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Speaker 1: Okay, let's do the mailbag at John Middlecoff. At John

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Speaker 1: Middlecoff is the Instagram fire in those dms, get your

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Speaker 1: questions answered here on the show. With the NBA and

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Speaker 1: the NHL in full swing, which of the major four

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Speaker 1: North American sports leagues is it's the hardest to win.

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Speaker 1: In my opinion, it's the Stanley Cup. Maybe I'm biased

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Speaker 1: former pro hockey player, but you got eighty two games

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Speaker 1: in a fast and physical sport, an additional twenty eight

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Speaker 1: playoff games. Guys don't limit their playing time like they

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Speaker 1: do in the NBA, up to three games a week,

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Speaker 1: with no buys like the NFL and smaller rosters. Obviously,

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Speaker 1: it's hard to win any of them when you just

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Speaker 1: look at the nature of the sport. If you're the

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Speaker 1: one seed, if you're the one seed now in the NFL,

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Speaker 1: you're the only team that gets a buy, you get

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Speaker 1: two home games, and then you get a week off

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Speaker 1: for the Super Bowl. So if you just based on

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Speaker 1: like obviously it's hard to win the Super Bowl. But

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Speaker 1: the path just in terms of the activity the regular

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Speaker 1: season in football, like you said in hockey is hard

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Speaker 1: because of seventeen games. If you're a good team, you're

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Speaker 1: playing a lot of like short weeks Thursday nights. But

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Speaker 1: once you get to the playoffs, you get that bye week.

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Speaker 1: I think the playoff is easier. Obviously in basketball and

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Speaker 1: hockey you have seven game series starting right away, so

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Speaker 1: to have seven game series, seven game series, seven game

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Speaker 1: series just to make it to the finals. There was

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Speaker 1: a fight. I'm recording this on Tuesday, the fight in

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Speaker 1: the Stanley Cup finals. I mean Florida was beating the

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Speaker 1: crap out of Edmonton. Well that been Game three. I

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Speaker 1: mean there was like seventy five fights. But you know

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Speaker 1: in baseball, that first game now or that first series five,

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Speaker 1: it's five, seven to seven. I think the NBA, you

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Speaker 1: could argue because of the the regular season is way easier.

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Speaker 1: So if you factor in the regular season in hockey,

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Speaker 1: I don't I mean, I can't speak from like knowledge,

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Speaker 1: It's not like I'm watching it. If I take you

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Speaker 1: at your word that the regular season is difficult, because

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Speaker 1: you'd say the hardest regular season, I mean, baseball is

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Speaker 1: a grind. But if you're a good team like the

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Speaker 1: Yankees or the Dodgers. You're just so much better than

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Speaker 1: most teams you're playing. It's a lot of action, but

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Speaker 1: it's not like the strenuous nature of football. The regular

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Speaker 1: season the hardest in football. You could argue the playoffs

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Speaker 1: in the NBA or the NHL or the hardest in baseball.

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Speaker 1: You just need you need to have a good bullpen.

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Speaker 1: And there's a randomness to baseball. I would say in

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Speaker 1: the playoffs sometimes with timely hitting. Listen, I'm a Giants fan.

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Speaker 1: Cody Ross took Doc Halliday deep in Game one in

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Speaker 1: the NFCS, Travis y Chakaw. You get random guys with

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Speaker 1: some big home runs in a baseball series. Typically, obviously

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Speaker 1: you need your good players. So I'd go basketball or hockey.

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Speaker 1: The playoff runs the hardest. The regular season in football

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Speaker 1: is the most difficult. Hockey is just hard. As a

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Speaker 1: blue blood football fan or big program guy, you seem

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Speaker 1: to mention Minnesota randomly a lot as a second tier program.

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Speaker 1: Are you starting to row the boat? Also? What is

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Speaker 1: the outside perspective of PJ Fleck? Majority loves him in Minnesota,

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Speaker 1: but he always gets so much hate outside the program.

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Speaker 1: I don't even have I ever mentioned Minnesota college football

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Speaker 1: shows you. So maybe I'm just talking. I don't even

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Speaker 1: know what I'm saying. Second tier program. I think we'd

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Speaker 1: have to hash it out. How many first tier programs

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Speaker 1: do we have? Ten? Right, Ohio State, Michigan, Bama, LSU, Georgia, Texas, Oregon,

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Speaker 1: Penn State, Notre Dame. I'm talking financially pay coaches now,

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Speaker 1: pay players are just gonna be good always, regardless who

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Speaker 1: the coach is. Like if Ryan Day left tomorrow, Ohio

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Speaker 1: State get another sweet coach, Saban retires, they hired to

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Speaker 1: board that just takes Washington to the national championship. So

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Speaker 1: our numbers at what seven eight? I don't think i'd

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Speaker 1: put them in the second tier. I'd probably have it

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Speaker 1: was a third tier. And I'm not even trying to

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Speaker 1: talk shit. I would say seems a little cheesy to me,

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Speaker 1: but clearly solid roof bald guys. So I don't really

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Speaker 1: have I'm probably close to and different on PJ. Fleck

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Speaker 1: than I am, like having some take I don't. I mean,

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Speaker 1: I don't really think that much about them. When I

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Speaker 1: think about college football. It's hard. I would say those

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Speaker 1: type jobs when you're in the Big Ten or the

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Speaker 1: SEC and you are tasked with, like we don't have

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Speaker 1: the resources and we're just not Like listen, we can

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Speaker 1: talk about money all we want, and obviously it matters

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Speaker 1: a lot, but like the best teams are still the

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Speaker 1: teams getting the best players because they got the most money.

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Speaker 1: Like Ohio State was good when you had to pay

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Speaker 1: guys under the table. They're now good win ANIL and

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Speaker 1: they're now good with paying the team if there's a

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Speaker 1: salary cap. Right, Georgia will be the same. Text is

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Speaker 1: going to be the same sc in theory if they

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Speaker 1: get the right coach. If Lincoln maybe's that guy, we'll

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Speaker 1: find out Oregon, like these teams, the good teams are

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Speaker 1: gonna say the good teams, right. Obviously, Ole Miss is

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Speaker 1: spending a lot of money. I think as a whole,

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Speaker 1: the SEC has more money because of the last whatever,

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Speaker 1: a couple decades of saving. But yeah, I would say

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Speaker 1: you also gotta have realistic expectations, right, Like what Lane

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Speaker 1: Kiffin's done in the last couple of years is remarkable.

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Speaker 1: You win ten games at all Miss, You're a fucking

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Speaker 1: legend in that program. But after a couple of years,

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Speaker 1: like okay, time to make the final four, Like no

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Speaker 1: we're probably not making the final four here. There's nothing

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Speaker 1: wrong with.

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Speaker 2: That, right.

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Speaker 1: If you have back to back eight win seasons at Minnesota,

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Speaker 1: that's great. Like the expectations at Ohio State and Michigan

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Speaker 1: and Penn State are just gonna be different than you guys.

