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Speaker 1: What's going on? Everybody? John Little Coop three and Out

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Speaker 1: podcast brought to you by Colin Coward in this podcast

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Speaker 1: Network Big Show today, just breaking literally Aaron Rodgers historic contract.

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Speaker 1: I'll dive into that. Some thoughts on just the drama

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Speaker 1: that's going on right now in the NFL. Jerry Jones

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Speaker 1: wants to go to an eight teen game season, and

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Speaker 1: Odell Beckham Jr. Also Got paid, which really wasn't no

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Speaker 1: brainer for the New York Giants. But let's start with

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Speaker 1: Aaron Rodgers. There's kind of this narrative in the media

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Speaker 1: also by NFL players, that the NFL does not pay

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Speaker 1: the players, you know, like they don't get compensated relative

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Speaker 1: to baseball and basketball. And Aaron Rodgers, who's you know,

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Speaker 1: it's weird because Tom Brady is known as the goat

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Speaker 1: the best quarterback of all time. But most people agree,

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Speaker 1: unless you live in New England, that Tom Brady is

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Speaker 1: not even the best quarterback in the NFL. That's Aaron Rodgers.

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Speaker 1: And I believe I was born in the mid eighties.

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Speaker 1: I didn't get to like grow up on Marino and Elway,

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Speaker 1: but most people that I've met over the years of

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Speaker 1: working in the NFL and just covering the NFL and

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Speaker 1: talking about the NFL and just talking to a lot

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Speaker 1: of football guys, they'll tell you that those two guys

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Speaker 1: pure talent. I mean, most people will tell you that

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Speaker 1: Marino just throwing the ball. There's never been anything like him.

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Speaker 1: And Elway was kind of the total package, better athlete

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Speaker 1: than Marino, also had a hose resume, is much stronger

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Speaker 1: in terms of winning. It's not all Marino's fault. But

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Speaker 1: my point is, like, to me, Aaron Rodgers is that

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Speaker 1: version of Marino and Elway kind of combined. He's not

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Speaker 1: Elway because he's only won one Super Bowl and only

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Speaker 1: been to one, but he's not Marino because he did win.

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Speaker 1: But ultimately, my point is that everyone views like the

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Speaker 1: NBA's Lebron James Steph Curry. They get two million dollars. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: the NFL quarterbacks get taken care of like NBA superstars.

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Speaker 1: The difference between the NBA and the NFL when it

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Speaker 1: comes to big, big cash is the NBA overpays the

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Speaker 1: middle class. UH rookies get paid. In the NFL, if

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Speaker 1: you're a first rounder, you get a guaranteed for your deal.

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Speaker 1: If you are a first rounder in the NFL, every

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Speaker 1: penny is guaranteed. Uh. And you also it's not a

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Speaker 1: great deal because you have this fifth year option. While

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Speaker 1: it does pay a lot, if you do hit and

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Speaker 1: become a player like Khalil Mack, you know it hurts

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Speaker 1: your wiggle room. You're actually better off being a second

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Speaker 1: round pick because you hit free agency earlier. But my

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Speaker 1: my point here is that the top quarterbacks. Remember four

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Speaker 1: or five years ago, Drew Brees just got this stupid contract.

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Speaker 1: It was like forty million dollars in the first eighteen months.

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Speaker 1: Schefter reported that Aaron Rodgers will get eighty million dollars

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Speaker 1: by March. Let me repeat that, eighty million dollars by March.

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Speaker 1: Like NBA contracts or even baseball contracts, they may get

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Speaker 1: a hundred and fifty million dollars, but it's over six

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Speaker 1: or seven years. Uh. Jeff So Marjia, one of the

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Speaker 1: most overplayed paid players in baseball, probably should have played

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Speaker 1: the NFL. Now he made more money because he played baseball,

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Speaker 1: but he's not a very good baseball player. At ninety

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Speaker 1: million dollars, but it was over five years. You look

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Speaker 1: at Aaron Rodgers that the way these escrow accounts work

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Speaker 1: you when you guarantee the money, and I don't think

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Speaker 1: most people realize this. Charles Robinson wrote something this week

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Speaker 1: on Yahoo about Khalil's contract is that you have to

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Speaker 1: have if you're guaranteeing them the money, you have to

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Speaker 1: have that money at the time of the signing. That's

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Speaker 1: why Khalil Mack and Aaron Donald have been kind of

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Speaker 1: complicated somehow. The packers that are owned by just the

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Speaker 1: people have eighty million dollars to put in an escrow

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Speaker 1: account that Aaron Rodgers is gonna receive. We're in the

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Speaker 1: middle of August. By March, eighty million dollars. Do you

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Speaker 1: know who? Do you know? What should happen right now? America,

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Speaker 1: all of us as the United States of America, should

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Speaker 1: send Aaron Rodgers a thank you note because if the

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Speaker 1: tax bill he's about to incur on that eighty billion dollars, like,

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Speaker 1: you don't actually get eighty million, you know, you probably

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Speaker 1: going to taxes. But ultimately my point is people love

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Speaker 1: with Reggie White now to Aaron Rodgers. Uh. Now, you

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Speaker 1: if you're good enough, like Khalil Mack, whether the Raiders

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Speaker 1: There are ten teams tomorrow that would trade for Kleil

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Speaker 1: Mack and extend him immediately for seventy plus million dollars guaranteed.

