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Speaker 1: can't imagine if we pulled one hundred players with multiple

427
00:25:49,440 --> 00:25:51,960
Speaker 1: years experience they would think this is a good idea

428
00:25:52,480 --> 00:25:55,359
Speaker 1: or would be on board for this. So to me,

429
00:25:55,480 --> 00:25:59,400
Speaker 1: this feels likeda There was a story that came out

430
00:26:00,560 --> 00:26:07,040
Speaker 1: the USC Trojans open up against LSU in Vegas at

431
00:26:07,119 --> 00:26:12,160
Speaker 1: Mark Davis not a father his allegiance stadium. It's gonna

432
00:26:12,160 --> 00:26:17,840
Speaker 1: be a sweet game Week one Trojans against the Tigers.

433
00:26:18,720 --> 00:26:20,879
Speaker 1: I think it's four point thirty kicks. It's probably one

434
00:26:20,880 --> 00:26:23,800
Speaker 1: of the marquee games of the weekend. And a story

435
00:26:23,840 --> 00:26:27,880
Speaker 1: came out that for two years Lincoln Riley has been

436
00:26:27,960 --> 00:26:31,760
Speaker 1: trying to get out of this game. And in that story,

437
00:26:32,320 --> 00:26:35,800
Speaker 1: there was a nugget about Brian Kelly and Lincoln Riley

438
00:26:35,840 --> 00:26:39,960
Speaker 1: are both represented by one of the big coaching agents,

439
00:26:40,600 --> 00:26:44,400
Speaker 1: Trace Armstrong, who's a former player in the NFL, represents

440
00:26:44,400 --> 00:26:46,800
Speaker 1: a ton of high end coaches in the NFL in

441
00:26:46,840 --> 00:26:51,520
Speaker 1: college and had him broker a conversation between the two

442
00:26:51,520 --> 00:26:54,840
Speaker 1: guys to try to convince Brian Kelly to basically cancel

443
00:26:54,920 --> 00:26:57,960
Speaker 1: this game and let them play other opponents. Obviously USC

444
00:26:58,080 --> 00:27:04,760
Speaker 1: wants an easier opponent. Brian Kelly said, no, there's no

445
00:27:04,840 --> 00:27:07,960
Speaker 1: way around it. This is an embarrassing story to get

446
00:27:07,960 --> 00:27:11,159
Speaker 1: out for USC. I played golf the other day with

447
00:27:11,240 --> 00:27:15,359
Speaker 1: a guy that came in on Reggie Bush's recruiting class

448
00:27:16,000 --> 00:27:19,360
Speaker 1: and was on that for five years, was on those

449
00:27:19,560 --> 00:27:22,160
Speaker 1: Sweet Trojan teams. I mean he's listening off all the players.

450
00:27:22,520 --> 00:27:25,639
Speaker 1: It was incredible the talent that was on those teams.

451
00:27:26,680 --> 00:27:30,840
Speaker 1: And part of hiring Lincoln Riley to USC was to

452
00:27:30,880 --> 00:27:33,919
Speaker 1: get the Trojans back to the glory years, to have

453
00:27:34,080 --> 00:27:37,439
Speaker 1: them be competing for national championships, to have them be

454
00:27:37,520 --> 00:27:40,439
Speaker 1: a top five program every single year in the country.

455
00:27:41,160 --> 00:27:45,240
Speaker 1: When you are that, you are not scared of anybody.

456
00:27:45,359 --> 00:27:50,480
Speaker 1: You will play anybody, anytime, anywhere. And in twenty twenty four,

457
00:27:50,920 --> 00:27:53,080
Speaker 1: you don't need to be one of the four best teams.

458
00:27:53,440 --> 00:27:56,159
Speaker 1: You just have to be one of the twelve. So

459
00:27:56,359 --> 00:27:59,680
Speaker 1: USC paid Lincoln Riley one hundred and twenty plus million

460
00:27:59,760 --> 00:28:02,760
Speaker 1: dollars when you factor in giving him a free house,

461
00:28:02,800 --> 00:28:05,720
Speaker 1: when you factor in buying his mansion in Oklahoma, it's

462
00:28:05,760 --> 00:28:09,560
Speaker 1: probably well above that. The moment they did that, they

463
00:28:09,600 --> 00:28:15,919
Speaker 1: expected to kick ass and take names, to dominate. And

464
00:28:15,960 --> 00:28:18,320
Speaker 1: now two years later a story comes out that he's

465
00:28:18,359 --> 00:28:21,040
Speaker 1: begging to get out of this game. If I was

466
00:28:21,040 --> 00:28:25,960
Speaker 1: a Trojan fan, I'd be fucking embarrassed. Brian Kelly, who

467
00:28:26,359 --> 00:28:29,440
Speaker 1: is gonna be under some pressure this year year three,

468
00:28:29,560 --> 00:28:33,560
Speaker 1: like Lincoln Riley to win the national championship, Like just

469
00:28:33,680 --> 00:28:37,760
Speaker 1: making the playoffs will not be good enough. And he's like, yeah,

470
00:28:37,960 --> 00:28:40,400
Speaker 1: I want no part out of this game. We're playing

471
00:28:40,440 --> 00:28:42,680
Speaker 1: you and this is not a home and this is

472
00:28:43,160 --> 00:28:47,160
Speaker 1: this is a neutral site. So if anything, USC, which

473
00:28:47,280 --> 00:28:51,160
Speaker 1: in theory, should dominate recruiting on the West Coast, this

474
00:28:51,200 --> 00:28:54,360
Speaker 1: should be an incredible recruiting tool. But it feels like

475
00:28:54,400 --> 00:28:57,640
Speaker 1: he's scared. Now do I think they're gonna win this game?

476
00:28:57,680 --> 00:29:00,760
Speaker 1: I do not. Do I understand where it's like I

477
00:29:00,760 --> 00:29:02,720
Speaker 1: don't want to play a game I'm just gonna lose.

478
00:29:03,440 --> 00:29:05,640
Speaker 1: I would somewhat get it if it was year one,

479
00:29:05,720 --> 00:29:08,080
Speaker 1: like let us get our feet under us. This is

480
00:29:08,120 --> 00:29:11,000
Speaker 1: going on year three, Like by year three in this

481
00:29:11,040 --> 00:29:15,840
Speaker 1: transfer portal world, a school with unlimited nil budget, you

482
00:29:15,880 --> 00:29:19,120
Speaker 1: should be like, fuck, we'll play anybody. I look at

483
00:29:19,200 --> 00:29:23,200
Speaker 1: USC and I told the guy was playing with I'm

484
00:29:23,200 --> 00:29:25,480
Speaker 1: like I told coward this year, I don't think it's

485
00:29:25,480 --> 00:29:29,120
Speaker 1: gonna work. And listen, like most people I was like

486
00:29:29,320 --> 00:29:32,880
Speaker 1: incredible higher and then after watching it kind of Maronite

487
00:29:33,000 --> 00:29:36,200
Speaker 1: marinate and just watching his team play. Lincoln Riley is

488
00:29:36,240 --> 00:29:40,280
Speaker 1: a small town Texas guy who is infatuated with offense,

489
00:29:40,920 --> 00:29:44,880
Speaker 1: knows nothing about defense. And it's shown because last year

490
00:29:44,920 --> 00:29:48,280
Speaker 1: their defense was, I mean, look like a high school

491
00:29:48,360 --> 00:29:52,000
Speaker 1: JV team. It was a joke and in Pete's heyday.

492
00:29:52,520 --> 00:29:55,040
Speaker 1: Just like all the good teams over the last i

493
00:29:55,040 --> 00:29:59,760
Speaker 1: would say fifteen years, dominate on defense. All Saban's teams,

494
00:30:00,080 --> 00:30:04,080
Speaker 1: Kirby's teams, Harbaughs teams, some of the high end Urban Meyer,

495
00:30:04,160 --> 00:30:08,040
Speaker 1: Ohio State teams, Urban Myers, Florida teams. It's a point

496
00:30:08,040 --> 00:30:10,640
Speaker 1: of difference at the highest end of college football. It's

497
00:30:10,640 --> 00:30:13,640
Speaker 1: a downfall. Last year of LSU, a program that usually

498
00:30:13,680 --> 00:30:16,640
Speaker 1: is great on defense, they were terrible. They had an

499
00:30:16,640 --> 00:30:20,320
Speaker 1: elite offense and a below average defense and that's why

500
00:30:20,360 --> 00:30:24,280
Speaker 1: they won, went nine to three. So you look at

501
00:30:24,360 --> 00:30:26,280
Speaker 1: Lincoln Riley, you go, is he a little over his

502
00:30:26,360 --> 00:30:30,680
Speaker 1: head because at Oklahoma, like especially in the Big Twelve,

503
00:30:30,720 --> 00:30:33,000
Speaker 1: he was gonna win ten games a year, and it

504
00:30:33,040 --> 00:30:36,360
Speaker 1: felt like he ran away a little bit because of

505
00:30:36,400 --> 00:30:39,280
Speaker 1: them going into the SEC. Now we could argue Oklahoma's

506
00:30:39,280 --> 00:30:41,400
Speaker 1: gonna struggle a little bit in the SEC. Okay, you

507
00:30:41,440 --> 00:30:44,640
Speaker 1: go to USC, you should have more bullets in the

508
00:30:44,680 --> 00:30:47,800
Speaker 1: gun to show up with an SEC team and look

509
00:30:47,840 --> 00:30:51,280
Speaker 1: the same on the field. Your roster should be every

510
00:30:51,280 --> 00:30:54,920
Speaker 1: bit as good as LSU, Georgia, Alabama, Ohio State and Michigan.

