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Speaker 1: and Out Podcasts, Sunday Night Football, Little old school backyard

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Speaker 1: I'm not gonna lie enjoyed it, but Steelers find a

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Speaker 1: way to win. A lot of other stuff going on

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Speaker 1: right NFC East Giants are in Eagles, I mean leak

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Speaker 1: that they got some issues right now. The football team

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Speaker 1: Commanders not a good couple of weeks stretch for them

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Speaker 1: at all. The Saints want a first round pick for

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Speaker 1: Sean Payton. The Colts really want to hire Jeff Saturday,

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Speaker 1: Derek carran or no circumstances should accept the trade. He's

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Speaker 1: apology to my man C. J. Stroud, who uh was

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Speaker 1: pretty awesome the other night, and some other thoughts on

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Speaker 1: the two college football games, um, as well as sources

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Speaker 1: we dive into the actual game. I'm a sucker for

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Speaker 1: old school football. You know, young guy like points as

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Speaker 1: I'm not opposed to wide receivers going off every single game.

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Speaker 1: It's cool, but I still enjoy hard hitting, ugly games now,

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Speaker 1: in Joe Burrow, Patrick Mahomes, Josh Allen, it's a tough crew.

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Speaker 1: factor that the short term and the long term. What's

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Speaker 1: Brian table long term? Like, I bet he has a

426
00:22:02,040 --> 00:22:04,159
Speaker 1: lot more new players in two years that he has

427
00:22:04,200 --> 00:22:05,960
Speaker 1: on this team. That's just that was always going to

428
00:22:06,000 --> 00:22:08,439
Speaker 1: be the case. So I would imagine and listen. What

429
00:22:08,480 --> 00:22:11,040
Speaker 1: Brian Dable has done this year is remarkable. I think

430
00:22:11,040 --> 00:22:14,159
Speaker 1: he plays this out. You somehow beat the Eagles and

431
00:22:14,160 --> 00:22:15,879
Speaker 1: we saw a couple of weeks ago it wasn't even close.

432
00:22:16,160 --> 00:22:18,040
Speaker 1: So it's an easy one for his guys to kind

433
00:22:18,040 --> 00:22:20,639
Speaker 1: of get the mojo going. And I said this the

434
00:22:20,640 --> 00:22:24,560
Speaker 1: other night when the Cowboys won that weird game Thursday night,

435
00:22:24,800 --> 00:22:27,080
Speaker 1: you know whatever, it was tough game to watch, but

436
00:22:27,560 --> 00:22:29,960
Speaker 1: they just gave themselves a chance. And today is a

437
00:22:30,000 --> 00:22:32,840
Speaker 1: good example. Eagles loose, and all of a sudden, the

438
00:22:32,840 --> 00:22:35,600
Speaker 1: Cowboys are a win away and an Eagle's loss away

439
00:22:35,760 --> 00:22:38,800
Speaker 1: from the Eagles being the wild card team. And I

440
00:22:38,800 --> 00:22:42,280
Speaker 1: would say the most head scratching move today in the NFL.

441
00:22:42,359 --> 00:22:45,040
Speaker 1: And this also just ironically has to I don't even

442
00:22:45,080 --> 00:22:47,920
Speaker 1: know if ironically is the right word, but just randomly

443
00:22:48,000 --> 00:22:51,440
Speaker 1: fall under this NFC East purview. Here is the Washington

444
00:22:51,480 --> 00:22:56,160
Speaker 1: football team Commanders. I thought two weeks ago on Christmas Eve,

445
00:22:56,280 --> 00:23:00,080
Speaker 1: the forty Niners played the Washington Commanders. I was I

446
00:23:00,320 --> 00:23:02,480
Speaker 1: had had mimosas before that game even came out. I

447
00:23:02,520 --> 00:23:05,200
Speaker 1: was pretty I was pretty toasty. And by the second

448
00:23:05,200 --> 00:23:08,600
Speaker 1: half when they yanked Heineck in that game, I remember thinking,

449
00:23:08,640 --> 00:23:12,400
Speaker 1: like I've had about six seven drinks by then, Ron,

450
00:23:12,480 --> 00:23:16,720
Speaker 1: what are you doing? Liker? Heinek is not the reason

451
00:23:17,080 --> 00:23:18,680
Speaker 1: that you are not in this game. Honestly, I thought

452
00:23:18,720 --> 00:23:21,359
Speaker 1: he had made some plays. You're gonna go to, Carson Wentz.

453
00:23:21,880 --> 00:23:25,640
Speaker 1: The reason your season got going in the right direction

454
00:23:25,840 --> 00:23:29,159
Speaker 1: was because this young, unnamed kind of random dude that

455
00:23:29,320 --> 00:23:31,520
Speaker 1: most football fans, beside the one playoff game he had

456
00:23:31,520 --> 00:23:35,359
Speaker 1: against Brady, don't know anything about, gave you life and

457
00:23:35,480 --> 00:23:37,840
Speaker 1: clearly a lot of guys on the team liked them,

458
00:23:37,960 --> 00:23:41,920
Speaker 1: believed in them, and there was like, uh something to him,

459
00:23:41,920 --> 00:23:45,160
Speaker 1: a moxie, uh you know, a pena. There was just

460
00:23:45,160 --> 00:23:47,760
Speaker 1: just something, you know that he brought to the table.

461
00:23:47,840 --> 00:23:51,560
Speaker 1: Do you have some limitations? Hell yeah. But Carson Wentz

462
00:23:51,960 --> 00:23:54,840
Speaker 1: is not good at football. It's crazy because several years

463
00:23:54,880 --> 00:23:57,119
Speaker 1: ago I thought he was a star and gonna be

464
00:23:57,200 --> 00:24:00,680
Speaker 1: a superstar in this league. Me, like most people, dead wrong.

