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Speaker 1: That's all these conversations that happened at the combine are

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Speaker 1: necessarily how good Ayuki is. We already know he's good.

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Speaker 1: It's established. All these guys I've listed, they got traded

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Speaker 1: one of the top seven players on my board. I

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Speaker 1: think if it plays out that way, it's not as

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Speaker 1: crazy going from four to eleven, given that you're not

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Speaker 1: taking a quarterback because you got Kyler Murray and all

431
00:24:38,520 --> 00:24:43,600
Speaker 1: these quarterbacks are pushing these players down. Daniel Jeremiah, I think,

432
00:24:43,640 --> 00:24:46,960
Speaker 1: tweeted either today or yesterday that his belief of four

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Speaker 1: quarterbacks are going to go in the top six. Well,

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Speaker 1: if the Patriots take a quarterback at three, you would

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Speaker 1: have to imagine that Arizona's phone is going to be

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Speaker 1: ringing off the hook, going to be in a position

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Speaker 1: to move back. And I actually think they're more comfortable

438
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Speaker 1: now moving back given what they saw this year with

439
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Speaker 1: Kyler Murray that he's not only more than a functional player.

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Speaker 1: I mean he's a pretty intriguing player. Now how good,

441
00:25:14,640 --> 00:25:17,359
Speaker 1: how high a ceiling is, he is damn talented, and

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00:25:17,400 --> 00:25:19,119
Speaker 1: he made plays down the stretch where it felt like

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Speaker 1: he won games on his own. So I don't see

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00:25:22,840 --> 00:25:26,120
Speaker 1: enough people talking about the Arizona Cardinals making the move,

445
00:25:26,320 --> 00:25:31,400
Speaker 1: and clearly Minnesota has to have them circled as a target.

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00:25:31,840 --> 00:25:34,359
Speaker 1: He let's do a little tangent Tuesday. This is what

447
00:25:34,440 --> 00:25:37,960
Speaker 1: I'm naming this little part for right now, subject to change.

448
00:25:38,359 --> 00:25:43,160
Speaker 1: The Jacksonville Jags had an employee name a meat Patel

449
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Speaker 1: that embezzled over twenty two million dollars in gambling. He

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Speaker 1: was buying watches, private jets. I mean, was just living large.

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Speaker 1: This guy's not The article stated he was like thirty

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Speaker 1: two years old. He just got sentenced to seventy eight

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Speaker 1: months in prison. This was a really big deal. And

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00:26:06,800 --> 00:26:09,960
Speaker 1: he had quotes in there talking about like this was

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Speaker 1: because his alcohol, drug and gambling addiction. And I gotta

456
00:26:16,880 --> 00:26:20,760
Speaker 1: call bullshit. When you're buying ninety five thousand dollars watches

457
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Speaker 1: in renting private jets, you're just a criminal. I'm not

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Speaker 1: saying that you didn't have addictions, but you're using those

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Speaker 1: things to try to almost take away from your actions.

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00:26:36,080 --> 00:26:40,600
Speaker 1: It's almost an excuse. Listen, we all make mistakes. Some

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00:26:40,640 --> 00:26:44,399
Speaker 1: of those are not criminal activity like this was. And

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00:26:44,440 --> 00:26:46,960
Speaker 1: in this article he basically just said at first, it

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Speaker 1: just started with like twenty five fifty thousand dollars, and

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Speaker 1: it grew and grew and grew the more he didn't

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Speaker 1: get caught. If all he was doing was using this

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Speaker 1: money to gamble, I'd be like, listen, maybe the guy

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Speaker 1: does have a problem. This guy was renting private jets,

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Speaker 1: five star hotel rooms, buying shit left and right, basically

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Speaker 1: to look cool on Instagram. And when he constantly got

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Speaker 1: questioned about where were you getting this money, he would

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00:27:12,720 --> 00:27:18,119
Speaker 1: say from his rich parents and crypto currency. I just

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00:27:18,160 --> 00:27:20,720
Speaker 1: think it's pretty embarrassing to use that as an excuse

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Speaker 1: when you've embezzled twenty two fucking million dollars. When I

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Speaker 1: read that he bought basically one hundred thousand dollars, watch,

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Speaker 1: there is no excuse. You can say you were just

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00:27:32,880 --> 00:27:36,280
Speaker 1: addicted to getting away with what you were getting away with,

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00:27:37,160 --> 00:27:40,359
Speaker 1: and you just prayed the inevitable would never happen, which

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Speaker 1: ultimately did you got cot. There's no way, and listen,

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00:27:46,840 --> 00:27:52,280
Speaker 1: I've had friends and small businesses that got probably had

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Speaker 1: fifty grand stolen from them relative to their operation. That

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Speaker 1: was a lot of money. I know people that have

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Speaker 1: had seven figures stolen from a jolting feeling. And anytime

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Speaker 1: you have an operation as big as the NFL, it's

484
00:28:05,119 --> 00:28:08,119
Speaker 1: not like shod Con can keep track of every dollar.

485
00:28:08,240 --> 00:28:12,040
Speaker 1: And in fairness, this guy was using the money, he

486
00:28:12,160 --> 00:28:14,560
Speaker 1: was creating fake business expenses, turning him in and he

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00:28:14,600 --> 00:28:17,639
Speaker 1: was getting away with it for a long period of time. Meanwhile,

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Speaker 1: he was living like a fucking king. And I think

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Speaker 1: anytime you have someone that has access to the money

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Speaker 1: of a company that is making a lot of money,

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00:28:28,560 --> 00:28:32,600
Speaker 1: if they are wired like this guy, this is always

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Speaker 1: has the potential to happen, but to use the excuse

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Speaker 1: of like that was addicted to gambling, Like well, what

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00:28:39,040 --> 00:28:41,040
Speaker 1: was the private jet you flying around? No, you were

495
00:28:41,040 --> 00:28:43,760
Speaker 1: addicted to looking cool. You were addicted to want of

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Speaker 1: being rich, which a lot of people aspire to have money.

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00:28:48,320 --> 00:28:52,400
Speaker 1: They just don't steal millions of dollars from their employee,

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Speaker 1: Like you ain't that different from Bernie Madoff and SBF

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Speaker 1: bro You're a criminal. The story Brune who has a

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Speaker 1: residency in Vegas at the MGM, which basically you know

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00:29:06,000 --> 00:29:09,920
Speaker 1: you play concerts, Celine Dion, Beyonce, maybe Garth Brooks did

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00:29:09,920 --> 00:29:11,240
Speaker 1: it forever. I think you can make a lot of

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Speaker 1: money that way as an entertainer. There was a story

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00:29:14,360 --> 00:29:16,520
Speaker 1: that came out that he owed fifty he had a

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00:29:16,560 --> 00:29:20,280
Speaker 1: fifty million dollar debt to the casino. MGM came out

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00:29:20,320 --> 00:29:23,800
Speaker 1: and said, it's not true. Listen it. If I had

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00:29:24,320 --> 00:29:27,000
Speaker 1: I love to gamble, if I did a residency at

508
00:29:27,040 --> 00:29:31,360
Speaker 1: one of these casinos, you'd have to be pretty careful.

