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427
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Speaker 1: always smiling. And it's sometimes I think about that because

428
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Speaker 1: I can, I can be a little grouchy, I can

429
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Speaker 1: be a little negative. I just put a smile on

430
00:24:50,680 --> 00:24:53,560
Speaker 1: your face, just be a little happier and things get better.

431
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Speaker 1: So it's amazing how easy that trick is the older

432
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Speaker 1: you get. Went to the US Open Sunday was truly

433
00:25:00,440 --> 00:25:04,280
Speaker 1: an incredible tournament and one of the wildest experiences. Running

434
00:25:04,359 --> 00:25:08,040
Speaker 1: up to the eighteen two guys with radios heard Bryson

435
00:25:08,160 --> 00:25:12,560
Speaker 1: hit the bunker and everyone started running to seventeen, only

436
00:25:12,600 --> 00:25:15,480
Speaker 1: to hear the knocks, only to hear that he knocked

437
00:25:15,480 --> 00:25:17,520
Speaker 1: it in from three and a half feet. We all

438
00:25:17,560 --> 00:25:20,240
Speaker 1: dead stop, turned around and sprinted back to eighteen. The

439
00:25:20,280 --> 00:25:22,320
Speaker 1: reason they ran to seventeens because everyone assumed they were

440
00:25:22,320 --> 00:25:25,080
Speaker 1: gonna go to a playoff all time classic for sure,

441
00:25:25,600 --> 00:25:29,000
Speaker 1: luckily lucky enough to live in South Carolina and be

442
00:25:29,080 --> 00:25:34,159
Speaker 1: near the action. Yeah, I mean it's I've been to

443
00:25:34,200 --> 00:25:35,919
Speaker 1: a couple of golf tournaments, but I've never been to

444
00:25:35,960 --> 00:25:38,840
Speaker 1: a golf tournament on a Sunday, and I mean that's

445
00:25:38,920 --> 00:25:41,800
Speaker 1: probably one of the more historic moments. There is nothing

446
00:25:41,960 --> 00:25:45,920
Speaker 1: like being at a big moment in sports when everyone

447
00:25:46,000 --> 00:25:48,800
Speaker 1: kind of knows it's a big moment, whether it be

448
00:25:48,840 --> 00:25:51,080
Speaker 1: a tight playoff game, whether it be I've been to

449
00:25:51,119 --> 00:25:54,800
Speaker 1: World Series games, I've been to NBA Finals games, that

450
00:25:54,920 --> 00:25:58,800
Speaker 1: there's something special about being in the arena, right Obviously,

451
00:25:58,880 --> 00:26:01,600
Speaker 1: there's nothing like being the player in the arena, the pressure.

452
00:26:02,760 --> 00:26:06,680
Speaker 1: And I make my living now off watching games. People like,

453
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Speaker 1: why don't you go to more games? It's because I

454
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Speaker 1: can't really afford to, Like I got to see everything,

455
00:26:11,720 --> 00:26:14,160
Speaker 1: and if I can't go to a game on Sunday,

456
00:26:14,560 --> 00:26:17,359
Speaker 1: because I'll miss everything that else is going on. And

457
00:26:17,359 --> 00:26:19,240
Speaker 1: how am I supposed to talk to Colin record a

458
00:26:19,240 --> 00:26:22,320
Speaker 1: podcast when I haven't watched anything like that's I'm not

459
00:26:22,359 --> 00:26:24,439
Speaker 1: doing first take here where I don't watch half the

460
00:26:24,480 --> 00:26:28,600
Speaker 1: things and just you know, shout out like like I'm

461
00:26:28,600 --> 00:26:31,840
Speaker 1: really aggressive. That's not what I do. And I enjoy

462
00:26:31,920 --> 00:26:35,680
Speaker 1: watching the games. So I miss going to some big

463
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Speaker 1: events and that had to be pretty special. And I

464
00:26:40,640 --> 00:26:44,480
Speaker 1: would imagine a lot of people listening have just over

465
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Speaker 1: the course of your life you're a big sports fan,

466
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Speaker 1: have got an opportunity because you never know. That's the thing.

467
00:26:48,840 --> 00:26:51,600
Speaker 1: You have an idea. When you go to a playoff game,

468
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Speaker 1: an NFL playoff game, obviously you know what's on the line.

469
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Speaker 1: If you went to like a Final four National championship,

470
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Speaker 1: you know what's on the line. But even some regular

471
00:26:59,480 --> 00:27:02,280
Speaker 1: season games, some things can just turn into instant classics.

472
00:27:02,680 --> 00:27:05,359
Speaker 1: A record could be broken, you can just watch something

473
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Speaker 1: pretty special. And that's the great unknown about the reality

474
00:27:09,119 --> 00:27:12,840
Speaker 1: television that is sports. I know people said the football

475
00:27:12,880 --> 00:27:17,920
Speaker 1: is rigged. I maybe of the group that thinks that's

476
00:27:17,960 --> 00:27:21,240
Speaker 1: not true. But I would say one of my favorite

477
00:27:21,280 --> 00:27:24,399
Speaker 1: games I've ever been to in my entire life is

478
00:27:24,440 --> 00:27:28,760
Speaker 1: the last day of Candlestick and back of Candlestick, you

479
00:27:28,800 --> 00:27:31,280
Speaker 1: could walk on the field five minutes before the end

480
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Speaker 1: of the game if you had a media pass and

481
00:27:34,359 --> 00:27:36,720
Speaker 1: I got to go on the field. And this was

482
00:27:36,760 --> 00:27:39,240
Speaker 1: the forty nine ers Monday Night Football, John Gruden, Mike

483
00:27:39,280 --> 00:27:45,199
Speaker 1: Turrico against the Atlanta Falcons. Atlanta was having a horrendous season,

484
00:27:45,840 --> 00:27:49,359
Speaker 1: but they were beating the Niners, or maybe they were tied.

485
00:27:49,600 --> 00:27:52,000
Speaker 1: I can't exactly remember the score, but they were driving

486
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Speaker 1: to essentially win the game, and I'm on the field

487
00:27:55,240 --> 00:27:58,679
Speaker 1: standing next to Chris Berman. It was just like this

488
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Speaker 1: in the place is fully packed, Joe Montana, every famous

489
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Speaker 1: Niners at the house, Eddie de Bartolo's there, Boys and

490
00:28:05,160 --> 00:28:08,119
Speaker 1: Men's gonna play after the game. And Matt Ryan throws

491
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Speaker 1: a bass a little behind I think Roddy White lands

492
00:28:11,280 --> 00:28:14,919
Speaker 1: in Navarro Bowman's hands and navaral Bowman takes it seventy

493
00:28:14,920 --> 00:28:18,320
Speaker 1: five yards, jumps into the end zone for a touchdown,

494
00:28:18,640 --> 00:28:21,840
Speaker 1: and it clinched the Niners in the playoffs, and the

495
00:28:21,920 --> 00:28:26,720
Speaker 1: place went berserk. It was It was just one of

496
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Speaker 1: the coolest experiences of my life. From in terms of sports,

497
00:28:31,760 --> 00:28:35,880
Speaker 1: you just can't There's nothing like it you can get.

498
00:28:35,920 --> 00:28:38,720
Speaker 1: You can only get those highs watching sports on television

499
00:28:38,720 --> 00:28:44,320
Speaker 1: from gambling. I think for the mail bag, with Netflix

500
00:28:44,360 --> 00:28:48,320
Speaker 1: getting the rights for the NFL Christmas Slate, do we

501
00:28:48,400 --> 00:28:53,600
Speaker 1: expect a new commentary team to come in, who would

502
00:28:53,640 --> 00:28:56,840
Speaker 1: you like to see call these games? Or do you

503
00:28:56,880 --> 00:28:59,480
Speaker 1: think they will ultimately end up doing these games? Was

504
00:28:59,520 --> 00:29:03,600
Speaker 1: curious because Olsen's in limbo situation, second in line at

505
00:29:03,600 --> 00:29:09,520
Speaker 1: Fox and potentially securing a spot with Netflix. I don't

506
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Speaker 1: think Netflix if I had a guess, and I'm not

507
00:29:11,640 --> 00:29:14,800
Speaker 1: some like media reporter this way, I have no clue.