465
00:24:01,080 --> 00:24:04,760
Speaker 1: He stinks he's awful and one thing to make the

466
00:24:04,800 --> 00:24:06,840
Speaker 1: move in game, but then to go to Carson Wentz

467
00:24:06,880 --> 00:24:09,040
Speaker 1: in this game I thought was pretty embarrassing. And I

468
00:24:09,119 --> 00:24:12,880
Speaker 1: know he's getting crushed on social media today for because

469
00:24:12,880 --> 00:24:16,000
Speaker 1: he said he didn't know the playoffs scenario. I'm gonna

470
00:24:16,000 --> 00:24:17,560
Speaker 1: give him a little bit of a pass. The only

471
00:24:17,600 --> 00:24:20,199
Speaker 1: thing in Ron Rivera's mind that mattered was beating the

472
00:24:20,240 --> 00:24:22,800
Speaker 1: Cleveland Browns today, and he didn't do it. And honestly,

473
00:24:22,800 --> 00:24:24,160
Speaker 1: I looked over at the score a couple of times,

474
00:24:24,160 --> 00:24:26,920
Speaker 1: it didn't even look that close. But to me, this

475
00:24:27,080 --> 00:24:29,959
Speaker 1: season was over the moment he went to the bullpen

476
00:24:30,000 --> 00:24:33,320
Speaker 1: to Carson Wentz and then stuck with him, like what

477
00:24:33,440 --> 00:24:36,080
Speaker 1: you're loyalty to this? Why do you think this guy

478
00:24:36,320 --> 00:24:39,640
Speaker 1: is gonna get you in a position when he's proven

479
00:24:39,840 --> 00:24:43,240
Speaker 1: over and over and over again and it shows you.

480
00:24:43,359 --> 00:24:45,920
Speaker 1: I don't remember a player that it's such a high

481
00:24:46,000 --> 00:24:48,119
Speaker 1: high right, Like he had a season where he was

482
00:24:48,119 --> 00:24:50,080
Speaker 1: gonna be the m v P and then several years

483
00:24:50,160 --> 00:24:53,480
Speaker 1: later he just stinks and teams just get worse when

484
00:24:53,480 --> 00:24:57,639
Speaker 1: he plays. Pretty crazy, but Washington has done the the

485
00:24:57,720 --> 00:25:00,680
Speaker 1: NFC East, we all made fun of that division before

486
00:25:00,720 --> 00:25:04,800
Speaker 1: the season. Three teams, three teams in the playoffs, so

487
00:25:05,320 --> 00:25:07,480
Speaker 1: hat tipped to them. A couple other things I wanted

488
00:25:07,480 --> 00:25:10,000
Speaker 1: to hit on, first and foremost Derek Carr the Raiders.

489
00:25:10,080 --> 00:25:12,959
Speaker 1: Jared said him look pretty good today. Raiders gave forty Niners.

490
00:25:13,160 --> 00:25:15,000
Speaker 1: Oh they could handle. They easily could have won the

491
00:25:15,040 --> 00:25:18,240
Speaker 1: game easily several times. But you know, I've been watching

492
00:25:18,280 --> 00:25:20,119
Speaker 1: the Raiders for a decade. They easily could have won

493
00:25:20,119 --> 00:25:21,560
Speaker 1: a lot of games they end up losing. You know,

494
00:25:24,400 --> 00:25:26,880
Speaker 1: Derek Carr. There's been a lot of talk. If you're

495
00:25:26,880 --> 00:25:29,000
Speaker 1: listening to this, if you're a Colts fan, if you're

496
00:25:29,000 --> 00:25:31,480
Speaker 1: a Jets fan, if you're Seattle fan. I've been getting

497
00:25:31,480 --> 00:25:33,280
Speaker 1: a lot of d ms, like I get a lot

498
00:25:33,320 --> 00:25:35,359
Speaker 1: of Seattle d MS actually like, why shouldn't we be

499
00:25:35,359 --> 00:25:38,199
Speaker 1: all over him like you should? I think the Colts

500
00:25:38,240 --> 00:25:40,000
Speaker 1: make a lot of sense. I think the Saints would

501
00:25:40,080 --> 00:25:43,360
Speaker 1: make a lot of sense. But here's the thing. If

502
00:25:43,400 --> 00:25:46,280
Speaker 1: I'm Derek Carr, you only get leverage in life in

503
00:25:46,320 --> 00:25:50,919
Speaker 1: business so many times, right, and as a player, like

504
00:25:51,000 --> 00:25:55,359
Speaker 1: as an NFL football player, your leverage might come once

505
00:25:55,400 --> 00:25:57,720
Speaker 1: in your career. Think about Aaron Rodgers truly had it

506
00:25:57,840 --> 00:25:59,600
Speaker 1: one time in his career and it was last year.

507
00:26:00,000 --> 00:26:02,280
Speaker 1: Peyton Manning had it one time in his career when

508
00:26:02,280 --> 00:26:04,560
Speaker 1: he hit free agency. I'm obviously they have some when

509
00:26:04,560 --> 00:26:07,800
Speaker 1: they're negotiating a contract, but I mean true leverage. This

510
00:26:07,840 --> 00:26:09,679
Speaker 1: is what I want. Give it or take it, or

511
00:26:09,720 --> 00:26:13,080
Speaker 1: I'm gone or I'm not coming to your franchise. This

512
00:26:13,240 --> 00:26:16,040
Speaker 1: notion that the Raiders are gonna trade Derek Carr, I

513
00:26:16,080 --> 00:26:19,280
Speaker 1: think we need to pump the brakes. Derek Carr has

514
00:26:19,320 --> 00:26:22,760
Speaker 1: a no trade clause now. I said last week that

515
00:26:22,840 --> 00:26:25,240
Speaker 1: the Raiders sending him home was an embarrassment. They said

516
00:26:25,240 --> 00:26:28,800
Speaker 1: a day on the broadcast that it was Derek's idea. Listen,

517
00:26:28,880 --> 00:26:31,840
Speaker 1: I will take back my ship. Talking of the Raiders,

518
00:26:31,880 --> 00:26:34,920
Speaker 1: if Derek agreed to leave. That's you cannot do that.