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Speaker 1: Aaron Rodgers just had a historic amount of money come

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Speaker 1: So this notion that, like the NFL, financially doesn't take

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Speaker 1: a big reason why the NFL is so successful. You

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Speaker 1: don't get stuck on average players in the NBA or

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Speaker 1: like you can't do that in the other two sports.

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Speaker 1: That's why the sport of the NFL is so healthy.

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Speaker 1: They don't get stuck with bad They only signed the

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Speaker 1: stars and they're forced to kind of sign your first

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Speaker 1: you do overpay a free agent, because that's what you

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Speaker 1: Sammy Watkins sixteen million dollars a year. Well, yeah, he

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Speaker 1: Jerick McKinnon. I didn't like the signing for the Santasco forty,

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Speaker 1: a strike and labor issues are always tough in the NFL.

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Speaker 1: hypothetically say it was next year. Why would Aaron Rodgers strike?

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Speaker 1: You know what? Why would he? Why? Why would he

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Speaker 1: we will not sign the CBA until we get what

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Speaker 1: Garoppolo do that? The stars? The Stars have nothing in

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Speaker 1: Daron Roger and eighty million dollars. Eighty million dollars by March.

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Speaker 1: So whenever you're reading and media loves to tell you this,

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Speaker 1: Aaron Rodgers matters. Do you know who doesn't Clay Matthews,

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Speaker 1: Randall Cobb, all the other starters on the Packers. Maybe

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Speaker 1: Davante Adams really matters for the Packers. Aaron Rodgers carries

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Speaker 1: the franchise. He deserves every penny. He's a lebron James

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Speaker 1: Steph Curry of the league, and he deserves to get paid.

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Speaker 1: If you're you know, when you pay like Kirk Cousins,

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Speaker 1: We'll see. I think Kirk Cusins gonna have a big year.

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Speaker 1: But you could argue that paying Kirk Cousins eighty six

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Speaker 1: seventy million dollars. It's pretty risky. It might work, but

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Speaker 1: it also might not. But paying Aaron Rodgers no brainer.

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Speaker 1: Paying Jimmy Garoppolo no brainer. Hell Paying Derek Carr no brainer.

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Speaker 1: to get paid. Quarterbacks get paid just like NBA superstars.

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Speaker 1: They are the royalty in the NFL. The NFL just

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Speaker 1: had the ultimate NFL type week. Remember back in the day,

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Speaker 1: ESPN had the show Playmakers, and it was like guys

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Speaker 1: last four years on insider trading, insider trading like Martha

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Speaker 1: you drink enough water, you won't get sunburned. Now, whatever

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Speaker 1: he's selling that Tom and TV twelve is clearly working

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Speaker 1: because Tom's forty one and still playing in the league,

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Speaker 1: what's crazy? Hasn't been someone that worked in local radio

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Speaker 1: of us, just so much more on the line. It's

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Speaker 1: it's pretty crazy economic strategy. Now, big picture, if you

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Speaker 1: I've always said this, if you win in the playoffs,

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Speaker 1: whether it's the NFL, the NBA, basically whatever, any sport,

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Speaker 1: golf majors, it's more important for your your ability to

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Speaker 1: earn money over your lifetime. Uh. And I think a

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Speaker 1: lot of players realize, and it's just at the end

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Speaker 1: of the day, you play a sport, you start playing

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Speaker 1: the sports when your kids, you just say the word playoffs,

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Speaker 1: it means more. And I think Jerry Jones, who is

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Speaker 1: a businessman first first and foremost, it's just come to

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Speaker 1: the realization, like, what what are we doing in the preseason?

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Speaker 1: This is so terrible. Two weeks ago, as at my

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Speaker 1: brother's wedding and I flip on the television it's Rams Raiders.

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Speaker 1: I'm like, oh, I got a couple of hours before

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Speaker 1: I have to get ready. Uh, it already been along

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Speaker 1: day and played some golf that morning. I was like,

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Speaker 1: I'm gonna lay on the land the bed here and

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Speaker 1: watch the first quarter of the game. Then it gets

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Speaker 1: announ before the first snap of the game that one starter,

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Speaker 1: not for one team or the other team total between

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Speaker 1: McVeigh and Gruden were was playing in the game. Now,

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Speaker 1: granted they were, They're gonna play Week one on the

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Speaker 1: second Monday night football game. I said that this is

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Speaker 1: the most pointless what are we doing here? Wouldn't they

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Speaker 1: get more out of it if they just practiced? It's

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Speaker 1: just stupid. And again, I think most fans understand that

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Speaker 1: when they buy the season tickets that you just gotta

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Speaker 1: pay for the preseason. You probably, I would imagine the

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Speaker 1: average season ticket holder does not go to a preseason game,

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Speaker 1: they give those tickets away, They pay for the eight

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Speaker 1: regular season games, and then if you're a season ticket

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Speaker 1: holder of a good team, the right to buy playoff tickets.

