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Speaker 1: Duel more ways to win. Hi, everybody, Welcome in to

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Speaker 1: my Monday Night Tuesday Morning podcast with former NFL scout

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Speaker 1: John Middlecoff. So, yeah, I was thinking about this when

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Speaker 1: Seattle lost its NBA team. I blame the owner, Howard Schultz.

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Speaker 1: He's a billionaire. He bought the Sonics and he didn't

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Speaker 1: have the stomach for it. He never really fought, really

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Speaker 1: fought for any duration to keep the Sonics once they

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Speaker 1: clearly needed a new arena and did. I'd been to

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Speaker 1: KI Arena multiple times, a dozen times. Bad parking downtown

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Speaker 1: Seattle during the NBA season. The winter is dark, poorly lit, wet, damp.

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Speaker 1: They should have gone to the burbs, go to Kirkland,

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Speaker 1: goes somewhere better NBA arena. But Howard Schultz was cheap.

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Speaker 1: If you're gonna get into owning a team, then get

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Speaker 1: into it emotionally and fight for it. When the Chargers

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Speaker 1: has no intention of selling the team. He's owned the

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Speaker 1: team forever. He loves the team and he fought his

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Speaker 1: ass off to keep it in San Diego. But local

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Speaker 1: politicians are, how can I say this, mostly untalented hacks

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Speaker 1: and in Cleveland. This is why the Browns left because

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Speaker 1: the less popular baseball team got a new stadium and

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Speaker 1: the more popular football team playing in a dump did not,

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Speaker 1: so they left. In San Diego, Qualcom was falling apart.

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Speaker 1: It was hard to get in and out of I've

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Speaker 1: been to Qualcom fifty times in my life. The Padres

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Speaker 1: and Chargers both played there. But what do you know?

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Speaker 1: The Padres got a new baseball stadium and the more

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Speaker 1: popular NFL team had a site picked. The Spanos family

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Speaker 1: fought forever for it, and then it came down to

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Speaker 1: It would be people like me who rent a car

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Speaker 1: If I recall, the local politicians didn't fight for it,

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Speaker 1: it forever, said okay, what are our options? LA came

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Speaker 1: knocking the fifth biggest economy in the world, a wildly

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Speaker 1: They would never get it again or stand San Diego,

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Speaker 1: tell me what businessman would pass on that. They didn't

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Speaker 1: want to move the team anywhere else. But when your neighbor,

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Speaker 1: sweet deal, come on up. And the reason I bring

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Speaker 1: this up because the Chargers now have now blown past

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Speaker 1: their season ticket average in San Diego the last twenty years. YEP.

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Speaker 1: It's officially now the fastest growing season ticket sale base

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Speaker 1: But in the end, this is why they left. And

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Speaker 1: local politicians blew it, there you go. It also indicates

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Speaker 1: business guy. You've followed my career. Somebody comes knocking offers

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Speaker 1: local politicians and they mostly stink. Former NFL scout my

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Speaker 1: buddy John Mintelcoff three and Out podcast. He's a rockstar,

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Speaker 1: And I also thought, John, you know, one of the things.

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Speaker 1: even if I like the baseball got it, the NFL

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Speaker 1: Baseball you just go for four, you play the next day? Right? Right,

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Speaker 1: like tier one, tier two teams in any sport, then

424
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Speaker 1: the owners they're looking for the expansion fee. Yeah, I

425
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Speaker 1: mean well, I mean Vegas is going to be a

426
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Speaker 1: huge success, right, and all the all four teams, you know, Baseball, basketball, football,

427
00:22:34,960 --> 00:22:38,359
Speaker 1: and the NHL and and football are already there. The

428
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Speaker 1: A's are gonna end up there, and a basketball team's

429
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Speaker 1: gonna end up there, right. They just they should have

430
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Speaker 1: all four major teams and they're gonna get it. If

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Speaker 1: I was Dean, now, LA might work out very lucrative

432
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Speaker 1: to him. But Mark Davis and just the Raiders, whoever

433
00:22:51,119 --> 00:22:53,640
Speaker 1: owns the Raiders after him, we'll just have their own stadium.