519
00:26:34,920 --> 00:26:38,600
Speaker 1: That's a loser move. I would if I was his representation,

520
00:26:38,760 --> 00:26:42,800
Speaker 1: his agent, his friend, his confidant, under no circumstances. You lose,

521
00:26:42,880 --> 00:26:45,160
Speaker 1: you make them send you home. You stay, you show

522
00:26:45,200 --> 00:26:47,159
Speaker 1: up to practice. You'll be the third quarterback. They're not

523
00:26:47,320 --> 00:26:49,440
Speaker 1: sending you home when you've just done that for three

524
00:26:49,440 --> 00:26:51,920
Speaker 1: You don't tuck your tail between the legs and leave now.

525
00:26:51,960 --> 00:26:53,480
Speaker 1: I don't know. We got a lot of This is

526
00:26:53,480 --> 00:26:55,560
Speaker 1: all the Raiders side. If Derek, if they're lying, he

527
00:26:55,600 --> 00:26:57,480
Speaker 1: needs to come out and say something. But here's my

528
00:26:57,560 --> 00:27:00,000
Speaker 1: Noh do I do? If I'm Derek, I'm not accepting

529
00:27:00,119 --> 00:27:05,240
Speaker 1: your trade because his contract is not guaranteed. Every single year,

530
00:27:05,359 --> 00:27:08,080
Speaker 1: every team can cut him. If I'm Derek Carr. The

531
00:27:08,160 --> 00:27:10,600
Speaker 1: reason quarterbacks don't get leveraged that much. They don't ever

532
00:27:10,680 --> 00:27:13,520
Speaker 1: hit free agency. The one time Kirk Cousins hit free agency,

533
00:27:13,560 --> 00:27:16,520
Speaker 1: he got like eighty five million dollars guaranteed. If I'm Derek,

534
00:27:16,600 --> 00:27:18,959
Speaker 1: I give up my middle finger and say, f you

535
00:27:19,119 --> 00:27:22,160
Speaker 1: cut me, I'm not accepting any trade, and then I'll

536
00:27:22,160 --> 00:27:25,399
Speaker 1: pick my destination. What is the minimum amount Derek Carr

537
00:27:25,440 --> 00:27:28,680
Speaker 1: flood quarterback, but probably the best quarterback to hit the

538
00:27:28,720 --> 00:27:30,960
Speaker 1: open market him or Cousins in the last ten years.

539
00:27:31,320 --> 00:27:34,480
Speaker 1: What would he get on the open market? Minimum? Three years,

540
00:27:35,119 --> 00:27:39,040
Speaker 1: hundred million, sixty guaranteed minimum. You don't think the Colts

541
00:27:39,080 --> 00:27:41,240
Speaker 1: would give him that. The Seattle you don't think that.

542
00:27:41,359 --> 00:27:43,399
Speaker 1: I don't think the Jets make much sense with the weather,

543
00:27:43,480 --> 00:27:45,359
Speaker 1: But they'd have to think about it. They'd have to

544
00:27:45,359 --> 00:27:47,440
Speaker 1: talk what was what's he worth the Saints. I know

545
00:27:47,480 --> 00:27:50,000
Speaker 1: some of these teams cap situation. But if Derek car

546
00:27:50,000 --> 00:27:52,400
Speaker 1: is a free agent, we saw KERK Cousins whatever five

547
00:27:52,480 --> 00:27:54,320
Speaker 1: years ago, four years ago, or whenever he went to

548
00:27:54,359 --> 00:27:57,359
Speaker 1: the Vikings hit the open market and had the Jets

549
00:27:57,359 --> 00:28:00,000
Speaker 1: in the Minnesota Vikings bidding on him. And at the time,

550
00:28:00,000 --> 00:28:02,919
Speaker 1: I'm when he got eighty five his contract fully guaranteed.

551
00:28:03,160 --> 00:28:06,160
Speaker 1: That was an eye opening contract. Well, Derek, coming off

552
00:28:06,200 --> 00:28:08,080
Speaker 1: a weird year, I think most teams are gonna judge

553
00:28:08,119 --> 00:28:12,119
Speaker 1: Josh McDaniels a loser. First team in NFL history to

554
00:28:12,280 --> 00:28:15,320
Speaker 1: have a double digit lead and blow it five times

555
00:28:15,320 --> 00:28:18,320
Speaker 1: in the second half this season, only team in NFL

556
00:28:18,359 --> 00:28:22,520
Speaker 1: history to ever blow five second half double digit leads.

557
00:28:22,920 --> 00:28:28,560
Speaker 1: Josh McDaniels, like Derek Carr Lifetime s pastor Scent last year.

