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Speaker 1: Today I was thinking about the quarterback position. You know,

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Speaker 1: when you're drafted really high, right, and it doesn't even

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Speaker 1: have to be like one or two, just in the

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Speaker 1: first round, in the top fifteen, in the top twenty,

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Speaker 1: the moment you start showing something, everyone that follows your team,

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Speaker 1: everyone that follows the league, just kind of gets bullish fast.

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Speaker 1: This is why the guy was a first round pick. See,

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Speaker 1: this is why they drafted him eleventh overall. This is

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Speaker 1: why the Bears took justin fields. Do you see this talent? Right? Yet?

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Speaker 1: When you're drafted in the fourth round or the fifth

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Speaker 1: round or the sixth round or pick, you know, mister irrelevant,

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Speaker 1: you have to do double or triple what that guy

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Speaker 1: has to do to get anyone outside of your building

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Speaker 1: to believe in you. People will forget. When I was

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Speaker 1: definitely the end of high school early college, Tom Brady

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Speaker 1: had won a couple Super Bowls, but Peyton Manning was

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Speaker 1: viewed as the far superior player, and everyone made these excuses,

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Speaker 1: Well Tom has these defenses, Well Tom has this great coach.

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Speaker 1: Well Tom has this, and Tom has that. Peyton has

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Speaker 1: to run his organization. It wasn't until he had three

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Speaker 1: super Bowls and people were still having this conversation. It

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Speaker 1: wasn't until twenty seventy three, like fifty touchdowns, they go undefeated,

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Speaker 1: the people like, oh, maybe they are the same guy.

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Speaker 1: And I think a huge part of that. If Tom

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Speaker 1: Brady had been doing that as the tenth pick in

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Speaker 1: the draft, the conversation would have been dramatically different. Hell

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Speaker 1: Dak Prescott, who in a weird way, felt better when

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Speaker 1: he was younger, definitely as me and Colin talked about,

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Speaker 1: much more mobile. It took a while for people to

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Speaker 1: truly believe, but a lot a lot had to do

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Speaker 1: with him being a fourth round pick. Now part of

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Speaker 1: the reason he went in the fourth round. If you remember,

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Speaker 1: he got a d y. You know, I like forty

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Speaker 1: five thirty days before the draft probably shot him down

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Speaker 1: around I mean, he was a better prospect than where

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Speaker 1: he got drafted, but still he was never gonna be

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Speaker 1: a first or second round pick. Cousin's another good example,

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Speaker 1: and We can nitpick these guys all they want, but

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Speaker 1: they had to put If they put five good games together,

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Speaker 1: ten good games together, people always wanted more. Yet the moment,

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Speaker 1: Justin Fields has one good game. See I told you

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Speaker 1: the talent is that and this is Brock Purty. If

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Speaker 1: Brock Purty hadn't been the last pick in the draft,

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Speaker 1: but he had been the forty nine ers had taken

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Speaker 1: him in the second round, people would look at him

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Speaker 1: much much differently. But people expect when you're a seventh

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Speaker 1: round pick, a sixth round pick, you two suck. Maybe

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Speaker 1: not you to suck, but you definitely not to be

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Speaker 1: a starting quarterback in the NFL, not to be a

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Speaker 1: guy that a team can build around, because those type

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Speaker 1: guys are complete outliers. If you're gonna get your starting quarterback,

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Speaker 1: you're supposed to draft the guy really high. That's where

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Speaker 1: you get starting quarterbacks in the NFL. So I think

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Speaker 1: Brock Purdy is in the I don't even want to

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Speaker 1: say the blowback. But the people questioning him before the

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Speaker 1: Cowboy game, and let's face it, people will continue to

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Speaker 1: question him because that's the nature of being a late

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Speaker 1: round pick. People don't want to believe They don't want

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Speaker 1: to believe that their team could have passed you, that

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Speaker 1: the entire league could have passed you, that a guy

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Speaker 1: could become a starting quarterback, can last that many picks

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Speaker 1: that many rounds in the draft and be that good.

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Speaker 1: So he's gonna have to go above and beyond. If

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Speaker 1: Trey Lance had had two of the games brock Purty

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Speaker 1: has had over the last ten, the national narrative, the

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Speaker 1: talking heads on these shows would be doing cartwheels on air,

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Speaker 1: screaming about how talented and great this player is. Yet,

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Speaker 1: when brock Purty was putting up numbers, the forty nine

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Speaker 1: ers were rolling. It was clear. You watch Jimmy Garoppolo

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Speaker 1: to night, the irony two of Brock played last night,

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Speaker 1: Jimmy played tonight brock Purty. There is a wide gap

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Speaker 1: between Brock and Jimmy Garoppolo as players. Honestly, it's not

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Speaker 1: even close yet. You know it took a while even

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Speaker 1: last year, Like is it that much different? Hell yeah,

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Speaker 1: it's a lot different. Ability to push the ball down

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Speaker 1: the field and complete passes is dramatically better than Jimmy Garoppolo.

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Speaker 1: The other thing Jimmy Garoppolo could not do, I would

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Speaker 1: say at minimum once a week, and depending on the

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Speaker 1: o ponent, sometimes more. Kyle will scheme you a touchdown.

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Speaker 1: It might be from the ten yard line, it might

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Speaker 1: be from the fifty yard line. But it's gonna be

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Speaker 1: a guy either some sort of trick play like last night,

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Speaker 1: or a guy leaking out some misdirection where a guy

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Speaker 1: is going to be wide open and if you hit

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Speaker 1: him in stride, that guy is gonna walk into the

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Speaker 1: end zone. And I would say, Jimmy Garoppolo hit this pass.

