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Speaker 1: What's going on? Everybody? John Middlecoff Three and Out podcast

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Speaker 1: Back at it again. We mixed it up a little

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Speaker 1: off Odell Beckham and the train wreck that is the

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Speaker 1: Eagles killed him. But the story of the game is

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Speaker 1: is really Odell Beckham. But I also want to talk

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Speaker 1: about Pat Shermer. But let's start with Odell Beckham. I

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Speaker 1: tweeted this out and and of course I love my millennials,

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Speaker 1: but you know, the responses were pretty typical what I

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Speaker 1: kind of expected in my mentions that when I was

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Speaker 1: in Philadelphia, coach Reads suspended to Sean Jackson for a game.

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Speaker 1: Last year, Andy also suspended Marcus Peters. Now, the NFL

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Speaker 1: is a you know, a big business, and they are

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Speaker 1: not in the business of suspending their own players. It's

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Speaker 1: been proven, especially over the last six, seven, eight years,

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Speaker 1: they want no part of that. Ray Rice hit his wife.

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Speaker 1: The Ravens didn't care. We We've seen Jerry Sign you know,

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Speaker 1: Greg hardy Off beating his girlfriend. We've seen all kinds

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Speaker 1: of crazy stuff you can do. You can just endless

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Speaker 1: amount of stupid criminal activity and the team will not

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Speaker 1: suspend you. Andy Reid has proven like he sent Tarrell

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Speaker 1: suspended Marcus Peters on his own. Now, again, those guys

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Speaker 1: didn't commit criminal activities. But he has no problem taking

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Speaker 1: discipline into his own hands. And I would call Andy

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Speaker 1: And I'm watching Odell Beckham Jr. Tonight thinking now, listen,

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Speaker 1: is he the problem they're winning or losing. No, is

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Speaker 1: pain in the ass. I really don't know if there's

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Speaker 1: of reminds me of Terrell Owens without all the production

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Speaker 1: tonight when he freaks out and he leaves before halftime.

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Speaker 1: And I know Pat Shermer claimed that he needed an ivy.

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Speaker 1: I don't really believe him. Uh, and then he freaks

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Speaker 1: out after Sae Kwon Barkley gets the touchdown. Listen, Eli

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Speaker 1: Manning is their main problem. They're not winning or losing

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Speaker 1: necessarily because of Odell Beckham Jr. But big picture, now

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Speaker 1: that you've paid Odell Beckham Jr. Here's one rule of life,

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Speaker 1: and I think we can all relate to this. Whether

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Speaker 1: whether you make a hundred million dollars, O'Dell got ninety

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Speaker 1: don't change with more money. If anything, it just really

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Speaker 1: same with money. If you're a crazy person without money,

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Speaker 1: But again I have he is town anton enough that

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Speaker 1: You need to get attempt to get some what a

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Speaker 1: hold of this. And again, it was probably a bad

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Speaker 1: I tweeted this tonight just Pat Shermer. One does he

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Speaker 1: be suspended for a week just for the big picture

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Speaker 1: health of the franchise. You have to attempt to help

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Speaker 1: him change. Now it's probably too late because the moment

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Speaker 1: this team is going nowhere fast and I'm not even

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Speaker 1: saying he is the reason they're losing, but he's sure

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Speaker 1: as hell is not helping. He created a major ship

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Speaker 1: I would also say this, The one thing I see

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Speaker 1: He's the last guy you want on the Titanic with

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Speaker 1: first to toss you off. And right now you're seeing that.

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Speaker 1: Say what you want about Eli, and again he is

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Speaker 1: a braine wreck of a player. It's over and I

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Speaker 1: have said forever it was a disgraceful pick to pass

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Speaker 1: god awful pick, but there is like this is professional football,

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Speaker 1: Like again, I can we all act like idiots sometime,

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Speaker 1: but O'Dell like, get ahold of yourself, bro, Like what

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Speaker 1: You acting like an idiot? Like, come on, man, And

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Speaker 1: if I'm the Giants, if I'm listen to Pat Shermer.

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Speaker 1: Nice guy, met him a couple of times, work with

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Speaker 1: him for a really short period of time in Philly. Uh,

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Speaker 1: really nice guy. You will not meet anyone that has

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Speaker 1: a bad thing to say about him. He's not a

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Speaker 1: watching a night and again, I mean, he's one of

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Speaker 1: Mike Zimmer a Bruce Arians. Do you think they'd stand

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Speaker 1: for this stuff? Now again, you can't cut Elie. I mean,

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Speaker 1: It doesn't matter. But the point is you can't allow

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Speaker 1: have just you signed up for this. You gotta deal

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Speaker 1: with it. But I think bad to Pat Shermer. And

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Speaker 1: I was told by a couple of people this offseason

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Speaker 1: Here's a couple of problems with the Giants. Their owners

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Speaker 1: are sneaky, as active as any owners in the NFL.

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Speaker 1: What Chris Mara runs a part of the personnel department.

