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Speaker 1: They have the worst defensive line in the NFL on paper,

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Speaker 1: not close linebackers below average. Their dvs are good. And

427
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Speaker 1: he showed up with with frost bitten feet and ran

428
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Speaker 1: circles around them all like he's a dominant player. But

429
00:24:00,600 --> 00:24:02,800
Speaker 1: he's got to somewhat get his head right. Now. He's

430
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Speaker 1: proven that he can play with not his head right,

431
00:24:05,000 --> 00:24:07,120
Speaker 1: but he has to get his feet right. So now

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00:24:07,160 --> 00:24:10,640
Speaker 1: that helmet gate is behind him, he's given in, though

433
00:24:10,680 --> 00:24:12,960
Speaker 1: he's not happy. He'll wear the new helmet or trying

434
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Speaker 1: to find an older helmet that fits under the new regulations.

435
00:24:16,600 --> 00:24:18,400
Speaker 1: They have to find a way to get his feet right.

436
00:24:18,480 --> 00:24:21,719
Speaker 1: That's really the only thing matters. And this this diva

437
00:24:21,800 --> 00:24:24,520
Speaker 1: that you've acquired, like, that's not gonna change. It will

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Speaker 1: be something in week seven, it will be something week ten.

439
00:24:26,960 --> 00:24:29,560
Speaker 1: It's always gonna be something. But as long as he

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Speaker 1: plays at the level in which were now accustomed to

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Speaker 1: him playing, you deal with it. I noticed something this

442
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Speaker 1: weekend combine with what a b in his helmet gate

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Speaker 1: brought to light, and it kind of made a light

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Speaker 1: go off for me. And if this potentially happens, I

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Speaker 1: will be very happy. In a couple of games on

446
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Speaker 1: Friday and Saturday, I noticed big hits, big legal hits,

447
00:24:56,760 --> 00:25:01,719
Speaker 1: safeties and linebackers leading with shoulder pads but elevating, you know,

448
00:25:02,240 --> 00:25:06,359
Speaker 1: launching themselves in the air, but hitting below the you know,

449
00:25:06,480 --> 00:25:09,960
Speaker 1: below the below the neck area and doing it cleanly,

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00:25:10,400 --> 00:25:14,080
Speaker 1: and no flags were thrown. And then with Antonio Brown

451
00:25:14,119 --> 00:25:17,200
Speaker 1: and helmet gate, you realize the big push they're they're

452
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Speaker 1: moving into the league. Are these bigger, safer helmets And

453
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Speaker 1: clearly you know, five or six years ago and CT

454
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Speaker 1: was taken off, and the media just it felt like

455
00:25:28,520 --> 00:25:31,200
Speaker 1: wanting football the crumble, which is weird because so many

456
00:25:31,200 --> 00:25:33,960
Speaker 1: people in the media makes so much money because of football.

457
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Speaker 1: But you know, I I get it. I mean, I

458
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Speaker 1: don't necessarily relate to the hate and wanting to see

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Speaker 1: football go away. But I'm not a journalist either. I'm

460
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Speaker 1: a businessman. So I like the league doing well. Uh

461
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Speaker 1: It's it's good for anyone involved in the football business.

462
00:25:50,160 --> 00:25:53,720
Speaker 1: Though CT very bad thing. I'm not a pro CT

463
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Speaker 1: guy and I'm not some CT truther acting like it

464
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Speaker 1: doesn't exist. It clearly was an issue the league needed

465
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Speaker 1: to adapt. They have been over aggressive, you know, over

466
00:26:04,080 --> 00:26:06,080
Speaker 1: the last three or four years. If anything, they went

467
00:26:06,080 --> 00:26:08,600
Speaker 1: too far the other way. And I do think with

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Speaker 1: these bigger helmets that violence might come back to the sport.

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Speaker 1: And I think at the end of the day, I

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Speaker 1: know Twitter will tell you peace, love and happiness. We

471
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Speaker 1: just live in utopia. Look at the progressive NBA. You

472
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Speaker 1: know what people like with their football violence And I

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Speaker 1: have numbers to back me up to this day seven

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Speaker 1: years later, or maybe a little less than that six

475
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Speaker 1: years later, but in the history of the league, the

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Speaker 1: Seahawks versus forty Niners was as violent of a football game.

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Speaker 1: In two thousand fourteen, the NFC Championship game I've ever

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Speaker 1: I've ever witnessed. Thirty four years old, been watching football

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00:26:43,119 --> 00:26:46,680
Speaker 1: pretty consistently that I can remember now, you know, for

480
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Speaker 1: I don't know, twenty five years, that's as good as

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Speaker 1: it gets top to bottom, just vicious violence. And these

482
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Speaker 1: last couple of years they went over the top the

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Speaker 1: other way. You couldn't touch, a soul or a flag

484
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Speaker 1: got thrown out. Well, now that they've kind of neutralize

485
00:27:01,480 --> 00:27:03,720
Speaker 1: the CT problem, there even studies coming out that you

486
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Speaker 1: can get CT and other walks of life. I think

487
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Speaker 1: the media jumped the shark a little bit. We just

488
00:27:07,760 --> 00:27:10,680
Speaker 1: the information is not out clearly. Football is violent, not

489
00:27:10,720 --> 00:27:13,119
Speaker 1: good for your long term health. There's some things that

490
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Speaker 1: the league needs to work on for healthcare for its

491
00:27:14,960 --> 00:27:17,919
Speaker 1: foreigner players. That's a conversation for another place. But I

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00:27:17,960 --> 00:27:19,760
Speaker 1: think they had to bring in the big hits back.

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Speaker 1: And I'm not talking big hits where you're head hunting

494
00:27:22,600 --> 00:27:26,160
Speaker 1: and leaving guys injured on the field, but where guys

495
00:27:26,160 --> 00:27:28,760
Speaker 1: get lit up across the middle, where the wide receiver

496
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Speaker 1: fears going over the middle that he may be tackled,

497
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Speaker 1: where the vernacular ends that he's a defenseless player. It's

498
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Speaker 1: impossible to be a defenseless player if you're a wide

499
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Speaker 1: receiver because you're running over the middle where you know

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00:27:41,840 --> 00:27:44,119
Speaker 1: defensive backs are. Now, if you want to convince me

501
00:27:44,200 --> 00:27:47,359
Speaker 1: you're a defenseless apartment return standing there waiting for the

502
00:27:47,400 --> 00:27:49,600
Speaker 1: punt to come down because you're looking at high at

503
00:27:49,640 --> 00:27:52,159
Speaker 1: the air, I'll hear you there. But to me, a

504
00:27:52,160 --> 00:27:55,120
Speaker 1: wide receiver is not defenseless. And I noticed some big

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Speaker 1: time hits this weekend, no flags throwne and then obviously

506
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Speaker 1: these bigger helmets. I think violence is coming back, and

507
00:28:01,840 --> 00:28:06,000
Speaker 1: I know this. Every human and definitely every male, likes violence.