558
00:28:28,600 --> 00:28:31,760
Speaker 1: This year, Warren Sharp had a good breakdown of like

559
00:28:31,840 --> 00:28:35,000
Speaker 1: some of his statistics, Like Josh McDaniels is the guy

560
00:28:35,040 --> 00:28:37,560
Speaker 1: to bear a lot of blame. These other teams are

561
00:28:37,560 --> 00:28:39,720
Speaker 1: gonna give it to him. So if I'm Derek Carr

562
00:28:40,000 --> 00:28:43,680
Speaker 1: the number one movie you make, fuck you Oakland or Vegas,

563
00:28:43,960 --> 00:28:47,320
Speaker 1: cut me now. I'm not acting like Derek carrs Patrick

564
00:28:47,360 --> 00:28:50,040
Speaker 1: mahomes with Josh Allen here. But he's got leverage. You

565
00:28:50,160 --> 00:28:53,080
Speaker 1: got this no trade coss, you gotta use it. I

566
00:28:53,080 --> 00:28:56,640
Speaker 1: would not let the Raiders benefit from what you've given

567
00:28:56,720 --> 00:29:01,200
Speaker 1: when you just had this crazy breakup. A couple of

568
00:29:01,280 --> 00:29:04,720
Speaker 1: quick things on coaching the Saints. They want a first

569
00:29:04,840 --> 00:29:07,680
Speaker 1: round pick for Sean Payton. To me, that's kind of laughable,

570
00:29:08,080 --> 00:29:10,520
Speaker 1: Like it's over, guys that that just feels like you're

571
00:29:10,520 --> 00:29:13,560
Speaker 1: being greedy. He's never coming back to you. I think

572
00:29:13,560 --> 00:29:15,200
Speaker 1: about right now and listen. I've been looking in the

573
00:29:15,200 --> 00:29:17,600
Speaker 1: housing market for a while. People offered to buy my

574
00:29:17,680 --> 00:29:19,880
Speaker 1: condo in the Bay and the peak of the hysteria

575
00:29:19,920 --> 00:29:22,280
Speaker 1: two thousand one, I probably could have sold it for

576
00:29:22,320 --> 00:29:25,040
Speaker 1: a hundred and fifty thousand dollars more than it's worth today.

577
00:29:25,440 --> 00:29:27,560
Speaker 1: But it's today, it's not worth that much anymore, and

578
00:29:27,600 --> 00:29:29,640
Speaker 1: I still have it. Right. A lot of you listening

579
00:29:29,960 --> 00:29:32,880
Speaker 1: you probably sold homes or bought homes in two thousand one.

580
00:29:33,160 --> 00:29:36,800
Speaker 1: That market is not today's market, and honestly, it's never

581
00:29:36,840 --> 00:29:39,680
Speaker 1: going back and and has someone that's kind of bidding

582
00:29:39,720 --> 00:29:41,760
Speaker 1: on homes or sniffing around. I see a lot of

583
00:29:41,800 --> 00:29:43,760
Speaker 1: people that like have their home on the market for

584
00:29:43,880 --> 00:29:46,680
Speaker 1: one point five six months ago, and they've dropped it

585
00:29:46,760 --> 00:29:50,440
Speaker 1: like one point four and they're getting no offers. It's like, hey, guys,

586
00:29:50,640 --> 00:29:52,640
Speaker 1: if you want to sell your home, you might have

587
00:29:52,720 --> 00:29:55,520
Speaker 1: to take one point to You bought it for five,

588
00:29:56,200 --> 00:29:58,840
Speaker 1: so you're still making seven hundred thousand dollars. Do you

589
00:29:58,880 --> 00:30:01,560
Speaker 1: want to take a profit or not, because if things

590
00:30:01,680 --> 00:30:05,120
Speaker 1: go haywire, it could be worth one at the end

591
00:30:05,160 --> 00:30:08,640
Speaker 1: of next year. So just be prepared. Right, Like the Saints,

592
00:30:08,720 --> 00:30:12,280
Speaker 1: he's never coming back to you ever, So if you're

593
00:30:12,320 --> 00:30:15,120
Speaker 1: Sean Payton, you're not going somewhere and making them give

594
00:30:15,200 --> 00:30:17,320
Speaker 1: up a one, Like, hey, New Orleans, I'm not coming

595
00:30:17,360 --> 00:30:19,680
Speaker 1: back to you. So you don't have a first round pick.

596
00:30:19,720 --> 00:30:21,600
Speaker 1: I get you wanting a first round pick you ain't

597
00:30:21,600 --> 00:30:24,320
Speaker 1: getting it. It is not happening. We take like two

598
00:30:24,360 --> 00:30:27,320
Speaker 1: threes because that's what you should do. What do they say,

599
00:30:27,320 --> 00:30:29,920
Speaker 1: Pigs get fed, hawgs get slaughtered, like you could want

600
00:30:29,960 --> 00:30:32,000
Speaker 1: a lot of things. Like a lot of people have

601
00:30:32,640 --> 00:30:35,520
Speaker 1: outrageous numbers on their home right now. Guess what they're

602
00:30:35,560 --> 00:30:39,200
Speaker 1: never selling for that ever, I'll promise you and depending

603
00:30:39,200 --> 00:30:41,080
Speaker 1: on where you live, it's gonna go for a lot

604
00:30:41,200 --> 00:30:45,800
Speaker 1: less Arizona. So if I'm the Saints, like start being

605
00:30:45,840 --> 00:30:48,680
Speaker 1: realistic about this, And honestly, if I'm Sean Payton, I'm

606
00:30:48,680 --> 00:30:51,920
Speaker 1: only going to a couple of places. If if Brendon

607
00:30:52,000 --> 00:30:53,800
Speaker 1: Saley is one and done and they fire him for me,

608
00:30:53,960 --> 00:30:56,760
Speaker 1: I'd go there. I'm not going to Denver. I'm not

609
00:30:56,880 --> 00:31:00,360
Speaker 1: going to Arizona. I'm not going to Carol line Up.