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Speaker 1: He is John Mara's brother. You think you want to

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Speaker 1: I mean, I think John, I think the Vikings upgraded.

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Speaker 1: And it's just he has no business being the head

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Speaker 1: this is nothing personal. And is he an upgrade over McAdoo. Sure,

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Speaker 1: I mean McAdoo was a clown and Schumer is not

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Speaker 1: I don't think Patricia is great. Uh. The Wilkes guy

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Speaker 1: you were taking a swing on a guy. A lot

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Speaker 1: of people are interested. We've seen the Pat Schremer, We've

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Speaker 1: like one thing the Giants need right now. They are

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Speaker 1: clearly the ownership didn't really want it one. Clearly Pat

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Speaker 1: Shermer is not that guy like the Giants as being

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Speaker 1: someone I have another podcast. I talked a lot about

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Speaker 1: the forty nine Ers, the Raiders. I do periscope shows

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Speaker 1: on Twitter, I talk a lot. I live in the

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Speaker 1: Bay Area. Those are two one in four teams. Soon

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Speaker 1: both could be one in five after this weekend. The

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Speaker 1: Giants are now one in five. I will say this,

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Speaker 1: conditions apply. Just an excellent weekend this weekend on Saturday Sunday,

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Speaker 1: the NFL games will We'll hit on a couple after this,

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Speaker 1: but Saturday is awesome. You got George l. S U.

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Speaker 1: You got Michigan, Wisconsin. I guess it's Wisconsin at L

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Speaker 1: Justin Herbert, you know, the the best, the best quarterback,

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Speaker 1: and you'd surely be a top if not the number

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Speaker 1: one overall pick, top two pick, playing Washington one of

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Speaker 1: the best defenses in the country. But you know, college football,

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Speaker 1: like most things, you don't want to peak too early.

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Speaker 1: The key in the sport of college football is you

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Speaker 1: can lose a game, but lose it in the first month,

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Speaker 1: and more than likely, if you want to have a

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Speaker 1: chance to make a late run, lose the first overall game.

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Speaker 1: Like everyone I thought overreacted, I had a front row

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Speaker 1: seat and Jim harball with the Samusco forty Niners. I

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Speaker 1: grew up in northern California, so I know how terrible

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Speaker 1: historically the Stanford football program is. They've actually produced pros

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Speaker 1: over the history of the program. They just haven't been

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Speaker 1: very good. And what he did to get that program

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Speaker 1: going is still historic. Bruce Feldman told me once he

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Speaker 1: thought it was the best turnaround job in the history

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Speaker 1: of college football. Everyone wrote off Jim Harbaugh after he

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Speaker 1: got his ass kicked by Notre Dame, and my takeaway

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Speaker 1: was that game one was I thought Jay Patterson was

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Speaker 1: a tad bit overrated. He's got it together. He's actually

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Speaker 1: looks to get more comfortable by the week. Do I

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Speaker 1: think he's a great like some pro prospect. No, but

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Speaker 1: he's a really good college quarterback in a massive upgrade

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Speaker 1: for them. Here's the other thing. Jim Harbaugh consistently has

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Speaker 1: good defenses. And you could be like, well, he's not

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Speaker 1: would say that's true if it had only happened at

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Speaker 1: one of his stops, But at Stanford, with the Fort

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Speaker 1: and now Michigan, his defense is kick ass and one

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Speaker 1: thing he brings to the table. And I think this

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Speaker 1: all those big twelve spread offenses that there's a soft

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Speaker 1: culture to them. In life, you are like you become

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Speaker 1: what your habits are, and in football you are how

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Speaker 1: you practice. Well, if you practice against the spread every day,

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Speaker 1: you're just gonna be a little softer as a defense. Well,

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Speaker 1: if you practice, you know, against the offense that runs

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Speaker 1: you do run drills, you're just gonna be tougher. So

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Speaker 1: there's a big reason why Alabama is consistently tough. Why

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Speaker 1: you know, the hardbo is consistently tough. They run a

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Speaker 1: tough minded program six days a week. So when they

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Speaker 1: play on the seventh, which he's done it on Sundays

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Speaker 1: and he's done it on Saturdays, they're They're tough and

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Speaker 1: defense travels. It's why even this year when their offense

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Speaker 1: in games. Now, once their offense came together, they've kicked

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Speaker 1: the crap out of a couple of people. And in

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Speaker 1: they found a way to win. Well. Now they play

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Speaker 1: Wisconsin and they're a pretty big favorite, and I think

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Speaker 1: they're gonna win. I actually think they're gonna kill him.

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Speaker 1: I like Michigan big in this game. Then they have

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Speaker 1: the opportunity to get right back into the playoff mix.

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Speaker 1: They play at Michigan State, which is not an easy game,

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Speaker 1: but Michigan State tad been overrated. I think they win.

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Speaker 1: They get Penn State at home. It turns out Penn

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Speaker 1: State solid even without ste Kwon Barkley. They can win

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Speaker 1: that game. If somehow they can win these next three.

