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Speaker 1: What is going on? Everybody? Jon Middle Coop Free and

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Speaker 1: Out Podcast. Back at it again Monday afternoon. Just hit record,

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Speaker 1: I got some takes, I got some thoughts, A lot

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Speaker 1: going on. Spent the weekend at Pebble Beach, which it

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Speaker 1: hit me this weekend. You know it's it's I got.

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Speaker 1: I got after it on Saturday. You know it's once

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Speaker 1: you get in your mid thirties. Maybe we're all different,

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Speaker 1: but I feel like my metabolism the ability for it

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Speaker 1: to break down alcohol and I can be hungover for

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Speaker 1: two days. But I highly recommend this. This is obviously

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Speaker 1: a football podcast when we talk to the majority NFL,

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Speaker 1: but we talk college. This Pebble Beach Pro Am tournament.

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Speaker 1: It's the second time I've been there. I highly recommend

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Speaker 1: going if you can. I mean, I'm standing right when

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Speaker 1: I walked into Pebble on Saturday. I just watched Matt

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Speaker 1: to him. Now. I was with a girl in her family,

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Speaker 1: to talk. I had some things. I just wanted to

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Speaker 1: run off Matt Ryan. I'm standing right next to him.

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Speaker 1: I felt kind of bad. I don't want to bother

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Speaker 1: him whatever, But you can easily talk and if you

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Speaker 1: like football. I watched Rogers hit a shot five feet away.

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Speaker 1: Peyton Eli were there, Steve Young was right next to me,

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Speaker 1: walked by with Phil Phil Mickelson. It's it's a star

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Speaker 1: studded NFL crew, it really is. You get to watch

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Speaker 1: him hit shots, you get to walk right by them,

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Speaker 1: and you really can't talk to him, and they'll talk

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Speaker 1: back because they're not bad serious, they're not really playing

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Speaker 1: for anything. So if you ever get the opportunity, and

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Speaker 1: I know a lot of people listening, we live all

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Speaker 1: over the place, it's worth it. If you're out on

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Speaker 1: the West coast, it's a it's a really really cool event,

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Speaker 1: very loose, very fun bars everywhere. Now, I mean you're

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Speaker 1: paying sixteen dollar Gray Goose and Sodas or Margarita's or whatever.

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Speaker 1: But you know, screw it, it's one day. You gotta

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Speaker 1: live a little and uh yeah, I I I had

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Speaker 1: a blast. You still, I sug off the cobwebs about

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Speaker 1: thirty six hours later, but I'm ready to go right

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Speaker 1: now and we'll dive into Philip Rivers. That was kind

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Speaker 1: of the big news on Monday. I got some sound

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Speaker 1: from rap Sheet. I want to play off the top,

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Speaker 1: some Tom Brady Dack stuff. XFL. A lot of people

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Speaker 1: have been hitting me up, like Middlecoff, what are your

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Speaker 1: thoughts in the XFL? What are you thoughts in the XFL?

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Speaker 1: I talked a lot about on the other podcast, but

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Speaker 1: there are a couple of things that jumped out to

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Speaker 1: me that I've been thinking just the last couple of

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Speaker 1: hours that I'll touch on. And then the purge. The

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Speaker 1: NFL purge also known as cap cuts, and it's the

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Speaker 1: biggest difference between football and the health of the sport.

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Speaker 1: Of the rosters on all the sports, uh in terms

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Speaker 1: sucks to get cut in the NFL, so many guys

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Speaker 1: bounce back you get other contracts. It's the great turnover

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Speaker 1: into football. Why the cap like whatever, you we only

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Speaker 1: you can create thirty million dollars with the blink of

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Speaker 1: my football And then of course Middlecoff mailbag at John

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Speaker 1: middle Off is my Instagram, oh my Twitter account of

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Speaker 1: my Twitter. Dms aren't open to the public. Instagram d

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Speaker 1: a bunch today and I'll answer at the end of

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Speaker 1: from rap Sheet. Well, there is a pretty good reason

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Speaker 1: that owner Robert Crafton and Tom Brady have worked closely

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Speaker 1: on several deals in the past. There's a reason why

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Speaker 1: the option was to allow Brady that has test free agency,

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Speaker 1: I understand Crafts thinking on this was basically, if the

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Speaker 1: then in the end, after all of this, after going

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Speaker 1: They Craft wanted them to get apart, to see what's

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Speaker 1: that that was Ian Rapp Report, the NFL network's number

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Speaker 1: all thought it was kind of weird they couldn't franchise him.

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Speaker 1: But I didn't know that information that Robert Kraft lad

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Speaker 1: that idea of listening. Basically is this Tom Brady Bill

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Speaker 1: the same page. And Robert Craft going this, Tom, I

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Speaker 1: you've been in a twenty year relationship. Now, I've never

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Speaker 1: And I think we'd all agree, and I've talked about

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Speaker 1: this before, is they are best for each other. Tom's

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Speaker 1: best chance to win is with Bill. Bill's best chance

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Speaker 1: to win, given his options right now, is probably with Tom.

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Speaker 1: I feel very very confident Tom's best chance to win

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Speaker 1: he's shown before that he's unemotional about stuff. He will

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Speaker 1: And Tom knows that, right Tom seen Welker, Low, good Man, Kins, Vince,

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Speaker 1: extra year. I think that's pretty nuts. That's a bit

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Speaker 1: with Dak Prescott, like that, there's enough smoke with Dak Prescott.

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Speaker 1: It's starting to get weird. This was the two year anniversary.

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Speaker 1: February eight, two thousand eighteen. The forty nine are signed.

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Speaker 1: Jimmy Garoppolo. If you really like a guy, you signed

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Speaker 1: them in January or early February, Like what's going on

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Speaker 1: with Dak Prescott. And in defense of Jerry Jones and

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Speaker 1: the Dallas Cowboys. I would not be comfortable giving Dak

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Speaker 1: like Dak Prescott. I think he's a playoff He's a

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Speaker 1: I think his physical characteristics, he's a big time athlete,

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Speaker 1: able to scramble. He's accurate. His deep blall accuracy could

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Speaker 1: go this, Jerry goes, Okay, I'll let him hit free agency.

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Speaker 1: Who's getting who? Who Am I competing with Dak for

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Speaker 1: when when the Eagles and how he extended Carson Wentz,

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Speaker 1: middle of the table with Carson Wentz. Same with Jared Goff. Again,

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Speaker 1: I didn't love definitely the Jared Goff contract. I understand

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Speaker 1: Now he's a more mobile Jared Goff type, which I

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Speaker 1: don't see it. So if I'm Jerry Jones, I'm going

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Speaker 1: McCarthy looks at him, go, I don't think he's ready

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Speaker 1: He was busy, but then he started thinking, like, that's

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Speaker 1: pretty weird. Your most important employee, if you're the coach,

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Speaker 1: my quarterback. Now, let me play a little conspiracy theory.

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Speaker 1: What if he already knew, Like what if this deal

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Speaker 1: has already done? Like Tom Brady is notorious for just

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Speaker 1: getting deals done when you don't know right. That's how

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Speaker 1: or Russell Wilson. That's not how Brady's operated. If anything,

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Speaker 1: there had always and rumors there's some like under under

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Speaker 1: Now he had moments where even when he was protected,

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Speaker 1: he turned the ball over life through twenty picks, not

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Speaker 1: Jamie's thirty picks, but twenties a lot. Now, if I

427
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Speaker 1: was on the pro Philip riverside, I go, hey, guys,

428
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Speaker 1: in two thousand eighteen, that to one season removed. They

429
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Speaker 1: went twelve and four. He threw thirty two touchdowns, twelve picks,

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Speaker 1: and he had a playoff victory on the road against

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Speaker 1: the Ravens. That was the playoff victory happened in two

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Speaker 1: thousand nineteen, So basically thirteen months ago Philip Rivers won

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Speaker 1: a playoff game and let a team remember that that

434
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Speaker 1: late in the season, I think on Thursday night beat

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Speaker 1: the Chiefs at Arrowhead through that game winning I think

436
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Speaker 1: two point conversion to Mike Williams. Yeah, I think it

437
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Speaker 1: was a two point conversion. They went for two instead

438
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Speaker 1: of the tie. Like that wasn't that long ago. So

439
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Speaker 1: I think he's gonna be pretty polarizing in the sense

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Speaker 1: of the way people like me and you fans like

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Speaker 1: we talk about him. But I think internally, like the Colts,

442
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Speaker 1: they're gonna come after him. Tampa Bay. I'm sure they're

443
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Speaker 1: gonna come after him. I would imagine Caroline would probably

444
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Speaker 1: be interested. They're gonna be teams interested, depending on what

445
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Speaker 1: happens with Tom Brady. What if you don't think Belichick

446
00:22:00,680 --> 00:22:02,399
Speaker 1: like you ain't gonna Jared Stidham is not better than

447
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Speaker 1: Philip Rivers if you just needed a one year bridge.

448
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Speaker 1: So I I think Philip Rivers gonna have options the money,

449
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Speaker 1: maybe a one year, twenty million dollar deal plus some incentives.