508
00:29:15,640 --> 00:29:18,680
Speaker 1: Greg Olsen, you wouldn't give up I know, he goes.

509
00:29:18,760 --> 00:29:22,160
Speaker 1: I mean, it sucks now. It's also understandable they signed

510
00:29:22,240 --> 00:29:24,720
Speaker 1: Tom Brady, is that he went from making ten million

511
00:29:24,760 --> 00:29:28,560
Speaker 1: dollars or three million dollars just because Tom Brady signed on.

512
00:29:29,240 --> 00:29:31,280
Speaker 1: But listen, I'm not gonna cry a river for a

513
00:29:31,280 --> 00:29:34,000
Speaker 1: guy making three million dollars coll on football games. Even

514
00:29:34,000 --> 00:29:37,560
Speaker 1: though Greg Olsen's really good and I enjoy him, but

515
00:29:37,640 --> 00:29:40,240
Speaker 1: he still get he gets a big slate every single week.

516
00:29:40,640 --> 00:29:42,600
Speaker 1: Now you don't get the number one slate, but you

517
00:29:42,680 --> 00:29:45,040
Speaker 1: still get really really good games as the number two

518
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Speaker 1: at Fox. But you wouldn't give up sixteen seventeen games

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00:29:48,200 --> 00:29:51,920
Speaker 1: a year just for one Netflix game. And who knows,

520
00:29:51,960 --> 00:29:55,480
Speaker 1: maybe he can do both. And I get my guess

521
00:29:55,560 --> 00:29:59,440
Speaker 1: is gonna be that Netflix is going to outsource the

522
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Speaker 1: production to a Fox, a CBS, A a NBC someone

523
00:30:07,200 --> 00:30:10,200
Speaker 1: like that, and then use people to call the games.

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Speaker 1: I'm not unless you're terrible, I mean, god awful. It

525
00:30:15,960 --> 00:30:21,160
Speaker 1: doesn't really bother me much because honestly, most crews I

526
00:30:21,240 --> 00:30:24,680
Speaker 1: don't think are like that great, but also are that bad.

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00:30:24,760 --> 00:30:28,200
Speaker 1: They're just kind of meh. It doesn't matter. I'm there

528
00:30:28,240 --> 00:30:30,960
Speaker 1: to watch the football game. I'm not looking to gain

529
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Speaker 1: an education from these guys. I've said it forever. I

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00:30:36,320 --> 00:30:38,320
Speaker 1: would have loved and Drew Brees is like bitter that

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Speaker 1: he got fired. It's like, Drew, I have a ton

532
00:30:41,080 --> 00:30:43,480
Speaker 1: of respect for you as a player. Not everyone is

533
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Speaker 1: meant to have a mic in front of their mouth

534
00:30:45,080 --> 00:30:49,160
Speaker 1: and entertain like this is entertainment, and I just I

535
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Speaker 1: don't think you're really tailor made for that. I think

536
00:30:51,200 --> 00:30:52,800
Speaker 1: you should like run a team. I think you should

537
00:30:52,800 --> 00:30:55,720
Speaker 1: be like a team president or GM. If you don't

538
00:30:55,720 --> 00:30:58,400
Speaker 1: want to coach, you'd probably be an outstanding offensive coordinator.

539
00:30:58,440 --> 00:31:02,160
Speaker 1: But just because you're fa at playing football doesn't mean

540
00:31:02,200 --> 00:31:05,280
Speaker 1: that anyone wants to listen to you talk about football,

541
00:31:05,400 --> 00:31:07,520
Speaker 1: because maybe you're just not good at doing that. I mean,

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00:31:07,560 --> 00:31:09,560
Speaker 1: Joe Montana, one of the best football players of all time,

543
00:31:09,800 --> 00:31:12,840
Speaker 1: was awful. A lot of guys have just been awful.

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00:31:13,520 --> 00:31:18,160
Speaker 1: I think Philip Rivers would be really good. But I

545
00:31:19,120 --> 00:31:21,440
Speaker 1: hope they don't do this, But I do think this

546
00:31:21,520 --> 00:31:25,440
Speaker 1: is potential to happen. Is they try to do some

547
00:31:25,680 --> 00:31:31,160
Speaker 1: like famous non football people with football people. Maybe throw

548
00:31:31,200 --> 00:31:35,040
Speaker 1: in a comedian there, do something like that. I would

549
00:31:35,040 --> 00:31:39,080
Speaker 1: imagine anything's online now. I can imagine the NFL would

550
00:31:39,120 --> 00:31:43,680
Speaker 1: just want a normal crew. But I don't spend that

551
00:31:43,760 --> 00:31:47,960
Speaker 1: much time thinking about you know, who should do what?

552
00:31:48,280 --> 00:31:50,240
Speaker 1: You know? If you tell me it's McAfee and someone,

553
00:31:50,400 --> 00:31:53,600
Speaker 1: I just it won't bother me. Just do whoever, Just

554
00:31:53,640 --> 00:31:55,800
Speaker 1: throw on the game. Most people are gonna have it

555
00:31:55,840 --> 00:31:59,760
Speaker 1: tuned relatively down because of Christmas stuff. But my guess

556
00:31:59,760 --> 00:32:05,960
Speaker 1: would be is they use crews from other networks? Gruden?

557
00:32:07,160 --> 00:32:09,160
Speaker 1: Maybe Gruden gets back in the mix problem is hesue

558
00:32:09,160 --> 00:32:12,640
Speaker 1: in the league. If I was Netflix, I John Gruden.

559
00:32:14,680 --> 00:32:17,080
Speaker 1: A question for the mailbag, more of a coaching one

560
00:32:17,080 --> 00:32:20,400
Speaker 1: than a scouting one. How do skill position players know

561
00:32:20,480 --> 00:32:22,719
Speaker 1: when they have to get in and out of the

562
00:32:22,720 --> 00:32:26,120
Speaker 1: next play, especially in the pros where they don't use

563
00:32:26,160 --> 00:32:30,000
Speaker 1: signs to get plays in. I've played soccer and rugby

564
00:32:30,080 --> 00:32:32,720
Speaker 1: where you substitute one for one when play is dead.

565
00:32:33,360 --> 00:32:36,440
Speaker 1: How does that work in football? Especially the quarterback gets

566
00:32:36,480 --> 00:32:40,680
Speaker 1: the play from the OC well on the sideline you

567
00:32:40,720 --> 00:32:45,320
Speaker 1: are screaming the the you know, the formations or the

568
00:32:46,720 --> 00:32:50,640
Speaker 1: what's it called I'm blanking right now. The not the

569
00:32:50,640 --> 00:32:56,400
Speaker 1: position groups, but the U I can't think of the terminology,

570
00:32:57,000 --> 00:33:00,320
Speaker 1: but like three wide receivers, two wide receivers, there's one

571
00:33:00,400 --> 00:33:05,040
Speaker 1: running back, one tight end, two tight ends, two backs,

572
00:33:05,080 --> 00:33:09,800
Speaker 1: one wide receiver. Whatever that is, it is getting screamed

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00:33:09,800 --> 00:33:13,080
Speaker 1: from the sideline. So you know what groups you're a

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00:33:13,080 --> 00:33:16,200
Speaker 1: part of if you're a quote unquote role player. And

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00:33:16,240 --> 00:33:19,840
Speaker 1: then there are times when you know a starter needs

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00:33:19,840 --> 00:33:22,080
Speaker 1: a breather, right, you see that all the time, like

577
00:33:22,120 --> 00:33:24,640
Speaker 1: a guy busts a big run, or guy's just exhausted

578
00:33:25,080 --> 00:33:27,280
Speaker 1: and I'll kind of tap his chest like Christian McCaffrey

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Speaker 1: or Alvin Kamara are running back, like I just need