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Speaker 1: So obviously Wisconsin at Michigan State and Penn State, Hardball

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Speaker 1: is in a great position to go to that Ohio

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Speaker 1: State game with the chance to beat Ohio State and

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Speaker 1: get right back in the mix for the playoffs. Now,

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Speaker 1: I don't think they're as good as Ohio State, but

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Speaker 1: just the law of averages, Jim Harbaugh has won enough

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Speaker 1: big games. He's bound to win an another big game.

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Speaker 1: He just he's bound to win that game, just the

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Speaker 1: law of averages. If he's gonna play it four times,

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Speaker 1: more than likely, he's gonna win one of them, you know.

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Speaker 1: And it's gonna eventually happen. And is it gonna happen

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Speaker 1: this year? I'm not sure, But all I know is

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Speaker 1: that it's becoming a lot more interesting. And when Hardball

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Speaker 1: wins the next four games, I guess five you include

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Speaker 1: this Saturday night, keep an eye on that Ohio State

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Speaker 1: game because that game could basically be for the playoffs.

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Speaker 1: He could knock Ohio State out of the playoffs, and

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Speaker 1: then he'd be heading into the Big Ten Big Ten

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Speaker 1: Championship with an opportunity to control his own destiny. And

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Speaker 1: don't get me wrong. I'm a little bias on this one.

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Speaker 1: The National Championship games that Levi Stadium. I would love

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Speaker 1: for somehow Jim Harbaugh to make it there. And I

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Speaker 1: think we do this often in college football. When a

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Speaker 1: team loses Week one and they are really good, or

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Speaker 1: maybe they played a really good team, we just discount

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Speaker 1: them forever. And I think we underestimated how good Notre

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Speaker 1: Dame was. Notre Dame is excellent. They have a legitimate

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Speaker 1: playoff team, They have pros all over the place. Now,

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Speaker 1: saying this forever. When I was at Fresno State, we

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Speaker 1: left that year four Notre Dame. But I think people

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Speaker 1: just because he's kind of a nut and had some

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Speaker 1: up and down years Notre he's a really good coach

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Speaker 1: and he recruits well. Now he's a little dependent on

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Speaker 1: his defensive coordinator and he's gone through a couple since

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Speaker 1: he's been at Notre Dame. But when he gets the

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Speaker 1: right one, they are held to deal with and that

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Speaker 1: loss does not look bad, And unlike the Alabamas of

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Speaker 1: the world. Hardbough plays does home and homes. You know,

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Speaker 1: he didn't do a neutral site, and I give urban

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Speaker 1: Meyer credit to he did this. He does the same thing.

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Speaker 1: He did it last year with Oklahoma home at home.

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Speaker 1: And when you do home and homes like I respect

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Speaker 1: it because you don't have to do that when you're

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Speaker 1: in Michigan, when you're Ohio State out. Nick Saban never

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Speaker 1: would ever. Now his conference is harder, and you know,

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Speaker 1: I get it, but he just doesn't do it ever.

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Speaker 1: I mean, he refuses to do it. So hat tip

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Speaker 1: to both Penn State or I mean, excuse me, Ohio

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Speaker 1: State and Michigan. But I'm telling you, I think everyone

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Speaker 1: wrote off Jim Harbaugh, that they took a massive just

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Speaker 1: dump on his career, thinking he was overrated. I never

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Speaker 1: once crossed my mind. I never discount Jim Harbaugh. I've

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Speaker 1: watched him first hand kick ass even in down years,

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Speaker 1: like his teams are held to deal with because his

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Speaker 1: defense always gonna be good. They can run the ball

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Speaker 1: to Higden, the running backs really good. And if his

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Speaker 1: quarterback play is just solid, We've seen what happens when

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Speaker 1: his quarterback play is dynamic, like Kaepernick, or like Luck,

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Speaker 1: just solid, like Alex Smith, or like that first year

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Speaker 1: with well now Jake Rudolph Ran, Yeah, Rudolph, I think

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Speaker 1: they won a lot of games. Like that's what they're

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Speaker 1: getting out of shape, Patterson. They have an opportunity to

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Speaker 1: go eleven and one and just throwing massive curveball into

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Speaker 1: this entire playoff race. Okay, let's go around the NFL.

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Speaker 1: I'm just it's kind of a week week. But there

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Speaker 1: are a couple of games that really intrigued me. The

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Speaker 1: ten am slate, we Gotta, we Gotta London games, Seahawks

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Speaker 1: First Raiders that that's not one of them, The Colts Jets.

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Speaker 1: I like watching Luck and Donald, but I could do

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Speaker 1: more of a highlight package. Vikings Cardinals. I think the

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Speaker 1: Vikings they're now to to and one to get back

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Speaker 1: roll and kill them Bucks Falcons. That game is terrible.

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Speaker 1: But the one game to me, the most intriguing game

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Speaker 1: of the morning is Steelers Bengals. Obviously, Levian Bell still

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Speaker 1: nowhere in sight. The Bengals' gott to be, you know,

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Speaker 1: the the shocking team of the league. At four and one.