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Speaker 1: That's what you do. That's part of the package. But

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Speaker 1: you know, Jerry and I think I would imagine a

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Speaker 1: lot of these NFL owners and the players should get

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Speaker 1: on board with this too, because they will make more

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Speaker 1: money these preseason games. Whether you're playing or not, you're

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Speaker 1: not getting paid for it, nowhere near what you make

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Speaker 1: during the regular season. You get the everyone gets the

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Speaker 1: same amount of per diem, you know, whatever the preseason

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Speaker 1: pay is. Why wouldn't you like everyone's freaking out, like

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Speaker 1: the health of the players. They say that, they say

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Speaker 1: they put safety first. Yeah, they have put safety first.

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Speaker 1: You guys, watch the games. You watch the way they're

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Speaker 1: officiating the hips. It's clear the NFL has put safety first.

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Speaker 1: That's not even arguable anymore. If anything, they've gone over

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Speaker 1: the top on safety. It kind of pisses me off

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Speaker 1: because I like the John Lynches, the Steve Attwaters, the

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Speaker 1: running lots of the world. Like I grew up on

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Speaker 1: hard hits, Like I enjoy a good hard hit, I

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Speaker 1: still do. But the NFL doesn't. Well I don't. I

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Speaker 1: don't think they. They might, they just don't want to

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Speaker 1: pay for it. And Jerry's like, well, we might as

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Speaker 1: all get paid because the preseason is a waste. We're

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Speaker 1: losing players anyway, Guys are getting hurt in preseason games.

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Speaker 1: What market's lead just shattered his knee. Uh, we might

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Speaker 1: as well play regular season games. I think the a

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Speaker 1: teen game schedule is not only a good idea, I

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Speaker 1: think it's now inevitable, and I think it'll be awesome,

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Speaker 1: you know, and everyone it's like everyone complained about, like

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Speaker 1: I said, Thursday night football. We love Thursday night football,

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Speaker 1: and people can bitch and moan about it all all

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Speaker 1: you want. I see the heat television ratings. I I

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Speaker 1: know how many people gamble on the sport. Thursday night

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Speaker 1: football is huge for business. Eighteen game schedule is gonna

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Speaker 1: be good for business. Okay, let's get to the Middlecoff

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Speaker 1: mail bag, I got a ton of questions. You can

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Speaker 1: always leave a question in in iTunes, just go rate

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Speaker 1: review and in the review sectually leave a question. I

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Speaker 1: got a ton. You can also in my instagram d

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Speaker 1: m s. I got a bunch of questions as well.

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Speaker 1: I'm gonna try to go rapid fire here today. Sometimes

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Speaker 1: I go a little long and I'm only able to

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Speaker 1: get through like three or four questions. But I think

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Speaker 1: today let me bring up my Instagram questions. I'll try

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Speaker 1: to go I'll try to go quick because I just

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Speaker 1: checked on iTunes and I got a bunch, so let's

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Speaker 1: go quick. I'm gonna start really quick my own question

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Speaker 1: because this weekend, the final. Every team plays on Thursday

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Speaker 1: and then Friday, Saturday, Sunday is the biggest turnover in

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Speaker 1: the NFL throughout the season. It's when you know the

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Speaker 1: cuts now go from nine to fifty three. So you

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Speaker 1: do the math, what is that thirty seven players on

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Speaker 1: each team? Is that thirty seven players? Yeah, thirty seven

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Speaker 1: players you know on on every team are are going

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Speaker 1: to be released. And it's really when some of the

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Speaker 1: best gms and the best run organizations take advantage. It's

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Speaker 1: why you know specific teams have certain needs, whether you

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Speaker 1: need a backup corner, whether you need a backup wide receiver,

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Speaker 1: you need to swing offensive lineman. You're not gonna find starters,

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Speaker 1: but you can find guys. You can claim guys now

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Speaker 1: when a guy gets cut, if you claim them, that

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Speaker 1: means then you have to cut someone off your roster.

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Speaker 1: So just because you make the initial fifty three, like

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Speaker 1: let's say the Browns for examp ample, their fifty three

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Speaker 1: will be set I think it's Saturday at one o'clock

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Speaker 1: or whenever the official time is, well in the next

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Speaker 1: twenty four hours because they're picking number. The waiver claim

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Speaker 1: is based on the previous year's draft, so their number one.

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Speaker 1: I remember. I think when John Dorsey and Andy Reid

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Speaker 1: first got to Kansas City, they claimed like eight guys.