434
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Speaker 1: Dean will always split that thing, not even split it, right,

435
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Speaker 1: He'll just be a tenant for the owner. Now, like

436
00:22:59,320 --> 00:23:01,960
Speaker 1: you said, football, it's so big. If his quarterback turns

437
00:23:01,960 --> 00:23:05,159
Speaker 1: into Mahomes junior, he's gonna be a really big deal.

438
00:23:05,240 --> 00:23:07,199
Speaker 1: I just don't know. You feel like the Chargers are

439
00:23:07,280 --> 00:23:09,919
Speaker 1: really going to resonate in the town, like the brand,

440
00:23:10,200 --> 00:23:12,639
Speaker 1: not the player, but the brand. Here's the way I

441
00:23:12,720 --> 00:23:15,680
Speaker 1: look at Los Angeles. The real loser in Los Angeles

442
00:23:15,960 --> 00:23:20,320
Speaker 1: is USC and UCLA football. So when Pete Carroll was here,

443
00:23:20,800 --> 00:23:23,560
Speaker 1: the Clippers were a joke and there were no NFL teams.

444
00:23:23,800 --> 00:23:28,400
Speaker 1: There wasn't LAFC. The city's changed. That's why you can't

445
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Speaker 1: have Clay Hilton. You need somebody with a presence. The

446
00:23:30,880 --> 00:23:33,320
Speaker 1: loser in this town is the college teams. John. This

447
00:23:33,520 --> 00:23:36,520
Speaker 1: is becoming New York. There's too many options. Nobody cares

448
00:23:36,520 --> 00:23:41,199
Speaker 1: about Saint John's basketball. I mean, if USC, unless they

449
00:23:41,280 --> 00:23:44,560
Speaker 1: go out and get a big dog like like even

450
00:23:44,640 --> 00:23:47,760
Speaker 1: if you don't like him, horrorball, they go to Chris

451
00:23:47,920 --> 00:23:51,239
Speaker 1: Peterson and bring him out of retirement, and you can

452
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Speaker 1: compete for a national title two out of three years.

453
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Speaker 1: That's the loser in this market. I think I think

454
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Speaker 1: the Chargers if Herbert is as good as you and

455
00:24:01,080 --> 00:24:03,360
Speaker 1: I think, and I put him in that, I think

456
00:24:03,400 --> 00:24:06,560
Speaker 1: he's as good as mahomes bigger, stronger, I mean he's

457
00:24:06,600 --> 00:24:09,960
Speaker 1: a bigger never been hurt. I think if he becomes that,

458
00:24:10,760 --> 00:24:13,560
Speaker 1: I think La is a city of transience, John, they

459
00:24:13,600 --> 00:24:16,080
Speaker 1: don't care like is that kind of the West Coast.

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Speaker 1: I mean, we're just we're more pro centric now that

461
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Speaker 1: you're a north West guy. The Seahawks are enormous now,

462
00:24:22,720 --> 00:24:25,119
Speaker 1: they weren't that big fifteen twenty thirty years. No, how

463
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Speaker 1: is you dub ever going to compete against them? As

464
00:24:26,960 --> 00:24:29,639
Speaker 1: long as they have Russell, they can are just no chance.

465
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Speaker 1: The Niners. Stanford was a top five program for five

466
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Speaker 1: straight years of David Show. Nobody cared, not a soul,

467
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Speaker 1: especially once Harbaugh went to the Niners. They have no

468
00:24:39,359 --> 00:24:41,920
Speaker 1: cow's been good historically with Jeff Tedford. It's hard for

469
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Speaker 1: them to just compete with the local teams. I think

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Speaker 1: it's more of a you're right, a cultural thing on

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Speaker 1: the West Coast. The moment pro teams are good, that's

472
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Speaker 1: all anyone cares about. Yeah, I mean the reality the

473
00:24:50,200 --> 00:24:55,840
Speaker 1: Angels years ago, the rally Hats wildly popular, rally Monkey. Yeah,

474
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Speaker 1: now they have Otani and Mike Trout and nobody can.