508
00:28:06,200 --> 00:28:08,960
Speaker 1: Were drawn to it. Think of when you're young and

509
00:28:09,119 --> 00:28:12,280
Speaker 1: like junior high in high school, when there's a fight

510
00:28:12,560 --> 00:28:15,440
Speaker 1: on campus or on school or at a party, everyone

511
00:28:15,520 --> 00:28:20,239
Speaker 1: runs to watch. It's our natural inclination. I'm someone like

512
00:28:20,600 --> 00:28:24,160
Speaker 1: I like my violence kind of regulated, like I like boxing.

513
00:28:24,680 --> 00:28:28,120
Speaker 1: I've always been a little comfortable watching mm A. Now

514
00:28:28,280 --> 00:28:31,520
Speaker 1: I have I admire how tough those guys are. I

515
00:28:31,560 --> 00:28:36,040
Speaker 1: went to college with Chad Mendez, who was the baddest

516
00:28:36,600 --> 00:28:39,320
Speaker 1: forty pounder I've ever seen. He used to beat up

517
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Speaker 1: dudes on the football team. He he couldn't be stopped.

518
00:28:42,520 --> 00:28:44,600
Speaker 1: It wasn't shocking that he went to the m m

519
00:28:44,600 --> 00:28:47,479
Speaker 1: A and was successful. You know, when I was at

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Speaker 1: cal Poly, Chuck le A Dale, who also had gone

521
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Speaker 1: to cal Poly, was in his prime in m m A.

522
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Speaker 1: But I get a little uncomfortable sometimes, like I'm watching it.

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00:28:55,120 --> 00:28:56,880
Speaker 1: These guys just beat each other to a pulp, Like

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Speaker 1: I'm not looking for that. I am. I do like

525
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Speaker 1: a good Bye Xing match where dudes are getting blasted,

526
00:29:01,720 --> 00:29:04,600
Speaker 1: but I love a good football hit. I've always been

527
00:29:04,600 --> 00:29:07,840
Speaker 1: more of an offensive guy, but I appreciate the Ronny Lots,

528
00:29:07,840 --> 00:29:10,480
Speaker 1: the Brian Dawkins like. I like that type player, the

529
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Speaker 1: Ray Lewis. I want to see guys get blasted legally.

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Speaker 1: And I think the league realizes that the that the

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Speaker 1: whatsification of football is not a positive big picture, and

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00:29:22,600 --> 00:29:26,360
Speaker 1: I'm separating two things here, Protecting the quarterback is a must.

533
00:29:26,960 --> 00:29:29,080
Speaker 1: The league is only as strong as its quarterbacks. The

534
00:29:29,160 --> 00:29:31,680
Speaker 1: league is now loaded with good quarterbacks. You gotta take

535
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Speaker 1: care of him. So I I am okay with overregulating

536
00:29:36,240 --> 00:29:38,760
Speaker 1: sacks and not throwing the flag. I can live with that.

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00:29:38,840 --> 00:29:41,960
Speaker 1: I really can't. He's gonna piss whoever off, you know,

538
00:29:41,960 --> 00:29:43,880
Speaker 1: a fan of a team on a given play. Every

539
00:29:43,880 --> 00:29:46,040
Speaker 1: once in a while, we just gotta deal with it.

540
00:29:46,360 --> 00:29:49,160
Speaker 1: Where I can't deal though, is when a guy's going

541
00:29:49,200 --> 00:29:52,080
Speaker 1: over the middle and a safety destroys him and he

542
00:29:52,160 --> 00:29:54,480
Speaker 1: hits him, you know, in the chest or the stomach,

543
00:29:54,520 --> 00:29:57,240
Speaker 1: and the dude throws a flag like what's he supposed

544
00:29:57,280 --> 00:29:59,640
Speaker 1: to do to hand touch him? Like that. That's where

545
00:29:59,640 --> 00:30:02,560
Speaker 1: the league became embarrassing. I thought these last couple of years,

546
00:30:02,800 --> 00:30:04,680
Speaker 1: that's where I thought the league was play kating to

547
00:30:04,760 --> 00:30:07,320
Speaker 1: what they thought Twitter wants. And when you play kate

548
00:30:07,320 --> 00:30:09,920
Speaker 1: to what you think Twitter wants, you get the NBA

549
00:30:10,120 --> 00:30:13,520
Speaker 1: and you get historically low ratings for a season. Play

550
00:30:13,600 --> 00:30:16,600
Speaker 1: kate to what the fans want, the consumer want, what

551
00:30:16,640 --> 00:30:19,720
Speaker 1: we're used to seeing. What helped make the NFL such

552
00:30:19,720 --> 00:30:24,640
Speaker 1: a big product was the ultimate combination of intellectual coaches

553
00:30:24,680 --> 00:30:28,720
Speaker 1: and quarterbacks playing mind games against defensive coordinators against this

554
00:30:28,840 --> 00:30:32,800
Speaker 1: just violent action of these defenders trying to take out

555
00:30:32,840 --> 00:30:34,800
Speaker 1: the guy with the ball in his hands, but you

556
00:30:34,800 --> 00:30:37,240
Speaker 1: can outthink them the scheme do it. That the ultimate

557
00:30:37,240 --> 00:30:40,480
Speaker 1: combination of team games. But there's a toughness element of

558
00:30:40,520 --> 00:30:44,920
Speaker 1: football that's blended into the team element. That and the

559
00:30:45,000 --> 00:30:48,120
Speaker 1: smart element that makes it such a special game. It's

560
00:30:48,160 --> 00:30:51,440
Speaker 1: why to go along with the urgency of the sport

561
00:30:51,480 --> 00:30:53,760
Speaker 1: you only play once a week. It's the ultimate combination,

562
00:30:54,160 --> 00:30:57,200
Speaker 1: perfect for gambling, on for perfect for watching. It's a

563
00:30:57,200 --> 00:31:01,680
Speaker 1: great television product. The talents still really high, the coaching

564
00:31:01,760 --> 00:31:04,200
Speaker 1: level still really high. It's got it all. But when

565
00:31:04,200 --> 00:31:06,120
Speaker 1: you take away one of the elements, which is a

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Speaker 1: huge fundamental part of the sport, the violent tackling, which

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00:31:10,160 --> 00:31:14,480
Speaker 1: is legal, that has been happening forever. It hurts the sport.

568
00:31:14,520 --> 00:31:16,320
Speaker 1: And I thought it's really hurt the sport the last

569
00:31:16,320 --> 00:31:19,040
Speaker 1: couple of years, and I thought they overreacted to things.

