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Speaker 1: but I'm gonna I'm gonna hit on my big takeaway

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Speaker 1: Derek Carr was awesome. We're gonna dive in. I mean,

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Speaker 1: what a weekend. It was just the Paths acquiring Antonio Brown. Uh,

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Speaker 1: a couple of things that jumped out to me on Sunday,

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Speaker 1: as my Twitter handle. Easiest way to get ahold of

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Speaker 1: me again. Dm me asked me any football question you want.

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Speaker 1: I'm still behind and I'll and I'll get to it.

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Speaker 1: But let's start with Monday Night football, the Money to

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Speaker 1: Night double header. Listen. I'm I'm a West Coast guy,

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Speaker 1: so I'm a sucker for the night game, but the

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Speaker 1: tonight's matchup was pretty badass. I mean, you got Drew Brees,

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Speaker 1: Deshaun Watson, Sean Payton. Say what you want about Bill O'Brien.

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Speaker 1: like they get the ball back there down you know,

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Speaker 1: they hit two massive shots because you have no choice.

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Speaker 1: You just have to throw a haymaker right you got

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Speaker 1: I was in a situation where I couldn't I didn't

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Speaker 1: Football is weird. They end it up hitting it the

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Speaker 1: second time under no circumstances when you just had to

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Speaker 1: Why listen. I'm not claiming to be Belichick here or

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Speaker 1: George Seyffert or Vic Fangio. Vic Fangio might not be

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Speaker 1: be aggressive, send pressure, make him make a quick decision

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Speaker 1: I got multiple texts from people in the NFL, like,

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Speaker 1: one of the more impressive performance of the weekend. So

425
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Speaker 1: there's a reason, Belichick, it's the benefit of the doubt.

426
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Speaker 1: There's a reason Brady says, tell Robert Rats, how you

427
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Speaker 1: come live with me? They're just operating on a completely

428
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Speaker 1: different level. And yeah, did they take advantage of the

429
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Speaker 1: Raider's misfortune, of course they did. But the only reason

430
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Speaker 1: the Raiders had misfortune is because they got in bed

431
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Speaker 1: with this guy that they had no business even associating

432
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Speaker 1: themselves with. That they got in over their skis. For

433
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Speaker 1: those of you that ski, have you ever like your

434
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Speaker 1: first couple of times, instead of going down like the

435
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Speaker 1: easy hole, the easy slopes, like the blue gone down

436
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Speaker 1: a double black diamond and been like, oh my god. Well,

437
00:23:03,080 --> 00:23:06,520
Speaker 1: for any skiers out there, it was basically like they

438
00:23:06,560 --> 00:23:08,800
Speaker 1: just went down a double black diamond and they had

439
00:23:08,840 --> 00:23:11,439
Speaker 1: never skied before in their life. And John Gruden and

440
00:23:11,520 --> 00:23:14,800
Speaker 1: Mike Mayock were like, oh my god, we are in trouble.

441
00:23:15,240 --> 00:23:18,280
Speaker 1: We are in major trouble and they tumbled down the hill.

442
00:23:18,800 --> 00:23:22,280
Speaker 1: And when they landed at the hill, uh, Brady and

443
00:23:22,320 --> 00:23:24,679
Speaker 1: Belichick were standing there right there to pick them up

444
00:23:24,760 --> 00:23:28,800
Speaker 1: and take them. And that's just what happened. Okay, let's

445
00:23:28,920 --> 00:23:33,000
Speaker 1: dive into some offensive football. And I say this all

446
00:23:33,000 --> 00:23:35,359
Speaker 1: the time. Like the thing that I don't miss about

447
00:23:35,400 --> 00:23:39,440
Speaker 1: scouting is watching the bad players. And you, especially when

448
00:23:39,440 --> 00:23:41,440
Speaker 1: you were young scout, you spend more time watching the

449
00:23:41,480 --> 00:23:43,720
Speaker 1: crappy players than you do the good ones. Like I

450
00:23:43,760 --> 00:23:46,200
Speaker 1: got news for you. Not all NFL team or NFL

451
00:23:46,240 --> 00:23:49,280
Speaker 1: players are created equal. I really and I still do

452
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Speaker 1: to this day. Like I like talking about the stars,

453
00:23:51,440 --> 00:23:54,320
Speaker 1: and it's why my media career, Like I was made

454
00:23:54,359 --> 00:23:56,480
Speaker 1: for the media. Like I'm not really into the nuts

455
00:23:56,480 --> 00:23:59,120
Speaker 1: and bolts about your backup special teamers. I don't care.

456
00:23:59,720 --> 00:24:01,920
Speaker 1: I if you want to watch overachievers, go to a

457
00:24:02,000 --> 00:24:04,199
Speaker 1: high school game. I watched the NFL to watch the

458
00:24:04,200 --> 00:24:06,560
Speaker 1: best of the best. That's why when I watched, Like

459
00:24:06,800 --> 00:24:09,160
Speaker 1: I like watching L s U. Texas, I like watching

460
00:24:09,200 --> 00:24:11,920
Speaker 1: Alabama play L s U. I like watching Clemson play

461
00:24:11,960 --> 00:24:13,760
Speaker 1: Ohio State, Like those are the games I want to watch.

462
00:24:14,000 --> 00:24:16,720
Speaker 1: I like watching Kansas City, I like watching you know,

463
00:24:16,800 --> 00:24:21,720
Speaker 1: Chicago's defense, Philly, Dallas. And one thing is clear in

464
00:24:21,760 --> 00:24:25,760
Speaker 1: the NFL is that the game has completely changed because

465
00:24:25,800 --> 00:24:28,720
Speaker 1: of the rules. It is so much easier to throw now,

466
00:24:29,280 --> 00:24:33,800
Speaker 1: and aggressive coaches on offense are really thriving. And the

467
00:24:33,800 --> 00:24:36,080
Speaker 1: guy that set the standard for the last probably twenty years,

468
00:24:36,200 --> 00:24:39,000
Speaker 1: coach Ree, he's been ahead of his time. Uh, you know,

469
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Speaker 1: he's if you think about his time in Philly with

470
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Speaker 1: his success. Donovan McNabb was a very, very talented player,

471
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Speaker 1: but he was kind of flawed, you know. And then

472
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Speaker 1: Alex who is probably one of the more underrated players

473
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Speaker 1: in NFL history. You ask anyone that was around him,

474
00:24:53,920 --> 00:24:56,720
Speaker 1: they swear by him. He's a phenomenal person and you

475
00:24:56,760 --> 00:24:58,560
Speaker 1: could win with him as long as your team was good.

476
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Speaker 1: Hardball one with him, Read one with him. Now, you're

477
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Speaker 1: not gonna win a super Bowl with him, but you

478
00:25:02,760 --> 00:25:06,399
Speaker 1: can win with him. But Patrick Mahomes is basically like

479
00:25:06,480 --> 00:25:09,399
Speaker 1: the smarter perversion of five. Now, is he gonna win

480
00:25:09,440 --> 00:25:11,760
Speaker 1: a Super Bowl like five? Yet to be determined, but

481
00:25:11,840 --> 00:25:13,680
Speaker 1: I think we'd all go Yeah, I'd bet on it.

482
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Speaker 1: I'm pretty confident. I'm very confident the next five or

483
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Speaker 1: six years the Kansasy Chiefs under Andy Reid and Patrick

484
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Speaker 1: Mahomes win a Super Bowl. I you can write that

485
00:25:23,320 --> 00:25:26,360
Speaker 1: thing in stone a right, that's going to happen as

486
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Speaker 1: long as Patrick Mahomes stays healthy. And that part of

487
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Speaker 1: it on him is to play smarter. And that's where

488
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Speaker 1: I think the far of comparison comes in a little bit.

489
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Speaker 1: He's a little bit crazy, you know, he's king of

490
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Speaker 1: doing stupid things. No, no quarterback does this more in

491
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Speaker 1: the NFL. Right now, He'll like slide head first and

492
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Speaker 1: take a shot and he's like, Patrick, what are you doing?

493
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Speaker 1: And then he gets up and he looks at the

494
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Speaker 1: sideline at the coaches and he smiles. He's like, my bad.

495
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Speaker 1: He did it yesterday when he did a no look

496
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Speaker 1: pass to a wide open Kelsey and then he looks

497
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Speaker 1: at the sideline and looks at Kelsey and he smiles.

498
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Speaker 1: It's like Patrick, but you like hate him. He's like

499
00:26:00,720 --> 00:26:03,040
Speaker 1: a puppy dog. I can't really get mad at him

500
00:26:03,080 --> 00:26:05,359
Speaker 1: for that. And he's so good it doesn't matter. But

501
00:26:05,640 --> 00:26:09,120
Speaker 1: what Andy is doing now with the most talented quarterback

502
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Speaker 1: he's had as a head coach, because Donovan was really talented,

503
00:26:12,880 --> 00:26:16,200
Speaker 1: but he was never this good. Vick was really talented,

504
00:26:16,200 --> 00:26:18,000
Speaker 1: but he was really flawed. He couldn't read a defense.

505
00:26:18,640 --> 00:26:21,600
Speaker 1: Alex was really really smart, but he was physically limited.

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Speaker 1: This guy's got it all, I mean, has it all,

507
00:26:25,760 --> 00:26:30,040
Speaker 1: and they have so many damn weapons. It's just mind numbing.

508
00:26:30,560 --> 00:26:32,720
Speaker 1: And Andy, who's had a lot of weapons before. I mean,

509
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Speaker 1: when I got to Philly it was DeShawn and Lashawn

510
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Speaker 1: and Jeremy Macklin. That was a really good young core

511
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Speaker 1: with Vic. Remember that first year Light in the world

512
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Speaker 1: on fire. This cruise better because Tyreek kills a dominant

513
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Speaker 1: player and luckily he's not seriously injured. Kelsey is probably

514
00:26:49,840 --> 00:26:54,320
Speaker 1: the most dynamic tight end in the NFL. Sammy Watkins

515
00:26:54,440 --> 00:26:57,560
Speaker 1: yesterday looked like Randy Moss meets I don't know. Antonio

516
00:26:57,640 --> 00:27:00,320
Speaker 1: Brown is just incredible. And if you talk to the

517
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Speaker 1: guys in Kansas City, they'll be like, and they were

518
00:27:02,119 --> 00:27:04,480
Speaker 1: talking about this on the broadcast. He's a great guy.

519
00:27:04,600 --> 00:27:07,480
Speaker 1: He's clearly very talented. He's got to stay healthy. Well,

520
00:27:07,560 --> 00:27:09,080
Speaker 1: he doesn't need to do that every game. I think

521
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Speaker 1: he had nine for almost two hundred and three touchdowns.

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Speaker 1: They just need him to stay healthy and be he

523
00:27:13,600 --> 00:27:15,959
Speaker 1: can be a number one wide receiver when when Tyreek

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00:27:16,000 --> 00:27:18,280
Speaker 1: kills out, then they got all these other wide receivers.

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00:27:18,359 --> 00:27:21,520
Speaker 1: Damian Williams looks good. Uh, Shady's gonna be fine. Their

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Speaker 1: offensive line is good. They're good, like they're early. They're

527
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Speaker 1: the one team that you take away yesterday in the NFC, Like, yeah,

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Speaker 1: they're the one team. And again I'm recording this before

529
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Speaker 1: the Monday night games. Maybe the Texans, but probably not

530
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Speaker 1: because the Patriots owned the Texans. The you go, yeah,

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Speaker 1: they could give the Patriots a game that they could

532
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Speaker 1: beat the Patriots in an FC championship game. Hell, they

533
00:27:39,800 --> 00:27:42,760
Speaker 1: were offsides away from beating him. But then there's two

534
00:27:42,800 --> 00:27:45,359
Speaker 1: other teams that really jumped out to me, and I

535
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Speaker 1: have experienced with both these two. And I'll start with

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Speaker 1: Doug and the Eagles and Carson Wentz One. I was

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Speaker 1: around Doug every day when I worked in the office

538
00:27:54,400 --> 00:27:56,720
Speaker 1: for two straight years. He is kind of like an

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Speaker 1: Andy in terms of he's a very very hard worker.