511
00:30:55,480 --> 00:30:59,400
Speaker 1: There's no fucking excuse. And I if you had to say,

512
00:30:59,560 --> 00:31:02,719
Speaker 1: what's your guests on USC's wins this year, Well, they

513
00:31:02,720 --> 00:31:06,560
Speaker 1: went seven and five last year with Caleb freaking Williams,

514
00:31:07,720 --> 00:31:12,640
Speaker 1: so they're gonna go ten to two this year. I mean,

515
00:31:12,680 --> 00:31:14,480
Speaker 1: to me, at best, they feel like an eight and

516
00:31:14,480 --> 00:31:17,600
Speaker 1: four team. And I'm telling you this heat is gonna

517
00:31:17,600 --> 00:31:21,720
Speaker 1: come fast, because if Brian Kelly kicks his ass, then

518
00:31:21,720 --> 00:31:24,240
Speaker 1: he gets Utah State the following week, and then he

519
00:31:24,240 --> 00:31:27,280
Speaker 1: has a bye, and then he goes to Michigan, then

520
00:31:27,320 --> 00:31:30,720
Speaker 1: he plays Wisconsin, then he plays at Minnesota, and then

521
00:31:30,720 --> 00:31:33,400
Speaker 1: he gets Penn State. If all of a sudden, we're

522
00:31:33,440 --> 00:31:35,640
Speaker 1: looking up and we're looking at a three and three

523
00:31:35,680 --> 00:31:38,960
Speaker 1: team or a four and three team, people are gonna

524
00:31:38,960 --> 00:31:42,800
Speaker 1: start to wonder, because when you pay a premium, you

525
00:31:42,880 --> 00:31:45,760
Speaker 1: want results. What are college football coaches talking about all

526
00:31:45,800 --> 00:31:48,720
Speaker 1: over the country? Now that we pay these guys all

527
00:31:48,760 --> 00:31:53,280
Speaker 1: this money, the nil the collectives, we expect you to perform,

528
00:31:53,320 --> 00:31:55,520
Speaker 1: and if you don't, we got a problem. It's become

529
00:31:55,720 --> 00:31:59,000
Speaker 1: very transactional. Well, football coaching's always been that way. We

530
00:31:59,080 --> 00:32:01,240
Speaker 1: pay you to win games. If you lose games, we

531
00:32:01,240 --> 00:32:04,200
Speaker 1: got an issue. When we pay you an unlimited amount

532
00:32:04,240 --> 00:32:07,320
Speaker 1: of money, like the super high end guys, the pressure

533
00:32:07,400 --> 00:32:10,520
Speaker 1: is ramped up. I'm not a huge Ryan Day guy,

534
00:32:10,720 --> 00:32:13,920
Speaker 1: but look at him. This offseason. They doubled down on defense.

535
00:32:14,160 --> 00:32:16,720
Speaker 1: They started cutting huge checks to get elite dudes on

536
00:32:16,760 --> 00:32:19,520
Speaker 1: that side of the ball. And I watched Lincoln Riley.

537
00:32:19,560 --> 00:32:22,600
Speaker 1: I go, I don't even think he understands. I don't

538
00:32:22,600 --> 00:32:27,080
Speaker 1: think he knows. And if you just had a scrimmage

539
00:32:27,680 --> 00:32:31,200
Speaker 1: by year three of Pete Carroll against Lincoln Riley, they

540
00:32:31,240 --> 00:32:35,040
Speaker 1: would have injured them. It wouldn't be fair. And I

541
00:32:35,160 --> 00:32:39,040
Speaker 1: think this is a disaster. There's no other way around this.

542
00:32:39,640 --> 00:32:42,240
Speaker 1: And if you're looking at an eight and fourteen with

543
00:32:42,320 --> 00:32:45,240
Speaker 1: the USC Trojans and you just paid all this money

544
00:32:45,280 --> 00:32:48,240
Speaker 1: for Lincoln Riley, I don't think we're that far away

545
00:32:48,240 --> 00:32:50,400
Speaker 1: from talking about this is just not gonna work out.

546
00:32:51,400 --> 00:32:55,600
Speaker 1: It really isn't and obviously they were at a very

547
00:32:55,640 --> 00:32:58,360
Speaker 1: low point when they hired Lincoln. But once you get

548
00:32:58,440 --> 00:33:01,040
Speaker 1: several years removed from that, like, hey, we're at USC,

549
00:33:01,720 --> 00:33:04,440
Speaker 1: like can we make a run in the playoffs? Or

550
00:33:04,480 --> 00:33:06,800
Speaker 1: do we have no shot on God's Green Earth? And

551
00:33:06,840 --> 00:33:08,920
Speaker 1: now that you're in the Big Ten, even with the

552
00:33:08,960 --> 00:33:12,160
Speaker 1: twelve team playoff, like there's no guarantee they're getting an invite.

553
00:33:12,880 --> 00:33:14,680
Speaker 1: Like they're not better in Michigan, They're not better in

554
00:33:14,720 --> 00:33:18,959
Speaker 1: Ohio State. I mean, Penn State's offense is so terrible,

555
00:33:19,000 --> 00:33:23,560
Speaker 1: but their defense is elite. Oregon's way better. Like where

556
00:33:23,560 --> 00:33:28,720
Speaker 1: are they making the playoffs? What an embar? I mean

557
00:33:28,800 --> 00:33:32,120
Speaker 1: to come out at USC and want out of a game,

558
00:33:33,600 --> 00:33:35,600
Speaker 1: I'd understand. It's like, hey, we don't want to play

559
00:33:35,640 --> 00:33:39,680
Speaker 1: the Kansasite Chiefs. Okay, I get it. There shouldn't be

560
00:33:39,680 --> 00:33:42,960
Speaker 1: a team in the country that, if they're on your schedule,

561
00:33:43,040 --> 00:33:47,640
Speaker 1: you don't want to play. If you're an elite program,

562
00:33:47,680 --> 00:33:51,360
Speaker 1: what times the game we'll be there. A couple other

563
00:33:51,440 --> 00:33:57,240
Speaker 1: NFL stories, some wide receivers got contract extensions. Nico Collins,

564
00:33:57,840 --> 00:33:59,920
Speaker 1: who by the end of the season with the Texans

565
00:34:00,560 --> 00:34:03,920
Speaker 1: look like a monster. I mean, now, obviously he had

566
00:34:03,960 --> 00:34:06,240
Speaker 1: a career year. He had eighty catches, he had over

567
00:34:06,280 --> 00:34:09,279
Speaker 1: a thousand yards, and you just watched him, You're like, God,

568
00:34:09,320 --> 00:34:12,719
Speaker 1: this guy's massive. He's making plays, he can run. He

569
00:34:12,800 --> 00:34:15,719
Speaker 1: got fifty two million dollar contract extension guaranteed. I think

570
00:34:15,760 --> 00:34:18,719
Speaker 1: it was seventy five million dollars three year extension, so

571
00:34:19,120 --> 00:34:21,520
Speaker 1: average out twenty five million dollars a year. But when

572
00:34:21,560 --> 00:34:25,080
Speaker 1: it's not all guaranteed, that that number is hollow. But

573
00:34:25,120 --> 00:34:26,560
Speaker 1: he got a lot of money for a guy with

574
00:34:26,680 --> 00:34:29,480
Speaker 1: one season. And I would imagine if you're the Texans,

575
00:34:29,520 --> 00:34:32,360
Speaker 1: you feel pretty good about this because you kind of

576
00:34:32,360 --> 00:34:34,439
Speaker 1: get to buy low. And if he keeps banging this out,

577
00:34:35,040 --> 00:34:38,320
Speaker 1: that fifty million dollars probably is more like eighty or

578
00:34:38,440 --> 00:34:41,160
Speaker 1: ninety million dollars when it comes to guaranteed money. So

579
00:34:41,360 --> 00:34:43,920
Speaker 1: I listen. I'd be lying if I said I had

580
00:34:44,040 --> 00:34:47,040
Speaker 1: been watching Nico Collins for years. I didn't know much

581
00:34:47,080 --> 00:34:50,279
Speaker 1: about him till last season, but he was hard not

582
00:34:50,360 --> 00:34:52,320
Speaker 1: to watch and go, that's not a high end wide receiver.

583
00:34:52,960 --> 00:34:56,440
Speaker 1: I'm not talking Justin Jefferson or Jamar Chase, but he

584
00:34:56,480 --> 00:34:58,759
Speaker 1: sure looks like he could be a top ten guy

585
00:34:58,800 --> 00:35:00,839
Speaker 1: in the NFL. And if you can get a top

586
00:35:00,920 --> 00:35:02,960
Speaker 1: ten guy in the NFL, or even a top fifteen

587
00:35:03,000 --> 00:35:07,280
Speaker 1: guy for fifty million dollars guaranteed feels like a steal.

588
00:35:07,880 --> 00:35:11,719
Speaker 1: The forty nine ers love seventh round draft picks as

589
00:35:11,800 --> 00:35:14,160
Speaker 1: much as anybody, and they've had a lot of success.