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00:29:31,680 --> 00:29:35,120
Speaker 1: And now they've come out and said this is completely bs.

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00:29:35,360 --> 00:29:37,720
Speaker 1: This is he doesn't know any money. So it's just

511
00:29:37,840 --> 00:29:40,840
Speaker 1: crazy how stories And this is the hard part. I

512
00:29:40,880 --> 00:29:44,080
Speaker 1: think about the world we live in, right and Colin

513
00:29:44,120 --> 00:29:46,840
Speaker 1: and I talked about it. The story that came out

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00:29:46,840 --> 00:29:49,560
Speaker 1: about Aaron Rodgers, the vice president's story, I'm like, yeah,

515
00:29:49,640 --> 00:29:52,080
Speaker 1: I could see Rogers leaking that, wanting to force the

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Speaker 1: hands of the Jets. And then CNN came out with

517
00:29:54,560 --> 00:29:58,320
Speaker 1: a story that one of their reporters talked to Aaron

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Speaker 1: Rodgers in two twenty thirteen and he claimed that Sandy

519
00:30:03,080 --> 00:30:08,000
Speaker 1: Hook the school shooting, was a hoax eleven years ago.

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00:30:09,200 --> 00:30:12,320
Speaker 1: She came out of the story last week in half

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Speaker 1: the sports media who can't stan Aaron Rodgers quote tweeting

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00:30:15,640 --> 00:30:20,480
Speaker 1: it's scumback conspiracy theorist loser. It's like, listen, I got

523
00:30:20,560 --> 00:30:22,960
Speaker 1: no clue. I wasn't there. You weren't there what was

524
00:30:23,000 --> 00:30:26,280
Speaker 1: said between these two people? But how am I like?

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Speaker 1: You just fucking common sense? You had this conversation in

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Speaker 1: twenty thirteen. There have been countless, like famous people who

527
00:30:34,120 --> 00:30:36,680
Speaker 1: have gotten trouble for saying different things over the years,

528
00:30:36,960 --> 00:30:38,880
Speaker 1: and you wait, tell the story about him wanting to

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Speaker 1: be the vice president for I'm sure a candidate that

530
00:30:42,240 --> 00:30:44,520
Speaker 1: this reporter does not like to come out with this

531
00:30:44,560 --> 00:30:48,760
Speaker 1: story like bullshit. Obviously, Aaron tweeted out, like he's been

532
00:30:48,800 --> 00:30:50,800
Speaker 1: on record saying things like this is crazy. What are

533
00:30:50,800 --> 00:30:55,920
Speaker 1: you guys talking about? But it's just really hard. Who

534
00:30:55,960 --> 00:30:59,760
Speaker 1: knows what to believe anymore? Seriously, and I think most

535
00:31:00,000 --> 00:31:03,400
Speaker 1: people and most people I know don't really believe anything

536
00:31:04,200 --> 00:31:07,480
Speaker 1: because who can you trust? Really? Who can you trust?

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00:31:07,880 --> 00:31:10,760
Speaker 1: If your first reaction reading that story it's one thing.

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00:31:10,800 --> 00:31:12,680
Speaker 1: You read the headline, you're like damn, and then you

539
00:31:12,720 --> 00:31:14,600
Speaker 1: click on it, you're like, wait, they had this conversation

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00:31:14,680 --> 00:31:17,840
Speaker 1: at the Kentucky Derby in twenty thirteen, and you're just

541
00:31:17,880 --> 00:31:23,160
Speaker 1: bringing it up now because let's just what that's that's

542
00:31:23,200 --> 00:31:27,200
Speaker 1: an insane thing to tweet out Jake Tapper, and I

543
00:31:27,200 --> 00:31:32,680
Speaker 1: mean every single person in ESPN is like this fucking scumbag. God,

544
00:31:32,720 --> 00:31:35,000
Speaker 1: this is crazy, man, And I think this is a

545
00:31:35,000 --> 00:31:37,520
Speaker 1: hard time to be alive because it's one thing in

546
00:31:37,560 --> 00:31:41,880
Speaker 1: like NFL free agency, right like obviously in the draft

547
00:31:41,880 --> 00:31:44,239
Speaker 1: times stories are being leaked that are fake, and then

548
00:31:44,280 --> 00:31:47,640
Speaker 1: there's like real life stuff that kind of impacts our

549
00:31:47,680 --> 00:31:50,680
Speaker 1: world and you're like, that's pretty crazy, like is this true?

550
00:31:50,760 --> 00:31:53,160
Speaker 1: Is it not true? And that just kind of feels

551
00:31:53,160 --> 00:31:55,800
Speaker 1: like the world we're in where if you don't question

552
00:31:55,920 --> 00:32:00,320
Speaker 1: everything you read, I can't really relate to you. Because

553
00:32:00,400 --> 00:32:03,440
Speaker 1: I read a headline good, bad, or indifferent. I'm like, yeah,

554
00:32:03,600 --> 00:32:16,000
Speaker 1: might be true, might not? Okay, Middlecoff mail back time

555
00:32:16,160 --> 00:32:19,880
Speaker 1: at John Middlecoff at John Middlecock is the Instagram fire

556
00:32:20,120 --> 00:32:25,600
Speaker 1: in those dms. We'll start with Brandon, she's fan living

557
00:32:25,640 --> 00:32:28,480
Speaker 1: in Oregon. I want to get your take on what

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00:32:28,640 --> 00:32:31,680
Speaker 1: the back to back champs would do this year after

559
00:32:31,720 --> 00:32:36,480
Speaker 1: acquiring Hollywood Brown on a one year deal. Personally, I

560
00:32:36,520 --> 00:32:39,320
Speaker 1: think we should trade up and get Mahomes another weapon,

561
00:32:39,880 --> 00:32:43,120
Speaker 1: but I know the wise decision should be get a

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00:32:43,160 --> 00:32:47,520
Speaker 1: left tackle. What are your thoughts well, I think you

563
00:32:47,520 --> 00:32:51,680
Speaker 1: guys are in a difficult position in terms of when

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Speaker 1: you trade up from pick thirty two. Let's say you

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00:32:53,680 --> 00:32:56,880
Speaker 1: want to go up six seven spots you got to

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Speaker 1: get rid of like a second or third round pick. Sometimes,

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00:33:00,680 --> 00:33:03,880
Speaker 1: you know, the Chiefs aren't in position given how high

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00:33:03,960 --> 00:33:08,160
Speaker 1: price now Mahomes and definitely Chris Jones are. That's where

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00:33:08,200 --> 00:33:11,200
Speaker 1: I think the Sneed move comes in. I think if

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Speaker 1: they end up trading Sneed for a pick in the

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Speaker 1: early mid twenties, they will do like they did a

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Speaker 1: couple of years ago, and they'll attempt to draft. You know,

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00:33:20,760 --> 00:33:24,000
Speaker 1: last time they drafted a defensive lineman and McDuffie and

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Speaker 1: it worked out really well. This year, I think they'd

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00:33:26,520 --> 00:33:29,720
Speaker 1: be much more inclined to probably take a wide receiver

576
00:33:29,800 --> 00:33:34,400
Speaker 1: slash tight end in an offensive lineman. So I think

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00:33:34,400 --> 00:33:37,000
Speaker 1: it'll come down to the Sneed trade, and if they

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Speaker 1: can trade Sneed for a good pick, then I think

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Speaker 1: they'll just use those two picks on ideally two good players.