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Speaker 1: I mean, they're super early, an absolute grinder. I just

541
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Speaker 1: was never around him from a scheme standpoint, Like I

542
00:28:05,119 --> 00:28:07,919
Speaker 1: couldn't tell he wasn't calling the place. Well, one thing

543
00:28:08,000 --> 00:28:10,320
Speaker 1: is well established now in his two years in a game,

544
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Speaker 1: is was it three years? I guess three years in

545
00:28:12,280 --> 00:28:14,320
Speaker 1: a game as a head coach. He is an elite

546
00:28:14,320 --> 00:28:17,840
Speaker 1: play caller. It is something that just innately comes with him,

547
00:28:17,880 --> 00:28:20,960
Speaker 1: like he's got it. He's a long time backup quarterback.

548
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Speaker 1: What he's got it, he can do it. He took

549
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Speaker 1: good notes working for Andy Reid and playing for all

550
00:28:26,000 --> 00:28:28,159
Speaker 1: the good coaches that he did, Like he's a special

551
00:28:28,160 --> 00:28:32,280
Speaker 1: play caller. Then he's associated with I wrote this down

552
00:28:32,320 --> 00:28:35,440
Speaker 1: and I don't know if this compass perfect. Carson Wentz

553
00:28:35,440 --> 00:28:38,840
Speaker 1: is like the Shaquille O'Neal of quarterbacks. Like his upside

554
00:28:39,000 --> 00:28:41,960
Speaker 1: when he's on, You're like, I've never seen anything quite

555
00:28:42,000 --> 00:28:44,360
Speaker 1: like this. Mahomes a little bit like that, but Mahomes

556
00:28:44,480 --> 00:28:49,240
Speaker 1: isn't six five to forty and can just toss defensive

557
00:28:49,240 --> 00:28:52,520
Speaker 1: lineman off. Mahomes a little bit more farve gun slayer.

558
00:28:53,080 --> 00:28:57,240
Speaker 1: You know, Carson Wentz is physically looks like no human

559
00:28:57,480 --> 00:29:00,440
Speaker 1: we've really seen, because he's much faster in wrath with Burger.

560
00:29:00,760 --> 00:29:03,560
Speaker 1: He's a more natural thrower even than a younger Roethlisberger.

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Speaker 1: And Roethlisberger is a great you know, it was a

562
00:29:05,200 --> 00:29:08,200
Speaker 1: Hall of fame player. But Mahomes like, what is his ceiling?

563
00:29:08,520 --> 00:29:10,160
Speaker 1: It's like Kobe Bryant said a couple of weeks ago

564
00:29:10,160 --> 00:29:11,720
Speaker 1: about Shack, like if he would have worked hard, he

565
00:29:11,720 --> 00:29:14,440
Speaker 1: could have won twelve championships. Was unstoppable. That's how I

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Speaker 1: when I see Carson Wentz, who at halftime yesterday or

567
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Speaker 1: right before half when they scored the touchdown to make

568
00:29:20,200 --> 00:29:22,320
Speaker 1: it I think seventeen to seven. They were down twenties

569
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Speaker 1: seven a halftime do you flipped the switch? And him

570
00:29:25,240 --> 00:29:27,880
Speaker 1: and Doug came out just guns blazing. It was like, God,

571
00:29:28,360 --> 00:29:32,520
Speaker 1: they're ceiling. Those two guys together is sky high. I

572
00:29:32,520 --> 00:29:36,080
Speaker 1: mean it's it's as high as Andy and Mahomes. And

573
00:29:36,120 --> 00:29:38,880
Speaker 1: it's because Carson Wentz is just such a freak talent.

574
00:29:39,200 --> 00:29:41,320
Speaker 1: He is so damn good, and they have so much time.

575
00:29:41,440 --> 00:29:44,640
Speaker 1: Al Shon's a baller. DeShawn I get chip Kelly thought

576
00:29:44,640 --> 00:29:46,560
Speaker 1: he was in the gang. What turns out Chip Kelly

577
00:29:46,560 --> 00:29:48,720
Speaker 1: doesn't know what he's doing, and Deshan still can run

578
00:29:48,760 --> 00:29:51,160
Speaker 1: really fast and score touchdown. You know, it turns out

579
00:29:51,160 --> 00:29:54,240
Speaker 1: Shady actually isn't that bad, right, It's like Chip Kelly

580
00:29:54,320 --> 00:29:57,480
Speaker 1: maybe just ruined a roster that it turns out that

581
00:29:57,560 --> 00:29:59,680
Speaker 1: everyone was right on the other side of Chip Kelly.

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00:29:59,760 --> 00:30:02,680
Speaker 1: Not Chip Kelly. But this team with Philly is just

583
00:30:02,760 --> 00:30:05,760
Speaker 1: really good, and their quarterback has a chance on any

584
00:30:05,760 --> 00:30:07,560
Speaker 1: time he steps on the field to not just be

585
00:30:07,600 --> 00:30:09,760
Speaker 1: the best player on that field, but to be the

586
00:30:09,840 --> 00:30:13,040
Speaker 1: clear best player in the league and then the third guy.

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Speaker 1: Before I worked in the NFL, I worked at Fresno

588
00:30:15,400 --> 00:30:19,320
Speaker 1: State and for two years we you know, Boise was

589
00:30:19,400 --> 00:30:21,680
Speaker 1: the team in the league run by Chris Peterson. Their

590
00:30:21,760 --> 00:30:24,760
Speaker 1: quarterback was a young player that year was Richard Freshman.

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Speaker 1: In the second year was a sophomore named Kellen Moore.

592
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Speaker 1: And to this day, the best two players I've ever

593
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Speaker 1: seen in my life were Reggie Bush live and Kellen

594
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Speaker 1: Moore life. Now, Reggie Bush was an elite NFL prospect,

595
00:30:37,960 --> 00:30:40,600
Speaker 1: Kellen Moore was not an elite prospect, but just as

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Speaker 1: a college player, I'm just talking college player. He was

597
00:30:44,160 --> 00:30:47,480
Speaker 1: the most dominant college player I've ever seen. He dominated.

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Speaker 1: And I'm born and raising Davis. My dad was big

599
00:30:50,640 --> 00:30:53,480
Speaker 1: into cat UC Davis athletics, so I know a lot

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Speaker 1: of people involved with the program. Chris Peterson is a

601
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Speaker 1: Davis guy. A lot of the boys you guys are

602
00:30:57,200 --> 00:31:00,640
Speaker 1: Davis guys. These guys are elite intellects show I'm McDermott.

603
00:31:00,640 --> 00:31:02,360
Speaker 1: I remember when I first got to Philly and he

604
00:31:02,400 --> 00:31:04,360
Speaker 1: knew us from Fresno State. He used to ask me

605
00:31:04,560 --> 00:31:07,040
Speaker 1: he was our defensive coordinator that first year. Who happens

606
00:31:07,040 --> 00:31:08,360
Speaker 1: to be a head coach? Now on a pretty good

607
00:31:08,360 --> 00:31:10,280
Speaker 1: one again. I've been around a decent amount of head coaches.

608
00:31:10,440 --> 00:31:13,680
Speaker 1: I worked in the league three years, Naggie McDermott, Doug Andy,

609
00:31:14,000 --> 00:31:16,480
Speaker 1: Todd Bowles like, I've seen the way these guys operate.

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00:31:16,600 --> 00:31:19,240
Speaker 1: He used to go, what is in the water at

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Speaker 1: Boise And I'd be I don't know, but they got something.

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00:31:21,800 --> 00:31:24,440
Speaker 1: And I'm telling you everyone at Boise will tell you that.

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Speaker 1: Kellen Moore one, he was destined to be a coach.

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Speaker 1: His dad's a longtime coach. His brother, who I just

615
00:31:29,640 --> 00:31:32,440
Speaker 1: got a text from, I got still friends in Fresno.

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00:31:32,560 --> 00:31:35,120
Speaker 1: My family lives there. Kirby Moore, his brother, who played

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00:31:35,120 --> 00:31:37,720
Speaker 1: wide receiver at Boise State, is now the wide receiver

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00:31:37,800 --> 00:31:40,800
Speaker 1: coach at Fresno State. Someone just texts me. He typically

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00:31:40,800 --> 00:31:42,960
Speaker 1: works from six am to twelve at night. So they're

620
00:31:43,000 --> 00:31:45,560
Speaker 1: naturally grinders because they come from a coaching family, and

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Speaker 1: I'm telling you Chris Peterson would tell you and I

622
00:31:47,920 --> 00:31:49,720
Speaker 1: used to have you know it wasn't off the record

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Speaker 1: because I was a scout. Kellen Moore was the smartest

624
00:31:52,080 --> 00:31:54,680
Speaker 1: player he's ever been around. The dude was a genius.

625
00:31:54,800 --> 00:31:56,520
Speaker 1: And then when you factory he has a coaching background

626
00:31:56,560 --> 00:31:59,040
Speaker 1: because of his family, he was destined for this moment.

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00:31:59,400 --> 00:32:01,280
Speaker 1: I don't think it's crazy to say, and I'm not

628
00:32:01,320 --> 00:32:03,760
Speaker 1: trying to overreact to one Dallas game. I would have

629
00:32:03,800 --> 00:32:05,560
Speaker 1: told you this ten years ago because I never thought

630
00:32:05,560 --> 00:32:06,960
Speaker 1: he was gonna play in the NFL. I thought the

631
00:32:06,960 --> 00:32:08,920
Speaker 1: guy was gonna be the next coach at Boise. He'd

632
00:32:08,920 --> 00:32:10,400
Speaker 1: be a coach at USC one day. I thought that

633
00:32:10,600 --> 00:32:12,840
Speaker 1: the sky was the limit for this kid. And this

634
00:32:12,920 --> 00:32:14,800
Speaker 1: was just as a player, because I knew his background,

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Speaker 1: as I think Brian Harrison's might have been Justin Wilcox.

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Speaker 1: Whoever it was came back to Chris Peterson when when

637
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Speaker 1: he they recruited Kellen Moore and he looked at Chris

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Speaker 1: Peterson because Chris Peterson didn't want him because he's like

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Speaker 1: five eleven and he doesn't have a great arm, and

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Speaker 1: Justin will I think it was Justin Wilcox, and Justin

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00:32:33,360 --> 00:32:36,680
Speaker 1: Wilcox told him, if if this kid doesn't work out,

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Speaker 1: you can fire me or not let me recruit anymore.

643
00:32:39,760 --> 00:32:42,240
Speaker 1: Or I mean made a bold statement, and it was

644
00:32:42,520 --> 00:32:44,520
Speaker 1: he's probably the best player in the history of Boise.

645
00:32:44,880 --> 00:32:48,800
Speaker 1: Not not NFL player. I'm just saying individual player. And

646
00:32:48,920 --> 00:32:51,040
Speaker 1: the guy's a brilliant mind. And you just watched the

647
00:32:51,080 --> 00:32:53,920
Speaker 1: Dallas Cowboys and they've never looked like Philly with Doug

648
00:32:54,200 --> 00:32:58,719
Speaker 1: or clearly Andy with with Mahomes or uh, you know,

649
00:32:59,360 --> 00:33:02,320
Speaker 1: Patriots with McDaniels, or even you know in the heyday

650
00:33:02,360 --> 00:33:05,280
Speaker 1: like Todd Haley and Roethlisberger and all those guys. You

651
00:33:05,280 --> 00:33:07,560
Speaker 1: watched him yesterday, and I rewatched the game late last

652
00:33:07,680 --> 00:33:11,040
Speaker 1: night while my iPad condensed version, and it was a clinic.