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Speaker 1: Remember they had the number one overall picked. That was

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Speaker 1: the year they took Eric Fisher. I remember back in

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Speaker 1: the day when Seattle and the Santascots were really humming. Uh,

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Speaker 1: it was so hard to make their roster. They would

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Speaker 1: each cut, you know, obviously just they would have the

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Speaker 1: cuts and like five, six, seven guys from their team

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Speaker 1: would get claimed. So the really good teams cut NFL players,

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Speaker 1: and it's a crazy time. I've been the the turk,

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Speaker 1: you know, been the guy that picks up their playbook.

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Speaker 1: I would imagine two thousand and eighteen, it's more of

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Speaker 1: an iPad and it's just you know a lot of guys.

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Speaker 1: There is a there is a larger percentage I think

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Speaker 1: nowadays because of the expanded roster of guys that really

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Speaker 1: have no business in the NFL. And I say that

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Speaker 1: with all due respect to them. A lot of those

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Speaker 1: guys played at big time colleges. But there's a big

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Speaker 1: difference between being an average NFL prospect and making a team.

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Speaker 1: But there are guys on every roster right now that

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Speaker 1: if you're listening to this on Thursday, that are playing tonight,

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Speaker 1: you know four kind of their livelihoods and their opportunity

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Speaker 1: to make the team. Now, if you're a rookie, undrafted

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Speaker 1: free agent, you may land on a practice squad in

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Speaker 1: the NFL. Guys get hurt, you end up coming up.

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Speaker 1: So your career is just it's a fluid situation, right

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Speaker 1: your Your career doesn't end just because you don't make

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Speaker 1: the fifty three. But some of these guys will be,

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Speaker 1: you know, doing other jobs within the next calendar year.

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Speaker 1: Other guys just have a tougher road, you know. Not

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Speaker 1: not everyone's a star right away. Uh, some rookies, I

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Speaker 1: think teams have realized that maybe they missed on a rookie,

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Speaker 1: you know, a four, fifth, sixth rounder. That's always eye

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Speaker 1: opening when you have to cut fifth round or a

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Speaker 1: fourth round or usually I would say definitely the first

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Speaker 1: rounder is not getting cut. And if you look at

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Speaker 1: this draft, most of the first rounders are starting for

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Speaker 1: their respective team. Second rounders are a locked to make

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Speaker 1: the team. And I would say maybe every other year

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Speaker 1: a third rounder gets cut of it's very it's not

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Speaker 1: very often, but fourth round and on, you know, everything's

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Speaker 1: on the table. So I love this time of year

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Speaker 1: just seeing all the names that get cut, some older veterans,

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Speaker 1: you know, that have been passed by young players. Sometimes

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Speaker 1: an undrafted free agent comes in and it's just better

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Speaker 1: or equal to a guy making like nine million dollars. Well,

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Speaker 1: the NFL, like we always say on this show, ain't

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Speaker 1: Major League Baseball or the NBA. You can get out

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Speaker 1: of the contract. You can just cut them. And that's

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Speaker 1: why so many undrafted free agent. That's the best part

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Speaker 1: to me about the NFL. Uh, just from a geeky,

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Speaker 1: you know league standpoint, if we're really geeking out talking

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Speaker 1: about the league, it's just the opportunity for guys that

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Speaker 1: do not get drafted to make the NFL. If you

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Speaker 1: don't get drafted in the NBA, more than likely you're

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Speaker 1: never playing in the NBA. Right If you don't get

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Speaker 1: drafted in baseball, that's a problem because they have like

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Speaker 1: eighty rounds. I think they literally have like fifty in football.

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Speaker 1: I mean, undrafted free agents become solid players all the time.

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Speaker 1: They might not become stars or super high paider you know,

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Speaker 1: paid players, but they definitely become solid starters. So just

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Speaker 1: just keep an eye on that and just know just

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Speaker 1: because whatever team is your favorite team, a guy makes

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Speaker 1: a roster does not mean that he's a lot to

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Speaker 1: be on your team the that week, let alone the

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Speaker 1: next day. If your team claims someone, okay, love the show.

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Speaker 1: As far as overrated players go, I can never figure

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Speaker 1: out how uh if his locks have coaches and GM's mystified. Okay,

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Speaker 1: I don't. I think I've read that wrong. Clay Matthew

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Speaker 1: has been able to stay and be paid well on

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Speaker 1: the Green Bay Packers when he hasn't really done much

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Speaker 1: in the last three years. I agree to me, Clay Matthews.

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Speaker 1: When I first got in the NFL in two thousand

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Speaker 1: and ten, that was the year the Raimmy Packers won

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Speaker 1: the Super Bowl. He knocked out Kevin Cobb. He was awesome,

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Speaker 1: like two thousand and ten, two thousand and eleven, two

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Speaker 1: thousand twelve, he was sweet. But Clay Matthews has been

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Speaker 1: a shelve himself last several years. He's not a great

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Speaker 1: pass rusher. He can't play any other position beside coming

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Speaker 1: off the edgies too stiff to play in the middle.