450
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Speaker 1: But again, he's not that far away removed from having

451
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Speaker 1: a really good season. Now. I think we're a little

452
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Speaker 1: skewed the way we talk about age with quarterbacks because

453
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Speaker 1: of what Brady is doing, and even Breeze. Most guys

454
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Speaker 1: are like Eli Manning. Once you get to thirty seven,

455
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Speaker 1: thirty eight, it's over. You're not good enough. It's just

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Speaker 1: it ends. That's what the majority like. When I was

457
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Speaker 1: born into being a sports fan, that was normal. You

458
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Speaker 1: get thirty thirty six, it just comes to an end.

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Speaker 1: You have a fourteen fifteen. Your career now, the changing

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Speaker 1: in technology, the changing and training, the changing in your

461
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Speaker 1: eating habits. He hasn't really been an injury plagues player right.

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Speaker 1: One of his things he hangs his hat on is

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Speaker 1: how long he has been the starting quarterback and how

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Speaker 1: many straight starts he's made for the charges, plus when

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Speaker 1: you factor in the rules of not being able to

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Speaker 1: hit the quarterback, plus his size he's physically he's just

467
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Speaker 1: such a big dude that I I think you might

468
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Speaker 1: get lightning in a bottle. And back to what I

469
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Speaker 1: opened this up, as they didn't mutually depart, the Chargers

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Speaker 1: moved on, and Philip Rivers a prideful dude. So if

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Speaker 1: someone moves on from you. I've been fired a couple

472
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Speaker 1: of times, it wakes you up. Now I don't. I'm

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Speaker 1: not saying Philip Rivers didn't try as hard last year,

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Speaker 1: but we're all humans. Sometimes you just need a kick

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Speaker 1: in the ask to get refocused. This team stopped believing

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Speaker 1: in me, and I've been kind of their most famous

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Speaker 1: players since LT the last decade. Helped them make the

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Speaker 1: playoffs countless times, win a bunch of games, be nationally relevant.

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Speaker 1: Uh probably him or Dan Foul's best quarterback in the

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Speaker 1: history of the franchise. I again, Dan Fouts a little

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Speaker 1: before my time I have to do some number of research,

482
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Speaker 1: but I I I would say that Philip Rivers. If

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Speaker 1: I was a betting man, I would lean he has

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Speaker 1: one good season left in him. You know, a thirty

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Speaker 1: thirty nine years old. And whether it's the Colts, whether

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Speaker 1: it's Tampa, you know a team like that. Definitely, the

487
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Speaker 1: Colts makes sense, right Frank coach him. With the Chargers,

488
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Speaker 1: they know each other. As reading Albert Breer, he says

489
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Speaker 1: they have a good relationship. They have a really good

490
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Speaker 1: offensive line. They need to add some playmakers for him,

491
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Speaker 1: though they can add some playmakers. He knows the scheme

492
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Speaker 1: could be a really easy transition. He's much better than Jacobe.

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Speaker 1: It's worth the risk. Tampa. I think it's a little

494
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Speaker 1: tougher though obviously it seems from reading all the reports

495
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Speaker 1: Arians would rather have Rivers than Jamis. You could make

496
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Speaker 1: the argument if you could just cut Jamis's picks in half,

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Speaker 1: he is a more explosive thrower of the football. Rivers

498
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Speaker 1: at this point is not an explosive throw at the football,

499
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Speaker 1: not that he ever really was, but pushing the ball downfield.

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Speaker 1: Arm strength is not really his thing. The number one

501
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Speaker 1: thing for Rivers though, for me gotta play in the

502
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Speaker 1: right climate, not a cold weather quarterback, not with his

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Speaker 1: arm strength. That's why the Colts in a dome ton

504
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Speaker 1: of sense, Tampa in the heat, ton of sense. Those

505
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Speaker 1: are the two teams to me that make the most

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Speaker 1: sense and at this and the sleeper would be Gruden

507
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Speaker 1: because Gruden. I've watched his press conferences. He's been with

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Speaker 1: the Raiders. He loves Philip Rivers. Think about Philip Rivers

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Speaker 1: and John Gruden kind of the same guy. I I

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Speaker 1: tweeted something out on Monday. Get get ready when when

511
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Speaker 1: Philip Rivers retires. Beside Troy Aikman and Tony Romo, every

512
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Speaker 1: analyst in the NFL will be on notice because their

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Speaker 1: networks will hire Philip Rivers over every single one of

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Speaker 1: those guys. He can replace them all. Just go YouTube

515
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Speaker 1: some of his press conferences. He is a unique personality,

516
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Speaker 1: you know who. He reminds me of a little bit

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Speaker 1: John Madden, the player version of John Madden. He's like

518
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Speaker 1: a louder version of Romo. Romo is a little kind

519
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Speaker 1: of happier. Go like, this guy is happy, but there's

520
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Speaker 1: just uh, some screams the Rivers that are just boom. Honestly,

521
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Speaker 1: He reminds me a lot of John Madden. I think

522
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Speaker 1: he's the player version of John Madden. I think he

523
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Speaker 1: will have networks lined up around the block to, you know,

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Speaker 1: make him one of their main guys on their on

525
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Speaker 1: the NFL coverage Monday Night Football, Sunday Night Football. I

526
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Speaker 1: think he could do it all if he so chooses to.

527
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Speaker 1: Now he's he's been adamant he's gonna coach high school football.

528
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Speaker 1: Was kid who's I think a fifth grader, but he

529
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Speaker 1: still has a couple of years to play. And uh,

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Speaker 1: if I was a betting man, I'd say the Colts

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Speaker 1: and Tampa is also a unique situation. Their offensive lines

532
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Speaker 1: a little sketchier, though it got better as the season

533
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Speaker 1: went on. And like I said, there is the risk

534
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Speaker 1: that it's just like he's Eli Manning and it's over,

535
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Speaker 1: and that would be a big blow. If you're the

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Speaker 1: Colts or your Tampa and you get him and it's over,

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Speaker 1: that's very possible. We're dealing with humans here, We're dealing

538
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Speaker 1: with an older player that has shown signs of decline,

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Speaker 1: so that there's risk there. I think if I was

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Speaker 1: in the situation of those teams, i'd probably take the

541
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Speaker 1: risk because the reward is high. Okay, let's uh, let's

542
00:27:01,280 --> 00:27:07,520
Speaker 1: dive into the XFL. Anytime you start anything with legitimate

543
00:27:07,600 --> 00:27:11,719
Speaker 1: financial backing, you have a huge leg up. Now that

544
00:27:11,760 --> 00:27:14,840
Speaker 1: doesn't mean whatever you're gonna do is gonna be successful,

545
00:27:15,240 --> 00:27:17,520
Speaker 1: but it's a game changer. If I was worth a

546
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Speaker 1: hundred million dollars, I could run a media company a

547
00:27:21,640 --> 00:27:26,600
Speaker 1: lot differently than I do, being worth the pennies that

548
00:27:26,640 --> 00:27:30,639
Speaker 1: I'm worth right now out of my home office, which

549
00:27:30,680 --> 00:27:33,240
Speaker 1: has been very lucrative, and it's been fun and it's

550
00:27:33,320 --> 00:27:36,720
Speaker 1: been growing every year, but it's not easy. I don't

551
00:27:36,760 --> 00:27:40,119
Speaker 1: have someone bank roll on me. Just like look at Barstool.

552
00:27:40,640 --> 00:27:43,439
Speaker 1: When Barstool, I honestly didn't know much about him. I

553
00:27:43,440 --> 00:27:47,080
Speaker 1: had friends that that consume their stuff. When I found

554
00:27:47,119 --> 00:27:50,679
Speaker 1: out about him is when the Sharon Group, you know,

555
00:27:50,920 --> 00:27:53,840
Speaker 1: bought gave fifty million dollars or whatever, bought half of it,

556
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Speaker 1: kind of put them on the map nationally to people

557
00:27:57,359 --> 00:27:59,160
Speaker 1: that didn't follow them, and they never look back since

558
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Speaker 1: they just got bought again by pen who I actually

559
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Speaker 1: bought a bunch of stock in just because I think

560
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Speaker 1: it's gonna work. I mean, I don't see how it

561
00:28:06,640 --> 00:28:09,040
Speaker 1: doesn't with the way gambling has changed, but it's a

562
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Speaker 1: game changer when you have financial backing. Now, if Barstool

563
00:28:12,359 --> 00:28:15,960
Speaker 1: didn't have a solid foundation and a brand, I could

564
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Speaker 1: invest a lot of startups get VC money all the

565
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Speaker 1: time and fail. So you do have to know what

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Speaker 1: you're doing when you get funded, either from the jump

567
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Speaker 1: or after you've kind of run a company. Right. Well,

568
00:28:29,760 --> 00:28:34,280
Speaker 1: the XFL has tried this before, basically what twenty years ago,

569
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Speaker 1: and failed. Vince probably didn't really know what he was

570
00:28:37,640 --> 00:28:40,040
Speaker 1: doing then. Well, twenty years later, he's had a lot

571
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Speaker 1: of time to think about it, he's made a boatload

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Speaker 1: of more cash, and now he's in a position where

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Speaker 1: I'm a big believer and I talked about all the time,

574
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Speaker 1: you're better from your past experiences because you know, you

575
00:28:52,120 --> 00:28:55,360
Speaker 1: learn more from failure than you do from success. And

576
00:28:55,760 --> 00:28:58,040
Speaker 1: you've just seen some other leagues, the UFL, the a

577
00:28:58,280 --> 00:29:02,280
Speaker 1: F come and go. Since you've had your chance, well

578
00:29:02,360 --> 00:29:06,360
Speaker 1: this time around. To me, his number one attribute beside

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Speaker 1: the cash, why the XFL has a legitimate chance is

580
00:29:10,800 --> 00:29:14,640
Speaker 1: because of the distribution channels. The reason three and out

581
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Speaker 1: has his chance to succeed and has succeeded from the

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Speaker 1: jump was because of a guy named Colin Coward. He

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Speaker 1: has this thing called a distribution channel, and a lot

584
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Speaker 1: of you guys listen to me through his podcast feed.