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Speaker 1: They win this game, they're sure as hell looked like

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Speaker 1: they're headed to win that division. The Steelers, who look

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Speaker 1: like a train wreck early in the season, now kind

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Speaker 1: of got it together. Their offense gets humming. You go

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Speaker 1: to Cincinnati and win, and you're three two in one,

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Speaker 1: and then the Bengals would be you know, four and too.

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Speaker 1: You'd be in pretty good position and think, well, we

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Speaker 1: still we already beat the Ravens. Actually, the Ravens beat

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Speaker 1: the Steelers, so we just gotta split with the Ravens.

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Speaker 1: We we can sweep the Bengals, and we tied the Browns,

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Speaker 1: but we can beat them the second time around. So

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Speaker 1: this is a huge game for that division and for

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Speaker 1: the a f C playoffs. If the Bengals win this game,

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Speaker 1: they're playing the Chiefs next week in Kansas City. I mean,

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Speaker 1: all of a sudden, the Bangals could be the one seed.

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Speaker 1: If the Steelers win, it feels like they've thrown their

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Speaker 1: hat back in the ring, like we discounted them too soon.

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Speaker 1: The other game that I can't wait to watch, I

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Speaker 1: think he's actually been a sleeper m VP candidate, and

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Speaker 1: that's Philip Rivers. I think the charges are pretty good.

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Speaker 1: I know they played a couple of weird games early.

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Speaker 1: Their two losses are to the Rams and to the Chiefs.

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Speaker 1: I mean those are two of the top, arguably the

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Speaker 1: top two teams in the league. Again, Rivers, Melvin Gordon,

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Speaker 1: Keenan Allen, even Antonio Gates, the Tyrelle Williams, guy can fly.

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Speaker 1: They got a couple of little running backs. You don't

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Speaker 1: even know who they are behind Melvin Goren, the just

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Speaker 1: Phillip throw sweet screen passes to him. Melvin Ingram's a

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Speaker 1: dominant force. Joey Bosa is I mean, I hope he

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Speaker 1: comes back because if he comes back, Charge or a

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Speaker 1: playoff team, Charges are a ten win team. I think

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Speaker 1: they go into Cleveland and they kill the Browns. I

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Speaker 1: don't trust Hugh Jackson. He's just his team's not buttoned

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Speaker 1: up enough. And again just back, you know, I think

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Speaker 1: we've been saying this for a while. I do feel confident.

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Speaker 1: I just think the Chargers are good. In my last

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Speaker 1: really intriguing game of Sunday, Andy Reid dominates coming off

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Speaker 1: of bye. Matt Naggy is at a front row seat

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Speaker 1: for the last nine years of watching as a quality

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Speaker 1: control guy. As a quarterback coach and then as an

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Speaker 1: offensive coordinator of seeing what Andy Reid does over that

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Speaker 1: period of time. Now, do I expect Matt to do

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Speaker 1: that on his first coaching job in terms of his

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Speaker 1: first year coaching, No, But I do think he understands

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Speaker 1: what it takes to prepare the off week and they're

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Speaker 1: playing the Dolphins, who it looked like at one point

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Speaker 1: in time, damn or the Dolphins a playoff team. Now

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Speaker 1: it just turns out the Dolphins suck. The Patriots stole

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Speaker 1: their soul last week. They were cruising to a win,

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Speaker 1: and then the Bengals stole their soul again. Now, I

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Speaker 1: think Khalil Mack, the Bears defense, and maybe Travisky has

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Speaker 1: got a little MOJOI through six touchdowns the last time

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Speaker 1: he played. Again, they're coming off of buy fresh legs.

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Speaker 1: Playing at Miami is not a very difficult place to play.

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Speaker 1: I know the Bears like a three point favorite. I

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Speaker 1: think the Bears absolutely kill him. And I think this

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Speaker 1: is the last time the uh the Dolphins see a

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Speaker 1: record above five hundred and then I you know, I

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Speaker 1: talked about the Sunday night game earlier. Ravens Titans actually

642
00:34:38,400 --> 00:34:42,120
Speaker 1: is a pretty sneaky good defensive battle. I know Flacco

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Speaker 1: played well earlier in the season, was not good last week.

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Speaker 1: The Titans, whose offense is very hit or miss, their

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Speaker 1: defense statistically top three scoring defense. They just got dudes everywhere,

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Speaker 1: um a big Mike Varabel guy. If Mariotta just plays well,

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Speaker 1: they're good. But they also can just have games where

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Speaker 1: you watching them, you're like, God, this is a four

649
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Speaker 1: win team and you now, actually they were a playoff

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Speaker 1: team and they got a ton of good players. Uh,

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Speaker 1: this is a huge This game has playoff implications to me.

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Speaker 1: The Ravens, Titans, Steelers, Bengals are just huge for the

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Speaker 1: a f C playoff picture. I'm excited for those Jaguars Cowboys.