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Speaker 1: I don't really know what he brings the table. If

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Speaker 1: you're listening to this, I don't have to look up

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Speaker 1: his contract situation. But is he a lock to make

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Speaker 1: the team? Uh? Just because he's Clay Matthews. I he's

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Speaker 1: he's living off name much more than he's living off

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Speaker 1: ability because he's given them nothing. Uh. He's a guy

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Speaker 1: that if I'm an offensive coordinator, I isolate. I want

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Speaker 1: to go after him, and he definitely doesn't scare me

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Speaker 1: rushing the passer. What are your overall feelings on football

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Speaker 1: in the state of Arizona? New coaches plenty, plenty of

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Speaker 1: ren returning players. You have a with a great quarterback.

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Speaker 1: I think he's a great running quarterback. Khalil Tate. Can

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Speaker 1: he throw the ball to me? Is ajor question? Uh?

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Speaker 1: Because I was a big fan of Khalil Tate like

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Speaker 1: everyone was when he started running for like three hundred

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Speaker 1: yards of game and then I remember, I think it

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Speaker 1: was the SC game. You're like, God, he just has

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Speaker 1: to throw the football better. Now you can get away

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Speaker 1: with it in college, unlike the NFL, just being basically

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Speaker 1: a runner, that's all you do is run. But eventually,

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Speaker 1: for the University of Arizona, the difference between winning seven

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Speaker 1: games and ten games, he's gonna have to have a

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Speaker 1: couple of games where he throws for three yards or hell,

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Speaker 1: I mean two hundred fifty yards. And I'm not just

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Speaker 1: talking about a couple of deep bombs, like you know,

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Speaker 1: it consistently hit some intermediate, two short throws, you know,

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Speaker 1: some just slants, some deep outs, like you have to

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Speaker 1: do that to win. And that that's especially at a

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Speaker 1: school that you know, probably doesn't have the talent as

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Speaker 1: a lot of teams in their conference like USC or

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Speaker 1: U c l A or Stanford or Washington or Oregon.

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Speaker 1: So he to me, he's got to take a big

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Speaker 1: step throwing the ball. But he is very talented. And

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Speaker 1: but the wide receiver they have is an absolute monster.

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Speaker 1: I would say by mid season he will be one

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Speaker 1: of the most talked about players in the country. I

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Speaker 1: forget his name right now, but he was at the

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Speaker 1: Pactrol of Media Days and he was on the set

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Speaker 1: and he was being interviewed, and I didn't really know

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Speaker 1: who he was, and I just thought, like perm brought

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Speaker 1: his quarterback and his defensive end. It was his wide receiver.

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Speaker 1: I'm telling you, this guy looks like six three six

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Speaker 1: four he's I mean, he looks like he's two hundred

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Speaker 1: fifty pounds. He's just chiseled. I think he's gonna end

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Speaker 1: up being a first round pick if he has a

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Speaker 1: big year. You just keep an eye in Arizona State.

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Speaker 1: I'm buying what Herm Edwards is selling. I think Arizona

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Speaker 1: State is actually gonna be better than the University of

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Speaker 1: Arizona this year. I kind of like Arizona State as

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Speaker 1: a sleeper to win like nine ten games. I think

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Speaker 1: they're gonna they're really gonna creep up on some people.

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Speaker 1: Two questions, is Georgia gonna become the next Alabama? As

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Speaker 1: George's fans like to claim and will you increase the

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Speaker 1: frequency of the podcast when the season starts? Uh? Time

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Speaker 1: will tell and that one maybe. I mean it's great

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Speaker 1: part as I can release one of these podcasts whenever

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Speaker 1: the Georgia becoming the next Alabama. I mean, to me,

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Speaker 1: Nick Saban is just a once in a generation. Kirby

666
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Speaker 1: Smart looks like he's gonna be Saban's best assistant coach

667
00:36:28,280 --> 00:36:32,200
Speaker 1: to leave the nest. But George has always got talent.

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Speaker 1: They want a lot with Mark Rick to think you

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Speaker 1: become the Alabama is the next Alabama? Is the only

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Speaker 1: next Alabama there. There aren't dynasties like Saban. Happened once

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Speaker 1: a generation. You know, Bobby Bowden for fourteen straight years

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Speaker 1: every year Florida State ended the season in the top five.

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Speaker 1: I think Alabama now has a stretch where it's got

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Speaker 1: to be like eight nine years. To me, there is

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Speaker 1: no next Alabama. There's just the next whether it will

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Speaker 1: be maybe USC when they land a sweet coach, or

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Speaker 1: even Clemson. Because I got news for you. When Savan

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Speaker 1: retires in the next two or three years, is Dabbo

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Speaker 1: Sweeney gonna go to Alabama? I mean, seriously, that's where

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Speaker 1: he went to school, you would have to say that's

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Speaker 1: in play. Uh. Now, Clemson, to me, Clemson would be

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Speaker 1: more likely to be the next Alabama than Georgia because

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Speaker 1: I think Dabbo is that special. To me. The only

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Speaker 1: thing that would hold Clemson back is if Saban does

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Speaker 1: retire and Alabama offers Dabbo Sweeney, you know, Jimbo Fisher money.