585
00:29:30,520 --> 00:29:34,240
Speaker 1: That is a very very powerful distribution channel. If I

586
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Speaker 1: just started this from scratch, maybe I could have figured

587
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Speaker 1: it out. And I probably would have figured out, but

588
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Speaker 1: there would be nowhere near as many people listening. Maybe

589
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Speaker 1: one day I could have got there, it would have

590
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Speaker 1: taken me a long time, or unless someone came along

591
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Speaker 1: and funded me. Well, they got there on ABC and

592
00:29:52,400 --> 00:29:58,280
Speaker 1: Fox and ESPN, like three point three million people watched them,

593
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Speaker 1: and I'll be honest, I thought the I was kind

594
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Speaker 1: of boring and I need some stars. I'm I'm kind

595
00:30:04,600 --> 00:30:07,760
Speaker 1: of like the casual fan when it comes to stuff

596
00:30:07,800 --> 00:30:10,000
Speaker 1: like this. You need to kind of get me going.

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Speaker 1: I'm not coming to the XFL to watch you run power,

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00:30:14,000 --> 00:30:16,320
Speaker 1: you know. I I've seen all these guys play. That's

599
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Speaker 1: why I like college football. Like this doesn't sniff college

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00:30:18,960 --> 00:30:21,480
Speaker 1: football now, just given the time of year, there's nothing

601
00:30:21,480 --> 00:30:24,440
Speaker 1: else to watch. But I'm not like when I went

602
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Speaker 1: to Pebble Beach on Saturday, I didn't care about watching

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Speaker 1: the XFL. And the only reason I watched the XFL

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Speaker 1: a little bit on Sunday one because a lot of

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00:30:31,760 --> 00:30:33,840
Speaker 1: people were tweeting at me and I talked about football

606
00:30:33,880 --> 00:30:36,000
Speaker 1: for a living. But too, I could easily talked about

607
00:30:36,000 --> 00:30:39,560
Speaker 1: it without watching it, but mainly because the golf the

608
00:30:39,560 --> 00:30:41,760
Speaker 1: Pebble Beach Tournament when I got home wasn't blowout, so

609
00:30:41,800 --> 00:30:44,479
Speaker 1: I flipped it on and there was literally nothing else on.

610
00:30:44,880 --> 00:30:47,640
Speaker 1: But I do know this because I follow ratings and

611
00:30:47,640 --> 00:30:49,800
Speaker 1: I talked about the stuff for a living. The NBA

612
00:30:49,920 --> 00:30:52,000
Speaker 1: does not get three point three million people to watch

613
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Speaker 1: any of their games during the regular season. The only

614
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Speaker 1: game they got close was a Christmas Day game. That's

615
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Speaker 1: the equivalent to like the NFL's Thanksgiving Day game, and

616
00:31:00,840 --> 00:31:03,120
Speaker 1: that's not good. So the XFL got a lot of

617
00:31:03,120 --> 00:31:06,719
Speaker 1: people to watch it worked. My issue more is like

618
00:31:06,840 --> 00:31:10,240
Speaker 1: the best player might take away after just looking at

619
00:31:10,280 --> 00:31:13,240
Speaker 1: the rosters watching a bunch of highlights. I watched a

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00:31:13,240 --> 00:31:17,200
Speaker 1: decent amount on Sunday, just had the game in the background. Uh.

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Speaker 1: Marquette King, the punter, former Raider and Bronco punter, is

622
00:31:20,760 --> 00:31:23,560
Speaker 1: the best player in the league. Now he's a legitimate

623
00:31:23,640 --> 00:31:26,160
Speaker 1: NFL player. The reason he wasn't in the NFL is

624
00:31:26,240 --> 00:31:28,720
Speaker 1: because he became kind of a headache. And you can't

625
00:31:28,720 --> 00:31:30,600
Speaker 1: be a headache if you're a kicker or putter. But

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00:31:30,680 --> 00:31:32,960
Speaker 1: he is. I don't even know if there's a close

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Speaker 1: second in the league that's on his level. Like the

628
00:31:35,440 --> 00:31:36,880
Speaker 1: other guy that I saw that was like, well, this

629
00:31:36,880 --> 00:31:38,840
Speaker 1: guy is pretty good relative to the rest of the company.

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00:31:38,920 --> 00:31:42,400
Speaker 1: Cardale Jones, shotgun who could barely hang on to an

631
00:31:42,480 --> 00:31:44,920
Speaker 1: NFL career. So the talent in the league is a

632
00:31:44,920 --> 00:31:47,000
Speaker 1: lot of fringe guys. Now those guys are gonna get

633
00:31:47,000 --> 00:31:49,800
Speaker 1: opportunities to be on practice squads maybe when guys get

634
00:31:49,840 --> 00:31:51,560
Speaker 1: hurt throughout the year, so it's gonna be a good

635
00:31:52,080 --> 00:31:56,280
Speaker 1: experience for them. But to consistently hold onto people's viewership,

636
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Speaker 1: I'm gonna need some stardom because we like football. But

637
00:31:59,160 --> 00:32:01,920
Speaker 1: a part of the reason we like football one on Saturdays,

638
00:32:02,120 --> 00:32:03,920
Speaker 1: because the SEC and the Big Ten and the Big

639
00:32:03,920 --> 00:32:06,840
Speaker 1: twelve are enormous brands. It's easy to watch Oklahoma or

640
00:32:06,960 --> 00:32:09,320
Speaker 1: l s U or Georgia or House State or Michigan

641
00:32:09,880 --> 00:32:12,440
Speaker 1: or I was gonna say USC football that's not true,

642
00:32:12,520 --> 00:32:14,680
Speaker 1: but you know what I'm saying, Like we these guys

643
00:32:14,720 --> 00:32:17,360
Speaker 1: become stars in our life. Like we've been watching Trevor

644
00:32:17,440 --> 00:32:20,000
Speaker 1: Lawrence going in next year for two years, Justin Fields,

645
00:32:20,000 --> 00:32:21,800
Speaker 1: we've been hearing about him for a while, Justin Herbert,

646
00:32:21,800 --> 00:32:23,920
Speaker 1: a lot of hype to uh, we know about these guys.

647
00:32:23,920 --> 00:32:26,320
Speaker 1: The XFL is not gonna have that, and then the NFL.

648
00:32:27,360 --> 00:32:29,960
Speaker 1: There's two things. Obviously, gambling has become a huge issue

649
00:32:30,120 --> 00:32:32,320
Speaker 1: when I see the lines on these games, and I

650
00:32:32,360 --> 00:32:34,440
Speaker 1: love to gamble, How would I know who to gamble on?

651
00:32:35,280 --> 00:32:37,880
Speaker 1: How would I have any clue? Like the Vipers playing

652
00:32:38,000 --> 00:32:41,800
Speaker 1: the uh, the the whatever. I don't know, so that

653
00:32:41,800 --> 00:32:43,680
Speaker 1: that's going to be a challenge. I'm not trying to

654
00:32:43,680 --> 00:32:47,200
Speaker 1: diminish because it's very impressive where they started. I'm driving

655
00:32:47,240 --> 00:32:49,960
Speaker 1: home on Sunday, listen to one of the games they're

656
00:32:49,960 --> 00:32:52,840
Speaker 1: simulcasting on Fox Sports Radio. It's Kevin Burkhard. So from

657
00:32:52,920 --> 00:32:56,400
Speaker 1: Kevin Burkhardt to Steve Levy to McElroy to Pat McAfee,

658
00:32:56,480 --> 00:32:59,400
Speaker 1: like they got stars calling the games, and I just

659
00:32:59,440 --> 00:33:02,160
Speaker 1: don't know. Like Pep Hamilton's he's just kind of a

660
00:33:02,280 --> 00:33:04,880
Speaker 1: He's a man coach. He couldn't be any more boring.

661
00:33:05,400 --> 00:33:08,080
Speaker 1: I want more. How mummies throw the ball, spread it out,

662
00:33:08,120 --> 00:33:10,520
Speaker 1: you need to throw. I'm not coming to your league

663
00:33:10,560 --> 00:33:13,360
Speaker 1: to run it or to watch you run it. To

664
00:33:13,480 --> 00:33:16,840
Speaker 1: run power and sweeps, throw bombs, spread it out and

665
00:33:16,880 --> 00:33:19,360
Speaker 1: throw the football. And when your best players upon her

666
00:33:19,400 --> 00:33:22,560
Speaker 1: and I there, I'm not blaming them for that. Like

667
00:33:22,680 --> 00:33:25,280
Speaker 1: they're they're paying fifty grand a player they get I

668
00:33:25,280 --> 00:33:28,680
Speaker 1: think Landry Jones, who again is not a very good player.

669
00:33:28,720 --> 00:33:32,000
Speaker 1: They gave two signing bonus too, so that's just it's

670
00:33:32,000 --> 00:33:34,040
Speaker 1: gonna be a challenge. Like their next step is gonna

671
00:33:34,080 --> 00:33:37,680
Speaker 1: be you get Antonio Brown or Dez Bryan in the league.

