1 00:00:09,280 --> 00:00:13,720 Speaker 1: What's up everybody on this beautiful Thursday, a day after 2 00:00:13,760 --> 00:00:16,599 Speaker 1: the schedule release. I'm gonna dive right into some things 3 00:00:16,640 --> 00:00:19,480 Speaker 1: that jumped out. Obviously, there is a marquee game that 4 00:00:19,760 --> 00:00:23,960 Speaker 1: may become the most buzzworthy game, the most anticipated game, 5 00:00:24,239 --> 00:00:29,120 Speaker 1: Belichick Brady of my lifetime regular season. Not the greatest ramifications, 6 00:00:29,600 --> 00:00:31,760 Speaker 1: but just the most hype going into a game, and 7 00:00:31,800 --> 00:00:35,279 Speaker 1: I think it's justified. The Pack twelve, who has been 8 00:00:35,320 --> 00:00:38,839 Speaker 1: in shambles, uh hired a new commissioner, a little bit 9 00:00:38,880 --> 00:00:40,760 Speaker 1: off the beaten path. But I'm gonna tell you why. 10 00:00:40,880 --> 00:00:44,440 Speaker 1: I'm I'm fired up. I I think it's an exciting time. 11 00:00:44,479 --> 00:00:47,279 Speaker 1: They went a little outside the box and I love it. 12 00:00:47,680 --> 00:00:51,280 Speaker 1: Middlecoff mail back at John Middlecoffin is the Instagram slide 13 00:00:51,320 --> 00:00:53,800 Speaker 1: up in those d m s. Also, if you could 14 00:00:54,000 --> 00:00:56,840 Speaker 1: leave a review on the three and Out podcast helps 15 00:00:56,880 --> 00:00:59,760 Speaker 1: us sell it. If you listen on Collins Feed you 16 00:01:00,040 --> 00:01:03,720 Speaker 1: and subscribe to mind, that would greatly be greatly appreciated 17 00:01:04,120 --> 00:01:06,840 Speaker 1: from from me. So if you listen on Collins Feed, 18 00:01:06,880 --> 00:01:09,040 Speaker 1: please subscribe to three Now podcast and if you could 19 00:01:09,080 --> 00:01:11,720 Speaker 1: leave a review, leave a review, that would Uh. That 20 00:01:11,800 --> 00:01:14,600 Speaker 1: helps with everything we got going on here, Okay, I 21 00:01:14,640 --> 00:01:17,080 Speaker 1: wanted to dive in to what I think is the 22 00:01:17,160 --> 00:01:19,280 Speaker 1: number one story of the schedule release, and there's a 23 00:01:19,280 --> 00:01:21,840 Speaker 1: lot going on. I mean, you could probably there's three 24 00:01:21,880 --> 00:01:24,920 Speaker 1: or four things. But when I think the schedule released 25 00:01:24,959 --> 00:01:28,480 Speaker 1: in two thou, I think Belichick and I think Brady, 26 00:01:28,760 --> 00:01:32,640 Speaker 1: and we lived it for twenty years, the NFL became 27 00:01:32,680 --> 00:01:35,839 Speaker 1: the ultimate national sport. Whether you lived in California, whether 28 00:01:35,840 --> 00:01:38,199 Speaker 1: you lived in Texas, whether you lived in Seattle, whether 29 00:01:38,240 --> 00:01:41,119 Speaker 1: you lived in Tampa, you were drawn to that franchise. 30 00:01:41,480 --> 00:01:44,520 Speaker 1: You had an opinion on that franchise, and most of all, 31 00:01:44,720 --> 00:01:50,040 Speaker 1: you had an opinion on those two guys, Belichick, Brady, cheaters, winners, 32 00:01:50,200 --> 00:01:53,360 Speaker 1: great for the game, bad for the game, whatever they 33 00:01:53,400 --> 00:01:56,400 Speaker 1: moved the needle in uh. It was said forever in 34 00:01:56,480 --> 00:01:58,880 Speaker 1: terrestrial radio. Now you know those of us say it 35 00:01:58,920 --> 00:02:02,560 Speaker 1: on the podcast space. Two things are key to being successful, 36 00:02:03,080 --> 00:02:05,640 Speaker 1: as you know, a content creator, someone who talks for 37 00:02:05,680 --> 00:02:08,560 Speaker 1: a living. You either want to be loved or you 38 00:02:08,600 --> 00:02:10,799 Speaker 1: want to be hated. You do not want to be 39 00:02:10,840 --> 00:02:12,480 Speaker 1: in the middle, because the moment you're in the middle, 40 00:02:12,800 --> 00:02:16,720 Speaker 1: no one gives a ship a k. They don't listen. Remember, 41 00:02:16,760 --> 00:02:20,000 Speaker 1: if you've ever watched Private Parts and Paul Giamatti, he 42 00:02:20,040 --> 00:02:22,640 Speaker 1: grabs the ratings and they go, how's he up again? 43 00:02:23,280 --> 00:02:26,200 Speaker 1: He's so terrible, and they say, listen, we went to 44 00:02:26,240 --> 00:02:29,040 Speaker 1: our polling station and they said a lot of people 45 00:02:29,120 --> 00:02:32,399 Speaker 1: can't stand them, but they can't wait to see what 46 00:02:32,480 --> 00:02:35,280 Speaker 1: he says next. And it was the same thing with 47 00:02:35,360 --> 00:02:38,520 Speaker 1: Belichick and Brady. Whether you despise them, if you were 48 00:02:38,520 --> 00:02:41,720 Speaker 1: a Steelers fan, a Colts fan in the a f C. East, 49 00:02:41,880 --> 00:02:45,280 Speaker 1: just a general the Raider fans who thought that you 50 00:02:45,360 --> 00:02:48,720 Speaker 1: helped start their dynasty, you couldn't help but pay attention 51 00:02:48,760 --> 00:02:51,280 Speaker 1: to what those two two were doing. And the reason 52 00:02:51,480 --> 00:02:56,320 Speaker 1: was they kept winning over and over and over again. 53 00:02:56,520 --> 00:02:59,160 Speaker 1: So even if you hated them in a weird way, 54 00:02:59,760 --> 00:03:02,800 Speaker 1: you add some respect for them. And if you loved him, 55 00:03:03,120 --> 00:03:05,960 Speaker 1: like where I eventually came down to, I couldn't have 56 00:03:06,000 --> 00:03:08,320 Speaker 1: any more respect for the duel. I think they're the 57 00:03:08,400 --> 00:03:11,520 Speaker 1: greatest coach quarterback duo that we will ever see in 58 00:03:11,560 --> 00:03:14,320 Speaker 1: the league because of the amount of time they did 59 00:03:14,360 --> 00:03:17,760 Speaker 1: it over and the continuity success they had with so 60 00:03:17,880 --> 00:03:23,040 Speaker 1: many different iterations of players. Now, they also controversy surrounded 61 00:03:23,080 --> 00:03:26,880 Speaker 1: their group, which if you're standing for wife sitting. It's 62 00:03:26,880 --> 00:03:30,000 Speaker 1: great for business. People get very interested. Everyone had an 63 00:03:30,000 --> 00:03:33,600 Speaker 1: opinion on de flake Gate, on spy Gate, on just 64 00:03:33,680 --> 00:03:37,080 Speaker 1: some of Belichick's you know, quirky things that people always 65 00:03:37,080 --> 00:03:40,960 Speaker 1: thought he was doing shady shit that was ultimately good 66 00:03:41,000 --> 00:03:44,320 Speaker 1: for the NFL. But back to what I said, hated 67 00:03:44,440 --> 00:03:46,480 Speaker 1: or loved if you were already down on them, you 68 00:03:46,600 --> 00:03:51,160 Speaker 1: really hated him after those incidents and the breakup, which, 69 00:03:51,280 --> 00:03:54,080 Speaker 1: unlike you, we've seen a lot in sports guys demanding 70 00:03:54,120 --> 00:03:57,440 Speaker 1: to be traded, coaches quitting. I think that's happened a 71 00:03:57,480 --> 00:04:00,800 Speaker 1: lot less in these modern times because guys make so 72 00:04:00,880 --> 00:04:03,680 Speaker 1: much money. I felt like in the eighties nineties, I mean, 73 00:04:03,720 --> 00:04:05,560 Speaker 1: I wasn't really a lot. I mean, I was born 74 00:04:05,560 --> 00:04:08,320 Speaker 1: in eighty four, but I don't remember anything in the eighties. 75 00:04:08,400 --> 00:04:12,000 Speaker 1: That's why I don't. I can't have legit sports arguments 76 00:04:12,080 --> 00:04:16,800 Speaker 1: over Marino Montana Elway. I mean, I remember Marino, but 77 00:04:16,839 --> 00:04:19,599 Speaker 1: he couldn't move. He was old. You're right, in the 78 00:04:19,600 --> 00:04:22,479 Speaker 1: mid late nineties, I remember Elway, but he was also 79 00:04:22,600 --> 00:04:26,120 Speaker 1: really old. In all Montana's greatness came before I, you know, 80 00:04:26,240 --> 00:04:29,640 Speaker 1: can't remember stuff as a sports fan. The first quarterbacks, 81 00:04:29,680 --> 00:04:33,000 Speaker 1: I remember, like Aike been young and far like those 82 00:04:33,040 --> 00:04:35,680 Speaker 1: are the guys I can really argue. But part of 83 00:04:35,720 --> 00:04:39,160 Speaker 1: that in the nineties, like Parcels would just leave a job, right, 84 00:04:39,200 --> 00:04:42,840 Speaker 1: pat Riley would just fucking bounce, you know. Uh, Mike 85 00:04:42,880 --> 00:04:45,520 Speaker 1: Holmgren would just leave the Packers and go to Seattle. 86 00:04:46,080 --> 00:04:48,200 Speaker 1: And I do think it's factored in that the amount 87 00:04:48,200 --> 00:04:50,320 Speaker 1: of money these guys make. No one walks away when 88 00:04:50,320 --> 00:04:53,520 Speaker 1: you're making ten, twelve, fifteen million dollars, right, So coaches 89 00:04:53,560 --> 00:04:56,280 Speaker 1: don't leave as often. Plus when you're Belichick and had 90 00:04:56,279 --> 00:04:59,640 Speaker 1: that much success, where is he gonna go? But but players, 91 00:04:59,800 --> 00:05:01,520 Speaker 1: no matter how much success you have. I mean, Michael 92 00:05:01,560 --> 00:05:04,200 Speaker 1: Jordan played for the Wizards, right. Tom Brady is now 93 00:05:04,240 --> 00:05:06,839 Speaker 1: playing for the Buccaneers and won a Super Bowl. Right, 94 00:05:06,920 --> 00:05:09,280 Speaker 1: That's it's pretty crazy how that whole thing played out. 95 00:05:09,760 --> 00:05:13,200 Speaker 1: But these two individuals in the history of the league, 96 00:05:13,520 --> 00:05:16,080 Speaker 1: which you know, we can argue when it became the 97 00:05:16,120 --> 00:05:19,560 Speaker 1: most popular, it is clearly this last decade the most 98 00:05:19,560 --> 00:05:23,279 Speaker 1: popular sport in America. There's not even a close second. 99 00:05:23,520 --> 00:05:26,080 Speaker 1: The only thing that is trailing them is college football. 100 00:05:26,120 --> 00:05:30,000 Speaker 1: And there's a distance gap between the NFL and college football, obviously, 101 00:05:30,360 --> 00:05:33,200 Speaker 1: but the other sports, America's pastime baseball, which I still love. 102 00:05:33,680 --> 00:05:35,640 Speaker 1: By the way, I've watched a lot of baseball this year. 103 00:05:35,839 --> 00:05:39,280 Speaker 1: It's been fantastic. I think the product in baseball is excellent. 104 00:05:39,320 --> 00:05:42,479 Speaker 1: Now you can nitpick strikeouts and pictures not going for 105 00:05:42,640 --> 00:05:45,240 Speaker 1: but ultimately just I just turned on baseball every night. 106 00:05:45,760 --> 00:05:48,599 Speaker 1: Very competitive. You know, the NBA would die to be 107 00:05:48,640 --> 00:05:51,359 Speaker 1: that consistently competitive on a nightly basis. So I actually 108 00:05:51,400 --> 00:05:53,280 Speaker 1: think the product in baseball is pretty good. Now. I'm 109 00:05:53,279 --> 00:05:55,320 Speaker 1: a golf lover, so I mean, I watch other sports, 110 00:05:55,400 --> 00:05:59,279 Speaker 1: but football pays the bills, and it's just you see 111 00:05:59,279 --> 00:06:02,640 Speaker 1: how big the trual release moves the needle, unlike you 112 00:06:02,680 --> 00:06:04,800 Speaker 1: know baseball or basketball, who are in the middle of 113 00:06:04,839 --> 00:06:07,800 Speaker 1: their seasons. No one even cares when the schedule release happens. 114 00:06:08,240 --> 00:06:11,000 Speaker 1: And it's two most famous individuals. Now, you could argue 115 00:06:11,080 --> 00:06:14,920 Speaker 1: Rogers Mahomes, but Belichick and Brady. If I say Bill 116 00:06:14,960 --> 00:06:18,239 Speaker 1: Belichick or I say Tom Brady walking down the street 117 00:06:18,520 --> 00:06:21,400 Speaker 1: to a non sports fan, to a woman who doesn't 118 00:06:21,440 --> 00:06:23,839 Speaker 1: watch sports, to a guy that doesn't watch sports, they're 119 00:06:23,839 --> 00:06:26,960 Speaker 1: gonna know who those two individuals are. And listen the 120 00:06:27,080 --> 00:06:30,400 Speaker 1: ramifications like when this team when these two teams play 121 00:06:30,640 --> 00:06:34,919 Speaker 1: in Week four ultimately like it won't matter, right whoever 122 00:06:35,000 --> 00:06:38,520 Speaker 1: wins or loses that game, and no one's gonna make 123 00:06:38,640 --> 00:06:42,080 Speaker 1: or break their playoff seating based on that game. But 124 00:06:42,760 --> 00:06:46,880 Speaker 1: the hype leading into that game will be as great 125 00:06:47,680 --> 00:06:52,320 Speaker 1: and strong I think is any regular season game since 126 00:06:52,520 --> 00:06:56,240 Speaker 1: like of the Goodell era, Right, I I truly believe that. 127 00:06:56,720 --> 00:07:00,200 Speaker 1: And I would say the majority of the major, you know, 128 00:07:00,360 --> 00:07:03,560 Speaker 1: moving games over the last decade, at least a large 129 00:07:03,560 --> 00:07:06,960 Speaker 1: percentage of them partly has just involved Belichick and Brady 130 00:07:07,000 --> 00:07:10,640 Speaker 1: when they were together, right, Big NBC games, big Monday 131 00:07:10,720 --> 00:07:13,880 Speaker 1: Night games, just big A f C games. They played 132 00:07:13,920 --> 00:07:16,760 Speaker 1: in a ton of those games. But when you put 133 00:07:16,800 --> 00:07:19,320 Speaker 1: these two guys together, Tom on top of the world, 134 00:07:19,680 --> 00:07:22,720 Speaker 1: Belichick who just basically bought a new team, who just 135 00:07:22,800 --> 00:07:26,320 Speaker 1: drafted a quarterback in the first round, you just I 136 00:07:26,360 --> 00:07:29,000 Speaker 1: can't wait. I would if you put this game on 137 00:07:29,080 --> 00:07:32,440 Speaker 1: pay per view. I mean, ship, people are paying that 138 00:07:32,520 --> 00:07:36,160 Speaker 1: much money to watch YouTubers fight. You know forty five 139 00:07:36,200 --> 00:07:40,480 Speaker 1: year old Floyd or you know a washed up NBA player. 