590
00:35:14,760 --> 00:35:18,239
Speaker 1: And Juwan Jennings, who is probably one of the better

591
00:35:18,360 --> 00:35:23,920
Speaker 1: role players in the NFL incredible story, went to Tennessee

592
00:35:24,000 --> 00:35:27,399
Speaker 1: as a quarterback, immediately moved to wide receiver, went through

593
00:35:27,480 --> 00:35:29,960
Speaker 1: like three different coaches when he was there, falls to

594
00:35:30,000 --> 00:35:33,400
Speaker 1: the seventh round, and has really established himself as a

595
00:35:33,560 --> 00:35:38,200
Speaker 1: very very solid player. Was holding out because the forty

596
00:35:38,280 --> 00:35:41,080
Speaker 1: nine ers had tendered him at a little under five

597
00:35:41,120 --> 00:35:43,800
Speaker 1: million dollars. He wanted more money. They gave him a

598
00:35:43,800 --> 00:35:46,520
Speaker 1: two year, fifteen million dollar contract extension and guaranteed him

599
00:35:46,520 --> 00:35:50,640
Speaker 1: over ten million dollars. So forty nine ers sign a

600
00:35:50,680 --> 00:35:53,279
Speaker 1: seventh rounder this year, They'll sign a seventh rounder next year.

601
00:35:54,000 --> 00:35:55,560
Speaker 1: Maybe they should just skip all the rounds to go

602
00:35:55,640 --> 00:35:57,880
Speaker 1: right to the seventh round. I like Juwan Jennings a lot.

603
00:35:58,360 --> 00:36:02,640
Speaker 1: This type money is NFL standards nothing, and you can

604
00:36:02,680 --> 00:36:04,640
Speaker 1: do this type stuff when your quarterback makes a million

605
00:36:04,640 --> 00:36:08,080
Speaker 1: dollars and this won't last forever last, but not at least.

606
00:36:08,120 --> 00:36:11,600
Speaker 1: I saw Robert Sala had an interesting quote because they

607
00:36:11,719 --> 00:36:16,680
Speaker 1: signed Tarik Cohen, the former Bears kind of scat back,

608
00:36:17,440 --> 00:36:21,480
Speaker 1: and he said, listen, the kickoff or turner this upcoming year.

609
00:36:21,800 --> 00:36:27,080
Speaker 1: We envisioned that guy having one hundred touches. And at

610
00:36:27,080 --> 00:36:28,719
Speaker 1: first I saw that, I was like, that doesn't make

611
00:36:28,719 --> 00:36:32,080
Speaker 1: any sense. And then if you just went on average,

612
00:36:32,160 --> 00:36:34,120
Speaker 1: there'd be some games when you only get three. There

613
00:36:34,200 --> 00:36:36,359
Speaker 1: might be some when you get six or seven. Right

614
00:36:38,160 --> 00:36:42,720
Speaker 1: if you if you just did let's just average five, well,

615
00:36:42,840 --> 00:36:48,239
Speaker 1: five times ten is fifty and five times seven is

616
00:36:48,320 --> 00:36:51,600
Speaker 1: thirty five. That's eighty five. And if you factored in

617
00:36:51,880 --> 00:36:54,000
Speaker 1: I guess if he did punts two, it would easily

618
00:36:54,000 --> 00:36:56,960
Speaker 1: get to one hundred, but maybe more. Maybe it won't

619
00:36:57,000 --> 00:36:59,880
Speaker 1: be quite a hundred, but you're talking seventy five to

620
00:37:00,239 --> 00:37:05,279
Speaker 1: ninety ish touches minimum for a kickoff returner. That is

621
00:37:05,320 --> 00:37:08,600
Speaker 1: a new powerful position. Once upon a time, it wasn't

622
00:37:08,600 --> 00:37:10,560
Speaker 1: that long ago. When I was in the NFL, the

623
00:37:10,680 --> 00:37:13,279
Speaker 1: nickel corner was kind of a throw in. It's like, yeah,

624
00:37:13,320 --> 00:37:15,640
Speaker 1: we got a solid nickel corner, but not a lot

625
00:37:15,680 --> 00:37:17,880
Speaker 1: of teams went to like three wide receiver sets that

626
00:37:18,040 --> 00:37:21,200
Speaker 1: consistently in a game. Now, if you don't feel good

627
00:37:21,200 --> 00:37:24,640
Speaker 1: about your nickel corner, you're done. You're gonna get smoked

628
00:37:24,800 --> 00:37:28,400
Speaker 1: every single week because the offensive coordinator in the quarterback

629
00:37:28,480 --> 00:37:31,879
Speaker 1: will attack that guy till till the sun goes down.

630
00:37:32,600 --> 00:37:35,280
Speaker 1: So this position, I've been saying it for a while

631
00:37:35,320 --> 00:37:38,560
Speaker 1: and I saw justin Fields kind of poo pooed said

632
00:37:38,560 --> 00:37:41,200
Speaker 1: it was a joke in a meeting. But I think

633
00:37:41,239 --> 00:37:43,960
Speaker 1: the point in that special teams meeting is like, this

634
00:37:44,040 --> 00:37:47,200
Speaker 1: is a big position now, and we're gonna be able

635
00:37:47,239 --> 00:37:51,200
Speaker 1: to make explosive plays because, like I've said, we'll see

636
00:37:51,239 --> 00:37:54,160
Speaker 1: how do teams send a couple guys back as like

637
00:37:54,239 --> 00:37:58,120
Speaker 1: safety nets. There's gonna be a lot of experimentation early

638
00:37:58,200 --> 00:38:00,440
Speaker 1: on in the preseason, even early on in the season,

639
00:38:01,000 --> 00:38:04,680
Speaker 1: but we're gonna get a lot of touchdowns. I truly

640
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Speaker 1: believe that, because if you make a guy miss or

641
00:38:07,480 --> 00:38:11,120
Speaker 1: break a tackle, you were out the gate. To score

642
00:38:11,160 --> 00:38:15,319
Speaker 1: a kickoff return in the old setup one you needed

643
00:38:15,440 --> 00:38:17,560
Speaker 1: like sweet blocking right up front. You probably had to

644
00:38:17,600 --> 00:38:19,560
Speaker 1: make a guy miss and break a tackle and then

645
00:38:19,640 --> 00:38:22,920
Speaker 1: outrun another guy. You Really there's a chance if a

646
00:38:22,920 --> 00:38:25,520
Speaker 1: certain angle in a game, you might just have to

647
00:38:25,560 --> 00:38:28,799
Speaker 1: make juke ot one guy, or if your two guys

648
00:38:28,840 --> 00:38:30,480
Speaker 1: get a block, you're out the gates and it's on

649
00:38:31,200 --> 00:38:34,640
Speaker 1: and the kicker's got no shot in the open field none.

650
00:38:35,320 --> 00:38:38,840
Speaker 1: So doing the math, one hundred touches could be high.

651
00:38:38,960 --> 00:38:41,600
Speaker 1: I guess it would depend on the team. But you're

652
00:38:41,600 --> 00:38:43,800
Speaker 1: gonna touch the ball a lot, and you're gonna have

653
00:38:43,840 --> 00:38:47,520
Speaker 1: a chance to change field position all the time. I

654
00:38:47,600 --> 00:38:50,440
Speaker 1: mean all the time. So the more and more. And

655
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Speaker 1: I've seen some other Special Teams coaches that have been

656
00:38:52,680 --> 00:38:56,640
Speaker 1: talking during the preseason or during the OTAs like we're excited.

657
00:38:57,280 --> 00:38:59,680
Speaker 1: This is gonna be fun at first, Like most people

658
00:38:59,680 --> 00:39:03,320
Speaker 1: anytime there's anytime there is a major change in anything

659
00:39:03,320 --> 00:39:04,960
Speaker 1: we do, I'm I'm a big creature habit. I would

660
00:39:05,000 --> 00:39:07,440
Speaker 1: imagine many people listening a pretty big creature to habit.

661
00:39:07,640 --> 00:39:09,560
Speaker 1: When a curveball comes in, it can throw you off,

662
00:39:10,200 --> 00:39:12,359
Speaker 1: and if something changes in your business, you're like, Okay,

663
00:39:12,360 --> 00:39:14,719
Speaker 1: I gotta adapt, And at first it can be kind

664
00:39:14,719 --> 00:39:17,239
Speaker 1: of overwhelming, and then once you get a feel for it,

665
00:39:17,239 --> 00:39:20,319
Speaker 1: you're like, I kind of like this more and one

666
00:39:20,400 --> 00:39:22,680
Speaker 1: from a fan standpoint, I think it's gonna be awesome

667
00:39:22,719 --> 00:39:26,080
Speaker 1: as a viewer. I think countless plays are gonna happen.

668
00:39:26,160 --> 00:39:28,759
Speaker 1: We're sitting on our couch on Sundays, and from a

669
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Speaker 1: football standpoint, I think teams that get the most aggressive

670
00:39:32,160 --> 00:39:34,360
Speaker 1: with the player back there. I've been saying for a

671
00:39:34,400 --> 00:39:36,479
Speaker 1: while some of these teams like Tyreek Hill is gonna

672
00:39:36,480 --> 00:39:39,560
Speaker 1: have some touches, Christian McCaffrey, Saquon Barkley, like you could

673
00:39:39,600 --> 00:39:41,840
Speaker 1: do a lot of shit. I'm not saying every single time,

674
00:39:42,320 --> 00:39:45,920
Speaker 1: but like ty game, fourth quarter, throw back your horse.