672
00:33:37,960 --> 00:33:40,560
Speaker 1: John middlecoff ain't missing a snap of that game. Yeah,

673
00:33:40,600 --> 00:33:42,080
Speaker 1: I just went third person, but I was trying to

674
00:33:42,080 --> 00:33:44,479
Speaker 1: be funny. You get Antonio Brown, and I honestly, if

675
00:33:44,480 --> 00:33:47,920
Speaker 1: I'm Antonio Brown, I think about playing in this league

676
00:33:47,920 --> 00:33:49,680
Speaker 1: at least for a couple of games, because right now

677
00:33:49,680 --> 00:33:51,120
Speaker 1: you're out of sight, out of mind for all the

678
00:33:51,160 --> 00:33:53,440
Speaker 1: coaches and the owners, and they just think you're full

679
00:33:53,440 --> 00:33:56,640
Speaker 1: on slap. The quickest way for you to get forgotten

680
00:33:56,640 --> 00:33:58,720
Speaker 1: about being a slap even though if you haven't changed

681
00:33:58,720 --> 00:34:01,760
Speaker 1: being a slap, go viral. Make some place score three

682
00:34:01,800 --> 00:34:04,720
Speaker 1: touchdowns in the game. And because at the end of

683
00:34:04,760 --> 00:34:07,400
Speaker 1: the day. We know teams don't morally care about anything

684
00:34:07,400 --> 00:34:09,920
Speaker 1: that's the media. The fans don't either, because if you win,

685
00:34:10,000 --> 00:34:12,480
Speaker 1: people show up. If Antonio Brown played in one of

686
00:34:12,480 --> 00:34:15,000
Speaker 1: these games and back to back weeks had like four

687
00:34:15,040 --> 00:34:17,560
Speaker 1: combined touchdowns and how to play where he made all

688
00:34:17,840 --> 00:34:22,160
Speaker 1: ten guys miss, you get some eyeballs, consistent eyeballs people.

689
00:34:22,160 --> 00:34:25,399
Speaker 1: I build my day around watching Antonio Brown, but I'm

690
00:34:25,400 --> 00:34:27,879
Speaker 1: not building my day around Marquette King. And I talked

691
00:34:27,880 --> 00:34:30,880
Speaker 1: about football for a living because you'd rather listen to

692
00:34:30,960 --> 00:34:33,319
Speaker 1: me talk about Tom Bradyr Philip Rivers. Where they're gonna go,

693
00:34:33,600 --> 00:34:35,319
Speaker 1: like the XFL is cool week one, and I think

694
00:34:35,360 --> 00:34:37,399
Speaker 1: they're gonna be in good spots and just in terms

695
00:34:37,440 --> 00:34:39,160
Speaker 1: of they're gonna be on the major channels, so their

696
00:34:39,239 --> 00:34:42,799
Speaker 1: numbers gonna be high. The NBA's in the tank, in

697
00:34:42,880 --> 00:34:45,680
Speaker 1: the absolute tank, so they might be doing bigger numbers

698
00:34:45,680 --> 00:34:48,040
Speaker 1: in the NBA. That's not saying much right now. I

699
00:34:48,160 --> 00:34:50,839
Speaker 1: just they're gonna have to take some strides. Maybe they

700
00:34:50,880 --> 00:34:54,680
Speaker 1: get some crossover with the league. Like for example, Nick

701
00:34:54,760 --> 00:34:57,359
Speaker 1: Mullins the backup for the forty niners, they give him

702
00:34:57,400 --> 00:35:00,239
Speaker 1: to one of the teams. Uh, Sudfeld, the back up

703
00:35:00,280 --> 00:35:03,400
Speaker 1: for the Eagles. They're just the first couple of backups, Uh,

704
00:35:03,440 --> 00:35:06,680
Speaker 1: Brett Hunley, you know, just random back up young backups

705
00:35:06,920 --> 00:35:09,680
Speaker 1: that are Josh Rosen, you get some of those guys

706
00:35:09,680 --> 00:35:12,760
Speaker 1: in the league. Now we're talking, and again I understand

707
00:35:12,800 --> 00:35:15,120
Speaker 1: you can't you can't run before you walk, so it's

708
00:35:15,120 --> 00:35:17,240
Speaker 1: gonna take some time. They got off to a great start,

709
00:35:17,800 --> 00:35:21,360
Speaker 1: but to just make this thing interesting, your best player

710
00:35:21,360 --> 00:35:24,360
Speaker 1: in your league can't be the punter. But Vince McMahon

711
00:35:24,440 --> 00:35:27,520
Speaker 1: is a great American businessman. He's a billionaire, so money

712
00:35:27,560 --> 00:35:30,000
Speaker 1: won't be the issue. Like the a F their distribution

713
00:35:30,080 --> 00:35:32,200
Speaker 1: channels are top not they don't. They can't get any better.

714
00:35:32,480 --> 00:35:34,520
Speaker 1: You're on ABC and Fox. It's as good as it gets.

715
00:35:35,000 --> 00:35:37,120
Speaker 1: So they get They got the hard parts out of

716
00:35:37,120 --> 00:35:39,239
Speaker 1: the way. Now you could argue the hardest part is

717
00:35:39,280 --> 00:35:42,080
Speaker 1: just get the store players. That's that's gonna be difficult.

718
00:35:42,120 --> 00:35:44,840
Speaker 1: But I will say it was a solid start and

719
00:35:44,880 --> 00:35:47,120
Speaker 1: a lot of people tweeting clue tweeting about the league

720
00:35:47,160 --> 00:35:50,279
Speaker 1: but tweeting me about it. So uh, I think they

721
00:35:50,320 --> 00:35:53,799
Speaker 1: have a lot of room for growth, and uh in

722
00:35:53,800 --> 00:35:56,440
Speaker 1: a pretty good place. Unlike you know, the last several

723
00:35:56,520 --> 00:36:01,200
Speaker 1: leagues that flamed out very very quickly. Okay, let's dive

724
00:36:01,239 --> 00:36:04,920
Speaker 1: into the Purge. And it's just my name for it,

725
00:36:04,920 --> 00:36:06,760
Speaker 1: because every once in a a while, if I'm flipping channels

726
00:36:06,800 --> 00:36:08,680
Speaker 1: and I see on HBO or Showtime or one of

727
00:36:08,680 --> 00:36:11,759
Speaker 1: those channels, and it's the Purge and the Purse. That

728
00:36:11,840 --> 00:36:14,319
Speaker 1: movie is like, you know, the one night a year

729
00:36:14,320 --> 00:36:17,000
Speaker 1: when you're just allowed to kill everyone. It's a it's

730
00:36:17,040 --> 00:36:20,360
Speaker 1: a little different, but you see it a lot. In baseball.

731
00:36:20,480 --> 00:36:22,840
Speaker 1: The reason the Red Sox got rid of Mookie Betts

732
00:36:23,560 --> 00:36:26,000
Speaker 1: was one they didn't think they could resign him after

733
00:36:26,040 --> 00:36:28,960
Speaker 1: this season, and to financially, they don't have any flexibility.

734
00:36:29,040 --> 00:36:32,120
Speaker 1: They're stuck on all these terrible contracts. One of the

735
00:36:32,120 --> 00:36:34,040
Speaker 1: reasons the Dodgers didn't have to give up that much

736
00:36:34,080 --> 00:36:37,720
Speaker 1: for Mookie Betts was because they took basically a fifty

737
00:36:37,760 --> 00:36:41,439
Speaker 1: million dollar tacks. David Price isn't good anymore and he's old,

738
00:36:41,480 --> 00:36:43,719
Speaker 1: like ninety five million dollars and Dodgers like, yeah, we'll

739
00:36:43,719 --> 00:36:45,520
Speaker 1: pay half of it, so we only have to give

740
00:36:45,560 --> 00:36:48,239
Speaker 1: you one sweet player. It's like whatever, We'll pay the

741
00:36:48,400 --> 00:36:51,279
Speaker 1: basically the equivalent of attacks to get this player. The

742
00:36:51,360 --> 00:36:53,840
Speaker 1: Giants who are going to be The San Franco Giants

743
00:36:53,840 --> 00:36:55,880
Speaker 1: may be one of the worst teams in baseball, have

744
00:36:56,120 --> 00:37:00,920
Speaker 1: no flexibility because their entire starting lineup is overpaid. They're terrible,

745
00:37:01,200 --> 00:37:04,400
Speaker 1: but they're all making a ton of money. And unlike football,

746
00:37:04,880 --> 00:37:07,080
Speaker 1: the San Fransco Giants, if they want to cut Brandon

747
00:37:07,120 --> 00:37:09,560
Speaker 1: Crawford or Brandon beld or Buster Posey, I mean, all

748
00:37:09,600 --> 00:37:12,520
Speaker 1: these guys just kind of over the hill. They can't.