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Speaker 1: So I would say no on Georgia though. I think

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Speaker 1: they're really good and they're clearly going to be a

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Speaker 1: big force in the SEC for years to come. But

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Speaker 1: as most SEC fans, and I would imagine your one

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Speaker 1: because you're asking the question that they've been a force,

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Speaker 1: you know now, they've they haven't ever gotten over the hill. Uh.

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Speaker 1: And even when I say over the hill, I don't

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Speaker 1: mean winning championship, but like last year they got over

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Speaker 1: the hill. I mean they got to the National Championship Game. Hell,

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Speaker 1: they were winning going into the second half of the

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Speaker 1: National Championship Game. But they've had they had really good

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Speaker 1: teams under Mark Rick. So I don't know, we'll see. Now.

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Speaker 1: Someone did text me a buddy of mine in that

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Speaker 1: scouts the SEC, this is back to Clemson. So that

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Speaker 1: true freshman quarterback they have is the real deal. So again,

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Speaker 1: I would imagine Clemson would be more likely to be

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Speaker 1: the next Alabama than Georgia would be. Hey Man really

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Speaker 1: enjoying the pot every week, truly. One of my favorite

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Speaker 1: listens Appreciate It. Was looking back at two thousand sixteen

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Speaker 1: draft and was shocked at how good the top five was.

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Speaker 1: In addition to two franchise quarterbacks of whom looks slightly

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Speaker 1: better than the other, went spread better than golf. The

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Speaker 1: top five rounded out in order Joey Bosa, Zeke Elliott

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Speaker 1: Jalen Ramsey. My question is, to you, knowing what we

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Speaker 1: know now, if you had to choose only one of

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Speaker 1: the three position players Bosa, Zeke or Ramsey, which one

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Speaker 1: you're going with? Thanks and hope to hear the answer

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Speaker 1: on the pot. That is a pretty tough question. I

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Speaker 1: think you'd have to. Though you could make the argument

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Speaker 1: Zeke is the best of that just elite group of

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Speaker 1: three guys, you'd have to put him last because he

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Speaker 1: does play running back. Then to me, the argument is

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Speaker 1: Ramsey and Bosa. I think the hard part about this

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Speaker 1: is ten years ago, if you give me you know

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Speaker 1: the best cornerback in the league. You just that was

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Speaker 1: really important. It feels now though, with the rules being

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Speaker 1: you know, so offensive oriented, it's so hard to play

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Speaker 1: defensive back. The one area on the football field where

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Speaker 1: you can still be really physical, where you can still

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Speaker 1: hit and still dominate from a physical standpoint, is the

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Speaker 1: defensive line. It's why Khalil Mcin Aaron Donald. I mean,

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Speaker 1: when it's all said and done, are probably gonna get

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Speaker 1: I don't know, a hundred and fifty million dollars guaranteed combined,

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Speaker 1: So I I'd probably go Joey Bosa. Anyone that's followed

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Speaker 1: me for a while knows I listen. I I didn't

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Speaker 1: think Joey Bosa was I thought he was the first

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Speaker 1: rounder for sure, but top ten was a pretty bold

733
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Speaker 1: when they drafted him three overall. I thought that was crazy.

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Speaker 1: When it turns out he's an absolute unblockable stud. So

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Speaker 1: I'd probably go Bosa over Ramsey though. I like everything

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Speaker 1: Ramsey selling. I love his attitude, I love his edge,

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Speaker 1: I love his swag, I love his versatility. Uh, I

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Speaker 1: don't think you could really go wrong to me for

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Speaker 1: this argument. I think you'd Zeke is not really in

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Speaker 1: the conversation just because he plays running back. That being said,

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Speaker 1: here here's the craziest part about this whole conversation. I

742
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Speaker 1: think the Cowboys are gonna be good this year, and

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Speaker 1: I think Zeke might win the m v P. And

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Speaker 1: I would still take if you had to redo it,

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Speaker 1: Bosa and Ramsey over him. Now, obviously the Cowboys couldn't

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Speaker 1: have taken Bosa, and maybe they would have, but I

747
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Speaker 1: doubt it. But I think the argument from Cowboy fans

748
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Speaker 1: is how much better they would be with Jalen Ramsey

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Speaker 1: was Zeke. You know, I I think they made the

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Speaker 1: right choice. I think it worked out perfect lee for

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Speaker 1: all all the parties. It really is. I mean, whence

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Speaker 1: Goff Bosa, Zeke Ramsey doesn't get much better than that,

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Speaker 1: I'm going to instant now. Uh, if the rumors around

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Speaker 1: Vegas about Khalil mack being more likely to play for

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Speaker 1: the Packers are true, New GM Gudakins can pull off

756
00:41:22,120 --> 00:41:25,480
Speaker 1: this trade with his buddy Reggie Mackenzie. Wouldn't that in

757
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Speaker 1: addition to the other offseason changes bringing back fieldman getting

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Speaker 1: Mike Petton, getting younger upstairs, UH, getting us improving a

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Speaker 1: secondary with two corners, getting Jimmy Grahat Mercedes and Mo

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Speaker 1: Wilkerson make Tony Romo right about the Packers being the

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Speaker 1: team favorite to win the Super Bowl. I think Brian gutikins,

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Speaker 1: I didn't know much about this guy. Beside, I think

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Speaker 1: the first I had really ever heard of him was

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Speaker 1: last year when he interviewed for the forty Honors GM spot.