580
00:33:29,560 --> 00:33:33,760
Speaker 1: a breath. But I think with the signals, there are

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00:33:33,800 --> 00:33:40,080
Speaker 1: still guys screaming the whatever the group that's supposed to

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00:33:40,160 --> 00:33:42,520
Speaker 1: be in there on the sideline, and you're close enough

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00:33:42,600 --> 00:33:44,880
Speaker 1: you can hear it, and you just come off. It's

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00:33:44,920 --> 00:33:48,920
Speaker 1: not very complicated and you've been doing it so consistently,

585
00:33:48,960 --> 00:33:52,280
Speaker 1: like in college, obviously they are the signs, but in college,

586
00:33:52,320 --> 00:33:53,800
Speaker 1: most of the guys playing in the pros don't come

587
00:33:53,840 --> 00:33:56,680
Speaker 1: off the field that much. In pro football, you rotate

588
00:33:56,720 --> 00:33:59,200
Speaker 1: a lot. There's also a lot on a given week

589
00:34:00,720 --> 00:34:03,080
Speaker 1: schemed up, so you kind of have an idea like, hey,

590
00:34:03,080 --> 00:34:04,960
Speaker 1: this play I'm not a part of, but you'd already

591
00:34:04,960 --> 00:34:08,600
Speaker 1: be off the field. It's a relatively seamless transition. It's

592
00:34:08,640 --> 00:34:12,160
Speaker 1: why when you see a delay of game for substitution issues,

593
00:34:12,800 --> 00:34:16,080
Speaker 1: usually the head coach goes nuts because that should not

594
00:34:16,160 --> 00:34:21,200
Speaker 1: happen because you practice it so often now on the road.

595
00:34:21,400 --> 00:34:25,480
Speaker 1: In certain environments it is louder, right, So it is hard,

596
00:34:26,000 --> 00:34:28,680
Speaker 1: but I think these guys relatively are used to the

597
00:34:28,719 --> 00:34:31,279
Speaker 1: ebb and flow of looking at the sideline and kind

598
00:34:31,280 --> 00:34:34,560
Speaker 1: of knowing. I would say a well run team has

599
00:34:35,360 --> 00:34:47,400
Speaker 1: little to no issues with that. This question has been

600
00:34:47,400 --> 00:34:50,080
Speaker 1: on my mind for the past few weeks. I would

601
00:34:50,160 --> 00:34:53,000
Speaker 1: love to hear your insight. The quarterback talent that has

602
00:34:53,000 --> 00:34:55,920
Speaker 1: been drafted from seventeen to twenty four has ushered in

603
00:34:56,000 --> 00:34:58,920
Speaker 1: a new era of football and has replaced the legends

604
00:34:58,960 --> 00:35:01,600
Speaker 1: of the two thousands and the two tw tens, Yet

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00:35:01,640 --> 00:35:04,560
Speaker 1: only one of them has won a Super Bowl over

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00:35:04,600 --> 00:35:07,719
Speaker 1: the next ten years. Assuming Mahomes wins two on the

607
00:35:07,760 --> 00:35:10,920
Speaker 1: low end and four on the high end. If Mahomes

608
00:35:10,920 --> 00:35:16,480
Speaker 1: wins four on the high end, that's pretty nuts. Like,

609
00:35:16,719 --> 00:35:19,279
Speaker 1: I think it's fair to assume the Chiefs probably win

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00:35:19,320 --> 00:35:24,479
Speaker 1: another one, but I'd set his over under at one

611
00:35:24,520 --> 00:35:28,440
Speaker 1: and a half. If he wins two more in his career,

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00:35:30,560 --> 00:35:34,560
Speaker 1: he would pass Montana, and I think he'd be wildly

613
00:35:34,600 --> 00:35:39,759
Speaker 1: considered the Brady would have the best career ever. But

614
00:35:39,800 --> 00:35:42,080
Speaker 1: the people would be arguing he's the best quarterback ever.

615
00:35:42,400 --> 00:35:44,480
Speaker 1: But I think he would definitely solidify himself as the

616
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Speaker 1: number two quarterback of all time fly by demandings of

617
00:35:47,840 --> 00:35:50,600
Speaker 1: the world. I think, to avoid a cop out answer,

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Speaker 1: I am only going to give Mahomes three. Give him

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Speaker 1: Mahomes threes a lot. I mean that would be win

620
00:35:57,360 --> 00:36:01,080
Speaker 1: six super Bowls. I know he's already won three, but

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Speaker 1: think of the gap between Brady when he won his

622
00:36:04,480 --> 00:36:07,799
Speaker 1: three to the next super Bowl he won, right, he

623
00:36:07,880 --> 00:36:10,359
Speaker 1: won his third super Bowl two thousand and one, two

624
00:36:10,360 --> 00:36:14,080
Speaker 1: thousand and three, two thousand and four. Then they didn't

625
00:36:14,080 --> 00:36:17,320
Speaker 1: win another Super Bowl till what twenty fourteen or fifteen

626
00:36:18,640 --> 00:36:20,879
Speaker 1: because they lost in O seven of the Giants, they

627
00:36:20,880 --> 00:36:23,319
Speaker 1: lost in eleven of the Giants. That there was a

628
00:36:23,360 --> 00:36:25,680
Speaker 1: wide gap of Tom Brady down win a super Bowl.

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Speaker 1: And the difference is Belichick like he was going to

630
00:36:31,200 --> 00:36:35,120
Speaker 1: coach that whole time. Andy is what sixty five years old?

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00:36:36,440 --> 00:36:41,600
Speaker 1: So if Mahomes plays another thirteen fourteen years, is he

632
00:36:41,600 --> 00:36:44,120
Speaker 1: going to be coaching those late seventies? That that that's

633
00:36:44,120 --> 00:36:48,359
Speaker 1: a variable. Here, here's where I tentatively landed on this.

634
00:36:48,480 --> 00:36:50,520
Speaker 1: Let me know your thoughts and what changes you would make.

635
00:36:51,520 --> 00:36:56,359
Speaker 1: So Mahomes three, two for Josh Allen, two for Jordan Love,

636
00:36:57,360 --> 00:37:00,200
Speaker 1: one for CJ. Stroud, one for Caleb Williams, one for

637
00:37:00,239 --> 00:37:05,279
Speaker 1: brock Perty. I could not go to for Jordan Love.

638
00:37:05,800 --> 00:37:09,319
Speaker 1: Could not do it because while he did show some

639
00:37:09,800 --> 00:37:13,200
Speaker 1: signs of being Aaron Rodgers, like Aaron Rodgers was Aaron

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00:37:13,239 --> 00:37:18,440
Speaker 1: Rodgers and rattling off MVPs and beside Tom Brady was

641
00:37:18,480 --> 00:37:22,480
Speaker 1: probably the second best player of the twenty tens, he

642
00:37:22,560 --> 00:37:24,759
Speaker 1: did not get back to a super Bowl after he

643
00:37:24,800 --> 00:37:28,200
Speaker 1: won it. It is so difficult, it's so random, because

644
00:37:28,239 --> 00:37:30,320
Speaker 1: the other thing is you're gonna have some random guys

645
00:37:30,400 --> 00:37:36,040
Speaker 1: on really good teams beat you in the playoffs. I

646
00:37:36,080 --> 00:37:39,840
Speaker 1: would drop all these numbers. I would put Mahomes lower.

647
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Speaker 1: The Bills have the Bills ever won a Super Bowl?

648
00:37:45,440 --> 00:37:48,600
Speaker 1: The Packers have won two super Bowls in thirty five years,

649
00:37:48,600 --> 00:37:54,520
Speaker 1: and they've had Aaron Rodgers and Brett Farr Kayleb Williams.