140 00:07:40,680 --> 00:07:42,679 Speaker 1: You don't think I'd pay to watch Belichick and Brady 141 00:07:42,720 --> 00:07:44,880 Speaker 1: go after it. I swear to God, if NBC put 142 00:07:44,920 --> 00:07:49,440 Speaker 1: this thing behind a paywall, maybe ninety nine dollars a 143 00:07:49,440 --> 00:07:52,520 Speaker 1: little strong, But if they put into like you don't 144 00:07:52,520 --> 00:07:55,520 Speaker 1: think they would sell, you know, millions of pay per 145 00:07:55,600 --> 00:07:58,480 Speaker 1: view buys. I promise you they would, and we just 146 00:07:58,480 --> 00:08:00,640 Speaker 1: want to see it. And I also think when you 147 00:08:00,680 --> 00:08:05,280 Speaker 1: factor in returns, I don't vividly remember Far's return when 148 00:08:05,320 --> 00:08:07,400 Speaker 1: he finally got to Minnesota the year after going to 149 00:08:07,440 --> 00:08:10,360 Speaker 1: the Jets. I would imagine any Packer fan vividly remembers that. 150 00:08:10,400 --> 00:08:12,320 Speaker 1: And he played well in that game. I think the 151 00:08:12,400 --> 00:08:15,280 Speaker 1: Vikings won, and ultimately that season, he was awesome before 152 00:08:15,280 --> 00:08:17,640 Speaker 1: I threw that pick in the NFC Championship game. But 153 00:08:17,720 --> 00:08:20,280 Speaker 1: the vivid memories I have of returns, there's a lot 154 00:08:20,360 --> 00:08:24,320 Speaker 1: of animosity. Right when Lebron went back to Cleveland with Miami, 155 00:08:24,640 --> 00:08:27,360 Speaker 1: that thing was a war zone, I you know, being 156 00:08:27,360 --> 00:08:31,080 Speaker 1: a Warriors guy. The Kevin Durant returned to Okay see 157 00:08:31,480 --> 00:08:33,520 Speaker 1: the cupcake game back when the NBA was a lot 158 00:08:33,520 --> 00:08:37,480 Speaker 1: more popular. Who that there was venom in the crowd. 159 00:08:38,040 --> 00:08:41,160 Speaker 1: There was venom in the crowd. Probably the most anticipated 160 00:08:41,520 --> 00:08:47,400 Speaker 1: return that I can remember is MJ's return MSG. That's 161 00:08:47,480 --> 00:08:49,840 Speaker 1: right when my sports memories at ten eleven years old, 162 00:08:49,840 --> 00:08:52,320 Speaker 1: were kind of coming into my own die hard little 163 00:08:52,360 --> 00:08:56,240 Speaker 1: young sports fan m J television. We just got cable. 164 00:08:56,280 --> 00:08:58,760 Speaker 1: I remember, actually we didn't get cable because where I 165 00:08:58,840 --> 00:09:01,000 Speaker 1: lived you couldn't get cable. We to get direct TV 166 00:09:01,880 --> 00:09:04,880 Speaker 1: and the back then the satellite look like something NASA 167 00:09:04,920 --> 00:09:06,840 Speaker 1: would give you. On top of our house. You could 168 00:09:06,840 --> 00:09:08,520 Speaker 1: spot it. We lived in Davis, you could spot it 169 00:09:08,559 --> 00:09:10,880 Speaker 1: from freaking l A. It was enormous, but it was sweet. 170 00:09:10,920 --> 00:09:12,679 Speaker 1: We had a lot of channels. We were ahead of 171 00:09:12,679 --> 00:09:14,600 Speaker 1: the curve. Props to my dad for knowing that, like, 172 00:09:14,880 --> 00:09:16,920 Speaker 1: we had to do something. We couldn't keep operating on 173 00:09:17,040 --> 00:09:19,000 Speaker 1: three or four channels when all these other people are 174 00:09:19,000 --> 00:09:20,720 Speaker 1: getting a hundred time to get up with the times, 175 00:09:20,720 --> 00:09:24,040 Speaker 1: and we swung for the fences. Uh. But the thing 176 00:09:24,040 --> 00:09:27,000 Speaker 1: about this return a little bit like Michael's to MSG, 177 00:09:27,200 --> 00:09:30,319 Speaker 1: even though obviously everyone at MSG was rooting for Michael 178 00:09:30,360 --> 00:09:34,200 Speaker 1: to lose. I think, Tom, I think there's such a 179 00:09:34,240 --> 00:09:37,720 Speaker 1: like a standing ovation type moment before the game even starts. 180 00:09:38,200 --> 00:09:40,840 Speaker 1: I think it's gonna be like a religious experience to 181 00:09:40,920 --> 00:09:44,680 Speaker 1: attend that game. I saw Darren Ravelle tweeted out the 182 00:09:44,720 --> 00:09:49,480 Speaker 1: most expensive tickets on the secondary market that ticket. Basically, 183 00:09:49,679 --> 00:09:52,240 Speaker 1: of the top five tickets, four of them are Vegas, 184 00:09:52,920 --> 00:09:55,880 Speaker 1: which makes sense, right, Denver, Kansas City, all these teams, 185 00:09:55,920 --> 00:09:57,800 Speaker 1: they're gonna want to see their team in Vegas place 186 00:09:57,880 --> 00:09:59,320 Speaker 1: is gonna be badass. Who wouldn't want to go to 187 00:09:59,360 --> 00:10:01,680 Speaker 1: Vegas for the weekend to watch a game? But by 188 00:10:01,720 --> 00:10:04,560 Speaker 1: far the only game that was over four figures the 189 00:10:04,640 --> 00:10:09,440 Speaker 1: average price to get in New England. Tom Brady, it's 190 00:10:09,440 --> 00:10:12,319 Speaker 1: just gonna go down in my lifetime. And if you're older, 191 00:10:12,520 --> 00:10:15,760 Speaker 1: you probably have some moments. If you're younger, depending on 192 00:10:15,800 --> 00:10:17,240 Speaker 1: what sport you're in love with. I mean, if you're 193 00:10:17,240 --> 00:10:20,240 Speaker 1: listening to this tree like football, but you're gonna have moments. 194 00:10:20,520 --> 00:10:22,720 Speaker 1: This is just gonna be one of those games that 195 00:10:22,760 --> 00:10:25,640 Speaker 1: you just never forget. You'll remember where you are when 196 00:10:25,640 --> 00:10:27,640 Speaker 1: you watch. Now. The game may not turn out to 197 00:10:27,679 --> 00:10:30,760 Speaker 1: be great, right, Maybe Tampa kills him, Tampa's awesome. Maybe 198 00:10:30,800 --> 00:10:32,240 Speaker 1: New England turns out not to be that good. Maybe 199 00:10:32,280 --> 00:10:34,680 Speaker 1: New England upsets and whatever. It's just a regular season game. 200 00:10:35,240 --> 00:10:37,440 Speaker 1: But the moment and the build up leading up to 201 00:10:37,480 --> 00:10:40,560 Speaker 1: that game I think will be like nothing. Non playoff 202 00:10:40,679 --> 00:10:43,880 Speaker 1: or Super Bowl, those will be always be bigger, but 203 00:10:44,040 --> 00:10:47,520 Speaker 1: for a regular season game will be nothing like we've seen. 204 00:10:47,640 --> 00:10:49,640 Speaker 1: It's week four, so we don't even have to wait 205 00:10:49,800 --> 00:10:53,200 Speaker 1: that long. I'm not gonna lie. I'm already excited just 206 00:10:53,200 --> 00:10:56,800 Speaker 1: thinking about it. On Fox Sports Radio has the best 207 00:10:56,800 --> 00:10:59,920 Speaker 1: sports talk lineup in the nation. Catch all of our shows, 208 00:11:00,000 --> 00:11:03,280 Speaker 1: said Fox Sports Radio dot Com, and within the I 209 00:11:03,360 --> 00:11:06,360 Speaker 1: Heart Radio app search f s R to listen live. 210 00:11:06,800 --> 00:11:09,680 Speaker 1: What I thought about doing was going through every team 211 00:11:09,840 --> 00:11:14,800 Speaker 1: and going win loss, loss, win win for about two seconds. 212 00:11:14,800 --> 00:11:17,280 Speaker 1: So I actually didn't. But once you look at the 213 00:11:17,280 --> 00:11:20,040 Speaker 1: schedules and once you kind of gather, once the draft ends, 214 00:11:20,600 --> 00:11:23,760 Speaker 1: you know, got what your team is. Now things change. 215 00:11:23,840 --> 00:11:25,959 Speaker 1: You can make a trade in training camp, you can 216 00:11:26,000 --> 00:11:28,640 Speaker 1: have an injury, but for the most part, the moment 217 00:11:28,679 --> 00:11:31,400 Speaker 1: the NFL Draft ends and we head into mini camps, 218 00:11:31,400 --> 00:11:34,880 Speaker 1: which I actually just looked on Instagram before I fired 219 00:11:34,920 --> 00:11:38,000 Speaker 1: up this part of the pot and uh Amari Cooper 220 00:11:38,040 --> 00:11:40,240 Speaker 1: and like seven other offensive linemen are just working out 221 00:11:40,240 --> 00:11:43,160 Speaker 1: at the Cowboy facility. Remember when Tom Rady and Aaron 222 00:11:43,240 --> 00:11:45,719 Speaker 1: Rodgers we talked about earlier this week, Really that O 223 00:11:45,840 --> 00:11:47,920 Speaker 1: T A S and no one was gonna go to facilities. Yeah, 224 00:11:48,000 --> 00:11:51,240 Speaker 1: you lost because you just if you follow any players 225 00:11:51,240 --> 00:11:55,760 Speaker 1: on Instagram, they're always at the facility. The Niners guys Instagram, 226 00:11:55,840 --> 00:11:58,640 Speaker 1: Like last week all the wide receivers were inside, like 227 00:11:58,679 --> 00:12:02,000 Speaker 1: the wide receiver co to his office. It's Welker, just bullshit, 228 00:12:02,440 --> 00:12:04,960 Speaker 1: like people, you know, football guys like doing. They're like 229 00:12:04,960 --> 00:12:07,400 Speaker 1: hanging out without the football guys. It's like what else 230 00:12:07,440 --> 00:12:09,520 Speaker 1: they're supposed to do? Work out anyway for a living. 231 00:12:09,520 --> 00:12:11,600 Speaker 1: I'm gonna work out. But my point is you do 232 00:12:11,720 --> 00:12:14,400 Speaker 1: know the team, Like we have an idea what all 233 00:12:14,440 --> 00:12:16,920 Speaker 1: the rosters are gonna look like. There could be little 234 00:12:17,520 --> 00:12:21,360 Speaker 1: incremental moves. Don't Blake Bortles signs with the Packers. We'll 235 00:12:21,400 --> 00:12:23,679 Speaker 1: dive into that here a little bit later. But I 236 00:12:23,720 --> 00:12:26,760 Speaker 1: think the a f C, which was really good last year, right, 237 00:12:27,160 --> 00:12:31,400 Speaker 1: it took eleven games eleven to get into the playoffs. 238 00:12:31,720 --> 00:12:34,559 Speaker 1: The Miami Dolphins one ten, they got left out, they 239 00:12:34,559 --> 00:12:36,720 Speaker 1: got left at the altar. The Raiders, who had like 240 00:12:36,760 --> 00:12:38,959 Speaker 1: one of their best seasons in twenty years, missed the 241 00:12:38,960 --> 00:12:42,760 Speaker 1: playoffs by three games. It's a very very competitive conference, 242 00:12:43,400 --> 00:12:46,800 Speaker 1: and clearly the Chiefs are the cream of the crop. 243 00:12:47,160 --> 00:12:48,760 Speaker 1: They've been the best team in the a f C. 244 00:12:49,320 --> 00:12:52,680 Speaker 1: You could argue it's uh a DeFord off sides three 245 00:12:52,720 --> 00:12:56,560 Speaker 1: straight years, right, three straight years, but definitely the last 246 00:12:56,600 --> 00:12:59,920 Speaker 1: two years. They are the clear favorite going into the 247 00:13:00,320 --> 00:13:03,200 Speaker 1: to this year, as they should be. To me, they're 248 00:13:03,200 --> 00:13:06,439 Speaker 1: probably a four teen fifteen win team. But I think overall, 249 00:13:06,960 --> 00:13:09,880 Speaker 1: I think the conference is improved and it was already 250 00:13:09,880 --> 00:13:13,560 Speaker 1: really good. I think the Bills are gonna be excellent. 251 00:13:13,880 --> 00:13:15,959 Speaker 1: I was going through it on Cowards podcast. You look 252 00:13:15,960 --> 00:13:18,880 Speaker 1: at it. They play so many either brand new coaches 253 00:13:19,200 --> 00:13:22,160 Speaker 1: or younger first time quarterbacks, and they were already a 254 00:13:22,160 --> 00:13:25,880 Speaker 1: powerhouse last year. Now the one question is is Josh 255 00:13:25,880 --> 00:13:27,839 Speaker 1: Allen the guy we saw last year? Is that who 256 00:13:27,840 --> 00:13:30,520 Speaker 1: he is moving forward? Because that when I hyped them up, 257 00:13:30,679 --> 00:13:33,400 Speaker 1: That's who I talk about, that Josh Allen. And I'm 258 00:13:33,440 --> 00:13:36,120 Speaker 1: the first to say I you have to do it 259 00:13:36,200 --> 00:13:39,840 Speaker 1: over and over before you became or become a great player. 260 00:13:40,240 --> 00:13:42,760 Speaker 1: Like why is Travis Kelsey viewed as great because he's 261 00:13:42,760 --> 00:13:45,599 Speaker 1: been kicking everyone's ass for six years? You have to 262 00:13:45,640 --> 00:13:47,679 Speaker 1: do it for a long period of time. So I'm 263 00:13:47,679 --> 00:13:50,320 Speaker 1: gonna bet on him doing that. But like he could 264 00:13:50,320 --> 00:13:51,920 Speaker 1: come back to Earth a little bit, and I think 265 00:13:52,000 --> 00:13:54,480 Speaker 1: we might see some quarterbacks not necessarily him because he's 266 00:13:54,480 --> 00:13:57,040 Speaker 1: played in front of crowds. They're gonna be crowds, like 267 00:13:57,080 --> 00:14:00,880 Speaker 1: every every UH stadium this year fully sold out. It's 268 00:14:00,920 --> 00:14:05,559 Speaker 1: over like we're coming back. So the the impact on quarterback, 269 00:14:05,679 --> 00:14:09,679 Speaker 1: especially younger quarterbacks, is gonna be big. I think like Seattle, 270 00:14:10,600 --> 00:14:15,440 Speaker 1: but Buffalo more than Seattle because they haven't experienced success 271 00:14:15,480 --> 00:14:19,200 Speaker 1: and fun. There will not be a stadium in the 272 00:14:19,360 --> 00:14:23,640 Speaker 1: NFL that is gonna be more bad, you know what 273 00:14:24,080 --> 00:14:28,960 Speaker 1: crazy then the Buffalo than the Bills mafia. That place 274 00:14:29,040 --> 00:14:31,920 Speaker 1: missed their best season in two decades last season. You 275 00:14:31,920 --> 00:14:34,320 Speaker 1: don't think they're lined up for that, bad boy. You 276 00:14:34,320 --> 00:14:36,200 Speaker 1: don't think that they're going If we can just beat 277 00:14:36,240 --> 00:14:38,520 Speaker 1: the Chiefs, we will win the a f C. Because 278 00:14:38,560 --> 00:14:41,000 Speaker 1: that's they play the Chiefs this year in the regular season. 279 00:14:41,120 --> 00:14:43,880 Speaker 1: Now Kansas City kick their ask twice beat him in 280 00:14:43,880 --> 00:14:46,040 Speaker 1: the regular season. Remember is a weird Corona game. If 281 00:14:46,080 --> 00:14:48,320 Speaker 1: I remember that game was on like a Tuesday. But 282 00:14:48,400 --> 00:14:51,640 Speaker 1: then they in the a f C. It was it 283 00:14:51,720 --> 00:14:54,200 Speaker 1: wasn't Javi Verse varsity, but it was clearly they were 284 00:14:54,240 --> 00:14:57,600 Speaker 1: on a different level. Well, they drafted multiple pass rushers. 