610
00:31:00,480 --> 00:31:03,280
Speaker 1: So you know I'm not a lock to go but

611
00:31:03,480 --> 00:31:06,080
Speaker 1: Carolina or i mean New Orleans. Just thinking that they're

612
00:31:06,080 --> 00:31:08,920
Speaker 1: gonna get a high pick, like the reason the Raiders

613
00:31:10,000 --> 00:31:13,600
Speaker 1: when they traded Jon Gruden to the Tampa Bay Buccaneers

614
00:31:13,640 --> 00:31:15,920
Speaker 1: for whatever two ones and eight million dollars. Think how

615
00:31:15,960 --> 00:31:19,440
Speaker 1: crazy that is. Al Davis wanted eight million dollars as well.

616
00:31:19,520 --> 00:31:23,400
Speaker 1: It wasn't just picks. I want cash, like that must

617
00:31:23,440 --> 00:31:25,000
Speaker 1: be a cool thing. Back in the day, they used

618
00:31:25,000 --> 00:31:27,000
Speaker 1: to happen a lot more when all these teams had

619
00:31:27,040 --> 00:31:29,080
Speaker 1: way less money than they had now, Like right now,

620
00:31:29,280 --> 00:31:31,680
Speaker 1: can you imagine, like eight million dollars to Jerry Jones

621
00:31:31,880 --> 00:31:35,400
Speaker 1: would be like what like eighty dollars to mirror you.

622
00:31:35,640 --> 00:31:38,000
Speaker 1: I mean that's eight million dollars by the time, I

623
00:31:38,040 --> 00:31:40,160
Speaker 1: mean eight million dollars a lot. He just wanted cash

624
00:31:40,280 --> 00:31:43,520
Speaker 1: as well as some picks. Jon Gruden was the Raiders coach.

625
00:31:43,880 --> 00:31:46,600
Speaker 1: Like he was the Raiders coach, so it's like, you

626
00:31:46,600 --> 00:31:48,600
Speaker 1: want my coach, Yeah, you gotta give me two once

627
00:31:48,880 --> 00:31:50,080
Speaker 1: and he had just he was one of the best

628
00:31:50,080 --> 00:31:53,520
Speaker 1: coach of the league. Sean Payton is retired. He's done. Now.

629
00:31:53,560 --> 00:31:56,040
Speaker 1: I understand you get compensation because of the rules. He

630
00:31:56,120 --> 00:32:01,280
Speaker 1: was under contract, but put down the the pipe. And

631
00:32:01,360 --> 00:32:03,760
Speaker 1: I've read some studies. I haven't done. Uh, you know

632
00:32:03,880 --> 00:32:06,480
Speaker 1: the Devil's lettuce lately, but it's a lot more potent

633
00:32:06,760 --> 00:32:08,560
Speaker 1: in two thousand twenty two than it was back in

634
00:32:08,560 --> 00:32:11,320
Speaker 1: the day. So maybe you know, Mickey Loomis and some

635
00:32:11,400 --> 00:32:13,960
Speaker 1: of those people are on the wrong stuff because you're

636
00:32:14,000 --> 00:32:16,520
Speaker 1: not getting the first round pick, and I saw this

637
00:32:16,720 --> 00:32:20,360
Speaker 1: rap sheet said that the Colts Jimmer Say wants to

638
00:32:20,440 --> 00:32:23,960
Speaker 1: hire Jeff Saturday. Now it gets uglier every single week.

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00:32:24,400 --> 00:32:27,480
Speaker 1: The Colts are They're terrible. I mean, they are a

640
00:32:27,600 --> 00:32:31,760
Speaker 1: bad football team and besides the Raiders win, they have

641
00:32:31,880 --> 00:32:34,720
Speaker 1: not been very good. But when he hired this guy

642
00:32:34,720 --> 00:32:37,320
Speaker 1: to be his interim, I think it's pretty clear he

643
00:32:37,520 --> 00:32:42,240
Speaker 1: wanted to make him his head coach because I understand,

644
00:32:42,280 --> 00:32:45,560
Speaker 1: like Jim mur Say now has had Frank and he's

645
00:32:45,600 --> 00:32:49,320
Speaker 1: had Chuck Bagano, like he's had these coaches since, like Dungee.

646
00:32:50,200 --> 00:32:51,880
Speaker 1: Then I think he wants to like but then he

647
00:32:51,920 --> 00:32:53,520
Speaker 1: watches him, He's like, I don't even think these guys

648
00:32:53,560 --> 00:32:55,800
Speaker 1: are that good. And I understand if I was an

649
00:32:55,800 --> 00:32:58,080
Speaker 1: owner and I was worth all this money and I

650
00:32:58,080 --> 00:33:00,440
Speaker 1: had one before, maybe I just want to coach I liked,

651
00:33:00,680 --> 00:33:02,000
Speaker 1: and a guy that I could just hang out with

652
00:33:02,120 --> 00:33:04,800
Speaker 1: and call my friend. Now you can say that's bad business,

653
00:33:04,800 --> 00:33:07,560
Speaker 1: and it is, but it's pretty clear that's what Jimmer

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Speaker 1: Say wants. Now. Can he hire him? Yeah, I mean

655
00:33:10,400 --> 00:33:12,560
Speaker 1: technically he can do whatever he wants. Would there be

656
00:33:12,680 --> 00:33:15,600
Speaker 1: fan backlash? Well? Are people in Indie gonna canceled their

657
00:33:15,600 --> 00:33:17,760
Speaker 1: season tickets, Like if they haven't done it yet, why

658
00:33:17,760 --> 00:33:19,840
Speaker 1: would they do it when they hired Jeff Saturday. So