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Speaker 1: But once you win a couple eight game seasons, I'll

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Speaker 1: pull up PJ flex record. People start going okay, time

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Speaker 1: to win ten and obviously based on your schedule we

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Speaker 1: saw with Indiana last year, you can manipulate it. He's

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Speaker 1: for god PG flex pretty young, pg flex forty four

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Speaker 1: he became a head coach and God he became a

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Speaker 1: head coach really really young at Western Michigan. He was

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Speaker 1: a wide receiver coach twenty twelve at Tampa Bay. How

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Speaker 1: many wins the last couple of years. I mean they

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Speaker 1: were eight and five last year. I think that's a

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Speaker 1: pretty good year. A lot of nine and four, nine

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Speaker 1: and four. I think he's pretty good. I mean, two

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Speaker 1: things on the what if trend. As a Seattle Seahawk fan,

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Speaker 1: we got John Snyder recorded an incredible interview with him yesterday.

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Speaker 1: He'll be on the pod next week. Big what if

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Speaker 1: would be Percy Harvin. He was one of the most

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Speaker 1: dynamic athletes I've ever seen. He could run, catch, and return. However,

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Speaker 1: the injury after injury and battling migraines his whole career,

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Speaker 1: he was often left on the sideline, also playing with

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Speaker 1: I feel what were journeyman quarterbacks. He still ended up

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Speaker 1: with four thousand receiving yards, one thousand rushing yards, and

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Speaker 1: four thousand return yards in twenty two touch I'm in

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Speaker 1: agreement with the Packer fans who mentioned the quarterback method

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Speaker 1: of drafting, which is why I will give a different

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Speaker 1: view of the Falcon signing Kirk Cousins for all that

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Speaker 1: money and still drafting Pennix. I don't see everyone. I

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Speaker 1: don't see why everyone is bashing the move. It's genius.

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Speaker 1: This is a quarterback league. Everyone always says do whatever

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Speaker 1: it takes, not to mention to sit behind Geno Smith.

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Speaker 1: I personally wanted Pennix to sit behind Geno learn how

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Speaker 1: to play. Here's the thing, I'm all for drafting or

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Speaker 1: signing a guy like Cousins if I'm gonna draft JJ McCarthy.

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Speaker 1: You know when the forty nine Ers had Jimmy Garoppolo

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Speaker 1: and they drafted Trey Lance, who was a project. Obviously

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Speaker 1: the guy couldn't play. But you get my thought on

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Speaker 1: the method of like, we have a veteran who's a

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Speaker 1: high character guy sit behind. Michael Penix was a twenty

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Speaker 1: five year old, plug and play player. There was no sitting.

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Speaker 1: He wasn't Jordan Love. This wasn't a project. I'm a

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Speaker 1: Michael Penix fan. I think he's gonna be good and

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Speaker 1: obviously you improve as you play in the NFL. But

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Speaker 1: Michael Penix, it was not a project. Michael Penix was

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Speaker 1: a plug and play player. So to me, if you're

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Speaker 1: gonna draft Michael Pennix, you would not sign Kirk Cousins. Now,

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Speaker 1: I'm not opposed to signing a veteran, but like a

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Speaker 1: ten million dollar Andy Dalton or something, and maybe have

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Speaker 1: them compete just it's football competitions healthy. But to me,

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Speaker 1: a Kirk Cousins with Michael Penix makes no sense. And

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Speaker 1: this gets back to and I get it they had

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Speaker 1: a new coaching staff, but part of the situation it

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Speaker 1: was chaotic. If they would have known they loved Michael Pennix,

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Speaker 1: I promise you this, they would not have signed Kirk Cousins.

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Speaker 1: But their draft process was all out of whack and

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Speaker 1: they fell in love with Michael Pennix in April. Typically

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Speaker 1: you knew. I bet the Minnesota Vikings were pretty high

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Speaker 1: on JJ McCarthy in January, in February, and listen, some

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Speaker 1: of it is just you have new coaching staff come in,

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Speaker 1: but just a poor operation because they would like to

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Speaker 1: have a do over on that one. They just would

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Speaker 1: question for the pod. When talking about players in the draft,

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Speaker 1: you always see comparisons they give and fans go crazy.

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Speaker 1: My question is when they give a comparison, are they

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Speaker 1: saying this is the ceiling of the player or are

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Speaker 1: they comparing play styles? I always thought it was just

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Speaker 1: the play style. Yeah, it's typically the play style. So

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Speaker 1: if you're like in a draft room and your GM goes,

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Speaker 1: you know, who does this guy remind you of? And

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Speaker 1: you go, you know, he he runs a lot like

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Speaker 1: Alvin Kamara. You're not saying he's going to be necessarily

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Speaker 1: Alvin Kamara. You're just saying the way he runs, the

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Speaker 1: way he cuts his ability to catch the ball. Obviously,

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Speaker 1: ideally you want him to be like that player. I remember,

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Speaker 1: like when I was scouting, I remember comparing Robert Woods

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Speaker 1: to Reggie Wayne Obviously Robert Woods is not as good

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Speaker 1: as Reggie Wayne, but just in terms of possession, receiver

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Speaker 1: will go over the middle. You know, Robert Wood's really

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Speaker 1: good in college. But I think it's you gotta be

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Speaker 1: careful because the ones, the ones on TV are usually

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Speaker 1: like the guy reminds me of Jerry Rice. You know.

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Speaker 1: Now here's the other thing, Like he has similar career

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Speaker 1: numbers as Christian McCaffrey. Like, you're just saying he has

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Speaker 1: the same numbers in college as this player, right, Ashton Genty,

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Speaker 1: he was twenty yards away from Barry Sanders. You're not

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Speaker 1: saying he's Barry Sanders. You're just saying they had comparable

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Speaker 1: junior years in college. Right, So I think if you right,

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Speaker 1: this is his ceiling, this is his floor, then obviously

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Speaker 1: you're saying that. But I think most times this edge

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Speaker 1: rusher reminds me of Leonard Floyd or TJ. Watt or whoever, right,

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Speaker 1: And that's that typically is what it is, the problem though,

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Speaker 1: is when I go, you know, he's got he's got

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Speaker 1: ball skills, He's got elite ball skills. Right, He's let's

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Speaker 1: say he's a safety. You're like Earl Thomas ed Reed

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Speaker 1: you know whatever, you start saying that, that's what people

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Speaker 1: start comparing that player to fair or not. Most people

642
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Speaker 1: should be good. Like here, let's use cam Ward as

643
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Speaker 1: an example. You watch cam Ward ad lib make different throws,

644
00:35:36,280 --> 00:35:39,600
Speaker 1: different platforms, throws on the run. That guy, he kind

645
00:35:39,640 --> 00:35:41,960
Speaker 1: of reminds me of the way Patrick Mahomes played at

646
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Speaker 1: Texas Tech. But when you say that, everyone goes, you're

647
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Speaker 1: comparing to Patrick Mahomes, and you go, no, I'm comparing

648
00:35:49,000 --> 00:35:52,759
Speaker 1: him to his play style, to Patrick Mahomes at Texas Tech,

649
00:35:53,120 --> 00:35:56,600
Speaker 1: not the guy that's won a couple MVPs and Super Bowls,

650
00:35:56,920 --> 00:36:02,840
Speaker 1: right like Baker Mayfield. I thought at Oklahoma my comparison

651
00:36:02,960 --> 00:36:04,600
Speaker 1: was like, I think he could be a version of

652
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Speaker 1: Drew Brees. And then early on you're like, this guy's

653
00:36:07,520 --> 00:36:11,960
Speaker 1: already benched. It's hard. I mean, it's not easy, especially

654
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Speaker 1: because most guys are never gonna live up to the

655
00:36:14,400 --> 00:36:18,720
Speaker 1: Most guys are gonna be like rotational starters, not impact players.