749
00:37:12,640 --> 00:37:14,880
Speaker 1: They have to buy them out and literally pay every

750
00:37:14,880 --> 00:37:17,680
Speaker 1: penny for them to go away. And the NBA is

751
00:37:17,719 --> 00:37:20,040
Speaker 1: definitely the same thing, but it's a smaller amount of

752
00:37:20,040 --> 00:37:22,040
Speaker 1: players that make a lot of money and you're stuck

753
00:37:22,040 --> 00:37:24,920
Speaker 1: to their contracts. You can buy them out, but there

754
00:37:25,000 --> 00:37:26,840
Speaker 1: is no incentive for the player or the agent to

755
00:37:26,880 --> 00:37:29,960
Speaker 1: ever really take less, especially if there's multiple years on

756
00:37:30,000 --> 00:37:32,480
Speaker 1: the deal. If you owe me twenty million dollars over

757
00:37:32,520 --> 00:37:35,520
Speaker 1: two years, it doesn't behoove me to take like I'll

758
00:37:35,560 --> 00:37:37,160
Speaker 1: give you. You just pay me twelve and let me

759
00:37:37,200 --> 00:37:39,480
Speaker 1: go be a free agent. Now I'm getting every penny

760
00:37:39,480 --> 00:37:41,200
Speaker 1: because eventually, if you're gonna buy me out, you will

761
00:37:41,239 --> 00:37:44,600
Speaker 1: buy me out, and I'm gonna get about of that

762
00:37:44,680 --> 00:37:49,400
Speaker 1: money or in football, on a given year, on a

763
00:37:49,440 --> 00:37:53,880
Speaker 1: fifty three man roster, there are probably truly five or

764
00:37:53,880 --> 00:37:57,160
Speaker 1: six players who are safe, obviously the big money quarterbacks.

765
00:37:57,719 --> 00:38:00,920
Speaker 1: Then you're three or four core players. Everyone else could

766
00:38:00,960 --> 00:38:03,359
Speaker 1: be cut at a moment's notice. So when you look

767
00:38:03,400 --> 00:38:07,000
Speaker 1: around like it's it's what makes football free agency every

768
00:38:07,080 --> 00:38:09,759
Speaker 1: year so cool. Like you you hear this year in

769
00:38:09,800 --> 00:38:13,440
Speaker 1: the NBA, this is an awful NBA free agency crop.

770
00:38:13,760 --> 00:38:16,640
Speaker 1: Next year is the big year. Guys like Janice An

771
00:38:16,760 --> 00:38:21,200
Speaker 1: two Tokopo will hit free agency. In the NFL, every year,

772
00:38:21,239 --> 00:38:23,799
Speaker 1: new guys hit free agency. Why because we have this

773
00:38:23,840 --> 00:38:28,040
Speaker 1: thing called the cap casualties. Well, if your team doesn't

774
00:38:28,040 --> 00:38:32,000
Speaker 1: have any cap room, you could make thirty million dollars

775
00:38:32,000 --> 00:38:34,680
Speaker 1: by cutting three players in the blink of an eye.

776
00:38:35,120 --> 00:38:38,160
Speaker 1: And Albert brier Is MMQB Today wrote about it. The

777
00:38:38,200 --> 00:38:41,560
Speaker 1: amount of name from Xavier Rhodes to Jimmy Graham, to

778
00:38:41,800 --> 00:38:46,279
Speaker 1: Cameron Brake to just guys all over Sammy Watkins that

779
00:38:46,440 --> 00:38:49,480
Speaker 1: if you want the Chiefs want to gain fifteen million

780
00:38:49,480 --> 00:38:52,839
Speaker 1: dollars in cap space, all they gotta do is say, Sammy,

781
00:38:53,160 --> 00:38:56,440
Speaker 1: see you, we don't really any more money. If the

782
00:38:56,480 --> 00:38:59,800
Speaker 1: Minnesota Vikings want to gain, but almost thirteen million dollars

783
00:38:59,800 --> 00:39:02,520
Speaker 1: in app space. All they say is Xavier Rhodes, who

784
00:39:02,600 --> 00:39:05,000
Speaker 1: wasn't good next year or last year, you probably will

785
00:39:05,040 --> 00:39:09,680
Speaker 1: be cut audios. That's the way it works, and honestly,

786
00:39:09,760 --> 00:39:12,520
Speaker 1: it's a big reason all those guys are gonna get jobs.

787
00:39:12,800 --> 00:39:15,719
Speaker 1: Like Xavier Rhodes won't make thirteen million dollars next year,

788
00:39:15,760 --> 00:39:18,440
Speaker 1: but he'll get a chance to resurrect his career. Cameron

789
00:39:18,480 --> 00:39:21,160
Speaker 1: brad who is a good player. You just can't pay

790
00:39:21,200 --> 00:39:23,760
Speaker 1: everybody you already. That's why you drafted O. J. Howards,

791
00:39:23,760 --> 00:39:25,520
Speaker 1: why you got Mike Evans, why you got Chris God

792
00:39:25,560 --> 00:39:27,279
Speaker 1: When you get might have to either pay James or

793
00:39:27,280 --> 00:39:31,160
Speaker 1: bringing Philip Rivers like you cut guys, and that constantly

794
00:39:31,200 --> 00:39:34,160
Speaker 1: creates space. I think that's a big reason for the

795
00:39:34,200 --> 00:39:38,400
Speaker 1: health of the NFL one. It siphons a lot of players,

796
00:39:38,440 --> 00:39:42,480
Speaker 1: like for example, uh, Sammy Watkins, if the Chiefs aren't

797
00:39:42,480 --> 00:39:45,440
Speaker 1: able to figure something out where I would imagine they

798
00:39:45,440 --> 00:39:47,040
Speaker 1: want to get his number closer to like five or

799
00:39:47,080 --> 00:39:50,120
Speaker 1: six million. But if you're Sammy Watkins, my advice and listen,

800
00:39:50,120 --> 00:39:53,200
Speaker 1: I'm pro Chiefs. I want Andy and Viach to keep them.

801
00:39:53,239 --> 00:39:55,520
Speaker 1: I like watching him with him. But the right business

802
00:39:55,520 --> 00:39:58,080
Speaker 1: move would be for Sammy either pay me all my

803
00:39:58,120 --> 00:40:00,600
Speaker 1: money or cutting me, because if I get there are

804
00:40:00,640 --> 00:40:03,760
Speaker 1: a ton of teams, the Eagles, the Colts, the Raiders

805
00:40:03,840 --> 00:40:07,319
Speaker 1: that need wide receiver help. And like Sammy, who got

806
00:40:07,360 --> 00:40:09,400
Speaker 1: overpaid the first time with Kansas City, he would get

807
00:40:09,480 --> 00:40:12,680
Speaker 1: overpaid again. So it's it behooves a lot of like

808
00:40:12,760 --> 00:40:15,880
Speaker 1: Xavier Rhodes, like, yeah, he's had a bad year. I

809
00:40:15,920 --> 00:40:17,919
Speaker 1: think there would be teams. A lot of teams run

810
00:40:17,960 --> 00:40:21,080
Speaker 1: that Seattle style defense. Maybe they take like an incentive

811
00:40:21,160 --> 00:40:22,759
Speaker 1: lace deal on a guy like that. He could have

812
00:40:22,800 --> 00:40:26,800
Speaker 1: a bounce back season. Jimmy Grahant is probably Olivier Vernon,

813
00:40:27,040 --> 00:40:29,520
Speaker 1: like he's gonna get cut and he's gonna get an

814
00:40:29,520 --> 00:40:31,759
Speaker 1: opportunity a lot of different places. Now he won't make

815
00:40:31,800 --> 00:40:33,960
Speaker 1: what he's been making, but he's gonna get a job immediately.

816
00:40:34,120 --> 00:40:36,479
Speaker 1: So you get all this turnover with players on top

817
00:40:36,520 --> 00:40:38,680
Speaker 1: of the Bradies and the Rivers and the guys that

818
00:40:38,760 --> 00:40:41,160
Speaker 1: actually hit free agency. We'll see if a Maori does

819
00:40:41,640 --> 00:40:44,680
Speaker 1: and the purge the cap cuts make the league like

820
00:40:44,719 --> 00:40:49,160
Speaker 1: this extra little group of players that in basketball and baseball,

821
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Speaker 1: you're either a free agent or or not. In baseball,

822
00:40:51,920 --> 00:40:54,080
Speaker 1: when they d f a a guy. The majority of

823
00:40:54,120 --> 00:40:56,680
Speaker 1: the time, unless you're a complete baseball nerd, you don't

824
00:40:56,680 --> 00:40:59,560
Speaker 1: know who the guys are because they're usually random players.

825
00:41:00,040 --> 00:41:03,920
Speaker 1: Elite players rarely get d fade and it's usually at

826
00:41:03,920 --> 00:41:06,479
Speaker 1: the end of their contract. Football, it happens all the time,

827
00:41:07,040 --> 00:41:09,200
Speaker 1: like when you sign a five or six year deal

828
00:41:09,200 --> 00:41:11,360
Speaker 1: when you finally hit free agency, so you're draft in

829
00:41:11,360 --> 00:41:13,759
Speaker 1: the second round, you play three really good years, your

830
00:41:13,800 --> 00:41:16,680
Speaker 1: team extends you so that fourth year, your fifth year,

831
00:41:17,080 --> 00:41:20,360
Speaker 1: by your six or seventh year, usually that guaranteed money

832
00:41:20,520 --> 00:41:22,680
Speaker 1: is gone. And if you're playing bad, or I gotta

833
00:41:22,719 --> 00:41:26,200
Speaker 1: pay other players, or just my situation changes, I can

834
00:41:26,239 --> 00:41:29,640
Speaker 1: just relieve you of your duties, cut you and open

835
00:41:29,719 --> 00:41:33,680
Speaker 1: up a lot of cap space. And it's just for

836
00:41:34,000 --> 00:41:36,600
Speaker 1: That's why the free agency lists we always look at

837
00:41:36,680 --> 00:41:39,439
Speaker 1: them getting into this year. You know, obviously Brady Mari

838
00:41:40,040 --> 00:41:43,600
Speaker 1: Jadeveon Clowney, Eric Armstead, as we know every year, like

839
00:41:43,680 --> 00:41:46,040
Speaker 1: a couple of those guys will be franchised, a couple

840
00:41:46,080 --> 00:41:49,560
Speaker 1: of them will resign. Usually the top free agents don't not.