675
00:39:46,400 --> 00:39:49,080
Speaker 1: Then all of a sudden, Saquon Barkley's taking one seventy

676
00:39:49,160 --> 00:39:51,840
Speaker 1: yards in a TI game against the Cowboys, You're like,

677
00:39:51,840 --> 00:39:55,359
Speaker 1: that was incredible. So get ready because I think we're

678
00:39:55,360 --> 00:40:07,719
Speaker 1: gonna have fireworks at that play. Kay, Let's do a

679
00:40:07,719 --> 00:40:13,760
Speaker 1: little Middlecoff mailbag at John Middlecoff Instagram, DMS wide open,

680
00:40:14,200 --> 00:40:18,239
Speaker 1: fire in them, get a question answered here a little

681
00:40:18,239 --> 00:40:23,919
Speaker 1: thing called the podcast from Derek. I'm a diehard Ducks fan,

682
00:40:24,520 --> 00:40:27,919
Speaker 1: which is translated into me being a Chargers fan. Once

683
00:40:27,960 --> 00:40:31,360
Speaker 1: they picked Herbert, let's take a look at the coaches

684
00:40:31,400 --> 00:40:37,520
Speaker 1: Herbert has had since his freshman year at Oregon sixteen.

685
00:40:37,880 --> 00:40:44,960
Speaker 1: Helfridge seventeen, Willie Tagger eighteen and nineteen, Crystal Ball twenty

686
00:40:45,080 --> 00:40:50,400
Speaker 1: one through twenty three, Brandon Staley twenty Anthony I skipped

687
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Speaker 1: Anthony Lynn. You could make an argument that Helfridge is

688
00:40:54,000 --> 00:40:57,080
Speaker 1: the best coach on this list. Has there ever been

689
00:40:57,120 --> 00:41:01,360
Speaker 1: a quarterback to have this much success despite having awful

690
00:41:01,400 --> 00:41:08,520
Speaker 1: coaches every single year in his career. That's pretty wild.

691
00:41:08,920 --> 00:41:12,319
Speaker 1: I mean, that is a terrible list. Think about this,

692
00:41:14,760 --> 00:41:19,200
Speaker 1: Mario great recruiter, averages the day as long as a coach.

693
00:41:20,000 --> 00:41:25,399
Speaker 1: I mean, Taggert's a disaster. Brandon Staley pretty well documented.

694
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Speaker 1: If Brandon Staley is your head coach, I mean, that's

695
00:41:28,840 --> 00:41:33,080
Speaker 1: not great. Listen, the defense of Justin Herbert and a

696
00:41:33,120 --> 00:41:37,040
Speaker 1: lot of people push back overrated. He's not that good.

697
00:41:37,400 --> 00:41:40,120
Speaker 1: We're about to find out, because I'll promise you this

698
00:41:40,360 --> 00:41:41,960
Speaker 1: in a couple of years, he ain't gonna be saying

699
00:41:41,960 --> 00:41:45,680
Speaker 1: that you put him with Jim Harball. Maybe all those

700
00:41:45,719 --> 00:41:48,000
Speaker 1: guys had to happen so he could leak up with

701
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Speaker 1: Jim Harbaugh. Because think about the best quarterbacks in the league. Mahomes,

702
00:41:55,360 --> 00:42:00,520
Speaker 1: Andy Reid, Hall of Famer, Lamar Jackson, John Harball Hall

703
00:42:00,560 --> 00:42:04,200
Speaker 1: of Famer, Josh Allen people are Sean m I don't know.

704
00:42:04,200 --> 00:42:07,839
Speaker 1: Sean McDermott wins eleven twelve games every single year. I'd

705
00:42:07,840 --> 00:42:11,319
Speaker 1: say Sean mcdermot's pretty good. I mean, I think he's

706
00:42:11,320 --> 00:42:14,640
Speaker 1: pretty good. I wouldn't put him on John Harbaugh Randy's level,

707
00:42:14,680 --> 00:42:18,000
Speaker 1: but he's clearly a high end coach in the NFL.

708
00:42:18,719 --> 00:42:22,640
Speaker 1: Matt Stafford now Sean McVay kicking ass, taking names, So

709
00:42:23,000 --> 00:42:25,799
Speaker 1: like who your coach is, it's hard to overcome look

710
00:42:25,800 --> 00:42:29,919
Speaker 1: at Matt Stafford all those years with Alliance, a lot

711
00:42:29,920 --> 00:42:34,600
Speaker 1: of losing. Man, this is not basketball where it's like, yeah,

712
00:42:34,640 --> 00:42:37,279
Speaker 1: I got I got Lebron, I got Stephan his prime,

713
00:42:37,280 --> 00:42:40,239
Speaker 1: I got Whoever. I'm gonna be competitive. If your head

714
00:42:40,239 --> 00:42:43,160
Speaker 1: coach is not good in the sport of football, in

715
00:42:43,520 --> 00:42:47,840
Speaker 1: Power five or in the NFL, good luck, it's probably

716
00:42:47,840 --> 00:42:50,120
Speaker 1: not gonna go. Well. Wish I got this in there

717
00:42:50,120 --> 00:42:52,360
Speaker 1: for the mail bag, but you touched on it and

718
00:42:52,400 --> 00:42:55,279
Speaker 1: there so I wanted to ask anyhow you mentioned a

719
00:42:55,320 --> 00:42:59,320
Speaker 1: little bit about working for Howie, mentioned you had worked

720
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Speaker 1: a sort of personal assistant for them. It was a

721
00:43:01,920 --> 00:43:05,359
Speaker 1: lot of work. Could you do some time on what

722
00:43:05,440 --> 00:43:10,520
Speaker 1: those front office jobs entail? What was that personal assistant job.

723
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Speaker 1: Were you writing up spreadsheets for Howie film research? For example,

724
00:43:15,719 --> 00:43:18,280
Speaker 1: you joked about how you're not sitting around now waiting

725
00:43:18,600 --> 00:43:21,440
Speaker 1: for the summer and campus start. Well, what are they

726
00:43:21,440 --> 00:43:25,399
Speaker 1: doing right now? What's the type of content context that's

727
00:43:25,440 --> 00:43:27,000
Speaker 1: not out there? I know me and my buddies will

728
00:43:27,040 --> 00:43:35,640
Speaker 1: love well. During this period of time. During OTAs, you're

729
00:43:35,719 --> 00:43:38,719
Speaker 1: kind of just learning the job, right, They're teaching you

730
00:43:38,800 --> 00:43:41,520
Speaker 1: what to look for. You're kind of learning the league.

731
00:43:41,960 --> 00:43:45,279
Speaker 1: You're watching some film. But you're also like, you cut

732
00:43:45,320 --> 00:43:48,200
Speaker 1: guys during OTAs, so it's usually your job to go

733
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Speaker 1: grab them. Uh you know you you bring in a

734
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Speaker 1: lot of guys for workouts, undrafted free agents, So who

735
00:43:54,600 --> 00:43:58,960
Speaker 1: picks them up in a van? Me during training camp

736
00:43:59,120 --> 00:44:02,480
Speaker 1: and during the season. And one thing, and I would

737
00:44:02,520 --> 00:44:08,200
Speaker 1: imagine this doesn't happen now with technology and artificial intelligence

738
00:44:08,280 --> 00:44:13,879
Speaker 1: and just everything, we had to manually input injuries. So

739
00:44:14,040 --> 00:44:16,759
Speaker 1: I would go on Rotal World during training camp, in

740
00:44:16,800 --> 00:44:21,920
Speaker 1: the season, and in a guy's basically in a profile

741
00:44:21,960 --> 00:44:24,520
Speaker 1: for a player. So let's just pick a guy up

742
00:44:26,040 --> 00:44:29,840
Speaker 1: CD Lamb. Let's say, Ceedee Lamb hurts his hamstring in

743
00:44:29,960 --> 00:44:33,520
Speaker 1: training camp and he's out for two weeks you would

744
00:44:33,600 --> 00:44:39,040
Speaker 1: manually write hamstring injury. It sounds archaic now, but that's

745
00:44:39,120 --> 00:44:42,680
Speaker 1: that's something There was a a very serious part of

746
00:44:42,719 --> 00:44:47,560
Speaker 1: the job inputting injuries, and then when guys were cut

747
00:44:48,160 --> 00:44:51,200
Speaker 1: or whatever during the year and during training camp, you

748
00:44:51,200 --> 00:44:54,520
Speaker 1: would have that the draft room with every team and

749
00:44:54,560 --> 00:44:57,640
Speaker 1: their roster on magnets. It would be your job to

750
00:44:57,680 --> 00:45:00,759
Speaker 1: take the magnet on, take the magnet off. When a

751
00:45:00,800 --> 00:45:03,120
Speaker 1: guy got on injured reserve, you would put him on

752
00:45:03,160 --> 00:45:06,040
Speaker 1: injury reserve, and whoever they signed or elevated from practice

753
00:45:06,040 --> 00:45:09,160
Speaker 1: squad you would add that. So a lot of magnets,

754
00:45:09,360 --> 00:45:12,719
Speaker 1: a lot of injury inputting, a lot of picking guys

755
00:45:12,760 --> 00:45:15,200
Speaker 1: up from the airport when you'd sign a player, take

756
00:45:15,239 --> 00:45:17,760
Speaker 1: them to the doctor, take him around all the people

757
00:45:17,760 --> 00:45:22,480
Speaker 1: he had to see with the team. You would have