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Speaker 1: This guy is good. This guy is really dynamic. As

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Speaker 1: I'm recording this, it's I'd be shocked if Khalil Mack

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Speaker 1: is traded, because the Packers could offer a lot. I mean,

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Speaker 1: they have two first round picks, but I do think

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Speaker 1: it'd be hard for the Raiders even if you got

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Speaker 1: Let's say the Packers gave them three first rounders to

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Speaker 1: this year and then one next year. What does that

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Speaker 1: do good for the Raiders right now? The Packers would

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Speaker 1: do that. I think definitely they'd give up the two

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Speaker 1: for him. If the Packers were to get Khalil Mack.

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Speaker 1: To me, they'd be the heavy favorites to win in

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Speaker 1: the NFC, and the NFC is loaded without Khalil Mack.

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Speaker 1: I just view them much like a basketball team, uh

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Speaker 1: kind of like not quite like the Cleveland Cavaliers with

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Speaker 1: Lebron because they're their team, like you said, is a

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Speaker 1: lot better. Their young secondary looks good. I think Davante

781
00:42:44,080 --> 00:42:47,320
Speaker 1: Adams is a legit superstar in this league. A little biased.

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00:42:47,320 --> 00:42:50,040
Speaker 1: I'm a frezen State guy, but he's a stud and

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00:42:50,080 --> 00:42:52,480
Speaker 1: he's really come into his own. But as you saw

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Speaker 1: last year, and most teams are like this, let's call

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Speaker 1: what it is. They are so dependent on Aaron Rodgers

786
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Speaker 1: that when he goes down, they're just screwed. Now their

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Speaker 1: defense is a lot better. Mike Patton is just a

788
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Speaker 1: huge upgrade over dom Capers. What they have, their person

789
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Speaker 1: knel on defense in the secondary is a lot better.

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Speaker 1: Those young quarters with ha ha that's solid. Just do

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00:43:12,400 --> 00:43:15,680
Speaker 1: they have a good enough pass rush? Uh? That they

792
00:43:15,719 --> 00:43:18,719
Speaker 1: are pretty dependent. It looks like they might trade Randall Cobb. Hell,

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Speaker 1: they might cut them. You know, is who who are

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Speaker 1: gonna be the receivers beside Davonte. Now, Jimmy Graham's gonna

795
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Speaker 1: help a lot. If people love to crush Jimmy Graham

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Speaker 1: that he won't block. I know this. How many touch

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Speaker 1: times do you have last year for us Wilson and

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Speaker 1: you know ten? You know, and so if you're giving

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Speaker 1: me I don't care if you're not blocking. If you're

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Speaker 1: giving me ten touchdowns, and he's obviously one of the

801
00:43:38,160 --> 00:43:41,000
Speaker 1: best red zone targets in the NFL, you have a

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Speaker 1: lot of value. So I'm with you that. To me,

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Speaker 1: the Packers, I don't expect them to get Cleil Mac,

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Speaker 1: but even without him, I think they're, you know, arguably

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Speaker 1: one of the heavy favorites to UH to represent the

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Speaker 1: NFC in UH in Atlanta. Okay, here's last question. My

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Speaker 1: Chicago Bears have been painful to watch for nearly decade,

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Speaker 1: and we don't seem to have an identity. We don't

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Speaker 1: do offense, we don't do defense, and we especially don't

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Speaker 1: do special team as well. Jordan how Guy's negative comment here,

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Speaker 1: Jordan Howard, UH is our only real bright spot. What

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Speaker 1: do my monsters of the Midway need to do to

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00:44:19,080 --> 00:44:24,239
Speaker 1: return to football relevancy. I really think they started perfectly

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Speaker 1: this offseason. My hiring my guy, Matt n Maggie, that's

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Speaker 1: just a hell of a higher And I know it's

816
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Speaker 1: a preseason game, but the offense is gonna be so

817
00:44:32,600 --> 00:44:36,239
Speaker 1: much more explosive and Mitch didn't play. To me, their

818
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Speaker 1: defense is gonna be top six seven in the NFL.

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Speaker 1: They have easily one of the best defensive coordinator. I

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Speaker 1: know guys on the staff that will tell you Vic

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Speaker 1: Fangio is as smart as anyone in the NFL, and

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Speaker 1: people around the NFL know it. I mean, Vic Fangio

823
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Speaker 1: is big time. That defense is gonna be really, really solid.