650
00:37:54,640 --> 00:37:56,719
Speaker 1: I can't assume he's gonna win a super Bowl. Let's

651
00:37:56,719 --> 00:38:00,600
Speaker 1: see him make the playoffs. To me, Brock Party, you

652
00:38:00,600 --> 00:38:02,560
Speaker 1: could go one for Brock Purty might have to happen

653
00:38:02,600 --> 00:38:04,480
Speaker 1: this year while he's on the rookie contract and their

654
00:38:04,480 --> 00:38:06,719
Speaker 1: team's gonna be really good. Who knows what the team

655
00:38:06,760 --> 00:38:08,480
Speaker 1: will look like after that, Maybe they'll be in a

656
00:38:08,480 --> 00:38:12,640
Speaker 1: transitional period. I think it's hard to do this in

657
00:38:12,680 --> 00:38:15,799
Speaker 1: the NFL because, like, what if the Lions were to

658
00:38:15,800 --> 00:38:20,799
Speaker 1: win a Super Bowl this year? What if? Trying to

659
00:38:20,800 --> 00:38:22,239
Speaker 1: think of what if the Eagles were to win a

660
00:38:22,280 --> 00:38:23,879
Speaker 1: Super Bowl in the next couple of years, their team's

661
00:38:23,880 --> 00:38:26,640
Speaker 1: pretty stacked. What if Matt Stafford and the Rams, their

662
00:38:26,640 --> 00:38:31,280
Speaker 1: team's pretty good. I think it's impossible to play that game.

663
00:38:31,920 --> 00:38:34,359
Speaker 1: And I think whoever you think is gonna win Super

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Speaker 1: Bowls that always ends up winning less. There was a

665
00:38:37,520 --> 00:38:39,440
Speaker 1: time after Peyton Manning went his first Super Bol'd be like,

666
00:38:39,480 --> 00:38:43,200
Speaker 1: this guy's gonna win like three four Shitty barely won two.

667
00:38:46,160 --> 00:38:50,120
Speaker 1: The Jordan Love Thing. How many playoff games with Packers

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00:38:50,120 --> 00:38:53,879
Speaker 1: won over the last like ten years and again I'm

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Speaker 1: I'm high on the Packers, but they couldn't win them

670
00:38:58,160 --> 00:38:59,839
Speaker 1: with Aaron. Now they're gonna win one with Jordan Love.

671
00:39:01,560 --> 00:39:03,680
Speaker 1: Vince Young won the Rookie of the Year in six

672
00:39:04,440 --> 00:39:06,760
Speaker 1: and left so much to be desired for the remainder

673
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Speaker 1: of his career. Is there any chance that c J.

674
00:39:10,160 --> 00:39:13,400
Speaker 1: Stroud has a similar fate? Is the hype too much?

675
00:39:14,160 --> 00:39:16,520
Speaker 1: Why is everyone in complete agreement that he will be

676
00:39:16,560 --> 00:39:18,839
Speaker 1: able to compete in the AFC for years to come.

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00:39:19,640 --> 00:39:22,439
Speaker 1: If Burrow returns to what he was and Herbert takes

678
00:39:22,480 --> 00:39:24,960
Speaker 1: off this year, he wouldn't be a top five quarterback

679
00:39:25,000 --> 00:39:31,919
Speaker 1: in his own conference. Well, if I remember correctly, Vince

680
00:39:31,960 --> 00:39:35,880
Speaker 1: Young was kind of playing hero ball, scrambling around. Like

681
00:39:36,280 --> 00:39:40,760
Speaker 1: Vince Young, his whole game was not predicated on throwing

682
00:39:40,800 --> 00:39:45,600
Speaker 1: the ball. C J. Stroud dominated from the pocket. C J.

683
00:39:45,719 --> 00:39:50,759
Speaker 1: Stroud's skill is a sustainable skill. It was like, no way,

684
00:39:50,800 --> 00:39:53,520
Speaker 1: Stephan Clay can shoot this many three d's this consistently,

685
00:39:53,560 --> 00:39:55,399
Speaker 1: and then after three years like, oh yeah, they kind

686
00:39:55,400 --> 00:39:58,120
Speaker 1: of can. It's kind of what they do. If you

687
00:39:58,239 --> 00:40:02,000
Speaker 1: play well from within the pocket, you are a good player.

688
00:40:02,520 --> 00:40:06,160
Speaker 1: If you obviously have the arm and are accurate look

689
00:40:06,200 --> 00:40:09,920
Speaker 1: at Jared Goff. Jared Goff has the skills. If you

690
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Speaker 1: can protect him, he's gonna be a good quarterback. He

691
00:40:12,440 --> 00:40:16,560
Speaker 1: is an excellent pocket quarterback. Well. CJ. Stroud is more athletic,

692
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Speaker 1: has a little bit more potent arm, and he plays

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Speaker 1: in a dome. So I think it's fair to I'm

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Speaker 1: with you just to anoint him like part of being

695
00:40:28,040 --> 00:40:30,400
Speaker 1: Mahomes or Josh Allen or Lamar Jackson, Like can you

696
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Speaker 1: do this for five years, year in year out, every

697
00:40:33,640 --> 00:40:35,839
Speaker 1: single year, Like, yeah, I might win the MVP this year.

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Speaker 1: This is a big year for him. Plus, they were

699
00:40:39,800 --> 00:40:44,640
Speaker 1: not a target team last year. They were not treated

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Speaker 1: on a weekly basis like we're playing the Houston Texans.

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00:40:48,360 --> 00:40:50,719
Speaker 1: They will be this year. So what's it like having

702
00:40:50,719 --> 00:40:54,600
Speaker 1: the target on your back? But his skill and everything

703
00:40:54,640 --> 00:40:56,440
Speaker 1: that I've heard about him as a guy, and you

704
00:40:56,560 --> 00:40:59,000
Speaker 1: just watch him talk, he clearly a high level, great guy.

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00:40:59,000 --> 00:41:04,360
Speaker 1: People like him, hard worker, but like his skill transfers

706
00:41:04,400 --> 00:41:08,040
Speaker 1: long term. That's the thing with Sean Watson just you know,

707
00:41:08,080 --> 00:41:10,319
Speaker 1: a lot of I'll I never and listened to Sean

708
00:41:10,360 --> 00:41:13,120
Speaker 1: when he was young. Was awesome to watch, but it

709
00:41:13,160 --> 00:41:15,520
Speaker 1: was a lot of outside the pockets, scrambling around making

710
00:41:15,560 --> 00:41:19,400
Speaker 1: shit happen. That's kind of random, like it kind of

711
00:41:19,440 --> 00:41:22,560
Speaker 1: comes back in to equal out over time. It was

712
00:41:22,640 --> 00:41:26,799
Speaker 1: Russell Wilson's problem. He's not some great pocket quarterback, but

713
00:41:26,880 --> 00:41:29,920
Speaker 1: early on in his career, in his heyday, scramble around,

714
00:41:29,920 --> 00:41:33,760
Speaker 1: he would make these remarkable plays. But like what happens

715
00:41:33,800 --> 00:41:35,960
Speaker 1: when you're just like thirty four and you just have

716
00:41:36,040 --> 00:41:39,040
Speaker 1: to play from within the pocket? Can you play from

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00:41:39,040 --> 00:41:42,279
Speaker 1: within the pocket? Right? Why does Zach Wilson suck? Can't

718
00:41:42,280 --> 00:41:44,560
Speaker 1: play from within the pocket? Why did the Niners get

719
00:41:44,680 --> 00:41:46,960
Speaker 1: rid of Trey Lance? Didn't think he had any pocket presents?

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Speaker 1: CJ does. And when you have that skill and then

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Speaker 1: you're accurate and you have a good arm, like your

722
00:41:54,840 --> 00:41:56,960
Speaker 1: floor is really high. Now does that mean you're ever

723
00:41:56,960 --> 00:41:58,880
Speaker 1: gonna be the second best quarterback? And we got a

724
00:41:58,920 --> 00:42:02,480
Speaker 1: lot to learn. But I would be stunned if he's

725
00:42:02,480 --> 00:42:05,240
Speaker 1: not a really good player now, like where he ranks.