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00:33:43,480 --> 00:33:47,880
Speaker 1: But anytime you drafted the end of the round, it

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00:33:48,000 --> 00:33:52,360
Speaker 1: is difficult. I mean, it's it's hard to find starters

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00:33:52,440 --> 00:33:56,280
Speaker 1: in the late twenties, right. Your odds as the first

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00:33:56,360 --> 00:33:59,920
Speaker 1: round goes gets difficult because you're paying a guy for

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00:34:00,240 --> 00:34:05,400
Speaker 1: round contract most drafts have, depending on who you talk to,

585
00:34:06,720 --> 00:34:10,879
Speaker 1: twenty to twenty two max first rounders. Remember a couple

586
00:34:10,960 --> 00:34:13,240
Speaker 1: years ago they drafted Clyde in the first round. Obviously

587
00:34:13,239 --> 00:34:16,760
Speaker 1: it was a mistake, but it's not an easy position

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00:34:16,800 --> 00:34:19,719
Speaker 1: to be in. You know, for every George Karlovskis you

589
00:34:19,719 --> 00:34:22,000
Speaker 1: get a good player, there are a lot of whiffs.

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00:34:22,680 --> 00:34:26,640
Speaker 1: So wouldn't shock me if they tried to trade back

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00:34:26,680 --> 00:34:30,440
Speaker 1: into the second round because you get a cheaper contract

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00:34:30,480 --> 00:34:33,800
Speaker 1: and you get the same talent. So I would expect

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00:34:33,880 --> 00:34:37,000
Speaker 1: if they trade sneed they use that pick on either

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00:34:37,000 --> 00:34:40,359
Speaker 1: a wide receiver, tackle or tight end in the if

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Speaker 1: that's late teens, early twenties, wherever that pick was, and

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00:34:43,640 --> 00:34:45,920
Speaker 1: then ideally from thirty two, try to get back to

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00:34:45,960 --> 00:34:51,160
Speaker 1: like pick forty. Sometimes that happens with quarterbacks. Want to

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00:34:51,239 --> 00:34:55,959
Speaker 1: share and hear your thoughts on Andy Reid's Chiefs run.

599
00:34:56,760 --> 00:34:59,960
Speaker 1: I don't think Andy gets enough credit for his chief's career.

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00:35:00,960 --> 00:35:03,880
Speaker 1: Absolutely no one talks. At the very beginning in Kansas City,

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00:35:04,760 --> 00:35:07,760
Speaker 1: he inherited a dumpster fire that was two and fourteen

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00:35:07,880 --> 00:35:13,080
Speaker 1: with the number one overall pick. Former regime Pioli, Todd Haley,

603
00:35:13,160 --> 00:35:17,440
Speaker 1: Romeo Cournell were atrocious and ran the franchise into the ground.

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00:35:18,280 --> 00:35:22,120
Speaker 1: Not only that, but they experienced an absolute tragedy with Belcher,

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00:35:22,280 --> 00:35:26,560
Speaker 1: the Javon Belcher situation. Clearly the operation was a disaster

606
00:35:26,640 --> 00:35:30,160
Speaker 1: and the franchise needed a massive change. Hunt flies to

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00:35:30,200 --> 00:35:36,200
Speaker 1: Philly and essentially intercepts Andy at the airport, interviews him

608
00:35:36,239 --> 00:35:38,560
Speaker 1: before he flies to Arizona for a cardinal interview, and

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00:35:38,560 --> 00:35:41,520
Speaker 1: gets Andy to agree to be the coach. Andy Reid

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00:35:41,520 --> 00:35:44,239
Speaker 1: takes a two and fourteen drafts Eric Fisher number one,

611
00:35:44,280 --> 00:35:46,440
Speaker 1: and trades the second round pick for Alex Smith and

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00:35:46,560 --> 00:35:50,960
Speaker 1: instantly turns Kansas City into a perennial playoff team, winning

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Speaker 1: eleven games his first year. Seems impossible. I think even

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00:35:55,640 --> 00:35:58,120
Speaker 1: Andy would tell you once they got there, a little

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00:35:58,200 --> 00:36:01,879
Speaker 1: harbaugh ish that once they got Alex Smith, they did

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00:36:01,920 --> 00:36:05,520
Speaker 1: have some pieces there, right. They had Tom Bahaley, they

617
00:36:05,560 --> 00:36:10,680
Speaker 1: had justin Houston, they had is a Derek Johnson, the

618
00:36:10,680 --> 00:36:15,440
Speaker 1: linebacker Jamal Charles. So the cupboard wasn't totally bare. It

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00:36:15,480 --> 00:36:17,960
Speaker 1: was more of a reflection how big of a joke

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00:36:18,080 --> 00:36:20,400
Speaker 1: the prior regime was. Just like when Jim Harbaugh got

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00:36:20,400 --> 00:36:23,719
Speaker 1: to the forty nine ers, total joke, what Mike Nolan,

622
00:36:23,800 --> 00:36:26,880
Speaker 1: Mike Singletary like, how they had run the operation but

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Speaker 1: Alex and Alex was better once Andy got and then

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00:36:30,480 --> 00:36:34,640
Speaker 1: the guy Harbaugh got, but that stabilized everything. And obviously

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00:36:34,719 --> 00:36:37,200
Speaker 1: Andy's just a really good coach. If you give a

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00:36:37,239 --> 00:36:40,960
Speaker 1: really good coach, a solid veteran quarterback and some good

627
00:36:41,000 --> 00:36:44,839
Speaker 1: veteran pieces, like, they're gonna compete and more than likely

628
00:36:44,840 --> 00:36:47,719
Speaker 1: they're gonna win double digga games. But I'm with you,

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Speaker 1: like Andy Reid's Chiefs tenure is an all time Hall

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Speaker 1: of Fame if the Eagles thing never existed, if his

631
00:36:56,520 --> 00:36:59,920
Speaker 1: first time being a head coach was what twenty thirteen

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00:37:00,719 --> 00:37:05,239
Speaker 1: to present with the Chiefs Hall of Famer, which is

633
00:37:05,320 --> 00:37:07,400
Speaker 1: crazy to think about because you a head coach of