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Speaker 1: I don't have the numbers twenty percent of the time,

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Speaker 1: so he cost the forty nine ers a ton of points.

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Speaker 1: Yet I feel like Brock Purty hits that pass eighty

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Speaker 1: five percent of the time. It's why they average over

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Speaker 1: thirty points every game they've played in the history of

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Speaker 1: the forty nine Ers, a team that is known for

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Speaker 1: some of the great offenses. Ever, they have never had

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Speaker 1: five straight games to start a season over thirty points. Hell,

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Speaker 1: they had never had four straight games when they did

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Speaker 1: it two weeks ago. So this is a team that

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Speaker 1: is benefiting from this quarterback. But I'm telling you he's

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Speaker 1: gonna have to do a lot more, which is crazy

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Speaker 1: to say to get people to go, Yeah, he's pretty

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Speaker 1: freaking good that guy. So we just use our eyes

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Speaker 1: like we can tell when a guy's good. He's mobile,

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Speaker 1: he's accurate, he gets the ball to the guys who

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Speaker 1: are open. Hell, he throws guys open. And then when

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Speaker 1: shit hits the fan, he can make plays with his athleticism.

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Speaker 1: So I just at this point in time, no one's

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Speaker 1: putting him in the Hall of Fame. No one's even

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Speaker 1: saying he's got some two hundred million dollar contract coming.

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Speaker 1: He's got a lot of work to do. But given

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Speaker 1: what he's done so far, if you can't say brock

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Speaker 1: Perty is a really good player right now, I don't

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Speaker 1: know what to tell you. I can't help you. Maybe

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Speaker 1: just go watch softball or something. I mean, I don't know,

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Speaker 1: because football might be a little much for you. And

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Speaker 1: before we get out here, speaking of rock Perty, how

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Speaker 1: I don't think any player I could have gone Crosby,

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Speaker 1: but Max Crosby doesn't make it look easy because he

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Speaker 1: never stops running, throwing around people. Max Crosby, what he does,

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Speaker 1: the result is pretty awesome, but it's very hard to

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Speaker 1: what he's doing. Yet when I watched brock perty it

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Speaker 1: doesn't even look like a guy's sweating. He's in cruise control.

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Speaker 1: You talk about a guy who is making it look easy,

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Speaker 1: getting the ball to his playmakers, making Kyle Shanahan and

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Speaker 1: to say has a chance to go undefeated, but I

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Speaker 1: would say at minimum fifteen and two, and let's face it,

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Speaker 1: last night with the stats no interceptions. I don't want

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Speaker 1: to say he's the MVP front runner, and he's not

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Speaker 1: from a betting perspective, but he's definitely now in the

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Speaker 1: MVP conversation. So for a guy to be the last

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Speaker 1: pick in the draft, to get an opportunity because of

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Speaker 1: of us in life, stuff's out of our control. For

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Speaker 1: brock Purty, it was definitely out of his control. He

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Speaker 1: needed Trey Lance to break his ankle, he needed Jimmy

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Speaker 1: Garoppolo to break his foot, and then he got thrust

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Speaker 1: now he looks like Kyle Shanahan's favorite quarterback since like

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Speaker 1: Matt Ryan, win the MVP. So to go up against

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Speaker 1: let's go over to the New England Patriots. And after

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Speaker 1: simply said their team is not very talented, which I

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Speaker 1: don't need a GM or an assistant GM to tell me.

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Speaker 1: We can all see. And I watched a decent amount

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Speaker 1: a half, and it was over, and it was over fast.

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Speaker 1: That team stinks. And here's a reality. In New England.

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Speaker 1: There is one Grand pooh Bah. He makes all the

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Speaker 1: decisions from a coaching standpoint to a personnel standpoint. It's

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Speaker 1: that place because when you work there as a scout,

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Speaker 1: he doesn't care what you think. You're just accumulating information

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Speaker 1: for him ultimately to make a decision. So when you

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Speaker 1: look at this roster, this is a team. Every single

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Speaker 1: guy on that team is because of him, and that

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Speaker 1: can't be said in every organization. Some gms have juice,

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Speaker 1: some gms convinced their coach to do stuff that's not

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Speaker 1: the case. And this team, especially once Judon and their

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Speaker 1: rookie corner Gonzalez goes down, they're screwed. I mean, this

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Speaker 1: is a four win team. Max mac Jones, I will

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Speaker 1: never get off this ledge. A guy with those physical

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Speaker 1: attributes and that talent never gets drafted at picked fifteen.

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Speaker 1: And when he does the Christian ponder types, you immediately

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Speaker 1: get boat raced. You're in major trouble. And when you

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Speaker 1: look at Belichick, he's always drafted overachievers, you know, guys

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Speaker 1: they thought they remember, they didn't have any picks like,

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Speaker 1: we thought we could get that guy in the third round.

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Speaker 1: Belichick just took him at the end of the first.

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Speaker 1: So Bill relative to some of his contemporaries, and we've

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Speaker 1: old guys who are successful, have gms that they totally

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Speaker 1: lean on to help them make personnel decisions. So you

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Speaker 1: look at this Patriot team, their margin for era coming

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Speaker 1: into the season, if they were gonna go nine to

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Speaker 1: eight was extremely small. But He's always drafted and make

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Speaker 1: moves like this. He just used to have Tom Brady,

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Speaker 1: and Tom Brady could help guys like Julian Edelman come

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Speaker 1: out of nowhere. Right. You put Julian Edelman on this team,

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Speaker 1: and I love Jules. I'm as big of a Julian

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Speaker 1: Edelman fan as you're gonna find. But if you put

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Speaker 1: him on this squad, he looked terrible. So when you

641
00:35:47,239 --> 00:35:50,719
Speaker 1: look at the Jujus and the Devonte Parkers and those

642
00:35:50,760 --> 00:35:53,680
Speaker 1: type Hunter Henry's, those guys could have had success with

643
00:35:53,719 --> 00:35:57,480
Speaker 1: Tom Brady. So you remove Tom Brady from the equation.