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Speaker 1: I can't even pretend to care about the Cowboys. Okay,

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Speaker 1: let's get to the Middlecoff mail bag. You can always

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00:35:23,680 --> 00:35:27,120
Speaker 1: find me Middlecoff mail Bag. Go to Instagram, slide up

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Speaker 1: in my d m s at John Middlecoff and I

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Speaker 1: will get to him. I'm I'm a little behind, like

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Speaker 1: a week behind this one. Uh, it's a long once.

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Speaker 1: I'll get to it. This is a pretty good one though,

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Speaker 1: in your opinion, what is the best balance of an

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Speaker 1: offense and defense in the NFL, not necessarily any team

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Speaker 1: this year, but it seems like the more prolific an

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Speaker 1: offense is the worst the defense gets. I understand the

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Speaker 1: league is changing and the importance of having good or

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Speaker 1: great defenses seem to be non existent. Jacksonville made the

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Speaker 1: a f C Championship last year with a great defense

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Speaker 1: and an offense that ran the ball and control of

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Speaker 1: the clock. They have a good defensive roster. Blah blah blah.

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Speaker 1: Can the Rams Chiefs, who have prolific offenses expect to

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Speaker 1: outscore opponents weekend week out. Obviously, the Rams defense a

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Speaker 1: lot better than the Chiefs. When they played a good

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00:36:08,719 --> 00:36:11,399
Speaker 1: defense a good Minnesota offense, they had no running game.

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Speaker 1: They gave up thirty one points. Is there a legitimate formula?

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Speaker 1: I think it's a simple. It's hard to be good

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Speaker 1: at everything, like I saw a star is born this week,

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Speaker 1: Like most even great looking people aren't typically talented, like

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Speaker 1: Bradley Cooper, who's also a good actor. I've read he's

679
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Speaker 1: a great guy. He could sing, you know, like he

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Speaker 1: was the total package. He he would be like the

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Speaker 1: equivalent of you or something. Most championship teams, even in

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Speaker 1: the NFL, I'd say any sport, but definitely the NFL

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Speaker 1: are a little flawed. You know, when you look at

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Speaker 1: the Eagles last year, their secondary was terrible. The Ravens

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Speaker 1: team that won the you know, Super Bowl several years ago,

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Speaker 1: their defense was getting older. With that. Last year ray

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Speaker 1: Lewis played. Uh, the Patriot teams that wanted their defenses

688
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Speaker 1: were not great. They were much more Tom Brady heavy.

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Speaker 1: I mean they had Tom Brady and Bill Belichick, you know,

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Speaker 1: especially the year that Malcolm Butler picked it off. Their

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Speaker 1: secondary was a little questionable. I just think in a

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Speaker 1: salary cap league, it's hard to have like an elite quarterback,

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Speaker 1: an elite running game, an elite receiver, an elite defense.

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Speaker 1: I think the modern day off or just the modern

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Speaker 1: day teams, you just have to be really great in

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Speaker 1: one area and forever. The Seattle Seahawks, their defense was elite,

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Speaker 1: you know, the the New England Patriots. They have Tom Brady.

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Speaker 1: He's elite. Last year the Eagles somewhat of an anomaly

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Speaker 1: because their quarterback got hurt, but their offense was just elite,

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Speaker 1: and so was their pass rush. What to me, you

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Speaker 1: have to have two or three areas. Usually quarterback, you know,

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Speaker 1: like it's very hard to win it with the Jacksonville formula.

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Speaker 1: Like the one thing for example, like you said, the

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Speaker 1: Rams defense is much better than the Chiefs, but we

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Speaker 1: both have is if they can like both could win

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Speaker 1: the Super Bowl. Why because their quarterback for a three

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Speaker 1: game stretch could just play like an m VP. Clearly

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Speaker 1: Mahomes Canon and Jared Goffscott so much better. If you

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Speaker 1: have an elite quarterback, you have a chance in January. Now,

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Speaker 1: one major difference is this Kansas City plays in a

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Speaker 1: in a stadium and in an area where the weather

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Speaker 1: plays a big role. The Rams don't. So they're gonna

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Speaker 1: play probably two home games in seventy degree weather. So

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Speaker 1: it does make it a little easier. Now if you

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Speaker 1: get Drew Brees coming in there, you know, if you

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Speaker 1: get Kirk Cousins coming in there, if you get Cam

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Speaker 1: Newton like you could lose. You know, it's that it's

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Speaker 1: benefits them too. To me, the Chiefs one is a

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Speaker 1: little more up in the air, like if you're playing

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Speaker 1: in twenty degrees and freezing rain, like games just hard,

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Speaker 1: you know, I mean you just might I don't know

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Speaker 1: you were Tyreek Hille can't catch the ball because it's

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Speaker 1: freezing cold, and you play the Jacksonville Jaguars and Leonard

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Speaker 1: four Nettes just running the ball. Well, you know, you

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Speaker 1: play the Baltimore Ravens and they just make the game ugly.