634
00:37:07,480 --> 00:37:11,040
Speaker 1: fourteen years of the Eagles, had a winning record, went

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00:37:11,080 --> 00:37:13,200
Speaker 1: to a Super Bowl, went to like four or five

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00:37:13,239 --> 00:37:16,719
Speaker 1: conference championship games, drafted a ton of high end Pro

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00:37:16,800 --> 00:37:20,200
Speaker 1: Bowl guys, won a ton of games. So yeah, he's

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00:37:20,280 --> 00:37:24,120
Speaker 1: just he's a legendary coach and anyone that was around

639
00:37:24,160 --> 00:37:27,040
Speaker 1: him in Philly knew he was a star, and not

640
00:37:27,120 --> 00:37:29,160
Speaker 1: that he was talked about like some loser, but it

641
00:37:29,360 --> 00:37:32,920
Speaker 1: ended poorly. He became a legend in Kansas City, and

642
00:37:32,960 --> 00:37:37,080
Speaker 1: that's that's cool. Winning one super Bowl really big deal.

643
00:37:37,360 --> 00:37:41,799
Speaker 1: Winning two super Bowls put you in rare air. Winning three.

644
00:37:42,719 --> 00:37:45,520
Speaker 1: Like I said, he's the chubby Bill Walsh, big fan.

645
00:37:45,880 --> 00:37:50,719
Speaker 1: My question is for a super super early prediction for

646
00:37:50,920 --> 00:38:00,839
Speaker 1: super Bowl fifty nine. Wow, Well, it's hard to bet

647
00:38:00,880 --> 00:38:05,480
Speaker 1: against the Chiefs, it really is, so I think you

648
00:38:05,520 --> 00:38:09,160
Speaker 1: would be foolish right now. One thing I learned, literally

649
00:38:09,200 --> 00:38:13,879
Speaker 1: gambling against them bad decision. Now, history would show us

650
00:38:13,960 --> 00:38:16,600
Speaker 1: to go to what have they been to four of

651
00:38:16,640 --> 00:38:18,319
Speaker 1: the last five, so that would be five in the

652
00:38:18,360 --> 00:38:21,640
Speaker 1: last six statistically in this modern day era, that would

653
00:38:21,640 --> 00:38:23,680
Speaker 1: be insane. I don't even think the Patriots did that.

654
00:38:24,960 --> 00:38:27,239
Speaker 1: But I'm not betting against them till they're not there.

655
00:38:27,440 --> 00:38:30,440
Speaker 1: Learn my lesson. I think the NFC is pretty fascinating

656
00:38:30,640 --> 00:38:33,000
Speaker 1: right All the teams that were in the mix last year,

657
00:38:33,960 --> 00:38:35,160
Speaker 1: I think you're going to say are going to be

658
00:38:35,200 --> 00:38:38,919
Speaker 1: in the mix again. The Niners as of right now,

659
00:38:38,960 --> 00:38:41,879
Speaker 1: basically most of the guys are coming back, so they're

660
00:38:41,880 --> 00:38:44,399
Speaker 1: going to be really good. I thought the Rams would

661
00:38:44,400 --> 00:38:46,279
Speaker 1: be pretty good. They lose Aaron Donald, Like, that's a

662
00:38:46,280 --> 00:38:48,520
Speaker 1: pretty big blow. But if Matt Stafford's healthy, they're a

663
00:38:48,560 --> 00:38:51,640
Speaker 1: playoff team. We know the Lions are really good, the

664
00:38:51,719 --> 00:38:54,719
Speaker 1: Packers were definitely ascending, and then I think you have

665
00:38:54,800 --> 00:38:57,520
Speaker 1: the two kind of wild cards. They've been really good

666
00:38:57,600 --> 00:39:00,720
Speaker 1: the last couple of years. But you know, the Eagles

667
00:39:00,719 --> 00:39:05,000
Speaker 1: and the Cowboys. So you're gonna call me bias, but

668
00:39:05,080 --> 00:39:08,000
Speaker 1: I'll go Super Bowl rematch. But I think the Lions

669
00:39:08,040 --> 00:39:12,920
Speaker 1: are gonna be pretty good and maybe the Packers. What

670
00:39:13,040 --> 00:39:16,040
Speaker 1: kind of that group would be my early kind of

671
00:39:16,200 --> 00:39:19,480
Speaker 1: NFC window. I got a question for your next mail bag.

672
00:39:20,280 --> 00:39:23,520
Speaker 1: Do you think the Bears are a playoff team next season?

673
00:39:24,840 --> 00:39:27,359
Speaker 1: I think it's gonna be difficult, right, So just let's

674
00:39:27,400 --> 00:39:29,799
Speaker 1: just go over the playoff teams. The teams that we're

675
00:39:29,800 --> 00:39:32,520
Speaker 1: gonna think are gonna be in the playoffs, the forty

676
00:39:32,600 --> 00:39:39,879
Speaker 1: nine Ers, the Detroit Lions, the Rams, even the NFC East.

677
00:39:39,880 --> 00:39:42,239
Speaker 1: You're gonna pick probably the Eagles or the Cowboys to

678
00:39:42,280 --> 00:39:46,680
Speaker 1: win that division. The Packers, I think they're gonna be

679
00:39:46,680 --> 00:39:49,920
Speaker 1: better than they were last year. So I even if

680
00:39:49,920 --> 00:39:53,920
Speaker 1: you just focused on their division, how do they beat

681
00:39:54,000 --> 00:40:00,400
Speaker 1: those two teams? I know? Individually, they beat right beat

682
00:40:00,840 --> 00:40:05,160
Speaker 1: the Lions once they can compete, I mean even the

683
00:40:05,239 --> 00:40:07,480
Speaker 1: final game with fields they competed in that game, I

684
00:40:07,480 --> 00:40:11,839
Speaker 1: think the final score is seventeen to nine. Can they

685
00:40:11,840 --> 00:40:14,239
Speaker 1: get to nine wins? To me, the goal would be

686
00:40:14,320 --> 00:40:16,319
Speaker 1: nine wins if you missed the wild card, that's a

687
00:40:16,440 --> 00:40:19,439
Speaker 1: very very successful season, and especially if Caleb show something.

688
00:40:20,080 --> 00:40:22,480
Speaker 1: But best case scenario, can they make the playoffs? On

689
00:40:23,719 --> 00:40:27,600
Speaker 1: am I gonna pick them to make the playoffs? Probably not?

690
00:40:28,719 --> 00:40:31,919
Speaker 1: And that's more of an indictment of like, it's hard

691
00:40:31,960 --> 00:40:34,200
Speaker 1: for me to pick emer Flus to be a playoff

692
00:40:34,239 --> 00:40:37,680
Speaker 1: head coach, kind of like their roster. Ryan Poul's proven

693
00:40:37,680 --> 00:40:43,480
Speaker 1: to be pretty good. We all know that Dak has

694
00:40:43,520 --> 00:40:46,120
Speaker 1: to be extended. They can't let him walk for nothing.