656
00:36:19,120 --> 00:36:21,600
Speaker 1: And if you do put your nuts online, right, you

657
00:36:21,760 --> 00:36:24,200
Speaker 1: love a guy and you go, hey, this is the

658
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Speaker 1: next Von Miller, and you're right, you look like a genius.

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Speaker 1: As a fellow follically challenged gentlemen, it's great to see

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Speaker 1: another aerodynamic dude with advancements in AstroTurf. Have you ever

661
00:36:38,880 --> 00:36:41,880
Speaker 1: been tempted to glue one of those hair systems on

662
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Speaker 1: your dome? I often found myself looking at them on

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Speaker 1: Instagram in the wee hours of the morning. If my

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Speaker 1: wife would faint, if I came home looking like a

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Speaker 1: jet black Elvis, I would say this. I've known a

666
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Speaker 1: couple people in my life that have got hair transplants

667
00:37:00,640 --> 00:37:04,960
Speaker 1: and uh not gone to Turkey, but in America. And

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Speaker 1: if you could get like my hair when I did

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Speaker 1: have it, I would say was average before I started

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Speaker 1: falling out, it was thick. But I didn't have like

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Speaker 1: you know, I don't know, just Brad Pitt flow. If

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Speaker 1: you could give me Elite flow. The look I always

673
00:37:22,680 --> 00:37:25,000
Speaker 1: wanted was the pat Riley slick back. If you could

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Speaker 1: give me that, I would contemplate it. Am I gonna

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Speaker 1: pay one hundred thousand? I've been balled for fifteen years?

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Speaker 1: I guess twenty eleven. Yeah, I mean thirteen, fourteen, fifteen years,

677
00:37:36,400 --> 00:37:39,520
Speaker 1: so it's like I'm not If it was a cheap fix,

678
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Speaker 1: I would contemplate it. She says, I don't have to though,

679
00:37:44,760 --> 00:37:49,160
Speaker 1: but hey, I'm always opening new looks. Do you think

680
00:37:49,480 --> 00:37:52,600
Speaker 1: we'll see a big change in the way that Jim

681
00:37:52,640 --> 00:37:55,640
Speaker 1: Irsy's daughters run the Colts or do you see them

682
00:37:55,680 --> 00:38:00,960
Speaker 1: picking up where they were he left off. It's kind

683
00:38:00,960 --> 00:38:04,799
Speaker 1: of the great unknown. Paul Allen died several years ago

684
00:38:04,840 --> 00:38:08,719
Speaker 1: and is a Jody Allen has been running the team,

685
00:38:08,840 --> 00:38:11,520
Speaker 1: and obviously John Schneider still there. So I think the

686
00:38:11,560 --> 00:38:15,920
Speaker 1: biggest question mark with the Colts moving forward is if

687
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Speaker 1: they missed the playoffs for however many straight years and

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Speaker 1: this quarterback situation goes, like most of us are going

689
00:38:22,120 --> 00:38:26,760
Speaker 1: to predict, it's going to go not great. What happened?

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Speaker 1: Do they fire Chris Ballard? Because it does feel and

691
00:38:30,760 --> 00:38:33,480
Speaker 1: maybe Chris Ballard would dispute this that him and Jim

692
00:38:33,560 --> 00:38:36,319
Speaker 1: Mersay were really close and Jim Mersay believed in him,

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Speaker 1: and rightfully so, I mean, he own the team, he

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Speaker 1: likes him. I don't blame him. He wants to keep

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00:38:40,920 --> 00:38:43,200
Speaker 1: him around. I don't think Chris Ballard's bad at his job,

696
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Speaker 1: but the quarterback situation has simply not worked out. And

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Speaker 1: I think when you look at kind of this scenario

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Speaker 1: of what's going to happen, you go. If it's pretty

699
00:38:58,239 --> 00:39:01,960
Speaker 1: ugly at quarterback, you have to think that Chris Ballard's

700
00:39:02,040 --> 00:39:06,000
Speaker 1: gonna be in trouble. Now. I'll what if Daniel Jones

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Speaker 1: turns into Alex Smith year one, Jim Harbaugh, the Colts

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Speaker 1: win ten eleven games, they're in the playoffs, maybe gets

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Speaker 1: an extension. Maybe Daniel Jones our quarterback, because that was

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Speaker 1: back to the comparisons, the Daniel Jones comp when he

705
00:39:19,440 --> 00:39:22,959
Speaker 1: was coming out whenever, seven, eight, nine years ago, maybe

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00:39:23,000 --> 00:39:26,480
Speaker 1: not that long ago, but twenty sixteen seventeen was like

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Speaker 1: Alex Smith with the Chiefs, like that was his comp

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Speaker 1: which if your team's good, a solid player, but it

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Speaker 1: shows you like even when your comps aren't Josh Allen

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Speaker 1: or Lamar Jackson or you know, Justin Herbert, if it's

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Speaker 1: just like, hey, I could be the next Kirk Cousins

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Speaker 1: or Dak Prescott. Do you know good that guy is?

713
00:39:45,760 --> 00:39:47,839
Speaker 1: How good it is? How hard it is to be

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Speaker 1: Dak Prescott or Kirk Cousins in their prime? Ninety quarterbacks

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Speaker 1: aren't gonna do that because if those guys are quarterback

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Speaker 1: eight nine, ten, eleven, kind of that range, do you

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Speaker 1: know how hard it is to become that one of

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Speaker 1: the top twelve quarterbacks in the NFL. I'm guilty of

719
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Speaker 1: this too, but it shows you like no one has.

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Speaker 1: There is no such thing in the draft as a

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Speaker 1: high floor, and it gets used a lot. I'm guilty

722
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Speaker 1: of it because everyone can suck, especially some of these

723
00:40:21,320 --> 00:40:23,800
Speaker 1: positions are a lot of it is out of your control.

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Speaker 1: Like you can't tell me that Zach Bond just all

725
00:40:30,320 --> 00:40:33,359
Speaker 1: of a sudden got good at football. He's playing, he's

726
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Speaker 1: out of position, he's with a team that's going through

727
00:40:36,760 --> 00:40:39,279
Speaker 1: some weird shit, and he just gets fangio and he

728
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Speaker 1: becomes an All Pro. There are probably a lot of

729
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Speaker 1: those guys in the NFL, and there are a lot

730
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Speaker 1: of guys that maybe are good that if you put

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Speaker 1: them in crappy situations, might not be good. So there

732
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Speaker 1: are so many variables at play that Daniel Jones a

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Speaker 1: good example because I remember doing a podcast when Daniels

734
00:41:00,040 --> 00:41:02,840
Speaker 1: Zones got drafted. Like most people, I'm like, that's insane.