475
00:25:00,000 --> 00:25:03,720
Speaker 1: The bottom line is because the Dodgers are great. The

476
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Speaker 1: Dodgers have stars, The Dodgers win, and they frankly, it's

477
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Speaker 1: a big boy baseball team. I mean they go out

478
00:25:12,560 --> 00:25:14,480
Speaker 1: and get Max Schures are at the deadline. They're cool.

479
00:25:14,600 --> 00:25:17,439
Speaker 1: They're cool. Yeah, they're cool. So I don't think LA's

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Speaker 1: you know, and I say this as a person that's

481
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Speaker 1: only lived here for five six years, I don't think.

482
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Speaker 1: I mean, the Dodgers and the Lakers will always be popular,

483
00:25:25,640 --> 00:25:28,800
Speaker 1: but hell man, there was no LAFC. You can't get

484
00:25:28,840 --> 00:25:32,080
Speaker 1: a ticket to those games. Now. LA is about what

485
00:25:32,359 --> 00:25:36,760
Speaker 1: is winning. Now, people here, this isn't Philadelphia. You know

486
00:25:37,119 --> 00:25:39,480
Speaker 1: it's my dad. My loyalty is not the same, for sure.

487
00:25:39,520 --> 00:25:41,360
Speaker 1: It's like that northern California. I think, just think it's

488
00:25:41,359 --> 00:25:43,520
Speaker 1: a West Coast thing. You're just not as loyal. You just,

489
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Speaker 1: you know, what's kind of cool. You got like you've

490
00:25:45,359 --> 00:25:47,760
Speaker 1: always said, you got options. You know, they're just you're

491
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Speaker 1: not stuck inside for six months a year I lived

492
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Speaker 1: in Philly. Those people wouldn't change their allegiance if you

493
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Speaker 1: paid them, you know, a year's salary the rest of

494
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Speaker 1: their life. Right, they're going down with the birds, but

495
00:25:59,720 --> 00:26:01,600
Speaker 1: you know, the Chargers get cool and you're a Rams guy,

496
00:26:01,680 --> 00:26:03,560
Speaker 1: you maybe you just will start rooting for the Chargers.

497
00:26:04,119 --> 00:26:07,400
Speaker 1: All right, tell me, is there you know we've got

498
00:26:08,119 --> 00:26:11,240
Speaker 1: camp news every other day, there's something that jumps out.

499
00:26:11,920 --> 00:26:14,359
Speaker 1: Is there a story to you that's underreported or story

500
00:26:14,480 --> 00:26:17,560
Speaker 1: or interest today? Yea, I got something. They had. The

501
00:26:17,680 --> 00:26:21,280
Speaker 1: Jets had a you know, a scrimmage you know thing

502
00:26:21,359 --> 00:26:25,200
Speaker 1: at MetLife on Saturday, and Zach Wilson was terrible and

503
00:26:25,440 --> 00:26:28,760
Speaker 1: seeing and listen, the media and the fan and the

504
00:26:28,880 --> 00:26:30,560
Speaker 1: fans are just going to react to the media and

505
00:26:30,640 --> 00:26:33,280
Speaker 1: the mock drafts. So when a guy gets drafted too

506
00:26:33,359 --> 00:26:35,440
Speaker 1: high or too low, their anger is based on what

507
00:26:35,600 --> 00:26:37,720
Speaker 1: they've read or what they've seen, and maybe some of

508
00:26:37,760 --> 00:26:41,399
Speaker 1: these really famous guys they've watched them play. But we

509
00:26:41,520 --> 00:26:43,920
Speaker 1: got to the point last year going in like Brian

510
00:26:43,960 --> 00:26:49,080
Speaker 1: Flores and Chris Grew with the Dolphins. Whether everyone loved

511
00:26:49,119 --> 00:26:51,400
Speaker 1: the too A pick or not, it doesn't matter. It's