570
00:31:19,120 --> 00:31:23,480
Speaker 1: But I understand why they overreact. I am, at least

571
00:31:23,480 --> 00:31:25,800
Speaker 1: my theory that it kind of feels like it's coming

572
00:31:25,840 --> 00:31:28,400
Speaker 1: back makes me happy, and I'm gonna keep my fingers

573
00:31:28,400 --> 00:31:30,680
Speaker 1: crossed that the big hits come back, because I think

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00:31:30,720 --> 00:31:33,080
Speaker 1: that's what the people want, that's what the consumer wants.

575
00:31:33,120 --> 00:31:35,239
Speaker 1: And you're only as strong as a league and as

576
00:31:35,280 --> 00:31:38,360
Speaker 1: powerful as the league as you are the fans, because

577
00:31:38,400 --> 00:31:41,320
Speaker 1: the fans essentially pay for everything. The coaches don't mind

578
00:31:41,360 --> 00:31:44,200
Speaker 1: the big hits. The hell, the defensive coaches and defensive

579
00:31:44,200 --> 00:31:46,640
Speaker 1: players would pay to get them back. It would give

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00:31:46,680 --> 00:31:48,760
Speaker 1: them a fighting chance in a league that leans the

581
00:31:48,800 --> 00:31:52,040
Speaker 1: offensive ways. So if you're gonna give all these advantages

582
00:31:52,080 --> 00:31:54,520
Speaker 1: to the to the offense, you can't mug him more

583
00:31:54,560 --> 00:31:58,760
Speaker 1: than five yards down the field right most of the quarterback.

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Speaker 1: You can't really touch your made more, which I think

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00:32:01,560 --> 00:32:04,800
Speaker 1: even the defensive guys at this point in time, would understand,

586
00:32:05,320 --> 00:32:07,560
Speaker 1: you gotta be able to at least mess with the

587
00:32:07,640 --> 00:32:10,000
Speaker 1: wide receiver, at least have it in the back of

588
00:32:10,040 --> 00:32:12,360
Speaker 1: his mind. You know what might happen. You might get

589
00:32:12,480 --> 00:32:15,120
Speaker 1: laid out. And in the history of this great game,

590
00:32:15,200 --> 00:32:17,000
Speaker 1: a lot of guys have gotten laid out and they

591
00:32:17,040 --> 00:32:19,479
Speaker 1: get back up because when you're hit cleanly, you get

592
00:32:19,520 --> 00:32:21,720
Speaker 1: your win knocked out of you, you shake it off,

593
00:32:21,720 --> 00:32:24,120
Speaker 1: you get back up, and you keep playing. That That's

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00:32:24,160 --> 00:32:27,000
Speaker 1: that's the reality. And now with these bigger helmets, maybe

595
00:32:27,120 --> 00:32:29,680
Speaker 1: one of as many head injuries, that's you know, that's

596
00:32:29,880 --> 00:32:32,560
Speaker 1: behind it all, right, So I think we got big

597
00:32:32,640 --> 00:32:36,280
Speaker 1: hits coming back. I think we're gonna have that. That

598
00:32:36,520 --> 00:32:40,200
Speaker 1: would lead to a much more fun NFL season. We're

599
00:32:40,240 --> 00:32:44,200
Speaker 1: clearly down the home stretch of the preseason. The four

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00:32:44,280 --> 00:32:47,640
Speaker 1: preseason games, like it's been openly talked about, right with

601
00:32:47,680 --> 00:32:50,520
Speaker 1: this new c b A, four preseason games are gonna

602
00:32:50,520 --> 00:32:53,680
Speaker 1: be a thing of the past more than likely, my guests,

603
00:32:53,880 --> 00:32:55,720
Speaker 1: It's not like I don't know anyone in the league office,

604
00:32:56,080 --> 00:32:58,360
Speaker 1: but just reading the tea leaves of what the people

605
00:32:58,360 --> 00:33:00,000
Speaker 1: in the know are saying, it kind of feels like

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00:33:00,040 --> 00:33:03,680
Speaker 1: we're headed to two I know Kyle Shanahan said last

607
00:33:03,680 --> 00:33:07,600
Speaker 1: week he wouldn't mind seeing zero. Now they're a little

608
00:33:07,640 --> 00:33:10,360
Speaker 1: biased that. I think they the Niners literally right now

609
00:33:10,480 --> 00:33:13,360
Speaker 1: lead the league in injuries. They have third team, uh

610
00:33:13,520 --> 00:33:16,120
Speaker 1: and many of those are starters, so that they can't

611
00:33:16,160 --> 00:33:18,800
Speaker 1: figure out training camp. I mean they don't, They don't

612
00:33:18,800 --> 00:33:20,360
Speaker 1: know what to do. Hell, they can't figure out the season.

613
00:33:20,360 --> 00:33:22,680
Speaker 1: They just lose a lot of players. But I was

614
00:33:22,720 --> 00:33:27,840
Speaker 1: fascinated on what night would that have been? Saturday night?

615
00:33:28,600 --> 00:33:31,600
Speaker 1: I had the Chiefs game on NFL Network and I

616
00:33:31,640 --> 00:33:36,160
Speaker 1: had the forty Niners game on my local television. And

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00:33:36,200 --> 00:33:39,200
Speaker 1: the forty Niners, I mean the guys who didn't play

618
00:33:39,440 --> 00:33:42,800
Speaker 1: was more than half the team. They didn't play any starters.

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Speaker 1: Somehow they still managed to lose multiple players. I mean

620
00:33:45,680 --> 00:33:48,920
Speaker 1: they lost their backup swing tackle, their debacle. They didn't

621
00:33:48,920 --> 00:33:53,280
Speaker 1: play anyone, and they still had major injuries. Like they

622
00:33:53,360 --> 00:33:56,240
Speaker 1: lost a guy that's gonna be on their their fifty

623
00:33:56,240 --> 00:33:59,560
Speaker 1: three man roster for the season more than likely. So

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00:33:59,800 --> 00:34:02,160
Speaker 1: they at they don't even know. They're kind of at

625
00:34:02,160 --> 00:34:06,080
Speaker 1: a loss. But I'm I look up to my top TV. Yeah,

626
00:34:06,080 --> 00:34:08,839
Speaker 1: I got two TVs. You know you can't you can't

627
00:34:08,880 --> 00:34:11,520
Speaker 1: follow sports for a living and have one TV. Now

628
00:34:11,560 --> 00:34:14,000
Speaker 1: I'm lucky that in my condo, I can put it

629
00:34:14,000 --> 00:34:16,640
Speaker 1: in my living room one day, get a family or whatever.