644
00:35:57,680 --> 00:35:59,839
Speaker 1: And I've never been one to be like it's eighty

645
00:36:00,080 --> 00:36:04,160
Speaker 1: to twenty Belichick or fifty to fifty whatever. They were

646
00:36:04,200 --> 00:36:08,600
Speaker 1: an unreal combo. You put those two guys together, they're

647
00:36:08,719 --> 00:36:12,719
Speaker 1: boat racing the fucking NFL. I watched it my entire

648
00:36:12,760 --> 00:36:15,240
Speaker 1: adult life, from the time I was in high school

649
00:36:15,520 --> 00:36:17,720
Speaker 1: till a couple of years ago when Tom left to Tampa.

650
00:36:18,280 --> 00:36:21,080
Speaker 1: It was remarkable. I've seen him play multiple times live.

651
00:36:21,600 --> 00:36:24,879
Speaker 1: When I worked for the Eagles, they destroyed us. I've

652
00:36:24,880 --> 00:36:28,640
Speaker 1: seen him countless other times. It was an operation we

653
00:36:28,680 --> 00:36:31,720
Speaker 1: all watched. Anyone listening to this watched those two guys

654
00:36:32,080 --> 00:36:35,080
Speaker 1: operate together. It's why all the former players that played

655
00:36:35,120 --> 00:36:38,080
Speaker 1: for Bill speak so highly of them. But a huge

656
00:36:38,120 --> 00:36:41,400
Speaker 1: part of his operation, which helped him make draft choices

657
00:36:41,680 --> 00:36:44,920
Speaker 1: that sometimes left other people scratching their head, was Tom.

658
00:36:45,360 --> 00:36:47,879
Speaker 1: So you remove Tom, you gotta pivot, you gotta change

659
00:36:47,920 --> 00:36:51,160
Speaker 1: your strategy. And he hasn't changed his strategy. So when

660
00:36:51,200 --> 00:36:54,279
Speaker 1: you watch his team and they're struggling, it's not really

661
00:36:54,320 --> 00:36:58,440
Speaker 1: that shocking. Because Mac Jones, who's a bottom three quarterback

662
00:36:58,719 --> 00:37:02,520
Speaker 1: and honestly, on any given he looks like a complete scrub.

663
00:37:02,960 --> 00:37:05,680
Speaker 1: You go, well, of course, these personnel moves are not

664
00:37:05,760 --> 00:37:09,600
Speaker 1: gonna work. Like it's over. This team is terrible. There

665
00:37:09,680 --> 00:37:12,239
Speaker 1: is no miracle work to be done. So at the

666
00:37:12,360 --> 00:37:15,120
Speaker 1: end of the game, when Bill says we're gonna start over,

667
00:37:15,640 --> 00:37:19,200
Speaker 1: he has no answers, he has no other pitch. He

668
00:37:19,280 --> 00:37:22,680
Speaker 1: does not have some Barry Zito curveball in his back pocket.

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00:37:23,000 --> 00:37:26,280
Speaker 1: There's nothing he can do. They're not very skilled on offense.

670
00:37:26,520 --> 00:37:29,840
Speaker 1: Now they're missing key defensive players and they just I

671
00:37:29,960 --> 00:37:35,640
Speaker 1: can't overstate this enough to lose to Dennis Allen, who's

672
00:37:35,680 --> 00:37:38,160
Speaker 1: proven to be a good defensive coordinator as a head

673
00:37:38,160 --> 00:37:42,239
Speaker 1: coach more than questionable. And Derek Carr, who Bill used

674
00:37:42,280 --> 00:37:45,520
Speaker 1: to kick his ass. Derek's been there multiple times in

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00:37:45,520 --> 00:37:49,840
Speaker 1: New England. Is not gone well to get humiliated like

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00:37:49,920 --> 00:37:52,320
Speaker 1: that at home. To me, it's one thing when is

677
00:37:52,320 --> 00:37:54,839
Speaker 1: the Dallas Cowboys, who if they get a little lead

678
00:37:54,880 --> 00:37:58,480
Speaker 1: on you that defense, whatever, they overwhelmed you scores on defense.

679
00:37:58,800 --> 00:38:00,800
Speaker 1: The New Orleans Saints. No, New Orleans might be a

680
00:38:00,840 --> 00:38:03,680
Speaker 1: ten win team, but still Dennis Allen and Derek Carr.

681
00:38:04,200 --> 00:38:07,080
Speaker 1: Any New England fan listening to this right now knows

682
00:38:07,120 --> 00:38:10,040
Speaker 1: that's way lower than it was the previous week. And

683
00:38:10,080 --> 00:38:12,719
Speaker 1: that felt like it's gonna get uglier, because that's the

684
00:38:12,760 --> 00:38:16,400
Speaker 1: way bad teams seasons goes like as the season goes,

685
00:38:16,719 --> 00:38:18,919
Speaker 1: you just lose and lose and get your ass kicked,

686
00:38:18,960 --> 00:38:21,920
Speaker 1: and your ass kicked. That felt like the nail in

687
00:38:22,000 --> 00:38:23,839
Speaker 1: the coffin of like, this season's gonna be a joke.