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Speaker 1: I want to see if he keeps playing like he

727
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Speaker 1: did last year, he's gonna rank pretty high. Hey man,

728
00:42:14,960 --> 00:42:17,640
Speaker 1: love the pod, but your take about Lamar has been

729
00:42:17,680 --> 00:42:19,799
Speaker 1: horribly wrong. He was at the first two days of

730
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Speaker 1: OTAs mixed the next two days and there the last

731
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Speaker 1: two days. Not sure how you got the misconception he

732
00:42:25,600 --> 00:42:27,440
Speaker 1: didn't show up at all. I let it slide the

733
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Speaker 1: first time, but when you preed it today when talking

734
00:42:30,560 --> 00:42:34,439
Speaker 1: about Rogers, he missed all of OTAs and showed up

735
00:42:34,560 --> 00:42:38,319
Speaker 1: to the mandatory mini camp. It's been well reported. I

736
00:42:38,320 --> 00:42:42,040
Speaker 1: don't care. It doesn't bother me. But when you're Lamar Jackson,

737
00:42:42,760 --> 00:42:46,440
Speaker 1: you show up to everything. You know why Patrick Mahomes did,

738
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Speaker 1: Josh Allen did, every quarterback worths assault? Does Aaron Rodgers

739
00:42:51,320 --> 00:42:54,040
Speaker 1: forty years old doing drugs somewhere whatever? I don't care,

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Speaker 1: But like Lamar, you're chasing Patrick. If Patricks said practice,

741
00:42:58,440 --> 00:43:01,319
Speaker 1: you should be a practice fifty million dollars a year,

742
00:43:01,719 --> 00:43:05,279
Speaker 1: how's this debatable? Like? How could anyone go, yeah, this

743
00:43:05,320 --> 00:43:08,200
Speaker 1: is a little weird. What's he doing? Why is he

744
00:43:08,239 --> 00:43:10,680
Speaker 1: not in practice? I'll tell you who was mad. It

745
00:43:10,719 --> 00:43:13,120
Speaker 1: doesn't bother me. I'm not a fucking Ravens fan. You

746
00:43:13,120 --> 00:43:15,239
Speaker 1: guys screwed me when I pick five thousand dollars on

747
00:43:15,280 --> 00:43:17,239
Speaker 1: you win the AFC Championship Game and you shit down

748
00:43:17,280 --> 00:43:19,959
Speaker 1: your leg. One of the most embarrassing performances I've ever seen.

749
00:43:20,840 --> 00:43:22,640
Speaker 1: Biggest waste of money I've ever had. I can't believe

750
00:43:22,680 --> 00:43:25,800
Speaker 1: I bet against Andy and Mahomes with Todd Monkin and

751
00:43:25,880 --> 00:43:29,799
Speaker 1: Lamar Jackson skipping balls into the ground. I was the

752
00:43:29,800 --> 00:43:32,400
Speaker 1: guy that believed. I was finally a believer. I was like, Okay,

753
00:43:32,600 --> 00:43:34,680
Speaker 1: this team. I thought Ravens are gonna win super Bowl.

754
00:43:35,880 --> 00:43:37,359
Speaker 1: And you don't win the super Bowl and then you're

755
00:43:37,360 --> 00:43:41,799
Speaker 1: skipping practice when Patrick Mahomes is a practice. Come on, man, like,

756
00:43:41,880 --> 00:43:44,359
Speaker 1: that's just it's a bad look. Pay fifty plus million

757
00:43:44,400 --> 00:43:46,560
Speaker 1: dollars a year every time we have an event. You

758
00:43:46,560 --> 00:43:49,480
Speaker 1: should be there, period, point blank. In the story. What

759
00:43:49,520 --> 00:43:52,440
Speaker 1: are we talking about. I'm not a journalist. This is

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00:43:52,560 --> 00:43:56,000
Speaker 1: it's not about facts, right, It's been well reported. He

761
00:43:56,120 --> 00:43:59,040
Speaker 1: was nowhere to be found. Showed up at the end

762
00:43:59,080 --> 00:44:01,719
Speaker 1: when you literally have to because you get fined. I

763
00:44:01,760 --> 00:44:03,879
Speaker 1: don't BLAMEI. I wouldn't want to get fined. He got

764
00:44:03,920 --> 00:44:06,560
Speaker 1: fined seven hundred you know, seven hundred and fifty thousand

765
00:44:06,600 --> 00:44:08,840
Speaker 1: dollars work cow bonus. He didn't get why because he

766
00:44:08,880 --> 00:44:12,040
Speaker 1: wasn't a practice And I defended him like it's not

767
00:44:12,160 --> 00:44:14,359
Speaker 1: very much money to him relative to how much he makes.

768
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Speaker 1: Though I wouldn't be in the business again in seven

769
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Speaker 1: hundred and fifty K round. But like there's no defending

770
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Speaker 1: Lamar Jackson. Not showing up there just isn't like unless

771
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Speaker 1: someone's sick or ill. But if you're just not showing

772
00:44:25,239 --> 00:44:27,880
Speaker 1: up because you don't want to be there, like is

773
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Speaker 1: Patrick Mahomes. There's Patrick Mahomes at practice because that's what

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Speaker 1: That's how I'd be looking. And I'm chasing what's Tiger

775
00:44:34,840 --> 00:44:36,800
Speaker 1: Wood's doing. He's in balls. I better be hitting balls.

776
00:44:36,920 --> 00:44:39,359
Speaker 1: Michael Jordan's in the gym, Lebron's Stephan was in the gym.

777
00:44:39,400 --> 00:44:41,880
Speaker 1: I better be in the gym, not by myself with

778
00:44:42,000 --> 00:44:48,680
Speaker 1: my team when my team's practicing. God that performs in

779
00:44:48,719 --> 00:44:51,320
Speaker 1: the in the playoff game was all time embarrassment. It

780
00:44:51,400 --> 00:44:57,440
Speaker 1: really was question for the bag given the modern landscape

781
00:44:57,480 --> 00:45:00,960
Speaker 1: of the league end game. In a hypothetical fifty three

782
00:45:01,080 --> 00:45:03,960
Speaker 1: round fantasy draft, quarterbacks would fly off the board to start.

783
00:45:04,400 --> 00:45:06,560
Speaker 1: My question is how many you think would come off

784
00:45:06,600 --> 00:45:09,759
Speaker 1: the board before taking a non quarterback. I think I

785
00:45:09,800 --> 00:45:14,600
Speaker 1: got this question by someone before. I think the numbers

786
00:45:14,600 --> 00:45:16,600
Speaker 1: a little smaller. I think the last time I got

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Speaker 1: the question, someone wrote twenty quarterbacks I don't think it

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00:45:20,120 --> 00:45:22,600
Speaker 1: would be twenty quarterbacks. I think when we got to

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Speaker 1: about ten, let's do it right now. Mahomes, Alan Lamar Herbert,

790
00:45:30,160 --> 00:45:34,359
Speaker 1: for sure, it's crazy, it's gonna sound Kayleb Williams would

791
00:45:34,360 --> 00:45:45,400
Speaker 1: go c J. Stroud, that's seven, Jalen Hurts like the

792
00:45:45,520 --> 00:45:49,480
Speaker 1: Dak Cousins, Purty Goff. You know, all that stuff's debatable.

793
00:45:50,680 --> 00:45:56,640
Speaker 1: Am I missing any Burrow? But you'd get pretty quick

794
00:45:56,640 --> 00:46:00,600
Speaker 1: into like, wait, you're not gonna draft Michael Parsons, You're

795
00:46:00,600 --> 00:46:05,680
Speaker 1: gonna draft Kirk Cousins over Nick Bosa. And I probably

796
00:46:05,719 --> 00:46:07,880
Speaker 1: I'm doing off the cuff, probably left out a couple guys.