630
00:34:16,880 --> 00:34:18,879
Speaker 1: The hard part is real estate in the Bay Area

631
00:34:18,920 --> 00:34:21,239
Speaker 1: so expensive. I'm gonna need a man cave and I'm

632
00:34:21,239 --> 00:34:23,520
Speaker 1: gonna get like I already have it kind of mapped

633
00:34:23,520 --> 00:34:26,720
Speaker 1: out in my mind. It's gonna be glorious. But that's

634
00:34:26,840 --> 00:34:29,960
Speaker 1: a little ways away. So I'm looking up at the

635
00:34:29,960 --> 00:34:33,600
Speaker 1: top TV and I see Patrick Mahomes and I'm like, oh,

636
00:34:33,760 --> 00:34:36,200
Speaker 1: Momes is in and he's lead them down the field,

637
00:34:36,239 --> 00:34:38,279
Speaker 1: lead him down the field, and they're they're on like

638
00:34:38,320 --> 00:34:40,279
Speaker 1: the fifteen yard line, and all of a sudden, my

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Speaker 1: Homes takes off outside of the pocket, makes a guy miss,

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Speaker 1: kind of cuts back, and he's running at the goal line.

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Speaker 1: It turns out there about two defenders at the goal

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Speaker 1: line waiting to just kill him. And I even like

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Speaker 1: kind of gas, like, oh my god, and my Homes

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00:34:56,280 --> 00:34:59,200
Speaker 1: slides kind of like falls, hits the ground. They don't

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Speaker 1: hit him, and then he looks over at Andy and

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00:35:02,200 --> 00:35:06,800
Speaker 1: he smiles. I would imagine Coatrie didn't smile back because

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00:35:06,800 --> 00:35:09,839
Speaker 1: anyone watching kind of gas. But then I'm looking at

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Speaker 1: the other TV and the Cowboys Jason Garrett, besides Zeke

649
00:35:15,000 --> 00:35:17,719
Speaker 1: who's incabo and Amar who's Dingdapi as a bad heel,

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Speaker 1: he's playing all of his starters. So and he's playing

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Speaker 1: all his starters. I'm watching the Cowboys play all their starters,

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Speaker 1: and I'm watching the Niners play nobody, and I go,

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Speaker 1: what is the right thing to do? You know, if

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Speaker 1: Mahomes is playing, why can't Jimmy play? If if all

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Speaker 1: the Cowboys guys are playing? And then I and then

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Speaker 1: I got the Raiders game on on another TV and

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Speaker 1: we actually I had to flip them on for the

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00:35:42,200 --> 00:35:45,879
Speaker 1: Chiefs game, and all of a sudden, I realized nobody's

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Speaker 1: playing in that game. Because Sean McVeigh the Forts have

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00:35:49,160 --> 00:35:53,720
Speaker 1: kind of copied him. He plays nobody. Gruden, for whatever reason,

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00:35:53,760 --> 00:35:56,440
Speaker 1: didn't really play anyone either, And I started thinking, like,

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Speaker 1: what what is the right or wrong way to do this?

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Speaker 1: How is the right way to approach this? Because you

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Speaker 1: look at Belichick, he doesn't really play anyone, but he

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Speaker 1: does he averages two joint practices a year, so he

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Speaker 1: gets all this extra work out of these joint practices.

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Speaker 1: And I think joint practice are a smart thing to

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Speaker 1: do if you're comfortable with him. But if you're not

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Speaker 1: comfortable with people seeing in your plays or even seeing

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Speaker 1: your roster, I'm not opposed to doing things like Jason

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Speaker 1: Garrett Nandy and just playing your players in the preseason

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Speaker 1: game and getting them live reps. Now, obviously Belichick can

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Speaker 1: do these joint practices because he's gaining a huge advantage

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Speaker 1: from the other team. I don't think the other team

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Speaker 1: is smart and letting him joint practice with them, because

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Speaker 1: he's stealing shipped from you. He's stealing stuff on your players,

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Speaker 1: He's stealing stuff on your schemes. I would not do

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Speaker 1: a joint practice of Bill Belichick. It's like I would

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Speaker 1: not do a trade with Billy Bean, Like, I don't

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Speaker 1: know if that's a great idea. And I get he's

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00:36:50,760 --> 00:36:53,760
Speaker 1: got raybel and Patricia and all of his little minions

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Speaker 1: out there he's taking advantage of. He used to do

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Speaker 1: a chip He's killing them. I mean, he really is.

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Speaker 1: I would not do a joint practice, but I understand

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Speaker 1: why he does the joint practice because then he doesn't

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Speaker 1: have to do as much in the preseason game. He

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Speaker 1: gets really good work for all of his guys, he

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00:37:08,200 --> 00:37:10,440
Speaker 1: gets in a competitive environment and it doesn't have to

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Speaker 1: show anything in the preseason game. But like last year

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Speaker 1: for the Rams, I would always said, playing No. One

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Speaker 1: in the preseason is pretty risky because your guys do

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Speaker 1: need some live reps against other teams just to feel

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Speaker 1: the speed of the game, even if it's just a

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Speaker 1: couple of series in the second and third preseason game,

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Speaker 1: even if you're not gonna play him a half, I

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Speaker 1: would have said, that's crazy. You gotta play him a

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Speaker 1: little bit. And then Sean McVeigh didn't play a soul

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Speaker 1: all preseason and he ended up in the Super Bowl.

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Speaker 1: So I think there are a lot of coaches. You

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Speaker 1: can do a lot of different studies, see how all

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Speaker 1: these different teams are doing it, Like eight teams are

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Speaker 1: doing it eight different ways, and there's not necessarily a

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Speaker 1: right or wrong way to do it. And I think

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Speaker 1: that's why at the end of the day, these coaches

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Speaker 1: are gonna come together and the preseason is gonna be gone.

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Speaker 1: And what I think is gonna be fascinating a couple

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Speaker 1: of years. If there are only two preseason games, our

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Speaker 1: teams more inclined to let your starting quarterback, and you're

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Speaker 1: starting offense and you're starting defense playing these preseason games

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Speaker 1: because really the only reason you're not doing it is

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Speaker 1: just risk injury. That's the only reason. Because there are

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Speaker 1: a lot of positives. Get some live reps, get a

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Speaker 1: feel for it, get the preparation of a game day.

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Speaker 1: Because I'm watching the Niner game and I'm like, holy hell,

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Speaker 1: vanderash and Jalen Smith are kicking ass and taking names.

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Speaker 1: Jalen Smith looks fantastic. He looks awesome. I mean just

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Speaker 1: killing people, just destroying folks. And look at mahomes is

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00:38:32,080 --> 00:38:34,960
Speaker 1: flying around and there are first team offense Travis Kelsey.