758
00:45:22,600 --> 00:45:24,840
Speaker 1: jobs to watch film as well, and you would just

759
00:45:24,840 --> 00:45:28,000
Speaker 1: try to figure that out throughout the time. You would

760
00:45:28,000 --> 00:45:32,960
Speaker 1: help with advance reports, so during the season, when Lewis

761
00:45:33,040 --> 00:45:36,400
Speaker 1: Riddick or the pro scouts were doing the advance report,

762
00:45:36,600 --> 00:45:39,360
Speaker 1: you would do tasks for them, whether it was drawing stuff,

763
00:45:39,880 --> 00:45:43,439
Speaker 1: you know, all sorts of random shit. You would help

764
00:45:43,480 --> 00:45:46,719
Speaker 1: coaches out whatever they needed any little project might get

765
00:45:46,760 --> 00:45:50,719
Speaker 1: thrown on your desk. Trying to think it's been a

766
00:45:50,719 --> 00:45:57,080
Speaker 1: long time. A lot of airport runs you make. On

767
00:45:57,120 --> 00:46:01,719
Speaker 1: a given week, you could do several airport runs. And

768
00:46:02,040 --> 00:46:04,360
Speaker 1: obviously during training camp your job was to get the

769
00:46:04,400 --> 00:46:08,600
Speaker 1: guys for cutting them, which sucked, but you had to

770
00:46:08,600 --> 00:46:13,759
Speaker 1: do it right. And at the time playbook information, coach

771
00:46:13,800 --> 00:46:16,360
Speaker 1: want to see you. I mean, that's it's it's a

772
00:46:16,400 --> 00:46:20,080
Speaker 1: shitty job. And then obviously during the off season it changes.

773
00:46:20,160 --> 00:46:21,600
Speaker 1: They send you the start sending you out to some

774
00:46:21,640 --> 00:46:27,680
Speaker 1: pro days. You just you're constantly holding lists and just

775
00:46:27,719 --> 00:46:31,880
Speaker 1: doing whatever they need. So I'm trying to think of

776
00:46:31,920 --> 00:46:34,759
Speaker 1: some other tasks. I helped the special teams coach a

777
00:46:34,760 --> 00:46:40,319
Speaker 1: lot identify guys, and it's a lot of pretty low

778
00:46:40,400 --> 00:46:43,400
Speaker 1: level tasks. But you better not fuck up because if

779
00:46:43,440 --> 00:46:45,640
Speaker 1: you do, you're gonna yelled at by a lot of

780
00:46:45,680 --> 00:46:50,440
Speaker 1: different people. So one thing I used to do, and

781
00:46:50,520 --> 00:46:53,640
Speaker 1: this is so twenty ten, everyone has a phone now

782
00:46:53,719 --> 00:46:58,239
Speaker 1: with the weather, you'd print out the weather all week long,

783
00:46:58,360 --> 00:47:01,320
Speaker 1: Monday through Friday and drop it off on the coach's desks.

784
00:47:01,760 --> 00:47:04,960
Speaker 1: So if you're playing at Chicago or Green Bay or

785
00:47:05,840 --> 00:47:07,960
Speaker 1: you know, at Tampa, like how hot's it gonna be?

786
00:47:08,000 --> 00:47:09,160
Speaker 1: How cold is it going to be? Is it going

787
00:47:09,239 --> 00:47:11,680
Speaker 1: to rain? So I would do that every week, the

788
00:47:11,880 --> 00:47:16,600
Speaker 1: the daily Wire, when guys are cut, when guys you

789
00:47:16,600 --> 00:47:18,560
Speaker 1: know whatever, it's kind of your job to make sure

790
00:47:18,600 --> 00:47:24,200
Speaker 1: that's distributed. You watch a lot of practice squad guys,

791
00:47:24,600 --> 00:47:27,200
Speaker 1: so you're constantly writing reports on that. They give you

792
00:47:27,239 --> 00:47:29,880
Speaker 1: a couple of teams, so you might get two or

793
00:47:29,880 --> 00:47:33,000
Speaker 1: three teams during the year, and you basically have to

794
00:47:33,000 --> 00:47:36,040
Speaker 1: write up every guy on that team. And then you're

795
00:47:36,040 --> 00:47:40,719
Speaker 1: also focused on free agents, on restricted free agents, having

796
00:47:40,800 --> 00:47:45,759
Speaker 1: updated reports. You help the college scouts out sometimes do

797
00:47:45,920 --> 00:47:51,280
Speaker 1: random stuff. You just any anything that needs to get done,

798
00:47:51,560 --> 00:47:54,480
Speaker 1: you know, go pick up food. You know, like we're

799
00:47:54,520 --> 00:47:56,840
Speaker 1: working on Saturday, go pick up a bunch of sandwiches.

800
00:47:58,040 --> 00:48:00,560
Speaker 1: So it's a lot of tasks that Moose people do

801
00:48:01,280 --> 00:48:03,880
Speaker 1: when they're the lowest guy in the totem pole question

802
00:48:03,960 --> 00:48:06,759
Speaker 1: for the pod, which five teams do you think that

803
00:48:06,800 --> 00:48:09,799
Speaker 1: are set up for the most sustainable success for the

804
00:48:09,840 --> 00:48:13,360
Speaker 1: next five to ten years? Why? I think you just

805
00:48:13,400 --> 00:48:18,279
Speaker 1: look at coaching quarterback, So you go Andy Reid sixty six,

806
00:48:18,440 --> 00:48:20,920
Speaker 1: he's got five more years left in him Patrick mahomes

807
00:48:21,000 --> 00:48:23,759
Speaker 1: is twenty seven to twenty eight. They got to be

808
00:48:23,800 --> 00:48:29,040
Speaker 1: the number one draft pick. Jim Harbaugh Justin Herbert, I

809
00:48:29,040 --> 00:48:33,200
Speaker 1: think you're betting on that. Demiko Ryan CJ. Stroud, I

810
00:48:33,280 --> 00:48:36,120
Speaker 1: think you're betting on that. To me, it's just combination

811
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Speaker 1: coach quarterback, you know, perty can he be a superstar

812
00:48:40,880 --> 00:48:43,280
Speaker 1: if he becomes like the next version of Drew Brees,

813
00:48:43,360 --> 00:48:46,759
Speaker 1: like the Niners ain't going away. The Rams are a

814
00:48:46,760 --> 00:48:50,800
Speaker 1: good example. Like coach quarterback awesome right now. But Stafford's

815
00:48:50,840 --> 00:48:52,279
Speaker 1: thirty five with a lot of wear and tear on

816
00:48:52,360 --> 00:48:55,239
Speaker 1: US tires, you know, so he's got to go around

817
00:48:55,280 --> 00:48:57,840
Speaker 1: the league coach quarterback. If you got the coach, you

818
00:48:57,920 --> 00:49:01,879
Speaker 1: got the quarterback. I really think it's that simple. It's

819
00:49:01,880 --> 00:49:04,200
Speaker 1: really what the league boils down to. It's like who's

820
00:49:04,200 --> 00:49:06,040
Speaker 1: good in the NBA, Well do you have a top

821
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Speaker 1: five to six player, because if you do, you got

822
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Speaker 1: a chance. In football, it's like, well, do you have

823
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Speaker 1: a top quarterback and a top coach, then you got

824
00:49:13,560 --> 00:49:18,200
Speaker 1: a shot. Because the contracts and stuff, things change so fast.

825
00:49:18,239 --> 00:49:21,080
Speaker 1: Guys get injured. It's hard to look at the totality

826
00:49:21,120 --> 00:49:23,759
Speaker 1: of a roster. But I would say the things that

827
00:49:23,800 --> 00:49:27,520
Speaker 1: have sustained, like a lot of turnover in Buffalo. Betting

828
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Speaker 1: on Josh Allen being good. Lamar Jackson like he's kind

829
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Speaker 1: of been good now for five plus years. John Harbaugh

830
00:49:35,160 --> 00:49:37,400
Speaker 1: has been pretty consistent for a while. It's like I

831
00:49:37,440 --> 00:49:41,600
Speaker 1: would imagine the Ravens ain't going away. Longtime listener, first

832
00:49:41,640 --> 00:49:47,200
Speaker 1: time direct messenger, love the pot. I'm a displaced Western

833
00:49:47,280 --> 00:49:52,720
Speaker 1: PA Steelers fan that now lives in Philly. You've alluded

834
00:49:52,719 --> 00:49:55,480
Speaker 1: to the transition from Kevin Colbert and Con a few times.

835
00:49:55,960 --> 00:49:59,319
Speaker 1: Con brings his salary cap expertise to the GM role.

836
00:50:00,080 --> 00:50:02,719
Speaker 1: Mike Tomlin is definitely a head coach with input to

837
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Speaker 1: the ingredients that he cooks with. Also on the management team,

838
00:50:07,000 --> 00:50:09,680
Speaker 1: Andy Wilde, I don't think your past crossed in Philly.

839
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Speaker 1: They did not. What are your thoughts on the influence

840
00:50:12,760 --> 00:50:15,880
Speaker 1: of Widel and his team building approach with his ties

841
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Speaker 1: to the Eagles. I think sometimes these cap guys and

842
00:50:19,680 --> 00:50:24,040
Speaker 1: these number guys like to have like a scout scout

843
00:50:24,320 --> 00:50:27,839
Speaker 1: as their right hand guy. And I can't tell you

844
00:50:27,920 --> 00:50:32,279
Speaker 1: like Andy Widel's right ups, but longtime right hand man

845
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Speaker 1: to Joe Douglas. He works for the Ravens for a

846
00:50:34,760 --> 00:50:38,720
Speaker 1: long time. He's a football guy, like he likes to scout.