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Speaker 1: Rokelan Smith hasn't even started playing. He was my favorite

825
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Speaker 1: player in the draft. I mean Rokelan Smith in two

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Speaker 1: thousand and eighteen is an absolute difference maker. That's exactly

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Speaker 1: the type guy you need. So Vic fangioe will get

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Speaker 1: him going and they'll play big time defense Offensively. To me,

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Speaker 1: it kind of hinges on Mr Bisky because I know

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Speaker 1: this from a schematic standpoint. Matt Naggie is going to

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Speaker 1: be dynamic as a play caller. They have such an

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Speaker 1: improved skill position. Allen Robinson, Kevin White actually looks pretty good.

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Speaker 1: Like you said, Jordan Howard is solid, Trey Burton, They're

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Speaker 1: gonna be solid. It just is MS Robisky good. I

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Speaker 1: like Miss Robinsky coming out in the draft that I

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Speaker 1: like him number two overall. No that I think he

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Speaker 1: was a first round or would he have been a

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Speaker 1: top ten pick if he had returned to school and

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Speaker 1: had another solid year. Yes he would have. He was

840
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Speaker 1: athletic and he was accurate. But I just think there's

841
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Speaker 1: a great unknown with Mitch. He was only a one

842
00:45:50,840 --> 00:45:54,160
Speaker 1: year college starter. The team last year was so terrible

843
00:45:54,160 --> 00:45:57,440
Speaker 1: on offense, it's hard to even judge him. I don't

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Speaker 1: feel confident one way or the other. I don't think

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Speaker 1: he's bad because I definitely liked them coming out, and

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Speaker 1: the head coach believes in them, the offensive staff believes

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Speaker 1: in them. They're coaching staff is just really good. I

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Speaker 1: think the Bears could be one of the sleeper playoff

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Speaker 1: teams in the NFL if Mitch is just solid. And

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Speaker 1: I don't know if he's gonna be solid, Like can

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Speaker 1: I just turn on Sunday Night Football Week one against

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Speaker 1: the Packers and is he throwing three touchdowns or is

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Speaker 1: he throwing three picks? We just don't know. I think

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Speaker 1: he's one of the great wild cards in the NFL.

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Speaker 1: What am I getting with Mr? Biski? Because I know

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Speaker 1: what I'm getting with Matt Naggie. I'm getting a dynamic

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Speaker 1: play color. I know what I'm getting with Vic Fangio,

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Speaker 1: a physical defense that's just gonna be good. Right, I'm

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Speaker 1: watching their special teams. I don't know much about their

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Speaker 1: special teams coach, but watching that preseason game on Thursday

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Speaker 1: or on Saturday, he was going ape ship. I liked

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Speaker 1: his energy. So I they're they're a big time wild

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Speaker 1: card this year just because of their quarterback. And I

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Speaker 1: don't think anyone knows exactly how to judge him, but

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Speaker 1: I will say this, you look two years ago. I'm

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Speaker 1: a Barry guy. I'm a big Jared Goff guy, but

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Speaker 1: didn't looked like after one season Jared Goff was the

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Speaker 1: worst player in NFL history. Sean McVeigh shows up. Now

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Speaker 1: everyone's talking like how much are they gonna pay Jared Goff?

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Speaker 1: Hopefully Mr Bisky is like that. And if he is,

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Speaker 1: and I think Mitch has similar talents to Jared, he's

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Speaker 1: actually a better athlete. Jared probably is a little bit

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Speaker 1: better of an arm a little taller. But if golf,

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Speaker 1: if Trubisky can bounce back in a second year with

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Speaker 1: an offensive coach, much better players around him, why couldn't

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Speaker 1: he have a golf like season now. I don't think

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Speaker 1: the Ram or the Bears are as good as the Rams,

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Speaker 1: but I definitely could see them. I mean, I think

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Speaker 1: crazier things have happened than the Bears win in ten

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Speaker 1: games this year, and I definitely think that's on the table.

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Speaker 1: So I listen. I am. I used to say unofficially,

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Speaker 1: I'm officially I'm a Bears fan. I'm rooting for the

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Speaker 1: Chicago Bears. I just the quarterback. To me, Man is

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Speaker 1: the big question. And if you're trying to be optimistic

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Speaker 1: and you're trying to be hopeful, you just hope he's

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Speaker 1: on the Jared Goff path. Rookie year terrible, but he

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Speaker 1: had a terrible head coach. Second year, gets a young

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Speaker 1: offensive guy, a bunch of new pieces around him, bounces

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Speaker 1: back veteran defensive coordinator. Team is just really solid. I

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Speaker 1: keep it. I like the Bears this year. Okay that that.

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Speaker 1: That'll do it for the Three and Out podcast on

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Speaker 1: the Colin Coward Podcast Network, Talking Football Football is officially back.

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Speaker 1: Next time I talk, we'll be the start of the

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Speaker 1: regular season. See you next week. Audio