653
00:33:11,520 --> 00:33:14,480
Speaker 1: I mean, I people motion and left and right, guy's

654
00:33:14,520 --> 00:33:17,200
Speaker 1: wide open, Amari Cooper looking like a star, Randall Cobb

655
00:33:17,280 --> 00:33:19,320
Speaker 1: looking like a star, Deck looking like a star like

656
00:33:19,400 --> 00:33:21,960
Speaker 1: I I knew Mahomes and Andy were good. I didn't

657
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Speaker 1: need yesterday to find that out. I knew Carson has

658
00:33:24,760 --> 00:33:26,880
Speaker 1: m v P talent. I didn't need yesterday to find

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Speaker 1: that out. I've seen Doug go toe to toe with

660
00:33:29,120 --> 00:33:31,760
Speaker 1: Belichick and beat him. We know he's an elite coach.

661
00:33:32,400 --> 00:33:36,000
Speaker 1: I knew in my gut Kellen Moore was a good coach.

662
00:33:36,200 --> 00:33:38,760
Speaker 1: I hadn't seen it and I had no proof, but

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Speaker 1: I would have bet on him, and I would bet

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Speaker 1: the farm right now. I don't have a farm, uh,

665
00:33:43,760 --> 00:33:45,720
Speaker 1: even though my dad used to be a farmer. That

666
00:33:45,880 --> 00:33:48,680
Speaker 1: Kellen Moore's a superstar up and comer. And this isn't

667
00:33:48,680 --> 00:33:52,320
Speaker 1: just fluff recentcly bias. It's because this guy was bred

668
00:33:52,400 --> 00:33:56,320
Speaker 1: for this. Again, these boysy guys who these boysy guys

669
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Speaker 1: who Chris Patson's now watched it, Justin Wilcox, now account

670
00:33:59,120 --> 00:34:01,600
Speaker 1: their intellects and they will tell you this guy is

671
00:34:01,640 --> 00:34:04,239
Speaker 1: the smartest football player. And just mind they've ever been

672
00:34:04,280 --> 00:34:07,520
Speaker 1: around as a player at nineteen years old, he's on

673
00:34:07,600 --> 00:34:10,239
Speaker 1: a different level. And I wouldn't know that if I

674
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Speaker 1: hadn't been at Fresno State and we hadn't played him.

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00:34:12,280 --> 00:34:15,040
Speaker 1: And I have all these mutual friends and acquaintances that

676
00:34:15,080 --> 00:34:17,600
Speaker 1: know him. I've been through the boys program, got to

677
00:34:17,640 --> 00:34:21,359
Speaker 1: meet Chris Peterson several times. This isn't the fluke. This

678
00:34:21,400 --> 00:34:24,880
Speaker 1: guy like Andy and I'm sure Doug and even Naggi

679
00:34:24,960 --> 00:34:27,600
Speaker 1: will tell you like they worked for it, you know they.

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00:34:27,640 --> 00:34:29,640
Speaker 1: I don't think any of them grew up with parents

681
00:34:29,640 --> 00:34:31,400
Speaker 1: that were coaches. I know Doug coach a little bit

682
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Speaker 1: in high school after he got done playing. Like Kellen

683
00:34:34,160 --> 00:34:36,960
Speaker 1: Moore has been doing this since he was like five.

684
00:34:37,520 --> 00:34:40,960
Speaker 1: You know, he's been Football is like his family's work.

685
00:34:41,880 --> 00:34:44,120
Speaker 1: That's just what they do a little bit like Shanahan

686
00:34:44,160 --> 00:34:46,360
Speaker 1: and McVeigh, it's just it's just who they are. Just

687
00:34:46,400 --> 00:34:49,160
Speaker 1: a huge advantage you have when if you've ever read

688
00:34:49,239 --> 00:34:51,800
Speaker 1: or heard about Belichick, Belichick was watching film when he

689
00:34:51,840 --> 00:34:54,680
Speaker 1: was like six, just because his dad was into it.

690
00:34:54,719 --> 00:34:56,600
Speaker 1: Was part of it. It was working in the game.

691
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Speaker 1: And some guys like most of us, like I, I

692
00:35:01,000 --> 00:35:03,239
Speaker 1: it's everything I do. It's gonna take a while. I

693
00:35:03,239 --> 00:35:05,520
Speaker 1: didn't like grow up in a I mean, I grew

694
00:35:05,600 --> 00:35:08,000
Speaker 1: up in a sports family, but it's like my dad

695
00:35:08,040 --> 00:35:10,200
Speaker 1: was a coach or I was around football, Like I

696
00:35:10,239 --> 00:35:13,400
Speaker 1: got a crash course in football once I kind of

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00:35:13,400 --> 00:35:15,920
Speaker 1: got to Freszl State and luckily I worked for a

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00:35:15,960 --> 00:35:17,800
Speaker 1: high level guy. I learned a lot, but I didn't

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Speaker 1: know much going in, so I was up against people

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Speaker 1: and probably around people that had just been doing a

701
00:35:22,680 --> 00:35:24,680
Speaker 1: lot longer. It takes time, and a lot of coaches

702
00:35:24,680 --> 00:35:26,640
Speaker 1: are like that. You know, you get in the NFL,

703
00:35:26,640 --> 00:35:29,520
Speaker 1: it should take you fifteen, ten years, whatever. But some

704
00:35:29,560 --> 00:35:31,200
Speaker 1: people just have an advantage because they've been doing it

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Speaker 1: their whole life and are just meant for the moment,

706
00:35:33,239 --> 00:35:35,239
Speaker 1: meant to do that, And that would be the way

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Speaker 1: I would describe Kellen Moore and I I think that

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00:35:38,440 --> 00:35:41,480
Speaker 1: it's a game changer for the Dallas Cowboys because obviously

709
00:35:41,480 --> 00:35:44,799
Speaker 1: you wouldn't take Dak Prescott over Patrick Mahomes or over

710
00:35:44,840 --> 00:35:47,400
Speaker 1: Carson Wentz. No human would do that just from a

711
00:35:47,400 --> 00:35:51,440
Speaker 1: talent standpoint. But it's a coaching league, and the Cowboys

712
00:35:51,480 --> 00:35:55,400
Speaker 1: have really lacked offensive creativity, something the Eagles, the Chiefs,

713
00:35:55,480 --> 00:35:58,560
Speaker 1: even the Bears have with Naggie. They don't have that

714
00:35:58,640 --> 00:36:02,040
Speaker 1: the the ram and they have with their you know,

715
00:36:02,120 --> 00:36:04,600
Speaker 1: offensive minds that Lenahan didn't bring that to the table.

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Speaker 1: This kid does. And I'm not trying to overreact. I

717
00:36:08,160 --> 00:36:09,480
Speaker 1: like that. If you've listened to the show, you know

718
00:36:09,560 --> 00:36:11,759
Speaker 1: I like Dallas. But now that I got to see

719
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Speaker 1: it with my own eyes, when I already believed, I

720
00:36:13,480 --> 00:36:16,080
Speaker 1: just didn't really say it. I think the sky is

721
00:36:16,120 --> 00:36:19,280
Speaker 1: the limit. I think Philly. I think Philly and Dallas.

722
00:36:19,320 --> 00:36:21,080
Speaker 1: I mean it might take thirteen wins to win the

723
00:36:21,160 --> 00:36:24,719
Speaker 1: NFC East because those two teams they're they're ceiling is

724
00:36:24,760 --> 00:36:27,319
Speaker 1: we We already knew the chief ceiling was high, but

725
00:36:27,400 --> 00:36:29,200
Speaker 1: those two just kind of throw their hat in the ring,

726
00:36:29,239 --> 00:36:32,000
Speaker 1: like you remember us, don't forget about us, and especially Dallas,

727
00:36:32,000 --> 00:36:35,880
Speaker 1: Like we know that about Carson and in Philly. But Dallas,

728
00:36:36,239 --> 00:36:38,560
Speaker 1: I'm telling you that this little g this little left hander,

729
00:36:39,040 --> 00:36:41,520
Speaker 1: I think he's from Washington or Montana or some little

730
00:36:41,560 --> 00:36:44,919
Speaker 1: last town they played at Boise State, is the real deal.

731
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Speaker 1: I think we'd all agree that pressure is a real thing.

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00:36:50,800 --> 00:36:54,319
Speaker 1: Whether it's you know, the pressure that your parents place

733
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Speaker 1: on you when you're a kid, whether it's the pressure

734
00:36:57,280 --> 00:36:59,920
Speaker 1: once you have children or a wife to provide for

735
00:37:00,080 --> 00:37:04,160
Speaker 1: your family, whether it's the pressure of hitting the first

736
00:37:04,160 --> 00:37:07,080
Speaker 1: tea shot in front of people watching you like, it's

737
00:37:07,120 --> 00:37:10,120
Speaker 1: a real thing. And I think we'd also all agree

738
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Speaker 1: the more you do something, the better equipped you are

739
00:37:14,960 --> 00:37:19,160
Speaker 1: to handle pressure. It's why the older I've gotten in life,

740
00:37:19,560 --> 00:37:22,399
Speaker 1: the more calm I am in situations that I used

741
00:37:22,440 --> 00:37:24,360
Speaker 1: to freak out about, used to have a hot temper

742
00:37:24,920 --> 00:37:27,160
Speaker 1: when I was younger, and I'm just matured about to

743
00:37:27,200 --> 00:37:29,440
Speaker 1: be thirty five years old, and I can just handle

744
00:37:29,480 --> 00:37:32,759
Speaker 1: situations better. Do I still handle him? Well? Hopefully when

745
00:37:32,760 --> 00:37:36,040
Speaker 1: I'm forty five or fifty five, I'll just keep growing maturing.

746
00:37:36,320 --> 00:37:39,560
Speaker 1: The more you experience in life, the better you handle them. Right, Like,

747
00:37:39,640 --> 00:37:41,680
Speaker 1: Tiger Woods didn't just show up at the Masters in

748
00:37:42,320 --> 00:37:45,640
Speaker 1: and win it. He had been experiencing pressure from his father,

749
00:37:46,120 --> 00:37:49,920
Speaker 1: who had been putting him through this just intense daily operation.

750
00:37:49,960 --> 00:37:52,279
Speaker 1: If you ever read the book, Tiger Woods is incredible.

751
00:37:52,600 --> 00:37:54,080
Speaker 1: He was bred for it, he was meant for it,

752
00:37:54,120 --> 00:37:57,480
Speaker 1: but he had spent his entire life, basically eighteen of

753
00:37:57,520 --> 00:37:59,680
Speaker 1: his twenty years of life, getting ready for that moment.

754
00:38:00,000 --> 00:38:01,960
Speaker 1: It wasn't like he just showed up in one, right,

755
00:38:02,400 --> 00:38:05,239
Speaker 1: That's not That's not the way it works. Go read

756
00:38:05,280 --> 00:38:09,000
Speaker 1: about Jeff Bezos. He's been swinging his pick for Amazon.

757
00:38:09,040 --> 00:38:11,080
Speaker 1: It's just like the mid nineties. I mean, it's two

758
00:38:11,120 --> 00:38:15,080
Speaker 1: thousand years of right after nineteen. So things don't just

759
00:38:15,280 --> 00:38:19,320
Speaker 1: typically happen overnight. And usually when you put someone into

760
00:38:19,320 --> 00:38:24,200
Speaker 1: a pressure situation that has never been in a pressure situation,

761
00:38:24,640 --> 00:38:28,680
Speaker 1: like in that individual, role, it's gonna go poorly because

762
00:38:28,760 --> 00:38:31,719
Speaker 1: for the most part, people aren't equipped to handle it.

763
00:38:31,760 --> 00:38:34,960
Speaker 1: And when you look at some recent successes on initial

764
00:38:35,000 --> 00:38:39,840
Speaker 1: coaches go around the league. In the NFL, Sean McVeigh

765
00:38:40,160 --> 00:38:43,360
Speaker 1: took over a team that most people thought was gonna

766
00:38:43,400 --> 00:38:47,279
Speaker 1: be just terrible. Thought they were gonna be horrendous. Their

767
00:38:47,360 --> 00:38:51,719
Speaker 1: quarterback couldn't take snaps from under center. The expectations were low.