688
00:38:24,440 --> 00:38:27,960
Speaker 1: And I think the other angle of this is, listen,

689
00:38:28,080 --> 00:38:30,960
Speaker 1: it's a conversation. He's seventy one, seventy two years old.

690
00:38:32,000 --> 00:38:35,440
Speaker 1: They're gonna need another quarterback and if they continue to suck.

691
00:38:35,840 --> 00:38:38,120
Speaker 1: And I always thought he was too good of a coach.

692
00:38:38,200 --> 00:38:40,720
Speaker 1: He was like recession proof. You know, they say, like alcohol,

693
00:38:40,760 --> 00:38:44,319
Speaker 1: recession proof. Recession people drink more times are good. People

694
00:38:44,360 --> 00:38:48,880
Speaker 1: were boozing right never, it does not matter the economic times.

695
00:38:49,200 --> 00:38:52,120
Speaker 1: Alcohol moves off the shelves. I thought the same thing

696
00:38:52,200 --> 00:38:55,640
Speaker 1: was about Bill. You could give him a just a

697
00:38:55,800 --> 00:38:58,520
Speaker 1: trash roster and he'd still find a way to go

698
00:38:58,640 --> 00:39:01,960
Speaker 1: seven to ten. This roster is so bad and his

699
00:39:02,040 --> 00:39:05,360
Speaker 1: quarterback is so shitty. Right now, they might be a

700
00:39:05,360 --> 00:39:08,160
Speaker 1: four and thirteen team. And if you're a foreign thirteen team,

701
00:39:08,200 --> 00:39:10,360
Speaker 1: you're gonna be in the mix for all these top quarterbacks.

702
00:39:10,400 --> 00:39:12,799
Speaker 1: You might not get Caleb. But the Drake Mays, the

703
00:39:12,840 --> 00:39:16,200
Speaker 1: Michael Pennix have said this over and over. Bill hung

704
00:39:16,239 --> 00:39:19,279
Speaker 1: his hat and rightfully so, on being cut throat, on

705
00:39:19,400 --> 00:39:25,120
Speaker 1: being emotionless, on making decisions that left other people shaking

706
00:39:25,200 --> 00:39:29,600
Speaker 1: their head. But he didn't view football. He wasn't emotionally connected. Right.

707
00:39:29,680 --> 00:39:32,640
Speaker 1: He could trade from Richard Seymour to Logan Mankins. He

708
00:39:32,680 --> 00:39:35,000
Speaker 1: could do anything. Hell, he tried to trade Rob Erkowski,

709
00:39:35,360 --> 00:39:37,000
Speaker 1: and Rob's like, I'm gonna retire if he send me

710
00:39:37,040 --> 00:39:41,480
Speaker 1: to Detroit. He does not care. Robert Kraft is gonna

711
00:39:41,520 --> 00:39:44,319
Speaker 1: eventually have to take that tactic. And to me, it

712
00:39:44,400 --> 00:39:48,520
Speaker 1: starts with how do you trust this guy to draft

713
00:39:48,560 --> 00:39:51,279
Speaker 1: your next quarterback? One just his age, he's not gonna

714
00:39:51,280 --> 00:39:55,120
Speaker 1: be there forever. And two like, listen, we've been talking

715
00:39:55,120 --> 00:39:57,279
Speaker 1: about this for a while, and I find it fascinating

716
00:39:57,320 --> 00:39:59,040
Speaker 1: because this is gonna He's gonna go down as one

717
00:39:59,040 --> 00:40:02,760
Speaker 1: of the greatest coaches of all time. Divorces get ugly,

718
00:40:03,000 --> 00:40:06,440
Speaker 1: they just do. But divorces don't always have to be

719
00:40:06,840 --> 00:40:11,839
Speaker 1: like sometimes it's just time. Right, there's not one individual instance, right,

720
00:40:11,920 --> 00:40:13,800
Speaker 1: like Bill let Tom go and then Tom won a

721
00:40:13,840 --> 00:40:16,399
Speaker 1: Super Bowl. It's not like Robert fired him. Then. Now

722
00:40:16,480 --> 00:40:20,279
Speaker 1: there are lingering things that lead to resentment. There are

723
00:40:20,360 --> 00:40:22,960
Speaker 1: you're paying a guy twenty million dollars and there's no

724
00:40:23,200 --> 00:40:26,760
Speaker 1: hope in the near future that I think it's pretty

725
00:40:26,760 --> 00:40:30,360
Speaker 1: clear like a divorce is inevitable. Now, I'm not gonna

726
00:40:30,400 --> 00:40:33,359
Speaker 1: act like I know Robert Kraft and those guys are

727
00:40:33,400 --> 00:40:35,680
Speaker 1: gonna fire him at the end of the year. But

728
00:40:35,719 --> 00:40:38,840
Speaker 1: I've said over and over, a guy of Bill's age,

729
00:40:38,960 --> 00:40:42,400
Speaker 1: a guy's now with that has Bill's wealth, and a

730
00:40:42,440 --> 00:40:47,480
Speaker 1: guy with Bill's resume doesn't typically just go, you know what, guys,

731
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Speaker 1: I can't figure this out. I got no answers. So

732
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Speaker 1: you know what I'm gonna do for the betterment of

733
00:40:53,680 --> 00:40:57,560
Speaker 1: the franchise, I'm gonna step away. I'm gonna say, hey,

734
00:40:58,520 --> 00:41:01,879
Speaker 1: someone else take this. I can no longer do the job.