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00:33:20,080 --> 00:33:21,960
Speaker 1: I wonder if he is just balancing in his head,

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00:33:22,000 --> 00:33:24,120
Speaker 1: like there's the guy I want to hire, even though

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00:33:24,120 --> 00:33:27,560
Speaker 1: it's probably a terrible higher. But I would be somewhat

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00:33:27,600 --> 00:33:30,240
Speaker 1: prepared if I'm a Colts fan for them to hire

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Speaker 1: Jeff Saturday. I mean I kind of expected, I would

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Speaker 1: say the eye opener of the day the Green Bay

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Speaker 1: Packers have, I mean, last week against Miami on Christmas Day,

666
00:33:39,960 --> 00:33:41,960
Speaker 1: that was not the prettiest game and they were down

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00:33:41,960 --> 00:33:45,280
Speaker 1: double digits in the second half. Miami imploded. Two of

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00:33:45,360 --> 00:33:48,960
Speaker 1: us can cuss he saw the story today. Jay Glazer

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00:33:49,400 --> 00:33:51,920
Speaker 1: said that Mike McDaniel, when they were going over plays

670
00:33:52,160 --> 00:33:54,400
Speaker 1: to us, said he couldn't even remember the plays, and

671
00:33:54,440 --> 00:33:55,760
Speaker 1: then they looked at the play and then it was

672
00:33:55,840 --> 00:34:00,200
Speaker 1: like a bad deal. But the Packers today b being

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00:34:00,240 --> 00:34:06,320
Speaker 1: the living piss out of Minnesota. That was Kirk, because

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00:34:06,720 --> 00:34:09,640
Speaker 1: that game, more than the judging the Packers, was why

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00:34:09,680 --> 00:34:13,160
Speaker 1: we don't take the Minnesota Vikings seriously. Forty one to seventeen.

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00:34:13,360 --> 00:34:15,279
Speaker 1: It was twenty seven to three at half time, Like

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00:34:15,360 --> 00:34:18,279
Speaker 1: come on, Minnesota, you're gonna have that gutless of a

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00:34:18,320 --> 00:34:21,680
Speaker 1: first half on the road. Outside it's for a team

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00:34:21,800 --> 00:34:26,880
Speaker 1: that is twelve and four. Their point differential is minus nineteen,

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00:34:27,680 --> 00:34:30,280
Speaker 1: minus nineteen. I think the Niners is like a hundred

681
00:34:30,360 --> 00:34:32,759
Speaker 1: forty five or something. They have the same record, like

682
00:34:33,320 --> 00:34:37,640
Speaker 1: minus nineteen. Statistical anomaly. Impressive win by the Packers. A

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00:34:37,680 --> 00:34:40,480
Speaker 1: couple of quick things on the college guys, because I

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00:34:41,239 --> 00:34:43,600
Speaker 1: some Ohio State fans and you guys are biggest fan

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Speaker 1: base in the country. I have said over the year

686
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Speaker 1: that I'm not the biggest c J. Stroud fan, and

687
00:34:48,320 --> 00:34:50,959
Speaker 1: like you know, and I've I've admitted this. I based

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00:34:51,000 --> 00:34:54,240
Speaker 1: some of my opinions off my friends in the NFL

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00:34:54,400 --> 00:34:56,399
Speaker 1: who have won Super Bowls that do this for a living,

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00:34:56,440 --> 00:34:57,840
Speaker 1: and I've talked to a couple of guys. They're not

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00:34:57,880 --> 00:35:01,000
Speaker 1: the biggest CJ fan. No one disputes his ability to

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00:35:01,040 --> 00:35:03,120
Speaker 1: throw the ball right. You just watch him in the

693
00:35:03,120 --> 00:35:06,360
Speaker 1: pocket throws dins to it did the same thing, and

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00:35:06,400 --> 00:35:08,799
Speaker 1: part of the knock was while he's playing with the

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00:35:08,840 --> 00:35:11,640
Speaker 1: best wide receivers in the country and like to who

696
00:35:11,680 --> 00:35:14,319
Speaker 1: had the most incredible lineup ever, can make it look

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00:35:14,320 --> 00:35:17,440
Speaker 1: really easy throws beautiful balls, and CJ is an accurate

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00:35:17,480 --> 00:35:20,799
Speaker 1: passer throws a gorgeous ball. My knock on him was

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00:35:21,200 --> 00:35:23,880
Speaker 1: Listen Pocket Quarterbacks in two thousand twenty two, like, I

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00:35:23,920 --> 00:35:26,839
Speaker 1: like my guy to move, and my people that go

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00:35:26,920 --> 00:35:28,400
Speaker 1: through a house states say he's not that great of

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00:35:28,440 --> 00:35:30,920
Speaker 1: an athlete. And I had some of you guys in

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Speaker 1: d MS that would fire in there and go like, John,

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Speaker 1: I think you're off on c J. He's a better

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Speaker 1: athlete than you realize. I'm like, well, I don't watch

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Speaker 1: every state of the buck or every game of the

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00:35:40,120 --> 00:35:42,120
Speaker 1: buck Eyes, but when I do watch him, I never

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00:35:42,160 --> 00:35:44,279
Speaker 1: see him move, and I just don't think he's gonna

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00:35:44,280 --> 00:35:45,760
Speaker 1: be able to get away from guys in the NFL.

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00:35:46,040 --> 00:35:49,920
Speaker 1: He plays Georgia, who have NFL guys everywhere. It's like,

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00:35:50,000 --> 00:35:52,280
Speaker 1: who the fun is this guy? And he's making plays

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00:35:52,320 --> 00:35:55,279
Speaker 1: with his legs, scrambling around, breaking tackles. It's like, if

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Speaker 1: c J. Stroud had played like that throughout his career,

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Speaker 1: I think he would probably be the No. One overall pick.