841
00:41:49,719 --> 00:41:51,640
Speaker 1: Now this year kind of feels a little different, like

842
00:41:51,640 --> 00:41:53,640
Speaker 1: maybe Eric arms said they let him hit free agency.

843
00:41:53,640 --> 00:41:56,560
Speaker 1: Maybe Jadeveon Clowney Walks, I don't know. Maybe Tom Brady

844
00:41:56,600 --> 00:42:00,880
Speaker 1: doesn't leave, goes to the Cowboys or the Cowboys. But

845
00:42:01,360 --> 00:42:03,759
Speaker 1: usually some of the best free agents are guys and

846
00:42:03,840 --> 00:42:06,000
Speaker 1: like their late twenties that are cut. How did the

847
00:42:06,080 --> 00:42:08,840
Speaker 1: Niners get Richard Sherman. He was hurt, he got cut.

848
00:42:09,480 --> 00:42:12,120
Speaker 1: Think about that, like that's how they acquired him, right,

849
00:42:12,239 --> 00:42:15,040
Speaker 1: That's that's how the guy hit free agency. He was cut.

850
00:42:15,520 --> 00:42:18,080
Speaker 1: So you get a lot of guys Xavier Rose a

851
00:42:18,080 --> 00:42:19,279
Speaker 1: couple of years ago, it was like an all pro

852
00:42:19,440 --> 00:42:23,560
Speaker 1: level player. Sammy Watkins is unique because he's the guy

853
00:42:23,600 --> 00:42:26,960
Speaker 1: that keeps hitting free agency. He's not like a star player.

854
00:42:27,040 --> 00:42:29,680
Speaker 1: He's never gonna be your number one wide receiver, but

855
00:42:29,719 --> 00:42:31,560
Speaker 1: on a really good team, he could be your fringe

856
00:42:31,640 --> 00:42:33,680
Speaker 1: number two. If you've got a really good tight end,

857
00:42:33,719 --> 00:42:36,480
Speaker 1: your third option, you're in pretty good shape. Well, there's

858
00:42:36,520 --> 00:42:39,080
Speaker 1: so much free agency money, there aren't that many players

859
00:42:39,120 --> 00:42:41,239
Speaker 1: to sign, especially because all the top free agents go back.

860
00:42:41,560 --> 00:42:44,920
Speaker 1: Guys like Sammy Watkins and Cameron Bright. They get overpaid,

861
00:42:45,480 --> 00:42:47,360
Speaker 1: and maybe you could take a one year flyer on

862
00:42:47,400 --> 00:42:50,880
Speaker 1: Olivier Vernon. That's that's how those guys kind of get acquired.

863
00:42:50,920 --> 00:42:56,000
Speaker 1: So the cap casualties, we really start feeling it around February,

864
00:42:56,200 --> 00:42:59,200
Speaker 1: excuse me, around the combine, which is the end of February,

865
00:42:59,600 --> 00:43:03,480
Speaker 1: because teams they go to these players agents and they say, listen,

866
00:43:03,840 --> 00:43:09,000
Speaker 1: your cap hit right now is fifteen million. I'm just

867
00:43:09,000 --> 00:43:11,120
Speaker 1: gonna use it, even you know it's not it's an

868
00:43:11,160 --> 00:43:14,960
Speaker 1: odd number, but just a flat number million. We think

869
00:43:15,000 --> 00:43:18,399
Speaker 1: you're worth. Six will incentivize it. So if you play

870
00:43:18,440 --> 00:43:20,279
Speaker 1: at the level that we thought you were a couple

871
00:43:20,280 --> 00:43:22,200
Speaker 1: of years ago, you can get to eleven, but we

872
00:43:22,239 --> 00:43:25,080
Speaker 1: want the cap number to be six instead of fifteen. Now,

873
00:43:25,080 --> 00:43:26,880
Speaker 1: if the guy really likes it and he's comfortable and

874
00:43:26,920 --> 00:43:28,480
Speaker 1: he feels good, maybe it'll stay. But a lot of

875
00:43:28,480 --> 00:43:31,440
Speaker 1: guys they say no because they know if they hit

876
00:43:31,480 --> 00:43:33,520
Speaker 1: free agency, even if they are six or seven million

877
00:43:33,560 --> 00:43:36,520
Speaker 1: dollar player at that point. The great part about free

878
00:43:36,560 --> 00:43:38,799
Speaker 1: agencies are gonna be multiple teams coming after you because

879
00:43:38,800 --> 00:43:41,080
Speaker 1: every year, especially the last three or four years, with

880
00:43:41,080 --> 00:43:43,239
Speaker 1: the cap getting so high, so many teams have a

881
00:43:43,280 --> 00:43:45,480
Speaker 1: lot of cash and all it takes is two teams

882
00:43:45,480 --> 00:43:48,600
Speaker 1: we've been for your services. Think about Jerick McKinnon, a

883
00:43:48,640 --> 00:43:50,480
Speaker 1: couple of years ago, the Niners are gonna cut him,

884
00:43:50,480 --> 00:43:52,280
Speaker 1: and they're still gonna owe him some dead cap money,

885
00:43:52,680 --> 00:43:54,600
Speaker 1: like he's not going to be a zero on their cap,

886
00:43:54,640 --> 00:43:56,920
Speaker 1: even though he's never played a snap for him simply

887
00:43:56,960 --> 00:43:59,480
Speaker 1: because at the time when they signed him, the Jets

888
00:43:59,520 --> 00:44:02,680
Speaker 1: and Tampa really wanted him, and then and Kyle was

889
00:44:02,719 --> 00:44:04,600
Speaker 1: like mandatory, they had to have him, and then he

890
00:44:04,640 --> 00:44:06,640
Speaker 1: got unlucky towards a c L and he's never played

891
00:44:06,640 --> 00:44:09,279
Speaker 1: a snap. So you want to hit. If I'm any

892
00:44:09,320 --> 00:44:11,960
Speaker 1: of these guys they ask you take pay cuts and

893
00:44:12,000 --> 00:44:15,560
Speaker 1: you have a decent film out there, say no, Surrey,

894
00:44:15,640 --> 00:44:18,680
Speaker 1: let me hit free agency, get that get that uh,

895
00:44:19,000 --> 00:44:22,520
Speaker 1: get that market and the supply and demand, and let

896
00:44:22,520 --> 00:44:26,120
Speaker 1: the demand rise because teams are gonna come after you. Okay,

897
00:44:26,200 --> 00:44:28,400
Speaker 1: let's bang out a couple of middlecof mail bag questions

898
00:44:29,080 --> 00:44:32,279
Speaker 1: and get you on your guys. Mary Way, love your show,

899
00:44:32,320 --> 00:44:34,880
Speaker 1: my man, appreciate it. What is gonna happen with Jamis

900
00:44:34,880 --> 00:44:37,200
Speaker 1: Winston and what do you personally think of his future?

901
00:44:39,000 --> 00:44:41,360
Speaker 1: That's a hell of a question, it really is. It

902
00:44:41,400 --> 00:44:45,120
Speaker 1: honestly might be the toughest question, Like to me, Philip Rivers,

903
00:44:46,200 --> 00:44:48,600
Speaker 1: it's not that tough a question. It's worth the risk.

904
00:44:48,840 --> 00:44:53,479
Speaker 1: Jamis is just a great unknown. Thirty interceptions, I think

905
00:44:53,640 --> 00:44:57,759
Speaker 1: seven pick six is. I get he's explosive and he

906
00:44:57,840 --> 00:45:00,000
Speaker 1: hit some games where he threw four and five touchdown

907
00:45:00,200 --> 00:45:03,839
Speaker 1: but that is insanity like that. We're not talking either

908
00:45:03,920 --> 00:45:06,400
Speaker 1: about a rookie or second year player. That was his

909
00:45:06,520 --> 00:45:09,040
Speaker 1: fifth year in the NFL, and think of who he

910
00:45:09,080 --> 00:45:14,160
Speaker 1: was playing with, an elite offensive coach and elite playmakers outside.

911
00:45:14,160 --> 00:45:16,600
Speaker 1: I mean, if Chris Godwin is your number two wide receiver,

912
00:45:17,360 --> 00:45:20,280
Speaker 1: I didn't know that much about him coming into the season,

913
00:45:20,760 --> 00:45:23,680
Speaker 1: but just being a daily fantasy guy, you know fast

914
00:45:23,760 --> 00:45:28,480
Speaker 1: quick like jeez, you just go wow, these two guys,

915
00:45:28,760 --> 00:45:31,160
Speaker 1: the size and the speed that they have to go

916
00:45:31,239 --> 00:45:34,400
Speaker 1: along with their tight ends and just arians the mind.