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Speaker 1: They took the guy six overall. And I have a

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Speaker 1: good friend who I think is widely considered a really

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Speaker 1: high end NFL scout slash. He's an executive technically now,

738
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Speaker 1: I was like, Bro, I like this player. I think

739
00:41:17,200 --> 00:41:20,520
Speaker 1: he's good. I think you're wrong on this. I'll never

740
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Speaker 1: forget one of my best buddies in the league. I

741
00:41:22,440 --> 00:41:24,840
Speaker 1: used to shit on Josh Allen in college. I'm like,

742
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Speaker 1: you're telling me this guy fifty percent completion percentage at

743
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Speaker 1: Wyoming and uh. One of my good buddies who's got

744
00:41:32,920 --> 00:41:36,000
Speaker 1: a lot of rings on his finger, was like, Uh, Bro,

745
00:41:36,400 --> 00:41:39,520
Speaker 1: this guy can play. This guy's gonna be good. I

746
00:41:39,560 --> 00:41:42,600
Speaker 1: promise you, like I would change my tune on him

747
00:41:44,280 --> 00:41:45,840
Speaker 1: three four years later. I mean, it's one of the

748
00:41:45,880 --> 00:41:49,200
Speaker 1: best players in the league. So it's just it's what

749
00:41:49,280 --> 00:41:53,000
Speaker 1: makes this kind of thing hard is you're dealing with

750
00:41:53,120 --> 00:41:56,799
Speaker 1: human beings, and most of these guys, whether you play linebacker,

751
00:41:56,880 --> 00:41:59,880
Speaker 1: whether you play quarterback, whether you play wide receiver, the scheme,

752
00:42:00,000 --> 00:42:02,400
Speaker 1: who's coaching you, the organization. We just talked about it

753
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Speaker 1: earlier on the pod with Aaron Rodgers. Aaron Rodgers like, listen,

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Speaker 1: is he twenty fourteen? Aaron Rodgers, Of course not, but

755
00:42:12,080 --> 00:42:13,800
Speaker 1: I bet he looks a lot better. If you placed

756
00:42:13,880 --> 00:42:17,880
Speaker 1: that version last year with Kyle Shanahana Sean McVay, then

757
00:42:17,920 --> 00:42:20,800
Speaker 1: you do on the new York jets. I mean it

758
00:42:21,480 --> 00:42:25,000
Speaker 1: just promise you probably looks better, probably feels a little

759
00:42:25,000 --> 00:42:28,279
Speaker 1: bit more normal. You put most people on the jets,

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00:42:28,320 --> 00:42:29,000
Speaker 1: they look crappy.

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Speaker 1: Have you ever played half Moon Bay at the Ritz

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Speaker 1: playing tomorrow just seeing how the course is? Yeah, I

768
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Speaker 1: played with my dad a long long time ago when

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Speaker 1: I was young. It's awesome. I mean it's right there

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Speaker 1: on the water, cool course. I would imagine the Hotel

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00:43:01,400 --> 00:43:05,560
Speaker 1: Ritz half Moon Bay on the water pretty sick. Pretty sure.

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Speaker 1: I haven't been down there in a long long time.

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Speaker 1: But like for those of you this, we're talking California,

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Speaker 1: Northern California, this thing called Mavericks, which is like the

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00:43:17,880 --> 00:43:21,960
Speaker 1: big break they have like big wave surfing. You know,

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Speaker 1: given the right time of year with these big I

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Speaker 1: could be getting my surfing terms off swells because there's

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Speaker 1: like a reef the way it like breaks. It just

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Speaker 1: creates these waves like forty to fifty sixty feet, it's dangerous.

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Speaker 1: People die. It's also like some of the beside, like

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Speaker 1: South Africa. In some areas in Australia, I think some

782
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Speaker 1: of the most populated area for great white sharks. So

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Speaker 1: you have a reef that a fifty foot wave can

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Speaker 1: slam you in, and you also have great white sharks

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00:43:52,160 --> 00:43:54,399
Speaker 1: that live there. So yeah, that's where I want to surf.

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Speaker 1: Sounds fun, glad. I never like surfing because not a

787
00:44:00,680 --> 00:44:03,759
Speaker 1: big ocean guy. Too many risks. Do you think the

788
00:44:03,760 --> 00:44:06,120
Speaker 1: Texans can be a Super Bowl threat if we figure

789
00:44:06,120 --> 00:44:09,040
Speaker 1: out the offensive line. I feel like we have the weapons,

790
00:44:09,200 --> 00:44:11,600
Speaker 1: running game and top defense. We just need to protect CJ.

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00:44:11,920 --> 00:44:14,319
Speaker 1: I think if he has time in the pocket like

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Speaker 1: Hurts or Goff, he could be scary and we could

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Speaker 1: be a legit AFC contender. I picked you guys to

794
00:44:20,440 --> 00:44:22,480
Speaker 1: be the number one seed last year, eight to one.

795
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Speaker 1: I remember feeling pretty damn good about that show Gambley's Risky.

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Speaker 1: You know, you feel confident, and all of a sudden

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Speaker 1: you're like, what is going on? Uh? I don't know

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Speaker 1: who said this, but I heard someone say this. I'm like,

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Speaker 1: I wonder if I was a year early and now,

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Speaker 1: like last year, I wasn't alone. Most people were all

801
00:44:40,760 --> 00:44:43,800
Speaker 1: over the Texans, and then this year everyone's kind of

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00:44:43,840 --> 00:44:48,040
Speaker 1: going to be off them. I can see that people

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Speaker 1: picking other teams in that division. I would guess the

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00:44:51,360 --> 00:44:54,520
Speaker 1: Jags will be like a hipster pick. I think the

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00:44:54,560 --> 00:44:58,400
Speaker 1: Titans could be like a really really hipster pick. Is

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00:44:58,440 --> 00:45:00,880
Speaker 1: this year the Texans a lot better? Now you traded

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00:45:00,920 --> 00:45:04,480
Speaker 1: your best offensive lineman you signed. I think it's official

808
00:45:04,520 --> 00:45:06,840
Speaker 1: by the time of record. Chubb is now you're you know,

809
00:45:06,880 --> 00:45:10,160
Speaker 1: one of your running backs? Uh, you lose what's his name?

810
00:45:10,360 --> 00:45:13,080
Speaker 1: Who was a really really good player to just a

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00:45:13,200 --> 00:45:18,440
Speaker 1: devastating injury in Tankdale. But defense should be elite. I

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00:45:18,440 --> 00:45:20,759
Speaker 1: mean Will Anderson's just I think gonna be one of

813
00:45:20,800 --> 00:45:22,600
Speaker 1: the better players in the league for a long time.