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00:41:02,280 --> 00:41:05,160
Speaker 1: Usually not how it works now, the seventy one, seventy

736
00:41:05,200 --> 00:41:09,520
Speaker 1: two year old, super rich, huge ego, super belief in

737
00:41:09,600 --> 00:41:13,200
Speaker 1: himself and rightfully so, the only way to have a

738
00:41:13,239 --> 00:41:17,120
Speaker 1: divorce in this situation is essentially firearm. Now, they might

739
00:41:17,200 --> 00:41:20,600
Speaker 1: not report it like that. It may be reported mutual breakup,

740
00:41:21,040 --> 00:41:23,839
Speaker 1: but if Bill Belichick is not the coach in twenty four,

741
00:41:24,360 --> 00:41:26,920
Speaker 1: it will be because he's fired hold his services are

742
00:41:26,960 --> 00:41:30,360
Speaker 1: no longer needed, and let's face it, it's over we

743
00:41:30,480 --> 00:41:32,800
Speaker 1: just have to admit it. It's over, and that's okay.

744
00:41:33,440 --> 00:41:37,520
Speaker 1: Everything good comes to an end. Everything, especially in the

745
00:41:37,520 --> 00:41:42,080
Speaker 1: coaching profession. You can't just coach in the NFL, especially

746
00:41:42,160 --> 00:41:45,680
Speaker 1: as you get into your seventies, in just forever and

747
00:41:45,760 --> 00:41:49,560
Speaker 1: expect success to just sustain. Right. The Packers are a

748
00:41:49,560 --> 00:41:52,880
Speaker 1: good example. They had success over a thirty year period

749
00:41:53,239 --> 00:41:55,920
Speaker 1: with farv and then Rogers, but think they went through

750
00:41:55,960 --> 00:42:00,239
Speaker 1: multiple general managers, they went through multiple head coaches. It's like, yeah,

751
00:42:00,440 --> 00:42:04,160
Speaker 1: like sometimes change, change is very healthy. Anyone listening to

752
00:42:04,239 --> 00:42:08,040
Speaker 1: this knows that when they've made professional changes in their life,

753
00:42:08,360 --> 00:42:10,600
Speaker 1: whether you've been forced, whether you've been laid off, whether

754
00:42:10,640 --> 00:42:13,319
Speaker 1: you've been fired, whether you just actively leave for a

755
00:42:13,320 --> 00:42:16,840
Speaker 1: new job, whether you start your own company, it's invigorating.

756
00:42:17,160 --> 00:42:21,399
Speaker 1: It creates a sense of emotion that you don't get

757
00:42:21,440 --> 00:42:23,520
Speaker 1: when you're just kind of I don't want to say

758
00:42:24,000 --> 00:42:27,440
Speaker 1: Belichick's in the slow lane, but like it's kind of

759
00:42:27,440 --> 00:42:30,680
Speaker 1: stagnant there. And it's more than stagnant because they suck.

760
00:42:30,800 --> 00:42:34,439
Speaker 1: So I think one thing's clear. Rosters thinks we all

761
00:42:34,520 --> 00:42:37,840
Speaker 1: can acknowledge that. But like, is Bill a guy for

762
00:42:37,920 --> 00:42:40,560
Speaker 1: the future. No, So let's just call a spade a

763
00:42:40,600 --> 00:42:44,400
Speaker 1: spade probably his last season in New England. One thing

764
00:42:44,440 --> 00:42:46,960
Speaker 1: I noticed yesterday I was watching I bet on the

765
00:42:46,960 --> 00:42:50,360
Speaker 1: Steeler game, and if you listen to Stucky segment, you

766
00:42:50,480 --> 00:42:54,520
Speaker 1: just hammer Tomblin as a home dog. And the majority

767
00:42:54,520 --> 00:43:00,560
Speaker 1: of these Raven Steeler games under the Tomlin Harbaughs, when

768
00:43:00,560 --> 00:43:03,640
Speaker 1: they've played each other, it's a staggering amount of games

769
00:43:03,680 --> 00:43:06,839
Speaker 1: that have been that have come down to under a

770
00:43:06,880 --> 00:43:09,799
Speaker 1: field goal. So the Steelers were getting four points. Now,

771
00:43:09,840 --> 00:43:12,759
Speaker 1: when you're watching that game, it felt like, for on

772
00:43:12,920 --> 00:43:14,840
Speaker 1: second it was gonna be twenty to three and the

773
00:43:14,840 --> 00:43:18,919
Speaker 1: Steelers were in major trouble. Now, sometimes winning band aig

774
00:43:18,960 --> 00:43:22,480
Speaker 1: your issues. Like the Steelers won, I don't think they're good,

775
00:43:23,040 --> 00:43:26,480
Speaker 1: but one takeaway I do have. I was wrong thinking

776
00:43:26,520 --> 00:43:28,600
Speaker 1: they could compete to be the number one seed. They

777
00:43:28,640 --> 00:43:32,200
Speaker 1: have no chance to win thirteen fourteen games, but they

778
00:43:32,239 --> 00:43:35,000
Speaker 1: do have a chance to win nine ish games. I

779
00:43:35,000 --> 00:43:37,960
Speaker 1: would say ten would be their ceiling. Probably eight's their

780
00:43:37,960 --> 00:43:42,560
Speaker 1: floor given. And this is the biggest difference between the Patriots.