285 00:14:57,600 --> 00:14:59,480 Speaker 1: I like what they the way they built their team. 286 00:15:00,000 --> 00:15:01,920 Speaker 1: You win in the NFL, you obviously have to have 287 00:15:01,920 --> 00:15:04,600 Speaker 1: a good quarterback, a good offense, but you win with 288 00:15:04,760 --> 00:15:07,400 Speaker 1: pass rush. That's how you win. You can get by 289 00:15:07,480 --> 00:15:11,160 Speaker 1: with average defensive backs. But if you can't rush the passer, 290 00:15:11,680 --> 00:15:15,600 Speaker 1: impact the pastor pressure the passer, move them off their spot, 291 00:15:16,000 --> 00:15:19,360 Speaker 1: and really just kind of dictate terms up front, it's 292 00:15:19,400 --> 00:15:22,280 Speaker 1: it's hard to win big games. The reason Kansas City 293 00:15:22,280 --> 00:15:24,720 Speaker 1: got worked in the in the Super Bowl they couldn't 294 00:15:24,760 --> 00:15:27,560 Speaker 1: block the front. Now I'm not saying that the Bill's 295 00:15:27,600 --> 00:15:30,160 Speaker 1: front is gonna be Tampa's front, but they are gonna 296 00:15:30,160 --> 00:15:33,120 Speaker 1: be They're gonna be better. They're they're gonna be a factor. 297 00:15:33,480 --> 00:15:35,960 Speaker 1: I think the Bills are gonna be excellent. The Colts, 298 00:15:36,000 --> 00:15:40,320 Speaker 1: their roster is fantastic. The question mark, it's just Carson 299 00:15:40,360 --> 00:15:43,680 Speaker 1: Wentz is the Carson Wentz we saw last year an outlier, 300 00:15:44,080 --> 00:15:47,600 Speaker 1: all time bad season, in a bad headspace, lost his mojo, 301 00:15:47,760 --> 00:15:50,720 Speaker 1: lost his confidence in a weird spot with the head coach, 302 00:15:51,120 --> 00:15:53,480 Speaker 1: and it just unraveled. Or is he a guy that 303 00:15:53,640 --> 00:15:56,520 Speaker 1: just lost his fastball, because as you see, like Matt 304 00:15:56,560 --> 00:16:00,200 Speaker 1: Harvey used to throw, now he throws like So if 305 00:16:00,200 --> 00:16:03,400 Speaker 1: that's the case, they got issues now. Clearly the Colts 306 00:16:03,440 --> 00:16:05,800 Speaker 1: are betting on the comp that they can flip it around. 307 00:16:05,840 --> 00:16:08,520 Speaker 1: They can get him back to what he wants, was 308 00:16:08,640 --> 00:16:10,920 Speaker 1: back to when Frank was around him and had m 309 00:16:11,000 --> 00:16:14,600 Speaker 1: v P type ability. Now abilities the wrong m v 310 00:16:14,640 --> 00:16:17,440 Speaker 1: P type production, m v P type play. He still 311 00:16:17,440 --> 00:16:19,080 Speaker 1: has the ability. You could watch him when he was 312 00:16:19,080 --> 00:16:21,600 Speaker 1: playing like ship. You could see the movement, the arm 313 00:16:21,640 --> 00:16:24,320 Speaker 1: strength that hasn't left him. It was just when the 314 00:16:24,360 --> 00:16:26,600 Speaker 1: ball left his hand, it would just go to the 315 00:16:26,640 --> 00:16:29,320 Speaker 1: guy in the other jersey, which is a problem. But 316 00:16:29,360 --> 00:16:34,120 Speaker 1: their roster, that defense, stacked that offense. Jonathan Taylor is 317 00:16:34,120 --> 00:16:36,240 Speaker 1: one of my favorite college players in the last decade. 318 00:16:36,640 --> 00:16:41,600 Speaker 1: Stud Michael Pittman Jr. Stud that offensive line. Like the 319 00:16:41,920 --> 00:16:44,200 Speaker 1: Colts just we've talked a lot about on that culture, 320 00:16:45,000 --> 00:16:47,920 Speaker 1: They're gonna be really good. Here's what I know about 321 00:16:47,920 --> 00:16:50,440 Speaker 1: the a f C. North. If I was a betting 322 00:16:50,440 --> 00:16:53,280 Speaker 1: man like I wouldn't feel confident betting on the Browns 323 00:16:53,280 --> 00:16:56,400 Speaker 1: to win it, but I wouldn't hate the bet. Right 324 00:16:56,760 --> 00:16:59,080 Speaker 1: It's like right now, I'm down big in some stocks. 325 00:16:59,440 --> 00:17:02,400 Speaker 1: Down they very very big in a couple of energy stocks. 326 00:17:03,000 --> 00:17:05,159 Speaker 1: One Roaring Kitty took me on a ride with one 327 00:17:05,200 --> 00:17:07,920 Speaker 1: of my weed stocks. I took about fifty g s 328 00:17:08,200 --> 00:17:11,119 Speaker 1: put it into this one, actually spread it out, but 329 00:17:11,280 --> 00:17:13,520 Speaker 1: put about forty of it in this one. And I'm 330 00:17:13,560 --> 00:17:18,040 Speaker 1: down big talk about it's it'll ratty if you look. 331 00:17:18,760 --> 00:17:22,160 Speaker 1: But ultimately I believe big, big picture. So it's either 332 00:17:22,400 --> 00:17:25,400 Speaker 1: it's easier for me to like not freak out. Five 333 00:17:25,480 --> 00:17:27,800 Speaker 1: years ago, John, I probably would have sold it, take 334 00:17:27,880 --> 00:17:30,520 Speaker 1: the loss and cried in the corner. But right now, 335 00:17:30,680 --> 00:17:33,720 Speaker 1: like if I bet on the Browns, I kind of 336 00:17:33,760 --> 00:17:36,040 Speaker 1: believe in what they're doing Now. The quarterback still makes 337 00:17:36,040 --> 00:17:38,719 Speaker 1: me a little nervous, But ultimately here's what I know. 338 00:17:39,200 --> 00:17:42,199 Speaker 1: That division is legit. And the one thing about the 339 00:17:42,200 --> 00:17:44,880 Speaker 1: Browns is I saw them beat Pittsburgh in a playoff game. 340 00:17:45,440 --> 00:17:47,560 Speaker 1: I saw the Browns, you know, go toe to toe 341 00:17:47,600 --> 00:17:49,320 Speaker 1: with Lamar in the game when he got the cramps 342 00:17:49,359 --> 00:17:52,040 Speaker 1: and he ran away and mc sorley came in and 343 00:17:52,080 --> 00:17:54,960 Speaker 1: then he got hurt. Right we saw that. I think 344 00:17:55,000 --> 00:17:56,960 Speaker 1: the Ravens obviously ended up winning that game, but I 345 00:17:56,960 --> 00:17:59,080 Speaker 1: think the Browns that was an impressive game for them. 346 00:17:59,720 --> 00:18:03,040 Speaker 1: That division is big time. The NFC West is the 347 00:18:03,080 --> 00:18:07,080 Speaker 1: best division because their worst team, who I think the 348 00:18:07,119 --> 00:18:09,879 Speaker 1: Cardinals is better than the a f C norths worst 349 00:18:09,920 --> 00:18:13,679 Speaker 1: team the Bengals, who are terrible. But the top three teams, 350 00:18:13,840 --> 00:18:17,800 Speaker 1: the Steelers, the Ravens, and the Browns. That's those are 351 00:18:17,840 --> 00:18:21,119 Speaker 1: three playoff teams. They literally were last year. So I 352 00:18:21,400 --> 00:18:23,399 Speaker 1: would believe any of those three teams win the division. 353 00:18:23,440 --> 00:18:24,879 Speaker 1: If you told me that they get three teams in 354 00:18:24,880 --> 00:18:27,439 Speaker 1: the in the playoffs, again, I completely believe it. Like 355 00:18:27,480 --> 00:18:31,119 Speaker 1: the a f C is top heavy with powerhouses. The Chiefs, 356 00:18:31,119 --> 00:18:34,639 Speaker 1: like I said, dominant force, best player in the game, 357 00:18:35,200 --> 00:18:39,639 Speaker 1: elite coach, elite roster. They added their offensive line, the 358 00:18:40,040 --> 00:18:43,400 Speaker 1: thing the reason they couldn't win the Super Bowl, right. 359 00:18:43,720 --> 00:18:47,600 Speaker 1: The Colts upgraded at quarterback. In theory, we'll see, but 360 00:18:47,920 --> 00:18:50,160 Speaker 1: I think ultimately it will play out that way. The Bills, 361 00:18:50,200 --> 00:18:52,280 Speaker 1: we already know they're good as long as the quarterback 362 00:18:52,560 --> 00:18:54,760 Speaker 1: can just sustain his level of play. A f C 363 00:18:54,960 --> 00:19:01,200 Speaker 1: North loaded loaded, So the a f C man is 364 00:19:01,200 --> 00:19:04,040 Speaker 1: is really really interesting. Now the question is can any 365 00:19:04,080 --> 00:19:06,400 Speaker 1: of these teams, and Tennessee has been a playoff team 366 00:19:06,400 --> 00:19:08,720 Speaker 1: the last couple of years too, they're good. Can any 367 00:19:08,760 --> 00:19:11,040 Speaker 1: of these teams beat the Chiefs in the playoffs? I 368 00:19:11,040 --> 00:19:14,560 Speaker 1: would bet no. But like the more and more shots 369 00:19:14,600 --> 00:19:17,040 Speaker 1: you get, the more and more times you get in 370 00:19:17,080 --> 00:19:19,960 Speaker 1: the ring with someone, even if he beats you, you 371 00:19:20,000 --> 00:19:22,600 Speaker 1: can just gain some confidence. So even though last year 372 00:19:22,640 --> 00:19:24,760 Speaker 1: those two games against the Bills, the Bills have to 373 00:19:24,760 --> 00:19:27,080 Speaker 1: be feeling like, Okay, we belong a little bit more, 374 00:19:27,160 --> 00:19:29,160 Speaker 1: we belong a little bit more, give us another shot. 375 00:19:29,800 --> 00:19:31,639 Speaker 1: Same with the Colts against the Chiefs. Like one of 376 00:19:31,680 --> 00:19:34,720 Speaker 1: these teams, they'll they're gonna believe that they can beat him. 377 00:19:34,720 --> 00:19:37,640 Speaker 1: Now you gotta take down the homes, which is difficult. 378 00:19:38,320 --> 00:19:40,920 Speaker 1: But I think the a f C is not only 379 00:19:41,040 --> 00:19:43,080 Speaker 1: the Patriots, like they're gonna be much better. I haven't 380 00:19:43,080 --> 00:19:46,000 Speaker 1: even mentioned the Dolphins, who were a ten win team. 381 00:19:46,040 --> 00:19:48,680 Speaker 1: The talent in the a f C is fantastic, does field. 382 00:19:48,720 --> 00:19:52,120 Speaker 1: There's probably ten plus teams who you could say, beside 383 00:19:52,160 --> 00:19:55,280 Speaker 1: the Chiefs could make the playoffs. And to me, ultimately 384 00:19:55,280 --> 00:19:58,960 Speaker 1: that's a good thing. Okay, A couple of things jumped 385 00:19:58,960 --> 00:20:00,679 Speaker 1: out to me on the ski jewel. Did I just 386 00:20:00,720 --> 00:20:03,840 Speaker 1: have some question marks on and if you if you 387 00:20:03,920 --> 00:20:06,840 Speaker 1: wanted to play the fun hypothetical game of win loss, 388 00:20:07,480 --> 00:20:10,439 Speaker 1: I don't have enough information to do that. And to me, 389 00:20:10,520 --> 00:20:12,960 Speaker 1: the number one thing that jumped out to me when 390 00:20:13,000 --> 00:20:15,760 Speaker 1: looking at schedules. In the first schedule I looked at 391 00:20:15,840 --> 00:20:18,680 Speaker 1: was the Niners. Is they played the Packers Week three 392 00:20:19,119 --> 00:20:21,520 Speaker 1: Sunday Night Football, And if you just look at the 393 00:20:21,520 --> 00:20:24,920 Speaker 1: Packers schedule, you'd go, I mean, that's a twelve to 394 00:20:25,040 --> 00:20:28,880 Speaker 1: fourteen win team if I don't know they have the 395 00:20:29,040 --> 00:20:32,520 Speaker 1: m v P of the league. Like, it's impossible to 396 00:20:32,640 --> 00:20:36,640 Speaker 1: even guess what the Packers would be could be if 397 00:20:36,760 --> 00:20:39,600 Speaker 1: Rogers isn't on the team and Jordan's Love is a 398 00:20:39,640 --> 00:20:43,359 Speaker 1: starting quarterback. I have no freaking clue. I watched Davantallen 399 00:20:43,440 --> 00:20:46,159 Speaker 1: with Coward and he tried to ask him like his 400 00:20:46,359 --> 00:20:48,600 Speaker 1: you saw the guy at practice? Is he any good? Now? 401 00:20:48,640 --> 00:20:51,240 Speaker 1: It's tough spot for Davanta ar and this guy and 402 00:20:51,320 --> 00:20:53,600 Speaker 1: help they didn't have off season. Maybe he never even 403 00:20:53,600 --> 00:20:57,440 Speaker 1: watched them really practice, because when Davante's practicing, Jordan Loves 404 00:20:57,480 --> 00:20:59,959 Speaker 1: over there running scout team against the first team defense. 405 00:21:01,200 --> 00:21:03,439 Speaker 1: I got no clue. I don't know to give them wins, 406 00:21:03,480 --> 00:21:07,800 Speaker 1: to give them els. Now, my best educated guests would 407 00:21:07,800 --> 00:21:10,840 Speaker 1: be Rogers is a Packer quarterback, But you never know, 408 00:21:11,359 --> 00:21:13,480 Speaker 1: Like this has already got kind of icy and feels 409 00:21:13,480 --> 00:21:17,160 Speaker 1: a little more extreme then Russell Wilson and Seattle, which 410 00:21:17,280 --> 00:21:20,520 Speaker 1: is definitely simmered. And Russell Wilson is going to be 411 00:21:20,560 --> 00:21:22,840 Speaker 1: their quarterback who I felt like he was gonna go, 412 00:21:23,240 --> 00:21:26,240 Speaker 1: But clearly it wasn't that bad. The difference is it 413 00:21:26,320 --> 00:21:28,879 Speaker 1: never got out that Russell Wilson, I don't know, hated 414 00:21:28,920 --> 00:21:32,840 Speaker 1: John Schneider, hated management was making fun of those guys, 415 00:21:32,840 --> 00:21:35,439 Speaker 1: like despise those guys. That's kind of the case, at 416 00:21:35,520 --> 00:21:38,800 Speaker 1: least the information we have with Roger, so I wouldn't 417 00:21:38,800 --> 00:21:41,560 Speaker 1: trade him, and clearly Goodkins in the floor would be 418 00:21:41,560 --> 00:21:43,240 Speaker 1: crazy too. But what if they get to the point 419 00:21:43,280 --> 00:21:45,520 Speaker 1: where he just won't show up and won't play for him? 420 00:21:45,640 --> 00:21:47,520 Speaker 1: If Jordan loves their quarterback, I don't know what to 421 00:21:47,560 --> 00:21:50,800 Speaker 1: make of the team Chicago. When I look at Chicago 422 00:21:50,880 --> 00:21:53,920 Speaker 1: and I think the Red Rifles their quarterback. Every game 423 00:21:53,960 --> 00:21:57,000 Speaker 1: I look at, I think loss. If Andy Dalton's their quarterback, 424 00:21:57,160 --> 00:22:00,320 Speaker 1: they suck. But to me, it's an easy solution. You 425 00:22:00,440 --> 00:22:04,080 Speaker 1: start justin fields. That would be my recommendation to Matt 426 00:22:04,119 --> 00:22:05,760 Speaker 1: n Aggie, who I know loves the guy. I haven't 427 00:22:05,760 --> 00:22:08,720 Speaker 1: given him my recommendation. He probably doesn't care, but under 428 00:22:08,760 --> 00:22:12,439 Speaker 1: no circumstances would Andy Dalton take one snap in a 429 00:22:12,480 --> 00:22:16,040 Speaker 1: regular season game unless Justin Fields got hurt. I would 430 00:22:16,040 --> 00:22:19,280 Speaker 1: have quote unquote and open competition, but it would I'd 431 00:22:19,280 --> 00:22:22,200 Speaker 1: already know the outcome because there's no chance on God's 432 00:22:22,240 --> 00:22:25,959 Speaker 1: green Earth that Andy Dalton is beating out Justin Fields. 