847
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Speaker 1: The dude in Minnesota, QUESSI who's his right hand man,

848
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Speaker 1: Grigson a scout. So you know how much they lean

849
00:50:49,600 --> 00:50:52,799
Speaker 1: on those guys with the draft. It probably changes from

850
00:50:52,840 --> 00:50:55,879
Speaker 1: place to place, but I think it's pretty consistent when

851
00:50:55,920 --> 00:51:00,320
Speaker 1: you get you know, Chris Ballard at his chorus is

852
00:51:00,360 --> 00:51:03,680
Speaker 1: a scout, right, some of these got less snat is

853
00:51:03,719 --> 00:51:06,880
Speaker 1: a scout. So they are more dependent on the money

854
00:51:06,920 --> 00:51:11,600
Speaker 1: analytic guys. Right, So you get these analytical guys or

855
00:51:11,640 --> 00:51:15,280
Speaker 1: the contract guys, they need someone with a large scouting

856
00:51:15,320 --> 00:51:18,160
Speaker 1: background that can help them run the department. They can

857
00:51:18,239 --> 00:51:20,239
Speaker 1: run the pro side, the college side, they can kind

858
00:51:20,239 --> 00:51:24,759
Speaker 1: of oversee everything because really, when you're the GM, you're

859
00:51:24,760 --> 00:51:27,040
Speaker 1: not just watching tape all day. I would imagine that's

860
00:51:27,080 --> 00:51:30,080
Speaker 1: kind of a small part of the job. On a

861
00:51:30,120 --> 00:51:32,080
Speaker 1: given day, you might not even be able to watch

862
00:51:32,120 --> 00:51:35,960
Speaker 1: that much. I mean, you're dealing with everything from cafeteria

863
00:51:36,040 --> 00:51:37,920
Speaker 1: to the training room to the equipment staff, dealing with

864
00:51:37,960 --> 00:51:41,400
Speaker 1: your coach, dealing with the owner, dealing with agent that

865
00:51:41,760 --> 00:51:45,040
Speaker 1: your players issues through agents. Right, You're not just sitting

866
00:51:45,080 --> 00:51:48,000
Speaker 1: there like ranking players twenty four to seven three sixty five.

867
00:51:48,600 --> 00:51:53,120
Speaker 1: I would imagine most general managers would say it's a

868
00:51:53,160 --> 00:51:55,959
Speaker 1: small percentage of my job now that in the off

869
00:51:56,000 --> 00:51:59,680
Speaker 1: season during the draft you have to but during the

870
00:51:59,800 --> 00:52:05,759
Speaker 1: year probably less and less than ever before. So I

871
00:52:05,800 --> 00:52:10,279
Speaker 1: don't know. I've met wild Andy Widell one time, but

872
00:52:12,280 --> 00:52:15,640
Speaker 1: I can't pretend to have a good feel for him

873
00:52:15,680 --> 00:52:18,000
Speaker 1: as a scout or anything. I know it didn't end

874
00:52:18,080 --> 00:52:22,800
Speaker 1: up great in Philly. Grew up in Scottsdale my whole life.

875
00:52:23,000 --> 00:52:25,839
Speaker 1: Glad to hear you are enjoying it. I'm a graduate

876
00:52:25,960 --> 00:52:29,360
Speaker 1: from LSU, and as a reward, I'm going to LSU

877
00:52:29,520 --> 00:52:33,279
Speaker 1: versus USC opener in Vegas. Use the game time code, John,

878
00:52:33,480 --> 00:52:35,879
Speaker 1: I like the skyl ready. I was never a big

879
00:52:35,880 --> 00:52:39,600
Speaker 1: college football fan before LSU, but this place makes you

880
00:52:39,640 --> 00:52:42,920
Speaker 1: a fan. When you Colin Klatt talk about the explosion

881
00:52:42,960 --> 00:52:46,759
Speaker 1: of college football, the only pushback I give is in

882
00:52:46,800 --> 00:52:50,640
Speaker 1: an area like Arizona, where even with a decent team

883
00:52:50,719 --> 00:52:54,879
Speaker 1: here and there, it's no SEC fandom. Do you think

884
00:52:54,920 --> 00:52:58,040
Speaker 1: the conference realignment can grow the game in places like

885
00:52:58,160 --> 00:53:02,280
Speaker 1: Arizona and calif Those marcus always going to be more

886
00:53:02,440 --> 00:53:09,080
Speaker 1: pro focused. Yeah, Cali, Like when USC is good. They're

887
00:53:09,120 --> 00:53:13,440
Speaker 1: a really big deal in southern California. Stanford was a

888
00:53:13,480 --> 00:53:15,879
Speaker 1: top five program and they got ten thousand people showing up.

889
00:53:15,920 --> 00:53:18,040
Speaker 1: So the Bay area is just going to be overrun

890
00:53:18,040 --> 00:53:23,000
Speaker 1: by the forty nine ers, but southern California. USC can

891
00:53:23,040 --> 00:53:27,399
Speaker 1: make a dent. Ucla probably not as much, but USC can.

892
00:53:28,600 --> 00:53:32,840
Speaker 1: Living in Scottsdale now for years, I would say Arizona

893
00:53:32,880 --> 00:53:35,680
Speaker 1: State might as well just play like Fresno State in

894
00:53:35,760 --> 00:53:39,280
Speaker 1: Boise State. It's never gonna be a big football program ever,

895
00:53:40,080 --> 00:53:42,680
Speaker 1: no matter how cool this place is to live, no

896
00:53:42,719 --> 00:53:45,760
Speaker 1: matter how many babes there are in theory, it should

897
00:53:45,760 --> 00:53:47,879
Speaker 1: be a great place to recruit, it just never will.

898
00:53:48,600 --> 00:53:55,520
Speaker 1: It's it's a bottom tier athletic program. It's a baseball

899
00:53:55,520 --> 00:53:59,319
Speaker 1: and golf school. So I think Arizona State has zero

900
00:53:59,400 --> 00:54:03,160
Speaker 1: opportunities to ever be a big deal here. None. I

901
00:54:03,160 --> 00:54:06,319
Speaker 1: don't believe it's possible, and I believe they'll go to

902
00:54:06,360 --> 00:54:11,839
Speaker 1: the Big twelve and get worked and listen. I think

903
00:54:11,880 --> 00:54:16,640
Speaker 1: Arizona State should basically be San Diego State, same level,

904
00:54:16,840 --> 00:54:18,799
Speaker 1: you know, try to win eight to nine games and

905
00:54:18,880 --> 00:54:21,799
Speaker 1: play those type opponents. I don't believe they should be

906
00:54:21,800 --> 00:54:24,759
Speaker 1: playing Kansas State and Oklahoma State, like it's not gonna work.

907
00:54:25,400 --> 00:54:28,480
Speaker 1: Maybe once upon a time it could have, but in

908
00:54:28,600 --> 00:54:33,560
Speaker 1: present day setup, like, I don't believe they have any chance. Arizona,

909
00:54:34,000 --> 00:54:38,000
Speaker 1: like Tucson two hours away, much smaller city. They take

910
00:54:38,080 --> 00:54:42,400
Speaker 1: basketball there very very seriously. You are what you take seriously.

911
00:54:43,120 --> 00:54:45,919
Speaker 1: At Arizona State, they take men's golf seriously. They get

912
00:54:45,920 --> 00:54:49,399
Speaker 1: pros every year. They take baseball really seriously. They get

913
00:54:49,400 --> 00:54:52,200
Speaker 1: a bunch of high end guys. Maybe the program's dipped

914
00:54:52,200 --> 00:54:55,799
Speaker 1: a little lately, but like their emphasis is not in

915
00:54:55,880 --> 00:54:59,160
Speaker 1: basketball or football. We're at usc that they pump a

916
00:54:59,200 --> 00:55:02,960
Speaker 1: lot of money in the foot right. At Oregon they

917
00:55:02,960 --> 00:55:07,560
Speaker 1: take sports and football very very seriously. I just don't

918
00:55:07,800 --> 00:55:10,839
Speaker 1: see it ever being possible. I actually think it's kind

919
00:55:10,880 --> 00:55:12,759
Speaker 1: of a bad It's just not a great sports town.

920
00:55:13,000 --> 00:55:15,359
Speaker 1: I just don't think that many people care. I think

921
00:55:15,400 --> 00:55:21,000
Speaker 1: people like sports, but they're just does anyone care about

922
00:55:21,000 --> 00:55:23,719
Speaker 1: the Diamondbacks? I mean the Cardinals. You see a lot

923
00:55:23,760 --> 00:55:26,960
Speaker 1: of like flags, but it's like this is a Niner

924
00:55:27,000 --> 00:55:28,439
Speaker 1: home game once a year.

925
00:55:29,280 --> 00:55:29,640
Speaker 2: So I.

926
00:55:31,160 --> 00:55:34,040
Speaker 1: Don't know. I just don't think it's a great sports area,

927
00:55:36,040 --> 00:55:38,279
Speaker 1: not great history probably. I mean, there are a lot

928
00:55:38,280 --> 00:55:41,799
Speaker 1: of factors, a lot of a lot of you know,

929
00:55:41,880 --> 00:55:46,360
Speaker 1: people from out of town. It's kind of a a

930
00:55:46,360 --> 00:55:50,040
Speaker 1: lot of older people that retire here from colder states.