814
00:45:24,440 --> 00:45:27,719
Speaker 1: Might not be like von Miller, Miles Garrett high end,

815
00:45:27,880 --> 00:45:32,200
Speaker 1: but just every single year I was about to check

816
00:45:32,239 --> 00:45:34,680
Speaker 1: did Will Anderson make the Pro Bowl? And then you know,

817
00:45:34,719 --> 00:45:37,759
Speaker 1: I shit on people from like you don't necessarily know

818
00:45:37,760 --> 00:45:40,320
Speaker 1: if they make the Pro Bowl or not. He uh,

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Speaker 1: he made the Pro Bowl as a rookie. He didn't

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Speaker 1: make it last year. What would you do in my situation?

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Speaker 1: I'm thirty two year old, thirty two years old, single

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Speaker 1: going on thirty three in Fort Lauderdale. I want to

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00:45:50,640 --> 00:45:53,960
Speaker 1: work for myself and have freedom long term. I already

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00:45:53,960 --> 00:45:57,880
Speaker 1: decided that question is what do I do now? Current

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00:45:57,880 --> 00:46:02,160
Speaker 1: full time job plush door dashing on the side still

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Speaker 1: doesn't cover my monthly expenses, credit card, debt, minimum payments. Yes,

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Speaker 1: learn my lesson need to act fast. Job is soul

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Speaker 1: crushing and I only have energy for one of these

829
00:46:14,040 --> 00:46:17,960
Speaker 1: short term options. One either go all in, find a

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Speaker 1: better paying job to stabilize myself financially, and then work

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Speaker 1: on my side hustle my escape plan, even though the

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Speaker 1: thought of that pains me with another job, or say efitt,

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Speaker 1: quit my current job without another and figure out myself

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Speaker 1: thirty to forty pro PTO cash out buffer than I'm aft.

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Speaker 1: I'm in debt and no savings, burnt out, but disciplined

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Speaker 1: and ready to do what it takes. Not getting any younger.

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Speaker 1: I mean, bro, you're thirty two, You're still pretty young.

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Speaker 1: I would say this, I don't know what your side

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00:46:53,920 --> 00:46:56,400
Speaker 1: hustle or the thing that you actually you want to

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00:46:56,400 --> 00:47:01,160
Speaker 1: work for yourself. You know what that is, right, So

841
00:47:01,280 --> 00:47:04,200
Speaker 1: if you already have that and you know this could

842
00:47:04,239 --> 00:47:07,640
Speaker 1: be something, then you can just attack that and go

843
00:47:07,719 --> 00:47:10,040
Speaker 1: all in, because if you're already in debt, you might

844
00:47:10,080 --> 00:47:12,160
Speaker 1: as well just go all in on that thing. But

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Speaker 1: the way that you laid it out, you do not

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00:47:16,440 --> 00:47:20,520
Speaker 1: know what that thing is, because if you don't, you

847
00:47:20,600 --> 00:47:23,800
Speaker 1: just quit everything. You don't necessarily know what you're going toward.

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Speaker 1: I would say, listen, it's you gotta be careful these

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Speaker 1: days because credit card debt, these interest rates can get

850
00:47:33,680 --> 00:47:38,480
Speaker 1: pretty out of control fast. I think you're best assuming

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Speaker 1: you don't know what you want to do. I would

852
00:47:41,680 --> 00:47:44,520
Speaker 1: try to find a better paying job and just stabilize

853
00:47:44,560 --> 00:47:46,879
Speaker 1: your life a little bit, and it helps you think

854
00:47:46,920 --> 00:47:51,360
Speaker 1: clearer because you also have to be able to put

855
00:47:52,160 --> 00:47:54,840
Speaker 1: some sort of value on. If you have a job

856
00:47:55,000 --> 00:47:58,160
Speaker 1: that isn't paying you enough and you hate it, think

857
00:47:58,160 --> 00:48:01,719
Speaker 1: about the returns that giving you negatively and setting you back.

858
00:48:02,120 --> 00:48:05,000
Speaker 1: Your life's miserable. It's not like you're making enough money

859
00:48:05,080 --> 00:48:06,920
Speaker 1: to like be like ah, I can just suck it up.

860
00:48:07,560 --> 00:48:09,680
Speaker 1: That's taking a lot out of you as a human being.

861
00:48:10,400 --> 00:48:13,719
Speaker 1: So I would just try. If you don't have your

862
00:48:13,760 --> 00:48:18,320
Speaker 1: side hustle or what you envision doing working for yourself

863
00:48:18,840 --> 00:48:22,000
Speaker 1: figured out, or maybe that's let's just say a fluid situation.

864
00:48:22,640 --> 00:48:26,439
Speaker 1: Try to find a better, more stabilized, higher paying job,

865
00:48:27,120 --> 00:48:28,759
Speaker 1: and then from there you can kind of take a

866
00:48:28,800 --> 00:48:34,040
Speaker 1: deep breath and maybe be a little happier. But this

867
00:48:34,080 --> 00:48:37,000
Speaker 1: is why I always give advice to people when you're young,

868
00:48:37,760 --> 00:48:40,720
Speaker 1: you know, in your twenties, when you first leave college

869
00:48:40,760 --> 00:48:42,080
Speaker 1: or leave high school. If you're not going to go

870
00:48:42,120 --> 00:48:45,480
Speaker 1: to college, try to find something you do for a

871
00:48:45,520 --> 00:48:50,360
Speaker 1: living that you enjoy. My brother's in the farming business.

872
00:48:50,400 --> 00:48:53,719
Speaker 1: He loves that shit. I know people, and also I

873
00:48:53,760 --> 00:48:57,840
Speaker 1: have a bunch of friends in sales. They love, and

874
00:48:57,920 --> 00:49:02,560
Speaker 1: I mean love socializing, and they crush because it comes

875
00:49:02,640 --> 00:49:06,720
Speaker 1: natural to them. Even if you don't love, like maybe

876
00:49:06,719 --> 00:49:09,040
Speaker 1: the company or even the product you're selling, If you

877
00:49:09,360 --> 00:49:13,879
Speaker 1: like what you're doing, anything you do eventually becomes a job.

878
00:49:14,480 --> 00:49:17,680
Speaker 1: What I'm doing podcasting, there are days like I don't

879
00:49:17,719 --> 00:49:21,839
Speaker 1: feel like doing this. We're all human beings, not every day.

880
00:49:21,920 --> 00:49:24,640
Speaker 1: Nick Saban was like fired up to go to work.

881
00:49:25,160 --> 00:49:29,359
Speaker 1: We're all humans, right, So when you enjoy doing it,

882
00:49:29,440 --> 00:49:32,600
Speaker 1: those days when you don't have it become a little easier.

883
00:49:33,480 --> 00:49:37,200
Speaker 1: Because I mean I've been lucky, I mean, I created

884
00:49:37,200 --> 00:49:38,919
Speaker 1: my own luck, but I didn't do anything I didn't

885
00:49:38,960 --> 00:49:41,919
Speaker 1: want to do. Once I left college, I just went

886
00:49:41,960 --> 00:49:43,879
Speaker 1: to football and said, I'm going to figure this out

887
00:49:44,920 --> 00:49:48,280
Speaker 1: because I knew my personality. If I didn't like doing

888
00:49:49,040 --> 00:49:52,080
Speaker 1: what I was doing for a living, maybe I could

889
00:49:52,120 --> 00:49:55,359
Speaker 1: have faked it in my twenties, but I knew as

890
00:49:55,400 --> 00:49:58,120
Speaker 1: I got older it would be a disaster and I

891
00:49:58,120 --> 00:50:00,480
Speaker 1: would suck at what I did because I would not care,

892
00:50:01,680 --> 00:50:04,480
Speaker 1: and I'm not talented or smart enough to fake it.