433 00:22:26,000 --> 00:22:29,320 Speaker 1: So if Justin Fields is the starting quarterback for the Bears, 434 00:22:29,680 --> 00:22:32,560 Speaker 1: I find them more of an intriguing team and more 435 00:22:32,640 --> 00:22:35,560 Speaker 1: likely to get somewhere between eight and nine wins than 436 00:22:35,600 --> 00:22:37,400 Speaker 1: I do if Andy Dalton's or quarterback, and I view 437 00:22:37,440 --> 00:22:39,800 Speaker 1: them as a four or five win team. So when 438 00:22:39,840 --> 00:22:41,600 Speaker 1: I when I look at different schedules and I see 439 00:22:41,640 --> 00:22:43,240 Speaker 1: the Bears on there, I just I don't know who 440 00:22:43,240 --> 00:22:45,760 Speaker 1: the starting quarterback is. If you tell me Justin Fields 441 00:22:45,760 --> 00:22:48,600 Speaker 1: is their quarterback, one, I just think they're way better, 442 00:22:48,600 --> 00:22:51,280 Speaker 1: and two, like I want to watch their games, so 443 00:22:51,520 --> 00:22:53,280 Speaker 1: that that, to me is the one of the biggest 444 00:22:53,320 --> 00:22:55,560 Speaker 1: question marks. Both of them are coming from the NFC 445 00:22:55,680 --> 00:22:59,160 Speaker 1: North Roger status and how fast does Justin Fields become 446 00:22:59,160 --> 00:23:03,120 Speaker 1: the starting quarterback? I gut my guests educated based really 447 00:23:03,119 --> 00:23:05,800 Speaker 1: on nothing besides just watching the two guys play. I 448 00:23:05,800 --> 00:23:08,000 Speaker 1: think that Justin Fields is the starting quarterback Week one 449 00:23:08,720 --> 00:23:11,720 Speaker 1: the Miami Dolphins. A lot of people Miami is really good. 450 00:23:11,720 --> 00:23:13,680 Speaker 1: Miami is really good. They have out all these draft picks. 451 00:23:14,160 --> 00:23:18,280 Speaker 1: Here's the problem. What if their quarterback isn't any good? Now? 452 00:23:18,440 --> 00:23:21,920 Speaker 1: Is the guy we saw last year just an injured 453 00:23:21,960 --> 00:23:25,720 Speaker 1: player with a bad hip and someone who doesn't reflect 454 00:23:25,720 --> 00:23:29,040 Speaker 1: the guy that we witnessed at Alabama? Or is the 455 00:23:29,080 --> 00:23:31,120 Speaker 1: guy that we saw last year closer to the guy 456 00:23:31,160 --> 00:23:34,199 Speaker 1: that he's just gonna become. Not that athletic, not that 457 00:23:34,280 --> 00:23:36,560 Speaker 1: big of an arm, struggles to get the ball down 458 00:23:36,560 --> 00:23:38,840 Speaker 1: the field. Now, I think the first thing Miami would 459 00:23:38,880 --> 00:23:41,520 Speaker 1: say is we just drafted Jalen Waddle at six. We 460 00:23:41,600 --> 00:23:44,720 Speaker 1: signed Will Fuller. We have more weapons now to push 461 00:23:44,760 --> 00:23:47,200 Speaker 1: the ball down the field. Something to a did very 462 00:23:47,240 --> 00:23:50,359 Speaker 1: well at Alabama. Throw the deep ball. He throws a 463 00:23:50,400 --> 00:23:54,080 Speaker 1: beautiful deep ball, a little Russell Wilson esque. When he 464 00:23:54,160 --> 00:23:57,840 Speaker 1: was in college, right, he just threw bombs away. Now, 465 00:23:58,280 --> 00:24:01,720 Speaker 1: guys were more open in a little difficult here. Last 466 00:24:01,800 --> 00:24:03,840 Speaker 1: year he just wouldn't pull the trigger. And you can 467 00:24:03,920 --> 00:24:06,159 Speaker 1: be like middle cop. They didn't have any weapons. Well, 468 00:24:06,200 --> 00:24:08,960 Speaker 1: every time Fitzpatrick would come back in the game, he'd 469 00:24:08,960 --> 00:24:11,080 Speaker 1: throw the ball down the field. So was the guy 470 00:24:11,200 --> 00:24:13,760 Speaker 1: just hesitant? Was he scared to do it? Was he 471 00:24:13,800 --> 00:24:15,840 Speaker 1: incapable of doing it because of the hip. I don't 472 00:24:15,840 --> 00:24:18,000 Speaker 1: know the answers of this. I don't This is just 473 00:24:18,040 --> 00:24:21,879 Speaker 1: a question. I don't know how he's gonna look. But 474 00:24:21,960 --> 00:24:25,320 Speaker 1: I am not confident just to say Miami is gonna 475 00:24:25,320 --> 00:24:27,679 Speaker 1: be a ten or eleven win team again because a 476 00:24:27,720 --> 00:24:30,920 Speaker 1: lot of their success last year was predicated on Fitzpatrick, 477 00:24:31,160 --> 00:24:34,840 Speaker 1: who was excellent. Plus their defense was really good. It's 478 00:24:34,840 --> 00:24:38,120 Speaker 1: hard when you don't have elite blue chip players like 479 00:24:38,240 --> 00:24:41,240 Speaker 1: you know San Francisco and Seattle did early in the decade, 480 00:24:41,720 --> 00:24:44,200 Speaker 1: right when they were just Seattle was the top scoring 481 00:24:44,240 --> 00:24:47,560 Speaker 1: defense for four straight years. They're like multiple Hall of famers. 482 00:24:47,840 --> 00:24:51,680 Speaker 1: Miami doesn't have that. They're well coached, sturdy defense. We'll 483 00:24:51,680 --> 00:24:53,800 Speaker 1: see if some of these pass rushers they drafted can 484 00:24:53,840 --> 00:24:56,879 Speaker 1: come on, But like I don't view them as just 485 00:24:56,960 --> 00:24:59,080 Speaker 1: some lock to be a top two or three defense again. 486 00:24:59,320 --> 00:25:02,600 Speaker 1: May happen, but let's just say they regress a little bit. 487 00:25:02,600 --> 00:25:05,160 Speaker 1: Their offense is gonna have to be better, and there's 488 00:25:05,160 --> 00:25:09,359 Speaker 1: gonna be pressure onto a Tonga by Loa to be good. 489 00:25:10,320 --> 00:25:12,960 Speaker 1: And when you look at Justin Herbert, who had the 490 00:25:13,000 --> 00:25:15,400 Speaker 1: best rookie season in the history of the league. Now, 491 00:25:15,440 --> 00:25:18,160 Speaker 1: granted it's skewed because we passed more, you gotta put 492 00:25:18,160 --> 00:25:21,080 Speaker 1: it in the context. It's impossible to put his rookie 493 00:25:21,119 --> 00:25:23,560 Speaker 1: season against guys in the seventies, eighties, and nineties. It's 494 00:25:23,600 --> 00:25:27,080 Speaker 1: a different sport, hell, even the two thousand's. But we 495 00:25:27,119 --> 00:25:30,159 Speaker 1: all have eyes. We know what we witnessed. He is 496 00:25:30,680 --> 00:25:33,520 Speaker 1: a big, gass dude who can run and has a 497 00:25:33,600 --> 00:25:38,520 Speaker 1: massive arm. Like his physical attributes popped off the television set. 498 00:25:39,480 --> 00:25:42,840 Speaker 1: But last season he was able to play and just 499 00:25:42,880 --> 00:25:46,000 Speaker 1: as every other quarterback was in a ton of games 500 00:25:46,440 --> 00:25:51,720 Speaker 1: on the road with no fans. And last year the 501 00:25:51,760 --> 00:25:54,000 Speaker 1: moment Aaron Rodgers, I can't remember what week it was, 502 00:25:54,080 --> 00:25:56,359 Speaker 1: but I'll never forget because my gym was closed. So 503 00:25:56,400 --> 00:25:59,000 Speaker 1: I bought a little stationary bike and I threw it 504 00:25:59,000 --> 00:26:01,119 Speaker 1: in the office and sometimes on Sundays, you know, he 505 00:26:01,240 --> 00:26:03,119 Speaker 1: just wanted to get a little sweat. As I'm watching 506 00:26:03,119 --> 00:26:06,520 Speaker 1: the games, and I'm watching Aaron Rodgers play the Saints, 507 00:26:06,880 --> 00:26:09,199 Speaker 1: and I think the Packers won the game. He was 508 00:26:09,320 --> 00:26:15,800 Speaker 1: getting the Saints to jump offsides at the Superdome. I 509 00:26:15,840 --> 00:26:19,400 Speaker 1: mean it now. Like I don't question Aaron Rodgers, Tom 510 00:26:19,440 --> 00:26:22,760 Speaker 1: Brady Mahomes, all the guys who have played in front 511 00:26:22,800 --> 00:26:26,080 Speaker 1: of crowds. It's obviously more difficult even for the best 512 00:26:26,080 --> 00:26:28,520 Speaker 1: players to play in front of a crowd than it 513 00:26:28,600 --> 00:26:32,440 Speaker 1: is with no crowd. But I know the top guys, Russell, Wilson, 514 00:26:32,560 --> 00:26:35,000 Speaker 1: you name it, can play in front of crowds. We've 515 00:26:35,040 --> 00:26:37,760 Speaker 1: seen them do it their entire careers. But a guy 516 00:26:37,840 --> 00:26:40,720 Speaker 1: like Justin Herbert, how does that impact him? Now? He's 517 00:26:40,720 --> 00:26:44,359 Speaker 1: done it in college? But the pros a little different animal. 518 00:26:45,040 --> 00:26:48,240 Speaker 1: On the road in Kansas City, on the road, even 519 00:26:48,240 --> 00:26:51,320 Speaker 1: in Denver. Just the Washington football team is who they 520 00:26:51,320 --> 00:26:54,639 Speaker 1: open against, like it's gonna be more difficult. Plus, like 521 00:26:54,720 --> 00:26:57,960 Speaker 1: their home stadium being in l A now is just 522 00:26:58,000 --> 00:26:59,560 Speaker 1: gonna have more of it. They're not gonna have a 523 00:26:59,600 --> 00:27:02,439 Speaker 1: home yield advantage. I mean last year the place was empty. 524 00:27:02,880 --> 00:27:06,200 Speaker 1: It was basically just the practice. I am a huge 525 00:27:06,240 --> 00:27:08,440 Speaker 1: Justin Herbert fan. I'm not trying to diminish him at all. 526 00:27:09,119 --> 00:27:12,119 Speaker 1: My question is just is it just gonna translate and 527 00:27:12,160 --> 00:27:14,640 Speaker 1: just be a smooth transition to this year and he's 528 00:27:14,640 --> 00:27:16,640 Speaker 1: just gonna kick ass and take names again? He might, 529 00:27:17,320 --> 00:27:20,280 Speaker 1: but he's got a first year offensive or a head coach, 530 00:27:20,800 --> 00:27:24,800 Speaker 1: first year I think offensive coordinator, so there's just transition there. 531 00:27:25,359 --> 00:27:26,920 Speaker 1: There's gonna be a lot of pressure on him because 532 00:27:26,920 --> 00:27:30,760 Speaker 1: everyone's kind of anointing him, including myself. I'm guilty. I 533 00:27:30,840 --> 00:27:32,480 Speaker 1: just think that's something to watch for some of these 534 00:27:32,520 --> 00:27:37,080 Speaker 1: younger quarterbacks last year. Like I don't expect Aaron Rodgers 535 00:27:37,080 --> 00:27:39,280 Speaker 1: to get the Saints or teams like that to jump 536 00:27:39,320 --> 00:27:41,560 Speaker 1: off size on the road, but I expect him to 537 00:27:41,600 --> 00:27:45,119 Speaker 1: be good, right, I expect Russell Wilson, Patrick Mahomes, Dak Prescott. 538 00:27:45,160 --> 00:27:46,959 Speaker 1: You just go, you go through the names of the 539 00:27:47,200 --> 00:27:50,199 Speaker 1: of the good quarterbacks who Tom Brady, we've done it 540 00:27:50,200 --> 00:27:51,840 Speaker 1: for a long period of time, Like they're gonna be fine. 541 00:27:53,280 --> 00:27:55,919 Speaker 1: But what about the young guys who have never experienced 542 00:27:55,960 --> 00:27:59,160 Speaker 1: it at the pro level. It's just an added element 543 00:27:59,640 --> 00:28:02,520 Speaker 1: that they enough to deal with last year. And uh, 544 00:28:03,240 --> 00:28:07,600 Speaker 1: I'm excited to watch. We had some breaking news today 545 00:28:07,680 --> 00:28:10,240 Speaker 1: that's near and dear to my heart. Some of you, 546 00:28:10,240 --> 00:28:12,880 Speaker 1: you know, might not be excited because you typically make 547 00:28:12,920 --> 00:28:15,560 Speaker 1: fun of this conference, but it was a big day 548 00:28:15,560 --> 00:28:19,600 Speaker 1: for us. I grew up going to Cal Cal Berkeley 549 00:28:19,720 --> 00:28:22,840 Speaker 1: football games, with my dad. Moral Stadium awesome. So my 550 00:28:23,080 --> 00:28:26,280 Speaker 1: some of my earliest memories going to games mid nineties, 551 00:28:26,320 --> 00:28:30,160 Speaker 1: probably nine, ten, eleven, twelve years old, seeing Tony Gonzalez 552 00:28:30,520 --> 00:28:33,120 Speaker 1: watching Keyshawn Johnson. My dad was a big cow guy. 553 00:28:33,480 --> 00:28:35,560 Speaker 1: His dad had taught there, even though he had gone 554 00:28:35,560 --> 00:28:37,600 Speaker 1: to u C. Davis. But you know, I'm a cow 555 00:28:37,640 --> 00:28:39,200 Speaker 1: Pouli guy. When you go to a school and your 556 00:28:39,600 --> 00:28:42,000 Speaker 1: your athletics aren't as great, you kind of gravitate towards 557 00:28:42,000 --> 00:28:44,920 Speaker 1: the bigger schools that you have some sort of connection to, 558 00:28:45,240 --> 00:28:47,160 Speaker 1: and I just as a whole I'm a West Coast 559 00:28:47,160 --> 00:28:50,520 Speaker 1: guy route for the conference. Let's face it, it had 560 00:28:50,560 --> 00:28:55,120 Speaker 1: become a laughing stock. They had prioritized the wrong thing 561 00:28:55,800 --> 00:29:01,840 Speaker 1: in college Athletics are not a normal business model, right, 562 00:29:01,920 --> 00:29:05,360 Speaker 1: because in most businesses you would take what you're really 563 00:29:05,400 --> 00:29:08,000 Speaker 1: good at and what makes the most money and put 564 00:29:08,040 --> 00:29:10,520 Speaker 1: all your chips in the middle of the table. Well, 565 00:29:10,960 --> 00:29:15,560 Speaker 1: even the SEC has to finance everything beside football, and 566 00:29:15,720 --> 00:29:19,360 Speaker 1: men's basketball doesn't make any money, so they are subsidizing 567 00:29:19,760 --> 00:29:24,280 Speaker 1: every other sport, every other coach, every other athlete, all 568 00:29:24,320 --> 00:29:28,160 Speaker 1: these people, the support staff that generate no money. There 569 00:29:28,160 --> 00:29:32,440 Speaker 1: in the red they cost money. In most other industries, 570 00:29:32,480 --> 00:29:34,920 Speaker 1: you would just cut that out. Well, obviously that's not 571 00:29:34,960 --> 00:29:37,280 Speaker 1: the way it works, right, that's part of the deal. 572 00:29:37,360 --> 00:29:39,239 Speaker 1: Title nine. But hell, I might have a daughter one 573 00:29:39,320 --> 00:29:41,479 Speaker 1: day and she probably won't be athletic enough, but if 574 00:29:41,520 --> 00:29:43,000 Speaker 1: she was, like I'd want her to have the ability 575 00:29:43,040 --> 00:29:46,400 Speaker 1: to play college soccer, college volleyball. But those sports make 576 00:29:46,480 --> 00:29:49,880 Speaker 1: no money and they cost a lot. But we all 577 00:29:49,920 --> 00:29:52,840 Speaker 1: acknowledge football pays the bills, and depending on the school, 578 00:29:52,840 --> 00:29:55,080 Speaker 1: basketball generates a lot too. And just basketball in the 579 00:29:55,080 --> 00:29:57,760 Speaker 1: Power five makes a lot of money because of television contracts. 