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Speaker 1: But I have never ever seen him do that, And

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00:36:03,960 --> 00:36:06,560
Speaker 1: maybe I'm crazy. Maybe I've missed some Iowa games or

717
00:36:06,760 --> 00:36:09,239
Speaker 1: a game against Minnesota. Like, I'm sorry the NFL not

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00:36:09,320 --> 00:36:11,799
Speaker 1: even taking those games that seriously. But he does that

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00:36:12,000 --> 00:36:18,080
Speaker 1: against Georgia. He was remarkable. Is how just athletics Like

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00:36:18,200 --> 00:36:20,479
Speaker 1: he's not a great athlete, but he's a much better

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00:36:20,520 --> 00:36:23,640
Speaker 1: athlete than I thought. And he was a playmaker. And

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00:36:23,680 --> 00:36:26,239
Speaker 1: to me in two thousand twenty two, obviously you have

723
00:36:26,360 --> 00:36:28,200
Speaker 1: to win from within the pocket, and c J can

724
00:36:28,280 --> 00:36:30,480
Speaker 1: do that. But to be a good player in the NFL,

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00:36:30,600 --> 00:36:32,319
Speaker 1: I can't have you not be able to move. You

726
00:36:32,360 --> 00:36:35,080
Speaker 1: have to give me some athletic ability. These defensive linemen

727
00:36:35,080 --> 00:36:37,880
Speaker 1: are too fast. Well against some of the best defensive lineman,

728
00:36:37,960 --> 00:36:41,040
Speaker 1: arguably the best defensive lineman in the league, h Jalen Carter,

729
00:36:41,800 --> 00:36:44,799
Speaker 1: CJ was running around so proplems to c J and Listen,

730
00:36:45,040 --> 00:36:47,359
Speaker 1: is one game gonna elevate him to the number two

731
00:36:47,360 --> 00:36:51,040
Speaker 1: overall pick? I don't know, but that was. I know

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00:36:51,080 --> 00:36:53,600
Speaker 1: a lot of teams in the NFL did not have

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Speaker 1: him as a top five player, and that is the

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00:36:56,239 --> 00:36:59,560
Speaker 1: type game that makes you reassess some things. That was

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00:37:00,160 --> 00:37:03,480
Speaker 1: it's hard to have one game where you completely kind

736
00:37:03,480 --> 00:37:05,439
Speaker 1: of change because he was viewed as the first round

737
00:37:05,440 --> 00:37:08,160
Speaker 1: pick but changed, like the trajectory of the white people.

738
00:37:08,200 --> 00:37:11,479
Speaker 1: And that's a that's a game changer. That's like, holy shit.

739
00:37:11,800 --> 00:37:14,799
Speaker 1: I remember Fields had that game against Clemson at Ohio State.

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00:37:14,840 --> 00:37:16,840
Speaker 1: It's a guys, this is a top two pick. He

741
00:37:16,920 --> 00:37:19,479
Speaker 1: ended up going eleven. People there it is. But yeah,

742
00:37:19,520 --> 00:37:23,000
Speaker 1: impressive game by c J. Also impressive game yesterday by

743
00:37:23,040 --> 00:37:25,600
Speaker 1: Bryce Young and Willie Anderson. I guess this would have

744
00:37:25,640 --> 00:37:29,880
Speaker 1: been this would have been Saturday morning. Both those guys

745
00:37:29,960 --> 00:37:31,440
Speaker 1: more than likely bry is gonna be the number one

746
00:37:31,480 --> 00:37:33,600
Speaker 1: overall pick and Willie Anderson, depending on the quarterback, is

747
00:37:33,600 --> 00:37:36,399
Speaker 1: gonna be a top three or four player. They did

748
00:37:36,440 --> 00:37:38,359
Speaker 1: not need to play in this game. And I talked

749
00:37:38,400 --> 00:37:42,600
Speaker 1: about the Steelers. The standard, the standard in Alabama is

750
00:37:42,760 --> 00:37:46,200
Speaker 1: fucking higher than the sky. This year, I would imagine

751
00:37:46,200 --> 00:37:48,279
Speaker 1: Saban would say it was kind of a disaster. Even

752
00:37:48,280 --> 00:37:50,759
Speaker 1: though they win eleven and two. Right, they didn't make

753
00:37:50,800 --> 00:37:53,680
Speaker 1: the SEC championship game. They just didn't look as good.

754
00:37:54,160 --> 00:37:58,320
Speaker 1: But those two guys to be such highly touted guys

755
00:37:58,840 --> 00:38:01,800
Speaker 1: to play that well that both of them did this season,

756
00:38:02,239 --> 00:38:03,879
Speaker 1: and then to play in the ball game and both

757
00:38:03,920 --> 00:38:05,600
Speaker 1: of them come out like, of course I'm playing in

758
00:38:05,600 --> 00:38:08,280
Speaker 1: the ball game. And the media who freaks out like listen,

759
00:38:08,480 --> 00:38:11,120
Speaker 1: obviously it's very very risky for them. I just the

760
00:38:11,160 --> 00:38:13,680
Speaker 1: media who mainly is awful of business, Like, I don't

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00:38:13,680 --> 00:38:15,400
Speaker 1: care about your opinions on what these guys should do

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00:38:15,480 --> 00:38:17,560
Speaker 1: or not. Like, these guys play football, they want to

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00:38:17,560 --> 00:38:19,120
Speaker 1: play great. If they don't, I got no problem. I

764
00:38:19,200 --> 00:38:21,279
Speaker 1: got no problem anyone's sitting out a ball game. These

765
00:38:21,320 --> 00:38:22,840
Speaker 1: guys did not need to play in the game. But

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00:38:22,880 --> 00:38:24,919
Speaker 1: if you don't think that that doesn't impress people around

767
00:38:24,920 --> 00:38:27,799
Speaker 1: the league when they do that ship it does. And

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00:38:27,960 --> 00:38:29,600
Speaker 1: there's a reason when one guy goes one and the

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00:38:29,640 --> 00:38:32,480
Speaker 1: other guy goes three that those teams, like those guys

770
00:38:32,480 --> 00:38:35,200
Speaker 1: are wired like Pittsburgh Steelers, and those type guys are

771
00:38:35,200 --> 00:38:40,240
Speaker 1: typically winners. Uh, guys that had bad weekends hard Bob Brothers.