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Speaker 1: It's it's a little harder for Kansas City. Uh. You

727
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Speaker 1: know that they're a little more dependent on a good

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Speaker 1: defense come the playoffs, just because the weather plays a

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Speaker 1: huge factor for them, where where it does not for

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Speaker 1: the Ramps. Hi John from Australia, quick question, Uh, does

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Speaker 1: being a left hander helped to up pick up what

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Speaker 1: would be the blind side pressure for most quarterbacks? Well, yeah,

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Speaker 1: but then he still has a blind side. It's just

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Speaker 1: the right tackle. Right, So if you're if you're a

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Speaker 1: left handed quarterback, Steve Young toa, Uh, is there even

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Speaker 1: a good left handed quarterback in the NFL? Is there

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Speaker 1: a left handed quarterback in the NFL? I can't even

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Speaker 1: I can't think one off top of my head. I'm

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Speaker 1: sure there is. I'm just completely blanking. Uh. It just

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Speaker 1: means there's another there is a side that you know

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Speaker 1: is a blind side. You just the opposite blind side.

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Speaker 1: So you know, if in college most teams aren't gonna

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Speaker 1: have multiple good pass rushers. But in the NFL, you know,

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Speaker 1: if you think about it, a lot of great pass rushers,

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Speaker 1: the two that come to mind, Von Miller and Khalil

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Speaker 1: Mack a lot of the times rush on the right side.

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Speaker 1: So it's actually like you see all these quarterbacks that

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Speaker 1: are playing Khalil Mack, they see Khalil Mack coming at them.

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Speaker 1: You know, if they're a right handed quarterback, it doesn't

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Speaker 1: same with Von Millery, just usually doesn't matter they get

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Speaker 1: to you. So I don't necessarily think that it makes

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Speaker 1: a difference, because in college it might a little if

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Speaker 1: you only have one good pass rusher, but in the pros,

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Speaker 1: given how many of the pass rushers come from the

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Speaker 1: right side, I don't think it really does. Can you

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Speaker 1: explain how players are paid in the NFL? How can

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Speaker 1: the Raiders give Grooden a hundred million but can't side

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Speaker 1: Mac because they might not have the resources players are paid.

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00:40:55,160 --> 00:40:57,280
Speaker 1: There's just a salary cap. I mean, there's no salary

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Speaker 1: cap for coaches now like for Mark dave Is for example,

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Speaker 1: most teams, I would imagine the league revenue check is

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Speaker 1: a two d fifty million dollars. Well, the salary cap

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00:41:07,800 --> 00:41:10,839
Speaker 1: is a undred eighty million, so you have every team

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Speaker 1: has the resources because every team gets the REV share,

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Speaker 1: so they have technically the money. They just chose with

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Speaker 1: Derek making that much money, that they thought they could

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Speaker 1: allocate their resources better than that. Now, the Mark Davis

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Speaker 1: giving Gruden a hundred million dollars, there's just no cap

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Speaker 1: on coaching contracts. You give them five bucks or you

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Speaker 1: give them a hundred million dollars. You know, there's no

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Speaker 1: there's not a league minimum either. I mean, you know,

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Speaker 1: if Gruden would have coached for ten bucks, you can

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Speaker 1: pay them ten bucks. And I mean hypothetically, like if

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Speaker 1: you wanted to be like, oh, just give me a

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Speaker 1: million dollars, Like there is a league minimum when it

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Speaker 1: comes to players. So there, to my knowledge, there are

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Speaker 1: no rules on coaching in terms of what you can

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Speaker 1: pay them. Besides like when a guy gets fired, their

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Speaker 1: offset clauses. But in terms of there's no salary cap,

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Speaker 1: you can pay them an unlimited amount. That's why when

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Speaker 1: Mark Davis gave him the hunter million dollar contract, it's

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Speaker 1: sent ripple effects around the NFL because I think, if,

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Speaker 1: for example, Jim Harbaugh, let's say you won the National

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Speaker 1: Championship this year and wanted to come back and coach

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Speaker 1: you know, the Colts or the Giants or whoever, Like,

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Speaker 1: why wouldn't he get Jon Gruman's contract? I mean that

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00:42:21,280 --> 00:42:23,360
Speaker 1: they're just so the bar has just been set. But

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Speaker 1: there players are paid just you know, through salary cap

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Speaker 1: and then kind of slotted by positions, but the coaching

790
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Speaker 1: money has nothing to do with them. Question for the podcast,

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Speaker 1: when do you think the Pats will draft a future quarterback?

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Speaker 1: And if it's soon, there is a college player to

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Speaker 1: keep your eye on. Also, do they jump in the

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Speaker 1: best quarterback or a later round pick like usual? I

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Speaker 1: think it's impossible to know. I mean I would have

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Speaker 1: guessed they would have taken a quarterback this year. But

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Speaker 1: a lot of the times, when you're as good as

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Speaker 1: the Patriots, the draft is somewhat out of your control.