580 00:29:58,320 --> 00:30:01,160 Speaker 1: Well out on the West Coast, the Pack twelve this 581 00:30:01,280 --> 00:30:05,520 Speaker 1: last decade has not prioritized the sport of football. And 582 00:30:05,560 --> 00:30:09,080 Speaker 1: it's not all Commissioner Larry Scott, who's kind of become 583 00:30:09,120 --> 00:30:11,560 Speaker 1: a punching bag and a laughing stock. And let's face it, 584 00:30:11,880 --> 00:30:13,280 Speaker 1: I don't think he knows what he's doing, and it 585 00:30:13,360 --> 00:30:15,719 Speaker 1: was over his head. He had more of an academic 586 00:30:15,760 --> 00:30:19,040 Speaker 1: elitas vibe to him than someone who would run the SEC, 587 00:30:19,320 --> 00:30:21,840 Speaker 1: run the Big Ten, run the Big twelve. Feels like 588 00:30:21,840 --> 00:30:24,160 Speaker 1: those guys know what they're doing and our guy out 589 00:30:24,160 --> 00:30:27,440 Speaker 1: here had no clue. He got great joy in watching 590 00:30:28,040 --> 00:30:30,600 Speaker 1: a softball game being put on a Pack twelve network 591 00:30:30,680 --> 00:30:33,680 Speaker 1: that no one could even watch. And I'm not opposed 592 00:30:33,880 --> 00:30:37,240 Speaker 1: to putting non revenue sports on television, I get it. 593 00:30:37,800 --> 00:30:40,400 Speaker 1: But when it feels like you're not prioritizing the thing 594 00:30:40,480 --> 00:30:45,040 Speaker 1: that literally pays the bills for everyone, including the softball team, 595 00:30:45,080 --> 00:30:49,320 Speaker 1: including the women's soccer team, including the commissioner's salary, which 596 00:30:49,400 --> 00:30:53,560 Speaker 1: is the sport of football, you gotta go. And ultimately 597 00:30:53,600 --> 00:30:57,400 Speaker 1: he was pushed out and I saw that the new commissioner, 598 00:30:57,480 --> 00:31:02,600 Speaker 1: George his name, his last name, I'll butcher. It reads 599 00:31:02,600 --> 00:31:06,600 Speaker 1: like a Russian mobster Clelankoff. They hired him from the 600 00:31:06,800 --> 00:31:10,880 Speaker 1: MGM that is in Las Vegas, the casino, and he's 601 00:31:10,880 --> 00:31:14,480 Speaker 1: been running their sports and entertainment. And the first reaction 602 00:31:14,560 --> 00:31:17,440 Speaker 1: I see for many of the media elites that just 603 00:31:17,520 --> 00:31:19,720 Speaker 1: like to know how, Like I don't know this guy, 604 00:31:20,080 --> 00:31:21,840 Speaker 1: it can't be good. And let's face it, most of 605 00:31:21,880 --> 00:31:24,480 Speaker 1: the media elites don't like the private sector. They're not 606 00:31:24,520 --> 00:31:26,479 Speaker 1: pro business, so it's just this is kind of an 607 00:31:26,480 --> 00:31:29,040 Speaker 1: outside the box higher even though those same people have 608 00:31:29,120 --> 00:31:32,520 Speaker 1: been ripping the Pack twelve. My first reaction absolutely love 609 00:31:32,560 --> 00:31:35,920 Speaker 1: the hire. We have watched Larry Scott was an IVY 610 00:31:36,000 --> 00:31:38,680 Speaker 1: League guy, an IVY League tennis player. I would consider 611 00:31:38,760 --> 00:31:42,960 Speaker 1: him an academic elite ruin the conference. They get a 612 00:31:42,960 --> 00:31:46,240 Speaker 1: guy that comes from the most cutthroat business of them all, 613 00:31:46,640 --> 00:31:49,920 Speaker 1: Las Vegas, the casino business, who cares about one thing, 614 00:31:49,960 --> 00:31:54,680 Speaker 1: and one thing, only money, because ultimately, even in college athletics, 615 00:31:54,760 --> 00:31:58,719 Speaker 1: the thing that makes everything go is the cash. And 616 00:31:58,760 --> 00:32:01,360 Speaker 1: we get a guy who understands that. And he said 617 00:32:01,400 --> 00:32:05,640 Speaker 1: something today that couldn't be more captain obvious. Yet it 618 00:32:05,720 --> 00:32:11,320 Speaker 1: was so refreshing to see him say these exact words 619 00:32:11,400 --> 00:32:14,719 Speaker 1: he said, I want to be Larry Scott never, not 620 00:32:14,800 --> 00:32:18,040 Speaker 1: in a million years, would have uttered these words, because 621 00:32:18,080 --> 00:32:19,600 Speaker 1: I think, deep to his core, I don't even think 622 00:32:19,600 --> 00:32:21,680 Speaker 1: he believed it, so he wouldn't have said it and 623 00:32:21,760 --> 00:32:24,080 Speaker 1: he didn't even understand it. Bro this is do you 624 00:32:24,120 --> 00:32:28,480 Speaker 1: get it. Here's what Cliver coff Or said at his 625 00:32:28,640 --> 00:32:32,920 Speaker 1: opening press conference. I want to be clear. We know 626 00:32:33,080 --> 00:32:38,360 Speaker 1: where the bread is buttered. We're focused on revenue sports 627 00:32:38,400 --> 00:32:44,120 Speaker 1: and winning in men's basketball, in football. And it's like 628 00:32:44,240 --> 00:32:47,480 Speaker 1: I said, that is of course he should have been 629 00:32:47,800 --> 00:32:50,880 Speaker 1: say that, like it should be that everyone says that, 630 00:32:51,360 --> 00:32:53,640 Speaker 1: not us out here, not the guy that just ran 631 00:32:53,680 --> 00:32:58,120 Speaker 1: the conference, not the conference. Most of these universities U C, 632 00:32:58,280 --> 00:33:03,920 Speaker 1: l A, Cal, Washington, they don't view themselves as you know, 633 00:33:04,160 --> 00:33:09,920 Speaker 1: athletic endeavors. These school presidents view themselves as academic institutions. 634 00:33:10,800 --> 00:33:14,520 Speaker 1: And I think we've lost touch out here where Obama, 635 00:33:14,760 --> 00:33:20,280 Speaker 1: l s, U, Ohio State, Michigan, Oklahoma, Clemson. You know, 636 00:33:20,480 --> 00:33:22,960 Speaker 1: these big boys schools in other parts of the country, 637 00:33:23,520 --> 00:33:26,480 Speaker 1: even their their presidents who most of those guys also 638 00:33:26,520 --> 00:33:30,160 Speaker 1: come from academia, realized a long time ago how much 639 00:33:30,280 --> 00:33:33,760 Speaker 1: money is on the line if you are successful. And 640 00:33:33,800 --> 00:33:36,480 Speaker 1: I think you know, just as a whole, the conference 641 00:33:36,800 --> 00:33:40,400 Speaker 1: lost touch. We weren't winning as much and fell way 642 00:33:40,400 --> 00:33:43,240 Speaker 1: behind because there is a clear line of delineation of 643 00:33:43,320 --> 00:33:46,280 Speaker 1: and you can argue all day long the SEC is overrated. Well, 644 00:33:46,600 --> 00:33:49,040 Speaker 1: they produced the most money, they send the most teams, 645 00:33:49,120 --> 00:33:50,920 Speaker 1: and you can be like, well it's only Alabama. Well 646 00:33:50,960 --> 00:33:55,120 Speaker 1: they got Alabama. You know, if a SEC might suck, 647 00:33:55,160 --> 00:33:58,560 Speaker 1: they still have Clemson, right, they still have Duke in basketball. 648 00:33:58,600 --> 00:34:00,560 Speaker 1: That's all that matters. You need to be heavy. The 649 00:34:00,560 --> 00:34:03,200 Speaker 1: Pactrol's not even top heavy any anymore. They don't say 650 00:34:03,280 --> 00:34:07,240 Speaker 1: anyone we're not relevant. We lost touch because we had 651 00:34:07,320 --> 00:34:10,759 Speaker 1: Larry Scott taking the PAC twelve and literally lighting it 652 00:34:10,800 --> 00:34:13,600 Speaker 1: on fire. Now there are gonna be things that will 653 00:34:13,640 --> 00:34:17,160 Speaker 1: never overcome out here. We will never have the fervor 654 00:34:17,520 --> 00:34:21,920 Speaker 1: and the intensity and the deep rooted passion for our 655 00:34:22,040 --> 00:34:28,040 Speaker 1: universities as Ohio State, as Alabama, as Florida. It won't 656 00:34:28,040 --> 00:34:30,960 Speaker 1: be as consistent. But one thing, we are on the 657 00:34:30,960 --> 00:34:34,600 Speaker 1: West Coast as good as anybody. We are fucking fantastic 658 00:34:34,640 --> 00:34:38,040 Speaker 1: front runners. And when you win, like when you see 659 00:34:38,040 --> 00:34:40,640 Speaker 1: Hello wins and hoops, when Arizona wins at hoops, when 660 00:34:40,760 --> 00:34:44,080 Speaker 1: USC wins at football, when Oregon wins at football, held 661 00:34:44,120 --> 00:34:46,640 Speaker 1: when Cal had some moment with Tedford's, people come out 662 00:34:46,680 --> 00:34:50,759 Speaker 1: of the woodworks. We love winners. We are apathetic when 663 00:34:50,760 --> 00:34:53,320 Speaker 1: you're just average and don't give a ship when you lose, 664 00:34:53,640 --> 00:34:55,239 Speaker 1: like at least in these other and I see it 665 00:34:55,239 --> 00:34:58,080 Speaker 1: in pro sports. I'm in the Niners business. When the 666 00:34:58,160 --> 00:35:01,840 Speaker 1: Niners are great, my business, US revenue is a flowing 667 00:35:02,320 --> 00:35:06,759 Speaker 1: The last month with that trade was fantastic. I've been 668 00:35:06,800 --> 00:35:08,520 Speaker 1: doing this for a little while now. I've been a 669 00:35:08,520 --> 00:35:11,440 Speaker 1: part of Jim tom Seula and Chip Kelly. It's hard 670 00:35:11,480 --> 00:35:14,000 Speaker 1: to keep your head above water I've been. I lived 671 00:35:14,000 --> 00:35:15,880 Speaker 1: in Philly. Now, granted I worked for the team at 672 00:35:15,880 --> 00:35:18,240 Speaker 1: the time, but I knew some people in the media. 673 00:35:18,520 --> 00:35:21,280 Speaker 1: Their business boomed when the team sucked. People really cared. 674 00:35:21,960 --> 00:35:24,640 Speaker 1: No one cares out here when you lose not a soul. 675 00:35:25,440 --> 00:35:27,200 Speaker 1: And I think part of the problem with the Pack 676 00:35:27,280 --> 00:35:31,080 Speaker 1: twelve is apathy set in because we didn't have great teams. 677 00:35:31,560 --> 00:35:35,080 Speaker 1: When USC and Pete Carroll was humming, people paid attention, 678 00:35:35,120 --> 00:35:36,800 Speaker 1: not just if you were a USC fan or a 679 00:35:36,880 --> 00:35:39,960 Speaker 1: USC alumni. U. C. L A Was locked in, Oregon 680 00:35:40,040 --> 00:35:44,239 Speaker 1: was locked in, Watching Cow was locked in, and a 681 00:35:44,360 --> 00:35:46,920 Speaker 1: rising tide lifts all the boats. We haven't had a 682 00:35:47,040 --> 00:35:49,960 Speaker 1: rising tide because we've had this academic elitist who was 683 00:35:50,000 --> 00:35:53,000 Speaker 1: obsessed with non revenue sports who drove the conference into 684 00:35:53,040 --> 00:35:55,560 Speaker 1: the ground. And the first reaction I see, and of 685 00:35:55,600 --> 00:35:58,960 Speaker 1: course it's so typical my my life advice to anyone 686 00:35:59,000 --> 00:36:00,560 Speaker 1: who whenever I get people the em me like, I 687 00:36:00,600 --> 00:36:02,680 Speaker 1: want to become a podcaster, I want to get involved. 688 00:36:02,960 --> 00:36:06,640 Speaker 1: My number one advice before even getting your equipment doing it. 689 00:36:06,880 --> 00:36:11,920 Speaker 1: Whatever the mass media thinks, sports media go the opposite 690 00:36:11,920 --> 00:36:14,759 Speaker 1: way because when they hang a left, usually the right 691 00:36:14,800 --> 00:36:17,480 Speaker 1: answers on the right. And of course everything I saw 692 00:36:17,960 --> 00:36:20,400 Speaker 1: from from from the big J journals was this is 693 00:36:20,719 --> 00:36:23,480 Speaker 1: who who could you hire? I've never heard of this guy. 694 00:36:23,680 --> 00:36:26,560 Speaker 1: Bring a guy from the private sector. Well, guys, it 695 00:36:26,719 --> 00:36:31,480 Speaker 1: can't get any worse because it's been an utter disaster. Literally, 696 00:36:31,520 --> 00:36:34,400 Speaker 1: the building is basically the equivalent of on fire. It 697 00:36:34,480 --> 00:36:36,320 Speaker 1: kind of is. With the amount of money they're spending 698 00:36:36,480 --> 00:36:39,040 Speaker 1: for their San Francisco offices, which has not gone well. 699 00:36:39,680 --> 00:36:43,759 Speaker 1: The overall just vibe of the conference, the perception of 700 00:36:43,800 --> 00:36:47,080 Speaker 1: the conference and the reality of the conference, has not 701 00:36:47,200 --> 00:36:53,080 Speaker 1: been good. Larry Scott was clearly justifiably fired. Honestly, they 702 00:36:53,080 --> 00:36:55,120 Speaker 1: gave him too long. They should have thrown his ass 703 00:36:55,120 --> 00:36:58,160 Speaker 1: out two or three years ago. But it's never the 704 00:36:58,239 --> 00:37:00,879 Speaker 1: wrong time to do the right thing. And they went 705 00:37:00,880 --> 00:37:03,520 Speaker 1: outside the box and they hired a guy. And I 706 00:37:03,560 --> 00:37:05,560 Speaker 1: saw a lot of this. How could they hire a 707 00:37:05,560 --> 00:37:11,120 Speaker 1: guy with no collegiate athletic experiences? Is it really that complicated? 708 00:37:11,480 --> 00:37:14,640 Speaker 1: He ran sports and entertainment and MGM meant he was 709 00:37:14,680 --> 00:37:18,640 Speaker 1: involved with all the collegiate UH conferences because they had 710 00:37:18,680 --> 00:37:22,560 Speaker 1: bowl games, right, they hosted the Pack twelve men's and 711 00:37:22,600 --> 00:37:28,040 Speaker 1: women's and basketball tournaments. There forever. They also in college football, 712 00:37:28,040 --> 00:37:32,239 Speaker 1: have brought the Pack twelve championship there. Obviously with the 713 00:37:32,320 --> 00:37:36,400 Speaker 1: Raiders moving there, he's been involved with football like but 714 00:37:36,480 --> 00:37:38,239 Speaker 1: the number one thing I think when I think of 715 00:37:38,239 --> 00:37:40,520 Speaker 1: getting a guy from a casino what he knows. He 716 00:37:40,600 --> 00:37:44,000 Speaker 1: knows how to generate money. And part of the problem 717 00:37:44,000 --> 00:37:47,320 Speaker 1: the Pac twelve has fallen behind. Their money is falling behind. 