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Speaker 1: First play the game, I think cats a sweet pass

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Speaker 1: down the sideline. It's like whoa, you know that? Get

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Speaker 1: that live rep, get that feel, and then you take

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Speaker 1: off your paths at halftime and you're good to go.

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Speaker 1: But I'm fascinating to know once they do go to

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Speaker 1: two preseason games, are we gonna see a lot more

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Speaker 1: joint practices? Are we gonna see less joint practices? Are

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Speaker 1: we ever gonna see anyone playing the preseason? Because if

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Speaker 1: they do go to two preseason games and teams no

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Speaker 1: teams are playing anyone. Why don't we even have any

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Speaker 1: preseason games? Why don't we just kind of like college?

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Speaker 1: What do they do well? For three and three and

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Speaker 1: a half weeks leading up to Week one? They practice

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Speaker 1: against themselves, They do live scrimmages, they do you know,

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Speaker 1: they do practice with themselves. It's a little different because

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Speaker 1: the roster is bigger, but I guess not that much bigger.

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Speaker 1: I mean, an NFL roster nowadays is ninety people. So

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Speaker 1: maybe the more I think about it, maybe there's a

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Speaker 1: chance they just get rid of preseason games all to

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Speaker 1: begin with. Now, I do think the NFL likes having inventory,

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Speaker 1: television inventory. They need some games, but the preseason is

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Speaker 1: a disaster right now. It's besides, like the series Mahomes

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Speaker 1: plays or a couple of plays of Jalen Smith. It's

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Speaker 1: really hard to watch. And I'm a junkie, I know

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Speaker 1: all the rookies and stuff. I'm watching a little different

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Speaker 1: than casual fan. And even I get bored in the

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Speaker 1: second half. I get I get really bored in the

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Speaker 1: second half. So the NFL has a problem. I don't

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Speaker 1: necessarily have an answer. Uh And clearly the coaches don't

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Speaker 1: necessarily either, because they're all doing different things. Okay, let's

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Speaker 1: get into the middle Cough mail bag at John middle Cooff.

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Speaker 1: My Instagram handle d M is always wide open slide

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Speaker 1: in answer your questions here, like this one from Ryan.

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Speaker 1: Why is there no hype for Jacoby Brissette. He's a

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Speaker 1: Belichick product like Garoppolo, although not as good and hasn't

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Speaker 1: really had a chance to play and has a way

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00:40:22,400 --> 00:40:24,960
Speaker 1: brighter future than fits Magic. Why hasn't a team gone

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Speaker 1: after him? He's got a brighter future than fits Magic.

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Speaker 1: Well they have, uh, you know the Colts trade for

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Speaker 1: when Luck was out, and right now Luck's out again

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00:40:34,600 --> 00:40:38,719
Speaker 1: and he's playing so and I've just seen some highlights

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Speaker 1: from practice now, granted they're just clipped from like Colts

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Speaker 1: Twitter account, he looks pretty good. I like Jacoby Brissette.

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Speaker 1: I'm pretty sure he's scheduled to be a free agent

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Speaker 1: at the end of this year. You know, Luck still

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Speaker 1: hasn't practiced. They're at a pretty good spot where they

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Speaker 1: can just play out this season. You just never know

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Speaker 1: with Andrew Luck. Now when this season ends, he's gonna

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Speaker 1: get a job, whether that Cincinnati, I don't know. Actually,

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Speaker 1: you start thinking about it, where are the quarterback openings.

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Speaker 1: If Josh Rosen is just solid, he's gonna keep a job.

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Speaker 1: Who needs a quarterback? Even teams with terrible starters like

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Speaker 1: Eli Manning, they just drafted a guy. You just go

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Speaker 1: around the league. All these teams have young quarterbacks or

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Speaker 1: an established guy, even like the Steelers, Like, would they

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Speaker 1: signed you Kobe Rosette? Well, they're paying Ben a lot

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Speaker 1: right now, so I don't know. I like ja Kobe Brissette.

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Speaker 1: Obviously Belichick liked to be drafted him. I think what

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Speaker 1: was that the third or fourth round? Uh, I'm I'm

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Speaker 1: a fan. Can you give us a list of players

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Speaker 1: that are still playing that if they retired now, they

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Speaker 1: would be a first ballot Hall of Famer with little

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Speaker 1: in the no discussion because it's so clear that their

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Speaker 1: Hall of famers. Well, I think it's the quarterbacks. You know,

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Speaker 1: Peyton Manning just retired. He's a no brainer. Tom Brady

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Speaker 1: no brainer, Drew Brees no brainer, Aaron Rodgers no brainer.

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Speaker 1: I think Russell Wilson is going to continue to work

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Speaker 1: himself to a no brainer. I think if Andrew Luck

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Speaker 1: can stay healthy, he's a no brainer. Anyone under thirty.

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Speaker 1: I mean, I love my homes as much as anybody,

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Speaker 1: but it's a little early. When you think position players,

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Speaker 1: you'd go, it's a tough one with some of the

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Speaker 1: older guys. I might be forgetting. This is kind of

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Speaker 1: off the top of my head. I think J. J.

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Speaker 1: Watt is probably another good year away from being a

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Speaker 1: pretty big no brainer in my opinion, Like the Richard

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Speaker 1: Sherman Earl Thomas, I don't know if they've quite done it.

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Speaker 1: Long ago they were on that trajectory. Larry Fitzgerald to me,

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Speaker 1: first ballot no brainer. Julio Jones, first ballot no brainer.

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Speaker 1: I mean he's nuts, but Antonio Brown's bad health of

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Speaker 1: an argument. Uh, you know, Khalil Mack and Aaron Donald

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Speaker 1: are on that trajectory. They have two or three more

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Speaker 1: seasons like they had, they're no brainers. Jason P. Yeters

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Speaker 1: to me, he's pretty damn close to being a no brainer. Again,

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Speaker 1: this is off the top of my head. So if

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Speaker 1: I left your favorite player, your your favorite team out,

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00:43:09,040 --> 00:43:12,680
Speaker 1: I apologize. Trying to think of some older guys that

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Speaker 1: are still really good. I'm probably missing some offensive lineman.

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Speaker 1: I mean, I think Luke Kickley at the end of

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Speaker 1: the day is gonna be a first ballot Hall of

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Speaker 1: Famer middlecof. Do you think any of this a B

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Speaker 1: stuff is overblown or blown out of proportion, or at

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Speaker 1: least it seems like once Pittsburgh radio show mentioned him

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Speaker 1: not talking to the Raiders, the story started coming out

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Speaker 1: of nowhere. Well, I think it's twofold. Is it overblown? No,

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Speaker 1: Because he's a superstar, he's a pain in the ass,

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Speaker 1: he does crazy stuff, so it becomes a big story.