695
00:40:46,680 --> 00:40:50,359
Speaker 1: His contract is not tradable, and like you said, they

696
00:40:50,520 --> 00:40:54,360
Speaker 1: like to pay their own guys. But what if anything

697
00:40:54,480 --> 00:40:56,640
Speaker 1: can they do to get over the hump. I really

698
00:40:56,719 --> 00:40:59,040
Speaker 1: feel like they're Dereck Henry away from taking the pressure

699
00:40:59,080 --> 00:41:02,720
Speaker 1: off Dack to the playoffs. Well they didn't. They didn't

700
00:41:02,800 --> 00:41:06,279
Speaker 1: sign Derrick Henry obviously, Listen, I think the way they

701
00:41:06,320 --> 00:41:07,680
Speaker 1: were gonna get over the hump this year was have

702
00:41:07,800 --> 00:41:10,440
Speaker 1: Dak play well. Now, their defense shit the bet against

703
00:41:10,440 --> 00:41:13,680
Speaker 1: the Packers, but if they're ever going to make a run,

704
00:41:14,560 --> 00:41:16,680
Speaker 1: Dak has to have a playoff stretch where he looks

705
00:41:16,680 --> 00:41:20,400
Speaker 1: like Joe Flacco or Eli Manning. He has to get hot,

706
00:41:20,680 --> 00:41:23,680
Speaker 1: and it's been the opposite. You need to throw a

707
00:41:23,680 --> 00:41:25,480
Speaker 1: pick six last year against the Packers. I mean, he

708
00:41:25,560 --> 00:41:28,840
Speaker 1: was objectively terrible in that game. Two years ago, he

709
00:41:28,920 --> 00:41:30,600
Speaker 1: was okay against the Niners, but he also threw an

710
00:41:30,640 --> 00:41:33,760
Speaker 1: interception that cost him. Three years ago against the Niners

711
00:41:33,800 --> 00:41:38,359
Speaker 1: at home, he threw two picks. So as long as

712
00:41:38,360 --> 00:41:42,040
Speaker 1: he's their quarterback, I mean, clearly your defense can't just

713
00:41:42,080 --> 00:41:44,799
Speaker 1: have one of the worst games all season long. But

714
00:41:46,880 --> 00:41:49,480
Speaker 1: you need him to play well. You need him to

715
00:41:49,480 --> 00:41:52,680
Speaker 1: get hot. Now, I think it's fair to have the conversation,

716
00:41:52,960 --> 00:41:56,279
Speaker 1: is he capable of doing that? So far what we've

717
00:41:56,280 --> 00:41:58,360
Speaker 1: seen and he's it's not like he's twenty four, so

718
00:41:58,400 --> 00:42:00,279
Speaker 1: there's like a lot of unknown Like we've seen him

719
00:42:00,280 --> 00:42:03,200
Speaker 1: for a while, I think it's fair to say it's

720
00:42:03,280 --> 00:42:07,080
Speaker 1: probably not gonna happen. But we have enough examples of

721
00:42:07,120 --> 00:42:11,000
Speaker 1: individuals like Joe Flacca was not consistently as good as

722
00:42:11,080 --> 00:42:14,600
Speaker 1: Dak Prescott, but he had one playoffs where he got

723
00:42:14,640 --> 00:42:18,800
Speaker 1: super hot. Eli Manning was pretty up and down throughout

724
00:42:18,800 --> 00:42:21,319
Speaker 1: his career, had a couple of playoffs where he just

725
00:42:21,320 --> 00:42:24,640
Speaker 1: got hot, made huge plays when he had to. Can

726
00:42:24,719 --> 00:42:29,000
Speaker 1: Dak ever have that happen? As of right now, the

727
00:42:29,000 --> 00:42:32,399
Speaker 1: answer has been no. But to me, I would say

728
00:42:32,440 --> 00:42:35,760
Speaker 1: that would be the way the Dallas gets over the hump.

729
00:42:36,400 --> 00:42:39,920
Speaker 1: Is Dak just has like one of the hotter stretches

730
00:42:39,960 --> 00:42:42,880
Speaker 1: of his career at the right time. Not in October,

731
00:42:43,080 --> 00:42:47,600
Speaker 1: not November, in fucking January. I'd say it helped to

732
00:42:47,640 --> 00:42:50,759
Speaker 1: have home playoff games, but they've lost. They've hosted two

733
00:42:50,840 --> 00:42:53,200
Speaker 1: playoff games. Two of the last three years in the

734
00:42:53,200 --> 00:42:59,400
Speaker 1: first round have been bounced. I've seen so many reports

735
00:42:59,400 --> 00:43:02,440
Speaker 1: that the Giants route on Daniel Jones, the Dolphins have

736
00:43:02,560 --> 00:43:05,000
Speaker 1: yet to give to a big contract. Could you see

737
00:43:05,040 --> 00:43:08,800
Speaker 1: the Dolphins trading Tua all Night one of the draft

738
00:43:09,280 --> 00:43:12,839
Speaker 1: to a team like the Giants were another NFC team

739
00:43:12,880 --> 00:43:16,640
Speaker 1: with a good pick to get one of the quarterbacks. Well,

740
00:43:17,760 --> 00:43:23,840
Speaker 1: obviously the Dolphins have to a problem in the sense

741
00:43:24,000 --> 00:43:27,240
Speaker 1: that he needs to get paid. Why would another team

742
00:43:27,440 --> 00:43:30,640
Speaker 1: trade for Tua and then give him a huge contract?

743
00:43:31,400 --> 00:43:34,640
Speaker 1: I think we all agree unless you're to his family.

744
00:43:34,680 --> 00:43:37,040
Speaker 1: And Tua seems like a great guy, and he's honestly

745
00:43:37,040 --> 00:43:38,920
Speaker 1: a better NFL player than I thought he would be.

746
00:43:39,480 --> 00:43:42,560
Speaker 1: I wasn't a huge believer of him. I didn't even

747
00:43:42,560 --> 00:43:46,080
Speaker 1: think he'd be I never thought he'd be this good.

748
00:43:46,239 --> 00:43:48,239
Speaker 1: I was not a huge to a fan as a

749
00:43:48,320 --> 00:43:50,440
Speaker 1: prospect in the NFL. He's been better than I thought.