718 00:37:47,640 --> 00:37:49,600 Speaker 1: And it's not like we don't have cash out here. 719 00:37:49,800 --> 00:37:52,080 Speaker 1: It's not like we don't have successful businesses out here. 720 00:37:52,280 --> 00:37:54,680 Speaker 1: It's not like we don't have successful alumni out here. 721 00:37:54,880 --> 00:37:59,279 Speaker 1: The problem is those people stopped caring. Now back to 722 00:37:59,320 --> 00:38:01,840 Speaker 1: what I said early or about Alabama, Florida, l s, U, 723 00:38:01,920 --> 00:38:05,080 Speaker 1: Ohio State, Michigan, there is somewhat of an uphill battle 724 00:38:05,080 --> 00:38:09,160 Speaker 1: and there always will be because pro sports. Some of 725 00:38:09,200 --> 00:38:12,560 Speaker 1: these schools are in bigger cities. In Seattle, the University 726 00:38:12,560 --> 00:38:14,600 Speaker 1: of Washington will never be as big as long as 727 00:38:14,680 --> 00:38:17,040 Speaker 1: Russell Wilson's there. But it doesn't mean they can't be 728 00:38:17,120 --> 00:38:22,200 Speaker 1: much bigger than they've been. Callen Stanford will never ever sniff. 729 00:38:23,480 --> 00:38:26,759 Speaker 1: It doesn't mean they can't get more support. I so 730 00:38:26,960 --> 00:38:29,040 Speaker 1: one thing I would say in l A U C. 731 00:38:29,239 --> 00:38:32,200 Speaker 1: L A and USC have more in their back pocket 732 00:38:32,280 --> 00:38:35,920 Speaker 1: than even like the Rams. They just do if U 733 00:38:35,960 --> 00:38:38,799 Speaker 1: c l A and USC are powerhouses at football. When 734 00:38:38,840 --> 00:38:40,400 Speaker 1: I was young in the nineties, U c l A 735 00:38:40,520 --> 00:38:42,919 Speaker 1: was really good at football, and then when Pete came, 736 00:38:43,280 --> 00:38:46,560 Speaker 1: USC got really good at football, and they really freaking mattered. 737 00:38:47,200 --> 00:38:49,200 Speaker 1: The last you know, five six years, they just have 738 00:38:49,320 --> 00:38:53,320 Speaker 1: not and it's been a problem. Utah, Salt Lake City 739 00:38:53,440 --> 00:38:57,800 Speaker 1: is a growing area right Oregon has just been really good. 740 00:38:58,320 --> 00:39:01,080 Speaker 1: You can grow this thing to at least maybe not 741 00:39:01,200 --> 00:39:03,120 Speaker 1: become what the sec in the Big ten have become, 742 00:39:03,360 --> 00:39:07,239 Speaker 1: but to just not be what you've been, which is 743 00:39:07,280 --> 00:39:10,960 Speaker 1: a place where people laugh at you and your teams 744 00:39:11,000 --> 00:39:14,000 Speaker 1: do not excel at the highest level, and bottom line, 745 00:39:14,040 --> 00:39:17,800 Speaker 1: that's unacceptable. But you get what you tolerate, and ultimately, 746 00:39:17,920 --> 00:39:21,520 Speaker 1: Larry Scott, an academic elite a tennis player, tolerated it 747 00:39:23,040 --> 00:39:26,480 Speaker 1: in the the I don't necessarily, I can't really blame 748 00:39:26,760 --> 00:39:30,200 Speaker 1: the presidents of the schools. They do their work on 749 00:39:30,280 --> 00:39:33,879 Speaker 1: white boards, they do their academia. That's where they live, 750 00:39:33,960 --> 00:39:37,799 Speaker 1: that's their little realm. So Larry Scott really basically robbed them. 751 00:39:37,840 --> 00:39:40,200 Speaker 1: For the last whatever decade, he was the highest paid 752 00:39:40,200 --> 00:39:42,120 Speaker 1: commissioner for a long period of time, even though the 753 00:39:42,160 --> 00:39:45,680 Speaker 1: conference in my thirty five years of life actually a 754 00:39:45,719 --> 00:39:50,640 Speaker 1: low balled myself. UH has never felt less not just relevant, 755 00:39:50,680 --> 00:39:53,480 Speaker 1: but less successful. And it's sad. We have too much 756 00:39:53,520 --> 00:39:55,200 Speaker 1: talent and be one thing if we don't have any talent. 757 00:39:55,520 --> 00:39:58,120 Speaker 1: We have the number one state that produces all the 758 00:39:58,160 --> 00:40:01,399 Speaker 1: best college football players. But problem is nag Harris. Where 759 00:40:01,400 --> 00:40:05,760 Speaker 1: did he go Alabama? DJ? Where did he go? Clemson? 760 00:40:06,360 --> 00:40:08,839 Speaker 1: I just saw I read the other day. I was like, Oh, 761 00:40:08,880 --> 00:40:12,200 Speaker 1: Alabama got this transfer from Tennessee, five star guy that 762 00:40:12,440 --> 00:40:14,840 Speaker 1: was gonna go to Alabama, but then Tennessee made him commit. 763 00:40:14,920 --> 00:40:16,440 Speaker 1: You know where he went to school? Oh yeah, day 764 00:40:16,480 --> 00:40:19,520 Speaker 1: less Au, five minutes away from my house. Why are 765 00:40:19,560 --> 00:40:21,520 Speaker 1: these guys leaving the state to go to the South. 766 00:40:21,800 --> 00:40:23,880 Speaker 1: I'll tell you why. I don't blame them. I'd go 767 00:40:23,880 --> 00:40:26,680 Speaker 1: play at Alabama. I'd go play at Clemson too. The 768 00:40:26,760 --> 00:40:30,000 Speaker 1: Niners draft, I think his first name is Josh, last 769 00:40:30,080 --> 00:40:33,719 Speaker 1: name banks, offensive lineman from Notre Dame in the second round. 770 00:40:33,760 --> 00:40:35,160 Speaker 1: I was like, God, this guy is big. I wonder 771 00:40:35,360 --> 00:40:38,280 Speaker 1: Midwest thick guy. And they're like, actually he's from El Torito, 772 00:40:38,719 --> 00:40:41,680 Speaker 1: which is where my grandpa lived for a long period 773 00:40:41,719 --> 00:40:45,279 Speaker 1: of time. It's right next to Berkeley, California. Why are 774 00:40:45,320 --> 00:40:48,640 Speaker 1: all these kids leaving the state? Now, you can say 775 00:40:48,719 --> 00:40:51,760 Speaker 1: that's not necessarily on the commissioner, it's on the conference. True, 776 00:40:52,120 --> 00:40:55,000 Speaker 1: but the conference has become so negative. There's such a 777 00:40:55,040 --> 00:40:57,719 Speaker 1: bad perception of it and just the teams. The success 778 00:40:57,719 --> 00:41:00,359 Speaker 1: overall is so down. I don't blame any of these 779 00:41:00,400 --> 00:41:02,799 Speaker 1: kids were leaving, but when I was a kid, these 780 00:41:02,800 --> 00:41:06,480 Speaker 1: guys didn't leave. They stayed. So to me, the number 781 00:41:06,480 --> 00:41:09,280 Speaker 1: one thing this guy has. How can we get the vibe, 782 00:41:09,320 --> 00:41:13,960 Speaker 1: the positivity, the just the high end programs rolling again? 783 00:41:14,239 --> 00:41:18,680 Speaker 1: How can I help? I love the hire. I honestly 784 00:41:18,800 --> 00:41:22,640 Speaker 1: can't celebrate it enough. They had to go outside the box, 785 00:41:23,480 --> 00:41:26,520 Speaker 1: taking a guy from the casino business. I mean, why 786 00:41:26,560 --> 00:41:31,720 Speaker 1: not you know it just the John Baxter, former USC coach, 787 00:41:32,440 --> 00:41:34,840 Speaker 1: assistant coach, he was with me and Freso State, always 788 00:41:34,840 --> 00:41:36,000 Speaker 1: had a great line he said, what do you do 789 00:41:36,040 --> 00:41:37,960 Speaker 1: when you find yourself in a hole? Every kid would 790 00:41:37,960 --> 00:41:39,680 Speaker 1: be like, what do you do? He's like, dropped the shovel, 791 00:41:40,080 --> 00:41:42,040 Speaker 1: And it just felt like they dropped the shovel. They 792 00:41:42,040 --> 00:41:46,280 Speaker 1: stopped digging themselves deeper. And now just it might not work. 793 00:41:46,760 --> 00:41:49,640 Speaker 1: That's part of doing risky things. Sometimes when you take 794 00:41:49,680 --> 00:41:52,399 Speaker 1: a risk, it fails. But at least they took a risk, 795 00:41:52,760 --> 00:41:54,680 Speaker 1: at least they thought outside the box, and at least 796 00:41:54,719 --> 00:41:59,560 Speaker 1: they gave themselves a puncher's chance to make some more money, 797 00:41:59,600 --> 00:42:03,200 Speaker 1: to get their television network more relevant, to just bring 798 00:42:03,280 --> 00:42:06,640 Speaker 1: some positive vibes back to the conference, which feels much 799 00:42:06,640 --> 00:42:08,920 Speaker 1: more like it's been the power for and the Pack twelve. 800 00:42:09,239 --> 00:42:13,000 Speaker 1: Hopefully today marks the start of we can start calling 801 00:42:13,000 --> 00:42:15,560 Speaker 1: the Power five truly the Power five again because the 802 00:42:15,560 --> 00:42:20,759 Speaker 1: Pack twelve, uh, you know, starts winning. Okay, let's dive 803 00:42:20,760 --> 00:42:24,719 Speaker 1: into the Middlecoff mail bag at John Middlecoff is uh 804 00:42:24,840 --> 00:42:27,160 Speaker 1: is the Instagram handle you fire up in the d 805 00:42:27,360 --> 00:42:30,040 Speaker 1: m s and you get an answered here on the podcast. 806 00:42:30,360 --> 00:42:33,160 Speaker 1: I'm also throwing this up on YouTube. John Middlecoff is 807 00:42:33,160 --> 00:42:35,640 Speaker 1: the YouTube page. Subscribe to that page as well. Throw 808 00:42:35,680 --> 00:42:38,560 Speaker 1: some different stuff up there. Obviously all the podcast content 809 00:42:38,760 --> 00:42:42,359 Speaker 1: is going to live there. From Dan, do you think 810 00:42:42,360 --> 00:42:46,440 Speaker 1: if Ryan Fitzpatrick was drafted into today's NFL with rules 811 00:42:46,480 --> 00:42:50,800 Speaker 1: favoring the quarterback, he would be a franchise quarterback. Imagine 812 00:42:50,880 --> 00:42:52,680 Speaker 1: him on a rookie deal with the stack team. I 813 00:42:52,719 --> 00:42:55,080 Speaker 1: feel as if whoever drafted him could be a playoff 814 00:42:55,120 --> 00:42:59,160 Speaker 1: team and above, the perception of him would change. It 815 00:42:59,239 --> 00:43:01,359 Speaker 1: just seems like the NFL has changed so much since 816 00:43:01,400 --> 00:43:02,800 Speaker 1: he came to the league, and maybe if he was 817 00:43:02,880 --> 00:43:05,680 Speaker 1: drafted in one he said it back in the day, 818 00:43:06,040 --> 00:43:08,239 Speaker 1: Ryan Fitzpatrick, they'd be happy to be in the Ryan 819 00:43:08,280 --> 00:43:11,919 Speaker 1: Fitzpatrick business for the next four or five years. Hard 820 00:43:11,960 --> 00:43:14,680 Speaker 1: for me to say. I mean, you are watching Ryan 821 00:43:14,680 --> 00:43:18,440 Speaker 1: Fitzpatrick at thirty eight years old. I don't pretend to 822 00:43:18,480 --> 00:43:21,240 Speaker 1: remember him in like oh five, oh six, oh seven, 823 00:43:21,239 --> 00:43:23,200 Speaker 1: oh eight. You know, when he first got in the league. 824 00:43:23,480 --> 00:43:25,400 Speaker 1: He did have a moment for Buffalo. I think it 825 00:43:25,480 --> 00:43:27,799 Speaker 1: was ten or eleven. But he kind of is what 826 00:43:27,920 --> 00:43:30,799 Speaker 1: he is, right, I mean, he's a good athlete, He's tough, 827 00:43:31,760 --> 00:43:34,399 Speaker 1: good athlete, would be strong, He's athletic enough. His arm 828 00:43:34,520 --> 00:43:38,240 Speaker 1: is not great to me as best attribute, as he's fearless, 829 00:43:38,760 --> 00:43:42,440 Speaker 1: so he kind of overcomes average talent with a fearless mindset. 830 00:43:43,480 --> 00:43:45,720 Speaker 1: You know. Would he be like a better gardner minchew 831 00:43:45,880 --> 00:43:49,680 Speaker 1: or something like that. Maybe, but I don't franchise quarterback. 832 00:43:51,200 --> 00:43:54,440 Speaker 1: I don't think that would be the case. I'm curious 833 00:43:54,440 --> 00:43:56,920 Speaker 1: why the NFL doesn't take advantage of their partnership with 834 00:43:57,000 --> 00:44:00,279 Speaker 1: Nike and allowed teams to work custom uniforms, such as 835 00:44:00,320 --> 00:44:03,960 Speaker 1: Oregon in Oklahoma state. Call me crazy, but I believe 836 00:44:04,000 --> 00:44:08,560 Speaker 1: fans fans would spend money on alternate uniforms. I'm from Iowa, 837 00:44:08,560 --> 00:44:11,239 Speaker 1: and I know growing up that we would always keep 838 00:44:11,280 --> 00:44:13,719 Speaker 1: an eye out for what uniforms Oregon would roll out 839 00:44:14,200 --> 00:44:16,560 Speaker 1: on any given Saturday. I think it brought a ton 840 00:44:16,560 --> 00:44:19,319 Speaker 1: of attention to their school and could do the same 841 00:44:19,360 --> 00:44:22,439 Speaker 1: for the NFL. Side note, I truly believe that Tim 842 00:44:22,440 --> 00:44:25,799 Speaker 1: Tebow is some dirt on Urban Meyers years in Florida. Well, 843 00:44:25,800 --> 00:44:28,760 Speaker 1: he definitely has dirt on Urban Meyer. He was starting 844 00:44:28,840 --> 00:44:31,400 Speaker 1: quarterback for four years. I mean, they had a murderer, 845 00:44:31,680 --> 00:44:34,480 Speaker 1: They had a ton of dudes doing drugs like I mean, 846 00:44:34,520 --> 00:44:37,480 Speaker 1: come on, I mean Urban Meyer. This My issue with 847 00:44:37,560 --> 00:44:39,719 Speaker 1: Urban Meyer has never been as a coach. It's been 848 00:44:39,760 --> 00:44:42,200 Speaker 1: he just ran a dirty program in Florida, but got 849 00:44:42,200 --> 00:44:44,120 Speaker 1: on his moral high horse like he was above it all. 850 00:44:44,320 --> 00:44:48,600 Speaker 1: Tebow was right, Urban wasn't. Urban gladly signed those guys, 851 00:44:48,640 --> 00:44:50,600 Speaker 1: which against his progress of trying to win big in 852 00:44:50,640 --> 00:44:53,319 Speaker 1: the SEC. But let's not act like you're some great 853 00:44:53,360 --> 00:44:57,400 Speaker 1: person like you, you're trying to win national championships. I 854 00:44:57,440 --> 00:45:00,239 Speaker 1: don't quite understand the rules. Why the NFL all is 855 00:45:00,280 --> 00:45:04,239 Speaker 1: so obsessed. That's a great question. I don't know. I 856 00:45:04,280 --> 00:45:06,440 Speaker 1: don't think the NFL really wants to get in the 857 00:45:06,480 --> 00:45:10,000 Speaker 1: gimmicky business. They don't need to be gimmicky like Oregon 858 00:45:10,480 --> 00:45:15,839 Speaker 1: or Oklahoma state because they're basically Alabama or Ohio state. 