512
00:26:51,480 --> 00:26:54,200
Speaker 1: their job to get it right. That's their only job

513
00:26:54,320 --> 00:26:55,920
Speaker 1: is to pick the right player, not who's going to

514
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Speaker 1: give them the best bass draft grades or not. The

515
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Speaker 1: Jets just it felt like just locked into Zach Wilson

516
00:27:01,280 --> 00:27:03,800
Speaker 1: from right after the season they did. Listen, I'm out

517
00:27:03,840 --> 00:27:06,200
Speaker 1: there with Trey Lance. Listen. I didn't know that much

518
00:27:06,200 --> 00:27:08,080
Speaker 1: about him, Like most people in North Dakota State, I've

519
00:27:08,119 --> 00:27:10,160
Speaker 1: never seen him play. But by the time the draft

520
00:27:10,200 --> 00:27:12,320
Speaker 1: process happens, you get to go meet him and see him.

521
00:27:12,359 --> 00:27:14,440
Speaker 1: And how could you walk around this guy, or even

522
00:27:14,520 --> 00:27:17,639
Speaker 1: watching justin Fields at some Bears practice and just be like,

523
00:27:17,760 --> 00:27:19,600
Speaker 1: we have to take It'd be one thing if he

524
00:27:19,760 --> 00:27:22,199
Speaker 1: was coming from Alabama, right Zach Wilson, he was at

525
00:27:22,280 --> 00:27:24,679
Speaker 1: BYU in a Corona year where they weren't playing anyone.

526
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Speaker 1: And I'm not saying I'm not trying to like write

527
00:27:27,920 --> 00:27:31,760
Speaker 1: his career resume right now, but he's not as physically

528
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Speaker 1: talented as Trey Lanz Fields. And to just think now,

529
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Speaker 1: and I don't know, maybe the Niners would have taken

530
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Speaker 1: Zach Wilson over Trey Lance. I don't know. I don't

531
00:27:39,960 --> 00:27:41,680
Speaker 1: have that information right now. I'm sure we're going to

532
00:27:41,760 --> 00:27:43,840
Speaker 1: find out as years come. If one of them doesn't

533
00:27:43,880 --> 00:27:46,160
Speaker 1: turn out to be very good, that seems kind of crazy.

534
00:27:46,440 --> 00:27:48,000
Speaker 1: That's something just to keep an eye on because I

535
00:27:48,080 --> 00:27:50,760
Speaker 1: know this that guy with Kyle's more than likely going

536
00:27:50,800 --> 00:27:53,600
Speaker 1: to be pretty good, and Zach Wilson turnover in New York,

537
00:27:53,680 --> 00:27:56,760
Speaker 1: the pressure New York guy, a lifetime Utah guy going out.

538
00:27:56,800 --> 00:27:59,800
Speaker 1: They're huge, jump up a lot going on. The Jets

539
00:27:59,840 --> 00:28:02,119
Speaker 1: have a first time coordinator, a first time head coach.

540
00:28:03,400 --> 00:28:05,719
Speaker 1: Someone told me this because one thing Zach Wilson has

541
00:28:05,840 --> 00:28:07,959
Speaker 1: like some cockiness and some people that turns people off.

542
00:28:08,080 --> 00:28:10,720
Speaker 1: But Joe Douglas is a Baltimore Raven guy, and they

543
00:28:10,800 --> 00:28:12,719
Speaker 1: kind of like that, right. They had been around Ray

544
00:28:12,800 --> 00:28:14,959
Speaker 1: Lewis and Ed Read. They kind of eat that up.

545
00:28:15,359 --> 00:28:17,400
Speaker 1: And someone I was like, he's really gonna like Zach Wilson.