797
00:46:08,600 --> 00:46:12,680
Speaker 1: I think the number somewhere between ten to twelve, ten

798
00:46:12,719 --> 00:46:15,560
Speaker 1: to twelve. If Kyle Shanahan was drafting, party would go

799
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Speaker 1: I Goff? I mean, would you take Goff? This is

800
00:46:19,400 --> 00:46:23,600
Speaker 1: a good example, Goff, who I'd now put above Dak

801
00:46:23,680 --> 00:46:25,640
Speaker 1: and above Kirk Cousins because I see a guy playing

802
00:46:25,640 --> 00:46:28,960
Speaker 1: well in the playoffs. Would you take Golf if you

803
00:46:29,080 --> 00:46:31,399
Speaker 1: needed to start a team from scratch and you weren't

804
00:46:31,400 --> 00:46:33,919
Speaker 1: gonna if you had the tenth pick and you weren't

805
00:46:33,960 --> 00:46:37,759
Speaker 1: drafting again until whatever forty or whatever, forty two. You

806
00:46:37,800 --> 00:46:41,160
Speaker 1: do the math, you're taking golf or Michael Parsons. You

807
00:46:41,200 --> 00:46:43,320
Speaker 1: could argue, just take GoF you got a good quarterback.

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00:46:46,960 --> 00:46:50,920
Speaker 1: I don't know if wide receivers, like I'm taking lineman

809
00:46:51,120 --> 00:46:53,520
Speaker 1: before I'm taking wide receivers. There's so many wide receivers

810
00:46:53,560 --> 00:46:56,400
Speaker 1: in the league. It's go, okay, you took you know,

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Speaker 1: Ceedee Lamb in the first round, I'll take. I'm and

812
00:46:59,120 --> 00:47:01,080
Speaker 1: Ross Saint Brown in the third or something. You know,

813
00:47:01,120 --> 00:47:06,719
Speaker 1: I would take the pass rushers, the tackles I'd take,

814
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Speaker 1: I would probably go depending on where I drafted quarterback

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Speaker 1: O line D line in the first couple rounds. With

816
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Speaker 1: the new kickoff rule in place, do you think the

817
00:47:18,480 --> 00:47:20,640
Speaker 1: kicker position as we know it is a thing of

818
00:47:20,680 --> 00:47:23,480
Speaker 1: the past. Kickers are going to be involved in a

819
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Speaker 1: whole lot of tackles, which leads me to believe we'll

820
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Speaker 1: see an evolution of the kicker to a more physical

821
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Speaker 1: body type than the scrawny soccer player we've become accustomed to. Well,

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00:47:36,640 --> 00:47:38,359
Speaker 1: the problem is you still need your kicker to make

823
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Speaker 1: field goals. So do you want Justin Tucker making open

824
00:47:41,840 --> 00:47:45,480
Speaker 1: field tackles? Of course not, But like, are you finding

825
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Speaker 1: ray Lewis with Justin Tucker's leg Like. Part of the

826
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Speaker 1: thing is what they do is pretty difficult. Has anyone

827
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Speaker 1: ever just screwed around and had someone hold the ball

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Speaker 1: and it just attempt to kick like a fifteen yard

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Speaker 1: fieldal I mean, these guys are doing it with a

830
00:48:02,280 --> 00:48:09,799
Speaker 1: pass rush, working the ball phage draws high low. I

831
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Speaker 1: think it kind of is what it is now. If

832
00:48:13,520 --> 00:48:17,200
Speaker 1: you can find a former tight end or a safety

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00:48:17,239 --> 00:48:21,920
Speaker 1: that's now the kicker. Yeah, but there's a big difference

834
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Speaker 1: in Justin Reid kicking the ball off as he did

835
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Speaker 1: for the Chiefs and booming it through the end zone.

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00:48:28,760 --> 00:48:31,960
Speaker 1: Then like, would the Chiefs trust him in the second

837
00:48:31,960 --> 00:48:33,839
Speaker 1: half of a tie game to kick a field goal?

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00:48:35,600 --> 00:48:38,239
Speaker 1: I would doubt it. Obviously he's not better than Butt

839
00:48:38,320 --> 00:48:41,799
Speaker 1: Kerr's kicking field goals, but most of the field goal

840
00:48:41,920 --> 00:48:44,400
Speaker 1: kickers they might miss, But what they do you feel

841
00:48:44,440 --> 00:48:47,839
Speaker 1: pretty good about. Right the handful of the top ten

842
00:48:47,960 --> 00:48:51,279
Speaker 1: twelve guys in the league, you would never replace that

843
00:48:51,400 --> 00:48:54,319
Speaker 1: just because a guy. It's gonna be an issue because

844
00:48:54,320 --> 00:48:56,160
Speaker 1: those guys are gonna be put in space and they're screwed.

845
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Speaker 1: But you could argue a lot of players if they're

846
00:48:59,760 --> 00:49:02,279
Speaker 1: in a one on one position where a kicker usually is.

847
00:49:03,560 --> 00:49:07,239
Speaker 1: Unless you're Ed Reid or Troy Paulton, mal you're not

848
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Speaker 1: gonna make that tackle. You're just at a huge disadvantage.

849
00:49:11,000 --> 00:49:14,520
Speaker 1: Guys running full speed, you're back pedaling. You could argue

850
00:49:14,520 --> 00:49:17,640
Speaker 1: it doesn't matter if guys get to your kicker, and

851
00:49:17,680 --> 00:49:19,719
Speaker 1: I would say this in the old kickoff back when

852
00:49:19,920 --> 00:49:22,600
Speaker 1: more people used to return, and where we're at now,

853
00:49:22,640 --> 00:49:27,960
Speaker 1: I just don't. I just think you kind of acknowledge it.

854
00:49:28,000 --> 00:49:30,160
Speaker 1: If you get there, you're kind of screwed because that

855
00:49:30,200 --> 00:49:33,319
Speaker 1: guy doesn't exist. And what they do is is just

856
00:49:33,360 --> 00:49:37,399
Speaker 1: so hard. It's really hard to kick field goals. There's

857
00:49:37,400 --> 00:49:40,440
Speaker 1: a ton of pressure. It's really closer to like golf

858
00:49:40,520 --> 00:49:44,680
Speaker 1: or hitting where you just there's just time to think

859
00:49:44,719 --> 00:49:51,760
Speaker 1: about it. It's just hard. A huge fan of the putt,

860
00:49:53,440 --> 00:49:57,239
Speaker 1: I think you're undervaluing a Yuke's impact on the Niners offense. Yes,

861
00:49:57,280 --> 00:50:00,279
Speaker 1: of course CMC is the most important skill player, but

862
00:50:00,360 --> 00:50:03,879
Speaker 1: Kyle has never had more downfield attempts than he has

863
00:50:03,880 --> 00:50:07,200
Speaker 1: with Purdy and Ayuk. I understand that your point is

864
00:50:07,280 --> 00:50:10,880
Speaker 1: Ayuk is never gonna have as many catches as Amenro,

865
00:50:11,560 --> 00:50:14,160
Speaker 1: but his impact with the ones he does haul in

866
00:50:14,680 --> 00:50:19,640
Speaker 1: are more valuable. Ayuk averages seventeen to nine a catch,

867
00:50:20,160 --> 00:50:22,760
Speaker 1: meaning he would only have to catch ten more balls

868
00:50:23,239 --> 00:50:28,160
Speaker 1: to pass Saint Brown's yardage for twenty twenty three. Maybe

869
00:50:28,200 --> 00:50:31,320
Speaker 1: one hundred balls may be too many, but isn't entirely

870
00:50:31,360 --> 00:50:33,360
Speaker 1: possible that he catches eighty five to ninety as he

871
00:50:33,360 --> 00:50:36,279
Speaker 1: continues to build on the work he's put in with

872
00:50:36,360 --> 00:50:40,760
Speaker 1: Purty not a huge advanced stats guy, but Perdi's average

873
00:50:40,800 --> 00:50:44,520
Speaker 1: the most air yards per attempt this past season, meaning

874
00:50:44,520 --> 00:50:46,879
Speaker 1: he is pushing the ball pass the line more than

875
00:50:46,920 --> 00:50:51,200
Speaker 1: any other quarterback. I believe Ayuk is a huge reason

876
00:50:51,200 --> 00:50:54,600
Speaker 1: for this. Doesn't having Ayuk's medium to down the field

877
00:50:54,680 --> 00:50:57,760
Speaker 1: ability to open things up for CMC in the box,

878
00:50:58,080 --> 00:51:01,319
Speaker 1: his overall yak monster no numbers on the team, and

879
00:51:01,360 --> 00:51:05,840
Speaker 1: they're new over the middle slot weapon in Persoll. I

880
00:51:05,840 --> 00:51:07,600
Speaker 1: think Persall is going to be an outside the weapon.