768
00:38:51,760 --> 00:38:54,640
Speaker 1: There wasn't that much pressure. Now, clearly there's pressure on

769
00:38:54,760 --> 00:38:57,279
Speaker 1: being a head coach and leading man for sure, but

770
00:38:57,360 --> 00:39:00,239
Speaker 1: just the pressure of winning. Matt Naggy went to the

771
00:39:00,320 --> 00:39:02,800
Speaker 1: Chicago Bears. John Fox was a joke. I mean he

772
00:39:03,120 --> 00:39:06,040
Speaker 1: was working like four hours a day. When Doug Peterson

773
00:39:06,239 --> 00:39:08,760
Speaker 1: took over Chip Kelly, it couldn't have been any worse.

774
00:39:09,239 --> 00:39:11,040
Speaker 1: Like it was as low as it got. The the

775
00:39:11,280 --> 00:39:14,480
Speaker 1: expectations were tiny, there wasn't that much pressure. They got

776
00:39:14,520 --> 00:39:16,880
Speaker 1: to kind of ease into the job. First time head coaches.

777
00:39:18,080 --> 00:39:22,240
Speaker 1: Freddy Kitchens took over a job that had tangible pressure

778
00:39:22,760 --> 00:39:26,080
Speaker 1: that was justified. Probably not, but there was legit pressure.

779
00:39:26,200 --> 00:39:28,920
Speaker 1: Now Freddie Kitchens as a human being, he's been a

780
00:39:28,920 --> 00:39:32,960
Speaker 1: starting quarterback at Alabama, like he's faced pressure before. So

781
00:39:33,000 --> 00:39:35,680
Speaker 1: the analogy, it's not like he comes in blind. He's

782
00:39:35,760 --> 00:39:38,799
Speaker 1: felt it in his life. But he's never been a

783
00:39:38,800 --> 00:39:41,040
Speaker 1: head coach, and if you check out his resident he's

784
00:39:41,080 --> 00:39:44,439
Speaker 1: never called plays. So he goes into a situation where

785
00:39:44,480 --> 00:39:47,200
Speaker 1: he's never been a head coach, he's never called plays,

786
00:39:47,400 --> 00:39:51,319
Speaker 1: where the expectations are beyond out of whack, and you

787
00:39:51,400 --> 00:39:55,040
Speaker 1: see it immediately. He plays a team and most people,

788
00:39:55,440 --> 00:39:58,080
Speaker 1: most you know that fall football, thought that Cleveland Browns

789
00:39:58,080 --> 00:40:01,279
Speaker 1: were going to dominate the Tennessee Titans. Now I'm not

790
00:40:01,320 --> 00:40:03,480
Speaker 1: a big believer in the Tennessee Titans in the sense

791
00:40:03,520 --> 00:40:06,000
Speaker 1: that I didn't expect it to look like that. But

792
00:40:06,040 --> 00:40:07,680
Speaker 1: if you take a step back, you go, well, the

793
00:40:07,680 --> 00:40:11,000
Speaker 1: Tennessee Titans the last three years have average nine wins

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Speaker 1: this season, and two years ago they won a playoff game,

795
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Speaker 1: and they fired a coach Mike Rabel. Last year won

796
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Speaker 1: nine games and his quarterback got knocked out a week sixteen.

797
00:40:20,640 --> 00:40:22,440
Speaker 1: He didn't have it for weeks seventeen or he probably

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00:40:22,440 --> 00:40:25,320
Speaker 1: would have made the playoffs. So you go Mike Vrabel,

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Speaker 1: who has been a team captain for Belichick and one

800
00:40:28,280 --> 00:40:30,640
Speaker 1: of the smartest players in the last couple of decades,

801
00:40:31,160 --> 00:40:34,680
Speaker 1: then gets hired by rban Meyer, then becomes the defensive

802
00:40:34,680 --> 00:40:38,439
Speaker 1: coordinator for Bill O'Brien, then gets a head coaching job

803
00:40:38,520 --> 00:40:41,800
Speaker 1: after turning down some head coaching opportunities. So Freddy Kitchens

804
00:40:42,120 --> 00:40:44,080
Speaker 1: was in this situation. No one was offering made a

805
00:40:44,080 --> 00:40:46,359
Speaker 1: coaching job. There are questions if anyone was even offering

806
00:40:46,400 --> 00:40:48,719
Speaker 1: him an offensive coordinator job. So he goes into a

807
00:40:48,760 --> 00:40:52,560
Speaker 1: situation where the pressure is just extreme. And like any

808
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Speaker 1: of us, if you put me in a situation that

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Speaker 1: I've never been in before, and the pressure on that

810
00:40:58,719 --> 00:41:00,759
Speaker 1: is as high as it compile, we get. And you

811
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Speaker 1: know when you walk into a situation, if you just

812
00:41:03,760 --> 00:41:06,600
Speaker 1: middle calf, you're gonna work tomorrow for Golden Saxon Wall Street,

813
00:41:07,280 --> 00:41:09,600
Speaker 1: I'd be like, I'd be weighing over my head. I'd freak,

814
00:41:09,760 --> 00:41:13,359
Speaker 1: I'd lose it. I'm already a nail biter anyway, chew

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Speaker 1: them all off. Well. Freddy Kitchens, who thinks he's equipped

816
00:41:17,040 --> 00:41:19,560
Speaker 1: because he's a football guy, former player coach in the

817
00:41:19,640 --> 00:41:23,160
Speaker 1: league for a while, has no business coaching this team

818
00:41:23,280 --> 00:41:26,080
Speaker 1: being the head coach, and you watch the team. One

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00:41:26,120 --> 00:41:28,920
Speaker 1: thing I think that always translates any walk of life

820
00:41:29,360 --> 00:41:33,600
Speaker 1: is toughness. Now, obviously, if you're a sales guy, you

821
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Speaker 1: run a small business, you run a restaurant, whatever, you

822
00:41:36,200 --> 00:41:39,319
Speaker 1: don't need to be physically tough. You're not unless you're

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00:41:39,320 --> 00:41:43,440
Speaker 1: a bouncer or a or a professional athlete. Physicality doesn't

824
00:41:43,560 --> 00:41:46,160
Speaker 1: come into most of our lives, right. You're not actually

825
00:41:46,200 --> 00:41:49,520
Speaker 1: touching anyone legally, you're not allowed to. You can't hit anyone,

826
00:41:49,560 --> 00:41:51,359
Speaker 1: you can't shove anyone. But you do have to be

827
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Speaker 1: mentally tough. And this gets back to the pressure. Like

828
00:41:53,880 --> 00:41:57,080
Speaker 1: mental toughness is a legit thing, and that is I

829
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Speaker 1: think we'd also all agree their mental toughness is built

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Speaker 1: over time. I don't think you're just born being like

831
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Speaker 1: a Navy seal. Now, it's ingrained into you and it's

832
00:42:05,040 --> 00:42:07,520
Speaker 1: built maybe at a younger age, but you're not just

833
00:42:07,600 --> 00:42:10,880
Speaker 1: born with that trade. It's something that's acquired through work

834
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Speaker 1: at whatever you're doing. And like I said, maturity. Physical toughness, though,

835
00:42:15,920 --> 00:42:19,160
Speaker 1: with football is something that is established and it comes

836
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Speaker 1: from the head coach because you either have a tough

837
00:42:21,920 --> 00:42:24,080
Speaker 1: football team or you don't, and there's only one person

838
00:42:24,120 --> 00:42:26,520
Speaker 1: to blame. It's your coach and the team that you've

839
00:42:26,520 --> 00:42:29,040
Speaker 1: assembled and when I when I closed my eyes and

840
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Speaker 1: I think Mike Vrabel, I think just badass. I just

841
00:42:33,000 --> 00:42:35,520
Speaker 1: that guy's a badass. Now he's kind of a funny badass.

842
00:42:35,560 --> 00:42:38,680
Speaker 1: You can tell he grew a mustache as probably a joke,

843
00:42:38,880 --> 00:42:41,240
Speaker 1: and then he just kept rocking it. Like some guys,

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Speaker 1: especially guys like over fifty, that have a mustache, they

845
00:42:45,480 --> 00:42:48,000
Speaker 1: just like Bruce Bocci, Andy Reid, like they just have

846
00:42:48,320 --> 00:42:51,120
Speaker 1: mustache is their look, Like they just wear I have

847
00:42:51,360 --> 00:42:55,279
Speaker 1: good family friends whose dads have mustaches. They've had mustaches

848
00:42:55,320 --> 00:42:57,120
Speaker 1: since I've known them, in like the late eighties. They

849
00:42:57,200 --> 00:43:00,360
Speaker 1: just wear a mustache. Personally, I can't grow my stash,

850
00:43:00,520 --> 00:43:02,879
Speaker 1: my hair, My facial hair is not thick enough. Mike

851
00:43:02,960 --> 00:43:05,400
Speaker 1: Vrabel is not a mustache guy. He's rocking one and

852
00:43:05,440 --> 00:43:07,919
Speaker 1: it actually pulls it off. But his team is tough.

853
00:43:08,239 --> 00:43:11,719
Speaker 1: They've been tough, and they they not only hit the

854
00:43:11,760 --> 00:43:15,160
Speaker 1: browns and the teeth sometimes. What's Mike Tyson's favorite line.

855
00:43:15,160 --> 00:43:16,600
Speaker 1: Everyone has a game plan until you get hit in

856
00:43:16,640 --> 00:43:18,520
Speaker 1: the mouth. The difference is like you can hit the

857
00:43:18,520 --> 00:43:21,240
Speaker 1: Patriots in the mouth, don't get up. I watched Patrick

858
00:43:21,239 --> 00:43:22,920
Speaker 1: Mahomes and get hit in the mouth by the New

859
00:43:23,000 --> 00:43:25,759
Speaker 1: England Patriots in the a f C Championship. He didn't

860
00:43:25,800 --> 00:43:27,920
Speaker 1: lay on the mat. He got back up. No, ultimately

861
00:43:27,920 --> 00:43:29,719
Speaker 1: he didn't win the fight, but he got back up

862
00:43:29,760 --> 00:43:33,440
Speaker 1: and kept swinging. I watched the Browns get hitting the

863
00:43:33,440 --> 00:43:35,880
Speaker 1: teeth in the second half of that game and have

864
00:43:36,120 --> 00:43:38,600
Speaker 1: no they wilted like a flower. I mean it was

865
00:43:38,640 --> 00:43:42,280
Speaker 1: just they tapped out. They were just done. The analogy

866
00:43:42,320 --> 00:43:45,160
Speaker 1: I'd make of what we witnessed yesterday with the Browns

867
00:43:45,760 --> 00:43:49,960
Speaker 1: and and Vrabel against Freddie Kitchens was just an establishment

868
00:43:50,080 --> 00:43:53,399
Speaker 1: on toughness. We're just tougher than you. We think you're

869
00:43:53,440 --> 00:43:55,560
Speaker 1: fake tough, we think you are guys. That just I

870
00:43:55,640 --> 00:43:58,279
Speaker 1: heard Collins rant. You just talk talk, talk to me

871
00:43:58,400 --> 00:44:01,120
Speaker 1: talking whatever. Some people can can up like, I don't

872
00:44:01,120 --> 00:44:03,240
Speaker 1: mind talking if you can. Like Brandy Moss talks forever.

