I mean, it's

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Speaker 2: just NFC's tough. So I think it's a long winded

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Speaker 2: way of saying I guess I would have to pick

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Speaker 2: on them miss the playoffs, But I'm not one of

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Speaker 2: those people that say it's never gonna happen. Now to

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Speaker 2: my question, this is from Jonathan how big is the

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Speaker 2: influence of an offensive coordinator in a system of a

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Speaker 2: strong offensive play calling head coach like Sean McVay. When

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Speaker 2: having a head coach like that, does the offensive coordinator

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Speaker 2: really matter that much? Or is he effectively just a

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Speaker 2: glorified assistant. Some people make a big deal of losing

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Speaker 2: an OC, but does it really hurt these head coaches

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01:13:30,560 --> 01:13:34,960
Speaker 2: or do they just have it covered anyways, Well, where

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01:13:35,000 --> 01:13:39,679
Speaker 2: it hurts them is like, ultimately Kyle is the one

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Speaker 2: the decision maker, Sean McVay or Andy Reider, Sean Payton

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Speaker 2: on the guy deciding the play right Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday.

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Speaker 2: When they give the game plan to the players, they

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01:13:49,360 --> 01:13:52,240
Speaker 2: have given the final go ahead on the play. But

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Speaker 2: throughout the game plan those assistant coaches. One guy's in

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Speaker 2: charge of third and long, guy in charge of goal

1352
01:14:01,040 --> 01:14:04,960
Speaker 2: line situations, one guy's in charge of early down stuff.

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01:14:05,880 --> 01:14:08,160
Speaker 2: And then the more you're around those guys, the more

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01:14:08,240 --> 01:14:10,559
Speaker 2: you're confident when they give you stuff and you meet

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Speaker 2: for the game plan and throughout the week of like

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Speaker 2: gouds a genius idea. So anytime you lose talented people,

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Speaker 2: they're not the ones calling the plays or giving the

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Speaker 2: final go ahead on the game plan. That's the coordinator.

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Speaker 2: But it's like if you're the boss of a company

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Speaker 2: and you lose some really good employees, Ultimately you might

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Speaker 2: be the driver of the operation, but their influence is

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Speaker 2: hard to replace. So yeah, it just depends it's hard

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Speaker 2: to quantify, and I would say only people internally really know, right,

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Speaker 2: like how much Mike McDonald meant to Kyle, or how

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Speaker 2: much Clint Kubiak meant to Kyle, or how much Kevin

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Speaker 2: O'Connell meant to Sean McVay. I don't know. I can't

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Speaker 2: quantify it. But if you trust someone to do certain things,

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Speaker 2: take stuff off your plate. And even as these coaches,

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Speaker 2: I've heard them talk during the preseason, like Kyle and

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Speaker 2: Schawn because both of them gave up play calling for

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Speaker 2: the preseason. They said, it's definitely weird to not call plays.

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Speaker 2: But the reality is during the season, I'm influenced by

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Speaker 2: play calls by my assistance. Now, the more you trust someone,

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Speaker 2: the more you're gonna let them chime in right or

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Speaker 2: let their suggestion become a decision. But it's impossible to quantify.

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Speaker 2: I guess it's a long winded way of saying it

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Speaker 2: doesn't mean nothing, but it doesn't mean something in every

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Speaker 2: situation be different. They're more than glorified assistance for sure,

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Speaker 2: because what they're doing on a weekly basis is really important.

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Speaker 2: Because the head coach, like I can't break down every situation.

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Speaker 2: I don't have the same time as those guys because

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Speaker 2: I got to meet with my defensive staff, I gotta

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Speaker 2: meet with the media. I got a lot of other stuff,

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Speaker 2: you know, a lot of other irons in the fire

1385
01:16:02,439 --> 01:16:05,599
Speaker 2: I gotta take care of. So I'm very, very dependent

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Speaker 2: on my group of offensive coaches, my line coach with

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Speaker 2: the run game, my pass game coordinator, my quarterback coach

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Speaker 2: to help me build the game plan. I mean, it's

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Speaker 2: a it's a group effort, even though I'm the CEO.

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Speaker 6: Of that group.

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Speaker 2: I guess that's a long winded way of hopefully I

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Speaker 2: describe that to you. So like when these guys leave,

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Speaker 2: you know, I don't know, you can feel it, like

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Speaker 2: if the Texans going to have a great year, number

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Speaker 2: one seed nf AFC Championship game, Bobby Slowak becomes a

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Speaker 2: head coach, It's very like, we know, if I'm de Miko,

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Speaker 2: I gotta get a new OC, right like that. It's

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01:16:40,920 --> 01:16:45,479
Speaker 2: not that's not an unquantifiable loss. But when these guys

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Speaker 2: lose their position coaches that are their quote unquote OC,

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01:16:49,520 --> 01:16:52,960
Speaker 2: but they're not Colin plays. I would imagine if you

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Speaker 2: had a buddy on the staff. Some guys are like yeah,

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01:16:56,040 --> 01:16:59,360
Speaker 2: not that big a deal. Won't even notice, and others

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01:16:59,360 --> 01:17:03,559
Speaker 2: would be like, yeah, he was pretty important, like any industry,

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01:17:03,840 --> 01:17:08,200
Speaker 2: some people in management positions that aren't or middle management

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Speaker 2: that's essentially what that is, are more impactful than others.

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Speaker 2: A lot of average, a lot of ravage. Okay, thanks

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Speaker 2: for listening to everybody, Talk to everyone soon, See you

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Speaker 2: guys tomorrow.

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Speaker 1: The volume