781
00:43:42,800 --> 00:43:46,319
Speaker 1: I was watching three teams Sunday morning pretty closely. The

782
00:43:46,400 --> 00:43:51,839
Speaker 1: Giants they're awful. The Patriots are worse. The Steelers were

783
00:43:51,920 --> 00:43:55,279
Speaker 1: playing like those teams, but they ultimately now have pulled

784
00:43:55,280 --> 00:43:57,879
Speaker 1: two games out of their ass. Why because, unlike those

785
00:43:57,880 --> 00:44:02,040
Speaker 1: two teams, they have elite play. TJ. Watt is one

786
00:44:02,080 --> 00:44:05,080
Speaker 1: of the best players in the National Football League. High

787
00:44:05,080 --> 00:44:10,759
Speaker 1: Tower is an unreal second rusher. Pickens dude has a

788
00:44:10,840 --> 00:44:15,120
Speaker 1: chance to be a high end wide receiver. Joey Porter's son,

789
00:44:15,239 --> 00:44:20,200
Speaker 1: Joey Porter Junior, had a fantastic interception, clearly high hopes

790
00:44:20,200 --> 00:44:25,760
Speaker 1: for him. Mika Fitzpatrick. The Steelers offensively major issues. Najie

791
00:44:25,800 --> 00:44:28,960
Speaker 1: Harris not very good. If they'd like a redo on

792
00:44:29,000 --> 00:44:31,400
Speaker 1: that pick help. They would like etn over him if

793
00:44:31,400 --> 00:44:34,120
Speaker 1: they could redo it. But when you look at the Steelers,

794
00:44:34,120 --> 00:44:37,080
Speaker 1: the difference between those two teams that are probably headed

795
00:44:37,080 --> 00:44:39,680
Speaker 1: towards four or five wins and the Steelers, you're gonna

796
00:44:39,719 --> 00:44:42,560
Speaker 1: look up be like their offense was terrible and they

797
00:44:42,600 --> 00:44:45,680
Speaker 1: went nine to eight Tom and steel doesn't lose because

798
00:44:45,680 --> 00:44:50,640
Speaker 1: of personnel. And this is where the NFL, more than college,

799
00:44:51,040 --> 00:44:53,920
Speaker 1: is about the x'es and the o's in college excus

800
00:44:54,000 --> 00:44:56,960
Speaker 1: Jimmy's and the jokes. If you have elite players, you

801
00:44:57,040 --> 00:44:59,399
Speaker 1: can be average at the x's and no's and still

802
00:44:59,440 --> 00:45:03,359
Speaker 1: win eleven games. Look, get James Franklin's career right now.

803
00:45:03,400 --> 00:45:05,440
Speaker 1: If you have the x's and no's, and the Jimmy's

804
00:45:05,480 --> 00:45:08,400
Speaker 1: and the Joe's, you can win national championships. Nick Saban,

805
00:45:08,520 --> 00:45:13,440
Speaker 1: Urban Meyer, Kirby Smart. In football in the NFL, a

806
00:45:13,440 --> 00:45:16,719
Speaker 1: lot of teams have high end players, obviously the Niners,

807
00:45:17,160 --> 00:45:19,600
Speaker 1: the Eagles. Some have more than others, but there is

808
00:45:19,680 --> 00:45:22,759
Speaker 1: a large group of teams that have impact players at

809
00:45:22,760 --> 00:45:26,640
Speaker 1: several positions. So it's a scheme game, and the Steelers

810
00:45:26,680 --> 00:45:32,840
Speaker 1: offensively clearly lack some innovation. Matt Mack Canada. People aren't

811
00:45:32,880 --> 00:45:36,120
Speaker 1: just randomly making fun of the guy randomly calling for

812
00:45:36,160 --> 00:45:38,840
Speaker 1: the guy's job. Look at his resume as an offensive

813
00:45:38,840 --> 00:45:42,360
Speaker 1: play caller. It's not very good. And Kenny Pickett, to me,

814
00:45:42,480 --> 00:45:46,320
Speaker 1: the difference between him and Mac Jones. Now, Kenny is

815
00:45:46,400 --> 00:45:49,040
Speaker 1: slightly better athlete, but I think they're of the same

816
00:45:49,280 --> 00:45:51,320
Speaker 1: Like if they were on the quarterback tree, they would

817
00:45:51,320 --> 00:45:55,480
Speaker 1: be from the same tree. Right. They're not Josh Allen Mahomes.

818
00:45:55,480 --> 00:45:58,640
Speaker 1: Some of those guys are down the road. But Kenny

819
00:45:58,640 --> 00:46:02,080
Speaker 1: Pickett pretty good athlete and hits a couple big plays,

820
00:46:02,120 --> 00:46:04,400
Speaker 1: which he's done this season. And I will say this

821
00:46:04,480 --> 00:46:07,960
Speaker 1: about him, and I had Cam Hayward on in the

822
00:46:08,000 --> 00:46:11,040
Speaker 1: summer and one thing he mentioned is last year down

823
00:46:11,080 --> 00:46:14,280
Speaker 1: the stretch when they turned around their season, he played well,

824
00:46:14,320 --> 00:46:17,759
Speaker 1: specifically at the end of games. And I gave a

825
00:46:18,280 --> 00:46:22,919
Speaker 1: last week what was it the Thursday night game justin

826
00:46:22,920 --> 00:46:26,600
Speaker 1: feels a lot of credit because it was not going well.

827
00:46:26,719 --> 00:46:29,800
Speaker 1: It was ugly. It couldn't have gone much worse. Yet

828
00:46:29,840 --> 00:46:33,560
Speaker 1: mentally he did not fold. He did not just say,

829
00:46:33,600 --> 00:46:35,360
Speaker 1: you know what, screw it, this season is going to

830
00:46:35,400 --> 00:46:38,040
Speaker 1: be a disaster in my career in Chicago's over FuG it.