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00:38:40,560 --> 00:38:42,680
Speaker 1: I mean, that's that's a rough twenty four hour stretch

773
00:38:42,760 --> 00:38:45,680
Speaker 1: for for Jim and John. I would say it's worse

774
00:38:45,880 --> 00:38:50,040
Speaker 1: for Jim. Uh. The game was close at points, but

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00:38:50,160 --> 00:38:53,080
Speaker 1: for the most part, I've been watching Jim Harbab playing

776
00:38:53,120 --> 00:38:55,880
Speaker 1: these big games as the forty Niners, and he's a

777
00:38:56,280 --> 00:38:59,960
Speaker 1: really good coach. He's won playoff games, he's beat ohiuse

778
00:39:00,080 --> 00:39:03,319
Speaker 1: date now, but just something's a little off when he

779
00:39:03,360 --> 00:39:06,320
Speaker 1: needs to get over the hump. You run Philly Special

780
00:39:06,400 --> 00:39:09,239
Speaker 1: early in the game. They just do things that are

781
00:39:09,280 --> 00:39:14,680
Speaker 1: just head scratching. It really is. And it's crazy because

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00:39:14,680 --> 00:39:16,960
Speaker 1: you watch Ohio State play right after Michigan, you go,

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00:39:17,000 --> 00:39:19,680
Speaker 1: how did Michigan beat Ohio State? Like I'm watching Ohio State.

784
00:39:19,680 --> 00:39:22,480
Speaker 1: They're way faster, way more explosive. Even though when I

785
00:39:22,520 --> 00:39:24,840
Speaker 1: watched Michigan I completely understand, But then I watched it

786
00:39:24,920 --> 00:39:27,000
Speaker 1: two separate, I'm like, I'm pretty sure Ohi State is

787
00:39:27,040 --> 00:39:32,359
Speaker 1: better and the final score was close, but it felt

788
00:39:32,360 --> 00:39:35,279
Speaker 1: like at times TCU was the better team. And then

789
00:39:35,360 --> 00:39:40,359
Speaker 1: Jalen Carter, the star defensive lineman number for Georgia, who's

790
00:39:40,360 --> 00:39:43,759
Speaker 1: gonna be a top i'd say five player, is gonna

791
00:39:43,760 --> 00:39:45,640
Speaker 1: be a top five player in the draft. He's like

792
00:39:45,719 --> 00:39:49,120
Speaker 1: Fletcher Cox, but probably even a little more explosive I

793
00:39:49,200 --> 00:39:52,240
Speaker 1: Fletcher was when he was young. Where was that guy yesterday?

794
00:39:52,880 --> 00:39:55,239
Speaker 1: I mean, well, did he make a play? I think

795
00:39:55,239 --> 00:39:56,920
Speaker 1: I saw he had one tackle, he had a PVU

796
00:39:57,680 --> 00:39:59,920
Speaker 1: on a on a batted ball, But like I expect

797
00:40:00,000 --> 00:40:02,240
Speaker 1: a little more. Remember Will Anderson last year in the playoffs.

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00:40:02,239 --> 00:40:04,120
Speaker 1: Remember some of those Georgia guys last year in the playoffs,

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00:40:05,000 --> 00:40:07,600
Speaker 1: like Jalen like you're gonna be in this game, We're

800
00:40:07,600 --> 00:40:09,719
Speaker 1: gonna need a little more at anybody like that was

801
00:40:10,520 --> 00:40:13,120
Speaker 1: That was a terrible performance by the guy. I mean

802
00:40:13,120 --> 00:40:15,600
Speaker 1: that that was awful. I do cj afvaited him on

803
00:40:15,600 --> 00:40:18,400
Speaker 1: one rush, but I would like a little more out

804
00:40:18,440 --> 00:40:20,800
Speaker 1: of my star defensive linemen in a big game against

805
00:40:20,800 --> 00:40:24,000
Speaker 1: a team that's passing it all the time. But fun game,

806
00:40:24,080 --> 00:40:25,920
Speaker 1: fun day games. I mean it was felt like they

807
00:40:25,960 --> 00:40:29,160
Speaker 1: were eight million points scored um. Fun to watch these

808
00:40:29,239 --> 00:40:31,840
Speaker 1: NFL guys. The National Championship should be fun. That number

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00:40:31,840 --> 00:40:34,960
Speaker 1: one at TCU uh from all people that I know

810
00:40:34,960 --> 00:40:36,360
Speaker 1: in the league, think he's gonna be, you know, the

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00:40:36,400 --> 00:40:39,840
Speaker 1: first wide receiver taken. So one more college football. I

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00:40:39,840 --> 00:40:41,560
Speaker 1: guess we got some college football games. If you're listening

813
00:40:41,560 --> 00:40:43,520
Speaker 1: to this Rose Bowl, enjoy them and I will talk

814
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Speaker 1: to you guys Tuesday. Peace. M H. The volume