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Speaker 1: I mean, you're always draft in the late twenties. Hell,

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Speaker 1: they had two draft picks last year, but they were

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Speaker 1: both in the twenties. You know, in the first round.

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Speaker 1: They're never gonna be drafting anywhere near the top ten

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Speaker 1: unless they do a crazy trade. And I don't even

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Speaker 1: know what they would trade now, So they're just kind

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Speaker 1: of stuck unless they trade their entire draft where you got.

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Speaker 1: Last year, they might because they had multiple first round picks,

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Speaker 1: but they ended up not doing it, So I I

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Speaker 1: don't know. I mean, I I would say every draft

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Speaker 1: until they do one. I mean their quarterback, God love him,

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00:43:25,280 --> 00:43:27,759
Speaker 1: and he's the goat, but he's forty one years old, Like,

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Speaker 1: how how long are you gonna kick the can down

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Speaker 1: the road? Now? Belichick sixty six and maybe he's just like, shoot,

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Speaker 1: I don't even care. I was looking the other day.

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Speaker 1: They have a first round pick, they have two seconds,

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Speaker 1: and given their compensed story picks, they manned up with

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Speaker 1: three threes. So they're gonna have a lot of picks

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Speaker 1: in this draft. Now, this, even the second round picks

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Speaker 1: with quarterbacks are a pretty big coin flip. I mean,

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Speaker 1: most quarterbacks in the NFL that have success Tom Brady,

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Speaker 1: nonwithstanding our first round picks. I mean, just look around

821
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Speaker 1: the NFL, look look at their own division. You know,

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00:44:01,520 --> 00:44:05,279
Speaker 1: most quarterbacks that start in the NFL. Miami Dolphins tanning

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Speaker 1: Hill first rounder, Josh Allen first rounder, Sam Donald first rounder,

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Speaker 1: go to the f C North Dalton High second rounder,

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Speaker 1: Roethlisberger first rounder, Baker first rounder, Flacco first rounder. You know,

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Speaker 1: Mariotta first rounder, Mortals first rounder, Lock first rounder. You

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Speaker 1: know these Deshaun Watson first rounder, like most quarterbacks to

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Speaker 1: start in the NFL are not Tom Brady. Their first

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Speaker 1: and second rounders and most second rounders are become way

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Speaker 1: more of a coin flip than even first rounders that

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Speaker 1: have clearly historically proven to be a coin flip. It's

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Speaker 1: it's hard, you know, it's it's really hard to draft quarterbacks.

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Speaker 1: And that's what's kind of crazy about. They had finally

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Speaker 1: drafted Jimmy Garoppolo and he was sweet, but you know,

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Speaker 1: they just came to a fork in the road and

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Speaker 1: they made a decision. You know, Jimmy's hurd kind of

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Speaker 1: looks like the right one, but again, he's forty one

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Speaker 1: years old. Big fan of the show. Will the Giants

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Speaker 1: win with Eli as we saw on Thursday night, The

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00:45:03,120 --> 00:45:06,360
Speaker 1: answer is no. And do they need to pick up

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00:45:06,360 --> 00:45:09,520
Speaker 1: a new quarterback? Yeah? And I think what they gotta

842
00:45:09,560 --> 00:45:11,920
Speaker 1: prey on now is they just keep losing and they

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Speaker 1: don't win another game the rest of the season, get

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Speaker 1: the number one overall draft pick and pick Justin Herbert.

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Speaker 1: If that's if I'm a Giants fan, that's the only

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Speaker 1: thing I roote for the problem is gonna be is

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Speaker 1: like they play the forty Niners, they're better than the

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Speaker 1: forty Niners. I mean, the forty Niners have no one

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Speaker 1: they can cover O'Dell and definitely no one that can

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Speaker 1: tackle see Kwan Barkley. So they're probably gonna win that game.

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Speaker 1: And last year, before Jimmy Garoppolo showed up, it looked

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Speaker 1: like that game was for the first or second overall pick,

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Speaker 1: and it was like, you know, the Niners were definitely

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Speaker 1: gonna draft a guy, and I thought the Giants were too,

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Speaker 1: and they ended up not drafting a guy, but the

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Speaker 1: Niners beat the ship out of them in at Levi Stadium.

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Speaker 1: You know, the Giants gonna lose two urs in a

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Speaker 1: row to a bad Niner team, especially now that Jimmy's hurt.

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Speaker 1: I don't know. I I would like to trust me.

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Speaker 1: I watched the Niners. I don't know why, but I

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Speaker 1: watched every game. I mean, I do know why, but

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Speaker 1: they they're terrible. The Giants fir as bad as they are,

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Speaker 1: are not as bad as the forty Niners, So I

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Speaker 1: don't know. I mean, if they don't get the number

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Speaker 1: one or two pick, I mean, what they've proven before

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Speaker 1: that they will pass on quarterback. So there's just because

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Speaker 1: of quarterback sitting there and just because they're drafting high,

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Speaker 1: there is no lock for for them to pick a quarterback. Okay,

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Speaker 1: last question, I got a bunch still. I'll answer him

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Speaker 1: next week. Maybe i'll answer some just over the weekend

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Speaker 1: on Instagram. What do the Packers need to do to

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Speaker 1: get clicking again on offense? I actually talked about this

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Speaker 1: earlier on the last podcast, because Rogers not do they

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Speaker 1: realize the type of my Ontgomery used to be a receiver.