931
00:55:50,640 --> 00:55:52,719
Speaker 1: I can't tell you. Every time I play golf, it's like,

932
00:55:52,719 --> 00:55:55,800
Speaker 1: oh yeah, I'm a big Minnesota Viking fan, diehard Chicago

933
00:55:55,840 --> 00:55:58,560
Speaker 1: Bears guy, moved here to get out of the cold.

934
00:55:59,200 --> 00:56:03,840
Speaker 1: I love my Packers. Football's huge. I never meet anyone

935
00:56:03,880 --> 00:56:06,799
Speaker 1: in Arizona that or play golf with anyone that's not

936
00:56:06,840 --> 00:56:10,560
Speaker 1: a big football fan, but they usually like teams from

937
00:56:10,560 --> 00:56:14,239
Speaker 1: other places. I go once a year to watch the

938
00:56:14,239 --> 00:56:18,880
Speaker 1: Wisconsin Badgers. Meet a lot of people in from the Midwest.

939
00:56:19,560 --> 00:56:21,840
Speaker 1: What was with all the dudes at the draft wearing

940
00:56:21,880 --> 00:56:27,120
Speaker 1: sunglasses inside at night? Is there something to that. I've

941
00:56:27,160 --> 00:56:31,799
Speaker 1: never understood sunglasses at night ever. Now, granted, I need

942
00:56:31,840 --> 00:56:34,640
Speaker 1: to go to the optometrists. I think my eyes are slipping.

943
00:56:35,440 --> 00:56:37,919
Speaker 1: My dad wore glasses. I've always thought I had pretty

944
00:56:37,960 --> 00:56:41,440
Speaker 1: good eyesight until I got my driver's license last year,

945
00:56:42,160 --> 00:56:44,960
Speaker 1: that my Arizona license, and they made you take the

946
00:56:45,000 --> 00:56:48,640
Speaker 1: eye test and I couldn't see, and I was like

947
00:56:48,680 --> 00:56:51,480
Speaker 1: reading off the letters and she's like a different letter.

948
00:56:51,960 --> 00:56:54,520
Speaker 1: She kind of helped me cheat, they don't care here much.

949
00:56:55,480 --> 00:56:58,440
Speaker 1: I was like, God, my eyes, But if you wear

950
00:56:58,520 --> 00:57:00,840
Speaker 1: dark glasses at night, Like, how do you see anything?

951
00:57:01,280 --> 00:57:04,400
Speaker 1: I understand, like, listen, I'm not a fashionista here, but

952
00:57:05,200 --> 00:57:06,840
Speaker 1: maybe you think it looks good. I just don't know

953
00:57:06,840 --> 00:57:10,520
Speaker 1: how functionally you see anything? But people trying to be cool.

954
00:57:10,760 --> 00:57:14,360
Speaker 1: I really think it's that simple, like just trying to

955
00:57:14,400 --> 00:57:18,000
Speaker 1: be cool. But can you see like part of wearing

956
00:57:18,000 --> 00:57:20,480
Speaker 1: sunglasses you Ice was on a five hours or not

957
00:57:20,520 --> 00:57:24,480
Speaker 1: five hours three hour drive yesterday in the afternoon, sun

958
00:57:24,600 --> 00:57:27,160
Speaker 1: barren down at you. Without the sunglasses, you just wouldn't

959
00:57:27,160 --> 00:57:31,720
Speaker 1: be able to see the road. But at night in

960
00:57:31,760 --> 00:57:35,880
Speaker 1: the dark, I don't know, don't get it. Question comment

961
00:57:35,920 --> 00:57:39,439
Speaker 1: for the pod? Have you seen Deebo's latest Twitter back

962
00:57:39,480 --> 00:57:44,479
Speaker 1: and forth with boxer Devin Haney? Can't help but laugh

963
00:57:44,480 --> 00:57:47,280
Speaker 1: at the irony of Deebo trying to make fun of

964
00:57:47,320 --> 00:57:51,520
Speaker 1: a multiple time world champion for losing a championship bout,

965
00:57:51,960 --> 00:57:55,640
Speaker 1: especially coming from someone who is very outspoken about fans

966
00:57:55,960 --> 00:58:00,560
Speaker 1: withholding criticism and just being fans that aside. If given

967
00:58:00,560 --> 00:58:04,439
Speaker 1: an ultimatum of debo versus IYUK, do the Niners care

968
00:58:04,920 --> 00:58:08,560
Speaker 1: about these off field antics or is it minor comparison

969
00:58:08,880 --> 00:58:13,800
Speaker 1: to the factors of on field impact and age. I

970
00:58:13,840 --> 00:58:20,360
Speaker 1: got news for you. Nobody with any common sense gives

971
00:58:20,360 --> 00:58:27,000
Speaker 1: a flying fuck about any Twitter interaction like that. There

972
00:58:27,040 --> 00:58:30,560
Speaker 1: can't be a place that is, honestly or should be

973
00:58:30,640 --> 00:58:34,400
Speaker 1: even more irrelevant to society than it is. The reason

974
00:58:34,400 --> 00:58:36,840
Speaker 1: it gets talked about so much, like on television stuff,

975
00:58:36,960 --> 00:58:39,960
Speaker 1: because the media lives on it. They're on it twenty

976
00:58:39,960 --> 00:58:43,360
Speaker 1: four seven, three sixty five. It's like their happy place,

977
00:58:43,840 --> 00:58:46,160
Speaker 1: even though they are like I'm leaving when Elon bought it,

978
00:58:46,240 --> 00:58:48,520
Speaker 1: like you did not only leave, you guys have doubled

979
00:58:48,520 --> 00:58:51,800
Speaker 1: down like I'm going to threads. No, you're not. You

980
00:58:51,840 --> 00:58:56,960
Speaker 1: tweet more now than ever. But interactions, I don't think

981
00:58:57,240 --> 00:58:59,960
Speaker 1: they probably don't even know what happened. It does now,

982
00:59:00,720 --> 00:59:05,520
Speaker 1: it could not matter any less. Yeah, deeb like talking

983
00:59:05,520 --> 00:59:08,200
Speaker 1: shit about that. I always hate when players talk bad

984
00:59:08,240 --> 00:59:10,640
Speaker 1: about the fans, like you guys do know where the

985
00:59:10,640 --> 00:59:13,680
Speaker 1: money comes from from? Those guys Now, obviously there's a

986
00:59:13,720 --> 00:59:18,160
Speaker 1: line you can't cross. But like if it's booing or something,

987
00:59:19,720 --> 00:59:22,120
Speaker 1: I can't believe these guys the stuff they said to

988
00:59:22,160 --> 00:59:24,960
Speaker 1: me and my mentions don't check them. I mean you

989
00:59:25,000 --> 00:59:27,760
Speaker 1: don't have to sign on and you can't take the

990
00:59:27,800 --> 00:59:30,040
Speaker 1: good with the bad. Like you love it when you

991
00:59:30,120 --> 00:59:32,560
Speaker 1: dominat and everyone's blowing you on there, it's like whoo.

992
00:59:34,000 --> 00:59:36,000
Speaker 1: And then you have a bad game and everyone's shitting

993
00:59:36,080 --> 00:59:39,040
Speaker 1: on you. It's like, these fans are such assholes. They

994
00:59:39,080 --> 00:59:41,800
Speaker 1: only care about me one of the fantasy team. Well,

995
00:59:41,960 --> 00:59:43,560
Speaker 1: you love the last two weeks when you have three

996
00:59:43,600 --> 00:59:47,760
Speaker 1: touchdowns and you're retweeting and liking. It's a problem with

997
00:59:48,160 --> 00:59:51,480
Speaker 1: social media. It's like everyone loves the good, but they

998
00:59:51,480 --> 00:59:55,560
Speaker 1: hate the bad. I didn't see it, and yeah I don't,

999
00:59:56,040 --> 00:59:59,640
Speaker 1: i'd be lying. I'm not Chris mannics here to uh,

1000
00:59:59,720 --> 01:00:03,480
Speaker 1: I know know nothing about Haney. Well, I don't even

1001
01:00:03,520 --> 01:00:05,800
Speaker 1: know why Deebo would. Does he not like the d

1002
01:00:06,040 --> 01:00:07,960
Speaker 1: Was he rooting for the other fighter? I don't. I

1003
01:00:07,960 --> 01:00:10,720
Speaker 1: don't get it. But I just think they want Deebo

1004
01:00:10,800 --> 01:00:13,120
Speaker 1: to be in shape and get open on down the

1005
01:00:13,120 --> 01:00:15,720
Speaker 1: field routes. I mean he could not get open in

1006
01:00:15,720 --> 01:00:19,280
Speaker 1: the Super Bowl. The Chiefs clamped him down like it

1007
01:00:19,320 --> 01:00:23,880
Speaker 1: was me. It was honestly an enlightening experience. I think

1008
01:00:23,920 --> 01:00:26,400
Speaker 1: for Kyle that's why they drafted a wide receiver in

1009
01:00:26,440 --> 01:00:31,840
Speaker 1: the first round and Debo is it's kind of a

1010
01:00:32,000 --> 01:00:35,920
Speaker 1: one of one, right, Like he's a dominant player behind

1011
01:00:35,960 --> 01:00:38,080
Speaker 1: the line of scrimmage, but he is a wide receiver,

1012
01:00:38,840 --> 01:00:42,400
Speaker 1: so it's like, can you run some routes? And sometimes

1013
01:00:42,400 --> 01:00:44,680
Speaker 1: he can, like he can go over the middle, but

1014
01:00:45,800 --> 01:00:48,680
Speaker 1: he doesn't stretch the field, doesn't make any place down

1015
01:00:48,720 --> 01:00:51,440
Speaker 1: the field in terms of it's not really his game.