917
00:45:36,080 --> 00:45:38,080
Speaker 1: I would lean to say James has kind of shown

918
00:45:38,120 --> 00:45:41,760
Speaker 1: you who he is. A terrible decision maker off the field.

919
00:45:43,160 --> 00:45:46,439
Speaker 1: I said over and over now I enjoyed watching him

920
00:45:46,480 --> 00:45:49,319
Speaker 1: just because it was such a roller coaster ride. But

921
00:45:49,400 --> 00:45:53,160
Speaker 1: to me, the moment the Uber incident happens, I I

922
00:45:53,239 --> 00:45:56,799
Speaker 1: can't take you. Seriously, you get into an incident with

923
00:45:56,840 --> 00:46:00,400
Speaker 1: an uber driver when you're a famous guy. How's that?

924
00:46:00,520 --> 00:46:03,480
Speaker 1: How does that happen, and then your decision making on

925
00:46:03,520 --> 00:46:08,560
Speaker 1: the field is just horrendoust picks thirty interceptions, the amount

926
00:46:08,600 --> 00:46:10,719
Speaker 1: of pick six is that he threw wasn't was just

927
00:46:11,560 --> 00:46:15,000
Speaker 1: I mean, it's unprecedented, So I would lean he's just

928
00:46:15,080 --> 00:46:17,600
Speaker 1: kind of is what he is. He's like a poor

929
00:46:17,640 --> 00:46:21,520
Speaker 1: man's version of Cutler. Now, if I'm doing a pie chart,

930
00:46:21,640 --> 00:46:24,640
Speaker 1: I would go sevent He's just gonna be a roller

931
00:46:24,680 --> 00:46:28,560
Speaker 1: coaster right to what he is. Maybe there's a twenty

932
00:46:28,600 --> 00:46:32,719
Speaker 1: percent chance he gets he gets a lot better, like

933
00:46:32,800 --> 00:46:36,640
Speaker 1: he cuts the turnovers out. Maybe something clicks, but what

934
00:46:36,800 --> 00:46:38,800
Speaker 1: clicked this year? I mean he was horrendous turning the

935
00:46:38,840 --> 00:46:40,560
Speaker 1: ball over, and then a ten percent chance he just

936
00:46:40,600 --> 00:46:44,640
Speaker 1: keeps getting worse, like he's just an all time interception thrower,

937
00:46:44,760 --> 00:46:48,960
Speaker 1: which honestly, if you if that was your stance, I

938
00:46:49,000 --> 00:46:52,080
Speaker 1: wouldn't argue against you. So I lean he just he

939
00:46:52,160 --> 00:46:56,040
Speaker 1: has what he is. This is maybe not thirty picks again,

940
00:46:56,080 --> 00:46:58,640
Speaker 1: but he's a huge turnover machine. He has been his

941
00:46:58,680 --> 00:47:01,760
Speaker 1: whole life. Remember he was like that in in uh

942
00:47:01,840 --> 00:47:04,160
Speaker 1: at Florida State, and we tried to make and I

943
00:47:04,239 --> 00:47:06,520
Speaker 1: made excuses for him. I liked him coming out. I

944
00:47:06,520 --> 00:47:09,160
Speaker 1: still think he's a really talented player. If he was

945
00:47:09,200 --> 00:47:11,200
Speaker 1: doing what he was doing with half the interceptions, i'd

946
00:47:11,200 --> 00:47:14,880
Speaker 1: like him. But you throw that many picks, I I

947
00:47:14,920 --> 00:47:17,720
Speaker 1: can't trust you. And in the margins in the NFL,

948
00:47:17,800 --> 00:47:20,719
Speaker 1: the difference between a seven win team and eleven win

949
00:47:20,800 --> 00:47:24,120
Speaker 1: team or like ten plays and if five of those

950
00:47:24,160 --> 00:47:27,320
Speaker 1: plays or interceptions, the number one thing that scrooge in

951
00:47:27,360 --> 00:47:30,959
Speaker 1: the NFL is turnovers and the turnover margin, Well, how

952
00:47:31,000 --> 00:47:36,040
Speaker 1: can you compete when your quarterbacks thrown that many picks? Yo? Yo, Yo,

953
00:47:36,360 --> 00:47:39,040
Speaker 1: Denver fan here, I'm not bummed out about the firing

954
00:47:39,040 --> 00:47:41,520
Speaker 1: of Scandlo. I don't know how to say that guy's name.

955
00:47:41,920 --> 00:47:46,480
Speaker 1: It's hard name to say scan Darrello. It's an Italian name.

956
00:47:46,560 --> 00:47:49,440
Speaker 1: But feel like the production of Pat Shermer as an

957
00:47:49,480 --> 00:47:51,799
Speaker 1: oc is kind of hard to gauge. It seems like

958
00:47:51,840 --> 00:47:54,480
Speaker 1: the only time he's ever called plays was with Minnesota

959
00:47:54,520 --> 00:47:57,239
Speaker 1: for one year. Thoughts. Yeah, if we're basing it on

960
00:47:57,320 --> 00:48:00,840
Speaker 1: his one year in Minnesota, it was unreach like the

961
00:48:00,920 --> 00:48:02,800
Speaker 1: year that they made at the NFC Championship game, and

962
00:48:02,840 --> 00:48:06,319
Speaker 1: he made case Keenum look like Montana Light. So if

963
00:48:06,320 --> 00:48:08,000
Speaker 1: you get that Pat Shermer, you're in good shape. That

964
00:48:08,040 --> 00:48:09,920
Speaker 1: the Pat Shermer I saw the last couple of years

965
00:48:10,000 --> 00:48:11,960
Speaker 1: was a laughing stock, was a joke. Was a guy

966
00:48:12,000 --> 00:48:14,440
Speaker 1: completely over his head. Now, some guys are meant to

967
00:48:14,440 --> 00:48:17,439
Speaker 1: be ocs Now, I don't think you're getting like Kyle

968
00:48:17,480 --> 00:48:22,080
Speaker 1: Shanahan or you know, I'm trying to think of some

969
00:48:22,120 --> 00:48:25,799
Speaker 1: other dynamic offensive coordinator that's not a head coach. I mean,

970
00:48:25,880 --> 00:48:28,160
Speaker 1: Kyle is a head coach. But before that, like Hoyle

971
00:48:28,239 --> 00:48:31,720
Speaker 1: was a really good offensive coordinator. Uh you know, Greg

972
00:48:31,840 --> 00:48:35,440
Speaker 1: Roman is pretty dynamic. Right arians and left which know

973
00:48:35,520 --> 00:48:37,160
Speaker 1: what they're doing. I know Aria's head coach. I just

974
00:48:37,200 --> 00:48:41,239
Speaker 1: broke my own rule. But I I just I don't know.

975
00:48:41,760 --> 00:48:43,680
Speaker 1: I'm not a Pat Shermer guy. I've met him a

976
00:48:43,680 --> 00:48:45,759
Speaker 1: couple of times. He's a nice guy. People that I

977
00:48:45,800 --> 00:48:48,120
Speaker 1: know that know him, I know he's a coach read guy.

978
00:48:48,160 --> 00:48:50,640
Speaker 1: They really like him. I just don't know if he's

979
00:48:50,680 --> 00:48:54,560
Speaker 1: quite dynamic enough for me. Uh Now, Vic Fangio I

980
00:48:54,600 --> 00:48:57,760
Speaker 1: was reading. The reason he fired that guy was Fangio

981
00:48:57,840 --> 00:49:00,640
Speaker 1: went through him throughout the season and kept telling him

982
00:49:00,680 --> 00:49:04,120
Speaker 1: to take deep shots. Most offensive coordinators, I know, if

983
00:49:04,160 --> 00:49:06,640
Speaker 1: the head coach is telling them take deep shots, why

984
00:49:06,680 --> 00:49:09,160
Speaker 1: wouldn't you just take deep shots? And then what I

985
00:49:09,200 --> 00:49:11,160
Speaker 1: was reading is he didn't want to get Drew Lock killed.

986
00:49:11,239 --> 00:49:13,520
Speaker 1: I didn't do Lock only started like the last five games.

987
00:49:13,560 --> 00:49:17,200
Speaker 1: I don't quite understand it. So maybe it's it can't be.

988
00:49:17,440 --> 00:49:21,479
Speaker 1: It can't be a downgrade. There's gonna be some pressure though,

989
00:49:21,520 --> 00:49:26,520
Speaker 1: because the hype right on Drew Lock coming out of

990
00:49:26,560 --> 00:49:28,839
Speaker 1: those last month of the season are pretty high. I'm

991
00:49:28,880 --> 00:49:31,479
Speaker 1: high on the guy. He looked good. Now it's gonna

992
00:49:31,480 --> 00:49:34,840
Speaker 1: be the defense should get better under Fangio, that their standing.

993
00:49:34,840 --> 00:49:36,920
Speaker 1: They haven't made the playoffs now in three straight years.