831
00:46:38,280 --> 00:46:41,239
Speaker 1: I don't care anymore. He just kept swinging. And now

832
00:46:41,280 --> 00:46:44,239
Speaker 1: thinking about the Thursday night game, did I overrate his

833
00:46:44,360 --> 00:46:46,479
Speaker 1: game a little bit? A lot of it was after

834
00:46:46,520 --> 00:46:50,400
Speaker 1: the catch, maybe a little bit from a statistical standpoint,

835
00:46:50,440 --> 00:46:53,600
Speaker 1: but from a mental standpoint, brought a lot to the table,

836
00:46:54,000 --> 00:46:56,880
Speaker 1: did not tap out. And in the NFL, at the

837
00:46:56,920 --> 00:46:59,600
Speaker 1: highest level, in pro sports, in general, hell in life,

838
00:46:59,840 --> 00:47:02,759
Speaker 1: it's easy to kind of mentally fold. And I think

839
00:47:02,800 --> 00:47:06,239
Speaker 1: Kenny Pickett does have a little mental toughness to him

840
00:47:06,320 --> 00:47:09,360
Speaker 1: because that was a game where he easily could have

841
00:47:09,520 --> 00:47:12,520
Speaker 1: just wave the white flag like this ain't gonna work.

842
00:47:12,600 --> 00:47:16,279
Speaker 1: I'm screwed, and he made a huge, huge throw to

843
00:47:16,920 --> 00:47:19,879
Speaker 1: essentially win them the game to you know, their star

844
00:47:19,960 --> 00:47:26,560
Speaker 1: wide receiver. But listen, the Steelers just won't die because

845
00:47:26,560 --> 00:47:29,560
Speaker 1: of personnel. And I think that speaks to the organization.

846
00:47:29,719 --> 00:47:32,080
Speaker 1: Like Mike Tomlin ain't drafting the players. I'm not saying

847
00:47:32,120 --> 00:47:35,320
Speaker 1: he doesn't influence the draft picks, but it's a group effort.

848
00:47:35,640 --> 00:47:38,839
Speaker 1: It's always led by Kevin Colbert, the Roonies. It's an

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Speaker 1: organizational philosophy where when you look at the Patriots, it's

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Speaker 1: Bill and a Bill doesn't like him, Nope, not gonna

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Speaker 1: take them. It's like, sometimes it is healthy to get

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Speaker 1: some outside opinions, to not just have your views as

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Speaker 1: the only thing that is taken into account when making

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Speaker 1: a decision. And I think that shows in Pittsburgh because

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Speaker 1: they shouldn't be that good. They honestly, the way they're playing,

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Speaker 1: especially offensively in twenty twenty three, should probably be like

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Speaker 1: a seven win team. But you're gonna look up and

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Speaker 1: they're gonna win nine. And the difference is elite guys. Listen,

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Speaker 1: Lions are for real. They just aren't. There is no

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Speaker 1: disputing it. They are a twelve plus win team. Now,

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Speaker 1: part of that is the schedule, but their last fifteen games,

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Speaker 1: they're twelve and three, and they have high end players

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Speaker 1: all over the place and everybody under the sun. And

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Speaker 1: I probably was a little guilty of this though, you

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Speaker 1: know football, this isn't Wall Street. There's a little meathead

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Speaker 1: into a lot of coaches. Dan Campbell might be pretty good.

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Speaker 1: Like you watch the Lions. They consistently start fast, they

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Speaker 1: consistently show up ready to play. They take on his

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Speaker 1: personality of a very very physical football team. They've been

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Speaker 1: built in the correct way at the point of attack.

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Speaker 1: Their offensive line high end top notch Aiden Hutchinson. You

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Speaker 1: think Trent Bulky would like that pickback. You know what's

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Speaker 1: crazy is now listen did he fall in the draft?

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Speaker 1: He went to but he was also drafted over a

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Speaker 1: guy who was a huge projection because sometimes, and I'm

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Speaker 1: guilty of this, that we undervalue not elite athletes. We

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Speaker 1: go how high is their ceiling? Well, actually, Aiden Hutchinson's

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Speaker 1: is pretty freaking high. Why he's six seven, he's a badass,

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Speaker 1: He's highly skilled. The interception he made yesterday was just elite.

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Speaker 1: I really like this Lions team and there's a chance

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Speaker 1: they're better than the Cowboys. At worst, they're just as

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Speaker 1: good because let's face it, Dak Prescott and Jared Goff,

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Speaker 1: Jared Goff's been better the last two years. It's not

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Speaker 1: an opinion, that's a fact. And when you look at

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Speaker 1: the Detroit Lions, like an aura of this is fun.

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Speaker 1: There's pressure because a lot of people are picking them

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Speaker 1: and make the playoffs. They should make the playoffs. But

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Speaker 1: there's not like this aura for a historically bad franchise

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Speaker 1: of negativity surrounding them. Right, Like when you look at

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Speaker 1: the Dallas Cowboys, the first thing that goes wrong, there's

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Speaker 1: this negative cloud. And that's part of being the Cowboys,

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Speaker 1: the Lakers, the Yankees, the big dog in town, right,

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Speaker 1: Tiger Woods in his prime, Bogie's a couple holes. It's

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Speaker 1: viewed at a lot differently than other people. It's part

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Speaker 1: of the brand of the Cowboys. But if we take

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Speaker 1: away the brands and all the bullshit and just look

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Speaker 1: at the talent on the field, if you got the

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Speaker 1: Niners and the Eagles as the top two teams in

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Speaker 1: the NFC, clearly are we sure Detroit isn't the third?