546
00:28:17,440 --> 00:28:19,239
Speaker 1: He's like, yeah, they're gonna like he's gonna like kind

547
00:28:19,280 --> 00:28:21,800
Speaker 1: of his arrogance and just when he walks in the room,

548
00:28:21,880 --> 00:28:24,320
Speaker 1: he thinks he belongs. But you also have to have

549
00:28:24,480 --> 00:28:26,240
Speaker 1: the talent to go around with that. I'm not saying

550
00:28:26,280 --> 00:28:29,320
Speaker 1: he's not talented, but no way, he is physically gifted

551
00:28:29,359 --> 00:28:31,200
Speaker 1: as the Bears and the Niners. Guy, he's just not

552
00:28:31,800 --> 00:28:34,320
Speaker 1: so and that market man and you know you've lived

553
00:28:34,320 --> 00:28:38,240
Speaker 1: in the Northeast, it is intense, so better dial. This

554
00:28:38,320 --> 00:28:39,640
Speaker 1: could be a long season. They just might not be

555
00:28:39,760 --> 00:28:42,280
Speaker 1: that talented this year, right, So can can you battle

556
00:28:42,320 --> 00:28:44,800
Speaker 1: through the adversity. I don't know. Well, it's not a

557
00:28:44,840 --> 00:28:47,960
Speaker 1: good ownership group. With the Jets. You also have arguably

558
00:28:48,120 --> 00:28:50,880
Speaker 1: the best defensive coach in league history in Belichick, the

559
00:28:50,960 --> 00:28:55,680
Speaker 1: best young defensive coach in Sean McDermott, the second best

560
00:28:56,040 --> 00:28:59,680
Speaker 1: young defensive coach, and Brian Floris. So so I've said

561
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Speaker 1: this for there's nobody, including Tom Bradier in Montana, when

562
00:29:04,680 --> 00:29:07,160
Speaker 1: you talk about the great quarterbacks, there's nobody that had

563
00:29:07,200 --> 00:29:10,240
Speaker 1: a shitty coach. I got nothing against Robert Sala, but

564
00:29:10,360 --> 00:29:13,080
Speaker 1: there is no way for the next two years he

565
00:29:13,240 --> 00:29:16,640
Speaker 1: is not the fourth best coach in that division. That's

566
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Speaker 1: what he is with the worst supporting roster Zach Wilson has.

567
00:29:22,680 --> 00:29:26,120
Speaker 1: So I think I've said this every year there's a kid,

568
00:29:26,200 --> 00:29:28,680
Speaker 1: and I have my doubts. I don't think the Zach

569
00:29:28,720 --> 00:29:32,600
Speaker 1: Wilson thing is gonna work. I don't. Yeah, I think

570
00:29:32,640 --> 00:29:35,040
Speaker 1: it's going to be very, very difficult. I really do.

571
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Speaker 1: And again it's just social media clips. It sure looks

572
00:29:38,400 --> 00:29:40,840
Speaker 1: like Sam, Like could they have just roll with Sam

573
00:29:40,960 --> 00:29:42,920
Speaker 1: and traded that for a bounty and got a bunch

574
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Speaker 1: of stuff and kind of built up their team fast

575
00:29:44,880 --> 00:29:46,960
Speaker 1: and they had a guy like what are the chances

576
00:29:47,040 --> 00:29:50,360
Speaker 1: that Zach Wilson is more talented than Sam Donold. Well,

577
00:29:50,400 --> 00:29:52,840
Speaker 1: he's not as big, he's not as strong, And there

578
00:29:52,880 --> 00:29:55,320
Speaker 1: were guys reports in the building that I think some

579
00:29:55,440 --> 00:29:57,080
Speaker 1: of the coaches were like, let's just take this guy

580
00:29:57,160 --> 00:29:59,160
Speaker 1: in trade. But the GM and the new head coach

581
00:29:59,200 --> 00:30:01,600
Speaker 1: always want their young guy buys you a little more time.

582
00:30:01,720 --> 00:30:04,480
Speaker 1: But that's just one of those situations. Colin. It feels

583
00:30:04,560 --> 00:30:07,800
Speaker 1: like some to monitor that, That's all I'm gonna say.