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Speaker 1: I have heard that one element that he went radio

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Speaker 1: silent is not totally true because a camera crew, because

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Speaker 1: of hard Knocks, has been with him every day since

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Speaker 1: the off season, like since the summer, and they went

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Speaker 1: with him. Again, this is a this is a source

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Speaker 1: who talked to a source. So, but it makes sense

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Speaker 1: that the camera crew when he left to go see

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Speaker 1: a specialist, a camera crew went with him. So if

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Speaker 1: the camera crews going with him, what does that mean

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Speaker 1: the Raiders are gonna know where the camera crew is.

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Speaker 1: They knew where he was. I don't think they didn't

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Speaker 1: quite know when he was or like he went radio silent.

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Speaker 1: I do think the element of not knowing when he

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Speaker 1: was gonna come back, I mean he left. It's Monday,

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Speaker 1: August twelve. He left like last Wednesday. He's been gone

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Speaker 1: a long time. This this is training camp. This isn't

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Speaker 1: O T A S. This isn't you know, phase one

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Speaker 1: of working out in March. This is middle of August,

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Speaker 1: So just leaving for a while is a little weird, though.

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Speaker 1: I do think they had people with him and they

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Speaker 1: knew the helmet thing was a big issue. He was

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Speaker 1: freaking out about the helmet. He was making it really

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00:44:52,080 --> 00:44:54,400
Speaker 1: hard on their equipment manager. I think he made it

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Speaker 1: hard on Gruden. They didn't know what to do. They

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00:44:56,600 --> 00:44:59,200
Speaker 1: kind of felt for him, but he was being such

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00:44:59,239 --> 00:45:02,920
Speaker 1: a diva. So yeah, I don't think it's necessarily overblown.

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Speaker 1: I do think it just takes a life of its own.

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00:45:06,120 --> 00:45:08,319
Speaker 1: So what happens when you acquire a superstar? I mean,

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Speaker 1: Antonio Brown is a brand name superstar from one of

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Speaker 1: the biggest teams in the league, the Steelers. You know

846
00:45:15,600 --> 00:45:18,520
Speaker 1: who had one of the craziest offseasons we've ever seen.

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Speaker 1: Diet his mustache, blonde, went on Lebron Show, was talking

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Speaker 1: about everybody and it was awesome to follow. Not great,

849
00:45:26,920 --> 00:45:29,440
Speaker 1: you know if your teammate or thinking about acquiring him,

850
00:45:29,440 --> 00:45:31,959
Speaker 1: because it's such a wild card in life. If Trent

851
00:45:32,000 --> 00:45:34,120
Speaker 1: Williams is serious that he won't play due to the

852
00:45:34,120 --> 00:45:37,160
Speaker 1: Redskins medical staff, when does the team take a long,

853
00:45:37,239 --> 00:45:39,279
Speaker 1: hard look at all the injuries over the past two

854
00:45:39,360 --> 00:45:42,840
Speaker 1: or three years and start making some serious changes. Also,

855
00:45:42,920 --> 00:45:44,799
Speaker 1: I doubt grew in his back next year because it

856
00:45:44,840 --> 00:45:47,759
Speaker 1: seems highly unlikely that they make the postseason. Do you

857
00:45:47,760 --> 00:45:50,760
Speaker 1: think Snyder will ever wake up and fire Bruce Allen

858
00:45:50,760 --> 00:45:55,600
Speaker 1: as well? It's a loaded question here. Uh. Trent Williams

859
00:45:55,640 --> 00:45:58,280
Speaker 1: is fantastic when he's healthy on the field. He's clearly

860
00:45:58,320 --> 00:46:00,040
Speaker 1: one of the best left tackles in the league, of

861
00:46:00,120 --> 00:46:04,160
Speaker 1: the best athletes in the league, just an elite player. Clearly,

862
00:46:04,160 --> 00:46:06,440
Speaker 1: the Redskins have piste off a lot of people, including

863
00:46:06,480 --> 00:46:09,080
Speaker 1: Trent Williams, over the years. Do you know what's crazy

864
00:46:09,160 --> 00:46:14,400
Speaker 1: for the Redskins? Daniel Snyder didn't inherit the franchise. Someone

865
00:46:14,440 --> 00:46:17,640
Speaker 1: didn't hand him billions of dollars. He is a self

866
00:46:17,920 --> 00:46:21,799
Speaker 1: made man, isn't it wild? Bitten in America? Probably works

867
00:46:21,800 --> 00:46:24,320
Speaker 1: this way in any parts of the world, but in America,

868
00:46:24,360 --> 00:46:26,799
Speaker 1: where you can become and most of our billionaires, most

869
00:46:26,840 --> 00:46:29,360
Speaker 1: of our richest people in this country start with nothing,

870
00:46:29,840 --> 00:46:32,000
Speaker 1: so that that that's a fact, that's not an opinion.

871
00:46:32,320 --> 00:46:35,759
Speaker 1: You can google it. Definitely. The majority of billionaires are

872
00:46:35,760 --> 00:46:38,440
Speaker 1: self made, and it makes sense that there's a drive

873
00:46:38,480 --> 00:46:41,920
Speaker 1: when you grow up with nothing. And Daniel Snyder Snyder

874
00:46:41,960 --> 00:46:45,719
Speaker 1: comes from nothing, creates this billion dollar marketing empire. Yet

875
00:46:45,760 --> 00:46:49,000
Speaker 1: he is so terrible at running a franchise, and a

876
00:46:49,080 --> 00:46:52,040
Speaker 1: big portion of it is he hires bad people. Actually

877
00:46:52,080 --> 00:46:55,480
Speaker 1: don't think Gruden is bad. I think Gruden's solid. Bruce

878
00:46:55,520 --> 00:46:58,920
Speaker 1: Down clearly not a good GM. Then the other element

879
00:46:59,120 --> 00:47:01,560
Speaker 1: is because he's kind of a marketer, he gets involved

880
00:47:01,560 --> 00:47:04,759
Speaker 1: in acquisitions and it often bites them in the ass.