881
00:51:07,680 --> 00:51:11,680
Speaker 1: My man. I don't disagree with you that Ayuk's a

882
00:51:11,680 --> 00:51:15,120
Speaker 1: really good player and his value is really really high,

883
00:51:15,360 --> 00:51:19,600
Speaker 1: like he's a high end, starting, winning player. But does

884
00:51:19,680 --> 00:51:21,799
Speaker 1: Kyle think that he can replace that with someone else?

885
00:51:23,280 --> 00:51:28,279
Speaker 1: Because where it gets complicated is like you said, his

886
00:51:28,320 --> 00:51:32,080
Speaker 1: impact being threatened down the field matters, But can I

887
00:51:32,080 --> 00:51:34,239
Speaker 1: find someone else to do that for a quarter of

888
00:51:34,280 --> 00:51:38,799
Speaker 1: the price. Where this becomes a complicated conversation is he's

889
00:51:38,880 --> 00:51:43,799
Speaker 1: laughing at twenty six million dollars, he wants thirty million dollars. Well,

890
00:51:44,960 --> 00:51:48,120
Speaker 1: part of my offense, Like, can I find someone in

891
00:51:48,160 --> 00:51:50,759
Speaker 1: a draft in the second round that can ultimately do that?

892
00:51:52,480 --> 00:51:55,440
Speaker 1: Can I sign some random free agent for ten million

893
00:51:55,480 --> 00:51:59,360
Speaker 1: dollars that can bring me eighty percent of his value

894
00:51:59,719 --> 00:52:02,080
Speaker 1: for or twenty percent of the costs, and then my

895
00:52:02,160 --> 00:52:06,960
Speaker 1: team's better on defense. That's where this puzzle gets put together.

896
00:52:07,960 --> 00:52:11,759
Speaker 1: In a perfect world, the Niners would get rid of

897
00:52:11,960 --> 00:52:15,399
Speaker 1: you know, obviously for the next five years. They would

898
00:52:15,480 --> 00:52:18,680
Speaker 1: rather have Brandon Ayuke than Deebo Samuel moving forward. But

899
00:52:18,760 --> 00:52:21,560
Speaker 1: it's a complicated situation because of the money. I'm not

900
00:52:21,719 --> 00:52:24,399
Speaker 1: anti Brandon Nyuk. I just look at the way Kyle

901
00:52:24,440 --> 00:52:28,560
Speaker 1: plays and goes they have. You have to understand too,

902
00:52:28,600 --> 00:52:33,520
Speaker 1: they have other question marks moving forward. Trent Williams, one

903
00:52:33,520 --> 00:52:35,040
Speaker 1: of the best players in the league, is thirty five

904
00:52:35,120 --> 00:52:38,680
Speaker 1: years old, So how are you gonna get another tackle?

905
00:52:39,640 --> 00:52:42,080
Speaker 1: You're either gonna trade multiple picks to get move up

906
00:52:42,080 --> 00:52:43,440
Speaker 1: in a draft and try to get a guy in

907
00:52:43,440 --> 00:52:47,560
Speaker 1: the top twenty. Maybe if a guy becomes available, you

908
00:52:47,600 --> 00:52:49,239
Speaker 1: trade a first round pick and you break them off

909
00:52:49,239 --> 00:52:54,000
Speaker 1: with a huge contract. You know, you, Charvarius Ward, is

910
00:52:54,000 --> 00:52:55,320
Speaker 1: he gonna be on the team forever? You gonna have

911
00:52:55,360 --> 00:52:59,040
Speaker 1: to buy a corner you just your team becomes party

912
00:52:59,120 --> 00:53:01,440
Speaker 1: is about to get We just saw what Trevor Lawrence

913
00:53:01,480 --> 00:53:03,920
Speaker 1: gott Perty's gonna get that or not? If not more,

914
00:53:05,120 --> 00:53:09,359
Speaker 1: it becomes a puzzle of putting money together. It's why

915
00:53:09,360 --> 00:53:11,760
Speaker 1: the forty nine ers haven't just handed him this contract.

916
00:53:11,880 --> 00:53:14,120
Speaker 1: If I was a betting man, they probably end up

917
00:53:14,120 --> 00:53:16,960
Speaker 1: paying him. But I do think these conversations have been

918
00:53:17,040 --> 00:53:22,240
Speaker 1: long and hard because I, like you said, his value

919
00:53:22,280 --> 00:53:24,840
Speaker 1: to the team, he just watched them play. He's a

920
00:53:24,960 --> 00:53:31,439
Speaker 1: very valuable player. But is he an irreplaceable player? We're

921
00:53:31,480 --> 00:53:34,200
Speaker 1: gonna find out here in the next couple months, because

922
00:53:34,200 --> 00:53:36,640
Speaker 1: if the forty nine ers don't extend him and make

923
00:53:36,680 --> 00:53:40,480
Speaker 1: him play on the contract, then he's they view him

924
00:53:40,520 --> 00:53:43,560
Speaker 1: as a replaceable player. They end up giving him thirty

925
00:53:43,600 --> 00:53:46,480
Speaker 1: million dollars a year, then they don't view it that way.

926
00:53:48,080 --> 00:53:51,480
Speaker 1: I do think he's not He's never gonna be a

927
00:53:51,520 --> 00:53:55,359
Speaker 1: top five wide receiver in the league and paying premiums

928
00:53:55,400 --> 00:53:57,120
Speaker 1: for god Like, I have no problem giving Nick Bose

929
00:53:57,120 --> 00:53:58,640
Speaker 1: a historic deal. He's one of the best pass ferson

930
00:53:58,640 --> 00:54:01,600
Speaker 1: in the league, one of the highest paid linebackers, best

931
00:54:01,600 --> 00:54:03,719
Speaker 1: linebacker in the league. When they broke off Kittle, he

932
00:54:03,760 --> 00:54:05,040
Speaker 1: was one of the best tight ends in the league.

933
00:54:05,760 --> 00:54:08,080
Speaker 1: It's really good. And like you said, he's good with

934
00:54:08,160 --> 00:54:11,920
Speaker 1: the act, he's he's just a really good player. And

935
00:54:11,960 --> 00:54:15,839
Speaker 1: again I'm not saying Saint Brown, like, if you could

936
00:54:15,920 --> 00:54:18,200
Speaker 1: just have a draft, who would you rather have. I

937
00:54:18,280 --> 00:54:21,480
Speaker 1: like both players, but it's easier to justify when I

938
00:54:21,520 --> 00:54:24,920
Speaker 1: throw one guy one hundred and twenty passes, the large

939
00:54:24,960 --> 00:54:27,640
Speaker 1: percentage of my targets goes through him, and not a

940
00:54:27,719 --> 00:54:29,839
Speaker 1: large percentage of my targets go through this guy. When

941
00:54:29,880 --> 00:54:31,719
Speaker 1: I run the ball a lot, and like you said,

942
00:54:31,840 --> 00:54:37,280
Speaker 1: you need receivers to move the defense around. But personnel

943
00:54:37,320 --> 00:54:40,719
Speaker 1: groupings was the word I was looking for earlier. You know,

944
00:54:40,960 --> 00:54:43,359
Speaker 1: summer brains a little foggy, drank a little too much

945
00:54:43,440 --> 00:54:48,200
Speaker 1: last weekend. But yeah, I mean, I don't I'm not

946
00:54:48,239 --> 00:54:52,120
Speaker 1: necessarily disagreeing with what you're saying, but I find these

947
00:54:52,160 --> 00:54:56,520
Speaker 1: things very complicated when you're talking about paying premium amounts