873
00:44:03,280 --> 00:44:06,239
Speaker 1: You couldn't stop him. You know, Michael Jordan talked, he

874
00:44:06,320 --> 00:44:09,400
Speaker 1: kicked your ass, Tiger Woods ship talk. It didn't matter,

875
00:44:09,520 --> 00:44:10,920
Speaker 1: like if you can back it up. I got no

876
00:44:11,000 --> 00:44:13,719
Speaker 1: issue with talking. When Mike Rabel did. I'm not a

877
00:44:13,719 --> 00:44:16,479
Speaker 1: big UFC guy, but you know, in a UFC fight,

878
00:44:17,040 --> 00:44:19,520
Speaker 1: when the dude straddles the guy's face, when he gets

879
00:44:19,600 --> 00:44:21,640
Speaker 1: him on the ground, and he and he and he

880
00:44:21,680 --> 00:44:24,400
Speaker 1: takes his elbow and he starts elbowing to the face

881
00:44:24,800 --> 00:44:26,600
Speaker 1: and you're just like he might kill him. And the

882
00:44:26,640 --> 00:44:29,520
Speaker 1: referee always comes over immediately grabs the guy on top

883
00:44:29,600 --> 00:44:31,879
Speaker 1: of him and blows the whistle and shoves the guy

884
00:44:31,920 --> 00:44:35,400
Speaker 1: off the other fighter. The equivalent of what Mike Rabel

885
00:44:35,400 --> 00:44:37,920
Speaker 1: did to Freddy Kitchens in the Cleveland Browns is that

886
00:44:38,040 --> 00:44:41,400
Speaker 1: same scenario, straddling his face in the middle of the octagon,

887
00:44:41,880 --> 00:44:45,040
Speaker 1: blasting him with elbow shots to the face. The difference

888
00:44:45,080 --> 00:44:48,359
Speaker 1: in this scenario is there was no referee. He just

889
00:44:48,480 --> 00:44:53,080
Speaker 1: kept pounding him over and over and over again. It

890
00:44:53,120 --> 00:44:56,000
Speaker 1: was a it was a clinic on toughness. We are

891
00:44:56,080 --> 00:44:59,120
Speaker 1: just tougher than you, and we've been hit the teeth before.

892
00:44:59,120 --> 00:45:00,960
Speaker 1: They got hit the teeth last chere Mariota went out

893
00:45:01,000 --> 00:45:03,640
Speaker 1: and they lost Week seventeen. That's a mentally tough team.

894
00:45:03,880 --> 00:45:07,319
Speaker 1: Because again, Vrabel, like who'd very will learn from not

895
00:45:07,440 --> 00:45:11,440
Speaker 1: just some rando. He was Belichick's team captain. I'm pretty

896
00:45:11,440 --> 00:45:16,439
Speaker 1: sure multiple titles count three. Uh, He's he's the real deal.

897
00:45:16,440 --> 00:45:18,399
Speaker 1: Look at the people that have hired him, Urban Meyer,

898
00:45:18,760 --> 00:45:21,719
Speaker 1: Bill O'Brien, now he's hired to be a head coach Tennessee.

899
00:45:21,800 --> 00:45:23,880
Speaker 1: Like Mike Vrabel, is on a completely different level than

900
00:45:23,880 --> 00:45:26,080
Speaker 1: Freddy Kitchens. And I'm not trying to just shift on

901
00:45:26,120 --> 00:45:28,920
Speaker 1: Freddy Kitchens. He never should have been put in this situation,

902
00:45:29,040 --> 00:45:31,439
Speaker 1: just like I said earlier in the podcast on Antonio Brown,

903
00:45:31,480 --> 00:45:33,359
Speaker 1: he never should have been a raider. You put him

904
00:45:33,400 --> 00:45:36,200
Speaker 1: in the situation. You got issues, Like I'm not into

905
00:45:36,280 --> 00:45:38,400
Speaker 1: bashing Baker. I think Baker is a good player. I

906
00:45:38,440 --> 00:45:40,840
Speaker 1: do think he got humbled a little bit yesterday. Sundays

907
00:45:41,160 --> 00:45:44,479
Speaker 1: have humbled many of men over the years. Right, So,

908
00:45:44,840 --> 00:45:47,080
Speaker 1: and you got the Odell with the watch whatever. I

909
00:45:47,719 --> 00:45:49,960
Speaker 1: don't even None of that means anything to me. I

910
00:45:50,080 --> 00:45:51,759
Speaker 1: just know what I watched because I don't judge you

911
00:45:51,800 --> 00:45:53,640
Speaker 1: on all the fluff, and that fluff doesn't mean anything

912
00:45:53,680 --> 00:45:56,400
Speaker 1: to me. Words don't mean anything to me. I just

913
00:45:56,520 --> 00:45:58,959
Speaker 1: judge humans on their action in any walk of life,

914
00:45:59,320 --> 00:46:01,960
Speaker 1: whether it's Paul Plitics, whether it's the community I live in,

915
00:46:02,160 --> 00:46:06,000
Speaker 1: whether it's football. I live into an area where everyone

916
00:46:06,200 --> 00:46:09,040
Speaker 1: just they claim they're really all into helping people and

917
00:46:09,080 --> 00:46:11,640
Speaker 1: we're just very socially liberal, and then I see this

918
00:46:11,760 --> 00:46:13,880
Speaker 1: those same people that tweet that and talk about it

919
00:46:14,160 --> 00:46:16,359
Speaker 1: live in these enormous houses in parts of town where

920
00:46:16,360 --> 00:46:18,080
Speaker 1: they don't help anyone out, and they refused to build

921
00:46:18,080 --> 00:46:20,480
Speaker 1: low income housing. They talk a big game, just like

922
00:46:20,520 --> 00:46:22,879
Speaker 1: I saw. I remember Pete Carroll last year called Colin

923
00:46:22,920 --> 00:46:26,720
Speaker 1: Kaepernick starting quarterback, So this guy's starting quarterback in the NFL.

924
00:46:27,760 --> 00:46:30,200
Speaker 1: Pete Carroll desperately needed to back up quarterback and didn't

925
00:46:30,200 --> 00:46:32,400
Speaker 1: sign up. Like Pete, you don't believe that you're saying

926
00:46:32,400 --> 00:46:34,840
Speaker 1: one thing and you do another. So I despise hypocrites.

927
00:46:35,560 --> 00:46:38,560
Speaker 1: I just if I say something, I try to live it. Now.

928
00:46:38,680 --> 00:46:41,560
Speaker 1: We've all been hypocritical at times in our life. That happens.

929
00:46:42,120 --> 00:46:45,000
Speaker 1: But if if you're gonna say something, walk the way

930
00:46:45,040 --> 00:46:48,520
Speaker 1: you talk. And I just know the Browns, they just

931
00:46:48,880 --> 00:46:50,800
Speaker 1: there are a lot of fluff there. And at the

932
00:46:50,880 --> 00:46:52,480
Speaker 1: end of the day, you can get by with fluff

933
00:46:52,520 --> 00:46:55,840
Speaker 1: if you're good enough and tough enough. And Michael Jordan's

934
00:46:55,880 --> 00:46:58,640
Speaker 1: you know Larry Bird, they say, is the greatest you know,

935
00:46:58,680 --> 00:47:01,279
Speaker 1: ship talker in the history of words. He backed it

936
00:47:01,360 --> 00:47:04,200
Speaker 1: up because he was tough as nails. They are very talented,

937
00:47:04,600 --> 00:47:07,920
Speaker 1: but you can see their issue the toughness because in football,

938
00:47:08,400 --> 00:47:10,600
Speaker 1: and I get in social media everyone wants to be

939
00:47:10,640 --> 00:47:14,200
Speaker 1: soft and you know, being PC and the culture everyone's

940
00:47:14,400 --> 00:47:17,239
Speaker 1: everyone be nice to everyone. That's that translates well, I

941
00:47:17,280 --> 00:47:20,560
Speaker 1: guess on the internet. But in football, like you gotta

942
00:47:20,600 --> 00:47:23,040
Speaker 1: be tougher than the guy across from you, and for

943
00:47:23,080 --> 00:47:24,399
Speaker 1: the most part, you gotta be better than the guy

944
00:47:24,400 --> 00:47:26,680
Speaker 1: across from you. But if you if you're not tough

945
00:47:26,800 --> 00:47:30,439
Speaker 1: enough mentally and physically, that when you just get hit

946
00:47:30,600 --> 00:47:34,280
Speaker 1: in the jaw figuratively in football, like you get knocked

947
00:47:34,320 --> 00:47:36,560
Speaker 1: down and you get blasted, can you just pick yourself up,

948
00:47:36,840 --> 00:47:39,319
Speaker 1: shake yourself off, and swing again, like, you know what.

949
00:47:39,400 --> 00:47:42,080
Speaker 1: The Steelers, I'm not writing the Steelers off. They got

950
00:47:42,080 --> 00:47:44,800
Speaker 1: punked the Patriots on them. I think they'll be fine.

951
00:47:45,160 --> 00:47:47,320
Speaker 1: Are they as bad as we what we just witnessed,

952
00:47:47,320 --> 00:47:50,600
Speaker 1: of course not. Uh, They've shown over and over they're

953
00:47:50,600 --> 00:47:52,960
Speaker 1: not gonna go away, So I'm not gonna overreact to

954
00:47:53,000 --> 00:47:55,520
Speaker 1: that loss. Just like the Colts. I thought the Colts

955
00:47:55,560 --> 00:47:59,240
Speaker 1: lost showed a lot of toughness. I I thought Detroit,

956
00:47:59,560 --> 00:48:01,600
Speaker 1: you know, did not show a lot of toughness. They

957
00:48:01,680 --> 00:48:04,080
Speaker 1: just kind of they're just not a tough team and

958
00:48:04,200 --> 00:48:06,120
Speaker 1: they're their their head coach on the sideline looks like

959
00:48:06,160 --> 00:48:09,520
Speaker 1: a disaster. He's got a torn achilles, he's I mean,

960
00:48:09,560 --> 00:48:12,480
Speaker 1: he looks just so unhealthy. He looks so unhealthy. And

961
00:48:12,480 --> 00:48:15,600
Speaker 1: that team is just soft and the softest team of

962
00:48:15,600 --> 00:48:17,560
Speaker 1: the weekend though, beside the Dolphins. And I don't even

963
00:48:17,640 --> 00:48:20,480
Speaker 1: count the Dolphins that they are not you know, they're

964
00:48:20,520 --> 00:48:22,080
Speaker 1: in the NFL, but I don't count them as an

965
00:48:22,160 --> 00:48:24,799
Speaker 1: NFL team. The brown should be ashamed of themselves from

966
00:48:24,840 --> 00:48:28,399
Speaker 1: a toughness standpoint, and you just I I think that's

967
00:48:28,400 --> 00:48:31,040
Speaker 1: gonna be their downfall. I don't know if it starts

968
00:48:31,040 --> 00:48:33,560
Speaker 1: at the top and their coaches just over his head.

969
00:48:34,040 --> 00:48:35,680
Speaker 1: Of course he's over his head. He never should have

970
00:48:35,719 --> 00:48:37,719
Speaker 1: got this job. No other team in the league would

971
00:48:37,719 --> 00:48:40,120
Speaker 1: have hired him, none, And now he's the head coach

972
00:48:40,160 --> 00:48:42,960
Speaker 1: of a team with these crazy expectations set him up

973
00:48:42,960 --> 00:48:45,480
Speaker 1: to fail. I want to hit on a couple of

974
00:48:45,520 --> 00:48:48,680
Speaker 1: things that I saw this weekend, just rapid fire, keep

975
00:48:48,680 --> 00:48:50,719
Speaker 1: it short, uh that I want to touch on a

976
00:48:50,719 --> 00:48:52,960
Speaker 1: couple of college football things too, and then I hit

977
00:48:52,960 --> 00:48:54,600
Speaker 1: on a couple of NFL things that I didn't touch on.

978
00:48:54,640 --> 00:48:56,200
Speaker 1: Then we'll get in the middle. Coff mail Bag let's

979
00:48:56,200 --> 00:49:00,880
Speaker 1: start on Saturday one. Joe Burrows the real deal. Uh.