584
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Speaker 1: Some to monitor. I want to go to the Lamar

585
00:30:13,120 --> 00:30:16,400
Speaker 1: Jackson appearing apparently hasn't been vaccinated, had COVID a couple

586
00:30:16,440 --> 00:30:19,240
Speaker 1: of times, Kirk Cousins last week's story not been vaccinated.

587
00:30:19,800 --> 00:30:22,680
Speaker 1: You know the media and I think you know. I mean,

588
00:30:23,120 --> 00:30:27,200
Speaker 1: I've said this about our business before. People report on

589
00:30:27,320 --> 00:30:32,240
Speaker 1: plane crashes, not on plane landings, so we report, you know, innately,

590
00:30:32,320 --> 00:30:37,200
Speaker 1: intrinsically on bad stuff. But lost in all of this

591
00:30:38,360 --> 00:30:42,440
Speaker 1: is the NFL players are ninety percent vaccinated. John, if

592
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Speaker 1: you went to the research triangle, which is in the

593
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Speaker 1: Carolina's elite hospitals universities, I don't believe they have ninety

594
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Speaker 1: percent vaccination. Like I think we're we're losing sight of

595
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Speaker 1: the fact that the NFL nine out of ten dudes

596
00:31:02,120 --> 00:31:05,400
Speaker 1: put the needle in the arm. It's incredible. Yeah, there's

597
00:31:05,440 --> 00:31:07,680
Speaker 1: gonna be a couple of high profile I got into

598
00:31:07,720 --> 00:31:11,600
Speaker 1: this discussion with my wife, like, I'm a dad, I'm

599
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Speaker 1: in my fifties, I'm going to vaccinate soul Is. My

600
00:31:13,560 --> 00:31:16,480
Speaker 1: wife and I have kids, so why I wanted them vaccinated?

601
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Speaker 1: But I you talked about this, like, I get Lamar thinking,

602
00:31:21,760 --> 00:31:24,360
Speaker 1: come on, man, I'm the fastest guy in the league.

603
00:31:24,880 --> 00:31:28,080
Speaker 1: I had at once. I was tired for a week.

604
00:31:28,880 --> 00:31:31,480
Speaker 1: I'm not trying to give Lamar and Kirk Cousins a pass,

605
00:31:31,600 --> 00:31:35,160
Speaker 1: but I do think sometimes we have to acknowledge NFL

606
00:31:35,280 --> 00:31:40,080
Speaker 1: is getting this ship right, like overwhelmingly right. Why. I

607
00:31:40,240 --> 00:31:43,640
Speaker 1: think the one thing the NFL has set up different

608
00:31:43,680 --> 00:31:47,040
Speaker 1: from the other sports is the players look up to coaches, right.

609
00:31:47,120 --> 00:31:49,320
Speaker 1: I mean, it's just the hierarchy of kind of the sport,

610
00:31:49,760 --> 00:31:52,160
Speaker 1: and the coaches and the general managers have been pleading

611
00:31:52,240 --> 00:31:54,520
Speaker 1: with these guys to do it. And you know, essentially,

612
00:31:54,520 --> 00:31:56,240
Speaker 1: as a coach you're kind of in the trenches with

613
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Speaker 1: the players. You're not actually on the field, but the

614
00:31:58,600 --> 00:32:01,120
Speaker 1: amount of time you guys spend again. It's a very

615
00:32:01,840 --> 00:32:05,840
Speaker 1: unique setup, you know, for any private sector business in America. Right,

616
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Speaker 1: the amount of time those two guys spent, and they're

617
00:32:08,200 --> 00:32:09,600
Speaker 1: pleading with these guys to do it. It's why you

618
00:32:09,600 --> 00:32:11,800
Speaker 1: haven't seen that many coaches not get it, right, the

619
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Speaker 1: coaches because obviously if they didn't get it, they were

620
00:32:14,040 --> 00:32:15,160
Speaker 1: not going to be able to work. So they all

621
00:32:15,200 --> 00:32:16,520
Speaker 1: had to get it. And then they've pleaded with their

622
00:32:16,520 --> 00:32:19,080
Speaker 1: players because ultimately they want to win. And a lot