881
00:47:04,760 --> 00:47:07,759
Speaker 1: Like Josh Norman when he came available, he's I mean,

882
00:47:07,760 --> 00:47:11,719
Speaker 1: they've been doing it historically forever. I don't know. I mean,

883
00:47:11,719 --> 00:47:14,440
Speaker 1: I don't know how you fix. You can't fix an

884
00:47:14,560 --> 00:47:18,319
Speaker 1: organization until you get rid of the owner. It's really

885
00:47:18,360 --> 00:47:20,600
Speaker 1: that simple. I saw it forever down the street from

886
00:47:20,600 --> 00:47:23,319
Speaker 1: where I'm living right now, where the Warriors used to play,

887
00:47:23,360 --> 00:47:27,759
Speaker 1: about fifteen minutes away Oracle Arena. The Warriors were historically

888
00:47:27,880 --> 00:47:30,799
Speaker 1: terrible for like thirty years. Why because they had some

889
00:47:30,840 --> 00:47:34,160
Speaker 1: of the worst ownership in all of professional sports. In

890
00:47:34,160 --> 00:47:36,839
Speaker 1: two thousand eleven or twelve or whatever the official date was,

891
00:47:37,320 --> 00:47:42,120
Speaker 1: Joe Lacob buys the Warriors. Everything changed everything. You notice

892
00:47:42,200 --> 00:47:45,560
Speaker 1: the Clippers with Steve Balmber, how much more legitimate they

893
00:47:45,560 --> 00:47:48,680
Speaker 1: are as a franchise. You know, it's a little different

894
00:47:48,680 --> 00:47:50,359
Speaker 1: in the NFL. We have a short period of time

895
00:47:50,400 --> 00:47:52,520
Speaker 1: to judge some of these new owners. But I'll tell

896
00:47:52,520 --> 00:47:55,640
Speaker 1: you this, I believe David Tepper will be better than

897
00:47:55,760 --> 00:47:59,200
Speaker 1: Richardson at this current time. Like Richardson had lost it,

898
00:47:59,200 --> 00:48:02,160
Speaker 1: it was time for a change. Jimmy haslum flying Jay

899
00:48:04,600 --> 00:48:07,760
Speaker 1: will reserve judgment on that one. That that one still

900
00:48:08,160 --> 00:48:11,440
Speaker 1: still up for debate. But I I think it. I

901
00:48:11,440 --> 00:48:15,440
Speaker 1: think it all starts with ownership. And there's no chance

902
00:48:15,680 --> 00:48:20,200
Speaker 1: that Daniel Snyder is selling the Washington Redskins because when

903
00:48:20,239 --> 00:48:23,000
Speaker 1: you own a team, like if I owned a two

904
00:48:23,000 --> 00:48:26,440
Speaker 1: billion dollar business, let's just say I owned a business

905
00:48:27,160 --> 00:48:31,840
Speaker 1: that produced, like a construct, you know, some business that

906
00:48:31,960 --> 00:48:35,799
Speaker 1: produced I had an exclusivity on the ability to prove,

907
00:48:36,400 --> 00:48:40,000
Speaker 1: you know, provide the the shell that Apple makes their

908
00:48:40,040 --> 00:48:43,200
Speaker 1: computers with. So when Apple makes their computers, they buy

909
00:48:43,200 --> 00:48:45,920
Speaker 1: the shell of the laptop for me, And that just

910
00:48:45,960 --> 00:48:48,960
Speaker 1: created a billion dollar business for me. You know what,

911
00:48:49,560 --> 00:48:52,720
Speaker 1: Absolutely nobody would know who I was. You know, I'd

912
00:48:52,719 --> 00:48:54,399
Speaker 1: be able to get a date because I'm super rich,

913
00:48:55,000 --> 00:48:57,960
Speaker 1: maybe see me every once a while, like CNBC, but

914
00:48:58,040 --> 00:49:01,080
Speaker 1: no one would really know besides like Apple, who I

915
00:49:01,120 --> 00:49:04,239
Speaker 1: am or care what I do. Just like when when

916
00:49:04,480 --> 00:49:08,319
Speaker 1: Daniel Snyder was marketing, I don't know much about him.

917
00:49:08,360 --> 00:49:10,240
Speaker 1: I mean, I've read about him a lot in the past,

918
00:49:10,800 --> 00:49:13,080
Speaker 1: but you know he was a marketing guy. People that

919
00:49:13,160 --> 00:49:15,120
Speaker 1: live on that side of the country you know much better. Obviously,

920
00:49:15,160 --> 00:49:16,880
Speaker 1: if you're a Redskins fan, you know about his history

921
00:49:16,920 --> 00:49:19,040
Speaker 1: better than I do. But when you just run a

922
00:49:19,080 --> 00:49:22,879
Speaker 1: successful company, unless it's a really really cool company like

923
00:49:23,640 --> 00:49:26,600
Speaker 1: Apple or Nike or something, you can There are a

924
00:49:26,600 --> 00:49:29,200
Speaker 1: lot of really rich people in this world that no

925
00:49:29,239 --> 00:49:32,440
Speaker 1: one knows about and no one cares about and for

926
00:49:32,640 --> 00:49:36,120
Speaker 1: their ego. When they get involved with something as famous

927
00:49:36,160 --> 00:49:39,919
Speaker 1: and as popular as like an NFL team, you get

928
00:49:39,960 --> 00:49:42,840
Speaker 1: a level of popularity that you didn't have as a normal,

929
00:49:42,920 --> 00:49:46,760
Speaker 1: super rich business guy. So there isn't much incentive beside

930
00:49:46,760 --> 00:49:49,640
Speaker 1: like Daniel Snyder, when did he buy the team? I

931
00:49:49,640 --> 00:49:52,080
Speaker 1: mean twenty years ago. He'd make a lot of money,

932
00:49:52,120 --> 00:49:53,840
Speaker 1: but what does all that money do for him? No

933
00:49:53,880 --> 00:49:56,360
Speaker 1: one talks about him anymore. He kind of is irrelevant.

934
00:49:56,400 --> 00:49:59,239
Speaker 1: He's just another guy with not another guy, because they're

935
00:49:59,239 --> 00:50:01,480
Speaker 1: not that many of them. A human with a billion

936
00:50:01,719 --> 00:50:03,719
Speaker 1: and a half or two billion or whatever you get

937
00:50:03,719 --> 00:50:06,279
Speaker 1: after taxes in the bank account and no one gives

938
00:50:06,280 --> 00:50:08,040
Speaker 1: a ship what he's doing or what he says anymore.

939
00:50:08,520 --> 00:50:10,120
Speaker 1: Now I don't even know if he talks that much.

940
00:50:10,160 --> 00:50:12,600
Speaker 1: But the point is, people, he's in the vernacular of

941
00:50:12,640 --> 00:50:15,520
Speaker 1: everyone that lives in the d C. Area. Everyone you know,

942
00:50:15,560 --> 00:50:17,440
Speaker 1: if you just went to Dallas, or you went to

943
00:50:17,480 --> 00:50:20,520
Speaker 1: San Francisco, or you went to Seattle and you ran

944
00:50:20,520 --> 00:50:22,640
Speaker 1: into the casual football fan and you said the word

945
00:50:22,760 --> 00:50:26,319
Speaker 1: Dan Snyder, everyone knows who that is. If again, he

946
00:50:26,360 --> 00:50:28,640
Speaker 1: had just ran his normal company, not that many peop

947
00:50:28,640 --> 00:50:30,839
Speaker 1: wouldn't know what he does. So I think you're I

948
00:50:30,880 --> 00:50:33,680
Speaker 1: think this is a roundabout way of saying, you're probably screwed.