980
00:49:00,920 --> 00:49:04,160
Speaker 1: I was out having fun downtown where I live, had

981
00:49:04,200 --> 00:49:06,600
Speaker 1: a few cocktails and we're just at a sports bar,

982
00:49:06,880 --> 00:49:08,560
Speaker 1: and it's just every time I looked out, the dude

983
00:49:08,600 --> 00:49:11,200
Speaker 1: was making a lead throws. The thing l s U

984
00:49:11,320 --> 00:49:16,520
Speaker 1: has lacked. Uh really these last twenty years, really maybe

985
00:49:16,560 --> 00:49:21,440
Speaker 1: not that man. Since JaMarcus Russell, they have had an Alabama, uh, Clemson,

986
00:49:21,560 --> 00:49:26,040
Speaker 1: an Ohio state level squad. They have not had a quarterback.

987
00:49:26,520 --> 00:49:29,239
Speaker 1: If they get quarterback play at that level, they have

988
00:49:29,280 --> 00:49:31,359
Speaker 1: a chance to win a national title. I don't think

989
00:49:31,400 --> 00:49:34,520
Speaker 1: that's like some crazy overreaction. They have the dudes they

990
00:49:34,560 --> 00:49:38,000
Speaker 1: always have, Their defense is always stacked, their wide receivers

991
00:49:38,000 --> 00:49:40,440
Speaker 1: are always awesome, and their skill guys. They just need

992
00:49:40,480 --> 00:49:43,600
Speaker 1: a quarterback. And this Joe Burrow cat looks like the

993
00:49:43,640 --> 00:49:46,839
Speaker 1: real deal. Chip Kelly is a disaster. I don't think

994
00:49:46,880 --> 00:49:48,640
Speaker 1: he's a lock to make it the year three. He

995
00:49:48,719 --> 00:49:50,480
Speaker 1: just lost to San Diego State for the first time

996
00:49:50,480 --> 00:49:53,479
Speaker 1: in program history. They play Oklahoma this week, He's gonna

997
00:49:53,480 --> 00:49:57,200
Speaker 1: get destroyed. He then plays Washington State, He's gonna get destroyed.

998
00:49:57,400 --> 00:50:00,440
Speaker 1: He's going to be owing four. He's stealing money. He

999
00:50:00,600 --> 00:50:02,920
Speaker 1: is absolutely stealing money for U C l A. And

1000
00:50:02,960 --> 00:50:05,359
Speaker 1: I just think it's crazy that they hired him coming

1001
00:50:05,400 --> 00:50:07,440
Speaker 1: off the years. Yet he's not a good coach. It's

1002
00:50:07,480 --> 00:50:09,480
Speaker 1: just that we have the evidence in he's not a

1003
00:50:09,480 --> 00:50:12,800
Speaker 1: good coach. He inherited a good program, he took it

1004
00:50:12,840 --> 00:50:15,960
Speaker 1: to another level. He was a great coach at at

1005
00:50:16,000 --> 00:50:18,640
Speaker 1: Oregon because he was just he was on a different

1006
00:50:18,680 --> 00:50:21,640
Speaker 1: level on things that people weren't implementing their offense. Now

1007
00:50:21,680 --> 00:50:25,680
Speaker 1: he does something that everyone does, so everyone does what

1008
00:50:25,760 --> 00:50:28,480
Speaker 1: he does in terms of pace and movement. He's never

1009
00:50:28,480 --> 00:50:31,120
Speaker 1: been able to coach defense there. There's the USA last

1010
00:50:31,160 --> 00:50:33,880
Speaker 1: train wreck and that there might have been fifteen thousand

1011
00:50:33,920 --> 00:50:35,799
Speaker 1: people at the Rose Bowl. For those of you that

1012
00:50:35,840 --> 00:50:38,520
Speaker 1: have never been to the Rose Bowl, Uh, it's awesome.

1013
00:50:38,560 --> 00:50:41,800
Speaker 1: One and two, I'm pretty sure it holds like people.

1014
00:50:42,239 --> 00:50:45,080
Speaker 1: So it's not your typical West Coast venue. It's massive

1015
00:50:45,680 --> 00:50:49,080
Speaker 1: and again might have had twelve thousand people there. So

1016
00:50:49,200 --> 00:50:52,680
Speaker 1: the program is in absolute shambles. And on the flip side,

1017
00:50:52,840 --> 00:50:57,839
Speaker 1: Lynn Swan just retired USC Clay Hilton Clay Heltons probably

1018
00:50:57,880 --> 00:50:59,839
Speaker 1: gonna get fired unless they run the table and make

1019
00:50:59,840 --> 00:51:01,839
Speaker 1: the Laoffs win the back twelve, which is gonna be hard.

1020
00:51:01,840 --> 00:51:03,840
Speaker 1: Though he's done a good job. He just kicked the

1021
00:51:03,840 --> 00:51:06,440
Speaker 1: crap out of Stanford with his backup quarterback. But I

1022
00:51:06,480 --> 00:51:11,200
Speaker 1: do respect and admire Unlike Chip Kelly, he takes recruiting seriously. Uh,

1023
00:51:11,200 --> 00:51:13,800
Speaker 1: he works really hard at it. I think he values

1024
00:51:13,840 --> 00:51:16,279
Speaker 1: the job. It's just they're gonna bring in a new

1025
00:51:16,320 --> 00:51:19,759
Speaker 1: a d USC has never really hired a coach you

1026
00:51:19,800 --> 00:51:21,520
Speaker 1: know that wants top dollar. I mean when they got

1027
00:51:21,520 --> 00:51:24,400
Speaker 1: Pete Carroll, he was like fourth in line, so he

1028
00:51:24,480 --> 00:51:27,000
Speaker 1: might have been fifth in line. So they usually, you know,

1029
00:51:27,640 --> 00:51:30,359
Speaker 1: despite it being a quote unquote great job, they don't

1030
00:51:30,360 --> 00:51:32,920
Speaker 1: really get the top notch coach. Let's go to Sunday

1031
00:51:33,280 --> 00:51:35,960
Speaker 1: Lamar Jackson. I've been very hard on Lamar in the

1032
00:51:36,000 --> 00:51:39,400
Speaker 1: sense that I didn't believe in him. I'm not gonna

1033
00:51:39,640 --> 00:51:42,400
Speaker 1: overreact that I was completely wrong. They played Miami and

1034
00:51:42,400 --> 00:51:44,919
Speaker 1: as I said earlier, Miami is a joke. I mean

1035
00:51:44,960 --> 00:51:47,920
Speaker 1: that they are an embarrassment of an NFL team. But

1036
00:51:48,040 --> 00:51:52,000
Speaker 1: I'm not gonna diminish. You go five touchdowns and you

1037
00:51:52,080 --> 00:51:54,799
Speaker 1: dominate like that in the first half. Hat tip, nothing

1038
00:51:54,840 --> 00:51:57,680
Speaker 1: but respect. I say it all the time when I

1039
00:51:57,719 --> 00:51:59,919
Speaker 1: don't like a guy coming out. I didn't like Josh Allen.

1040
00:52:00,040 --> 00:52:02,520
Speaker 1: I didn't like Lamar Jackson. If you're a good guy,

1041
00:52:03,160 --> 00:52:05,920
Speaker 1: and Lamar Jackson and Josh Allen their character from what

1042
00:52:06,000 --> 00:52:08,960
Speaker 1: I've known and heard and people that are is pristine.

1043
00:52:09,200 --> 00:52:12,720
Speaker 1: I root for those guys. I hope Lamar Jackson am wrong.

1044
00:52:13,080 --> 00:52:15,080
Speaker 1: I want him to kick ass. Same with Josh Allen.

1045
00:52:15,480 --> 00:52:19,239
Speaker 1: Awesome drive another guy who wasn't playing very well, who

1046
00:52:19,239 --> 00:52:21,640
Speaker 1: looked like a bigger version of true Bisky the first

1047
00:52:21,680 --> 00:52:24,880
Speaker 1: three quarters made some just clutch plays down the stretch.

1048
00:52:25,600 --> 00:52:27,200
Speaker 1: That's a that's a good win. The Bills are gonna

1049
00:52:27,200 --> 00:52:30,279
Speaker 1: be are gonna be sneaky tough. They really are. I

1050
00:52:30,320 --> 00:52:32,480
Speaker 1: don't know what to make of Kyler Murray and the

1051
00:52:32,560 --> 00:52:35,640
Speaker 1: Detroit Lions. I really don't. I don't really have a

1052
00:52:35,680 --> 00:52:38,800
Speaker 1: takeaway from that game. Now I do have a takeaway.

1053
00:52:39,360 --> 00:52:41,640
Speaker 1: I tweeted this out. There was a couple of text

1054
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Speaker 1: threads I was on with some friends. I was on

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Speaker 1: another one with some NFL people, and there was a

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Speaker 1: lot of mess being talked about Kyler Murray and Cliff Kingsbury.

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Speaker 1: And at the end of the day they did come back.

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Speaker 1: Forced thing to overtime and tie the game, so they

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Speaker 1: they shut me up a little bit. Jameis Winston is

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Speaker 1: a bust. Like it's a He's a full on bust.

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Speaker 1: There is no way around it. He has a walking disaster.

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Speaker 1: He's a walking pick six is what he is. He

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Speaker 1: literally threw two and easily could have been a third. Uh.

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Speaker 1: They went right through the free safety's hands. He would

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Speaker 1: have walked the hundred yards into the end zone. The

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Speaker 1: Jamie sucks. I mean, there's just they're just simply put

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Speaker 1: just end of story, period, point blank. I mean, he

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Speaker 1: he's a disaster. His his days and starting quarterback are now.

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Speaker 1: He's on the clock like it's it's over. Like his

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Speaker 1: days are are numbered. It might just be this season.

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Speaker 1: It will never happen again. Now he may start again,

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Speaker 1: but he's gonna be a backup quarterback in the very

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Speaker 1: very near future and he will not be the quarterback

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Speaker 1: of the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. Uh. The Giants stink. I

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Speaker 1: mean they are really really bad. Personnel is awful. Uh.

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Speaker 1: I I feel bad for Sae Kwon Barkley, who, by far,

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Speaker 1: besides like all the Cowboys, was the only other sweet

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00:53:59,719 --> 00:54:02,040
Speaker 1: dude on the Giants like he's awesome. He is a

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Speaker 1: really really fun player to watch. But man, it sucks

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Speaker 1: being such a great running back on a team that

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Speaker 1: is that crappy because they are they couldn't be any worse.

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00:54:13,200 --> 00:54:14,920
Speaker 1: I mean, they really could not be any worse. I

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Speaker 1: there are better version of the Dolphins, so they might

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Speaker 1: win a couple of games, but they ain't winning many games.

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Speaker 1: I I'd be shocked if they won. If you told

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Speaker 1: me the over under was three and a half, I

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Speaker 1: might take the under. To me. They look like a

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Speaker 1: three and thirteen team. I mean, the division is hard

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Speaker 1: because the Eagles and Cowboys are stacked. The Redskins are

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Speaker 1: a good, bad team, Like they're not gonna win many games,

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Speaker 1: but the roster is pretty good. And does anyone not

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Speaker 1: give a damn uh less than Jake Gruten or more? However,

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00:54:43,320 --> 00:54:45,920
Speaker 1: that guy, however, you could possibly give a damn less

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Speaker 1: like it's Jake Ruten. He had a great quote after

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Speaker 1: the game when they asked him why didn't he have

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Speaker 1: Adrian Peterson active, and he said, well, maybe we'll get

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Speaker 1: him up next game if we plan on running at

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Speaker 1: fifty five times and running it out of the I

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Speaker 1: formation like he's at the point now where he gives

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Speaker 1: zero zero fs I mean zero negative negative worries about

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Speaker 1: how he's gonna be perceived in this building, like he

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Speaker 1: knows he's he's done. This is his last year in Washington,

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Speaker 1: and you know, whether I don't know enough about him,

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Speaker 1: I do know. I do think he's a pretty good coach.