859 00:45:16,560 --> 00:45:19,800 Speaker 1: Like that's that's the NFL, you know. So with the NFL, 860 00:45:20,760 --> 00:45:22,920 Speaker 1: if George Kittle sweet, people are buying the San Francisco 861 00:45:22,960 --> 00:45:27,200 Speaker 1: forty Niner jersey. If Davante Smith is sweet, people are 862 00:45:27,239 --> 00:45:30,759 Speaker 1: buying just the normal Eagles jersey. If Dak Prescott like you, 863 00:45:30,760 --> 00:45:33,799 Speaker 1: you don't need outthink the room now you you never 864 00:45:33,800 --> 00:45:36,520 Speaker 1: want to be close minded to that because there might 865 00:45:36,560 --> 00:45:41,040 Speaker 1: be potential new revenue streams, but that probably is more ownership. 866 00:45:41,120 --> 00:45:44,799 Speaker 1: Would be my guests, educated guests. I I that's that's 867 00:45:44,800 --> 00:45:47,319 Speaker 1: a good question. The thing I like about the middle 868 00:45:47,320 --> 00:45:49,920 Speaker 1: coffin fail back. You guys bring angles that I just 869 00:45:49,960 --> 00:45:53,080 Speaker 1: wouldn't wouldn't think of because my personal take is, like 870 00:45:53,120 --> 00:45:55,799 Speaker 1: I think the Oregon uniforms are okay. Sometimes I think 871 00:45:55,840 --> 00:45:57,880 Speaker 1: they get a little gimmicky, Like you guys are a 872 00:45:57,880 --> 00:46:01,000 Speaker 1: powerhouse program. You've been a top of team program now 873 00:46:01,040 --> 00:46:05,000 Speaker 1: for two decades, Like just now it's part of your 874 00:46:05,000 --> 00:46:07,359 Speaker 1: thing because you're there with Nike. I don't expect them 875 00:46:07,360 --> 00:46:11,160 Speaker 1: to just be like super traditional, but like I got 876 00:46:11,200 --> 00:46:14,040 Speaker 1: golf on in the background right now, sometimes Nike does 877 00:46:14,080 --> 00:46:16,560 Speaker 1: some weird shit, like some of the outfits that they 878 00:46:16,560 --> 00:46:19,319 Speaker 1: give their golfers are terrible, but not everything they do 879 00:46:19,520 --> 00:46:21,760 Speaker 1: is great now I hear you. It definitely brings awareness, 880 00:46:21,760 --> 00:46:24,120 Speaker 1: but the awareness is there now we know. I don't 881 00:46:24,120 --> 00:46:29,000 Speaker 1: think you necessarily need it. I'm from UK and recently 882 00:46:29,040 --> 00:46:31,439 Speaker 1: came across the podcast. It's great and I look forward 883 00:46:31,440 --> 00:46:34,879 Speaker 1: to every episode. I appreciate it. Had a quick one 884 00:46:34,920 --> 00:46:37,960 Speaker 1: around your comments of West Coast players struggling to perform 885 00:46:38,000 --> 00:46:41,080 Speaker 1: in cold weather. What side of the fence would you 886 00:46:41,120 --> 00:46:43,640 Speaker 1: sit on if someone had argued cold weather players would 887 00:46:43,640 --> 00:46:47,000 Speaker 1: struggle just as much playing in hotter weather when they 888 00:46:47,000 --> 00:46:51,000 Speaker 1: are not used to Our national soccer team has struggled 889 00:46:51,000 --> 00:46:53,920 Speaker 1: playing in warmer weather as they are accustomed to colder 890 00:46:53,960 --> 00:46:58,240 Speaker 1: weather in the UK. I playing very poorly in Brazil 891 00:46:58,320 --> 00:47:02,440 Speaker 1: in the World Cup. Yeah, I think it's fair. I 892 00:47:02,200 --> 00:47:07,200 Speaker 1: I would agree that extremes are gonna throw anyone off. Right. 893 00:47:07,239 --> 00:47:09,439 Speaker 1: If you're used to playing in the cold, going into 894 00:47:09,480 --> 00:47:11,920 Speaker 1: the heat is very difficult. I remember when I got 895 00:47:11,960 --> 00:47:15,520 Speaker 1: hired at Fresno State. Some of our early games in 896 00:47:15,600 --> 00:47:19,080 Speaker 1: September at seven o'clock at night would be a hundred 897 00:47:19,200 --> 00:47:23,320 Speaker 1: five ten degrees and we'd play Wisconsin, we'd play Hawaii. 898 00:47:23,560 --> 00:47:25,480 Speaker 1: We play some of these, they would be so thrown 899 00:47:25,520 --> 00:47:28,640 Speaker 1: off it was a big advantage. I listened to Dabbo 900 00:47:28,719 --> 00:47:32,600 Speaker 1: Sweeney on with a Coward on This Volume podcast and 901 00:47:32,719 --> 00:47:35,960 Speaker 1: he was like, Colin said, is it sometimes hard to 902 00:47:35,960 --> 00:47:39,600 Speaker 1: play you know, one o'clock games in September? And he said, 903 00:47:40,160 --> 00:47:44,080 Speaker 1: mohata mo beta. That's the way he likes it. Now, 904 00:47:44,360 --> 00:47:46,240 Speaker 1: I'm with you. If you are not used to add 905 00:47:46,280 --> 00:47:48,799 Speaker 1: ten degrees and you come from seventy, it's gonna throw 906 00:47:48,840 --> 00:47:52,239 Speaker 1: you off. So I would agree same deal. I do 907 00:47:52,280 --> 00:47:55,120 Speaker 1: think it's easier to get acclimated by drinking fluids and 908 00:47:55,200 --> 00:47:58,600 Speaker 1: just mentally toughing it through heat than it is not 909 00:47:58,680 --> 00:48:01,560 Speaker 1: being able to feel finger and toes. That's just me 910 00:48:01,640 --> 00:48:05,080 Speaker 1: because I I like the heat, So maybe I'm just 911 00:48:05,320 --> 00:48:10,680 Speaker 1: on the one end I think you're onto something. Hey, John, 912 00:48:10,719 --> 00:48:13,480 Speaker 1: big fan of you and guy, probably like many others. 913 00:48:13,520 --> 00:48:16,080 Speaker 1: I live in Washington and my dream is to someday 914 00:48:16,080 --> 00:48:18,680 Speaker 1: move to a son of your place, like California or Vegas. 915 00:48:19,160 --> 00:48:22,120 Speaker 1: How would I go about doing that? Any advice? I 916 00:48:22,160 --> 00:48:24,040 Speaker 1: don't even know if there's a middlecoff mail back question. 917 00:48:24,080 --> 00:48:26,680 Speaker 1: My advice would be simple, pick up and move. Let 918 00:48:26,680 --> 00:48:29,759 Speaker 1: me just find a spot. If you're gonna California's gonna 919 00:48:29,760 --> 00:48:31,759 Speaker 1: be pretty expensive, you probably need a job. If you're 920 00:48:31,760 --> 00:48:35,640 Speaker 1: gonna go to Vegas, Scottsdale, probably eat way more affordable, 921 00:48:35,800 --> 00:48:39,600 Speaker 1: more options, not gonna make as much money potentially. But 922 00:48:39,719 --> 00:48:42,480 Speaker 1: the number one thing I just advised leave, Just pack 923 00:48:42,600 --> 00:48:45,520 Speaker 1: up and go, especially if you're young, and just never 924 00:48:45,560 --> 00:48:47,759 Speaker 1: look back if you don't want to. Obviously you can't 925 00:48:47,760 --> 00:48:50,239 Speaker 1: look back if you've got family, But you just gotta go. 926 00:48:50,440 --> 00:48:52,680 Speaker 1: That's that's what you gotta do. If you're young and 927 00:48:52,760 --> 00:48:56,200 Speaker 1: you can move, especially if you're just running or something, 928 00:48:56,320 --> 00:48:58,480 Speaker 1: you can always find places to live. Now, I don't 929 00:48:58,480 --> 00:49:00,839 Speaker 1: know what your financial situation is. Do you have a job, 930 00:49:00,960 --> 00:49:03,000 Speaker 1: you're not have a job, you're unemployed. I mean, there 931 00:49:03,000 --> 00:49:05,560 Speaker 1: are obviously a lot of variables. Are you married, are 932 00:49:05,560 --> 00:49:07,600 Speaker 1: you dating a lot? You know a lot of different 933 00:49:07,600 --> 00:49:10,080 Speaker 1: things going on in this hypothetical. But if you don't 934 00:49:10,120 --> 00:49:13,520 Speaker 1: have many variables, anything holding your back, just do some 935 00:49:13,560 --> 00:49:16,640 Speaker 1: research and just pick up a move. Worst case scenario, 936 00:49:16,760 --> 00:49:20,920 Speaker 1: you don't like it, you can move again. As everyone 937 00:49:21,000 --> 00:49:25,080 Speaker 1: is aware of, the Cowboys defense couldn't uh pour piss 938 00:49:25,080 --> 00:49:27,600 Speaker 1: out of a boot last week with the addition of 939 00:49:27,640 --> 00:49:30,400 Speaker 1: Parsons and the rest of the draft being heavy defense. 940 00:49:31,040 --> 00:49:33,279 Speaker 1: Also with them bringing on dan Quinn, how much better 941 00:49:33,320 --> 00:49:36,560 Speaker 1: should they be expected to be? I like that analogy. 942 00:49:36,560 --> 00:49:38,879 Speaker 1: It feels very Jerry Jones. Well, they couldn't be any 943 00:49:38,920 --> 00:49:41,279 Speaker 1: worse than they were last year. It was pretty embarrassing. 944 00:49:42,280 --> 00:49:45,440 Speaker 1: Michael Parsons is a playmaker, and I think Mica I 945 00:49:45,440 --> 00:49:47,359 Speaker 1: think I could been calling a Michael. His name is Mica. 946 00:49:48,040 --> 00:49:51,359 Speaker 1: He is just an athletic freak. My question is how 947 00:49:51,440 --> 00:49:54,120 Speaker 1: dynamic is dan Quinn is a defensive coordinator. I watched 948 00:49:54,160 --> 00:49:56,960 Speaker 1: Atlanta Falcons for you know, almost a decade. They've been 949 00:49:56,960 --> 00:50:00,160 Speaker 1: bad on defense. He's a defensive mind. He hell, he 950 00:50:00,239 --> 00:50:02,600 Speaker 1: was the defensive coordinator the last couple of years. So 951 00:50:02,719 --> 00:50:05,160 Speaker 1: I don't think you're gonna see like Bill Parcels or 952 00:50:05,160 --> 00:50:08,760 Speaker 1: Bill Belichick level impact here. Now, should they be better? Yeah, 953 00:50:08,800 --> 00:50:11,759 Speaker 1: just because when you find yourself at the bottom, the 954 00:50:11,760 --> 00:50:13,880 Speaker 1: only way is to go up. So they should just 955 00:50:13,920 --> 00:50:19,160 Speaker 1: be a little improved. But ultimately, I I think it's 956 00:50:19,160 --> 00:50:21,400 Speaker 1: gonna be a difficult ask for them to be like 957 00:50:21,480 --> 00:50:24,200 Speaker 1: dramatically better. Now, can they be the best? You know? 958 00:50:24,239 --> 00:50:26,560 Speaker 1: Can they make an incremental jump? I think it's possible. 959 00:50:26,920 --> 00:50:30,040 Speaker 1: Vander Est gets hurt a lot, Shaun Lee retired. The 960 00:50:30,040 --> 00:50:35,719 Speaker 1: pass rush needs to be better, dbs were terrible. It's 961 00:50:35,760 --> 00:50:39,080 Speaker 1: got a long way to go. If Tua has a 962 00:50:39,160 --> 00:50:43,399 Speaker 1: dominant offensive line, a variety of weapons that can all 963 00:50:43,440 --> 00:50:46,600 Speaker 1: do different things, match with his defense, can Miami be 964 00:50:46,680 --> 00:50:49,640 Speaker 1: a Super Bowl team into a Super Bowl game managing 965 00:50:49,719 --> 00:50:55,239 Speaker 1: quarterback from Kyle It seems the Dolphins are building it 966 00:50:55,320 --> 00:50:58,560 Speaker 1: that way. Yeah, I mean he's last year. He wasn't 967 00:50:58,600 --> 00:51:00,279 Speaker 1: good enough to be a game manager. Like when I 968 00:51:00,320 --> 00:51:02,800 Speaker 1: think game manager, I think you know Alex Smith kirk Cousins, 969 00:51:03,200 --> 00:51:06,319 Speaker 1: Like I did not see that. Now, there's only one year, 970 00:51:06,480 --> 00:51:09,279 Speaker 1: really half a season, bad hip. Let's give him the 971 00:51:09,320 --> 00:51:12,080 Speaker 1: benefit of the the doubt. I would lean off. It's hard 972 00:51:12,080 --> 00:51:15,000 Speaker 1: for me though, you know, like, uh, when judges. I've 973 00:51:15,000 --> 00:51:18,879 Speaker 1: never been in a courtroom, but mainly just I break 974 00:51:18,880 --> 00:51:20,799 Speaker 1: the law. I just when I get jury duty, I 975 00:51:20,840 --> 00:51:23,080 Speaker 1: just throw it away. Maybe one day I'm gonna get arrested. 976 00:51:23,120 --> 00:51:28,800 Speaker 1: But I I'm not a great civil uh, very civilly obedient, 977 00:51:29,560 --> 00:51:32,560 Speaker 1: very community oriented when it comes to jury duty. I mean, 978 00:51:32,680 --> 00:51:35,040 Speaker 1: my mom was like, oh, I can't believe you just 979 00:51:35,040 --> 00:51:36,759 Speaker 1: didn't joe up. Yeah, I just didn't jow up. Like 980 00:51:36,800 --> 00:51:39,640 Speaker 1: what am I gonna do? Guilty? Innocent? Like you don't 981 00:51:39,640 --> 00:51:42,000 Speaker 1: want me on the jury. I don't have time listen 982 00:51:42,040 --> 00:51:44,840 Speaker 1: to myselfish that way. Of course, pay a lot and taxes, 983 00:51:45,239 --> 00:51:48,120 Speaker 1: good with the community. Other than that, right, I had 984 00:51:48,120 --> 00:51:50,200 Speaker 1: no problem giving the charities. I'm just not gonna be 985 00:51:50,239 --> 00:51:54,120 Speaker 1: a jury duty guy. But you know when juries, you know, 986 00:51:54,440 --> 00:51:58,279 Speaker 1: when judges tell the jury, they go they go like, 987 00:51:58,640 --> 00:52:01,560 Speaker 1: forget what he just said. It's like, well, I just 988 00:52:01,600 --> 00:52:03,520 Speaker 1: heard what he just said. If I was ever on 989 00:52:03,560 --> 00:52:06,240 Speaker 1: a jury and I got told that, I'd be like, well, judge, 990 00:52:06,440 --> 00:52:08,440 Speaker 1: you know I did just hear what came out of 991 00:52:08,440 --> 00:52:10,759 Speaker 1: his mouth, so you can tell me to forget it. 992 00:52:10,840 --> 00:52:13,839 Speaker 1: But like that's not really how my memory works. Like 993 00:52:13,920 --> 00:52:16,600 Speaker 1: he just said something that you know, it's kind of incriminating, 994 00:52:16,719 --> 00:52:18,600 Speaker 1: or it's like I don't know, I don't think I can. 995 00:52:19,560 --> 00:52:21,319 Speaker 1: I think you could say the same thing for two 996 00:52:21,400 --> 00:52:25,480 Speaker 1: of last year. It's just hard to forget. If he 997 00:52:25,600 --> 00:52:27,839 Speaker 1: becomes a lot better than yes, the Dolphins will be good. 998 00:52:29,080 --> 00:52:30,800 Speaker 1: So one day, if you'd be like, oh, John Middle, 999 00:52:30,840 --> 00:52:32,560 Speaker 1: you see a headline, I don't know how you see 1000 00:52:32,560 --> 00:52:34,840 Speaker 1: a headline. I'm not like famous or anything, but I 1001 00:52:34,840 --> 00:52:38,800 Speaker 1: get arrested more than likely. It's just had seventeen outstanding warrants. 