750
00:43:51,200 --> 00:43:52,800
Speaker 1: I just could not pay him forty five to fifty

751
00:43:52,800 --> 00:43:55,080
Speaker 1: million dollars a year. So if the Dolphins are not

752
00:43:55,080 --> 00:43:57,320
Speaker 1: going to do that, and they've literally had him for

753
00:43:57,360 --> 00:43:59,600
Speaker 1: two years under McDaniel and had a lot of success,

754
00:44:01,400 --> 00:44:03,640
Speaker 1: someone else is gonna go, well, I'll take that guy,

755
00:44:03,680 --> 00:44:05,640
Speaker 1: and then I'll give him one hundred and eighty million

756
00:44:05,680 --> 00:44:11,239
Speaker 1: dollars guaranteed. Seems a little unrealistic to me, Like it's

757
00:44:11,280 --> 00:44:14,719
Speaker 1: just Colin and I were talking about this. It seems

758
00:44:14,760 --> 00:44:18,520
Speaker 1: like they're a lot smarter GMS. People are like less emotional,

759
00:44:19,000 --> 00:44:23,120
Speaker 1: maybe a little less star driven. Twenty years ago, thirty

760
00:44:23,200 --> 00:44:26,920
Speaker 1: years ago, these type things happened. I think in twenty

761
00:44:27,000 --> 00:44:32,680
Speaker 1: twenty four, who's doing that. We've seen bad quarterback contracts

762
00:44:33,280 --> 00:44:40,239
Speaker 1: derail franchises. I mean, it fucked the Broncos. Obviously it's

763
00:44:40,320 --> 00:44:42,560
Speaker 1: crazy the amount of money they gave Daniel Jones, but

764
00:44:43,719 --> 00:44:46,120
Speaker 1: that hurt the Giants a lot and it still is.

765
00:44:48,760 --> 00:44:53,200
Speaker 1: Matt Ryan's contract at the end was a disaster for

766
00:44:53,239 --> 00:44:57,480
Speaker 1: the Falcons. I think if you're gonna give the guy

767
00:44:57,480 --> 00:45:01,040
Speaker 1: a lot of money, he either has to be playing

768
00:45:01,080 --> 00:45:04,839
Speaker 1: really well and you feel confident in them, right, like

769
00:45:05,120 --> 00:45:08,560
Speaker 1: the Falcons with Cousins, which is still risky because he's injured.

770
00:45:08,560 --> 00:45:11,160
Speaker 1: But those guys know him and they're just looking for

771
00:45:11,239 --> 00:45:13,080
Speaker 1: something solid and they only had to give him Like

772
00:45:13,120 --> 00:45:14,800
Speaker 1: they didn't have to give him two hundred million dollars.

773
00:45:15,520 --> 00:45:17,480
Speaker 1: They gave him a basically a three year contract. Who

774
00:45:17,520 --> 00:45:19,080
Speaker 1: is going to want a five or six year deal.

775
00:45:20,480 --> 00:45:24,040
Speaker 1: I think he's a very very complicated situation given how

776
00:45:24,120 --> 00:45:27,839
Speaker 1: much money the going rate is for you just throw

777
00:45:27,880 --> 00:45:30,680
Speaker 1: up a stats playoffs two years in a row. Stats,

778
00:45:30,680 --> 00:45:32,839
Speaker 1: I'd go, well, who are the good teams that you're

779
00:45:32,840 --> 00:45:36,560
Speaker 1: beaten and playing well against? Watched all your games last year.

780
00:45:36,800 --> 00:45:38,680
Speaker 1: You did not play well against the better teams. You

781
00:45:38,760 --> 00:45:43,200
Speaker 1: just didn't and you can't play in the cold. Did

782
00:45:43,200 --> 00:45:48,080
Speaker 1: the Packers overpay Xavier McKinney. I'm concerned about them paying

783
00:45:48,120 --> 00:45:52,120
Speaker 1: seventeen million dollars a year for a non premium position,

784
00:45:53,040 --> 00:45:55,239
Speaker 1: especially with bills come and do for love and the

785
00:45:55,239 --> 00:45:57,960
Speaker 1: receivers in two or three years, if the guy is

786
00:45:58,000 --> 00:46:01,200
Speaker 1: a Pro Bowl level player, and I'd be lying to

787
00:46:01,200 --> 00:46:03,920
Speaker 1: you if I have the scattering report currently on Xavier McKinney,

788
00:46:04,600 --> 00:46:06,759
Speaker 1: but if the next two years he's a Pro Bowl

789
00:46:06,840 --> 00:46:11,759
Speaker 1: level safety, I hate the word premium position. Obviously, quarterback,

790
00:46:11,840 --> 00:46:14,680
Speaker 1: left tackle, pass rusher are more important. But if I

791
00:46:14,800 --> 00:46:21,080
Speaker 1: get an impact safety, linebacker, a nickel corner guard, like

792
00:46:21,120 --> 00:46:24,000
Speaker 1: he's a Pro Bowl impact guy, he's worth what I'm

793
00:46:24,000 --> 00:46:28,200
Speaker 1: paying all these guards that just got seventeen, eighteen, nineteen

794
00:46:28,200 --> 00:46:32,279
Speaker 1: million dollars. If those guys that were just paid go

795
00:46:32,400 --> 00:46:35,479
Speaker 1: to a Pro Bowl and are playing like a top

796
00:46:35,560 --> 00:46:39,160
Speaker 1: seven eight guy at their position, you don't even think twice.

797
00:46:39,239 --> 00:46:41,799
Speaker 1: If that guy is not, then you're to me the

798
00:46:41,920 --> 00:46:45,840
Speaker 1: margin like he'd better be really good. And part of

799
00:46:47,600 --> 00:46:50,120
Speaker 1: getting Jeff Hafley to come from Bosco, Jeff Hafley's a

800
00:46:50,200 --> 00:46:53,000
Speaker 1: dB guy like that's kind of his baby. It's what

801
00:46:53,120 --> 00:46:55,800
Speaker 1: he cut his teeth at as an up and coming coach.

802
00:46:56,640 --> 00:46:59,520
Speaker 1: So I think you go, we get this talented player

803
00:47:00,040 --> 00:47:01,960
Speaker 1: you've got to overpay a free agency that's part of

804
00:47:02,000 --> 00:47:06,200
Speaker 1: the deal. But our defensive coordinator is a dB guy

805
00:47:06,200 --> 00:47:08,160
Speaker 1: at heart, so we're going to get the best out

806
00:47:08,200 --> 00:47:10,919
Speaker 1: of this player. So yeah, I mean there's pressure on him.

807
00:47:11,480 --> 00:47:15,319
Speaker 1: But to me, the non premium position, if the guy

808
00:47:15,400 --> 00:47:20,279
Speaker 1: plays like a premium player, then it's not a big deal.

809
00:47:21,360 --> 00:47:25,120
Speaker 1: It's not a good contract if he's average. Totally agree.

810
00:47:25,480 --> 00:47:28,640
Speaker 1: It's all on how he plays. Mean, it's just that

811
00:47:28,760 --> 00:47:31,000
Speaker 1: simple to me. The receivers two or like, that's two

812
00:47:31,080 --> 00:47:34,879
Speaker 1: years down the road. Most of these contracts for non

813
00:47:34,960 --> 00:47:38,000
Speaker 1: quarterbacks and non defensive linemen are essentially a couple with

814
00:47:38,000 --> 00:47:40,839
Speaker 1: two year deals. I don't care how many years quote

815
00:47:40,920 --> 00:47:43,520
Speaker 1: unquote is contract, how many what guaranteed number? Did he get?