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Speaker 1: of players who, like I said, most of my friends

624
00:32:21,520 --> 00:32:24,640
Speaker 1: are in their mid to early thirties, he's probably fifty

625
00:32:24,680 --> 00:32:26,480
Speaker 1: fifty with some of them. And some of them have

626
00:32:26,600 --> 00:32:28,440
Speaker 1: had to get it as industries got back, but a

627
00:32:28,480 --> 00:32:29,640
Speaker 1: lot of them have got it, and they said it

628
00:32:29,680 --> 00:32:31,920
Speaker 1: didn't FaZe them. If Lamar Jackson at this point, it's

629
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Speaker 1: not going to get it. He's telling you like, yeah,

630
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Speaker 1: I had Corona. It didn't do much to me, right,

631
00:32:35,240 --> 00:32:36,920
Speaker 1: because why if you had it, it was really bad.

632
00:32:36,920 --> 00:32:39,160
Speaker 1: And they're telling you, well, the vaccine will make you

633
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Speaker 1: not feel like that. Why wouldn't he get it? So

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Speaker 1: it's like the guys had it multiple times and the

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Speaker 1: cousins thing religion, who knows to me, though, the big

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Speaker 1: issue is the quarterback. It would be a problem, like

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Speaker 1: if Lamar test positive. That's to me is like the

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Speaker 1: positive and the protocols. You can't get out of the protocols.

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Speaker 1: And then if the Ravens don't have Lamar Jackson for

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Speaker 1: a game, they're gonna lose. The Kirk Cousins is listen,

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Speaker 1: I know we all used to beat him up for

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Speaker 1: a long time. Turned into a pretty good player. I

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Speaker 1: think he threw thirty five touchdowns last year. They don't

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Speaker 1: have Kirk Cousins, They're not gonna win. That to me

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Speaker 1: is why the coaches are so nervous. Not they're not

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Speaker 1: worried about their health, right because they've already a lot

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Speaker 1: of these guys have had it and they're fine. They're

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Speaker 1: worried about their ability to win on Sunday if that

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Speaker 1: guy's tests positive. And what could be a big deal

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Speaker 1: is it's been reported on the forfeiting of games, the

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Speaker 1: no pay if something like that happens. You talk about

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Speaker 1: an explosive story. Colin. If because all these guys now

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Speaker 1: are vaccinated, I would put yourself in those situations, Mice,

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Speaker 1: we'd be pissed off, right, Well, yeah, and Kirk Cousins

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Speaker 1: is interesting because his dad is the pastor of a

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Speaker 1: megachurch and if you look at statistically in America who's

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Speaker 1: not getting the vaccine is Evangelical Christians are way up

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Speaker 1: at the top of the list. And again I'm not

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Speaker 1: giving kirk Cousins a lamar a pass. I think you

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Speaker 1: have an adult responsibility, almost like a dad to a family,

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Speaker 1: not screw things up for your team. But I do

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Speaker 1: think sometimes but at this point, at this point, all

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Speaker 1: your teammates have it, you know, at this point, all

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Speaker 1: the teammates have it, Like what is their excuse? But

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Speaker 1: I've been in this media game for thirty years and

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Speaker 1: there are times that I'm like, media, I mean, you

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Speaker 1: gotta occasionally give me the glass half full. I mean

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Speaker 1: so much, you know, you know, And I want to

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Speaker 1: segue to something else that's non football. I was talking

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Speaker 1: to a group of people a couple days ago about

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Speaker 1: the Olympics and the ratings are terrible, you know, And

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Speaker 1: in America today, everybody jumps on, well, it's politics, and

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Speaker 1: I'm like, well, it's a lot of things. The Olympics

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Speaker 1: have always been cost prohibitive for a network, and they've

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Speaker 1: lost money many times. If you go back to nineteen

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Speaker 1: seventy six, the Olympics in Montreal, We're a disaster. There

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Speaker 1: was some strong consideration to get rid of the Olympics.