994
00:49:37,239 --> 00:49:39,239
Speaker 1: We're not talking about the Jacksonville Jaguars and we're talking

995
00:49:39,280 --> 00:49:41,120
Speaker 1: about the Denver Broncos. They're used to going to the

996
00:49:41,120 --> 00:49:44,319
Speaker 1: playoffs a lot, So it's gonna be. It's gonna have

997
00:49:44,360 --> 00:49:48,160
Speaker 1: a playoff or bust type feel. Clearly Fangio and Elway

998
00:49:48,239 --> 00:49:50,840
Speaker 1: like it, and Drew Lock if you can keep improving,

999
00:49:50,880 --> 00:49:56,760
Speaker 1: maybe it is an upgrade. Three. Now talk XFL outlook, sustainability, growth,

1000
00:49:56,800 --> 00:49:59,840
Speaker 1: expansion compared to the NFL as an entertainment product. Personal

1001
00:50:00,000 --> 00:50:04,080
Speaker 1: initial thoughts, solid crowds, inclusion of Vegas game lines and

1002
00:50:04,120 --> 00:50:06,879
Speaker 1: totals see my my knock on, that is what does

1003
00:50:06,880 --> 00:50:09,200
Speaker 1: that even mean? Like I don't know who I'm watching,

1004
00:50:09,600 --> 00:50:11,600
Speaker 1: so you can give me the lines like in theory,

1005
00:50:11,640 --> 00:50:15,080
Speaker 1: that's cool. Like when I say, hey, Michigan's playing Alabama,

1006
00:50:15,440 --> 00:50:18,120
Speaker 1: it's a ten point line, Like we can gauge that, Hey,

1007
00:50:18,400 --> 00:50:21,640
Speaker 1: the Jaguars are playing the Colts, it's a four point line.

1008
00:50:21,680 --> 00:50:25,640
Speaker 1: We understand that the Vipers are playing the the bruce Kies.

1009
00:50:26,560 --> 00:50:30,080
Speaker 1: What does that mean? Talent? Man? I agree, I'm a

1010
00:50:30,120 --> 00:50:33,560
Speaker 1: talent whorer. So that's that's what kind of bothered me.

1011
00:50:33,640 --> 00:50:36,920
Speaker 1: It's just not enough talent. Like I like watching Mookie Bets,

1012
00:50:37,000 --> 00:50:39,600
Speaker 1: I like watching Tiger Woods, I like watching Lebron James,

1013
00:50:39,600 --> 00:50:42,960
Speaker 1: I like watching pro sports, and I like watching college too.

1014
00:50:42,960 --> 00:50:47,440
Speaker 1: But I'm watching Duke, I'm watching I'm watching Zion, I'm

1015
00:50:47,480 --> 00:50:52,000
Speaker 1: watching Trevor Lawrence, Joe Burrow. I'm not watching you know,

1016
00:50:52,120 --> 00:50:54,600
Speaker 1: Boise State if they don't have some star NFL player,

1017
00:50:54,640 --> 00:50:57,320
Speaker 1: And I'm just not And I know I see the ratings.

1018
00:50:57,320 --> 00:51:00,399
Speaker 1: Neither of you now this rated because we do love

1019
00:51:00,440 --> 00:51:02,800
Speaker 1: football and there's there's nothing else for us to watch

1020
00:51:02,880 --> 00:51:06,680
Speaker 1: right now. You know, we don't want we don't consume basketball. Uh,

1021
00:51:06,719 --> 00:51:10,920
Speaker 1: there's no baseball, yet there's just nothing to watch. The

1022
00:51:11,000 --> 00:51:13,719
Speaker 1: listen live booth reviews. Audio discussion between the booth and

1023
00:51:13,760 --> 00:51:16,120
Speaker 1: the referee in the field was cool. I would agree

1024
00:51:16,120 --> 00:51:19,040
Speaker 1: the Xbox controller was sweet. I agree with most of

1025
00:51:19,040 --> 00:51:21,520
Speaker 1: what you said. I hit on it earlier that the

1026
00:51:21,600 --> 00:51:24,080
Speaker 1: talent man is gonna be I think you need to

1027
00:51:24,080 --> 00:51:28,560
Speaker 1: get a couple like renegade players. You know, you need

1028
00:51:28,600 --> 00:51:30,839
Speaker 1: to find a way to get Dez or Antonio or

1029
00:51:30,880 --> 00:51:34,120
Speaker 1: just something like that. Alden Smith, you say Alden Smith

1030
00:51:34,680 --> 00:51:37,480
Speaker 1: starting for the UH. I think St. Louis should have

1031
00:51:37,520 --> 00:51:39,120
Speaker 1: named their team the Bruskies. I don't even know what

1032
00:51:39,160 --> 00:51:42,759
Speaker 1: their team is because it listen. I'm not crushing any

1033
00:51:42,800 --> 00:51:45,520
Speaker 1: of the team names. It's very, very difficult to find

1034
00:51:45,520 --> 00:51:49,360
Speaker 1: a team name, right. It's hard to find a sweet

1035
00:51:49,440 --> 00:51:52,560
Speaker 1: branding name. There's a huge amount of luck into it.

1036
00:51:53,360 --> 00:51:57,200
Speaker 1: But the St. Louis Bruskies would have been a sweet name.

1037
00:51:58,000 --> 00:52:00,680
Speaker 1: So yeah, those are my kind of initial there. You

1038
00:52:00,719 --> 00:52:04,400
Speaker 1: can't dispute the amount of the funding and the broadcast partners,

1039
00:52:04,480 --> 00:52:08,120
Speaker 1: like I said, or are high level enjoy listen. Do

1040
00:52:08,160 --> 00:52:11,839
Speaker 1: you think Patrick Willis will make the NFL Hall of Fame? Yeah?

1041
00:52:11,920 --> 00:52:14,040
Speaker 1: I mean once Bill Cowers are getting in and some

1042
00:52:14,120 --> 00:52:15,880
Speaker 1: of the guys that are letting in. I think Patrick

1043
00:52:15,920 --> 00:52:18,960
Speaker 1: Willis was a Hall of Fame caliber player. I think

1044
00:52:18,960 --> 00:52:20,919
Speaker 1: he's a five time All Pro and a seven time

1045
00:52:20,920 --> 00:52:24,200
Speaker 1: Pro Bowler. Maybe it's five and six, but you're five

1046
00:52:24,239 --> 00:52:26,040
Speaker 1: time first team All Pro. You're the best linebacker in

1047
00:52:26,080 --> 00:52:29,360
Speaker 1: the league. Basically from the moment he stepped on the

1048
00:52:29,400 --> 00:52:31,880
Speaker 1: football field in two seven, when I think it was

1049
00:52:31,880 --> 00:52:34,759
Speaker 1: an All pros rookie. For the next five or six years,

1050
00:52:34,760 --> 00:52:36,480
Speaker 1: he was the best middle linebacker in the league. Ray

1051
00:52:36,560 --> 00:52:40,080
Speaker 1: Lewis was older, her Locker was right there, but I

1052
00:52:40,080 --> 00:52:42,080
Speaker 1: mean I would take Peak Willis over Peak or Locker

1053
00:52:42,080 --> 00:52:43,880
Speaker 1: and her Lockers in the NFL Hall of Fame. Now

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Speaker 1: or Locker played longer at a higher level. Or Willis's

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Speaker 1: career just ended fast. Now he didn't just randomly quit

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Speaker 1: like his foot was messed up. He couldn't really walk,

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Speaker 1: and people forget I watched it. His last year for

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Speaker 1: San Francisco wasn't great. He couldn't move very well. And

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Speaker 1: that's the one thing that too cool. It's just to

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Speaker 1: hang his hat on. He could move, he could really

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Speaker 1: play in space. He was like a modern day linebacker.

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Speaker 1: But he was too fifty and he was tall. I mean,

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Speaker 1: he was a freak. I'm telling you as just a

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Speaker 1: as a sucker for sweet players going out to Hardball's practice.

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Speaker 1: Like the year I got fired and went into the media,

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Speaker 1: Hardball had like an NFC championship team, and I remember

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Speaker 1: going from the Eagles to walking out to the Niners

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Speaker 1: practice and their defense obviously their front with Willis or

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Speaker 1: excuse me, Justin Smith, all Din Ray McDonald, bad guys,

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Speaker 1: sweet player, uh and and ah Mod Brooks. But then

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Speaker 1: when you watched fifty two and what numbersoft three, those

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Speaker 1: two those two guys walked out, they look like I

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Speaker 1: don't know, seal team six of the NFL. Those two

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Speaker 1: guys were killers. They were my favorite NFL linebacking tandem

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Speaker 1: of all time. Bowman's career peak was a lot shorter.

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Speaker 1: Both those two guys in their peak are as good

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Speaker 1: of middle linebackers that have ever played. Just in there,

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Speaker 1: even though the peak was short. At their peak, they

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Speaker 1: were elite, and Willis was probably a little more than

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Speaker 1: elite than Bowman, though Bowman's like two thousand and twelve

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Speaker 1: and two thousand third team dominant dominant player. So yeah,

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Speaker 1: I hope he makes it. Love those two guys. Appreciate

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Speaker 1: everyone listening. I feel like my voice is kind of

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Speaker 1: going here. At the end of I've given you all,

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Speaker 1: I got, left it all, I'm like Rivers, I left

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Speaker 1: it all into the mic into uh, into the program.

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Speaker 1: So you guys can press play. Thanks for listening, enjoy

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Speaker 1: the week, and uh you know this is the February

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Speaker 1: is a cool time for football, just because we're getting

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Speaker 1: a lot of guys cut. We're gonna have a lot

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Speaker 1: of free agent buzz, a lot of a lot of rumors.

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Speaker 1: I love a good rumor. Uh So get ready and

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Speaker 1: I'll keep talking to a mic with my opinions. So

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Speaker 1: tell your friends to listen to the podcast the same

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