893
00:50:05,440 --> 00:50:09,840
Speaker 1: So my number one advice to any human being is

894
00:50:09,920 --> 00:50:13,160
Speaker 1: figure out what you like and try to map a

895
00:50:13,200 --> 00:50:17,920
Speaker 1: profession towards some sort of passion. And I think I

896
00:50:17,960 --> 00:50:20,440
Speaker 1: see some people, especially online, like push back against that,

897
00:50:20,520 --> 00:50:23,920
Speaker 1: like it's such a utopian view of the world. It

898
00:50:23,960 --> 00:50:26,920
Speaker 1: doesn't have to be like just because I fucking like

899
00:50:27,239 --> 00:50:29,600
Speaker 1: coloring with crayons, I'm gonna find something in that. But

900
00:50:29,640 --> 00:50:32,720
Speaker 1: you're like, no, I just mean, like, find something you enjoy,

901
00:50:33,320 --> 00:50:35,520
Speaker 1: and by the time that you're in your late teens,

902
00:50:35,640 --> 00:50:39,760
Speaker 1: in your twenties, definitely mid twenties, you have some idea

903
00:50:39,800 --> 00:50:43,239
Speaker 1: of what you like and dislike. Obviously things change as

904
00:50:43,280 --> 00:50:46,880
Speaker 1: you get older, but unless sometimes you don't really have

905
00:50:46,880 --> 00:50:52,399
Speaker 1: a choice. And life happens, but ideally you're making enough

906
00:50:52,400 --> 00:50:54,760
Speaker 1: coin to suck it up. Do you think teams would

907
00:50:54,880 --> 00:50:58,320
Speaker 1: entertain trading for a veteran player like Jalen Ramsey or

908
00:50:58,360 --> 00:51:01,960
Speaker 1: would teams back off seeing him coming late to Dolphins

909
00:51:02,000 --> 00:51:05,560
Speaker 1: team meetings? If you do think that, what teams do

910
00:51:05,600 --> 00:51:09,719
Speaker 1: you think would fit Jalen Ramsey the most? I think

911
00:51:09,760 --> 00:51:12,760
Speaker 1: a lot of teams would do a lot of research

912
00:51:13,360 --> 00:51:15,919
Speaker 1: and they'd start with Sean. They'd go, why'd you guys

913
00:51:16,000 --> 00:51:19,799
Speaker 1: pun on them? Sean? And less? He was playing well

914
00:51:20,080 --> 00:51:21,960
Speaker 1: and you guys just was just simply you were just

915
00:51:23,400 --> 00:51:28,200
Speaker 1: reshaping your cap maybe or was it like he's starting

916
00:51:28,200 --> 00:51:33,200
Speaker 1: to bother you? Because clearly he didn't respect. Mike McDaniel.

917
00:51:34,280 --> 00:51:37,480
Speaker 1: And I don't know Jalen Ramsey personally. I've actually never

918
00:51:37,520 --> 00:51:40,480
Speaker 1: really I don't know anyone with the Dolphins, so it's

919
00:51:40,719 --> 00:51:43,120
Speaker 1: not like I've heard these negative stories. It was just

920
00:51:43,160 --> 00:51:46,040
Speaker 1: pretty easy to put two and two together when McDaniel

921
00:51:46,080 --> 00:51:47,800
Speaker 1: was like, yeah, people show up to late to the meetings,

922
00:51:48,120 --> 00:51:51,360
Speaker 1: finds don't work. Well, you're not the guy making the

923
00:51:51,440 --> 00:51:55,239
Speaker 1: league minimum. Hell, the guy making five million dollars isn't

924
00:51:55,239 --> 00:51:58,760
Speaker 1: giving away twenty fifty grand when you're making twenty plus

925
00:51:58,800 --> 00:52:02,600
Speaker 1: million dollars ten fifteen grand finds, Fuck you, I don't care.

926
00:52:03,360 --> 00:52:06,000
Speaker 1: But if I don't respect you. And I've been in

927
00:52:06,040 --> 00:52:09,279
Speaker 1: this situation before professionally once in radio, and I'm sure

928
00:52:09,320 --> 00:52:12,680
Speaker 1: many people listening have been in a situation where you

929
00:52:12,760 --> 00:52:16,799
Speaker 1: work for someone and you just have zero respect. Now

930
00:52:17,000 --> 00:52:19,920
Speaker 1: you still do things because like, hey, the people I

931
00:52:20,040 --> 00:52:23,400
Speaker 1: work with, the people maybe on my team or partners

932
00:52:23,520 --> 00:52:26,720
Speaker 1: or whatever. I'm still gonna keep my head up and grind,

933
00:52:27,320 --> 00:52:29,600
Speaker 1: but like, it's really hard for me to be a

934
00:52:29,640 --> 00:52:32,640
Speaker 1: professional because I have no respect for that person. And

935
00:52:32,680 --> 00:52:34,320
Speaker 1: maybe there's a case he just thinks this guy's a

936
00:52:34,360 --> 00:52:38,200
Speaker 1: complete fraut. I think Mike McDaniel really knows offense. I

937
00:52:38,200 --> 00:52:41,360
Speaker 1: think he's an innovative guy in the run game. Do

938
00:52:41,440 --> 00:52:42,880
Speaker 1: I think he's a good head coach. I do not.

939
00:52:44,120 --> 00:52:47,120
Speaker 1: And I just wonder if Jalen Ramsey has zero respect

940
00:52:47,160 --> 00:52:51,080
Speaker 1: for and maybe it's just uncalled for and Jalen Ramsey's

941
00:52:51,160 --> 00:52:54,480
Speaker 1: completely wrong. Maybe Mike McDaniel's been wrong. I don't know.

942
00:52:54,880 --> 00:52:57,000
Speaker 1: I also think though there is a level of like,

943
00:52:57,800 --> 00:53:01,479
Speaker 1: and we've talked about this before, can you imagine even

944
00:53:01,480 --> 00:53:04,640
Speaker 1: if like Mike Tomlin or Jim or John Harbaugh or

945
00:53:04,640 --> 00:53:07,279
Speaker 1: Pete Carroll or Sean Payton. These guys are driving you

946
00:53:07,400 --> 00:53:10,120
Speaker 1: nuts and you're pissed off at them. You think you

947
00:53:10,160 --> 00:53:13,200
Speaker 1: show up late to a meeting, No chance, and listen,

948
00:53:13,719 --> 00:53:18,960
Speaker 1: I don't care who you are. The most punctual human

949
00:53:19,000 --> 00:53:24,000
Speaker 1: beings have days when they missed their alarm or running

950
00:53:24,000 --> 00:53:27,160
Speaker 1: into traffic. That's not the case here. I do think

951
00:53:27,200 --> 00:53:29,360
Speaker 1: it's a pretty big red flag around the league, especially

952
00:53:29,400 --> 00:53:30,880
Speaker 1: when you factor and he makes a lot of money.