1002 00:52:38,840 --> 00:52:41,000 Speaker 1: You never show up for jury duty his entire life. 1003 00:52:41,760 --> 00:52:45,120 Speaker 1: That's how all go down. I'm a fan of three 1004 00:52:45,120 --> 00:52:47,799 Speaker 1: and out. I have a question about the Eagles. If 1005 00:52:47,840 --> 00:52:51,640 Speaker 1: Howie Roseman would have drafted DK Metcalf and Justine Jefferson 1006 00:52:52,400 --> 00:52:55,200 Speaker 1: opposed to Reagor and j j R. Take a white side, 1007 00:52:56,760 --> 00:52:59,560 Speaker 1: do you think went would still be an Eagle or 1008 00:53:00,040 --> 00:53:02,680 Speaker 1: the Eagles at least have had one of the best 1009 00:53:02,680 --> 00:53:07,319 Speaker 1: wide receiver corps in football were neither Nate, This is 1010 00:53:07,320 --> 00:53:13,080 Speaker 1: a pretty powerful hypothetical question. Well, it would have been hard. 1011 00:53:13,080 --> 00:53:15,719 Speaker 1: Their receivers would have been a lot better, So yeah, 1012 00:53:15,840 --> 00:53:18,920 Speaker 1: I think it's a possibility. Yes, if you had DK Metcalf, 1013 00:53:19,040 --> 00:53:21,759 Speaker 1: and Justin Jefferson. Last year, it would have been hard 1014 00:53:21,800 --> 00:53:24,640 Speaker 1: for Carson to be as crappy as he was, and 1015 00:53:24,680 --> 00:53:28,439 Speaker 1: Reagor was hurt. He really wasn't that impactful till late 1016 00:53:28,440 --> 00:53:31,240 Speaker 1: in the season. I mean, DK Metcalf and Justin Jefferson 1017 00:53:31,320 --> 00:53:33,200 Speaker 1: were two of the more dynamic players in the league. 1018 00:53:33,800 --> 00:53:35,279 Speaker 1: So you get a guy that can run that fast 1019 00:53:35,280 --> 00:53:38,359 Speaker 1: and Justin Jefferson that can do that much to go 1020 00:53:38,400 --> 00:53:40,640 Speaker 1: along with Miles Sanders. Yeah, you would have think that 1021 00:53:40,680 --> 00:53:42,120 Speaker 1: they would have been or thought that they would have 1022 00:53:42,120 --> 00:53:45,759 Speaker 1: been a lot better twenty years old from d C. 1023 00:53:46,760 --> 00:53:50,480 Speaker 1: Thoughts on a f C North winners how well Lamar 1024 00:53:50,560 --> 00:53:53,160 Speaker 1: needs to perform? Could Lamar potentially be traded if the 1025 00:53:53,200 --> 00:53:56,120 Speaker 1: season doesn't go well? What's your prediction on the Browns 1026 00:53:57,400 --> 00:54:01,120 Speaker 1: trend of seeing seeming good on paper than looking sloppy. 1027 00:54:03,480 --> 00:54:06,640 Speaker 1: I guess Lamar could eventually be traded unless they extend 1028 00:54:06,719 --> 00:54:09,360 Speaker 1: him this offseason. If they extend them, I mean, Baker 1029 00:54:09,440 --> 00:54:11,719 Speaker 1: probably won't get an extension this offseason, even though they've 1030 00:54:11,760 --> 00:54:16,359 Speaker 1: hinted at it. Uh, who else we got? We got 1031 00:54:16,440 --> 00:54:20,680 Speaker 1: Josh Allen and Lamar Jackson. I personally, here's where I 1032 00:54:20,719 --> 00:54:23,520 Speaker 1: stand on extensions I'm not doing extensions, Like, let's let 1033 00:54:23,600 --> 00:54:25,879 Speaker 1: these guys play four years caps going back up. We'll 1034 00:54:26,120 --> 00:54:29,239 Speaker 1: pay him next year. Let's keep producing. Like what's the 1035 00:54:29,280 --> 00:54:32,000 Speaker 1: point of like playing out a rookie contract and then 1036 00:54:32,000 --> 00:54:34,320 Speaker 1: signing him to extension early, Like, let's the let's the 1037 00:54:34,400 --> 00:54:36,520 Speaker 1: rookie contract play out, you got the fifth year option. 1038 00:54:36,560 --> 00:54:38,600 Speaker 1: You guy's not going anywhere to make sure he can 1039 00:54:38,640 --> 00:54:41,320 Speaker 1: do it. I would be surprised if Lamar got traded. 1040 00:54:42,280 --> 00:54:44,919 Speaker 1: Uh My gut would say the Ravens win it. I'd 1041 00:54:44,920 --> 00:54:48,200 Speaker 1: say it's probably between the Ravens and the Browns. Roethlisberger 1042 00:54:48,280 --> 00:54:50,600 Speaker 1: looked really old last year towards the end of the season, 1043 00:54:50,640 --> 00:54:54,040 Speaker 1: but the Steelers roster is still really good. I I 1044 00:54:54,200 --> 00:54:58,040 Speaker 1: technically could see any team winning this division. I think 1045 00:54:58,040 --> 00:55:02,040 Speaker 1: the Browns, you know, really their only question mark is 1046 00:55:02,080 --> 00:55:04,480 Speaker 1: like can Baker maintain this level of play? But their 1047 00:55:04,480 --> 00:55:07,200 Speaker 1: team is fantastic. I mean, they're running attacks awesome, They 1048 00:55:07,280 --> 00:55:09,719 Speaker 1: got multiple tight ends. You got O'Dell coming back. Their 1049 00:55:09,760 --> 00:55:14,439 Speaker 1: wide receivers are good. Miles Garrett is a monster. They 1050 00:55:14,520 --> 00:55:18,200 Speaker 1: signed the safety from from l A, the Rams. They 1051 00:55:18,239 --> 00:55:21,880 Speaker 1: drafted the Northwestern corner that people like. They drafted the 1052 00:55:21,960 --> 00:55:25,160 Speaker 1: linebacker from North Notre Dame. I mean, they got a 1053 00:55:25,200 --> 00:55:28,640 Speaker 1: lot of good talent, So I I don't know, man, 1054 00:55:28,719 --> 00:55:30,960 Speaker 1: I it wouldn't shock me if the Browns wanted at all, 1055 00:55:31,360 --> 00:55:34,359 Speaker 1: but I would probably still lead the Ravens. And I mean, 1056 00:55:34,400 --> 00:55:36,799 Speaker 1: I'm not betting against Mike Tomlin. Like the Steelers ain't 1057 00:55:36,800 --> 00:55:38,880 Speaker 1: going anywhere. They got a bunch of dudes. It's a 1058 00:55:38,920 --> 00:55:41,320 Speaker 1: fantastic division. I mean, all three teams should be in 1059 00:55:41,360 --> 00:55:45,680 Speaker 1: the playoffs. Listen to the pod every day in North 1060 00:55:45,719 --> 00:55:49,719 Speaker 1: Dakota in the tractor. I like it was raised the 1061 00:55:49,760 --> 00:55:53,440 Speaker 1: forty niner fan. My question is what happens if Jimmy 1062 00:55:53,520 --> 00:55:57,440 Speaker 1: d Jimmy G leads the team to a Super Bowl? 1063 00:55:58,080 --> 00:56:00,919 Speaker 1: Being there are two years left on his content, does 1064 00:56:00,960 --> 00:56:06,520 Speaker 1: that put the team in a sticky situation? It would 1065 00:56:06,560 --> 00:56:10,560 Speaker 1: be the best possible problem to have. Ultimately, they're all 1066 00:56:10,600 --> 00:56:13,840 Speaker 1: in on tray lance. They just traded. You know, we 1067 00:56:13,960 --> 00:56:17,560 Speaker 1: say three first rounders, it's really net to net first rounders, 1068 00:56:17,640 --> 00:56:20,279 Speaker 1: and they flip flop picks two net first rounders and 1069 00:56:20,360 --> 00:56:23,399 Speaker 1: a third, so it's like they invested a lot. It's 1070 00:56:23,440 --> 00:56:27,080 Speaker 1: hard to invest more than two first rounders in any 1071 00:56:27,120 --> 00:56:30,279 Speaker 1: player right. Most drafts like the Chiefs gave up one 1072 00:56:30,320 --> 00:56:33,359 Speaker 1: first rounder from Homes. They flip flop picks and they 1073 00:56:33,400 --> 00:56:36,120 Speaker 1: gave up one first rounder. Same with a lot of these. 1074 00:56:36,160 --> 00:56:39,200 Speaker 1: The same with the Texans with Watson. So the Niners 1075 00:56:39,239 --> 00:56:42,799 Speaker 1: gave up a lot, so they're all in. Eventually, if 1076 00:56:42,800 --> 00:56:44,200 Speaker 1: he wins the Super Bowl, I think you just trade 1077 00:56:44,280 --> 00:56:45,840 Speaker 1: him at the end of the season, and hopefully if 1078 00:56:45,880 --> 00:56:47,120 Speaker 1: you win the Super Bow that means he's pretty good. 1079 00:56:47,120 --> 00:56:48,840 Speaker 1: You probably get a first round pick for m and 1080 00:56:48,840 --> 00:56:50,239 Speaker 1: then you get a first round pick given that you 1081 00:56:50,239 --> 00:56:51,719 Speaker 1: don't have a first round pick, and then you just 1082 00:56:51,760 --> 00:56:54,640 Speaker 1: start trade Lance the next year. I'll be a little 1083 00:56:54,680 --> 00:56:56,719 Speaker 1: surprised if they win the Super Bowl with Jimmy Garoppolo. 1084 00:56:58,120 --> 00:56:59,560 Speaker 1: I have a hard I have a hard time seeing that. 1085 00:57:01,080 --> 00:57:02,920 Speaker 1: But that would be a great problem to have. That 1086 00:57:03,000 --> 00:57:05,920 Speaker 1: really would one thing I think, and I've talked to 1087 00:57:05,960 --> 00:57:08,120 Speaker 1: me and Guy talked about this on the schedule release. 1088 00:57:09,200 --> 00:57:11,720 Speaker 1: You can't not play Trey Lance this year. You've invested 1089 00:57:11,719 --> 00:57:14,520 Speaker 1: too much. I'd even say the way Patrick Mahomes did it, 1090 00:57:14,600 --> 00:57:17,240 Speaker 1: they had a very unique season. Alex Smith is better 1091 00:57:17,280 --> 00:57:20,880 Speaker 1: than Jimmy g was playing so well, and ultimately the 1092 00:57:20,880 --> 00:57:25,040 Speaker 1: way it played out did uh Patrick got the final start. 1093 00:57:25,440 --> 00:57:28,040 Speaker 1: Trey Lance has gotta play in games and whatether that means? 1094 00:57:28,040 --> 00:57:29,800 Speaker 1: He gets a series here, series there. It's gotta be 1095 00:57:29,840 --> 00:57:32,480 Speaker 1: a little collegian like I'm sorry, Jimmy, just like when 1096 00:57:32,480 --> 00:57:34,240 Speaker 1: you want to put in Tray Lance, Trey Lance going in. 1097 00:57:34,440 --> 00:57:38,360 Speaker 1: Trey Lance is getting packages. He's playing. I I think 1098 00:57:38,360 --> 00:57:40,000 Speaker 1: it's not gonna be one of those like he's just 1099 00:57:40,040 --> 00:57:42,560 Speaker 1: gonna be strictly the backup and then when he starts, 1100 00:57:42,600 --> 00:57:47,000 Speaker 1: he starts, he's gonna play. I know you follow the 1101 00:57:47,040 --> 00:57:48,680 Speaker 1: Chiefs because of Andy, So I wanted to ask you 1102 00:57:48,720 --> 00:57:52,480 Speaker 1: about Clyde Edwards, Hilaria, do you think he can flourish 1103 00:57:52,560 --> 00:57:55,400 Speaker 1: under the line this year takes a leap. The kid 1104 00:57:55,440 --> 00:57:57,560 Speaker 1: looks like a playmaker, but you don't hear much about 1105 00:57:57,640 --> 00:58:02,080 Speaker 1: him because of the loaded second year running back class. Yeah, 1106 00:58:02,120 --> 00:58:04,240 Speaker 1: he's just gonna be different. Like he's not gonna be 1107 00:58:04,320 --> 00:58:07,280 Speaker 1: like a Dalvin Cook. He's not gonna be you know 1108 00:58:07,640 --> 00:58:10,400 Speaker 1: Todd Gurley was when he was healthy. He's not gonna 1109 00:58:10,480 --> 00:58:14,360 Speaker 1: rush for seventeen Derrick Henry. He's gonna be a hybrid player. 1110 00:58:14,760 --> 00:58:16,840 Speaker 1: They're gonna throw the ball to him. I think, you know, 1111 00:58:17,000 --> 00:58:21,680 Speaker 1: ideally he's gonna get fifty catches, kind of like Alvin Kamara. 1112 00:58:21,760 --> 00:58:25,040 Speaker 1: They're gonna use him as a unique playmaker. He can 1113 00:58:25,160 --> 00:58:28,000 Speaker 1: run the ball between the tackles, but I think his 1114 00:58:28,120 --> 00:58:31,800 Speaker 1: true value and he is arguably, in my lifetime, the 1115 00:58:31,800 --> 00:58:35,919 Speaker 1: best screen play caller ever. This guy is made for that. 1116 00:58:36,120 --> 00:58:37,880 Speaker 1: I think they compared him when they drafted him, Him 1117 00:58:37,880 --> 00:58:40,880 Speaker 1: and Beach to Brian Westbrook. Like he he's a dynamic 1118 00:58:41,080 --> 00:58:45,120 Speaker 1: chess piece. He's an offensive playmaker. And whether that means 1119 00:58:45,120 --> 00:58:47,840 Speaker 1: throwing it to him on wheel routes, on quick screens, 1120 00:58:48,080 --> 00:58:52,840 Speaker 1: on on sweeps, on pitches, he he just he just 1121 00:58:52,960 --> 00:58:56,040 Speaker 1: gives them a little balance. And I think just because 1122 00:58:56,040 --> 00:58:58,120 Speaker 1: you don't quote unquote call a run play if I 1123 00:58:58,160 --> 00:58:59,760 Speaker 1: call a wheel route, what the hell is the difference 1124 00:59:00,160 --> 00:59:02,120 Speaker 1: if the if the if it's a design play to 1125 00:59:02,160 --> 00:59:04,840 Speaker 1: throw the ball four yards in the air to get 1126 00:59:04,880 --> 00:59:07,560 Speaker 1: it to Clyde. So yeah, I mean, I don't think 1127 00:59:07,560 --> 00:59:10,920 Speaker 1: he's ever gonna be leading the league in rushing, but 1128 00:59:11,000 --> 00:59:13,760 Speaker 1: he's definitely going to be a factor. And if their 1129 00:59:13,800 --> 00:59:16,120 Speaker 1: offensive line is better this year, it already is, right, 1130 00:59:16,520 --> 00:59:20,400 Speaker 1: I think Orlando Brown is going to well. Eric Fisher 1131 00:59:20,440 --> 00:59:22,240 Speaker 1: was good last year, but he tore As Achilles, so 1132 00:59:22,400 --> 00:59:24,160 Speaker 1: they'll be good at left tackle. Orlando Brown is a 1133 00:59:24,200 --> 00:59:27,320 Speaker 1: good player. They drafted an offensive lineman in that I 1134 00:59:27,320 --> 00:59:29,040 Speaker 1: think in the second round that guy is gonna be 1135 00:59:29,080 --> 00:59:31,600 Speaker 1: a good player. They get the offensive lineman last year 1136 00:59:31,600 --> 00:59:34,160 Speaker 1: from TCU that opted out back. Now you don't know, 1137 00:59:34,280 --> 00:59:37,240 Speaker 1: but they're depending on him to be pretty good. You 1138 00:59:37,240 --> 00:59:38,880 Speaker 1: get Kyle Long and if he can stay healthy, he's 1139 00:59:38,880 --> 00:59:41,560 Speaker 1: a pretty good player too. So you've got a couple 1140 00:59:41,600 --> 00:59:43,680 Speaker 1: of guys that I think that you can depend on, 1141 00:59:43,800 --> 00:59:45,520 Speaker 1: maybe be a little more stout up front in the 1142 00:59:45,600 --> 00:59:48,240 Speaker 1: run game, and I would expect Clyde to have a 1143 00:59:48,280 --> 00:59:53,520 Speaker 1: big season. Appreciate everyone listening, Have a great weekend, God speed, 1144 00:59:54,240 --> 00:59:57,280 Speaker 1: Enjoy the sun wherever you are if it's sunny, if not, 1145 00:59:58,080 --> 00:59:59,800 Speaker 1: enjoy whatever the hell you're doing. So