1016
01:00:52,160 --> 01:00:55,280
Speaker 1: So they're also they've already paid him like he's on

1017
01:00:55,320 --> 01:00:58,840
Speaker 1: the team because of his contract if he if like

1018
01:00:58,960 --> 01:01:01,120
Speaker 1: all things were equal and they could have gotten rid

1019
01:01:01,120 --> 01:01:03,000
Speaker 1: of one, they would have gotten rid of Deebo Samuel

1020
01:01:03,000 --> 01:01:05,680
Speaker 1: and just signed Brandon Nyuk. But the problem is Deebo

1021
01:01:05,760 --> 01:01:08,920
Speaker 1: makes twenty, brand Ayuk wants thirty. It just gets very

1022
01:01:08,920 --> 01:01:10,800
Speaker 1: expensive for a team that doesn't even pass that often,

1023
01:01:11,120 --> 01:01:13,520
Speaker 1: Like they're never gonna have one hundred catch wide receiver.

1024
01:01:14,520 --> 01:01:19,720
Speaker 1: So first thing, they do not care at all about

1025
01:01:19,760 --> 01:01:24,560
Speaker 1: anything back and forth on Twitter or Instagram. Obviously there

1026
01:01:24,600 --> 01:01:27,720
Speaker 1: is a line like certain things you can't do or say,

1027
01:01:28,160 --> 01:01:34,720
Speaker 1: but just like talking shit to someone else, nobody cares. Okay,

1028
01:01:34,760 --> 01:01:40,560
Speaker 1: last one, with all the contract talks recently regarding wide receivers,

1029
01:01:40,720 --> 01:01:43,600
Speaker 1: I'd love to know your thoughts on AJ Brown's three

1030
01:01:43,720 --> 01:01:47,880
Speaker 1: year ninety six million dollar extension and DeVante's three year

1031
01:01:48,120 --> 01:01:52,920
Speaker 1: seventy five million dollar extension. Did Howie smartly jump the

1032
01:01:52,960 --> 01:01:57,920
Speaker 1: market and overpay well it? AJ Brown's a lot like

1033
01:01:58,000 --> 01:02:02,440
Speaker 1: Dak Right, the Eagles initially gave him a large extension

1034
01:02:03,320 --> 01:02:07,960
Speaker 1: and then he bawled. So he's due for a big race, right,

1035
01:02:08,040 --> 01:02:11,520
Speaker 1: So it's he's an expensive player. He was an expensive

1036
01:02:11,520 --> 01:02:14,160
Speaker 1: player the last couple of years. So if you're gonna

1037
01:02:14,160 --> 01:02:16,600
Speaker 1: give him extension, you're gonna have to come up. I

1038
01:02:16,600 --> 01:02:19,320
Speaker 1: don't have the numbers in front of me, but you

1039
01:02:19,360 --> 01:02:22,960
Speaker 1: start talking thirty million dollars a year range. He was

1040
01:02:23,040 --> 01:02:26,080
Speaker 1: just making what was he making twenty two? So when

1041
01:02:26,120 --> 01:02:29,280
Speaker 1: you factor in multiple years, the inflation of the of

1042
01:02:29,320 --> 01:02:32,760
Speaker 1: the position, kind of the cost of doing business. Like

1043
01:02:32,760 --> 01:02:35,480
Speaker 1: if A. J. Brown was hit the free agent market,

1044
01:02:35,560 --> 01:02:38,800
Speaker 1: someone would have given him four year contract for what

1045
01:02:40,440 --> 01:02:44,640
Speaker 1: one hundred and thirty five million dollars? You know, DeVante,

1046
01:02:44,840 --> 01:02:47,040
Speaker 1: this is the thing, Like, they're gonna be a passing team.

1047
01:02:47,080 --> 01:02:48,840
Speaker 1: I know they're gonna want to run the ball again.

1048
01:02:49,080 --> 01:02:52,080
Speaker 1: In theory they will because they have Saquon now, but

1049
01:02:52,120 --> 01:02:54,440
Speaker 1: the Eagles like passing it they always have and always

1050
01:02:54,440 --> 01:02:57,840
Speaker 1: will because that's what the owner likes doing. So you

1051
01:02:57,960 --> 01:03:00,480
Speaker 1: have one of the better number two wide receivers in

1052
01:03:00,520 --> 01:03:04,280
Speaker 1: the NFL and same type thing, like, ideally, do you

1053
01:03:04,320 --> 01:03:07,320
Speaker 1: want to be paying two wide receivers one hundred and

1054
01:03:07,360 --> 01:03:11,160
Speaker 1: seventy five million dollars of combined contracts? I mean it's

1055
01:03:11,280 --> 01:03:13,280
Speaker 1: it's a lot allocated to two guys. But if you

1056
01:03:13,320 --> 01:03:16,439
Speaker 1: pass it all the time and they're both worth it, yeah,

1057
01:03:16,840 --> 01:03:20,600
Speaker 1: what are you gonna do? Let DeVante walk? You drafted them,

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Speaker 1: you love them just I just think it's the cost.

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Speaker 1: I yeah, good contracts. I never have a problem with

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Speaker 1: paying a guy a lot of money. He's a good player,

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Speaker 1: especially when he's your own guy and you can win

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Speaker 1: with him. It's just expensive. And now they are. They

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Speaker 1: spend a lot of money on the offense. That's why

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Speaker 1: there's gonna be a lot of pressure on Kellen Moore.

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Speaker 1: Quarterback makes a ton line. Left tackles paid, the right

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Speaker 1: tackles paid, guards paid, running backs paid, tight ends paid.

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Speaker 1: Wide receivers are paid. I would say anything, but like

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Speaker 1: a top five offense next year is gonna be viewed

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Speaker 1: as a disappointment Eagles. I think there's a ton of

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Speaker 1: pressure on the productivity to a lot of the players.

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Speaker 1: And same thing with defense Jordan Davis and Jalen Carter,

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Speaker 1: Like there's gonna be tangible pressure on those two guys

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Speaker 1: the ball, especially Jalen Carter top ten pick. You have

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Speaker 1: all the talent in the world Vic Fangio, what he's

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Speaker 1: done with defensive linemen turned him into stars and had

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Speaker 1: Pro Bowl impact guys. You've invested a lot of capital

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Speaker 1: and all these players paying them a lot of money.

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Speaker 1: I think the Eagles, everyone and probably including myself, I'm

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Speaker 1: gonna pick them to win the division. But I don't know. Man,

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Speaker 1: We'll see. Because you start paying a lot of money,

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Speaker 1: the expectations go even higher. And coming off a down year,

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Speaker 1: I can't a. J. Brown's really good, DeVante Smiths really good.

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Speaker 1: It's kind of the cost of doing business, right. The

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Speaker 1: hard part is, you know, when you have a number

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Speaker 1: two wide receiver and you have a clear one like

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Speaker 1: AJ Brown clear one, Jamar Chase clear one, how much

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Speaker 1: is your number two like the Bengals, do you want

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Speaker 1: to give t Higgins that type deal? Clearly they're hesitant

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Speaker 1: to do it. Now. I would say DeVante is a

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Speaker 1: better player in t Higgins. But that's the Niners problem.

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Speaker 1: It's like Deebo's not even a number one. Ayuk is

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Speaker 1: probably not a number one, but he's like DeVante, he's not.

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Speaker 1: He's better than a two, but it'll never be like

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Speaker 1: a top five or six guy in the league. It's

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Speaker 1: just conundrum. And then how do we play the Eagles.

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Speaker 1: We want to pass. We want to pass a lot.

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Speaker 1: It drives people nuts sometimes, but they do. It's who

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Speaker 1: they are. I don't think it's gonna change much. Saekau

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Speaker 1: One's gonna touch the ball a lot, but I bet

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Speaker 1: they throw them the ball a lot, a lot of

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Speaker 1: wheel routes, a lot of screens. Get the ball to him.

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Speaker 1: Don't expect him to have twenty carries a game. That

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Speaker 1: is not the way the Eagles play. They get their

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Speaker 1: dynamic running backs the ball, they get them their touches,

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Speaker 1: but they do in the passing game. So I think

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Speaker 1: Eagles are one of the more fascinating teams in the

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Speaker 1: league because of their talent, because the new coaching staff

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Speaker 1: or new coordinators, same head coach. And I think the division.

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Speaker 1: You know, Cowboys have won the Division two of the

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Speaker 1: last three years. I don't think There are many people,

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Speaker 1: including in Dallas, that feel that good about that squad.

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Speaker 1: Appreciate everyone listening. You guys are good people. All my

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Speaker 1: people behind the scenes, James doing video, Adam doing audio,

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Speaker 1: Daniel new to the squad. We got a crew here that, uh,

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Speaker 1: not just it's not just your boy here. We have

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Speaker 1: a operation at the Volume that helps put this together.

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Speaker 1: So thank you to everybody and have a great day

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Speaker 1: The Volume