953
00:53:32,120 --> 00:53:35,359
Speaker 1: A couple more questions. Got married last April, and the

954
00:53:35,400 --> 00:53:37,600
Speaker 1: country club we got married at threw in a free

955
00:53:37,680 --> 00:53:41,080
Speaker 1: round for me and my buddies. I had never sworn

956
00:53:41,200 --> 00:53:43,960
Speaker 1: club in my life, but I was always curious about

957
00:53:43,960 --> 00:53:46,960
Speaker 1: getting into golf, and I wasn't going to pass up

958
00:53:47,000 --> 00:53:50,120
Speaker 1: a free round. I ended up having a blast. The

959
00:53:50,160 --> 00:53:53,600
Speaker 1: next day was our wedding. I decided to treat myself

960
00:53:53,680 --> 00:53:56,640
Speaker 1: and bought a set of clubs. That summer, I started

961
00:53:56,680 --> 00:54:00,640
Speaker 1: playing more and more, and now I'm addicted instantly watching

962
00:54:00,719 --> 00:54:03,040
Speaker 1: videos and trying out new things to improve my game.

963
00:54:03,239 --> 00:54:05,880
Speaker 1: We've all been there. My question is next year I

964
00:54:05,920 --> 00:54:08,360
Speaker 1: turn thirty and I would like to get fitted for clubs,

965
00:54:08,840 --> 00:54:11,680
Speaker 1: but I am also considering getting some lessons to try

966
00:54:12,040 --> 00:54:14,480
Speaker 1: to work on some bad habits in my form, what

967
00:54:14,560 --> 00:54:16,400
Speaker 1: are some tips that you would give a new golfer

968
00:54:16,480 --> 00:54:19,080
Speaker 1: to improve their game, and if you could choose one,

969
00:54:19,320 --> 00:54:23,800
Speaker 1: would you go fitted clubs or golf lessons first? I

970
00:54:23,840 --> 00:54:27,280
Speaker 1: would go golf lessons. Before you need a splurge on clubs.

971
00:54:27,800 --> 00:54:31,239
Speaker 1: I would get a couple lessons with I would ask

972
00:54:31,280 --> 00:54:34,160
Speaker 1: around or use Google wherever you live and try to

973
00:54:34,200 --> 00:54:37,200
Speaker 1: find I mean, some of these lessons aren't cheap, but

974
00:54:37,520 --> 00:54:40,920
Speaker 1: maybe by like two, you know, one lesson. Sometimes a

975
00:54:40,960 --> 00:54:44,239
Speaker 1: one off situation doesn't work, so maybe get two for

976
00:54:44,640 --> 00:54:47,440
Speaker 1: two hundred or whatever the rate is, so you go

977
00:54:47,560 --> 00:54:49,760
Speaker 1: back a couple times and you kind of get a field.

978
00:54:49,760 --> 00:54:51,200
Speaker 1: This is what I'm good at. This what I'm not

979
00:54:51,239 --> 00:54:54,600
Speaker 1: good at. Before I buy clubs, especially if you're going

980
00:54:54,600 --> 00:54:57,680
Speaker 1: to a club, even if it's a public course, or

981
00:54:57,760 --> 00:55:01,320
Speaker 1: the guy's a PGA professional and it's been around the block.

982
00:55:01,440 --> 00:55:03,960
Speaker 1: Maybe a college golfer has a feel for like, yeah, man,

983
00:55:04,000 --> 00:55:08,279
Speaker 1: your clubs are fine. I would hesitate just got into

984
00:55:08,280 --> 00:55:12,040
Speaker 1: golf on paying for a brand new set of fitted clubs,

985
00:55:12,320 --> 00:55:15,000
Speaker 1: especially if you just bought clubs last year, I would

986
00:55:15,040 --> 00:55:17,240
Speaker 1: use those clubs in a lesson for a couple times,

987
00:55:18,520 --> 00:55:23,319
Speaker 1: and that guy can give you, I guess drills. I mean,

988
00:55:23,880 --> 00:55:26,480
Speaker 1: unless you're like Tiger Woods or Skys Scheffler. I mean,

989
00:55:26,520 --> 00:55:30,600
Speaker 1: for the most part, it's about setting your feet, aiming

990
00:55:30,600 --> 00:55:33,680
Speaker 1: in the right direction, getting a getting your swing dialed

991
00:55:33,800 --> 00:55:36,279
Speaker 1: and your grip dialed. You know, like drills, like are

992
00:55:36,280 --> 00:55:39,120
Speaker 1: you really just gonna bang the drill out three times

993
00:55:39,160 --> 00:55:41,239
Speaker 1: a week? It's one of those things that sounds good

994
00:55:41,320 --> 00:55:45,759
Speaker 1: in theory, not necessarily in reality now, like tips on

995
00:55:46,640 --> 00:55:50,279
Speaker 1: certain things with chipping or the ways to hit a

996
00:55:50,320 --> 00:55:53,840
Speaker 1: cut or a draw, for sure, but like overall drills

997
00:55:54,000 --> 00:55:57,760
Speaker 1: unless you're just an all time grinder. I think sometimes

998
00:55:57,760 --> 00:56:03,320
Speaker 1: as stuff gets overstated with the US casuals, which basically

999
00:56:03,360 --> 00:56:09,120
Speaker 1: everyone is besides like scratches and pros. Just finished watching

1000
00:56:09,160 --> 00:56:15,120
Speaker 1: the Alcaaz Center Roland Garros final. It went five and

1001
00:56:15,120 --> 00:56:19,160
Speaker 1: a half hours, instant classic and will go down as

1002
00:56:19,200 --> 00:56:24,040
Speaker 1: one of the best matches ever, two absolute gladiators going

1003
00:56:24,080 --> 00:56:26,960
Speaker 1: at it. It got me thinking, what would be your

1004
00:56:27,000 --> 00:56:31,000
Speaker 1: top five most exciting edge of your seat sporting events

1005
00:56:31,400 --> 00:56:36,600
Speaker 1: you have ever witnessed? If you're talking live, because I

1006
00:56:36,600 --> 00:56:38,960
Speaker 1: mean just I've been alive since eighty four. I started

1007
00:56:38,960 --> 00:56:42,200
Speaker 1: watching sports in ninety four, and I would say the

1008
00:56:42,280 --> 00:56:50,359
Speaker 1: majority of big events basketball, baseball, football, golf, little tennis,

1009
00:56:50,760 --> 00:56:54,439
Speaker 1: the occasional race Kentucky Derby. Like I'm a sports fan,

1010
00:56:54,680 --> 00:56:56,799
Speaker 1: I've watched them, like most of you my age are

1011
00:56:56,800 --> 00:57:02,320
Speaker 1: older over that time live. I went to Game seven