948
00:54:56,560 --> 00:54:59,560
Speaker 1: of money for guys like can we do better? And listen,

949
00:54:59,719 --> 00:55:02,920
Speaker 1: can you do better? There's no guarantee you can't, and

950
00:55:02,960 --> 00:55:04,880
Speaker 1: then you find yourself where you have a hole at

951
00:55:04,880 --> 00:55:10,799
Speaker 1: that position. But I understand the complicated nature, Like Nick

952
00:55:10,840 --> 00:55:13,160
Speaker 1: Bosa wasn't complicated. It's basically how much you were we

953
00:55:13,160 --> 00:55:15,839
Speaker 1: gonna end up giving them. Christian McCaffrey wanted to raise

954
00:55:16,239 --> 00:55:19,319
Speaker 1: gotta do it. If Trent Williams goes I need a race,

955
00:55:19,640 --> 00:55:22,279
Speaker 1: gotta do it. When I use says I want thirty

956
00:55:22,320 --> 00:55:25,640
Speaker 1: plus million dollars a year, you don't just write that

957
00:55:25,719 --> 00:55:29,000
Speaker 1: check right away. You have long, hard conversations. They literally

958
00:55:29,000 --> 00:55:31,439
Speaker 1: just draft a wide receiver in the first round. Here's

959
00:55:31,480 --> 00:55:33,279
Speaker 1: the other thing, like Kittle's been banged up a lot.

960
00:55:33,320 --> 00:55:36,799
Speaker 1: Now they're gonna need a new tight end. So you

961
00:55:36,920 --> 00:55:38,200
Speaker 1: just have a lot of needs and you don't have

962
00:55:38,320 --> 00:55:40,360
Speaker 1: unlimited draft picks. And when you're good, you're drafted at

963
00:55:40,360 --> 00:55:41,640
Speaker 1: the end of the first round, so it's not like

964
00:55:41,680 --> 00:55:46,640
Speaker 1: you're getting Julio Jones every year. I just think these

965
00:55:46,640 --> 00:55:49,400
Speaker 1: conversations are very, very different. This is a difficult conversation

966
00:55:49,480 --> 00:55:52,880
Speaker 1: to have. I understand both sides. This isn't justin Jefferson

967
00:55:52,920 --> 00:55:55,279
Speaker 1: where it's like, yeah, it is what it is ceed

968
00:55:55,480 --> 00:55:59,200
Speaker 1: lamb aj Brown to the Eagles, this is like, God,

969
00:55:59,239 --> 00:56:01,200
Speaker 1: this guy's really good and we love the player and

970
00:56:01,239 --> 00:56:04,320
Speaker 1: he stands for everything we do and that's why, ultimately

971
00:56:04,400 --> 00:56:07,520
Speaker 1: probably why they end up eating it. But I would understand, like, hey,

972
00:56:08,320 --> 00:56:10,880
Speaker 1: you want thirty, we want twenty six. We'll give you

973
00:56:10,880 --> 00:56:12,440
Speaker 1: twenty seven and a half, but we're not budgeting off

974
00:56:12,440 --> 00:56:16,960
Speaker 1: that number. Like not every negotiation is like well, blank check,

975
00:56:17,000 --> 00:56:20,640
Speaker 1: you sign it. Steph Curry, you tell me, Aaron Judge,

976
00:56:20,760 --> 00:56:25,840
Speaker 1: tell me the number. Otani, how much is it gonna cost?

977
00:56:26,120 --> 00:56:28,880
Speaker 1: That ain't this? That ain't this. And that's why I

978
00:56:28,920 --> 00:56:30,880
Speaker 1: think it's so emotional because I U sees all these

979
00:56:30,880 --> 00:56:34,880
Speaker 1: other guys because of the position, and his team is

980
00:56:34,920 --> 00:56:40,040
Speaker 1: not like kissing his feet even though they like him.

981
00:56:40,440 --> 00:56:43,640
Speaker 1: This is just these are tough conversations because of the

982
00:56:43,760 --> 00:56:46,600
Speaker 1: numbers we're talking about, they're really large, even with the

983
00:56:46,600 --> 00:56:52,560
Speaker 1: cap going up. It's Brandon ayuk Worth. It is a

984
00:56:52,760 --> 00:56:55,880
Speaker 1: is a legitimate conversation, no matter what side of the

985
00:56:56,080 --> 00:57:00,000
Speaker 1: argument or where you stand. So I'm not I'm not

986
00:57:00,200 --> 00:57:03,319
Speaker 1: a proponent of trading him. But if you told me

987
00:57:03,360 --> 00:57:04,960
Speaker 1: they wanted to play this year out, Like, I don't

988
00:57:04,960 --> 00:57:09,080
Speaker 1: think that's that crazy either. I really don't, And I'd

989
00:57:09,160 --> 00:57:11,520
Speaker 1: understand it from his side, like fuck you guys, give

990
00:57:11,600 --> 00:57:14,200
Speaker 1: him my money, like I get every Like this is

991
00:57:14,200 --> 00:57:18,880
Speaker 1: a very easy kind of situation to understand, all the sides.

992
00:57:20,640 --> 00:57:22,960
Speaker 1: I know my guy earlier thinks I'm a Lamar Jackson hater,

993
00:57:23,120 --> 00:57:25,920
Speaker 1: like the Ravens, like, what are you gonna do? When

994
00:57:25,920 --> 00:57:28,360
Speaker 1: they were going back and forth Lamar like, you don't

995
00:57:28,360 --> 00:57:30,800
Speaker 1: have a choice. You're gonna pay this guy an ungodly

996
00:57:30,800 --> 00:57:33,120
Speaker 1: amount of money, and that's what ultimately ended up happening.

997
00:57:34,800 --> 00:57:38,040
Speaker 1: You can see the different scenarios here. That's that's where

998
00:57:38,080 --> 00:57:41,800
Speaker 1: I stand on this. Like if I had to bet

999
00:57:42,040 --> 00:57:44,200
Speaker 1: he's gonna be on the Niners, if you had to

1000
00:57:44,200 --> 00:57:46,640
Speaker 1: bet if a new contract, ultimately give him a new contract,

1001
00:57:46,920 --> 00:57:49,360
Speaker 1: do I think, Yeah, we don't agree on a number.

1002
00:57:49,360 --> 00:57:51,000
Speaker 1: We want you to play on the fifteen million dollar

1003
00:57:51,080 --> 00:57:52,800
Speaker 1: fourteen and a half or whatever the number is. I

1004
00:57:52,800 --> 00:57:57,000
Speaker 1: can see that trade harder to see because you'd be

1005
00:57:57,040 --> 00:57:59,160
Speaker 1: trading him for a draft pick who does not help

1006
00:57:59,200 --> 00:58:04,200
Speaker 1: you now. But been following this league and sports long

1007
00:58:04,320 --> 00:58:07,400
Speaker 1: enough that you never say never. So I think at

1008
00:58:07,400 --> 00:58:09,200
Speaker 1: this point in time, until the deal's done, you have

1009
00:58:09,240 --> 00:58:12,800
Speaker 1: to acknowledge everything's on the table. And one guy who,

1010
00:58:13,000 --> 00:58:16,400
Speaker 1: you know, some internet fans get mad at is Mike Silver, Like,

1011
00:58:16,440 --> 00:58:18,479
Speaker 1: I don't know. Mike Silver's don the Shanahans for thirty

1012
00:58:18,480 --> 00:58:21,160
Speaker 1: plus years, so when he reports on this stuff, he's

1013
00:58:21,200 --> 00:58:22,600
Speaker 1: kind of been right. So there's a little bit of

1014
00:58:22,640 --> 00:58:25,400
Speaker 1: an impass, Like there's a number of the team thinks

1015
00:58:25,440 --> 00:58:30,160
Speaker 1: there's a number, he thinks it's bridgeable, doesn't mean it's

1016
00:58:30,200 --> 00:58:34,920
Speaker 1: gonna happen. The volume