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Speaker 1: I think time with your time Montgomery is underutilized where

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Speaker 1: that Aaron Jones is actually kind of good he is,

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Speaker 1: and that the running game helps the quarterback. To me,

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Speaker 1: you can just bitch and moan all you want. I

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00:46:51,080 --> 00:46:53,120
Speaker 1: think it comes down to and I talked about it

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Speaker 1: on the on the podcast earlier this week. McCarthy is

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00:46:56,800 --> 00:46:59,279
Speaker 1: just it's just time for a change. It's just it's

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Speaker 1: really that bowl. He's had a great career, He's proven

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Speaker 1: a lot in terms of one nestable one a ton

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Speaker 1: of games, but it's just time. You know, you watch

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Speaker 1: the really good offensive minds, you watch how innovative other

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Speaker 1: teams are, and then you watch the Packers and it's

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Speaker 1: like watching paint dry with an all time great quarterback.

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Speaker 1: It really is just unacceptable. But it just does not change.

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Speaker 1: It just really does not change. Okay, I'll get I'll

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Speaker 1: get to one more question. This is a pretty good one. Uh,

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Speaker 1: my question for the mail bag. Has Leonard Fournette's value

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Speaker 1: up to this point been worthy of the number four

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Speaker 1: for overall pick? Just from a business standpoint considering Ezekiel

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Speaker 1: elias performance, also considering Kareem Hunt and Alvin Kamaro's stellar

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Speaker 1: performances while being drafted in much cheaper rounds. Uh. My

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Speaker 1: roommate is a die hard L s U fan, and

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Speaker 1: it's hard to make him see the sense. Hopefully your

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Speaker 1: voice will help clarify this debate. So you're arguing over it.

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Speaker 1: I like Leonard Fournette. I always thought drafting him a

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Speaker 1: number for overall, I didn't think he was as good

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Speaker 1: as Zeke Uh. But and Christian McCaffrey went eight in

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Speaker 1: that draft, and Christian McCaffrey is looks pretty good this

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Speaker 1: year now. I would not have taken Christian McCaffrey over

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Speaker 1: Leonard four Nette. So the Jaguars made the right pick.

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Speaker 1: But now that he's hurt, to me, what you question

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Speaker 1: is is he gonna be able to sustain. He's been

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Speaker 1: hurt in college, he's now been hurt in the pros.

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Speaker 1: I I never like, I don't care if there looked

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Speaker 1: like se Kwon Barkley or Zeke Elliott. I don't like

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Speaker 1: taking running backs in the first round, let alone in

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Speaker 1: the top ten, because, like you said, Kareem Hunt, Alvin Kamara,

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Speaker 1: Royce Freeman's the Philip Lindsay's. I mean, I can find

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Speaker 1: decent running backs later in the draft. Some of the

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Speaker 1: best running backs in the league, uh Levian Bell second rounder,

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Speaker 1: Shady McCoy second rounder, David Johnson third rounder. Now Todd

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Speaker 1: Gurley was a top ten I mean you you clearly

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Speaker 1: can get good guys. But Lennon Fournette is not Todd Gurley. Again,

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Speaker 1: he can't stay healthy. He has hamstring injuries. You know,

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Speaker 1: it's one thing to have, like ankle injuries or shoulder

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Speaker 1: injury when you're a big, physical back. But you're getting

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Speaker 1: Hanmy injuries. Like to me, that's a problem. And he's

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Speaker 1: not a great pass catcher. I'm not the biggest t J.

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Speaker 1: Yelding guy. But he's actually been pretty good this year.

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Speaker 1: I do not think from a business standpoint, if they

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Speaker 1: could do it over again, they would have taken him.

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Speaker 1: I I know in theory they needed him because Blake

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Speaker 1: Bortle stinks in your defensive team and you want to

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Speaker 1: run and control of the clock. But if you could

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Speaker 1: do it over again, you just would have taken Kareem Hunt,

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Speaker 1: you know, and taken just another player, you know, in

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Speaker 1: the top. You just would have taken another player. It's

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Speaker 1: it's really that something you would not have taken Leonard

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Speaker 1: for Net. Appreciate everyone, listen, Please appreciate everyone. Always slide

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Speaker 1: into my d m S for the Middlecoff mail bag.

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Speaker 1: Uh and I'll see you next week. Enjoy the weekend,

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Speaker 1: Enjoy Saturday, great weekend at college football games. Subscribe if

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Speaker 1: you haven't already, three and out podcasts, and again, I'll

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Speaker 1: see you guys next week. Thanks for listening.