816
00:47:43,880 --> 00:47:47,799
Speaker 1: Thirty five million dollars? So you forty million dollars You're

817
00:47:47,840 --> 00:47:50,239
Speaker 1: not tied to him for crazy long periods of time.

818
00:47:51,640 --> 00:47:53,400
Speaker 1: Could be off on that number. I don't have his

819
00:47:53,440 --> 00:47:56,520
Speaker 1: contract in front of me, but I don't think you

820
00:47:56,560 --> 00:48:00,640
Speaker 1: gave him like an astronomical amount of money a bail bag.

821
00:48:01,239 --> 00:48:04,520
Speaker 1: I've heard rumors the Bears had better offers for fields

822
00:48:05,280 --> 00:48:07,720
Speaker 1: for a few other teams, but want but he wanted

823
00:48:07,760 --> 00:48:10,920
Speaker 1: to go to the Steelers first. Is this something that

824
00:48:11,000 --> 00:48:16,160
Speaker 1: other gms have done to help out a player? This

825
00:48:16,239 --> 00:48:19,279
Speaker 1: is I just don't believe this. I do not believe this.

826
00:48:20,440 --> 00:48:24,719
Speaker 1: I simply don't. And the better offer is what like, Hey,

827
00:48:25,560 --> 00:48:27,840
Speaker 1: we have these two six round picks, we like you

828
00:48:29,040 --> 00:48:32,040
Speaker 1: the difference of ten slots? What team would you want

829
00:48:32,080 --> 00:48:37,279
Speaker 1: to go to? Okay, that's believable, but like to think that, hey,

830
00:48:37,320 --> 00:48:40,040
Speaker 1: we got a fourth rounder on the table, but you

831
00:48:40,040 --> 00:48:42,160
Speaker 1: you know this is too Team X that you don't

832
00:48:42,200 --> 00:48:46,040
Speaker 1: want to go. Do you want to go to the Steelers? Uh? Picks?

833
00:48:46,239 --> 00:48:48,680
Speaker 1: You know, six round pick will trade you there? Bullshit?

834
00:48:49,400 --> 00:48:52,759
Speaker 1: That is not Ryan Poles's job. Do I think that

835
00:48:52,840 --> 00:48:55,440
Speaker 1: something might have been in the same vicinity. It's like

836
00:48:55,480 --> 00:48:58,719
Speaker 1: the difference of seven picks in the sixth round that

837
00:48:58,880 --> 00:49:01,719
Speaker 1: is believable, But the way that it was kind of

838
00:49:01,760 --> 00:49:04,279
Speaker 1: written is like they had way better offers on the

839
00:49:04,280 --> 00:49:07,520
Speaker 1: table and he was like, no, who do you think

840
00:49:07,520 --> 00:49:10,840
Speaker 1: you are? Like Kevin Durant, I don't believe that for

841
00:49:10,880 --> 00:49:15,080
Speaker 1: a second. Does this in any way help Poles as

842
00:49:15,120 --> 00:49:18,480
Speaker 1: a GM doing right by fields future player inside? No,

843
00:49:18,480 --> 00:49:21,000
Speaker 1: none of that. None of this is doing right by players.

844
00:49:21,040 --> 00:49:23,120
Speaker 1: This happened in the NBA forever, like take care of

845
00:49:23,120 --> 00:49:26,520
Speaker 1: my guy, We'll take care of you. Bs that this

846
00:49:26,600 --> 00:49:29,239
Speaker 1: is all a business. We're all trying to get the

847
00:49:29,280 --> 00:49:32,560
Speaker 1: most humanly possible. If you're an agent, you try to

848
00:49:32,600 --> 00:49:35,560
Speaker 1: get the most money from your client. If you're a GM,

849
00:49:35,719 --> 00:49:37,920
Speaker 1: you try to get the best package. If you're trading

850
00:49:37,960 --> 00:49:41,920
Speaker 1: a player does the business. We're all in. There's no

851
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Speaker 1: like if on the margins, maybe if the guy's like, hey,

852
00:49:46,960 --> 00:49:49,920
Speaker 1: you give my guy an extra million dollars, maybe I'll

853
00:49:49,960 --> 00:49:51,600
Speaker 1: help you out on the guy that's already on your

854
00:49:51,600 --> 00:49:55,880
Speaker 1: team on a contract extension. And even that, it's not

855
00:49:55,920 --> 00:49:58,680
Speaker 1: like you put that in writing. It's like a handshake deal.

856
00:49:59,120 --> 00:50:02,120
Speaker 1: And you know, I just call BS on all this.

857
00:50:02,640 --> 00:50:05,319
Speaker 1: I mean, we're talking so much money. These draft picks

858
00:50:05,320 --> 00:50:08,560
Speaker 1: are so valuable to think that, like, yeah, you know,

859
00:50:08,600 --> 00:50:11,040
Speaker 1: we could have got like two fours, but we love

860
00:50:11,080 --> 00:50:13,360
Speaker 1: fields great guy. He was a high character guy and

861
00:50:13,400 --> 00:50:15,319
Speaker 1: he wanted to go to the Steelers, so we traded them

862
00:50:15,320 --> 00:50:17,120
Speaker 1: for their you know pick at the end of the

863
00:50:17,160 --> 00:50:21,560
Speaker 1: sixth round. No way, it's not even believable that just

864
00:50:22,960 --> 00:50:27,160
Speaker 1: maybe like some historic player on the team, like hey,

865
00:50:28,280 --> 00:50:32,560
Speaker 1: we're gonna trade. Next year, we're gonna move on from

866
00:50:32,600 --> 00:50:35,200
Speaker 1: Travis Kelce and we're gonna trade him to a team

867
00:50:35,239 --> 00:50:36,920
Speaker 1: that he wants to go to. I'd be like, oh,

868
00:50:37,000 --> 00:50:39,839
Speaker 1: I could kind of see that. He helped the Chiefs win

869
00:50:39,880 --> 00:50:41,480
Speaker 1: three Super Bowls, one of the greatest players in the

870
00:50:41,560 --> 00:50:43,839
Speaker 1: history of the franchise. You love them, but you're gonna

871
00:50:43,880 --> 00:50:46,560
Speaker 1: go your separate directions. You told him you would trade

872
00:50:46,600 --> 00:50:48,800
Speaker 1: him and you would work with him on a trade,

873
00:50:48,800 --> 00:50:52,640
Speaker 1: So okay. Justin Fields, the GM that didn't draft him,

874
00:50:53,600 --> 00:50:59,160
Speaker 1: come on the notion that like they took way less

875
00:50:59,640 --> 00:51:04,440
Speaker 1: because they wanted to do right by them is borderline embarrassing.