949
00:50:34,200 --> 00:50:36,480
Speaker 1: As long as Dan Snyder owns a team, your team's

950
00:50:36,480 --> 00:50:41,040
Speaker 1: gonna suck. Here was this is not even a question,

951
00:50:41,040 --> 00:50:43,840
Speaker 1: But Jonathan Abram is looking like an epic douche on

952
00:50:43,920 --> 00:50:46,839
Speaker 1: hard Knocks. I agree, Hard Knocks wasn't the best look

953
00:50:46,920 --> 00:50:55,760
Speaker 1: for him. Uh, let's see if I can Keith clear Wagner.

954
00:50:56,120 --> 00:50:58,480
Speaker 1: What do you think the l ob would have been

955
00:50:58,560 --> 00:51:00,759
Speaker 1: with Luke in that? I think think they win one

956
00:51:00,800 --> 00:51:04,880
Speaker 1: more chip. It's a good question. Bobby is a fantastic player.

957
00:51:04,920 --> 00:51:07,000
Speaker 1: He's another guy that has a case if he can

958
00:51:07,080 --> 00:51:09,520
Speaker 1: keep going. He's right now four time first team All Pro.

959
00:51:10,360 --> 00:51:12,920
Speaker 1: If he can end that his career at probably seven,

960
00:51:13,360 --> 00:51:15,960
Speaker 1: definitely six, he's gonna have a chance for first ballot,

961
00:51:16,360 --> 00:51:18,120
Speaker 1: probably a Hall of Famer, but it might not be

962
00:51:18,160 --> 00:51:20,520
Speaker 1: a first ballot. I think Luke Kickley is just a

963
00:51:20,520 --> 00:51:23,200
Speaker 1: better player. I think Luke Kickley has been the best

964
00:51:23,200 --> 00:51:27,640
Speaker 1: player on the Carolina Panthers since he showed up. He's

965
00:51:27,719 --> 00:51:30,600
Speaker 1: just just no way around it. He's just an elite player.

966
00:51:31,080 --> 00:51:32,919
Speaker 1: I would take Luke Kickley every day of the week

967
00:51:32,960 --> 00:51:35,320
Speaker 1: over Bobby Wagner. And that's not a slide on Bobby Wagner.

968
00:51:35,320 --> 00:51:40,759
Speaker 1: If anything, it's just a compliment to Kickley. Purely speculation.

969
00:51:40,920 --> 00:51:43,200
Speaker 1: Call me a Raider homer. Any chance that the Raiders

970
00:51:43,280 --> 00:51:46,120
Speaker 1: organization reached out to the Steelers organization about his old

971
00:51:46,120 --> 00:51:49,760
Speaker 1: helmet during that transaction, a Steelers beat reporter got word

972
00:51:50,320 --> 00:51:52,600
Speaker 1: did his homework and took it to the wood shed.

973
00:51:53,080 --> 00:51:55,680
Speaker 1: It just seems bizarre that nothing was made of this

974
00:51:56,200 --> 00:52:00,880
Speaker 1: month old story until HBO got winned. I like to

975
00:52:01,080 --> 00:52:04,000
Speaker 1: you know, I like a good conspiracy. I think it's

976
00:52:04,040 --> 00:52:08,120
Speaker 1: just I think people are starting to get rumors of it. Yeah,

977
00:52:08,120 --> 00:52:10,160
Speaker 1: I don't know. That's that actually makes some sense. That's

978
00:52:10,200 --> 00:52:12,680
Speaker 1: not That's not a crazy theory. I'll give you. I'll

979
00:52:12,719 --> 00:52:15,440
Speaker 1: give you that one. Hey, John, what was your favorite

980
00:52:15,440 --> 00:52:19,399
Speaker 1: position to scout? Probably running back or wide receiver. I mean,

981
00:52:19,440 --> 00:52:23,279
Speaker 1: I like offense more than defense. I'm a sucker for

982
00:52:23,680 --> 00:52:27,560
Speaker 1: talented offensive players. You know. I even like a good tackle,

983
00:52:27,760 --> 00:52:31,840
Speaker 1: like tight ends. Probably any position on offense, quarterback, wide receiver,

984
00:52:32,040 --> 00:52:35,440
Speaker 1: tight end, running back. You know, centers and guards aren't

985
00:52:35,480 --> 00:52:38,040
Speaker 1: as fun though a good center is fun to watch,

986
00:52:38,480 --> 00:52:41,839
Speaker 1: like Roddy Hudson, Rodney Hudson's Jason Kelsey like that they

987
00:52:41,880 --> 00:52:44,800
Speaker 1: are entertained to watch. But I'd say any skill position,

988
00:52:44,840 --> 00:52:47,520
Speaker 1: including quarterback. But probably at the end of the day,

989
00:52:47,520 --> 00:52:49,920
Speaker 1: I really like running back, wide receiver, and I think

990
00:52:49,960 --> 00:52:51,640
Speaker 1: you can factor in tight end now that they are

991
00:52:51,680 --> 00:52:54,799
Speaker 1: basically receivers, So it would be one of those guys. Yeah,

992
00:52:54,840 --> 00:52:56,600
Speaker 1: you can judge me. I'm a little softer, you know

993
00:52:56,640 --> 00:52:59,960
Speaker 1: I'm not. I'm not claiming to be ed reda Scouts here.

994
00:52:59,840 --> 00:53:02,160
Speaker 1: You think Philip Rivers is trying to single handedly fix

995
00:53:02,239 --> 00:53:05,759
Speaker 1: the charger at tennis problems with his kids. It's as

996
00:53:05,800 --> 00:53:07,880
Speaker 1: Bill Simmons would say, these are my listeners. That's a

997
00:53:07,920 --> 00:53:09,960
Speaker 1: that's a hell of a question. We'll enjoy your week.

998
00:53:10,280 --> 00:53:13,080
Speaker 1: I'll see you a little later this week. We'll probably

999
00:53:13,120 --> 00:53:16,840
Speaker 1: discuss hard knocks on the next one and whatever else

1000
00:53:17,080 --> 00:53:20,120
Speaker 1: crazy happens in this crazy league throughout this week. And uh,

1001
00:53:20,320 --> 00:53:23,560
Speaker 1: football is almost back. Regular season isn't too far away,

1002
00:53:24,360 --> 00:53:25,600
Speaker 1: and I will talk to you guys soon.