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Speaker 1: You know, could Grudin use him as his offensive coordinator

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Speaker 1: and to get his offense going up this year struggles?

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Speaker 1: Maybe that's not crazy, but Jay Gruden could not care

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Speaker 1: less how his owner or general manager view him right now.

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Speaker 1: He's just they're probably not a better interview in the

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Speaker 1: NFL because you could ask him anything and he'll do it.

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Speaker 1: He might answer it truthfully, which which you don't get.

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Speaker 1: And probably the last thing I want to mention this game,

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Speaker 1: Dalvin Cook looks like a superstar. The Vikings are gonna

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Speaker 1: be good, actually a sneaky, pretty good week two game

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Speaker 1: Vikings at Packers. I'm actually pretty interested in watching that

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Speaker 1: game because if you whoever wins that game is gonna

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Speaker 1: be feeling pretty good about themselves too. And off Green

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Speaker 1: Bay wins that they would have beaten, they would have

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Speaker 1: to be two and oh in the division. They'd be

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Speaker 1: off to a pretty good star. It's actually a sneaky,

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Speaker 1: pretty important early season game. But the Atlanta Falcons, Uh,

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Speaker 1: what a joke. And you talk about a soft culture

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Speaker 1: for Dan Quinn for being a tough guy, they are.

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Speaker 1: They are really really soft. And uh, I thought they'd

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Speaker 1: be a playoff team. I liked him in that game

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Speaker 1: about I really am especially. I mean they they play

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Speaker 1: the Eagles this week. Eagles could kick their ass. Falcons

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Speaker 1: could be in a little trouble. Okay, let's get to

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Speaker 1: the middle Colf mail bag. It's uh where I you

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Speaker 1: guys can ask me questions. Go to Instagram. My d

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Speaker 1: ms are wide open. I always say it's much easier

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Speaker 1: to get ahold of me either text or d M

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Speaker 1: s So dm ad John Middlecoff Twitter handle, Instagram handle

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Speaker 1: and I answer your questions here. Hey John, Uh best

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Speaker 1: in the business. I appreciate that. Do you think the

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Speaker 1: Packers I'm not, but I I appreciate like the ego

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00:56:54,920 --> 00:56:56,279
Speaker 1: get padded every once in a a while. Do you think

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Speaker 1: the Packers should consider trading from Melvin Gordon? I like

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Speaker 1: Aaron Jones, but I think we'd gree sort of the

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Speaker 1: middle of the pack. I don't want to have overreact

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Speaker 1: to one game, especially against elite defense like the Bears.

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Speaker 1: But the Packers don't really have any elite weapons for

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00:57:07,960 --> 00:57:13,520
Speaker 1: Rogers other than Davonte. Uh. Question goes on and on.

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Speaker 1: But you know, would I take Melvin Gordon for a

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Speaker 1: fourth round pick? But they're not giving them away? And

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Speaker 1: here's I'm not paying him. This is the one thing

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Speaker 1: I've noticed so far. A couple of Saturdays, I consume

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Speaker 1: a lot of college football. They're gonna be I tweeted

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Speaker 1: this last weekend. I might even be off. There might

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Speaker 1: be six or seven running backs in this draft class

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Speaker 1: they get draft in the top ninety players. So why

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Speaker 1: would you give up a third or fourth round pick

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Speaker 1: from Melvin and then have to pay them when you

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Speaker 1: can just draft a starter in this upcoming draft? Because

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Speaker 1: I'm telling you it is stacked with dudes. There are

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Speaker 1: a lot of guys from E. T. N to the

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Speaker 1: kid at Utah to the kid at Arizona State. They're

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Speaker 1: just dudes everywhere. Every game I watch of the good

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Speaker 1: teams they got running back. Question for the mail back,

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Speaker 1: what is up with Naggy not running the ball? I

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Speaker 1: you know I talked about in the last podcast. I

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Speaker 1: think he just got away from it when Roger scored

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Speaker 1: early in that game, because it's not gonna be a shootout.

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Speaker 1: You have a great defense, just run the ball, control

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Speaker 1: the clock, and win ugly. Like That's how to me,

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Speaker 1: the Bears are gonna have to win. They're gonna dominate

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Speaker 1: on defense, have a top three or four scoring defense,

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Speaker 1: and they're gonna be just a pound the ball and

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Speaker 1: you gotta beat that. MS is not Mahomes, he's not

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Speaker 1: Carson Wentz, He's Hell, he's not Dak So you gotta

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Speaker 1: I think Naggi will go back to the drawing board

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Speaker 1: and he's gonna start running the ball a little more. Hey,

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Speaker 1: John just started listening to the show about a month ago.

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Speaker 1: Helps my workday go faster. Appreciate that my question. People

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Speaker 1: seem to bunch all air raids together. As a Big

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Speaker 1: twelve fan, I've seen differences between Cliff Leech, Briles, and

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Speaker 1: Riley which would transfer best to the NFL. And why

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Speaker 1: I was asking someone today I realized I don't completely

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Speaker 1: know what defines an air raid because if you've watched

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Speaker 1: each he uses a running back. They just throw to

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Speaker 1: him a lot. They just don't use they don't hand

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Speaker 1: the ball off like Lincoln Riley, who has some air

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00:59:06,920 --> 00:59:09,000
Speaker 1: raid in him right because he's been around those guys.

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Speaker 1: To me, really utilizes the run game. Uh. I think

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Speaker 1: Lincoln Riley definitely would. I think Leech with the right

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Speaker 1: system would Kingsbury at the end of the day, I

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Speaker 1: just don't think he's a good coach. You know, he

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Speaker 1: couldn't win it Texas Tech, like Mike Leach, is just

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Speaker 1: a better version of Cliff Kingsbury. Like Cook, Kingsbury is

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Speaker 1: just not gonna be good enough. Now if you get

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Speaker 1: to play you know, Matt Patricia every week and be

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Speaker 1: in good shape. But I got news for you. You

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Speaker 1: get Pete Carroll, you get Sean McVeigh, you get Kyle

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Speaker 1: Shanahan and the other problem for the air raid offense.

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Speaker 1: And I think you're gonna see it this year at

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Speaker 1: Oklahoma is for the first time since like Venables, Oklahoma

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Speaker 1: has got a legit defensive coordinator. Washington State, underrated these

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Speaker 1: last couple of years, has played defense. Cliff Kingsbury doesn't

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Speaker 1: know anything about defense, and he argued as the worst

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Speaker 1: defensive coordinator in the league in Vance Joseph like you

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Speaker 1: gotta play d fense. Just wondering what your thoughts are

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Speaker 1: on the Jets this year. Also, any best bets for

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Speaker 1: this week? So this was right, this was before the

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Speaker 1: Sunday games. But I can answer the first question. I

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Speaker 1: think the Jets, you know it's gonna be after watching

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Speaker 1: that game. Offensively might be a struggle. Now Levian should

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Speaker 1: get better as the season goes on. Their offensive lines

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Speaker 1: a little hit or missed. They don't have too many weapons,

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Speaker 1: but the one talented tight end, you know, suspended. I

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Speaker 1: think the first four games, I wouldn't write them off yet,

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Speaker 1: but after watching the Bills, you know, bits and pieces

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Speaker 1: of the Bills Jets game, I would lean that the

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Speaker 1: Bills are probably a game or two better. You know,

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Speaker 1: at the end of the day, the Bills probably go

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Speaker 1: eight nine wins. I think best case near for the

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Speaker 1: Bills nine, worst case seven were the Jets. Best case

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Speaker 1: probably eight and eight, worst case six and ten somewhere

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Speaker 1: in that sweet spot. Probably a year away. I mean

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Speaker 1: they haven't had a GM, you know, hell since after

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Speaker 1: O t A. S. So I think the Jets are

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Speaker 1: probably a year away after he was taking them. Oh,

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Speaker 1: I do think they got something pretty special in Sam Donald,

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Speaker 1: but he he's got a long way to go to

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Speaker 1: question for the mail back, much like holdouts have become

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Speaker 1: the norm for players wanting a contract extension one year

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Speaker 1: and now sometimes two years early. Do you think a

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Speaker 1: b is released from the Raiders and signing with New England?

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Speaker 1: Since the Beast sets a bad precedent for the league,

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Speaker 1: any player who gets traded to a team he's unhappy

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Speaker 1: with could just act up and get released if he's

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Speaker 1: crazy enough or good enough to give the guaranteed money

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Speaker 1: and security to a new market. Well, here's the problem

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Speaker 1: is that Antonio Brown had one thing working for him.

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Speaker 1: He's the best wide receiver in the league and the Raiders.

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Speaker 1: In this situation, the Raiders are viewed as the joke.

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Speaker 1: Like whenever the Raiders screw something up, all the teams

1237
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Speaker 1: around the league just say to themselves, it's the Raiders.

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01:01:44,800 --> 01:01:47,880
Speaker 1: Like if this had happened with the Eagles or the

1239
01:01:48,040 --> 01:01:53,360
Speaker 1: or the Seahawks, people would go, well, it's it's the guy.

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Speaker 1: It's the player, not the team. But in this case

1241
01:01:56,360 --> 01:01:59,280
Speaker 1: people just go, it's the team. Plus in season, to

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Speaker 1: sign guide to a decent money contract, you need to

1243
01:02:02,320 --> 01:02:04,960
Speaker 1: have some money available like your cap can't be taken,

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Speaker 1: so they were uniquely equipped. And again, I think Belichick

1245
01:02:08,600 --> 01:02:10,880
Speaker 1: just viewed the Raiders as being nuts. I don't think

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Speaker 1: he even cares what Antonio did, because he also knows

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Speaker 1: if Antonio doesn't shape inform, he'll shape out because they'll

1248
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Speaker 1: cut them. I always enjoy hearing stories from their scouting days.

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Speaker 1: Can you tell us from the very start of the

1250
01:02:21,960 --> 01:02:25,240
Speaker 1: scouting process about one specific player you scouted that worked

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01:02:25,240 --> 01:02:29,800
Speaker 1: out well? Uh? Well, I was in house a couple

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Speaker 1: of years, So my first couple of years you just

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Speaker 1: do pro scouting, which means you know, guys are kind

1254
01:02:34,720 --> 01:02:37,760
Speaker 1: of already in the league and established. I remember watching

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Speaker 1: Pernell McPhee as I think like a fourth round draft

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Speaker 1: pick and thinking like, God, this guy is pretty incredible.

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01:02:43,760 --> 01:02:46,000
Speaker 1: Uh now, but again, these guys are already in the league.

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Speaker 1: Now my I did. I worked the road for a year. Uh.

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Speaker 1: My three favorite players I did the West Coast. I

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Speaker 1: love Deon Dion Jordan's who's been a bust start, Lailey

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Speaker 1: who you know, you just not that good? It was solid,

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Speaker 1: and Ziggy Anza that was really good. He's probably a

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Speaker 1: favorite player and was injured who just can't stay healthy.

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Speaker 1: Robert Woods was a guy I really really liked, and

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Speaker 1: I just liked his attitude. I liked just the way

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Speaker 1: he played. I love just watching the practice at USC,

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Speaker 1: and that year at USC it was him and Marky's

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01:03:19,080 --> 01:03:21,400
Speaker 1: Lee was a sophomore. I just thought he was gonna

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Speaker 1: be a star. And you know, those first couple of

1270
01:03:23,720 --> 01:03:26,480
Speaker 1: years in Buffalo is a disaster. Now sometimes you see,

1271
01:03:26,520 --> 01:03:29,920
Speaker 1: like situation in the NFL plays a big part in

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Speaker 1: your success, you know. And ever since he came to

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01:03:32,600 --> 01:03:34,880
Speaker 1: l A where he's from, his changed his career and

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Speaker 1: he's become you know, I don't know if he's a

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Speaker 1: number one right receiver, but he's a damn good number two.