876
00:51:04,719 --> 00:51:07,000
Speaker 1: It really is. And I like rap Sheet and he's

877
00:51:07,000 --> 00:51:10,040
Speaker 1: clearly good at his job, but that feels like you

878
00:51:10,080 --> 00:51:12,320
Speaker 1: don't even need to do this. No one is acting

879
00:51:12,400 --> 00:51:15,640
Speaker 1: like Ryan Poles, like there was some crazy market for him.

880
00:51:15,760 --> 00:51:20,000
Speaker 1: It didn't exist, and that's okay. It's out of his control.

881
00:51:20,320 --> 00:51:24,080
Speaker 1: He doesn't control the market. The other teams do. Huge

882
00:51:24,080 --> 00:51:26,680
Speaker 1: fan of the pod and wanted your business perspective on something.

883
00:51:26,719 --> 00:51:28,880
Speaker 1: I'm currently in the US Air Force and i have

884
00:51:28,920 --> 00:51:31,400
Speaker 1: three years left on my contract and I'm starting to

885
00:51:31,440 --> 00:51:34,760
Speaker 1: think about life ahead. I'm looking to pursue a trade

886
00:51:34,760 --> 00:51:38,000
Speaker 1: school when I'm done, and wondering how the Scottsdale area

887
00:51:38,560 --> 00:51:40,279
Speaker 1: is because I'm not sure I want to move back

888
00:51:40,280 --> 00:51:43,960
Speaker 1: to my hometown in West Virginia. Also love the tipping

889
00:51:43,960 --> 00:51:47,160
Speaker 1: culture topic. Wanted to share one of my experiences with

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00:51:47,239 --> 00:51:50,279
Speaker 1: the POD. I was at a Colorado Rockies game last

891
00:51:50,280 --> 00:51:54,480
Speaker 1: season and I got a cocktail twenty one dollars, and

892
00:51:54,520 --> 00:51:56,840
Speaker 1: then the guy flipped the iPad asking for a tip,

893
00:51:56,880 --> 00:52:01,640
Speaker 1: and I had no issue declining this insane. Totally agree,

894
00:52:01,840 --> 00:52:06,920
Speaker 1: I mean, what are we talking about yesterday? What day

895
00:52:06,960 --> 00:52:11,640
Speaker 1: is today? Monday? Saturday? We went out to dinner and

896
00:52:12,040 --> 00:52:15,000
Speaker 1: she wanted to go to this kind of newer seafoody

897
00:52:15,120 --> 00:52:17,800
Speaker 1: place down the road from our house called bucking Ryder.

898
00:52:17,840 --> 00:52:20,759
Speaker 1: Pretty good food. Well, you get there, the bar and

899
00:52:20,880 --> 00:52:24,400
Speaker 1: the restaurant is packed, and they have this seating area outside.

900
00:52:24,400 --> 00:52:27,400
Speaker 1: They have this incredible happy hour menu. All these aps

901
00:52:27,400 --> 00:52:30,200
Speaker 1: are ten bucks, all these cocktails are ten bucks. But

902
00:52:30,239 --> 00:52:33,880
Speaker 1: if they sit you outside, the happy hour doesn't exist.

903
00:52:34,760 --> 00:52:38,399
Speaker 1: So they sit us outside in like this patio where

904
00:52:38,400 --> 00:52:41,600
Speaker 1: they're not really paying attention to you, So the drinks

905
00:52:41,600 --> 00:52:45,759
Speaker 1: are really slow to come. The appetizers come like kind

906
00:52:45,760 --> 00:52:49,920
Speaker 1: of staggered ahead of the drinks. In fairness to the waitresses,

907
00:52:50,600 --> 00:52:55,600
Speaker 1: there's so much going on inside. The outside is an afterthought.

908
00:52:56,120 --> 00:53:01,200
Speaker 1: You have to, you know, basically, cash out outside before

909
00:53:01,239 --> 00:53:04,520
Speaker 1: you come inside and get like a new bill. Well,

910
00:53:04,600 --> 00:53:06,840
Speaker 1: I cash out, and you know, it's like eighty bucks.

911
00:53:06,880 --> 00:53:08,920
Speaker 1: We had a couple of cocktails and some couple apps,

912
00:53:09,440 --> 00:53:12,040
Speaker 1: and it flips around again. The service was awful. I

913
00:53:12,040 --> 00:53:14,759
Speaker 1: don't even blame them for the bad service. But then

914
00:53:14,800 --> 00:53:16,799
Speaker 1: when you flip it around and the tip starts at

915
00:53:16,800 --> 00:53:23,160
Speaker 1: eighteen twenty twenty five percent, it's like, guys, I'm all

916
00:53:23,200 --> 00:53:25,880
Speaker 1: for tipping for a good service. The service was bad,

917
00:53:26,440 --> 00:53:28,719
Speaker 1: and then I'm gonna tip again. Ideally I'm gonna get

918
00:53:28,719 --> 00:53:32,160
Speaker 1: better service inside. What happened to Like, yeah, ten to

919
00:53:32,239 --> 00:53:35,640
Speaker 1: fifteen percent? You did kind of an average job. I

920
00:53:36,080 --> 00:53:38,759
Speaker 1: just don't know where we're going from here. I love Scottsdale.

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00:53:39,960 --> 00:53:42,200
Speaker 1: It's awesome. I don't know what else to say. I

922
00:53:42,239 --> 00:53:44,800
Speaker 1: would recommend it to anybody. I don't know anyone that

923
00:53:44,880 --> 00:53:47,440
Speaker 1: lives here that does not like it. Not one person,

924
00:53:48,239 --> 00:53:50,880
Speaker 1: and most of people I know came from other places,

925
00:53:51,719 --> 00:53:54,040
Speaker 1: and everyone, to a man says the same thing. Wish

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00:53:54,080 --> 00:53:56,640
Speaker 1: I would have moved here sooner, didn't realize what I

927
00:53:56,680 --> 00:54:01,879
Speaker 1: was missing. I couldn't like it anymore. I love living here,

928
00:54:02,520 --> 00:54:06,800
Speaker 1: Love living here. Would recommend it to everybody gets a

929
00:54:06,840 --> 00:54:10,320
Speaker 1: little hot in the summer. Other than that, it's a

930
00:54:10,480 --> 00:54:13,200
Speaker 1: fucking awesome place to live. A lot going on. There's

931
00:54:13,239 --> 00:54:16,879
Speaker 1: just a vibe here that where I came from in

932
00:54:16,920 --> 00:54:19,839
Speaker 1: the Bay Area, that the vibe was not there anymore.

933
00:54:19,560 --> 00:54:23,240
Speaker 1: There is a vibe here, just it's hard to describe,

934
00:54:23,239 --> 00:54:24,960
Speaker 1: but once you hear you kind of know it. Different

935
00:54:24,960 --> 00:54:28,319
Speaker 1: places have vibes, and I really like the vibe here

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Speaker 1: for sure. The volume