1012
00:57:02,640 --> 00:57:06,520
Speaker 1: of the twenty sixteen or maybe it was fifteen whatever,

1013
00:57:06,560 --> 00:57:09,520
Speaker 1: the year that the Cabs came back three to one

1014
00:57:09,680 --> 00:57:13,880
Speaker 1: and Lebron James won the championship in Cleveland. It was

1015
00:57:14,000 --> 00:57:16,960
Speaker 1: riveting and it's actually a pretty big regret of mine

1016
00:57:17,440 --> 00:57:20,800
Speaker 1: that if I ever have the opportunity to go, you know,

1017
00:57:20,960 --> 00:57:23,880
Speaker 1: to a Super Bowl, to like a national championship game,

1018
00:57:24,520 --> 00:57:27,560
Speaker 1: to just something that has a chance, like listen, it's sports,

1019
00:57:27,640 --> 00:57:31,240
Speaker 1: anything could happen. I got a little too drunk, not

1020
00:57:31,320 --> 00:57:34,560
Speaker 1: that I don't remember, but it was like I didn't

1021
00:57:34,600 --> 00:57:37,920
Speaker 1: need to get that intoxicating because I went to the

1022
00:57:37,960 --> 00:57:41,600
Speaker 1: Super Bowl I think the next year, and that was

1023
00:57:41,640 --> 00:57:44,640
Speaker 1: the year. Was that the next year, No, it might

1024
00:57:44,680 --> 00:57:47,160
Speaker 1: have been, might have been around the same time, but

1025
00:57:48,480 --> 00:57:51,280
Speaker 1: I had a huge amount of money, all relative at

1026
00:57:51,280 --> 00:57:54,200
Speaker 1: the time on the Broncos to beat the Panthers, and

1027
00:57:54,240 --> 00:57:56,439
Speaker 1: I had like two beers. I just wanted to soak

1028
00:57:56,440 --> 00:58:00,280
Speaker 1: it in. It was a way better experience. I've been

1029
00:58:00,280 --> 00:58:03,080
Speaker 1: to some playoff baseball games with the Giants when they

1030
00:58:03,080 --> 00:58:05,880
Speaker 1: were really good winning World Series. They were pretty fucking incredible.

1031
00:58:05,960 --> 00:58:09,360
Speaker 1: Playoff baseball games are pretty awesome. When you're talking like

1032
00:58:09,480 --> 00:58:14,680
Speaker 1: the NLCS or alcs' it's just riveting. I've been in

1033
00:58:14,720 --> 00:58:18,320
Speaker 1: some playoff football games. They're not bad. I haven't been

1034
00:58:18,360 --> 00:58:21,920
Speaker 1: to like a great playoff football game. That's a good question.

1035
00:58:23,760 --> 00:58:28,320
Speaker 1: Here's the reality is some events. You know, Basketball, if

1036
00:58:28,360 --> 00:58:31,200
Speaker 1: you have a good seats, it's a great television sport.

1037
00:58:31,240 --> 00:58:36,760
Speaker 1: It's a good in person sport. Baseball pretty good in

1038
00:58:36,840 --> 00:58:39,240
Speaker 1: person sport if you have a good seat. Football would

1039
00:58:39,240 --> 00:58:41,560
Speaker 1: just much rather be at home. I mean, some of

1040
00:58:41,560 --> 00:58:44,560
Speaker 1: the best football games we've ever seen from a couple

1041
00:58:44,600 --> 00:58:51,000
Speaker 1: of the ELI Patriots who bowls to that Arizona Pittsburgh

1042
00:58:51,040 --> 00:58:54,600
Speaker 1: James Harrison. Play Like Football is the best television show ever.

1043
00:58:54,760 --> 00:59:00,560
Speaker 1: I mean, it's Sports Taylor made for forty fift sixty

1044
00:59:00,600 --> 00:59:04,120
Speaker 1: inch television. I mean, I got two people to live

1045
00:59:04,160 --> 00:59:06,320
Speaker 1: in my house. I got about six Samsungs all over

1046
00:59:06,360 --> 00:59:09,520
Speaker 1: the place, and when football is on, It's it's hard

1047
00:59:09,520 --> 00:59:12,040
Speaker 1: to beat. I remember where I was when the kicksix

1048
00:59:12,040 --> 00:59:18,479
Speaker 1: happened Alabama Auburn. I remember my jaw hit the floor.

1049
00:59:18,560 --> 00:59:20,600
Speaker 1: It was That's one of the craziest things I've ever witnessed.

1050
00:59:21,560 --> 00:59:23,840
Speaker 1: I mean, that's an all time college play. I remember

1051
00:59:23,880 --> 00:59:26,480
Speaker 1: being in college when Vince Young. I mean I went

1052
00:59:26,520 --> 00:59:31,000
Speaker 1: to cal Poly, but we had a large contingent of

1053
00:59:31,080 --> 00:59:35,280
Speaker 1: people at that school from southern California and that was

1054
00:59:35,280 --> 00:59:37,720
Speaker 1: in the heyday FSC, and I just knew a lot

1055
00:59:37,720 --> 00:59:40,320
Speaker 1: of USC fans and that was that was pretty devastating.

1056
00:59:40,360 --> 00:59:43,040
Speaker 1: I had a lot of cocky buddies in my fraternity

1057
00:59:43,080 --> 00:59:46,120
Speaker 1: that were big SC guys. That was a big l

1058
00:59:46,160 --> 00:59:49,040
Speaker 1: for them. That was a big L. But yeah, I

1059
00:59:49,080 --> 00:59:54,240
Speaker 1: would say best I knew going into Game seven Cleveland

1060
00:59:54,560 --> 00:59:58,320
Speaker 1: Lebron Steph it was a really, really big deal. I mean,

1061
00:59:58,320 --> 01:00:01,880
Speaker 1: the Warriors had just won seventy three games. That's probably

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Speaker 1: the biggest event I've ever been to where you just

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Speaker 1: knew there was a lot on the line. It was

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Speaker 1: game seven, it was Draymond had been suspended, the Warriors

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Speaker 1: are just taking down Michael Jordan's team's record. Lebron James

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Speaker 1: trying to win a championship in Cleveland. I mean, see

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Speaker 1: these television ratings for the NBA Finals are not high,

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Speaker 1: which makes sense. I mean, okay, see Indiana. It's just

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Speaker 1: it is what it is. But you knew, I mean,

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Speaker 1: I would imagine twenty plus million people watch that game.

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Speaker 1: You knew you were walking. I remember walking into Oracle

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Speaker 1: I mean, it was just a shitty old arena. The

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Speaker 1: Warriors now play in San Francisco at Chase Center. I

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Speaker 1: remember walking by Jared Goff, who at the time I

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Speaker 1: think was just drafted by the Rams. Maybe maybe it

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Speaker 1: was in the draft process, maybe it was just there.

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Speaker 1: I remember walking by Nadalminican Sue. I remember thinking that, God,

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Speaker 1: the fucking guy's huge. I just had a few too many.

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Speaker 1: I had a few too many. It's one of my

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Speaker 1: great regrets. Have a great day. Talk soon. The volume

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