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Speaker 1: Then Jimmy Carter postponed the eighty Olympics were in Moscow

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Speaker 1: and we wouldn't allow our American athletes to compete. I mean,

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Speaker 1: the Olympics have almost died multiple times. And then there

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Speaker 1: were a couple of robust Olympics. Part of the Olympics

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Speaker 1: is the aesthetics. Barcelona, Sydney, Australia did remarkably well. Not

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Speaker 1: because the stories were necessarily better than average Olympic years.

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Speaker 1: It was so beautiful when you turned on your television.

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Speaker 1: A big part of these Olympics was there was nobody

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Speaker 1: in the arenas. It was brutal. It's like watching a

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Speaker 1: small college where's parents and family there. So the aesthetics

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Speaker 1: were awful. And that's my number one takeaway, and my

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Speaker 1: second takeaway is I don't think NBC did themselves a

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Speaker 1: big favor demanding in many instances, you sign up for Peacock,

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Speaker 1: their new streaming service, and know a lot of I

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Speaker 1: had two buddies that were like I'm out, like I

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Speaker 1: got enough. I've signed up for everything. I got Hulu,

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Speaker 1: I got this. I'm not signing up. So let me

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Speaker 1: just ask you off of football for a few minutes.

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Speaker 1: Did you watch the Olympics? Did your friends watch the Olympics? Yeah?

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Speaker 1: I actually had a couple of friends over and we

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Speaker 1: ended up going out to dinner and just TV was on,

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Speaker 1: and you know, I think it was gymnastics was on TV.

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Speaker 1: And both these guys were Division one fletes. I mean

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Speaker 1: they watched baseball, basketball, big football guys. One of them's like,

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Speaker 1: you know, I haven't watched a minute and we're watching it,

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Speaker 1: and the other guys like, it's terrible without the fans.

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Speaker 1: That that is a huge impact. It is a terrible

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Speaker 1: product without the fans. I also think twenty twenty, in

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Speaker 1: twenty twenty, I guess this twenty one. When I was

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Speaker 1: a kid, the Olympics were a really big deal. I

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Speaker 1: remember in nineteen ninety six when Michael Johnson was just

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Speaker 1: a rock star, and obviously you're older than me, some

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Speaker 1: of the other guys in the in the eighty I mean,

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Speaker 1: they were a really big deal. Carl Lewis, Yeah, sometimes

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Speaker 1: don't just some things just lose their luster. I mean,

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Speaker 1: once upon a time, Ken Griffey Junior was the baseball athletes,

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Speaker 1: when my youth were bigger than ever there. I mean,

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Speaker 1: most people couldn't point Fernando Tattoos out of the lineup.

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Speaker 1: Now things change, right, I just think things change. Even

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Speaker 1: if the fans were there, maybe the ratings would be

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Speaker 1: a little bit better. But I don't know if the

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Speaker 1: Olympics will ever be the same. I really don't. We

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Speaker 1: just too many options, Colin, No, this is a this

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Speaker 1: is something my bang that I said. They've been slowly

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Speaker 1: less interesting for years. My big takeaway in the Olympics

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Speaker 1: was zo was in the sixties and seventies and eighties,

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Speaker 1: guys like you and I got three straight weeks of

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Speaker 1: TV on all day that our mom and our dad

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Speaker 1: like two. My mom didn't like sports, but she liked

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Speaker 1: the pageantry, the European teams. Now everything's on every channel,

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Speaker 1: So now I'm just left with curling and track and

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Speaker 1: field and should I don't care about not that I

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Speaker 1: don't think the athletes are remarkable, but the uniqueness of

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Speaker 1: three weeks of NonStop sports on TV. Once you lose that,

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Speaker 1: you're left with people. If you look at the ratings,

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Speaker 1: older people who are really into it for the pageantry

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Speaker 1: more than the points. And yeah, for sure, all right,

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Speaker 1: great stuff, John Middlecoff, Frank Reich colts coach coming up

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Speaker 1: this week. It's great to be back. I hope you

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