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Speaker 1: And are we sure Detroit isn't whoever ends up depending

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Speaker 1: on how the seating goes, I'd rather play the Cowboys

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Speaker 1: in the second round. Detroit Lions. I'm not saying the

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Speaker 1: Lions have like a really good shot to be in

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Speaker 1: the NFC Championship or even win the Super Bowl. But

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Speaker 1: I do think they're for real because they're built the

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Speaker 1: correct way in a day and age where physicality has

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Speaker 1: been taken out of the game in space and rightfully

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Speaker 1: so for the health. Though I'm never apologizing I missed

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Speaker 1: the violence. I grew up on the violence. I'm a

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Speaker 1: consumer first, and I loved watching it. Whenever I on

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Speaker 1: my Instagram feeds or whatever. Videos from the nineties, the eighties,

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Speaker 1: the two thousands, It's like, I like that that level

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Speaker 1: of football. I watched this as much football then as

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Speaker 1: I do now, maybe a little less. I have more

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Speaker 1: options because of YouTube TV, But I watched a lot

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Speaker 1: of football then and I fucking loved it. But the

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Speaker 1: one area where you're still allowed to be extremely physical,

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Speaker 1: and it's treated somewhat obviously, you can't hit the quarterback

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Speaker 1: the same way, but in terms of offensive and defensive

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Speaker 1: linement against each other, it's not much different than it

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Speaker 1: was fifteen twenty thirty years ago. Is the point of attack.

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Speaker 1: Your dtackles, your dns, your guards, your centers, your tackles,

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Speaker 1: and the lions are good there, so for sure not

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Speaker 1: going away. And last but not least, you know what's

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Speaker 1: funny is forever there was this argument about guys that

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Speaker 1: got fired giving them a second chance, Like second chance

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Speaker 1: coaches had a really good chance of success. They're like,

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Speaker 1: look at Belichick failed in Cleveland, then went to New England,

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Speaker 1: Andy Reid in Kansas City. Maybe they're just really good,

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Speaker 1: Like maybe they're just all time great coaches, because like

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Speaker 1: Pat Schrummer got a second chance, how'd that go? McCarthy's

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Speaker 1: getting a second chance, Like clearly probably gonna be a

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Speaker 1: little more underwhelming than the hype. Now he's better than

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Speaker 1: all these second chance guys because you look at Frank

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Speaker 1: Reich and you go, are we sure he knows what

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Speaker 1: he's doing? Are we sure if Frank has any clue

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Speaker 1: what he's doing to be a guy worthy of immediately

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Speaker 1: getting hired. It wasn't Sean Payton won a super Bowl,

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Speaker 1: been in the playoffs a bunch. Frank was in Indy

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Speaker 1: and got dealt bad hand. Though he inherited the Josh

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Speaker 1: McDaniels match mess, but the luck retiring on him totally understand.

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Speaker 1: But I'd say the last couple of years just watching

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Speaker 1: his team, which pretty talented. I wouldn't say they're Niners

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Speaker 1: or Eagles, but they definitely weren't as shitty as they showed. Hell,

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Speaker 1: look at this season. Who would you rather have right

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Speaker 1: now coaching your team? If all things are equal, I

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Speaker 1: get two teams exact same personnel, Shane Psikin or Frank Reich.

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Speaker 1: Shane's literally coached five games in his career, and I

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Speaker 1: don't think there's one person in the National Football League,

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Speaker 1: not a GM, not an owner, and definitely not a

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Speaker 1: defensive coordinator that wouldn't want to be with Shane. Like ultimately,

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Speaker 1: for example, Doug Peterson, the dude won a freaking Super Bowl,

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Speaker 1: then his second year gets him back to the playoffs

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Speaker 1: when Carson gets banged up again, wins a game with Foles.

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Speaker 1: So you look at Frank, you go, what did he

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Speaker 1: actually do? Same thing played in the NFL. Loooks the part.

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Speaker 1: Nice guy. People really really like the guy. Are we

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Speaker 1: sure he should be a head coach right now in

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Speaker 1: the NFL? Because I watch his team one and listen,

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Speaker 1: you go, well, John, you thought they should trade up

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Speaker 1: to get Bryce Young or should take Bryce Young number one. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I'm in the podcast business. They are paid to make

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Speaker 1: that decision and get it right. I'm not whether I'm wrong,

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Speaker 1: Like I'm paid to entertain and push advertisements. That's my industry.

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Speaker 1: If you're Frank, you were paid to get the right

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Speaker 1: fucking quarterback and then coach him up and make him

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Speaker 1: look good and figure it out. So why you're paying

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Speaker 1: millions of dollars? And right now I'll watch Frank and

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Speaker 1: I go I don't think he has any clue what

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Speaker 1: he's doing. Honestly, I think they are completely lost. Clearly,

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Speaker 1: there is a chance if you could do a redo. Now.

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Speaker 1: I know Richardson's banged up, but there's no disputing the

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Speaker 1: two players and CJ. Stroud in a different universe than

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Speaker 1: Bryce Young. So if I was a Carolina Panthers fan,

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Speaker 1: I wouldn't just be nervous because listen, you take the

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Speaker 1: wrong quarterback, it sets you back. It just does. Most

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Speaker 1: teams are not the forty nine ers where you can

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Speaker 1: trade up, take a guy and not impact you. Bryce

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Speaker 1: Young already has more starts than Tree Lance but if

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Speaker 1: you get the wrong coach, that's what really sets you

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Speaker 1: back because within two years you realize we just made

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Speaker 1: a similar mistake. Then you fire him and you start

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Speaker 1: from scratch. And that's kind of what it feels like

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Speaker 1: right now in Carolina, that are we sure that Frank

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Speaker 1: Reich is going to be the long term solution? Because

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Speaker 1: I sure as hell them not the volume