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Speaker 1: So I'm a big Robert Woods guy. And you know,

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Speaker 1: I'll never forget ziggy Ansa going through by U. They

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Speaker 1: tell you that, you know, this dude grew up in Africa.

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01:03:50,320 --> 01:03:52,880
Speaker 1: He didn't know what football was. He I think walked

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01:03:52,920 --> 01:03:56,040
Speaker 1: onto the b y U track team and the bat

1281
01:03:56,080 --> 01:03:58,400
Speaker 1: the football players were playing pick up basketball and he

1282
01:03:58,440 --> 01:04:00,800
Speaker 1: was playing there, and I think one of the players

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01:04:00,880 --> 01:04:03,960
Speaker 1: is like, what the hell And they started talking to them.

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01:04:03,960 --> 01:04:05,400
Speaker 1: They're like, bro, you need to come out to you

1285
01:04:05,400 --> 01:04:08,480
Speaker 1: need to come beat broco Mendenhall and so they they

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01:04:08,520 --> 01:04:10,760
Speaker 1: invited him to like the football offices. This guy was

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Speaker 1: like a walk on track athlete, but he's six five,

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01:04:13,240 --> 01:04:15,840
Speaker 1: he's like to sixty, could run. He had never played

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Speaker 1: football before in his life, and Bronco started working with

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Speaker 1: him and three years later is a fifth pick in

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Speaker 1: the draft. Okay, my question is not super serious, but

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Speaker 1: I'm curious to hear your all time starting lineup offense, defense, kicker, punter.

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01:04:31,000 --> 01:04:34,560
Speaker 1: Not necessarily the Goats, but if you guys, uh, but

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Speaker 1: if the guys you like most of all time, well

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01:04:38,080 --> 01:04:40,640
Speaker 1: that would take some time. But let's just go you know,

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Speaker 1: on the on the outer limits because the lines would

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Speaker 1: take some time. I'd go Brady. My favorite running back

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01:04:46,320 --> 01:04:50,600
Speaker 1: ever in my lifetime for me would be Ladanian Thomason.

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01:04:51,120 --> 01:04:54,800
Speaker 1: Favorite tight end would be Gronk. Favorite wide receivers would

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01:04:54,840 --> 01:04:57,880
Speaker 1: be Jerry Rice. You know you gotta have a diva

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Speaker 1: on your team, so I'll go Randy Moss. I'm a

1302
01:05:01,040 --> 01:05:02,720
Speaker 1: I'm a sucker for t O though growing up in

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01:05:02,720 --> 01:05:07,080
Speaker 1: the Bay. Uh. I'll go slot receiver. You know, if

1304
01:05:07,120 --> 01:05:09,439
Speaker 1: I just had my favorite slot receivers, not this guy's

1305
01:05:09,480 --> 01:05:12,040
Speaker 1: not the best, but I mean Jules my guy. I

1306
01:05:12,200 --> 01:05:18,080
Speaker 1: freaking love Edelman fullback. That's a good one. What what

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01:05:18,240 --> 01:05:21,360
Speaker 1: fullback would I go with? I'm growing up. I love

1308
01:05:21,440 --> 01:05:24,480
Speaker 1: William Floyd on the on some of those good early

1309
01:05:24,560 --> 01:05:27,040
Speaker 1: nineties teams. Moose Johnson was a really good player. You

1310
01:05:27,040 --> 01:05:31,520
Speaker 1: can pick one of those guys. Uh, backup quarterback. If

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01:05:31,520 --> 01:05:34,640
Speaker 1: Brady was my starter, who would I want to be

1312
01:05:34,720 --> 01:05:37,840
Speaker 1: my backup? I'd probably go with like Marino. That's always

1313
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Speaker 1: just kind of like Marino and just go defense. Uh,

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Speaker 1: I go Reggie White. Uh this again, these aren't not

1315
01:05:47,360 --> 01:05:49,960
Speaker 1: necessarily the best players ever. But I love John Randall,

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01:05:50,120 --> 01:05:52,920
Speaker 1: like him on the inside. Uh give me I go

1317
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Speaker 1: Aaron Donald, give me lt middle linebacker. I'm going Ray

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01:05:57,800 --> 01:06:01,840
Speaker 1: Lewis Safeties. I'll go Earld Thomas at Reid corners. I'm

1319
01:06:01,920 --> 01:06:06,440
Speaker 1: going Dion Sanders and I'm going uh, you know it's

1320
01:06:06,560 --> 01:06:08,640
Speaker 1: it's you know, I just like this guy's style. I'm

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01:06:08,640 --> 01:06:12,520
Speaker 1: going Richard Sherman. Uh or I'll go Reevus. I mean,

1322
01:06:13,360 --> 01:06:17,840
Speaker 1: Peak Rievous was better in Sherman coach. I'm going Belichick kicker.

1323
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Speaker 1: I'm going just because you need a drinking buddy, I'll

1324
01:06:20,560 --> 01:06:24,440
Speaker 1: go Sebastian Janikowski punter. I'll go, Ray guy, throw it

1325
01:06:24,520 --> 01:06:30,760
Speaker 1: back old school. I'm bad off top of my head. Uh.

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Speaker 1: On the real note, did you what do I think

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Speaker 1: of the Vikings today? Cousins look really solid and Dalvin

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01:06:35,240 --> 01:06:38,439
Speaker 1: Cook that boy can run. Yeah, I mean there's if

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01:06:38,520 --> 01:06:41,600
Speaker 1: the Vikings defense dominates, they're gonna be They're gonna be

1330
01:06:41,720 --> 01:06:44,080
Speaker 1: in pretty good shape because they can control the clock.

1331
01:06:44,160 --> 01:06:47,280
Speaker 1: Kirk Cousins had ten attempts. They played the Atlanta falconsy

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01:06:47,360 --> 01:06:50,120
Speaker 1: through the ball ten times and they were up twenty

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01:06:50,160 --> 01:06:53,640
Speaker 1: eight nothing in the in the fourth quarter I mean,

1334
01:06:53,760 --> 01:06:55,240
Speaker 1: or I mean in the third quarter like it was

1335
01:06:55,280 --> 01:06:58,480
Speaker 1: an ass whooping. I think the Vikings, you talk to

1336
01:06:58,520 --> 01:07:00,920
Speaker 1: anyone in the NFL like their team is really talented.

1337
01:07:00,960 --> 01:07:04,800
Speaker 1: There's no disputing at their roster is good. Cousins just,

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Speaker 1: I don't know, be somewhat of a game manager. You know,

1339
01:07:08,760 --> 01:07:11,600
Speaker 1: if you only have to come ten attempts in a game, like,

1340
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Speaker 1: you're in pretty good shape. The podcast, If you were

1341
01:07:15,480 --> 01:07:18,280
Speaker 1: to build an NFL roster, what positions would you sacrifice

1342
01:07:18,360 --> 01:07:20,720
Speaker 1: in the salary cap or look to have younger, more

1343
01:07:20,760 --> 01:07:28,320
Speaker 1: inexperienced players at running back, corner, outside linebacker. I would

1344
01:07:28,360 --> 01:07:32,760
Speaker 1: invest heavily and in defensive line, obviously your quarterback, my

1345
01:07:32,880 --> 01:07:36,160
Speaker 1: tackles a couple of I need sweet wide receivers in

1346
01:07:36,200 --> 01:07:39,480
Speaker 1: two thousand nineteen tight end, so I would try to

1347
01:07:39,520 --> 01:07:42,640
Speaker 1: make shift at running back and full back. I would

1348
01:07:42,640 --> 01:07:44,560
Speaker 1: like to have a cheaper wide receiver to go along

1349
01:07:44,600 --> 01:07:48,080
Speaker 1: with my expensive wide receiver. I try to, you know,

1350
01:07:48,760 --> 01:07:51,680
Speaker 1: piece match it with solid young guards and centers. I

1351
01:07:51,680 --> 01:07:53,880
Speaker 1: wouldn't want high price guards at centers, so I'd have

1352
01:07:53,920 --> 01:07:56,640
Speaker 1: to nail my draft picks. I spent a lot on

1353
01:07:56,680 --> 01:08:00,080
Speaker 1: my defensive line. I'd want some sweet but I I

1354
01:08:00,240 --> 01:08:02,080
Speaker 1: draft this guy in like a third or fourth round

1355
01:08:02,160 --> 01:08:04,800
Speaker 1: and an athletic linebacker that can run. But I don't

1356
01:08:04,800 --> 01:08:07,560
Speaker 1: need ray Lewis in two thousand nineteen. In corners, I

1357
01:08:07,720 --> 01:08:09,840
Speaker 1: would just try to kick your ass up front, and

1358
01:08:09,960 --> 01:08:12,680
Speaker 1: just my corners would just try to get by with

1359
01:08:13,360 --> 01:08:15,160
Speaker 1: I mean, look at the Eagles, They're gonna win twelve

1360
01:08:15,200 --> 01:08:17,920
Speaker 1: or thirteen games. Their corners aren't that good. Big packers guy,

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Speaker 1: do you believe the NFL would ever allow players to

1362
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Speaker 1: advertise for themselves during games. My theory is the NFL

1363
01:08:23,000 --> 01:08:25,880
Speaker 1: just signed a sponsorship with Oakley. With the popularity of

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01:08:25,920 --> 01:08:29,479
Speaker 1: graphic visors players wear in practice. Do you think it

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01:08:29,520 --> 01:08:33,000
Speaker 1: could ever move to a player being uh paid to

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01:08:33,000 --> 01:08:36,960
Speaker 1: wear company logos on the visors, etc. No. I think

1367
01:08:37,000 --> 01:08:40,439
Speaker 1: there's rules for that. That's why the NFL splits revenue

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01:08:41,000 --> 01:08:44,960
Speaker 1: with all the jersey stuff, So like the NFL, you

1369
01:08:45,040 --> 01:08:48,360
Speaker 1: get paid for you know, the Nike deal that the

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Speaker 1: NFL has, Like, that's how the revenue sharing works. As

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Speaker 1: I'm recording the Middlecoff mail bag, I'm watching the Houston

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Speaker 1: Texas and Shawn Watson just had a pretty sweet touchdown,

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01:08:56,840 --> 01:09:00,040
Speaker 1: So I I don't think that you'll see that, you know,

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Speaker 1: I think that that's pretty well established. They share money

1375
01:09:04,280 --> 01:09:08,200
Speaker 1: through the revenue sharing, just through already the ways that works,

1376
01:09:08,800 --> 01:09:10,640
Speaker 1: because then it would get too complicated. I think the

1377
01:09:10,680 --> 01:09:13,400
Speaker 1: players can do it off the field easily right through

1378
01:09:13,439 --> 01:09:16,120
Speaker 1: social media and do you know Patrick Mahomes Oakley, Tom

1379
01:09:16,120 --> 01:09:19,960
Speaker 1: Brady Uggs a million partnerships that the players make so

1380
01:09:20,040 --> 01:09:21,840
Speaker 1: much money that way, it's not even a really a

1381
01:09:21,840 --> 01:09:25,599
Speaker 1: big deal. Appreciate everyone listening. What a fun week one

1382
01:09:26,280 --> 01:09:29,479
Speaker 1: uh I got? I mean, you gotta love football, right,

1383
01:09:29,720 --> 01:09:33,759
Speaker 1: it doesn't get much better than the National Football League,

1384
01:09:33,920 --> 01:09:37,160
Speaker 1: And thanks for listening. I appreciate everyone taking the time

1385
01:09:37,160 --> 01:09:39,519
Speaker 1: to listen to me talk about it, because without you,

1386
01:09:39,560 --> 01:09:43,200
Speaker 1: guys couldn't do this. So we'll just keep it rolling. Baby.

1387
01:09:43,360 --> 01:09:46,600
Speaker 1: The NFL's back. We're all back, and it's time to

1388
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Speaker 1: roll day and